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 " THE WAITING ISLES." 
 
 SERMON 
 
 PKEACHED AT TMK 
 
 MISSION TO THE SANDWICH ISLANDS, 
 
 IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY, 
 
 JULY 23, 1862. 
 
 BY THE EIGHT EEV, 
 
 THE BISHOP OF HONOLULU. 
 
 LONDON: 
 EIVINGTONS, WATEELOO PLACE. 
 
 1862.
 
 LONDON : 
 GILBKRT A^U RIVINGTON, PRINTERS, 
 
 SI. John's suuare.
 
 SERMON, 
 
 Isaiah xlii. 4. 
 " The isles shall wait for His law." 
 
 By that "Law" for which in the vision of the 
 prophet the isles were to wait must be understood 
 the revelation of love and mercy set forth to the 
 world in the incarnation, sufferings, death, and 
 exaltation of the Divine Redeemer, carried on in 
 its progress towards completion, and rendered effec- 
 tual to the individual soul, by the Holy Spirit in 
 the Church. It implies at once the inward spiritual 
 agency described by our Lord as a " kingdom 
 within us," and what must ever be its outward ex- 
 pression and embodiment, — the kingdom of Christ 
 visible here on earth, His Mystical Body, the 
 blessed company of all faithful people, His Holy 
 Catholic Church. 
 
 This is that new dispensation for which the 
 Apostle Paul declared to the Romans " the whole 
 creation was groaning and travailing in pain to- 
 
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 4 THE WAITING ISLES. 
 
 gether." In all her supernatural aids, through all 
 her sacramental gifts, the virtue of the great Mys- 
 tery of the Incarnation is seen flowing into hu- 
 manity, raising what was before base and defiled to 
 become a^^ain sanctified and fit for the Master's 
 use, worthy of Ilim who created it. So that in 
 waiting for His Law the isles, that is, the whole 
 Gentile world, were in very truth " waiting for the 
 adoption," to wit, the " redemption of the body." 
 
 And often has this waiting been illustrated in 
 the history of the Church generally, and of our own 
 in particular. The known readiness of King Ethel- 
 bert to hear the Gospel, no less than the sight of 
 the Saxon boys in the market-place at Rome, seems 
 to have moved Gregory the Great in sending Au- 
 gustine over to evangelize the kingdom of Kent. 
 In that of Northumbria, too, was there not an 
 evident waiting for the Gospel message, when be- 
 fore the arrival of Paulinus the Angles there rose 
 up and destroyed their existing idols, their high 
 priest himself taking the lead, and asserting his 
 belief that " the wooden images hitherto worshipped 
 were no gods at all," for that " there was only one 
 Supreme Being dwelling in the heavens?" 
 
 The whole history of that far-distant group of 
 islands with which we are concerned is an exempli- 
 fication of the prediction, " The isles shall wait for 
 His law." 
 
 After their discovery by Cook in 1778 sailors 
 and traders seem freiiuently to have touched at 
 
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 their shores. These men, chiefly English or Ame- 
 ricans, themselves of licentious and abandoned 
 habits, coming into contact with a highly sen- 
 sualized people, no doubt diffused among them a 
 fearful amount of vice. At the same time such an 
 intercourse could not be carried on without the 
 natives growing in civilization and enlightenment. 
 Two men, John Young and Isaac Davies, the for- 
 mer a Liverpool shipwright, fell into the hands of 
 the chief of Hawaii — one who had an intense wish 
 to raise his people to the level of those strangers 
 who, he saw, were so far beyond himself in the 
 power which superior knowledge always gives. They 
 took up their permanent abode with him, and be- 
 came his chief advisers. Dissatisfaction ere long 
 sprung up in the mind of Kamehameha, — for that 
 was the name of the chieftain, — with the then exist- 
 ing religious system, and when Vancouver, after 
 repeated visits to the islands during several years, 
 finally took leave of them in 1794, he begged the 
 captain to procure teachers from England to in- 
 struct his people in the faith of Christ. That un- 
 happily was not a missionary age. It was a time 
 of unreality and spiritual deadness in the Church 
 of England : " the love of many had waxed cold ;" 
 and it is not therefore to be wondered at, though 
 sadly to be regretted, that such an opportunity was 
 lost. Had it been seized, how different from the 
 actual one might have been the religious history of 
 the various archipelagoes of the Pacific! Instead 
 
