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OLDEST NEWSPAPER WEST OF THE ROCKIES.
Vol. LXVII
HONOLULU, H. T., JANUARY, 1910
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The Christmas carol arranged by Mr.
James A. Wilder with the musical collaboration of Captain Berger and Messrs.
W. A. Love and Blackman was presented twice during Christmas week in the
The
chapel of Central Union Church.
wording was almost entirely scriptural,
the music subdued and beautiful, the details very simple and natural but all conceived with such perfect art that the
impression made on every one was profound and moving. It was the drama
in the Church yet it was distinctively a
religious service, as far above the ordinary Christmas entertainment for Sunday Schools as can be imagined. The
drama in the Church ! Why not ? The
drama was the daughter of religion.
One of the noblest Bible works is drama.
The ancient Hebrew prophets were
actors who employed the resources of
dramatic art to produce their deep impressions. Jesus Himself was the great
histrionic Master, an inspiration to the
actors of every age. He came to enact
the good tidings of God's love. In doing so he conformed to the canons of
dramatic art. Witness his scourging the
hucksters out of the temple, his consumate art in dealing with the case of the
woman taken in sin, his incomparable
use of that dramatic form, the parable,
his last message to the Baptist, his triumphal entry, many of his signs as he called them. They are the masterpieces of
the Great Dramatist and all culminated
in the crucifixion at the passover season,
exactly when his enemies least desired
such a consummation. The Church has
been false to its Master in allowing the
theater to monopolize her most potent
resource for public teaching of religion.
And if the Church means to do the large
work in the world that her Great Head
demands, she must call back to her aid
the supreme power of the drama. She
must build her meeting houses so that
great presentations of truth may be
enacted therein with all the present day
artistic resources. Men like Mr. Wilder gifted with power to serve in endeavor of this nature should be encouraged to use their talents for the Great Master. Music must be invoked to lend all
of her rich charm. In this renascence
the histrionic ability latent in numbers
of men and women will be put to loftiest
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employ. Sunday evening will become
the Church's noblest teaching opportunity and the people will not only throng
the meeting houses, not only drink in
truth made beautiful and attractive and
be moulded thereby but will have their
taste educated away from the debasing
plays which are proving such a menace
to better living in many of our great
cities.
Passing On.
The Japanese have a good custom ot
passing on gifts from one to another until they reach at last the one who can
make use of them. It is a common thing
for one living in the Sunrise Empire to
hear a Japanese friend say in presenting
a gift, "Its a mere trifle, given to me and
so has cost me nothing. I'm but passing
it on." The formula is one of politeness
and often covers a present of much value
which the giver has purchased. There
is no more intended falsehood in the
statement than in some of our own forms
of courtesy. But it emphasizes one of
the things which it is proper to do with
a gift for which the recipient has no
special use, that is, pass it on to some one
else. The essence of a real gift is not
its intrinsic value but its revelation
friendly thot. That received, appropriated by the spirit and made par? of the
inner life of the friend is the most that
the giver cares about. If in addition the
gift can be utilized by the recipient,
good. If its highest use be to carry another assurance of friendship from him
to a third person, good also. Jesus emphasized this truth of the extrinsic value
of a gift when he rebuked Judas at the
Bethany feast. "There's no waste," he
said in effect, "because Mary has given
the most delicate evidence of friendship
possible—her clear insight into my inmost soul.
She knows I must suffer
and has told the story of her sympathy
in this fragrant form." The value of
the gift great or small or its usefulness
fibred as nothing in the Savior's mind.
The heart language it bore was everything to him. Fortunately we are learning this and every Christmas emphasizes
it in the form of gifts which the givers
intend may be shared with others. Books
that used to bear inscriptions now come
with enclosed cards so that the recipient
may pass them on. Many of the more
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beautiful Christmas and New Year's
cards are planned for repeated use. We
are thus getting further and further away
from the habit of looking gift horses in
the mouth and are prizing what we receive not at its money value, not at its
cash cost to the giver but at its friendship value, what of spirit has been put
into it by the donor. It is well. The
world is advancing.
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Cats and Dogs.
The past weeks have had their quota
of minor disagreements, and exhibitions
of spleen. The most amusing and unaccountable of them all has been Delegate Kuhio's outburst against Governor
Frear.
What it was all about is not
very clear except that the Delegate lost
his temper over some detail of tweedledum and tweedledee anent our land laws
and indulged in Ananias anathemas
against the Governor.
The latter was
as usual master of the situation in his
quiet effective manner and the laugh was
on the Delegate who seems to have tried
to read himself out of the Republican
party. The Home Rulers have opened
wide their arms to receive him and the
coy Democrats have handed him the mitten. But these antics arc not peculiar to
Hawaii and next year the Prince may
bob up serenely as the love feast candidate of his old time friends.
These
squabbles in family-ruled Hawaii mean
nothing. It is all in the home circle
and attributable to the Kona winds that
periodically rile every one out here in
the Mid-Pacific only to give place to the
genial trades that restore the normal good
feeling. Meanwhile the Anti-Coastwise
shipping law conflict went off with remarkable smoothness.
At the public
meeting called by the Civic Federation,
which summoned a very representative
assembly, there was in evidence but one
man's dissent to emphasize the overwhelming public sentiment in favor of
granting Hawaii common justice in freedom of travel. What Congress will do
is another matter. Rumors of the early
passage of a subsidy bill which may delay the more pressing reform are rife.
It is regretable that President Taft who
certainly is aware of our transportation
hardships has not been secured to champion fairer traffic treatment of these islands.
The Carlisle Way.
ecently General R. H. Pratt, who
:ed Honolulu last yeat, issued a most
resting pamphlet describing the inion, work and priciples of the Indian
ustrial School at Carlisle, Pennsylva-
t
January, 1910
nia. It is a short document but into its their appeals. Quietly the islands have
pages are packed much political wisdom been covered by a movement which has
of the highest order. Gen. Pratt's con- had little or no organized direction. For
tention from the outset of his epochmaking work has been that the only way
to solve the Indian question is to assimilate the Indian into the American nation.
It is simple and Carlisle has demonstrated its feasibility past all dispute. Like
all great discoveries it is so easy that one
wonders why the American people had
not stumbled upon it centuries ago for
experiment had made it clear to the early
colonists. Yet Gen- Pratt met the stub
bornest opposition of many statesmen;
and the Indian Bureau has consistently
fought him. Thruout our national history we have demonstrated with ever increasing clearness that assimilation is the
key to every troublous racial problem.
The most diverse peoples have melted
into one common life and quickly disappeared as separate racial stocks only
to contribute elements of strength to our
broadening and deepening American life
and character. With strange inconsistency however, we have segregated fit si
the Indians politically and next the negro
socially.
Strangest of all we have
striven to keep out entirely the Eastern
Asiatic, whose character strength we can
ill spare ,in building up the dominating
human race to be. In these islands our
nation has chosen the Carlisle way of admitting the Hawaiian at once to the suffrage and welcoming him into the national life. Meanwhile historic causes have
saved us from the folly of caste exclusion in dealing with him. The Asiatic
too is with us and is bound to tincture
By all means
our blood increasingly.
let the Carlisle way be tried out here naturally with no forcing or repression.
The result is bound to be instructive to
the entire human family.
instance Kaumakapili Church appoint
a committee to canvass its constituency
with the result that some eleven hundred
letters have been written to members of
both national Houses tcqiiesting the pasNumbers of
sage of the Johnson bill.
these have been penned by men or women who themselves are addicted to
drink and who pray to have the temptation removed. Others are sufferer! from
the excesses of relatives or friends who
plead that Congress come to the help of
their loved ones. Kawaiahao Church
had a like committee but the story of its
work has not been reported to us. On
Maui under the leadership of Rt\. R. B.
Dodge a like campaign has been mstittied. All this must give our national legislators pause. Let every Christian not
forget to pray for the passage of this bill.
Our representative Mr. Woolley is haul
at work and reports success as wilhin the
realm of possibiilty. He urges all Christians to exhaust every effort to influence
every member of Congress personally
The fight will be won
known to them.
only thru the employment of spiritual
weapons. In such a conflict opposition
movements like those of our legislature
and Delegate are no discouragement.
They send us direct to our mighty reenforcement—God. We can win and in
the end will win thru Him.
Welcome.
It is good to see on our streets again
the faces of men like Mr. George F.
Castle, Rev. W. D. Westervelt and Attorney Withington whose countenance
shines with joy over the athletic achievements of his son Lothrop, president of
his class and Harvard 1910 football captain. Even Yale Honolulans are proud
Not by Might.
enuf almost to wish for and certainly
The opposition in our Legislature to not to hope against crimson success next
the Johnson Bill now before Congress November with so popular a young Isand Kuhio's unaccountable temperance lander in command. The Friend is also
sumersault have left this reform to stand happy to learn that l'ishop Rcstarick
upon its legitimate basis of inherent who has had such a long siege of illness
righteousness. If the fight on behalf of is far on the way to complete recovery.
prohibition for Hawaii by Congressional We wish for him a New Year full of
action be won, the victory will not be due health and joy. It is pleasant also to
to influence in high places but to the greet so large a throng of visiting guests
public Christian conscience of America. enlivening our hotels and bringing their
That conscience as embodied in the cheering messages from far away fi lends
hearts of our national lawmakers is being 1910 promises a greater number of tourappealed to with quiet force that is sine ists than Hawaii has ever known esto have weight. Many of the school chil- pecially if Congress will help us out by
dren of Hawaii have written most touch- exempting us from the provisions of the
Rumors of
ing pleas coming out of the experience coastwise shipping laws.
of their own homes and in some cases the mundane sugar situation also pledge
replies have been sent them showing that more prosperity during this new year of
some consideration is being granted to grace than any of its predecessors. The
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January, 1910
Army anticipates flooding us with in-
eh $onor
of
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KALAUPAPA CHRISTMAS BOX.
creasing cohorts and naval engineeis
talk glibly of the millions which they anThe following contributed:
ticipate expending. Our churches are
The
Kings Daughters Kealakekua.
alive to their own responsibilities in the
Halawa
Catastrophe Fund, W. B.
movement
this
and
stir.
To
face of all
Oleson.
turn every thing to account for their
Laupahoehoe Christian Endeavor.
Master is their motto and certainly they BBS HEN God sought a king for His peoP. C. Jones.
are better equipped than ever for such
Mrs. Hopper.
a campaign. The Methodists, Christians ™= He went to the fields to find him;
shepherd was he, with his crook
A
Ahahtti
Hoike Manaoio, Hanalei.
have
new
will
C.
houses
A.
and Y. M.
and his lute
A Friend.
during 1910, the Episcopalians rejoice in
And a following flock behind him.
F. C. Atherton.
the completed Priory building. Mills InMrs. J. P. Green.
stitute will move into its palace in Manoa
of the sheep, O joy of the lute,
G. P. Castle.
Valley and all over the Territory church- O love
And the sling and the stone for the
Mrs. H. Waterhouse.
es are planning enlargement. Welcome
battle;
Mrs. H. C. Coleman.
then the New Year! May it prove the A shepherd was King; the giant was naught
Mrs. Liftee.
us
have
ever
happiest and the best all of
And the enemy driven like cattle.
Mrs. W. F. Frear.
known.
The Bishop Memorial Church.
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When God looked to tell of His good will
W. A. Bowen.
Thrum's Annual.
to men,
The Deaconesses Central Union
And the Shepherd King's son whom He
For the thirty-sixth time this splendid
Church.
gave them;
handbook comes to greet a new year and
shepherds, made meek a' caring for A Total of
$102.85
to meet a hearty reception from the read- To
sheep,
is
Paid
for
purchase
"Better than ever"
its
ing public.
He told of a Christ sent to save them.
motto and 1910's Thrum's fully justifies
made by Mrs. J. L.
Hopwood
it. It is impossible to detail all the treas- O love of the sheep, O watch in the night,
67.80
ures it unfolds. Only a careful perusal
C. J. Day apples...
And the glory, the message, the choir;
4-5^
can do that for each reader.
But we 'Twas shepherds who saw their King in
The "Palm" candy..
12.75
must call attention to some rare bits of
the straw
Sachs
dolls
good work. Of the very first value is
And returned with their hearts all on
2.50
the account of the "Ascent of Mount
fire.
Express
•50
Hualalai." taken from Menzies' Journal
over
anBalance
for
which abounds in interesting informa- When Christ thought to tell of His love to
other year
14.80
tion. Legend and travel have their due
the world
place of course as well as antequarian
He said to the throng before him,
$102.85 $102.8
description. But the devotee of island "The Good Shepherd giveth His life for
development will find more to interest
the sheep"—
This year the pastor Kcv. D. Kaai
And away to the cross they bore Him.
him than perhaps any other class among
made a careful estimate of his people and
us. The Hilo article is most timely and
found that there were eighty-one regular
the resume of 1909 very convenient for O love of the sheep, O blood sweat of attendants of his church with about {orty
The complete tables
prayer,
ready reference.
to be added who might be termed the
and incidental information make the
O Man on the cross, God-forsaken;
"Christmas casuals." (Some of our city
work most useful for all who crave up- A Shepherd has gone to defend all alone
churches would average higher in "caThe sheepfold by death overtaken.
to-date information made accessible.
suals"). He had a list, dividing these
according to age and sex, and the buying
D. S.
When God sought a king for His people, was much simplified. Still we feel like
for aye.
guaranteeing that few could have securA HAPPY NEW YEAR.
He went to the grave to And him;
ed, in number and quality, the individual
The Friend extends to all its readers And a shepherd came back, Death dead gifts that Mrs. Hopwood, thanks to her
in His grasp,
best wishes for a Happy New Year.
several years of experience, obtained
And a following flock behind him.
Honolulu's generous storemen.
from
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woman received a complete outfit
Every
life
from
the
dead,
of the sheep, O
Mr. K. Kondo, son of one of the in- O lovestrength
the way of dress materials, buttons
of the faint and the fearing; in
O
fluential members of our Lihue Japanand
thread. Every man was gladdened
King,
kingdom
and
will
His
A Shepherd is
ese Church has become teacher of a new
a shirt and necktie,—which latter
with
come,
course,
school at Anaholi, Kauai. Mr. Kondo
of
his wife did not buy for him.
coming
nearing.
His
is
And the day of
is an earnest Christian and has opened
All the boys received good knives, and
JOSEPH ADDISON RICHARDS.
a Sunday School to which all of his
the girls got pretty dressed dolls. The
"Casuals" received handkerchiefs all, and
scholars gladly go. He is joined in
the entire congregation had a box of
sympathy with our Japanese force of
candy and an apple each. An account
workers and makes our Kauai contin- Glory to God in highest heaven,
man
given!
Who
unto
his
Son
hath
of the celebration has not come to us and
or
gent four. We wish there were six
we simply imagine that they all were
seven.
There are promising fields While angels sing, with pious mirth,
happy to have been so well remembered.
enough, all close together to claim the A glad New Year to all the earth.
LUTHER.
T. R.
MARTIN
full strength of seven men.
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THE FRIEND.
EFFECT OF PRAYER ON ONE
WHO PRAYS.
(Rev. Charles D. Milliken.)
Reading the sixth chapter of Luke
gives the impression that a remarkable
day in Christ's ministry followed a
night of prayer. The first deed of that
day was choosing the Twelve; apparently a simple act. but of supreme significance, requiring accurate judgment
of men. These were the men who could
best maintain Christianity after He had
gone.
The second deed was healing the infirmities of a multitude. Virtue went
forth from Him so that all who touched
Him were made whole. The first was
it work of wisdom—a clear head.
The
.second of compassion—a warm heart.
The third labor of the day was preaching the most remarkable sermon the
world has heard: "Love your enemies;
do good to them that hate you; be kind
to the unthankful and the evil." To
preach and practice these precepts require both wisdom and compassion.
These working together in a life can
strike through doubt and wrath straight
to the law of Love; can bring words
which seem visionary into actual accomplishment.
It is not likely that Christ would have
done any of these things immediately
after turning water into wine or after
feasting with publicans and sinners. He
did them after a night of prayer.
Prayer clears the mind and warms
the heart; it puts one in the best condition to perform serious duties and carry
heavy responsibilities. These are the
effects of prayer on one who prays.
Prayer must be sincere and continuous in a life that attains these results.
There is much so-called prayer that is
not real, and some real prayer that is
not continuous, and the results are
meagre. At a certain public exercise I
was asked to offer a prayer. The prayer was sincere, but feeling was absent.
Afterward I wondered if any one really
heard—if even God heard. One can
discern from the tone of another's
voice the reality of his prayer, and the
fruitage of a life will always determine
if one sincerely prays. Listening to
some public prayers, I have been skepti-
eal of their worth. And how important
is constancy! The soul must be always
open to Divine communications. The
formality may be infrequent but the
spiritual feature must be continuous if
results are to show. As a pianist detects deficiency in execution if a day's
practice be omitted, so does a heart
finely strung detect weakness in itself
if prayer is neglected.
It is probably a sad fact that too
man}' nominal Christians imitate the old
lady in the "Manxman" who, threatened with calamity, cried to the Lord
that she hadn't bothered Him for a very
long time, and if He would only deliver
her now from the impending trouble
she wouldn't bother Him again for another long time!
The effects of sincere and continuous
prayer in a life are wisdom and sympathy; virtue that goes forth which, if
it cannot heal every infirmity, does
soothe sorrows, heal wounds and drive
away fears. Indelibly stamped in memory which will ever be a benison is the
influence of a few whose lights are now
shining in celestial windows, whose
prayers, while here, must have been like
those that Sandalphon gathers as he
stands listening,—
January, 1910
PALAMA SETTLEMENT 1909.
A Few Facts—Briefly Put.
1908 *iox)9
1
Dispensaries Operated
2
2
Nurses Employed
4
1,588 3.989
Cases under Care
1,364 3,623
Visits made by nurses
Treatments in Dispensaries 3,933 13,402
Number Supplied with Sick
Room Requisites, Nourishment, etc
665
374
under
Care
Babies
71
17°
54,212 82,012
Bottles Milk dispensed
*
For Eleven Months.
Clubs. Classes. Etc-
Men and Boys Enrolled
56
138
122
Women and Gils Enrolled
97
Evening Classes
94
i,93 f> 3.3Q3
Baths
46
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Employment found for
The Settlement Maintains:
Two dispensaries, four nurses, two
milk depots, a well equipped gymnasium
with baths, bowling alley and locker
rooms, an employment department,
evening classes, industrial classes for
girls, a well equipped play ground, dormitories for single men, model cottages,
children's gardens, a kindergarten, a
"That change into flowers in his hands,
reading room, a Sunday School and
Into garlands of purple and red;
While beneath the great arch of the portal vesper services.
Through the streets of the city immortal
Its work is non-sectarian. Its aim is
Is wafted the fragrance they shed."
to develop self-dependence in the peoamong whom it works.
ple
Those were lives that irradiated peace
In its medical work it ministers to
and that learned, if ever human beings
whole city.
can learn, to do good to those who de- the
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spitefully use and persecute. Read
again what Christ did after He spent a
WAILUKU.
night on the mountain with His Father.
Miss Turner writes a letter full of enSee how wisdom and sympathy become
and enthusiasm over the
couragement
dominant in you when you have learned
in Wailuku. There is
work
Japanese
often to walk and talk with Him.
more
and
regular attendance at
large
Church, Sunday School, Day School and
Six young men were
Night School.
THANKS.
baptized and received into the church
The Committee that had charge dur- on December 26th. The Woman's Soing the past year of the religious services ciety has lately had two lively meetings,
at the Lcahi Home and the Oahu Prison one a social gathering at which 36 were
wish to thank the public for their ser- present, the other a "Laura Bridgman"
vices and gifts. Most especially do they meeting, at which 53 were present and
appreciate the kindness of the one who Miss Tanaka gave a most interesting talk
furnished conveyances for the ladies each on the young woman, who, though deaf,
month and of that commission merchant dumb and blind, had won distinguished
on Fort Street who made a substantial fame.
At the Christmas celebration the
gift to each of the patients in the Leahi
Home.
church was a bower of beauty, and over
JOHN M. MARTIN,
For the Committee.
300 people were present.
�January, 1910,
The Library Alcove
ERNEST J. REECE
Accessions of Equipment.
It is perhaps fitting that so closely upon Hawaii's pledge of allegiance to one
noble public enterprise it has enlisted
outside beneficence in support of another.
Uplift equipment increased to
the extent of a quarter million—this is
what the new library and Young Men's
Chirstian Association plants mean. Two
institutions which stand primarily for
education and opportunity and richness
of life are to be given efficient tools for
their work. The influences making for
justice and harmony in the relations of
man to man, of breadth and self-realization in the development of the individual,
of clarity and adjustment in the problems
that confront Hawaii have received
mighty impulse. Truly the promise they
have brougt is such as to make memorable the closing months of 1909.
The Generosity in Which We Share.
Apropos of the library gift it is interesting to recall that up to Jannary i,
1909, Mr. Carnegie had furnished funds
for the construction of almost 1800 buildings, costing in the aggregate over rii'tyone million dollars.
Practically all
English speaking countries are represented on the Carnegie map, including
the West Indies, South Africa and the
Fiji and Seychelles islands. The donations have varied in size from the earliest
gift of a single alcove of technical books
made to the Mercantile library at Pittsburg to the note which promised the
library system of Greater New York the
construction of seventy-eight buildings.
The Carnegie Method.
Mr. Carnegie's beneficence is far removed from whim or chance.
It is
systematized by a secretary whose office is conducted on a rigid business
basis.
Church organs, the hero fund,
the Carnegie institution, libraries—each
of these headings stands for a distinct
To each applicant for
department.
library funds the secretary sends a blank
calling for the information which Mr.
Carnegie desires to guide him in giving.
The answers received furnish facts regarding local conditions, important
among which are the population of the
community and the readiness of its citizens to comply with certain conditions
of library maintenance. It may almost
be said that any English-speaking com-
THE
FRIEND
munity in the world may secure money
for a library building provided it does
accept these conditions.
The Carnegie Spirit
One of the questions Mr. Carnegie
asks of a petitioning community is whether it is willing to dedicate to the
maintenance of a library one tenth of
the sum that is requested for building
purposes. In some instances, however,
there have been deviations from this requirement. The inhabitants of a fishing settlement in the Orkney Islands
employed a method which recalls the
pledges made by some of our own New
England pioneers toward founding their
early colleges. Having little ready .cash
the fishermen filled their subscription
list largely with such items as the following :
Fifty pounds of dried fish.
Twenty pairs of knitted socks.
Four weeks of service by laborers.
Two days' carting.
The town was given its library. This
and the experience of another Scottish
village who.-c pledge was matched shilling for shilling reveal the heart in the
Carnegie system.
Dunfermline and the Carnegies.
The public library of Dunfermline
owes its origin not to the steel king but
to his father. Shortly after Andrew was
born the elder Carnegie joined with a
group of fellow-weavers in a plan of
pooling book collections and loaning to
outsiders any volumes that might be
desired.
Gradually the little library
grew, becoming merged finally in a
larger institution. In recent years Mr.
Carnegie has housed the public library
of his native town in a splendid building.
Not content with this he has established
at Dunfermline a magnificent social center, the purpose of which, expressed in
his own words, is "to attempt to introduce into the monotonous lives of the
toiling masses more of sweetness and
light, to give them, especially the young,
some charm, some elevating conditions
of life which their residence elsewhere
would have denied; so that a child in
his native town will feel, however, far
he may have roamed, that simply by
virtue of being such his life has been
made better and happier."
Compensation.
Economically the country is poorer for
the vast wealth that it pours into defense.
Batteries are not reared of clay or dreadOre
noughts spun from gossamer.
drawn from Escanaba lodes and coal
dug from Lackawanna veins are not to
be replaced.
The peace advocates are
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beyond refutation when they buttress
their argument with figures showing the
drain of war upon our national resources. But possibly there is compensation in the fact that much of this natural wealth has been converted indirectly into forms more enduring and of
infinitely greater value. Mr. Carnegie's
riches have come largely from the mines;
they have been transformed into agencies
of religion and art and knowledge. The
material built into the battleship may be
lost, but the public moneys which purchased it have passed thro steel into education and culture and character.
Dibble's "Sandwich Islands."
Only here and there in the libraries of
the many pet sons interested in Hawaiian
history has it been possible hitherto to
find Dibble's "Sandwich Island." The
recent reprint of this work by T. G.
Thrum now brings its possession within
tit reach of all.
Moreover a most valuable bit of Hawaiiana is given added
usefulness. It is a matter of regret that
the workmanship on the new volume
is not bettor and the binding more attractive. If the report that the Burrows
Brothers Company has another reprint
in preparation be true, however, there is
still promise of a suitably beautiful Dibble. This firm has a reputation for lavish expenditure in the publication of
historical works. Thwaites "Jesuit Relations" and Avery's "History of the
United States and its People" are exGenerous co-operation
amples of this.
with authors, tireless patience in the
verification to details, unlimited care
in reproduction work, scrupulous choice
of material and processes—these' are
some of the Burrows hall-marks. Sheldon Dibbles "Sandwich Islands" is
worthy the attention of such book-maker.-, and al! interested in bygone Hawaii
truV' well hope that the Burrows company has decided to bestow effort upon
it.
LANTERN SLIDES
TO EXCHANGE.
Rev. August Drahms, of Hilo would
be glad to exchange stereoptican views
with some one else in such a way that it
will be of mutual advantage.
0
Over one hundred persons were present at the last union prayer meeting
of the Japanese in the Nuuanu Street
church.
J»
a saint is a good deal like being a
woman, I reckon," said Cynthia, dryly.
"There's a heap in being born to It."—Ellen
"Being
Glasgow.
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THE
The Scribe's Corner
REV. WM. BREWSTER OLESON
Corresponding Secretary.
"R man may know It or not, bat a real
reference tor humanity follows from the practical recognition of God ai the father of as
all."
—Harnack
Siloam.
It is not generally known that there
has been a Protestant church at Kalaupapa, Molokai, almost contemporaneous
with the inauguration of the leper settlement. This church has been a remarkably useful and successful organization.
It began with a membership of 35, and
at times has had a membership of over
300. It has been continuously ministered to by a succession of noble and faithful Hawaiian pastors, the present pastor,
Rev. David Kaai, being the eighth in this
These men have been
worthy roll.
maintained by the Hawaiian Board, the
salary of the present pastor being entireThis church has
ly met in this way.
received acccessions by letter from
churches all over the territory, and has
received notably large additions on confession of faith. It has been one of the
most generous of all our Hawaiian
churches in its benevolent contributions.
It has been a spiritual home for many
afflicted with this dread disease who
have found in its light and fellowship
a better healing than that of the body.
It was well-named Siloam by its organizers, for it was sent, that is,' made possible by the compassionate love of Christian men and women from Niihau to Hawaii. The patient ministry of its pastors, who have suffered self-abnegation
in behalf of their fellows, has been a
chapter in modern heroism that is as remarkable as it has been unheralded.
An Urgent Need.
The Bible School for the preparation
of young men for the ministry is about
to open its doors to five or six promising
students. Several of the instructors are
salaried officers of the Hawaiian Board
and there will therefore be no expense
on that account. Kawaiahao church has
generously proffered the use of one of
its well-equipped rooms, and there will
be no expenditure on that account. The
sole expense will be in providing for the
living needs of the students, and to help
compensate them for such service as they
may be able to render pastorless church-
FRIEND,
January, 1910
es during vacations. The scheme calls his face because his music-loving soul
for approximately six months' study in has found congenial expression.
Honolulu each year and six months' supply of vacant pulpits. By this arrangement, the young men will be able first
FIELD HAPPENINGS.
to put their preparation to the test by
actual service, and second to learn more
Some specially valuable touring
clearly what preparation they need most. has1.been done during the quarter ending
Incidentally this plan will secure preach- September
Rev. H. P. Judd and
ing for places during a part of the year Rev. R. B. 30.
made the circuit of
Dodge
that only get it now infrequently. Finally East Maui together preaching and holdin the stress for ministers for our pas- ing meetings at many points.
Rev.
torless churches, this is the best workto
Timoteo
Rev.
H.
P.
S.
and
Judd
E.
able scheme available. The financing of gether or separately preached in all the
the school calls for approximately $1800. Molokai churches, and the latter made
It is believed that the churches served a preaching tour through Hamakua,
by the vacation supply will pay at least Hilo, and Puna.
Rev. E. S. Timoteo
$5 per month. This would mean $300 has been specially useful in the Koolau
from five churches supplied. The Ha- district of Oahu. He has been instru
waiian Board has already made provision mental also in securing regular preach
for about $400 of the needed amount. ing services for the Hauula Church
Another $400 is likely to come from an- through supplies from Honolulu and
other interested source, thus making Waialua. Rev. A. S. Baker has done an
about $1100 in sight.
The remaining unusual amount of visiting in the home;
$700 is necessary to give the experiment of the people in the region of the typhoid
a fair test. This ought to be in hand fever epidemic in Kona.
before the school opens in January, or
2. There has been special activity in
We deem the repair of church property, and in the
at least the pledges for it.
this school a vital necessity at the pre- erection of new buildings. Three churchsent time. It affords the most practical, es on
Kauai have been renovated and
and economical arrangement to secure put in first class condition. The Fort
men adequately equipped for the press- Street Chinese Church has received exing needs of our Hawaiian churches. tensive repairs, and presents an attractive
The scheme contemplates no call now appearance. A Worker's Cottage has
or in the future for new buildings or
been added to the Kalihi Settlement at a
salaries. If after a few years' trial the cost of $600. A fine gymnasium has
results justify its continuance, it will be been erected and dedicated at Palama
an easy matter to add it as a department
Settlement thus distinctly enhancing it.>
to some one of our present schools. For
service to that community. New buildthe present the need is urgent that we ings have been erected at Olaa, Hawaii
do what we can to fill the places of Ha- for
Hawaiian Church, and at Waiwaiian ministers made vacant by death luku the
for
the Japanese Church. Parson
or disability.
This is the most avail- ages also have been secured for the pasable and promising arrangement. Will tors at Wailuku and at Koloa.
you back it up?
Some very necessary" and expensive
That Mandolin Again.
sanitary improvements have been comWell, it has come into the Scribe's pleted at our Honomu Settlement, the
Corner, and has gone out again, to make expense being generously met by the
one man happy in his hard tasks. Only agents of the plantation. Similar mucit
it was not a mandolin after all, but a needed improvements at our Chinese and
guitar. It was the gift of Mrs. Nina Japanese parsonages at Hilo are about
Wolfe, and the gift will make music in completed.
3. Gratifying progress has been made
her soul, as the guitar will in the recipient's ears. I am glad he didn't have in securing pastors for some of our pasto wait until he got his harp in the Gold- torless churches. This has been accomen City.
The harp is a good thing to plished however in two instances at the
look forward to, and we shall all of us, cost of making two other churches pas
who are lucky enough, be glad to hear torless. Thus the church at Olaa has
David on his harp; but that.does seem given up its pastor to the church at Li
a long way off, and so we all rejoice that hue, and the church at Kaupo has lost its
our almost blind but youthful preacher pastor, while the church at Haiku has sein Kona can thrum a guitar in his home cured him.
On the whole our Hawaiian churches
after some of those long journeys about
his large parish; and I think that this are better provided with pastors than for
people will love him even more than they some time previous, though the need is
General Superintendent'! Digest of Quarterly
do now, when they see the added joy in Report*
• Fromending
September :», 1909.
�January, 1910.
Officers for the Bible School:
Superintendent—Ed. Towse.
Assistant Superintendent—Mrs. E. A.
great for men to supply churches sin'
without pastors.
Several new fields could be opened in
our Japanese work, and five evangeiisU
could be wisely placed if the men we.c
calls
available. There are similar urgent
to
enter
evangelists
on
for
us
pressing
new fields among the Chinese. Several
promising enterprises could be inaugurated if the right men could be secured.
Our Japanese work has been Strengthened by the coming of Rev. Mr. Hori
to be the pastor of our Nuuanu Street
Jones..
Secretary—A. E. Larimer.
Treasurer —W. J. Forbes.
Librarian—Harold Gear.
Supt. Sunbeam Class—Mrs. R. D.
Mead.
Supt. Primary Dept.—Miss Chatlctte
Hall.
Supt. Junior Dept.—Mrs. R. W. Andrews.
Supt. Home Dept.—Mrs. E. B. Waterhouse.
Church.
There have been numerous accessions to our churches, but the number
has not been as large as during previous
quarters, probably due to the fact that
this quarter includes the summer seasor.
when there is less activity in our churches than at other times. Noteworthy accessions however are reported in the Hawaiian churches at Lihue and at Halawa, Molokai.
5. The spirit of co-operation has
manifested itself in a variety of helpful
ways. Rev. Mr. Burnham has been of
great assistance at Lahaina in work
among the Chinese and in Settlement
enterprises. Dr. Waterhouse and wife
have done splendid misionary service at
Koloa in the Hawaiian Sunday School
and in the Japanese mission. Miss Tappan of the Mid-Pacific Institute has rendered helpful assistance at our Chinese
The
Settlement on Beretania Street.
visit of Dr. Scudder to Kona, Hawaii.
was a stimulus and encouragement to
our workers there.
6. We are glad to report large en.
rollments at all our schools. Probably
these schools were never in better condition than today; and yet several of them
find it difficult to meet the demands on
them for lack of funds.
No definite announcement has yet been
made by the Committee on the Bible
School as to the date of opening, but
progress has been made in mapping out
a course of study. Two of our agents
are holding monthly classes for Bible
study of the Sunday School lessons.
7. Generous gifts have been received
including $1500 to be added to the Mrs.
M. S. Rice fund; $500 for the Pastor's
Aid Society of Hawaii; $200 to aid Mrs.
R. B. Baker in her work; and $100 to
the Kaiwiki Chapel Fund.
The reports of our agents and superintendents are full of interesting facts
which it is impossible to include in a brief
survey of this nature.
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4.
Central Union News
A. A. EBERSOLE
A Healthy Growth.
It is as it should be, when at every
communion service a goodly company of
new members come into church memberThe December communion wa»
ship.
made especially joyous because twenty
more were received, making seventynine who joined us during the year.
Of these twenty who came in at this
time five came on confession of faith,
one on reaffirmation and fourteen by letters from other churches.
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Annual Meeting.
The mid-week service on December
15, gave way to the annual business
meeting of the church, for the election
of officers, and such other matters as
might be presented.
The election resulted as follows:
Deacons—Wm. D. Alexander and P.
W. Rider (Re-elected).
Deaconesses —Mrs. T. G. Thrum (reelected), Mrs. W. W. Hall.
Standing Committee Members—P. L.
Home, Geo. W. Paty.
Clerk—W. W. Hall (Re-elected).
Treasurer—O. C. Swain (Re-elected).
Trustees—S. M. Damon and Zcno K.
Myers (re-elected), J. P. Cooke (in
While Thanksgiving has its foundation on place of J. O. Carter, deceased), C. H.
mouth Rock, Christmas rests upon the Cooke (in place of C. M. Cooke, deceask of Ages.—Charles Dudley Warner.
ed.)
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THE FRIEND
Woman's Society.
In the general reorganization of the
Ladies' Society the name was changed
to "Woman's Society." The following
officers were elected for the ensuing year.
Mrs. W. C. Hobdy, President.
Mrs. Malcolm Mac Intyte, Vice-President.
Mrs. A. C. Alexander, Treasurer.
Mrs. W. W. Thayer, Secretary.
Councillors At Large:
Mrs. Z. K. Myers.
Mrs. F. W. Peterson.
Mrs. J. M. Whitney.
Committee Chairmen:
Mrs. Alonzo Gartley, Cailing.
Mrs. W. F. Brown, Educational.
Mrs. A. C. Alexander, Finance.
Mrs. Marston Campbell, House.
Mrs. Stanley Livingston, Membership.
Mrs. Forbes, Religious Work.
Mrs. Abram Lewis, Social.
These officers, councillors and committee chairmen constitute the Executive
Committee.
With more than two hundred qiembers the Society enters the new year with
greater promise than ever.
An Important Line of Study.
On Thursday evening, December 9, a
group of men called together under the
auspices of the Social Section of the
Men's League, organized a class for a
If
careful study of modern socialism.
the first meeting is any criterion this will
prove an exceedingly interesting and
profitable cause. The work is outlined
for seven months and at each meeting
certain phases of the subject will be presented by appointed speakers and the
meeting is thrown open for discussion.
Some lively debates are sure to follow.
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Ministers' Class.
Parents are beginning to appreciate
the value of the class which the minister
conducts each year during the winter
�months, for the boys and girls of the
church who are thirteen years of age.
This year there are twenty in the class
ten boys and ten girls.
The class meets
The attendevery Friday after school.
ance is almost perfect and the interest in
the work most encouraging. The little
book which they use "Our Children for
Christ" is a new edition of the minister's
own series of lessons setting forth, largely in the language of Scripture, the fundamentals of the Christian life.
Christmas Carol.
January. 1910.
THE FRIEND.
10
Ed them among the poor families in Pa- was needed than the joyous faces of the
lama and Kakaako. Besides many use- ; children as they came with laden arms
ful articles and great piles of toys, $36 that it is "more blessed to give than to
was handed in in money. No better proof jreceive ."
Men Working for Men
PAUL SUPER
"
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The Bible School presented this year
what was, by all who saw it, pronounced
to be the most beautiful representation
of the Nativity ever given in Central
Union Church.
It was an entirely original production
written and staged by Mr. Jas. A. Wilder.
The first scene represented some
shepherd boys lying asleep while in the
distance could be seen the village o(
Bethlehem. The brightness of the star
and the far away voices of herald angeis
awoke them. Then came the Three Wise
Men clad in silks and jewels carrying
their gifts to the new born King—and
enquiring the way to Bethlehem. The
dialogue, mostly the language of Scrip
ture, was most impressive.
The second scene was a tableaux tcpresenting the wise men and shepherd
boys gathered in worshipful adoration
about the mother and child in the stable.
Not a word was spoken in this scene.
Although the room was crowded to the
doors a hush fell upon the audience and
the effect was one not soon to be forgotten.
The music was in charge of Mr. W.
A. Love, chairman of the Musical Section of the Men's League. A splendid
orchestra played most effectively the music accompanying the carols and during
the final tableaux.
Everyone was so delighted with the
presentation that Mr. Wilder and those
who so ably assisted him were persuaded
to repeat it on Monday evening, December 27. for the general public who were
not able to attend the first presentation
on Thursday evening, the 23rd. when
another large audience was present.
"More Blessed to Give Than to Receive.**
In accordance with the custom of the
Bible School, this was the year for the
scholars to give gifts instead of receive.
It was a beautiful sight to see class after
class bear their gifts to the platform and
present them to the minister and the
deaconnesses who the next day distribut-
A FEATURE OF THE NEW BUILDING.
The New Building.
Building matters are now moving
along. The whole corner of Hotel anti
Alakea streets has been secured for the
This includes i42 feet
building site.
front on Hotel street, extending from
Alakea to Adams' Lane.
The Alakea
side is 2x2 feet long, including the whole
of the Library land, and the Adams Lane
side is about iB5 feet. The total area is
about 28,000 square feet, and costs the
Association $57,000. The building will
not occupy the whole of the lot, but will
have a frontage of about 90 feet and
about i6O feet length. The rear of the
building will be about nO feet wide.
The Building Committee is now complete, except for the appointment of one
man and consists of Messrs. T. Clive
Davies, Chairman; F. J. Lowrey, W. G.
Hall and A. Gartley.
Their first business will be the choice
of an architect, which choice will be made
early in January.
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Religious Work.
The two most satisfactory features of
the Association's religious work are the
shop Bible classes and the Monday night
meeting for the students in the night
school classes. The class in the Catton
Neill Shops meets every Thursday noon
and averages between 25 and 30 in atThe Honolulu Iron Works
tendance.
class meets Friday noon and averages
around fifty. The average for December
was si. The course followed is called
"The Master Man," a series of incidents
from the Life of Christ. Each man has
a copy of the text, extracts from the
scriptures, from which the class read.-,
before the talk on the days' lesson.
The young men in the educational dc
partment take kindly to the Monday
night meetings, held at nine o'clock in the
Social Rooms, the attendance running
from 35 to 40 each week. Thus in the.c
three meetings about i2O men a week ate
reached, many more than we formerly
got together for the Sunday meetings in
the building, and to quite a large extent,
composed of non-church-going men.
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Notes.
A class in Commercial Law, to be
taught by Judge Alexander Lindsay, Jr.,
begins work January 18.
O. H. Ingalls has had to resign his
position as office secretary owing to ill
health. Seabury Short, son of the Key.
�TRY A OAME OF CHECKERS
Mr. Short of the Episcopal Church, tooK
his place January first.
The January Round-Up will be 'Seeing Honolulu by Moonlight." The December one, "A Trip to Frisco on the
Alameda," was such a success that the
committee will try that form of edutainment again. Various phases of Honolulu life will be burlesqued on an nuginary tour of the city.
R. L. Gault, the new elected secretary
for boys' work, is expected early in the
year. The present force anxiously await
his coming, and hope for big things in
boys' work when he gets here.
Dr. Scudder will begin a series of
talks in the building at noon, once a
week, taking up religious problems of
young men, and answering such questions as the men care to ask.
A chess tournament and a tennis toutnament are interesting a number of members, young and not so young.
224 men and boys have joined the Association since September first.
conferences gave splendid opportunity
to meet with old friends and to make
new. Quite an extensive tour has been
made through Japan, visiting churches.
schools and colleges. Fifty addresses
have been given, reaching some thirteen
thousand students. The Japanese seem
interested in the International Reform
idea.
A very pleasant visit was had with
Dr. Dc Forest at Sendai. The good Hawaiian coffee at his table made me
think of the fine coffee the ladies of
Central Union Church always provide.
Perhaps the greatest treat enjoyed
Ims been the Protestant Semi-Centennial Conference. The report and the
review of the fifty years' work in Japan
was full of interest.
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Christian Progress in Japan.
An extract from Dr. Imbrie's address
will show something of the progress of
missionary work during the past fifty
years:
"Fifty years ago there was not a
Christian in Japan, now they are to be
found in the Imperial Diet, on the
Judge's bench, and in the Imperial I'niviTsity. On this occasion they had gathered from all parts of the country to
celebrate the founding of Christianity.
It has made for itself a place worthy of
recognition in this nation, and this assemblage today is a fact of profound
significance.
"At present 500 men have been ordained, and 300 more are preparing.
There are 200 financially independent
congregations, and 500 that are not yet
independent. In Japan there are 1,200
Schools, and 90,000 school
and
students, while 260,000
teachers
been
contributed to the
yen have
churches.
more than statistics
'' What is needed
sense
of
responsibility as
is a deeper
and
a new vigor of
churches of Japan,
life as never before. The Church of
Christ that goes forth to conquer must
have a message.
"Christian ideas and principles have
been working in the minds of the people. Christian literature is read to a
large extent, or the apostles or disciples
are quoted in the daily papers along
with the wisdom of the Japanese sages.
Sunday
A GOOD TRIER.
Foreign Correspondence
E. W. THWING
Tokyo, Oct. 22. '09.
The days have been passing so rapidly that it is hard to realize that over
three months have been spent in Japan.
The summer at Karuizawa was most
delightful. The many meetings and
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THE FRIEND
January, 1910
The English work most read is the
Christian Scripture.
"What is the outlook? A voice is
heard—the voice of one crying to prepare the way of the Lord. There is an
open door. The great work is yet to be
done. The evangelizing of Japan can
only be accomplished by time and toil.
In the process, time is an essential element. It is like the siege of Port Arthur. Endure hardship like a good soldier. That is the injunction to be taken
to heart by the churches of Japan."
J»
Count Okuma Speaks for Christianity.
I had a very pleasant visit with Count
Okuma at his home a week ago. He is
very friendly and spoke most highly of
Ihe work of the missionaries in Japan.
He is much interested in the International Reform work, and believes in the
said
true brotherhood of mankind. Hething
such
to me: "There is really no
among peoas the East and the West
ple. We are all men of the world, very
much alike and truly brothers. It is a
mistake to speak of the Orient and the
Occident as so different." Count Okuand
ma also attended the Conference
of
value
gave this testimony as to the
Christian missions:
"I am not a Christian, but I am the
indirect beneficiary of Christian influence. The civilization of Japan is Anglo-American, and largely brought
by
about by the missionaries, sometimes
conscious, and sometimes by indirect,
influence. I wish to congratulate you
on your achievement in these fifty
years. I warn you that today and
henceforth is the time to go to work for
Christianity, and that which you have
done is but a small part of the work
you are destined to do in this Empire."
Good News for Hawaii.
It was good news to learn from The
Friend that Dr. Scudder is to stay in
the mid-Pacific, where he is so much
needed. Some of his words much impressed me as looking forward to unity,
uai. as they say. We may hope so.
Many people would like to get some
Pacific problem of the future and the
hope of being able in a small way to
help on that mightiest of all inter-racial
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Our Young People
HENRY P.
JUDD
ringing in their ears and gone to the
lunch tables there to delight themselves
further in the delicacies and to enjoy
social conversation and then departed
to their homes in no wise spiritually
strengthened or enlightened.
We suggest that the district superintendents devise some scheme which will
prove to be of great benefit in the conducting of the hoikes. The spirit of
worship should take the place of hilarity and confusion; there should be one
or two speakers prepared to give practical talks on some of the live S. S. topics, instead of so much bouquet-throwing as is noticed so often; there might be
an exhibition of a model class or perhaps
a black-board talk.
An informal conference of the teachers present might
result in much profitable discussion.
Other methods may easily suggest themselves as feasible and advantageous. The
hoike is a good institution if well conducted. Let us try to improve it all
along the line and make it a real force,
of spiritual and educational value as
The Hoike Session.
well as social.
The last of December has been the
time for the usual district "hoikes."
The general superintendent has been in- The Superintendent on Molokai.
vited to attend several of these gatherSoon after arriving from the Mainland
ings but, not being able to divide his
to
refuse
with
his bride on November 23rd, the
several
has
had
parts,
body into
Superintendent started out for a three
almost all of the invitations.
Readers of the "Nupepa Kuokoa" can week's tour of the islands of Molokai
easily keep posted as to the time and and Lanai.
The first two weeks of the journeying
place of the various "hoikes." The
spent at Kauluwai, Molokai as
were
the
mind
popular
hoike has a hold upon
of the Hawaiian people and is very use- guests of Mr. and Mrs. George P.
From this delightful home
ful as a means of gathering in the indif- Cooke.
to the various places on
and
were
made
Sunday-school
trips
ferent members of the
of attracting some who are not members the Kona side of Molokai. The Supof any school. It is a great success as erintendent's attention to church activity
a social entertainment, as a popular gath- on the island was attracted immediately
ering for the singing of hymns and the upon his arrival late at night on Novemrecital of Bible verses and Sunday-school ber 30th.
Near the end of the long wharf, the
lessons.
The spirit of friendly rivalry between new Kaunakakai church loomed up
schools of different localities is apparent prettily in the moonlight. The buildat times; the appeal for a large offering ing was erected under the immediate
from the schools is made sometimes supervision of the Rev. D. K. White of
noisily and always urgently, and through Lahaina and is a beautiful and spacious
all the proceedings is the note of joy house of worship. The dedication serWhat vice was held on Christmas day and was
and delightful entertainment.
spiritual
very impressive and helpful.
for
a
opportunity
splendid
a
On Sunday December sth we visited
uplift and also for the gaining of valuamethods
Kalaiakamanu Sunday-school at
new
the
regarding
ble knowledge
and ideas is thereby thrown away. Too Kaunakakai in the old church building
often has the crowd filed out from the and were most cordially received by the
church with the beautiful songs still people. Being called upon by Mr. Ua-
It will be noticed in this issue chat
the expositions of the Sunday-school
lessons have been omitted from this department. It has been thought unnecessary to give these brief outlines of the
lessons considering the fact that so many
excellent quarterlies and lesson helps are
accessible to all at very low prices. For
the year 1910 this department will be
limited to one page and will contain
items of interest in the Sunday-School
and Christian Endeavor work.
We will be glad to receive any reports, items or suggestions from any
Sunday-school or C. E. society in the
Territory for we wish to keep in touch
with all the phases of Christian activity
among the young people of Hawaii nei.
It is a true saying that knowledge begets
interest, and the axiom applies in the
Sunday-school and C. E. work as well
Let us hear what our
as elsewlk
schools and societies are doing.
January, 1910,
FRIEND
hinui, the Superintendent, I gave a talk
in Hawaiian and Mr. White, the minister-carpenter of Lahaina followed. He
spoke of the new church building and
what it should mean to the people, also
referring to the benefits that were to be
received from the Christian influences
of such men as Mr. Gay of Lanai, Mr.
Cooke of Molokai and Mr. Baldwin of
Maui.
On Saturday the nth, I rode to Halawa, stopping en route at Kaluaaha for
luncheon with Mr. and Mrs. H. R.
Hitchcock. Just before dark I rode into
the beautiful valley of Halawa and was
the guest of Hon. Joel Nakaleka over
Sunday. The Rev. E. S. Timoteo had
been holding a series of evangelistic
meetings during the week with the result
that on Sunday morning thirteen new
members were received into the church.
The services of the day were unusually
interesting, beginning with an excellent
hoike, following with the morning worship at which time Mr. Timoteo preached, and concluding with a C. E. installation of new officers and a wide-awake
The Halawa Chrisprayer meeting.
tians gave evidence of great interest in
their church life and work for the Master.
On Monday morning.Messrs. Nakaleka, Timoteo, Kaalouahi, the minister,
and Judd rode over to Waialua and held
a meeting in the church. An opportunity was afforded us to speak first to the
school children in English and then to
the adults in Hawaiian. After our meeting we were delightfully entertained at
luncheon at the home of Mr. Cathcart,
the school teacher.
On Lanai.
The following day we sailed for Lanai,
having a few hours en route at Lahaina,
where we received many favors from the
Rev. and Mrs. C. G. Burnham and the
workers at the Baldwin Settlement
House. A short passage across the channel from Lahaina found us at Kahalepalaoa and a cordial welcome awaited us
from Mr. and Mrs. Gay. Our stay on
the island was most enjoyable. The services on Sunday in the Lanaihale church
were interesting as usual and the people
of the island are actively engaged in
Sunday school, C. E. and other phases
of Christian life. It is good to know
that Mr. and Mrs. Gay are to stay on
the island and will continue to be the
earnest workers in the vineyard that
they have been during the past few years
on Lanai.
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THE FRIEND.
January, 1910
i.
A Temperance Superintendent to
devote
his time to this department.
SYNDICATE
GREATEST
2. A white secretary to be located
in the Southland.
By REV. E. B. TURNER.
3. A superintendent for the work
An organization that covers all of among the negroes of the South.
North America, managed by a Com4. An Intermediate Superintendent
mittee of one hundred of America's for this most important department.
choicest business and professional men,
5. A College and Seminary Secreall without salary; directing the study tary—a college bred Sunday School
and Christian activity of more than man who shall impress the Sunday
twenty millions of people. All this at school idea and the Sunday school opan expense for administration of one- portunity upon the student bodies of the
third of one per cent, per annum per land.
6. A Missionary Superintendent who
capita of its constituency; and having as
its sole purpose the honoring of God and shall devote himself to giving the schools
the betterment of the world by the build- the missionary vision.
ing up of strong Christian character; by
7. The additional office assistants rebringing the best in each denomination quired by the installing of any or all of
to the support of all, as it calls together these Superintendents or Secretaries.
$10,000 will do most of this work outannually something like three millions of
people in its seventeen thousand stimu- lined above; of this amount $4,000 has
lating educational conventions, through been pledged, provided the balance can
the intelligent, efficient study of the Bi- be secured in pledges by January I, 1910.
ble—surely such an organization may
One hundred Life Memberships in
the Association have been issued to the
properly be called
first one hundred persons who subscribe
THE WORLD'S
One Thousand Dollars each to this fund.
GREATEST SYNDICATE Three years are given
in which to make
and that organization is
the complete payment, the proceeds of
THE INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY the fund to be expended only for the extension of the work of the Association.
SCHOOL ASSOCATION.
Inasmuch as this Association directThis Association needs at once
ly benefits the Chritian work of our is-
THE WORLD'S
-
lands, as well as much of the world, for
the International lessons are used whereever English is spoken, it is eminently
fitting that we should have a part in
subscribing to this noble fund. Our islands could at least raise $1,000 to seNo money
cure one life membership.
Dividends
could be better invested.
are guaranteed in the World's Greatest
Syndicate. Would you like some stock ?
During those days when the men of
the Japanese cruiser Idzumo were
granted shore leave, the Makiki Church
was very active in welcoming and entertaining them. Thirty of the young men
went each morning to the ship to act as
guides, each young man taking a party
of about fifteen to the various points of
interest in and about Honolulu. By
the kindness of the Promotion Committee these guides were able to present
each one of their party with some promotion literature, and some good Christian ammunition was likewise put into
the hands of the officers and men in
the form of tracts such as "Christianity and War," by Dr. Dc Forest, and
others, which would especially attract
the attention of those to whom they
were given.
You can
"Eat your cake and have it"
in a very real sense.
You can give away your property and have it,—really enjoy it, as long as you live. You couldn't have
it longer than that anyway.
This is the idea of "The Conditional Gift Plan"s Your money,—property, or whatever can be converted into money,—pays you a good, steady income during your life and goes on working for you and
for humanity after you are gone.
So you ''make friends (by) the mammon of unrighteousness,"
So also, you "lay up for yourself treasures, etc'
This is no can't. It is Christian stewardship and sound business sense combined.
The Finance Committee makes you an offer of one whole per cent better than before. You can hardly
invest much better elsewhere and
the amount you invest with the Hawaiian Board in your life time will not be
wrangled for after you are gone.
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The Liquor Problem in Hawaii
the National Convention of the American Anti-Saloon
League, Chicago, December 5-12, 1909, by John G. Woolley.
Report to
have not been idle in Hawaii, but unreport is a record, not of accomplishment,
out of opportunity ani ncea.
Draw a line from San Francisco to Port
Darwin; another from San Diego to Singam;
pore; another from Acap.ilco to Yokoua.
anotber from Panama to Hong Kong; ananother from Valparaiso to Vladlvostock;
Wellington.
to
other from Sitka
These lmes will cross in the Hawaiian
Islands—the Pleiades of the Pacific. Eight
r
inhabited floating gardens, marvels ot
beauty, salubrity and hospitality. Where,
even as here, the liquor trade, the leprosy
of human Industry, eats off the fingers ot
opportunity; eats away the lips of truth;
eats out the eyes of ambition and the heart
Of hope; and pays.a rake-off to the revenues,
for the jTlvllege." That Is my parish and
my home.
These Islands were discovered by Captain Cook In 1778, Just at the time when
King George 111 was discovering Mr. Oeorge
Washlrgtoi:.
Exactly 120 years
later, the Hawaiian Re-
public left' itself on the door-step of the
ed their hot fury from the ocean bed, ana
Biouted red defiance at the stars, while tne
sea boiled like a kettle. But here they stand,
groups of bucolic statuary, catching rainwater, for miles and mites ot sugar cane.
The boiling lava waß land, in iTie making;
the bellowing eruption was tne love song ot
the elements; and the fire was lite, or full
of life.
To the left, I spend many an Hour watctling the long catapult of the South Pacific,
green, Jealous, cruel, ramming, wave on
wave, ten thousand miles of sullen protest
against these upstart' specks of change, only
to fling out flags of surf against the corai
bayonets of the reef, where ships of all
nations ride in utter calm, and brown Hawaiian boys disport themselves as in a pond.
It is the truce of Reaction to Reform.
The blue haze on the mountains, the green
interminableness of the sea, the gracious
brooding of the soft, sweet sky, the quiet
of the scene and of the life, induce a spell
almost hypnotic. The spirit of Hawaii
seems to say: "There, do not hurry, there is
plenty of time. Work If you will, but don't
ferment; what is left today, will be good
for tomorrow, or mahope! there will be
other days."
If you gather from this, that Hawaii is
Indolent or slip-shod, you mislead yourselt.
Where nerves do not sputter, fewer motions
give more results. Ha-wail is slow but busy.
We have great riches, but no idle rich.
The extra-natural conditions conduce to
tolerance and breadth of beam. Ships are
civilizations; and Hawaii is the crossroads
for the ships of all nations. All sorts and
conditions of me:i mlngl' on our waterfront. All freaks and ingenuities of vice,
of virtue, gather
and all the standard
there.
American civilization is on trial in Hawaii, with every known competition present
and workng, and tourist statesmen, students
and philanthropists from the four quarters
of the earth, taking not.sa
The Territory of Hawaii itj Inspector Genhealth, against the
eral of American
invasion of Oriental JI—MM. No infectea
ship gets farthct ttWi Uuaiaiitlne in Honolulu bay. Nor (HVal that port without full
United States and became The Territory
of Hawaii, in line for statehood, and already
beginning to play a part of prodigious significance in the drama of World politics, for
the New World has moved to Asia, America
fronts west and the Pacific ocean is the
future.
Uncle Sam has no niece that can compare in loveliness with his adopted daughter. The Hawaiian year has but one month
—365 days of rare North temperate June.
The Hawaiian dictionary contains no word
for "weather.''
But the climatic perfection implies no
monotony of temperature. The ocean currents and the contour of the land ensure
variety, all the way from perpetual snow
on the top of Mauna Kea to 85 deg. Fahrenheit in the lea of Punchbowl. If one knows
what climate he wishes, he takes a walk
and gets It; that is all. At a given joint,
the mean annual variation is about 10 deg.
and the range from noon to midnight about
the same.
The Hawaiian landscape matches the
climate by contrast. The one Is as bold as
t::nely warning to the ir,»>ulM)d.
the other Is mild.
The Territor' <f Htiwaii is the masterFrom my office window, to the right, halt
a dosen exquisite valleys open,, thick wlfh Vey of the Pacifc, \r> csro o" war. No fleet
bungalows at first, but later, mounting Into f'om the f.'.r l"ast con!;' tntv Oeliver a chalprimeval lava-shards and scraps of Tainbow, vocal and fragrant with voices and
odors of the woods, and In The upper reaches, damp with frequent rains and capricioffs
mountain streams.
In front, the Walanae range of mountains
■crawls Its long indenture on die sky-line,
witnessing to tTTe indefeasable title of life
against the tyranny of force, and even
death, the trespasser; for, all these quiet,
reassuring summits are old volcanoes that,
in some youthful passion of the world, hlss-
January, 1910
FRIEND
lenge to America, without coaling at Hono-
lulu. The great American question, in the
event of trouble with Japan, would be,
"How strong Is Hawaii?" And the federal
government Is constructing ihe answer now,
regardless of expense.
In the curve of the beach at Walklki, deep
emplacements are waiting for the grea'
guns that will command the roadway from
the harbor lo fhe sea. Dead 1n front of the
channel, and sweeping it ..om end to enu
another battery has its position. Further
on. Pearl Harbor hides impregnable armaThe entrails of the old volcano, Diamond Head have been replaced with vitals
ment.
of artillery and ammunition for action indefinitely prolonged. The adjacent sea Is
platted in mathematical squares; and from
his look-out on the lip cf the crater, an
expert aims the great mortars in the pits
below.
To man the batteries and shipyards and
police every foot of the shore, bodies or
picked men from all arms of the service are
on duty. It has been a part of my business
to observe them carefully. They are young,
clean, quiet, and a credit to the country.
But the monotony and enforced idleness ot
the life they lead put heavy strain v] on
the soundest character. And it is there,
that the liquor trade gels in its sneaking,
poisoning work among them.
More than seventy-flve saloons are licensed to lay for them in the one island ot
Oahu—about 150 in the group. Wholesale
liquor stores are mere saloons in Hawaii,
except two or three great Arms that sell
liquor incidentally, and bona fide wholesale. The others are dram-sellers and the
worst of dram-sellers, willing, and legally
entitled, to sell any quantity, however small,
as "bottled goods," and to operate outside
bars.
The federal government has drummed the
drink out of the camps, for the health, safety and efficiency "of the soldier. The rule
is enforced, and Increasingly respected by
the officers. The territorial authorities cooperate, as to the camps outside the city,
and refuse to license man-traps at the gates,
nut distances "are short. The marine barracks is in the heart of the city. And the
(fty is a cr.nt.i.'ir.K ni of saloons.
It fs not worse. In this respect, than
other license cities of its size. It is rather
better.
But. the conditions that obtain,
make the saloons of Honolulu more mischievous than those tKat prey upon mainland cities of the same class.
The Island of Oahu is to all intents ana
purposes a naval and military cami, from
the water to the clouds on the mountains.
The rule of conaxess should embrace ft all,
and the illicit liquor seller should be hunted
out as diligently as plague rats, for the
health and honor of the soldier and the
country.
The native Hawaiians, reduced now, by
the vices and diseases of Christian nations,
to some forty thousand in number, are as
fine a race, under the circumstances, as the
world can show. Measured by any standard,
they exhibit some virtues that would adorn
the nations that are more advanced. They
are nominally Christians. That Is, they are
precisely like other Christians. But they are
still the veriest barbarians when they take
to drink.
They have no love of money, to make
them stingy. They have no love of power,
to make them prudent. They have no loud
call to thrift and industry. They are gentle,
handsome, hospitable, peaceful. But they
are only ninety years removed from naked
animalism. The liquor traffic simply murders them.
For the sake of humanity and decency,
the spirit of the international agreement to
keep alcoholic drinks from South Sea peof)f\ f)(\fT/* T if\"\
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FRIEND
Notes From the Field
FRANK S. SCUDDER
"UJhat a
thought that was when God first thought of
How the Tree-Planting Proposition
Was Received.
That the offer of trees for planting
on Arbor Day met a felt want on the
part of the Japanese living in camps on
the various Islands, was evident from
the glad response accorded to the proposal that they should celebrate Arbor
Day by beautifying their home surroundings.
The above samples of trees were
taken from place to place and the people were invited to order such as they
a
tree."
to any who chose to build a protecting
fence around their trees in the camps
in the vicinity of Lihue.
Others offered to raise from seed any
kind of trees that might be desired and
furnish them free of cost to the laborers.
The number of trees ordered reached
the grand total of 5,522, though, because of the exhausted supply of certain varieties, the number actually sent
out fell short of that number by several
hundreds.
One gratifying result has been that
the Christians have in some cases laid
plans for the general improvement of
the camps in which they live, planting,
here a windbreak, there a tree that shall
give shade for playing children, or for
women who do the washing.
The following letter from Mr. Tsuji
gives a vivid description of the interest
taken in one locality:
desired, seizing this opportunity to improve the camps for their own sake, for
the sake of their children and those who
should afterward enjoy the result of
their endeavors.
Plantation managers and other
friends also gave hearty encouragement
to the plan, in some eases to such an
extent that the Tomo Prizes for the best
results in tree-planting sank into insignificance.
Mr. B. D. Baldwin offered a prize of
Lihue, Kauai, Nov. 16th, 1909.
$25 for the best results obtained on the Dear Sir:
Makaweli plantation by the end of 1910.
"I thank you very much for your
Mrs. Hans Isenberg gave a carte
kitid
trouble for the trees. Mr. Weber
blanche order for fence posts and wire sent
the wagon and carried them to my
The above photo was kindly contributed by Mr. K.
house. We are so thankful and glad
Hamumoto, of the Pacific Photo Gallery, Hot.l St.
15
we got nice trees so many. I carried
about ten boxes to Hanamaulu and
gave them all before the Arbor Day, so
many people planted trees on Arbor
Day. My school boys and girls planted
many trees in my school yard on that
day. Mr. Weber is so kind for planting trees around Japanese camps. He
gave men to dig holes to plant trees and
made fences so nicely for two or three
places near the public road. If the trees
grow it will be a very nice view. All
Japanese are so glad they got fences
around their homes and planted trees.
They promised with me to take care of
the trees, to give water and clean the
yards hereafter. When you make a visit next time upon us you may see some
places nicely changed and trees growing. All people say, now Lihue Japanese have a very fine place. By and by
Lihue will be number one place on Kauai. Many people hope to get some of
the Cypress. These trees look very nice,
so they like to get them very much. I
told them they will get some after six
months after, as you wrote to me the
other day. May I ask your trouble to
send any book or materials to study for
trees or planting. We are expecting
to study on the subject of planting
trees.
Mrs. H. Isenberg is very kind, to give
help so much for fence posts and wires.
Some people are now making little gardens around their houses. Please give
thanks to her and also the officers of
the Agriculture and Forestry Department for their kind trouble for sending
trees this time. All Japanese are so
thankful and glad for them."
Thanks for Pictures.
I am working now in Makaweli, Kauai, always visiting laborers' houses for
missicrary work. I found that they all
feel very lonely with nothing to interest
them. Then I was thinking what to do.
Just in time, Rev. Frank Scudder sentI
to me very plenty of nice pictures.
was to divide these among the Japanese
of our camp. All at once they began to
make nice each room and they are very
glad feeling interest in the pictures. I
thank our friends for the trouble they
have been so kind as to take for me.
S. TAKAHASHI.
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THE FRIEND.
THE LIQUOR PROBLEM IN
HAWAII.
(Continued fro\n page 14)
pies; and the policy of our own government
ninety years of missionary work surely
abides. But the soil of barbarism is very
porous; and the application of Christian ethics to democratic social tillage is still a matter of many years of social engineering.
In short, the present developed police power of the Territory cannot meet the liquor
situation. It can help and is ready to help,
and In the long run It would win. But the
present need is too great to wait for a remotely future remedy.
Hawaii Is the Capitol of American peace,
and the model of American missions. The
federal government ought to control, can
control, the liquor traffic in the islands. The
ports are in its hands. The federal officers are capable and locally unentangled.
Its power is respected and feared. The federal judges are independent, and very able.
The federal government ought to take the
matter In charge promptly and finally. The
native people are entitled to it. The best
interests of the army and navy demand it.
All classes of helpful and honorable business
men would favor it. And the object lesson
would be famous throughout the world.
I therefore ask your earnest cooperation
in an effort to secure the passage of Senate BUI 1862 now pending in Congress giving
prohibition to Hawaii.
which keeps American Samoa safe from the
saloon; ought to Include Hawaii.
But the Territory Is unequal to this plain
duty, though well enough disposed, until the
sturdy, middle-class democracy arrives. It
has not arrived, and Is not yet beginning to
arrive.
Hawaii has a population of 170,000. Seventy thousand of these are Japanese, presenting a problem that is serious, If not dangerous. Their children born In Hawaii are
American citizens. The time Is not far
away when they will be an Important factor
In politics.
Twenty thousand are Chinese. Sixteen
thousand are Portuguese. Seven thousands
are hybrids. And ten thousand are AngloSaxon. A percentage of the beneficiaries of
Hawaiian plantations reside away from the
Islands. They receive their monthly dividends on sugar stock and their Semi-Annual
interest on Sugar bonds, and contribute
nothing to the actual man-to-man problem
of good government. A few of the strong
white men take their political duty seriously
but, speaking broadly, the better whites
FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE.
avoid politics. The legislature is controlled
by natives. The constabulary is native. The
Territory Is at the mercy of the liquor men,
(Continued
Page 11)
who are white, expert, unscrupulous, and
movements, the closer binding together
Indefatigable.
A majority of the natives are opposed to of Asia and America, is strong."
the liquor trade. But they cannot cope with
"The World waits for the coming
the liquor power either In cunning or stabilIs
abundant
sentiment
and
courfree Union Church, where men of
great
ity. There
age; but both are undeveloped as to flght- all denominations and none, men of all
ing-power and staying-power.
Even if the native officials were more sorts of doctrinal creeds and none, may
nearly adequate to deal with the cleverest worship God as brothers and eo-operatc
of all public enemies, the representatives of as fellow servants under the leadership
the Internal Revenue Department of the
I
federal government, while very efficient in of the Master Man, Jesus Christ.
that service, are —even by their very effi- know of no place where the first examciency—practically abettors of the illicit
liquor sellers. The fault is not In the offi- ple of such a church is so possible today
cials, but in the law, save In one particular; as Honolulu. Here we are off by ourthey do not enforce the law that requires
selves in the midst of the great free
the Special liquor dealer's tax receipt to be
ocean of the future."
posted up in a conspicuous place.
The Illicit business in the Islands Is not
"Finally the ideal demands that we
great In volume, but It Is very serious. The
government and the military and naval offi- in Honolulu realize our manifest descers protect the camps on the Inside, and tiny as the missionary center of the
the Territory does its best to cooperate, and
to protect the fish market—the great gath- Pacific world. Here is the culminating
ering place of the natives. But the illicit privilege of Central Union Church."
liquor seller—with his federal tax receipt
These are some of the good reasons
concealed —largely nullifies them all, and In
his
brethren
of
the
the operation, furnishes
for his staying in Hawaii, and there cerlegitimate trade with the stock argument for tainly is a grand work there.
May
their business existence—that "prohibition
Hawaii well do her important part and
does not prohibit."
Hawaii Is purely a problem of conserva- bring the East and the West closer totion and reclamation. The porous lava
mountains are saturated with water, like gether so that the Pacific may indeed be
giant sponges. Leaward agriculture means the great "Peace Ocean" of the future.
first and always development of the latent
from
moisture and its distribution
by irrigation
Titanic pumps, today, are lifting
water five hundred feet for farming purposes. This means enormous capital and
herculean labor.
Leeward sociology presents precisely the
same characteristics. The Hawaiian race,
which controls the law-making, law-enforcing function In the islands, is rich In moral
and political potentialities. The fruit of
systems.
We are leaving in about two weeks
for China, and expect to spend the winter in Tientsin and Peking. Our address is care of Mr. K. M. Gordon,
American Board Mission, Tientsin,
China. Best wish to all friends in Hawaii.
E. W. THWING.
January, 1910
A Social Settlement in Japan.
Miss Alice P. Adams, an American
Board missionary of Okayama, Japan,
stopped over in Honolulu on her return
to her field, in order to interest the
Japanese of this city in the work of the
Hanabatake (Flower Garden) Christian
Social Settlement, at Okayama, of
which she is the enthusiastic superintendent. This work was started eighteen years ago under her care and now
has seven departments, all free and all
for the very poor: 1, Evangelistic; 2,
Educational; 3, Industrial; 4, Medical;
5, Bath; 6, Boys' Club; 7, Loan Association.
As a result of the work of this Settlement the whole neighborhood has
gradually improved and people who
were strongly anti-Christian have been
won over to aid in its support.
The following vivid account of Miss
Adams' work and influence has been
written for The Friend by Mrs. John T.
Gulick:
Told in Japanese.
The recent visit of Miss Alice P.
Adams of Okayama, japan, was an
event of much interest to many of the
Japanese residents of Honolulu. On
Sunday evening November 28, she
spoke to an audience of over three hundred of that nationality at the Nuuanu
Japanese church and the interest manifested in her address was very marked.
No time was wasted on an interpreter
as none was needed.
Her subject was
the work in which she is engaged in
Okayama.
Miss Adams has been a missionary
of the W. B. M. I. for about nineteen
years.
Beginnings.
On taking up work in Okayama she
was obliged to pass through the very
poorest portion of the city as she went
to and fro in her attendance upon her
The children of the
Sunday school.
neighborhood amused themselves by
�January, 1910
THE
throwing small stones and dirt at the
strange foreign woman and by saluting
her with uncomplimentary epithets.
These children did not look clean, happy
or comfortable and Miss Adams sympathy went out to them. To show her
kindly feeling toward them she began to
distribute among them copies of illustrated American newspapers which, of
course ,they could not read but they liked
the pictures. These newspapers paved
the way for a closer acquaintance and
when Christmas came, Miss Adams invited quite a number of the children to
her house for a little entertainment at
the close of which they begged to be allowed to come again. Miss Adams appointed the next Sunday for the meeting
telling them however, that there would
be no sweetmeats and no gifts. This
satisfied them and the Sunday school
thus begun has continued to the present
time. Out of it has grown a day school,
evening school and regular preaching
services, also a genuine settlement work
with boys' clubs, and girls' sewing-classes, free baths, free dispensary and a
small hospital.
Five of the city physicians freely give certain hours of their
time to this work and Japanese friends
furnish the means for the purchase of
medicines.
A Blind Woman's Gifts.
Many interesting incidents were given
which show the results of this work in individual cases. One blind woman who
with her son had been helped by the
mission found a way of earning 30 sen
(15 cents) a month came to Miss Adams
with the money she had earned and giving her 10 sen said: "I want to give this
10 sen toward heating the bath. I have
had so many baths here." Then handing her another 10 sen she said "I want
this to go toward buying medicines for
the dispensary." And giving her the
third 10 sen she said, "Please use this
10 sen toward the expense of the evangelistic work." Since that time the blind
woman has shown her gratitude for what
she has received by bringing her "little
all," 30 sen a month as her contribution
to the work.
Teaching Her Father.
A little girl troubled that her father
was a gambler, plead with him to give it
up, telling him that she had learned at
school that it was wrong to gamble.
When she saw that he was not wholly
ready to change his habits she began to
think. "Father can't read, he can't write
and of course he is lonely. I will teach
him." So she got out her books and
assuring him that reading and writing
were exceedingly interesting, the little
daughter, every evening taught her father what she had learned during the day
at school.
The result was that he
ceased to gamble, went to work, and is
now supporting his family.
One of the boys reached by Miss
Adams' work is now a student in the
Doshisha Theological Seminary.
Miss Adams has just spent her vacation in the United States, and the Japanese whom she met while in the States
contributed $2,600 for the erection of
a building to be used in connection with
her work. A collection was taken at
the meeting in the Nuuanu Church
which amounted to more than fifty dolIn all, the Honolulu Japanese
lars.
contributed $230 for the building.
Hawaii Cousins
We are glad to have this letter from a
much missed friend:
Milan, Italy, Nov. 21, 1909.
So far as I know I have never as a
"Cousin" written a letter to the Secretary of the Hawaiian Mission Children's
Society and so will seize the present
opportunity.
My father and I have been having a
glorious time and seen too much to tell
of in a single letter without tiring you.
Landing at Victoria, P>. C, we came
.
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south to Oakland, Cal., through Seattle
and Portland, then eastward visiting relatives in Chicago, South Salem and Greenffield Ohio (where I looked up the grave
of my great-great-grandfather Robert
Dickey, South Carolina's soldier in the
Revolutionary War) and Washington,
1). C. Sailed from New York to Queenstown and have in quick succession seen
parts of Ireland, Scotland, England, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Switzerland
and Italy.
I have taught Sunday school classes
on the way in Chicago, Washington,
Glasgow and London in Presbyterian,
Congregational, Wesleyan and Baptist
denominations; classes of young girls,
young ladies and boys and in no class
did I have a scholar who could tell where
Honolulu was or the Hawaiian islands.
Christian Endeavor Societies I have
found and visited in Ireland, Scotland,
England and France. Hearthy welcome
is given everywhere to visitors from Hawaii.
Honolulu Sunday schools seem
to me much more cheerful than any I
have visited.
Most of those I have
seen are held in the afternoon in basements of churches and at this time of
year in the gloaming or in the dark. A
great many childrens' meetings are held
after dark.
Wearing a collar put on bankwards is
a universal badge of the clergy here of
all denominations. The pastor of the
American church in Paris has adopted
it.
To describe the places we have seen
would be tedious and only repeat what
others have written before. In Cologne
we saw Zeppelin's dirigible balloon over
the cathedral, causing great excitement
in the streets below.
We have enjoyed as much as any part
of our trip two walks. The first was
up the Rhine from St. Goar's to Bingen. We called to the Loreley who answered us sweetly and clearly. Though
it was not the season for ripe grapes,
autumn colors made the hills along the
way beautiful.
The second walk was quite different,
being a twenty-nine mile walk through
the snow over the Simphon Pass through
the Alps to Italy. It was snowing when
we started and in taking short cuts we
may have missed the way a little for
we took much longer than our guide
book says was necessary, not reaching
the highest point (a little above the elevation of the west Maui mountains) until about three in the afternoon when
we were glad to stop for the night at a
Our supper
hospice kept by monks.
with the three monks was most interesting and we managed to let them know
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where we lived and that we were on a
trip round the world and that the queer
stove at which we had warmed ourselves
was made in the year of my birth though
we spoke no Italian and but little French
and the monks spoke those languages
only. The names of but few Americans
appeared in the visitors' book of the
hospice but we found the name of one
member of the Hawaiian Mission Children's Society, Ruth Cornelia Shaw,
written there last July. The snow had
been well packed down on our climb up
(a goatherd with a score of two-colored
goats went ahead of us part of the way
tramping the path) but during the night
was a heavy fall of snow and as we started down toward Italy about seven in
the morning we had to walk through
snow a foot deep for several miles before
other travelers had made an easy way
for us. The universal snow must have
made the scene superior to any seen by
those who only go over in midsummer.
In the Gorge of Gondo a narrow gorge
with walls two thousand feet high there
was some blasting as we came through.
The effect of the echoes was tremendous.
It sounded for a moment as though that
were an avalanche.
With best wishes to you and your
•
household,
•
Aloha nui,
LYLE A. DICKEY.
j»
A great joy is in store for those Cousins who are yet to hear of the munificent
gift to the Society of the old coral Chamberlain house.
To own this house, has been a pet idea
of Dr. A. B. Clark ever since his return
to Hawaii nei, and the Chamberlain heirs
have refused tempting offers, hoping
that this place of history-making, this
building hallowed by memories of the
early days, might continue to speak the
message of love and service which the
fathers and mothers built into its walls.
The longing to possess the building
has grown in the hearts of the Cousins,
and petitions have ascended to Him who
said, "Before they call I will answer, and
while they are yet speaking I will hear."
Negotiations have been under way
for some time, and the transfer was made
in October, but on December 13th, at
a meeting of the Board of Managers, the
SGo d
FRIEND,
January, 1910
president, G. R. Carter, read a statement,
making public the fact that, "Through
the generosity of the Chamberlain heirs,
of the sons of C. M. Cooke in memory
of their father, and of I!. R. Banning, the
transfer was made and the property was
deeded to the Society as a memorial of
the Sandwich Island Mission."
Plans have been submitted for the
renovation of the building, and as soon
as money is available such changes will
be made as shall make it suitable for
storing and preserving relics of the old
mission. There will also be an assembly room, a library, and a fireproof vault.
Another generous gift was from the
Castles, who bought and deeded to the
Society the frame house adjoining the
coral building, with the lot on which it
stands. This makes possible other interesting and important changes, helpful
to the city as well as to the Society.
flag Dec. 2. Kaimuki Improvement Club
votes to raise $5000 for permanent concrete home for the big telescope of College of Hawaii. Building to be ready
for observation of Halley's comet.
Dec. I—Circuit1 —Circuit Judge John T. Dc
Bolt endorsed by Bar Association to sue
ceed Justice Wilder on Supreme Court
Bench.
Dec. 2—Ex-Queen Liliuokalani practically makes her will and disposes of
her estate by deeding all her property in
trust to Ex-Governor Clcghorn, W. O.
Smith and C. P. laukea. John Dominis
Aimoku is named her principal heir.
Dec. 3 —Grand Jury declares former
Chief of Detectives Joseph Leal guiltless
of graft charges brought against him.
Dec. 4—Ex-Queen Liliuokalani leaves
for Washington for the winter. Cable
from Governor Frear reports gift of
$100,000 from Andrew Carnegie for
Public Library for Honolulu. Local hut
buys Island of Lanai of W. G. Irwin and
will start cotton plantation.
EVENTS.
Dec. s—An ual5—Annual impressive memorial
services of the Honolulu Lodge No. 616
at
Nov. 26—Harold Dillingham chosen B. P. O. E. Hawaiian Opera House.
Dec. 6—British ship Celtic Chief
by Promotion Committee to take chatge
grounds on Kalihi reef while entering
of Floral Parade, Feb. 22, 1910.
harbor. Floated Dec. 9. Arthur McTotal eclipse of the moon.
Duffie becomes Chief of Detectives for
United States Congress
Y. M. C. A. special committee decide Honolulu.
on lot opposite present building for new opens.
location if it can be secured.
Dec. 7—Second Federal Judge George
Woodruff resigns. Merchants' AsW.
Nov. 27—Washington correspondence
indicates great increase soon in militaty sociation cables to Washington urging
Congress to act on coastwise suspension
and naval equipment of Honolulu.
Acting Governor Mott-Smith as PresiCol. Walter Schuyler, Fifth Cavalry, dent of Board of Health declares a mosU. S. A. detailed on army general staff quito campaign.
with headquarters at Washington, D. L.
Dec. 10—Mass meeting called by Civic
Nov. 29—Sale of Red Cross Stamps Fedration unanimously votes in favor of
to secure funds for tuberculosis cam coastwise suspension.
paign begins this a. m.
Dec. 11—Delegate to Congress Kuhio
The Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Asso- has declared himself Opposed to the preciation decides upon a new labor rate for sent local administration. The feeling is
the coming year. The contract system that this portends a break in the Repubof labor is to be still further developed. lican party.
Bureau of Navigation decides that Dec. 13—President Taft names Horace
Steamships calling for Bunker Coal or Harmon Lurton of Tennessee for Assooil to pay only port charges and not reg- ciate Justice of the Supreme Court of
ular tonnage duty.
the United States.
Dec. 14—British steamship Swanlcy
Nov. 30—High lift pump to be installed and two new Artesian wells to be arrives with 874 Portuguese laborers.
bored at the Beretania Avenue pumping
Dec. 15—Superintendent of Public Instation. Rear Admiral Corwin P. Rees struction W. H. Babbitt resigns, resigna
recives his commission and will raise his tion to go into effect December 31. Antt-
Printing and Developing : : : Eastman Photographic Supplies
Tasty Frames for Pictures at
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January, 1910
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tuberculosis special committee organizes PERRY—At Volcano House, Hawaii, SMITH—At Honolulu, December
with J. P. Cooke as chairman.
Dec. 19—Founder's Day of the Kamehameha Schools celebrated. Hon. W.
O. Smith the orator of the day. Japanese school at Waimanalo opened.
Dec. 20—Children's Hospital opened
for patients.
Dec. 23—Father of Annexation Dr.
John S. McGrew is 89 today.
Y. M. C. A. directors buy the Library
property for $27,000. Price paid previously for the property Ewa the library
building is $30,000. This $57,000 property insures a fine location for the future
work of the Association. Biblical Representation of the Birth of Christ given
at Central Union Church parlors. Excellently done. Credit is due James A.
Wilder.
November 27, 1909, Mrs. Anna Perry,
age 70 years. Mrs. Perry came to
Honolulu in 1865 and has since resided here.
BRICKWOOD—At Honolulu, November 30, 1909, Mrs. Louisa BrickwoO'!
aged 81 years.
MA HOE—At Honolulu, December 4,
1909, S. K. Mahoe of Honolulu.
CERBE—At Honolulu December 4,
1909 Miss Emma Cerbe aged 25 years.
WILLS—At Pahala, Hawaii, December
4, 1909, Mrs. Mailolo Wills, widow of
the late T. A. L. Wills, aged 75 years.
APO—At Lahaina, Maui, December 12,
1909, Miss Helen L. Apo, a teacher in
the Public Schools, aged 22 years.
15,
1909, Miss Harriet Smith of Hyannis,
Massachusetts, aged 25 years.
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IMPORTERS, COMMISSION
AND
AUTOMOBILE MERCHANTS
Honolulu, T. H.
TOO MUCH stress cannot be laid on
the importance of having your eyes
fitted with proper glasses.
S. E. LUCAS, Optician
Masonic Temple,
:
Alakea Street.
MARRIAGES.
HALL-HOUGHTON
— In
Oakland,
Cal., November 16, 1909 Seymour
Hall and Miss Ruth Houghton.
In Aurora,
HUGO-HATHAWAY
Ind., November 17, 1909, Herman
Hugo and Miss Grace Smith Hath-
—
away.
BOYLE-FRANCO—In
Honolulu,
1066 Fort Street
Pictures and Picture Framing j» Local Views
Ansco Cameras jt Ansco Films
Art Pottery and Casts
DEVELOPING AND PRINTING
De-
cember 15, 1909, E. Boyle of Levy and
Company and Miss Emily Franco.
L.B.KERR&CO. ALLEN & ROBINSON
LIM,TED
DIED.
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of Kahului
KAHULUI, MAUI, T. H.
INSURANCE.
The only store in Honolulu where Lumber and Building Material,
Builders' Hardware,
you can get anything in Wearing ApPaints, Oils, Etc.
parel for
MEN, WOMEN or CHILDREN
Good Goods and Reasonable Prices.
Agents for Walkover and Sorosis Shoes.
55 Queen Street : : Honolulu.
IV ftei
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AT HONOLULU.
CAPITAL ?500,000.
CECIL BROWN, Pres.
W. R. CASTLE,
M. P. ROBINSON, Vice-Pres.
Q.
N. WILCOX.
nf Hawaii
BURPLUB 9123,000.
L. T. PECK, Cashier.
Q. P. CASTLE.
United States Government Depository
General Banking.—lssues Drafts, Money Orders, Letters of Credit
and Cable. Transfers available in all parts of the world.
Savings Bank Department,
Interest on Terms Deposits,
Safe Deposit
LIMITED.
Alakea Street.
FERREIRA—At Kaiwiki III, Hawaii,
November 21, 1909, Jacintho Ferreira,
age 62 years, 9 months. He had resided in Hawaii 25 years.
MORRISON—At Honolulu, November
27, 1909, Alexander Morrison, hea>
moulder of Catton & Neill.
BANKING, EXCHANGE,
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Vaults for Rent.
ACCOUNTS INVITED
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If You
Are Wise
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well as present needs. > j*
Begin by opening a saving
account with this bank, j* ■>
Banking by mail, 4\% interest.
General Mercantile Commission Agents.
Honolulu, T. H.
Queen St., Honolulu, T. H.
AGENTS
Vlce-Pres't; J. P. Cooke, Treas.; W.
Smith, Secy; George R. Carter, Auditor.
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AGENTS FOR—Hawaiian Commercial &
Sugar Co., Haiku Sugar Co.. Paia Planta-
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Sugar Co., Kahului R. R. Co., and Kahuku
Plantation.
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Tel. Main 109.
HOUSEHOLD DEPARTMENT.
including Garland Stoves and
Ranges, Aluminum Ware, Enameled Ware. Kitchen Furnishings,
Refrigerators, Garden Tools, Rubber Hose, &c. Second floor, take
the Elevator.
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BANKERS.
Fort Street, Honolulu.
SUGAR FACTORS
AND
Draw Exchange on the principal ports of
the world and transact a general
banking business.
Honolulu,
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Especial attention given to Mail Orders.
COMMISSION AGENTS.
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ALL ON THE SAME PAGE.
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FUNERAL DIRECTOR.
Graduate
of Dr. Rodgers Perfect Em-
School of San Francisco, Cal.,
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for Embalmers of New York. And a
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LIST OF OFFICERS—E. F. Bishop,
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COOL CLIMATE, SPLENDID VIEW
TRUSTEES OF OAHU COLLEGE,
205 McCandless Building.
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All business letters should be address- Regular Savings Bank Department maintained in Bank Building on Merchant Street,
ed and all M. O.s and checks should be and
Insurance Department, doing a Life,
made out to
I Fire and Marine business on most favorable
Theodore Richards,
i terms, in Friend Building on Bethel Street.
Business Manager of The Friend.
P. O. Box 489.
OAHU
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COLLEGE.
Doremus Scudder. Editor in Chief.
Frank S. Scudder, Managing Editor.
F. W. Damon.
John Gi Woolley.
A. A. Ebersole.
Orramel H. Gulick,
H. P. Judd.
W. B. Oleson.
Paul Super.
William D. Westervelt.
Perley L. Home.
Ernest J. Re«ce.
Edward W. Thwing,
Foreign Correspondent.
Punahou Preparatory School.
(Charles T. Fltts, A. 8., Principal).
The
BOY
Wants Stories
There are none so good as the old
BIBLE stories, the boy himself as
together with special
judge. We know for we have tried with
Commercial,
Music, and
a number of boys, girls too. But you
Art courses.
should have GOOD PICTURES as
texts when you tell Bible stories.
For Catalogue, address
We have a Bible with 800 good illusJONATHAN SHAW,
trations. We knew one copy of it to be
Business Agent,
worn out by the use of one family,—
Honolulu, H. T. four children one after the other liter•
Oahu College,
ally wearing it to pieces.
WHITNEY, M. D., D. D. S.
We have one, and have sent for a
DENTAL ROOMS.
number more.
Offer complete
College preparatory work,
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Building.
STOCKS, BONDS AND
ISLAND SECURITIES
THE BOARD OF EDITORS:
Entered Orfiilwr 77,1Q02, at Htmnhilii. Hawaii. n**tcmit\
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The coming of this Hamburg-American liner with 650 tourists en route from
New York to San Francisco will mark a
new era in Hawaii if it lead to the suspension of the coastwise shipping laws
for this Territory. The absurdity of
these laws is apparent to everyone as
soon as personal contact therewith occurs. A law that makes such distinguished public servants as a Cabinet officer like Mr. Strauss and a Governor of
the Territory like Mr. Frear lawbreakers
simply because they are zealous in their
duty is an outrage. If the 650 tourists of
the Clark party bring their influence to
bear upon their representatives in the
National Senate and House it may be
possible to secure the attention of these
legislators to the injustice from which
Hawaii is suffering. The trouble is to
get the attention of Senators and Congressmen in the face of the persistent opposition of the protected industries which
always close ranks and fight against everything that threatens the slightest encroachment upon their prerogatives.
Slowly the American people are being
educated against every sort of special
privilege. The Ship Subsidy Bill finds
unexpected enemies. If it can be kept
from enactment through one or two more
Congresses its specter will have been laid
forever. For by that time the nation
will have had its eyes opened and the
era of tariff domination will have begun
to wane. Meantime let us continue to
fight here for freedom of transportation.
Already one influential San Francisco
paper, the Argonaut, has been moved by
the spirit of fairness to side with Hawaii.
This is a blessed sign of the times, for
hitherto that city has with strange fatality fought against Island interests with
singleness of heart. If our great neighbor would only awake to the truth that
the development of this Territory means
larger things for itself, the two communities would move ahead side by side in
mutually strengthening friendship. Why
not? The interests of both lie along the
line of the peaceful friendly evolution of
the Pacific world. When San Francisco
ends its anti-Asian crusade and takes up
the cause of the community of interests
that should bind all the peoples fronting
the Pacific into a co-operating whole, it
will assume its proper place as leader in
No. 2
the grandest historic movement of the
coming century. Like everything else
good this movement will consist of many
details. One of these is the cause of freedom of transportation. Our miserable
coastwise laws now fetter this. The very
first step in the process should be their
suspension so far as Hawaii is concerned.
The Japanese School Scare.
Klsewhere we print the report of the
so-called Japanese Christian Boarding
School. This institution is a misnomer.
It is not a school at all and never has
been.
It is a home for Japanese boys
and girls who attend Honolulu schools.
It has proved to be one of the choicest
institutions in the Islands. Here Mr. and
Mrs. Okumura have for years gathered
a few orphaned little ones together with
many children of parents who labor on
plantations, and whose boys and girls are
exposed to the sad conditions which there
menace family life. A few young men
have also been welcomed by Mr. Okumura as helpers. In this refuge these
children have found a Christian home.
Mrs. Okumura has taken the 60 or more
little ones into her motherly heart and
cared for them as her own. Mr. Okumura has been more than a father to
them. As a consequence the boys and
girls who have gone from this home have
borne a singularly noble impress. There
is no institution in Hawaii that is doing
more to produce out of Japanese boys
and girls true-hearted, loyal, American,
Christian citizens than this unselfish pastor's home. It has done its work amid
poverty. It is always in debt. Yet its atmosphere is unique, and its spirit embodies the very best that Japan and America produce. In olden days when the
Shoguns ruled the Sunrise Empire and
public schools were unknown, here and
there a Samurai blessed with the spirit
of Froebel would gather into his home a
few boys and not only teach them the
learning of his land but share with them
his own high spirit of unselfishness and
love of country. Out of these jiku, as
they were called, Japan's great men
came.
These home schools were the
nurseries of all that was best in that
country. Now to this beautiful ideal Mr.
and Mrs. Okumura have joined Ameri-
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Because it would have been impossible to
secure teachers with the lack of means
and because public school life in America
offers such large advantages, it was impossible to make this a true jiku, that is
technically a school. But all the ideal
features of the jiku were kept, that is, the
culture of the spirit. Hence out of this
Japano-American Christian home have
come a band of fine youths. One of
these is one of the most successful evangelists our Hawaiian Board has in its
Japanese work. Another is just taking
a course of study at home to fit him to
enter this work. A third is busy under
the joint employ of the Board and Makiki Church preparing himself for evanThree others are spegelistic service.
cializing along like lines. In fact this
home is proving our best theological
training school, turning out men familiar
with the field, in sympathy both with the
Japanese and American point of view,
who will prove invaluable helpers. Our
plantation managers could not do a better thing than set aside a few hundred
dollars a year to assist Mr. and Mrs;
Okumura in their noble work, and thus
free them from the burden of debt under
which they have struggled so unselfishly
the past decade.
More of the Same.
Now wherever this home has moved,
and it has led a peripatetic life, it has
been dreaded by its new American
One irate boarding house
neighbors.
keeper some years ago threatened to
bring suit if it came next door to him.
Visions of mischievous schoolboys, fancies of outlandish music and discordant!
noises troubled his sleep and worried his
days. He consented to wait and see. Experiment converted him into a friend. He
lost not a boarder because of his new
neighbors, but speedily came to be their
friend. The sale of the Hyde premises
on Beretania Street to the Rapid Transit
Company necessitates the moving of Mr.
OkUmura's home. Meanwhile the removal of Mills Institute to Manoa Valley, soon to be consummated, will give
room for the older boys who now stay
with him. The younger children he
wishes to keep in his family until they
can be graduated into the Mid-Pacific.
