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Title: Life and light for woman
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Woman's Board of Missions
Subjects: Congregational churches
Publisher: (Boston : Woman's Boards of Missions
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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and Kaahumanu, Kameliame-has favorite wife, whose loving, simple Christianity was strong in its influ-ence over her people, would come, dripping from their morning bath, to sitat the feet of the missionary mother, and listen to the wonderful new thingsshe had to tell. A few months after the arrival of that foreign ship the seat of governmentwas transferred to Honolulu, and Kailua became merely the favorite resortof the kings. But still in this populous district there was opportunityenough for the faithful missionary. Twenty thousand people were scatteredover the mountain side, to whom two missionary families must break theBread of Life and present the only example of civilized living. As soon aspossible the grass hut was exchanged for more commodious quarters, andthe people were gathered for service in tlie little church built for them bythe governor of the island. After a number of years this was set on fire bysome unfriendly hand, and then, in course of time, a large church building
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236 LIFE AND LIGHT. (J/oy, made of stone, with plain, undecorated walls and high belfry, surrounded bynewly planted trees, attracted thousands to its Sabbath services. The peo-ple, now suitably dressed, gathered round the missionary and his helpersto learn not onl) the way of everlasting life, but also to be taught a betterway of daily living. Their boys were sent on foot one hundred and fiftymiles around the Island to Hilo, to the Boys Boarding School, there to betaught habits of industry and cleanliness, and to build up Christian char-acter ; their girls were sent to Maui and Oahu for similar instruction. The missionaries, in time, were living in comfortable two-story houses,with wooden floors and separate rooms, surrounded by the beautiful gardenswhich grow so easily in that tropical climate; and the filthy native hutswere replaced by neat little cottages. Kamehamehas grass house gave wayto a large, substantial, though plain stone building, in whose halls to-dayhang a number of por

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