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ceedingly painful to hear an idolatrous priestess 
declaring that the conduct of those, by whom 
they had been sometimes visited from countries 
called Christian, had been productive of conse¬ 
quences more injurious and fatal to the unsuspecting 
and unenlightened Hawaiians, than these dread¬ 
ful phenomena in nature, which they had been 
accustomed to attribute to the most destructive of 
their imaginary deities, and to know also, that such 
a declaration was too true to be contradicted. 
A number of people, after they left the place of 
public worship, came to our house, and conversed 
on the blessedness of those who worship and obey 
Jehovah. They all said it was good, and that if 
the king were to come or send them word, they 
would build a house for a Missionary, a school- 
house, and chapel, and also observe the Sabbath- 
day. 
In the afternoon, Mr. Thurston preached at the 
same place to an attentive congregation. In 
company with Mr. Bishop, I walked over to Pona- 
hawai, where Makoa collected upwards of one 
hundred people at the head man's house, to whom 
I preached from Rom. x. 13. “ Whosoever shall 
call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved." 
The whole assembly gave good attention, fre¬ 
quently interrupting me while speaking, by their 
exclamations. A gray-headed old man, who sat 
near the door, listened with apparent interest 
during the whole service, and when, towards the 
close, it was stated, that those who in faith called 
on the Lord, would in another world obtain ever¬ 
lasting life, he exclaimed, 66 My days are almost 
ended—that cannot be for me—can an old man 
live for ever?" He was told that Jesus was 
willing to save the souls of all who with humility 