Naturally, as pastor of Makiki Church,
Mr. Okumura desired a site for his home
Instantly the rumor
in that vicinity.
started that the Hawaiian Board wished
to erect a Japanese camp there, and hysterics followed. The Board is not in the
camp building business. Its purpose is
not to depreciate either its own or other
people's property. If it should purchase
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land near the Makiki Church as a parsonage site for the minister, no damage
whatever would result to anyone. Mr
Okumura's quiet home would be found
objectionable to no one. After experience
the neighbors would realize that it was a
helpful force in their vicinity, and their
interest would be enlisted by the quiet,
orderly conduct and courteous character
of the children therein trained. Meantime we commend Mr. Okumura's semiannual report to all our readers.
The Vacant Lot Crusade.
A copy of the third report, 1908-9, of
the Vacant Lot Gardening Association of
New York City has just come to hand.
The motto of this association is "Help
others to help themselves." Its aim is
to relieve poverty by giving the poor remunerative gardening to do. Vacant lot
owners were found willing to allow their
lots to be cultivated. These were subdivided into plots and the distressed people
were induced to take each a plot and cultivate it seed free. The results were beyond expectation, and other cities, notably Buffalo, became interested. From
this beginning the association induced
applicants for relief to leave tenements
and live in tents in the open air cultivating plots of land close to their tents. This
was found both to benefit wonderfully
the health of the tenter's family and to
stimulate the longing to live outside the
city. The third step was to secure land
in the country near the city and start
families on acre lots. The work has developed slowly but with fine results, and
thus one more effective blow is being
struck at that vast modern death trap the
city tenement. One of the saddest features of Honolulu growth at the present
is the craze for erecting tenement blocks.
Large barnlike, flimsy structures unhygienic, menacing home life, breeders of
vice and gambling, these hideous buildings are the direst foes to pure home life
and clean character that we have. Fortunately the attention of the city is being
turned to them thru their menace to the
community as fire traps. Honolulu should
not have a single tenement house. Plenty
of good open land for cottages is on
every hand. A few well constructed dormitories for young men erected in accordance with hygienic requirements may
be a necessity, but some way should be
found to prevent the nuisance of the
The one-family onefamily tenement.
cottage plan is the only safe expedient
for this city if we are ever to Americanize our alien population. As far as possible each such home should have its
garden plot where flowers and vegetables
Will not some of
can be cultivated.
February, 1910
Honolulu's public spirited men and women of wealth give this subject consider-
ation and plan to make our city ideal by
fostering little homes and by making
family tenement houses impossible? Palama's experience shows that the business
may be financed successfully. A return
of from 6 to 10 per cent may be secured
without question if the project be carefully engineered.
The Campaign of Letters.
"This lot of letters has done much for
the natives in the good opinion of the
mainland," is one of the latest words
from Mr. Woolley. He refers to the
Splendid letter-writing campaign put up
by the Hawaiian people in behalf of prohibition of the liquor traffic in this terriThe extei.t
tory by national legislation.
to which this quiet but effective procedure has been employed by the people all
about us is as yet unknown even to the
warmest friends of the temperance cause.
()nc church, Kaumakapali, has secured
the writing of 1177 personal letters by
Hawaiians- Some of these are slaves
to drink who beg the Congressmen to
deliver them from the terrible traffic.
Many relatives of drunkards
beseech the aid of National lawmakers.
Children with debauched parents have
pictured in childish language their sufferings.
It has been a spontaneous movement, the suggestion once made has been
carried out by individuals in their own
fashion. All the islands have shared
in it and Congress hns been flooded with
these personal appeals. The result has
been nothing less than a revelation. It
is safe to say that Congress never conceived so forcefully the possibilities of
the native Hawaiians. They are looking into the very heart of this people
and are beginning to realize that prohibition here is on a totally different basis
from that on the mainland. There it is
an exotic, here it has lived in the experience of a race ever since the Great Kamehameha directed the mind of his nation to the hideous menace of intoxicants.
What Congress will do it is too early to
prophecy. But we urge all the friends
of Hawaii to redouble their prayers and
efforts to influence Washington to grant
us the relief which will save the Hawaiian
race.
The Lahainaluna Decision.
Once more the Supreme Court of the
Nation has reversed our Territorial Supreme Court in the now famous Lahainaluna case. The cable reports that the
reversal is on every point. The first decision of the National court was so sweep-
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ing that it seemed to leave the local Court hainaluna property and good will for
slim basis for a second judgment ad- $15,000.
verse to the American Board. To some
persons it seemed as tho the court were
exhausting its resources however to find
a ground that would stand the test of the
higher examination. But if so it availed
We have heard whispered
nothing.
opinions that when the Court hears a case
which involves the Territory it appears
to feel it to be its duty to decide if possible for the government rather than to ask
what justice demands. We do not share
this opinion because we are not in possession of data upon which to ground any)
such criticism. We would be very loth
to credit such a view because a Court
has no business to be swayed by the personnel of the contending parties in a controversy submitted to it. Its only raison
d'etre is to find the right. But human
justice is a subtle and evasive quest.
Points of view differ.
The Territorial
Court elected to take one and the National Court the other, owever to the
man on the street the Lahainaluna case
had a very simple face. The American
Board built the Lahainaluna school, expended more than $70,000 thereon and
gave it teachers who made it what it was.
No body of men on earth in their senses
are going to sacrifice a property like this
for nothing. The Board traded it to a
government who could deliver a class of
goods most valuable to the Board. Those
goods were a certain religious impress.
The United States Government succeeded to the privileges and engagements of
the Hawaiian sovereigns. This government by its constitution is prevented from
delivering the goods stipulated in the original contract. Hence it owed the forfeit, namely, the $15,000 pledged at the
time of transfer.
It is futile for the
government to plead "we do give the religious impress stipulated;" because even
if at any given moment it should chance
to do this thru the excellent personality
of some teacher, it violates its own constitution in so doing, it can give no possible guarantee of the continuance of the
impress, nay it is pledged by its organic
law not to continue it. It is to be judged not by what it winks at but by what
in justice to its own law of being it must
do. This is so clear that all pleading to
the contrary seems sophistry to the simple
soul unlearned in the law. Of course
the Territory may turn Lahainaluna over
to the American Board Trustees in lieu
of the $15,000. In either case the work
of the Fathers will be maintained by the
forfeit which the government makes. The
interests of education for manhood will
merely be enhanced by this decision of
the National Supreme Court. Looked at
by the man on the street the Territory
gets a mighty cheap bargain, the La-
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Tidings of a Friend.
Friends of the Rev. Curtis E. Shields,
in Hawaii—and they are many—will be
glad to know that after leaving the Islands as soon as he was ready to take a
pastorate he was called at once to a very
promising field in Defiance, Ohio, a city
of 10,000 people.
Here a fine church
engaged in erecting a new meeting house
wanted him and he is both settled and
hard at work. Mr. Shields will do well
wherever he goes because he has the
right stuff in him.
THE SCHOOL FUND COMMISSION
FEELER.
Messrs. Bowen, Farrington and Wood,
the commission appointed by Governor
Frear to study the question of methods
of raising funds for public education and
to recommend some plan that will rescue
our territorial school system from the
chaos that now characterizes its financial
life, have done very wisely in issuing a
feeler in the shape of a little pamphlet
embodying suggestions which are submitted for criticism. These tentative propositions are three in number: first, a plan
for the preparation of the Budget of Estimates ; second, a proposal to levy a mill
tax; and third, a recommendation to increase the annual poll tox, and reserve a
definite part thereof for school support.
The Friend has been asked by the commission to express its mind upon these
suggestions and to offer some of its own.
It is happy to comply with the request.
First, the plan for preparing the Budget of Estimates. Viewed superficially
it seems cumbersome as it calls for the
co-operation of no less than five separate
sets of reviewers, the Department of Education, a special Board of Estimates, the
Governor, the Joint Committees of the
Legislature and the Legislature itself.
However, it is not as heavy with red tape
as it seems, because it adds only one to
the present number of inquisitorial units,
the special Board of Estimates. The suggestion comes from former Superintendent Babbitt and embodies the
results of his experience. Evidently
he hopes that such a Board will enable
the superintendent to influence Governor
and Legislature not to knife the Edu
cational Department's estimates so
cruelly as has been their habit for the last
half dozen years. And the people are
with him in this longing. Hence by all
means give us the Board of Estimates if
it can squeeze out larger appropriations.
Second, the proposal to levy a mill tax
for purely educational purposes. This is
excellent. Hawaii is richer than the
rest of the American Union in annual per
capita production of wealth. Yet it spends
a niggardly $2.07* per capita on its public schools annually, against the mainland's average of $3.66. Compare its record with that of the following Western
States:
$6.07
North Dakota
6.08
Utah
;
California
6.58
Colorado
6.98
8.02
Washington
to
tax
We ought
be willing to
ourselves more for our public schools. By
all means, give us the mill tax as a permanent source of supply.
Third, the proposed increased poll tax.
We know of no state with a poll tax
higher than $1.00. Hawaii levies $500
and the proposition now is to make this
$8.00, and apply $5.00 thereof to publid
education. At present $2.00 of the poll
tax is deceitfully called a school tax. As
a matter of fact it is no such thing and
the suggestion that this falsehood be ended by turning the school tax over to the
Department of Education is in the interests of honesty.
The whole question of
our poll tax, however, is a miserable one.
In the first place, clergymen are exempt,
presumably because they would be sure
to pay, and the great mass of them are
ill able to afford it. Again, it is said
that no great pressure is brought to bear
upon the mass of Hawaiians to cause
them to obey the law, because the tax is
so inordinately high. Furthermore, the
tax is believed to be aimed chiefly at Asiatics. Inasmuch as it is impossible to
collect successfully, generally the plantations, pay for them. The principle is
thoroughly bad.
A law levying a tax
which it is not the intention of the
law makers to collect from many
of those who are legally bound to
pay it, invites its own infringement,
essence
wrong. It
in
and is
has no place in the statute books of a law
and order loving community. A proposal
to enact more such law deserves rejection
and our present poll tax law should be
repealed or amended into honesty.
As for further suggestions we have
only one at present to offer. Ever since
the famous North-West Ordinance of
1787 Congress has consistently fostered
the cause of public education in its new
territories, has often decreed that certain
lands be set aside for the support of
schools, and has ratified constitutions of
new states containing such provisions. In
the case of Hawaii the Organic Act did
practically nothing for public education.
Some years ago the suggestion was made
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may he stroke oar's excitable swing, lluis keep
the ciew sleadv and Calming the
return run or to secure llic hall if it stroke t" hold his valuable nervous
should lie muffed, of (ho regretful but oncrgx fol the crucial moment, or as
unhesitating sacrifice of your own more from the corner of your eye you see first
difhYult chance to tackle, allot (he hall is the rudder of your foe. then the COX*
caught, in order thai you may force the wain.-thou the stroke, No. 7, No. b, and
man With the ball inlo the surei reach Of so on until yon ire swinging oven with
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xont team mate who is there to the rlghl your own numbei in the other boat,
preparing for a terrific tackle, of your as the Captain signals foi the spin I
mad |o\ when, as reward of virtue, that which may break then hearts and win
tackle tats the hall ftom the tunnel's the race, or as on failure of the eight.
anxiety to respond as
gtasp and hx a fearful effort you catch boeause of ovei
it on the bound, ol youi loot, like \xing- one man. the usiiallv quiet I louoluht No.
ed mercuries at Ural l"it growing leaden 9, with his keen fooling ol what Is Wrong
under (he pain of the xxrencheil knee in the boat and his acute knowledge (hat
caused hx youi (00 quick and the Stroke Oar will go I" pirres unless the
forceful (urn 10 catch the bound , tew bark linn up. shouts like a berserker
ing ball, ot (he goal pos(s look going into battle: "I.ill hoi together
so
far aw ax,
xxhen
ing
youi hoys! (lime up and take the load oil
knee forces you to labor along, and you the stroke!" or as one strongly cndili *MM and pinnpi pension ol teachers hear the swift Stride of youi opponent as ing oarsman or another, watchful of tin
not necessaril) out ot the fund grant ! he closes the gap and prepares for his punt lefl in the water by a weaker oar
one condition of its plunging tackle, of xonr stlddctl drown* 011 his side and leading from il -igns of
lw the nation but
lvv: \ i' and guaranteeing correspond ing man's realization thai there is almost wobbling exhaustion, calls cheerfully
mg con-.ons public support Of I'll. no time left to plax. that your to.llll is be "Don't you rare No. ,|! We ate xvoll
pcfeoob h\ our Ijegislature, would prove hind in ixoints, and that unless yon score ahead! Don't pull so infernally hard for
successful. It oortainlv seem* Worth try now the game is lost, of hearing sud a while, and give 1110 a chance to do some
denly the COOI, hut intense, voice of youi of the word on this siil,- ol the boat !"
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•Figure tor 1908. Other figures for heady team mate end rusher a little be 01 as, after the race is won, each man ol
hind and to your left, saxing: "Pass it the eight chafes at am praise of how he
ihe last ascertainable year, toot.
to me' Pass it to me NOW!" of your rowed, and declares to the admiring lowquick delivery of the hall diagonally back er classman: "Hang it all you young felxx
aid across xont body in (he direction of lows, it wasn't any one man's rowing.
WORK.
TEAM
(he urgent voice, inst as a catapult -hurl- Praise the crow or don't say anything.
Addross hx Hnn o<wjrr XV Woodnifl
ed bod) strikes xont pain racked knee You kids can't win races next year or
and
you go doxx n and out for the mo- year after, if you think of anything but
banquet
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ment, —and. best exemplification of the team-work.'
But
specific team-work pictured above, the
me for illustratng teamLord Dacca, besides writing Shakes- gi»l-natured quarrel that night, as each work excuse
memories
by
of teams I have
peare and doing several other noteworthy ixariicii,xant in
that successful team plax known. I forgot for the moment that
things, has said that reading makoth a pooh-poohs the (bought that he was the some
say it is a matter of reproach to
full man.—-talking a ready msjn, tad real cause of the touch down which won have boon an athlete. Lot us forget that
writing an exact man. 1 have been strict- the game Old sleadv head who made side, ami turn to avenues of
greater eruJv ordered to use less than ten morales of
Wuch-down, and will get the nexvs- dition Ditl you know that one of the
the
time for this talk, and am so Mronglx in- paper head lines tomorrow morning demost usual early meanings of "team"
clined to obedience, thai 1 will break my clares "What
1 had the easy was the family? The family has from
nonsense!
usual rule oi speaking without notes and, part.
Yon fellows mustn't let the papers
by
following Lord P»acan's cue. will read fool you. or discourage you. If you want the start been the fundamental means
which savage selfishness has worked upwhat 1 have to sax. in order to be exact our good old college to win you must
The
about the time occupied, if not aixiui the prize one thing most oi all.—team work!" ward toward civilized altruism.life,
the
and
truer the family
higher
subject-matter of mv talk.
finer
the
civilization.
Chrisgreater
and
Or
again in imagination I feel the
TEAM \\ OKK !! What thrilling mecivilization is the flower of family
mories those words bring of checking thrill as the Referee at the boat race tian
work—hence,
in fact as well as ethynovout opponent iusi long enough to make shouts: "Gentlemen are you ready ?" and
of
WORK.
TEAM
logy.
the
crew
says
of
the
Captain
quietly:
sure your full-hack has time to kick the
oar
bkdes!"—or
as
the
coxWhat
are
the
characteristics of team"Bury
your
—of
held
with
hall.
then rushing down the
<-yes watchfully studying the fielders of swain tells the captain at the mile flag work ? First, togetherness whereby many
the other team to learn from their action. that THEY are two and a half lengths with as little loss of energy as possible,
rather than from the delay of looking in ahead.—or as he shouts at the mile and lift and pull and push and work for one
the air for the hurtling Lall. just where it a half flag: "They are only a length and desired or desirable end. For successful
will strike.—of the last praeter-human a quarter ahead!"—or as the captain togetherness there must of course be a
rush to reach the catcher at the same tune spares one precious breath to say: "All course of action known to and agreed
with the ball which you now see falling together boys, but keep well within your upon by all. The second necessary elefccsSwe you towards his outstretched strength. Save the spurt for when we ment of team-work is leadership, wherearms.—of the agile readjustment of vout have them caught!"—or as George Car- by the many are directed more or less
line of approach t" make it sure that the ter, rowing there in front of you at No. wisely along the course agreed upon.
senncrrck of vout Hurrying team matt-. 7. smooths out the irregularities of the Third, there must be in each person, who
at the Mohonk Conference that the M
(ion shuuld correct this omission by vol
10 Hawaii for its.public schools three
fourth" of the net revenue derived thru
the ouMoniv collected at our island poit
Thta wav itvwtil with great favor and
Provident
was adv«vatcd quite wnlclv
Roosevelt mymh'il to approve, for in one
ot hiv mowagov io i ongrea* ho urged
thai a largo proportion ol iluv revenue Ih
applied <o needed public world here This
iv rcponrd iiiil lii have received the saiK
HoM ol Speaker cannon, and thai groat
squelcher of progressive legislation gout
1\ put hiv elephantine fool upon it and
\\ c believe that I
it* lite evaporated
yol\
conducted along the
(campaign
lnie of tftis suggestion, not asking foi too
largo a |>roportion oi the revenue, con
rming it rttictiy to the cause ot pubtk c<i
noation. safeguarding the adequate pax.
last
most
closing around
(he catcher,
advantageously placed
to prevent a ing
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:
:
:
�THE
I ebrtiary, IQIO
7
FRIEND.
ENDEAVOR AMONG THE
FRONDEPALMS.*
constitutes the many working together
under one direeling head, a divine spaik
,d Individualistic personality, without
which (lie whole mass of togetherness is
a dead lump of clay.
Thus family is the
highest type of team Work (eliding to the
John
l\
(
owan, D. D.
Dial was a great day in Honolulu,
<
the residence of Mr. S. M. Kaiiakanui.
Ihe visitors learned to eat poi with their
lingers, and to like all the unique and
dainty dishes that grace a Hawaiian luau.
It was a most gracious and grateful
courtesy, the bretxy palm liowercd cottage, fronting on famous Waikiki Beach,
where the surf riders might be seen, the
Hawaiian songs, and the good fellow-
up
MMVatiofl of (he world, but 00 Hue ivi when on Jan. 3J the Endeavorers got the
before
to
down
dancing
go
daylight
from
highly
organised
the
li/ation came
family of the link and the Moor, where harbor in a launch, headed by Mr. Paty,
there wai headship and togetherness Inn their president, to meet Dr. and Mrs. ship.
(
the forty l.ndeav
But without
u<> allowance of individualism to wives lark, Mr Shaw, and
hour,
.
'
on the big tourist steam hip leve
and children. This is worthy of though)
a, land, with
her 050 around the world
general,
work
in
in voiir V M. P. A.
well as in Ihe great task you have just tourists. \moni; them were Harold S.
lark, Dr Sdidd't. and his assistant,
undertaken,
Klfcrsolc, Rev. Mo.c Nakiiina, pre
Mr.
of
team
work
I
The last characteristic
at the Hawaii C. K. I'nion, and
sident
will sugest is threefold —I'aith, Hope,
the
writer.
ot
Charity, Partii in the togetherness,
course of United action agreed on, I'aith
in the Headship or the authority chosen
In direct the action, and in the individuals
Who Constitute the team, in (Ins case the
membership of the Y. M. ( '.. A. and the
orris,
*
members who join in their fight,—■
but, most of all, Faith m the fundamental
principle of Y If, <. A. work, that clean,
iiou
energetic young men from nine to ninety,
are, except for (Hire, healthy young wo
men, the greatest hope and asset ol civili-
zation.Team work is dead without I lope
Constant Mope and expectation that
the good thing you are working for will,
he attained, And Charity is p'-rhaps the
greateal of all, the Charity that vaunt
eth not itself, that i not elfish, that
leads tin- efficient man to strengthen the
efficiency of the ranks, until he is more
needed for places of command, Charity
that causes team members to take upon
themselves the hard and thankless (ask,
glad always to leave to others the glory
and praise, if only the desirable end can
Ik- attained.
This meeting is called to consider the
furtherance, the betterment, the enlargement of (me wing, or corps, or field of the
mighty team which is on one side of the
never ceasing contest of unselftshllOS
against selfishness,—of purity against
vice,—of fairness against injustice,—of
wise knowledge against ignorance,—of
law and order against lawlessness,—of
true freedom against bondage.
We have faith that the score of our
great team is increasing and will increase
in a geometrical ratio,—Hope that the
rate of increase will one day reach the
millenium,—Charity for all and, I hope,
malice tow.'.r i none.
a click Time turned anand the Junior Rally moved
Mis. Clark, Mrs. Robert
np at 3p. in.
|. Burdette, Dr. Vittmu, of North Dakota, and Mr. Shaw made bright addresses. M iss Florence Yarrow, who has
been such a host in Endeavor in Honolulu, had also a program of society reiponses and other things that just would
not let the loan feasters grow sleepy.
Die (imiors sang as only Hawaiian
children ran sing. Crcctings were sent
"From the Palm frond Juniors t,> the
Poppy Juniors f California)," and to Mr.
Shaw's Junior.. P.allardvale, Mass," Alo
ha mv ( full love j and thanks for tending
us your Mr. Shaw." Mrs, Clark said
it w;i, the best Junior rally of the w;iole
other
tour
Ihe evening
session in
Kawaiahao
Church, the oldest native church in the
city, was the cap heat of a day of iucCC tul and helpful meetings. The great
auditorium, -eating 2,000, had no standing room left. 'Die royal pexvs were
filled and mati> turned away. The singing, under Mr. I.cc, was grand.
Dr Clark's message was one of the
most inspiring the writer ever heard from
his lips.
ft brought greetings from Endeavorers
around rhe world.
REV. FRANCIS E. CLARK
Dr. kol*-rt J. Burdette, Mr. Bridgeman, of New York, and Mr. Shaw s|<,ke
They circled around the ship, arid sang fo an audience intent on catching every
and called "Alohas," and laughed and word.
sang, though every one was drenched
The responses to the roll-call were unMr. Ebersokt carried 050 ique and prophetic of fulfillment ot the
with spray.
Central Union Church Calendars and in- evening's
theme, —Christian
general
vitations to all the churches.
The large, beautiful auditorium of
Central Union was filled to hear Dr.
Clark at 11 a. m„ the Endeavorers from
the Cleveland, and many others of the
tourists, and Kndeavorcrs from the other
islands swelling the regular congregation.
Dr. Clark had got his text "By wireless" the day before, Psa. 95:1-5, in a
greeting the Endeavorers had sent to
him, while yet several hundred mile 3at
sea. He gave an inspiring message on
the signs of wonderful progress he had
The many friends of Rev. and Mrs. T. noted in this his fifth tour around the
Okumura, of the Maklkl Japanese Church world, and his third visit to Honolulu.
will be sorry to learn of the grief that has
From the church the visitors were takcome to them In the loss of another son,
Haruki, while away from home. He was en to a Hawaiian "poi luncheon" given
an earnest Christian boy twenty years of by the Oahu Young Peoples' Union, at
age, full of promise, and a bright example
of faithfulness and devotion in work and in
hrlntUn En<le*ror World, bat
(• Written for the
prcTlotuly pabllibed in Thi Fiticur, by pcmlarion.)
friendship.
<
unity.
Japanese, Chinese, Hawaiian, Korean,
Portuguese, and mixed societies responded in song, and scripture and greetings.
Three other islands—Hawaii, Maui,
Kauai, had delegation* ranging from
eleven to twenty-three in numbers. It
was a splendid meeting, and will long
live in the memories and lives of Hawaiian Endeavorers.
On Monday, autos for the forty visitors were generously provided by the hospitable citizens of Honolulu, and
the beautiful city and its environs were
enjoyed until the Geveland steamed out
of the harbor at 5 p. m., bands playing,
banners flying, "Alohas" and leis in evidence of the love of Hawaiian Endeavorers for their leaders.
Kohala, Hawaii.
�8
THE FRIEND.
Range Lights
By
JOHN G. WOOLLEY, LL. D.
It is too early to make any specific prediction about federal prohibition in Hawaii, but our fight for it has opened
most favorably in Congress, and by the
time this letter appears in The Friend
for February it may be supplemented
with important cable news. At any ratt
it may be said conservatively and confidently that the temperance cause in the
Islands is receiving great reinforcement
from the mainland.
The presentation of the need for or
ganized total abstinence work, combining
strong social and musical features, among
the native Hawaiians was received by the
Grand Lodge of Good Templars with
instant and most cordial sympathy, and
the National Grand Lodge is preparing
to put a trained organizer at work establishing a line of lodges throughout the
This effort in the interest
Territory.
of total abstinence promises very rich returns, even if the licensed saloon is to
continue, but if the beverage liquor trade
becomes an outlaw it will still be very
useful, for in my opinion both on the
islands and the mainland, no matter how
successful we may be in securing prohibitory legislation we must return to the
fundamental personal equation, in the interest of individual betterment and the
enforcement of public law.
From Santa Cruz, California, where I
met the Good Templars, on October 12-14, I traveled eastward slowly, addressing large audiences on the way. I wish
somebody could have reported those
meetings to my critics in Honolulu who
call me an outside meddler engaged in
giving the islands a bad name. On that
trip I made ten thousand people directly,
and I don't know how many more indirectly, understand clearly that Hawaii is
America at Its most beautiful, and from
the standpoint of world power, its best.
It is astonishing how vague and foreign
the mainland idea of us is, and 1 enjoy
a very comfortable consciousness that
I am doing good work in that direction
on this trip.
But, of course, I did not fail to say
that the old serpent of the earlier Eden,
cold-blooded, red-eyed, split-tongued.
bellys its poison way beneath our palms.
whispering lies to the ignorant and the
weak—traitor to industry, traitor to order, traitor to health, traitor to law, traitor to school, traitor to soldier, sailor, missionary—and has a license.
At Chicago, December 7th, the opening
gun of the National Convention of the
American Anti-Saloon League was fired
in the Chicago Opera House, where I
told the story of the liquor plague in Hawaii, from the escaped convicts who
brought it there a hundred years ago, to
the frightened poison blenders of the present day. Then and there two members
of Congress pledged themselves to help
the Johnson bill through Congress and
prophesied that it would pass.
At Washington, December 17, the
Senate Committee on Pacific Islands
and Porto Rico met to hear my argument, and from the questions asked by
the Senators and their close attention it
was abundantly evident that they were
interested, and those of us who took part
in the hearing felt strongly justified in
believing that a majority was favorably
inclined.
A neatly printed pamphlet containing
the protest of the territorial legislature,
was already in the hands of every SenI
ator and was dealt with first of all.
reckon that it was completely disposed
of by our mere suggestion that as a matter of law the territorial relation was based on the theory that the federal government carried the right and the duty of
control, and that, without any affront to
the citizens involved.
For the rest, an analysis of the Hawaiian legislature and a few life-like
sketches of its liquor personnel appeared
to be interesting and convincing. The
patriotic anxiety of the legislature about
popular rights dropped with a dull thud
before the statement of fact, that the
mere mention of a plebescjte to let the
Hawaiian people pass on the liquor question would throw their misrepresentatives into hysterics.
For my argument in behalf of the Hawaiian people I read from the Pacific
Commercial Advertiser, the interview of
Prince Cupid—an ideal statement of our
case by the best possible authority. And
the case on behalf of the army and navy
was self-evident.
In this first hearing I took pains to
publish all the weaknesses of our position and all the criticism made upon it.
together with the authorship of them.
And in this connection I made a clean
breast as to the low temperature of my
own relation to the territorial statesmanship and that my activity was resented as
that of a meddling outsider with a salary.
I made it clear that I was not the author
February, 1910
nor instigator of the Johnson bill, and
had been in entire ignorance of it until it
appeared in the newspapers, but that 1
had been instructed by my board, representing, in general, the Christian and
educational interests and activities of the
islands, to give all the aid in my power to
the bill, and that I was backed by practically the whole body of well informed
and well disposed native people. One
Senator remarked grimly, "They all seem
to be writing letters to me."
I am very proud of the fact that the
Christian men and women of the islands.
the teachers and educated youth of the
whole group, have let loose an avalanche
of letters and petitions which in volume
and in subject matter has instantly compelled the attention of both houses of
Congress. One Senator asked me if I
did not expect a counter current of letters and petitions. I answered that I
thought it could not be produced, but
that if it could we should welcome it with
enthusiasm, for we desired nothing better than to fight it out in the open. Of
course, it can't be produced. Churches,
schools, social settlements, missions and
Christian men and women can't be had
for that. And such people as can be had
for such correspondence can't write convincingly, except adversely, to their own
purpose.
One of the most powerful Senators
said to me privately, "You ought to win,
and I think you will, but you are in for a
big fight;" and a leading representative
said, "If you can get past the Senate your
bill will pass the House." I replied, "I
have here a bill which I wish to have introduced in the House. Will you take
charge of it?" And he said, "Yes."
I have written hastily and frankly,
with full knowledge that the enemy will
read, and do its worst. So be it. We are
not playing politics, but fighting above
board, for the bodies and souls of men
and the honor of the flag, and I want the
readers of The Friend to see the fighting.
We may not win, but we have a fighting
chance to.
And remember this. If we fail the responsibility will be at the door of the
missionary whites. Give me the whole
weight of their influence and I'll bring
back the scalp of the liquor wolf.
Washington, D. C, Doc. 20, 1909.
/s Your Japanese
Servant a Christian?
Let him have THE TOMO
Every Month. I
50c. a year.
�THE FRIEND.
February, 1910
President Women's Society, Mrs. W.
J. Forbes.
President Gleaners, Mrs. D. L. Withington.
Supt. Palama Settlement, J. A. Rath.
Pastor Kalihi Branch, Rev. H. W.
Chamberlain.
Supt. Kakaako Mission, P. W. Rider.
Nauru Mission and Japanese Sunday
Schools, Rev. O. H. Gulick.
Portuguese Sunday Schools, W. A.
Bowen.
Chines c Sunday Schools—F. W. Damon.
Space will not permit to give even a
review of these reports, but a few statements
from the minister's message will,
we are sure, be of general interest:
"The year 1909 is likely to prove unique in the history of our church, because we can hardly a second time expect the men to best the women in ay n
bers of new members."
"We have never done so well in bene-
9
tages is the one agency that is definitely
fighting them in Honolulu. Central Union men and women are in every local
movement for civic betterment. They
number nine out of the thirteen members of the Central Anti-Tuberculosis
Committee, not by any concerted campaign of election but in accordance with
natural selection. They arc at the front
in trying to better politics, some thru the
regular political organizations, others
thru that free lance, the Civic Federation.
The Men's League spent $667 in itself in
1909. In 1910 it will more than double
that figure for others.
The Women's
Society is bound to even up this record."
"Too many churches," cries Prophet
Gladden, "are sponges rather than
springs of influence —which devote their
energies to building themselves up out
of the community instead of Joining
themselves into the community in streams
of service, which have not learned that
it is as true of churches as of men, that
they who would save their lives lose
them." I believe Central Union is making the wise choice between these two
sorts of church life."
Without exception the reports showed
splendid progress and again reminded us
how large a responsibility rests upon this
church and its members to carry on these
many lines of work with efficiency.
volent contributions. The total for the
year was $15,735, which was $3,290 better than in 1908. The figures are as follows:
A. A. EBERSOLE
$3,995
Foreign Missions
8,286
Home Missions
American Missionary Assn
1,103
High Water Mark.
work
Educational
575
The tide of our church life for the
100
■a
year reached high water mark at the an- Ministerial aid
1,676
Miscellaneous
benevolences
nual church supper held in the Parish
DR. CLARK AT CENTRAL UNION.
House, Wednesday evening, Jan. 19. In
$15735
Total
attendance, in its spirit of good fellowwas a memorable day in
January
of the the churches23 of Honolulu. Others will
"For
the
first
time
the
history
in
ship, and in the splendid note of triumph
that sounded through all the reports of church we have given away more than tell in this number of the various meetthe various departments of the chuich's we have spent upon ourselves. Leaving ings held in honor of Dr. Clark and his
life and activities, it was undoubtedly the off decimals we expended on ourselves party of Christian Endeavorers. We only
best meeting Central Union has ever only $14,058 in 1909, as against $15,735 wish to say that it gave us all great, joy
held.
given to benevolences-"
to hear Dr. Clark in Central Union pulThree hundred and fifty of the best,
"The criticism so often heard that the pit on Sunday morning tell of the remost representative people of the church church is out of harmony with the deeper markable changes he witnessed on this
and congregation assembled in the chapel trend of our age, certainly does not lie tour of the Orient from what conditions
of the main building at 6 o'clock, where against Central Union. The great Fed- were ten years ago when last he visited
for a half hour a most enjoyable social eral Council of the Churches of the Un- these countries. Especially encouraging
time was had. At 6:30 they all adjourn- ited States which convened inDe cember, were his reports of the progress of Chrised to the parish house and there sat down 1908, and marked the opening of a new tian Endeavor in the various mission
to a chowder supper such as only the epoch in American Christianity, recog- fields. In a number of the countries the
ladies of Central Union know how to nizing the truth of the change called upon membership of the young people enlisted
serve.
the churches of the Union to realize that for Christ and His Church has doubled
After supper came the reports. Besides society is being reorganized, to study the in the last two years.
the annual message of the minister there social conditions of the day, to apply to
It was a real privilege to hear such
were reports from each of the following modern industry Jesus' teachings, to help words from the one man whom above
officers and organizations:
establish closer relations between wage all others God has used in developing this
Clerk of the church, W. W. Hall.
earners and employers and to lend a world-wide movement among the young
Treasurer of the church, O. C. Swain. hand in curing the evils of the time." people of the churches.
Treasurer of the Board of Trustees, "Is not this exactly what Central Union
church is endeavoring to do? Last ThursJonathan Shaw.
Superintendent of the Bible School, C day this room re-echoed to a stirring de"Thy /Man-Servant
H. Tracy.
bate between men soberly studying soTreasurer of the Bible School, W. J. scialism in connection with the League's and thy
Forbes.
social section. More wage-earning men
ARE THEY JAPANESE?
President Christian Endeavor, Albert joined us last year than employers.
GIVE THEM THE TOMO
Parsons.
There is much talk in the papers anent
50c. a year.
Chairman Men's League, J. P. Cooke. tenements but our Palama with its cot-
Central Union News
Maid-Servant"\
J
�February, 1910
THE FRIEND.
10
Ode to The Farmer*
By th» late
SADAYOSHI TAKAHASHI, Evangelic at Makaweli, Kauai,
Translated from the Japanese by F. S, S.
11l
i
THE FARMER'S CALL.
ROYAL EXAMPLE.
In the rosy-fingered dawn of history
Some twenty centuries agone
Our country's breeze—swept fields waved far and near
With crops of rice and barley, wheat and corn.
Once strayed our people from the gracious rule
Of their true sovereign. Then Feudal lords
Held sway, and Samurai with proud contempt
looked down upon the swordless farming class.
Encouraged by the Emperor, people crowned
But when our Heaven-descended Emperor
Resumed his right, he forthwith, by a word,
All classes on an equal footing placed,
And thus again the farmer's rank restored.
Thus in the soil our forbears laid secure
Foundations for Japan's prosperity,
Bequeathing this rich heritageto us,
To have and hold it for our native land.
First, dazzled by the new light from the West,
Our youth forsook the tilling of the soil,
Esteeming it a calling too obscure
Compared with new found opportunities.
The hills and Allied the vales with thrifty homes
And tilled the soil, while from their hearths the smoke.
Like incense from contented altars, rose.
Accept, my countrymen, the sacred trust.
Spurn not the farmer's calling; honor it,
Adorn it. Search the world for new ideas;
Be experts in the art of husbandry.
Then we a higher principle discerned;
T'was this:—that any work is honorable
That's honorably performed; and character
May thrive on farms, well as in Senate halls.
II
THE OPEN DOOR.
Say not the land is narrow. Lift your eyes!
For northward lie Hokkaido, Wagalicn;
And southward, Loochoo, and Formosa too,
All in the Sunrise Kingdom,—beckoning you.
—
Abroad, Korea and Manchuria,
Hawaii nei, and all America,
Both North and South, a tempting opening
Present to faithful tillers of the soil.
Among the first-fruits
of his farm, we hold
He ought to raise a noble character.
Of all vocations, none affords a chance
More rare to grow in manly excellence.
Does not that man his character adorn
Who gives the finished touch to all his work,
Who gives full weight, and measure shaken down,
And guards his neighbor's welfare as his own?
To gain unfair advantage, men sometimes
Have sent abroad dishonest goods, and thus
Have brought our country Into disrepute
And dragged Japan's fair name In foreign dust.
To us then, farmers, louder sounds the call
To spurn dishonesty. With honest goods,
With silk of matchless texture, let us win
Again from other lands praise for our own.
Did not Ninomiya, our farmer sage,
Regard himself of holy Heavea called
The plow to follow? We, like him, may make
Our farms the stepping stones to cherished fame.
The farm our country doth enrich. It turns
Waste places into gold. For dreadful war
The sinews it supplies, of blessed peace
Its peaceful folk the best defenders are.
Written
to higher Ideals in their daily work. Translated
ol the author.
(or
And did not Washington, who left his plow
To found a mighty commonwealth, forthwith
Return again to husbandry, and say
Farms are the basis of our nation's power?
On that foundation reared, America,
Replenishing the earth, has blessed mankind.
Consider, too, the varied industries
The farmer has from which to choose. He plants
Fruit-bearing trees and forest trees; he breeds
Live-stock and fowls, and raises grain and silk.
Shorcl No Uta.
* Nogyoby
Mr. Takahashl as a tract designed to inspire
The Chinese Emperor, Shin, took hoe and scythe
And labored often on a farm, and thus
By royal precept and example taught
Th' essential dignity of common toil.
plantation laborers
Thr Fkiend by permission
With lavish hand she aids misfortune's sons.
Her cup o'erflows, for she is "Farmer's Land."
THE FARMER'S RECOMPENSE.
A wholesome moral influence pervades
The farmer's home. No dreams of sudden wealth
Unbalance him. He can not fondly hope
The soil will yield a fortune in a day.
A little patch of ground he first acquires.
And tills it to perfection. Then, by thrift,
He adds to- that a field, and still to this
An acre, till at last he owns a farm.
Who better know than they who labor hard
That labor is its own reward? To such,
Success well earned, strong arms, and robust health
Repay sevenfold the irksomeness of toil.
Who such remuneration finds as one
Who works in partnership with Mother Earth?
Says he, "I touch the ground and make it sing,
I plant it, and it smiles at me with flowers.
—
When to some neighboring mountain height I climb
What joy to view the landscape I have made,
Its waving crops, and trees with luscious fruits,
The berry-bushes, grapes, and melon vines!
Those meadows, dotted with my flocks of sheep!
Those groves, whose shade my cows and horses love,
And 'mid whose branches flitting, all the birds
Of God's blue heaven build their nests and sing!"
�February,
THE
iqio
v
THE COST OF CHARACTER.
No tree attains perfection in a day.
The little seed that falls into the ground
First sinks into oblivion, then sprouts
Then blooms,—nor yet its full fruition finds.
For, like young men, it
Against temptations and
Afflictions sore beset it
It writhes, indignant at
still must match its strength
discouragements.
and ofttimes
the adverse Fates.
11
FRIEND.
The cloudburst ra;n would root it from the soil,
Fierce typhoons madly wrestle with Its boughs.
Yet, though its branches breaK, it perseveres,
Lo! neath each wound a smiling bud appears.
Shall Master Man less perseverance show!
Nay, nay! Let us to every obstacle
Oppose our wills superior, until
The crown of victory our brow adorns.
Tree, flower or fruit,—each true to type, aspires
To its ideal. So, let us emulate
The perfect man: and let our finished work
Reveal the hign Ideals of our life.
MR. TAKAHASHI AND HIS BIBLE CLASS
A PITIFUL TRAGEDY
A bolt from the blue sky has fallen upon the family of Mr S. Takahashi, our
noble evangelist of Makaweli, whose picture is in the centre of the above group
of young men. On the 22nd of January
Mrs. Takahashi underwent a serious operation in Palama Hospital. On the next
evening Mr. Takahashi was riding over
a rather dangerous road to hold a
preaching service in Makaweli Camp 4.
Some time afterwards his horse returned
riderless. Search was made for him and
he was found unconscious at the bottom
of a cliff three hours after he had fallen.
Three days later his spirit took its flight
to the side of the Master to whom he had
so devotedly given his life and strength.
Two days after the accident a letter came
to his wife which her husband had written a few hours before his fatal fall, encouraging her to bear cheerfully the suf-
fering in the hospital, and hoping she
would soon be able to join him in carrying out their larger plans for work in
the camps.
The loss of so noble a
friend and worker seems too hard to accept, but what of the poor wife and three
children who in addition to the sorrow,
must also fa-e the future!
Mr. Takahashi had a truly remarkable gift in winning men, and holding
them in complete devotion to his ideals.
His Sunday school and his church services produced a profound impression of
reverent orderliness and careful, painstaking training. During his two years'
service in Makaweli he has rescued to
manhood and trained to service twice the
number of men that appear in the above
photo, and that in a field where at first
he found hardly a single adherent.
Always
scholarly, yet preaching
straight from a burning heart, and with
a voice which of itself at once caught the
attention and won the heart, Mr. Takahashi was always welcomed as a speaker
and invariably left the impression of
man with a great and important message
which had taken possession of his life
and which he longed to have take possession of his hearers.
He had recently prepared two books
especially adapted to conditions in Hawaii, one on the subject, "A Young
Man's Preparation for Life," another
entitled "Counsel to Parents." His untimely death will add new interest to the
"Ode to the Farmer" which appears in
this issue.
Where are we to look for the successor
of such a man ? May his fall be like that
of the Hon. lon Keith Falconer, by the
inspiration of whose death after a short
service in Aden, two vigorous missions
were established in neglected Arabia!
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February, 1910
hope that their quest shall be fraught whom otherwise the wonderful story ot
with the largest success.
the comng of the Christ child would be
unknown.
One of the most
sights which one could ask to see is to
Do These Things for Your Children. be witnessed again and again at ChristF. W. DAMON
mas time when both in the city and
By Leo Tolstoy.
through the country districts of the Ter"The eighteenth century school and "Let them do all they can for them- ritory large throngs of eager, expectant
university wrote over its doors the words: selves; carry their own water, fill theii little ones and those of larger growth are
'I believe,' as an expression for that for own jugs, wash up, arrange their own gathered about the brilliantly lighted
which its education stood; the nineteenth rooms, clean their boots, and clothes, lay Christmas tree. Many different races
century school and university wrote over the table. Believe me, that unimportant here blend into one large family and
its doors the words, T believe but 1 as these things may seem, they are a hun- share a common joy. Here in Hawaii
think;' the twentieth century school, dred times more important for your chil-» let us do all in our power through all the
writes over its doors, '1 believe and I dren's happiness, than a knowledge of varying, helpful anniversaries to cultivate
this beautiful spirit of union and friendthink, in order that I may work.'"— French or of history.
Henry B. Pritchett.
"These things train the children to' ship.
simplicity, to work and to self-dependJS
ence.
A Splendid Record.
Education Arguments.
"If you can add work on the land, if "The record of generosity in this counit be but a kitchen garden, that will be try (United States) for
One of the most interesting companies wise.
1909 probably
record
previous
in any
any
surpasses
vast
of voyagers that ever traversed the
"Believe me, that without that condiwaters of the Pacific made a brief halt in tion there is no possibility of a moral part of the world. So far as this genethe long journey recently at Honolulu. education, a Christian education, or a rosity was reported, the gifts to public
This special group was made up of near- consciousness of the fact that men arc institutions during the past year exceeded those of any previous year by.forty
ly three score Chinese students, who hat not naturally divided into the classes
of millions of dollars, and reached the great
a
within
short time successfully passed masters and slaves, but that they are all
aggregate of one hundred and forty-one
the prescribed examinations, and were brothers and equals."
Three years ago
millions of dollars.
going forward to various institutions in
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these benefactions passed the one hunthe mainland. A large number of them
were government students, while some The Educational Value of Anniversaries. dred million point. With the return of
the wave of prosperity, American genewere paying their own way. A more
manly, warm-hearted, enthusiastic lot of One of the most interesting features of rosity has responded by an enormous
young fellows could not be anywhere modern schoolJjife is to be found in the enlargement of its benefactions. These
found. They were under the charge of careful and well-considered celebration gifts are all for human betterment—
The
Mr. Tong Kinson, a Chinese gentleman of certain great anniversaries, which be- largely for educational purposes.
of high standing and education, a mem- come bright and stimulating periods in endowment of education, not only by anber of the Foreign office, Peking, and a the growth and development of the pu- nual gifts from States, but by private ingraduate in the early Bo's of Vale. A pils. The preparation for the exercises, dividuals, is beginning to assume a magmore sympathetic and better fitted guide which characterize these occasions, be- nitude commensurate with the wealth of
for this band of eager students it would comes a most valuable training for large the country. Never before has research
not have been easy to select. Mr. Tong numbers of pupils in historical research, had so many tools at its service or the
is truly in touch with the awakening life in the memorizing of choice selections in opportunity of conducting its enormous-\
of his native land but he is a man oi both prose and poetry, in elocution, but ly valuable work under such favorable
broad and liberal culture and desirous ol above all in the absorption of the great conditions. The equipment of science
gaining the best he can abroad to aid in ideas and ideals for which these special for service is one of the most impressive
the uplift of his people. It was a delight days stand. Thousands of the children and beneficent facts of the day and it is
and pleasure to converse with him and to in Hawaii, in our public and privatej impossible to predict the benefactions
feel the warmth and glow of his enthu- schools feel yearly the inspiration which that will flow to humanity from this
siasm. It was our privilege to meet comes from hearing over again the great enormously enlarged activity."—The
with the students and listen to their events which culminated in the Declara- Outlook.
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This group of tion of Independence dating from Fourth
eager, hopeful words.
A DELIGHTFUL GATHERING.
young men, representing as they did of July, 1776. Here in Hawaii the birthseventeen of the provinces of the Chinese day of Washington has become one of
splendid manifestation of the love of
empire, brought vividly before one the, our most festal days. May Day appeals theA graduates
of Kawaiahao Seminary for
millions of their countrymen, whom they to all with its wealth of poetic sugges- this institution was given recently in the
are preparing to aid and guide. They tions and so through a long list of annual coming together of a large number of the
came from many points between Peking events, which are eagerly looked forward ladies formerly connected with this school
form an Alumnae Association. The long
and Canton, and from the far distant to. It is however, in the remembrance to
noble record of the seminary, coverThibetan border. By this time they are of the great and beautiful facts which and
ing so many years as one of the foremost
busily at work in different leading school glorify the Christmas season that the educational agencies In Hawaii should never
and colleges of the United States. We crowning celebration of the year is found. be forgotten. That her daugtuers remain
to her, and desire to advance her Infeel sure their work will be a high and In Sabbath schools and day schools thou- true
terests in the future was strikingly brought
noble one. They are seeking a treasure sands of children join in the glad carols out in the enthusiastic meeting above almore precious than the "Golden Fleece", and recitations which voice the spirit of luded to. Some hundred and fifty invitaand not for themselves alone. All well this season. Christianity makes its most tions were issued to ladles in the city who
wishers of the race must join in the pre- beautiful appeal to large numbers to
(Continued on page 16).
Educational Advance
sent
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Men Working for Men
PAUL SUPER
The first decade of the century has
been a great one in Y. M. C. A. work
in the U. S. and Canada. During these
ten years the Association has grown
wonderfully in every department. The
membership has reached 465,000, these
associations owning property which in
ten years has grown from $26,000,000 to
$66,500,000. The educational department has grown from 998 teachers
teaching 25,900 students to 49,148 students with 2184 instructors. These students paid $375,000 in tuition last year.
The physical department has grown from
80.373 members to 216,262, and in addition to this 194,425 men and boys have
received physical instruction outside the
membership. The 243 railroad associations now number 75,721 members.
We Smile.
Some misinformed people have said
the Y. M. C. A. of today is not what it
formerly was as a religious agency. They
are right, but for a reason different from
the one they imagine. We smile as we
show that whereas ten years ago 4438
men and boys were won to the Christian
life thru Association agencies, last year
the number reached the fine figure of
20,116. This was brought about in part
by an attendance of 2,767,472 at religious
meetings, compared with 1,027,242 ten
years ago, and 68,700 enrolled in Bible
classes as compared with but 13,676 in
1900.
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country towns. The foreign work has
advanced its firing line till now 86 secretaries are working in i5 countries, with
84 associated native secretaries.
These facts make us proud of our organization, thankful to God for his great
blessings, and give us a sense of responsibility. The Y. M. C. A. must do the
big work to which it has been called, and
for which men have provided it equipment.
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The Boys.
The boys are now to have their innings. For a long time the boys' clubs
and the Y. C. A. Boys have
been neglected till a man could be
found to devote his time to this department. Mr. R. S. Gault arrived the first
of January and has taken charge. He
has already demonstrated his ability to
lead the boys, and will soon have the
clubs and boys' department of the Y. M.
C. A. in good running condition. Boys'
work offers a large field in Honolulu,
but a peculiarly hard one owing to the
difficulty of getting the boys indoors.
Mr. Gault is-not afraid of work and we
look for results.
The Soldiers.
The Association has held several meetings at Fort Ruger recently, addressed
by Rev. A. C. McKeever. No man in
Honolulu is so popular with the men of
the service as is Mr. McKeever, and the
boys at the fort turned out in good numbers to hear him. The series of talks
being given at Fort Ruger will be given at Fort Dv Rusey as soon as conditions are favorable. Many of the men
from the ranks take advantage of the
educational department of the Association, and are learning to be bookkeepers
and stenographers after they are mustered out of the army.
One of the most encouraging things
to see is the great growth of religious
work among college men, till now every
third college man in America belongs to
the Association, which in college is
strictly a religious organization, having
no educational or physical work. Further, 33,000 college men are in Bible
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classes as compared with but 12,000 ten
years ago.
Social.
In spite of the meager social equipMovements.
ment the social work at the building has
Numbers, however, do not tell the been excellent this winter. The Roundwhole story, for the past decade has seen Ups have drawn larger numbers than
the inauguration of some most effective ever before, and chess, checkers, dominew movements, among which may be noes, etc., have many devotees. The
mentioned the work for immigrants and building is now quite a center for the
foreign peoples within our borders; the younger men, and indicates the splendid
work for men working on the Panama work that will be done with the magnifiCanal; the great industrial department cent equipment provided by the new
and the work for men and boys in the building. The last Round-Up, "Seeing
Honolulu by Moonlight," drew 175
members to the building for a social evening.
They reported it the best yet.
Pope and Lindsay.
The last two appointments of the Governor have been from the Board of Directors of the Association. Mr. W. T.
Pope, chairman of the educational department, becomes superintendent d
public schools for the territory, and
Judge Alexander Lindsay, Jr., also a director and teacher of commercial law in
the night school, is appointed attorneygeneral. We are glad to have our judgment of these men confirmed by the chief
executive of the territory, and that along
the very line for which they were chosen
directors, the one to head the educationa 1
work, the other to be the legal end of
the Board.
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Plans for the Building.
The officers of the Association have
decided to secure plans for the new building by means of an architectural compe
tition. M essrs. Dickey, Pinkham, Traphagen, Ripley, and York & Sawyer from
the States have been asked to enter the
competition, while it is thrown open to
all local architects that care to enter. The
competition opened February first, and
plans must be in the hands of the building committee by April first. It will
then take a month to finish the plans
chosen and perhaps a month to let contracts. We now hope to break ground in
June, and to complete the building in one
year from that time.
Double Last Year.
The opening of the commercial law
class under the leadership of Judge Lindsay brought 25 more men into the night
school, making a total enrollment of 222,
which is almost double last year's record,
114. There are still two months of
school, and it is likely that the enrollment
for this year will be more than double
last year's total. This is a great record
for Mr. Larimer, the new membership
and educational secretary. The membership is also growing; 485 in the spring,
it is now 655.
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Dr. Scudder** Talks.
The series of talks by Dr. Scudder on
"Young America's Religious Problems"
is to be given at the Association building
Wednesday noons during Lent, beginning at 12:30 and closing at 12:55. Always helpful, the doctor is particularly
happy in solving the problems a young
man finds in his Christian religious
thinking.
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Boys' Work Conference
A dozen men interested in the work
for boys met at the Myrtle Boat House
Monday, January 24th, to plan the year's
activities. It was the most enthusiastic
meeting we have had in many months.
As a result of this conference the boys'
field will be put in shape and track meets
and baseball games held there as soon as
the work is finished. Th;> trade school
at Palama will probably be discontinued,
the government having awakened to the
need of manual training and relieved the
clubs of this work, in which it has pioneered. Clubs will be organized on three
bases. Church clubs, affiliated with a
church, school clubs, and district clubs.
The interest the Oahu College teachers
and students are taking in helping in the
district clubs encourages us as well as
adds valuable workers to the force.
KAUAI NOTES.
The Christmas season was duly celebrated
by the Churches and Sunday schools on
Kauai in spite of the very inclement weather. Most, if not all of the Sunday schools
had Christmas trees or the equivalent,
which brought joy to the hearts of the young
people. The observance of Christmas in
this way is becoming more and more general and has had a beneficial effect on the
Sunday schools by increasing the numbers
and stimulating the interest.
The Old Historic Hawaiian church at Lihue is being enlarged and renovated, and
will again be used by the Hawaiians for
their church services. When the beautltui
new Union church building was erected,
the use of the old church was given up;
but now, In order that both congregations
may have their morning service at 11 a. ttV
the old church will be brought into use
again. The expense of enlarging and repairing will be met mostly by the Rice
family.
The Kapaa parish are the happy possessors of a fine new Sunday school hall witn
a large seating capacity, such as is required on special occasions for Sunday
school exhibitions, etc.
It is very largely the gift of "Mother
Rice."
Kapaa is also making plans for a new
parsonage.
The Anahola people are working for a
new Christjan Endeavor Hall such as that
recently built at Kapaa. The money is
mostly in hand and they expect to begin
building soon.
Rev. Wm. Kamau continues to give great
satisfaction at Lihue where he has entered
Into the work with an enthusiasm which is
being crowned with success.
At Waimea Rev. J. A. Akina has won
the hearts of his people and renewed the
activity and vitality of his church.
The Historic Waloll church at Hanalet,
built in the Thirties by Father Alexander,
has become a menace to the safety of the
congregation worshipping there. Built In
the first Instance for a thatch roof it has tor
some years been carrying a heavy iron
roof, with a ceiling which proves too heavy
for the walls which are bulging outwards.
Steps will be taken immediately to support
these walls temporarily, and then later an
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new church will probably be bunt, they ask for five cents I make it clear to
suited to the needs of the community.
them that five cents is hard earned money
Readers of the Outlook will be interested
to know that Hans Egede whose devoted of a loving parent and must not be wastwork in Greenland was so interesting;'.. ed. Under this guardianship and by help
treated In the January number of that mag- of
God 1 believe that in these children
azine, has lineal descendants on these Islanas
the
love for their parents becomes more
in the persons of Mrs. Egede-Minu* Iviahium
and her family of Waimea, Kauai. Mrs. intense. One young man who commenced
Mahlum is the great grana-uaugniei- 01 iuc school life with us at the age of eight,
famous missionary and is named for him
has remained with vi fourteen years and
Egede-Minde (Egede-memory). She is the
the High School. He is
mother ot Mrs. <J. B. Hotgaard, Mis. um- graduated from
sted and Mr. E. Maehlum and is very much now a clerk in Yokohama Specie Bank,
beloved by all who know her. They are and still remains in our household. His
all justly proud of their ancestor.
piety and love for his parents shows a
J. M. L.
entirely
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Semi-Annual Report ofJapaneseChristian
Boarding School, July 1-Dec.31.1909.
fine example of the growth and development he derived from our school system.
I pointed out these facts to our people
on the plantations; and it moved the
hearts of many. As a result four girls
were sent to Kawaiahao Seminary and
nine boys to our school. It is my intention to again visit Maui and Hawaii.
We have at present 63 children: 14
from Kauai, 7 from Maui, 2 from Hawaii, y from Oahu and 30 from Honolulu.
We are supporting nine children. Five
of them orphans, one was left by his
parents, who have gone to the mainland,
and two are placed under my guardianship.
There are twelve children who, owing
to the poverty of parents, pay only half
rates. These children are supported every month of the year, while the others
return to their homes during vacation
months. This is the reason for our financial difficulty.
We wish to express our hearty thanks
to Mr. and Mrs. P. C. Jones and Mrs.
C. M. Cooke for the Christmas gifts.
We sincerely trust that our kind-hearted friends will continue to help us in
the future as they have in the past.
The semi-annual report is respectfully
submitted.
In publishing this semi-annual report
of the Japanese Christian Boarding
School, 1 must first of all thank our generous friends, who have from time to
time assisted the school financially. The
following donations have helped largely
to in a measure liquidate the deficit
shown by the last report. From Mr. S.
M. Damon, $25.00; Air. F. J. Lowrey,
$25.00; Mr. F. A. Schaefer, $25.00; Mrs.
J. B. Atherton, $50.00; Mr. F. C. Atherton, $25.00; Mrs. M. S. Rice, $50.00;
Mr. and Mrs. T. Richards, $25.00; Mr.
W. A. Bowen, $25.00 and Mr. G. P.
Castle, $50.00, making the total amount
of three hundred dollars donated, and
leaving the small deficit of $iy2.ys to be
carried over to our next report.
Last October 1 visited the plantations
of Kauai and Oahu. I improved the opportunity of talking with our people on
the advantage of our school. The cnildren, who are brought to our care soon
show marked improvement in bodily
health and conduct.
On account of the irregular and unsystematic habits of the home life of
some of the Japanese, we often have
children come to us who are in a thin, FINANCIAL REPORT JULY 1ST—DEC.
31st, 1903.
weak condition. This is due to irregular hours for working, eating and sleepRECEIPTS.
ing. There is system and regularity in toarders
$ 672.50
our school, regular hours for work, lary Castle Trust
150.00
Castle Trust (famstudy, play, sleeping and eating. Under tary
ily Board)
150.00
this good system the children grow lawaiian Board
60.00
strong. At first it is hard for the child Irs. H. C. Coleman
30.00
to obey our rule on account of their liee- Ir. and Mrs. P. C. Jones
(Xmas gift)
25.00
dom at home.
Even the small children Irs.
C. M. Cooke (Xmas
of six and seven years of age arise at leggift)
25.00
ular time fulfilling their duties of bedTotal
11,112.50
making, bathing and dressing without asDISBURSEMENTS.
sistance, also attending the morning de$ 328.15
votions.
They are thus cherishing a Lice and Bread
774.60
self-helping spirit. This responsibility hashing
93.15
brings us one great anxiety—that of 'uel
64.00
171.00
weakening, by the separation, of the filial Pages
66.85
tie of children for their parents. I there- linor Expenses
fore emphatically teach that these child$1,497.75
ren must honor their parents. They must
Deficit of last report
S 385.25
Present
pray for their parents and must write to
deficit
I 192.95
them at least once every month. When
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used
be, and
to
work of the coming year, or at least, ing the house to what it
THE END OF THE OLD YEAR AND THE theThe
ot the grounds are being steadily improved
be
a
continuance
will
quarter,
first
which In time
BEGINNING OF THE NEW YEAR
the work in Clarke, Bosworth's "Teaching of year by year by new walls,
the beautiful premON MAUI.
Jesus," Sunday School lessons, and sermon will completely surround
outlines.
celebrations in Wailuku
During the last few months of the old
much
year the Agent of the Board has been
the
in
interest
find
a
decided
pleased to
work that the Central Maui ministers are
theological
doing in sermon preparation and
study. A desire was expressed by a few
work than me
men'to do more thorough offered
so Rev.
Monthly Ministers' School
L. B. Kaumeheiwa, Mr. Job K. Manaso, »Ho
is the preacher at Honokohau and Klfiaiu
loa, Mr. Yee Kui, our Chinese evangel**a
and Mr. Sam T. Kaiepa, for many years
much esteemed pastor, but of late not in
the ministry, have been gathering at the
William and Mary Alexander Parsonage
every Tuesday for deeper study of the
"things of God."
The course has been somewhat varied to
suit the needs of the men engaged in the
study—New Testament Apologetics, with a
view to understanding exactly what opposition Jesus faced, has been studied. That
magnificent work of Dr. Clarke's "An Outline of Christian Theology" has been put
into simpler English, and each man has been
furnished a typewritten copy. Again thu
work of three weeks has been carefully
translated into Hawaiian by Mr. Sam. T.
Kalepa, and the translation mimeographed
for the Monthly Theological School. Sermon Outlines have been a prominent part
of the study. Suggestions have been given
one week, and each man has worked out
his own outline in English the weeK following. These, too, have all been typewritten,
so each man could see just what the other
men were accomplishing not only, but be
able, also, to offer intelligent criticisms.
Of course, this work takes time, but it
pays, for every member of the class is inspired to do better and more thorough
work as a minister of Christ. Often, besides the strictly theological work, the mem
bers prepare essays upon some important
Church problems that have been troubling
either the minister or his congregation.
On Halloween Night at the Parsonage
ir, Wailuku a laree number sf eh" members
of the Union Church and congregation
gathered for a social evening under the
auspices of the Women's Aid Society. It
was a decidedly jolly evening, for, in the
first place everyone who could be there
was there, and in the second place everybody was determined to have the best time
in the whole year. The various stunts so
familiar to the fun of college days were
practiced, and then toward the end of the
entertainment popcorn and candy with
merry songs closed an evening that was
pronounced a decided success.
During the larger part of the month of
November workmen were improving the
new parsonage and grounds. New fences
and a handsome stone wall were built, while
in the interior much work was done that
added greatly to the comfort of the delightful rambling house that has been the home
of so many of the Maui missionaries. One
of the constant pleasures of the beautiful
Parsonage is the sweet memory of so many
who have labored in the Lord's work, and
found here their home. Mrs. H. P. Baldwin, for whose father and mother the Parsonage is named, has done a very great
deal during the last four years in restor-
The Christmas
and vicinity were as usual of great interest to everyone. At Walhee there was a
large gathering of Hawaiian people, who
celebrated the opening of the newly repaired old Church by holding an interesting
Sunday School and Christmas Endeavor
Rally.
On different nights during the week before Christmas trees and exercises for and
by the children were held in the Churchea
and at the Settlement. The Chinese Tree
was especially pretty, and the auditorium
and Sunday School rooms were filled with
child in the Sunday
Every
people.
Turner,
School was remembered by Miss
who with help from some friends, was able
to make this Christmas a notable one. The
exercises by the children here and at tne
Japanese Church were excellent. At the
latter celebration, though held on Christmas night amid a down pour of rain, there
it
was an attendance of about 450 people,when
many,
astonishing
see
so
really
to
w as
last year only perhaps half that number
were present, and last year's attendance
was a record one.
The Japanese Church has had a splendid
year under the direction of Rev. G. Tanaka
and his able workers. Miss Turner has
accomplished wonderful results with the
women. Her patient teaching of English
to the Japanese of higher rank, who wish
to learn, has brought them in intimate assopresciation with the Church, so that at the many
ent time there are at least half as
as
women in uttendance at public worship
hardly
there are men. Only four years ago
You can
"Eat your cake and have it"
in a very real sense.
You can give away your property and have it,—really enjoy it, as long as you live. You couldn't have
it longer than that anyway.
This is the idea of "The Conditional Gift Plan"s Your money,—property, or whatever can be converted into money,—pays you a good, steady income during your life and goes on working for you and
for humanity after you are gone.
So you ''make friends (by) the mammon of unrighteousness,"
So also, you "lay up for yourself treasures, etc'
This is no can't. It is Christian stewardship and sound business sense combined.
The Finance Committee makes you an offer of one whole per cent better than before. You can hardly
invest much better elsewhere and
the amount you invest with the Hawaiian Board in your life time will not be
wrangled for after you are gone.
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money make
friends. Make it work.
BOARD OF THE HAWAIIAN EVANGELICAL ASSOCIATION.
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a woman would come to the Sunday services. The change shows a healthy growth
that is due largely to Miss Turner's association with the Japanese in her mission
work here. Miss Tanaka has been a great
help, and has constantly called with Miss
Turner among the women.
On Christmas Sunday night your Agent
baptized three young men and three young
women into the Japanese Church.
Christmas at the Wailuku Union Church
was observed with a tree in the Church
auditorium and exercises by the children.
The service of Sunday was not as largely
attended as usual, but the music under the
direction of the music committee of the
Church was fine, and the decoration simple
and very effective.
The Union Church has issued the first
number of the Quarterly Calendar, which
is to be a regular feature of the work of
the coming year.
The Sunday School has been increased
by new additions. The lower story of the
Church has been much improved by a new
table given by the Women's Aid Society, if
any friend of the work on Maui has two or
three pretty pictures that would be suit
able for a Sunday School room, we wouio.
be very glad to receive them for the decoration of the walls, which are now unadorned.
Those in the Islands familiar with th'>
old Hawaiian Church in Wailuku, called the
Kaahumanu, will rejoice to learn that it
has rapidly built up under the efficient pastorship of Rev. L. B. Kaumeheiwa, who
came from Hana to this his second charge.
He is an energetic worker among his people, and the result is telling in good audiences, and faithful interest on the part ot
all his members.
He moves this present month into the
parsonage connected with the Church. Some
of his friends have been aiding him in securing a sum for the necessary improvements on the place.
R. B. D.
February, 1910
THE FRIEND.
Our Young People
HENRY P.
Christian Endeavor to the Front.
During the month of January, the
Christian Endeavor movement has been
brought very prominently to the front
through the visit to Honolulu of "Father
Endeavor" Clark, Secretary Shaw and
other C. E. officials of national and international fame.
These leaders of the
World's Christian Endeavor Union were
in Honolulu from Sunday morning, January 23rd to Monday afternoon January
24th as through passengers on the S. S.
"Cleveland" that has been taking Clark's
Tour around the world. The fact of
their coming to Honolulu had been welladvertised among the C. E. societies of
the islands. Several of the societies had
sent delegates to meet these leaders. As
many as twenty were noticed in the sessions at Kawaiahao. and it is likely that
several others were present.
These men
and women were sent to represent their
societies, showing the interest that is
taken in the C. E. movement on all the
islands. This fact was spoken of by Dr.
Clark, Secretary Shaw and others. Some
of the local Endeavorers, wishing to to
extend a warm welcome to the party on
the 'Cleveland" had gone out in a launch,
but were disappointed in not being able
to go on board. The travellers were givA DELIGHTFUL GATHERING.
en a hearty welcome, however, at the
wharf and were at once taken care of by
(Continued from page 12).
spoke
had formerly been pupils in Kawaiahao, the local Endeavorers. Dr. Clark
and to at least a dozen of tne instructors at the Central Union Church, telling of
of other days. It was a pleasure to see in the progress of C. E. work and the misthe midst of her pupils of otner days the sionary outlook in the lands recently visitbeloved Principal, Mrs. Coan, who so early
Mr. William
in its history guided the Seminary amid ed by the Endeavor party.
many difficulties to a prosperous growth Shaw, the secretary-treasurer of the
Now in the beautiful assembly room in World's Christian Endeavor Union, adnoble "Atherton Hall" which looks out from dressed a large gathering in the Kawaiaits firm vantage ground over the lovely Mawas a union service of
noa Valley she with teachers of earlier hao church. It
classes, the Kaumakapili and Kawaiahao churchdays and representatives many
joined with Miss Bosher the honor- es, and the audience listened to Mr.
ed Principal of the present "Kawaiahao,-' Shaw's address attentively. He spoke on
her Faculty and the large throng of pupils
text Acts 1 :8 and made a very strong
of today, in glad and harmonious union. the
to witness for Jesus
With the utmost heartiness steps were appeal for Christians
He
immediately taken to form an Association, Christ, especially in their homes.
with Mrs. C. 8. Holloway, as its President, spoke feelingly of the cordial reception acand other leading ladies to assist Jier, as
corded the C. E. party in Honolulu and
its different officers. To show the warmth
won the hearts of the congregation at
and sincerity of the spirit of the memoership generous gifts were made towardß im- once by his saying "Aloha" before he beproving the grounds surrounding the school gan to deliver his address.
Rev. Stephen
hall. We feel sure that all will heartily
interpreted his address ably.
Desha
L.
join in wishing long and ever increasing
A splendid luncheon a la Hawaii +iad
success to the newly formed Alumnae Association. A delightful feature of the after- been prepared for the Endeavorers at the
noon was the presence of the many pupils home of Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Kanakanui
of the Seminary, who sang so delightfully. at Waikiki. Besides the guests of honor,
A pretty little ceremony attending the ocHawaiian board
casion was the crowning with wreaths the there were some of the
present to
other
kamaainas
recently arrived
members
and
"hundredth"
and "one
hundred and first" girl-pupils.
entertain the C. E. party. The delicious
JUDD
Hawaiian dishes and fruits were greatly
enjoyed by all at the table, and the lovely singing of the Hawaiian hymns was
appreciated by the guests who expressed
their thankfulness in britf words of gratitude, both at the table and afterwards.
Later in the afternoon Mrs. F. E. Clark
addressed the Junior C. E. rally at Central Union Church, presided over by Miss
Yarrow, President of the Junior C. E.
societies of Hawaii nei. There was a
large audience present at this service as
there was at the morning and evening
services.
The most important of all the gatherings of the day was the one at Kawaiahao
church in the evening, at which time the
repreentatives of the Territorial G E.
Union and the Oahu Young People's
Union met for a roll-call and to listen to
the words of greeting from Dr. Clark,
Mr. Shaw and others. It was a most
cosmopolitan gathering that assembled in
the old historic church that evening to
give the World's C. E. Union officials
the greetings of the Hawaiian C. E. societies. Such a meeting as this is sure to
result in increased interest in the C. E.
movement throughout the islands as the
delegates return to their homes and report back to the societies what they have
seen and heard. It has been a great
time for the local Endeavorers and it is
to be hoped that this recent inspiration
will result in a forward movement all
along the line and that the motto of this
organization will be carried out more
faithfully than ever before, "For Christ
and the Church."
J»
Teacher Training.
Last year it was the aim of the Superintendent to introduce some necessary reforms in many of the schools. Some of
these reforms pertained to the management of the schools and the conduct of
the district superintendents. This year
it is the purpose of the Superintendent to
work on the vital problem of the training
of teachers. Though there are many problems in our Hawaiian Sunday Schools
none is as pressing as the problem of the
efficient teacher. You may hold your
school in a splendid building and have
it full of boys and girls and elder people
and yet it may be a failure as a school,
because the teachers know neither how
to teach nor what to teach.
The problem is a very real one in
our country schools where so much of
�February,
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THE FRIEND.
17
of the work, and we hope later on to say
more about the way in which Mr. Dole
Rev. Charles F. Dole, who delighted unfolds his ethical theory with this as his
Honolulu on his recent visit, has written cue.
a book on this theme.
Its basis was a
FOUR HELPFUL MEETINGS.
series of lectures delivered before the
Brooklyn Institute in 1906-7. Mr. Dole
For the week of prayer this year the
divides his subject into the following sugChristian
Church united with Central
gestive sub-themes: Ethics and EvoluUnion
the study on four successive
in
Will;
Contion ; The Doctrine of Good
science and The Right; Moral Evil, How nights of the general topic, "The ChrisTreat It; The Problems of Human Nat- tian—a Winner of Men."
Tuesday evening Mr. C. J. Day led
ure; The Realm of Casuistry, and Prous in the consideration of "The Field—
All Men;" Wednesday evening, Mr. Paul
Super presented a study of "The Resources—God"; Thursday evening our
theme was "The Equipment," Mr. W. G.
Hall of the Christian Church leading;
and on Friday evening the series was
concluded with a study of what is "The
Right Spirit" of him who would be a
winner of men, Pres. Perley L. Home
J*
conducting this service.
Though not so largely attended as
The New School for Ministers.
some years, on account of the rainy weaAmong the courses offered by the father, these meetings were all most helpculty of the new school for ministers that
ful and greatly appreciated by those who
is held in Kawaiahao Church every weekwere able to attend.
day morning except Saturday, is a course
of instruction in Sunday School work,
Brief Tour Along the East Coast
given by Mr. Theodore Richards. This
class meets on Monday mornings at 10
of Hawaii.
o'clock and is most interesting and helpful. Among the points first brought out
By H. P. J.
in Mr. Richards' introductory lecture was
the importance of learning and underRecently I rode up to Paauhau, HaCHARLES F. DOLE, D.D.
standing the excellent definition of the
makua,
Author of "The Ethics of Progress"
and became the guest of the
Sunday School given by Dr. J. 11. VinThos. Y. Crowell & Co., New York
M. Kamakawiwoole for over
Rev.
C.
cent. —"The Sunday School is a departThe schedule called for a
Sunday.
ment of the Church of Christ, in which blems in Practice. No one can read this
the Word of Christ is taught, for the pur- work without being again and again stir- series of addresses during the day.
pose of bringing souls to Christ, and ot red by the writer's vigorous thought. It First there was the Sunday School
building up souls in Christ."
is not possible to agree with the author session in the Hawaiian church, at
on all his points. But one rarely misses
I gave a talk on the S. S.
his contention, and is moved to think out which time
work
in these Islands. At the hour of
the many problems for himself, which is
the best thing a book can do. The "Doc- morning worship I preached the sermon
For those Japanese Servants?
trine of Good Will" is the central theme and then at the C. E. hour gave another
address. In the evening there was an
I More than we think, perhaps. Let them
Charles
By
*The
Ethics
of
Progress.
interesting meeting at the Plantation
I read a Christian paper in their own
tongue. It is THE TOMO. 50c a year. F. Dole. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Boarding House and quite a number of
& Co.
plantation people came out to the service. Mr. James Gibb was very kind and
helpful to us, and we regret to hear
that he is about to leave Paauhau to
become the manager of the Honolulu
hon
P
«
plantation. Mr. Gibb has been a good
BAGGAGE, SHIPPING,
friend to the Christian work in HamsiSTORAGE, WOOD,
kua.
PACKING, COAL.
After a long stage ride of almost 50
miles, I arrived in Hilo and was the
FURNITURE AND PIANO MOVING
guest of Mr. and Mrs. Levi C. Lyman
at the Boarding School. It wasa pleas—= 126 KING STREET
ure to visit the school the next mornthe success of the work lies with the
teachers. What can be done about it?
The teachers can be encouraged to re
their Bibles daily and thus gain a better
knowledge of the Word as a whoie and
they can be urged to study faithfully their
Lessons for the various Sundays. Oftentimes this is not enough. The teachers
are not able to secure much light on the
lessons from the literature at their comThe pastor and superintendent
mand.
must then be pressed into service.
A
school for the teachers should be held at
regular intervals where the lessons for
the following month or months can be
discussed by pastor and superintendent
and other matters pertaining to the welfare of the school may be taken up. There
might also be time for some instruction
in Biblical introduction by the pastor.
Teaching along this line is greatly needed m the schools of Hawaii nei.
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ing and give a talk to the boys before
going out to Puna in the morning train.
At the Kapoho station I" was met by
Mr. Riifus Lyman and later met Mr.
and Mrs. Henry Lyman, at whose residence I made my headquarters for a
few days. We held a meeting that afternoon in the interests of the Sunday
School and were assisted by Rev. L. K.
Kalawe, pastor of the Puula Church,
Rev. J. N. Kamoku, pastor of the
churches in Kau, and Mr. Rufus Lyman.
On Wednesday morning I visited the
public school of Kapoho, and at Mrs.
Lyman's invitation gave a short talk to
the young people. Riding down to Opihikao along the interesting road that
runs between lava flows, groves of coeoanuts and skirts the grand old ocean,
I reached the school in time to say a
few words to the children before it was
time to keep my appointment at the
Opihikao church. The latter was well
filled with an attentive audience, and
we had a fine meeting. Rev. J. H. K.
Kaiwi, the pastor, presided, and after
the meeting we were invited to the
home of Mr. John Kahao for the noonday meal of fish and poi, followed by
some delicious draughts of "niu haohao." It is a lonely ride to Kalapana.
but most interesting to one who is a
stranger in that part of the country.
We held a meeting in the church that
evening and though it was not well attended because the men were very
weary from all-day working on the
road between Kalapana and Kamaile,
nevertheless there was an attentive
spirit manifested. I was the guest over
night of Mr. John Kama, who was recently licensed by the Association at
Lanpahoehoe. The next morning we
visited the school and were asked to
speak to the children—an opportunity
that was not neglected. We were
somewhat impressed with the fact at
this school and other schools in Puna
that the large majority of the children
were Hawaiians, and that the Orientals were not to be seen in as large num-
Eo d
FRIEND.
bers as in the Hamakua district, for
example. We were much surprised
with the beauty and extent of the forest between Kalapana and Pahoa.
February, 1910
KEEP ON THE GRASS.
It is not necessary in Honolulu to put up
the sign "Keep off the Grass." The vigorous
"maniania" will stand a deal of trampling
without showing any ill effects; but it is
a pity to see some beautiful grass plots marred by a beaten path.
READ THIS.
Can not the public be educated to avoid
walking on places that begin to show wear?
a
"The American Public School as
Instead of the sign "Keep off the Grass,'
Factor in International Conciliation" is it would be well to revive the sign once
the subject of a most readable booklet seen in the Pallt Park,
by Myra Kelly. It is one of the latest
among the publications of the American
Association for International Concilia-
More Better
U
Go Round
tion.
or such a sign as this
On the divine principle of making the
KEEP ON THE GRASS.
best things of life free, this association
offers through The Friend to place on
EVENTS.
the mailing list the names of any persons
who would like to receive its publicaDec. 25. Hawaiian exhibit at Seattle, retions. Every one of these publications turned
in Dix.
is valuable, their object being to arouse
Thetis arrived. Will patrol the Bird Isthe interest of the American people in lands in Hawaiian group to protect them
the progress of the movement for pro- from raiders.
Dec. 26. Children's Hospital receives
moting international peace and relations gift
of $10,000 from the Mary Castle Trust.
of comity and good fellowship between
Dec. 27. Maj.-Gen. Barry arrives to senations.
lect site for brigade post at Leilehua.
There is no place in the United States
1910.
where such literature is of more immeJan 3. Governor Frear returns from his
diate interest than here in Hawaii where Washington trip. To reach here he Had to
and daughter
all races meet, and the paths of all na- pay fine of $400 for himself,
for extra passage money, having taken a
intersect-each
other.
tions
foreign boat to save time.
The names of the executive committee St. Andrew's Priory opens and dedicates
are a guarantee of the high character of its fine new building.
Great corporation formed in New York
every publication which will be issued. City
with capital aggregating $150,000,000. J.
They are
P. Morgan, Z. P. Morton and Thomas Ryan
Nicholas Murray Butler
joining together on the Title Guaranty
and Trust Co.
Richard Bartholf
Jan. 4. Kauai Railway Co. vote a hall
Lyman Abbott
million bond issue for extension of their
Speyer
James
system.
Richard Watson Gilder
Government topographers depart for KauOlin
ai to begin their survey.
Stephen Henry
British bark Alexander Black runs on
Seth Low
reef off Paia Mill, Maui. Will be a total
Robert A. Franks.
loss.
If you desire to receive the publicaJan. 6. John Q. Wood, formerly a teacher
tions of this Association as they are is- at Oahu College, appointed American Consued, send your name and address to sul to Venice.
Jan. 8. President Taft dismisses Chief
The Friend, and we will request the AsPinchot on charge of insubordinasociation to place you on its free mailing Forester
tion.
list.
Chinese Consul, Mr. Liang Kwo Ying
{Continuedfrom page 16, column /.)
nolds his first reception.
*
Jan. 10. Governor Frear breaks ground
There are 6 bright and interesting Japanese girls. Kawaiahao Seminary is a happy for new Methodist Church building.
school home for many races, at a bright and
Jan. 11. Willis T. Pope appointed by
hopeful period of its development. Its union Governor Frear, Superintendent of Public
with the larger educational system of the Instruction.
"Mid-Pacific Institute" has given it new lite
Jan. 12. M. F. Prosser resigns as Comand inspiration. Gratefully and gladly does
of Public Instruction.
their alma mater welcome the strong am missioner
Jan 13-15. Poultry Show. Fine exhibiand support of the Alumnae of earlier
tion.
years!
Printing and Developing : : : Eastman Photographic Supplies
' Tasty Frames for Pictures at
HE ARTS & CRAFTS SHOP: Fort Street below King
�February,
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THE FRIEND.
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Jan. 13. School Fund Commission through
its Secretary W. A. Bowen, sends out report and asks for suggestions on ways and
means for raising funds for public schools.
Hem»:tiway
Jan. 14. Attorney-General
announces that he will resign soon to resume private practice as a member or 'he
firm of Smith, Warren, and Heirjf-nway.
Professor W. D. Alexander, bel'oiv the
Historical Society advances theory that
Hawaiians are of Asiatic origin.
Jan. 17. Associated charities hold annual meeting and elected officers for ensuing year.
Jan 17. Robertson, Dc Bolt, and Robinson recommended by President Taft for
local judicial positions.
Jan. 18. Work on observatory started.
MARRIAGES.
ROBINSON—At Philadelphia, Pa., December 26, 1909, Mrs. Edward M. Robinson,
sister of Richard Ivers of Honolulu.
OKUMURA—At Hamadera, Japan, Dec. 31,
1909. Son of Rev. and Mrs. T. Okumura,
of the Makiki Japanese Church, aged
20 years.
BAILEY—At Los Angeles, California, January 1, 1910, W. H. Bailey, a native oi
Wailuku, Maui, a former instructor at
Oahu College, aged 67 years.
JACOBSEN—At Honolulu, January 3, 191U,
Viggo Jacobsen.
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ROGERS—At Wailuku, Maui, January 11,
1910, Waldrou H. Rogers, aged 35 years.
S. E. LUCAS, Optician
CAMPTON—At Honolulu, January 16, 1910,
George Campton, aged 73 years.
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WALDRON-SCHAEFER—In Honolulu, January 4, 1910, at St. Andrew's Cathedral.
J. W. Waldron and Miss Elsie Schaefer.
FRATES-DRIER—Iu Honolulu, January 5,
1910, by the Rt. Rev. Bishop Libert, Dr.
F. E. Frates and Miss Adele Drier.
WILHAMS-AYLETT—In Honolum, January 11, 1910, by Rev. Father Valentin,
Alfred L. Williams and Miss Mary K.
Aylett.
BLATT-VOSS—In Honolulu, January 12,
1910, by Rev. H. H. Parker, Albert Blatt
and Miss Martha Voss.
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January
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assisted by Rev. A. C. McKeever, Walter
Alfred Cannon and Miss Etelka May
Lewis.
FISH-BRISTOL—In Honolulu, January 17,
1910, by Rev. W. E. Potwine, Irving W.
Fish and Miss Clare Bristol.
ROBINSON-JAEGER—In Honolulu, January
20, 1910, Mr. E. Robinson and Miss Iwalani Jaeger.
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1909,
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OLDEST NEWSPAPER WEST OF THE ROCKIES
HONOLULU, H. T., MARCH, 1910
Vol. LXVII
TREASURER'S STATEMENT.
The Temperance Campaign.
February was breezy in reform circles.
Ips succeeded downs in quick succesRECEIPTS.
sion and inasmuch as late tidings from
Washington are not forthcoming the
133.15
$
A. B. C. F. M
lighters here are quite uncertain what
2,592.05
A M. A
Bush Place
67.00
the next move will be. During the first
Chinese Work
1.00
days of the month prospects for federal
4.50
Englisii-Portuguese Work
prohibition were unusually bright. The
78.90
Friend
liquor interests were on the run. Frantic
37.35
Hawaii General Fund..
2.00
Hawaiian Work
cable-grains from their representatives at
Hoaloha
126.40
the national capital showed how thoroly
938.00
Invested Funds
frightened they were and disclosed a
Japanese Work
560.00
situation. The one weak point
desperate
Kalihi Settlement
302.50
250.0(1
in the line of attack was the adverse inKauai General Fund...
Kohala Girls School...
75.00
fluence of Delegate Kuhio. If he could
Maui General Fund....
111.58
be induced to rally to the defense of his
190.00
Ministerial Relief Fund
own people victory was sure. But our
Oahu General Fund
834.62
friends, the enemy, had succeded in inoOffice Expense
62.80
12.00
Opukahala Fund
culating him with the federal-dread bug
50.00
Palama Settlement
and he was suffering from a very aggra43.50
Tomo
vated case of homenilitis.
The legal
advisers of the saloon men were keen
J6.474.32
enough to see that their only hope was to
swing the Merchants' Association and
EXPENDITURES
Chamber of Commerce into line under
$ 178.4.. the lead of the Home Rule- Bugaboo and
i. B. C. F. M
7.02 center the attack upon the Senate
lush Place
Committee. ( hying to the large li'hinese Work
$ 277.50
967.0(1
quor membership in these two organSalaries
689.50
izations and those controlled by it,
to the- natural timidity of bus:nglish-Portuguese Work 48.50
834.00
882.50 iness in die- face of every reform and
Salaries
last but least to the honest but unground71.50 ed fear of government by commission,
'riend
165.50 these two aggregations of business men
ieneral Fund
13.30
lawaiian Worn
were carried by the opposition to federal
531.50
544.80 prohibition. The lawyers climbed over on
Salaries
the same side of the fence with some
">6-30
loaloha
difficulty. These tactics were met by a
417.41
apanese Work
counter charge on the part of the Social
Salaries
807.50
1.224 91 Science- Association and Civic Federa,
tion which declared "in favor of Con2 70.60
kalihi Settlement
gresional action.
It was clear that the
:ohala
Girls' School
two business organizations had a decid140.00
Salaries
ed advantage in their control of Mr.
)fflce Work
202.05
George
1!. McClellan the directing me508.00
710.05
Salaries
chanism of Delegate Kuhio. With this
250.00 line-up the- morning of February 11
'alama Setetlement
37.2h dawned when the Senate Committee was
'omo
to meet and decide how to report on the
Settlement
Vaiakea
50.00 Curtis bill, the prohibition measure for
Salaries
Senator Depew was emoted on
50.u» 1 lawaii.
Cailuku Social Worker
the 10th as sure that the bill would be
$5,605.88 favorably reported.
From January 20—February 20, '10
Ixcess of Receipts over Expendi-
tures
iverdraft at Bank
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623.80
T. R.
The Fracas.
No. 3
was bitterly contested.
It was clear that
the Senators were heartily in favor of
re]>orting that the bill pass. But the
opposition put the home rule objections
so strongly that finally the committee
stiggested that in order not to wound the
feelings of the voters the question be
submitted to them. This was the very
card which Mr. Woolley was ready to
play in case he was put to it, hence he
agreed and was both surprised and gratified to have I'rince Kuhio heartily assent to his proposition, "If Mr. Kalanianaole will agree here and now with the
committee and with me to enter into the
arrangement, advocate it in the House of.
Representatives, and co-operate without
reserve in tarrying prohibition before the
The agreement
people, 1 will agree.''
was then entered in the record of the
committee. This carries both the Delegate and Mr. McClellan in favor of the
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plebiscite.
The Uprising of the Women.
The tidings of this agreement awakened in Honolulu an enthusiasm that betokened a great moral movement.
All
classes felt that Congress was honoring
them in requesting their will upon the
first social question facing humanity. At
once every true hearted citizen longed to
take a hand in the battle for freeing Hawaii from the yoke of King Alhocol. Naturally the women were as profoundly
stirred as the men and the desire to
make- their will effective at the polls could
not be repressed.
The first open suggestion that "he franchise be extended to
women at the proposed plebiscite came
from a lady of well known Hawaiian ancestry.
Hut the same thought was in
many minds, and it was entirely in accord vvith the Idea!—how often true in
Hawaiian history—that "the first lady of
the Territory," our Governor's wife,
should head a movement which united
every sort of woman's organization in
Honolulu in a request to Congress that
the womanhood of the Islands be granted*
the right to help decide the great question by their ballots. An answering despatch from the Delegate showed him in
little sympathy with this significant uprising, which was as spontaneous as it
j«
was inspiring.
What Next?
The Committee session opened at
A day or two after this dramatic epi10:30 a. m. and until 5 p. m. the fight sode Delegate Kalanianaole cabled that
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the plebiscite would be upon the question of prohibition by local legislative
action and not upon that of federal prohibition. The tidings cneated a strange
revulsion. Where before all was enthusiasm, the consciousness of a real opportunity to deliver Hawaii effectively from
society's worst foe, and a fine promise of
uniting all good citizens in one noble,
unselfish effort, now came the chill of a
profitless campaign, and the prophecy of
a fierce battle where victory might mean
a fruit with only ashes neath the rind. It
was a cruel disappointment The very
date set for the balloting in the midst of
summer, when the reform forces would
be scattered, seemed to tell the story of
Greeks bringing presents. From that day
on the heart has ebbed out of the movemen". Congress, that evidently wanted
to give Hawaii an egg, was by mistake
holding out a stone. Civic Federation and
Anti-Saloon League forthwith sent on a
plea that the voters of the Territory be
given the privilege of balloting on the
question, "Do you favor prohibition of
the liquor traffic by federal enactment."
What Congress will <lo about it is not
known.
That the Anti-Saloon forces of
Hawaii will conduct a red hot campaign
whatever be the- issue- submitted by joint
resolution to our voters, is a foregoneconclusion. We believe the result not
doubtful.
This final appeal to a dying
race to refuse to sign its own death warrant must prevail.
And the white vote
will rally in its turn to the right. Out of
such a fight as we face here a public opinion may be born that will reverse the
old rule and cause state- prohibition to
prohibit. In this conviction it is good
news to learn that Delegate Ktihio fully
share-.
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China at it too.
We arc indebted to that splendid representative of Uncle Sam-at-liis-best,
t ousul-General Amos P. Wilder of
Shanghai, for a pamphlet entitled "The
last Days of the Poppy," which tells the
tale of how our great neighbor to the
west is wrestling with her deadliest
physical foe. It is a noble story of rising patriotism, for the fight against
opium is begetting a new love of country
in the Celestial Empire. It takes couragefor government officials to meet the command of their emperor to extirpate this
curse to the extent of giving up their
lives in the struggle to free themselves
from the dread habit. But not a few
office holders in China have done this
True patriots these! All
very thing.
over the country the people and their
rulers are addressing themselves to the
three great demands of the reform: first,
eradication of the poppy plant; second,
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cessation of the consumption of opium;
and, third, prohibition of trade in the
drug. A ban is being put upon everything connected with the curse. Officials
who smoke, those that have ceased smoking, and suspects are tabulated. Opium
shops and smokers are licensed. Refuges
are made known to victims of the habit,
and the best form of treatment widely
The Viceroy of Nanking
advertised.
reports his three provinces already free
from the cultivation of the poppy. By
May of this year five more great provinces will have joined this procession of
freedom and many others are close behind. Public opinion is at white heat on
the problem, and the world is being
treated to the spectacle of a nation glowing with fervor over a mighty ideal. It
is good news for us Americans who are
at war with alcohol.
m
Our Trolley System.
Hawaii is justly proud of its one Rapid
Transit line. Fvery visitor is impressed
with the s"able character of its road bed,
the comfort and cleanliness of its cars,
the trim appearance of its employes, their
notable courtesy, and the general character of its business management. It is a
large promotion asset. Hence whatever
criticisms may be passed upon it do not
spring from lack of appreciation of its
many excellencies. The experiences of
the past few months, however, have led
not a few to the query Whether satisfied
with the record of the past the management is not relapsing into tha' mental
quietude which menaces all human institutions with the Stick-in-the-mud principle "What was good enough for my
The
daddy is <>och\ enough for me."
only organization on earth that can stand
this sort of thing is the Christian Church
and that even the Church cannot long
stand it has been the plain teaching of
history. Honolulu has been growing
steadily, and its use of the trolley system
has kept pace with its growth.
Hut
the ten minute schedule has not been
altered, and seems to bid fair to rival the
laws of die Medcs and Persians. The
enlarged traffic makes i" impossible for
the motormen to observe the schedule,
which in consequence is a farce during
much of the day. Some sections of the
city do not even have the advantage of
this so-called ten minute privilege. At
Manoa junction the situation is pitiable.
(me never knows during the evening
when to plan for a car that will connect.
The delays arc exasperating. This havoc
with an impossible schedule drives the
motormen to undue speed and threatens
accidents which are entirely avoidable.
On Washington s Birthday one of "hese
occurred at the corner of Lunalilo and
Pensi.cola streets where a car -ii iven fa r
beyond proper speed dashed around the
curve at a rate that took away not a few
passengers' breath and hurled an unlucky rider to the ground at the price of
a broken leg.
During the busy hours
of the day at morning, noon and night
and on holidays a five minute schedule is
imperative. This would necessitate extra switches but it is time for them. The
small car nuisance during hours when
known meetings in town increase traffic
should be abated.
Often dwellers in
.Manoa bound to town between 7 and
7:30 p. m. encounter a full car at the
junction—a condition for which there i>
no excuse.
Shelters and the Like.
The Manoa Valley transfer corner
needs a better shelter against rain. Rest
stations at the west terminus of King,
the east termini of Waialac and
Alakea and the north termini of
Liliha, Emma and Manoa Valley lines
would be a great convenience. Why the
King street tracks do not run up the hill
to Fort Shafter is a cotumilrum.
To
make everyone trudge those extra few
hundred yards is an outrage on the part
of so prosperous a corporation as the 11.
K. T. & L Company. Then where in
any city in Christendom are people jerked out of ears without reason so systematically as at the corner of Beretania
and Alapai Street? More than once a
well filled large car has been emptied to
over-crowd a small one necessitating the
standing of ladies who previously had a
sea"..
