MONTHLY PRAYER-MEETING. 85 
the people collecting under the shade of their 
favourite trees, in front of Keopuolani’s house, for 
the purpose of attending the monthly Missionary 
^prayer-meeting. About five o’clock the service 
commenced. I gave an address from the Saviour’s 
commission to the first Missionaries to the hea¬ 
then, Matt, xxviii. 19. “ Go ye, therefore, and 
teach all nations.” The audience appeared grati¬ 
fied with the brief account given of the Missionary 
operations of the present day, especially those 
among the southern islands of the Pacific, with 
whose inhabitants they feel themselves more par¬ 
ticularly identified, than with the native tribes of 
Africa or Asia. It was a circumstance truly ani¬ 
mating to see so many of those who, wrapt in the 
thick darkness of paganism, had till lately wor¬ 
shipped the work of their own hands, and “ sacri¬ 
ficed” their fellow-creatures “ to devils,” now 
joining with Christians of every nation, in praying 
for the spread of the gospel of Jesus throughout 
the world. 
After breakfast on the eighth, I visited a neat 
strong brick house, which stands on the beach, 
about the middle of the district. It was erected 
for Tamehameha; appears well built, is forty feet 
by twenty, has two stories, and is divided into 
four rooms by strong boarded partitions. It was 
the occasional residence of the late king, but by 
the present is used only as a warehouse. Severaf 
persons, who appeared to have the charge of it 
were living in one of the apartments; and, having 
looked over the house, and made some inquiries 
about the native timber employed for the floor, 
beams, &c. I sat down on one of the bales of 
cloth lying in the room where the natives were 
sitting, and asked them if they knew how to 
