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CONTENTS.
I'AliK
Hawaiian Politics
Clifford's Likeness (?) of DamL'ii.
Revision of the Presbyterian Creed
Should Deity be Addrtaaco
Almighty
Samoa.
Editorial Notes
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Seventh-day ism
Items
The [dad ami the Real
Monthly Record «f Events
Marine Journal, etc
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A New Conquest of the Spectroscope
Sunday Trains
Society Islands.
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Hawaiian Politics.
The Biennial election held on the sth
of February was conducted with perfect
good order throughout the islands. At
the ten polling places in this city, there
was the utmost order and good behavior.
The new election law worked well; all
the saloons were closed; the most of
those who had registered, voted.
We think it a serious mistake that the
secret ballot was not adopted as originAlthough the ballots
ally proposed.
were all printed by the government, and
those of both parties were externally
alike, there was no difficulty in the agents
of the candidates so ninnaging as to
know how their men voted. We are
certain that there was a strong Wilcox
terrorism among the natives in Honolulu, which could not have acted had the
ballot been a secret one. The other
party allege undue influence on the Reform side. What we want is the "Australian" ballot.
The whole National Reform ticket for
Nobles on Oahu was elected by an average majority of six to five. Fight out of
nine Representatives were elected on
the same side by majorities of about five
to three. So sweeping a victory of the
Opposition on this island made them
feel entirely triumphant, and the Reform
party disheartened. The returns from
the other islands, however, changed the
result, leaving the National Reform
party in a minority of 22 to 26 of the
whole house. Two or more, however,
of the 26 are "Independent", and are
very likely to vote against the present
Administration.
It is thought probable that the Reform
party will secure the organization of the
House, but that it is not unlikely that
the Cabinet may be changed. Apparently there will be nearly an even
balance between the two parties. It
must be understood that the National
Reform party is a combination of two
very diverse elements. The Uush-Wilcox or "National" wing, we need not
here characterize. They are a minority
of their own party, the majority of
whom are not likely to do anything
seriously endangering the important
political results secured by the Reform
of 1887. They may secure some changes
of administration, but will not disturb
the present wholesome political system.
At least, we do not anticipate from them
such a course of action.
As we have heretofore intimated, we
have, under the Divine protection, the
greatest confidence in the power of the
large body of sound, wholesome and influential public sentiment pervading this
civilized and Christian community, and
we do not believe that any existing
elements of an opposite tendency will so
prevail as to seriously hinder our onward
progress in all that is good socially and
politically.
There is one vital policy of the government, however, which is liable to be
seriously endangered by the substitution of a less positive set of men for the
present Cabinet. That is the faithful
continued segregation of Lepers. Unless this is continued with undiminished
vigor, the deadly evil will linger on and
perhaps increase. The pressure for a
relaxation of present strictness is very
severe from the native people. Only a
Cabinet who are very positive and determined upon this matter will resist such
a pressure. On this question the National Reform platform was significantly
silent. Should any of their men rule,
we may look for Lepers at large once
more.
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Clifford's Likeness
(?)
of Damien.
The frontispiece of the Life of Father
Damien, by Mr. Edward Clifford ofLondon, is what purports to be a likeness of
Damien as in his earlier years before
going to Molokai. It is a rather beautiful and spiritual face, such as a painter
might choose for an ideal. It is such a
face as well corresponds to the saintly
and powerful character attributed by the
author to his subject. We have many
times heard persona who were acquainted
with Damien express their wonder at
such a picture of him, as not suggesting
any resemblance to the man they knew.
We are now in possession of what we
consider indubitable authority that the
portrait in Mr. Clifford's book does not
bear even the remotest likeness to him
as he was at any lime during the twenty
or more years of his residence here. It
is not for us to attempt to explain the
fact. It is the art of an eminent limner
to worthily idealize the features of Kis
subject. It would seem essential, however that some likeness should be recognizable. We regret to add that those
persons who were most closely in contact with Father Damien on Molokai
seem to find it as difficult to recognize
Mr. Clifford's description of his character as they do the portrait of his features. We do not think that any one
here who is acquainted with the subject
will controvert the above statement. As
we are well informed, Father Damien's
brothers in the priesthood will not do so.
It is due to the excellent Bishop of Olba
and his clergy to say that so far as we
know, they have never had any part in
the extravagant laudations of Father
Damien, of the great infirmities of whose
character none were more painfully
Notwithsensible than themselves.
standing those very great faults, we are
glad to say that we believe Damien to
have been truly earnest and benevolent
—that he sought by devoted labors to
expiate some failures, and that as we
trust, he was a sincere Christian, although no "saint."
A Coincidence—The fact was brought
to our notice the other day that all the sur-
vivors of the passengers on board of the
bark Flora from Honolulu to New York
in 1840-41, are now in Honolulu. They
are Mrs. Persis (1. Taylor, Miss E. K.
Bingham, Rev. Hiram Bingham, Mrs.
�Revision of the Presbyterian Creed.
We take up this subject because it has
come to deeply agitate one of the oldest,
fnost evangelical, and most powerful
religious bodies in the United States,
and one in which many of us here had
our early religious training. We do so,
by reason of a profound and fraternal
sympathy with this great and precious
body of Christian men, in their efforts to
follow the Divine guidance amid many
great difficulties, in adjusting their position to the demands of the increasing
.Biblical light of this age. We would not
be among those'who are harshly impatient with a loyal and cautious conservatism, even though such feel that the
way is clear for the change, if those
brethren could only discern it.
The Presbyterian'Church in the United States, like that in Scotland, from
which it was originally a colony, adheres
as its standard of doctrine, to the Confession of Faith drawn up by the Westminster Assembly of Divines, 250 years
ago, and generally known as the Westminster Confession. Some clauses in
this creed have been altered at different
times, but it remains the same, in all its
important features. This Confession is
not the same as, though identical in
doctrine with, the Longer and the Shorter
Catechisms, the latter of which is familiar to most Presbyterian youth. To
the Confession, Ministers and Elders
only are required to subscribe. The
laity do not subscribe to a creed, but
enter into a strong and simple Covenant.
For the clergy also, it has long been
the practice to make a modified subscription to the creed, only as "containing the system of doctrine taught in the
Holy Scriptures," not excluding the presumption that it contains errors not
taught in the Scriptures.
The Westminster Confession is a
most able and powerful compend of religious doctrine. It was the work of a
great body of mighty and devout theologians. We have no doubt that they enjoyed a large measure of Divine guidance, but not so as to exclude human
elements of error, even most serious
ones. The Protestant churches had
been only one century escaped from the
darkness of Roman error into the light
of the New Testament. They were still
in the midst of intense and bitter conflicts among themselves, notably between
Calvinism and Arminianism. The features of the Confession bear the marks of
the conflicts then waged upon theological issues which have long fallen into
desuetude, while other issues then uncared for, have now come to the front.
Both Dogmatic Theology and Biblical
Science have made great strides of progress in two and a half centuries. The
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Divine Spirit has not failed during those
centuries to fulfill the Saviour's promise
of guiding his people into the truth.
More light has broken forth from God's
Holy Scriptures, as John Robinson predicted to the Pilgrims at Delft. It follows of necessity that, however complete
and satisfactory a standard the noble
Westminster Confession once was to
the Presbyterian Church, it must now
seem in many important particulars, far
less satisfactory and even objectionable.
The General Assembly in reply to a
large body of overtures, has asked the
Presbyteries to each of them report to
the Assembly whether any Revision of
the Confession is necessary? and if so,
The Presbyteries
what it should be?
are actively discussing these questions,
in the most animated manner. The
Confession is being most ruthlessly dissected. Its conservative friends are
grieved and appalled, and seem to feel
that all the foundations are being torn
up. Still, as the result of all the agitation, very moderate counsels have prevailed, even in the most advanced bodies,
and only a few changes are recommended, of some statements which hardly
any intelligent Christian would now be
willing to adopt as expressing his belief.
For ourselves, although of Presbyterian training and ordination, we have
long ago ceased to inquire whether we
were in accord with Presbyterian standards. The words of Christ and his
apostles seem incomparably above and
beyond those of human creeds, ancient
or modern. We deeply sympathise, as
we said above, with our brethren in their
struggle to find the right course. May
they faithfully seek and so find, the
Lord's guidance therein. We claim no
wisdom, yet cannot refrain from expressing our own conviction that it will be
utterly impracticable to revise and reform the Westminster Confession so a;;
to make it satisfactory to the churches
without quite destroying its integrity.
Do not repair with new cloth the old
garment. Do not put the new wine
into the old bottles. Do not remodel
the ancient temple for modern worship.
Let the grand old structure stand undisturbed, the honored memorial of the old
days of the glorious fathers of I'resbyterianism. Build a commodious chapel
for present use. In other words, construct a new, short, and manageable
creed, which can be used, preached and
taught.
