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1828_Mar12_Namahana-Evarts
Date of Letter:
March 12, 1828
From:
Lidia Namahana [Lydia Nāmāhana Piʻia]
To:
Mr. Evarts [Jeremiah Evarts]
Content Summary:
Lydia Nāmāhana writes to Jeremiah Evarts testifying to her strong Christian faith and practice.
Typescript:
[Page 1 of 3]
[Archival note in another hand]
No. 217
Oahu. Malati. 12 = 1828
Mr. Evarts I ola
oe a kau i kapua aneane ke aloha
akunei au ia oe i na hoa hanau
apau roa Eia ko'u manao ia oe
ke hai aku nei ia oe ke ao nei no
i ka olelo hemolele a Kristo ame
kona kanawai a me kana oihana
maikai apau loa ua loaa uu ku mai
ke kau wahi iki aole iloaa mahuahua mai ke kii nei no nae ka makemake o ko'u naau e noi ia ia i ka
po ame ke ao i loa mai i kou uhane
ke ola mau loa maka lani, o kou
makemake ame kou aloha o kou
naau ame kou manao ua popo au
ane ko apaa a wai ho aku ia ia
a o kana olelo ame kona kanawai
oia kau e uhai nei i loko o ko'u
naau ilau kanaka kou hale i
kona uhane mana ame kona aloha
�mau ame kona maikai io, ame ko^na ahonui i olai kakou ia ia mai
kahi kina mai o ka la a ke ka poo
ana oka la, ke weliweli nui nei
[Page 2 of 3]
[Archival note]
3-215
no ka naau i ke Akua i ka nui
o ka hewa o ke kino o ka nohoana
ika hale o ka lealea aka ai, ame ka ia
a mai make ke kino ame ka uhane
i ka hale aka lealea aka ai, aka ia
no laila kou makau i ke Akua
imihi ai kou naau ika po ame
^na la apau loa o kou ola ana
a ole nae ii ae ka naau e ua pono i ka pule ana ike Akua
ai ka mihi ana ika hewa aole,
ai no ka pono ike Akua ame ka
hewa, aeia no kau o ka mihi
i kou hewa ahooili aku maluna
ana a o ka pau lele o kou naau
ia ia ame kou uhane ame kou
makemake meia i ola loa au
ia Iesu Kristo pau ka manao
Na Lidia Namahana
[English translation was part of the original file. Annotation and translation from original not
included here as part of the Awaiaulu MHM Project 2016]
[Page 3 of 3]
[English text]
[Letter Cover]
Malati
Aloha oe e
12
Jeremiah Evarts Esqr
�For the A.B.C.F.M.
[illegible] Missionary Rooms
Boston Mass.
U.S.A.
Ly^idia Namahana (Opiia]
Recd Feb. 14. 1828
Sept. Herald.
Translation:
[Page 1 of 3]
Oahu, March 12, 1828
Mr. Evarts,
May you live well into your old age. I send great affection to you and all the brethren.
Here is my message to you, I am informing you that the holy word of Christ, his laws and all his
good practices are being taught. We have obtained some small portions, but have gained no
more. The desire of my heart moves day and night to ask him that my spirit attain eternal life in
heaven. My wishes, my affection, my heart, and my intention, I have bundled them securely and
submitted them to him; his words and his laws are what I follow in my heart, that my house be
populated with his powerful spirit, his eternal love, his true goodness and his patience that all of
us from where the sun rises to where it sets be saved by him. The heart fears
[Page 2 of 3]
God because of the extent of physical wrongs, existing in a house of earthly pleasures, nearly
killing the body and spirit in a house of earthly delights. Thus my fear of God that makes my
heart repent every night and day of my life, yet the heart does not say that it needs to pray to God
or repent wrongdoing, no. Goodness is up to God, as is wrongdoing. And what I do is repent of
my wrongs and place them upon him, with the confidence of my heart, spirit and my will being
with him, so that I may be eternally saved through Jesus Christ. This concludes my message.
By Lidia Namahana
[Page 3 of 3]
[English translation was part of the original file. Annotation and translation from original not
included here as part of the Awaiaulu MHM Project 2016]
[Letter cover]
March
Greetings to you,
12
�Jeremiah Evarts Esqr
For the A.B.C.F.M.
[illegible] Missionary Rooms
Boston Mass.
U.S.A.
Lidia Namahana Piia
Recd Feb. 14. 1828
Sept. Herald.
Notes:
1. Mr. Evarts - Jeremiah F. Evarts was an early leader of the American Board of
Commissioners of Foreign Missions (A.B.C.F.M.). He was a reformer who advocated for
the rights of Native Americans and wrote under the pseudonym William Penn.
2. Lidia Namahana - Lydia Nāmāhāna Piʻia, a high ranking chiefess, was a wife of
Kamehameha I and daughter of Keʻeaumoku Pāpaʻiahiahi, also being Kaʻahumanu's
sister. Nāmāhana was an early convert to Christianity and wife of Gideon Laʻanui,
another early supporter of the missionizing effort.
3. Sept. Herald - The note on the letter cover might refer to the intention of having
Nāmāhana’s letter published in the September issue of the Missionary Herald, an
A.B.C.F.M. newsletter.
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Namahana, Lydia - Ali`i Letters - 1828.03.12 - to Evarts, Jeremiah
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Lydia Nāmāhana writes to Jeremiah Evarts testifying to her strong Christian faith and practice.
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American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions Pacific Islands Missions Records, 1819-1960 (ABC 19.1-19.7). Houghton Library, Harvard University. Used by permission of Wider Church Ministries
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Namahana, Lydia
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Puakea Nogelmeier
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1828-03-12