with whom we labor. The pestilence that walketh in darkness, and the destruction that wasteth at noon-day, have not entered our houses to carry away the fathers and mothers, the sons and daughters of the land by hundreds, as they did last year." Deaths however have occurred, and they have mourned the loss of one young man of promise, just from the Hilo school, who they had hoped might be a blessing to the people. The same is true of boards and timber been one of quietness and peace to the people if not kept dry. Of course this work requires a continuous struggle, ending only when we rest from all our labors. We have, through the generosity of seamen and foreign residents, completed a neat and convenient little bethel, with a reading-room for the sons of the deep. In this we have English services on the Sabbath during a large part of the year. We are also often cheered with evidence that the bread cast upon the waters is not lost. Schools-Papists-The Church. be The common schools, Mr. Coan says, "are all in operation, and are in usual prosperity. The qualifications of the teachers are gradually rising. Pay is becoming better and more sure, schoolhouses are improving, and books are better paid for and better appreciated." The number of scholars however is less than heretofore, partly because of diminished population, and partly cause, at the age of sixteen, all are required to labor for the school fund; so that the larger boys and girls leave the schools. The Catholic schools in this field are spoken of as almost ex"Their meetings also are thinly attended, and their cause seems dragging out a dying existence, without one vivifying influence." There are, however, two French priests on the ground. tinct. Our people have had abundance of the good things of this world and to spare. Many vessels from California have carried this surplus from our beautiful bay to a land which, though it may be filled with gold, is yet dependent on this land for many of those things which make living even tolerable in that Eldorado. One such vessel has perhaps circulated more money among the people than all the whale ships which have been in port during the season. Formerly cloth was our circulating medium, now the people must have silver. If this cannot be had of whale ships, or of foreigners residing here, they know where it can be had, and to that market they carry their produce. Whether this change will be for the better or otherwise, is yet to be seen. Religious Condition—Meetings. The church has been peaceful and We have not the pleasure of reportprosperous during the past year. Cases ing any special manifestations of God's of discipline have been comparatively Spirit among us the past year; although few. Meetings have been well attended, there have been persons in all parts of native helpers have stood at their posts, the field who have been professing to and there have been reviving influences seek the one thing needful. As many at different points in the field. More or less inquirers have always been on the list, and numbers have, as we trust, been turned to the Lord. Still we ought to mourn over too much coldness in our selves and people. Public worship has been well attended throughout Hilo and Puna. A large proportion of the people attend divine service when the weather is favorable; but we have far less of the Holy Spirit's power in our hearts than we should have. The benevolent efforts of the church have not diminished the past year. You will see that their contributions for the gospel's sake exceed those of former years. I think also that they give more cheerfully and intelligently. These are the great points aimed at in teaching them benevolence. Kealakekua. as twenty or thirty have sought the pastor on one day, to converse with him in regard to their soul's salvation. There have not however been found among them many who have had a realizing sense of their own dreadful depravity by nature, and of their lost and undone condition without an almighty Savior. These doctrines they will all assent to with their lips, but by their works they manifestly show that they do not feel them in their hearts. The labors of the missionary for the year had been much the same as heretofore. He had preached every other Sabbath at one of the seven preaching places in the field away from the station, and every other Sabbath at the station. My meeting on Thursday of each week, with the officers of the church, has been continued this year, and with MR. POGUE's report is for the year ending quite as much if not more interest than March 31st, 1850. The year, he says, "has the last year. We have almost finished "Alexander's Theology." Many of the in the school on the Sabbath. The exercises connected with these schools have been, reciting the "ai o ka la," or "Daily Food," which as a general thing they have all committed to memory the week preceding, reciting hymns, and anMrs. Pogue's meetings with the women of the swering the questions in "Armstrong's church, on the same day, has also been kept up. Catechism." We think the children are The number of persons who attend making progress in a knowledge of the meetings at the station on Sabbath fore- Bible, but there are but very few who noon, when I am there, is about two hun- give evidence that the truth has made dred and fifty, or more. At the out-abiding impressions on their minds. In stations the number is larger, say from this work, however, we are encouraged, three hundred to three hundred and fifty. for we know that the seed thus sown When these numbers are stated as the may spring up and bear fruit to the glory number who attend