dreadful cholera broke out on board that ship, the symptoms of which were too aggravated and too strongly marked to be mistaken. Mr. Moreton, one of the officers, died after an illness of only a few hours; and several of the men were seized nearly at the same time, one of whom died this morning, and the case of two others is considered hopeless. That gallant ship is at once converted into the "valley of the shadow of death," and the bravest hearts tremble like an aspen leaf. Promising Armenian Young Men. The persons who are the subjects of the following paragraphs are those whose case was mentioned at p. 183. Sept. 29. Both of the papal Armenian youth came this evening, as usual, for religious conversation. They have continued to come, one or both of them, almost every night, since they first introduced themselves to my notice. I have commenced reading the New Testament with them in course, commenting on what we read. This is always to me a delightful exercise; and as we proceed in it, may we be assisted by the Spirit of grace; and may our minds be enlightened, and our hearts sanctified, through the truth! I have encouraged the elder of the two to commence a school among the papal Armenians, promising to give him the same assistance which I give my Greek schoolmasters, on condition that he first learn of them the Lancasterian system. He is better qualified to instruct, than most others of his countrymen, having, among other advantages at Venice, enjoyed those of a small philosophical apparatus. These youth have repeatedly informed me, that all our books, printed at Malta in Armeno-Turkish, are among the prohibited ones of their church. Oct. 1. The elder of the two brothers came this evening, and read with me the Scriptures. He told me that he had just come from a barber's shop; and that the barber, one of his own church, but with whom he had previously had but a slight acquaintance, addressed him as follows; "Do you ever read the Bible? I read it every opportunity I can get, and endeavor to understand it. Some parts I understand, and others I do not. I wish I had an Armeno-Turkish Bible. From what I do understand, I perceive that the priests do not walk according to it, and that the church is corrupt.' He said, that his reply to the barber was as follows; "This is not the time or place to say much, as we are so liable to interruption, but I will with much pleasure converse with you on these subjects hereafter." I told him I was much rejoiced at what he had related to me of the barber; and was truly thankful to hear that there were any in the village, who conscientiously read and desired to understand the scriptures of truth. Grock Female Schools-Hailstorm. The conversation of which Mr. Goodell gives an account in the next paragraph took place with some influential Greek families which he visited at Calender and Yeni Keni. I mentioned the importance of their having a female school, in which the young misses should be instructed in reading, writing, grammar, geography, and arithmetic, as well as needle work. Some of them were much pleased with the idea, and said they had previously thought of it themselves; but the two great difficulties were, the want of funds and the want of a suitable instructress. I proffered my assistance, and told them I would endeavor to obtain some person to take charge of such a school. Iplitchy, the head of one of the families, has just succeeded in getting a small school for boys into operation on the Lancasterian system. This we visited, and were told of its need of pecuniary assistance. I saw in it some of our books printed at Malta, and promised to send more of them as a present to the school. The inhabitants are principally Greeks. There are three Greek churches in the village, and children enough for two or three schools; but lest the one I had commenced should seem to interfere with this, or be considered an opposition one, I shall probably think best to remove the instructer to another village. As Oct. 5. At seven this morning was the most dreadful hailstorm I ever before witnessed. The roaring of the storm was heard for fifteen or twenty minutes before it reached us, and was at the time supposed to be the rumbling of distant thunder. it approached, our attention was arrested by the very singular appearance of the Bosphorus. It seemed as if some person was, at intervals, throwing brickbats or paving stones into it from the roofs of the houses. Observing, however, the same appearance at a distance from the shore, I concluded for a moment it must be large fish jumping out of the water. But immediately the whole force of the storm rushed on with awful fury; the stones fell indeed thick as hail; almost every pane of glass that was exposed was broken; the tilings of the houses cut to pieces; and the water came down in streams into our chambers; while the whole surface of the Bosphorus was splashed up into the air in a manner it is impossible to describe. Our rooms were covered with glass, hailstones, and water, and looked like a complete wreck after a terrible battle. Several individuals received serious contusions in their limbs, geese were killed; and the poor dogs ran yelping every way in the streets, wondering who could be pelting them so unmercifully with stones. Some of the hailstones we know 9. My wife spent much of the day in going about among the poor with one of the members of the committee of the Greek Female Society. weighed 130 drachms; and some are report- || ed. Of the remainder, she gave a small ed to have weighed 150 drachms. We our- part to the Greek Female Society, and the selves measured two stones that were five rest she distributed herself. or six inches in circumference; and one of our neighbors, an apothecary, measured one, (of which Dr. Walsh took a drawing,) that was fourteen inches in circumference. The storm lasted near half an hour, though not the whole time with such fury; and the oldest inhabitants, and the greatest travellers amongst us, never saw the like before. 