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 R JUBILEE SERMON 
 
 PREACHED IN 
 
 THE BETHEL. HONOLULU. DEC. 2D, 1883. 
 
 SAMUEL G. LD -A_ IMI O LT , 
 
 CHAPLAIN. 
 
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 BETHEL JUBILEE 
 
 Sabbath Morning., 
 
 DECEMBER 2d, 1BB3, 
 
 Ths Bethsl ChapEl Dedicated, November ZB, 
 1833 . 
 
 □ RDER DE SERVICE, 
 
 ANTHEM, "Waka tha Song of Jubilee." Choir. 
 
 Christ reigning oi’er all the Earth. 
 
 1 Wake the sung of jubilee ; 
 
 Let it echo o’er the sea ; 
 
 Now is come the promised hour : 
 
 Jesus reigns with glorious power. 
 
 2 All ye nations, join anil sing, 
 
 Praise your Saviour, praise your King ; 
 
 Let it sound from shore to shore, 
 
 “Jesus reigns for evermore?” 
 
 3 Hark, the desert lands rejoice; 
 
 And the islands join their voice : 
 
 Joy ! the whole creation sings, 
 
 “Jesus is the King of Kings!” 
 
 INVOCATION, Rev. Lowell Smith, E.E, 
 
 REARING THE SCRIPTURES, 
 
 Rev, C, M. Hyde, D.U, 
 
 PRAYER Rev, S. E, Bishop. 
 
 □ R1G1NAL HYMN, by Mrs. B, F, Dillingham, 
 
 CHOIR AND CONGREDATIDN. 
 
 Great God, a hymn ol jubilee 
 With joyful hearts, we raise to Thee; 
 
 Thy goodness through these circling years, 
 
 To us this day supreme appears. 
 
We i hank 'Dice that this lion j of prayer 
 Has been long years Thy constant care ; 
 That praise and service offered here. 
 
 Have ever found Thy listening ear. 
 
 Within these walls what bitter grief 
 Has ofttimes found a sweet relief; 
 
 What lessons learned of patience, trust 
 And hope revived ere hearts were crushed. 
 
 The little child, the hoary head, 
 
 With youth and manhood’s firmer tread, 
 Have here received such sacred rites 
 As life or death for each invites. 
 
 To God the Father, Spirit, Son, 
 
 Be praise and highest honors won 
 Within this sacred house, till we 
 In heaven take up the jubilee. 
 
 SERMGN, Rev. Samuel C, Darncm, B.D, 
 
 HYMN, •• "Harkthe Sang at Jubilee, " 
 
 CHOIR AND CONGREGATION, 
 
 “ The Songom Jubilee.'' 
 
 1. Hark, the song of jubilee, 
 
 Loud as mighty thunders roar. 
 
 Or the fulness of the sea, 
 
 When it breaks upon the shore: 
 
 Hallelujah ! for the Lord 
 God Omnipotent shall reign; 
 
 Hallelujah ! let the word 
 
 Echo round the earth and main. 
 
 2. Hallelujah ! hark, the sound. 
 
 From the centre to the skies, 
 
 Wakes above, beneath, around, 
 
 All creation’s harmonies. 
 
 See Jehovah’s banners furled. 
 
 Sheathed His sword; He speaks ’tis done, 
 
 And the kingdoms of this world 
 Are the Kingdoms of His Son. 
 
 3. He shall reign from pole to pole 
 
 With illimitable sway; 
 
 He shall reign, when like a scroll 
 Yonder heavens have passed away; 
 
 Then the end; beneath His rod 
 Man’s last enemy shall fall: 
 
 Hallelujah ! Christ in God,' 
 
 God in Christ, is All in all. 
 
 BENED1CTIUN Rev, E, Baldwin, iVLE, 
 
THE SERMON. 
 
 Leviticus \\v:ii — “ A jubilee shall that lifiieth yeai^be unto you.” 
 
 On the 28th of November, a.d., 1833, this chapel was dedicated 
 to the worship of ( lod. Fifty years -a half century — has since 
 elapsed and this chapel still remains true to the object for which it 
 was solemnly dedicated. It seems highly becoming that the 
 fiftieth anniversary— the Jubilee — should not be allowed to pass 
 without a suitable recognition and a most grateful expression of 
 thanksgiving to the great Head of the Church, for his watchful 
 providence during these fifty years now closed. 
 