The niggardly policy of running
little overcrowded cars on the Puliation
line was the ocasion of the recent serious
accident there. Car No. 19 was over
full on that trip and wore the jaded apIt
pearance of an over used vehicle.
was only a merciful providence that saved a dozen or more lives on that wild ride
where-
niotorman and
conductor
were
cool and seemed to an onlooker to be doing their duty. Was it not courting disaster to put that ramshackle car at
work on the most dangerous run in the
city, Manoa valley, where it promptly
jumped the track on a level stretch? For
about an hour after the accident no ears
were run on the branch tho there was
nothing to prevent a relief car being on
hand within fifteen minutes. And by
the- way there is bound to be a grand
smash up on the bad hill down Punahou
street unless better time regulations are
observed.
We have rolled down that
track at a rate wholly unjustifiable just
to help patch up the broken schedule.
Now that the new Alakea wharf makes
that street the door to Honolulu what is
to prevent taking off the dirty uiivarnish-
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Ed vehicle which has so long disgraced
that run? It has hardly been courteous
to L'ncle Sam to keep it going in front
of his quarters so long.
More might be
said but this suffices for the present
These suggestieins are gleaned from the
experience of many who would welcome
a five minute schedule for the hours of
overcrowding and the ending of the antiquated twenty-minute runs altogether.
Maui Happenings.
In Honolulu.
The visit of Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Robert
J. Ilurdette of Los Angeles has been
greatly appreciated in the capital because
of their generosity in sharing themselves
with the community at large. Dr. Burdette has spoken in his inimitable way
not only in several of our church pulpits
and before- two of our men's leagues, but
also at the Commercial Club. It is to be
hoped that he may be induced to deliver
His
one of his famous lectures here.
messages are so full of wit, sense and
spiritual power that they carry far with
all sorts and conditions of people. Mrs.
Burdette also has appeared before a
number of our women's eirganizations,
and has captivated them with her own
messages. Honolulu people have cometo find the reason for the phenomenal
success of Los Angeles' Temple Baptis*
Church in the rare combination of these
two gifted Christian leaders.
The Floral Parade of 1910 will be remembered as the most interesting of all
the- scries thus far because of the great.
variety of its display. It could not rival
i"s predecssors in the bewildering beauty
of decorated private cars, which were
somewhat fewer than usual, but it certainly kept spectators more on the gui
vive, and suggested certain lines of development that may well be worked out
year by year. The tendency to fill out the
day and evening with other events was
also a happy innovation. Doubtless in
time a water carnival feature in the afternoon may be added. Mr. Ford's suggestion of enlarging the historical significance of the celebration derives point
from the very interesting floats that added so much to this year's parade. Japan's
annual flower show in Dangozaka is a
helpful commentary upon the timeliness
of Mr. Ford's suggestion. Mr. Harold
Dillingham and his associates deserve the
gratitude of the city for the impressive
demonstration which they gave of the
possibility of using the floral parade as
a means of education without sacrificing
in the least its loveliness or its appeal to
humor. A new and larger sphere ol
influence has opened before this now assured feature of Honolulu life.
of the Territory has widened his influence. On Maui he has been a tower of
strength to the ministers of all nationalities, while his peculiar gifts both in athletic and homiletic lines, have specially
endeared him to the Paia constituency.
We are glad to learn meanwhile that his
church has persuaded him to reconsider
his resignation, and that there is every
prospect of his continuing his pastorate.
This is one of the best pieces of news of
the past fortnight.— It is with great regret that we learn of the resignation of
Rev. Theo. A. Wahrip of Kahului. Mr.
Waltrip has been in the islands only two
years, but in that time he has achieved
distinct results and has made a place for
himself in the life of our churches. Kahului is a difficult field because of its
shifting population. But its Union
Church has (lone well, and as the seaport
grows will come to wield a large influence. The more we see of island life,
the more the importance of enterprises
like Kahului Union Church is impressed
upon us. The larger life of such communities is found in learning how to pull
together, and a church which buries out
of sight denominational lines and unites
all in Christian worship and service is a
rainbow of good promise for everyone
therein.
In gathering such a church
together Mr. Waltrip has done fine work.
We learn that there is some prospect of
retaining him for a needy post elsewhere
in the islands, and trust that the re-|>ort is
true.—The Friend congratulates Rev.
and Mrs. R. B. Dodge upon the advent of
their little son.
D. S.
Just as February dawned word came
that Rev. Edward Bates Turner of Paia
had resigned his charge. The news
brought keen regret not only to his parish, but also to his friends throughout the
Islands, for Mr. Turner is well known
and loved not only in the three parishes
of Kohala, Honolulu and Paia, where
he has labored so successfully, but elsewhere as well. His identification of himself with the entire Christian enterprise
THAT FIVE THOUSAND PERMANENT
FUND.
As several references have been made
in The Friend to the $5,000 Fund I am
attempting to raise for the Church and
Ministerial Aid Department of the Hawaii Association, it seems fitting that [
should report progress.
It is proving a
more difficult task than I had anticipated,
though I did not expect an easy one.
While we all rejoice over the munificent
gifts for various benevolences during the
past year or more, this modest appeal has
not met with a very general response.
The churches East are straining every
nerve apparently to meet the requirements of the "apportionment plan," and
it has been more and more impressed upon me that we must depend principally
upon our own people of the islands to
meet this need.
No contribution to the fund thus far
has been more touching than that sent
from South Dennis, collected by the present pastor of the "old home church" of
Dr. Baker and myself. This once large
and prosperous country church has dwindled because of death and removal until
there are but two men in its membership
beside the pastor. Yet Mr. and Mrs. Labarie, though strangers to us, in sending
the hundred dollars, say its collection has
been "a labor of love." and we are told
by others that he often prays publicly for
the work here, and for us by name.
Some of the amounts named have been
in two or three payments. I give them
in the order received:
Mrs.
B.
M. Allen
$35o.oo
Henry Champion, New
100.00
I lave-n. Conn
IOO.OO
Mrs. Caroline J. Robinson
Mrs. Sarah I). Lane. Boston.. 50.00
Mr. and Mrs. X. A. Norris,
Dorchester, Mass
iS-OO
larwicb
Church, Mass., bv Miss
I
Hall
17-50
Cambridge Church, Mass., by
Mrs. Lewis
18.50
South Dennis, Mass., by Rev. J.
C. Labarie
100.00
Mrs. M. S. Rice
5oo.oo
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Shipman. 200.00
Mrs. R. B, Baker
' 200.00
Mrs.
Total Feb 3, 1910
$1,651.00
I have hoped for other gifts similar to
the large one that has so cheered us, or
perhaps a thousand already invested. At
the same time, even a small contribution
is very thankfully received, and will be
acknowledged promptly and reported
later.
I hope this report will be considered
an appeal, not from the writer alone, but
from the many needy and well-nigh helpless churches of the island of Hawaii to
"come" for send) "over into Macedonia
and help us."
"Jesu, for men, of Man the Son,
Yea, thine the cry from Macedon.
O, by the kingdom and the power
And glory of thine advent hour,
Wake heart and will to hear their cry;
Help us to help them ere they die."
RUTH B. BAKER.
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The Library Alcove
ERNEST J. REECE
Human Life in Books.
"It matters little whether you are
brought into contact with a man by seeing or hearing, by the printed or spoken
To read a book in the true
word.
is to lay aside for the mosense
personality, and to beone's
own
ment
come a part of the author."
So spoke Leslie Stephen of the human
life that lies imbedded in books. Perhaps
no "ruth of greater significance to the inindividual was ever uttered, for it restates
the passing of influence from soul to
soul. The world now realizes that Jesus'
emphasis upon the value and import of
the person was based upon its reality. A
recent writer has noted that this force of
personality stands alone as the one uncontrovertible residuum of human experience. Men have repudiated our notions
of right and wrong, they have doubted
the order of the universe, they have questioned even whether a universe existed.
But no one has yet refused to accept the
fact of his own life. Our cosmos may
dissipate, our ideals may totter, our theologies may decay—personality remains
unassailcd and eternal.
And what life does not bear witness,
though tacitly and perhaps unconsciously,
to the supremacy of this force? What existence so impoverished and purposeless
that it will not respond with unsuspected
enthusiasm to the stimulating influence of
a heroic and devoted career ? What man
of accomplishment but attributes his impulse and dynamic in large part to the
touch of other lives? What prophet, indeed, but has borrowed a human blade
Alexander the
to unseal his orders?
remarked
that
"to his father
once
Great
he owed life, to Aristotle," his tutor "the
knowledge of how to live worthily." Pasteur, long before he dreamed of crystallography or silkworms, prepared his
daily lessons under the tutelage of a parent who sought both to »id his son and
instruct himself. Galileo came to selfdiscovery largely through the influence
of his father's friend Ricio, and through
the glimpses into the world of mathematical science which that influence brought
with it. to each of his children the King
gives a torch. Now he fills it with his
own hand, till it glows with fire from the
skies. Fully as often he bids that the
beacon be lighted from the embers on
history's hearth.
. .
. .
Some Literary Hooes.
For those of us who must spend our
days largely in one spot, the most ready
approach to inspiring lives is through
books. This being the case, we shall probably find few who have cut their names
more deeply on the tablets of history
than those- who have recorded themselves
in literature. For when we have a man's
book we have not merely the story of his
work, but his work itself. The most complete history of New France extant commemorates a life of courage of which
Americans may well be proud. Francis
Parkman graduated from Harvard in
1X44. engaged in law for two years, then
made definite choice of a literary career.
He- gave himself to portraying the conditions which obtained on our American
continent before the coming of the
Anglo-Saxon, and to recording the circumstances that attended the clash of the
red civilization with the white. To fit
himself for this he sought personal acquaintance with the races and regions
concerned. He returned from his long
western expedition with health undermined. This handicap did not deter him
from his task, however. With eyesight
so far impaired that for three years at
one- time he could scarcely endure the
light of day. and with strength so precarious that (lie of his hooks required the
best part of twenty years for completion,
he was true to his purpose. The result is
a series of accurate and beautiful pictures
of early American life, standing as a
monument to a scholar's fidelity.
About the same time there was growing up in the Southland that peer of
American poets, Sidney Lanier.
He
came of age as our grea" civil conflict
was on. and served for the cause which
seemed to him right. He returned to
private life with the shadow of incurable
disease upon him. But the soul of vision
is not amenable to laws of physical ill
and health. Lanier's dream was of an art
which he defined as requiring suffusion
with "beauty, truth, wisdom, goodness,
love." To it he offered himself, saying,
"It is of small consequence whether I
Let my name perish; the
fail.
poetry is good poetry, and the music is
good music: and beauty dieth not, and
the heart that needs it will find it." To
his own generation he gave exquisite
music; to posterity he left a few gems
of poetic thought. He escaped the opression of poverty only to find the white
spectre bearing down upon him. He was
gone at thirty-nine, but the torch he
handed on blazed with devotion to an
ideal.
Literary history teams with such records.
Guy Bancroft gave fifty years
of labor to one piece of work. John
..
March, 1910
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Richard Gieen dictated parts of his Histoo weak
to hold a pen.
Milton invested eyesight
and life in the cause of English freedom.
Stevenson labored feverishly through
years of illness and suffering and weakness, and died at his guns.
tory of the English people when
Some Loyal Disciples of Art.
Nor can we ignore the characters of
courage who have brought the beautiful
nearer. Art is of some significance to all.
To a few it is life. A humble French
painter of a century ago was among those
to whom it was vital. Encouraged by devout parents who gladly dedicated their
own meagre means to the culture of his
genius, and urged by a grandmother who
counseled him to remember that he
"painted for eternity," and to "keep the
ever in his mind,''
presence of God
Jean-Francois Millet set out to depict the
beauty and simplicity of French peasant
life. He was fettered by timidity, disheartened by scornful criticism, embarrassed by poverty. In spite of all he
clung to his ideal, broke with the conventional, and established anew the fact that
art has a place in homely life.
Music has enlisted her heroes as well
as painting. If there be an American
school of music, its establishment is due
perhaps first of all to Edward MacDouc-11. La Forge has said that "they
who love- art must be willing to sweep
the floor and tend the hearth." and i* was
with such disregard for superficial that
MacDowell served. It is stated of him
that he "never compromised his standards : he never conceded to the interests
of the moment, or gave anything more
than his time- and strength to work essential to his necessities. His genius, his
temperament, his enthusiasm, he reserved
for his art." Complete tribute to his purpose—this was MacDowell's ideal. It
was enthroned in his life, and taught him
to subordinate all else.
A few intense
years he worked, interpreting beauty in
the form of lyrical music. Darkness came
upon him early, but his torch burns still.
.
.
Where They Touch Us.
More important by far than the work
a man does is the spirit in which he does
it. The better America—the America in
which the art of beauty, goodness, wisdom, truth and love shall have come to
its own—will think no less dearly of
Lanier and MacDowell because their
lives were unfinished. Their impress is on
the nation. They received their torches
direct, perhaps, and to them the generations will go for light. They represent
phases of the supreme real force of per-
�March. 1910.
sonality, stamped with individuality and
i<-ft among men.
Printing and communication have rendered no greater service than by making
it possible for us of the modern workaday world to select our friends not only
among our companions of today but
from our brothers of the past. We may
hold converse with the torch-bearers. It
is one of the glories of life that we may
know them.
It is one of the compensations of life that we may enlist their Support in the work which our age calls
THE FRIEND
botes.
Two representatives of Professor Bowser's alma mater were present in
the persons of Captain J. C. Castner, constructing quartermaster, L*. S. A., and
Rev. Frank S. Scudder, who sjioke a fewwords in appreciation of the pure and
beautiful life over which the curtain of
death had closed.
The presence and sympathy OI so
many friends at this service were deeply
appreciated by Dr. Bowser's former students, and have been reported to his sister
and friends on the mainland, and to Rutgers College. To those far away friends
wlio must have been wondering how
much of sympathy there was to relieve
PROFESSOR EDWARD ALBERT the loneliness of his death, this message
BOWSER, LL.D.
cannot fail to be a sweet word of comfort.
The death in this city on February 19
of Professor Edward Albert Bowser,
1.1..1)., of Rutgers College, called forth
THE WHITE LIST.
many kind expressions of sympathy.
Considerable comment has been called
About a year ago Dr. Bowser spent a
few weeks in Honolulu, falling in love forth by an editorial in the December
with the place and the people, and it was FRIEND entitled More Hours of Work,
his intention to spend this winter here, in which attention was called to the fact
lie arrived, however, critically ill. and that our business men are allowing themwas deprived of all his anticipated idea- selves to be gradually enslaved to drudsure, lingering but two weeks in pain gery, by letting the Oriental force us
and weakness, though everything was down to his standards instead of our
done which could be done for his com- bringing the Oriental up to our standfort at Queen's Hospital and by the few ards; as, for example, throwing up the
friends who were- permitted to see him. sponge and working all day Sunday to
Dr. Bowser was a noted mathemati- compete with him instead of compelling
cian. Professor of Mathematics and En- him to observe our Sabbath regulations.
The arival of more steamers on Sungineering in Rutgers College for nearly
thirty years, and the- author of a series day is now causing further encroachof twelve books on the various branches ments upon the business man's lawful
of higher mathematics. The- superior privilege of rest. Some stores are throwmerits of these books won for them a ing open their doors on Sunday and
speedy recognition, and they are now be- .skimming the cream of the tourist trade,
ing used in 324 institutions of higher allowing the law-abiding merchants to
get only the leavings during "he early
learning.
< )n Monday, Feb 19, a memorial ser- hours of Monday morning.
This works especial hardship to ■somevice was held at Central Union Church
firms, such as Curio Dealers and
House,
which
was
remarkable
business
in
Parish
that it was attended during the busy Photographers, who are forced either to
noonday by people the majority of whom give up the right of a day of rest for
never knew Professor Bowser person- which our ancestors have fought for
ally, but who came out of respect to the ages, or descend to the Oriental standard
memory of a man who has done so much of competition day and night, year in and
for the educational world, and to express year out.
The observance of the Sunday law is
their sympathy for one who died so far
from home.
no more than Fair Play, and The Friend
The service was conducted by the Rev. wishes to commend the good citizenship
Doremus Scudder, D. D., pastor of Cen- of those business men, who at a financial sacrifice have stood up for the maintra! Union Church.
Among those present were :Governor tenance of our Western business standand Mrs. Walter F. Frear, President ards and for a day of well deserved rest
Gihnore, of the College of Hawaii, Pres- after six days of exacting confinement to
ident
Home of the Kamehameha the; r Ktore*.
We believe that such a stand in the inschools: Principal Mabel E. Bosher of
business and social sunKawaiiahao Girls' School, besides other te-v.-i- t ■
members of their faculties, representa- dards should be recognized by the pubtives of other schools, and members of lic. In many places on the mainland it
the Lniversity Club and of the College is so recognized by the publication of
Club, who also sent beautiful floral tri- what is known as THE WHITE LIST,
7
—a list of the names of all firms conducting business on White principles
If such a list were published in Honolulu it would include the names of a
goodly number of reputable firms among
the Orientals as well as Occidentals.
THE COLUMBIA PARK BOYS.
On February 17th, the Columbia Park
Boys came over to be the guests of the
Boys' Clubs of Honolulu, returning by
the Alameda on the 23rd. They were
a remarkably genteel lot of boys, conducting themselves with such gentlemanly behavior during the whole of their
stay with us. that Mr. Peixoto may be
justly proud of them. There were 40
Ixivs in the company atended by Mr.
Piexoto and two asistants. They furnished excellent entertainment at the
()pera House, and in baseball they were
ijreat, winning three of the four games
played, and losing like sportsmen when
they lost. They played also a fine game
of basket ball with the Ft. Shafter team.
We are glad to have had this visit
from the boys, and to have had opportunity to encourage- them. They were
very appreciative of the attention received here and we hope they liked our
city well enough to come back and pay
us another visit.
It was noticeable that no profanity
was indulged in by these boys, a fact
which it would be well for hoys in other
schools to note; and Mr. Jungclaus
speaks in most complimentary terms of
their gentlemanly conduct while at their
meals in the Palm Cafe
M. MARTIN.
JOHN
■a
THE FRIEND APPRECIATED.
Managing Editor of "The Friend.'
Dear Sir: —So long as I possibly can I
feel that I must have "The Friend" for
the many good things found in its pages:
the news, the progress of the kingdom of
Christ, the solution of difficult problems
which hitherto have been met in the
Christlike spirit, showing to the world
the real meaning of the burning question, "Am I my brother's keeper?"
The Friend has stood, and I pray it
always will stand, for sane, broad views
of Christian duty, and shows to the world
the true meaning of brotherhood. I am
pleased to renew my subscription for
1190. and for it enclose one dollar. I wish
I had the money to endow it as one of the
means to promote righteousness. May
cur Father abundantly bless all who devote time and thought to this agency for
spreading the kingdom.
Sincerely yours,
HELEN S. NORTON,
Howell, Mich.
�March, 1910.
THE FRIEND
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The Scribe's Corner
REV. WM. BREWSTER OLESON
Corresponding Secretary.
"Che cMtf wast is lite I* tosubody who
shall wake us do the best we cas."
—
Emerson.
Prohibition Prohibits:
It is one of the catch phrases of the
Street ,: iat "prohibition does not prohibit." Like many another catch-phrase,
tin- one has come to be regarded as a
truism. The man who questions this
dictum queers himself as once with his
neighbors. And yet there is no inherent
infallibility in such a phrase. The man
who questions its accuracy may be right
after all ,and the phrase- may be wrong.
There are some facts that it is well for
all men to weigh: and surely facts ought
to count with us all as more authoritative than any mere catch-phrase.
In the first place, it is a manifest fact
that liquor dealers everywhere seem to
btii've that prohibition prohibits. They
always fight it with all the- resources at
their command. They know that where
prohibition comes it shuts up the
saloons, and closes out the breweries and
distilleries. They know that its mere approach puts brewery and distillery stock
on the toboggan. The man who doubts
whether prohibition prohibits, and undertakes to continue selling liquor surreptitiously, as hundreds of deluded men
have done in local option communities on
the mainland, discovers new light on this
subject under the compelling influence of
tines and imprisonment.
Again, the exercise of local option has
placed thousands of communities under
the operation of prohibition, and this
l>olicy has been continued steadfastly b>
such communities as the result of an annually recuring vote. The steady course
of the majority in such communities
shows that that majority is satisfied that
prohibition prohibits. It is a glib thing
to say that such citizens know well
enough that prohibition does not prohibit, and that in voting as they do they
publish themselves to the world as social hypocrites. How much easier, however, it is to believe that such citizens
know what they are doing, and have
good reason to be satisfied with their
course as not only honest but also wise.
For the communities in which local option has secured prohibition, and there
are many such in all sections of the mainland, have not only shut out the saloon
effectively, but they have notably augmented the savings of the people as shown
in savings bank statistics; have accelerated the purchase of land and the erection of
bouses by the people; have enormously
reduced expenditures for the maintenance of police and jails; and have enhanced the peace and prosperity of the
community in ways not easily tabulated
but none "he less manifest on every hand.
Again prohibition is a principle imbedded in all repressive legislation, and is
therefore no new or experimental affair,
but rather is the chief reliance in repressing crime. The law against murder, and
bigamy, and arson is a prohibitive law,
and civilized communities are satisfied
that such law prohibits.
In the sense
that a prohibition law against the sale of
of liquor docs not altogether succeed in
suppressing illicit traffic in liquor, so also
docs the prohibition against murder, bigamy, and arson fail to suppress altogether these crimes against society. But
this has never seemed a sufficient reason
for enacting less stringent laws, and it
ought not to be so with reference to laws
prohibiting the sale of liquor.
Again, a law that receives the approbation at the polls of a clear majority of
the citizens is likely to be enacted in
good faith, and having public sentiment
back of it is likely to be enforced as well
as other prohibitive enactments. If there
is reason to doubt "he effective enforcement of such law, popular pressure can
secure Special provision for securing
such enforcement.
Thus the Legislature can empower the Governor to direct the enforcement of the law through
a special constabulary force who will be
free to devote their whole time to this
work, and who will be removed from the
deterrent influences of local political and
other considerations.
When men point to the- large number of "blind pigs" in prohibition communities as evidence that prohibition
does not prohibit, they forget that such
"blind pigs' always exist in license communities as well. They do here in Hawaii under our present license law, and
inasmuch as such "blind pigs" presumptively secure their liquor from licensed
sellers, the probability is that right here
in Hawaii now license promotes the multiplication of such places. Some of our
retailers are wholesalers as well, and
it is a plain business proposition that they
may be- depended on to sell all they can
in quantity as well as by the glass. And
the "blind pig" operator gets his liquor
by the quantity where it can be bought.
L'.ndcr prohibition there would be no
such opportunities to secure liquors from
licensed dealers, and this fact would
*
I lUl'T'l 11' til T'l'illll'tl till' 11111111 M
f"
tit "'llltTlil
pigs'' rather than to increase that numTo facilitate the enforcement of a
prohibitory law, the payment by an individual of a Federal tax for the sale of
liquor could be made by statute a prima
facie evidence of the sale of liquor and
be specially constituted as evidence sufIn this way, terrificient to convict.
torial prohibition with a special constabulary appointed by the Governor and
removable only by him, and an enactment constituting the payment of a Federal tax prima facie evidence of the sale
of liquor, would obtain for us here some
of the best features of Federal prohibition, would preserve home rule as the regulating power, and would secure such
a vigorous and consistent enforcement
that blind pigs would be reduced to a
minimum instead of being at a maximum
as at present under existing law.
ber.
Anonymous Correspondence.
When a man has anything to say in
print, he ought to say it over his own
name. That is the honest and honorable
and manly method. It would be a good
thing if our newspaper editors would go
To
one step further than they have.
protect themselves from possible lawsuits they now refuse to print anonymous contributions when not accompanied by confidential information as to
the writer's name. It would only be a
step further for them to take the stand
that they will print corespondence from
only such citizens as sign their names or
initials. This would be in the interest
of more courteous discussion of public
questions.
The present method gives opportunity
for mean innuendo that is cowardly and
would not be used in an article over a
man's own name. Jf Honolulu is really
getting out of its swaddling hands, and
looking forward to better things, one
way to promote a better Honolulu would
be to relegate all anonymous correspondence to the days of small things, and
have only those people speak to the public through the columns of the press, who
have something to say. and are willing
to say it over their own names.
Association Meetings.
The semi-annual meetings of our Is
land Associations are now nearly due
These gatherings are of vital value t
our churches and our missionary wor
in general. Effort is being made con
tinually to eiichancc their value, and to
adapt them to the varying needs of ou
workers among the various nationalities
These meetings are to be held as fol
lows:
�March. 1910
Hawaii Association at NapoopOO, Ko13-17.
Maui Association at Waihee, March
18-22.
Oahu Association at Kaumakapili,
lonolulu,
April t>-9.
I
Kauai Association at Lihue, April 11Ir*.
na, March
Good Men and True.
We have to chronicle the deaths recently of two Hawaiian ministers wdio
have been devoted and successful servants of the churches. The elder of the
two, the Rev. J. B. Ilanaike, was serving
the churches of Maui as long ago as
IK7B. He was subsequently a pastor on
I lawaii, and then at Lihue, Kauai. Latterly he- has served as judge at the above
He was a man of sterling charplace.
acter and good sense, a wise counselor
The
and a faithful servant of Christ.
younger, Rev. J. S. Lekelesa, has been a
patient and efficient worker in a large
and exacting field. As pastor of the
church at Waimea, Hawaii, he supplied
the churches also at Kawaihae and Kawaihac-uka, and his Christian spirit has
made him a large place in the hearts of
all who knew him.
THE
FRIEND
of a wholesome- spiritual life in our
churches and missions.
2. It is not strange that this material
activity should be accompanied by statistical evidences of the hopeful condition
of our churches. The tidings come from
every direction of numerous, and substantial accessions to the membership of the
churches. The carefully planned campaign of evangelistic meetings, mainly in
pastorless and isolated churches, has been
fruitful and stimulating. It has been impossible to compass every portion of the
territory, and some needy sections, have
not been visited.
But the experiment of
sending two men out together for patient
house to house visitation, accompanied by
public meetings in numerous neighborhoods, warrants such work at frequent
intervals.
3. Some of our pastorless churches
have been provided with more frequent
preaching services by visiting supplies;
and some have been supplied regularly.
At I lauula, the response of the people
has been noticeable. At other points the
response has been disappointing. One
of the most noteworthy gains of the
quarter has been the return to some of
our churches, under wise leadership, of
those who had taken up with other teach-
9
one of profound encouragement. Our
workers in the main are making real
progress in adapting themselves to the
special needs of their respective fields.
Some of these fields are isolated, and the
difficulties are serious ones.
But real
headway is being made even where these
obstacles arc the most serious.
Taken in collection with the annual statistical reports from our missions and
churches for the year closing with Dec.
1909, the quarter has been one of the
most fruitful and eivcouraging during recent years.
Number
of Criminal Drunks
New Hampshire.
in
ing.
Digest of Quarterly Reports for Quarter ending December 31, J909.*
1. The quarter has been one of unusual activity in the erection of new
buildings, and in the repair and renovation of old ones.
A handsome little church building has
been erected at Kaiwiki, Hawaii, very
largely through the self-denying gifts of
tlie Portuguese resident there.
The Japanese church at Koloa has dedicated a reconstructed building; the
building of the Japanese church at Waialua has been moved to a better location
and together with the parsonage has been
repainted and renovated; a neat and attractive chapel has been erected and dedicated at Makalawena, Kona; and three
fine new church buildings have been
erected and dedicated at Olaa, Spreckelsville. and Kaunakakai. A pretty little
church building on Lanai was formally
opened for church services in December.
A commodious Sunday School Hall at
Kapaa was completed during the quarter.
Extensive repairs were made on the
Alexander Parsonage at Wailuku, on the
Kaahumanu church at that place, on the
Chinese parsonage at Hilo, and on several church buildings in Kona, Hawaii,
and on Kauai. Other repairs and new
buildings are being planned for. This
activity is one of the material evidences
by (leneral Superintendent at Hawaiian
* Preneuted
Board
meeting. Friday, March 4, mm.
4. ( hir agents and other pastors have
continued their good work in prosecuting
schools for the instruction of ministers
and Others.
More is being done just
now in this line than for some years
Immediately, the effect is to enrich the
sermon material of our pastors and hence
to add greatly to the value of church services ; indirectly the effect is to awaken a
sense of responsibility on the part of
some who may later on hear and obey
the Master's call to work in his vineyard.
5. The Island Associations held during the quarter were particularly notable
as furnishing occasion for a fine display
of Christian comradeship between races.
Thus at the Koloa meeting and at the
Waianae meeting, the Associations, made
up mainly of Hawaians, gave glad and
hearty support to meetings in the interest
of Japanese evangelism.
o. The demand for workers is becoming more insistent as the months pass.
Losses by death and prospective removal
are especially forcing this matter to our
attention in our Chinese and Japanese
missions, and among our Hawaiian
churches. New fields that are inviting
workers arc only accentuating the problem. Efforts are being made to secure
the needed workers, but the situation
calls for prayer as well as effort.
7. The splendid spirit of devotion and
of outreaching for larger usefulness that
is to be noted in the quarter's reports is
The Makiki Japanese Church has introduced the custom of one English sermon each month. The first one to deliver an address tinder this new schedule
was Rev. C X. Pond, D. D.
THE BULLETIN AND MR. WOOLLEY.
"Perhaps the Plebiscite will be a good
thing to settle the Prohibition question
once for all, and save the price of maintaining Mr. Woolley at Washington. A great
amount of good for local citizens could be
done with these funds in a campaign of
education for temperance in all things.
Bulletin, Feb. 24.
Might it not be well to "save the price of
maintaining" the Bulletin in Honolulu and
apply the amount to the purpose above recommended ?—Ed.
�the suggestions ready for the architects,
and the architectural competition started.
The committee will receive the competitive plans April 10. The following
architects are at work on the building:
In Honolulu, Messrs. Newcoinb & Macomber, Lord & Furer, Emery & Webb,
Kerr, Gill, Campbell. Farrar. On the
coast, Messrs. Ripley, Dickey, and, we
The plans will
think. Mr. Traphagen.
probably be submitted to public inspection as soon as received, to get the ideas
of our friends as to the merits of the
Men Working for Men
PAUL SUPER
Soldiers.
The meetings at Fort Roger have been
most successful. \o series of meetings
for soldiers that the Association has
conducted has been so appreciated by the
men and so well attended. From a third
to almost half the men in the post attend.
The results have been apparent in tile
number of Fort Ruger men seen at
church, and in the number of private interviews the men have sought with Rev.
A. C. McKcevcr, who has been addressing the meetings. A second series will be
begun early in March.
Marines.
Next to Fort Roger, the Association's
efforts have met with most response at
Camp Very. Religious meetings have
not yet been started there this year, but
a number of the men belong to the Y. M.
and a hand ball tournament has
en the men nearer the Association,
hone to get a strong hold in this
p of 400 men.
KY.
J. F.
Moore.
Monday. March 14. Mr. John F.
Moore of New V>rk City, traveling secretary of the International Committee of
the Y. M. C. A., will arrive on the Mongolia to spend two weeks with the Association, going over the field with the officers and committees to suggest new
lines of work, and bell) along the present
plans. The building plans will be extensively discussed, and he features to be
in the building definitely settled. While
here Mr. Moore will be the guest of Mr.
C. 11. Atherton and wife. He will speakin Central Union Church the morning of
the twentieth, and at other places during
his stay, including the shops and military
A wide experience qualifies him
for a useful visit, sure to bring inspiration to the local Y. M. C. A. workers.
This is the first visit we have had for
some years, when Mr. Robert Wcidin-
pos"s.
sall was here.
ending March Ist were over $130(1 ahead
of the receipts for the corresponding six
months last year. These increased receipts have helped the directors do the
biggest year's work the Y. M. C. A. has
ever done.
A letter recently received
from the editor of the international or- buildings, before the committee passes
gan of the Associations congratulates the on them, to choose the successful comlocal workers on their fine- growth.
petitor.
Physical WorkInterest in his phase of Association
activity is very good at present. Hand
ball is drawing a number of men and
students into the gymnasium and furnishing them fine recreation. Two tournaments have been conducted, one between the students and the seniors, ill
which 11 players took part, the students
loosing to the seniors by a small margin.
The second series was between the Marines and Association.
The employed boys' class lias taken a
new hold, and the attendance is good.
Meanwhile we long For the new building
with the excellent equipment it will provide.
Parade Day.
The afternoon entertainment of Floral
Parade Die was turned over o the Boys'
(liibs. who arranged a field day between
the Columbia Park Boys, and (lie McKinley High School boys, and a hall game
between the Frisco boys and the Marines.
The High School won the meet, and the
I'ark Boys the ball game. The attend-
'
ance was about 2.000, a fine crowd and
well behaved.
Work.
The Association has been successful
recently in finding work for a number of
men, quite a few of whom were from the
night school, and there got the qualification that enabled them to take the positions that opened tip. such as stenographers, bookkeepers, etc.
It is gratifying
to see a young man grow from driving a
wagon to keeping books for a plantation
store, or from stockboy to bookkeeper.
These and other promotions this year's
work has made possible. We are glad
to see the results of our work.
Growing.
The Association continues to grow.
advancing at a good pace. The membership is now about 660. and there have
students enrolled in the educa- New Building.
-1 department this fall and winter,
The building committee has completreceipts from educational class fees
memberships for the six months ed the first stage of its work, getting
K220
March. 1910.
THE FRIEND,
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Smoking.
"No smoking in the dormitories, was
the rule when the Seattle building opened a year ago, and will stand for another
year, for not only have the rooms been
full, but young men have taken quarters
there in order to help themselves to
break the habit. This is exactly in line
with the decision of the Eastern District
Branch, Brooklyn, where the members,
after two open debates, decided with
practical unanimity not to allow smoking
in the building.
Many smokers voted
against it because they wanted to be
where they could smoke.
Under the Star and Crescent.
L, P. Chambers, International Y. M.
C. A. Secretary for Turkey and Armenia, was in Adana during the "three
weeks of hell," of pillage, massacre ai»J
fire, when 3,000 to 4.000 were killed or
burned to death and 20,000 people left
homeless,
He gave his best service to
the relief of the distressed people and
was called upon by the- British Consul lor
interpreting and diplomatic correspondence.
Undoubtedly larger opportunities for service will be presented in the
Turkish Empire with the new order. The
Aintab Association has a vigorous membership, and its meetings on Sunday
afternoons are attended by 400 and 500
men.
The way has been opening for the Association to do a broad and effective
work in the city of Constantinople. The
Rev. F. B. Meyer, in the course of his
journey to the Far East, declares: "Nothing will have a more salutary effect in
Turkey than vigorous Associations.
Young men are demanding places for renin- n. and what better places could they
have than ours.
P. S.
The space available for advertising in
The Friend is almost exhausted.
If yon
wish to pet in your "ad." seize the opportunity.
�March. 1910
THE
FRIEND
and ten by letter from other churches.
If at the four remaining communion services during the year we can do as well,
our membership ought surely pass he
1000 mark.
We had at the beginning
of the year, according to the church
clerk's annual report, 955 members. Central Union ought to have over a thousand
numbers, with all the young people that
are coming up in the Bible School, and
witli the constant influx of people from
the mainland. The ministers arc continually meeting those who say they have
been in Honolulu for a long time and
have often attended our church, but have
never been invited to join. This is not
as i" should be. Central Union lias a responsibility toward all who come to this
city. If every member would assume his
share of the responsibility we would have
at each communion not seventeen hut
seventy applying for admission to the
church.
Central Union News
A. A. EBERSOLE
Our Men's League.
With tWO hundred men present at the
last Men's League supper and the committee on the "Anti-Tuberculosis Playground School" able to report something
ever $150') already subscribed toward a
maintenance fund, it is very evident that
interest in his organization is not lag-
•
It must be admitted, however, that the
mnnr
,-s'''
fs
announcement that Dr. Robt J. Bur-
11
through the winter months, Dr. Scudder has been devoting the Sunday evening services to a free and informal discussion of the religious questions which
the thoughtful young men and young women of our country are asking. Under
the general heading, "Young America's
Religious Questions," he has considered
the following:
I.—"Three Queries in One" (John 4:
24).
II. —"Some Very Searching Oucstions
about Jesus.''
111.—"About Jesus" (continued).
IV. —"In regard to Salvation."
V.—"The Bible—Magic or Historic
Record" (2 Tim. 3: 15-171.
VL—"Miracle and the Supernatural."
Vll.—"Life After Body Deefth" < John
14:14).
Vlll.—"The Near Spirit."
IX.—"ls the Church a
Waning
Force?"
A part of the hour each evening was
given to answering questions banded in
A Month in Turkey.
during the week. The series has been
Central Union lias fallen into line with exceedingly helpful not only to the young
the churches of the mainland and is now people but to all who attended, for who is
in the midst of a month's study of "The
Turkish Empire—lts People and their
Possibilities." We have already had three
most intensely interesting programs at
our regular mid-week services, and following out in detail the suggestions sent
out by the American Board. The meetings have been quite out of the ordinary,
both in the subject matter presented and
the personnel of those who have taken
Thirty of our ablest members
part.
have participated. Among them are sev
eral of our leading business men. a
judge of the Circuit Court, the President
of the College of Hawaii, the President
of Kamchamcha Schools, the Secretary
.if the Y. M. C. A., the Principals of
Punahou Preparatory School and Kawaiahao Seminary, as well as members
of these various faculties.
'The attendance has been large, tinParish I louse being well filled at every
one of the meetings, and a deep interest
has been manifested throughout the series. As to results, we know they will
be evident at our annual Easter offering
to be "ak.-ti a few weeks hence. Central
Union has always given munificently to
missionary causes, but this year, because
of the deep interest aroused through
this series of meetings, we anticipate
a larger offering than ever—enough, we
hope, to enable us to assume, in addition
to our Nauru Mission at least one station
in Turkcv.
there that does not have some questions
on these great themes of our religious
faith.
THE
EVANGELIZATION OF
JAPANESE BRETHREN.
OUR
IN HAWAII.
By Rev. M. Tsuji.
This is a serious question and worthy
of careful study. We are devoting much
thought to i". and hope for suggestions
from others.
'The condition of Japanese t mission
work in Hawaii is steadily improving,
hut our people are still far from the
Kingdom of God. There arc few that
understand or seek after the true God.
Doubt and misery are in "heir way; they
are cursing and deceiving each other,
and given to vice.
Many of our countrymen have lost
They are
faith in their old religion.
wretched and distressed, scattered as
slice]) not having a shepherd.
The command is given to us, "Prepare
ye the way of the Lord, make his path
straight, every valley shall be filled and
every mountain and hill shall be brought
low, and the crooked shall be made
straight, and the rough ways shall be
made smooth; and all flesh shall see the
salvation of God."
More New Members.
In preparing the way among our countrymen many obstacles must be removed.
Seventeen new members were received
1. Superstitious ideas and misunderinto church membership at the February Young America's Religious Questions.
Beginning the latter part of October, standings aboii* the Christian religion.
communion. Three came on confession
and continuing, with some interruptions. Many of our people think it is the fordette. of California, was to lie tile speaker of the evening, had something to do
with the record-breaking attendance.
And yet the way in which the men. who
were not vet members of the League,
signed up afterward shows that they like
the spirit of the League and wan" to help
carry out its purposes and plans.
Dr. Burdette was u his best and gave
a most delightful address brim full of
wit and humor, on"The Average Man,"
or the "Man witli the One Talent." Unless a man was pop sure that he is a "entalent man he couldn't help going away
from that meeting with a new courage in
his heart to try a little harder to use the
talent he has, feeling "hat even the average life is splendidly "worth while."
�12
eigners religion, or a religion for white
people, but not for us. This is a valley
to be filled up.
2. The bad habits an.d customs prevailing in Japanese camps and also the
unhealthful surroundings.
These are
crooked ways to be straightened.
3. There are many national vices
which rise up like mountains. One of
these is the parent of all others; I mean
intemperance. It hinders the progress
of God's kingdom, it ruins many souls.
Some people approve of Christianity but
do not become Christians. One said to
me, "Many times I have trembled and
wept as I listen to sermons, and have
made up my mind that I would be a child
of God, but when I got home the first
glass of wine swept all these resolutions
away."
We are now fighting hard against this
great enemy of intemperance and other
vices that hinder the progress of the Redeemer's kingdom.
We are trying also
to build up the kingdom by religion, educational and social, and all other means
we can use.
()f course, our churches are small, but
we believe that the church is an army,
and that every man who hears the voice
of Jesus saying, "Thy sins are forgiven"
hears the same voice calling "Now destroy the works of the dcvil —try to make
earth like heaven, and every man like
me."
While we hear the voice of Jesus saying "Fear not, little flock, it is your
Father's good pleasure to give you the
kingdom," we also feel a great responsibility. I fawaii needs more evangelists
and teachers. I earnestly beg the Hawaiian Board to open new ways to help
the Gospel reach all our countrymen in
Hawaii.
As St. Paul says, "Brethren, my
hearts' desire and prayer to God for
them is, that they might be saved." The
Scripture says, "Whosoever shall call
upon the name of the Lord shall be
saved.
How then shall they call on
him of whom they have not heard, and
how shall they hear without a preacher
and how shall they preach except they be
sent.
"The harvest truly is plenteous but the
laborers arc few."
Ka
typographical error in the last
Mr. Damon's leading article was
of much of its significance by apj under the heading, "Educational
Arguments" instead of "Educational Argonauts."
We publish in this issue our promised
letter from Bethlehem on Christmas Day.
THE
March, 1910.
FRIEND.
Notes From the Field
FRANK S. SCUDDER
EARLY FULFILLED.
IMPRESSIVE TRIBUTE TO. MR.
TAKAHASHI.
The following resolute words were
frequently utered in private conversation
by Mr. Takahashi, whose lamented death
was noted in the February FRIEND.
The oft repeated "here" had reference to
his own field in Makaweli.
"I love Hawaii, and expect to spend
my life here for my people. Here I will
live for them and here I shall die for
them. As a soldier lays down his life on
the battlefield for his country so will I
lay down my life here for Hawaii."
The funeral of Mr. Takahashi, our
evangelist whose tragic death was noticed in the last issue of The Friend, took
place in Makaweli on January 28. Rev.
T. Okumura, Mrs. T. Hori and Rev.
Frank S. Scudder went as representatives of the Hawaiian Board.
Being the first Christian funeral held
among the Japanese in that vicinity, the
event created an unusually profound impression. Most touching was the apparent sense of helpless desolation among
the young men who had lost their
"Sensei," who was more to them than a
brother.
When the coffin was carried from the
hospital to the hall where the service was
to-be held.it was suggested that the
young men divide into companies, each
company to take its turn in carrying it;
but no sooner was it lifted than all
crowded around it, those who could not
get near reaching a hand as far into the
crowd as possible, and trying at least to
touch the coffin.
It was with a feeling of relief that at
last we saw it safely placed in the hall.
The hall was crowded, yet a hush prevailed. A number of persons, among
whom were two Buddhist priests from
Makaweli and Waimea, paid their tributes of respect to the beloved brother.
Mr. B. D. Baldwin spoke most feelingly
and appreciatively of Mr. Takahashi's
exceptional character, his wide influence
and his unselfish devotion to the welfare
of everyone.
At the close of the service a meeting
was held in a neighboring camp, to which
most of the people remained and listened
with unusual interest to the Gospel message.
The body was brought to Honolulu
and cremated several days before the
news could be broken to Mrs. Takahashi
in the hospital. Heartbroken as she is,
she has borne the affliction with Japanese fortitude, and with a Christlike spirit.
Mrs. Takahashi wishes us to express
her deep appreciation of the sympathy
which has been shown to her by American people as well as by Japanese. In
Makaweli, Lihue, Honolulu, Ewa and
other places, many have added to heartfelt sympathy a practical sympathy of
the hand, which will be a great comfort
and help to her in facing the new respon-
MR. AND MRS. TAKESHI BAN.
Mr. and Mrs. Takeshi Ban are the
latest acessions to our Japanese evengelistic force. Though still a young man,
Mr. Ban has a splendid record, having
been recognized by the Emperor for
faithful service in the army, and having
twice received a handsome present from
the authorities at Liau Yang in appreciation of his valuable service as Principal
of schools in that city.
He came here
from Tokyo where he lws been associated with men of influence in the Missionary Board of. the Church of Christ in
Japan ( Presbyterian in form of government, but not in name.) With true missionary spirit, Mr. and Mrs. Ban go to
take up work among the plantation laborers at Olaa.
�March, 1910
13
THE FRIEND.
sibilities laid upon her with her three Worker's Home." They in turn visited
all the Chinese merchants and families.
fatherless children.
C. L. T.
is
also
the
among
shown
Much interest
Japanese in the sale, for the benefit of
A PROHIBITION PARABLE.
Mrs. Takahashi, of the "Ode to the Farmer," and a book of Mr. Takahashi'*
which was in press at the time of his
My father had a garden, and kept
chickens; I tended both. The chickens
death.
and garden didn't get on well together,
so I built a high-fenced enclosure and
NOTES FROM WAILUKU.
put the chickens in there, then all went
well for a season. But we had one hen
Japanese.
that
was troublesome. She was a gray
There have been two interesting gath- speckled,
feather legged fowl, with deerings of the Japanese Women at the cidedly masculine proclivities, always
Japanese Church. The first was on the spoiling for a fight, and disputing the
It was really
evening of January Bth.
every chicken to a place on the
one of the most social meetings ever right of
Among
roost.
the roosters of the brood
held, as the women semed to enter more
was
not
one
had a whole comb
there
generaly into the spirit of the games, and left on his head ; it who
was
a red flag of chalThere
other forms of entertainment.
her, and she always kept it bleedto
lenge
were 20 women, and 28 children present
swollen ; for this hen was detera total of 48. This brings encourage- ing and
to
boss the roost, and objected to
mined
ment, when at the same time there was a
seeing
insignia of leadership on the,
the
Buddhist meeting being held close by,
of
any other fowl. Many a time I
head
and the weather unfavorable.
would have made away with this misThe next meeting was held on the chief-breeder,
but for one thing —she did
12th.
Mrs.
Kanda
evening of February
no end of them.
and
big
eggs
lay
opened the meeting with Scripture readlast tired of the restraints of the
At
was
a
followed by
ing and prayer, which
chicken yard, she undertook to dispute
very interesting and instructive talk to
right to keep her within bounds. She
the Japanese mothers on the "Care of my
took
on a look of impudence that would
their Little Ones," by Miss Towner.
have
discountenanced a mynah bird, and
Miss Towner and Miss Turner hope
seemed
to say, "who is that high-collared
to give a series of talks to the mothers, prig out there who thinks he can shut
along the line of Hygiene.
in with a fence?" and over the fence
A very interesting meeting of the Y. me
she
went and into my garden before my
M. C. A. connected with the Japanese
very
eyes. Thereafter there was no conChurch was held on the evening of Feb. trolling
her. Every day she wrought
13th. 'There were 30 young men prein
my garden and one day,—1
havoc
sent and a marked degree of earnestness
to tell it, but I must in fairness conblush
was manifest.
fess my own faults as well as expose
hers,—one day I got mad, I seized her
Chinese
by her gray-trousered legs, and fired her
During the month of January the Chi- into the middle of the pond. When she
nese Mission was favored with the pres- came out dripping and exhausted, I seizence of Mr. Frank Damon. There was a ed her again and flung her back into the
large gathering at the Chinese church on water, saying. "I'll teach you that the inthe evening of January 25th to bid him side of the chicken yard is more comfortwelcome.
able than the outside." Now, I repeat
The opening exercises consisted of that it is only the desire to be fair to my
Bible recitations, and singing by the hen. that gives me the courage to
Sunday School children, followed by make this humiliating confession.
songs from the "Chinese Young Men's Well! she didn't take the lesson to
heart, but I did.
I watched that hen
Club."
Mr. Damon gave an interesting ad- anxiously to see whether in my unmanly
dress consisting in part of a review of outburst I had done some injury to her.
the Mission Work on Maui, also some but I found I had not, and I tried thereacounts of the "Mid-Pacific Institute," after to be especially kind and considand the gi eater educatnonal opportun- erate towards Her. I also said, "I oughr
ities opening to the Chinese, Japanese, to be able to outwit a hen." So I devised
a scheme.
I bought lath, and built my
and Koreans.
Mr. Damon's coming has been a help fence higher. Now for a time all went
well, but in a few days she was out and
and inspiration to all.
Chinese New Year's with its usual fes- at it again. Then said I, "Now, look
tivities was filled wi"h a round of calls. here, old fellow, I'll fix you," so I went
Twenty young men were received by for him with shears and clipped his wings
the ladies of the "Alexander House with fierce satisfaction.—I mean her
wings; there always was something
about that hen that made me call her a
he. But soon the feathers began to fill
out, and in a few days, there she was, up
in that Northern Spy apple tree, and
from there over the fence and into my
garden again. What should I do! If
she were not such a valuable hen I would
put an end to her at once, but no, there
was more money in her eggs than even in
my favorite Northern Spy, so off went
the branches of my tree. * And what do
you suppose? A few days more and
there she was in my garden again, and
others with her! Now my interest was
aroused.
I put her back and watched.
I observed her nosing along the bottom
of the fence; there she had scratched out
a hole by which not only she, but any
other chicken could escape. "Blind
pig," thought L, "but I'll stop that all
right." So I examined the foundations
of my fence all around, and made it tight.
But the chickens had now learned the
trick, and, led on by old Grayspeck, made
my life miserable, and my garden a
laughing stock to all who passed by.
Then was my wrath kindled, but now in
righteousness. I seized him by the legs
and said, "See here, old chap, I am sorry
I was mean to you once and ducked you
in the pond, but now I mean business;
I've tried you out on every line. I tried
letting you go scot free, I've tried low
license, high license, and clipping your
mischievous wings, and you've not played
fair, now I'm going to try prohibition.
I'm sorry for you, and I'll miss your
eggs, but your days are numbered," and
the hen seeming to fear that her day of
reckoning had come, squawked and
screeched so loud that all I could make
out of her protest was "You'll see that
prohibition doesn't prohibit!" and I said,
"Maybe it won't, but anyhow it will be a
step in the right direction to get you out
of the way," and with a firm step I led
him to the prohibition block and with one
blow I accomplished more than I had in
all my previous experiments. I found all
the rest of my chickens easily controlled,
and from that day my garden began to
pick up, and no one was able to surpass
me in the quality of my garden produce
or in the beauty of my home flowers.
F. S. S.
NINETY YEARS OLD.
The sweet singer, and mother of many
of the songs that go straight to the heart.
Fanny J. Crosby, will be 90 years old on
the 24th of March.
A birthday celebration, polyglot with song, will be observed in one of *he churches.
Mr.
John Martin, Rev. M. K. Nakuina and
Miss Florence Yarrow are on the commitcc
�THE
14
Our Young People
HENRY P.
The Country Sunday School.
JUDD
other leaders in the churches. It is indeed sad to see what factional quarrels
One of the greatest forces for right- and petty jealousies have done to disrupt
eousness in Hawaii nei is the Sunday the important work of teaching the Word
school in the Country districts. 'This does of the Lord in these islands.
not mean that the city schools are not doSome of the readers of "The Friend"
ing a splendid work in training the have occasion to visit in the outer disyoung people in Christian life and char- tricts from time to time and find themacter, for the contrary is most decidedly selves on the Lord's Day near some
true.
The work of the schools in 1 lono- church. You can help the work of the
ltilu and Hilo and in the towns of WaiKingdom by attending the session of the
luku. Lahaina, Lihue and other places is Sunday schol
and teaching a class, pergenerally well conducted and efficient. haps, and
making a short address
possibly
Let us not, however, lose sight of the in- of encouragement before the school. In
fluence upon Hawaiian life that has come nearly all the schools there are one or
from the country schools and is still coin- two classes
in English where help may
ing from them in large measure. About be given acceptably.
one-fourth of the 1 lawaiian population is
While at Halciwa over Sunday, why
located in Honolulu, but a goodly proporvisit the Sunday school of the Hanot
of
come into
city
tion these have
the
from
the- country, being attracted by the excitement and novelty of metropolitan life.
It is certain that a number of these were
former members of the country school
and are now carrying out in their everyday city life the teachings received in the
schools connected with our country
churches.
In spite of the fact that such a large
proportion of the llawaiians are living in
Honolulu, the majority are still residents
of the valleys and seacoast and hillside,
where no sound of the trolley car or postman's whistle is ever heard. It is to
these llawaiians that we turn in considering the subject of the country Sunday
school.
It is evident that some of these schools
are almost dead, or if not dead they are
at least asleep. The reason for this is
something easily seen. There may be but
few people left in a village and these few
have become discouraged by the small
number that could be gathered together
for a scho.il session. Sometimes the cause
of the trouble is the lack of some one to
lead the school and to put new life into
the members. At other times it is the
bickering and quarrels that have almost
broken up the work.
How can these three obstacles to success be overcome?
The first problem
may be solved as soon as the second is
met successfully. In other words, if you
have a faithful and energetic leader you
have someone to dispel the gloomy feelings that pervade some of our isolated
schools. The last one of these problems
must be conquered only by the patient endeavor of the pastor and deacons and
March, P>lo.
FRIEND
noon consecration, and in the evening
Conquest. Simultaneous meetings in the
interest of Sunday schools will be held
in all the churches of the Capital City
•
that day.
The Convention is intended to be inspirational rather than educational, though
there will be conferences on methods of
work. (me of the special features of the
Convention will be a Sunday school missionary exposition under the direction of
Mr. Diffcndorfer. Its purpose will be to
give a Sunday school vision to the missionary world and a missionary vision to
the Sunday school world.
'The General Secretary of the Hawaiian Association has been informed by
the director of the exposition that I lawaii
is expected to contribute to this interesting feature. He is therefore ready to
receive any copies of hymn books. Bibles
and all forms of Sunday school literature
that may be of use in making up an exhibit from these islands.
leiwa Church and thus aid in the Chris- WORLD'S SUNDAY SCHOOL DAY.
tian work of Waialua? Give the Christians of this and other places the benefit
A request has come from Mr. G. M.
of your knowledge and inspiration.
Bailey, chairman of the Executive Committee of the World's Sunday School
Association, that every pastor in these
The Washington Convention.
islands preach a sermon emphasizing the
of the Sunday school as a factor
claims
It is not too early to present 13 the
readers of these pages Hie announcement in the development of Christian charactof the World's Sixth S-.inday-scl >X) 1Con er, urging upon parents and guardians
vention in Washington. 1). C. May 19 to die importance of training the children
of the Scrip24. Plans are being carefully made for a and youth in the knowledge
his
a petitures,
in
including
prayers
and
great gatherig in the nation's capital.
Delegates will be present from every im- tion for the blessing of Almighty God
portant part of the civilized world, and upon the work of the Sunday school in
representative men and women of our all lands, and especially upon the World's
at
two largest Sunday school countries — Sunday School Convention, which
he
session
in
that
time
the
of
city
will
in
America—will
be
atin
England and
The date of this special
tendance in large numbers. ()ne of the Washington."
is,
as
already
stated above. May
day
features of the convention will be the
Welcome Service, in which the President 22nd, and it is to be hoped that the minwill speak for the nation, to be followed isters of all Christian churches throughby Hon. John Wanamaker. who will re- out these islands will comply with the
present the Christian business men of request of the World's Sunday School
America. Additional words of welcome Association and make the day a time for
will be spoken by a representative of the prayer and meditation in behalf of the
schools, besides
District of Columbia, and responses will Hawaiian Sunday
be made by representatives of Europe, preaching a special sermon in the interAsia, Africa and Australasia. The theme ests of the school.
of this session will be "The Influence of
the Sunday School Upon the Nations."
THE SPRING CONVENTIONS.
Another feature will be a great parade
of adult Bible classes, in which 10,000
men will be in line, reviewed by the PresThe time for the spring meetings of
ident.
the variois Island Sunday school AssoWorld's Sunday School Day, May ciations is at hand. The Hawaii Associa22nd, will be a memorable day for the tion will meet at Napoopoo, South Kona,
churches and Sunday schools of Wash- beginning March 13th with a Hoike. The
ington. In the morning the dominant Association of Maui County meets at
thought will be communion, in the after- Waihee, convening March 18th.
�THE
March. 1910
all night service on Christmas Eve. apparently for no other reason "ban to interfere as far as the 'Turkish guard will
allow them with the Roman Catholic ser-
Hawaii Cousins
CHRISTMAS IN BETHLEHEM.
Editor Friend: I promised "hat I would
write you while making this tour around
the world, and it seems to me that this
is the most suitable place from which to
do SO.
We arrived here several days before
Christmas, which we employed in visiting
the many sacred spots about Jerusalem
and making a "rip to Jericho and the Jor-
dan.
Christmas eve We took a carriage for
Bethlehem, which as you know, lies six
miles over the hills from Jerusalem. The
moon was nearly at its full and it was as
bright as our Honolulu moonlight.
In Bethlehem, built over the grotto
where Christ is reported to have been
born, is the large Church of the Nativity,
in which Roman Catholics and Greek
Catholics have separate chapels, and are
kept from fighting by armed 'Turkish soldiers. I he Christmas of the Greek
Church comes fourteen days later than
ours, but they make a point of having an
15
FRIEND
vice.
We went to the church early to as to
secure seats and sat an hour or more
watching the crowd assemble before the
service began. At 11 p. m. the candles
were lighted in the large Roman Catholic
chapel.
A number of priests ap|>eared
and after bowing to the altar seated
themselves inside the altar rail. Soon to
our astonishment vestments were produced, and they began to dress themselves in full sight of the congregation!
They had all shaven polls and beards,
and looked quite different from our
American priests. The Bishop or Patriarch of Jerusalem conducted the services, which were evidently specially prepared for Christmas. As it was all in
Latin it was largely unintcligible to me.
'There were many changes made in the
attire, and especially in the head dres
the Bishop, during the main service,
which lasted until nearly three o'clock in
the morning. He wore a little red skull
cap over his shaven poll. At various
points in the ceremonies this was removed by an assistant priest and a sort of red
Again this would
turban substituted.
be removed and a tall, cloven bishop's
hat placed on his head. Again the turban
would be replaced and later a larger
bishop's hat donned. This happened over
and over again during the ceremony, and
was probably significant to those who
His vestments were also
understood.
changed several times, several priests assisting. The music was sweet but monotonous. At three o'clock the Bishop
and priests passed m procession from
the altar to the Grotto of the Nativity,
the priests bearing long, lighted candles,
and the Bishop carrying the Bambino, a
wooden image of a baby. Two rows of
'Turkish soldiers formed on each side of
the procession to keep the crowd back
and protect it from interruption. The
chapel of the Greek Church was near by
and they carried on their opposition service in stentorian tones, but attempted
no other interference. 'The procession
proceeded down under ground into the
grotto, and deposited the Bambino in its
golden cradle to remain until New Year's
day. when it will be brought out again
with ceremonies to be used another year.
This closed the main service, but a priest
remained in the grotto celebrating the
mass, and hundreds of devotees crowded
into it to partake of communion on
Christmas day. and while the Bambino
was there. Masses were held in the chapel also, and men and women were re-
You can
"Eat your cake and have it"
in a very real sense.
You can give away your property and have it—really enjoy it, as long as you live. You couldn't have
it longer than that anyway.
This is the idea of "The Conihtionai. Gift Plan"s Your money—property, or whatever can be conand
verted into money—pays you a good, steady income during your life and goes on working for you
gone.
are
for humanity after you
So you ''make friends (by) the mammon of unrighteousness,"
So also, you "lay up for yourself treasures, etc'
This is no can't. It is Christian stewardship and sound business sense combined.
The Finance Committee makes you an offer of one whole per cent better than before. You can hardly
invest much better elsewhere and
the amount you invest with the Hawaiian Board in your life time will not be
wrangled for after you are gone.
will earn 5 per cent.
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March, 1910
THE FRIEND
ceiving the wafer by hundreds until
broad daylight.
While the ceremony was, of course,
somewhat distasteful to .a Protestant, it
was very imposing and impressive, and
something to remember. The fact that it
was held at the actual birthplace of Jesus
added solemnity to what would otherwise be farcical and the devotion of the
worshippers should be an example for
us.
The morning was spent in a walk to
the plain of the shepherds some miles to
the east, to the home of Joseph the son of
Jacob, and to other points of interest. At
eleven we attended a service in Arabic in
the school of the English Protestant
school in Bethlehem, after which we
walked back to Jerusalem. Trains of
camels led by Arabs, numbers of pilgrims
on their way to the afternoon service at
the Grotto of the Shepherds, carriages
full of priests and others, Bedouins on
donkeys and on foot, etc., were met constantly as we walked along the white
stony highway.
In the afternoon we attended service
in the large Russian church in Jerusalem
and found the ceremonies more impressive and the music much more beautiful
than that of the Roman Catholic. Thus
we had three services on Christmas day,
and each in a separate unknown tongue.
It was a day long to be remembered. The
painful part of it was to see opposing
Christian sects quarreling over the
birthplaec of our Lord, whose whole
teaching was love and forgiveness of
enemies and charity. It is degrading that
the peace must be kept between Christian
sects by Moslem soldiery. We are enjoying our tour greatly, and hope to reach
Honolulu in March or April. Aloha nui
to all the friends.
C. H. DICKEY.
IN MEMORIAM.
Wm. H Bailey was born and brought
up in Wailuku Maui, where the sun
peeped each morning over old Haleakala,
and at right threw long shadows from
West Maui mountains. He was a student
at Punahou when Mrs. Mills was a
teacher theie, and scores of men and women now living were his schoolmates.
He was a planter on Maui for years, and
here his children were born. Though the
last years of his life were spent in California, in mining and in developing oil
lands, he was still a kamaaina and had
been a "Cousin" from his childhood. For
a few years his health was impaired, but
on Jan. 1 he left all care and sickness behind and entered into rest.
Mr. and Mrs. Bailey were married on
Maui, and only a few days before Mrs.
Bailey's death they celebrated the fortieth anniversary of their wedding. For
forty years they had lived together the
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joys and sorrows of life and passed
through its lights and shadows, but on
Jan. Ist Mrs. Bailey was too ill to be
told of her husband's death, and so never
knew she was a widow, for on his birthday, January 24th, she awakened as from
a troubled sleep, at the dawning of eternal day, to see him again and receive a
welcome into the joys of heaven. They
were weary, and we say, "they have entered into rest."
But what shall we say of the young—
those in early manhood and womanhood,
who asked not for rest but for action ?
Three of the younger members of the
mission families have lately passed away,
seeming to leave unfinished their life
work.
Mrs. Lottie Lee Hartwell Chater, a
young wife and mother, whom we in
Honolulu knew as a bright and happy
girl, with winsome ways and charming
personality, went, on September 3rd,
"Suddenly into the brightness,
Out of a shadowed day;
Suddenly into fadeless dawn,
The perfect Light alway."
Alice Kluegel and Robert S. Andrews,
each battled bravely for about three
years for breath, when suddenly Death
seemed to conquer, and life here ended.
But no!
"I have come that ye might
have life," said the Master. The Lord
was with them in the fight and in the
victory. What if the fair young bodies,
the beautiful habitations in which they
dwelt, must be left behind. The souls,
they themselves, had been purified, and
were ready to fill the "places prepared"
for them. The work was ready, they
were needed, the caH had come, and they
have gone.
We think of them as having alreadybreathed in great draughts of life eternal ; and with more abundant life, over-
flowing vitality and strength without the
shadow of weakness, they have entered
into their work, and are now flashing
wireless messages of love, fresh from
their Redeemer's lips, through space, as
He directs. "Life more abundant!"
Victory.
ji
MISS ADAMS MUCH WELCOMED
(Though not written for publication, we
think this extract from a letter bears a
significance of interest ana value to our
readers.)
We found large crowds at the station,
and every one seemed glad to welcome
me back, but the climax was reached
when I arrived at Hanabatake, and found
the whole cho (ward) decorated with
lanterns, flags and arches, and all the
people lined up to meet me, the children
waving flags, and. as I rode thru the
lines, they shouted, "Adams
sensei
banzai!" I was so pleased, I just shouted, "Hanabatake banzai!" It was some
time before I could get away, and go up
to Miss Wainright's for dinner. The decorations were kept up two days, and
one day they put the floating fish out for
a time, as a welcome.
I began at once to unpack and prepare
for the bazaar, which went off well,
yesterday, followed by the big welcome
meeting in the park. I don't know yet
how mucn money we cleared, but we
took in about one hundred and eighty
yen.
Tonight I had another welcome meet-
ing, and several follow, during the week.
No chance to rest and get my house in
order, but that will come.
With the
bazaar, welcome meetings and interviews
by newspaper reporters, I haven't had
the time to do some important things.
ALICE P. ADAMS.
Okayama, Japan.
�March. 1910
ARMAMENTS AND THEIR
RESULTS.*
By Andrew Carnegie.
Armies and navies exist and increase
solely under the plea that these are the
best, and indeed the only meai.s of ensurng peace.
We deal with three of the axioms urg-
ed in their justification.
First: "To be prepared for war is the
surest way to secure peace."
Answer: If only one nation "prepared"
this axiom would be sound; but when
one arms others follow, and the fancied
security vanishes. Rivalry between nations ensues, and preparation, so far from
promoting peace, sows suspicion and jealousy, developing into hatred the prolific
seed of future wars between nations hitherto peacefully disposed.
Nations are only aggregations of men,
and all human experience proves that
men unarmed are less likely to quarrel
than men aimed. Hence in civilized lands
they are debarred from arming.
Two neighbors have a difference which
a friendly interview would have solved,
but one acts upon the axiom, "In time of
peace prepare for war," and buys a pistol.
Hearing this, the other promptly "pre-
pares."
The first decides he is insufficiently
"prepared," and buys a six-chambered revolver, an action that is immediately followed by his neighbor. With every additional weapon purchased the premium
upon their lives would be promptly raised
by insurance companies. These "prepared" men have only to meet by chance,
when a word, a gesture, misinterpreted,
results in bloodshed, perhaps death. ExThe causes of
actly so with nations.
wars, both between nations and men, are
generally of trifling moment. So much
depends upon their attitude to each other,
friendly or unfriendly. If the former,
no dispute but can be peacefully settled;
if unfriendly, no trifle but can create war;
the disposition is all. Hence the folly and
danger of nations arming against each
other, which must always arouse mutual
suspicion, fatal to friendly relations.
Armaments and true friendship are incompatible. Even nations in close alliance against other nations must always
feel the alliance may give place to other
and perhaps hostile alliances. Thus suspicion inevitably follows armaments as
shadows follow substance. There is no
escape, and suspicion is fatal.
Second: "Our armaments are intended
only for our own protection and are no
menace to other nations; they make for
peace."
•Issued In pamphlet by the Peace Society. 47 New
llroad Street, London, K. C.
THE
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FRIEND
These same eight powers have only to
Answer: So say all the armed nations
meet
again and decree that hereafter disand it is true that every nation regards
and proclaims its own armaments as in- putes between civilized nations shall be
struments of peace only, because these settled in like manner (or by arbitration),
are meant to protect her from the exist- and war becomes a thing of the past.
—Advocate of Peace.
ing armaments of other nations; but just
other
nation
regards
as naturally every
every other nation's armaments as clearly
IN BEHALF OF PEACE.
instruments of war, and not of peace, beLast year many of the churches, and,
cause these may attack her. Thus each
nation suspects all the others, and only through the efforts of Mr. Babbit, a large
a spark is needed to set fire to the mass of number of the schools in the islands, obinflammable material. It is impossible served Peace Day with appropriate exthat formidable armaments of one nation ercises.
The 18th of May is the anniversary of
should not create alarm among other nations ; although all nations may protest the opening of the first Hague Conferthat they do not intend to attack, yet they ence, and is the generally accepted PeaceDay in this country. We call attention to
may.
Thus armaments, either personal or na- it, hoping that it will again be widelytional, on land or on sea, so far from pre- observed.
We will be glad to receive suggestions
serving peace, inevitably become in time
any one as to suitable selections for
from
chief,
all,
not
the
if
one of the
greatest of
causes of war, since they sow the deadly- a peace program.
Let us know of any interesting feature
seeds of mutual suspicion. The gigantic
armaments of our own day have greatly of your program last year and The
added to this danger, which future addi- Friend will pass it along.
tions now under way must inevitably increase. Clearly, increasing armaments is
CARD OF THANKS.
no remedy, since they multiply the danMrs. Takahashi desires me to express
gers of war.
Third: "Armaments are the cheap de- through 'The Friend her deep appreciation of the kindness of those fifty-four
fense of nations."
friends
who contributed through me to a
Answer : Let us see. Last year, 1908,
for herself and her children as an
fund
Britain spent upon army and navy in
of their sympathy in her beround numbers £70.000,000 ($345,000,- expression
reavement.
The fund amounted to
-000): Germany, £48,000,000 ($233,000,$140.00.
-000): America, £97,000.000 ($470,000,JULIA A. E. GULICK.
-000), £32,000,000 ($160,000,000) of this
upon war pensions. This expenditure was
DO LIKEWISE.
before the day of Dreadnaughts, nowcosting about $12,000,000 each, say 12,'The Koloa Japanese Christians have
-250,000. The naval expenditure of naswelled
the Tomo subscription list by the
tions and hence the dangers of war are to
be much greater in the future, and the addition of 61 new names. How? Those
end thereof, under present ominous con- who solicited the subscriptions offered to
ditions, no one can foretell. One point, contribute their commission to the church
however, is clear. Neither men nor for an organ fund. The suggestion remoney will be wanting with any first- sulted in what might be called a subscripclass power involved, since for no cause, t'on shower, and they soon had $7.50 to
unfortunately, can the populace of every add to the organ fund. This is doubleland be so easily and heavily burdened as barrelled incentive and its results are
for that of foreign war, in which all men more than double, they are cumulative.
are so prone to believe their country in Something like this —
the right.
This is the Tomo.
The remedy: Recently delegates of the This Is the commission on the subscription
to the Tomo.
eight naval powers, Germany, France,
Italy, Russia, Austria-Hungary, Japan, This is the bargain that won a good organ
out of the commission on the subscripBritain, America, sitting in London, untion to the Tomo.
to
an
establish
interanimously agreed
Is the style of the Publisher's smile
This
national Supreme Court, to deliver final
when he hears of the bargain that won
judgment upon all cases of marine capa good organ out of the commission on
tures, each nation appointing one judge.
the subscription *o the Tomo.
To such of the smaller nations as apply This Is the lesson we wish to impress on
the friend who would help on a good
for admission, seven judges are to be
With each new subscrippublication.
accorded in turn, so that the great mation you get a commlsson, and you'll
rine nations combined have always a maAnd it less trouble, If inducements are
double.
jority, which is common sense.
:
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March, 1910
THE FRIEND.
BOOK REVIEWS.
officials and scholars who have lived in
the East, or made special study of the
subject. The volume is edited by Prof.
George H. Blakeslee.
Mr. K. Kondo, son of one of the influential members of our Lihue Japanese
Church, has become a teacher of a new
school at Anahola, Kauai. Mr. Kondo is
an earnest Christian, and has opened a
Sunday school to which all of his scholars
gladly go. He is joined in sympathy
with our Japanese force of workers ard
makes our Kauai contingent four. We
wish there were six or seven. There are
promising fields enough, all close together, to claim the full strength of seven
men.
EVENTS.
Jan. 19.
Annual meeting of Central Union
Church, 375 at the supper, preceding the
CHARLES R. BROWN, D.D.
Author of "The Young Man's Affairs*
Thoi. Y. Crowell & Co., New York
business. Reports showed gratifying progress.
Jan. 21. Dr. W. C. Hobdy appointed
member of Board of Health to succeed Dr.
Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. The award is $15,000.
Frightful
Hoods of the Seine seriously threaten City
of Paris.
Jan. 26. Revenue cutter Thetis captures
23 bird poachers and quarter million pair.*
of bird wings at Laysan Islands.
.lan. 27. Emperor of Germany's birthday fittingly observed by local Germans.
Jan. 31. Pacific fleet arrives under command of Rear Admiral Sebree. Dr. Robert
J. Ilurdette speaks before Men's League of
Central Union Church.
Feb. 1. Attorney-General Lindsay begins
his official duties.
Feb. 2. Revenue Cutter Thetis arrives
with bird poachers and their booty. Poachers arrested by United States officials.
Columbia Park Boys arrive with their manager, Major Peixoto, on Makura.
Feb. 4. Rnpid Transit oar No. 19 jumps
track on Lunalilo hill, several passengers
were slightly injured. Brake broken.
Feb. 9. Commander Peary gives $10,000
towards explorer's fund for South Pole.
Chinese New Year fittingly observed. Civic
Federation endorses plan to secure high
class drama for Honolulu.
Feb. 10. United States Senate appoints
committee to investigate causes of present
high cost of living.
Feb. 11. Committee of Congress recommends that the question of prohibition in
Hawaii be submitted to the voters of the
Territory in special election. Mr. P. U.
NaJones retires from active business.
tional House of Representatives favors
$500,000 for harbor improvements in the
When a book appears from the pen of Wayson, resigned.
22. Alexander Lindsay, Jr., named
Charles Reynolds Brown, we know we byJan.
Governor Frear as Attorney-General to
have something well worth owning. succeed Charles R. Hemenway resigned.
Don't you know some young man into
Jan. 23. Hamburg-American S. S. Clevewhose hands you would like to put Dr. land arrived bringing 650 American tourists Territory.
Brown's latest book "The Young Man's around the world. Dr. F. E. Clark, founder Feb. 12. S. S. Cleveland arrives from
Christian Eneavor, and one of the Cleve
Affairs"? It is a series of strong prac- of
around
land tourists, addressed mammoth meet- San Francisco on her return voyage
on
a
young ing at Kawaiahao Church of the local Chris- the world, 700 passengers
tical talks
things in which
Feb. 14. Women of Hawaii representing
man will value guidance: His Main Pur- tian Endeavor Societies.
societies vote and cable request to ConJan. 24. S. S. Cleveland leaves for San 24
pose, His Intimates, His Books, His
Francisco. Test case will be brought by gress that women be allowed to vote or:
Money, His Recreations, His Wife, His the
Hamburg-American line to test consti- prohibition plebiscite.
Church. All as interesting as it is prac- tutionality
Feb. 15. Delegate Kuhio cables joint reof the coast-wise shipping law.
tical. $1.00 net; postage 10c.
New comet, not Halley's but a "sun chaser" solution presented for prohibition plebisThos. Y. Crowell & Co., New York. appeared in the western sky during the cite July 26, and opposing women voting.
evening hours.
We express our indebtedness to Dr.
Yilbur F. Craft's "World Book of Temperance" for the two graphic diagrams on
he results of no license. This book, by
he way, is well worth having. Cloth,
75c; paper, 35c. International Reform
Bureau. 206 Pennsylvania Aye.. Washington, D. C.
An important volume on "China and
the Far East," is announced by Thomas
Y. Crowell & Co. for early publication. It
is not the product of one man's pen, but
is the result of a series of lectures before
Clark University, by the most prominent
Feb. 16. Annual meeting Civic FederaFederation cables Washington for
Jan. 25. Word received that the Lahai- tion.
naluna case has been decided by the United plebiscite on Federal control of liquor trarStates Supreme Court in favor of Hawaiian flc and for vote to be before June. Anti-
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Line arrives on her maiden trip.
Feb. 17. Forty Chinese women organize KIRKALDY—In San Francisco, Cal., Feb■ Women's Reform Club. Its purpose is to ruary 2, 1910, G. W. Kirkaldy of the exattempt to overcome the traditional ;ireperiment station of the H. S. P. A.
judices of Chinese, to raise the standard of ANDREWS—In Honolulu, February 5, 1910,
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Feb. 19. Lorrin Andrews appointed head GREENE—In Honolulu, February 14, 1910,
George H. Greene, aged 64 years.
of local Republican organization.
Feb. 22. Fifth Annual Floral Parade. POMROY—In Honolulu, February 17, 1910,
The best yet
Mrs. Daie K. Pomroy, aged 43 years.
President
Feb. 24. In public address,
Honolulu, February 19, 1910,
BOWSER—In
Taft favors very large appropriations for
Professor Edward A. Bowser, LiL.D., of
Rutgers College, aged 64 years
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�April, 1910
THE FRIEND.
2
Hawaiian ITrust <&o* THE FRIEND
LIMITED.
BISHOP & COMPANY,
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Is published the first week of each
month
in Honolulu, T. H., at the HaFire, Marine, Life
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and
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per
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together with special
judge. We know for we have tried with
Commercial,
a number of boys, girls too. But you
Music, and
should have GOOD PICTURES as
Art courses.
texts when you tell Bible stories.
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trations. We knew one copy of it to be
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T.
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ally wearing it to pieces.
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Company,
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Waimea
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WahiawaCon. Pineapple Co., Ltd.
Fulton Iron Works of St. Louis,
Blake Steam Pumps,
Marsh Steam Tumps,
American Steam Pump Co.
Weston's Centrifugals.
Baldwin's Automatic Juice Weigher,
Babcock & Wilcox Boilers,
Demings Superheaters,
Matson Navigation Co.
'
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OLDEST NEWSPAPER WEST OF THE ROCKIES.
Vol. LXVII
HONOLULU, H. T., APRIL, 1910
3
No. 4
The Plebiscite.
Tidings from Washington.
The full text of the public hearing of
It seems now practically assured that
opponents of federal there will be an election held in July to
advocates
the
and
RECEIPTS
prohibition of the liquor trade in Hawaii decide whether the voters of Hawaii
$ 130.75
A. B. C. F. M
by Senator Depew's Committee at Wash- want prohibition. The form of the SenA. M. A
178.75
English and Portuguese
ington has recently been received. It is ate resolution is such that the vote will
carry no legal authority. It is merely an
Work
4.50
a document full of human interest. It
Friend
30.70
expression of opinion. As such, howevof
our
superintendent
Shows first that the
Hawaiian Work
4.25
er, it assumes hrst importance. It was
Hoaloha
Anti-Saloon League put up a magnifi- a very wise procedure for the Senate to
74.10
Invested Funds
2371.24
cent fight; that the liquor interests also refuse to require the Hawaii LegisJapanese Work
110.00
contested every point most stubbornly, lature to obey the plebiscite. Now the
Kalihi Settlement
60.00
Kohala Girls' School... 1073.47
and that they finally won the battle as far coast is clear here to get a frank, unbiasMaui General Fund
100.00
as the temporary defeat of the Curtis bill sed expression of die will of the people.
Oahu General Fund
497.85
is concerned by being able to mass What that will is admits of little doubt.
Office Expense
72.00
against it first and foremost Delegate i The only question is can it be led to exPalama Settlement
50.00
Portuguese Work
30.00
kalanianaole, second, Mr. McClellan press itself at the polls. We believe it
Preacher's Training Fund 220.40
and third, the protests of the local com- can. It is very fortunate that all politiS. Takahashi
40.00
cal parties here refuse to touch the quesTomo
6.00 $5i)r>4.0l mercial and legal associations. One great
gain achieved by the anti-saloon side was tion. "Hands off," they say, "let the
the reiterated declaration of both the fight be clearly between the liquor dealEXPENDITURES
delegate and Mr. McClellan in favor of ers and the anti-saloon men. We will neiA. M. A
$ 42.00
the prohibition of the liquor traffic here. ther help nor hinder." It is a good sign
Chinese Work..$ 98.00
Mr. McClellan showed himself a very that neither organization shows any disSalaries
698.00
796.00
able fighter. His tactics really decided position to befog the issue. Congress and
the day for the liquor interests. If the the American people are very anxious to
Eng. & Port.
result of the poll of those voting for and know exactly what the Hawaiians and
Work
19.50
against federal prohibition in the Mer- other voters here think upon the subject
832.00
851.50
Salaries
chants' Association could have been of this world-wide reform. It is clearly
made known to the '-ommittee, so that the task of the Anti-Saloon League to
Friend
62.15
(Incidentals)
Fund
they might have understood that those get to the polls every liquor hater and evGeneral
50.18
directly or indirectly connected with the [ cry man who believes the alcoholic saHawaiian Work..24.40
business or under its influence loon a danger to society. If we'win no
liquor
510.00
534.40
Salaries
formed the deciding element, the com- power on earth can save the saloon in
Hawaiian Pastors Aid... 120.00
mittee might have acted differently. A this Territory. If the liquor men monkey
Hoaloha
48.70
tactical mistake of the Anti-Saloon forces with our legislature, the Nation will act.
327.82
Invested Funds
lay in allowing the vote in the Chamber Probably Congress will co-operate with
the local enactJapanese Work. 133.35
of Commerce to be taken without debate our legislature to make
clear
951.35
ment
is
then that the
818.00
names
of
effective.
It
Salaries
the
registering
and without
those for and against it. If this had been coming special election will be a fight to
157.99
Kalihi Settlement
done and the liquor affiliations of those the finish between license on the one side
Kohala Girls
who voted had been cabled to Congress, and law and order on the other, between
956.17
School
Mr. McClellan would have been largely- a traffic which is conceded to be humanSalaries
100.00 1056.17
discredited. As it was, he was able to kind's worst enemy »nd the forces that
•
Mr. Woolley on tlr's point upbuild individual and social character.
challenge
Office Expense.. 38.45
without fear of being unhorsed. There Every thinking man should array himself
487.00
525.45
Salaries
was just enough of this element of bluff u]X)ii one or the other side in this conin McClellan's fight to make him seem troversy. Let the issue be met in a manly
250.00
l'alama Settlement
47.58
a special retainer of the liquor men, way and there be no dodging by absence
Fund
like
Preacher's Training
which, of course, he was not. He had to from the polls. It is a matter of regret
35.65
Tomo
take the side he did without doubt be- that the contest is to be waged in summer
3.75
James Upchurch
out of
catisc he is employed by our mercantile when many of the voters will be
50.00
Waiakea Settlement
the
fuller
the
showcountry,
because
large
consideration
of
the
the
$5970.60
50.00
but
in
bodies,
Wailuku Social Worker.
and influential minority in both Associa- ing the better all will be satisfied. By all
Excess of Expenditures over
tion and Chamber, it would have been means let the women's organizations
916:>s
Receipts
better, wiser and truer to his employers conduct a plebiscite preceding that
For once let ev$1513.7-. if he had not been so ardent a champion ! of the men.
Overdraft at the Bank
ery citizen of both sexes be heard in a
T. R.
of the liquor cause.
TREASURER'S STATEMENT.
From February 21—March 21 '10
:
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grand moral movement. We predict that I
this election, if held, will do more for the
individual character of the home, the
state, the church, and for social life here
than anything that has ever occurred before in the history of the Islands, with
the single exception of the revolt against
Hawaii's idols led by QaeCfM Keopuolani
and Kaalnmianu.
The women led ami
prevailed then. Let the women once more
lead and prevail For Congress committed a great historic and social blunder
when it failed to read the story of the
Hawaiian people aright, and denied t<>
the women the right to express themselves effectively, a right fairly won by
them in that great social and religious
uprising against the cruel tabu and
cruder gods of the ancient regime.
April, 1910
THE FRIEND
work could easily be adjusted so that no
cane would suffer by keeping Sabbath
in the water department. \ay, he even
unearthed one white man who had not
had a ■'ay off in several years except one
when he was incapacitated by illness. Even ..here he saw freight moving ofi Sum
.I'.y. all over the islands Sunday .'.lipping the rule, Sunday laws flouted, lie
began to reverse his ideas as to the honesty of our island Christianity, not on
the ground of religious usage but on tie
system in vogue
practically
must work
on Humanity's Day of Rest. Of course,
il will not be easy to change. The Japanese won't like it. I-aws once relaxed are
difficult to pass, and still harder to enforce when passed. But the good name
of Hawaii's humanitarianism, to say nothing of her Christianity, is at stake. And
some day this sowing of the wind will
fruit into a whirlwind. Last year's strikewas a harbinger thereof. It is impossible
long to continue breaking (iod's laws
ground of the square deal in industry. and to remain Immune from the conseFor that i Christian man should allow quences. Better begin to do right at
nis employes to labor seven days a vvesk
i:i this twentieth century seems to c«K
age rank hypocrisy. This visitor left
Honolulu with very mixed conceptions The Rapid Transit.
of the missionary Christianity of llaThe thanks of the entire community
Vwi i. Were the conditions found by him
J«
are
due this progressive company for the
true? If so. who is to blame?
improved service it is steadily introducIs it True ?
ing. The exasperating passenger dump
It happened some time within the past
at
lleretania and Alapai streets is nowfew months. A Christian gentleman i>f Who Is to Blame ?
ancient
history. The I'unahou line boasts
culture and wide influence came to Halaw
The Legislature of 1905 passed a
only larger cats. Manoa residents find
waii as so many such people are wise
of
labor
wh'eh
made
regulation
room when they transfer on the way to
Sunday
enough to do. 1 le kept his eyes Open bea
letter.
The
Civic
Sundays, meeting nights and evthis
dead
church
Territory
in
cause that was his habit. I le was charmed not so much with our beautiful scen- Federation and Anti-Saloon League did enings generally. Rumors of new featery and ideal climate as with our rarely their best to prevent the passage of the ures soon to be instituted have material1le received the Sunday law enacted then but failed. ized into definite promises that await fulattractive social life.
deepest impressions of our exhibition of Their failure was due to the impossibility fillment only until needed changes in
real brotherhood, of the large generos- of securing '•'missionary support" in the equipment shall have been made. Good!
ity of our Christian leaders, of the legislature. There were members related
Meantime mutterings are heard that
Strength of our churches, of the high to the elder missionaries by blood, but mainland capital covets our transit syslevel of our practical Christianity and they scoffed at "Puritan blue laws." They tem. We trust these are false. We want
the widcawakeness of our foremost busi- were appealed to on behalf of the labor- no exploitation of this splendid line. Nor
ness men in philanthropy. All this ing man, but the reply was a sneer. They
does any I lonolulan desire the mainland
fairly carried him away and he seemed enacted a l.'.w that has literally compelled features of
tobacco free cars, saucy emto have stumbled Upon a next door to thousands of men to slave seven days a
pay with strike troubles,
don't
ployes,
poor
week,
it
those
who
while
suffers
Paradise until by chance or mischance he
opened overcrowding and cheap service. Better
uncovered the lid of plantation life. He need it to play that day. thatofhasstores
on far to develop the road slowly with honfound the Christian men of these islands the doors of large numbers
est administration of finances, non-specuday
Anglo-Saxon
and
our
Sunday,
made
complacently living upon a seven-day\s|<
emlative atmosphere, kindly spirit of mutual
the
the-week industrial system. II wall nigh of rest a thing of the past.
of
service between employer and employed,
shops,
barber
stores,
of
these
of
ployes
took his breath away. Among the plantand the refreshing family-like characterand
of
the
violatflagrant
dealers
some
eur'io
by
visited
were
controlled
ations he
of this genuine public service.
the most aggressive benevolent and pro- ors of the modicum of Sunday law that istics
Meantime,
like
to
work
why not take one great forhave,
whether
Terriwe
now
they
of
the
gressive disciples
Jesus in
at
and follow Australia's exstep
week,
when
ward
you get
and
tory.
He was told that the Japanese, seven days a
one
on Sundays during mornample.
have
but
There
you
sentiments
work
as
a
their
real
regular
who take contracts,
not a street car wheel
thing seven days a week, that they think emphatic no. Let us answer the question ing church time
of service every cathour
It
is
we
Christturns.
At
the
is
to
fairly.
so
dowho
blame
they can produce more sugar by
where
it
to be and resumes
law.
chances
stops
ing and therefore they slave under the ians. We can repeal the present lax
of the time
expiration
run
at
the
Asiatic
the
its
can
close
the
long
up
We
shops,
influence of this fallacy exploded
stores, barber shops, curio dealers. set for worship. This would be a boon
The
noncigar
elsewhere.
workingmen
ago by
here. Not a few employes so disposed
contract men seeing their compatriots We: can make freight handling and ship
to
with some help from the manageought
crime.
We
could
Sunday
that
on
a
ng
(loiiiiiiul
a
like
lad
privilege
thus labor
for
a coveted hour at church now
might
get
we
ment
they may earn one extra day's wages per do it, let us not say though
commandments,
The services themselves would
but
and
then.
is
the
of
the
ten
sake
Sunday
pay
week, especially because
by the noisy trolleys
be
reason,
benot
disturbed
fifty per cent more than that of week for a far higher and nobler
flows in and out here
and
the
world
that
prina
is
based
on
the
cause
civilization
poked
days. This observant traveler
to :> spectacle of respect
little deeper into things and learned that ciple, "Thou shah love thy neighbor as would be treated
worship very refreshing.
irrigating is carried on during Sunday thyself." and it is mean, cowardly and for religious
more deeply impresses the averto
to
church
Nothing
go
a
other
unchristian
for
man
though
as
days,
as well
on
visitor to the "Republics of Workhe was informed by a thorough himself and allow his freight to be hand-to age
ingmen*'
sugar
who
or
his
than this feature of Australasian
go.
overmen
can't
led
plantation
by
up-to-date
ly
the
who
under
life.
seer that there was no need of it, the be cultivated by laborers
�Travel Club.
The thought of a new club in Honolulu is enough to make the busy citizen
shudder. Hut when the enigma of this
latest candidate for dues, offices and extra engagements is explained to mean a
chance to get rid of the nightmare of too
much to do, when it calls up the vision of
easy, enticing, well-kept paths leading
close from home into the heart of our
woodsy mountains direct to some dry
cabin where one may find food and stay
all night, l.ay when the dream expands
into a network of clearly-marked trails
from Koko Head to Waialee, skipping
over to the Waianae range, opening every lovely \ alley, soaring up to every enchanting viewpoint, punctuated with convenient rest houses making possible
fresh tramps for weeks without a moment's thought of the stuffy city, one
wakes up shouting "Count me in."That
this is no trance experience the character
of the men who are handling this newest
and sanest of 1 lonolulu's clubs attests.
They are men who have tasted the intoxi
cation of (lahu's mountain air, and know
what sort of ozone it holds for the jaded,
nerve-worn slave of work. They arc determined that the treasures of the matchless valleys and palis of this entire group
of islands shall DC made available to the
owner of two stout legs phis a modicum
of small ihange ownable by any workingman. The Travel Club should be the
most popular organization in the Territory.
The Peace Propaganda.
The Gibraltar of the Pacific should be
made the Mecca of the world's peace lovers.
No place offers such rare advantages. This tornado-less group of islands is Mother Earth's consummate contribution to the cause of Human Good
Will. Here war has not raged for more
than a century. I lere men of all races
live as brothers to a degree unknown
elsewhere in the history of mankind
I lere the most puissant of nations is concentrating its deadliest engines of war in
order to demonstrate how quickly they
will become obsolete. Millions arc being
expended to build a drydock that may be
out of date for war vessels shortly after
Forts are in the course
its completion.
of erection that please God shall never
fire a gun with intent to kill. Barracks
are planned to house men who will never,
so let us pray, encounter their kind in
strife on these fair shores. Call hither,
then, the wise and the good year by year
into a great Congress of Peace. Upon
all this globe no fitter spot can be found
for their gathering. May 18 coming will
be Peace Sunday observed the world
THE
FRIEND
5
\pril, Pill)
over. It is well for Hawaii to make their services, ami the occasion is sure to
much of it and to plan to center herein a prove one of unusual interest.
celebration which with each year shall
grow more beautiful and sacredly imThe Avalanche.
pressive.
Signs of a temperance avalanche
world wide in extent are evident everyThings Religious.
where. Fiom Washington the tidings
Easter Sunday, 1910, proved a notable comes that both Houses of Congress are
day in the more formal side of our island temperance by safe majorities and that
religious life. Probably a larger number any sane measure on behalf of the reof persons attended church that day than form can be passed. This is a turnover
ever before in the city's history. Places of not suspected until the sentiments of the
worship were crowded to the doors with senators and representatives had been
people standing. Large offerings of carefully sounded. Another significant
money were made to extend the work of feature of social change is the evidence
the Kingdom. Our Episcopalian brethren of the deep hold which the reform is
raised a goodly sum towards the erection gaining in our Eastern colleges. The
of their Bishop's house, and also contri- Vale Alumni Weekly is the farthest posbuted for foreign work. At Central L'n- sible remove from extremes of any kind,
ion Church the trustees announced the being edited in the spirit so prevalent
purchase of the most centrally located lot among educated young men that prevents
on College Hills as a site for the Manoa the taking of sides lest one seem unscienValley Extension, lieforc very long a tific. Anyone conversant with Eastern
chapel will grace this ample and beauti- colleges for the past twenty years knows
ful piece of ground and will serve as a how tolerant their students have been tolocal center for religious work. The ward alcoholic indulgence. Yet that even
number of families connected with Cen- in conservative Vale the tide has changed
tral Union residing in this lovely valley the Weekly shows by its allusions to the
is rapidly approaching the one hundred untasted wine at college feasts, and to the
mark. Within ten years this branch steadily growing sentiment that views
should assume the proportions of a large intoxicants as detrimental to the highest
church. The crowning event of the day efficiency of a man and hence only fit for
at Central Union was the Easter offering tabu.
At I larvard ex-President Eliot
to the .American Hoard.
