PURITAN MISSIONS IN THU PACIFIC: 
 DISCOURSE, 
 
 VERED AT HONOLULU, (S.I.,) 
 
 ON THE ANNIVERSARY 
 
 OF THE 
 
 HAWAIIAN EVANGELICAL ASSOCIATION, 
 
 SABBATH EVENING, JUNE 17, 18C6. 
 
 By Rev. SAMUEL C. DAM OX. 
 
 SECOND AMERICAN EDITION. 
 
 EDITED BY REV. II. BINGHAM. 
 
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 NEW HAVEN: 
 
 PRINTED FOR J. HUNNEWEI.L, 
 
 BY TDTTI.E, MOREHOUSE & TAYLOR. 
 
 1869. 
 
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PURITAN MISSIONS IN THE PACIFIC: 
 
 A DISCOURSE, 
 
 DELIVERED AT HONOLULU, (S. I.,) 
 ON THE ANNIVERSARY 
 
 OF TUE 
 
 HAWAIIAN EVANGELICAL ASSOCIATION, 
 
 SABBATH EVENING, JUNE 17, ISGG. 
 
 15 Y IfEv. SAMUJ:L C. I) AMOY. 
 
 SECOND AMERICAN EDITION. 
 
 NEW HAVEN: 
 PRINTED FOR J. ITUNNEWELL, 
 
 I»r TUTTLE, MOREHOUSE & TAYLOR. 
 186'-. 
 
Honolulu, June 18, 1866. 
 
 Rev. S. C. Damon : 
 
 Dear Sir , — The undersigned respectfully request the publica- 
 tion, at your earliest convenience, of your interesting and very com- 
 prehensive discourse on “ The History of Puritan Missions in the 
 Pacific," preached in Fort Street Church last evening. 
 
 With the expressions of sincere friendship, as ever, yours, 
 
 E. COKWIN, LORRIN ANDREWS, 
 
 ELISHA II. ALLEX, S. PECK, 
 
 JAMES MoP.RIDE, J. W. AUSTIN. 
 
PREFACE TO FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. 
 
 To encourage a healthful sirmpatlry with the Island-'World, too long 
 neglected and too often wronged, but lately compassionated, an Amer- 
 ican edition of this brief sketch of “Puritan Missions in the Pacific,” 
 is offered to the friends of Evangelization, from a Hawaiian edition 
 published at Honolulu in 1806, by “ the Hawaiian Evangelical Asso- 
 ciation” chiefly of ministers of Christ, foreign, aboriginal, and sons of 
 missionaries, who are apt to teach and are disposed to take homo to 
 their welcoming heart the gracious command which Christ gave to 
 His favored people, “Preach the gospel to every creature,” to all His 
 subjects on earth, for whom He had provided the great salvation. 
 
 It may be proper to apprise the reader into whose hands this tract 
 may fall, that the highly esteemed and trustworthy author has been 
 many years the American Seaman's Friend Society’s chaplain at Ho- 
 nolulu, the friend of the thousands of mariners from various nations, 
 who, year after j’ear, visit the Sandwich Islands. He is a friend of 
 the Aborigines also, and of their true helpers, the translators and pub- 
 lishers of the Christian’s Bible for the needy dwellers in the scattere d 
 and clustered Isles of that great ocean, and has had favorable oppor- 
 tunities for acquiring and imparting interesting and useful information 
 on this subject to his hearers and readers. 
 
 This edition is issued with the consent of the Author, and at the 
 e.vpense of James Hunnewell, Esq., another friend of our mission, 
 firm and faithful from the embarkation of the Pioneers at Boston, 1819, 
 and during the whole period of the varied struggles of that mission, 
 and the Micronesian, and the Marquesan for which he educated and 
 otherwise befriended an able Hawaiian missionary, whoso letter to 
 President Lincoln, respecting his rescue of an American, is appended. 
 
 The historian of the planting and progress of Chri.stianity in the 
 heathen Islands of the Pacific, without considering the adverse influ- 
 ences or counteracting forces from abroad employed vigorou.“ly to fore- 
 stall, check or roll back needful reforms, cannot do full justice to the 
 enlightening, renovating and reformative power of the divine w'ord, as 
 shown in taking numerous dark hearted tribes out of the leadership of 
 the enemy of God and man who for ages had held them under various 
 b.aleful influences as his miserable captives, and enlisting many thou- 
 sands among them heartily in the service of the Prince of Peace. 
 
 From the period of the signal fall of the idols of Tahiti and Hawaii 
 we had great reason for anxious fears that such debased and ignorant 
 people, like oft revolting Israel, after the many and mighty wonders 
 
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 God had shown them, even after the building of the temple of Jehovah, 
 ‘Hhe glory of all lands,” would relapse into idolatry in some of its soul- 
 destroying forms. Hence the urgency was greatly enhanced to fortify 
 the Lord’s cause by the translation, diffusion and use of the Scriptures 
 as the best possible safe-guard against heresy, idolatry, injustice, in- 
 temperance, and impurity of life and manners. True Christian mis- 
 sionaries therefore never deny their disciples the free use of the Bible, 
 and then anathematize them as heretics if they follow not the creed of 
 their teachers. Thanks be to God for His wonderful protection of His 
 own cause. 
 
 Taking the inspired criterion as a test of the genuineness of tbe piety 
 of the Scripture-searching-converts in the Pacific, and asking no favors 
 on account of what a higher civilization may be supposed to do for 
 others, — what, I ask, has the Christian community under Puritan mis- 
 sionaries of any evangelized group or island there, to fear from a com- 
 parison with the fruits of a Christian civilization that tramples on 
 moral and disparages legal restraints of a demoralizing liquor traffic ; 
 demands, enacts, enforces and justifies a fugitive slave law ; and in the 
 case of millions of professed Christian citizens, favors secession and 
 rebellion because the nation would not extend but only conseire 
 slavery; and moreover produces and sends over two oceans, to display 
 their true character as antagonistic to Puritan missions, the Percivals, 
 Ebbettses, Charltons, Dudoirs, Laplaces, Paulets, Staleys, and bands of 
 Eomanizers of the nineteenth century of redeeming and regenerating 
 grace, chiefly accepted communicants, "having a name to live,” as wo 
 who saw and felt their interference charitably think ?” 
 
 To the oppressive and practical teachers of unrighteousness, the Am. 
 Dolphin, French Le Artimise and Embuscade, and the English Carys- 
 fort, the rulers whose rights they invaded, were reluctant to yield, but 
 to some were compelled to yield, but with a deep sense of ine.vcusable 
 injustice. The former outrage was disowned and rebuked by the 
 American Government, and the latter gross interference with an inde- 
 pendent state was never authorized by the Briti.^h Government, and 
 was soon corrected by the noble Admiral Thomas, whose timely bene- 
 faction in “ restoring the life of the land ” is annually celebrated by the 
 grateful Hawaiian people, as we ought to commemorate the restora- 
 tion to health and peace of our republic by our patriotic army under 
 Lincoln and Grant. 
 
 Of the Artimise, Count Agenor de Gasparin, a French nobleman, says, 
 “The violence which installed the Romish worship in all its pomp 
 in the midst of a nation but recently won over to a true spiritual wor- 
 ship, at the same time opened its ports to spirituous liquors from 
 France.” 
 
 May the reader of these pages be encouraged to do what is possi- 
 ble for the speedy consummation of the true foreign missionary work. 
 
 H. BINGHAM. 
 
 Nevr Haven, Oct. 1, 18C9. 
 
PURITAN MISSIONS IN THE PACIFIC. 
 
 A DISCOURSE. 
 
 Isaiah 42 : 4. — “ The isles shall wait for His law.” 
 Matthew 28: 19. — “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations.” 
 
 Wlicn Isaiah glanced his prophetic eye down the vista 
 of coming centuries, he was favored with a glorious vis- 
 ion of the conversion of the Gentile world to the Messiah. 
 The vision has passed away, hut the reality has taken its 
 place. Prophecy is now receiving its fulfilment and grad- 
 ually melting away into the details of history. “ Proph- 
 ecy,” says Lord Paeon, “is a kind of historiography.” 
 It requires no forced and arbitrary principle of scriptural 
 interpretation to apjily the language of Isaiah, in the 
 text, to the peculiar situation of llawaiians when the law 
 of God was first in-ochiimed among them, or to I’olyne- 
 sians generally when Protestant ^lissions were first estab- 
 lished in the Pacific. The apjilication is natural, grace- 
 ful and satisfactory. While iirophecies are not to be re- 
 garded as our rule of duty, yet from their study we may 
 gather strength and courage to press forward in the path- 
 Avay of obedience, especially when Ave witness passing 
 events in the Avorld’s history manifestly fulfilling what 
 the prophets of the Lord foretold should take jilaee in the 
 last days, when “ the mountain of the Lord’s house shall 
 be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be 
 exalted above the hills : and all nations sh.all flow unto it.” 
 Was it not so with Peter on the day of I’entecost ? With 
 what telling efl’ect he quoted the prophetic language of 
 David and Joel, in his sermon on that memorable occa- 
 sion ! 
 
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 The subject of Foreign Missions, or Missions to unevnn- 
 gelizcd nations, may be profitably contCTiiplated in the 
 liglit of Hebrew prophecy. Those old prophets stood on 
 a mount of vision far more elevated than that occupied 
 by the Avise men of heathen antiquity. 'While jdiilosoph y 
 Avas discussed in the schools of Aristotle and Plato, at 
 Athens, visions of the Messiah’s triumphs among Gentile 
 nations Avere ])assing before the enrajitured mindsof Isaiah, 
 Daniel and Malachi, All the rays of light radiating from 
 IlebreAV jirophecy Avere found to converge and center on 
 the Promised Messiah, as the central figure in that grand 
 panoramic picture of coming events. In the fullness of 
 time. He made His ajApcarance and finished His Avork, but 
 ere taking His departure from this Avorld, He gathered 
 His eleven disciples, and thus addressed them: “Go ye 
 therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the 
 name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy 
 Ghost,” That command seems clothed with a sj)ccies of 
 military authority, admitting of no questioning or reason- 
 ing on the part of those to Avhom it Avas or is addressed. 
 Never has our Savior’s last command been cancelled, re- 
 A'oked or altered. It is as binding noAv upon the Church, 
 individually and collectiAmly, as Avhen it Avas first uttered, 
 AVhen a young English clergyman a])])lied for advice to 
 the Duke of AVellington, respecting his duty to go as a 
 ]\Iissionary to India, the hero of Waterloo replied, “ Look 
 to your marching orders.” That ]iithy and laconic an- 
 swer is the best of all comments Avhich I liaA'e ever read 
 upon our Savior’s last command to His disciples. That 
 command contains the marchinQ orders of the Church- 
 militant, until the Gospel shall be preached to every crea- 
 ture.* When those orders are obeyed, then Avill the great 
 Captain of our Salvation fulfill His gracious ])romise, 
 “ Lo, I am Avith you ahvaA’, even unto the end of the 
 Avoiid.” 
 
 * Has not our King an army of the reneAved, forgiven, indoctrina- 
 ted, disciplined, and bound to go and come at his bidding, and numer- 
 ous enough to do up his main foreign mission-work in one generation? 
 — Am. Ed. 
 
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 Gathered, as we are, on tliis Missionary Anniversary, I 
 liave cliosen as my theme of discourse, 
 
 PURITAN MISSIONS IN THE PACIFIC. 
 
 Tlie time has not arrived for writing a full and com- 
 plete History of Missionary enterprises in the I’acific. It 
 is, however, approaching. For a work of this nature the 
 most abundant materials are in process of collection in 
 London, Boston, Lyons, Honolulu, or wherever there is a 
 Center of Missionary ojierations, extending to any portion 
 of Polynesia. The time is coming when the history of 
 each separate Mission will not be viewed apart and isolated 
 from the rest, but as an integral part of a grand and com- 
 prehensive work, bearing some such title as “ The History 
 of Christianity in I’olynesia,” or “Tlie History of Mis- 
 sions in the Pacific.” As the various dialects spoken by 
 the Ffjeeans, Samoans, Tahitians, IMarquesans andllawai- 
 ians form but one language, so all Polynesians are mem- 
 bers of the same family or race, and whoever would un- 
 dcrstaml or study one should study all. 
 
