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 the confident
expectation OF the, people.
They found nation where the
king married his own sisters with no
thought that he was disobeying the
| laws OF God or man; where the COM
mon language was so vile that every
effort was made by the missionaries
to keep their children from learning
word OF II. E-....: ...,r
'.Infantieide in those days was not
| considered crime. Mrs. Laura Fish
Judd, an early missionary, tells u.s.
of remarkable meeting held about
the year 1880 when the native women
who had bee6me church members
were present in large numbers. Those
who had no living children were asked
to rise. The scene that followed.
said Mrs. Judd. I can never forget.
"Why are you childless?" was in
quired. Very few had lost children ~
natural death. One woman replied in
tears holding out 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 might
follow my pleasures and avoid groN
ing old. Oh! II had but one of them
back TO comfort me now! II tears
and penitence could reStore the
dead!" She was followed D. others |
making the same sad confessions of
burying alive. Of strangling, Of smoth-
efing. until sobs and tears filled the
house.. 6E
Now, what do we find In the Isl. /
ands, then called after old Lord Sand |
witch? We find. people as fully
ChFistianized and civilized as any on |
the mainland; hundreds of churches; I
schools that afford every child free /
education; Sunday schools, Christian !
En6eavor societies, missionary socie- /
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 picture, !
must add that some evil things have I
been introduced from abroad, as well I
as much good. The saloons (which +
will soon be abolished), militarisni I
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 affiict but a portion OF the
population, and only prove that Satan.k
the old serpent, is sure ito wriggle 1
his way into Paradise,
1.-THE rainbows, spiritual and ma,
teriai fif there is such q thing as q
material rainbow, span the Hawaiian
heavens. The old drab, dim-colored
life OF the barbarians is forever u
thing OF the past. Brightness, color,
good cheer, kindness, love and care
for children have largely taken the
place Of drunkenness, lust and infan.E
eide in this, the fairest and loveliest
of all Uncle Sans dominions.
AS the descendants Of the old Ha.
waiians come in troops to the wharf
to welcome their Christian friends
and hang garlands Of manyc olored
flowers around their necksa custon
found In its perfection only in Hal
waii-I have felt more than once that
these flowers are but the symbol OIL
the color and brightness, the frag-l
rance and joy and love. which the
brought with them near
" 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 long period; but it is
long enough to transform nation,
and to hang his bow of promise across
the dark clouds of ignorance, super
stition and debauchery." IS