 Before making some rejnarks upon the history of the preaching 
 of the gospel in this chapel, I would state that this is the first 
 church building ever erected on the Hawaiian Islands or any 
 island of Polynesia, or on the western coast of either North or 
 South America, for the worship of God in the English language. 
 I would also state that no church building now standing on these 
 islands was built prior to the erection of this chapel, hence it is a 
 building of no little historic interest. At the date of its dedication 
 the American missionaries had been laboring on the islands during 
 a period of thirteen years, or from 1820 to 1833. During that 
 period the gospel had been more or less preached by them in the 
 English language. The first sermon preached in Honolulu wa s 
 by the Rev. H. Bingham, April 23rd, 1820, the missionaries have 
 ing landed April 19th, the previous week. Mr. Bingham’s text 
 was from Luke 2, 10 — “ Fear not for behold I bring you good 
 tidings of great joy which shall be to all people.” The singing on 
 the occasion was aided by G. P. Tainoree, a Hawaiian vouth who 
 had been educated at the Mission School in Cornwall, Ct-, where he 
 had been taught to play upon a bass viol. During the following 
 years regular preaching was sustained by the missionaries, to which 
 the mission families, foreign residents and seamen were invited. 
 The same year (1820) the missionaries arrived w’naleships began 
 
to result to this port for supplies and the number of seamen 
 greatly increased. As the Rev. Hiram Bingham was pastor of the 
 native church and stationed in Honolulu, most frequently he 
 preached in English, although others were often occupants of the 
 pulpit. Thus continued the preaching of the gospel until an 
 application was made to the American Seamen’s Friend Society to 
 establish a chaplaincy in Honolulu. This was initiated by the ap- 
 pointment of the Rey. S. Whitney to correspond with that society. On 
 the 10th of February, 1830, Mr. Whitney wrote to the Rev. C. P. 
 Mcllvaine, corresponding secretary (subsequently Bishop of Ohio) 
 and from his communication I copy as follows: “ At a late meet- 
 ing of the Mission I was appointed to write to you and call your 
 attention to the subject of sending hither a missionary to labor 
 among that interesting class of men whose wants have excited your 
 sympathies and called forth your truly benevolent exertions. In 
 all the countries to which our seamen resort, perhaps there is not 
 a place to be found where the labors of your society are so much 
 needed as at this port. There are two hundred English and 
 Americans who reside on the island. From one hundred to one 
 hundred and fifty ships touch here most of them semi-annually.” 
 This appeal met with a favorable reception and the officers of the 
 society immediately commenced laying their plans for a perma- 
 nent chaplaincy in Honolulu. There were many difficulties to be 
 encountered. Honolulu in those days was 18,000 miles distant 
 from New York. The resources of the newly organized socieiy 
 were very limited. 
 
 During the year 1832 the American Seamen’s Friend Socieiy 
 established three foreign chaplaincies, one in Havre, France, the 
 second in Capton, China, and the third in Honolulu. This alone 
 remains as a station of the society at the end of half a century, 
 l'he first chaplain to receive appointment for Honolulu was the 
 Rev. John Diell. From the annual report of the society for 1S33, 
 I learn that the chaplain and his wife sailed from New London, 
 Connecticut, on the 20th of November, 1832, on board the whale 
 ship Mentor, Captain Rice, accompanied by the Rev. Lowel 
 Smith and the Rev. B. W. Parker, with their wives, who came out 
 under the American Board to join the mission among Hawaiians. 
 After a long passage around Cape Horn all arrived safely on the 
 nth of May, 1S33. I should have stated that the friends of sea- 
 
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 men in Norwich and New London subscribed liberally to send out 
 die materials for the chapel in which we are now assembled. 
 Among those friends were the Hon. Thomas W. Williams, of New 
 London, and General William Williams, of Norwich. These 
 gentlemen, until the close of their useful lives, remained staunch 
 friends of this chaplaincy. Some delay attended the selection and 
 securing a suitable site for the proposed chapel, but through the 
 kind offices of Dr. Judd and others this was obtained. Remarks 
 the Rev. Mi. Bingham in his history of the islands : “ Kinau, the 
 1’remier, showed her public spirit and the king his liberality and 
 both their approval of the object, by granting the society a site for 
 the chapel in a favorable location, and also a pleasant place for the 
 chaplain’s residence in the northern part of the village.” Here I 
 take occasion to speak of the continued kindness which has been 
 manifested by the successors of Kamehamcha III., two of whom 
 were sons of Kinau, and their successors, Lunalilo and His 
 Majesty now present have worshipped here, and in their youth, 
 while members of Mr. and Mrs. Cooke’s school, were attached to 
 the Bethel Sabbath School. 
 