8. Yesterday and to day have been cold, stormy, uncomfortable days, and the rain still continues. The tiling of our house was so much injured by the hailstorm, and the windows so broken, that our rooms are scarcely in a habitable state. The water comes down or through in almost all parts of them, and we have to huddle together like sheep from corner to corner to get a dry place, and we can hardly find a spot to lay our heads at night. The judgments of God have certainly been various and very terrible in this country. "He gave them hail for rain and flaming fire in their land;' cholera and plague "fire and hail, stormy wind fulfilling his word." May the inhabitants learn righteousness! THE arrival of Mr. King at Smyrna, in September, with his labors there during the next three months, were briefly noticed in the extracts from his journal inserted in the last number. January 1, 1832. The monthly concert of prayer was held at my wife's father's. One of the prayers was in Greek and two in English. 3 and 4. I called with my wife on several gentlemen to whom she presented the subject of giving something, if they felt disposed, for distribution amongst the poor, the lame, the halt, the blind, widows and orphans. Most of those on whom we called, contributed very readily, and apparently with a great deal of pleasure. Some even thanked us for calling, and said they were very glad to have such an opportunity of distributing something among the poor. Six gentlemen contributed from eighty to a hundred piastres each. Several others contributed 40 piastres each. In all we collected eleven hundred and seventy-seven piastres and twenty paras. More than one quarter of this we received from those of the Greek rite and the rest from the Franks. 7. A few Frank ladies assembled and formed a society for the relief of the poor and appointed their officers, and the same day my wife gave to this society 500 piastres of the 1177 which she had collect VOL. XXVIII. 18. I went with Mr. Jetter to show him a place, where my wife, when I was visiting with her the poor, remarked that it establish a school. We went to three dif would be an excellent place for him to ferent khans, (as they are called,) which thought there must be about 500 children, are close by each other, and where we almost all poor, and without the means of visited, I addressed several who assembled instruction. In the first khan which we around us, on the importance of schools and of learning the gospel. 23. I called on the new bishop, and the cidevant patriarch of Constantinople, who is now residing here. With the bishop I was much pleased, and conversed with him on various religious subjects, gave him some account of the American Board of Foreign Missions, (about which he made In the evening I translated and expounded in my family the 4th chapter of Deuteronomy. Two or three persons present seemed to be quite convinced that it is a sin to use images in the worship of God. This chapter is a fearful one to all image worshippers. May the Lord God of Israel cause his own word to have effect, and bless my poor and imperfect endeavors to bring this people to the knowledge of the truth and to glorify the great name of the God of Jacob! 29. Sabbath. I addressed the scholars in the school from Romans ii. 6 and 7, at considerable length, and concluded, as usual, with prayer. A Greek priest was 28 present. After the service was finished, I asked him if what I had said was true? and in reply, he gave me his blessing, which was to me the best mode he could have used to say, yes. 30. In the forenoon I attended the examination of Mr. Brewer's Frank school. In the afternoon I visited a Greek school, near the church of St. John. The greater part of the scholars appear to be poor, some of them without shoes. One little boy, while I was there, got up upon a bench, and delivered an address, in which he thanked the friends of his nation, who gave them books to read. Several of the scholars were examined in what they had learned, and at the close of the examination, I addressed them on various subjects. During Mr. King's stay at Smyrna his labors were principally devoted to the Greeks. On the Sabbath he was accustomed to address the scholars in Mr. Brewer's Greek school in the morning, to preach in Greek at the Dutch chapel at 11 o'clock, and to preach in English, or to attend a meeting for religious conference, in the afternoon. On the 6th of February he wrote that he had engaged his passage and expected to embark the next day, on his return to Athens. Noticing the Alphabetarion, an elementary book in the modern Greek language, of which several editions have been published at Malta, and one in this country of 15,000 copies, he remarks, "It is, I think, decidedly the best school book that has been published in Greek, and, so far as I am acquainted, it meets with universal acceptance." With reference to his schools at Athens, which he left under the care of Niketoplos, the teacher, be adds linquish on account of ill health. Mr. Green removed to Hilo, to aid Mr. Goodrich, in the preceding January. Upon the removal of the latter, Mr. Dibble was sent to labor with Mr. Green. The population under the care of this station is large, and the congregations and schools are very numerous. The progress in knowledge and improvement has, however, as will be seen in the following paragraphs, been very much re tarded by a deficiency of labor in superintending the schools, and giving religious instruction to the people, which was unavoidable, while only one family resided at the station. Encouragements and Facilities. Of our encouragements to