The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-07-20
Addition to St. Andrews Consecrated

were committed to the deep with the
usual military honors. What our feel
ings were on this occasion / leave the
world to conceive, those present know
that it is not in my power/to express
them. -
The first known churehmen who lived
on the Islands were John Young and
Isaac Davis, who in 1890 were spared
when the crew of the Fair American
were killed In the archive building
there is the journal of John Young. 1t
is a small book and on the outside of
the cover is the statement, that the
book was given to Young 'tby Charles
Francis Barton Feb. %, 1904. - Amidst
accounts of trading we find page de-
voted to prayer. It is that of st.
Chrysostom from the Book of Common
Prayer 1t is evidently written from
memory as the spelling and capitalizing
are his own. Here it is as he wrote it:
Almighty god who has givn US
grace at this time with one a Cord to
Make our Common Suplications unto
thee and Dost promis that when tow or
three are gathered togather in they
Name thou wilt grant their Requests
Fulfil Now O Loard the Desirs and
petions of they Servants as May Be
Most Expedeint for them granting us
in this world knowlig of they truth
and in the world to Cum Life Ever
Lasting, Emane.
1t carries us back to some English
church which Young attended as boy.
On another page we find a religious
poem:
Life is the time to serve the Lord
Then insure the great reward
And (while) the lamp holds out to burn
The vilest sinner may return
It is extremely touching to see in this
sailor, the grandfather of Queen Emma,
amidst all the sharbarism in which he
lived, evidence of religious feeling. All
agree that amidst all temptation he
tried to be a decent man. 1t was he
and Davis who got the King to give up
excessive drink, these men were always
an influence for good as all the early
missionaries assert. The prayer book
of Isaac Davis is now in the possession
of his defendant, Miss Lucy Peabody.
The Rev. DR.. Serene Bishop, who
knew Young well, spoke of him to me
the other day in an interview as man
who tried to bring up his family well
and was strict with his children. He
had good house at Kawaihae at which
the missionaries liked to stay. DR.. Bish-
op confirms the idea that Young was
an English churchman by an anecdote
which showed his disagreement with Mr..
Lyon, the missionary at Waimea, as to
the matter of Young's salvation. He
said that Young was man who had
evidently received some religious train
ing, tried to do right and live in self
respecting way.
To the great Vancouver, an English
churchman and a good man, the Islands
owed much. He spoke to King Kane
hameha about the one true God the
Ruler of ALL and promised that he would
ask the King of England to send teach
ers. We know that he urged Pitt to
do this on his return to England. Van
couver tried to. impress the chiefs of
the Islands with the ideas of Justice
and humanity and urgedsthe folly of
idolatry This he did again and again
and being liked and respected as
benefactor and adviser his memory re-
manned a powerful Influence for good |
The second recorded Christian service
and the first which was on land in the
sight of the people, was in 1894 in Ho,
ship Butterworth read the burial ser
vice over the American Captain Ken
drick of the Lady Washington who had
been accidentally killed. The locality
of this burial is known
The first resident minister of any
kind in the Islands was clergyman
of the Church of England named Howell
who was not living up to his high call
+
when he told Kamehameha of the one
true God that the King told Howell that |
if he would throw himself from the pail |
near by and remain uninjured, he, the |
King, would believe
OF GOOD WHITE MEN. i
While the influence of many of the |
foreigners was debasing, yet there were
white residents in the Islands, and ira |
ders who came in ships, who We're good