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VOL. LXI
EDITORIAL AND GENERAL
HONOLULU, T. H., JANUARY, 1903
11l our Decemher number,
the purpose was to treat
of the early work of the American Hoard
in these Islands and the later societies and
organizations' which had grown out of
that early work, and which are now instrumental in perpetuating' it. As it was
impossible, however, to treat of the latter
in detail, the plan was followed of making a brief mention of each one under
some more general heading. It is with
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and most stimulating in the life of .the
homeland, so it will also subject us to the
influence of what is undesirable. We
\ Hearty Welcotne to the Year 1903
shall thus be put on our guard as to the
inducements to which we allow ourselves
to become subjected. In the admirable
addresses made at the Cable Day celebraLet us also be grateful for' that "rich
cf God, a year of time," which betion by Messrs. Eustis and Highton,
came wholly ours with the close of 1902.
there was a generous and noble recognition of the higher ends which all great
enterprises in the commercial and scienEveryone is entitled to the best possible the deepest regret that we notice that one tific world tend to secure. If we are
opportunity for making a good beginning of the most prominent and useful of these careful to see to it that our cable is made
on a new year, tan one be said to have organizations, namely. The Woman's to contribute to these ends, as well as
this when his sleep has been driven from Board of Missions, failed of being men- subserve our more material interests, we
11iin and he rises in a state of exhaustion tioned. It was due to the ladies who have- may have every reason to expect a gloin consequence of such a din as pre- so faithfully and efficiently carried it on, rious future for the Paradise of the Pavails here from midnight onward into the that it should have had a place in the pa- cific.
per along with other societies, but evimorning each 1 st of January?
dently not falling under any of the general topics treated, it Was overlooked, or, News from
We are indebted to Dr.
Guam and
if attention was at any time called to it,
1 liram Bingham for the
We are sorry to announce that Mrs. ihe impression passed before it took shape Micronesia
of letters from
perusal
Frear feels that she is no longer able to in action. We are sincerely sorry for the Messrs. Price. Stimsim and Walkup.
act as editor of the page devoted to "( )ur omission.
Writing of affairs in Guam, Mr. Price
Island Homes." We regret exceedingly
gives a vivid account of the earthquake
to lose so pleasant and able a helper from
there on the morning nf
January
will he that occurred
our ranks, but trust that we may have
The Cable
September 22(1. He describes this as vers
an
epoch-marking
day
in
an occasional contribution from her still.
the history of the Hawaiian Islands, as severe, shaking down stonewalls and
that day witnessed the completion of tele- houses, breaking, dishes, overturning
graphic connection and the beginning of water-tanks and other movable articles,
The Student, a paper which was started telegraphic communication between these as well as causing holes and cracks in the
of tlie
by Mr. F. W. Damon a year or two ago Islands' and the mainland and the rest of earth. In Agana, the severity
noticeable,
was
especially
but afterwards discontinued, has been tl;.- world. At the present time this event shock
again revived by Mr. A. M. Merrill, one stands as the last in a series of important ninety-eight buildings being more
of the teachers of Mills Institute. It transactions by which these Islands have or less completely wrecked. The mission
comes out in a neat and attractive pam- been raised to a full participation in the premises, which arc outside of the city,
phlet form and is full of matter pertain- civilization of the twentieth century. did not suffer so severely—the damage
ing to schools and education. Mr. Mer- Other important events will no doubt fol- not exceeding fifty dollars.
rill is a man of experience in newspaper low in due time, but for the present this Mr. Price sends a copy of his report tn
work and will doubtless keep the paper up one marks the highest point of our attain- the A. B. C. F. M., covering the period
ments, and it will doubtless be well for us from January Ist to October Ist, 1902.
to a high grade. We wish it success.
to wait until we have adjusted ourselves He reports a gradually increasing feeling
lo the new life into which the coming of of cordiality toward his work, with adthe cable ushers us before reaching out herents to the number of seventy-five, inThe friends of Mr. J. B. Atherton will for anything else so revolutionary as this. cluding children. As yet the efforts of
all be glad to learn that he is making,
In making these adjustments we shall himself and fellow-workers take the dialthough somewhat slowly, a gratifying have to learn to keep step with the rest rection mainly of evangelistic work. Sunprogress toward a better state of health. of the world. Heretofore we have had day-school, preaching and Christian EnMr. Atherton and his family have had lime to think. If the departure or the deavor services are held each Sunday in
the sympathy of the community during coming of a steamer found us undecided Spanish, Chamorro and English, the lathis late serious illness, and we trust that in our action, we had a period, of enforced ter being for the American population,
the present improvement will continue till isolation until the next steamer arrived he- including the Governor, naval officers,
he has regained at least a comfortable fore we absolutely needed to reach a con- marines and others. These services are
degree of health.
supplemented by the work of a Bible
clusion.
heen
for
reader
and by the distribution of tracts
changed.
who
has
about
now
The
clay
ill
C.
This
is
P.
Jones
Mr. Price is also at work
Bibles.
same length of time as Mr. Atherton swifter judgments and broader generali- and
of the Bible into the
translating
parts
competitold,
we
arc
us.
keener
suffering,
zations
is
although,
ill
A
upon
School work has
language.
c is some improvement in his condi- tion in business, a closer contact with all Chamorro
begun
in any aggressive
industrial
has
not
vet
been
in
two
are
greatly
politics,
tion. These
the movements in
gentlemen
funds. The,
trussed in the Hawaiian Hoard and in and social life will characterize our ex- wav for lack of teachers and
arc
gambling,
to
the.work
cahindrances
As
the
perience here in the future.
ble brings us into touch with what is best drunkenness, immorality and the active
An
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Kir.
Oversight
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opposition of the priests.
Mr. Price
makes a plea for $1500 to provide a suitable place of workship as the present
place is much too small.
Mr. Stimson, writing from Ruk, mentions the arrival of the schooner Carrie
and Annie on the evening of (Ictobcr
15th, after being delayed a month by
calms within a few days sail of Butaritari in the Gilbert Islands. The missionaries at Ruk had begun to be short
of food and kerosene oil, and had been
obliged to eke out the supply by buying
from Hongkong and the traders. There
had been no actual suffering however.
The organization of a new church at
their central station is described as follows: 'It was done very properly by a
council of Congregational churches,
(".illed by letters missive—a native pastor
was chairman. Some of the narratives —
not many of them—were interesting, and
the visiting deacons did a good share of
the examining. The Sunday services
w ere very long, but very solemn and interesting to all our people. Forty-three
were selected fur membership from fiftynine applicants."
Mr. Stimson speaks with regret of the
weakness of the native helpers and of
his being the only man to care for all
tin- work and his being without means
to visit all the stations.
()f the Gilbert Island work, Mr. Walkup writes rather discouragingly. Shortage of food on one island, sickness and
failure in morals among the native
teachers, temptations to laxness in living
being the difficulties in the way. His
little schooner, the Hiram Bingham, had,
also, been twice ashore, due to the breaking of her cable. The second time, it was
only after some days of hard work, digging away the sand by which she had been
partially buried, that the vessel was gotten afloat. She was not seriously damage 1 by these experiences, but had been
much hindered by calms. Mr. Walkup in
his lonely and difficult field should have
the prayerful sympathy of all Christain
people.
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TheHawai an
Board
With the withdrawal of
the American Board from
financial responsibility in these Islands,
the duty falls wholly upon the Hawaiian
Board of carrying forward the work
which it has inherited from the former
body, as well as that which has grown Up
under its own initiative. Under these circumstances the relation of this Hoard to
the spiritual and material welfare of the
islands should be' brought to the attention
of all who live or have interests here.
When the missionaries of the American
Board landed here in 1820, Jhey found
the people in a state of barbarism. According to the records of the churches
which grew out of that work, they have
brought to a profession of Christianity
from imong the natives alone, 65,898
persons, a number equal to nearly one
half of the population when the islands
were discovered. Besides this ingathering of souls, a Christian civilization has
been established from which the whole
population, whether professing Christianity or not, has been greatly benefitted.
.Again w hen the American Board began
work here the value of property was very
small; Today, according to the report
of the Governor to the Secretary of the
Interior, the value of property in these
Islands subject to ad valorem taxes, is
$110,388,578. In its work here the American Board spent $1,577,956.27. This
money was not expanded in business or
speculation for the purpose of making
more money. It was spent in laying the
moral and intellectual foundations of civilization, and the hundred millions or
more of property values is merely an incident or outgrowth of this work. Without the moral and intellectual foundation
it never would have reached such a figure.
and, if '.his foundation were to fail, the
value of property would greatly deteriohas,
therefore,
rate.
Christianity
wrought out here as it does everywhere
a two-fold result, in that souls have been
.aved and the conditions under which
life and property are safe have been established. We would not say of course,
that the American Board can claim the
credit for all the benefits of civilization
thai we enjoy here today. Such other
agencies as have wrought here should
have credit for what they have done, but
the American Board being the first
comer and most extensive influence in
the islands, has undoubtedly achieved
a greater result than any other factor.
Tbe Hawaiian Board now becomes the
heir to the duty and opportunity of car-
rying on the work begun here so long
ago; and, added to this, is the work
among the Chinese, Japanese and Portuguese which this Board has itself inaugurated. This work'expands faster than
the ability of the Board to meet it. and
hence is always calling for assistance that
cannot be given to it.
Now the continuation nf the Hawaiian
work handed over by the American
Board and the newer work among the
races which have more recently come to
these shores, is vital to the best interests
of these Islands. The future welfare of
all classes here will depend upon the
readiness with which the needs of these
peoples arc recognized and met. A healthy, vigorous effort, of the most pronounced Christian type, undertaken and
persistently carried on. is imperatively
demanded to meet the needs that are now
before us as Well as those that are sure
arise in the near future. New problems arc arising every day and new
methods and increased resources arc
needed to meet them.
From a human point of view it would
seem to he unfortunate that just when
these greater responsibilities arc devolving upon it, the Hawaiian Board finds
itself hampered in various ways. In the
first place it is short-handed. Its working force is for the time reduced, two of
its most effective men being temporarily
laid aside. Also, in its councils, it suffers
the lack of its president, Mr. Atherton,
and a member of its finance committee,
Mr Jones, who have been kept away for
sometime by illness. It is also carrying
a debt of about $12,000 and this is increasing from month to month. Under
such circumstances one of two things is
inevitables either it must find relief or a
serious diminution of its work and influence must follow shortly.
We have said that this is the outlook
from a human point of view; but we cannot believe that it means disaster.
The
plans of God arc too far-reaching and his
ability to touch the springs of power as
latent in human wealth is too great to
allow the work over which he has watched with special care to fail or be greatly
weakened, Shall not one outcome of the
Week of Prayer, be a renewed consecration of our means to his service.
to
Since the above was put in type, it is
learned that a friend of the Board has
cancelled its debt.
THE PLEASANT
ISLAND MISSION
By a late mail, we have letters from
Ml. Delapprte by way of ffongkong of
dates. October 6th, Bth and loth.
At the first writing Mr. Dchporte and
family, now numbering four souls, were
on board the S. S. Oceana in the port
of Jaluit, Marshall Islands.
On the Btli. they were on the steamer
200 miles eastward nf Kusaie, or Strong's
Island and bound thither.
< >n the 10th of October, they had arrived at Kusaie. where they planned to
remain for two months "nr so, until, on
the return of the steamer Oceana from
Hongkong, they could embark for their
home nn I'leasant Island.
Under date of October Bth, Mr. Delaporte writes:
"Your interesting letters of May 28th,
June 27th and July Ist were handed to
mc at Jaluit a few days ago. We were
very glad to bear from you, and rejoice
because of the continued interest our
many friends at Honolulu take in our
work."
Regarding the object of this visit to
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Kusaie, Mr. Delaporte says: —
"You will he wondering what we are
doing on board the S. S. Oceana. We
are on our way lo Kusaie to have a portion of the New Testament scriptures
and a hymn-book printed. We have
worked day and night during the last
two months to get ready, and We can now
with the help of God, when printed, place
the Gospels of Matthew and John, the
Kp:sties to the Galations, I and II Timothy and I, II and 111 John, in the hands
of the people. We have also prepared a
small
hymn-book."
Later on Mr. Delaporte speaks of having arranged to receive every four
months, per Oceana, potatoes, onions
and fruit.'He also says that we can send
mail matter to him either by way of Sydney or Hongkong.
The letter of October ioth was from
Kusaie and says that Mr. Channon and
family and Dr. Rife and family were
well. Miss Wilson had gone on the
Carrie and Annie to Ponape, and the return of this schooner from Ruk was expected in January.
Mr. Delaporte and family hoped to be
back at Nauru or Pleasant Island by'
Dec. 24th.
O. H. G.
AMONG THE FARMER FOLK
A Letter From Dk.
Dobkmus Scuddeh
For missionaries a summer at Kar.uizava, under the shadow of Asainayama,
Japan's liveliest volcano, represents the
acme of enjoyment. In some unexplainable way the air in this lofty mountain
valley has acquired a tonic quality very
different from anything to be found at
Xikko, Hakone or any other of the noted resorts in the Empire. If not over stimulated by it, this atmosphere means
rest and health for those worn out by
over exertion while the association with
fellow-workers of all missions and no
missions wonderfully tones up the spiritual nature. As no place in Japan presented as good an opportunity for summer
Study, Mrs. Scudder and I were glad to
accept the invitation of my cousin Rev.
Frank S. Scudder of Nagano to share
their vacation home. More solid hours
of work were put into the language during two months at Karuizava than during an equal amount of time anywhere
else since reaching Japan. Meanwhile,
in order to carry practice along with
theory, a preaching service was opened
at Miyoda a nearby station on the railroad where the gospel was faithfully presented on Sundays for a month and a
half.
Our next move was to Niigata, our
former home and mission station. Here
we were most cordially received by
friends and fellow laborers of thirteen
Many changes had been
wrought in this period, some grave,
others full of cheer. Christian work in
this province has been beset with many
discouragements but within the past year
there has been a most hopeful improvement, conversions have been frequent,
backsliders have returned to the faith
and the church members are beginning
to ■'rake up _*ctive personal work. A tour
of the whole field of this station revealed
harvest time almost everywhere.
As Xiigata is one of the prefectures
from which large numbers of laborers
have gone to Hawaii, a vigorous attempt
was made to meet the relatives of these
emigrants. Various means were invoked
to achieve success. First the authorities
were asked for a list of names and adyears before.
dresses, and an attempt was made to see
a number of people in their homes. This
was found to consume so much time that
it was out of the question to cover much
ground in the few days available. How-
ever, the experience was one to be long
remembered. The simple farmer folk
were overjoyed to see some one wJio had
COme from the land where the loved son,
or husband, or brother had gone. One
young fello.v could hardly bring himself to believe that a foreigner could takeso much interest in his brother and exclaimed "'And are you not a Japanese
then?" Another, a hale old grandmother of over 75 years, seemed quite pained
that her oft repeated invitation to stay
and dine could not be accepted, and followed me far from her door. I can see
her now, her face with its halo of whitened hair framed in the hedge through
which she was peering as she waved her
farewell.
The second method tried was to secure the assistance of local evangelists
or Christian friends, to call together the
relatives of Hawaiian Japanese in some
This plan
convenient meeting place;
proved mope successful than the first in
that many could be met with little expenditure of time but only a very few
centers could thus be reached and only
a small proportion of the people could
be gotten out in such an informal manner. When, however, the help of the
local government officials was requested
and tiiis request was seconded by influential letters of introduction, as was
'the case in one town, it was found that
:hc people responded in large numbers,
that government buildings (the only
available meeting places in many localities) could be secured and that greater
freedom and spontaneity characterized
the gathering. A large number of these
relatives came, bringing all sorts of requests and messages for their friends in
Hawaii. "I am an old man," exclaimed
a well-known farmer, "and can work no
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more. Tell my son to come home." "My
boy," said a broken-hearted mother, "has
riot written to me in three years. I tlo
not know why be never answers my letters. Please say to him that his Father
is dead and my heart is sad because hehas
forgotten his home. Get him to write to
me." The mother of several children,
whose appearance bore out her story of
hardship, came with the plea, "We are
My husband has
pot r and need he)]).
long ceased to send us money. Please
find him and see if he will not do something for our support." And so it went.
one touching appeal after another, all
taken carefully down in my notebook.
And as the hearts of these simple country folk were revealed to me, it was evident that here was a rare method opened
if establishing the closest personal -relation both with these farmers in Japan
and their kinsmen in Hawaii. All who
attended these gatherings were likewise
impressed.
The result of this experience was the
decision to make a systematic attempt to
meet as many of the families of Japanese
in Hawaii as possible. To do this the
diinl method detailed above that of securing the co-operation of the local authorities was the only one with any promise of success. Recourse was therefore
had at once to influential personal friends
with the gratifying result that high officials in the capital have most graciously
consented to co-operate, and now the
great western prefectures of Hiroshima.
Vamaguchi, Fukuoka and Kumamoto
are to form the center of a campaign of
between one and two months in which it
is Imped that many hundreds of families
may be reached.
If this expectation be
realized it will be well t<» follow the same
tactics in several other localities whence
Hawaii draws its supplies of Japanese
laborers. The prayers of the friends of
the P.oard arc asked for this undertakDorctnus Scudder.
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Kobe, Oct. 26, 1902.
"IF I WERE A MINISTER"
By a Layman.
[Apropos to the discussions on the
relation of the church to the masses
and the influence of preaching in general, which are so common in these
times, we print the following article
from the Sunday School Times, by "one
of the most prominent laymen in
America." The writer evidently believes in going to church. —Ed.l
I am not a minister, nor at all likely
to become one. God has called me, I
believe, to my secular pursuit, amt
thereby made it as sacred as any pastorate. But if I were not a—what I am,
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I would rather be a preacher; and the
fact that multitudes of laymen make the
same admission is proof of the supreme
nobility of the preacher's calling, on the
principle that the second choice of all
the delegates to a political convention
is the fittest nominee. 1 revere the gospel ministry as the loftiest human occupation, and, if I thought that what I
am about to write would be 'held derogatory to that exalted pursuit, and
those that follow it, I should lay down
my pen with this period.
However, when that pillar fell in
Westminister Abbey a year ago, and
when certain considerations led London
10 fear for the foundations of St. Paul's,
men were not considered wanting in
reverence for their ancient monuments
when they raised strict inquiry concerning the causes of such alarms, and
demanded an account of those precious
charges from those custodians. Indeed,
11 any one censures my remarks, it will
not be the ministers themselves, but
their self-appointed apologists. The
eagerness of the modern clergy to receive suggestions from the laity has
even become a weakness, in some cases
arguing less a childlike willingness to
learn than a sense of insecurity and insufficiency. I would gladly sec our
ministers more sturdily independent.
In telling how I would do it if I were
a minister, I have not the least confidence that I should live up to my own
ideals, if tint to the actual test, nor that
even if 1 were able to do this, 1 should
not fall short in numberless particulars
not here set down. Doubtless the mysterious minister who. in the series Ol
articles-complementary to this, will tell
us laymen how to do it, would enter an
equal caveat. But I shall be glad, none
the less, or read his hints, and put them
in practice wherever he does not altogether shoot over the mark of a layman's life. Doubtless he will yield me
the same honest observance.
Perhaps it will not be out of place to
say that my calling has for years
brought me into contact with an exceptionally large number both of ministers
and laymen, so that my remarks may
claim some basis of experience. Also, I
want to say that, though I remain
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church; they do not want a weekly review from the pulpit. To a minister,
with this theological training, the urgent themes of politics, science, and
literature, appeal with all the fascination of novelty. He forgets that for his
intelligent hearers all the novelty has
worn off while to then the fresh theme
is that very theology which has become
Irite and stale to him Moreover, tha:
is his citadel, his stronghold. If he (lis
•usscs the topic of imperialism, dozens
if men in the congregation are far better informed than In:, and will yawn at
his platitudes, deny Ins statements, and
controvert his positions. If he builds a
lermon on "Romola," or if his disburse is a veiled treatise on the nebular hypothesis, every high-school gradlate before him will resent such a resurrection of his school days. Hut if.be
preaches the great doctrines of sin and
salvation; if he gets his major inspiraion from the Bible, and not from Darwin, Kipling, or the Tribune; if he
reaches beyond the times to the eternities,—lie will compel attention by the
virility of his theme, and fascinate his
hearers with its novelty. Rejecting,
with David's wisdom, the clumsy armor
;>f a Saul, he will smite with his own
proper weapons, and the Goliaths will
■verywhere fall.
I am well aware that, of the increasing number of clergymen who, to my
apprehension, preach politics, literature and science, there is no one of
[hem all but would indignantly profess
to be preaching pure religion.
And, indeed, a religious finale is invariably appended to their sermons. But the scientific illustrations overbalance the truths
illustrated. The palpable zest is for the
struggle with Filipino or Boer, rather
than tor the combat with that outgrown
personage, Beelzebub. We stumble
against the religious conclusion of the
sermon with just such a shock as we
experience in meeting the reference to
Dr. Pulver's Purple i'ills at the end of
that fascinating column in the news-
'
paper.
The ministers that preach thus are
eager, I am sure, to be fishers of men,
but 1 am afraid they are using the
wrong bait. The laymen that go to
anonymous at the suggestion of the church go there, in the main, hungry for
Editor, and doubtless shall push an spiritual food. If 1 were a preacher, I
easier pen because of this anonymity, should give it to them "straight." I
yet I intend to write nothing I would should look into my heart, and, so far
not stoutly sign, and 1 hereby permit as possible, into theirs. I should brood
the Editor to tell who T am whenever over the sins and temptations, the hopes
he chooses.
, The
first thing I am moved to say is
that, if I were a preacher. I would not
preach literature, science, or politics. I
would preach religion. Laymen get
enough of the newspaper outside the
and fears, the worries and sorrows, the
triumphs and the joys, of our common
life. I should seek to draw from the
supernatural world some mighty inspiration for their labors, solace for their
griefs, assurance for their doubts, peace
for their turmoil, and enrichment for
their joys. 1 should let all the world
help me preach, but only as the glass
of the telescope is. permitted to focus
the light of the stars. It is no guess
of mine that the multitude would glad
ly listen to such preaching, since it has
for its model Phillips Brooks, and Spurgeon, and Moody, and McLaren, and
all the other preachers, and Christ himself.
In the second place, I have made up
my mind that, if I were to preach, 1
should not preach the higher criticism.
I have no quarrel with some of the
higher critics; they are learned and
godly men. I do not dispute their
theories, except when they are obliged
to attribute lo the writers of the Bible
insincerities and dishonesties thai
would shock a New York ward politician. Ministers know the absolute truth
about the Scriptures, and must preach
-n the light of that knowledge.
To preach the higher criticism, however, is like taking a starving man ink)
the kitchen, bidding him note just how
a loaf of bread is compounded. Men
are hungry for Bible food, and Bible
food ii not a treatise on the date of
Deuteronomy. If, before they mention
the possibility of a second Isaiah, ministers would estimate what proportion
of their audience has ever read more
than two chapters of those sublime
writings, they would postpone higher
criticism in favor of exposition. What
folly to discuss the composite character
of the liooks of Samuel before a congregation, not ten of whom could give
any account, beyond his boyhood, of
his second greatest of the ancient Hebrews! If the higher criticism does no!
undermine the faith of the higher critics, it is because in their case it is only
the superstructure of an intimate acquaintance with the Bible. To preach
these thorics before congregations not
thus founded in Bible knowledge, is to
lav granite blocks upon the quicksands.
If the minister should approach higher
criticism as poorly prepared as the average laymen before whom he recklessly
presents his critical conclusions, those
conclusions would make him as skeptical as they often make the laymen.
In the third place, if T were a minister
I would preach as if I meant it. We
laymen yield our hearts very readily to
any preacher who is possessed by his
subject. Ido not mean sawing the air,
nor shouting, nor those strained, impressive low tones. It makes no difference to mc —nor to most laymen—
whether a preacher uses manuscript, or
mere notes, or speaks out of his imnie(Continued on page 10.)
�7
THE FRIEND
TEMPERANCE ISSUES.
Edited by
REV. W. D. WESTERVELT.
Rev. W. H. Rice, who for the past
year has been Superintendent of the
Anti-Saloon League in Hawaii, retired
from that office the first of January, 1905.
Owing to lack of sufficient funds the
League decided to dispense with the services of a |iaid superintendent.. Mr. Ricehas aided both by song and stereopticon
in a number of meetings, during the
year. He has been especially helpful in
the services held in the native churches
around Honolulu. He has an excellent
stt'reopticon, fitted for cither electric or
acetylene gas lights, and a fine series of
volcanic views, and also of the Hawaiian
Islands. His plans for the future are not
vet definitely settled.
The Anti-Saloon League retains its office, for the present month at least at No.
<>, Mclntyre Building corner of King
and Fort streets. Mr. Rice will be in
the room a part of the time each day to
receive the payment of subscriptions due
during 1902, and also to aid any persons
coming for consultation. Other members of the League will take office hours
from 11-12 a. nt., when it can be so arranged as to be convenient.
The sale of intoxicating liquors to children is not confined to the Hawaiian Islands by any means. We have had some
flagrant cases here, but it is not done with
quite as bold a public statement a.s characterized tlie words of an officer of the
Liquor League of Ohio at a meeting
in which the interests of the saloon business were discussed.
"It will appear from these facts, gentlemen, that the sucess of our business is
dependent largely upon the creation of
appetite for drink. Men who drink liquor,
like others, will die, and if there is no
new appetite created, our counters will
be empty, as will be our coffers. Our
children will go hungry, or we must
change our business to that of some other
more remunerative.
"The open field for the creation of this
appetite is among the boys. After men
have grown and their habits are formed,
they rarely ever change in this regard.
It will be needful, therefore, that missionary work be done among the boys,
and I make the suggestion, gentlemen,
that nickels expended in treats to the
boys now, will return in dollars to your
tills after the appetite has been formed.
Above all things, create appetite!"
The foregoing paragraph appeared in The
Union Signal of January 28, 1897. The mci
dent therein related has been substantiated,
and we desire to hold it before the public, anl
especially before the fathers, until they pas;
judgment upon the saloon business.
The two most destructive evils in the
That we have nearly 11,000 barrels of
fermented liquor and over 17,000 gallons
of rectified spirits produced in these Islands and reported to the United States
authorities is a strong count —add to this
the vast quantity of liquors of all kinds
shipped in, and a river of liquid destruction can easily be recognized as pouring
through these Islands.
The Advertiser says, concerning the,
numbers of firms paying the federal tax,
"this makes one liquor dealer for every
339 and a fraction of the inhabitants of
the Hawaiian Islands."
If the destruction simply meant the
misery of the man who already drinks
we might let it pass as an almost hopeless case, and expect the fire to die out
when the material already on fire is burned tip.
But the law of the saloon is a natural
law to be placed in the same category as
any of the laws regarding the development of evil. They never burn themselves up. They never cease developing new material. Note the fact as engrossed on the experience of these islands. It proves the law
world are the social evil and drunkenness. There are few spots on the face
of the earth, where these two forces side
by side are not breathing out their poison. Their baleful influences never wilingly let go of their aged victims. Their
octopus hands try to fasten upon the
most secret desires of the young. That
any excuse or encouragement can he
given to them by reasonable men passes
belief. They have united to destroy more
homes, and waste more substance, and
weaken more moral stamina, and make
imbecile more brain power, than almost
all other criminal influences combined.
Very seldom docs any person make exReported in
liquor licenses
2,)
cuse concerning gambling or theft and Hiring 1902, 1896,
Territorial liquor licenses.... 151
never concerning the desire to commit 'or 1902, U. S. liquor tax certificates... .455
:—
murders. But these two more injurious
evils arc excused times without number.
Either there is an awful element of callousness in man—an ohtuseness of perception of results, standing in the way
of the perfection of humanity like a precipice over which innumerable men fall,
or else there is an implied blame of the
Almighty. "Men have passions.
We
must provide means for their gratification." The charge that drunkenness and
the social evil the two most crushing
avalanches of pain and suffering, must
be fostered and provided with channels
in which to do their work easily, "because the Almighty made men so," can
readily be left to the Almighty himself to
meet when those who make the charge
stand before Him face to face. Reason
teaches that there will be an awful reckoning for the accusers of God. The
thing with which we have to do is the
unquestioned fact of the enormity of the
pitiful results of the continued cultivation of these evils as connected with practical every day life.
The, Washington correspondent of The
Advertiser made tbe following report
concerning firms which handle alcoholic
liquors in the Hawaiian Islands:
tectifiers of spirits
4
56
Vholesale liquors dealers ....;
.etait liquor dealers
395
2_s
.ealers in malt liquors
16
Vholesalers in malt liquors
I7,'47
iallons of spirits rectified
ermented liquors produced in the Isl10,912
ands, barrels
:
Now note the additional fact that although drunkards have died in numbers
during these six years past nevertheless
the saloons have gone on increasing.
Again it is almost the same as calling
the responsible men of our islands brainless, when we stop to point out the fact
that the law of the saloon demands new
material for its increased traffic. Here
is where the fiendish nature of liquor
selling receives its fullest development.
A man is but little short of being a fiend
wb< n he can deliberately make new material for drunkards.
Now this liquor question faces men
who arc not fanatics. It is one of the
most practical business propositions, before the responsible men of the community. It is pertinent to ask these men.
"What are you going to do about it?"
Can you afford to see the children of Hawaii lose their possibilities of good citizenship and useful lives and in continually increasing numbers be poured into
the continually enlarging hopper which
feeds the saloon?" An increase from 23
saloons in 1896 to at least 400 saloons in
1902 is a frightful menace to the business
prosperity of Hawaii. What are you going to do about it ?
It is not playing with idle words when
we say that the stories of the past ravages
of the social evil in these islands, are
horrible in the extreme. Yet all men
know that the social evil fattens upon
the victims of its twin brother drunkenness.
�8
THE -FRIEND
TL
hCeristan ife...
A friend stands at the door;
In either tight-closed hand
Hiding rich gifts, three hundred and three-
score ;
The Christmas this year was called a
picture Christmas as each member of the
Sunday school received a framed picture
Waiting to strew them daily o'er the land, as a gift. Mr. G. P. Castle kindly atEven as seed the sower.
tended to the ordering, framing and shipcan
not
bear
to
I
go into the coming
Each drop he treads it in, and passes by:
ping of the pictures while he was in San
year just as I came out of the old one. I It can not be made fruitful till it die.
Francisco.
would fain believe each year to be a
The attendance in the primary departmother, and that I am born into the next Friend, come thou like a friend,
ment of the Sunday school has been more
one, that I may, as it were, with renewed And whether bright thy face.
dim with clouds we can not comprehend, regular
childhood, go forward, endowed with the OrWe'll
than any year. The sewing and
hold our patient hands, each in his lace
classes held in the basement of the
experience and the strength of the past.
place,
I fain would bring something better than
that which I do bring to him whom I
know I love, and who knows that I love
him. I fain would bring a higher
thought, a clearer purpose, a character
whose essential powers are higher than
mine have been. I know that 1 have felt
the grace of God in my heart; but alas!
it seems as though God's grace were but
a.s Columbus, that touched the shore here
and there, and left the vast continent
within almost unexplored^—certainly unsubdued and untitled. 1 am not content
when I think of the generosities and
magnanimities of which my life should
perpetually speak, as a band of music
speaks sweet notes, stretching them far
out through the air. How is it with
you? Are you content with the character which you brought out of the old
year, and with which you are setting forward upon the new? Is not this a time
for you to review your character, and
see what are its .elements, how you are
shaping it, what you mean by it, and
what you have obtained thus far? Is it
not a time for you to look into the future? No matter how old you are, it is
not too late for you to learn in the
school of Christ. And it is a noble ambition with which you should begin the
year—not to swell your coffers, not to
have move of this world's good, but to
begin the year chiefly with the ambition
to be more like Christ, and to have the
power of God resting upon you, and to
know the will of God, and so to live that
whosoever meets you shall know that you
have been with Christ.
Out of this spirit what blessings will
flow! Oh, if you were holier, how much
happier would you be! Oh, if you were
holier, how would fall down from you
straightway those discontents, those
cares, those frets, those ill wills, and those
thousand torments which so much have
snared you, and so much have marred
your enjoyment in the days that are
past! It is because you are not good
that you are not happy. For he that
dwells in the secret place of the Almighty, he that lives as in the very presence of Christ, can say, "My Master
hath said, I will never leave thee nor forsake thee, so that I can boldly cry, the
Lord is my helper, and I will not fear
what man shall do unto me."
And trust thee to the end;
Knowing thou leadest
spheres
onward
to those
Where there are neither days, nor months,
nor years.
//. W. Bcecher.
PYOATUMHNGE EOPLE
As planned by the local
Union recently, Sunday
evening, December 21st, witnessed the
commencement of the inter-society visiting arranged to take place the third Sunday of each month. In spite of the severe storm most of those appointed a.s
delegates paid a visit to the Society to
which they were assigned, and reports
come in that the idea meets with great
favor. Too great stress cannot be laid
on the good-fellowship principle which
IS supposed to underlie all Christian Endeavor work, and this seems a step in
the right direction.
Endeavor.
Christan
President R. H. Trent spent a couple
of weeks on Hawaii recently.
The Watch Night meeting of December 31st at Central Union Church was
divided in such a way that the time from
10 to 10:50 was given over to the young
people of the city. Special music under
the charge of Miss Florence R. Yarrow
was a feature of this part of the service,
as well as testimonies from the members
of the societies of the Union.
December 21st there was a special
Christmas Praise Service at Central Union Society. A double quartette rendered
two excellent selections, and a solo by
Mr. Livingstone of Kamehameha added
to the pleasure of those present. A special collection was taken up for the purpose of sending Christmas presents to
some of the workers engaged in mission
work in the city. The Society also gave
a special donation of $20 from its treasury for other mission work in the Islands.
The Kawaiahao Sunday School had
their Christmas entertainment on the
evening of Thursday, December 18th.
The children did well in their exercises.
Church closed their year's work just before Christmas.
The sewing class sent several garments as a gift to the Kona Orphanage.
The average attendance each week is 125
girls.
A number of ladies help with the older
girls, and four Kawaiahao Seminary
girls have come every Friday and taught
the little ones.
The girls take great interest in the
lace work. This class is taught by one of
the Hawaiian girls who learned the art
at Kamehameha from Miss Lucy Adams.
Several pieces of lace have been sold. We
hope next year to do more and better
work.
.
REV.
JOHN PINNEY ERDMAN
After a service of three years and
four months as Superintendent of the
Palama Mission and Assistant Pastor of
Central Union Church, Mr. Erdtnan
leaves to accept an appointment as missionary to Central China or Japan, under
the Northern Presbyterian Hoard, Mr.
Erdman's attention was turned to missionary work while a student in the McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago
during which time he became identified
with the student volunteer movement.
He took up work in connection with
Central Union Church pending his appointment to the foreign field. His acceptance of his present appointment is
therefore but the carrying out of his
original plan of life work.
During his connection with the work
of Central Union Church, Mr. Erdman
has proved a most efficient helper. While
his chief activities have heen connected
with Palama Chapel, he has rendered
valuble assistance to the pastor, both in
the pulpit and work of the home church.
On several occasions he has supplied the
pulpit during the pastor's absence on his
summer vacation anxl his ministrations
have been greatly appreciated by the
church. During the three years and four
months that Mr. Erdman has had charge
of Palama Chapel, several have come into the home church on confession of faith
from that mission. Mr. Erdman carries
with him into his new field, the best
wishes of the entire congregation of Central Union Church.
�THE FRIEND
OUR ISLAND HOMES
"Orphan hours, the year is dead,
Come and sigh, come and weep!
Merry hours smile instead,
For the year is but asleep,
See, it smiles as it is sleeping.
Mocking your untimely weeping.
As the wild wind stirs and sways
The tree-swing cradle of a child,
So the breadth of these rude days
Rocks the year:—be calm and mild,
Trembling hours, she will arise
With new lore within her eyes."
Beginnings are good—of course,—But
aren't we sometimes sick and tried of
new leaves—that is, the kind that is
"turned over"? Many of them are dogeared from having been "turned over" so
often. A better kind of new leaf is that
of the trees—of our tropic trees. They
are really new, though they come inconspicuously. Can we really drop all the
past and begin again like the naked elms
in \'ew England?
Some people undo themselves answering all their letters, paying all their calls,
finishing lists of errands, jobs of making
or mending, breaking off habits, "doing
up" everything and begin fresh on New
Year's morning.
Here is a Kiawe tree over our heads
with half its leaves' new and half its
leaves old. An imperceptible change is
in progress—imperceptible save for the
exquisite shading and blending of greens,
the characteristic beauty of this tree.
The new comes—the old goes ; sharp eyes
must watch for the changes. Is there
not a continuity and a peace in Nature's
way, here in the tropics that suggests
eternal things?
(irowth
is the secret of life. "As we
grow in age may we grow in grace and
in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior
Jesus Christ."
BOYHOOD MEMORIES OF EARLY
HAWAIIAN TIMES
"And when the days of boyhood came,
And I had grown in love with fame,
*******
Words cannot tell how bright and gay
The scenes of life before me lay."
Few indeed the island boys who did
not rejoice in horses! The very beginning was riding stick horses. A good
stra-'ght stick or rod of the lama (or
nnta) tree, such as were used by the
Hawaiians upon the roof of a house to
which to bind the thatch grass, made the
best of the stick horses. Two or three
boys prancing around on very spirited
stick-horses were doubtless an interesting sight to the mother if to no one else.
These were safe auto-mobiles.
9
But the period of .satisfaction to our lot than that of hunting hen's
in riding stick-horses is short, and nests. The lively little Hawaiian hen,
soon followed by an ambition to that roosted in the upper branches of a
amount a real live horse. Ere long high tree, and picked Up the most of her
we find the little boy riding behind living in the fields had ten times the wit
his father, seated on an extension of the of the tame barnyard fowl of the highly
saddle-blanket. The most lively and skit- bred varieties now so plenty.
That
tish of horses bore with bounding step,' shrewd and wary bird did not lay her
the father and perhaps two boys, one be- eggs for the accommodation of her ownhind and one on a pillow across the pum- ers. No, that wild hen's nest was not
mel of the saddle. Father rode like a easy to find, and often if the hen had any
trooper, and no sudden side spring of the evidence that an intruder had been near
skittish horse ever, to my knowledge,' her.nest, or had touched an egg, she
unseated the facile rider or the monkey-! wanted at once to abandon that nest and
like lad whose sole balancing resource make a new one. After a search of
was in firmly clinging to the rider in the hours, what joy to come upon a nest full
saddle.
of bright snowy white eggs. The finest
It is said that princes become perfect dividend of a block of sugar stocks, does
in horsemanship, if in nothing else. The not bring a deeper thrill. Rut there were
horse is no respect of persons, and is as in those early days experiences of travel
likely to throw a prince as a beggar,' and of vicissitude which will not again
hence there is no royal road to perfection be repeated. Tours on the several islin riding. Youngsters who at these ands were generally made on horse back
years of age have ridden before or be-] over the bridle path. Roads and bridges
hind their father for many miles are in are the result of a civilization which is
a fair way to acquire command of a hut of yesterday.
horse. Hut the tricks of old and foxyj The missionary and such of his family
horses with youthful riders are many, as might accompany him, were the guests
and puzzling. Well do I remember an of the leading natives or the petty landearly attempt to ride old Black.
She lords of the several pillages through
chose not to go, and when touched with which they passed.
a whip would kick up, and whirl around. | The hospitality of the people was ever
Father came to the rescue, gave the old abounding; the best than the thatched
jade a good dose of mulberry, after house afforded was at the service of the
which she behaved very well and went visitor. The fatted pig was killed, to satwhere she was bidden. The virtue of a isfy the appetites sharpened by a long
mulberry switch was demonstrated.
day's travel. As the party approached a
Horses and black-horned cattle were village the ringing sound of the beating
brought to these islands early, and in' of the hark of the wauki with wooden
1835 were to be found in numbers on pestles upon the resounding kapa-board,
each of the islands.
in the process of manufacturing the
Sir Walter Scott being asked what tough paper which measurably took the
education he had given his son, said he place of cloth was to be heard—a pleasant
had taught him to ride a horse and to sound no more heard in all our borders.
Tapa is no more made; the woven fabspeak the truth, certainly two very
sential parts of a liberal education, but rics of Christendom have put an end to its
our missionary fathers and mothers were manufacture.
not content with this alone. There was| In those early days we feared no dread
no community of boys and girls around leprosy; there was none in the land; we
them with whom they could safely trust needed no nets; mosquitoes had not yet
The made their way to these secluded isles.
their children to romp and play.
uncultivated and unclad who abounded
on every hand were dreaded, and isola{Continued on Page 10).
tion was the rule in the country stations
where there was but one or two families.
STRAWBERRIES
What to do—what employment could be
found for a family of seven boys?
Besides the hours of work for the Strawberries are once more in market.
household, private gardening was enAs many" people like bread and butter
couraged. The idea of producing and of better than cake with strawberries here
earning something was fostered. Butter is a new idea.
had a fixed market value, and growing Strawberry sandwiches—For the afboys who had milk in abundance did not ternoon cup of tea, serve sandwiches
require butter. Abstinence from the use made of slices of fresh home-made bread,
of butter for a month met with a cash spread with butter, or rich cream, slightly
reward. All the beans, squashes, onions, salted and holding a layer of sliced straw
peanuts and tomatoes of the private gar- berries covered with powdered sugar.
The berries must not be so juicy as to
den patch brought a price.
But no more fascinating business fell soften the bread.
'
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�10
THE FRIEND
For Treasurer, A. Noah Kepoikai.
Dr. T. R. Shaw to Miss Lura N. Bradshaw.
N. Berkeley. Cal..
For Superintendent Public Works, HAIGHT-BENSON—In
Nov.
15, Henry H. Haight of San Francisco,
Henry IJ. Cooper.
to Miss Dora Benson, formerly of Honooth.—New freight steamer NevatUm lulu.
Nov. 4.—Biennial Territorial Election leaving port in night without pilot strikes LEITHEAD-CULLEN—At Moanalua, Dec.
held after an extremely active campaign on reef, but is soon pulled off by Tug 18, Gladstone Scott Leithead, to Miss Marof the Republicans, led by Prince Kuhio, Fearless—little damage—Two bridges on garet Bcnwick Cullen.
Hilo. Dec. 15.
against Home Rulers or Native Party, Kauai washed away—Two persons LYMAN-NEUMANN—At
Henry J. Lvman to Miss Grace Neumann.
led by R. W. Wilcox.—Wireless Tele- drowned.
ANDRADE-TARBELL—In this city. Dec.
graph begins to operate to Kauai.
22, J. S. Andradc to Mrs. J. S. Tarbell, fornth.—Protracted discussion of Federmerly of Jacksonville, 111.
sth.—Great elation of Republicans al Building Sites by meetings of busi- CORNWELL-COLVIN—In
this city, Dec.
over sweeping defeat o"f\Home Rulers. ness men—Much disagreement.
24. Col. William If. Cornwell of Waikapu.
Business hopes revive.
I2th.—Dwelling of Pdepoe in Kalihi Maui, to Mrs. Josephine Colvin.
Bth.—Armored cruiser New York, destroyed at 6 a. m. by explosion of fif- LANGTON-WHITE—In this city. Dec. 31.
Rear-Admiral Rodgers, arrives from Yo- teen sticks of dynamite, in the hands of William M. Langton to Mrs. Eleanor A.
kohama. The first war-ship of her size Kekaha, who was blown into fragments. White.
HOOPER-MEYERS—In this city. Dec. 30.
to enter the harbor; moors at Naval Six others injuried, one nearly fatally.
Hooper to Miss Theodora Meyers.
wharf.—Full returns give Kuhio 6553 22nd.—First shipment of Sisal Fibre W. E.
votes as Delegate against 4696 for Wil- from Hawaii made today. —Fifty bales of
cox. Republicans elect a large majority
550 lbs. each, from Ewa Sisal Co.—SudDEATHS
of both houses of the Legislature.
den death by hemorrhage, of J. S. Nobles,
10th.—Battleship Oregon anchors out- colored attorney.—Final decision of local
side.—Gov. Dole issues call for Extra committee on sites for Federal Buildings: ANDERSON—At Paia. Maui, Oct. 31, WilSession of Senate on the 20th inst. to act For Post Office and Court offices, the liam Anderson, of Kirriemuir, Scotland,
upon proposed changes in high officials, former site of Paki mansion. Bishop and aged 41 ve.-irs.
San Francisco, Nov. 5. Otto
owing to recent defalcations.
King strtctsj For Custom House, etc., ISENBERG—At
Isenberg. of Kekaha Plantation, aged 58.
nth.—Wireless reports violent activi- the site ofpresent Custom House, exSTEVENS—In Boston. Oct. 25. Miss Nellie
ty in Kilauea.— Ventura from Farming's tended to Waterfront and Alakea street. M. Stevens, only surviving daughter of the
Hon. John L. Stevens, formerly U. S.
brings cable news of Nov. 7th.
U. S. Commssioner Eustis accepts these late
Minister at Honolulu.
17th.—Offici-iWreport gives total Sugar propositions.
ALEXANDER—In Honolulu. Nov. 14, Rev.
Crop of these Islands as 355,611 tons, for
26th.—Cable steamer Silvcrtown arThomas F. Alexander, aged 52 yaers, and
as
tons
in 1901. rives after successfully laying the Teleagainst 360,038
1902,
for 25 years a Presbyterian missionary in
18th.—Cotton Bros, heavy dredger graph cable from San Francisco in 1 f Jaoan.
moored on Pearl Bar, wrecked and sunk and 1-2 days, to a point 32 miles east of NASCIMENTO—In Honolulu, Nov. 18. Julia
S. Nascimento, aged 21 years.
by surf in heavy gale.
Honolulu, whence a heavier cable con- HATCH—At Portsmouth. N. H., Nov. 20.
'
18th.—Jas. H. Boyd, Supt. of Public tinues to Waikiki. The lightness of the Mary Auson Hatch, sister of F. M. Hatch
Works, indicted by Grand Jury for em- ship and heavy gale forbids splicing, and of Honolulu.
bezzlement 0f.53,950 of public funds.— the end of the deep sea cable was buoyed COMI.Y—At Columbus. Ohio. Nov. 17. MaryElizabeth Comlv. widow of the former U.
B. H. Wright, chief clerk of Dep't. of in
400 fathoms.
S. Minister to Hawaii.
Public Works, indicted for embezzlement
Dec. 28th—Shore end of Pacific Cable
of $8271.53.
laid—Sea end of same buoyed five miles
19th.—End of heavy N. E. gale for from shore.
(Conliuu-ilfrom page !).)
four days. No serious marine disasters
—Cable ship visits end of deep
29th.
reported.
sea cable 35 miles out, but rough weather
20th.—Territorial Senate meets in Ex- forbids touching
There were none of the large red beettles
it.
tra Session.
known
as cockroaches. These and wharf
still
forbids
Caweather
—Rough
21st.—Hon. J. B. Atherton suddenly ble31st.
connection.—Honolulu gets no ca- rats are modern and unwelcome intruders.
prostrated by lung hemorrhage.
bling this year.
22nd.---Furious gale from North-east.
The bed in an ordinary Hawaiian
27th.—Thanksgiving Day observed by
MARRIAGES
house was simply a raised portion where
services in the churches, and by Football
a pile of lauhala mats made, if new and
and Polo games.
TAYLOR-DAVISON—At Mrs Montano's, sweet, and a pleasant lodging place of
Manoa, A. P. Taylor to Miss Emma Davis- wide dimensions. Such a
29th. —Senate after investigation, conhouse in the
firm the Governor's removal of Auditor on.
THOMPSON-LEWIS—At Manoa, Frank E. olden time had no floor. A large portion
Austin from his office.
of the house had the ground strewn with
Thompson, to Miss Ella Lewis.
Dec. 2nd.—Minister Wti Ting Fang BRAYMER-CORNWELL—In
this city. Nov. grass or rushes with possibly coarse mats
meets various Chinese officials and or13, Arthur A. Braymer to Miss Kate Lorita
Sheets of tapa like large
ganizations, on his way to China.—Cable Cornwell, daughter of Col. W. H. Cornwell. over- them. covered
and gave warmth to
newspapers
TWILLEY-HUDSON—In
16,
city,
this
Nov.
to
news 29th uit. received from Farming's
the
Seldom
was there any parsleepers.
Twilley
William
Shaw
to
Miss
E,
Cora
I.—Senate confirms the Governor's ReHudson, both of Colorado Springs.
tition
a
thatched
The sleepers'
in
house.
moval of James H. Boyd from his office RICHARDSON-DAVIS—In this city, Nov. heads were visible to
any onewho entered.
of Superintendent of-Public Works.
24. Arthur W. Richardson, of Hilo, to Mrs. Not in frequently
there was a fire at the
Isabel Lyons Davis.
sth.—Work begins on threading six LUCAS-ECKHART—In
Wailuku, Nov. 27, farther end over which might hang a
miles of double cables in the conduits,
E. Lucas, of Honolulu, to Miss Lily kettle, and in the ashes were potatoes or
from Young building to landing place in S.
Eckhardt.
taro baking, while the smoke filled the
Kapiolani Park.
BROWN-JACKSON—In this city, Nov. 21, house and the clamor of the village gos6th.—Senate adjourns sine die; after Mottie A. Brown to Miss C. S. Jackson.
confirming the following appointments: KIMBALL-KING—In this city. Dec. 1, Clif- sip rang from every quarter. But to
ford Kimball to Miss Juliet King.
weary childhood, sleep soon brought
For Auditor, J. H. Fisher.
SHAW-BRADSHAW— In this city, Dec. 4, oblivion.
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(sermon
we laymen want. Doctrinal'
\ es, if the Atonement is applied to the
office desk, and Regeneration to the
kitchen stove. Kxegetieal? Yea, if tho
tabernacle rites are niade to initiate us
into twentieth-century holiness, and
Xeheiniah's wall surrounds us wilh
twentieth-century peace. Christian evidences? Yes, if they are made to prove,
not what we already believe, but tinpoints we inwardly and uneasily doubt.
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ministers! give us sermons in earn
est. Preach them "as a dying man to
(lying men,"—yes, but even more, as 1
living man to men very much alive. And
if thus you ineach we will hear you and
heed you, and give praise to God.
The first meeting of the Union, in DeAt the annual meeting of Central
Union church, held on Dec. i~th, the cember, was favored with a very thoughtfollowing were elected to office in the ful paper, read by Dr. S. E. Bishop, on
church work :
I the subject: "Natural Evolution InadDeacons—Mr. P. C. Jones; Mr. \V. A. equate to Account for the Jewish Religion." The paper was a scholarly presPowcii.
Deaeonnesses—Mrs. Wm. J. Paty; entation of this interesting subject, and
tailed forth a lively and diversified disMrs. E. A. Jones.
Mrs. J. 11. Ilohron, who has go long cusston.
The second meeting enjoyed a paper
and faithfully served as a deae. unless, felt
compelled to resign because of illness. from Rev. E. S. Muckley on the pracShe was immediately elected an honora- tical topic: "How much is it Right for
ry life member of the Board of Deaeon- a Man lo be Worth?" The writer did
not undertake to answer the question,
nesses.
but
simply presented, deary and well,
of
Members
Standing Committee—
Rev. |. Leadingham, Mr. E. |. Walker. certain existing economic conditions
which are evil and which give OpportuChurch Clerk—Mr. \V. W. Hall.
A. R. GURREY, JR.,
Church Treasurer—Mr. W. <). Atwa- nity for the amassing of great wealth.
Hotel and Alakua Sts., Honoi.uh-.
The discussion which followed showed
ter.
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Trustees—Mr. P.. I-'. Dillingham, Mr. that tjie ministers were keenly alive to this Furniture Dc- aa
foremost topic of the day.
J. P. Atherton, Mr. 1-. J. I.owrey.
aitfned. Inferior I
Finance Committee—Mr. F. j. Lowrev Mr. \. P.. Wood, Mr. C 11. Cooke.
Decorations.
JL
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The
Union
Thanksgiving Service held
on Thanksgiving day was largely attend- ! diate brains, provided he is possessed
ed and much enjoyed. It was a true ex- by his subject, lie must be a prophet.
pression of the devout gratitude fell by The spirit of (iod must have filled him
the Christian people of Honolulu. Gov- with a big new thought, and he must
ernor S. B. Dole read the President's be on fire with it. His face will show
Proclamation and Rev. E. S. Muckley it, being no expressionless, immobile
preached the sermon. The offering, compound of cold eyes, stiff mouth,
which amounted to Jpuxi.oo, was used and smooth cheeks, but a countenance
to carry Thanksgiving cheer to the sick beaming with eagerness, and all alert
and the pour.
with swift, irresistible changes. His
voice will show it, —not impersonal, not
keyed on the clerical pitch (which I
We find the following in the Pacific of have always waiited wickedly to find
with a tuning-fork, but never quite
December i ith.
"At the meeting of the Bay Associa- dared), not over rich with oratorical
tion nf Congregational churches and min- artifice, but—well, very much such a
isters at Berkeley on Tuesday of this voice as a drummer uses when he sets
week, the Rev. J. A. Cruzan, by letter, out to sell a bill of goods. And his serrequested that his name be dropped from mon will show it,—not easily shunted
the roil, stating that he was no longer in off to this anecdote or that "aside," not
accord with the belief of the Orthodox cumbered with unnecessary explanations
Congregational churches. The letter was making clear what was crystalline ala frank, manly one, and it was received ready ; not wasting a word to advocate
in the same spirit in which it was sent. what his hearers are already agreed to,
( )n motion, the Registrar was instructed but a sermon which in its very first sento take the name from the roll and in co- tence sets out to prove something, and
operation with the Credential Commit- advances in every succeeding sentence
tee to send to Mr. Cruzan a cordial letter steadily toward that proof,—a sermon
announcing that compliance had been which burns with conviction, but is
made with his request. Mr. Cruzan has sufficiently cool-headed to weave a lawbeen in the Congregational ministry for yer's mesh of logic; a sermon which
more than thirty years, and has always follows the Bible, not like a blinded
occupied-important pulpits. His last pas- slave, but like a persuaded disciple; a
torate was with the First Foreign church sermon which is not proclaimed from a
at Hilo, where he remained for four bishop's throne, but talked out on a
years, resigning the work there in Aubrother's level; a sermon fresh enough
gust of this year. He has a large num- to attract, and simple enough to be reber of friends in our churches all along membered ; a sermon that leaps, not
the Coast and will always have a warm from books, but from life, and so finds
issue in new life,—that is the kind of
place in the hearts of many."
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College three miles distant. My two lit- oldest children now drive to Claremont
tle boys walk two miles to our country t ollege. Little Willie still walks his two
school." Her last letter of October 30, miles to the country school, looking forloo?, mentions her great pleasure in re-' ward to the day when he too can
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names,. and allow memory to carry me member Hattie Sturges.
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A few extracts from letters of Mrs.
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Micronesia, the child of Rev. and Mrs.
—
A. A. Sturges. She came up from Ponape in her girlhood to enjoy the advantages of school at Punahou.College, and
thus she became identified with all our
interests here. She returned for a few
Los Angeles. She has suffered for years
years to Ponape, and when her mother, among these same old friends."
disabled by long years of service, re-' She adds:—"Somebody has been send- from rheumatism which cripples her a
turned to the United States, Hattie and ing me The Friend—l suppose sample good deal. She has one child, a daughher sister Julia came also.. Hattie spent copies—and I do enjoy them so. If you' ter."
several years in a course of higher edu-' know that any one has sent them, many
cation in a school in the West, and was many thanks. Hut if they are sample
later married to Rev. Matthew Craw- copies, I am sorry, but please tell them I
Miss Helen S. Norton of Etistis, Floriford, and they went as missionaries of really cannot take the paper.
I have da speaks of receiving The Friend and
the A. B. C. F. M. to Mexico. Their so often wished I could send a little that the one in which her letter was
four children were all born in Mexico, money to your good society, and espe- printed surprised her somewhat as "she
and after some ten years of faithful ser- cially did i write to contribute towards had not thought of its lieing made public
vice there, Mr. Crawford died and she the Missionary Album. Put really I can or she would have taken more pains."
and her children came to Southern Cali- not. Tho' we are not suffering in any Put she prized the copies sent her as samfornia to live. In 1901 she wrote from way, still we have to think two or three ples so much that she enclosed the subPomona:—
times for every dollar that we spend * scription for the New Year.
Her inWe live on a five-acre orange farm * * * The little we have, we feel terest in Kawaiahao Seminary is unabatmiles from Pomona. Albert Sturges must put into our work for Mexicans ed and she notes every item she finds in
wford, fourteen years old as big as a here in California. There are over 50,- the papers about it.
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Rev. James P. Chamberlain, who now
resides in Northwestern Oregon, speaks
of the Hawaiian Missionary Album
which had been sent him, thus. "It is
truly a beautiful book and record. Tlie
nobl. foundations on which the missionary heroes built for time and for eternity!
Many of the pictures a"re speaking likenesses and all are good, reviving memories of boyhood days. Who could have
dreamed (if the wonderful developments
of the beginnings as we are permitted to
know them, and the end is not yet. * *
* 1 greatly enjoyed the article written
by Mrs. Weaver about her father. Richaid Armstrong, which I cut out and preserved."
We have learned through the religious
papers that the school for Spanish girls
under the care of Mr. and Mrs. W. H.
( hilick of Spain, has heen successfully secured from Biarritz, France to Madrid,
Spain and we shall hope for some direct
report from them soon in their new
and beautiful situation.
FOUNDERS' DAY AT THE KAMEMEHA SCHOOLS
As usual, the chapel and assembly halls THE MEETING OF THE MAUI ASSOCIATION
were made beautiful by leis of mountain
ferns, gathered at dawn by students
eager to perform any service which
would further the success of the day.
At ten o'clock Friday morning the students marched to the Royal Mausoleum
in dignified procession, forming a square
about the tomb of the Kamchamehas, tbe
girls and the younger boys clad in spotless -white, the boys of the manual school
in their military uniforms. The service
at the Mausoleum was most impressive,
with its exquisite music, the pledges of
the students to be worthy their inheritance, and the scattering of flowers of
the royal color, purple and yellow.
At the schools, the Hawaiian flag float-,
ed all the afternoon above the students
gathered at their annual luau, with its
reproduction of all the time-honored
dishes of the old feasts. The day closed
with a gathering at the Bishop Memorial
Chapel of students, alumni and friends
Rev. Henry Parker
of the schools.
spoke in Hawaiian upon "Lessons In mi
the Life of Kamehameha the Great,"
dwelling upon the strong character
which made possible his wonderful
career.
On Friday. December nineteenth, the
Schools celebrated Foundmemory of Mrs. I'erloving
ers'
nice Pauahi Bishop, to whose generous
bequest the three hundred boys and girls
of these institutions owe their rare opportunities.
Kamehameha
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The autumnal meeting of the Maui,
Molokai and Lanai Association met at
Paia on the eleventh of November, just a
week after election day.
The fact that it came at the close of
an active political campaign may have
had some effect on the attendance, which
was unusually small. All the East Maui
pastors, from Keanae to Kaupo were absent.
The chief interest centered in the theological class led by Rev. Mr. N'awahine,
wh i litis air acute mind well trained by
the fathers, first at Lahainaluna and afterwards at Wailuku, under Mr. Alexander. Mr. .N'awahine does not deal in
"advanced thought." He clings to the
m
aW>lfa
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Kis loud
enough and
The Rt. Rev. Henry 15. Restarick also can be most easily handled—if
spoke upon character, emphasizing the
it is a
world-wide influence of an ideal by the
history of the Kamehameha Schools.
The early missionaries to Hawaii, being
New Fnglanders, believed in the gospel $25.00
35.00
30.00
of labor, and so had established the Lahainaluna Seminary to give Hawaiians
an industrial education. General ArmThey are in use in churches
strong, noting the value of this training
and missions in this city
in developing character, had applied it to
the regeneration of the negro race at
Hampton, and his mosl illustrious pupil,
CAI,L A Nl) SEE ONE A T THE
Hooker Washington, had carried out the
same idea at Tuskegee. Influenced by
the success of these institutions Mr. and
BOSTON BUILDING.
Mrs. Bishop had founded the Kamehameha Schools, and to singularly strengthen this line of descent from Lahainaluna
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the present principal had come directly
from the Hampton work, Pishop Restarick dwelt upon the fact that every civilized race has made ascent from barbarism through labor, and affirmed that
man, of whatever race, made in the image of God, has within his nature the
possibilities of infinite development,
needing only right training to grow ttrto
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The man who attempts to expound to
these native thinkers the teachings of today as they square will, a Christian evolutionary hypothesis, will have a hardtask,
for the native mind is not scientific,it cannot understand the speculative thought
of the modern schools. Neither is ii in
the highest sense ethical. The imprecatory Psalm does not trouble him, nor the
stories of slaughter as found in Hebrew
history. The native loves speculation, |
hut it is speculation after the other fashion that attracts him. He will debate
for hours over the question whether the
Almighty can put two hills in juxtaposition without there being a depression
between them. It is evident that Hawaiians \n\-i\ the best there is in the thought.
of today. They need a larger concep-j
tiim of God. It were well if they were
led to dwell on the perfect humanity of
Jesus. The ethics of his teachings must
he impressed on them.
The Sunday School Association having met on the 7th. continued its sessions
atcs
between whiles the followingwcek. During one of these meetings there came
quite a spirited consideration of the
value of the Services of the editor of the
lloaloha and its Sunday-school notes.
A strong resolution of approbation was
passed without a dissenting vote and
the Hawaiian Board was asked to continue the employment of Mr. Kakani.
while at the same tii'ne the Sundayschool were urged to subscribe liberally
for the lloaloha (the paper which contains the Sunday-school notes) and pay
their dues with promptness.
The dedication of the new Paia
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al iu-t this time. Miss Wighl of Ohio assunietlie care of the mission.
The field is large ami hopeful. Miss Wight
a woman of experience and of strong Christian character.
Fort Street.
DR.
- -
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Boston Building.
GEO. 11. HUDDY,
DENTIST.
Rooms:—Mclntyre Block, Fort Street.
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Curative
skin soap
Mr. Inouye writing from Papaikou, Hawaii,
of their Christmas celebration, says, "Notwithstanding il _m raining hard there were
over one hundred and twenty attendants;
more than could be seated, and many were
standing at the door."
117 G. IRWIN
Fort Street, Honolulu
is a pure soap, cleansing and delightful
in use. Makes the skin like velvet. Best
lot infants; will not cause eruptions.
Just try a cake and he convinced 20c. Mr. Sokabe writes from Honoinu I hat litbox ($ cakes), 50c.
is building a very much needed kitchen or
cook-house for his huge family of hoarding
;
& CO.,
SUGAR FACTORS
AND
COMMISSION AGENTS.
■ Agents for the Oceanic Steamship Co.
scholars. He writes most earnestly legarditi,.
the need of such a building as he contemplates, and he trusts by the aid of friends, and \ I F.W YORK DENTAL PARLORS.
!•:. C. WATEKHOUSE,
by (he contribution- of the parents, soon to
such a roof overhead as shall
Office cor. Miller and Beretania Sts. have the winter dnwnpourings of theprotect
rainy
from
Plate of Teeth, $5; Gold Crowns, $5; Bridge
Residence, 1598 Thurston St.
island.
Work, per Tooth, $5; Gold Fillings, $1; SilOffice Hours:—lo to 12 a. in., 2to 3 and
ver Fillings, 50 cents.
ALL WORK GUARANTEED.
The Chinese work at Hilo keeps on although
7:30 to 8:30 p. m. Sundays: 10 to 11 a. m.
Honolulu, T. H.
have no regular preacher there at present. Elite Bldg., Hotel St.
we
Blue
Res.,
White
2841
Office,
3492.
Telephones:
Miss Pomeroy i-- helping in the work now,
and tin- young men there are doing much -to
FURNITURE STORE
keep
up the regular services of the church.
B.
All kinds of
HOBRON DRUC CO.
D~~K.
ALBERT
(11TV
CLARK
DENTIST.
and Miller Streets.
Beretania
Office
Hours:—9
to 4.
DH. AXDERSOJV,
DENTIST.
Philadelphia Dental College,
1087
1883.
Alakea Street.
OAHU.
Miss Eliza TalfOtt who for two and a half
rears had rendered invaluable service to the
Japanese work, and especially among the Japanese women of the city of Honolulu, left us
in company with her sister Mrs. Fisher of
Oakland on the steamer China. December
loth. For lack of working force much of her
successful work conies to an end upon her
leaving, but the seed already sown will hear
fruit.
'
FURNITURE,
WINDOW SHADES,
LACE CURTAINS,
PORTIERES,
TABLE COVERS, ETC.
CHAIRS RENTED FOR BALLS AND
PARTIES.
'
UNDERTAKING AND EMBALMING.
TOMBSTONES AND MONUMENTS.
Residence and Night Call: Blue 3561.
Telephone: Office, Main 64.
Nos. 1146-1148 Fort St., Honolulu.
Manager.
il 11. WILLIAMS
:
:
:
As usual the Christmas evening celebration
in both tbe Chinese and Japanese churches
of great interest The comity
HOMOEPATHIC PRACTITIONER. were occasions
nrevailins .'llllOllll our churebe gave the even
W. AHANA & CO., LTD.
Residence, 435 heretania St.; Office. 431 ing of Friday the 2fith. to the Chinese and
MERCHANT TAILOR.
Tapnnese for the celebration, and in each of
Heretania St. Tel. 1851 Blue.
Telephone Blue 2431.
ibese two chi'rcbes there were most interest, P. O. Box 986.
King Street, Honolulu
im. g.itlieriii"s of the Sundav--rhnol children,
Office Hours: 10 to f2 a. in.. 3to 4 and 7 their parents and their friends. One feature CLOTHES CLEANED AND REPAIRED
to Bp. in. Sundays: 9:30 to 10:30 a. m.
of the Ti'-r-iio '■ eveninv was the giving of
twigs and s-'-all branches of many colored
COMPANY,
imitation manle leaves and of flowers to each
of the congregation and visitors.
individual
CHAS. 1.. GARVIN,
'-*- Importers and Manufacturers of
GEORGE
J. AUGUR, M.
D.,
W
IJOPP4
DR.
FURNITURE AND UPHOLSTERY.
232 Heretania St., opp. Haw'n Hotel.
CHAIRS TO RENT.
MAUI.
Honolulu,
No. 74 King Street
Office Hours:—o to 11 a. in.; 1:30 to 3 and
Timing
ago
to 8 p. in. Tel. Blue 3881. Res. Tel.
weeks
some
Mr
returned
White 3891.
L. WEAVER, JR.,
from a tour of Maui. Communion services
held
the
were
with
Chinese Christians .there.
One pleasant event was a union service with
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
HUTCHINS,
tbe Japanese and Chinese Christians of Wai■*
luku.
Merchant St., opposite Post Office.
LIFE, AX,
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piIILIP
CLINTON J.
*
FIRE, MARINE
INSURANCE.
The Wailnkn Chinese school opened with Real Estate Titles and Instruments a specialty.
over twenty bright boys nnd girls this year.
\fiss Turner is doing pood work with them.
Mclnerny Block.
K. KAAI,
The parents of tbe children contribute towards the support of the school
Teacher of
PACIFIC HEIGHTS.
Zither, Ukulele and
Mandolin,
Banjo,
Alexander
Guitar,
otgiven
was
at
Hall
concert
Offers greater attractions and induce- tbeA evening
Taropatch.
of December «,th for the benefit
ments as a site for choice residences than of the Kindergarten. Although the weather
Studio:—Love Building, Room 5.
\va- unfavorable, an enjoyable evening wax
Hours:—lo to 12 a. m.; 1 :_K> to 4p. m.
any other portion of Honolulu.
spent.
The Pacific Heights Electric Railwayand Sunday /CALIFORNIA FEED CO., Ltd.,
Line affords easy access to all lots; and Services at the Chinee churchTcne
Ah T.inp
School are well attended. Mr.
water and electric lights are supplied the evangelist has heen working at Hilo for .-.
hi" absence the regular DEALERS IN HAY, GRAIN AND FLOUR.
from independent systems at reasonable- month nast. Durintr
services were held by Miss Turner with Mr.
AOBNTB POB—
rates. To parties intending to purchase Clung Tong. and
Mr. I.urn Sung acting as- inand improve, especially favorable terms terpreters.
COR. QUEEN AND NUUANU STS.,
will be given.
1
Friday evening. December 10th. a ChrisHONOLULU.
For further particulars apply to Chas. S. —as entertainment will be given the Chinese
P. O. Box 45*No.
Main
121
Telephone
the
r'-ildren at
Chinese church.
Desky, Progress Block!
ERNEST
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THE FRIEND
|*T HE BANK OF HAWAII, Ltd.,
T X 7ILLIAM R. CASTLE,
I
(Incorporated under the Laws of
the Hazvaiian Republic.)
Paid-up Capital
$600,000.00
Reserve
50,000.00
Attorncy-al-Law.
Merchant Street, Cartwright l'dock.
Trust Money carefully invested.
P- G_ Box
Tel. Main 103
FRANK
OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS:—Chas.
M. Cooke, President; P. C. Jones, Vice-President; C. H. Cooke, Cashier; F. C. Atherton,
Assistant Cashier. Henry Waterhouse, C. H
Atherton, F. W. Macfarlane, E. D. Tenney, J.
A. McCandless.
Solicits the accounts of firms, corporations,
trusts, individuals, and will promote and carefully attend to all business connected with
banking entrusted to it. Sell and purchase
Foreign Exchange, Issue Letters of Credit.
565
F.-FERNANDES,
NOTARY PUBLIC.
93 Merchant St.
Office with Cecil Brown,
.
BY.
& CO.,
Dry Goods Importers.
j« J*
All the latest novelties in Fancy Goods
received by every steamer.
Jt J*
EHLERS
- - - -
Fort Street
dtm' aw* *
■■■' jI_T_VN
_B«
Vm \d*aw
CO.,
Importers and
Honolulu, T. H.
r\AHU RAILWAY & LAND CO.
mv
Mi
JaaW
isaaa'
__, '■■"
f
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[B _B_^SEZZI---BBk
Honolulu.
FA.
.
COMMISSION MERCHANTS.
SCHAEFER &
in
...
Mailed to any addreaa on receipt ol Beta
Hawaii.
THOS.
P. O.Box20!i
THKI'M, Vnhlisln r.
Mi'V,,i ni-, I 11.
IWRITE TO US
LIST OF OFFICERS—CharIes M. Cooke,
President; Geo. H. Robertson, Vice-President
and Manager; E- Faxon Bishop, Treasurer and
Secretary: W. F. Allen. Auditor; P. C. Jones,
H. Waterhouse, G. R. Carter, Directors.
WALLER,
METROPOLITAN
MEAT CO., LTD.
tion.
E. O. HALL & SON, Ltd.,
Honolulu. T. H.
BEAVER
LUNCH ROOM.
H. J. Nolle, Proprietor.
St St
COFFEE
st
HOUSE.
Jt
Fort St., Honolulu, T. 11.
L
EWERS & COOKE, Ltd.,
Dealers in
LUMBER.BUILDING
WALL PAPERS,
Honolulu, T. 11.
OFFICERS—H. P. Baldwin, Pres't; J. B.
Castle, Ist Vice-Prest; W. M. Alexander, 2d
Vice-Pres't; J. P. Cooke, Treas.; W. O.
Smith, Secy; George R. Carter, Auditor.
AGENTS FOR—Hawaiian Commercial &
SPORTING GOODS
SHIP CHANDLERY
BICYCLES and
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
General Mercantile Commission Agents. TEMPERANCE
Queen St., Honolulu, T. H.
AGENTS FOR—Hawaiian Agricultural Co.,
Onomea Sugar Co., Honomu Sugar Co., Wailuku Sugar Co., Makee Sugar Co., Haleakala
Ranch Co., Kapapala Ranch.
Planters' Line Shipping Co., Charles Brewer
& Co.'s Line of New York Packets.
Agents Boston Board of Underwriters.
Agents Philadelphia Board of Underwriters.
Judd Building, Fort Street.
Sugar Co., Haiku Sugar Co., Paia Plantation
Co.,
Kihei Plantation Co., Hawaiian Sugar
Co., Kahului R. R. Co., and Kahuku Planta
HARDWARE
Run through trains to Pearl Harbor, Ewa
Plantation, Waianae, Waialua and Kahuku.
Gives tourists an opportunity of viewing some
of the richest tropical scenery to be found anywhere. The road passes through sugar, rice,
taro, coffee, pineapple and banana plantations,
skirts the shores of the famed Pearl Harbor
tT*
application.
SUGAR FACTORS AND COMMISSION
MERCHANTS.
the line of
LREWER & CO., Limited,
SAVINGS DEPARTMENT—Ordinary and
Term Deposits received and interest allowed in
accordance with rules and conditions printed
in pass-books, copies of which may he had on
A LEXANDER & BALDWIN, Ltd.
FOR 1903. 2-tm mut).
Is nnw on mile nt all newadealen mnl maintain!
ri'iuiiiiilnn for varied reliable InfoMnatlon pertaining
for catalogues and
prices on anything in
and borders the broad Pacific for a distance of
thirty miles. Excursion
tickets good from Saturday to Monday.
F. C. SMITH,
General Passenger and Ticket Agent.
163,000.00
Undivided Profits
ffJ/sSk
W
LIENRY
MAY & CO., Ltd.,
Wholesale and Retail
GROCERS, PROVISION MERCHANTS and COFFEE DEALERS.
T. May, President.
W. T. i.ucas, Vice-President.
S. G. Wilder, Secretary.
H. E. Mclntyre, Manager.
A. S. Prescott, Treasurer.
24 and 92. P. O. Box
Telephones,
22,
CLAUS
SPRECKELS & CO.,
BANKERS.
386
.•* .*
Draw Exchange on the principal ports of the
I)
world and transact a general
banking business.
Honolulu
:
PORTER
:
J*
J*
:
:
Hawaiian Islands.
FURNITURE CO.,
Importers of
YEE HOP & CO.,
FURNITURE, UPHOLSTERY
Kahikinui
Meat Market and Grocery.
AND BEDDING.
'.hipping and Family Butchers
FRUITS AND VEGETABLES.
and Navy Contractors.
Fort St., opposite Love Building.
Beretania St., cor. Alakea. Phone Blue 2511.
Purveyors to Oceanic Steamship Co.
Wickerware,
Antique Oak Furniture, Cornice
the
Also
at
and the Pacific Mail Steamship Co.
Poles, Window Shades and Wall Brackets.
Meat Stalls 19 and 20.
Honolulu, T. H. FISHMARKET
do. 50-62 King Street .G. J.
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Manager.
CQ.
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inobes
§
.
Famous pictures for
Sunday-
School uses
made by
BROWN
of Beverly
Mass.
■end to HAWAIIAN BOARD ROOMS
406 Boston
COLLEGE
Building
HILLS,
The magnificent residence tract of
the Oahu College.
COOL CLIMATE, SPLENDID VIEW
Supplied with Artesian Water and
Rapid Transit
The cheapest and most desirable lots offered for sale on the easiest terms: one-third
cash, one-third in one year, one-third in two
years. Interest at 6 per cent.
For information as to building requirements, etc., apply to
TRUSTEES OF OAHU COLLEGE,
404
Judd Building.
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Hawaiian Islands.
Honolulu
(Arthur F. Griffith-, A.8., President.)
and
PUNAHOU PREPARATORY SCHOOL
(Samuel Pingree French, A. 8., Principal.)
Offer complete
College preparatory work,
together with special
Commercial,
Music, and
Art courses.
For Catalogues, address
Oahu' College,
- - -
SHAW,
Business Agent,
Honolulu, H. T.
IV/I OSES K. NAKUINA,
Real Estate Agent, Notary Public and Agent
to Grant Marriage Licenses.
Room 401 Boston Building.
'
friend
Is published the first week of each month
in Honolulu, I. H., at the Haw*ajlan Bard
Book Rooms, 400-402 Boston Building.
DISHOP & COMPANY,
BANKERS.
HONOLULU" HAWAIIAN
ISLANDS.
Established in 1858.
Transact a General Banking and Exchange
Business. Loans made on approved security.
All busine s lettcis should be addressed and Bills discounted. Commercial Credits granted. Deposits received on current account suball M. O.s and checks shou'd b.- made out to
ject to check.
THEODORE RICHARDS,
Regular Savings Bank Department mainHuniiiesi Mnnngtr 0/ The Friend.
tained in Bank Building on Merchant Street,
and Insurance Department, doing a Life, Fire
P. O. Kox 489and Marine business on most favorable terms,
in Friend Building on Bethel Street.
a
literary
communications
of
character
All
OLLISTER DRUG CO.,
should be addressed to
I_J
Rev. J. Leapingham,
Managing Editor of The Friend.
Honolulu, T. H.
P. O. Box 638.
The Board
of Editors:
Rev. J. Leadingham, Managing Editor,
Dr. S. E. Bishop,
Rev. O. H. Gulick,
Rev. W. D. Westervelt,
Rev. O. P. Emerson,
Theodore Richards.
Entered Oetobtr J7, 1909, at Honolulu, flawaii, an nectmdclanti natter, under act oj Ckmgrtm of March S, IH7D,
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Friend" to new subscribers to any one
address
$4.00
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Honolulu.
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President
Arthur B. Wood
V Fres. and Manager
Kobt. W. Shingle.
Richard H. Trent
Secretary
Treasures
Director
Albert Waterhouse
Sugar Factors, Real Eltalt Agents, Stock
and Bond Brokers, Investment and
Insurance Agents.
Hoes a general Trust anil Investment Business
Acts as guardian, ml mini si ml or. trustee, agent and
attorney. Correspondence solicited.
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WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
DRUGGISTS.
And Dealers in Photographic Supplies.
Honolulu, H. I.
Leather Goods, Etc.
Hawaiian Islands.
-CASTLE
Honolulu
-
& COOKE, Ltd.,
Honolulu, H. I.
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
SUGAR FACTORS.
Agents for
The Ewa Plantation Co.,
The Waialua Agricultural Co., Ltd.,
The Kohala Sugar Co.,
The Waimea Sugar Mill Co.,
The Apokaa Sugar Co., Ltd.,
The Fulton Iron Works, St. Louis, Mo.,
The Standard Oil Co.,
Geo. F. Blake Steam Pumps,
Weston's Centrifugals,
New England Mutual Life Ins. Co., Boston,
Aetna Fire Insurance Co., Hartford, Conn.,
Alliance Assurance Co., of London.
�The Friend
I'lic
Legislature
meets this
month
We change the form of The Friend
this month to make room fur the papers
presented before the .Ministerial Union
at its last meeting.
We are indebted to Mrs. W. W. Haii
for the selections to be found in "his issue on the page devoted to "Our Island
Homes." Read them.
a
There is still on hand supply of the
Special American Hoard number of The
I'kii.mi. topics can be obtained at tlie
rooms of the Hawaiian Hoard, n. die
Boston Building", at jo tints each.
Now is the time for temperance agitaThe Republicans now have ■
chance to show their mettle, and their
tion.
metal, in the Legislature. Every one
should be ready with bis views on the
subject.
,
Washington's Birthday occurs this
month. This is usually a 'quiet holiday,
and for this reason it i. all the more easy
to catch its true spirit. Americans, as
well as other people, should remember
thai they honor their great men by cultivating their virtues rather than by noise
and display.
At the last meeting of the Hawaiian
I'.oard, held on January oth, a communication was received from Mr. Athcrton
asking that his resignation as president
of the Board, and which had once before been presented, be accepted.
As
this was Sir. Alberton's express wish
in order that his mind might be relieved
of the feeling of responsibility involved
in holding the office, the Board acted in
accordance with his wish and accepted
the resignation; but at the same time
appointing a committee
to convey to Mr.
Atnerton its regret at the necessity for
bis withdrawal, and lo express its appreciation of his services. The nomination
of a successor was referred to the Home
('ommittee.
An order for five thousand copies of
the December FRIEND has been received
from the office of the American Board in
Boston, and the rrrcatcr part of this numbeen mailed at the Honolulu Post
c.c, addressed to people in all parts of
the United States, and to the missionaries
of the Board in foreign countries. We
Bhas
believe that this presentation of the
noblest side o* 1 lawaiian history thus put
into the hands of intelligent and thoughtful people, will aid materially in bringing about a better understanding of
these Islands and in creating an intelligent interest in them. If such should
prove to he the CMC we shall feel that
the labor ami expense involved in the
issue of this special edition had been well
repaid.
The principle underlying
Sabbath observance, as
TheScoulariztunfnday.
enunciated by the Savior
to the cavilling Jews, that "the Sabbath
was made for man, and not not man
for the Sabbath," is one that every
reasonable person approves; but the application of it in the keeping of Sunday,
in the complex conditions of modern life,
famishes one of the most difficult of religious problems, and hence it becomes
peculiarly liable to abuse. The tendency among people who do not wish to be
trammelled by any Sunday obligations,
if they profess any regard for Sunday
it all, is to make the principle a cover
for indulgence in pleasure and the pursuit of gain. That it was never intended
�o bear such a construction we can plainly see from the Savior's own example,
'lis constant practice was to attend the
services of the synagogue on the Sabbath, and so far as be exerted himself
otherwise, it was always for the relief
>f sonic real human need, and in n manner that never conflicted in any way with
die sacred character of the day. There
us no instance on record in which he
violated the sanctity of the Sabbath for
"itber pleasure or profit or in which he
gave countenance to this in others.
While, therefore, it may be admitted
'hat as the conditions of life change, and
people become more and more dependent
Upon circumstances Uevond their own
control, the forms of Sunday observance
■vill be modified in various ways, and
rightlvao. Still it will be man's duty, if
be follows the Savior's example, to preserve spirit of the day and pna- ! it from
me unnecessary intrusion of secular af-;
f airs.
There seems to be a Rowing tendency,
however, toward such an intrusion
which Christian people cannot see withj
■out both anxiety and regret. This is s-crt
mi the aimarentlv growing practice of
selecting Sunday for the inauguration of
larpe enterprises which attract public attention. Witness the use of Sunday that
was made in the laying of our cable.
Whatever may have been said in excuse
of the use of the day for the initiatici
of the work at San Francisco, there t.cr
tainlv was no excuse for it in MonolM..'.
No stress of weather made it DffUlir
To lay a half-mile or a mile of cable on
a lee shore, could have been done ,<n
almost any other of the three hundred or
more days in the year exclusive of Sundays. The cable company would ha\e
honored themselves by honoring the
Lord's day and refraining from work on
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EDITORIAL AND GENERAL
NO. 2
3
HONOLULU, T. H., FEBRUARY, 190?
VOL. LXI
that day.
That Sunday should be chosen for tit
opening of so needful and so admirable a
public convenience as our electric street
car system is a matter of great regret. This
was done when the main line was opened,
anil, if newspaper reports are true, it is
the intention to use the same, day for
die inauguration of the extension to Waikiki. The practice of street <ar riding
it all on Sunday is still a doubtful one
in the minds of some people; and.
while it is admitted that it is a
itiestioii mi which people may honestly
lifTer, it is a difficult question for conscientious Christians to settle, as it open?
■Ip the whole question of Sunday travel
md the use of all sorts of conveyances.
It is. however, an entirely different question from that of choosing Sunday for
'he inauguration of a street ear system.
There does not appear, on the surface at
least, any good reason for so doing, or
mv reason why another day would not
answer all purposes. To open such an
enterprise on Stindav. besides being a
violation of the Fourth Command•nciit. districts the attention of the
vhole community more or less from
•be duties appropriate to the day.
and furnishes an opportunity and a
temptation to neglect those duties, to poonlc who otherwise might not do so.
Occasional statements in the newspapers, incidental remarks and to some
"xtcnt personal observation seems to war
'ant a belief that the practice of some
large corporations in the United State,
in continuing the work of the week
through Sunday also, is growing upon us
here. We do not make the charge, however, nor comment upon.the case in the
-tbsence of reliable and clearly understood evidence, as we do not wish to be
guilty of misrepresentation or do injustice to any one who might he involved.
In conclusion we would simply call
attention Jo the fact that the practice
if Sunday desecration becomes in some
distances an intrusion upon the rights of
'be individual. To say nothing of those
•■
.
.
�4
individuals who are compelled to work
on Sunday on pain of losing their places,
there are other subtler forms of tl.e evil.
For instance when the seller of a Sunday
newspaper thnrsts the same into one's
face as he is on bis way to Sunday
school or church, or when he invades
private premises on Sunday in pursuit
of his occupation, one feels that if sonic
people will desecrate Sunday ihey have
no right to do so in a way that will offend the feelings or encroach upon the
rights of those who try not to do so,
When we remember that the laws and
government, by which even those who
violate Sunday in these ways arc protected, rest-upon a public sentiment and
character which have been, in great degree, nurtured by the influences growing
out of a conscientious observance of Sun
day, the conclusion can hardly be avoided
that such practices weaken the foundation of all good order and national stability, and hence must in the end lead to
loss moral and material.
The Future of The resignation of Mr.
the Hawaiian Atherton from the presi
Board
dency of the I lawaiian
Board, not only necessitates the selection
THE FRIEND
elementary stages. These, the Board with people of the land, who arc thus in touch
its present methods and equipment is not and sympathy with their people, and who
able to give, and unless it can rise to have such interests in the Islands as one
the occasion and meet this opportunity, naturally has in the land of his birth and
it must lose it, as these-young p.opie will the home of his kindred.
From such
go elsewhere if their needs cannot be leaders only can be expected a permanent
provided for. From this point of view interest in and devotion to the highest
the situation is, therefore, critical.
moral and material welfare of our future
.Again, while the Board has stations for population. To raise up such leaders,
evangelistic work in numerous places as well as lo train lo habits of
throughout the islands, among the vari- industry and lo furnish with techous peoples, the number of these stations nical knowledge, the young people
could be greatly increased if the Board school as we have mentioned is greatly
bad only the means and men at band to who will be obliged to earn their
pen them. Here is another opportunity living as citizens of the land such a
needed as an adjunct and part of the
•\ hieli it mUSt meet or lose.
Board's equipment. Bui to establish and
The Hawaiian Board is not in the pnsi maintain
such a school without trenching
'ion in which il funis itself today by BCni the needs of the evangelistic work,
idctil. It is witnessing the passing "I will require a separate basis of support.
mtgrown methods and facing larger op
\ school ni" ibis description and with
HMO s|i
jo Dsm:.-i.i(| \|i.ii:d s.miiiiiii.h >d
Uich
a work before il should stand Upon
labors and those of the American Board,
Mich
a foundation that its work would
which preceded it ; and partly because ol iol be affected,
and hence not interrupthe general advance of the uplifting
ted,
tin- varying conditions in the
by
agencies of civilisation which have been uiancial
world. This would require an
at work along other lines.
It stands •ndow
iiicni. A sum of money safety inwhere it doe., therefore, as the result of zested ainl
yielding a steady income is
growth, and the point we wo'li.i iri- he only
satisfactory
foundation for such
•iliasi/c is that the opportunities before ni
when
it
enterprise
exists along side of
the Board are great. When we la'.e ttO
her needs which are making constant
account its home field and the possible ■ I
for support. Ii is also the most
'xtension of it. influence to other lands, appeal
•eonniiiical method of maintainance. An
is
probably
there
no other religions or
missionary organization of its size in the institutionol'having an annual need, we
say,
$10,000, and collecting this
world that has greater. These opportll will
year by year from benevolently (lis
uities naturally divide themselves into
losed people, would use up every twenty
two classes, namely, opportunities for years
a sum of money, which, if invested
•vangelistic work, and opportunities for
<t a hie pei cent rale of interest, would
••dueation that should be
'•"ii its
aijfnTTNjiiiyoinc support the inChristian and industrial. These two class
titution
for all time. No people who
•s of effort act and react on each other
lesire lo see the best things for their
pressed,
the
each
is
and
harder
the more •bildren ;\M fur the world,
can make ,i
successful both 1 will be. ft therefore better
investment even from an econo
seems to us that if the Board is to carnical point
view.
ry (o a successful issue the work which
Such
such a provision for
ascnool.with
has grown til) so far in its own hands, 'Is
support, would be a strong factor in
't must aim at once to enlarge and solving
industrial and race problems in
Strengthen these two lines of work. But 'he Hawaiian
Islands. Also, ,-| S a mis
this would call for a large outlay of sionary enterprise,
its influence on the
money, and the first question that would
to the west of us might he made
confront the Board if it should con- nations
f untold power and value. To see how
temnlate the work, of enlargement, would ibis might be we
refer our readers to
he how to find the means for it. To ef- die
of
letter
Rev.
Dr. Scudder printed
fectively carry on its evangelistic wink
elsewhere in this i.ssuc of THE FfttgNP.
money
would reouire all the
that could We trust that all friends of (he
llawai
be collected from year to vcar from our
■an Board will ponder upon its present
'•.land community, leaving pothim* for •leeds and decide (hat it shall have the
die inaintamance of schools. But schools,
encouragement that will lead it to take
least one adeouatelv eoninned up
•ir at
the greater work that is now in God's
school is absolutely essential to the sneoffered to it.
nrovidence
•ess of the "-ork and this, in out ii"'ir•ii<M,t. should be ■ school primarily indus'ri'il. noon !« all races and both se.es OPPORTUNITY OF THE REPUBLICAN
of his successor, but this necessity il'ggests the thought that tliis is a good
time to inquire whether, with the inauguration of a new leader, any change in
policy should be entered upon. Whether
such should be the case or not, it is a
good time for the Board to define its policy to itself, and decide upon just the
course it will pursue in the future. The
period through which it is now passinir
is critical one, and the steps next determined upon will in all probability decide
the character of its influence for all lime
to come. The period is critical because l.c
Hawaiian work for which it once exclusively stood, lias become, owing to the
development of its own work among the
other races and the decrease of the native population, a part instead of the
whole, and it now rests with the Board
to decide whether its efforts ami influence shall decline with the decrease of
the native people, or whether it c ill adjust itself to the large and growing demands of the work among the other
races. The pioneer work among these
people has been dom—to such an extent, at least, that a strong contingent
from a new generation is growing up under the influence of the Hoard's workers,
and reaching out for the training that
:
makes for the leadership of the future.
This training has been furnished, so
far, in such elementary schools as have Mnrl.'r ot,o
ninnrlfretiieut. ti'ttfl
PARTY FOR SERVICE
TO HAWAII
I ecu started in various places. The ■ii,-li fi.-ih'ties for develoninrr its best ""itime has come, however, for making -'••rinl into tvislnrc, nnrl terieher '." SS the
; ''iit; '"i
even this work more effective and prosliotibl demand.
The -dm
B\- the last election, the Repulilican
viding more advanced opnortunities for ■Isonld eonetrtntly be to rrtis" no leaders Party become dominant in power in Hathose who are rapidly passing beyond the for the races now here from the young waii, as it has long been in the Nation.
Jof
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It thus becomes vested with great respoft-
sibilities and also with high opportunities for service to the people of Hawaii,
lis power js this month to be actively exercised through its large majority in the
Legislature. In Subsequent months, it is
likely to be further exerted through such
municipal and county governments as
ma)- Ik- established.
We believe that the Republican Party
has accomplished very great benefits during its past history, and that it has vast
possibilities for good service in the fttture. Nrbntfof its most ardent partisans
would claim for it any approach lo perfection. An organization composed of
average imperfect men can only be very
imperfect', even though a majority of
honestly prefer the public
them
In any party there are
welfare.
inevitably considerable numbers of
men acting with corrupt intentions
at\d for personal gain. Many such become expert professional politicians, who
secure great bold of the reins of power,
and use them unscrupulously. But, on
the whole, we regard it as a well-founded
claim of this party that it has been active for the public weal, and in the main,
hospitable to Reforms.
Now entering upon new scope for activity in Hawaii, we are looking with
much desire and considerable hope for
this party to make for itself a noble
record for working good and not evil
for the people of these Islands, and especially for all who possess citizenship
here. For those who have the voting
qualifications of race and intelligence,
will be the ones most influenced lor good
or for evil by the political activity of the
ing, as traitors to the public good. It is
to be hoped that all grades of this evil
crew will in Hawaii, be repelled and not
tolerated.
The tendency to corrupt bargaining
comes most in play in municipal politics.
We are seemingly about to enter upon
a period of municipal election and administration. The greater proportion ol
our voters, especially the Hawaiians and
die Portuguese, remain to be educated in
the proper exercise of their powers, in
May it
choosing officials of integrity.
prove that those in public leadership
among us are able and disposed to do
their utmost in influencing voters in
Such a
right and worthy directions.
stamp now placed on our popular politics,
will go far in its influence upon our lu.Y. B. P.
lu re.
some states and cities, notably in Pennsylvania, this party has a long and unsavory record for rottenness and fraud.
Anything like that we profoundly deprecate for Hawaii. We know that we have
here a large body of business and public
men of highly honorable character. Our
traditions <>f civil administration are
those of integrity and steady aims for
and
t(i
keep its readers.
Outlook
arc
evidence of
Tinthi..
Itutcfendeiil
The smaller
religious papers follow then at a distance. If
the religious press must be secularized, why
should Dot the pulpit lie tn the same extent?
Shall the pulpit say the press is all wrong?
ire not the editors of the press as able, as
pious and anxious to do (md service as the
preachers?
General education, the colleges, the schools,
the Sunday papers, change the relations of
It is inevitable and
preacher and people.
perhaps
wholesome.
change in theological views
throughout the Christian world modifies this
relation. Fifty years ago, the penple in the
pews were filled with apprehension about their
eternal salvation; the prospect of everlasting
punishment, tin- eternity of torment They
The rcinarkalilc
looked to the pulpit to act as pilot to the Rock
of Ages.
These fears no longer exist. The
intelligent women of America, even more than
the men. refuse to believe that their wayward
suns an- in danger of everlasting doom. The
need of the pilot is not fell. Kilt out of this
transition state will spring a stronger desire
VOICES FROM THE PEW
i"i' tile true pilot to guide men through the
crossed snd complicated sea of a complex
Some lime ago the Programme Coin en ili/ation.
All truth is Gotfl truth. The Devil has
niitteeof the Ministerial Union asked Mr.
truth. Secular truth is as sacred as re
yV. A. I'iowen to present a paper at on, no
ligious. The truths which underlie a prize
the
of
"A
its
under
(reading
meetings
if
fighl are God's, the butchery of wars are hiVoice From the Pew," it being intended Secular intelligence is in its last Siuh/Sts,
n.illy religious truth, because every (act in
thai ibis should relate entirely to milliters from a layman's point of view. Mr. man's life touches on his relations to tin- In
finite. Tlie Calling of the sparrow was Cud's
BoWeil consented on condition that he In act. The world
is finding lllis out more quickto collect and present the view
ly than the preacher ("mils it out. So the
allowed
if a number of people. This was agree i preacher must now become a business man
and Mr. Bowcn read the results of his and deal with secular things. lie must study
and
men. and few preachers dk)
effort at the meeting of January 10th, studyunderstand
and understand them. They fail to see
thy
write
upon
The Writers were asked to
that the great and absorbing purpose of men
is to make a living, feed their wives and
following questions:—
bailies, and moral considerations come after.
I. Matter of Preaching?
This
10,
->
a. Subject to be handled?
li. Unvarnished truth or not?
Manner of Preaching?
a.
party.
We most earnestly crave that the Party
should be especially favorable to CivicVirtue aud Rectitude as opposed to corrupt and crooked politics. ( )n the continent, in the main, the Republican Party
holds an honorable reputation. Yet in
some years ago. and changed its method, in
orttsK
h
,i
I
What detracts from its acceptability?
Persuasive
power in preaching?
to Outside Work?
Preacher's Relations
a. Political?
h. General?
The place or province of the Ministerial
Union in a community, and its respond
bility?
These questions were answered by pen
different denominations and no <h
In printing the replies the
answers to ihe fourth question have been'
omitted entirely, as only a few gave any
inswer, and as it is somewhat aside from
the real subject, and. also, for lack of
'Ihe answers to tin- remaining
space.
questions, except for the omission of all
introductory matter, are given essentially
the public good. May they continue such, as they were read, and in the same order.
and steadily improve.
In reading no names were given.
There are everywhere, hanging on to
the great political parties, numbers of No. i. "Preaching" is in a transition state.
religious press notes the tendency, and
-vrooked adventurers, who ply the low- The
it. "What must the Pulpit do m orpolitician's trade, men who "do politics" discusses
der to fill the pews?" arc the headlines everyafter the Lewis and Turk pattern. There where.
are also men of higher social and mental
The facts must he found and accepted. The
has no longer the prominence it forgrade, who scheme and plot for leader- pulpit had.
This is not the preacher's fault.
merly
Whether
the
working
primain
ship.
Reading and travel keep the congregation
ries and at the polls, or in more secret abreast of the pulpit. The religious press,
intrigue, such men inspire intense loath- which is the pulpit in paper, found this out
pic of
nomination.
means that the preacher of the future
will he the all round man who knows men
and thinjrs and lie will first point out the way
and then will get out of the pulpit and lead.
This method will dwarf the old style of
preaching. It will substitute action for talk.
and will make talk come to the poult. This
is the power of the medical missionary. Our
liikrlicst civilization demands this style of men:
those who can lead from the pulpit.
In Congress the day of the talking man it
over. If a member talks it is only to then
porter of the Record who print, for his con
sliliients. His colleagues know as much about
things as he does. It is the working men]
her. who do things, and carry measures.
The present methods of preaching arc traditional and must change with the change of
thought and intelligence. Preaching is, after
all. only religious literature, and in the daily,
and especially, the Sunday press, abundance of
it. of the best quality can tie found. The pulpit
must recognise this new order of things.
The colleges have put aside the clergymen
as presidents, and now choose business men.
that is educated Christian business men. Aclion is wanted. The churches arc aliout to do
the same thing.
No. 2. Referring to your queries and
taking them in the order given. I would reply
thus:
Matter of Preaching:—
(a) Subjects to he handled? God's Word
or message to man.
(fc>) If such in its fullness he taken for the
subject, then, unvarnished, remembering the
words of old, "The Lord is at hand;" and
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the words of the future, "Behold I come commend itself to all listeners, and as the
quickly; blessed is he that keepeth the saying pew has been asked to speak to-day it should
of the prophesy of this liook."
with the utmost modesty present a few suggestions not in a spirit of criticism, but of
Manner of Preaching:—
(a) What detracts from its acceptability? earnest desire to further the great wo.k which
A weak or merely sentimental presentation of the pulpit stands for in all Christian land-..
il; lack of force, or innate consciousness of
Always first it must be evident th..t only
power in it.
love can win, and that, a soul filled with b \e,
(b) Persuasive power in preaching should looking with loving eyes from the pulpit lo
consist largely of a true and lofty expression the pew, with a message not of controversy
of a consecrated personality. Such is expres- nor criticism hut of persuasive tenderness,
sive power in itself.
must meet a response in every Christian soul,
Preacher's Relations to Outside Work:—
and in the end win the hardest heart.