During the has definitely cast in his lot with the rewinter the members of the church had formers. Last October he accepted the
spent four weeks visiting in imagination honorary presidency of the Conference
and study the great mission field of Tur- of No-Licence Workers of Massachukey. This exercise served to emphasize setts, and has publicly declared that conin all minds the fact that this is the cen- trary to his original expectation prohibitennial year of the American Board, the tion has prohibited in Cambridge. In a
first foreign missionary society in Amer- recent address he declared that he "used
ica. It was widely felt that Central L'n- to think a little wine on convivial occaion Church must prove worthy of the sions a good thing, but frequent observaoccasion. Although it was known that tion has made me sure that alcoholic
the gifts would total more than that of drinks have a tendency to cheer up peolast year's Easter day, $1650, the pre- ple temporarily, and make them jolly and
vious high water mark, no one expected noisy, but the doubt about the expediency
such a total as $30,250. Twenty-five of that kind of elevation has gained on
thousand of this was given through one me as years have passed." He added
family as a memorial to the missionary that recent physiological researches had
lather and mother of the donor, the In- established the fact that "alcohol, even in
come to be expended yearly in extend- moderate doses, diminishes the efficiency
ing the work of the Board. The re- of the skilled workman, or, in other
mainder, $5250, was to go part to Nauru, words, makes him incapable of doing his
part to Shansi and the rest to the Hoard's best in the work of the day." "If he (a
man be leading an intellectual life, if he
general work.
Meantime the patriarch among Japan- be engaged in work which interests him
ese Christian enterprises in Hawaii", the keenly, stirs him, and requires the active
Nuuanu Street Church, finding its build- use of his ]>owers of thought, then he
ing inadequate, has entered actively up- will mentally feel the retarding and deon the campaign of securing $10,000 or teriorating effect of this drug." This he
more to erect a suitable meeting house. said of moderate drinking, of which he
The opening gun of the campaign will be once was an advocate. It is certainly refired on April 14, when a concert, one freshing to see such notable champions
half of Japanese music and one-half non- of "a little wine" coming over to the
Japanese, will be given in Honolulu. Mu- side of modern scientific temperance.
D. S.
sicians of unaual ability have volunteered
,
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THE
FRIEND
Men Working for Men
PAUL SUPER
At the invitation of the directors of the
Honolulu Y. M. C. A.. Mr. John F.
Mopre came all the way from New York
City to spend twelve days with the association men of Honolulu, studying local
conditions with a view to mapping out
a policy for the next few years. The trip
of 11000 miles was well worth while, Mr.
Moore's wide experience as an association secretary during the past twenty
years giving him an insight into the needs
of the men of a city and the methods that
In addition to a nummeet these needs.
ber of conferences with individuals and
committees, Mr. Moore spoke 22 times
in 11 days. The work of the visit can
best be reported under the following
heads:
1. Shops.—At the Honolulu Iron
Works, 102 men gathered one noon hour
to hear an address on men's fundamental
needs. This visit and address gave an
opportunity to study local shop men. A
similar group of 28 men attended the
meeting at Catton Neil] & Cos shops.
2. Soldiers—This phase of the local
situation interested Mr. Moore exceedingly. He organized the association work
at Camp Alger during the SpanishAmerican war, so was on familiar ground
in a military camp. Mr. McCandless
took Mr. Moore and some of the officers
of the Y. M. C. A. to Schofield Barracks
at Leilehua, where they were shown over
the post by Colonel Schueyler. There are
576 men at this post with no religious influences whatever. The chaplains who
have been there have had about as much
religious influence as a saloon. The colonel favors the placing of a Y. M. C. A.
secretary here, and Mr. Moore will try
to get the International Committee to
place a man at this needy post. A meeting of 110 men gathered to hear Mr.
Moore at Fort Ruger, and a conference
was held with Captain Timberlake. Here
both officers and men are very friendly to
the Association, and it is a fine post, of
about 200 men. Fort Shafter was visited, and last, Camp Very, where 300
marines are stationed. Of these about
200 turned out to hear an evangelistic
address, and voted to have a regular
meeting every two weeks. Bi-weekly
meetings have been held at Fort Ruger
for some time. The Association will add
the marine barracks to its extension
work.
3. Railroad —No phase of Mr.
Moore's visit was more satisfactory than
T
the railroad end of it. L nusual courtesies
were extended by the officials. A special
in charge of Mr. bred Smith took Mr.
Moore over the entire system. One night
130 of the citizen employes over to I lalciwa Hotel to a dinner
to hear Mr. Moore talk on the Railroad
Y. M .C. A. A similar dinner was given
at the Palama Settlement gymnasium to
the Japanese employes, where the address
wa.s repeated, the stereopticon being used
ii. both cases. At these meetings the men
cheered the company to the echo, the
"hurrahs" of one group and the "banzais" of the other showing the great loyalty of the men to the system and their
appreciatii>n of their fine treatment. Cona special took
MR. JOHN F. MOORE
ferences were held with Messrs. Dillingham, Denison and Smith, and other
heads of departments. All are anxious
to have a special Railroad Y. M. C. A.
with a secretary giving all his time to
the railroad men, and a building for the
employes. Over 75,000 railroad men belong to over 240 such associations, and it
is likely that the O. R. and L. men will
soon be added to the list. The officials
have wanted to do welfare work for the
men for some time, and have decided that
the Y. M. C. A. is the proper method.
4. Association.—At the Y. M. C. A.
itself a number of meetings were held,
the chief ones being the members' meeting, attended by 170 members, a directors' meeting, conferences with the mem-
April, 1910
bership, physical and building committees, a talk to the employed boys of the
gymnasium, and a talk to the students of
the educational department one night after classes had been dismissed. A final
conference with directors, trustees and
committee chairmen was called to hear
recommendations based on the study of
the field.
5. Church—Three addresses were
made in Central Union Church. Two on
the only Sunday of the visit, and a stereopticon talk on the "Worldwide Association Movement" one Wednesday night.
Mr. Moore is an excellent speaker and
made a fine impression at all these meetings.
5. Pearl Harbor.—Some time in the
near future this place will be a great center, where hundreds of men will be located, both as civilians and as soldiers and
sailors. The visit would have been incomplete without a study of this place, so
the plans were studied with Engineer
Purrell, and the ground visited with
President Denison of the dredging company, these two conferences combined
giving Mr. Moore a good idea of what
would be needed at Pearl Harbor.
7. Student—The student situation was
given some attention. The older male
students of Kamehameha School, about
160 in number, were addressed one morning, the whole student body of Oahu College the next morning, and later in the
visit the whole student body of McKinley
High School. The students of Mills Institute were also visited and addressed in
a meeting. This gave Mr. Moore a fine
opportunity to see the student phase of
Honolulu iife, and form some opinion as
to what Y. If. C. A. work could be carried on among the male students. Mr.
Home received favorably the idea of a
Y. M. C. A. for the Kamehameha boys.
There was an association there some
years ago, but not since Mr. Home has
been principal. If practicable, the Y. M.
C. A. will again be organized. Mr. Home
was president of the student association
at Harvard, and is therefore familiar
with student Y. M. C. A. work. An increasing number of high school and Punahou Doys are coming to our building,
forming what we call our student department. The new building will solve
many of the problems of these boys.
Frequent conferences were held with
the employed force of the Association
collectively and individually. A number
of business men were interviewed, and
after all this studying recommendations
were submitted, the carrying out of
which will keep the directors busy for
Mr. Moore was
some time to come.
greatly impressed with the immense field
of work for the Y. M. C. A. and the
variety of work needed. He found much
�THE
April, l^lu
7
FRIEND
lord Wilcox was baptized. A number
of friends were present and ministered
—
IJAPANESE FEAST
GIVEN BY THE O. R. & L. CO. TO ITS EMPLOYEES.
compliment in the association, and not
He was especially struck with the fine quality of men
back of the work, and on the boards of
The harmony and
the organization.
lack of friction within the employed force
was a subject of comment.
Recommendations. —An extensive report was made to the officers embodying
the suggestions that grew out of the
study of the field. These will be worked
up into a definite policy, and acted on at
the may meeting of the board of directors. The suggestions met with general
approval, Mr. Trent remarking that
there was not one that should not be carried out. Among the chief items are the
following:
a. The organization of a Railroad Y.
M. C. A. among the men of the O. R. &
L. Co. and the employment of a secretary
to give all his time to this branch. This
will involve the erection of a club building on the railroad land near the station.
b. The immediate securing of an army
secretary for Schofield Barracks, to be
financed by the International Committee
of the Y. M. C. A.
c. The securing of an army and navy
secretary for the enlisted men within
Honolulu, this man's budget to be provided jointly by the local association and
the International Committee.
d. The securing of a man to give all
his time to work among the men in the
various industries, enlarging the scope of
the present work carried on at the Hono
lulu Iron Works, the Catton Neill shops,
and the Rapid Transit car barns.
c. The development of the Chinese Y.
M. C. A. by affiliating it with the Honolulu Y. M. C. A. and the employing of a
to
a great deal to criticize.
Chinese secretary to give all his time to
the Chinese young men of Honolulu.
The carrying out of all these projects
is a big undertaking, but they are all
reasonable, and the need is obvious in every case. The financial problem is not a
When the
difficult one in any case.
board reorganizes after the spring election of officers, they will doubtless frame
these suggestions into a definite policy,
and set about carrying out the recommendations. This will mean big advance in work for men in Honolulu.
Within the building itself Mr. Moore
thinks the Association is doing about as
big a work as the equipment allows, except along the line of Bible classes. Seven religious meetings a week are held by
the Y. M. C. A., but not enough Bible
work is being done. This the committees will try to remedy.
It is the hardest suggestion of all to carry out, as those
of us who have lived here a while well
know. But we will develop Bible classes
as rapidly as possible.
KAUAI NOTES.
The
Lihue
Union
and
Charehe< observed passion
Hawaiian
week by spe-
cial vesper services under the leadership
of Rev. J. M. Lydgate. The services
were very generally attended by the
Christian people of the community and
were enjoyable and profitable to those
who participated.
An interesting baptism service was
held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. S.
Wilcox, March 13, when their little
grand daughter—Alice Kauikealani, the
infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gay-
to the interest of the occasion.
The historic Hawaiian Church building at Lihue, which has recently been
enlarged and renovated, is now a v-cy
commodious and comfortable place of
worship for the large congregation
which gather there every Sunday.
In addition to the Church building itself, a large lanai has been erected which
is available for Sunday School purposes
and for use as a dining hall in times of
convention. A kitchen with range, etc.
adds to the completeness of the plant.
These improvements are mainly due to
the interest and generosity of the Rice
fanu'ly.
At Kapaa the commodious and comfortable new Sunday School hall has
been recently dedicated free of debt.
We are glad to welcome to the Lihue
community. Mr. A. G. Kaulukou who
has been appointed tax assessor and collector for the district. Mr. Kaulukou is
a fine specimen of the superior type of
Hawaiian, of exceptional intelligence and
line spirit, ready to lend a hand in every
good work.
Another very intelligent and useful
Hawaiian, much thought of in our community is Mr. J. M. Kaneakua, county
clerk. His legal training, executive ability and uncommon good judgment render him particularly valuable in the
councils of the C. E. and Sunday School
work in which he is enthusiastically interested.
A NOVEL CONCERT.
PART I. JAPANESE MUSIC.
PART 11. ENGLISH MU9IC.
To be held in Knights of Pythias
Hall, Thursday evening, April 14th at 8
o'clock.
The concert will be for the benefit of
the Nuuanu Street Japanese Church,
which is working hard for a much needed new Church building.
Choice instrumental and vocal music
will be rendered by the best talent in the
city, and apart from the desire to aid
the worthy object of the concert, it
should be a treat to those who would
like to hear a good comparison of Eastern and Western Music.
The Confucianists are now erecting a
York City
for the propagation of their faith in this
country; the Japanese-Buddhists are expending twice as much along the Pacific
coast as all the Protestant denominations
are doing to Christianize the Japanese
: n this country.
$100,000 building in New
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8
The Scribe's Corner
April, 1910
FRIEND
the Napoopoo people who under the
stimulus and example of Rev. E. S. Timoteo did so much to make the delegates
comfortable, and thus to enhance the
value of the meeting.
Cheering report was made by Mrs. R.
R. Baker that $1814.76 had already been
secured toward the $5000 fund which she
is undertaking to raise for the Pastor's
Aid Society of the Hawaii Association.
Who wants to help in raising the remaining $3000? The Rev. E. S. Timoteo
was chosen to supply the church at Napoopoo for the present. The Rev. A. S.
Baker was chosen delegate to the National Council ;and Rev. W. B. Oleson
and Mr. Z. Makaiula were nominated as
corporate members of the American
Board. The reports were indicative of
wholesome conditions in the churches of
the big island, with a single exception.
The discusions were thoughtful, and the
spirit of the meeting one of promise for
the future work of the churches. A
strong resolution favoring prohibition
was passed. The sunrise meetings were
largely attended, and were specially profitable.
meetings in particular must rank among
the very best that have been held in recent years.
if
Memorial Arches.
This memorial year of the American
Corresponding Secretary.
Board is arousing special local interest in
plans for memorials to some of the early
"ttod is repealed in Ghriu, and our Dope
missionaries. Thus the Waialua church
hope
knowof
of knowing Hod better is our
has made choice of a beautiful Moorish
—Marcus Dods.
ing Christ better,"
arch to be built of rough lava for a gateway to theii church premises in memory
Getting Together.
of Father Emerson, for so many years
This is a phrase suited to our times. It
the missionary pastor of that church.
implies a common purpose and effort to
The arch will probably cost about $500.
get certain things done that should be
the greater part of which sum is already
It is a hopeful symptom when
done.
in hand.
men thus rally for things worth while. It
As the present year is the 90th annibetokens a deeper hold for religion in the
versary of the landing of the missionaries
hearts of men than is commonly recogat Kailua, some fitting memorial is plannized. It is primarily a working philosoned to commemorate that event. At first
phy. There is a martial note in the
it was thought that a monument would
phrase that harmonizes well with the
be the thing; but owing to the necessity
spirit of Christian enterprise. Notable
of putting in a new gateway in front of
things are getting done as a result of
the Kailua church, it seems more approthe getting together of men who might
priate to make that gateway into an arch
not otherwise have much in common.
with a suitable bronze tablet commemorThis compacting of men for effort is an
ating the arrival of the missionaries and
augury of greater things for the race in
bearing the name also of Henry Opukacoming days. It will make for wisdom The Waihee Meeting.
baia. The tablet is now being made in
Considering the inconvenience to those Boston, and will have this inscription
and efficiency. It will promote fellowship in practical directions, and will focus who had to sleep at Wailuku, the Waihee
The First Hawaiian Christian
the interest of men on the essential and meeting of the Maui Association was a
Henry Opukahaia
attainable. When men get together for remarkably successful one. The church
Died at Cornwall, Conn., 1818.
the thing that seems worth while, the building had been recently renovated in
thing that is not vital and imperative anticipation of the Association meeting,
The First Christian Missionaries to
will lose its hold on their hearts. Men and presented a tidy appearance. Much
Hawaii,
labors
self-denying
souls
is
due
to
the
when
their
credit
really get together only
Bingham, Thurston, Whitney,
are stirred by a worthy object or pur- of the Waihee people in effecting such
Landed at Kailua, April 12, 1820.
pose ; and the stirring of men's hearts in praiseworthy improvements. A strong
behalf of what needs to be done is there- resolution favoring prohibition was un- With their Hawaiian comrades, Hopu,
Kanui, Honolii.
animously adopted, and great interest
fore the hope of the race.
was manifested in the matter on several
The Hawaiian churches are now condifferent occasions. Hon. H. P. Baldwin tributing to this object but will need
The Kona Meeting.
was chosen as delegate to the National help from a few others in order to meet
The meeting of the Hawaii Associa- Council, and was nominated as corporate the necessary expense. Mr. Theodore
tion at Napoopoo drew together a large member of the American Board. It was Richards is receiving the funds for this
The Sunday school exhi- voted to place all the records of the As- arch.
delegation.
Jt
bition on Sunday the 13th was notable sociation and also of the churches in a
for the orderliness of the proceedings, fireproof vault kindly proffered by the Boston in October.
and for the superior quality of the music. Wailuku Bank.
The centennial anniversary of the orThe discussions were many and earnest
The latter was due in no small degree to
were
comof the American Board will
ganization
highly
the experienced leadership of Kameha- but the results reached
rebe
celebrated
at Boston in October in
The
of
the
summarizing
remarkable
mendable.
promeha graduates. One
Naduction was a temperance song, the ports by the various committees was ably connection with theofmeeting of the MisCouncil
and
the
American
now
sunrise
were
well
tional
meetings
done.
The
words written by a Hawaiian pastor,
The long talked of
dead, the Rev. C. W. P. Kaeo, and the attended, and many carried away from sionary Association.
Exhibition
is being definitely
Missionary
to
to
their
churches
fresh
stimulus
music arranged by him, gathered from them
same time. Dr. Barton
for
the
arranged
Considerable
enthusieffective
and
effort.
prayer
sources,
an
yet
making
many
asm was excited over the proposition to in a recent letter states: "The Exhibition
melody.
koa
church
with
its
have a tent at the annual meeting for has only just now begun to assume defiThe Napoopoo
the Exhibition
pews and pulpit presents an attractive Maui headquarters; also over the pro- nite form. Mr. Gardner,
arrived, and
has
just
England,
in
wear
ribbons
at
delegates
expert
while
its
substanthat
the
posal
and dignified interior;
is taking charge of the whole thing. We
of
color
of
the
show
the
annual
the
meeting
nearly
fifty
years,
walls,
after
tial
flower representing each island. Such are going to have the most phenomenal
no signs of age or weakness.
at
held
the
meetings as the Napoopoo and Waihee missionary exhibition ever held, not exthe
were
meetings
Some of
of
shore under the lanai that was spread for gatherings are a distinct advantage to the cepting the two great exhibitions
years."
churches,
the
last
two
during
and
these
two
London
work
of
the
Great
credit
is
due
the dining tables.
REV. WM. BREWSTER OLESON
:
�THE FRIEND,
April, 1910
9
PEACE DAY PROGRAM
f
.
FOR USE IN SCHOOLS
4. Recitation, "Ring in the New."
Song, "Our Country."
We'll thank thee for our country,
The land our Father's trod;
For liberty of conscience,
And right to worship God
We prayed for our loved country
That war may ever cease;
And liberty and Union,
Prevail and still increase.
KSoon
may the gracious sceptre,
Extend to every land.
And all as willing subjects,
Submit to thy command.
Send forth the glorious tidings.
And hasten on the day.
When every isle and nation,
Shall own thy glorious sway.
ains."
Webb—"Stand up, stand up for Jesus."
The flying cloud, the frosty light,
The year is dying in ttte night;
bells and let him die.
Ring out wild
Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across tile the
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
snow:
Ring out the grief that saps the mind,
For those that here we see no more;
Ring out the feud of rich and poor,
Ring in redress to all mankind.
Ring out a slowly dying cause,
And ancient forms of paTty strife;
Ring in the nobler modes of life,
With sweeter manners, purer laws.
Suggested tunes:
Ewing—"Jerusalem the Golden."
Missionary Hymn—"From Greenland's ley
Ring out wild bells to the wild sky,
Mount-
2. Meaning of Peace Day. {Reading)
Before
Procopious the Great
The strongest walla went down.
But soon upon the soft, calm air,
Came sound of tramping feet;
The Hussites quickly flew to arms,
Their hated foe to meet.
Ready they stood to face the charge,
The great gate opened wide.
And out they poured, not armed men,
But, marching side by side,
The little children of the town,
Whose bright eyes met their gaze
With innocence and courage all
Unversed in war's dread ways.
The men threw all their weapons down
At sight so strange and fair;
They took the children in their arms,
They stroked their flaxen hair.
They kissed their cheeks and sweet red
lips.
Ring out false pride in place and blood,
The civic slander and the spite;
Ring in the love of truth and right,
Ring in the common love of good.
What is the meaning of Peace Day,
someone asks, and why is it observed on Ring out old shapes of foul disease
Ring out the narrowing lust of gold;
the 18th of May?
Ring cut the thousand wars of old.
The 18th of May, 1899, is the day on
Ring in the thousand years of peace.
nawhich the great conference of the
tions was held at The Hague, Holland, Ring in the valiant man and free,
to consider what could be done to lessen
The larger heart the kindlier hand:
the evils of war and hasten the day when Ring out the darkness of the land,
all nations will be at peace with one an- Ring in the Christ that is to be.
other.
—Tennyson.
Since that time, people all over the
world have been observing the 18th of 5. Recitation, "The Cherry Festival
May each year as a day for promoting of Naumburg."
the spirit of peace.
(A ballad founded on 'act,)
The purpose of celebrating this day is
to persuade people that war is a relic of
Hard by the walls of Naumb irq town,
barbarism which ought no longer to be
Four hundred years ago,
tolerated in a civilized age ; that there are Procopious his soldiers led
better ways of settling disputes than by
To fight their Saxon foe.
the sword; that all men are brothers and The blue sky bent above the earth
that we should cultivate friendship
In benediction mute;
among nations and the spirit of good will The tranquil fields repose content
toward all.
In blossom, grain and fruit.
Each year Peace Day is being celeBut vain the benedicite
brated in thousands of public and priOf tender, brooding sky;
vate schools as well as in churches and
And
vainly peaceful, smiling fields
peace societies, and this great movement
Gave eloquent reply.
will never cease until the nations have
Unsoothed, unmoved, in Nature's calm,
beaten "their swords into plowshares
Hussite army lay,
The
and their spears into pruning hooks ; nadeadly,
A
threatening human storm,
tion shall not lift up sword against naWith Naumburg in its way.
shall
learn
tion, neither
war any
they
more."
To swift destruction now seemed doomed
3. Peace Prophecy. ( Micah 4 :3-4;
The dear old Saxon town;
Isa. 11:6-9.)
They told how back at home,
They'd left such little ones as these,
And then they bade them come
To cherry orchards close at hand.
And there they stripped the trees
Of branches rich with clustered fruit;
Their little arms with these
They filled, and with kind words of
peace
They sent them back to town.
The soldiers then all marched away,
Nor thought of war's renown.
And now each year at cherry time,
In Naumburg you may see
The little children celebrate
This strange, sweet victory.
Once more the sound of tramping feet
Is heard, as side by side,
They march throughout the quaint old
town.
In childhood's joyous pride.
Once more they bear within their arms
Green branches, thro' whose leaves
Ripe cherries gleam, that tell a tale
More strange than fancy weaves,
About a bloodless battle fought
Four centuries ago.
When children saved old Naumburg
town
By conquering
its foe.
6. Recitation, "Jupiter and the Sheep"
The sheep was obliged to suffer most
of all the animals, so he went to Jupiter
and prayed him to lighten his fate. Jupiter seemed willing, and said to the
sheep: "My innocent little creature, I
see plainly that I have created you too
defenceless. Now choose how I may best
remedy this fault. Shall I arm your
mouth with terrible teeth and your feet
with claws?"
�April. 1910
THE FRIEND
10
"Oh, no," said the sheep, "I will have and groans of the wounded who cry
nothing in common with those tearing aloud for more blood, more vengeance,
more desolation." —"War is hell."
animals."
"Or," continued Jupiter, "shall I put
—General Sherman.
poison in your bite?"
"The more I study the world, the
"Ah," returned the sheep, "the poismore am I convinced of the inability of
oiiouh ■erpaats are much hated."
to create anything durable."
"What, then, shall I do for you? I brute force
—Napoleou.
will plant horns upon your forehead and
neck."
to
strength
your
add
"The rage and violence of public war,
"Nor this either, most gracious father. what is it but a susj)ension of justice
I might in that case become a butting among the warring parties?"
animal like the ram."
—Hume.
"But," said Jupiter, "you must be able
"A single robber or a few associates
to protect yourself."
are
branded with their genuine name;
"Oh,
"Must I?" sighed the sheep.
the
exploits of a numerous band asbut
then leave me as I am, kind father. For sume the character of lawful and honorthe ]K)wer of injuring creates the desire able war."
to injure, and it is better to suffer wrong
—Gibbon.
than to commit wrong."
court
marching
goes
innocent
and
"The
world
sheep,
Jupiter blessed the
from that hour he forebore to complain. on to the dethronement of savage war
and the enthronement of peaceful arbi7. Peace Sentiments of Great Soldiers tration."
and Statesmen.
( To be recited by pupils rising in their seats)
"My first wish is to see this plague of
mankind banished from the earth."
—Washington.
ing to attack the nether garments and
the limbs when I interfered with him,
and prevented a lawsuit. I made up
my mind then that the way to keep the
peace is not to place a bulldog in your
front yard.
~
"
•
lirown
fniversit'y.
9. Recitation, "Put Up Thy Sword."
By Joaquin
Miller.
And who the bravest of the brave,
The bravest hero ever born?
'Twas one who dared a felon's grave,
Who dared to bear the scorn of scorn.
Nay, more than this; when sword was
—Carnegie.
drawn
8. A Peace Parable.
And vengeance waited for His word,
He looked with pitying eyes upon
THE BULLDOG.
The scene and said: "Put up thy sword."
I remember when 1 lived in another Oh God! could one be found today
city dffierent from the one that is now As brave to do, as brave to say?
"In my opinion there never was a my home, I was told that in order to
good war or a bad peace."
protect the family at night I must pur— Franklin. chase
a dog. I was not so familiar then
"War is a most detestable thing. If with canine proclivities as I have beyon had seen but one day of war, you come since, and I invested in a bulldog
would pray God that you might never of ferocious mien and enormous develsee another."
opment of the under jaw. For a few
—Duke of Wellington.
days all went well, but I soon found that
bulldog must have something to do.
that
I
shame
that
am
confess
without
"I
was
not content to sit like a china
He
tired and sick of war. Its glory is all
the
front step; he was there for
who
have
doll
on
It
is
those
only
moonshine.
neither heard a shot nor heard the shrieks a purpose. One morning, hearing a
JO. Recitation,
This is the arsenal.
Like a huge organ,
But from their silent
Startles the villagers
great uproar. I looked out of the window, and saw the street filled with people standing in a circle, while one of the
most venerable men in the community
was defending himself with a shovel
against that dog of mine. He had torn
away the man's coat and was proceed-
From floor to ceiling
risa the burnished arms;
pipes no anthem pealing
with strange alarms.
Ah! what a sound will rise, how wild and dreary.
When the death-angel touches those swift keys!
What loud lament and dismal Miserere
Will mingle with their awful symphonies!
I hear even now the infinite fierce chorus.
The cries of agony, the endless groan,
Which, through the ages that have gone before us
In long reverberations reach our own.
The tumult of each soaked and burning village;
The shout that every prayer for mercy drowns;
The soldier's revels in the midst of pillage,
The wail of famine in beleaguered towns;
The bursting shell, the gateway wrenched asunder.
The rattling musketry, the clashing blade;
"Put up thy sword into his sheath."
Put up thy sword, put up thy sword!
By Cedron's brook thus spake beneath
The olive-trees our valiant Lord,
Sword and
Spake calm and king-like.
stave
And torch, and stormy men of death
Yet he spake not, save
Made Clamor.
With loving word and patient breath
The peaceful olive boughs beneath:
"Put up thy sword into his sheath."
"The Arsenal at Springfield."
And ever and anon, in tones of thunder,
diapason of the cannonade.
The
Is it, O man, with such discordant noises
With such accursed Instruments as these
Thou drownest Nature's sweet and kindly voi' I,
And jarrest the celestial harmonies?
Were
Were
Given
There
half the power, that fills the
"aalf the wealth, bestowed on
to redeem the ni.man mind
were no need of arsenals or
world with terror,
on camps mid courts
from
forts.
error.
The warrior's name would be a name abhorred!
And every nation that should lift again
Its hand against a brother, on its forehead
Would wear forevermore the curse of Cain!
Down the dark future, through long generations
The echoing sounds grow fainter and then cease;
And like a beil, with solemn, sweet vibrations,
I hear once more the voice of Christ say "Peace!"
—Longfellow
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April, 1910
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IU Recitation, "Mars Must Die."
By Lyman
R.
Bayabd.
Up the Olympian heights proclaim a great and bitter cry
To startled gods, that Mars is not immortal, and must die.
mighty Fates have willed; though still the thread they ply,
The shears are ready—lifted now, and surely Mars must die!
For so the
No more shall myriad hate filled men his murder ranks supply.
Nor give their flesh to feed his life, for guilty Mars must die!
Prepare a monstrous funeral pyre—great cities, flaming high—
Libations pour of bitter tears and blood, for Mars must die!
Behold the moaning cavalcade of warriors passing by!
Robbers and kings and captains grieve that mighty Mars must die!
Hark to his fitting funeral song resounding fierce and high—
Wild battle cries and oaths and shrieks and moans—for Mars must die!
But all earth's brothermen unite In ono harmonious cry
Of joy supreme, that war at last shall end, for Mars must die!
thousand suffering the doled-out charity
of state or nation, because war has robbed them of their rightful protectors;
(1) In Money {First boy)
could we but realize the agony of the
(a) One big canon shot costs $1700. broken home, a thousand fold worse
Equal to a working man's wages for 3 2-3 than the agony of the battlefield—then
years. Equal to a female school teach- would we know more of the real cost
ers's salary 5 1-3 years. Equal to cost of war.'"
of workingman's house. Equal to cost
(3) In Moral Character {Third boy)
of college education at $425 per year.
(b) One Dreadnought costs $10,War obliterates the moral sense. It
-000,000. Equal to total valuation of demoraliees the soldier and brings ont
grounds and buildings of all the col- his beastly qualities. As a certain
leges and universities in Ohio and great soldier put it—"l should dread to
Massachusetts. Equal to cost of 500 come into the presence of God as
locomotive*. Costs f 1,000,0(1(1 a year as I always become in a battle."
to maintain, at the end of ten years
War is a relapse into barbarism.
ready for the scrap pile.
Could we but draw aside the curtain
(c) Armaments and Pensions. Arm- and, back of the tinsel and gold braid,
ed peace in Europe for last 37 years has see the crime, the hate, the moral
cost at least $111,000,000,000. The U. degradation that war always brings,
S. spends 67y 2%'oi all its revenue for never again would a friend of humaniarmaments, fortifications and pensions ty ask *or war.
or as much as is spent for all education(4) In Gvilization (Fourth boy)
al purposes, public and private.
12. The Cost of War (By four boys)
(2) In Human Life {Second boy)
"Fancy what Europe would be now if
the delicate statues and temples of the
Probably 15,000,000,000 lives have Greeks, if the broad roads and massy
been sacrificed in wars since authentic walls of the Romans, if the noble and
history began.
pathetic architecture of the middle ages
More than 14,000.000 in the 19th century.
Armies take the very flower of youth.
Did war consume the weaklings and
criminals instead of the best workmen,
perhaps something might be said for
its "keeping down surplus population."
War wipH virility. Napoleon's wars, it is
claimed, left the French soldiers of today nearly two inches shorter than their
ancestors.
Could we but enter the wasted
homes and see the broken hearts that
that war as made; could we go to the
alms-house and soldiers' orphans' homes
and see widows and children by the
had not been ground to dust by mere
human rage.
"All these lost treasures of human intellect have been wholly destroyed by
ruthless destruction. The marble would
have stood its two thousand years as
well in polished statue as in Parian
cliff; but men have ground it to powder,
and mixed it with their ashes.
The
great cathedrals of old religion would
have stood: it is we who have dashed
down the carved work with axes and
bid the mountain grass bloom upon the
pavement and the sea winds chant in
the galleries."
—Ruikln.
13. Essay, "Heroism Without War."
In defense of war, it is said it developes, as nothing else can do, the virtues
of heroism and self-sacrifice.
But cannot our boasted civilization furnish a more manly test of heroism than
that of fighting to destroy men and property? Are there not battles in which
we can prove our valor by fighting to
save life rather than to destroy it.
To overcome the enemies of Society,
to fight for the suppression of vice, intemperance, dishonesty and injustice,
to save the children of the poor from
lives of hard labor in factories and to
rescue all men from oppression—these
are battles worthy of the statesmanship
and heroism of a Gladstone or a Roosevelt.
Prof. William James of Harvard University suggests the hardihood and discipline which might be developed in our
youth if we were drafted into a war
against Nature.
"To coal and iron mines, to freight
trains, to fishing fleets in December, to
dish washing and window washing, to
road building and tunnel making, to
foundries and stoke holes and to the
frames of skyscrapers, would our gilded
youth be drafted off, according to their
choice, to get the childishness knocked
out of them and to come back into society with healthier sympathies and soberer ideas. They would have paid their
blood tax, done their own part in the
immemorial human warfare against
nature. They should tread the earth
more proudly, the women would value
them more highly, they would be better
fathers and teachers of the following
generation.
Such a conscription
would
preserve the manly virtues which the
military party is so afraid of seeing disand not degrade
appear in peace
the whole remainder of one's life."
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14. Reading and Recitation, "The Christ of the Andes."
More significant than all else
The peace monument on the
Andean boundary between Chile
and Argentine, was erected in
March 1904 to commemorate,
the peace between these nations
after years of quarreling and
dispute over the boundary line.
Not only was war averted, but
a treaty made, referring the dispute to the arbitration of King
Edward. The matter was settled satisfactorily to both nations and they later decided to
submit all disputes for five years
to arbitration.
They also agreed to reduce
their armies and their navies.
is the change in the attitude of
the Chileans and Argentines toward each other. All the bitterness and distrust have passed
away and good feeling and confidence have taken their place.
It was therefore most fitting
to erect this huge monument on
the boundary line and to dedicate it to the whole world as a
practical lesson of peace and
goodwill. The figure of Christ
in bronze is twenty-six feet
high and holds in one hand a
cross and the other is in the
attitude of blessing.
"Then kinder, kinglier thought prevailed,
Where threat of sword and gun had failed;
And love-illumined reason wrought
The adjustment long so vainly sought.
"Shall we hush our hearts as we see them go—
God pity!—to strive with a brother foe?
And long as we have waited, have suffered and prayed
For a joy still denied us, a hope still delayed.
"For how can a triflle of earth and air
With the worth of human lives compare?
And what can it matter if thine or mine
Be the narrow side of the Boundary Line?
"Enough; let the sun in highest heaven
Pencil the line for which you have striven;
Let a princely people on either side
In friendship and fair accord abide;
"And why should greed and grim distrust
Despoil us of our faith and trust?
Enough, enough, let us pledge our word
To settle by judgment, not by sword.
"Be the strife of the past to the wild winds swept;
The faith of the future unswervingly kept;
And let 'The Christ of the Andes' rest
In tokens of peace on the mountain's crest."
"Let us heed the counsel
And raise the standards
And the here or there
Let God and the British
our good priests bring,
of Christ our King,
of the Boundary Line
king define."
Then the mother-heart of the nation stirred,
As the fair Dc Costa's plea was heard:
"Fathers and brothers! warriors, men!
Shall we give our bravest to death and pain?
Grandly the people made reply;
The pledge was taken, the arms laid by,
And glad thanksgiving and festal song
Witnessed the joy of the gathered throng.
15. Recitation, Kipling's Recessional.
16. Song, "America."
�Women's Society Social.
On Thursday evening, March 10, the
Women's Society held another of its enjoyable social evenings at the church. A
line musical and literary program in the
chapel consisting of several trio numbers
by Messrs. Love and Ramus and Mrs.
Tenney Peck, two recitations by Mr. E.
C. Horton, one from Paul Lawrence
Dunbar and the other from Browning,
and two piano solos by Professor Sydney
F. Hoben of Australia, made the evening
pass quickly and to the delight of all who
were present. Refreshments were served
in the Parish House.
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With Roosevelt in Africa.
The Young People's Fellowship" nut
at "The Homestead," the Y. W. C. A.
Home, Friday evening, March 11. It was
the largest and most interesting meeting
the club has yet heid. A large map showing the route of Roosevelt's hunting trip
in Africa was exhibited and then different members related the story of his adventures as he has told them in recent
numbers of Scribner's Magazine. The
parts were so well taken and the scenes
so vividly presented that those who listEBERSOLE
A. A.
ened really felt the thrill of adventure.
The young people of th eHomestead addThe past month has been an unusually ed a short program of music and readbusy one at Central Union. Seldom in ings that was greatly enjoyed. Games
deed have we had within a single month and refreshments completed the evening
such a combination of good things.
and the hour for adjournment came all
Central Union News
too soon.
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Dr. Butdette's Lecture.
The Men's League made the arrangements, the Women's Society soldthe tickets, and Dr. Burdette announced that he
would deliver his world-famous humorous lecture, "A Twice Told Tale," or
"The Rise and Fall of the Mustache."
The results were what might have been
expected. The Opera House filled with
the best people of Honolulu, everybody
enjoyed a hearty laugh, we all went
home wiser and happier, and the AntiTuberculosis Fund, to which the proceeds were applied was enlarged by at
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least $37.i. Surely "a merry heart doeth
good like a medicine," and no one is betAn International Symposium.
ter proof of it than Dr. Burdette himself.
The Woman's Board at its regular One can't hear him without feeling betmonthly meeting March 1, received mes- ter, stronger and happier.
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sages from widely scattered fields. Miss
Endeavor
Entertains.
Elnora Sturgeon presented the topic, Christian
Endeavor
Society does
Our
Christian
"Mount Salinda, South Africa"; Miss
Parmelee of Natsuyama, Japan, told the a many-sided work. One of its most
story of the Factory Girls' Home of that important functions is to furnish social
city; and Mrs. Robt. J. Burdette explain- recreation to the young people of the
The musical social held in the
ed the organization and manifold work city.
of the great institutional church of which Parish House, Friday evening, March
Dr. Burdette has been pastor for some 18, was a most successful affair in this reyears, the Baptist Temple of Los An- spect. The large attendance of young
geles, California. It was an exceeding- people, especially of young men, and the
good time everybody had, speaks well for
ly interesting meeting.
Sermon by Dr. Burdette.
To begin with, we had Dr. Burdette
preach for us on Sunday, Feb. 27. The
announcement that he would occupy the
pulpit brought out one of the largest audiences of the year. Every available seat
was taken. His sermon on"The Overhanging bough," based on Gen. 49:22,
was one of charming simplicity and directness.
What we do for others, the
overflow, the outreach of our lives in
helpfulness to those about us, is what
counts.
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THE FRIEND
April, 1910
the society and was a credit to the social
committee who planned and carried out
the evening's program
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An International Secretary.
Mr. John F. Moore, a secretary of the
International Committee of the Young
Men's Christian Association, who has
been spending a few weeks in Honolulu
studying the local Y. M. C. A. conditions,
spoke three times at Central Union. On
Wednesday evening. March 17, he gave
an illustrated address on"The Worldwide Y. M. C. A. Movement," and on
the following Sunday gave two other
stirring addresses. In the morning his
subject was "Looking Forward," and he
showed why he believed that the world
is growing better—that we are coming
into the best times, especially from the
spiritual point of view, the world has yet
seen. His evening address was a strong
evangelistic appeal to men to enlist in the
service of Christ. It is our misfortune
to be so far removed from the homeland,
that we seldom have a visit from men
like Mr. Moore who are bringing great
things to pass for the oncoming Kingdom of Christ.
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A Record Attendance.
This report would not be complete
without refernce to the steady growth
of our Sunday School and to the record
attendance on Sunday March 20 when
448 were present. This is encouraging.
The new course of study introduced
with the New Year is with a few exceptions, proving very popular with both
scholars and teachers. What is needed
now is the organization of a visiting
committee to bring in other boys and
girls that are not yet availing themselves
of these splendid courses which are now
being offered. This committee, we are
glad to know, the superintendent is at
present organizing.
PREPARE FOR PEACE DAY.
In Schools.
The Friend's Special Program
printed in this issue for use in schools
will make it possible for every school to
have a live celebration on the 18th of
May.
Additional copies of the program
alone can be secured from The Friend
office at 5 cents a copy postpaid, or $2.00
a hundred which is about cost.
In Churches.
There is plenty of interesting literature on the subject peace which may be
freely consulted at the Friend office by
those desiring to present the subject in
their Churches. Let not the Church be
behind the schools in championing the
cause of the Prince of Peace.
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■
Notes on Recent Educational
Conditions in China.
By President
China needs today more than battleships
and armies is leaders among men.
Granted the wise leadership in educa.lonal and industrial affairs, China
would soon pass out of her lethargy into
Jt
the activities that would set her abreast
Sunday.
of other nations. Such men the schools
It has been decreed that all govern- are daily developing, but the number of
ment works and offices shall be closed such students compared to the entire
on Sunday, and this day is being recog- population is extremely small.
nized by a great many Chinese commercial interests, especially those that are Examinations.
closely associated with foreign enterAmong other activities in educational
prises. It may not be admitted that Sun- work in China today is to be noted the
day is as yet recognized as a spiritual ne- abolition of some of the older tests for
cessity, but what amounts to practically the bachelor's degree. The examinations
the same, perhaps, it is beginning to be in the Chinese system of education serve
recognized as a physiological necessity. In also as tests for appointments in the civil
the earliest days the Chinese had no service. It is to be inferred therefore
words in their language by which to de- that such examinations should compri>e
signate the days of the week—now the subjects relating to modern thought and
word designating Sunday is recognized activities. As a matter of fact, this plan
everywhere. When the Chinese national has only been inaugurated during the
mind shall revert every seventh day to past few years as an outgrowth of the
the great institution that is recognized demand for men equipped for their serall over the civilized world not only as a vice. Such subjects as geography, polispiritual but also as a physiological ne- tical economy, economics and industrial
cessity, much will have been accomp- history and political institutions are now
lished.
being substituted in the examinations for
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the older ideas of proficiency in the comModern Education.
position of poetry and didactic essays on
It is in education, however, that the classical themes. The necessity for adsubjects has
indirect influence of missionary work is vanced training in modem
by the missionary
telling most in the present awakening of long been recognized
this great nation.
In the minds of the authorities and as a result of their farold men the Chinese system of education sighted judgment, higher institutions of
established in the oldis at once the oldest, the most adequate learning have been
Tien Tsin, Chi
especially
treaty
ports,
er
the
most
and
comprehensive system in
and Canton.
Shanghai
Wuchang.
Foo,
the world for training the mind. Since
to these well established inaddition
In
however,
this
conception has been
1894,
some attempts have been
shadowed by a question mark that has stitutions, the part of Chinese
officials
upon
made
grown more conspicuous year by year.
schools
under
their
own
dito
establish
There is no doubt but that the old syssuccess of these schools has
The
rection.
tem of education in China has given its
but each year sees condipeople a notable service, but in terms of been varied,
their
perpetuation and usefulfor
tions
present day conditions it lacks this one
One of the most
brighter.
ness
a
little
factor,
that
important
it does not vitalize.
hopeful
aspects of education
notable
and
It does not correlate the activities of men
is
recognition of womwith present-day problems. It has been in China today the
of
the
same privileges in
worthy
as
entirely retrospective rather than pros- en
respect as men. There is no doubt
this
pective.
that this attitude which is now growing
with much promise among the Chinese
Industrial Training.
themselves is the direct outcome of the
Through bloodshed and humiliation teachings of Christianity. While, as
the nation has now awakened to the ne- stated above. Chinese progress today decessity of schools in which the young mands wise leaders, yet it is to be noted
Chinese may be taught in accordance that this leadership is not coming from
with present-day problems in political men more than from women. Each
and industrial activities. This conception shall have their part to play in the upon the part of the nation has sprung di- building of the nation, and especially in
rectly from the schools of the mission- the social aspects of its economic activiaries. Too great importance cannot be ties. Not only has the education of girls
placed upon this phase of the missionary been for many years recognized as a part
activities.
In China, as well as in all of the legitimate educational work in the
other modern nations, this is an effort to missions, but the Chinese are now recogprepare the next generation for the du- nizing the necessity for equal education
ties that shall fall upon them. What of the sexes. The education of Chinese
of the wives and mothers. Another influence that has emanated indirectly
through the missionary propaganda and
which is spreading its influence over the
day.
Educational Advance
■
John W. Gilmore, College
of Hawaii.
On February 2, 1906, Tuan Fang,
High Commissioner of the delegation recently sent to the United States to study
economic conditions set forth the attitude
of China to the work of foreign missions
in these words:
"We take pleasure this evening in
bearing testimony to the part taken by
American missionaries in promoting the
progress of the Chinese people. They
have borne the light of Western civilization into every nook and corner of the
empire. They have rendered inestimable
service to China by the laborious task of
translating into the Chinese language religious an 1 scientific work of the west.
They help us to bring happiness and
comfort to the poor and suffering by the
establishment of hospitals and schools.
The awakening of China, which now
seems to be at hand, may be traced in no
small measure to the hand of the missionary. For this service you will find China
not ungrateful."
if
Missions and Social Progress.
These words have a very large and
permanent significance. A very common
conception of the good influence of missionary work in China is that it is measured largely by the number of churches
built and the number of converts enrolled.
In reality, however, while this is
a most commendable part of the missionary enterprise, yet it is not by any means
the measure of the influence that Christian missions are exerting in China today. Some fifteen years ago a definite
movement was inaugurated against the
pernicious custom of foot-binding. While
the propaganda was looked somewhat
askance at in the beginning, now it has
the sanction of the throne to this effect,
that no Chinese official who permits anyfemale member of his family to practice
foot binding upon young girls shall be
eligible to further apointment or promotion. This edict is a direct outcome of
the educational efforts of the missions at
first and afterwards of influential Chinese, including some viceroys. The great
advantage to the Chinese people when
foot binding shall have been abolished
can hardly be estimated, for it has been
perhaps the most discouraging element in
the amelioration of the conditions of women in China. No nation can rise to the
highest without the ennobling influence
April, 1910
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girls is essential to the renovation of the
empire.
The Destiny of An Educated China.
Education has an especially fertile
field among the Chinese because of their
high reverence for learning. There are
perhaps no more notable examples of
human sacrifice for knowledge than are
to be found in China. The privileges of
education are open to all classes and
frequent arc the instances where poverty-stricken individuals have struggled
with all their might and energy for a little learning. This love for learning in
itself will be sufficient in time to rejuvenate the nation, and put into its offices
of influence men and women who may
control the destinies of the nation in a
more rational manner. China is beginning to recognize now as never before
the necesity of living and acting in a relationship with other nations, and it is
be hoped that this sisterhood of interests
will be mutual. When after several generations, the accomplishments of China
shall be measured in their relations with
those of other nations, it will be found
that the words of Tuan Fang quoted
above will still be true and that Christian principles of education shall be the
cornerstone of the nation's spiritual and
material prosperity.
"Where is the Sunday
School Lesson?"
You can have it right in
front of you, on the wall
[ Hawaiian Board Book
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Rooms
Our Young People
HENRY P.
The month of March has been an interesting time for the Sunday Schools
and C. E. Societies of Hawaii and Maui.
These islands have just held their semiannual conventions, and representatives
of the schools and societies have met together to talk over what has been done
for the Kingdom of heaven along the
lines of the young people's work and to
plan for larger things to be done for
ilim in His name.
THE NAPOOPOO MEETING.
The Hawaii Sunday School Association and C. E. Societies met in connection with the gathering of the ministers
and church delegates, in the old church
at Napoopoo, South Kona, from Saturday, March 12th to Wednesday, March
18th. Before the meeting the superintendent had the opportunity of making
several addresses on his way from Hilo
to Kona, speaking to the boys of the Hilo
Boarding School, also to the congregation of the Olaa church, the Pahala Sunday school and the congregation of the
Waiohinu church. It was pleasant to nolice signs of progress in the various
schools visited and to know that much
solid work is being done by faithful
teachers in a quiet way.
The Sunday school part of the convention in Kona was ushered in by an unusually successful "Hoike" on Sunday
morning. Judging by the excellent rendition of the hymns, anthems and the
recitation of Bible verses in an exceptionally distinct manner the schools of North
and South Kona must have done some
hard work and a great deal of intere
have been taken in the schools in the way
of careful preparation for the special occasion. The attendance was large, for
not only were there representatives from
most of the Kona schools, but. quite a
number of visitors. It would not be fair
for me to single out any particular school
for a wor:l of praise. They all did well
iau\ showed what careful training can do.
At the conclusion of the exhibition I was
asked to say a few words to the audience and responded briefly with a message of encouragement to the teachers
and an appeal to put the same amount of
energy in the conduct of the school on
Sundays as was shown in the "Hoike."
The usual luau followed the service and
the crowd slowly drifted away to their
homes, all except the delegates and ministers and a few others who stayed to the
meetings the next week.
JUDD
The C. E. part in the convention was
along the usual lines—the sunrise devotional meetings, the business sessions,
etc. The reports seemed to indicate progress in the societies, there being almost
Oou members on the Big Island, 352 of
whom are members of the churches. The
C. E. is often the gateway to church
niemebership and has not only maintained interest among the church members,
but has been effective as a means of attracting persons into the church.
As usual the Sunday School Association transacted considerable routine business. The total enrollment of the
schools is now about 1.800, more than
three times as numerous as the C. E.
The superintendent brought up for discussion four topics, viz.. the encouragement of a worshipful spirit in the school
sessions, the benefit to be derived from
variety in the programs of the opening
exercises, ways to promote teachertraining and the conversion of the Sunday school pupils as a means of feeding
the Church. These subjects are live
ones in the Hawaiian schools and their
presentation was listened to with good
attention.
It was the fortune of the superintendent and his wife to be the guests of Dr.
and Mrs. A. S. Baker during the days
of the meetings and it was a pleasure to
see what they are doing for the people
of Kona in their quiet and faithful way.
Mrs. Ruth Baker, too, is doing fine work
as superintendent of the Central Kona
Church Sunday school and in many other ways. Let us not forget what these
and other workers are doing for the
kingdom by introducing the children to
the Savior and by building up their
Christia nch aracters through the steady
work of the Sunday schools.
THE WAIHEE MEETINGS.
After a rough passage across the Alenuihaha Channel on Mrach 17th, the delegation of ministers from Honolulu,
Revs. Oleson, Nakuina and Judd reached Maui and the next day began attendance at the meetings of the churches.
Sunday schools and C. E. meetings of
Maui, Molokai and Lanai in the Waihee church. These meetings began on
the 17th and continued until the 23rd.
The Sunday school features were of
the usual order, including a good
"Hoike" on Sunday morning. At this
service Dr. R. J. Burdette and wife were
present and the doctor gave a splendid
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talk that was much appreciated. Rev. O.
H. Gulick also gave a talk that was
greatly enjoyed. It will not be out of
place to mention the excellent work of
the Waihee school at the "Hoike." The
splendid singing and letter-perfect recitation of the subjects of the lessons, golden texts and leading thoughts was a noteworthy feature of the occasion and showed that much faithful effort had been
made by Hon. Robert J. K. Nawahine,
son of the venerable pastor of the Waihee church and himself a hard worker
for the church.
The C. E., as is customary, took
charge of the sunrise meetings and they
were helpful and devotional throughout.
At Waihee as well as at Napoopoo
Mr. Xakuina conducted a question box
for the C. E. workers and answered In
an able manner the various questions put
to him.
He also had charge of a question box on Prohibition that aroused
great interest.
Right here it will be fitting to mention the able presentation, by Rev. E. B.
Turner of the Makawao Union church,
of an introduction to the Gospel of Matthew. This was particularly timely because of the fact that the Sunday school
lessons for this year are taken from the
Gospel of Matthew.
Mr. Turner held
the close attention of his audience. Work
of this nature in connection with the
Island Association meetings is most valuable because of its being heard by a
representative body of church workers
from all parts of the isalnds and because
there is such a need for instruction in the
general subject of Biblical introduction.
Besides Mr. Turner's theme there was
the reading of the sermon outlines by
two of the Maui ministers, followed by
criticisms of these sermons. The monthly meetings for ministers and workers of
Central Maui, under the supervision of
Rev. R. B. Dodge, are bearing fruit, and
the benefits of such steady instruction in
sermon outlines and Biblical subjects are
being seen in improved preaching and
higher standards of work among the pastors of Maui.
All that the monthly
school on Maui can accomplish will tend
to improve the Sunday schools of that
island.
COUSINS' SOCIETY ANNUAL
MEETING.
The annual meeting of the Hawaiian
Mission Children's Scxriety will be held
at the Old Mission House on Saturday
afternoon, April 16th. at 3:30 o'clock. A
full attendance of the members is dcInteresting papers will be read and
the usual reports will be received.
THE FRIEND.
April. 1910
THE NEW IDEALS IN HEALING.
By Ray S. Baker.
Published by F. A. Stokes Co., New
York.
Review, by Rev. John T. Gulick, Ph. D.
A small book of 105 pages, but of unusual interest. The subject is presented in two parts. First: "The New Healing Mission of the Church;" being chief-1) on account of the Emanuel movement in Boston, conducted by Rev. Dr.
Worcester, and Rev. Dr. McComb, aided by medical experts- Second: "The
New Healing Mission of the Medical
Profession;" being an account of the
Social Service Department, at the Massachusetts General Hospital, organized
by Dr. Cabot.
The jxisition maintained by the author
will be best presented by a few brief
quotations, which I will now give:
" The clergyman is discovering that
man has a body, and the doctor that he
has a soul. Both are taking a larger
view of humanity; and both are seeking
earnestly to serve humanity more unselfishly." p. viii.
Dr. Worcester after graduating from
Columbia University and from an Episcopal Seminary, took a course under
Wundt & Fecher in Germany. Returning to America he became chaplain
and professor of philosophy at Lehigh
University, and afterwards rector of
St. Stephen's Church in Philadelphia,
coming to Boston in 1904. p. 15-i6.
Dr. McComb was first a Presbyterian
pastor; but after becoming an Episcopalian joined Dr. Worcester in Boston,
p. 16.
"In the fall of 1906 the Emanuel
Movement began. *
* Dr. Worcester
said 'The time has come when the
church must enter more deeply into the
personal lives of the people, and make a
freer use of the means modern science
and the gospel of Christ place at her
disposal, if she is to continue even to hold
her own.' Acting upon this thought, it
was most natural that Emanuel Church
should turn to the healing of the physically and mentally sick. It was one
of the commands of Christ that his disciples should heal the sick.* *
Dr.
Worcester saw the need of the great
faith which cures the Catholic who kissed
the stone toe of the Saint; but he saw
also the need of the best reason that science could give for such a cure. p. 17.
A mass of scientific knowledge has been
attained by the medical profession; much
is known of disease and the cure of disease. Why should all this knowledge
be disregarded or discarded. 'Most religious workers in this field,' says Dr.
Worcester, 'have made the mistake of
*
*
supposing that God
can cure in only one
way, and that the employment of physical means indicates a lack of faith.
This is absurd. God cures by many
means. J It uses the sunlight, healing
and nourishing substances, water and
air.'
p. 18, 19.
"
Fundamental Beliefs.
"Medical science and psychology have
shown that a very large proportion of all
the diseases from which men suffer—
nearly half in fact—are diseases in which
the mind, the personality or the moral na
ture is the controlling factor. Dr. Worcester and Dr. McComb have attempted
to establish no new doctrine. They believe profoundly in the power of the
mind over the body; that the mind when
inspired or transformed, can cure many
of the diseases of the mind and the moral
nature. It can also help greatly in alleviating pain and producing the state of
confidence and hope which is favorable to the cure of all other diseases. But
organic ailments generally, they believe,
must be left to physical treatment, to
medicine, surgery, hygiene, isolation and
and skilled nursing.
For eyestrain a
pair of glasses is far more effective than
any mental treatment." pp. 19, 22.
,"Ail sorts of cases have been treated by
Dr. Worcester and Dr. McComb and
their followers. The lives of many men
and women have been utterly transformed ; from weak, hopeless, complaining,
suffering beings, they have changed to
hopeful, happy, courageous beings. In
April, 1907, for example, there entered
the clinic a middle-aged man suffering
from pseudo-angina pectoris, severe
pains all over his body, and in a very
miserable state of mind. He had been
unable to do any work for almost threeyears ; had gone the usual round of doctors and hospitals, and had fallen into
despair of getting better. I le was a man
of deep religious feeling. First of all
his despair was dissipated by frequent reassurance that there was nothing incurable about his disorder. Then from time
to time during a period of five months
suggestion was applied and his religious
instincts appealed to, until at the end of
that period, he recovered his health and
nervous oalance. He has remained well,
and has gone back to work. There have
been many strange cases of men suffering from fears, worries and phobias
which have paralysed their lives. From
all sorts of causes they had come to a
nervous breakdown, which neither medical treatment nor self-control could cure.
They have had their lives, in many vases,
literally reconstructed." pp. 34-5.
Criticisms of the Movement.
"The questions are frequently asked:
'Where does religion come in?
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April. 1910
Why should the church enter upon the
matter at all?"
"There are two groups of reasons why
the church should take Up the work of
healing. The first is a human or social
reason. To be really cured a man must
be dealt with not merely as a material
but as a human being
body,
having a soul, a spirit. Man is a religious animal, and any work for his upbuilding that neglects that element neglects the most important factor in ins
life. Not every doctor is fitted to build
up the moral and spiritual nature of
men; nor have most doctors time for
such work ; whereas the minister is more
or less at the service of the public.
"The sick man coming for treatment
to the church, (say the supporters of the
movement), receives not mere scientific
advice and direction, but what to many
sufferers, ; s far more important; human
.sympathy, disinterested advice. To many
patients, the fact that they are brought
out of lonely lives to friendly surroundings, the quieting and hope-inspiring
meetings of the church, where everyone
is trying to look on the bright side of
life, is a powerful stimulant towards
health. * * * The church inspires
confidence that its ministers have no ulterior or selfish purpose; and many, a
discourage d man finds in that feeling the
first gleams of new hope. Besides this,
the church gives men a new interest in
life, a new work to do—work for some
* * *
p. 42-44.
"In the final analysis it makes little
real difference to you or to me what
profession docs the new work —whether
doctor or minister or a combination of
the two—so long as it is done. The
final test is service, and to that end professions and institutions must shape
themselves. Men aft?r all, whether ill
or well, will follow those leaders who
can give them hope, courage, faith,
health, virtue, enable them to meet the
inevitable difficulties and trials of this
life with a happier face and a serener
soul. In any event, the fine new work
will go on, whether the church in its
for that
present form leads it or
way lies truth." p. 53-4.
Concerning the Social Service Department of the Massachusetts' General
Hospital, we have room for only a few
words. Dr. Cabot had observed, that, in
many cases that came to the Hospital,
the chief cause of disease was the lack
of means, in the home of the patient, for
meeting the ordinary necessities of life.
After careful investigation of these conditions by the Social Service Department, different methods of remedy arc
applied, sometimes the funds of the Hosone besides themselves,
not:
pital lieing drawn on, and sometimes
ether charitable nistitutions being asked
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aid. In this way many hopeless cases Rushville, N. V,; choosing a farmer's
have oeen not only relieved, but restored life, he located in Ypsilanti, Mich.; marto
healthy life.
A full record of the Emanuel Movement has been prepared by Drs. Worcester and McComb, and their co-laborers. I. H. Coriat, M. D., and published
by Moffat, Yard & Co. of New York.
to
MISSION CHILDREN'S SOCIETY.
By a recent letter from Miss May E.
Loomis, of Ypsilanti. Michigan, we gain
another page in the family history of the
pioneer missionary printer at Honolulu,
Elisha Loomis, and of his descendants.
The simple narrative is more than a
twicetold tale to many of our readers,
but it has the value of authenticity, as
the writer had her grandfather's journal
to draw from; and it falls in with the
quest of our age—delving among the be-
ginnings, to find why and-how things
have grown to be as they are about us.
in a former number (Oct. 1904, p. 6),
were given sketches of the father and
two of the children ; and, without repeating, we will lightly review these, dealing
with all the children first.
Levi Loomis was the oldest child, and
also the first white child born on these
islands, the date being July 16, 1820. If
he has failed of enjoying this distinction,
it is owing to the plain reason that the
family left this field so early that the
name did not get into the "Blue Book"
of the Maternal Association. Levi determined to have a college education, and
worked very hard to get the needed
money, farming and teaching, and helping his mother at the same time. He
graduated with some honor from Geneva
College, in i844; and after that year, he
engaged in farming and nursery business, in Wisconsin.
He was married
once, perhaps twice: but the record goes
no further. He died. March 23, 1892,
at Wolf's Creek, Oregon, 72 years old,
and was attended in his last illness by
his brother, Jeremiah Evarts.
Amanda Loomis was born in Honolulu, Dec. 4, 1821. and died at Hillhurst,
Washington, June 4, 1903. In 1842 she
was graduated from the Ontario Female
Seminary at Geneva, N. V.; and at once
began a life-long teaching service, which
took her into four widely separated states
of the Union, interrupted only by the
care of her paralyzed mother during her
last years, at the home of her brother Albert, in Michigan. Her greatest honor
was her bright and lovely Christian life.
Albert Sewart Loomis was born in
Honolulu, Nov. 9, 1825, and died at Detroit, Mich., March 28, 1904. Like his
sister he obtained his early schooling at
ried Sarah Wood Hill, daughter of Rev.
Oliver Hill (Presbyterian), and was an
exemplary Christian through all his 79
His six children are: Ada Byyears.
ron, Oliver Henry, Charles Albert
(drowned), May Evarts, Vincent Hazeu
and (jrace Amanda; all the living children except May Evarts. are married; but
we have not yet learned anything further about them.
Jeremian Evarts Loomis was bor 1 at
Rochester, N. V., IX-c. 1, 1829; was never married, ami died at Galice, Oregon,
August 9, 1905.
John Howard Loomis, the youngest
child, has a still shorter record. He was
born at Potter, N. Y.. August 17, 1832
It is not known whether he was evet
married, nor where he is now.
What of the parents of this very scattered family of our cousins? They proved to be of the right stuff for pioneer
work. Take notice that Mr. Loomis was
accepted by the American Board, was
married, and embarked at Boston, before
he was 21 years old. Like the great
English poet, probably he had "little Latin and less Greek," and with less incumbrance of learning he faced the problem
of the "art preservative" in' catching the
fleeting sounds of the spoken Hawaiian,
and embodying them in Roman letters;
and he must have done his full share of
the work which left Hawaaian orthography in its present form. (At a later
period—lß3o-32—at Mackinaw, Michigan, he used the same phonetic method
in creating the Ojibwe spelling book.)
In Honolulu, the printing press was
set up August 7, 1820, "having .suffered
but little damage by transportation, and
it promises to be a good one." (This
press was, in 1839, presented to the Oregon Mission by the First Church of
Honolulu. It did good service there for
many years, and is now in the museum
at Portland.) The output of this press
was—spelling books, lesson leaves, tracts
(3000 in one edition), and a hymn book
of 108 pages and containing 100 hymns,
bearing date on its title page, Oahu,
1827; and probably some portions of the
Testament, though th* volume which we
have samples of was issued a little later,
and will be mentitoned below. Mr. Loomis taught, as well as printed books ; and
Mrs. Loomis also comes in for brief mention as one of those devoted women who
stood to their duty, and let their lives be
worn away by the incessant grind, in the
depressing climate of Kawaiahao as it
used to be. In this case it was the man
who broke down, and was condemned by
the medical director of that time, perhaps Dr. Blatchley, to return home, or
he would die here in a year or 18 months.
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He returned, with his family, Jan. 7,
1827; and lived in the home- climate for
nine and a half years,, and labored,
though never with the full ability of a
well man. Two things are probable in
connection with the first six years after
his return horne—that he was under the
direction and pay of the American
Board, and that his family accompanied
him in his migrations. He put forth a
volume of 171 pages, containing the gospels of Matthew, Mark, and John in Hawaiian. Each part had a full title page;
on each the legend appears—llookahi
keia oka pai ana; on the first, the imprint—ROCHESTER. N. Y. PAI IA
MA KA MFIA PAI PALAPALA A
LUMIKI. 1828. On the other two the
imprint is slightly changed, and the date
is 1829; which shows that the work was
done single-handed. Our letter states
that these lxx>ks, and also the earlier
hynmbooki, were bound in red leather
and gilded. We may suppose that such
were gift books, made to lie attractive to
the native- chiefs here.
During the period vaguely described
as 1830-1832, Mr. Loomis was a missionary to the Indians in the extreme north
of Michigan.
We- hear of him, after his return from
Michigan, improving his qualifications
for teaching by attending the Canandaigtta Academy, and then opening a select school in his home town of Rushville, on the east side of Canandaigua
lake. He- continued this until June, 1835,
when he was taken severely ill. He spent
the following winter in Florida; but on
returning in the spring, he was caught
by unpropitious weather, and in late
summer he passed away, being nearly 37
years old.
Elisha Loomis. b. Dec. 11, 1790. at
Middlesex, Yates county, N. V.; d. Aug.
27, 1836, at Rushville, N. Y.
Maria Theresa Sartwcll, b. Aug. 25,
1796, at Hartford. Ontario Co., N. V.;
d. Sep. 6, 18<>2, at Ypsilanti, Michigan.
They were married, Sep. 27, 1810, at
Utica, New York.
The Annual Conference of the- Hawaiian Evangelical Association will be
held at Kailua, Kona, on July 16-21.
This postponement has been necessitated by the condition in Kona. which called for some change to a later date than
that originally selected.
THE FRIEND,
April, 1910
EVENTS.
REV. J. B. HANAIKE.
The Hawaiian community on Kauai
Feb. 20.—Rear-Admiral Sebree relinquishha* suffered a loss in the death, on |an. es command of the I'acine fleet and Rear25 of Rev. J. B. Ilanaike. Horn in 1840, Admlral Harber succeeds.
educated at Hilo Boarding School under Feb. 25.—Superintendent of Public- Instruction Pope proposes Summer School for
Rev. D. B. Lyman and at Lahaiiiahma Hawaii.
House Committee at Washington
Seminary under Rev. S. E. Bishop, l).l). reports favoring giant ships of 28,000 tons
Mr. Ilanaike became an efficient and for the Navy. W. A. Howen resigns as
highly-respected minister of the gospel. chairman of Promotion Committee, resignaIle served as pastor of the I lakalau tion to go into effect March 1. Resignation
accepted.
Church, Hilo; then as teacher and pas- regretfully
Hotel opened formalFeb. 26. —New Hilo
ly.
Feb. 27.—President Taft urges need of
two battleships of 32,000 tons.
Feb. 28.—Speaker of House H. U Holsteln
appointed Republican National Committeeman to succeed A. G. M. Robertson.
Mar. 1.—The 11. S. S. Cheyenne, formerly
the Wyoming, ordered here to replace the
Iroquols
Mar. 3.—Doll Festival of the Japanese ob-
served today. ThlH festival originated about
1000 A. D.
Mar. 4.—Mounts for the sth Cavalry U.
S. A., to be secured from local ranches.
Mar. r>. —Philadelphia traffic tied up by a
strike Involving 75,000 men.
Mar. 6.—Golden Wedding anniversary of
Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Young.
Mar. 7.—Hrilliant wedding reception at
the Young Hotel In honor of the golden
wedding.
tor
of the Lihue Church. During his
last years he was tax assesor of Lihue.
but continued to supply that Church free
of charge whenever there was no pastor.
Ji
Mar. 8.—Hoard of Supervisors request.
Superintendent of Public Works
Marston
Campbell to enforce sidewalk ordinances.
Judge Henry K. Cooper confirmed by Y. S.
Senate as circuit Judge.
Mar. 10.—Members of the family of the
late C. M. Cooke give to Oahu College a tin.collection of old masters as the nucleus of
an art gallery. The Cooke Library will I
enlarged.
Mar. 13.—Attorney-General Wlckershatn
decsides that Hamburg-American liner
Rev. A. I. Kale-ikini, pastor of the
Spreckelsville Church, died last month
from tuberculosis. He had been in the Cleveland did not violate coastwise shipping
pastorate but a brief period, showing laws In her round-the-world trip.
himself in that time however a devoted Mar. 14.—Dr. Robert J. Hurdette lectures
and faithful minister of Christ.
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Mar. Hi.—Hlshop Hughes, of the Methodist
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the world and transact a general
50c. a year.
banking business.
OLD KONA COFFEE A BPECIALTY.
B.F. EHLERS&CO.
P. O. BOX
71 c.
Th,e Leading Dry Goods
House in the Territory.
Especial attention given to Mail Orders.
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California Rose
Creamery Butter
Guaranteed the Best and full 16
ounces.
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Limrmo
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THE FRIEND.
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BISHOP
Hawaiian Artist Co* THE FRIEND
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LIMITED.
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Fire, Murine, Life
and Accidenl
BURETY ON BONDS.
Glass, Employers'
Liability, and Burglary Insurance.
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923 FORT STREET,
Bafe Deposit Building.
Is published the first week of each
month in Honolulu, T. H., at the Hawaiian Board Book Rooms, cor. Alakea
and Merchant Sts. Subscription price,
$i .00 per year.
A special rate is made to Mission
Churches or Sunday Schools in the
Islands. Clubs of 25 to one address 25
cents apiece per year.
:
Established in 1858.
Transact a General Banking and Exchange Business. Loans made on approved
security.
Bills discounted.
Commercial
Credits granted. Deposits received on current account subject to check.
.
Regular Savings Bank Department maintained in Bank Building on Merchant Street,
and Insurance Department, doing a Life,
Fire and Marine business on most favorable
terms, in Friend Building on Bethel Street.
made out to
Lots for Sale
IN
"C~OLLEGE
HILLS
PI
LOW PRICES
EASY TERMS
Trent Trust Co.
Ltd.
OAHU COLLEGE.
—
All Communications of a literary character should be addressed to THE FRIEND,
corner Alakea and Merchant Sts., Honolulu, T. H., and must reach the Board
Rooms by the 24th of the month.
THE BOARD OF EDITORS:
Doremus Scudder, Editor in Chief.
Frank S. Scudder, Managing Editor.
F. W. Damon.
John G. Woolley.
A. A. Ebersole.
Orramel H. Gulick,
H. P. Judd.
W. B. Oleson.
Theodore Richards.
Paul Super.
William D. Westervelt.
Perley L. Home.
Ernest J. Recce.
Edward W. Thwing,
Foreign Correspondent.
(Arthur F. Griffiths, A.8., President.)
Kutereri October 27. IQO2, at Honolulu. Hawaii. ax itrrmul
Blow matter, under act of '.'onjirxx af Moult .,', 1.V71).
—and
Punahou
Preparatory
The
BOY
Wants Stories
There are none so good as the old
BIBLE stories, the boy himself as
judge. We know for we have tried with
a number of boys, girls too. But you
Mualc, and
Art courses.
should have GOOD PICTURES s
texts when you tell Bible stories.
For Catalogue, address
We have a Bible with 800 good illusJONATHAN SHAW,
trations. We knew one copy of it to be
Business Agent,
worn out by the use of one family,—
Honolulu, H. T. four children one after the other literOahu College,
ally wearing it to pieces.
WHITNEY, M. D., D. D. S.
We have one, and have sent for a
number more.
DENTAL ROOMS.
Offer corgplete
College preparatory work,
together with special
Commercial,
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Henry Waterhouse Trust Co.
LIMITED
STOCKS, BONDS AND
ISLAND SECURITIES
Fort and Merchant Streets, Honolulu.
HF.
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WICHMAN & CO., LTD.
Manufacturing Optician,
Jczvclcr and Silversmith.
Importer of Diamonds, American and Swiss
Watches, Art Pottery, Cut Glass
Honolulu
Leather Goods, Etc.
Hawaiian Islands.
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Castle
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& Cooke,
SHIPPING AND
COMMISSION MERCHANTS, SUGAR FACTOR AND
GENERAL INSURANCE AGENT.
Company.
In Plantation
Waialua Agricultural Co.. Ltd.
Kohala Sugar Company.
Waimea Suc;ar Mill Company.
Apokaa Sugar Company, Ltd.
Wahiawa Con. Pineapple Co., Ltd,
Kulton Iron Works of St. Louis,
Blake Steam Pumps.
Marsh Steam I'umps,
American Steam Pump Co.
Weston's Centrifugal!.
Baldwin's Automatic Juice Weigher,
Babcock & Wilcox Boiler-.,
Deminus
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Boston Building.
Superheaters,
Green's Fuel Economizers.
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l'lanters Line Shipping Co.
Matson Navigation Co.
Ar~Ani Insurance Company.
Citizens Insurance Co. (Hartford Fie)
Fireman's Fund Insurance Co. (Marine Dcpt.)
National Fire Insurance Co.
Protector Underwriters of the Phoenix of
Hartford.
New England Mutual Life Insurance
Co.. of Boston.
ESTEY
ORGANS
—
Hawaiian Board Book Rooms. Hawaiian Board Book Rooms.
AT THE
Fort Street
Ltd.
REPRESENTING
School.
(Charles T. Fltts, A. 8., Principal).
B AN KE RS.
HONOLULU, HAWAIIAN ISLANDS.
All business letters should be addressed and all M. O.s and checks should be
Theodore Richards,
Business Manager of The Friend.
P. O. Box 489.
& COMPANY,
�The Friend.
OLDEST
NEWSPAPER WEST OF THE ROCKIES.
HONOLULU, H. T., MAY, 1910.
Vol. LXVII.
Only Once.
TREASURER'S STATEMENT.
From March 21 to April 20 1910
This generation in Hawaii is now faced
with an opportunity and a privilege
which it can never again meet. On the
RECEIPTS
twenty-ninth of next month it will be
38.95
A. B. C. F. M
1558.55 exactly one hundred years since the
American Missionary Ass'n
6900 churches of Massachusetts organized the
Bush Place
156.00 American Board of Commissioners for
Friend
550.00 Foreign -Missions. Within ten years the
General Fund
258.00 mission to Hawaii was commenced, and
Hawaii General Fund
16.00
Hawaiian Work
99.91 before the first half century was ended
Hoaloha
islands had been won for
1137.63 thlese
Invested Funds
100.00 Christ far more completely than England
Japanese Work
276.25 had been after hundreds of years of
Kalihi Settlement
2474.40
Kauai General Fund
The fruits of that
230.00 Christian teaching.
Kawaiahao Seminary
were the development of a sound
victory
135.00
Girls
School
Kohala
adminisorderly
100.00 judicial
system,
Maui General Fund
25.05 tration of justice, establishment of conMinisterial Relief Fund ...:
1305.07 stitutional government, universal eduOahu General Fund
52.50 cation,
Office Expense
the preaching of the Gospel to
62.00
Opukahala Fund
every
Islander,
and a high degree of
25.00
Portuguese Work
There were weak spots
Fund
75.00
ethical
practice.
Preachers' Training
58.50 in the resulting character, but no weaker
Tomo
than that shown by hundreds of whites
$8802.81 residing here who had had the benefit of
more than a thousand years' heredity of
EXPENDITURES
teaching. The triumph of the
Christian
$ 232.10
A. B. C. F. M
in Hawaii was more pronounced,
Cross
$112.50
Chinese Work
overwhelming and bona fide than it had
699.50
Salaries
anywhere else on earth since Jesus
been
S12.00
began proclaiming "The Kingdom of
67.80
Eng. and Port. Work
God is at hand."
Salaries
558.00
This era of victory was followed by a
625.80
of material fruit bearing.
period
65.60
Friend
The
missionary generation gave
second
157.80
Fund
General
itself
to developing the resources
largely
30.00
Hawaiian Pastors' Aid
of Hawaii while conserving and strength85.50
Hawaiian Work
ening the spiritual results already achiev511 .00
Salaries
596.50 ed. The effect of this crusade has been
44 50 as marked as that of the era of gospel
Hoaloha
8.67 proclamation. Hawaii is now, per capita
Invested Funds
of population, the greatest wealth pro435.25
Work
Japanese
ducer in the world.
871.50
Salaries
Early in October the American Hoard
1306.75
hold its centennial meeting in Boswill
325.65
Kalihi Settlement
ton. On August 31 the books of its cen140.00
Kohala Seminary Salaries
tennial year will close, and the report of
47.85
Office Expense
what has been achieved will be presented
489.00
Salaries
536.85 at the October meeting. There are there250.00 fore only May, June, July and August
Palama Settlement
record
20.00 during which to help make this
Preacher's Training Fund
forever
honorable.
275.00
Portuguese Work, Salaries
The question which we of Hawai
36.25
Tomo
must face is this: "What are we of the
50.00
Wailuku Settlement Worker
second missionary generation doing in
3.75
Upchurch James
missions comparable to that
foreign
50.00
Waiakea Settlement
mothers
which our fathers and
$5567.22 wrought?" To conserve the fruits of
their work is good, to carry it further by
Excess of receipts over Expendi$3235.59 giving the Gospel to the tens of thoustures
2512.47 ands of Asiatics here is also good. But
Balance at the Bank
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this is merely self-preservation. It is excellent home missionary work. It also
reacts favorably upon Asia, and thus
has its foreign missionary bearing. But
if this is all. then we can hardly consider ourselves worthy sons of noble
sires. They gave up all to come here
for Christ- ()ur gifts, though more than
theirs in dollars and cents, are infinitely
beneath theirs in spiritual value. It is
another case of the widow's mite versus
Dives' shekels.
The Crux of the Situation.
The time to show our relation to the
work of our fathers then has come. We
can demonstrate our fundamental sympathy with them by consecrating a large
share of our material wealth to the work
to which they gave their lives. We can
do it at a time when it will count more
than ever before or after. And for the
reason that we men and women are
of times and seasons. Birthdays, adversaries, centennials bulk
large in our lives and ought so to do.
If Hawaii comes to the October meeting
with a gift, adequate to its missionary
history and to its wealth concentrated in
missionary families, it will say to the
world more emphatically than is possible in any other way, "We of the second generation are true to our past. The
great victory still moves en here. The
spirit of tile fathers is the spirtf of the
sons."
creatures
What Would They Do?
If the first generation of missionary
fathers and mothers were alive and in as
full vigor as they were fifty years ago,
what response would they make to the
world-wide work of the American Board,
provided they had the money now in the
hands of their children and grand-children? This is a good question for us to
ponder at this season when the Board
reports such world wide opportunities
for extension of its work as Christian
history has never before shown. Here,
for instance, are twenty great institutions of learning in mission lands, each
with a remarkable past and facing a
still more wonderful future, crowded
with eager youths, and compelled by
lack of resources to shut the door to
many others just as enthusiastic who
long to enter and be trained as Christian
leaders. Each of these twenty institutions needs $100,000 endowment. The
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gift of $25,000 would maintain permanently a trained American missionary
teacher or several native professors. But
this educational appeal is only one of
many lines of work equally insistent.
Hawaii is now in position to repay
something of the effort spent upon it by
the churches of America. That repayment is of the Christlike sort, not a paying back but a passing of some of the
benefits received to others.
But So Much Is Needed Here.
Yes, and that was precisely what people said to Hiram Bingham, Asa Thurston, Samuel Whitney. William Richards.
Artemas Bishop, (ierrit Judd. Peter
Gulick, Dwight Baldwin, Sheldon Dibble,
William Alexander, David Lyman,
Richard Armstrong, Amos Cooke. Harvey Hitchcock, Samuel Castle, Lowell
and James Smith, Titus Coan, Edwin
Hall, Elias Bond, Daniel Dole, Samuel
Damon, Abner Wilcox, William Rice,
the Andrews and all the rest of their
noble comrades before they left America.
If they had heeded that word, Hawaii
would have been doomed to beechcombers and the kind of civilization they foster. A loyal disciple of Jesus can never
dodge such a contrast as is presented,
for instance, by the following comparison. Honolulu with forty or fifty thousand people has five finely appointed
hospitals, a number of dispensaries, hosts
of well trained doctors, and nurses
proone
Chinese
galore, while
vince, Shansi, in which the American Board is at work, has twelve
million people with not one modemly
equipped hospital and only five white
physicians—what the native doctors in
China are, we all know. Much is needed
in Honolulu, much is required in every
Christian country, but that much is
nothing compared with the needs of
lands unreached by the Gospel. Fortunately there is adequate means both to
meet the local need and to spare a very
goodly sum for the American Missionary
Centennial and so express Hawaii's
sense of gratitude to Cod for all that the
Gospel has meant to her.
The Claim of Gratitude.
It certainly is a golden occasion for
Hawaiians as well as whites to join in
a great memorial gift to the American
Board. Not a few families with Hawaii
an blood in their veins have large wealth.
Why should not they speak just now.
telling the world how much they apprc
ciate the blessings of Christian civilization by transmuting their gratitude into
large contributions towards sending the
Gospel to those who have it not? It is
to be hoped that all of our Hawaiian
THE FRIEND,
churches will join in a special centennial
thankoffering to the American Board
which shall show in tangible form their
loyalty to their Savior in response to his
If from Hawaiian
great command.
sources a gift of unusual proportions
should go to Boston it would stir the
heart of Christendom.
But gratitude speaks as well to the
rest of us who could scarcely have hoped
for equal opportunity to acquire large
wealth if our fathers had stayed in
America. Doubtless we might have been
well to do, but no such golden rewards
would have been ours. And if we had
not received the unique training in a missionary home our quality of manhood
might have been distinctly inferior. We
owe all to the schooling we had in the
noble, unselfish missionary environment
of the Hawaii of our childhood and
youth. What have we done with our
wealth for foreign missions to express
our sense of indebtedness for this early
training? Can we ever hope for a better
time or opportunity titan the present
centennial year of American missions?
Certainly no occasion will enable our
gifts to do more in stirring the world's
missionary interest than an honestly selfdenying gift to the old Board —a gift
which will not merely show on our
ledgers but which we shall actually feel.
Fortunately this movement has already
begun. One of our missionary families
has made a gift of $25,000 to the permanent funds of the American Board for
the extension of its work. Outside of
this noble gift Central L'nion Church
also reports by several times the largest
missionary offering in its history. We
believe this to be only the commencement
of the good things to come.
The Special Election.
At last the American nation in the
possible, by special
resolution of Congress signed by the
President, has called upon Hawaii to express its conviction upon the most important social question that mankind today faces- It is the first occasion of the
kind in human history and it is to the
lasting credit of Hawaii that it is the recipient of this great honor. For it is an
honor thus to be singled out of all the
territories since our nation began its existence. The very gravity of the question submitted to our votes adds to the
impressiveness of the responsibility. The
eyes of the entire world are upon us. Our
action will affect for weal or woe numberless other people. We can deal tlu
most signal blow at the dreaded and hated liquor traffic that it has ever yet received, because what we do will influence Asia as well as America. It is well,
then, that we enter upon the campaign
as upon a solemn, sacred crusade. Let
most solemn way
May, 1910
it be raised to the very highest plane oi
civic and religious duty. We fight for
larger ends than we now can guess. The
voice of July 26 will in reality be the cry
of a sacrificed race. In pathos this election will rival any plebiscite ever taken
on earth. If the pent-up feelings of all
the Hawaiians who since the great Kainchaineha's day have suffered at tin
hands of the liquor curse could only fine'
vent on the day of election the result
would astonish the world. Of coursi
the liquor forces are already beginning
to befog the issue by personal inuendc
and by appeals to the passions of the Hawaiians. Bttt we believe this will not
prove successful. The Hawaiian is remarkably susceptible to nobler considerations, and his intuitions are naturally
trustworthy. Unworthy men may at times
stampede him as well as the rest of mankind by some sudden specious movement. But give him time to think and
he responds nobly both to reason and
conscience. Hence the result of July 26
is not unpromising. Nevertheless, the
fight is ever to the resourceful and untiring- The battle must be carried in*'
every possible sphere. In it every available person must be enlisted. Not only
the men, but women and children should
be enrolled. The question affects vitally
the family and every resource the family
presents must be utilized. The Church
is also deeply concerned, and here we
have a forum unequalled in a great civic
battle. Fortunately politics is entirely
divorced from the issue. The parties
have voted to stand aside and suffer the
fight to be waged on the neutral ground
of a preeminent moral question. We
thank them for this wisdom and this exposition of high civic spirit. Fortunately
the liquor interests themselves are divided. Two of the better firms have served notice on the Liquor Dealers' Association that they are not in the fight. That
is good. It is to be hoped that more
will follow this patriotic action. It is
the twentieth century, and therefore it
behooves business houses to honor ethical considerations. I'rotherhood ought
to lead every liquor house in the Islands
to desert the cause of alcohol and rally tc
the side of humanity in this fight. Perhaps more of them will do so ere the
battle is over. Meantime let the campaign be conducted on the most aggressive and comprehensive lines possible.
The Quiet Work Already Done.
While the rest of us have been waiting
for Congress to act, the Hawaiians with
fine faith in the moral sense of
nation,
the
have
been
quietly
organizing- They seem to have scented
the blood of their race in this contest am'
to have realized that with them the piebiscite is a life and death matter. Then
is a deep pathos in this quiet rallying
�May,
THE
1910
FRIEND.
5
to prevent the clutof this lovable natured people, and m the j dealing strokes it has ever received. AH too late, ofhowever,
the Executive Building
tering
silent building up of anti-liquor clubs in hail to the women of Hawaii!
grounds with the Public Library. Some
precinct after precinct. Fortunately they
t<
Honolulu will want to replace the
day
hold in their hands the power now
Again.
Back
pile with a
Executive
present
ranks
of
quiet
with
the
allien themselves
( \. Wool- dignified, beautiful and appropriate capis
to
Hon.
It good greet
John
their noble dead in a final effective effort
back from his well won ital. The encumbering Archives Buildto rid their race of its most direful foe.! ley once more,
; ing can then be easily brushed aside, but
\Yoe then be to the respectable white laurels at Washington. He returns as
man who solaces himself with such pleas victor having won something far bettci not so the proposed Carnegie Library.
as "we have law enough now against li- than a prohibitory law from Congress. I lonolulu needs the cultivation of a civic
quor," *'you can*t enforce prohibition,'' At first when the plebiscite was proposed spirit which shall refuse to tolerate the
and who uses his influence to continue there was disappointment here, but now thought of any more structures on this
the enslavement begun in the thirties and people on all sides realize that the spe- fine open space. It should all be reliforties by France. The white race has cial election is likely to prove one of tin giously preserved for the coming capital,
a grand opportunity now to retrieve itself greatest boons Hawaii has ever hat' which will need as ample grounds as can
in these Islands. For once let us be unit- politically. The absence of any mandat- be had to serve as appropriate setting.
ed in doing a noble thing. Not one single ory clause in the resolution is particular- Therefore the proposition to use the
good argument can today be urged on be- ly wise, as it leaves open a future appeal Pohukaina school site for the library is
half of liquor. Religion attacked it, and it to Congress if necessary. To have engi- excellent. This will conserve a very imhid under the shadow of Science. Science neered the campaign so as to secure th'i: portant location in our future civic center
has now driven it out into the open, result is large reward for the hard worl and will dedicate it to the very highest
where it stands clearly proven man's of the past few months, and all honor it uses. With the library there the imagigreatest curse. Let us be men and join due .Mr. Woolley therefor. He has als( nation at once pictures the steadily
hand in hand to banish it forever from advertised the Islands most effectively it" growing importance and beauty of our
many cities, It's descriptions of Hawai' central square, while reason smiles at
fair Hawaii.
rivaling anything else we have ever read the puerile argument that Uncle Sam
Ji
The Promotion Committee would do wel' domiciled on the Irwin property would
The Women.
to scatter some of these gems broadcast. be too far from the shrines of MammonThe situation in which the women of There is yoeman's work awaiting Mr By the Irwin property the Friend means
this Territory are now placed is most in- Woolley here in the leadership of th the entire square on which are the Opera
teresting. Congress refused to consider anti-liquor campaign, and he is ready foi House, Pacific Tennis Courts, and the
their petition to participate in the ple- it. He will be much in demand the next other flimsy structures back of them.
biscite. It is in their power to show both few months, and we trust they may That 1 lonolulu can do great things when
Congress and the nation that the women prove the happiest and most triumphant it is aroused, the Y. M. C. A. campaign
of Hawaii, and by fair implication alsc in all his busy life of service for others. proved. Alas that this spirit should not
the women of the ma: nland, both can hi
be stirred Upon a theme so vital to the
trusted with the ballot and when S(
Beautiful as the projected home of
City
equipped will prove welders of larg< Public Buildings.
Sam here.
D. S.
Uncle
moral forces. To organize and successThe
conscience
of
Honolulu
evidently
fully carry out a plebiscite of her own rests uneasy, and it should do so. After
will be no small achievement of itself, calling hither a
MAUI WORK.
consulting municipal enand the manner of it will exhib't the de- gineer
and having had presented a plan
gree of capacity possessed by them for
Maui Aid Association.
the exercise of civic functions. But so t< for the future improvement of the city
The Maui Aid Association held its
marshal the women that a proport'on of that by its simplicity and beauty carried
of its feasibility to everyone, annual meeting on April 14th at the
them equal to that of the men will cas< conviction
their ballots and so to move them t( then to allow a few private interests to Baldwin National Bank. Reports of the
righteousness that even a larger majority upset this scheme and to vote to plant financial committee, the secretary and
new Federal Building in a tight box treasurer were read. The accounts from
will vote for prohibition will profoundly the
influence the nation. There is no doubt where its beauty cannot be seen or its May Ist to December 31st of last year
should bring called for $7,424.55 in receipts. This
that this can be done in Hawaii. If thf fair prope>rtions realized
shame to the face of the sum, with what was received from the
women's plebiscite should precede July 26 the blush of The
place for this structure previous September will make the anits influence upon the men would be pro- community.
found. It is hard to conceive of any one is clearly the. Irwin property on Palace nual printed report of the Association
thing wlrch our Territory can do that Square, the only possible civic center soe>n to be published a total of about
will so widely affect the political world Honolulu can ever hope to have. It may $16,000, or $1000 a month.
as this plebiscite if it be well managed. be too late to change matters now, but
The Association elected the same trusHere in Hawaii men in general seem well the Friend, which has consistently upheld tees for the coming year, and the same
contented to let women vote if they de- the improvement scheme of Engineer officers, who are as follows: President,
sire to do so- It is to be doubted whether Robinson, files one more protest against
there is any part of the world where wo- the Mahuka site. If only some arrange- Hon. H. P. Baldwin; Vice-President,
men are better fitted on the average tc ment could be devised for reimbursing Mr. H. A. Baldwin ; secretary-treasurer.
exercies the franchise than here. The those who parted with valuable consid- Rev. R. B. Dodge; auditor, Mr. D. C.
general degree of culture and intelli- erations in placing the Mahuka site at Lindsay.
gence is high, while there is a very large the disposal of the government, it might
number of women of unusual power for perhaps be possible to make the change, Wailuku Union Church.
leadership. The suffragettes of the world but in the present state of public apathy
will hail with delight the result of this this seems a chimerical hope. It looks We have been most fortunate in havexperiment, while the liquor power will like another American folly—the sacri- ing with us Superintendent James A.
recognize in it one of the cruellest death- fice of the ideal to the material. It is not Rath, who has looked over all the work
I
�done in the settlement line on Maui, has
visited several of our churches, and inspired us all with new desire to accomplish more for God's kingdom. Some men
by their mere presence inspire, and Mr.
Rath is certain one of these. I le gave an
address in Union Church upon "Some
Aspects of Social Progress" that was
eagerly listened to by a large audience.
We were greatly favored having Dr.
Robert Burdette preach to us. The doctor and Mrs. Burdette were visiting Mr.
and Mrs. H. B. Penhallow. He spoke to
a packetl house at Union Church. A
number came in machines from Spreckelsvillc, Paia and Kahului to hear this
famous man. In the morning he attended Waihee convention, antl said he
would not have missed it for a great deal.
He and Mrs. Burdette were delighted
with all the work of the day.
It has given us the greatest joy tc
take in seven new members into Union
Church. This brings our roll up to a
goodly number- There is prospect that
several more will join soon. Our frequent additions more and more prove
the need of a union church in Wailuku.
The presence of a large Easter audience
and excellent music under the direction
of Mrs. Field were most gratifying.
The Sunday school is highly successful. Mrs. O. J. Whitehead and Mis;
Zelie Rogers are eloing splendid work
with the large number of little people,
and enthusiasm for this department of
our work is steadily increasing.
The ladies of the church gave an excellent program at the last social in the
form of a farce well known in German)
by the name of "Thank Heaven, the
Table is Set." The actors were Mr. and
Mrs. E. E. Batelle, Mr. D. 11. Case. Mi*
Charlotte L. Turner, Mr. Leslie West,
Mrs- C. M. Roberts. They all did excellently. Afterwards, Mrs. W. A. MacKay gave a very effective side show, anc'
Mrs. Judge Kingsbury and Miss Towner
ran a post office that pleased everybody
and was lots of fun.
Kahului.
The coming of Mr. Judd to Kahului
is a pleasure to all Maui, and we certainly are fortunate to have him located
on this island, that needs all such earnesl
workers as he and Mrs. Judd are. The
pretty parsonage in Kahului, which
was new when the Waltrips came, is in
fine condition, and the furniture wa:
largely bought by the ladies of th<
church for the new pastor and wife, and
as a permanent acquisition to the church.
Sunday
property. The flourishing
school of that church has a full hun
May, 1910
THE FRIEND.
6
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Che Suit and the Stars
Cbrouflhoui
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long miles of public way,
mm each door,
scene is gay with banners hearing suns or stars.
long
J\s
as heaven and earth shall stay,
Tor evermore,
£et none attempt to rend apart the sun and stars.
Che
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I'nhlislied in the Jai>aii Timcx on tlie occasion of the visit of the
American Fleet to Japan, 1908.
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dred now, with a constantly increasing bo's family that his plan for the new
building should be carried out. It has
roll of membership.
been suggested that Mrs. Takahashi prepare herself to take charge of a sewing
Minister's Class.
school in this building.
Mr. Takahashi's funeral was very imThe monthly class and the Tuesday
Mr. Okubo's new buildpressive.
inat
their
keep
up
class
the parsonage
was
crowded
with a very earnest coning
terest for all our workers. The monthly
and a great many more stand
gregation
work is a source of inspiration and lielj.
outside. The sight of the little chilto everybody, and we always look for- ing
dren,
just back from Hawaii, excited the
ward with anticipation to the next
sympathy of everybody present.
Burnham
is
some
giving
meeting. Mr.
The most pathetic scene, however, was
valuable instruction in sermonizing. He that at the funeral of Mr. Okubo. His
and Mrs. Burnham are a wonderful ad- body was placed on a stand in exactly
dition to our Maui force, and we feel the place where Mr. TVs ashes had rewe dont' know what we should do with- posed two days before, and I never saw
out them now. They are making them- men and women more deeply affected.
selves absolutely indispensable to the La- Tears were shed on all sides and especihaina side of Maui, as we learn from ally in the case of the younger brother
their many friends hereand Mr. C, their grief was indescribable.