labor we remark, that "the lines have fallen to us in pleasant places." Though we are removed a great distance from our brethren, and are in a measure deprived of that intercourse with them which to us, strangers and pilgrims, is excee dingly pleasant, still we here enjoy peculiar advantages for the prosecution of our labors. The climate is delightful, much more so than at any other station, unless Waimea be excepted. There is sometimes rather more rain than we should desire, yet the frequent showers bless the springing vegetation so that "our paths drop fatness," and "the little hills rejoice on every side." At no station can tropical fruits be cultivated with so great success as here. Commonly, about 10 o'clock A. M. the sea breeze enters our doors and windows, and continuing till near sunset, greatly mitigates the severity of a tropical sun. This is succeeded by a breeze which seems to have visited the icy region of Mauna-Kea and Mauna-Roa, whose lofty summits are plainly seen from our houses, when not enveloped in clouds. This breeze continues during the night, and is sometimes so strong as to render a fire not undesirable. On the whole we are of the opinion that for the preservation of health, no place on the islands is preferable to this. Another encouragement we have to labor is the extent of the field, and in the number of souls entrusted to our care. By looking on the map of Hawaii you will see the length and breadth of the field which we are called to occupy. Hilo and Puna, two districts of the six into which the island is divided, fall to our share. The exact number of inhabitants has never been ascertained. If Hawaii has 100,000, these two districts have 25,000 or more. Judging from the number enrolled in the schools, we think this is not far from being a correct estimate. More than 7,000 are enrolled as pupils, less probably than one third of the whole population. Wherever we go we can always command respectable and attentive audiences on the Sabbath and on other days. On the Sabbath, we usually, at this place, address more than 4,000 of our dying fellow men, the sight of whom fre Of obstacles to success we may mention the non-residence of chiefs of authority and piety, to discountenance sin, encourage virtue, and by their example and influence to co-operate with us in our work. We sometimes feel that, had we such a chief as Kapiolani, our hands would be greatly strengthened. Still the non-residence of such chiefs we by no means reckon among our most formidable obstacles. Ignorance we regard as one of our formidable obstacles. Of the 20,000 under our pastoral charge, very few can read. This will be obvious when we tell you, that of 7,000 pupils in our schools not more than 2,000 can be classed as readers, or even know their letters. But these we believe to be nearly all the readers in these districts; of course eighteen-twentieths of the people are unable to read the book of God. We freely admit that all, or nearly all, may be in some measure benefitted by means of the few who can read, yet we have less strong expectation of these, than of the 2,000 who have in their hands and who are able to read the volume which God has given to make wise to salvation. We look upon them with great compassion as wearing bonds which prevent them from walking in the light and liberty of the Gospel. mate, on the sea-shore, and having a fruitful soil, their wants are fewer than those of many other countries. From the nature of their government, most of the inducements which prompt others to be industrious, have here no existence. The people of Hilo are proverbially indolent. Yet indolence here, as in other lands, is the fruitful source of evil. In this respect, however, we believe, the people are reforming, and we expect that they will become industrious in proportion as they become intelligent. We have to deal with men who, with us, are "the degenerate plants of a strange vine." We have less of open vice to encounter than our brethren at home, yet we need the same almighty Spirit to subdue the heart and lead to the cross of Christ. There are few open contemners of the gospel, yet we fear there is much hypocrisy among the people and not a little wickedness committed in secret. The Christian religion is popular on these islands; the high chiefs lend their influence to aid the cause of Christ-they lead the way and the people follow. But let the tide of popular favor turn against us, and we believe thousands would eagerly return to their lying vanities; and here would stand up an exceeding great army to avenge the destruction of their fallen gods! We deem it, therefore, of the highest importance to do what we can to elevate this people and save them from so fearful an apostacy. Now is the time, we believe, to ply instruction to the full extent of our power, while we beseech God to help and to shed upon us the dews of the Holy Spirit until we shall be drenched in those influences which shall cause this moral desert to assume as lovely an aspect as its natural scenery now presents. Course of Labors. We will now speak of the means which we are employing to effect so desirable a change. To begin with the Sabbath, we remark that we have changed the hours for conas to afford ducting public worship, so opportunity for those who cannot read to receive instruction. Formerly the exercises on the Sabbath closed by noon or before, and the people spent the remainder of the day in lounging and sleep. Now, after the morning service which closes about half past 10 o'clock, we have a Sabbath school of nearly an hour. A short in The small number of readers, and the super-termission succeeds, which is followed by ficial and unprofitable manner in which the schools have been taught, are owing to the fact that Mr. Goodrich was not permitted by his other labors