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King
Kamehameha IV and his wife Emma were Christian rulers who encouraged the
building of Christian schools and hospitals, and who contributed greatly to
the spread of Christianity among the Hawaiian people. The King was worried
by the growth of American political influence, directly connected with the
work of American missionaries, many of whom openly favored annexation of the
islands by the United States. He accordingly invited the Church of England
to send missionaries and to establish a presence in Hawaii. (While touring
England as a prince, he had attended worship services, and had been
favorably impressed.) But, although the King's support of the Church of
England was perhaps politically motivated, his support of Christianity was
not. He and his wife were earnest in their devotion to both the material and
the spiritual welfare of their people. The King personally translated the
Book of Common Prayer and much of the Hymnal into Hawaiian. Their only son
died in 1863, and the King died, apparently of grief, on 30 November 1864.
The Queen devoted the remainder of her life to charitable endeavors (Queen's
Hospital, the largest civilian hospital in Hawaii, is largely her doing).
She died in 1885.