The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-04
HOG ATTENDED SERVICES NITH HAH'ai.AH QUEEN Animals Were Practically WOrshippad by Hawaiians
 n Early Days. EARLY MISSIONARIES PUT STOP TO PRACTICE Christianity Having Hard
 Time To Survive n
 Islands.

Once there was d Queen in Hawai-
 who had carefully reared fayor.re
 has, making of i-, as was common
 practice in the heather days of th.
 islands. @ household pet. In after years when she had become GevCu- Christian and faithfully attended the
 services held by the missionaries. the
 hog, which had grown to enormous
 size, with a pair oE great tusks pro
 truding from his jaws, insisted on ac-
 c0mpauying her to the church lie
 wuddled in after her and t0o.- his
 place beside her, much to her iucor- Nenicnce and annoyance
 But the hog knew no better; in his
 mistress pagan days great affection had been Iavishcd upon him and he
 was accustomed to follow her aboc-.
 The idea of such a porcine pet is rel
 puLSiyc to the civilized mind because
 of -he filthy habits of the hos. bus
 when Christian missionaries first went
 -o the Hawaiian Islands hogs were
 the pets and pIaythin-s of the IIa-
 waiian women. In many instances
 their own children were buried alive.
 or drowned or stran-Ied by these un-
 a-uraI mothers and they lavished
 upon q hog the care and affection
 which they refused to their children.
 Christianity was early embraced
 by practically all the Hawaiians be-
 cause members of the royal family were the earliest converts made by the missionaries and they helped
 overthrow the native idols and priest craft. But the Hawaiians are no
 longer in the asecndancy in their own islands and Buddhism is making d
 stronghold there.
 The Japanese now greatly outuun1- Der the Hawaiians and. while many of the former are Christians, Budd- Eist temples may be found in the ls- lands and the number of worship pers is increasing. The Episcopal Church, which took over the work ot the Church of England in the islands when they were annexed to the United States, ministers to the bodily and spiritual needs not only of the native Hawaiians but also of the Jap anese, Chinese, Koreans, Portugesa and other natiOnaities represented ! there. As a result of the Episcopal | Nationwide Campaign now in pro gress in the United States to expand and extend all the undertakings of i the Church, its schools, missions and hospitals in the Hawaiian Islands will | receive more funds and more workers | to combat the rising influence to Buddha and ConfuCius.
 1 When Captain Cook, the famous l English navigator, discovered the | Hawaiian Islands in TITS, the natives l had to invent a new name for the I discoverer and his crew as they had never before seen white men. They | bestowed upon them the choicest ap- | pellation in their language, for Cap ] tain Cook was taken by them to their | god, LonO, returning to their shores | after a long absence. They called ! them hoalis.
 Now hoan means white hog. The name carried no idea of disrespect | whatever. Hogs were the largest
 animals found upon the islands and | they were regarded by the people
 with great admiration and respect. | They were also very acceptable to the | gods and were often sacrificed to | them instead of human victims. How ever, the Hawaiians named better | than they knew, for many of the white men who settled in the islands l were hogs in everything but shape and appearance, as the missionaries | found to their cost, and did their best | to corrupt the early Christian con verts therefore the benefit of their ] pocketbooks