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 of owing whatever of Christianity they do possess 
 to communions we believe, to say the least, far less 
 likely than our own to deal successfully with the 
 native character, they might have been among the 
 most glorious trophies of our Church's conquests, 
 and from this group as a centre might have pene- 
 trated into many a dark corner of that ocean — and 
 even among the Indians of Vancouver's Island and 
 British Columbia — the rays of the blessed Gospel 
 of the Son of God ! The request was renewed again 
 when another English captain visited the islands in 
 the years 1804 — 1806 '. He describes the state of 
 civilization which even then this old chief and his 
 people were fast attaining, and the openings presented 
 for the introduction of Christianity among them. 
 That blessed gift was not to be obtained, however, 
 from this country. After the death of Kamehameha, 
 still in a state of heathenism and unbaptized, we find 
 his successor Rihoriho issued an edict abolishing 
 idolatry and the old religion. This met with some 
 opposition ; a battle was fought, but victory proved 
 on the side of the reforming party. And it was 
 when the way had been thus remarkably prepared 
 that some Congregationalist Missionaries visited 
 them from the United States of America. They 
 were not permitted to land till the king had assured 
 himself by consultation with Mr. Young that they 
 would speak of the same God and Saviour as the 
 Enjrlish missionaries, whom thev had been in vain 
 ' Captain TurnbuU.
 
 THE WAITING ISLES. 7 
 
 expecting for the quarter of a century, which had 
 then elapsed since the petition made to Vancouver. 
 Christianity under this form made rapid progress 
 among the people. Rihoriho and his queen came 
 over to England in the year 1823, and, it will be 
 remembered, died in London. The accounts of his 
 visit mention how the royal party attended the ser- 
 vices of Westminster Abbey, " with which they 
 were much pleased. The music affected them a 
 good deal, and they were impressed with veneration 
 for the place ^" Was it not this which prompted the 
 touching application he is stated to have made to 
 King George the Fourth before his death, " I have 
 to ask your Majesty to send missionaries to teach 
 my people the Protestant religion as taught in the 
 Church of England ? " He probably longed to 
 transplant in his own country some reproduction, 
 however inadequate it might be, of the solemn and 
 beautiful worship he had attended within these 
 venerable walls. 
 
 May we not regard the series of applications 
 which have reached our Church from these islands 
 during seventy years or more, as a significant com- 
 mentary on the prophet's words, " The isles shall 
 wait for Thy law ?" 
 
 And now in more recent times, when the group 
 has assumed an importance it had not before, when 
 the development of its productions with various 
 
 ^ Hulbert's Eoyal Biography, Memoirs of the Kings Karae- 
 hameha I. and II. 
 
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 8 THE WAITING ISLES. 
 
 forms of trade has collected in Honolulu a foreign 
 population, when a system of national education 
 has brought the Hawaiian into a comparatively 
 advanced state of civilization, when, too, Chris- 
 tianity, in the form of Congregationalism or the 
 Roman Church, has become nominally the religion 
 of the islands, the cry for help has again reached 
 our shores, and this time has not been heard in 
 vain. 
 
 The circumstances of the origin of the mission 
 are too well known to need any detail of them on 
 the present occasion. Xor need I remind you of 
 several features in the work itself not without in- 
 terest to the Church generally ; how that we have 
 here the first instance of our Reformed Church 
 being invited by an independent sovereign to plant 
 itself in his dominions ; how, too, by the formation 
 of this new diocese the only link is supplied which 
 was wanting to make the girdle of her influence 
 encircle the globe. By that of Melanesia in the 
 South, and that of Honolulu in the North Pacific, 
 the space between Bishop Selvvyn's province of 
 New Zealand and the diocese of Bishop Hills in 
 Columbia is bridged over, and we may fain hope 
 that in many an isle of that vast ocean, but yester- 
 day, perhaps, the home of savages and cannibals, 
 the voice of our Zion shall be heard on high, 
 and there, as here, she shall speak in accents 
 that bring hope, and trust, and peace, and joy, to 
 untold thousands. Happy shall I be should it be
 
 THE WAITING ISLES. i) 
 
 my lot to meet in some central isle of the Pacific 
 my brother, the Bishop of Melanesia; happy if 
 there we may hold refreshing intercourse on the 
 progress of our great work, and kneeling down on 
 the sea-shore together, offer up a prayer for God's 
 blessing on our efforts for the extension of His 
 kingdom. 
 
