What I saw on the west coast of South and North America, and at the Hawaiian Islands.: By H. Willis Baxley, M.D.

CONSEQUENCES OF MISSIONAY ERRORS.
lTe car,not have revealed Himself unto the, as they profess;
they are but" 7blind leaders of the blind." And truly was it said,
that in 1836 the missionaries had carried the nation to a point
when it became necessary for new influences to operate, for the
accomplishment of desirable results which they had been unable
to reach. And why? Because "the strenuous opposition to
the progress of the Gospel was gradually changing its character,
and settling into a political animosity to the chiefs; who had
unfortunately and unwisely submitted to ecclesiastical control,
and shaped their governmental policy according to ecclesiastical
dictation." Because, as candidly confessed by the historian of
Hlawaii, "laws, people, and government, partook of the puritanical caste of their religious teachers."
Such was the lesson taught by the missionary experiment up
to this period that a chiange of programme was demanded; and
such, comprehensively expressed-the puritanical character of
the movement-was the cause of the failure of the work of religious civilization. It became necessary to regenerate individuals through personal conviction and purification, rather than
to move the unwieldy and passive multitude through arbitrary
authority; to obey the Founder of Christianity, and "seek the
lost sheep of the house of Israel-to heal the sick, cleanse the
lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils," instead of courting "Principalities and Powers," and devising political engines full of
human conceits to move the unthinking and indifferent masses
in conformity to despotic will, that the missionaries might make
"Christendom resound with their triumph," and magnify their
achievements.
Subsequently to these events, information having been conveyed to the banished priests that in consequence of an understanding between the king and the commanders of a French
sloop-of-war and a British frigate, they could return to the islands, these clergymen in 1837 again visited Honolulu, in a vessel under English colors; but much excitement having thereupon
ensued, their reembarkation was ordered by the governor, and
a proclamation of perpetual banishment was issued. To this
the priests entered formal protests before the English consul,
who counselled a disregard of the edicts of Government. For
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