The following tabular view of the churches, as prepared by the mission, will exhibit the most important facts pertaining to their condition and progress.

38,544 3792 1880 286 5492 307 11,782 499 103 224 22,236 675 13,387 924

The commencement of the mission to Micro-were selected, but upon Christians genenesia, and the first chapter of its history, are already known to the readers of the Herald. The following remarks, nevertheless, will be pe

Native Preachers.

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In confirmation of the missionary influence which is expected to emanate from the Sandwich Islands, it is pleasant to know that God is preparing laborers for this important work. appears from this letter that there are four ordained Hawaiian preachers of the gospel, connected with the mission. They are Rev. J. Kekela, heretofore at Kahuku; Rev. S. Waimailu, at Waianae; Rev. S. Kauwealoha, heretofore at Kaanapali; and Rev. David Maro, at Keokea, on East Maui. "These brethren have thus far given good satisfaction to the churches and congregations, over which they have been placed; and the blessing of God has attended their labors." Four promising young men have recently graduated at Lahainaluna, who are looking forward to the gospel ministry; and, if the way shall be opened for them, they purpose to go on a foreign mission. "We have many valuable native helpers in our churches," the brethren say, “who are very useful in conducting district meetings, and who are ready unto every good word and work."

Mission to the Marquesas.

In describing the response which has been Directors of our society have held several special made to this appeal, the brethren say: "The meetings, and have resolved that they must not send this chief back empty. They will furnish

him with three or four native teachers and their wives, and procure for them a passage as soon as possible." It is also added by these brethren:

The following persons have been appointed by the Board of Directors, namely: Rev. James Kekela, Rev. Samuel Kauwealoha, Mr. Lot Kuaihelani, a deacon and teacher in the church at Ewa, and Mr. Isaia Kaiwi, a graduate of Lahainaluna, and for several years a teacher and deacon in the second church at Honolulu, together with their wives. Rev. B. W. Parker, one of the company has been appointed to accompany them who formerly went to the Marquesas, to Fatuhiwa, and give them advice and but he will probably return to the assistance in making a commencement; Islands in the same vessel. The English schooner Royalist, Captain Harris, has been chartered for two thousand dollars to take this band of missionaries and their effects to Fatuhiwa, with the chief, his son-in-law, and two or three other passengers, lie at anchor there not over fourteen days, and bring back Mr. Par

The Macedonian ery has come from an unexpected quarter. Few incidents in the annals of missions are more interesting than this appeal for the bread of life. The mission describe the history of this extraordinary affair in the follow-ker to Honolulu. ing language:

Schools.

The mission speak favorably of the educational efforts, which continue to be made at the Sandwich Islands. "The schools have been in

Some time in the month of March, a Marquesian chief, by the name of Makounui, and a son-in-law of his, a native of Maui, by the name of Puu, arrived at Lahaina, on board the whale-ship Tamer- successful operation," they say, "during the past lane. Their object in visiting these year." The following statement will be read islands, at this time, is to induce mis- with interest: "The New Testament is the chief sionaries to go and live with him and his reading book in all our schools; and here it is people on the island of Fatuhiwa, and that the pure and saving truths of the gospel are teach them the word of God. He left treasured up, which will have a restraining, conFatuhiwa the latter part of February, vincing and converting influence, by the blessing with the approbation of his chiefs and of God, upon the thousands of youth throughout people, but with the understanding that the nation." A serious obstacle to the prosperity if he did not return within five months, of the common schools is mentioned by the misthey should presume that he was dead, sion. "Many of the books that were formerly in and should act accordingly. Hence he daily use," the brethren say, “are out of print; has been very urgent that his call for and if the government does not appropriate funds teachers should be attended to without for reprinting them, we do not see how the delay. He very much desires that at schools are to be supplied in future." The subleast one white Protestant missionary joined extract from the letter of the mission may go with him; but rather than return explains itself. alone, he will take two or three native missionaries, and at the same time re- The Minister of Public Instruction, in quest the Directors of the Hawaiian his full and able report of this year to the Missionary Society to write to the Pru- Hawaiian legislature, speaks again of dential Committee, asking that a good the great importance of spreading a man may join them as soon as conve- knowledge of the English language among the natives. "On my tours around

nient.

the Islands," he remarks, "I have found thus employed, would be for a lamentaparents everywhere, even on the remote tion. But this is not the fact. The island of Niihau, most anxious to have capital of good men, of leading men in their children taught the English lan- the church, of men who love Zion, guage; and the reason that they gener-and who contribute their scores, their ally gave, was a most sound and intelli- hundreds, and some of them their thougent one, that without it they will by sands, to the funds of the American and by be nothing, and the white man Board, is thus employed. How little do everything. Very many of the natives such persons dream that their liberal are willing to do what they are able to contributions, if all expended for the support English schools for their chil- salvation of the islands of the Pacific, dren. But the burden of English schools would fall far short of counteracting the is too heavy to be sustained by natives influence of their capital, employed in generally, without aid from government." enticing and requiring our church memHe asks the legislature, therefore, to bers to disregard the Sabbath, and in appropriate four thousand dollars towards exerting upon the whole community an the support of one English school, this influence unfavorable to all that is moral year, on each of the large islands. and religious! The indications now are, that if the native race is to be blotted from existence, one of the leading agencies in effecting it will be Sabbath whaling. For it is as true in the Pacific as elsewhere, that where there is no Sabbath, there will be little religion, either among the white or the colored races.