(a) Political? political certainly; definition
As to the "Subjects to be handled," the
being, wise, prudent, judicious, sagacious. modest pew could not venture to suggest
Such characteristics will adjust themselves to what only long experience and study <'f the
the political to a proper and legitimate degree. environment could indicate. But there i rast
(b) General? yes, hut mainly through good be two chief lines of effort for every pastor.
generalship; viz. best utilization of forces in First: The upbuilding of the church in all
;
the pew, for the
that the time and Christian graces, and second: The tonvorrion
of those who still resist the truth. And is
not this latter too often overlooked, tliis "persuasion" as Paul so often designates it" "Here
is the gospel feast. Conic! for all things are
now ready." It sometimes seems to the pew
that the preacher's own mind is often so full
If I may follow these with an added sug- of his subject, the reasoning and the logical
gestion, it would be this: that so much conclusions arc so clear, that he does not
preaching be brought to give place to more realize how many, minds are dull and full of
teaching. Christ went about "teaching and other thoughts, and do not look beyond the
preaching." Dictionary definition of preach- words they hear, so that they miss the pracing, is: Ta proclaim, declare, or publish. tical conclusions unless they are plainly urged
Definition of teaching: To impart knowledge at the close, and so the "fisher of men" fails
or instruction to, to inform. My personal feel- to draw his net, and men pass on unmoved.
ing in this respect is because of my belief that who by a more personal and persuasive apwherever the Bible has been carried, there it. plication might have been led to make the
as God's Word, has been proclaimed, publish- great decision which would transform their
ed or declared, and thenceforward stands as lives.
its own monument; hut even where it may be There is one more suggestion which the
found in every household, yet do we find in- modest pew will venture to make to the pulpit.
struction in it greatly lacking. What is to Fortunately the days of the Inquisition are
supply this need? True and proper teaching long passed, and the later days of bitter rethrough every possible avenue, hut especially ligious controversy and persecution for opinthe pulpit. I believe if the pulpit would do ions' sake. In most of our churches now evless scrutinizing, and give itself more to in- ery man in pulpit or pew is permitted to hold
structing, that pulpit and pew would conic in- his own opinions upon matters which are
to closer relationship. We all know teaching considered non-essential to salvation. But
can be attractively or unattractively done, and there are many in all our churches who hold
also that this question depends largely upon loving allegiance to the beliefs of our youngthe ability of the teacher.
er years. We cannot expect that modern
I believe such a plan would tend to exclude religious thought will be limited by our stanthe frequent references we have now-a-days dards, but dear pulpit, treat us tenderly! for
to. and quotations from, (ngersol, Voltaire, you can hardly understand the shock and unHigher Criticism, etc.; references given with rest of mind which follow a slighting refera good object, and with the purpose of refut- ence
to those beliefs which we still hold dear.
ing their teaching, hut which I know remain
The relation of the preacher to general or
often longer in the mind than the thing de- political work outside of the pulpit, hardly
signed to be taught. Such seed-thought need- comes within the province of the pew to conto be buried, not resurrected. Painfully have sider. But the pulpit cannot ignore the great
I, after hearing such, heard the remark made questions of morals and temperance and social
upon exit from the church door, "I am hungry life, which are so rampant in every communfor spiritual food." I give this quotation ex- ity. There must be a great temptation, which
act, because I believe it is suggestive in itself, it would be hard to resist, not to give undue
even apart from the occasion which called it prominence from the pulpit to these issues.
reason
strength ofV-single individual seldom permits
the covering of both specific and general work.
Therefore, the pulpit should be primarily specific, and only secondarily general. Proper
generalship, however, may become a great
power in accomplishment of general work.
out.
No. 3. We sit in an obscure corner of a
modest pew. and far be it from us to question
the matter or manner of the occupant of the
pulpit. We are conscious of having lived a
week of distracting work. We feel that underneath has been all the time a peace past
understanding, but the surface has been much
ruffled by the storms of life. And now has
come the blessed day of rest, and we gladly
look up to the pulpit for the cheer which
only God through His word can give. The
modest pew knows its own needs. But it
must not. and does not forget that there are
pews and pews, and that what may be meat
to one will seem but milk for babies to another, and that the man of God must he completely furnished unto every good work.
But there must be some matter and some
manner of presenting the truth which will
'-r-z,
-
L ~»4aßßßßßnsnsnsl
tioti. Had they been ill error, and were their
pail lives ones of great shortcoming, and even
ones of sin, they could he made to see it. and
did, and turned themselves to lives
(iodvvard.
goon the ireat underlying principles
and spring*, of human action, in relation to the
ITeat Father Spirit. God is a fact. IK- is in
He dwelt
The world must he made to sec
if possible, and understand the relations and
responsibilities of the situation. People are.
with him. the Christ, "sons and daughters,"
the world.
"joint heirs," if they hut become "born of the
spirit." Therefore, since the needs of this day"*
and generation are the same as in his time,
since the principles of all true life today arc
the same as then, .since many, (more than il
realized) go to church MOW "hungering and
thirsting" as of old, and finally since "Jesus
Christ is the same yesterday, to-day and for
ever," why should not every minister, il" he he
a growing man, feel the unlimited number and
scope of subjects that may he handled, and
feel the uplift and inspiration and power for
all good, throughout eternity itself, that billings to his calling. The pew may rightly ex
pect that the minister shall come into the pulpit
Christ filled. He who is so tilled will speak easily, graciously, lovingly, persuasively, pointedly, personally, sternly and without mincing
matters (if necessary), and wiiuu'ngly. and his
words will always he well received, thoroughly acceptable, and prove of inspiration and
help to many who are occupying the pew. To
pttt Christ into- the subjects is not limiting
them. His love touch lightens and brightens
everything. But life is too short and time is
too Meeting to waste one's moments and on
portunities through sermons that become mere
lectures. Studies in higher criticism and other
scientific
research may well be left to the
sphere of the religious journals. And always
the truth, varnished or unvarnished. Circumstances must control the form of utterance.
When it
was
could,
necessary Christ
and did. use the name "hypocrite," and drive
with lash and scourge out of the temple,
those who detiled it. and finally upbraid the
unrepentant, with the sorrowful, matter of
fact woes to which they were everlastingly
doomed. Those that occupy the pew should
DC thought of as those "that labor and arc
heavy laden," who need rest, comforting,
strengthening, correction and divine forgiveness and love. Therefore, give that lo us pen
pie of the pew, in all ils forms, don't he
afraid, and we shall be satisfied.
As to the "Manner of Preaching." You ask
what it is that detracts from the acceptability
of preaching? Well, it is such attempts at
expression, through an imagined oratory, 88
to call attention more to Ihe Style than to the
matter. Emphasis is one thing, and has its
legitimate place. But few men possess the
gift of genuine eloquence, and therefore they
should not strain after it. The more they try
for it. the more they spoil it. Ministers, as well
No. 4. As to the "Matter of Preaching"
as otl]er speakers, forget that the rostrum
"Subjects to be Handled." and "Unvar- from
which they speak, docs not authorize a
nished Truth or Not." it may be said, let the form of expression greatly different from the
preacher be filled with Christ love, and all of address ordinarily
employed between man and
his subjects will naturally, and easily be of
man. The great difference should be in the
similar order. Every word will come forth
raising of the voice sufficiently for all to hear.
with the Christ spirit, and prove acceptable to Talk with a man. or with five men. or ten
his hearers. People are. to-day. "hungering
men. and interest is centered on what is said
and thirsting after righteousness." the same rather than in the manner ol saying it. But
of
Christ.
He
deas they were in the days
how is it? Many ministers, the moment they
clared that they should be fed. filled, and are fairly
launched in their sermons, think it
satisfied, and they were, so long as he taught
or essential lo use unnatural tones of
desirable
to
pour
them. So long as he was with them,
voice. They mean to speak loudly, but they
out his wonderful love and divine Sonship up- forget that while the voice is raised the tones
his
on them, and they could see him. and hear
words of instruction, direction and blessing. may yet be natural. At once it becomes a
than a natural, reasonable
and so long as they could catch the spirit of all harangue, rather
The force of the views finds
his utterances, then, indeed, were they fed and presentation.
hold, and become lost in the swellings of
filled and satisfied. They could leave his pre- no
(VonHnued on paoe 10.)
sence inspired with longing and holy aspira-
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TEMPERANCE ISSUES.
The readers of THE FsUKND should
bear in mind that the Territorial Legislature begins its session the middle ot February. This is very near at hand. It
may be worth while to recognize "home
influence," and use it in the endeavor to
secure good points in the coming liquor
legislation. A member of the legislature
and his wife can get a rather clear idea
of what they want for their own home
and its immediate surroundings. It is
a pretty safe rule to follow, when the
decision is nlade to refuse to crowd upon
other homes and other neighborhoods
what they do not want for themselves.
The golden rule is safe for ultimate Territorial prosperity as well as for successful neighborhood life.
An excellent bill was passed by the
point. Many last legislature prohibiting the employTemperance in these ment of minors in saloons or around bars
note this second
I
cit sales of
intoxicating liquors.
Uusual-
ly a than has to he hired to go to the
saloon and drink and then testify that he
Notice a third point. Let the govern- lias purchased and drunk certain kinds
ment feel a pressure to cut down saloons of liquors. Personally some of us feci
as it cuts down over expenditure in other that we can never hire a man to get
directions. Expenses are cut and re- drunk for the sake of securing evidence.
trenchment is made, when overwhelming The
laws can be so framed that testimoloads of accumulating debt rest upon the ny of having purchased liquors—and that
Territorial Treasury. Why not be care- liquors having been proven to be so after
ful to make stringent restrictions of the analysis by a competent chemist should
numbers of saloons allowed in the dif- be sufficient for conviction. Other points
ferent islands. It is true that the more may be included and properly guarded
saloons there are the more of a "Kilken- such as the possession of liquors or the
ny cat" struggle may be expected. But appliances for manufacturing them—
another thing is more abundantly true.
A large numbers of saloons may try to
attract customers from each other, but
they will try far more earnestly to attract
the young men who have not had much
to do with saloons. Jf we cannot blot
out all saloons let us try to blot out as
many as we can for the sake of the boys
A few jxiitits are suggested for the who do not yet drink.
thoughtful study of friends and relatives
of the members of the Legislature as well
Sunday closing of all saloons is a point
as for the legislators themselves.
covered Joy the laws of Hawaii,
already
In the first place register a protest in Honolulu
thA law is very well enagainst absolute caucus rule. It is utterly forced. ()pen saloons are seldom seen.
nil-American and is a .dangerous relic There is the openuack door sometimes.
of absolute monarchy. A caucus is all ()n the whole
Honolulu} is better off than
right. It affords a gmd place and time many other
as far as the saloon
cities
the
of
for
discussion
mooted points — district
the
central
part of the city is
in
and if conducted with thoroughly open concerned.
sessions and full discussion, it aids wonderfully in clearing the mental atmisphere
and tends to promote unity in party
A fourth measure needs persistent
movements. But the moment the caucus consideration.
The distance from a
becomes a machine, as it is very liable school or church within which no saloon
to do, in the hands of a few men, it be- can be located, should be fixed by strong
comes the exact opposite of "government enactment.
by the people," and makes helpful legis()f course we recognize that only men
lation exceedingly difficult. It has fre- who are heartless want saloons near
quently happened that men who have schools for the sake of creating an apquestionable measures to enact, push petite for liquors in the children of
them quietly through the caucus, and school age. But that is no reason why
then bring them before the legislature as a legislature should fail to protect these
a "party" measure. The caucus is an children—Members of a legislature need
exceedingly important item in this com- not be heartless.
ing Legislature.
Please
of the friends of
Islands are agreed in asking for a fair
This
and straight local option law.
means that a community of the size and
extent agreed upon and stated in the
law, shall have the powers of deciding
for itself whether it wants intoxicating
liquors sold within its limits or not. The
decision rests upon the ballots of an ma- !
jority of the voters of the community or
district. We count this proposition fair
lo all the different interests involved in
temperance legislation. The will of the
majority settles the qucstidn of saloon or
no saloon in a definite district.
Another point needing action is the
difficulty of securing evidence of the illi-
in hotels. For some reason the judge
of the police court threw aside the law
as enacted, and refused to pass sentence
acc(irdjng. to its provision. The idea of
the act ht unquestionably good. Would it
not be well for some of our lawyers to
look up this matter—see what corrections need to be made, and re-enact the
law, so .strengthened that it will pass judicial inspection and have some weight
in the courts? Certainly the thought of
employing hoys or girls in close connection with the scenes of a"har room is repugnant to every thoughtful person.
Swipes should be placed on the list of
illicit liquors if it is not already there.
It seems as if some limitation should
be placed upon the power of the Treasurer of the Territory to issue licenses.
Full opportunity to consider applications
for license should be allowed to the public. A clause in some bill stating that
any application for license shall be postedin some public place possibly in the government building itself, at least two
weeks before a license can be granted,
would only be fair to that element in any
community that wishes to be heard in
opposition to granting such license.
Dp saloons celebrate Christmas? Yes,
far more abundantly than the churches.
They make a special effort toward a little ornamentation and much Christmas
giving. It is "Merry Christmas" at the
door and "Merry Christmas" at the bar
all day long in nearly 150,000 saloons of
the United States. The newspapers next
day recorded the Christmas gifts of the
saloon.
Over forty incidents of such gifts as
the following lie before the writer, as
given by some of the saloons this last
Christmas day. John Connors, celebrating, returned home drunk, chopped one
of the hands off of his son who was trying to save his mother from drunken
wrath. Then again, JamesJ Tyler, of
Southington, Connecticut, after celebrating in the saloon, pours oil over the bed
and lb Xir—bonfire—nearly succeeded in
cremating his wife as well as his home.
George Sims, Logansport, Ind., frozen
to death in the snow on his wav horr.2
from the saloon. C. C. Laspe, shot
through the heart by his friend, Frank
Mason, in a Chicago Saloon. In Atlanta, Georgia, James Ewing killed his
friend Frederick Stephenson—could remember nothing of the shooting. Twenty fatalities reported from Texas alone.
Fires and death, murders and suicides,
crimes and injuries innumerable. These
are the Christmas gifts of the saloon to
its patrons.
�8
THE FRIEND
iqxjn his actions, or
when lie feels a sensation of dismay
creeping over him when his thoughts revert to his course of life, he may be
sure that the process of deterioration is
well advanced. It takes a brave soul to
pray, with full willingness to have the
prayer answered. "Search me O God,
and know my heart; try me and know
my thoughts: and see if there be any
wicked way in me." There is no process
equal to this, how ever, to give robustness
and power to character. The Holy
Spirit is quick to search out and expose
sin when once the heart has been laid
Open without reservation for his inspection, and his presence in the soul is dullest safe-guard against all unconscious
falling away from our best estate.
UNCONSCIOUS DETERIORATION moral judgment in
Dr. W'm. M. Taylor, a former pastor
of P.roatlway Tabernacle, New York,
once preached a sermon from the text,
"Grey hairs are here and there upon him,
yet he knoweth not," using this text as
the basis of a sermon on the subject of
"Unconscious Deterioration." As such,
it stands as a felicitiotts example of skilful selection of a text. Such a sermon
also stands as an example of that class
of discussions that are always timely.
There are certain facts of human nature
and character that are always the same
and to which the preacher must from
time to time revert. The liability to insidious and unsuspected deterioration
and decline in character is one of the
most fundamental of these facts, for the
signs of which we must be always on the
watch. What are some of these signs?
We may consider it a sign of such
deterioration when by indulgence in
doubtful courses of action our ideals of
righteousness have become blurred and
Wt no longer feel sure where lies the
dividing line between right and wrong.
From the nature of things, these can
never overlap. They are always separated by a line that is clear and sharply
defined. Truth is always opposed to
of it. The
error and
two can have nqthing\in common and
those who would take their stand on the
side of truth must beAe\yially strenuous
to avoid that which is false, and, if in
any given case it is difficult to determine
the dividing line between them, a person had better adopt an arbitrary one
for his own guidance which shall be well
over on the side of right. This is always a safe course to pursue and will
at least make his moral position secure.
It is also a sign of unmarked deterioration in character when we are no longer willing to accept our obligations in
the largest sense, and try to limit our
duties to a few perfunctory forms within
the narrow circle in which we ourselves
move. No man liveth unto himself. The
people about us and the world at large,
have claims u|x>n us, and great ones at
that—claims that make heavy demands
upon both our personal service and our
means. God requires of each person according to his ability, and when we refuse this, and the claims of duty to the
world are nop met, we are in the way
of moral decline.
An unwillingness to face our life's
record is also a serious indication of unconscious decline in character. There are
certain compartments, so to speak, in the
lives of many people into which the light
is never allowed to shine-and the doors
of which they always pass with averted
face. When a person finds himself unwilling to let the full light of his own
RECORD OF EVENTS
loth.—Gov. Dole returns from six
weeks' vacation on the uplands of Hawaii.
13th.—First importation to Hawaii of
Korean laborers, a party of 102 arriving
per Gaelic.
14th.—Rapid Transit Co. agree for
bonus of $50,000 from land-owners in
that region, to extend their lines from
King street two miles farther to Kaimuki, giving half-hour service to begin
\I
within a few months.
[6th. —Newspaper cable of death in
Bremen of Hon. Paul lsenberg, a leading capitalist of Hawaii. —Resignation
accepted of E. P. Dole, Attorney-General.
18th.—Sudden death from aneurism,
of noted (ireek fruit-dealer, D. G, Caniarinos.—Chief Justice Frear secures arrest of three soldiers, caught in act of
burglary of his cottage on Mount Tantalus.
23rd.— Fire in
street,
Jan. ist, 1903.—Cable ship SUvertown,
after live days detention by bad weather,
leaves port at four a. m., picks up and
splices to an intermediate cable the ends
of the shore cable 5 miles out, and of
the deep-sea cable 35 miles out. At 8:40
p. m. telegraphic communications begin
to pass between San Francisco and Honolulu.—500 guests entertained by ladies at
noon lunch in Y. M. C. A. Hall.
2nd.—Several hundred messages of
congratulation are sent free through the
cable, both ways between Honolulu and
the Continent. —Cable Day is celebrated
by the firing of 100 guns and a great
public meeting with addresses on Capitol grounds, and by a Ball in the evening.
3d. —Associated Press Service begins
with regular news dispatches published in
afternoon papers.
4th.—Death at 10 m. at Catholic Mission, of the Rt. Rev. Gulstan F. Ropert,
Bishop of Panopolis, after a month's
complete prostration.—Total destruction,
by fire of drygoods store of L. B. Kerr
& Co. on Queen street. Loss $135,000.
Insurance $95,000. Jas. F. Morgan, auctioneer also loses $2,000 in goods. The
tire was at r a. m.
sth.—Suicide of Hermann Strauch, a
clerk in Hackfeld's employ.
6th.—Fire at top of Kihei pumping
shaft, Maui.—Great funeral of Bishop
•
.
(iulstan.
7th. —Large
hidden distillery captured
in Xutianu valley, run by Japanese, with
70 gallons of spirits.—Dredger and Tug
at Pearl Bar llriven aground by heavy
houses on Punchbowl
near Mormon Church.
24th.—Lorrin Andrews appointed Attorney-*! icneral.
26th.—S. S. Korea from San Francisco
breaks record in 4 days, 23 hours.
27th.— President signs Fire Claims
Pill—great satisfaction.
28th.—An epidemic of dengue fever
In Honolulu announced by Board of
Health —Malady more painful than serious.
DEATHS
BARNES—In Honolulu. Jan. 4, Mrs. James
A. Barnes, aged
76
years.
EUSSELL— In Honolulu. Jan. 5. Mrs. Carrie Bartlett Russell, aged 64 years.
BUSH—In Honolulu, Jan. 10, Miss Mollie
Bush, aged 32 years.
OTTO—In Honolulu. Jan. 13. E. W. Otto,
aged 56, long employed on Oceanic steamers.
LSENBERG—In Bremen, Jan. 16, Paul [senhcrg Sr.. aged 66 years, an cniincub capitalist of Hawaii.
EENOrr—At Kakaako, Jan, 18, Miriam, wife
of T. L. Bcnoit.
CAMARINOS—Ih Honolulu. Jan. 18. Demetrius George Carnarinos, native of Sparta,
.
aged 48 years.
VETTESEN—In Wailuku. Maui. Jan. 17.
Mrs. Grace W. Vettcscn, aged JI years.
Mrs.
PECK—In Kenova. W. Va Jan.
—,
Harriet Tenney Peck, aged 81 years, sister
of Mrs. S. N. Castle.
GEAR—In Honolulu, Jan. 25th. A. Kenneth
(ear, aged 4 years, son of A. Y. Gear,
NI-'.II. In Honolulu. Jan. 26, George Neil,
sged 31.
MARRIAGES
In this city. Jan. 4. Judge
sea owing to fouling of tug's propcllor. GEAR-DURPHYGeorge 1). Gear, to Miss Mildred Frances
Both got off again.
liurphy of San Prsrtcisco.
Bth. —Business men unite in strong 11ARE-D.WTKS—In N. Y. City. Dec. 17,
Protest by Cable against sending Lepers
Marcus 1.. Hare of Honolulu, to Miss Lucy
from the Continent to Molokai.
Curl rude Davies.
�9
THE FRIEND
By the toothing tone of your voice you
have made his little world of day happy
and restful, and have done much toward
quieting his restless disposition and mak
ing the future better for him. Finish the
Where did you conic From, baby dear?
Out of the everywhere into here.
work well by making the last moments of
the day the best.
k
Where did you get those eyes SO blue?
Give to your children all the help
Out of the sky as I came through.
which may come from the study, practice
Where did you get that pearly ear?
and enjoyment of music. Watch chiltied spoke, and it came out to hear.
dren as they sing, when led by one who
thoroughly
enjoys it. Lightly and
Win lice that three-cornered smile of bliss?
brightly the tune ripples forth, and when
Three angels gave me at once a kiss.
the movement songs are sung the climax
liow (lid all these come to be you?
of
enjoyment is reached.
(Ii il thought alioilt me. and so I grew.
Art, too, aids in the development of the
P.ni how did you conic to us. you dear?
loftier, fine feelings. Even in our public
God thought about you. and so I am here.
schools, and in our vacation or play
drawing and the use of wateryour
heart beat warm and schools,
And as
colors form a most valuable department
true you felt there was nothing in all of
the school-work.
the wide wide world SO wonderful and
Nature-study with the children has a
beautiful as that mother love. And you
have kept il true and strong. You have place all its own, as any mother or teachmade some mistakes at limes, perhaps, er can testify who has taken a dozen
because you loved that babe so; but if children out in the woods to gather
they have been mistakes through love leaves and ferns and mosses, or has gone,
as I have, with two different classes to
alone, you have done well.
the Natural History Museum to study
Perhaps yon have lacked wisdom hebirds and butterflies and all the varithe
cause you have not remembered that proed curious objects to be seen in thatwonmise, "If any of you lack wisdom, let
derful building.
him ask of God, who giveth to all men
liberally and upbraideth not, and it shall
There is no comradeship like that ot
children. Take time to listen, and take
be given him."
If you would win the heart of your time to be "at home to them as to the
children for Christ, remember to pray friendly caller, and praise as often as you
often for them and with them. Stamp can ; speak cheerfully and firmly; take
your own religious life upon their lives, interest in the least little thing that inthem remember them when away
holding ii]) to them always an ideal in terests
from
home
with some little letter, and
Christ, which we but strive to imitate.
of remembrance when yott
with
a
token
.f
OUR ISLAND HOMES.
HE KNEW NOT
HIS
POWER
He toiled on the street for his daily bread,
jostled and pushed by the moving throng,
No one has time to watch," he said.
•
Whether I choose the right or the wrong:
No one can be by me misled."
He chose the wrong and thought no one
cared:
But a child lost that day his ideal of strength;
cynic
sneered at the soul ensnared:
A
A weak man halted, faltered, at length
tollowed him into the sill he had dared.
George lee Hurlon
THE HEART OF THE CHILD
Love begets love, and those who have
been most successful in winning children
have been lovers of children. They have
also had the nappy faculty of showing
that they love them. An institution
might be run on some other principle,
but a home never could be. Even in institutional life the loving heart works
wonders with rude girls and unmanageable boys, and some motherly soul reaches many a stray lamb and brings it to a
sheltering fold.
This is a day when mothers are making
a close study of childhood; when questions of governmental control, education
and environment all claim attention, but
sometimes the foundation-stone is forgotten. Then the elegant structure of
knowledge is weak and lacks support.
This foundation-stone is love. It is true
in the child-world that if we have all
knowledge and no love it profiteth us
nothing, for love never fails; the knowledge vanishes, but love abides forever.
We then, who would build well, must
not forget that first essential, a loving
heart for the little child we want to influence.
Mothers, you who want to hold your
boys and girls as the years go by, begin
when they arc little to enter fully into
the raptures of their frolicsome times,
and be children with them, to enjoy what
they enjoy. As I have seen little children
I am coming to feel more and more that
there is need of more genuine fun in
their lives. Mothers would grow younger instead of older if they could open
their eves to the fact that they, too, are
losing the brightness out of life by not
having good, hearty laughs oftcner, and
a real romp and game, pulling taffy in
the winter, playing ball in the autumn,
seeking wild llowers in the spring, and
living outdoors in the summer. Do you
remember the time when the little baby
arms were nestled in yours, a little, wee,
pink sort of a hall, and the following exquisite words of George MacDonald's
were for you and the little ones:
********
:
*
****** return.
Something out of the ordinary, some-
There are some ways worth mentioning by which the affections of children
may be won. If your own are in question you can begin the first thing in the
morning by saying in the cheeriest tones
possible, "< iood-morning." You will find
it pays to keep the cheery tone with which
you begin the day, and whatever comes
of a fretting nature that cheery tone will
go far to dispel.
You all know how sensitive we are to
the humidity of the air about us. Don't
let us make the atmosphere of our homes
humid and heavy and damp. Keqi it
clear and sunny, and the very little ones
will be breathing it all day long; and
the bigger ones will say "Good-by" with
a happy smile, and will hurry home for
the "something nice" you have promised.
The best time has not come vet, for that
comes at bedtime. A little tired boy or
thing unexpected, whether it be a smile,
a new dolly, a cooky with a hole in it, or
a chocolate-drop, will help win the little
heart.
Later on the same love which prompted these lesser gifts will plan other surprises and new devotions and time un~
limited, so that each mother will be the:
center of a happy household.
Nettie Barker Pernald, in Woman's
Home Companion.
CHEAP AND EFFICIENT
Finely sifted coal-ashes is
one of the
best
things I ever used for quickly and easily rci oving tarnish from, and polishing, brass,
steel, tin or nickel. I use an old flow 'SHUTS
girl drags himself Up the stairs, and is to sift mine with, and keep a can of it on my
undressed and in bed. Then it is that Mid: shelf all the time. Dampen a cloth, dip
mother's time is precious for the last it in the ashes, and rub up your faucets, steel
sweet words that hold the little heart knives, cupboard-catches and nickeled porclose to her own, and send the tired Ut- tions of the range. Try it once and see if you
ile body off to dreamland.
are not delighted.
�FRIEND
THE
10
No 6. Matter of Preaching. While I believe! question brings to mind the advice of the
that, as a rule, a minister should confine him- ! preacher lo a young man who was thinking
self to gospel subjects, yet I think it wise oc- of entering the ministry, and sought the adthe voice, the na-alisius of tone, giittcralisms casionally to take up current topics that are vice of his pastor, viz. "Do not enter the
i
Of throat, the full roundi-iiis and the llat flat- engaging the attention
of the public, and to ministry if you can keep from it." The man
isms of periods. Ministers, whom one meets
draw
who is qualified by nature and grace to prothen
such
a
manner
as
t
in
and Who make very favorable impression out present
lessons of truth and soberness. While I dou'l j claim the counsel of Cod will not need to acthe
of the pulpit, become a painful surprise in
approve of "varnishing" the truth, I believe quire artificially persuasive power in preachpulpit, so that the pew holder often thinks, unpleasant trullis, if they have to'be dwelt up- ing.
"Oh 11cave its' I should think that he would on in the pulpit, should he handled in as
Preacher's Relations to Outside Work."
know heller." Why do ministers forget that kindly s manner a. possible, always with a (a) Political. Most certainly do I think the
their audiences are reasonable beings, and ad- view to helping the hearers and never hurting. preacher should he well informed and lake a
dress them in an unreasonable manner? Let "Molasses catches more Hies than vinegar." I lively interest in the political issues of the
the delivery he simple, straight, plain, direct,
Manner of Preaching. What detracts l'r mi (lay. as they affect the church and society
energetic, forceful, full of but one purpose its acceptability ? (0 Mannerisms;
'2) Afgenerally, and that, too, without heeoming a
(that of gelling the message itself into men's
fectedness; (3) Unpreparcdness; 14) Use- j politician in the ordinary acceptation of that
minds), without sonorousness, without at- less
vain repitions;
(5) Meatless sen- term. When Christ said 'Render to Caesar the
tempts at oratory, and the minister, so doing, tencesand
in to "fill up; " ((i) Too much things that are Caesar's he recognized the
thrown
become
an
valuable
and
useexceedingly
may
ego; (71 Longevity.
obligation of the citizen to the state. Also
ful instrument in the hands of tlie Lord for
The Preacher's Relations to Outside Work. the injunction of Scripture "To be subject to
of
the advancing
the Kingdom amongst men. A preacher has as much right lo political con- the powers that he," certainly carries with it
Examine the charm that attends the delivery victions as a layman, and should enjoy the ',', the duty of helping to create those powers.
of our most successful speakers, and sec if
privilege of voting the ticket of his choice jj And this. too. requires Christian statesmanthis is not so. The very fineness and excellence without criticism greater
than any other man ship, and that of the highest order. The saof the ideas presented, will, as presented, furwould receive for doing the same lliing. But loon
a phase of the political situation
nish the real eloquence of the moment. There while "all things are lawful, all things arc | whichpresents
cannot, and will not. be properly adis no need of thought about delivery (to the
not
" and as long as he is the j justed without the intervention of the church.
Christ-filled man), for the warm, loving, glow pastor expedient
of a congregation composed of people j This, then, as well as kindred evils, requires
of God in Ihe soul will find its own helpful
of differing political views he should not al- earnest and constant attention from the pulpit,
way of deliverance.
low himself to become a political partisan or j .md will do so as long as they arc made po"Preacher's Relations, Political." While it to actively advocate the doctrines of any par- j| litical issues.
cannot he denied to the minister, to hold po(b) General. I do not think the Christian
ticular party, except on questions iii which
litical convictions, and while the pulpit should some grave moral principle is involved. He pulpit, generally speaking, gives sufficient
be free and untramelled and allowed the great- should take a general interest in the welfare prominence to the Bible doctrines of the divinest of liberty, yet. I take it. the interests of of the community in which he is serving, and ity of Jesus, the atonement, and his mcdi.-ithe Kingdom are liable to he not advanced, if should he found always in the forefront of all torial office to sufficiently counteract the work
not positively injured, by a minister's pro- proper movements inaugurated and carried on of the destructive critics of the day. This is
claiming a political faith from the pulpit, for the general public good He should never not from any fear that the truths of the
where his people cannot talk TVick if their allow himself to fall into the habit of thinking Scriptures can he successfully controverted.
I
peace of mind has been greatly disturbed. thai because of his calling (or profession) he Eur Christ, in speaking to Peter of the
I'lense don't preach politics, or if you do, you is conferring a favor on other people when he "rock" of his divinity or sonship as the founmust he prepared for disaffection.
permits them to minister to his personal dation of the church says, that "the gates of
So far as the minister's general relations wants or de-ires, and that consequently he hell shall not prevail against it," and she will
in the end triumph. But in the meantime
are concerned, why he's got to have them, of owes no gratitude or service in return.
course. Can't help it. Therefore the one strongl
there are many of weak and faltering faith
current in him. that led him to become a pub- |I No'!';. Matter of Preaching, (a) Subject who are swept from the church into some
lie man of Cod, is to flow on from his soul to he handled. Paul, writing to the Corin- I of the many phases of infidelity and agnosto the souls of others in the outside commun- 1thian church says.(l Cor. 2:1-5) "And II ticism, by the assaults of the skeptics on the
ity, as he meets them in daily" contact, so that brethren, when I came to you. came not with miracles and other cardinal doctrines of the
the
fhe glory of God shall follow him everywhere. excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring Bible, on which denend the integrity, of rcsunto you the testimony of God. For I deter- Christian system. The doctrine of the
amined not to know anything among you. save iirn ction. especially, seems to challenge the
it is upon
(a)
topics
Subjects,
The
choice
of
Jesus Christ and him crucified. And I was credulity of the modern critic, andChurch
No. 5,
of
the
should he influenced by such considerations with you in weakness, and in fear, and in this impregnable rock of
day schools
as timeliness, current popular discussions, op- 1much trembling. And my preaching was not Christ, that many of the present
portunity to contribute materially to the peo- with enticing words of man's wisdom, but | of thought expcml their most strenuous effort.
ple's understanding of current educational, 1 in demonstration of the Spirit and of power.
No. 8. MatrV/rrVFneaching. (a) As to
social and even political questions. No modern That your faith should not stand in the wisthink any! Biblical subject, inprcaCsWr can satisfy his audiences without dotn of men. but in the power of God." thing subjects. allT historical
subjects pertaining to
cluding
We can learn approximately what a
definitely contributing something of recognized
Testament times, is
value to the heads as well as to the hearts of should he by ascertaining definitely what it either the Old or New
forth right and proper to be handled by the pulpit.
his hearers. In the pressure for time and should not be. The Apostle Paul sets
he determined by cirrest, no man will go to church unless it offers in most positive assertion that the "subject The time for these to
cumstances and the demand for knowledge
preaching,
effectual
in
by
to
handled"
his
him.
he
afford
miss.
cannot
something
"enticing words of man's wisdom." ( concerning them.
(b) Every statement from the pulpit should was not
or
words, as T take il, not the specu- | (b) Truth should at all times he given—
other
in
free
from
be absolutely frank and truthful,
lations
and
philosophies of the day. or in not, I think, necessarily the unvarnished
Disagreeable
exaggeration or inaccuracy.
flights
oratory
of
on subjects foreign to the truth, for often the polished truth is more actruths are sometimes necessary, but in genthing"
''one
he
lived
to do. But. as he said. ceptable to the masses, but there should he no
eral the preacher appears to better advantage
"nothing
he
knew
save
Jesus Christ and him doubt left in the minds of the hearers at any
as a shepherd than as a prize fighter.
crucified, that your faith should not stand in time of the truth of the statement made, hearacceptfrom
Manner, (a) What detracts
the wisdom of men but in the power of God," ing alwnvs in mind that in the great day
ability of preaching. Some of these are man- 1 (h) "Unvarnished Truth or Not." My nothing hut the truth shall stand the final
character,
repetition thought on this is that one of the features of test.
nerisms of Unfortunate
of words or ideas, padding, emphasis upon the great strength of Holy Writ is its plain
Manner of Preaching. What detracts from
trivialities, sleepiness.
(b) To my mind all
dealing with whatever pertains to the failings its' acceptability?
1
(b) You cant sell goods unless you believe of human nature, and I can think of no suffi- preaching is acceptable where the speaker has
in them. Persuasion requires first belief, then cient reason why the truth should be "var- liis own heart and soul bound tip in his sub| ject, and his unbounded faith is shown in
appropriate expression. One reason why the nished."
preacher can't preach the truth is because the
Manner of Preaching, (a) "What detracts every word and thought uttered. If a man
church is often unwilling to hear it.
from its acceptability? A noticeable depen- | preaches that which he himself docs not bePreacher's relation to outside work. There dence on manuscript always, in my thought, lieve, how can he hope to convince others that
is preaching the truth?
is no outside. Every topic that has a moral detracts from the power of a sermon, extem- he (b)
All ministers should have and use such
interest, or on which the people need enlight- pore delivery is much more effective.
persuasive
power of speech as to compel those
This
Preaching."
"Persuasive
Power
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in
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who hear to believe. Such powers should be
used in all gentleness, kindness and love for
the souls of men.
Preacher's Relations, (a) I do not think
as a rule we can mix religion and politics,
any more than the average man can mix water
and oil. I think perhaps there are times when
ministers should take a public stand for good
government and good morals of the state or
community, but this should be done more as
for ministers
that is good
well on the
known of at
least one splendid church being ruined and
wiped out of existence by trying to mix up
politics with preaching from the pulpit. This
should always be condemned and discouraged.
(b) Ministers will always find fruitful subjects in either the Old or New Testaments to
parallel most any case that may come up,
either in church or state, and he able to show
the right or wrong of a public question in
such a way as to convince the hearer or community of the righteousness or unrighteousness of his cause, and he should leave no doubt
in the minds of any as to where the church
and the minister stand.
1 think the object and aim of all preaching
should he to save the souls of men, and at
all times to strive to make the gospel of -the
Lord Jesus Christ more attractive than the
isms of man.
What men need is bread—not stones; fish—
not serpents; figs and not thistles.
a good man, than as a minister,
are all supposed to stand for all
in morality or government, as
streets as in the pulpit. 1 have
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No. 9. "The matter of preaching." It
should he the entire counsel of God, as revealed to us in his word, in the light of his
Holy Spirit's influence, as affecting, purifying
and strengthening the daily lives and characters of the hearers, and as being in a great degree the guiding power in respect to the- future
destinies of the immortal souls placed in such
a sacred relation to the preacher.
To this end the preacher should set forth
Christ, first as divine, and the supra-human
Son of God, carrying the wreck and ruin
caused by our sins—and thus our Savior.
Second, as human and perfect, our teacher
and example, suffering as we do, and living
as we should.
The world needs to be convinced of sin today as much as it did when Christ and his
apostles preached repentance. Ministers should
preach it. They should make plain to the
humblest hearer what faith means, and why it
is a vital necessity, and how it must lead to
obedience and the humble and right living
of a true Christian. They should emphasize
the truth "Except a man be born again he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God."
The minister should tell men, first, where
they as individuals fail in their daily lives;
second, where society fails in its life; or
where individual Christians fail in spiritual
life; where the church fails in its duties, to
the poor, to the erring, to the Sabbath, to the
proper government of the country.
The experiences of Christians, and the history connected with the Christian life of the
world are subjects always welcome and appropriate.
You say, "Unvanu lied truth or not?" I
have said above, "The whole counsel of God.
The preaching of Christ and his apostles
seems to be the guide as to the proportion to
be observed between one side of the message
from God and the other.
Also the method that men employ with each
other. Allusions to displeasure and punishment arc in our wise dealings with men rare,
but they are there all the same, and not to
be ignored.
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The reason a great deal of preaching fails, which icas done without any question or
I think, is largely because it deals too much hesitation. The long, lank, black pig was
in abstractions and not enough in concrete
Lets, the temptations we have and how to brought into my yard, I told the cook to
avoid them, the sorrows and how to hear take the creature, slaughter and clean it
them. Christ's illustrations from daily huni- thoroughly and divide it from head to
lile. incidental matters of life are worthy of tail, which he did without delay, and at
imitation, even in this largely civilized age. flu- appointed time, at the close of a
j
Beecher's power was in this line.
If, too, 1 feel that a minister i. concerned weekly meeting the two pugnacious
the severed
for my welfare, I am more ready to hear j neighbors being present,
him. I care not for denunciation of the swine was brought in and laid before
past or of imaginary foes.
them. They looked amazed for a moThe only excuse for political preaching is
that some high moral question is involved. ment, ami then laughed most heartily.
I advised them to roast the tlesh, have
When the situation is that of sin against
righteousness, of justice against injustice and ,i o,Kid dinner together, and forgive and
oppression, then the pulpit has no right to he bury all past bail feelings, words and
silent. But when a question divides a community, with more or less of right on both actions. They immediately clasped each
sides, a minister should be careful how he fans Other's handscordially and were ever after
the flames,
good friends as far as 1 knew."
As to higher criticism, so-called, in the pulFrom the diary of Rev. J. /'. Paris.
pit, my own feeling is that the less of it the
better. Let the word of Cod have free course
and he glorified. / / ■
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No. ioT Feeling as I do. what can 1 say in
criticism of the minister?
Echo answers,
"What can I say?" I can at least draw a
picture of my ideal minister.
He is called. Like Peter and John he
hears tne Master's voice saying, "Follow me,
and I will make you fishers of men." He
qualifies himself by study to expound the
Scripture! and defend the faith. When his
period of preparation is past, he follows the
divine leadings into such held as is "white
for the harvest." He becomes the pastor of a
church, and men at once love him, because,
although of them, he is different from them.
They arc in the mad rush for gold, for power,
for prominence, for first place, lie. with gentle spirit, and loving words, and happy countenance, ministers to the sick, buries the dead,
consoles the afflicted, says unto hustling men
everywhere, "Peace, be still." He thinks of
others first, of himself last. He seeks not
this world's vain glory. His whole life reflects
the hymn, "O to be nothing, nothing."
He goes lo the pulpit from the closet. When
he enters the pulpit men say. "Behold be
prays" And there is no pretense about it.
We feel more reverent, as we look at him.
He sings when we sing. His hands move as
the choir chants their songs, and we can see
that his soul is in the worship His face is
aglow with spiritual power as he rises to
break the bread of life and feed it to our
hungry souls. He neither precedes nor follows his sermon with worldliness, and we
say as we hear his final "Amen." "Surely this
is the house of God and the gate of heaven
to our souls."
Such a minister does not preach what he
thinks
men want to
hear.
He has
no
desire
to tickle their cars, or to secure their applause by telling them they arc right, when he
knows they are wrong. He preaches the gospel, just as Paul did. with earnestness, simplicity and power, knowing nothing among
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lege, and entered the employ of the Hawaiian Electric Co., which did a small
business on King street, as an appendage to E. O. Hall & Son. Since then
he has worked steadily for the Government Electric Lighting Works, the Mutual Telephone Co., and for the Inter Island Telegraph Co. (wireless) from its
beginning. His special instruction has
been a year in an electrical school in San
Francisco, ami a correspondence course
with the Seranton Schools. His hope,
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training school at "Annapolis, where the
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HAWAIIAN MISSION
CHILDREN'S SOCIETY
It is with sorrow that we learn of the
sudden death in Bremen, Germany, of
Mr. Paul Isenhcrg, one of the members
of the Mission Children's Society.
He was a son-in-law of Mother Rice,
his first wife being Maria Rice. Ikhas been identified for main years with
the business interests of the..'. Islands,
being one of the firm of riacjdvlu & Co.,
and had accumulated a large fortune. He
was a giver to many good causes, one
of his large gifts being the donation from
the firm of Hackfeld & Co., which led to
the establishment of the Geniuin Lutheran church in Honolulu, a welcome addition to the religious forces in the c : ly.
Of late years his home has been in
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Scudder
has
just
completed a tour
Dr.
visits to these Islands. Two sons and a
daughter are residents of H-iwiii, and of the Southern provinces of Japan,
they as well as the family in Germany, from which most of the laborers in Hawaii come. He has addressed audiences
have our deep sympathy.
numbering in all 8,500 people, and obtained the names of 2,500 persons who
Robert S. Andrews, a young man have relatives in the Islands, whom lie
brought up in this community, has re- hopes to interview when he returns here.
cently shipped in tlie United States navy
as an electrician, for a service of four
The cable has arrived, and our pulses
years. Ten years ago he left school, be- have throbbed wildly with joy. Yet some
ing then in his second year in Oahu Col- of its messages to our Society have been
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PERFECTION
words of deep grief. Our president, Mr.
C. H. Dickey sent a cablegram to his
brother in Omaha on the opening day.
while the wire was quivering back the
news that that brother had passed from
earth that very day.
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A letter from Miss Taleott announces
her safe arrival in Tokyo, where she was
Spending a few days before going to Kobe, where her work is to be.
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Julia Gulick reports interesting
made by Mr. Clark and herself in
the Island Kiushu, Japan.
Miss
tours
LETTER FROM DR. SCUDDER
Hososhiina. Kyushu. Japan. Dec. 1.6, 1002
P. Emerson. Secy.. Hawaiian Evangelical Association, Honolulu, Hawaii.
My dear Mr. Emerson:
The tour among the families of emigrants
to Hawaii is finished, and at last some spare
moments are granted me to lay before the
Board the account of the unique experience
and a few deductions therefrom
Through the kindness of an intimate friend
of large influence among his countrymen. I
Rev. O.
—
received help in this campaign from no less
the Minister for Home \f
fairs. Baron Utsumi. and through Hawaii's
firm friend, Mr. Taro Ando. the assistance of
the Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs. These
two gentlemen wrote personal letters to the
governors of the four prefectures of Hio
shima. Yaniaguchi. Fukuoka and Kumanioto.
to afford me every facility. Such assistance
in Japan means far more than it would in
a personage than
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America. At the advice of my friend Mr. personal touch. It is impossible to enter into
Naruse and of Mr. Ando, I then wrote each details covering the experiences of these few
of these four governors, detailing the exact week,s. I never addressed such responsive
time when I expected to enter and leave their audiences, never listened to stranger stories or
respective prefectures, asking them to arrange saw so fully into the hearts of Japanese. The
meetings, summon the families of emigrants. reception accorded everywhere was remarkprovide the requisite clerical help etc. All able, and until the day conies when I can
this was done most generously. In three of preach in these temples the unsearchable riches
the prefectures a special Kcnclw employee was of Jesus Christ it is hard to imagine a more
detailed lo be my constant companion (in Fu- unique experience. The address delivered to
kuoka two men thus attended me night and tiiese people dealt first with a description of
day) and to arrange all the minutiae. Places Hawaii, next outlined the present condition
of meeting were engaged beforehand and of the Japanese there, and sketched some of
everything done to make the tour a success the temptations to which they are exposed,
Thirty-two days of consecutive labor with but linn explained what the Hawaiian Evangelione day of intermission between times, were cal Association is and what it is trying to do
devoted to the trip. Generally two meetings For emigrants from this country, laying cenwere held each day but on occasions of con tral emphasis upon the fact that its lounda
veniencc or of long intervening distances Hon is I hristianky, and. finally, detailed the
these were increased to three or reduced to I'ur;ii c of the tour. It was not a Christian
one.
•ernron mil one of the government men who
In country towns and villages meeting went with me in Fukuoks, -aid (himself i
places are scarce, often the only available
hristian) "The people must learn irom what
building being the local Buddhist temple. mi- ay ni.-!- tin sp ril ot" Christian love us.
Hence forty-three of the sixty-four meetings Dial was putting it too strongly by far, for
held during the thirty-two days were con- as vt all know tlii- is not learned fri m any
vened in Buddhist temples or preaching amount of talking about it, but it ilbi trait's
houses. Of these forty-three, twenty-eight the main purpose of what the endeavor was
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held ill temple* of the Nishi llongwanji
which has its missionaries busy in Hawaii. The other twenty -one meetings convened in school houses, local government
buildings, public halls or private dwellings.
The SUdiencei were ill must instances careful
ly counted. Where this was not done, an
under estimate was made by myself on the
basis ola partial count. Thus it was ascertained that somewhat more than 8500 persons
were present and heard the address given
Before and alter the address, the relatives ol
emigrants were invited to communicate messages to their distant kindred or to make
requests relating to them.
In every case these messages were made
personally to me and recorded by me on the
spot. -»s.si blanks were 11111- laboriously filled
out. This greatly increased the amount ol
work but it gave the enormous advantage of
wire
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returned emigrants at these gatherings and
whom 1 strongly suspected of having
been baptized. Mr. Kozaki told me of one
ol his countrymen who on entering the barl"ir of Yokohama turned towards the Pacific
( Ici-an. removed his hat. made a profound
bow ..ml said "Good-bye Jesus Christ."
This is the condition that faces us. The
ordinary Japanese fanner has not the moral
courage to lace alone the opposition of his
home people. This characteristic he shares
with almost all the others of his nation. It
is a reinarkahle fact that nearly everywherethe great majority ol Christians in any church
is composed
of persons whose birthplace is
elsewhere. \'ery lew in Jsoan comparatively
speaking have become disciples of Jesus while
living surrounded by their friends and kinsome
dred.
to say.
\nd now will ihe Board pardon a few lines
of deduction from the experien :es of this trip.
talks with missii naries and Japanese of all
kinds, and a careful s'tudj ol conditions of
■11 iry v 011; in thi -I- mpire.
For months as 1 have come into personal
touch with the details of the Chri tian props
gaijda hen- ih com iction ha
dt epned thai the head nol the h< art, the flower
inot
the root, the brain but nol the brawn, of
the Japanese people has been touched by
Christianity. One class has been most pro- can
foundly affected and that is the
Samurai. Call
him the head, the flower, the brain of the
nation, and no mistake is made. But the heart,
the
root,
the hi aim is the
great
agricultural
be most easily handled—if
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class. Japanese methods of tillage makes her
farmers more numerous than is the case with $25.00
30.00
us. It is a patient hard-working, kindly.
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faithful and unite timorous
loves its
temples and is loyal to the simple laith of its
They are in use in churches
Forbears. \t has been particularly/difficult to
reach and after over forty years, ol missionary endeavor is still, except in Soots, practi-
cally
The justly celebrated
ing home; (j) that although I wrote in two
instances to those known to be Christians in
Hawaii, only one person met in all this tour
avowed himself to me as a disciple of Jesus
Christ, i.e. only one person returned from
the Islands. In one other case. I left the
person no option, as I knew he had been an
active worker there. There were not a few
and missions in this city
untouched.
Xow it seems as though iii Cod's providence Hawaii had been raised up to take the
CALL A NI) SEE ONE A T THE
lead just at this juncture in this nation's history in opening the door to effective work
among the farmers. There can be no doubt
that the results achieved by the efforts already
BOSTON BU L-DHMQ.
put forth in Hawaii have been great. I cannot -top to detail them now hut the very fact
that I could go through these four provinces
addressing large crowds of farmers in the
HERE IS WHAT YOU WANT.
way and with the frankness I did. shows that
a deep change has been wrought among them
and this change is in vesy large part due to
the splendid campaign carried on by the Ma
waiian Board. In the province of Hchigo
the effect is still more marked as will he noted below. Hut while granting all this I must
confess to most serious disappointment. I
have already detailed in previous letters the
report given by the special agent sent by Rev.
S. L. Gulick to Hiroshima and Yamaguchi
kens, summed up in the sentence "No Christian Japanese return from Hawaii." and the ?
balancing statement of Mr. Miyama. the temperance evangelist, that he found many ChrisEBERHART SYSTEM
tians among returned emigrants. To this may
To induce regularity of attendance.
be added the further two facts 0) that
all the
missionaries and evangelists and others I have Room for 200 names. Lasts four years with
talked with on the field of these four prefec- increasing interest. In use on the Islands.
Send to
tures agree without exception and regardless
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emigrants who have become Christians in
Hawaii apparently lose all their faith on com-
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endeavour for their own
faced call the schools are several neighborhoods of Ha- interest and earnest
Now these facts when squarely
church improvement and that of the school. In adceased
largely
are
met
who
have
people
We
waiian
[„r no special discouragement.
the Lima Kokua Mission Band, the
race and we attendance, while their children spend Sunday dition to
by a condition peculiar to this
students, under the direction of teachers,
influences
the
to
the
worst
exposed
under
on
streets,
the
can neutralize its destructive power
carry on a Band of Mercy and a branch so
of the city.
leadership of our Master.
for Help ciety of the Children's National Guild of
calling
leaders
are
religious
Board
Their
the
girls donated their
In a previous letter I detailed to
the se- to reach these neglected lambs, and in re- Courtesy. A few of the
a plan looking towards this end. i.e..
students of the services in the Y. VV. C. A. lunch room during
the
summons,
sponse
returning
Christo
this
curing of the name of each
busy evenings of the Christmas holidays.
to Mr Kamchanicha Schools have been organized the
tian migrant and the sending thereof
B. Several have united with the churches of their
W.
the
Dr.
chaplain.
field
under
for
work
in time to insure the Pfsonsbemg
have freely respective nationalities, and others are awaitGuKck
evangelist or Christian llkin. A number of the teachers
greeted by some
to further ing the opportunity.
Sunday
thus
afternoons
given
up
their
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The cooking department is supplying the
worker neir his home, and b'tped
this field-work, among them Dr. Flkin. Miss
as a disc,pic
the
first
himself
from
confess
Miss kaha- Y. W. C. A. lunch room with cake and jelly,
Attolo,
Miss
Miss
Pope
Darling.
Retepn
besides filling regularly various private orders.
lesiis. To this may be added a
nn. Mr. Hristol and Mr. Krauss. At present
A very happy Christmas treat was. by the
Committee, prepared to meet
mUid six Sunday Schools are receiving the benefit
Christians on their arrival at ..kohama
kindness of friends, made possible for those
KalilnKalihi-waena.
Moanalua,
try
of
work—
the
I "ill
remained on the grounds. Boxes of
Kobe, and if necessary Nagasaki. here,
la kai. Kalihi-uka. Vineyard Street, and Maemac. who
fruit from Mrs. S. N. Castle and Mrs. J. B.
and start the machinery for this
workin
engaged
students
this
Among
the
returning Christian is thus taken up from
Atherton. fifty pounds of candy from the N.
disciples here, he arc Messrs. Akana. Desha. Kealoha. Mundon.
a generous contribution of nuts
start by the fraternity ol
Mattson. Main. Lindsay. Bunker. Hale and F. Bakery,
May Co., a calico dress pattern for each
may be tided over.
from
Todd.
Sylva,
Misses
and
Muller.
Plunkett,
pupil from Fibers & Co.. fifty picture books
But still more imnortant is the preparation
not I.ahapa. Scholtz, and Akana.
that he may
from Thrum's book store, and bottles of peryoung
of his home environment sofrom
of
these
earnest
The mere presence
his kindred,
from Benson and Smith, helped to make
meet with bitter opposition
fume
an
Chi'.dproves
men
women
attraction.
and
of our Us
a
Merry
hist here comes in the significance
hear
Christinas for all. School re-opened
the
door
to
around
as it ren gather shyly
of 2,550 (smiles in this country covering
sing, admiring their neat uniforms and on January fifth with the usual number of
them
It
nas
villages.
does"more than 200toseparate
spotless gowns, and are easily prevailed upon pupils.
meet two missionaries to enter and join a class, where they are
been my privilege
some
for
who
and learn of several others correspondence taught the same songs, and told stories from
BOHYILSBO'S
ARDING CHOOL
time here practiced the art of
and given pictures cards and
is to insert an adver- the gospels,
work Their method newspaper
one
of
writes as FolMr.
Lyman,
principal,
lesson
home.
these
S.
In
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papers to carry
asking any
tisement in the daily
where before the advent of lows of the Hilo Boys' Boarding School:
Sunday-schools,
.acquainted
become
one who would like to
ol
"An event of unusual interest has just taken
or In per- the field-workers, there was an attendance
with Christianity to apply by mail
an- from two to five, lliere now gather as many place in the history of Ili'.i Boarding School.
seen
and
are
son These advertisements
in the moving of the main school building,
as twenty-five adults and fifty children. Naswered, s correspondence is begun. Christian turally the young people became personally preparatory to the erection of the new one.
percases
the
literature is sent and in many
"This building was completed early in 1856.
detail interested in their charges, and at Christmas
son led to Christ. I have no time to
were very desirous of giving them a being one of the first buildings covered with
they
large
where
the
results, but they have been
happy time. Partly by an entertainment at the iron roofing in Hilo. The main timbers were
method has been consistently followed. Now
Kamehameha gymnasium, and partly through all hewn out of the ohia forests back of town.
conof
an advertisement is an artificial means
"The plan is to continue to use the building
generous provision of Dr. Elkin funds
the
the
case
tact and one extremely superficial. In
raised to furnish Christmas festivals at as the main school building until the new
were
Hawaii
have
of those 2,550 families, we in
one is erected. It will then be turned into a
who will three of the Sunday-schools. Mr. Rice kindpeople longing to receive a letter,
Kalihiwork shop for our manual training classes.
stercopicon
a
exhibition
at
ly
gave
over
over
and
read every word we write
"We are still soliciting funds for the new
the
and
at
the
other
two
festivals
waena,
again, to whom we are to talk concerning
Christmas play. In building. We have enough to begin the work,
a
presented
field-workers
we
have
absent loved ones, into whose hearts
every case, the grand finale was the brightly but before we are through will need about
the open door and through that door we can illuminated Christmas tree, loaded with can- twice the sum already subscribed."
carry Christian truth. At first thought these dies and suitable gifts for all the members of
2550 filled blanks may seem like very im- the Sunday-schools, many of whom were thus
portant introductions to the emigrants in Ha- introduced, for the first time in their lives. QACIFIC HARDWARE CO., Ltd.
waii, but I view them as infinitely more valu- to a Merry Christmas.
Importers and Jobbers of
able as SO many doors to family circles here. Two quarterly reviews have been held in the
All these households expect to receive a letter gymnasium of the Manual school, largely atawaiting
one.
It
anxiously
arc
GENERAL
from me. many
MERCHANDISE.
tended and very successful.
is a huge work but it may be one big with
If this work reached no further than SunSpirit.
the
of
God's
guidance
blessing under
day afternoon it would be worth while. But
Now if this work be followed up rightly WC in the mutual sympathy and understanding At Fort Street—
of
opposition
lessening
ought to see a steady
thus established, in new ideals of cleanliness
Hardware, Art Goods, Picture Mouldto Christianity on the part of an increasing and behavior, in the moral uplift of the music
ings, Paints, Oils, Varnishes, Gasoline
here.
It
may
number of the farming people
real affection
in
subjects
study,
and
the
of
the
and Kerosene, Agricultural Implebe that centers for work may be thereby open- growing up between teachers and pupils, ..ie
ments, etc.
ed in Japan and we have a right to hope that field-work has become a power for good, exthe results achieved in Hawaii may be con- tended still further by the week day sewing
served here more effectively. There seems no classes organized by students from the Girls' At Bethel Streetneed of elaborating this point.
School.
Household Supplies, Sewing Machines,
The greatest good accomplished, however,
Glassware, China,
Stoves, Rang»s,
is undoubtedly in arousing in the young peoCrockery.
who
on
of
work,
ple
carry
the field
a feeling
responsibility for the unfortunate and neglectAMONG THE SCHOOLS
ed and a desire to discharge this responsiWHITNEY, M. D., D. D. S.
bility. While it was difficult last year to obSCHOOLS
WORK
AT
THE
KAMEHAMEHA
tain
workers,
FIELD
this year there are more eager
volunteers than there are places for work.
DENTAL ROOMS,
"Feed my lambs," said Jesus, as a test of
his disciples' love; for the essence of Chris•ianity is service. But service is the outFort Street.
Boston Building.
KAWAIAHAO SEMINARY
growth of training, just as much as mathematics or carpentry. The Kamehameha
Schools ought to turn out young men and
The Christmas vacation closed a very busy
women with the desire and ability to serve but, on the whole, very satisfactory first term.
GEO. H. HUDDY,
the less fortunate. But exhortations can give The school work as a whole, thus far, has been
DENTIST.
them neither the spirit nor the power to help largely foundation work, but in this respect
others. They must "learn by doing." There- much has been done, on premises and in orfore great emphasis is being placed upon ganization, from which good results are alRooms:—Mclntyre Block, Fort Street.
actual service.. They learn to help others ready apparent.
The pupils are characterized by a spirit of
through present deeds of helpfulness. Near
.
.
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THE FRIEND
TI7 G. IRWIN & CO.,
MILLS INSTITUTE
Curative skin soap
Mills Institute closed for Chinese New
school is enis a pure soap, cleansing and delightful Years on January 26th. Thework.
a yeai of successful
The atjoying
Best
velvet.
to use. Makes the skin like
tendance is well up to the attendance of past
for infants; will not cause eruptions. years, there being at present sixty-five boardtry a cake and be convinced; 20c. ing pupils and about twenty-five day scholars.
Ihe school is fortunate in its teachers this
box (3 cakes), 50c.
year. Two of them, Messrs Henry and Noyes,
are the sons of missionaries, and born in
CO.
HOBRON DRUG
China and able to speak the Chinese language.
Mr. Merrill and Miss Lewrence are teachers
Fort Street, Honolulu
SUGAR FACTORS
Just
AND
COMMISSION AGENTS.
Agents for the Oceanic Steamship Co.
of experience from the mainland. Mr. New- N j EW YORK DENTAL PARLORS.
man, who assists in the evening, is a proOffice cor. Miller and Beretania Sts. fessional teacher of penmanship and bookPlate of Teeth, $5; Gold Crowns, $5; Bridge
keeping. A delightful spirit of harmony preResidence, 1508 Thurston St.
vails among students and teachers. This Work, per Tooth, $5; Gold Fillings, $1; SilOffice Hours:—lo to 12 a. m., 2to 3 and school is one of the most powerful agencies ver Fillings, 50 cents.
7:30 to 8:30 p. m. Sundays: 10 to 11 a. m. for good among the Chinese population in
ALL WORK GUARANTEED.
,
Honolulu, T. H.
Elite Bldg., Hotel St.
Telephones: Office, White 3402. Res., Blue 2841 these Islands.
DR.
E. C. WATERHOUSE,
MAI Win
ALBERT
B. CLARK
nary:
DENTIST.
Beretania and Miller Streets.
Office Hours:—9 to 4-
DR. AJVDEBSOJV,
DENTIST.
1883.
Philadelphia Dental College,
1087 Alakea Street.
GEORGE
I SEMINARY
Miss Alexander writes of Maunaolu Semi-
J. AUGUR, M. D.,
"We have a corps of six teachers besides e'URNITURE,
of our former pupils as assistant teachers,
WINDOW SHADES,
and one of the Kamehameha Girls' School
LACE CURTAINS,
pupils is with us this year introducing lacePORTIERES,
work—a new departure introduced by Miss
TABLE COVERS, ETC.
Adams among Hawaiian girls. It is a decidCHAIRS RENTED FOR BALLS AND
ed success so far, I trust it may be continued.
PARTIES.
"Our average number of pupils is about
ninety girls, with Hawaiian girls greatly in the
UNDERTAKING AND EMBALMING.
majority.
The industrial features of the school are TOMBSTONES AND MONUMENTS.
Residence and Night Call: Blue 3561.
being emphasized each year more and more;
Telephone: Office, Main 64.
we agree with Hon. H. P. Baldwin, president
of our Board of Trustees, that industrial
Nos. 1146-1148 Fort St., Honolulu.
schools will help to solve Hawaii's problem." H. H. WILLIAMS
Manager.
:
two
KOHALA SEMINARY.
HOMOEPATHIC PRACTITIONER.
The
Seminary has a larger
Kohala
Residence, 435 Beretania St.; Office, 43' number of pupilsGirls'
enrolled than for a number
Beretania St. Tel. 1851 Blue.
of years: the second term opening with favorable prospects for good work in all departments. The girls in the weaving department
Office Hours:—lo to 12 a. m., 3to 4 and 7 are doing
exceptionally good work; some of
a.
m.
to Bp. m. Sundays: 9:30 to 10:30
them being very expert.
The crying need of the school, just at present, is for a new laundry, the present arrangements being very inadequate. There is
CHAS. L. GARVIN,
no fund for improvements, and many are
needed,
232 Beretania St., opp. Haw'n Hotel.
that are in other
of a like kind, the
Office Hours:—9 to 11 a. m.; 1:30 to 3 and While the schoolschools
does not have the facilities
7:30 to 8 p. m. Tel. Blue 3881. Res. Tel. stamina or character of the girls themselves
White 3891.
and their work is inferior to nope.
DR.
CLINTON
J.
niTY FURNITURE STORE
All kinds of
HUTCHINS,
W. AFIANA & CO., LTD.
MERCHANT TAILOR.
Telephone Blue 2431.
P. O. Box 086.
King Street, Honolulu
CLOTHES CLEANED AND REPAIRED.
[1 OPP & COMPANY,
Importers and Manufacturers of
FURNITURE AND UPHOLSTERY.
CHAIRS TO RENT.
Honolulu,
No. 74 King Street
- -
nHILIP L. WEAVER, JR.,
A TTORNE Y-A T-LAW.
*| FIBLP
LIFE, AX,
FIRE, MARINE
INSURANCE.
Mclnerny Block.
\\T>
&OTF3rS
%
* *
Merchant St., opposite Post Office.
Real Estate Titles and Instruments a specialty.
KAUAI.
ERNEST
K. KAAI,
The children of the Lihue foreign Sundayschool gave a very successful cantata, under
Teacher of
PACIFIC HEIGHTS.
leadership of Mr. Lydgate on the evening
Banjo,
Zither, Ukulele and
Offers greater attractions and induce- the
Guitar,
Mandolin,
of the 23d of December. The cantata was
Taropatch.
merits as a site for choice residences than followed by the distribution of presents on
Studio:—Love Building, Room 5.
the basis of faithful attendance during the
any other portion of Honolulu.
Hours:—lo to 12 a. m.; 1 =30 to 4p. m.
year. Some of the children had an unbroken
The Pacific Heights Electric Railway ;record in spite of frequent bad weather.
Line affords easy access to all lots; and
Interesting Christmas day exercises for the |/CALIFORNIA FEED CO., Ltd.,
water and electric lights are supplied Hawaiian
Sunday-school at Lihue culminated
from independent systems at reasonable jin the distribution of presents based on faith- DEALERS IN HAY, GRAIN AND FLOUR
rates. To parties intending to purchase Iful attendance. Under the superintendence
—AOKMTS FOB —
of Mrs. W. H. Rice the school has been verr
and improve, especially favorable terms (flourishing during the past year.
COR. QUEEN AND NUUANU STS.,
will be given.
The large
,
and increasing sale of soda water
HONOLULU.
For further particulars apply to Chas. S. (on Kauai is said to reduce the consumption
of alcoholic drinks.
P. O. Box 45a.
Desky, Progress Block.
Telephone No. Main 121
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FRIEND
THE
7ILLIAM R. CASTLE,
(Incorporated under the Laws of
the llaivaiian Republic.)
$600,000.00
Paid-up Capital
Attorney niLena.
Reserve
Undivided Profits
Merchant Street Cartwright Block.
Trust MoTTrj carefully invested.
P. O. Box 565.
Tel. Main io.v
FRANK
■F
F. FERNANDES,
"' dsl
H
A. MeCandless.
Solicit, the accounts of firms, corporations,
trusts, individuals, and will promote and care-
fully attend to all business connected with
banking entrusted to it. Sell and purchase
Foreign Exchange, Issue Letters of Credit.
EHLERS &
CO.,
Dry Goods Importers.
SAVINGS DEPARTMENT—Ordinary and
Term Deposits received and interest allowed in
accordance with rules and conditions printed
in pass-books, copies of which may be had on
J* Jit
in Fancy Goods
latest
novelties
All the
received by every steamer.
Jt j«
- - - -
Fort Street
application.
Judd Building, Fort Street.
Honolulu.
.
FA.
COMMISSION MERCHANTS.
FOR 1903.
'2»tm
iseut).
Is new 1111 mile 111 it 11 neWadealerl 111111 maintain!
fur varied reliable Information pertaining
Mailed to any addreaa on receipt <>i Btctf.
THOU. (J. TllltlM, Ctihli-lor.
Htmm ci.r. T H.
P. O.BosM
reputation
to Hawaii.
Honolulu, T. H.
fNAHU RAILWAY & LAND CO.
IZTRITE
To IS
for
catalogues and
AGENTS FOR—Hawaiian Commercial &
the line of
Sugar Co., Haiku Sugar Co., Paia Plantation
Co., Kihei Plantation Co., Hawaiian SVigar
Co., Kahubii R. R. Co., and Kahuku Planta
HARDWARE
Run through trains to Pearl Harbor, Ewa
Plantation, Waianae, Waialua and Kahuku.
Gives tourists an opportunity of viewing some
of the richest tropical scenery to be found anywhere. The road passes through sugar, rice,
tarn, coffee, pineapple and banana plantations,
SPORTING GOODS
SHIP CHANDLERY
BICYCLES and
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
tion.
skirts the shores of the famed Pearl Harbor
E. O. HALL & SON, Ltd.,
and borders the broad Pacific for a distance of[
Honolulu, T. H.
thirty miles. Excursion tickets good from Saturday to Monday.
F. C. SMITH,
General Passenger and Ticket Agent.
LUNCH ROOM.
BEAVER
BREWER & CO., Limited,
//. /. Nolte, Proprietor.
jt
General Mercantile Commission Agents.
TEMPERANCE
Queen St., Honolulu, T. H.
AGENTS FOR—Hawaiian Agricultural Co.,
Onomea Sugar Co., Honomu Sugar Co., Wailuku Sugar Co., Makee Sugar Co., Haleakala
Ranch Co., Kapapala Ranch.
Planters' Line Shipping Co., Charles Brewer
& Co.'s Line of New York Packets.
Agents Boston Board of Underwriters.
Agents Philadelphia Board of Underwriters.
■
LIST OF OFFICERS—CharIes M. Cooke,
President; Geo. H. Robertson, Vice-President
and Manager; E. Faxon Bishop, Treasurer and
Secretary; W. F. Allen, Auditor; P. C. Jones,
H. Waterhouse, G. R. Carter, Directors.
t
G. J.
Manager.
j*
COFFEE HOUSE.
j*
jt
Fort St., Honolulu, T. 11.
L"
EWERS & COOKE, Ltd.,
Dealers in
LUMBER. BUILDING
OFFICERS—H. P. Baldwin, Pres't; J. B.
Castle, ist Vice Pre. l; W. M. Alexander, 2d
Vice-Pres't; J. P. Cooke, Treas.; W. O.
Smith, Secy; George R. Carter, Auditor.
SUGAR FACTORS AND COMMISSION
MERCHANTS.
prices on anything in
WALLER,
METROPOLITAN
LEXANDER & BALDWIN, Ltd.
A
CO.,
Importers and
SCHAEFER o.
MEAT CO., LTD.
50,000.00
163,000.00
OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS:—Chas.
M. Cooke. President; P. C. Jones, Vice-President; C. 11. Cooke. Cashier; F. C. Atherton,
Assistant Cashier. Henry Waterhouse, C. H,
Atherton. F. W. Macfarlane, E. D. Tenney, J.
NOTARY PUBLIC.
Brown,
Cecil
93 Merchant St.
Office with
.
BF.
BANK OF HAWAII, Ltd.,
J^^^^^t^
ff JSk
jj
WALL PAPERS,
'
Honolulu, T. 11.
co.,
and
Cy,KssWUsNsi Meat &Market
yf:e hop
lIENRY MAY it CO., Ltd.,
Wholesale and Retail
GROCERS, PROVISION
MERCHANTS and COFFEE DEALERS.
T. May, President.
W. T. I.ucas, Vice-President.
S. G. Wilder, Secretary.
H, E. Mclntyre, Manager.
A. S. Prescott, Treasurer.
24 and 92. P. O. Box
Telephones,
22,
CLAUS
SPRECKELS & CO.,
386
BANKERS.
j«
j*
Draw Exchange on the principal ports of the
world and transact a general
banking business.
J*
Honolulu
: : :
PORTER
J»
:
Hawaiian Islands.
FURNITURE CO.,
Importers of
FURNITURE, UPHOLSTERY
Grocery.
AND BEDDING.
Shipping and Family Butchers
vegetables.
and
and Navy Contractors.
Fort St., opposite Love Building.
Phone
Blue
St.,
cor. Alakea.
2511.
Beretania
Purveyors to Oceanic Steamship Co.
Antique Oak Furniture, Cornice
Also
at
the
Wickerware,
and the Pacific Mail Steamship Co.
Poles, Window Shades and Wall Brackets.
Honolulu, T. H. FISHMARKET -*- Meat Stalls 19 and 20.
No. 50-62 King Street
-
-
'fruits
.
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�THE FRIEND
2
$1.00
A Cent Apiece—l2o forIx6)a
inches
§
■end to
.
Famous pictures tor
Sunday
School
made by
BROWN
of Beverly
Mass.
HAWAIIAN BOARD
406 Boston Building
COLLEGE
uses
ROOMS
HILLS,
H., at the Hawaran Board
Book Rooms, 400-402 Roston Building.
most
as
ments, etc., apply to
TRUSTEES OF OAHU COLLEGE,
404 Judd Building.
- - - OAHU COLLEGE
Honolulu
(Arthur F.
Hawaiian Islands.
Griffiths, A.8., Presiuem.j
and
Rev.
P.
O. Box
JUIOSES K.
- -
Business Agent,
Honolulu, H. T.
NAKUINA,
Managing Editor of The friend.
Honolulu, T. H.
638.
of
1
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
I
And Dealers in Photographic Supplies.
Honolulu, H. I.
I
Editors :
WATKKHOUSK
TRUST CO., Ltd.
..
Incorporated and capitalized for $'200,000
Henry Waterhouse
~
Catered October W, JMf, m llimniulu. Hawaii, on uroml
I
rUl** mutt.r, mitlti nit <>J f'niiiiriis 111 Munli .i. 1879,
■
DRUGGISTS.
HttNRY
Rev. J. Leadingham, Managing Editor,
Dr. S. E. Bishop,
Rev. O. H. Gulick,
Rev. W. D. Wcstervelt,
Rev. O. P. Emerson,
Theodore Richards.
Arthur B. Wood
liobt. W. Shingle.
Itieliard H. Treut
All>ert Wnterhouse
,
President
V l'res. and Manager
Secretary
Treasures
Director
,
ISugar Factor*,
Real Ettate Agents, Stock
ami Bond Broken, Investment and
Inan m nrc Agent*.
BABY
Does » general Trait tad Investment Business
Acta it* guardian, administrator, trustee, Hgcnt ami
attorney,
HIY
'
isloud enough and
Correspondence solicited,
WICUMAN,
Manufacturing Optician,
lewder and Silversmith.
of Diamonds, American and Swiss
be most easily handled—if I Importer
W'.itches, Art Pottery, Cut Glass,
it is a
Honolulu
..BILHORN..
$25.00
30.00
35.00
They are in use in churches
and missions in this city
CALL A Nit SEX OWJB A T THE
JONATHAN SHAW,
Oahu College,
Established in tBsB.
J. Leapincham,
The Boaku
can
PUNAHOU PREPARATORY SCHOOL
(Samuel Pingree French, A. B, Principal.)
Offer complete
College preparatory work,
together with special
Commercial.
Music, and
Art courses.
For Catalogues, address
HONOLULU. HAWAIIAN ISLANDS.
a General Banking and Exchange
Loans made on approved security.
All business letters should be addressed and
discounted. Commercial Credits grant! cd. Deposits received on current account suball M. U.s and checks shoud be made out to
j ject to check.
THEOOOftI RICHARDS,
Regular Savings Bank Department mainButintu M'liiiiijir 11/ The Friend.
tained in Bank Building on Merchant Street,
Box
O.
and
Insurance Department, doing a Life, Fire
P.
480.
and Marine business on most favorable terms,
in Friend Building on Bethel Street.
All communications of a literary character
should be addressed to
|_|< H. 1.1 STKK DRUG CO.,
desirable lots of-
to building require-
BANKERS
Transact
fered for sale on the easiest terms: one-third
ca-.li, one-third in one year, one-third in two
years. Interest at 6 per cent.
For information
T.
COMPANY,
i Business.
Bills
Supplied with Artesian Water and
Kapid Transit
The cheapest and
QISHOP &
Is published the first week of each month !
in Honolulu,
The magnificent residence tract of
the Oahu College.
COOL CLIMATE, SPLENDID VIEW
friend,I *-'
Ii
The
HAWAIIAN BOARD ROOMS
BOSTON BU LDiNG
C
I M. WHITNEY, M.D..D. D. S.
DENTAL ROOMS,
Real Estate Agent, Notary Public and Agent
to Grant Marriage Licenses.
Fort Street.
Boston Building.
Room 401 Boston Building.
...
Leather Goods, Etc.
Hawaiian Islands.
-
�">ASTLE & COOKE, Ltd.,
>
Honolulu, H. I.
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
SUGAR FACTORS.
Agents for
The Ewa Plantation Co.,
The Waialua Agricultural Co., Ltd.,
The Kohala Sugar Co.,
The Waimea Sugar Mill Co.,
The Apokaa Sugar Co., Ltd.,
The Fulton Iron Works, St. Louis, Mo.,
The Standard Oil Co.,
Geo. R Blake Steam Pumps,
Weston's Centrifugals,
New England Mutual Life Ins. Co., Boston,
Aetna Fire Insurance Co., Hartford, Conn.,
Alliance Assurance Co., of London.
�The Friend
HONOLULU, T. H., MARCH, 190*
VOL. LXI
EDITORIAL AND GENERAL
Watch for sonic changes
FKIKND next month.
in
Till
of The Friend beF. W. Damon lias been
lost sight of. If anyone knows of its
whereabout! he will confer a favor l>v
returning it to Mrs. Damon.
A lioiind
longing
volume
to Mr.
our front cover for this month,
we present the picture of the new president of the Hawaiian Hoard, lion.
Henry Waterhouse, who was elected to
that office at the last meeting. Mr.
Waterhouse has served the Hoard for a
long time as its vice-president as well as
lie, therefore,
on its committees.
knows its objects and its needs and is
able to give it much valuable aid and
( )n
counsel. Mr. Waterhouse comes to the
office at a critical tune, when much wisdom and thought are needed in launching the Hoard upon the career that is
now opening to it. We wish him the
largest success and the heartiest co-operation of all his colleagues.
At the Board's last meeting Mr. W.
\V> Hall was elected to the office of
vice-president. Mr. Hall has also been
a long-time member of the Hoard, serving for many years as its treasurer and
agent of the American Board, previous
to the election of Mr. Richards, who was
appointed on Mr. Hall's resignation.
.
With this number, THE FUEND completes its first year under its present
management. For the managing editor,
at least, it has been a year of new experiences which on the whole have been
very enjoyable. His fellow-editors and
people generally who have been called
upon for help, have given prompt and
valuable assistance. The paper has met
with a gratifying degree of success. Its
list of paid subscriptions has increased
by about eighty per cent.
With the April number we hope to,
change its appearance externally as well
as to alter somewhat the arrangement
of .the inside matter. We have learned
some things from the first year's experience and hope to show improvement as
time goes on.
m
L
The indications at the
present time seem to be
that the question of the
regulation of the liquor traffic in these
Islands, will be a prominent one before
the Legislature which is now in session.
It is understood that the liquor-sellers
have their plans arranged, while the
temperance people are also getting ready
for the action they intend to favor. It
is perhaps impossible for either side to
say anything new in the matter, and for
that reason there is danger that the at
tention of people and legislators alike
may become engrossed in watching the
tactics employed, or in discussion of the
methods contended for, while the real
and vital issue is lost sight of. This issue does not lie in the comparative ad-,
vantage of one method of regulation
over another, but in the nature of the
business itself. The point that should
be made clear and emphatic throughout
the whole discussion is that the traffic
in intoxicating drink is in its essence
and effects, destructive of all good.
It gives nothing of value in return for
value received. Poverty, suffering, vice
and crime, follow in its train. Tt works
always and every where toward the demoralization of good order and character. Tt is on these grounds, therefore,
bat the linuor business should be ar-"irrucd. and from this point of view all
'■ffort for regulation should proceed.
The aim in legislation as in agitation,
should not be to please one side or the
other, but to strike the most damaging
blow at the evils of the business.
Liquor Legislation
•
No. i
pectable and free from the presence of
saloons. Changed about, the situation
would be that temperance would have
.the field, and the burden of petitioning
for a vote on the question would rest
on those who wish to drink. Local option in this form would have decided
advantages over that in which it is commonly presented.
It would probably
considerably increase the number of protected districts while it would also tend
to relieve local option of one of the delusive features that now adheres to it.
This feature betrays itself in the argument that local option is the method of
fairness. It is true that it carries with it
a superficial look of liberality and
equity.. Hut if we stop to look beneath
the surface we shall sec that this is
only sophistry of the shallowest kind.
Neither local option nor any other
method that allows the business to exist is fair to the man who is losing his
reputation, character and property
through a drunken habit. It is not fair
to his wife and children and friends,
who suffer in consequence of his poverty and disgrace, or, perhaps from his
violence: It is not fair to the virtue and
innocence of youth that wither under
the blasting influence of an environment of debauchery. The idea of fairness rests upon the false assumption
that men who follow the liquor-selling
business have the same right to shape
the life of a community as those who
wish to earn an honest living free from
their influence, and to bring up the'r
children to lives of virtue and usefulness and to see prosperity and happiness
abound among their fellow men. A
business that is built up on the ruins of
human character and human souls can
claim for itself no equality of rights.
While, therefore, local option may be
the best measure that can be advocated
under the present circumstances, let it bt
the kind that puts temperance in the
field and requires those who wish to
drink to petition for the option. In any
case, let- not temperance people commit
themselves to local option in any form
that would hinder the work of temper
ance agitation and temperance endeavc
I from going right on in the most aggrcv
! sive way to something more effective.
While our mental attitude may be such as that
indicated in the forego; ng paragraph, it must be expressed in
some form of effort toward restriction.
Local option seems to be the form that
the temperance people will attempt to
carry through at this time. As a main
issue, this is, perhaps, the best that can
be done, but it is worth while to ask,
"from whose initiative shall the question
be submitted?" We have lately received
what seems to us to be a valuable suggestion, to the effect that the question
should be submitted to vote on the request of those who favor saloons and
drinking, instead of those who arc
against these things. As local option is The High Sheriff's Tn the Advertiser of
February 19th, is given
commonly understood, the liquor busiReport
an abridgement of the
ness has the field, and temperance people
ask the privilege of submitting to vote report of the High Sheriff to the Attorthe question whether the community in ney-General. It is stated therein that
which they live can be decent and res- "police work has increased and the prosLocal Option
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pects are that it will continue to increase ;" also, "that" present appropriation! are insufficieiM to carry on police
work to the best possible advantage."
The reasons for this increase of police
work are not mentioned, but that such 1
condition should arise is only what
might be expected, and what thoughtful
people probably have expected, ever
since the unprecedented expansion of
liquor selling was permitted. No other
condition of things was possible.
Farther.on in the report the High
Sheriff is quoted as saving, "I would
also recommend licensing the sale of
beer upon payment of a license fee of
$250 for each such license. Would also
recommend that the present law licensing sale of wine, beer and ale be
amended by striking out clause that 'no
such license shall be granted .within two
miles of a place where vending of spirit
nous Honors at retail is carried on.'
Also strike out clause requiring licensee
to stop business at 8 o'clock p. m. Time
of closing should be extended to 1 1 130
p. m."
It is difficult to tell whether the relation of these two extracts is logical or
illogical. At first thought it strikes one
as highly inconsistent to say that police
work is likely to increase, and to suggest increased appropriations to carry
it on, and then to recommend such an increase of the scope, both in space and
-
time of the forces that are most potent
in Droducing disorder.
On the other hand, when we take
into account the increased amount of
crime and disorder that is certain to
follow, sooner or later, from such an
extension of privilege to the sellers of
the lighter intoxicants, to recommend
increased appropriations for police expenses might appear as a measure of
prudent foresight.
Now. we do not profess to know the
motives of the High Sheriff in making
these recommendations, and so make no
charges nor insinuations. The facts are
to be deplored.
The fact that such
places as those recommended should
exist with the consent and approval of
the highest police officer in the land
could not be without its effect on the
police force. If they are looked upon
as agencies for neutralizing the evils of
the saloons which sell the stronger
drinks, (and presumably this would be
the High Sheriff's argument) the only
logical way to treat them would be to
allow them full swing, else they would
fail of their object: and having full
swing, it would only be a short time, if
it did not begin from the start, when
those who frequented them would thirst
for something stronger and these saloons
would become the feeders of the saloons
which retail spirituous liquors, instead
of drawing away from them. This, at wise and honest administration. Nor
least, has been the history of the drink- does blind adhesion to any party organnig habit from time immemorial.
ization have any connection with true
the tendency of moderate drinking patriotism.
lias always been to become immoderate,
The true patriot desires to develop and
and there is no reason to believe that it uplift Hawaii into all that is most desirTestimony able and honorable. He wants our matewill ever be otherwise.
shows that this has already been the rial prosperity to abound, and to be duly
tendency of the use of the lighter shared by all classes. J'.ut much more
liquors in these Islands. In the list of he wants our social life to be clean and
questions sent out by the Agitation pure, vice and disorder to be repressed,
Conunitee of the Ami-Saloon League high and worthy living to advance and
last summer, the answers to which were increase, education and general intellipublished in the September Friend, one gence to stand high, the people of all
was, whether the use of the lighter classes to be orderly, prudent and indusIrinks had increased or diminished the trious, and their habit of life to keep
use of the stronger liquors?, ()f the posi- tending upward toward what men can
tive replies given, thirty stated that :'. honor, and God will approve.
had diminished the use, while fifty-two
For several generations Hawaii has
stated that the use of the stronger been steadily and rapidly growing out of
'iquors bad been increased thereby. All darkness and barbarism into light and
history and experience is against the virtuouseivilization. A marked and pecuclaim that indulgence in the lighter liar course of Divine I'rovidences has atliquors will serve as a check against the tended and furthered this remarkable
movement, which has already resulted in
use of the stronger liquors,
( )n
another page are given some ex- placing upon the full political level of
tracts from an article showing the evils American citizenship a race of men
which arise when the police force of a whoseancesters, some of them still living,
:it\ has been corrupted by the saloon were degraded serfs. And these native
nower. It is a danger against which llawaiians are distinguished by being
the people of these Islands may well be the only colored tribe on the globe who
-in their guard. The conditions are pehave attained "to such a political distincculiarly favorable to such corruption and tion. The upward progress of Hawaii
i lax state of public sentiment in regard through much effort and many struggles
to the situation would be sure to bring has been a marvel of Divine favor. 'Tt
it about. We would suggest that the becomes every citizen of Hawaii to re\nti-Saloon League can render no bet- cognize these facts, and to exercise the
ter public service at the present time enthusiastic purpose to continue and in�ban to invite opinions and information crease this upward movement. Let it be
from all pnrts of the groun as to the the earnest aim and effort of cvcrv patriInfluence of the saloon on the effective- otic citizen and legislator to promote and
less of the police system.
ndvance whatever makes for the DUritv,
�ho honor, the well-being of society in
Hawaii, whether among natives, whites
PATRIOTISM FOR HAWAII
->r Asiatics. This is not Puritanism, nor
fanaticism, if it is what dirty politicians
A general and vigorous exercise of ■ neT nt ns "Sundav-scbool nolitics." Tt
'latriotism by its people is essential to U �!,(> true pud p-emiine Patriotism, as
�he nrospen'tv of any country. Hawaii •veil as the best political wisdom.
needs and deserves more and better patfl. E. B.
riotism in its citizens. Put it
01
must
be
enlightened as well as eartiest love
if our little country. Tt should take the
form of a atronc nurpnsc to labor for the
''isdiest and nohWt welfare of the whole
•ountrv and of all classes of its neoplc.
The true Hawaiian patriot is the one
•vho strives to make Hawaii as worthy,
ts pure, as noble, and as prosperous as
: s nossible.
Tt is not patriotism to seek to "Americanize" Hawaii, save as such introduc'ion of such political and business practices contributes to elevate our Hawaiian
onimunitv morally. socially, and economically. \or is it patriotism to raise the
-rv of "Hawaii for the Hawaiians," un'ess it is clear that an increased occupancy of tiublic offices by native Hawaiians is the best way to promote gixjd,
SOME TRAITS
OF THE OLD
HAWAIIANS
The Hawaiian of half a century ago
was a" imnrovidcnt being. His taronatch afforded a perennial supply of that
•überous root which has proved itself
all comers the most satisfactory.healthand hunger-satisfying vegetable
dr't mother earth has vet produced.
Should taro fail, as it seldom did. there
was the banana, the most healthful and
:ntisfnctorv fruit known to man. Wild
'"asanas and plantains of several varieties abounded in the sheltered valleys
■>nd beside the mountain stream, in a
'and tmassailed by the destructive cattle
fo
•nving
later brought to the islands by the white
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man. Thetl in times of famine, when
perhaps a long period of drought had
dried Up the stream needed to maintain
the growth of his taro patch and the
vigor of bis clump of banana trees, recourse could be had to the wild sugar
cane of the valley; or, when other resource failed, the under-grow th of the
mountain forest afforded fern root and
the sweet root of the ki plant. While
times of famine were not unknown, it is
doubtful if able-bodied men or women
ever perished of starvation.
Hawaii was a land of well-fed, stalwart men and women, for size and agility unequalled by any race on island or
continent. While improvident, the native Hawaiian was the most generous
and hospitable of human beings. The
stranger passing by was always hailed
and bidden to come in and partake of
what the house afforded, which meant a
good feed of fish and poi. < )r if, in a
stormy time, fish was scarce, the householder would apologetically say, we have
poi but no fish. At such times of destitution, the hungry traveler might eat his
fill of poi seasoned with grains of coarse
salt.
■ilinent of the promise, "The liberal soul view with a member of the New York
sliall be made tat; and he that watered! police force. For very obvious reasons
shall be watered also himself." This [his man withholds his name,but his staterichness of life and spirit, the white set- ments are of the deepest interest as givtler has inherited or imbibed from his ing an inside view of a situation in
dusky brother. For the past thirty years winch the power to which a great city
(he tearful inroads of leprosy and the looks for protection and good order, isdread of this scourge of humanity, has corrupted by the liquor power and its
oarred the white man from accepting as cognate vices. It exposes a situation
freely as before the open-handed hos- winch is always possible and nearly Inpitality of the native Hawaiian, and so evitable, in greater or less degree, wherdie later coining foreigner has known ever the liquor power exists. The artinot to say alarmhut little of the old time Hawaiian hos- cle is also interesting,
on the judgthe
affect
in
showing
ing
pitality. °
The docility and tractability of the na- ments and ethics of the man thus brought
tive Hawaiian! were among their strik- under the influence and temptations of
The missionaries, such a system. We regret that we have
ing characteristics.
but
when once they were fully received, not space for the whole interview,
some extracts showing the
give
chiefs,
we
the
by
higher
and
loved
trusted
found a people ready to receive them as methods of securing a place on the police
and the methods of
angels from heaven, with a trustfulness force of New York,
the
procedure
after
place is obtained.
and devotion touching and beautiful in
to furnish some deep
are
sufficient
These
transparency.
and
childlike
its simplicity
Literally and metaphorically, the Ha- suggestions to any thoughtful person.
waiian as an individual and as a people,
When I got to be twenty-one years of age I
sat at the feet of the missionary.
10 net mi the police force, and a politried
on
the
opposition
Despite the violent
tician told me that he would put me on for
part of the missionary bating portion of $300, 1 had been working as 1 clerk for a
a
the foreigners, great and wonderful things junk man in Pearl Streetto and had saved
pay $300. I gave
and T agreed
were wrought by and for this then mild- little moneypolitician
in tlie hack rpotn of a
to the
mannered and child-like and so lately itsaloon
on William Street and he counted the
leathen people. The peaceful changes money anil said that he would see me through
were so great and acknowledged to be He told the proprietor of the place to inclose
in his
so real, and thorough, that Hawaii was the money in an envelope, and put it
which
was
done.
safe,
the
the first, and for about fifty years
"lis all right." said the politician to me.
inly once heathen people in the nine- "You'll he appointed."
teenth century whose autonomy and
I made my application anil waited three
independence were fully acknowledged months, hut was turned down. So I went to
the politician, and asked him what was the
by the great nations of Europe and Am- reason,
lie told me that the saloonkeeper had
erica.
kept the money, declaring that he never had
The decisions of her Court of Admir- seen it And tliat was the fact: when I went
alty were accepted by all the maritime to the saloonkeeper he said that he had never
powers. .For about forty years Japan seen a cent of my money. We could not make
complaint about it. Sc he won that
an
was knocking at the Courts of Christen- lime.open
Imt he had no luck afterward, being ofdom praying for such a revision of her ten arrested for keeping open after hours and
treaties as should acknowledge the full on Sundays, and once-being nearly clubbed
autonomy of her government, abolish to death !>v unknownmeparties.
that I would have to
The politician told
the Consular Courts, and permit her to raise
$1,00 more, and so I went back to clerkover
all
foreigners
dominion
exercise full
ing till the beginning of 1808 when I was
for another attempt to get on the force.
on her shores. And during all these ready
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years little Hawaii as a result of her
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If a policeman disturbs "good people who
teachable spirit, and of following entribute" the district leader comlightened missionary guidance, was en- are paving
to the captain of the precinct, and if he
plains
joying full autonomy, acknowledged by ,I,h-s not mend matters a complaint of the capall the great Christian powers, and tain is made to the commissioner. But this
The patrolman who insisted
bad secured such a recognition of her seldom happens.
mii enforcing all the laws would he an idiot.
has
not
even
tosovereign statehood as
He would not last a month, and would he
day,, been accorded to Turkey or Perout a broken and disgraced man. His
thrown
sia. "Blessed are the meek for they officers and comrades would see to that.
There isn't any reason why a patrolman
sliall inherit the earth."
enforce the fool laws about gambling
G.
should
0. H.
,iu(l excise. They're against nature, and he
The hospitality of the native Hawaiian was abounding. The best that he had
was never grudged to the visitor. The
one fat hen, the petted sucking Dig, were
quickly dressed, cooked and offered to
the honored guest. The story of father
Abraham, who called in the passing
Stran per S, and said to Sarah "mike read'
quickly three measures of fine meal,
knead it and make cakes upon the
hearth," and then himself ran unto the
herd, and fetched a calf tender and good
and gave it to a young man who hastened to dress it, and to set it with butter and milk before his hungry guests,
lias been re-enacted a thousand times in
a thousand thatched Hawaiian homes in
all our islands.
Every relative in time of his need was
welcomed as a rule to the bountiful supply that his well-to-do friend's house afforded. Those out of work and out of
food had but to go to the bouse of the
well-to-do relative, and meet a hearty
welcome as long as the supply of poi
lasted. This trait of abounding hospitality I believe has had it healthful effect
Upon every foreigner who has lived even
for a few years upon these islands. Openhanded hospitality is catching, and none
could live on terms of intimacy with the
Hawaiian and not receive some effect
from his generosity' of heart and band.
knows it. and has no sympathy with them.
The white people going from these isl- "FROM
POINT How far this bu-incss of protecting people
POLICEMAN'S
THE
who violate law goes I don't know. It used to
ands during the past fifty years to CaliOF VIEW"
include pickpockets, tin horn gamblers with
fornia, have always met with a most corbrace games, bunco men, green goods anjl
dial welcome in that Eldorado, as a conknock-out-drops operators, and burglars—pretBy a New York Patrolman
sequence of the reputation that they
ty nearly all sorts of regular operators. It
bore for hospitality in their own island
isn't anything like as complete now as it used
Under the above title, The Indepen- to be. Still there are pickpockets now operathomes. The Hawaiians, regardless of
color, have received in California the ful-. dent of January 15th, publishes an inter- ing about the Bridge, and how could they do
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it unless the police were fixed?
As 1 went around with the experienced policeman during my probation he taught me all
the ropes." and explained thai the greatest
danger for a young man was from the temptation to arrest people Who were "putting up."
"If you do that," be said, "the sergeant will
work you forty-eight hours at a stretch, and
finally break you."
It didn't take me long to find out that the
sergeant could keep me on the go till I dropped if it suited him. That was when I went
on regular duty at the end of a month. I arrested a saloonkeeper who forgot me, but who
had put up for the wardman and the inspector's
man. I got a hint to leave the man alone after
that, but I wanted to make him understand
that I had something to say as well as the
big fellows. I took him in again for violating
the Sunday law- He was discharged. Soon
after that I came off duty and went on reserve,
I went upstairs to the dormitory to sleep, having been on patrol for sixteen hours. I had
not been in bed ten minutes when the sergeant
called me down to the desk, and sent me out
to see about some hoys annoying householders
ten blocks away. It was a fake report. When
I came back he sent me out to a fire, and after
that he found another special call to keep rue
busy till I had to go on patrol again. There
are plenty of these special calls at a busy
station house, and the sergeant can always
make some if he wants them. I square/1 matters by apologizing to the saloonkeeper.
Before I got on the force I bad heard that
policemen made a deal of money in addition
to their salaries, and after I trot fairly to
work I found that I was in it.
In some of the nrecincts where there s
plenty of "graft." the man who is violatinc
the law pays the patrolman for closing his
eyes, the captain for not breaking the patrojman. and the inspector for not breaking the
captain. These are separate amounts. Say
the patrolman gets $<; a month, the captain and
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in*nector would get $20 each.
The most I ever made on any post was
$150 a month. That was downtown in Manhattan on a beat that was about a mile and
a half long. Every saloonkeeper on my post
used to put tin $5 a month for me and my partner in addition to the money given to the
captain's agent—the inspector had no one
collecting. There were twenty-five of thes.e
saloons and five gambling places, three of
which gave me $io a month, while two paid
$5. From the women I and my nartner. who
patrolled the beat when I was off. cot a total
of about $75 a month. Of course, there were
many who tried to do business without paving,
but they soon found themselves in a hole because we enforced the law against them. Some
patrolmen have made a* high as $2so a month.
Beside the presents of money which naturally make policemen feel kindly disposed toward
everywhere
the givers there is free liquor. It istrips
a good
offered to the policemen, and it
many of them up. The fool law is also responsible for this, because if it wasn't a fool
law it would not have to be violated, and then
the liquor dealers would not have to make
themselves solid with us.
little
After a man has been on the force a "putare
while he knows all the people who
ting up." and grows to be very friendly with
beat
them. There are twenty places on mydrink,
where I can tap at a side door and get a
and there are nearly as many where I can go
some one
in a back room and sleep while
watches to give me warning if the roundsman
comes in sight. So the temptation to take
and
it easy and have a good time is very great,
on bad nights the policeman need not patrol
his post unless he wants to.
If a policeman is anything of a good fellow
he will prefer to favor his friends rather than
is any trouble be- has heard his minister preach for five years
gambler and some without once letting him know that he has re
ordinary ciuzen he inclines to decide against ecivcd a particle of comfort, uplift, or light,
from any of his sermons, it would be hazardthe ordinary citizen, that's the way that acetic sijtuctmies gel the idea that policemen ac ous for such a man to attempt much at first.
Ml thai could reasonably be expected the first
cept money for protecting robbers.
New York policemen are just as honest as rear is some very slight manifestation of
any other set of men, and this system yf Christian life.—just enough to let the minister
bribery is not their fault. It is the fault of know that the man is not a deaf unite. This
the fool laws made for the benefit of old wo- duty of bracing men for arduous tasks by
men who don't understand human nature. The cheering and fraternal words is no tritle. There
laws pretend to try to abolish gambling and is no surer way of increasing the' Dower of
strangers, so when there
tween a liquor dealer or
disorderly houses and to close drinking places the pulpit than by enlarging the heart of the
on the only weekly holiday. That is all hypOCi preacher by drenching him in great Hoods ot
risy. Men always will gamble and drink. In affection and goodwill. If a man become*
the great cities of Europe there is a license spoiled by being loved, there is nothing lost,
system. If that were in force here it would is the man at the start was worthless.
