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Volume 53
tual activity. We all need to search our
own hearts and habits, and see wherein
we lack accord with the spirit and ways
of Christ. We need to repent ot all
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CONTENTS.
Let us be Revived
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Evangelist Yaiman..
Catholic Parasitic Missionary Enterprise
History uf Present Hou*>c ol I Brewer &i o„
Plea for Simplicity
Cholera Nostras
Alexanders' "Islands of the Pacific."
New Hinli Rcnool
Cook Exonerated
M
Oahu College
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New Y. M. C \. Gymnasium
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To bear railing phuosophically
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Mr. Smith Visits Ntw Zealand
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Waehingliiii Legation
Population of Ewa
J. It. Kawainui
Fillinii a Swamp.
Fim>i-Binding
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Rainy Septsmber
Sultry Weather
Last t.'ase of Cholera
Record of Events.
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Let Us Be Revived.
Speaking with moderation, Christians
in Honolulu stand unusually high for
the proportion among them of persons
who are deeply consecrated, hard workers
for the salvation of their fellow men, and
conspicuous for moral excellence. But,
here as elsewhere, the majority of professing Christians are on a low plane of
religious life. They deeply need lifting
up to a condition of active piety. They
have fallen into very fixed habits of selfindulgence. Their activities are much
devoted to securing pleasure. Their
energies are exerted in money-getting to
a degree that dangerously encmaciics on
They have
their religious activity.
drifted into ruts of habit which draw
them downward rather than upward.
'Their prayers are brief and cold. 'They
are incapacitated for asking their neighbors and friends to "come and see Jesus."
Their hearts are torpid. 'Their lives are
in a large degree worldly.
Such is the habitual spiritual condition
of a majority of Christian people, even
in the most active churches. And even
the best suffer from the coldness and
worldliness around them. All greatly
spiritual refreshing. We all need
c ardent, joyful, spontaneous spiri-
K
EvangelistYatman.
Honolulu is being favored with the
presence and labors among us of Kvangelist Charles H. Yatman. Mr. Yatman
arrived per Alameda on the 34th. It had
been his intention, on account of cholera
here, to proceed directly to Australia.
Finding however, that the epidemic had
entirely disappeared he judged it wise
to stop over and carry out the engagement previously made with our Y. .VI. C.
A. Mr. Yatman has begun a series ot
daily services. These are at present
held in the Y. M. C. A. Hall. It is evident that this room must soon overflow.
The subsequent place of meeting is not
yet fixed upon.
Mr. Yatman is exhibiting a higher
order f tervor and spiritual power than
any evangelist whom we have heard in
Honolulu. It is earnestly hoped and
expected that a genuine Revival will
attend his labors. May the blessing
come! May all Christian hearts open to
seek it !
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Catholic Parasitic Missionary Enterprise.
There is reported to have been developed recently in Australia a -wordy
ecclesiastical hurricane." during a discussion of the subject of Church Reunion,
initiated by Anglicans, and followed up
by Roman Catholics, and aftervyards
by Methodists and Congregationalists.
"Cardinal Moran, the highest Roman
Catholic dignitary in the colonies, 'waded
in,' and in doing so, made an attack on
Protestant missions. He told his hearers
that the result of Protestantism was 'to
sow religious discord broadcast, and to
lead its votaries to the abyss of irreligion
and superstition.' He asserted that,
despite their humble resources, Catholic
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missions had been crowned with abundant fruit ; while from even land the cry
was heard that Protestant missions
'were fruitless, and then best friend*.
and champions were the first to declare
that, humanly speaking, to the divisions,
and conflicting creeds of rival mission
anes this lack of results was due.' On
such a series of astounding misrepresentations did the Cardinal base his
appeals for all 'outside the saving fold' to
"This brought
enter therein."
Dr. GeOrge Brown, theGeneral Secretary
of the Wesleyan Missionary Society, into
the lists, and at his lecture, Dr. Saumarez Smith, the Anglican Primate of Australia showed his sympathy by taking
the chair.
"Cardinal Moran met more than his
match in Dr. Brown, who is a born
tighter and on many occasions has proved
himselfbad to beat. He knows, probably,
as much about the Polynesian races as
any living man, speaks most of their
languages, has explored hundreds of
miles of previously unknown coast line,
and founded missions by the score. Not
content with defending Protestant missions, he carried the war into the enemy's
country by declaring and quoting facts
to prove that Roman Catholic missionaries only go where Protestants have
pioneered and made the way safe, and
quoted Fiji in illustration. From that
country the Roman Catholics kept aloof
while its people were savage cannibals.
They invaded it after Christian civiliza
tion had made it a nation and with all
the attractive pomp and display possible.
Yet out of 1011,(100, there are now only
7,000 Roman Catholics, all the rest being
worshippers in the Methodist churches."
To the Fiji illustration, our Hawaiian
Board can add that of recent Romish
intrusion in the Gilbert Islands, after
our Board had maintained a Protestant
mission there for thirty five years, amid
severe hardships and perils from lavage
hostility. After a majority of the people
had accepted Christianity, and the British
Government had reduced the remaining
savages into subjection to order and law,
then, when all danger was over, the
Romish priests came in strong force,
and began their work by proclaiming
deadly hostility to Protestants, and enlisting all their bitter savage enemies
under the Catholic banner, in order to
overcome the preachers of the Gospel.
See in The Fkii.no for May, Miss Hoppin's story of combined priestly and
heathen violence at Nonouti in the effort
to tear away her scholar Teria, who
wonderfully esraped from their clutches
Miss Hoppin's account was corroborated
by Capt. Garland and Rev. Mr. Channon.
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THE FRIEND.
Early History of the Present House of and schools were soon flourishing, the
language became a written one, and, on
C. Brewer & Co., Limited.
January 7th, 1822, the printing press
From forthcoming Ilmvaiiari Annual by perini moii.
issued its first page. This act, an imThe existing house of C. Brewer & portant one in any country, was in the
Co., Ltd., like many a state or nation, presence of many persons. Hawaiian
and American. Governor Kalanimoku
began at a distant date under a different struck off the first
impression ; Mr.
name, and is a result of the growth Loom is, the printer, the second ; and
through the changes of time and cir- James Hunnewell, the third. The old
cumstances rather than of any one house had a hand in starting this engine
civilization in Hawaii, among others
definite act. If an exact date and a of
not here mentioned.
single act are to be assigned, it was on
A nation was transformed. Business,
Monday, December Nth, IS 17, when commenced under difficulties in the days
James Hunnewell, officer of the brig of smaller things, was enlarged ; it grew,
Bordeaux Packet, agreed with Andrew indeed, with the nation that has conhad friends and helpers among
Blanchard, master, to remain at Hono- stantly
men in this house.
lulu—where they then were -after the
General and unjust charges, it may
sale of the vessel, and dispose ol the be added, have been from time to time
balance of her cargo and invest and made against the business class at the
forward the proceeds. This was the Islands; but ample defense and facts for
beginning of the long business career of due tribute in their worth exist, especialMr. Hunnewell connected with the Isl- ly as the history of this house from first
ands, and his lirst act in settling there. to last demonstrates.
Mr. Hunnewell wrote an account ot
After two visits at home, in Charlestown and Boston, Mass., and after act- its early period that fills nearly twelve
ing as agent at the Islands for sundry columns of The Friend for January
parties, he,also acting for others, Bryant and March, 1867. An Hawaiian poem
and Sturgis among them, in 1820 found on his old blue sea chest is in the same
ed his own independent house in Ho- paper for April, 18, )7.
Changes in the style and membership
nolulu. He stated (1866), that he in
1826 bought the premises still, when he of the house have been rather numerous,
wrote, occupied by C. Brewer & Co. In and may now be told. About as many,
1830 he added some land. In November, it may be added, have occurred in the
1830, having spent most of the time for capital or ownership, which has been
fourteen years abroad, he, as he desired, also successively held. The firm names
returned home, leaving the business in will be given in italics at the head of
charge of Henry A. Pierce, who had the several paragraphs of the account.
been a clerk with him.
James Hunnewell, who, beginning in
At first business was generally in 1817, had founded the house in 1826,
small transactions and by barter. San- transferred the business on his return
dal wood was the chief native product home in November, 1830.
Henry A. Pierce then c irried it on in
of value in commerce, and, indeed, it
almost made the currency of the country. his own name until 1834, when he formed
In the dealings through 1817-18, money a partnership with Thomas Hinckley, in
is scarcely mentioned. "At one time," style—
said Mr. Hunnewell, it was in 1818, Pierce and Hinckley, a firm lasting
"we were the only traders on shore at about a year, when ill health obliged Mr.
Honolulu that had any goods to sell. Hinckley to retire. He left the Islands
All our cash sales amounted to $104, and died before he reached home. Mr.
and this was from an English captain Hunnewell, from whose papers these
and officers." If the present writer's particulars are taken, seems to have had
memory is right, he has heard that this full confidence in him.
was a large part of the coin then in
Captain Charles Brewer, who in the
Honolulu.
course of voyages had become acquainted
By 1820, sales were, on the other hand, with the Pacific, first arrived in Honolulu
almost wholly for cash. American goods during the latter part of 1823,and settled
of nearly all sorts were received and there a dozen years alter. He knew
disposed of on consignment, and this Mr. Pierce, and with him formed the
business was, for forty years, a large one firm of—
in the transactions of the house. To
Pierce and Brewer, a firm lasting
it, in time, vessels were consigned. about eight years from the summer of
Whalers, scarcely mentioned in 1818, 1835. Mr. Pierce, who had been twelve
are frequently noted in. 1820.
years from home, spent a year or more,
Before 1819, operations were under 1835-36, on a visit there. In 1840,
the old native institutions, and, in a Captain Brewer, having been away six
measure of course, affected by them. years, took his turn, and was absent
In that year idolatry was abolished by until the autumn of 1841. In 1843, Mr.
native action, and a new order of things Pierce retired for residence in CharlesChristian institutions were town and Boston, where he remained
began.
established, and the usages of civiliza- about thirty years. For the first time
tion were, by degrees, adopted. Churches the house then took the name of—
r
C. Brewer cV Co., a firm which lasted
fouryears, 1843-47. On May 23d, 1841,
James F. B. Marshall and Francis Johnson had formed a partnership, styled
Marshall & Johnson, for "transacting a
general mercantile business" at Honolulu. With them Captain Brewer joined,
and to them transferred his business
when he came home in 184!). August
31, 1847, the partnership of these three
expired by limitation, and a new firm
took "the warehouse recently occupied
by them," and also the business, under
the style of—
S. H. Williams S> Co., a firm that
lasted from 1847 to 1860. The members
were Stephen H. Williams, James F. B.
Marshall, and Wm. Baker, Jr. June 17,
1848, Benjamin F. Snow was admitted
a partner.
During this partnership the
discovery of gold in California helped to
enlarge business, as also did whaling.
B. F. Snow, (as he signed) on Sept.
16, 1060, reported (by lettei to J. H.)
that he was "successor of the firm of S.
H. Williams & Co." He continued to
receive business that had gone to that
house. On February 21st, 1856, he departed for New York, and left his affairs
with B. W. Field. The succession in the
house, however, was through—
Charles Brewer, 2il, a nephew of Captain Chas. Brewer, with whom he had
been, 1843-1845. Contemporaneously
with Mr. Snow he was in business, and
also doing that which went to the house,
and all, or most of it, by 1866.* In
September, 1859, Sherman Peck joined
him, and the firm again became—
C. Brewer &• Co., a style that has
continued from iBsg to the present date,
often with no one by the name of Brewer
in it at Honolulu. In the period 1826-59,
or thirty-three years, there were four,
1843-47, when it had been the style.
Mr. Brewer retired in the summer of
1861, and October Bth, Mr. Peck was
joined by Charles H. Lunt, who had
arrived during the preceding month. In
August, 1862, they were joined by H. A.
P. Carter. Mr. Lunt, who returned to
Boston in the summer of 1862, retired
in May, 1863.
All the members of the house who
have been named are now (1895) dead.
This sketch of the changes during forty
years 1826-66, may very properly be
followed by another with brief, notice ol
their personal history, which will show
their thoroughly New England character
and their services, public as well as
mercantile.
James Hunnewell was born, in Charlestown, Mass., Feb. 10, 1794, and died
in his home there, May I, 1869. His
family of Hunnewells had lived on
Massachusetts ground for over two centuries, and his mother's, Frothingham,
since 1630. He married Susan Lamson, whose family had been as long in
•
Several ~fthese datesand changes are given In circulars
issued at various times, and in Mr. Hunnewcll's files of
letters continuous for over forty years, as also was hit
business with tae house.
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the state. In him the missionaries and
the natives had one of their best friends.
At his death the king, Kamehameha V.,
in a valued letter to the present writer,
said: "The name of the late James
Hunnewell was early associated with the
commercial interests of these Islands,
and his long and useful life was marked
by such constant goodwill to my kingdom, that I shall always cherish his
memory with sincere regard. Although
he was only removed in the fulness of
time, I deeply sympathize with you in
the loss of such a parent, but I congratulate you in the inheritance of such an
honored name."
Charles Brewer was born in Boston,
March 27, 1801. He was descended
from Daniel Brewer, who settled in Rox
bury, Mass., in 1632, and died, on an
cestral ground, at his home in Jamaica
Plain. His funeral, Oct. 13, 1885, was
attended by a remarkable representation
of Hawaii. In 18J0 he married Martha
D. Turner, at Charlestown, where her
father was a Universalist minister,
1814 36. He was much esteemed, and
although little in public life, so called,
he was widely and well known.
Henry Alpheus Pierce, son of Joseph
H., was born in Dorchester, Mass., Dec.
15, 1808, and died in San Francisco,
July 29, 1885. For about thirty years
he lived in Charlestown and Boston, and
married Susan R. Thompson, of an old
family in the former city. He traveled
extensively in Mexico and South America. He was a pioneer in the sugar industry at the Islands, but was too early
in and out of it to realize its gains, and
lacked success in an attempt at the
South after the Civil War. After leaving
business he was, from July, 1869, to
Sept., 1877, the Minister of the United
States, resident in Hawaii.
James Fowle Baldwin Marshall, son of
a native of Boston, was born there in
August, 1818, and died at his home in
Weston, Mass., May 6, 1891. He arrived
at the Islands in 1839. He married Martha Twycross Johnson, of Charlestown.
