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islands are thus like a little world by themselves, withtheir Evangelical Associations, their Young Men’s Christian Association, their Woman's Christian Temperance Union , and their Home and Foreign Missions .

If the reader were to land in Honolulu to-day hemight almost think he was in a city in the United States ,except for a rare beauty of tropical vegetation. Hewould see street cars, and telegraph and telephone lines,and electric lights. He would find nineteen steam-ers plying between the islands, and great palatial packetsrunning to America , Asia, Australia , and New Zealand .He would see the natives dressed like Americans , andengaged in important work as teachers, lawyers, minis-ters and officers of government. Where seventy yearsago there was an unclothed race of savages he wouldfind a civilized community, who live as Americans ,support their own churches, and with marvellous suc-cess are carrying on foreign missions.:

All this change from barbarism to civilization hascost the American churches, in benevolent contributionsthrough sixty years, a little over a million dollars. Thisinvestment has paid, even in dollars and cents. Theannual income of the vessels merely carrying the com-merce of these islands is a million dollars, not to speakof the commerce itself, which is worth$20,000,000, andwill increase to twice that amount.

This investment has paid in the security of life andproperty that has thereby been caused. Instead ofthese islands being a pirates’ lair, as without the missionenterprise they would have been, they are safe and en-