The Hawaiian Archipelago - Six Months Among The Palm Groves, Coral Reefs, And Volcanoes Of The Sandwich Islands By Isabella L. Bird
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I Venture To Think That The Board Has Been Premature In Transferring
The Islands To A Native Pastorate At Such A Very Early Stage Of
Their Christianity.
Such a pastorate must be too feeble to uphold a
robust Christian standard.
As an adjunct it would be essential to
the stability of native Christianity, but it is not possible that it
can be trusted as the sole depository of doctrine and discipline,
and even were it all it ought to be, it would lack the power to
repress the lax morality which is ruining the nation. Probably each
year will render the overhaste of this course more apparent, and it
is likely that some other mode of upholding pure Christianity will
have to be adopted, when the venerable men who now sustain and guide
the native pastors by their influence shall have been gathered to
their rest.
I.L.B.
LETTER XXIII.
LIHUE. KAUAI, April 17.
Before leaving Kauai I must tell you of a solitary expedition I have
just made to the lovely valley of Hanalei. It was only a three days
"frolic," but an essentially "good time." Mr. Rice provided me with
a horse and a very pleasing native guide. I did not leave till two
in the afternoon, as I only intended to ride fifteen miles, and, as
the custom is, ask for a night's lodging at a settler's house.
However, as I drew near Mr. B.'s ranch, I felt my false courage
oozing out of the tips of my fingers, and as I rode up to the door,
certain obnoxious colonial words, such as "sundowners," and
"bummers," occurred to me, and I felt myself a "sundowner" when the
host came out and asked me to dismount.
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