A man who speaks of "our" church with
put a stop to police bribery.
pride, and of "our" minister with affection,
has a right to offer suggestions and to disap"IF
A LAYMAN"
prove. But if I were a layman. I should .not
disapprove of tVtry new enterprise suggested
By
by the pastor, nor should I find fault with him
Minlster.
if he occasionally said something in the pulpit to which I could not say "Amen." A minTwo months ago, we printed an arti- ister must have his own viewpoint, and take
cle from the Sunday School Times, on his own altitude. He must do his own thinkthe subject. "If I Were a Minister." The ing, and must lead his people as he feels himLord. I should therefore
article was written by a layman. The self directed by the
my tongue off him if he did not echo in
following article, taken from the same keep
every sermon my own opinions and convic
paper, gives the other side, jfnd seems to 'ions. I should endeavor to hear in mind that
us to be as full of excellent auggeatkma I was only one in a large company of people.
as the former one. The editor of the and that a minister who always thought as T
Sunday School Times states that it is did would be sure to be ruffling up .the spirits
of a large number of his bearers who have
written by one of the most prominent as much right to bear (heir ideas promulgated
ministers in America:
from the pulnit as I have to bear mine. A
perfection when he
If I were a layman. I should get as close layman is well on towards
to the minister as he would let me come. If realizes that he is only "one." .Whenever the
it be true, as the New Testament declares, that minister made statements which struck me &i
we are all priests unto Cod. then the minister incorrect or misleading, instead of exploding
is only one among many brethren, chosen hg like a Mt. Telee. 1 should quietly re-examine
his fellow-Christians to teach and lead, but my own conclusions, and remind myself that I
in no sense standing in a class apart. And differed from the minister as widely as he difwhy. then, should there be an awful gulf be- fered from me. And. if he was broad enough
tween lift and the other members of the to tolerate me in the church notwithstanding
I WERE
a
-
househohPTif faith? I should bridge the gulf. my divergent opinions. I should do my best
and show myself a sympathetic and co-operat to be broad enough to live in pace with him,
1 should do this for the minis- in spite of his inability to square his ideas
ing brother.
ter's sake, and for my own. We could build with mine. So long as a minister preaches
each other up. Poor man!
The preacher his truth "in love." why should not a layman
needs to be built up like other mortals—and hear it "in love"?
And if at any time 1 bad a word of critiwho will build him if laymen do not do if?
He needs companionship,—Jesus did. Our cism which must be delivered. I should never
Lord fell back, in the crises of his life, upon speak it on the Lord's Day. After a preacher
He has gotten through bis sermon, his nerves arc
the twelve men who were nearest him.
shrank with horror from the thought of being abnormally alive. The man who approaches
left alone. "Could ye not watch with me one him while in this state of excitation for the
hour?" is a question full of heart-break. Thj purpose of criticism or controversy is sure to
modern servant is not above his Master, nor hurt him. Nor should I hurry toward the
the twentieth-century disciple above bis Lord. pulpit as soon as the benediction is pronounced
A minister needs encouragement, and it is with some matter of personal or ecclesiastical
the duty of laymen to give it. He needs i£, business related in no way to the sermon. The
not because he is a bahy. but because he is a ernion always makes a deep impression on at
man. A man. to succeed as a preacher, must least one man.—the preacher. Into it he has
have a stout heart and a buoyant spirit. F.very poured his blood, and in the preaching of ]f.
kind look reassures him. and every hearty he has given his life. He lias preached it that
He needs encourageami a great deal of it. The world constantly stabs him, or ignores him. and his
brethren must show themselves friendly. Some
hand-clasp braces him.
ment,
churches are dumb. Some Christians cannot
say "I praise you" without having the words
stick in their throat. Many a clergyman lias
been killed simply by lack of encouragement.
It is the finest and truest men to whom such
neglect is fatal. The temperament essential to
effective preaching is affectionate and sensitive. It withers and dies in an atmosphere
chilled by silence. If I were a layman, I should
at least once a year speak to the pastor some
one approving sentence. I put the figure low,
knowing that great enterprises must he undertaken by slow and gradual approaches.
Sudden shocks are to be avoided. If a man
it might impress the hearts of those who beard
it. and mold their after lives. If then, at the
conclusion of the sermon, a man conies forward with not a trace of the sermon clinging to him. and begins to converse enthusiastically about some matter which has not been
once in the preacher's mind, it looks as though
the sermon has made on at least one heart
no perceptible impression. Such a man has
a millstone for a heart, and the discouraged
preacher is apt to wish be had another millstone around his' neck.
And if I were a layman I should behave it
home as well as in church. I should never
in the presence of my children, either at the
dinner-table or anywhere else, speak of the
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REV. W. D WESTERVELT
The saloon is not a modem institution and its character has not changed.
I he table on which the purchased wine
was drunk was also the table over which
the dice were shaken. The drunkard
murdered bis friends in drunken brawls,
brutally beat bis wife and impoverished
bis children, two or three thousand years
ago just as be does today.
Apparently there was not so much opposition to saloons then as at the present
time. Nor were there very many legal
restrictions. Evidently the world is
growing better, as far as the place held
by saloons in the eye of the public is
concerned. Just bow much the Hawaiians as a whole were made drunkards
in the days of Kamehameba 1., 1 do not
know. Certainly the drunken whites
taught the method of rude distillation
through a gun barrel. Quantities of nun
were shipped in and the King himself
was often the worse for liquor, until be
society
made himself into a temperance
and decided that be. rather than rum,
should rule. In the days of Kamehameba 111., the Hawaiian! were called a nation of drunkards and the King uttered
bis temperance proverb worthy to be
placed beside the national motto which
adorns Hawaiian silver coins. It was
during contemplation of civic problems
that he said "Debt is a moth and rum a
poison god." Then for a long time the
use of intoxicants was checked. A resident of the islands told me how his
brother was arrested and fined once for
furnishing a bottle of liquor to one of the
young princes.
I think it is true that the last great impetus to drunkenness in these islands was
by
given in the days of Kalakaua, and
be absoThe King himself. It may not
lutely true that the present increase ot
saloons has increased the amount of
drunkenness. It may be that the drunkenness was here and that the licensed
saloons are simply the legal recognition
of the fact that there are many drunkards in Hawaii.
Nevertheless we must acknowledge
that annexation has brought a deluge of
saloons. The present condition of the
liquor question in these islands is bad
enough with a prospect of being much
worse in the near future. Already the
saloon interests are looking up available
sites in residence districts on which they
confidently- expect the coming legislature to allow them to plant saloons. The
liquor interests are even now acting as
if they were certain of the position which
will be taken by a majority of the mem-
bers of the Legislature. There is not a
hint so far as I know, in business circles
of removing a single saloon from the
present down town limits. The plan is
rather to locate many new saloons in the
outskirts of the city and throughout the
residence and country districts.
During 1902, there were taxed by the
United States lnter-revenue officials; in
the Hawaiian Islands 455 places where
intoxicating liquors were sold. This is
an increase in six years of from 23 to
about 455 recorded saloons. Probably
there are few stores where liquor is sold
unlawfully, as far as the territory is concerned, which have not come under the
eve of the officials of Uncle Sam.
The method of procedure is simple and
yet effective,e.g. blank and Co. are large
liquor dealers. They ship to all parts of
the islands all kinds of intoxicants including that distinctive preparation called "Sand paper gin." The internal revenue officers say to Blank and Co., "Let
us see your shipping lists." Blank and
Co. are learning that they cannot play
with United States officials, so the books
are opened ; the revenue officers make -1
list of the small stores on Kauai or Hawaii, in which be finds something of interest. He makes a tour of Kauai and
collects revenue all along the way. In
a little while nearly 500 tax certificates
are issued, certifying that these stores
have paid Uncle Sam's charges, and yet
a new field of activity probably awaits
the revenue officers.
This comes on good Japanese authority. On the plantations all over the islands, there are among the Japanese,
many small saloons. They are conducted
as follows, so says my Japanese informPerhaps'twenty or twenty-five
ant.
Japanese form a club, and hire some one
to cook for it. That one keeps on hand a
store of canned and bottled goods, and
also a few bottles of beer and cases of
take and sometimes something stronger.
( )ne of the"lvii" comes in to the common room with a friend or two. They
call for coffee and then take or beer
paving the cook his or her price for the
same—and thus, as my Japanese friend
,
—
expressed it, "There follow much gambling and many vices and crimes."
Again and again have I asked natives
to show me that "maikai" "good" of
the saloon business. The invariable answer is, "There is no maikai." except the
"oluolu o ke kino," "The pleasure or
lust of the flesh."
We face the contined enormous increase of licensed destructive business.
What is the other side? The working out of natural laws is always encouraging. Productive business has increased apparently in far greater ratio than
the use of intoxicants. Cultivated land
chokes out weeds. Education along
physiological lines is doing great good.
Productive business is fighting shy of
managers and responsible workmen who
are addicted to the use of intoxicating
liquors. A strong and true morality,
learned only by those who sit at the feet
of the Lord Jesus Christ, is having a
mighty hold on the desires and passions.
There is no more powerful check on the
use of intoxicants than an earnest
Christian life. Hut involved in Christianity are the humanitarian methods to be
used in checking, as far as possible, the
evils whkh the Arabs say are a drove of
black camels kneeling at the doors of
their tents.
The W. C. T. U. has held the fort
alone for a number of years. Tt is a
wonder that so small a band of women
should fiave been able to do so much for
The more recent organization, The
Anti-Saloon League, has also come to
stay. However in all the islands there
is now no person paid for the one purpose of devoting time and thought continually toward meeting the problems of
the liquor question. The work must be
done by self-sacrificing effort through
various committees in these two organizations, supplemented, it is hoped, by a
large numbers of individuals outside.
A determined effort must be made by
all interested toward securing fair play
on the part of members of the leeislature.
The local option idea is thoroughly fair.
It places the responsibility of saloons or
no saloons upon the majority of the
voters of any precinct or district or municipality. If the majority want saloons
the minority ought to acquiesce and
make a better fight next time or move
away. If the majority wants no saloont,
it is perfectly fair that the saloon keepers
sliall give up until they can rally sufficient forces to make a new battle at the
polls, or move away.
Plead the argument of fair play in
your talks with members of the legislature. The hot fight of the temperance
people will be on local option. Local
option must not be asked as a favor to
the churches or to the Anti-Saloon
League or to Temperance workers. It
must not be a favor to anybody. The
demand for local option must be on the
ground of fair play to the majority of
voters. It is self-evident that if the
members of the legislature intend to be
fair in dealing with cither liquor men or
temperance men they must enact a law
which places ffie right Jo have saloons or
no saloons in the hands of a majority of
the voters and thus give both sides fair
play at the polls without fear or favor.
�THE FRIEND
8
His professed followers stand uncompromisingly for this, are they recognized as such by the world. "By this,"
said the Master, "shall all men know."
He saves His people from all their sins
THE ONE TEMPTATION
i, by saving them from this one generic,
There is no "room for chaff in a all-inclusive sin of putting this, that or
measure that is already as full as it can the other thing or things before love.
hold of wheat. It is very much so with No, not business for business' sake, or
a heart that is as full as it can hold of money for moneys sake, art for art's
love. Such a heart is like an inn filled sake, learning for learning's sake, or
full from top to bottom with congenial dominion for dominion's sake; but busiand happy guests. Envy, hate, malice, ness, riches, art, education, power or
jealousy, revenge, worldly ambition, position—yes, the more of them the betcome along and apply for accommoda- ter, so they are gained, held and used as
tions. "Give us any kind of a place," they ministering handmaids of grateful, resurge, "only let us in." "Not a room to ponsive, out-going and out-giving love.
Heaven is as full of love as it can
spare," is the prompt refusal. They are
not allowed to register, even.
hold. We are here a good way from
How about anger? Anger may come that, as yet. Put we are coming to it,
in and stay long enough to tell his story however ilowlv. We know that we shall
and cool off a little, but must leave be- come to it wholly, one of these days, and
fore sundown. On no account can he that our Lord's prayer and our. His
be allowed a night's lodging. This sug- people's, prayer, will stirclv be fulfilled.
gests a tear-starting question, however: "On earth as it is in Heaven."
"Is there in the wide world, a city, town, j
Professor Addison Ballard.
neighborhood, family. or even one single
In the .Vctc York Observer.
heart th?t is as full as it can hold of
MISSIONARY ITEMS
love? Yet it is precisely for this that
Christ and His church stand.
Christians have, comprehensively, but i Rev. Ph. A. Delaporte writes to Rev.
one temptation to resist and overcome. ( ). 11. C.ulick from Jaluit, Marshall IslJesus had but one, the temptation to put ands Dec. 20th, 1903, while on their rej,
some other thing or things before love. turn passage from Kusaie to Nauru.
"See," says satan, "what a noise you
Kusaie last Monday. Dec. 15th. on
will make in the world if by a word you theWe5\ left
S. Oceana, and hope to reach Nauru
bread;
stones
a
turn these
into
what
Dec. 24th. We have spent some very full
greater noise still if you leap from this weeks at Kusaie. weeks full of hard work.
temple top and are caught in mid-air by We received a real hearty welcome from the
there, and were entertained at
rescuing angels; and greatest of all if missionaries
first by Dr. and Mrs. Rife, and later hy Mr.
you become, what I will make you, pos- and Mrs. Cliannon and Misses Hoppin and
sessor and sole monarch of all the king- Olin. Miss Wilson was on a trip to Ponape
during our stay.
doms of the world."
I think our going to Kusaie at this time was
"No," answers Jesus: "on no such truly
ordered of the Lord. Nearly all the
showily ambitious errand have I come.
material needed for the 500 testaments and
Miracles, indeed, I shall work: miracles, 500 hymn-books which we printed, came on
too, far grer.ter than turning stones into the same steamer which took us to Kusah.
bread, or than that of being caueht and Mr. Cliannon had ordered paper, etc.. from
months ago, not knowing anyupborne by the hands of descending an- Boston some our
plans for printing. I have
thing about
of
a
mocommanding in
gels, or even
forwarded copies of our books both to you
ment of time the submissive homage of and to Dr. Bingham. We worked to the very
all the kingdoms of the earth. Hearts hour of sailing. Mr. Channon did most of the
and all of the binding. Dr. Rife kindof flint T will turn into hearts of flesh. printing
ly helped mi the printing of the gospel of MatAngels will attend Me, but it will be not, thew. I did all the proof-reading and made
as the imposing retinue of an earthly j myself generally useful. Mr. Channon workking, but only that tbev may minister to ed very bard, and most evenings we did not
before seven or eight o'clock. I
the weakness, pain and sorrow incident get through
Mrs. Delporte
somewhat tired myself.
feel
to the working out of mv consuming and myself have done much night work durpurpose of love in the world's redemp- ing the past year in order that our beloved
tion. A crown of dominion I shall wear, people may at least have a portion of the word.
You will notice that we have translated and
but of dominion exercised in furthe gospels of Matthew and John, the
therance of love's most loving behests." printed
epistle to the Galatians, I. and 11. Timothy,
of
this
prince
The ambition of the
and the three epistles of John.
world is to out-do and to out-shine; and Our hymn-book contains sixty-six hymns,
Faith, Church Covenant, and
in order to this, to out-wit and out- a Confession of Marriage
Ceremony, the Ten
maneuver, to out-fight and to out-kill. a form for the
Commandments, the Lord's Prayer. Apostles
to
The ambition of Jesus is
out-love and Creed, and some verses relating to the Lord's
to out-bless. He is the world's Saviour j Supper and Baptism.
This steamer will touch at Nauru on her
in that He stands unwaveringly, unfalteringly, and fully for this. So far as way to Hongkong Feb. 3. The Carrie and An-
The ChristianLife...
,
,
,'
Nic was expected to arrive at Kusaie from Ponape and Kuk on the day we sailed, she having left Ponapc a day ahead of the steamer.
We are taking back with us another couple
of Marshall Island scholars, who are to hehj
us.
Mrs. Delporte has been quite ill while at
Kusaie, .suffering with heart trouble, but is a
little better now. The children are both well
and enjoyed themselves very much at Kusaie.
We speak of you and our Honolulu friends
daily and we often wish that some one could
come down and see the needs of our people.
Please remember us to all our friends. [
would be glad if you would show our liooks to
those who make it possible for us to work
among the Nauru people.
Dr. Scudder writes from Kobe, Japan,
under date of February Ist, that he expects to begin operations again, that is,
to enter upon a northern tour, early next
month, visiting among other places, Niigata, whence have come a considerable
number of the emigrants to Hawaii.
Readers of The FRIEND have learned
of Dr. Seudder's plan of making the acquaintance of the relatives of those who
have gone as laborers to Hawaii, and becoming as it were a messenger from the
parents and kindred in Japan to their
loved ones now in Hawaii. Thus expecting to secure a cordial welcome and
a hearing ear from many a lonely and
sorrowing young man to whom a message of love from the far land will be as
cool water to a thirsty soul.
Dr. Scudder purposes to finish his touring in Japan and to turn bis face toward
Hawaii, by the end of April.
Miss Eliza Talcott, who for two and
a half years rendered such efficient service for the Japanese women and the
lapanese church of our city, has now
entered upon her duties as associate with
M'ss Harrows in the Women's Bible
School of Kobe, Tapan.
Under date of January 11st, she
writes from the home of Miss Barrows,
the old Citilick bouse in Kobe, as follows:
This morning, the snow is falling, and the
crass is white though the *now melts as it
touches the bare ground. Tt is cold everywhere in suite of seven coal fires that have
been kindled in the bouse besides the kitchen
fire. They dispensed with the furnace some
years ago. I believe, as too extravagant, and
the result is a cold house! With a fire in mv
grate. I am silting with a heavy shawl over
my sl,o iil (|ers! J )laVe had a little cold but n;v
health does not seem specially affected by the
sudden change of climate.
Recarding the moral atmosphere Miss
Talcott savs:
The arrest of
many Principals
of High and
Normal schools, and officers of the Educational Department, has greatly and publicly emphasized the need of a thorough moral purification of the nation. Mr. Harada (pastor of
the Kobe Japanese Congregational church)
said in his s.ermon last Sabbath, "The Emperor's Rescript is not sufficient as a moral
stimulus in our School and colleges. We need
Christ and his teachings." This would have
been considered almost treason, a little while
ago.
�9
THE FRIEND
.
OUR ISLAND HOMES
I You
this? When God wanted a love with
which to compare his own he chose the
love of parents for their children.
"As one whom his mother comforteth,
so will I comfort you, saith the Lord."
"Like as a father pitieth bis children,
SO the Lord pitieth them that fear Him."
And why? lieeause, "He knoweth our
frame he rememberetb that we are
dust." He makes excuses for us just
as father and mother do; hence
the
boundless patience pf God; like the patience of a loving mother.
Some day, if you live long enough,
you will be better able to appreciate all
this. When you have sons and daughters of your own and all the joy, pride
and anguish of parentage is a personal
experience, then, you will be able to put
yourself in mother's place. God grant
that that day may be free from bitter
memories.
Forgive us for preaching a sermon,
perhaps you dislike preaching; but this
comes from the heart. "We speak that
we do know, and testify that we have
seen," We have no individual case in
mind, this is only general; you also may
"know" and "see" if you will.
Youth is thoughtless, but remember
"Evil is wrought from want of thought
As well as from want of heart."
No, we whose hearts are ojd have not
forgotten. Youth is attractive to us;
we love, often long for, the society of
the young; we like to be included in
their pleasures; we value their little
courtesies and confidences, and are keenly sensitive to slights. It is easy to hurt
us, to make us feel in the way, or that
our expressions of affectionate regard
are a bore, and we are not dull about
these things. Do not allow yourselves
to treat either parents or elderly friends
thus thoughtlessly. You may be old
have never been old; you have
never bugged your baby, all your own,
Take for thy leader, One most meek and lowly,
to your breast with that agony of love
And lie will grant His blessing on the same.
winch only a mother knows; you have
Into tbv home His spirit shall come stealing. [never spent yourself with tireless watchHis peace shall bless, His presence comfort ling and anxiety, over the sick bed of
thee;
your child ; you have never looked forAnd. all the depths of purest love revealing,
ward to the day when all this love
Thy earthly love through Him shall perfect
and care would find its reward in resInon.yino us.
U-. "
ponsive love; you have never felt the
pride she feels in your triumphs, tlie
OLD"
"WHEN THE HEART IS
sorrow she suffers in your pain. It is
impossible, you (imply cannot put your"the
Last month we talked about
self in her place. Indeed, when you
to
try
we
will
child,"
of
a
today
heart
think, well over the whole subject it
prove the truth of the old adage, "It almost seems
as if you were the "queer
is a poor rule that will not work bot'.i
cranky" one.
and
ways."
Some of you are a long way from
It is the fashion to talk and write
much of the duty of parents to children, home, you have gone off to seek your
and a very good fashion it is, we par- fortunes; we wish you the best kind of
But you cannot afford to be
ents can hardly be over instructed, we success.
thoughtless
in your treatment of the old
all,
is
our
responsibineed it
so mighty
lity. Infinite patience and gentleness hearts left behind in the old homestead.
must the real mother have, but let us How they watch for your letters; when
remind the children that all the love and one mail fails to bring news of you tbev
tenderness, all the unselfish considera- say, "surely it will come the next time,"
tion should not be confined to the par- and they watch and wait with trembling
They have always accepted
ents. The children have their part to patience.
play in order to make the home what the anxieties of their office as a matter
of course, but now that you are grown
it should be.
This has been called the age of obe- up you can save them much of that sufdient parents, and we fear there is too fering, more than you can now undermuch of truth in this cutting speech. ( >f stand. Take time to write a real loving
course, if parents did their whole duty, letter occasionally full of the little deno cynic even, would have dared to per- tails of your daily life. Tell them about
But alas! your work, your recreations, your
petrate such an aphorism.
ever
an
individual
who did friends. Let them feel, that though they
did you
find
bis whole duty? certainly not, and you no longer pay your bills, sew your butnever will before the millenium, so you tons on and darn your stockings, tbev
your life.
Spare
must needs take parents, and others, as still have a part in
your worries, unless there is pood
them
to
be.
not
as
ought
they
tbev are. and
yourself some day.
from
Now, in spite of the mistakes your reason for asking help or advice
No, all the patience, all the considermother has made, and will continue to them, but make them partakers of your ation should not come from the old. We
make, being human, she is still your joys. Do not say, they will not care need to make a "treaty of reciprocity,"
mother; and no amount of filial love for all this, you do not know them; and we whose hearts are old are quite
from you is going to spoil her, she has they will feel flattered by such treat- ready to meet the young hearts halfa right to all you can possibly bestow ment. EvetV thing that interests you way.
upon her. She is sensitive in her love interests them, every thing that hurts
Listen to a secret. You, who are
for you. It is very easy for you to you hurts them twice over.
young, can make old hearts young
No, you cannot put yourself in Moth- again by little kind attentions; by
wound her. A hasty, thoughtless speech,
some trifling neglect which would not be er's nlace; your heart is too young; but thoughtlessness you can make loviner
noticed in another, cuts like a knife she can put herself in your place, so hearts old before their time.
she has the advantage of you. How
coming from you.
Elizabeth Van Clcve Hall.
• "Ob! but," you saw "mother is so quick she is to make excuses for your
God gives us always strength enough
queer and cranky; she doesn't know- faults; bow ample the mantel of her
bow young people
she forgets that charity which covers you. No one will and sense enough for what He wants us
stick to you with the faithfulness of to do; if we either tire ourselves or puzshe was young once herself."
Does she? Are you quite sure of this ? your mother. Even your wife may fail zle ourselves, it is our own fault. And we
Stop and think a minute, and think you, it often happens, you know, but may always be sure, whatever we are
hard while you are about it. Mother your mother "always stands your friend. doing, that we cannot be pleasinp Him if
oan- we are not happy ourselves.—Ruskin.
was young once and that not so very You may break her
lone ago, after all. Do you think you not destroy her love. Her
could put yOurself in her place for a will be for you; your name spoken wrth S Before this earth can become a Paevery life must be such as would
little while? Try it; this is the best tenderest love will be last on her lips.
Can
afford
to
love
like
be
at
home
neglect
in a Paradise.— The Pacific.
you
the
conduct
of
another.
a
to
judge
way
There is no love but what is pure and holy;
What is not that deserveth not the name.
.
I
I
I
feel:
radise
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THE FRIEND
DEATHS
RECORD OF EVENTS
NOTES ON OAHU
CHURCHES
MARLIN—At Hilo, Jan. 28, John Daniel
Marlin, aged 74.
SCRIBEN—At Hilo, Jan. 28, Charles Scriben.
Jan. 29th.—Geo. R. Carter confirmed MADDEN—At Kukaiau, Hawaii, Jan. 29, T.
B. Madden.
by L. S. Senate as Secretary of Hawaii
WALKER—In Honolulu, Jan. 31, Thos. .T.
Territory.
Walker, aged 57.
Feb. sth.—First National Bank be- ARMSTRONG—At
Hampton, Va.. Feb. 7,
gins Redemption of Hawaiian Silver Mary Frances Morgan, wife of W. Nevins
Armstrong.
Coin, having received $50,000 U. S. Silver for that purpose.—Fifty bales or 25,- EDDY—In Honolulu, of aneurism. Feb. 20,
Mrs. Sarah E. Eddy, mother of Mrs. R. D.
-000
lbs. of Sisal Fibre, being one Silliman.
month's product, arrives for shipment HONS—At Wailuku. Feb. 20, George Hons,
Attorney.
from plantation near Ewa Mill.
Feb. 11 tli.—Mercury 53 degrees at JARRETT—In Honolulu. Jan. 25, William
H. Jarrett. aged 49 years.
Punahou, lowest minimum for ten years.
BRUGUIERE—In Manila. P. I. Jan. 23.
—Rogers James, colored, the "tall man
Mrs. Grace E. Bruguierc, only daughter of
with big feet, concerned in several reMr. and Mrs. S. B. Kose of Honolulu.
cent burglaries and robberies, is sentenced to 12 years at hard labor.
A VETERAN PRINTER GONE
•
13th.—Auction sale of remaining old
Palace furniture, included some rarities.
A clock goes to S. M. Damon for $290.
14th.—John Collins, demented by long
drunkenness, "runs amuck" with a hatchet, nearly kills Ben Foster, cook at
Makiki Fire-station and severely wounds
three other men down the street, one of
whom shoots down the maniac, who dies
in a few hours.
15th.—Mother Gulick reaches her 99th
birthday in good health.
16th.—Cold dry spell for four days,
ranging from 62 degrees to 74 degrees,
simultaneous with severe cold on the
Continent. —S. S. Alameda lands $1.50,-000 U. S. silver for redemption of Kalakaua silver.
17th.—Two more of the James burglar gang sentenced, for ten and twelve
years.
18th.—Legislative Biennial Session
begins. —Senate completes organization,
with C. L. Crabbe as President.—The
House, by reason of a quarrel, in the
Republican majority, elects as Speaker
F. Becklev, Home Ruler, and adjourns.
19th.—Lahaina visited by a hailstorm.
Ilaleakala mantled with snow far down,
as well as the great mountains of Hawaii. 57 degrees minimum in Honolulu.
—House completes its organization.
20th.—Governor's Message is read to
the two Houses.—Snow cap on Hualalai.
21st.—Am. ship Paramita arrives in
distress dismasted in the hurricane which
devastated the Paumotu Islands.
store burned,
Jan. 25th.—Chinese
Kuakini
Streets.
and
cor. Liliha
MARRIAGES
IU'GG-KELSEY—In
.
Honolulu.
The week of prayer was observed by
the church at Waianae with good results. The services began on Sunday,
Jan. 4, with the observance of the Lord's
Supper. Three were received into
church-membership and three children
were baptized. The services of Sunday,
Monday and Tuesday evenings were
well attended, being under the leadership of Mr. Timoteo and the Secretary.
Calls were made during the day at the
homes of the people, some of the young
people joining in this work. Waianae is
fortunate in having a pastor who has
won the respect of all classes. The people are also fortunate in having a just
judge who is a cousin of the pastor and
who is a great assistance to him in the
work.
There passed away in this city, February
Living together as one household they
23rd., 1903, James Auld. a part Hawaiian, in
the 63rd year of his age. whose death re- form an interesting and choice familymoves from our community a familiar figure: circle. No one can become a member
one deserving of a tribute of more than mere of that household without feeling the
notice.
To many of the business people and others reality of religion. One of its members
who have had to do with the printing offices lis an old man, nearly if not quite 100
of this city he was well known, having been years old, who is the father of the
a prominent and efficient figure in the prinjudge. He was a lad in the days of
cipal offices for some forty years till he was I
first, his father being a
Kamebameha
few
years
laid aside from a paralatic stroke a
near Waialua,
ago. Of a quiet, unobtrusive, manner and konohiki of the lands
painstaking in his chosen work, he won alike Molokai. Coming under the influence
the esteem and confidence of all with whom of father Hitchcock he became a churchhe had to do, and as an employing printer, member in 1842, and ever since has been
as he was for a number of years, his unchanged demeanor to all gained him favor in a regular attendant of church services.
circles beyond the limits of his profession.
At the ringing of the church bell he
The writer knew Mr. Auld as a young man starts for the meeting house. It is inleaving school to enter as an apprentice, with teresting to hear
this old man quote
a school-mate. Peter Porter, in the Commercial Advertiser office at. or about, the time Scripture at family prayers, which he
of its establishing, in 1856, both of whom does with great fluency. He has been
made rapid progress and readily mastered a strict temperance man from his youth,
their profession, as testified by their employ- never
having used either awa, alcoholic
er. Mr. H. M. Whitney. Mr. Auld not only
He can hardly be
was efficient at the case, but as pressman or drinks or tobacco.
poster printer he was equal to all demands. persuaded to take medicine, so alive is
Furthermore. Ik- was a natural mechanic, his taste to all stimulants. He associwhich bent he doubtless inherited from his ates soda water
with other suspicious
Scotch father (who will be remembered hy
'
'
our older residents) which enabled him to
take readily to the machinery department of
the office; a faculty that early showed itself
and received commendable notice at the time,
by his setting up, with the aid of another,
the first Adams' book press received in the
country hy the office, without having seen
anything before in this line of printing machinery. And when other presses, more complicated, and steam, became an essential adjunct to the printing business of the city, he
was at no loss when or wherever his services were required.
In the latter part of the 6o's he joined with
J. H. Black in a job office which shortly after
branched into the news and stationery business, which branch they relinquished
lan.
Tbester Rugg to Miss Mabel E. Kelsey.
28,
Jan. 31,
SPENCER-RAUPP—In Honolulu.
C G Snencer to Miss Katie Raupp.
Jan.
MAYFIELD-JERMAN—Iit Honolulu.
Maui, to
25. Geo. Mayfield of Puunene,
Miss Mary Jerman.
Kauai. Feb. 17.
WILCOX-RICE—At Lihue. Anna
C. daughRalph L Wilcox to Miss
ter of W. H. Rice.
in 1870
P. C. Advertiser and
office from Mr. Whitney. This interest he
held for a number of years, then retired for
■a time.
He was afterward with the Gazette
office and later with the Press Publishing
Co., as foreman. In his long printing experience not a little of the Educational and Hawaiian Board publications devolved upon him,
to the material advantage of the work and
satisfaction of the committees in charge.
T. G. T.
when they bought the
drinks.
Special services, which were begun at
the Waialua church Wednesday evening, called out a good attendance, and
on Sunday four were received into
church membership and
were baptized.
two
children
The Waialua church is fortunate in
its laymen, several of whom are good
workers. The conduct of the regular
services goes right on whether the minister is present or not. There are also,
good women in its membership who
lead meetings with much acceptance.
We beard three of them give impromptu
talks which were admirable and one
was of a highly spiritual order. Special
work began with the Waikane church
on the 17th of January. On Sunday
there was a good attendance. The interest in the service increased, till on
the evening of the 17th nearly one hundred were present.
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On Wednesday the work was trans- THE JAPANESE WOMAN'S HOME
ferred to the Hauula church, where it
continued three days, after which it
A year and a half ago, the women of
was renewed at Waikanc, where, on the Japanese Church on Nuuanu and
Sunday, there was quite a full bouse, Kukiii streets, established a Home for
eight being received into church-mem- women of their own nationality who
bership and three children being bap- were in need of such a shelter. Some
who were temporarily out of a place, or
tized.
A charge was laid before the church had no room at the houses where they
that some of the church-people were were working, were glad to avail themengaged in the use and sale of liquor. selves of such an opportunity. GradualThe burden of the meetings was that ly the scope of the Home has enlarged,
they clear themselves of such a charge. and for several months it has been doing
A leader in this work took the bhie a most important and valuable work, in
ribbon and on vote of the deacons, the caring for women who arrive by every
pastor himself made a public statement, steamer from Japan, to join their husconfessing himself to have been at fault bands, who have come earlier, and are at
and promising amendment.
work on plantations. From two to twelve
arrive
by every steamer, and as soon as
It was brought to the notice of the
church that the church-building, church- they have passed the quarantine, are sent
yard and pasturage yard were in need to the Home by the Customs authorities,
of attention. To this work of clearing to await the arrival of their husbands.
This means a stay of from two to six
and cleaning up the people have been
giving their attention with gratifying days, and occasionally two to three weeks
and gives us a chance to give them some
results.
The three days spent with the Hauula ideas of their new surroundings, and of
church made plain the fact that the the Christian religion. During Miss Taluntiring in
pastor had gained a firmer hold of the cott's stay with us, she was
her labors for these women, teaching
community.
O. P. E.
them from the Scriptures every morning,
taking them out for recreation, giving
them lessons in English, etc. Many will
long remember her kindness, in their
Page
6).
(Continued from
scattered plantation residences.
minister, or the sermon, or the church, or
The husbands, on coming to Honoanybody connected with the church, in a tone
which disparaged. And if my children were lulu, are obliged to appear at the Imsmall. I should be doubly careful. No living migration Office and prove to the satiscreature hears so much as a three-years child. faction of the Inspector, that they are
And. if a child is playing, his capacity for
the husbands of the women they claim
hearing what big folks are saying seems to
lie increased. The man who criticises the as their wives. Then they are given a
church, or anybody connected with it. in the letter to me, authorizing me to allow
presence of growing children, is locking doors their wives to go with them.
which he may never be able to open, although
Sometimes there are cases that draw
lie may strive to do so with prayers and tears.
Thousands of children are lost to the church quite deeply on our sympathies. One
because of the foolish talk of thoughtless was the case of a woman who came
parents. In my home the Church of God with her husband, and on arrival here,
should be spoken of always with reverence
Trachoma, a conand love. It should be the theme of many a be was found to have
conversation, and in all my talk it should be tagious eye disease, and was sent back to
made supreme and glorious. Among the pa- Japan, there was not money enough
pers on mv table should be at least one church for them both to return, and the wife
paper, and among the latest books should be
to stay as she had come so
a few small volumes of church history, or of was desirous
Christian doctrine, or the biographies of some far; so he returned alone, and she came
of the modern heroes of the faith. My draw- to the Home until she found a place to
ing room table should proclaim to my own work. In two other cases, little children,
household, and to all who came to see me.
been brought thus far by the
that the Christian church is august and sover- who had
were
mothers,
found to have the eye disis
beeign, and that in my judgment a man
hind the times who reads the latest novel, and ease, and the mothers had to decide
ignores the splendid literature which the whether to give up joining their huschurch of Christ is today producing. Never bands,
and go back with their children,
under any circumstances should a Sunday
or
and send them back in the care
stay
newspaper come into my home. For my
health's sake, and for the sake of my sons of friends, who were obliged to return.
and daughters. I should keep one day in the These mothers decided to stay, but ;t
week free for the reading of bpoks written by
was very, very hard for them, and they
the masters of the supreme problems of life
and thought. Like the Christians of the first were almost heart-broken over the sepcentury, I should have a church in my house, aration from their little ones. One of
and this church in my house should be made them, whose husband did not come for
to furnish atmosphere, vitality, and power for her as soon as she expected, actually bethe church upon whose book my name had
came so sick that we were obliged to
been enrolled, and before whose altar I had
send her to the Japanese hospital.
my
entire
life
to
God.
dedicated
The women pay for board, and a trifle for lodgings; but the main expenses
of rent and matron's wages are paid
from money contributed by Japanese women, and some benevolent friends among
the white ladies of Honolulu. It is a
worthy
enterprise, and is doing much
good. The women on arriving here, are
not exposed to the dangers and temptations that would beset them in a Japanese hotel, but have a safe and Christian shelter. Many express their gratitude for such a home to come to, and
the "Fugire Home," (Woman's Home)
has a good name in Honolulu, and over
the Islands.
Mrs. O. H. Gttlick.
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12
HAWAIIAN MISSION
CHILDREN'S SOCIETY
It was with pleasure that the anread in the daily papers
of January 15th of the nomination by
I'resident Roosevelt of Mr. George K.
Carter—one of the Cousins —to the office of Secretary of the Territory, in the
place of Henry F. Cooper, who bad resigned some time before, to take another
position in the government here. Mr.
Carter is a personal friend of President Roosevelt.
nouncement was
I luring
the last week of January.
Governor Dole appointed to the office
of Attorney-General of the Territory,
another of our members, Mr. Lorrin
Andrews. He is a grandson of the
venerable missionary. Rev. Lorrin Andrews, whose name he bears, and who
arrived at the Hawaiian Islands in 1828.
He was for many years stationed at
Lahainaluna, Maui, as one of the faculty 0! the school for Hawaiian Young
Men. Later, he took his dismission
from the A. B. C. F. M. as a missionary,
and was called to be a justice of the
Court of Hawaii. He was familiarly
Styled Judge Andrews to the day of his
death. " The present attorney-treneral is
the son of Mr. William Andrews, who
was fourth son of Rev. L. Andrews. Mr.
William Andrews married in the United
States and has resided in Brooklyn,-N.
V., for many years—never having revisited his "autl hanau." This son was
born and educated on the Mainland,
coining to these Islands in 1898, and entering on the practice of law here. He
was elected to the office of recording
secretary of the 11. M. C. Society in
iB<j<) and has continued in office ever
since. We are pleased to learn that he
has chosen as assistant Attorney-General, Mr. Philip L. Weaver, son of Mrs.
Ellen (Armstrong! Weaver, who is now
the manager of the Lunalilo Home.
"Founder's Day"
at
Lunalilo Home,
1903, was celebrated as
usual, with a luaii for the inmates who
January 31,
chanted in ancient style the name's and
praises of the founder William C. Lunalilo after they had enjoyed the music
of the Hawaiian band, which annually
gives them this treat, and as they were
seated at the tables loaded with luaued
pig and other Hawaiian delicacies which
tbev so greatly enjoyed.
On February 7, 1903, in Hampton.
"The Hawaiian boys at Vale and Harvard are making themselves known in
many ways. Fred Alexander was recently elected chairman of the supper
committee of the senior class of the
Scientific School. He was also elected
chairman of the class book historians.
"George Cooke won first prize in a
diving contest in the New York Athletic Club tanks. He dived 60 feet and
won a gold medal for bis feat. Alexander and Cooke were both on the Yakwater polo team.
"Henry Damon won a silver medal in
not long ago
■ novice swimming race
Athletic
Club tanks,
York
the
New
in
and Richard Cooke also won a gold
watch as first prize in a swimming race.
"Maurice Damon is on the Vale swimming team, the inter-collegiate champions last year.
"Of the llawaiians at Harvard, Harold
Dillingham was recently elected captain
of the 1904 weld crew. Charles Hartwell is a prominent member of the Harvard Varsity crew."
All the voting men are members of
the Hawaiian Mission Children's Soci-
ety."
Virginia, there occurred the death of
The last meeting of the Society was
Mary Frances Morgan Armstrong, wife
held by invitation at the home of Key.
of Wm. N. Armstrong.
Wm. M. KincaJd, on Jan. 31st. I nvery boisterous
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and the fact of many having already attended "Founder's Day" celebration,
there was but a slim attendance.
For a literary entertainment a very
early letter of one of the missionary
mothers was read and interesting reminiscences followed. Also! some facts
about Rev. Doremus Scudder's present
mission to Japan were given.
CONFIDENCE
Psalm 37:—3.
4,
5-7-
Trust in the Lord from day to day,
Keep ever close to Him,
He'll hold thee in each winding way
And clear that which is dim.
Delight in Him through all the years,
As earthly joys decrease;
His comfort c'en amid the tears.
Will bring most perfect peace.
Commit
to Him the way you take.
And never feel a fear.
He'll ne'er forget, will not forsake.
The child to Him so dear.
Rest in His promises so true.
The fullness of His love:
W;iit patiently life's journey through,
Then endless joys above.
C. 1.. Turner.
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THE REV. T. T. ALEXANDER
The Rev. T. T. Alexander, D.D., for
twenty-five years a missionary of the
Presbyterian Board in Japan, died in
Honolulu on Nov. 4, 1902.
About a year ago Dr. Alexander had
been obliged to leave Japan on account
of ill-health, but instead of coming all
the way to America, stopped in the
Sandwich Islands, where it was believed
the conditions would be more healthful
for him, and where also he might find
opportunities to work among the more
than 70,000 Japanese living in the Islands. During his sta\yrn~Hio»vSiulu he
was constantly busy hTfliis work, preaching and assisting other workers until the
last.
Dr. Alexander was born in Mt. Horeb,
Term., October Bth, 1850, and went out
to Japan in 1877. During his life in
Japan be bad been active in the opening
of new stations, bad taught theology in
the Meiji Gakuin in Tokyo, and just
prior to bis departure from Japan bad
been in change of the evangelistic work
in the city of Kyoto, where also he was
helping the Congregational missionaries
in the Theological Department of the
of a faultless life, and by a service that
never wearied, and that never put case
or self in the place of the Savior. He
was the type ot missionary of whom the
critics ot missions know nothing—a
gentleman, a scholar and a Christian.
Well would it be for both America and
Asia if all who went out from the one
to the other, went with a title of his
nobility of character and his purity of
unselfishness.—From The
Herald, February, 1903.
Assembly
WHY A GREAT TRAVELLER BELIEVES
IN MISSIONS
I have been asked to Speak today as
a traveller—1 may add as an outsider,
as one who has no connection whatever
with mission work. During my twentyfour years of Eastern travel it is only
within the last eight years that 1 hay become a convert to the necessity, and
duty of Christian missions. 1 am grieved to be obliged to say that in the earlier
years of my journeys in Asia I had no
interest
whatever in missions, and have
often taken a journey of two or three
days off my route to avoid accepting
missionary hospitality, and being, as I
Doshisha.
supposed, dosed with tales of missionaDr. Alexander was a man of great ry work in which 1 had no imaginable
ability, one of the best Old Testament interest.
scholars in Japan: a man of rare openI should also say, whatever testimoness of mind and beauty of character; 1 ny I may give may have its moral
lover of peace; always forgetful of him- strength emphasised by the fact that I
self, modest and gentle in all bis ways, was not made a convert to missions
yet a man of iron principle and of uneither by anything at home or by seeing
swerving devotion to what he believed missionary work abroad.
It was not
to be right. Few foreigners in the Emmy lot to bear the reapers CO.* ling with
pire were as highly valued as be by the shouts of rejoicing from the harvest field.
Japanese, both for the purity and sweet- I saw them everywhere sowing in tears,
ness of his Christian character, and the but very little of the reaping enjoyed;
value and solidity of his counsel and one gathered here and anodic- there,
judgments in their perplexities. He and little more than that.
did a great deal at the time when the
I'ut it was that everywhere, from the
liberal movement was strong in Japan Eastern shore of the Sandwich Islands
to help many to find solid standing to the waters of Babylon, and from the
ground.
Amur River down to the Equator, I saw
For the last seven or cirdit years of that humanity was craving unconscious
his life. Dr. Alexander was alone on ly for the Gospel of Christ, and that,
the field. Mrs. Alexander and the chil- whatever may have been dreamt at home
dren residing in Marvvillc, Tcnn., for if excellences in the philosophical faiths
the education of the children. Happily, if Asia, had disappeared to a great exthe eldest daughter. Miss Emma, under tent out of them, leaving a corruption
appointment as a missionary to Japan, )f teaching, of creeds, of morals, and
had stopped in Honolulu for a brief visit )f religions which was absolutely pitewith her father on her way to her field. )iis to behold. I came to recognize
and was present with him at the time of -vcrvwhere in the great and small Asiahis death.
'ic countries that the whole head was.
sick, and that the whole heart was faint,
type
was
the
of
man
Dr. Alexander
of whom the world knows nothing, to •'nd that without Christ and His Gospel
whose nature all boasting and vanity there is for these people no balm in
are utterly foreign, who never sought Gilead. T came to see that in every faith
his own things, but always the thirnrs die pood bad been lost, and that the
of Testis Christ, whose nature was in- Treat philosophical faiths of Asia, in
capable of meanness or personal enmity, their descent down the ages, had lost
and who sought only to commend his the purity of moral teaching with which
Master and His Gospel by the example they started, that there could be no hope
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entertained of any reform within them,
and that if these people are to be raised,
as we trust and believe they will be
raised politically, socially, morally, and
religiously, it must be by the Christian
faith, for there is no resurrection power
in any one of their own faiths. Mrs.
Bishop, quoted in The Chronicle of the
London Missionary Society.
—
A BRIEF VISIT TO HILO AND
VICINITY
derfully promoted by these two agencies.
Perfect health and the utmost concord
reigns in this large school. Parents scat
tereil from I'abala, Kau, in the south to
Kukuihaele on the north, over one hundred miles apart, attest their confidence
in the devoted and loving service of the
teachers of this school, by committing
their best treasures to their care. During
the forenoon and BOM hours all the**
children are assembled in the government school of I lonoiiui, where in a
school of 150 pupils over two-thirds are
Japanese.
The earnest Christian spirit lias in
this case commended itself to a wide circte of Buddhist parents, who have had
CHURCH NOTES
The Central Union Church has voted
a leave of absence for four months to
the pastor, Rev. Wm. M. Kincaid, in
order that he may visit Palestine and
Egypt, as well as the points of interest
in Europe.
If satisfactory arrangements can be made for supplying the
pulpit in bis absence, Mr. Kincaid will
embrace the opportunity, and start on
his journey sometime during the present worth, going by way of New York.
A committee is at work trying to find a
Landing from the steamer Kinau at 7
p. m., Wednesday, February nth, we
supply.
went directly to the home of our Japanese pastor. Besides the good man of
A new departure in the Central Union
the bouse, Rev. U. Vajinia, and his wife the discernment to see the hcaury of unSunday
School, which is working well,
toward
them
selfish
love
manifested
and
and little boy, we met Mr. Inotiye the
is that of appointing a leader of the orG.
their
children.
O.
H.
a
is
doing
good
active evangelist who
chestra from among its own members,
work at Papaikou, bis parish, six miles
each one thus appointed, serving in that
of
and
city
Hilo,
out northward from the
apacit\ for one month. Mr. Philip Hal!
one of the most hopeful and nourishing
is the present leader.
OF
HAWAIIAN
WORK
THE
THE
of our out-stations.
BOARD AMONG THE
Within thirty minutes it was anThe industrial classes at Kawaiahao
nounced as time to go to the Wednesday
PORTUGUESE
i buret) began another year's work the
evening prayer-meeting. Like the Methodist minister of the books, the traveling
From Hilo we have encouraging news first week in January. 157 girls are enmissionary is supposed to be ever ready in regard to Portuguese evangelical rolled in the sewing classes and many
to preach or to die. The missionary was work. It will be remembered that last uthers have been refused for lack of
at once asked to address the thirty November, owing to tin- resignation of helpers. A teacher is now needed to
bright young Japanese men who came Rev. R. K. P.aptiste, Rev. I-'.. G. Silva care for the work done on the sewing
together for the prayer-meeting. Such was transfeired from Paia, Maui, to machines. One teacher can ot care for
1 class of more than 10 or 1.2 girls.
a company gathered to attend the mid- Hilo.
week prayer-meeting is as good evidence
The work of the lace class has been
Letters recently received from him
as can be given of faithful missionary and from others, bring encouraging nereaseil. Instead of two afternoons,
two days from <> a. in. to 3:30 p. m., arc
work on the part of the resident mis- words concerning bis work.
sionary pastor.
Mr. I'aptistc altho retired from ac- now given to the lace work. .Fifteen
The next morning before eight o'clock tive service has not lost interest in the girls are learning lace making.
your missionary was installed
It was Imped to start a class in some
on the work to which he gave so many years
back seat of a canopied express wagon, if hard and faithful labor. The attend* industrial work for the little boys in
here called a Japanese stage, for the ride nice at the church services is very good Kakaako. but no way has vet Opened.
of twelve miles to the out-station of Ifo- nid the Sunday-school shows marked Some weekday work to bring in the litnomu, where is. located one of the most growth not only in numbers, but in in tle boys should go with, 'and help our
interesting of the institutions conducted crest as well. With the aid of a little Sunday work.
The Primary Department of the Sununder the auspices of the Hawaiian '"•'" which has hf*n secured for the
Board —the boarding school for Japa- "f-int dctnrtnv'U. it is hoped that still day -school keeps up in numbers. Many
nese children, under the care of the lovetter results will be obtained. Mr. Sil- new pupils have Ikvii enrolled this year.
ing and faithful workers, Mr. and Mrs. a writes of bis intention soon begin cot- A class of seven girls was promoted to
S. Sokabe. The cost of this twelve mile tage prayer-meetings, and these, I am the Senior department at the first of
ride, which took three hours, was fifty nrc. will great)V tend to the increase of the sear. We are using the Hammond
cents, and no charge for the traveler's spirituality among
attendance certificates and tbev help to
the people.
valise.
By the removal of Mr. Silva. the make the attendance niyre regular.
Here we meet evidence of the teem- Maui field is left unoccupied. We hope
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Importers and Jobbers of
Ninety children of from five to seven- »o take charge of the work there.
GENERAL MERCHANDISE.
teen years of age are here boarded and
There are a great many Porto Rieans
lodged and schooled under three large dso on Maui, who could be reached
Jt J*
roofs; while the wide lot granted by the with the gos|KJ in Portuguese, as the At
Fort
Streetliberality of the Honomu Sugar Com- •wo laniruages are similar. While Mr.
Hardware, Art Good*. Picture Mouldpany affords a fine drill ground where Silva was there, unite a few of them ating*, Paints, Oil*. Varnishes, Gasoline
under the careful drilling of a Japanese nid.-d his meetings and seemed interand Kerosene,
Agricultural Implegraduate of the Hilo Boarding School, ested.
ments, etc.
the lads make a fine showing in military
J»
Evangelical work in .Honolulu, moves
evolutions, led by those pulse-quickening m much the same as usual. The aver- At Bethel Street—
ageifcies, a bass drum and its little broth age attendance at the Sundav-schoo]
Househuld Supplies, Sewing Machines,
er, the snare drum. The pomp of war was hardly affected by the non-continStoves, Ranges, Glassware, China,
Crockery.
and the fun of marching are most won- uance of the day school.
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SUGAR FACTORS
\\ estervelt presented a paper on"The
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Hawaii," the substance of which is
Agents for the Oceanic Steamship Co.
given under Temperance Issues.
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Senator C. 11. Dickey was present
and added to the interest of the njeet- IV j EW YORK DENTAL PARLORS.
E. C. WATERHOUSE,
titig by bis earnest advocacy of the need
Office cor. Miller and Beretania Sts. and fairness of "local option."
Plate of Teeth, $5; Gold Crowns, $5; Bridge
Residence, 1598 Thurston St.
[6th, Work, per Tooth, $5; Gold Fillings, $l; SilAt
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meeting
February
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Principal C. P. Dyke of the Kameha- ver Fillings, 50 cents.
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7:30 to 8:30 p. in. Sundays: 10 to 11 a. m. niclia Schools, read a paper which dealt
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knowledge in regard
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LACE CURTAINS,
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Mr.
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at work among their own people in the
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of
the
evenMERCHANT TAILOR.
ing,
speaker
Tel.
Blue.
Beretania St.
1851
Telephone Blue 2431.
ing was Colonel French of the Savatton P. O. Box 986.
King Street, Honolulu
who
an excellent address in
Army,
gave
Office Hours:—lo to 12 a. in.. 3 to 4 and 7
CLOTHES CLEANED AND REPAIRED.
regard to personal work for Christ. As
to Bp. 111. Sundays : 9130 to 10:30 a. m.
this date celebrated the 22d anniversary
of the founding of the first Christian M OPl* & COMPANY,
Endeavor Society in Willston Church,
CHAS. L. GARVIN,
Importers and Manufacturers of
Portland, Maine, a portion of the evenFURNITURE AND UPHOLSTERY.
opp.
St.,
Beretania
Haw'n
Hotel.
232
ing was given over to a question box in
CHAIRS TO RENT.
Honolulu,
Office Hours:—9 to 11 a. m.; 1:30 to 3 and regard to Christian Endeavor methods No. 74 King Street
7:30 to 8 p. in. Tel. Blue 3881. Res. Tel. tnd work, which proved an interesting
White 3891.
feature. It may not be known by all 1)11 ILIP L. WEAVER, JR.,
our readers that there are now over
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
three and a half million members of
J. HUTCHINS,
Societies
in the
hrislian Endeavor
LIFE, AX,
Merchant St., opposite Post Office.
world—the outgrow lb of that first sociFIRE, MARINE
exety of fifty-seven. Colonel French
Real Estate Titles and Instruments a specialty.
INSURANCE.
pressed himself as greatly pleased to
Mclnerny Block.
attend the convention, and was interK. KAAI,
ested in tin- cosmopolitan gathering there
Teacher of
PACIFIC HEIGHTS.
represented.
Offers greater attractions and induceGuitar, Mandolin. Banjo, Zither, Ukulele and
Taropatch.
Rev. C. H. Daniels D. D., Home Secretary
ments as a site for choice residences than
the American Hoard of ComBuilding, Room 5.
of
—Love
Studio:
any other portion of Honolulu.
Hours:—lo to 12 a. m.; 1130 to 4p. m.
missioners for Foreign Missions, is exThe Pacific Heights Electric Railway pected to reach Honolulu on March 17th,
Line affords easy access to all lots; and for a visit of three weeks in these Islands.
FEED CO., Ltd.,
water and electric lights are supplied Dr. Daniels is to be accompanied by
from independent systems at reasonable his wife.
Mr. Henry E. Cobb, of Newton, Mass., DEALERS IN WAY, GRAIN AND FLOUR.
rates. To parties intending to purchase
AUENTH FOR —
corporate member of the American
and improve, especially favorable terms IHoard is in Honolulu
ABASIO
at the present time.
"
"
COR. QUEEN AND NUUANU STS.,
will be given.
For further particulars apply to Chas. S,
HONOLULU.
I >ur Field Votes did not reach us in
Desky, Progress Block.
time for this issue.
P. O. Box 452.
Telephone No. Main 121
in
DR.
ALBERT
(11TY
GEORGE
DR.
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ERNEST
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* 7ILLIAM R. CASTLE,
I.
Attorney-at-Law.
1
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BANK OF HAWAII, Ltd.,
(Incorporated under the Laws of
the Haivaiian Republic.)
$600,000.00
Paid-up Capital
I
.
Reserve
Merchant Street, Cartwrigbt Block.
Trust Money carefully invested.
j00.000.00
Undivided profits..
48.00000
OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS:—Chas.
\l. Cooke President; P. C. Jones, ist VicePresident; 1-Y V\ Maelarlane. and Vice Presi
O.
Box
P.
Main
565.
Tel.
103.
dent; C. 11. Cooke. Cashier; I-'. C. Atherton,
Assistant Cashier. Henry Waterhouse. 1-Y l>
1-Y
ANDES.
v.
'• Tcnnev. J. A MeCandless. (.'. 11. Atherton.
I-'.. F. Hi shop.
NOTARY PUBLIC.
Solicits the accounts of firms, corporations,
EBERHART SYSTEM
Merchant
St.
Brown,
with
Cecil
93
Office
trusts, individuals, and will promote and careTo induce regularity of attendance. fully attend to all business connected with
Room for 200 names. Lasts four years with hanking entrusted to it. Sell and purchase
FRANK
.
BE.
FERN
THE
Ell I. EPS ft CO.,
Dry Goods Importers.
All the latest novelties in Fancy Goods
received hy every steamer.
Fort Street
FA.
.
-
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-
Honolulu.
SCHAEFER & CO.,
increasing interest.
Send to
on
the Islands.
HAWAIIAN BOARD BOOK ROOMS.
406 Boston Building.
DR.
117RITE TO IS
Ulii
Run through trains to Pearl Harbor. Ewa
Plantation. Waianae, Waialua and Kahuku.
Gives tourists an opportunity of viewing some|
of the richest tropical scenery to be found any-,
where. The road passes through sugar, rice,
taro, coffee, pineapple and banana plantations, ]
skirts the shore- of the famed Pearl Harbor
and borders the broad Pacific for a distance of
thirty miles. Excursion tickets good from Saturday to Monday.
F. C. SMITH,
General Passenger and Ticket Agent.
BREWER & CO., Limited,
AGENTS FOR—Hawaiian Commercial &
HARDWARE
SPORTING GOODS
Sugar Co., Haiku Sugar Co., Paia Plantation
Co., Kihei Plantation Co., Hawaiian Sugar
SHIP CHANDLERY
BICYCLES and
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
Co., Kahului R. R. Co., and Kahuku Planta
tion.
E. O. HALL & SON, Ltd.,
Wholesale and Retail
BEAVER
GROCERS, PROVISION MERCH-
LUNCH ROOM.
H. J. Nolte, Proprietor.
ANTS and COFFEE DEALERS.
J*
ji Ji
AGENTS FOR—-Hawaiian Agricultural Co.,
Onomea Sugar Co., Hononiu Sugar Co., WaiFort St., Honolulu, T. H.
*i
luku Sugar Co.. Makee Sugar Co., Haleakala
Ranch Co., Kapapala Ranch.
EWERS & COOKE, Ltd.,
Planters' Line Shipping Co., Charles Brewer
& Co.'s Line of New York Packets.
Dealers in
Agents Boston Board of Underwriters.
Agents Philadelphia Board of Underwriters. LUMBER. BUILDING
LIST OF OFFICERS—CharIes M. Cooke,
W
President; Geo. H. Robertson, Vice-President WALL PAPERS,
and Manager; E. Faxon Bishop, Treasurer and
Secretary; W. F. Allen. Auditor; P. C. Jones,
H. Waterhouse, G. R. Carter, Directors.
Honolulu, T. H.
HOUSE.
L
ff
METROPOLITAN
U ENRY MAY & CO., Ltd.,
Honolulu, T. H.
Queen St., Honolulu, T H.
MEAT CO., LTD.
OFFICERS—H. P. Baldwin, Pres't; J. B.
Castle, ist Vice-Pres't; W. M. Alexander, 2d
Vice-Pres't; J. P. Cooke, Treas.; W. O.
Smith, Secy; George R. Carter, Auditor.
SUGAR FACTORS AND COMMISSION
MERCHANTS.
for catalogues and
prices on anything in
the line of
General Mercantile Commission Agents. TEMPERANCE * COFFEE
G. J. WALLER, Manager.
SAVINGS DEPARTMENT—Ordinary and
Term Deposits received and interest allowed in
accordance with rules and conditions printed
in pass-books, copies of which may be had on
A LEXANDER & BALDWIN, Ltd.
Honolulu, T. H.
.U_l._l7v F; jj
Issue Letters of Credit.
Judd Building, Fort Street.
GEO. H. HUDDY,
DENTIST.
Rooms:—Mclntyre Block, Fort Street.
MERCHANTS.
OAHU RAILWAY & LAND CO.
Foreign Exchange,
application.
Importers and
I oMMISSTON
In use
CQ.
JS*k
YEE HOP & CO.,
\m
J)
T. May, President.
W. T. Lucas, Vice-President.
S. G. Wilder, Secretary.
H. E. Mclntyre, Manager.
A. S. Prescott, Treasurer.
and 92. P. O. Box
Telephones,
22, 24
CLAUS
SPRECKELS & CO.,
BANKERS.
j*
386
j*
Draw Exchange on the principal ports of the
world and transact a general
banking business.
Honolulu
:
:
:
:
Hawaiian Islands.
PORTER FURNITUREof
CO.,s
Importers
FURNITURE, UPHOLSTERY
Kahikinui Meat Market and Grocery.
Shipping and Family Butchers
AND BEDDING.
FRUITS AND VEGETABLES.
and Navy Contractors.
Fort St., opposite Love Building.
Beretania St., cor. Alakea. Phone Blue 2511.
Purveyors to Oceanic Steamship Co.
Wickerware, Antique Oak Furniture, Cornice
Also at the
and the Pacific Mail Steamship Co.
Poles, Window Shades and Wall Brackets.
Meat Stalls 19 and 20.
Honolulu, T. H. FISHMARKET
No. 50-62 King Street
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Sunday
Thp: friend
KrSHOPft
Is published the first week of each month,
In Honolulu, T. H., at the Hawai an Beard
Book Rooms, 400-402 Boston Building.
HONOLULU, HAWAIIAN ISLANDS.
:
School uses
made by
BROWN
of Beverly
Mass.
HILLS,
The magnificent residence tract of
the Oahu College.
Rev.
The cheapest ami most desirable lata offered for -ale on the easiest terms: one third
cash, one-third in one year, one-third in two
years. Interest at '1 per cent.
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Hawaiian Islands.
OAHU COLLEGE.
(Arthur F.
Tin: Board OP Euitoks
:
J. l.eadinghain, Managing Editor,
Dr. S. K. Bishop,
Rev. O. 11. Gulick,
Rev. W. D. Westervelt,
Rev. O. P. Emerson,
Theodore Richards,
Rev
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TRUSTEES OF OAHU COLLEGE
.)o.| Jntltl Building.
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and
College preparatory work,
together with special
Commercial,
Music, and
Art courses.
For Catalogues, address
be most easily handled —if
And Dealers in Photographic Supplies.
Honolulu, H. I.
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Incorporated mid capitalized for $200,0(10
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President
Y. Prep, and Manager
Arthur B. Wood
Kobt. W. Shingle
Secretary
Kiclmrd
11. Trent
WiiterboiiHe
littt-N 11 general Trust snd Investment sUslnSßf
Arts im guardlsn, administrator, trusitT, ttgi-nl ami
attorney. Correspondence solicited.
HE. WICHMAN,
Manufacturing Optician,
Jeweler and Silversmith.
Importer of Diamonds, American and Swiss
Watches, Art Pottery, Cut Glass,
Leather Goods, Etc.
Hawaiian Islands.
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and missions in this city
Treasurer!
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antl Insurance Department, doing a Life, Fire
P. O. Box 480.
and Marine business on most favorable terms,
in Friend Building on Bethel Street.
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rjOLLISTER DRUG Co.,
should be addressed to
■ end to HAWAIIAN BOARD ROOMS
406 Boston Building
COOL
COMPANY,
& COOKE, Ltd.,
Honolulu, H. I.
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
SUGAR FACTORS.
Agents for
The Ewa Plantation Co.,
The Waialua Agricultural Co., Ltd.,
Business Agent,
The Kohala Sugar Co.,
Oahu College,
Honolulu, H. T.
The Waimea Sugar Mill Co.,
BOSTON BUILDING.
The Apokaa Sugar Co., Ltd.,
The Fulton Iron Works, St. Louis, Mo.,
/Ul ()SES K. NAKUINA,
T M. WHITNEY, M. D., D. D. S.
The Standard Oil Co.,
Geo. F. Blake Steam Pumps,
Weston's Centrifugals,
DENTAL ROOMS,
Real Estate Agent, Notary Public and Agent
New England Mutual Life Ins. Co., Boston,
to Grant Marriage Licenses.
Aetna Fire Insurance Co., Hartford, Conn.,
Fort Street.
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Room 401 Boston Building.
Alliance Assurance Co., of London.
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HONOLULU, T. H., APRIL, 190$
VOL. LXI
EDITORIAL AND GENERAL
issuing of our April number has
f'.. Thedelayed
owing to the failure of the
been
'I• plate for the new cover to arrive on
( time.
In the death of Hon. Joseph B. Ather-
ton, which occurred at half-past nine on
the evening of April 7th, the community
and the Islands lose a citizen of the besi
type. We shall (rive a full account of
his life and work in our next issue.
We have been fortunate during the
past few weeks in having among us an
unusual number of reoresentative Christian people from the East. Dr. and Mrs.
Daniels have been especially welcomed
by our people, and with them Mr.
and Mrs. Henry E. Cobb and daughters
of Newton, Mass.; Mr. and Mrs. Geo. A.
Miner of Boston: Mr. and Mrs. S. B.
Harbison of Alleghany, Pa. These people have seen much of the various forms
of Christian and benevolent work done
here and have given aid and encouragement by their presence and words. One
exgentlemen, to our certain
pressed his interest in our work by a substantial gift to the Hawaiian Board. We
wish them, one and all, God-speed as they
return to their own.homes.
Our readers will notice some changes
in matter and arrangement in the present number of The Friend. A full page
instead of a half page is devoted to the
Hawaiian Mission Children's Society,
the departments given for the past year
to "Our Island Homes" and "The Christian Life" are discontinued. Instead of
the latter, a page will be devoted to the
discussion from month to month of practical moral and relieious question or
questions of a more scientific or secular
nature having a moral and religious bearing. The Record of Events is followed
by a column or two of comment on current topics, by Mr. W. L. Whitney. We
hope this feature may be continued.
Lastly, we have given- a little sjace to
If these
Missionary Intelligence.
changes meet with the approval of the
board of editors, they will be continued,
while we shall all the time try to give as
full an account as possible of the doings
of our churches, and the missions under
the Hawaiian Board.
Since the following three articles have
been in type, the bill for the regulation of
the liquor traffic in these Islands as proposed by the liquor men has passed the
Senate with some modifications. Petitions
have also been received and placed on file,
asking for a reconsideration of the Local
Option Bfll.
• ■
._
...
One month ago we
passed a few mild
Option Bill
strictures upon the
argument for the fa.rness of the proposed Local Option liquor
bill, as viewed from the standpoint of
those who suffer from the vice of drunkenness, either in themselves or their
friends; but, at the same time, admitting
that under the present circumstances, it
was probably the best measure that
could be suggested. Certainly whatever
might have been said of its fairness from
an ethical point of view, as a legislative
measure, it 'was eminently reasonable.
No man who had the slightest degree of
candor of mind could offer any objection
to it on this ground. This bill lias been
before the Senate, and, notwithstanding
its reasonable character, has been laid on
the table, which, we presume, is equivalent to its rejection. While it woul I
have been interesting to have seen the
experiment of local option tried, and
while we believe in giving a hearty support to any measure that becomes a law
for even a partial * restriction of the
liquor business, we are not disposed 10
mourn greatly over this defeat, if such
it should prove to be, because it would
reveal as nothing else can the real character and disposition of those who constitute the liquor element in these Islands. It ought to be perfectly plain vo
everyone, even now; that fairness or
reasonableness or regard for the wishes
or rights of the community are elements
that do not enter into the consideration of
the liquor men, when these came between
them and the accomplishment of their
ends. With the attainment of theseendi,
no principle of honor, justice or righteousness can be allowed to interfere. It
is this character of the liquor elemen:
that has been unmasked by the recent
action of the Senate.
It is a significant fact that in the final
vote upon the question, five white men
supported the bill and two white men,
with the solid native vote opposed and
defeated it. This reveals a situation
which the liquor men doubtless feel that
they are competent to maintain, and, so,
to carry through any measure that will
be suited to their purposes. The progress of the other bills which are before
the Senate for the promotion of the:r
business, tends to confirm this statement.
These bills are receiving no check, but
are steadily advancing toward their finai
passage. This' fact, with the defeat of
the Local Option bill, makes perfectly
clear the character and intentions of the
liquor party, as well as the conditions
which we may expect to see here in the
near future unless means can be found
to overcome the influences now strongly
prevailing.
The Local
No. 4
The only argument
that appears to have
been orTerecl against
the Local Option bill was that it would
keep tourists away. The converse of
this is also one of the stock arguments
in favor of a practically unlimited sale
of intoxicating drink. The tourist, we
are told, is a man who wants to drink.
If he cannot get what he wants, he will
not come here, and the country will iut
get his money, which, the liquor men
would like to have us believe, is on,e of
the essential elements in our existence.
The argument is not even plausible. It
amounts to saying that we need for our
welfare the money of a certain class of
people, many of whom are dissipated in
their habits. In order to get this money
we must furnish the means and opportunity for this dissipation or this class
of people will not come. In other words
in order to have prosperity, we must establish in our midst, places for the sale
of intoxicating driks, which, as every one
knows, tend to debauch the people and
undermine all the foundations on which
prosperity rests. The argument contains
an evident self-contradiction. Its weakness is easily seen also from other points
of view. In the first place, we may ask
who gets the tourist's money? It goes
without saying that the hotels get the
most of it, but as the hotels are all in
the liquor business, and depend largely
on their sales of liquor for support, it i *
just as evident that the liquor men are
the ones who profit most largely by
tourist travel.
Consequently they want tourists to
come here, not because they have any interest in the welfare and advancement of
the Islands, but because they want an ad
ditional source ofrevenue for themselves.
Between the presence of tourists and the
absence of the rumseller, as conditions
of prosperity, there can be but little
comparison. If the money that is now
spent for intoxicating drink by the people of these Islands, was spent in paying for homes, decent clothes, good food
and such things as go to build up character and respectability, and which money would be spent among our own
legitimate tradesmen, the people, as a
whole, would enfby a genuine prosperity, even if there was never another tourist landed here..
The tourist argument, as advanced by
the Hquor men, is not only fallacious, U
has even a worse character. It is a bid
for the coming here of a class of people
whose presence is demoralizing and always to be deprecated. They are the
class that seek out the hula girls, and
have a keen scent for such places generally. A flagrant instance of this kind
has just been told to us on good authority. It is this class of tourists only to
Tourists and
Liquor
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whom the inducements held out by th_ possibilities of the future. A political
organization could he effected that vvotti 1
in all probability hold the balance
A
power in any evenly contested election,
and thus be able to get some consideration of its wishes. Hut where would
that is useful and profitable to the coun- the sentiment come from that would suptry; while their very presence is demoral- port such an organization ? An answer
izing and degrading to those elements to this question leads us to look beyond
in our population which the Christian the local situation.
people here are trying to unlift. But tourWe are now a part of the Unitec!
ists are not all of this class. There is States, and to us has heen given the privanother and a better kind, and they arc- ilege of attempting to solve the problem
to be desired. They are the ones upx, nf self-government, but a large responwhom we should desire to make a good sibility still rests up on the neople and
impression, who, when they returned to government of the United States, to see
their homes, would speak favorably of that the new possessions of which we
the Islands and thus induce others of form a part, are aided in reaching a sattheir kind to come here, who also might isfactory form of government on Amerinvest their money in our enterprises. ican principles, fundamental among
But these are people of a different strip \. which are the principles of morality and
They are likely to look at the founda- intelligence. A strong public sentimem,
tions of law, order, morality and intelli- therefore, in the States in regard to any
gence before they place eitiier their question relating to our welfare would
praise or their money at our servic.. he a powerful stimulus toward arousing
These are the people that we should try the same sentiment here, as well as a poto attract hither as tourists, hut they will tent means of leading to action both here
not be drawn by the allurements of and in Washington. In the short tilttl
drink or vice. To such people we shoul I since these Islands became a part of the
endeavor to show the nobler side of Ha- United States, we have had one very
waiian life, as seen in its past history and significant example of this kind, name'v,
in our determination to carry on the in the case of the treatment of the social
work of the past to a still nobler conclu- evil in our midst. We do not say that
sion. The argument that we must have two cases are parallel; this case is insaloons to increase our prosperity stanced merely to show the effect of pubthrough tourist travel is weakness itself. lic sentiment in the States on a local inOnce let the fact he known that the in- stitution, after argument and protest here
fluences which proceed from the saloon had proved unavailing.
and the dance house are the predominant
Xow it is easily within the power of
forces in Hawaiian life, and all respecti- the temperance workers to bring this
ble tourists wil want to stay away.
same pressure to bear in dealing wi; i
the question of the sale and use of inAll that would be
In effectine any moral toxicating liquor.
reform, there at c plain - necessary would he to gather the facts
Wha?
tNext
ly at least two ele- into a compact form and mail them to
ments to be taken into account, first, dis- the religious papers, leading seculai
cussion of the point at issue, and, sec- Journals and prominent people throutrhond, the use of practical means to secure int tho States. Tn addition the machin'the desired end. Irt dealing with the nrv of the national Anti-Saloon League
subject of temperance legislation, the md Reform Rureau could he used. It
greater emphasis comes upon the sec- would not he necessary to make any
ond of these elements. The temperance lurid or exaggerated statements. The
people in these Islands have, up to the facts of the collecting of internal revenpresent time, proposed only generous and ue hv the United States government, tinliberal methods such as our legislators increase of Saloons in the past few yearn,
might easily have adopted, but they have the action of our legislature, the increased
been ignored at every point. It is no.v number of arrests for drunkenness as
clearly time for the temperance people to shown on page 56 of the Chief Justice's
examine anew the means within thetr Report, the destructive effect of the trafreach and see if they have others that fic on our population, our methods ->f
would be more effective. Let us see granting licenses, the ca-ses of murder
what we can think of. In the first plac-, and suicide resulting from habits of
in dealing with the question locally, the drunkenness, the testimony of people
decisions are reached in the places where familiar with the facts, etc., would be
votes are cast. Heretofore, the temper- all that was necessary.
ance people have abstained from all atAnother means of securing results
tempts to form a political party, or to de- would be a closer affiliation with the Recide elections in their favor by any or- form Bureau in its effort to secure tie
ganized effort. Here then is one of the action of the national Congress for th-e
liquor element would prove attractive,
but they are not profitable visitors to
anyone but those who have such attractions to offer. Very little of their money
is likely to get into the channels of ttade
suppression of these evils.
Few people
are perhaps aware that Congress
already passed laws that are
Viow
has
en
forced, which contain the principle and
germ of absolute prohibition. We give
a quotation on this point from Rev. Wilbur Crafts, in The Advance, on the implications of the Anti-canteen law. Ile
says:
"I-'ew people have realized the vast significance ol this action of Congress. It was a
declaration that the sale of beer and light
wines by the government is bad for health
and bad for order in the Army, and, as General Carlin says, 'if bad for health and bad
for order in the army, bad everywhere.' It
is this universal implication of this action
that has 10 thoroughly aroused the brewers
for the vain fight they have made to recover
this breastwork in the present Congress, ihey
see more clearly than many busy Christians
have seen, that as the acorn includes the oak,
this action involves, if legally carried out,
universal prohibition."
We see from these suggestions that the
temperance workers here have scarcely
begun to use the means at their disposal
for overcoming the opposition to temperance measures. As events are shaping
themselves at present, alCChristian and
temperance people who belong to tiiesc
Islands, will soon be driven to ventilate
the facts, as a matter of common honesty,
before they can invite people from other
lands to come and take up their lot among
us.
PRINCE ALBERT KUNUIAKEA
The passing away of this Hawaiian
nobleman is a notable event, in the fact
that with him disappears the last individual of the royal line of Kamehameha,
and we believe also the last descendant
of the famous John Young. Althougi
as Christian ethics reckon it, not a legitimate son of Kamehameha 111, according to old Hawaiian custom Albert was
sufficiently such to have been in the line
of succession. He was from birth adopted by that king and brought up in the
Royal family, which was not a favorable
environment for the healthy development
ff character.
Albert was a man of amiable, well-intentioned nature, intelligent, gracious
and courteous in manner, and markedly
endowed with the peculiarly graceful and
stately dignity of Hawaiian royalty. I.i
the failure of legitimate descendants of
Kamehameha after Lunalilo, Kunuiakea
might have heen a formidable competitor
against Kalakaua for election by the
Legislature to the throne, but for the
'evelonment of too conspicuous evidences of unfitness for such responsibility.
This unfortunate prince has been a
pathetic figure of gracious qualities combined with such fatal weakness as hopelessly disqualified him for position in
accord with the exalted rank of whicn
he was deeply and proudly conscious. He
was thus unhappily typical of too many
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THE FRcEND
of his Hawaiian kindred, like their
prince, an amiable and well inclined people, nevertheless disabled and wasting
away for lack of physical and moral fibre.
One deeply sorrows for him and for
them, although their condition may byno means be counted hopeless. Whai
these native people most lack is the existence among them of a pure and wi.se
motherhood to mould their tender yeais
towards high and sturdy character. We
believe that genuine and valuable progress is making in that direction, especially through our Ciirls* Seminarie*.
Will it avail to invigorate and save the
race?
A long procession of sorrowing Hawaiians and of mourning friends of the
old native royalty escorted this last sci.in
of the chief kingly line to the tomb of
his fathers. There his body will rest
with those of many noted and conspicuous kings and chiefs of past days. Amid
the tumult of the vast Pacific commerce
will abide that memorial of a proud
and noble race of chiefs.
S. E. B.
REV. CHARLES H. DANIELS, D.D.
The people of missionary antecedents
in these Islands arc enjoying a visit just
now from Dr. Charles H. Daniels an I
wife of Newton, Mass. Dr. Daniels U
the Secretary of the Home Department
of the American Board, with his office 'n
Boston, and is now, after fifteen years
of service, enjoying a well-earned vacation of several months. Dr. and Mrs.
Daniels are both New England people.
He was born in Lyme, New Hampshire,
but grew up in Worcester, Mass. He
is a graduate of Amherst College and of
Union Theological Seminary. Previous
to becoming a secretary of the American
Board he held pastorates in Montague.
Mass.; Cincinnati, Ohio, and Portland,
Maine. In the latter place he ministered
to the church over which Edward Payson was once the pastor.
In 1888, Dr. Daniels became district
secretary of the American Board, with
his office in New York City, and having
as his field, the Middle States, Connecticut, Ohio and such Southern States as
contained Congregational Churches. After five years of service in this capacity,
and on the retirement of Dr. E. K. Alden. Secretary of the Home Department
of the Board, Dr. Daniels was chosen
as his successor. In this position h : s
work lies mainly in two directions—
presenting the work and needs of the
Board before the churches, and conducting the correspondence with candidates
for appointment to foreign missionary
service and recommending such as are
found .satisfactory to the Prudential
Committee.
preDr.
trip,
sentr
and
thei
On
Mrs.
Daniels have spent a month in Mexico,
Our good Heavenly Father did njt
some time in Southern California, and on intend this to be so. He has provided in
leaving the Hawaiian Islands on April his scheme for his children different
14th, will spend a few weeks more on things.
the Pacific Coast and return to Boston
The weekly paper or magazine is not
about the last of May.
so; be it religious, semi-religious (as
A few years ago Rev. Judson Smith, many are )
even secular. It dea's
D.D., another secretary of the American with what is orpast,
and with what has
Board, spent a few hours in Honolulu on had time to cool down,
not with urgent
his way hack from Japan, where he had and exciting news. You read
reflectivebeen on a tour of. the Board's missions. ly, quietly, leisurely. And
if
the paper
With this exception, we believe that no is religious
you have a chance to purify
of
Hoard
has
secretary
the
visited these your .soul. And
you
the Sacred
Islands since the coming of Dr. Ander- Hook if only onif this read
one day in the
until
Daniels
son in 1863
arrive. week,
Dr.
will gain still more of what
Or. and Mrs. Daniels are cultured makes you
men.
strong
Christian people whom it is a pleasure to I
know
that
the editorial and literary
meet and we trust that as many as possia
work
of
Sunday
paper is not done o 1
ble of the people of our islands will have
he opportunity of giving them a wel- Sunday. But the moral effect of the
paper, the publishing, the name, the
come.
A SUNDAY TAPER, OR NOT?
It is not intended in this article to
leal with the Sunday newspaper question from a strictly Puritanic standpoint,
that is to say from an unreasoning adherence to church maxims and traditions.
I do not say this in a wav of disavowing
ill that is called Puritanical, but for th-j
take of coming upon a common ground
with mv readers wdierever they may be.
That complex organization, th: human
being, is one that needs both rest and
change, and more too of both than come.;
hy the recurrence of day and night. We
ire not responsible for this ; we are made
so. Hence recreation, hence in part the
-ngerness to travel. Repeated monotonous impressions on the brain paralize it.
The strain of life must be relieved a;
times' or life breaks—or becomes inferior
;'i fibre and in production. A man may
live, and to an extent prosper, hut
be will not accomplish as much of life
•work in seven rlsvi labor as he will in
«ix. Responsible to God and his fellow
-iii-n. he will not do his duty.
Tho daily paner comes to us each
"limine. To us who are intelligent an 1
-ictive. and useful, it brines a daily call
fn
effort to exertion, to competition, to
strtitredc with evil: it brings excitement,
inxictv. earnest planning. To the business man new plans, and chances for
business, to the politician new struggles
for party, to the professional man new
demands on skill, to the philanthropist
-Mid Christian new revelation of. tho
crimes of his fellow men. to the statesmnn and patriot new dancers to his country. And so on through all the phases if
life. When the Sunday morning pape-times, it is not rest to read it. The same
throbs of brain and heart repeat themselves, the same wearing anxieties, the
same impulses to selfishness, on to unselfish activity.
rushing forth of hundreds of news-boy-,,
the weary work of clerks and managers
in the office are certainly not in harmony
with, but rather in defiance of the Crettor's intent for the human race.
As far as furnishing miscellaneous
reading is concerned, a Saturday extia
large paper fills the bill. As to cablenews, how many are injured, or lose, by
not reading it till Monday? There are
exceptional times, as of war or national
catastrophe, when an extra seems called
for by the public heart which need could
he easily met.
As far as making money is concerned,
1 will venture the opinion, and a sincere
one too, that the owners of the paper wih
lay up more money from a six-day iss'ie
than from a seven day issue. Even inorganic iron and steel need rest from
perpetual vibration.
As to the influence upon readers, the
man needs something Sunday morning.
Let him reserve his zest, to join the worshippers in God's house, to which the
Sunday paper, is, I am constrained to
say, an enemy. Let him in the afternoon either go forth to a quiet walk f-r
ride or read a higher class literature.
That of the paper in question is secondclass, in fiction, in science, in art: the
caricatures of the divine human form,
so frequent in the thirty page, garish
iieaps of paper are little short of degrading, yea blasphemous. And good things
are withheld from the papers for the
reason that the Sunday number would
probably receive them all.
This matter should stand on its own
basis. It need not be mixed up in discussion with the city's necessities in the
way of street cars and like needs oi our
modern life. As to the news that gets
absorbed into the Sunday paper we can
read it on Monday if we do not wish
to lose it.
Curtis J. Lyons.
�THE FRIEND
6
CANOEING FROM LAHAINA
Beautiful for situation and royal in its
wealth of surrounding Islands, Lahaina is
alone in the world in the possession of scenic
and climatic features which have always endeared it to the race of native chiefs, and to
many others, as well, who can afford to live
without work. The dominant feature is its
mountain backing Lahaina is a village in
the middle of a narrow seashore plain fifteen
miles long, and from any point on this seashore, the eye can follow up the mountain
ridges, broad at the base and of easy rise at
first, but ever narrowing, until they cluster
into a ragged crown, six thousand feet above
the ocean, yet not eight miles away!
This mountain barrier shuts off the trade
wind, and Lahaina roadstead is as smooth as
the proverbial millpond, though a brief time
may bring the sailor to a wind-tossed portion
of Neptune's domain of a very different quality. Four channels lead into this inland sea.
from the north, from the west, from the
south, and from the southeast, and each has
its own significant name. The islands which
make these channels are seen most comprehensively from the hill back of the town—
Molokai on the right, stretching westward;
Lanai directly in front, blocking the ocean
on the southwest; and Kahoolawe, long and
low, on the left, running southwestward. Under the morning sunshine this water is so
clear that I doubt if even the "Vesuvian bay"
depths
is worthy of more praise. No slimy patches
are here, but clean, white sand with ground
of darker coral rock, an ideal holding
for ships in five to twenty fathom water; and
air for
in color—Nature has here made liquid into
it
ages, by the cubic mile, and pressed
the blue of forty tropic skies! Nor is the
sight alone gratified. When a Honolulu
steamer arrives, whether it be at midnight or
at early dawn, and the tumbling of Kaiwi
channel is left far behind, and anchor is dropped, there comes to the traveler a sense of
perfect peace —is not this one of the senses?—
and from the cloudless mountain which dark-to
ens the starlit sky like a great wave ready
break, comes the gentle land breeze like a
refreshing bath; and with the breeze, the fragrance of sugar cane fields, and a delicate bint
of tomato gardens and ripe musk melons;
and for music, the perpetual booming of the
surf, a giant's lullaby.
Lahaina was the fourth station occupied by
American missionaries. Messrs. Stewart and
Richards being assigned to it by the general
vote. Twenty years after that time, there
were nine mission families at the stations
which grouped about Lahaina and fifteen at
the stations on the other three islands. The
work was vastly increased: the awakened nation hung upon the skirts of the teachers almost a dead weight; it was a serious problem
with these teachers how to preserve their own
vigor and to keep their work everlastingly
moving, and the number of broken lives
among them seemed to show that the two
needs could not be harmonized. The practice
and
of itinerating, or exchanging stations
work periodically, was an alleviation, though
not all shared in this plan; the annual gathering at Honolulu brightened the spirits of all
who thus met brethren and sisters, but the
going and coming in the schooners of those
or canopied stretcher, or even the plebeian
ox-cart would be called into requisition; but
as most places could be reached by sea, what
could be more natural than to use the facile
canoe and a stalwart crew, which could be
had at short notice by "touching" the konohiki,
or head man of the place.
In 1843 and thereabout, the writer was a
junior member of his father's family, then
living at Lahainaluna, and a happy participant
in some of these visits by canoe. These visits
were one or more in each direction to Molokai, and to Wailuku and Makawao via Maalaca Bay—and they were crowded with
pleasurable incident of which memory retains
only salient points and a general impression.
As the voyage was to commence in the
night, we made a general move to Lahaina
late in the previous afternoon. My man, Kahananui. a High School hoy. first decorated
his pony with sundry baskets and bundles
assigned to him, then got himself into the
saddle, and me behind him on the saddle
blanket. I gave no care to the rest of the
family, but in some fashion we formed a caval-
cade ami crawled down the hill through two
miles of dusty road to the sea. then, turning
to the left, were in Dr. Baldwin's yard, or in
Mr. Richards' yard, next adjoining. Now began the exhilaration of travel, in new children
to play with, new books to look at, new trees
to climb; for each of the mission houses had
a magnificent spreading Icon tree in its front
yard, and numerous kukuis made a shady
grove. We children were put to bed on
shakedowns on the upper front veranda, and
went to sleep soothed by the twittering of cocoanut leaves and the muffled monotone of
the eternal surf. At three o'clock, by the
stars, the light of a lantern and men's vocies
in the yard below, with a subdued call,
brought us to our feet, wide awake. Then
was hurried dressing, and gathering up of
portable property and a hasty lunch of dried
beef and biscuits forced upon us by maternal
providence, for the real center of excitement
was across the road, where the canoe was to
be launched, and oh—if we should be too late
to see! If this particular occasion were a
trip to Molokai, it was Hitchcock's double
canoe that was in waiting, anil Mr. Hitchcock
himself, always the personal conductor of
such visits, was here and there among the
buzzing crew, anil compelled obedience by
his piercing voice.
The Hawaiian's safe harbor for bis beloved
canoe was beyond the upper edge of the land
beach, out of reach by its adopted element.
A small canoe would be picked up and carried
down the slope, but a heavy one was treated
to a slideway of rushes or grass, to prevent
abrasion of its smooth bottom. A line of
men on each side of each canoe of the pair
took the word from their captain, a prolonged
shout Ho
ending with an explodcnt
('! when every bowed hack would straighten
up. and the canoe would glide forward ten
feet, then await a fresh hold and another encouraging shout; and so. by easy advances,
the marriage of Ship and Sea came about.
After that came the clattering of numerous
paddles; the mast and furled sail were taken
aboard; the small freight was stowed in the
forward and after ends under deck, and
boxes and bales around the sides of the central raised platform, all well lashed to place;
the impedimenta of the travelers was bestowed
in the sky cabin thus formed; and. last of all.
days was an excruciating purgatory, too the travelers themselves, each on the broad,
were earrietl until we
wasteful of life and time to be undertaken bare back of a kanaka
our
except in dire need: but the interchange ol could find foothold and scramble up lo
short visits, where nearness made them easy, perch.
was common, and it cultivated the habit of
Thus was the embarkation, about 4:.i0 a. in.:
hospitality which lives in the country to this and while the canoe, after passing Black
Rock, hugs the shore for the sake of smooth
For these visits, when an inland trip was to water and speeds on under the impulse of a
t : made, the "missionary horse," the mancle stiff bread-fruit breeze, as a dozen paddles may
be called, let us unfold the points of interest
in this remarkable craft.
The waa kaulua, or double canoe, was of
the class used in the "navy of invasion and
warfare fifty years before. The artisans who
built them followed faithfully an artistic ideal,
which is wholly ignored in so-called models
sold in these days. Some fish can be found
of which, if supposed to be free from the
surface irregularities of fins and gill covers
and cleft horizontally from motinth to tail, cue
lower half would be a good model for the
universal canoe, but with the ends reversed;
for the "entrance" of a canoe is long and the
"run" short, and all the "lines" are "full." I
have no measurements of Mr. Hitchcock's
canoes, but offer the following estimates as
Length, 45 feet;
nrobably not far wrong.
greatest depth. 3 feet; greatest width, 18
inches; distances between canoes, 9 feet: length
of pola (lengthwise plank between the canoes,)
20 feet; platform, a temporary expansion of
the pola, 8 by 10 feet, and 4 feet above the
water; number of rowers in each canoe, six.
Each canoe was dug out of a koa log that
was without knot or flaw, shaped with perfect
symmetry, smoothed with pumice stone and
polished black with kukui nut lampblack
ground in kukui oil and rubbed in. The moo,
or gunwale, was a long stip as wide as the
hand and stained yellow, one on each side
of the canoe, giving strength and finish to
the edges, the two coming together in a
graceful, twisting curve, both forward and
aft, and forming the upright terminal called
manu. or bird. The narrow space at each end
was covered by a long triangular deck board,
called kupc; and these various parts were sewn
together and lashed down to the canoe with
cocoanut fiber sennit so artistically that very
little of this rope work was visible. Strong
but light, arching beams called iako. yoked
the canoes, and these were lashed down to
short cross pieces within the canoes, which
were caught under projecting cleats of the
koa wood. The pola was lashed to the highest
Dart of these arched beams, and a further
frame work of poles and boards made a platform for the accommodation of warriors, noncombatants or freight, as the case might be.
We reached trade wind at daylight and
changed our course to the left oblique to cross
the channel The short mast was stepped in
a bole near the forward end of the pola, and
guyed in four directions and the mainsail was
shaken out. It was not a large sail, but it
pulled wonderfully in a free wind. The rear
man in the port canoe was captain; the other
rear man was lieutenant, and both steered
when steering was necessary. The rate of
paddling in a seaway was about sixteen
strokes a minute. At frequent intervals the
paddles were changed from side to side, and
the captain gave the signal to change by two
claps of his paddle against the canoe: thus,
stroke 10. clap; stroke 11. clap; stroke 12,
over; and twelve paddles at once glittered in
the air and dipped again, and the rthythm was
unbroken. This movement was generally executed with perfect precision and in the sunshine it was beautiful. Kaluaaha church was
the land mark we steered for.—a white block
on the horizon when first discerned, and alternately in sight and out of sight below the
water. But we gradually "raised" it, and,
according to accounts, it still stands. Kaluaaha landing is a channel through the reef, attributed to an outflow of fresh water. The sea
swells make rollers in this channel, and as
three consecutive rollers out of seven, or else
four out of ten—authorities differ—are breakers, there is a call for wise alertness in the
pilot in order to avoid discomfiture. According to Solomon, there is a time to lie, on your
oars, as well as a time to pull for dear life.
(Continued on Page It)
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THE FRIEND.
to equal the
expense they cause the Territory.
This is a cold blooded proposition because it simply makes dollars equal dollars in the Territorial Treasury.
Edited by : : : : REV. W. D WESTERVELT
It does not give the least kindly
to the suffering caused in unthought
Rev. J. C. Kirby, pastor of the strong
by the use of intoxicants.
told
measure
Adelaide,
GAMBLING.
Port
Congregational Church in
shows how the government is
only
It
Australia, has been spending three
cheated in all its business
1896-7 i8o8"9 '9°° 1901-2 continually
weeks of his vacation in Honolulu. He
dealing with the saloon.
....4,146
2,060
6,209
4,358
the
camArrests
in
temperance
of
interest
is full
paign and is surprised to see the num- Convictions.. 2,861 3,419 L745 4*9*
ber of grog shops which already infect
The history of liquor legislation in
OFFENSES AGAINST THE PEACE.
our beautiful city.
the present legislature does not show,
so far, the increased restrictions of the
Chief Justice Frear has sent in his
1896-7 1898-9 1900 1901-^.6 liquor traffic which had been hoped for.
valuable report for the years 1901-1902. Arrests ....2,092 2,461 1,231 3-09
668 1,900
It covers a number of suggestions as .0 Convictions.. 1,208 1,475
The saloon clement secured legal adneeded changes in the present laws, and
vice
and prepared Bill 21 to regulate the
HOMICIDES
MURDERS.
AND
criminal
the
civil
and
cases
reports fully
traffic. The bill had many goo 1
liquor
coming before the different courts durqualities
in that it restated many of tho
1
a
1900
[901-3
896-7 .98-0
ing the past two years.
20
.Arrests
58
15
47 crimes and penalties of'the laws of pre16 vious years. The Senate has wisely
11
12
9
It is interesting to note that the civ'l Convictions..
amended this bill by cutting out some
cases have decreased from 7,19/) in 1899offenses
property
Aresti
for
against
very objectionable features.
The
On the
-1900, to 5,056 in 1901-1902.
"Miscellaneous," licenses of all classes arc certainly
other
crimes
called
and
cases
have
inthe
criminal
other hand
period 1901-2, amount to 7,196. placed very low—and there has been
creased from 18.849 in 1889-1900, to 21.- for the
note that out of the criminal cas:s scarcely the least attempt to restrict the
We
alof
increase
-752 in 1901-1902. An
aggregating 21,752, fully two-third*, lumber or location of saloons. A wide
most 3,060 cases in two years.
14.556 are very closely related to the ipen door has been placed before saloons
of intoxicating liquors and are allowing them to locate in all parts 3f
use
For some time past High Sheriff
among the direct results thereof. The the Territory, wherever County Superadvanced
the
Brown has persistently
against property, such as thefr., visors may grant licenses. Every one
claim that the increase of beer saloons crimes
etc.,
and
the miscellaneous crimes, would in these islands knows the quality ol
has
during a part of the years 1001-lOOi
include
sufficient
cases caused by the use supervisors we are liable to have in ala
blessand
was
actually
lessened crime
to overbalance all of the most all our counties. It is not yet too
of
intoxicants
ing to the community.
which by some possi- 'ate for the Senate and the House to
It is worth while to quote the "Report other two-thirds
have
been
committed by per- wake up to the fact that they are permight
bility
of the Chief Justice for the years 1901
of liquor.
not
influence
mitting some very careless legislation to
sons
under
the
understand
facts'.
and 1902" in order to
Thoughtful men of all political par- dip through their fingers, if they do not
ties should recognize the enormous ex- in some way provide protection for their
DRUNKENNESS.
pense entailed upon the Territory of constituents.
lawaii by the use of intoxicating liquors.
1898-9 1900 1901-2 ITwo-thirds
of the expenses of the Judi2,281
2,008
2,192
3.950 ciary
Our native members of the Senate
its
and of the Attorney vote as a unit
Department,
ictions.. 1,853 2,078 2,183 3-775
in favor of intemperance.
includes
the
General's Department which
temperance and "vote" the
"talk"
They
cost of all the Territorial police system,
CONVICTIONS IIY NATIONALITIES.
other way. It seems strange that they
and of the jails with the care of prison- more than all other members of the Legtheir terms of confinement — islature do not prove true to the welfar:
1896-7 1898-9 1900 190 1-2 ers during at
6
two-thirds
least would he wiped out of the Hawaiians. They know that their
10
9
ese
19
nese
160
n.S
3<>3 by the removal of crimes caused by the >\vn people are most easily influenced to
134
201 use of intoxicants.
105
92
uguese .86
lestrov themselves by drinking intoxiaiians.. .1,000 1,053
794 M39
liquors, and yet they vote contincating
rs
588 789 1,163 J 76i When the amount of money received ually on the liquor side.
for licenses is placed by the side of the
Total ....1,853 2 078 2,183 3,775 outgo caused by the saloons, it is see 1
It was the vote of the native Senators
at once that the saloon-keeper does not
exlaid the "local option" bill on the
for
the
which
government
DISTILLING.
to
the
begin
pay
LIQUOR SELLING AND
classes
and
practically defeated it. It was
he
it.
Other
table
puts
pense to which
no
vote
Authorities
their
also which defeated the very
cause
the
18
1901-2
of
citizens
who
1896-7 398-9 1900
reasonable request of the strongest busiArrests
623 461 205 518 expense whatever because of theiraidper-in ness
firms of the islands for an amendConvictions.. 375
258 116 317 sonal relations, pay large taxesin to
revenue ment to the saloon-keepers' bill requiring
making up the deficiencies
caused by saloons. As one of the mo:t the filing of a petition signed by a maOFFENSES AGAINST CHASTITY.
cold blooded propositions possible the •oritv of property owners and lessees on
i8396-7 18B98-9 1900 1901-2 business men, on the ground of business both sides of the street of the part of a
7j6 only, might will demand that the licenses block in which the proposed saloon h
Arrests
593
207
414
397
267 138 432 of saloons should be placed so high as to be located.
TEMPERANCE ISSUES
....
11896-7
I
....
...
....
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THE FRIEND
The Responsibility of Christian People for Public Morality
It is not intended in the use of the
above title to intimate that Christian
people are the only ones who have such
responsibility. Duty is not a matter that
belongs to Church or sect alone: it pertains to all people alike, in proportion to
their knowledge and power of performance. No one can claim exemption tithe general principle, much less, to the
particular application of it in the maintenance of morality in the community ami
nation to which lie belongs. The Savior,
however, said to his disciples, "ye ate
the salt of the earth." "ye arc the light
of the world." These words stein to
indicate that whatever might DC the duty
of non-Christian people,'il was by Christians that the world would be saved,
From the fact that they arc "the light
of the world," and are as "a cit\ set on
a hill." they occupy a peculiar vantage
ground which invests them with a special responsibility toward their fellowmen around them.
So far as these words reveal what
that responsibility is, it would seem to
be conveyed in the word "light." The
Christian is first of all to shine. The
first condition of morality is a clear perception-of the truth which underlies ir.
This truth the Christian is to make dear
in speech and life. It is his responsibility to place his lamp upon its lamp-stand
and keep it burning with a clear Mill
Steady flame. It is his peculiar business to sir that this is done. It is no
part of his duty to put a shade over his
lamp or to dim its radiance in order to
make it easy for the bleared eye of the
world to hear its light. The trouble is
not with the light; it is with the eye.
To one who has been shut up in a dark
room for a long time, the light of the
sun is at first painful, but the fault is not
in the sun. it is in the weakened organ
of vision. I.lit it should not on that account he withdrawn or covered up.. The
lisrhl of the sun is what it needs, and a
little exnosure will cure the defect. Ami
so Ihe Christian should have confidence
in his lamp. When he hears the World
round about him crying out that he s
an tihl fotrv. anil that his leaching is oh:
of date, he need not he troubled—nay. he
may even reioice. for this is a hopeful
svmutnm. The trouble is not \< ith his
litsdit : it is only the cry of pain from the
uc-ikcncd eve. The truth often hurtt.
lint it should not on that account he withheld or ohsi-iireil It is Ibe rwilv remedy
thai "ill effect a enn- of the evil, and
the Christian should never doubt its
power, or hesitate to present it.
The reason for all this is, that the
evil must always he to wither, as the germs of disease die
There can he no compromise under the clear air and sunlight.
Hut it should be remembered that radbetween gooil and evil, rijrht and wrong.