 It is, however, rather on the nature and objects 
 of the work to be done, than on its general aspects 
 I ought now to dwell. 
 
 First, then, as regards the native population. 
 We shall have to remind them of those Divine 
 truths, which have been hitherto sadly over- 
 looked in the system of Christianity familiar to 
 them; that by His Incarnation the Son of God 
 has made Himself one with them, entered into 
 all their sufferings, temptations, and joys; that in 
 Him all manly, all tender graces combine; that the 
 more they grow into His image, the purer, the 
 braver, the truer, the more loving will they be- 
 come; that religion was never designed to make 
 their innocent pleasures the less ^ ; that it is com- 
 
 ' The want of this teaching is described in the following 
 extract from the " Polynesian Gazette," Honolulu, April 26tli, 
 1862 :— 
 
 " BoNTiiiE. — On Monday evening last, a number of the 
 German residents, in commemoration of an ancient custom in 
 their ' Vaterland,' which they were prevented by rain on the 
 evening of Easter Sunday last from performing, lit a large and 
 splendid bonfire, preceded by rockets and fireworks, on one of 
 the spurs of Punchbowl Hill. 
 
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 10 THE WAITING ISLES. 
 
 patible with the free indulgence in all manly and 
 athletic exercises, being not designed to crush their 
 
 " We would like to see several of the good ancient continental 
 customs revived here upon great festival occasions. Surely 
 religion is not all psalm-singing and gloom. "While the heavy 
 of heart and the unforgiveu are welcome to groan and lament that 
 over their souls no gladness and light have arisen, yet we would 
 like to see merriment and rejoicing, in those whose spirits are 
 80 attuned, exhibit themselves especially on those great Chris- 
 tian occasions so eminently calculated to invite the mind to 
 joy, thanksgiving, and gladness, such as Christmas Day, Easter 
 Sunday, and Ascension Day. We notice that this land is said 
 to have been converted to Christianity, and yet the most re- 
 markable events in the life of the Founder of that faith are not 
 commemorated by the people ; are, on the contrary, studiously 
 ignored by their teachers, who thus forego one of the greatest 
 elements of rendering that religion national as well as rational ; 
 ingrafting it upon the customs of the people from earliest 
 childhood, rich in many bright memories from the morning of 
 life, to which the soul may look back and gather fresh courage 
 from them, when rocked by the tempest and prostrate by woe, 
 and which, in all ages, have softened the manners and opened 
 the heart, by the intermingling of all classes for one common 
 object, and that a lofty and holy one. But independently of 
 religious festivals, why should not a properly national one of 
 domestic origin be revived or instituted ? We would like to 
 see some of the old-world secular festivals introduced, such as 
 ' May Day ' for instance, to be celebrated with national sports, 
 jubilee, and bonfires through every village and hamlet in the 
 country. Were this properly taken in hand, it could not fail 
 of the best results. As it now is, the nation, as such, has no 
 festival either religious or social, but gropes in the ashes of the 
 past for some stray ember of a half-forgotten ' mele,' which it 
 chaunts with fear and trembling, lest its sound may provoke the 
 ban of the preacher or the rebuke of religious martinets. 
 
 " Such were our reflections on seeing the bonfire on Monday 
 last, and we turned awav in sadness."
 
 THE WAITING ISLES. 11 
 
 natural instincts, nor to form, as unhappily all admit 
 it has hitherto done, a sort of crust around and ex- 
 ternal to their daily life, but rather to work with those 
 instincts and hallow that daily life ; that the bodies 
 of Christians are become temples of the Holy Ghost, 
 and that " whoso defileth the temple of God, him 
 shall God destroy;" that He is honoured by the 
 consecration of all that is beautiful in nature and 
 art to the worship of the Sanctuary; that it is as 
 we seek to realize Him in all the duly-appointed 
 channels of grace we may expect to hold " com- 
 munion with the Father and the Son through the 
 Spirit." By the blessing of God upon the in- 
 culcation of these principles, and by giving them 
 practical effect in the organization and discipline 
 of the Church, we may hope for the elevation of 
 the native races to a higher and purer ideal of 
 their manhood. All who visit the islands bear 
 testimony to the sad want of any thing like moral 
 purity among them \ in part due to the sensuality 
 engendered by their luxurious climate, in part to 
 the licentiousness of European sailors and traders ^ 
 In touching accents the king lately complained 
 to his Legislature : — " Our acts are vain unless we 
 can stay the wasting hand that is destroying our 
 people. I feel a heavy responsibility in this matter." 
 He has accordingly suggested the institution of 
 