His public services in and for Hawaii,
especially her independence, were distinguished. After leaving mercantile
business he was during the Civil War in
the Sanitary Commission, and later a
paymaster general of Massachusetts for
the army —there were all told 150,000
men that the State sent to the front.
In this office he had the rank of Brigadier General. Like the accounts of the
old Honolulu house, his for the Commonwealth were of the first class. After
the war he joined another Hawaiian
worthy, General S. C. Armstrong and,
1870-84, became a manager of that great
benevolent institution, the Hampton
School. F"or Hawaiian, African, or Indian, his work was good and enduring.
Benjamin F. Snow was born in Boston
and, at the age of 60, in Honolulu, Dec.
19, 1866, on the fortieth anniversary of
his arrival there, he died, greatly esteemed and respected.
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THE FRIEND
Charles Brewer, 2d, son of Isaac C, of
Boston, was born there Sept. 14, 1823,
and died in Honolulu, June 4, 1863,
another good New England Hawaiian.
Sherman Peck was born in Berlin,
Conn., Dec. 28, 1800, and died in Honolulu, June 17, 1871. His first American
ancestor was Paul Peck, who arrived in
Boston in 1635, and] the next year became one of the early settlers of the
Connecticut Colony. Sherman Peck
was widely esteemed.
Henry A. P. Carter was born in Honolulu in 1837; was educated in Boston,
and retired from business in 1874. He
died in New York, Nov. 1, I8«jl. At
the Islands he had "almost every position of honor and trust" there, among
other offices that of Minister of Foreign
Affairs. In 1876, and later, he was the
Minister Plenipotentiary of Hawaii at
Washington, where he had an honorable
and honored place among the diplomatic
representatives of the world. Nations
larger than Hawaii would be well off if
they always had a representative as good
and able.
The old house, of which the earlier
history has been told, still flourishes, one
of the very few American houses outside
the United States —and not many there
—of its age or nearly its age. No house
begins and continues as it has, except
on sound principles steadily practised.
Integrity, enterprise and well made accounts have always been its characteristics. Besides their thoroughly good
mercantile qualities, its managers have
been a least as noted for their services
in good citizenship, in philanthrophy,
nnd in public affairs—and this estimate of
their character and conduct is here
expressed by one who has personally
known, or known of, both from the beginning.
This account of the more distant past
may well be followed by another on the
history of the house during the last thirty
years. In closing this, it is only justice
to say that few houses have had, and still
have, a roll of members better or more
widely known. Their past and present
are worthy of each other. We all know
the high position and reputation held by
the living president of the company that
the house has become. In religious and
in political affairs, as well as those of
business, we cordially esteem, and we
wish long life to, Peter Cushman Jones.
And to the several other good men in it,
we also wish long life, especially to that
sterling merchant, patriot, and philanthropist, who would honor any community, the Honorable Charles Reed Bishop.
Long may the good old house prosper!
It has been a credit not only to itself,
but to both the American and the Hawaiian rtame, and may its long past be
the shortest part of its history.
James F. Hunnewell.
Charlestown, September
21,
1895.
A Plea for Simplicity.
"There can be no dispute that projects
are contemplated which, if sanctioned
and shaped by legislation, would not
only afford lodgment to ideas and opinions, but would bring into being offices
and officers, titles, badges, marks ofrank,
grades of authority, heretofore not known
in the church in the United States. If
they would promote or illustrate its
apostolicity, its catholicity, its orthodoxy,
or its sanctity, they deserve to be encouraged. II they are essentially hierarchical, they cannot be too soon swept
out of the path of the kingdom which the
Gospel proclaims.
"Civilization is dogged in its merry
march by three cruel seducers—luxury,
frivolity and vanity. They will thrust
their tawdry pomp into the advance, led
by the bride of Christ, if they can. She
may well look anxiously and pathetically
on her children, who are not of this
world, needing for herself no meretricious attractions upon her chaste beauty
to win them, no tiara on her forehead to
impress them with her royalty, no array
of mortal distinctions to make her majesty more august. They who imagine
that the Lord's Sacraments are honored
or venerable in proportion to the barbaric
parade of the function, forget the principles of art hardly less than of the religion
of the Son of God, and are almost as
untaught by the culture of Athens as by
the simplicity of Nazareth. A state can
have the virtue of order without political
finesse ordiplomatic fuss, and the Church
can have the grace of sacraments in its
fullness without being spectacular, or
effervescent, or mimetic. One does not
see how the very plain duties of a presiding bishop would be better discharged if
he were titled archbishop, patriarch,
metropolitan or primate, or how the
helpers in our domestic and rural mis
sions are to be strengthened by the
decoration of a foreign nomenclature."
—Bishop
F. D. Huntington.
Cholera Nostras?
A recently arrived German physician,
Dr. G. C. Surmann, has addressed an
ably written letter to the Board of Health,
in which he maintains that the late
epidemic was not at all Asiatic cholera,
but Cholera Nostras, "the symptoms of
which in acute cases greatly resemble
those of Asiatic cholera." Medical opinion here wholly preponderates against
Dr. Surmann. The extreme malignancy
of the disease was very marked in moat
of the cases. Microscopic slides of the
comma bacillus found in the excreta
have been forwarded to Germany for
expert verification.
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[November, 1895
THE FRIEND.
Alexander's "Islands of the Pacific."
Oahu College.
Free Kindergarten Association.
" The Islands of the Pacific. From
the old to the new* A compendious
sketch of missions in the Pacific. By
Rev. James M. Alexander." American
Tract Society, pp. 595.
This admirable book has only just
come to hand, and can receive now only
a brief notice. As described in the title
page, its leading feature is a condensed
account ot Christian missionary enterprise among the Pacific Islanders. It
supplies, however, a long existing want,
by giving brief and accurate descriptions
of the various island archipelagoes, of
their inhabitants and history.
Mr. Alexander has executed his task
with much of the characteristic painstaking and accuracy of his eminent
brother, W. D. Alexander, as well as
with something of the latter's felicity ol
diction. As a missionary's son from
Hawaii, this work has been to him a
labor of love, for which he was peculiarly qualified.
There are nine maps in the book, also
sixty-four half-tone plates, most of
which have not hitherto been published.
It is the most useful contribution to the
literature of the Pacific that has appeared for some years.
This favorite institution opened its fall
term Oct. 7th, with a strong corps of
able instructors. The return of Mr. J.
Q. Wood is especially welcomed. Prof.
A. B. Ingalls, who succeeds the accomplished Dr. Lyons, brings a good record
as a scientist from Amherst and Williams Colleges.
Very perfect sanitary arrangements
are provided at both the College and at
the Preparatory department at the head
of Richards Street. At both places also
the drinking water is boiled and filtered.
The first annual meeting of the Free
Kindergarten and Children's Aid Association was held on the morning of the
4th October in the Y. If. C. A. hall.
The charter was accepted which had
been granted by the Government.
The following officers were elected
for the year
President—Mrs. C. M. Hyde.
Vice-Presidents—Mrs. W. F. Allen.
Mrs S. B. Dole, Mrs. T. R. Walker.
Recording Secretary Miss Margaret
Hopper.
Financial Secretary
Mrs. H. C.
Coleman.
Treasurer —Mrs. Arthur B. Wood.
Auditor —Mr. W. A. Bowen.
Mrs. Coleman, who is the chief moving spirit of the association, expressed
her thanks for the help and encouragement she had received. In presenting
hei report of income and expenses for
the past year, she pointed out that for
the coming year the regular expenses
would necessarily be increased, while a
number of pledges had fallen off. There
was SI,OOO in the treasury to begin the
work of the year. The pledges received
from subscribers are expected to yield
about $1,900, Expenses for the coming
year are estimated at $3,400. It is
greatly desired to enlarge the work by
extending it to the other islands, whence
most urgent calls have come.
Y. M. C. A. Gymnasium.
In passing or visiting the Y. M. C. A.
building, one's attention is apt to be
attracted by lively sounds of activity
proceeding from the new gymnasium.
The room is large and cheerful. It is
abundantly furnished with a great variety
of apparatus for exercise. The use of
the various appliances is carefully taught
under the direction of Secretary Corbett.
who is an experienced gymnast. Each
person exercising undergoes previous
medical examination to determine what
exercises he is fit to practice. The gymnasium promises to be a powerful attraction to the youth of this city, drawing
The New High School.
them towards the physically best, and it
may be hoped, towards what is spiritually
This fine institution has gone into best
successful operation, with a large body
To bear railing philosophically.
of pupils and a full corps of instructors,
under the able prmcipalship of Prof. M.
Paul Louis Courier when violently
M. Scott. A certain element of rivalry
assailed by a French professor, quietly
between this government school and
remarked :
Oahu College will advantageously stimu"I fancy he must be vexed. He calls
late good teaching in both institutions.
me
jacobin, rebel, plagiarist, thief, poisis
a
normal
the
department in
There
oner, forger, leper, madman, impostor,
High School, under Prof. Dumas.
it is to be hoped the day is not far calumniator, libeller, a horrible, filthy,
distant when both these excellent schools grimacing rag-picker. I gather what he
will add Manual training departments. wants to say. He means that he and I
In the High School, the spacious base- are not of the same opinion, and this is
ment would afford the needed room.
his only way of putting it."— Youth's
-
:
The Washington Legation.
Mr. Francis M. Hatch is announced
as about to proceed to Washington as
Hawaiian Envoy, in place of Mr. W. R.
Castle who had accepted that office for
only six months. Mr. Hatch has served
as Minister of Foreign Affairs for two
yean with distinguished ability.
The Hawaiian Relief Society
Closed up its work October 13th, with
about $3,000 remaining on hand. It is
proposed to continue it as a permanent
Companion.
for the food relief of needy
organization
of
Dr. Joseph Cook Exonerated.
a
differences
expressing
Such way
and deserving Hawaiians.
of opinion is not unknown even in
The eminent lecturer, Joseph Cook,
Honolulu.
The Population of Ewa District.
L.L.D., writes from Australia that at the
of
his
address
here
on
public
July
time
Mr. Smith Visits Nets Zealand.
By a census taken during the cholera
4th, he was wholly ignorant of the agreefound to be as follows
Attorney General William O. Smith epidemic, is
ment between the American Minister
Hawaiians
785
and the Committee that Hawaiian poli- sailed on the 24th for Auckland, X. Z.
Chinese
1170
He expects to return December 12th.
676
tics should not be introduced. He was
Japanese
Portuguese
278
also unaware that Mr. Willis was from His errand is to study the practical workAmericans
45
a Southern state, or that he was the offi- ing of the New Zealand Land laws,
British
43
cial who had represented President Cleve- after which the law recently enacted here,
Germans
24
land here in December, 1893. These was partially patterned. Mr. Smith's
Other nationalities
29
statements would seem to exonerate Dr. nearly four weeks voyaging will afford
Cook from all charge of carelessness in him a useful vacation after his extremely
Total population
3049
giving offense on that occasion, such as arduous and most efficient labors as
was quite generally attributed to him at President of the Board of Health during Of this number 1441 are on or near
the recent cholera epidemic.
the time.
Ewa Plantation.
:
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THE FRIEND
By S. S. China, which tarried in this
port two days, Honolulu was favored
This well-known and lamented editor with visits from a large company of
of the Kuokoa died suddenly in the tourists and travellers bound to the
early morning of October 23d, literally Orient. Among them were missionaries,
as there are on nearly every China
"in the harness.'' He had risen at 4 steamer.
a.m., and was at his desk in his home
writing for his paper, when he was Footbinding
Punished for the First
Time in Honolulu.
seized with a heart attack and speedily
Joseph U.
Kawainui.
expired.
Mr. Kawamui was born at Hana,
Maui, in 1841. He was educated in
English at the Royal School. He began
his newspaper career in 1865 as an
assistant to Rev. Dr. L. H. Gulick who
had started the Kuokoa, with the especial
aim of opposing the absolutist and
heathenizing|tendencies of the then king,
Kamehanieha Y. From Mr. Gulick,
Kawainui absorbed many of those sentiments which determined his later political attitude. After Dr. Gulick left, Kawainui continued with H. M. Whitney
in editorial charge of the Kuokoa. In
1878, he started an independent paper
of his own the Pae Aina, which he conducted with some success until 1892,
when he resumed the charge of the Kuokoa, still published by Mr. Whitney.
Kawainui was a native of unusual intelligence. His knowledge of English
gave him full access to the news of the
world for the enlightenment of his native
He was for many years a
readers.
member of Kalakaua's Privy Council.
At the time of his death he was a member
of the Council of State. Special Government honors were paid at his funeral.
During his later years the deceased
was a consistent professor of religion,
and an active and serviceable member of
Kawaiahao Church. His disposition
was amiable. He possessed in a degree
unusual among natives the capacity for
steady and patient work, as well as great
tact and good sense. His death must
be esteemed a most serious loss to the
native people and -to the country.
Filling a Swamp.
The Dredger is excavating the upper
end of the harbor, beginning at the old
fish market. The mud is being delivered
upon the swamp west of Nuuanu stream
above King street. The Government
owns six acres of this which, when filled,
is to be a Park much needed in that part
of the city. This work will take several
months. When completed, there will
be room for a large number of new docks
where have hitherto been mud flats.
The largest mail ever sent from the
Honolulu Post office, was carried by the
Australia October 2d. It consisted of
12,304 letters and 4,933 papers. No
mail had gone for 24 days, owing to the
absurd refusal of the Alameda, Sept. 19,
to take our fumigated mails.
---
On the 11 th a fine of !>2:"> was imposed upon LongChing Kee for binding
the feet of his child, who hatl been found
by the cholera inspectors in a condition
of acute suffering from that process.
Dr. Emerson testified that " the smaller
toes were bent under and onto the soles
of the feet, and the forepart of the foot
was bent back to the heel and kept in
that position by bandages, causing a
dislocation of the bones of the instep."
A law was enacted at the late session
of the Legislature, prohibiting this
terribly cruel practice, which, besides
{he terrible agony it causes, cripples for
life its victims. There have been many
such cases in Honolulu, and no doubt
others are concealed.,
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The last case of Cholera.
After the end ot the epidemic Sept.
18th, there were, during the following
fifteen days, three scattering cases. The
very last case occurred on the night of
October 2d, that of an elderly white
inmate of the Insane Asylum, named
Wheeler. He was known to have drank
of the water flowing among taro patches,
such as five days before had caused the
death of another patient. The Board of
Health at once caused several acres of
taro patches, believed to be infected, to
be dried up.