meeting at the sta- of God when our labors are finished. The contributions of the people this tion, it must be kept in mind that there are seven other places in the field where year are about three times as large as congregations are met together at the they were the last year. I have endeavsame hour with those at the station. ored to show them that it was their The whole number who attend meeting privilege as well as duty to contribute to in the field on the forenoon of the Sab- the extension of the Redeemer's kingbath, I should suppose was thirteen hun- dom, and to help support those who feed dred or over. The exercises at the outthem with spiritual food. At the monthstations are conducted by officers of the ly concert there has been contributed church, chosen by myself at the Thurs- thirty dollars in cash, two piles of wood day meeting. These go forth two and for which we may realize twenty dollars, two. Some of them are acceptable to and some other things the value of which the people, others are not. is not known, but we may receive something for them. They have also finished Temperance - Sabbath School-Benevo-one meeting-house and are engaged in lence. During the year under review a temperance society has been formed, consisting of all the children connected with the Protestant schools. The meeting at which this Society was formed, was large and enthusiastic. When the scholars of each school were asked if they would assent to the pledge read, they all answered, with a loud voice, "ae," "ae," which, if observed, will be a blessing to them in this world and in the world to come. The number of persons present on the occasion was not less than one thousand. There was the old man of three score and ten years, rejoicing with his grand, and it may be, his great grand-child. There was also the old woman of eighty years, who says she buried, alive, thirteen of her own children before the missionary came among them with the lamp of life. That same woman is now an aged disciple, waiting for the coming of the Lord, and giving evidence by her walk and conversation that she has been regenerated by the Holy Ghost. All the children connected with the Protestant schools are expected to attend | the Sabbath school, and by far the greater number are found at their place building three others, and they have performed some labor on the meeting-house at the station. Although we do not see that progress among the people which we could wish, yet we think we have cause of joy in the results of the year's labor, and with humble hearts, we would thank our great Master for the ability to labor, in any way, to bring back to the fold of Christ those for whom he gave his life a ransom, and for whom he now intercedes before his Father's throne. Kohala. Mr. Bond commences his report with the following remarks in regard to Sickness and Deaths. The year 1849, like its immediate predecessor, has been marked as a year of disease and death, and of much consequent interruption in the missionary work. The deaths occasioned by measles in January and the first half of February, were as many as in the last month and a half of 1848. Subsequently to the middle of February few new cases occurred, multitudes however never recovered from the disease. They were left in a sinking condition; and either went gradually down to the grave, within the space of two or three months, or were carried off by an attack of influenza, which prevailed as an epidemic shortly after our return from general meeting in May. During the entire year there has been no period of ordinary healthfulness among us. We have suffered from repeated attacks of epidemic influenza, and almost continually from prevailing fevers. The number of deaths has not, however, been quite as large as that reported for 1848. Protracted suffering under disease has operated unfavorably upon the people, physically and mentally, and it ought perhaps to be added, morally. The little spirit of enterprise which was in process of development has manifestly received a check; as has also a previously improving condition of social and domestic life. In many, a listless, carefor nothing spirit seems to have been engendered, with regard not only to the conditions of life, but also to life itself. This, however, is not true of all. Notwithstanding the drawback on our prosperity with which an infinitely wise and gracious Providence has afflicted us, some progress, it is hoped, has been made in the work which God has committed to our hands, and results, so far as they could be expected under existing circumstances, have not been wanting for our encouragement. Christianity and Civilization. The Christianization of the Hawaii ans, it is matter of common notoriety, has outstripped their civilization; and, strangely enough, missionaries have been held accountable for this supposed anomalous and faulty state of things, and stigmatized by some as narrow and bigoted in their views and teachings, because, forsooth, it exists. But it may safely be assumed as an incontrovertible fact, that this result of missionary labor which is here witnessed, instead of being faulty and unnatural, is the only order in which Providence ever develops a sound and healthful civilization. The Bible comes first, with its authoritative and solemn claims upon each individual man. And it is one of the most blessed characteristics of this holy book, that its chief behests, weighty though they are, as eternity, and involving interests vast as infinity, can yet be comprehended by the mind and obeyed by the heart of a savage, albeit he might be months or years even in mastering the first idea