tianize the common people; to train up an educated native ministry which the people shall support; to reform the national habits of living; to inculcate upon the sexes modesty and chastity; to efface the dreadful characters of pollution and death, which heathenism has been burning in for ages upon the Hawaiian constitution; to introduce more extensively the improvements and arts of civilization; to develop the country's agricultural resources, and to foster habits and institute new ways of industry.

'In order to accomplish all this, there are needed both religious teachers, physicians, artisans, mechanics, and farmers, to lighten the load and do the undone work of worn and weary pastors; to man the institutions of learning, and to afford suitable medical aid to the people, and to the missionary stations remote from each other, and to teach the natives all the arts of peace.

If any man think that where so much has been done little remains to do, in the process of national instruction and elevation, and when he reads that within the last two years the different Hawaiian churches have contributed in cash nine thousand three hundred dollars for building and repairing their churches, supporting preaching and schools, and for other benevolent purposes if he infer that, therefore, the great American Education Society can soon drop their Hawaiian pupils, we have only to say that a greater mistake could hardly be entertained.

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ple, is undoubtedly true. But America must continue to supply the men and their outfits, and lend also a helping hand to educational institutions there for at least twenty years longer, and the leading minds in the education of the nation must be from abroad. We do not say that if the American Church should now withdraw its aid, and send to the Heart of the Pacific no more missionaries, that the light of the Gospel would go out along with the lamps of life in the present ministers, and the people all go back to heathenism, or over to the Roman Beast.

Such a result would be impossible; for truth has made too deep an impression, and taken too strong a hold, to be so soon effaced or uprooted. Spiritual life would still linger here and there; and though the leaven of the Gospel might in many cases turn sour and become rank Romanism, yet the salt of Divine truth would have been too widely diffused to let society change in the mass, either into the rottenness of Rome, or the Dead Sea of paganism.

Had missionaries there done nothing (like Schwartz in India) but preach the Gospel, this might be. But they have wisely translated and printed the Scriptures, and founded seminaries and schools; and the people would know too much to be befooled into baptized Romish heathenism, or led back blindfold into that sottish form of it which they forsook. They would probably soon fall into practical, lying infidelity, saying to them, what they like, Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.

There would be just enough Christians among them to keep up the form of godliness without its power, and they would retain enough of outward religion to keep them from being feared like barbarians, by foreigners, while they would practise all uncleanness with greediness, and foreigners would join with them in digging the nation's grave with their lusts.

The fact that the Gospel has been fairly offered to a nation of more than one hundred thousand souls within much less than the period of one generation; that multitudes have embraced it with eagerness; that many have died in the faith of Jesus; that many live, the exemplary disciples of Christ, to praise him for having ever put it into the hearts of American Christians to send them the Gospel; and that a nation of besotted, letterless savages has been reformed, by its living educators, into an orderly nátion of readers—all this, so far from allowing American philanthropy in the least to relax its efforts, is, as it were, for nothing else in the arrangements of Divine Providence, but to give the Church a standing proof, a visible demonstration, of what would follow from a proportionate outlay of Christian educational agencies upon every barbarous nation on the face of the earth. When it can be said that the Protestant school-master is abroad everywhere, as at the Sandwich Islands; when the teacher, the Christian minister, the editor, and the author-those four leaders in modern civilization—are planted together among all the tribes and families of man, as they now are side by side in the Heart of the Pacific, the educa

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tion of the world for its golden age will have fairly begun.

The solid, social and religious progress of these heaven-blest Isles of the Pacific is every day becoming more apparent and decided; and soon will shine out clearly the part they are to bear in the Christianization of the great realms that border on the Pacific upon either shore, in the track of whose golden commerce they directly lie. Beyond all doubt, it is for some great end in Providence that they have been so remarkably Christianized, and time will duly develop all the links in the Providential chain of events, that shall yoke this best American missionary experiment with the triumphal chariot of the King of saints.

The Heart of the Pacific shall be one of its noblest trophies, as the conquering car of Emmanuel traverses our globe, in that dear and not distant period when the great voice from heaven is heard, saying, LO, THE TABERNACLE OF GOD IS AMONG MEN: THE KINGDOMS OF THIS WORLD ARE BECOME THE KINGDOMS OF OUR LORD, AND OF HIS CHRIST; AND HE SHALL REIGN FOREVER AND EVER.

It is natural to remark here upon Sandwich Island life and religion, how the teachings and example of missionary instructors descended from the Puritans, and colonizing like them with their families, for a religious purpose, in the howling wilderness of heathenism, are bringing to pass a state of society that shall prove, we trust, in due time, whatever becomes of the native race, a reprint of Puritanism. There is the more reason to hope for this at the Hawaiian Islands,

if the guns of Admiral Tromelin and other French commanders in the Pacific do only instruct all the inhabitants so effectively into the nature of Popery, that the influence of the twenty-five Romish priests there shall be neutralized, whose interests the fallen King of the French (Louis Philippe) instructed M. Dillon and the commanders of the French frigates to look after, and whose fidelity in so doing, at the cannon's mouth, Louis Napoleon has rewarded.

True missionary Protestant religion, as it appears in the home education of the family, as it is developed in the children of missionaries, of whom a remarkable proportion* have become Christians at the Sandwich Islands,

*Should the lives of the children of modern missionaries be all written, and compared with the sons and daughters of other Christians, we are persuaded that the preponderance of virtue, and piety, and success in life would be found largely in favor of the former. As prosperous or as happy as the child of a missionary, may yet become a proverb. The children of the Sandwich Island mission, being now upward of one hundred and fifty, have thus far been remarkably favored by Abraham's God. None of them, so far as can be learned, after much inquiry, have turned out poorly. Many of them adorn the Christian Church. Several of the sons have already become themselves foreign missionaries; others are in the process of training. And of the daughters arrived at adult age, there are already valued teachers and wives of ministers, and some delightful exhibitions of youthful piety, that promise much for time to come. Missionary stock will be as honorable to spring from in future times as that of the Puritan is now. May scions worthy of their sires be constantly rising in a long line of future posterity!

Of the whole number of missionary children living at the period when a calculation was made, about twenty years from the first organization of the Sandwich Island mission, eighty-eight were boys, seventy-two girls. Total, one hundred and sixty: whole number of parents, eightyfive; of families, forty-one; so that in about two-thirds of a generation