(iod himself will not accept the sinner till ical measures are not violent measures.
he has completely disowned and aban- Many of the most powerful forces are the
doned his wickedness. Paul describes gentlest. The forces that lift the Rowers
the process as that of crucifixion. Un- into new life after a winter's sleep, arc
til thai process has been gone through not violent, hut they are radical. They
with, the man is held strictly responsi- remove the difference between barrenness
ble for all his sin. Is there not a sug- and beauty, life and death, Likewise a'!
gestion here of what the Christian's at- the measures that Christian people may
titude toward evil should be? There is be obliged to adopt in the struggle
certainly no suggestion of half-way against evil should he tempered with the
measures. If the individual sinner can Christian spirit. Their action will gain
neither obtain nor enjoy the blessedness its intensity' not from their pleasure in
of eternal life without the radical expul- destruction, but from their joy in the
sion of sin from his own life, no iiuir,' deliverance of their friends ami neighcan there be a pure morality in a com- bors from sin and peril. They nms' remunity without the destruction of those sist evil, not because the duty :s theft's
forces which work against it. Christian alone, but because from their vantagepeople therefore, as the ones on whom ground they are better able to cope with
a special responsibility has been laid for ii. Non-Christian people will not accept
promoting and upholding morality, duty in any comprehensive or all—inshould not shrink from radical measures. clusive sense. They accept such as is
When worldlincss and wickedness invade agreeable lo their desires or feelings, or
the church and the school, and threaten such as the claims of self-interest may
the home, and endanger the character 1! dictate; hut those duties thai call for the
children ami young people, it is recre- abandonment of selfish indulgence ami
ancy to a most sacred trust for Christ- the endurance of sacrifice or hardship for
ian people to hold back from thi-ir full larger ends than their own advantage,
Ihev will not usually assume. Hence the
responsibility.
It would, therefore, appear that Chris- call to duties that are disagreeable, perHan people have not only the duty of haps, or which require the placing of the
letting their light shine, hut they must larger interests of the community or the
sometimes remove the things which world personal ease or advantage, must
binder its radiation. There arc those he to those- who have learned from the
who love darkness rather than light be- Master to take up the cross and follow
cause their deeds are evil. Nothing will him.
dissipate deeds of darkness quicker than
Thus the call comes to Christian people
'bdit. and it is often the responsibility of to guard the moral interests of the comChristians to remove the cover from evil munity in which the live. The clear dismil let the lit/lit in upon it. Tlv pro- tinction between right and wrong they
'•fss may he painful and disagreeable, hut are not to lose sighi of;
ami they are ,o
;t is the only effective and certain wsv speak out their convictions. A dumb
\ parcel of ground whose soil has he prophet accomplishes nothing, and .1
■mii' infected with the trerms of olagtte. silent religion has little (lower.
The
is most quickly and effectively cleanse 1 insidious and apparently harmless, apby nutting in tin- plow and turning it up proaches of evil are to be watched for
•o the sun. The process may he 1111- and promptly exposed. This calls for
-'ih-nsant. hut it is the wav of safety. constant vigilance as these insidious
When comintion Rets into the life of a forms of evil lurk among all our every'•ominnnitv. there arc two ways of deai- day relations and associations and quickinef with it. One is to make a highly ly take root unless promptly eradicate!.
-m»merited cover for it. of respectable When any person has yielded to first
ii-sitrn nnd try to conceal it. and tin- solicitations of any course of evil, he has
iiber is; tv expose it Rv the one method. .placed himself in tin- direct line of desii tries on "iirkino like leaven in the cent toward the state of the man who
-lark snrenilino- from person to nerso'i is its worst victim. It may he a long
•■ml from f-unilv to foiiiilv till the wbu't- step from ihe man in the gutter to the
"tutiint.iiv is tainted. There is no soft- man who drinks in a moderate way In
»t- from it run-where: |in out- cm 1.-.I the privacy of his own house, hut the
■••1-ii-ti his family r»r bis fri**nds mnv he •■utter is the natural conclusion of his
P.;- tit'- cither course. Tt may he a far course from the
'-lbrl-it.'d hv t'tc titncli
-ii'tbod evil is hrniirrbr to the lio-ltt. ri" I nolished and successful libertine to the
can he located and avoided, and be made first suggestions of uncleanncss, hut the
treatment of moral
radical.
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one is the natural outcome of the other.
The life of a community is only an aggregate of individual lives, and any
course' that leads to the .corruption ol
the one leads in the same direction in liltother. Who is to cry out against all the
subtile forms of sin that corrupt public
morality and resist them al every point
if not the Christian? This is his responsibility from which he may not shrink.
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HAWAIIAN MISSION
CHILDREN'S SOCIETY
A
LETTER PROM MR. R. S. ANDREWS
Manila, Feb. i, 1903.
Hear father; —I am now on the supply ship Celtic, which is employed in the
commissary department, bringing beef.
mutton, etc., from Australia to the ships
nil this Station. Il is said the beef contract has been given to a South America 1
company and that the Celtic will therefore go "home" from here, which means
Most of the
the Brooklyn navy-yard.
men here are- from are eastern stales and
many on this ship are "short timers,
who have one war or less to serve, an 1
are consequently on their way home ta
he discharged, ddiis is an case ship I"
work on as she is not a man-of-war i 1
any sense of the word.
There are no
drills and the officers are not so strict
about uniform and etiquette as on a regular ship. The rations are good and
everything is more orderly and pleasant
(ban on the over-crowded Solace. There
are about a hundred men aboard- coal-
'
passers, firemen, machinists, engineers,
seamen and signal bins, who arc apprentices. There are two electricians besides me. I stand a four hour watch ill
the dynamo room each night, have
charge of the deck lights and help tile
chief with any little job that comes Up.
The dynamo is small, carrying about
seventy-five lights and work is therefore
ddie whole Asiatic
not too plentiful.
Reel is now assembled in Manila bay,
Admiral Evans in command. His flagship is the Kentucky a regular fort,
and so broad of beam that on one occasion when she was entering an English
the Britishers all said. 'Look a:
port,
the bloody Yankee coming in sideways!"
and were astonished when they got 1
closer look. (You needn't believe this
if you don't want to"). Tomorrow the
licet will disband, each ship going to her
own station, some to China and Japan,
others to remain in Philippine waters.
We expect to go to Cavite tomorrow to
coal and then, if we go. to New Yor'<
by wav of Suez. T may get mv transfer
,
to Annapolis, which Lieut. Rodman said
he would try to arrange for me. 1 would
like to go East hy way of Honolulu an 1
San Francisco, hut ot course, what the
officers say goes.
We made the' trip from Honolulu to
Guam in eleven ami one-fourth day-.
The' first land sighted was Saipan, of the
Padrone group, held by Germany and
inhabited by ten Germans and l-'oo seiuisavages from some islands in the vicinity of Africa, who were' brought to Guam by the Spaniards ami deported by
the Americans because of their filthy
habits and general worthlcssncss.
Saipan is a low lying island, barrel,
almost treeless, with no harbor and somewhat larger than "l.anai. Guam is the
only one of the group that is good for
much and is the only one the Americans
considered worth keeping. All the rest
are held by Germany, hut they have no
ships or furls to guard them. Guam is thirty miles long and perhaps fourteen wide.
The north-west part is a
plateau about 125 feel above' sea-levci
ami is thickly wooded. Then conies a
hilly piece of country, the upper half of
the hills being barren, while the lowtr
pails arc heavily wooded right down to
the water's edge. CoCOattUtS anil bananas are the commonest fruits.
( >n a little bay al the foot of a hill
is Agana, the capital, with may be 2,500
inhabitants, but the landing and naval
depot is al San Luis d'Apra. seven miles
east. There arc about 12,000 or
people on ihe island, scattered everywhere in little villages. The native ( Ii linorros look somthing like our half-Chinese in Honolulu and go around in ragged clothes with their shirts hanging
out. There are a number of Japanese
and Chinese here as sit ire-keepers, etc.
I met Louis Castillo, who will go lo
Honolulu by the Solace on her return
trip, accompanied by his family, to confer with the Salvation Army people regarding work in < itiani.
From Guam to Manila was a live days
trip, the last tlav being spent in steaminr;
through the San Bernardino channel,
separating Luzon,-on the north, fro 11
several smaller islands to the south. At
the entrance of the bay, which opens
west, is Corrcojdor island, which is to
he fortified. The bay is so larirc as to
be a gulf, but so shallow near shore thai
a ship must lie about a mile out. transferinu cargo and passengers in small
boats. For freight, "cascos" are used:
boats built of some kind of edose-graincd.
heavy native wood, about ninety fe -t
long ami twelve wide. There are bamboo awnings at each end as shelter for
the crew, and bamboo foot ways along
the sides to walk on. The how and stern
are shaped canoe-fashion and painted in
bright colors in all sorts of curious palterns. The liiini boatmen and fishermen
use small canoes called "bancas" shaped
much like Hawaiian canoes but with a
bamboo outrigger on each sidi or else
with none at all. They use big squar:,
brown sails made of hemp. The city is
fairly clean, with narrow streets, elcctn:
lights, In use tars, Gamewell lire ami
police system being installed, and houses
seldom higher than tun stories.
Most
are of thin, red, native brick, plastered
outside and with steep roofs of red tiles,
hut many also have roofs of corrugated
iron, which must he pretty hot. The
wall of the walled city is to he torn down
ami used lo fill the moat outside the wa'l.
This moat is filthy, breeding so muc.l
disease the city is sometimes i|tiaran
tined nine months of the year. There is
no quarantine now. but I saw a great
many men with' crape on their ami:'.
There is great confusion in money matters here for a new-collier.
Mexican
coin is most common, ami two dollars
ami fifty cents are worth one dollar Am-
erican. Spanish, Portuguese, Prussian
and I long Kong coin is also in use and
rales the same as Mexican.
Prices arc
high, bill the people seem tolerably prosperous. There are both white and na ■
live 1 policemen. The Filipinos are small
like the lapanese and are frequently very
thin and slight of figure. I hear that
Aguinaldo has been appointed a judge,
ami is permanently settled in the walled
city, Cavite is a town of about 301x1
people, .with an old brick fort built by
the Spaniards, ami a navy yard and
sup-
ply depot. The mail orderly goes soon,
so I will close now.
I .ovc to all.
A'. S". Andrews.
U. S. S. Celtic,
Cavite. P. I.
We quote the following, regarding a
of Dr. L. 11. Gulick of Hawaii, from
son
The
Congregationalist:
It is gratifying that a Christian gentleman
uf Mich line ItOCk, snd with so excellent .1
record, has been placed in charge of the physical training department <>f the public schools
of <Irester New Yuri..
Dr. Lv b r 11. Gulick is a graduate f Oberlin College, anil for ,-i long time has contriV
tlted 'ii various ways to tin- building up of
the iplendid physical department of the 'I'.
M. (' A .tiiil always has utilized his ttppo.'-tuiiitii-s to reach youth fur their spiritual as
well as their physical betterment, anil this
directly as well as indirectly.
,
1
Mrs. Chamberlain, wife of Key. J. P.
Chamberlain, has come to Maui to make
her daughter. Mrs. Aiken, a long visi*.
ami will also visit her relatives in Honolulu.
Miss M. A. Chamberlain leaves on
April 14th, for a visit to the mainland.
She goes to attend her class reunion at
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Mt. Holyoke College, it being the fiftieth anniversary of its graduation. She
will contribute to the Cousins' page of
Tin-: Friknp during her absence.
Mr. VV. R. Castle Ir., has received and
accepted an invitation to the position of
instructor in English in I harvard University. We understand that he is soon :o
leave ror the East.
RECORD OF EVENTS
Feb. 26.—John R. Mott. in transit per
Sierra, addresses the Y. M. C. A.
March Ist.—The past month the coldest on record in Honolulu. .March comes
in not "like a lion," but very meekly.
2d.—Grant of $200,000 to Ex-Queen
Lilitiokalani defeated in U. S. Senate.
6th.—James H. Boyd, cx-Supt. of
Public Works is acquitted on one charg.:
of embezzlement, anel nolle prossed on
two more.—Curator l.righam of Bishop Museum secures a series of phonographic records of ancient Hawaiian oils
or lyrics chanted by veteran natives from
Lunalilo Home.
Bth.—Hon. James H. l'lount dies at
Macon, Ga. He was Pres. Cleveland's
noted "Paramount" Commissioner to
Hawaii in 1893, and was highly esteemed hy partizans of Hawaiian Royalty.
10th.—At 1 :.30 p. m., passed away
Prince Albert kukailimoku Kuntiiakea,
the last surviving descendant of Kamehameha I and Kamehameha 111, as well
as the noted John Young.—Acquittal of
Nigel Jackson on charge of burning
Friel residence, alibi being proved.
nth. —8 a. m., burning of Fort St.
House, corner of Fort and Vineyard Sts.
Lodgers lose nearly everything —Insurance $4,500, on building only.
12th.—Unusual lunar halo.—Draft f( r
$7000 cabled to Washington to bring out
here the $1,000,000 Fire money.
15th.—State Funeral of Prince Albert
Kunuiakea, after lying in state in former
Throne room. Remains deposited ia
Royal Mausoleum.
19th.—Meteorologist Lyon reports
February to have been the coldest month
on record in Honolulu. New Chinese
Minister Liang Cheu Tung arrives—alsi
Ex-delegate Wilcox gets home.
20th.—Charles Wilcox, brother of tluex-delegate, anel disbursing officer of
Public Works, is arrested for embezzlement of $2,337.85.—Road Supervisor C.
G. Dwight resigns under a cloud.
27th.—March, proverbially stormy,
has been wholly lamb-like, this being the
thirty-third day of unbroken briglr,
calm, cool weather, with only half an
inch of rain.
29th.—Tragedy in Oahu Prison. Kj-
aptini shoots Nahalc-a, and then himself.
Both men were serving life-sentences for
murders; both were "trusties," and botn
were drunk.
DEATHS
GOOD —In San Francisco, Feb. 16, Captain
John Good, aged 54 years, who fired the
first shot in the dethronement revolution.
RKID—In Hilo, Feb. 26, Dr. R. H. Reid.
aged 29 years.
CORKY—At Waikiki. March 2. of Dropsy.
Walter R. Corey of Rochester N. V., aged
,10 years.
DOWNARD—At Waiaholc, Oahu, Feb. 3>
Win. 11. Downard, aged 69.
NUNUIAKKA—III Honolulu. March 10,
Prince Albert Kiinuiakea. aped 51 years.
POGUE —In San Francisco, Feb. 21, Samuel
Whitney Puguc. brother ol VV. F. Poguc,
aged 54 years.
[RWIN—At Las
March
Hilo.
Cruccs. New Mexico,
Dr. Prank Irwin, formerly of
1,
March 16, George
T. CavanSUgh, aged 4.'- years.
BERRY—In Honolulu, March 23, Capt. Horatio Henry' Berry, aged 75 years, native of
bath. Me.
WUNDENBURG—In Honolulu. March 25,
Miss Antoinette Wiinilctilnirg. aged '56
years.
CAVANAUGH—At Hilo,
San Bernardino, California.
March 30. Ferdinand Ward Clark, formerly
of Hawaii and Rochester, N. Y.
WOLFE—In Honolulu, March 30, Charles
CLARK—AI
Fredrick
sident.
Wolfe, aged
65
years, an old re-
PALI—At Lahaina. March 28. Mrs. Kalilia
Poholopu Pali, aged 63, write of ex-pastor
Pali.
MARRIAGES
plenty. ' Nearly everything has had its
turn, from the sidewalks in front of the
superintendent's house to the reason why
the lepers are not catered to by Delmonico or Sherry, and vast amounts of time
have been wasteel by our legislature in
this amusement.
The most prominent measure before
us now is undoubtedly the County Bill.
With a legislature, both parties of which
are pledged to some measure which
would put the Territory on a county
basis, it seems surprising that an agreement cannot he reached regarding the
form of the law.
We are assured, at the time we write,
that there are only two more stages and
the Republican County Pill will become
a law, but whether those two will be
safely passed remains yet to be seen.
Freak bills have not disappeared fro.v
our lists. Put not all the bills that have
been introduced have heen of this class.
We cannot run them all over, we cannot
even call them all by name, but some especially seem to demand the support of
all good citizens. Foremost among
these should he put that looking towar 1
placing on a sure and recognized footing, a society for the prevention of cruelty to children. Strange as it may seem,
in this civilized land we have no law protecting helpless infants from the cruelty
of inhuman parents. Let us give our
hearty support, therefore, to any measure
tending to improve this condition.
There too is the bill giving the right
of appeal in cases of contempt of court.
That the offended party should himse'f
be judge, advocate and executioner;
that in the one case where man is most
likely to be unjust, there he should be
supreme, smacks of the feudalism an.l
oppression, of kingly prerogative rather
WALSH-KIRKLAND—At Kahului, Feb.
22, William Walsh of Puunene. to Miss
Mabel Kirkland ol Kahului.
SPARKS-TAVENNER—In Honolulu. Feb.
25. W. A. Sparks ol Kihci to Miss M. Tave nner.
COLLINS-HYDE—In Honolulu. March 19.
Dwight M. Collins, of Pittsfield, Mass., to
Miss Cornelia 11. Hyde.
HOYT-EUNNING—In Honolulu, March 19, than justice.
Sherman W. Hoyt. to Mrs. Marion M. Lim-
Happily the law that has heen rightly
ing.
PRATT-FI-.RGUSON—In Honolulu. March termed "a blot on our statute books,'
19. Dr. J. S. B, Pratt to Miss Sarah H. Perthat law which makes it a crime for a
from the torments of
il ARFORD-'IT.WSI .F.Y-March 23, at Vol- woman to escape
cano House, A. K. Harford of Pahala. Kan, life with a brutal husband, has been, by
to Miss Mary T. Tcwsley of Honuapo.
this legislature, wiped from our books.
ROBINSON-SMITH—At Eugene, Oregon.
The new opium law as proposed by
March 12. J. 1.. Robinson of Hilo. Hawaii,
Vida (Rep.) we believe would be 2
to Miss Winifred Derby of Eugene.
Honolulu, means of controlling, at least more than
BRKED-CHITTKNDFN—In
March 21. Francis Randall Breed, to Miss is possible at present, the keeping of dens
Florence Chittenden, of Fresno, California. where smoking of the drug mingles itself with almost every conceivable form
GENERAL
COMMENT
A full month has gone by, with its
usual cptota of working days, our Legislature has been "hard at work" and has
managed by dint of industry to pass sic
bills which have become laws. Two of
these provide for expenses, one for a
(lag for the Territory, and three have to
do with minor changes in our crimin tl
law. Of investigations we have had a
of vice.
The dental bill looks towards a better protection of our citizens from a
class of quacks who have come to us
from the mainland where they swarm.
A people is entitled to the best service
possible from its professional men, and
any measure aiming to attain that deserves our support.
All tho.se acts which increase the jurisdiction of the District Magistrates over
petit offenses are deserving of our sup-
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port. The spectacle of twelve good mc.i
and true, brought from their business
and made to sit in solemn array to decide whether a man is guilty or is not
guilty of the crime of picking up twohits' wortli of coal from the street, :s
ludicrous in its absurdity, yet the la-t
term of the First Circuit Court witnessed that very thing. So also the waiving
of a jury by the criminal in certain
cases should, in the interests of a speedy
trial, he granted, as provided hy another
hill now before the House.
What the value of the law to provide
for the preservation of forests will be
when the government sets such an example as.we have lately been forced to
witness at Thomas Square, we cannot
imagine, but we most heartily approve:
of the law. and pray that it may first l>?
applied where most at present it seems
needed.
ddie act to allow the garnishment -if
the wages of public beneficiaries would
not have been a crying necessity as it
now is. had the Territory taken the same
stand which the Treasurer of the United
States has taken, if it had told the body
of clerks in its employ that there was
no room there for the thief who robs
his victim hv means of fair promises
and the knowledge that the law will protect his income.
The bailiff law seems on a good way
to be repealed. What a hue and cry was
raised over that bill! Yet it has not
worked such terrible wrongs after all.
However, to put the calling of the juryas directly tinder the power of the judge
as this law did, does not seem altogether
wise, and the country can well stand a
W. L. W.
repeal of the law.
... Missionary Items ...
Under the title, "Tne
Educational Outloo<
EducationCNrth hina
in North China," Re.
T. Biggin, M. A., discusses in the March
number of The Chronicle of the London
Misssionary Society, the advisability of
uniting with' the American Board in the
education of young men—sending the
young men of his own Board's mission
to the college of the American Board lit
Tung Chow. Mr. Biggin's article is as
follows:
Now that the L. M. S. has decided not to
participate in the large Educational Union for
North China, we cannot hope to take more
than a secondary place m education at best,
and there is only one way that we here can see
of securing even that—viz., by union with
the American Board. The fundamental hometruth to grasp is this, that we cannot ourselves (except at a great outlay) educate ojr
students efficiently—about that there is complete unanimity in North China—we have
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not funds or men enough.
Now, in the preswork, the want of educated
helpers is keenly felt, and will be felt more
and more acutely as time goes on, causing
weakness in every department of work. Well,
in this "Union" scheme the American Boa-: 1
offer us far more than we could expect then
to do: they require no initial expenditure;
our boys secure a first-class education at a
cost about equal to that of the mediocre on;:
they get now; they will compare as men witii
those employed in other societies; our educational plan will be unified; and the Society';
work should in time be supplied with abc
Chinese workers in most of its branches,
though, at present, the medical training is not
provided for. If this scheme is rejected, I
do not see any prospect for my work here
at all; it will remain a small school of boys
of all ages and all stages of learning, inadequate for our needs, unable (because too
a/eak) lo control the standard of entrance,
and, in a. word— inefficient. The best boys
will, of course, go elsewhere.
T'ung Chun College will accommodate ijo
Students. This next year they hope to add
ent stage
of
our
another building to contain
large
assembly
rooms, class rooms, &c. The Academy—or,
as we say, High School —is also to have
separate buildings shortly, .but is at present
part of the College. The
grounds arc very extensive, the situation as
healthy as can be desired. There is a good
staff of teachers, and the men turned out -n
the past have been reckoned the best in tlvs
province. The fittings and apparatus are excellent, as also the arrangements for sleeping,
food. &c.
Our L. M. S. school at Peking has only a
number of rooms that might be tolerated (alter improvements) as a wash-house or scullery at home. Of course the comparison is
unfair, because we have no proper premises
accommodated in
now;
but compare with cither of the
plans
sent home for our school, and you will see
that so far as buildings go we are bound to
remain far behind what the American Board
provide at present, though this only represents about half of what their plans includ-.
If we are behind in buildings we are not
much better in other respects. They have
college and school, we have a school (of thr-'C
boys just now—reckoned as High School
boys') they have four or five missionaries set
apart fur teachinar. we have one (Dr.- Hart'i
work is totally different). They have ample
fittings and apparatus, we have some desk;,
benches, two blackboards, some maps antl
charts that I have bought.
The future here rests with the mission that
3d, and a letter from Mrs. Gulick to Mrs.
Your letters encourage us indeed.
Delaparte.
We are sorry that we arc unable to get a
second-hand type-writer and a mimeograpli.
We bad hoped for these to carry on the
work with, getting out S. S. lessons, lessons
and other books. However we shall wait,
trusting the Lord that He will in His own
time provide the means.
We received some fresh potatoes yesterday
from Sydney, and will do so hereafter, whenever the steamer lunches here. We thank
God for some fresh food. From home we
shall not need provisions for a number of
months to come.
* * * All the papers ar
rived with yesterday's steamer also. Many,
many thanks. What an interesting Christmas Friend !
With nmch love from all of us,
In great haste,
PH. A. DKI.APARTE.
A. R. GTJRREY, JR.,
Hotel
and
Alakea Sts., Honolulu.
Furniture Dc-
signed. Interior
Decorations.
Reproductions
of Old
Picture
Frames
Designed and
Art
the best and most efficient Christian
workers, and if we miss this chance for securing to our men the same advantages as
the American Board, we are seriously prejudicing our future interests.
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forded Mr. Delaparte
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the t6th of March. He writes to Rec.
O. H. Gulick as follows:
Nauru, Feb. 3d. 1903.
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of to New Zealand.
T have hist time to
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Yesterday the Oceana arrived a day ahead
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Gulick was able, by Oceanic S. S.
Sonoma, March iQ,«to forward to Mr.
Uelaparte via Sydney, a first class Remington type-writer, anel a mimeograph,
with a good stock of stationery supplies,
including five reams of type-writer paper. This will furnish Sabhath-schooi
lessons, and tracts for some months.
When
last reported
Dr. Scuddcr was on
the eve of leaving Kohe, Japan, for a final trip to Echigo and
other northern provinces, whence lahot
ers have gone for service in the cane
fields of Hawaii. He returns from earn
of his tours laden with hundreds of messages of love and solicitude to the farcountry wanderers, by loving parents,
brothers and wives.
He purposes to leave Yokohama, April
29th, by the largest ocean steamer in the
Pacific— the Siberia, and will meet a
warm welcome at Honolulu on the 9th
of May.
Dr. Scudder
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was Mr. Hitchcock in his glory as Adon the Molokai station. From bis elestation on the pola. he scanned the seas
c and behind, and shouted incessant orand cautions, and—l believe he never
to make a landing in triumph.
R. IV. Andrews.
CHURCH NEWS
The Committee on pulpit supply for
Central Union Church during the abscne-e of the pastor, Rev. Wm. M. Kincaid, consists of Dr. J. M. Whitney, Pro.'.
chapel was in charge of Mr. Henry
Waterhouse.
On the 2d of February, Mr. Henry
Judd was engaged by the Standing Committee of Central Union Church to take
charge of the work of the chapel until
September. The work at Palama has
been interfered with somewhat by the
prevalence of the dengue fever, but, at
the time of writing, it seems to be disappearing. The attendance keeps up
eptite well at both the Sunday evening
service and the Friday evening prayermeeting. On Sunday, March 22(1, the
largest attendance for some time was
present. The Sunday-school is continuing its good work and the average attendance is about eighty.
Mr. Clifton Tracy is superintendent of
the school.
The Reading-room adjoining the
chapel is in need of more literature. Old
magazines, illustrated papers, etc., are
greatly appreciated and can he left at the
room any evening except Sunday.
VV. D. Alexander arid Hon. Henr_••
These gentlemen hay;
Waterhouse.
nearly completed arrangements for a.l
the time of the pastor's absence. Re.
C. H. Daniels, D.D., of Boston, preached most acceptably on the first two Sundays. Rev. E. B. Turner of Kohala oc
copied the pulpit on the third, and Rev.
Mr. Hardin, Mr. Kincaid's successor i,i
Minneapolis, has consented to be here
for the succeeding seven Sundays. For
the remaining time the committee is corresponding with another gentleman
whom they will in all probability secure
ddie Church and Sunday-school great'y
regret that Mr. A. B. Wood feels compelled on account of ill-health to resign
his position as superintendent of the
Sunday-school. His successor has not
In February the Woman's branch
yet heen appointed.
Hilo, held a Thank-oflferins
ddie choir is preparing the Cantata. Hoard of
make up deficits in the treas
to
meeting
ser"Christ the Victor," for the evening
and invitations had hee.i
Notices
ury.
vice on Easter Sunday.
sent into every home, .so far as the committee could learn of them, whose memRev. John P. Erdman departed fro .1 bers would be likely to take an interest
Honolulu on lamiarv v\. and during in the work carried on by the Woman's
that month the work of the Palama Board.
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A full meeting and a generous contribution resulted from these appeals.
After opening remarks by Mrs. Nash,
who explained why such a gathering
was called a "Thank-offering" meeting,
the little basket went on its errand and
returned overflowing with tiny envelopes. The announcement that nearly—
or quite—one hundred dollars was in
hand, or immediately to be in hand, created enthusiastic applause. It sounds
much to this little struggling society.
The present objects to which it pledges
aid are the Hilo Free Kindergarten, the
very valuable work near the Waiakea
landings—a quarter sometimes called
"Hilo slums,"—and also special work in
their own tongue among the Japanese
of that neighborhood.
After the basket exercise, dainty little
bouquets were passetl about, to each of
which was attached an appropriate quotation, either Biblical or secular. Most
of them were read aloud.
Mrs. Hyde then offered a prayer of
thanksgiving and of petition for blessing
on the offering and the work. A short
musical program followed and a pretty
recitation, and the happy afternoon
closed with a social tea.
Over fifty ladies were present, which
is more than treble the number of the
society; and to their friendly lift the
warm thanks of the membership are due.
Also to Mrs. Nash, our new and efficient
president, who proposed and carried
through this plan to its successful end.
The Kohala Union Church has re- assistant on hand to take orders for such
cently been treated to a coat of paint work as can be done there.
In preparation for the annual field
which greatly improved its looks. The
Sunday-school of this church is in a tlay contest in May, the boys are drilling
flourishing condition, ddiis is largely in companies. Palama won the banner
due to the untiring efforts of its superintendent, Mrs. B. D. Bond. Recently
several families, each with a number of
children, have moved into the district.
On the night of the second Wednesday in January, occurred the annual conOfficers were
gregational meeting.
elected for the following year. Dr. '!.
D, Bond and Mr. E. C. Bond were
bosen deacons, ddic treasurer reported
that the church was free from de'it.
During the year four special collections
for the cause of benevolence are taken
up. ddiese collections are taken on Children's Day, Faster, Thanksgiving and
Christmas. They are usually given to
some worthy object in the district.
On Sunday, February 15th, the
Church gave up its service to hear Bishop Resterick in the Episcopal church.
Before the Bishop left for Honolulu, a
largely attended reception was given him
at the home of Mrs. Hind.
Rev. Charles A. Austin, the former
pa.stor of the Kohala Union Church,
now pastor of the Fir.st Prcsbytcria 1
Church in Hamilton, Ohio.
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The Boys' Brigade given recently about
the Boys' Brigade
work in the city, so perhaps some statement about the work may be of interest.
The Thursday evening entertainments
have been sucessful as a rule, and the
boys seem to appreciate what is being
done for them. These entertainments
are in two places —the basement of Kawaiahao church, and the Palama club,
over the Brigade's training school oti
King street, at the junction with Beretania street. Talks, stereopticon lecture',
vocal and instrumental music have been
provided by various ladies and gentlemen.
The attendance at these clubs varies
At the Palama club there is a good equipment of
gymnasium apparatus, graphophone,
electric lantern, etc.
The industrial department is progressing nicely. The boys in the afternoon
school make calabashes, hook-cases,
tables, koa boxes, etc., at very reasonable
rates.
The Wailuku Boys' Brigade was recently supplied by the shop with wooden
guns made entirely by the boys. Visitors
to the shop are welcome and there is an
according to the weather.
in
iyoi,
but last year the Kakaako boys
won in both the competitive drill and
the athletic sports.
Owing to the fact that it has been
found almost
impossible to settle upon
a
mutually satisfactory date, it has been
decided by the Honolulu Young People.
Christian Union to wait until June for
its next convention, and to make it a
notable one. The election of officers
will take place at that time.
LOST—The Constitution and ByLaws of the Honolulu Young People's
Christian Union. If you happen to have
it in your possession, it will receive a
cordial welcome on being returned to
the Secretary of the Union, care of Tip:
Friend.
THE MEETING
AT PUNA
The Spring meeting of the Hawaii
Association, which was held with the
church at I'ltula, Puna, was well attended by the people of the district. At each
meeting there was a good audience of
interested listeners. The usual numb.i
of pastors and delegates being also present.
On Sunday there was a largely attended Sunday-school exhibition, classes
being present from as far away as Kamaili.
ddic Association decided this year to
change its accustomed moderator, and
Rev. C. M. Kamakawiwoole was chosen.
Perhaps the event of greatest interest was
the resignation of Rev. L. K. Kalawe
from the ministry. This closes a sad
ministerial experience. Suspended from
the ministry three years aeo for immoral
conduct, Mr. Kalawe has continued
his sin to this day. The result is a violated home, a divided church and a vitiated communal life. The coming of the
Association to Puna was an evident
benefit to all. Rev. Kamoku is retired
from the care (Komike) of the churches
of Puna and Rev. Kamatt, the juelge of
the district, is put in his place. Mr.
Kamoku's only charge now is the church
of Olaa. There is a probability of Mr.
O. Z. Waikalai's leaving the Puna district and the charge of the united
churches of Kalapana and Opihikao.
These churches were visited by Evangelist Timoteo and the Secretary, and special meetings were held with good results. Here is a district in need of a
settled preacher, if one can only be found.
There is one compensation in this
great lack of preachers which we are
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feeling in the native work, the fact is
bringing the laymen to the front. No
less than six offered themselves to be
examined for licensure, to one of whom
a license was granted, ddiere is very
manifest in the natiye churches a great
need for a more careful and systematic
instruction of the young.
ddiis point
was emphasized in the meetings of the
Sunday-school Association, and it was
voted that Mr. Lydgate he asked to perfect and publish his child's catechism
on the life and teachings of Jesus us
soon as possible.
FIELDNOTES
HAWAII
The native church at Kohala will have to
it can during the absence of
S. W. Kekuewa, who has
been elected Chaplain of the present Legislature. Politics and church work do not go
get along as best
its pastor. Rev.
well together.
The Chinese church at Kaiopihi is anxiously awaiting the arrival of its new pastor Rev.
Clio Ping, who has been stationed at I.ahaina
for six mouths.
At the sacramental service
recently held at the church, two Chinese babes
were baptized.
The Japanese church and yard at Kohala
condition to
have just been cleaned —put in
welcome the new pastor, Rev,
who with his wife and child arc
first of March.
This church has lost ground
pastor left it eight months ago.
need of a new coat of paint.
Washiyama,
expected the
since its last
It is in great
The BuddbistS of this district are very active. They are building a temple at Kapaau—
are maintaining both a day school and a Sunday school. During the year Miss Koka has
worked very faithfully with her Kindergarten.
She has bad much to contend against in the
way of apathy and straitened finances. Notwithstanding these difficulties, she has developed a first-class kindergarten, which now numbers about thirty pupils. Since the starting of
this school, the greatest difference can be
noted among the children of the plantation
hands. Miss Koka is ably seconded by Miss
Gladys Akina. Miss Koka also conducts a
live Sunday school for the Japanese children.
girls, a drill with the youths and one weekly
During last year a suitable Hall was fitted
prayer meeting, assisting Rev. Desha. She up comfortably furnished at Eleele, on the
lias visited most of the homes. Practical re- new Mcßryde plantation, where services have
sults already appear.
been held by Mr. I.ydgate every second Sunday evening. In these services the community has shown a most commendable interest.
KAUAI.
Owing however to the transfer of the activities
member
During Rev. Mr. Kaili's absence Si
of the plantation to the new Mill, the gradual
of legislature. Judge Kakina will act as "Com- withdrawal of the population from Eleele, it
under
the
looks as though the Hall would have to be
mittee" in charge of the church
general guidance ol Rev. J. M. Lydgate.
moved also.
The Kauai Association meets at Lihue on
The Koolatl church recently indicated their
desire to call the Rev. J. Kanoho as the re- the Bth of April.
gular pastor of that large parish, but Mr. Kanoho conditioned his acceptance OB so large
oAiir.
a salary that they have been reluctantly forced
to withdraw the call.
Mr. N. Washiyaniu of central Japan, who
The Kapaa church has been very much im- arrived about a month ago for work under
proved by a coat of paint within and without, the auspices of The Hawaiian Hoard, has
together with other needed repairs.
entered upon the interesting and hopeful field
of Kobala where all his talents as an evangeRev. G. L. Kopa still continues his faithful list will be called into requisition. He finds
services to the Waitnea church, notwithstand- that the Buddhists in the interval since the
former evangelist left, have gained a hold.
ing the fact that he is now Police Justice
receives no compensation from the church. But he also finds most efficient aids in the
There is- I very general desire to have him persons of Rev. K. B. Turner ami Mrs. Koka.
reinstalled to the full charge of the church
which he has served so long.
Our wakeful evangelist on the Ewa plantaThe Rev. E. A. Baiihani preached to a large tion, Mr. M. Jingu expressing thanks for a
and appreciative audience in Liliuc. February few copies of the Kobe Christian newspaper,
the Asahi no Hikari, says, that he receives
15th.
for the use of the Japanese upon this great
There was a very successful Lawn Social plantation, ico copies of the Hikari, the Chrisat Hlcclc on the evening of February -'Ist, for tian Monthly, published by Mr. T. Okumura
the purpose of reducing the debt on the Eleele in Honolulu and also 110 copies of the Kuni
no Hikari the organ of the National TemHall, built mainly for Sunday Services.
perance League of Japan, published in Tokyo.
He adds "We have uo members of the Hwa
The Kauai "Minister's School" met February 6th. at Lihue, under the guidance of Rev. Temperance Society, and are increasing our
Mr. Lydgate The session was devoted main- number every month. Temperance is very
ly to the study of the Parable of the Pharisee important for both the laborers and for the
—the Publican—outline sermon work—criti- plantation."
Such a hopeful report gives evidence of
cism. There were also detailed reports from
the different churches represented, with a faithful and productive activity on the part
of the evangelist.
conference as to needs and methods.
—
Ily means of regular collections, the Ilanapepe Sunday School is laying aside a fund
Today is your day and mine, the only
witli which to furnish substantial prizes for
we have, the day in which we play
day
awarded
at
be
Christattendance,
regular
to
our part. What our part may signify in
mas.
the great whole we may not understand;
The Lihue Sunday schools, English and
but we are to play it, and now is our
stamp
have
the
Hammond
adopted
Hawaiian
time. This we know : it is a part of action
steadily.
Both
are
growing
schools
SVStem.
not of whining. It is a part of love, not
The Lihue English church under the pas- of cynicism. It is for us to express love
torate of Rev. Mr. Lydgate, is a regularly
organized union church of no particular de- in terms of human helpfulness. This we
nominational distinction, but congregational know, for we have learned from sad extendencies. Services are held every perience that any other source of life
Dr. James Wight is getting, ready to cele- in form and
morning except the last Sunday of leads towards decay and waste. David
brate bis 89th brithday. Though the weak- Sunday
each month. Considering the size and scatness of age is upon him be is still a regular
tered nature of the community the church at- Starr Jordan. Exchange.
attendant upon church worship.
tendance -5 good.
—
Rev. R. K. Baptist has been invited to conAn interesting growing Sunday school is
tinue as intructor in the Hilo Boy's Boarding conducted in connection with the church.
School for another year.
Both the church and the Sunday school have
won for
an abiding place and reRev. ErneSt da Silva has been confined to cognition themselves
in the community.
his bed by a fever.
The inauguration of this work dates back
Rev. L. Kalawe has been dismissed from the years.
ministry.
John Kcala of Hookena has received a
license to preach.
The work at Waiakea is most encouraging.
Miss Wight has opened her dispensary, and
eath morning has patients enough to keep
her busy from two to three hours. She has
charge of two sewing classes weekly, a
mothers' meeting, culture class with young
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The regular services are at
.». Jt
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In proof of this, read these veritable specimens of definitions, written by public
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"Stability is the taking care of a stable."
"A mosquito is the child of black and white
parents."
E. C. WATERHOUSE,
"Monastery is the place for monsters."
"Tocsin is something to do with getting
cor.
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and
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"Expostulation is to have the smallpox."
"Cannible is two brothers who killed each
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"There's plenty of things can happen a
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delicately.
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said
'He
Larry,
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The cheapest and most desirable lots offered for sale on the easiest terms: one-third
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�The Friend
HONOLULU,
VOL. LXI
EDITORIAL AND GENERAL
The Manager of Tiif: Emend beg.
remind its patrons that its, fiscal
is
year the same as that of the Hawaiian
Evangelical Association, who publish the
paper; consequently we trust our suhscriptions may be paid promptly, our year
leave to
closing in
June.
FRIEND
heartily welcomes Dr.
Scudder, who arrived Friday, May Kth.
from Japan. He has already many
friends here, and comes commended by a
large following of Japanese acquaintTin-:
ances acquired by much patient effort on
his part. He is attached to our largest
uork from a numerical standpoint, and
his talents and enthusiasm have already
been felt in our Hoard.
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H., JUNE, 190*
published it were a great host." She
spoke of the high place given to the
women by our Lord, so different from
the standard of the Jews of that day.
the afternoon of April 14.
There was an informal but interesting
discussion of woman's work on various
lines, after which reports of several committee's were heard. The committee on
the anti-cigarette movement among the
children of our public schools was very
encouraging, quite a large number of
pledges having been secured.
Something has also been done to encourage school children to save their
money by means of the school bank systtin. Other subjects of importance were
brought up.
The Advance quotes
Oxford Bibles
from the Literary
The Treasurer of the Hawaiian Evan- Digest the following facts concerning the
gelical Association, on his return from a production of Oxford Bibles. Those who
considerable absence on the mainland, fancy that the Bible is becoming antidiscovers a hopeful condition of the quated would do well to ponder these
Hoard's finances. We say "hopeful"—
that some of our money is in sight,
"for what a man seeth, why doth he yet
hope for?" A very large overdraft during the middle of the year was entirely
wiped out by the munificence of one of
our givers. This condition of affairs is
not likely to occur every year in the ordinary run of things, hence, although
there is strong reason to believe that we
may end the year without debt, provided
some of our usual generous donors help
as previously, the thought of next year
presents some difficult questions. We
are not afraid, however—"Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof." We trust
that our usual supporters will rally to
our aid, so that our hope expressed abovemay be realized, for "we with patience
wait for it."
not
The meeting of the W. C. T. U. this
month (or for the month of April) was
of more than usual interest. The subject
of the meeting was woman's work. The
leader, Mrs. Whitney, in her opening remarks, spoke upon the new rendering of
the verse in Psalms 68:11. "The Lord
gave the word. Great was the company
of those who published it," which, according to the new version, reads: "The
Lord gave the word. The women that
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facts, which show what is being done by
one alone of the Bible publishing agencies :
The Bible publication! of the Oxford Unihave been issued for three hundred years and can be published in 150 languages and dialects. Every yeai fuLWjoo tons
of paper are used for this purpoV*alorte. Orders for 100,000 Bibles are quite common, and
the supply of printed sheets is to great that
an order for half a million copies can be readily filled. On an average, from 30 to 40 Bibles
are furnished every minute, and this number
versity Press
can readily he
doubled. There are no fewer
than 110 different editions of the Oxford Bibles
in English, varying from the magnificent folio
edition for pulpit use to the "brilliant' Bible,
the smallest edition of the Scripture! in the
world. Of the Revised Version, four-
editions are published. More than
million copies of the revised New
Testament had been ordered before the
day of publication in May of 1881, and it is
claimed that the worlcingmcn of the establishment refused a bribe of some four thousand
pounds to furnish a copy of the book before
the day of issue. At the banquet held at the
four hundredth celebration of the beginning
of the art of printing in England by Caxton,
Gladstone took into his hands and exhibited
fo those present a copy of the Bible which had
lieen printed and hound entirely since midnight
of the preceding day. The preparation of the
"India paper" used by the Oxford University
press is a business secret of great value. Although frentiently imitated it has never been
equaled. The largest folio Bible printed in
Oxford measures 19 by 12 inches, and no erratum has as vet been found in it The "Brilliant Text Bible" measures 3% by 2% inches
teen
a
No.fi
and is % of an inch thick, and bound weighs
less than three ounces. In the seventeen years
since the Press has been under the management of Horace Hart, the number of employees
has increased from 278 to 650.
One or two
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appeared in our daily papers lately in re-
gard to interference on the part of MiGerman authorities with the American
missionaries in Ruk, Micronesia. Fuller
reports are now at hand in the papers
from the mainland. As there stated, the
facts are as follows:
On December 26th four of the stu-
dents of the Mission Training School at
Ruk were arrested on the charge of
preaching against the German government ; and after being kept in confinement till February 16th, they were taken
to Ponape, three hundred and fifty miles
away. Ponape is the island on which the
German Governor resides, and it is supposed that the students were taken there
for trial.
The American missionary resident on
Ruk is the Rev. M. L. Sanson, a missionary of the American Hoard. It is
stated in the reports that grave charges
were also made against him, but that he
was not arrested, although the captain
of the German warship behaved with
great insolence. The case has been
brought to the attention of the Department of State at Washington by the officials of the American Hoard, as the
missionaries under their direction are instructed to be loyal to the governments
under which they labor, and the officers
of the Board are consequently averse to
accepting the statement that it has been
otherwise in this case. Additional
ground for appeal is also given in th: .s
instance in the fact that when Germany
actiuired the Spanish possessions in Micronesia, it was stipulated by the United
States, and agreed to by Germany, that
the rights of Americans in the islands
should be preserved.
This episode, indicating as it probably
does, an unfriendly attitude toward the
American Protestant missionary work in
the German possessions in Micronesia,
introduces another complicating element
into a problem already full of difficulty.
The Micronesian mission is the most
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costly of all the American Hoard's missions as compared with its results, and
the Board has been trying" to make arrangements by which it could turn over
its work there to the Protestant societies of England and Germany, to whom
the various groups of islands belong, but
so far without success. It remains to be
seen what will grow out of this latest
development.
The growth of
The Teacher and the American instituPhilanthropist
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as they exist
tons
today is due in large degree to two types
of men, namely, the men who do the pioneer work in education antl religion, and
Christian philanthropists, who, as the
newer communities take on permanent
and settled forms, furnish the -means for
the support of those institutions which
conserve and perpetuate the work of the
earlier laborers. In the United States
these two types of men are seen in the
home missionaries and educators of the
western frontier, and the Christian men
of wealth of the eastern and middle portions of the land. These two classes of
men are the bulwark of American civilization and liberty, in that they uphold
the ideals of life essential among a people of democratic ideas, and endeavor to
incarnate these ideals in the people by
means of Christian schools and religious
institutions.
In Father Railey and Mr. Athertoii,
who have lately passed from earth, and
whose lives and work are described in
another part of this paper, we have representatives of these two types of men.
Roth were thoroughly American, and
their influence was such as to prepare for
and foster the American principles which
we now wish to see dominant in these
Islands. Father Bailey was the early
teacher and promoter of industrial enterprises. He worked with small means
among primitive conditions. He planted
ideas which have borne fruit—to what
extent no one knows—in the lives of the
Hawaiian people, and which had their effect in the formation of a Christian civilization.
Mr. Atherton reaped the material benefits which the earlier work made possible, and turned them back with a generous hand for the enlargement and firmer
establishment of the institutions founded
by the fathers, and for the inauguration
of such new ones as the changed conditions of the later years called for. There
are probably few, if any, of our institutions of the philanthropic and benevolent
kind that are not indebted to him in some
degree for their present status.
The two men wrought in different
spheres, yet they worked to the same
purpose in that the larger ends sought
THE FRIEND
by them lay in the higher interests of humanity. Such men are the world's benefactors, and richly deserve the respect
and gratitude of their fellow-men.
THE GOLDEN WEDDING OF REV.
EDWARD G. BECKWITH, D. D.,
AND MRS. CAROLINE P. ARMSTRONG BECKWITH
We can recall but four golden weddings that have occurred among our acquaintances of the Island community.
Mr. Beckwith, fresh from Williams
College and from the paternal home in
Great Harrington, amid the Berkshire
hills of Western Massachusetts, having
won the highest honors at Williams College, arrived in Honolulu in 1852 and
took charge of the Royal School on the
southwestern slope of Punchbowl.
On April 17, 1853, he was united in
marriage to Miss Caroline P. Armstrong, the oldest daughter of Dr. Richard Armstrong, then Minister of Public
Instruction and founder of the common
school system of these Islands, and the
father also of General S. C. Armstrong,
the founder of Hampton Institute for
the colored people.
For about five years Mr. Beckwith was
principal of the Royal School, in which
lie had for pupils the last sovereign and
one of the princesses of the Hawaiian
Islands, namely, Liliuokalani, and Princess Victoria. Besides these royal personages, many of the leading men ami
women of the past half century were
among his pupils. Mo algebraic equation
can reveal to human view the value of
the influence of this young Christian
teacher upon the minds and hearts of
these soon-to-be powerful leaders of the
Hawaiian race. None can tell us how
much of the law-abiding character of the
Hawaiian people and of the peaceful conduct of the government in the forty succeeding years of troublesome and revolutionary times was due to the gentle but
powerful influence of this one consecrated New England school teacher.
In 1857 Mr. Beckwith was ordained
to the gospel ministry, and soon after
left for the United States, in company
with Dr. Armstrong, where he- raised
$30,000 for the endowment of Oahu College, of which he became the first president. Besides this fund raised in the
States, many of the missionary fathers
gave largely from their small means toward the endowment. From its foundation in 1841, to this time, 1857, Punahou
School had for its principal Rev. Daniel
Dole, the most of whose pupils -were the
children of the missionary families.
Both as principal of the Royal School
and as president of Oahu College, Di.
Beckwith exerted a most powerful and
benign influence over a wide circle of th_
mission children. As an example of
plain living and high thinking, or perhaps, more correctly, as the inspirer of
lofty ideals, the good Doctor exerted untold influence over his afterward most
distinguished brother-in-law, General
Armstrong, who said of Dr. Beckwith
that he had never met one whose ideals
were as uplifting until he met President
Mark Hopkins of Williams College.
After a few years as president of ()ahu
College, he resigned and was called to
the pastorate of a church in Sacramento,
California. Thence he went to Andovc-r
Theological Seminary for study, and
later became the pastor of a church in
San Francisco, whose pulpit he filled for
some years. His next charge was mi
Waterbury, Connecticut, whence he returned again to San Francisco, and wis
pastor of a church in the Mission Dolores. From this, his fourth pastorate in
the United States, he was called in 18S7
to the pastorate of Central Union Church
of Honolulu. Many of his former pupils were members of the Bethel and
Fort street churches, and during tin's
pastorate of six years a new and commodious building was erected on Beretania
street.
Early in 1894, on account of Mrs.
health, he resigned and accepted a call to the Foreign Church of
I'aia, Maui, where for ten years he has
been the beloved pastor and eloquent
preacher.
"()n the morning of April 27th. ere the
sun was ti|)," says Dr. I leek with, writing
from Hamakuapoko, Maui, "the greetings began to break in upon our 'sweet
dream of peace,' and all the glad morning the sprites that bring messages and
things came trooping in."
The substantial gift from their loving
Honolulu friends was-accompanied by
the following fitting tribute of love and
esteem, penned by one of his devoted pupils, Mrs. Emma Dillingham:
"Beside the path your feet have trod
stand little children, youth, strong men,
and those with faltering step, whose
hands you have clasped, whose hopes
you have stimulated, whose hearts you
have strengthened, and whose faith you
have sustained. Through all the years
they have called you blessed, and now,
on this golden day, they lay at your feet
their most loyal, tender love and gratitude, praying that you may be spared yet
many years to go in and out among
them."
o. H. G.
Beckwith's
Instructor (at the night school):
"Mention some of the by-products' of
petroleum."
Young
change.
Man
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Universities.
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�THE FRIEND
IN MEMORIAM
Edward Bailey
It becomes the sorrowful privilege of
affectionate and .venerating regard to
chronicle the departure from earth of the
aged missionary, Etlward Bailey, who
was the last male survivor of the'missionaries the American Board sent to
Hawaii between 1820 and 1850. Mr.
Bailey had been permitted, on February
24th, to celebrate his 89th birthday, when
he was in his usual comfortable health.
Five weeks later, on March 31, he succumbed to an attack of pneumonia at the
home of bis youngest son in Alhambra,
California.
Mr. Bailey was born in Holden, Mass.,
He there made
February 24, 1814.
profession of religion in January, 1830.
In 1836 he received appointment as in
assistant missionary to Hawaii, and on
November 28 was united in marriage to
Miss Caroline Hubbard, also of Holelen,
who was his faithful companion for
nearly 58 years. They embarked December 14, 1836, on the ship "Mary Frazier," arriving in Honolulu April 9, 1837,
in company with the largest band of
missionaries ever sent here, comprising
fifteen men with their wives, with two
single ladies.
Mr. Bailey's first location was at Kohala, removing thence in 1840 to assist
in Lahainaluna Seminary. Thence in
1841 he removed to Wailuku to cooperate
with Miss Ogden in conducting the
Boarding School for girls at that place,
in which work he remained until 1849.
After that time, Mr. Bailey labored in
various special and general educational
work for Hawaiians, always active also
in spiritual labors. After a short time
he became self-supporting by agricultural
work. Early in the sixties he engaged
in sugar culture, and conducted the eatliest manufacture of sugar in Wailuku,
which was extended by his son William
with great success antl later became
mergeel in the prosperous Wailuk'i
plantation. Mr. Bailey also had an active part in starting the Haiku Sugar
Company. In such enterprises he acquired a very moderate competence.
During the whole of Mr. Bailey's 44
years in Wailuku he continueel to have a
ieading influence in both educational and
spiritual labors in that district, in cooperation with the missionary pastors there,
and latterly the native pastors. He v.aj
active in Sunday School work and in
helping in the Sabbath and week-day
preaching, a labor that he loved. He
gave important aid in the erection of the
new stone church in Wailuku some
twenty-five years ago, being the archi-
.
in the Training Schools for Hawaiian
girls; from 1856 to 1880 his aid was a
very large factor in creating and maintaining the Maunaolu Girls' School of
Makawao under its various teachers and
principals. After repeated destruction of
the buildings by fire he gave much personal labor to their reestablishment. The
great prosperity and success of that
school is owing in a large measure to
Mr. Bailey's wise and efficient labors in
its behalf.
With strength unimpaired by age, Mr.
and Mrs. Bailey left their Wailuku home
in 1885 and removed to California,
where a son was in prosperous occupation. There Mrs. Bailey died in iBt)4.
During his remaining years Mr. Bailey
spent considerable intervals on Maui,
where two sons were living, but continued to make his home with other two
It should be especsons in California.
ially noted that a very delightful occupation of his old age was that of oil-painting, chiefly of landscapes, an art which
he began to cultivate after middle age
with much success. Excellent specimens
of his handiwork adorn many homes in
Hawaii nei.
By his five sons Mr. Bailey left a
largo number of grandchildren, nearly
all adult, and several descendants of the
fourth generation. A very sad bereavement was the sudden removal of the
fourth son, who was swept from the
quarter of a steamer by a breaker on the
bar when entering Golden Gate, and
seen no more. Three sons in prosperous
circumstances survive their father.
All who knew Father Bailey number
him high among the noble and saintly
Christian men who wrought together so
successfully under God's wonderful
guidance to redeem the Hawaiian people
from their ancient low estate. The last
of those good men has now passed away ;
three aged women still remain, one of
them, Mother Parker, lacking little of her
century of years with a blessed record of
loving piety and cheerful, devout toils.
S. E. B.
.
JOSEPH BALLARD ATHERTON
In the death of this esteemed Christian gentleman, which occurred on the
evening of April 7th, our Honolulu community was called to mourn the loss of
one of its foremost and worthiest citizens, and one whose life and activities
had for many years been so closely interwoven with its various interests as to
form a prominent element in it. As in
the ease of so many men who have exerted a molding influence in the Hawaiian Islands, we go back to New England
for the beginning of his career. Mr. Athtect.
Mr. Bailey was especially interested erton's ancestors on his father's side were
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English, and came to New England early
in its history. An indication of their
character is given in the fact that one of
them, who was a Tory, and whose sympathies during the Revolutionary war
were with the English, so that he refrained from taking part in the struggle,
was yet held in such esteem by his American neighbors that after the war was
over he was appointed a selectman in the
New Hampshire town in which he lived.
Early in the last century Mr. Atherton's father married a young woman of
Scotch descent by the name of Eliza Robinson, who became the mother of nine
children, of whom Joseph was the youngest. These children all grew to manhood
and womanhood, although five of them
died between the ages of 21 and 25 years.
The only member of this family now living is Mrs. Sarah A. Gilman, the mother
of Mr. J. A. Gilman and Miss Carrie A.
Gilman, of this city.
Mr. Atherton was born in Boston,
Mass., November 9, 1837, and received
his education there in the public schools.
After leaving school he found employment in one of the wholesale commission
houses of his native city, and remained
in this position until he was forced to
leave on account of a failure in health.
()n leaving his work in Boston, he made
the long trip around Cape Horn, and in
1859 arrived in Honolulu, where he
found a home in the family of Mr. S. N.
Castle, and employment in the firm of
Castle & Cooke. In this connection he
spent the rest of his life, passing successively from the position of clerk to that
of partner, and finally, in 1894, to the
presidency of the firm. The original
members of this firm were Messrs. S. N.
Castle and A. S. Cooke, whose children
and grandchildren constitute a large aid
influential part of the business community in Honolulu today.
The firm of Castle & Cooke became interested at an early date in the development of the sugar industry in the
Islands, and thus Mr. Atherton naturally
came to be closely identified with this
business. He took a leading part in the
starting and carrying on of several of the
most important sugar plantations of the
Islands, notably those of Ewa and Waialua. Later also he was one of the organizers and owners of the Bank of Hawai:,
and in addition to these enterprises, he
was interested in many smaller concerns,
and filled important positions in them.
The wide outreach of his energy and influence is seen in the fact that when he
felt it to be his duty to lay down the
burdens that he had carried, he resigned
from thirty-nine organizations of different kinds in which he had been, in one
way or another, concerned. This wide
connection with different enterprise*
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showed another marked equality in his
disposition, namely, his ability to wortwith other men. As one of His neighbors
said of him in this regard, he held his
own opinions firmly, but he was nevei
antagonistic; and for this reason his advice and co-operation were widely
sought. None of the organizations, however, to which he belonged were political. While he believed in good government and lent his aid to all right measures, he remained essentially a business
man, and took no part in politics beyond
that of a faithful citizen.
In his family life Mr. Atherton was
ever kind and faithful. On June 29, 1865,
he married Miss Juliette Montague
Cooke, the daughter of one of his early
employers in the firm of Castle & Cooke.
Six children were born to them, of whom
five are still living. These are Charles
H. Atherton, now in his father's old
firm; Frank C. Atherton, assistant cashier in the Bank of Hawaii; Alexander M.
Atherton, a young physician ; Mrs. Mary
Atherton Richards, and Miss Kate M.
Atherton. The other child, a boy, died
at the age of seven years.
The home life thus constituted was of
the happiest and most wholesome kind.
The cares of business were never allowed to intrude; no matter what the
anxieties or worries of the office or the
market might be, they were not permitted to cast a shadow over the family
circle. This was sacred to its members.
Here the children were in the closest intimacy with their father, but in no careless or irreverent way. Obedience was
required and rendered at the same time
that youthful spirits were allowed full
freedom of expression. As is usual in
such cases, the family life was inspired
and guided by Christian example and
teaching. Family worship had its place
in each day's duties. The children were
required to commit to memory portions
of Scripture and prepare the lesson for
the Sunday school. Nor did the father's
interest in the children cease with their
childhood. It followed them in later
years when they had gone from bom.-.
In these absences he wrote a weekly letter to each one. giving all the newsy details of the home and community happenings, so that the child was kept in touch
with the home life and its environment
even when far away.
The religious needs of the community
always made a strong appeal to Mr. Atherton, and he identified himself with
< hristian work from the beginning of his
life here. He was, in all, twenty-one
the superintendent of the Fort
and Central Union Sunday
Schools, and always, when not superintendent, he was a teacher. For this work
he made careful preparation during the
years
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week, not leaving it till the last moments.
As a member of the church also, he was
faithful in attendance upon all its services. He served the two churches above
mentioned as treasurer for twenty-two
consecutive years. At prayer meeting,
which is a test of faithful membership,
he was invariably present when at home
and in health. In the success of the
Young Men's Christian Association, of
which he was a charter member, he always took an interest, and helped it by
his personal service as well as in other
ways. He had served many years as a
member of the Hawaiian Hoard, and was
its president at the time his last illness
came upon him. Through his connection
with the Board he was brought into intimate
relations with the different
branches of its work. Ile was an advisor
in the management of the Kohala and
Kawaiahao Girls' Seminaries, as well as
a large contributor to the work among
the Chinese, Japanese and Portuguese.
In all this work of the Hawaiian Board
he took a broad view. He believed in
far-reaching and substantial methods,
and, as all the workers under the Board
know, he was always ready to listen to
suggestions and to study plans mr a w se
enlargement of the Board's work. He
grasped the situation in its broader aspects, and for this reason was particula
Iy helpful to all who sought his advice.
These many connections with the religious and charitable institutions of the
Islands led to many calls on his .generosity for financial aid. which was given
with a free hand. Although possessed of
large wealth, Mr. Atherton never used it
for ostentatious display, either in his
home or in his personal dress or habit..
He spent little for ornament or self-indulgence. He held that his possession
of wealth was a stewardship, which he
was to discharge for the highest ends.
This led him to the belief that a man of
wealth should dispense such a portion of
it as is to be devoted to benevolence during his lifetime, instead of in legacies after bis death. He acted upon this principle and gave largely—how largely, perhaps few besides himself knew. One of
his last acts of benevolence was the cancelling of a debt of the Hawaiian Hoard
amounting to about $12,000. This was
lone after he was taken ill.
Mr. Atherton was not a literary man
in the ordinary sense of the term, al■hough he was widely read in certain
'ines pertaining to his business, especially those relating to labor and mone\
oroblems. Hi contributed a characteristic article on"The Future Maintenance
if Our Christian Work" to the American Board number of The Fkiknd. H:
was a member also of the Social Science
Club for many years. The last meeting
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of the Club before his illness was held at
his house, and he read the paper of the
evening.
Mr. Atherton's whole life had been
shadowed by a hereditary tendency to
weakness of the lungs. This resulted
last November in several severe hemorrhages, which left him in a very critical
condition. He made a slow improvement,
however, until some time later he was
taken with an attack of the prevalent
dengue fever, which, although he survived the attack, left him in a weakened
condition, from which he had not the
strength to rally, and he passed away on
the evening of April 7th. His immediate family were all with him at the end,
except his son Alexander, who reached
home the next day. A funeral service,
at which only the family and relatives
were present, was held at the family residence on the afternoon of April Bth, and
a public service was held in the Cential
Union Church at 3 p. m. on April 9th.'
An unusual mark of respect had been
shown to Mr. Atherton in the lowering
of the flags of all nationalities to halimast—those in the harbor, as well a.
those up town. At the hour of the funeral the business houses in town were
closed, and work on the plantations of
which Mr. Atherton was president was
suspended. The church was filled with
the prominent people of the city and with
many representatives of people from outside. The platform and organ loft were
loaded with a profusion of flowers, which
had been sent in by sympathizing friends,
and many of which were wrought into
elaborate and beautiful designs.
In the absence of the regular pastor,
Rev. \V. D. Westervelt r>flkiated, assisted by Dr. S. E. Bishop and Rev. G. L.
Pearson, of the Methodist church. The
services were simple and brief, and when
they were over many of the friends ard
townsmen of the deceased followed the
urn to its last resting place in the old historic cemetery on the old Mission premises back of Kawaiahao church. Here it
was deposited in the earth and the funeral services brought to a close.
We make no attempt to sum up 'he
results of Mr. Atherton's life and influence. This is never possible in the life
of any gtxnl man ; such influences are too
subtle and far-reaching. Hut we may
safely say that his influence will be perpetuated and its power more and more
felt as the causes for which he lived and
which be strove to build up, extend their
influence and show their results in char/. L.
acter and living.
"Truly it is not to those whom God
loves most, not to His favorites, that he
gives peace, prosperity, affluence, with
cold, hard hearts."—Exchange.
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TEMPERANCE ISSUES
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The recent death of Hon. J. H. Athertakes away one of the most persevering as well as one of the most helpful
temperance workers in our Islands. He
was treasurer and also one of the trustees of the Anti-Saloon League until
stricken by his fatal illness. His advice
in the executive committee meetings of
the League was of great value. Mr.
Atherton was identified with many temperance efforts during his life in Hawaii.
It seemed to make little difference
whether they were transient or not. Ile
aided them while they lived. This is one
of the best principles upon which to build
a life of usefulness. Continued sowing
and reaping and sometimes changing the
character of the crop makes a farm productive. It is the sum of all the benevolent deeds which makes an eventful life.
Mr. Atherton joined the
in 1859, in this spirit. The original
minutes of this unique society recently
came into the writer's hands. It lived
only two years. Its pledge allowed its
members to stop drinking for six months
or for one year. This pledge was to be
renewed. The purpose was to encourage
some of the poor fellows in Honolulu to
make a fight with the hope of ultimate
perseverance. Mr. Atherton anel Rev.
Dr. Damon joined the society, pledging
themselves not to drink intoxicants foi
a year. The world needs more of this
spirit of patiently aiding in little things.
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WESTERVELT
is working for the majority of his constituents while upholding the liquor.
The old story is very much in point.
Three young men were seated near a
window in a crowded building. They
decided that they wanted the winelow
open. One of them opened it. Disapprobation was manifest on all sides, and
the window was doted. The young rain
scattered and began to send notes to the
chairman of the meeting asking that this
window be opened. The notes were multipled until the chairman announced that
owing to the desire of the large majority
of the people seated in a certain portion
of the hall, he must order a certain window to be opened. No vote was called
for —the three men had made themselves
a majority. It is one of the rules of
human nature that apparent realities ars
tfae moat difficult to unveil. Hut just
now and here in Hawaii the fears of having the question tested by any fair means
is so self-evident that even a bat could
see it, let alone a politician who wants to
become a member of the next Legislature.
The idea of "local option" has come to
stay, and will be explained and discusse 1
throughout all these Islands before the
next election.
Besides the consideration of local
option, the Legislature has acted upon
what is known as the saloon keepers' bill
and also upon the beer bill. The beer
bill provided for licensing the sale of
malt liquors alone for a license of $250.
For some years past licenses have
for
"light wine,
granted
been
beer, and ale" saloons. This bill was
vetoed by Governor Dole because of its
lack of restrictions. In the House, on a
motion seconded by Jonah Kumalae, the
bill was passed at once over the Governor's veto. In the Senate, on first
ballot the veto was sustained, but Senator
Achi, who voted against the veto, moved
a reconsideration and finally won over
one member so that the necessary twothirds was secured and the bill passed
over the veto. It seems as if Senator.
Achi's motion to reconsider was thoroughly illegal, and the epiestion concerning the right of government to issue
license could easily arise in any court
whenever any lawyer could thereby
benefit his case.
The status of liquor legislation, now
that the Territorial Legislature has
closed its session, is rather chaotic. The
Local Option Bill was "laid on the table"
in the Senate and never reached consideration in the House. This action was
taken in the Senate by Senators Achi,
Cecil Brown, J. T. Brown, Kaiue, Kalauokalani, and Woods; while Senators
Baldwin, Dickey, Isenberg, Paris, and
Wilcox favored passing the bill, Senators
McCandless and Crabbe not voting.
This position in regard to the fairest
possible legislation shows that the liquor
interests art completely united in their
fear of allowing the majority of the
voters any opportunity to express themselves by ballot. They claim that the
majority of the people want liquor—but
they do everything in their power to
keep the majority from voting in favor of
saloons. This is so evidently inconsistent
The liquor bill of the saloon keepers
that we wonder how any intelligent
member of the Legislature can think he was the result of an effort to meet an
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issue which many men think was made
in the act of Congress by which the Territory of Hawaii was organized. This
Organic Act remanded the liquor ques-
tion to the Territorial Legislature for
proper legislation. Failing tlefinite laws,
the Territory would have no right to
give licenses. Many prominent lawyers,
as well as others, have held that this is
a correct interpretation of the Orgaiv.c
Act. The Anti-Saloon League even prepared to test the case last fall, but finally
decided not to press the matters because
the session of the Legislature was not far
off.
The saloon keepers' bill suffered many
vicissitudes. It was fairly well amended in the Senate and then, for some inexplicable reason, was held up in the
House day after day. It was not because
the majority of the members of the
House favored temperance. As a matte-;
of fact, it was difficult to get the House
to pass any restriction on the sale of intoxicants. The House even passed "the
bill for Sabbath breaking"—which was
killed in the Senate. Whatever the motive might be. the bill was held up in the
House and at last passed after conference by both Senate and House, in the
rush of the close of the legislative session
—too late to receive the signature of the
Governor and become a law.
This leaves the question open as to the
legality of licensing any saloons.
In all legislation concerning liquors,
gambling, Sabbath breaking, and the
more vicious forms of vice, the two
native ministers, Kaili and Oili, stood
firm as a rock. These Hawaiians had
backbone, even if they couldn't influence
the other native Legislators. As a rule,
the natives "talked" temperance and voted for the saloon. They injured themselves more than any other people, fjr
they could not deceive any one concerning their real character. Due honor
should be given to those who stood firm.
Mr. Theodore Richards has been
studying one of the most beneficial movements of modern courts of justice for the
purpose of lessening crime. Juvenile
courts are being established, in which
the young offender is treateel to a system of probation as well as to a fear of
the penalty for wrong doing. The judge
in the juvenile court has the right to
suspend sentence and compel the chilel to
make regular reports, properly certified,
in regard to the every day life. The result has been very beneficial in lessing
crime and leading to the development of
good characters.
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GENERAL COMMENT
BY W. L. WHITNEY
It is altogether too easy to accuse hon- law is highly commendable. Without the
est legislators of being in league with the means of procuring bail, an innocent man
workers of iniquity, and the charge >S has often remained in our prison for
months awaiting trial, and when liberty,
too often made for the present Legis'ature to escape therefrom. We are now has been finally given him, been without
at the end of the regular session, and we any redress for the injury done him. This
can look back at the-work done and see law puts it in his own power to prevent
its general scope and bearihg. It is no such injustice.
Act 10 reduces the penalty for embezgreat task to imagine things that might
possible
have been done and were not accom- zlement of public officials from a
life
to
a
ten
imprisonment
possible
years'
plished ; it is easy to say that some of the
bills had been better not passed, but on incarceration, and reduces somewhat the
on other embezzlements. It may
the whole, the work has been most cred- penalty
itable. We have had a most excellent seem strange that in the face of such
shortages as have lately startled this
and honest Senate, and an alert executive community,
the penalty for the crime
not
measures
coming
has
allowed
to him
should
be
lessened
rather than increased,
for his signature to go unchallenged. He but experience
shows
it is well-nigh
has accepted no one's word that the bills impossible to obtain athat
conviction
were good, but has proved each one him- the jury have ever mind that theywhen
may
in
self, and we are to be congratulated, if
be sending a man into life imprisonment
well,
that
we
have
fared
so
least
not
at
for an offense which is far less than the
that we have fared no worse. The art taking of life or limb of a human being,
of legislation is one of compromise, and the penalty for which is no greater.
diplomacy must prevail where strength
of numbers cannot. The men we count- tenThough the cry of "hard times" is ofheard from the direction of the legised on as solid have not disappointed us,
hall, the members have seen best to
lative
and every good citizen owes to them a
repeal the tax on malt liquors and to let
large measure of gratitude.
is riIt is impossible to take up separately the brewery off on a license which
industry of
small.
The
iron
diculously
the eighty-five new laws which have
mainland and the Primo beer brewcome into existence this month, and in a the
of Hawaii seem equally to need the
ery
review of current events as brief as this protection
awarded infant industries, and
it is not called for.
Hawaii has not been behind in performThe month opened with the signing of ing her part.
eleven new bills by the Governor. These
Contempts of court are dealt with in
all had to do with reform in the judiciary another act, and the jurisdiction of the
and with such corrections as had become se.veral courts in this regard more clearnecessary, from various causes, in our ly defined. This arm of the law, once so
civil and criminal laws. To many it ma.- freely used, it is hoped is falling into inseem a waste of time that such minor nocuous desuetude, and bench and bar
corrections, often consisting of the are learning to harbor more respect for
change of a single word, should take up each other.
the time and attention of so importan*
Judge Harris, when he created our diand expensive a body as our Legislature, vorce law, certainly did not mean that
but a little thought on the matter will this should be another Utah, and it is
show that it is quite as important that pleasing to see that the new law, as laid
the people live under exact and correct down in Act 22, has not removed the barlaws as under just and good ones.
riers of decency and decorum in this reA great reform is granted by Act 7, gard, though putting the law on a more
which gives to Circuit Judges, as well workable basis. There are some things
as to the District Magistrate, the power worse than divorce, and one of them is to
to send minors to the reform school, forbid a person who has had the misforrather than into the corrupting associa- tune to be yoked with some beast, scarce
tion of those who find their home in the fit to live, to cast off that yoke and gain
prison on the reef.
that small degree of happiness which a
The criminal, if he so wishes, is now full share of freedom can give the unpermitted to be tried before a judge with- fortunate.
The Torrens land law, which provides
out a jury. In the congested state of our
court calendar, and with such good for the registration of land and which
judges to try such cases as the honorable absolutely and indisputably insures the
gentlemen now occupying the bench,, this landowner when once he has registered
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his land that the title shall not thereafter
be questioned, has become the law in
Hawaii. For this great good fortune we
are indebted principally to Mr. P. L.
Weaver, whose indefatigable labor in
behalf of the bill has carried it through.
This should earn for him the enduring
thanks of the community.
Time and space prohibit us from so
much as touching on the multitude of
interesting and excellent changes made
in our statute books. Many of them
show the hand of our Chief Justice, and
are the result of great and untiring work.
His name will long be remembered, and
the work he has done in framing the
laws will have a most lasting effect on
the administration of justice among us.
Turning from the political to the.commercial side of our life here, we find
that we have not yet recovered our former prosperity, and that we are
still living in hard times. We have
also discovered that we are under
the heel of the Sugar Trust, and
that for every pounel of sugar sent
to the mainland we are being mulcted a half a cent. The only comfort we
get, and small comfort it is, lies in the
fact that we are in large and good company antl that all the cane sugar producing world is being squeezed even as we.
Great quantities of sugar lie at our docks
waiting for bottoms, and the price may
rise before it reaches its destination. We
have every reason to believe, however,
that the mighty trust will see to it that
such is not the case, and we may expect
with confidence that no matter what the
price may be between now and then, it
will suddenly drop when any large quantity of sugar appears off Delaware
Breakwater.
The sisal industry is claiming more
and more attention and the reports that
come from the markets show that the
Hawaiian fiber is to have from the first
a high rating and a steady demand.
More than to any one else, praise is due
to Mr. Turner of Sisal, Ewa, for his untiring and persistent labor in introducing
the sisal and placing its culture on a
sound commercial basis, and the country
may yet rise up and call him blessed.
We have suffered from a boom7"we
are now feeling its results, but the integrity and high moral standing of our
business community will yet carny us
through and we shall be a happier and,
let us hope, a wiser people than when
sugar stocks were selling at five times
their value and land at a figure which
would make the brokers of New York
and London blush.
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The Vantage Ground of Integrity
George McDonald, in the story oi
David Elginbrod, has a fine passage in
which his hero is made to relate his feelings at the death of his father. Translated out of the broad Scottish dialect in
which it is written, it reads as follows:
"When my father died I remember well.
I was so proud to see him lying there
in the cold grandeur of death, and no
man dared to say that he ever did
or spoke the thing that did not become
him, that I just gloried in the midst of
my tears. He was but a poor old shepherd, with hair as white as the sheep that
followed him; and, truly, as they followed him, he followed the Great Shepherd ; and he followed and followed till
he just followed him home." The
thought of the passage is humble in its
setting, but profound in its significance.
The old shepherd had found out a lift
secret that not only brought him triumphantly through its cares and temptations, but whose nobility and power were
reflected back upon his son. Nor is the
picture an impossible one. We can all
think of lives to which it will, with little
or no modification, apply. Still, this
would be the exception rather than the
rule. How often in our own personal
experience are we haunted with the
thought that we have not lived up to our
best, so that if the truth were spoken of
us, it could not be said, "No man dared
to say that he ever did or spoke the thing
that did not become him." Even in
Christian work, with all our multiplied
organizations and machinery, how often
comes the sense that the something in
ourselves, «/hich would give life and
vigor to it all, is lacking? Moreover,
in too many lives, in all departments of
effort, are there open manifestations of
failure, so that the words of the novelist
gain their force more from the lower
side of life which they suggest than from
the higher side which they depict.
Now in all such feelings and types of
life there is weakness revealed. We instinctively feel that such lives are not
able to stand the test—that if called to
give account of themselves they would
fail; and the question is forced upon us,
is there any vantage ground which
an earnest soul can occupy, and in which
it shall be master over the circumstances
of its environment? In which, in the
loss of all material things, and even of
reputation itself, it shall still be secure
against final defeat?
It is clear at once that if there be sue«
a stronghold it lies in the realm of the
moral rather than the material. No plan
of life that takes in all the facts and
gives assurance of final success can be
built on life's physical relations alone.
Man is a spiritual and immortal being
whose very nature is attuned to the
principles of righteousness and demands
integrity of moral character as a condition of its highest welfare. True success
in life attaches to that part which endures. This is not the material. All
human experience teaches that men have
no teal hold on the material. It is theirs
for only a short time at the most, and
then is taken from them, and they are
ushered into the realm of the spiritual
and eternal. It is among these that they
find, if at all, the vantage ground from
which no power can drive them.
This is true because it is in this realm
that we find the powers that are omnipotent and immutable; and these powers
are on the side of righteousness. This
is finely suggested in the exultant ques
tion of the Apostle Peter when, after
saying that "the eyes of the Lord arc
over the righteous and his ears are open
into their prayers," he flings out, almost
as a challenge, the query, "Who is it
that will harm you if ye be followers of
that which is good?" How this brings
us back to the old shepherd, who followed his Master, and "followed and followed till he just followed him home." A
follower of that which is good. Here
is the secret of his victorious life, and
here we meet the assurance that behind
every life founded on truth and righteousness is the love and omnipotent
power of God. To such a life there can
be no failure. It moves steadily on
through the mutations of material things
without disturbance, and faces, at last,
the issues of eternity without fear.
To be a follower of that which is gocxi
is, therefore, to be linked to the
power that rules, the power under
which righteousness shall ultimateunder
which
ly
triumph, and
no soul that has stood firmly for
its own integrity will ever suffer loss or
have cause to fear. This is an impregnable position. In the case of the one
who is conscious of some lack or weakness in himself, there is some test which
has not been met, and from which there is
a shrinking. In the consciousness of
having met the last requirement of the
moral nature, there is also the assurance
of safety. He who has this consciou.ness knows that his highest interests are
secure, no matter what may happen in
the sphere of material things. It gives
strength to his convictions, and power to
his actions. It shifts the goal of life
from the realm of the temporary and
unstable to that of the immutable and
eternal. It thus helps him to see things
their real value and in their true relations. The wealth or position which, by
one who holds a lower view of life, woule
be counted success, to him are but an
incident or an added opportunity ant
means for a higher service to the world.
The checks and failures which arise from
the limitations of human power or wisdom, and which the world counts as
defeats, are not necessarily so to him.
Many times they are the evidence of wise
overruling on the part of the powers
above him, in the interests of a higher
and more beneficent result.
It is. clear that one who holds this
position, holds a position of high advantage. As a follower of tha
which is good, his associations wil
be only with those things that are most
uplifting and helpful, and in these associations lower anel baser things will more
and more lose their power to appeal to
him. As he gives to the world and tt
God, he will gain for himself. In rea
influence, power and self-respect he wil
increase as the greatness of his vantage
ground is more and more revealed to his
own understanding.
From this vantage ground, too, personal power and influence can best be
exerted on others. The great enterprises and reforms that are to save the
world and bring in the better day, must
be wrought out by those who occupy this
high position. "A thing is never settle*
till it is settled right," someone has said
clearly this is an inehcation of a latent
feeling that men have that integrity
must finally prevail and that there must
come at last a "new heaven and a new
earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.'
Any position in which the moral integrity is not maintained is weak. One
may bolster it up in the guise of respectability, but he cannot save it. Sooner or
later it will fail. Whoever sacrifices his
integrity in unscrupulous methods of
business or over-reaches or oppresses in
any way his fellow-men has thrown
down
his defences and in due time the enemy
will carry them. When anyone, from
long familiarity with the practices o
wicked men around him, has learned to
condone their offences and to tolerate
them as not so bad after all, he has put
his vantage ground in danger. There
can be no compromise with evil, or excusing of it. The man who would keep
the integrity of his soul must guard it as
never an army guarded its fortifiee
positions, for every position is weak
except the one in which he is completely
master. "Keep thy heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life "
are the words of Old Testament wisdom.
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"Who is he that will harm you if ye be follower of Jesus Christ, as was George. of the United States Magnetic Station at
followers of that which is good," is th. MacDonald's okl shepherd, is the inca;- Ewa.
/. L.
Mr. William Gulick sends to friends
New Testament supplement. The daily nation of both.
here a plan for a large school building
which he hopes to erect on the land they
have obtained for their Girls' School in
Madrid, Spain. They are trying to raise
funds sufficient for it. In the meantime,
the attention of 0M person at least. They the school continues in Biarritz, France,
The following letter, written in 1837, gage
nave now Income so many and various as to and has just moved into another house in
by Mr. Levi Chamberlain, who superin- need tlie attention ol two. 1 lie IJoard have that town.
tended the secular affairs of the mission COO cqucnuy provided DM U assistant. Our
to these Islands in the early days, was station, ire on live islands, and as the inpplie.
meet our warns are snipped to tin, port
sent to Dr. S. E. Bishop by Hon. Gorham to
■re have much to do in the way of -hipping
sends
Bishop
D. Gilman of Boston. Dr.
supplies to the different stations. The nation
it for publication in the Cousins' page winch 1 hold is one ot great care and i ..r.ii
labor: but 1 have the consolation of feeling
of The Friend.
that the post 1 occupy, though a humble on.,
is not useless. 1 often think of the period ol
The past month has
my life when I was associated with you in a
Beoys'
Brigade
T
h
shown increased inmercantile relation, and of the agreeable hours
Mr. Henry J. Holbrook,
terest
among the
connected
business,
spent
U.
S.
it
while
boston,
A.
in
Merchant,
was
to the apdemeasure
Capt.
care
of
Clark.
that
to
due
boys,
large
I formed my resolutions
in
Particular
with you
Honolulu, November 14th, 1837.
vote myself to the Lord. Perhaps you will proaching field day; and the boys of the
not entirely have forgotten the events oi that I'alama
Mr. 11. J. Holbrook,
and Kakaako Clubs are turning
period. They were tne most important of niy
boston,
out
numbers to the drills. Th.
good
in
steps
My dear friend:
life. .Nor have I once repented of the
1 have had the satisfaction of meeting with I then took. The sun of my life has risen to field day will be in the last part of May,
an old acquaintance, which has reminded me its meridian and may now be consil.'ed on and besides the prize drill, there will be
of former days. This person is Capt. Clark, its decline. In a little while more I shall be athletic sports. The Palama boys ar_
who in the first years of our partnership kept remembered only as having * • "* lilt
on.
drilling twice a week in earnest endeava small shop in our neighborhood for the sale passes away anu eternity Hastens
of second-hand furniture. He came to these * * * long tune since i have received a or to win back the two. banners which
islands in a small schooner called the lonic, letter from you. i lie last 1 can tmd was daleu they lost last year to the Kakaako boys.
which he sold, and remained some time to col- Jan. 10, lo_o; and 1 have no evidence that 1
The industrial department, under Mr.
lect the pay and to obtain a passage; being nave written to you since Nov. 15, 1830. 1
alxiut to return, he has offered to be the bear- hope our correspondence may be renewed. In Manuel Serpa, is doing good work. The
er of a communication. 1 am happy to avail December last 1 gave up my two eldest chil- boys recently supplied Mills Institute
myself of this opportunity of forwarding a dren to cross tlie wide waters to the laud with wooelen guns.
letter and also a small package containing a of their parents' nativity, t expected them to
Calabashes, tables, book-cases, napkin
few native publications. These are only a go to boston to be under the guardianship
press
the
has
done
rings,
eldest,
etc., are made by the boys and
of
what
mission
of
friends
there.
the
specimen
my
of some
and is doing for this nation. When the first Warren Fay, was eight years of age last July, sole] at very reasonable rates. They are
missionaries arrived, there was not so much and the other, Jeremiah hvarts, will be seven taught how to make the useful articles
as an alphabet of the language in existence. in February next. It was at a very tender age
When the reinforcement of which I was a to separate them from their parents; but im- free of charge. Friends of the Hawaiian
member arrived, three years after, a small perious duty seemed to require it. We have youth who would like to help along tie
elementary book of sixteen pages had been four children remaining, two daughtrs and work could do no better than to give the
printed and that was the only book, at that two sons. It is probable that we shall send a trade school orders for calabashes and
time, existing in the language. Now we have part or all of these to the U. S. in due time.
of the Sacred Scriptures printed in the lan- We are waiting with much solicitude to hear other articles. They will be made in the
guage—the whole of the New Testament, of of the arrival of our two little sons. I ex- best manner and for the lowest prices
which we have had two editions entire, of 10,- pect them to be for a season under the care possible. Moreover the object of the
-000 copies each, and a uniform edition of the of Mr. Hill, Treas. of the A. B. C. F. M.
school is very commendable—to
Old Testament—already advanced to the 1 I have now and then heard of your success trade
book of Kings. Besides these, various portions in business. This has given me much satis- keep the boys off the streets antl teach
of other parts of the Old Testament have been faction: it would also give me unfeigned joy them useful trades. Any orders can be
printed, and a multitude of other works for to hear that in the wealth that endures unto left with Mr. Serpa at the school or with
the moral and intellectual improvement of the eternal life you are greatly enriched. I could
people. When the state of morals and intel- say much on this point but must forbear. 1 Mr. Henry Jtttld, Nuuanu Avenue.
Anyone walking along North King
lect existing among the natives of these Islands shall expect to hear from you by the first opsome seventeen or eighteen years ago is com- portunity after you receive this, and shall be street of an evening will see the need of
pared with what it is now a great change is gratified with another letter from Mrs. Hol- work for the boys of the city. If these
manifest, but when their present state is com- brook. Mrs. Chamberlain joins me in very
street urchins are neglected they will bepared with that of New England and other kind regards to her and to yourself.
seems
come loafers, and some of them may befriend,
work
of
civilization
civilized lands the
I remain very truly your
come criminals. Hence it is important
to have scarcely commenced. You are aware
CHAMBERLAIN.
LEVI
that the number of missionaries to these IslP. S.—l write in great haste.
that the work shoultl be extended and
time
time
to
ands has been increased from
other trade schools started in various
numThe
whole
by successive reinforcements.
and Mrs. Frank Atherton left in parts of the city. This may not be feasiber of misionary laborers including the wives
Mr.
of the missionaries and single ladies amounts the Sonoma for the Coast. Mr. Ather- ble at present, but what is needed now
to 84. The effect which will be produced by ton returns from there, but Mrs. Ather- is voting men interested in the work for
the united efforts of this company of laborers
be willing to give up a
it is hoped will be great and salutary on the ton goes on to visit her friends in Ohio, boys, who will
night a week. Men are needed to run
best interests of the nation. But the limits and will be gone a few months.
to which I must confine myself in this hasty
At a dinner given by Dr. and Mrs. J. the clubs, and we hope next year to be
communication will not admit of mv saying
on the evening of April 24th able to call on several young men for asmuch on this subject. You will probably wis.i M. Whitney
en- sistance. It is work that is worth while,
to hear something about myself. I continue to the announcement was made of the
wa«
missjon
the
which
in
station
R. and will repay those engaged in it. The
the
of
their
Ada
gagement
daughter,
ocruoy
of
boys appreciate what is being done for
early assigned me. The Secular concerns
Weinrich,
William
Jr.,
to
Whitney,
Mr.
always been sufficient to en-
The Hawaiian Mission Children's Society
AMONG THE YOUNG PEOPLE
the mission have
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them, and arc easily entertained. In all the matter to the native voters by the
our work for others, let us not forget the Republican platform.
10th.—Expected million of coin arstreet boys, but do what we can to make
rives for payment of fire claims, in addigood citizens of them.
tion to bonds previously received.
Hon. Henry M. Whitney retires from
journalism, after 54 years of active serYoung
Honolulu
The
Christian
Endeavor
Peoples' Christian Union vice, on account of failing eyesight.
12th.—Death of Miss S. F. Corner
will hold its annual eonvention and elec66 years residence here.
after
the
middle
of
of
officers
about
tion
June.
14th.—County government bill passes
both houses by a nearly unanimous vote,
The first week of July occurs the public schools remaining under Territormeeting of the Island L'nion of Young ial control.—Senate sustains veto nn
Peoples' Societies which is always held technical grounds of act incorporating
during the meeting of the Hawaiian society for prevention of cruelty to
children.
Evangelical Association.
17th.—Rev. Dr. E. G. and Mrs. Beckwith of llamakuapoko, Maui, celebrate
The banner this year is to be awarded their Golden Wedding.
to the Society having the largest perlyth.—Cross Sabbath disturbance in
centage of members who have memorized residence section of Honolulu by sham
the names and locations of the miracles battle of militia during forenoon in Kaof Christ. Kohala Girls' School Society, piolani park. —Japanese child on Liliha
which has held the banner for the past street fatally injured by electric car.—
two years, is after it again, we hear. Sharp earthquake shock in Kau.
< Ither societies will have to look to their
20th.—11. B. M. cruiser Ainphitrite,
laurels.
11,ocx) tons, arrives from Yokohama and
docks at Y. S. Navy dock No. 2.—Hitoda, a Japanese woman, steps off electric
car in motion, near McCully Street,
strikes on her head, and dies.
RECORD OF EVENTS
22d.—County government act is signed by the Governor and becomes law.
23d.—Death ol W. W*. Dimond, a
April sth. — Legislative committee, leading
merchant, after five weeks' illwith large party, in all 101 persons, visit ness. Kozai, a Japanese, jumps back—
Kinait,
Leper Settlement per steamer
wards from King street car and fractures
and fintl conditions satisfactory.
skull.—S. S. Hanolei sails to establish
7th. —1 lon J. P>. Atherton passes away, cable stations on Midway and Guam,
after five months illness beginning with
carrying operators and supplies.
severe hemorrhages, the foremost among
—Governor Dole vetoes the Pattthe business men of Honolulu, and prom- oa24th.
water bill as designed to further priinent in Christian and benevolent work. vate interests regardless of public good.
Bth.—Ex-Queen Liliuokalani arrives Veto sustained.
from Washington.—Cable ships Anglia
27th.—Governor vetoes the genera!
and Colonia sail from London via Suez municipal
bill, and the public administrato lay cables from Manila to Guam, Mid- tor
bill.
The 1 louse unanimously upway and Honolulu, to be completed by holds the latter veto.—Teacher's house
July 4th.—Proposition in Legislature by burned at Lahainaluna.
Kupihea to release all mild cases of lep28th.—Arrival of H. B, M. cruiser
rosy to be treated at home by their Ampkion in charge of two tomedo-boai
friends, an extreme case of legislative destroyers from Victoria, R. C.—Legisincapacity.—Governor Dole vetoes beer lature closes session at midnight.
license bill on account of insufficient recalls extra s.sstrictions and safeguards. The Governor 29th. —Governor Dolemeet
on 30th to
sion
of
to
Legislature
vetoes
a
resolution
asking
Congress
also
bills,
consider
which
have
appropriation
to make the Hawaiian Language equal failed to be passed.
to English as an official language in Hawaii, for the reason that such a request
DEATHS
would prejudice Congress against grantROBINSON—March 28. at Litherland. Enging Statehood to Hawaii.
Violet, daughter of T. Richard Robinson
9th.—Public funeral of J. B. Atherton land.
of Honolulu, aged 19.
at Central Union Church crowded witn
MACKINTOSH—ApriI 2. at Waimea. Habusiness men.—Ashes interred in Mis- waii. Alex. St. Martin Mackintosh, aged 20.
sion cemetery. —Both vetoes of Governor SMITH—April 1. at Kaawaloa.82 Hawaii, J.
years.
Smith, an old resident, aeed
overridden by Legislature, who generally W.TAI.LANT—Mar.
30, at Wailuku, Henry
to
admit the soundnes of his reasons as
Tallant. need 42 years, for many years in
statehood but hold themselves pledged in sugar boiling.
—
RlCE—April 7, at Honolulu, John Rice,
aged 84, father of the Misses Ellen and Alice
Rice.
ATHERTON—ApriI 7, at Honolulu, Joseph
Ballard Atherton. aged 65 years.
BAILEY—March 31, In Alhambra, Cal.,
Edward Bailey, aged 80 years, the last male
survivor of the missionaries to Hawaii.
CORNEY—ApriI l_, At Honolulu. Miss
Sarah FVances Corney, aged 77, long principal
of Pohttkaina school.
NORTON—ApriI 9. At Putincnc. Maui,
Mrs. William Norton, wife of the Mill engineer.
McGRKGOR—ApriI 13. at Honolulu. William McGregor, engineer Wilder's steamers,
aged .1-' years.
KEOGH—April 16, in Honolulu, by fall
down stairway, William Keogh. aged about 50
years.
DIMOND—Apri 23, in Honolulu.
liam W. Dhnond, tged 40 years.
Wil-
MARRIAGES
TRAVIS-ROBINSON—At Honolulu, April
7, T. H.
Travis
to Miss
Elizabeth! Robinson.
ROWLAND-THRUM—At
13, Ezra Augustine Rowland
Louise Thrum,
Honolulu, April
to Mis-, Klla
VICKERS-COOK—At Honolulu. April 15,
Benj. F. Vickcrs to Miss I.aura C. Cook.
DODD-SEABURY—At Honolulu, April 15,
James Dodd to Miss Rosie Seahury.
TRAVERES-BORBA—At Honolulu. April
16. Peter J. Traveres to Miss Mary Borba.
LEVINGSTON-LEDERER—At Honolulu.
April 23. Isador Levingston to Miss Hilda
Ledercr.
BOYDEN-PETRIE—At
Honolulu. April
.»_». Bertram] P. Boyden. to Miss Alice Petrie.
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...Missionary Items...
NOTES FROM THE PLEASANT
ISLAND MISSION
Mr. Delaporte, under several dates in
January, writes:
Several hundred persons more than
last year now attend worship. Our
church has attained a membership of
ninety-eight, and there are many canditlates for baptism. At a service a few
days ago we counted all the followers
of our work, and found that 974 persons
are worshipers at our different stations;
932 people were present at that service.
This is a very good showing out of a total population of, say, 1,500. May God
save and truly convert these people.
At our monthly meeting in August,
and at our farewell meeting before leaving for Kusaie, nearly one hundred
heathen men, women antl children came
and publicly announced that they had
forsaken their heathen gods and idols,
and that from now on they wantetl to
serve and learn about the meek and lowly Nazarene.
For two nights, while we were waiting
and watching for the steamer, the poor
people would not leave us; hundreds of
them slept in the schoolhousc and in the
mission yard, waiting to give us a final
handshake when the steamer should be
, t»
in sight.
The reception the people gave us on
our return was equally hearty—so different from the reception we receivetl November 9, 1899, when we first landed.
Since our return seventy-six persons
have repented and desire baptism. Thus
we have a total of perhaps 180 who have
forsaken heathenism since last September.
We have now three church buildings
—one at Oro, another at Ewa, and a
third at Meneng, and a chapel at Buata.
Another chapel is in course of construction at Anibare.
E Babo, the most powerful ghostwoman in the past, was baptized at oit'last communion. This was a signal victory. But two years ago no one would
have thought this possible. She has
made a good confession; What this
meant only the woman herself knows.
No more presents, no more power or
sway over the people, and, above all, she
had to acknowledge before all the people
the frauds she had practiccel on them in
former tlays. To win such an one for
( hrist gives us encouragement indeed.
Three day-schools are still maintained
by the mission. Most of the children are
very faithful, and cause us little or no
trouble. It has been hard work to teach
at three different stations, but God gave
us the needed strength, and we were
*
While
The
glad to do it. Many old people, who
otherwise would not have come to our
services, have been brought to meeting
and led to repentance through the influence of the children who attend
school.
In order to give some children the
same opportunities as at Jaluit, we
opened a German school when we came
back from Kusaie, of which I took
charge.
The year 1902 was full of literary
work. During the year we translated,
printed and bounel the gospels of
Matthew and John, and the Epistles to
the Galatians, First and Second Timothy
and the Three Epistles of John. Besides
the above, a little hymn-book containing
sixty-six hymns has been prepared.
As we had no printing press, we decided to accept Messrs. Channon's and
Rife's invitation to come over to Kusaie,
400 miles from here, and have our books
printed there. In two months and six
days our work there was done. Dr. Rife
printed some, while Mr. Channon and
the Gilbert Island boys tlid the rest. Mr.
Channon also bound 225 copies of the
Scriptures and the 500 hymn-books,
leaving but 275 of the portions of the
New Testament to be bounel at Nauru.
We were glad to be able to bring to our
people such a valuable Christmas present as these Scriptures and hymn-books
are.
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Dr. Rife very kindly let me have a
young man to assist us as a teacher fcr
a period of three years. The young man
and his wife are very bright, and will,
I trust, make good workers. We plan
that the contributions of the native
church will be devoted toward the support of these helpers, and we must be
very economical. If any one in the
home-land should feel like making a special annual donation towards the expenses of the training and day schools,
I am sure that the treasurer of the Pleasant Island Mission, Rev. O. H. Gulick,
would forward it to us. Will you not
pray that Pleasant Island may be fully
won for Christ? There still remains
much to be done.
The deacon of our church but a few
years ago killed several men; another
chief wdio lately suffered for Christ's
sake was one of the most wicked men
on the island. Still another Christian,
the chief whom we baptized the other
tlay, in the most cold-blooded manner
shot and killed a woman, and also tried
to kill the infant which she held in her
arms. Last Sabbath this same infant,
now a young woman, and the man who
tried to kill her some years ago, both
came for the first time to the Lord's table. Men who only two or three years
ago were leaders of the immoral south
sea dances are denouncing them today.
and would not even think of permitting
their children to look on. Men and women who gave their very last possessions
to their heathen priests and doctors
us.
laugh at them now. And yet there arc
those who declare that Christian missions are a failure!
The people themselves contributed
during 1902 something like $140 towards the support of native teachers,
training school and church. Not a bad
showing, considering the fact that they
only get $1.50 for a thousand cocoanuts,
and many people have to carry their nuts
two or three miles to the next trading
l ation.
Mrs. Delaporte and I have each of us
traveled more than a thousand miles on
our bicycles during the past year in going to and from our out-stations and in
visiting the people.
Mrs. Delaporte, at the time of writing
this, and for about two months past, has
been far from well. Tf we had the means
and opportunity, I would send her for a
season to a cool climate to recuperate,
although I doubt very much that she
could be induced to go. She loves these
1-cople, and I believe it woulel be a sad
day for her if she had to leave them.
I'.oth our little ones arc well and strong,
and give us much joy.
At the close of this letter I must most
sincerely thank all the friends who have
so faithfully helped to maintain this nission with their means and prayers. May
our Heavenly Father, in His own time
and manner, recompense you all.
THE END OF AN UNPLEASANT
EPISODE
Sidney
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are made of what is known as
French fire-proof ware—a heavy poroelain. Look in your cook books—you'll
see what they are for. Cooking eggs,
.
meats, vegetables, pates and other delicacies
Ramekins
in Dresden and white china. For
fancy cookery, just the -thing. You
surely want luncheons and suppers.
Some covered with handles, some not.
They are especially nice for entree
dishes. The only assortment in theoity.
Let us show them to you.
