An acquaintance with what is true and useful, and with the mode of introducing it to the minds of others, is of vastly more importance to a preacher, teacher, or lecturer, than a knowledge of all the rrors, prejudices, superstitions, and abominati...
Read MoreI have often been asked what kind of preaching do the Hawaiian people require and what method of presenting the truth do the missionaries find the best adopted to their minds? They need to have the same doctrines and duties presented, and much the...
Read MoreFalse teachers have no right to seduce the nations or to supplant the religion of the Bible anywhere.?????????Hiram Bingham, A Residence of Twenty-One Years, pg. 312
Read MoreThe Bible is the inpired charter of the marriage institution which God has established, that through well regulated families he might seek a godly seed.??????Hiram Bingham, A Residence of Twenty-One Year, pg. 280
Read MoreIf the safety and perpetuity of all that is valuable in a country depend on the intelligence and virtue of the inhabitants, is it not clearly the right and duty of the state or the government to take measures adapted to promote such intelligence a...
Read More[I]n the frame of society in the United States [during the 1820s, will be] found something clearly distinguishing a Christian from a heathen or Atheistic state, something worthy to be imitated by less enlightened communities and less favored natio...
Read MoreThe rulers of a state ought doubtless to understand God's will, and to encourage the inculcation of just principles, and to restrain blasphemy against God and trespass against men.?????????Hiram Bingham, A Residence of Twenty-One Years, pg. 279
Read More[T]he state, though in fact a religious institution, incapable of securing its proper ends without recognizing religious obligation, is not a church. Christ's church, of which he claims to be the Head, is not of this world, but has its own existen...
Read MoreKapiolani [a vice-queen of Hawaii]... calmly addressed the company thus: ???Jehovah is my God... I trust in Jehovah, and he shall save me from the wrath of Pele when I break through her tabus, then you must fear and serve the Lord Jehovah. All the g...
Read MoreThe ministers of Christ are of course bound to instruct their flocks, not only in the doctrines of theology, and the poffers and promises of the Gospel, but in all the duties of a holy life, that they may know how they ought to walk and please God...
Read More[T]he ministers both of the church and of the state should, if they would be loyal to the Divine Sovereign, concur in publishing his statures, and in inculcating the principles of truth, equity, temperance, and righteousness.?????????Hiram Bingham, A Re...
Read MoreThe state, deriving all its powers from God, both rulers and subjects being bound to do God's will, and its chief magistrate being emphatically God's minister, ought to be, and in an impotant sense is, a religious institution.?????????Hiram Bingham, A R...
Read MoreThe ministry of religion and the ministry of the state each has its duties; but each in its own order and place, and both for the glory of the same Master, in accordance with the Divine will.?????????Hiram Bingham, A Residence of Twenty-One Years, pg. 278
Read MoreThis council [of regent, chiefs and missionaries] being conducted in a amicable and Christian manner, unlike the councils of heathenism and infidelity, bowed before the God of heaven and earth, acknowledging his smiles and rich gifts, and implorin...
Read More[C]onversion brings the subjects of it not only to worship God in truth, and to love his law, but makes those kind and liberal-hearted who were before naturally and habitually covetous, and enlists oppressors in the noble business of seeking the b...
Read MoreThe haughty [Hawaiian] queen bowed her knees before the King of heaven, and confessed her sins, and in impressive language poured forth her earnest prayer... The missionaries had been slow to give her credit for any interest at heart in the concer...
Read MoreAs belief of Christianity gained ground in the minds of the [Hawaiian] rulers, we were happy to see a corresponding desire to do what seemed to them proper to do, towards enlightening and reforming the people. When we urged them to undertake this,...
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