 At a glance, it will readily appear that a most interesting 
 field of inquiry and investigation is spread ojien. A com- 
 ]»lete history cannot at ])resent be written, for the work 
 of evangelization remains unfinished. Not all the islands 
 of Polynesia have yet been visited l)y the ^Missionary 
 of the Cross. There are numerous dwellers on the islands 
 of Micronesia, and upon those islands with Now Guinea, 
 or Papua, for a centei’, who have never yet seen a IMis- 
 sionary or heard the name of .Jesus. From this widely 
 e.xtended field of operations — evangelized and unovangel- 
 ized — the most abundant historical materials are now being 
 gathered in the archives of the various Missionary ami 
 Historical Societies. When such a history is completed, 
 it will embrace the records of the labors, efforts and do- 
 ings of various Missionary Associations, I’rotestant and 
 Catholic. This history will prove one of no ordinary in- 
 terest, when it sh.ill be written by an Kllis or .Jarves, a 
 Bingham or Anderson, a Williams or Cheever, a Turner 
 or Dibble, a IMnrray or Stewart. It will be unique in 
 cliaracti'r. 'I’o tlmse whose minds are fully alive to the 
 
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 sublime work of man’s Redemption by a crucified Re- 
 deemer, this history will exceed in interest the most ex- 
 citing tales of romance wliicli wei'e ever written. Most 
 truly may those readers be envied, who will at some fu- 
 ture day, peruse a comprehensive history of Gospel tri- 
 umphs at Tahiti, Samoa, and hundreds of other islands of 
 Polynesia. Look at a map of the Pacific. Scarcely a 
 generation has passed away, since, throughout all these 
 Avidely extended regions of our globe, the Prince of Dark- 
 ness reigned sujAreme. Idol-temples were as numerous as 
 the villages Avhich lined the shores or Avere scattered over 
 the hills and mountains. Idolatry eA eryArherc abounded. 
 Cruelty and oppression were common. There Avas much 
 in the beauty of the natural scenery to please the eye and 
 captivate the fancy. Voyagers delighted to describe the 
 paradisaical appearance of the numerous islands which 
 sparkled like so many gems in the peaceful Avaters of the 
 A'ast Pacific ; but the moral aspect was dark, and the near- 
 er it Avas A’ieAved the darker it appeared, although the 
 Bishop of Oxford describes the inhabitants of Polynesia 
 as “ children of nature, children of the air, children of 
 light, children of the sun, children of beauty, taking their 
 greatest pleasure in the dance.” Alas, man is a sinner, 
 llis heart is depraA’ed. The debased character of the un- 
 evangelized Polynesian has ncA'er been fully laid open to 
 Anew, any more than the heart of the sinner in civilized 
 lands. 
 
 “ Is this a flight of fancy ? IV ould it were ! 
 
 Heaven’s Sovereign saves all beings but Himself, 
 
 That hideous sight, a naked human heart." 
 
 Yet at the door of hearts concealing “ that hideous 
 sicht,” the Savior lias knocked and found a Avelcome. 
 ]\iost cordially has He been welcomed by multitudes of 
 idolatrous Polynesians, some of Avhom Avere once canni- 
 bals. Is not tiie history of such a people full of interest ? 
 What can be more so ? What struggles, Avhat joys, Avhat 
 sorroAvs the Recording Angel has noted doAvn in God’s 
 Book of Remembrance, Avhich Avill be disclosed in another 
 Avorld ! To a sketch of Puritan ^Missionary operations in 
 the Pacific I would now call youi' attention. 
 
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 After Cook, Vancouver and other explorers had re- 
 turned to Europe, and published the thrilling narratives 
 of their voyages in the far-oft' regions of the Pacific, 
 their reports awakened an interest second only to that 
 which followed that of Columbus that a new world had 
 been discovered. A IMacedonian call was heard, “Who 
 will volunteer to go forth as 3Iissionaries to reclaim the 
 dwellers on these beautiful islands from heathenism to 
 Christianity?” Years ])assed away, and there was no 
 response to this call, altliough some have reported, but I 
 think without due foundation, that Vancouver had sol- 
 emnly pledged Ids word to send forth a missionary to the 
 Sandwich Islands. Cook took to England, from the So- 
 ciety Islands, the “ gentle savage,” Omai ; but listen to 
 the desi)onding address of tlie poet Cow’per to that visitor 
 from Polynesia, who rejiresented the heathen imploring 
 the Gospel. 
 
 “Alas I expect it not. “iTe found no bait 
 To tempt us to thy country. Doing good,» 
 
 Disinterested good, is not our trade. 
 
 Wo travel far, 'tis true, but not for naught. 
 
 And must be bribed to compass earth again. 
 
 By other hopes and richer fruits than yours.” 
 
 The hour, Jioicever, was aJiout to strike, or be shown, on 
 Time’s dial-plate for Polynesians to pass into a new form of 
 being. Old things w'ere to pass away, and all things to be- 
 come netv. To wliom shall be assigned the high honor of 
 performing the human portion of this great work ? Heaven 
 assigns the entcrj)rise to the Puritans of Old and New 
 England. Who can doubt that it was the Spirit of God 
 wldch first atvakened a ^Missionary zeal among them to en- 
 ter upon this Herculean undertaking? It must be borne in 
 mind that the IMissionary enterprise appeared to be a far 
 ditierent work then, from what it does at present. What- 
 ever other branches of the Church universal may hereafter 
 follow' in the footsteps of the Puritans, yet to them l)elongs 
 the high honor of having been the jjionecrs in this bold 
 work. 
 
 To English Puritans w’as assigned the w'ork in the South 
 Pacific, and to American Puritans a similar undertaking 
 
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 north of the Line. Bigotry, prejudice and Sectarianism 
 may combine to overturn Avhat the Puritan lias accom- 
 plished, or Christian zeal may prompt Missionaries of 
 other denominations to perform wliat the Puritan had 
 left undone ; but the future and impartial historian will 
 ever award to him a most honorable meed of praise, for 
 having been the apostle of Christianity among the inhab- 
 itants of Polynesia. The Puritan’s record is a noble one. 
 It cannot be effaced or blotted out. It has become a part 
 of the liistory of a world’s redemption. The history of 
 modern Missions is but an a]>pendix to the “Acts of the 
 Apostles,” while Puritan Missions in Polynesia form a 
 bright and glorious chapter in that appendix. 
 
 Tahitian lilission. 
 
 On the 10th of August, 1796, or just seventy years ago, 
 a vessel sailed down the River Thames, conveying as pre- 
 cious a com])any as that which left Plymouth on board the 
 Mayflower for the shores of New England in 1620. This 
 vessel was called the and commanded by that most 
 remarkable man, Capt. Wilson. He was the man whom 
 Hyder Ali, that monster of cruelty in India, had loaded 
 with irons and confined in a prison of India, from which 
 he came forth, after twenty-two months of imprisonment, 
 emaciated, half starved and naked. This was the man 
 whose hair-breadth escapes and daring adventures caused 
 a Turk in in the train of Hyder Ali to exclaim, “ This is 
 God’s man.”* Having experienced such unexampled suf- 
 ferings, God honored him as the commander of the first 
 Missionary vessel to the isles of Polynesia. It was early 
 dawn when the Dajf quietly glided away from the docks 
 of London, and the Missionary company on board united 
 in singing, 
 
 “ Jesus, at Thy command, 
 
 I launch into the deep.”f 
 
 * 'Williams’ Missionary Enterprises, 
 f Missionary voyages, ship Duff. London, 1199. 
 
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 ' Tlic year previous to the sailing of these pioneer Mis- 
 sionaries, the London Missionary Society was organized, 
 
 ' and was now sending forth a hand of iMissionaiies to the 
 I far distant South Sea Isalnds. Tliey were going forth to 
 I establish the first Mission planted under the auspices of 
 I that noble and most truly Catholic Missionary Society, 
 which for seventy years has not faltered in its glorious 
 1 career. 
 
 Many were the difficulties and obstacles which attended 
 these early efforts of the friends of modern Missions. 
 
 • Some of their views were incorrect. The minds of the 
 I Directors were laboring under that false and erroneous 
 idea, that civilization must precede the introduction of 
 1 ChristiaTiity among a heathen and savage peo[)le. We 
 may learn this fact from the somewhat unclerical and non- 
 ' Missionary character of that frst hand of Missionaries to 
 : the shores of Tahiti. The following is a list of these Mis- 
 
 I sionaries : Four ordained 3Iissionaries, f ve carpenters, 
 
 one shop-kee])cr, one buckle and harness maker, two tail- 
 ors, two shoemakers, one gentleman’s servant (subse- 
 quently turned tin worker,) one M hitesmith and gardener, 
 one surgeon, one brazier, one cooper, one butcher, one 
 cotton-manufacturer, one Indian weaver, one hatter, two 
 bricklayers, one linen-draper, and one cabinet-maker. On- 
 I ly two of tlie four clergymen were accompanied by their 
 ' wives. The weaver, one of the carpenters, the butcher 
 I and the brazier were also accompanied by their helpmeets. 
 
 ' Three children also belonged to the company. In all 
 there were thirty-nine souls. The youngest member of 
 the company was sixteen months, and the oldest sixty- 
 four years. 
 
 The lJuff made a prosjierous passage from England to 
 Tahiti, touching at the Western Islands and Kio Janeiro. 
 In the contrast of the habits of Puritan Missionaries of that 
 period with those of the present, this fact is noteworthy, 
 that at Teneriffe, the Missionaries were instructed to pro- 
 cure “ four pipes of the best wine, in hogsheads,” and pay 
 for the same by “ a draft on the Treasurer ” of the Society. 
 ^Missionaries of recent times do not receive instructions 
 of this nature from the Secretaries of those Societies which 
 
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 send them forth. During the voyage the attention of 
 tlie Missionaries was much occupied in making arrange- 
 ments for future operations. It was decided that the four 
 ordained Missionaries, together with twenty others, in- 
 cluding five females, and two children, should remain at 
 Tahiti, ten of the company should proceed to Tonga, and 
 two — Mr. Harris, the cooper, and Mr. Ci'ook, the gentle- 
 man’s servant — should jjroceed and establish a Mission on 
 the Marquesas Islands. 
 
 On the 4th of March, 1797, the Missionaries approached 
 the long wished for and beautiful shores of Tahiti. The 
 following day being the Sabbath, they did not land, but 
 held divine service on board, the simple-minded and idol- 
 atrous inhabitants witnessing the scene from the shore. 
 The Rev. Mr. Cover preached from the text, “ God is 
 love,” and hymns commencing with the following Hues 
 were sung : 
 
 ‘‘ O’er the gloomy hills of darkness;” 
 
 ‘‘Blow ye the trumpet, blow.” 
 
 It may now be said the work of evangelizing the in- 
 habitants of Polynesia had commenced. The Missionaries 
 had entered there upon their arduous, difficult and untried 
 work. Not to have made mistakes would have been 
 more than should have been expected of the uninspired. 
 The history of the Mission to Tahiti has been so often 
 published, and is so fitmiliar, that I shall not dwell upon its 
 details, but only touch upon those points deemed worthy 
 of notice, in presenting a rapid sketch of the operations 
 of the London Missionary Society in the Pacific. The fun- 
 damental principle of this Society, adojited at its first an- 
 nual meeting, in May, 1796, is thus defined: “Its design 
 is not to send Presbyterianism, Independency, Episco- 
 pacy, or any other form of Church order or government, 
 but the glorious Gospel of the blessed God to the heathen.” 
 Now, although this Society is supported by various Evan- 
 gelical Christian denominations in England, yet the Di- 
 rectors leave it to the Missionaries “to assume for them- 
 selves such form of Churcli government as to them shall 
 appear most agreeable to the Word of God.” So far as 
 
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 I fira able to ascertain the facts, all Missionaries sent out 
 from England to establish and perpetuate Christianity in 
 the South Seas have been of the Puritan stamp, except 
 those of the “Church Missionary Society,” and of the 
 “ Society for the Propagation of the Gospel.” iMissiona- 
 ries of tiiese two Societies have contined their efforts al- 
 most entirely to New Zealand. The Wesleyan IMission- 
 aries at the Tonga and Feejee Islands, as well as those in 
 New Zealand, I doubt not would wish to he classed among 
 Puritans, rather than among those “ Church ” Mission- 
 aries, whose views are High Church, Puseyite or Pitual- 
 istic. Taking this view of the subject, Puritan Missions 
 in the Ihicific are spread over the following groups of 
 islands, vi/: Society, i\Iarquesan, Ilervey, Friendly, Sa- 
 moan, Feejeean, New Hebrides, Hawaiian and Microne- 
 sian. This is a very large and ])opulous field for iUission- 
 ary operations, hut in working it, Puritans from Old and 
 New England have sent forth as devoted hands of Mis- 
 sionaries as ever labored among the heathen, and most 
 liberally expended funds to carryforward their enterprises. 
 As a groundwork for their operations, they have caused 
 the entire Bible to he translated into the dialects spoken 
 atTahiti, Tonga, Samoa, Uarotongaand Hawaiian Islands, 
 and parts of the Bible into many other dialects. The 
 cardinal idea of all these ^Missionaries is this, that iMission- 
 aries, when sent to preach the Gospel among an unevan- 
 geli/.ed and heathen ])Cople, should aim to convert sinners 
 to Christ, and preach among them the sim])le principles 
 of the Gos])cl, and not the peculiar tenets or o])inions of 
 any one C'hristian sect. They hold that the Bible should 
 he translated and printed in the various languages and 
 dialects spoken by all nations. They place great stress 
 ujmn the i^reaohing of the Gospel. 
 
 With such views the English ^Missionaries commenced 
 their labors at the Society Islands, ,Vt the end of three 
 years a chapel was built, hut it was nearly five years be- 
 fore the Missionaries could preach familiarly in the lan- 
 guage of the people. Sixteen years rolled away ere a single 
 convert was recognized. Many changes had taken j)lace 
 in the Mi.ssion. Several of the company left for the eol- 
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 ony of New South Wales. The interest awakened in 
 England at the outset of the Mission, had died away, and 
 the question was seriously discussed of abandoning the 
 enterprise. Tlie work required was too exacting for the 
 weak and faint-hearted. There was, however, one devoted 
 friend of the mission in England, wlio would listen to no 
 such proposition. He declared he would sell his coat 
 from his hack rather than the Mission should he g-iven up. 
 This good man was Haweis. He was a Churchman of 
 enlarged views and noble conduct. He presented the 
 Society with a donation of £200, or $1,000, and then pro- 
 posed that the fiiends of the enterprise should observe a 
 day of fasting and prayer. This was the set time for the 
 God of Missions to favor His Zion at Tahiti. The vessel 
 taking out instructions for the jMissionaries to continue 
 their work, was on her outward hound passage Avhile a 
 homeAvard-hound vessel from Tahiti Avas returning to Eng- 
 land freighted Avith idols Avhicli had been given up. The 
 dawn Avas noAV approaching, after a long night of toil. 
 The glad neAvs thrilled the hearts of the friends of Mis- 
 sions in England and other parts of the world. It was 
 a most memoi*ahle CA^ent in the history of not only the 
 Blission to the South Seas, hut of Missions in general. 
 While the Christian Church Avas praying, God heard and 
 ansAvered their jjrayers. Tliese events occurred just half 
 a century ago. What momentous events have siuce oc- 
 curred in the history of Missions ! 
 