 The foundation was laid on the 29th of July and the present 
 edifice was erected on the 22nd of August without the customary 
 accompaniment of “strong drink,” which was considered in those 
 days as absolutely necessary when a new building was erected. 
 This was the more remarkable inasmuch as the Bethel was literally 
 surrounded by saloons. Tradition reports that during those early 
 years the sound of the chaplain’s voice was often interrupted by 
 the noise and revelry emanating from those places of resort. The 
 work upon the building was carried successfully forward under the 
 superintendence of Mr. Charles Burnham, a young man who came 
 out for this purpose and who subsequently was employed by the 
 American missionaries in similar undertakings. His visit to the 
 islands in 1880 will be remembered. He now resides in Phila- 
 delphia a prosperous merchant. 
 
 The dedication of this chapel, to the worship of God, took * 
 place on the 28th of the following November — the day we now 
 commemorate. The sermon w r as preached by the Rev. Mr. 
 Diell, who selected for his text. Luke X : 29th : “And who is my 
 neighbor?” Five days after the dedication, Mr. Diell Wrote a 
 letter, published in the New York Sailors’ Magazine, from which 
 
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 I quote as follows : “The members of the Mission families and 
 several of the residents, under the direction of l)r. Judd, kindly 
 assisted in singing several pieces, which gave much interest to the 
 occasion. The king, Kinau, and the principal chiefs were pres- 
 ent, together with a respectable number of residents, masters of 
 vessels, and seamen. The school, under the charge and instruc- 
 tion of Mr. and Mrs. Johnstone, and which embraces about 40 
 children of the residents, occupied seats on the right of the desk. 
 The king, with Kinau and her sister, occupied a sofa in front of 
 the desk, furnished for the occasion by Capt. Hinckley, to whom 
 we feel ourselves under many obligations for the kind assistance 
 he has frequently rendered. As a part of the exercises, I read the 
 instructions delivered to me by the executive committee just be- 
 fore our embarkation at New London. I trust that the unfurling 
 of the Bethel flag on that day will become a long and lasting 
 blessing, not only to the multitude of seamen who stop here, but 
 to those who permanently reside in this place.” 
 
 Among the comparatively few foreign residents and seamen, 
 most generous contributions were made towards furnishing the 
 chapel and the purchase of a bell. Among those contributing for 
 the latter object, I note the names of His Majesty Kamehameha 
 III., Gov. Adams, P. A. Brinsmade, J. O. Carter, H. A: Peirce 
 and others whose names are so familiar in the subsequent history 
 of Honolulu. Fifty years — a half century — have since passed 
 away, and most of those then living in Honolulu have passed on- 
 ward to the unseen world, but the same bell still continues to 
 sound its Sabbath morning’s peal, and the Bethel flag has not 
 since ceased to be unfurled. Scarcely a Sabbath has come around 
 when public services have been omitted. (Probably this chapel 
 has been closed during the half century as few Sabbaths 
 as any other house of public worship on our globe.) 
 
 From such enquiries as I have made, Mrs. Joseph Carter is the 
 only person now living in Honolulu who was present on the day 
 of dedication. Only four days previously — on the 24th of Nov- 
 ember — she was united in marriage with Captain Joseph O. 
 Carter, by the Rev. John Diell. Outside the Missionary circle, 
 this was the first marriage between two foreigners that was ever 
 solemnized so far as 1 am able to learn. 
 
 The Rev. John Diell officiated as chaplain, from his arrival 
 
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 until December, 1S40, when he embarked with Iris family, in con- 
 sequence of his protracted ill health, and died at sea, January 18, 
 1841. During his long continued sickness and decline, he made , 
 a voyage around the globe, the Rev. Mr. Tinker officiating as 
 chaplain during his absence, to the great acceptance of the foreign 
 community. From all I have been able to learn respecting Mr. 
 Diell's labors, he was a most excellent chaplain and faithful gospel 
 minister. He was abundant in labor for both seamen and the 
 foreign community. As the pioneer chaplain, his memory de- 
 serves to be kept in continual remembrance. A monument to 
 his memory was erected in Nuuanu Cemetery by the order of his 
 widow in 1052. She still survives, enjoying years of happiness 
 among her children and grandchildren, and a wide circle of 
 friends in the States of New York and Virginia. Only a few days 
 since I received a letter from her, written in her usual cheery and 
 hopeful tone, at the age of 76. She was expecting to spend the 
 winter in Hamilton, New York, where resides her youngest 
 daughter, married to Rev. P. M. Spear, D.D., Professor of Greek 
 and Hebrew in Madison University. Her other three daughters 
 have all been well married. These four daughters were born in 
 Honolulu. One of her grandsons graduated from a college in 
 Virginia, and is now a professor in a western college, and two 
 other grandsons are preparing for college. It affords me great 
 satisfaction to be able thus to refer to a family, so intimately con- 
 nected with this chaplaincy fifty years ago. God’s promises to the 
 widow and fatherless have been fulfilled : “The Lord preserveth 
 
