The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-08-07

in Pernambuco for % cents hundred.
However, | failed to appreciate the
finest apples, peaches or plumS until
after the long sharp cold of winter. l
longed for sugar cane, bananas and
melons. By February apples began to
taste good.
To my own mind the most eXcitingt
event of that Eva period was the ar
rival, in May, 1887 of the Mary Fra I
zier with a great reinforcement of new
missionaries There was company of
thirty-four persons, including five or
dained men, nine teachers, one physi-
clan and one secular agent, with their
wives, besides two single ladies. Five
of those families, Bailey. Castle, Cooke,
Johnson and Wilcox, became perma-
nently identified with these Islands.
The others had all left in less than
twenty years, except Miss Lucia Smith,
who became the second wife of Rev.
Lorenzo Lyons. The venerable Edward
Bailey, who was the youngest man of
the company, is their sole survivor, at
the age of 81. Such large and strong
accession to our already most success
full but much overworked mission was
a cause OF the greatest qualification and
new people to their various stations
much prolonged the work of the Gen
eral Meeting of 1897
Of the five ordained men none proved
10 be OF more than average ability, eX-
cept the Rev. Thomas Lafon, MD, who
had great natural force of mind anC
character. He was a product of the
great Revival and Anti-Slavery move
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| set free his inherited slaves. DR. La
fon was an enthusiast in anti-slaverl
matters. He found much fault with oul
iold missionaries for not paying fixec
wages to their ohuas. or servants, HI
denounced it as form of slavery. NJ
parents felt that to be unreasonable, a
I our servants were envied by all tn
common people for their advantageou
and coveted positions. The zealou
Doctors expostu1ations so prevailed
however, that from that time on, tn
mis- sionaries paid their servants fixe'
wages 1t is probable that DR.. Lafon
zeal for freedom may have somewna
contributed to hasten the emancipation
OF tbs Hawaiian makainanas from
tserf6om, and their endowment wit
their kuleana allotments in fee simpl
a few years later.
1 DIR. I-afon returned to America in fou
4 or five wears. afterwards becoming emf
nent as a very benevolent medical prac
: titioner Among the fruits of his siren
uous influence here was the strong op
position which he enlisted among on
missionaries against the compromising
attitude of the American Board toward
what the Aboiitionists denounced as tn
.ehellish sin of slavery" In the course o
few wears this led TO the withdraw
from their connection with the board. o
the Revs Reuben Tinker and-J.
Green and of DR.. Lafon himself. all Q
them among our best missionaries. The
felt unable longer to receive pecuniar
support from q board so implicated wit
the sin of slavery. Only Mr.. Green foun
means to maintain himself in the field
the other two good men left the Island,
The consciences of the rest of the mis-
sionaries failed l.. be awakened upon tn
: subject enough to make them ahando
5 their work
/ L here pass on to record what ] ca
recall of the greatest event of those day
and one that did more than any other {
r give permanent shape TO the subsequer
. history of Hawaii. That was the il
! tense and pervading Religious Awaker
ing of the years 1898 and 80 To ente
very deeply into the tremendous tide
: feeling which enveloped and uplifted I'll
whole nation for many months, was nc