 * See Tilly's " Voyage at the mouth of the Amoor and in the 
 Pacific;" Hill's "Tour in the Sandwich Isles;" Mr. Manley 
 Hopkins's " Hawaii," &c. &c. 
 
 * See Extracts from the King's Speeches, Appendix A. 
 
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 12 THE WAITING ISLES. 
 
 boarding-schools for the education of native girls, 
 taking them from home at an early age, and raising 
 them by the training of Christian ladies to a higher 
 appreciation of their dignity as women. The 
 Sisters of the Sacred Heart have opened such 
 schools in connexion with the Eoman Church, and 
 defective indeed will be our machinery if no pro- 
 vision is made by us for furthering the same object 
 in ways consonant with the practice and distinctive 
 character of the English Church. I am certain 
 that devoted women can be found to engage in this 
 work, if only funds are forthcoming. It is to me a 
 matter of thankfulness that there are in our party 
 going out those who, having devoted the best part 
 of their lives to labour of this kind, are eminently 
 fitted to organize and superintend institutions such 
 as those proposed to be established. Without this 
 instrumentality we shall be indeed shorn of half our 
 strength. Rome will continue her onward progress, 
 for when does that corrupt Church win men's 
 hearts more efi'ectually than when seen in the 
 gentle ministrations of self-denying women ? Those 
 ministrations, though directed nominally to the 
 removal of moral and physical evil, are ever found 
 to end in proselytizing to that communion, without 
 the pale of which they believe there is no salvation. 
 How deeply the king feels the want of such agency 
 appears from his speech at the last opening of his 
 Legislature: — "I regret that there has been but 
 small progress in the institution of schools for the
 
 THE WAITING ISLES. 13 
 
 education and moral training of females. This 
 subject ought to be considered paramount to any 
 other in considering the educational necessities of 
 the people. I therefore hope that this Legislature 
 will devise some means for more fully carrying out 
 my views expressed in my address upon this sub- 
 ject to the last Legislature, and in connexion there- 
 with, I cannot forego the opportunity, as the head 
 of this nation, to express my acknowledgments and 
 appreciation of the services already rendered to 
 this cause, either by individuals or organizations." 
 
 As an English Mission, it is hoped, we may 
 render valuable aid to the cause of primary edu- 
 cation in the islands. It is in contemplation to 
 give a more industrial and practical character to 
 the system pursued in the State Schools, and 
 gradually to bring about a displacement of the 
 Hawaiian for the English tongue throughout the 
 native population. How inadequate the old lan- 
 guage is as a vehicle of thought or moral training 
 appears from the fact that there are no words in it 
 whereby to express hope, gratitude, or chastity. 
 In the address, quoted before, the king says, " The 
 importance of substituting English for Hawaiian 
 schools I have already earnestly recommended ; and 
 in again bringing the subject under your attention, 
 I would touch upon a matter which I think of 
 equal importance, and that is the raising the 
 standard of elementary education in the Common
 
 14 THE WAITING ISLES. 
 
 Schools. This latter object may be secured by 
 the institution of Normal Schools, as recommended 
 by the President; but combined with the teaching 
 of the English as a general thing throughout the 
 kingdom, it must place the object beyond a per- 
 adventure." 
 
 The foreigners centred there for the purposes 
 of trade and agriculture, chiefly English and 
 Americans, containing many professedly members 
 of our Reformed Church or others who are 
 willing to unite with her, though in the absence 
 of any other alternative they have chosen, it may 
 be, one or other of the extreme forms at present 
 in the islands, will have to be tended and fed with 
 Christ's holy Word and Sacraments. Especial 
 attention must be paid to the spiritual wants of 
 the sailors, who, during their stay in the ports 
 visited, so often run into evil, through want of 
 any interest being taken by those around them in 
 their temporal or spiritual welfare. 
 