R. B. D.
Strange to say, hardly had Mr.
Okubo's body been laitl in the grave when
Mr. C.'s baby died. Three Christian fuLetter from Japan.
nerals in three clays. Such an event will
Rev. Hilton Pedley, well remembered live long in the minds of the Shinmachi
by many friends in Honolulu, in a letter people, 1 think."
to Pastor Hori. refers to things which
js
will be of interest, especially to those who
bear in mind the calamity that befel the A Note from Japan.
family of our evangelist, Mr. Takahashi,
April 12, 1910.
in January—
Dear Friend: The touching words un"You remember Mr. Okubo, the blind der the heading, "In Memoriam" in your
man in Shinmachi. who had begun to March number move me to share with
take an interest in Christianity before others what I felt might voice the feelyou left. For the last few months his ings of many friends of one who has long
interest has greatly increased, and on ago received other tributes:
hearing of Mr. Takahashi's death, he
built a small house on his place as a me- In Memoriam: Mrs. Cornelia B. Damon.
morial to Mr. Takahashi, this house to Thy voice was wont to give the stranger
be used as a sewing room on week days,
cheer.
and for Sunday school and church on And requiems sang at loss of loved ones
here.
Sundays. Mr. Okubo was very active in
making preparations for Mr- Takahashi's We think those loved ones sang thee
funeral, but on the oth he was suddenly
welcome There,
struck down with apoplexy, and on the And we shall hear thy voice again SomeBth, justabout two hours after Mr. Takawhere.
hashi's funeral, he himself slept the last
PHI UP H. DODGE.
Tokyo.
It is the wish of Mr. Okusleep.
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THE FRIEND
May, 1(>10
It is three times the estimated cost of
the Panama Canal, including purchase
Through the kindness of Superin- price from the French company.
tendent Willis T. Pope, of the Departis three times the cost of carrying
ment of Public Instruction, every school outItthe whole
irrigation program contemhas
been
with
a
supplied
in the islands
for a whole generation.
plated
copy of the Peace Day Program pubIt is probably enough to banish tuberlished in the April number of The Friend,
accompanied by a letter recommending culosis from the United States within a
the observance of May 18th with appro- reasonable time, if efficiently used to
arouse and assist the people in their fight
priate exercises.
this dread disease. More than
against
more
than
What can be
appropriate
the suggestion that May 20th, the Sun- 160.000 are "lying yearly from this cause.
The expenditures have been increasing
day on which Memorial Day exercises
are to be observed, should be chosen also enormously year by year. None of the
as the time to observe Peace Day in the advocates of armetl peace are willing tj
churches. While remembering with gra- suggest a limit beyond which they shall
titude those who have died to bring not gopeace, let us aim ta establish that peace
Less than 20 years' increase at the preon the eternal foundations laid by the sent rate only, will absorb the price of
Prince of Peace.
the Panama Canal, complete systems of
Celebrations of Peace Day.
J»
Deej) Waterways, of National Forests, of
and money to
On May 29, Hon. E. A. Mott-Smith Irrigation for Arid
the
Debt.
National
pay
will atldress the Japanese congregation
The ever growing armaments of civilof the Makiki church on the subject of
ized nations are leading toward national
peace.
bankruptcy.
Collossal expenditure on armies and
"For what can war but endless war
navies
can never secure happiness and
still breed?"—Milton.
prosperity. Armaments beget hatred,
fear, and insecurity of trade.
Jl
Peace Day Ammunition.
The New York Peace Society has issued an illustrated folder that gives us
some conception of the loss sustained
by our country in spending 70 per cent
of its national income for war purposes. We cull a few of the statements.
$1,072,000,000 represents the increase
of expeneliture in the last eight years,
over and above the average which was
spent in the previous eight years.
This eight year increase exceeds the
national debt by $158,000,000.
obsolete. I visited recently the vast armada that assembled in the Thames for
public inspection. More than one hundred and fifty modern engines of war of
every description they numbered, and
they cost the British nation more than
three hundred million dollars; and yet
within two or three years practically
three-fourth of this fleet will be obsolete.
This, too, despite the fact that the oldest
battleship in the great double line five
miles in length was launched only eleven
years ago. This ship, the Albion, would
be completely at the mercy of the Superb, the youngest of the fleet. The newer vessel could choose her range, and her
crushing armament of ten twelve-inci
guns is deadly at a distance of four miles.
The Albion's shells would not pierce the
Superb's armor, while the latter's missiles would all go through the older ship's
plating. Practice records show that with
a target the size of Albion at four miles
range the unhappy ship would almost
certainly be riddled and sunk by the newest battleship within ten minutes.'
ONE DREADNAUGHT.
First cost: $10,000,000, or a sum equal
two-thirds total valuation of grounds
and buildings of all the colleges and universities in Ohio or Massachusetts.
THE RAPID DETERIORATION OF
Or, cost of 500 locomotives at $20,000
WARSHIPS.
each.
Costs $1,000,000 per year to maintain.
Mr. H. IS. Chamberlain, the London
Its life, 10 to 14 years, then the scrapcorrespondent of the New York Sun, in pile.
a recent artcle entitled "The Onwious
0
Hush in Europe." says of the war fleet of
Fifty manual training schools could
a power whose supremacy on the seas be built and equipped with necessary
tools and appliances for the cost of a bathas for many years beenunquestioned.
"It is appalling how rapidly the most tleship, teaching the rudiments of a trade
vnensive modern fichtim* shins become to 75.000 young people each year.
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to
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22-25. One of the advantages of the
closer affiliation of our pastors and workers of different nationalities was shown
in the marked interest of the Hawaiian
pastors in the diligent and systematic
REV. WM. BREWSTER OLESON pastoral work of our Japanese evangelCorresponding Secretary.
ist at Lihue, Rev. M. Tsuji. as outlined
in his report.
The Association passed a resolution
The Deity we find is nature we first meet
within ONrtelvts, and the hebrew prophet Dad recommending the observance of the sectardy not admonished. Tift up your tyes on ond Sundays in May, June, and July as
high, and behold who bath created these Temperance Days; and also arranged
through special committee to promote inthings' ? bad be sot known, had he sot heard,
terest in prohibition in every community.
from
the
him
It
not
been
told
befllnnlno."
had
was also adopted whereby
— James Mattineau. A resolutionchurches
are pledged to conthe Kauai
tribute $100 this year to the American
Our Annual Meeting.
Board in commemoration of the one hunNow that the plebiscite is definitely dredth anniversary of the organization
fixed for July 26, a further change has of that Board.
been made necessary in the date of the
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annual meeting of the Hawaiian Evangelical Association, so that it will be held A Great Success.
at Kailua, June 25-30. It is believed that
The hoike of the Sunday schools ot
this elate will best accommodate all par- Kauai at the recent Association meeting
ties concerned and that it will secure a at Lihue was notable for the excellent
large attendance of teachers in our pub- quality of the singing. The attendance
lic schools. It will also give all our was probably over six hundred, as nearly
ministers and laymen ample time after that number were actually counted. The
the meeting to return to their homes and newly renovated Hawaiian church was
to put in some hard work in favor of crowded with eager, happy people. Amprohibition. One of the features of the ple entertainment was provided, and was
Kailua meeting will be a rousing mass served in an attractive lanai recently
meeting of temperance people from all erected. Great credit is due those who
over the Territory.
worked so unsparingly to prepare for
this great gathering, and who helped to
make
it such a success.
Meeting.
The Scribe's Corner
The Oahu
At the meeting of the Oahu Association at Kaumakapili church April 6-9,
the new policy was inaugurated of having
sectional meetings for the different nationalities during two hours of the first
day's session. With the concerted working out of this plan, valuable results arcto be expected.
All our Associations
have approved of this policy, and have
also adopted the recommendation of the
Hawaiian Board that the gist of all important business be translated into Hawaiian. At this Association it was announcetl that a bulletin card would soon
be issued to be hung in a prominent place
in each of our churches stating the three
principal objects of benevolence and their
dates of collection. The matter of increasing the salaries of Hawaiian minisisters was thoroughly discussetl, and Rev.
J. P. Erdman presented a scheme whereby it was shown that it was possible for
the churches to increase the salaries of
ministers materially by systematic giving.
This scheme aroused great interest, and
should bear fruit.
May,
THE FRIEND,
A Beautiful Tribute.
To one who is in doubt
as to the value of missions, the reception given to
Mother Rice by the members of the Association at Lihue would have been a surprising spectacle. For it was spontaneous
and genuine, with real depth of feeling
and of affectionate regartl. It was a brief
and simple scene. Mother Rice came
with her grand-daughter and her nurse
in an automobile to the native church,
where the Association was in session.
The Association immediately adjourned
and gathered in a body near Mother Rice,
where they greeted her personally and
sang two of her favorite hymns, viz.,
"Rock of Ages," and "Jesus, Lover of
My Soul." Even the women at work
preparing the noon repast drew near,
and sang, "Savior, Like a Shepherd Lead
Us." It was a touching tribute to one
whose service and gifts have meant so
much to missionary effort among Hawaiians: and it was most appropriatethat
it should mark one of the memorable
m
occasions of what we hope will be a meThe Kauai Meeting.
morable year. If the first triumphs of
The Kauai Association had an unusu- the Gospel in Hawaii are to go down
ally profitable meeting at Lihue. April into history, as remarkable evidence of
P>lC
the regenerating influences of our Christian religion, hardly less remarkable will
be reckoned the evidences of its persistent hold on the same people after ninety
years of continued Christian effort.
Central Union News
A. A. EBERSOLE
How It Was Done.
Mention was made in last month's
record breaking
Easter offering at Central I'nion. ()ur
readers might be interested to know how
it was tlone. The total, as finally tabulated, was $30,571.25.
The gift of $25,000 for permanent investment, the income to be used in exteneling the Board's work, was made
through one of our families by one of its
members. The causes to be aieled the
present year will be indicated on our
calendar so that we all may follow the
contribution with our prayers.
Of the $5571.25 for current expenditure $1300 represents the gift of one
group of families in aid of the Hoard's
Mission in Shansi. China, and is equivalent to a little more than 5 per cent interterest on a principal of $25,000- $1200
is our church's regular contribution to
the support of Nauru Missions. $1125
represents additional gifts to Nauru Mission for better equipment, for supplies
and for the liquidation of the debt upon
the church and missionary residence. The
remainder, less one special gift of $2?.
will go where it is most needed- Last
year 112 envelopes were returned. This
Friend of this year's
�May,
THE
1910
year of the 705 sent, 121 were returned
contributions as follows:
$1300.00
1 group of persons gave
1000.00
1 couple gave
500.00
1 couple gave
450.00
1 couple gave
200.00
1 gave
100.00
1 couple gave
50.00
1 gave
30.00
1 gave
25.00
4 gave each
2000
2 couples gave per couple
15.00
couple
gave
1
15.00
2 gave each
10.00
2 couples gave
16 gave each
10.00
5.00
2 couples gave per couple
5.00
1 group of three
5.00
each
21 gave
3.d0
1 gave
3.00
4 gave each
2.50
each
2 gave
2.00
6 gave each
1.00
2 couples gave per couple
1.00
26 s,rave each
-75
1 gave .'
.50
17 jjave each
.25
3 gave each
-20
1 gave
Loose cash amounted to $275.50, and
subsequent gifts for Nauru to $1125. Estimated number of givers about 500.
Not a few of the very small gifts told
the story of great largeheartedness.
and showed
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of the bishops of the Methodist Church
in America, he certainly is one eif the
ablest. It was a privilege to hear him and
the church was crowded with those who
came to hear him. The supremacy of
Christ was never set forth more elocmently. If the Bishop returns to Honolulu next year we sincerely hope he maybe heard again in Central Union.
Not for many a year has Central Union had such excellent Easter music. The
chorus choir under the able leadership
of Mr. Stanley Livingston, has been
steadily improving for the past two years
and the anthems which they rendered
Easter morning and evening were among
the best they have yet sung. The quartet, which has at last been made a possibility by the acquisition of Mr. Philip
Hall's beautiful tenor voice, sang at both
services to the delight of all. What would
Easter be without music?
Another Branch Church.
The calendar for Easter Day contained
the glael Easter announcement that the
trustees had purchased a beautifully located lot of one and a half acres in the
center of the College Hills tract for our
future Manoa Valley branch. One half
of the purchase price was provided for by
three gifts of $400 each, and the other
half is to be paid in one and two years.
This inaugurates an important movement. It is hoped that within a year a
chapel may be erected for the rapidly
growing and popular residential disOther Features of the Day.
trict, in which a Sunday school and at
But there were other features e>f the least one preaching service a week mayday's program that helped to make the be held, and which might also provide
day a memorable one in the history of accommodation for a much needed kindergarten for that portion of the city.
the church.
m
Easter Sunday.
Mention was made in the last issue
of The Friend of the splendid gifts made
for Foreign Missions on Easter Day.
The Bible School was given a real
treat in the special Easter program which
the superintendent had arranged for the
morning. Mrs. L L. McCandless gave
several appropriate readings, Mr. Hall
sang a solo, Mr. Love rendered one of
his exquisite violin solos, and Rev.
Henry P. Judd, who happened to spend
Easter day at home, addressed the school
on the meaning of Easter Day- It was a
very pleasant change from the conventional Easter Day exercises usually held
participated in by the various Sunday
schools of the church.
In the evening the Methoelists joined
with us in a union service under the
auspices of the Men's League. Bishop
Edwin H. Hughes, D. D., of California,
delivered the sermon and a great sermon
it was too. Although he is the youngest
9
FRIEND
Steadily Growing.
At the April communion sixteen morenew members were received into the
church, seven on confession of faith, twti
on reaffirmation, and seven by letter from
either churches. A special effort will be
made between now and the June communion to bring a number of the yemng
people of the Bible school and church to
decide to avow their faith in Christ, and
come and unite with the church. The
time is opportune, a large number of our
young people are eligible, and if there
can be united prayer and earnest personal effort we believe many of them will
come. May God grant it.
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A Welcome Innovation.
At the last meeting of the Women's Society the question of removal of hats at
the Sunday services was taken up, and
after some discussion three-fourths of
those present expressed their determination to practice this reform. There
has been an encouraging response both
Sundays since the announcement was
made. It may take a l'tile while- to get a
general observance among the ladies, but
it will certainly adtl very much to the
comfort of those who attend church, so
nianv of whom must each Sunday, at
present be hidden from speaker and singers behind the view-obstructing hats in
front of them.
Hawaii Cousins
The annual meeting of the Hawaiian
Mission Children's Society, held on
April 16th, at the Old Mission Home,
was one of unusual interest. The business part of it, referring chiefly to the
gift of the Chamberlain property and
the Forbes house adjoining, with plans
for fitting them up for future use, was
found so interesting that the larger part
of the literary program was left for the
adjourned meeting, to be held at Arcadia,
the beautiful home- of Governor and MrsFrear.
There was read, however, a long, in-
teresting, and valuable paper concerning
the old Chamberlain House, written by
Mr. Warren Chamberlain, himself an
octogenarian. It was full of history and
incidents connected with the olden time,
and will be published in the H. M. C.
annual report.
A quartette of singers from Kaiulani
Home kindly furnished the music, "The
Beautiful Land of Somewhere," "and "A
Wonderful Message They Bring," which
were sung sweetly and in excellent harmony. The decorations, also, were in
harmony with everything. That star-like
flower, called by the- Hawaiians, "The
Star of Bethlehem." was used, and was
made, by Mrs. Weaver's exquisite taste
and deft fingers, to droop over pictures
and doors and trail into odd corners, just
as the wonderful message of the real
Star of Bethlehem brings out the beauty
of every soul, and decorates and brightens the corners of the earth.
The meeting was very informal—a
sort of home-coming, one musician remarking that here was where she took
her first music lesson, pointing out the
spot where the piano stood, and recalling the thoughts and emotions of the
time, and her teacher's words; and after
singing "From Greenland's Icy Mountains," one lady said "That was the last
hymn I heard my father sing." And she
recalled his appearance, standing on a
bale of cotton in the boat, singing "Waft,
waft, ye winds his story."
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FRIEND
what I would gladly pay it for allowing
This statement is probably
true of every great professor at our
Professor George Herbert Palmer, of universities.
Harvard University, has collected in a
No professional man gives of himself
single volume under the title of "The according to measure. He expects no
Teacher," a number of lectures by him- equivalent in wages or other remuneraself and by his wife, Mrs. Alice Free- tion for the services he renders. He
man Palmer. In this paper, some of Pro- gives of his best, his personal interest,
fessor Palmer's reflections are given. No himself. His heart is in his work, and
attempt is made to give more than a for this ne> equivalent is possible. He
general impression of the work. To comes to consider that his pay in money
get an adequate idea the lectures must is in the nature of a fee or a gratuity
be read in full.
wlvch enables him to maintain a certain
In 1903-4 one half a million teachers expectetl mode of life. His real payment
were in charge of sixteen million pupils. is the work itself, this and the chance of
In other words, one-fifth of our whole joining with other kindred spirits in
population is at school. Wherever 160 guiding and enlarging the sphere of its
men, women and children are gathered activity.
together, a teacher is sure to be among
Large pay for teachers is not desirthem.
able.
More money should be spent on
A teacher is the greatest social force in some. Many are underpaid. Teachers
any community. A lawyer, coming in should be better protected against want,
contact with an equal number of per- anxiety, neglect, and the bad conditions
sons, would not cause social consequences of labor. To tlo his best work, one not
so great. This is true of the other pro- only needs to live, but also to live well.
fessions and lines of business. Our Professional men are held to their work
young people are under the teacher in not by the thought of salary but by inthe formative period. No one else in terest in their work. All universities
the community is entrusted with so in- realize this. Frequently we hear of the
fluential a charge, not even the minis- great universities refusing to grant inter.
The latter gives one day and a creases of salary to hold their profesvery small part of the other six clays to sors. Hence the true teacher regards
the children, or to a part of the children. teaching as the most vital of the fine
The teacher gives the best of himself arts. Teachers are ready to meet some
five or six days out of each seven. Grad- hardships and to put up with moderate
ually the teaching profession has evolved, fare if they may win its rich opportunifrom a subordinate place to a command- ties.
ing one in social influence. The teacher
Foot characteristics every teacher
now does much that was formerly done
must
possess: —1. An aptitude for vischools
decrease
Divinity
the
church.
by
cariousness.
in2. An already accumulated
schools
but the graduate and normal
crease. The teaching profession receives wealth. 3. An ability to invigorate life
through knowledge. 4. A readiness to be
lvast sums of money each year. In lX)3-04, $350,000,000 went to teachers, who forgotten. Let me enlarge a little on
each.
even then were underpaid.
to
1. A teacher's task is not primarily
amateurs.
Teaching is not adapted
acquisition of knowledge but the imare
the
a
brief
time
take
it
for
Those who
conapt to find it unsatisfactory. Success is partation of it. So long as we are
are not
to
our
we
thoughts,
tent
keep
hours
are
fixed
and
long,
rare.
The
there is much repetition and monotony, teachers. A teacher should be perhaps
the day is spent among inferiors. More- a fair scholar. What constitutes a teachFew er is the passion to make scholars. That
over, the money gain is small.
the
teacher.
The passion is useless without a fund of imare
offered
to
prizes
agination—the sympathetic creaton in
income of a school or college teacher ourselves
want.
of conditions which belong to
above
a
little
will carry him but
others.
We inspect truth, pass it on.
The poor cannot afford to teach. As and
let
in other minds. With all
lodge
it
disapand
is
a
poor
a trade, teaching
a teacher must carry himpointing business. But when teaching his knowledge
student clays and leafn
becomes a profession, as a serious and self back to his
difficult fine art, few employments are to understand how the subject he is premore satisfying. Thousands follow the senting would appear to the meagre mind
profession With a passionate devotion of one glancing at it for the first time.
No two minds before the teacher are
that takes little account of the income
received. A trade aims at personal gain; alike. He must study the peculiarities
a profession at the exercise of powers of each and adapt his teaching to all. If
beneficial to mankind. So considered the a class fails, it is usually the teacher's
teaching profession becomes a labor of fault. He has not rightly estimatetl the
love. Harvard College pays me for doing receptiveness of the class before him.
THE TEACHER.
me to do.
May, 191C
The teacher must have an orderly mind
so as to give out the work of his classes
in a natural order. Many let their work
tumble out of them. Every teacher
should lay out his work carefully. All
of his work must be looked at from the
student jxiint of view. A good motto for
a teacher is: "Ixiok not every man on his
own things, but every man also on the
things of others."
A true teacher is always meditating his
work, disciplining himself for his professiem, probing the problems of his glorious art, and seeing illustrations of it
everywhere. In only one place is the
teacher freeel from such criticism, and
that place is in his own class-room. Here
he must let himself go, unhampered by
theory. He must forget himself and make
his class forget themselves. The writer
can testify that Professor Palmer always succeeded in making classes forget
where they were. On leaving his classrooms our minds continued to dwell on
the avenues of thought he suggested.
After eighteen years I still think over the
subjects he made us consider.
2. Accumulated wealth. Every teacher must have wealth in himself if he
will succeeel—in resourcefulness, in richness of thought, in sympathetic relation
to his work. Our pupils draw their nourishment from us. If we are poor, they
will be poor. We are their source of
supply. If we cut ourselves off from nutrition we enfeeble them. How often
teachers do this, deelicating themselves
to the immediate needs of those about
them, they go on speneling themselves
and grow thinner each year. The
"teacher's face" is a common term, and
who is not familiar with the reality, a
face meager, anxious, worn, sacrificial,
powerless! The teacher shoultl be the
big, bounteous being of the community.
Supplying a multitude he needs wealth
sufficient for a multitude. He must
clutch at knowledge everywhere. In
preparing his lecture, or his presentation
of his subject before the class, the hardest work is to settle on the things that
are not to be said.
The too obvious
should be omitted. For these things are
not enough. There must be the broad
background. 1 cannot teach up to the
edge of my knowledge without a fear
of falling off. To teach a small thing
well, we must be large. A true teacher
will accumulate wealth, not only for his
pupil's sake, but also for his own. To be
a great, teacher, one must be a great
personality. Without ardent and individual tastes the roots of our being are
not fed. Each teacher should have some
interest unconnected with his official
work. This interest may take any form,
but it should be a real one. Be not satisfied with the attaining of a little. We
must have accumulated wealth. The great
�THE FRIEND.
May. 1910
Teacher took thirty years for prepara- cast and if we are wise we do not attion and but a short three for bestowal. tempt to trace its return.
We know not what our good deeds
"For their sakes I sanctify myself."
3. Invigorate life through knowledge. are. We must simply be as lucid as posThere are many dry bones in teaching. sible. Still though what we do remains
The kindling of interest is a great func- unknown, its results often awaken deep
tion of a teacher. The secret of success affection. Few in the community reis in keeping all the minds before us oc- ceive love more abundantly than we.
cupied all the time. Many a dull class Wherever we go, we meet a smiling face.
would come to life if given something We do not know how or why, but we
to do. A teacher may be sympathetically can see that, as these young lives come
imaginative, possess large intellectual to us in the happy years of expansion, of
wealth, and yet fail. The child so often dreaming, of ambition, of awakening,
feels that the material brought to him in some way and to a certain degree, we
is so little worth his time, so out of sym- were their guides. To us therefore their
pathy with his conception of the beauti- affections often cling as to few others
ful world. The multiplication table is besides their parents. It is better to be
very dry study for the average child. It loveel than understood.
Perhaps some will say that it is imis all important that the teacher replace
the oppressive sense of pettiness with possible to become a good teacher. Cerstimulating intimations of high things to tainly it is. Each of the four qualificacome. A book is an imperfect instructor. tions is endless. Each year we may gain
Truth there, being impersonal, seems un- a little more of each. Our reach will fortrue, abstract, insignificant. It needs to ever exceed our grasp. If we are to beshine through a human being before it come better teachers, we shall become
can exert its vital force on a young stu- better persons.
PERLEY L. HORNE.
dent. Here is where the teacher's personcreates
attention
his
class-room.
in
ality
If all pupils cared to learn there would FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE.
be less demand for teachers. The unawakened pupil is the one who occupies ANTI-CIGARETTE CAMPAIGN IN
the most thought. The pupil must never
CHINA.
be allowed to sink into the mere recipient. He must be taught to think, obThe people of China are fully conserve, to form his own judgments. The
vinced
of the evils of Opium, and are
well
teacher who so leads his class may
earnestly
working to put it down. It is
be called "productive," productive of hua
tremendous
task with many difficulties,
man beings.
the work is fairly under way,
and
before
4. A readiness to be forgotten. Many China is overspread with a plague of
a man is willing to be generous, if by
Cigarettes. Probably no other foreign
it he can win praise. If praise and rehas ever gained such an extensive
article
cognition are dear and necessary to a use over so large a territiory in so short
teacher, he may as well stop work. He a time. The Cigarette business has been
can never pride himself on his work.
foreigners, far into the inThe teacher cannot say or even think pushed byChina,
perhaps as no other
to his children, "Instead of looking at terior of
work.
The
zeal
of
the cigarette seller
the truth, look at me, and see how skilfully I elo my work. I thought I taught seems often to surpass that of the misI hope you sionary. Some of the Chinese themyou admirably today.
thought so, too." Far from it. The selves are now beginning to be much
teacher must keep himself entirely out alarmed at the rapidly increasing sale
of the way, fixing attention entirely on and of cigarettes. They say it will do
the knowledge, the truth, anel never on more harm than opium for the habit is
so small a thing as the one who brings much easier to form. Some think that
the truth. We cannot do otherwise. We the reason for the movement against
do not know how what we give, falls. e>pium is that the trade is no longer proIt may be that the truth we pass out con- fitable to the foreigners. They say now
tinually will all be shed, it may be that there is more profit in the cigarette trade
the little something, seemingly unimport- as the fore gners feel they can get more
ant to us, is just the seed necessary to of China money in that way. Oh the
make an abundant harvest some day; we harm that opium and cigarettes are docan never know what the little some- ing to China! The black curse and the
thing was that gave the small life just white poison are the gifts of Christian
what it needed. We cannot tell. We England and America! Now however,
work in the dark. Perhaps the life that some of the Chinese are beginning to see
seemed to catch the most from us will re- the injury caused by cigarettes and are
tain the least. Perhaps the life that seem- forming Anti-Cigarette Society in varied to get nothing from us, received its ous parts of the Empire. But the task
all. Out upon the waters our bread we like that of the fight against opium is
:
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It is so easy to learn the
cigarette habit and so hard to break off,
and the cigarettes are sold everywhere.
a great one.
Cigarettes in Peking.
The visitor to Peking, as he travels
along the great street from the East
gate to the West of the Chinese city, will
notice high up over the houses a great
sign board. It is American advertising!
On this board he will -see a large picture
from 8 to 10 feet high, of a fierce looking foreigner, who stands by a canon and
holds a drawn sword in his hand. Over
his head is the wortl "Pirate." By the
side e)f the picture in clear Chinese characters are the words "Ying" "Mci"
"English" "American." It is in the sign
of the great Tobacco Trust which hopes
soon to be the largest business in China,
and seeks to sell cigarettes to the milllions all over the Empire. Are the people of Christian England and America
glad to appear before the Chinese as
the "Pirates" of their money and their
health ?
By the siele of this Foreign Pirate is
another equally large picture of a Rooster crowing over cigarettes, as if to say;
"The American and English " Pirates "
have been successful! With sword and
canon they have come to your land, they
are taking millions of money, and leave
you the opium and cigarette to ruin your
homes and destroy the health of your
children. You are bounel by a habit most
difficult to break and must continue to
pay us your hartl earned dollars. The
"Pirate" is victorious! Ha! Ha! Ha!
Is not this the meaning of the pictures ?
And not only on this street but all over
the city and the empire are these and
other pictures telling of the great exploitation of China by the sale of cigarettes.
A great picture of the English-American
"Pirate," 10ft. high also greets one on
the city wall as the train comes to a stop
at the railroad station in Peking. The
same picture is seen by thousands all
over the land on city gates, on temples
and schools and even on the walls of the
Imperial city.
All Learning to Smoke.
I am told by a man in this business
that over two million dollars are spent
annually in China for advertising and
placing the cigarettes on the market. It
is said tnat the two great centres of
Shanghai and Hankow turn out some
twenty milion cigarettes per day. With
such energy to force a harmful habit on
China, with such earnestness to secure
her money, with such "Pirate" advertising to attract her attention, can one be
(Continued on page 18)
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May, 1910
FRIEND
the erection of the building and to the
encouragement of the Association, must
certainly have something in its essence
that commends itself to all men. I had
the pleasure of being in Shanghai when
the great and beautiful building there for
Chinamen was dedicated. Indeed, I took
part in the ceremony, and sat on the dais
with a number of prominent Chinese officials, who were not Christians, but who
were there to testify of the wemderful
work that the Association had done.
I don't know where all the money
comes from that erects these great, handsome buildings for the Young Men's
Christian Association. Every town that I
visit, it seems to me, is inspired by an
ambition to put up a building for the
Young Men's Christian Associatiem that
is just a little more elaborate, just a littlemore accompanying, just a little moreextensive, and testifies to just a littlemore interest in the Association than the
building in the town in the next county.
That shows a most healthful spirit of
competition. It shows the vigor of the
Association.
I do not know of any place where
money can be invested with greater certainty of its expenditure for that for
which money ought to be given than in
the Young Men's Christian Association.
It is because you do your work on business principles, -and because you have
men in charge of your work who are
trained to it and who understand what
the eibject of the Association is and the
best method of reaching it.
The truth is, I have had so much experience with the matter that 1 would not
undertake any great government enterprise without consulting the head of the
International Young Men's Christian Association to see- what the- supply of secretaries is. On the Isthmus, in the Philippines, in the army and in the navy, everywhere where men t-ongregatc, where
the temptations are- such that unless they
are resisted there will be demoralization
—there the Young Men's Christian Association finds its opportunity and makes
for the progress of the race.
We- have just inserted a secretary of
the Young Men's Christian Association
on one of our great battleships. He is
working quietly he is not making a fuss
he is not soliciting subscriptions for a
building on the ship—but he is doing
business ; he is commending himself to
all the officers and to all the men, and
certainly the result of the experiment
will be a most interesting one to see how
the Association can work with the rest of
our 40,000 or 50,000 sailors. It is a great
field that is opening up if we can use
your Association in order to give the
men a Christian Club Association on
board every naval vessel of the United
States.
In the army, of course, the
to
Men Working for Men
PAUL SUPER
Annual Meeting.
The Young Men's Christian Association has just closed the best year of its
history. The rejx)rts of the secretaries
at the annual meeting Thursday night,
April 28 were listened to by the largest
number of members attending an annual
meeting in many years; and these members heard reports that showed growth
away aheael of any previous year. In OOC
year the membership has grown from
485 to 700, the enrollment in the night
school from 114 students to 229 students, and religious meetings for men
are held at six different places outside
the association building. The attendance
at socials, —rountl-ups as they are called
—grew from an average of 87 to 158.
Thirty-two positions were found for men
and boys during the year. Many men
have been helped live better lives, elrawn
away from religious indifference, and
seven have joined the church as a direct
result of association work. The physical
department has conducted 202 classes,
and 243 members have used the privileges of the gymnasium and tennis courts.
Dr. Hand gave 59 physical examinations.
Election.
One feature of the annual meeting is
the election of directors and trustees. The
directors whose terms had expired were
all re-elected, and Mr. Bobbins. IS. Anderson elected to fill the place left vacant
by, Mr- George F. Davies, who has left
Honolulu for a year, and Mr. C. J. I hum,
elected to fill the plae-e of Mr. Edwin
Hall, who has also left Honolulu. Mr.
IS. F. Dillingham succeeds himself as a
trustee. After the electiein the directors
met and chose the following officers for
one year. Mr. R. H. Trent for a third
term as president, Mr. W. G. Hall a second term as vice-president. Mr. George
Waterhouse was again made recording
secretary, and Mr. F C. Atherton continued as treasurer. While he is away,
Mr. F. D. Lowrey is acting in his place.
litect
.
Chosen.
last the architect has been chosen.
rs. Ripley and Reynolds of Oakwon first and second place with two
between which the committee have
s yet chosen. All will be interested
ow that which ever building is choswill be built to suit the climate. One
ing of the two is admirably adapted
well adaptwould be a
great success. The other building is a fine
building from the association point of
view, and the committee would make no
mistake in putting it up. The important
thing is this: The architects have shown
in their plans that they understand the
fundamentals of association building
architecture, and will be able to build
such a building as Honolulu needs. We
will work without worry, knowing that
the architect knows his business.
to our climate. If it proves as
ed to association purposes, it
The School Boys.
A word about our latest. It is a Gram-
mar School Athletic League- Eight of
the Honolulu public and private schools
have lined up and formed a league to play
baseball this spring, to swim next September, play basket ball in the winter,
have field and track meets in the early
spring, and so on each year. Different
members of the employed force of the
Y. M. C. A. will help in the coaching of
the teams. Mr. Gault, as secretary of
the boys' work, giving quite a bit of timeto die work. He has been elected secretary of the- league to give him the proper
official relation to the work. Boys taking
part to the extent of playing on a team
must make satisfactory grades in their
school work, and also have a ge)od record
for deportment. A little later boys measuring up to a certain standard of efficiency will be issued bronze buttons, and
those doing better will be issued German
silver buttons. This league is patterned
on the very successful one in New York
City, and will do a great deal to improve
our liovs physically and morally as well.
'
As Pres. Taft Sees the Y. M. C. A.
I am glad to be here—not to say anything new, for I have talked so much be-
fore Young Men's Christian Associations
that that is impossible; but I am glad to
be here to renew my testimony to the necessity of the existence and growth and
extensitin of the Young Men's Christian
Association work. It is true that I have
conic into relations with it in many diffent parts of the world, and one of its
remarkable peculiarities is its adaptability to different conditions- An associaton that can make itself so useful in
Shanghai that Mandarins who are not
Christians and prominent Chinamen who
are not Christians will contribute largely
;
:
�FRIEND.
THE
May,1910
Young Men's Christian Association is
an
old story. And so it is with every government agency —we have always been
glad, and always will be glad, to summon
to our aid the young men who are devoting their lives to this work and who aregiving twenty-four hours a day to the
elevation of the human race.
fairly well atteneleel and all who do attend show a gratifying interest in it.
The reading room patronage is not so
good as it might be, but there again we
are competing with the picture shows.
The dis]K'nsary work averages in attendance about twenty-five (2?) a tlay.
The siege against pediculi has been tin-
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:
HONOLULU'S RECEPTION TO
THE LOGAN.
MISS BATES AND HER KINDERGARTEN AT WAIAKEA.
WAIAKEA SOCIAL SETTLEMENT I tiring and we are beginning to get gratifying results. By keeping after the school
The work in the settlement at Waiakea children constantly we have induced
them to use kerosene in their hair every
is going along in the usual way.
The religious enthusiasm among the week. Once a week 1 spray each child's
members waxes hot then cold, then hot hair with it myself. Such work takes
and cold again, just as it does in all such an infinite amount of perseverance, but
organizations the world over.
lit is well worth while in the results oneBaseball and the moving pictures are gets if one does not give up the fight too
Sunday soon. The trained nurse has no place in
strong competitors against
school. Christian Endeavor and the night her lexicon for the word "fail."
So far as I am able to judge, the consessions of various kinds in the mission
dition of Waiakea is far from discouraghouse.
The kindergarten, under Miss I Sates' ing.
The health of the community is good
management, is a very great success. Too
much cannot be said in favor of it. We SO far as any outbreak of any kinds of
have watched many little souls unfold fevers or serious epidemics is concerned.
and blossom like flowers in its sunlight. There has been some whooping cough
We have a class in mat weaving and and of course we have with us always
one in sewing. The g'rls who attend the poorly nourished babies and small
are much interested.
children.
The children have games one evening
The mothers are instructed how to
a week and are very glad to come when feed the children, but they pay very little
the moving pictures do not prove too at- attention to the instruction and if a sick
tractive- It is strange how people who baby cries for a green guava of course
are very poor, the world over, in other they think he must have it.
places as much as here, can find money to
RUE 11. BAXTER,
go to a cheap show or to buy beer whir
Graduate Nurse.
they can not find t to buy the necessary
things of life.
However, I will say that they do very
Some men are so bent on cleaning
well here in their contributions to the the d: rt off the roots of Christianity
that they fail to enjoy the beauty and
Sunday school and the C. E.
The mothers' meeting, once a week, is fragrance of its flowers.
.
The transport Logan arrived on the
morning of May 4th at the wharf opposite the Naval Station.
Six hours later, as she was al>out to
set out for San Francisco, her decks were
thronged with a spectacular crowd,—officers, cadets, and people of the city who
were bidding adieu to friends.
ll'as this the city's reception to the
Logan? Oh, no! This was rather the
reception to the city, giving us
who were there a chance to see the reception which the city had been giving to the
Logan, namely, a booze reception.
Drunken cadets by the dozen were
reeling from town toward the transport.
Some who hael already been reeled out
til! there was no reel left in them, were
brought to the dock in hacks and autos.
and THEY WERE SHUNTED INTO
THE SHIP like pieces of baggage. The
faces of several of these cadets were
smeared with blood. Some who were
still able to wabble on their legs were
loaded into the transport supjjorted by a
man on each side of them; others who
were too far gone to stand, were carried,
as corpses might have been carried, dangling between two men who hauled them
along over the chute and stowed them
away on board. THESE WERE THE
DEFENDERS OF OUR NATION.
and THIS WAS HONOLULU'S RECEPTION TO THE LOGAN.
F. S. S.
j»
The Friend Supplement, enclosed with
this issue, containing stirring songs for
the Prohibition campaign, will be printed
in large quantities. Can you not use
them in your vicinity?
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14
FRIEND.
apparent collapse of certain political hy-
potheses. However correct the diagnosis,
it does not follow that the world is losing
its grip upon truth and reality. .May it
■Ot be that a society which can no longer
ERNEST J. REECE
reach both dogma and established political principle may find a safe standing
ground between the two? The church
New Certainties.
is breaking the tethers of creed and idenProgress is volcanic. At times it is tifying herself with the needs and aspiraviolent, destructive, cataclysmic; again tions of ineii. The social body is forsakit is gradual, conservative, insinuating. ing its erroneous emphasis on individual rights and recognizing more and
Whoever analyzes a notable movement more
the elements of co-operation and
of history may discover three stages.
interdependence. The wings are being
There is first that of suppressed motive, abandoned
and an approach is under
hidden in the souls of men here and
there, and reaching indeterminably into weigh, the two forces working toward
and spiritual
the past. Then follows the period of the improvement of social
Possibly we are nearer
junction and expansion, in which like conditions.
we know to the Utopia in which all
discovers like and with cumulating pow- than
men shall unite for the good of each and
dust
forces
its
the
and
through
er
way
Finally, it is all—in which they shall labor in differbegins to permeate all.
ing measure without jealousy, through
or
conquers—4l) the one- caseconquered
various
agencies without intolerance, for
to dissipate, in the other to settle and
same God without prejudice. The
the
a
of
and
thought
form superstratum
custom and institution. As the new layer nineteenth century will be fitly crowned
instead of chaos its fruits be a newforms men step up; beneath their tread if
set
of certainties, these to embrace the
it hardens, forming in time a new crust
of the sanest, richest, God"
importance
influreformative
through which other
liest
life
for
the individual and the awakences are to burst and upon which addmen to the need and means
of
all
ening
are
ed strata
to be deposited.
rendering
possible that kind of life.
of
Political affairs in the- English speakthe
of religious and poliThis
is
object
the
spectacular stageing world are in
: on. Church and
and
social
organlzat
tical
Some centuries back Europe overlaid the state are- gradually re-modeling themof
stratum
divine kingship with that
with it. Tin- eruption is
of individual liberty. Years passed and selves to accord
is in the air, the new stratum
on,
dust
the
she added that of democracy. Has dem< hrder follows confuocracy served its time as a standing is forming apace.
sion
as
as
darkness.
surely
light
ground? As pointed out by a recent
writer*, men are beginning to guess that
neither individual liberty nor democracy Bishops and Brewers.
can be finally effective. Both may be- but
The upheaval in English politics renames, for in spite of their implications
one fosters political and the other eco- veals among other things one rather
nomic tyranny. Civilised humanity seems startling coalition of party forces, Two
determined to cover them with something prominent measures marked the early
VK)<>
better. Continental Europe quivers with life of the present ministry. In
socialistic agitation. England's popu- there was introduced an education bill.
lace has set itself the task of removing aiming to shift the control of certain
a political obstruction and an economic publicly supported schools from the
menace built upon ancient feudal pres- church establishment to the educational
tige. 'The American electorate has spok- authorities. In I'W there was brought
en the word of doom to a long-standing forward a proposal for regulating and
coalition e>f certain commercial enormi- restricting the liquor traffic. Bothofmeathe
ties anil an oligarchical anomaly. The sures met defeat at the hands
Lords.
was
instrulargely
Their
fate
is
is
What
to
in the air.
volcanic dust
Ik the nature of the stratum which it mental in bringing about the present
break, especially in that the government
will deposit?
made a (x>int of incor|x>rating certain of
to
asserts
The author alluded
above
features in the budget of
that the twentieth century labors under their offensive
it has emphasized the
Moreover
l'W.
"exhausa "confusion of beliefs" and an
the ecclesiastical
between
sympathy
tion of principles." In these phrases party and the conservatives on the one
have
he sums up the uncertainties which
hand, and has strengthened the alliance
lexlged in men's minds with the passing between
the ruling element in the Lords
unrest
setof dogma and the
which has
liquor interests on the other.
and
the
tled upon Christendom subsequent to the Thus the )K-ers are Hanked by the bishops
*W. Petrie Watson, in his "Future of and the brewers. The case is comparable
to the recent fall of an American guberJapan." Duckworth, 1907.
The Library Alcove
May, 1910
natorial candidate before a union of white
ribboners and book-makers. Truly, political vicissitude sometimes gathers ungrateful friends beneath a single mosquito net.
"The Time Is Not Ripe."
Under this title Paul Kennaday,
writing in the "Survey," calls attention to a
fallacy which has proved most fatal and
destructive to many a movement for social improvement It is in connection
with Senator ( hvcn's bill to apply some
of our conservation enthusiasm to the
immediate and crying opportunity,
namely the safeguarding of public
health, that Mr. Kennaday speaks. The
measure in question proposes the creation of a department of health, its head
to sit as a member of the President's
cabinet. And while conservatism advises
that we are ready for no such step of
prevention, Death realizes that the time
is ripe for execution, and applies his mission. Let him who hesitates remember
that the time is always ripe for doing
the thing that can be done. If a reform
cannot be consummated, perhaps a movement may be begun. If government ownership of utilities be a recognized good
let us be bold to make a start, and not
be staggered at the prospect of taking
over seventy thousand million dollars
If prohibition of
worth of properties.
the liquor traffic in Hawaii be- acknowledged as desirable let us not hesitate
to enact it merely because we foresee
that at the first its operation cannot be
perfect. Too lone; wi- have refused to
protect men's weaknesses for fear ot in
fringing their rights. Too long the clearvisione-il fraction of society lias refrained
from guarding the precipices, forgetting
that the light of its own security shines
from within. The battle with plant blights
.uid animal pests is being nobly and profitably waged. Analogy would suggest
the use of similar methods in the saving
of human life. Men qualified to speak
assert that it is perfectly possible with
the knowledge in hand to reduce the
death rate in America by one half. Surely the time is ripe to wield what Weapons we have in the conflict with the
sc-ourges of Ignorance, appetite and dismost
ease.
Racial Tides.
How to deal with the movements o
peoples is among the twentieth century'
Time was
most Immediate problems.
when this question pressed only upon ;
small community here and there. To
day it is fast becoming universal. ( mt
of its perplexing phases in the Unite*
States has been the congestion of the
immigration stream upon the eastern
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May. 1910
15
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proper place for eccleslologlcal teaching Is
COMMUNICATIONS.
seaboard. Perhaps the most hopeful meathe constitution.
If we are to have an
sure looking toward a sane and whole
article of religion to confront each and evTHE UNITARIAN BUGBEAR.
ery one of the heresies that disturb our
some distribution of new racial and ecopeace, we shall need not thirty-nine but a
nomic elements is that embracing the
We are all more or less disIn u recent number of the "Christian hundred.
lewish Immigrants' Information Bureau. Work
and ICvangellst," a well known and quieted by the evident disinclination of the
The organization mentioned compli- excellent organ of evangellclsm, a corres- flower of our youth to seek the ministry of
It is me
ments one of similar purpose in England, pondent In evident distress of mind asks— religion as their culling In life.
which aims to induce emigrants from "I would like to ask of what avail the writer's conviction that the reasonIs Is that
of a Unitarian could be. The late no clear-cut frank direct answer
to be
that country to enter America at the prayer
was a Unitarian, had to the question, To what do I commit
chaplain
of
the
Senate
Galveston gate instead of at New York. and the present one Is of iliat belief also, myself doctrlnally if I enter the ministry
Ik-re they are distributed in a manner I believe."
of the church?
'but what about the Articles of Religion?'
In view of the changes which have taken
which means advantage alike to the newbelief all over the world, urges the level-headed, keen-eyed, young
comer and to the country of his adop- pis OS In religious
the editor's answer should not surprise any- college graduate. 'To what extent am I
tion- Through the efforts of the bureau one;
at the same time it is an unusually bound by them? They contain, I find, many
staginto
a
falling
the immigrant escapes
.Must I feel In
manly expression, appearing as it does In a hundreds of propositions.
nant, unsanitary city colony, being car- journal of large circulation among strictly my heart that 1 give honest assent to every
readers. It only shows the truth one of these when 1 am asked in ordination
ried around it into an atmosphere of orthodox
what the editor of The Kriend said a whether I will minister the doctrine of
health and morality and opportunity in of
few months ago in regard to creeds and the Christ, not only 'as the Lord hath commandthe undeveloped areas of our nation.
modern religious spirit. I do not remember ed,' which would be a comparatively simple
A Striking Design for Camps.
of
Prof. I'ierre Rove-da, an architectplan
Buenos Ayres, has devised a special
for the construction of whole districts of
Inhouses for the working classes.
stead of employing the usual square block
as a unit. Prof. Roveda adopts a circlevarying in diameter from 100 to 130
yards. This circle of ground is sub-divided into { *) radial lots converging to a
center. The circle is concentrically divided to form an interior avenue four yards
broad, to permit of communication with
the center of the circle. Each avenue
leads to external sidewalks, and to longitudinal and transverse streets. In the
center of the circle is a plot of 40 yards
in diameter, where the children may be
left to themselves without their parent's
care, in charge of a specially designated
person- In this garden a playroom, a
school, a hospital, a fire station, and an
administration room are to be found. Naturally this circular plot of ground will
leave four corners free. In each of these
corners Prof, Roveda intends to erect
four chalets, such as grocery shops,
dairies, haberdashers, and the like, which
arc to be conducted on a co-operative
plan. In each of the 'I*' radial plots a
workingman's house is to be built on the
English plan. It is argued that the circular arrangement will give continuous
sunshine at all hours of the day and
plenty of light and air.- Scientific American, April 2, l') 10.
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In a public discussion on the temperance question a few months ago at Chicago, between the mayor of Milwaukee
defending the- liquor business, and Mr
Dickey, his Opponent, the mayor asked:
"What will the poor farmers of the
West do if they cannot sell their grain
to the brewers?"
Mr. Dickey replied
"In that case they will raise- more
horses and hogs and less hell.
:
nis exact words, but the substance of his remark was that nearly all the churches' of
the mainland were rejecting creeds as "unchristian shibboleths."
This is indeed true, and the tendency to
such an onward and progressive growth Is
so strong and persistent that where the denomination to which a particular church belongs attempts to restrict this advance, the
particular church separates itself from the
denomination. If the church remains unprogressive, unwillng to prove all things for
the sake of the truth, the individual either
Joins a more liberal church or he maintains
an attitude of silent protest which Is not at
all conducive to his helpfulness as a worker.
How much better for the whole denomination to accept the Inevitable, especially
as that Is a Btate of more simple and Christlike belief, for the church to come up to the
advnnce thought of the best and most reasonable and conscientious scholars.
For instance, a Unitarian church in Massachusetts has lately been received Into
the general Congregational body as a Unitarian church, to give up not one of Its distinctive principles. This was done because
it Beemed best for purposes of helpfulness
and work, both being engaged in Christian
endeavor.
So, too, because the Baptist denomination
was not as far-sighted and earnest about
the real work of Christianity—Christ's mission on carth —Dr. I'inkham of Denver, with
his large and Influential church of that city,
has Just been received into the Unitarian
denomination.
The Kplscopal church has
always allowed a wide margin for differences of belief In Its adherents, and we find
In it many liberals like Andrew 1). White
and others who no more accept the creeds
of that church than Dr. Hale did. They
love the Bervice and the associations and
are called Kpiscopalians.
Dr. Hrundage left the same church because he was more sensitive. "I must find
a church that would receive me upon my
own termß, that would require of me no
creed subscription whatsoever, that would
leave me perfectly free to preach what I
believed to be the truth." And so have sixtythree ministers left churches which Insist
upon certain tests of belief, to Join liberal
organizations—sixty-three in America In the
last four months!
ltishop Huntington of New York, In a paper written only a few years before his death
and while he was a bishop, says:
•'ln a church which, like our own, has
committed its organic law to writing, the
—
•Not
"nearly all," but "many."—Hd.
...
...
obligation, but 'as the church hath received
the same'? Tell me, O bishop, guardian of
the fold and shepherd of the flock, tell me
am I bound by an equally strong tie to the
.
affirmation that 'works before Justification'
have the nature of sin, and to the affirmation 'on the third day he rose again from
the dead'? To which the bishop, as things
now are, can but reply, 'You have Burnet
and Heverldge, Brown Forbes and HardI'ut it (Book of
wlcke; hear them.'
Articles) with reverent and loving hands
in the Archives, the Archives of English
Religion. There are other books to keep it
company in that honored and dignified re. What a handsome set of
tirement.
archives they would make, and how happily
the Thirty-Nine Articles would fit In Blbllotheca Angllcana we call it, and It shall
have glass doors to protect the honored
pages from an otherwise Inevitable dust."
This article appeared In the Hlbbert
Journal which Is the organ of pronounced
liberalism, and shows the loving solicitude
of a bishop for his church —a church he had
left I'nltarlanism to embrace.
It is more than "the rift within the lute,"
but a decided tendency to cleavage, Increased by the more positive attitude and sermons, of Phillips Brooks, who never, would
have his picture taken In his official vestments. He used to say that his legs were
..
..
not adapted to apostolic hosiery.
Before quoting the "Evangelist's" answer
to his solicitous correspondent I want to
quote a very few things from one or two of
Phillips Brooks' sermons.
He was one of the greatest men the Episcopal church has had In modern times the
very greatest In America. He stood In the
breach, as It were, preaching the great love
of the Father for all his children, avoiding
controversy when he could, patching up denominational differences, applying truth.
His attitude towards those of different belief was that of a seeker after truth, not that
"Let us reverence our
of a dogmatist.
neighbors' way of finding truth," he said,
and to his genial sympathy came young ministers of all denominations, Including Unitarians, to bask and derive spiritual warmth.
His ministerial friendships were chiefly
among liberals; he said of Dr. Freeman
Clarke, "He belonged to the whole Church
ot Christ. Through him the Master spoke
He had his
to all who had ears to hear."
i 'banning and his Emerson at hand, and how
much of both do we find In.
"The essence of Christian faith Is not the
inspiration of the Bible, not the election of
certain souls or the perdition of others, not
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the length of man's punishment, not the pressed beliefs about him, or called him
doctrine of the Trinity, but simply this—the Lord, but who did the will of his Father, was
Now the difference between
testimony of the divine In man to the divine his disciple.
In man, that lifts up the man and sayß, 'For Unitarians and Trinitarians is a metaphyme to be brutal is unmanly, to be divine is sical one, rather than religious. The orthodox theology says that Jesus was divine,
to be my true self.'"
Here was the basis for the unity of
churches, as defined by Bishop Brooks,
quite different from the following, which I
find in "The Church Chronicle" of June,
1909:
"No Christian unity can be even discussed on any other basis than the facts as contained in the Catholic creeds. Fancy going
to the heathen about us with Christ as only
one among many teachers. If we can no
longer go to them with Christ as the Savior
of the world, we had better cease to work."
In other words, the Important thing the
church has to do is not to infuse the spirit
of Christ in the hearts of men, but to get
them to say "Lord, Lord," to acknowledge
that there Is only one way of looking at a
much disputed historical account, and that
this way is fully defined in a particular
credo.
Speaking of orthodoxy, Phillips Brooks
said: "We find that the lower orders of the
church's workers, the mere runners of her
machinery, have always been strictly and
scrupulously orthodox, while all the church's
noblest servants, they who have opened to
her new heavens of vision and new domains
of work—Paul, Orlgen, Tertullian, Abelard,
Luther, Milton, Coleridge, Maurice, Swedenborg, Martineau—have been persecuted
for being what they truly were, unorthodox."
"Orthodoxy In the church," continues Dr.
Brooks "Is very much what prejudice is in
the single mind. It is the premature conceit of certainty! It is the treatment of the
imperfect as If it were perfect. We cannot
but believe that In the future the whole
conception of orthodoxy is destined to grow
less and less prominent. Less and less will
men ask of any opinion, 'Is It orthodox?'
More and more will they ask, 'Is it true?'
Is not the sum of the whole matter this,
that orthodoxy as a principle of action or a
standard of belief, is obsolete and dead? It
is not that the substance of orthodoxy has
been altered but that the very principle of
orthodoxy has been essentially disowned. It
is not conceivable that any council, however
ecumenically constituted, should so pronounce on truth that Its decrees should have
any weight with thinking men save what
might seem legitimately to belong to the
character and wisdom of the persons who
composed the council. Personal Judgment is
on the throne, and will remain there,—personal Judgment, enlightened by all the wisdom, past and present, which it can summon
to Its aid, but forming finally its own conclusions, and standing by them in the sight
of God, whether it stands in a great company or stands alone."
Now we come to the editor's answer to
his troubled correspondent:
"I would not, of course, presume to answer the question, for no one knows of what
avail the prayer of any one Is except God.
Personally, I imagine he would hear anyone's prayer, be he Moslem, Buddhist, Unitarian or Trinitarian, Protestant or Roman
Catholic. I Imagine, from what Jesus tells
us of his character, that he Is glad even
when sinners pray to him. But In connection with this question, I would think that
we all of us ought to be very careful how
we Judge people who differ from us in theological and metaphysical realms, but are one
with us in character and devotion to Christ.
And it was on the latter point that Jesus
always laid the emphasis. Not him who ex-
—
and that no other man is divine or can possess the same kind of divinity. The Unitarian says that Jesus is divine, but that
God reveals himself in other men also, and
that humanity has the potential divinity of
Jesus in it. The orthodox theology Is that
the oneness of Jesus with the Father is a
metaphysical oneness: i.e., a oneness of
person. The Unitarian theology emphasizes
Jesus' oneness with God Just as much, but
says it is a moral oneness, a oneness of purpose, spirit and character.
The orthodox
theology has generally made his divinity
consist in his having unique power to work
miracles or do wonders.
The Unitarian
theology has said that his divinity is in his
love and character and sacrificial life. Both
theologies are one in emphasizing the great
fact that God was in Jesus Christ revealing
his love to the world and reconciling the
world to himself and the people in it to
each other. Perhaps my correspondent might
And some help to answering this question
by asking herself whether, when she sings
in the following hymns, she is praying acceptably to God: 'Nearer, My God, To
Thee,' 'In the Cross of God I Glory,' 'It Came
Upon the Midnight Clear That Glorious
Song of Old,' 'Immortal Love, Forever Full,
Forever Flowing Free.' These were all written by Unitarians."
Now all this evidence that Dr. Scudder
was exactly correct in what he said about
creeds, comes from unquestioned orthodox
sources the strongest statements, indeed, being by adherents of the Episcopal Church.
Some years ago I attended Trinity Church,
Boston because the preaching there and a
large mass of the membership were as liberal as I wished to find anywhere.
Here is a short quotation from a sermon
by Dean Stanley issued as a Unitarian tract
and entitled "Our Common Christianity":
"Christianity is what it is by the fact that
there once lived upon earth a sacred and
divine life—sacred and divine because it was
supremely good; because it was above the
limitations of time, country and party; because it revealed to mankind the fullest insight ever given Into the heart of the Eternal and Supreme; and Christianity shall be
what it may yet become, in proportion as
that life or anything like it, is lived over
again in personal example and influence."
Andrew D. White, one of the most distinguished Episcopalians living, has this to
say about the creeds of his church:
"I attended St. Paul's Episcopal Church.
I Joined occasionally in reciting part of
the creeds though more and more this last
exercise became peculiarly distasteful to
me. (The objections made by intelligent
young candidates for the ministry.) Time
has but confirmed the opinion which I then
began to bold, that, of all mistaken usages
In a church service, the most unfortunate is
this demand which confronts a man who
would gladly unite with Christians in Christian work, and in a spirit of loyaly to the
Blessed Founder of Christianity—the demand that such a man stand and deliver a
creed, made no one knows where or by
whom, and of which no human being can
adjust the meanings to modern knowledge,
or indeed to human comprehension. Various
things combined to increase my distrust in
I became conthe prevailing orthodoxy.
vinced that what the world needed was more
religion rather than less, more devotion to
humanity and less preaching of dogmas.."
.
In his "Organization of the Early Christian
Churches" and "Influence of Greek Ideas
and Usages," Rev. Dr. Edwin
Hatch, the
well known Episcopalian scholar, Rhows
conclusively that many of the dogmas found
in the creeds were not even suggested by
the teachings of Jesus that "the essential
elements of Christianity" are found in the
affirmations of Just such a simple covenant
as the Kahului church on Maui adopted a
few months ago. Such covenants were adopted by the Plymouth Church in 1602,
and by the Salem church in 1609. The Old
South Church (Congregational) has given
up its creed, while Andover, and nearly all
the other best schools of the same order
of faith, have dropped their creedal requirements. When I attended Rev. R. Heber Newton's church in New York, with
many of my physician friends of the Post
Graduate School and Hospital, we knew
that we should hear liberal doctrine. There
the creeds are practically abandoned.
The Unitarians are not spoken of in a
patronizing way, or liberalism as if it were
all error. This is what Heber Newton says
of Unitarianism: "The true work of Unitarianism is not to be studied in its year
book, or gauged by its statistical results.
Its mission is to be sought in the insistent
push of the thought it has quickened, and
the principles it has sown through the larger
bodies of orthodox Christianity.
It has
sought to educe from the traditional formulas fresh and living conceptions, new and
higher forms of the substance of all beliefs.
Truly it is a noble claim for any church
that its mission is to call the various sects
on to that which they all concede to be the
substance of their varying forms, and to reunite them in a religion of the spirit."
And this "religion of the spirit" is that
to which we are nearing in the rejection of
the metaphysical creeds.
E. S. GOODHUE, M. D.
Holualoa, Hawaii.
.
Jt
O heart of mine, we shouldn't
Worry so!
What we've missed of calm we couldn't
Have, you know!
What we've met of stormy pain,
And of sorrow's driving rain,
We can better meet again,
If it blow.
We have erred in that dark hour
We have known,
When the tears fell with the shower,
All alone
Were not shine and showers blent
As the gracious Master meant?
Let us temper our content
With His own.
—
For, we know, not every morrow
Can be sad;
So, forgetting all the sorrow
We have had,
us fold away our fears,
And put by our foolish tears,
And through all the coming years
Just be glad.
—James Whitcomb Riley.
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Attractive programs as used in the
Easter services in different churches in
the islands have been received by The
Friend. We rejoice with these churches
in the enthusiasm which characterizes
their work, and the evidences of their
joy in the presence of the Risen Savior.
�THE FRIEND.
May. 1910
Our Young People
HENRY P. JUDD
The Oahu Association.
The Oahu Sunday School Association
held its semi-annual meeting in the Kauinakapili Church, Honolulu, from April
()th-Bth. The attendance was larger than
than usual and the interest in all the proceedings was sustained throughout the
meetings. No raelical changes were made
in the system of working and the usual
routine of reports and business occupied most of the time. The Home Department committee, consisting of Revs.
Erdman, Nakuina and Judd, presented
their report, in which it was recommended that Mr. Erdman take up the matter
of starting this new form of work in the
Sunday schools of Oahu. The advantages of the Home Department work
were brought out in the report, which
was accepted by the Association. The
list of visiting superintendents nominated
for the ensuing year is practically the
same as the past year, there being but
one one change, while the other officers
were re-elected.
The World's Convention.
The attention of all friends of Sunday
school work is called to the coming great
convention to be held in Washington,
D. C, from May 19-24. It is the World's
Sixth Sunday School Convention and
promises to be the largest as well as
the finest convention ever held in the interests of the Sunday schools of the
world. It would be a splendid thing if
several delegates could be present from
these islands to receive inspiration from
the mighty gathering. At the present
time the superintendent has not heard
of anyone who intends to be present from
Hawaii- He would be glad to communicate with anyone desiring to learn more
about this great gathering.
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World's Sunday School Day.
The chairman of the eexcutive committee of the Worlds' Sunday School Association, Mr. Geo. W. Bailey, has requested me to spread abroad the notice
that Sunday, May 22nd, is World's Sunday School Day. It is requested that all
pastors in these islands on that daypreach a sermon emphasizing the claims
of the Sunday school as a factor in the
development of Christian character, urging upon parents and guardians the importance of training children and youth
in the knowledge of the Scriptures and
including in his prayers a petition for the
blessing of Almighty Gixl upon the work
of the Sunday school in all lands, and especially upon the World's Sunday School
convention which at that time will be in
session in Washington, D. C.
Let us not forget to make fitting recognition of the day.
The Home Department.
In view of the fact that the Oahu Association has taken steps to introduce th«
Home Department into the schools of
Oahu, it is worth while for us to notice
some of the features of the work. The
department is a department of the Sunelay school in which those are enrolled
who feel themselves unable to attend the
sessions regularly, and yet are willing to
study the lessons and belong to the
school. The members are expected to
study the Sunday school lesson each week
for at least half an hour, to visit the
school sessions when convenient, to make
an offering to the school if it is possible,
to keep a weekly record of lessons, visits
to Sunday school and offering. The visitor pays a visit to the home of each
member at least once a quarter, receiving
his tpiarterly report of lesson study, and
his contribution and leaving with him
the lesson help and envelope for the next
(juarter.
a Good Teacher.
The majority of Sunday school teachers are "just folks," good, wholesome
genuine Christians. They are neither
college graduates nor ignoramuses. For
the most part they are busy people, working every day. Many are young people,
and are not yet matured in the business
of life, nor the philosophy of Christianity. They have had an experience- They
are willing to be witnesses. The very
sincerity of their service often leads them
to depreciate their own capacity and to
relinquish the task they have begun. I
believe more people are reached through
their hearts than through their heads.
Heart answers to heart in teaching. Yet
there is doubtless a later period, in which
our youth should get a constructive viewpoint. I am sure the best-trained teacher is none too good for this important
business. 1 want to see both Peter and
Paul in the teaching force. One is a fisherman, I know, impulsive and faulty, but
he makes good, and I want a Paul there.
I lis logic on fire, a scholar and a soldier,
a hero and a thinker.
How to Become
17
The Sunday school teacher must know
what he is to teach, yet he must in addition i>ossess another more essential qualification—consecration to Christ.
Turn to the New Testament and there
learn how to teach from the Master
Teacher. Jesus was a model teacher.
The educational world has submitted his
method to the severest test.
The Bible should be the teacher's textbook, and the whole Bible should be diligently studied. The teacher who never
studies more than the lesson portion can
never teach well.
The Bible must be studied in a larger
way; the meaning and relation of its
books must be known. There is no easy
road to Bible knowledge. Continual,
prayerful, searching of the Word is the
only method that will bring results- No
teacher can teach what he does not know :
no teacher can urge truth which he himself will not accept; no teacher can know
the Word who will not obey it.
The pupil must be studied in all his relations to work and play, church and
home and school, alone and in company
with other pupils. We must study sympathetically, not simply with curiosity;
win your way into the inner life of your
pupil by means of love, patience, tact
and prayer.
BOOK REVIEWS
The Suitable Child.
Norman Duncan knows how to go to
the heart of things in his stories, and
this quality The Suitable Child illustrates
most beautifully. The book is primarily
for the holiday season of the year, but
it is good reading any time. It will help
to lay Old Musty Self on the shelf and
lead one to take The Other Men into his
life. To tell the outlines of the story
would be to spoil it. We advise everyone
who loves heartfelt emotion and is glad to
get down into the Best Room of his Soul
to buy and read this little bookletThe Suitable Child.
By Norman
Duncan. New York, Fleming H. Revell
Co.
0
The Children's Hour.
When you have tucked the little ones
in bed and have seen them close their eyes
does your heart never smite you that
you have been impatient with them during the day? Happy is the family where
children, in that last hour
day, in sweet forgetfulness of the
day's irritations, can all smile and laugh
together over a good "Sleepy Time
Story."
But what can I find that is suitable to
read night after night to the children?
parents and
jf the
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THE FRIEND.
In answering this question satisfactorily
Miss Eva Tappan has done a splendid
service for the homes of our country.
The Children's Hour is a careful selection of the best literature from all lands,
adapted to children of all ages, and richly illustrated. While amusing the children, the stories have a true literary value,
preparing their young minds to enjoy the
best there is in literature, art and his-
May, 1910
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A EQUEST.
In order to complete a file of the Review of Reviews for one of our school
libraries, anyone desirous of helping
and having any issues covering the following years, is requested to notify the
Editor of The Friend, or to leave the
copies at the Board Rooms, marked "For
1890-1891,
School Library":—Years
tory.
1899-1903, April, 1904: July to Dec.
In commending this set of ten volumes 1905; 1906-1909.
to the public we believe that we will receive the thanks of many who have
been wishing for just such a child's lib"Increase of armaments generates internaiol
rary. These books may be seen in sevsuspicion and jealousy."—
eral styles of binding at Brown, Lyon & Charles Sumner.
Co.'s book store in the Young Hotel
building.
"War is the most futile and ferocious
The Children's Hour. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., New York and Boston.
of human follies."—John Hay.
Anti-Cigarette Campaign in China.
( Continuedfrom page n)
surprised at the spread of anti-foreign
feelings all in China are fast becoming
bounel to the cigarette habit from the
wealthy mandarin in his yamen to the
poorest coolie who will spend half of his
earnings or the vicious cigarette. Little
children, boys and girls on the streets are
seen smoking, each day great cart loads
of huge boxes are seen passing through
the streets of Peking, on each box are
stamped the words. "50 thousand cigar-
EVENTS
March 25—Travel and Trail Club organized.
March 26—Chief of Detectives McDuffle
has over 100 children arrested for breaking curfew ordinance.
March 27—Easter offering at Central Union Church, $30,571.25, the largest collection for foreign missions ever made by the
church.
March, 28—Children roll Easter eggs upon
the lawn at Arcadia, the beautiful grounds
of Governor and Mrs. Frear. Captain J. C.
Castner, as guest of honor of the Men's
ettes !"
dinner, spoke very interestingly on
In the zeal for trade, thousands of League
"An Exploring Trip Through Alaska." The
to
people.
the
cigarettes are given away
Carnegie library will probably be located
It is claimed that if one will smoke from on the Bungalow site, this location being faby the majority of those who voted
50-100 cigarettes, the habit will become vored
on the question. Justice of the Supreme
fixed. They will have to buy. They Court David Brewer died in Washington.
may go without clothes or food, but they
March 30—The S. S. Alameda is sold by
must have cigarettes. It is a fact, that has the Oceanic Co. to the Alaska S. S. Co.
been proved by analysis, that some cigarettes do contain a small amount of
opium, and other drugs, although it is
denied by those interested in the trade. A
young man in Peking said "I can always
tell the difference between a 'doctored
cigarette' and one without the drug."
How many contain opium it is hard to
find out, but all know that the habit becomes soon very firmly fixed and hard
to break off.
One Chinese said to me,
"The cigarete habit will do more harm
for China than the opium. It is not difficult but so easy, and the boys and girls
and the women are learning the habit."
' .-\h," he said, "these things keep China
E. W. T.
poor."
Peking, Feb. 6th, 1910.
:
April 3—5175,000 has been pledged in
New York as a fund to enable Dr. Frederick
A. Cook to prove his alleged discovery of
the North Pole.
April 4—The Russian immigrants leave
quarantine and must now shift for themselves. They emphatically refuse to go to
work.
April 4—Church lot secured in Kaimuki
by Bishop Restarick.
April s—Travel5 —Travel and Trail Club adopt constitution and April 6 elect officers. W. R.
Castle, President.
April 7—Tuberculosis Day Camp formallyopened In Palama district.
Dr. Hobdy
speaks very forcibly on aims and needs.
April B—New8—New Kaimuki observatory formally opened.
April 13—850 school children and 250
adults in Kalihl and Palama sign petition
asking for extension of restricted speed area
for automobiles.
April 14—Yokahama Specie Bank opens
its doors to the public. The palatial new
building is most thoroughly equipped in every way.
April 15—The Chinese Prince, His Imperial Highness, Tsai T'ao, uncle to the
Emperor of China, arrives. Brilliant reception at the Chinese Consulate. Col. Walter
M. Schuyler, sth Cay., U. S. A., detailed by
the War Department to accompany the
prince to the mainland. Kapaa land cases
Anally settled by the government making exchanges.
April 18— April 18—Rev. Henry P. Judd
has received and accepted a call to the pastorate of the Kahalui Union Church. The
Nuuanu Dam finished at last, so states Superintendent of Public Works Marston
Campbell. National House of Representatives passes resolution ordering plebiscite
on prohibition on July 26 next.
April 21 —President Taft signs Joint resolution of Congress on plebiscite. License
commissioners adopt new ruling tending to
restrict greatly the liquor traffic practically
looking to confine all saloons within the Are
district of the city.
Governor Frear apApril I—The1 —The American schooner Matthew points A. A. Wilder regent of the College of
Turner a total loss on the reefs off Kaha- Hawaii in place of ex-Judge Woodruff, resigned.
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�THE FRIEND.
May, 1910
MARRIED.
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CLEMENS—In Redding, Conn., April 21,
1910, Samuel M. Clemens (Mark Twain!.
Andrew's Ca- MORONG—In Honolulu, April 24, 1910,
Captain John C. Morong, U. S. N., retired,
thedral, Honolulu, March 28, 1910, Robert
aged 75 years.
R. Elgin, of Mahukona, Hawaii, and Miss
Irmgard Schaefer.
GILLILAND—In Waianae, Oahu, April 24,
1910, Richard I. Gilliland, Jr., formerly
Apr.
MADDAMS-TOWNSEND—In Honolulu,
witii ..ishop & Co., aged 20 years.
2, 1910, by Rev. Canon Usborne, Sydney
Benjamin Maddams and Miss Laura Marian Townsend.
Maui, April
BIVENS-TAYLOR—In Wailuku,
2, 1910, by Rev. Canon Ault, Elmer Russell Bivens and Miss Ettie P. Taylor.
I'OTTER-DEPEW—In Colorado Springs,
Let him have THE TOMO
Col., April 8, 1910, Ashton Howard Potter
and Mrs. Grace Depew.
Every Month.
50c. a year.
TRUSCOTT-HODGE —In Makawelt, Kauai,
April 16, 1910, Harold Sage Truscott and
Miss Charlotte Myrtle C. Hodge.
ELGIN-SCHAEFER—At St.
Is Your Japanese
Servant a Christian?
THE
YON HAMM-YOUNG CO., Ltd
IMPORTERS, COMMISSION
AND
AUTOMOBILE MERCHANTS
Honolulu, T. H.
TOO MUCH stress cannot be laid on
the importance of having your eyes
fitted with proper glasses.
S. E. LUCAS, Optician
Masonic Temple,
:
Alakea Street.
FENCE & MONUMENT WORKS, Ltd.
HAWAIIAN IRON
Reinforcement.
Safes, Vaults,
Boston, Mass.,
WITHINGTON-JUNKINS —InWithington
and
April 15, 1910, Leonard
180 5 King St
Miss Merriam Junkins.
NIEPER-McNEILL—In Honolulu, by Dr.
Doremus Scudder, Carl H. Nieper and
Miss Anna G. McNeill.
Phone 648
Concrete
DIED.
%tt aiifo pl|oto Heaters
KEARNS —In Honolulu, March 24, ISIO, T.
H. Kearns.
San Francisco, Cal., Mar.
26, 1910, Mrs. Joanna Reinhardt, aged 82
years.
KALEIKINI—In Spreckelsville, Maui,ofMar.
the
30, 1910, Rev. A. J. Kaleikini, pastor
Spreckelsville Hawaiian Church.
BOXLEY —In Walmea, Kauai, March 31,
1910, Mrs. Hermine Boxley, widow of the
late Captain C T. Boxley, of Madras, East
India, aged 81 years.
KEKAI—In Honolulu, April 1, 1910, Abraham Kekai.
KELLEY—In Honolulu, April 3, 1910, Mrs.
Helen W. Kelley, aged 57 years.
TENNEY—In Honolulu, April 9, 1910, Lorenzo Pomeroy Tenney, aged 84 years.
KEIKI—In Honolulu, April 9, 1910, William
Keiki, linotype expert.
SI'LLIVAN—In San Francisco, Cal., April
10, 1910, Eugene Sullivan, aged 46 years.
WILLIAMS —In San Francisco, Cal., April
15, 1910, C. E. Williams, formerly a merchant here, aged 85 years.
LUCAS—In Honolulu, April 19, 1910, Thos.
R. Lucas, of the firm of Lucas Bros.
GREY—In San Francisco, Cal., April 21,
1910, Charles W. Grey, aged 81 years.
1066 Fort Street
REINHARDT—In
Pictures and Picture Framing J- Local Views
Ansco Cameras j» Ansco Films
Art Pottery and Casts
DEVELOPING AND PRINTING
L.B.KERR&CO.
ALLEN & ROBINSON
LIMITED.
LIMITED.
Alakea Street.
The only store in Honolulu where Lumber and Building Material, •
Builders' Hardware,
you can get anything in Wearing ApPaints, Oils, Etc.
parel for
MEN, WOMEN or CHILDREN
Good Goods and Reasonable Prices.
Agents for Walkover and Sorosis Shoes.
55 Queen Street : : Honolulu.
fht fini Halional Hank of Hawaii
Hie galduim flafhmal Bank
of JJahalni
CECIL BROWN, Pres.
W. R. CASTLE,
KAHULUI, MAUI, T. H.
M. P. ROBINSON, Vice-Pres.
G. N.
WILCOX.
BURPLUB 9125,000.
L. T. PECK, Cashier.
G. P.
CASTLE.
United States Government Depository
BANKING, EXCHANGE, INSURANCE.
General Banking.—lssues Drafts, Money Orders, Letters of Credit
and Cable. Transfers available in all parts of the world.
Savings Bank Department,
Interest on Terms Deposits,
Bafe Deposit Vaults for Rent.
AT HONOLULU.
CAPITAL $500,000.
ACCOUNTS INVITED
T
�May, 1910
THE FRIEND.
20
C A. SCHAEFER
*
If You
Are Wise
THE BANK OF HAWAII, Ltd.
Honolulu
HAVE A FULLY EQUIPPED
HOUSEHOLD DEPARTMENT.
including Garland Stoves and
Ranges, Aluminum Ware, Enameled Ware. Kitchen Furnishings,
Refrigerators, Garden Tools, Rubber Hose, &c. Second floor, take
the Elevator.
& Co.
FINE GROCERIES
Sugar Co., Haiku Sugar Co.. Paia Plantation Co.. Kihei Plantation Co., Hawaiian
Sugar Co., Kahului R. R. Co., and Kahuku
Dry Goods
the Territory.
House in
Especial attention given to Mail Orders.
ALWAYS USE
California Rose
Creamery Butter
Guaranteed the Best and full 16
ounces.
HENRY MAY & CO.,
LIMITED
22
TELEPHONES
92
L
EWERS & COOKE, Ltd.
j^^^^
LUMBER,
CLUB STABLES
FORT ST., ABOVE HOTEL.
ALL KINDS,
OF
RIGS
GOOD HORSES,
CAREFUL DRIVERS.
CLAUS
SPRECKELS & CO.,
BANKERS.
Honolulu, T. H.
"Thy Man-Servant
and thy Maid-Servant*'
ARE THEY JAPANESE?
GIVE THEM THE TOMO
50c. a year.
Draw Exchange on the principal ports of
the world and transact a general
banking business.
:
:
:
Hawaiian Islands.
YU
W. AHANA & CO., LTD.
MERCHANT
A BIBLE WITH
P.
COHHENTARIES
The Leading
General Mercantile Commission Agents.
Queen St., Honolulu, T. H.
C. H Bellina, Mgr
Tel. Main 109.
Honolulu,
P. O. BOX 71 c.
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BREWER & CO., Limited,
Plantation.
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Pepeekeo Sugar Co., Honomu Sugar Co.,
A LEXANDER & BALDWIN, Ltd. Hakalau Plantation Co., Paaunau Sugar
Plantation Co., Hutchinson Plantation Co.,
Co.,
uiowalu Plantation, Waimanalo SugarSugar
Honolulu Plantation Co., Kilauea
OFFICERS—H. P. Baldwin, Pres't; J. B.
Castle Ist Vice-Pres't; W. M. Alexander, 2d Co., Hilo Sugar Co., Baldwin Locomotive
Vice-Pres't; J. P. Cooke, Treas.; W. O. Works, Oceanic Steamship Co.
Smith, Secy; George R. Carter, Auditor.
LIST OF OFFICERS—E. F. Bishop,
President; Geo. H. Robertson, Vice-President and Manager; W. W. North, TreasurSUGAR FACTORS AND COMMIS- er- Richard Ivers, Secretary; J. R. Gait,
Auditor; C. H. Cooke, R. A. Cooke, G. R.
SION MERCHANTS.
Carter, A. Gartley, Directors.
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EX O. Hall & Son
C. J.
Importers and
■
COMMISSION MERCHANTS.
Honolulu, T. H.
you will think of future as
well as present needs. > j*
Begin by opening a saving
account with this bank. > j»
Banking by mail, 4J% interest.
Day
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Scofield's
We have many other kinds too.
Hawaiian Board Book Rooms
MERCHANT AND ALAKEA
HONOLULU.
STREETS,
O. Box 986.
TAILORS.
Telephone Blue 2741.
62 King Street.
CLOTHES
CLEANED AND REPAIRED.
Henry
H. Williams
FUNERAL DIRECTOR.
Graduate of Dr. Rodgers Perfect Embalming School of San Francisco, Cal.,
also of The Renouard
Training
School
for Embalmers of New York. And a
Licensed Embalmer for the State of
New York, also a member of the State
Funeral Directors Association of California.
MONUMENTS AND TOMBSTONES
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Chairs to Rent.
LOVE BUILDING,
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Telephones: Office, 64; Res., 1020.
�Saloons Must Go
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March time
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A. CJOMDOU
•
1. List to the tread of man y feet, From home and plsyjnxud.fsrn sod iire»i
2. For Ood they lift their flag of white, His name is on their banners tngbt;
3. For Home's jwtel s»k« they move in line, With mother love theirfaces thine;
4. For NativeLand their drtsuthty teal, (feick tim» they kwp with marching feet,
5. Thy kingdom come, 0 Saviour great. In hearts and homes, is shares sod Buu.
go!"
They Ulk like toopu,thsirwordt we know :"Saloont, saloons must
Hit law of pu •ri •ty doth show, "Saloons, saloons mutt go!"
Their loy •al hearts will have it »o, "Saloons, sa-loons must go! "■•
mer • i • ca, for thee they know,"Saloont, sa-loons mutt go!
A
But era it comes, full well we know, "Saloons, ta-loon* mutt go!"
-
saloons must go; Of home, tweet borne the
Sa-loons
must go,
Saloons must go, must go,
Igßffi fir f \
Jij
1 ji
deadly foe.Wiih prtj'r sod work lb* world »»'U show.Saloons mutt got
kf, f. if
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�Supplement to
THE FRIEND.
May, 1910
VOTE 'EM OUT!
THE WHISKY SHOPS MUST GO!
Tune: "Battle Hymn of the Republic."
1 O comrades in this conflict of the right
against the wrong
To the battle of the ballots come with
shouting and with song;
And this shall be our slogan as the legions
march along—
"The whisky shops must go."
1 Come, malihlni, come kamaaina,
Vote saloons from our pae aina.
Vote 'em out, vote 'em out,
Vote 'em out and save the land.
They are dropping men in gutters.
Therefore make them close their shutters.
Vote 'em out, vote 'em out,
Vote 'em out and save the land.
Rally! Vote to save
Rally! Vote to save
Rally! Vote to save
The whisky shops
Chorus:
We're fighting with Goliath,
Never fear, never fear,
r'or though he brags a mighty lot,
We've got a little ballot.
Never fear, never fear,
We'll vote away Goliath.
2 From the silence and the shadows where
our mothers weep and pray
With their patient hands uplifted 'gainst
the woe they cannot slay,
We have heard a voice entreating us to
sweep the curse away—
"The whisky shops must go."
2 Come malihini, come, kamaaina,
Vote saloons from our pae aina,
Vote 'em out, vote 'em out,
Vote 'em out and save the land.
They have struck at wives and mothers,
Now let's strike at them, my brothers,
Vote 'em out, vote 'em out,
Vote 'em out and save the land.
3 Come, malihini, come, kamaaina,
Vote saloons from our pae aina,
Vote 'em out, vote 'em out,
Vote 'em out and save the land.
They have taken bread and raiment,
From the children. Now in payment
Vote 'em out, vote 'em out,
Vote 'em out and save the land.
W. B. 0.
+*+
VOTE RIGHT.
Tune: "Work for the Night."
Hawaii!
Hawaii!
Hawaii!
must go.
3.
Hear the children cry for pity from the
cruel heart of greed;
See them trampled into silence by the
monster while they plead!
Be quick, my patriot brothers, to rescue
let us speed—
"The whisky shops must go."
4. We are coming, we are coming, for the
light has dawned at last,
Hark! the battle cry is ringing, and our
lines are length'ning fast,
For God, and Home, and Native Land, our
ballots shall be cast
"The whisky shops must go."
~X
—
STAND UP FOR PROHIBITION.
Tune, "Stand Up For Jesus."
1 Vote fo-r straight prohibition,
Vote, brother, as you pray;
Vote fo-r straight prohibition,
Don't throw your vote away.
Vote fo-r straight prohibition,
Vote for the cause of right;
Vote fo-r straight prohibition,
Vote the clean ballot, white.
1 Stand up for prohibition,
Ye patriots of the land;
All ye who love your country,
Against saloons should stand.
Be bold against this traffic,
Your country's greatest foe;
Let word and deed and ballot
Proclaim, "saloons must go."
2 Vote for straight prohibition,
Vote with a true intent;
Vote for straight prohibition,
2 Stand up for prohibition,
3 Vote for straight prohibition.
Vote with a conscience clear;
Vote for straight prohibition,
Vote with a heart sincere.
Vote for straight prohibition,
Vote for this righteous plan;
Vote for straight prohibition,
Vote, brother, like a man.
3 Stand up for prohibition.
The trumpet call obey,
"Forth to the mighty conflict,
In this His glorious day;
Ye that are men now serve Him,
Against unnumbered foes;
Let courage rise with danger,
And strength to strength oppose."
Vote for good government.
Vote for straight prohibition,
Vote to saloons destroy;
Vote for straight prohibition.
Vote to protect your boy.
Ye soldiers of the
Put on the gospel armor,
And wield the spirit's sword,
"From vlct'ry unto vict'ry
His army shall he lead,"
Until the foe is vanquished,
"And Christ is Lord indeed."
(over)
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�June, 1910
THE FRIEND,
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Ha m aiian farust Co. THE FRIEND
limited:
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Fire, Marine, Life
SURETY ON BONDS.
01a8a, Employers'
Liability, and
Bur-
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glary Insurance
923 FORT STREET,
Safe Deposit Building.
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Lots for Sale
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Ltd.
COLLEGE.
(Arthur F. Griffiths, A.8., President.)
—and
—
All Communications of a literary character should be addressed to THE FRIEND,
corner Alakea and Merchant Sts., Hono■ lulu, T. H., and must reach the Board
Rooms by the 24th of the month.
Henry Waterhouse Trust Go.
LIMITED
STOCKS. BONDS AND
ISLAND SECURITIES
Offer complete
College preparatory work,
together with special
Commercial,
Music, and
Art courses.
For Catalogue, address
JONATHAN SHAW,
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College,
Business Agent,
•
Honolulu, H. T.
WHITNEY, M. D., D. D. S.
DENTAL ROOMS.
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Doremus Scudder, Editor in Chief.
Frank S. Scudder, Managing Editor.
F. W. Damon.
John G. Woolley.
A. A.' Ebersole.
Orramel H. Gulick,
H. P. Judd.
W. B. Oleson.
Theodore Richards.
Paul Super.
William D. Westervelt.
Perley L. Home.
Ernest J. Recce.
Edward W. Thwlng,
Foreign Correipondent.
"'
(Charles T. Fitts, A. 8., Principal).
Fort Street
Regular Savings Bank Department mainAll business letters should be addressed and all M. O.s and checks should be tained in Bank Building on Merchant Street,
and Insurance Department, doing a Life.
made out to
Fire and Marine business on most favorable
Theodore Richards,
terms, in Friend Building on Bethel Street.
Business Manager of The Friend.
F. O. Box 489.
Bnt«r«d Otfnecr -T. ">>-'. ll"ii')lulii, Hawaii, an Kriniid
bum matter, under act «/ tonsraai of March .1. tt/9.
Punahou Preparatory School.
JM.
rent account subject to check.
THE BOARD OF EDITORS:
Trent Trust Co.
Oahu
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LOW PRICES
EASY TERMS
OAHU
BANKERS.
Is published the first week of each
month in Honolulu, T. 11., at the HaHONOLULU, HAWAIIAN ISLANDS.
waiian Board Book Rooms, cor. Alakea
and Merchant Sts. Subscription price,
Established in 1858.
$i .oo per year.
A special rate is made to Alission
Transact a General Banking and Exlift Churches
or Sunday Schools in the change Business. Loans made on approved
-Jm) Islands. Clubs
of 25 to one address 25 security. Bills discounted. Commercial
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Credits granted. Deposits received on curcents apiece per year.
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Plate
BISHOP & COMPANY,
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The BOY Wants Stories
There are none so good as the old
BIBLE stories, the boy himself as
judge. We know for we have tried with
a number of boys, girls too. But you
should have GOOD PICTURES <a
texts when you tell Bible stories.
We have a Bible with 800 good illustrations. We knew one copy of it to be
worn out by the use of one family,—
four children one after the other literally wearing it to pieces.
We have one. and have sent for a
number more.
Fort and Merchant Streets, Honolulu.
HF.
WICHMAN & CO., LTD.
Manufacturing Optician,
lezveler and Silversmith.
Diamonds, American and Swiss
Watches, Art Pottery, Cut Glass
Leather Goods, Etc.
Hawaiian Islands.
Honolulu
Importer of
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& Cooke,
GENERAL INSURANCE AGENT.
REPRESENTING
Ewa Plantation Company,
Waialua Agricultural Co., Ltd.
Kohila Sugar Company,
Waimea Sugar Mill Company.
Apokaa Sugar Company. Ltd.
Wahiawa Con. Pineapple Co.. Ltd.
Kulton Iron Works of St. Louis,
Hl.ike Steam Pumps,
Marsh Steam Pumps,
American Steam Pump Co.
Weston's Centrifugals.
Baldwin's Automatic Juice Weigher,
Rabcoclc & Wilcox Boilers,
l>rrniiigs Superheaters,
Green's Fuel Economizers.
Matson Navigation Co. ■ Planters Line Shipping Co.
if.tm Insurance Company,
Citizens Insurance Co. (Hartford Fi'el
Fireman's Fund Insurance Co. (Marine Dept.)
NationalFire Insurance Co.
Protector Underwriters of the Phoenix of
Hartford,
New England Mutual Life Insurance
Co., of Boston.
ESTEY
ORGANS
—
Hawaiian Board Book Rooms. Hawaiian Board Book Rooms.
AT THE
Boston Building.
Ltd.
SHIPPING AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS, SUGAR FACTOR AND
�The Friend.
OLDEST NEWSPAPER WEST
HONOLULU, H. T., JUNE, 1910
Vol. LXVIII
The Plebiscite Fight.
TREASURER'S STATEMENT
April 20—May 20
closed our
books for the year
77|E have
IjLI
with a balance on
the right side to the
arnount of $314.83.
We lived "Within, our estimate
expenses—trie budget which)
we rnade at
outset.
Alrqost all of our regular supporters stood by Usrnost loyally
to the arqourit giver) in previous
years.
It is not at all improbable that
a
if wise use of trie rnoney would
have justified it we could have
secured rnore help than We did.
Another thing It is greatly to
the credit of our supporters and
shows the spontaneity of giving
—the fact that no appeals for
rrioriey were rnade by letter or
otherwise, save sorne notifications to a regular donor or two.
and an elevei~|th-hour canvas of
three narn.es to get enough to
bring us out without debt.
Since God is in this work, or
it is worthless, we bring Hinq
of
:
thanks.
NEXT YEAR
For
the
OF THE ROCKIES
last Five years we
have added approxirnately
$2,000.00 yearly to our budget. This year is no"exception.
Faith is the basis of this optirriisrri —mixed, of course, with)
baser elements e. g. "business
outlook.'' Opportunity and Need
figure largely too. Perhaps the
foundation of our Faith » too
largely our confidence in our
hurnan Friends. Aye, we trust
VOU w»ho are God's stewards.
We believe you will help even
years,
rnore
than on previous
for we need rnore.
Expect, and get, a report in
duly.
T. R.
No. 6
I manhood and the effect is a moral bracing apparent everywhere. The personnel
This has begun in earnest, and is to be of
the Prohibition League is a surprise
a tight to the finish. The liquor side, as i
!to everyone. The splendid inclusiveness
is always the case in any of its conflicts,
of its members and the wide range of
has abundant sinews of war. It is con- interests,
financial, racial, social, indusscious that it is fighting for its life here,
trial and religious, which they represent
and it is not wasting time or brains. It
strength of the determinacares not a whit for consistency, knows betokens the
tion to free Hawaii forever from the
that it need not stop to avoid contradicThe Hawaiians,
great modern curse.
tions in its pleas, but bends all its ento >, are not to Ik* outdone. Indeed their
ergies to win every voter by adroit aporganization ante-dated that of the
l>cal to his pet prejudice. With some it whites by several
months. Their leaders
is jealousy of the outlander, hence the are
of
conscious
the
gravity of the situahowl against Mr. Woolley ; with others tion, and are showing
consummate abilhade-hatred gives the cue. and the note, ity in meeting the conditions.
livery day
"the whites will all get the liquor and the
discloses the insidiousness and wide
Hawaiians none" is trumpeted. One reach
of the pro-liquor propaganda, hut
man is told that under prohibitory law
resource is being overno
educative
use of intoxicants will increase enorm- looked. Everyone
who knows the Haously, while his neighbor's sympathies waiian \w>\> no telling
that he will vote
are aroused for the poor rum-seller who
understands
the quesaright
if
be
clearly
is to be robbed of his means of liveli- tion
at issue. Therfore patient, painshood. The handsome income from liquor
taking explanation and appeal to reason
licenses is held out as a bait to the poor and
conscience are called for. These are
and
interferthe abominable
taxpayer,
used. The women, too, are organbeing
ence with personal liberty is the slogan
izing,
will be pressed
for the bumptious citizen. The more you into and the children
motto is utilize every
service.
The
spend for drink, the more other busiand tittle of influence. We believe
nesses will flourish, and the rummier the jot
outcome will be a decisive "yes"
the
place the greater its attractiveness for vote.
Hut it can be secured only
are
two
stock
well
arguments,
tourists
through the exhaustion of every possible
seasoned in like campaigns since the means of producing right conviction.
liquor demon was first forced to fight
for his life, Meantime the side of truth
and right is patiently at work, quietly
letting in the light and slowly convinc- Are Japanese Assimilable?
ing the thoughtful.
The constant reference in Mainland
papers to the .Munchausen tale, that the
Japanese laborers iii Hawaii are a part
Favoring Forces.
of the grand army of the empire, ready
The situation among the white popu- to gobble up these Islands any time the
lation is distinctly encouraging.