 In the year 1817, tAvo most remarkable men joined the 
 Mission at Tahiti. One Avas the ReA", Mr. Williams, 
 who Avon for himself the euA'iable title of the Apostle of 
 IMissions in the South Seas, hut Avho finally was killed, 
 and Avill foreA^er he knoAvn in the history of Missions as 
 the “Martyr of Erromanga,” A monument has been 
 erected o\"er his remains, at Apia, Samoan Island, with 
 this inscription : “ Sacred to the Memory of the Rev. 
 ,Tohn Williams, the Father of the Samoan and other Mis- 
 sions, aged 43 years and 5 months, Avho Avas killed by 
 the cruel natives of Erromanga, while endeavoring to 
 plant the Gospel of Peace on their shores.” Beautifully 
 does Mrs. Ellis, in her poem, “ The Island Queen,” thus 
 })ortray the character of the martyr, Williams, 
 
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 “ A man sublime iu hia simplicity — 
 
 I Icro of Missions — whoso expansive soul 
 Nor realms could satisfy, nor space control; 
 
 To one great purpose true, his manly part 
 Proving the power of earnestness of heart ; 
 
 AVhile burued his zeal amid all dangers warm, 
 
 Brightest when tried, and strongest in the storm.” 
 
 Tltc other was Rev. William Ellis, -wlio still survives, 
 and is one of the most remarkable men now living. Ilis 
 fame is world-wide. ^Missions in the South Seas and the 
 Hawaiian Islands are his debtors, while his repeated 
 visits to the Island of ^Madagascar entitle him to rank 
 among the Missionary benefactors of the heathen world. 
 The very last accounts from England inform ns that, in 
 his vigorous old age, he is still laboring for jMissions, 
 and that our Mission is not forgotten. By the last mail 
 a goodly-sized pamphlet was received, with the follow- 
 ing on its title-page ; “ The American [Mission in the 
 Sandwich Islands; a Vindication and an Appeal in rela- 
 tion to the Proceedings of the Reformed Catholic 3ILs- 
 .sion in llonolnln. By Rei\ W. A'llis,'" etc. This is a 
 sonml, masterly and lrinm])hant vindieation and a])peal, 
 by a veteran in the Missionary cause. Re.specting its 
 author I would add: Nobleman! Long may he sur- 
 
 vive to l.abor iu the [Missionary c.ause, ere his name shall 
 be enrolled beside that of Elliot, Brainard, Martyn, Bu- 
 chanan, Schwarz, [Mills, Judson, Cary, 
 
 “Whoso honored names on hi.story’s page shall live.” 
 
 For they, with many others, have devoted their lives to 
 the evangelization of the heathen world. 
 
 During the last lialf-century the missionary work has 
 been prosecuted at the Society Islands Avith varied suc- 
 cess. The Missionaries and native Christians have passed 
 through a series of tnals and persecutions. Mo.st nobly 
 have the native Churches been sustained. The Tahitians 
 have held on to the principles of Protestant Christianity 
 with true Waldensean tenacity. The emissaries of Rome 
 have found their match among the guava and orange 
 groves of Tahiti, as well as amid the fastnesses of the A1])S. 
 It is a matter ot great astonishment lliat the Tahitians 
 
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 should have so iiertinaciously and resolutely adhered to 
 the faith taught them by the English Missionaries. It 
 is proof positive that Cliristianity has taken a firm hold 
 of the hearts of the Cliiefs and* j)eo])le of Tahiti. At 
 the last accounts, Protestant ministers and teachers Avere 
 settling among tlieni, Avho Avere sent out from France, 
 Avhile an a 2 Aj)eal lias been made to America for funds to 
 sustain the Mission. 
 
 The folloAving points I deem Avorthy of special atten- 
 tion in estimating the good aceomjilished by the estab- 
 lishment of the Mission at Tahiti : ]. It being the jiio- 
 
 neer Mission in Polynesia, all subsequent ^Missions have 
 profited by its example — its errors, its failures and its suc- 
 cesses. Not only have other ^Missions in Polynesia pro- 
 fited by a study of its history, but 3Iissions in other 
 parts of the heathen A\'orld have also been benefit- 
 ted by revicAving its progress. 2. The history of this 
 Mission has eftectually exjdoded the idea that civilization 
 should precede Christianity, in the evangelization of a 
 heathen people. Neither the London Missionary So- 
 ciety, nor any other Missionary x\ssociation, AA'ill ever 
 semi forth so many secular men to establish and prose- 
 cute the iNIissionary Avork.* 3. Tahiti has been found to 
 
 * What our author says as to uot sendiug laymen to tlie foreign 
 missionary licld, maj' be too true. I suppose the Lord of missions 
 sent out of Jerusalem more than a thousand laymen to make known his 
 life and Ioa’c, his doctrine and death, Avhile the Apostles stood their 
 ground there in opposition to the Sanhedrim. Paul took his secular 
 business with him. It is lawful, often needful. The first mission to the 
 Sandwich Islands had two preachers and eight laymen, including three 
 natives and the wives of the Americans ; and large numbers of laymen 
 and Avomen followed them in different rtenforcements, most of whom 
 were very useful. Some Avere subsequently ordained, others Avere 
 teachers or lay preachers, secular agents, itc., contributing largely to 
 the comfort and distinguished success of the mission. 
 
 Great numbers of laborers are demanded for the foreign field. If bet- 
 ter salaries, better society, and easier Avork, or prospects of usefulness 
 here, keep the mass of ordained preachers at home, then laymen and 
 women in great numbers must go up to the foreign work, the nature of 
 Avhich is admirably adapted to promote groAvth in fitness for it. AYhat 
 possible objection to laymen being assistant missionaries, doctors, 
 printers, binders, readers, colporteurs and teachers? That civilization 
 and OA'angelization should go hand in hand, as in the Tahitian and Ila- 
 Avaiian missions, is doubtless the true method for permanent success 
 among barbarians ; and even among the semi-civilized n.ations they are 
 needed and successful. A vigorous press should ever be an available 
 auxiliai-y.— A m. Ed. 
 
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 be admirably situated as a centre or base of i\Iissionary 
 operations. From this base 3Iissionaries liave gone in 
 many directions, as -w ill appear from brief sketdies of 
 31issionary 02 )crations in other groups. 
 
 Tongan Mission. 
 
 TIic Directors of the London 3Iissionary Society en- 
 tered upon the •work of 3Iissions in Polynesia u ith en- 
 larged and noble views. From the beginning they de- 
 signed to extend tlieir operations to other groups besides 
 the Society Islands. Ko sooner had the Missionaries be- 
 eome settled on Tahiti than the shij) /><(///■ sailed for the 
 Friendly or Tonga Islands. Upon those were landed 
 ten 3Iissionaries, who came out from England. This 
 Mission was not successful. In a few months three of 
 these 3Iissionaries were murdered, and the remainder 
 were taken to Sydney, in 1800. No subsequent attempts 
 were made to evangelize the Friendly Islandei's until 
 the establishment of the Wesleyan .Mission in 1822. 
 The Kev. W. Lawry was the leader of this new enter- 
 ju'ise, which was destined to be crowned with success. 
 Other Missionaries followed in 1826, 1827, 1880, and so 
 on down to the present time. The i)eculiarities of the 
 Wesleyan system of Church organization has been in- 
 troduced and found to be eminently succcssfid. King 
 George is now a local preacher, and has successfully 
 ofliciated ;is Chief 3Iagistrate of that little kingdom, 
 and also as a laborer in promoting the Kingdom of God. 
 He has granted to his people a written Constitution, and 
 so faras reliable information can be obtaine<I,the Friendly 
 Islanders have become a civilized and Christian people. 
 What I deem of special importance to observe in tra- 
 cing the progress of eivilization and Christianity' among 
 that people is this, that it matters not whether 3Iission- 
 aries are Inde])cndents, Wesleyans or Episcopalians in 
 their views of C’hurch government or ecclesiastical ]>olitv, 
 the Lord will crown their laboi-s with success, if they ai’c 
 faithful in their work of preaching and exemplifying the 
 Gosprl. 
 
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 Marquesan Mission. 
 
 In the rapid sketcli of Puritan IVIissions in tlie South 
 Seas, I shall next direct attention to the various eftbrts 
 which have been made to establish the institutions of 
 the Gospel on the Marquesas Islands. Strange as the 
 announcement of the fact may appear, the first rites of 
 Christianity Avere poi’formed on this group long before 
 the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock, even as early as 
 the 25tli of July, 1595. These Islands Avere discover- 
 ed by Alvaro Mendana de Negra, and named Mar- 
 quesas in honor of the Marquis of Canete, then Vice- 
 roy of Peru. The IMass, or Catholic service, Avas ]>er- 
 formed on shore, and just tAvo hundred years from 
 that date the ship landed tAvo English Mission- 
 
 aries on those Islands. Their names Avere John Har- 
 ris and William Crook. After residing uj)on the 
 islands for one year, disheartened and discouraged, they 
 returned to Tahiti. More than a quarter of a century 
 elajjsed before another etfort Avas made on behalf of the 
 Marquesans. In 1825 Mr. Crook, accompanied by tAvo 
 Tahitians, returned and reneAved his eftbrts. He dis- 
 covered that a fcAV natives had given up their idols, in 
 consequence of his former eftbrts, thus shoAving that 
 good seed had been soAvn. Again discouraged, they re- 
 turned to Tahiti. The folloAving year, 1826, the Mission 
 Avas .again renewed, but only to be again abandoned in 
 the year 1829. 
 
 The Avork of Missions on the Marquesas Islands Avas 
 reneAved in 183.3, by the Rev. Messrs. Armstrong, Alex- 
 ander and Parker, Avitli their Avives, from Honolulu as a 
 b.ase of operations. Before a tAvelvemonth had elapsed, 
 they returned from the field, to be succeeded by Mission- 
 aries from Tahiti, Avho pi'osecuted the Avork for several 
 years, and again abandoned the enterprise. In 1838 
 tAvo Catholic Priests landed upon the islands, Avhich led 
 to their occupation by tlie French for ])olitical and n.aval 
 ])ui‘poses. An effort Avas made to make a penal settle- 
 ment of them. This scheme Avas soon abandoned, and 
 the Catholic Mission.aries .alone remained, with a merely 
 nominal (.)ccuj>ancy by Frimeh military authorities. 
 
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 Tims matters were continued until the IlaAvaiian Mis- 
 sionary Society sent out a Mission from these islands, in 
 1853. The history of this successfid enter|)rise is too 
 Avell known for me to enter upon the details. Our So- 
 ciety has not only sustained the orifrinial Missionaries, 
 but sent out reinforcements. The ^larquesans have 
 been found to be the most savage and untractable ot 
 all the various members of the great Polynesian family. 
 One attempt after another has been made to evangelize 
 them, but hitherto all efforts have failed, until our Ila- 
 Avaiian 3Iissionaries settled among them. They have 
 held on Avith a tirin grasji, determined not to give up until 
 the AAork shall be accomjdished. This is much to their 
 honor, and if no other good has been done, this point has 
 been established, that IlaAvaiian ^Missionaries are Avorthy 
 of all praise for their persevering zeal, when both Eng- 
 lish and American ^lissionaries had given up. A let- 
 ter recently published, and Avritten by one of those 
 Missionaries to President Lincoln, indicates that a Ila- 
 Avaiian Missionary, for mind, scholarship and piety, may 
 take rank among the best of those emjdoyed to preach the 
 Gospel among the heathen. (See Ajipendix A.) 
 
 It is a question of much interest and imjmrtance Avhy 
 3Iarquesans should have been so unwilling to receive the 
 teachings of the missionaries, Avhile other branches of 
 the Polynesian family have received them Avith open 
 arms. Perhaps I may be mistaken, but I think the al- 
 most utter anarchy in regard to civil and political goA - 
 ernment has been the jirincipal reason. Human govern- 
 ment is a divine institution, but among Marquesans there 
 appears to have been A ery little of Avhat could be called 
 “ law and order.” This leads me to remark, I think that 
 ^Missionaries and the friends of Missions do not suffi- 
 ciently value the regular form of goA'ernment which has 
 for so many years existed upon these islands. "Wherever 
 the government is unsettled, or anarchy prevails, it has in 
 all ages been found a difficult thing to plant the institutions 
 of the Gospel. This is a point to Avhich my attention Avas 
 first called Avhile visiting Oregon, in 1849, and conversing 
 Avith a Missionary of the Hoard Avho h.ad been laboring 
 
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 among the Nortli American Indians. lie liad experi- 
 enced the sad etiects of an ahsence of civil government 
 among the Indians, and his remark was tliat Missionaries 
 at tlie Sandwich Islands were peculiarly favored. The 
 ]\Iarquesans are divided into as many clans, or tribes, as 
 there are valleys in the group. Tlu'y have, from time 
 immemorial, carried on warfare. They are never at 
 peace. The following lines of Cowper are a])plicahle to 
 the Marquesans, as Avell as to the nations of Euroi)e : 
 
 “ Mountains interposed, 
 
 Make enemies of nations, which had else. 
 