 the stranger ; he relieveth the fatherless and widow.” Psalms 146:9. 
 
 It was my privilege to succeed to the pastorship of this church 
 and this chaplaincy, the pioneer chaplaincy in this part of the 
 world. Being under appointment to proceed to India, as a mis- 
 sionary of the American Board, I was released to become the 
 chaplain in Honolulu. The two objects were regarded as essen- 
 tially the same in their ultimate results, although different in their 
 mode of operations. As years have rolled away, while I have 
 aimed to keep the cause of seamen and the foreign element in this 
 community most prominently in view, yet I do not admit that I 
 have lost sight of the one grand object with which I commenced 
 my ministry, the preaching of the Gospel among the unevangelised. 
 Whenever an opportunity has been offered, I have aimed to assist 
 
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 those laboring for this special object, while both in my preaching and 
 publications the evangelization of the unevangelised has ever been 
 • the controlling principle of my life. It isthe object which brought 
 the Son of God into this world, and it should be the uppermost aim 
 of all who profess to be the disciples and followers of our Lord 
 and Saviour Jesus Christ. The evangelization of the heathen 
 world I believe to be the grandest, noblest and most Christ-like 
 object which can occupy the thoughts, the attention, and the time 
 of any man or woman in whatever age they may live. (Who can 
 even imagine the deplorable state of affairs there would now 
 have been upon these islands had no missionaries come hither?) 
 However much I may have fallen short of my ideal, yet it was with 
 this aim in view that I became an appointed missionary of the 
 American Board, that I was transferred to the American Seamen’s 
 Friend Society, that I was ordained as an evangelist, in my native 
 place, September 16, 1841, and embarked from New York with my 
 wife for Honolulu, on the 10th March, 1842 ; and it has been 
 by keeping this aim in view that for over forty years I have been 
 preaching the gospel from this pulpit and been labouring among 
 seamen and foreign residents of Honoiutu. 
 
 It was on the 7th of November, 1841, in Dr. Spring’s church, 
 in the city of New York that I received my instructions. The 
 Rev. Dr. Armstrong, one of the secretaries of the American 
 Board, who was afterwards lost in the ill-fated steamer Atlantic 
 in Long Island Sound, and the Rev. Dr. Spaulding, of the Sea- 
 man’s Friend Society, were the speakers on that occasion. The 
 addresses of both these gentlemen made it plain that I was about 
 to go forth as a missionary chaplain. But these gentleman made 
 prominent the idea that the success of Gospel preaching among 
 the heathen, was essentially promoted by the gathering of churches 
 among foreigners and the preaching of the Gospel among seamen. 
 “ At this hour,” remarked Dr. Armstrong, “ the most formidable 
 obstacle to the entrance of the Gospel in large portions of the 
 heathen world, grows out of the wrongs inflicted and the mis- 
 chief wrought by ungodly men bearing the Christian name. Pass 
 along the dark shores of benighted Africa ; visit the countless 
 islands of Oceanica ; and you will find the sad illustrations of this 
 remark.” Dr. Spaulding, in delivering my instructions, thus re- 
 marked, “ The particular field of your labors will be the port of 
 Honolulu ; and the special objects of your solicitude, prayers, and 
 
efforts will be the sons of the ocean. There, in that commercial 
 and central position between the coasts of Asia and America, you 
 are to stand erect as a minister of Jesus Christ. With the foreign 
 residents you will be expected to maintain a kind and courteous 
 intercourse ; and if they shall be disposed to attend upon your 
 ministry you will watch for their souls as one that must give an 
 account. At Honolulu you will be a citizen still of the land that 
 gave you birth, and entitled to its civil protection. The honor of 
 your country, therefore, as well as Christian and professional con- 
 siderations will cause you to abstain from all interference with the 
 local and political interests of that people. Never let the preacher 
 of Christ become the partizan ot the world.” 
 