We Mikado nods, raises the question whethhave never enlisted in a fight against er Carlyle's caustic designation of the
rum where so large a number of leading British nation—"forty millions, mostly
men have enthusiastically ranged them- fools"—may not have a restricted appliselves on the temperance side. A splen- cation on the Opposite side of the Atdid spirit of unselfishness is being shown lantic. The entire attitude of our counhere by drinking men. which s]>eaks try towards the Asiatic being based on
volumes for the wider influence of this the false assumption of racial incompaticampaign on moral lines. Whatever the bility, we may expect the consequent disissue. Hawaii is bound to be a better trust to breed false fancies continually.
place after this fight is over. It seems The craze to waste millions through fear
as thqugh the public conscience among of a great Pacific war is one of these
Caucasians had been deeply stirred at Will-o -thc-Wisps. Another is the canthe sight of the drink-doomed Hawaiian ard that a Japanese never can become an
race, and the spirit of noblesse oblige American at heart, that he is so truly a
had been thoroughly aroused. As the ap- son of Nippon, and hence possessed of
peal strikes down to the heart men are such unique patriotism that it would be
coming face to face with their essential impossible for him to become a loyal
�4
June. 1910
THE FRIEND
American citizen. All of which is simon the Japanese who have been long wdth uess to the one whom he had chosen as
us find our freer life so full of attract- the Master of his life. It is clear that
iveness that after one return across sea this dominating purpose made him the
with Japanese. Thai it is hard for any they plan to come hack and stay perman- man be became. He began at once to
loyal national to surrender allegiance to ently. If citizenship were open to them develop along the several lines that charthe government under which he was they would gladly apply for it. Indeed acterized his later life. ( )ue of these was
born and nurtured, and which ruled his there are pathet'c instances of the deep painstaking care in little things. He was
fathers for uncounted generations, is love for America that begins to grow in a master of detail. Another was faithonly saying that he is broadly human. A the hearts of many of these ardent souled fulness to trust. As i consequence peoman who could lightly cast off his native Nipponese. "How can these people sell ple formed the habit of putting burdens
citizenship would easily despise his their votes, when I would give anything upon him. A third was enlarging peradopted country. With people like the for the right to cast my ballot as an sonal touch, and a fourth a constantly
Japanese so closely knit to their own American citizen." exclaimed one planta- widening range of human interests. He
land, the characteristics of which are tion workman to the public school teach- knew how to enter by kindly thoughtful
such as to evoke the most devoted love er of his children. What they cannot service into the lives of others so that
even of foreigners who reside there but secure for themselves these laborers are they never forgot the timely word of
a few years, it is no wonder that willing- bound to get for their boys and girls welcome, the greeting spoken just at the
ness to expatriate themselves is a matter born on the adopted soil. This is no right moment, Of the cordial friendliness
of slow growth. There was never felt in mere conjecture.
For the two years shown when most needed. The beauty
Japan the impelling force driving the in- \'H)7-H there were 111 applications by of this service was that it was never calhabitants elsewhere to seek a home such Japanese for certificates of American culated but always came spontaneously,
as has been true of European countries. birth for their children. In l'JO0 one and therefore left its lasting mark. The
Only during the past few years economic half that time, there were 796 applica- largeness and permanency of his symconditions and the rapid growth of popu- tions, more than double the ratio, while pathy was manifested by his long ;ivnlation have caused a restiveness in the during the first three months of 1°1() the
empire which has made emigration a so- number rose to 561, or at the annual rate
cial necessity. How recent the exodus of 2244. This represents the increasing
has been is indicated by the fact that as desire of the Japanese for American
late as IXB4 there were only 11') Japan- citizenship. Only those conversant with
ese in Hawaii. Emigration is barely 25 the thoughtful among these people knowyears old. Yet in that time a marked how ardent is the desire to he a part of
revulsion of sentiment lias taken place our great free nation, and how true is
in the minds of these hard working peo- the ambition to be worthy of the priviple. Despite the fact that most of those lege. President Roosevelt never did a
who come to us have been for centuries more statesmanlike thing than when he
attached to the soil, and hence are the suggested the possibility of an endeavor
hardest to he affected by a love of a for- to secure citizenship for Japanese immieign land, the Japanese in Hawaii are grants in America on the same basis
demonstrating more forcefully every with other peoples. It may have been
year their desire to make America their meant as a mere threat, which, if true,
permanent home. Years ago few of these would of course have been unworthy of
people could be found who for a moment him. Some day a statesman will arise
would consider the possibility of their who will champion and secure this suWILLIAM W. HALL.
children growing up to live here. There premely wise and just measure. We
was a constant procession of little ones trust it will come, together with a proviback to the homeland. Next forced by sion that no foreign born person shall ciation with varied institutions, lie bethe inexorable logic of economy as well be admitted to our citizenship until he came treasurer of the Hawaiian Board
as by parental affection, a widespread passes in English a rigid examination
PX)I. serving
movement to keep the children near by upon American civics. That done, we in 1883. and resigned in
rare faithfulness and without rewith
and yet in touch with the Fatherland, by believe as many Japanese as representa- muneration. Since PX)3 he has been its
giving them a Japanese education here, tives of any other non-English speaking vice-president.
In 1883 he became the
led to the establishment of scores of nationality will apply for and secure the agent of the American Poard in Hawaii,
schools all over the Territory, until ev- right.
and gave time unstintedly to its varied
ery plantation had its center of instrucinterests until close of life. This. too.
tion. But slowly the parents have been
was a gratuitous labor of great love and
forced to realize that an American born William Wisner Hall.
joy.
In this duty he found opportunity
and trained Japanese is an impossible
life
here
seventy years ago to show unnumbered kindnesses to travHis
began
creature when sent back to the old
first of June, and if he had continued eling missionaries, whose interests he
In the first place the young the
country.
with
us a few days longer he would have made his own. He was also a valued
man finds ignorance of the language a
halted
hut one milestone short of the member of the Merchants' Association
constant handicap, then the climate is
Psalmist's
Few men become so and the Chamber of Commerce, in atrigorous, the customs are strange and completely limit.
with the commun- tendance upon the meetings of which he
identified
burdened with formality, government ity
they live as Mr. Hall did. exhibited the love of regularity which
which
in
control of the individual is irksome, This was not due so much to marked made him so valuable an associate in all
army conscription a nightmare, reward prominence and striking traits as to a mutual undertakings.
When Palama
for work precarious and pitifully small, very beautiful human spirit. He united settlement so outgrew its conditions that
while new worldism in the blood makes with the old Fort street church at the it was necessary to entrust its manageoldworldism a torture. Pack he comes to early age of eleven years, and began thus ment to a special committee, Mr. Hall,
Hawaii if he can get here. Meantime in bovhood honestly to cultivate a like- though at the time in precarious health.
pore nonsense, as everyone knows who
has any deep first-hand acquaintance
,
�June. 1910
and having arrived at a period when
many men lay down burdens, accepted
service with the joyous alacrity which
we associate with youth, and gave to
activities new in this community ls warm
an interest and as many hours as any of
He showed the same
his associates.
spirit during lis membership in the executive committee of the Civic Federation. In his church he was a foremost
servant. l'"or thirty years he sang in
the choir, and carried the ministry of
music into homes of sorrow all through
his life. He succeeded Irs father as Fort
street church clerk in 188.?. and was the
only incumbent of that position that
Central l'nion has ever had. I lis records
were kept with the scrupulousness of a
historian. and will prove invaluable henceforth. Prompt, in his place
and ready to do his part it was a joy to
serve with lrm. In all that he did therewas a self-effacement, a cheerfulness, an
absence of search for praise or evident
desire for expressions of gratitude that
lent a rare charm to his service. One of
his lifelong comrades well said, "l-'ew
men in this community will be missed as
greatly as William I [all."
Dr. White.
It is a wise procedure for a church like
Central l'nion to secure the services of
noted preachers from the mainland for
occasional terms of exchange with the
regular pastor, or during his vacations.
Such ministrations are a tonic to the entire community, and react favorably in
Rev. Frank Newhall White, D. D
every way upon the church itself. Newviews of truth are presented, working
laymen have a fine opportunity for exl>ert consultation with these chiefs of
prominent and successful organizations,
and the echoes of the effective service
rendered spurs the regular minister to
more varied and energetic work. Central
I'nion. which has frequently profited by
THE FRIEND.
this experience, is expecting Rev. Prank
New hall White, I). I)., pastor of Union
Park Congregational Church of Chicago. 111., to supply for eleven weeks
during the summer vacation. Dr. White
is the son of a successful minister, was
educated at Kipon College, and Andover
Seminary, served as pastor in Hancock.
Mich., for a few* years, and then became
a missionary of the American Hoard in
Japan, where he did splendid work and
rapidly forged to the front. He was stationed at Sendai and at Tsu. Failing
health in his family compelled his return
to America, where he was successively
pastor of Congregational churches in
Burlington, Iowa: Cheyenne, Wyoming;
Sioux City, Iowa; and now in Chicago.
He is twice I). I).. Kipon and Iowa Colleges having given him the honor in the
same year. A corporate member of the
American Hoard, having the honor of
holding the position of alternate preacher
for the coming centennial meeting, closely associated with Chicago Theological
Seminary, and one of the inner circle of
the leaders of his denomination in the
Middle West, Dr. White is at the very
acme of his powers. His church is about
to erect a $1(X),000 parish house to serveas a clinical center for the seminary, and
a home of wide ministry for the entire
district about l'nion Park. It is hoped
that the dee)) spiritual interest now stirring the hearts of the young people in
Central L'nion Church will be intensified
during the summer, and result in still
larger accessions next fall.
5
Mr. Gardner has been called from
London to Boston to manage the still
greater exhibition planned for next
spring, lie wishes to make Hawaii because of her dramatic Christian story,
still more prominent. The Bishop Museum Trustees have been asked to loan
material, and the Hawaiian Hoard is being opportuned to aid to the fullest degree. The Board has appointed a committee, with Mr. ( Heson as its chairman,
which will do its best. A very wide cooperation of all able to assist in making
th's a notable exhibit of Hawaii's story
is requested. The Promotion Committee
will unofficially lend its aid. More than
a million of the leading Christian people
of the Eastern States will view this exposition, and if we do our part the lure
of these Islands will be felt by them all.
The direct result for missionary support
will be very large.
D. S.
.1*
WAILUKU NOTES.
Miss Towner of the Wailuku Settlewrites as follows about their proposed gymnasium: "From time to time
we have mentioned that a plan to extend the settlement work at Alexander
lb use was being worked out, and we
are glad to announce to our friends that
stub a plan is about to materialize. We
have raised $2210 toward a gymnasium
and swimming pool.
It will require
about $4500 to build and equip the building. When this is completed we will be
in a position to do something more for
the men and hoys of the community. It is
planned to have afternoon classes for
women and girls and the evening for
The World in Boston.
men and boys. We shall be glad for any
the finest opportunities for I la- assistance from any friends who wish
t hieto ofimpress
waii
the people of the Eastern to help us in the great work."
States will occur next Spring in Boston,
when the great missionary exhibit will
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draw hundreds of thousands of visitors.
The Chinese parents of Kahului asked
Two vcars ago in London the first of
such mammoth expositions of Christian that their children might have the privihistory was projected, and proved one of lege of a school in the Chinese language.
the mosi attractive exhibitions which This has been granted them. The school
Hawaii opened a few weeks ago in the old native
that metropolis has ever seen.
was represented on that occasion by a church which was secured through the
scenic portrayal of Kapiolani's defiance kindness of Hon. H. P. Baldwin, and the
of Pele. Regarding the effect produced, committee of the Kahului Union Church.
Rev. R. M. Gardner, the executive head Thirteen children are now at work after
public school hours each day. Mr. Yec
of the London exhibit writes:
"You probably know that in connec- Kui. the evangelist, is giving them intion with 'The ( )rient in London' in June struction, letting it form a part of his
and July. i lX)8. a "Pageant of Darkness evangelistic work.
The annual meeting of the Japanese
and Light' was presented in which one
of the scenes was a dramatic representa- Women's Society connected with the Jaption of Kapiolani's defiance to Pele. I anese church was held on the evening of
think that to most people this was the May 14th. There was an attendance of
most impressive scene in the whole ex- one hundred women and children. There
position. We made Kapiolani a house- was an interesting program. At the close
hold name among thousands of people in of this there was a small exhibition of
London, and Tennyson's poem and other sewing, the work of women and children.
literary references to her became quite Refreshments concluded the evening's
enjoyment.
famous."
ment
�THE FRIEND,
6
Hawaii Cousins
Hawaiian Mission Children's Society.
A meeting of the Cousins was held
beautiful Arcadia, the home of Gov.
and Mrs. Frear, on the evening of April
30th.
The "Thaddeus" and the voyage of the
pioneer missionaries in 1810 20, was the
topic of the evening. Amid such artistic
surroundings it was not easy to put one's
self in sympathy with the brave young
souls crowded in that little bark upon an
at
angry sea.
To make it more realistic, some young
people, dressed in the costumes of 1820,
came slowly down the broad stairway, as
the names of the voyagers were read
from the Missionary Album, and joined
with the company in singing "From
Greenland's Icy Mountains:" and Miss
Reynolds, a grand-daughter of Father
and Mother Bingham, played "A Storm
at Sea" till you seemed to hear the dashing of the waves upon the deck, and almost felt the rocking the shivering of the
little craft.
A journal, written on board the "Thaddeus" came into the possession of the society about a year ago, and from this extracts were taken, all read by descendants
of these pioneer missionaries.
Mrs. Whine, a grand-daughter of
Father and Mother Thurston, read of the
partings at Poston. the sea-sickness, the
calms, the long delays, the improvement
of their time, rough weather, and of the
celebration of Christmas Day.
Miss Reynolds read of storms, of the
first sight of land, of ships in the distance and whales near by, of the rounding of Cape Horn, and again terrific
storms, and through it all a spirit of trust
and love and consecration.
"Arabeske," from Schumann, was at
this point sympathetically rendered h/
Mrs. W. D. Westervelt. and seemed to
quiet the elements and bring the wayfarers out upon the smooth Pacific, and
we were ready for the third paper.
Mrs. Ranney Scott, a great-granddaughter of Father and Mother Whitney,
continued the journal where it told of
more rapid progress on the Pacific, of
searchings of heart, adventures with a
shark, the falling overboard of Mr.
Whitney, and the arrival at the islands,
where beautiful scenery and good news
of idolatry overthrown greeted them.
A social half hour was enjoyed when
the beautiful spirit of the Fathers and
Mothers was (hscussed. when this valuable journal was talked of, and other
journals, and it was voted to print these
extracts in The Friend. With hearts full
June. 191C
October 27.
of thanks to Gov. and Mrs. Frear for
their hospitality, to Mrs. Westervelt and
of seeing
we
the
pleasure
had
Today
Miss Reynolds for the music, and to the a brig. Seasickness continues. Captain
readers, the meeting adjourned.
P. is attentive to our situation, serves out
even chicken broth and water gruel to
( )n board brig "'Thaddeus." Captain numerous patients spread about on deck
Blanchard, bound to the Sandwich or lying in their berths.
Islands.
October 2X.
Departure and first day at sea. Oct. 23.
Another brig appeared today. Not able
1819.—This day in the good providence to speak her.
of (iod we have been allowed to leave our Favored with pleasant weather, and
dear native shores on an embassy of
some of our number with comfortable
mercy, having been set apart to the work
health. < )ur Divine Creator is good even
of propagating the gospel in the Sand- to the unthankful and evil. Last evening
wich Islands. Having been commended was so much relieved from seasickness
to (iod and to the word of His grace by as to enjoy the pleasure of lifting up our
the Rev. I). Worcester and attended on
voices together in one of the songs of
hoard by many dear friends to whom Zion.
with tears we gave the parting hand, we
left Boston harbor with a prosperous Business Arrangement for the Voyage.
gale, and with peculiar smiles of heaven.
November 10.
'The little mission family, containing 21
souls, attended by (i. P. Tamoree, is this
This evening in a prudential meeting
evening blessed with universal health. He the brethren adopted several important
who has called us is faithful, and though regulations with respect to our immediwe go out to a foreign land not knowing ate concerns; committed to Captain C.
the things that shall befall us there, we the care of our provisions and property
cheerfully commit ourselves to his guid- in common stock, and to Dr. Holman
ance and protection ami endeavor to give the superintendence of the medical
up ourselves and all we have to be for- stores; requested Captain B. to order our
ever employed in His service.
table and preside at our meals, and in
order to maintain suitable regularity and
Lord's Day. Oct. 24.
at the same time make ourselves as comThis 'morning in comfortable health fortable as our situation would admit,
offered the morning sacrifice and lifted agreed unanimously that if any member
up our song of praise. "Welcome. Sweet of our family should need anything from
Day of Rest." While lying at anchor 10 our common stores different from what
miles from Boston, the treasurer of the was prepared for the family at any time,
A. 1!. C. F. M. came on hoard with an such person should speak to Captain P.
additional supply of provisions and stores for his permission.
for our voyage, for which we had found
occasion to send back. The promptitude Review of First Three Weeks of
with which our wants are supplied calls
Voyage.
forth our gratitude, and encourages us to
November 17.
go forward to our work with more cordial reliance on the providence of God
Still watching for favorable winds, yet
and on the affectionate, seasonable and without repining. Captain P. tells us
efficient aid of our patrons. Having again that in his last voyage he crossed the line
taken an affectionate leave of the treas- in less time from Poston than we have
urer and some other friends, weighed now been out; but it is now the fouranchor at one o'clock p. m.. and at two teenth night that we have been driven up
sent letters ashore by the pilot. P.efore and down like Paul in between the paralevening most of the mission family be- lels of latitude 30 degs, 35 degs, and 37
gan to be seriously seasick.
degs. We have been tossing, rolling on
an uncommonly rough sea, according to
October 25.
the account of the best seamen on board,
We have today fresh gales, a heavy 24 days, and yet have proceeded but five
swell of the sea, the brig rolling very and a-half degrees towards the Equator.
deep and leaking: most of the family We cannot but conclude that He who
very seasick, but generally patient under controls the winds and the waves and
this" trial, which we confidently expected. conducts all the affairs of nations, is eithThese are but the beginnings of our hard- er kindly withholding us from dangers
ships, and we hope not to be wearied with and disasters at Cape Horn, or operating
running with footmen, but to acquire changes in the Sandwich Islands favorstrength to contend with horses.
able to the introduction and success of
our enterprise. He is kindly inducting
(Ictober 26.
us to a life of toil and hardship. Ikconsiderable
thunwe
had
night
Last
spreads our table on the face of the boiswinds.
der and lightning, with violent
terous deep, gives us now the comfort of
We enjoyed but little sleep.
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June. 1910.
7
returning health, teaches us to sit with This day is to us truly a joyful day, and by the school, the church choir rendered
meekness at His feet and trust in his we cherish the hope that before another an appropriate anthem. 'The decorations
Christinas we shall be enabled to pro- were unusually fine. 'The large stage
all-sufficient grace.
claim to the deluded worshippers of was surrounded with palms and ferns,
Improvement of Time.
Akoah. "Heboid, we bring you good tid- and the back of the stage was covered
ings of great joy, etc.," and that on each with green vines and hundreds of white
November 24. succeeding
anniversary of this event asters.
'The subject of studies for the voyage many tongues which have long been em'Taken all in all, it was one of the most
We feel ployed in chanting vain orisons to dumb delightful Children's Day services Cenwas discussed this evening.
the importance of attending not only to idols, tuned by divine grace to the song tral Union has had for some years.
the studies of the different professions of angels, will with adoring gratitude'The following, taken from a letter rebut of making the (hvhyhean language a respond, "Glory to God in the highest, ceived by the minister the day after
prune object, though the means of ac- and on earth, peace, good will toward shows what one of our visiting friends
quiring it are limited.
men."
November 30.
a
'This evening opened singing school
for the improvement of ourselves and
the officers in sacred music, and concluded to sing together one hour in a
week besides at our ordinary seasons of
soul worship.
Observation of Christmas Day.
December 22.
At a meeting of the brethren it was resolved unanimously that we deem it expedient to observe the anniversary of the
Savior's birth in a religious way.
December
Christmas. —'This day we passed under the vertical sun in the Tropic of Capricorn. 'This day we joyfully commemorate the rising of that Sun which is the
Light of the world, far more glorious
than the orb of day. We thought it desirable to devote this day to meditation
upon that interesting event which was
hailed with rapture by the hosts of heaven, and to the recollection and acknowledging of our obligations to our condescending Savior.
In the evening
Pi other Bingham preached a sermon
on the occasion from Luke 2:14, in which
the birth of the Savior was considered.
"1. As a manifestation of good will to
men:" "2, As a means of promoting
'peace on earth," and "3, As an illustration of the glory of god." Concluding
with four reflections: (1) This event is
worthy of the most grateful and joyful
commemoration: (2) how widely different are the feelings and conduct of infidels and scoffers from the angels, respecting this birth of a savior: (3) the
propagation of the gospel is the most desrable
employment this side heaven; (4)
:
this event will be an occasion of joy to
the thousands of the Sandwich Isles, to
the millions of thedterth universally, and
to the holy kingdom of Jehovah to all
eternity. The hymns sung were "Angel's Song." by Watt; "Epiphany." and
an original hymn from Matt 2:2. continued for the occasion by W. G. Conant,
a serious youth of liberal education, mate
of the brig Thaddeus, and considerably,
interested in the object of our mission.
thought of the exercises:
"The perfection and beauty of the
Sunday school service today is beyond
till praise. Having in the past in the
city of Brooklyn and other cities attended many Sunday school anniversaries, I
am unable to remember one that can
compare with it.''
It will, we are sure, he a great encouragement to the superintendent and to
all who assisted in getting up the program, to read these words of appreciation from an outsider.
J
Second Annual Ladies' Night.
'The Men's League, following the precedent of last year, closed its year's work
with a dinner to which the gentlemen
were privileged to invite their lady
friends. The dinner was given in the
mauka pavilion of the Alexander Young
Hotel, on Monday evening, May 23, at 7
o'clock. Instead of the usual after dinner address the executive committee conceived the idea of having Miss Eva
Lindeman, of San Francisco, who is visiting in the city, give a song recital, and
fortunate, indeed, were they to secure
her. Seldom are Honolulu people* priviA. A. EBERSOLE
leged to hear such singing. Miss Lindeman possesses a soprano voice of remarkable volume and sweetness, and she
Children's Day.
enters into the spirit of her songs with
Once a year Central Cnion devotes a
an enthusiasm that carries her audience
Sunday distinctly to the children of the
church. 'This year the services were held | with her from first to last.
The social half hour out on the roof
on Sunday, May 22, at the hour of the
before dinner was announced,
garden,
regular Sunday morning service. The
program included a processional of the was given a peculiar charm and made
Sunbeam Class, nearly a hundred little forever memorable by Halley's comet
tots, each bearing a small flag; an exposi- blazing in the western sky, and the moon
tion by the superintendent, Mr. Ed. at the same time in the eastern sky in
Towse, of the new graded course of ; almost total eclipse, a combination of
Study adopted by the school at the be- phenomena to be witnessed only once
ginning of the year; recitations by pu- in a lifetime.
A fitting finale the whole affair proved
pils of the junior and senior departments ; the recognition of the children of to be for the second session of our Men's
the church who are seven years old, League.
some twenty receiving Pibles this year,
and last, but by no means least, the Other Events of the
Month.
graduation of the minister's class, a
The regular monthly meeting of the
group of boys and girls thirteen years
of age, who had successfully completed Woman's Hoard took the form of a
the course of lessons given by the min- faiewell to Mrs. Scudder, the president
ister each year. Besides the songs sung [of the board, who was soon to leave, has
Central Union News
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now left, for an extended visit on the
mainland, and after Dr. Scudder joins
her, in Europe. The address of the afternoon was given by Mrs. Walter I". Frear,
after which the meeting adjourned and
a social hour with most delightful refreshments was enjoyed.
The missionary concert, as usual, was
a bright spot in the month's mid week
services. 'The paper by Miss Lydia P.
Coan on the "Religions of Peru" was
ably written and extremely interesting.
Through her nephew, Prof. Bingham of
Vale, who is an authority on South
American civilization, Mrs. Coan was
able to become thoroughly informed on
the people of this fascinating country,
the land of Pizarro, the ancient Incas,
and primitive sun worship, as well as
the bright and oftimes dark story of Catholicism. Most vividly did she portray
the moral degradation prevalent. Put
the dawn of a new day has come to Peru.
The missionaries of Christ have sown
the seed ami a new and higher life is
appearing.
On Thursday evening, May 5, Mr.
Sydney Hoben, R. C. M. Leipzic, gave
an organ recital in Central Union
Church, assisted byMr Alan White, and
Mr. Philip Hall, who each sang solos
and by Miss Margaret Clark as accompanist. The large and appreciative audience which was present confirmed the
conviction we have long had that there
is opportunity here for a much larger
service in the way of concerts and recitals which the church has been all too
slow in accepting. We sincerely hope
that this may be the beginning of a larger service of music. Surely the success
of this first recital should encourage
our music committee to arrange for
others.
The concluding social of the season
was held in the chapel and parish house,
Thursday evening, May 12. A most enjoyable and certainly a most novel feature was the dramatic representation entitled "Why Mrs. Gordon did not hire
a servant," given by members of the society. It was an original production
written by Miss Helen Spinks. she herself taking a leading part in the presentation. It was a great success. Everyone
enjoyed it. It made the evening really
worth while. Refreshments were served
in the parish house, where small tables
were set to accommodate all who were
present.
Once again we are called upon to bear
sad news. Central Union has suffered
a great loss in the death of Mr. W. W.
Hall, for so many years the faithful
clerk of the church. We leave to others,
better qualified to speak, to tell of his
long life of faithful service, but we can-
.
from bearing our personal
kind and loving nature.
We shall never forget the many kindnesses and friendly favors he showed us
from the day we came to Honolulu even
to the very last. And we know that the
warm friendship he gave to us he shared
with all. 'The sympathy of the whole
church goes out to the bereaved family
for we know their loss is far greater
than ours. A life that meant so much to
the church and to his friends must have
meant much more to those of his own
not
June.
FRIEND
refrain
testimony to his
home.
101C
I till him with whisky, and then it's his vote
That's working for me.
There's plenty of Church folks who call him
a "bum,"
And unctuously pray for the Kingdom to
come;
But they vote the same way—that Is, they
vote Rum
They're working for me.
—
The Scribe's Corner
REV. WM. BREWSTER OLESON
THE DRAM SELLER SINGS.
I've got a good fellow —a hard working man,
Working for me.
For six days a week, as hard as he can.
He's working for me.
He starts early mornings, gets fined if he's
late,
But as for myself, I get up at eight;
Slep while he sweats, quite content with
his fate,
Working for me.
Corresponding Secretary.
The liquor interests are no friends of labor."
— Chicago Daily Socialist.
The Real Issue.
(iood men may differ as to the wisest
way of handling the liquor problem
through legislation. Put the present is
the time to discuss these differHe works hard and long, but he keeps hardly
ences' Whether men are glad to have it
mighty poor.
so or not. the present issue is sharp and
Working for me.
Prosperity never will enter his door:
clear. It amounts to this: Will you vote
He's working for me.
to stop the sale of liquor in Hawaii, or
His comforts are few, his bills he can't
will you vote to continue the sale? Evmeet;
His clothes —well, he buys them along River ery voter faces this issue and no other.
street:
Questions of high licenses, more stringHis kids have to go without shoes on their ent enforcement of the present law. the
feetGothenburg system, and all else, are irreHe's working for me.
levant in the' present juncture. Those
I live in a villa; he pays my rent,
who vote in the July election must voteHe's working for me;
to stop the legalized sale of liquor or to
He has a room in an old tenement,
continue it. There is no middle course.
Working for me.
Every "Yes" vote will count in favor of
I've pictures, pianos and furniture fine,
Bought with his money, but all the same a stringent curtailment of the present
mine;
liquor evil. Every "No" vote will count
But he takes no notice, and I make no sign. in favor of the legalized continuance of
He's working for me.
this evil. No amount of discussion can
He's got two smart children —a girl and a change the reality of this issue.
lad-
sf
He's working for me;
But they don't get a chance, and they'll go
Meeting
to the bad;
He's working for me.
Our voting community is divided into
But they run the streets and they're puny
two groups, viz., those who are desirous
and pale,
of liquor, and
While my boy Is hearty and healthy and of promoting the sale
hale;
those who would be glad to secure a
But I'm only selling, their dad drinks the greater
restriction of liquor selling. The
ale;
latter group is made up of men of all
He's working for me.
the Issue.
possible variations of belief as to the
A hard working woman's his wife, but she's wisest solution of this social problem.
not
These differences of opinion have operWorking for me.
ated
here as elsewhere in preventing un
heartache
She loves him, though many's the
animity of action, and have thus made it
she's got
Thro' his working for me.
more difficult to reach a satisfactory soHer trinkets she buys at a cheap ten-cent lution.
It is manifest that no solution
store,
will be reached until men who believe in
restricting liquor selling get together.
And he and "the boys" will buy her some Minor differences may well be subordimore
nated to the duty of securing what is obWorking for me.
tainable. The July election offers the opportunity of securing the delegalizing of
At every election, I'd like you to note,
He's working for me.
the liquor traffic. Some men may have
While my wife has
galore;
—
jewels and diamonds
�June.
THE
1010.
such
serious doubts as to the efficacy ofobtainBut this is what is
it is
able in the coming election. And trial,
better to get that, and give it fair
than to continue things as they are. Indeed, to vote 'Acs" at the coming election is the only way left open for the
man who believes in restricting the
honor traffic to voice his convictions.
a solution.
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Indifferent About
Voting.
Every man who wants to promote the
sale and use of liquor will vote at the
coming election. So will every man who
can be influenced by him. On the other
hand, even- man who believes in prohibition will vote and will influence as
many more men to vote with him as possible. But there are some men who may
not vote. They are prejudiced against
prohibition, or they prefer some other
form of restriction! or they are content
as things are, or for some reasons other
than these, they are now inclined to keep
away from the ballot box on July 26.
'The presumption is that these men are
all favorable to the restriction of the sale
of liquor, and therefore it should be
dearly understood that their staying
away from the polls will count in the
interest of the continued sale of liquor in
Hawaii. Their absence from the polls in
each case, means one vote less for the
forces to which they naturally belong.
and commensurate encouragement to the
interests they do not favor.
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If Prohibition Carries.
If prohibition carries at the July election certain things are likely to follow.
'Thus, the legislators who get elected at
the November election will be elected by
the voters who carry the July election.
These men will be in sympathy with the
wishes of the electors and will enact a
law in keeping with the mandate of the
special election. Again, our legislature
will profit by the experience of mainland legislation in framing a law that
will provide proper facilities for the effective enforcement of the people's will.
Again, it is altogether likely that Congress will enact legislation that will substantially reinforce the decision which
our voters make in the special election
which Congress itself has ordered.
These are all probabilities, and as such
become in themselves weighty considerations why hesitant men should give this
movement their support, and thus help
to give a prohibitory law a fair trial. Another consideration is imbedded in the
fact that many communities either under local option which has maintained local prohibition for a long term of years,
or under statutory prohibition, are overwhelmingly satisfied with the results.
What has been accomplished elsewhere
may be accomplished here. Such a pos-
FRIEND,
sibility ought to have due weight with
every voter.
sti-
ll Prohibition Fails.
We ought to look that possibility
squarely in the face. No man has a
larger concern in such an issue than the
man who is proposing not to vote. What
will happen if prohibition fails to carry
at the special election? For one thing
the liquor element will find itself in tin
saddle, and the anti-liquor element will
be unhorsed. That will probably mean
pro-liquor legislators, and pro-liquor legislation. Put it will also mean a renewed
antagonism on the part of the anti-liquor
men. On one side will he passion and
selfishness, and a vested interest flushed
with success at the polls; on the othei
will be men of honest conviction and unselfish civic patriotism, and genuine civic
brotherliness, defeated for the time, but
in the lists to win out at last. If any
man thinks that this question is going t<
be kept out of politics by allowing prohibition at the coining election to go down
to defeat, he may as well disabuse himself of such an opinion. Prohibition, oi
at least the more stringent restriction of
liquor selling, is bound to be one of tin
big issues before the voters in the future,
the issues before the voters in the future
if it is not settled by the July election ir
accordance with the wishes of a great
number of public-spirited citizens.
It
will be in politics with a vengeance if not
settled right now. No community in the
mainland has been able to keep the convictions of its best citizens on this vital
question out of politics and it will not he
possible here. It would seem like political wisdom for the men who love politics as a game to clear the deck of this
question before it gets into polit'cs. This
is the time to do it. It will be t(X) late if
the anti-liquor men get unhorsed at the
coming election, for they will get horsed
again quickly enough, and there are other elections coming. Great moral questions like this suffer delay but they never fail to win out at last.
KILAUEA
The moil and toil and boil
Of Mother Earth
The pyre of fire and ire
Of Father Time
I know thy glow and flow
Reflect my God.
May 31 1910.
J A. RICHARDS.
9
The Call of Christ
in the Plebiscite
A Sermon Delivered at Central Union
Church, Honolulu, Sunday, May 29,
by Doremus Scudder, D. D.
"Render unto Caesar the things that
arc Caesar's and unto Cod the things
that arc Cod's."
This is Jesus' law of citizenship. It
requires men to be as faithful in politics
as in religion.
Xay, it links the two
spheres, and makes it impossible for a
man to be fully religious who does not
perform his duty to the State.
The plebiscite to be held on July 26 is
a mandate from the American nation. It
is a rare thing for the country to call
upon one of its component parts to express its mind upon a great moral question, perhaps the greatest moral question
in the social realm. The nation and the
world await the outcome.
No citizen
worthy of the name has the fight to
dodge the issue. The Christ calls upon
every one of his followers to express his
solemn conviction, first by using his intluence before July 2d on the right side
and second by voting. Even the women
may not escape. In the providence of
God they too hold mighty compelling
forces, and by their use of them may inlluence the nation as profoundly as the
men. The sacredness of the obligation
imposed upon us men and women.of Hawaii cannot be overstated. As minister
of Jesus Christ in this historic church, I
should be false to the Master if I did
not employ every possible personal and
official influence on the side of eternal
right in this decisive conflict.
The call of the Christ in this plebiscite
is a demand for justice. We of the white
race are responsible for the introduction
of liquor here. Our alcoholic drinks exterminated the royal family and the high
chiefs, and have almost destroyed the
entire Hawaiian race. The remnant is
being killed off so rapidly now that unless liquor is banished, the pure strain
will soon disappear from earth. If we
are not ruthlessly to murder a whole
people we must call a halt to the terrible
traffic. It is late in the day to show
justice to these Islanders. It is very
meager jusf'ce to deny alcoholic beverages to those of our own race here in the
hope of staying the dstruction of our
Hawaiian brothers. And the Author of
the Golden Rule leaves no alternative.
Infinite pathos breathes in the Christ
call of the plebiscite. The story of Ha(Continued en page 14)
�June. 1910
THE FRIEND
10
Range Lights
By
JOHN G. WOOLLEY, LL. D.
SAVE THE BOYS.
Once personal appetite gets the best
of self interest and conscience, it is ready
and too often able to defy the public law
that interferes on behalf of the general
welfare.
Whenever prohibition carries in an
electorate we still have to allow for a
margin of failure on account of the ripe
fruit of the liquor business—the army of
ruined men whose citizenship has been
charged off by stupid, reckless, wicked
license financiering, from the column of
civic assets to the scrap-heap of liabili-
ties, and for the insolent yelp of the
liquor sellers, who. having coached the
runners in the race for ruin, and got
their pocket books, point their light fingers at the wretched company and My
with puffy cheeks. "Prohibition does not
prohibit."
There is a certain dirty quality of
truth in it: but even at that, they lie For
there is many a drunkard too weak to
walk a man's gait through a gauntlet of
to seize with miserable joy the possibility
afforded by the prohibitory law. with all
the personal suffering involved, and
make a dash for liberty and restoration
to the ranks of manly men.
Nevertheless, it remains only too true
that the main body of the human wreckage will make no steadfast effort to reform, and will stop at nothing to go behind the law in answer to the call of
crazy nerves and fainting ambition, for
alcohol and sleep or madness.
Lined up on the same side of the arguwith these incompetents and incorrigibles
is a company of the prosperous and care-
less "temperate" drinkers, who repudiate the call to sacrifice even so much as
one poor occasional cocktail for the general g(x)d. 'These corroborate the false
and fraudulent clamor of the liquor side
with the calm and crooked cynicism.
"You can't make men moral by law."
"Crooked" is an ugly adjective, but it
is justified in this connection. For anybody that knows anything about the social philosophy or history, knows that
civilization must stand or fall, on the
proposition that you CAN make men
moral by law. The defective and perverted will conspire with criminals, and
the competent self-lovers and gluttons
will flout the law. Put these are relatively few. Most of us are reasonable and
normal, open-minded to the law—the
school-master of the world, that raps the
restless and heedless with the ferrule,
stands the stubborn in the corner, flogs
the disobedient, and expels the vicious,
but brings on the great pupil body by
mere wholesome suggestion.
Who is it that says "Prohibition does
not prohibit"? The men who intend that
it shall not. And by so saying they confess the criminal nature and connections
of the business and their own dishonesty
in the debate.
Who is it that says. "You can't make
men moral by law"? Those whose deity
and university are their own cravings.
and who despise the duty and the privilege of helping others.
Put concede that the drunkard and the
glutton will hold on their way to moral
and material poverty. Yet the plain truth
stands, that as to the young, the well disposed .the healthy- bodied .healthy minded
majority of the people, prohibition docs
prohibit, and teach self-control and selfrespect.
The home decanter, beer bottle, keg
and demijohn are a treacherous pack.
�June. 1910
THE FRIEND
11
but sharply limited in sco|)e of evil influ- a Ix'tter chance than a local and conve- regulations of the Federal treasury deence. Bat the licensed dram shop is a nient dram shop would give them, to partment, and the practice of the interpublic school of treating and tippling think, to hear a convincing suggestion— nal revenue division thereof in its dealat any rate to get the idea and the habit ings with the vendors of the prohibited
and wasting, and idling and failing.
'The first time a hoy visits a saloon he of saving for drink money. Young men commodity.
takes soda water, lemonade or a cigar. out for a lark may go on a debauch with "In Kansas, where the sale of liquors
But the pressure exerted upon him by the imported drink, but the romance will is prohibited, not only by the constitufriends outside the bar. the friendly- soon die out of that.
tion and laws, but by the almost unaniAt any rate, the public school of drink- mous sentiment of the people, the govwaiter back of it. and the general principles-be-damned air of the place, is ing will be closed and the teachers set to ernment at Washington through the instrong and constant, and if he keeps hunting better work.
ternal revenue service is. in fact, giving
coming he yields. The pictures on 'the
Our cartoonist has drawn an ugly moral support and assistance to bootwalls, the scenes enacted, the drift of picture but a very strong one. In the leggers and other lawless vendors of intalk, never cease saying: "It is a shame ranks of the "down and outs" one jkxjt toxicants to such an ojien and notorious
to save your money," "Home is a joke," wretch has "turned op his toes." He is extent that the affair is scandalous in
"Gambling is good business," "Perjury past help. But shame to us if we do not itself .besides being the means of breedis noble." "Profanity is refined enough." smash the business that would put a boy ing contempt among our people for
"To hell with chastity."
in his place.
their general government.
It is no accident that the salixin operJ»
"When the people of a State jxjsitively
ates as a school, but malice aforethought.
little 'Territory in the middle of express their opposition to the sale of
'The
In the dark lexicon of the liquor dealer the ocean, with its mixed races and its intoxicating liquors the Federal governthere is no such word as mercy. For still, small voice, given directions from ment should respect that expression and
example. At a meeting of representa- Washington to hold an election on the help rather than hinder giving the best
tives of the liquor trade in the State of local liquor problem, got back demurely possible effect.
()hio, one of the speakers incautiously
and delightfully at Uncle Sam.
"Internal revenue officers are dailypublished the theory of the liquor school, The People's Prohibition League, in selling
Federal stamps to outlaws, giving
in substantially these words:
its initial meeting, accepted heartily the them quasi authority to violate the laws
"THE SUCCESS OF OCR BUSI- Congressional intimation that there was of the State and in some instances are
NESS IS DEPENDENT LARGELY a mote in the Territorial eye, but added giving them marked advantages over
UPON THE CREATION OF APPE- that from this distance the Federal optic purchasers of license stamps, in States
TITE FOR DRINK. Men who drink appeared to be out of commission.
where the sale of intoxicants is not a
liquor, like others, will die. and if there
It
was a lovely hit, as startling as crime in the eyes of the law. The Fedis no new appetite created, our counters
courteous, and all the more becaus- it eral law requiring the ]>osting in a conwill be empty, as well as our coffers. ()ur was the work
of the native Hawaiians spicuous place is violated with impunity
children will go hungry, or we must of the league. The whites did not pro- and the ruling of the Treasury Departchange our business to that of some oth- pose so bold a stroke, and apparently had ment that credit for sixty days may be
er more remunerative.
not thought of it. Put they were quick extended to these malefactors is an out"THE OPEN FIELD FOR THE to see the justice and the wisdom of it, rage on the temperance States and comCREATION OF APPETITE IS and it went into the platform with a munities.
AMONG THE POYS.
cheer.
"I therefore suggest that the govern"After men have grown and their haThis not only puts the League in win- ors of temperance States, as representabits are formed they rarely ever change ning form for the plebiscite, but also ad- tives of their people, join in a protest
in this regard, and I make the sugges- vances the Territory to the right of line against the practices of the internal revtion, gentlemen, that NICKELS EX- in the mainland movement for Federal enue division of the national treasury,
PENDED IN TREATS TO Till-: legislation in support of the police power to be sent to Congress and the PresiP.OYS NOW WILL RETURN IN of states and territories. At the next ses- dent, with a view to re-establishing reD( >LLARS TO YOUR TILLS AFTER
sion of Congress the nine prohibitory spect for the laws and rights of selfHAS
THE APPETITE
BEEN states will insist upon relief from the in- governing States.
FORMED."
justice of the present regulations of "It will please me greatly to hear from
The statement got into the newspapers Inter-state Commerce, which tend to ob- you in this matter and get any suggesand was strenuously denied by the trade. struct and defeat the states that are seek- tions from you that may offer a more
The denial was corroborated, in a meas- ing to expel the liquor infamy, and in effective aire for this scandalous evil.
ure, by the incredibleness of the brutal- that notable and righteous deputation, if
"\'erv sincerely yours,
ity of the idea. But a reliable witness, the Hawaiian voters make good on July
"W. R. STUBBS,
in the person of a Methodist minister 26—and they will—the Islands will open
"Governor of Kansas."
who heard the speech, settled the ques- the debate.
tion with an affidavit.
The responses were prompt and the
The need for Congressional relief is
united action effective. The President
A prohibitory policy will impose ex- pressing, and deliverance is near.
has changed the policy of the internal
pense and trouble, and bring many distime ago Governor Stubbs of revenue department so that the officers
appointments. Confirmed drunkards of Some addressed
the following letter of that department must aid the authorilow and high degree will send away for Kansas
to each of the governors of the nine pro- ties
in "dry" states, territories and disliquor, and the liquor dealers' association
tricts to enforce their local laws, instead
will magnify the fact and multiply it by hibitory States:
of hindering them.
many falsehoods. Put even at that, such "My Dear Governor:
petty importers will have to save up their
"In States having laws prohibiting the
Under the old system, which has been
money, to enclose with their order, and sale of intoxicating liquors executive of-1 in vogue since the founding of the govwhile they save, and while they wait, ficers are greatly hampered in the en- [ ernment, the revenue department never
to receive the shipment, they will have forcement of said laws by the rules and :
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Men Working for Men
PAUL SUPER
Annual Report.
June. 1010
FRIEND
A. C. McKeever gives the address. 'These
meetings in the posts seldom fall below
90 men. and frequently draw over 100
men. Put" instead of getting odds and
ends of Mr. Larimer's time, a secretaryshould be employed to do nothing else
but military work, and we expect to get
the man.
Our annual report has just been
mailed, and many of The Friend readers
have received a copy. It shows the best
year's woik the local Association has
had. Every year's report should do that,
and we hope to keep up the habit. Under the heads of Men," "Cash," "Activities, and "Visions,' the achievements
of the past year and some of our hopes Industrial.
for the coming year are shown. A thousThe meetings at Catton Neill Co., the
and members by August, 1911, is a vision Honolulu Iron Works, and the car barns
m
work for the employes of the company
This is good. It is also right in line
with what the best roads in America are
doing for their men. President Brown
of the New York Central Lines, said
recently. "A solemn obligation rests upon the management of these railroads to
do everything within their power to
make these employes the safest, most reliable men jxissible; and in doing this,
in my opinion, no agency can be enlisted
so •well adapted, so consecrated to the
work, and so successful in the work, as
the railroad branch of the Young Men's
Christian Association." And last summer I heard Mr. Brown say that his lines
had spent $700,000 in equipping Y. M.
C. A.'s for their men. and spent $40,000
annually to help defray the expenses of
the work. He said further, "I say with-
THE NEW Y. M. C. A. BUILDING
we feel certain of realizing. Three hundred students in the night school this
coming fall is one we will have to work
to realize.
If we succeed, we will have
to pack them pretty closely. We had 220
this past year, and had to do some figuring to find class room for them. I hit
packing this old building till the men
and boys stick out of the windows is one
of our chief amusements, and we expect to continue to have fun.
fall to the general secretary. Here, too,
a man should be employed to give all his
time to welfare work for the men in the
employ of these corporations, and as
they are all directed by men who believe
in welfare work conducted by Christian
men, we feel sure that this man will be
employed at no distant date. Corporations in other cities have turned welfare
work for their employes over to the Y.
M. C. A. with results eminently satisfacto both employer and employee, and any
plan that satisfies both these factors in
Visions.
production or distribution has a good
Next year we want to report that an case. The Y. M. C. A. can "make good"
army secretary has been sent out from here, and we feel it will be given a
the New York office to work with the chance. We have the chance. It is the
soldiers at Leilehua. We want to report secretary we want.
that a man has been added to our own
Jt
force to work at Fort Ruger. Fort Dv
O.
&
C.
R. L.
Russey, the Marine Parracks, and at
Fort Shafter. Mr. Larimer is at present
The railroad has voted to add a Y. M.
carrying on the work with the men in C. A. secretary to the pay roll of the
khaki, arranging meetings at which Rev. railroad, to give all his time to welfare
out hesitation or qualification, that in
my opinion no investment of a like
by the New York Central Lines
has ever paid or ever can pay so large
a return as this expenditure."
And
again we see that Honolulu business men
are not slow to adopt methods proved
good in the States.
amount
Bon Voyage Dr. Hand.
Tuesday night, the 24th, a large number of members of the Association and
their lady friends dropped in on Dr.
Hand and the general secretary while
the former was spending a last evening
at the house of the latter, to wish the
doctor a bon voyage, as he leaves for a
vacation in the States, and to express
appreciation of four years of hard work.
Dr. Hand was presented with a complete
traveler's case, and the general secretary
with a chafing dish. We had a fine even-
�ing together, nearly 200 of us. 'The evening was clear, and the lawn, lighted up
with dozens of lights, made a tine placeWhile Dr.
to spend a six-ial evening.
Hand is away, he will get bids on the
equipment for the physical department
of the new building.
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New Building.
The Library building has been sold,
and the lot is being cleared. As soon as
possible, excavations for the foundations
will be made, and the work of construe
tion pushed. Mr. Ripley spent a week
with the Association committees going
over the plans for the nuilding. and had
returned to the coast to complete his
work, when he will come to Honolulu to
stay and superintend the work in person.
Plans of the building will be printed as
soon as they are returned to Honolulu,
perhaps in time for the next issue of The
Friend.
tion as clerk. One day A. & P. were in
a hurry for a bookkeeper for one of the
plantation stores. 'They told us about it,
and the former deliverer of goods for a
grocery, who later delivered the goods as
a clerk, was recommended by us. 'That
was about five months ago. Last week
we had the pleasure of telling what we
knew about him, when he applied for a
bond to take a position with the same
company considerably higher up. Evidently he is still "delivering the goods."
Some day he will be refrred to as "one
of our leading young men.''
RANGE LIGHTS.
( Continuedpom
page //)
vending as a crime. When
a vendor or bootlegger was caught selling liquor without a government stamp
all he had to do was to square himself
with the revenue officers and take out a
stamp covering the time he had been vioA Charter Member.
lating the law. The revenue agents were
Ass(x;iation,
The
like many another in- ever ready to accomimxlate him by datstitution in Hawaii mourns the loss of ing his stamp tax back to cover the peMr. W. W Hall, who was one of the ten riod of his violations.
men who organized the V, M. C. A. of
'This policy was especially obnoxious
Honolulu way back in 1869. Mr. Hall in Kansas and other "dry" states. Whenhas held almost ever" office in the Asso- ever the state/or local authorities would
ciation, and no man has a brighter re- catch a IxxHlegger and send him to jail
cord for faithfulness. There are few. if the revenue officers would go round to
any, important meetings that he did not the jail and make him take out a governattend, and frequently mixed with the ment stamp to cover his violations.
younger men in the monthly Round-Ups.
Governor Stubba insisted that the revWould there were more such. Faithful- enue service should enforce the federal
ness. What a memory to leave behind.
law. which lays a heavy penalty on persons selling liquor without federal
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stamps, rather than compromise with
Next Campaign.
crime by letting them pay for a Stamp
We want 100 readers of "Association covering their violations. By condoning
Men," the international organ of the Y. such crimes, he declared the governM. C. A. We do not care how many ment was helping to promote the bootsubscribers w-e get; it is readers we are legging business.
after. To get this 100, we will have a
After listening to his story, the Presithree day campaign, and go after them. dent brought his fist down upon the
One of the features of "Association table and said: "This jxjlicy must stop."
Men" is the daily notes on Pible readAnd it did. By direction of the Presings, full of inspiration for right living. ident, the internal revenue department
If you have no systematic plan of daily will no longer issue liquor stamps to
Pible reading, let us put you on the list. cover past violations of law. BootlegCost you half a dollar. We have over gers, caught selling without a governthirty to start with.
ment stamp, will be prosecuted. They
Delivering.
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THE FRIEND
June, 1910
0
Two years ago he came into the Association and said he wanted to study
stenography. We showed him that a
little more English and arithmetic would
do him good, and he signed up for these
courses. At that time he was driving a
grocery wagon at a salary that does not
allow for purchasing much sugar stock.
This year he entered the bookkeeping
class, and soon left his wagon for a posi-
treated liquor
cannot
compromise with the government
any longer. A bootlegger will not run
the risk of going to prison for two years
under the federal law, and if he takes
out a government stamp the state or local authorities can immediately secure
his name from the records in the revenue
department and arrest him. In Kansas
the possession of a government stamp
is prima facie evidence of guilt. Govern-
or Stubbs says that the new policy will
reduce violation of liquor laws in "dry"
states fully 50 per cent, if not more.
And now. to complete the good work
begun by Governor Stubbs. the CurtisMiller I till has been introduced in Congress.
It is as follows:
A PILL
To Constitute Intoxicating Liquors as a
Special Class of Commodities, and to
Rcgul te the Interstate Shipments of
Such Liquors.
Section 1. P,e it enacted by the Senate
and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That all fermented, distilled or
other intoxicating liquors shall constitute
a special class of commodities, and. as a
special class, shall be admitted to and
carried in interstate commerce, subject to
the limitations and restrictions hereinafter imposed upon interstate commerce in
articles of such special class.
Section 2. 'That the interstate commerce character of all fermented, distilled, or other intoxicating liquors admitted to interstate commerce in accordance with the provisions of this Act, and
transported from one State. Territory or
district of the L'nitcd States into anyother State, Territory or district of the
United States, or from any foreign country into any State. Territory or district
of the United States, shall terminate
upon their arrival immediately within
the boundary of the State, Territory or
district in which the place of destination
is situated and before the delivery of
said liquors to the consignee: Provided,
That shipments of such liquors entirely
through a State. Territory or district of
the United States shall not be subject to
the provisions of this section while in
transit through such State, Territory or
district of the United States shall not
be subject to the provisions of this section while in transit through such <btate.
Territory or district of the United States.
a*
WHAT! WHERE! WHO!
When the dram seller assumes that
eager expression of countenance and
says: "If prohibition carries, where is
our revenue to come from," he is making
a play on words. He does not mean the
public revenue, but "OUR." that is, the
revenue of the philanthropists engaged in
the liquor business. Nevertheless, the
question is pertinent, Where will they
get it? "It is hard to say. But they can
get it by going to work at some decent,
honest labor. A good many women who
have been deprived of the revenue that
should have gone to them and to their
children, for the sake of the dram seller,
have made a living, such as it was, by
taking in washing. When the dram ship
goes out of business these women will
not need to continue with their tubs.
There will be a demand for that kind
of work, however, which the dram sell-
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June, 1910
ers might supply, at least temporarily, THE CALL OF CHRIST IN THE [thing with no life of its own and no poswhile their pudgy hands and flabby mussible appeal to human sympathy. No
PLEBISCITE.
cles were getting hard enough for someneed to condemn those who, by the exthing manly.
igencies of social evolution, are its sup( Continued from page i))
porters and abettors. Love for them
Put on the other hand, some men are
asking where the revenue is to come waii's children is one of history's beauti- prompts us both to rescue them from
from to replace the $75,000 of annual ful but tragic poems. Coming out of the their sad trade by ending the business
license fees now realized by the Terri- far southwest to these blissful isles, fight- which keeps them out of the ranks of
ing their way up from savagery to a producers and to hasten the day when
tory.
Well, at the worst, the Territory can get settled rule under the first Kamehameha, they will thank (lod for their deliverthe money from the same jieople wdio pay opening wide their hearts to men of ev- ance.
the revenue. And who is it that pays ery race with a hospitality never before 'The plebiscite is a Christ call to practh; revenue —the liquor dealer?
Not known on earth, their minds so ready tical wisdom. Here is the point where
he. The liquor dealer simply gets a rake- for truth that when it dawned upon them earnest and conscientious Christian men
off of say a million dollars a year for they welcomed it with an avidity and an are apt to divide. Granted all that has
for ultimate corollaries of law been said as to the nature of the liquor
cai rying the $75,000 to the treasurer. aptitude
order,
and
justice, equality of privilege, trade, will a prohibitory law enacted in
The drinkers pay the revenue; and in
order to do it many of them rob their universality of education, stability of response to a popular mandate on July
own wives and children.
They could property rights, extended suffrage and 26 be effective? The battle ground dispay the $75,000 direct to the tax'collect- religious freedom unexampled in history, closes a four-sided fight between advoor and have a million a year. There vet stabbed to the death by the strangers cates of prohibition by legislative enactare. roughly. 150 licensed dram shops whom in love they pressed to their bos- ment, of local option, of the Gothenin the Islands. It is conservative to esti- oms, and now. a mere handful remain- burg system, and of restrictive law like
mate their profit at an average of twen- ing, summoned to decide a question as that now on our statute book. To enter
to
their race as that into this debate is neither the purpose
ty dollars a day each, and every dollar momentous
the
Jewish people faced nor the duty of this hour. The newspapis lost by the drinker and those who which
when Pilate
bade
them
choose ers are presenting all sides of the arguhave a right to look to him.
robber, while ment with commendable fulness.
between
the
Savior
and
the
It is
If the drinkers owe the drink sellers about them
buzz a bevy of destroyers sufficient to say that the testimony from
a living, they could well afford to pay
who for paltry gain of selfish dollars ex- the two States of Maine and Kansas,
tliem ten dollars a day each, and at that,
haust
the arts of demagogy, falsehoixl pivotal in all this discussion, reenforced
they would save half a million a year,
to seduce them to demand by personal experince in the former comand
bribery
ckar profit, or if they owe these sensi- the
of drink whose sole pur- monwealth, has thoroughly converted me
Parabas
tive patriots the courtesy of buying from
pose it iV to filch away their very lives— from a decided opponent to a firm supthem "blend" and "type" and "square
face" and "dago red" and all the poison where will you find its like? 'The Jew porter of State prohibition. The tremenhis fatal choice away off in one dous revulsion in sentiment regarding alswill "to suit the climate," they could made
comer of the world. Who thought or coholic drinks that has deeply affected
at least save the sorrow, disease and discared what became of him? Put the Ha- the entire Knglish-speaking world durgrace that go with it by pouring the
waiian is deciding his life or his death ing the past three or four years coinci"goods" into the sewer.
in the amphitheater of twentieth cen- dent with the wide publication of thorThe fact is that there is no "revenue" tury mankind, whom divine sympathy oughgoing
scientific experiments as to
problem in connection with prohibition. has bound into a sacred community of
of minute doses of intoxicants
Enforced prohibition is only another kindly interest. It is a dramatic spectacle the effect
upon the healthy human system, has creterm for "saving"—men and money. In of strange power. And we white men ated
a public opinion back of all legis35 counties of Kansas the jails are emp- may help our brother choose aright.
lation
upon the subject which has comty. In 37 the courts have no criminal
The call of the Christ reveals a funda- pletely changed the complexion of the
cases of any kind.
25
there
is
no
In
mental question with but one side. For prohibition question. Our national conpoor house and in 44 there is not a pauthe past few weeks the columns of our gress necessarily lags behind the people
per.
daily press have been open for free dis- upon great moral issues, for it waits, and
The man who says to vote "No" on cussion. Both sides have availed them- wisely so, to be sure of the popular manJuly 26 for the benefit of the public funds selves of the privilege. Put not one single date before acting. Hence the attitude
is ignorant or mentally deficient or in- argument worth an honest man's con- of Congress on the liquor question leaves
sincere.
sideration has been urged in favor of no doubt any longer as to the practicathe drink trade. (hitlawed by- our most bility of legislative prohibition. The
august tribunal, the Supreme Court of stock arguments of anti-prohibitionists
IN MICHIGAN. HOWEVER.
the United States, ostracized by the na- of ten and twenty years ago are ancient
tion's industries, condemned by organ- history to us lovers of pragmatism toApropos of the statement of .our ve- ized labor, the arch enemy of pure poli- day. We are living in a new century of
(o)racious fellow citizens the dramsell- tics, the apotheosis of predatory selfish- conviction and determination. Sober
ers .that a reaction has set in in the ness, the
Judas Iscariot of home life, the business men who in 1900 laughed at
prohibition movement, on the mainland, one unpardonable sinner whom religion Mott's borrowed phrase, "the evangelizathe Michigan election is interesting.
cannot save, for whom even science, so tion of the world in our generation," are
Michigan is distinctly a "wet" state, long heralded a friend, today cannot now enthusiastically organizing a laybut on April 4 thirty-six counties voted speak a single good word, the beverage men's movement to get the gospel to
on prohibition with the result that twenty liquor traffic stands plealess, convicted by every man with the same thoroughness
went "dry," and sixteen "wet," and this the intellect and conscience of mankind. that the astute politician reaches every
is only the beginning of the movement in Its last comrade, social usage, is begin- voter before a great election, while the
that state. This election put out of busi- ning to desert the culprit. It provokes old-timer, living back in the nineteenth
ness 300 saloons and six breweries.
no pity, because it is a crass material century, rubs his eyes in dazed amaze-
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THE
1910
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same holds true of the fight waii's vote, if "Yes," will carry the na-
Britain
against intoxicants.
thinks nothing of nibbing $25,000,000
off its annual liquor bill; army officers
extolling the virtues of the out-of-date
canteen grow red in the face before congressional committees who sleep through
the harangue, while the Y. M. C. A.
steps to the front with its army secretary
and building and ends the argument;
far-sighted political leaders in the progressive West carry the prohibition fight
into rum-cursed centers like Chicago
and send cold shivers down the backs
of primeval bosses by their manly and
convincing demonstration, both that prohibition prohibits and that prohibition
politically pays. Not a single argument
that I have seen in the press directed
against the practicability of legislative
prohibition in the present campaign has
borne the faintest suggestion of modernity—old dead nineteenth century mummies every one of them.
But Hawaii's situation is, like everything Hawaiian, far in the vanguard of
new issues. The nation has seen nothing
like it. It is a fitting prelude to the second decade of this noble century.
Hitherto the American people, as a
whole, have held rather aloof from taking a hand in the anti-liquor fight. Good
faith with the Indian, who, by treaty, demanded to be saved from the alcohol
curse, compelled Uncle Sam to safeguard
Indian reservations, and also Indian Territory when Oklahoma became a State.
A national conscience that was ashamed
to let its soldiers serve under conditions
that any great industrial plant would not
tolerate for a second, forced Congress to
abolish the canteen. Out of decency the
national legislature cleansed its own
quarters in Washington from the drink
nuisance, but beyond this it refused to
budge, and its highest court solemnly
sanctioned the bombardment of every
prohibition locality by the combined
liquor forces of the rest of the Union.
In fact the nation exerted itself to make
prohibition not prohibit.
Lo, then, with Hawaii a new era
dawns. Wonderfully moved by the appeals from the native race, the sovereign people of the United States have
demanded that these Islands say once
and for all whether they want the liquor curse here to live or die. If the
answer of July 26 be "Death," and if
this be followed up by corresponding
legislative enactment, the nation will be
committed irrevocably to action that will
make effective the will of the people of
Hawaii. Good faith with us will compel
Congress to prevent the importation of
liquor, except for scientific or medicinal
purposes, into these Islands. The local
prohibition league, in its declaration of
principles, makes this fundamental. Ha(ireat
tion for the principle. "Prohibition must
prohibit." and the law will automatically
follow preventing the people of non-prohibition States from the nefarious and
unjust endeavor to render ineffectual the
will of communities that have outlawed
the liquor traffic. Whatever may have
been the case elsewhere, prohibition will
and must prohibit in Hawaii because the
nation in demanding our vote is morally
bound to make it effctive. For this reason the call of the Christ in the plebiscite
is a summons to the highest practical
wisdom.
Our nation has in God's wise providence placed Hawaii on the firing line of
this great moral battlefield, just as the
divine unfolding of human history has
advanced us to the forefront in the still
larger movement of universal human
brotherhood. The eyes of our country
are upon us. We are fighting the fight of
every local option community which has
voted "no" and of every State which
has enacted a prohibitory law. Our "yes"
on Jury 26 will be registered in the high-
est
deliberative assembly among men,
the Congress of the United States, and
will animate with courage every fellowsoldier on earth in the war of truth
against falsehood.
This is Memorial Sunday, when, in
raemory of all those who died for the nation, we dedicate ourselves anew to our
country. The honored dead of the past
are looking down upon us wondering
how we will bear ourselves as patriots
in this latest conflict. It is also Peace
Sunday in Hawaii when the churches of
are thinking of the bonds
Jesus Christmen
everywhere in a loving
that unite
that
shall forever end all
fejlow service
warfare. We are fighting one of the
great human battles with a definite bearing upon the forces that make for a universal world life and therefore for world
peace. The call of the Christ in the plebiscite has an ideal value all its own. It
challenges every voter in the Territory
and every man. woman and child who
can influence a voter to do his utmost
for lovely Hawaii nei. for the nation,
for mankind the world over and for God.
Our Young People
HENRY P. JUDD
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL MOVEMENT.
(
Extracts from a sermon in the Kahului
I'nion Church. Sunday. May 22.
1910).
This twenty-second day of May is
called "World's Sunday School Day," because we are today remembering our fellow workers in the Sunday schools all
over the world, and especially those from
many lands now meeting in the city of
Washington. D. C, in the World's Sixth
Sunday School Convention.
At the request of the World's Sunday
School Association, sermons are being
preached today in Christian churches all
over the world in the interest of this
world-wide movement so important in
its bearing upon the young people. Sunday schools everywhere are thinking especially of the Convention at Washington, and the great movement that is
teaching the Word of God in every part
of the earth. We here in Hawaii form
a link in the chain of prayer that is today encircling the globe.
It will be well for us to trace the history of the Sunday school movement,
noticing its strength and work in the
world today, its nrogress in Hawaii nei
and what we here in Kahului can do for
the movement.
The idea of a school for instruction in
the Word of God seems to have been
prevalent among the Hebrews at an early
date. In the Book of Deuteronomy, we
read that the father was commanded to
teach the law to his family. He was
thus like a Sunday school teacher, having as his pupils the members of his
household, his children, servants* and
others. After the return of the Jews
from the Babylonian captivity, Ezra
gathered the people together and read
the law to them, explaining it carefully.
Eighty years before Christ schools were
held in the synagogues of Palestine in
which attendance was compulsory. Jesus
was probably a student in a school of
this character. In the early church of
Christ there were these schools. Paul
in his first letter to the Corinthians,
mentions the teacher as a separate and
distinct officer in the church. Before the
end of. the fifth century these schools
were abandoned and were not restored
for a thousand years. In the Middle
Ages the Truth was not lost to the
world even if its light was burning but
dimly. It had been kept alive by the
faithful effort of the cloistered monks,
to whom we owe a debt of gratitude.
Luther and other reformers put the
emphasis on Bible teaching and introduced catechisms. In spite of what they
accomplished, these failed to fulfill their
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the sclkx>ls ceased to exist.
Growing out from the Wesley revival
of the eighteenth century was the modern Sunday school, established by Robert
Kaikes, his first school being founded
in Golucester, England, in 1780. The
success of these institutions was great,
for in four years the enrollment reached
a quarter of a million in spite of some
purpose and
the state and provincial Ix-xlies, the coun-
and town organizations.
The World's Union and the great
World's Conventions have stirred up a
tremendous interest in the Sunday
schools, especially in mission lands.
We should not overlook what the system of uniform lessons has done in creating a bond of sympathy and interest
opposition. One Scotch preacher object- throughout the world.
ed to it on the grounds that it would deIn 1784 John
IN HAWAII NKI.
stroy family religion.
Wesley wrote, "Who knows but what
Sunday schools have existed in these
some of these schools may become nurMauds for many years, doing a good
series for Christians."
the knowledge of the
In England there was religious in- work in spreading statistics show that
truth.
The
latest
struction, but their main purpose, was to
are 204 schools for Pible teaching
teach reading and other subjects now there
the
Territory. 713 officers and teachtaught in the public schools. Because of in
10.983
pupils, and a total enrollers.
the great expense, the system of paid ment of 11.6)1).
teachers was abolished and volunteer
Some of these schools are doing a
teachers became the rule.
work, owing to the trained and faithfine
in
first
successful
school
Sunday
The
America was started in Philadelphia. ful workers at the helm. Examples of
Pa., in 1811. Since then the growth has efficient schools may be found at Kabeen rapid. There are now over 150,000 waiahao church. Honolulu, also at the
schools in America, with a total enroll- Palama Settlement. Kaumakapili. Cenment of 15,000,000. while in all the tral I'nion, Fort street Chinese. Portuworld there are about 275.000 schools guese and others.
with a total membership of 25,000,000. 'The problem in i law ah nei is a varied
one. VVe must raise up friends among
ITS STRENGTH AND WORK
Christian people, and set them to work
TODAY.
in the schools, and we must bring in
The largest army under one banner in more children and young people into our
America is the great army of the Sunday schools.
schools. (Organized work was begun in
There is also a great work to be done
1869, and is responsible for the new con- with the material already in hand. Reception of the Sunday school idea and the forms should be made in the conduct of
great interest in the study of the Scripthe schools and classes; new methods
tures all over the world. The movement should be introduced that will bring newhas awakened pastors, superintendents life into the schools; pastors, superinand teachers, so that the church is now tendents and teachers should be made
beginning to understand the movement, to feel their responsibilities: teacher
to appreciate its significance and support
training should be stimulated and daily
it liberally. The systematic work has Pible study encouraged in the homes.
visitation,
stimulated All this may be comprehended in one
perfected house
teacher-training, magnified the mission- word "progress." Our religious instituary idea, brought the school's usefulness tions should be making as much
progress
into the homes and promoted the daily as is being made in the secular schools.
study of the Pible. It has also driven
Pecause the child so often receives resectarianism to cover, and given us a
practical example of what may be ac- ligious instruction only in the Sunday
complished by the cooperation of school, the time should be well spent
churches, united to further the study of and the work of the teachers be made as
efficient as possible.
the truth.
If teachers only realized wdiat a mighty
There are several reasons for the great
success and development of the move- power they wield for good in influencing
ment. First, is the tendency of parents the minds of the young for the right,
to place upon the schools the duty of they would take greater pains with the
training the children in religious truth. pupils, and give them their best thought
Then the work of the various denomina- and time. The op|>ortunities for service
tional organizations has aroused interest in the schools of Hawaii nei are great.
through presenting informat on. More- They are popular institutions that attract
over the International Sunday School young and old alike. The problem is not
Association vvith it work on the Main- so much how to bring the people into
land, in Canada. Mexico, the West In- the schools as how to put them to work
dies the Philippines. South America, and and keep them at work which will bring
Hawaii, has done much for the move- a rich harvest in Christian knowledge
ment We must not forget the labors of and character.
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AND NOW BRYAN.
ty
Signs of progress are so numerous
nowadays that it seems almost a waste of
time to single any out. But the liquor
dealers and those people who through
ignorance they make their ]>olitical allies
continue to speak of the present prohibition movement as a "wave," and they
keep their eyes fixed on the shore and cry
day and night. "Now it is going to recede."
Hut it is not a wave, and it will not
recede. It is growth. It is science. It is
human brotherhood. It is religion. It
IS civilization, inarching and conquering.
The liquor traffic ought to die for the
same reason that a plague rat ought to
die. and the process of their destruction
is the same. It is easy to catch one rat
and kill it. It is hard to catch them all.
It takes time and traps and guns and poison and infinite industry. But the war
on plague rats is no wave and it will not
subside, until the rat peril has become a
thing of the past.
It is easy to close one saloon or bottle
shop. It is hard to close them all. for
they are the most cunning and burrowing
and nocturnal of rodents. Hut it must
be done. It will be done. Detectives will
set traps for them. Restrictive legislation will put out poison. Towns, counties,
territories and states will go gunning for
the nuisances, and in the near future, the
federal government will take the field
against the whole black brood.
In local option towns and counties, victory will swing backward and forward
like a pendulum, now "wet," now "dry."
Hut this is the beginning of the end of
the most rattish, swinish, wolfish, hyenaish business that ever battened on. the
ruin of mankind.
The most striking, because the most
recent sign of progress is the conversion
of William J. Bryan to the prohibition
side. Through years of political and
moral leadership he has ignored the call
of the prohibitionists. He thought he
was hunting bigger game than the dram
shop. But the growth and spread of the
movement have at last got his attention,
and convinced his judgment. And now
at length, with characteristic bravery he
shows his hand.
Speaking in the Auditorium in Chicago, May 18, under the auspices of The
Catholic Total Abstinence L'nion of
America, he said, in part:
Speaking for myself, I am not willing
to sit down at a banquet with young men
around and by my example teach them
that it is safe or wise for them to drink
liquor. No pleasure that I could get from
a glass of wine, no satisfaction that I
could derive from doing like people
around me, would compensate me for
the haunting thought that my example
�might be just the little influence that
would turn the scale in some man's mind
who was struggling to free himself from
the appetite for drink.
I believe it is a good thing to sign a
pledge. I said in the beginning that I
had signed a great many. 1 havetoheard
sign
people say that they didn't want
the pledge, that they didn't need to sign
the pledge, that they didnt' want to confess, by signing a pledge, that they were
so weak that they couldn't refuse to drink
without a pledge. Well, that argument
doesn't go with me, my friends; I don't
know how it goes with you. 'The man
may fool himself with that argument, but
he dosen't fool me. Is it a sign of weakness for a man when he enters married
life to take upon himself the marriage
Why doesn't he say, "I will not
v< w ?
make any promise to her. It is a sign
of weakness"? Is it a sign of weakness
for a man when he assumes the responsibilities of office to raise his hand to heaven and swear, so hell) him God, that he
will be faithful to the duties of that office ? Is that a sign of weakness? Is it
a sign of weakness for a man to put in
writing a thing that he agrees to?
And, my friends, when a man refuses
to sign a pledge and says he is not going
to use liquor, it means that he has not
made up his mind that he, will not do it.
If he has made up his mind that he will
not do it, there is no objection, and when
he sees it he is stronger for having signed it. A man needs to be fortified by
all the additional strength you can give
him. Man is weak enough at best.
But there is another reason. I said
that the influence of example ought to
have its effect on a man, that he ought
to be anxious to set a good example, not
to set a bad one, and so when we come
to discuss the signing of a pledge, it is
the point where a man comes out and
declares himself. Until he has signed the
pledge he is classed with the people who
drink or may drink, but when he does
sign the pledge his influence is over on
the other side, and if a man had no other
reason for signing a pledge he ought to
sign it that others may know where he
stands and that his position may have
whatever influence it has on the right
side. My friends, if a man is not going
to drink, he can't give a good reason for
not signing; as he is not going to have
any of the pleasures of drinking, why
should he deny himself the pleasure of
having his influence help others to stop
Hand Craft Wares
YE ARTS &
June, l'Mll
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18
drinking? < >f all men he has the least ex-
May 2—\V. Franklin I'lerce, grand master
of grand lodge F. and A. M., arrives, and
given reception by local lodge. Hon. John 0.
Put. my friends, there is another phase Wooley returns after six months in Washof this subject, and that, recognize, is ington to engage in local fight for prohibithe most delicate phase of it. It is the tion.
Mhv 6—Pint rally for the Prohibitionists
legislative phase. I recognize that there
P, hall.
is a zone between what a man's con- in K. oft;—The
king Is dead! l.cng live the
May
science would lead him to do and what king!
Kdward VII. or Great Britain died
he would be willing to compel by law in at midnight. George Y. reigns.
others, and for that reason questions of
May 7.—First Bod turned for the Third
legislation are at the very best difficult Kaumakapili church, by Master Harold Rangreat grandson of the first
questions, and often questions enter in dolph FJrdman,
Key. Lowell Smith, the father Of
apart from questions of conscience. I psetOT,
Mrs. H. F. Dillingham.
desire to lay down some principles that I May S—Four bronze tablets dedicated in
regard as fundamntal on the liquor ques- Kawaiahao Church commemorating the
tion.
lives of four early pastors —Rev. Hiram
Bingham and Rev. Richard Armstrong, first
( To be Concluded)
two pastors of Kawaiahao, and Rev. Kphraim (Mark and Rev. Lowell Smith of Kau-
cuse.
I
makapili.
EVENTS.
May Id —Portuguese cruiser San Gabriel
arrives on her world tour. Warmly welcomed by local Portuguese. Honolulu women organize for prohibition campaign and
plan for a straw vote prior to the plebiscite
vote on July 26.
May ll—President A. F. Griffiths of Oahu
Ccllege, appointed by Chamber of Commerce as its representative at Mohonk May
Conference.
May 12—Prohibition forces an
slowly
massing for the coming struggle.
May II —Annual meeting of directors of
Palama Settlement shows over M.OOO bottles
of milk dispensed the past year. Delegate
Joining
Kiiliio cables from Washington,
the Prohibition Committee of 100.
May is—Earth passes through the path
of Halley's comet. Congress passes the Organic Act amendment with few changes.
May 21—Prohibition campaign committee
of 101) published.
April 2'i —Governor Hughes of New York
appointed associate justice of the U. S.
Supreme Bench, to succeed the late Judge
Hrewer.
Collector of Internal Revenue
Walter F. Drake resigns.
April 26—Schaefer & Co. withdraw from
Wholesale Liquor Dealers' Association.
Yacht Club benefit at the Umpire Theater to help defray expense of yacht Hawaii
In coming transpacific- race.
April 28—Orpheum theater destroyed by
tire. Y. M. C. A. directors announce choice
of architects for new bu|ldlng, Ripley &
Reynolds of Oakland, Cal.
April 2!)—Russian immigrants have to be
dispersed by sheriff to avoid serious riot.
Free kindergarten and private schools of
city hold May Day celebration in Thomas
square.
April 30—May Day fete at Ainahau by
Kilobaud Art League.
May I
Russian
immigrants organize
miniature government for themselves at
Iwilei.
Dr. Snidclcr announces that Dr.
Frank Newhall White of Chicago will occupy Central Union pulpit during summer
months.
Monster ltiau at Watertown to
celebrate wedding of Walter F. Dillingham;
MO guests.
—
RESPONSIBLE
For those Japanese Servants?
More than we think, perhaps. Let them
read a Christian paper in their own
tongue. It is THE TOMO. 50c. a year.
1
Union Pacific Transfer Co., "d.
BAGGAGE, SHIPPING,
STORAGE, WOOD,
PACKING, COAL.
?"<>«"
C 5^
fi3 C3
FURNITURE AND PIANO MOVING
— 126 KING STREET
: : : : Kodak Developing and Printing
= Artistic Picture Framing -——
CRAFTS SHOP : Fort Street below King
:
�June.
THE FRIEND.
1910
May 21 —Brilliant presentation of "As You
Like It" on I'unahou campus by students of
Oahu college.
May 22—Children's Sunday at Central
I'nion.
May 2.i—Local branch of Amateur Athletic I'nion organized. Second annual dinner of Men's League of
Central
I'nion
Chunk. Ladies night. Miss Lindeman
gives concert after the dinner.
MARRIED.
Germimlown,
.lI'DD-FOI'LKK—In
I'enn.,
April 211, 17*10, Gerrit P. .ludd of Honolulu and Miss Margaret I'oulkc ot C.erinantown, I'eun.
London,
England,
McGRKW-GRAMI'—In
April 7, ItlO, J. Tarn McGrow and Miss
Isabella Scott Gramp.
.lAEGER-FISK In Oakland, Cai., April 27,
1110, Allan Jaeger and Miss Lillian Flak.
MILNE-SCHOOMOVER—In Ililo,
Hawaii,
April 27, ItlO, Will 11. Milne, of Waiakea
I'lnntation, and Miss E. Schooniover, of
Ones Valley, Cal.
lIKI'IUKX MeCANDLESS—In New York
City, N. Y„ April 18, 1910, Lieutenant
Hepburn and Miss Madge McCaudless.
SMITH-FESSENDEN—In Arlington, Mass.,
April 2S, 1910, Arthur G. Smith and Miss
Helen Chase Fessenden.
April
CAMI'MELL-HARRIS—In Honolulu,
,'iv, 1110, at St. Andrew's Cathedral, byRev. Simpson, George Campbell and Miss
Helii'kiih Harris.
DILLINGHAM-GAYLORD—In Italy, May 2,
Miss
1111(1, Walter F. Dillingham and
Louise Gaylord of Chicago.
CAMI'IIELL-McDERMOTT—In
Honolulu,
May 14, 1910, by Father Valentin, Eugene.
M. Campbell and Miss Isabel! MeDermott.
DIED.
BLACK—In
Philadelphia, Pa.. May 19, ItlO,
('apt J. H. Hlaek, veteran of the civil war,
formerly of Advertiser, aged M veara.
EMM ELI TH—ln Honolulu. May M, 1910,
John Emnieluth, aged .">7 years.
HART—In Honolulu, May M, DUO, Judge
Chillies F. Hart, aged 76 years.
DOS REIS—In
Honolulu, May 21, Itlt,
Manuel IOS Keis, an aged resident.
Honolulu,
May 22, ItlO, Mrs.
DOWER In
THE
VON HAMM-YOUNG CO
.
fht Saldniin Jla!ional Bank
of jjaliului
KAHULUI, MAUI, T. H.
BANKING, EXCHANGE, INSURANCE.
Savings Bank Department,
Intereit on Termi Deposits,
Safe Depoelt Vaulte for Rent.
, Ltd
IMPORTERS, COMMISSION
AND
AUTOMOBILF MERCHANTS
Honolulu, T. H.
Eunice Dower.
Is Your Japanese
Servant a Christian?
Let him have-
THE TOMO
Every Month.
5OC. a year.
TOO MUCH stress cannot be laid on
the importance of having your eyes
fitted with proi>er glasses.
S. E. LUCAS, Optician
Alakea Street.
Masonic Temple,
I HAWAIIAN IRON FENCE & MONUMENT WORKS, Ltd.
5.
Reinforcement.
180
King
St
Phone 648
Safes, Vaults, Concrete
1066 Fort Street
Pictures and Picture Framing Jt Local Views
Ansco Cameras j» Ansco Films
Art Pottery and Casts
DEVELOPING AND PRINTING
L.B.KERR&C0. ALLEN & ROBINSON
LIMITED.
DAYTON—In Honolulu. April it, ItlO,
David Dayton, formerly city marahall, a
wll known lodge man, aged 7S fears,
DRIVER—In Honolulu, April 27, ItlO, E. K.
Driver, Jr., employe of Metropolitan Meat
Market.
PERN—In Honolulu, April 28, ItlO, Mrs.
Sheha Apapai, wife of Mayor Joseph
Fern.
CLUNKY—In Honolulu, April 2s, 1910, ('apt.
Cluney, a native of Fall River,
John
Mass., aged 72 years.
NAKALEKA—In Wailuku, Maui, May !*,
ItlO, Mra. Nakaleka, wife of Hon. Joel
Nakaleka.
.
19
LIMITED.
Alakea Street.
.
The onlv store in Honolulu where Llimber and Buildin & Material,
Builders' Hardware,
you can get anything in Wearing ApPaints, Oils, Etc.
parel for
MEN, WOMEN or CHILDREN
Goon Goods and Reasonable Prices.
Agents for Walkover and Sorosis Shoes.
55 Queen Street : : Honolulu.
,
W first Hafional
AT HONOLULU.
CAPITAL ?500,000.
BROWN. Pres.
W. R. CASTLE,
CECIL
gank of ftaniaii
M. P. ROBIN8ON, Vlce-Pres.
O. N.
WILCOX.
8URPLU8 $123,000.
L. T. PECK, Cashier.
O. P. CASTLE.
United States Government Depository
General Banking.—Issues Drafts, Money Orders, Letters of Credit
and Cable. Transfers available in all parts of the world.
ACCOUNTS INVITED
�THE FRIEND,
20
*
THE BANK OF HAWAII, Ltd.
Honolulu
AGENTS FOR—Wailuku Sugar Co., Hawaiian Agricultural Co., Onomea Sugar Co.,
l J epeekeo Sugar Co., Honomu Sugar Co.,
LEXANDER & BALDWIN, Ltd. Hakalau Plantation Co., Paaunau Sugar
Plantation Co., Hutchinson Plantation Co.,
uiowalu Plantation, Waimanalo Sugar Co.,
OFFICERS—H. P. Baldwin, Pres't; J. B. Honolulu
Plantation Co., Kilauea Sugar
Castle, Ist Vice-Pres't; W. M. Alexander, 2d Co., Hilo Sugar Co., Baldwin Locomotive
Vice-Pres't; J. P. Cooke, Treas.; W. O. Works, Oceanic Steamship Co.
Smith, Secy; George R. Carter, Auditor.
LIST
OF OFFICERS—E. F. Bishop,
President; Geo. H. Robertson, Vice-President and Manager; W. W. North, TreasurSUGAR FACTORS AND COMMIS- er;
Richard Ivers, Secretary; J. R. Gait,
Auditor; C. H. Cooke, R. A. Cooke, G. R.
SION MERCHANTS.
Carter, A. Gartley, Directors.
*A
AGENTS FOR—Hawaiian Commercial &
Sugar Co., Haiku Sugar Co.. Paia Planta-
E.O. Hall & Son
HAVE A FULLY EQUIPPED
HOUSEHOLD DEPARTMENT.
including Garland Stoves and
Ranges, Aluminum Ware, Enameled Ware. Kitchen Furnishings,
Refrigerators, Garden Tools, Rubber Hose, &c. Second floor, take
the Elevator.
Co.
Tel. Main 109.
P. O. BOX 71?.
FORT ST., ABOVE HOTEL.
Dry Goods
the Territory.
House in
Especial attention given to Mail Orders.
ALWAYS USE
California Rose
Creamery Butter
Guaranteed the Best and full 16
ounces.
HENRY MAY & CO.,
LIUITKO
22
TELEPHONES
92
Honolulu, T. H.
RIGS OF ALL KINDS,
,
GOOD HORSES,
CAREFUL DRIVERS.
CLAUS
BPRECKELB ft CO.,
BANKERS.
:
:
Hawaiian Islands.
"Thy Man-Servant
and thy Maid=Servant"
I
ARE THEY JAPANESE?
GIVE THEM THE TOMO
50c. a year.
\A7 W. A HANA & CO., LTD.
MERCHANT
A BIBLE WITH
COnHENTARIES
The Leading
1^^
CLUB STABLES
Honolulu,
HONOLULU, T. H.
ERS & COOKE, Ltd.
LUMBER,
j^
T
C. H Bellina, Mgr
COFFEE A SPECIALTY.
B. F. EHLERS&CO.
LEW
tion Co.. Kihel Plantation Co., Hawaiian
Sugar Co., Kahului R. R. Co., and Kahuku
Plantation.
Draw Exchange on the principal ports of
the world and transact a general
banking business.
OLD KONA
Ccneral Mercantile Commission Agents.
Queen St., Honolulu, T. H.
Honolulu, T. H.
Banking by mail, 4|% interest.
J.
Importers and
COMMISSION MERCHANTS.
you will think of future as
well as present needs, j* >
Begin by opening a saving
account with this bank, j* >
C.
O BREWER & CO., Limited,
C A. SCHAEFER ft CO.,
If You
Are Wise
Day &
June, I'JlO
J P.
O. Box 986.
Scofield's
We have many other kinds too.
Hawaiian Board Book Rooms
MERCHANT AND ALAKEA STREETS,
HONOLULU.
Blue 2741.
62 King Street.
CLOTHES CLEANED AND REPAIRED.
ALL ON THE SAME PAGE.
REVERENT, SCHOLARLY AND
FULL OF INSPIRING SUGGESTION.—IT IS
TAILORS.
Telephone
Henry
H. Williams
FUNERAL DIRECTOR.
Graduate of Dr. Rodgers Perfect EmSchool of San Francisco, Cal.,
also of The Renouard Training School
for Kmbalmers of New York. And a
Licensed Embalmer for the State of
New York, also a member of the State
Funeral Directors Association of California.
MONUMENTS AND TOMBSTONES
FURNISHED.
balming
Chairs to Rent.
LOVE BUILDING,
1142, 1144 FORT ST.
Residence, 240 King Street.
Telephones: Office, 64; Res., 1020.
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�THE FRIEND.
2
fin mat tan <Frust Co. THE FRIEND
LIMITED.
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Fire, Marine, Lite
and Accident
*
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Hfek>
BURETY ON BONDS.
Plate
*\
Glass, Employers'
Liability, and Bur-
Wl
IJw})
wtSHbissv^'
glary Insurance.
»23 FORT BTREET,
Safe Deposit Building.
5/
v^gEg;?'
Lots for Sale
IN
pli
HILLS
LOW TRICES
EASY TERMS
Trent Trust Co.
Ltd.
OAHU
COLLEGE.
—
All business letters should be addressed and all if. O.s and checks should be
made out to
Theodore Richards,
Business Manager of The Friend.
P. O. Box 489.
All Communications of a literary character should be addressed to THE FRIEND,
corner Alakea and Merchant Sts., Honolulu, T. H., and must reach the Board
Rooms by the 24th of the month.
tTHE
remus Scudder, Editor in Chief,
ink S. Scudder, Managing Editor.
W. Damon,
in G. Woolley.
A. Ebersole.
ramel H. Gulick,
W. B. Oleson.
Theodore Richards.
Paul Super.
William D. Westervelt.
Perley L. Home.
Ernest J. Recce.
Edward W. Thwlng,
Foreign Correspondent.
Punahou Preparatory School.
Offer complete
College preparatory work,
together with special
Commercial,
Music, and
Art courses.
For
Catalogue, address
The
BOY
Wants Stories
There are none so good as the old
BIBLE stories, the boy himself as
judge. We know for we have tried with
a number of boys, girls too. But you
should have GOOD PICTURES as
texts when you tell Bible stories.
We have a Bible with 800 good illustrations. We knew one copy of it to be
Business Agent,
worn out by the use of one family,—
Honolulu, H. T. four children one after the other liter•
•
Oahu College.
ally wearing it to pieces.
WHITNEY, M. D., D. D. S.
We have one, and have sent for a
number more.
DENTAL ROOMS.
JONATHAN SHAW,
JM.
Fort Street
■
•
•
Boston Building.
BAN KERB.
Regular Savings Bank Department maintained in Bank Building on Merchant Street,
and Insurance Department, doing a Life,
Fire and Marine business on most favorable
terms, in Friend Building on Bethel Street.
Henry Waterhouse Trust Go.
LIMITED
STOCKS, BONDS AND
ISLAND SECURITIES
BOARD OF EDITORS:
y.ntrrttl Oetnlier 27. tool, at Honolulu. Hawaii, aisecnuu
eh* innller. timleract of CnugreM of March.?. /.«*>.
(Charles T. Fltts, A. 8., Principal).
& COMPANY,
Is published the first week of each
month in Honolulu, T. H., at the HaHONOLULU, HAWAIIAN ISLANDS.
waiian Board Book Rooms, cor. Alakea
and Merchant Sts. Subscription price,
Established in 1858.
$i .00 per year.
A special rate is made to Mission
Transact a General Banking and ExChurches or Sunday Schools in the change Business. Loans made on approved
Islands. Clubs of 25 to one address 25 security. Bills discounted. Commercial
Credits granted. Deposits received on curcents apiece per year.
rent account subject to check.
(Arthur F. Griffiths, A.8., President.)
—and
BISHOP
Hawaiian Board Book Rooms.
Fort and Merchant Streets, Honolulu.
. WICHMAN
HF.
& CO., LTD.
Manufacturing Optician,
Jeweler and Silversmith.
Importer of Diamonds, American and Swiss
Watches, Art Pottery, Cut Glass
Leather Goods, Etc.
Honolulu
- -
-
Hawaiian Islands.
Castle & Cooke. Ltd.
SHIPPING AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS, SUGAR FACTOR AND
GENERAL INSURANCE AGENT.
REPRESENTING
Ewa Plantation Company.
Waialua Agricultural Co., Ltd.
Kohala Sugar Company,
Wairaea Sugar Mill Company.
Apokaa Sugar Company. Ltd.
Wahiawa Con. Pineapple Co., Ltd.
Fulton Iron Works of St. Louis,
Blake Steam Pumps.
Marsh Steam Pumps.
American Steam Pump Co.
Weston's Centrifugals.
Baldwin's Automatic Juice Weigher,
Babcock & Wilcox Boilers,
Demings Superheaters,
Green's Fuel Economizers.
Matson Navigation Co.
PlantersLine Shipping Co.
Attn* Insurance Company.
Citizens Insurance Co. (Hartford Fire)
Fireman's Fund Insurant*- Co. (Marine Dept.)
National Fire Insurance Co.
Protector Underwriters of the Phoenix of
Hartford.
New England Mutual Life Insurance
Co., of Boston.
ESTEY
ORGANS
—
AT THE
Hawaiian Board Book Rooms.
�3
The Friend.
OLDEST NEWSPAPER
HONOLULU, H. T., JULY, 1910
Vol. LXVIII
TREASURER'S STATEMENT.
RECEIPTS
*
A. B. C. F. M
A. M. A
Bush Place, rents
Chinese Work Income
Conditional Gift
Friend
General Fund
Hawaii General Fund
Hawaiian Work Income
Hoaloha
Hyde Memorial Fund
Invested Funds
Japanese Work
Kalihi Settlement
Kauai General Fund
Kawaiahao Seminary
Kohala Girls' School
Maui General Fund
Maunaolu Seminary
Mills Institute
Ministerial Relief Fund
Molokal General Fund
Oahu General Fund
WEST OF THE ROCKIES.
25.00
8.35
62.50
31.75
1500.00
14.75
5.00
5.15
1006.00
107.10
15.00
841.75
305.00
203.00
375.00
150.00
30.00
100.00
15.00
180.00
115.00
1.50
305.95
69.68
50.00
25.00
30.00
10.50
15.00
15.00
Are You?
Are you a Christian ?
Are you a citizen?
Are you a prohibitionist?
(>n your sincerity as a prohibitionist,
on your honor as a citizen, on your faith
in Christ, fail not to do a full day's work
the twenty-sixth of July.
You have a vote, you have an automobile you have a horse and carriage, you
have a telephone. Make them count that
day for a better Hawaii.
J. G. W.
The Kamehamehas.
Kamehameha built a new council house
and called his chiefs together to consider
the liquor question. In closing the council he said:
"I command you every one to go home,
each
to your own district, and destroy
Office Expense
every liquor still which you find. DistillPalama Settlement
Portuguese Work Income
ing and drinking liquor are tabu from
Preachers' Training Fund
this time forward."
Tomo
Then he ordered that the new council
Wailuku Mission
Wailuku Settlement
house be torn down. He did this to show
the greatness of the decision that had
$5617.98 been made there, and to show that the
EXPENDITURES
liquor question was never to be open for
discussion again.
Chinese Work
$ 375.25
This was no "missionary trick." MisSalaries
622.50
997.75 sionaries had never been heard of in HaEnglish-Port. Work
36.45
waii.
Salaries
1094.50
But it was statesmanship. And it was
1130.95 Christianity.
Friend
83.40
He was only one man. But he could
80.25 see and think and fight.
General Fund
Hawaii General Fund Salary
3.75
The people had no vote. They only
Hawaiian Work
64.50
had
to obey.
544.80
Salaries
609.30
For what the king did and commanded
Hoaloha
47.25 his name is written in history, KamehaInvested Funds
1.00 meha the Great.
Japanese Work
103.50
Nearly a hundred years have passed.
Salaries
923.00
1026.50 Things have changed. Kailua is no longKalihi Settlement
342.75 er the capital.
Council houses are no
Kawaiahao Seminary
1.50 longer built of grass. Congress is king.
Maunaolu Seminary
2.75 Every Hawaiian voter is a high chief.
Mills Institute
1.00
As in the time of Kamehameha 111.,
Office Expense
48.93
liquor has been forced into the Islands,
Salaries
549.00
597.93 not only by Frenchmen but also by
Palama Milk Depot
.25 Americans, Rritish. German, Chinese,
Palama Settlement
166.00 Japanese and Portuguese, against the
Preachers' Training Fund
50.50 will of the Hawaiians and to their mortal
Tomo
33.00
Wailuku Social Worker
75.00 injury.
Congress has called a great council of
(5250.83 chiefs to assemble on July 26 to consider
Excess of receipts over expendthe liquor question. Will you have proitures
$367.15 hibition instead of licensed saloons ? That
»
No. 7
is the question of Congress. Every registered voter has the chance to answer Yes
or
No.
The liquor men say it is a missionary
trick. They lie. They lie intentionally.
If it be a missionary trick it is the
wisest, kindest, timeliest trick that was
ever played in this world. It brings the
Hawaiian voter to the front, as a king in
his own right and his own country, to
speak his wish and have his wish about
the betrayer, robber, murderer of his
people.
Trick or no trick, what will he say?
