History of American missions to the heathen, from their commencement to the present time . cessful in thestudy of the language, and of the native character. The public worship ofGod was regularly maintained, and attended by the members of the missionfamilies, and by many of the foreign residents and officers and seameh ofships in port, and by natives, some/of whom could understand a little Eng-lish. Some seamen and foreign residents complained that the preachingwas too severe against sin and sinners, but others approved the preachingand sustained the preachers. Chiefly by their efforts and at
History of American missions to the heathen, from their commencement to the present time . cessful in thestudy of the language, and of the native character. The public worship ofGod was regularly maintained, and attended by the members of the missionfamilies, and by many of the foreign residents and officers and seameh ofships in port, and by natives, some/of whom could understand a little Eng-lish. Some seamen and foreign residents complained that the preachingwas too severe against sin and sinners, but others approved the preachingand sustained the preachers. Chiefly by their efforts and at their expense,a house of worship was erected at Honolulu, 54 feet long and 22 feet wide,calculated to hold 200 hearers. It was dedicated on the 15th of September. On the first arrival of the mission, masters and crews of vessels and for-eign residents all appeared friendly. It has since been ascertained thatsome of them were hostile even then, and that their intrigues caused the de-lay of the king in granting the mission leave to reside on the Islands. But SANDWICH ISLANDS MISSION. 103. Misaloa lloiiae aud Cha|jel at Honolulu, (1332.) in respect to the greater part of them, there is no reason to suppose thattheir friendship was feigned. Some of them were men of good character—friends on Christian principle, or at least, humane friends of civilization andgood morals ; as their subsequent conduct has proved. Others were pleasedwith an addition to the civilized and educated society of the Islands; andthe most abandoned might be pleased to have religion brought within a con-venient distance, so as to be ready when they should need it. That feelingis not uncommon, even in the most profligate. Cain, the first murderer, es-teemed the loss of his religious privileges a very grievous part of hi^ pun-ishment,—exclaiming, And from thy face shall I be hid. But duringthis year, the presence and labors of so many pious persons began to be feltas a restraint upon vicious indulgence, and t
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