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It may not be amiss to make a slight
record of an episode that has
been far from pleasant. It happened
thus. I went with my family to a beach
near Imabari in September, 1901, foi
ten days' sea bathing, taking with me
my kodak. Shortly after using it one
day in public a policeman called, informed me that I had broken the laws,
as we were then within two miles of a
fort, and all such things are proscribed
within a radius of seven and a half miles.
He wanted to see my views. As they
were still undeveloped, I let him take
my plates, and they were developed by
the police department. Omitting many
details, after a preliminary examination
I was cited to appear in person at the
Matsuyama local court. As the case was
perfectly simple I employed no lawyer.
The attorney for the State, after describing my crime, asked that I be fined ten
yen and have my camera confiscated. I
minutes in
spoke thirty
reply,
asserting my innocence. I mentioned the lack of suitable notice boards, the publicity of my carrying my kodak, and of my taking the
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photographs without receiving a hint
from any one of my wrong-doing—although some one went to the neighboring village to inform the police. I pointed out that the police had themselves developed the photos, my act being therefore incomplete, and I also urged the
failure of the pictures to show anything
except my children in bathing clothes
and in a boat with an old pine tree
in the back ground. These all proved tuy
innocence. If, under the circumstances,
the law required my punishment, as 00
crime could be lighter than mine, the
penalty should be the lightest allowed.
Judgment was pronounced that aftetnoon, namely, the confiscation of only the
plates and a fine of five yen. I supposed
that would end the matter, but the Procurator appealed on behalf of the State.
A month later I was accordingly summoned to appear before the Hiroshima
a
Court of appeals, where I
second time. This time, following ccrtmsel, I had the help of a lawyer, but with
no apparent effect; the Prosecuting Attorney asked that the fine be five yen,
but that the entire camera be confiscated;
I made the same pleas as before, and
the lawyer also made his appeal, but the
judgment rendered was in accord with
the request of the Prosecuting Attorney.
In the meantime I had been to Tokyo,
seen friends and two or three lawyers,
and conferred with the United States
Minister, the late Colonel Buck ; they all
thought in view of the disabilities
attaching to one who had been convicted
of a crime, I would better make every
effort to have the courts pronounce me
innocent. When the second judgment"
was rendered I accordingly appealed to
the Supreme Court, but without result,
the judgment of the Hiroshima court being confirmed.
Eight months after the matter was
settled in Tokyo I received word from
my Hiroshima lawyer saying that the
camera would be sold to the highest
bidder, and that I might make a bid.
I accordingly did so, and have now received word that my bid of five yen was
successful. After eighteen months lying
in government hands I now get my
camera back again, bringing this unpleasant episode to an end. It suggests
reflections which may perhaps as well be
left unrecorded. But it may not be amiss
to note that this law forbidding the taking of all pictures within certain prescribed distances of forts is a law working not only to the serious inconvenience
and expense of many wholly unsuspecting and innocent foreigners, but is also a
great and absolutely needless burden on
countless Japanese who live within the
prescribed limits; for they are not allowed to do many things on their own prop-
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erty without military permission. For
instance a farmer whose land may be
hidden away between two hills whollyinvisible from either sea or fort is liable
to a fine if he plots his land, or levels it,
or even removes an insignificant shed
from one part to another without receiving authority from the military office,
which may be miles distant. Not omy
is the law a heavy burden on the farming
people, and the cause of much ill-will
among the innocent traveling public, but
it is absolutely useless in accomplishing
the end in view, namely, to prevent an
enemy from gaining military knowledge
of the surroundings of forts. Secret
photographs from passing ships and innumerable pictures and maps for sale in
all book stores enable any one desiring
topographical knowledge to secure all lie
may desire.—/•><>>// the Pacific.
FIELDNOTES
On the second day in April Messrs.
1).
\V. Keliiokamoku and I. laea were
granted licenses to preach for six
by the ()ahu Association.
So
months
far, the men chosen to deliver ad-
dresses at the meeting of the Hawaiian
Evangelical Association in June (30th to
the 3rd of July) are Rev. Mr. Desha for
Hawaii, Hon. 11. Waterhouse for Oahu,
and Judge Kahele for Kauai. Maui's
speaker is yet to be chosen.
The churches of Kawaihae-luka and
Kawaihae-Kai, which in 1864 and 1865
were set apart from the parent church at
Waimea, have been again united with it
by vote of the Association, which met
at Kapoho. Puna, March 5-7, of this year.
The church buildings have been repaired
and the people arc preparing for the
meeting of the Association to be held in
Kawaihae the third week in September.
John Samoa, who is the pastor, has been
showing commendable activity in visiting the scatteretl homes of his wide
parish.
.
MAUI
The Maui Association met on tlr:
6th inst. at Paia.
()n the evening of April 2(1 a social
was given at the Alexander home, for
the Chinese young men of Wailuku.
Seventeen were present. A most enjoyable evening was spent.
A communion service was held at the
Chinese church at Wailuku on the evening of April 15th, there being a union
of Chinese and Japanese Christians.
Two men were baptized and admitted to
the church by profession, one Chinese
and one. Japanese. Rev. E. W. Thwing
.
On the
and Rev. G. Tanaka officiated.
following evening a series of stercopticon
views were exhibited by ke*v. K. VV.
Thwing. Jt was a pleasing and instructive entertainment for the various nationallies present.
IN
MEMORIAM
An Mi-:
Day
KeILOOG
She came to us to take charge of the
[apanesc Kindergarten in Honolulu—a
frail, lovely girl, with sweet voice and
beautiful eyes that brightened with happy merriment or dimmed with tender
pity. Her whole heart was in her work,
whether she was laughing with the littiv
ones in their games, or soothing their
cries with her gentle voice; for she loved
them when they were merry and gay, am:
when they wire fretful and unhappy. No
need was too trivial for her sympathy:
no little one's hurt too repulsive for the
ministering of her hands. After kindergarten hours she- visited the dark homes
of her pupils —homes where little of such
She gathered
sweet light penetrated.
the children into Sunday school; shetaught in the Japanese night school; she
even found time to study the Japanese
language, in order that she might reach
the very he-arts of the people whose
homes she was visiting. When the time
came for her return, although urged to
remain, she felt that a daughter's duty
called her home. The Japanese showed
their deep appreciation of her work at
their "Farewell Good-bye Party." where
they expressed their gratitude in parting
addresses, and in the costly present*
which they had brought her.
She left our sunny shores, that had
made her stronger, but kept in that "inner mind" their beauties, which sin- said
would be hers always. Brave and true,
we had known her, holding up lit r head,
fighting pain with sunny cheerfulness —
the flower was too frail! For us in Hawaii she came and went, but only angels
can tell of all the brightness left by that
sweet, womanly presence.
WAIMEA
Undoubtedly the district of Waimea,
on the Island of Hawaii, is one of the
most healthy spots of the entire Territory. On the 2nd day of December,
1829, it was visited by a deputation of
the American mission then established
in the Islands. This deputation was
composed of Messrs. Judd, Green. Andrews and Chamberlain, and their purpose was to explore the country and
locate a sanitarium.
Three spots were spoken of in their
report as worthy of consideration, nanie-
ly, Kealii.
These
Puukapu.
Waikoloa and
spots were located relatively to
the three streams which flow down from
the Kohala mountains, and on the 30th
of January, iSjO, Dr. Judd and Mr. Ruggles were appointed '"to go to Waiiiua
and immediately commence an establish
ment." The spot they chose was near the
Waikoloa stream, where later the present home of father Lyons was located.
In those early days its climate must have
been tempered by the forests that covered the Kohala hills and stretched to the
eastward down across the \\ aimea plains
as far as the I laniakiia forests. We
have vivid remembrance of a day spent
in 1863 floundering through those forests
on our way from Waimca village- to
Kuktiihacle. We had to have a guide,
the road was so indistinct and difficult
and so frequently crossed by cattle trails.
Indeed, so hidden was it from the sun
by arching trees and giant ferns that it
was hardly better than a morass, into
which our horses would sometimes sink
almost to their saddle girths.
The traveler who now passes that way,
."fter passing through the homestead fgion, will find an open plain with only
the stumps and roots of the forinei dense
forest. For miles upon miles the country
is bare of trees and wind-swept. This
destruction of the forest is the work of
vast herds of cattle that for more than
a generation have been pastured there.
The only hope for a restoration of these
forests is in the homesteader, the winfence and the paddock. What can be
done by these is evident to the traveler
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Residence, 1598 Thurston St.
Office Hours:—lo to 12 a. in., 2to 3 and
7:30 to 8:30 p. 111. Sundays: 10 to it a. m.
Telephones Office, White 3492. Res., Blue 2841
:
ALBERT
B. CLARK
DENTIST.
Beretania and Miller Streets.,
Office Hours :—9 to 4.
DR. AJVDERSOJY,
DENTIST.
as he leaves the village and rides eastward beside the homesteads of I'uukapu,
where he will see beautiful groves of
wattle and gum trees, with here and
there dumps of banana and other fruit
trees and garden growths.
The future of \\ ainica would seem to
depend on two things, a market and ail
assured water supply. It is plain enough
that the farmer who settles there, or any
where else on these Islands, must make
up his mind to tight the grubs and insects that afflict our gardens. In these
days of inter-communication, it is to heexpected that we must he on our guard
against all kinds of pests, native and
imported. ()nce we get the mastery OVC.
these enemies, the future of the homesteader at Waimea is assured, provided
he can conserve the water supplied by
the Kohala hills and get his goods to
market at not too great a cost. The soil
is there, the water and the climate, but
to bring the settler we must save the water-shed, offer rail communication and a
more accommodating steamer service.
We believe it would pay the government
to subsidize a railway reaching from
Hilo to Kawaihae and perhaps around
G. IRWIN & CO.,
W
Fort Street, Honolulu
SUGAR FACTORS
AND
"
COMMISSION AGENTS.
Agents for the Oceanic Steamship Co. "
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Plate of Teeth, $5; Gold Crowns, $5; Bridge
Work, per Tooth, $5; Gold Fillings, $1; Sil-
ver Fillings, 50 cents.
ALL WORK GUARANTEED.
Honolulu, T. 11.
1057 Fort St.
pITY
FURNITURE STORE
All kinds of
FUI-NITURE,
WINDOW SHADES,
LACE CURTAINS,
PORTIERES,
TABLE COVERS, ETC.
CHAIRS RENTED FOR BALLS AND
PARTIES.
UNDERTAKING AND EMBALMING.
TOMBSTONES AND MONUMENTS.
Philadelphia Dental College, 1883.
Residence and Night Call: Blue 3561.
Telephone: Office, Main 64.
the Island.
1087 Alakea Street.
Nos. 1146-1148 Fort St., Honolulu.
As to the present water supply, it is
H. H. WILLIAMS
:
Manager.
:
D.,
M.
AUGUR,
abundant
seasons
not
affected
in
J.
by
HOMOEPATHIC PRACTITIONER. drought. Millions of gallons of fine
mountain water are daily flowing to W_ W. AHANA & CO., LTD.
Residence, 435 Beretania St.; Office, 43' waste. But the
hills from which this
MERCHANT TAILOR.
Beretania St. Tel. 1851 Blue.
water COtoes are being gradually robbed P. O. Box 986.
Telephone Blue 2431.
King Stree*. Honolulu
of their timber. Climb the slopes which
Office Hours:—lo to 12 a. m., 3to 4 and 7 reach downward
from their bases and CLOTHES CLEANED AND REPAIRED.
to Bp. m. Sundays: 9 =30 to 10:30 a. m.
they will he found in many places to be
bare of trees, with herds of cattle killing U OPP & COMPANY,
the shrubbery, while .wallowing swine
CHAS. L. GARVIN,
Importers and Manufacturers of
pollute the water basins.
FURNITURE AND UPHOLSTERY.
Bldg.
Boston
Here is a region of great possibilities
CHAIRS TO RENT.
Honolulu,
Office Hours:—o to n a. m.; 1:30 to 3 and which needs the attention of our Legis- No. 74 King Street
7:30 to 8 p. m. Tel. Blue 3881. Res. Tel. lators and public servants. Timely and
White 3891.
wise action on their part might save it
L. WEAVER, JR.,
from becoming entirely a cattle pasture,
and make a land of beauty, rich in homes
J. HUTCHINS,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
and revenues.
O. P. EMERSON.
LIFE, AX,
Merchant St., opposite Post Office.
FIRE, MARINE
is
a
a
"Christianity
not theology, but
Real Estate Titles and Instruments a specialty.
INSURANCE.
GEORGE
DR.
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PHILIP
fact. We see men are fallen, are wicked,
and arc redeemed by Christ; words are
K. KAAI,
vain and nothing to the point; say it how
Teacher of
we
like, here it is. Wicked men, dead
PACIFIC HEIGHTS.
do
men,
Guitar,
Mandolin,
receive
life
Banjo,
Christ,
Zither, Ukulele and
from
are
reOffers greater attractions and induceTaropatch.
deemed,
are
made
it
matters
not
holy;
to
ments as a site for choice residences than
Studio:—Love Building, Room 5.
talk. And there is 'None other name'—
any other portion of Honolulu.
Hours:—lo to 12 a. m.; 1:30 to 4p. m.
no other religion dots it, attempts it,
The Pacific Heights Electric Railway tends towartls it."—Exchange.
Line affords easy access to all lots; and
FEED CO., Ltd.,
water and electric lights are supplied
Affliction is a sacred enclosure, where
from independent systems at reasonable the soul may meet God alone.—Ex- DEALERS IN HAY, GRAIN AND FLOUR.
«
rates. To parties intending to purchase change.
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and improve, especially favorable terms
"
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COR. QUEEN AND NUUANU STS.,
"The Christian religion is a religion
will be given.
HONOLULU.
For further particulars apply to Chas. S. of centers and not of circumferences."—
No.
Main
121
P. O. Box 45a
Desky, Progress Block.
Telephone
6
Mclnerny Block.
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THE
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(Incorporated under the Laws
the Hawaiian Republic.)
Paid-up Capital
Merchant Street, Cartwright Block.
Trust Money carefully invested.
$600,000.00
.
Reserve
Uudivided profits
of
200,000.00
48,000.00
OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS:—Chas.
M. Cooke, President; P. C. Jones, ist VicePresident; F. W. Macfarlane, 2nd Vice-President; C. H. Cooke, Cashier; F. C. Atherton,
EHLERS & CO.,
Assistant Cashier. Henry Waterhouse, E. D.
Tenney, J. A. McCandless, C. H. Atherton,
Dry Goods Importers.
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induce regularity of attendance. trusts, individuals, and will promote and careTo
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COMMISSION MERCHANTS.
SCHAEFER & CO.,
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HAWAIIAN BOARD BOOK ROOMS,
400 Boston Building.
DR.
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General Mercantile Commission Agents.
Queen St., Honolulu, T. H.
AGENTS FOR—Hawaiian Agricultural Co.,
Onomea Sugar Co., Honomu Sugar Co., Wailuku Sugar Co., Makee Sugar Co., Haleakala
Ranch Co., Kapapala Ranch.
Planters' Line Shipping Co., Charles Brewer
ft Co.'s Line of New York Packets.
Agents Boston Board of Underwriters.
Agents Philadelphia Board of Underwriter!.
LIST OF OFFICERS—CharIes M. Cooke,
President; Geo. H. Robertson, Vice-President
and Manager; E. Faxon Bishop, Treasurer and
Secretary; W. F. Allen, Auditor; P. C Jones,
H. Waterhouse, G. R. Carter, Directors.
HARDWARE
SPORTING GOODS
SHIP CHANDLERY
BICYCLES and
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
E. O. HALL & SON, Ltd.,
Honolulu, T. H.
LUNCH ROOM.
H. I. Nolte, Proprietor.
J* J*
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METROPOLITAN
G. J.
Manager.
TJ ENRY MAY & CO., Ltd.,
Wholesale and Retail
PROVISION
GROCERS,
MERCHANTS
and COFFEE DEALERS.
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Telephones, 22, 24 and 92. P. O. Box
HOUSE.
EWERS & COOKE, Ltd.,
Dealers in
LUMBER, BUILDING
if J§J** \
Honolulu, T. H.
MEAT CO., LTD.
AGENTS FOR—Hawaiian Commercial ft
Sugar Co., Haiku Sugar Co., Paia Plantation
Co., Kihei Plantation Co., Hawaiian Sugar
Co., Kahului R. R. Co., and Kahuku Planta,
tion.
T. May, President.
W. T. Lucas, Vice-President.
S. G. Wilder, Secretory.
H. E. Mclntyre, Manager.
A. S. Prescott, Treasurer.
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OFFICERS—H. P. Baldwin, Pres't; J. B.
Castle, ist Vice-Pres't; W. M. Alexander, ad
Vice-Pres't; J. P. Cooke, Treas.; W. O.
Smith, Secy; George R. Carter, Auditor.
SUGAR FACTORS AND COMMISSION
MERCHANTS.
for catalogues and
prices on anything in
the line of
BEAVER
ludd Building, Fort Street.
A LEXANDER & BALDWIN, Ltd.
\ X 7 RITE TO US
Run through trains
Plantation, Waianae, Waialua and Kahuku.
Gives tourists an opportunity of viewing some
to be found anyof the richest tropical scenery
where. The road passes through sugar, rice,
taro, coffee, pineapple and banana plantations,
skirts the shores of the famed Pearl Harbor
and borders the broad Pacific for a distance of
thirty miles. Excursion tickets good from SatF. C. SMITH,
urday to Monday.
General Passenger and Ticket Agent.
f~>
.
DENTIST.
to Pearl Harbor, Ewa
accordance with rules and conditions printed
in pass-books, copies of which may be had on
arplication.
GEO. H. HUDDY,
Rooms:—Mclntyre Block, Fort Street.
RAILWAY & LAND CO.
SAVINGS DEPARTMENT—Ordinary and
Term Deposits received and interest allowed in
CQ.
YEE HOP & CO.,
"
CLAUS
386
SPRECKELS & CO.,
BANKERS.
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Draw Exchange on the principal ports of the
world and transact a general
banking business.
Honolulu
:
PORTER
:
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Hawaiian Islands.
FURNITURE CO.,
Importers of
FURNITURE, UPHOLSTERY
AND BEDDING.
Kahikinui Meat Market and Grocery
#
Shipping and Family Butchers
FRUITS AND VEGETABLES.
and Navy Contractors.
Young Bldg., cor. Hotel & Bishop Sts.
Purveyors to Oceanic Steamship Co.
Beretania St., cor. Alakea. Phone Bine 2511
Antique Omk Furniture, Cornice
Steamship
Co.
the
Wjckerware,
the
Pacific
Mail
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The
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Is published the first week of each month,
in Honolulu, T. H, at the Hawaiian Board
Book Rooms, 400-402 Boston Building.
Honolulu
should be addressed to
Rev. J. Leamnchah,
OAHU
The Board
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Editors:
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Rev.
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TRUSTEES OF OAHU COLLEGE,
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Business Agent,
The Kohala Sugar Co,
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Oahu College,
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T M. WHITNEY, M. D, D. D. S.
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HONOLULU, T. H., JUNE,
VOL. LXI
EDITORIAL AND GENERAL
The 1 lawaiian Evangelical Associa-
tion meets in Honolulu,
July 3rd.
June 30th
to
The summer vacation is again near at
hand. How to spend it profitably, economically and restfully, are the questions which many people will be trying to
answer within the next few weeks. We
wish a happy time to all.
The most perplexing questions that
now com before the Hawaiian Hoard
and its committees, are those pertaining to its educational work. What shall
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attend it, with provision for the higher
mental training of those whose abilities
and inclinations designated them for the
higher work of pastors and teachers,
would furnish an answer to all the questions that now arise. Let this be a school
for all races and both sexes, and then
as fast as it became wise or necessary
to give v]) the separate elementary
schools, lei them be merged into this
larger institution. Such a school would
be vastly more economical than a continuation of present methods, besides
admitting of a much higher effectiveness
through a concentration of energy.
With such an educational institution under way, even on a small scale to begin
with, it would be easy, even now, to find
a settlement of the problems which are
be done with Kawaiahao Seminary, with
North Pacific .Missionary Institute, with connected with the Hoard's schools.
the Japanese school on Kukui street are
all live questions at the present time, and
Since
above paragraphs were wril
others are liable to be added to them as ten, the the
Committee
on Education, at a
time goes on.
meeting held on May Jjtb, passed the
following two resolutions:
The very statement of these questions
Rewired: That, in order to expedite
reveal
the
nature
of
the
difficulty
helps to
reaching of practical results, the
the
and suggests its solution. It reveals the Committee on Educat'on appoint a subfact that these schools stand as separate committee of three men to give continand unrelated institutions. In addition
uous attention and study to the question
to
the schools for natives which
of education as related to the Hoard,
have long been sustained under th<'
with a view to the establishment of an
Hoard,
schools of an elementary effective, economical and comprehensive
character for other races have natfor the conduct of this work in
Uraly grown up in later years as system
; and also be it
the
future
as the Hoard has taken up work among
Resolved'That this sub-committee be
them, lint it is obvious that the Hoard
methods to meet the
to
devise
requested
cannot maintain a separate school for
Kawaiahao Seminimmediate
needs
of
each nationality, and carry it up to thai
North
Pacific
Missionary Instithe
ary,
point of efficiency at which the growing tute and the Japanese School on Kuklti
needs of the people and the demands of
and
street, and that in
cast' of
the times can be met. Everyone realizes other needs whichthemay fromthese
to
time
this, and there are those on the Hoard
time
it
shall
take
develop,
steps to asare
too
who believe that these schools
certain where the means are to come
important an adjunct of its work and from
to put these methods into effect, it
and
too essential to its future influence
understood that this sub-commitbeing
success, to be given up. What then is
tee shall report to the Committee on Kdto be done?
UCation, and that no action in any way
the Hoard shall be taken
committing
The solution of the difficulty would t*
has been granted by the
11
authority
seem to lie in consolidation. This would
Hoard.
times,
be in accord with the spirit of the
and would be peculiarly adapted to meet The sub-committee will be appointed
the needs which confront educators and later.
Christian workers in these Islands where
the habits of so many diverse races are
Not the North, but the
Unfiling the South Hole. A. man has
of
common
form
to be blneded into one
Pole
just passed through
life.
Honolulu,
who very
One strong central institution, conducted on industrial lines for the greater nearly accomplished it. Lieut. ShackleJon, R. N., the past season commanded
a sledge party which reached within 450
miles of the South Pole. It was the first
attempt ever made to reach it. Now
that systematic measures are being vigorously made to penetrate the secrets
of the Antarctic ice, there seems the
best of reasons to hope that the final
goal will soon he attained.
In the Arctic there spreads an unbroken sea, sheeted with a broken and
difficult ice-pack. This condition has
foiled the long-continued and most ar-
duous efforts made during the last halfBut BOW that the Antarctic
problem has begun to be strenuously
grappled with, wonderful success has
been gained. The fact seems to be fully
established that high continental land
extends to the Southern pole. Some of
the sledging parties from the various
national expeditions now attacking the
problem from many sides may soon
reach it.
As one gases these .Mas' evenings at
lb" Southern Cross erect at the south
in the early night, one thinks of those
ships which see its burning gems in
their zenith as they lie frozen in awaiting
the coming of another January to set
out upon their final push for the point
where latitude and longitude disapnear.
In a sense, the end of the world!
century.
.
The recent death of Mr.
S. C Allen, so soon
Our
of
following that of Mr. J.
Millionaires
B. Atherton, induces a
pause to note how often some one of our
leading capitalists leaves his large ea/thIv interests and passes on to the world
beyond, where earthly estates do not follow. It is but a short time since Mr.
[senberg went, who held perhaps the
largest property amassed by any man in
1 lawaii. Not very long ago occurred the
death of Mr. James Campbell, another
heavy sugar magnate.
\\ c take occasion here to note the actual proportion of sons of missionaries
among our men of wealth. Of the four
men above named, only one, Mr. Athas a "missionary
erton, was known
man," or actively affiliated to missionary
work. An impression prevails, both
here and abroad, that the sons of missionaries have absorbed a large part of
the wealth of these Islands. It is perhaps true that such men and those closely affiliated to them are disproportionately numerous among our capitalists.
The Passing
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This might be expected front their relatively superior person*] character. But
in fact, they form probably less than
one-fourth of the whole number of our
wealthy men. The other three-fourths
are men who hold no special relation to
missionary circles or their work.
As a rule, our "missionary" capitalists
hold their wealth for the public good,
munificently applying it without ostentation to the great variety of beneficent
work which here so loudly calls for
their aid. We heartily pray that all of
our capitalists may invest largely in
heavenly stocks and bonds.
During the past month,
the Legislature has been
wrestling with the appropriations for the vanuts public
improvements in thcsL'
Islands. One notices how prominent
and pressing are the necessities of this
Honolulu
Growth
acres of low swamp beyond the Iron
Works. The whole would be a multiplication of the great work already accomplished by the Navy docks, and the
large new Bishop estate dock.
'said also that the only donors to the
Kona Orphange were from those who
I had saved.
Mrs. Frasher, the principal of Kaiulani school, expressed her interest in the
subject and said she was planning to inThe topic considered at troduce it into the Kaiulani school next
The Meeting
the \Y, ('. T. U meeting year.
of the
OH May joth was the
W. C. T. U.
School Savings Bank Coming Growth It is becoming increasSystem. Mrs. I. M. Whitney opened the
ingly evident that a vastof Honolulu
subject by a short but very interesting
ly enlarged commerce
Commerce
across the Pacific awaits
paper explaining the plan of collecting
and taking care of the small savings of a very near future. Such a growth ol
the School children. The system has been Trans-Pacific traffic is already in proin use for twenty-live years in Prance gress from the termini of the great
and other countries in Europe. Later Trans-Continental railways, five <>f
it was introduced into the United States. which will soon be rushing freight to be
Fifteen hundred schools have collected borne through the great Straiis of San
over one million si\ hundred thousand Juan dc I'uca to the empires of the ()ridollars, which otherwise would prob- ent. It is quite probable that the greater
ably have been spent foolishly
if not part of this traffic will avoid Honolulu
"
harmfully. Mrs.
Whitney
defined by taking the "great circle" route near
"thrift," as the "ability to spend time the Alleutian Islands. Hut there is anand money wisely," and showed that the other and still larger current of traffic,
teaching of thrift was at the foundation which Honolulu will inevitably capture.
of the temperance cause.
It is that through the Panama Canal
Candy and cigarette dealers complain from Atlantic ports of America and Euof the School Bank system as detrimen- rope. It is nearly certain that within ten
tal to their business.
or fifteen years, Irom 50 to 100 steamers
The Rev. Mr. Mackintosh, who had a mouth each way, will be calling here
had experience in this matter, said that for coal supply on the voyage between
he bail tried the experiment in former Panama and the Orient—and main of
years among the Hawaiians in his these ships will be of the largest class.
schools, collecting their savings every To the writer's mind it is very doubtful
Monday morning and starting a bank whether any degree of energy can avail
account for them. His rule was that to render Honolulu harbor and docks
having put the money in it could not be adeqttate to entertain the enormous coaldrawn out before the time set. In one ing business which seems certain to pour
case a pupil had saved to the amount of in upon us after the canal is opened. We
$90, and one day the father requested are precisely on the direct line of voyage
that all the money be drawn out as he and almost exactly half way. And we
wished to give a luau in honor of the have no rival port, unless we call our
birth of a child. Mr. Mackintosh's firm- subsidiary Pearl Harbor such.
ness saved the day. Some of his boys
Some begin to treat Pearl Harbor as
saved until when ready to begin life for a possibly dangerous rival which will
themselves, they had enough to buy a divert business from Honolulu. Another
home.
and saner view may be that Pearl HarI le had had, he said, times of discour- bor will afford the indispensable relief
agement as the Hawaiians. as a rule, are from a total congestion of traffic. One
naturally improvident and many can- may look forward a few years and see
not be induced to practice thrift. "O, the immense Panama traffic largely pourwhat's the good," say they; "we don't ing through the Puuloa passage into the
live forever!" He recently asked some ample spaces of the Ewa Locks. The
boys why the Hawaiians did not save wharves and coal-piles <>f Pearl Harbor
their money. The excuses were: "Too will be m> closely connected with Honopoor now-a-davs." "To,, main things to lulu by swift trolley lines as to make that
think about." "lint what is one thing you a mere suburb of this city in whose banks
think about?" "The ( >rpheum," was and warehouses the business will conthe answer.
tinue to be mainly transacted. It will
Miss Felker of the Kaahumanu school be only a branch of Honolulu harbor,
said she had been trying the saving; tributary to Honolulu business. To this
batik plan in one grade of her school end, of course. 1 lonolulu must diligently
with the result that twenty children now enlargt^frTd"extend its own harbor facilbail taken bankbooks. The largest sum ities, \fn as to afford the completest hossaved was by a Chinese boy, who had pitality and attraction to shipping, and
forty-eight dollars. Another boy had driving none away by necessity. Tims
thirty, and none less than five. Xo Ha- Pearl Harbor will continue only an ad-
city of Honolulu, suggesting its important growth. Perhaps the heaviest call
is for enlarged waterworks. An old
scheme has been revived to meet the
need, by constructing a large reservoir
in upper Xuuanu to impound the storm
waters, which mainly run to waste. It
is expected that by means of several
hundred feet of fall from that reservoir,
electric power can be secured of not
less than 700 horse power. This advantage may preponderate against what
many have believed to be the preferable plan of establishing more pumping
stations from artesian wells, which yield
an cxhaustless supply of perfectly pure
water. In any case, there seems propable an early enlargement of our city
water supply.
Another equally needed, and perhaps
more costly line of improvement is
that of deepening our harbor and
enlarging our dock room. The deepest
ships we can now accommodate draw
thirty feet and those only in very limited
sections of the harbor, while the depth
of only thirty feet in the harbor channel
forbids such strips crossing the bar in
bad weather. Hut such a limitation will
not answer if Honolulu is to entertain
the large ships now preparing to cross
the Pacific. Very extensive and costly
plans are already in progress for deepening the whole area of the harbor to
thirty feet, while the passage and other
portions shall go down to perhaps
thirty-five feet. With this are plans,
perhaps not yet fully developed, of excavating- two or more immense docks
capable of holding the largest steamers
These docks would cross the present
waterfront, extending inland to Allen
street, and obliterating the Custom
House and coal and lumber grounds below Allen street. The coral and earth
from such docks would fill in very many waiians were among these twenty, She junct to the fuller growth of Honolulu.
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Such is the natural prospect for only
a few years ahead. We are to prepare
for a wonderful growth commercially
and in all material progress. May it also
prove that the needed moral growth
shall not be lacking! It will not be if
spiritual needs are supplied, through
which man's nigral nature is fed.
REV. DOREMUS
SCUDDER,
M. D., D. D.
On the Bth of May. Dr. and Mrs.
Scudder arrived from Japan, and have
entered at once Upon their work for the
Japanese in Hawaii, under the auspices
of the Hawaiian Hoard.
( )ur readers will be interested to know
that Dr. Scudder is a grandson of Rev.
John Scudder. M. I)., who was theerafirst
oi
medical missonary of the modern
missions. He was a graduate of Princeton College, and went out as a missionary to India in 1819, a few months before
the sending of the first missionaries,
Thurston and Hingham, of the American Board, to Hawaii. Dr. John Scudder had fourteen children, seven sons
and two daughters of whom grew to
years of maturity, and all entered upon
missionary work in India. These seven
sons were all at one time members of the
Arcot Mission in that country. One of
these sons, the Rev. Tared W. Scudder.
with seven children of the third generation, are now in service as missionaries
there, while two others, of the third generation, not now living, have been missionaries in that wide field.
Three of this third generation of the
family have been missionaries in Japan,
namely Dr. Doremus Scudder, his sister,
Miss Catherine S. Scudder, and his
cousin Rev. Frank S. Scudder, who is
still there in Xagano. Dr. Henry M.
Scudder, the father of Dr. Doremus
Scudder, s]XMit ten years of bis boyhood
and twenty years of his missionary life,
in India. One of his books. Evidences of
Christianity, has been translated into several of the languages of India, and is
much used to this day. His health failing so that he could no longer live in
India, he came to America and was for a
few yeais pastor of a large church in San
largest Congregational churches in the
stale, and one of the oldest, it having
been founded in l<>42.
Being a pastor of a large church in the
vicinity of Boston, the very head'centre
of Congregationalism, he was called to
fill many positions of trust and responsibility, some of which were the following:
He was a Trustee of the Woburii fret
library; a member of the Executive
Hoard of the Massachusetts Home Missionary Society, which was in fact a
foreign missionary society before the
American Hoard was organized, and was
really the mother of the Congregational
Home Missionary Society; he was one
of the Hoard of Directors of the Congregational House in Boston; and was also
one of the managers of the Congregational library whose headquarters is in
the Congregational building: and for
some years was a member of the Labor
Committee of the State Association of
Massachusetts, which had much to do
with the securing of a Sunday rest for
laborers, safe-guarding the laborers'
Sunday.
To this busy man came the call in the
Autumn of 1901 from the Hawaiian
Hoard to come to Hawaii for the work
of giving the gospel to the thousands of
Japanese who are tilling our borders, and
whose children will ere long he the most
abounding element in our public schools.
11<- accepted the call with the proviso that
he should be allowed a year's time in
Japan in which to regain his knowledge
of the Japanese language. He and his
wife arrived here in February, 1902, and
now, after fifteen months in Japan, are
among us for genuine missionary gospel
work. They are receiving the warmest
welcome from all who apreciate the gospel as the power of God for the saving of
mankind.
ATour Around Oahu with the Queen
Regent Kaahumanu
AN EXTRACT FROM THE JOURNAL
OF REV. E. W. CLARK
This tour was made in IX3O, ten years
after the first missionaries arrived in 1 laFrancisco, and later, for eleven years, waii. and two years before the death of
pastor of a large Congregational church Kaahumanu.
I-'eb'y 3d, 1830. Went to Waikiki and
in Brooklyn, New York.
examined
about '140 scholars, assembled
as
a
misDoremus Scudder enlisted
under
a
of kou trees. During the
and
cluster
Hoard,
the
American
of
irv
afternoon
was
Mr. Bingham came up and
d the Japan mission in 1884, and
c work there for five years, when in assisted in the examination. Rode back
on account of his sister's failing to Honolulu to Spend the night. Kaahuh, and the needs of his parents, he manu and her company went on to Waior the States. For five years he was alae.
astor of a church in Brooklyn, New
4th. Set out on horseback in the mornhas
ing for Waialae, passtd through Wai:•„ and later, for seven years, he
and around Diamond Hill on the
church
kiki
of
Congregational
the
pastor
beach,
and arrived at Waialae about ten
'oburn, Massachusetts, on*' of the
I.
,
5
o'clock. Found the schools assembled for
examination. Examined the scholars, addressed them and prayed with them, and
after taking a little refreshment, prepared
to pursue our way. Our company now
consisted of Kaahuinanii, in a small cart,
drawn by a mule, with several female attendants, and a numerous train of servants loaded with baggage, such as
cloth< s. bedding, food, cooking utensils,
etc.. etc., of myself, and six or eight native teachers on horseback. Several of
the female attendants of the Queen rode
on horseback. As I have but one attendant, one or two more were assigned me
to take care of my horse, and assist in
carrying my baggage. After riding a few
miles, some of the time through water up
to the pads of our saddles, we stopped
taking
to examine a school, and after
food, and drinking water from silver goblets, in a small grass hut, pursued our
course along a large fishpond, through
tall grass up to our horses' backs. Uefore
we arrived at our lodging place we were
obliged to lead our horses up a Steep,
rough hill. The Queen's cart was carried
up by hand. We arrived about dark at a
few small, miserable houses near the seashore. One of them was soon made
empty lor her ladyship and myself. < hit
field bedsteads were soon prepared, and
partitions were made by hanging up cloth,
and after taking a cup of tea, singing a
hymn, and commending ourselves to the
care of our Heavenly Father, we laid
down to rest. We arose in the morning
much refreshed. Kaahumanu inquired
if I slept warm, and on learning that I
did not, she charged me in future to call
upon her for more clothes, as she could
easily furnish them. After breakfast and
prayers, we pursued our way over a
rough road, leading our horsey, which
were unshod, over a footpath made by
laving down loosely, large, rough stones.
We soon arrived at a steep precipice. 1
gave up my horse and made my way
down. The horses were led round another way, but down a very steep, rough
precipice. All hough unshod, they received no injury. Kaahumanu went by
water in a canoe. Heforc noon wt arfound
rived at a school house, where we
r
about sixty scholars assembled. W e heard
them read ami spell. Kaahumanu addressed them and gave them good advice, and one of the native teachers
prayed. We then took a little refreshment in the open air. After travelling
several miles further, we stopped to examine another school. After the scholars had exhibited in reading and writing.
the people assembled in the open air, and
after a good address from Kaahumanu,
and a short one from myself, a prayer
was offered by a native teacher. We pursued our way a few miles further, with
a lofty precipice on one side, and the sea
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6
where We
found two houses neatly prepared for our
reception. As we were to spend the night
here, I improved the opportunity in writing, while the native teachers went to a
neighboring settlement to attend a poalima, as it is called, a meeting composed
of those who are moral in their conduct.
Feb'y 6. As we found ourselves well
on the
other, to Kaelepulu.
provided for at this place, Kaahumanu
concluded to spend the Sabbath here.
After breakfast I rode across the extefl
sive plain of Kailtia, and ascended a high
hill opposite the precipice of Kootau, described by Mr. Stewart. This hill afforded a view of all this part of the island.
The prospect was truly romantic. <)n the
north, rolled the waters of the Pacific; on
the south, a precipice many thousand feet
high, extended from east to west as tar
as the eye could reach. <)n the west was
Kaneobe, an extensive tract of low land,
intet'-.persed with numerous cottage's. On
the east was the extensive plain of Kailua, partly intersected by a stream of
water and one or two ponds, and bordered
by clusters of house's. From this place'
the eastern bluff of the island was distinctly visible. The prospect presented
numerous mountains running in different directions, and separated by deep ravines. I descended from the high summit where I stood, not without some difficulty, as I was obliged to hold on by
the grass to keep from falling. I arrived
about noon at my lodging place, and
found a man about to cross the precipice
of Koolau to Honolulu, and embraced the
opportunity to write to Mary.
In the afternoon we examined nearly
200 scholars, talked to them, eve. Kaahumanu expects the -M-onle wherever we
stop to attend to instruction and to the
word of God, to cast off their old ways
and turn to the new, to have nothing to
do with the Jesuits, hut to attend to the
instruction of the teacher who is with her,
and his associates. She takes great pains
to anticipate my wants, to provide me
with good food, eVc. As my horse was a
small hard-going one, she assigned me a
much better one, which carries me as easy
as any horse 1 ever rode.
Feb y 7th. Sabbath evening. This has
been a pleasant Sabbath. The weather is
exceedingly fine and everything around
seems to proclaim the goodness of the
Creator. I have preached twice in the
open air to 1500 or 2000 hearers, who listened with attention to the words of eternal life. After the second service was
concluded, two persons were united in
marriage. I have seldom spent a Sabbath more to my satisfaction, although 1
have no one with whom I can converse in
my native tongue. On walking out this
evening, it was pleasant to hear the voice
of prayer ascending from the grass cottages. What hath Cod wrought? He
is raising up in these ends of the earth,
a seed to serve Him, and to Him be all noon of May ejth, came as a great shock
the praise. A missionary station might be to the people of this community, many of
established in this vicinity with much ad- whom did not know that he was out of
his usual health. Dr. Albert H. Lyons,
vantage.
Fcb'y Bth. After breakfast, married who was one of his most intimate friends.
three counles. Set oiii about nine o'clock, has been asked to write a sketch of his
and arrived at Kaneohe before noon. A life for the July number of Tin-: FftlBND.
small school was examined at that place', Trusting that he will consent, we make no
after which a large collection of people further comment at this time, beyond exwere addressed by Kaahunianu and my- tending our heartfelt sympathy to his
self, ant' a prayer was offered by a native widow and daughter in their deep afflicteacher. We then proceeded several tion.
miles further over a bad road to Kahaluu,
where we examined several schools, and
The New York Observer in a recent
addressed the people as usual. There we issue mentions an Anti-Alcohol Congress
held in Bremen, Germany. "Religious
took up our lodgings for the night.
(Concluded Xext Month.)
and ]x)litical questions were ruled out
from the discussions. The subjects treated
of comprised the teachings of science reMENTIONED
BRIEFLY
garding the use of alcohol, and the inThe Presbyterians have agreed to a tluence of alcohol on every phase of
revision of the Westminster Confession. human progress. The moderate or 'temperate' and the total abstinence schools
The Canadian Parliament has passe i were represented." As a compliment to
a law prohibiting the manufacture and the United States. Mrs. Mary 11. Hunt,
sale of cigarettes. Let other nations who read a paper on "Scientific Temperance Education in the Public Schools of
follow.
the United States," was asked to preside
The friends of Dr. Hiram Bingham at one of the sessions.
will be pleased to know that the way is
now open, so far as the funds are conOne of the most significant meetings
cerned, for the publishing of his Gilbert- looking toward denominational union that
ese Commentary on the Four Gospels. has ever been held was convened in PittsI'ie place of publication has not yet been burg, Pa., April 22t\ and 23d. It was
decided, upon.
participated in by representatives of the
The sentencing of the Chinaman who
attempted to bribe the Attorney General's
department to an imprisonment ol
eighteen mouths, will have a salutary effect on Chinese gamblers in this city.
That a bribe of $1500 a week could be offered shows the magnitude of the vice of
gambling among those people.
Congregationalisms, Methodist Protest
ants and United Brethren in Christ. The
Chrstian Connection, or "Christians,"
took part in the beginning of the discus
sion, but it soon became evident that they
could not come into harmony with the
plan proposed and they withdrew. The
three remaining denominations appointed
a sub-committee to work towards an ulticomplete organic union in accordIt is one of the anomalies of human mate, with
ancethe following principles:
conduct that men still desire to appear
ceased
they
after
have
to
be
respectable
First. The formulated statement of
decent. Men who make no attempt to
doctrine
as held by each of these denomievil,
make
from
will
restrain themselves
al present, although phrased difnations
strenuous efforts to keep their names
yet being essentially the same',
from appearing in public in connection ferently,
to
be
are
affirmed.
with their deeds. Witness the difficulty
Second. The union for the present is
of the police department to secure evito be expressed in the organization of a
dence against our disorderly houses.
general council, to be composed of repreoffice
of
the
sentatives elected from the respective deRecent advices from the
American Hoard at Boston, state that the nominations composing the union on
committee on Missionary vessels has sub- some ratio of membership. This council
stantially decided to authorize the char- is to have its powers and duties defined,
tering of a schooner, the /' inc. of about but all legislative and judicial matters
225 tons, at San Francisco, to replace the shall be referred to the general bodies of
Carrie and .innie. As will be noted by the respective denominations. These dethose who have seen the latter vessel, the nominations shall retain their present
and their auttinomy in respect tt)
Vine is much larger and better adapted name,
local
affairs, but they shall add to their
all
to
work
The
is
touring.
plan
to the
of
have the new schooner sail about the mid- official title the following: "In affiliation
with the General Council of the United
dle of June.
Churches."
The sudden death of Dr. George P.
A second conference was to be held in
Andrews, which occurred on the after- Washington on May 27th.
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TEMPERANCE ISSUES
Edited by
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REV. W. D WESTERVELT
The Anti-Saloon League of Honolulu
has published several important pamphlets, which are ready for free distribution. The W. C. T, V., through its president, Mrs. J. M. Whitney, has also sent
out a very important addition to the temperance literature of the islands. These
pamphlets are usually in English, al-
though two have been translated into Hawaiian. The Japanese have a paper published by Rev. T. Okuniura, which lends
its influence powerfully in the cause of
temperance. The Japanese have the largest temperance society in the Territory.
suffered little change, owing to the failure of the Legislature of 1903 to secure
the passage of proposed hills, except in
regard to the manufacture and sale of
malt liquors.
These laws were in force before annexation. The Organic Act touched the
question of the sale of liquors in a rather
indefinite manner, leaving strong doubt
in the minds of many persons as to the
real status of any saltions, except as laws
should be passed subsequent to the Organic Act. It is thought that no saloons,
except those handling malt liquors, would
have to pay license, if the case came
before the Supreme Court for decision.
Until that question is decided, however,
the past laws are treated as the final authority, and their compilation is of great
value.
This summary of Liquor Laws, fairly
well indexed, is for free distribution from
the Anti-Saloon League headquarters,
No. 5 Mclntyre building. It would be
aelvisahle for those interested to take
their copies and mark the laws which arc
frequently broken, and thus have an easy
and quick method of reference.
7
ten per cent, alcoholic strength." (2) No
sale of even malt liquors can be made "to
any person in a state of intoxication or to
minors." Nor are minors to be allowed
on the premises. (3) Nor can any such
saloon be located "within 150 feet of the
premises used as a school or church and
occupied and used as such." The word
"premises" means not only the room
wherein the bar is placed, but the entire
place covered by the license. It is thoroughly against the law to permit children
to enter the doors of the saloon, and certainly there can be no question of violation eif law when a child or large boy,
under age, enters and returns with a pail
of foaming beer. It does not seem to be at
all necessary to prove that the child purchased the beer. The only fact requiring
proof is that the child was allowed to
enter and take the liquor. Section 5 of
Act 24, states the penalty of the violation
of this law as follows:
"Section 5. Upon the conviction of
the party so licensed, for any breach of
any of the terms of his bond or license
the amount of such bond shall be for-
Mrs. J. M. Whitney has
under the auspublished
A Brier History
()f he we T U-(
feited."
"A Brief History of the
The approved Ixind filed with the
Early Temperance Kffort in the HawaTreasurer of the Territory is for five huniian Islands." This notes the early efdred dollars. This seems like a large
forts of t]ie chiefs toward restricting the
penalty, but it certainly is not large when
use of intoxicants among the natives. The
the necessity of securing law-abiding cittrouble has been that the white people
many times held themselves superior to.
izens is considered. The Territory spends
hundreds of thousands of dollars in the
the will of the chiefs, and, backed by the
education of citizens. Five hundred dolrepresentatives of various nations, made
lars is a small whip with which to keep a
the crude measures almost inoperative:
man law abiding. It is, of course, a more
and for a long time there was tine law for
the native and another for the foreigners.
"Three laws Concerning effective punishment than a fine of
This brief history calls attention to the Malt Liquors Saloons," is a leaflet of twenty-five dollars could possibly be. This
main point! of interest. A translation
eight pages giving the seetioit provides for the forfeiture of the
bond. Act 4of the Session Laws of HaAi,
made
David
editor
of
the.
was
by Mr.
'recent legislation establishing a new class
Kitokoa, which was published as a serial, of saloons in the Territory. ()thcr bills waii for 1901, provides for an additional
running several weeks, and then issued as were passed, renewing the right to estab- punishment a fine of not less than twentya pamphlet for the benefit of the Ha- lish a brewery and remit taxes on a cer- five dollars for the first offense, and the
waiians. It should be said that this work tain amount of malt liquors. The United revocation of the license which costs
was done as a memorial of the W. C. T. States Court in California affirmed the $250.00 for the second offense.
It seems as if, with the strong provisU. for Miss Mary Green, who for many sentence of Judge Hstce against the apthe
labored
for
salvation
of both acts, each supplementing the
ions
earnestly
years
peal of Attorney General Dole and justiother,
of the Hawaiians.
that those whose children are being
the
Anti-Saloon
contention
of
fied the
League that the beer saloons and the injured or who sec their neighbors' chilbrewery were illegally licensed by the dren injured by the saloons, could easily
testimony of time and
was
published
in government and that the Treasurer, who secure definite
This
child,
Summary
and
and bring the facts and
place
.
licenses,
Genand Attorney
(he Anti Saloon continued the
ot
evidence
before
the
Attorney General for
Dole,
were
conthey
whose
advice
by
a
eral
compilaLeague. It is
of
the
prosecution
saloonkeeper. One
Llquor Laws
both
of
guilty of contempt
tion ()f the liquor laws (lf tinued, were
conviction
would
the entire numcompel
court.
January,
,
Hawaii as they were in force in
saloons
to
close
their doors
ber
of
beer
which
new malt liquor enactments
1902. This compilation was made by The
to minors. Beyond this the other condiof
Legislature
put
were
force
the
by
in
the firm of which Attorney General Antions of the laws can be watched and
drews was the senior member. The work 1903, arc given in this smallest pamphlet.
cases brought before our judges.
are
full
for
in
and
62
reprinted
was well done. Some of the enactments Acts 24
seeing
Now, it is easy to say that the Antiwere done away with by the act of Con- the benefit of those interested in
should
Saloon
League can attend to this. The
attention
Especial
gress organizing the Territory of Ha- law enforced.
(1)
to
conditions
answer
comes at once: No one can attenel
forbidding
be
the
paid
imreferred
to
the
chiefly
waii. These
premises
of
to
matters except those 7vho have
or
"on
the
these
portation of liquors and, of course, could the selling storing
deevidence
in hand. The responsibility
wines,
or
of
the
any
liquors
spirits,
after
the
United
States
any
not be enforced
rests
person who knows the
and
liquors;"
upon
any
laws went into effect at the time of an- scription, other than malt
more
than
facts.
"must
not
be
liquors
this,
the
laws
have
these
malt
nexation. Aside front
,
�THE FRIEND
8
GENERAL COMMENT
BY W. L. WHITNEY
Ithardly seemed possible and not at all
probable that we should find the Legislature with us at the end of this month.
Hut each day We read that the session is
dragging on and doing little or nothing,
and still the long looked for "understand"ing" between the two houses has not been
reached. The Legislature is sunnosed to
be at work on the appropriation bill, that
is all. and only the appropriations for the
next six months are under discussion;
hut either because they fear that in that
brief period they cannot spe'iid sufficient
money, or for some other reason, more
than usual trouble is found in agreeing
on the amounts. The emergency bill has
been passed and approved, however, and
we are promised that it will not be long
before the regular appropriation hill will
go to the governor for his approval,
Meanwhile business conditions remain
unchanged. By some it is thought that
there is a better feeling among business
nun, that the financial outlook is better
than it has been. C (thers seem hopless of
any immediate change for the better.
From an era of large extravagances in
the formation and erection of new sugar
plantations and of free-handed expenditure by the older companies, we have
swung to the other extreme, as is well
shown by the action of one of our best
companies in paying off its bonds. Only
extreme and, it would seem to outsiders,
unreasonable caution would dictate a
policy of paying off bondholders who do
not want to be paid, with money which
hundreds of stockholders are clamoring
to he' paid as dividends. That a company with a capital stock of $5,000,000,
and on a dividend paying basis, should,
in a year of extreme depression, at one
swoop clear off a fifth of its bonded indebtedness, is, to say the least, remarkable. But it shows the state of mind of
of our business community, and so long
as this feeling exists, money is not going
to circulate freely or trade revive to any
We hate received this mouth a call from
Mr. Sargent, the' Immigration Commissoner of the United States. His brief
stay in Honolulu was marked with hard
and earnest work and we may well believe' 'hat he has gone into our labor problem more deeply than most of those who,
stopping on our shores for a few days, go
away to write learnedly of the curse' of
Asiatic labor and the need of the small
fanner. We' do need the small farmer.
The morning paper is correct in all its
says of our need of him, and from a purely selfish point of view we hope that
someone will take it seriously and come
this way. Hut much as we need him, the
small fanner, we should sooner have
some one else's friends and relations try
the experiment. In a land where the tly
stingeth, where the canker worm and tin.
CUt worm much destroyeth, where the
laud is assessed at twice and thrice' its
value, where' aphis, scale and hug, moth
and miller unite to make it interesting for
the agriculturist, on such soil, and in such
a land there seems no great chance eif ease
or affluence in the small farming line.
Producing for a town where a couple of
boxes of beans will Hood the' market,
where' crops, no matter how beautiful,
cannot be sold at all, where the nearest
large consumer is 2100 miles away, is
discouraging and sometimes disheartening, and we fear that it will be some time
before our hills and valleys spread like
one vast garden beneath the hands of
thousands of solid substantial farmers.
That money can be made here by one
directly in sugar planting,
however, is well shown by the life, and
fortune of Mr. S. C. Allen, who this
month has been suddenly taken from us.
'I hat he had in a lifetime of hard work
accumulated nearly two and a half millons of dollars was no great surprise t<>
his friends, for he lias been counted for
many years as one of our rich men. 1 lis
death
puts into other hands the managegreat extent.
ment of bis vast estate, which even in his
The long expected million dollars from later years
and in his enfeebled condition
our fire claims is at last coming into cirof
health
had not for a moment rehe
culation. Over one hundred thousand linquished.
dollars have already been paid out, and
each hour brings more into the pockets
Another loss to the community which
of the awardees. It is to be hoped that we must record is the resignation of
this will somewhat ease the money mar- Henry K. Cooper from his important ofket, at hast among the Chinese merchants, fice of Superintendent of Public Wetrks.
but we are given to understand that com- By his withdrawal, the Territory has lost
paratively few of the original claimants a very valuable man. Scarce an office
still have their claims unincumbered or within the gift of the people or under the
appointing power of the executive has not
not engaged
been occupied by him, and he leaves his
last office with the satisfaction of know
ing that he has served his country well
and ably in each position he has filled,
Until the spectacular rise of Secretary of
the Territory Carter and until the evi-
dent favor of the President beamed on
him, it was thought that Mr. Cooper was
the logical man to succeed (iovernor Dole
as chief executive of the Territory. The
bar has regained what the' Territory has
lost, and Mr. Cooper will no doubt add
much to the already high standing of our
foremost lawyers,
And this is a time' when men of large
legal experience and clear brain are to
be needed in our practice. The Act of
Congress which gave us our present gov
eminent also restricted our sugar plantations in their possession of land to one'
thousand acres. Hitherto it has been
thought that this law could be easily
evaded by merger or consolidation. Jusl
now, however, there is much doubt among
lawyers whether under the derision in the
now famous
Northern
case'
on
the mainland such consolidatiorCwill be
possible. Meanwhile, the merger of Ihe
Brewer plantations, that is, those plantations for whom C. Brewer and Coin
pany, Limited, is agent, seems to have
fallen through. No great enthusiasm
was shown .in the movement even at its
inception, and many things seem to point
to the wisdom of not for the immediate
present undertaking the proposition. It
has seemed inevitable that those plantations which were most nearly connected
should, in this age of consolidation, unite.
Such action has been delayed here probably longer than in any other place when1
so much money was invested in the same'
industry within so small an area. Tin
fact, however, is that the greatest cause
leading others to unite', namely, the
fierce- strife amounting to a cut-throat
strugle for existence, which generally
characterizes the competition between
large and moneyed corporations, has been
lacking in Hawaii. In our business life
here we have been one large family, and
most of our moneyed men have' been interested in many, rather than in a single
one, of our sugar plantations.
It is as
interesting as it is astonishing to glance
through the lists of stockholders of our
various plantations and see not only what
numbers of shareholders there are to each
company, but also how the same names
appear on almost every list. It speaks
well, too, for the general integrity of the
management that the people are willing to
put their money into so many plantations,
of most of which they can know nothing
personally. So long as this condition exists, there will be little need of, and probably as little, merger consolidation or
monopolization of sugar interests in Hawaii.
�9
IHK FRIEND
The price of sugar, as predicted last that it will occur after our sugar has been great steamer could not come up to the
month, lias not varied to any extent, and safel\ landed and in the hands of the wharf for the low state of the tide, so at
no rise has occurred worthy of note. The Sugar Trust.
ii a. in. all the passengers, 200 in number,
but
assured
with their hand baggage, and the
may
may
come,
we
rest
risemails weri' se'iit ashore in a tug-boat. We
forbear to depict the confusion that ensued on the wharf, where the miscellaneous baggage bad to be' inspected by custom house' officials. It was a happy relief to one confused individual to meet the
A LETTER FROM MISS MARTHA steerage passengers and the soldiers re- welcome sight and hand grasp of Rev.
turning from the' Philippines, This was Walter h'rear and Miss Lucy Wetmore
A. CHAMBERLAIN
under the care of Dr. and Mrs. Graven, Lewis of < >akland.
".I/. .1. C.
Miss Chamberlain, who left Honolulu but some difficulties arose, which preon the' China some' time ago to attend the' vented a very large attendance.
reunion of her class at Mt. Holvoke ( oiOn Sunday night, just at the midnight FIFTEEN HUNDRED DOLLARS
REWARD
lege, on the' occasion of its fiftieth anni- hour, a death occurred of a cabin passenversary, consented, before' leaving, to ger. A Scotchman,a Mr. Greig, formerly
write a monthly letter for the Cousin's a sugar planter at llakalau, Hawaii, had
page of Tin. Friend. The letter, which come' on board in a low state' of health.
is printed below, is the first of the series; lie' was so anxious to accompany other
1003. Scotch friends to his home, thai he had
I lakland, Cal.. April
accepted very unsatisfactory accommodaTo Tut: Friend:
This, my first, letter, finds me settled in tions on the crowded boat. Sleeping 011 .1
a charming quiet home' in East Oakland, sofa in the dining hall, he took a chill and
breathing the air which seems like elixir, ihe- fever returned. Although at once resunshine most like Hawaii's, moved to the' state-room of his Scotch
exclaiming
over the beautiful spring friends, and cared for with the Utmost
and
Howe-rs among which so many of the tenderness, he died in a few hours. It
was deemed best by his friends on board,
Island people now have- their homes.
The pasasge over 011 the China was a to have Ihe interment at sea. lie was a
memorable one-—a first trip in so large' a widower, having lost his wife some years
boat, with the Oriental torn and look previous at llakalau, and his only child,
eveiywjiere—silent. attentive Chinese a son. is in Scotland with Mr. Grieg's
stewards waiting on the long tables, at- aged mother.
tired in theirlong, wltite over-robes down An (tcean Burial) This scene has often
to the heels, black pyramid skull caps on, been described in print, but no words can
and their cues hanging down their backs. give' the vivid intensity of the' reality! As
Tourists from Japan and China, "at the bell strikes twice for 5 p. 111. the 1 great
L( )ST
home" apparently all over the ship, with steamer was brought to a standstill, and
their piles of fancy curios in evidence in perfect (|iiict reigned in the great crowd
A runaway slave, nearly white, twenty
unexpected corners. The crowd of pas- of spectators. Ihe' railing was removed
sengers, increased over a hundred in 1 lon- from the opening of the gangway, and years of age, fashionably dressed, but
oltihi, was too great to he thoroughly com- while the officers of the steamer and the without hat, veil or bonnet; five feet nine
fortable. The long dining tables were two Scotch frie'iids stood very near on the inches high of slender build and indereset twice over for every meal. Among right of the' oiiening, and the passengers pendent air: speaks only Spanish and Hathe passengers were- a number of mission- wherever they could find standing room, waiian, her very imperfect English bearies ri'tHrning from the < Irient, on fur- the remains wire brought on a bier by trays her immediately; was last seen near
loughs from weH-spent years of labor. two stalwart sailors. 'Hie body, sewed up the woods of the- Cathcart Home, Devon,
Dr. and Mrs. Craves of the Presbyterian in sail cloth, and properly weighted, was Pa., Feb 2", lip,}. She was headed east,
Hoard South, from Canton, China. Mrs. covered with the English flag, and the probably bound by "underground R. R."
Martha Kerr, widow of the well known bier placed on a low platform, close to the for Boston, where she claimed to have
and lamented Dr. Kerr, founder of a opening of the rail. The Burial Service friends in the Academy of Fine Arts. She
hospital near Canton. Rev. and Mrs. for the Dead from the Hook of Common escaped in the night of Feb. 26; can be
Kirkpatriek, from Hurinah. Rev. and Prayer, was then most imprcssvely read easily recognized by her photograph here
The Hawaiian Mission Children's Society
;
Mrs. (iurnev, from Northern India; Mr. by the Rev. Mr. Kirkpatrick. The men
G. had been'engaged in Bible translation in charge removed the flag, slid the l>ie-r
for many ve'ars. There we're' teachers gently to the open place, and as the solfrom the Philippines returning for vaca- emn words, "earth to earth," etc.. sounded
tion, some with families of children horn the burden was plunged into the' ocean,
tin re.
lo await the day when "'the sea shall give
( )n the' Sabbath two very interesting up its dead."
services were held in Ihe social hall; the Tiu great engines at once obeyed ormorning one presided over by Dr. C. M. ders to resume the course, the crowd scatHarris of the Methodist Episcopal church tered, while some lingered to press the
of San Francisco, and the vesper service, hands of the sad friends of the departed.
at X p. m., led by Rev. C. H. Daniels, so
The China arrived in the port of San
lately in Honolulu. There was also a ser- Francisco at midnight of April 21st, and
vice attempted in the afternoon for the anchored in the bay till morning. Hut the
given.
Fifteen hundred dollars reward will he
paid to anyone who will return her to
Devon, Pa., to her rightful owner, Thos.
L, (iulick.
lie would like to prepare her for freedom for which she is at present utterly
unfit.
Mrs. Elisabeth Bishop Hillebrand, one
of the cousins who has been thirteen years
away, returned to her native land about
two weeks ago. We are glad to have her
With U. again, and she seems equally glad
�10
THE FRIEND
be among familiar scenes. She is with
...Missionary
daughter, Mrs. Arthur Alexander.
Her other daughter is to take Miss Burbank's place as Librarian in the Honolulu library, when Miss Hurbank leaves NEWS FROM MR. DELAPORTE
next month.
The following extracts are from a letter from Mr. Delaporte to Rev. O. H.
THE FUNERAL SERVICES FOR MRS. CHARLOTTE
Gulick :
DANA LYMAN.
"Since returning from Kusaie 1 have
been
hard at work translating Acts and
The funeral services for Mrs. Chara story of the Bible ready. 1
getting
Tuesplace
lotte (Dana) Lyman tixik
on
about
have
twelve chapters of the former
day, the afternoon of May 6th, at Christ
have made quite a start on
and
finished
William
Church, Cambridge, Rt.' Rev.
latter.
1 furthermore translated
the
Lawrence, who is a classmate of Mr.
an outline eif church hisand
published
Lyman, and the rector. Rev. Prescott
Reformation. We have
tory
and
the
Evarts, officiating. The usual chants
not
as
many
sold
Testaments and hymn
choir,
as well as
were sung by the vested
books as we anticipated, but hope to do
Light,"
"Lead,
hymns,
Kindly
the
the new cocoanut crop
"Peace, Perfect Peace," and "Now the better when
Day is ()ver." It was at this interesting comes in. We have dis]>osed of perhaps
worth up to date,
old church that the Dana family wor- one hundred dollars
few nuts just now.
very
people
Ihe
have
and
living
Cambridge,
in
shipped when
time to do transthat
had
more
I
1
wish
the pew where they used to sit was closbut
of William I
lating,
since
the
fall
At
the
yesterday.
ed by a white ribbon
have
been
additional
schoolforced"
end of the service the eirganist, Mr.
we
work
as
the
which
couple
brought
and
Bright
Voting, played "Angels Ever
Fair," which Mrs. Lyman used to sing from Kusaie has not got a hold of the
in her younger days, when she had a language yet.
"1 guess you and tuir many Honolulu
beautiful voice. The burial will be at friends
will be glad to hear that many
Rose Hill Cemetery, Chicago.
of our church members are getting to be
Mrs. Lyman was the second daughter real
workers, antl seem to
of the late Richard H. Dana, author of reach aggressive
a helping hand to their weak
out
Mast,"
the
and
Years
Before
"Two
granddaughter of the poet of the same brethren and to those of their households
still in heathen darkness. We
name. Horn in Boston, she passed most who are
five Christian men who,
appointed
have
of her youth there and in Cambridge.
with
company
young members who
in
returned
Europe,
two
she
After
years in
the
go about preaching
assist
singing,
in
to Boston, and soon after, in 1870, she
afternoons
anil
on
Sabbath
exhorting
the
Church
of
Adwas married* at the
much
expect
and
we
fruit
from
their
vent, By Father Hall, now the bishop of
efforts.
are
able
to
reach
and
They
of
Lyman
Vermont, to Francis Ogden
in touch with jK-ople who do not
the Harvard class of 1871.and of the come
the mission. Of course much
Law School, 1874, who was stroke of the come near
has
to be done among our 130
work
university crew in 1869 and .1870, and
too, they are but chilchurch
members
which
was one of the four-oared crew
often do things for
rowed in England against Oxford in dren in the faith and
brother
which
their
white
who is ignoriB6t). Mr. Lyman has since been practicing law in Chicago, and their home ant of their awful former mode of life,
for many years has been the beautiful would condemn them. At Eastertide we
suburb of Winnetka, on the shore of were able to baptize twenty-seven pera total of 130 church memLake Michigan. He was a son of one of sons, makingour
Heavenly Father guard
bers.
May
Hawaiian
missionaries
to
the
the early
and
His
little congregatitm of
prosper
Islands, and he and Mrs. Lyman did
missionary work in keeping alive the believers, '1 have been kept very, very
months as I have
services in the flourishing Christ Church busy during the past
new couple which we
no
now.
The
help
at
when
Winnetka
(Episcopal)
Mission
brought from Kusaie is slow in learning
there was no priest in charge and it was
the language and it will take some
Her
early
struggles.
going through its
months
yet before they will be able to do
strong religious faith was the central
much
besides
teaching singing.
her
Her
death
from
point in
character.
apoplexy, after a few day's illness, while "To-day we finished Mrs. Delaporte's
visiting her brother in Cambridge, came new kitchen built of foreign and native
as a great shock to a large circle of material, i.e., frame and floor arc of lumfriends. Of her four children, the two ber, while tltc walls are matle of native
youngest survive her, a daughter, Char- reeds. We have put an iron roof on.
lotte Dana Lyman, and a son, Richard The whole inclusive of labor has not cost
Dana Lvman, who is at St. PauTs us above fifty dollars. Thus far Mrs. D.
School)-N. H. —Boston Transcrip± — has had no real kitchen, only a native
to
her
Items...
cookhouse. She could not take care of
her cooking utensils in such a house. She
is so happy to be able to "move in" today.
"()ur iooo feet long fence, which we
put up three years ago is being replaced
by a new one these days. The church
people have volunteered to do the work
and furnish the material and it will cost
us at most say five dollars for a feast
when completed.
Such a fence, being
fastened with cord will last about three
years.
"()ur
little island is still blessed with
an abundance of rain and the people expect a good cocoanut crop in about two
months.
"We were told by the Pacific Island
Co. people when they were here last February, that there was a possibility of their
beginning work at the local phosphate
of lime deposits during the year. About
200 Japanese will be brought here as laborers. Perhaps it would then be a good
thing to have some clean Japanese literature on hand if we are to have such a
colony of little brown men. This, is certainly something which interests you.
"Mrs. Delaporte has been very poorly
since we came back and will perhaps be
so for a time yet, but we trust that God
will soon pivc her her strength and vigor
back. .Augusta and Paul are strong and
well and give us much joy and comfort.
"I would gladly write to others in
Honolulu tonight but am not able. Perhaps I shall do better next time. Please
remember us to all.
"I trust that lx>th you and Mrs. Gulick
are well and happy. How we are yearning to have a little chat with you! There
are so many things I would like to talk
over with you."
A LETTER FROM REV. WM. H.
GULICK
The following interesting letter from
Gulick of Spain, has recently been received by Mrs. R. W. Andrews, Secretary of the Mission Children's Society. She kindly allows us to
print it:
Biarritz, France, 7th May, 11)03.
Mrs. R. W. Andrews,
Secretary H. M. C. Society,
Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands.
My dear Mrs. Andrews:
Only at a venture I write now, knowing that there is but small likelihood that
this will reach you in time for the Annual Report in May (?) or June. I have
been so busy and so much away from
home since the new year that the time
has speed away without one's realizing
how fast.
The twenty-ninth of April made five
full years since' we moved into Biarritz
Rev. Win. H.
�11
THE FRIEND
from San Sebastian. We had hoped
that we would not be obliged to make
any change until we were ready to take
the Institute for Ciirls to Madrid, but the
commodious house that we had occupied
for so long a time was sold over our
beads anil finite suddenly WC were oh
liged to move.
We found a house' well located, not so
large as we needed but with a line and
spacious garden in the rear. A large
part of the furniture and books that had
been brought from San Sebastian was
packed anil sent to Madrid to be held
there in storage until we should arrive
there. By a division of labor, the pack-
ing and noting of contents and shipping
of over three hundred parcels large and
small was performed by Mrs. Culick and
her aids, while others continued with the
care of the pupils and the classes, so thai
there was very little if am interruption
in the school life and duties. It was a
great task, and tested severely the'
strength of all, but we were thankful
that Providence had provided us with so
good a temporary home. Especially do
the girls enjoy the- spacious and beautiful garden.
This house however is taken only until
the summer season, when the landlady
will nearly double the rental. We there-
fore will close the' school the middle of
to their homes.
Eighteen of them will go to Madrid to
pass the examinations in the Government
Institute ami the rest will go immediately home.
As some of you perhaps know, we
have bought in Madrid a very desirable'
lot that had on it an old house. This
building is being enlarged and altered
for the school uses, but is not large'
enough to receive the thirtv-fivc or forty
pupils. It is therefore the plan that
when the girls gather atrain for the new
school year, in (October, they shall occupy hired premises near Madrid until
such time as the new and larger building
shall he completed, and the inauguration
of the school in Madrid proper will not
be attempted until it can be done with a
measure of completeness. Meanwhile
the' old building, reformed, will be used
for a limited number engaged in Special
work.
In the course' of the development of
this educational project for young women in Spain we have been encouraged
by the warm expression of interest on
the pail of influential Spanish scholars
and educators, some of whom are members of the Parliament, and by newfriendships formed in influential circles.
This is cause of great thankfulness on
our part, and among other things is a
promise of an enlarged influence and
usefulness of the Institute.
The work among our several statiops
June, sending the girls
in the north of Spain, to which the
larger part of my time and strength is
given, is increasingly prosperous. It is
a distinctively evangelistic work, but,
thirty odd wars' experience in this field
has demonstrated the efficacy as an evan-
gelistic agency of a vigorous educational
department connected with each and all
of the stations.
In these mission schools, nine-tenths
of the pupils iii which are from Roman
Catholic families, the Bible is a prominent text book, and is studied daily. For
several years our common school iii Sanlander, where Mrs. tiulick, and I were
first located, and where we lived for
twelve yean, has had not less than three
hundred pupils and has been the largest
individual school in the city. For a long
time it has been frankly counted by the
authorities and the community as one of
the' "public institutions."
In the "Festival of Trees," or "arbor
day," held the first week of last April,
we easily took the lead in the schoolparade, in the number of children, the
neatness of their dress and in steadiness
and precision in inarching and in excellence of singing. A certain reactionary
element in the community protested
against giving our children place in the
procession, but there was such an outburst of indignant remonstrance against
such an act of injustice that those of the
authorities who would have wished to
exclude us simply did not dare to do so.
This is but one of many proofs of the
strong hold that evangelical thought,
teaching and practice has secured in
inaii\ communities in Spain, and the
genuine sympathy that exists towards
us and our methods in the minds of
many Catholics who are observing us.
Mrs. Gulick, who has carried on for
several years the great work of developing the plan of the International Instiute for Cirls in Spain, while suffering, at
times acutely from chronic ill health,
is for a few weeks taking a course of
were full of hope, and confident of a
great success in Americanizing the
schools, the language and the sentiments
of those people. One of our most ex-
perienced teachers of Hawaiian youth,
Mr. Townsend, followed that army of
educators, and was assigned to a superintendency of their work on the large
island of Mindanao.
( )f the actual experiences of that sanguine and zealous host of instructors,
after entering upon their task, we have
received very little information. It has
not been reported that they were meeting with any marked success in their,
work It has been said that those who
opened schools in the rural districts encountered great obstacles and often endured se'vene' hardship, all of which was to
be expected by pioneers of educational
work among semi-civilized tribes. Hut
of definite reports from them all, there
has been a lack, which is not encouraging to the ardent hopes which attended
their advent.
Quite lately very adverse reports have
been coming, as of a very general failure in the expected work of these teachers in imparting a useful knowledge of
the English languge to the youth of the
country. It is also said that the American teachers continue utterly ignorant
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teachers of both sexes passing Honolulu on their way to Manila. They were
employed by the American Government
to go there and conduct American
schools for the education of the people
of the Phlippincs through the medium
of the English language. These teachers
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of the Spanish which is the current language of civilization, as well as of the
vernacular tongues, such as Tagalog
and Yisayan, which are the'speech of the
common people, the result being that the
pupils make little actual progress in any
knowledge whatever. With all allowance fe>r exaggeration and for indefinite
statements, it seems probable that except perhaps in city schools, such failure
may actually be the fact.
Teachers experienced in imparting a
knowledge of English to Hawaiians felt
at the outset that the hope of success in
that Filipino work was rather visionary.
Progress in the use of English by Hawaians in the rural districts used to be
extremely slow and painful. It became
successful only in the towns where there
was constant contact with Englishspeaking people, and colloquial use of
the language became natural. A language cannot be taught from books
alone, it requires colloquial use. A foreign language cannot possibly be made
an efficient medium for imparting knowledge until the pupil learns both to speak
and understand it vocally to a considerable degree. This the Hawaiian youth
in the rural schools have now become
somewhat able to do, and a good deal of
instruction from English school books is
now given them with success, especially
by teachers who know at least some-
thing of the vernacular. But the teaching of a strange language to ignorant
pupils is itself a peculiar art, and imparting knowledge to them through such
a medium requires peculiar ability.
Americans are a people ready to learn
by experience. (hit of the rather large
and costly experiment of introducing
American education to the Filipinos they
will probably have gained much valuable
and useful experience. (rood fruit may
be hoped from it, in the creation in the
cities of many important and successful
schools, where the more capable youth
may be brought into touch with American thought and civilization. As to the
creation of any common use of English
by the people at large, we regard that as
quite a visionary hope, It is our belie!
that a system of common schools taught
in the vernacular tongue of the people,
should be immediately begun and developed as rapidly as possible. To aid
in such a work would be a grand field
for the exertions of devoted Christian
missionaries of all denominations, And
no more effective way of evangelizing
the ignorant exists than by imparting
religious instruction to youth in their
mother tongues.
Probably it will long continue an interesting study of how the Divine Providence will lead and move human efforls
in the enlightenment of the Philippines
and in the development there of a truly
Christian civilization. Luzon will lead:
Mindinanao may follow, getting tight
from Luzon.
CHURCH NEWS
( >n our title page this month we display the picture of the Lihue Church on
Kauai. This is the home of the historic
congregation and church
I lawaiian
founded by Father Rice, and the Englishspeaking congregation and church founded by Rev. J. M. Lydgate.
When, at length, in tOOO the original
church building began to show signs of
serious old age, and it was determined to
build a new one, Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Wilcox, in token of their interest in the community, and of their gratitude for a large
measure of prosperity, offered to build
and present to the community a new, commodious, and artistic church for use by
the Hawaiian and English congregations
jointly. This offer was gratefuly accepted and was afterwards supplemented
by other valuable gifts from other friends,
which, have added much to the comfort
and. beauty, as well as the usefulness and
value of the property. Its location, hack
from the public highway, embowered in
a stately grove of tree's, secluded, restful
While
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A farewell entertainment
and quiet, make it attractively suggestive the occasion was a success despite the
■taaas Alexan- was K j vcn t() mj ss y\ f.as a place of peace and prayer and wor- rainy day.
Miss
It is greatly regretted that Prof. A. H. iler mill Pihi Alexander, and
ship.
Mary Pihi at Maunaolu
Ingalls is still unable to take his place
Seminary, Paia, Maui, Friday evening.
Rev. Win. M. Kincaid. pastor of Cen- at the organ, lie' has been away since
to
Max Sib. The entertainment consisted
from,
not
able
will
Church,
last
heard
Easter
anil
be
probably
Union
when
tral
was in Jerusalem. He was in good play for some time yet to come. Miss of Hawaiian songs, by the pupils. The
health and enjoying his trip, lie expects Florence R. Narrow has usually played room presented an attractive appearance
to sail from Liverpool on his wav home the organ and Mrs. Dr. McDonald the with its festooning of ferns. There were
many beautiful lloral lei souvenirs, such
on lulv Sth, and be in Honolulu in time piara i.
as Hawaiians know how to bestow.
to occupy his pulpit on the first Sunday
of
Miss Alexander has been connected
picnic
The
annual
the!
sixteenth
in August.
Sunday school will be held as usual, on with Maunaolu Seminary, as principal,
The pulpit of Central Union Church Ihe llth of June, Seventeen committees for live years. Her friends wish her a
was filled \>.r six Sundays in April and are making the necesasrv arrangements.j speedy restoration to health, and a well
May by Rev. M. I >. Hardin of Minneap- The children will doubtless have their earned rest, as she returns to her home
in Ann Arbor, Michigan, after these
olis, whose strong preaching kept the usual good time on the occasion.
of faithful service.
years
preachhouse well filled. < in May 24th the
Miss Pihi has been a pupil of the Seming was done by Rev. Doremus Scudinary for ten years, and Assistant Matron
der, I'. 1).. who has lately come to enter
for flu past year. She accompanies
the work for the Japanese, under the HaAlexander to Ann Arbor, for the purpose
waiian Hoard. ()n May 1 st, the mornof
continuing her studies and availing
devoted
the
Children's
was
to
The
convention
annual
ing service
Christina
a nd election of officers] herself of whatever advantages open to
Day exercises, and in the evening the serEuilenvor
vices were conducted by Rev. W. 11. Rice.
of the Honolulu Young, her.
The remainder of the time, until the rePeople's Christian Union | Miss C. M. Snow, Miss Alexander's
successor, has entered upon her duties.
will
sup
of
the
the
be'
pulpit
turn
pastor,
\\ i' 1 lake place Monday evening, J line
has been connected with
plied by Rev. I. C. deserve. I). I)., of 15111, at the Methodist Church. A feat- Miss SnowInstitute,
Virginia, for fifteen
Hani|)ton
Church,
Congregational
the Plymouth
ure of the service will he the installation
is to be congratSeminary
The
years.
San Francisco.
the
Rev
S.
E.
by
the
officers
of
new
ulated
the
upon
securing
services of one
Mueklev. A large attendance is desired. so
with
that
noble instilong
identified
of
the
CenThe
Island
annual meeting
Day was observetl at
tution.
I'nion Church on May 31st. The Union will be held the first week of July
ne was Natures Praise. Music was in connection with the meeting of the
lished by the organ and piano. The Hawaiian Evangelical Association.
1
(rations were yellow
and green.
FIELD NOTES
litv-fivc children were on the platform.
The field day' of the Brig-j The meeting of the Hawaiian Evangelical Asprogram was well carried out and
Tho Hoys'
unavoidably sociation begins Tuesday, June 30th. and conifa was
Hi
until some time tinues through the week. On Sunday, the -tStli
iLTinl <> postponed
on the work of
in June. The boys were of June, sermon* bearing
will be preached in six diffor the drill competition the- Hawaiian Board
not ready
fi'ti'ii! pulpits of the city, namely: Central,
and athletic sports. In addition to these Union church, Kawaiahao. Kauinalapili. the
a baseball game will probably be played Chinese, Japanese and Portuguese churches.
between the Palatini and the Kakaako
of ill health, Rev. Mr. Kutkahi
boys. After the contests are over, the hasOn account the
pastorate of the churches of
resigned
work of the Brigade for the school year Huelc and Haiku. A successor to this field has
at
Jars, Juks. Butter Coolers, Water
will terminate with an entertainment
not yet been found. It has been placed in terthe Trade School in I'alama.
I porary charge of Rev. J. Kalino, the pastor at
Coolers, Pitchers, Milk Crocks and li>ts
The boys at the shop are. turning out Paia.
nf other things.
some fine milo and kamane calabashes i
from some of the wood purchased at the Rev. Mr. Kapu, pastor at I.ahaina. reports
We- sell these vwfjr cheap. w> deThomas Square sale. They also make koa visiting the Laitai people. They hope before
AMONG THE YOUNG PEOPLE
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liver any article no matter how
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for such will be received by Mr. Serpa at
the shop or by Mr. Henry Judd, Xiuianu
Avenue,
At last the work of leveling the Hoys'
Brigade field near the corner of Vineyard
and Liliba streets has begun and before
long the field will be in condition for use. I
It will fill a long-felt want and afford an
cxc( llent play-ground for the many boys
who live near that locality. The situation
is excellent and from the field one can see
l.anihuli, Tantalus and
Punchbowl.
Next year doubtless the Brigade field day
will be held there as it has many advantages which other places do not possess.
long to have a church building. Mr. Charles
(lay having promised thcni aid along this line.
They are very anxious to secure again the services of Mr. Kauineheiwa. who is at present in
the Theological school. If the matter can be
wisely arranged. Mr. Kaumeheiwa will soon be
sent to ibis very needy field.
Rev. K. M. I lamina, of Hana. Maui, has temporarily resigned his pastorate. The condition
of his health is such that he feels the need of a
change of occupation for a time. He is at present acting as letter carrier between Hana and
Kcanae. Mr. I). W. Kealiiokamoku, a graduate of I.ahainaluna. and for years a worker in
the Ewa church and Sunday-school, and lately
a student with Mr. Leadingham, has received
a call to fill this vacant Hana pastorate. He
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Kekaluma and uncle of Rev. S. P. Kaaia, train of smoke left behind.—North resiwas the son of Kapaiulani, konohiki dence of teachers at Lahainaluna burned.
man ) of the land of Ohia and Ma"
May i.—Ship Emily F, Whitney
(chief
Mr. and Mrs. Timoteo have been in the
grown
Kahului, go miles from Honolulu,
of
lie
was
a
reaches
owai.
Island
Molokai.
island of Kauai ever since the seventh of April.
came in after 23 days' pasage and sailing 3266
Al the close of the meetings of the Associa- man when tin- missionaries
tion, work was begun at Lihue. The homes of 1820, and had seen Kamehatneha the miles.
the people were visited, and special week-day First. He joined the church in 1842, unBth.—H. P.. M. cruiser Ampliitnle and
meetings were held, which were well attended
Hitchcock,
of
and
t\v<>
Destroyers sail for Japan.
der
the
Father
pastorate
Later this work was extended to the northern
Oth.—Sudden
has
been
a
constant
church
attendant
death of Dr. Geo. P. Anllaciia
of
the
as
far
as
and
island,
part
Hanalei
Word has been received from the committee ever since, lie never drank liquor, neither drews, horn of missionary parents at Kaiof the Hanalei church that much good has been awa, uala, nor imported liquor of any Itta in iBtB. and formerly eminent as a
done. Mr. Tiinolco reports accessions to the kind. He never smoked, nor was he ever physician at letroit.
I
churches of Hanalei. Kapaa and Lihue. After troubled with any hooinananiana fetich
loth, —Chinese gamblers offer bribe of
I
a v -it to Waimea, Mr. and Mr-- Timoteo will
woo a month to Attorney-t ieiieral's dereurn to Oahu. and his services will he imme- worship) tendency. He looks with dis- iff
approval on all kinds of bottled drinks, is partment.
diately required It Hana.
suspicious of soda water and everything iitli. — Drunken Chinaman killed, run
has a "pop-." ( 'nee when ill it was over by car in the dark on Pacific I leighls
(i.
of
Rev.
is
to
thai
May,
Kopa
the
L.
On
.list
he reinstated as |iastor of the native church with difficulty that be could be persuaded line.
at Waimca, Kauai, a position which he re- to take any medicine.
12th.—Rev. Father Libert Boeynaems
This centenarian
signed on being appointed judge of the district. can still read without glasses; indeed he appointed successor to deceased Roman
Ibis
man
li Kpeaki well for the character of
them, lie has a retentive' ( atholic Bishop (iulstan.
that he c wanted to act in the capacity of both has never used
memory and can repeat chapter alter
IJth. —Sudden death of S. ('. Allen, a
judge and pastor.
chapter of the Bible, lie learned to read leading capitalist, and resident for 53
PROGRAM OF THE MEETING OF THE in his maturity and has ever since made years.
HAWAIIAN EVANGELICAL ASSOCIATION
constant use of Scripture: before he'
17th.—U. S. Gunboat Yorktmvn arjoined the church he was a probationer rives, bound home, after four years' serin the for several years. He was the father oi vice in the Philippines.
Sunday, June jK.--ii a. in.,
Ixekahuna had
li)th- - I'.xeelsior Lodge, I.). <). ( ). I ".,
Central Union, Kawaiahao and Kaiimakapili, nine children. When
and the Chinese, Japanese and Portugue«c learned what he could at the district open box from cornerstone laid in 1851;,
churches on the work of ihe Hawaiian If aid. schools and expressed a desire to continue
and find many old documents. —Lieut.
Monday, June 39. oa. m. and 1:JO p. m, meet- his studies,at Lahainaluna, his father took
Shackleton, K. X., passes through Honat
ing of the Sunday-School Association
Kaiimakapili church; -' p. m„ meeting of the him one Saturday in his canoe over to La- olulu, aftC having been within 450 miles
Hawaiian Hoard at rooms in Boston building; haina and thence to the school at Lahaina- of the South Pole three months ago.
22cl.—Sailing-ship record broken by
7 :.,o p. in., wetting of the General Associa luna, where young Kekahuna was inlion of Y. I'. S. C lv. Kawaiahao church.
as a pupil, a classmate of other passage from Frisco to Honolulu in eight
stalled
Tuesday, June .to. <) a, m, and 1 :.v> p m men who have also made their mark in days and sixteen hours, by bark Annie
meeting of the Hawaiian Evangelical AssoJohnson, formerly the burned derelict,
ciation, organization and reading of statisti I lawaiian history.
"During those days," said the judge, Ida Irelate.
cal reports of ihe churches: 7 :.?o p. m.. addresses. (Caumakapili church.
"there was very little inoncv in currency, 23d. — U. S. battleship Wisconsin arWednesday. July 1.—9 a. 111.. meeting of the and I went through the course of study rives from Bremerton, and moors in
Hawaiian l-'.vangelical Association, reading of with practically none. Every Saturday
the annual reports of Sccretary-Trca urer.
CO., Ltd.
election of Secretary Treasurer and members my father would take his canoe across the QACIFIC HARDWARE
of the first class of Ihe Hawaiian Hoard; 7:'o boisterous Molokai channel and trudge
Importers and Jobbers of
p. m„ prayer meeting in the different up the hill with packages of paiai am!
churches,
GFNERAL MERCHANDISE.
dried fish as my food for the week. When
Thursday. July -'- <> a. 111 niecting of the Ha- I needed clothing be would bring an extra
c* Jl
waiian Evangelical Association, presentation
Fort Street.
of the representatives of the different mis- [supply and barter it for a little money.
sions. Kaiimakapili church; 4 p. 111.. Ladies' He thus helped me through my three
Hardware, Art Goods, Picture MouldAnnual Tea Party, Central Union church.
years of school life without leaving me at
ings, Paints, Oils, Varnishes, Gasoline
Friday, July 3,—o a. 111., meeting of the Ha any time in want of necessary supplies.
Agricultural Impleand Kerosene,
Association.
Kaumakaoiti
waiian Evangelical
Through Ihe stormy days of winter, when
ments, etc.
Hawaiian
of
church; 1 p, m meeting
the
J» J*
the winds and the waves of the channel
Hoard al rooms in Boston building.
Household Supplies, Sewing Machines,
Sunday. July 5.-4 p. m.. Sacrament of the were high, or in the sultry season, when
Glassware, China,
Stoves,
Ranges,
Lord's Supper administered in Kawaiaha they died away, and he had to use the
Crockery.
church.
that
canoe
would
he
beached
every
paddle,
week somewhere along the shore and the
weekly supply of provisions would come
KEALIIKUKAHAOOA
to band. Do you think I could ever forstrenuous effort and pathe household of the Waianae pastor, get those days of
(). /'. /:...
loving
tient,
service?"
We use only the best platinum
re lives an aged man, who is probably I
paper ami guarantee our work.
years
The
houseold.
r one hundred
Call ami see samples on exhibition
hold includes further Rev. S. I'. Kaaia,
in studio ::::::::;
his wife, his cousin, Rev. 1. Kekahiina,
RECORD OF EVENTS
the judge of the district. While visiting
RICE A PERKINS,
there not long since, I noticed the care(PHOTOGRAPHERS )
to
the
of
this
old
wants
given
ful attention
April 28.—Immense meteor rush) s Oregon Block, cor. Hotel and Union
man, and on inquiry, I learned the folover Hawaii and Maui between four and
lowing interesting facts:
Entrance on Union.
Kealiikukahaooa, father of Rev. J. five a. m.; loud roar heard at Hilo; long
has signified his acceptance of the call and expects to enter the field immediately.
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Send to
inches
Famous pictures for
Sunday
School uses
made by
BROWN
of Beverly
Mass.
HAWAIIAN BOARD
400 Boston Building
ROOMS
Is published the first week of each month.
In Honolulu, T. H., at the Hawaiian Board
Book Rooms, 400-402 Boston Building.
All business letters should be addressed and
all M. O.s and checks should be made out to
THEODORE RICHARDS,
Bushiest Manager of The Friend
P. O. Box 489.
COOL CLIMATE, SPLENDID VIEW
Rev. J. Leapingham,
Managing Editor of The Friend.
Honolulu, T. H.
P. O. Box 638.
The Board of Editors :
Rev. J. Leadiugham, Managing Editor,
Dr. S. E. Bishop,
Rev. O. H. Gulick,
Rev. W. D. Westervelt,
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I] Notes: The Kaumakapili Fire Claims>!' ActsDoes
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Honors to Prof. W. li. Alexander—Com<» attorney.
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of
Pacific
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Cable.—rearl Har8
,;<! Dor Opened
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The
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—Did
;!; sionaries Destroy the Silk Business
the Mi's11
in
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Jeweler and Silversmith.
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For Catalogues, address
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The Kohala Sugar Co.,
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CHEAPER THAN EVER—3O CENT*The Apokaa Sugar Co., Ltd.,
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HONOLULU, T. H., JULY, 190*
VOL. LXI
The fortieth anniversary of the Hawaiian Hoard has just passed.
Rev. W. H. Rice lakes charge of the
page on Temperance Issues in the absence of Rev. W. D. Westervelt.
The managing editor is much indebted to Dr. S. E. P.ishop for assistance in
the preparation of the present number
of this paper. It has come as a great
relief in the present busy season.
The fortieth anniversary of Rev. H.
11. Parker as pastor of Kawaiahao
Church comes too late for us to crive it
adequate attention in ibis issue. We
shall give it full mention next month, so
that Mr. Parker's friends abroad who
lead Till. FaiEND may he informed of
the event.
We print on our front cover this
month a picture of the Japanese school
which has been gathered hy Rev. Mr. Okumura during the past few years. It is
a good representation of how educational
and other work naturally spring out of
evangelistic effort, and is prophetic of the
Opportunity that is immediately upon the
Christian people of these Islands to reach
this rising generation of Japanese with
The Hawaiian
Christian education.
Hoard has recently voted to move this
school from its present quarters on Kitkui street to the premises of the North
Pacific Missionary Institute.
We call attention to The Student, the
little magazine published by the Mills
Institute, under the able editorship of
Mr. A. M. Merrill. The June number
is issued in the shape of a catalogue number. Tt contains the names of the teachers and pupils for the past year and gives
the program of daily exercises, and other
facts concerning the school. Mills Institute closed a successful year of work
on June 19th. Already students are applying for admission for next year. Two
of the old teachers, Messrs. Merrill and
Henry, remain, thus insuring a successful
continuance of the work.
The members of Kaumakapili church are to be
congratulated on receivKauTmkhpFileirClaims
ing the $40,000 which
remained
due
them for the destrucstill
tion of their church edifice in the great
fire of January 20, 1900. The full
amount of the award was $46,822. This,
with an additional amount from the sale
of a portion of the church lot. bring! the
total amount now at their disposal up to
nearly $50,000.
This sum of money, if most effectively
used, will enable this church to exert a
strong influence for good among the native population of Honolulu for many
years to come. Its people are widely scattered and naturally gather at three or four
different centers. If, as we suggested
some months ago. the work at these centers is strengthened by a modest outlay
of a part of this money, instead of spending it all in the erection of one large
church building, and the remainder invested for the support of the work, a
prosperous and useful career is easily
within the reach of this organization.
At the recent commence-
Honors to Prof.
ment at Vale University,
W. D. Alexander
of LL. D. was
the degree
1
a\c
on Prof. VV.
conferred
i»-.,r
It is probable that before
or this
paper reaches our
the Pacific
subscribers, the last link
Cable
will be completed of the
Telegraphic Submarine (.able from San
Francisco to Manila. The Colonia is expected before July 4th from Midway
Island to land the end of the last section
of the Cable at Honolulu. It has been
a great and costly undertaking, and has
been so far splendidly accomplished.
By this event Honolulu becomes linked
directly with the Orient'as we were SIX
Completion
months ago with our Continent and Europe. It is a great and momentous event,
and one of like import with the simul-
opening of I'earl Harbor in making Hawaii one of the important centers
of commerce and civilization. By
two events Hawaii becomes enthroned as
a queen in the Central Pacific, dominating over this vast ocean area.
Ex-President Cleveland has lately
pointed out in a striking manner that
wonderful Divine Providence which by
the destruction of the French Army in
San Domingo in 1803, suddenly led Napoleon to change his whole purpose and
sell Louisiana to the United States. [11
like maimer, we may well study that remarkable series of Divine Providences
which cigthy-three \ears ago bewail to
Christianize and Americanize Hawaii,
and prepared it to become a brilliant center of Christianand American civilization
in this mid-ocean. More and more clearly
is the great destiny of Hawaii opening
before us. With such a future in near
increasing and pressing
I rospect come
obligations to maintain here in highest
vigor all social, intellectual and spiritual
progress. Our youth are to be educated.
Legislation is to be kept uncorrupted and
wise. Laws are to be executed and government administered with growing justice and vigilance. Above all, we who are
Christian believers, are to be alert and devoted in bringing all the force of Christ
and His Gospel to bear for the renovation and uplifting of all the peoples in
our borders, as well as for the repression of the evil forces of drunkenness
and impurity. May the Lord inspire us
to zeal and fidelity.
taneous
Alexander, Yale's most distinguished
alumnus in these Islands. Prof. Alexander is a graduate of Vale of the class of
1855, and since that date has pursued a
continuous and honorable career of academic and scientific work. After his
graduation he taught two years in the
United States and then returned to the
Islands, and was connected with Oahu
College as teacher and president till
1871. He then entered the service of the
government as Surveyor General, in
which position iie continued till 1901.
when he became assistant in the L'nited
States Coast Survey. Prof. Alexander is
a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, a member of the Astronomical Socity of the Pacific, and of the Hawaiian
Historical Society. He is the author of
several books, and printed articles on
many subjects. He iias also served the
community as president and member of
the Roard of Education, trustee of Oahu
College, member of the Hawaiian Hoard,
and in other ways. The honor that now
comes to him is well bestowed, and we Pearl Harbor
may congratulate ourselves on having in
Opened
our midst one who is so worthy of this
nounced. But
distinguished recognition.
1).
NO. 7
This does not mean thai
any formal opening of
this great and important
haven has been anit is learned that the sand-
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Itar which has closed its entrance has
been removed. A depth of over thirty
feet ha* Ihtii M-cured from the open
ocean to tin- interior of the harlxir. There
is no longer any phyeicif obstacle to tinentrance of the largest ships. There
must follow in due season the official declaration of Pearl llarlmr as a Port or
Entry for all shipping.
It may very likely 'h- the case that no
immediate step will Ik- taken to make it
a commercial port, there lieing no present
or urgent use for it as such
The next
step in order is to create there a firstclass Naval Station. The needed lands
and water fronts for that pMpotC have
been secured, and work ■DON the required buildings, workshops and drydocks is likely to be speedily begun. It
is expected that all these will be of the
largest class, involving an early expenditure of some fifteen millions. When
completed, the largest battleships can be
docked, and the most extensive repairs
executed.
The proper defense of this great harbor and the immense works there established will involve an extensive system
of fortifications. Altogether the United
States will here create and |x>sscss its
chief out|Mist in the Pacific Ocean, both
to prevent attack upon the \nu-ricin
coast, and to give supreme command of
this great ocean. In a military point of
view. Pearl Harbor will thus become the
most imjxirtant strategic position in the
Pacific. No enemy can attack the western coast of the Continent without firs!
gaining possession of Oahu, while our
American Empire becomes centra'lv entrenched in mid-ocean.
Pearl Harbor will also soon become aft
immense auxiliary to our commerce by
furnishing a haven of inexhaustible capacity for the accommodation of the
growing fleet of trans-Pacific steamers
In the near future, the inevitable Opening
of the Isthmian Canal will In- sending an
enormous number of the largest-sized
freight steamers, carrying the commerce
of the Atlantic nations to China and
Japan. We are precisely in the track of
that commerce, and the natural and necessary point for coaling those ships. For
that necessity of the traffic. Pearl llarlx>r
will be the natural and conniNxlious resort. No doubt in ten years from this
time, scores of first-class steamers from
the Isthmus and the t )rient will enter and
fill their coal-bunkers at Pearl llarlxir
every week.
Our island is thus seen to be on the
eve of an immense development of our
commercial importance, of which the re
moval of Pearl Harbor bar is a great
premonition.
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The former system here anticipated by Mr. Gorhani l>. .nhnan of
The Contract
holding laborers to Boston, who had personal knowledge on
Labor System in of
their contracts under the subject.
Hawaii
penalty,' identical
with
The- substance of the charge was that
"
sailor shipping ~
cases, lias been griev- the missionaries would not permit the
ously misrepresented as a system ot slav- natives to feed the silkworms on the Sabery and cruelty. It is therefore gratify- bath (lay, in consequence of which tin- ating to meet with the following very just tempt to produce silk became a failure
and accurate statement >f Carroll G. with great loss to the white men who had
Wright, C. S. Commissioner of Labor: undertaken the business. I'bat charge
The planting interests haw- lung constituted was absolutely denied by all the missiona sort of industrial oligarchy in Hawaii, the aries and their friends.
Those excellent
report says, "and even their passive inllucnec people were all anxious to have the silk
has counted for much, both in legislature and enterprise prosper, as furnishing
needed
in hall of justice, (lilt it does not necessarily
follow that this influence was detrimental to employment to the natives: and while
public or private welfare, or exercised as a they taught the people religiously to obrule for selfish and short sighted ends.
It serve the Sabbath, they carefully instructdoubtless tended to preserve internal peace and
ed them that it was lav fid lo perform any
order under the monarchy, hastened the ma
labor on that day.
necessary
terial development of the country, and was
The present writer is able to tcstil\
otherwise potent in evolving modern civilization in the islands. Hut the Commercial spirit that at the age of eleven, in IK3K, he vishas not dominated alone. The missionaries ited the home of Rev. P.
J. Gulick at
brought into Hawaii a temper of New Kngland altruism so practical and progressive that Koloa, Kauai, where he saw silkworms
it has always constituted an efficient force In fed and silk reeled in Mr. Gulick's own
shaping public policy and private practice in house. At the same time. Mr. Titcomb
matters of civil right. Local public sentiment had a considerable plantation of mulberwas strong enough to correct evils that were
and was breeding
arising in 1870, and there is little doubt that ry-trees in the vicinity,
such sentiment would have led ultimately to silkworms and reeling silk on a considera termination of penal contracts even had no tble scale. The missionary, Gulick, cersuch emergency as annexation arisen
tainly favored the undertaking. Mr.