 Like kindred drops, been mingled into one.” 
 
 Samoan Mission. 
 
 In our general survey of Puritan Missions in the South 
 Seas, the Samoan or Navigator islands will next claim 
 our attention. Most intimately associated with this 
 group are the Islands of the Ilervey group, embracing 
 the Islands of liaratonga, Aitutake and Mangaia. The 
 first publication of tlie Gospel on these beautiful and 
 ])opulous islands will ahvays be associated with that ar- 
 dent, enterprising and adventurous ]\Iissionaray to whom 
 I have already alluded, the Rev. John Williams, the 
 Martyr of Erromanga. “ For my part,” Avrote Williams 
 to the Directors of the London Missionary Society, “ I 
 cannot content myself Avith the narrow limits of a single 
 reef; and, if means are not afforded, a continent Avould 
 be infinitely preferable to me ; for there, if you cannot 
 ride, you can Avalk; but to these isolated islands a shijy 
 must car)']! you.’’'' Because there Avas no ship at his com- 
 mand, and no money to purchase one, he actually built 
 one Avith his OAvn hands and the assistance of the natives. 
 It Avas called “ IVie Messenger of Peace." 
 
 “ ’Tis brave to see the gallant ship. 
 
 With snowy pinions, fly 
 Across the ocean, like a bird. 
 
 Beneath a pleasant sky ; 
 
 Tct braver sight I deem it is, 
 
 And goodlier, when a ship, 
 
 AVUh Mcrcy’.s heralds, doth her wing 
 In _v<,indcr w alers dip. 
 
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 A burden bearing, richer far 
 Tlian gold or cunning gem ; 
 
 Tea, wafting tidings of the star 
 That shines from Bethlehem. ” 
 
 She was from seventy to eiglity tons Inirden. This 
 vessel proved to be an excellent sailor, and most ser- 
 viceable in the Missionary cause. The building of that 
 vessel, and its trips to the Navigator Islands, on vo}mges 
 of exj)loration, are most wonderful, and well entitle the 
 projector of these enterprises to be accounted an original 
 genius. One Phiglish writer has remarked that Defoe, the 
 writer of the a<lventures of Robinson Crusoe, “never 
 ascribed to the hero of his romance an achievement so 
 Avonderful.” The fact is somethin<>' stranger than fiction. 
 It IS now something more than a cpiarter of a century 
 since Mr. Williams published an account of his Mission- 
 ary voyages, under the title of “ A Narrative of 3Iis- 
 sionary Enterprises in the South Sea Islands.” The de- 
 tails of ^Missionary labor contained in that volume read 
 more like a work of romance than sober reality. Sub- 
 sequent events have jiroved that the originator of those 
 enterprises was no enthusiastic adventurer. Thousands 
 of British and American Christians perused the volume 
 with the deejiest interest. I have not forgotten the 
 thrill of delight which I experienced while reading that 
 volume. The Church at large was now convinced that 
 the Angel having the everlasting Cospel to preach, was 
 fully commissioned to extend his flight over all the isl- 
 ands of the South Seas, and those stanzas written by 
 an American poet to be sung at tlie embarkation of the 
 second band of ^lissionaries sailing for these i.slands 
 from New Haven, were now found to be animated with 
 new life and inspiration : 
 
 “tTake isles of the South, your redemption is near, 
 
 No longer repose in the borders of gloom ; 
 
 The strength of His chosen in love shall appear, 
 
 And light shall ari.se on the verge of the tomb. 
 
 The billows that girt ye. the wild waves that roar, 
 
 The zephyr.s that play where the ocean-storms cease. 
 
 Shall bear the rich freight to your desolate shore. 
 
 Shall waft tlie glad tidings of pardon and peace.” 
 
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 Williams, having led the way, was soon followed by 
 as noble, laborious, jjatient and successful a coiu])any of 
 JMissionaries as ever left the shores of Christian England 
 and landed u])on the shores of heathendom. The names 
 of Buzacott, Pitman, Boyle, Mills, Turner, Geddie, and 
 many others, are associated with that of AVilliams in 
 jn-osecuting the Avork of ]\Iissions in theHervey, Samoan, 
 New Hebrides, New Caledonia and other islands, stretch- 
 ing au ay to the westward. (See Appendix B.) 
 
 New Zealand and Feejeean Missions.* 
 
 Although I do not feel justified in classing the New 
 Zealand Missions among Puritan Missions in the South 
 Seas, yet I can appreciate what has been done by those 
 differing from the Puritans in their ecclesiastical organi- 
 zation. The Church ^Missionary Society commenced ope- 
 rations in New Zealand in 1814, and has there accom- 
 plished a noble Avork. The devoted Missionaries of the 
 Society have labored Avith alternate successes and defeats. 
 The Wesleyan Missionaries came to their aid in 1819, 
 and also ^Missionaries under the aus))ices of the ancient 
 “Society for Propagating the Gospel in Foreign Parts,” 
 have entered that field. The histoiy (>f those Missions 
 abounds with incidents of thrilling interest. The steady 
 and persevei’ing efforts and jjatronage of the Bev. Samuel 
 Marsden, an Episcojjalian, and Chaplain at Sydney, j>re- 
 sents one of the finest pictures of ^Missionary zeal any- 
 Avhei’e to be found upon record. lie stood by that Mis- 
 sion through evil as Avell as good report. Cannibalism 
 and idolatrj'^ have been the main obstacles in the Avay of 
 the preaching of the Gosj)el. The late Sydney Smith 
 ])resented the cannibal feature in a most striking light. 
 When Bishop Sehvyn was about to leave England for 
 his distant diocese, Sydney Smith thus addressed him ; 
 “ I hope, my Lord, you Avill keep a bountiful supply of 
 cold cooked infant on your sideboard, for all A'isitors, 
 and, if any of the nati\'es should fancy to eat you, I can 
 oidy heartily hope you Avill disagree with them.” The 
 
 * This portion of the discourse, relating to New Zealand, and some 
 other paragraphs, were omitted in the delivery, for want of time. 
 
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 good Bishop yet survives, but, if reports are to be cred- 
 ited of the iNIaories returning to their cannibal practices, 
 it would be impossible to predict how long he may be 
 spared. The humorous sarcasm of the witty Divine, in- 
 dicated a condition of heathenism in New Zealand and 
 the Feejee Islands, Mhich tl)ose devoted Missionaries 
 have been called to encounter in all its hideous and loath- 
 some features.* 
 
 From New Zealand, turn your eyes for a moment to 
 the achievements of tlie Wesleyan, or Puritan Missions, 
 in the Feejee Islands. Contemplate Gospel triumphs in 
 that region of Polynesia. No ^lissionary hereafter need 
 be discouraged at the most ap])alling obstacles and diffi- 
 culties that may be presented in any ])art of the heathen 
 world. .lust thirty years ago, or in 1835, the Bev. 
 Messrs. Cross and Cargile landed among the unblushing 
 cannibals of the h\‘ojee Islands. Human tlesh Avas no 
 inconsiderable portion of the food of the debased Fee- 
 jeeans. Foreigners of the very lowest class had intro- 
 duced the vices of civilization ; but even there the Sa- 
 A'ior has found followers. Schools have been established 
 and the Bible lias been translated. The Wesleyans have 
 liappily and successfully introduced the peculiar practi- 
 ces and forms of .lohn Wesley’s system, and these have 
 been found admirably suited to the elevation and ameli- 
 oration of the debased Feejeeans. All honor to those 
 devoted laborers. (See Appendix C.) 
 
 Hawaiian Mission. 
 
 In my remarks upon Missionary ojjerationsin Polynesia, 
 I have dwelt exclusively upon the labors of the Knglish 
 in what may strictly be denominateil the South Seas. I 
 shall now invite your attention somewhat briefly to the 
 labors of the American Puritan Missionaries in the North 
 I’acitic. The Hawaiian Islands Avill, of course, first 
 I claim our attention. In passing, I cannot refrain from 
 
 * “ It was a mistake, as the result has demonstrated, to report such 
 a promiscuous membership as purely Christian.” — Cor. Mailt Quarter- 
 ly, Oct. 1868, p. 67. How sadly ruinous to carnal-minded souls to 
 fellowship their enmity to Christ ! — A m. Ed. 
 
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 alludino; to tliat harmony ■which has always existed be- 
 tween the Missionaries of the London Missionary Society 
 and those of the American lioard. At a very early 
 stage of oj)erations, there was a 2>erfect understanding 
 that Islands south of the Line should belong to the 
 English Missionaries, while American Missionaries should 
 go to the North Pacific. As events have been devel- 
 ojjing, and the streams of emigration have flowed to the 
 Australian colonies via the Cajie of Good Hope, and to 
 the Pacific coast via the Rocky Mountains and the Isth- 
 mus of Panama, it has become clearly apjiarent that an 
 overrulinG: Providence guides the streams of emigration 
 and the progress of foreign Missions. The leading facts 
 relating to Missions at tliese islands are so familiar to 
 your minds, and have been so often published, that I 
 shall not be ex})ected to dwell ui^on the details of Mis- 
 sionary operations. The work has not bt*en done in a cor- 
 ner, but o})enly, and in view of friends and enemies. 
 The system and jnincijjles adopted by the Puritan Mis- 
 sionaries have been severely criticised and examined. In 
 reviewing the establishment of the Mission, it would be 
 quite impossible to keep out of view certain marked in- 
 terpositions of Divine Providence. The visit of Oboo- 
 kiah and his companions to America, and their education 
 in the Mission School at Cornwall, Conn., form a most 
 beautiful introduction to a history of the American ]\Iis- 
 sion to the Islands. The abolition of idolatry and the 
 tabu system are also incidents of marked significance. 
 Before the news of this unheard of and unex2)ected event 
 reached the LTnited States, the first Missionary company 
 had embarked from Boston. The way had been thereby 
 pre2>ared for the introduction of the Christian religion 
 into these islands. “The isles shall wait for His law.” 
 Literally were the inhabitants of these isles waiting for 
 God’s Law. Not to recognize in this wonderful work of 
 preparation an interjjosition of an unseen but Diviue 
 hand, Avould savor of a denial of an overruling and Di- 
 vine Providence. In conteni])lating this CA^ent in Ha- 
 waiian annals, hoAV forcibly the folloAving truthful, elo- 
 quent and i)hiloso2)hical remarks of Bancroft, the hlsto- 
 
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 rian, forming the exordium of liis late eulogy on the life of 
 President Lincoln, will be found to apply ; “ Sometimes, 
 like a messenger through the tliick darkness of night. 
 Omnipotence steps along mysterious ways ; but wlien 
 the hour strikes for a j)eople or mankind to pass into a 
 new form of being, unseen hands draw the bolts from 
 the gates of futurity; an all subduing influence prepares 
 the minds of men for the coming revolution ; those who 
 plan resistance find themselves in conflict with the will 
 of Providence rather than with human desires ; and all 
 hearts and all understandings, most of all the opinions 
 and influence of the unwilling, are wonderfully attracted, 
 and compelled to bear forward the change, Avhich be- 
 comes more and more an obedience to the law of uni- 
 versal nature than submission to the arbitraments of 
 man.” 
 
 The hour had struck for the Hawaiian peojde to pass 
 into a new form of being. Through the thick darkness 
 of heathenish night. Divine Providence had beei\ leading 
 this people to abolish their old system of worship. Lin- 
 seen hands drew back the bolts from the gates, and 
 thrcAV wide open the doors for the pioneers of the Amer- 
 ican Puritan Mission to enter upon their work of evan- 
 gelization. This event has thus been j)ortrayed in po- 
 etic strains by the Hev. Robert Grant, a clergyman of Die 
 Church of England, in his jroem, “ Kapiolani.” 
 
 “ God oped a wide and an efifectiial door, 
 
 For ere the messengers of peace unfurled 
 Love’s banner, waving o’er a rebel world, 
 
 Moved by a mighty impulse from on high, 
 
 Bursting each social, each domestic tie. 
 
 The Island King the ancient creed disowned. 
 
 Threw off the burden beneath which they groaned. 
 
 At one bold stroke ; and, with a statesman’s view, 
 
 He broke the fetters of the strict tabu. 
 
 Enforced byjstera authority’s high hand : 
 
 Thus idol-worship ceased throughout the land.” 
 
 Enemies arose and opposers resisted the onward march 
 1 of the new order of events, but they have ])assed away. 
 