The Rev. Kenneth Duncan was a
Presbyterian minister of rare ability, fine
culture, and seemingly of deep spiritual
experience. He preached among us
here in a most acceptable manner. It
was known, however, that after occupying important pulpits, he had twice succumbed to a resistless appetite lor intoxicants.
It is learned with deep regret
that on returning to the Coast he again
fell before his old enemy, and that his
name has been finally dropped from the
roll of Presbyttty.
May the Divine
mercy yet redeem this unhappy, stumFilibuster Alarms.
bling brother from the power of the evil
It may be hoped that the last alarm one! May that mercy also reach some
of incursions of filibuster pirates has in like case in Honolulu.
risen and faded out. Nothing of that
sort has shown a tendency to materialize.
Any such incursion seems in a high
degree improbable. Still the existence
Oct. Ist. -Mortuary report for the last
of such reports has imposed upon the
month
shows a t.ital of 112 deaths; of
Government duties of vigilance and preparation to meet and overcome such which 88 were Hawaiians, the next
possible enemies.
highest nationality being Chinese, with
seven. In ages the infants led the list
A Rainy September.
with 25, those ot "three score and ten"
following
with 22.
September in Hawaii is usually a dry
2nd.—Still
one more cholera case
month. This year it brought to Honoappears, a patient at the Insane Asylum.
lulu more than twice its average monthly This made the eighty eighth and
proved
rainfall, or nearly six inches on School the last.—Departure of stmt.
Australia
Street, and nearly two feet of rain in with a smaller fieight and passenger list
upper Nuuanu Valley. At upper Honti- than usual, but with the largest
mail yet
mu in Hilo, and at Mason's on the Vol- sent abroad, consisting of 12,304
cano road were also nearly 24 inches of and 4,933 papers, etc.—Sudden letters
death of
rain. Kona and Hamakua, also Maui Pomaikalani, sister of queen dowager
and Kauai all report a good supply of Kapiolani.
moisture. There having been extra rain
3rd.
Quarantined passengers for
also in August, Oahu hills are unusually
Kauai celebrate their departure for home
green.
by a shooting match, then make up a
for Health Agent McVeigh.—
purse
Sultry Weather.
Funeral of ex princes Pomaikalani,
For ten days after the middle of Octo- argely attended.
4th.—False report of armed men landber, Honolulu suffered more from heat
ing at Halawa, finds the authorities
than during any similar period of the ready forall emergencies
—Annual meetsummer. The wind of course was southing of the Free Kindergarten Association
erly, but brought little rain to this city, and election of
officers.
although a deluge fell at the north end
sth.—A burning rubbish heap leads
of the island.
the alert Fire Department a futile race
Hon. W. R. Castle was formally re- to Independence Park.—Quarantined received by President Cleveland on the strictions being gradually modified.
21st October, as accredited Hawaiian
6th. -The public schools re-open,
Minister to the United States.
except a few in recent infected districts.
RECORD OF EVENTS.
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THE FRIEND.
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—
Bth. A bicycle rider, through inattention, collides with a mule team and gets
badly hurt.
9th. -'The Dickson homestead, on
Beretania street, will be known shortly
as The Richelieu, a select hotel. —Tabu
on fishing raised except in the district
of Honolulu to be sold only at the
market, after inspection.
10th.—Monthly meeting of the Y. M.
C. A. with its committee reports and
new gymnasium attractions drew out a
large attendence, and added many new
names to the membership roll.
11th. Natives prepare for deep sea
fishing to supply a "long felt want."—
A young man with an alias, recently
from San Francisco, passes a worthless
check and gets in durance vile, but takes
his arrest with quite an unconcerned air.
12th. —Shooting scrape from an angry
dispute in which one John Brown admit
ted having shot "Scotty" Brown, inflicting a painful though not serious wound.
Council of State vote $2.>,ol>o more
for the cholera epidemic expenses, mak
ing $60,000 in all. -Quiet evening wed
ding of Miss Edith Hartwell to Alfred
W. Cartel. The ladies of the Relief
Society celebrate the termination of their
labors with a feast.
Chinese immigrant! at the
rantine station become obstreporous
make a break for liberty, but are
bed back by the guard*. On arrival
olice, later, they were found quite
r
Ilth.-
lued.
16th,—Death of Samuel Louisson,
after a brief illness, at the residence of
Quarantine raised.—
Dr. Howard.
of Queen's Hospital
meeting
Quarterly
rtustees, reports presented and new
trustees appointed.
17th.—The Mariposa, from the Colonies renews her friendly relations with
the port by coming in to her dock.— E.
P. Davis, Q.C, visits Honolulu to obtain
evidence in the Cranstoun Muller case
against the Warrimoo at Vancouver.—
First Central Union social in many
weeks draws together a large attendance.
18th. -The open corner lot, BethelHotel streets, is to have a line two-story
and basement lire-pi oo! structure, erected
by Wm. Mutch. The between lot, adjoining Castle & Cooke's, is also to
occupy a spacious warehouse for that
by the police, of
fi rnl ,—Opium capture,
a whaleboal part) making for Suinnei
Island.
20th. Masonic funeral services ot the
late Saml. Louisson, very largely attended. Interment at Nuuanu cemetery.
2lst. The Australia from the Coast,
brings a very welcome mail, but few
passengers. J. T. Waterhouse will succeed W. O. Smith as President of the
Board of Health, upon the latter's visit
to New Zealand.
22nd. -The dredger begins work for
the enlargement of the harbor ; the plan
MOM Amelia, Ward, for K.ureka.
King street. Above King street a new £7 Am
Am brgt W (1 Irwin, Williams, for San Kran.
and direct course will be dug for the I- —Am sen Bertie Minor, Raven, forSanihe Sound.
Kran.
17 Am ss Maiiposa, Hayward, for
stream and the old bed filled in.
1H C.er bk 1 ( Glede, Stege, for San Kran.
S Bennington, Pig man, for Kauai.
S
—IT
23rd. -Sudden death of J. U. Kawai- 28-U S S Olympia, Reed, for Japan.
ss Alamedn, Otlendorf, for (he Colonies.
nui, editor of the Kuokoa. Departure 14—Am
—Am bg Commiclo, Jacobson, fur San Kran.
of the U.S. S. Olympia for Japan, with- 'in Hawn bk Andrew Welch, 1 >iew, lor San Kran.
'M Am ss Australia Houdlette, for San Kran.
out having entered our harhor during her W
Am bk Albert, Griffiths, for San Krancisco,
visits in these waters.
30—Br ss China. Seabury, for China and Jaban.
Si—U S S Bennington, Pigman, for Hilo.
Bk C D Bryant, Jambsen, for the Sound.
24th.—Arrival of the Alameda, minus
genial Capt. Morse, retired.—Chas. H.
PASSENGERS.
Yatman, the evangelist, en route to the
AkKIVAI.S.
Colonies, concludes to stay over a trip
Victoria, per Miowera, Od. 1 W II Baird, Mrs
and enter upon contemplated work in LaFrom
ing and child. Miss Sturgeon, Mrs K.ckels, Mrs Bolton,
this city.—The Young Hawaiians' Insti- Miss Bolton, Alfred and Richard Bolton.
Kroin Liverpool, per Marie Hackfcld, <>*I. 4 A Mueller.
tutes give an enjoyable anniversary enKor San Krancisco, per W G Irwin, Od It) A T King,
tertainment at Foster Hall.
H C Pratt, Mrs S M Pratt, Miss Pratt, I I. Driggs, W A
2Mh.—Death of Capt. H. W. Mist Van Dyke, F Bruglielli, L II Dee, and N llez/og.
From San Krancisco, per R P Ritlut, Od. 16 W 1>
after but a brief illness—A runaway Alexander, |r, and Miss M.irris.
horse attached to a break made kindling
From San Krancisco, pet Australia, Oct. -I Prof liergrr
sun, C II Bishop, Miss N X Cooke, Miss Alberta
wood of the vehicle and in its mad rush and
Kllis, F Klamp, I X Kempster, M LoUIMOII and wife, S
for liberty knocked over a Portuguese Roth, I) B Smith and Chas Wall.
For San Krancisco, per At'wrl, Od M Mrs I I) Tiegworkman, injuring him so seriously as loan.
to necessitate hospital care. -Mr. YatFrom San Francisco, per P M SS t hina, < >ct "£Ht N $
Sachs and wife, WW Dimond, Df Brodie, Mis, J Mai
man opens at once upon his labors at the donald,
John S Huffman, aid 3 in steerage.
Y. M. C. A. Hall. —Bicycle accident, in
lIKI'AK 1 IKKV
which four well-known riders tumble
For .San Krancisco, per Australia, ad. W* X Steiner and
over each other, threatens to defer the family, A S Knudsen, (I X Simonds, C (1 Daly and wile,
X S Dodge, J B Alberton, wife and daughter, Mrs I'heo
forthcoming road race set for Nov. 2nd. Richards,
Dr J Brodic, Madame Verleye, S Roth, Mrs B
Cartwright and "children, X X Nichols and wife, T F
26th.- Company E wins the Win- Baldwin,
P B Aiken, A W Baldwin, T X Keywortb, wile
chester rifle trophy, against companies and child, Mis* Agnes Alexander, Miss May Damon, II
S F Damon, J C Hyde, If Waterhouse, C.
F B and G. Departure of the Austra- Twombly,
Waterhousc, Miss Mott Smith, Rev and Mrs J H Thomas,
lia, free of quarantine restriction, revives Mrs C W Cooper, ) R Judd, Jr, Miss l.illie Neumann,
Mr* Dr Wood and. hild, W H Ho >gs, CI Wilder, Mis.
the old time interest in the occasion for Kauffmann, Mrs X M Hatch, i btld and maid, Mrs Hawes,
floral decorations and farewell greetings. C R MsVeigh, A IJICsW. Mtriposa,
For San Francisco, per
Oct. l< KIIU Mills,
27th.— Yatman meetings afternoon Miss
Kmily Halstead, Miss A Miilhus, ( X Mullinsand
and evenings: the latter very well Lieut Rose, I' S N
For San Framico. per I C .Hade, Oct. IK S E Claire,
attended.
P Niven.
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28th.—Arrival of theC/;/;m, en route to For the Colonies, per Alameda, Oct -4 W (J Smith,
Mrs ) 1) Dean, Mr and Mrs Mills, Theo
the Orient. Owing to her large amount G N Wilcox,
Farrer, wife aud child.
of freight for this port, and the number For San Francisco, per Andrew Welch, Oct. %%■ Miss
of Chinese and Japanese passengers to Helen Barbels and Master Harvey I.evey.
Japan, per China, Oct. HO Miss Muni
embark over 300—she does not renew ForCChinaand
J Whitney, S J I.evey, I. M Johnson, J Shaeye,
■.on,
her voyage till 10 a.m. oi the 30th.
00 Japanese and 2M Chinese.
per CI) Bryant, Oct. 31 Mrs X C
29th. Thos. Anderson, a coachman, For theR Sound,
Rhodes, I Warson.
commits suicide.
30th.—Quarantinerestrictions rescindMARRIAGES.
ed. —Domestic exports for the quarter CARIKR-HARTWKLL In this city, Oct. 12, at the
the bride's parents, by tbe Rev 11 II Parker,
ending Sept. 30th shows a value of residence of
W Carter to Miss Edith Hartwell.
$694,7X5, and $21,948.54 of foreign Alfred
goods ; the lightest third quarter exports
BIRTHS.
for several years past.
FAGOKROOS— In this city, Oct 8, to the wife of V G
Faggeroos, a daughter.
Marine Journal.
PORT
HONOLULU.—OCTOBER.
OF
BURGESS—At Kailua, Kona, Hawaii, Oct 12,
wife of Alexander Burgess, a daughter.
BOOTH-At Panoa. Oct 14, to th wife of Chas W
CARTER—At Wailuku, Maui, Oct. l.\ ib»S,
to the
Booth,
to the wife
of Fred W. i. arter, a son.
ARRIVALS.
KENNING—In this city, Oct 14, to the wife of Wm
Miowera, Stott, from Vancouver.
fanning, a daughter.
I'SS Bennington, Pig man, from lahaina.
HAMMER—In this city, Oit 20, to the wife o' F Ham4 Ger sch Marie HackfeTd, Walters, from Livery ml.
mer, a son.
Am sen Bertie Minor, kaven, from Furcka.
7 Hf ss ( hiu;i, Se bury from Chinaand Japan.
BAILEY- In this city, Oct 22, at the Maternity Home, to
the wife of Geo II Bailey, a son.
1» \in bl Albert, Griffiths, from San Franciso.
i:i USS Olympia, Herd, from I ..ih.una.
TENNEY—At Honolulu, Oct 24, to the wife of E D
Tanncy, a son.
\B \m hk ( eyluti, Calhoun, from Departure Bay.
Ifi Haw bk R P Rithet, Monison, from San Fraiciso*.
JELLINGS-October 27, 1896, to thewife of R V Jellings,
17 -Am ss Mariposa, Hayward, from the Colonies.
twins.
IK -Am bk Amy Turner, Warland, from New York.
Br bk City of Adelaide,Williamson, from Newcastle,
Pig
from
Kauai
cruise.
man,
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DEATHS.
17 S 8 Bennington,
I Am
ss Australia, llouiTlette, from San Fran.
BURGESS—At Kailua, Kona, Hawaii, Oct 20, Charlotte
Am be Cousiielo, Jacobson, from Hilo.
wife of Aleaander Hurgtss, aged 40
beloved
Auld,
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:■:. Am bktn S N Castle, Hubbard, from San Francisco.
years aad 8 months.
24 \m ss Alameda, Ottendorf, from San Francisco.
LOUISSON—In this city, Oct 14, Saml Louisson, aged
28-Am sen Spoh.tne, Jamieson, from Port Gamble.
SS years 11 months.
28 Br ss China, Seabury, 6 days hours from San Fran.
81 Ilk Don Adolfo, Iju-sen, from Newcastle.
MIST—In this city, Oct 2S, Capt H W Mist, RN, a
native of I'ullham, Middlesex, England, aged 02 years
(h
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Oct I Br ss Miowera, Stott, for the Colonies.
2 Am m Australia, Houdlette, for Kan Fran.
Sh John McUod, Stawart, for Taltal, Peru.
5—U S S Bennington, Pigman, for Hilo.