of civilized life. The simplest teachings of the gospel, once believingly received, become the corner-stone of civilization, upon which may be reared a superstructure symmetrical and enduring. A foundation for such a superstructure, Mr. Bond well remarks, has been laid at the Sandwich Islands; yet in view of the fact that disease has been so rapidly wasting the Hawaiian people, and in view also of the constant and rapid influx of a foreign population, he thinks that superstrucOf the condition and the prospects of the Ha-ture is likely to be among a foreign and not the waiian race, Mr. Bond takes a less hopeful view native population. than some others. Though the people "have been elevated vastly above their former purely savage state, towards a better and a civilized condition," still he says, "it is not to be concealed, even from ourselves, that a great work is yet to be done." The arts and the comforts of even a tolerably well regulated life have been ac quired he says, to any considerable extent, only by here and there an individual. "And a nation twice decimated, or nearly so, in two successive years, [by disease and death] and with all the agencies of decay still in vigorous action, hardly promises much for the future." Still he feels, as all others must feel, that a great work has been done at the Sandwich Islands. The results of that work upon the future population of the Islands, whatever may be the future destiny of the native population, is, beyond a question, to be most happy. And how rich and abundant the reward which has been given to laborers in this work, in the conversion, and so the everlasting salvation of thousands of the people. Work and Hopes for the Future. In view of these conclusions, it strikes me as essential to our highest usefulness in all time to come, that we fully and definitely apprehend the position we now occupy, with its relations both to the past and the future. The history of the past we know. It has been written by the finger of Providence, and spread out before us, in all its detail. We have only to study it to perceive its application to the present and the future, and be made wiser and better thereby. In our present position there is surely nothing which ought to discourage us in our work. So teaches the past; and to the eye of faith, the future reveals nothing to enfeeble the Christian soldier in his toils, or send decay to the vigor of his hopes. The remembrance of the past should strengthen for the events and the Connected with our history for 1849 is our hearts. On the morning of the 21st December, the sanctuary of God, which we had occupied but four short years, was swept from us by a violent gale from the south-west. The stroke fell with a desolating power upon our hearts. We were totally unprepared for this afflictive dispensation. The frame of the house was of unusually large timber, and, as we believed, unusually strong; bidding fair to endure for a century yet to come, trials of the future. Under God, this | mission has accomplished a work on an event which brought sadness to all these Islands, the magnitude and consequences of which no finite mind can fully comprehend, yet the purposes of the Divine mind concerning the Islands are by no means executed. An enterprise is yet to be prosecuted and achieved here, which, whether regarded in itself merely or in its relations, is to surpass the work already effected; and, we may be sure, it will demand at our hands, no less of resolution and zeal,-no less of self-denial and faith than we have hith-sheltering and blessing those who might erto had in exercise. As has been said, for years yet to come it is to cost us no slight effort, coupled with no feeble measure of faith, to sustain our hopes and hold up our work, and ourselves in our work. We shall be called to fight over again, with an ungodly foreign race, the battles for truth and righteousness which have already been fought with the native heathen population, and in an important sense won; and we shall need to keep a fast hold of the great Captain of our salvation, lest we faint ere victory shall crown our warfare. The struggle we are to sustain only in the name of our Master, Christ. His is to be the glory of the final issue, as his has been and will be the strength to ensure it. remain to worship God in his earthly courts. But our anticipations are disappointed, our hopes are frustrated, and we are bereaved and desolate, and so is Zion, the heritage of God. To human view, no other so vital point, in all the interests pertaining to the Redeemer's kingdom which have been committed to our hands in this district, could have been touched. The house was the central point around which clustered the affections and the hopes of all those who love God throughout the district, and I need not add, it afforded the most effectual medium of communication possible with our people. In its loss a dark cloud is thrown across our future, for the right arm of your missionary is paralyzed, and hope labors hard in fulfilling its appointed mission. Yet God reigns, and we may not distrust his loving-kindness. He who has brought us through six troubles will not fail, if we are his, to bring us out of the seventh. The future must reveal what the present cannot tell us of his purposes. May we be enabled, in this contest, to quit ourselves like men. The foundations are not to be destroyed. Even though, as the Jews saw the glory of their former temple laid waste, we may behold the superstructure first reared upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets in these Islands decay, we may be sure the foundation will