Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 256, 5 July 1893 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

What was tbe goyernment up to anyhow. when it allowed the Marahal to send a police-officer to Lahaina to coerce that peaeeahle and Christian community to listen to the reverend Mr. Pali. who had heen lawfully and proper!y diacbarged by bis congregation to whom he had made bimself obnozious. If the trustees of the Church in Lahaina had no power to dismisa Mr. Pali, the remedy of the reverend gentleman was to be found in the courta of the land, and nnt in the Mar8bai’s office. If a congregation refuses to listen to a preacher and refusea to pay him his salaxy. we should think that tbe beet thing whieh such gospel ezpounder cou!d do would be to hire him?elf somewhere else, where his style of preaching and ideas would find sympatbizers in?tead of sending for a polieeman, and requesting him to open the doors of tne church and make tbe people eome and lieten to him. and more especially dig up. The preachers in the native churches—and aleo elsewbere —ahoald confine tberaselvea to interpreting and ezplaining the gospel a a they find it in the bible. and if they cannot re£rain from mizing politics and mundane matters with their christian dutiee tbeir reepectire congregations ahould promptly fire tbem out and

find •omebodj who will act, pr**ch, and a be *errant of Qod rather than a Hyde-bound tool of that aemi* political. eemi-relifiona inetitution, the North Pacific Paatoral ineuhator in Honolulu. And the SUte ahuuld steer cleer of the church, and aroid getting mixed with the Dumeruu« litt!e s<juabble9 helween the par9ons. the deacons and ihe flock. A differenl policy might lead to a total eollape* of the Protestant church in Hawaii. a result whieh we at ieast are led to belieT9 is not in aeeoni with the wish»>« and tbe pnueiplee of o ir supervirtuous aud 9uper-reIigious rulere. God ble»9 them!