 A righteous judgement appears, in many instances, to 
 I have overtaken the enemies of the Gospel in this land, 
 
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 not unlike the fearful destruction Avhich at a subsequent 
 date, awaited Boki and his band, to the number of five 
 luuulred, who embarked at Honolulu, in December, 1829, 
 for an expedition to the Soutli Seas. Only twenty of 
 the number ever returned. The leader had placed him- 
 self in opposition to the advancement of the cause of 
 truth. His career and that of his followers was marked 
 by “ prodigality, intemperance and opposition,” imperil- 
 ing the very government as well as the Church. “ At 
 length,” remarks Dibble, the historian, “ the God of na- 
 tions, who had so signally interposed in other emergen- 
 cies, displaj^d again His timely aid.” In more than one 
 crisis have the Missionaries and friends of truth in this 
 nation had occasion to adopt the language of Ezra : 
 “ The hand of the Lord was upon us, and he delivered us 
 out of the hand of the enemy, and of such as lay in wait 
 by the way.” As I once took occasion to remark, on a 
 national fast-day, more than twenty years ago, so I will 
 now repeat the remark : “ The more 1 become acquainted 
 with the history of the atfairs of these islands, the sen- 
 timent becomes more strongly impressed upon my mind 
 that the Sandwich Islands is no field for wicked men and 
 the opposers of truth and righteousness to think of jirac- 
 ticing their schemes before high Heaven, unless they are 
 willing to incur the awful risk of being pursued, even in 
 this life, with the retributive justice of God.” 
 
 There have been many bright as well as dark providen- 
 ces in the histoiy of tliis people during the last half 
 century. The friends of Foreign Missions in the United 
 States have been permitted to learn the good results of 
 this investment of a million of dollars to redeem Ha- 
 waiians from heathenism. Missionary labor has pro- 
 duced a goodly harvest. How striking the contrast be- 
 tween this ami some other fields of ilissionary eftbrts ! 
 The great and successful African Missionary and ExjjIo- 
 rcr. Dr. Livingstone, recently has put forth the statement 
 that forty foreign Missionaries going to Africa, died of 
 disease and the climate before a single convert to Chris- 
 tianity came forward to cheer the hearts of God’s Mis- 
 sionary servants. Not thus has the great Head of the 
 Church compelled the American Missionary to toil on 
 
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 in faith. Those who have sown the seed have been per- 
 mitted to gather in the harvest. The sower and the 
 reaper are combined in one. I rejoice in being permit- 
 ted to see present on tliis occasion a representation of 
 the first Missionary band landing on Hawaiian shores, 
 in 1820. Long may our vener.able associates be sp.ared 
 to make their annual appearance at our Missionaiy and 
 festive gatherings. Their presence is ever welcome and 
 cheering. They form golden links in that historic chain 
 connecting the present with the past.* 
 
 AYhatever may await Hawaiians in the future, the past 
 is secure. A record has been made. AYere Missionaries 
 on these islands to erect a monument commemorative of 
 the past, no more appropriate inscri])tioii could be found 
 to chisel upon that monument than the one furnished by 
 the prophet Samuel three thousand years ago : “ Hitherto 
 hath the Lord helped us.” 
 
 In estimating the good which has been accomplished 
 at these islands, no candid and impartial observer can 
 overlook or undervalue the strong conservative influence 
 of American Alissionaries in upholding and ]>erpetuat- 
 ing the independent sovereignty of the Hawaiian King- 
 dom. Individually and collectively, their influence has 
 been uf5on the side of good order and the Kamehamha- 
 dynasty. Glance your eye over a map of Polynesia, and 
 where, I would ask, has the kingly authority been more 
 happily sustained? AA^’lien troubles have arisen, and 
 ships of war threatened, the American Missionary’s in- 
 fluence and pen have been found in defense of the na- 
 tive Government. Look at Tahiti; look at Xew Cale- 
 donia; look at Xew Zealand. I do not undervalue the 
 skillful labors of the di 2 )lomatist, or the incessant toils of 
 the civil magistrate, nr the invaluable efforts of our 
 Judges; neither will I knowingly undervalue or slightly 
 pass over the prayers and toils of those who have spent 
 their lives to perpetuate the Hawaiian race and king- 
 dom. Rejmblican as the Alissionaries may have been 
 
 * Referring to the Rev. Asa Tliurston and vifo, and Mrs. Whitney. 
 [The first, a true sower and reaper, strong, gentle, hopeful, patient, 
 taking his sheaves, with joy, has entered his rest. — A m. Ed.] 
 
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 in their origin and sympathies, yet they have proved the 
 very staimcliest supporters of a monarcliical form of 
 government in these islands. Yet tlie Bishop of Oxford 
 describes these men as “ rather more severe, sour and 
 vinegar-like ” than even their fathers, “ the stern old 
 Puritans of New England.” 
 
 Micronesian Mission. 
 
 In order to complete the sketch of Missionary opera- 
 tions in Polynesia, I will briefly call your attention to the 
 efforts which have been made to evangelize the islands 
 of Micronesia. A Mission thither was undertaken in 
 1852 , and has been prosecuted to the present time. 
 Many hindrances and obstacles have retarded the work. 
 The islands are remote from each other. The inhab- 
 itants speak different languages or dialects. The influ- 
 ence of foreigners has been most pernicious. Sweeping 
 epidemics have more than decimated the people. It has 
 been difficult to hold regular communication with the 
 Missionaries and forward supplies. Notwithstanding all 
 these hindrances, and more which might be enumerated, 
 American and Hawaiian laborers diligently prosecuted 
 the work. They have reduced four languages to \vritteu 
 forms, established schools, organized Clmrches, and per- 
 formed a vast amount of Missionary work. Having been 
 permitted to visit those islands and witness what a few 
 laborers have performed, I can bear my humble testimony 
 to the good which has been accomplished. The Puritan 
 Missionary has been a great worker. He has gone down 
 among the people, and labored to bring them up to a 
 higher standard of civilization, and introduce among 
 them the principles of the Gospel. But few Missions 
 in any part of the world can boast of more cheeiing re- 
 sults. The mariner in those seas owes an everlasting 
 debt of gratitude to those Missionaries. It was the 
 presence of the Missionary, beyond all doubt, that put 
 an end to that series of bloody massacres which have 
 been perpetrated at the Marshall Islands, thus affording 
 a good loundation for a remark of the Rev. Dr. Kirk, in 
 
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 his sermon at the last meeting of the American Board : 
 
 “ Tlie ^Missionaries liave become the guardian angels of 
 seamen in the Pacific. Formerly the natives were pi- 
 rates and murderers. It was dangerous to sail among 
 them. Now that is all changed wherever a Missionary 
 has been laboring.” The inhabitants of some of those 
 islands were living the most debased lives, rendered 
 doubly so by the vicious example of depraved foreigners, 
 from Sydney and elsewhere, yet from among tliose very 
 inhabitants God is gathering a people to himself. The 
 wonderful work on the Marshall Islands, Strong’s Island 
 and Ascension, I regard as particularly noteworthy. 
 Light is breaking on the Gilbert Islands. All honor to 
 the few noble men and women, American and Hawaiian, 
 who have commenced and carried forward this good 
 work. They have not entered into any other man’s field 
 of labor. They are worthy of all praise, and are enti- 
 tled to a most genei’ous sympathy and support. 
 
 Remarks on the Character and Ecclesiastical Polity of the 
 Puritan Missionaries, as Developed in the Pacific. 
 
 Having ])resented a sketch of Puritan ^Missionary ope- 
 rations in the South and North Pacific, by English and 
 American Missionaries, it ai)pears that I have merely 
 performed what ^lontgomery executed in a much briefer 
 style : 
 
 “ The immense Pacific smiles 
 Bound ten thousand little isles, 
 
 Haunts of violence and wiles." 
 
 But the powers of darkness yield, 
 
 For the Cross is in the field. 
 
 And the light of life revealed.” 
 
 Passing to my concluding remarks, I tvould observe 
 that the following appear to be the prominent features of 
 these 3Iissions; Preachina, Pihle-tmnslation, establish- 
 ment of Schools, organization of Churches, and care of 
 the general icelfare of the jyeople, including their civil, 
 social and phgsic<d condition. 
 
 The plain preaching of the Gosjtel and scriptural ex- 
 jiosition of Bible truths claim the first phu^e in the pro- 
 gramme of the Puritan ,Missionarv. In order that this 
 
 3 * 
 
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 work may be successfully accomplished, he resolutely 
 sits down to the study of the language and the transla- 
 tion of tlie Bible, or parts of it, into the vernacular of 
 the people among Avhom he has undertaken to labor. 
 As soon as he feels confident that he lias sufliciently mas- 
 tered the language to communicate with the ]>eople, he 
 commences preaching without an interpreter;* not tim- 
 idly, hut boldly ; not faint-heartedly, hut fearlessly, as 
 did Paul on Mars’ Hill, when announcing the great truths 
 of the resurrection of the body, the unity of the human 
 race, and salvation through Christ ; or as did Martin 
 Luther, of whom it has been eloquently remarked by Ed- 
 Avard Everett, that he “ moved to his Avork, not 
 ‘ To the Dorian mood 
 Of flutes and soft recorders,’ 
 
 But grasped the iron trumpet of his mother tongue 
 and blew a blast that shook the nations from Koine to 
 the Orkneys. SoA ereign, citizen and peasant started at 
 the sound.” Thus Avent forth the Puritan Missionary, 
 preaching among Polynesians. Having acquired a famil- 
 iar and idiomatic acquaintance with the A*ernacular lan- 
 guage of the peojile — their mother tongue — he dispensed 
 Avith interpreters, and bleiv the Gospel trumpet, Avliich 
 gave forth so clear and certain a sound that kings, chiefs 
 and common people were aroused from their idolatrous 
 slumber of centuries, and directed to the Lamb of God, 
 who taketh aivay the sin of the world. 
 
 As soon as a few were discoA'ered who professed to have 
 accepted of the offer of salvation, and become converts 
 from heathenism to Christianity, a Church was organized, 
 baptism and the Lord’s Supper administered. Thus the 
 Avork of Christian eA'angelization went rapidly forward 
 when it had been once commenced. There were hindran- 
 ces and obstacles, but the work adA'anced. Throughout 
 all parts of Polynesia to which I have referred, Puritan 
 Missionaries have established Christian Churches. They 
 
 *An interpreter is often indispensable at first, as ■with Brainerd and 
 our preachers. I used such aid two years, beginning with Isa. 42:4. — 
 Am. Ed. 
 
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 have not aimed to build up a great hierarchy and intro- 
 duce a cumbersome and burdensome ecclesiastical system, 
 but, following the example of the Apostles, adapted them- 
 selves to the peculiar circumstances of their situation. 
 Taking even the nineteenth Article of the thirty-nine 
 Articles of the Church of England as the proper definition 
 of Avhat constitutes a Christian Church, I maintain that 
 English and American Puritan Missionaries have estab- 
 lished hundreds of genuine Churches. “ The visible Church 
 of Christ is a congregation of faithful men, in which the 
 pure Word of God is preached, and the Sacraments be 
 duly administered accortling to Christ’s ordinance, in all 
 those things that of necessity are requisite to the same.” 
 
 Even before Churches had been organized, the IMission- 
 aries had established Schools, set the printing-press in 
 motion, and otherwise labored to promote the temporal 
 and spiritual welfare of the people. The Puritan Mission- 
 ary goes forth, accompanied by his educated and faithful 
 helpmeet, and endeavors to exhibit before the heathen 
 community a well-ordered Christian family. In forming 
 a proper estimate of the good accomplished by the Mis- 
 sionaries in the Pacific, no language which I can command 
 would fully embody my apj)reciation of that important 
 part which woman — educated and refined — has performed. 
 
 Reports from the South Sea tell of noble Christian 
 women who have toiled at Tahiti, Samoa, and elsewhere, 
 but I do not depend upon flying reports when I speak of 
 Christian woman’s work on the Hawaiian Islands and in 
 Micronesia. Let no one presume to assert that unmarried 
 JMissionaries, male and female, could possibly have accom- 
 plished for good what may now be witnessed. She that 
 was “ last at the Cross and first at the Sepulchre ” has 
 made the voyage of eighteen thousand miles around the 
 Cape, and here, if she has not established Churches, she 
 has established many Christian Homes. This work I re- 
 gard as only second in importance to the establishment 
 of Churches. Thus Christian principles have been exem- 
 plified before the heathen. It is no mockery to sing 
 “ Home, Sweet Home,” in the Pacific. We have our 
 homes, centers of refinement, culture, happiness, intclli- 
 
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 geiice, which are presided over by woman, officiating in all 
 those offices recognized as her sphere of duty. 
 
 There have always, I am sorry to know, been some who 
 have openly and persistently endeavored to misrepresent 
 or ignore the good which has been accomj)lished by the 
 Protestant Missionaries in the Pacific. Recently the 
 most extravagant charges have been put forth and reiter- 
 ated. It has been published in England, that the Puri- 
 tans at these Islands had “ done more harm than good.” 
 “The people were wholly neglected when sick,”* and 
 “ This nation is as really heathen as it ever was, only with 
 a thin film of Christianity over it ;”f while the Bishop of 
 Oxford is reported in the London IVmestohave employed 
 the following language at a public meeting at Salisbuiy : 
 “ The people of the Hawaiian Islands are wearied out by 
 the mismanagement and maltreatment of American Puri- 
 tanism.” Before any one allows himself to employ such 
 language iu the pulpit or from the press, he should make 
 a careful investigation and thorough examination. The 
 Puritan jMissionary is prepared to meet such charges and 
 prove their falsity. When fresh laborers enter upon an 
 enterprise that is supposed to be unfinished, they are accus- 
 tomed to undervalue what has already been performed. 
 To such persons the language of a King of Israel maybe 
 appropriately addressed : “ Let not him that girdeth on 
 the harness lioast as he that putteth it off.” 
 
