History of the Sandwich Islands: With An Account of the American Mission Established There in 1820
History of the Sandwich Islands: With An Account of the American Mission Established There in 1820
American Sunday School Union
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Two thousand copies of a Hymn Book had been distributed, and six thousand elementary sheets of a Spelling Book. The people were calling for books, slates, and above all, for the word of God. So flourishing were the schools, that at the beginning of the year 1825, not much short of three thousand individuals, of both sexes, and all ages and ranks, were receiving regu« lar instruction. What a change was this, to be efiected by so small a band of Christians, in the short space of four years ! With... regaid to the advantages derived from the sanctuary, a custom prevails at the islands, which might be imitated, with profit, else- where. I refer to the practice, among the hearers, of questioning each other as to the sentiments advanced in the discourses. There may be special reasons why this custoin should SANDWICH ISLANDS. 187 prevail among a people just emerging from heathenism, but it is even found useful in congregations more enlightened. The ques- tions thus asked by the natives conc^ning the topics of a sermon, were frequently at- tended to by the missionaries themselves, or by their wives, as a very easy way of doing good.
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