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SOCIAL SCENE AT THE SAND
WICH ISLANDS.
Near the close of 1827,; a social vi
sit was held at Honoruru, by invita
tion of Mrs. Bingham and Mrs. Rich-
ards, at which, all the chiefs of the
Jirst and second rank, except Bole; and
bis wife, were present.
fo this interesting group, says, Mr.
Bingham, we should have been happy
to hate introduced you, or any of our
Christian friends, and I doubt not you
would have been highly^ratitled with
the interview. You would have seen
the regent, once the haughty Kaahu-
manu, now condescending, and kind,
and grateful to the Christian teachers;
with her two royal sisters, Kalakua
and Pirn, all members of the church,
Bearing the Christian names of Eliz
abeth, Maria, and Lydia, and all
endeavouring, as we believe, to copy
the vitues of those Scripture charac
ters, exerting a great influence over
the people in favour of reformation,
and rejoicing in the mercy of God in
giving them the Gospel. You would
seen have the pleasing youths, the king
& his sister, rising rapidly to maturity,
both possessing vivacity, and exhibit
ing kindness towards us; the latter a
member of our church, and a great
comfort to the serious party, and the
former as far advanced in the rudi
ments of learning as most of our na
tive teachers, and we believe disposed
to aid decidedly the cause of the mis
sion. You would have seen Kmkini;
the governor of Hawaii, dignified, so
ciable, and friendly, who has built a
church at Kairua, which propably
cost as many day’s work as any church
in America, and who has for some time
been diligently assisting in translating
the Gospels, and in teaching a class
in the rudiments of arithmetic. He
has recently advised Kaahumanu to
have laws established, written, and
published. JYhtVie you would have
met, a decided friend, of similar rank,
and his wife Kapiolani, who perhaps
is second to none in improved manners
and Christian character. You would
have seen the solid Iloapiri, of the
same rank, the governor of Maui, re
cently propounded to the church, the
most fearless of all in resisting for
eign encroachments, and foremost of
all to suppress the vices which derives
so much support from abroad. Anoth
er of the old phalanx of Tamchamehah
would have attracted your notice,
Kaikioeua, now governor of Tauai,
who seems to be desirous to bo in
structed and to promote our cause;
and his wife Keaiccamahi also, who, as
you know, is a respected member of
our church, admitted at Tauai. You
Would have soon, ulso, tbo Inte. queen
of Tauri, J)cborah Kapulc r and her
husband Simeon Kdiu, whom we re
gard as promising Christians. They
recently presented their infant son to
the Lord in baptism, whom they call
ed r £iiummrii, out of respect to the
characters of those two men.
You would have seen Kekauhwhi,
Kinau, and Kekauonohi, the three sur
viving women who were, on our arri
val, wives of Rchoriho. The former
has, for live years, lived regularly
with another husband, gives evidence
of piety, and was, last Sabbath, pro
pounded lor admission to our church.
Kinau, who has recently married Kc-
kuanaoa, who accompanied the king
to England, now appears friendly, but
not pious; her husband whom you
would also have seen, is like her .'in
those respects,, and is a commander of
a small standing force of two or three
hundred men, at this place. Kehau-
onohi has, for about four years, lived
single, appears to be -a cordial and
decided friend'of the mission, and is
now talked of as a suitable wife of the
young king. There is - little disparity
in their age and rank. :
• Three interesting young chiefs. La-
anui, Keliiahonui, Kanaina, of pleas
ing manners, and hopeful piety, would
also have engaged your attention a*
mong the happy guests. Laanui, the
husband of Piit\, or Lydia Nnmahana,
by his correct' behaviour for more
than live years, has given us much
Satisfaction. ‘He is, you know, a
member of our church. He is a good
assistant in the work of translation:
we consult him, and others of his stand-
with more advantage, than guy of
They have laid aside their vices and
excesses, and their love of noise and
war. You see every one decently
dressed in our own style. Instead of
the roaring /mm, you hear them join
us in a song of Zion:
“Kindred in Christ, for his dear sake,
A heart}' welcome here receive,” fkc.
