The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1899-06-16

liHh'd ~ the bhNaiiah bohfo we h'hi
year IN Honolulu.
let sooners AZ the results Of mis-.
sionary iator Ia these Hawaiian
] Islands take notice Of this book aud
reflect ON that for which II might
stand.
| have also book of old Testament
Bible stories, published In part by the
Hawaiian Board. In Honolulu. and
now wholly by the American Tract So
ciety al the request Of the Hawaiian
! Board.
While we were early In possession
of some Of the gospels before the pub
LEGATION Of the entire Bible In 1898. We
valued these Old Testament Bible
stories because they helped us better
to understand our Savior's illusions to
such men as Abel and Noah. Abraham
Isaac and Jacob, Moses. David and
Solomon, Isaiah and Daniel.
And what have you brought?
! have an Hawaiian 90, or spade
and a Gilbertese illustrated reader or
hand book published by the Hawaiian
Board in the It'll edition containing
very brief but valuable information
respecting many things as punctuation,
natural history bits of astronomy.
something of general history and chro-
nology. a confession OF faith. with
proof texts. a church and marriage
covenant. etc. II tells us a little about
the plow, but we have no need of
plows. for We have neither oxen nor
horses nor mules. which cannot live
on our coral island; and again. our
soil Is coral sand and no crops would
grow in our land, If 1t were plowed
BY this reader ! hang this 90. such
as we have been wont to procure from
the Hawaiian missionaries, who have
exchanged them for native food and
timber. etc. These spades have been
exceedingly useful to us, especially In
the cultivation of the papai, our only
vegetable.
The 90 and this hand book have gone
hand in hand In aiding to raise us into
a degree OF Christian civilization.
And what have you brought?
A cocoanut and two books. One of
these books is Giibertese Geography
published by the Hawaiian Board.
From II we learned how small a people
we are, and that there are great con-
tinents and islands where dwell mil
lions Of human beings In darkness,
who need the gospel light as well as
we and for whom we We're led by our
knowledge of their lands and condition
to pray more intelligently and earnest
ly. From IL We learned of powerful
civilized and Christianized nations,
and we were stimulated to try to be-
come like them.
The other book is Gilbertese Arith-
metic. published by the Hawaiian
Board. In a 4th edition. We prize It
for by its study we adults, who could
not tell how many seven and eight
were without counting our fingers
when the missionaries first came among
US, can now much better appreciate the
magnitude of the numbers In the 81
instances In our Bibles in which they
exceed 100000. and especially the 100.-
; OOO, 900 of the angelic hosts of whom
we read in the Book of Daniel and the
Revelation. Glad we were to be taught
by this book how the better to KEEP
our accounts with the traders who buy
our copra. Copra, or the dried kernel
of the cocoanut, is our principal and
almost only article of export, without
which We could not possibly expect to
rise high in a Christian civilization
For with the copra we bug our clothes
and chests, our books and tools
and largely secure the means for
supporting our pastors and teachers
and of paying our British taxes. Copra
is us much king on the Gilbert Islands
as sugar is king In Hawaii.
, BY the side of these two books, the
Geography and the Arithmetic, we