{"id":"01KG8AM6KNHV54ZNG4PP642JJY","cid":"bafkreidckjnwysnylz5v63euaoawmwc2osd5gifxph2kcymj74bgdsqhue","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":8640,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:25.203Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 8","source_file":"01KG89J1JYRSHWXR7JM0HYS9D4","start_line":8580,"text":"soon finds himself an interloper in the country of his fathers, and\r\nthat too on the very site of the hut where he was born. The spontaneous\r\nfruits of the earth, which God in his wisdom had ordained for the\r\nsupport of the indolent natives, remorselessly seized upon and\r\nappropriated by the stranger, are devoured before the eyes of the\r\nstarving inhabitants, or sent on board the numerous vessels which now\r\ntouch at their shores.\r\n\r\nWhen the famished wretches are cut off in this manner from their natural\r\nsupplies, they are told by their benefactors to work and earn their\r\nsupport by the sweat of their brows! But to no fine gentleman born to\r\nhereditary opulence, does this manual labour come more unkindly than\r\nto the luxurious Indian when thus robbed of the bounty of heaven.\r\nHabituated to a life of indolence, he cannot and will not exert himself;\r\nand want, disease, and vice, all evils of foreign growth, soon terminate\r\nhis miserable existence.\r\n\r\nBut what matters all this? Behold the glorious result!--The abominations\r\nof Paganism have given way to the pure rites of the Christian\r\nworship,--the ignorant savage has been supplanted by the refined\r\nEuropean! Look at Honolulu, the metropolis of the Sandwich Islands!--A\r\ncommunity of disinterested merchants, and devoted self-exiled heralds of\r\nthe Cross, located on the very spot that twenty years ago was defiled by\r\nthe presence of idolatry. What a subject for an eloquent Bible-meeting\r\norator! Nor has such an opportunity for a display of missionary rhetoric\r\nbeen allowed to pass by unimproved!--But when these philanthropists send\r\nus such glowing accounts of one half of their labours, why does their\r\nmodesty restrain them from publishing the other half of the good they\r\nhave wrought?--Not until I visited Honolulu was I aware of the fact that\r\nthe small remnant of the natives had been civilized into draught-horses;\r\nand evangelized into beasts of burden. But so it is. They have been\r\nliterally broken into the traces, and are harnessed to the vehicles of\r\ntheir spiritual instructors like so many dumb brutes!\r\n\r\n          . . . . . . .\r\n\r\nLest the slightest misconception should arise from anything thrown out\r\nin this chapter, or indeed in any other part of the volume, let me here\r\nobserve that against the cause of missions in, the abstract no Christian\r\ncan possibly be opposed: it is in truth a just and holy cause. But\r\nif the great end proposed by it be spiritual, the agency employed to\r\naccomplish that end is purely earthly; and, although the object in\r\nview be the achievement of much good, that agency may nevertheless be\r\nproductive of evil. In short, missionary undertaking, however it may\r\nblessed of heaven, is in itself but human; and subject, like everything\r\nelse, to errors and abuses. And have not errors and abuses crept into\r\nthe most sacred places, and may there not be unworthy or incapable\r\nmissionaries abroad, as well as ecclesiastics of similar character\r\nat home? May not the unworthiness or incapacity of those who assume\r\napostolic functions upon the remote islands of the sea more easily\r\nescape detection by the world at large than if it were displayed in\r\nthe heart of a city? An unwarranted confidence in the sanctity of its\r\napostles--a proneness to regard them as incapable of guile--and\r\nan impatience of the least suspicion to their rectitude as men or\r\nChristians, have ever been prevailing faults in the Church. Nor is this\r\nto be wondered at: for subject as Christianity is to the assaults of\r\nunprincipled foes, we are naturally disposed to regard everything like\r\nan exposure of ecclesiastical misconduct as the offspring of malevolence\r\nor irreligious feeling. Not even this last consideration, however shall\r\ndeter me from the honest expression of my sentiments.\r\n\r","title":"Chunk 8"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG8AJR25VD49M8PDP0DQV6HE","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG89J1JYRSHWXR7JM0HYS9D4","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG8AM6KN2AWGZXWZZ7QBZ8H9","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"prev"},{"peer":"01KG8AM6KND6ERYZNRRZF63V2C","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"next"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:29.301Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:48:41.746Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}