This is what we believe will be done,
and when it is done, the Presbyterian
Church
march forward free and unhampered to fresh conquests for Christ.
Give me the money that the working
classes have spent for rum during the
last thirty years, and I will build foi
every working man a house, and lay out
for him a garden, and clothe his sons in
broad cloth and his daughters in silks.
and secure him a policy of life insurance
to maintain his home after he is dead.
Should Deity be Addressed as Almighty ?
This question will doubtless seem to
many Christian people a very singular
We know many most devout and
earnest Christians, who habitually address themselves in prayer to "Almighty
God", nor do we by any means maintain that it is wrong or even always unsuitable to do so. What we would urge
is that the common use of this term is
not quite in harmony with ChristiaVi belief and practice, as taught us by Christ
and His apostles. It does not seem to
be the aspect of His being Which our
gracious Father in heaven desires to be
the one most familiar to our thoughts as
we draw near to Him.
Have you noted the remarkable fact
that the word Almighty is not found
once in the Gospels ? It is found only
once elsewhere in the New Testament,
until we come to the Book of Revelation, where it occurs six times. Is it not
a most significant fact that our Lord
seems never to have made use of the expression ? Does it not mean much that
the apostles employed it only once in
their Fpistles to the churches ? Are not
our Lord Jesus and His apostles the examples whom we ought to follow in
speaking of and addressing God, who is
very nigh to His children ?
Turn to the Old Testament, and in
what period do we find the name Almighty God to have been in common
use ? The answer is, in the Patriarchal
period. It occurs live times in the history of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. At
an earlier appearance to Moses, God
told him that He had "appeared to Abraham, Isaacand Jacob, as God Almighty,"
but that by His name Jehovah, He was
not known to them. The next use of
the name is by the prophet Balaam,
with whom among the heathen seems to
hive lingered a knowledge of the God of
the Patriarchs. Next in Ruth, Naomi
twice employs the name; she had just
come from among the idolatrous Moabites, wlio however, inherited from Lot,
some remains of the Patriarchal Monotheism. Among them it was important
too. to habitually assert the Omnipotence
of the Sovereign God, against the weak
and false gods of Moab.
The word Almighty is no more found
until we come to Job. He uses the word
thirty times. We regard this as one of
the best of the many evidences that the
book of Job was the product of the old
Patriarchal period anterior to Moses.
He knows nothing of God's later and
more glorious revelations. He is a godly
and holy Ameer of the Arabian desert,
but not a guide for the disciples of
Christ in our best thoughts of God.
Those whose commonest thought of
God is as "Almighty", seem to have advanced less beyond the theology of Job,
than the) would if they read and pondered the New Testament more.
David twice names God as "the Almighty", and then when there is a pecuone.
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liar fitness and comfort in the use of
that name, in view of overwhelming
dangers and foes. Isaiah employs the
name once, Fzekiel twice and Joel once;
and that is all.
It is not with His Power that God
labors most to impress the minds of men.
They are willing enough to contemplate
him in that aspect. They are far less
willing to consider his perfect holiness.
But they need to know it. The Lord
has especially sought to reveal to
Jesus
us the Fatherhood of God, seeking and
saving his perverse and perishing children. The love, the mercy, the Holiness
of (iod, are the predominant elements of
the Divine character as revealed by Jesus
Christ. It is to these chiefly that we
need to turn our thoughts in all our
worship and our supplications.
It would seem then that we may regard the form of address "Almighty
God" as belonging rather to the Patriarchal than even to the Jewish ritual, far
more than to the Christian worship. It
is by no means a small matter that we
order our words aright in addressing our
God.
And yet it is sometimes well for us to
recur to the most ancient and primitive
attitudes of worship to go back to the
childhood of religion, and from that
again to work up to its higher and holier
experiences. But do not let this be our
common practice.
There are, however, times both in public and private experiences when godly
souls are fain to find refuge in and to
"abide under the shadow of the Almighty." When Israel is faint and discouraged among the warring and destroying heathen, it is good to remember
the "Everlasting God, Jehovah, the
Creator of the ends of the earth," who
"fainteth not, neither is weary.'' Those
grand cßapters of Isaiah which comfort
Israel by telling him of the mighty
power of Jehovah, are often just what
God'speople need for their strengthening.
See Isaiah, Chapters -10 to 14.
As noted above, the Revelation'differs
from the rest of the New Testament in
its repeated use of the name "Almighty."
And there it conies with a grand fitness. For the whole book surges with
the tempest of t,he persecutions which
the holy Church of Christ is to endure.
In it rise menacing, terrific forms of
Beast and Dragon and Anti-Christ closing in upon the Church in Armageddon
conflict. But He who rules is the Lord
God Almighty! At the breath of His
mouth, all enemies wither.
But the atmosphere of the Book of
Revelation is not that of four common
Christian life. It is not that of our family worship, or of our usual Church assembles. There let us speak to God as
our Father, blessed and holy, hallowing
His reverend Name, in thought of His
Love, His Grace, His Holiness, rather
than of His might. ■ It is in the light of
His Goodness that we need to abide, and
not in that of His Greatness.
THE FRIEND.
Samoa.
(Fro/H the Australian Independent.)
In connection with the paragraph
which appeared in your issue of November 15th, I am glad to report that the
Consuls of the three Great Powers have
issued a proclamation to the Samoan
people which has had the effect of setting them right as to the wishes of the
Great Powers. The proclamation states
that the decision of the Berlin. Conference on Samoa is to be enforced, viz.>
that Malietoa Laupepa be restored to
title and office as king of Samoa. Malietoa's flag is now flying in Apia, and
the Consuls have formally and officially
recognized the restored king.
The Joint Williams has returned
from the voyage to the Union, Fllice
and Gilbert Islands. Rev. A. E. Clax.ton brings back a good report of the
work in these outstations of the Samoan
Mission. As he has now taken two
consecutive voyages as deputation to
the outstations, he is able to speak with
all the greater confidence of the steady
but certain progress of the Lord's work
as carried on by our Samoan evangelists.
The examinations of the schools afforded certain evidence that, in that important department of work there was true
advance. The free-will offerings of the
people may also be taken as a certain
proof of spiritual life. We have sixteen
islands and a population of about 10,000
all told (10,255 was last year's total).
The contributions to the London Missionary Society amount to 1,518 dollars
and 30 cents, island currency, in addition to £39 10s., English sterling. The
people have contributed in money as
pastor's stipend for the year the sum of
1,288 dollars and 20 cents, island currency, and £10 10s., sterling. The contributions are some 422 dollars above
the average; and the sum contributed to
the support of the native pastors is also
very considerably in advance of past
years.
A French priest from Nanoute, brought
by French ship of war Fabert to Nikunan
(one of our Gilbert Island stafions) has
been endeavoring to gain over our people by means of threats, presents and
strategy. His efforts have been unsuccessful, and the visit may even»do good
by inciting our teachers to greater earnestness, and leading the people to a
closer and more intelligent acquaintance
with the foundation truths of Evangelical
Christianity.
There is a burden of care in getting
riches, fear in keeping them, temptation
in using them, guilt in abusing them,
sorrow in losing them, and a burden of
account to be given up at last concerning them.—Matthew Henry.
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The Oahu Railway and Land Co.,
was established with the view of developing large unused tracts of land on
this island. An immediate result of its
operations has been the incorporation of
two first-class Sugar Companies, which
have already broken ground, one at Honouliuli, Ewa. and one at Kahuku, Koolau. Each has a fifty years lease of several thousand acres of superior sugar
land. They are boring artesian wells
for irrigation and putting in cane as
rapidly as possible. Being in the hands
of some of our most experienced sugar
men, there is every prospect of a high
degree of success. The Fwa Company
alone will furnish business enough to
support the new railway, which is being
rapidly extended to their land, fifteen
miles from Honolulu. The first twelve
miles to the Manana terminus, has been
doing quite a good business for six
weeks past.
The Production OF Bananas is receiving a great impulse from the rapidly
growing demand for this fruit in the
Pacific States. We are now shipping
nearly 100,000 bunches annually, worth
one dollar each on the wharf. We are
glad of this, because that, unlike sugar,
it opens a fine prospect for the small
farmers. The O. R. &L. Co. hope to
supply irrigation 'to enable many small
land holders to raise bananas in Ewa, at
great advantage. Socially and morally,
one hundred thousand dollars of products marketed by small farmers, means
far more for the public weal than one
million from sugar plantations.
We learn that the O. R. & L. Co. are
considering the expediency of reaching
with their rails the moist and fertile district of Koolau, which is well adapted for
the smaller producer if brought near to
the market. The Pali wagon road will
contribute somewhat thereto. Any extension of the railway to other districts,
is understood to depend upon what subsidy the Legislature will feel disposed
to grant.
Mr. E. C. Bond of Kohala requests
that the sum of $1,000, credited in the
report of the Treasurer of the Hawaiian
Board, in our February number, to himself, "for Building fund", be credited instead to his father, Rev. E. Bond.