hold, and better materials are to be built thereon. These are to form a more symmetrical and a more perfect spiritual temple, to the glory of God. As individuals, we may be gathered to our people, and with them be quietly at rest beneath the soil of our adoption, ere the head-stone there-ing Zion, Zion desolate and afflicted. of shall be brought forth; but as God lives and reigns, our children shall hear, resounding from Kauai to Kau, the shoutings of "grace, grace unto it"! The Gale of December, 1849. Mr. Bond gives the following account of the severe gale which prostrated their house of worship in December last, and of the feelings and conduct of the people under this severe loss. Their enterprise, in so soon commencing unaided efforts to rebuild the house, is deserving of much commendation. Just one week after the fall of our house, we met and cleared away from the floor the broken timbers and rubbish. Then we sat down, and on the spot where we had been expecting the next Sabbath but one to unite in commemorating afresh the love of our crucified Savior, we prayed and wept, remember There likewise we consulted together, and resolved, in God's name, to commence the preparation of materials for a new house without delay. In building our now fallen sanctuary we had solicited aid from others. Now we determined to go forward, relying upon our own resources and the favor of Heaven, to build such an house as might consist with our ability, and the unsought aid, which our Master, seeing us have need, might send. His are the silver and gold, and in his hands are the hearts of men. If in our toilsome enterprise we need aid, he will furnish it. owing doubtless, in great measure, to their imprudence at that time, and to the fact that these epidemics prevailed during Up to the date of this report, about two months the winter season, which was unusually from the time of the meeting spoken of above, wet. Fevers were common during the unfavorable weather and prevailing sickness had past winter, but for the most part yielded prevented much progress in the work of prepara- readily to remedies which were administered. It is now a time of pretty general tion for rebuilding. At this station no season of revival had been health at the station, and I have of late enjoyed during the year; and the congregations had but little to do in a professional caon the Sabbath, and the attendance at the Sab-pacity, except for cutaneous diseases, bath school, had been less than in the preced- from which the natives, as a body, are never entirely exempt, and probably never ing year. In benevolent contributions, more will be for any great length of time, unhad been done than in any previous year, the contributions having amounted, for dif- til they have cultivated, to a greater exferent objects, to $441 16. Educational interests tent, habits of cleanliness as to their bedding, clothing, &c. were thought to have advanced somewhat, but the gale which prostrated the house of worship also destroyed the only two thatched schoolhouses of the district and five stone school-(in conformity with a resolution adopted houses, and the schools must of course suffer by the mission at their last general meeting) beginning to bring in their little much from the necessary delay in rebuilding. sums of money, their fowls and their parcels of kalo, potatoes, &c. DR. WETMORE and his wife sailed from Boston to join the Sandwich Islands mission in the autumn of 1848, and when this letter was written had been engaged in their missionary work just We one year; stationed at Hilo, on Hawaii. are," he says, "pleased with our home and pleased with our work. Never have we regretted having enlisted in it. We made a deliberate con- Sickness-Professional Labors. During the year there has been a good deal of sickness among the natives, though not of such a malignant character as that which prevailed late in 1848 and early in 1849. Epidemic influenzas have been very frequent, and have taken a pretty severe hold upon them. The ineasles and whooping cough left their lungs in such a state, that they were peculiarly susceptible to this contagion, They are beginning to learn the value of medicine, and those who are able are, The articles thus received from the natives, together with what was received for medicines and services from resident foreigners, had aided very considerably in the support of Dr. Wetmore's family. I have made a tour with brother Coan through the districts of Hilo and Puna. The latter was for the examination of schools, which appeared to be doing very well. I have also made one professional tour to Kau. While making these tours I had frequent opportunities to minister to the wants of the sick, and in one case, where, to all human appearance, a valuable man would otherwise have died. Both at home and abroad no small amount of time has been devoted to vaccinating, which we hope will prove a safeguard to multitudes, or at least modify that disease (should it ever reach these shores) which has made such havoc with the aborigines of our native land. School taught by Mrs. Wetmore. Mrs. Wetmore has also found a very important and interesting field of labor opening before her, mainly among the children of Chinese residents. It is one of the very interesting facts of the present day, connected with efforts for the evangelization of the world, that so many of the inhabitants of China are going abroad, to receive light from intercourse with Christians and to come in contact with Christian institutions. Mrs. Wetmore is engaged in teaching an English school for half-caste children. Their parents were desirous to have her |