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BECKLEY—In this city, Oct 20, Miss Lottie X Heck ley,
of peritonitis, aged 19 yean.
BOKNHOLT-At Iwitai, this city, Oct. t7th. Christian
Ivurnholt, a native of Germany, aged about TO years.
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HAWAIIAN BOARD.
HONOLULU, H. I.
This pane |g, devoted to the interests nf the Hawaiian
Board of Missions, and the Editor, appointed hy the
Hoard, is responsihle for its contents.
Rev. 0. P. Emerson,
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Editor.
The Waialua Association.
The Association which met at Waialua
Oct. 23 '21, was attended by all but two
of the pastors of the island. Kvery
church hut one was represented either
by pastoi, preacher or delegate.
The most important feature of the
meeting was its harmony. This feature
has been reported from every Association
meeting held thus far. It was pleasant
to note the interest the Waialua people
took in this meeting. Numbers were on
hand at every session, and at the Christian Endeavor social held the last evening, nearly every body in the district was
present. There were over 200 people
there. The remark was made that this
organization has an easy time of it now,
for most every body has been reached
and brought to church. One of the
notable acts of the Association was the
appointment of a committee to consider
how all the churches of the island, the
Chinese, Japanese and Portuguese, as
well as the Central Union, may be
brought into the Association. It was
felt also that the Association should be
responsible in seeing that every pastor
on the island should have at least $300
salary, and a committee was appointed,
consisting of Revs. Timoteo, Emerson
and Gulick, to try and achieve this result.
Mr. Gulick is the treasurer of the committee, and is authorized to solicit funds
from those friendly to the work of the
Hawaiian pastor. The case of M. Lutera, the presumably demented preacher
and late missionary to the Gilbert Islanders, was referred to a committee who
are to investigate his condition and report at the next meeting of the Association.
The people at Waianae were asked to
defer action on their call to him to be
come their preacher till this committee
might report. The next meeting of the
Association is to be held at Kaumakapili
Church in April, 1896.
Report of the Japanese Work.
From the arrival of Rev. J. Okabe,
about five years ago tor evangelical work,
Hilo has been the point of the most successful work for the Japanese upon the
islands.
Since the transference of Mr. Okabe
Honolulu, two evangelists have successfully conducted the Hilo city work.
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THE FRIEND
Rev. Mr. Sugiyama for seventeen months
has been the acceptable and successful
pastor of the Hilo Church. All the work
for the Japanese laborers in this country
partakes of the character of a seaman's
chaplain's work, in that the audiences
are continually and rapidly changing.
This fact is strikingly illustrated by the
conditions of the Hilo work. The records
of the church show that 2fio or 270
persons have become members of that
church since Mr. Okabe commenced
work there, about five yeais ago,—the
most of these on profession ot faith. Ot
this large number, to day but about M
can be found in Hilo and vicinity. A
few have died, but the great majority
have moved away to other parts ; many
to other districts or places upon these
islands, some to America, but the larger
portion have returned to Japan. Truly
service for Japanese upon these islands
is casting our bread upon the waters.
After many days the seed sown will bear
fruit, some of it upon these islands, some
in America, but much of it, most of it,
in Japan.
Rev. M. Sugiyama who left Hilo in
August and who sailed on Saturday for
further study in the U. S., is a man of
much culture, possessing a thorough
knowledge of English, and is a man of
power as preacher and pastor. He was
much beloved in Hilo by Japanese and
foreigners alike.
Mr. J. Kawabe, a graduate of the
Doshisha College, and theological dc
partment, arrived in Hilo just before Mr.
Sugiyama left and entered at once with
earnest spirit upon the work. He gives
much promise of usefulness.
On the last Sabbath in Sept. twelve
persons, eleven men and one woman,
were baptized in the Hilo Church, as the
result of the labors of Mr. Sugiyama in
Hilo, and Mr. Sasakura in Papaikou.
Mr. and Mrs. Sasakura are holding on
in Papaikou where they exert an influence for good. Her projects for Kindergarten work have not been carried out
owing to ill health.
Mr. Sokabe at Honomu has held many
meetings, and like his two brethren is
occupied with classes or evening meetings nearly every evening in the week.
Inability to speak the English language
excludes him from intercourse with foreign friends, and from appreciative sympathy in his faithful work.
Mrs Soo, the Japanese Bible woman
who is supported by the Woman's Board
of the Hawaiian Islands, accompanied
us to Hilo: and did good work among
the needy Japanese women of Hilo,
Wainaku and Papaikou plantations.
Kohala is in some respects the most encouraging Japanese field on the islands.
Mr. S. Kanda, the efficient evangelist
of this station has been at this post two
years, and is deep in his work. He holds
meetings or classes five evenings in the
week; thus reaching some of the laborers
on each ofthe five plantation every week.
At Niulii, at one remote camp, there
is an interesting company of :ll Kumamoto people, "-'7 men and ft women, all
from the vicinity of Otamura, six miles
south ofKumanioto city. This company
upon arrival eight months ago, pledged
themselves to each othel to abstain from
strong drink, and from gambling. These
two besetting vices have been thus excluded from this camp. Partly as a
consequence, this company has remitted
to their friends in Japan during the past
eight month*, eight hundred dollars.
Your missionary in company with Mr.
Kanda visited and spoke to this interesting and Ittentative company. This
camp constitute*, one of the bright spots
in the Kohala field. On the Sabbath,
the I:sth of October, on the occasion of
the observance of the Lord's Supper, two
Japanese men made profession of faith
in Christ ; while a company of forty-five
attended the service.
The Japanese Bible woman here held
meetings with her countrywomen on
the Kohala plantation: and it was thought
best that she remain here for a month of
work among the needy ones ; Rev. and
Mrs. Ostrom affording her a home, and
that moral and Christian support which
every good cause receives at their hands.
(). H. Gn.UK.
In addition to Mr. Citilick's report of
the work on the Island of Hawaii, the
following facts may be given of the
work on the Islands of Maui, Oahu and
Kauai :
Key. Oyabe, ol l'aia, Maui, writes :
My work is getting very interesting
and successful. I have been very busy
to get hold of the heart and mind of the
Japanese people. They have (alien into
my Christian net, and I have got almost
all of them. Last Sunday (Oct. 6) I
gave most solemn baptism to my new
converts, and also bad a church conference at the Pais Japanese mission. For
that purpose we spent about fifteen dollars which we had raised from among
There were twelve
our own people.
seekers of baptisms, but nine of whom
were chosen, and the other three were
asked to wait for further examination.
The nine were received on confession of
faith. Japanese came from almost all
parts of Maui to attend the service.
The Japanese Methodist preacher from
Spreckelsville was present, also Mr.
Gomi and other friends from Kula. A
number of white people were present.
I saw Mr. and Mrs. Lindsay, Mr. and
Mrs. Loveland, Mrs. Praming and Miss
Beckwith. Dr. Beckwith was too busy
on that day in attendance at his second
service at Makawao, so he did not come,
but he sent us beautiful flowers. The
service was cpened at 2:30 p.m., and
closed at ft. The Paia Japanese people
all say ' This was the most successful
meeting we ever had.'
Mr. G. Egami, of Waihee, writes:
On
" Sunday we have service in the
morning at Waihee, in the afternoon at
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Wailuku, and evening at Waikapu, and to practice any radical, manifest altera beware how they excuse themselves for
eighty or ninety people are attending tion in their daily life, that they feel in entering fields where others have tilled
these services. We have an evening
school for young men three nights out
of the week —a night each in Waihee,
After the
Wailuku and "Waikapu.
school we have a prayer meeting in
each place."
This is to be a week of deep interest
with the Japanese congregation of this
city. At the morning service of the 3d
inst. there is to be sung the national
hymn in recognition of the birthday of
their emperor ; in the evening the sacra
ment of the Lord's supper is to be celebrated, when it is expected that there
will be eight accessions to the membership of the church. While Mr. Okumura has charge of the city congrega
tion, Mr. Nishiyama gathers one in
Ewa, which he visits twice a week.
Mr. Yamazaki, who is in charge of
the mission at Lihue, Kauai, and who
also visits the station at Koloa, has
been suffering from an attack of malarial
fever, from which he is now recovering.
Perhaps Mr. Yeguchi, of Makaweli,
has as large and as compact a field as
there is in the group, no less than 1000
Japanese being in its center and on the
Makaweli plantation alone.
Rev. S. T. Uyeda, wife and child are
expected by the next steamer from
Yokohama. He is coming to reinforce
our Japanese mission. He will make
the twelfth in number of our evangelists. When he comes it is probable
that a station will be taken in Kail. Mr,
Uyeda has had considerable experience
as a worker in Shanghai, and it is expected that he will prove quite an
acquisition to our force.
A Three Days' Student of the Missionary
Fathers.
How shall we take the remarks of the
head of the Salvation Army of the Pacific
Coast in the person of Brig. Keppel,
when, after a three days' visit to Honolulu, he opened his mouth and addressed
a reporter of the "War Cry" as follows:
"The missionaries of old attacked the
Hawaiians in a general and intellectual
fashion. There was, therefore, nothing
in the nature of a spiritual intimacy cultivated between the natives and their
teachers, and many superstitions and
habits of the former were left untouched,
that should systematically have been
attacked. As a consequence, the natives,
while they are pleased, are at the same
time somewhat embarrassed by the absolute equality in which they find themselves associated with us, and are unequivocally surprised, even pained at
certain moral demands made upon them.
They have so long been used, as it were,
to being handled with missionary tongs;
to being placed upon a plane of acknowledged inferiority; to being accounted as
Christians without finding it necessary
many cases, as if the Salvation Army,
while delightfully broad in its socialism,
is quite too stringent in its spirituality"
Does Mr. Keppel mean to imply that
the missionary fathers did not beat a big
bass drum when they gathered their
followers, or that the missionary mothers
did not rattle tambourines before their
audiences ? If so, he is right. The
christian world was not given to that
sort of thing then, and those revered
fathers and mothers may be excused foi
being a little more sedate than the halle
lujah lads and lasses of the Salvation
Army. Does he mean that the demonstrative and noisy methods of the Salvation Army are best conducive in general
to spirituality ? There are those who
hold a different opinion. Why does he
charge tbe missionaries with being unspiritual ? It is about the last charge
ever brought to their door. They have
been charged with being too spirituallyminded in their ways that they were
too strict in their moral teachings. They
were never before charged with looseness
and neglect in mttters touching the conduct of life All the blame so far has
been the other way. But did the old
missionaries really reach the people ?
Let Mr. Keppel read the story of their
noble, sweet loving lives. No people
ever went more out ol themselves and
into others' lives. As preachers and
teachers of spiritual truth, as pastors to
the troubled and sinful, as advisers, helpers, guides, physicians and nurses of the
ignorant, the sick and the troubled, no
body of workers ever surpassed them.
Let Mr. Keppel get his information from
those that know. Let him go to Waimea
and question the people of father Lyons'
parish, or that of father Paris' parish,
or those of father Alexander or Baldwin,
Bishop, Smith or Bond, or Parker, or
Emerson, as I have done again and
again, and he will not say that those
fathers were not loved by their people,
that they did not feel them supremely in
their lives as a spiritual power, or that
they were careless of the morals of their
people. About the last charge that can
be laid to the door of the missionary
fathers is that they were not in spiritual
touch with their people.
They were intellectual men and
women, and they had to be, to be able
to begin where they did, reduce a language to writing and create its literature.
But this intellectuality did notdeter them
from coming into personal touch with
the people. Let Mr. Keppel be careful
how in the future he sets himself up as
a teacher of the truth, for by this talk of
his, it is seen that he has made "a bad
break." Let him next time take more
than three days for his studies of Hawaiian missions. We are willing to put
up with the peculiar methods of our
brethren of the Salvation Army. We
are willing to say God-speed to them in
all their disinterested labors, but let them
and sown for halt a century by criticising
the methods, the teachings and lives of
men and women who were as pure and
noble as this age has seen.
O. P. E.
Epigrams by Mr. Yatman.
From Reports in Hawaiian
Star.
A genuine revival means human pros
pcrity.
You can never get a people genuinely
Christian, and keep them submerged.
The divine test of a Christian is to
see Jesus Christ.
The sight of Christ broadens, enables,
strengthens a man.
The wealth of the wicked is laid up
for the just.
What is the secret of my life ? To
get people to see Jesus. Won't you join
me in that purpose ?
If you want to be miserable, look
within ; if you want to be distracted,
look without: if you want to be happy,
look to Jesus.
Never come to the end of life without
God. without hope. Never! Never!
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Monday, October 7th,
PRANK A. HOSMKR. A. M.. President,
Amherst.
J. Q. WOOD. A. M.. Wesleyan.
A. B. INGALLS, A. M., Amherst.
W. E. BECKWITH, A. 8.. Williams.
A. 1.. COLSTEN, C. E., Cornell University.
PEL ANNA H. HOSFORTH. Hohere Toch
terschule zu lusterburg.
MISS FLORENCE KEI.SKY, A. 8., Smith
College.
MISS JESSIE R. AXTELL. New England
Conservatory of Music.
FRANK BARWICK. Kew Gardens, Superintendent of Grounds.
MISS ELIZABETH CROZIER, Matron and
Teacher of Sewing.
PUNAHOU PREPARATORY SCHOOL.
SAMUEL P. FRENCH. A. 8., Principal,
Dartmouth.
MISS HELEN K. SORENSON, California
State Normal School.
MISS C. A. GILMAN, Oberlin.
MISS M. L. MILLARD, Wellesley.
LYLE A. DICKEY, A. 8.. Vale, Bookkeeper
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in grace, and in leading them forward in
Christian knowledge and practice.
All communications and letters connected with the literary
A very inspiring sight was the crowded
department of the pSSW, Hooks and Magazines, fm Keview and Exchanges should be addressed "Rkv. S. K. throng of young Christians present at a
Lisiiop, Honolulu, H. I."
union meeting of the Y. M. C. A. and
Hiisinrss letters should he addressed "T. <*>. Thki m,
Christian Endeavor bodies on the evenHonolulu. 11. I."
ing of November 24. The joy and enS. K. BISHOP
Editor thusiasm of the hour witnessed to the
strength of the revival which has wrought
upon us.
CONTENTS.
iai.k
-
-
Oood Work by Mr Yfltnuu
A
(ireat
Loss
Bft
A Great Loss.