The success of prohibition on the 26th
of July will crown the Hawaiian voter,
before the eyes of the American people,
Kamehameha the Greatest.
The failure of prohibition on the 26th
of July will make this territory a "rich"
man's government indeed, and send the
Hawaiian voter shuffling into the jungle
of graft politics, with the title of Kame
hameha the Least, fast, lost.
Kamehameha the Greatest will mark
his ballot. YES.
Kamehameha the Least will mark his
ballot NO.
J. G. W.
*
What Will the Hawaiian Voter Say?
It is the business of the government
the public health. The saloon
the enemy the natural defenses against disease.
It is the, best
friend of cholera, pneumonia and tuberculosis. It actually causes 50 per cent of
the insanity. It attacks children who are
not yet born and murders millions in their
infancy.
One of the surgeons of the Red Cross
Hospital in New York reports that he
has made a study of two groups of families, one group having drinking habits
and the other group abstaining. He is
not a temperance lecturer, but a scientific
student. He reports that in one group of
ten families of drinking habits there were
fifty-five children. Thirty died in infancy,
three of heart disease, four were insane,
seven were anaemic, eight were tuberculous, one had diabetes, three had very
poor teeth, three had adenoids.
Only
four were normal. Of the total two were
excellent in their studies, six were fair,
and seventeen were deficient.
In ten families of abstaining parents
there were seventy children. Two died in
infancy, two were neurotic and anaemic,
to preserve
betrays to
�4
Wanted, a Definition.
lous, sixty-four were norma.l In study,
It is not probable that Honolulu likes
fifty-six were excellent, ten were fair, prize fights less than it did a year or so
only two were deficient.
ago. It is beginning to be wondered
()f the children of" the abstainers 90 here, however, whether it is quite "the
per cent were normal.
thing to like them. Not that we know
Of the children of the drinkers, "3 anything more about them. So far no
one has yet been cornered into giving a
|>er cent were abnormal.
definition of a prize fight—least of all,
course,
most
of
such
evidence
Of
the
is suppressed in the cemetery; and of the I'. S. authorities. And the frankly
against
course th« examination of other groups bad city of San Francisco closed
might show considerable variations of them! There certainly is some humor
such figures. But the saloon is surely the in it for 1 lonoluhi sports.
It was stated that Governor Gilletl
crudest of infanticides.
California, quite early in his relations
of
But, we are told, the statistics of the
with
the big fight, was intending to get
not
a
show great per a
Census Bureau do
legal
opinion as to whether the encountcentage of deaths from alcoholic drink.
er planned was to be a prize fight or not.
discrepancy
true,
and the
That is quite
As nothing further has been heard of
between the Census Report and the esti- that phase of the question we conclude
is
mate of the temperance lecturer
very
that somebody convinced him that the
wide. I hit the temperance lecturer's fig- priziest
fight of them all was—a prize
within
the
truth.
ures are probably well
fight.
The friends and physicians of those who "But what is a prize fight?" How would
die of drink conceal the fact if possible.
it do to ask the U. S. Attorney? He
Alcoholism gets into vital statistics un- knows, for he is probably correctly reder many aliases—heart failure, Blight's ported to the effect that be would Stop
disease, diabetes, tuberculosis, pneumonia the
Jolmson-JefTries pleasantries in Honand acute indigestion.
olulu after the first blow bad been struck.
The most distinguished of English We are glad of the position you take,
actuaries, after years of investigation Mr. Attorney .and perhaps it would be
more gracious not to ask you "Why?"
publishes the following statement:
where
of
15
and
20
save
that something of this sort may ballages
the
"Between
every other
ten total abstainers die, eighteen moder- pen again—is happening
month. Is the Fourth of July a trifle
ate drinkers die."
"Between the ages of 20 and 30, where more sacred in your mind than Decoraten total abstainers die, thirty-one mod- tion Day? You were quite enthusiastically in favor of that Memorial day fight
erate drinkers die."
will
Just the difference
T.etween the ages of 30 and 40. where youamountremember.
prizes or in enin
money
of
in
die,
moderate
forty
ten total abstainers
constitutes
a valid
trance
fees
hanllv
drinkers die."
distinction, does it?
It would seem
At a recent convention of the Catholic hardly probable that the unlikelihood of
( )rder of Foresters, a benevolent order
a "knock out" actuated you in removing
with a membership of a quarter of a mil- the stigma of the prize fight from the
lion, it wa> voted to exclude liquor deal- Orpheum performance over which you
ers from the l)enefits of the society. There spread the .American aegis. Most all of
was no spite about it, nor fanatical de- these performances end. we read, by
nunciation of the liquor dealer. It was reason of the failure on the part of one
simply a cold financial proposition that of the parties to "come up to the scratch"
the liquor business is on the graveyard at the end of the count. Would we be
end of life insurance. This is the sixty- ji stified in calling such a consummation
fifth benefit association in America to a "knock out"?
take the same action. There remains but
It is rather perplexing. Could the difone society of the kind that will receive ference lie in the relative prominence of
liquor dealers into membership.
the "pugs" involved? No, that won't
over
Hado. There is one other explanation posMany scourges have swept
that the
waii, measles. smalli>ox. cholera, etc. But sible to the "lay" mind, viz..
the
prize
of
rounds
determines
But
number
these ran their course and stopped.
rounds, say,
Let
fight.
twenty
besides
fifteen.or
rests,
and
trade
never
the liquor
and joyous
its direct destruction, it is an active part- constitute quite an innocent that
a legal
ner in all the other causes of decimation. passage of arms—more than
Mayto
Reno.
offense
to
be
chased
away
tried
The Hawaiian kings of early days
as
clarity
so,
but
the
doctrine
lacks
be
with
some
success.
it.
and
expel
hard to
or
attorney
the
authority.
Will
unias
will
With annexation to America came
a national reversal suffrage, and the Hawaiian voter some one make for himself
a
one
weigh these
Let
such
?
he
putation
got the word of power. What will
beyond
formulate
and
elusive
elements
26?
say on Tulv
what
just
'
of
peradventure
tin
shadow
J. G. W.
one had rheumatism, one was tubercu-
July, 1910
THE FRIEND.
combinations of them constitute a prize
fight.
The writer docs not feel over strongly
or. this matter. He confesses to hardly
more than curiosity to see what Honolulu is willing to stand in this and other
kindred questions pertaining to law enforcement.
He felt strongly once and
is now quite recovered from a somewhat
painful experience in a search for public
opinion on the subject of prize fights
where none seemed to be. And now?
Perhaps we will be humble enough to
get our instruction even from San Francisco. All in good time, which is God's
time.
T. R.
.
Hawaii's Opportunity.
S. Congress neve laid a quesof such interest before the people of
any territory as has now been presented
to the people <>f Hawaii in the question
of prohibition.
We will not say that it is the last call,
for the ruler and guide of nations is forbearing, and merciful, long-suffering
even to the unthankful and unmindful.
And the promiscuous sale of destructive alcohol poison is sure ere long to be
prohibited by every nation for its own
It is simply incredself-preservation.
ible that the world of the enlightened future will regard with indifference the
present condition of all who are frequent
partakers of alcoholic drinks.
But, says one, it is not promiscuous
sale that is contended for. What we
want is a license system that will prevent promiscuous sale and regulate the
sale of healthful drinks.
The Friend claims that the license system has had full trial for a century or
two, and has proved a failure in every
land where national and international
commerce has sway. License to sell the
seductive and destructive poison of alcoholic drinks is simply a permit issued by
a government to certain ones in a community for their own financial profit to
sell what brings ruin, misery, demoralization, or death to a large proportion
of their customers. That the slightest
benefit ever comes to one from the use
oi alcoholic drinks as a beverage has yet
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to be shown.
In vain we ask the advocates of the
license system what benefit ever came to
any human being from the habitual
We
drinking of alcoholic beverages.
seen all our lives the deplorable results of dram-drinking, and today it is
evident that the early extinction of a
large portion of the Hawaiian people
will ensue unless prohibitory legislation
be enacted. Yet they are not alone in
feeling the seduction and meeting the destruction of strong drink.
have
�To them who abstain the scripture
s.iith: "Thou shalt not be afraid for the
terror by night, nor for the ants that
tlieth by day ; nor for the pestilence that
ualkcth in darkness; nor for the destruct on that wasteth at noonday."
( >n the 26th of July we may by our
votes save many precious people from almost
inevitable destruction.
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July, I'HO.
O.
11. G.
The Bishop of Kakaako.
It is doubtful whether half a dozen
persons in the Islands have first-hand,
or even realizing hearsay knowledge of
the great work of I'. W. Rider, the apostle to the submerged in the bottom of
Honolulu, where the Atherton family
has built a settlement house, and provided for its maintenance, in which nightly this knightly man of faith preaches
Jesus Christ the Savior of drunkards,
the hope of hopeless wives and the lover
of homeless and worse than homeless
children.
Grim business it is, too, preaching love
and help and cleansing in the sag of Kakaako, where the brewery, two licensed
saloons and fifteen or twenty "blind
pigs" belie the love of God and man, and
seem to prove the omnipotence of cruelty
and dirt. Impossible for faith that breaks
training, even for a day.
Hut this man does it. and does it with
a cheer. Salvation with a whine in it
would be dead doctrine there. He believes it. That saves him and his meet
ings. 1 le knows the saloon. He knows
how to get away from it. I le has no illusions about ''personal liberty." He gives
all. He wins. His wife goes the pace
"Help somebody, and sing at your work,
for God loves the world."
In this most needy and disorderly section no policeman ventures save on call,
and such as come on call get out again
as soon as possible. The police court is
part of Mr. Rider's parish. His recommendations to mercy are rarely disregarded, for he is as truthful as helpful,
and as level-headed as he is kind. His
word is as good as a bond with the magistrate. He is constantly up as cash
bail for the down and out.
Nothing much ails Kakaako but the
drink—the drink and what goes with it.
Naturally Mr. Rider hates the saloon,
and in the present campaign for the plebiscite he is the busiest campaigner in
the city. The searchlight of his stereopticon flashes the wounds of the body politic before the eyes of many audiences.
The light is fearfully eloquent.
Mr. Rider is one of a class of rescue
workers numbering thousands in American cities —the Red Cross Society in the
licensed pillage of the saloon. F'very
man of them and every woman of them,
In the lK'tter days
is a prohibitionist.
now drawing near their worth will be recorded and in the final accounting their
reward is sure.
J. G. W.
with him and does not look back. His
audience shows no cleavages of race, or
creed, or trade. Twenty or more nationalities are regularly represented—cosmopolites of disaster. Age sits with knotted
hands and wonders at his message. Fray-
ed, ruined youth slips low in chair and
listens; and pretty children pitch the high
treble of infinite pathos into the songs.
It is terrible—and beautiful.
They call him "Father." and Mrs.
Rider "Mother," who in turn call them
by their given names. "Who struck you,
Susie?" "Father, let me come in ; Jim is
drunk and says he will kill me." "Mother, can you give me something to feed
the baby? Joe gets seven dollars a week
and gievs me two, but has just taken
that away." These are scraps of the
spiritual conversation of this diocese.
The meetings are but the high tide of
the day's work, before the life of the
district turns back to the Magoon block,
the "low water" of home life in the city.
The work of faith and labor of love never
shut down.
The Bishop of Kakaako rules by riirht
of apostolic success. The only ritual is
P.W.
RIDER
The Missionary Fathers
of Hawaii
An Address Delivered at the lughty-
eighth Annual Conference of the
Hawaiiian Evangelical Association at Kailua, Line
26,
1«)10.
Fathers landed on
the shores of New England.
In 1820 the Missionary fathers landed
on the shores of Hawaii. The former
came to America seeking freedom to
worship (iod; the latter came to Hawaii
for the sole purpose of upbuilding the
kingdom of (iod and spreading the knowledge of salvation through His Son.
In 1(>20 the Pilgrim
The first company for Hawaii sailing
from Boston, October 23rd, 1819, in the
brig Thaddeus, consisted of Hiram Bingham and Asa Thurston, ordained clergymen Samuel Whitney and Samuel Buggies, teachers, Thomas ..olman, a physician; Klisah Loomis, a printer; Daniel
Chamberlain, a farmer, and their wives;
and also three native Hawaiians named
Thomas llopu. William Kantii; and John
lb.noli, who had reached the shores of
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New England, and were now returning individual to profess faith in Christ, re- these envoys from Christendom. To evwith this missionary company to their ceiving the rite of baptism from Mr. ery one came the call according as God
native islands. Besides these three Ha- Kllis at Lahaina on September 16, 1823; had given him. Never was a louder call
waiians who were identified with the and she is counted the first fruit of gos- for men of varied attainments. Nearly
mission, was George G. Kaumaulii. son pel teaching in Hawaii. Two other wom- all were called upon to administer medien of high rank. Kaahumanu. for some cal aid to the sick. In some cases the
of the ruler of Hawaii.
The Thaddeus touched at Kawaihae years regent, and Kapiolani, may be lady was the beloved physician of the staMarch 30, where it was learned that Ka- counted as among the most distinguished tion. A missionary, son of a farmer, who
mehameha was dead, that his son Liho- and helpful agents in the advancement of in youth had been an efficient helper on
the farm, might now aid his people in
/iho reigned, and that the tabu system the gospel of the group.
'The three missionaries, Bingham, showing them how to make an ox-yoke,
was ended. Leaving Kawaihae the brig
arrived at Kailua April 4. 1820. But the Thurston, and Whitney, with their wives, how to train the steers into useful oxen,
missionaries did not take up residence on remained long years in these islands, and and how to handle the plow. Another
shore until permission was granted by the were, with the succeeding missionary re- who excelled in mechanical ability or
King Liholiho April 12th. Upon this enforcements, under divine guidance, the tact, would teach how to frame a bedday, having gained full approval. Rev. power which dispelled the darkness of stead or a table, how to make a chair,
Asa Thurston and wife, and Dr. and heathenism and transformed these island- or a chest. But few of them escaped thf
Mrs. Holman took up their abode in a ers into an enlightened Christian people. work of erecting buildings for churches
grass hut in the village of Kailua. The
'The American Board was guided by and schools, setting the first example of
remainder of the company proceeded in Providence to make thorough work in heme building other than the grass hut
the Thaddeus, and landed at Honolulu, Hawaii, and to this end within forty of the past; while the ladies imparted to
years from the landing of the pioneers, their sisters the high art of sewing, and
April 14, 1820.
Upon the death of Kamehameha in sent to this group of islands, then hav- taught the whole community to make
May, 1819, there succeeded a season of ing a population of perhaps 120,000, fifty civilized clothing, and so brought into the
bacchanalian indulgence on the part of ordained men with their wives, six phy- family of nations the well clad people of
chiefs and people alike, in which the sicians with their wives, fourteen teach- today.
We may remember that in the earlier
trammels of the tabu regime were felt to er-, five printers, three single ladies, and
be irksome, and the whole system, includ- twenty-nine wives of the assistant mis- days there were no stores where clothing
ing idolatry and priestcraft, had broken sionaries, including wives of second mar- and equipment of any kind could be purdown and been entirely overthrown; the riages, making a total of one hundred chased. And further, a voyage of 18,000
high priest. Hewahewa. himself apply- and sixty-three persons, not counting miles requiring five or six months in sailing the torch to what had been a most sa- four persons sent by the American Board ing ship around Cape Horn, was the
cred collection of idols.
The leading at a later period. These men and wom- shortest and only road to the marts of
wife of Kamehameha. Kapiolani, mother en surmounted greater difficulties and civilized man. The coasts of Oregon.
of the two succeeding kings, was a leader endured trials' of faith and patience be- California, Mexico, and South America,
in this overthrow of the tabu, herself yond the lot of the average Christians of occupied mostly by half or quarter civilized Indians, afforded no comfort to the
breaking the code by eating with her son any age.
No steamship had
Kauikeaouli. who later reigned as KaAs their numbers increased by the ar- far-off missionary.
meameha 111. Hawaii was without a re- rival of successive reinforcements, two yet begun to plow the ocean, and abbreviligion. Truly the isles were waiting for families were usually located at one sta- ate the length of ocean voyage. At the
his law.
tion. Twenty main stations were occu- very beginning no merchant had yet
The Hawaiians, like a large portion pied, and perhaps eighty out-stations; ventured to risk his wares in a commun)f humanity, were hero worshippers. Pat- thus covering the entire group with a net- ity in which no law but the dictation of
riotism, as in many lands, was manifest- work of ministry, teaching and example. unenlightened chiefs was known. Ined largely in devotion to their chiefs. The
At the three centers of Honolulu. La- struction was yet to be imparted to both
sway of Kamehameha had been firmly haina and Hilo. were established various chiefs and people in the rights of ownerestablished on all the islands, with the plants for the advancement of missionary ship and the usages of civilized society.
exception of Kauai. Upon his death his work. At Honolulu a printing office
It may be asked why the American
son Liholiho became heir to his father's with bindery; at Lahainaluna. near La- Hoard sent so large a number of missionpower, which was shared in some degree, haina. the institution of learning combin- aries to so small a field, when the vast
with his mother Keapuolani, and with ing the character of high school, college continents with their teeming millions of
Kaahumanu. Upon the petition of the and theological seminary, with industrial benighted people were lying in the darkfirst missionaries to King Liholiho, for training, and at Hilo the boys' high and ness and misery of idolatry and superpermission to reside upon the islands, the industrial school, which has contributed stition. In reply, a missionary father
earnest advocacy of the king's mother, and still contributes to the upbuilding of said, an individual husbandman could
Keopuolani. together with that of Hewa- the character of the islanders.
cultivate but so many acres, and it mathewa, the former high priest of idolatry,
In the earlier stages of missionary de- tered not whether those acres lay on an
turned the scale in favor of the mission- velopment the missionary was to the peo- island or 'a continent. However, in the
ies.
ple of his station, preacher, pastor, school world's history the inhabitants of islands
The favor of many of the higher chiefs teacher, physician, law professor, road have exerted a greater influence than an
together with the early public profession and bridge builder, the trusted guide and equal population upon a continent. Here
of Christian faith, of some of them, were friend. Was any one ill. had any one it may be remarked, that at that time,
of incalculable assistance in advancing met with an accident, had any household there were very few points at which
Christian knowledge, and in the upbuild- an unseemly brawl, the appeal for help, Christian missionaries could find enaid sympathy or power came at once to trance to heathen fields. And again, in
ing of the churches.
remarkable feature of Hawaiian con- the missionary. The response to these the economy and philosophy of missions,
is was the high respect in which wo- calls of a people in the mazes of change very many problems have been worked
of high rank were held. Keopuolani, from savagery to civilization, varied ac- •out, to the advantage of all the succeedridow of Kamehameha, was the first cording to the training and attainments of ing modern missions of Christendom.
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'The success of this favored mission to
Hawaii has been an inspiration to the
missionaries in every benighted land for
the past half century. The power of the
Gospel to purify, elevate and transform
individuals, and races of men, was never
better manifested.
Tlie mission to Hawaii was a democratic body, swayed in some measure by
directions transmitted by mails brought
by sailing ships via Cape Horn. The immense distance from the officers of the
American Board necessitated the committal of many questions to the vote of the
mission as given at the annual general
meeting. Very many weighty matters involving the location of families and the
disposition of forces, were settled by vote
of the mission, which body was distinguished for its unity, forbearance, and brotherly kindness.
The great success of the mission in reducing the language to writing may be
noted. A kind providence guided to the
adoption of the Italian sounds in the
use of the vowels, a, c, i, o, v, and of the
consonants h, k, 1, m, n, p. w. With these
twelve letters all the sounds of the Hawaiian language were so accurately represented that an adult could learn to
read in a few days. The people were astounded and delighted to find that they
thtmselves could acquire the power to
convey thought by writing. As a consequence we find that the nation learned to
read in a day; their principle reading
book being the Bible. A phenomenon unparalleled in history. 'This ability and
eagerness to read was acquired in the
schools established by the missionaries,
and which laid the foundation for the
present unsectarian system of government common schools.
The lessons to be gained by us of today from the example and experience of
the honored fathers, are many. In the
first place, they were men of high ideals,
unselfishly working for the enlightenment and uplift of the people around
them. In the language of Paul to the
Philippians, ''Pressing toward the mark
for the prize of the high calling of God
in Christ Jesus." In them we see the
unifying effect of a high ideal. This
ideal we find expressed in the language
of the missionary journalist of the voyage of the Thaddeus: "That work for the
salvation of souls is the best work this
side of heaven." Their successful career
of spiritual and moral victory shows the
guidance of the being who directed his
followers to "Go" and teach all nations,
and promised to be with them through all
time.
The mission to Hawaii took its rise in
the thoughts of kindness to Opukahaia
and his Hawaiian associates, found
adrift, friendless, homeless and ignorant,
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these islands, and the books upon Hawaii
which we now read were then unwritten.
They were wholly unacquainted with the
awakened care for the friendless strangers, then the purpose to impart the knowledge of God and of salvation to these
waifs, and to their far distant countrymen. The Christians of America awoke
to the long neglected duty of carrying the
light of life to them that sat in darkness
and in the shadow of death.
This holy purpose sent forth the little
company that embarked on the brig
Thaddeus, and this same purpose in the
hearts of those missionaries and their
successors led up to the glorious success
the record of which may now be read of
ali men.
Above all, the coming of the missionary Fathers to Hawaii was an act of triumphing faith. None of them had visited
Central Union News
eminent
of the group, and but little of
dangers and distress of a voyage in a
crowded and very small craft. They
knew nothing of the language or the govthe heathenism they were to encounter.
Theirs was a venture upon an unknown
career of great dangers, appalling discouragements ; an act of implicit faith.
Like Abraham they went forth at the
command of God, not knowing whither
they went. Through faith they trusted
God. and he failed them not. He was a
present help in every time of need.
Let us be followers of them even as
they also were of Christ.
cept Christ and start their college careers
Iias
avowed Christians all the more signi-
ficant.
May the Good Spirit, to whose
gentle persuasion they have now yielded
their wills, lead them on into ever richer
A. A. EBERSOLE
experiences and guard them ever and
keep them from stumbling or falling, is
the wish and shall be the prayer, we are
sure, of their ministers, teachers and
parents.
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Annual Service of Music.
Another feature that helped to make
June 5, a "Red Letter Day" at
Central Union was the inspiring service
ot music given in the evening. We have
had excellent music all the year but the
choir outdid itself that evening. Solo
parts were sung by
Sunday.
Miss Eva Lindeman,
Good News Indeed.
Miss Jesse McCormick,
Miss Estelle Roe,
,
Mrs. E. A. Mott-Smith.
Mrs. C. S. Wright,
Mr. George A. Brown,
Mr. Harold Clark,
Mr. Philip Hall,
Mr. C. S. Livingston and
Mr. Arthur Wall.
The choir was fortunate to have not
only for the evening, but for a month
past, the assistance of Miss Lindeman
of San Francisco.
Her magnificent soprano voice added
very much to the effectiveness of the anthems and especially the duet, trio and
semi-chorus, in which she took a leading part.
It was unquestionably the finest musical service given in Central Union for
The best piece of news that any
church can have is to be able to tell of
large numbers of her young people turning to Christ and applying for admission to church membership. Just this it
is our privilege and joy to report. On
Sunday, June 5, forty were received into
church membership and all but four of
these came on Confession of Faith.
F"or several months past there has been
evidence of a deep spiritual interest
among the older scholars of the school.
Our young people were made the subject many a year.
Great credit is due Mr. Stanley Livof special prayer. The blessed results
followed. The fact that a number of ingston, under whose able direction the
these young people leave this summer to choir has been brought to its present
enter colleges makes their decision to ac- 'high standard.
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Dr. Scudder's Farewell Message.
No doubt, many of the readers of The
Friend who did not see Dr. Scudder's
"Good Bye" published in" the Calendar
of June 5, would be interested to read
it, and also to have his itinerary. We
take the liberty, therefore, of republishing it in full:
"Dear Comrades of Central Union
Church: Our English parting salutation
is the most beautiful and expressive of
all farewell words, goodbye—(iod be
with you. This is the prayer of your
minister and ininistress. ()ur pathway
lies hence to New York, then through
New Haven to attend a college reunion,
and next to Boston, sailing on the Romanic ; from that port on June 25 via the
Azores and Gibraltar. It will be a great
pleasure to receive messages from
friends of Central Union while en route.
:
I etters may be ma le don the Siberia
|une H addressed S. S. Romanic, Boston; thereafter the general European address at each of the following cities will
Mail
be "Care 'Thomas Cook & Son."WilhelUtters to Rome up to sailing of
mina lime 22\ to Milan up to sailing of
Chi vo" Maru July 2; to Chamonix, Switzerland Up to sailing of Asia on July 9;
to Lucerne. Switzerland up to sailing of
Mongolia July 2s; to Oberammergau.
Bavaria. Germany, up to sailing of Korea August 6; to Amsterdam. Holland,
up to sailing of Nippon Maru. August
20: to Paris Up to sailing of Siberia August 27; to Liverpool up to sailing of
China September 3. After that date and
Up to sailing of Mongolia ()ctober 8. address 20 Myrtle street, Winchester, Mass.
We shall cast our votes for prohibition
on Plebiscite morning In Milan Cathedral, and shall be in Bellagio, Italy, when
the result is known here early on July 27.
The larger section of the trip. July 29
to August 29 will be spent in the Alps.
In Boston the centennial of the America
Hoard and the National Congregational
Council will be attended. We trust that
the Wilhelmina, arriving November 1
will bring us back to Honolulu. We believe that during the summer a large
work will be done here through God's
blessing and under the ministry of Mr.
EbersoTe and Dr. White. Let the splendid spiritual movement so evident today
grow in volume every week. Though absent we shall be with you in spirit. Inasmuch as many ask for our itinerary it is
appended. Faithfully your minister,
DOREMUS SCUDDER
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July 7-13—In and near Naples.
July 14-18—Rome.
July 19—Pisa.
July 20-22—Florence.
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Both morning and evening audiences
2.^-25—Venice.
26—Milan.
27—Bellagio.
29—Simplon Pass.
July 30-31 —Brieg. Fiesch.
Aug. 1-s—Rhone Glacier. Grimsel, Meiringen. Grindelwald, Murren.
Aug. (>-12—Interlaken, Geneva, Chahmonix.
Aug. 13-20—St.
Leuk, Brienz,
Luc,
Zermatt.
Pad
Lucerne.
Aug. 22-2f)—St. Gotthard,
were unusually large, and every one
went away enthusiastic. Aspecial effort
isbeing made, by extensive advertising
through bulletin boards, posters and the
distribution of invitation cards, to reach
the non-church going people, especially
The
for the Sunday evening service.
splendid response tlVe first Sunday is
most
encouraging.
Annual Meeting of Woman's Board.
One of the big events of the year at
Reicheuau, Central Union is the annual meeting of
Kunkels, Thusis, St. Moritz. lnssthe Woman's Board, which this year fell
bruck.
on Tuesday, June 7.
Aug. 30-31 —(Jberammergau.
As usual the forenoon was given over
reports from the various departments:
to
Dresden.
Sept. 1-—Munich. Prague.
Hawaiian —Miss Green.
Nuremberg. Heidelberg. The Rhine.
Chinese —Mrs. F. Damon and Mrs. E.
Sept. 10-14—Amsterdam. The Hague.
McKenzie.
Antwerp.
lapanese—Mrs. 0, H. Gulick and
Sept. 15-18—Paris.
Miss Julia (iulick.
Sept. 20-23—London.
Portuguese—Mrs. Soares. and the
a
four
Edinburgh,
auxiliary societies;
Sept. 23-30—Trossachs.
few English cathedrals, Oxford. StratThe Missionary Gleaners, of Central
1 nion Church;
ford.
( (ctober I—Sail from Liverpool on S. S. Seminary;
Devonian.."
'The Lima Ko Kua of Kawaiabao
The Aurora Band, of the Portuguese
js
Church:
The Coming of Dr. White.
'The W'ilhelmina, arriving Tuesday
morning, June 14. brought to Honolulu
Dr. and Mrs. Frank Newhall White of
Chicago. Dr. White is to supply Central Union pulpit for eleven Sundays,
the first half of Dr. Scudder's absence.
At the mid-week service, June Id. they
were given a most cordial welcome.
Words of greeting were spoken by the
assistant minister, who presided at the
meeting, and by Mr. P. C. Jones, speaking for the standing committee who had
invited Dr. White to come; by Mrs.
Theo. Richards, president of the Woman's Board; by Mr. Ed. Towse. superintendent of the Bible school: by Albert
Parsons, for the Christian Fndeavorers;
by Mr. Rath, superintendent of Palama
Settlement; and by Mr. Super, general
secretary of the Y. M. C. A.
Dr. White l>ore up under it bravely
and responded most graciously.
On the Thursday afternoon following
an informal reception was tendered Dr.
and Mrs. White on the beautiful lawn
of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Richards,
where many friends gathered to meet
and
'The Kin Ko Tau Fui. of the Chinese
church.
a*
At 12 o'clock a sumptuous repast was
served in the Parish House, many coming in for this who had not been able to
attend the morning session. The address
of the afternoon sess on was given by
Mr. Joseph Richards of New York, on
'The Laymen's Missionary Movement."
Mr. Richards was present at the organization of the movement three years ago
and has been in intimate touch with it
ever since. He could speak from first
hand knowledge. His address was most
interesting. We all felt that the time
had come for the men of Honolulu to
fall in line and take a definite part in
this effort of the Christian men of America to evangelize the world in this generation.
Mr. Richards' address was a fitting
compliment to the forenoon's report of
what the women are doing.
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For those Japanese Servants?
them.
If the first Sunday is any criterion to More than we think, perhaps. Let them I
judge bv —and we see no reason why read a Christian paper in their own I
it SROttld not be—Dr. White will surely tongue. It is THE TOclO. 50c. a year. |
do a most effective service while here.
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Men Working for Men
In the last issue of The Friend we announced a campaign to secure 100 new
subscribers and readers for our national
magazine "Association Men," these to be
secured in three days. We got the 100
and ran the number up to 140. ()ne of
the fine feature of the publication is the
daily Bible reading notes, which excel
anything we have ever seen. Thousands
of men in all walks of life are following
them and getting daily benefit. Those
who have no plan of daily Bible reading, and want one cannot do better. Drop
us a card and we will order for you.
ji
The School Boys.
'The Grammar School Athletic League,
organized by the Young Men's Christian
Association, has closed its first season. It
was a success and the league will be a
permanent feature of Honolulu boy life.
'This spring seven schools entered ball
teams to play for a trophy offered by E.
(). Hall & Son. St. Louis College won
championship and the cup. When the
Kaahumanu School held its closing exercises, the boys
the school presented
Mr. Larimer of the Y. M. C. A. with a
silver medal as an expression of their
appreciation of his services as coach.
of
Ji
The Soldiers.
'The religious meetings held at the Marine Barracks every other Tuesday are a
The attendance never
great success.
runs under 100. and is generally about
125 or 135. Rev. A. C. McKeever gives
the address. Recently he asked for an indication that the meetings were doing
some good. Some sixty men raised their
hands to tell him that his work is appreciated. This is not the only evidence.
We know of men whose lives have been
changed, and who have found the better
The Association regards these
way.
meetings as one of its most fruitful lines
of work.
of work to the Association, and enlargealong several lines. Some of these
things should be done at once, others can
wait a while. Just what our program
should be is the thing to be worked out
by this commission. It has also been urged that the Y. M. C. A. do something
for the Russian men in Honolulu. These
men are going to make good citizens,
and some organization must undertake
the work of assimilation and instruction.
The Association in the States has worked
out an approved method of teaching English to foreigners. This method will be
used in Honolulu. 'The point to be decided is whether the Association or perhaps Palama Settlement shall undertake
the work. 'These two organizations always work together, dividing fields so as
to never overlap. Within the next few
weeks some decision will be made as to
which of us shall undertake the new
work.
ments
Vote Dry.
*
The writer is in favor of Prohibition
because after nine years as an Association secretary he is convinced that the saloon is the worst enemy he has to fight.
Prohibition seems to be the only way to
kill the snake. Whether it prohibits or
not, it gives us a legal right to fight the
saloon, which now has the legal right to
defy us. Grant everything that has ever
lieen said against prohibition and prohibition remains the one way of fighting
saloons. The drinking men we have to
work with would be saved from temptation were there no bar rixims, for they
are not the sort that would seek blind
pigs or import liquor. "Prohibition does
not prohibit" is the word of an unthinking mind, deceived by a clever alliteration. This typewriter does not typewrite
either, nor does my saw saw. But men
that want to can make typewriters write
and saws saw. The same with prohibition. Away with this foolish cry alxwt
"does not prohibit."
js
What Next?
At the last meeting of the Board of
Directors a commission consisting of
Messrs. W. A. Love, Ed. Towse. and F.
D. Ixiwrey was appointed to study the
report of Mr. John F. Moore, who was
here reecntly from New York, and report of the Association what lines of enMr.
largement shall be undertaken.
Moore recommended several new fields
board, etc. This will give the men a
wholesome way in which to spend the
noon hour, and a comfortable place in
which to eat. Here the Y. M. C. A. Bible
class will be held, educational talks and
occasional concerts given. Having work-'
ed in the shop for two years without
equipment, we will welcome this aid to
welfare work. Last issue we re'Kirted
the (). R. & L. Co. providing a Y. M. C.
A. secretary for the men of the road.
What will be the next step toward a bet-
,
PAUL SUPER
We Got Them.
9
The Iron Works.
Another forward move in the direction
of brotherliness. The Honolulu Iron
Works have planned to provide the men
with a recreation room to be fitted up this
summer. The room will be equipped with
tables and'chairs at which the men can
eat. magazines, newspapers, trade journals, phonograph, piano, and games such
as checkers, chess, dominoes, shuffle-
ter 1 lonoluhi ?
Building.
The remains of the Library have not
yet all been cleared away, but we have
assurance that no time will be lost in
clearing the lot. 'The accepted sketches
are now in Mr. Ripley's hands in Oakland, and soon he will return to Honolulu
with the final plans. We have preferred
before building instead of after the plant is up. This is
less expensive. But when the plans are
shown the public will feel that our delays have been justified. We now feel
certain that ground will be broken about
the first of August.
to do our thinking
Jt
Summer School.
Summer classes in bookkeeping, short-
hand, typewriting, and French are being
conducted. Over 40 students are en-
rolled. There is continual demand for
educational work, hot weather or cool.
The attendance at classes is good.
New Members.
*
.
An average of 30 members a month
are joining the Association, pushing the
membership over the 700 mark and
arousing the ambition of the membership
committee fo rhigher mathematics. This
work is well organized .and has been for
some years. New plans are being worked
up for use just before and at the time
of entering the new building. After our
new plant is up and we have more to offer, ti will be hard for a young man to
come to Honolulu and not be asked to
join the Young Men's Christian Association. The limited number of ways
and times in which a man can come to
the city makes it possible to develop a
scheme of locating practically all of
them, through co-operation of baggage
and hotel men. This is being planned.
A membership of over 1000 in the new
building is certain, and it will not be long
till the new building is the great social
center of young masculine Honolulu.
Those who have invested money in this
organization bought good stock.
�THE
10
Range Lights
By
July. 1010
FRIEND
JOHN G. WOOLLEY, LL. D.
In so far as I am responsible for the
calling of the plebiscite or concerned
about the result of it, my eggs are all in
one basket. I bank on the Hawaiian voter. His good sense, patriotism and pride
of race will see him safely through the
whirlpool of corruption, flattery, deceit
and detraction that makes the present
campaign apparently so problematical.
Being a tried and convicted malabini
I admit that my knowledge of the people
may be su|>erficial, and my judgment less
reliable than that of one who came earlier. But at any rate. I stick to my opinion, and get encouragement by finding
that it Improves with age.
'The feeling has grown u|>on me, even
while my knowledge and my admiration
of the remarkable group of white men in
the lead of Island matters have increased. It is quite possible that I have exaggerated the immediate possibilities of
the Hawaiians. and have done scant just'ce to the ''missionaries." Hut today after a good deal of very informing exexperience, my view remains unchanged.
Our Hawaiian fellow citizens need and
deserve our democratic, brotherly cooperation in the outworking of their own
political development, rather than generous tfifts of money, churches, and exemption from responsibility.
My knowledge of the Territory at first
hand dates back ten years, and my only
business here lias been the study of the
|Kople, from the standpoint of a political prohibitionist. From the first I was
more interested in the Hawaiians than
the whites, because this is their country,
there were more of them, they were plainly failing to grasp the greatest values to
them in American progress, and the
whites were no novelty, were better developed in selfishness and better trained
in the manly art of self-defense.
During my first visit to the Islands I
got the impression that the attitude of
the whites towards the Hawaiians combined too much loose criticism with too
little co-operation, and although possibly
it was none of my business, I resented it.
This plebiscite is the Hawaiian people
in a life and death struggle for a chance
in the great future now opening to their
own country. It is a mean heart that is
not touched by it. It is a dirty hand that
is rased against them. If the matter
were merely a problem in finance. I
should rather trust the whites. If it were
a question of laborious application to an
unpleasant undertaking, 1 should rather
follow the Chinese or Portuguese. If it
were a thing of fighting courage and selfsacrifice, the Japanese would be better;
for in all these ways the Hawaiian has
practically dropped out of the, race. But
it is |x>litics—the one sphere where the
Hawaiian still has the elements and implements of power, and a chance to get
back into the game, even on the lines of
former failure. He himself has raised
the issue, although the initial action in
C< ngress came from a tourist who had
been stirred to action by the desperate
plight of tlK' 1 lawaiian clientele of the
saloon.
The liquor business was and is doing
as much harm relatively to the whites.
But this is not so apparen tto the visitor,
they are so few in comparison to the llaw.'.iians, and they carry their liquor better. Wliat caught the attention of Senator Johnson was the tragedy of the Hawaiian race losing its grip upon the lov-
liest land on earth by the most pitiful of
failure—drink.
The Johnson Bill would have passed,
and would have been enforced as a measure of mere humanity. But in the nick
of time the Prince, embodying in himself
and his office the history, the potentiality and the future of his race, stepped to
the front and defeated it by demanding a
test of
the Hawaiian people.
In effect
his proposition was: We don't want to
be saved by others. We want to save ourselves, and vindicate our twentieth century manhood and fitness for self-government.
The joint resolution was coni|K>sed in
the chambers of the Hawaiian delegate
and passed in both houses as his measure.
Then the Hawaiian Prohibition League
was organized in Honolulu, of its own
initiative, and it]K>n working plans of its
own devising. When the convention of
one hundred met to organize the People's
Prohibition League, the Hawaiian members demanded a snapper on the end of
the platform putting up to the Federal
government the question of importation.
The whites did not propose it, and a ma-
�THE FRIEND.
July. 1910.
jority of them were opposed to it as being foreign to the issue raised by the
joint resolution. But the action of the
Hawaiians showed brains, conviction
and political sense : and the whites fell
in behind the men who had the best claim
to lead and the votes.
'The striking feature of this campaign
is. that the men whose )>olitical fortune
is at stake, and who hold the voting power in their hands, are leading, and the
sturdy, trained and dominating whites
following. In this I think the conduct of
the whites is worthy of all praise. With
splendid and astonishing unanimity they
waive their personal preferences and get
in behind the Hawaiian advance, and if
the white vote were in control the verdicl
of the ballot would be banishment for the
social traitor, the saloon.
"wet"
But will the Hawaiian voter stand the
strain? The plebiscite campaign is no
pink tea for ladies. It is a man's game
and a hard one, and the Hawaiian must
answer for himself. Brutal insolence and
utter contempt of high manhood will
spend unlimited money, and bestow unlimited jobs on the corruptible. The fake
argument factory will run day and night.
The bums and the weaklings will be
herded like cattle to the polls.
be told that ships will stop
and the tourist traffic go astray.
:re blather, of course. No ship will
these islands, nor any tourist miss
the world centers of beauty and
because of the lack of saloons. I
picture of the brewery or adverit of the saloons in the literature
Promotion Committee, and I pre-10 inquiry has ever come from a
settler or investor anxious to
twil
11
He will be told how excellent is the
present law—only not quite strict enough, and may forget that the men who
sing its praises now were damning it
within a year. He will be told how
"Woolley said" it was the best liquor law
in any state.
I will answer that right
here. I said nothing of the kind, but
this, that it is the best license law I ever
saw. P.ut it is a license law. It means
saloons and bottle joints, about 150 in
the Territory, for years to come—until
the Japanese voters outnumber the Hawaiians, and fasten the infamous traffic
on the Territory forever.
I le will be told that prohibition will
violate personal liberty. Well it certainly
lege.
He will be told that prohibition will violates life, virtue, happiness. Let him
not prohibit.
That raises at once the choose.
question of the quality of the Hawaiian He will be* told prohibition is dying
But assuming that there is a trace of |x>s-
sible merit in the tourist argument, the
Hawaiian voter has simply to make upIns mind which wax patriotism points
the line of his duty—to a weakness of the
occasional tourist, whom he never saw,
and probably will not see. or to the
strength and the life of his Hawaiian
neighbors, men. women and children.
He will be told that I am a newcomer
and a traveler, and the horrid truth will
have to be admitted. And if he would
rather disappoint one lonely malihini
than to put political prohibition |K>ison
in the runways of a whole pack of human hyaenas, let him that is his privi-
:
and
"dry" map
of THE UNITED
STATES, 1910.
majority. If he wants to prove that a Hawaiian administration of the Territory
can be bought, or fooled or defied, there
again he is within his rights to vote that
way.
He will be told that without the license
revenue, road work will cease.
If he
does not know now, that saloon money
never built a rod of road in any country,
it will be hard to teach him anything in
economics.
He will be warned of the tusks of the
terrible blind pig. If he does not know
that an eyeles smonster. that may be
hunted for, and found, is less dangerous
than the license dsaloon. the cleverest
hunter and violator of men and women
and homes that ever preyed upon mankind, and that prohibition means at the
worst, simply the -present litter of blind
pigs, minus the searchlighted mother of
the introspective breed of swine—licensed liquor trade, he has much to learn.
He has only to look
shows that the white
sunlight of prohibition has covered half
the continent in the last twenty years.
His vote is his own, let him cast it as
he will.
But let him realize well, that the real
question in the plebiscite is this: ARE
THE HAWAIIAN VOTERS CAPAP.LF OF SELF-GO\*ERNMENT? A
vote for prohibition answers "YES." A
vote for the saloon says "NO."
If the saloon wins in the plebiscite it
wins by Hawaiian votes. And the Prince
goes back to Washington to apologize
for his people. '"So your people want saloons," will be said to the delegate.
"What was the argument that convinced
them?" What will he answer? What is
the argument in favor of saloons? And
the Hawaiian people will move forward
to a lower place in national esteem.
If the Hawaiian race votes against
out in the States.
at the map. which
�prohibition, it votes against the old Hawaiian kings, against the light and knowledge of the law, and against the trend
of the best sentiment of the civilized
world, and drops out of sight as a serious
factor in the development of the Territory.
But if the ballots show a clear majority for prohibition. Hawaii will get the
l>est and highest advertisement in the
fact that she has had in all the years.
Her position at Washihngton will l>e
higher than it has ever been. 'The delegate from Hawaii will take his seat in
Congress with new distinction and more
powerful influence, and all the white part
of the ma]) containing the homes of forty
million people, will push the campaign in
Congress for better rules of Inter-State
Commerce, and fairer regulations in the
Internal Revenue, and the most potent
name in every speech and petition will be
,
Hawaii.
at
The Hawaiian Voter:
Will he stand up or stand in?
It is the business of tlve government to
protect the weak. 'The dram shop preys
upon them. In the sum total of its oppressions of the innocent and defenceless
there is no known deviltry equal to the
liquor business. The luxury of the liquor
dealer's family means leaky roofs, empty
pantries, rags and wounds in the homes
of many of his patrons.
This is not saying that the liquor deal-
er is such an utter monster as the case
would make h'ni seem. He is as much
debauched as his unfortunate customer.
Put in a different way. 'I'll cdrinkcr
lends to lose his honor and his chivalry
in the morbid craving tor the drug alcohol The drink seller tends to a similar
deterioration through the progressive
and absorbing greed for easy money.
P.oth arc to be pitied. Both ought to be
helped.
The recipe in use for a hundred years
for helping them is "moral suasion."
lint it fails. The saloon perverts men
more rapidly than persuasion converts
them. The business eats the hearts out
of its owner, even as the spilled beer eats
up the bartender's shoes. Put the public repugnance to "the trade" has kept
on growing. All the more, perhaps, for
all the years of failure. 'The fact has
grown clearer and clearer that the central
folly of the past has been in giving the
drain shop a legal status. The fight is
narrowed now to a contest of laws.
The last stand of the Tquor dealer is
high license. He will do anything, or
sacrifice anything, for that. "Mulct me
more heavily. Watch me more strictly.
Cut down my hours. Do what you will,
but give me a license," is the cry of the
He is a liberal spender.
drink seller.
1 le has courage. He has great shrewd-
July, 1910
THE FRIEND
12
ness. He has the genius of organization,
and no conscience to hamper him. His
license is the only solid ground beneath
him. lie lies with his back upon it. and
fights cat fashion.
He can never be
beaten at his own game. 'The license policy is his own game. "Metz & 8r0.," the
leading brewers of Nebraska,
say:
"High license has In-en of no injury to
our business. In our state we think it
bars prohibition. We are positively certain that were it not for our present high
license law, Nebraska today would have
prohibition. In our opinion high license
does not lessen the consumption of liquor.
If left to us, we would never repeal this
law. There are a great many difficulties
at first, for brewers and liquor dealers to
get a high license law in working order,
but after a year or two you will certainly
find it to your advantage over prohibition. We at first made a bitter fight
against its enforcement, but since it is
well enforced we would not do without
it."
The Presbyterian General Assembly.
'The Presbyterian Church is first of all
logical. Its elders govern it. It is not
emotionalyl eccentric. It cuts no capers
in polity or theology. It is practical to the
last degree. If there is any institution
that is financially and politically safe it
is the Presbyterian Church. Its latest
word ti|x>n the liquor problem is 'here
fore interesting and important, ii. view
ol the constant asseverations of the ii jnor
newspapers that the sentiment in favor
ot prohibition is dying out on the mainland.
'The General Assembly which '■;\- just
closed at Atlantic City took up the Honor
question and threshed it out with true
Presbyterian thoroughness. There Were
hotheads in the debate, and reactionaries,
but the proceeding never lost the deliberative character.
This utterance was the result:
"'The Presbyterian Church must ever
be the open, active and persistent enemy
of the liquor traffic in all its forms. We
declare any form of license under any
name or guise is permission and not destruction, and therefore unchristian. We
solemnly admonish our people to keep
themselves socially, financially and politically separate and apart frm the liquor
traffic, and to touch not the unclean
thing, to the end that this traffic may, by
organic law. be expelled from our land
and our people saved from its despoiling
influence." Which is what might be called cold comfort for those who discern
serve it ?
the signs of the times through a beer
YES,
tight,
vote
If you will
If you will not tight, vote NO—and glass darkly.
be the servant of the saloon.
'This letter of Metz &• Bro. leads the
chorus of brewers, liquor dealers and saloon keepers. 'There is no division among
them. 'They desire high license. They
desire it because it does not lessen tinconsumption of Tquor. Does the Hawaiian voter wish what the saloon
wishes? Congress says to the Hawaiian
voter: "I give you. at the expense of the
American people, a chance to express
your honest desire, uncomplicated by
questions of parties, or candidates, or
other publk matters. Which do you prefer, to tight the Tquor business or to
Our Young People
HENRY P. JUDD
A
POLYGLOT ASSEMBLY.
One phase of Christian work in these
islands, that of its cosmopolitan character, is often remarked upon by visitors
from other lands. A striking illustration
of this was the concert give nin the kahului Union Church on Saturday even4th. for the purpose <>f providing
ing funds for the traveling expenses of
the delegates of the Sunday School and
the Christian Endeavor Society to the
June
annual meeting at Kailua. In the audience were Hawaiians, Japanese. Russians. Portuguese. Filipinos, AngloSaxons. Porto Ricans, and representatives of other races. 'The program contained selections from the Hawaiian musical club of Wailuku. a quartet from
Kahuhll, a double quartet from Waihee
and a Filipino quartet from Waihee.
'The Filipinos were the special feature
of the program, and much interest was
manifested in hearing their quaint music
and listening to their dramatic representations of some romantic incidents in
Filipino history. It will surprise some
of our readers when they hear that there
is a growing C. F. society at Waihee
composed of more than twenty-five of
our brown brothers who join with their
cousins of these islands of the sea in
their mutual Christian fellowship. It is
a splendid example of what brotherhood
should mean to us all here.
A STEP FORWARD.
A practical question often arises in
�the minds of some thinking men as they
are looking forward to the time when
liquor shall no longer be sold at the bar.
Where shall the young men enjoy their
evenings? What substitute to the saloons are Christian men and women expecting to provide for men without any
home relations? It seems to many of
us that a large advance will be made
in the solution of all social problems
when places are provided for men and
Im>\s where they may find satisfaction
for their social cravings in an orderly,
attractive and uplifting way. In taking
away the saloons either by the act of the
License Commissioners as demanded by
public protest or else by a general prohibition law. we are removing the socalled "Poor Men's Club." We are depriving him of a chance to meet with
his friends in a social way and have a
good time, so say the advocates of the
saloons who maintain that there is need
for the saloon as a place for the men
to find social felolwship. What a challenge this is to all Christian men to
provide places that will satisfy the natural cravings of men for society, but
without the degenerating influences of
the saloons! How can you expect the
young fellows of our towns and villages
to keep straight and sober and clean unless you furnish attractive centers for
clean amusement and healthy recreation
that will deprive the saloons of an excuse for existence?
With these and similar thoughts in
mind, some of the leading men of the
seaport town of Kahului have been
working on B plan to establish a club
for young men that will give them a real
home in the evenings, a place where
they may read ami write and play games
of various kinds and talk with their
friends, and have some contests in the
gymnasium or bowling alley or on the
pool table. A building formerly used as
a garage has been leased for the remainder of the year and furniture has already
been installed and improvements made,
so that the boys and men of this town
are enjoying the privileges and pleasures which the club affords. In its roll
of about seventy members may be noticed representatives of almost every race
living in Kahului, while there are railroad employes, stevedores, store clerks
and others among its members. It is expected that the club will fill a long-felt
want in the community and that its success as a means for the social and moral
uplift of the men of the town will lie
unmeasured. The movement has been
identified with the Union Church, for its
meetings thus far have been held in the
church, its president is the pastor of the
church, and practically all the members
of the executive committee of the church
are enthusiastic members of the club.
13
THE FRIEND.
July. I^lo
It is wise for the church to be identified with all such movements that are for
the improvement of a community, else
why should the church have an excuse
for living?
\\ HAWAIIAN "CONEY ISLAND."
In order to raise money to pay off a
debt, the Ladies' Aid Scxiety of Kahului, assisted by several members of the
Ye ung Men's Club, gave a representation of "Coney Island" on the lawn adjoining the Kahului Store, on Saturday
evening. June 18th. It was an unqualified success, socially, artistically, and
The various Ixioths and
financially,
places of amusement were prettily decorated and the charge of admission was
low enough ty enable each one to have
a satisfactory time. There was a larg':
number present from Paia, Makawao,
rlamakuapoko, Puunene, Wailuku and
places, and each person seeni'.'d to
have a very good time. 'The receipts toother
taled the large sum of $.V5.00. 'This
will enable the ladies to pay off their
debt, anil will also furnish the Voting
Men's Club with a substantial sum for
the needs of the club house. It is pr >posed to make this institution an annual
affair, for the joint benefit of the Ladies'
Aid Society and the Young Men's Club.
A MORAL MOVEMENT.
The forces that make for sobriety
and order have not Ik-cii asleep on Maui
tin past few weeks, for there has been
going on a battle against the saloons of
the island, even if the sound of the warfare has not been heard from afar.
At the public meeting of the Board
of License Commissioners of Maui
County there were presented protests
from the residents of Lahaina against the
issuance of a wholesale license to a Japanese, from residents of Wailuku against
retail licenses, from voters of Puunene,
Kahului and Spreckelsville against the
issuance of any retail licenses in the precinct, from residents of Makawao against
the Makawao saloon. There were five
wholesale applications and eleven retail,
a total of sixteen. Although this is far
from what we would have, it is nevertheless an improvement over the days
before the advent of the License Commission. At that time there were fortyfive licenses. This number was immediately reduced to twenty-two and this
has been further cut down, with bright
prospects that the number of licenses will
Ik' steadily reduced if public opinion demands it. What is needed here as elsewhere is a strong sense of moral duty
and the willingness to sacrifice personal
feeling for the welfare of the largest
number. It is clear that the cause of
temperance is stronger today than ever
before and that the tone of morality is
rising higher and higher.
Hawaii Cousins
(Continued
from June Friend.)
Jan. 4, 1820.
the mouth of Rio dc la Plata. We
this morning experiencing a gale
from the north. The violence of the
wind has split several of our sails. We
are now running under bare jwles at the
rate of 7 or 8 miles an hour. We reel
to and fro and stagger like a drunken
man. 'The tossing mountains around us
skip like rams and the little hills like
lambs. The foaming surges lash the
trembling sides of our little bark and
drench her decks, while the rain like
hail pelts the poor sailors as they cling
to the whistling riggings, and the spray
of the sea sweeps over the surface like
the driven snow on a northern winter's
day. Put He who said to the raging
tempest, "Peace, Ik- still," can and does
afford us protection and give us peace
within.
WHALES AND SIIII'S OFF CAPE
HORN.
Jan. 13.
A school of whales appeared, extending along two miles, sorting and spouting, and making the dee]) boil like a pot.
Heavy gales from the S. W. have given
several of the family severe colds.
Jan. 19.
the
first
since
sounding
obtained
Just
are left Boston in 65 fathoms of water.
Three vessels are no win sight. Two of
the in appear like men of war, and the
third is a brig, whether friends or foes
we know not. but we are always grateful to see a sail, and when one appears,
we never fail to think of home.
A. M. —A huge spermaceti whale has
just apoeared and passed very near our
brig. His head appeared to be covered
in part with sea shells. After elevating
the upper part of his head and monstrous
back above the water repeatedly, and
through the large orifices on the back
pari of the head, blowing up the briny
our
spray, he descended and passed
stern, and after rising again to the surface, tossed his broad tail high into the
air and went down again to the chambers
of the deep; thus he obeys the voice of
()ff
art
God.
The maneuvering of the three vessels
indicate that they are whalemen—probably English.
FIRST LAND SIGHTED AFTER
LEAVING.
Jan. 25.
About 11 a. m. one of the mates aloft,
cheered us with the grateful note of
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"Land Ho!" The smile of joy and glow safety, nor shall whirlwinds nor storms
of animation appeared through our little prevent us from erecting upon it, in the
circle, and at 1 p. m. our eyes were grati- name of Jehovah, the Rock of our Help,
fied with a full view of the north-eastern the Ebenezer of the Owhyhean Mission.
part of 'Terra Del liuego stretching (3 o'clock p. in.) The wind rises
along six mile sor so on our right. This again ; all hands are called; the waves
is the first we have seen during three lift themselves up; and our little, trembmonths, since our dear native shores re- ling, tottering bark with its invaluable
ceded from our view. But alas! How freight, yields to the opposing elements
unlike our beloved New England. Here and lightly bends her course toward the
no temples of the living (iod lift their, south. (4 o'clock p. m.) 'The sun breaks
lofty spires to heaven, in honor of him out in the clear western sky, while the
who of old laid the foundations of these dark tempest passes off to the east, and
sr.ow-capped mountains, and weighed the cape gradually sinks behind a pleastheir rugged hills in his balance; no joy- ant sea. ((> o'clock p. m.) A stiff breeze
ful sound of the church-going bell in- and heavy seas from the west. ( Halfvites the wretched inhabitants to the past 6p. m.) 'The sun shuts in behind
feast of the gosjiel! no Sun of Righteous- the cloud—a squall approaches. (10
ness softens their icy hearts, while they o'clock p. m.) At 8 this, evening while
not only cover themselves with the skins our vessel was tossing upon the rising
hut actually wear the natures of the wild billows, her sails close furled, her decks
beasts of their forests.
covered with a heavy spray continually
breaking over, and while a strong west
wind roaring through her rigging was
drifting her through the south east, we
ROUNDING CAPE HORN
assembled as usual for evening prayers,
Jan. 26. read the 4<> Ps., and acknowledged the
We are now in the strait of La Marie good hand of our (iod upon us * * * and
constrained us
Del I'uego on our right, and Staten the unfailing goodness and
and
unitedly
devoutly
joyfully to
left,
on Ixith of which
Land on the
among towering rocks we can discover say. "Hitherto hath the Lord helped us."
banks of snow now in this midsummer. "The Lord of Hosts is with us."
We had a little hail today. The mercury
m
in the thermometer stands at 58 degrees.
Jan. 28.
We entered the Strait early this morning 'Though we had an almost sleepless
with a fair wind which however subsid- night, and though the commotion of the
ed at 10 a. m. before we had quite passed elements continues we are not denied
through, and we were carried back by the comfort of a good degre of calm rethe current 15 or 20 miles. During this signation and unshaken confidence.
recess we were much interested by disJ*
covering two men kindling a fire on
shore.
Jan. 29.
s
Soon after the last evening sacrifice
Jan. 27. the arm of the Lord was stretched forth
10 o'clock a. m. With a fair breeze for our help and the wind began to blowwhich sprung up sixm after last even- favorably. 'This morning we find our
ing's sacrifice, we find ourselves deliver- unexi>ected appearance off the Cape
ed from the dangers of Le Marie, and cheers every heart and calls forth praise
speedily and pleasantly advancing to- and gratitude to him whom ''waves and
wards our turning point, the place of seas obey." * * * * The brig sails nobly
(One o'clock.) While in the seas. It was remarked by one of
hope and fear.
knots an hour the the mates that no vessel was ever in betat the rate of
brig serenely cuts her way, the long ter trim for passing the Ca]>e.
looked for cape rises full in view and all
our hearts leap for joy.
* * (Two
Jan. 30.
o'clock The wind arises, dark clouds
region
Lord's
of
terror we
Day—This
hover around; the approach of a whirlwind is announced; all hands are order- find to be the place of our rejoicing. No
ed on deck; the sails are furled the dead Sabbath perhaps since our embarkation
lights in, the companion way closed and has been more interesting or happy than
we are imprisoned below deck. For a this. This day we double Cape Horn,
moment our Heavenly Father seems to and write upon it Ebenezer. We enjoyhold the rod over us. (Hal-past 2 p.m.) ed our meeting in the morning as usual.
The wind subsides, a gentle
rain At 4 o'clock, as it was t*x> cold and rough
descends, and light breaks in again. We to meet on deck, we assembled in the
know that He who made Cape Horn, and cabin to attend a public lecture by Br.
placed it as a waymark which the temp- Bingham. * * * The service was closed
ests of 60 centuries have not been able by singing an original hymn designed as
to remove, can conduct us around it in a monument and entitled Ebenezer.
—
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:
CALL OF THE HIGHER
EDUCATION.
\r. Address Delivered to the Class of
1910, Oahu College, June 18.
By. HON. W. R. CASTLE.
This is the celebration of your success.
You have been graduated. You
are entitled to your diploma, because it
has been earned. This evening marks
an epoch in your life. It is a corner
turned.
Another round of the ladder
has been mounted. A little clearer vision
is obtained of the world. You have discovered —and a little thrill comes with
the discovery—that, for some reason,
your understanding of life is better.
The recent past bad its discouragements.
Sometimes perhaps you even
thought of abandoning the course. There
were headaches and heartburnings and
weary nights now and then. It is not
unlikely that you thought, and perhaps
thought aloud. "'The game is not worth
the candle!" You saw the laborer on
the road spreading rock, earning his dollar or more a day, acting as though he
were perfectly happy anil contented; the
stevedore on the wharf sweating under
his burden, but still quite content, because he too was earning a good wage.
You could not help noticing how full of
jollity and contentment was the seller
of leis, and you knew from appearances
that she was making enough for her sup|x>rt and that of her family, and doing
it in a very pleasant way. so that others
got pleasure out of her work and were
glad to buy her beautiful flowers. Even
the Chinaman up to his hips, almost, in
the mud of the rice patch looked content.
So did the banana-grower as he cut the
great bunches of fruit, and, wrapping
them in their cozy blankets of leaves,
knocked off the centipede which came
out
and bit his hand.
Even that little
discouragement didn't turn him from his
purpose to raise and offer for sale his
best, so that he might get the highest
price. If you were a little depressed
when you went out, Punahou looked rather more dull on your return, and your
books with the mysterious inside which
you were content to conquer, looked, at
"What's the use!"
most, repugnant.
you may have cried. "Why should I
bother to find out why Walter Scott was
better than somebody else in his thoughts
or his way of expressing them? What
do I care about Johnson's life! Can't
see what he accomplished of much value to me! What on earth is the use of
digging at the I.atin to find out about a
Julius
Caesar built which has
What earthly
use in trying to find out which smiled
sweetest —Dido or Aenaeas! and all in
bridge
long ago gone to smash!
�July, 1910.
Latin, too!" "And if anybody can tell
why X should equal anything but a sawhorse, I'd like to know why!" Even if
these were not your exact remarks, you
will have to confess that what you did
say or think was not much wiser. However, the result shows that you did not
yield to discouragement. You got at
least your 18 points, and perhaps some to
spare.
Sometimes, as the hard toil went on,
as the rules were mastered, as things
aligned themselves, the reason why
things occurred: why nations rose, became great and powerful, then fell and
passed into the strange realm of oblivion, grew clearer. 'There has been a
little lifting of the veil, and the mental
vision has for a moment caught sight of
the wonders within. These have been
the moments of uplift, where all the toil,
the drudgery and trouble l»ave faded
away and seemed as nothing in the presence of what might be found beyond
With your graduation has come a feeling of satisfaction, almost of relief, perYou are possibly satisfied with
haps.
the accomplishment. Maybe it looks to
you like the rounding out and completion of your education.
But is it your Ultima Tliule? Is there
"nothing more beyond?" Are all of your
ambitions satisfied, now that you have
earned this little certificate? What test
will you apply so that you may decide
this question? Perhaps you think of going at once into business. What business?
You cannot go into the smithy and make
horsehsoes. 'That's good business, but
you haven't learned it, nor can you wield
the hammer and, from the shapeless iron
produce things of beauty and utility, for
the same reason. If you take the saw,
the plane and the chisel, you know that
you can only spoil goixl material, because of your lack of preparation. The
same is true of every other skilled trade.
With the blacksmith you might pump the
bellows; with the carpenter, sit on the
Ixiard, holding it in place while some
one who knew how, shaped and dressed
it for use and beauty. Would you become a seller of goods, wares and merchandise? You will find that the thrifty
trader will engage you for a pittance to
sweep out the store, run errands, do
odd jobs, and complain that he loses
money because you don't know how. Do
you remember the pictures in a recent
"Life" entitled "Twenty years after;"
in which you sec, first, the proud possessor of a diploma, then a rather disappointed man sitting on a bench driving
shoe pegs? Pretty severe: but isn't it
sometimes correct? Perhaps the bar,
medicine or the pulpit look attractive: or
you would satisfy the longings of your
soul to create beautiful things, and architecture,
sculpture, or painting seem
fitted to give
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an outlet to these soul desires. Here
you find at once that a long, hard, wearisome aprrill training must first be had.
And none of these things can you do.
You turn your mind to many other of
the arts which go to make up the complex life of our civilization, and find
that in none are you ready, that each
requires practice, and some are unattain-
able without special preparation. After
learning all this, perhaps you will have
a renewal of your old discouragements.
Some one once said: '"If you can't do
But at
anything else, teach school!"
least yon have learned to know how foolish was that remark ; for your memory
tells you that your teachers could not
have instructed you in the courses you
have taken without careful and special
training. You may feel that while doing other things you might read and
cram your mind with sufficient knowledge for all purposes.
A young man once adopted this praiseworthy course, and. instead of going to
school, bought an encyclopdedia, which
he proceeded to read in course. At first
his friends were astonished at the extent
of his information, but finally began to
observe that the subjects of his discourses
were all catalogued alphabetically and
that he was silent when these subjects
got down to 1. m. n. etc. He also failed
in practical applications of his information, till respect for his learning changed
to amusement an ! ridicule.
But do not mistake me. Never would
decry
attempts at self-education, where
I
school life is not possible or practicable.
History abounds with stories of the lives
and accomplishments of men who had
school education only to the most limited
extent; yet who were successful in the
highest sense. Who will say that the
immortal Lincoln failed in any respect
because he had almost no schooling? He
felt and acknowledged his shortcomings
because of that great lack. Yet it cannot be said in the truest sense that he
was uneducated. His was a mind which
absorbed and assimilated everything
which came. The things which trained
and educated him would have slipjK'd
from the minds of most men without
leaving any impression. The great Napoleon was educated in the best schools,
but there is no doubt that with him the
education produced far greater results
than with most men.
It seems unnecessary to say that men's
minds differ as widely as black from
white, yet that is why the same education
It is
nroduces such different results.
this immense variation in minds which
makes a successful few and the mediocre
many. But even the genius, who stands
alone because of his mental power, must
he trained if he would attain the highest
Colburn, who possessed the
success.
most wonderful capacity for mathema-
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tics, and astonished those who witnessed
his feats, accomplished nothing because
he was untrained.
Had Aaron Burr
yielded to discipline and training, had he
subjected his powerful mind to the government of law, his name, instead of being a byword, might have been revered,
honored and loved. Can you not recall
instances in your reading of lives that
failed localise of the lack of training?
Perhaps it is not necessary to recall what
your l>ooks say; you may remember
among your own school friends one, ]>erhaps more than one, who fell out and
failed of the course, not because of any
mental defect, but from lack of determination to press on and succeed, and
content with small things.
You have learned that in this day of
electricity, when the ends of the earth
are brought to gether, one needs a wide
and quick comprehension to keep up.
You take your morning paper and learn
that earlier in the day there was a Nihilist outbreak in Russia; that a vote in the
Reichstag developed unexpected strength
lr the Left; that in London the last vote
ir the Commons was deemed significant,
as showing growth in the single tax
theories; that disestablishment again agitates clerical circles. You learn that only
the day before, Rwsevelt, in Central
Africa brought down a hitherto unknown species of eland; that in China a
new spirit of unrest developing among
the I'oxers is supposed to have its origin
in the movements of Halley's Comet;
that the Gakwacr of Barcxla started on
a world tour; that in Australia new legislation is planned to make government
on the principles of labor unionism more
effective. By this time possibly you lay
aside the paper with a sigh and feel that
to understand the morning paper, even,
one must have wide information. Yet
when you think about it and remember
the man with the encyclopdeia, crammed
full of disarranged and undigested facts,
you realize that something is needed besides a mere fund of information, valuable as that may be in its place. The
carpenter or blacksmith may have his
shop full of tools; but how useless if he
does not know how to use them! So
with book learning and education, you
must know how to use your tools. Your
work at Punahou, as you must see, has
been preliminary, not final. But there
is no need of discouragement in this
thought. On the contrary, your right to
your diploma is evidence that your work
lias been well done.
The railway engineer looks at the figures involved in the building of a big
bridge with a certain awe at the total.
Then he goes to the river bank and asks.
"Where has all this money gone? Where
is the bridge ?" and is taken over the site.
Careful examination develops the solid
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bed, beyond all danger of undermining,
enduring as the mountain crag, fitted to
receive and sustain the massive superstructure and to carry ciylless train loads
ot merchandise and the yet unborn millions who will people the broad land.
Then he decides that the money has lieen
well spent and the attainment fit for
the object desired So with the education now given in our schools of preparation ; if mastered, it furnishes the tools
for more and better work, or if advanced
education may not be had by all, then
it is all in line with the requirements of
business.
.
The education which is now furnished in these schools has developed and
perhaps created a demand for the higher
education. This demand has been in
part supplied by improvement in the older colleges, their broadening out into universities and the establishment of new
schools. George Peabody in 1867 set
aside a fund out of his great fortune "to
give education to those not fortunate in
getting it." Senator Stanford established
a school "to qualify students for personal success and direct usefulness in
life."
"Johns Hopkins" was established to
meet the demand for a higher education." Other schools have been created or
older institutions remodeled to meet the
requirements and the more exacting demands of education in our day. The time
has passed when "a finished education"
may consist of a smattering of nearly everything. The student who is thorough
master of a single department is preferred to the one who has touched many
subjects and has a large fund of general
information but exactness in none. It is
not so long ago that the man of business
cared little for the scholastic attainments
of his employe, even holding the college
graduate in some contempt. But times
have changed, and the educated man has
in his education an asset which did not
formerly exist. The great "Captains of
Industry" now give preference to the
educated applicant for employment. One
of the results of their keen observation
and unerring judgment of values in men
is that education produces results. The
college student knows how to reason, he
has learned how to weigh the evidence,
his perceptions are clear and quick ; he
easily sees through the intricacies of
manufacture, of production. Instinctively, but really because of the training
his faculties have received, he masters
problems in business, which are beyond
the mere drudge. He does not make the
mistakes which hamper, and often prevent the progress of the uneducated. Today, the close and keen competition of
business demands results, and the educated man produces results.
Viewed
July, 1910
from the standpoint of commercialism, sions. The highest and best law schools
the higher education is worth while.
of the country will not admit the appliOur complex modern life has made it cant who cannot show a college diploma.
necessary that there shall be new pro- The same is true of the schools of medifessions, new lines of business. Most cine whose certificates are worth the havof these require education, if success is ing. So with the schools of science and
to Ik- attained. 'The forester must know art which preserve and foster the higha great deal alxnit the lives of plants est traditions and whose certificates of
and trees; the diseases which attack accomplishment mean anything
worth
them; the things which these sensitive attaining and worthy of respect. The
friends of mankind would avoid; the theologian who cannot show his college
foixls which nourish them best, and a diploma as the basis of his theological
multitude of other interesting facts, most education goes but lamely into the conof which cannot Ixe had by observation troversies which must for many years
only. It requires a careful training, a profoundly affect the human mind and
knowledge of bcxiks, information along touch the beliefs and sentiments which
lines which only the higher education actuate and control mankind.
can give successfully.
Cables, telegraphs, the wonderful
We visit the great cities of the world wireless system for the transmission of
and are filled with admiration at the intelligence, railroads, splendid steamsplendid buildings, the stately rows of ship lines to hitherto unreached quarters
columns and arches, the grouping of of the globe, the universal diffusion of
architectural effects, which we declare is printing, have united to introduce to us
the work of a far-seeing genius. But the most profound problems that face
to accomplish these
harmonious and the world. No longer can we chatter
pleasing results, there has been a labo- over petty neighborly affairs; we must
rious training, years of hard work at take up, consider and help to solve these
the schools. It has been necessary to questions which affect the whole human
learn the properties of matter, what race, or ourselves be thrust aside as unweight will crush brick and stone, or de- worthy to join in the life of today. We
stroy the magnificent uplift of the arch, are to judge of the effect of great moveand a thousand other things which can ments, not only on our own little comonly be attained through the schools, munity, but on the nations of the world ;
for no amoilnt of mere practice can pro- for the nations of the world are themduce the master.
selves becoming a world community, and
We s|x.'ak of the wonders of modern mere local knowledge does not longer
medicine and surgery, of the accomplish- suffice to decide world questions.
ments of famous doctors, of cures and
lt was once said of a well known
operations which seem like magic. We
very little law, but
know that parts of our body are some- judge, "He knows
uncommon horse senes leads him to
his
times planted u|x>n another, that the correct decisions!" This
may be said of
fresh pure blood of some person or ani- a few people
still, but they are few inmal of approved health is transfused into
deed, and the number is decreasing, bethe failing veins of another and that life cause
in these days of complex world
is triumphantly snatched from death. pioblems
the knowledge which only eduAnd we think of these things as wizard
cation can give is needed to assist and
performances, but they are not. They regulate even the most unering judgare the accomplishments of the higher
ment.
education. They lie within the reach of
'There is spread out before us a feast
all. No longer is the physician or surgeon looked upon as learned in the arts of literature, art, music. It invites and
of secret magic. It is now known that tempts. To partake is to enter into the
the wonders he performs are the result highest and purest enjoyment. But the
of careful and accurate knowledge, not way lies along lines reached only by the
only of the human frame with its func- higher education. Would you be a force
tions, but of the action of drugs and among men; would you gain renown as
chemicals, and these things he learned a jurist, as a statesman, as a leader in
at the schools where higher education is the mighty industries of the world ? Then
learn what the great schools can teach
taught.
Who has unfolded to our vision the you. Would you pierce the depths of
wonders of the underworld, making the nether world, or the abysses of space
known the presence of swarming life, about our little earth, and unfold the
where our fathers supposed was only wonderful and beautiful mysteries they
silence and death? But without the re- hide; would you possess the "open sesearch rendered |x>ssible by the higher same" which lifts the veil of the past and
education, the bacteriologist would not admits to the pure joys of its art, its
exist.
learning and all that is best in its teemThis higher education is necessary if ing story, then reach out and take for
one desires to enter the learned profes- yr.urs the higher education.
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The Scribe's Corner
REV. WM. BREWSTER OLESON
Corresponding Secretary.
"titty cried to «od in the bank, aad Ik
was iatrtated of them. because they put their
tnut la Ma,"
—' C*sss. 3 .-*».
The Key-Note at Kailua.
When great moral issues stare men in
the face, cold, intellectual tones give way
to the warmth and fire of the heart. It
There was one allwas so at Kailua.
absorbing theme that asserted itself at
every turn. There were other matters
that claimed and received attention. Being the ninetieth anniversary of the landing of the first Christian missionaries in
Hawaii, the occasion was suffused with
missionary interest. Special memorial
exercises, and special memorial addresses
and the discussion of live missionary
themes, had no small share in the daily
programs, and elicited the closest attention from first to last. Whatever the
theme, however, and however slight its
connection, the real passion of the conference was the theme of prohibition.
Men prayed about it, and talked about
it, and sang about it on every occasion.
It was the burden of the day and the
prayer by night. Such splendid enthusiasm only comes to the surface when the
minds and hearts of men are stirred to
their depths. Those who were present
will not soon forget the addresses of
Desha and Kamaiopili and Kamau and
Nakuina. and the imploring appeals of
the women as they spontaneously voiced
the deeper undercurrents of their lives.
One Discordant Note.
There was only one voice raised in opjxisition to the tidal wave of enthusiasm
that swept the conference. It was that of
Senator Makekau of Hamakua. Keen
in his argument, and persuasive in his
appeal, there was the utmost contrast between the tone and matter of his address
and of addresses made later by Desha
and Nakuina. His tone was that of the
cold, calculating politician, and his matter was questions of expediency and of
utility. The replies to his points were
apt and conclusive, and the tone was vibrant with that peculiar timbre that men
unconsciously employ when dominated
by a great moral passion. It was a battle of bright men, and the champions for
prohibition won out completely.
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Honoring the Fathers.
There has been to date no such fitting
and significant recognition of the work
of the early missionaries as the memorial
services at Kailua on Sunday, June 26.
In the first place, the services were held
in one of the oldest church buildings in
the Territory. Large and high and solid,
it represents the aim of the missionary
fathers in all their work. The interior,
freshly renovated and attractive, connects the past foundations with the present activities. The audience in its complex composition, with the preponderant
Hawaiian membership, was an evidence
of the enduring influence of missionary
teaching. Again, the personality of the
speakers was noteworthy, one being the
oldest active descendant of the missionaries of the first generation. Rev. O. H.
Gulick, who spoke at length in both Hawaiian and English on the work of the
fathers; the other being one of our most
able and eloquent Hawaiian pastors, who
spoke most fittingly on the first Hawaiian Christian, Henry Opukahaia, and his
three Christian comrades, Hopu, Kanui,
and Honolii.
Again, the participation of the races in
the program was indicative of the new
day in Hawaii, for the scriptures were
read in Hawaiian, in English, in Chinese,
and in Japanese, by representatives of
these races, while the prayer was by a
grandson of one of the mission families,
himself an earnest religious worker
among us today. If men could only project themselves into the future to realize
how sure and abundant is the fruitage of
the patient worker in the kingdom of
God, how transporting would be their
grateful joy. But that is one of the
realizations that is reserved for heaven.
'Those early missionaries now rejoice,
though here they toiled in patient hope.
old. O Clod, thy Spirit wrought," followed by prayer by Rev. G. L. Kopa. The
chairman of the committee, Rev. W. B.
( Meson then delivered an address on"The
Meaning of the Arch," after which Miss
Ethel Paris, a lineal descendant of one of
the Missionary pastors of Kona. Rev. J.
D. Paris, and likewise of one of our honored Hawaiian families, unveiled the
.
bronze tablet The exercises closed with
benediction by Rev. J. K. Kekahuna, perhaps the oldest living Hawaiian minister
in active life. Mr. Elijah McKenzie was
employed to supervise the erection of the
arch and the noble memorial is witness
to his unceasing personal attention in its
construction. Set in from the wall that
borders the main street of Kailua by a
curved wall on either side, the arch is an
mposing and fitting memorial alike to
the first Christian missionaries to Hawaii, and to Opukahaia and his comrades
Hopu. Kanui. and Honolii. May it long
stand as a mute witness to the strange
leadings of God, and to the marvelous
glories of His grace.
Ji
Reminiscences.
Sunday's memorial exercises closed
with an evening of reminiscenses under
the leadership of Rev. S. L. Desha. Rev.
J. K. Kamoku, one of our oldest Hawaiian pastors, spoke of the work of Father
Thurston. Rev. J. A. Akina sjxake of the
labors of Father Whitney. Rev. W. B.
Oleson read a letter from Mrs. S. E.
Bishop concerning the Bishop and Thurston families, and Mr. F. W. Damon displayed a letter written by Opukahaia.
probably the only autograph letter of
Opukahaia in Hawaii. Mr. Damon spoke
of Opukahaia as the magnet that drew
attention to Hawaii as a field of need,
and that irresistibly led not only to the
inauguration of mission work here, but
Ji
to missionary undertakings elsewhere.
interest was aroused by these
Intense
The Memorial Arch.
personal and historical reminiscenses.
What should be the memorial to com- which formed a fitting climax to a notmemorate the landing of the first mis- able day's program.
sionaries? At first it was decided to seJ>
cure a big boulder and have it placed at
some fitting location with a bronze tablet Live Topics.
set into its face. Then it was found posThe themes for discussion were pracsible to use a lava stone monument that tical and vital. Two of our most successhad been originally selected for the Bing- ful pastors, viz., Revs. Messrs. T. Okuham memorial at Oahu college, and mura and Wm. Kamau spoke on "Winwhich the trustees had graciously grant- ning Men for Christ." Rev. J. P. Erded to the committee making arrange- man answered the question "Have MisHe showed
ments for the memorial. The final de- sions Paid in Hawaii?"
cision, however, was to erect a large me- how impossible it is to measure the value
morial arch at the entrance to the of men saved by any monetary standard.
grounds of the Kailua church. Accord- He called attention to the vast social
ingly such an arch was built and special change that had taken place as the result
services were held under it on Sunday, of missionary work ; and noted the manilime 26. These exercises consisted of fest strength of public opinion on all
the singing of the Memorial Hymn, "Of moral issues as the present controlling
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force in our government. He urged that
what has been gained by missions here
be held by sustaining the work of today
in the spirit of the fathers.
Mr. Levi G. Lyman presented the
claims of Hilo boarding school and introduced Mr. F. A. Clower, one of Mr. Lyman's assistants, who spoke earnest
words on the need of building up by proper schooling a generation of Hawaiian
farmers.
Rev. W. B. Oleson outlined briefly a
scheme for colonizing the people who
were stranded and helpless in Honolulu.
The association voted to press this suggestion and appointed the following committee Messrs. Oleson, Nakuina, Desha,
Dr. Baker and Senator Baker.
The addresses of Revs. Messrs. Dodge
and Poai on the question "What can we
do to promote temperance?" were earnest and timely.
Rev. E. S. da Silva
pressed home the obligation to give more
generously for mission work, as answer
to the question "Are we meeting our missionary obligations today?"
On the question, "Giving for Missions,
What Do I Owe?" Revs. Messrs. Burnham and Lono reinforced the pressure already brought to bear for the fulfilling
of personal obligation.
Rev. August
Drahms gave an extremely good address
on the question: "What is our greatest
need in our present mission work ?"
We hope to have room later on for
some of these addresses in whole or in
part for publication in The Friend. They
contributed in no small measure to the
success and value of this annual confer-
:
churches of this association, and that
prayers for the downfall of the saloon
in Hawaii ,be offered continuously in
every church and from every family altar
in the land."
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Parting Pledges.
Spjendid Hospitality.
It was no small experiment to hold a
meeting of the Hawaiian Evangelical Association at such a small place as Kailua.
There were misgivings that the experiment might not be successful. But such
misgivings were quickly dissipated; for
the preparations that had been made
were ample and comfortable, and the
spirit of hospitality expressed so well in
Dr. Baker's address of welcome, and
evinced on every hand by the people of
Kailua and vicinity, was all that could be
desired. Mrs. Robinson was specially
active in ministering to the comfort of
delegates. Prince Kuhio, in extending
the use of the Palace, and Mrs. Allen, in
opening her cottage to guests of the
conference, contributed in no small measure to the general well-being. The occasion was a memorable one and the hospitality will long be remembered.
In spite of the bustle and hurry of the
closing forenoon at Kailua, quite a company gathered beneath the arch for a
farewell service. Prayer was offered by
Rev. J. N. Kamoku. Then followed the
reading of the following pledge, the
Moderator leading:
"Standing on this spot made sacred
by the landing of the first Christian mis
by the landing of the first Christian missionaries to Hawaii, we pledge ourselves
anew to the serviec of Christ and his
church. May the memory of the consecrated heroism and faithfulness of the
missionary fathers and mothers inspire
us to renewed devotion in behalf of human brotherhood, of Christian unity, and OPUKAHAIA AND THE KING.
of the final triumph of Christ's kingdom
on earth." The
Rev. G. M. ADDRESS AT THE OPENING OF
Kamakawiwfcole. then pronounced the THE KAILUA CONVENTION.
benediction, and the eighty-eighth annual
conference of the Hawaiian Evangelical By Rev. William Brewster Oleson.
Association came to an end.
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In Retrospect.
The service of song was an important
factor in the success of the conference.
The possibilities in this direction for future conferences aer well night unlimence.
ited. The song as a vehicle for setting
The following resolutions were unani- forth great causes and for giving unity
mously adopted:
of feeling and conviction is a marvelous
The Hawaiian Evangelical Associa- agency.
tion, assembled in celebration of the nineAgain, the sunrise prayer meeting evtieth anniversary of the landing of the ery morning was the spiritual dynamic of
pioneer missionaries at Kailua. Hawaii, the conference. Those were wonderful
reaffirms its past declarations in favor of exhibitions of the hold that our Christian
the prohibition throughout this Territory religion has on the hearts of the people.
of the manufacture, sale and importation Ostensibly, under the leadership of the
of liquors of every kind;
Christian Endeavor Societies, the com"It reasserts its condemnation of the mon interest corralled the whole confersaloon as the inveterate foe of the church ence, and each morning the great audiand of all its agencies for the betterment ence room was filled with men and woof the community;
men eager and earnest and prayerful.
"This association, moreover, pledges its Again, one of the most impressive facts
members to the most earnest co-opera- of the conference was the splendid moral
tion in promoting the cause of prohibi- leadership that the Hawaiians possess in
tion during the few weeks remaining men of their own race. Some of our
before the special election of uly 26; brethren among the Chinese and Japanese
"It calls upon the men in all the present recognized this, one of the ablest
churches represented in this association among them saying: "Of course I could
to cast their ballots in favor of instruct- not understand what those men said, but
ing the next legislature to enact a prohi- I felt inspired just the same." Moral imbition law for Hawaii;
pulse has its own language in face and
"It appeals to all good citizens to unite tone, and heart speaks to heart, over and
in a supreme effort to outlaw the saloon past all mere barriers of language. When
in Hawaii;
great moral questions come to the front,
"It requests that these resolutions be and men speak with the authority of
read in the one hundred and one moral conviction.
This historic spot and this memorial
occasion invite certain considerations
that may well give us the key-note for
this great gathering. One of these is to
be found in the prayer of Opukahaia, the
to be found in the act of the great Kamehameha in sending forth his chiefs
from his council house here in Kailua to
stop the making and the use of liquor.
Both events took place in the year 1818,
two years before the coming of the missionaries. One was the appeal to God of
a dying youth in a strange land on behalf
of his race. The other was the manly
decision of a strong leader to use his
power to protect his people from a dreadful scourge. Both men strove to meet
their duty to their brother men.
The prayer of Opukahaia, and the
command of Kamehameha! They were
both alike inspired of God. One knew
that it was the Spirit of God within him
that was making the great intercession.
The other in his darkness knew not that
God was his invisible prompter. One
saw a great need and joined himself to
God to secure his gracious help. The
other saw a great evil and girded himself to crush it.
In the great solicitude with which God
had filled his soul, Opukahaia cried out:
"Great God, bless Tom, and purify him.
and return Tom and me to Hawaii to
tell the people of the heavenly things."
He thus voiced the true spirit of Christian brotherhood. And his prayer should
inspire in us today the same consuming
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with fitting reverence and used without
solicitude for the men of our own time.
question the knowledge so dearly bought
Our supreme duty is not to raise money,
concerning the islands of the north. Had
nor to build churches, nor to gain partithe cave men disregarded the experience
san advantage, nor to magnify our heritof those who tasted poisonous berries
ages, but to bless and help Tom, the other man, whatever his race, and whatever
ERNEST J. REECE
their race must have died. Had science
ignored John Napier's logarithms our ashis need, and whatever his condition.
tronomy must have been crude indeed.
God grant that in all our deliberations
here at Kailua we may not lose sight for Wisdom and Folly.
Is Hawaii to forget, in the present
a moment of this supreme object. May
crisis
the wisdom of a myriad experiDarwin,
"is
"A fool," said Erasmus
the burden that lay so heavily on the soul one who has never made an experiment. ments? Is the unchallenged testimony
of the dying Opukahaia be on our souls When the cave men contrived to strike of Hebrew and Roman, of Teuton and
as well. For the other man, Tom, is all fire from flint it was as they tried the Saxon, of Slav and Polynesian to be lost
about us reaching out imploring arms qualities of stone and metal. The solid on her? From Greenwich back to Greenfor us to come to his help. We have no colors of the Egyptians, bright and wich, and from the Arctics to the Antright as Christians to do less than our fresh after their five thousand years of arctics, alcohol has blighted humanity.
utmost to befriend him, to make his wel- entombment, witness the efforts of Ham- It has crept into men's hearts in the
fare one of supreme concern, to shield ite artisans toward perfection. The gen- guise of a friend, promising to dispel
him from evils that he cannot withstand ius of medieval Christianity owes itself drudgery and gild despair. It has preyalone, and to deny ourselves to the limit
to the countless devices by which devout ed upon men's noblest motives, offering
in order that Tom may be helped to be- men sought in earlier centuries ot nour- to dissolve their limitations and make
come a sober citizen, a thrifty producer, ish a newly implanted faith.
A new them better than themselves. It has proand a Christian father in a happy home. chemistry and a new physics have arisen posed to console their weakness, ennoble
At the sight of the ravages which
because the searchhings of the Curies their strength, imbue them with the distrong drink was making among his peo- resulted a dozen years ago in the discov- vine. Whether it has filled its promise,
ple, the Great Kamehameha said to his ery of radium. In fact, from the amoeba let the review of its followers testify. If
chiefs: "Go home and destroy every to the highest type of spiritual life every- premature death, loss of reason, destrucliquor still which you find. Distilling thing bears the stamp of testing and trial. tion of body and mind, shattering of
and drinking liquor are tabu from this The processes of nature are one great careers, cruelty, selfishness are blessings
time forward."
experiment. By this method the mother to mankind, then has liquor vindicated
He saw no other safe course but to of all eliminates and selects, destroys and its claims. If theft, embezzlement, deceit,
stop the making and the use of liquor al- builds. No place is left for the non-ex- unreliability, spell fit conditions for busitogether. He could do that thing in his perimenter of whom Darwin speaks. It ness enterprise, then is alcohol a boon.
day by the fiat of his own will. It can
is the forced lot of each individual to asThe effect of alcohol is one of the coldbe done today by the fiat of such as we. certain certain facts for his brothers and est facts of science and one of the dreariThe power is ours. How shall we use it? certain other facts for himself—to gain est tales of history. Its picture is black
Is there a man among us who in this pre- at the risk of loss or to lose with the and unrelieved, and admits of no apolsent crisis does not find his heart beatchance of gain.
The forms of food ogy. Hawaii may escape the truth no
ing true to the prayer of the first Ha- which constitute the basis of our nutri- more than may the nations of the north,
waiian Christian ?
ment, the styles of raiment which have for her citizens, her defenders and her
Is there a man among us today who been accepted
as suitable, the scientific wards are human. She now has oppordoes not know deep down in his soul
which our reasoning ii tunity to subvert her dearest foe, and by
upon
premises
Kamehameha,
if he could
that the great
based,
axioms which govern so doing avoid the rebuke due to those
thought
the
speak, would say to us much as he said our conduct—these, however' outworn who reject the teachings of an experihome,
once before in this very place: Go
may be, are the products of experi- ment. But one further pitfall Hawaii
and vote to stop the making and the sale they
ment.
The savage testing the new fruit must shun. She must be on guard lest
we
of liquor? If we mean to help' Tom
the
and the chemist crushing she be classed with those who, accepting
by
eating,
must vote to protect Tom.
it
the
crucible
are alike giving shares the findings of one set of tests, refuse
in
It is not without significance that the to
world's store of experience.
to make the added experiment thereby
the
command
and
the
Opukahaia
prayer of
No exponent of prohibition
implied.
greater
there
be
a
fool
than
he
But if
of Kamehameha were being uttered at
would
that loss of a certain kind
deny
who
makes
no
it
is
he
who.
experiments
same
The
best
wish
and
time.
the very
a few if his program be
them,
to
must
fall
upon
fails
benefit
their
by
the best act must ever be close together. making
Neither
would he assert that
adopted.
upon
had
hit
antiquity
Tom.
As
When
teaching.
we
for
pray
As Christians
perfect in practice.
will
his
plan
prove
of
and
tin
combining
copper
Christian citizens, let us vote for Tom's a method
repudiate
any claim
to
Above
all
would
he
into
a
it
that
held
satisfactory
alloy
safety and protection.
traffic
is to
that
abolition
of
the
liquor
ornaments
and
The prayer of Opukahaia and the method. The tools and
panacea for social ills. But all signs
be
a
are
uniform
age
of
the
bronze
weapons
These
place
command of Kamehameha!
that a dry territory would mean
on us at this time and in these surround- in design and composition. There was indicate
a
the right direction. How great
in
step
to
our
no
abandonment
of
the
treasured
proobligations
ings the weightiest of
that step would be can only be determbrother men. Let us meet these obliga- cess, until calamity came upon the entire
trial.
If by any chance
tions in all our deliberations and action civilization, and buried its arts with it. ined by actual
should be truly bad the deat this time as men shoul dwho honoi When the Assyrian architects found that the results
in their kilns cision would not be irrevocable. By so
the voices of the past, who are ready tc the long flat bricks burned
as the east is from the west action is
meet the duties of the present, and whi- were best adapted to a low structural far
better
than inaction in the present case.
ambitious
arch
patwith
the
avoided
style,
they
look forward into the future
The
call
is for a breaking of shackles,
crouching
pyramidal
long
terns
and
built
from
the
concourage
that
comes
calm
for
the
venture
of an experiment. We
and
his
crew
Bering
Since
palaces.
viction that the cause we champion is the
Arctics, there to endure are bound not to mark time but to march.
sailed
into
the
of
hand
and
right
our
God
whose
cause
as well as an individual
holy arm will win for Him the victory. suffering and death, men have prized A community
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may bear witness of the "titanic" quali- men into one arbitrary hand is unworkties of which Agnes Laut writes in her able, the scattering of the same authority
"Vikings of the Pacific": "We have be- over a thousand no less arbitrary sovercome such slaves of shallow science in eigns is still more so. Men rejoiced when
these days, such firm believers in the tin- idol of monarchical absolutism was
fatalism which declares man the creature overthrown. Straightway they reared a
of circumstance, that we have almost fetich no less vicious and which bettered
forgotten that the supremest spectacle the situation only in that it afforded a
in life is that man becoming the creator momentary change. The burden of
of circumstance. We forget that man government had been merely shifted
can rise to be master of his destiny, fight- from hand to hand, not shouldered. Foi
ing, unmaking, re-creating, not only his it must be remembered that the object of
own environment, but the environment all our experimenting is a better society—
of multitudinous lesser men. There ii a society in which the interests of each
something titanic in such lives. 'They are and all shall be conserved and furthered.
the hero myths of every nation's legends. 'The delegating of central authority am'
We somehow feel that the man who the determining of individual prerogative
thugs off the handicaps of birth and sta- are but devices looking toward this bettion lifts the whole human race to a high- ter society. It is as much to the point,
er plane, and has a bit of the (iod in therefore, to object that the dethronehim, though the hero may have feet of ment of Charles 1 was a compromise of
regal right as to assert that restrictive
clay and body of beast."
legislation is a violation of constitutional
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right. The question is not one of rights
Rights.
but of results.
Any other ground is unTwo markedly opposing declarations of tenable. Democracy is popular, gloriouspurpose are prominent in the present ly so, but it is by no means an unqualified
campaign. On several occasions the success. Roosevelt's leadership owes ib
writer has heard from men who for per- strength largely to the fact that the man
sonal or other reasons are in sympathy has been courageous enough to compass
with the use of liquor an expression of urgent purposes in most undemocratic
n adiness to do their part in banishing ways. ( )ur cities are endeavoring to bur)
the traffic.
