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TATE A PROFESSOR IN THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND. |
©... Lo, the sad midnig! t watch has just crept cn,
And mourners with their wildly stricken hearts,
.. Kneel round their dead. ‘Phe taper's fitful light,
. A trembling shadow flings athwart the bier,
And quivers on the still fulds of the shroud *
“As if the quick breath, of a sleeper stirred "
°° Beneath—But all was still; the pallid hue
Of death, had settled on his solema brow ;
And dimmed for age, the loving eyes, and Pressed -
“Its marble tint, upon his gentle lips;
’” And all, that looked like life, w he dark hair,
Which Jay in glossy waves on his white brow,
()* Asit was wont, when the blue veins beneath, be
: ‘Throbbed with each peaceful breath! ‘
*« And there he slept!
~ 0 While burning teare, and wildly uttered prayer:
i) «oc Would fain have called that noble spirit back, .~.;
‘ty. <, With all its generous truth, and impulse high, .-!
‘To light the temple, which its vig'rous wings «; | é
: v)da their wild efforts, to be freed from earth, © © 9:1
&t iad made a shattered ruin for the dusty © =...
And its deeay, and man’s forgetfulaces, jar
Gone forever! +.
"From life's anguish, and its dreaming,
From its fitful scenes of dread;
From its noontide o’er him gleaming,
ione—to slumber with the dead. ‘
"From the friends, whose love caressed him
> And the lonely household hearth,
Tears no more the sounds that blessed him,
“2 @Mid its gentle similes of mirth!
Gone forever !
Allis hushed amid their weeping,
‘Biter tears their heartstrings burn, _
Be tt "lighted hopes, are coldly sleeping *. wed
=f used 6. On his bosom’s silent u *s
7 ‘Stiicken down amid life's ory,
Ere his spirit claimed its height; _,
~ Hidden from Fame’s gorgeous story
© By the shadow of death's night!
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its undying hate, «> area d
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When tireir souls were desolate., 2
| May their prayers to God ascending,
With ihe friendless orphans cry,
_ Go, like angel guards attend’ *
Yo his far eternity
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er sil " Leteach’ heart that knew, dentine him—'
Soon the earth receives her truct,
Oh gently, let its breath pass o'er him, ~
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y ‘The weary hours of night paswed on, and stare;
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y And soon the streets were thronged, with busy men
11)" And sounds of mirth, and words of careless glee,
» Which fell upon the hearts of those, who watched ...0
Beside their dead, like bitter waters, om jay
A festering wound!
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Battiou ore, Feb 25, 1841, AS
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THE CAT our OF THE BAG!
We have often called attention to the conduct, of the f0-
called Missionaries in the. Sandwich Islands, concerning
whose misdeeds all travellers, not connected with the hum-
bug, called the ‘missionary enterprize,’ have long since borne
unsuspicious testimony. . Our readers tqust also remember
the persecution which the French Catholic Missionaries un-
derwent, a few years since, in the Island of Captain Cooke;
so that on one occasion, they were indebted for the preserva-
| | tion of their lives to. the protection afforded them by the
American consul. This persecution was the work of North
American Missionaries, whose conduct was strongly and re-
peatedly rebuked by the Protestant Editor of the Sandwich
Island Gazette. The insult offered to French citizens was
promptly chastised by the interference of that nation; and
permission for Catholic Missionaries to go there, was, we
believe, one of the articles of the treaty of satisfaction by
which these differences were at length concluded, . Since
then ‘the. real Missionaries, of the Gospel have been la-
bouring with great success in this interesting portion of
‘| Oceanica; and we have lately seen the’ notice of the: cere-
mony of laying the foundation of a Catholic Church, in one
of the Islands that form this group. Meanwhile the Pres-
. byterian Missionary. bubble has burst ; and the total failure
of what was, a few years since, extolled with all the extra-
vagance of hyperbolic praise, is now publicly acknowledged
i] in the following article, from the editorial columns of the
Presbyterian of the 18th of last month.
“Sanpwicu IstAnps.—A letter published in the last
number of the Boston Recorder, from Rev. J.S. Green,
dated Wailulu, Maui, July 18, 1840, contains a melan-
choly account of the state of religion in the Sandwich
Islands. The writer evidently puts the best construc-
.| tion on things, and yet he reveals enough to prove. to
our mind that there has been radical mismanagement,
particularly in the late revival in those islands, of which
the most enthusiastic descriptions . were . published
. _\throughout the United States. We then entertained an
- apprehension, which is now most painfully realized,
that the missionaries had fallen into culpable indiscre-
tions, in promoting the excitement, and in making pub-
lie their glowing accounts of its results.” The acknow-
ledgementis now male by one of the chief actors, which
we trust will operateas a future caution, not only on mise
sionaries, but on the friends of missionary institwions,
who are influenced more by sight than faith, and who
seem almostto create a necessity for such measures by
their morbid eagerness to hear some great things. We
cannot fail to see that among the natives of , the isles,
new measures, which are unser ptural measures, >have
: produced the same withering effect, which has so sadly
marred the cause of Christ in this country, ‘We have
not room for the letter, but'a reference to a few. of its
statements will show how the glory of that church has
become clouded.’