 I arrived here on the 19th of October, 1842, and this has been 
 my home and the field of my ministerial labors. It would be quite 
 unnecessary to attempt a minute reference to the history of this 
 chaplaincy during the past forty-one years. I have necessarily 
 lived in open view of my fellowmen. Coming every Sabbath 
 into this pulpit, mingling during the week among both residents 
 and the transient population, publishing every month a news- 
 paper, conferring with the officers of the various benevolent 
 societies and school-boards, and in social life meeting my neigh- 
 bours, I feel that it would be altogether superfluous to enter upon 
 a detailed narration of the past, yet something is necessarily 
 expected. 
 
 In glancing over the fifty Annual Reports which have been 
 made to the parent society in New York, and recalling the events 
 connected with this chaplaincy, one is impressed with the wisdom 
 of the friends of seamen, missions, and humanity in establishing 
 chaplaincies in Sandwich Islands, Canton, Sydney, Valparaiso, 
 San Francisco, and other ports of the great ocean. The com- 
 merce of the world demands a great number of sea-faring men, 
 whose temporal and spiritual welfare requires more than can be 
 supplied by the consuls or resident clergymen of the various 
 nationalities to which the seamen owe allegiance. The numbers 
 resorting to Honolulu have been much greater than perhaps 
 many would suppose. During the years intervening betwen 1842 
 and 1867, at the lowest estimate 6000 annually entered this port, 
 and some years many more. Take the year 1855 as an illustration 
 of the state of affairs. The Rev. S. E. Bishop reports from 3,000 
 to 4,000 visiting Lahaina ; the Rev. Mr. Coan reports nearly the 
 
same number as visiting Hilo, while at Honolulu we were visited 
 by 142 whale ships. I recollect one morning over thirty rounded 
 Diamond Head. 16 vessels of war, besides all the merchant 
 vessels, and there could not have been less than 10,000 seamen 
 during the year in the port of Honolulu. 
 
 It was during these years that the Home was built, costing 
 when the debt was fully paid $1 7,640. To meet the wants of 
 seamen visiting our islands, Hilo, Lahaina, and Honolulu chapels 
 were opened. Large supplies of good reading matter were distri- 
 buted, besides several thousands of Bibles. During those years 
 a larger edition of the Friend was printed for gratuitous distribution. 
 This little paper has cost during the 40 years of its publication 
 $28,128.83, no charge ever having been made for editorial 
 labors. In passing I would remark that after so many years of 
 labor I hold myself prepared to account for all monies which have 
 been entrusted to me for benevolent objects or the support of this 
 chaplaincy. In consequence of repairs and enlagement in 1847, 
 I incurred a debt of over $3000, nearly two-thirds of which I 
 collected by visiting about 100 whale ships and soliciting funds 
 among officers and seamen. 
 
 And this recalls those years when my labors were abundant, 
 and sometimes beyond my strength, for in 1857 I experienced a 
 slight paralysis of my physical system, which I received as a gentle 
 intimation as to what would surely be the result unless I was more 
 considerate. I think my neighbors and parishioners will bear 
 me witness that I have not since that time been altogether an 
 idle man. 
 
 I allude to these statistical facts which might be indefinitely 
 expanded for the purpose of indicating something of what has been 
 done for the welfare of seamen and foreign residents. The re- 
 sults could never have been secured without the active co-opera- 
 tion of the Christian community in Honolulu and on the other 
 islands. Here I desire most gratefully to acknowledge the gene- 
 rous and sympathetic aid which has been forthcoming from the 
 members of the Bethel and Fort-street churches. 
 
 While this chapel has been the centre around which efforts in 
 behalf of seamen have gathered yet other objects have here been 
 always advocated. The cause of foreign missions has ever been 
 a prominent object here. It was in this chapel that the Mission 
 Church of Micronesia was organized with appropriate ceremonies 
 
and addresses on the nth of July, 1X52. Then was sung ‘ Wake 
 Isle of the South, your redemption is near,” and “Ye, Christian 
 heroes, go, proclaim.” Inasmuch as Park Street church, in 
 Boston, has always claimed it as a peculiar honor and as among its 
 most precious memories that the Mission Church to Sandwich Is- 
 lands was organised within its walls, in 1819, so we claim a similar 
 honor with reference to the Church of Micronesia. A similar 
 gathering assembled in this chapel to send forth missionaries to 
 the Marquesas Islands in 1853, when Matanui, a chief, made his 
 appeal to the Christians on these islands. Here we raised aloft the 
 Banner of the Cross, and passed it onward to the far West and the 
 South Seas. 
 