 There is a marked contrast between Ilawaiians in 1820 
 and 1866. It is a very different matter to land and live 
 among naked, ignorant, uncivilized savages, from coming 
 to a peojile clothed, instructed and civilized; supplied 
 with schools, books, newspapers, churches and many 
 other of the accompaniments of civilized and Christian 
 people. Macauley remarks that, in the 17th century, 
 those had little reason to laugh who met the Puritan in 
 the hall of debate or field of battle, and may I not with 
 eqnal justice add, neither have those who meet the Puri- 
 tan Missionary on the Mission-field of Polynesia. 
 
 I do not appear as an apologist for the errors or short- 
 
 * The Mission Field, Vol. IX, p. 13: London, 
 f Occasional Tracts ; London; No. 2. 
 
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 comings of the Missionaries, but I will bear my testimony 
 to the truth, and carefully guard the interests of evangel- 
 cal Missions here and elsewhere. Although not one of 
 them, I am emphatically one -with them. I would have 
 those know, Avho set themselves in oppostion to a cause 
 so signally blessed of Heaven, that they will be held re- 
 sponsible for their false aspersions and unfounded misrep- 
 resentations before an enlightened Christian public. 
 True laborers have been called to encounter opposition 
 from a class of persons whom no exposure could shame or 
 argument reach. I refer to a class of foreigners whose 
 habits rendered them even more debased than tlie heathen. 
 A civilized heathen from Christian lands is tlie most deadly 
 opponent of the truth, and his influence the most perni- 
 cious. When an English Missionary in the South Seas met 
 a person of this class, he inquired his name, and received 
 for answer, “ My name is Satan.” By no other name 
 would the man ever be known. Alas, the name was fitly 
 chosen. He was an adversary, and represented a class. 
 
 When the Puritan ^Missionary came to the Pacific, he 
 entered no other man’s field of labor, any more tJian did 
 his ancestors, the Pilgrims, when they landed on Ply- 
 mouth Hock, or the Puritans in ^Massachusetts Bay, but 
 boldly faced the powers of darkness whose sway was su- 
 preme throughout this part of the world. He grap))led 
 with heathenism in her stronghold. He bearded the lion 
 in his den. The contest was fierce, but the issue not 
 doubtful. Bible truth was the ^lissionary’s principal 
 weapon. He dealt many fierce blows with “the swonl of 
 the spirit, which is the word of God.” Perhaps IMission- 
 aries of a less stern faith would have quailed before the 
 enemy and succumbed to the array of ojijiosing influences. 
 
 . Ere long, however, the worshippers of idols yielded the 
 contest. The idols — those hideous images — “ grinn’d 
 1 horibly a ghastly smile” and surrendered ; a ship-load was 
 1 sent off to England and they are now on exhibition in the 
 British Museum. 
 
 It has been happily remarked, that if Lord Bacon were 
 again to visit our world, anti witness the wonderful results 
 achieved by the steam-engine and magnetic telegraph, he 
 
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 would, lay his hands upon both these machines, saying, 
 “ These are mine, for they are the results of my principles 
 of philosophy.” Would not the Mission Churches of 
 Polynesia be as justly claimed by those old Puritans of 
 the 17th century who sent an Elliot, the MayheAvs and 
 others among the North American Indians, or collected at 
 the call of the Protector Cromwell, £38,241 lOr^. 6.?. for 
 the persecuted Waldenses, the interest on a part of which 
 is now honorably paid by the British Government to that 
 interesting people ? I go one stej) farther. Suppose the 
 great 3Iissionary Apostles, Peter and Paul, were again to 
 visit our world, and during their voyages and travels, 
 should sail in the John Williams^ the John Wesley and 
 the John Knod:^ among the Christianized Polynesians 
 of the South Seas, or in the Morniny Star among the 
 Hawaiian and Micronesian Islands, would not those Apos- 
 tles recognize Churches established by Puritan Mission- 
 aries as genuine Christian Churches, in which the ordi- 
 nances were duly administered ? Furthermore, would not 
 these Apostles recognize the Pastors, Elders or Bishops 
 of thes® Churches as their successor? I trow they 
 would.* “Divest the Apostles,” as was most forcibly 
 stated at the Conference of Missions at Liverpool, in 1860, 
 “ of miraculous power and the gift of inspiration, and you 
 have the modern Missionary, a true successor of the 
 Apostles.” Among modern Missionaries, results have 
 fully demonstrated that the Missionary of the true Puri- 
 tan stamp has as fair a claim to be accounted a successor 
 of Peter and Paul as anyAvho have left Christian Europe 
 or America. He goes forth free and untrammeled. He 
 takes with him no Procrustean ecclesiastical organization, 
 but with the Bible in hand, he liTOclaims “ the unsearch- 
 
 * The author of this discourse is gratified to learn that his views, as 
 expressed in the foregoing paragraphs, are fully sustained by the con- 
 ductors or editors of the London Record, the organ of the evangelical 
 party of the church of Englaud. From a notice of Mr. Ellis’s pamphlet, 
 published in that paper, ou the 25th of April, 1866, we copy as follows: 
 
 ‘ It has been shown by us that the Church of England has ever 
 recognized the various Reformed Churches as being the true Churches 
 of Christ, and worthy compeers with herself in the great work of 
 evangelizing the world.” 
 
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 able riches of Christ,” and organizes Churches. Puritan 
 Missionaries have spread themselves throughout nearly 
 all the Islands of Polynesia. Not more firmly did the 
 Puritan of the I7th century plant his foot upon the rock- 
 bound shores and granite hills of New England than has 
 the Puritan ^lissionaiy of the 1 9th century planted his 
 foot upon the reef-encu’cled islands of the Pacific. Here 
 among the aborigines, he has made his home. The 
 destiny of these two branches of the human family have 
 become closely indentified. The graves of the Puritan 
 and Polynesian will be side by side. It is not ])Ossible to 
 conceive of any social, political or religious revolution 
 Avhich can separate them. You might as well attempt to 
 uproot the one as the other. The seed has taken root in 
 the soil, and can no more easily be uprooted than the 
 stately cocoanut tree, whose tall and slender trunk sways 
 so gracefully in the windy blast. The infiucnce of the 
 Puritan is not only now felt, but it must continue to be 
 felt for ages to come, or so long as there shall be dwellers 
 upon these fair islands. Not only is the Puritan brought 
 into contact with the aborigines, but he is called to breast 
 a wave of immigration from China. Asiatic laborers will 
 overs])read these Islands and other pai’ts of Polynesia. 
 The Puritan and Asiatic will be brought together. Here 
 they meet. But I cannot dwell on tliis interesting and 
 important subject. Not only has the Puritan [Missionary 
 become a power in this ])art of the world, but his influ- 
 ence is felt in Turkey, Africa, India, China, and other 
 portions of the globe. 
 
 The elements contributing to form the character of the 
 Puritan [Missionary are aggressive and expansive in their 
 nature. They are essentially the principles of the New 
 Testament. Their birth, as one has remarked, was in 
 Bethlehem of .Judea, and the development is religion la- 
 boring for the people. Necessity rests upon the Puritan 
 to take a part on the world’s field of action. lie adopts 
 the sentiment of the old Latin Poet, Terence : “ I am a 
 man, and whatever concerns humanity concenis myself 
 and also that of the old Latin Father, Augustine : “ In 
 
 essentials unity, in non-essentials liberty, in all things 
 charity.” lie may not believe in manifest destiny, but 
 
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 he does believe in manifest duty, declaring, with the mod- 
 ern Missionary Cary, “ Duty is ours, consequences belong 
 to God.” In the performance of that duty he is thor- 
 oughly in earnest. According to an ancient fable, it was 
 possible for King AEolus to confine the winds in a cave of 
 the mountains, but the principles of the Puritan cannot 
 be so readily confined to a narrow space. With him, as 
 with his Divine Master, “ the field is the world.” New 
 England cannot be shut out in the cold, or Plymouth 
 Rock be blown up. N ew England principles are rapidly 
 permeating all portions of the N orth American continent, 
 and controlling the destiny of the Western world. The 
 recent struggle in America has made this fact more and 
 more manifest. 
 
 “ There is a power at the secluded hearth 
 
 Of yon New England househould, that may be 
 Felt by the dwellers at the ends of earth, — 
 
 Known to the islands of the distant sea.” 
 
 There is an “ irrepressible conflict ” among the nations, 
 and the New England Puritan will be found on the side 
 of civil and religious liberty, free speech, free schools, a 
 free press, a free Gospel and foreign Missions among the 
 heathen and unevangelized nations of the earth. 
 
 “ Coming events cast their shadows before.” 
 
 Men of narrow minds and bigoted opinions may ignore 
 this class of agents. Writers, of prejudiced views and a 
 limited range of ideas, may misrepresent their principles 
 and conduct, but the future historian, following the ex- 
 ample of Macauley, will assign them in history a position 
 even more exalted than that distinguished writer gave 
 the Puritans of the l7th century, respecting whom he 
 wrote that they were, perhajis, “ the most remarkable 
 body of men which the world has ever produced — a brave, 
 a wise, an honest and a useful body.” Listen to the lan- 
 guage of the Earl of Shaftesbury, before a London au- 
 dience, respecting American Puritan Missionaries at Con- 
 stantinople : “ He did not believe that in the whole his- 
 
 tory of Missions — he did not believe that in the his- 
 tory of diplomacy, or in any of the negotiations car- 
 ried on between man and man, they would find anything 
 
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 to equal the Avladom, the soundness, and the pure evan- 
 gelical truth of that body of men who constituted the 
 American Puritan ^Missions. Tlicre they stood, tested by 
 years, tried by their works, and exemplified by tlieir fruits ; 
 and he believed it would be found that those American 
 Missionaries had done more towards upholding the truth 
 and spreading the Gospel in the East than any body of 
 men in this or any other age.” I might quote similar 
 testimony from British officials in high stations in India, 
 respecting the character and labors of American Mission- 
 aries in Ceylon and other ]>arts of India. 
 
 Puritan 3Iissionaries, scattered throughout Polynesia, 
 have displayed similar wisdom and foresight, common 
 sense and sound piety. These characteristics are remark- 
 ably conspicuous, as I maintain, in the organization and 
 management of their Churches. If we take the Book of 
 Acts and the Epistles of Paul, Peter, James and John, or 
 the New Testament as a whole, for our guide, I do main- 
 tain that the Churches organized by Puritan jNIissionaries 
 in Polynesia Avill favorably compare Avith the primiti\'e 
 Churches gathered by the Apostles in A'arious ])arts of 
 the Roman Empire, during the first century of the Chris- 
 tian era. In many respects there is a most striking re- 
 semblance betAA’een the Churches organized by the .iVpos- 
 tles and those which now exist in various parts of Poly- 
 nesia. The more closely the examination is made and 
 comparison draAvn, the moi'e manifest the parallel will 
 appear. The A'ery language employed by Mosheim and 
 otlier ecclesiastical historians, respecting the Churches of 
 the first centuiy, would aptly describe the organization 
 of Mission-Puritan Churches in Polynesia. All those 
 great ecclesiastical establishments and “ Church and 
 State” arrangements centering at Antioch, Constanti- 
 nople, Rome and elsewhere were an after-growth — aye, 
 and may I not add, a /«;?r/?/.<;-growth — when the churches 
 became corrupt. The Mission-Churches of Polynesia, I 
 maintain, haA e been modeled after a New TestamcTit and 
 Apostolic pattern, and the English and American Puritan 
 Missionaries, I furthermore maintain, haAm most fully 
 carried out the spirit of the last command of an ascending 
 
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 Savior, “ Go ye therefore and teach all nations, baptizing 
 them in the name of the F ather, and of the Son, and of 
 the Holy Ghost.” 
 
 They have sown the Gospel seed and much good has 
 been produced. Some of the fruit may have fallen unripe 
 and immature ; still, after making a full allowance for all 
 the defections in the Mission Churches, and permitting 
 the bitterest enemies of the Missionary enterprise to set 
 off a broad margin, there remains much scattered over 
 the numerous islands of Polynesia which we should still 
 cherish, of which we may be justly proud, and from which 
 we should be extremely unwilling to take a farewell. Who 
 would say, “ Level the Church-edifices which the jy^ople 
 have built for the worship of Jehovah, and raze their 
 foundations or who would silence the chime of many 
 hundreds of church going bells, the sound of which breaks 
 the Sabbath-morning stillness on so many islands, inhab- 
 ited by Tahitians, Samoans, Marquesaus, Tongans, Fee- 
 jeans, Hawaiians and Micronesians ; or who would forbid 
 those thousands of simple-hearted Christians singing the 
 Songs of Zion in concert with their fellow-Christians of 
 other climes and other lands ; or disband these Churches, 
 and turn over their members once more to idolatry ; or 
 scatter the week-day and Sunday Schools, or burn the 
 school-books, hymn-books and Bibles ? Or who would re- 
 build the old morais or heiauft, rekindle fires upon their 
 altars, call forth the human victims for sacrifice, make 
 the hills and valleys ring with the shouts of midnight 
 revelers around the burning pile ? Or who would sum- 
 mon from Heaven those who have died in the faith of 
 Jesus, and are now striking their golden harps and rais- 
 ing their voices to the song of “ Him that loved us and 
 washed us from our sins in His own blood ?” Or who can 
 for one moment doubt that the Revelator, John, saw in 
 vision a goodly company of redeemed Polvnesians among 
 that “ great multitude which no man could number, of all 
 nations and kindreds and people and tongues [who] stood 
 before the Throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white 
 robes, and palms in their hands, and cried with a loud 
 voice, saying. Salvation to our God, which sitteth upon 
 the Throne and unto the Lamb ”? 
 