Mr. Green acknowledges great defections among the
converts, and predicts more. While he states that,
with few exceptions, discipline has not been more ne-
cessary with their churches, than the churches of New
England, yet the facts scarcely justify the comparison.
He speaks of the ‘astounding statistics’ of one church,
and accounts for them on the ground of the ¢ rapidity | »
with which members had been received.’ Here is one
«| great source of the defections indicated—hasty, i indis-
creet admissions to sealing ordinances, or a lust for
numbers. Not only have there been great defections,
but the writer ‘begs the readers of the Recorder, to be
prepared to hear of greater defections.’ Surely so me-
‘|lancholy a warning “would not have been given, had not
the writer known more than he reveals. ‘
“He characterizes the people, including the converts,
i} as incurably indolent: * we cannot induce the great
mass of the members of our churches to labour !? ; What,
professing Christians in good standing in the Church,
who refuse to follow salutary instructions in relation to
one of the most obvious duties, we mean industry !
Surely there must be some radical defect in this mass.
Again: ‘I wish it to be distinetly known ini the United
_| States, that now after twenty poe of missionary la:
-| bour have been expended, and the Spirit of. God! has
been shed dwn upon us, and many thousands have
united with the Charch, even now, the dress of multi-
tudes in the house of God is so shamefully indecorous,
that we run a fearful risk in allowing our children, par-
ticularly our daugtiters, to entera place of worship.
Perhaps I shall sufficiently illustrate my meaning by
saying, that I rejoiced the other day, to lead’ my litte
daughter into the seamen’s chapel at Lahaina, for
though there were men: of various colours and lan-
guages, yet they entered the house of .God having on
*pantaloons,”’
Is it of Christians he speaks ? we cannot believe i it;
true Christianity would have taught them better,
Tn alluding. to the increase of intemperance, Mr.
Green says: “s:Tntemperanee too, that scourge of this
poor world, is greatly increasing, and will “doubtless
greatly increase till thousands and thousands find a
drunkard’s grave.. Is it strange that some of whom we
had hoped better things, are already ensnared and ta-
ken ? And may we not expect that others will follow
in their turn 2?”
» Although the writer protests against these facts being
regarded as evidences of the spuriousness of: the revi-
val, yethe candidly makes these acknowledgments :
ome’ of the work is most obviously ours. For it
we ought to be ashamed, . For all the haste, undue
haste—in admitting 10 the fellowship of the church,
men and women, who have foryears manifested adeep’
solicitude to gain admission, and who, if we do notre-:
ceive them, will soon join the Catholics—we are. re-
sponsible, not God ;.who in setting us as watchmen
over his flock. at the Sandwich Islands, expected that
we should exercise sound discretion in saving the flock
from the admixture of goats. ..For raising in any case,
a torrent of excitement, or favouring the praying of
hundreds and thousands at once, and at the top of their
voices, as I am grieved to hear has been done «in’ one
or two sections of the islands, we are responsible, not
God, (1! 1) who is, -* not the God of confusion, butof
order, as in all the churches.’ :' The good Lord pardon
us our ignorance—our strong heady .temper—our ma-
peuvering—all our mistakes, and save his people for
Tlis own name’s sake. : [do believe that a desire to
advance the glory of God has indeed been the govern-
ing motives of all my brethren—still I have no apology
to make for my brethren, where they have been hasty
or heady,’... (‘This lay word is a Tile ambiguous.—
Ep. Jerr.) an
‘This we regard as adark page in the ‘history of the
Sandwich Islands, and we refer toit, not, as the Searcher
of hearts knows,(!) in hostility. to the excellent institu-
tion which has sent its missionaries to these isles, orin
disbelief of the genuineness of all revivals, but to warn
the Boston Board and every other Board of Missions, to
use the most prayerful caution in the selection of the
missionaries. -. In relation to this ‘particular case, the
indiscreet and injudicious ministers complained of by
Mr Green, and who have done, 2s we think, ‘an irre-
parable injury to the cause of Christ in the Sandwich
Islands, should be immediately recalled as unfilted for
their stations, ‘The moral influence of such a measure
would inspire the Church with new confidence in this
institution, Wethink also the facts above stated, should
operate as a caution iu withholding from the public
glowing accounts of. missionary success, until it had
been subjected to the test of time.
.. The reaction in such cases, is ‘to be dreaded, and
we shall not now be surprised to hear that the. many
who have renounced their hasty profession in the Sand-
wich Islands, have gone over in a body to the. Roman
Catholics. - One spurious revival will advance Popery
there, more than half adozen French frigates.”’
| Weeaneasily pardon the i insinuation about the “halta do-
zen French frigates,’ a8 we presume this is the only material
violation of truth i in the whole article, which,” ‘considering
the source whence we have takenit, iscertainly a thing not
so much to be deplored as s wondered at. —But would ii itnot be
well for all those whose purses are 80 constantly, ‘prayer
fully,’ and emphatically, appealed to, to weigh well, wheth-
er they are not the dupes of men, of whose judgment or bins
cerity; they must now at least have so unfavourable an esti-
mate? Of all the humbugs in this age of humbug—and if
we ever write a Church History, we shall, ‘after the manner
of Cave, call'it’ Seculunr umbugeianum,* the Missionary
humbug 3s the most magnificent that has yet appeared