The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-05-17
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posed in other emergencies, displayed
again His timely aid. In more than
one crisis have the missionaries and
friends of truth in this nation had occa-
sion to adopt the language of Ezra:
THE hand of the Lord was upon us.
and he delivered us out of the hand of
the enemy, and of such as lay in wait
| by the way AS | once took occasion
to remark, on national fast day, more
than twenty years ago, SO / will now
repeat the remark: The more [ be-
come acquainted with the history of
the affairs of these islands, the senti-
ment becomes more strongly impressed
upon my mind that the Sandwich Is
lands is no field for wicked men and
the opposers of truth and righteousness
to think of practising their schemes be-
fore high Heaven, unless they are will
ing to incur the awful risk of being
pursued, even in this life, with the re-
tributive justice of God.
There have been many bright as we'll
as dark providences in the history of
this people during the last half century.
The friends of Foreign Missions in the
United States have been permitted to
learn the good results Of this invest
ment of million of dollars to redeem
| Hawaiians from heathenism. Mission
airy labor has produced goodly har-
vest. How striking the contrast between
| this and some other fields of missionary
| efforts! The great and successful Afri-
can missionary and explorer, Dr. Liv-
| ingstone, recently has put forth the
statement that forty foreign mission,
aries going to Africa, died of disease
and the climate before single convert
| to Christianity came forward to cheer
| the hearts of God s missionary servants.
| Not thus has the great Head of the
| Church compelled the American mission
airy to toll on in faith Those who
| have sown the seed have been permitted
| to gather in the harvest. The sewer
and the reaper are combined in one.
/ rejoice in being permitted to see pres.
ent on this occasion a representation
of the first missionary band landing on
| Hawaiian shores, in 1920. Long may
our venerable associates be spared to
make their annual appearance at our
missionary and festive gatherings. Their
presence is ever welcome and cheering
| They form golden links in that historic
chain connecting the present with the
past.
! Whatever may await Hawaiians in
| the future, the past is secure. A record
has been made Were missionaries on
| these islands to erect monument com
memorative of the past, no more ap
| propriate inscription could be found tic
chisel upon that monument than the
one furnished by the prophet Samuel
Three thousand years ago: Hitherto
hath the Lord helped u.s..
/ SIN estimating the good which has
been accomplished at these islands, NJ
candid and impartial observer can over
look or undervalue the strong conserva
tive influence of American missionaries
in upholding and perpetuating the indie
pendent sovereignty of the Hawaiian
Kingdom. Individually and collective
", their influence has been upon the
side of good order and the Kamehameh;
dynasty Glance your eye over maj
of Polynesia, and where, I would ask
has the kindly authority been more
happily sustained2 When troubles hav,
LARSEN, and ships of war threatened, thu
American missionary's influence an6
pen have been found in defense of thu
native government. Look at Tahiti
look at New Caledonia; look at New
Zealand. I do not undervalue the skill
full labors of the diplomatist, or thu
incessant tolls of the civil magistrate
or the invaluable efforts of our judges
neither will / knowingly un,iervalue o
slightly pass over the prayers and toll
of those who have spent their lives tt
perpetuate the Hawaiian race and king
dom. Republican as the missionarie
! NOV hava heaD in their origin and sym
pathies, yet they have proved the yer,
staunchest supporters of monarchica
form of government in these islands
Yet the Bishop of Oxford describe
these men as rather more severe, sou
and vinegar-like' than even thei
fathers. 'the stern old Puritans of Nev
England. >"