Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 173, 26 Iulai 1894 — Sad But True. [ARTICLE]

Sad But True.

ProtesUnt an«l Oaiholio missions in Polynesia are compared Uiua significanUy by Mr. Bryan J. Olinehe in the Americnn Catko~ lie (JuarieHy Revi*M>: — Tbe Gambier Ialandsand Wailis- aud FuUna iu the South P»cific are a strikiag contrast toduy with HawaiL In the first uamed groap the coudition of afiairs,when Oaiholie muaionanee ltnded Uiere, at tbe veiy time

! wheu their colleagoos were forbidden to onter Hawaii, waa I aliuost i<lenticHlly the samo as in 1 tb«* kingdom cf Kamehameha. ;The race was tl«e s;irae. with ; | similar laugnage. institutions. aud sn|*erstitions. Uuder ibe t*;iv «>f tue C»tholic Chnrch the I n«tive populaiiou has -aiemlihM in nural»er8 and in maten h< prosperitv, and ai Ihe prasent ■ moraent they forro the onlv ! brnncl: of the Polyn>*sian «-aee i whieh ean be f«irly aaīd t > live ; j nnd tlirive. Xo briefty sum up the results iof tbe Protestant raissions in Hawaii. it ean be said that, get : i tiug pr«otical control. both intellectual and political,of a heakhen r »ce seeking for religious iustruclion. tbey bave onlv sucoee4yd . in bnilding np a wea1thy colony ;cf a few Jiundred planters anil < ' raerchants in the islands they proffs»ed to evangelise. The population who.se conversation was their uoininal object bas welcomed thera, and in two gen- i erations it has all but perislie<l