Mr. Theo. H. Davies quite unexpectedly reappeared among us from Sydney,
with his son, having come by way of India and Ceylon. On Wednesday evening, February 12th, Mr. Davies gave
the members of Central Union Church
some account of his interviews with
missionaries of different Boards in those
countries. He was only seventeen days
in India, but seems to have devoted
much of his time.and very profitably, to
missionary observation, giving to us
many evidences of the successful progress of the work.
�20
[March, 1890.
THE FRIEND.
Seventh-day-ism.
A small but very zealous sect has
been among us the past few years, who
denounce all the rest of Christian
Churches as apostate, and wearing'"the
maik of the Beast", because they observe the First day of the week, or the
Lord's Day, as the Sabbath, instead of
the Seventh day, or Jewish Sabbath.
They are reported to be about starting a
missionary ship at the cost of twelve or
fifteen thousand dollars, not to convert
Pacific pagans, but to proselyte Polynesian Christians, and break up the churches, planted and nurtured by a century of
Christian heroism.
We wish to state what seem to our
own mind the decisive arguments to
prove the fallacy of their position. Different minds may be more impressed with
other reasonings.
1. Since these hostile brethren insist
so absolutely on a literal adherence to
the precise provisions of the divine
statute, let us see what the very letter of
the law is. We challenge you, Brother
Seventh-day-ist, to find in the Fourth
.Commandment any" direction to observe
the seventh day of the week as the Sabbath. "Six days shalt thou labor, and do
all thy work: but the seventh day is a
Sabbath unto the Lord thy God." Mark,
not the seventh day of the wce-k, but the
seventh day after six days of labor. No
"week" in the commandment! and how
dare you put it there ? How dare you
lay a .burden on your brethren which
God has not ordered ? We keep the six
days of labor, and the one day of rest
after them and that is just what God has
commanded, and all that he has commanded. And when you come demanding
that the seventh day for rest must come
on the seventh day of the week, and not
on the first, we see no occasion to be
disturbed by your absurd demand. '
2. The fundamental law, binding on
all, being to observe a seventh day of
rest after six days of labor, we must inquire upon which day of the week must
the day of sacred rest come ? What is
the by-law? For the Jews, it was the
Seventh day ofthe week, or Saturday. For
Christians, it is all over the globe the
First day ofthe week, Sunday or Lord's
Day. This is so now, and it has been
so from the days of the Apostles! We
know our seventh-day brethren have
cooked up a quantity of alleged history
to make out that the change of day was
made in the fourth century. That is all
nonsense. We have the ample testimony
of the New Testament to the observance
of 'he "Lord's day", also that of the
"Didache", the chief Manual of the
churches at the close of the Apostolic
period. In general, we think it duty to
observe as Sabbath the day of the week
observed by the churches whereyou are.
When we went round the Horn in 1840,
we arrived at Tahiti on a Saturday.
was Sunday on shore, the missionaries
taking the time from Australia. So we
made it Sunday, and it would have been
very wrong not to have fallen in with
the order of the churches where God
had brought us. It would have been a
very stupid setting up of the letter
against the spirit of Christian fellowship
and the spirit of common sense.
3. The Lord Jesus, by His repeated
special meetings with His disciples on
the First day of the week, sanctified and
hallowed that day as the Christian Sabbath. He had the right to initiate such
a change, being "Lord of the Sabbathday." That He did so appoint it appears
from its observance from the Apostolic
times and universally.
The Resurrection of Christ from the
dead, is the greatest event in this world's
history. It gave us the Eternal Hope.
It crowned Him as our King and
Redeemer. To forsake the sacred observance of His Day, looks like disloyalty to Him. To return to the Jewish Sabbath is a letting down from the
in Jesus.
glory of
4. We would add in general, taking a
broad view of the subject, that it seems
to us a very small and cranky business
to be making a vital point about what
particular day of the week to observe.
Does Religion consist in such niminypiminy details ? We ought to be above
such pettiness. It is a serious matter
to go about disturbing the settled order
of the churches and of civil society as to
the day of rest. It is a very grave sin
to denounce Christians as apostates for a
trifle. It is a very pernicious and destructive thing to denounce Sunday laws
and try to break up Sunday observance
to the upsetting of religion.
But to
make a vital matter of what day of the
week should be kept holy by general
agreement, seems to us to have little to
do with true religion, which concerns itself with more important things'than the
cut of a coat or the sanctifying of a holiday, or whether the sacramental bread
shall be a wafer or a loaf, leavened or
unleavened. We think that if Christians
would get nearer to the mind of Christ,
and live in a more spiritual atmosphere,
they would find themselves lifted far
above such inane trifles.
Kawaiahao Seminary.—ln passing
this institution, one may notice the erection in progress at the city end of the
building, of a cottage about 10 feet by
24. This is intended for a hospital ward
for the sick among the 125 pupils. Lately a number were down at once with the
measles. Just now six or more are abed
with La Grippe, and have to suffer from
the commotion of the large dormitories.
The cost of the new building is defrayed
by the generosity of two of the Trustees.
In order to raise money to furnish and
equip the hospital, a Concert will be
given in a few days by the school girls
under the direction of Miss Patch, whose
musical gifts are of the best, in Kawaiahao Church. They will be assisted by
Prof. Berger's Orchestra, and a quartette
of Kamehaineha students. We are told
by good judges that the attractions to
lovers of music will be great, and many
will be glad to aid in making the sick
girls and their hard-working teachers
more comfortable.
La Grippe.—Honolulu has been in a
quite general enjoyment of this fashionable malady; there have been few cases
of severity. It is evidently a decided
form of epidemic influenza, but so far
not nearly as severe as some of former
years, which were so fatal among the
natives.
Our esteemed predecessor in the
Friend, Rev. J. A. Cruzan, now of San
Francisco, is an able and devoted pastor and no small success as a popular
preacher. But he always had a tendency
to poke fun at the "missionaries". In
the Pacific of January 29th, he writes
a
:
A large part of the best society there are descendants of the old missionary families, and, like
the people of Athens in Paul's day, "are very
religious." They set their faces like a flint against
anything theatrical.
into this peculiar community Locke Richardson
Came, unheralded and unknown. He was not
only a phenomenon, but a problem. Here was a
whole company of "play actors" compressed into
one man, giving a play in a dress coat.
Was it "the thing" to countenance such an innovation ? It was a momentous question. Honolulu held its breath and waited. The first
reading was the "Christmas Carol," given as
The Rainy Season.—We had no only I.ocke Richardson can give it, to "a small
but appreciative audience." Hut the question
rainy season last winter. This year it was settled Richardson captured the town.
has "been transferred from December to
It seems rather queer that Brother
-
February. In December we had but Cruzan should have forgotten that a
little rrfore rain than the soil could ab- Shakespeare Club had existed in Honolulu for many years before he became
sorb, while our western districts con- pastor
here, which was comptised in
tinued nearly dry. In February, Hono- large
part of leading missionaries' chillulu has had over twelve inches of rain, dren. They had quite a showy outfit of
with copious floods in the streams, while costumes, which see the light from time
all parts of the island have shared to time to this day. Brother Cruzan
should not draw so much on his imagabundantly. The winter has not been a ination.
Mr. Locke Richardson was
very cool one. Our thermometer, which welcomed in Honolulu, not as being
has hitherto not failed to reach from 54° anything novel, but as a highly cultivatto 58 deg. in February, has not as yet ed artist in- a line familiar to his audiIt fallen as low as 62 deg.
ences.
�Volume 48, No. B.]
The PAti Road.—We learn that about
Mr. E. Baii.ey, (our dear Father Bai-
one-half mile ofthe ascent is completed ley) is giving through the P. C. Adverfrom below. At the upper end, the new
cutting in the rock will soon be completed so as to connect with the old
road. The appropriation of $10,000
will soon be exhausted. The most difficult section, the cutting above the present road, will have to await a fresh appropriation. The grade is moderate,
eight feet in the hundred, which will
permit heavy wagon ■ freighting from
Koolau. No doubt the Legislature will
authorize the active prosecution of the
work.
West" Maui Mountain Road.—We
are glad to learn that the $15,000 appropriated for this work has already resulted in the completion of an excellent
carriage road to the "Big Gulch", fr»m
which point to Maalaea there are no
serious difficulties to overcome. The
highest point above the sea is 180 feet;
the steepest grade, seven feet in the
hundred, which occurs at the western
end. The engineer is Mr. Bruner, who
directed the Punchbowl road. There
were several ugly gulches, requiring
much powder.
The Volcano Road.—This is completed to the 103dstation near the Halfway house, or about three-fifths of the
whole. The remaining twelve miles
even now present an easier journey than
that from Keauhou, even after the three
hours easy staging from Hilo. When
the road is through to the Volcano,
there will be continuous wheeling to
Kau for sixty miles, the longest stretch,
we believe, yet to be found in these Islands. The appropriation of $35,000
has been expended and the work is
being continued at private expense.