Several individual cases of abuses are cited Hooper was at the same time conducting
but the report says "Physical ill-treatment of
1 small sugar plantation at the same
contract laborers was the exception." Further, "There seems no ground therefore, for place- and much was said about the imbelieving that the former contract system in mense advantage it was to the natives to
Hawaii was a system of quasi-servitudc for
V able to earn twelve and a half cents a
laborers after the reforms of 1872. or that ii
was marked by extreme injustice or brutality. lay by their labor, as they could do noEuropeans who have worked under it seem where else in the Islands except in the
to regard it with no special antipathy.
sea-ports.
The Government maintained a thorThe failure of silk-culture as a comough and careful system of inspection. mercial enterprise appears to have been
which corrected such abuses of laborers rwing mainly to the absence of the train
as occasionally appeared. The clean and .-d and patient skill necessary in the la
humane public sentiment which prevailed borers employed.
Hawaiian* were
here all those years is justly attributed incompetent
for
success in such
by Commissioner Wright to the high type work, which needs a
rural popof Christianity established by the mis- ulation like those in China, Japan
sionaries. Their spirit has profoundly or France. Mr. Gilman quoted Mr.
impressed itself upon all the institution's James Jackson .lanes in reference
of Hawaii, social, educational, political, to the lattcr's own failure in silk producand civil, and makes our high civilization tion, which he attributes to various diffiwhat it is.
culties in the care of the worms, making
no allusion to the Sabbath question. Mr.
DID THE MISSIONARIES DESTROY Oilman was himself in the later forties a
lima on a plantation under Mr. Titcomb
THE SILK BUSINESS
at llanalei, but does not recall Mr. T.s
INHAWAII
attributing his failure to any Sunday
Such an allegation used to be heard here difficulty.
over fifty years ago. among numerous
It is not improbable that some friction
charges made by persons hostile to mis- might have arisen on the Sabbath labor
sionaries. That stale charge was revived question, but not owing to mission inlast year and published by Presi- fluence. The natives inherited from padent G. Stanley 1 lall of Clark Uni- gan times, extremely rigid habits about
versity, in Worcester. Mass, lie found the observance of any taboo days. The
it in a lxx>k published by some Ger- Sabbath was always known as "Ka I.a
man visitor to Honolulu. The present Ixapu," the Taboo day. Under heathen
writer was asked by the editor of The regime, it was death for any one to be
Independent of New York to report the found working on a tabu-day, and the
truth in the matter; hut his statement was people transferred such strict notions to
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the Christian Sabbath. As an example,
the late Mr. E. (). Hall, when a mission
ary, was once stopped by a native constable when crossing the street to bis own
house on Sunday with a pail of water
So it is quite possible that native employees may have shirked duty on the
plea of Sabbath violation. But that was
not the missionary's fault.
.V/;'. Bishop.
M
IN EMORIAM
l)i{. George
Pierce Andrews
News of the sudden decease of Dr. Andrews brought to many a home in De-
troit grief as keen and sincere as if some
member of the family circle had been
called away from earth. It is more than
twelve years since the doctor was impelled by impaired health to leave that
city, but the lapse of time has not made
dim the impression which his singularly
modest, sincere and sympathetic personality made on those who were privileged
to know him. Few physicians have been
so beloved by their patients in all si i
tions of life. Few men have so complete
ly commanded the confidence, the esteem
and the admiration of the community at
large.
The life of Dr. Andrews was one of
vicissitude His father. Dr. Seth L. Andrews, was sent out to the Hawaii.!!
Islands by the Ymerican Board, in iK,V>
as mission physician. He was located at
Kailua, Hawaii, where his eldest son,
(ieorge, was born April (). 1838, The lit-,
of the mission physician in those da\was one of extraordinary hardship I'
was necessary for him to make professional visits that required long journeys
There were no roads worthy of the name.
Travel was chiefly by canoe.
On one occasion the doctor and his
family were in I lilo when word came that
his professional services were needed at
Waimea. He had arranged to have
horses sent from Waimea, hut as they did
not arrive
at
the expected time
and the necessity was pressing, he
started on foot with his wife and
little George, then cighttcen months old.
to make the journey through the dense
koa forest of the rain belt of Hawaii
hnly at the end of three days of toil'some
plodding through mire and drench
ing rain did they meet a! last the horses
that through some misunderstanding had
been sent only as far as the borders of
the forest.
The hardships of such a life resulted
within ten years in the premature death
of three infant children and finally of the
mother herself and. he. henceforth more
or less, an invalid for life, was compelled
to lay down the burden of his missionary
work and with his surviving son, George,
to return to the home land. There can
be no doubt that the privations and hardships the children had suffered in those
years imparted their vitality and shortened their days on earth.
To the ten-year-old boy, America was
at first a world filled with wonders. Ibis described as at this time physically a
delicate child, but wide awake and full
of energy. From his 'mother he had inherited imagination, from his father a
thirst for knowledge of the facts of nature. Old pleasures soon palled with him
he was impatient to extend into new
fields his experiences of the delights of
life. So he was naturally among his companions a leader
at first perhaps in boyish mischief, later, in whatever called for
initiative and enterprise.
As he grew into adolescence it was evident that the motives which influenced
him were invariable those that were
high and noble. While restless in
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(IKOKOE
P. ANDHkWS.
his search after novelty in the experiences of life, there was absolute constancy of purpose in the pursuit of the finest ideals, and his moral instincts were never at fault in the choice
of those ideals. So it was characteristic
of him that very early in life his heart
was given irrevocably and without reserve to the elect lady who was to be the
sharer with him of whatsoever life might
have in store. So, t(x>, it was characteristic that for him there could be no
thought of any vocation in life other than
that which his father had followed, for
the bond of sympathy and affection between father and son was avers close
one.
The young man expected as a matter of
course- to go to college, and actually entered the freshman class at Yak after fitting at Philips Andover, but he shortly
found the work beyond his endurance.
The requirements of a medical course of
study were not at that time so exatcing,
and accordingly he matriculated in the
Medical Department of the University of
Michigan. He pursued with enthusiasm
a line of study so congennial to his tastes,
and at the age of twenty-three received
his diploma as Doctor of Medicine, from
the College of Physicians and Surgeons
of Xew York City.
He returned to his home at Romeo,
Mich., to claim his bride, Miss Sarah
Dyar, and then went direct to Detroit
( May, )86i), to begin the serious business of life. It was during the time of
the Civil War, and a large government
hospital had been established in Detroit
for wounded soldiers. Dr. Andrews received an appointment on the staff jf this
hospital, and thus was ensured active employment while waiting for patients of
his own.
The earlier years of his professional
life were by no means years of idleness
for him. The physicians of the city when
lie came there showed very little ambition
for anything beyond the extending of
their individual business. Dr. Andrews
was one of a very few who had a larger
conception of the obligations demanded
by their profession. Detroit, with its
clinical opportunities seemed to these men
to be the proper place for the Medical
School of the State University. So they
organized a school of medicine which was
to be auxiliary to that at Ann Arbor. That
Dr. Andrews should be chosen to fill Unimportant chair of Principle and Practice of Medicine was a matter of course.
In connection with the Medical School, it
was necessary that a Medical Journal
should grow up, and who so competent
to assume tin- editorship of such a Journal as Dr. Andrews? The State Medical
Society had become defunct throueh inanition. Dr. Andrews was one of the
leaders in the movement to reorganize the
Association, which from that time has remained an active organization. Detroit
had a medical society, but it was doing
nothing to advance the scientific interests
of the profession. Dr. Andrews was
again a leader in forming a new society,
the Detroit Academy of Medicine, which
continues to-day to represent the high
ideals of those who formed it. Again
it was Dr. Andrews who suggested the
building of the Children's Frco Hospital
in Detroit — a philanthropic enterprise
whose wisdom and necessity no one today will question.
Dr. Andrews was a man of remarkable
versatility of talent. He was equally at
home in the hospital ward, on the lecture
nlatform. or in the chemical laboratory.
He could use with the skill of a master
the plane, the trowel, or the soldering
iron, as well as the scalpel, the trephine or
the microscope. He made no pretensions
to any especial knowledge of art, yet his
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artistic intuitions were so true that his older residents for her witty remarks and
critical opinion was constantly sought re- quaint and original personality.
garding works of art. In ceramics and in
Immediately upon their arrival. Dr.
()riental rugs, he was a recognized con- 1 tyde entered into the work of preparnoisseur.
ing I lawaiian students for the native minTo the community he was known not istry, and Mrs. Hyde, who was always
only as a physician of eminence, but as a her husband's "true helpmeet," took up
man of broad culture, a courteous gentle- with enthusiasm a much-needed work for
man, a genial companion and one whose
the wives of the theological students,
friendship was to be coveted. His was a teaching them cooking, sewing, &c, thus
transparent, stainless soul, yet in his preparing tbim for model home-makers.
judgment of others he was never censo- Doubtless many a ministerial home
rious. I do not think I ever heard him throughout the Islands shows the training
speak an uncharitable word about any- the wife and mother has received through
one. He made no parade of his religion, the careful instruction of Mrs. Hyde.
but his Christian faith was a very real and
But it was as the. president of the
vital thing and found expression when- Woman's Hoard and Kindergarten Asever it could meet the need of a human
sociation that Mrs. Hyde came into most
soul. Xo officer in the church stood prominence
in
years, ('f the latter
closet to the heart of the minister than society she waslater
the
first and only presidid the "beloved physician."
dent, and it has always been felt that to
To Dr. Andrews, I lawaii was always her enterprise and courage and business
home. So it was natural when premoni- ability its success has largely been due.
tion came to him of failing health that ( )f the Woman's Hoard she was the very
he should look to his one Italian as a place acceptable president for twelve years. She
of retreat from the post of strenuous ac may truly be called a model president.
livity he had occupied for thirty years. She lived
in the work. Her opening leIn Honolulu as in Detroit his abilities votional exercises were most carefully
gained him a place of eminence and of thought out, and drawing upon her own
commanding influence in the medical fra- experiences; no one familiar with her
ternity. But the days of his full vigor could fail to see, as the years passed, the
were past. Already the shadows of the ripening Christian character developing
evening of life were gathering about through the ministry of sorrow. P.very
him. Bitter disciplinary experiences item of business was planned for and
were before him—a weary journey noted; all moved so smoothly
that one not
through solitudes few have ever trav- experienced
such works would not susin
ersed with such constancy of courage. We pect the careful preparation involved.
who knew something of the overwhelm- Nothing was
left undone which she felt
ing fatigue for him of the last stages of would add to the interest or inspiration
life's race, could not but feel that th of the occasion.
time for the crowning of the victor was
Space will not permit me to dwell
fully come.
Albert B. Lyons.
upon the pleasant home where, for
twenty years, a welcome was given to
MRS. MARY KNIGHT HYDE
missionaries and other Christian workers passing through Honolulu, and a
The withdrawal of Mrs. Hyde from broad hospitality was always exercised.
the presidency of the Woman's Hoard of With all her capabilities, Mrs. Hyde deMissions and the Kindergarten Associa- lighted most to be considered the hometion, and a less important position in maker, and her family was ever her kingother missionary and benevolent enter- dom. For some years the household of
prises here, leaves a vacancy which it six remained unbroken, and then the
will he hard indeed to fill.
aged mother was called from the loving
When the Hyde family arrived in Ho- care of her children, and we laid the worn
nolulu in the summer of 1877 from the ixxly away in beautiful Nuuanu. Before
i.Himiiient Massachusetts pulpit which many years the sister too passed away,
Dr. Hyde had so long and so md we laid her at her mother's side. The
ably filled, they were a happy group two sons also left the home, the older
"f six, including beside Dr. an I ■ne to take up a permanent residence on
Mrs. Hyde and their two young sons, the Atlantic coast. Then followed the
Henry and Charlie, the venerable mother long and anxious years of Dr. Ilvde's
of Mrs Hyde, Mrs. Knight, and an older illness and gradual decline, until in Oct..
sister, Miss Emma Knight. Mrs. Kniglu tBoo, Mrs. Hyde experienced the "sttwas a dear mother of the "old school" oreme loss" and was left alone in the deof Xew England, in whose presence her serted home, so full of sweet and sad
devoted children and grand-children de- memories It was 3 sorrow too deep and
li'dited. Miss Knight soon took a prom- sacred to be spoken of. and wi, who know
inent position in the Woman's Hoard and her best, could only add our tears to hers
elsewhere, and is well remembered by our md he silent,
•
Mrs. Hyde leaves many friends in Honolulu and throughout the Islands, who
will follow her in her joumcyings and
ultimate home with sympathy and love.
M S. W.
BRIEF MENTION
Word has come of the arrival of the
missionary schooner Carrie and Annie hi
San Francisco, from Micronesia. Returning passengers from the missionary force
were Miss Wilson, Rev. A. C. Walkup
and the son of Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Channon, who comes up for purposes of education in the United States.
A letter from Rev. I. M. Channon of
Kusaie to Dr. Bingham relates the great
difficulties under which Micronesian Mission is now laboring, owing to the lack
of a sufficient force to thoroughly man
the field, and to the inadequacy of the
missionary vessel for a number of years
past to do the necessary touring. Mr.
Channon's health is not good, and altogether the situation is one of great discouragement.
Instead of a special topic for considerlime meeting of the W. C.
T. I", the leader presented a number of
letters which had accumulated during the
ation at the
year and had been crowded out from
month to month.
( )ne of these was from Mrs.
John Waterhouse, who represented the Society at
the World's W. C. T. C. Convention, in
(ieneva, Switzerland. Another was from
Anthony Comstock. who commended the
Honolulu W. C. T. I T as the first one
which had given the 30 per capita asked
for from each Union, in order to perpetuate his work. The Society adjourned
.
until
September.
\ new idea for a missionary society
program comes from East Orange, X. J.
The Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church of that place have chosen
as a subject for the fall meeting, "Our
Xew Possessions." and propose to present as one feature, the music and hymns
used in these various new possessions.
me of their number has written on here
asking for a copy of one of our hymn
hooks or some sheet music tor this purnose. In these days when so much is being said about advertising the Hawaiian
Islands and inducing tourist travel.
'
it is well to remember the amount of
knowledge of these Islands that is dis-
seminated through the churches of the
United States. Much of this was accomnlished by the December number of Tut.
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knowing in notices received in one way
or another.
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TEMPERANCE ISSUES
Edited by
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REV. W.
THE BAR
The following strikingly truthful definition in rhyme of a familiar word used
in our excise law, was first published
many years ago, and is now going the
rounds of the press again.
Who was its author?
A bar to heaven, a door to hell;
Whoever named it. named it well.
A bar to manliness and wealth ;
A door to want and broken health.
A liar to honor, pride and fame;
A door to sin and grief and shame.
A liar to hope. I bar to prayer;
A door to darkness and despair.
A bar to honored, useful life;
A door to brawling, senseless strife.
A bar to all that's tree and brave:
A door to every drunkard's grave.
A liar to joys that home imparts;
A door to tears and aching hearts.
A bar to heaven, a door to hell:
Whoever named it. named it well.
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EFFECTS OF
BEER DRINKING
For some years a decided inclination
has been apparent all over the country
to give up the use of whiskey and Other
strong alcohols, using as a substitute beer
and other compounds. This is evidently
founded on the idea that beer is not harmful, and contains a large amount of nutriment: also that bitters may have some
medicinal quality which will neutralize
the alcohol it conceals.
Tucse theories are without confirmation in the observation of physicians. The
use of beer is found to produce a species
of degeneration of-all the organs; profound and deceptive fatty deposits, diminished circulation, conditions of congestion
and perversion of functional activities, local inflammations of both the liver and
kidneys are constantly present.
Intellectually, a stupor amounting to almost paralysis, arrests the reason, changing all the higher faculties into a mere
animalism, sensual, selfish, sluggish, varied only with paroxysms of anger that
are senseless and brutal.
In appearance the beer-drinker may be
the picture of health, but in reality he is
most incapable of resisting disease. A
slight injury, a severe cold or a shock to
the body or mind will commonly provoke
acute disease, ending fatally. Compared
with inebriates who use different kinds
of alcohol, he is more incurable, and more
generally diseased. The constant use of
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beer every day gives the system no recuperation, but steadily lowers the vital
forces. It is our observation that beer
drinking in this country produces the verylow est kind of inebriety, closely allied to
criminal insanity. The most dangerous
ruffians in our large cities are beer drinkers. Recourse to beer as a substitute for
other forms of alcohol merely increases
the danger and fatality.— Scientific American.
BEER
The claim made by Mr. Kendall, the
national president of the Brewers' Association, and noted in our April issue, that
the brewers had done more for temperance than all other agencies, in the last
ten years, rather set your secretary thinking, and he has been looking into the
matter a little.
Some results of this investigation arc
given below and it would hardly look as
if we could agree with him in his conclusions. If these things show good temperance work", it must take a curious sort
of glasses to disclose it.
For instance, note the famous chemist
whose name is almost a household word,
Baron Liebig, as he writes: "The who'e
purpose of brewing is to get rid of the
blood-forming elements of the grain and
to transmute the useful sugar into alcohol. We can prove with mathematical
certainty that as much flour as can lie on
the point of a table knife is more nutritious than eight quarts of the best Bavarian Peer."
The Court of Appeals, Xew York's
highest court, in a decision by Justice
Welles said: "Xow that ale, beer, porter
and most of the fermented drinks
known in this country can and do
produce intoxication to a greater
or less extent, and that such is
the ordinary effect of their use as a
beverage, no man of mature years can
have failed to observe."
Put this with the following from an address by Dr. Edward C. Mann: '"I think
a person after indulging in wine or beer
for a time feels a growing desire for some
more powerful stimulant."
The Chicago Daily News says:"The
fact is, that the use of beer as a pretended
temperance beverage is a delusion and a
snare. It is the first step to indulgence
in stronger liquors."
Horace Greeley wrote years ago: "The
single glass of wine or beer per day, at
the beginning, will soon be enlarged or
repeated. It was enough to start the blood
into a gallop yesterday, but falls short
to-day, and will not begin to do it tomorrow."
Away back in 1830, England tried the
experiment of "beer temperance."
The London Times said : "The idea entertained was that free trade in beetwould gradually wean men from the
temptations of a regular tavern and would
promote the consumption of a wholesome
national beverage, in place of ardent
spirits. The results of this experiment
did not confirm the expectation of its promoters. The sale of beer was increased,
but the sale of spiritous liquors was not
diminished."
In a later issue we may discuss the
question from the health standpoint, and
see how it bears out its claim."—Connecticut Citizen.
The attention of the New York hospital surgeons has been called to the biu;
number of bartenders that have lost several fingers of both hands within the past
few years. The first case was that of an
employe of a Howery concert hall. Three
of the fingers of his right hand and two
of his left were rotted away when he
called at P.ellevuc one day and begged tin
doctors to explain the reason. He said
duty was to draw beer for the
thousands who visited the garden nightly.
The man was in perfect health otherwise,
and it took the young doctors quite a
time to arrive at any conclusion. Put
they (lid finally, and it nearly took the
heerman's breath away when they did.
"Your fingers have been rotted off,"
they said, "by the beer which you have
handled."
Other cases of a similar nature came
rapidly after this one, and to-day the
physicians estimate there is an army of
employes of saloons whose fingers are
being ruined by the same cause. The
acid and resin in the beer are said to be
t esnonsiblc.
The head bartender of a well known
down-town sakxin says he knows a numlier of cases where beer-drawers have, in
addition to losing several fingers of both
hands, lost th use of both members.
"Peer will rot iron, I believe." he added. "I know, and every bartender
knows, that it is impossible to keen a
good pair of shoes behind the bar. Peer
will rot leather as rapidly, almost, as acid
will eat into iron. If I were a temperance
orator, I'd ask. What must beer do to
men's stomachs, if it eats away men's
fingers and their shoe leather? I'm here
to sell it, but T won't drink it.—not
much," —Netv York Mail and Express,
that his
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ertheless,
GENERAL
COMMENT
BY W. U. WHITNEY
Whether or not we arc to have a perlancnt body of law-makers in Honolulu,
vhose sittings shall be continuous, with
itermissions only for meals, seems still
obe somewhat in doubt. Certain it is,
lat such an unprecedented session as the
resent would lead us so to believe. For
le length of time the session has been
working" and for the amount of fermenation of intellect exhibited, very little of
nything has been accomplished. Three
r four measures have been passed, all
laving to do with appropriations, and
yen some of these have had a hard time
etting by the Governor. Six provisions
1 the general emergency bill were vetoed
v His Excellency. These were all small
rants to private parties, given as sops to
xilitical friends and were rightly thrown
ut by the executive. There is a great
ense of security given to the community
v such acts of the Governor. It demnstrates that little which looks like jobcry or chicanery in our Legislature will
scape his watchful eye.
Court he has at last l>een granted absolute control thereof. The fees received
out of this estate have made more than
one attorney well-to-do, and the actions
of Attorneys A. S. Humphreys and F. E.
Thompson have been called under review
of the Court. At its request the Attorney
General has filed charges against these
two attorneys, and the trial is, as we
write, in progress.
In the Supreme Court of the I Inited
States, the case of the Territory of Hawaii vs. Tanbara Mankichi was, during
this month, decided in favor of the Territory. This case involved the much
vexed question of our "Transition
Period," when, by the Xcwlands Resolution we had become a part of the United
States, but before our present Territorial
government had been settled upon. The
Court holds that the constitution did not
follow the flag, that Hawaiian procedure
was in full force here during this period.
that only those provisions of the constitution applied which Congress had made so
to do. This case folloyvs directly the doctrine of Downes vs. Bid well, which had
to do with Puerto Rico, where this doctrine was first laid down. There were in
this case, four judges dissenting.
Though the Legislature "in session"
has accomplished so little, the courts "in
vacation" have apparently made up therefor. The case before Judge Gear, involving the validity of the County Act, has
heen tried and the decision announced by
His Honor. Unfortunately the matter in Even the District Court has had work
controversy did not go to the unconsti- of importance to do this month, for the
tutionality of the Act as a whole, the de- new law preventing the employment of
cision affecting only one part thereof, minors in saloons was brought into ques-
namely, the Board of Public Supervisors.
This was a body which by the Act was
granted powers in conflict with those of
the present Superintendent of Public
Works: powers which practically render
that office either absolutely unnecessary
or the fattest sinecure in the Territory.
By the decision in this case, the Board of
Public Supervisors was declared illegal
and unconstitutional, but His Honor was
of the opinion that the remainer of the
Act was not affected by the decision.
In the Supreme Court, the notorious
Sumner case was given its final decision.
John K. Sumner, an aged Tahitian. a
man of 82 years, and worth something
over $110,000, by some evil chance fe'l
nto the hands of certain attorneys, who
together with his grandchildren, have
nanaged to get from the old man, 3 very
arge share of said $110,000. The remain
der Sumner has been endeavoring to ob-
tain, and by the decision of the Supreme
tion by the arrest and conviction of E. S.
Cunha for employing minor help. An
•ippeal has been taken, and presumably
it will lie with the Supreme Court to decide as to the validity of this very salutary law.
A very interesting case has arisen in
die Federal Court. A htti of young men,
so rumor has it, have united in an atfempted hold-up of the community, and
'.-specially C. Brewer and Co.. Ltd. These
voting men, under the name of one Fred
Berger, have brought suit to enforce a
c
orfeit of $1000 each against C. Brewer
\nd Co., Ltd., for the importation of 113
Koreans. The contention is that these
Koreans were imported in contravention
if our immigration law, relating both to
he importation of Asiatics and of laborers under contract.
The stake of
* 113,000 is a large one, and a severe
•t niggle will he necessary by either sicLbefore it is won or lost. It seems, nev-
a great shame that our courts
should be used for this species of highbinder performance. However, it is impossible to give every man free standing
in court without allowing some improperly to stand there, for awhile at least.
Activity in the courts is generally supposed to presage activity in money markets. No great change, however, has
been noticed in our own. More than half
a million dollars has been put into circulation here through the payments of
our fire claims, but it has made little difference. Our mortgage indebtedness has
decreased about $10,000, which is surprisingly little when we remember how many
of our Chinese merchants are heavily
mortgaged to banks and money lenders.
The question natuarllv arises, what 13
being done with the money received ? Beyond a doubt it is being hoarded by the
Chinese payees with the intention of removing to China at the first opportunity.
A great and general desire seems to possess the Chinese to remove from these
Islands. It seems as though every man
among them who can do so is selling out
or failing and so forcing settlement with
his creditors and straightway betaking
himself back to the Celestial country.
How much this means to our business
interests can scarce be imagined. The
Chinese are the life of our large whoh sale houses; without them those houses
are bound to be crippled, and without
these wholesale houses we shall not havethat stability as a business community of
which we have always boasted. To feel
the effect of the withdrawal of Chinese
patronage, one need only traverse our
city during the Chinese New Years. Pompeii and Herculaneum seem busy marts
compared to Honolulu then. In the place
of the Chinese store, the small Japanese
shop is appearing everywhere. Whatever may be said to the contrary, the
Chinaman has, by his' stay among us, certainly gained enough education and such
•lesire for comfort that he is no longer
a competitor of the Jap, who can live on
less and cares for less. As yet the Japanese trade with white firms is limited, but
time and education will undoubtedly
make him a consumer of our stuffs and
he will then become more valuable economically to Hawaii.
Whether or not this exodus of Chinese
or some other cause leads thereto, the general business of Honolulu is still in a
stagnant condition. On the Stock Exchange there is nothing at all doing. It is
not uncommon to see what were formerly
considered our best stocks now going
without a bid for days at a time. The
only large undertaking now on foot seems
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be the Alexander Young Hotel. We
promised that this modern and altogether beautiful hostelry will be opened
within a few days. It would seem that
this house, situated as it is in the very
heart of the city, is better fitted for a
commercial hotel than for the tourist
trade. But under liberal management, it
is hoped that many now finding homes in
boarding houses will go to this hotel in
preference. Whatever its future, it will
remain as a great and lasting monument
to energy and the faith in Hawaii of one
of our most substantial and longest resident business men.
to
are
The position of Superintendent of Public Works, left vacant, or to be left vacant, by the resignation of Mr. Cooper,
has found many aspirants. Some six
men, of more or less ability, have placed
themselves in the lists, but at the earnest
solicitation of most of the business community, and even of our iconoclastic Legislature, Mr. Cooper is now reconsidering
his resignation, and we have large hopes
that we shall still have his valuable services in that position. The investigation of
Mr. Marston Campbell's conduct in repairing roads which he deemed dangerous
to traffic with stone intended for improve-
in unsavory Iwilei, has been conducted with that whole-heartedness and
interest which only ex parte investigation
by men with their minds alreadymade up can secure. It is no wonder, therefore, that a committee report, censuring
Mr. Campbell for
his conduct, has been accepted by
the House. But the community at large
has not so done. The conscientious actions of public officials, even though in
minor details perhaps unwise, do not deserve and rarely receive the opprobrium
placed thereon by such men as voted for
the censure resolution.
nients
MORAL AND RELIGIOUS
MAN'S PLACE IN THE
UNIVERSE able location of
our system in respect to
the great cloud-ring of stars that girdles
our sky, it is strenuously denied that that
Dr. Alfred Russell Wallace is an emi- ring
encloses the Universe. It is true,
now
aged,
nent scientist of long standing,
our
that
telescopes, with all the aid of
having been a competitor of Darwin in
do indicate a rapid decrease
photography,
promoting the dogma of Evolution. Dethe
number
of stars in, sight beyond
in
lias lately come again to the front with a that ring,
while
certain black specks apremarkable theory on the subject headas
were
nothing beyond. But
if
there
pear
ing this paragraph, but which has been these
are
appearances
fully accounted for
received with little favor in many circles
by the fact that innumerable dark bodies
of thought.
scattered throughout space, large and
It is substantially this: That the are
minute, which altogether constitute a thin
the
of
boundary
Milky Way, being the
that becomes dense enough in the
visible stars, does really enclose the actual fog
off the
Cniverse; that our Sun is central to the remoter distances entirely to cut
the
that
from
universe
Yet
light
beyond.
plane of the Milky Way, and central to a farther universe is probably just as teemcluster composed of the seemingly large ing and crowded with stars as the nearer
stars which are similarly located ; that our
which we see.
Earth is probably the only planet in the parts leading
astronomer. Sir Robert Ball,
A
Solar System which has been or will behas
his belief that the dark or
published
come capable of developing Human or
extinct orbs floating in space are a millife;
that
the
outer
orbs
of
the
Rational
more numerous than the live
stellar universe are probably ill-located lion times suns. It is equally
probable
for such development of humanity. Hence or bright
Wallace infers, that our earth must be
the sole abode of Humanity in the Universe, and that "the supreme end and purpose of this vast universe was the production and development of the 'living
soul' in the perishable body of man" on
this earth.
While treating the eminent and aged
Wallace with the kindest deference, the
astronomers have quite unanimously refuted his reasoning. They point out that
as our Sun is only one among more than
a million solar orbs revealed by the telescope, it is unreasonable to attribute to
it any special advantage as to planets capable of breeding rational souls; multitudes of these visible suns are likely to
be attended by equally favored planets.
Even if our alleged central position were
any advantage, thousands of other stars
are equally central to the Milky Way, and
so have a like advantage.
While it may be admitted that Dr. Wallace has indicated a somewhat remark-
that the clouds of dark meteorites similarly exceed in number the bright nebulae.
Hence the foggincss of space beyond a
certain distance.
What has Theology or the doctrine of
God to say (in this topic? We believe that
God fills the Universe, however vast, and
that it all is His creation. When astronomy extends our conception of Space, it
enlarges our conception of the Divine immensity. Geology has in like manner extended our conception of past ages to
scores of millions of years; and spectroscopic astronomy is revealing to us vastly
longer aeons of time occupied in the generation, growth, and fading out of suns.
Thus in like manner have become enlarged our conceptions of the Divine
We say with deeper meanEternity.
ing, "Before the mountains were brought
forth, or even thou didst form the earth
and the world, even from everlasting to
everlasting, thou art God."
But we are also overwhelmed with the
thought of Man's insignificance. "What
is man, that thou are mindful of him, or
the son of man, that thou visitest him?"
Can it be that the Creator and Sustainer
of innumerable planets, inhabited by races
of human souls, cares particularly for this
earth and its people? Yes, it is part of
God's infinity to be infinite in the outreach of His unfailing love and mercy.
We of earth are none the less loved and
compassionated, because innumerable
other races elsewhere are being nurtured
for a glorious immortality.
Thus does Theology reverently adjust
itself to all that Science discloses, and
finds therein enlarged knowledge of God.
S. E. B.
THE EARLIEST CHRISTIAN WORSHIP
IN CALIFORNIA WAS
PROTESTANT
lii The Interior appeared the following
by Rev. James S. MacDonald,
D. D., which shoyv that public Protestant
worship was held on the coast of California by Sir Francis Drake, nearly 200
years before Father Junipero Sierra first
established Roman Catholic worship at
San Diego. Drake was a scourge of Papal Spain on both the Atlantic and Pacific, and led in the destructive attack on
the Spanish Armada which finally quelled
the Papal supremacy:
statements
On a height in Golden Gate Park. San Francisco, there stands a massive granite cross. It
was my good fortune to join in its consecration service, conducted by Bishoo Nicholls and
his brethren. It is "The Prayer-Book Cross."
It was erected at great cost as a memorial of
an event of intense interest.
June 17, 1579, Sir Francis Drake cast anchor in an exposed bay. known as Drake's
Bay. Had he nassed through the then unnamed Golden Gate, and entered the peerless
water beyond, we might have a "Sir Francis"
instead of a "San Francisco Bay." But better
the name of a saint, whose mission was one
of peace, than that of a sailor, whose business
it was to send the shins of England's foes to
the depths of the sea. Sir Francis spent thirty-
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five days on the shore of charming Marion
county. The Indians came to see at one time
with great pomp and ceremony. They took
the white men for gods. To disabuse their
minds, religious services were held in their
presence, "all kneeling and joining in prayers;
thus indicating that they were but creatures
of the one only everlasting God. After prayers
psalms were sung: and with the music the Indians were especially delighted. On July 23,
after many religious ceremonies and singing
of psalms, he bade farewell to 'New Albion,'
and stood Out to sea."
Thus the first religious services held on this
Western shore of the continent were conducted according to the rites of the Church of
England. It was a glorious temple, worthy of
their great God and Saviour. On one hand,
the vast and restless ocean; on the other, the
unexplored continent, with its mountains and
mysteries: bold mint Reys near, as ;i protector: and looking down upon the scene. Mount
Tainalpais. fitting throne tor some Olymnian
Jove. That is the historic snot where these
English worshippers looked up to their Father
in the name of bis beloved Son. Of that worship the Prayer-Rook Cross is the enduring
pri'-.'irial.
There were nearly two centuries of silence
between the ringing of God's praises at
Drake's Bay and the worsbin of Father Jtini■cro Serra on the shore of San Diego Bay.
that choice gem of our Southern coast. There
this pioneer of the Catholic church made a
settlement in 1768. and called it San Diego.
This was the first of a long list of names of
-.-tints given to counties, cities and streams of
The
CHAMBERLAIN
Angeles, S. California,
May 5, 1903.
Having changed plans of travel so that
a month was spent in California instead
of a few days, it became possible to carry
out a long cherished desire to visit Southern California in the Springtime, to see
and enjoy the wild flowers. After threedays in Oakland, your correspondent,
with a young companion to share the newjoy, traveled to San Jose and reveled in
the sight of the lovely wild flowers.
Great patches of color on every side; orange, yellow, pink, purple, blue and cream
color, spread on the hillsides or in the
meadows, or nearer still, by the sides of
the railroad track as we whizzed along.
Occasionally an orchard in bloom came
in sight, but the time for orchard bloom
was past, and the young fruit mostly set.
Everywhere, in every town or hamlet
we rushed through, were the blooming
rose in the full glory of Spring. A brief
visit at San Jose was marked by an afternoon at Alum Rock Park, a resort on the
slopes of the foothills, quite near the suburbs; where some natural springs impregnated with alum and sulphur, exist, in a
wild, interesting locality, which is made
accessible at trifling cost by the electric
cars. This park is much frequented by
.
lately forced by science to admit and to
believe with absolute confidence in a directive power—in an influence other than
physical, dynamical, electrical forces.
Was there anything so absurd as to believe that a number of atoms by falling
in 1769.
together of their own accord could make
S. E. B.
a sprig of moss, a microbe, a living aniScience was not antagonistic
mal?
GOD BEYOND SCIENCE
to religion, but a help for religion." In
a letter to the London Times, called forth
Agnosticism concerning God has come
by comments on his address, Lord Kelvin
to be recognized as only a stage in the wrote:
progress of knowledge. Tyndall believed Forty years ago I asked Liebig. walking
that every germ cell in the vegetable and somewhere in the country, if he believed that
animal organisms was where it was be- the grass and flowers which we saw around
cause the forces of nature placed and held us grew by mere chemical forces. He anit there, but concerning a higher intclii- swered, "No, no more than I could believe
that a book of botany describing them could
gent directing power he knew nothing, grow by mere
chemical forces."
be
and maintained that nothing could
Every action of human free will is a miracle
known. Many scientists agreed with him to physical and chemical and mathematical
and some still do. Yet an increasing science.
number are convinced that science wit- The greatest physcist to-day in the
nesses God, though it does not explain scientific world thus avows his belief in
His being. Lord Kelvin, that prince of God. Science does not in any degree
scientists, in a recent address at Univer- disptttc. though it docs not solve the myssity College, London, affirmed this in tery of life and of its Author. It only
words which are attracting wide atten- pushes the mystery farther away from the
tion. "Biologists," he said, "only knew realm of scientific knowledge.— Tltc ConGod in His wbrks, hut they were abso- gregationalist.
..
.
afternoon, a Fellowship
Meeting was
convened in the Congregational Church
to meet and hear some of the noted men
of the Congregational denomination, who
were on their way from the East to SeatSan Jose people for excursions and pic- tle, Washington, to attend the Congreganics, or to take sulphur baths or to drink tional Council there. We were in time to
the water from various springs considered enjoy the closing speech at the Fellowhighly- medicinal. One of the attractions ship meeting, by the Rev. J. L. Parton,
was a bird-house enclosed with wire net- who, it will be remembered, was one of
ting, where peacocks, pheasants, doves of the delegates of the A. P. C. E. M. to
various kinds, guinea fowls and other China and Japan two years ago, and who
birds, are domesticated. A large family stopped in Honolulu a few hours on their
of canaries iive free in one of the rooms, return. Mr. Barton's address on his hope
and a small nest in an improvised tree of a general revival of the Church to be
was cunning in the extreme. Some of expected in the near future, was stimuthe visitors had never seen a peacock with lating and elevating. After the service,
a spread tail before, and loudly expressed many friends pressed forward for a glad
their admiration.
hand of fellowship. Your corresponder.t
A short visit at Santa Clara with our could say, "Hawaii greets you too!" He
hospitable "Cousins," Jane and Elizabeth had not forgotten his day in Honolulu.
Poguc, who are true home-makers, and
The night train for Los Angeles bore
mother to the children of their brother, us further south, and a long, weary ride
Mr. Wm. E. Pogue of East Maui, was it proved, as repeated delays from poor
thoroughly enjoyed, and a call on the re- coupling of the cars caused long waits,
vered friends, Joel and Hannah Bean, so that the train was quite three hours bewho also live in Santa Clara, and delight hind time in reaching the city next day.
to welcome all the dear friends they The ride was on the "Coast line," and
learned to love in Hawaii so many years gave an opportunity to see the ocean for
ago. was delightful in the extreme. Lydia a long distance. It seemed a novel sight
S. (Bean) Cox, admitted to our fellow- to many in the cars, hut to one weary Haship when a baby girl, with her husband, waiian, the scene seemed gray and alCharles Cox, and her two charming most dismal, under the foggy atmosdaughters, added to the joy of the after- phere, and she sighed for the lovely views
noon.
of the sparkling ocean under Hawaii's
Oakland, May 25th. sunshine.
Returning to San Jose on April 30th Los Angeles is truly a very stirring and
to start for Los Angeles, an unexpected progressive inland city. It has greatly
pleasure was experienced by finding that enlarged and expanded in the fifteen years
Hawaiian Mission Children's Society
A LETTER FROM MISS M. A.
Ixys
some later changes! The
"Kio dc Las Plumas," for instance, has lost
the beauty of its plumage, and is now "Feather
River." A few miles from the bay, on the
banks of the San Diego River, the first mission
was established. Its olive grove and adobe
ruins are still seen where the builders wrought'
California. Alas for
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see the President in the greater shows of
San Francisco. Put alas for all such antic
ipation! A spell of chill north wind, after
a sunny afternoon induced a very severecold, and laid us up in the house for two
weeks the sight of all the fine things was
naught to an invalid. Put hearsay and
newspapers made the whole event much
more of a reality.
Illness has delayed this letter much betrainer of this hospital. It is under the
control of the Episcopal church and is yond .the time planned. Xext week, June,
very soon to erect a new and beautiful 2nd, will probably mark our departure
structure on a fine site two streets above to Chicago.
the present location, near Orange street,
one of the elegant residence streets where
are many handsome homes. Among
these is the home of Col. and Mrs. Geo
since last visited.. A most cordial welcome was received from a friend formerly a resident of Honolulu, now the wife
of a progressive physician, whose specialty is the same as that of Dr. Lorrenz,
who visited the Hospital of the Good Samaritan while in America and performed
one of his famous operations there. Our
lady friend is the efficient manager and
;
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Items...
Dc la Yergnc and their family. Between
their home and that of the other friend IMPRESSIONS FROM HAWAII
time was divided, and many calls were
made on those friends who are connected The approach which we made upon
with the Islands. Put time was too lim- the steamer to the Hawaiian Islands conited to take in the friends either of Riv- firmed the validity of its name, "the Garerside or Pasadena, much to our regret. den of the Pacific." ()nce Upon its shores
On Sunday we attended in the morning the proverbial hospitality and good will
the hirst Presbyterian church, where of the people was amply established. It
Col. Dc la Ycrgne is a ruling elder, and may he interesting to readers of The
in the evening the Congregational Pacific to know that the work of die
church, where Rev. Win. Horace Day, American Hoard in the Islands has been
the husband of Julia ( Lyman) Day, is taken over by the Hawaiian Evangelical
pastor. The severe illness of Mrs. Day- Association, beginning with January Ist,
prevented a call on her, much to our mu- 1903. With this Association the Amertual regret. At this church the hope of ican Poard has for many years been in
hearing this one of our newly adopted delightful fellowship and co-operation.
cousins was disappointed by the fact diat By this move just consummated, the coit was the night when Rev. Mr. Chapman operation does not cease. During our stay
of the Anti-Saloon League was to present in the Islands, a careful study was made
his work and report progress. The fact in regard to the property now owned by
of seeing and hearing our old friend com- the American Hoard, in value many thoupensated for the disappointment in a sands of dollars, with a view to transfermeasure, for he had indeed cheering pro- ring the same to a Hoard of Trustees to
gress to report in Southern California, he named by the American Hoard, who
and after the service it was a mutual shall administer the property so that the
pleasure to clasp hands again. The week income and proceeds may accrue to the
of our stay was one of great excitement Hawaiian Association, which is named as
for Los Angeles, for the annual fiesta the beneficiary. Only such property will
was held for three days and President be transferred as was originally given or
Roosevelt's visit was anticipated the last bought for local Hawaiian uses. One
day. The city was ablaze with the fiesta piece of property, for example, is deeded
colors. Yellow, green and red, typifying to the American Hoard for other purthe orange, the olive and wine. These poses so clearly defined that it could not
decorations, combined with the national rightfully be transferred.
colors, red, white and blue, were most atThe Hawaiian Evangelical Association
tractive and varied. Everywhere Presi- is composed of all the churches of the
dent Roosevelt's pictures were displayed. Islands, and its Poard of Directors conThe electrical display was grand. It was sists of thirty-three men. A part of these
indeed a struggle with desire on Thurs- are native Hawaiians, and the others
day, May 7th, to decide to start before among the ablest men and Christian
the crowning third day of fiesta should workers on the Islands.
bring the Carnival of Flowers and the There are many difficult questions now
visit of the President. Put the fact that before the Association to he solved Thee
all trains on Friday would be so over- questions are only in part of a financial
crowded after all was over, and make the order. The depressed condition of busiarrival in Oakland so late on Saturday, ness in the Islands of course raises a fincaused us to secure a passage on Thurs- ancial problem, but the brave-spirite 1
day, taking a day train and arriving in leaders in the work will find a way to
Oakland on the morning of Saturday. The overcome this embarrassment. The other
hope was of course assured that we could problems will require wisdom, tact andj
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patience. The incoming crowds of Chinese, Japanese, Koreans and Portuguese
have added largely to the missionary obligations resting uixin the Christian peo-
pie.
The most difficult problems for solution
relate to the natives of the Islands. Their
churches are at a low spiritual ebb. This
is recognized by no one more than by the
Hawaiian leaders. Is there cause for this
condition? Few people have passed
through greater or more trying changes
during the past fifteen or more years.
Foreign peoples from the East and the
West have in large numbers invaded the
Islands and secured a strong hold ii|x>ii
the business and property interests because of their superior ability, industry
and thrift. The English language is now
compulsory in all the schools of Hawaii.
The children speak it fluently, and when
the next generation shall come to the
front the native language will be largely
of the past. Why should we blame the
people if they have some suspicions and
jealousies in view of these changed conditions? It is evidently a time for the most
careful and faithful work, the wisest
leadership and the most long-continued
patience.
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another problem, in re-
suggests
gard to ministerial training: that there
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mits of no doubt. The churches arc calling for such. At the present time thereis no theological training, or practically
none. The Evangelical Association must
grapple with the situation at once, not
only as relates to the Hawaiian churches,
but also the churches of other races. The
public schools of the Islands stand well
abreast of those of any of our States or
Territories. There are some most excellent institutions of learning, such as
the Oahu College and the Kaniehamcha
Schools. It is apparent that the present
pastors and leaders of the churches must
get the question of ministerial supply to
the front in their own churches, and
through a deeper spiritual life in the
churches awaken a new call to the minisplans for theological training
try.
must be made, large enough to attract the
young llawaiians, or so far as that is
concerned, the young Japanese. Chinese
and Portuguese. Hut the changes in the
language already mentioned, render tile
problem more difficult. The Hawaiian
preacher must know the English if he is
to be i<|ttal to the present day work.
There is not suficicnt literature in the
native tongue to meet the demands of the
day: and the children and the young people will soon require the English. In the
midst of all these changes and hard rev
olutionary inquiries, we must be patient,
and not permit the present lurking distrusts to have too deep a place. It will
soon pass away, and we may soon e\-
pect a deep work of grace among these terwards and were very interesting. Mr.
churches. Such well knoyvn and eloquent 11. P. Judd was chairman of the commitpreachers as Desha, Timoteo, Ezera and tee in charge and was assisted by Messrs.
others understand the situation as do the Theodore Richards, J. Woods, C. R. braleaders in the Evangelical Association.
zier, and others. The events were the
We are profoundly impressed with the 100 yards dash, 220 yards, quarter mile,
evidences of past Christian effort and fu- half mile and mile runs, shot-put, broad
ture hope in the Islands. When the prob- jump, high jump, and pole vault. Most
lems shall have heen wrought out, when of the contests were extremely close. It
the many mistakes of political and relig- is to he regretted that the boys from Ka
ious lib, and new and deeper experience kaako failed to appear.
()n Saturday evening,
shall have been gained we may well exJune 20th, the
pect prosperity hi the Islands in the way presentation of the medals and banners
of business and religion, and the greatest won on the Field Day took place at the
of these is religion.— Rev. C. If. Daniels} Palama Club House. A musical pro
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gram, consisting of instrumental music
and songs by quartette, and vocal solos,
preceded the presentations, which were
made by Superintendent Judd. A koa
cane was presented by the company to
Capt. Coles as a testimonial for his great
interest in the boys. Mr. Theodore
< hi the i Uh of June the Richards, president of the Hoys' Brigade,
The Boys'
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llrivade
|;()VS Brigade was held cream and cake were passed around to
at Kapiolani Park. The Kakaako com- everyone present.
Although the military and social depany failed to appear either for the drill
or the sports, and so Inith the banners partments have ceased their activity for
were awarded to the Palama company. the summer, the industrial department
The latter gave an exhibition drill, under will continue to keep Open. The boys are
their captain, Chas. Coles, of Camp Mc- eager to work in the shir]), and so it is
Kinley. He has been drilling the hoys thought best to have the place open infor the past two months, and their fine stead of closing it as was done last sumappearance in the drill showed his good mer. Calabashes of various native woods
work with them.
are being turned out by the boys and arc
The sports were held immediately af- for stile. We invite an inspection of the
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Rev. J. N. Kamoku. Hawaii.
Rev. S. W. Kekuewa Koliala. Hawaii,
Rev O. W. Waiau. Hookcua. Hawaii.
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Rev. H. Manasc. Honolulu.
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Tlieodorc Richards, Treasurer, Honolulu.
Rev. J. Leadingham, Honolulu.
Miss N. M. Duff.
Mr. S. Oni.
Rev. J. M. Lydgate. Lihue. Kauai.
Rev. C. W. Hill. Hilo, Hawaii.
Miss M. E. Huntington, Wailuku, Maui.
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shop and will be pleased to show voii held at the Methodist church, Monday
what can he done by the youth of Pal- evening, Jline 15th. There was an unusually
good attendance, and a spirit of good
ama.
fellowship prevailed. The opening song
With the closing of the year's work of service was led by Mr. Theodore Rich-
the Hoys' Brigade, Mr. Henry Judd's connection with it ceases. To us it has been a
relief to have one so thoroughly sympathetic and informed as to our conditions,
even though it must he for such a brief
period. For him, no doubt, it has he-en a
good intermediate year for his work
which will tit him to lie a trained worker
in a field which is offering more and more
wide opportunities for the upbuilding of
the Kingdom. The Boys' Brigade wishes
him well.
The secretary of the local
Christian
Endeavor
Endeavor
Christan
Union recently received
an interesting report of work done during
190a by the Japanese Society on Nuuanu
street. They report an average attendance at their meetings of 12, the total
number of members being 14, living in
Honolulu. During that time they had
seven union meetings with the Junior Society, the average attendance being 55.
The members have assisted at meetings
at Makiki Chapel, at Kakaako, have distributed several thousand tracts, have visited the Japanese Hospital patients, hesides attending the union meetings of the
Union.
The annual convention of the Honolulu Young People's Christian Union was
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Pearson, and Mr. J. N. laggard, vicepresident of the Union. The roll was
then called, all the societies hut one being
represented. It was voted that greetings
13
Hawaiian Poard, has been carried on in
co-operation with the American Board.
It has now only one Hawaiian missonary and his wife in the Gilbert Islands,
and it is probable that he will soon re-
visit his native land, and that he will not
be again sent out. In case he is not, and
no new missionaries are sent out, it would
seem that the time has conic for the Hawaiian Hoard to cease to co-operate
with the American Hoard in the evangelization of the Gilbert Islands."
This would seem all the more evident
from the fact that moreover the Training
School at Kusaie has reached such a maturity and growth that it can contemplate putting its graduates, as it has already begun to do, in the positions vacated by our retiring missionaries, and
the lack of a missionary packet, making
stated yearly tours between this port and
the Gilbert Islands, makes the school at
Kusaie, and not that at Honolulu, the
natural centre for missionary operations.
This is the heritage which, after more
than half a century's participation in the
Micronesian work, we pass over to that
school at its majority. During these
lifty-oiu years this Hoard has sent into
the Micronesian field thirty-one mission
tries and their wives, all but three of
whom were located in the Marshall and
and aloha be sent to the Golden Gate
Union of San Francisco by the retiring
secretary. Miss Nannie M. Duff, who Was
soon to leave for the mainland, and who
resigned as secretary of that Union at
the time of her coming to the Islands.
The cordial aloha of the meeting was
likewise extended to Miss Duff, to whom
many references had heen made during
the meeting on account of the marked efficiency of her service. This was the time
for the election of officers for the ensuing year, and the president announced
that owing to the failure of the various
society presidents to respond to the call
for a meeting to make nominations, the
officers had been forced to do it all themselves, and proceeded to each nominate
his or her successor. The nominations
met with favor by the audience, and the
candidates were all unanimously elected.
The following are the newly elected of- Gilbert fields.
ficers :
In making this adieu to the MicronePresident. Clifton H. Tracy, of Cen- sian lie-Id and in ceasing to report its
tral Union.
work in these pages, we do not
Vice-President, Simeon K. Xawaa, of varied
withdraw our sympathies from those
Kawaiahao.
brethren of the American Hoard who are
Secretary, Miss L. Edith Perkins, of laboring so patiently and successfully at
Treasurer, Dr. T. Mitamura, of Jap- the isolated centres of that wide field.
anese.
Xor shall we forget
a lonely and
Rev. E. S. Mucklcy of the Christian unnamed island wheremany
sons of Hawaii—
church conducted the installation service Bingham and Gulick—and many a nain a very happy and felicitous manner, tive brother sent out by our Hoard, have
at the close of which the retiring officers Ixirne witness, with
many a missionary
left the platform, the newly elected ones of the .American Hoard,
to the bravery
taking their places, and the meeting and devotion of a generation that has
closed with the singing of "God Be With passed.
Nor shall we forget the busy
You Till We Meet Again."
household on the island of Nauru, where
the independent missionaries, Mr. and
Mrs. Delaporte, are at work with no
lioard back of them, and receiving their
support from interested friends in this
TFEXRHOACMREPORT
city.
With our other foreign mission field,
Of the work in Micronesia, the venalso to
erable chairman of the Foreign Commit- that in the Marquesas, we have
report the probable ending of our contee has written as follows:
"This year marks a new era in the his- nection in the immediate future. Rev.
tory of the Hayvaiian Poard. At the re- Samuel Kauwealoha, now an aged man,
is the only missionary of the Hoard re(|uest of the American Hoard the Hawafield. It is now just fifty
iian Board has assumed the entire re- maining in the
years, June 16th. since he and his wife,
sponsibility for carrying on the missionwith Rev. James Kekela, Isaiah
ary work among the various nationali- together
Kaiwi, Lot Kuaihclani and their wives,
ties in these Hawaiian Islands, and it is went
thither to establish a mission. They
altogether probable that it will not reinwere accompanied by Mr. James Bickforce its mission in the Gilbert Islands,
as an associate and Father Parker
which, during all the existence of the nell
as conductor. Between the years 1853
HAWAIBOARD
IAN
OFTHE
SECRETARY
OFTHE
�THE FRIEND
14
and 1862 nine Hawaiian missionaries and
their wives were sent out by this Poard to
the Marquesas. After that year, reinforcements ceased. The extension of the
French protectorate over these islands
and the use of the French language in the
schools has been one of the reasons for
the passing of that mission by this Poard
over into the hands of the brethren of
the French Protestant Mission, who have
a centre of operations at Papeete, Tahiti.
The influence of the work done by our
Hawaiian missionaries in Micronesia and
the Marquesas has been profound and
far-reaching; it has resulted in the evangelization of multitudes of savage heathen, bringing peace to those who were at
war, and a holy purpose to the lost; it
has prepared a highway for commerce
and marshaled the forces of good against
the evil; it has stimulated and encouraged the great heart of Christendom in
its world-wide missionary operations,
and it has affected the entire Hawaiian
people most benignly, most blessedly, and
this at a cost, it is said, of only about
$112,000.
RECORD OF EVENTS
June Ist.—The sister giant steamers,
Korea and Siberia, arrive simultaneously
at 6 a. m. from Japan and San Francisco.
2(| —Mrs.
M. K. Hyde retires from
presidency of Woman's Board of Missions after 12 years' service.
4th.—Suicide of Edwin R. Newman,
formerly of Hohron and Newman.
nth.—Kamehameha Day observed
with usual Sunday School picnics and
horse races.
9th.—Kaumakapili church receives
$40,000 of the fire claims fund for the destruction of their edifice.
10th.—Father L.ibert receives his commission as Bishop of Zeugma.
15th.—The Hawaiian Volunteer military close their five days' encampment at
McKinley Camp, under drill of U. S. A.
officers.
T6th.—Pilot Bob English of Kahului
is killed by an explosion of giant powder
in his hands. Others wounded.
18th.—At 1 a. m. fire destroys C. W.
Booth's residence on Pacific Heights.
I-oss, $20,000.
19th.—Government schools close for
summer vacation, releasing 4,000 pupils
in Honolulu. —Senators engage Representatives in baseball game on Punabou
campus for benefit of lepers. Representatives beat. Great crowd and fun, and
$300 gate money.
22d.—Emergency Bill becomes lawappropriating $203,720.56 overdue.
he gave," she interrupted now. "The
Moralist and the Christian are on the
same street, but one is headed toward
the kingdom of Cod and the other goes
in an opposite direction."
"Yes. but I am not able to see why you
and I are not headed in the same way.
I will try to state the matter more clearly
MARRIAGES
to you later. Here we are at home now."
HUDSON-McCORRISTON—At Honolulu.
Presently, as they sat before the liJune I, Charles Woodbury Hudson to Miss brary grate with a bit of hot supper on
Erances Delia McCorriston.
PERRY-KILEY—At Honolulu. June i. Fred the round table between them, he reKilev to Miss Emma Perry.
curred to the matter as she poured the
CASTLE-HAVILAND—At New York City, chocolate and laughed a little as she beJune 3, Samuel Northup Castle, of Honolulu, to Miss Anna EHison Haviland, of gan reading the somewhat lengthy statement that he had submitted for her inNew Rochelle. N. Y.
SLOGGETT-WILCOX—At Lihue. Kauai. spection.
June % Henry Dighy Sloggett to Miss Lucy "How fearfully business-like it looks,"
Etta Wilcox.
FREITAS-PIRES—At Honolulu. June 19. J- she said.
"I do not use tobacco in any way. You
B. Freitas to Miss Eleanor Pires.
WALL-DIETZ—At Honolulu. June 22. Wal- do not.
ter E. .Wall to Miss Edith Louise Dietz.
"I do not use profane language.
PORTER-SMITH—At Oakland. Cal., June Neither do you.
11. Henry William Porter of idlo. to Miss
"I am a teetotaler. So are you.
Gertrude Grace Smith of Oakland.
DODS-BOARDMAN—At Honolulu, June 27.
"I go to the theater. You go to the
W. B Dods. to Miss Louise Boardman.
theater.
CURTS-LA PIERRE—At Honolulu. June 29.
"I play cards. You play cards.
to
Miss
La
Hawaii,
of
Curts
Kailua.
J.
T. P.
"I attend church regularly. You do
Pierre of Palo Alto. Cal.
ANDRADE-THOMAS—At Honolulu. June the same.
"I pay something for religious pur29. Mr. J. Andrade to Miss Mary S. Thomas.
poses. So do you.
"I dance. You dance.
DEATHS.
"I associate with unbelievers. You do
WRIGHT—At Newcastle-on-Tyne, May 10. the same.
Mrs. Thomas Wright, for many years in
"I read trashy novels. You read
Honolulu.
trashy novels.
NEWMAN—At Honolulu. June 4. Edwin R.
"1 do not attend devotional meetings.
Newman, aged 39 years.
You
do not.
Eugene
Bal,
,a
11,
Honolulu,
—At
BAL
June
French resident for 50 years, aged 79.
do not read the Bible. Do you read
"I
VAN GIESEN—At Honolulu, June 14. J. H. the Bible?
Van Giesen. aeed SS years.
"I do not pray. Do you pray?
DUDOIT—At Honolulu. June 28, Mrs. Anne
(Corney) Dudoit. relict of the late Jules
"Now what does your church memDudoit, aged 84.
bership add to your way of living? Why
are our ways different?"
HOW HE TABULATED HER RELIGION The young woman began reading the
list with a laugh, but ended in tears.
"Oh, my dear!" he cried, "I had no inA noted evangelist was holding a se- tention of paining you ! I am sorry I"
ries of meetings with the Grand Avenue "I am not sorry. Thank you. You
church, and one evening when the topic make me see how far wrong I have gone
had been the new birth, Mrs. Fessenden in my endeavor to show yon that religion
said to her husband as they walked need not make one stupid and poky, ft
briskly down the lighted street in the is not strange that you hesitate to take
bracing air of the frosty evening:
"I wish you had decided for Christ tonight, dear; I thought you would, the
speaker made it so plain and so many responded to the invitation."
We use only the best platinum
"Would my rising to my feet there
paper and guarantee our work.
have- made any difference with me in
Call and see samples on exhibition
any way?"
in stndio :::::::::
"It would have put you and your influence on the side of right."
RICE <£ PERKINS,
"But is not my influence already on
the right side?" he interrupted. "What
(PHOTOGRAPHERS )
do I do that you do not do? You are a Oregon Block,
cor. Hotel and Union
professing Christian and I am not."
Entrance
oh Union.
"You remember the illustration that
26th.—Harold Dillingham of Honolulu elected Captain of 'Varsity crew of
Harvard for 1904.—Cable ship Anglia
leaves Midway paying out the last stretch
of the cable from Manila. —Senate beats
House at rifle shooting, 320 to 271.
OUR PHOTOS
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THE FRIEND.
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is a pure soap, cleansing and delightful
to use. Makes the skin like velvet. Best
for infants; will not cause eruptions.
Just try a cake and be convinced; 20c.
box (3 cakes), 50c.
TIT G. IRWIN & CO.,
your stand as a Christian, when you sec
how inconsistent I am to my profession
Fort Street, Honolulu
of having been born to newness of life."
onward
lives
flowed
side
SUGAR FACTORS
Again their
by side. She was not less bright, sweet
AND
or companionable, but when the card
clubs and the dancing clubs organized
COMMISSION AGENTS.
she did not join. She did join the misAgents for the Oceanic Steamship Co.
HOBRON DRUG CO.
sion workers' band, and was faithful in
went
to
the
attendance. She no longer
EW YORK DENTAL PARLORS.
E. C. WATERHOUSE,
theater, and every time she declined her, \]
Sts.
both,
saved,
husband put the expense of
Office cor. Miller and Beretania
Plate of Teeth, $5 ; Gold Crowns, $5; Bridge
into her mission box. She no longer read Work,
Residence, 1598 Thurston St.
per Tooth, $5; Gold Fillings, $1; SilOffice Hours:—lo to 12 a. m., 2to 3 and her Bible in secret. She took up work ver Fillings, 50 cents.
m.
10
to
a.
the
school.
Her
time
was
no
11
in
Sundays:
Sunday
ALL WORK GUARANTEED.
7:30 to 8:30 p. m.
Honolulu, T. H.
Telephones: Office, White 3492. Res., Blue 2841 more taken than before, but she was 1057 Fort St.
differently employed. ,
J. AUGUR, M. D.,
Soon the gay, thoughtless people with niTY FURNITURE STORE
HOMOEPATHIC PRACTITIONER. whom she had associated were no longer|I
All kinds of
"What has become of FURNITURE,
Residence, 435 Beretania St.; Office, 431 in sympathy!
Mrs. Fesseden?" was asked, and the reWINDOW SHADES,
Beretania St. Tel. 1851 Blue.
LACE CURTAINS,
ply came scornfully, "Oh, she's running
PORTIERES,
her church, now! Can't imagine what
and
7
a.
3to
12
m..
4
Hours:—lo
to
Office
TABLE COVERS, ETC.
been
always
has
come
over
her.
She
has
a.
m.
to
10:30
Sundays:
9=3°
CHAIRS RENTED FOR BALLS AND
to 8 p. m.
a church member, but she was real dePARTIES.
cent about it. Did everything the rest
CHAS. L. GARVIN,
of us did, and didn't preach. She is UNDERTAKING AND EMBALMING.
really a bright, sweet woman, but now TOMBSTONES AND MONUMENTS.
Beretania St.
some church engagement j Residence and Night Call: Blue 3561.
and she has always
Telephone: Office, Main 64.
Office Hours:—9 to 11 a. m.; 1:30 to 3 lei.
to
to
we need her to make!
attend
when
Nos. 1146-1148'Fort St., Honolulu.
7:30 to 8 p. m. Tel. Main 24. Res.
our parties, and she does not hesi-| jH. H. WILLIAMS
up
Manager.
: :
:
White 3691.
tate to say, T have too long been re-l
gardless of the admonition, Seek first!
J. HUTCHINS,
the kingdom of God.' "
W. W. AHANA & CO., LTD.
LIFE, AX,
"And her husband?"
MERCHANT TAILOR.
Telephone Blue 2431.
FIRE, MARINE
"Oh, he is loyal to her! He is a real P. O. Box 986.
King Street, H"nolulu
INSURANCE.
but,
she
goes;
He
wherever
goes
lover.
CLOTHES CLEANED AND REPAIRED.
Mclnerny Block.
the poor man must be having a dull time
of it."
PACIFIC HEIGHTS.
Mr. Fessenden did not meantime con- IJ OPP & COMPANY,
Offers greater attractions and inducesider
himself an object of commisera- *-*• Importers and Manufacturers of
ments as a site for choice residences than
tion. If his wife's new departure was
FURNITURE AND UPHOLSTERY.
any other portion of Honolulu.
CHAIRS TO RENT.
an experiment, he found it an interestHonolulu,
The Pacific Heights Electric Railway ing one. He found his new environment No. 74 King Street
Line affords easy access to all lots; and more refined, more intellectual, more,
than the old, for earnestness; DR. JJVDERSOJY,
water and electric lights are supplied congenial
took the place of frivolity, and he found
from independent systems at reasonable himself awakening to a knowledge of a
DENTIST.
rates. To parties intending to purchase spiritual life.
Philadelphia Dental College, 1883.
and improve, especially favorable terms When at last he made his decision, he
1087 Alakea Street.
said: "I have at last through the influwill be given.
the
true
meanS.
of
wife
found
that
ence my
For further particulars apply to Chas.
ing and purpose of life is to follow Christ,
K. KAAI,
Desky, Progress Block.
and to do the work that He left for His
Teacher of
TIFFANY'S TABOO BEER.
followers." And the happy wife often
Banjo, Zither, Ukulele and
says: "How near I came to making a fatal; Guitar, Mandolin, Taropatch.
New York, March 9.—The great house mistake! I tell my experience that it mayStudio:—Love Building, Room 5.
of Tiffany & Co. has issued an order that be a warning and a lesson for others. Do
Hours:—lo to 12 a. m.; 1:30 to 4p. m.
the
brought
upon
no more beer shall be
not sink to the level of the world. Bring
premises during working hours, giving the world up to a knowledge of Christ.—
as a reason that it incapacitates their em- Exchange.
/CALIFORNIA FEED CO., Ltd.,
ployees, most of whom are skilled, from
doing acceptable work.—Neiv Voice.
"On the whole, while you are young, it DEALERS IN HAY, GRAIN AND FLOUR.
AGENTS FOB—
beer
saloon
will be as well to take care that your
Those who advocate the
AHABIC
our
hearts
don't
much
for
washing,
"
read
need
too
clippings
in
well
the
"
do
to
will
COR. QUEEN AND NUUANU STS.,
page on Temperance Issues in this num- they will perhaps need wringing also
HONOLULU.
when they do."—Ruskin.
ber.
DR.
GEORGE
DR.
CLINTON
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HERE IS WHAT YOU WANT.
\ WILLIAM R. CASTLE,
(Incorporated under the Laws of
the Hawaiian Republic.)
Paid-up Capital
$600,000.00
Attorney-at-Laiv. t
OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS:—Chas.
M. Cooke, President; P. C. Jones, Ist VicePresident; F. W. Macfarlane, 2nd Vice-President; C. 11. Cooke, Cashier; F. C. Athcrton.
Assistant Cashier. Henry VVaterhousc, X.. D.
Z
■ Tenney, J. A. McCandless, C. H. Atherton,
E. F. Bishop.
'TMIE EBERHART SYSTEM
Solicits the accounts of firms, corporations,
To induce regularity of attendance. trusts, individuals, and will promote and careattend to all business connected with
Room for 200 names. Lasts four years with fully
banking entrusted to it. Sell and purchase
increasing interest. In use on the Islands.
Foreign Exchange, Issue Letters of Credit.
Send to
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received by every steamer.
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Term Deposits received and interest allowed in
accordance with rules and conditions printed
in pass-books, copies of which may be had on
amplication.
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Honolulu, T. H.
Shipping and Family Butchers
and Navy Contractors.
Purveyors to Oceanic Steamship Co.
and the Pacific Mail Steamship Co.
Honolulu, T. H.
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do.
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it is a
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BICYCLES and
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
tion.
E. O. HALL & SON, Ltd.,
Honolulu, T. H.
They are in use iv churches
and missions in this city
BEAVER
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BOSTON
H. E. Mclntyre, Manager.
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GROCERS, PROVISION MERCHANTS
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HARDWARE
handled—if
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$25.00
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Fort Street
200,000.00
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Draw Exchange on the principal ports of the
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Hawaiian Islands.
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Importers of
FURNITURE, UPHOLSTERY
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LIST OF OFFICERS—CharIes M. Cooke,
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Young Bldg., cor. Hotel & Bishop Sts.
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Blue
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at
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A Cent Apiece—120 for $1.00
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end to
inches
The
Famous pic•tures for
Sunday
Is published the first week of each month'
,11 Honolulu, T. H., at the Hawaiian Board
Book Rooms, 400-402 Boston Building.
made by
All business letters should be addressed and
all M. O.s and checks should be made out to
THEODORE RICHARDS,
Butineu Manager <>j The Friend
P. O. Box 489.
School uses
BROWN
of Beverly
Mass.
HAWAIIAN BOARD
400 Boston Building
ROOMS
HILLS,
All communications of a literary character
should be addressed to
The magnificent residence tract of
the Oahu College.
COOL CLIMATE, SPLENDID VIF.W
Rev.
The cheapest and most desirable lots offered for sale on the easiest terms: one-third
cash, one-third in one year, one-third in two
years. Interest at 6 per cent.
as
to building require-
ments, etc., apply to
OAHU
Leaping ham,
of The Friend.
Honolulu, T. H.
Managing Editor
The Board of Editors
Rev.
404 Judd Building.
.... Hawaiian Islands.
COLLEGE.
(Arthur F. Griffiths, A.8.. Preslue.lt.)
and
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(Samuel Pingree French, A. 8., Principal.)
Offer complete
College preparatory work,
together with special
Commercial,
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Established in 1858.
Transact a General Banking and Exchange
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Regular Savings Bank Department maintained in Bank Building on Merchant Street,
an:l Insurance Department, doing a Life, Fire
and Marine business on most favorable terms,
in Friend Building on Bethel Street.
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8 Move in the Right Direction—Hawall'i
>/ First Japanese Apostle.—rampaign Snap
i'! Show a. A Valued Recruit: b, Kodania
anil Kakaako; c, A Unique Club
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A Rare Opportunity.—Another Gift of Ha8
wall to Japan: a, What is It? b, What
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Relation h»s it to Hawaii? r, A Deeper
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Seminary.—Temperance
General Comment
j | I ive Issues
True Character of the Theater.
;-,| Judge William Lather Wilcox.— Abstract
of Minutes of Hawaiian Evangelical Asso■',]■
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j 1 Among the Young People—Field Notes
j Record of Events
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VOL. LXI
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No. 8
HONOLULU, T. H., AUGUST, 190*
.
Kanichi M te»j one of the first four of Japan's leading
laymen. At the welcome meeting in the
.Methodist church, held July 28, several
,
touching testimonials were given hv those
who were led to Christ hy him in those
early days, and who have ever since continued to he prominent in Christian enterhad the honor to inaugurate the cam- prise. Rousing temperance gatherings,
paign of Christianity among his country- union preaching services and enthusiastic
men on I lawaiian soil. His success was social meetings marked his stay in HonoThe daily press is full of demands for notable and permanent. Hon. T. Ando, lulu. Ile is now touring on Maui and
adequate advertising of Hawaii and the then consul here, was one of his con- Hawaii and will soon leave for San Franconsequent upbuilding of the tourist verts, and has since risen to the rank of cisco.
trade. If, however, a knowledge of the
danger to personal comfort ami especially
to the health of travelers not in rohust
condition which that newly imported nuisance, Dengue, constitutes, should reach
the mainland and he exploited in the
newspapers, I lawaii's tourist trade would
One of the notable work in kakaako. Through the kindness
receive a serious setback. The worst
A Valued Re- accessions to the teach- of the peoplcof Kawaiahao church its Kaciult
feature of the situation is the entire preing force of our Xuuanr kaako chapel has been placed at the disveiitahlencss of the disease and the cerSunday School is found posal of the Japanese during the larger
tainty of its annihilation if the Hoard of in the person of Mr. Tadamoto Oaa- part of the week. The services will comw*a, one of the most respected busi- prise Sunday morning Bible School at
Health would only awake to its
bility and rid Honolulu and other cen- ness men of Honolulu, who stands 9:30, Sunday evening preaching set vice
ters of mosquitoes. Like filth the moshigh in the management of the Japanese at 7, English classes three evenings each
quito today is evidence of sanitary neg- emigration companies. Years ago Mr. week and a prayer meeting. Miss Ochilect. If Havana can he made mosquito Ozawa found himself, as chief ofthe Gov- mi Okubo, daughter of the pastor of the
proof, so can Honolulu. Not to do this ernment telegraph office, the sole Chris- Nuuanu church, will have charge of the
is symptomatic of disregard for public tian in the beautiful city of hvajima on work among the children. The people
health. Let a few yellow-fever carrying the Inland sea.. In a quiet way he began in Kakaako are a simple-hearted, hardmosquitoes chance hither, and this care- to let his light shine, and it was not long working set of men and women, who
lessness would be crowned with a sad before he was able to lead others to should be easily reached and won for the
record of deaths, where now it is a pro- Christ. Last winter, when Mr. Scudder kingdom. The prayers and sympathy of
lific cause of entirely unnecessary phys- visited Iwajima, he found in the person all Christians a/c iK-sought for this newical .suffering and expense. The Adver- of the Senior Deacon of the Kuniiai enterprise.
tiser is doing yeoman's work in its steady church the very first fruits of Mr. (Jzainsistence that, like Carthage, the mosqui- wa's work. There are two churches iv >w
to delcud a est.
in that city, and no name is held in greatJuly 25 Makiki Chapel,
A Unique
er honor than that of this layman, who
Club
on * Kinau Street, was
laid the foundation for them both..
crowded to the doors with a most ardent
company of young Japanese. It was by
,
Shimbttn
•.* The Honolulu
More In Right
Maui has placed Honolu- all odds the most interesting Japanese
knQwn osten .
Direction
XX,K ,am nd
lv in her (le,,t m tlle ftitt meeting yet attended by the Associate
&My a$ a christian news .
X k *k
of that earnest worker. Superintendent since his coming to Ha°
paper, but recently it fell into the habit
S.
Kodama.
to this city. About _>ne waii, and marked the formal opening >f
of disgracefully attacking Christians. A Rev.
reorganization was necessitated, and has month ago Mr. Kodama came to Honolu- the Ai Yu Kwai, a society of young men
been most fortunately effected. Rev. T. lu to act as Mr. Scudder's secretary and whose motto is Christian love and friendmen in
Okumura is hereafter to take general to carry on special evangelistic work here. ship. Fifty-six of the young
have
bandsection
of
the
city
over
the
that
in
ovcrsightand Mr. H. Ito.an earnest Chris- He is already head and ears
tian, whose education was gained in the task of ferreting out the 500 odd Japan- ed themselves together to practise
to teach others the power of
Doshisha, and who is an excellent writer, ese in town to whom Mr. Scudder bears and
these
two ideals. Under the leadand
with
their
corresponding
in
messages
have
editorial
This
charge.
paper
full
will
Each
is
of Rev .Mr. Okumura, Maership
letter a child
circulates widely throughout the other relatives in Japan.
islands, and will make it its chief duty of prayer and carries gospel teaching. kiki Chapel is proving wofully too small.
to print both news and general articles Cases which need continued attention Who will give a large lot in that section
which will educate and elevate its read- will be his direct concern. On the first of the city to the Hawaiian Board to
ers. All success to this noble enterprise. Sunday in August he opened the new serve as a foundation for a new Japanese
EDITORIAL AND GENERAL
.
fc
,
Hawnii'a
greatest clerical
¥
JJapans s
I Irst Japanese
advocate, arJ,
temperance
Apostle
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rived1 111 Honolulu
July
The managing editor extends
a
thanks to his colleagues for preparing the 23 for month's campaign in connection
matter for this issue, enabling him thus with Methodist work in this Territory.
Some 16 or 17 years ago -Mr. Miyama
to prolong- his vacation.
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Campaign Snap Shots
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church, provided the
Japanese furnish
the building? Here is an enterprise appealing directly to Christians of large
resources. We want to capture the Japanese for Christ here in Honolulu. If
we mean business we must force the battle at Nuuanu, at l'alama, at Makiki, at
Kakaako and at every other center in
town where the Japanese congregate.
The workers are ready. Are those who
have the stuff also ready? If so, send it
in to our Treasurer.
We desire to call special
A Rare
attention to a subsequent
Opportunity article entitled "Another
Gift of Hawaii lo
Japan." To complete this remarkable
service to that Empire an annual investment of $300 is required. We use the
word investment advisedly, because the
chief purpose of the new Training School
for Christian Workers in Tokyo is to furnish approved, welt-equipped evangelists
for Hawaii. Mr. Kozaki believes that a
force of sixty Japanese evangelists will
be required to work effectively the field
here. In this estimate we thoroughly
agree with him. By co-operating to make
this Training School a success, we may
expect to receive from three to six newworkers every year until the needs of this
Territory are fully met. What a call to
God's people this opportunity issues! Who
will hear it and send to our Treasurer
a check for $300? The- King's business
demands haste in this instance.
ANOTHER GIFT OF HAWAII TO
JAPAN
Nothing less than a
for
'Training School
Christian Workers, combining the advantages of Moody's famous
Bible School and the almost equally well
known llible Normal College, formerly
of Springfield, Mass., and latterly affiliated to that spendidly virile institution, Hartford Theological Seminary.
What is It?
Wh.t Knl.tlon
ha-it to
JUSt
th S tll3t a
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,
yeaF
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amente(l
President of the Hawaiian Hoard,
Mr. Atherton, and the co-operation of
the Japanese emigration companies, Rev.
and Mrs. H. Kozaki of Japan, whose
church in Tokyo is the leading Congregational ( Kumiai) center in the capital of
the Empire, were enabled to visit these
islands for evangelistic purposes. They
returned profoundly impressed with the
strategic importance of Hawaii for the
evangelization of Japan. By pen and address Mr. Kozaki made his conviction
known that the Japanese churches ought
to furnish Hawaii with a force of 60
trained, English-speaking workers.. He
so succedeed in firing the hearts of his
people that offers came from a large pro-
portion of the evangelists in connection
with the American Hoard's Mission to go
to this Territory. These offers could not
be considered for a moment. To have
listened to them would have crippled the
mission most seriously.
But Mr. Kozaki had no
A Deeper i'lun thought of robbing his
country of the services of
men already in the work there, lie
aimed to create a new supply to meet the
necessities of Hawaii. His eye soon took
in the wider demand. Large companies
of Japanese had emigrated to Formosa,
to China, to the Philippines and to our
Pacific coast. Among them were Christians. Like the emigrants to Hawaii, all
these men were readily susceptible to
Christian appeal. There was only onepossible thing to be done—open a Training School for Christian Workers in
Tokyo, one of the largest, if not the largest, student center in the world. Get hold
of many of these young men for this noble missionary service. Give them a
thorough training in English, in the
knowledge and use of the Bible, and in
practical evangelistic work.
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„How Carry
Out
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1 he first
. thing« was to se-
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t u co-operation oi
Chtistigtl ministers and
leaders of experience. 'This has been done.
President Ibuka of the Meiji (iakuin. the
great Presbyterian college and 'Theological seminary in Tokyo, Rev. Mr. Cemura, the foremost pastor in the Japanese Presbyterian church, Mr. K. llchiJapan's most spiritually
nuira, one of
minded Christian workers, Rev. Mr. Tothis Imilan {»
CUR'
meoka. foremost authority in the Empire
on the reclamation of criminals. Mr. S.
Kimura. the Moody of Japan. Mr. K.
Takeda, fresh from Pacific Theological
Seminary and Vale Divinity School, and
Rev. Mr. Tsunashima, another successful pastor, have joined hands with Mr.
Kozaki in his enterprise. The churches
of the capital will be made the centers of
a continuous evangelistic campaign, in
wdiich the students of the Training
School are to receive their practical experience in leading men to Christ and in
imparting to the new converts a knowledge of tlu- liiblc.
Hereagain the Hawaiian
Who will Fur. connection comes in. Alnisli the Funds! ready one-half of the expense of the School has
been provided by the Japanese immigration companies. The leaders of these business
corporations realize the truth
workman
that jf the Japanese
in Hawaii can he imbued with
Christian truth, his value to the
planter will be vastly increased, and
the business of supplying laborers to Ha-
waii will Ik- correspondingly strengthBut this is only a subsidiary consideration. The truth of the case if that
several of the controlling spirits in these
companies have become Christians, and
are members of Mr. Kozaki's church. A
new era, therefore, has dawned in the
relation of these companies to the men
whom they bring to these islands. They
aim to help them to lay ti|) money, to save
them from drink and vice and gambling,
ened.
they are maintaining several men here
who are studying the conditions on the
several plantations with a view to induce
worthless laborers to return to Japan. All
this accounts for their splendid hacking
of Mr. Kozaki.
But one-half of the exWhere Hawaii pense of the Training
Comes in Again School still remains to be
raised. Mr. Kozaki will
secure much of this from his countrymen.
Mow, then, we Christians of these islands
arc asked to provide six scholarships at
an annual cost of $50 each. Students in
Japan are poor, and men cannot Ik- secured for the Training School unless a
chance be given to tarn their expenses.
These scholarships will he fully earned
by the work done by the students in the
churches of Tokyo. Hawaii will receive
the equivalent of even dollar given for
scholarships in the shape of trained men
for Christian work. \'o more significant
movement in the Church of Christ in
fapan has ever occurred than the founding of this Training School to send missionaries abroad whose work shall react
in winning the Empire for Jesus. And
the inspiration therefor was gained herein these islands. Are the Christians cf
I lawaii going to hack up this inspiration
with solid cash to the tune of $300 a
year ?
Many of the most wide*
Maintain Up-tn- awake churches in the
Date Work
country provide a pas-
tor's fund to i>e expend:
cd by the minister for the hundred and
one incidentals necessary to the effective
conduct of a modern church, such as pastoral letters, prayer meeting topic cards.
special service programs, stercopticon
light and slide expense, ant' the like. Upto-date missionary work in a Territory
like Hawaii cannot he maintained without
similar expenditures. The new enterprise
at Kakaako, of which an account appears
elsewhere in this issue, is a case in point.
If the one thousand Japanese in that district are to be reached, many details requiring a small expenditure of money,
must he cared for. It may be that some
friend of the Board, realizing this need,
would like to supply it as far as the Japanese work under the care of the Associate Superintendent is concerned. The
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work of this nature will be carefully hus- testant or the Mormon church. He also
liandcd and an Itemized account of its estimates that from ten to twelve thouexpenditure rendered to the doner by sand of the Catholics are Portuguese.
him.
In the last figures there would seem
some error, because nearly all the
THE POPE IS DEAD
Portuguese are Catholics, and by the last
there were 15.675 PortuThe demise of such a personage as the census of 1900
guese in the islands. It is quite jxxssiblc,
Pope of Rome is an event of some mo- however,
that large numbers of the 9.163
ment to the world at large. Leo XIII has
having learned
occupied a prominent place in European native-born Portuguese,
schools,
and acquired
the
English
in
history, exercising a considerable influence in politics, as well as in religion. He greater intelligence, have drifted away
was personally eminent in some import- froin Catholic superstitions.
Whatever numerical increase among
ant respects. He was wise, gentle, and
in his private demeanor and virtues, bore Hawaiian Catholics may have occurred
an aspect of saintliness. As we write, a during the past thirty years, the evidence
Requiem Mass is being solemnly cele- is decidedly against any ascendency of
brated for the "repose of his soul," not Catholicism in public sentiment, which
only here, but simultaneously throughout continues to be dominantLy Protestant, in
the Catholic world. According to Rom- the same Sense and degree as it is
ish doctrine, the Pope, whatever his piety, throughout the United States generally.
fails of immediate entrance from the bed One strong evidence of this is the fact
of death into the heavenly rest, but must that among the four English daily papers,
first pass through a period of suffering in and several Hawaiian weeklies, as well
Purgatory. It is our own happier Prot- as several monthlies, Roman Catholics
estant belief that as a devout and holy have not a single representative.
Another evidence is in the relative
Christian, the dying Leo passed at once
into the rest and blessedness of Paradise number of Protestants and Catholics
in the presence of the Redeemer. He among the members of the present Legislature. We have not the precise figure-.,
needs no prayers for his soul's repose.
A successor to the great office of the but assert with no fear of contradiction,
deceased will soon be chosen, and prob- that not over one-fifth of the members
ably will have taken his seat and assumed of either House are Catholics. That
the triple crown before this has been pub- does not look as if Hawaii is becoming
lished. God is forbearing to the sins and a "Catholic stronghold."
errors of men who err in ignorance, and
It is undoubtedly true that within the
doubtless forgives with great mercy those past thirty years there has been a great
who wrongfully assume to be Vicars of relative increase of both Catholics and
Christ on Earth, however appalling a Mormons among the native Hawaiians.
usurpation it may he. Nor can we doubt Hut this is due chiefly to the fact that
that the Divine guidance and blessing both of those religions have maintained a
may attend in some degree tin- sincere strong force of vigorous white workers
and devout endeavor of such errorists to among the natives, while the Protestant
edify the church, and to build up their workers among the natives have been
Lord's kingdom in the world.. Cod uses chiefly native pastors, who are relatively
and blesses many most faulty and defect- less efficient. Father Valentin states that
ive means. If we are certain that we have they have twenty-five priests, all of whom
greater light and have been mercifully are active white men, whereas the whole
emancipated from many ancient and per- force of Protestant white ministers now
nicious accretions to Christianity, it be- it. active service who speak Hawaiian,
comes us all the more intently to strivefor numbers only five.
a higher Christian life, a better underIn comparing Catholic and Protestant
standing of God's word, and a more thor- church statistics, it is important to reough conformity of heart and life thereto. member that Catholics always count all
Peace he to the ashes of the departed the children in Catholic households as
Pontiff.
members of their church, whereas Protestant figures include only actual comwho have made a personal
municants
HAWAII NOT A "ROMAN CATHOLIC
public profession. Were Protestants to
STRONGHOLD"
count their membership after the Catholicit is claimed to be, in an article fashion, their numbers would be doubled.
'The Catholic church in Hawaii'is to be
he P. C. Advertiser, apparently ernang from Father Valentin, who "es- credited with having adopted a vigorous
d(x-s in
itcs that there are 27,000 Catholics in system of education, as it always
never
in purely
Islands." He estimates that one-half Protestant countries, but
lumber of native Hawaiians are tnem- Catholic ones, where their policy is to
of the Roman Catholic church, the keep the masses in ignorance and thus in
ainder belonging either to the Pro- easy subjection to the priests. Thus, the
,
Inch
Portuguese immigrants from the Azores,
come here absolutely illiterate. But for
their children their church here maintains
able schools to compete with the public
schools. The Protestants have set the
educational pace in Hawaii for our Catholic rivals. They are laboring hard to
follow ; and the people are profiting by
their rivalry. But Rome is extremely far
from attaining in Hawaii any serious
dominanace ever public sentiment either
in Religion, Morals, Politics, or Education.
THE TREASURER'S REPORT
The treasurer's rqx>rt is not yet printed, but brief mention of the financial condition of the Hoard will be expected at
this time. The following facts will be
variously interpreted. To the courageous
they will he encouraging and to the
down-hearted they will be dispiriting.
It may be fairly assumed that the
Hoard's supporters belong to the first
class, while the rest may enter in at any
time.
In the first place, there is a debt to
start the year with, $3,794.33. That
looks bad! Hut it might he worse, was
worse last year, when it was as high as
$10,356.00 at the beginning of the year.
Another thing that looks bad—if bad
—is the fact that the income fell $3,-841.81 below the income of the preceding
year. Now there are probably some reasons for this, and yet the showing for our
givers appears worse when it is stated
that one man alone gave $14,000.
(me thing to be recorded will be generally regarded as good, viz., that the
running expenses of the work were reduced over $10,000. How good this is
must be determined by how deep into
life of our work tin "cut" was made. It
is painful work at the best and yet the
Hoard has had to undertake still further
the cutting and probing for the year to
come. The result will be seen in considerable change in our working force
amounting to complete reorganization of
the work. The apparent saving to the
Hoard in dollars and cents is about $5,-000, but what the real hurt to the body
is we cannot vet know.
The finances of the Missionary body
present a strange problem,—perhaps a
complete contradiction in terms.. Business precedents would seem to limit the
expenditures to the probable income.
Christian faith in Divine resources to
carry out His plans — nothing short of
makes little
universal evangelization
account of lack of funds, looking chiefly
to needs. The query is, whether these
two views mix successfully. What is
faith, your faith? It will be known by
works, certainly. If Honolulu, or even
the Central Union church, took a "faith"
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friend; indefatigable
constant
view of this question, there would be and
of
the
shape
visiting
subsick and afflicted,,
in
the
"works" enough in
the members of his church havescriptions for all the needs.
ever found him ready to listen with deep
-sympathy to the recital of their sorrows,
REV. HENRY HODGES PARKER,
FORTY YEARS PASTOR OF
with readiness to minister to the needs
KAWAIAHAO CHURCH
of the jxior, destitute and afflicted.
Among the sons of the missionaries, Mr.
completion of a forty years' pas- Parker has been the one who most fully
rate in any part of Christendom is an succeeded to the work and the relations
common event; one of very infrequent held by the fathers to the Hawaiians.
currencc in the latter half of the nineMith century.
TIIM I'OKTir.TII AXNIYKRSARY
Mr. Parker in his lwyhood days was
r a few years a student under the in'This celebration of the fortieth an-uction of Rev. Daniel Dole and Mr. niversary of his entry upon the pastom 11. Rice, in the school at Punahon, rate has proved the fitting (Kcasion for a
unded in 1841 by the American full expression of the love and appreciacard's mission.
tion from a grateful and responsive peoDuring a part at least of Mr. Parkers
instruc>k The inception and execution, on the
i:-.
hool days he was under the
Beckwith,
G.
now;
Edw.
>n of Rev. Dr.
of evening of the 30th of June of the celepastor at Paia, Maui. He was onesons
bration of this memorable anniversary,
the two or three of the missionary
was largely due to Rev. D. Ai, the pasthe
who have risen to prominence in
tor's assistant, aided by a host of the
island community. whose entire schooling members of this flourishing church.
now
obtained in this institution,
The decorations of this fine edifice with
yled Oahu College.
ferns
and flowers and palms, bespoke the
"His efficiency as a citizen and eapecialtaste of many of the lady memrefined
and
minister,
preacher
as a Christian
bers
of
the church and congregation.
istor, is due under God, to the example The platform and the organ and choir
of
scholand teaching of parents
gallery, were transformed into a veritable
arly and cultivated minds, and of flower garden.
wide
ifelong habits of study, and a
The several hymns were beautifully
■ading of the best liooks. in which rendered.
c past century has abounded.
I'pill the platform with the beloved
Upon the completion of his school pastor, were Mr. D. Ai, the pastor's asays, Mr. Parker, in iB6O, was engaged
sistant, and Hon. J Kumalae, who pres a teacher at Lahaina-luna —the one
sided, and other friends, Hawaiian and
hool which attempted to give to picked Vmerican.
t
nearest
approach
awaiian youths the
1 The exercises were opened by singing
collegiate course of any then afforded and prayer by Rev. S. W. Kekucwa, folnative Hawaiian*.
lowed by a historical address by Mr.
\rcher. and the reading of several conministry
CALL TO THE
gratulatory letters by Mr. E. K. Lilikalani.
After two years' service as a professor
Fitting speeches were made in the Hateacher
in
school,
which
the
that
language by Rev. W. N. Lotto,
waiian
earned much of Hawaiian life and char- lastor of the Kaumakapili church of
■
cter, and made the personal acdiiaintHonolulu: Rev. E. S. 'Timoteo. former
nce of many of the now leading Hawaoastor
ofKaumakapili, and by Rev.O. P.
to
called,
was
1862.
become
in
ans, he
and Mr. \\. R. Castle in EngEmerson,
associate pastor with Rev. E. W. Clark: lish.
upon
and on the 28th day of June. 1863,
Loving reference was made to the
the resignation of Mr. Clark for the work
mother, Mrs. Mary Parker, not
faithful
a
new
edition
of revising and publishing
to
he
present, hut who now in her
able
of the Hawaiian Bible, Mr. Parker was <lBtb year, follows her
honored son with
of
settled,
as pastor
called, ordained, and
the
benediction
of
her
daily prayers.
this church. Hlessed with the liest of
those
w ere the son of
Among
present
health and a capacity for work, his forty Rev. 11. Bingham, who founded this
uninterrupted
of
service
have
been
years
church cightv years ago: the daughter
except for two short visits to the neighof Rev. Dr. Richard Armstrong, the secboring continent. With the one execu- ond
pastor, and a son and daughter of the
tion of the distinguished pastor of Hilo
pastor, Rev. E. W. Clark.
third
Desha,
Mr.
church. Rev. Stephen L.
Parker has no peer as an orator in the
X \w \1 WIAO CHURCH ED!PICE
language. To the Hawaiians
the capital city, Mr. Parker has a'l
A large audience consisting of the
se years been a faithful pastot
iThe
ias
twaiian
church members and friends of evenrace upon these shores, filled this large
church.
It has been Mr. Parker's privilege to
receive thousands of believing people to
communion in this Christian church. He
has officiated at many hundreds of weddings and perhaps at a still greater number of funerals.
Within the portals of this sacred edifice have entered all the rulers of the I lawaiian people who have been Upon tinstage during the last half century. 1 Icre
have been held innumerable assemblages
of the great and honored men and women
of the land. Here have been celebrated
the marriages and here have been conducted the funerals of many of the most
august personages, the Kings and
Queens of the past. On the most of
these memorable occasions, Mr. Parker
has had the leading part; and this stately building may be styled the Westminster Abbey of this once unique kingdom.
The services of the house of Cod, and.
pastoral ministration to the needs of a
widely spread chinch membership, have
tilled .Mr. Parker's life these forty years.
In closing the exercises of this joyful
celebration, Mr. David Ai, in behalf of
main- friends, presented the pastor with
a gold watch, costing $240, and a purse
containing $150 in gold. He next presented to Mr. Parker a handsomely bound
album of congratulatory letters from
many friends, and also stated that Mrs.
Haaielea, Mrs. Coney, Mrs. Mary Adams. Mr. Kumalae, Mrs. Ai and himself, were the committee on presentations.
Mr. Parker, in ackonwledgment of
these valued expressions of the love and
esteem of many, spoke of how brief a
period the past forty years now seemed to
be, and acknowledged the invaluable
support that he had received in his work
from the good men and women of the
past, and of the loyal aid given by the
present
faithful membership of the
church, lie s|K>ke first in English and
then in the Hawaiian language.
At the close of the formal exercises
the audience adjourned to the basement,
where the pastor received the personal
congratulations of his friends, and ice
cream and cake were served.
A CHILD AWAY FROM HOME
A child before it arrives at the reflective state, derives pleasure from travel in
piling up a large store of new impres
sions, and its master thought is: I wan
something different from home. In con
trasl to this is the feeling of the elders
of the child, who, feeling the benefit of a
change of air and the pleasure from new
scenes, are yet not satisfied except as ai
approach to home conditions and wellworn hab-ts is afforded.
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a missionary family from Lahaina
taking a ten days' vacation at Molokai,
all these requirements for a good time arc
K t —the mother shall have her cup ot tea
and a rocking-chaii. when the evening
comes; the father shall have his part in
an interminable disussiou of deep subjects, or more practical matters of ways
the
and means for missionary work: ami
children—ah, yes, they have all out doors,
To
„
-
and the island of Molokai in particular, to
explore.
From Kaluaaha beach, across the
King's highway, through the small gate.
and up along, grassy ,:iln brought the
where
travelers to the Hitchcock house, receive
Mrs. Hitchcock stood ready to
welcome,
them with quiet mi cordial
and breakfast was ready forthwith. 1
must have become well acquainted with
that house in the ntxt week, but can recall with certainty only two things about
,t. ( tin was that in the attic chamber.
the roof and tin- I'" 1 came together at a
much sharper angle than that in winch
ocean.
the sky was supposed to meet the
mattress
straw
the
and ions who slept on
~n the Hoop, was such tun to roll off, a-if by accident, and get wedged m between the ceiling and the floor. I he
other was the outsidi door, which opened
It
into the room used as a dispensary.
the
midhorizontally
in
was sawed in two
l)e aldle, and the lower half seemed to
one
time
ways fastened shut. At
I might
architecture,
of
freak
this
a
have called
but now 1 know that it was a wise procalls,
vision td kindly discourage long was
a
Lor the old-fashioned Hawaiian
he
sal
on
the
he
staid
stayer and while
11,,0r or on the grass, which was ai mice
mm
deferential to his host, and easier to seekself than standing.. When a health
er had received his dose of salts over that
half door, he cease.i tn be an object 01
the
attention: he was crowded away from
spot, and reluctant!} joined the circle on
(he lawn, and at last took his \\a\ honii
ward, perhaps wondering al the white
man's stinginess of time.
Water at this mission station was oh
tabled from wells of no e,rcal depth, each
with a box curb, windlass and bucket:
although two old pump logs, probably
out <lf some whale ship, floated m
the pond at the lower end of Mr. Hitch
cock's yard. 'These means for raising
water, both Mi, actual and the discarded.
wen- entirely unlike Lahainaluna, and
never lost their power to interest.. Near
the house there was ;> small vineyard, and
this being like home led to danger and
discipline. In placing this sad scene before yon, allow me to dispose of the nonpatticipaiing juveniles in the wines of the
stage, by a fair presumption—the oldest
Hitchcock boy was entertaining the Andrews fjirls in some way of his own. and
the oldest Andrews boy had found a vol-
l
"'
"
.
of history which was new to him,
and was enjoying it in a corner. The
other five —all lioys—were doing nothing
in particular, and in that unlucky minute
Satan found them, and suggested a raid
on the vineyard. Without strategy they
proceeded to carry out the plan, but the
e\, of the owner was upon them, and before a grape was tatted, his hand was
upon them, also. They were arrested am!
lined up, and each was treated to a good
switching, which the hare legs invited.
The lesson was accepted; the law was
vindieataed and not a ripple of feeling
between the two families was created.
Mr. 1 litchcock was liberal with his grapes
at table, but he insisted on picking them
nine
himself.
War by and eastward from Mr.
Hitchcock's. Mr. Gulick lived, in what
was once the Munn house. Of the
various trivial incidents connected with
this part of the village which survive in
memory, I will give one because it taught
,i lesson worth keeping —the value of silence. I was going over to favor the
Gttticks with a morning call, and while
wending my way in and out among the
clump of guava hushes in their broad
yard, an ideal ground for "I spy," I
shouted at intervals, like a small foghorn. "Hurrah for lackson!" Mr. Gulick nut me ai the front veranda with a
pleasant greeting, as usual, and had a
little parable to relate to me about a
small boy who came around houses
shouting out things which people did not
want to hear. 'This lesson also was acMy cry was
cepted, without offense.
given out as automatically as it had heen
learned unci lusciously, by many hearings
of it from my older brother, when he
was hilling sweet potatoes in the field
remote from the house. It was part I \
admiration for Old Hickory, and repro
duel ion of s, mie favorite passage of history, and partiv exercise for his lungs.
1Wit after my second-hand rendition, I
found there was a difference between a
town of one house and a town of two
houses, and thai to gain the advantage
if companionship we must give up the
extreme freedom of solitariness.
Miss Brown lived in a cottage near
the other two mission houses. I can remember it only by the interior, for when
my mother took tea there, we youngsters
were along; for that cottage contained a
wonderful spinning wheel that went by
i treadle, and some wide hand cards..
thai worked almost magic in the hands
of their owner.
For Miss Brown, to
please our curiosity, would take a tuft of
wool and manipulate it between a pair
of cards, and, presto! a gauzy sheet was
lifted from its rough bed; or else a long
slender roll was produced—yarn in itsearly stage Miss Hrown was tall, spare,
and angular, and the lines of her face
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were vertical: her dress was always
dark ; her tall teapot was black; and even
her eat partook, in color and conduct, of
the somber tone of the place. But her
spirit was heroic and duty, with her, was
much more near and
something
pressing than any
self-indulgence.
At an age when most people were
looking about for an easy place
in which to spend the afternoon of life,
she heard the call of the American
Hoard for volunteers, and she responded.
and came to this end of the earth to teach
spinning anil weaving and kindred do-
mestic handicrafts to Hawaiian girls. It
was part of the great experiment, how to
save the bodies of the natives whose
souls had begun to awaken. During five
years of active life at Wailuku and seventeen at Kaluaaha —for Molokai was
then a populous island—Miss Brown
taught better living and self-help; and
the value of her instruction is not to be
measured by the yards of cloth which
her girls wove, but by their improvement in character.
