Guest guest Posted November 24, 1999 Report Share Posted November 24, 1999 Jan, Got the good chief's Papelagi text file, thanks! --Greg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 24, 1999 Report Share Posted November 24, 1999 On 11/24/99 at 12:22 PM Greg Goode wrote: >Greg Goode <goode > >Jan, > >Got the good chief's Papelagi text file, thanks! > >--Greg As there is so much left, here is another part: The Papalagi and his darkness -- Beloved brethren, there has been a time, where we all where sitting in darkness and nobody of us knew the radiating light of the gospels, while we were wandering around like children who couldn't find their huts, because our heart didn't know great love and our ears still were deaf to the word of God. The Papalagi brought us the light. He came to us, in order to free us from our darkness. He showed us the way to God and taught us to love Him. Therefore we adored him as the bringer of light, as the speaker of the great Spirit, white man calls God. We recognized and acknowledged the Papalagi as our brother and didn't deny him our land, but shared all fruits and everything edible candidly with him, as children of the same Father. No effort to bring us the gospel was too much for the white man, even when we would rebel like stubborn children against the teachings. For this effort and for everything, what he has endured because of us, we want to be grateful to him and to celebrate him for all times and to honor him as our bringer of light. [...] The first that God did, was that via the Papalagi He did take away all fire arms and weapons, so that we were living peacefully together as good Christians. Because you know the words of God, that we should love, not kill each other, which is His highest command. We gave our weapons and since then, no more wars are raging on our islands, and everyone respects the other as his brother. We experienced, that God was right with his commands, because today, peacefully a village lives next to another, where once there was big turmoil and horrors didn't end. And even when God still isn't present in everyone of us and filling one with love, we acknowledge in all gratefulness, that our spirit has become bigger and stronger, since we worship God as the great, the greatest Chief and Ruler of earth. [...] The Papalagi, I said, brought us the light, the wonderful light, that ignited the flame in our heart and filled our spirit with joy and gratitude - he had the light earlier than we had. The Papalagi already was standing in the light, when the oldest among us weren't even born yet. But he is holding the light only in the outstretched hand, to light others; he himself, his body is standing in the darkness, and his heart is far from God, although his mouth is calling God, because he is holding the light in his hands. Nothing burdens me more and nothing fills my heart with more sadness, my beloved children of the many islands, as proclaiming this. But we should not and do not want to deceive ourselves about the Papalagi, so that he doesn't take us with him into his darkness. He has brought us God's word. Yes. But he himself hasn't understood God's word and his teachings. He has understood them with his mouth and his head, but not with his body. The light didn't enter into him, so that it reradiates and, wherever he comes, lightens up everything by the light from his heart. This light, one also can call love. [...] Even those, destined to speak of God in the big wonderful huts that were built in His honor, don't have God inside, and their talking is wind and the great teaching. The talkers about God don't fill their sermon with God, they speak like the waves, slamming the reefs - nobody hears them anymore even when raging uninterruptedly. I can say this, without angering God: We, children of the islands weren't worse, when we were worshipping the stars and the fire, as the Papalagi is now. Because we were bad and in darkness, because we didn't know the light. The Papalagi however, does know the light and nevertheless is living in darkness and is bad. But worst is, that he calls himself a child of God and a Christian and wants us to believe he is the fire, because he is carrying a flame in his hands. The Papalagi seldom remembers God. Not earlier then a storm gets hold of him or wants to extinguish his flame of life, he thinks about the fact that there are powers beyond him and chiefs, higher than him. At daytime God is a nuisance and only keeps him off his rare enjoyments and joys. He is knowing they can never please God and he also knows that when God's light really was inside of him, he should throw himself in the sand out of shame. Because nothing but hate, greed and enmity are filling him. His heart is a big, sharp hook, destined for robbery only, instead of being a light that dispels the darkness and lightens up and warms everything. [...] Beloved brethren, the Papalagi has more idols, as we ever had, when an idol is, what we worship apart from God and worship as the dearest in our heart. [...] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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