 A.. 
 
 A Hawaiian Missionary’s Letter to President Lincoln. 
 
 To the Editor of the Boston Christian Itegister : 
 
 In 1853, Matanui, a Chief of the ^Marquesas or Nuuhiva 
 Islands, came to the Sandwich Islands to beg that i\Iis- 
 sionaries might be sent to his native group. He had 
 heard of the benefits which the Sandwich Islands had de- 
 rived from the introduction of civilization and Christian- 
 ity, (which to his mind appear to have been synonymous,) 
 and he wished that he and his people might pattake of 
 them. Such a call could not be disregarded ; those of 
 us who were the most skeptical as to the wisdom of For- 
 eign Missions generally, were ready to say God-speed to 
 the little band that went out in answer to that call. They 
 consisted of one white layman, unmarried, and two Ha- 
 waiian ministers, who took their wives with them. 
 
 These native iVIissionaries have remained at their post 
 until now. Two years ago one of them was instrumental 
 in saving the life of an American — the mate of a whale- 
 ship. Our Government sent to him some gifts in acknowl- 
 edgment of the service. The following letter, written 
 by this Missionary — Rev. James Kekela — on the receipt 
 of those gifts, was received at Washington too late to 
 meet the eye of the good President to whom it was ad- 
 dressed. I am sure its simple utterances would have 
 delighted and touched that warm, loving heart. I have 
 re-translated it. The translation whicli was received at 
 the State Department, and which was made in Honolulu, 
 is more elegant than this, but has sacrificed the native 
 idiom, and in some cases, the very spirit of the original, 
 to smoothness of expression. 
 
 I commend the letter to your i-eaders. 3Iy translation 
 fails of doing full justice to the original, yet I much mis- 
 take if they will not see in its exjiressions of faith and 
 love, a beauty and power that could flow only from a life 
 
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 of entire consecration to God’s service. This poor Sand- 
 wich Islander, -whose grand-parents were just such dark, 
 benighted heathens as he is now laboring for, comes nearer 
 in his spirit to the Apostolic writers than many of our 
 most learned Divines and Commentators. 
 
 How admirably does this man’s child-like stoiy of his 
 o-wn life, and of his love to God and to his neighbor, re- 
 fute those unworthy aspersions upon the labors and suc- 
 cess of the American Missionaries at the Sand-wich Islands, 
 which we have so often heard. These aspersions have 
 not been so often repeated here of late as they were for- 
 merly, but in England we find them uttered in various 
 foi'ms by the Bishop of Oxford and others, who have been 
 striving to build up a rival Mission at these Islands, some 
 of them moved, undoubtedly, by their zeal for their 
 Church, others, as undoubtedly, moved by a desire to ad- 
 vance the political interests of Great Britain at the Islands 
 at the expense of those of the United States, with a view 
 to their ultimate occupation as a British naval station. 
 Who shall dare to deny that this man is in the true Apos- 
 tolic succession ? Who in this age better than he, rep- 
 resents the “ Apostle to the Gentiles ? E. P. Boxtd. 
 
 Hivaoa, March 27, 1865. 
 
 To A. Lincoln, President of the United States of America: 
 
 Greetings to you, great and good friend ! 
 
 My mind is stirred up to address you in fi-iendship by 
 the receipt of your communication through your Minister 
 resident in Honolulu, James McBride. 
 
 I greatly respect you for holding converse -with such 
 humble ones. Such you well know us to be. 
 
 I am a native of the Hawaiian Islands from W aialua, 
 Oahu, born in 1 824, and at twelve years of age attended the 
 school at Waialua, of Rev. Mr. Emerson ; and was in- 
 structed in reading, -wi'iting, and mental aritlimetic and 
 geography. 
 
 In 1838 I was entered at the High School of Lahaina- 
 luna, and was under the instruction of Jlessrs. L. An- 
 drews, E. W. Clark, S. Dibble and Alexander. Not be- 
 ing in advance of others, I remained in the school some 
 
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 years, and in 1843 I graduated, and was then invited 
 and desired by the teachers to continue my studies 
 in other branches; that is, to join a class in theology under 
 the Kev. 8. Dibble. He died in 1845, and I and others 
 continued the study of the Scriptures under W. P. Alex- 
 ander, In 1847 I graduated, having been at Lahainaluna 
 nine years. In that year, 1847, 1 inamed a girl from my 
 native place, who had for seven years attended a female 
 seminary at Wailuku, under the instruction of J. S. Green, 
 E. Bailey and iMiss Ogden. 
 
 In the same year, 1847, I and my wife were called to 
 Kahuku, a remote place in Koolau, on Oalyi, to instruct 
 the people therein the Scrij)tures and other words of wis- 
 dom. I remained in this Avork for some years. It was 
 clear to my Avdfe and myself that our lives were not our 
 OAvn, but belonged to the Lord, and tlierefore we cove- 
 nanted with one another that Ave AVould be the Lord’s, 
 “ His only. His foreA'er.” ..Vnd from that time forth we 
 yielded ourselves seiwants unto the Lord. In 1852 certain 
 American Missionaries — Dr. Gulick and others Averc sent 
 out on their way to Micronesia. I was one of their com- 
 pany, and after seven months absence, I returned with E. 
 \V. Clarke. On my return, 1 was emjdoyed in arousing 
 the Hawaiians to the work of Foreign Missions. 
 
 In 1823 there came to our islands aiMacedonian cry for 
 ^lissionaries to Nuuhiva, brought by INIatunui, a Chief of 
 Fatuhiva. 
 
 The Missionaiies speedily laid hold of me to go to this 
 group of islands. I did not assent immediately. I stopped 
 to consider carefully, with much prayer to God to make 
 clear to me that this call was from God, and I took coun- 
 sel with my wife. It Avas evident to us that this was a 
 call from God, therefore we consented to come to these 
 dark, benighted and cannibal islands. 
 
 I liad aged parents, and my Avife beloved relatives, 
 and we had a little girl three years old. We left tlicm 
 in our irative land. We came aAvay to seek the salvation 
 of the souls of this people, because our hearts AA’ere full 
 of the Love of God. This Avas the only ground of our 
 coming hither, away from our Jiativc land. 
 
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 In the year 1853 we came to these cannibal islands, 
 and we dwelt first for four years at Fatuhiva, and in 
 1857 we removed to Ilivaoa, another island, to do the 
 work of the Lord Jesus ; and from that time until now 
 we have striven to do the work of Jesus Christ, without 
 regard for wealth or Avorldly pleasure. We came for the 
 Lord, to seek the salvation of men, and this is our only 
 motive for remaining in this dark land. 
 
 When I saw your countryman, a citizen of this great 
 nation, illtreated, and about to be baked, and eaten, as a 
 pig is eaten, I ran to save him, full of j)ity and grief at 
 the evil dee<^ of these benighted people. I gave my 
 boat for the stranger’s life. This boat came from James 
 riunnewell, a gift of friendship. It became the ransom 
 of this countryman of yours, that he might not be eaten 
 by the savages who knew not Jehovah. This was Mr. 
 Whalon, and the date January 14, 1864. 
 
 As to this friendly deed of mine in saving Mr. Whalon, 
 its seed came from your great land, and was brought by 
 certain of yoiir countrymen, who had received the love 
 of God. It was planted in Hawaii, and I brought it to 
 plant in this land and in these dark regions, that they 
 might receive the root of all that which is good and true, 
 Avhich is love — 1. Love to Jehovah. 2. Love to self. 
 3. Love to our neighbor. 
 
 If a man have a sufficiency of these tln-ee, he is good 
 and holy, like God, Jehovah, in his triune character, 
 (Father, Son and Holy Ghost,) one-three, three-one. If 
 he have two and Avants one, it is not well ; and if he 
 have one and Avants tAvo, this indeed, is not Avell ; but if 
 he cherishes all three, then he is holj^, indeed, after the 
 manner of the Bible. 
 
 This is a great thing for your great nation to boast of 
 before all the nations of the earth. From your great 
 land a most precious seed Avas brought to the land of 
 dai-kness. It Avas planted here, not by me.ans of guns, 
 and men-of-war, and threatenings. It Avas planted by 
 means of the ignorant, the neglected, the despised. 
 Such was the introduction of the Avord of the Almighty 
 God into this group of Nuuhiva. Great is my debt to 
 
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 Americans, who have taught me all things pertaining to 
 this life, anfl to that which is to come. 
 
 How shall I repay your great kindness to me ? Thus 
 David asked of Jehovah, and thus I ask of you, the 
 President of the United States. Tliis is my only p.ayment 
 — that which I have received of the Lord — love, (aloha.) 
 
 I and my wife, Naomi, have five children, the first 
 with Miss Ogden, the second with Kev. J. S. Emerson ; 
 we now send the third to live with liev. L. H. Gulick ; 
 the fourth is Avith Kauwealolia, my felloAv-Missionary, 
 and the fifth is with us at present. Another stranger is 
 soon ex])ected. There is heaviness in thus having to scat- 
 ter the children Avhere they can be well t.aken care of. 
 
 We have received your gifts of friendship according 
 to your instructions to your Minister, James McBride. 
 Ah! I greatly honor your interest in this countryman of 
 yours. It is, indeed, in keeping with all I have knoAvn 
 of your acts as President of the L'nited States. 
 
 A clear Avitness this in all lands of your love for those 
 Avhose deeds are love, as saith the Scripture, “ Tliou 
 shalt love J ehovah, and shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.” 
 
 And so may the love of the Lord Jesus abound Avith 
 you until the end of this terrible Avar in your land. 
 
 Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, 
 I am Your obedient servant, 
 
 [Signed] James Kekela. 
 
 15 . 
 
 On the day but one folloAving the delivery of this dis- 
 course, the author received a letter from J. C. Williams, 
 Esq., H. B. M. Consul at Aj)ia, U])olu, Samoa, Avho is 
 the only son of the late Missionary, ReA\ .John Williams, 
 Martyr of Erromanga. Under date of March 5, 1866, 
 he thus Avrites: “The natives have the Bible in their 
 hands, which they can read and understand, and Avith 
 this Avca))on they are well armed.” * * * ^‘ Tiie na- 
 
 tiA'es of Ellice’s group are in an interesting state — wait- 
 ing, longing for teachers. In their anxiety to hav'e the 
 “lotu” religion, a Chief gave about fifty gallons of 
 cocoanut oil for an English Bible, Avhich an English cap- 
 
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 tain had the wickedness to charge that for. Honor be 
 to another Englisli Captain, wlio urged tlie chiefs to burn 
 their idols and the house of their gods. Tliese people 
 are ready for the Gospel.” x\nother letter was received 
 from the Rev. A. W. Murray, author of a very impor- 
 tant work, “ Missions in Western Polynesia,” (a copy of 
 which accomjianied the letter,) who has been at the Sa- 
 moan Islands over a quarter of a century. Mr. Murray, 
 under date of March 2, 1866, thus writes: “One cannot 
 help feeling something like regret that your Morning 
 yS'tor is no longer to be employed in the high and holy 
 work for which she was built, and which she has done so 
 ■well for so many years. The consolation is that she is 
 to have a successor, which M’e trust will take up the 
 work where she laid it down, and caiTy it forward, till 
 few if any of the isles shall remain on which the Son of 
 Righteousness has not risen. If the work advances for 
 the next twenty years at the same rate of ])rogres8 as it 
 has done during the past, that consummation will not be 
 far from being realized. When we began our labors 
 here, in 1836, all beyond us to the West, and all to the 
 North except your group, was enshrouded in heathenish 
 darkness. A glance at the Avork which was published 
 some time since, a copy of Avhich I beg your acceptance 
 of, Avill show what has been done in the way of exten- 
 sion, in connection with this Mission, and will also give 
 you a glimpse of the ojiening prospects in the respective 
 neighborhoods of the islands and groups of Avliich it 
 treats. Each of the olF-shoots of this Mission is, in its 
 turn, becoming a centre of influence, a radiating point, 
 whence the light is spreading far and wide. And now 
 that our Avestward INIissions are off our hands, we are 
 turning our attention to the northAvest, and intend, God 
 helping us, to ]rress foi’Avard in that direction till we reach 
 the boundary Avhich your Missionaries have fixed as the 
 limit of their operations southward. A A*ery hopeful 
 commencement was made, in the months of May an d 
 June of last year, among the range of Ioav coral islands 
 knoAvn by the name of Ellice’s group, IMitchell’s group, 
 &c., &c. I visited five of these and placed teachers on 
 
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 three of them, and we have since sent teacliers to the 
 other two. I found these islanders in a deeply interest- 
 ing state. They had long abandoned idolatry, and 
 ■were literally waiting for the law of the Lord. I 
 cannot give you particulars. One deeply interesting 
 thing to us, connected with the islands referred to, is that 
 the whole, eight in number, with a single exception, are 
 peopled by the descendants of Samoans, who had been 
 drifted thither many years, I suppose centuries, ago. 
 Hence our books are available and our teachers are at 
 home. The islands are small, as is also the population. 
 The whole range, I suppose, does not number over 2,500, 
 or, at most, 3,000, but they have a relative importance 
 Avhich is not small, especially with Xui, which has been 
 peopled from the King’s Mill group.” 
 
 c. 
 
 Missionaries of the London Missionary Society in the South Seas. 
 
 [From the Annual Report of 1864.] 
 
 SOCIETY ISLANDS. 
 