 An active correspondence has been kept up by the chaplain 
 with many of the English missionaries throughout all the islands 
 of the South Seas. In the missionary work as carried forward in 
 Japan and China, the Bethel hgs been in cordial sympathy. I 
 deem it among the peculiar honors of this church that during the 
 past fourteen years an evening Chinese school has been kept up 
 on these premises, wherein over 400 Chinamen have been taught 
 the rudiments of the English language, and some of these men 
 are now among the most useful and active members ot the Chinese 
 Church of this city. This school is still continued and now has 
 been added a school for Chinese girls, taught by Miss Pierce. 
 
 The Bethel Church has on four different occasions sent forth a 
 small colony to build up other church organizations. This oc- 
 curred at the organization of Fort Street in 1852, the Methodist in 
 1857, the English church in 1862, and the Chinese church in 
 1879. This shows that we are in cordial sympathy with other 
 churches of Christ in Honolulu and the Church at large. 
 
 It is with peculiar pleasure that I refer to the department of 
 Christian work connected with our Sabbath school. This has ever 
 been in most active operation. Several hundreds of children 
 have been here under instruction. Our excellent librarian, edu- 
 cated in our school, has been for more than 20 years the guardian 
 of our most excellent collection of books. Others trained here 
 are now sending their children to our school. Our church has 
 been ever receiving recruits from the Sabbath school which has 
 emphatically proved a nursery of the church. 
 
 Here I may with propriety speak of my parochial work and pas- 
 toral duties. I copy the following statistics from the church re- 
 
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 cords. During the period of my ministry I have officiated at 334 
 marriages, 18 1 baptisms of infants, 277 have united with the 
 Bethel church, while I have been called upon to officiate at the 
 burial of over 1200 of my fellow beings. I have thus been per- 
 mitted to mingle with my parishioners in scenes of joy and sadness. 
 For the period of ten years, from 1842 to 1852, I was sole pastor 
 among foreigners inHonolulu, both residens and seamen. Subse- 
 quent to that date the successive pastors of Fort-street, the clergy 
 of the English Churh, and the other churches have shared with 
 me the responsibilities of this work. Although the uncommonly 
 large number of seamen visiting Honolulu has absorbed very much 
 of both my time and labors, yet I trust that I have not altogether 
 failed in labors among the inhabitants of this city. In reviewing 
 the receding years many a bright picture may be recalled to 
 memory. From among the families attending upon my ministry 
 have come forth many choice and noble young men and women 
 (one of whom is the writer of the beautitul hymn we have just 
 sung) who have become settled in families, and are now rearing 
 Christian households. Such results are among the richest fruits 
 of ministerial and church work. How often I have spoken to my 
 people upon the family institution and its importance. It has not 
 altogether easy at times to adjust the two elements, viz., the resi- 
 dent and sea-faring, and here I desire to acknowledge my 
 indebtedness to my resident parishioners for their kindness and 
 courtesy in enabling me in former years to do anything like justice 
 to the sea-faring community. Without your aid how deficient we 
 should have been in music and other essential elements of regular 
 church services. As all are not acquainted with the miscellaneous 
 duties constantly devolving upon the chaplain, I may refer to a 
 large number of strangers not to be reckoned among either seamen 
 or residents, who have and do still make constant appeals for atten- 
 tion. It was for their special benefit that the “Strangers’ Friend 
 Society ” was organized thirty years ago, and which has dispensed 
 pecuniary and other aid to so many visiting Honolulu, representing 
 almost every nationality on our globe. Strangers, friendless and 
 penniless, cast upon our shores, may not have received all the 
 attention they desired, but they have not been forgotten or alto- 
 gether neglected. The pastor of this church has often reminded 
 his hearers of Moses’ injunction, “ Love the stranger,” and of the 
 precept in the Epistle to the Hebrews, “ Be not forgetful to enter. 
 
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 tain strangers.” Although occasionally unworthy beneficiaries 
 have imposed themselves upon the community, yet that has been 
 no valid excuse for neglecting the really meritorious. 
 
