This is mixing fire and gunpowder together.

A king has no proper business with reforming.

His best policy is to keep things as they are; and if he can't do that, he ought to try to make them worse than they are.

This is not guesswork; I have thought over this matter a good deal, so that if I should ever have a chance to become a king I would know how to conduct the business in the best way.
When Liholiho succeeded his father he found himself possessed of an equipment of royal tools and safeguards which a wiser king would have known how to husband, and judiciously employ, and make profitable.

The entire country was under the one scepter, and his was that scepter.
There was an Established Church, and he was the head of it.