Another missionary lady was visiting
at Mr. Hitchcock's when we were there
—a widow with three small children. In
the book cupboard of the house there was
:i set of the Roilo iiooks. a complete set.
occupying a respectable portion of a
shelf: for Jacob Abbott had written out
•o tie end of this line, and took up Marco
Paul next. 'These books were the delight of my days; and after some hours
of hot sun and wind and blistering sea
bath, to come in and camp down on the
softest pan of tin- painted floor, with
two or three of the books before me, was
a balm for every weariness. Hut the
widow lady did not approve of the Rollo
books, and said plainly that her children
should not read them. They were Fiction. I was glad that my mother was
not of her mind. The peculiar views of
this lady resulted in gain to me; for
when we were at home again, her oldest
daughter, instructed,
doubtless, by the
mother, made me a present of "Rollo's
Vacation/ as good as new; and it still
figures as Xuniher i in the catalogue of
my library, though the Ixxik has disap-
peared.
'There was another name which must
fail of mention, though the portrait
is gone. 'This was Job, or loba, an allround fisherman and captain of the
double canoe, and still more, a pillar of
the church, and a chief executive officer.
He was exemplary in those days, when
loyal service from the natives was the
vide. Let us write in his epitaph, "He
was trusted."
Hut I, at hast, did not come out on a
vacation to size up people: the outside
world had more pressing claims. The
first new thing noticed was the early
hour at which the sun rose and began his
not
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At the Lahainas he required time
climb above-the barrier of mountain
and clouds, which gave a long, cool
morning; but at Kaluaaha he came
either out of the ocean or from liehind
the point of distant Kaanapali. Another
thing was the steepness of the mountain
—a magnificent sliding place from the
clouds to the sea. Another was the trade
wind, which, drawing down between two
high islands, bows the trees till they
grow bent, and makes the shallow water
Tor whether
along the coast to fry.
within (he fish ponds or not, that brow nish-green water over the coral reef i>
thrown up into wave ridges, following in
quick succession, and all breaking at the
top and making a confused noise like
frying. 'The fish ponds seemed put there
to beautify the landscape, for loop joined
loop as far as one could see. 'Their wide,
strong walls were inviting routes ot
travel, and each gateway—maka-ha —
was a show. For the slender upright
sticks lashed to the strong poles which
crossed the opening, were close enough
to keep out enemies, hut open enough to
let in the food particles which came in
with the rising tide So when the water
pours through the screen, the fish on the
inside crowd to it in a shoal as if their
lives depended on being nearest; and a
boy's belief was that if a flat stone could
be placed carefully enough on the hacks
of these fishes, it would be held up by
work.
to
them, hut the
experiment
Rev. Claudius P. Andrews, then recently
from the States; and my older brothei
was a third. 'The start was made at 3
a. m.. horseback: the trade wind bail
ceased, and, with that gone, it was very
still, indeed: the land breeze, gentlest of
zephyrs, flowed down from the mountain on their right, the gibbous moon from
behind cast long shadows from the riders
on the turf road ahead, and the sea rippled and mysterious sounds came from
the beach at their left. 'Then it was
"When the winds and the waves lie together asleep,
And the m<x>n and the fairy are watching the deep.
She dispensing her silvery light.
And he. his notes as silvery quite,"—
'The description of this night ride, as
given by mv brother, first Opened my
mind to fairyland, or the possibility of :m
invisible counterpart of this material
world.
Robert Andrews.
THE KAWAIAHAO SEMINARY
Kawaiahao Seminary will re-open on
Monday, September 2nd. 'The school is
able to accommodate a larger number o(
pupils than it had last year, and it is
TEMPERANCE
never suc-
ceeded.
The rushes growing on the landward
side of the fish ponds, and the seaweed
collected there, with a little spice of shellfish, gave a briny smell to the coast,
which does not belong to the open sea.
A'little more intensity might have made
it a bad smell, but it has never become
bad to me. We had our daily sea bath
ing at the landing, where the bottom was
sandy; and our daily visit of inspection
to the canoe houses, —old houses with
low stone walls and ragged roofs—
where the more valuable canoes were
swathed in old mats, and mounted on
carved stools.
Our longer excursions reached to the
great Mapulehu valley, which is narrowat the mouth, but expands into an amphitheater; to the Iteiatt near the mouth
of this valley, a great oblong pile of
rounded stones, with level top and sloping sides, overgrown, even then, with a
tangle of vines and bushes; and a trip
to Halawa, a wild and verdant valley
opening to the northeast, and having a
noble stream of cold mountain water.
One experience, which was not my
own, made a lasting impression on me.
The missionary was to hold religious
meetings with the people at Kamalo and
beyond, and would be gone from home
two days. One member of his party was
hoped that the attendance will increase.
A limited number of scholarships and
half-scholarships is provided for worthy
and needy pupils. Some of these are for
Ilawaiians only, others are reserved for
Japanese and Chinese. Those who wish
to take advantage of these must apply
early.
The additions to the teaching force for
the coming school year will, it is lielicved,
add greatly to the strength and general
efficiency of the school, The Pratt system will be continued in the sewing department, which, with the department of
music, will be under new teachers. Pupils are wanted for the sewing course,
and outside pupils for lessons in music.
'The present hopeful outlook for the
future of the school, affords every encouragement for the continued interest
and financial aid of those who have hitherto assisted the school, while tin- many
and urgent needs which arise as improvements arc contemplated, call loudly
for new interest and new contributions.
The school is broadening in its scope,
reaching out for the girls of the cosmopolitan island population, in this respect
filling a sphere not now occupied by manyschools of its kind.
Edited by
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ISSUES
REV. W. D WESTERVELT
"The number of saloons in I lonolulu has
gone up with a leap. Strange, it is, too,
to 'near from men who ought to know,
that few saloons are much more than
paying expenses. What are we to expect then? Will the "wide-open" policy
now apparently in operation, finally ruin
the saloon business?' Some really think
so.
"Competition, 'we are told, "will
finally become so keen as to drive many
out of trade." Don't you lielieve it.
First, because the liquor industry is too
well generatled second, because a very
little business in the saloon means considerable profit; third, (and most important), every saloon at all favorably
located begins rapidly to create its own
business.—"create" is the word. That
"create" implies also the training of a
new generation of drinkers.
;
Oh, yes. The limit to the number of
saloons will soon be reached. Saloon
men themselves will soon properly instruct our (?) authorities not to grant
any more licenses.
Said we not above
that the liquor industry was well generalled? The waterfront is stiil safe.
Why, in the name of common sense: If
the saloon is a good thing, a necessary
thing, why keep
waiting. To be
jxxir
sure,
thirsty sailors
there arc Uncle
Sam's men of war and transports,
Just
see how that town, Hremerton. Oregon,
had to suffer for its little lawful enter"No more men-of-war?" Honolulu will be good and make every sailor
walk two blocks for his drink. That
ought to reduce his thirst.
What a drivelling lot of sycophants we
allow ourselves to be!—still after the
thirty pieces of silver, the price of blood.
prise.
Speaking of the waterfront, how docs
"palace-front strike you? A writer in
a recent Advertiser very properly asks,
"Where is our civic pride?" Well,
where? Some one asks, "Is it( the saloon—not our civic pride) not within
saloon limits?" How wearisome I As
though our helpless officials mustgranta
license for any spot in saloon districts!
Who really wanted a saloon on the
square fronting the Executive Building?
Probably not the Pacific Tennis Court,
nothwithstanding their mock (?) seriousness in the support of Primo.
Who
then ?
Some time ago the public was aroused
over the unseemliness of the big sign
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"Saloon" on the only bit of beach sti'.l
open to the people at Waikiki. Tor a
time "civic pride seemed to control and
the saloon went. The money motive now
GENERAL
seems alone to be operative, and I'ncle of this island community; the banks and
Sam hasn't my interests involved in trust companies have more inonev seekthese neighbors (he thinks he hasn't) so ing investment than has been the case for
over a year. Our mortgage indebtedwili not interfere.
ness has decreased something over
$50,000 in the month and business men
are. as a rule, if not more hopeful, at
least more settled financially and less
fearful than a year ago.
COMMENT
BY W. L. WHITNEY
()ur Legislature, which for months has
threatened to become a fixture in our
niidst, has, we are glad to say, passed into
history. It is impossible to summarize
their work in this brief review. We
have endeavored as the months passed,
to give a short account of the way they
were working. 'The extra session was
devoted almost entirely to the spending
of money and. at least on paper, they
have managed to get away with twice,
almost thrice, our possible income. It
is hoped that a bond issue will supply the
money necessary to complete the extensive works contemplated by our legislators and such bonds are to be issued
shortly. 'The best that can be said of the
departed is that it was not as bad as we
can imagine a body of law-makers might
be, and that on the whole the legislation
will be of no great injury to the people
the claims for property destroyed in the
suppression of the bubonic plague, and in
the accidental conflagration occurring in
Connection therewith. They have done
their work to the satisfaction of all, and
although little seems to have been expressed, much commendation is due the
members for their faithful, energetic and
conscientious services to the territory.
lii order, perhaps, that the quota of
courts of the Territory be kept up, of
fearing that only live courts going at
once in the same building would not be
enough to keep clerks and attorneys busy,
another tribunal has this month been installed in Aliiolani Hale. 'This is the
new Land Registration Court, presided
over by Judge Weaver, and is the out
come of the passage of the Torrens Land
Registration Law. 'That this court is
destined to accomplish great good in the
community, there can be no doubt. When
Scarce had our legislators, however, in time the land shall all, or at least very
left the legislative hall before they began largely, have been registered, one of the
a vigorous campaign for our Cotintv elec- greatest causes of loss and litigation will
tions. 'There are a great many new po- have been removed.
sitions made available by this, to US.
First in interest in the litigation before
novel form of government, and the usual
job.
each
the
courts this month has been the dis
is
after
number of grafters
'The Home Ride Party, so-called, with barment proceedings of Attorneys Hum
the same old boss, is in the field, and is nhrevs Thompson, Magoon and Davis.
showing great activity. As there are no 'The whole matter grows out of the noprinciples whatever, and only spoils, at torious Sumner trial, and the annals of
stake, it is likely that the campaign of no court, we fear, can show any worse
this party will be more active than any instance of legal robbery than that pre
heretofore known in the community. sented to the Supreme Court in these
That it is the duty of each one of us to proceedings. The whole matter is now
be up and doing in regard to these elec- submitted and not only the attorneys on
tions is too obvious to need remark. He- trial, hut the public at large, are waiting
sides and beyond the fact that it is the for the outcome with great interest.
duty of every citizen to do his part in
Mrs. Watson, known to Kamaainas a*
governingthe countnrweU, there seems to
these
in
Spreckels, has commenced in the
need
Emma
urgent
most
a
and
special
be
islands for strenuous work by honest and Federal Court an action against her faWe cannot forget ther to regain the ownership and posses
upright politicians.
that we arc iii the midst of a people easily sion of the large and valuable holdings
led by good as well as by evil-disposed of city real estate of the Colonel in Honolulu. Seldom do we have in our
men.
courts a suit involving as large interests
or as much money as this suit, and it is,
non-political,
though
body,
beyond
doubt, to be a long legal fight.
month,
th.c
gone out of existence this
commission
The
Claims Court.
Business conditions remain practically
:h comprised this court was appoint »y the Legislature of two years ago unchanged. There seems to be a someetermine the validity and amount of what better feeling in the money markets
at large.
Inother
Considerable money is being invested
in improvements and extensions by various concerns in Honolulu. The Kerr
Block, on Alakea Street, and the Robinson Block, on Queen Street, both substantial and modern edifices, are going
up rapidly and each will add to the attractivenss of the new Honolulu. 'The
Rapid Transit has this month opened its
line on Alakea and Emma Streets and
another line which takes in the entire water front. We are certainly to he congratulated not onl\ on the excellent service we are receiving at the company's
hands, but also at the spirit shown am!
the evident intention of all parties connected with the company to meet and
even anticipate the needs of the travelling public. 'The line to Kainiuki is being pushed to completion and we are assured that within a few weeks the residents of that desirable suburb will be in
speedy and convenient communication
with town.
But no building or addition to the town
bids fair to be of such great interest to
the public at large as the new aquarium.
"By tin- generosilv of several gentlemen," we are told, money has been raised
to erect and properly equip and stock a
permanent aquarium in Kapiolani Park.
Xo country, we make bold to say, can
produce such a variety of beautiful and
interesting inhabitants of the sea as Hawaii, and some place where these wonders of the deep can be seen and studied
has been a much longed for addition.
We are therefore most glad to chronicle
its arrival. Attractions such as this
aquarium will he just the things we
iced if we would have tourists coming
to these shores. Though we abound in
beautiful scenery, and though we live in a
land in many ways a veritable Paradise,
;t is an undeniable fad that we have vcrv
few sights to show the average tourist,
and he it is we must expert here. The
Legislature has appropriated money and
the business men have taken measures
to bring thetonrist here; let us have
something to show him when he conies.
The trip from the mainland to Hawaii
is no longer a voyage to the anti|xxlcs
>r to a people shut out from communication with the rest of the world. We are
now connected by cable with the main-
land, and this month we have been fur-
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ther united with the world beyond our
shores by the arrival, on July second, of
the cable from Manila. No ceremonies
marked its arrival, no bunting or speeches
marked its entry into our midst, but it
comes from a far distance to these
shores and from a land destined in the
near future to be the center of interna
tional politics and world-wide activities.
Each day as it passes sees new and increased interest shown in the trans-I'a
cific countries, and as their importance
grows, in like ratio docs Hawaii increase
in value as a strategic point. Whether
Pearl Harbor is to be in time to come
the kcv of the Eastern situation, the base
of supplies of the greatest Eastern power,
remains to be seen. It is now ready for
occupancy. Cotton Brothers, the contractors, have, within the last few days.
announced that their great task is done,
the bar dredged out and the harbor
Opened to our largest ships. To anyone who knows the harbor, however, the
work seems scarce! v commenced, for the
points and shoals that jut into the locks
from Puuloa to Ford's Island form a perfect labyrinth, and handling such huge
vessels as those floating fortresses of ours
in the narrow compass afforded seems
like anything but an easy undertaking. If
in so regular and accessible a harbor is
I fonolulu marine misfortunes are as common as they are. we fear for the Safety
of vessels in the Lochs of Pearl I I arbor.
As was predicted, more and more interest is being shown in sisal cultivation.
A new company is out with its prospectus, which states that the intention of the
promoters is to raise the fiber on the
windward side of this island. Schemes
arc on foot to utilize the entire island of
Kahoolawe as well as large tracts on
Maui and I lawaii in the same manner.
'To have some other large industry besides sugar in I lawaii will be an undoubted benefit to the islands. It will tend to
make more stable our income as a com
muiiity, which, under present conditions,
rises and falls with the fluctuations of
the sugar market alone.
LiveIssues
Anyone who supposes that the Japanese evangelists in these islands are a sleepy
set is himself a back number. Mo more
devoted, faithful or open-eyed company
of Christian workers exists anywhere.
'The business of the Hawaiian Association at its annual meeting being conducted in an unknown tongue, hid no attractions for these men. They determined
not to waste the golden hours and therefore daily in the N'uuanu Street church
met to discuss the conditions and demands of their work. Pictures grave and
gay were painted by them as they animatedly debated such vital questions as
( i | 'The Relation of the Evangelist lo
the Plantation Authorities. ( 2 ) I'reva
lent vices. (3) Education, and (-)) The
Buddhist Propaganda. Only two of tintwelve evangelists were prevented from
coming to Honolulu and the ten men
present opened their hearts and freely interchanged experiences. It was a golden occasion for the superintendents. 'To
give a full account of the confer' nee is
impossible. 'The outcome may best be
summarized as follows:
Sl'l.l--
SUPPORT
Every one of the Japanese workers favored this policy most heartily. 'The
Buddhists succeed in finding many large
contributors. Christian disciples should
not Ik- backward. The Hawaiian Hoard
is therefore formally requested to co-operate in securing stated contributions
from every one of its Japanese mission
stations. Certainly this is a most significant action.
I'I.KV POM AMERICAN WOkKKRS
"It is hard," said these Orientals, "to
get our countrymen to appreciate the
value of Christianity when they see so on even plantation. [ n the next issue of
many Americans who never pjo to church. T.ii: Friend something further will be
Therefore will not the Hoard station said along this line. Bui certainly it will
American missionaries at the more im- he a disgrace to our Christianity if we
portant places in Maui. Kauai and Ha- allow Buddhists to conn- to this newest
waii to work for whites and for llawa- member of the American Union and giye
iians who can speak English?" In other us points as to how to carry on effective
words, these Japanese evangelists appre- religious work.
ciating the strategical importance of various centers on these islands issue a call
TKI.I. THE IKI 111 VJIOI'T lll'DOil ISM
to us Americans to do our duty by our
own country and no longer play at home
I: is a fact that the Hawaiian Hoard is
missions, l>ut rise and occupy the field.
Is not this summons worthy our atten- seriously pressed for funds to cam on its
tion? In other states and territories 01 work. It is also stated On good authorthe Union the Home Missionary Socie it-, that on some plantations the corporaties have eagle eves for the coining towns. tions or their managers contribute funds.
'The places of future importance arc or an equivalent, for the erection of Budmaimed and Christian institutions are dhist temples, for the maintenance of
maintained. ( )ur Hoard is now the reg- Urddhist schools and even for the sup
ularly constituted Home Missionary So port of I'.iuMhist priests or their work.
Cictv for this Territory Surely, it will Arc the Christian stockholders in these
not fail in this duty so timely pointed out plantations satisfied to have this conby these energetic sons of our neighbor tinue.-' Do those who thus aid the work
of Buddhists know the relation of BudEmpire.
dhist practice to the drink question? Are
Sll All. THE lIIDIUI IST OUT STKMTOm. the Buddhist priests in Hawaii abstainers and is their influence unequivocally
THE CHRISTIAN ?
in favor of temperance? Side by side
"We care little for all other methods with this inquiry place the fact that a
employed bythe Buddhists, lmt we do fear short lime ago a Christian evangelist was
their schools." It may not be known to found to he indulging in drink and was
many readers of 'Tin: FRIEND that the promptly discharged. Do the Buddhists
Buddhists arc planting schools in these derive considerable support from gam
islands as widely as possible. A quiet biers and keepers of disreputable women ?
system of compulsion, all the more ef- Is their attitude to these evils, which are
fective lie-cause it is insidious and em- sapping the moral health of thousands of
ploys social weapons, is used to force Japanese in Hawaii one of uncompromislapanese children to attend these institu- ing warfare and extermination? Is their
tions. They are to he met only in one influence, both direct and indirect, diamway—namely, by < ihristian schools. (>ur etrically opposed to these twin vices?
evangelists believe in the inauguration of 'Those who know the facts have but one
a department of education by the Hawa- answer for these questions. Remember
iian Hoard which shall maintain a Japan- right here that some years ago one Japese teacher in addition to the evangelist anese pastor in Honolulu carried on un-
-
�relenting warfare against a Japanese of
wealth who controlled a gilded hell in this
chy, notwithstanding the fact that this
man was a leader in the community of his
countrymen and a nominal Christian.
When Japanese women wish to escape
from a life of vice in this city, do the,
go to the Buddhist temple? 'They do go
to our Christian pastors' homes and their
rights arc championed for them in court,
with Christian men and women (not
Buddhists) present to back them up with
their sympathy. Is it not time for Christian stockholders and directors in sugar
plantations to consider these questions?
How can we pray to the God and Father
of our Lord Jesus Christ to prosper our
sugar interests and then turn about and
help maintain an open enemy of our Master and His Kingdom of Righteousness.
together with all the passive assistance
rendered by that enemy to the vilest foes
of manhood among a people entrusted to
us as employees? This is a free country,
and the Buddhist lias a right here, bin
Christians loyal to Jesus cannot aid him
in his work of keeping men from becoming disciples of Christ. .'The Japanese
evangelists at their recent meeting passed
the following appeal to the Hawaiian
Hoard. We give it in the plain, unvarnished English of these devoted men
"Resolved, 'That the Hawaiian Hoard
is requested to take some way to let each
and all planters know what influence the
Buddhism gives to the Japanese laliorcr.
and what effects should be brought to the
plantation by the flourishing of the Bilddhism in Hawaiian plantations.."
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TRUE CHARACTER OF THE
THEATER
'The following arc portions of an article in The Congregationalist, written by
Rev. A. B. Chri'stv of Providence. R. 1.,
who is a representative of the Anti-Saloon League, and a champion of public
order and decency. Ile writes after can
ful personal investigation of the 'Theater.
His testimony of its corrupting influence
calls for the most serious consideration
of all lovers of lniritv and decency:
S. E. B.
Unlike the regular plays that have a plot
and several acts, vaudeville mingles dances,
acrobatic feats, intriimental and vocal selections and dialogue parts. A syndicate controls a circuit of thirty or more theaters and
sends a new troop each week to each theater.
These give performances afternoon and even-
ing, or twelve repetitions of the identical
words and actions each week as they go
their rounds.
In the cheap places young women of pretty
face and buxom form sally forth to show
their physical beauties in changing dress
(and dress), and with sonc and dance display their activity (and their persons) in
more or less wanton fashion. The dialogue
parts are usually carried on by men in grot-
esquc costumes representing Jews or trisna man and a woman in
ordinary dress. Their language is a mixture
of punning and questionable jokes with
double meaning. More ambitious parts imitate the drama and often employ the whole
company. The theme .s usually the adult
cry or the compromising situations of bus
band or wife, or the experiences of abandon
The
ed women with country simpctons.
soloists begin with decent songs but as they
are recalled their verses neeonie more suggestive until they give something obscene
enough to call forth shouts and catcalls
from the gallery.
The program includes some fine exhibition
of athletics, or performance on musical instruments, and a patriotic or pathetic song, perhaps illustrated with stereopticm pictures, or
a series of views of travel or of a drama hy
the vitascopc. The constant change of parts
and the dash and abandon of the performers
keep the mind alert for three hours of amusement. The interjection of the comic and obscene is constantly expected and bailed with
vigorous applause by the spectators. The ICtors are thus inched to put as much "f this
unclean element into their "stage business" as
they can. 'The different troops have established reputations for these features and when a
recent Company was billed for Providence it
was popularly said to be "the holiest thing
thai came to the city."
men, sometimes l>y
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come steadily I will not keep my prejudices
and the things of which 1 complain will cease
to be offensive to me. Distrusting my own
judgment I have taken at different times a
dozen Christian men with me who had not
situ the theater. They were as indignant as
I had been Uld spoke about features that had
awakened my early protest, but to which familiarity had so blunted my perception that I was
no longer disturbed by them.
Theatert patronized wholto or chiefly by men
ought to he suppressed if the Christian Church
has any influence in preserving the morality
of its youth. Especially is ibis true when such
places are in a college town. The revelations
ni immorality made to me by hotel keepers
and college boys concerning the relations ~f
such actresses to the youth of town and college
convince me that the most drastic methods for
the suppression of such low class theaters
would In- a public benefit
An effort should be made in every city to
secure positive orders from the authorities wlm
grain licenses to the theater forbidding any
profane words on the stage and also
forbid
ding any song, joke or act that ridicules, or
parodies, or discredits the customs or language
that is held to be sacred by tile Christian
churches.
Yet when I am asked how lo best check the
evils thai alien,l the theater 1 am reminded
of the old conundrum, "What part of an egg
would yon use when ii is beginning to he
bail.-" I can see how the worldly mind can
tin,l much enjoyment and recreation in some
theaters, but I am sure dial die Christian
have frequently seen la,lies Leave abruptly i>Ughl to lie able to find helpful fun and deI
after some utterance on the stage, and from lightful entertainment without patronizing the
the expression on their faces I believe thai theater as it is to,lav.
they were going because offended by the words
they had heard. Within a week a prominent
business man of Providence has told me uf
two experiences which he has bad with some
ol his lady friends who had been visiting him
and who were taken to the theater as a natural
entertainment. He said that they were polite
in their expressions of appreciation of his well- Seated Chain,
meant kindness, but after be had left the room
Mission
they expressed their minds forcibly to bis wife
furniture,
concerning their shame and confusion at being
obliged to listen to and view some of the Picture Framing
tilings in the performances.
It would not be proper to condemn all
theaters nor all performances, but the Christaken for
tian ought lo be able to tin,l amusement ami
that
would
be
tainted
with
not
the
enjoyment
unworthy and improper features that are liable
lo be met at the average theater. 'The so call
ed "problem" plays, just now having a great
run in the best houses, are simply the concrete
physical exhibition of the realistic novels. Ii A. R. GURRIY,
may be possible to read the novel in the priJgflA
lIOTKI. AM)
vacy of the home and escsne any contamination of mind or morals, because (he imaginaAI.AKK.V srs.
tion is not equal to the task of making the
scenes real
Rut the flesh and blood sinners
on the stage are able to make one feel that
he has known the real facts and been a confident of the sinner. His own mind is lowered
in tone. I asked some college boys if the fact
that a young lady could sit beside them and
witness and hear such things with approval
made them feel warranted in thinking that
Especially equipped to take
she would not resent any liberties they might
entire charge of your business
take with her. Tbev replied emphatically that
Interests in these islands; and
they did feel so. Will Christian parents en
to collect and remit income
courage their sons and daughters to subject
themselves to such possible familiarity with
First Class Investment Seunclean impulses? It is easy lo say. "Evil to
curities Hour' t and Sold.
who
evil
hut
it
is
too
true
thai
thinks,"
him
there are many who do "think evil."
Correspondence Solicited
Regular patrons make vigorous protest
as
offered
and
I have
against such criticisms
assert that the* do not notice the objectionable
Va Fiibt Bt.
Honolulu, h. t,
things of which so much is made. The managers assure me earnestly that if I will only
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The Hawaiian Mission Children's Society
JUDGE
WILLIAM
WILCOX
LUTHER
This ever-youthful man bade his native land adieu on the evening of Sabbath, Jul y I2th, crossing over into the
bourne whence none return. He had a
few days earlier, on the Bth of July, completed 'fifty years of a very interesting
and varied life.
His father and mother, Mr. and Mrs.
Aimer Wilcox, were missionaries of the
\merican Hoard, who came to these
islands as teachers, arriving from 808-ton early in the forties.
He was born at Waioli. on Kauai, and
inherited tin- quaint humor of his father
and tlie kindly sparkle of his lovely and
loving mother, the combination producing line of the most fascinating characters that our islands have produced.
His parents, after about thirty yearn
of assiduous missionary service, in infirm health, 'eft, in 1869, for a vist to
their fatherland. Hut a week after
reaching their native place in Winsted,
Connecticut, they both died within an
liour of each other.
Left an orphan at sixteen and having
completed two years of schooling at Lun
ahoti, he resolved toat once strike out and
make a living for himself. Securing the
situation of interpreter, he entered the
service of the Government, in which he
continued through life.
None ever rivaled him as interpreter,
either in court or in the legislative hall.
The promptness and aptness of his brilliant translations were a feast to any listener who understood perfectly the English and Hawaiian languages.
In iB<»7 he was appointed Judge of the
police court of Honolulu, a position of
great labor and taxing responsibilities.
He never appeared weary and seldom
failed by his pleasantry and wit to lighten
the hearts of all concerned and of interested listeners. The genuine kindness of
his heart ever showed itself in playful
form, exceedingly unusual in a judge
whose office was to restrain evil doers
and to deliver the righteous from tinhand of tlie oppressor.
1 le was the just judge, the kind friend.
the merry companion and the government officer who could not easily be
hood-winked.
About ten years ago he was married
to a Hawaiian woman of good rep;>r;
from the island of Molol<ai.—named
Kahuila.
His surviving relatives are his widow,
Mrs. Kahuila Wilcox, and his brothers,
in Winstead, Connecticut;
George N., Samuel W. and Albert,
Edward
residents
tary for Hawaii to his other duties, stated
that the Churches of the Territory had
made a very poor showing, l>ecause many
pastors failed to fill out and return the
statistical blanks sent them. He emphasized the advantages to be gained by representation in the national organization;
it gives us the right to participate in its
stimulating councils, and that it is important that our statistics should be as ac-
on Kauai. The three last
named were notified of their brother's serious illness in season to
be at his bedside ere he died. Two curate as possible.
appointed
of the seven brothers had crossed the The Theological Tlu
to consider the wisdom or
hi.
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river before him.
hebsol
1 acontinuing the .North n
A more sorrowing audience has selInstitute, which is our
cific
Missionary
dom been seen than the throng of native
Hawaiians and foreigners who filled Ka- theological school, reported in brief on the
waiahao church July 13th, on the occa- importance of such a school; that owing
sion of the funeral of Judge William Lu- to the lack of pupils our school had not
grown to the proportions we had hoped it
ther Wilcox.
might reach, and yet some good had come
of it; that this was a time which called
for much patience, and that if we held on
now, in the future the situation might
improve; that the teaching should be in
I lawaiian, as well as English, and that the
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Abstract of Minutes of the
Hawaiian Evangelical
Association
school should be open to all nationalities.
This report was approved.
This subject was referred
The number of settled
to a committee, which
Intemperance
Number in At- ministers in attendance
brought in an interesting
tendance
the
was twenty-five.
number of delegates from report. Five excuses for drinking were
the island associations thirteen, and ci cited First, the desire of tlie weary; for
restorative —to restore circulation secmembers-at-large. tw cgitv-two, compris- aond,
tin- search for an appetizer; third,
ministers,
seven
ing twelve ordained
the
need
of a stimulant in case of sickpreachers, and three laymen —making a ness; fourth,
the social effect; fifth, and
total of sixty, of whom thirty-seven were
harmlessness of the occasional
lastly,
ordained ministers.
glass. The report maintains that none of
that Mr. these- excuses
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, , voted
for
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were valid, and that abstilnld
Lvdgatc
s
C
s
CafB
, nence was the wiser course, especially for
(nildrcn
-,
T
eehism on the Life ol
Jesus, be issued month by month in the tlie ministry. In view of the fact that
nf intemperance had been made
Hoaloha in connection with the Sundav- charges certain
pastors, it was felt that the
sclnxil lessons. Thus it might lie expected against
was
timely,
report
and it was adopted by
to reach the children of the native Sunday
and ordered published in
the
Association
nearly
for
stihschools very generally,
all
Tin-: Friend and the Hoaloha.
serjlx- to this most estimable periodical.
U was urscd that tno Rh
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Sabbath lleae- the
l>«y -Mr. Emerson rrci>orted
J,
einnrial
abuse of the Sabbath
tlu-observance
of
Meinou
cratlon
11 Monu,
,
andi the
-.
was
a serious menace to
rial I>av. the second
Sun—„-4
,
nient r mid
day in April, by twenty- our welfare as a people, yet no new laws
four churches, which contributed $168.25 are required; that already there are
towards the fund for a monument to the enough enactments on tlie statute-book to
missionary fathers; that he had also re- redress this wrong, and that what we need
ceived $10 from three young people's so- is bravery in demanding and seeing that
the laws arc enforced.
cieties. $16 from four individuals,
„Secretary Tuesday having been
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from the sale of church banners made by The
given mostly to listening
Mrs. Emerson and her friends, and $7.61
and Treasurer h ,
.•-.-, reixirts
t<> the statistical
interest, making a total receipt for the
_m,
a
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Now
.
and
Mem' reof pastors, the annual
year of $232.61. This amount added to
bersoftno
o£ the csSecretary
$144.95 that was received the previous Board.
and
«***1 reasurer were read
year, makes a footing of $37756, the
and adopted on Wednesday, after which
amount now at interest in the bank.
who was they were re-elected. The outgoing class
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Mr. Emerson,
,
,
The Conarea-a,
years ago hv of members of the I lawaiian Board, with
asked
four
tionaliv
Year- , „ ompiler ,
the C
of the*~
C on- tlie exception of two, were also re-elected,
Book
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Year- Look
gregational
(who is also Secretary of the National fill the place made vacant by the death of
Council), to add that of Statistical Secre- his father.
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�After reading a full rehis work, Mr.
Timoteo was reappointed
evangelist. During the past year his
time has been chiefly given to the islands
of ()ahu and Kauai, he having also visited the district of Puna on the island of
Hawaii. In order to supplement the work
of the general evangelist, it was propose,!
that an evangelist lie appointed for each
island. This matter was referred to the
Island Associations.
A plan for special union
Union Evangc- evangelistic effort was
llstlc Effort presented to the Associa
tion. and a committee oi
five, consisting of Messrs. Waterhouse,
Emerson, Timoteo, Gulick and Ezera,
was appointed to confer witlt the five appointed by tlie Ministerial Union,
A Fast liny and The first Sunday in SepEvangelist ik>rt of
The
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local ecclesiastical bodies! as follows,
namely, six from Hawaii, four from
(>ahu, four from Kauai and Niliau,
and four from Maui and Molokai.
Each Island Association is furthermore
entitled to one delegate for each foreign
race represented in its membership. The
second and third paragraphs of Article
\ I I were united in one. amended so as
to read as follows: It shall be the duty
of the Hoard to take charge of Home
Missions on these Hawaiian Islands as
auxiliary to the Congregational Home
Missionary Society, including matters
pertaining to Christian education, publication and evangelization, and to take
charge of and disburse all funds contributed h>r these objects from whatever
source, and make a full report of its proceedings to the Association at its annual
IN
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we will be pleased tn show-
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want.
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240—2 Telephones—24o.
tions
so far as possible to the National
Benevolent Societies of the Denomination.
Second, Dy formally a,looting the American Board as the channel through which 10
obey the command of Jesus to preach the
Goapel lo every creature, and by earnestly
requesting- every one of our churches to
make a yearly offering to its treasury, and
Third, by recommending to the Hoard of
this Association to become affiliated as an
auxiliary to the Congregational Home Mis
sionary Society with a view to becoming a
factor in its support if ever returniuu prosperity should find the Hoard blessed with
surplus funds.
AMONG THE YOUNG PEOPLE
,
meeting.
()n Sunday, the 28th of
aChl Idren's tember was appointed a
lime, sermons on the
,
and
prayer
of
day
fasting
Service was
Sunday Services
~„.,,.,, WOR
()f
for a finer consecration
Appointed
of the
the
in
among
preached
each
fellowship
and a closer
churches, and a suggestion was made that churches of the city, and collections for
The Coma special service for children would prove the treasury were taken up.
munion service was observed at Kaumahelpful.
sth of July,
Article \ was changed to kapili church on Sunday, thethe
members
was
attended
largely
by
and
Changes in the read as follows: This
Constitution
body shall be called The of the Association.
On Thursday afternoon
1 lawaiian Evangelical
the members of the As
who
addition
to
those
Association. In
Entertaii.meut
jociation
and
their
shall become members under the Conentertained
wives
were
-i
the
year 1854,
stitution, as revised in
shall consist of all ordained clergymen In- the ladies of the Woman's Hoard of
annual
of the Congregational order in tlie Terri- Central Union church, at their certain
of
delethe
By
generosity
tea
party.
Hawaii,
of
with
together
lay
tory
gates to Ik- appointed annually by the friends of tlie city, some of them loyal
llawaiians. daily entertainment was afforded the members during the session of
the Association. For this kind attention
the Secretary was instructed to enter a
Something Brand New
Evangelical Association, in annual meeting
in Honolulu this jml day of July,
A. I), njo.t. do hereby consummate the affiliation so happily instituted
l-'irst, by recommending to the Churches
of this Territory to make annual contribu-
assembled
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CONVENTION ECHOES
What ailed the convention?
It is neither unwise, nor unkind to ask
the question, if thereby some good can
come out of it for the future.
(living all the credit for commendable
points, there was some thing the matter
with it, wasn't there?
There was the extreme heat; that was
no one's fault, surely.
By the way, we
wonder whether it was warm at the
great Denver C. E. convention.
If i*.
was (not altogether improbable) do you
think there would lie a very great interference witli tlie attendance? We trow
not.
As to our singing. We wish something might he said commendatory. Yes,
the few that were there sang as best they
might, perhaps. But the absent voices
were very weak.
Next time, let's have a good choir, if
we don't have anything else in the house.
That, by the way, is a fine ideal for a
church choir,—every one in the congregation a member of it: no unheard of
minute expressing grateful thanks.
It was voted that next
year there be a return to
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The Next Meeting
tIR
of hay .
ing rqxirts from the four
island Associations, and the invitation
from the churches of Lihue. Kauai, to
either.
meet with them on the first day of June, thing
Nothing need he said of the Speaker!
1904, was accepted by the Association.
Among the more imix:>rtant acts of the He was good.
Considerable should be said of the
Association was the adoption of the fol- management
of all the details of the meetlow ing resolution:
was
our Secretary's hands and
ing.
It
in
Hawaiian
of
these
WHEREAS, the history
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Islands must ever be indissolubly connected
with me work of the American Board, whose
missionaries brought hither the blessings of
the Gotpel of Jesus Christ and laid the
people of our Churches under lasting obligations, and
WHEREAS, this Association by annually
reporting to the Secretary of the National
Council is affiliatec to the Congregational
Curches of the United States, while in virtue
of its participation in the International Coun-
good.
Very much might Ik? said of the
was
at-
tendance: it was bad. Why was the attendance bad. Let the absent tell their
own societies.
The "heated term"
shouldn't explain it. "So much going on"
isn't sufficient reason for real Kndeavorers. "Out of town" would do, if it
were a fact. We suspect that the reason
cil, whose kindly reception of its delegates lies partly in this, viz., that our societies
will ever remain a delightful memory, it is have come to look at the convention as a
in full fellowship with world-wide Congrega- sort of necessary function foisted on us
tionalism; therefore lie it
RESOLVED, That we, the Hawaiian by custom on the mainland, but not like-
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ly to result in increased power or en
On Sunday, the
fifth day of July, Messrs.
CHINESE WORK
1).
W. Kcliiokamoku
11. K. I'ocpoc and
thusiasm? How about this?
IIIIX).
were ordained at Kaumakapili church. Mr.
If the convention is a feature worth Poepoe, who is a graduate of the N. P. M
This last month Mr. Mo Man sfiltg the
perpetuating, let's plan, for it. The bur- Institute, has now for a year heen con- new preacher from China, for the Hilo work,
den this year seemed to fall on the Sec- nected with the church as its associate pastor reached Honolulu. He is now at his post
a graduate of and was warmly welcomed by the Chinese
retary, while it should, of course, fall pd Mr. Kcliiokamoku. who is charge
of misat Hilo.
I.ahainaliina, goes to take
its.
sionary work on the island of i.anai. He
been
that
has
vet
The best test perhaps
is a practical carpenter as well as a good
One encouraging feature of the work here,
proposed of the efficiency of Christian preacher, and is now engaged hy Mr. Charles is the interest manifested by the Young
Men in Hilo. A large class meet eve v
Endeavor is that announced for ncx' Gay. the proprietor of the island, in b*iil'
Sunday.
About eighty people, the enyear. The banner will be awarded to the ing a church. of
the island, will come under
society bringing in the largest number of l.re population
The Koreans are also joining in the work.
his charge.
new active members. That's fair. ForTen attended at the last Communion service.
most of whom were christians. They said
tunate will it be for the church whose
While presenting his able temperance re- they were glad to see the name 'Chinese
society "wins out."
solution at the late •meeting of the HawaiThey remember theirt"hinese origin,
All the societies on the islands an ian Evangelical Association, an account of Church.
and feel very kindly to the Chinese, some of
Dc
page,
to
a
on
is
on
another
Haoffering
Mr.
given
asked
take special
which
them speaking a little Chinese and all read
nuna said; "When 1 was a boy my father
cember 2nd for tlie Kona < frphanagc.
it. Over ioo Koreans are living near Hilo.
stimulants.
was a confirmed user of alcoholic
He declared lli.it he had a taste for drink, and
The Chinese Church in Honolulu is bethat he would never give it up. I watched coming more united all the time. At the
this evil habit of his for years and labored last Communion service about ioo took part,
with him. At last 1 persuaded him to bemore than for many years. The attendance
come an abstainer, and peace came again at the Sunday services is increasing.
to our household;"
At the June business meeting of the
Christian Endeavor Society of Centra!
nion chttrch, tlie following officers were
elected: Mr. Herbert Young, President;
This old man who gave up drinking at
I'.. A. Rowland, Vice-President; Miss
the earnest persuasion of his son. is now
Wolf,
Miss
Recording
Secretary;
Ethel
the judge of the district ami a leader in
Maria Forbes, Corresponding Secretary, the
liana church. Rev. Mr. Hanuna supports
and Miss Carrie C.ilnian. Treasurer. his family and take his vacation rest in carrycommitThese new officers, witli the new
ing the mail between liana and Nahiku. Mrs.
tees, took up their work early in July, Ilanuna. a gentle Christian woman, has been
and the society is already beginning in blind for many years.
feel the renewed energy.
Mr. L, B. Kaumeheiwa and family, who
The Kaumakapili Society holds mis- have
been now four years at the N. I'. M.
sionary meetings to good purpose. Their Institute,
have gone to liana, Maui, to takehist one of July 2(1 resulted in a collec- charge of the church 01 which Rev. I'".. M.
tion of $10.00 to he sent to some South Ilanuna is pastor, Mr. I lamina having askmeetings ed for a leave of absence for the recovery of
American Mission. When
Kaumeheiwa
can he his health. Before leaving Air.July,
something
they
arouse us to do
was orua.ned on the uth of
at Kaucalled "good." anyway they arc "mov- makapili church.
ing."
FIELDNOTES
JAPANESE
The Japanese Congregational Evangelists
Union through its representatives has presented a Memorial addressed to the Hawaiian Hoard, the several points of which have
received the careful attention of the ( ■ 'ii
mittee on Japanese Work, and tin- whole
will Ik* laid before the Board at its next
meeting, to be held in August.
Rev. S. Kodama has ,-ecn called from his■'
post at Puunene, Maui, and is now eneai"'
as Dr. Scudder's emanuensis and assistant
in searching for those Japanese whose kindred have sent messages by Dr. Scudder to
them. This is a work destined to bear abundant and beneficent fruit in coming years.
Besides this, Mr. Kodama is entering upon
Sabbath School and Evangelistic work in
a most needy
suburb of
a pleasant two
weeks'
Last Sunday Chinese. Japanese and Koreans were there. One Korean spoke Japanese, one spoke the dialect of North China.
so with various languages and by the use of
the written character each enjoyed a part in
the meeting. This meeting of the oriental
nations is always very interesting, and good
feeling is shown by them all.
RECORD OF EVENTS
July ist.—Six months' appropriation
Hill becomes law, for $1,204,791.89, to
Dec. 31, 1903.
Not long ago Mr. Hanuna, who is one of
2d.—Hon. C, R. Bishop donates $50,the brightest and most interesting of our
to Oahu College.
--000
down
pastors, marched his Sunday-school
street with banners and lining it up in front
3rd. —Cable ship Anglia buoys end of
deep-sea cable 17 miles out.
of the local saloon, called upon his comThe local
pany for temnerance speeches.
4th. Anglia effects landing of shore
agent of this saloon is said to be an exat 10 a. m., and at p. m. establishes
end
judge and one who was cashiered from the through connection, 5
when messages Ix.'ministry.
gin passing between San Francisco and
and around the Globe.
1-ifty years ago there was living just across Manila,
nth.
—The
Second Legislature of Hame
emerson
river,
opposite
the Anahulu
home at Waialua. an estimable family of waii Territory finally adjourns, after
Hawaiians named Kamakea. The father of passing appropriation bills for $8,423,the house was an industrious farmer. He
and a Loan Bfll for $2,307,27075^
raised tarn, and he also had a small orange --854.40.
—
WORK
Ten of the twelve Japanese preachers and
evangelists were in attendance at the Japanese Department of the Evangelical Assobeciation, held in Honolulu, in July;—two
ing detained at their homes by their duties
as teachers of boarding schools.
Kakaako.
Mr. Wong enjoyed
vacation on Hawaii in July. The meetings
at Palama are well attended.
our city.
grove up the Kawailoa valley.
The son of the household bore the name
of laea, and was reputed a good house ser-
OUR PHOTOS
DON'T FADE
vant and cook. The sister Sarah, had a
powerful soprano voice and sang in Mr.
Emerson's church choir; she still sings in the
We use only the best platinum
choir. laea had a son Isaac, who was ,-rain
paper and guarantee our work.
ed at Lahainaluna, and who became a lawyer.
Call and see samples on exhibition
This son presented himself before the Oahu
in studio :::::::::
and
licensAssociation at its last meeting
was
ed to preach. He is now supplying the churches of Haiku and Huelo in place of Rev. M.
RICE <& PERKINS,
Kuikahi. resigned. Mr. Isaac laea has a
(PHOTOGRAPHERS )
large family of children whom he has temporarily left with his people. Though nevecor. Hotel and Union
Block,
Oregon
having entered the Theological school, his
Entrance on Union.
heart is set on becoming a preacher, and he
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has entered upon his work with enthmnsm.
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ses-
TIT
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sion.
is a pure soap, cleansing and delightful
12th.—Death from gangrene of Hon.
to use. Makes the skin like velvet. Best W. Luther Wilcox, long and greatly
for infants; will not cause eruptions. honored as PbHcc Judge and Hawaiian
a cake and be convinced; 20c. interpreter.
Just trycakes),
box (3
50c.
17th.—Will of Judge Wilcox probated,
Kstate of $05.000. —Collapse of rotten
HOBRON DRUG CO.
bridge over Kaukonahua stream on Waialua road. Two horses killed; drivers
E. C. WATERIIOUSE,
escape.
jotli.—Steamer Ctavering from China
Office cor. Miller and Beretania Sts.
Residence, 1598 Thurston St.
in the darkness runs on the reef east of
Office Hours:—lo to 12 a. m., 2to 3 and tiic channel, but is pulled off after sev7:30 to 8:30 p. m. Sundays: 10 to 11 a. m. eral hours' tugging. Little or no damTelephones: Office. White 3492- Res., Blue 2841 age.
22<1. —Prof. W. I). Alexander returns
from Washington and Xew Haven, with
J. AUGUR, M. D.,
I), from Vale University.
HOMOEPATHIC PRACTITIONER. degree of LL.
Libert consecrated Bish—Father
24th.
Residence, 435 Beretania St.; Office, 431
of Zeugma, at San Francisco.
op
Beretania St. Tel. 1851 Blue.
38th.—Requiem Mass for repose of
soul
of Pone Leo XIII celebrated at Roand
a.
m.,
7
to
3to
12
4
Office Hours:—lo
to
a.
man
Catholic Cathedral.
m.
10:30
to Bp. m. Sundays: 9:30
Jt*t.—Pastor Kincaid returns from
four months' trip to Egypt and PalesCHAS. L. GARVIN,
tine.
DR.
GEORGE
Fort Street, Honolulu
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TABLE COVERS, ETC.
CHAIRS RENTED FOR BALLS AND
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DR.
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Beretania St.
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MARRIAGES
Residence and Night Call: Blue 3561.
Office Hours:—9 to :i a.m.; 1:30 to 3 and BOWEN'-POWER—In Honolulu. July I. llurTelephone: Office, Main 64.
lei.
7:30 to 8 p. m. Tel. Main -'4. Res.
lon W. Bowen and Miss Eva Florence
Nos. 1146-1148 Fort St., Honolulu.
White 3891.
Power.
Manager.
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MAKET-KAUS—Is Honolulu, July 25, W. SI,
CLINTON
J.
Maket to Miss Anna KattS.
CAPELLAS-DOS REIS—At Wailuku, Maui,
July 15, E. S. Capettai to Miss Eliza Dos
"kci's.
HUTCHINS,
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LIFE, AX,
FIRE, MARINE
INSURANCE.
Mcliierny Block.
DUNN-KIEDLIN—At Honolulu. July
Thomas Dunn to Miss Clara Kicdlin.
29,
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MERCHANT TAILOR.
Telephone Blue 2431.
P. O. Box 986.
King Stree*. Honolulu
CLOTHES CLEANED AND REPAIRED.
DEATHS
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Lose, aged ay years, long a resident of Ho- fj OFF & COMPANY,
nolulu.
Importers and Manufacturers of
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paralysis, Thomas J. Cummins of Honolulu,
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CHAIRS TO RENT.
Honolulu,
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noisoning.
of
ptomaine
aged 56 year-.,
Mrs.
26,
WilVANNATTA—At Hilo, June
liam Vannatta.
Honolulu,
July 12, Willim Lu- DR. AJVDERSOJV,
WILCOX—At
ther Wilcox, aged 50 years,
DENTIST.
PHILLIPS—At Honolulu, July 11, William
Phillips, aged (>8 year..
Philadelphia Dental College, 1883.
DREIER—At San Francisco. July 27, Ifiss
Juanita Drcier of Honolulu
1087 Alakea Street.
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Offers greater attractions and inducements as a site for choice residences than
any other portion of Honolulu.
The Pacific Heights Electric Railway
Line affords easy access to all lots; and
water and electric lights are supplied
from independent systems at reasonable
rates. To parties intending to purchase
and improve, especially favorable terms
will be given.
For further particulars apply to Chas. S.
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The average theater today seeks to make
people laugh. As one manager said to me,
K. KAAI,
If 1 don't give the people something to
Teacher of
laugh at they won't come and I'll have to
close up." Tragedy must be lightened with Guitar, Mandolin, Banjo, Zither, Ukulele and
comedy. Shakespeare must give place to
Taropatch.
vaudeville. Pure drama and melodrama are
Studio:—Love Building, Room 5.
no longer popular. The crowds attend the
Hours:—lo to 12 a. m.; 1:30 to 4p. m.
gaudy and the suggestive performances of
the "variety" shows. The vaudeville stage
presents a burlesque of all tragcoy, of all /CALIFORNIA FEED CO., Ltd.,
-son.
passions, of all the relations that exist among
men but especially 01 the infidelities and
jealousies of married life and of the ex- DEALERS IN HAY, GRAIN AND FLOUR.
and women. Its
"We should grow weary of the monot ony periences of depraved men"one
—AGENTS FOB
promise
continuous
of our preaching if it were only advertisements
laugh." The cheap vaudeville differs from
preaching a doctrine, but we never grow the "polite" vaudeville only in tne degree of
COR. QUEEN AND NUUANU STS.,
tired of talking about a beloved person." vulgarity and open obscenity of speech and
HONOLULU.
P. O. Box 452.
Telephone No. Main 121
Fixchange.
action.
Desky, Progress Block.
ERNEST
WANTED—In connection with the new
work in Kakaako, two gentlemen each to
teach English to Japanese one evening a
week for Jesus' sake. Arc two such not
to be found in the ranks of Honolulu followers of Christ Apply to Mr. Scudder.
752 So. King Street, by letter or in ]K-r-
.
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Trust Money carefully invested.
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THE
(Incorporated under the Laws
the Hawaiian
Paid-up Capital
Republic.)
of
$600,000.00
200,000.00
Reserve
Uudivided profits
48,000.00
OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS:—Chas.
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Assistant Cashier. Henry Watcrhouse, E. D.
F. EHLERS & CO.,
y.
Tenney, J. A. McCandless, C. H. Atherton,
Goods
Importers.
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Solicits the accounts of firms, corporations,
All the latest novelties in Fancy Goods
To induce regularity of attendance. trusts, individuals, and will promote and careattend to all business connected with
received by every steamer.
Room for 200 names. Lasts four years with fully
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increasing interest. In use on the Islands.
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accordance with rules and conditions printed
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application.
Judd Building, Fort Street.
G. J. WALLER, Manager.
"ihioping and Family Butchers
and Navy Contractors.
Purveyors to Oceanic Steamship Co.
and the Pacific Mail Steamship Co.
Honolulu, T. H.
do. 50-62 King Street
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SPORTING GOODS
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BICYCLES and
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
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They are in use in churches
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�THE FRIEND
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pic-
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The
friend
Is publish:J the first week of each month
in Honolulu, T. H, at the Hawai'an Board
Hook Rooms, 400-402 Boston Building.
All busine s letters should be addressed and
all M. O.s and idiecks shou d bt made out to
THEODORE RICHARDS,
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tract
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Business. Loans made on approved security.
Bills discounted. Commercial Credits granted. Deposits received on current account subject to check.
Regular Savings Bank Department main-
on Merchant Street,
and Insurance Department, doing a Life, Fire
and Marine business on most favorable terms,
tained in Bank Building
Hawaiian Islands.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
and
PREPARATORY
SCHOOL
PUNAHOU
(Samuel Pingree French, A. 8., Principal.)
Offer complete
Dr. Bingham at Kawaiahao —A Monstrous
Anomaly.-"Tlie Coming Revival."
An Evangelistic Work for Hawaii. EvoluHon of tho Japanese
Does Gild's Love Save All Men.—A Tour
Around ohliu with the Qjneea Regent
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College preparatory work,
together with special
Commercial.
Music, and
Art courses.
Kaahuiuanu,
Temperance Issues.—"Gib Me Porterhouse
Sicak."
General Comment. ...
Natural Law and the Penalty of Sin
The Hawaiian isslon Childrens' Society—
a. A Letter from Miss M A Chamberlain.
b. Dr. Alexander Montague Atherton.—
Missionaries Items. «, ThH'leasant Island
Mission.—b. The American Board and
Higher Education. —c. Captain Walkup
Church Notes —Among the Young People.
/)
—a. Boys Brigade b. Palama chapel.
v ollege
Customs. -The Report of theSecreI
�tary of the Hawaiian Evangelical Assuelation
Record of Events
� Tempejancc Teachings in the Public
Schools
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J. Leadingbain, Managing Editor,
Dr. S. E. Bishop,
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Rev. O. P. Emerson,
Theodore Richards.
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December Friend
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�VOL. LXI
HONOLULU, T. H., SEPTEMBER, 1903
EDITORIAL AND GENERAL duced his strength temporarily. The
address was full of tender sympathy and
counsel for the church, and as such alone
This is the month for once more put- was worthy of the occasion. Hut what
ting on the harness.
gave it a special interest was the fact that
Dr. Bingham chose the opportunity to
back
The faces of teachers and others
take
steps to carry out a wish of his
from vacations are again seen on the mother's, as expressed in a letter to a
streets.
that the land at Punahou.
friend in
that
had
heen
to her hushand hy the
given
that
We have had convincing evidence
chiefs, ami the improvements
native
rest
of
the
lonolulu
is
touch
with
the
I
ir.
world as we have watched the progress upon which had heen made in large part
of the yacht races, as told on our bulletin hy the gratuitous labor hy members <>i
Kawaiahao church, might he made to conhoards.
trihute to the permanent support of that
The October number of The Friend church. Her wish could not he gratified
will probably be devoted to a special pre- at the time, hut now her son, who owns
sentation of the work of the Hawaiian a part of this original tract, in his adHoard. The committees of the Hoard dress to the church, offered to contribhave recently heen reorganized in order ute a part of this land to them for a site
to more effectively meet the demands of for a pastor's dwelling on the condition
the work as it is now constituted. These that the church erect on it a building
changes and others will he explained in suitable for that purpose. Action on the
that number, and the claims of the Hoard part of the church has. we believe, not yet
interests it been taken.
upon the public, whose
serves, will thus he presented.
The law of the age seems
A Monstrous be that deep search heThe Japanese school which Mr. T.
Anomaly
he made to find the root
( Ikumura, one of our Japanese evangelof disorders: more than
ists, has conducted on the premises
that,
when
the
cause
on
Kukui
is found the temper
owned hy the Hawaiian Hoard
street, has heen moved to the premises of the age is signalized by a willingness
of the North Pacific Missionary Insti- to rally for the common defense. Wittute on Punchbowl street. These prem- ness the efforts right in this small comises have lately heen connected with the munity to get rid of the rat that spreads
city sewer system, and other slight the plague, the battle with filth and had
changes made to adapt them to this in- sanitary conditions that prevailed before
creased population. The Japanese school cholera times, the still more recent campromises to he larger than usual since its paign against the virulent mosquito. It
transfer, giving an indication of what this seems that if we could only accurately
energetic race will soon be striving for in trace evils to their actual sources we
would stand a gcxnl chance of having
educational lines.
them remedied. So much for a superOn Sunday, August ficial view.
Alas, the motives of the average pub29th, Dr. Hiram Bingham
at'
Kalic
will not permit of close bisection.
made
an
address
KawBDalhingortm.Church
waiao church from the Eliminate the elements of fear or avarice,
text, "Be watchful and strengthen the and the public's interest in existing evils
things which remain, that are ready to is but rare and spasmodic. Analyze the
die." Dr. Bingham had prepared the ad- al>ove mentioned evils c. g. and see that
dress, expecting to deliver it on Sunday, fear of disease and discomfort unite with
August 16th, as that was his seventy-sec- fear of financial loss as a result of damond birthday, and as he was born while age to business and loss of tourists.
Herein is the marvel! That the thing
his father was pastor of the church, it
would have been highly appropriate at that results in more deaths, more public
that time. Dr. Bingham was prevented disorders than any other cause, that infrom delivering it at the appointed time, creases the burden of public administrahowever, by an attack of dengue fever, tion, raises taxes, depreciates property,
which sent him to bed and greatly re- this hideous thing flourishes almost with-
—
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The Friend
No. 9
out notice. Here is a flagrant instance:
last month two won,en died at the
hands of a man whom some have called
"fiend," "bfUte," etc., hut who was, in
all probability, an average man, with
many excellent qualities, and considerable affection for a woman. Crazed by
liquor (\'() ONE DOUMTS that) he
first heats this woman until she fears to
live with him, and then he kills her. The
law is not likely to regard the fact that
he was drunk, and the man expects to
expiate bis crime. The pity of it! That
is not the worst however; here it is:
THE LIQUOR BUSINESS IS NOT
A WHIT LESS RESPECTABLE T( )DAY THAN BEFORE THE TRAGEDY, AND THE PUBLIC IS NOT A
BIT MORI-: INTERESTED IX EXTERMINATING Till.
DEADLY
THING. How will you account for this?
It challenges the wonder of the world.
What, besides greed, is responsible?
It is becoming quite common now-a-days to see
articles in the religious
papers under this or similar titles. This fact may be taken, we
believe, to indicate that there is a very
wide-spread belief among spiritually
minded people that the present conditions
in the religious world are not as 'hey
should be and that the remedy for them
must come from a higher than merely
human source. There is good ground
for both of these convictions. There
probably never has been a time when humanitarian .and philanthropic effort ha*
reached such dimensions as it has at the
present. There is no end to the enterprises looking to the relief of the material ills of humanity, and money and personal labor have been put into them without limit. All this is good in its place.
But it has tended to become the religion
of many people, who feel, or try to feel,
that when they have expended their
means or themselves in the relief of unfortunate humanity, they have fully met
their personal responsibility. The result
has been a neglect of the more fundamental duties that people owe to God and
their own spiritual natures, as well as to
deeper needs of the world. This is a
condition not without a cause. Under
the new conceptions of life and the world
which have been current in recent years,
the application to the consciences of men
"The Cuming
Revival"
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4
of the primary truths of the Scriptures
in regard to sin and human responsibility
has not been given as large a place in
religious preaching and teaching as the
human heart requires. The result is seen
in laxity in the lives of Christian people
and the difficulty in getting supi>ort for
Christian work which calls for personal
sacrifice and lacks the elements of
larity and the spectacular.
This process has gone on till the Chris-
tian work) is beginning, under the inspiration, we may ho]x', of the Divine Spirit,
to awaken to the fact that the hope of the
world is not in new knowledge or in scientific methods of meeting its physical
needs, although these are good and have
their place, but in the forsaking of sin
and the acceptance of Jesus Christ. We
believe we may hail the indications of
this awakening as a sign that God is stirring in the hearts of his people to prepare
them for a gracious visitation of His
Spirit.
Shall we consider it an
indication that
God is moving for an
outpouring of I lis spirit,
that, in common with Christian people
An Evangelistic added
Work for Hawaii
elsewhere, earnest men and women here
recognize that this is the only solution
for many of our religious and social difficulties? There is certainly nothing to
forbid it, although we are not called up »H
to speak positively on the matter. A
movement, however, which is still in its
incipient stages, has been begun here.
looking toward a general endeavor to
bring to bear in the churches in these
islands the means of grace by which a
renewed interest in spiritual things might
beexpectcd to follow. It is too early \vt
to
make positive statements.
Whether
this work will be carried out depends on
the settlement of some matters not yet
fully considered. It had the endorsement
of tlie Ministerial Union at its last meeting in June, and of the Hawaiian Evangelical Association, and five men were
appointed by each of these bodies to act
as a committee in full charge, with power
to appoint other committees in case it
seems l>est to make the attempt. The
final decision will soon be reached and
full announcement made at the proper
time.
In regard to this movement we bespeak
the earnest prayer and consideration of
all Christian people. Remember that
these islands have witnessed one of the
most wonderful revivals known in the
hitsory of the Christian church —a revival by which they were born a Christian nation as in a day. There can be
no doubt that they are destined yet to
play an important part in the history of
God's kingdom in the Pacific Ocean and
this point Dr. Gulick's contribution must
its neighboring nations. At the |)resciii
day the call to God's people is clear and
loud, lie is reads to do His part, and
lie only waits for them to do their part
to lead to greater achievements than have
ever yet been wrought here. He is moving for the blessing of the nations. Let
us not be behind in answering the call He
makes to 1 lis people.
be considered most timely. Perhaps nowhere, are the conclusions from his thesi
<o needed as in our Greater United States
The prevailing temper of those wh i
both at the North and South are framing public opinion upon the race <|ttestion threatens a narrowness not unlikeh
to eventuate in serious consequences. Our
national legislation with reference to
Chinese immigration is also in accord
with the "race soul theory," which this
work combats, and is calculated to prove
a cause of the growth of still more unfor
lunate exclusive-mit'dedness.
It is significant that this note of protest entirely
scientific in its character should come
-
EVOLUTION OF THE JAPANESE
Rev. Sidney I- Gulick of Matsuyama,
japan, whose scholarship and achieve
nients received due recognition by his
alma mater. Dartmouth College, in the
conferment of the honorary degree of
I). D., last summer, has put all lovers of from the center of that vast arena, the
the Japanese people in debt by his re- Pacific world, wherein the great battle
cent book which hears the above title. It of the races is to he- a fight to the finish
is safe to say that nowhere in similar within the next 100 years. Let the con
compass can one hm\ such a judicious elusions of this book and the deductions
and accurate estimate of the Japanese as that must of necessity follow, rule the
is here given. Xo one who wishes to thought, educate the conscience and dicknow the people of the Sunrise King- tate the energies of the great nations facing the Pacific, and that conflict will be
dom can afford to pass this book by.
It is unfortunate that the author chose both one of peaceful evolution and inthe title he did, for although the contents creasing kindly intercourse.
hear an intimate relation to the problem
Xot less germain to Dr. Gulick's aim
of the evolution of the people of Japan, than the main thesis is his secondary arthe work is in no sense a systematized gument in respect to the role which perpresentation either of the facts or the sonality plays in human development.
history of this evolution. If Dr. Arthur The chapters devoted to establishing his
Smith had not pre-empted the title for conclusion that "the irreducible and final
his well-known work on Chinese Charac- factor in social evolution and in social
teristics, doubtless a like designation science is personality," form a very inmight have been chosen by Dr. Gulick. teresting portion of the whole work. Dr.
who states succinctly that "the aim of the Gulick certainly scores success in his plea
present work has been to gain insight for personality in the Japanese, tho at
into the real nature of lioth Japanese times his tilting seems dangerously near
character and its modern transforma- being aimed at a windmill. He has certion." I lis success in achieving this aim tainly done a great service in pointing out
is so real that it is too bad his title should the extravagances and careless exaggerraise false hopes. Doubtless it is entire- ations of writers, whose books 0:1 Japan
ly too early to expect of any scholar an pass among the unthinking for accurate
adequate treatment of a topic requiring and well-considered estimates of that
such patient and wide study of original people.
documents as that of the evolution of
A conspicuous feature of the book is
the Japanese people.
its fairness—the aim is to state things as
The title is not. however, a complete they are. When this is done to the prejumisnomer, because Dr. Gulick does deal, dice of the historic fictions cherished by
and that too in a masterly fashion, with the Japanese, readers among that people
one of the fundamental questions in the may wince. Doubtless, too, the clear
evolution problem Indeed if it were not statements regarding the Imperial famfor the familiar, readable style and the ily and many of the customs about which
readiness to draw upon material fur- silence is the wiser policy in the Empire
nished by personal experience, the work may strike hard, but we seriously mistake
would suffer for the general reader from if Dr. .Gulick's work will not evoke real
being a sustained argument for the reit- and lasting gratitude in Japan because
erated thesis that "the psychical charac- of its loyalty to the truth and its kindly
teristics which differentiate races are all' justice. Tmmeastirablv more creditable
but social." If we mistake not the de- to the Japanese is such a faithful study
tailed, patient argument, expounded at from the point of view of a true lover of
times with a minuteness that may seem the pen of the ordinary sentinintal
I
one not primarily interested in the writer.
problem, rather tedious, will take the
Dr. Gulick is at his best when dealing
rank of a demonstration of this fttnda-! with the moral and religious side of Japmental proposition in social evolution. On anese life. The value of such chapters as
to
�Moral
Practice, Are the Japanese Relig-
ious? Some Religious Conceptions, and
the Buddhist World View cannot be over
stated.
In a work covering so wide an extent
of territory, it is to be expected that some
carelessnesses should have slipped in. It
is unfortunate that Dr. Gulick should reiterate the misstatement that witches
were burned in New England. Some
twenty-four or twenty-five were hanged
and one was pressed to death, but none
were burned. It is not quite true that "whenever a Japanese man walks out with
his wife, which, by the way, is seldom,
he invariably steps on ahead, leaving her
to follow," inasmuch as the occidental
practice has already begun to invade the
capital and other of the larger ports, and
we have several times seen married
couples walking in the streets side by
side. That the Emperor had any primary responsibility in granting Japan its
constitution, or that he would be able to
abrogate it, we greatly doubt. So far
as the United States are a criterion of
the Occident, it seems to us, after close
association with laborers in both lands,
that truth demands the emphatic reversion of the following: "The lower and
laboring classes of Japan seem to have
more visible affection for their children
than the same classes in the Occident."
Bul these are only minor matters.
When one remembers that this careful,
painstaking, scholarly volume has
not fallen from the pen of a quiet
student or a college professor with
ample opportunity and facilities for
research, hut has heen written bit
by hit amid myriads of interruptions
by a busy missionary whose time is never
his own, whose mind and heart are constantly kept full of personal and administrative details, and whose lot is cast in
japan where the demands upon the
Christian leader are exhaustive, the wonder is that such a splendid piece of work
could have been produced at all.
Those who miss references to the files
of the Asiatic Society, or to the work of
others calculated to enrich the material
for such a study as that attempted by Dr.
Gulick must remember the limitations
upon time and especially upon library resources that hedge in the missionary in
a far interior station. Even the leisure
necessary for a careful revision of the
manuscript before it was sent to press
could not be had. Under such conditions
to have produced one of the books on
lapan of the first order, and that, tr«), in
a field making large demands upon special scholarship, is an achievement of no
little moment upon which we heartily
D. S.
congratulate the author.
DOES GOD'S LOVE SAVE ALL
MEN?
It is the worthy claim of the "New
Theology" which is so prominent in these
days that it magnifies the glorious tenderness of Love which reigns in the
heart of the Eternal Father. I' discovers
Dim to be the compassionate Father of
every soul in existence. He yearns with
limitless love over every rational being
whom He has created. All are His children. This "New" doctrine goes so fatas to say that no corruption, no debasement, no utter cruelty and vileness of
character can ever sink a soul beyond
His final reach of reclamation. He will
search out every lost soul "until He finds
in it." None shall finally perish, not even
the foulest embodiment of falsity and
malignity, or even Satan himself, if there
he such a being. 'Hie Love of God avails
ultimately to reclaim every lost child.
This interesting and flattering teaching
is often known as the "Larger Hope" or
the "Eternal Hope." Attractive it ma)
he to many minds; but. is it true? Do* s
this unlimited extension of the precious
and tender attributes of the Divine Beirjg
express the whole truth about His character and attributes? Does it duly con
sider all the conditions and all the liabilities that exist? To our mind it does
not do so.
It seems a fatally limited
and one-sided conclusion, omitting to observe a vast and portentious clement of
evil in the universe to be dealt with and
conquered by destruction.
Moreover, is such a doctrine justified
by the "sure word of prophecy," as recorded in the Xew Testament Scriptures,
which give us the teachings of utr Lord
and His Apostles 2 "Hack lo Christ."
cries this Xew Theology. Hut no apostle
is more explicit than was their Master
in denouncing perdition, remediless and
hopeless ruin as the fate of the unreclaimed and hardened.. Observe His
words, "Wide is the gate, and broad the
way that lcadeth to destruction, and
many there he that go in thereat; hut
straight is the gate and narrow the way
that lcadeth unto life, and few there lie
that find it." Again. "The wicked
shall go away into Aeonian punishment,"
that is the punishment of the eternal
state.
Again He said: "Fear Him who is
able to destroy both soul and lxxly in
hell." "Where their worm dieth not, and
their fire is not quenched.." The mildest meaning attributable to such words.
is that the wicked lost ones are totally
consumed and finally perish.
So the apostles preached. Wrote
Paul of the enemies of the gospel: "Who
shall be punished with everlasting dc
struction from the presence of the Lord
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and from the glory of His power." Such
is the uniform testimony of the Xew
Testament as to the final fate of the enemies of God. We do not here claim that
the misery of the lost has not been exaggerated in the Christian church; nor
do we claim that the teaching of the
church has not included far too many
among the hopelessly lost. The possible
saving power of God may have been far
too much limited by a narrow teaching.
Bui the fact remains that the great
Founder of Christianity gave no room
for this modern teaching of a Universal
Salvation. That is not a Christian doctrine, but a modern invention.
We regard it as a misguided sentimentalism, which blindly and one-sidedly
overlooks the overwhelming fact thai
evil necessarily tends to destruction. The
exceeding compassion of the Infinite Father does not extinguish the inevitahleness of that consequence to all those .vho
persist in choosing evil and refusing the
good. Xor does it overcome the law of
the persistence of hardened character, by
which inevitable evil-doers pass the line
of possible reclamation.
Those servants of Christ who would
"rightly divide the word of truth;" who
would "warn every man in all wisdom."
will humbly abstain from setting up their
own sentimental theories on this momentous subject. They will humbly an I
earnestly consult the teachings of the
founders of Christianity which were
wholly opposed to such "Larger Hope."
Never more than now did tempted and
careless men need to be warned that sin
leads towards perdition rcnicdylcss and
hopeless, from which no compassion of
God may be able to rescue them.
S. E. B.
OATWREIKGUHQND AAHUMANU
An Kxtn.u
i' from the
Journal of
Rev. E. W. Clark
(Continued from the June Number.»
Feb. 9th, 1830. Examined school in
three places today, and addressed the
people. Arrived at Kahana before dark.
where we took up our lodging. It is a
small, fruitful valley at the head of a
beautiful bay. The two best houses in
the place were built for the worship of
Cod.—one for males, the other for fe
males. We found baked hogs and poi
ready for our large company. Tea was
soon provided for myself and KaahumaA small table, which we brought
mi.
was spread for myself. Kaahuus,
with
manu chose to take hers upon the mats:
after tea she. as usual, improved the time
in reading the Scriptures,
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Feb. ioth. After breakfast, examined
several schools in Kahana, and married
seven couples.
Set out about eleven
o'clock and stopped at Puna uu and
Uauula. and, examined schools and addressed the people, and arrived at I.aiewai before dark, where we took up our
hxlging f°r the night. As Kaahumanu
was not well and stopped short of this
place, the good people took great pains
to make me as comfortable as they could :
mv bedding, cooking utensils, &c. being
left behind. I was gratified to find so
much appearance of civilization in this
distant part of the island. We found
here good houses, many of the people
were well dressed, and possessed several
foreign articles of comfort. The head
man and wife appeared very glad to see
me, and spent the evening very pleasantly in conversation. They said they had
In en considerably in debt and were much
tti mhled, but were now mostly relieved
of their burden. I told them it was the
best way to pay down when they purchased anything. They readily assenie 1
to it. and said they were before naattpo.
(dark heart.) This is a pleasant part oi
the island, and belongs to Kekauluohe,
for whom our little daughter is named.
Feb'y 11 tit. Examined in this place
about 170 scholars, conversed with the
teachers and addressed the people as
usual. Kaahumanu exhorted them to forsake their sins, attend to instruction, obey
the word of God, &c, StC.
We set out between ten and eleven
o'clock and arrived at Kahukti a littl
past noon, examined several schools,
married three couple, and addressed the
people. As Kaahumanu was not very
well, we concluded to stop for the night.
Baked hogs and poi as usual were
brought in abundance.
Feb'y 12th. Arrived at Waialee before noon, examined three or four schools
and proceeded to Waimea, where we examined two more. Here we found Hewahewa, the former high priest, repeat
edly mentioned in the earlier accounts of
the mission. Kaahumanu in her address
to (he people, pointed to him as the former priest of their lying gods of wood
and stone, &c, and exhorted them to turn
to the right way, cast off their sins, and
obey the word of the God who created
.
all things.
Here I met with Mr. Pierce from Honolulu, the first person I have seen since
leaving home, with whom I could con
verse in English.
We left Waimea about three o'clock
and proceeded to Waialua, five miles further, where we had concluded to spend
the Sabbath.
This is a pleasant place, thickly inhabited and affords a pretty good harbor fir
small yessels. It is probably the most
favorable place on the island, next to Honolulu, for a missionary station. We met
here our good friend and brother,
nui, and a few others from Honolulu.
Feb'y 13th. Examined 200 scholars
in this place. There are more to he examined on Monday. This place presents
many advantages for a missionary station. It is easily accessible by water or
by land from I lonolulu, distant about
thirty miles in a straight course. It is
very fertile, and abounds in fresh water.
The inhabitants in the immediate vicinity are numerous, and any place on the
north side of the island is easily accessible on horseback. I should prefer this as
a place of residence before Honolulu.
Feb'y 14th, Sabbath. Preached this
morning to about 20(X) hearers in'
the open air, from Matthew 7:20.
and in the afternoon to nearly as
many from Luke 12.8-0. There would
probably he about the same number usually if a missionary was established here.
Feb'y 15th. Examined this morning
nearly 200 more scholars in this place,
and married eight couples. Set out between ten and eleven o'clock for \\ aianae, taking an inland course, as we could
not ride around by the sea shore, leaving Kaahumanu and her attendants to
come tomorrow, and meet us ten or
twelve miles southeast of this place. We
rode about twelve miles and left our
horses, and descended a precipice some
thousand feet and proceeded six or seven
miles further to the sea shore at Waianae.
When we reached this place it was dark,
and was exceedingly fatigued and hunhad eaterl nothing exgry, as
since
cept a piece of sweet potato
I
I
in the morning. 1 threw
the mats and waited
patiently until the good people could provide a little fish and taro. which I ate
with a jack knife, using cold water for
tea. After supper a prayer was offered
by one of the native teachers, and I laid
down upon mats spread Upon hoards, but
was not able'to yet much rest, as I had
very little covering and my bed was exceedingly hard.
Feb. 16th. This morning the school
assembled and we examined about JOO
scholars, addressed the people and praye 1
with them, and after taking a little refreshment, set out on our return. We
ascended with much labor the precipice,
and soon met Kaahumanu and her company, and took up our lodgings for the
night, glad to get a little tea and a comfortable lodging place,
Feb'y 17111. A very stormy day, and
as we were in a comfortable harbor, Kaahumaiiu concluded not to go out m 'he
rain. We must, however, soon remove
from this place, or we shall be in want
7 o'clock
myself
upon
of food, as we have aliout ioo persons in
our company, and the place where we are
is ten or twelve miles inland and very
thinly inhabited.
Feb. 18th. We put our baggage in
order this morning, and set out for the
sea shore. After riding about ten miles,
pari of the time in the rain, ,ye arrived
at I lonouliuli, where we examined several
schools and put up for the night, As
horses have la.ely heen brought to the
islands, no roads have yet been made. We
find nothing hul footpaths in any pail of
the islands, and these are sometimes very
had ''or horses. We hope to arrive at
Honolulu
tomorrow or next day.
Feb'y 19th. As Kaahumanu concluded
lo go from this place to Honolulu by
water, set ou: with the teach.'is by laud.
I
Found the ro>,:s exceedingly had. as the
rain rendered the ground so soft that
our horses dumped .d iusi every step.
Arrived at Waiawa about noon and examined the sclii ols in '.hat vicinity, and
set out for hour.', leaving si me of the
teachers to examine a few remaining
schools. XigiH overtook us before we
reached home, and as the load was very
bad, we left our horses, procured lights
and after traveling several miles in the
mud, arrived at Honolulu .about nine
o'clock in the evening, and found Mary
and the babe well. Kaahumanu arrived
the next morning. During my absence
I examined about 40(H) scholars, and
man ied twenty-four couples.
The Scenery in every part of the island
is grand and romantic. The land, except
in the mountainous parts, is generally
good, and capable of sustaining twentj
times the present number of inhabitants.
The bouses of the common people are
generally poor. They barely afford a
shelter from the sun and rain. Their
furniture is made up principally of a few
calabashes from which they eat and
drink, &C, and a few mats, upon which
thee sleep. Manx of the common people
.are now decently clothed in foreign cloth,
others are furnished with la pit or native
cloth, which they tie around them or
throw over their shoulders. They are
beginning to make bonnets and hats of
the leaf of the haht tree, by braiding it
like straw. They are also beginning to
procure many other articles of comfort
to which they were formerly strangers.
But what is far more interesting to the
Christian, they are becoming better and
better acquainted with the religion of
lestis. Light is pouring into their minds,
which, we trust, will greatly elevate them
in the scale of intelligent beings, and with
the Messing of (Sod, make them wise
unto salvation. Eagerness for books and
religious instruction is exceedingly great,
and we very much need more help to sup-
ply the increased demand.
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TEMPERANCE ISSUES
Edited by
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REV. W. D WESTERVELT
The editor of the Temperance page of
I'"kii:m> has been in China and
Japan during June, July and a part of
August. He visited-many of the chief
cities of both countries. He docs not remember seeing a saloon outside of the
European or foreign quartets. He saw
white men under the marked influence of
intoxicants, but never a Chinaman or a
Japanese. This does not imply that native liquors are not used. They arc used
too abundantly, and societies are being
formed to aid in reforming abuses. P.ut
the glaring difference between the public
results of the use of intoxicants in Oriental and in civilized lands, was so great as
to require thought. How much does the
public saloon have to do with public
THE
their constituents the opportunity to say
whether or no the Treasurer shall issue
saloon licenses, took upon themselves the
responsibility of permitting free saloons
against the desire of many constituents.
The blame for a reckless issue of licenserests upon the Treasurer. The blame for
cheating the people out of any opportunty to check tlie location of sahxins. rests
it|x)ii the members of the legislature. The
blame of permitting these members to he
re-elected to civ. at the people another
time, will rest Upon the voters themselves
at
future elections.
The Treasurer of this Territory has
had an opportunity to make an honorable
name for himself as a native Hawaiian
drunkenness?
seeking the highest interests of his own
The first striking change in Honolulu race. He has not succeeded very well
noticed after an absence of two or three during the short time he has occupied
months is the enormous increase of sa- the office. It may not he too late to take
loons and their location in blocks where steps in the other direction and pass
licenses have previously heen refused.
down to history as a benefactor of his
There is no law limiting this increase. people.
The last*legislature refused to consider
It is an absolutely certain fact that the
any proposition permitting the people t<> native llawaiiafis are dying off faster
express their desire for or against sa- than any other races in our islands. This
loons. The majority of the members of death rate is the largest month by month.
both Senate and I louse granted that local If the present condition continues there
option was fair, and that it would be only is no question in any thoughtful observright to locate saloons according to the er's mind of the extinction of the Hawaexpressed want of a majority of prop- iian people
erty owners; and yet when the time came
It is acknowledged on every hand that
to vote, the proposed hills were laid on liquors
of all kinds have been one of the
the table or voted down. This was true
factors in the destruction of this
largest
of
the
Sen
Home
member
of every
Rule
people.
ate and some of the Republicans. This
It is an unenviable historical record
condition of helplessness in which the
community is placed should be kept con which places any Hawaiian, or any other
tintiouslv before the public and the per- man, before the public as assisting in
sons responsible should bear the blame. bringing the Hawaiian people to an end.
How much bitter would he the noble inThe members of the legislature will try
of cutting off the dangers which
spiration
to escape the odium by saying that the
threaten
the existence of any people.
is
Treasurer of the Territory responsible High honor is always given in history to
for the issuance of licenses. This is true. any
man who uses
position to lessen
The Treasurer could refuse any li- the burden of sorrowhisand evil which res's
cense whenever he thought there was a heavily
on the hearts of a nation. History
good reason for so doing. And this
is always praising the official who is
been
difficult
task.
He
would not have
a
and strong in refusing to
knew that the county elections were ne:tr courageous
of the government to the
open
tlie
doors
easy
been
very
at hand. It would have
curses
which
always
threaten the comfor him to throw the responsibility upon
Any official will be honored by
munity.
It
the new officials so soon to be elected.
posterity who instead of finding excuses
is always true that the official in whose for
saloons closes them. Such men have
can
hands the licensing power is placed
to meet criticism and ridicule, but in the
must
discretion,
and
use a great deal of
end they win the affection and esteem of
always he held accountable for the use
their countrymen.
Rut
powers.
or abuse of his discretionary
The saloon increase iii Honolulu is
this docs not lessen the fact that the mem-
7
The licenses issued contain the provision
that no other liquor can be sold. Every
one smiles at this statement, but it is the
law- for all that. The penalties for violating the law are rather heavy. Perhaps
the police department will take pains to
see that these saloons live up to the letter
of the law, since it is public knowledge
that the High Sheriff advocates the bene
fit of beer saloons. In order to prove his
position correct. In must see that his
protoges keep the law.
A serious question really arises in connection with the multiplication of beer
saloons. Is it safe in a tropical conimttnty to encourage any use of alcohol as a
beverage? Our climate and the salt air
we breathe combine to create thirst. It
seems to he a fact when one looks back
over the life of the community tilling
these Islands that the beer habit grows
into the use of stronger stimulants as a
rule, and the tropical thirst demands
something stronger than beer to hold it
in abeyance. The dangers of increasing
beer saloons can easily be seen when the
ease of forming an appetite for intoxicants in a tropical country is recognized.
In the United States the South was much
more inclined to whiskey than the North.
I'lils question of beer and thirst should
be a vital factor when our government
officials try to solve the problem of the
welfare of the people.
"GIB ME PORTERHOUSE STEAK"
Two colored barbers, one an old man
and the other a younger one, had the
shop. The young one took off his apron
and started for the door.
"Yo's gwine to get a drink?" asked
the elder.
"Dats what I'se gwine to do."
"Go and get yo' drink. I used to do dc
same thing when I was young. When I
wtiz fits married dab wuz a gin-mi 1 nc\t
tide sho|) wha' I trucked, an' I spent in
it fifty an' sehentv cents a day oitten dc
dollah an' a half 1 calmed. Well, one
mawnin'. I went into dc butehah shop,
an' who shood come in but dc man what
kep' dc likk<T shop.
" 'Gib me ten er twelve pounds po'terhouse steak," he said. He got it an' went
out. I sneaked up to dc butehah and
looked to see what money 1 had left.
" 'What do you want?' said the butehah. '(iib me ten cents wuf o' libber,' wttz
my remark.
"It wuz all I could pay fur. Now. you
go and git your drink. You'll eat libber,
but dc man what sells you dc stuff will
hah his po'terh >use steak —dc man behin'
dc ha' eats po'terhou.se—tie man in front
eats
libber.
to
the
line
of
so-called
"beer
saloons."
give
along
bers of the legislature, by failing
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GENERAL
COMMENT
BY W. L. WHITNEY
body and the unremitting care of every
household. We trust that not only the
funds for the prosecution of the work be
forthcoming, hut also that that willingness to co-operate be shown which in
such undertakings is worth far more than
money.
This has been a month of political foment. In the Republican Party, practically embracing all the whites together
with many natives, caucuses and primaries have been the order of the day.
There have been two factions in the
field; one led by J. 11. Boyd and T. McCants Stewart, and seeming to represent
the "graft" ]x)rtion of our ]K)litics, and
the other faction representing the better
element. Political enthusiasm has run
higher as the primaries approached, hut
all through the campaign there has been
a most deplorable lack of assistance from
the older and richer and more stable men
of the community. It is indeed a paradox
that the men who have most to gain or
lose by a turn in elections, men whose
time is their own and wdiosc fortunes ]>ermit, should be the last to come into the
field and work for honest, clean and reputable politics. There is no such thing
as "staying out of politics," we must live
under some government and in a republic
we live under that government which we
ourselves form. We may shirk our duty
to that government, we may stand by and
grumble at the work others are accom-
plishing, but so long as we live, we shall
form an integral part of politics we shall,
by our action, cast our influence on the
side of righteousness or of iniquity in
high places. The most cursory glance at
the ranks of the men in the fight will
prove our point. Where, in this last
campaign were the bankers, the planters,
the merchants and the men of money, influence and authority? And yet, on the
election of good, honest men in these primaries hung the question of whether we
shall or shall not have an honest administration in Honolulu. The elections have
come out well and the result has been an
absolute and, we trust, final defeat of an
organized band of spoilers within the Republican ranks.
:
The community has had forced Upon
its attention this month, the spectacle of
the State taking the life of an individual
for the crime of robbing that State of another life. Laying aside all sentimentality and all of the super-softness of heart
which seems to affect many of our
writers, it certainly does seem terrible
that a man should be punished more
than is necessary to prevent his ever
committing the offence again in order
that another, for wdiose conduct he is not
responsible may be terrified into an ap-
prcciation of the enormity of the misdeed.
The permanent disbarment of Attorneys Humphreys and Davis and the suspension of Attorney Thompson came as
a surprise to most of the community ; but
disloyalty to clients and blackmail are not
to he winked at, and the Court has done
a great and lasting service not only to
the bar, but as well to every man under
its jurisdiction by declaring with no uncertain voice that the bar shall be as true
and as just as justice demands that the
bench shall he.
The long term of court is now upon
us, and again the town is feeling the
weight of the unequal burden of jury
service it bears. It is a notorious fact
that practically all the heavy civil jury
work of Hawaii falls on the inhabitants
of the capital, and it is small wonder that
the two hundred and fifty "good men and
true" who, this term, are called to serve
as jurors should feel that the burden of
the duty is more than they can with
equanimity bear. The slow, crude and
altogether faulty jury system has been
with us for a long time, and doubtless is
here to stay, hut society as a whole will
welcome the time when some body of
men. equal in rank with the bench, shall
decide the facts, as the bench does the
law. of the ease.
No such cumbersome machinery, however, binds the hands of the District
Magistrate. He is jury, judge and executing officer, interpreter and, in large
measure, clerk. A good all-around man
is needed for such a position in Honolulu, and we believe the Governor found
such an one in Alexander Lindsay. Jr.,
who has just been apix>inted to the place.
The mosquito campaign, inaugurated
last month in earnest by the combined
efforts of the Roard of Health and a general citizen movement, is a most hopeful
and commendable warfare. The one pest
of Hawaii is the mosquito, and any
movement which has for its aim the extermination of the species or the amelioration of our condition in this regard
should be hailed as a blessing and aided
by every man among- us. That great results can he obtained by a systematic and
energetic campaign against the mosouito has been proven beyond gainsay. Rut
it means the earnest co-operation of every-
Business conditions have shown a
marked improvement. Our plantations
have been more than usually fortunate
in securing the advantage of teni]x>rarily
high prices on the sugar market, and all
branches of business have felt the stimulating results. Sugar stocks and bonds
have risen rapidly all along the line, and
although we have had no boom we have
had a much needed relief from our depression.
The project of a sugar refinery on our
own shores, which for years has been
talked of, was launched this month by
Mr. E. L. Lewis of San Francisco. I'ut
such fear has the great sugar trust instilled into our merchants that scarce one
can be found to favor the undertaking
lest thereby we shall bring down upon
our heads the wrath of the Trust. That
there is good ground for such a feeling
we may rest assured, and the men who
have the most money in the business are
those most likely to understand the situation.
One event on the mainland this month
has so great and so far-reaching a bearing on Hawaii that we must mention it
here. The legislature of Colombia has
committed the folly of refusing the
American prop' sition of a canal across
the Isthmus of Panama. This seems necessarily to point to a Xicaraguan canal,
a change which will be of great com-
mercial importance to Hawaii. Nearer
to us by mane hundred miles than the
other route would have been and bringing the line of travel between the Atlantic states and the Orient directly across
our group, it is a foregone conclusion
that all ships making the trip will call
here as a way port and coaling station.
What this means to Hawaii, time alone
will tell, but Providence seems to have
destined this to be in reality as in name,
"The Crossroads of the Pacific."
"They thought he was dead, you
know, and all the papers printed obituary notice."
"And then?"
"Why, then be turned up, and since
he's read those notices he's too proud to
speak to any one."—Exchange.
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tlyof in
LawnNPdtehunraleS
I
Dr. S. E. Bishop, in another column, some misinterpretation of his actions,
discusses in a dissenting manner the pres- fancies that he has. Can we call it penent prevalent tendency to teach that in the alty? If so, both the guilty and the inexercise of God's love, all men will be nocent are punished. Going deeper into
finally saved. This tenet of the New The- the effects of sin on the spiritual nature,
ology, so-called, is closely related to an- j it is the same. The willful sinner in his
other, which appears to find an equally course of evil benumbs and deadens his
wide acceptance. This is the doctrine spiritual faculties as a result of his
that the penalty of sin consists of the course. The careless or worldly Chrisconsequences which follow from the -1tian, who neglects the duties of prayer
working of the natural laws which have and study of the Bible, finds his spiritual
been violated in the commission of sin. nature becoming cold and unresponsive,
The gist of it is that the sinner, in sin- jshowing that his actions tend to the same
ning, breaks the laws of his own being, results. Are both penalty?
and consequently suffers in himself the
A difficulty in the way of the acceptresults of his own actions in the out- ance of this doctrine Seems to have been
working of these and other laws under overlooked by its adherents; namely, the
whose working he thus brings himself. fact that if it were true, the forgiveness
This suffering is the penalty of his trans- of sin would be impossible without degression.
stroying or suspending natural law. If
Like every other plausible error, it
the
natural consequences of sin are its
gains credence because it contains sonic penalty, the
penalty can he remitted only
truth, indeed it contains a great truth. It
Iby
aside
tin- law, or by working
setting
is beyond question that the sinner by viomiracle in the natural world every time
a
lating the laws of his own being, brings a sinner is forgiven, by suspending the
harm and suffering to himself, and that law in his case. If it is said that the sinif he persists in his course the outwork- ner escapes the consequences of law by
ing of these laws will result in his de- changing his course and bringing hinistruction. It is to he noted, however, selw under other laws: this is to put salthat this is self-destruction, the result of
vation in his own hands and make Chris!
his own choice and actions. Can self- of no
effect.
destruction he called a penalty? It is
is
also true that penalty
a COriseqHCttCC
To get at the truth of the matter, we
of sin. since there could be no penalty need to consider what the real thought
without sin; but is it also true that all of penalty implies. A brief and comprethe consequences of sin are penal ? Clear hensive definition might be given as folthought along these lines will lead out of lows: Penalty is evil inflicted by govthe difficulty. In the first place, there ernment for failure in duty. In tins defis no such.thing as a natural law existing inition there are two prominent ideas;
in a concrete way by itself, with anything first, the idea of failure and consequent
like a compelling or executive force. Xat guilt arising from the transgression of
ural laws are only the formulae, so to some moral requirement; and, second,
speak, according to which certain events that of disapproval on the part of an auin nature take place. In their relations thoritative power whose function it is to
to moral being, their action and results, see that this requirement is obeyed. A
in like conditions, are the same in every little mental analysis on our own part
case without reference to individual will quickly convince us that nothing is
character. In the physical world this is penalty from which either of these eleeasily seen. In the early part of the last ments is wanting. When we see an in*
century, missionaries and slave traders nocent person suffering we never think
going into the west coast of Africa, each of him as being punished. The absence
on their separate errands, took the Afri- of guilt in his case deprives the suffering
can fever and died in accordance with the of all penal qualities. The outrages comsame natural laws. Was this penalty? mitted on the Armenians by the Turks
If so, then the innocent was punished a number of years ago. were not penalty.
with the guilty. If we call it penalty in We looked upon them as horrid cruelty
the case of the slave trader, what was it and injustice. We think the same sometimes when there has been a real infringe,
in die case of the missionary?
When we study the working of natural ment of law on the part of the sufferer.
law in its subjective phases, we find the Tf the non-conformists in England adont
same conditions prevailing. The sinner the principle of passive resistance to the
suffers remorse as a result of his wrong- new education law. and suffer for it.
doing. So does the man who in reality we would not regard them as punished in
has done nothing wrong, but who, from any real sense. The element of manifest
;
I
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guilt or moral deliquency would be lacking in their case.
()n the other hand, when the guilt is
present hut the evil is inflicted hy some
power than the one whose duty it is
1toother
restrain the misdemeanor from which
it arose, the suffering is still not penalty.
A negro criminal put to death by a mob
of lynchers is not punished. He is murdered. He may deserve all he gets, but
a mob of lynchers has no authority or
rightful power for such a deed. Penalty
is evil inflicted only by a rightful authority on the ground of guilt, and, as such,
it is an expression of the sense which that
authority lias of the hcinotisness of crime.
( ompare this
view now with the one
that the natutal consequences of sin arcits penalty. In the first place, we note
that natural laws are not legal enactments.
They (Id not represent the will
of the government on moral questions.
They simply register the method of ac
tion of events that lie in the chain of
cause and effect. They lie outside of the
realm of free moral action. They carry
witbrthem no thought of obligation and
their natural result, as we have seen, is
inevitable in the case of all alike who obey
or disobey them.
< >ver against these natural laws are the
laws which express the will, purpose and
commands of government. The attitud<
of a moral being to these latter laws, determines his relation to the governing
power. Tf his attitude is one of obedience
and regard for the interests which the
government cherishes and protects, he
will stand in its favor, and receive its approval. If his attitude is one of hostility or disobedience to the laws, he will
stand in disfavor and suffer whatever
evil the government judges is necessary
to protect the interests under its care.
These laws, therefore, do not, like natural laws, operate blindly with the same
results for all alike, without reference to
character. They discriminate between the
guilty and the righteous and deal out
just awards to each.
Xow Cod is tlii- Ruler of the universe.
Do these principles Apply in His treatment (,f the sinner? The Scriptures certainly so represent it: "Whosoever comniitteth sin transgressetb also the law. for
sin is the transgression of the law." This
law is not a natural law, but the general
law of obligation under which all moral
beings exist and which God upholds as
the fundamental law of His universe.
Transgression of this law is therefore a
sin against God, for which He judges the
sinner guilty: and the teaching of the
Scriptures is everywhere consistent that
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it is the guilty who are punished, not
those who indiscriminately, suffer from
the Operation of natural forces. Those
who hold to the latter doctrine are fond
of quoting the passage in Gal. vi 7,
"Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he
also reap," but this sentence gains its
force from the one before it, which
makes the whole passage read: "Be not
deceived; God is not mocked; for whatsoever a man sowelh that shall he also
nap." This plainly shows that the reaping is not the results occurring in harmony with some law in nature, hut the
inflictions laid upon the sinner by the
will and active active operation of God.
We may freely grant that the sinner
tna\ destroy himself by the violation of
the laws of his own being, but the Scriplures plainly teach that the penalty of
sin is something more than this—some
thing emanating from the will of God
The
as an expression of His abhorrence of
its guilt and wickedness. This biblical
teaching is reasonable. Our moral nature, when allowed honest expression, assents to it as just and right. It furnishes
no difficulty in the way of forgiveness.
The sinner repents and God remits the
consequences determined against him by
his own will, at the same time leaving
natural laws in full operation. As a part
of the physical universe, the sinner is
always of necessity a subject to these
laws. As an erring child of God he is
always free to adjust his actions to his
Father's will and so merit His approval
or condemnation: and whether his final
recompense he reward or penalty, it will
not In- the result of any blind force, but
the act of God, who is the authority
whose rightful power it is to deal with
his case.
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Hawaiian Mission Children's Society
on the horizon, which still told of tornadoes and destruction. Reaching Chicago
LEAT RFCMOIS. HAMBERLAIN
on Saturday night, June 6th, at 11:30,
we found it too late to he transferred, as
Flniira, X. Y.. July 23, 1903.
promised, to other railroads, so again we
Stranded here for a day in Ibis busy had to find a hotel for the rest of the
inland citj of Xew York, waiting for night, as they would not give us the favor
train connections, it seems the first fitting of berths in the sleeping cars. Put in
time for beginning a fresh letter since the early morning we returned to the
leaving California. Having waited over depot and were transferred to our rea month in I lakland for the arrival of spective routes. Mrs. Lyman and little
Mrs. 1 C, Lyman of Hilo. at length, on daughter went to her parents' home in
the 30th of May, the Enterprise arrived Indiana, and I to I'ecatoiiica. 111., to the
with the wished-for passengers; and on home of Mrs. Helen C. Ives. After one
the 2nd of June the overland journey be- short week of rest and refreshment there
gan We took the Union Pacific route, your correspondent had to be on the way
and the trip seemed long and rather slow, again to meet her college appointments
as we were often side-tracked to make in Smith lladley. Mass., to attend the
wav for other trains. Finally we were commencement of June, 1903. Reaching
so far behind schedule time that we were Springfield, Mass..
June 17th. a few welrun into the depot at Denver for a whole come days of rest were spent at the home
day's wail. We improved the time in of a relative, and then I prepared for a
taking a loin; rest in a comfortable, un- new departure on Monday, the 22nd.
pretentious hotel near the depot, and reThe delightful particulars of the complenishing our lunch basket. Other pas
sengers took observation cars and went nencenient week and reunion of the Fifty
around the city sight-seeing. Put before Years' class cannot be condensed into this
to
two o'clock p. in. dark and threatening short space. It was found impossible
to
hoped
write
the
letter
which
had
1
drove
us
clouds brought heavy rain and
all hack to our temporary home. By four send for the August FRIEND. Suffice it
p. m. we were all glad to meet together to say here, that out of a class of fortyagain, and to compare notes on news, five, of whom twenty-four had passed to
which we found to he on the jjreat floods the Beyond, there were present thirteen
and wash-outs on the railroads of the representatives, said to he "the finest
east and middle west, which had made showing" of a Fifty Years' reunion at
great havoc with trains, and had assisted Mt. Holyoke College. The elegant new
in our long delay. As we rolled away buildings which have replaced the timefrom Denver, oyer the long stretches of honored structure destroyed by fire in
Xcbraska prairies, we had the wonderful iNon. and the magnificent campus, arc
sight through (he car windows of the sources of exultation and praise and
.
inky-black, funnel-shaped clouds far off thanksgiving to God.
After the regular Commencement Das
OK Thursday, June 24th, which
closed with President Wooley's reception in the evening, everyone was in
haste to leave, and the class of 1853 had
their last meeting together, took up a
contribution (which will be raised to
fifty dollars) as a mite towards a new library building, and bade each other farewell. Ail left that day but the one who had
come the furthest, who tarried to have
an interview with Miss Wooley, and a
carriage ride over the magnificent campus. Man I .yon's grave was visited on
the previous day in the very heart of the
wonderful campus. After the ride, dined
with Mr. and Mrs. Julius Brown (nee
M. Ella Spooncr, once teacher in Oahu
exercises
They now reside in South
permanently.
