coming together of so many into one place professedly for worship, all that might be said or done would not harmonize with our ideas of refinement and culture. Still, with all the imperfections cleaving to them, the congregation have had but one faith, one baptism; a general unity has marked their services, from that attended by Her Majesty the Queen in the Palace, down to the assembly of poor, dirty, half-clad natives in some outlying far-off district. And now, after a service of more than fifty years, when the London Society has given this people a language, nurtured and cared for them through a long and bitter persecution, has been honored of God in the removal of an effete heathenism from the Hova dominions, is supplying them with ministers, teachers, and a literature, and has provided sufficient accommodation for worshippers, these people, whom God has given that Society as seals to its ministry, I say it with deep regret, these people are to be disturbed with the controversies which trouble the Protestants of the Western world are to be initiated or instructed in doctrines they cannot understand.

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"I have been led to pen these remarks by the fact that the 'Society for the Propagation of the Gospel' has thought it wise and honorable to infringe on the general principles which have hitherto regulated missionary societies in their efforts to convert the world to Christ, and to place one of their missionaries in this capital city. True, their mission on the coast has not been a very successful one, probably because of the Ritualism practiced, and the frequent absence, on account of health and other causes, of the resident missionary. This may, in some measure, account for their seeking to plant Ritualism in the capital. A temporary building has been erected, and on Saturday, December 7, it was opened for worship. It is not surprising so small a place should have been filled at the dedication service. The surprise is this, that a great society should consider it worthy of itself to be so eager for the converts, or to interfere with the labors of another old, established, successful mission, in this little central province of Imerina, when there are whole tribes

in this island without a Christian teacher; while in India, China, Africa, and other parts of the world, hundreds of thousands continue wrapt in idolatry and superstition, to most of whom God in his providence has opened a wide and effectual door, and given free access to the missionary of the Cross.

"We are told proselytism is not the object sought. Why, then, come where sufficient accommodation and a ministry is provided for those who are willing to attend worship? Why, then, try to influence those known to belong to another communion? What means the following extract from the opening sermon, as reported by the natives?—It is as if three persons presented themselves to your sovereign; the one having so many adornments, so much lace, so many jewels, and being withal so bombastic as to set himself above the sovereign; the second being unclothed, and consequently disgusting the sovereign; the last having just what is comely and proper to secure acceptance with the sovereign. The first,' said the preacher, 'represents the Roman Catholics; the second, the London Mission; and the last, ourselves. We have just what is right and proper to secure acceptance with God.' I do not vouch for the entire accuracy of this quotation; it is in the main correct."

THE SANDWICH ISLANDS. [From the Boston Daily Advertiser.] MR. CHARLES NORDHOFF's paper on the Sandwich Islands, in "Harper's Monthly" for August, presents a clear view of the astonishing changes that have been wrought in the character of the inhabitants within the life-time of persons living. It was in 1820 that the first missionaries landed there. The people were then savages, living in nakedness, misery, and ignorance. Thirty-three years afterwards the American Board ceased giving aid to the churches there,1 on the ground that the islands were christianized. The sum expended for the accomplishment of

1 This statement is not quite correct. -ED. MISSIONARY HERALD.

this work by the American churches, was $903,000. Now the Islands not only support their own churches, but support an independent missionary organization which sends out missionaries to the other islands of the Pacific, and translates the gospel into the language of other Poylnesian tribes. There is reason to believe, Mr. Nordhoff says, that the natives of these islands are to-day the most generally educated people in the world. Those who cannot read and write are a very small percentage of the whole. In all the towns, and many of the country localities, there are substantial church buildings of stone or wood. Education is compulsory, the schools being handsomely supported by a special tax of two dollars on every voter, besides an appropriation from the revenues of general taxation. The Hawaiians are not unmindful of their debt to the United States, and in many ways testify their profound gratitude for the service done them. Conspicuously, during the war, was their feeling shown, and the people are as well acquainted with its course and incidents as the average American. The Islands furnished to the Union army a brigadier-general and major, besides several line officers and over a hundred private soldiers, and they contributed to the funds of the sanitary commission a sum exceeding the amount given by any one of a majority of our own States. Some of these facts have been often published, and perhaps as often forgotten; but when the matter is seriously considered, the wonderful conversion and civili. zation of this nation will not fail to be acknowledged as one of the marvels of this century of progress.

SUNDAY-SCHOOLS AND FOREIGN MISSIONS.

