This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866 edition. Excerpt: ...reign. He made a law, called makahmiu, on the death of his father. Great was our rum-drinking, dancing, singing, stealing, adultery and night-carousing at that time. Whole nights were spent in debauchery. Very good were all these things to my mind in those days. But latterly 1 have become acquainted with the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866 edition. Excerpt: ...reign. He made a law, called makahmiu, on the death of his father. Great was our rum-drinking, dancing, singing, stealing, adultery and night-carousing at that time. Whole nights were spent in debauchery. Very good were all these things to my mind in those days. But latterly 1 have become acquainted with the Word of God, and the Law of God, showing a better way than any 1 knew before. Let us bless the name of Jehovah for all his benefits to us and our nation. Blessed is the man who keeps the law of the Lord." In a letter from the young King, at an earlier period, viz., in 1836, he had said---" Love to you, our obliging friends in America. This is our sentiment as to promoting the order and prosperity of these Hawaiian. islands. Give us additional teachers, like the teachers who dwell in your own country." In 1848, the " entire body of missionaries, then numbering twentynine clergymen, all of them liberally educated, and twelve intelligent laymen, bore a united testimony to the favorable contrast between the state of the people at that time, as compared with their state at the commencement of the Mission." I bring down the evidence of these competent witnesses to 1863, as it is given by Dr. Anderson, who says, " I heard all the missionary brethren had to say on the subject during the four months that I remained in the Islands, and I feel assured that multitudes of those whom I had the happiness to address, and take by the hand, how low soever they may stand on the scale of intelligence and social life, are to be numbered with the people of God." "As compared with their own past--which is the proper comparison--they have been greatly elevated." " They were then naked barbarians. Lying, drunkenness, theft, robbery, were universal. So was...
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