Those Who Believe In The Oneness Of The Invisible Church, And That All Who Hold "One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism," Are Within The Pale Of Salvation, May Well Hesitate Before Expending Energy, Men, Money, And Time On Proselytizing Efforts.

Among the whites who have sunk into the mire of an indolent and godless, if not an openly immoral

Life, there is an undoubted field for Evangelistic effort; but it is very doubtful, I think, whether this class can be reached by services which appeal to higher culture and instincts than it possesses, and, indeed, generally, the island Episcopalians are not in sympathy with the "symbolism" and "high ritual" which from the first have been outstanding features of this "mission." The education of the young in the principles of the Prayer Book is aimed at by the Bishop and his coadjutors, but in spite of zeal and devotion, I doubt whether the English Church on these islands can ever be anything but a pining and sickly exotic.

Kona looks supremely beautiful, a languid dream of all fair things. Yet truly my heart warms to nothing so much as to a row of fat English cabbages which grow in the rectory garden, with a complacent, self-asserting John Bullism about them. It is best to leave the islands now. I love them better every day, and dreams of Fatherland are growing fainter in this perfumed air and under this glittering sky. A little longer, and I too should say, like all who have made their homes here under the deep banana shade, -

"We will return no more, . . . . our island home Is far beyond the wave, we will no longer roam." I.L.B.

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