X Brief Sketch of the Missionary Life of Mrs I.ubil
Moscltry Bingham
89
Thanksgiving Day
80
The sudden death of Mrs. Soares was
Rev C H Yatraans Work in Honolulu
90
Mrs Rachel X Leans
91 a severe blow to the Portuguese mission,
New M- tliodisi Church
92
High School Dedication
92 in which she was one of the brightest
Aunts Montague Comin| Home
08
Kate Field Here
93 lights, as well as to her husband and
A Catholic Version of Hawaiian Affairs
93
More Political PrUoner* Released,
98 their five very young children. The love
Annual Meeting PLASCo
98
Cental of Laborers on Sugar Plantatiena
98 of the Portuguese people for this misRecord of Events.
98
Marine Journal
ji.j sionary
was evinced by the hundreds
Hawaiian Board
Da
Rev l»r McArthur on Hawaii
96 present in the church at her funeral, as
jsft
Good Work by Mr. Yatman.
The beloved evangelist has wrought
four weeks in Honolulu, and has departed to fresh fields of labor. He has left
much good fruit behind him. The Lord
of the harvest has greatly blessed our
brother's labors, in delightfully quickening the love and zeal of Christians, and
in causing the hearts of a large number
of youths and older people to respond to
the Divine call, and openly avow their
acceptance of the Lord Jesus Christ as
their Savior and Lord.
Brother Peck, pastor of the If. E.
Church in this city, has by request, contributed to these columns a valuable
history of Mr. Yatman's labors here.
For our part, the peculiarities in the
evangelist which most impressed us were
his cheerful geniality, his ardent faith,
and capacity for constant hard work.
Tact and good sense were conspicuous,
with a clear understanding of the Scriptures, and great directness and spiritual
power in teaching divine truth to the
people.
Our Christian workers will have gained
much inspiration, and learned much
practical wisdom in winning and guiding
souls, from the work of the month. A
great and responsible labor is now theirs,
in confirming the many new-born souls
89
NIIMHKR 12
The present writer speaks from a vivid
recollection of ■ period of sixty years
and more in the past, when, often a guest
in the old Mission House still standing,
we children experienced the motherly
and gracious kindness of the mistress of
the house, heavily burdened as she was
with cares and somewhat feeble health.
Mr. Bingham by ability and personal
force, was easily the leading spirit among
his brother missionaries, and had long
secured the entire confidence of the leading native chiefs. But it had been Mrs.
Bingham who had gained the almost
worshipping love of tbe powerful Regent
Raahumanu, whose fierce, imperious
nature had become lamb like before
Christ and His servants. And Eaahumanu's immense authority was a leading
factor in securing at a very early date
the close attention of the people to the
Gospel.
This little book seems to us the choicest among several choice volumes of
personal memoirs snd recollections of
early missionary life in Hawaii. The
writer requests mention that the proceeds ot copies sold in Honolulu are to
be
to the treasury of the Woman's
Hoard, and that the booklet will make
suitable and simple gifts for Christmas.
well as the hundreds more who remained
outside, perhaps unwilling to enter a
Protestant house of worship. Dr. Hyde's
memorial article on Mr. Snares will be
read with tender interest.
Very near to the heart of our departed sister was the erection of a commodious church for the pressing needs
Thanksgiving Day.
of their growing congregation. Shall
not her desire have early fulfilment,
This day was observed on November
now that the dear worker has been SS, in accordance with a proclamation
taken away ?
How better allay our
in winch the followown regrets, or meet our Master's by President Dole,
ing well chosen expressions were used :
wishes ?
"The past year b;is hi
varied
t
With
~ie
experiences
Republic.
Sketch
of
the
Life
A Brief
Missionary
Mros.f abundant crops
and
fair
business
prosSybil Moseley Bingham.
perity, both foreign and domestic, have
come the critical incidents of domestic
hByedrpauCMghToterai.stnu73.
disturbance and dangerous pestilence ;
This little book is a most admirable from both of which the country has been
and touching memorial of one of the mercifully delivered with small loss of
most cultured and consecrated of a noble life through the blessing of Providence
group of very lovely and devoted women on the efforts of the Government and its
citizens."
who, seventy years ago and more, gave
A very large audience assembled at
their lives and their high intelligence to the Central Union Church, where Pastor
the work of enlightening and uplifting Birnie preached a powerful discourse on
this beloved Hawaiian race into the "Christian Citizenship."
proclamation of the President of
kn9wledge and fellowship of Christ. theThe
Republic this year took the place
Forty-one pages of the book contain hitherto held by a proclamation to Amchoice extracts of letters and journal erican citizens by the U. S. Minister.
written by Mrs. Bingham. The first For this reason DO reference was made
part is a memoir of her mother, read by in the services, to the United States, as
Mrs. Coan before the Woman's Board has been the custom heretofore.
of Missions, on the 2d of April, 18sl5,
which was seventy-five years from the
The Hawaiian Gazette Company is
day when the pioneer missionary Hiram operating a Mergenthaler Linotype maBingham and his wife first landed at chine, the first type setting machine inHonolulu.
troduced into these Islands.
�THE FRIEND
90
loijo
Rev. C. H Yatman's Work in Honolulu. revival began that night by Mr. Yatman was calculated to help in the fierce srug-
giving an address to Christian workers gle which comes to all. I think that the
in the Y. M. C. A. Hall where the ser- one decided and uppermost thought in
vices
were held to the close. For the the minds of all as an outcome of the
"A prophet mighty in deed and word
first
two weeks or more the work did meetings is that none ofus can afford to
before God and all the people." Time not receive the cordial assistance of a be hearers of the word "and not doers.
has no measure by which we can cal- large part of the Christian people of the Many vows have been registered to do
culate the results of soul-saving work. city. The Spirit of God was felt to be something every day in the name and
In writing of the work of the man of in the meetings in power, and gradually for the cause of the Master."
Miss Pope of the Kamehameha Girls'
God, who has been in our midst for four the whole city became deeply interested
and stirred ; and during the last week of School says"the girls were deeply imweeks, I do not presume to give other the revival a general effort was made
pressed. Ido not think that it was
than a few of the actual results. Be- "to push the battle to the gates." The mere emotion, Mr. Yatman had a perfore doing so a few words as to the man Y. M. C. A. Hall became too small to sonal interview with each of the fortymay not be out of place. Mr. Yatman hold the audiences which came to hear eight girls who decided for Christ. A
the word of God spoken by a man. large part of these had never even made
was born in Vermont forty-two years
own life was full of the Spirit of a profession before. This time, they
ago, and often speaks with pleasure of whoseChrist;
who believes in the thoroughly understood what it meant to
Jesus
the home-life on the "old farm." His inspiration of atheman
Bible
the first cf be a Christian. Mr. Yatman made every
father's family were strict Presbyterians Genesis to the last offrom
Revelation: a thing very plain in all his addresses.
and the family was carefully trained.
and feels the saving The girls were more seriously impressed
Mr. Yatman early joined the Presby- man who knows
terian church, but when he came to the and keeping power of God in his own than I have ever before known them to
"If God can save be. He did a wonderful work and in
years of young manhood, not believing soul and believes that
a sinner like me the right way."
falling
and
from
keep
that he was a real christian he refused
Using
Of Mr. Yatman's work at Oahu Colto let his name stand as a member. A he can save and keep any man."
noto- lege, President Hosmerspeaksas follows:
seeking
tricks,
no
nor
in
anyway
few years after at the age of twenty-two
Yatman, full of confidence in "I honestly think that there is a better
he was converted through the instru- riety, Mr.
the
and converting power spirit prevailing among the students
convincing
mentality of the Baptists and joined the
with a small than for the past two years. I attribute
Methodists, being attracted to them, as of God's Spirit, worked on
of helpers and saw his efforts it in a great measure to the presence of
band
he says, by their "Push, piety and Spiritual Power." Although a married man gloriously crowned with success. Over Mr. Yatman. At one meeting twentyand youths five out of the sixty-six students took a
snd having three children, Mr. Yatman one hundred and twenty men
a determination to decided stand for Christ. At the last
expressed
publicly
soon after took a small Methodist mission and began to work. The time lead a christian life at the Y. M. C. A. meeting there were not over ten of the
scores of students who did not rise to confess
came when actual hunger was felt in meetings; beside the above,
and
decided
for
girls
women
Christ at Christ as their personal Saviour.
his home, but his trust in God never
"Mr. Yatman did not work on their
wavered and with the assistance of a the Y. M. C. A. services. In addition
much of emotions. His aim was real, honest
to
this
work
Yatman
Mr.
gave
band of seven women, whose hearts
God had touched, a revival broke out his time and held many services in Ka- heart work. He pointed out the heinousSchools, ness of sin, and
and the mission rapidly grew into a mehameha Boys' and Girls'
Jesus Christ as the
Oahu College. Saviour from sin.
Kawaiahao
and
Seminary
flourishing church. After four years
in the schools the princi"These results are shown, not in mere
labor as a pastor, Mr Yatman became Of his work
as
follows: "All of us in the protestations, but in the lives of the
pals
speak
Secretary of the Newark, New Jersey,
have been greatly revived and students outside.
In many cases a
Y. M. C. A. This position he filled for Faculty
Richards
of
KameMr.
and
helped,"
says
yet
serious,
look has taken
joyous,
six years, during which time he also
became the leader of the young people's hameha Manual. We received more the place of an evident tendency to frivsummer meeting at Ocean Grove, a good through him than we have for olity. We had the best boys' prayer
in any other way. His work meeting last Friday that we have ever
work in which he has labored ever since years,
was thorough and genuine. had. Sixteen out of twenty-four offered
and in which he has, under God, been with the boys
believe
that
the boys who came and prayer. The labor of governing the
I
used as the instrument in the conversion
an honest school is practically nil, and I'd rather
of thousands to God. He has been en- spoke with Mr.toYatman had
their
lives to have this spiritual prosperity than the
give
up
determination
gaged in evangelistic work for ten years.
temporal prosperity which is ours."
He has always had the reputation of the service of Christ.
the
result
Our
have
shown
meetings
an
whole
"The girls of Kawaiahao understood
earnest,
souled man of
being
God, whose one desire was that his work ever since. Sixty or seventy came to more thoroughly than ever before what
should be thorough, deep and lasting. speak to Mr. Yatman; some of these it was to be a Christian,'' says Miss
It had been ascertained that Mr. Yat- had professed Christ before; these were Gillam of Kawaiahao Seminary. "Th«
man would be willing to stop at Hono- greatly quickened, and their love and work was thorough and deep ; of course
lulu on his evangelistic <our round the zeal intensified but a larger part of the it will need to be closely followed up to
world. It was then thought wise to have boys for the first time intelligently ac- be permanent. Mr. Yatman's talks here
the Y. M. C. A., invite Mr. Yatman, in cepted Christ as their personal Saviour. were very helpful to every one of us.
order that the greatest harmony might I am heartily thankful that a decided Over twenty-nine of the girls came out
clearly for Christ. I notice much more
prevail, and assistance be given in the issue was drawn.
Mr. Yatman made the matter so plain, interest in Bible Study; and girls who
work here. On account ot the prevalence
of Cholera in Honolulu at the time set as to what it meant to be a Christian, were professing Christians before are
for Mr. Yatman's coming he staid and that some of the boys did not stand up more willing to take up work to help
worked in San Francisco for a month, as is often lightly done; those who did, others." In addition to the above Mr.
and came on the through steamer of thoroughly understood what they were Yatman held a number of revival serOctober not intending to stop at Hono- doing. Yes, there was honesty of decision vices in the Portuguese and native
lulu. Feeling deeply the great need of and the Yatman revival will not die out c'lurches and in all cases the Spirit of
a revival in Honolulu, Messrs. D. W. here. The fruits have been seen in some od honored the spoken word by the
Ivation of many souls.
Corbett and H. W. Peck went off to the of our Alumni who came back here. Mr.
Man likes to count heads, not so with
steamer and persuaded Mr. Yatman to Yatman's last talk was on heart purity—
stay over a month in Honolulu. The purity of thought, and imagination, and
d, with whom quality is ever before
By Rev. H. W. Peck.
�Vol. 53, No. 12.]
THE FRIEND.
91
these five years of Christian life and
Mrs. Rachel F. Soares.
quantity. The one thing that seems to
have impressed all is the "quality" of
service need not be rehearsed. The
By Rev. C. M Hyde, D. D.
church, the schools, the parsonage are
the work done by Mr. Yatman as "the
Servant of God." We can but hope for Kesd at the l-'iiiieral Ssrsicss in Central Union Church. honored buildings in this city, This
the best of results in all the churches
Rachel Fernandez, daughter of John assembly; these pews, filled with people
where the work begun is prayerfully, Ignatius and Mary Augusta Fernandez, to whom this life of Christian service has
brought blessings, which no standard of
carefully, and systematically followed was torn
in Springfield, Illinois, Februup. None so much as Mr. Yatman
earthly value can rightly estimate; these
realized this need or urged the Christians ary 7, IX6I. Her parents belonged to many friends, fellow workers in the
of Honolulu to greater efforts. If in the little colony of converts from Ro- Womans Board of Missions and the
pastor and people is found the Spirit of manism who left Madeira in search of Free Kindergarten Associations; these
the Living God, the converts who make a home, where they should be free from voices,joining in these hymns of Christian faith and hope; these tearful eyes,
that church their home will live and
grow strong in the Lord. In any church, grievances they could no longer endure. these many tributes of affectionate reof any denomination, where little is made In spite of poverty and disappointment membrance and regrets, —all testify to
of the Blood of Christ as the only means they held fast their personal faith in the wide reach and tender-hold that this
of salvation, and where the purifying and Jesus their Lord and Leader, as well as Christian woman has won for herself in
sustaining power of the Holy Spirit is sacrifice and saviour. The mother dy- many hearts. What was sweet and atminimized or belittled, there you will ing when this daughter was only a year tractive in Mrs. Soares, voice and manner
find cold, lifeless members, and there and a half old, the child found a loving was so, because of the spirit that attuned
sure and swift death awaits young con- welcome and careful training, adopted and attempered her every word and
verts. Upon the Christ-likeness in life, into an Uncle's family. There, intelli- action. The simple piety that looked
in spirit and in work of each and all the gence, thrift and piety moulded the on life as God's good gift for high and
churches will largely depend the final forming character into a vessel, fit for holy use, that saw in every fellow morresults of the Yatman meetings. A man special use, in the Masters service of tal the birth mark of sonship with Christ,
of God has been among us. He was these later years. Brought early into and sought through the relationship of
genial, tactful, thoughtful, deep, terribly loving trust in the Jesus, whose presence daily intercourse, closer communion
in earnest about, and tireless in working and guidance and blessing was sought with the Father above, —that kind of
for, the salvation of souls. He has in that household in daily family prayer, piety every one recognized and acknowshown us that a true man will be loya she united with the First Presbyterian ledged in Mrs. Soares. The mere sight
to his church and not narrow or bigoted; Church of Springfield, Illinois, when she of it has been an inspiration and a help
that the salvation of souls is a work in was ten years old.
