The Islands of the Pacific
From the Old to the New (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Islands of the Pacific: From the Old to the New<br><br>This book has grown out of an effort to sketch briefly the history of the Mission Enterprise in Hawaii. It was found difficult to do this properly without recounting considerable of the history of other islands of the Pacific, inasmuch as all the missions of that ocean have been so co-related in their origin and results that to describe one of them it was necessary to describe all. And so difficult was it to obtain information about these missions from numerous books, some of them rare and costly and others out of print, that a brief and comprehensive resum of all the missions in the Pacific seemed desirable.<br><br>The aim of this book is to promote interest in Christian Missions. While great interest is now awakened respecting the islands of the Pacific by descriptions of their enchanting scenery, by investigations of their geology, natural history, ethnology and antiquarian treasures, and by advertisement of industrial and commercial enterprises for developing their resources, it seems desirable that fuller description be given of the enterprises for lifting their inhabitants from their primeval paganism into Christian civilization; enterprises which are sublimely above the almost universal greed and selfishness of mankind, and which by their already achieved success kindle prophecy of a new era of light and blessing for all the Pacific Ocean and all the world.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.