Posted on 07/08/2019 7:09:02 AM PDT by Perseverando
Ah, yes, thank you. SOMEONE BLACK went to Hawaii, how interesting.
That Christianity does not belong to one race or nation is an important point to drive home—and driving it home in a concrete manner requires having people from different races and nations involved in evangelization. (spell check is telling me that at least one of English or spell check is evil—if evangelize is a properly spelt [spell check just went off again and Webster’s says that spell check can go to he!! on that one] word, I will stick with what makes sense to me).
Yes, I think it is quite interesting considering it was 1822, she was a young single woman, and considering the status of BLACK people in general 200 years ago. And if you were to read a little more about her accomplishments:
"Commissioned by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, Betsey Stockton was the first single American woman sent overseas as a missionary.
An edition of Betsey Stockton's Hawaiian diary was published in the Christian Advocate, 1824 and 1825, by Dr. Reverend Dr. Ashbel Green, President of Princeton University."
Yale is just as fervent today, but only in promoting their new post-modern, paganist, statist-mother-gaia-worshipping religion.
Those missionaries are all heroes.
Yes they are. Working for the Lord doesn't pay too well, but it has a great retirement plan.
That was a great History lesson....
There were no Hawaiian words for clothing because no clothing was needed. Nothing has changed.
Yes it was. I really enjoy Bill Federer’s American Minute daily history lessons and the graphics he incorporates with them. I signed up for his daily emails long ago, He’s got some great reference material on his site.
Here is the link for his daily archive list: http://www.amerisearch.net/ (He tends to run a day or so behind at times.)
The natives got religion but the missionaries got the land!!!
Our boat captain told us of the first visit by Cook, he sailed into the bay to do some repairs on his boat, that week he arrived was the annual meeting of all the Hawaiians from all Islands for a big "shindig". A happy get together, no war, no hostilities toward one another. Cook arrived at this exact date and was amazed how many natives were there, must have been hundreds. They thought Cook was a God arriving at that perfect time of celebration to the gods.
They all made nice and Cook left to continue his exploring without incident. Soon after he left they hit a storm and one of the ships broke a mast and they had to come back to the cove. This time they were not celebrating peace, the Hawaiians were hostile and stole one of Cooks ships. He went after them and was eventually killed when they saw he bled like them when nicked with a sword.
By the time she got there she turned into Julie Andrews and learned to sing.
Thanks for posting this, and please continue with the series. Most interesting!
The article noted that the military resented the missionaries' activities, because they suppressed alcoholism and prostitution.
That struck me, because it was the same here in Upper East Tennessee(former Watauga Settlement.) The Morovian missionaries (a Pietist German-speaking group from Central Europe active in East Tennessee and Northwest Georgia in the 18th century and early 19th century) protected the Cherokee's land rights, pressed for their recognition as citizens, and opposed liquor which was a standard means of exploitation on the part of land-speculators. (Conscienceless men like John Sevier plied the Cherokees with alcohol and then pressed them into exploitative arrangements for land and women).
Sevier and Andrew Jackson and other of their ilk won in the end, but it was against the best efforts of the Morovians.
Similarly in 18th century Alta California, as well, the soldiers at the Presidio traded liquor for women --- the California Indians' sisters, wives and daughters sold into concubinage --- and Padre Junipero Serra was so outraged bu it that he literally walked back to Mexico City (1,900 miles on foot) to demand that the government suppress this trafficking carried out by the military.
Like the Morovians in Tennessee and North Georgia, the Franciscans in California were not successful in protecting Indians' rights. But it's not because they didn't try.
I'll buy a vowel :-) you must be referring to the Moravians. Another effect of their ministry was upon John Wesley, in a number of ways enumerated here.
Thanks also for the link. Fascinating history.
On 9 July the twelfth anniversary of the arrival of the first Catholic priests, the French frigate "Artémise", Captain Laplace, arrived at Honolulu. A few hours after anchoring dispatched one of his officers to present the king the following summary request: (1) that the Catholic religion be declared free; (2) that all Catholics imprisoned on account of their religion be set at liberty; (3) that the government give a suitable site at Honolulu for a Catholic Church; (4) that the king place in the hands of the captain of the "Artémise" the sum of $20,000, as a guarantee of his good-will and peaceful mind, said sum to be restored when the French Government should feel satisfied that the above conditions had been fulfilled. Hostilities were to commence if the king failed to comply within forty-eight hours with the terms of this manifesto. All the conditions were readily accepted, and peace was concluded...
Source: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13438a.htm
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