Thirty Fifth Annual Report Of The Hawaiian Mission Childrens Society Presented May 15 1887 With The Constitution And By Laws And Full List Of Hono PDF Download

Excerpt from Fifth Annual Report of the Hawaiian Mission Children's Society: Presented May 16, 1857, With the Constitution and by-Laws The method of its introduction marks the first period in their progress. Their language was speedily reduced to writing, their prejudices were sagaciously and success fully overcome, and schools established. The printing press scattered its healing leaves into every village, by every stream and through every valley. Their progress soon advances another step. Not only individual plebeians, but proud and cruel chiefs yielded to the power of the Gospel, encouraged their people to substitute for their heathen temples the churches of the living God, and for their heathen rites and amusements the arts of civilized life. The masses listened; and, so imperative were their demands for Christian teachers, that the benevolence of the American people, prompt and commendable as it was, for years was inadequate to fui nish the needed supply. The third period presents itself In their speedy in civilization. Rapidly did they adopt civilized tion - sthe Christian marriage, the observance of the Sabbath, the establishment of written law based on iaspired legislation. Scarce fifteen years had passed after the introduction of Christianity, ere thousands of pagans were converted, and tens of thousands more had received the advantages of a common school education. Thus were the people prepared for the fourth great step in their progress for appreciating, adopting, enjoy ing and perpetuating a government, the form and desir ableness of which are equaled only by those of England and America. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.