 Lastly, among the heathen islands we may 
 operate from Honolulu as a base. There is no 
 reason why we should not have a college, where 
 the Hawaiians may be trained to go out as mis- 
 sionaries to Micronesia, including the Caroline 
 and other groups towards Japan, as well as to 
 Southern Polynesia. Their language, physical 
 temperament, and general similarity of race, would 
 well qualify them for this work; and that they
 
 THE WAITING ISLES. 15 
 
 are capable of it appears from the fact that the 
 Congregationalists have sent out already six natives 
 as missionaries into Micronesia ®. 
 
 Such, brethren, are the chief outlines of the task 
 we are undertaking. I cannot hide the fact that 
 its accomplishment seems beset with difficulties 
 and perils. If the ground were wholly unoccupied, 
 as it was when we were first invited to take pos- 
 session of it in Christ's name, the case would be 
 very different from what it actually is. It is hoped 
 that the introduction of that pure and complete 
 development of Divine truth it is our happiness as 
 English Churchmen to enjoy, concentrating in its 
 worship and teaching all that is good, and beautiful, 
 and true, in the two extremes, without running into 
 the excesses of either, may dispel some of those 
 doubts, which systems, so antagonistic as those now 
 at work there, must have created in their minds. 
 It may be so ; but it may produce the contrary effect. 
 And a vast responsibility devolves on those to whom 
 is entrusted the direction of this sacred enterprise, 
 to see that the former, and not the latter, be the 
 result of their efforts. Nothing would shake all 
 religious belief in the islands more effectually than for 
 us to assume an attitude of hostility to those forms 
 of Christianity with which they are now familiar. 
 We must show the people how beneath the defects 
 and corruptions of this or that communion there 
 
 * See the religious periodical of the Congregationalists, 
 published at Honolulu in 1860, called " The Friend,"
 
 IG THE WAITING ISLES. 
 
 lies a substratum of truth in the admission of the 
 great historic facts of the Creeds, which may well 
 increase their faith in those facts, and lead to 
 greater charity and forbearance in our treatment 
 of those Articles of the Faith which are called in 
 question. We are to speak the truth, but it must 
 be in love; and we are to give all who have been 
 hitherto labouring with so much devotion and 
 earnestness in their Master's cause, while we have 
 been looking on with cold indifference, the credit 
 they deserve. We must make it clear we do not 
 go forth to ignore or override what has been done 
 by others. 
 
 And this suggests another danger, that of seek- 
 ing to proselytize. It is an admitted fact that a 
 large number of the people are in active com- 
 munion with none of the existing bodies, and 
 among them we must seek to labour, not doubting 
 that, as we thus exhibit and carry to them the 
 Church's message in all fidelity, and zeal, and 
 love, she will attract many others, whom she would 
 effectually repel were she to assume a posture of 
 unfriendliness or aggression. If we keep before 
 our eyes the fact, that the great object of the 
 mission is the salvation of the souls and bodies 
 of those among whom we are going to labour, and 
 not the numbers we can count as members of our 
 communion, we may hope, by God's blessing, to 
 escape this danger. 
 
 In the complex character of the population, we
 
 THE WAITING ISLES. 17 
 
 may see another ground for the exercise of pru- 
 dence and caution. An adaptation of the for- 
 mularies and system of the Church to the feelings 
 and requirements of any one element may prove 
 very unsuitable and mischievous in the instance of 
 another. 
 
 In the national jealousies, too, which usually 
 prevail in a centre of resort such as this, — one 
 owing its independence to the forbearance and 
 protection of its more powerful neighbours, — we 
 have reason for care and circumspection. 
 