Listen and you will not only hear the
expressions of gratitude to us and
to God for the privileges they
now enjoy, but you will hear these old
warriors lamenting that their former
kings, their fathers, and their compan
ions in arms had been slain in the Kit
tle, or carried off by the hand of time,
before the blessed Gospel of Christ
had been proclaimed on these benight
ed shores. Your heart would have
glowed with elevent gratitude to God
for the evidence, that while oui sim
ple food was passing round the social
circle for their present gratification,
ijic minds of these children of pagans
enjoyed a feast of belter things; and
your thoughts', no doubt, like ours,
would have glanced at a happier
meeting of the friends of God in the
world of glory. When our thanks
were returned at the close of our
humble repast, though you might not
have been familiar with the language,
you would have lifted up your heart
in thankfulness for what already ap
peared as the ‘fruits of your efforts
here, and for the prospect of still
greater things than these.
their labor, and doubting sometimes
whether it is not wholly vain. Such
living sacrifices, we think, are even
more illustrious than the dying self-
devotion of martyrs; for it ’requires
more strength to sustain the heart in
the weary trial of life, than in the
short agony of death. Milton com
plained with reason, that men were so
earnest to celebrate their desYroyers,
that they had left ‘the better fortitude
of patience and heroic martyrdom un
sung;’ but he was too far before his
age for even his mighty voice to reach
it; wc trust that the stern old prophet
has found many a Heart in our times,
t<j> reply to those indignant appeals,
which found no answering chord in his
own.—N. d. Review.
tuns
THE PHILANTHROPIST AND
THE HERO IN CONTRAST.
We think the wiser part of the
world is growing weary of ifs
the youths who have been instructed
in our foreign schools.
Keliiahonui, the son of Tauwuarii,
you doubtless know is also a member
of the church, and exerts, we hope a
good influence. He travelled round
Hawaii, a year ago, exhorting the peo
ple to obey the word of God, and the
voice of the chiefs. He has an over
sight of several schools, and been em
ployed considerably, and with success,
in teaching. lie lives single, keeps
a regular diary, and is foremost of his
countrymen in the art of singing in our
mode. Kanainci, the husband of Ke-
kauluoho, often assists in conducting
conference meetings, and is very desi
rous to be admitted to the church.—
Though we hope to admit him before
a great while, yet we think some long
er trial advisable. Joseph Lelchioku,
the sprightly little son of Karnimoku,
the late regent, and KamaneU, the
young daughter of governor Kuakrini
were also present. We might have
invited nearly as large a number of o-
thers of (lie third and fourth grade of
chiefs, who exhibited similar marks of
improvement, and who appear to be
truly friendly to the cause of the Gos
pel, and whose presence would have
added to your pleasure, had we room
and means and strength to accommo
date so many at one time.
But look, for a few moments, at the
present group—twenty-one chiefs of
the Sandwich Islands mingling in
friendly, courteous, and Christian con
versation with seven of the mission
family, whom you have employed a-
mong them. Contemplate their for
mer and their present habits, their
former and their present, hopes.—
_ .. great
men; or is at least growing more cor
rect in its estimate of greatness.—
For thousands of years it has paid its
willing reverence to that class of inen,
whose whole employment is to injuie
and oppress the rest; now, it is begin
ning to require a more intellectual su
periority, Orators and authors are
the heroes of the day; and the same
hearty and enthusiastic applause fol
lows exploits of the mind, which was
once reserved for mill it ary success.
The conflicts (hat really decide the
destiny of nations, are fought in con
gresses and parliaments; and the in
terest of the strife is transferred to
the fields where their fate is actually
decided; as is abundantly proved by
the profound .sensation of the whole
:civilized world, at.the late Mr. Can
ning; who, with a public character not
so well titled to inspire enthusiasm as
others that have been before him, ex
cited interest immeasurably deeper,
and fell more brilliantly in the moment
of his bloodless victory, than Dundee
at Killicankie, or Nelson at Trafalgar.