[From the Sunday-school World.]

IT was recently stated by George H. Stuart, in a public address, that eleven foreign missionaries had gone forth from the Sunday-school of the First Reformed Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia. A. W. Corey, who has been in the missionary work of the American Sunday School Union for over forty years, has

observed its close connection with the foreign missionary work, and says he is persuaded that if the world is ever to be converted we must raise up an army of missionaries in our Sunday-schools, which is a strong argument for employing Sunday-school missionaries to gather all the children into them. He is personally conversant with several cases of foreign missionaries who were converted in Sundayschools, and there first led to consecrate their lives to their present work. Among these are a missionary to China, one to the Pawnee Indians, one to Africa, and one who has been for many years a missionary in Syria, whose feet have stood on Mount Zion, and who has taught a mission-school on Mount Lebanon, and has preached on the ruins of Nineveh. More than forty years ago he came, a little boy without shoes or coat, wearied by a walk of four miles, into a small school organized by a missionary of the American Sunday School Union on an Illinois prairie, and was there converted, and conceived the idea of preaching the gospel.

Do superintendents and teachers sufficiently urge upon the hearts of their scholars the claims of the kingdom of Christ, and of a world lying in wickedness and moral ruin?

MOTHERS OF MISSIONARIES.

A MISSIONARY of the Board in Western India writes (July, 1873): "My dear mother passed away to the heavenly home in April. Mr. Howland, of Ceylon, had an aged mother in C. who died two years ago. After her death my mother wrote me, that they had had, for a long time, a concert of prayer daily, at two o'clock, P. M., for their missionary children. They were both aged and infirm, lived two miles apart, and seldom saw each other, but there was a true concert of prayer every day. After Mrs. Howland's death, mother wrote, 'I feel lonely now as the hour of two comes round.' My mother had long been in feeble health, and in her lonely room she was able to do but very little except to read and knit, often doing both at the same time; and the avails of

her knitting have, for many years, gone chiefly to the American Board. She said it was a pleasure to earn something herself for the good cause. The amount could not have been large, and did not I presume very much increase the sum total contributed in C., but according to the Master's reckoning, I doubt not they were put down among the larger contributions."

BENEVOLENCE AT THE SANDWICH ISLANDS.

THE last Report of the Hawaiian Board gives as contributions from the churches for the year: "For foreign missions (including about $453 from Micronesia), $5,792.63; home missions, $78.90; for Theological Seminary (from foreigners, $1,007, natives, $1,597.47), $2,604.47; Incidental Fund, $2,273.73; total, $10,849,73."

"There is not one church," it is said, "that has not contributed something; and it must not be forgotten that the above sum is only a part of what has been given by these churches. If what has been raised for pastors' salaries, building churches, supporting Sabbath-schools, aiding the poor, and various other purposes be added, the whole amount for the year would exceed $30,000."

GLEANINGS.

THE Roman Catholic Association, for the Propagation of the Faith, reports its income from different countries for the year 1872, as follows: "From dioceses of France, 3,660,195f. 7c.; Alsace and Lorraine, 186,947f. 61c.; Germany, 353,448f. 20c.; Belgium, 348,603f. 22c.; Spain, 31,081f. 70c.; British Isles, 137,934f. 13c.; Italy, 845,763f. 9c.; Levant, 32,797f. 23c.; Netherlands, 97,239f. 61c.; Portugal, 41, 784f. 28c.; Russia and Poland, 1,024f. 53c.; Switzerland, 54,215f. 58c.; different countries of the North, 600f.; different dioceses of Asia, 12,859f. 58c.; different dioceses of Africa, 27,940. 25c.; dioceses of North America, 201,418f. 38c.; dioceses of South America, 63,028f. 69c.; different dioceses of Oceanica, 5,764f. Total for the year 1872, 5,602,645f. 15c." About $1,120,529.

The Directors of the London Missionary Society have sent their Secretary, Rev. Dr. Mullens, and Rev. John Pillans, a member of the Board, as a Deputation to visit the important mission field in Madagascar. The Deputation left Lon

don, on the way to Madagascar, July 2.

There are now in Japan, as stated by Dr. Hepburn, about 30 Protestant missionaries 7 Presbyterian; 4 Dutch Reformed; 5 Congregational; 4 American Episcopal; 2 Baptist; 2 English Episcopal; 2 American Methodist ; and

four ladies connected with the Woman's

Union Missionary Society.