Many score miles of road of local importance have been built during the past
two years out of the local road taxes.
Had half the same activity and skill
been applied during the past ten years
of prosperity, every important district
in the group would have been accessible
on wheels from the chief ports of the
respective islands. But the old regime
was semi-barbaric, indifferent to finance
and public improvement, intent on display and squandering. In spite of
"National" feeling, a return to power of
the old barbarism must be, in the nature
of things, impossible. All sensible Hawaiians must soon come to see that they
are equally interested with foreigners in
economical administration, even if.the
foreigner has to take the lead therein.
21
THE FRIEND.
tiser a series of papers upon his recent
visit to Alaska. He has evidently seen
a great deal, and tells it well. Father
Bailey is fifteen or twenty years our
senior, so we may hope to do some
roaming yet, though not our lot very
much hitherto. He gives an interesting
notice of the somewhat celebrated VI r.
Duncan of Metlakhatla, who was a fellow-passenger up from Tacoma. There
seems to have been a ridiculous episode
on board from an attempt of a zealous
Anglican priest to forbid Mr. Duncan's
labors, because a rebel against Church
authority. Mr. Duncan has, however,
removed his noble mission work over
the Canada boundary into a free country,
and is evidently making it once more a
grand success. Our Anglican brethren
are many of them most zealous'and efficient workers for Christ and souls, and
when they have learned to drop some
absurd pretensions, will contribute powerfully to the work of the Gospel.
The Ideal
and
the
Real.—A cer-
tain man dreamed that in his garden
there sprang up a wonderful plant, the
like of which he had never seen. It
grew into.a stately bush, exquisite in
foliage, perfect in symmetry, and upon
its summit it bore a flower, in form and
color of surpassing beauty. And when
the man awoke, he thought, 'since I
have dreamed of a flower, surely it exists somewhere, and so I must and will
possess it.' And as time went on, the'
desire of it ever deepened in his heart,
until all his life centered in the search.
At length, returning from a fruitless
journey, he discovered, near his own
gateway, a single sprout, the leaf of
which was the leaf of the plant of his
Trembling with delight, he
dream.
transported it to his garden, and day by
day he watched its growth. It took
kindly to the soil and flourished, but it
sent forth its leaves and branches, not
as the dream plant had done, but in a
fashion-of its own, and without regularrity or symmetry. And when the man
perceived this he was displeased, and
taking a knife, he cut and trimmed it,
and he built a fence around it, and bound
the tender shoots as he would have them,
determined it should be as the
plant of his dream. Thereupon the
leaves wilted and dropped from the stem,
and the whole plant sickened and drooped, and all its beauty passed away. And
when the man saw this, he tore away
its supports in anger, and cast it to the
ground, and went away in bitter disap-
pointment. Many days after, he was
pacing in his garden, when he perceived
in the air a stiange fragrance, and approaching the spot whence it came, he
perceived the despised plant erect and
flourishing. It was not as the dream
plant had been, tall and symmetrical,
but it was vigorous and fair, and it also
bore upon its summit a flower; a flower
not so large in shape, nor so dazzling
in color, yet beautiful with a beauty of
its own, and filling all the air with sweetness. And, with a sudden thrill, the man
remembered that the flower of his dream
had been without fragrance. Christian
Union.
(Continued
from page
23.)
stand against the determined'purpose of
the stronger mind and more favored life ?
On one side the advantage of the larger,
fairer inheritance; on the other but the
beginning of the dawn of it. The one
the desiring, and the other the desired;
the one the envying, and the other the
almost envied life. Is there wonder that
such pitiable conquests are achieved?
One thing is certain, we must not relax
our vigilance. The Jionor and purity of
a remnant must be kept. What is done
by way of shielding from danger those
at the school must be done, if neoessary,
after school days are over.
To our mind this tale, which is but
one of many such, most pitiful to relate,
points to the need of a home for native
girls to be established and kept in our
city: a home to which the bright, trained
school graduate may go, if she has no
where better to go to, and there live
respectably and earn an honestlivelihood.
Monthly Record of Events.
Feb. Ist.—The weather report for
January shows rainfall to be 4.16; barometer 30.00; thermometer 71.37.—The
mortuary report for January shows a
total of 75, a much larger number than
the same month for several years past,
of which Hawaiians alone were 52. The
next largest nationality was Portuguese,
which stands 12. The greatest mortality was among children, 16 being under
1 year, 18 from 1 to 5 years, and 8 from
5 to 10 years.—The Ewa and Kahuku
Plantations, outgrowths of Dillingham's
Oahu Railroad enterprise, complete organization.
3rd. —"Election matters warming up.
—Annual parade and torchlight procession of the Honolulu Fire Department,
endfng with 'banquets by Companies 1
and 2 at their respective halls.
4th.—Island steamers to have sailed
to-day are delayed till after voting time
to-morrow. —Grand Reform rally at the
Nrfles Armory, largely attended, as also
an open air opposition gathering at
Palace square.
sth.—Election day, the first under the
new law,—observed as a general holiday
—passes off in the quietest possible
,
�Marh, 1890
THE FRIEND.
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manner, resulting in a defeat of the Reform Nobles ticket for Oahu, and of alt
representatives save Cecil Brown for the
Ist district.
6th.—The little steamer Akamai, under command of Captain Underwood,
sails away on a voyage of discovery.
7th.—Arrival of the Australia, on
time as usual, notwithstanding three
hours -delay in starting, awaiting snow
bound mails.—Kauai reports herself
for Reform.
9th.—Maui elects the full Reform
Noble ticket, and divides honors on representatives; Hawaii shows a better
total result. —Arrival of the Zcalandia
from the Colonies, en route to San Francisco, delayed through storms: Theo.
H. Davies, Esq. and son surprise their
many friends in their unexpected arrival
by her.
Bth'—The new Ice Works Co. exhibit
the "first fruits" of their expected labor.
11th.—The election returns all in,
shows the result to be 24 Reform, 21
Opposition and 3 Independent.
12th.—Accession day, observed as a
holiday by government offices, but business in general continued as usual.—
Banquet at the Hawaiian Hotel by Irish
residents to Mr. John Dillon, M. P.,
and Sir Thos. Esmonde, M. P., en route
from the Colonies to San Francisco.
14th.—A heavy downpour of rain delays the departure of the Australia.
Steamer Ewa sank off the harbor with
a Targe load of bananas. All hands
saved through prompt aid from the
various men-of-war in port. Steam
tug Eleu went out to render aid, but the
Ewa being too close in to the breakers
could not be helped from that quarter.
Arrival of
15th.—Rain continued.
the Mariposa from San Francisco, with,
a number of returned islanders and a
party of tourists for a month's stay in the
"Paradise of the Pacific."—Deparpture
of the Australia for San Francisco with
a number of kamaainas.—Wm. O'Connor, the champion oarsman, with a sixoared crew of the Myrtle Boat club,
gave an aquatic muscular exhibition in
our harbor in which the famed visitor
came off second best.—Reception at the
Y. M. C. A. Hall to T. H. Davies Esq.,
by the employees ofthe Honolulu Iron
Works Co.
18th.—The deferred Valentine social
at the Y. M. C. A. Hall, with its comical band, gave a delightful evening's entertainment to the young 'folk andnheir
—
friends.
20th.—More rain for a change.— Rehersal of the opera of Mikado, by local
talent, is announced as in progress, for
entertainment and other charitable #b-
jects.
21st.—Pursuant to call of Rev. Alexander Mackintosh, a number of ladies
met at the Y. M. C. A. parlor and
organized a Flower committee to supply
the wards ofthe Queen's Hospital with
systematic ministrations of fragrant
cheer; Mrs. S. H. Dowsett, President;
Mrs. Capt. A. Puller, Vice President;
Mrs. J. N. S. Williams, Secretary; Miss
M. yon Holt, Treasurer. Interesting
lecture on Sculpture at the Y. M. C. A.
Hall by Mr. A. Hutchinson, and exhibition of modeling a portrait-bust of one
of the audience.
22nd.—George Washington's birthday
observed by an unusually liberal display
of bunting among the shipping, and reception by the American Minister Resident, Hon. Jno. L. Stevens.
23rd.—Heavy thunder with much rain
again, just fancy, one and one-half
inches in less than an hour.
25th.—First case under the new election law against a candidate for non
conformity to its provisions was tried in
the Police Court, and the party found
guilty; appeal noted.
26th.— His Majesty's Chamberlain
gains his suit of recognition, as such,
before the full bench, Judge Dole dissenting.—The Cabinet fails to approve
ofthe- choice made for Colonel.
28th.- -An unusually wet month, largely
prevalent with "la grippe," draws to a
close. Over eleven inches of rain for
the month.
PASSENGERS.