We venture to hqjj.e that the time
will conic, when usefulness
the measure of greatness
he sure of the applause of
world has been singularly inattentive
to its lights and welfare; it has inva
riably misapplied that applause, which
must be the inspiration & guideof com
mon ambition. When it is once known
that usefulness will secure its favour,
it will be like the discovery of a new
compass, for guiding a thousand ad
ventures to an innocent and enviable
fame. Men of higher principle, too,
will be animated by the conviclioh
that the world is on (heir side. We
think that whether wc consider the
difficulties encountered and sacrifices
made, or the spirit and energy re
quired to meet them, nothing is more
noble, and reviving than examples of
men, who, with prospects of wealth
that lead to indolence and talents fitted
for display, are yet able, through all
the misleading opinions of the world,
and tile flatteries of self-love, to dis
cern, that man’s best interest and glo
ry is to be serviceable to Lis fellow r -
men; who can devote themselves to
the great cause of human improve
ment, not with momentary vigour, hut
persevering resolution; not in its mere
attractive parts, its pillars and capi
tals, hut in the humbler places where
the deep foundation is laid; conscious
that they may never see the rciult of
VERSATILITY OF THE FRENCH.
Those who are fond of reconciling
apparent contradictions in national
character, may find amusement in at
tempting to account for the singular
fact, that the French, who are so re
markable for .tjieii; constitutional vi
vacity, and, we had almost said, levi
ty ot character, slrould nevertheless
have been unrivalled for nearly a cen
tury, in almost every department of
scientific research. That they should
have taken precedence of other na
tions in elegant literature, if such
were the fact, would not he very sur
prising; for we should .imagine we
could discover a decided adaptation to
such pursuits, in the prominent fea
tures of their character. Bat . when
wc sec tliem engaged w ith wonderful
ardor and perseverance in those stu
dies, which almost entirely exclude
imagination and feeling, and demand
for their successful prosecution, the
severest efforts of reasoning and ab
straction, we witness a phenomenon,
of which we find ourselves unable to
' give a satisfactory explanation..
Of what discordant elements must
the character of that people he form
ed, who, within the short space of
thirty years, have gone through a re
solution so momentous, that it broke
up all the strong foundations of socie
ty, and yet, within the same time,
have advanced physical science and
pure mathematics to such;a height as
they never attained before. We have
seen them rise, with a fearful* unani
mity, to hurl reason from the throne,
(and trample truth in the dust., and then,
before our terror and amazement have
had time to subside, we have seen
reason and truth reinstated among the
'same people, and worshipped w ith a
devotion as fervent and enthusiastic,
as ever was paid .to them before.—
The very same individuals, who now,
give up their days and nights to ab
struse speculation, were once strenu-
young heads: the flowers on the brink
seem to offer themselves to our young
hands; we are happy in hope, aiq] lve
grasp eagerly at the beauties around
us: but the stream hurries, on, and
still our haj1.dp.3fQ empty. >
“Our course,in youth and manhood
is along a w ider and deeper flood, .and
amid objects more striking and mag-
| nilicent. We pre animated by the
moving picture of enjoyment and in
dustry which passes before us; we
are excited by some short lived suc
cess, or depressed and rendered mis
erable by equally short-lived disqp- .
pointment. But our energy and our
dependence arc both in vain. The
stream bears us on, and our joys and •/
our griefs are alike left behind us,
wc may be shipwrecked bu^.yye can
not, anchor; our voyage may be hasten
ed but it cannot be delayed; whetii- •
er rough or smooth, the river. hastens
towards its home, till the roaring of
the ocean is in our ears, and the toss
ing of his waves is beneath our knell,
and the lands lessen from our eyes and ■
the floods arc-lifted up around.us, and-
flic earth loses sight of us, and we
ta^e our last leave of earth and its
inhabitants, and of our further voyage
there is no witness,- but the Infinite and
Eternal.