 In idancing over the names of those who have been members 
 of this church, I notice that of the Rev. James A. Daly, now 
 pastor of a large and prosperous Congregational church in Well- 
 ington, Ohio; another, the Rev. J. P. Ludlow, who has been pastor 
 of a Baptist church in San Francisco and Washington Territory: 
 one of the Gulicks is now in Japan ; one, a Findlander 
 who united with this church in 1848, who has been lor many 
 years a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church of the United 
 States; while I know not how many seamen and strangers who 
 have received permanent spiritual health from influences emanat- 
 ing from this chaplaincy, and have returned to England and 
 America to attach themselves to Christian churches. Among this 
 number I might mention, John Burns, whose memoirs have been 
 published in New York, where his labors were so eminently useful 
 in connection with the Episcopal Mission of that city. But why 
 do I make allusion to cases of this nature ? It is only to magnify 
 the power of the gospel, and truthfulness of that text of scripture 
 found in the 55th of Isaiah, which more than any other passage of 
 God’s word has been full of inspiration and encouragement to me 
 during these years of toil and labor, “For as the rain cometh down 
 and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth 
 the earth and maketh it to bring forth and bud, that it may give 
 seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall my word be that 
 goeth forth out of my mouth, it shall not return unto me void, but 
 it shall accomplish that which 1 please and it shall prosper in the 
 thing whereto I send it.” 
 
 Under the Old Testament despensation, God inspired prophets 
 to reveal His word. How often we meet with the expression, 
 “Thus saith the Lord.” In the fullness of time appeared His 
 Son, who declared, that “God so loved the world that whosoever 
 believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” 
 Christ was the annointed Messenger of God, to reveal His Uuth. 
 He is the- Logos — the word of God. Now while God has thus 
 revealed His truth, yet he has committed to man the publishing 
 abroad and the preaching of His word. The command of the 
 Son of God, on His returning to heaven from whence he came 
 was, “Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel.” This 
 
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 unfulfilled labor is still binding upon the church. Much has been 
 said respecting the great mission work of the age, including the 
 establishment of the Mission upon these islands in 1820. No 
 sooner had those pioneer men commenced their work than they 
 discovered that there was another work equally important to be 
 carried forward here, to which they were not called. This, as I 
 have already shown, was undertaken by the American Seaman’s 
 Friend Society. This was the second grand step in the building 
 up Christ’s kingdom in this part of the world. This was an un- 
 dertaking not among the members of one race or nationality, but 
 many, even as many as were represented among foreigners resi- 
 dent here, or seamen visiting these shores. You will readily see 
 that the work thus broadened and expanded, becoming world- 
 wide in its affinities and sympathies. Hence, a bible depository 
 was opened from whence bibles in many languages could be 
 obtained. Perhaps more bibles in the Portuguese language than 
 any other have been distributed. 
 
 The great underlying and fundamental principle of the Lutheran 
 Reformation was here to be developed on a grand scale. An 
 open Bible was to be given to all. My commission was not 
 alone to American seamen, but to the seamen of all nations, visit- 
 ing these shores. Here is a grand illustration of the doctrine 
 that as God hath made of one blood all nations, so to all the 
 Gospel is to be preached. With this idea in view, has this chap- 
 laincy been carried forward during the last half-century. I can 
 think of no organization better fitted for this good work, hence 
 around this chapel I have aimed to group several distinct 
 agencies, pecuniarily separate so far as regards their support, but 
 still all tending to the one main object, the publication and ex- 
 emplification of the Gospel. First'has been the preaching upon 
 the Sabbath, then has followed the weekly prayer meeting, next 
 the Sabbath School, the Sailors’ Home, the Bible Depository, the 
 publication of the Friend, the Strangers’ Friend Society, 
 and visiting among seamen in port, and at the hospitals. Words 
 faintly express my obligations for the assistance rendered by Mr. 
 Dunscombe during the last eighteen years. All these various 
 agencies have been carried forward, and through their combined 
 influences, God’s truth has been been verified that His Word 
 should not return unto Him void. 
 