 But if the difficulties to be apprehended are 
 great, so too are our encouragements. " Not by 
 power or might, but my Spirit, saith our God." 
 And to the end of time the promise given by our 
 Lord to His Apostles shall be true in the instance 
 of their successors, " Lo, I am with you alway, even 
 unto the end of the world." There are also con- 
 siderations subordinate to this. The interest felt 
 by the present very intelligent, high-principled, and 
 even accomplished king in the realization of an 
 English episcopate, the clinging on the part of the 
 islanders from the first to England as the country 
 to supply them with a religion they could trust, the 
 co-operation of the English and many of the Ame- 
 rican residents in preparing for the reception of 
 the mission \ the baptism of the Prince of Hawaii, 
 
 ^ The "Polynesian" of April 19th last describes a meeting 
 which took place with this object in the Court House, the 
 King taking a part in the proceedings. A committee was
 
 18 THE WAITING ISLES. 
 
 our own beloved Queen standing, by proxy, as the 
 sponsor, with which ceremony the Church will, so 
 to speak, be inaugurated — these are all hopeful 
 signs. When, too, I consider the warm sympathy 
 and support extended to the Mission by my country- 
 men and fellow-churchmen during the months that 
 have elapsed since my consecration, — shown by 
 their liberal contributions no less than in the hearty 
 prayers they have ever been ready to offer for its 
 success, — there is indeed reason "to be of good 
 cheer and take courafife." For those lovino^ tokens 
 of interest and sympathy how can I ever be grateful 
 enough ? 
 
 And now, on the eve of departure with those 
 brethren who have thrown in their lot with me, and 
 are devoting themselves to this arduous enterprise, 
 I have to ask you, on their behalf as well as my 
 own, a continuance of your Christian sjTnpathy 
 and your prayers. You will follow with interest 
 and, when such help may be needed, further with 
 your alms the work of building up the walls of our 
 Zion, as it progresses, in these central isles of the 
 Pacific. You will remember us in your private de- 
 votions, your litanies and common prayers, among 
 those that travel by land or by water, that they 
 who ffo forth to " sow the seed of eternal life beside 
 all waters " may be safe in the Everlasting Arms ; 
 but especially that they may be endued with " the 
 
 formed to obtain donations for the Cathedral and Mission 
 Funds, and nearly 1000/. was promised to the former object.
 
 THE WAITING ISLES. 19 
 
 Spirit of power, of love, and of a sound mind," that 
 the great work, they are engaged in, may not be 
 marred by human corruption or by the infirmity 
 of those to whom it is committed, that many an 
 islander of the Pacific, now waiting for Christ's law 
 in grateful adoration for benefits received from this 
 mission of our Church, may hereafter rise up and 
 call Her Blessed.
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 (A.) 
 
 At a recent opening of liis Chambers, the King addressed the 
 following impromptu remarks in English to foreigners residing 
 in his dominions: — 
 
 " To be kind and generous to the foreigner, to confide and 
 trust in him, is no new thing in the history of our race ; it is 
 an inheritance derived to us from our forefatliers ; and I say 
 to the foreigner he is welcome to our shores, so long as he 
 comes with the laudable object of promoting his own interests 
 and respecting those of his neighbour; but if he comes with no 
 more exalted motive than to build them up at the expense of 
 the native, to seek our confidence only to betray it, then is he 
 most unwelcome." 
 
 On the institution of the Agricultural Society, the King 
 described the climate and its effect on the Hawaiian cha- 
 racter: — 
 
 " Whoever heard of winter on our shores ? AVhen was it so 
 cold the labourer could not go to his field ? These difficulties 
 have no place in our beautiful group, which rests on the 
 swelling bosom of the Pacific like a water-lily." 
 
 He then reproaches them for not making the most of their 
 advantages : — 
 
 " The great faults of tlie Hawaiians are laziness and want of 
 perseverance. It is a matter for our shame ; but as a father 
 to my people, I cannot hide the fact."
 
 APPENDIX. 21 
 
 (B.) 
 
 THE CHURCH IN THE NOETH PACIEIC. 
 
 The following statement was issued soon after the Mission 
 was originated, and contains an outline of the principal facts 
 connected with it : — 
 
 " The Hawaiian Islands, lying nearly twenty degrees north of 
 the Equator, and nearly midway between the coast of America 
 and the east of Asia, were discovered by Captain Cook, who 
 perished there in 1779. They contain a people of noble 
 physique, gentle disposition, and a remarkable aptitude for 
 civilization, towards which they are advancing witb rapid 
 steps. 
 