Sabbath Whaling.

The mission direct our attention to an evil, the removal of which depends upon persons living in

these United States.

1853.

by the Sandwich Islands mission, in regard to the

THE foregoing letter mentions the steps taken

Among the many obstacles to the progress of the gospel at these Islands, there is one which is so great, and which threatens to be so mischievous in its consequences, coming from such a source, LETTER FROM MR. CLARK, JUNE 21, that we should like, were we able, to lift up our voice like a trumpet against it, cry aloud, and spare not. It is, or ought to be, generally known that the whaling fleet, with one or two exceptions in a hundred, prosecute the great business of their voyages on all days alike. Or, if there be any difference, there is a better look-out for whales on the Sabbath, and there are more whales taken and cut in on that day than on any other. The great reason for this is, that there are more volunteers on the look-out, the common routine of other unprofitable labors being much of it dispensed with.

Men who have no Sabbath at sea, generally desire none in port, except as a holiday. More of this class of persons are on shore than on other days, rambling every where, and engaging in such vices as the police are unable to prevent. Of course, they not only set a bad example, but they become the tempters of all with whom they come in contact. But this is not the worst of it From a tenth to a twentieth of our ablebodied young men are employed on board these ships, and there taught, both by precept and example, the superiority of the whaleman's morality and religion over those of the missionary and of the Bible.

Were the owners of these ships all infidels, the influence of their capital,

commencement of operations in a new field. Mr. Clark has written upon the same subject; and in so doing he has continued the history of this deeply interesting movement to a more recent date.

The missionaries for Fatuhiwa embarked June 16. The occasion was one of scarcely less interest than the embarkation last year for Micronesia. Prayer was offered on deck by Mr. Thurston in native, and by Mr. Taylor in English. The vessel was larger, and the accommodations more comfortable, than in the Caroline last year. All seemed in good spirits. The vessel was chartered to do our business for two thousand dollars. The outfit of the missionaries, &c. will cost about one thousand dollars more. These expenses will all be borne by our society.

Rev. James Kekela, my companion to Micronesia, and for several years a pupil under my instructions at Lahainaluna, is of the company. I regard him as a very dear Christian brother. In no Hawaiian should I have greater confidence for such a work; and his wife, for many years a pupil in the female seminary Wailuku, is one of our very best native females. They are of kindred spirit, and have

proved themselves worthy of our confi- | quesas Islands. It may be that the dence. They leave behind a very prom-authorities at Tahiti will require some ising little daughter, about two years sort of oath of allegiance to France. If old, in charge of Miss Ogden. This they should, a question of some difficulty was a very serious trial to them; but will be presented. We hope Mr. Parker they thought it for the good of the child will be able to advise wisely in the to leave her. They leave also a church matter. We shall wait with interest to and people, who clung to them to the hear from our brethren. last. Few missionaries make more serious sacrifices than Kekala and Naomi have done.

LETTER FROM MR. PARIS, JULY 16, 1853. Rev. Samuel Kauwealoha, another of the company, is our next best native MR. PARIS is doing the work of a missionary in preacher. He and Kekela were fellow South Kona, on the western side of Hawaii. students at Lahainaluna, and warm When he arrived at the field which his brethren friends. Isaia Kaiwi and Lot Kuaihe-had assigned to him, his heart was oppressed lani go out as school teachers. We think with the desolations that everywhere met his eye. well of them. They all take wives with them. Mr. Parker goes with them to return in the vessel. He has once been at the Marquesas, and has some knowledge of the language, which is quite similar to the Hawaiian. Mr. Bicknel, a pious mechanic, and member of Rev. Mr. Taylor's church, goes out with the company, and will remain, if circumstances favor it. He is not under the direction of our society.

We feel some apprehension, lest the French should throw obstacles in our way. The French Consul here, M. Perrin, manifested considerable feeling on the subject, before the embarkation of the missionaries. He took occasion to say to one of our Directors, that the French claimed sovereignty over all the Marquesas Islands, and that if the chief Matounui would apply to the French, they would give him missionaries, either Catholic or Protestant, as he should wish. Mr. Parker called on him before he left. He was politely received; and M. Perrin gave him a letter of introduction to the Governor of Tahiti, where the vessel is to stop. He said he did not wish any flag to be raised at the Island. He was informed that our enterprise had nothing to do with political matters. Mr. Severance did not advise us to ask permission from the Governor of Tahiti, as this would be acknowledging a French right, which he did not think they possessed. He has written to Washington on the subject. We decided to be open with the French Consul here, and with the Governor at Tahiti, and state frankly the circumstances and objects of our enterprise. If they put a veto on the movement, they must bear the responsibility before the world. There has never been any French authority, or any Catholic mission, at Fatuhiwa; and the island is entirely independent of the other Mar

Owing to ill health and other causes, his predecessors had left, one after another; and there were periods, longer or shorter, during which but little missionary labor was performed. So that it is not strange, in view of all the facts, that Mr. Paris should speak of "a melancholy defection," and should say that "those who remained in the church, seemed to manifest but little love to

Christ and his cause.'

