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and believed in no God !! The vessel which brought to 
them the Christian faith anchored at Honolulu ! The event, 
which shook the hill, darkened the sun and opened the 
graves of Judea, was proclaimed, and gave its hopes of 
Heaven to a hundred thousand people ! A nation thus en¬ 
tered the world as its loved homestead became obedient to 
its organization; called back the wandering religious sym¬ 
pathies to the worship of the true God ; opened to every 
faculty the sphere of its legitimate enjoyments; and made 
human nature again a component part of creation, existing 
in haimony with it and its Author. 
Man must incorporate himself into that great chain of 
relationship and sympathy which runs from inorganized 
matter to the first feeble manifestation of vegetable life, and 
thence upward through bud, leaf and blossom, and upward 
still along the great range of animal existence to the think¬ 
ing and feeling principle, and thence to God. It is in this 
manner alone, that he can feed his faculties with their own 
aliment. And it is his ignorance ofthe dependence of each 
portion of his body and mind, on each and every external 
existence, which makes thorns for his feet and keeps up a 
perpetual warfare between himself and the immutable con¬ 
ditions of his true happiness. 
I am sincerely persuaded that the regulating principle of 
human culture, is to sympathize with every form of creation 
within our knowledge; to enter the world as our home ; to 
seat ourselves at its hearth ; to eat its viands and drink its 
blessings; to slumber in its arms ; to hear the floods of har¬ 
monious sounds which come up to us from the matter and life 
about us; and to yield our being to the great dependent chain 
of relationship which binds God’s material empire, His 
lealms of mind and Himself, in one sympathizing whole! 
The universal requirement is, that man’s nature shall be 
brought into harmony with creation and its Author. This is 
the whole law of ourbeing. Obedience to it is the unalterable 
condition of happiness ; the only true test of civilization ; the 