 Tahiti — R ev. Geo. Morris, Papeete. Hcahine — R ev. Charles Barff. 
 Raiatea — R ev. Geo. Platt, Rev. J. C. Vivian. Tah.ia, — R ev. J. L.Green. 
 hervey isla.vds. 
 
 Rarotonga — R ev. E. R. W. Krauso. Maxgaia — R ev. "W. "Wyatt 
 Gill. Aitctaki — X o report. 
 
 SA.MOAN ISDANDS. 
 
 Savah — R ev. Geo. Pratt, P G. Bird, Joseph Kingr. Upolc — R ev. 
 A. W. Murray, Rev. Geo. Drummond, Rev. Geo. Turner, LL.D., Rev. 
 H. Nisbet, Superintendents of Mission Seminary at Malua; Rev. H. 
 Gee, Rev. J. M. Mills. Tutcila — R e v.T. Powell, Rev. S. J. Whitmee. 
 
 LOYALTY ISLANDS. 
 
 Xengoxe (or Mare) — Rev. S. M. Creagh, Rev. John Jones. Lire — 
 Rev. Sam'l Macfarlane, Rev. Jas. Sleigh. Niue — R ev. G. W. Lawes. 
 
 N. B, We regret that no recent reports of the Wesleyan Missionary 
 Society and the Church Missionary Society have been received, so that 
 we could publish a full list of Engli.sh Missionaries now laboring at the 
 Tonga and Feejee I.slands and at New Zealand. We also regret that, 
 from no publications or reports at our command. c.an we present a satis- 
 factory sketch of the important labors of the Presbyterian Missions, 
 rios from New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, now located in Melanisia. 
 
SUPPLEMENT. 
 
 Since this sketch was prepared, I have the pleasure, with other things, 
 to subjoin the beautiful fact, that 150,000 Sabbath School Children 
 furnished a fund of $25,000 to give the gem of a little Missionary 
 Ship, “The Morning Star,” No. 2, for the benefit of the Pacific-Island- 
 World, especially where for ages no Christian Sabbath dawned tiU re- 
 cently, thus happily cooperating with the American Board and its 
 half million contributors, the Hawaiian Board and a score of thousand 
 contributors, the Colleges that educated the translators and preachers, 
 the American Bible and Tract Societies, and other agencies that have 
 helped to forward the enterprises sketched in these pages. 
 
 This beautiful and commodious vessel, with missionary laborers and 
 supplies on board, has made several successful voyages, chiefly in com- 
 mand of Capt. Bingham, now retired from it. Its visits, thus far, 
 have been welcome, and often joyous, as was its departure from Bos- 
 ton. The Marquesans and Micronesians, as well as the Hawauans, bail 
 gladly the approach of her dove-like white flag and her significant 
 figure-head, symbolizing the Spirit of Missions, holding a bible under 
 the left arm, and grasping it with the right hand, in the posture of 
 eagerly pressing forward over the foaming waves, timely to deal this 
 “bread from heaven” to the long-lost, famishing prodigals who remain 
 accessible, lest they perish forever. 
 
 Does not this enterprise, in connection with other records of this 
 pamphlet, encourage even the faint hearted to struggle on for the re- 
 covery of other dark isles, and Africa, India, China, Japan, and South 
 America, where millions read no bible, and probably find no Savior. 
 
 It is well known that a class of foreigners, misrepresenting the civ- 
 ilization of Christian nations, coming in contact w-ith the Christian or 
 heathen population of the regions they visit, encourage old offenders to 
 go on in crime, and artfully tempt the reformed to relapse, and glory 
 in it if disastrously successful, and will have a fearful reckoning ; but 
 others have given us noble and cheering examples of eonsiderate, gen- 
 erous cooperation from time to time, from the very commencement of 
 evangelizing efforts in that field. I have not room for details, but will 
 briefly allude to a few examples worthy of note and imitation. 
 
 The first is the gratuitous navigating of our “ Missionary Packet,” 
 from Boston to the Sandwich Islands, in 1826, for the use of our mis- 
 sion, a most perilous voyage of nine months. The seeond is the re- 
 cent and liberal donation of a two thousand gold-doUar city-lot, with 
 dwelling house, by foreign residents at the capital of the Hawaiian 
 kingdom, for the Female Boarding Seminary at Honolulu, well com- 
 menced by Dr. and Mr.s. L. H. Gulick, but now under the management 
 of Miss Bingham, which needs a more suitable Seminary edifice, and 
 also more means for the support of teachers and indigent but promising 
 pupils, to fit them for the Lord’s work. The assistant teacher has been 
 paid by a generous church of foreigners there, and the Principal is sal- 
 aried by “ The Cousins," a precious band, the associated sons and 
 
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 daughter.s of missionaries espousing- the cause for which their parents 
 toiled, and aiming to help Micronesia, America, and even China, some 
 of whom were lately found in our patriot army, battling faithfulh' 
 and successfully for the right. One further example, deemed ad- 
 missible here, of timely and well-directed aid to our cause from a 
 former resident at Honolulu, who had once brought to the ears and 
 hearts of the pioneer missionaries the first tidings of the fall of Ha- 
 waii's idols, is, though not by him allowed to deserve a record here, 
 the donation of ten thousand dollars from.!. Hunnewell (the navigator 
 of the Missionary Packet), in order, with '\V. I'l. Dodge, the Am. Board, 
 and others, to found the Oahu College as a liberal educator for Ha- 
 waii, and champion of Christian civilization, for the Pacific-Island- 
 world. Its graduates will, it is believed, be found active benefactors 
 to the varied classes of dwellers within and around the limits of that 
 vast ocean, on whose bosom, Christian islands begin to blossom as 
 the rose, where unoft’ending mariners may sail without the fear of 
 native violence, and be, moreover, greeted with the voice of Christian 
 songs from long lost tribes redeemed to God by the Gospel. 
 
 Kncouragingly does the practicability appear of manning rough 
 missionary fields, distant and dark, and furnishing timely the miser- 
 able and dying people with the means of grace, whenever, and to 
 whatever extent, God requires it, either for a few hundred, or a few 
 hundred million souls ! 
 
 A unique and very recent foreign mission on a small scale, but val- 
 uable, deserves here a grateful mention. At Nui, a small island some 
 500 miles south of Apaiang of the Gilbert Islands, the Morning Star, 
 in 1807, found a people who had enjoyed, for one year, the labors of a 
 native missionary from the island of Samoa, listening to his instruc- 
 tions, abandoning their idols, and voluntarily “ boarding him around ” 
 one day at a time, among their different families. Numbers of them 
 promptly recited passages of Scripture, and read other pasages from 
 books shown them from the vessel, printed in the United States, in the 
 Gilbert Islands dialect which is spoken at Nui. 
 
 Now, if the available forces of the Divine Leader promptly obey 
 their “marching orders” with the loyalty that fired the hearts of 
 Caleb and Jo.shua, displaying the banners of salvation for the heathen, 
 and using the means that Christ requires, then, His promise being 
 sure, soon the present urgent necessity for sending hosts of heralds 
 to distant, benighted nations, to bid them -‘know the Lord," would 
 cease, for all would know Him, or have His Word within their easy 
 reach, or other moans of knowing the way of salvation through Jesus 
 Christ. Then His servants’ strictly foreign missionary work, with its 
 noble aims, would be consummated, to the glory and satisfaction of the 
 Inheritor of all nations. 
 
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 Should the song of the Life-boats here offered, cheer on the devoted, 
 living toilers in foreign missionary fields, and their kind sympathizers 
 dwelling at home, or traversing the seas, whom it may chance to greet, 
 it will, while honoring the Master, do for them what was intended by 
 the writer and the singers on the deck and wharf at Boston, for his 
 dear, self-sacrificing children, as they courageously embarked on the 
 Morning Star, in 1866, for their life-work among the waiting Pacific- 
 Islanders. 
 
 '• A little ship’’ did Christ desire. 
 
 To bear Salvation’s choicest stores, 
 
 To souls involved in ruin dire. 
 
 Around Gennes’ret’s throng-prest shores. 
 
 Ilis herald-hosts He speeds afar — 
 
 Let numerous ships upon them wait. 
 
 And e’en the children’s “ Jlorning Star ’’ 
 
 Leap forth to aid His work so great. 
 
 Go, angel-winged, blest “ Morning Star,’’ 
 
 Sweep fearless o’er the mightj- deep ; 
 
 Safe every plank, and sail, and spar, — 
 
 And all on board may Jesus keep. 
 
 Should dangers throng and surges roar. 
 
 Then trust your Pilot, skilled and true. 
 
 Timely to bring His friends ashore. 
 
 As on that Lake where tempests blew. 
 
 The winds and waves His voice obey — 
 
 If heathen rage. He calms the flood ; 
 
 Faith’s prayer He hears, and clears the way. 
 
 Lost tribes to reach and bring to God. 
 
 Then to the breeze your canvas spread ; 
 
 Ten thousand prayers each sail shall fill ; 
 
 Give famished men God’s living bread. 
 
 And help them learn Ilis glorious will. 
 
 Send out your Gospel life-boats sure, 
 
 IVliere fearful billows roll amain : 
 
 There, for the lost, prompt aid secure, 
 
 And throngs of shipwrecked souls regain. 
 
 Dwellers in far-off isles shall hail 
 * The rising of their Herald-Star: 
 
 For their lledeemer will not fail. 
 
 His chosen .sheep to bring from far. 
 
 When all His flock cross Jordan’s flood, 
 
 Some precious souls, resplendent there. 
 
 From those dark shores, shall bless our God, 
 
 For Life-boats like the ‘-Morning Star.’’ 
 
 II. B. 
 
THE SONG OF VALIANT FAITH ; 
 
 A joyous recognition of prime Christian doctrines, duties, vows and 
 blessings — the dependence, election, call, renovation, enlistment, alle- 
 giance, obedience, assured hope, fight of faith, perseverance, victory 
 and recompense through the Redeemer, the crown of gratuitous 
 j ustificatiou and life eternal, of the warrior-servant of God ; written 
 for Christ’s array of conquest, including the author’s enlisted Pacific 
 Quartette, and chiefly sung on the eve of the embarkation of the fourth 
 from New York, Nov. 24, 18G8, for Honolulu, H. I. 
 
 It may be added that the closing, octo-linear, 6-4 stanza now sub- 
 joined, was originally composed as a needed if not climacteric finale 
 of the admired, seven-lined-stanza song, by S. P’. Adams, of a pilgrim, 
 panting, aspiring, struggling to rise, “Nearer, my God to Tlice" 
 — and thus used, may still aid the grateful adorations of any one who 
 truly hopes, through a Mediator, to bear a part in the most joyous, 
 harmonious and enduring song of heaven. — [Rev. v; 9-1.8.] 
 
 Loyal, my God, to thee — 
 
 Loyal to Thee ! 
 
 Since thou hast caus’d my heart 
 “At peace ’’ to be. 
 
 I'll sing thy grace that chose. 
 And made this “ chief” of foes 
 Loyal, tliough hosts oppose — 
 Loyal to Thee. 
 
 Trustful, my God, to thee. 
 Trustful to Thee I 
 ’Mid dangers, strifes and snares. 
 Trustful I'll be; 
 
 In thee, will I confide. 
 
 Though bonds or death betide. 
 Unmoved, will I abide. 
 
 Trustful to Thee. 
 
 Praiseful, my God, to thee. 
 Praiseful to Thee, 
 Chanting “tlij* will be done,” 
 Praiseful I'll be — 
 
 Joy, grief, pain, toil, or rest, 
 
 “ 'Thy will ’' is ever best; 
 
 I'll bow to thy behest. 
 
 Praiseful to Thee. 
 
 Grateful, my God, to thee. 
 Grateful to Thee: 
 
 For man, Christ died and rose. 
 Grateful I'll be; 
 
 Since thou didst give thy Son, 
 'Wliile endless life rolls on, 
 
 I'll laud his vict'ries won. 
 
 Grateful to Thee. 
 
 Brought home by grace alone. 
 
 My God, to thee, 
 
 I bless “ thine Holy One,” 
 
 He ransom'd mel 
 Hence a’l my song shall be, 
 
 “ ‘ Bought with thy blood,' to hvel 
 Ever, my God, withtheel 
 Ever w’ith Theel” 
 
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 Alexander’s, Pres., Review of Bishop Staley’s Pastoral. Honolulu. 
 Anderson’s, Dr., Memorial Volume, Hi.story'of the Am. Board. Boston. 
 
 Hawaiian Islands. Am. Board. Boston. 
 
 Miss, — Scenes in the Sandwich Islands. 
 
 Bartimeus, the blind Hawaiian Convert and Preacher. Am. Tr Soc. 
 
 New York, and Mass. S. S. Soc. Boston. 
 
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 — H., Jr.’s Story of the Morning Star. Am. Board. Boston. 
 
 Campbell’s Maratime Discoveries, and Christian Missions. 
 
 Castle’s Visit of Le Artimise. Honolulu. 
 
 Cheever's “Life in the Sandwich Islands” and “The Island World.” 
 Constitution and Laws of Kamehameha III. Honolulu. 
 
 Dibble’s “ Hist, of the Sandwich Isl. ” and gen. views of the Mission. 
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 Ellis’s Polynesian Researches, Vindication of South Sea Missions. 
 
 American Mission in the S. I. ; A Vindication and Appeal. 
 
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 Visit to the South Seas in the Vincennes. 
 
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