In the Public to others. Its rich fruitage, so quickly
which all should heartily join, and, to Schools of the city her quick intellect maturing, is a presage of the day, when
further which, all selfish ends should be received an impulse and a training, which if all God's people should have the same
forgotten. There will be more people made tongues and pen most efficient spirit of humble loving trust, the harvesin Honolulu who, as a result of the and charming helps in the development ter shall overtake the plowman. In
Yatman meetings, will pray one of his of a useful and fruitful life. Her abilities these coming days quicker than the marprayers. "Oh Lord abundantly bless and training found their first field of vellous performances of the Hindoo
any and every work of which thou dost service in the Sunday School. She was jugglerwill be the planting of some seed
approve, whether I do or not."
married early in life, October 11, 1883, to of Christian truth, and lo ! at once, its
but
man,
is
a
able
Antone
Y. Soares, soon after his arrival fruit in lives of joyous devotion.
very
Mr. Yatman
What will the work and home be,
the secret of his success lies in the fact from Madeira. With husband of a kinof his implicit reliance upon God's guid- dred spirit, the married couple together without her, who has left us, and passed
ance and blessing. Strong in faith and wrought with patient toil on the founda- on to higher service and holier joy!
giving glory to God, he works cease- tions of a Christian home. Not till five The home of her youth was left as sudlessly. "Trust God as if he had all the years after marriage did a child come to denly as the home of her later years at
work to do, then work as if you had it make the family circle complete. From the Master's call. The faith that promptall to do," is a favorite expression of the that home, with its brightness and cheer, ed that act of consecration should be ours
evangelist. God honors this man be- they came out at what they believed to now, as we feel the sharp sundering of
cause he honors God in his love for, and be the call of God to this strange and ties of affection and friendship, and of
devotion to Jesus Christ; his reliance distant land, five years ago. Here they the utter abandonment and desolation
upon the Holy Spirit, his confidence in, entered upon special religious work for of all which in the past we have learned
and use of, the Bible as God's revealed the Master among the Portuguese, who to love and seek and trust. No work
will to man, and the total abandon of his had come by hundreds at a time to these in the Lord is in vain: no worker in the
whole life to the Master's will, that He Hawaiian Islands. The cultivation and Lord's vineyard called away early by the
may work in him to will and to do of his manufacture of sugar was then a new Master's voice should be begrudged as
good pleasure. In one of Mr. Yatman's industry, that for its development called the quick fruition ot life's brief labors by
favorite hymns is the secret of his life for larger supply of labor. Well do I re- those who are as truly called of the
member that pleasant home.
I can Master to long hours of patient toil and
and work.
never forget the time, when one summer unfilled hope. The Master knows best.
My barque is wafted from the strand
By Breath Divine;
afternoon a stranger all unexpectedly It takes generations of hard experiences
And on the helm there rests a hand
asked husband and wife to leave their of life to make a nation capable of good
Other than mine.
pleasant surroundings and go with him work—in the higher walks of literature
One who is known in storms to sail
thousands of miles away to take up a and science. It takes uncounted years
I have on board;
Above the raging of the gale
work that held out no hope of material to make the church of Christ fitted to do
I HAVE MY LORD.
betterment. He invited them to this the work God has planned. But every
"service of gift," the consecration of once in a while there is an exceptional
There are at the present time a larger themselves and their lives to the en- output of activity and fruitfulness in
number of new dwelling houses in pro- lightment and uplifting of those in far some individual in some special period.
cess of erection in this city than at any off Hawaii, who spoke the same mother When the history of God's work in these
former time. The same may be said of tongue. The inducement offered was Islands shall be fully recorded, in God's
business blocks.
Several fine brick supreme need of Jesus' redeeming grace book of remembrance will be one page
stores are in progress on Hotel, Bethel and the Holy Spirit's regenerating power of special honor—that gives the story
and King Streets.
for the Portuguese there. The story of of this short life here—in laying the
�oundations of this work of grace among
he Portuguese residents of these Isands—a life brief but full, short in
duration but rich in. fruitfulness. On
whom shall the mantle of the risen one
fall? In whom shall this Dorcas of this
Portuguese church live again, not in
resuscitated life but a resurrection of her
loving helpfulness in the varied ministries of christian beneficence?
New Methodist Church.
Our Methodist brethren are showing
admirable enterprise in the rapid erection
of a church edifice on the east corner of
Beretania and Miller Streets, one blockinland from the Executive Building.
The audience room will hold between
300 and 400 people. The lot is a large
one and will have space for a larger and
more durable church should such be
needed in the future.
High School Dedication.
Formal Dedication Exercises were
held at 3 p. m. on November Ist in the
spacious rooms of the new Public High
School. Tbe rooms were crowded to
their utmost capacity with friends and
relatives of the scholars.
After a short address of welcome by
the Principal, Mr. M. Scott, MissGirvin,
a pupil, spoke a graceful welcome to the
visitors. Prof. Alexander the President
of the Board of Education, followed with
an appropriate address. He spoke of
the liberality ofthe trustees of the Bishop
Estate, and that ot the Government, in
furnishing the palatial building and
grounds; and of the fact that for years
high school studies had been successfully
pursued in Fort Street School, so that
this Institution was only the transplanting of a well grown tree. He hoped
that worthy conduct of the pupils would
correspond to their beautiful environment, and that its luxuriousness would
not abate their generous aider in study.
Dole made a pleasant talk,
; how the barefoot boys jumped the
i, while the booted ones fell into
ud. Mrs. Dillingham read a lively
ry on the "Hill of Knowledge."
ctor-General Atkinson spoke of the
immense advance in education that he
had witnessed here in twenty-six years.
He hoped this High School would soon
be made tuition free.
After the singing of a Dedicatory
Hymn by Philip H. Dodge, the visitors
were invited to inspect the building and
the beautiful grounds.
Isident
Envoy and Minister F. M. Hatch
sailed for his post at Washington per
Coptic November 7th. He will find
himself speedily called into very active
duty in watching the action of Congress
upon the subject of a Cable to Honolulu
and upon that of the annexation of
Hawaii.
[December, 1895
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Kawaiahao Church Re-opened.
After thirteen months closure of the
venerable edifice, Kawaiahao Church
was re-opened for the public worship of
God on the morning of Sunday, November 7th. It was a joyful occasion. The
new and beautiful interior greeted the
assembling congregation with its fresh,
ornate and cheerful aspect. A large
audience assembled, fairly filling the
floor and spacious galleries. The organ
rang out its glorious notes under the
skilled hand of Prof. Berger. The pulpit
stage was richly decorated with palms,
ferns and flowers, some of the latter on
two costly stands presented by Mrs. John
Robinson. In the audience were the
students of Kawaiahao and Kamehameha schools. A large number of prominent foreigners were also present.
Participant in the exercises were the
pastor Rev. H. H. Parker, Revs. Waiarfiau of Kaumakapili, Desha of Hilo,
Kapu of Wailuku, O. P. Emerson,
Hiram Bingham, C. M. Hyde D. D. and
Messrs. E. Bailey and P. C. Jones.
The pastor confined himself to announc
ing the parts of theothers and to notices.
Messrs. Kapu and Emerson offered
prayers, the former most impressively.
Messrs. Bailey and Bingham gave interesting reminiscences of early days.
Father Bailey is the last survivor of the
missionary men who saw the old Stone
Church built.
Three infants were baptized by Mr.
Desha, one of them a niece. Mr. Desha
preached a vigorous sermon from Haggai 2:9. "The latter glory of this house
shall be greater than the former."
Early in the services, the treasurer of
the repair Committee, Mr. P. C. Jones,
read the report of receipts and expenditures upon the work, as follows:
Total collections for account church
repairs, $11,673.65: total cash, repairs
of church, $11,419.94; leaving a balance
of $253.75 after paying all bills. Electric light collections, $675.15; electric
light expenses, $400; leaving a balance
of $275.15, which added to the building
fund balance of $253.75, makes a total
of $528.90; $"»75.51 was paid for lanai
material. There remains a balance in
hand of $253.39.
It should be stated that of the above
collections, $1000 each was given by
Messrs. C. R. Bishop and Theophilus
H. Davies. Several other munificent
donations were received. The natives
contributed freely according to their
limited ability. Should the lanai, in
which the congregation have worshipped
for over a year, be removed, the sale of
the material will add something to the
balance.
The interior showed additional beauty
from the electric lights in the evening.
There were four
of eight
bulbs each, and forty single lights distributed through the house. The choir
are accommodated in a spacious gallery
behind the pulpit, and in front of the
organ. The ceiling is elegantly recessed
and paneled in redwood and fir. The
galleries are richly panneled in the same.
A great change is made in the galleries
by removing the front third on each side,
and by running a new gallery across the
back.
The church is entirely new except the
walls, the windows and the tower. The
old woodwork was entirely stripped out
from ground to ridge pole. The rafters
and stringers had been completely riddled by the white ants. The soid coral
walls remain. The external aspect is
unchanged, a grand monument of the
Christian zeal and resolve that erected
this great church 55 years ago, in the
days of the old chiefs and in the prime
of missionary activity. Devout thanks
be to God for the Christian love and
kindness of those who have so nobly
come to help and restore this old monument and make it a fitting sanctuary
for the present generation of the Hawaiian people. May it be a place where
the Holy Spirit shall inspire preachers
and people and bring multitudes of souls
into the fellowship of Christ.
Campbellite Church.
Our esteemed brother the Rev. T. D.
Garvin, and his flock, of the "Christian"
(Campbellite Baptist) Church, occupied
on November 17th for the first time their
new church edifice just above the corner
of King and Alakea Streets. They are
to be congratulated on their much improved though still narrow quarters.
It is to be hoped that in due time they
will outgrow these, as well as what
seems to us the extremely narrow sectarianism of these otherwise excellent
Christians.
Judge Henry E. Cooper, has taken
the office of Minister of Foreign Affairs
vacated by Mr. Hatch. Mr. Cooper is
38 years of age. H.e was admitted to
the bar in Boston in 1879. He came to
Honolulu from San Diego in 1890, and
read the Proclamation of the Committee
of Safety, establishing the Provisional
Government, January 17, 1893, an act
demanding much nerve.
New Missionary Yacht.
The new Robert W. Logan, sailed for
Honolulu from San Francisco on the
16th Nov.
She is in charge of Capt.
Bray, who will take her as far as Ruk.
We may expect her here any day. The
new schooner is about the same size as
her missing predecessor, and no doubt
in some respects an improvement on the
latter. We may all rejoice with Brother
Price in this great and needed adjunct
to his important work not only in the
Mortlocks but in the islands beyond Ruk.
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Annis Montague Coming Home.
Mrs. Mary Annis Cooke Turner, the
eminent opera star, who has long sung
under the above name, is about to take
up her residence in Honolulu. She was
accorded distinguished honors at Sydney prior to her departure from that
city, where she had chiefly made her
residence for several years.
Kate Field Here.
The distinguished Washington journalist, Miss Kate Field is in Honolulu.
She has come for recuperation of health.
Her errand is partly also to personally
inspect Hawaiian conditions as to their
bearing upon Annexation. Her published statements will be awaited with interest.
A Catholic Version of Hawaiian Affairs.
There has just been received the following excerpt from the Roman Catholic
newspaper organ in San Francisco,
The Monitor, of September Ist, 1894.
Presumably it embodies the representations sent abroad by the Catholic Bishop
and priests of Honolulu as well as their
attitude in respect to affairs in these
Islands.
"There is now some hope for the Hawaiians; the Salvation Army is taking
up their case. The preachers have been
over there for fifty years; the only result
of their labors seems to be the degradation of the native race and their impoverishment. The preachers saw it was
a good land and they absorbed it. They
destroyed the native worship; they did
not replace it by Christianity; they persecuted the Catholic missionaries; it was
only at the cannon's mouth that France
compelled them to grant freedom of
worship. To-day the race is sunk in
immorality and is fast disappearing, but
the preachers and their descendants now
possess the wealth and the government
of the country. Any religion to be
found in the islands is that which the
Catholic missionaries have taught. The
hybrid Protestantism which the preachers have introduced is not far from pure
paganism. The Salvation Army, seeing
this state of things, are sending over a
detachment of their people, and hope to
teach Christianity. Anything they may
do is better than what has been done by
the preachers. If the Salvationists can
introduce morality and religion among
the natives, they will be preparing them
for the full light of Catholicity."
A friend lately returned from several
years residence in Germany, states that
after the Revolution of January 1893,
she was beset by letters and inquiries
from German friends asking her "what
horrible creatures were this American
THE FRIEND
Dole and his confreres who were robbing
the natives of their lands and property,
and inflicting inhuman tortures upon
them. Those things were certainly true,
for they found them in all their papers."
Some active bureaus of misinformation
have evidently been hard at work here
to disseminate misstatements abroad.
More Political Prisoners released.
With the advice of the Council of
State, the Executive on Thanksgiving
Day, released two white and five native
prisoners. The two white men were
under long sentences, having had lead
ing parts in the insurrection. Mr. Rickard was one of the four chief conspirators. Mr. Walker manufactured the
dynamite bombs. It is understood that
these two were made the object of special
leniency on account of their having
large families which were suffering, as
well as on account of their manifest
regret for their former action.
Two natives were still held, as well as
four white leaders, to whom for various
reasons, the Executive is not yet prepared to extend release. A petition asking for such general release had been
sent to the Executive. It was signed
by a large proportion of the supporters
of the Government. Opposite opinions
on the subject are as follows: That the
stability of the government is so well
established, that no farther danger ot
conspiring to overthrow it is to be apprehended, and that the release of all the
political offenders would be a conciliatory
measure. On the other hand, many feel
that so early a general release would
place the Government in the position
of making light of its own former attitude of severity towards those attempting its overthrow. The Executive evidently intend to be understood as treat
ing the subject very seriously. It cannot be doubted that to the minds of the
President and his colleagues it will be
as great a relief as to us all when the
time arrives when it is wise and proper
to set free the last political prisoner.