Obstacles-Labors.

My missionary labors have hitherto been performed to great disadvantage and to the injury of my health, for the want of houses of worship. The church at the station has fallen, piece by piece, until it is a mere wreck, without a roof; and for the last seven or eight months we have been compelled to worship in the open air. Two out-stations, where I preach regularly, have been without houses of worship, the old stone and mud houses having crumbled to pieces. Deducting the time given to regular tours, I have spent every other Sabbath at the station at Kealakekua, and divided the remaining Sabbaths between Navava, Hoonaunau and Kealia, distant from three to ten miles. My regular Sabbath services have hitherto been the Sabbath school, two sermons, a Bible class, and sometimes a meeting for inquirers. On other days I have held a regular weekly lecture or exposition of a portion of Scripture at the station, a lecture on church history, a business meeting with church officers, a meeting for conversing with inquirers and church members under censure, though the latter has not occurred every week. I have oc

casional meetings in different neighbor-up a standard against the enemy, and hoods.

State of Religion.

Mr. Paris next presents us with a view of his flock, which will be very readily understood and appreciated.

cause the wrath of man to praise him.
He hath already done great things for us,
for which we are glad, and give thanks.
Even while I write, there is a "noise, a
One
shaking among the dry bones."
and another of those who have been old
idolaters, and lived without God and
without hope, have come from a distance,
inquiring the way of life.

"The morning cometh, and also the night." We have good tidings, and we have sad. We have light, and we have A man of more than ordinary influence darkness. We have much that is en- among the people came to our meeting couraging; and shall I say that we have for inquiry a few days since. He stated much to discourage? No; but much that he had joined the papists many over which we mourn and weep. In years since, soon after their arrival on some of the dry, volcanic portions of our this island. For some time he used all

field, formed by rivers of fire, and shaken his influence to advance their cause. together by a thousand earthquakes, But after some months, he was satisfied there are signs of good, a rising in the that he had no religion himself, and that "wells." There are little "bubblings" of the whole system of popery was a falsereligious interest, springing up here and hood and a lie. He was ashamed; and there, in different villages. The Spirit he despised himself for having embraced of the Lord has come down, as "showers a religion of lies." For many years he upon the mown grass." The "still small voice" of God has spoken to, softened, and subdued some hard hearts. Quite a number, we trust, have been brought to see and feel their lost condition as sinners, and led to the "Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world." I think I have never preached the gospel to more attentive and deeply solemn audiences, than such as I have had in found in the table which forms a part of the letter some portions of South Kona. Quite a number who had backslidden, and wandered far from God, have returned, confessing their sins.

But there are villages, and even large districts, where there is little or no interest in religion or morality. There are many who seldom or never visit the house of God; and others who attend, seem to be as careless and indifferent in regard to the interests of their souls as the wild beasts. The Sabbath is awfully desecrated, both by foreigners and natives. The number of the former on this part of Hawaii is rapidly increasing; and, with scarce an exception, their influence is all withering and blasting.

was not only ashamed to be called a papist, but he was ashamed to have it thought that he was ever interested in religion. But he added, "I lived a miserable life. I now feel that I am a dying sinner, and need a Savior. I do repent, and desire to forsake my sins."

The statistics of the Kealakekua church will be

of the mission.

The Small-pox-Benevolence.

In reference to the malady which is proving fatal to so many at the Sandwich Islands, Mr. Paris writes as follows: "We have had very many deaths from the small-pox. This dreadfu! disease has been spreading among our people for several weeks; and I have given myself wholly to the business of vaccination, using every effort cases, have been already cut off. It is truly sad to arrest its progress. Whole families, in some to see this remnant of the Hawaiian nation wasting away. But the Lord's ways are best."

In speaking of the liberality of his scattered flock, this missionary brother says:

One or two chiefs we have also among Our people have been, for the past us, descendants of the excellent Kapuo- eight or nine months, bending all their lani, whose whole influence is only evil energies towards collecting materials and continually. Drinking, dancing, Sabbath-raising funds for rebuilding and repairing breaking, dissipation, and everything which tends to darkness, degradation and death, they are guilty of. Some who are or have been members of the church, hang like dead weights upon us.

But we are not discouraged. We trust that the Lord has rich blessings in store for us. He can turn the counsel and inluence of the wicked to foolishness, lift

houses of worship. Six hundred and six dollars have been paid into my hands for rebuilding and roofing the meetinghouse at Kealakekua; and more than six hundred dollars have been paid in cash, labor and materials for the erection of other houses of worship. The monthly concert contributions, in eight months, have amounted to one hundred