Hyhi.mi San Francisco, par S B Australia, Feh. 7
man and wife, Miss Haiti? Hymaii, l> Keil, Mr- \V Dut
ton and S children, A KMarchand and wife, N X It ,kcr
and wife, C B Plait, wifeand child, Dr A mcWeyue. S S
Crocker and wife, Miss M X, McuUtr*, P I'd k, Mrs (
Maihaway, Miss Hettwray, I II Rikar, Mn R M Brown,
R Mackf-ntie. Edw Spring, Mrs Lawrence end child. las
lialthelder. Miss Kmina I. l lark, F W Wood, J M Bright,
Kduin Banner, F J H Cordairo, II R Gilbatl ami MI i the
etm rage,
From l.iveipool, |»er Denheld, Feb fl I* Day.
Fruit Sydney and Auck'and, per RMS /calamfia, Feb
f> Theo 11 Davies, 'F (live Davies, J Dillon M |», Sir
Thoa BaUnonda, R Hunter, II Orieraon. i in the steeraga
and 89 cahin and 41 ilaeiajll pa -senders in transit (or San
Francisco,
From s.ui Francisco, par blctna Planter, Feb 111 <; W R
Annie J King, A X King, L X
IClng, Mrs Amy L
Kin;, W II King, Maehi Nihei, G Ii King, John Anney,
I. DTanoayand Peter Alberta.
From San Pram I* O, pel fafalM B(J Wilder, Feh In Dr
Hail, Mi Lincoln, 11 Stan and It Gordon.
From s.ui Prancis< <>. per bktna Discovery. Feb 19 f A
liynfh, M Si, hel, W II llnddy, C Henr>, C? Rudolph and
Nil Miller.
From San Francisco, per F S Thompson, Feb IS— Rev J
F
T..liey.
.
i>i I'Aic li RSS.
I per Amelia, Y M Mi Ciraw.
For San Francisco, per Zealandia, Feb ft—Mi** Bella
Weight, IJEgm, II F V/icfaman, As Harwell, R J
Mrs C H Smith and daughter, Mr Justice Dote
and wife, R It Rreidiam and wife and 1 (teerage.
For San Francisco, Feh 10, per G N Wikux-C Magnus
Fol San Frarn iso>, per hark S(' Allen, Feb II X Kist
le. ami W II I'agC.
For San Francisco, per S S Australia, Feb IS Maioi
Gilbert, Miss Keough, I X Smith, Mrs | Harris. ST
Bowne. X Hopke, H Gnenton, Misaas Wallace, Mis- M
M< Ivittc, Hon John Dillon, Sii Thos lismonde, C A Brown
and wife, son ami maid, M llynian, wife, three children
and servant, Miss Leanore Lake, I". Bailcv, V Knudsen,
Rufns Parker, Miss Parker, X A \\ ill «, W I. M< Kwen,
H i; R.-its-, Mrs Rouse, | Dl.a-sand wife. Mrs Snvagr,
ACBradley, R J Griffith, tfM Lombard. WH Nolan,
Miss Kehoc, F C Dodga, Mis- Jameson, Mrs II H Dixon,
Mis Lederei and two children, Geo. Norton, Col Peine,
Ira Bishop, Mi s I'ilsl.ry, Hon II M Whitney, N D Hodge
Mi-s I. M Ingersotl, II keimnnschneider, II R Reeves and
about 80 steerage.
For the Colonies, pei Mariposa, Feb lfi J Batchelor and
PORT OF HONOLULU.—FEBRUARY.
J Raw-on.
For s.m Fr.m i-m, pier Q ga, Feb SI Mis J Harrington
ARRIVALS.
Mrs Birleyand A R Walker.
For San Francisco, per bark C I>Bryant, Feoff M N
7—Haw S S Australia, Houdlette, fl days til hours from
Kennedy,
wife and child,Mrs J i trace and three children, J
San Francisco.
H Kennedy, and 1' S Rogers.
Am hk Alex McNeil, Frtis, &'* days from New. astle.
B—Br sh Deanlield. Irvine, 131 days from l.ivrpool.
Pot ."s.in Francisco, per Lady Lampeon, Feb M CS
Am hktne [nuard, Paul, 21 days from Port lownaand. Kingsley.
Am tern W. S. llowne, llluhni, from Mahttkona, Ha
wait.
9—Haw S S Zealandia, Van Otereiulorp, from the ColMARRIAGES.
onies. #
15—Am S S Mariposa, Hayward, fl!? days from San Fran- BBRLIE MACAULSV Ai St. Andrew's Cathedral,
cisco.
Honolulu. Feh 15, hy the Rev Alex Mack ntosh, ('rank
Am hktne Planter, Dow, 21 days from San Francisco.
Herlie to Margaret X J Macauley.
Am hktne SG Wilder, Griffith, 'JO days from San Francisco.
17—Am tern F S Redfern, Bui-holm, 06 days from NewDEATHS.
castle.
Am hktne Mary Winkleman, Dyrel>or>j, 35 days from PHILLIP At Santa Rosa, Cal., Jan 2nth, P J Phillip, a
Central America.
former resident of Maui, aged B6 ye us.
18—SenKva, Wick man, 28 days from Eureka.
Haw bk W B Godfrey, Dahcl, 17 days from San Fran- FVFF In s.m Frandaeo, lan lath, Miss Pauline D Fyfe,
a native of Honolulu, Bgnd 17 years.
cisco.
Am hk Discovery, McNeill, l.) days from San Fran- HASSINGER Near San Jena, California, Jan Mkh, Mrs
cisco.
Eunice Haasinjaar, aged 84 years, mother of J A HasAm hk Benj F Hunt, Pritchard, f»4 days from NewSJhger of this city.
castle.
23—Am hk F S Thompson, Potter, 20 days from San Fran- SMITH In Honolnlu, Feh lllh, Mrs J II Sintth, aged
cisco.
74 years.
26—Am tern Alcalde, Smith 25 days from Port Towtuend.
TUCKER In San Fran, is, o, Jan gOth, Cnpt Hcnr> S.,
28—Am bark Son una, Lee, 85 day.s from Callao.
husband of the late Henrietta S, mid fatherof Joanna,
Am bark C O Whitmore, Ward, 25 days from DepartD Tucker of this city, a native f Dartmouth, Mass.,
ure Bay, & C
72 years, 2 monies and 2 days.
DEPARTURES.
CAI'IJ-.RMOI.D In llford, England, Frederick atlrr
m. .Id, HapiaoH of W. C. Rowe, of this city, aj;ed ■ years
I—Am hktne Amelia, Newhall, for San Francisco.
s—Am hk Ceylon, Calhoun, for San Francis. 0
MORRIS At Waikapu, [stand of Maui, Feh. 11, F. A.
Am bktne Klikitat, Cutler, for Kahului.
Munis, a native of New York State, aged 45 years, 1
6—Am bktne W H Dim >nd. Drew, for San Frain isco.
month, 11 days.
9—Haw S S Zealandia, Van Oterendorp, for San FranVALF.N TINE Dae 11, Uflfl. in New York City, of heart
cisco.
disease, K. Valentine, second sou of Louis T. Valentine,
10—Ger. bk G N Wilcox. Rasch, foi San Francisco.
of Honolulu.
Am terrt W S Rowne, Bluhm, for San Fram i,co.
Thompson,
bk
S
C
for
San
Francisco.
Allen,
14—Am
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VALENTINE January I, ISiXI, at Pethel, Maine, of
15—Haw S S Australia, Huudlelte, for San Francisco.
paralysis-M >. Emily If. Va entine (nee Chapman), step
Am S S Mariposa, Hayward, for the Colonies.
mother of Mr. Louie T. Valentine, of Honolulu.
18—Ambk Hesper, Ryder, for Port Townsend.
Am sh Merom, Glover, for San Francisco.
HORNER-In Alameda Oaa ty, Cal., Jan. W\ MO,
19—Haw bktne G H Douglass, A Jacobson, for San FranSarah "Homer, mother of Ino M. Homer, of Hamakna,
cisco.
Hawaii, and William Y. Homer, Sen., of Lahaina, Maui,
80—H B M S Champion, St Clair, for a cruise.
aged 04 years and 25 days.
Olgs,
sen
for
San
Francisco.
Rodin,
21 —Am
24 -Haw bk Lady Lampson, Sodergren, for San Francisco. McCOLGAN—At his residence, Judd street, Honolulu, on
Feb. 28, John McColgan, a native of Ireland, aged 75
26—Am bkC D Bryant. Jacobson, for San Francisco.
27—Am tern Eva, wikman, for Eureka.
I years.
Marine
For San I' .a u isCO, Fab
Journal.
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�Volume 48, No. 3.]
BOAEB.
HAWAIIAN
lIONOLI'LU H. I.
This page is devoted to the interests of the Hawaiian
Board of Missions, and the Editor, appointed by the
6onrd is ie-i""'silile (or its contents.