93
in excess of any previous one. This is
a yield of nearly nine and one-half tons
to every laborer employed.
Plantations.
Census of Laborers on Sugar
The following tabulated statement
was presented by Mr. F. M. Swanzy,
on November 25, at the annual meeting
of the Planters' Labor and Supply Company. It gives the numbers of laborers
of different nationalities employed upon
the sugar plantations in the Hawaiian
Islands.
Hawaiians
Portuguese
Chinese
Japanese
Others
Total
.
Men. Women.
\
Chil'n. Total.
1.591
15
0
1,608
2,046
206
326
4,077
3
0
!Mi!)
0
10,872
11,841
389
0
0
379
18,905
1,193
326
20,484
Of this number 9,521 or something
less than one-half, are under contract,
including three-eights of the Hawaiians,
one-fifth of the Portuguese, one-fourth
of the Chinese, and over three-fourths
of the Japanese, most of whom made
their contracts in Japan. The maximum
term for which contracts bind laborers
is three years. It is encouraging to
learn that a majority of the laborers are
free.
RECORD OF EVENTS.
Nov. Ist. —Keelikolani building formally dedicated to educational use as a
high school; addresses by President Dole,
Profs. Scott and Alexander, A. T. Atkinson. Mrs. Dillingham and others as
shown elsewhere in this issue.—News
received of the death, at Hilo, of Mrs.
D. H. Hitchcock, Oct. 29th.—Mortuary
report for October, shows 71 deaths in
this city, a much larger number than
usual at this period for several years past.
From 1891 to 1894, inclusive, October's
report showed a range of from 49 to 52.
—The Gazette Cos., newly introduced
type setting machine begins work successfully.
2nd.—Sudden deaths of Dr. J. W.
Annual Meeting P. L. & S. Co.
Brodie and Mrs. A. Y. Soares.—The
Cousin's Society have an
inThe Planters' Labor and Supply Com- teresting monthly meetingunusually
in discussing
pany held last week one of the most reminiscent Hawaiian educational matters.
interesting of their annual meetings.
3rd.—Mr. Yatman, the evangelist, had
The Association was re-organized,
under the name of the Hawaiian Sugar a busy day conducting various meetings
Planters' Association. The old trustees and closing with an address to Hawaiiwere re-elected. F. M. Swanzy was ans at Kaumakapili church.—Funeral
services of the late Mrs. Soares from
chosen President for the year.
The Society's chemist, Dr. Maxwell Central Union Church; very largely atread an important report on soils and tended.
fertilizers. The subject of fertilizers has
4th.— Judge H. E. Cooper retires
become a very prominent one in the from the Circuit Court bench to succeed
F. M. Hatch as Minister of Foreign
sugar culture of these islands.
The sugar crop for 1895-6 is estimated Affairs, who leaves per Coptic to repreat 190,000 tons, which is considerably sent this government at Washington.
�December,1895.
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25th.—Annual meeting of the Plantsth.—Arrival of Japan's new ConsulGeneral to the Republic of Hawaii, per ers' Labor and Supply Co. After two
Coptic. —Minister Hatch's reply to the days of valuable reports and other imBritish government's request for indem-
nity for British subjects arrested during
the January uprising took four inches in
thickness of official cap.
Nov. 6th—Kona-Kau Telephone line
reaches the Volcano House and connects
with the windward line, making a
successful circuit of 245 miles from Kailua to Kohala.
Bth.—Harry Welch, a car drivei,
meets death by accidental drowning at
Waikiki.
10th.—Ah York, a Chinese lad is
severely stabbed by a countryman, withreceiving mortal
out provocation,
wounds. He is conveyed to the hospital, but succumbs within a few hours.
I lth.—The Hawaiian Relief Society
that formed for timely aid during the
cholera epidemic reports total receipts
from subscription, sales, etc. $10,234.13.
Amount expended $6,225.13. During
its period of thirty-two days labor the
daily average of men, women and children relieved were 3312. Daily average
of rations supplied, 9087. The Society
will likely organize permanently, for the
benefit of distressed Hawaiians.
13th. The Bennington, arrives from
Hilo; return of U. S. Minister and Mrs.
Willis.
—
PASSENGERS.
AkRIVAI.S.
From the Colonies, per Warrimoo, Nov 4- Mr. Peairs.
From San Francisco, per S G Wilder, Nov 4- H H
work
under
the
portant
they re-organize
Keen, H H Mixter, L)r S G Tucker, wife and daughter,
T
more appropriate name of the Hawaiian Wilson. Dr Underwood, W J Sh.ridin.
Hongkong and Yokohama, per Coptic, Nov fi—G
Portuguese X From
Planters
Boardman, Mrs R P Myers, Mrs Mr( iilly-Higgins,
Miss
MtCully,
Dr Igt Mori. Mr X Ninansu, Mr Slinnaworkman sustains fatal injuries from a mura, Mrs Shinnamura,
infant and 2 servants, faintlandslide, while digging for road ballast Stanes, and 119 Chinese and 1H Japanese in steerage.
S C Allen, Nov !)-MrsW |
From
San
Francisco
per
and
within
a
few
at Waianae,
expires
White, Mrs M Hruns aid X Bailey.
hours.
From San Francisco, per Australia, Nov 18—Key Father
Key Father Italics, X I Benjamin and «ift, T N
26th.—Advisory Council " called to Aloys,
Hirnie, MissS F Birnie Miss Chapman, Mis ES Cunha
consider petitions for the pardon of po- and son. Miss Cunha, J W Colvitle and wife, Dr E S
and wife, Capt l> Haskell, J I) Hayne and wife,
litical prisoners. The subject has two Goodhue
J A HQpper and wife. Misses Hopper (ft, Mist H Hopper,
H Hapgood, Mis- Olive Homer, W H Hoof*, S X Laidley,
days consideration in secret session.— Key
Fatht) i,appe, H LootaaOO, \\ S I.owrie wffe and
The lady managers of the Hospital Flow- child, Miss Eva
La Fine, Mrs G C Stratnieyer and family, J
Mankowski
wife, Miss I. I, Moore, Sister EupheX
er Mission and their friends held a very mic Marie, Mrsand
W Maxwell, '1 childien and nurse, A I>
successful floral fair and entertainment McEvoy.C F Merrifield, Frof J X Music, Sister Marianne,
Pavis, S Kose, Sister Su/anna Kiento, Godfrey Rhodes
at Independence Park, for funds to en- and wife, BMrs
Keade, Miss A M Keade, Monseicnetir
Mrs I, Stewart, H Salt, C H Stevens, Key Father
dow a free bed. —A sailor falls from the Kopert,
Kamphia, D Veu-ter, Key Father Van Hoof, Key Father
foretop of the Coloma in a fit and sus- Val.-on, H Water houtf, Dr J Wight and wife, Mrs E
Wood, Miss Wight, Mrs X Ziebold and t children, J N
tains severe injuries. Medical aid from TBergstrom.
Key Father Stopper and 30 in steerage.
the Bennington, afforded early care and From San Francisco, per Mariposa, Nov '21 Chas Creigh"
MrsC
H Eldredge, Miss Eldiedge, Miss Kate Field,
ton,
later he was borne to the hospital.
A Haas, Miss M Hartwell. A L Lacazette, J E Miller, E
C
Macfarlane,
27th.—Arrival of stmrs. Asloun from
C R McVeigh, F E Nichols, Lloyd Osborne,
Mrs X I, Stevenson, Mis I Strong, Miss C Wight, C F
Portland and Coptic from San Francisco, Williams, Alexander Yountr and
wife, Robt A Young, Mi*.
Young, Miss Bertha Youut, A Lucas, O Swainen route for the Orient.
From San Frandsco, per brig W G Irwin, Nov *2.1--Mrs
•-'Sth. —Thanksgivingday, very gener- F W Makinns»y, H Banner, H F Hatnbly.
From Vancouver, per Warrimoo, Nov tt Mrs Shearer
ally observed throughout the city.—- Mrs
Bell and child, Mrs Smith, and 1 children, Miss R
Pardon of seven political prisoners; Mathews, Miss Makenigs. E'l'odd, X l.illie and wife, J
Captain Walker, J Miller, (i Macfarlane, Mr Smith,
Hair,
Military review and parade; Services in W Staples,
W H Lambert, B Schiderand wife, X Schnider,
the various churches; Star's dinner to Master Mathews, Messrs Biddell, Taylor, Stebbard, Dods,
Hall
and
Ford.
of
the
Football
concity;
the newsboys
From San Francisco, per Coptic. Nov '11 —W M
test between teams of the Athletic asso- McCjuaid, Mrand Mrs Ellis Mill-, Mrs W W Dimond,
child and maid W H Shearer, G C Broome.
ciation.
Association.—A
—
Kls.
DKI'AKI I
29th.—Annual meeting of Historical For San Francisco, per S N Castle, Nov 14th -T E
16th.—The Australia, belated through
Krouse, Miss Krouse, T A Loyd
wife, J I. Carter and
stoppages en route, arrives from San Society and election of officers; Interest- Thomas
Dyer.
Francisco with one of her old time ing papers presented and ordered printFor San Fran ;isco per Monowai, Nov I.') |) Noonan, P
passenger and freight lists of goodly ed.—Semi-annual visit of Hoard of I. Wooster, Miss Maggie Walker, Mrs X W Purvis, W A
James Stanes, Mrs M McCartney, 1 homai Fox,
Health to Molokai; several distinguished JI'eairs,
F Flynn, H S Ellis.
the
officials.
of Kawaiahao visitors accompany
17th.—Reopening
For Sui Francisco, per Australia, Nov *20 Father Noel.
5 M Ballou, Miss Helen Wilder, Miss Alice Kimball, Miss
Church after months of thoiough interE Mossman, Mrs Ward, Misses Ward (->) and J Kirkland.
nal reconstruction. —Beside Mr. YatFor the Colonies, per Mariposa, Nov *21- -Geo Bumside, M Harlem, S E Uidley, Mrs F Reade. H Salt, C H
man's good work at five services during Marine
Stevens, Mrs L Stewart, Rev C H Yatman and 6 steerage
the day, he solicited aid at two of the
PORT OF HONOLULU.-NOVEMBER.
MARRIAGES.
afternoon meetings towards paying off
the Y. M. C. A. debt on account of their
TRnVNCF. BICKERTON At St, John's church.
ARRIVALS.
Victoria, B. C.s Oct. 19, by the Key Jcnnis, 'Trounce of
recent extension, and secured nearly
Seattle, and Miss Amice Eva Bickerton, of Honolulu.
-
Journal.
$2,150.
19th.—Annual meeting of the VV. C.
T. U. and election of officers.—The
closing service of Mr. Yatman at the Y.
M. C. A. Hall was jammed full of eager
listeners. The meeting was one of great
power.—Members of Y. H. I. gave their
patron Mrs. M. E. Foster, a farewell
serenade prior to her departue for San
Francisco.
—
21st. Mr. Yatman departs for New
Zealand by the Mariposa and has a good
send off—"First night of the Kilohana
Art League's fall exhibition, at its rooms,
gives evidence of satisfactory progress
and increased public interest therein.
22nd. Wong Fook the slayer of Ah
York is convicted of murder in the
second degree. A few days later, on
being brought into court for sentence,
he jumped out of the window, sustaining severe bruises, but 100 dazed to attempt to escape.
24th.—New building of the Christian
Church, Alakea street, near King opened
for its first service.
31 -Bk Don Adolfb, Larsen, from Newcastle.
Nov 4— Br -s Warrimoo, Arundel, from Colonies.
-Am bktne S G Wilder, McNcNeal, from San Fran
ft- Brss Coptoc, Liddsay, from China and Japan.
—Am bktne W H Dimond, Nilson from San Fra n
9—Am bk S C Allen, Thompson from San Fran.
—Ger bk H Hackfeld, Wolters from New York.
lo— Am st. hr Robt lowers, Goodman, Irom Hilo.
13- U S S Bennington, Pigman, from Hilo.
14 l!r ss Monowai, Carey, from the Colonies.
16—Am ss Australia, Houdlette, from San Fran.
—A in bk Sonoma, Noyes, from Portland.
Hi Hr ss Mt Lebanon, Hendry from Yokohama.
23—Am bk W G Irwin, Williams, from San Fran.
—Am bk Mohican, Johnson, from Callao.
2.1— Br ss Warrimoo, Bird, from Vancouver.
"_'T Hr ss Asioun, .Murray, from Portland.
Br ss Coptic, Lindsay, from San Francisco.
30 Am schr Aloha, Dabel, from San Francisco,
,
DEPARTURES.
Nov 1—Am bk Ceylon, Calhoun, for Royal Roads.
4—Br ss Warrimoo, Bird, for \ ancouver.
o—Hawn bk R P Rithet, Morrison, for San Fran.
6—Br ss Coptic, Lindsay, for San Fran.
7 -An sh S P Hitchcock, Gates, for New York.
—Am bk Amy 'Turner, Warland, for Hong Kong.
13—Ambktne S G Wilder, McNeil, for San Fran.
14—Am bktne S N Castle, Hubbard, for San Fran.
—Am sch Spokane, Jamieson, for Puget Sound.
16— Br ss Monowai, Carey, for Sao Fran.
20— Am ss Australia Houdlette, for San Fran.
21- Br ss Mt l.obanon, Hendry, for Portland.
—Am ss Mariposa, Hayward, for the Colonies.
2.1—8r sh Warrimoo, Bird, for the Colonies.
27-Am bk Colima. Noyes, lor Hong Kong.
—tier sh Marie llackfeld, Wolters, for San Fran.
28— Br ss Asloun, Murray, for China and Japan,
Br ss Coptic, Lindsay, for China and Japan.
Am bk Coloma, Noyes, for Hongkong.
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BIRTHS.
lOSH At Laupahoehoe, Hawaii, Oct 29, to the wife of
John Tosn, a son.
HOOGS- In this city, November 21, to the wife of W H
Hoogs, a daughter.
ATCHERLEY At Honokaa, Hawaii, November 22, to
tbe wife of Dr, J. Atcherley, a daughter.
VAN VALKINBERG-At Wailuku. Maui, Nov 14
to thewife of Albert Van Valkenberg, a son.