 " Honolulu, the capital, possesses a fine harbour, and has 
 become the resting-place of the commerce now finding its path 
 across the Pacific between the Old and New Worlds. Some 
 hundreds of ships resort to this and other ports of the group 
 during the course of the year. Intermixed with the natives is 
 a large number of English, American, and other foreign 
 residents. 
 
 " The government is a constitutional monarchy, under the 
 guaranteed protection of England, France, and the United 
 States. Order and justice are enforced, and education pro- 
 moted, while English is fast displacing the native tongue. 
 
 " After the temporary cession of Hawaii by King Kameha- 
 meha I. and his chiefs to the British Sovereign through Van- 
 couver, in 1794, they begged the captain to procure for them 
 on his return English clergymen to instruct them in the 
 Christian faith. Vancouver pressed their petition on Mr. 
 Pitt, but nothing was done. Meanwhile the way w^as remark- 
 ably opened among these islanders for the introduction of the 
 Gospel by their spontaneous abandonment of idolatry in 1819. 
 
 " After waiting in vain for a quarter of a century the ful- 
 filment of Vancouver's promise, some Congregationalist mis-
 
 22 .J APPENDIX. 
 
 siouarics from America ' arrived in 1820. They preached, 
 established schools, and laboured with much success. At the 
 present time they have places of worship erected in many parts 
 of the islands. 
 
 *' A French Koman Catholic mission was finally introduced 
 in 1839. It is presided over by a Yicar Apostolic, titular 
 Bishop of Arathia. The natives are gradually passing over 
 into its communion, and it is certain that Kome will, ere long, 
 be firmly seated in this ' Heart of the Pacific,' if we again 
 refuse as we have done to supply it with the formidable 
 bulwark of our own Scriptural Church. 
 
 "In 1844, 1847, 1851, and 1858, attempts were made, 
 chiefly on the part of the English and other residents, to 
 obtain Episcopal clergymen at Honolulu, but without success. 
 
 " This year the King wrote himself on the subject to Her 
 Majesty the Queen, and by his minister to the Primate, ex- 
 pressing not only his own earnest wishes, but those of many of 
 the principal residents. He offers to the mission such income 
 as the limited means of the islands will afford, and will pro- 
 bably appropriate a larger portion of land to its future sup- 
 port. 
 
 " There are several features of peculiar interest in this 
 movement, 1. We have the only instance of our Church being 
 invited by an independent sovereign to plant itself in his 
 dominions. 2. This invitation is the renewal of other lu-gent 
 appeals sent us before, and unhappily without effect. 3. Eng- 
 land's daughter Church of America desires to unite with us in 
 this work. 4. The Hawaiian Isles are the key to many other 
 groups in the North and South-east Pacific, as yet belonging 
 to no missionary diocese, and still heathen. 
 
 " The Committee contemplate sending out with the Bishop 
 two or three clergy, to be joined by others from the American 
 Church. The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge has 
 granted 200Z. per annum for five years, and that for the Propa- 
 gation of the Gospel 300Z. for each of three years, towards this 
 
 ' It is a mistake to suppose the London Missionary or any English As- 
 sociation has done any thing for the Christianizing of these islands, as they 
 have in the case of the groups of the South Pacific.
 
 APPENDIX. 23 
 
 object. But this with the local resources expected in the 
 islands will prove inadequate at first for the proper and 
 effective organization of the mission. Funds will be required, 
 (1) in order to erect a suitable Church, School, and Clergy- 
 house in Honolulu, and Mission Chapels in Lahaina, Hilo, 
 and other towns scattered through the group ; (2) to meet the 
 grants of the societies in aid of the stipends of the clergy, &c. 
 
 " It is hoped that in a few years, by aid of the local resources 
 in the islands, the Church will become self-supporting. Mean- 
 while an appeal is with confidence made to the liberality of 
 earnest-minded Churchmen at home. 
 
 " Do we not owe these islanders some reparation for having 
 so long passed by unheeded their cry of ' Come over and help 
 us?' Shall we not, late though it be, go forth and plant 
 among them an offshoot from that sacred vine which, in our 
 own highly favoured land, Grod has made so strong for His 
 own self? 
 
 " T. N. HONOLULU." 
 
 THE END. 
 
 GILBEET AND BIVINOTON, PKINTEHS, ST. JOHN S SQUARE, LONDON.
 
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