Rev. 0. P. Emerson,
- Editor.
The Rev. A. N. Fisher, who lately
arrived among us by one of the San
Francisco steamers, and who preached
last Sabbath morning at the Central
Union Church, is an elder (ordained
clergyman) in the Methodist Kpiscopal
Church ofthe United States. He comes
out at the request of Bishop Fowler of
California to look over the Japanese
work now being carried on in the Islands under the fostering care of his
Church, and of which Mr. Harris lately
had the charge. If the way is made
clear, Mr. Fisher may settle among us
as a fellow-laborer, and so superintend
this important work.
It may be pleasant for those who shall
enjoy his further acquaintance to know,
that Mr. Fisher is from Rochester, N.Y.,
where he has had a charge for several
We are glad to state that the twelve
empty parishes lately reported have been
diminished by .the coming of two more
workers into the field. Rev. P. Keaiir
puni, an ex-pastor, lately resident at
Haiku, was settled February 9th at Wailuku, Maui, and J. K. Kawaiaea of Kaupo, Maui, and a graduateof some years
standing of the Theological Institute,
has gone to labor at Eleele. Natives
are not always slow. As soon as Mr.
Kawaiaea received his call, he consulted
his wife and decided on immediate acceptance, and came by the next steamer
Mr. Jiro. Okabe writes from Hilo that with his entire family, one a baby less
since he has begun work, forty-three than a fortnight old.
runners for him, and whom he persuaded to promise to act as such, unknown
to him had already promised to be runners for the opposing candidate, and it
is their own testimony Jjiat on election
day they acted for both parties, or one
did, and the other remained somewhat
neutral. It was at the house of the
neutral man that the defendant stopped,
and to whom he paid the $5. We
think the case shows worse for these
lunas than for Mr. Paikuli. The cases
were appealed to the Supreme Court.
r>
Japanese, men and women have been
added to the Foreign Church. The
pastor Rev. E. P. Baker, administered
These are
the ordinance of baptism.
the ingatherings which. have been
brought to two sacramental services. It
is expected that in time others will also
be received, as "many more are coming
to Christ in every plantation."
Mr. Okabe speaks of the good work
done by a converted Japanese gambler.
Being a plantation luna (gang leader),
and having under him some seventyfive of his countrymen, he is an influential man, and is helping to Christianize
his brethren. This man was first reached through a tract sent him by a member of the mission. In the words ol our
brother: "What a wonderful change!
What a great mercy of God."
Another man was reached through
the conversion of his dying wife, and he,
a strong Buddhist, became a Christian.
"Are you not afraid" said Mr. Okabe to
the dying woman. "I am quite willing"
was the reply, to leave this miserable
earth any time to be with the Lord forever."
Mr. Okabe has seven preaching stations, and the Board has just voted him
a helper to be paid $10 a month, only
$5 being asked for Mr. Okabe's helper
is one of his own converts.
The second charge was of a more
serious character, and for this he was
adjuged a fine of $50 and $3.90 costs.
It seems that on the election day Mr.
Paikuli had twelve lunas or runners at
work for him. To none of these, as he
affirms, did he pay mon#y or make
promise of payment, save to one and to
him on election morning, he gave S"> in
discharge of what he felt was due for a
couple of nights' lodgings furnished
himself and friends. And yet he candidly admits that such were his feelings
of obligation to these lunas after the
election was over, he had it in mind to
■-enumerate them in someway, which a.s
the law now reads, it would have been
illegal for him to do. It is not charged
even by his accusers that he did commit
or meant to commit intentional wrong.
The case nevertheless has its ridiculously suspicious features. For instance
it is a little remarkable that two of the
men whom the defendant asked to be
The Superintendent of the Chinese
work reports good progress. In speaking of Honolulu, he says, that there are
sixty-two in the Boys School, and thirty
in the Girls School. An evening school
of three grades has been opened at the
Chinese Church, with an attendance of
over twenty adults. Steven Chinese and
half-Chinese girls are at Kawaiahao
Seminary.
Two Chinese evangelists are laboring
on the island of Kauai, one on Maui,
and two on Hawaii. News from the
missions at Kohala and Wailuku is also
encouraging.
"The Superintendent is endeavoring
to secure the co-operation of Christian
friends at different points on the Islands,
for the distribution of Christian reading
matter among the Chinese."
Our Superintendent needs an Fnglish
helper, and it is expected that he will
secure one before long.
yean.
—
He began his ministry in California
was presiding elder in the state of Nevada for thirteen years, during eight, of
which years he was Superintendent of
Public Instruction for the state. He
conies to these Islands partly in search
of health.
The Rev. J. N. Paikuli, pastor of the
Church of Waikane. and successful candidate for the sixth district, was arraigned before the Police Court this week
and sentenced under two charges. The
first concerned an irregularity in the
making of his election returns to the
Interior Department, he failing to forward a sworn statement. For this he
was adjudged five minutes imprisonment at haul labor and to pay $'t.7costs.
23
THE FRIEND.
Rev. A. Ostrom, pastor of the Church
make" a visit to China,
where he has a daughter in the mission
work. Rev. I. F. Tobey, late of Rocklin, California, and just arrived from
San Francisco, is to supply his pulpit.
at Kohala, is to
The Sparing meeting of the Hawaii
Association is to be held on the 10th of
March, with the Church at Waiohinu,
Kau, Rev. J. Kauhane, pastor.
A Bit of Gossip.
We were talking together—a native
pastor and myself:
"By the way," said he, I have just
received a most mournful letter from
" (mentioning a leading native living
in an old mission center). "What is
the matter with him? He seemed so
prosperous and well the last time I was
with him."
" He thinks of leaving the place, work
and all."
"You do not mean it! Where could
he go to find a more honorable situation
and a more congenial employment?"
"To a place where he could hide his
shame—not his though, but his family's,
and only so his. One daughter is already a wanton, and the other—and the
He is one of
poor father is
the salt of the earth, and so is the
mother. But the daughters have succumbed to the gross social influences
prevalent in the community."
"Who was the guilty man?"
"A foreigner and an official."
"Were either of these young women
graduates of any of our seminaries?"
" Yes, I believe one of them was;" and
from the conference we returned more
convinced than ever that the fight we
are making must, in part, be one for
chaste native homes.
There are such homes in the land we
firmly believe, and more perhaps than
there ever were before, and the number
of them is increasing. But there are
growing influences which are working
against the home. These influences
have & close and painful reach. They
touch even those whom we sometimes
think are safely guarded. Alas for those
who are not thus guarded!
How can the yielding native character
•
"
distracted.'
(Concluded
21)
page
in
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[March, 1890.
THE FRIEND.
A.
THE Y. M.H. 0.
I.
HONOLULU.
This page is devoted to the interests of the Honolulu
Young Mens Christian Association* and the Hoard of
Directors are re»Donnihle for its contents.
S. D. Fuller,
- - -
Editor.
Sunday Evening Service.
The Gospel Praise Service held every
Sunday evening in the Y. M. C. A. Hall
is a pleasant and helpful meeting.
Strangers are always welcome, and new
voices give added interest to the exercises. Come, young men, and bring
your friends, and if you have found the
"Friend that stickelh closer than a brother," honor him with a testimony. Service begins at half-past six o'clock and
continues for three quarters of an hour.
Topics for this month as follows:
March 2.—Ruined by thinking only
of himself. Luke 18:16-21.
March 9.—Unpopular but Faithful.
Jer. 26:1-16.
March 16.—Love of sin, Not want of
Light. John 3:16-21.
March 23.—Liberty to Come into God's
Presence. Heb. 10:19-25.
March 30.—Our part and His. Phil.
2:12, 13; Heb. 13:20, 21.
'
Personal.
The incoming steamer on February
Bth brought from the Colonies, among
other passengers, Mr. T. H. Davies and
son. About' three years ago Mr. Davies
broke up his home here and took his
family back to their London home. In
making the trip since he last visited us
he has made an interesting tour of the
globe, and I will just whisper that he
has promised to give the friends of the
Association an evening's talk on his recent journey through India. On his return from Hawaii the date will be fixed
and due notice given, but a social reception will come first on the docket. Mr:
Davies is a thorough Y. M. C. A. man,
has always been one of our most substantial supporters and enthusiastic
workers. His stay is short, but we are
glad to have him with us if only for a
few weeks.
Items.
The Y. M. C. A. Boys held their regular meeting last month in the Association parlors. They were glad to welcome
number present who seemed to thoroughly appreciate the well rendered
programme, and listened with close attention to the address of Mr. T. S.
Southwick on Prohibition. This theme
is a favorite topic with Mr. Southwick,
and we believe the sooner it becomes the
sentiment of a healthy majority here
and elsewhere the better it will be for
sinning and suffering humanity.
Where Does the Sin Commence?