I was happy to
lladley
learn that Mrs. Brown "had been left a
College.)
comfortable inheritance by a relative,"
and they have taken two young people
from one of the schools for "Mountain Mites" of Tennessee to bring up as
and daughter.
later in the afternoon I received a call
from Prof, and Mrs F. A. I losmer from
\inherst and then made a brief visit and
spent the night with Mrs. Harriet
((ioodale ) I'icckwith, who also resides
for the present in South lladley village,
Miss
very near to the I'.rowns' home.
Martha W. Keck with is a member of the
college faculty. The next day by invitation I spent tin day in Amherst with Prof.
and Mrs. F. A. 1 losmer, and was dewent over by
lightfully entertained.
trolley from South lladley to Amherst,
where Prof. 11. met me with a carriage
and dtove me all over the college campus and then to the grounds of the Agricultural College and thence to the ancestral home of Mrs. H., a most interesting old dwelling, 2(X> years old, where
at present they reside with her brother.
The losmers are planning to go abroad
again before many months, to continue
an interrupted tour. They most warmly
remember Hawaii and all their friends
there. 1 spent Friday night with them,
sou
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and returned to Springfield by trolley,
the next day. A few days more in
Springfield were passed in decidedly hot
summer weather, in which I was given
most delightful rides about the city and
to the lovely Forest Park. Then I started
on Friday for Marlboro, Mass., to spend
the Fourth of Jnlv at the Goodale farm,
where David Goodale, the fourth of the
name, now carries on the ancestral farm.
The house is a most quaint and interesting old mansion, full of treasures of oh'
colonial days, besides treasures from Hawaii, gathered by Mr. Warren Goodale,
David's father, during his long life there.
With his wife and two interesting children, the time was all too short; but after
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Sabbath, on July 6th, I started for Town- and power came on again, which was
send, Mass., a town almost on the bor- done, of course, though it must have
der line of Xew- I lampshirc, quite in the seemed a long fifteen minutes wait.
After leaving Boston your friend has
north of the state. Here resides Mrs.
Ellen ( Goodale) Howard, twin sister of visited relatives in New York state, and
David Goodale. Mrs. Howard has a fine now, on July 25th, finishes her letter in
husband and four sons—one of whom is Pennsylvania, among her mother's relain his young manhood. She revelled in tives, then turns her face again westward
the joy of renewing of old ties, for two for her homeward journey.
days, taking her old friend on delightful
DR. ALEXANDER MONTAGUE
rides through the lovely country roads
to look over into Xew Hampshire, and
ATHERTON
talking of many events in Hawaii. But
( >n Saturday, August
time would not allow of long stops, so on
29th. a cableto Boston, hies your correspondent on gram was received announcing the death,
the Kih of July. The National Education at Liberty, Xew York, of Dr. Alexander
Convention of the United States was in M. Athcrton, son of the late Joseph B.
session, and a wonderful week it was! Athcrton of Honolulu. The following
It was estimated that 35.000 educators sketch of his life is dipped from the Hawere present. It was too late to get an waiian Star of the above date:
enrollment as a teacher, but it was someAlexander Montague AthertOO was liom in
thing lo say that one had been a part, Honolulu, August 13, 1575, the second son i>f
even by sight, of that convention. Be- Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Athcrton, He attended the
Punahou Preparatory school ami 0.-ilm Colsides, the reading of the daily papers lege, graduating from the
latter institution in
was
of
events.
I
the class of [893. In Septemer nf that year he
gave much information
delighted one day on the crowded street entered Wcsleyan University, Middle-town,
to hear my familiar borne name called, Conn., where he took the full classical course
received the degree of A. B. in June. iK()7.
and on swiftly turning to he greeted by and
ITc then entered the Johns Hopkins Medical
of
to
Honolulu, and
Miss Amic Mossman
College completing the four years' course and
exchange a few swift words, when, like receiving the degree of M. I), in May. i<xm.
examinations for an apa turn of the kaleidoscope, we were In the competitive
to the Xiw York City Hospital he
pointment
adof
Boston's
parted. The wonders
was one of right out of over thirty contest
vance ill the last sixteen years cannot be ants who received an appointment.
had read of the
He had spent two of Ins summers previous
expressed in words.
or took in to this time in Europe and others of them with
never
imagined
bul
way,
stih
what it could he till on arriving at the hisIn family in the islands.
December, 1901. he took up his work as
Boston and Maine railway station on a interne in the Xew
York City Hospital. Dursultrj afternoon in July, I was escorted ing the winter he contracted a heavy cold
settled on his lungs. Though much run
by an old friend first up an elevated elec- which
till
of
tric road a space, then descended down down, he kept on with his work
iuo2, when he had a succession of hemorrhages
underground,
tunnel
to this wonderful
and was forced to leave his work and go to
winding for two or three miles under the the Adircindacks for treatment in a sanitarium.
crowded heart of the oily, under Boston He spent some months there and seemed to
Common and several of the busiest in-provc steadily.
I
all lighted by electric lamps and
filled with whirling lines of cars, three
or four all the time winding round and
passing and repassing each other without
collisions, on tracks separated by iron
railings, vet needing most accurate precision and care to keep to exact moments
of time. In the excessive heat of that
week in July, it was always refreshing
to greet the coolness under-ground. The
only accident that has been recorded
since the opening of that road, some
seven years ago. I think, was while this
great crowd was in Boston, two days
before 1 left. Quite suddenly one evening, between 7:30 and H, while the tunnel was full of trolleys, crowded to their
fullest capacity, the electric lamps and
power suddenly gave out and everything
was in darkness and every car at a standstill. But no confusion followed, and all
the motormen assured their passengers
that tlrerc was no danger, but all must
sit still until the break was discovered
streets,
In April of this year he returned to the
islands hoping to see his father, who was rapidly (ailing. He arrived the morning follow
iii({ ''is father's death. He remained here
nearly three months, hut the climate not agreeing with him. under the advice of his physician, he returned to the Fast, to Or I.oomis'
sanitarium at Liberty, New York. He contin
tied, however, to fail steadily.
On August iK he married Miss Ellen Louise
Baker of Providence, Rhode Island. With
him during the last two months of his illness
were his mother. Mrs. Juliette M. Athcrton,
his two sisters. Mrs. Theodore Richards and
Miss Kate Atherton, and his wife, who had
heen summoned from Providence when his
condition became serious.
Dr. Atherton was always of a happy, even
temperament and was much loved hy all who
knew him for his quiet, kind and helpful spirit.
While not a brilliant student he was a hard
worker, applying himself closely to his duties
and always standing well in his classes.
Both at school and college he was an earnest
worker in the Young Men's Christian Association. He was a member of the Central Union
Church of this city. retaining his membership
there, though he was away from the islands
so long while a student. It had always been
his plan to return to the islands to practice,
11
While visiting the islands during the summer
he passed the examinations of the
Medical Board and received a license to practice in this Territory. Daring the months of
September ami October of that year he went
of iooi
..
to Hainaktia taking the practice of Dr. Greenleaf, who on account of a broken leg, was nn
able to attend to his practice. He was thor
(Highly in earnest in his profession, it always
having been his ambition since a hoy to become
a physician, and during his short practice he
won the confidence anil esteem of his patients.
... Missionary Items
PLETASHNIM
D ISSION
Extracts
from a letter from Mrs. Del-
aporte:
"May 38th, 1903.
"Mr. Delaporte is working very
iiard*
from morning till evening, and 1 fear if
he does not slow down a little that he
will break down. The only words I can
get out of him when \ warn him are. Pet
us do all that we can, that we may later
say, we have done what we could.
"Ouabin, a Xaurtt man, is doing very
nicely at Anihare. TheCOUple we brought
from Kttsaie are doing very well.
"We had a very nice time at Anihare
a. week or so ago. Although Mr. Delaporte and Ouabin have held services in
our chapel there for some time put, it
had not been dedicated. The people
wanted to get evetything ready first, both
the interior and paths outside. After
dedication service, the people had quite
a luau. It does us good to see the people from that district getting brighter
and better. After all, there is but one
power that can change the lives and habits of mankind, the Gospel. May the
day
he not far distant when (he Anihare
people will follow the Lord with all their
hearts.
Alt. Delaporte's new book, 'An Epitome of Church History.' is doing much
good among the people. They know now
at least the origin of our Protestant faith.
Mr. Delaporte got the loan of Mr. Channon's old mimeograph until his new one
comes, and We 'Acre thus enabled to print
fifty copies of this little book. The print-
S
Especially equipped to take
entire charge of yo>ir business
Interests in these islands; and
to collect and remit income
derived therefrom.
First Class Investment Securities Hour' t and Sold.
Correspondence Solicited
Xt Fobt St.
HoNoi.cu-. H. T.
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ing is not a very good job, as Mr. Delaportc bad to use a wooden ink roller,
covered with felt, instead'of a regular
mimeograph roller. Put we trust to gel
one from Honolulu sixin, as Mr. Dcla
porte has asked Mr. Goltck for it.
"Our woman's meeting is well attended; we began with such a small number.
We often wish for more time to read,
hut somehow we are on the go all day.
and in the evening we are too tired to do
much reading. We have very hot weather these days a:.d very little rain. I sometimes wonder if it would not he wise to
have another wooden tank, for I really
do not know what we should do about
bathing the children and washing if we
should have a prolonged s|K'll of dry
weather, We store 1400 gallons of water,
and we ought to have at least JOOO gallons on hand. \ seventeen months'
drotlghl such as they had just before we
came, is indeed a long spell. < >f course
there would, with care, be enough drinking water.
"I thank < iod for mv wheel ; what
would I do without it. I well remember
the hot trips I used to make around the
island."
A day or two after Mrs. Delaporte
wrote the above, her bicycle was run into
and tin front wheel was smashed beyond
repair. So Mr. Gulick had the pleasure of sending to her a front wheel to
replace the damaged one. He also at
the request of Mr. Delaporte, sent him hy
the Centura, Aug. uth, a Cleveland bicycle and a pair of tires.
(>n March i<;th. by the Sonoma, Mr.
(iulick also shipped to Mr. Delatporte, a
Remington typewriter and a mimeograph
with a full outfit of the needed supplies.
The Honolulu friends of the nourishing Pleasant Island Mission, may perhaps be reminded that a prosperous and
aggressive mission, such as this has
proved to be, makes constant call for contributions. The treasurer is now a fewhundred dollars
of pocket for the
current year's
supplies.
BEDUCATION
OHTAEIGRMDCN
The Missionary Herald for August
makes the following statement concerning a recent action of the Prudential
(ommittee:
The Prudential Committee have set apart
the twelve colleges and twelve theological
schools for YOUng men, in the various fields
where it is conducting its educational opera
to
tiotu. into a higher educational department,
he provided for as far as possible, by funds
received specifically for that purpose. Sinethis educational work is so vitally related to
every other phase of our evangelizing enterprises, and since it has assumed such wide and
distinctive proportions, it seems to the committee and officers of the Board that when
these facts are fully known there will be no
lack of generous and hearty support. This department, which provides for the higher and
theological education of j.sjX choice voting
men in Africa. Bulgaria, Ceylon, China. India.
Japan, Turkey and Mexico, who are to In the
true missionaries and Christian leaders among
their own people, and in wheh forty-six American missionaries and t)t trained native Chris
tian professors are engaged as directors and
teachers, costs the American Board annually
$49,000. This covers the salaries of the missionaries, all of the native teachers,
and care of buildings, apparatus, etc. and all
aid given to students. Nowhere else ill tile
world are so extensive and epoch-making in
stitutions maintained at so little cost to their
founders
Th* people themselves, in all of
these countries, make large contributions in
the form of tuition, fees, and free-will of
fcrings for the support of these schools whose
importance they widely recognize. We must,
however, keep a strong body of missionaries
as well as ••! simng Christian native profes•ors in these institutions that the standards and
rious places which he visited. These
lectures will he of great interest and value
and enable the members of the church
and others to share the pastor's experiences in his trip abroad.
Mr. Henry Judd, who has so efficiently
conducted the work in Palama Chapel
since the departure of ReV. J. P. Erdman, sailed on the Sonoma, on September Ist, for Auburn. Xew York, where
he intends to crier the Presbyterian Theological Seminary in preparation for the
work of the ministry.
Rev. A. C. Logan, recently a missionof the American Poard in Guam, has
heen engaged to take the Palama work
ary
for a year.
Miss Florence Yarrow, the pastor's assistant, litis recently spent a short vaca
ideals be not lowered. \Y( urge this educa tioit at I laiktt, Maui, as the guest of Mr.
tional work upon the attention of all friends and Mrs. VV. I-'.. Peck v. ith. She reports
of the Hoard, who believe ill the permanent
a good time, barring the seasickness.
value of a thorough Christian education for
permanent evangelization and ask for substanMr. Hiram Bingham, formerly supertial contributions for its maintenance and
intendent of the work in Palama. is in
growth.
Honolulu on a short visit to his parents.
lie is now a student and instructor in
CAPTINWALKUP
Harvard University, where he is making
Captain A. C. Walkup, the veteran a special study of the history of Smith
missionary of the Gilbert Islands, and American republics. We are sorry to hear
captain of the little schooner Hiram that he has had an attack of dengm fever
Bingham, reached Honolulu by the since reaching here Mr. Bingham made
steamer Aorangi on August 29th. and a short address at Kawaiahao church on
sailed again on the Sierra. September 2(1. the occasion of the unveiling of the tabCaptain Walkup had been to the States let in memon of Queen Kaahumanu,
which followed his father's address on
to see his children, who are there for educational purposes and whom he had not Sunday, August 29th,
seen for some time. He also visited
Rev. J. P. Krdman. the former assistBoston and consulted the officers of the
American Board in regard to the mission ant pastor of Central Union Church, rearv work of the Hoard in Micronesia. He cently spent a month in Honolulu visiting
has hopes that the question of building friends. Mr. Krdman goes to take it])
the new Morning Stai may be again missionary work in Japan.
taken up. No definite action in this direction has. however, yet been taken.
Captain Walkup goes by the Sierra to
Sydney and from there to Ktisaic, where
he left his vessel. He reports the resigAt last the grading of
nation of Rev. M. Channon of the Lit
the
playground is an
Buys' Brigade
ter place on account of ill-health. This
nounced.
People will he
resignation will take effect in iqoj,
surprised to see what a
beautiful piece of ground it is. Now it
needs only—several things. First, there
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should he a fence, a high-board fence,
about it. This is necessary to control it.
and it will come in handy when the
( Antral I 'nion Church
grounds are wanted as a source of revKey. W. M. Kincaid, the pastor, re- enue. There is no such place for footturned from his trip to Palestine on July hall purposes anywhere else on ('aim.
V st and took up at once the work of Second, a cinder track is wanted. Unthe church. Mr. Kincaid is much pleased doubtedly track athletics will flourish here
with his trip and is in excellent health, The last' Boys' Brigade Field Day was
lie purposes giving, in the near future, a beautiful affair from an athetlic, as well
some account of his experiences by means as spectacular point of view. There will
of a series if stcrcoptieon lectures. lit- he other meets as good. The difficulty
is having slides prepared from a large heretofore has heen to find suitable and
number of photographs secured in the va- accessible grounds. Third, —but never
ATPMHONEGYU EOPLE
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mind the thin. \\ c were going to speak
After seven months of
Iii ama ('lmpel
ol the necessity of "bleachers" of a temservice as superintendent
of tile Palama chapel,
porary character. A grandstand will
come some day. The first two of the Mr. Henry P. Judd departed on the S S.
above disiderata are under way.
Sonoma. September I st. for the mainland
where he will pursue a theological course
"Where do the boys come in?" They at Auburn, New York.
.are in already. Every afternoon a crowd
I li--successor will he Key. Arthur C.
of them can he seen playing ball on the Logan, a former missionary at Guam. At
grounds, notwithstanding the fact that
present he is on the coast, hut is expectthe grass has not come Up yet. The ed to arrive in lonolulu in the latter part
Kauluwela school hoys get in during of September, and will immediately as
school hours by terms of the lease, and sume
charge of the chapel.
permission to use the grounds will be
The
attendance has improved latch
given to groups or gangs of boys every and the interest is well sustained.
afternoon, under the supervision of the
<hi Sunday evening, August 23d, a
heads of the Boys' Brigade, who has praise service was
held at the chapel and
been sent for. All the above expensive opattendance and collection were both
the
erations with a view to occasional events unusually large. There were vocal solos,
will hut make the place more attractive violin solo, and hymns by a quartette.
to the boys, and will'pay expenses. The
A farewell reception was given to Mr.
rental is hut nominal at present, although Judd by the members of the congregait will be considerable soon.
tion on Thursday evening, August 27th.
A musical program was rendered, folBy tlu way, isn't it singular that Ho- lowed
by
nolulu has seemed t<> have the impression have a refreshments, and all seemed to
pleasant time.
that it could get along without playgrounds? It has heen exceedingly difCOLEGCUSTOMS
ficult to get any co-operation in the undertaking outlined above. To think that
What they do at college! It makes
there is not a play-ground in the city
our blood quicken to think of some of
of course we mean a ground suitable in tin things belonging to college years.
size or adapted to the games that hoys "Belong" is the word. Certain customs
or girls want to play. We naturally "belong" tn certain places too, and that
leave out of consideration school grounds man is not much of a philosopher who
in the above statement. Thank God, we tries to transplant them, however admido not have to argue for such institu- rable they may he in their own setting.
tions, though it is quite as difficult a task There's the duelling practice of the old
to arouse the public to a duly they easily German University,—whal idiot would
concede to he the'rs.
attempt to have them introduced into.
say ( Ibcrlin ? Nor is it thinkable that the
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equally outlandish beer contests, picturesque as they are with stein and captivating song, will ever take root in any of
our American colleges. Such a plant is
an exotic —said to Ik- sickening on its
own soil. It does not belong for instance,
at Vale. We hardly think that the recent
gathering of Vale alumni at the Young
Hotel, desired to give the impression
that the exercise of the keg and the steins
was a Vale institution. For the sake of
the young men or their parents who are
considering that great institution in their
future plans, 'his coterie of Alumni
should make n plain that the custom is
one peculiar to themselves, an island addendum save the mark !or perhaps that
it was merely a device to promote cordiality of that spurious type that depends
on beer. Healthy icminisence needs no
stimulant.
11l the above connection, it is about
time to state to young men (perhaps it
ought to get into their curriculum at
"prep" school 1 that whatever
proprieties at "smokers" the
may
stein
be the
is.no
necessary part of the tennis outfit. All
we ask is that the "smoker," (whatever
that may he, properly, 1 and the fine manly games he kept apart so that novices
may not confuse them. Pesides, club
men should remember that it is the part
of good taste (this kind of taste ought
to have precedence oyer the palate) to
consider the feelings nf the man on their
membership rolls who prefers to take his
tennis straight. All hail to the stein !—as
a curio—« decorative reminder of semi
barbaric times: away with all vulgar affectation,—especially those not without
positive harm,
'/ heodorc Richards.
SRECTOPHAFEYVNGWLISCA N OCIATION
This, the fortieth report of its kind, has
just been published. It furnishes a com
pact and interesting summary of the
evangelistic and educational work under
the Hawaiian Board, as well as that
which has a more or less indirect relation to it. vVe publish below the intra
ductory portion and the more general
statement on the Hawaiian work:
"The most notable event of the year
was the withdrawal by the American
Board of all financial assistance, and the
assumption by this Hoard of the entire
responsibility of the work in these islands.
A burden of several thousand dollars
was thus added to this Hoard. Negotiations have been begun with reference to
the transference of all the properties
held in these islands in the name of the
American Board to a Board of Trustees,
to be used in the interest of our work.
Conincident with this a visit was made
to these islands by Rev. C. 11. Daniels.
I). I)., one of the secretaries of the American Board. Conferences were held with
him and a clearer understanding yy;is
reached of the condition and needs of our
work. It is expected that the transfer
will soon he made. It was a great pleasure to us all to receive this visit from
Dr. and Mrs. Daniels.
"The saddest event of the year was
the death of Hon. J. P. Atherton, the
President of the Board, who passed awayafter a lingering illness. This death is
noted elsewhere. Hon. Henry Waterhouse, who for twenty years has heen
Vice President, is elected President to
fill the vacancy caused by Mr. Atherton's
death, and Mr. William W. Hall, who
has been Treasurer of the Board for
eighteen years, is elected Vice President.
"The arrival of Dr. and Mrs. Scudder
in May, after their year's preparation in
Japan, and their entrance upon the work
aniong the Japanese in these islands, is
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another important event of the year. It of religious interest and a gradual and
is with much regret that we.report the ! steady recovery of church life, as shown
continued indisposition of Mr. Frank by the following figures —additions for
Damon, for so many years the devoted 1900, 120; for 1901, 221; for 1902, 270;
superintendent of the Chinese work. for 1903, 284."
With wonderful strength Mrs. Damon
has maintained the work of Mills InstiCHANGES IX THK PASTORATE AND DIStute, with the aid of Mr. Leadingham
PLINE
and an efficient corps of teachers, while"It is one of the peculiarities of our
Mr. Thwing's willing shoulders have
borne the burden of the evangelistic policy that changes in the pastorate and
work. The department of education is the matter of discipline are of slow
being studied with a vieyy to such a co- achievement. The authority to do this
ordination of the work as may render it work remains with the island associamore effective and at the same time more tions, which meet semi-annually. Discords which are noted at one association
economical.
meeting may have to await the next hehave
enWe
to report progress and
couraging developments in the work of fore they receive trial, and their final coreach mission. ()ur great need is the gen- rection may be still further postponed by
erous support of a wider public whose an unwilling element among the repreinterests we are serving. This we would sentatives of the churches.
"Put it is to be noted that there is
surely receive could the value of the yyork
in the Hawaiian conscience.
improvement
of the Hawaiian Board be more fully
of
faults which once were exJudgments
our
known. While striving to develop
yvork along improved
methods and tremely difficult of achievement, can now
judgeconomical lines, and working to the lim- be won more easily. Two such
ments, deposing unworthy ministers,
make
an
earnest
of
our
we
strength,
its
have been given this year."
appeal for greater financial support."
:
WORK I.N HAWAIIAN'
EVANGELISTIC WOKK
"The features of this yvork are essentially Hawaiian, and represent the virtues
and faults of Hawaiian character. Any
attempt to judge it from other than a
Hawaiian point of view would he misleading. If it is to he compared, it must
he compared with itself, year with year
and period with period. In such comparison, notwithstanding the unprecedented
lack of re-enforcement from the theological school, the present state of the yvork
docs not suffer. Vacancies in the ministry have been filled by intelligent and
zealous laymen who, though they have
not had the advantage of direct theological training, have profited by a large experience in Christian work. The condition of certain parishes is decidedly better
than during the last decade, yyhile others
arc about as they were, and some have
lost ground. The gain or loss is not always attributable to the ministry; it is
often due to the efforts or indifference
of the lav element, though in most instances the pastor is to be held responsible. Sometimes the deterioration of a
parish is due to influences over which
neither pastor nor people have control.
Although during the first troublous years
of the last decade, when feeling was
so intense and there was so much political agitation, the yearly additions to the
churches steadily decreased, dropping to
100 in 1896, it' is encouraging to note
that since our political status has been
decided, there has been a return of confidence and kindlier feeling, a quickening
"lii July, 1902, Mr. Timoteo -gan
yvork
in Hauula, giving
some time towards church repairs. Later
he was retained by Kaumakapili church
to help pay off a debt. There was also a
matter of house repair he felt the need
of attending to, after which yvork was
begun with good effect in the churches of
Waianae and Waialua, and was carried
further to the Koolau side of the island
to the churches at Waikane and Hauula.
As a result of this work a new stimulus
was given to the life of these churches,
the community was awakened to its duty,
abuses were corrected, and accessions
were made to the church membership. It
is the testimony of Miss Mudge. principal of the Waiahote government school,
that much good was done her pupils and
to the community generally.
"The next field effort was the Puna district, where all the churches were visited,
house to house work done, and protracted meetings held. Differences were adjusted and grievances removed. Mr.
Waikalai began again his interrupted
work at Kamaili and Opihikao, and Mr.
Keliipio was established as preacher to
the people of the l'uula church, quite a
number being added to the communion
of each of the churches. The months of
April and May and a portion of Junewere given by Mr. Timoteo to the
churches on the island of Kauai with
likewise satisfactory results.
"In most of his tours Mr. Timoteo was
accompanied by the Secretary, who gives
evangelistic
his testimony
to the value of Mr. Timoteo's work and would acknowledge him
as a skillful and yvisc co-worker, and one
who is held in high esteem by those
among whom he has labored."
RECORD OF EVENTS
July 31st.—New mammoth Alexander
Young Hotel formally opened by a large
entertainment.
August 3d.—Dredger towed up from
Pearl Harbor, the deepening of the hatbeing completed.
loth. —Disbarment by Supreme Court
of two prominent attorneys, Abraham S.
Humphreys and George A. Davis, for
misconduct in the noted Sumner cases.
13th.—Remains of the late Walter
Murray Gibson removed from Nuuanu
cemetery for reinterment at Palladia.
14th.—Tanhara, the murderer of Capt.
Jacohsen at sea, is executed in Oallll
Prison, lie fully confesses his guilt, and
meets death with entire composure, reading aloud the story of the Crucifixion just
before the drop falls.
18th.—Yee Tung, bound to China with
$300 on his person, is killed near King
St. bridge by a broken telephone wire,
crossed on trolley yyire.
J Ist. —Walter E. Pee, native of Virginia and foreman at Pablo, instantly
killed by entanglement in belt of rock
-
crusher.
23d. —At 1 '.$0 a. in. on Kinati St..
Edward M. Jones murders his wife. Linda K. Jones, lately divorced from him.
and then shoots through the head her
mother, Mrs. Sarah H. Parmenter. The
murderer escapes.
24th. —()n account of intended repairs
to the Mausoleum, twenty-three caskets
of deceased monarchs and their kindred
are removed by night to a temporary receptacle, in tiie presence of surviving kindred, with torchlights and oli-chants by
retainers.
27th.—At an early hour the murderer
Jones, surrenders himself, after three
days' starving on Tantalus. His second
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victim, Mrs. I'armenter, died a few
hours earlier. Death of Mrs. William
Gulick, the oldest white woman in Hawaii, lacking a few months of a century.
She was sister to the mother of the noted
Gulick missionary family.
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30th.—Tablet to Queen Kaahumanu
unveiled in Kawaiahao church after discourse by Rev. Dr. I'.itighani.
MARRIAGES
OWENS-MURRAY—In Honolulu, Aug. 12.
Guy Owena to Miss Jennie Murray.
SKEW-VAN NOSTR'VND—In Honolulu.
Aug. 14. Ira l-'skew v, Mist Jennie Cooper
\'an Nostrainl.
HALVF.RSON—At Honolulu, Aug. 27. TIT
Charles Halvcrson. aged 10 years.
GULICK—At Honolulu, Aug. 27, Mrs. Eliza
Thomas Gulick, aged 99 and ¥1 years.
ATHERTON—At Liberty, N. V.', Aug. 28.
Dr. Alexander Montague Atherton of Honolulu, aged 28 years.
TEMPERANCE TEACHING IN THE
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NEVIN-CI.ARK—At Wahiawa. Oahu.
\deline Clark.
15. L. Nevin In
\ 1 iIERTON-P \KER-At Liberty. N. Y..
Dr. Alexander M Atherton of Honolulu to
\li\s Ellen Louise Baker of I'roviclcence.
R. I.
Aug.
DEATHS
SACKETT—In Honolulu. Aug. 6, Mrs. C.
Sackett. aged 74 years.
CRABBE— In Honolulu. Aug. 10. Mrs. H. N.
Crabbe.
DEACON—At Waialua. Oahu. Aug. 10. of
paralysis. Mrs. Geo. Deacon, aged 60 years.
GARVIN—At Los Angeles. Cal.. Aug. 12,
Rev. T. D. Garvin, founder of the Christian
Church in Honolulu.
LEE—At Palolo, Aug. 21st. Walter E. Lee,
45 years of age.
PARMENTF.R—At Honolulu. Aug. 26, Mrs.
Sarah Pamenter, aged nearly 48 years.
BARBER—At San Francisco, Aug. 15, Mrs.
Josephine Barber of Honolulu.
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1-lONITU RE,
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ing, "this is the mama pancake." Then
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Beretania St.
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DISHOP & COMPANY,
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Is published the first wtek of each month
in Honolulu, T. H., at the Hawaiian Beard
Hook Rooms, 400-402 Boston Building.
HONOLULU, HAWAIIAN ISLANDS.
Established in 1858.
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Bills discounted.. Commercial Credits granted. Deposits received on current account subject to check.
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and Insurance Department, doing a Life, Fire
and Marine business on most favorable terms,
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VOL. LXI
HONOLULU, T. H., OCTOBER, 1903
in regard to its management,
EDITORIAL AND GENERAL mentioned
the Hoard subsidizing it with a yearly
grant. All these, as well as the North
This number of the Friend is specially Pacific Institute, and two other little
devoted to the work of the Hawaiian boarding schools, deserve special treatBoard. To be sure, all numbers of the ment which some forthcoming number of
Friend bear strongly on the Board's the Friend will be able to give, we trust.
work; the paper is intended to be the
medium of communication between the
JAPANESE WORK.
Hoard and its patrons. Hence it is hoped
The work of the Hawaiian Board for
that the Friend will find a welcome in
every family interested in Evangelistic the Japanese upon these Islands, was
commenced once sixteen years ago; and
Christianity in the Islands.
during these years and up to the present
time, thirty-eight evangelists, including
To assist in bringing about the above twelve ordained preachers have labored
results, it has been decided that every one for longer or shorter terms for their
contributing to the work of the Hoard to countrymen under the auspices of this
the amount of $2 or upward! should be Hoard.
considered a subscriber to the Fkiknd.
At the present time, there arc twelve
provided that such a person express a preachers in the service besides Rev. S.
desire to have the paper sent him. All the Okubo, the pastor of the self-supporting
workers of the Hoard are henceforth re- church which worships in the building on
quested to furnish items from their re- the corner of Nuuanu and Kukiii streets,
spective fields, so that bright missionary which body has attained its present
intelligence ought always to be at hand. growth under the care and nurture of this
For the rest, it needs but be said that the Hoard.
former and valued departments of the paThese twelve with the exception of the
per will be maintained as heretofore.
two on Kauai, are married men whose
This number sees the initial use of the wives are of incalculable service to the
cartoon. The cartoon is a universally rec- gospel work of their husbands.
ognized weapon of power and quite comAll of our evangelists are engaged
patible with dignity. Even with the loss every Sabbath day in preaching the gosof dignity in question, however, there are pel of salvation to their needy countryexigencies which call for extraordinary men, and each has also Sabbath School
means. For example, the attention must and Bible classes on the Lord's day and
be called to danger in the most striking all maintain week day evening classes
and direct way. Such is the flaring of a with young men eager for self improve*
light in the face of an endangered sleeper. inent. Eight of our workers are located
Rude possibly, but effective. Such an upon sugar plantations, and such of
arousing we trust will be the effect of our course, exert the larger part of their incartoon on the tremendous increase of the fluence and effort upon the plantation day
saloons to the easy going Christian people laborers. Four of them are located in the
of Honolulu.
three leading cities of the group; two
in Honolulu, one in Hilo and one at WaiThere is one department of the work luku. These four are supported entirely
of the Hoard not as well representee] in by the Hoard in monthly allowances. Six
this number as we would like, certainly of those laboring for the enlightenment
not in its relative importance, —the edu- and uplift of plantation employees receive
cational work. There is the Kawaiahao a part of their allowances in monthly pay-to
Seminary to which the Board stands as ments from the plantations. It is safe
a sort of guardian and sponsor. The say that in every case where the plantaMills Seminary, too, for Chinese boys, is tion makes contribution toward the supin similar relation to the "Papa Hawaii," port of an evangelist, the manager is satas the Hawaiians call the Board. Mr. isfied of the substantial advantage that
Okumura's boarding school for Japanese the plantation receives in the improved
boys is directly under the supervision of moral and social conditions effected by
the Board, while Kohala Seminary for the teachings and presence of the evanHawaiian girls is much like the two first gelist.
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of the Japanese consuls, who made
an extended tour of observation to many,
if not to all of our Hawaiian sugar plantations, volunteered the statement that on
those plantations upon which Christian
evangelists were located, there he found
his countrymen living under more favorable conditions than upon the plantations
destitute of such teachers.
On the 4th of last October, Mr. K.
Ishida, who had completed three years of
faithful work at Lihue, Kauai, took to
himself a wife, and soon after with, his
voiing bride left for San Francisco and
Oberlin, at which later place he has been
fitting himself for further work in the
gospel ministry.
Fortunately we were able promptly to
place in the vacant field, Mr. J. Fukuda
who has been faithfully at work there the
past year.
Just a year ago, Rev. H. Kozaki, once
the president of the Doshisha University,
of Kyoto, and now perhaps the most
prominent of the Christian pastors of the
capital city of Tokyo, completing his two
months' visit to these Islands, and to all
our Japanese mission stations, except the
two on Kauai, took steamer with his wife
for return to Japan. Six days before Mr.
Kozaki sailed away, there arrived under
the auspices of our Hoard, Rev. and Mrs.
S. ()kubo, Christian workers of several
years' experience in their native land.
Under the stimulation of Mr. Kozaki's
lead, the members of the Nuuanu street
Japanese Congregational church, made a
brave resolve to become a self-supporting
church, calling Mr. Okubo to become
their pastor, and pledging themselves for
his support, and also for the funds required for running expenses. With the
cordial approval of the Hawaiian Board,
Mr. Okubo was released from his connection with the body who had met the
most of the expenses of himself and wife
in reaching Honolulu, and promptly enter upon the active duties of the pastorate. The formality of a regular installation has not yet taken place, and acknowledgement of ecclesiastical relationship to
any body of Christians has not yet been
made, but should not long be deferred.
By the calling of a pastor, Mr. Okuniura who for nine years had been the efficient and successful leader of this first
Japanese Congregational church, was released for other service. Under his lead
a flourishing work has been established
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among the Japanese living in the Makiki
division of our fast expanding city.
A chapel service has also within the
year been organized under the hand of
Rev. S. Kodama in the newly developing
portion of our city lying S. E. of the entrance to the harbor, called Kakaako,
where a very mixed population are jostling each other and of which the Japanese
constitute a large element. Here in a
swarming hive of humanity, where on almost every corner our paternal government has |>ermitted the opening of a
liquor saloon, our faithful preacher is
lifting up his voice declaring to men the
pathway of life. Here the fountains of
life and of death spring side by side.
In February, Mr. and Mrs. N. Washiyama arrived for evangelistic work, and
in March entered upon the Kohala field,
which had lain unoccupied for eleven
months, to our great loss. In Mr. and
Mrs. Turner, Miss Koka, and other
Christian friends in Kohala, the Washiyamas find most cordial and sympathetic
helpers.
The hope of the future lies in the children now coming on. At many points
we find that a large portion of the pupils
in the public schools are Japanese children. Our evangelists are thoroughly
awake to the importance of reaching the
children. The two flourishing hoarding
schools for Japanese children at I lonoltilu and Honomu attest the estimate of
our Japanese helpers to the importance
of this work, and also the eagerness of
the loving parents that their children
should he surrounded with good influences and continued in touch with
their own people and in acquaintance
with their mother tongue. The influence
for good of these two Christian hoarding schools with their 150 scholars, is
inestimable.
This gospel influence
reaches not the children alone, but the
parents and the whole surrounding community.
Rev. D. Scudder, D.D., and Mrs.
Scttdder after a year of preparation in
Japan arrived May Bth, and entered at
once upon work for our Japanese community. During his sojourn in Honolulu, Dr. Scudder has met many of those
Japanese for whom he brought messages
of love and remembrance from kindred
in Japan. In .pursuance of this scheme
of entering Japanese hearts by bringing
to them messages from distant loved
ones, Dr. Scudder has visited Maui and
touched at Kohala, Hawaii. Regarding
this kind of service the philosopher poet
has said, "As cold waters to a thirsty
soul, so is good news from a far country." The success and fruitage of such
a work of patience and love is assured.
New buildings for church and school
purposes are being erected at Ewa and
"DOLLARS"
How they go and
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That is another way of saying that we know what it is to
be in debt.
Last year, though, we paid $6,561.67 on our debt, and with
an income $$,841.81 less than the preceding year.
"How did we do it?'' By cutting down our expenses
$10,000 and over.
How they went.
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Much In small amounts. This is
the hope of the future. Here is the
way of it:
persons
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YOU will have to give us the rest, or
Liliue, and one is being projected at
Hilo.
Calls for missionary workers and a desire to receive evangelists have reached
us from many destitute fields. Would
that today we had three times our present number of evangelists in the field.
Many a plantation now destitute would
welcome the Christian worker, and many
a desolate heart would be quickened,
many a parent be cheered and lightened
could we place a faithful evangelist in
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number of large givers greatly. We are
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every island of the group. The fields
are white, the laborers few. We have
great confidence in the faithful Chris-
tian character of the evangelists at work
in these islands ; tried men and true, ma\
many more such soon be found. The
most promising missionary field in the
world is at our doors. Are we not called
to the kingdom for such a time as this?
The number of baptized Japanese believers in our several stations, as returned by the statistics of last June, is 821.
The additions during the year upon con-
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fcssion of faith numbered 76. The total
running expense of this Japanese Home
Mission work, including some amounts
received directly from plantations and
not entered upon the treasurer's accounts,
and exclusive of bringing in any new
missionaries from Japan, amounts for a
year to about $10,200.
religious leadership. Let us take coun- these influences, together with the busisel of our fears and grant him this.
ness enterprise of the day, have revoluThe fifteen years of my experience in tionized the old Hawaiian life. The counthe work among the native churches of try has been in a ferment, the natives in
the group have been years of great na- a state of unrest, distrust has been entional trial, of political agitation and gendered and race feeling intensified.
change. There have been three changes of Still the churches have survived and for
government and several abortive attempts the last four years have been gaining
at revolution. Wave after wave of Asiatic ground, and today there is a body of men
immigrants, with their vices and de- connected with them, pastors and followFIFTEEN YEARS OF HAWAIIAN moralizing influences, have inundated ers, who are undoubtedly the best eleWORK—A BRIEF RETROSPECT. these shores, till this alien population has ment of their race, an offset to those ensnared in political corruption, working
more than doubled itself.
The saloons have been multiplied, with noble purpose and with measurable
There is in the minds of many an drinking and gambling and the use of effect on the life of their people.
Permit me for our encouragement to
anxiety for the future of Hawaiian Chris- opium lias been on the increase, and all
tianity. Those who are informed however, do not look for its speedy extinction, nor are they without nope of better
things, for the Hawaiian has a truly religious side to his nature which is capable
of a fuller development than has yet been
The time the Board must take to delibIt had now come to be a matter of men,
reached. Naturally he is not a doubter,
nor averse to spiritual things, nor do erate and act is not inconsiderable. Any whether the Board could carry all the
on its rolls. To meet this exiscientific questions startle him. The pure 'neans of lessening the machinery or any men now
six gentlemen, whose salaries are
thereto,
was
a
to
gency
be
welthing
lubricant
religion which was presented by the missionary fathers took a (k cp hold of his •omed. Many business men who would he higiu'st the Board pays, resigned to
nature, overshadowed his heathen creed, be glad to serve the Board must he as- 'cave the Board free to reorganize the
and became to him the ideal faith. Even sured of as little waste of their time in .vork. on a basis its business men thought
those in partial bondage to old supersti- business hours as may be: hence the ■otild be maintained. When this reortious arc yet greatly influenced by this ■hanges in the committees (indicated be- ganization had taken place, the Board regretfully found itself compelled to disideal, and though in their nhvsical ail- low) which are hoped to bring about a pense
with the services of-the Corresments they may illogicallv turn to the speedy consideration and action in the
nterests
mission
work.
The
ponding
Secretary ; and, provisionally at
of
all
the
kahuna, in their thoughts about Cod and
a
'east,
was
similar
conclusion was reached
"Home
"committee
abolished
and
>ld
the life of the soul they give preference
committees
retention
of the present
its
the
various
coverthe
place
"oncerning
to the teachings of the Bible and the •n
'lead of the North Pacific Missionary Inwork
nationalities.
;
by
ng
the
minister.
But more vital were the changes made stitute. Other and minor "cuts" and
An intelligent native said to me not
is
a result of financial pressure. Money -•hanges have brought the budget of exlong since. "Those who think the Hawaiian! are ready to abandon their reli- 's scarce.—at least relatively so. One icnses proposed for this coming year
gious life and let their churches die arc •iced hardly reiterate the statement that >ver $4000 less than in the year precedtimes) are ng. This announcement has no ring of
mistaken. F.ven if left to themselves, "hard times" (the real hard
here.
unknown
But
the Board triumph in it; it is too imminently overthing
this would not happen." He mentioned in
a certain hamlet whose church service it Was receiving considerably less in contri- shadowed by the sense of pain a "cut into
had been his privilege to conduct once ;butions and must needs look to "taking he quick" must occasion. How much of
a month. In the changes which had n sail" or run the risk of financial ship- his is the "Providence of God" and how
come the congregation had dwindled to wreck. This necessity had been already liuch the poor stewardship of Island
is for the Master to determine
a mere handful, still they clung to their anticipated, and in the former year (from Christians,
worship, and on other Sundays as he July, '02 to July, 03), a reduction of $10,- >ne day. Whether, too, a similar experipassed in his attendance elsewhere, he -too had been made in the expenses. Now Mice is to be repeated some time soon
is in the hands of the supporters
would find them holding their meetings f he Finance committee recommended a again
)f the Board.
further reduction of $5,000.
by themselves.
Though the standard of Hawaiian livSTANDING COMMITTEES.
ing is not what it should be. certain habits, such as family worship, saying
Portuguese.
Hawaiian.
Chinese.
Japanese.
grace before meals and the observance of H. Watcrhouse,
W.
A. Bowen,
Hall,
Lowrry,
W.
W.
F.
J.
the Lord's day, indicate the religious S. E. P.ishoo,
A. F. Cooke,
W. W. Hall.
F. J. Lowrcy,
trend. As often as I have put tin at na- P. C. Jones,
W. A. Bowen,
W. M. Kincaid,
G. P. Castle,
tive houses, I have rarely retired to rest
W. D. Alexander, F. C. Atherton,
W. D. Alexander, A. F. Cooke.
without being asked to join in family
C. H. Atherton,
J. P. Cooke.
F. C. Atherton,
J. M. Ezera.
worship.
Finance.
The weak spot in the Hawaiian's reliF.iUtcation and Publications.
gious thinking is his tolerance of quesRichards,
Theodore
Hiram Bingham,
tionable teaching. The Mormon comes
P. C. Jones,
S. E. Bishop,
to him and makes him for the time being
C. M. Cooke,
W. M. Kincaid,
his attentive listener: the teacher of a
Castle,
F. J. Lowrey,
W. R.
pseudo Christian doctrine about prayer
W. O. Smith.
David Ai.
and healing conies and is his leader for
a time. The more is his need of proper
Change in the Board
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make certain comparisons, based on these
fifteen years of experience.
First, what do they teach us as to kahunaism? We find it still a power in the
land, yet I affirm my belief that its power
has been much broken and that it is no
longer such a menace to the life of the
Hawaiian as it was a decade and a half
ago. I remember how it surprised and
startled me on my arrival in the field in
1889. I could not believe at first what
was found to be true, that it lay like a
pall on the entire native Christian community, that pastors as well as people
were affected by it, that it dominated the
church as well as the court, and that the
most progressive men and women of the
Hawaiian churches felt appalled by the
outreach of it's activity. What was said
of it by those who knew was hardly
credited, so insidious and so secret were
it's operations, and it was only by persistence that the churches were finally
brought to action. At the annual meeting of the Hawaiian F.vangelical Association held in June, 1889, a committee
was appointed to enquire into "the corrupt practices which vitiate our Christian
life." This committee, of which Chief
Justice Jtidd was chairman, secured a
great mass of testimony from the pastors
and leading laymen of the churches. The
Chief Justice, who was at first a disbeliever in the charges that were made, became convinced of their truth. Then began the crusade against thiscolossal evil.
The last years of Rev. James Bicknell
were spent in leading that crusade, and
he won among the natives a noble following. Two Sabbaths ago we ordained a
native, who mentioned Mr. Bicknell as
the one who had broken the power of
his superstitious beliefs and brought him
light. Two days later, when out on the
wharf I heard this man discredit the
story of a shark-god (aumakua) told by
an ignorant fisherman, I could but feel
that he had learned his lesson wisely.
Where fifteen years ago, many native
pastors confessed to being under the spell
of kahunaism, there is hardly one today
who does not stand ready to denounce it
in his pulpit.
Again, it is my belief that the general
moral condition of the natives has improved, notwithstanding the corrupting,
unsettling influences I have mentioned
and that many have been unable to stand
up against the temptations that have so
fiercely assailed them. Many men and
women, young and old, are living worthy
Christian lives and are acting as well
tried leaders of their people. With these,
education has resulted in an improved
home life, and a growing public sentiment working towards a better state of
affairs.
When all is said, the fact holds that a
powerful influence for good goes forth
from our hoarding schools and from our
government schools, and that the tone
and service of the latter has become more
moral, more Christian, more effective. Not
enough praise has been given to the good
men and women who have labored in the
schools for the betterment of the Hawaiian people. These years have been difficult and trying ones as a period of transition from the use of the mother tongue
in instruction to the use of English and,
for the time being, intellectual developarrested. But now that the
change has been effected, and the difficulty of the adoption of a new language
has passed, and its riches are coming
within the grasp of the rising generatron, we may hope for great gains, and
for added help where the kindergarten
is at work upon life at its earliest and
most impressionable age.
One mark of advance is the careful
scrutiny which is given the lives of the
clergy. A man living an immoral life
cannot now hold a pulpit and wield an
influence. Churches and associations are
more inclined towards acts of discipline
which once were so difficult of achievement.
Having had to conduct at least
ten cases of discipline in the native ministry during the last fifteen years, I can
testify to a quickening of the Hawaiian
conscience. The first case was carried
after long argument and pleading by a
majority of two: in the last case there
was a practically unanimous vote, the
motion to discipline having been brought
by the native pastors themselves
( >ne further
point ought to be noted.
In the churches, there is a decrease of
tlte race feeling There is much still,
more than there ought to be, but it is not
virulent as in the past. During the days
of the Provisional Government there
were churches where it was difficult for
a white man to get a hearing. Men who
would then leave the church on my coming into the milpit, now listen to me
trladlv. Though the political issues of
the day stir animosity in the breasts of
some, the feeling of the Hawaiian people
toward the honest and friendly white
man is far more kindly than it was. and
they are amenable to the right kind of
influence.
Still further, during the last few years
the membership of the churches has
steadily increased. In iB<)6, there were
but one hundred Hawaiians received into the churches, but since 1808, the year
in which our nolitical status was decided, and during which the number of receptions was 1 17. the churches have been
steadily rallying in this respect, and during the year just passed, 284 members
were added to the roll.
There is no reason for discouragement
in the Hawaiian work, it is rather a time
when it can be successfully pressed, In
ment was
.
our dealing with the Hawaiian there is
need of continued forbearance and active co-operation of the white missionary.
The signs of the times in the churches of
1 lawaii encourage us to believe that with
patient and wise leadership they will
hold their own for many years to come,
and that with a prudent expenditure in
their behalf, their condition may be
greatly improved.
O. P. Emerson.
OPEN LETTER.
To the Editor of The Friend:
Allow me to call your attention to a
statement in your issue of September in
which you say that I own a part of the
original tract of land at Punahou which
had been given to my father by the na-
tive chiefs. Will you in your next issue
please correct the above statement by saying that I do not own a single square
foot of land anywhere. In the address
to which you refer I offered to purchase
a third of an acre of that land with a
legacy left me by a sister, and to donate
the same to Kawaiahao Church, provided
the church would erect on it a building
suitable for a parsonage.
In reference to my mother's wish, you
state that mv mother in 1843, expressed
the wish in a letter to a friend that that
land might be made to contribute to the
support of Kawaiahao Church. By reference to that letter which was published
in the Commercial Advertiser of August
31st, you will notice that she was giving
a statement of what her plans had been
several years before. It is due to her
memory that I here repeat her own
words, to which I desire to call careful
attention. She wrote, "When Punahou
passed into other hands I endeavored to
regard it as a matter which the public
good required; and though thoughts of
public good of another kind had filled
my mind, drawn forth my plans, and
moved my feeble frame to many an
hour's hard labor on that land, my
thoughts were not disturbed by it. The
underscoring is my own, but I make it
to call attention to the fact that she was
reviewing what had taken place years before without expressing a wish to undo
it. Ido not remember her ever saying
or intimating anything in her family that
indicated that she regretted having given
her approval to the disposition of the estate which my father had made. It is
true that in that same letter she says,
"There is one object for which I have
labored—that church—my thoughts turn
there, and I am disquieted;" (not "I am
disputed," as reported in the Commercial Advertiser.) It was doubtless the
ease, not that she would, at the time she
was writing have had the land passed
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THE FRIEND
.The
Friend from the beginning has liquor of all kinds when the fact is noted
an outspoken temperance paper, that the Negro, Torto Rican, Portuguese
r Rev. Dr. Damon and also under and American population of Honolulu
S. E. Bishop, D.1)., each monthly has had a decrease of hundreds. The
upheld the best of temperance prin- Sheriff and the police department have
To this end the new manage- had a far stronger hand in the removal
of the paper still holds to the privi- of drunkenness from Kakaako, for in>f presenting the Temperance Issues stance, than any other factor. The
Negroes and Porto Ricans who made
Islands.
night hideous a year or more ago, when
SHERIFF BROWN AND BEER SALOONS... the beer saloons were in full blast, have
been arrested and forced to jail or to the
Sheriff Brown claims a decrease in the states or to the plantations. The Sheriff
amount of drunkenness and especially in ought not to be so modest as to ascribe
the number of arrests for drunkenness in the results of these arrests to the beer
these Islands—notably in Honolulu. He
:
ascribes this decrease to the recent increased number of lieer saloons.
His statement has had great weight
with a number of people, and deserves
some careful study. It is to be hoped
that there is less drunkenness—but we
are not at all sure that this is a fact, because we find an increased demand for
liquor licenses—and no decrease in the
number of saloons. Less drunkenness
will naturally make less liquor business.
There ought to be less demand for
saloons.
Then again we all know that the Sheriff would like to have a larger police
force in order to be able to reach more
perfectly the outskirts of the city. With
the spread of saloons, drunkenness and
the need of arrests become more difficult
for the police department to reach.
It is a question whether even with the
decrease in residents there is a decrease
of drunkenness, although it is what we
wish with all our hearts.
THSERIFF'S IGURES.
In his annual report to Governor Dole,
covering the period from July I, 1902, to
July 1, 1903, the Sheriff gives the following figures:
In Honolulu the arrests for drunkenness numbered 1102, divided by months
as follows: July (1902), 127; August,
99; September, 115; October, 83; November, 69; December, 100; January
(1903), 89; February, 87; March, 74;
April, 69; May, 86; June, 104.
It seems strange that a statement favoring an increased number of beer saloons
for the public weal could ever have been
placed by any sane man by the side of
the above figures, and the figures quoted
in proof of the statement. The Sheriff
knows that Primo beer saloons were running in full force in July, 1902, when 127
arrests were made. The U. S. District
Court in California a short time ago upheld the contention of the Anti-Saloon
League that these saloons were illegally
licensed. By the last of September, 1902,
these saloons were closed. In October,
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the month after these saloons were out
of business, the arrests fell from 115 to
83. Then as long as there were no Primo
beer saloons the decrease in the number
of arrests continued. Of course this decrease was due to the beer saloons, and
if the Sheriff would say it was due to
the closed saloons we might agree with
him.
This decrease continued until in April,
1903, there were 69 arrests without beer
saloons as against 127 in July, 1902, with
beer saloons. But the Legislature passed
the beer bill in April, 1903, over the Governor's veto. At once applications for
beer saloon linceses were poured into the
Treasurer's office and were speedily and
numerously granted with the result that
in June, the number of arrests had increased to 104, an increase of 50 per cent
in two months.
The Sheriff's own figures prove the absolute untrastworthiness of the Sheriff's
statement concerning beer saloons.
This question would not have been
worthy of such careful analysis if the
statement had not been made by one
whose, position should give his opinion
weight. Many persons have been deceived by it. The real fact is that the argument for the saloon as a public beneficiary
is one of the most fallacious arguments
ever offered to a thoughtful public. It
is said that the government needs the license money, but the cost of arrests, trials
and punishments, amounts to a far greater expense to the government than can
possibly be ballanced by the few thousand dollars received in licence fees.
Meanwhile the government is continually
made poorer in the poverty of its citizens.
The destroyed business, the wrecked
homes, the pauperized and ignorant children made by saloons, are a burden of
great weight upon any government as
well as upon the family itself.
The benefit of saloons! Even the saloon
keeper laughs at any credulous man who
puts forth such a statement in good faith.
W. D. Westervelt.
(Continuedfrom Page 6.)
over to Kawaiahao Church by the Trustees of the school, "that it might be made
to contribute," as you say, "to the permanent support of that church," but
that in her feebleness and inability to return to her loved work her thoughts went
out affectionately toward
Kawaiahao
church, and she fain would have seen
some wav in which material and permanent assistance might yet be rendered to
that church which was so dear to her.
Hiram Bingham.
September 9, 1903.
Some of these union meetings held
THE BOARD'S WORK FOR THE
the year have been very delightthrough
CHINESE.
ful.
Rev. E. W. Thwing, Supt.
One especially to be remembered was
For many years the Hawaiian Board a communion service held in the Chinese
has carried on work among the Chinese church of Wailuku, Maui. Both Chinese
of the Islands.
and Japanese Christians joined in the
In connection with this work at pres- service, and it was a privilege to baptize
ent, there are five organized churches, ten one of each nation and welcome them
schools, four night schools, and also City both into the family of God, where all
Mission Work, street preaching and become brothers in Christ.
The number of Japanese in the Islands
plantation work.
To fully review the work of the year are more than double the number of Chiin so short an article will be impossible, nese, so as their language becomes better
but a few events may be of interest to understood, it is a pleasure to extend the
those who have so kindly aided this work helping hand to them as well as to the
for the Chinese.
Chinese.
CHURCH WORK.
VISITING THE CHURCHES.
Not only are the plantations to be visited and those who do not know the gosped to be reached, but also as in Apostolic times, a large part of the missionary's
work is visiting the churches.
As already mentioned, the Hawaiian
Board has established in the Islands five
well organized churches for the Chinese.
All of these churches have a good church
building and a native preacher. Preaching services are held regularly every
Sunday.
The members attend well, although
often it necessary for some of them to
walk for several miles, and some also
will ride horseback for ten or fifteen
miles to attend a preaching service.
PLANTATION WORK.
It is a pleasure to vjsit these scattered
churches, and encourage the preachers
An important part of our work is the and help the members to stand firm
visiting the different stations and plan- among the many temptations that surtations on the other islands. Ten trips round them.
have been made during the year, and
many meetings held in the plantations,
COST OF THE WORK.
or the school house or on the street. At
first the Chinese are often unwilling to
But it costs money to keep these misgather in the church or "Gospel Hall," sionaries, and these native preachets at
but gladly crowd around at a meeting on work.
the street.
Over $8000 are needed every year to
on this Chinese mission work. But
carry
With singing and pictures it is very
easy to secure a large and attentive is it not a good investment ? Some, in fact
crowd who seem glad to stop and listen most of the best Chinese of the Islands
are the result of our churches and Christo the gospel in their own language.
At these meetings on the street, and in tian schools. Much of the wealth of these
the plantations, the Japanese as well as Islands have come through the co-operathe Chinese gather in large numbers. The tion of the Chinese. Should we not do
superintendent with a desire to speak al- all we can to lift them up? They have
so to the Japanese, has taken up the also quite largely contributed to the work
study of that language during the past themselves, and at all times it is sought
year.
The knowledge of Chinese has to make them feel the need of self enbeen of great help in the study. It is a deavor, still there is a large work for the
great pleasure now at these meetings to Hawaiian Board to do for the evangelizabe able to turn from the Chinese to the tion of the Chinese of Hawaii. And there
Japanese in the crowd, and to give to is great need for a stronger effort.
The Board has Chinese churches and
them also a simple gospel message in
on Hawaii, Maui, and Oahu, but
schools
own
their
language.
at present for lack of funds, there is no
The gospel brings these men from preacher for the island of Kauai.
brother nations together in a spirit of
(Continued on Page It).
love and helpfulness.
Our largest church, the one here in
Honolulu, has had a peaceful year. Eighteen have been received into the church
on the profession of their faith, sixteen
by letter, and also eight children have
been baptized. Every Sunday morning
and evening there is preaching in Chinese by Mr. Wong or Mr. Thwing. The
Sunday School is well attended, their
offerings this past year, besides helping
on the Chinese Hospital of Honolulu, are
supporting a native preacher in China.
The church members have raised half of
the salary of Mr. Wong, and also helped
in other ways.
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ThWeraG
otf od
What is called the "New Theology,"
has nobly magnified the tenderness of the
Divine Love. It has made prominent
the rich and outreaching graciousness of
God's disposition. It glorifies his Fatherhood which broods in profoundly loving
care over the children he has created.
But by a common human weakness, it
has taken a partial and one-sided view,
and has failed to apprehend and appreciate the opposite pole of the Divine
character which involves intense antagonism to what is evil and malevolent and
false.
The "Wrath of God" is a term of
frequent occurrence throughout the new
Testament, occurring both in Gospels and
Epistles. It is something that exists in
a dread reality. "God is Love." His
nature glows with a love whose tenderness is beyond all human conception. But
that love is not to be thought of as excluding abhorrence of sin, and indignation against those who are committed to
the evil way. Such a conception of the
Divine nature is superficial and shallow.
The Father's love not only cherishes and
rejoices his children; it also protects
them. He must by his holy rule defend
them against the incursions of pollution
and cruelty. What a fatherhood were
that which was incapable of relentless
war against the malignant destroyer.
The Divine Nature may be conceived
of as exhibiting opposite poles. He "is
Light, and in him is no darkness at all."
And vet his creatures may be abiding in
an awful shadow, alienated from the
heavenly radiance, and shut out in an
"outer darkness." So as to the ineffable
Love of God. The opposite and inevitable
polarity of that love is an intensity of
antagonism to whatever is subversive of
the well-being of his children. It is a
hatred of sin, and condemnation of all
who cherish and support evil. God is
the Holy and Righteous One. He intends the moral health and purity of his
children. Wherefore the more perfect
and boundless His love, the more complete is His wrath against evil.
It is futile for any one to assume such
a loving kindness in the Heavenly Father
as would exclude the element of wrath.
Our actual knowledge of God is bounded
by what has been divinely revealed to
man, and especially by what is revealed
through the person and character of our
Lord Jesus Christ. The light of Nature
is obscure and dim as to the moral disposition of God. Nature abounds in
things that are cruel and dark, so that
many men have plausibly inferred great
lack of benevolence in the Creator. All
assurance we have that he is completely
loving in disposition comes to us solely
from the personal character and disposition of the Lord Jesus, who reflects and
reveals to us the Father's nature.
Now what disposition did Jesus actually display during his brief ministry?
There was certainly a marvellous loving
kindness, compassion, mercy, approachableness, and boundless self-devotion in
ministering to want and suffering. He
was tender-hearted, sympathetic and pitiful to the utmost. So in his parable of
the shepherd toiling over stony deserts
with bleeding feet, he reclaims his lost
sheep. But was loving compassion the
entirety of his disposition? How did he
feel towards the wolves who cruelly destroyed his sheep? Was there no flaming
out of wrath against the wolves?
We may say that the severe side, that
of righteous anger, was fully represented
in our Lord and Master. Perhaps nowhere in Bible literature is the element
of holy wrath more vigorously expressed.
Read Matthew 23: 13-36, and the parallel passage in Luke n: 37-52. "Woe
unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites,"
"Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the
damnation of hell?" When we thus behold the holy flame of indignation that
filled the pure soul of Jesus against inveterate doers of cruel evil, how can we
fail to infer that the Father whom he
perfectly represented does not feel a like
indignation and abhorrence which is fitly termed the "Wrath of God. ?"
It must be a necessary truth that the
perfection of the Divine benevolence involves the strongest antagonism and opposition to what is polluting and injurious. Conservation of the holy and the
reclaiming of the unholy which inspire
the deepest desire of the infinite Father's
heart necessarily imply destructive war
upon whatever opposes those ends.
Hence our
assertion in Matt. 13:
41, that "His angels shall gather out of
His kingdom all things that offend, and
them which do iniquity, and shall cast
them into a furnace of fire ; there shall be
wailing and gnashing of teeth." Such
is the tremendous and resistless sanitation
executed by God's love and its attendant,
wrath, against evil.
Wherein as it seems to us the older
creeds erred, and later views have a
right tendency, was in the former having
erected the so-called justice of God into
a vast and rigid central element of his
character whose unbending nature excluded the free action of the Father's
loving compassion. A more enlightened
and more scriptural interpretation gladly recognizes the broader truth that the
* *
tenderness of his Fatherhood dispenses
with the rigid exaction of penalty. There
is rich and free forgiveness with God.
His grace abounds in healing and uplifting power. His weak, erring and
sinful children are dealing with a Father
of infinite compassion and almighty grace,
who does not exact penalty or visit their
iniquities upon the penitent. He forgives.
He blots out our transgressions. He
remits penalty. He heals, uplifts, accepts, draws close the poor and hungering souls to the fatherly bosom of infinite
love. We sinful ones may lift our eyes
with glad assurance to the infinite mercy.
But all this leaves no comfort of hope
to the hard and inveterate sinner. Of
those who persistently turn away from
the heavenly mercy, determined in sin,
it is said that "the wrath of God abideth
on them." God's fatherhood it has been
well said is not a grandfatherhood; it is
not weak and senile. It is holy and protective.
S. E. B.
MAKAWAO FOREIGN
CHURCH.
The Foreign Church of Makawao
holds a regular service every Sunday
morning. The Sabbath School, which
convenes just before the preaching service, is well attended, consisting of primary and intermediate departments and a
Bible class. Mrs. Fanny M. Simpson has
charge of the primary department and
conducts it on kindergarten principles,
which seems most beneficial and enjoyable to the little children. During the
school year about fifty students from
Maunaolu Seminary form an interesting
part of the congregation. Dr. Beckwith,
the beloved pastor of this church, is in
good health and able to be much among
his people. Occasionally the pulpit is occupied by visiting clergymen from Honolulu and abroad. Contributions are made
annually to the support of a Japanese
minister in this district, Maunaolu Seminary and the Hawaiian Board.
Among the women of the church is an
organized missionary society which is a
branch of the Woman's Board. They
have also a Ladies' Aid Society, the
work of which is devoted to this community. This society supports several
kindergarten assistants and helps whenever possible in the needs of the church.
Kindergartens are carried on at Paia and
Haiku plantations. These are maintained
by the plantations but are under the direction of a committee from the Ladies'
Aid Society.
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and with lightning flashes for a while
most terrifying, but most warm and
cheering was the welcome when at last
the beautiful farm house was reached.
first attended worship in the city. This Miss Norton seemed very natural, alday was one of the most sultry, breathless though the years that have passed since
ones of summer. The next day, left at she left the Islands, have left their imone [). in. for a trip up into Michigan. In press. A most delightful week was spent
Howell, Michigan, on a fine farm about there. The farm is one of the finest 1
six miles from the town, which is the have seen, cultivated in the most advanccounty seat, reside Mr. Horace W. Nor- ed methods. One of Miss Norton's nephton and family. Miss Helen S. Norton, ews is a graduate of the Michigan Agrihis sister who was once principal of Ka- cultural College, and since I left there,
waiahao Seminary, Honolulu, makes her she writes me, "Horace has been invited
home there a part of the time. This visit to a professorship in the College, this
was undertaken with the great object of next year." While in I lowell, I received a
meeting her again. She had taken the most urgent and pathetic appeal by letter
journey from Kustis, Florida, where she from Miss l.ucv C. Andrews, formerly
now lives with and makes a home for, a of Makawao, Maui, to visit her Stepwidowed brother, with the express pur- mother, now Mrs. 11. B. Bowman, who
pose of a meeting, and short visit with widowed a second time, and the victim of
her beloved friend and associate in the a waiting internal cancer, was calmly
Hawaiian Islands. That was an evening waiting her summons, but was so anxious
never to be forgotten by myself. The to see me once more, would defray my
fearfully sultry weather of the week be- expenses to conic.
fore, had culminated in a gathering thiin• This appeal, I felt constrained to heed.
der-Storm of several hours. Reaching and as there had been (lining my I lowell
Howell centre in a lull in the rain, found visit, one of the refreshing changes of
no one at the first depot, and went to a temperature, so that we even enjoyed a
hotel in town to telephone t" a second de- little tire mornings, I was able to travel.
pot, and then wait. Was about to take a
Prof, and Mrs. A. P.. Lyons of Detroit
room for the night, when Mr. Horace claimed a feu hours en route, They were
Norton drove up, and we started with full of aloha and interest in all things
plenty of wraps to brave the weather. We connected with Hawaii, and the evening
rode the six miles through heavy rain. of August 10th, when Dr. and Mrs. Jus-
The Hawaiian Mission Children's Society
Pecatonica, Illinois, Sept. 2, 1903.
To The Friend:
It has been impossible to find leisure
to prepare letters regularly, as promised
for each month, in the rapid and constant
strain of travel and visiting; although
material enough for many letters has accumulated. *
*
Leaving Kltnira, N. V., (where the
last letter was dated) at 1 1 o'clock at
night by Pullman sleeping car, Harrisburg, Pa., was reached in the morning
before 5. and then a change of cars necessitated, as no stops are made by the rapid
trains at any small stations between that
city and Philadelphia. Thirty miles west
of Philadelphia in Chester County is the
thriving manufacturing town of ParkesInirg: and here a week was spent with
quite a number of relatives on my
mother's side, they having khidly gathered together in one of the homes to receive and welcome me. (
I had planned to spend the Sabbath
with Mrs. Levi ('. Lyman of Ililo. Hawaii, wild was spending the summer here
with her own family, the I lainnionds,
where she has an aged father and mother,
and a large circle of sisters.
I was most hospitably entertained over
the Sabbath at her father's farm, having
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a ROSTER of Hawaiian Hoard workers is again presented.
The Treasurer of the Board doeu not forget, as he sends each a check every month. I)j
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WoagYuk Shine. Honolulu, Oaliu.
Chii Vat Kai. Honolulu. Oalni.
C. L Tunter. Wailuku. Maui.
Rev. J. \ Nseole,
Moloka.. Mi«
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Ah u Wajhlku. Maui
Rev. M. I.uura. I.aha.na Man.
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Rev. M. C. Kcaloha, Kukuihaclc, Hawaii.
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Rev. J. N. Kanioku. Hawaii.
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Rev. G. W Wa.au, Hookcna, Hawa...
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Rev., S. Sokabe, Honomu, Hawaii.
Rev. L K.Kakani Editor. Honolulu.
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Rev. H. Manasc. Honolulu.
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Honolulu.
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R*». T Okoniura, Honolulu, Oaliu.
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Mr. M. Jingu. Kwa. Oaliu.
Rev. A. Y. Soares. Honolulu.
T. Flikuda, Waialua. Oaliu.
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Rev. E C. da Silva. Hilo. Hawaii.
G. Tanaka. Wailuku. Maui.
Mr. A. H. R. Vicrra. Paia, Maui.
r ov fcf. T«uji. Paia. Maui.
Rev. S. Kodama. Snreckelsvillc. Maui.
CHINESE WORK.
T. Fukmla. Uhue. Kauai.
M. Na«avama, Makaweli. Kauai.
Mr. F. W. Damon, Honolulu.
Rev. E. W. Thwing. Evang. in charge. Rev. S. Okubo, Honolulu, Affiliated.
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Rev. O. P. Emerson, Secretary, Honolulu.
I hcodore Richards, Treasurer, Honolulu,
Rev. J. Leadingham, Honolulu.
Mins. H. A Austin
Mr. S. Oni.
Rev. J. M. Lydgate, Li hue, Kauai.
Rev. C. W. Hill. Hilo, Hawaii.
Mi-s M. F.. Huntington, Wailuku, Maui.
�tin Emerson called on me in Detroit at
the Lyons' home will long be remembered. He grows more like his reverend
father in figure and face as he advances
rough weather. There was a pretty stiff of the great aims of the Settlement and it
gale blowing a few days ago, and the sea is already making marked improvement
washed freely over the forecastle and among the young people.
quarter deck. All air ports had to be
closed and companion ways battened
down, so there was very little ventilation
possible. This ship and the Monterey,
which is similar to her, lie at Shanghai
or Canton most of the time, and seldom
go to sea. There are two Chinese cruisers and three gunboats here now, also an
Italian cruiser, two Japanese cruisers,
and ten of our ships of various rates, besides this. There is a big English squadron somewhere near, and quite a large
Russian fleet, but they don't conic in here.
( )ur
ships have been having target pracan uneventful ride, and was received by tice for some time past and have finished,
mv nephew. Dr. Prank A. Lyman and and so the chances are that they will sepfamily, and made completely at home for arate soon, to return to their various statwo delightful weeks. Hut Madison de- tions.
serves an entire letter for description, and
here I close, hoping that after my return
RESPTOLMNFWORK
n> Honolulu, I may write it up. I expect
to start fur San Francisco the third week
It is possible that some of the readers
in September, and taken an early boat
of The Friend are not yet acquainted
home.
with the work done at (he Settlement in
M. A. Chamberlain,
Wailuku.
"Alexander I louse," the building erected for the purpose of carrying on (he setfrom a private letter from R. tlement work organized by Miss X. (.
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hews, written from the monitor Malone, contains a reading-room with
nock. Cheefoo, China, August small library, a club room, and a wcllKindergarten.
903. lie is awaiting transporta equipped
With the beginning of the school year
the gunboat El Cano, which pahe Yang Tse river, looking for the Kindergarten was resumed under the
and protecting the missionaries. charge of a well-trained young woman.
1 two other electricians are to in- Miss K. B. ( lay and three assistants chosfrom the voting women of the town.
-11 electric plant on the gunboat, en
so far, has had none.
Wireless There are fifty-five children enrolled and
ph apparatus has not yet been sup- dearly do they love the music, gift-work,
and other Kindergarten occupations.
-0 the Asiatic squadron.
A good sized yard surrounds Alexan"Cheefoo is in a pleasant
location on a large bay in about the same der House, affording a pleasant playlatitude as San Francisco. It is a great ground for the little folks and for the
export center for raw silk and tea. There older children who attend the Settlement
are a number of fine buildings in the classes.
The reorganization of these classes untown, but many of the people are miserably poor. There is no segregation of der the new Settlement worker also belepers, and diseased people of all descrip- gan the eighth of September. A class of
tions go begging about the streets. Chi- little girls of several nationalities meets
nese children in square-bowed sampans, twice a week to learn sewing and mendor on long rafts come around the ships ing. A club of older girls gathers twice
and fish up scraps of food from the slop- to embroider initials and doilies and do
chutes when the mess cooks clear away other fancy work. Some of the girls are
the tables, and men make a business of instructed in machine sewing. The Chigathering the tin cans, bottles, etc., that nese girls come to their sewing circle
are thrown overboard. There arc good Saturday forenoon, and Japanese girls
plums and apples to he had here; also Saturday afternoon.
For boys of all nationalities there are
peaches of a peculiar flavor. F'ggs, fish
and chickens are cheap here, and we often lessons in clay modeling and drawing on
have them on the mess table. We live two evenings. A boys' brigade, in charge
very well—chocolate, tea and coffee every of Mr. I'cnhallow, will begin drill again
day; good butter, steak, fresh bread, in a few weeks. A number of Chinese
fresh vegetables, etc. The old regulation ami Japanese students come for instrucsalt horse and hard tack are unknown tion in English twice weekly. Saturday
except at sea, where it is next to impossi- evening is devoted to a general good time
ble to cook. The monitors are bad in for all. A wholesome social life is one
in age.
At Kalamazoo found my friend, the
former Mrs. C. I'>. Andrews, very cheerful and happy, and although wasted in
form looking much better than 1 expected. Stayed one night and day and left
August iJth, for Madison, Wisconsin,
taking the route across Lake Michigan,
from Grand Haven to Milwaukee, and as
the lake was in it's loveliest mood, found
the night passage much easier than a
sleeping ear. Taking train for Madison
at X a. m.. the next day, August 13th, had
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The reading-room is opened whenever
the dub-room is being used and every
night several young men and boys
gather there. There is a need of current
magazines, and it is hoped that the tables
may be furnished with something besides
old numbers. The subscription prices of
several magazines and children's papers
are now so low that supplying this lack
in reading matter may appeal to some
friend as a simple and pleasant way of
sharing in the good work of Alexander
House. However, well preserved back
numbers of illustrated magazines always
interest the children and are gratefully
received. The gifts of live of Rev. ('has.
Sheldon's books presented by Mr. and
Mrs. I). 11. Case, and of a volume by
Mrs. Gay are hereby publicly acknowledged with thanks. Contributions to the
library are always heartily welcomed.
(In Sunday afternoons
the Alexander
House is open for a short time for singing, reading and story-telling. The Kindergartner and Settlement worker are assisting in the Sunday schools of the Hawaiian and Japanese Christian churches,
full-well realizing that the wonderful love
ot Jesus Christ is the leaven which
will
leaven the whole lump of social and educational work and transform the lives of
the children. The every day Christ-life
among them is the real aim of all effort.
It permeates all the phases of the work
and appeals silently to the community
through the home life of those associated
with the Settlement, who live in a comfortable two-story dwelling mi a pretty
site near Alexander I louse. To this family circle have been welcomed Mrs. Gay
and Miss Ontai, a new teacher in the
government school. Mrs. Gay's sympathy with the work is shown by her gratuitous teaching of Japanese women and
Japanese young men in English in outside classes, and in Sunday school.
Miss Charlotte Turner, who for years
has been in charge of the Chinese .Mission work on Maui, also makes her home
with the Settlement workers, although
the Chinese Mission is distinct in itself,
allied only in spirit with the Settlement.
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We must have a preacher for Kauai
this year. The hundreds of Chinese on
the plantations and rice fjelds there need
the gospel. There is only one Chinese
preacher on Oahu. Most of his time is
occupied in Honolulu. Another man is
needed to do more preaching at other
points on this island.
More native workers are needed and
more money for their support. Let there
there be no stop. But may the Board
be able to go on more easnestly in this
Chinese work.
of our former children have moved with their
families to the States. We have a very bright
responsive set of children, and faithful teachen, and our superintendent, Mr. Bowen. is
continually seeking the uplifting and happiness
of the children. We are always pleased to
have those who are interested in our work,
visit us.
The secluded recesses of the mountain valleys
furnish ti root in abundance, water and wood
for distillation, and more important still, that
immunity from arrest which assures the safety
01 the business. The manufacture is almost
entirely in the hands of the Japanese, who
find a ready market among the Hawaiians.
The Hawaiian narcotic "awa" also grows in
considerable quantities in the mountains and
furnishes material for a milder form of in-
We miss Mr. Vieira and his family hut are
hapnv in the thought, that he is imparting to toxication.
others on Maui the Truth which he accepted
Rev. S. Kaili, recent member of legislature,
here. In a letter received from him, he asks
for a little organ, which will be sent to him. has returned to his parish at Hanalei and
and which will no douht be a help in his work. taken up the work anew, which during his
absence has been conducted by the local Judge.
We have just returned from a street meet- John Kakina, and the deacons of the church.
ing. A good number of men. women and chilEfforts are being made to build a small
dren gathered around us and we were greatly
PORTUGUESE WORK.
encouraged by the quiet, respectful attendance church for the community at Wanini and KaHILO.
which they all paid to the singing and the l.hikai. This community is 5 or 6 miles from
the mother church in Hanalei. of which it is
preaching of the word of God.
One who recently returned to Honolulu
an outstation, ana they feel that they ought to
from Hilo, expressed pleasure, because of the
have a church building of their own. HowNOTES FROM THE FIELD.
faithful attendance of the people of the Hilo
ever commendable this desire may be, it is
somewhat doubtful whether they will succeed
Portuguese church, some of them coming five
HILO,
HAWAII.
rain,
miles on foot through the
and showing
in raising the necessary money.
by their close attention to the preaching, that
F.
just
year's
Rev.
Nash
has
closed
his
L.
the word of God in their hearts has been effec- work with the First Foreign Church. While
The Sunday School Exhibition—Hoike—is
tive. I was pleased to see how cheerfully the his health prevents him from undertaking a an institution that flourishes greatly among the
children dropped their nickels in the collection.
pastorate he has put in a year of communities of Eastern and Northern Kauai,
There have been several additions to the permanent
labor with satisfactory re- and of late the Young People's Society have
earnest,
faithful
church membership since Rev. da Silva has
has grown perceptibly in adopted similar affairs. They are intercom
sults.
The
church
taken charge. His field is certainly a large and harmony and spiritual strength, and every munity gatherings, necessarily involving someimportant one, and he hem" a fully consecrated
of work is in a flourishing and healthy what of the social nature, and arc not in all
worker, will with'God's blessing reap a rich branch
condition. Ho will remain until a successor respects ideal, hut they undoubtedly furnish
harvest.
is secured which will probably be in the near some elements of religious growth, and socially they meet a want that might otherwise be
MAUI.
future.
met by some very much less commendable
Mr. Vieira took up the work last month. He
Rkv. J. M. Lyixiatk.
Rev. J. M. Lydgate has been spending part agency.
resides at Paia but his field extends over of his vacation in house to house visitation.
Spreckclsvillc and Hamakuapoko. He goes among the churches of northern Kauai.
KOHALA NOTES.
about distributing religious literature and holds
services in the little chapel at Paia which are
little
built
The comfortable
church recently
Mr. Washiyama. the new pastor of the Japattended by Porto Ricans as well as Portu- at Haena. beyond Hanalci. meets the wants anese church, is beginning to feel at home in
guese. In a letter recently written by him he of a considerable population in that region and his work. Every Sabbath morning he holds
says that quite a number of children attended is well attended.
a Sunday School and preaching service in his
his Sunday school at Hamakuapoko.
church. Sunday afternoons lie gives a SabThe Hawaiian population in the district bath School and a preaching service at Union
HONOLULU.
comprising Haena and Wainiha seems to be Mill while his Sabbath evenings are given to
steadily increasing, owing to large families work at Halawa. In a country district where
we
can
that
Honolulu,
say
Of the work in
successfully reared. The Haena school, re- distances are great this makes a full day. Mr.
the
to
results
although we have not attained
nin ring two teachers, consists almost wholly Washiyama has regular services at Kohala
which our hearts aspire, yet. we have seen of Hawaiian children.
camp, and as the opportunities offer will begin
much that encourages us to press forward. We
work at Hawi and Niulii plantations.
have seen lives transformed, fully consecrated
The two large lands of Wainiha and HaMr. Washiyama has just re-opened his afterto the Master, and desirous of imparting to ena—aggregating 10.000. or 12.000 acres, are noon school for Tapanesc children at Makapala.
others that gospel which has done so much owned in fee simple, mainly by Hawaiian*. He and Mr. 17. Cho Ping have adjoining rooms
for them. We feel that the work of evan- constitutingtwo Huis. TW« property gives their in the school building belonging to the Hawaigelization among the Portuguese is of great taro, pasture, and mountain lands, as well as ian Board.
importance, and should be more widely ex- fish and some small revenues from rents. A
The Japanese church is sadly in need of retended. Many there are whose prejudices Proposed electric power scheme at Wainiha. to painting. The weather has
to crack the
have not yet been overcome, who. when once utilize the fall of the water before it reaches boards. Mr. Washiyama is about to start
accepting the truth would exnress. as others the cultivated lands, may further increase the with a subscription paper, to sec what his Japhave done, their grcatfulness for the word of income from this land. This independence of anese friends will contribute towards this
God which has been brought to them.
these people and the sen«e of responsibility cause. When the Buddhists wished to build
The two young men. da Silva and Vieira, which goes with it. have done considerable to- their temple a few months ago, they had no
converted in our mission and now engaged in wards developing the manhood of the region. difficulty in raising a thousand dollars. We
active Christian work, as well as other faithful
need about $200 to repair the Japanese church.
ones, are an incentive to greater action on our
The prevalent evils of this section, as elsepart knowing that our work is not in vain in where on the Islands, are the outcome of low
Miss Koka has once more opened her KinA. Y. S.
the Lord.
conceptions of morality and loose family rela- dergarten School on Kohala Plantation. So
tions. The general public opinion of the re- far she has about thirty children. Miss Lydia
gion, is of that exceedingly easy and tolerant Nahiwa. one of the Seminary girls, is to be
NOTES FROM THE PORTUGUESE.
type which utterly fails to stigmatize even the Miss Koka's assistant this year.
Miss Koka will this year occupy one of the
rough the generosity of our friends to- most flagrant breaches of morality, and looks
r with our own people, our church looks with entire equanimity on the moral short- rooms in the Kindergarten building. The
nice, being newly painted and papered, comings of its leaders even. In «uch a com- Kohala Plantation has erected a kitchen and a
all those who worship therein, may be munity it is difficult to keen the church up to bath house for her, so she will be conveniently
her work. The plantation women have
■ated by the Holy Snirit. reflecting in Christian standards, and the problems of dis- near
expressed a great satisfaction in having Miss
lives the truths which they hear from cipline are many and serious.
Koka near them.
to week, is our most earnest desire.
Another evil, though not he compared with
The Kohala Girls' School is in better condiA special effort is being made to increase that already mentioned, is the distillation and
the attendance of our Sunday school as some consumption of the native liquor "okolehao." tion than ft has ever been before. Under the
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impulse given by its enthusiastic principal,
Mrs. W. W. Bristol, the Board of Managers
arc making extensive repairs on the school
buildings.
This past summer the work has been finished of putting the entire group of buildings under an iron roof, and now there is a small
army of painters at work. The whole dormitory has been overhauled; the teachers' rooms
and the parlors repapered the dormitory proper, the sewing room, the dining room, the
kitchens and the girls' reception room have
been cleansed and repainted. The painters are
now at work putting two coats on the exterior
of the entire group of Seminary buildings.
Much of this work could not have been done
it the Honolulu merchants had not made generous contributions towards it.
After this
work is finished there yet remains to be done
the building of a long needed wash and bath
house. We want $500 for this object. This
with a $50,000 endowment will keep the Board
of Managers silent for some years to come.
;
The girls are eagerly looking forward
to
an
initiation into the game of basket ball, a set of
which has been given the Seminary.
Mrs. Bristol, the new principal, comes to her
task with a close knowledge of Island life and
particularly of work among Hawaiian girls.
For sonic years her husband, who is now taking a post graduate course in Berkeley, was
registrar of the Kainehameha Schools.
Miss Thorn, the primary music teacher, is a
graduate of Northfield Seminary and of the
Oberlin Conservatory of Music. Miss Rose
continues her duties as matron of the school.
Miss Esther Akuna continues to fill the
position of sewing and weaving teacher. Last
year the school had sixty girls in attendance
and as many are expected again this year.
Miss Dampman, last year's principal, is engaged as a teacher for the coming year in the
public schools of Corning, lowa.
Miss Mary Gardner, a former principal is
studying this -ear at Columbia College, New
preached his farewell sermon. This church about four local clubs. Surplus animalism on
lias greatly run down and it is hoped that a plantations can not be turned into a more
young and enthusiastic pastor may be found wnolesome channel than that afforded by
at once to instill new life into this venerable 1 "seball.
The Kohala Union Church continues its
church. While in late "ears the natives have
greatly decreased in numbers, there are still good work. Because of its limited field its
enough in North Kohala to form a vigorous members can not be greatly increased; still its
services are well attended. Three united with
church, if all could be reached.
The Chinese church work is progressing the church on profession of faith, at the last
nicely. Recently the church held an election communion service.
Every Sabbath Mr. Turner preaches a ten
and chose two elders and two deacons.
Mr. U. Cho Ping, the pastor, is trying to minutes sermon to the boys and girls, of
raise $200 to repaint the interior of the church. which there are about thirty in the congregaLast year $700 was spent in re-roofing the tion, before the regular sermon.
Under the efficient leadership of its superinChinese church and parsonage.
The Chinese school has again opened in Ma- tendent, Mrs. B. D. Bond, the Sabbath School
kapala. Mr. U. Cho Ping conducts this school continues its enthusiastic meetings. Recently
for the benefit of the boys and girls who want new song books have been added to the school
which are proving an inspiration to all.
to learn their own language.
The pastor and church officials are planning
The Chinese church will probably lose one
of its leading members in the person of Mr. to institute systematic beneficence at a very
Ah Far who may take up school work in l.a- early date. The offertory calender will be
haina, in the near future. This is the work 1 sed.
Mr. U. Cho Ping had before he took the Kohala pastorate.
Once a month Mr. Turner holds a ministerial Union Meeting at the parsonage, at
which time all the different workers of the
Hawaiian Board meet. The first half hour is
given to devotional thought and to prayer.
1 hep follows the discussion of some homiletical topic and the diagnosis of the moral condition of the community. These meetings
were held during the last year and were found
to be a great help to the different workers.
PORTUGUESE MISSION OF HILO.
Attendance at Sunday morning services has
been very good indeed, and some new faces
have been noticed in the congregation. We
find the people willing and ready to help and
co-operate in the work of our Master when
approached in
the
right way.
Just recently,
tue church sent a contribution to the Board,
built a new fence in front of the church and
parsonage on Volcano street, at a cost of
about $90, and has made some alterations to
the choir loft, giving it a much better appearance.
The Buddhists are very active in this district and for this reason it behooves the Christian people to put forth an added effort. The
Our church and community has suffered a
Buddhist day school numbers about forty chil- great loss in the death of our beloved brother
dren while the Boarding Department is very and friend, the late Mr. August G. Serrao.
much smaller. The Buddhists seem to have a He passed away from this to a better life above
on the 10th inst., the cause being consumption
deep hold on all the plantation Japanese.
from which he had been suffering for quite a
Rev. Fenton-Smith is the new rector of the long time. The late Mr. Serrao had been a
York.
i.niscopal church. Under his leadership this member of this church since its organization,
Rev. S. W. Kekuewa. the pastor of the na- church recenly gave a successful entertain- and always showed interest in its welfan. He
was a man that had a great love for his
tive church, has resigned and two weeks ago ment in the Kohala Social Hall.
cnurch.
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I'rices to Family Trade aa follow*:
Cases of 50 quarts, $8.60 per ease.
Per dozen, 92.25. Per bottle, 2(lc.
Cases of 100 pints, $10 50 per ease.
Cases of 50 pints, $5.50 per ease. Per
dozen, $1.50. Two bottles for 25c.
Special prices to the trade.
Lewis & Co., Ltd.
THE BIG GROCERS,
Hole Agents for the Hawaiian Islands.
169 King St. The Lewers & Cooke Bldg.
240—2 Telephones—24o.
Surely we have lost a good brother and a
Miss MacDonald, the new teacher in the
Government private school, is a sister of the good friend. His funeral was largely attended,
recently appointed principal of Lahainaluna. i..any persons had to stand during the entire
She is making her home at the Seminary.
service at church and some for the first (ime
entered a protestant house of worship.
Mr. H. F. Sturtevant spent a few days in The Rev. Mr. Baptiste assisted me in the
the district last week, visiting E. B. Turner. funeral services at the church and at the
E. G. da Silva.
ivir. Sturtevant will teach in the Government grave.
school at Honokaa this year.
This world is wide
In time and tide
Dr. Tofukugi, the Japanese doctor of the
And God is guide,
district, leaves this week to study in the AmThen do not hurry.
erican schools. He expects to go to Lawrencev.lle. New Jersey.
That man is blest
Who does his best
Mrs. E. C. Bond, the principal of Ainakea
Who does his best
school, has just returned from a two months'
And leaves the rest.
on
visit
the Coast.
Then do not worry.
-Dr. Deems.
Dengue still claims its many victims. There
HEROISM OF LIVING.
is hardly a home in the district which has not
been visited, while in some of the plantation
It is easy to die. But to live and live rightly,
camps there are so many as forty or fifty sick
loyal to truth and courageously steadfast to
men at a time.
duty, with an honest, constant effort to see
truth and duty clearly and intelligently—that
The entire district is waking to the neces- is another and a harder task. To die requires
sity for some healthy outdoor sport. A base- no effort. To escape death is impossible. But
ball association has been formed; a ground has what a fine, brave thing it is to live for the
been selected and is being put into condition truth's sake, in face of the maledictions of the
for playing.
ignorant and the slanders of the malevolent.
A picked team from the whole district ex- There is a heroism in such living which the
pects to play the opening game with Waimea base mind can not know. —Nashville American
in about three weeks. The district can support in the Pacific.
�THE FRIEND
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AMONG THE YOUNG PEOPLE.
SCHOOLS,
ISLAONMDEVIEWS
At Kawaiahao Seminary there are 71
pupils at this writing, and it seems as
though the school has Opened most auspiciously. It is interesting to note that
this native Stronghold is becoming more
and more a school for mixed races.
When one reflects it will be seen that it is
very imixirtant that there be a school
where Chinese and Japanese girls can
get sonic conception of a Christian home.
There arc almost as many girls of other
races as there are Hawaiian girls in the
school at this time. The Hawaiian girls
might go to three other seminaries, but
where else could the Japanese, Chinese
and Portuguese girls go?
Following are the new teachers in the
school: Miss Edna Skinner takes Miss
Ilerckncr's place in the sewing department ; Miss Nellie Wadington has the
primary work; Miss Cooledge (late pf
Makawao) takes the music.
At Mills Institute there has been a finerally after the vacation. The eclat with
which the school closed last year did
much to increase the demand for places
and there are 70 boarders besides ;• goodly number of day pupils. It is surprising
to see what an Americanizing influence
that school has had already on the Chinese community. ()ne has only to attend
a public function to wonder whether the
boys are really Chinese. The spirit of
the founder and mainspring of the institution, Mr. F. W. Damon, is always evident, however: the effort, to be sure, is to
LAmericanize, but more,—it is to Christianize. Mr. Herlicrt Moore is the only
new teacher, while Miss Harriet Austin
has charge of the study-hours.
Kohala Seminary has a new lease of
life. It is at least significant that they have
a new principal, too, and the fact that
the buildings have been undergoing extensive repairs is not unrelated to be foregoing. Mrs. W. W. Bristol, late of Kaniehameha before going up to Kohala to
take charge, made a canvas of the city
and collected a considerable amount of
materials and money for a complete overhauling of the old buildings, and as there
was money laid aside in the treasury for
this purpose it is believed that the whole
aspect of the place has been much improved.
We have not learned as yet whether
the number of pupils exceeds that of last
year, but it seems quite probable.
MacDonahl of Kamehameha have charge
there and have liecn able to secure sonic
good assistants, we feel sure. These two
are peculiarly well adapted to take charge
of such a work, and the solid character
of the training is assured. It may not
be known to many that Mr. and Mrs.
MacDonald have most fortunate backing
for any religious effort they may feel like
putting forth, by reason of the basis on
which the government holds control of
the property connected with the school.
At any time that there should be any religious instruction at variance with the
creed expressly stated in the instrument
the property reverts to the A. H. C. F. M.
with the understanding that a school be
carried on in accordance with the plan
of the school in its inception by the American Hoard. This good old hoarding
school, in which some of the best 1 lawaiians of these and former days were educated, is thereby freed from the absurd
ban which "Uncle Sam" in his desire for
religious liberty, sees tit to place upon
religious instruction in the public schools.
"Lahainaluna, tpu kukui pio ole i lea makani Kauwaula"
(Lahainaluna whose light can not be extinguished by the wind Kauwaula —
a fierce local wind.)
RECORD OF EVENTS.
Sept. tst—Opening of Kaiulani Home
for I lawaiian girls.
2(1—Territorial Secretary Carter goes
to New York and Washington to arrange
and negotiate Hawaiian Bonds.
Bth—Government schools open, with
excessive crowding of new pupils.
16th—Oahu Republican Convention
completes its nominations for County
officials.
12th—At Hilo, Edwin Thomas, a Hawaiian, stabs his paramour and kills himself.
17th—Suicide in Oahu Prison of Yaniada, a Japanese wife-murderer.
10th—Regatta Day observed. Sloop
Gladys wins cup.
20th—Charles T. Ellison, mate of
schooner Robert Lcwers, is drowned in
the harbor. Robert Parker, a native laborer, dies from blow from electric car.
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LYON-STRIKER—In Berkeley. Cal., Aug.
29. William S. Lyon, of Honolulu, to Miss
COMMISSION AGENTS.
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Agents for the Oceanic Steamship Co.
KEENAN-MAKAENA—Ia Honolulu. Sept.
t. J. P. Keenan to Mrs. Mary Makacna.
CUMMINGS-KING—In Wailuku. Maui, IV jEW YORK DENTAL PARLORS.
Sept. 5, Geo. H. Cummings to Miss Mellic
E. C. WATERHOUSE,
Office cor. Miller and Beretania Sts. King.
Plate of Teeth, $5; Gold Crowns, $5; Bridge
Residence, 1508 Thurston St.
ROGERS-DO REGO—In Lahaina, Maui, Work,
per Tooth, $5; Gold Fillings, $1; SilSept. 6, W. H. Rogers to Miss Virginia Do ver Fillings,
Office Hours:—lo to 12 a. m., 2to 3 and
50 cents.
a.
11
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The Pacific Heights Electric Railway
Line affords easy access to all lots; and
water and electric lights are supplied
from independent systems at reasonable
rates. To parties intending to purchase
and improve, especially favorable terms
will be given.
Ricpen.
pITY FURNITURE
STORE
McLEOD-HUTCHINSON—In Hilo, Sept.
All kinds of
12. Capt. R. W. Mcl.cod to Lieut. Catherine
HutchtniOtl, both of tin- Salvation Army.
FURNITURE,
WINDOW SHADES.
BONZE-SPAI.DING—At residence of Col.
LACE CURTAINS,
Z. S. Spalding. Kealia, Kauai, Sept. 15,
PORTIERES,
Count Ercole Bonze, to Miss Alice Makee
TABLE COVERS, ETC.
Spalding.
CHAIRS RENTED FOR BALLS AND
BREWSTER-AFONG—In Honolulu. Sept.
PARTIES.
iS. J. W. W. Brewster of N. Y. City, to Miss
Melaine Afong.
UNDERTAKING AND EMBALMING.
TOMBSTONES AND MONUMENTS.
VIERRA-SALTkR—Iii Honolulu, Sept. 22,
Residence and Night Call: Blue 3561.
William Vierra to Miss Elisabeth A. Salter.
Telephone: Office, Main 64.
Honolulu,
DOUGHERTY-ROBERTSON—In
Nos. 1146-1148 Fort St., Honolulu.
For further particulars apply to Chas. S.
Sept. 23, James Dougherty, to Miss Sara 11. H. WILLIAMS
Manager.
:
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Robertson.
Desky. Progress Block.
stevedore dies in consequence of knee crushed by heavy roller.
33d—Incendiary hre in large wooden
block on River street. Fortunately extinguished by inmates.
for Oa24th—Home Pule convention
ticket,
headed
by
completes
County
hu,
R. W. Wilcox for Sheriff.
of three-story wing to
25th—Additionordered
by the trustees,
Queen's I lospital
with donation of $35- 000 »y Hon. C R
Bishop.
21 st—Japanese
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DEATHS.
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ROOKE—At Colchester, Eng., Aug. 17.
Col. Creswell K. C. Rooke, aged 64, heir of
late Dr. T. C. Byde Rooke of Honolulu.
WAUGHOP—On S. S. MOWS, off Cape Flattery. Aug. 31, Dr. J. W. Waughop, formerly
of Kcalia. Kauai.
O'BRIEN—At Portland. Oregon, Aug. 27,
Cornelius O'Brien, lately of Honolulu.
ANOERSSEN—At Naalchu. Hawaii, Sept. I,
Mrs. Christine Anderssen. aged 51 years.
CABRAL—At Honolulu, Sept. 4, Gabriel J.
Cabral, aged 27 years.
SERRAO—At Hilo, Sept. 10. August G. Serrao, formely of Jacksonville, Illinois.
IKHI.BER—At Honolulu, Sept. 12. Mrs.
Capt. F. H. Fehlber.
LILIKALANI—At Kona, Hawaii, Sept. 18,
Miss Victoria K. Lilikalani of Honolulu,
aged 18 years.
Honolulu, Sept. 21, Mrs. T.
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Teacher—"Billy. can you telltellmethe difference between caution and cowardice?"
Billy—Yes, ma'am. When you're afraid your-
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Kine Stree'. H
self, then that's caution. But when the other CLOTHES CLEANED
fellow's afraid, that's cowardice." —Pacific.
"The watchword is a tower of strength. It
appears to the heroic, the strenuous, the selfsacrificing."—Pacific.
PREACHING.
Aii Englishman once complained to the minister of his parish that he preaches on the same
subjects over and over again. He admitted
that the lessons taught were of the most serious and important nature, but he said that there
was not enough variety.
"My friend," said the clergyman, "for what
purpose do you imagine the precepts are given
you?"
"That we may obey them, I suppose," said
teh man.
"You are right," was the reply; "and have
you, then, learned to practice all the duties
which I have already put before you?"
The man was obliged to admit that he had
hot as yet.
"When you have," said the minister, "I will
either put before you some new duties to attend to or else I will keep silence, for practice
is the end of preaching, and when your life
entirely conforms to the life of Christ you will
(Singer) Doherty. aged 37 years.
SMITH—At San Francisco. Sept. at, Charles
Smith, aged 4s, brother of Supr. Court Clerk
need no more sermons."—Pacific.
Henry Smith, of Honolulu.
nolulu
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Residence, 435 Beretania St.; Office, 431
Beretania St. Tel. 1851 Blue.
Office Hours:—lo to 12 a. m., 3 to 4 and 7
Sundays: 9:30 to 10:30 a. in.
to Bp. m.
ERNEST
K. KAAI,
Teacher of
Guitar, Mandolin, Banjo, Zither, Ukulele and
Taropatch.
Studio:—Love Building, Room 5.
Hours:—lo to 12 a. m.; 1 =30 to 4p. m.
DR.
CHAS. L. GARVIN,
Beretania St.
Office Hours:—9 to 11 a. m.; 1130 to 3 and
7:30 to 8 p. m. Tel. Main 24. Res. Tel.
White ifol.
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Vice-President
P. C. Jonea
2nd Vice-President
W. Macfarlaue
To induce regularity of attendance. F.
All the latest novelties in Fancy Goods
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Cashier
with
years
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by
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names.
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Room for
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the
Islands.
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Fort Street
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They are in use in churches
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Agents.
OFFICERS—H. P. Baldwin, Pres't; J. B.
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Vice-Pres't; J. P. Cooke, Treas.; W. O.
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Sugar Co., Haiku Sugar Co., Paia Plantation
Co., Kihei Plantation Co., Hawaiian Sugar
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Telephones,
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FURNITURE, UPHOLSTERY
Meat Market and Grocery
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LIST OF OFFICERS—CharIes M.
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Young Bldg., cor. Hotel & Bishop Sts.
Preiietent; Geo. H. Robertson, Vice-President
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Phone
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