adequately to superintend them. Intimately connected with the ignorance of the people is their indolence. This, as you well know, is a striking characteristic of the islanders. Living in a tropical cli a school embracing a large number of both sexes. This we superintend. At 1 o'clock the second service commences, and at 4 o'clock is the meeting of the Bible class, which we make a kind of popular lecture, and which we believe is as profitable as either of the exercises of the day. The people by this arrangement have very little time for sleep. We bless God for this day, and hope by instructing the ignorant to make it a blessing to the benighted inhabitants of Hilo. After describing with minuteness the course which they pursue to induce the people to attend to the instructions of the Sabbath and to treasure them up in their memories, together with the exercises on Friday evening, the missionaries proceed to be accomplished, before the people of the islands, as a body, will have become enlightened, pious and civilized. The missionaries, residing in the midst of the islanders, cannot help perceiving and feeling this; and it is of great importance that the churches, whose messengers and agents they are, should feel it too. The leading object in most of the following extracts is to mention some of the obstacles to be surmounted, before the natives of the Sandwich islands will become a virtuous and happy people. Difficulty of introducing Purity of Morals among a barbarous people. We have only two other meetings with the people during the week. I mean extra meetings. As at other stations we have a lecture on Wednesday and observe the monthly concert. On Saturday we meet those who are propounded for admission to the church and instruct them in the doctrines of the gospel. We have also a You will doubtless have heard, ere this meeting of sixty or seventy who we hope reaches you, that governor Adams (Kuaare seeking the one thing needful to in-kini) has been removed from this island to struct them into the meaning of the oracles of God. Mr. Dibble has a school of teachers whom he meets daily. Most of these teachers have schools which they instruct three days in the week. We have gathered a large school of children who are superintended by our ladies, who have also a very large school for singing, two evenings each week. These labors, with constant attention to those who call, fill up our time and exhaust our daily strength. But we labor cheerfully and with strong hope that these labors will not be in vain in the Lord. EXTRACTS FROM A JOINT LETTER OF MESSRS. THURSTON AND BISHOP, DATED AT KAILUA, Oct. 15, 1831. THE missionaries at the Sandwich Islands have been sedulously employed from the time of their arrival, in raising the inhabitants from the state of extreme degradation in which they found them; and the greater part of their correspond ence has been taken up with an account of their labors and successes. Nor do they appear to have been guilty of exaggeration. The narratives they have from time to time transmitted to this country for the information of their patrons, have been faithful representations, and as such they have been received by the friends of missions, who have been led thereby to admire and adore the grace of God which has so signally attended that mission. The missionaries have felt, however, that there was danger, lest many patrons of the cause, having never witnessed the entire debasement of savage life, should imperceptibly imbibe the impression, that so much had been effected at the Sandwich islands, as to leave but little more to be done. Some recent communications have therefore been specially designed to guard against this evil. It is true, that much has been effected; but it is also true, that far more remains take the direction of affairs at Oahu. Naihe is our present governor. We are left at Kailua without the presence of any distinguished chief. Though we regret the loss of an efficient ruler so soon after he had begun to rule in the fear of God, yet we rejoice that Oahu has at length gotten a governor who has put a stop to some of the irregularities so long practised there with impunity. The principal inconvenience we have felt on his removal, is the absence of some efficient helpers among the natives, who, being attached to him as his people, have gone thither with him. Inquirers still continue to call on us for religious instruction to the number of 200 or 300 weekly. Many of them appear to be truly serious, and we hope that most of them are sincere; though, were we to judge from the past, we should say we have our fears lest some of them are deceiving themselves and us. The power of sympathy leads many to profess a change in their minds, which appears in the end to be only many hold on and seem to run well, there the effect of temporary concern. Though are others who, after a season of trial, go back, and others still continue the deception until detected in crime. Doubtless with many of this people it is ignorance of themselves, and a certain dullness of perception, that induces them to suppose themselves religious, when totally ignorant of the nature of true religion. "Behold he prayeth," is with you a token that a man is diligently seeking the salvation of his soul: but here there is scarcely a family where morning and evening prayers are not rerularly offered, and yet we have no hope that the majority of fainilies live under any fear of God, or regard for their souls. We cannot, therefore, judge of this people from any standards taken from the habits of a civilized country. They probably at first are sincontinue for a long time, until they think it cere but ignorant, and in this way they disreputable openly to turn back, and so at last they resort to direct deception to keep up the appearance until detected. This |