To drink deeply—to be drunken—is a
sin, this is not denied. At what point
does the taking of strong drink become
a sin ? The state in which the body is
when not excited by intoxicating drink
is its proper and natural state; drunkenness is the state furthest removed from
it. The state of drunkenness is a state
of sin; at what stage does it become sin?
We suppose a man perfectly sober who
has not tasted anything which can intoxicate; one glass excites him and, to
some extent, disturbs the state of sobriety, and so far destroys it; another
glass excites him still more; a third fires
his eye, loosens his tongue, inflames his
passions; a fourth increases all this; a
fifth makes him foolish and partially insane; a sixth makes him savage; a
seventh or eighth makes him stupid, a
senseless, degraded mass; his reason is
quenched, his faculties are for the time
destroyed. Kvery noble and generous
and holy principle within withers, and
the image of God is polluted and defiled.
This is sin, awful sin; for "drunkards
shall not inherit the kingdom of God."
But where does the sin begin ? At the
first glass, at the first step towards complete intoxication, or at the sixth, or
seventh or eighth? Is not every step
from the natural state of the system toward the slate of stupid intoxication an
advance in sin and a yielding to the unwearied tempter of the soul 3 John
Bright.
Soul-Touch.
There is a blessed influence of one
true, human soul on another! not calculable by algebra, not deducible by logic,
but mysterious, effectual, mighty as the
hidden process by which the tiny seed
is quickened and.bursts forth into tall
stems and broad leaf and glowing tasselled llowers. Ideas are often poor
ghosts; our sun-filled eyes cannot discern them; the)- pass athwart us in their
vapor, and cannot make themselves felt.
But sometimes they are made flesh; they
breathe upon us warm breath; they touch
us with soft, responsive hands, they
look at us with sad, sincere eyes and
speak tongues in appealing tones; they
are clothed in a living, human soul, with
all its conflicts, its faith and love. Then
their presence is a power, then they
shake us like a passion and we are
drawn after them with gentle compulsion as flame is drawn to flame.— George
their President Mrs. B. F. Dillingham,
who had just returned from an extended
trip through the Eastern States. Mrs.
Dillingham presided at the meeting,
and gave to the Boys a brief account of
some of the places she had visited. The
next meeting occurs next Thursday',
March 7th, at 3 p.m.
A very pleasant entertainment was
given in the Y. M. C. A. Hall by the
Blue Ribbon League on Saturday evening, February 22nd. There was a good Elliot.
The Start is the Victory.
So you want' to borrow $500 to start
on? "If you only had $500 capital you
have a chance now to start a business
that will grow into thousands, and perhaps millions, eh?" All that you need
is a start, is it? Well, my son, I don't
know about investing $500 in you until
you have invested something in yourself.
I want to see you trot one heat, anyhow,
before I decide whether you are safe to
back. Listen to me, my son, the man
who can make a $500 business grow
into thousands, and perhaps millions
always gets the $500. Always. Here,
I'll tell you what I'll do with you, I'll
give you a dollar. Now, a man who can
make millions out of five hundred, can
easily make five hundred out of one.
Good bye, my son; good bye. Don't
work too hard if you don't want to get
rich. And remember, son, the man
who has to have another man's capital
to start on usually spends all his life
working for the other man. Start yourself, my boy; it will be easy work if you
are .going down hill. liurdette.
—
The Unused Umbrella.
A youth was lately leaving his aunt's
house after a visit, when finding it was
begthning to rain, he caught up an umbrella that was snugly placed in a corner,
and was preceding to open it, when the
old lady, who for the first time observed
his movements, sprang toward him, exclaiming, "No, no; that you never shall!
I've had that umbrella twenty-three
years, and it has never been wet yet;
and I'm sure it shan't be wetted now."
Some folk's religion is of the same
quality. It is none the worse for wear.
It is a respectable article to be looked at,
but it must not be damped in the showers of daily life. It stands in a corner,
to be used in case of serious illness or
death, but it is not meant for common
occasions.
We are suspicious that the twentythree years' old gingham was gone at
the seams, and if it had been unfurled it
would have leaked like a sieve. At any
rate, we are sure that this is the case
with the hoarded-up religion which has
answered no useful turn in a man's life.
C. 11. S.
—
.
A Thousand Dollar Funnel.
A high licensist believes in putting
whisky into a boy through a $1,000
firhnel, and then putting the boy into
the gutter; a prohibitionist believes in
putting the whisky into the gutter'and
saving the boy.
The Mills.
A saloon can no more be run without
using up boys than a flouring-mill without wheat, or a saw-mill without logs.
The only question is, whose boys—your
boys or mine—our boys or our neighbors' ?
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THE FRIEND.
A New Conquest of the Spectroscope.
Sunday Trains.
Editor Friend:—/our article in the
In the Sidereal Messenger for FebruProf.
last
number of your valuable paper on
Pickering of Harvard reports
ary,
a novel discovery in stellar arrangement, "Sunday Amusements," is evidently
which has been made wholly by means written by one "who knows not whereof
of the spectroscope. It is found that the he speaks," and is filled with statements
star known as Zeta Ursae Majoris is which are not true; this has caused me
really a double star, though not visually to send this reply, and I am actuated
separable; that the combined mass of solely by my ideas of right and wrong.
the two components must be at least If the writer would visit the Depot on
forty times as great as that of our sun; any Sunday, I think he would qualify
that they are not less far apart than Mars his assertions somewhat; and should he
and the sun; and that they revolve take a trip over the road he would find,
around each other in 104 days. All this at present at least, the means of recreis deduced from the fact that the lines of ation somewhat limited. Yet there is
this star as seen in the spectroscope no doubt we do "need periods of rest for
double themselves and then close up refreshment and recuperation," how
once in every 62 days; and that the shall we procure them? how do the maof the young men of this town proseparation of the doubled X lines jority
cure the needed rest? or rather, how did
measures 0.199 millionths of a milli- they before the Oahu Railway was openmetre, which, according to established ed for Sunday travel? they hired horses
laws of optics means a relative differ- and buggies or hacks, and went to the
ence of movement of the two suns to- Park or Long Branch, and we have all
read of the orgies indulged in there, or
ward and from the earth of 94 miles a else they laid in a supply of spirits on
second. The period and velocity of rev- Saturday and "had a time" on Sunday.
olution having been thus obtained, their Now they do neither. A more orderly,
weight and distance apart are deduced. quiet number of people, men, women
children, (lots of the latter,) go to
The estimate of velocity assumes, how- and
Manana, or some other place on"the
ever that the earth is in the plane of line," sober when they start, and remain
their orbit. If that orbit is inclined so, and return in the evening rested and
from us, then their velocity is greater, recuperated. I think your correspondent
and so their distance and mass are must have seen very little of "California
Society;" but presume he must be famgreater.
iliar with the kind he speaks of, which
The measurements are made upon he designates as a "reckless, lawless,
photpgraphs ofthe spectrum, hundreds of turbulent mobocracy." We are very
which are taken, and thoroughly studied. thankful we have no element of that kind
With this combination of spectroscopy here, and pray we never may. Those
whoseek "rest andrecreation"on theSunand photography, astronomers are now day excursions are those who work hard
penetrating the secrets of the stars, all the week, and with thei- wives and
which were wholly hidden from the last children take advantage of the facilities
generation.. The keen but unsupported offered to spend the Sabbath in a quiet
manner.
of them were church
conjectures of a Herschel or a Mitchell, goers, two Many
or three years ago, and the
which amazed our College days, have reason they are not so now is too well
either become verified, or have been known to need any explanation. lam
swept away, while new and astonishing in a position to know that "liquor is not
facts of solar and stellar structure are carried and freely distributed on the
Sunday trains;' "that no vile language
yearly being revealed. The thought of and
quarrelsome talk is indulged in," it
connected suns swinging about each is
occasional
false in toto. That an bottle,
may
other in slow years a few billions apart, mar. may have a flask or
perhaps be true, but it is not a general
has long been familiar. But now
at all, and I certainly think the
learn of two orbs, of at least three times thing
Sunday trains are a boon to those who
our sun's diameter, racing around each avail themselves of the opportunity ofother at close quarters.
fered for "rest and recreation."
A postcript of Prof. Pickering reports
*
a similar discovery in Beta Aurigae of
double suns with a period of only four
The writer of the communication
days, and a radius of only eight million above referred to (not our article), bemiles, their masses being only one fifth lieves that he had good evidence of the
of the sun's. Evidently a new huntingfield has been opened among the stars; existence on the Sunday trains to Ewa,
and the astronomers are to gather great of some of the disorder alleged. We
trust that the statements mudc to him
spoil.
* *
were exaggerated. We make no question but that those in charge will do
everything in their power to secure good
order on the trains on Sunday. If our
first correspondent is not seriously mistaken, this will prove a somewhat difficult task. Nous verrons. [Ed.]
—
Society Islands.
