Hawaii

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For over 30 generations
they lived in that land,

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remote from the rest of the world,

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content in the worship of Kane,
until you came,

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and my people found themselves
once more in a time

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when the gods were changing.

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You who have trained
for your ministries here at Yale College,

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and only yesterday
received your diplomas,

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cannot begin to imagine
what that can do to the human soul.

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Even the Reverend Dr. Thorn
finds it unbelievable

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that only 43 years ago, when the English
Captain Cook arrived in Hawaii,

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my brothers stood for the first time
face to face with a Christian world

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whose existence
they had never even dreamt of.

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We beheld your weapons,
your tall ships,

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your way with books and numbers,

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and we could not doubt the greatness
of your Christian God.

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In less than one generation
we leveled our temples,

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burnt our pagan idols,

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and stood like waiting children for
the revelation you promised to send us.

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But instead of sending God's words,
you sent adventurers to steal our lands...

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pestilence to ravage our countrysides,

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strong drink to devour
the manhood of our sons,

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and devils in the shape of whalers
to despoil our daughters