Show EFFECTS OF CHRISTIAN LAN civilization an ON HEATHEN population in 1777 capt cook found people inhabiting tahiti ile he declared his hig estimate to be rather under than mart over the mark these were the days of wars ways huma human n sacrifices infanticide and that ordinary recklessness of life which the missionaries profess to have generally speaking cured aged natives at that time remember the e high t priest moar who uttered the thi prophecy CY which the ani anN eople people caught up for its strangeness stian geness at first and repeat now for its dread pathos it is at this day sung sting in the depths of retreat which the missionaries cannot overhear athe ethe the palm paini tree shall shail grow Th the coral etoral dball shall spread but man shall cease A census was taken just before the he Arneri caP cab exploring expedition was there showing the indigenous population to be the missionaries ils lis sion aries called it 8 in the sandwich islands the d decline of the population is such as history can scarcely parallel and as eve every hearer at an exeter hall may meeting should be informed of we are told not only by native tradition but by the early navigators of ot the pacific that there were once human abodes wherever there was good soil and water and that the population of this groupe was not less than now it is under twenty five years ago within the the perlo perio pernod period 0 of i strenuous missionary effort it was dou double le this review |