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chanting places of resort. The United States spent$6,000,000 in subduing the little tribe of Modocs in California , in ten years$232,000,000 in wars withIndians, and in their whole history$500,000,000 insuch wars; but the Hawaiians are far better renovatedby a much smaller expenditure.

This investment has paid in the social and moralgood that has been thereby caused, and which cannotbe estimated in money. The United States has spent$50,000,000 in feeding and clothing Indians, while bymission enterprise much more could have been accom-plished for them at far less expense.

This investment has paid also in the 50,000 per-sons who have been received into the churches, the mostof them, it may be hoped, redeemed to everlasting life.It is true that these converts have not risen to the highcharacter that has been displayed in countries of oldercivilization, and that in recent times they have greatlydegenerated. As we go to them with high standards ofcharacter, to which our race has come through centuriesof Christian privilege, we see much in them to regret;but when we call to mind what they formerly were, andconsider from what depths of degradation they havebeen lifted, we cannot be too thankful to God for whatthey are. The words that were once uttered by thesaintly John Newton of himself might well be adoptedby them:‘I am not what I was; I am not what Ishould be; I am not what I shall be: but by the graceof God I am what I am.” All that they are, all theirprosperity and progress, all the safety and delight of