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congregation, should adjourn in a body to the theatre, see 
the show, and then return to prayers. This advice was 
however not acted upon, and our phantasms played to a 
thin house. 
Mr. Stewart endeavoured to explain the matter as fol¬ 
lows :—It appears that two native teachers, who were highly 
regarded in the Island, and who had the more influence 
over their countrymen, as they spoke their own language, 
and were of their own kindred, had been brought up in one 
of the United States, where the Jewish method of reckoning 
time is observed, and the day begins and ends at noon; 
hence the Sunday, the first day of the week, begins at noon 
on Saturday the seventh day; and these teachers, having 
adopted this computation of time, have established Saturday 
meetings and exercises accordingly. This is very well so far 
as it goes; but Mr. Bingham, the head of the mission, uses 
on all other occasions the Christian measure of time, and he 
does not appear to be a person quietly to let two youths in¬ 
trude with new ordinances on his cure*. Indeed, his own 
explanation admits the fact, that the meeting was of his 
* We have learned, by the arrival of persons who visited the Islands after 
us, that the almost open assumption of power by the mission had created the 
greatest jealousy in the minds of the chiefs. The impaired state of Karaimoku’s 
health rendered the erees very anxious, and seemed to have opened to the mis¬ 
sion the hope of reigning in the name of the little king. 
