Sandwich Island Missionaries.
By Editor
"A TRAVELER who has recently returned from the Sandwich Islands says that he saw in Honolulu a long, handsome street of elegant houses, showing evidence of much ease and luxury. These are the homes of missionaries—a significant contrast to the miserable tenement-houses of the poor at home. The traveler also saw the wives of some of these missionaries reclining in sedan chairs carried by heathen natives, whom the ladies spurred on to greater speed by poking their parasol handles into their naked backs. When will people learn to give their money where it is most needed—at home among the poor who swarm in vile places?"—Hartford Times. We are assured by a friend, whom we consider perfectly reliable, who recently came from Honolulu, that there is not a word of truth in the above item. He says that the Catholics are more numerous in the islands than any other denomination, and he says (what everybody knows), that the moral and religious standard is lower there than it was under the first missionaries; but the above is a base misrepresentation. We have before known "travelers" to consider it a merit to circulate evil reports of missionaries, who, as a class, are worthy of the highest respect.