Japan is not open for the residence of missionaries, or of other foreigners, except at the seven open ports.

The Directors of the Japanese College have forbidden the teaching of moral science, because that teaches Christianity. They have also given public notice that

none of the students can attend service on

the Sabbath, or visit the missionaries. An

edict has also gone forth from the Government, prohibiting the further employ

ment of missionaries as teachers.

The edict proclaiming the Sabbath as a day of rest in Japan, says a missionthe announcement that foreigners might ary, was soon entirely discarded. And

reside in the interior was with a condition to which no foreigner is willing to submit - that they should be under Japanese laws.

There is but one native Protestant church in Japan, at Yokohama, with thirty members. Among the native Christians there are said to be several highly intelligent men, of deep and earnest piety, who pray and labor for the evangelization of the people.

The Shah of Persia was memorialized, when in England, by the British and Foreign Bible Society, in behalf of Nestorian and Armenian Christians, and Jews, in his dominions that they might be protected in the enjoyment of religious freedom. In reply he stated, by his secretary, that, "Persecution in Persia on religious grounds is unknown. Complete toleration exists throughout the country, and His Majesty is equally solicitous for the welfare of all his subjects"!!

DEPARTURES.

FROM New York, for Liverpool, August 27, Rev. E. W. Jenney, and Mrs. Kate M. (Thrall) Jenney, of Galesburg, Illinois, on the way to the European Turkey mission; Rev. A. W. Hubbard, of Cameron, N. Y., and Mrs. Emma R. (Spencer) Hubbard, of Corning, N. Y., for the Western Turkey mission; and Miss Corrinna Shattuck, from Framingham, Mass., for the Central Turkey mis

sion.

DEATHS.

Ar Newark, N. J., May 18, Mrs. Matilda S. Whiting, widow of Rev. George B. Whiting, formerly of the Syria mission (who died in Syria, in 1855). "After a severe and trying sickness of four weeks, she passed quietly and peacefully away, trusting, as she had for many years trusted, in her Saviour."

At Lincoln, Nebraska, August 31, after an illness of two weeks, Mrs. Susan R. Little, wife of Rev. Charles Little, for merly of the Madura Mission, India.

At Honolulu, Sandwich Islands, July 12, "suddenly, while sitting in his chair," Dr. G. P. Judd, aged 70. The "Hawaiian Gazette" says of him: "Dr. Judd was born at Paris, N. Y., April 23, 1803. He came out under the appointment of physician to the American mission, arriving

here with the second reinforcement of mis

sionaries, in March, 1828. In 1842, he resigned his connection with the mission,

and at the invitation of Kamehameha III.

accepted the position of recorder and interpreter to the Government, an office the King. When Lord George Paulet somewhat similar to that of Secretary to took possession of the Islands, in 1843, Dr. Judd was appointed one of the Joint Commission, to represent the king; but soon resigned the office when he found the Commission bent on abrogating the salutary laws restraining licentiousness and crime, which had lately been established. When Admiral Thomas restored the sov

ereignty to Kamehameha III., July 31,1843, Dr. Judd was invited by the king to organize a Ministry, which he did by selecting R. C. Wyllie to be Minister of Foreign Affairs, himself Minister of the Interior, and John Ricord, Attorney-General. This was the first Cabinet the Hawaiian Government ever had. In the following year, 1844 or 1845, the Cabinet was increased to four Ministers, and he took the portfolio of the Finance Department, which he held till 1853. In 1849, he accompanied the then Princes Liholiho and Lot to Europe, to make new treaties, and endeavor to settle the difficulty which occurred with France in that year. The ten years during which he held office were probably the stormiest decade in the modern political history of Hawaii, and it required a man of the firmness of Dr. Judd to steer the frail ship of state which had been launched on a stormy sea. To his tact and wisdom, aided by his associates, Wyllie, Richards, Ricord, Lee, and Andrews, are the Hawaiian people indebted for the admirable system of constitutional government then established, and which has secured peace and quiet for over thirty years. When he entered the service of the king and organized for him a government, he found him incumbered with a load of debt, paying exorbitant interest. By a system of prudent economy and rigid circumspection, he paid off these debts, and established for the Hawaiian Government an enviable financial reputation, which it has preserved to this day. To him, more than to any other man, living or dead, belongs whatever honor is due for our present national credit, as well as for many of the substantial improvements

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