 Thus the Gospel leaven has been operating, and will go forward 
 
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 until the whole world shall be leavened. This is the grand under- 
 taking now prosecuted with so much vigor, by so many Missionary 
 societies, in Europe, America, and other parts of this world. 
 It has been a great privilege, which I have enjoyed, in this 
 central station of the broad Pacific, whose waves wash the shores 
 of the surrounding continents and encircle so many islands ot this 
 great ocean. Occasionally I have during these years, visited 
 other lands, in 1849 Oregon and California, in 1861 the islands 
 of Micronesia ; in 1869-70 America, Europe, and the lands 
 skirting the Mediterranean Sea ; but wherever I have gone I did 
 not cease to labor in the cause of seamen and missions, and have 
 come back more deeply impressed with the idea that upon the 
 Christian Church of this generation devolved the imperious and 
 pressing duty of preaching the Gospel among all nations, and that 
 professing Christians were unworthy the name, who did not 
 do all in their power to accomplish this grand purpose and carry 
 out the last command of our ascending Redeemer. 
 
 One can with difficulty realize that when this chaplaincy was 
 established fifty years ago all California was under Mexican rule, 
 and even after I came hither San Francisco was wont to derive her 
 news from the outer world, via Honolulu. I do not forget that a 
 Christian lady, now residing in San Francisco, applied to me in 
 1845 or 6, for a few hymn books, so that a circle of Christians 
 might engage in social religious worship, two years before any 
 Protestant clergyman "had gone thither to officiate. Neither do I 
 forget urging the Rev. T. D. Hunt to go thither, in order to be- 
 come the chaplain to the citizens of San Francisco, in the autumn 
 of 1848, and hence he became pastor of the first Congregational 
 church of that city. How distinctly I recall my intercourse with 
 the naval officers of those early times, when I was invited to 
 preach on board their ships, and among them were Stockton, 
 Dupont, Kearney, Montgomery and others, after whom some of 
 the most prominent streets of that great city were named. I re- 
 call the fact that when the little Friend made its first appearance 
 in January^, 1843, there was not an English newspaper printed on 
 the western coast of North or South America, from Cape Horn to 
 Bhering’s Straits, or in any part of Polynesia, while China and 
 Japan were both sealed to foreign intercourse. Many years sub- 
 sequently Perry’s expedition sailed to open the latter country, 
 
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 while England, countenanced by the United States, was beginning 
 to batter down the walls of China, and now, through openings 
 then made, China’s millions are pressing their way abroad much 
 to the annoyance of both Englishmen and Americans. Look 
 southward and view New Zealand, then the undisputed home of 
 the Maories, but now that of a hundred thousand free 
 and intelligent British colonists. Standing here, as 
 chaplain among residents and seamen, I have seen the vast 
 fleets of merchant ships and immigrant vessels, as they touched 
 here on their passages across the broad Pacific, first conveying the 
 eager seekers after gold to the shores of Calfornia, and when the 
 gold of the Australian colonies was discovered then the equallv 
 anxious multitude with “hearts all chilled into the selfish prayer 
 for gold,” rushing across the ocean to seek for the precious ore in 
 those far off regions. A few individuals and families, touching 
 here in those early days, have remained and become happily inter- 
 woven and incorporated in our island community. 
 
 If such vast changes have been wrought in the past few years, 
 what may not be repeated during the coming years, under the 
 increased momentum of the active forces of commerce, civiliza- 
 tion and Christianity. I am quite willing to leave all in the hands 
 of Him who has said “ The earth is the Lord’s and the fulness 
 thereof,” “All souls are mine,” “The abundance of the sea shall 
 be converted unto thee,” and I do not forget that I preach in the 
 name of Him, who could say, “All power is given unto me in 
 heaven and in earth; Go ye therefore and teach all nations, bap- 
 tizing them in the name ot the Father, and of the Son and of the 
 Holy Ghost; teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have 
 commanded you; and lo, I am with^you alwav, even unto the end 
 of the world, Amen.” 
 
 It is with no ordinary feeling of solemnity that I am now ad- 
 dressing you. I realize that the places which know some of us 
 now will soon know us no more. Another will stand in this pul- 
 pit where it has been my privilege to preach the gospel over forty 
 years. My ministry has already been protracted beyond the aver- 
 age of that allowed to a majority of gospel ministers. In a few 
 weeks I shall have enured upon my seventieth year. Already I 
 have outlived full two generations of my fellow-men, while I have 
 officiated to more than one generation. The doctrines which I 
 
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 have preached I hope to preach until the close of my ministry 
 whenever that may come. I hold myself ready to retire whenever 
 the society, under whose auspices I labor, and the church to which 
 1 minister, shall deem it best for the interests of Christ’s kingdom 
 that a younger man shall become my successor. 1 sincerely think 
 the time has come for steps to be taken looking to such a result, 
 and I suggest that you, as members of my church, take the sub 
 ject into thoughtful consideration. 
 

 
 
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