THROUGH HAWAII. 
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Christ in suffering death for the redemption of the 
world, and recommended him to pray to the Son of 
God, who was able to save to the uttermost. He said 
that until now he knew nothing of these things, and 
was glad he had lived to hear of them. We requested 
one of his friends to come to our house for some medi¬ 
cine ; and having endeavoured to comfort the mourners, 
bade them farewell. 
The Ainoa was seen approaching from the southward, 
on the morning of the 6th. About two p. m. she came 
to anchor, having been becalmed off Ranai four days. 
This day being the Sabbath, at half-past ten the mis¬ 
sion family walked down to the beach to public wor¬ 
ship. Most of the chiefs, and about three hundred 
people, assembled under the pleasant shade of a beau¬ 
tiful clump of kou trees, in front of Keopuolani’s house. 
After singing and prayer, I preached from Luke x. 23, 
24. “ Blessed are the eyes which see the things which 
ye see: for I tell you, that many prophets and kings 
have desired to see those things which ye see, and have 
not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, 
and have not heard them.” After service, when we 
went to present our salutations to Keopuolani, we 
found her, Kaikioeva, and several chiefs, conversing 
about Tamehameha, and others of their ancestors, who 
had died idolaters, and expressing their regret that the 
gospel had not been brought to the Sandwich Islands 
in their day. “ But perhaps,” said Keopuolani, “ they 
will have less punishment in the other world for wor¬ 
shipping idols, than those, who, though they do not wor¬ 
ship wooden gods, yet see these days, and hear these 
good things, and still disregard them.” As we returned, 
I visited the sick man; found him rather better than 
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