Ih'ro.n the Altitraliiin Independents
Rev. E. Y. Cooper, of Huahine, Society Islands, writes:
I should be glad to help your "Missionary Column" if I could send something of interest, but there are neither
famines nor revivals to report. We are
expecting to hear now by any mails
what the Directors have arranged with
the Paris Missionary Society in connection with our Society's entire withdrawal from the mission. I was amused,
and perhaps just a little annoyed, with a
four-line paragraph amongst your mission scraps several months ago to the
effect that I was on the point of abandoning my field on account of these Islands
becoming French. Certainly lam not
abandoning my field, nor is the L. M. S.
in the ordinary sense of the term. When
our Directors hav_ ordered withdrawal
then I am bound to leave the work. But
to speak of abandoning the mission is
not correct, either as applied to myself
or to the Society. Circumstances have
arisen, and are such that withdrawal on
the part ofthe L. M. S. has hardly been
a matter of choice. My colleague's
death, twelve months ago, undoubtedly
precipitated the step, but I question if
his continuance in'life could have averted it in the end. Political complications
are by no means approaching settlements. The French bave annexed the
Islands, and the tri-color waves over us
daily, but the hearts of the people remain unannexed, and they show no
signs of giving up their opposition to
French rule, and quietly accepting the
inevitable. In advising the latter course
in the interests of peace and progress,
both Mr. Richard and myself have been
greatly misunderstood by the native
populations; and mental suffering has
not been wanting as a consequence. I
only remain in the field, and when the
Mission is reinforced it will have to be
by French Missionaries.
In a city church the place of an organblower was vacant. An Irishman who
said he knew all about organs got the
On the following Sunday he
place.
went to the church and soon after was
told to blow. But Pat had never seen
an organ before, and as no wind was
coming the player got up from his seat to
see what had gone wrong. Pat, with
his body on the handle, with his face
crimson and his eyes nearly out of their
sockets was blowing down the handle.
�26
THE FRIEND.
If a man is to exist millions of years T B. CASTLE,
Selections.
after his death, if one can speak of years
During a discussion of religious topics in considering the admeasurements of
COMMISSION MERCHANT,
young Brown said: "I tell you that if eternity, to be jiimsejf he must be able to
Op
Hi X —Cartwright Building. Merchant Street,
the other animals do not exist,after death remember himself. Let a man now
Honolulu, H. I.
neither will man. There is no difference think what will probably be the precious fel-ty1
between man and a beast." And good things of memory a myriad of years n B. WELLS,
old Jones mildly replied: "If anybody hence, when all the present state of ter-
could convince me of that it would be
you, Brown."
Oh no! income is not the means or
measure of success. St. Paul says not,
"Lrejoice in the money at my disposal,"
but "in my sufferings for you." A society, even as the disciple, must seek
first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, believing that all these things
shall be added.
"So you are the new girl," said the
boarders to the new waiter; "and by
what name are we to call you?" "Pearl,"
said the maid, with a saucy toss of her
head. "O," asked a smart boarder,
"are you the pearl of great price?" "No:
I'm the pearl that was cast before swine.''
There was a long silence, broken only
by the buzz of the flies in the milkpitcher.
As a handful of quicksilver flung to
the earth breaks into a hundred separate
globules, each globule reflecting a fullorbed sun, so, though by disruptions
and revolutions and reformations the
Church has been broken into a hundred
sects, each sect may hold in the bosom
of its faith a full-orbed Christ. Rev. A.
J. Gordon.
He who knew human nature best,
who has thrown that terrible ray of light
into the unlit gulf of the heart when he
tells us "what proceeds out of the heart
of man," had yet the ear which was the
first to hear the trembling of one chord
that yet kept healthful time and tune in
the harlot's passionate heart. He believed that man was recoverable; lost,
but capable of being found. -Bishop
—
Alexander.
"Now a word came stealing upon me,
And mine ear caught the murmur thereof
In thoughts from the visions of night,
When falleth on men heavy sleep.
Fear fell upon me, and terror.
And caused all my bones to shake.
And a wind goes floating before me;
The hair of my flesh riseth up.
It stands, but I know not its shape;
A form is before mine eyes,
A whisper and voice I hear:
Can a mortal be juster than God,
Or a man than his Maker more pure!"
fob Translation by G. H. Gilbert.
Follow Christ,
...
In spirit, if
restrial affairs will have passed away,
all its history destroyed, all its monuments forgotten. Will it be the accumulation of a few poor, pitiful millions
of dollars, most of which he could not
use even while in the flesh ? Will it be
that his name was in the newspapers of
his day ? Will it be that he had a momentary thrill of physical enjoyment ?
What will it be ? If amid all these
things, he was ever able to turn one
soul from the error of his way. and stopped and dried up a stream of sin, and
brought that soul into the possession of
eternal life, will not that in the memory
of the world to come be to the man
something in value outweighing all
thrones and scepters and crowns and
terrestrial palaces ?
God never leaves the soul without
some light. As Charles Kingsley said
in the London fog "There is always light
enough to get home."
No good work stops for one man.
Individual health is attained by selfdenial.
It is a great shame to a man to have
a poor heart and a rich purse.
It is a great deal better to live holy
than to talk about it.
Teach true life to fight with mortal
wrong.
Knowledge unused for the good of
others is more in vain than unused gold.
When one has learned to seek the honor
that comes from God only, he will take
the witholding of the honor that comes
from man very quietly indeed.
Do not be in a hurry, but be diligent.
It is our own past which has made us
what we are. We are the children of
our own deeds.
I love these little people, and it is no
slight thing that they who are so fresh
from God love us. Dickens.
Our grand business is, not to see what
lies dimly in the distance, but to do
what lies clearly at hand.
—
WHOLEBALB GROCER AND PROVISION
DEALER AND
COMMISSION MERCHANT,
42
(_)ueen Street,
Honolulu, H. I.
Ban Jam Fruit Packing Co.. I'a.itii Bona Coal
Agtut
and Fertilizing Co.
fch-y
SHIPPING ft NAVY CONTRACTOR
JOSEPH
.
TINKER,
Family and Shipping Butcher,
CrTV MARKE'I Nuuami Street.
All orders delivered with quick dispatch and at reasonable rates. Vegetables fresh every morning.
Telephone 289, both Companies.
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riEORGB LUCAS,
CONTRAC TOR
AMD BUILDER,
HONOLULU STEAM PLANING
MILL,
KSHI.ANADi;, HONOLULU, H. 1.
Manufacturer of all kind* of Mouldings Brackets, Window
Frame-., Blinds, Sashes. I loon, and all kinds of Woodwork
Finish. Turning. Scroll and Band Sawing. AH kinds of
Planing, Sawing, MoKtCtng and Tenanting. Orders promptly atieiidt-il to. and work Guaranteed. Orders from the
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other Islandssolicited.
T
I).
LANE'S
MARBLE WORKS,
No.
Monuments,
Street, near Hotel,
Manufacturer of
130 Fort
Head
Stones,
Tombs,
Tablets, Marble Mantles, Marble work of every
DESCRIPTION MADE TO ORDER AT THE
lowest possible rates.
Monuments and Headstones Cleaned and Re-set.
Orders from the other islands Promptly attended to
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TTTM. G. IRWIN ft CO.,
FORT STREET, HONOLULU.
Sugar
Factors ft Commission AGENTS.
Agents for the
Oceanic
Steamship Comp'y.
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JOHN
NOTT,
TIN, COPPER AND SHEET IRON
Worker, Plumber, Gas Filler, etc.
not in letter, we must follow him along
the road he trod on earth, and that was Stoves and Ranges of all kinds, Plumbers' Stock and
a road of self-abnegation, of poverty, of
Metals, House Furnishing Goods, Chandeliers,
homelessness, of the base man's hatred
Lamps, Etc.
and the proud man's scorn. Let us not
Kaahmnanu St., Honolulu.
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it;
it
is
no
of
disguise
primrose path
dalliance, but a hard road, hard and yet T>EAVER SALOON,
happy, and all the highest and the
H. J. NOLTE, Proprietor,
noblest of earth have trodden it; all who
have regarded the things eternal not as TEMPERANCE COFFEE HOUSE,
things future, but merely as the unseen
Fort Street, Honolulu.
realities about them now.—F. W. Far- Beit Quality of Cigars, Cigarettes, Tobacco, Smokers' AmayB6
rar.
rticles, etc., always on hand.
ANNUAL
HAWAIIAN
•
for ieeo.
This publication, now in its sixteenth
year, has proved itself a reliable handbook of reference on matters Hawaiian;
conveying an accurate knowledge of the
commercial, agricultural, political and
social progress of the islands.
Orders from abroad or Irom the other
islands attended to with promptness.
Prick—to Postal Union Countries 60
cts. each, which can be remitteo by Money
Order. Price to any part of these islands
50 cents each.
Back numbers to 187s can be had, excepting for the years 1879 and 1882.
THOS. G. THRUM,
Address:
Publisher, Honolulu
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