DEATHS.
EVERETT-In San Francisco, Oct -is, Abijah Pond,
beloved hushand of Ellen Everett, and father of Dan H
Lewis, Edward V and Charles H Everett, a native of
Wrewtham, Mass., aged 75 years 2 manths and 18 days.
SOARES—In this city, Nov. 2, Rachel F., beloved wife
of Rev. A. Y. Soares; born in Springfitld, 111. Feb. 7, 1862.
BRODIE—At Waikiki, Honolulu, Nov. 2. John W
Brodie, a native of Canada.
FOSTER—In San Francisco, Nov 4th, Mary Winter,
wife of William Foster of Honolulu and daughter of the late
John S. Winter of Galesburg, 111.
TREGLOAN -In San Francisco., Nov 18, Ollie Del
Tregloan, (nee Clark) wife of James I) Tregloan, of Honolulu, aged 24 yearsHICKEY-In this city Nov 27, the four-year old
daughter of William Hikey.
HEWETT-In this city Nov 28 Sarah Paulene, youngest child of Pauline and A M Hewett, aged 1 year and 6
months.
WHITE- In this city, Nov 13th J M White.
FETTER—In Honolulu, Nov 10th,Ott Fetter, a native
»f Goerlitz, Germany, aped 64 years.
DOWSETT-At Puuloa, Oahu, Novl2th Jas I Dowsett,
eldest son of Jas I. Dowsett, aged 37 years.
�HAWAXIAH BOARB.
HONOLULU, 11.
l
This page is devoted to Ihe interest, of the Hawaiian
Board of Missions, and the Kdilor, appointed l>y the
Board, is responsible forits cosssssss.
Rev. O. P. Emerson,
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Vol. 53, No. 12}
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Editor.
The Robert Logan is about due from
San Francisco. She was reported on
the 9th. of Nov. as ready to leave on the
following day.
Rev. T. S. Uyeda and wife and child,
lately from Japan, went to Hilo by the
last steamer. Mr. Uyeda is to take
charge of the Japanese church there, and
Mr. Kawabe who, since the departure
of the Rev. Sugiyama, has been the
acting pastor, is to enter the new field
of Kau on the other side of the island.
Mr. Milikaa Moi, the theological student in charge of the parish of Kalihi
and Moanalua, has been much encouraged, and his people also, by the generous offer of aid toward a regular salary,
and also the promise of land for the
building of a parsonage. This parish
has for many years been in an enfeebled
condition and unable to support a pastor. This offer of aid is most timely.
The death of Mrs. A. V. Soares, so
sad so grievious in its loss to the living,
was but the rounding out of a beautiful
and triumphant life which was lived for
others. We mourn the loss of one so
gifted and so good, of one who drew all
to her and made them better, of one so
held to earth by so sweet a family of
little children; but it was glorious to
leave all while having such a hold of all
and so make even death an uplift toward God.
We are glad that the Cabinet has seen
fit not to grant a license for the selling
of liquor at Waimea Kauai. We believe the refusal to do so shows a
thoughtful regard for the interests of the
native Hawaiians, the people mostly
concerned in the matter. As one has
remarked, "if liquor is to be drunk it
would better be drunk privately." For
the government to grant a license would
to the native, be an approval of the use
ofit. Moreover the experiment of licensingliquor which was tried at Koloa, Kauai, was not a success. Tobase the granting of licenses on local option would
hardly be safe as yet in this land. It is
as much as we can well do now to
get on in our politics with a somewhat
centralized form of government. We
conceive that the situation touching the
liquor question is not materially different.
years ot his settlement in his parish.
His poverty has not prevented him from
doing the work of a faithful pastor, nor
from speaking sturdy words against the
flagrant immoralities of the people.
In his extreme poverty he and his
household have kept the integrity of
their home-life and made their virtues to
shine. And yet it is not always possible
for a man with less money to do
what he might with more.
Mr.
Kaalouahi was not at the last meeting
of the association. The delegate threw
out delicate hints as to the cause. After
caieful inquiry it came out that the pastor's wardrobe was not such as to permit him to come. A man with only one
pair of trousers, and that apair distinguished by certain marked blemishes, is
not in a way to feel free to go far from
home.
The Hawaiian Board shall
doubtless be Called on to subsidize this
brother. Let any who may wish to send
him a Christmas present, remember that
he is a large man fully 6 ft. high.
The doors of the grand old Kawaiahao
meeting house are again open. The
opening day was the 17th. of November,
strong sermons, worthy the notable
occasion, were preached by Revs. Desha
and S. Kapu. Pastor Parker and his
congregation are to be congratulated on
The
being so handsomely, housed.
modernized interior is very attractive
The main auditorium almost rivals
that of Central Union Church.
The
architect and builder, Mr. Peter High,
deserves praise for the fine work he has
done.
One of the most interesting
statements made at the dedicatory exexcises of the morning was that of Mr.
P. C. Jones, treaurer of the repair
fund. He said that all the work was
paid for. The whole cost, including
the putting up of electric lights, was
about $12,000. Most of this money was
contributed to the people of Kawaiahao
church by their white friends. Indeed
without the generousaid which they thus
received it would have been impossible
for them to repair their church. Let the
grateful remembrance of this fact be
another bond to hold us together in
every good work.
Letter from Rev.
James Kekela.
A letter has come from Rev.
James
Kekela, the veteran missionary of the
island of Hiwaoa, Marquesas.
For
two
the
man
has
been
nearly
years
old
disabled from active work. He now
writes that he is out and about again
"with the strength of other days." Last
July he met with the Rev. Kauwealoha.
"It was" he wites, "like the meeting of
David and Jonathan. The old man is
The Rev. J Kaalouahi, the pastor of alone now, and qnite lonely without his
the Halawa church, Molokai, is in a wife, and yet day and night he seems to
destitute condition.
Indeed this has have divine companionship. Although
been the case for moat of the five or six bit body is enfeebled with sickness and
age, his spirit is in health. Ol him it
may be said, behold an Israelite indeed
in whom there is no guile.''
"I have met with the Hapuku family
and I do not find evidence of any proper regret for that giving of a horse to
an old sorceress for delivery from possession by the soul of one who had
died. This is a scandal that has caused
the Marquesans to sneer and the papists
and the foreigners to laugh."
"The services at my parish at Pumaua
are continued as usual. The attendance
ranges from 50 to 60. My daughter has
a school of 13 boys and 6 girls. The
teaching is in the French language. The
parents pay no tuition other than the
supplies of food which they bring. The
authorities (French) are pleased to recognize her school for she speaks the French,
language fluently. She was for five
years a pupil of Mr. Vienot's school at
Papeete, Tahiti, and took a diploma as
a teacher."
"The Girls' School at Atuona under
Hapuku's care was discontinued because
of his complicity in idolatrous practices.
"At my meeting with Kauwealoha we
talked long overthe situation the needs of
the field. We are old and soon to die,
who are to take our places ?"
"Send on Timoteo of Waialua to take
my place at Puamau and let me and my
family return thither to the land of our
birth.
"Send Pali of Lahaina to Uapou to
take Kauwealoha's place, and let the old
man go back to the beloved land of his
wife's people near Kaanapali. Undoubtedly you of the Hawaiian Board will
take careful thought about these matters;
even should you withdraw from the care
of this field doubtless the Lord will not.
"I was with Kauwealoha at Lahainaluna for six years. L. Andrews, Clark,
Dibble, Emerson, Alexander and Hunt
were our teachers. Dibble and Alex
ander teaching us theology."
"Finally your father got me a parish
at Kahuku, Oahu, and then the Macedonian cry came in the person of Matunui
for evangelists to go to the Marquesas;
we went, Kauwealoha and I. I have
known Kauwealoha, he is a wise man
and a good man.
He has not his
superior on Hawaii."
"Naomi is well and is engaged in the
care of the household and of the people.
She is a mother to us all. We have a
singing school now. The teachers are
Samuel Kekela's wife and his two sisters
and they have other helpers. It is a
pleasant feature of our church service
that we have good music."
"Give my love to the Waialua friends,
to your brothers, to Alexander, the head
of the Survey, to President Dole, to
Minister Damon. Mother Parker is still
living is she not ? To her I would be
remembered and to Emma Dillingham,
and the Chamberlains, and to the Hawaiian Board, and to all the brethren in
the ministry.
�96
Rev. Dr. McArthur on Hawaii.
THE FRIEND
of the missionaries is due to their industry, capacity and character. These
Dr. McArthur who recently visited us, men have set a noble example before
reported as follows to the N. Y. Inde- the natives, and many native pastors are
impressing that lesson on the people.
pendent. His views are correct and well "Another
hopeful feature is that the
stated.
missionary spirit is rekindled among the
The English language will be taught members both of the native and the
in all the public schools. For a time all foreign churches. At the Associational
former methods of mission work have me-ting in June it was voted that the
been disarranged; but now there will be native churches raise $2000 this year
adjustments to new conditions. The for foreign missions. This is a most
native pastorate could not direct these hopeful sign. Great interest is felt in
complicated iufluences; neither could the schools. Mission work is going forthose who favored throwing all the re- ward in Honolulu and elsewhere among
sponsibility on the native pastors antici- the Chinese, Japanese and Portuguese.
pate all that has come pass. The pre- This latter people are destined to be a
sent generation will generally know most important element on these islands.
English; the next generation will know Noble men and women, sons and
little else. Here is an element of vast daughters of missionaries, are giving
power in many ways. With this know- time, thought, money and personal serledge of English will go into the young vice to this form of mission work. This
American republican and Christian was one of the most beautiful things
ideas; and as this knowledge goes in, which I saw in Honolulu. One who
kahunaism, fetishism and heathenism sees this work by consecrated men and
generally will largely go out. The women of wealth, culture and social
kahuna's days are numbered; the coming standing sees one of the most hopeful
generation will defy his power, laugh elements in this complicated problem.
at his pretensions and sneer at his de- The work of these men and women
nunciations.
Already this power is makes the sneer against the families of
broken; no longer do the people walk missionaries contemptible. Encouragunder its baleful shadow. Insults will ing reports are beginning to come from
no longer be heaped on deniers of different islands as well as from the
heathenism. With "the vices of civili- various fields in and about Honolulu.
zation" have also come some of its vir"A genuine revival will heal all polititues. The native ministry is gaining cal wounds. It will bring manifold sopower. The schools which have been cial, political and spiritual blessings.
established are raising up a new gener- Let the evangelists go out. The old
ation of educated young men and Gospel has not lost its power.
The
women. A new day is breaking; al- glorious days of the missionary fathers
ready the eastern sky is colored with its and mothers may be repeated. Oh, for
crimson and gold.
Pentecostal blessings on these beautiful
"A truer conception of the value of Hawaiian Islands."
the work done by the missionaries has
partly come. It is to see what were the
J. Alfred Magoon Esq. has succeeded
motives of those who strove to depreci- Judge
Cooper, as Circuit Judgeon Oahu.
ate the work of the fathers. That sort Judge Magoon is 38 years old, a native
of criticism will be temporary. It is
of lowa and has enjoyed ten years very
unspeakably mean and false criticism; successful law practice in Honolulu,
its spirit is not peculiar to the Hawaiian which had been his home for nine years
Islands. Do not these critics know that
previous.
the period from 1842 to the close of 1854,
missionaries
when some
were in the
Epigrams by Mr. Yatman.
Government, was the time of most rapid
and assured progress? Do they not
Peace comes in to take worry out.
know that it was then the constitution
Stand true to God if it costs you your
of 1852 was granted, the constitution
which is still at the foundation of the life.
Government? Do they not know that There is delight in work, none in
during this period courts of law were idleness.
established; that lands were granted
God's Spirit does not work apart
"in fee simple" to the natives; and that from the Word.
during this period treaties were made
Faith will produce works just as fire
with the great powers? Chief Justice produces heat.
Judd reminds us that twice duung this Are you in
life expecting
period the independence of the Islands much from Godyour daily
?
was preserved; that there was no period
You can't have peace with God until
in the Hawaiian history more fruitful in
blessing to native Hawaiian*.
The you let go of sin.
Don't live in a cellar when above you
political bitterness of the hour, caused
by recent events, is already passing is the palace of God.
away. It will not long divide the
Have you ever left a seed of knowchurches. The people are seeing that ledge of Jesus Christ in some aching
the prosperity of the sons and grandsons heart?
December,1895.
There can be no lasting peace without Christ in the life.
Don't be a praying machine, grinding
out the same set phrases.
One blind beggar saved, got up a
praise meeting in Jericho.
The need of repentance is as great
in the church as out of it.
Use all the brains, good sense and
judgment you have for God.
Give me the homes for Christ, and I
will give you the world to God.
Better go from a pauper's grave to
heaven than mausoleum to Hell.
You can't give a man the Gospel of
Jesus Christ and keep him down.
Get some niche in the work of the
church and work there till you die.
If you honestly want to get to God,
I tell you, God wants to get to you.
No use telling me a man prays, and
then goes storming about the house.
A well preserved body will get at the
secrets ol God better than a sickly one.
An idol is anything that takes the
place of God in your heart and life.
When God says "ask and receive
that your joy may be full," he doesn't
mean half-full.
I want you to be a walking sermon.
You can't live with Clod and for God
without having fruit.
Repentance means the giving up of
all sin. You can't heal the wound until the splinter is pulled out.
God cannot forgive you until you are
willing to make right as far as possible,
the wrongs you have committed.
The way to redeem the masses is to
redeem individuals. Some of Christ's
greatest sermons were to individuals.
Never read a book written by a bad man
or woman; if you eat anything that lives
on fish, will have a fishy flavor, and
your thoughts will have the flavor of the
books you read.
Every thing that is good have, and
have it to the full; God only asks you to
give up that which is sinful and wicked,
which if persevered in will sink your
soul into the pit.
You let it be known that Mr. Yatman
is a theater-going, card-playing, dan
cinq, wine-drinking christian, and how
many invitations for christian work
would he get. The tendency of such
things is not heavenward.
Telephone Circuit of Hawaii.
On November 6th, Manager Aungst
completed the telephone connections on
the island of Hawaii, so.that it is now
possible to carry on conversation from
Kailua, Kona, via Kau and 'Hilo, to
Kohala, a distance of 245 miles. Thus
every settlement of importance on that
island is now in telephonic connection
with every other. German long-distance
phones are used.
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