Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-03-18
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until now a very stringent territory.
wide prohibition law IS .ihe confident
expectation OF the people. .
They found nation whore the
king married bis own sisters with no
thought that he was disJbAylR& the
laws al. GCd or man. where tae com
mon language vas 50 vile that every
effort was made by the missiona~it
10 keep their children from Learning
a word Of It. ~.
"Infanticide in those days was not
! considered a crime Mrs. Laura Elsa
judd an early missionary. tells lis
or a remarkable meeting held about
the year 1880 when the native. women
who had become church members
were present in large numbers. Those !,
who had DO living children were asked /
to rise The scene that followed
said Mrs. Judd, ! can never forget .
why are you childless2" was in /
CURED Very few mad lost children ~ I.
natural death. One woman replied in !
tears holding ont her han - These .
must answer the question. have
been the mother Of eight children; /
but with these hands | buried them
alive. one after the other, that | mi ,Et
follow MY pleasures and avoid grow, !
Ing Old. on II ! had but one OF Them
lack to comfort ME nov II tears (
and penitenca could restore tho /
dead" She was followed by others. Z
making the same sad confessions OF +
burying alive. of strangling. of smoth-
ering, until sobs and tears filled the
house. ~.. ......
Nov. what do we find in the ISL
ands, then called after old Lord Sanu-
WITCH? We find a people as fully
Christtsnized and civilized as any on
the mainland; hundreds of churches;
schools that afford every child free
education; Sunday schools Christian
Endeavor societies, missionary soeie-
ties, Y. NJ. C. AS and Y w, C. AS;
indeed, every means of grace" that
you find in any part of. the world
you Will find today in Rainbow Land
Not to draw too rosy a picture, i
must add that some evil things have +
been introduced from abroad, as well
as much good. The saloons (which
will soon be abolished), militarism
with the advent of $4,000 soldiers, the
red light district of Honolulu, Sun.
day baseball games, etc.-evils which
would make the good old missionaries
turn over in their collins Yet. com
pared With the universal filth and
degradation of olden times, these
evils afflict but portion OF the
population, and only prove that Satan,
the old serpent, is sure TO wriggle
his way into Paradise.
The rainbows, spiritual and ma
terial tif there is such thing as a
rainbow, span the Hawaiian
heavens. The old drab, dim-colored
life of the barbarians is forever a
thing of the past. Brightness, color,
good cheer, kindness, love and care
for children have largely taken the
place of drunkenness, lust and infan,i.
eide in this, the fairest and isveliest
OF all Uncle Sans dominions..
eAs the descendants of the old Ha-
waiians come in troops to the wharf
to welcome their Christian friends
and hang garlands of many-coloredt
flowers around their necks--a custo a
found in its perfection only in Ha-
vail have felt more than once that
these flowers are but the symbol OF
the color and brightness, the frag-
rance and JOY and love, which the
brought with them near
" a hundred years ago. If among my
readers there is such an anomaly as
a Christian who does not believe in
missions let him consider the Ha.
waiians as they were and as they are.
"A century, in Gods scheme Of
years, is not a long period; but it is
long enough to transform a nation,
and to hang his bow of promise across
the dark clouds of ignorance, super.
sfition and dehauchery - T.. 1852