TRANSLATION.
JOHN IFS SPEECH.
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DELIVERED AT REV. II. BINGHAM's cHvRg


On Thanksgiving Dny, Jan. |, lS4l.


FRIENDS AND BRETHREN-Give attentn
We have assembled to-day to give thma
together for Gods goodness. His goodies
has been very great to us and our nac
1t cannot he enumerated. To perceived
we have only to look back to our dav of Il
norance and sin Let me tell yon som
things myself have Witnessed. When
was child, | saw the dplatrous practN
in the ign of Kamrhameha !. Thcrqv
two kinds Of heiaus or sacred enclosursb|
l rccolcct; the one called the house Of u
no, the other the Louhi The house Of il
no was made Of ii leaf, and included ,he
separate houses, besides another small h)ut
These were the names of those houses
Hale umn, the Mana, the Waiea, and I'D
Hale-pahu, and besides these there va.
Annu, or handsomely wrought HIGH WOOD
fence in front, and the idols made with hana
The Lama was the only timber allowed 4
all this sacred enclosure, except the i'd
which were made of Ohia This vast
temple of Lono exclusively, and Lonos @
der OF priests, together with the king c
could oiliciate in it. In consecrating i1
helan, one day was sacred, like our pres
Sabbath, and ifthe prayer of the kim al
priests in Waiea prevailed, or was un'n''1
rnPted by any noise of man or beast TOE
the next morning there was Kaua OF 7
sitting in rows, rising, marnuvering, sT1
ing songs, with the sacrifice of many h@'
tor the god, the priest, the people, and Y
king Those to the god were laid upon 1
altar on the ground, and also on scar
up high. This was time of most rigid u
pu. Males and females dared not even co1
verse together. If man touched won'
the penalty was death! So also if w0Ioy
uthed man. | saw one man killed
entering a private house in the night, d''''
this X u. Behold, how much we ign0D
ly suffered in those times of idolatry, ano'
might be still afflicted by these dreadful ''
dens of no profit.