“And do wc still take so much anx*
ious thought for the future days, when
the days which, are gpne by have so
strangely and.uniformly deceived us?
Can we stijl so set our hearts on the
fcrealures of God, w hen ive find by
sad experience, that the Creator only
is permanent? Or shall we not rath
er lay. aside every weight and every
sin which docs-most easily beset us,
and think cf ourselves henceforth as
wayfaring persons only who have no
abiding inheritance hut in the hope of
a better world, and to whom even
that world would be .worse -thanihope-
Jess, if it were not for our Lord Jesus
.Christ, and the interest which we
have obtained in his mercies.”
ss, if it is not i ?, us a ? t0 !' s in t !|f l storm y scenc f cf ,he
•ii t l t j Revolution. 1 here-was one,* espe-
V ‘ .ii. daily, whose life exhibited a scarce
ly credible contrast. During that dis
astrous period, so expressly denomin
ated the Reign of Terror, his mind,
then all for action, caught to the full
mad phrenzy of those around him;
anil he engaged heart and hand, in the
infernal business of the time. But
the moment that the moral hurricane
was over, this same wonderful man,
sitting down as it were amidst the ve
ry ruins he had helped to create, and
apparently forgetting all that had pass
ed, gave up his whole mind to the in
vestigation of the celestial motions.—
In these serene anil sublime contem
plations, he w'as chiefly occupied for
the last twenty years of his life; and
next to Newton, Philosophy now hails
him as her brightest name.
*V. d. Renew.
•A. M. LPgeredre.
THE STREAM OF LIFE.
The following; bountiful passage is from-
a sermon preached by Bishop Heber, to
his parishioner’s a short time before his de
parture for India, in 1823.
“Life boars us on like the stream
of a mighty river. Our boat, at first
glides down the narrow channel,.thro’
the playful murmurings of the brook
and the winding of its grassy hostler.
Trees shed their blossoms over our
There is a religion w hich is too sin
cere for hypocrisy, but^oo transient
to be profitable; top superficial lo :
reach the heart, too unproductive to
proceed from it. R is slight, but not
false. It has discernment enough
to distinguish sin, but not firmness e-‘
nough to oppose it; compunction suf
ficient to soften the heart, but not vi
gour sufficient to reform it. It la
ments when it docs w rong, and.per
forms all the functions of repentance
of sin except forsaking it. It’hus ev
ery thing of devotion except the sta
bility, and gives every thing to religion
except the heart. This is a religion
of times, events, and circumstances**
it is brought into play by accidents,
and dwindles away with the occasion
which called it out. Festivals and
fasts which occur but seldom, .are
much observed, and it is to be feared
because they occur but seldom; while
the great festival which conics every
week, comes too often to be so re
spectfully treated. The piety of
these people conus out much in sick
ness, bj.it is apt to retreat again as re
covery approaches. If they die, thev
are placed by their admirers in the
Saint’s Calendar; if they recover, they
go back into the world they had re
nounced, and agaim suspend their a-
mendment as ojten. its death suspends
his blow.— Hannah dloore.
Instead then of going in search-of
great mortifications, as a certain class
of pious w riters recommend, let us
cheerfully bear and diligently improve
these inferior trials which God pre
pares for us. Submission to a cross
vvlue.h he inflicts, to a disappointment
Which he sends, to a contradiction of
our self-love,, which ho appoints, is a
far better exercise,, than great pen
ances of-otfr owu choosing. " Perpetu
al conquests over impatience, ill
temper, and self-wilL .indicate a bet
ter spirit than any sulf-imposed morti
fications. Wc may t raverse oceans,
and scale mountains on uncommanded
pilgrimages, without pleasing God;
wc may please him without any fur.