Their attitude betokens a their failures in popular government bj
willingness to sink what are regarded at a partial reversion to autocratic methlegitimate tastes and rights for the sake ods. 'The present age wishes to see
of checking an instrument of general things brought to pass. It presses toevil. In contrast with this class of voters ward the new order, and inquires none
is a group of men, non-users of intoxi- too closely as to whether its devicetrench Upon some time-bolstered clause
cants, anil repudiators even of the brewers' claims, who consider that any re- of the political decalogue.
striction of the opportunity to procure
Wherefore may Hawaii discern the
poison is an abridgment of human real issue and dare to destroy the fetich
rights.
She covets a strong citizenry; surely
The issue is deep-seated. It involves there can be no injustice in crushing that
the very principles upon which modern which saps strength.
She would fain
political dcevlopment is based. What is guard her weaker members; surely no
the meaning of the statement that any modern constitution has superseded the
curtailment of personal privilege is un- sermon on the mount. 'The end of living
constitutional? Let us examine its gen- is larger, richer life. Whatever clearly
esis. In the days of divinely appointed contributes to this end passes the test of
inonarchs the individual possessed only "constitutionality."
what rights he was strong enough to
When the "General Slocuin" sank in
assert—barring perhaps a few which tra- New York harbor a few years back, one
dition or regal whim allowed him. Every thousand school children were allowed
privilege, including life itself, was a bit full choice as to whether they would perof grace. The modem era brought the ish or escape. When seismic disaster ovinevitable reaction, a theory of unlimited ertook the Sicilian towns eighteen
rights for all. This is the inevitable pen- months ago a myriad men and women of
dulum swing, and as such it is naturally Latin race were offered the opportunity
did not alter the outcome. Personal lib-
erty was not impeached, yet corpses dotted the Fast river and the shores of the
Mediterranean
The parallel with the
present situation is close. Where there
is the will without the strength, cursed
is he who withholds the helping hand.
WHY I AM A PROHIBITIONIST.
By A. Gartley.
I am often asked why I am a prohibitionist, and I must confess that when I
hear and read the multitude of arguments for and against prohibition and review the many ingenious schemes and
substitutes for reducing the consumption
oi liquor and its consequences to a minimum that I am confused and hardly
dare present the direct evidence and
simple logic which lead me to accept no
middle ground.
The direct evidence to be obtained in
the courts, jails, hospitals, homes and the
many institutions for correction and relief and the almost universal admission
of non-prohibitionists of the terrible and
evil results from the excessive and unwise use of liquor convinces me that prohibition cannot be assailed from the
moral and social sides.
When I attempt to determine the economic value of sobriety to the state and
the individual, the problem seems a
simple one; almost too simple to convince, when set beside the overwhelming
mass of complicated arguments of opponents and the ingenious but sometimes
involved theories of political economists.
Laying aside an extended analysis, it
is but common logic and common sense
that a man's needs and luxuries are
fruits of production, and prosperity
mians there shall be demand for these
fruits. 'The greater and more general
the demand the greater and more general
the prosperity,
Anything which limits the demand or
anything which limits the production or
the capacity of the individual to produce
should be suppressed. The liquor traffic
does all these, and furthermore the drink
habit lowers the standard of living and
operates as one of the strongest factors
illogical. For if the gathering of the ( f deciding whether they cared to live against fair wages to the laborer.
\o one will say that the drunken labjxuver of life and death over a thousand or die. But the right of individual choice
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orer is the best laborer, that he is the
best producer or the best sustainer.
Prosperity demands sober producers,
sober production and wise spending.
environThese conditions require
ment of a sober state.
The increase in property and valuations in such a state, the increase in producers and in production, and the decrease in burdens and 11011 producers
makes taxation light, and tends to increase and equalize prosperity.
A man who labors in such environment reaps the results of his labor and
does not carry the burden of additional
drunken non-producing consumers.
Let us state a few self-evident facts
and see if we cannot deduce a few selfMoney represents
evident conclusions.
labor of production, and the 'laborer gets
his dollar as a return.
When he pushes that dollar over the
bar of the liquor dealer, it is lost to him.
for the purchase of necessities and luxuries for himself and family. He then
must work another day for another dollar. Two days' labor and the purchasing
power of one! Perhaps a third day of
incapacity. That dollar can have no economic benefit.
Is the merchant not interested also in
that dollar and the fact that the drinking
man's purchasing power and the purchasing power of his family are reduced and
that there is a corresponding loss in
trade?
Also the manufacturer who supplies
the merchant, does he not lose?
It seems quite evident that the liquor
dealer imposes a terrible tax upon anil
is an enemy of the drinking laborer and
his family and an active and serious competitor of the merchant and manufacturer.
Some say the dollar still exists. Is that
quite true? When the bartender takes
that dollar he gives no positive value in
return and performs no labor of production. He is not a producer, nor is the
liquor dealer, nor the wholesaler nor the
brewer.
(>ue of the laws of economics proclaimed by an Indian philosopher centuries
ag< > says:
"But if one eats fruits of the earth,
rendering to kindly heaven no gift of
toil, that thief steals from his world."
I believe this is true. These are a few
reasons, perhaps not very profound, but
sufficiently convincing to me, why Hawaii should establish, under a prohibition
law, the conditions and environments
conducive to sobriety, industry and prosperity.
THE FRIEND.
BRYAN'S GREAT SPEECH.
(Continued from June number.)
In the first place, 1 want to call attention to two or three arguments that are
overworked.
Every once in a while a man tells me
he is opposed to "sumptuary legislation."
Two or three years ago we had a convention in ()maha, and a man came in and
had a plank on sumptuary legislation he
wanted put in our platform. I said, "Not
in this platform," He said, "The liquor
men have eight millions of dollars raised
and they are going into this campaign,
and we can't afford to offend them." I
said, 'That plank will not go into this
platform." I said, "I have heard enough
1 wtant
about sumptuary legislation.
someone to define what he means by it
before he puts it in any more platforms."
Every law proposed for the restriction
or restraining of the liquor traffic is opposed by somebody as sumptuary legislation, and they say. "Why, if you commence to do that, first thing you will be
telling by law how much clothing a man
should have and how many suits of
clothes."
Now, when a man says anything to me
about sumptuary legislation, I say, " Define it; the time is come now to tell me
what you are talking about. You tell me
what you mean by sumptuary legislation
and I will tell you what 1 think about
it."
1 tell him if he means by sumptuary
legislation a law which says how many
suits of clothes a man shall wear, I am
opposed to it; if he means by it how much
money a man shall spend for clothing, I
am opposed to it; but I am willing to go
this far in sumptuary legislation, to say
that man shall wear some clothing.
And so, on the liquor traffic. I want a
man to define what he means by sumptuary legislation, and then I will tell him
whether I am in favor of it or not.
I hear them talk about "personal liberty." Did you ever hear anybody talk
about personal liberty when you talk
about the liquor question? That is another expression that ought to be defined. When a man tells me he wants
personal liberty, I tell him to write it out
and tell me what he means by personal
liberty. I tell him that when a man enters society he surrenders some of his
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liberty in return for the blessings of society. Why, my friends, for instance, if
a man lives out on a desert, and there is
nobody within twenty-five miles of him,
he can get on a horse and run races
anywhere at any time. But, if he goes
into a settled community he can't run
horse races on a public highway. Why?
P.ecause you have to have a speed limit
for the protection of society. Why, even
they have speed limits sometimes on automobiles, sacred as they are.
If you can put limits on a race horse,
if you can put speed limits on an automobile, why can't you attach a speed limit
to a rapid young man occasionally.
"Personal liberty!" What does a man
mean by it ? Does he mean that he has a
right, or ought to have to drink anywhere at any time in any quantity without asking anybody and regardless of the
effect on everybody? Is that what he
means by personal liberty ? If so, I can't
agree with him. I believe that when a
man asks for the right to drink, he must
give plans and specifications, and he
must show that he desires to drink in
reasonable quantities at reasonable times,
and under conditions that do not injure
other people. Every man's rights stop
where he infringes upon the equal rights
of somebody else.
The first position that I want to lay
down on the question of legislation is
that the people have the right to determine under what conditions liquor shall
be sold and used. That is fundamental.
I believe in the right of a majority to
rule. I believe that the majority have a
right to act on this subject as on every
Other subject. Wherever you have government there must be a source of power.
Whenever a government acts, the action
must come from some body or somewhere, and wherever you find governmtnt the authority is either in the majority or in the minority. There is no
escape from that proposition. There are
only two sources from which authority
and government can come. One is from
the majority and the other from the minority.
A great many governments have
drawn their authority from the minority.
We have had unlimited monarchies,
where the king was the source of power
and asked nobody. Then we have had
limited monarchies, where the king was
the source of power, but asked somebody
what he might do. We have had aristocracies, where a few would control, and
the voice of the few would outweigh the
voice of the many. We have had aris-
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tocracies based upon different foundations. We have had, first, the aristocracy
of birth. People have ruled because they
were born of rulers. But those aristocracies are passing away. Then we have
had aristocracies that were based upon
intelligence, upon educational qualifications. Then we have had aristocracies
based upon property qualifications. We
have had aristocracies that were intellectual, we have had aristocracies that were
plutocratic. But, my friends, if we concede that a minority wanting to use liquor shall outvote and outweigh a majority that do not want the saloon established in a community, if we insist that
it is right for the minority in that case
to rule, upon what does that aristocracy
rest as a foundation ? We have had aristocracies of birth and of blood and of
brain, and of pocketbook, but when you
say that a minority opposed to anti-liquor
legislation shall have the voice and rule
against a majority against them, you
have an aristocracy based on appetite,
where a man only has to be thirsty to belong to the ruling power.
I don't like aristocracies of any kind.
I am opposed to aristocracies of birth. I
am opposed to a monopoly of intelligence. I am opposed to plutocracy. But,
my friends, if I had to decide, I would
rather have aristocracy of money and aristocracy of brain or an aristocracy of
blcod, than to live under an aristocracy
of beer. Ido not regard it as necessary
to proceed to submit argument in support of the doctrine that the majority
have a right to rule, but I want to apply
this doctrine. I am not going to discuss
the liquor question in regard to the legislation, in detail, outside of my own
state, because when you come to discuss
the details and the particular legislation
you find conditions different in different
states and communities, and I am dealing
now with the conditions in our state and
our community. I am willing that the
people who are nearest to a question shall
decide what is best. I am going to laydown a proposition that I believe to be a
defensible one anywhere and everywhere.
There is a great deal of discussion now
about the unit. In one place they have a
town unit, in another place they have a
township unit. In another place they
have a county unit. And nobody, I suppose, disputes that you can have a state
unit. I believe in some places they have
a ward unit. In some places they allow
people in any contiguous territory to exclude the saloon. Now, I am not going
to enter into a discussion with you as tr,
which is the best unit. I believe in them
all, and there is no reason why you
should not have all of them. If you ask
me if I am in favor of people in a block
keeping the saloon out, I say yes. If you
July, 1910
THE FRIEND.
ask me if I am in favor of allowing the
people of a ward to keep the saloon out.
I say yes. If you ask me if I am in favor
of allowing the people of a town to keep
the saloon out, 1 say yes. If you ask me
if I am in favor of county option also, 1
say yes, and I am in favor of state Option
and national option.
Now, I don't want you to labor under
a misunderstanding. When I say I am
in favor of county option and state option
and national option, do not understand
me to say that I am in favor of the exercising of that option in any particular
way in any particular place. I am speaking now for the right of the people to
rule. I believe that the larger unit always controls the smaller one and that
everywhere the smaller unit has a right
to act, except as restrained by the larger
unit. There is no reason why you should
not have township option as well as city
option and county option all in the same
state. There is no reason why you
should not allow people anywhere and
everywhere to act on this question.
Your fallacy is this, that you talk about
fairness in regard to saloons, whereas, if
you will read the lexicon of the saloonkeeper, there are two words that do not
appear, "fairness" and "justice." There
is no fairness or justice about the saloon,
and you might as well understand that
these words can't be used of the liquor
business.
A saloon at the best is a nuisance, and
never tolerated except as a necessary nuisance. Nobody defends the saloon. They
apologize for it, but they never defend
it. You can't find a state in this union,
or a part of a state where the people
asking for a saloon ever urge it as a
moral center, an educational institution,
or an economic asset.
It is understood that the saloon is not
a blessing. Go and examine the homes
of your great liquor dealers, the rich
ones, and see how near they are to a saloon. Go with a petition and ask them
to join with you in putting a saloon neat
their residences and they are the last ones
to do it. They will put a saloon by the
house of a poor man, and not only deprive his property of value, but run the
risk of ruining those about the saloon,
but they do not put it near their own
homes.
The saloon is not a good thing. It is
a center of vice and crime. It is the first
place a jxilice officer goes when he is
looking for a criminal, and it is the first
place closed when there is a riot in town.
It is a bureau of information on every
vice and only tolerated for fear, that if
you close it. you will have something
worse than the Haloon.
Why, I saw a paper the other day
that said that thirty brewers in this city
had signed an agreement to help the city
government enforce laws against disorderly houses, and one of the brewers said,
"We have demonstrated that the law can
be enforced." Why didn't they demonstrate it before? Most citizens don't have
to sign an agreement to help enforce the
law. It is presumed they will help enforce the law because they are law-abiding citizens. It was necessary for the
brewers to agree to help enforce the law
in order to take themselves out of the category of those who helped to defeat the
law. and when they say, "We will not
deliver goods any more to these houses,"
it means "We have done it in the past
and helped to violate the law." They are
the lawless class in every community.
EVENTS.
June
"—Hawaiian
Promotion Committee
reported success in selling pineapple juice
as a cold drink.—Judge Wm. Whitney pre
sents statistics before Men's Club of St.
Andrew's Church showing
quents and intoxicants.
Juvenile delin-
June 4.—$4,200,000 reported as voted by
Congress for dredging and dry dock in Pearl
Harbor.
June 6.—Porto Rican dance and drink at
Kahuku result stabbing affray. Wakiki
beach washing away. The "Kaimiloa," King
Kalakaua's "royal navy," was sold for junk.
"Where is the Sunday
School Lesson ?"
You can have it right in
front of you, on the wall
Hawaiian Board Book Rooms
60 Cents
�THE FRIEND.
Jury, 1910.
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Brown-Kuhn—Honolulu Methodist Church,
June 10—Hawaiian Oriental births registJune 30th, 1910, by the Rev. J. T. Jones,
er nearly 5,000, including minors and adults.
—Vaallleff, the Russian agitator, to be dc
ported. —Outrigger Club gives afternoon of
sports at Walkiki Kaluna (drunken) murders a Hawaiian woman named Julia.
June 11—Kamehameha Day observed by
many Sunday school picnics and sports.
Prohibition Club formed on Maui. Prohibition rally in Hilo, also in Honolulu.
June 13.—Socialists reported as making
capital from Russians In Hawaii.—Land
Boar dappohited by Governor Frear.—Dr.
F. N. White, of Union Park Congregational
Church, Chicago, arrives to take charge of
Central Union Church eleven Sundays.
June IB.—Liquor License Commissioners
lessen number of saloons and make a small
er license district.
June 17.—Bishop Restarick writes against
Prohibition; many writers favor Prohibl
tion.—congress grants 1220,000 for Federal
building in Hilo.
June 18.—Oahu College graduates a class
J»
—
of
thirty-nine.
June 20—Congress grants $350,000 to
purchase land fronting Fort street to add to
Mahuka site of Federal building in Honolulu.
June 23.—Land Board cancels lease of
Laupahoehoe planatlon, first under new
land policy; apportions lots for homesteads.
June 24—Transfer of royal remains to the
new mausoleum of the Kalakaua family.
June 25 —July I—An ual1—Annual meeting of the
Hawaiian Evangelical Association of Congregational Churches at Kailua, Hawaii.
Principal thought, Prohibition.
June 26—Unveiling of memorial arch to
early missionaries at Kailua.
June 28—L. A. Thurston begins series of
articles on Prohibition.
June 30—Lower Hamakua ditch formally
opened. Robert Rau, an Austrian, commits
suicide on the steamer Columbian.—Mrs.
Annie Pool appointed matron for police jail.
Jl.
MARRIAGES.
is Your Japanese
Servant a Christian?
C. H. Brown and Miss E. M. Kuhn.
DEATHS.
Ekberg—June
berg.
Let him have THE TOMO
Every Month.
50c. a year.
I, Honolulu, Lawrence J. Ek-
Lucas—June 7, San Francisco, VVm. T.
Lucas, manager of May & Co., Honolulu.
Duncan —June 12, Honolulu, Robert A.
Duncan.
Bivens—June 23, Honolulu, E. R. Bivens,
thirty years resident in these islands.
June 26—Honolulu, C. W. Baker, father of
Police Captain Baker, aged 62 years.
Harvey—June 23, Honolulu, Frank Harvey,
senator from Oahu. Funeral ceermontes,
Sunday, 26th June.
TOO MUCH stress cannot be laid on
the importance of having your eyes
fitted with proper glasses.
S. E. LUCAS, Optician
IRON FENCE & MONUMENT WORKS, Ltd.
HAWAIIAN
5.
Reinforcement.
Safes, Vaults,
180
2kvi awft lift®!® Heaters
1066 Fort Street
Pictures and Picture Framing j» Local Views
Ansco Cameras ji Ansco Films
Art Pottery and Casts
DEVELOPING AND PRINTING
L.B.KERR&CO. ALLEN & ROBINSON
LIMITED.
LIMITED.
Alakea Street.
Llimber and Building Material, «
Builders' Hardware,
Schultze-Mello—In Honolulu Portuguese Agents for Walkover and Sorosis Shoes.
Church, June 18, 1910, by the Rev. W. D.
We8tervelt, Fred Schultze and Mrs. Mary
S. Mello.
fXSXs®®®®®©*^^
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Kahului
KAHULUI, MAUI, T. H.
BANKING, EXCHANGE,
Phone 648
Concrete
King St
Bowen-Spaldiflg—In Honolulu, June 8, 1910,
by Bishop Restarlck, Geo. C. Bowen and
The only store in Honolulu where
Miss Alice Spalding.
you can get anything in Wearing ApBruns-Smith—At Waikiki, June 7, 1910, by parel for
Rev. J. Wadman, Harry C. Bruns and
Miss Mildred Smith.
MEN, WOMEN or CHILDREN
Boyer-Phillips—In Honolulu, June 16, 1910,
Good Goods and Reasonable Prices.
F. O. Boyer and Anita J. Phillips.
of
Alakea Street.
Masonic Temple,
IN3URANCE.
Saving* Bank Department,
Interest on Term* Deposit*,
Safe Deposit Vault* for Rent.
Hie ftrsl ||a<ional
CAPITAL
.
55 Queen Street
gank
AT HONOLULU.
$500,000.
CECIL BROWN, Pres.
W. R. CASTLE,
Paints, Oils, Etc.
M. P. ROBINSON, Vtce-Pres.
O. N.
WILCOX
:
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Honolulu.
of Jtauiaii
SURPLUS 9123,000.
L. T. PECK, Cashier.
O. P. CABTLE.
United States Government Depository
General Banking.—lssues Drafts, Money Orders, Letters of Credit
and Cable. Transfers available in all parts of the world.
ACCOUNTS INVITED
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If You
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Honolulu
A LEXANDER & BALDWIN, Ltd.
HAVE A FULLY EQUIPPED
HOUSEHOLD DEPARTMENT.
including Garland Stoves and
Ranges, Aluminum Ware, Enameled Ware. Kitchen Furnishings,
Refrigerators, Garden Tools, Rubber Hose, &c. Second floor, take
the Elevator.
& Co.
FINE GROCERIES
tion Co.. Kihel Plantation Co., Hawaiian
Sugar Co., Kahului R. R. Co., and Kahuku
Plantation.
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RIGS OF ALL KINDS,
GOOD HORSES,
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THE
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ALWAYS USE
California Rose
Creamery Butter
Guaranteed the Best and full 16
ounces.
HENRY umrrmo
MAY & CO.,
U
TELEPHONES
M
LUMBER,
BUILDING
WALL PAPERS,
MIXED PAINTS,
Etc., Etc.
Honolulu, T. H.
ALL
ON
THE SAME PAGE.
REVERENT, SCHOLARLY AND
FULL OF INSPIRING SUGGESTION.—IT IS
j^^S.
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and thy Maid-Servant"
ARE THEY JAPANESE?
GIVE THEM THE TOMO
50c. a year.
AUTOMOBILE MERCHANTS
B.F. EHLERS&CO.
Especial attention given to Mail Orders.
L
EWERS & COOKE, Ltd.
AND
Honolulu, T. H.
The Leading Dry Goods
House in the Territory.
waiian Agricultural Co., Onomea Sugar Co.,
Pepeekeo Sugar Co., Honomu Sugar Co.,
MATERIALS,
OLD KONA COFFEE A BPECIALTY.
P. O. BOX 71 c.
HONOLULU, T. H.
General Mercantile Commission Agents.
Queen St., Honolulu, T. H.
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AGKNTS FOR—Wailuku Sugar Co., Ha-
Hakalau Plantation Co., Paaunau Sugar
Plantation Co., Hutchinson Plantation Co.,
oiowalu Plantation, Waimanalo Sugar Co.,
J.
Pres't;
B.
Honolulu Plantation Co., Kilauea Sugar
Baldwin,
OFFICERS—H. P.
Co., Baldwin locomotive
Castle Ist Vice-Pres't; W. M. Alexander, 2d Co., Hilo Sugar Steamship
Co.
Vice-Pres't; J. P. Cooke, Treas.; W. O. Works, Oceanic
Smith, Secy; George R. Carter, Auditor.
LIST OF OFFICERS—E. F. Bishop,
President; Geo. H. Robertson, Vice-President and Manager; W. W. North, Treasur
Gait,
SUGAR FACTORS AND COMMIS- er;
Richard I vers, Secretary; J. R.
G. K.
Cooke,
Cooke,
R.
A.
C.
H.
Auditor;
SION MERCHANTS.
Carter, A. Gartley, Directors.
AGENTS FOR—Hawaiian Commercial &
Sugar Co.. Haiku Sugar Co.. Paia Planta-
EX O. Hall & Son
Day
Importers and
COMMISSION MERCHANTS.
Honolulu, T. H.
you will think of future as
well as present needs. j» j*
Begin by opening a saving
account with this bank. j« >
Banking by mail, 4|% interest.
C. J.
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W. AHANA & CO., LTD.
MERCHANT TAILORS.
Telephone Blue 2741.
P. O. Box 986.
62 King Street.
CLOTHES CLEANED AND REPAIRED.
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H. Williams
FUNERAL. DIRECTOR.
Hawaiian Boar! Book Rooms
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also of The Renouard Training School
for Embalmers of New York. And a
Licensed Embalmer for the State of
New York, also a member of the State
Funeral Directors Association of California.
MONUMENTS AND TOMBSTONES
FURNISHED.
Chairs to Rent.
114a, 1144 FORT ST.
LOVE BUrLDING,
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HONOLULU.
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Telephones: Office, 64; Res., 1020.
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�August, 1910.
THE FRIEND.
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LIMITED.
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Liability, and Bur-
Plate
glary Insurance
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Safe Deposit Building.
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BISHOP & COMPANY,
BANK ERB.
Is published the first week of each
month in Honolulu, T. H., at the HaHONOLULU, HAWAIIAN ISLANDS.
waiian Board Book Rooms, cor. Alakea
and Merchant Sts. Subscription price,
Established in 1858.
$1.00 per year.
A special rate is made to Mission Transact a General Banking and ExChurches or Sunday Schools in the change Business. Loans made on approved
Bills discounted.
Commercial
Islands. Clubs of 25 to one address 25 security.
Credits granted. Deposits received on curcents apiece per year.
rent account subject to check.
All business letters should be address-
Regular Savings Bank Department mainBuilding on Merchant Street,
and Insurance Department, doing a Life,
ed and all M. O.s and checks should be tained in Bank
made out to
Lots for Sale
IN
Fire and Marine business on most favorable
in Friend Building on Bethel Street.
Theodore Richards,
terms,
Business Manager of The Friend.
P. O. Box 489.
All Communications of a literary character should be addressed to THE FRIEND,
corner Alakea and Merchant Sts., Honolulu, T. H., and must reach the Board
Rooms by the 24th of the month.
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(Arthur F. Griffiths, A.8., President.)
—and
Doremus Scudder, Editor in Chief.
Frank S. Scudder, Managing Editor.
F. W. Damon.
John G. Woolley.
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—
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College preparatory work,
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Commercial,
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Art courses.
For Catalogue, address
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The BOY Wants Stories
There are none so good as the old
BIBLE, stories, the boy himself as
judge. We know for we have tried with
a number of boys, girls too. But you
should have GOOD PICTURES as
texts when you tell Bible stories.
We have a Bible with 800 good illustrations. We knew one copy of it to be
Business Agent,
worn out by the use of one family,—
Honolulu, H. T. four children one after the other literOahu College,
ally wearing it to pieces.
We have one, and have sent for a
T If. WHITNEY, M. D., D. D. S.
number
more.
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Jeweler and Silversmith.
Importer of Diamonds, American and Swiss
Watches, Art Pottery, Cut Glass
Leather Goods, Etc.
Honolulu
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& Cooke,
Ltd.
SHIPPING AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS, SUGAR FACTOR AND
F.ntereil October 27.1Q02. at Honolulu, Hareaii. an mttmi
cU\m matter, u)itler net of Conureim of March j, i#ig.
GENERAL INSURANCE AGENT.
REPRESENTING
JONATHAN SHAW,
Fort Street
Henry Waterhouse Trust Go.
Hawaiian Board Book Rooms.
Ewa Plantation Company,
Waialua Agricultural Co., Ltd.
Kohala
Sugar Company,
Waimea Sugar Mill Company.
Apokaa Sugar Company, Ltd.
Wahiawa Con. Pineapple Co., Ltd.
Fulton Iron Works of St. Louis,
Blake Steam Pumps,
Marsh Steam Pumps,
American Steam Pump Co.
Weston's Centrifugals,
Baldwin's Automatic Juice Weigher,
Hancock & Wilcoi Boilers,
Dealings Superheaters,
Green's Fuel Economiiers.
Planters Line Shipping Co.
Matson Navigation Co.
Insurance Company,
Citiaena Insurance Co. (Hartford Fire)
Fireman's Fund Insurance Co. (Marine Dept.)
National Fire Insurance Co.
Protector Underwriters of the Phoenix of
Hartford.
New England Mutual Life Insurance
Co., of Boston.
ESTEY
ORGANS
—
AT THE
Hawaiian Board Book Rooms.
�The Friend.
OLDEST NEWSPAPER WEST OF THE ROCKIES.
Vol. LXVIII
HONOLULU, H. T., AUGUST, 1910
Speaking of the Election.
Did we lose anything? Arguing that
one never loses anything one never pos-
sessed. WE lost nothing when the election was lost, for it appears we never
even had a chance of winning. Besides.
what we really had was the RIGHT in
the matter, and it would be downright
silly to call that lost, because, forsooth.
a timid, befooled or degenerate majority
voted WRONG.
"IJut didn't you really think you'd win
—"win out," in the popular sense?" Aye,
we own up. We're just that sort of political "plum fool." We counted on something that wasn't there, but chiefly, we
didn't count on something that was there
We banked on the Hawaiian political
conscience, and idiotically overlooked the
Hawaiian's political training.
It's that training we want to discuss
right here. It is the secret of the '"losing"
of the election. We can't prove that the
Hawaiian collective conscience was with
us on the "yes" side of that election, but
we believe that it was,—is yet. Hut the
money, the organization, the autos of the
liquor people were convincingly in line
with all of the Hawaiian's political experience, and of course, "won out.'
"Why the other side, the Prohibs, just
naturally didn't have interest enough in
the election to buy up a man, tote a voter
to the polls, much less stay around to
button-hole every possible vote." Isn't
the inference plain ? The Hawaiian had
been trained to believe that Prohibition
had no political right to win.
Who Trained the Hawaiian Voter?
"If you want to win this election," said
a prominent gentleman when the campaign first started, "it will cost you about
two dollars a vote." "Surely, a bit of
prophecy," you say. Not at all, it was
simply history.
Some of the leading Hawaiians, genuinely interested to win in the Prohibition
plebiscite, proposed a campaign involving the raising and spending of about
fifteen thousand dollars. They were
much crestfallen when told that the occasion that had arisen was not one of
party politics, and that no such sum of
money, even if it could be raised, might
be spent in such a cause. "Why, the Republicans spent over $30,000 in a cam-
paign?" Do they? How? Not criminally
—there being no law. as in many States,
to land the purchasers of votes in the
penitentiary. Not wisely, we dare aver.
Not without the heavy penalty which
party and leaders pay when, they teach
We
a people to debauch the franchise.
paid some of this penalty July 26.
The proposition, put simply and frankly, is that the Republican party is largely
responsible for the notion, very nearly
prevalent among the Hawaiians, that the
franchise is chiefly valuable for what
there is to be made out of it.
This was the weapon in the hands of
the liquor men, many of whom wire
leaders in party politics (though we
would be willing to waive that last claim)
that "did the business."
"Here," thought the Hawaiian voter,
"is the Simon-pure article of politics calculated to win out. This organization
perspires dollars just like the Republican
machine (which it resembles in other
particulars), and there does not seem to
be any other party in the running."
We risk little when we call that the
story of the election, and claim further
that no Prohibitionist who happens to be
a Republican has the right to rail at the
Hawaiian voter.
No. 8
that the Son of Righteousness would
counsel us not to close up the saloons if
our votes would do it. Would he tell us
that something worse might happen if
we forbade men their saloons, or that
they had better be free than sober"?
We hail Expediency as the greatest as
well as the most insidious foe of Right.
We fear him more than open opposition. Politics is ninety per cent Expediency—we do not know whether there is a
remaining ten per cent. Hence we have
no dependence on party manipulation to
bring an end to the saloon.
When (iod's word to the Christian
churches of America is heeded. Christian
votes will wipe out the saloon, nor will
Non-Christian votes
they stop there.
will doubtless swell the overwhelming
majority.
Given a hope in the final conquest of
the King, we can afford to differ in regard to the King's programme.
T. R.
Aole Loa.
To try conclusions with big men about
big matters, fairly and honorably, fills
the air with the scent of moral ozone.
reddens the blood, knits up the nerves of
pain, and gives a twang of victory to the
mere effort of contending.
But to fight the organized cockroaches
of
society is at best a repulsive business
We somewhat reluctantly admit that that, from first to last, tastes like defeat,
it serves no purpose to scoff at the invet- whatever the outcome.
That * is what
erate folly of majorities whenever popu- makes it so hard to line up public
delar governments first deal with moral is: cency in politics, against the concrete,
sues. The man who pins his faith to a lavish brutality and cruelty of the saloon.
mob and accepts its judgment as to the
To be beaten so badly in the plebiscite
ultimate social good, that man is a fool was very unpleasant; but it might have
too sure. Let him not be too arrogant, been worse. We might have been drawn
however, and imagine himself alone in into meeting the Greeks of beer-Sunday
his class; he has no mortgage on folly. and "dago-red" for babies on their own
That other man who "in his own heart" low levels of fraud and bribes and lies.
says "there is no God." thus ruling Him We might have won, as they did, so
out of the affairs of men ami nations, let meanly as to settle nothing, but to start
such a man be the King of Fools. Alas! the whole fight new. We might have
Great David, that there should be such a stooped to parley with them, to get some
host of claimants to the throne.
trifling certain gain. We might have
"What chance for Prohibition?" Just surrendered to them, on the terms of all
the ordinary chance that Right has. hands accepting the present license law as
"What? Ignore the Honolulu bishops good enough if we could be sure of it.
and deny their authority to speak for We might, indeed, have got worsted in
God in this matter? Aye, if Right is a fair fight with men unhandicapped with
God, He is against the saloon. If this compassion or conscience.
were Galilee 1900 years ago and the We were badly beaten, but we were
"God made flesh" walked among us, not whipped. We did not even have a
could a bishop persuade any man of us fight.
We were simply out^meraled,
What Chance Has Prohibition, Then?
�THE FRIEND,
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and the real issue went glimmering in a
wilderness of billingsgate.
The verdict of the twenty-sixth of
July was no true record of the Hawaiian
voters' genuine will atxnit the liquor business. It was a demonstration of their insufficiency for such a test: of the impossibility of a fair election in this territory,
on any issue; and of the futility of trying
to suppress the hideous trade by territorial action—which, after all, may have
been, at the last analysis, the real issue in
the campaign. And the end is not yet.
The first sentiment aroused by a study
of the plebiscite from the inside is pity
for the native voters. To see a fine native race, after the most marvelous advantages ever enjoyed by such a people,
and in complete possession of a wonderful opportunity, go down in such
a shallow pool of dirty politics, was a
sight to dim the very eyes of civilization.
Hut just that is what we have just
witnessed. Individual Hawaiians may
make good in politics hereafter, but the
race, as a race, is out of the race forever, save as the ball to be snatched and
carried and kicked by strong teams of
white competitors who can play the
game.
If the liquor problem of Hawaii is
discouraging, the general electoral problem is a given-up conundrum.
Not
knowing who, or what, specifically, is entitled to my humble confession, I apologize to infinite space for having been so
dully credulous as to accept the "lemon"aid disguised in the joint resolution of
Congress; although, to be sure, the special election has not made the electoral
condition worse. It could not be much
worse.
The plebiscite has even done good. It
has given a lot of good citizens, who had
not thought much u|>on the subject, a
glimpse of the hopelessness of a political
situation where the masses are treated
and have to be treated as inert and unmoral suffrage "material" to be "handled" in the interest of the "interests."
The plight of the decent whites is even
more pathetic. It is a tragedy in civics
when high-class men of culture, benevolence, high ideals and great ability have
to confess themselves possessed of nothing but money that can be safely invested in political enterprise. It is worse
than tragedy. It is a farce with the murder of democracy at the end.
Worst of all, of course, is the case of
the patrons and victims of the victorious
bloodsucker. The effect of the emphatic
defeat of prohibition will doubtless be a
great increase of appetite and "liberty"
and scorn of restraint on the one hand
and of redoubled and more merciless exploitation of the weak and degraded, on
savage:
August, l'no.
the duction, pauperism and wife-beating?
Would it not be an attack on vested propSome curiosity has been shown touch- erty rights to kill these condemned aniing my persona] post plebiscite Ixdiavior. mals?
That matter presents no difficulty, owWhy not license tuberculous dairies?
ing to a very early and disagreeable, but 1f people let diseased milk alone, will it
very informing experience in my life. not let them alone? Cannot children be
Many years ago, on my grandmother's taught to be careful in the use of it?
farm I felt constrained to engage in a Will not the presence of the temptation to
reform movement that seemed to me im- drink diseased milk conduce to strength
Lan you make men
portant, pertaining to the protection of and character?
poultry. The decision was unfavorable, healthy by law? Is it not better for Haand as approached the house to have waii to be free than healthful? Will not
some consultation with the wise and beau- the ignorant learn Will not infants
tiful old lady she anticipated me and grow older? Or if in the process they
called out promptly, wiili a soft North <lie, have we not undertakers who must
of Ireland accent: "Stay where ye are live, and ample cemetery accommodaand burn vottr clothes !"
tions? If consumption spreads, have we
J. <i. W. not doctors and burial societies? Can we
not segregate the sick at public expense,
or line those who are able to pay? It
A Daniel Come to Judgment.
these sick cows be killed, shall we not
A kind of zodiacal light is shed upon
have
concealed or illicit cow-sickness
the Hawaiian view of the plebiscite mascattered
through the Islands, and peojority by Daniel Hoolapa. editor of the ple drinking more diseased
milk than
Honolulu Examiner. The following is ever'
Will not cow owners become
quoted verbatim—orthography, syntax sneaks and liars?
prohibition proand punctuation—from his issue of July hibit tuberculosis ifWill
it increases swipes?
30:
Is it not sexual excess rather than diseas" No' was the word, that sent joy: all ed milk that is killing the natives? Are
of
Hawaii.
"No"
was
over the Territory
we to
the voices of the plebiscite
the "two letters," that defeated the mali- and theignore
Have not the Chrisepiscopate?
and
because
his followers. Why,
hini
tian nations always used diseased and
God looked down and saw that the dirty milk? Is it not plain that this is
Liquor people were working hard to the secret
of their greatness? Is not Dr.
earn money, to support their families, in Norgaard
a malahini? Is he not the paid
an upright manner, therefore, God pitied
agent of the Hoard of Agriculture? Is
them, and granted their wishes.
not a rich missionary trick to keep
The Liquor dealers won also because this
the poor man from his tuberculosis while
they were right in every respect. Why, the wealthy have their own cows? Is not
whoever heard of such trash to force a
diseased milk "goixl for babies"? Are
law down ones throat without the con- not some of these sick cows owned by
sent of the people.
Now Mr. Smarty. the mothers and sisters of the dairymen?
I low do you feel after the defeat? Thats
Should not these sick cows be licensed ?
what you get, for playing smarty in the Should
not the license be as high as the
Territory of Hawaii. We people of Ha- diseased
trade will stand, hut not so
waii nei will not let you. or another like high as tomilk
dry
up the tuberculous cows?
you come here and dictate to us as we
not this increase the revenue?
Would
hare enough brains to run, the reins of What are we
here for. anyway, but revour own country, and dont need you to
enue 5
J. G. W.
instruct us.
it puts its
torture, men,
women
captives
to
and children.
'
I told you Mr. Malihini several times
in the columns of this paper, that the
Liquor dealers were the Lords" of Hawaii nei, and that they are very powerful people that when they looked up into
the skies, the stars even droped because
they are so powerful, and still you would
not'listen."
J. G. W.
A Question of Privilege.
Kahaha
Political forecasters predict that the
Territorial House of Representatives will include no member capable of
holding the chairmanship of the judiciary committee, and that a hired agent
will have to be employed. It may be so.
Hut the man that calls attention to it is an
unprincipled scoundrel. He might as
well class us with Indians!
next
Anent the historic reciprocity between
goose and gander. Why this clamor
alxnit some 450 tuberculosis milch cows'
Henry M. Alexander.
Are not saloons more tuberculous than
cattle, and leprous and murderous beThe Friend for last April contained a
side? Is consumption a matter of more very brief notice of the lamented death
public consequence than drunkenness, se- of Henry Martyn Alexander, which oc-
�August. 1910
curred at Haiku, Maui. March 22nd,
I<MO.
The death of one loved and respected
by so large a circle of friends and relatives seems to call for fuller notice.
His father was the well known veteran
missionary, the Rev. W. P. Alexander.
I le was born at Waioli, Kauai, Jan. 7th,
183( >. His father was transferred from
that station in 1843 to Lahainaluna,
which was the home of the family during
the next ten years. He was educated at
I'unahou, wliere he was a student from
184') until 1860, first under the Rev.
Daniel Dole, and then under Pres. E. G.
Heckwith.
After leaving that school, he was employed in various capacities in agricultural work, took a course in Heald's Business College, and finally learned the art
of sugar boiling in Louisiana, and followed that profession for a number of
years, both here and in these islands.
Finding that his health suffered from the
strain of this exacting employment, he
started a cattle ranch in Kohala. Wholly
unselfish as he was, and of stainless honor, he was yet subjected, in this part of
bis life, to severe trials, of which more
cannot be said here.
In 1888 he disposed of his interest in
the ranch, and removed to California,
where he carried on a fruit farm in
Shasta county, near Redding, with varying success, for many years. On the sth
of April. 1905. he was happily married
to Miss Ina H. Weist, at Red Hluff, Cal.
Soon afterwards he returned to these
islands, and invested in a pineapple farm
at Haiku, Maui, which he carried on until a short time before his death. About
the first of last March, he purchased a
house and lot in Manoa, where he expected to spend many peaceful and happy
days among his friends. Hut it was not
to be. His removal was to be from this
to a better home above. He died from a
sudden attack of angina pectoris at his
Haiku home on the 23d of last March.
His funeral services, which were held the
next day at the Paia church, were conducted by the Rev. E. B. Turner, and
then what of him was mortal was laid
to rest in the Makawao cemetery.
He was greatly loved and respected by
those who knew him in California, as
well as in these islands. One writes of
him that "he was one of the kindest, sincerest and best of men." Another friend
writes: "Perhaps what impressed me
most in him was his sweetness of nature,
the fact that years of loneliness and sorrow produced not one particle of bitterness. Another strongly marked and
beautiful trait was his love for his own.
It is a cause of gratitude to us all that
Ina came into his life and brightened it
THE
5
FRIEND
so well, and made his latter years so
happy."
Withal he was an humble and sincere
follower of Jesus Christ, and his deep
and unwavering faith helped to make
him the Christian gentleman that he was.
longer have need of them, will not be
wasted, but will be used for the benefit of
good causes in which they have always
been interested.
Again we say, give it a careful reading.
F. S. S.
THE LIFE ANNUITY MAN
persona! relationship for
with
the
author of the following
years
article on Life Annuity, and a knowledge
of the remarkable work he is doing, lead
me to heartily commend the careful perusal of the following article, which was
written for The Friend at my request.
Twenty years ago Mr. 11. A. Collins,
now known as the Life Annuity Man.
had a definite and remarkable experience
in his Christian life, as a result of which
he has ever since devoted his exceptional
Intimate
HENRY A. COLLINS,
Havana, Illinois.
"The Life Annuity Man."
talent as a business man to the study of
Christian stewardship. It seemed to him
unreasonable that business conducted on
high Christian principles should not be as
remunerative as business conducted according to the lax moral ideals of the
business world.
Interesting and convincing investigation along this line led him into the advocacy of the following plan of investments, whereby persons may enjoy in
security the fruits of their labors as long
as they live, and at the same time be assured that their savings, after they no
LIFE ANNUITY,
THE IDEAL INVESTMENT
Hy Henry A. Collins,
"The Life Annuity Man."
The only bond worth having is the life
annuity bond, for it is the safest, the
most lucrative and by far the most satisfactory bond of the present day. No other bond contains so many valuable features.
Although life annuity bonds have been
sold for more than a hundred and fifty
years in the United States, yet there is
now a much greater demand for them
than, at any time in our past history.
The United States Congress is now investigating old-age pensions and life annuities now in o|)eration in other countries, with a view of taking up a similar
business.
Life annuity bonds may be purchased
on the life of one or more persons from
three years of age and upward. The
rate of interest is determined by the age
of the individual for whom the annuity
is purchased. The older the person is the
higher the rate of interest is paid.
The organization that receives money
on the life annuity plan can and does
pay a much higher rate of interest than
the usual business rates, for the reason
that at the death of the annuitant all
interest payments cease and whatever
sum that has been paid by the annuitant
becomes the exclusive property of the
organization having issued the bond.
The economical management and no watering of stock also permits the higher
rates of annuity interest.
Annuity interest is usually payable
annually, semi-annually or quarterly.
The history of the life annuity business
shows that nearly one-half of all the annuity bonds issued are purchased by peo(Continued on page iS)
�Augst,1910.
THE FRIEND
6
A GOLDEN WEDDING.
Professor W. D. Alexander,
LL.D.
and his honored wife* celebrated their
golden wedding Monday, July 18. A
large number of friends assembled in
the afternoon, filling house and lanais
and overflowing into the beautiful
grounds. The Hawaiian band was present, and added greatly to the pleasure
of the occasion. Decorations and mottoes
which had been made by the late W. W.
Hall for the wedding fifty years before,
were hanging on the walls. Some of
the friends who attended the wedding in
1860 were with the company of 1910.
Judge S. B. Dole and Rev. O. H. Gulick made addresses of a reminiscent
character, and presented golden gifts, toward which many friends had contributed. Professor Alexander responded with
very happy remarks. Mrs. Sereno E.
Dishop, who was a guest of fifty years
ago, and also at this time, had dictated
the following paper which was read by
Mr. Frank Damon:
FIFTY YEARS AGO.
Mrs. S. E. Hishop.
As I was present at the marriage of
these friends it gives me much pleasure
today to renew my congratulations as
they pass this golden milestone. May
their pathway still be onward and upward, and peace, honor and happiness
crown their future lives.
Knowing the intimacy of the families
it caused no surprise to friends that
Father Alexander's eldest son William
chose Dr. Baldwin's eldest daughter
Abbie for his bride.
The wedding occurred on the evening
of Wednesday, July 18, 1860, at Lahaina,
in the old rambling missionary house
then occupied by Dr. Baldwin, which
some of you may remember.
A short time previous Mary Parker.
Abbie's intimate friend, came to help in
arranging for the festive occasion. There
was ho confectioner to aid in those days.
and all preparations must be made at
home. Important gatherings were held
in Mother Haldwin's room, and various
cookbooks were consulted. The wedding
fruit cake caused the most anxiety, but
decisions were made and work began.
The dining room was the scene of ac-
tion. The old koa sideboard spread open
its resources, and the long table was filled
with materials. Busy hands were at work
stoning raisins, washing currants, beating eggs, etc. The bride's loaf was
Abbie's own handiwork. These loaves
which were too large for the home oven
were consigned to a Chinaman in town
with fear and trembling. The results
were successful.
Chattering and merriment made a
happy scene. Once cream of tartar was
required, and application was made to
Dr. Baldwin's medical dispensary. He
looked Up with wondering surprise, saying, "That is a medicine; what do you
want it for?" But he doled it out. We
noticed, however, that he frequently took
occasion to pass through the dining room
watching our proceedings.
The old domestics of the house were
also much interested. Kali, the cook, often looked in at the back door, and the
dignified old Kealoha sat at the window
near by with her mending basket, fully
enjoying the scene.
The Alexander family from Wailuku
and a few friends from Honolulu had
arrived. Verbal invitations were given
to the Andrews and Pogue families of
Lahainaltma, and to ourselves—the
Bishops—who lived next door, to be present at the ceremony. Written invitations
to a reception afterward were sent to
those living in the town: Mr. and Mrs.
Chandler, of the U. S. Consulate; Dr.
and Mrs. White. Mr. and Mrs. Brayton.
Captain and Mrs. Bailey, Mr. and Mrs.
Thos. Everett, Mr. and Mrs. Dickinson
and family, Mr. and Mrs. Bond, Mr. and
Mrs. Howies and their daughters (Mrs.
Caverly and Miss Louise). Mr. G. D.
Oilman. Mr. Bartow and Mr. Hustace.
In due time the house was decorated
and all was ready. Leis of made were
festooned from the ceiling. Mottoes
which you see here today were made at
that time, the lettering being of mousefoot. These were placed on the wall,
wreathed in green. One corner of the
parlor was filled with green, dotted with
white flowers.
At the appointed hour the bridal party
entered from the dining room, passing diThe bride and
rectly to this corner.
first,
attended by four cougroom came
pies: Emily Baldwin, the bride's sister;
Henry Alexander, the groom's brother;
Mary Parker and George Beckwith,
Annie Alexander and W. W. Hall;
Kitty Hall and Henry Baldwin.
The bride wore a dainty white dress
(made in the prevailing hoop style of
that day), looped with orange blossoms,
and a dainty long white veil, also fastened with orange blossoms. The veritable
dress is seen here today.
The two fathers officiated in the ceremony. Dr. Baldwin tied the knot, and
Father Alexander gave his blessing.
Family congratulations followed, and
the other guests soon arrived. Mrs. Caverley and Miss Bowles, recently come
from the States, were especially attractice to the younger members of the family by their pretty lace evening dresses,
so daintily trimmed. These ladies added
much to the enjoyment by their pleasant
songs. After much urging Mrs. Caverly sang a comic song, entitled "His
Name was Only Common Hill."
After a pleasant social hour, all repaired to the beautifully decorated sitting
room of the brother, D. D. Baldwin,
where bountiful refreshments were
served.
At an early hour the gay company dispersed amid congratulations to the happy
pair.
The next morning the Alexander family left by steamer for their home, and
at a later hour in the day, on Friday, the
20th, a party of young friends accompanied the bride and groom on horseback
over the rough and rugged mountain
road to the Alexander home at Wailuku.
cße
Strong I
Be strong!
We are not here to play, to dream,
to drift.
We have hard work to do, and
loads to lift.
Shun not the struggle. Face it.
Tis God's gift.
Be strong.
Say not the days are evil—-who's
to blame ?
And fold the hands and acquiesce
—O shame!
Stand up, speak out, and bravely,
in God's name.
�7
THE FRIEND.
August, 1910.
Men Working for Men
PAUL SUPER
Didn't Want It.
Railroad Secretary.
This story was told at college. A
young man attended a fraternity dance.
Before going, however, he had visited a
number of places to get liquor refreshment, and got to the dance hall rather
the worse for it. Of course no one
warned-to dance with him. Undismayed
by this, he took his coat tails in his hands
and walttzed himself over the floor. Repeated invitations to leave had no avail,
so finally he was led to the stairs and
thrown down. When he reached the
ground he was heard to say, in a drunken mumble, "I knew why you threw me
out. You can fool some people, but you
can't fool me. You threw me out because
you didn't want me." For this same reason the people voted against prohibition.
They didn't want it. Of course there was
lots of money spent by the liquor men,
and we think undue influence brought to
bear. But I think 7000 to 2000 represents more than undue influence.
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What We Got.
Mr. A. L. Gordon, assistant
secretary
of the Railroad Y. If. C. A. of St. Louis,
Mo., has been secured to come to Honolulu, and take the secretaryship of the
new O. R. and L. Y. M. C. A. We have
received word from three different and
reliable sources that Mr. Gordon is an
unusually good man.H He has had splendid training in one of the newest, largest
and finest Railroad Y. M. C. A. buildings in the world, under two of the foremost railroad secretaries in America, W.
W. Adair and J. J. McKim. Mr. Gordon
is a splendid musician as well as a good
secretary.
Dr. Hand.
•«
The last letter from Dr. Hand tells
about his visit to New York City and
Rochester, where he attended the conference of the national playground association. He spoke at the conference, ami
to a group of 300 men tit the New York
Part of his time has
City Y. M. C. A.
been spent studying physical work in other associations, and looking into the matter of physical equipment. After spending August in the west he will return to
Honolulu early in September.
While we did not get prohibition, we
did get something well worth while. We
got the finest chance we have ever had to
do some mighty effective educational
work for temperance. Both sides were
urging temperance, and temperance will Physical Work.
result from the educational work done.
Despite warm weather a good deal of
It is pleasant to know that while we did
not get the thing we went after, we got a physical work has been done in the gymn
mighty good by-product. And then it's under Mr. Gault and volunteer leaders.
fun to think what a scare we gave the The basket ball team defeated Fort Shafter 26 to 24. Hand ball continues to be
enemy.
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popular, young business men finding it to
be just what they want after an afterAugust.
noon of desk work.
This is the month the general secretary takes some time off to get up steam
and new inspiration for the fall and win- John R. Mott.
ter months. Work in the garden, instead
Friends of Mr. John R. Mott, assoof in the office; tramping the trails of ciate secretary of the international comthe mountains instead of the streets of mittee of Y. M. C. A.'s will be pleased to
the city. During August we get next to learn that while presiding at the great
nature and sweat, instead of next to a missionary conference at Edinburgh, the
starched collar and perspire. We will University of Edinburgh conferred the
have to come to the city to look after honorary degree of LL.D. upon him.
building operations a little, we hope, but
J*
hope for a good deal of recreation. Then
Scoutcraft,
Lifecraft.
Woodcraft,
during September we get ready for the
greatest year of Y. M. C. A. work HonoThe Boy Scout movement which ttx>k
lulu has ever had. etaoin shrdlu etsh England by storm and enrolled 300,000
lulu has had. We have said that same boys, has gripped America, and judging
thing for several years and made good on by the all-of-a-sudden interest the public
it. We expect to keep on saying it, and and press have taken in it, there will be
making good. Faith in men and faith in thousands of boys in the American
(rod form the basis of our expectation.
"Scouts" working under its plan, pledge
and principles. That it may become neither a military nor a make-believe movement for little boys, but rather realize its
tremendous possibilities in character making, the Association has a responsibility
to take a hand in guiding it. Already several Hoy Scout movements have been
started, but undoubtedly the permanent
one will be that now being authorized by
Congress, and of which W. D. Boyce, of
Chicago, is the backer. In this movement
the International Y. M. C. A. Boys' Department will cooperate, and Ernest
Thompson Seton, whose woodcraft books
and Indian life studies furnished much
of the basis of Baden-Powell's scout principles, will give it his aid. The Boy
Scouts started with such a rush in England that General Baden-Powell, Mr. W.
I!. Wakefield and others found it necessary to give all their time and strength
to save it from becoming an irresponsible
mob. As it is, they have made constructive units in the nation, and thrifty, intelligent and useful citizens, of boys who
otherwise would have been hooligans and
gangs of backboncless loafers. The boys
are taught and trained in everything that
has to do with wholesome, hearty, out-ofdcor life, and drilled in responsible
groups by trained volunteer scout leaders. The movement in England has broken down class barriers and brought together separated denominations as nothing before, besides keeping boys in Sunday-school at the period when 90 per cent
of them drift away. Already there are a
thousand boy scouts in Toronto. At Silver Bay this summer, Messrs. Seton and
Wakefield will teach 150 Association
camp leaders woodcraft and scoutcraft
and lifecraft as well.
Scout Principles as Told by
English Visitors.
The visit of W. B. Wakefield to America has given us a new light on the
Scouts. At a dinner given him and Mr.
Heald at the Union League Club by Seth
Sprague Terry, chairman of the International Boys' Department, he said: "The
Boy Scouts are to play a big part in the
salvation of Great Britain. Their watchword. 'He prepared.' is not a war, but a
a service watchword. A scout 'must go
ahead of the rest for the good of the
rest.' His solemn oath binds him to 'fear
Cod and honor the king." He must tell
the truth, be thrifty, cheerful, respectful
to seniors, obey orders, be kind to animals and have a bank account of at least
one shilling, so that he may be able to
help the other fellow in the time of distress. The movement is not a military
one, but for education and business. The
boy is first admitted as a 'tenderfoot,'
and remains on probation for a month.
�8
To secure the 'second-class' scouts' badge
he must learn first aid, bandaging, track
half a mile in twenty-five minutes, or, if
he is in town, describe* correctly the contents of one out of four shop windows,
observed for one minute each, go a mile
in twelve minutes at scouts' pace, lay and
light a fire with not more than two
matches; cook a quarter of a pound of
meat and two |x>tatoes in his 'billy' (tin
cup), and know the sixteen points of the
compass. To obtain other rank as a scout
he must go beyond this in scout craft—
swim fifty yards, travel a distance, and
report, must name sixty wild flowers,
stalk and photograph a wild bird or animal, and measure the height of a tree or
width of a stream by triangulation, etc.
That the boys are taught real service has
been shown by their readiness in emergencies. One group was first at a railroad accident; another, which was trained by firemen, prevented a conflagration
by their readiness. They have stopped
runaway horses, and saved many from
drowning. In fact, they are taught to be
citizens with their first thought the good
of others.
After a boy is fifteen or sixteen years
of age, he will not be content with makebelieve, either at play soldier, with a
wooden gun, or play Indian, with arrows.
painted faces, or feathers. The same
weakness is with the Boys' Brigade, antl
the Knights of King Arthur, as Mr. Seton also found with his first Indians. A
difficulty has been found in securing capable scout leaders —one for every eight
to twelve boys. There is the utmost value in the hardy and practical training
given by the long hikes, teachinb it lx>y
to handle and provide for himself under
all circumstances, to shoot, to canoe, to
meet every difficulty without fear. These
all can be wrought into a plan and sys-
tem which will not only attract the small-
er boy, but keep him engaged through his
teens and into his twenties. Then the
movement will be strong, especially as its
leaders carry with all this valuable train-
ing the scout Bible class instructions.
A New Note on*Giving.
There is a new note on giving. The
men who spoke at the Laymen's Congress
in Chicago out of their experience in
Laymen's and Association canvasses.
gave an "illuminating" testimony. Governor Stubbs declared that his first beginning in giving was when he was forced
to take the head of the Association
He
building campaign in Lawrence.
planned to give $1,500, but gave $5000.
He has just put a foreign secretary "on
his payroll," and is glad. President Hyde,
of the Wichita Association told of his
"hilarious giving." He was asked by Mr.
THE FRIEND.
Augst,1910.
This represents the limits of possibility
Burt for $1,000 to extend the training
work at Lake Geneva and almost floored today. Ten years hence, with air ships
He ..aveling at the rate of 200 miles an horn
the speed of 1910 may take its place beside the lumbering stage coach of our
ancestors, and Hawaii's demand for
statehood may not give the "Outlook"
the shivers, as the mere suggestion thereof now does.
A quiet day in Jersey City prepared
the way for the thirtieth annual reunion
in the Elm City. A college that makes
friendship its cultural idea, as does Vale,
is a good place to revisit. At all events
our class —seventy out of a possible
eighty—found it so, and every man of us
left "the old home of days of long ago"
with the hush of spirit that told the story
of hours passed in the Holy of Holies.
It was an experience that seemed but
one step removed from a visit to Heaven.
The good ship Romanic cleared Boston on time at the fashionable hour of
high noon. Honolulu was well represented in the throng of farewellers by
the Misses Bosher and Colwell in person,
the Willard E. Browns in telegram, and
not a few others by letter. Neptiinus Atliinticus, not to be outdone by his Pacific
brother, welcomed us with broad smiles
of placidity, and only lost his poise
A. A. EBERSOLE
once, and then but for a night. The ship's
company is a good one. and all hands
have behaved except Deacon Bowen and
his minister, who have been gaming
scandalously to win the prize of champion nodder. No hour and no presence
has been sacred to these shameless devotees of Morpheus. The Deacon has had
the best of it, thanks to his training tin
tier the soporific sermons of his pastor.
But for this professional coaching he
might have been beaten.
After five hours at Port Delgado, in
the Azores, one is in a position to understand why Hawaii has so gootl an asset
in her Portuguese. Neat houses, scrupulously clean streets, happy looking people, every available foot of land blooming
with evidences of loving cultivation and
picturesque scenes from every outlook
tell the whole story. The Azorese are not
afraid of heights, like us Honolulans.
The entire coast line shows in general a
shunning of the lowlands, the houses
love to perch themselves on bold eminences with faraway views of ocean and
shore. I-ong before Honolulu is as old
A Letter from Dr. Scudder.
as Porto Delgado its people will also
have learned the lesson.
(iibraltar, July 4. 1910.
"What do you say for 'good mornHonolulu to New York City in one ing'?" the minister asked on landing.
hour less than ten days by corrected "Buntha Dias" (forgive the spelling)
clocks, but by actual elapsed time in ex- was what the answer sounded like.
actly nine and three-quarters days with (iixxl! "Bunch of dears" let it be: a fine
one hour and forty minutes in San Fran- name for these gems of the Mid-Atlantic,
cisco and one hour and a half in Chicago the Azores.
t< spare.
DOREMUS SCUDDER.
Burt when he offered him $5,000.
rounded out Gillett's $10,000 fund for
Seoul "at the last minute," and carries
the salary of an International Y. M. C. A.
secretary on the home field with satisfaction. "Such things as having money invested the world over in promoting the
Gospel makes my life worth living," he
declared. Alfred E. Marling, the buoyant chairman in his brilliant talk on
Money, said. "I am thankful that I have
been given a new incentive in life, that
my outlook on life has a new dignity so
that my money making is not a matter of
drudgery. I want to live and be in business for the Master's sake. I do not care
any more about wealth, but I do care
for the use of wealth." One man gives
half his income, another sixty per cent,
along with half his time, but it is sure
that his giving and that of thousands who
have felt the touch of the new movement
among laymen is not done grudgingly.
Central Union News
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August, 1010.
Large Audiences Hear Dr. White
In spite of the fact that an unusually
large number of Central Union people
are away this summer. Dr. White has
from the very first Sunday had large audiences. The Sunday evening attendance
has been especially large.
This, no doubt, is partly due to the extensive advertising which we have given
to these services. A large eight-poster
bulletin board in front of the church and
twelve smaller bulletin boards on the
street down town have announced his
subjects each week, while 1,000 cards
distributed among the men in the stores,
offices and shops have brought a direct
invitation each week to at least a thousand men to attend the Sunday evening
service. The large per cent of men in
the Sunday evening audiences is noticeable. The newspapers, too, have given
generous space to our announcements.
I tut, while no doubt this thorough advertising has helped to get the attention
of the general public it is the uniformly
able, powerful addresses of Dr. White
that have attracted and held the audiences. The popular character of his subjects arouse interest, and the masterful
way in which he handles every subject
wins and holds the people, some of whom
have seldom been seen in church before.
The subjects of his sermons have been
as follows:
AT THE MORNING SERVICES:
1. "The Keynote of Jesus Life" (Luke
19:10; 15:6. 7).
2. "The Everlasting Arms" (Deut.
33:27).
3. "Not to Destroy but to Fulfil"
( Matt. 5:17).
4. "The Three Specific Sins that Crucified Christ" ( 1. Cor. 15:3).
5. "An Expert's Definition of Life"
( Rom. 8 :61.
6. The Inheritance of the Meek"
( Matt. 5:5).
7. "The Flying Goal" (Matt. 5:47).
And at the Evening Service:
1. "The Good Fellow and the Good
Man" (Prov. 1:7. Ps. 111:10).
2. "Some One's Receiver is Down"
(Mark 6:31).
3. "The Honor of the Flag " (a patriotic address delivered the evening before
Independence Day).
4. "Making a Living, and Making a
Life."
5. "The Three L's of the Sea."
(). "Rite, Right, Wright."
a
7. "Frying Running, Walking
Bible Climax" (Isaiah 40:30).
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With four more Sundays still to fol-
low.
An Important Business Transaction
The Scribe's Corner
At a special meeting of the church and
congregation held on Wednesday evening, July 6, Central Union Church, voted
to authorize the trustees to transfer all
property held in its name at Palama Settlement to the new corporation of Palama Settlement when such corporation
REV. WM. BREWSTER OLESON
sympathy with the religious beliefs and
missionary activities of Central Union
Church, the property hereby deeded to
Palama Settlement shall revert to the
Central Union Church."
Palama Settlement was organized as a
mission of Central Union Church, and
has always been largely sup]X)rted by
the members of the church. The fact (hat
it is now to be separately incorporated
will, we are sure, in no wise lessen the
interest of the church people in this important branch of work.
this kind is probably essential in clearing
the way for a better holding of virile beliefs. But the tearing down has been a
dusty business at best, and men have
looked at the ruins rather than at the resources for reconstruction. And it must
be admitted that there has seemed to be
more fun in the tearing down than there
has been purpose in building again. But
the building operations have certainly begun, and some of our ablest thinkers are
it work in reconstructing religious belief. That is, they are using again the
same materials very much, while placing
them in more modern relations. Among
the foremost builders of belief is Henry
Churchill King, President of the Oberlin
College, now a guest in Honolulu, returning homeward from an extended lecturing our in India, China, and Japan.
The mere mention of the titles of some
of his published works, such as "Rational
Living," "Theology and the Social Consciousness," "The Seeming Unreality of
the Spiritual Life," and ''Reconstruction
in Theology," reveal the builder's outlook, and are a sort of blueprint copy of
his fundamental purpose to help men forward surely and rationally into a wholesome religious belief.
We welcome among us such a force in
the religious life of the men of today.
We wish Dr. King might make a longer
sojourn with us. We extend our hearty
grip to our honored guest, and in parting
with him God-speed in the great work
of building the thoughts of men into a
sane, and hopeful and livable belief.
Corresponding Secretary.
"Ullkr our life it most tartly of the quality
that ouflht to eaftre, wt find It easier to believe la immortality."
Henry Churchill King.
shall be formed.
There was some difference of opinion
as to whether it should not be stipulated
There has been a good deal done in
in the deed of transference that three the past twenty-five years in the way of
members of the Board of the new corporation should always be elected from destructive criticism. There have been
among the members of Central Union iconoclasts by the score. Somehow men
Church. After considerable discussion have found vulnerable places all along
pro and con it was voted to make only the former breastworks of religious bethis stipulation, "that if at any time Pa- lief, and they have busied themselves in
lama Settlement shall cease to be conducted as an active Christian agency in enlarging the embrasures. Something of
Another Prominent Member Called
In the death of Mr. Alexander Young
Saturday, July 2, Central Union
Church lost another most valuable member. Mr. Alexander was for many years
a trustee of this church, and in that capacity always stood for progress and advance, lie was chairman of the Building
Committee for the erection of the present magnificent building of Central Union Church. He was a regular attendant
at the church services and always gave
generously to the support of the church.
One by one the vanguard lay down
their work. It calls for men of ability and
men of consecration to step in and fill
their places.
Private services were conducted at the
home of Mr. Young at Waikiki at 2
o'clock on Sunday afternoon, July 3, and
afterwards a public memorial service was
held in the church. Although the summe rseason, and the holiday following
had taken a great many people away, a
large concourse gathered to pay thev respects to Mr. Young, who for many
years has held a prominent place in the The Plebiscite!
social and industrial life of the city as It is settled at last, overwhelmingly
settled, that Hawaii does not want prowell as in his church.
on
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hibition. But is it settled right ? ()ther
prohibitionists are asking this
question. It is one of the evidences that
such matters never arc settled until they
are settled right. For the real issue does
not hinge on mere prohibition. That may
or may not be the best method of meeting the greatest problem of modern
times. Honest men differ as to the metb
od of tackling the problem, but they
agree as to the need of tackling it. And
the need will never be absent until it is
tackled for a throw-down. And therefore the problem cannot be kept out of
politics. Not the problem of how prohibition can be secured, but the problem
of how the saloon evil can be effectively
minimized. Does any political party suppose that the two thousand men who voted for prohibition are not to be reckoned
with at the polls? Is the saloon element
going to control party nominations in the
face of the fact that two thousand prohibitionists probably hold the balance of
power in any election that may be held?
Are these tinpiirchasable. unterrified two
thousand, so innocent and forgetful as to
believe that friends of the saloon in the
Legislature will keep this question out of
men than
politics?
Why Was It?
Each man has his own explanation
why prohibition was so signally defeated
at the recent plebiscite; but one man's
explanation does not satisfy the other
man.
Doubtless many influences account for the result.
It is well that we
should consider some of them.
1. The liquor interest is a strongly intrenched one. Its very existence was
at stake. Hence it was compactly organized, and its campaign was pressed without scruple, and at no limit of expense,
and with a master-hand in control. That
in itself was a mortgage on victory.
2. The anti-saloon element was divided, some of the natural leaders in such a
contest being publicly opposed to prohibition, others of the leaders being absent
from the country, while the rank and file
of prohibition voters took but scant part
in any practical effort to win the day.
That meant a mortgage on defeat.
3. Nearly four thousand registered
voters did not go to the jxills. It is quite
improbable that the saloon interests overlooked any of these whom it had the
slightest hope of inducing to vote "No."
It is altogether probable, judging on general principle, and with the experience
gained in investigations elsewhere, that
these men would have voted "Yes" had
they been persuaded to vote at all.
4. Without wishing to criticwe«4hc- policy adopted by the prohibition committee, it should be said that the system of
employing numerous runners to get out
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the vote is so established in Hawaiian
elections that the practical abandonment
of the system by the committee undoubtedly spelled defeat to the extent of several thousand votes.
5. Political considerations compromised the situation in no small degree. The
date of the plebiscite was unfortunate inasmuch as it precipitated the election just
as the political parties were getting their
organizations to work. Men desirous of
political preferment wore afraid to meet
the prohibition issue squarely on its merits. These conditions were favorable to
the organized force in politics that is al-
August. 1910
is not only to show the results of mission
enterprise in the more direct evidences
found in church buildings and statistics,
but in the no less important features of a
progressive community that have been
born out of missionary enterprise. The
occasion will afford an opportunity to advertise I lawaii on its best side. If the exhibit is mainly confined to a representation of sixMal. industrial and religious
features of life as it is among us today,
it will prove a bureau of information
well wortli while. A hearty co-operation
will be welcomed by the committee in
charge, viz.. Messrs. Ilorne. Scudder,
own advantage, Castle. Richards and Oleson.
ways figuring for its
viz., the saloon interest.
6. There was unquestionably the survival of an old prejudice against prohibition instilled in the hearts of the people
by the course of kings who forbade liquor Id their subjects while they used it
themselves. ()nce the common people had
prohibition against their wish. Now that
the choice lay with themselves they refused to put themselves back into what
seemed (o them like the class slavery of
other days.
7. Demagogism was to the fore in the
campaign, and demagogism is a trump
card in elections in this county.
X. Drinking habits tire on the increase
among the people. And 1 lawaii wants no
cross opposite the prohibition "Yes."
l
>. The question voted on was confusing. The question reiterated through the
campaign was: "Do you want sal<x>ns?"
"No," said our prohibition orators. So
when the voters actually came to the
polls, who knows how many voted "No"
when their conviction called for a "Yes"
vote?
10. Finally the evasive course of
Prince Ktthio doubtless affected the result unfavorably for prohibition.
We do not believe the question was
decided on its merits. The majority, however, was such a decisive one that antisaloon men must now look in other directions for the effective curbing of the saloon evil.
The World in Boston.
Al last Hawaii has been assigned
space in the exhibit hall of the great Missionary Exposition that is to he held in
Boston in April, 1911. Now let every
one interested contribute by suggestion
and otherwise to make Hawaii's display
a marked feature in the exposition.
Among the things already suggested are
relief maps of the Islands, models of Hawaiian fish, articles of furniture made of
Hawaiian woods, lava specimens, oil
paintings and photographs, Hawaiian
curios, school displays, moving picture
films, etc. The idea of the exposition
Educational Advance
F. W. DAMON
Advance in the Mid-Pacific Institute.
Steady advance has been made during
the past year towards a fuller realization
of this educational undertaking. Already
has the girls' department of the Institute.
Kawaiahao Seminary, rounded out two
successful years of its history as a part
of this new educational scheme. With
the opening of the fall term, beginning
September 12th, it is hoped that the boys'
department, Mills School, will be definitely placed in its new and attractive
home on the tine school campus in Manoa
Valley, ready to enter upon what its
friends trust will prove to be, with God's
blessing, a long and fruitful career of
useful and beneficent work. The spacious
and imposing school hall, which is designed for the use of this latter department, is now rapidly approaching completion. Uninterruptedly for the past
two years have large companies of workmen been engaged upon its construction.
It is one of the largest buildings ever
reared in the Territory and it is felt that
it will be seen to be well adapted for the
end for which it lias been planned. Those
who have had charge of the work have
been especially favored during the period
of its construction by the fine weather
which has prevailed, and by the quiet
and temperate spirit which has characterized the scores of workmen, of different nationalities who have been engaged
upon the building. In the basement are
the workshops, laundry, baths, shower
and tub, and all modern sanitary appliances. On the first floor are the dining
room, recitation rooms, reception rooms,
library and reading room. On the second floor are the sleeping nxjins for the
teachers and the older boys, each boy
having a separate room, and the magnificent assembly hall. On the third floor
are the large dormitories, where the
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FRIEND.
smaller l>oys are under the special care of languages has l>een given throughout the
the matron. Extensive operations in con- year. The sewing department under Mrs.
nection with the grading of the athletic Hurt's guidance is well organized. Her
field and the land immediately adjacent "Mid-Pacific Folder" is a publication
to the boys' school hall arc going on at which the Institute may be justly proud
the present time. It is an interesting fact to claim as its own. Regular cooking
that a number of the students arc assist- classes have been held, and we hope to
ing in this work during the summer vaca- do more next year in this department.
tion. The school farm has already been Along with the. rapid strides in mental
somewhat developed and promises to be development has come the gain in the
a most helpful factor in the future his- spiritual development of the girls. We,
It is a most grati- who have watched over and loved them
tory of the Institute.
buildings for two years, see such marked improvethat
the
splendid
fying fact
which have been erected during the past ment in their general behavior and moral
three years on the extensive campus of tone that our hearts sing for joy. With
the Mid-Pacific Institute in Manoa are the new playgrounds we hope to keep
wholly free from debt, owing to the their physical development on a par with
large-hearted and open-handed generosity of noble friends of this educational
undertaking. An important beginning
has been made in the line of endowment
but it is but a beginning and there now
arises with unmistakable emphasis the
demand for its further development. Relations between the Mid-Pacific Institute,
which has already taken over the Mills
Institute, with certain other affiliated
schools, namely, the Japanese boarding
school and the Korean mission school
( Methodist) have been of the very pleasantest nature during the past year.
From both these schools it is expected
that a number of students will enter the
Mid-Pacific Institute in September. A
delightful evidence of the kindly feeling
existing was seen in the union picnic,
which took place in June, at which some
two hundred persons were present in
Manoa. A grand tour of the school
grounds was made; the farm, in its different departments duly inspected ; the
athletic field visited, after which the large
company gathered in the splendid assembly hall of the boys' building, where interesting exercises were belli in English,
Chinese. Japanese and Korean. Grandly
did the voices of this student band sing
in full chorus. "Praise God from Whom
All Blessings Mow." thus fittingly acknowledging the divine source from
which this new schoolhouse, with all its
possibilities of helpfulness and inspiration, has come to them.
A Good Year at Kawaiahao Seminary
Miss Rosher says of the past year at
the Seminary, "The student enrollment
their mental and moral growth. The
new teachers who are to come in September are Miss Stambaugh, Miss Faust,
Miss Hamilton, for grade work; Miss
(loold for the sewing department, and
Miss Wintie for music. Miss Ting will
assist in the sewing department.
Applications are coining in for next
year. There is every indication that the
school will be as large, if not larger than
ii has been this year.
Mills School and Mills Institute.
Mills school is now the legal appelation of the boys' department of the MidPacific Institute. Mills Institute, after a
history of some eighteen years has been
merged in this new educational undertaking. Already the pleasant schoolhouse in Chaplain lane, which for so
many years has been a busy center of
youthful life, has closed its doors and as
an independent institution has become a
memory of the past. It is, however, a
beautiful and helpful memory to those
who have come under its influence. In
IH( >2 six Chinese boys found hjere a
home, and since that day there have been
hundreds who have reason to remember
through life the blessing it has been to
them and to whom the "old school" will
bt ever dear. God grant that its mottoes
"Onward and Upward," may ever find
an echo in their lives, and its ideals ever
be to them a guide and inspiration!
Mr. Merrill reports a registration in
Mills Institute for the year ending June
30th, 1910, of "one hundred and thirtyseven (137)" students. Of these eightyone (81) were in the boarding department and fifty-six (56) in the day department. The nationalities were as follows: Chinese and part Chinese, 113;
Japanese, 12; Korean, 11; Marshall Isl-
for the year has included one hundred
and nineteen (119) names. The ages of
the girls, ranging from six to twenty
years, and their nationality, including ander, 1.
full Hawaiian*, part Hawaiians, Chinese,
Mills School of the Mid-Pacific InstiJapanese, Portuguese, Korean and other tute is a non-racial, Christian boarding
races. Good work has been done in all school for young men and boys. So far
the grades. In addition to the grade its faculty consists of Mr. Arthur M.
teaching instruction in three Oriental Merrill, principal: Mrs. Osborne, mat-
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Messrs. Walen, Hammond, Cross,
Robinson and, and one teacher, still to
be selected) as instructors in English.
The teachers in the Oriental language
department are being arranged for. In
the Japanese section we hope to secure
the services of a highly recommended
Christian gentleman antl instructor of
experience from Tokyo. The board of
managers will find many matters calling
for their earnest consideration in the conduct of the affairs of this school. The
work, however, is one worthy of their
best effort. The questions which will
arise as to die care of the different races
in the school, with their strong national
feelings and prejudices, rivalries and
temperamental peculiarities, will be
many and insistent. The problems with
reference to the food supply and its preparation for so varied a household will
not be slight. The development of certain lines of industrial and agricultural
pursuits will demand their attention,
while financial responsibilities will be
great and constant. Rut none of these
difficulties are insuperable, and it is felt
that, with patience, tact and devotion, a
way will l>e opened to a large and harmonious development.
Ron;
Hawaii Cousins
Voyage of "The Thaddeus" in 1820.
(Continued from July number.)
FAVORING WINDS ON THE
PACIFIC
February 1.
Today we pass the meridian of the
Foreign Mission School in Cornwell,
Conn., U. S. A., sailing westward 7 or 8
knots an hour. During 24 hours we have
made nearly 5 degrees. Our respected
Captain B. says there never could be a
better chance to get west from the cape.
* *Feb.*
2.—This morning finds us rejoicing in prosperity. A fair wind from the
south-west sets our faces directly to the
scene of our anticipated labors. We are
now 10 degrees or 12 degrees west of
Cape Horn, and feel much as if we were
on our way home.
THE SPIRIT OF TRUE MIS-
SIONARIES.
Feb. 7.
Advancing still rapidly toward the
field of our toils and privations, we have
today felt it to be of special importance
to inquire, urgently and seriously, what
qualities of character are specially
needful to the missionary in order to
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meet the trials, to endure the suffering
and to perform the labors of the missionary life; what are his peculiar wants;
and what should be unitedly asked of
God for those who are engaged in propagating the gospel. We find much to
humble us and bring us on our knees
much, indeed, to encourage us. * *
We find new occasion to say the missionary cause has peculiar charms for US,
and cheerfully will we wear out in its
service. Whether success or defeat shall
be our particular lot; we are comforted
with the firm belief in the cause in which
we are embarked and the best feelings of
the Church enlisted, will finally triumph,
the heathen will be converted, and to the
praise of divine grace, it shall be everywhere known that there is a God in
Zkin who hears united prayer.
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ADVENTURE WITH A SHARK.
March 11.
Again we entered our own hemisphere. We have this day special occasion to acknowledge the kind providence
of (iod. About 1 o'clock p. m. there was
a calm, and several of the brethren and
some others, having been denied the privilege many weeks, allowed themselves
to enjoy the pleasant and healthful exercise of bathing in the ocean. Not long
after they were safely out, while one of
the sailors was employed in painting the
bowsprit, with his feet in the water, a
common sized shark was seen to approach him. Had he not been seasonably
warned to avoid the monster he might
have lost his limb, if not his life. The
shark then played or rather raved around
the brig with the boldness and fierceness
of a hungry tiger. Ry the dexterity of
George P. Tamosee and one of the mates
a snare was fixed upon him. Then flouncing like a bullock unaccustomed to the
yoke, he seized with violence the end of
a long pole, and though it broke many
of his front teeth, he held fast until by
the pole and ropes he was drawn on
board. The mingled emotions in our
company arising from a sense of danger
escaped by the gracious interposition of
our divine and strong deliverer, evidenced by tears and congratulations, cannot easily be described. On opening the
shark, the men found a porcupine fish,
and a large beef bone which had been
thrown overboard by the cook at the
time the brethren were bathing, so that
he could not have been far distant at
that time.
FALLING OVERBOARD OF MR.
WHITNEY.
March 27.
It is with peculiar emotions of adoring
gratitude that we acknowledge the distinguishing goodness of God, seasonably
interposed for our deliverance this day.
While Rrother Whitney was assisting in
painting the outside of the vessel, which
he considered not only as pleasant and
profitable, but needful exercise, the rope
by which he held with one hand gave
way and let him fall from a temporary
scaffold into the sea. His weight and
the force of the ship entirely broke his
hold from the rope and left him astern
calling for help. Captain B's orders
were promptly executed, and the brig,
though under full sail at the rate of six
or seven knots an hour, was "hove to"
in less than five minutes anil stopped
sailing. In the meantime Brother W..
whose perfect self-]x>sscssion and skill in
swimming enabled him successfully to
buffet the waves after one or two had
broke over him, happily gained a small
bench which had been providentially carried on deck a few minutes before and
was thrown overboard to serve him as a
temporary buoy. On this he was easily
sustained after it had once or twice deceived him by rolling, though his
strength was considerably exhausted.
Never before did the mission family
know how much they loved him. In five
minutes more the boat was cleared away
and let down and sent to his relief,
which reached him in about five minutes
at a distance perhaps of 1-6 of a mile.
Refore the boat set off he raised his hat
and waved it. lest his anxious wife
should be too much disturbed, and then
composed himself to prayer; while
many hearts on board were in this soultrying hour lifted up to God in fervent
petition that he would spare his life for
his appointed work among the Gentiles
Not far from 20 minutes after he fell, by
the blessing of Him who had said
"When thou passest through the waters
I will be with thee," he was safely returned and joyfully welcomed on board
with many tears, and with thanksgiving
to our strong deliverer who saved the
sinking Peter, and who can with equal
ease deliver those who trust in him from
the waves and from the monsters of the
deep, and from ungodly men.
ARRIVAL AT HAWAII.
March 30, 1820.
Let us thank God and take courage.
Early this morning the long looked for
()whyhee and the cloud-capt and snoweapt Manna Kea appear full in view to
the joy of the animated multitude on
lx>ard. (11 o'clock a. m.) We are now
coasting along the north-east part of the
island, so near the shore as to see the
numerous habitations, cultivated fields,
smoke rising in different parts, fresh
vegetation, rocks, rivulets, cascades,
trees, etc.. and with the help of glasses
men and women, immortal l>eings, pur-
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chased with the cleansing blood.
We
are much pleased, not to say delighted,
with the scene, and long to be on shore.
(4 o'clock p. m.) Having turned the
northern extremity of 0„ Capt. B, this
afternoon sent oft a boat to make inquiries respecting the king, etc. Mr.
Hunnewell, a mate, Tho. fiopoo, J.
Honoree, and others, went nearly to the
shore and fell in with 10 or 12 native
fishermen in their canoes, who readily
gave the important information that the
aged King Kamehameha is dead—that
Rehoreeho, his son, succeeds him—that
the images of bis gods are burned —that
the men eat with the women in all the
islands—that one chief only was killed in
settling the affairs of government, and he
for refusing to destroy his gods—that
Reehoreeho, the young king, and Kimokoo. the first chief, sometimes called
Billy Rett, both reside at Owhyhce. If
these are facts they are interesting facts,
and seem to show that Christ is overturning in order to take possession, and
that these islands are waiting for his law,
while the old and decaying pillars of
idolatry are falling to the ground. The
moment seems favorable for the introduction of Christianity and customs of
civilized life.
THE BISHOP FAMILY.
By Mrs. S. E. Bishop.
Rev. Artemas Bishop and his wife,
Mrs. Elizabeth Edwards Bishop, were
members of
the first reinforcement of the Sandwich Islands Mission. They arrived at Kailua after a six
months' voyage from America in April,
1X23. Mrs. Bishop was warmly welcomed by her old friend, Mrs. Lucy
Thurston, who had not heard that she
was coming to the Islands.
They proceeded to Honolulu and afterwards to Kauai where they spent a
short time. They were soon permanently
stationed tit Kailua, associates of the
Thurstons. They immediately began active work among the people, who received them kindly. The chiefs Kuakini and
Kapiolani welcomed them cordially and
often visited them in their home.
Mrs. Bishop's health failed and after a
long and painful illness she died in 1828.
This was the first death in the mission
circle, and elicited sympathy from the natives, by whom she was much beloved.
Her grave may still be seen in Kailua
churchyard.
She left two children, Jane Fmzabeth,
aged two, and Sereuo, a babe of one year
old. Kind friends shared with the bereaved father the care of the little ones.
In December, 1828 Mr. Rishop married Miss Delia Stone, one of the four
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single ladies who had joined the mission
that year. Thus the family were again
united in a home.
The home is thus described in a letter
to a friend: "Our house is thatched with
very long leaves of a certain tree which
grows in this country. There are no
floors, but the rooms are spread with
large mats made of the same material as
the thatch. The mats are very neat when
new but they soon become dirty and cannot be easily washed. The house does
not have windows, but blinds. The weather is always warm here, so that it never
snows as it does in New York."
In IK3O Mr. Bishop built a more convenient house. This was of stone, with
comfortable rooms and accommodations
for the family and a separate building
for a cook house. This is still intact, as
you till see at the present time—also the
heavy stone wall which surrounded the
premises.
The social life between the Bishop and
Thurston families was very congenial.
The children made daily trips back and
forth, both using the same school books.
Mrs. Bishop spent many hours teaching in the native schools, and in guiding
and directing the native women. But
the education of her own children was
not neglected. They rose at four o'clock
in the morning, that this might be accomplished. With the dim light of a
whale oil lamp they poured over their
books. Their efforts were so successful
that when Elizabeth and Sereno went
back East, at the age of thirteen, they
were in advance of the children of their
own age.
Mr. Bishop spent much of his time in
the work of translating the P.ible, and in
preparing other literature for the natives.
The proportion of the Rible translated
by him was about nine and a half books.
Mr. Rishop removed to Ewa, on Oahu
in 1836, as pastor of that large and flourishing church. There was much interest
at the time of the great revivals, when,
standing in the door of the church, he
would address those inside and also hundreds of eager listeners on the outside.
Mr. Rishop remained at Ewa until
failing strength permitted him no longer
to minister to the church. He then moved to Honolulu, passing his last years in
quiet Nuuatui Valley. He died Dec. 18,
1871.
WAILUKU NOTES.
At the annual meeting of the Wailuku
Union Church the trustees of the church
were increased from three to five. The
following were elected to office: Edward
H. Railey, Daniel H. Case, Henry R.
Penhallow, Clarence M. Roberts and
Judge William A. McKay. Mr. Orlando
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13
J. Whitehead was elected treasurer of by 40, a large locker room, office, showthe church. Mr. George W. Wilbur was ers and all necessary equipment, an excellent bowling alley, and a billiard and
chosen deacon.
()n June 24th at the parsonage library pool room, which latter is to be over the
for
the board of trustees held a meeting. alocker room. The specifications calla defirst
class
which
be
building,
will
Fifty new Pilgrim Hymnals were ordered for the church and congregation. cided acquisition to the town and the
It was voted to give the offering of Eas- island.
Miss Lttcena Merriman, the new setter Sunday to the Hawaiian Roard and
tlement
has arrived, and become
that of Christmas Sunday to the Ameri- somewhatworker,
acquainted with the conditions
can Missionary Association.
of the work in Wailuku. For some years
Ulrica Church membership has increas- connected
with university life at the
ed almost fifty per cent since [anuary Ist,
of Arizona, and having speUniversity
1910.
cial charge of young women in that inThe Hawaiian Church congregation stitution, she comes admirably prepared
has been worshipping for the past few for her Wailuku duties. She has also
weeks in the Town Hall, because of the had special training in the kindergarten
repairs under way on their building. and a wide experience in just the kind of
This fine old edifice will be the best in work that is preparatory to her wide field
Central Maui, after all is done that is of service in Wailuku.
contemplated. The rotten floor has been Miss Merriman has already endeared
taken up and a new one laid. The old herself to the many on Maui, who have
lines of the church, first established by had the opportunity of meeting her. We
"bather" I'ailey have been unaltered. predict a bright future for the Wailuku
New cement steps have been built for the settlement in its many new departments
approach to the church, new acetylene under the efficient leadership of Miss
gas chandeliers installed, the inside walls Merriman.
retrimmed, while the whole of the woodThe Maui Aid Association report for
work has been repainted inside and outthe last year has been published, and
side, and a large amount of preservative
shows a wide field of activity. The repumped into the interior framework. port
can be obtained by dropping a
are
to
replace
New pews
sadly needed
card to Rox 32, Wailuku, Maui.
postal
the worm-eaten ones that must be disThe
excellent catechism prepared by
at
present in
carded, but no money is
Rev.
Collins
G. Rurnham of Lahaina
sight, as all available funds are now ex- has just issued
from the press of the
hausted in the work that had to be done Maui Publishing Company.
The first
on the building itself.
edition
of
one
thousand
copies
(500 in
The county is now keeping the spa- Hawaiian, 500 English),
in
will be freely
cious yard of the Kaahumanti church pro- and
widely distributed among the island
perty in excellent condition, and Kaahuchurches.
This gift of so valuable a
manti Church is in the center of the
work for our Sunday schools and sociebeautiful lawn.
ties of Christian Endeavor has been
Miss Nora Towner, who has won so made possible by the tireless efforts of
many friends throughout the Territory, Mr. Rurnham in writing the English
has lieen called home to care for her in- questions, and answering so simply that
valid mother.
The whole community they will be of use to our Japanese, Chisorely misses her. Her earnestness and nese, Portuguese and Hawaiian-English
wonderful ability have accomplished workers. The whole of the'English verwonders in her department of the work sion is less than two thousand words,
in Wailuku. She got together close to but it would be hard to find two thous$3000 for the new swimming pool and and words so packed full of the best that
gymnasium, and before she left she felt religion contains for the growing and
sure that the large dream of her four thinking mind of the youth. The Hayears work was about to be realized in waiian edition has been worked over and
a substantial gymnasium that would be over again, so that it might express in
an ornament to Wailuku, and help all the simplest and plainest
way the exact
classes of people to get more out of life. meaning of the English. We predict
Hon. H. P. Baldwin came generously that the hard work that Mr. Burnham
to her assistance with $1,000 for the and his translators have done will reap a
swimming pool, which is almost finished rich reward in winning men to the simunder the excellent workmanship of Mr. ple, beautiful Gospel of Jesus, and in
W. R. Patterson, who is a valuable asset bringing to the minds of our thousands
to the business and spiritual side of the of young people in our churches a clear
Wailuku work. This pool is 50 by 25, knowledge of the truth we love, a knowand large enough for some really excel- ledge which cannot be undermined by
lent work in swimming contests. Plans the strange doctrines that have previousare practically completed for the gymna- ly turned so many here into the ways of
sium, which is to have a floor space 60 error.
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THE FRIEND.
August, 1910
the profound forces under God that have fies the appreciation of the Hawaiian
steadily brought this land to this day of people, and their gratitude, for the work
of the missionaries, and likewise their
light and blessing in which we live.
This arch is not a useless heap of love and gratitude to Opukahaia, whose
stones. Neither is it like those ancient words and tears and prayers, under God,
memorials which the Hebrews raised to turned the eyes of Christians this way.
commemorate some event of the past. ■ad led to the coming of the missionaries.
This arch looks forward as well as back- For the funds for the erection of this
AT
MEMORIAL
ARCH
THE
ward. It stands at the entrance to these memorial have come not from the men
KAILUA.
grounds of this Christian church, a per- of wealth in Hawaii, but from thousands
petual invitation to enter in and to com- of men and women and children in our
Address at the Memorial Arch Exercises mune with God. May this arch perpetu- Hawaiian churches from Kauai to Haate the pressing call of the fathers, and waii. No more impressive evidence could
at Kailua, Sunday, June 26.
may many in the coming years who pass be given of the present day valuation by
By Rev. W. B. Oleson.
beneath it into yonder house of (rod, like- Hawaiians of
work of the missionary
solid,
at
gates
wise
last
the
into
fitthers
than
this
substantial and inthrough
pass
we
memorial
that
are
here
to
"This
dedicate rises on two pillars, one in mem- the heavenly city. Finally, this arch typi- viting gateway into this house of God."
ory of the first missionaries who landed
here ninety years ago, the other in memory of Opukahaia, and his Christian comrades, who came hither with the missionaries. These two pillars rise and
blend in this beautiful arch, which thus
HENRY P. JUDD
typifies the union of all races in the kingdom of God.
with headquarters at Tacoma, Wash.,
Some Sunday School Ideals.
This arch is simple rather than ornate
visit these islands the latter part of
will
and properly taught
and elaborate. It is not built of costly A well organized
this
year or in the early part of 1911.
material, nor of marble imported from Sunday school is one of the most potent I'he plan has not yet been definitely desome foreign land. Rather it is built out factors of the stability and spread of the cided, but it is probable that we shall
of the lava rocks among which the early Christian religion. Ry religion is meant have the pleasure of hearing Mr. Mermissionaries and the Hawaiians of that the broad principles and beliefs of that ritt speak to many gatherings of Sunday
day lived and wrought. It represents the religion which purifies and elevates the day school workers on the various islbuilding forces of the world, for these moral, social and spiritual nature of the ands. The object of his visit is to enstones have come up from the depth in human race, by impressing the Rible courage the Sunday school work and
the lifting of Hawaii above the sea. It truth? The nature, being and attributes of give us valuable suggestions and inspiratherefore typifies the work of the fathers. have clear conceptions of the source tion.
They ha done great passion, viz., to save from which all blessings come. What As Mr. Merritt was president of Oahu
men from sin and to build them up in a truths? The nature, being and attributes College from 1883 to 1890, he is no
blessed hope and joy. This arch is large of God, the Atonement of Christ, the Re- stranger in the islands, and many kamaand strong and solid. Generations shall surrection, the new man in Christ and ainas will remember him and surely give
come and go, but this memorial shall other chief doctrines of the Christian re- him a cordial welcome to these shores
It thus typifies the ligion. These are some of the truths that from which he has been absent twenty
stantl unshaken.
splendid purity and integrity of those should and can be taught in the Sunday years.
pioneers of the gospel, and the thorough schools. Impress these truths upon the
and substantial character of their work. minds and hearts of the young people,
They were rugged, patient, noble men and it will be a comfort and support to The Departmental Works.
and women, who laid foundations deep, them all through the days of their lives.
Organized work among the schools of
and solid for a Christian civilization in They will then be prepared to go out in 1 lawaii nei has been attempted, and has
Hawaii. This arch has dignity and the world, stalwart Christians and citi- proved a partial success in many places.
beauty, and thus fittingly typifies the zens worthy of the name.
On the whole, however, it would appear
worth of the men who wrought in the The children are the hope of the that the work is not progressing rapidly,
beginning of new Hawaii. These stones Church and the State in the ages to and in some instances has actually retrowere only a few weeks ago scattered all come. As they are trained now, so will graded. There are several reasons for
about here. They had never interested they be in the future. There is no better this state of affairs, the chief one being,
any one. There was nothing about them place for the accomplishment of this according to many, the barrier of lanto attract the eye or to cause comment. great work than in the Sunday school. guage and the mixture of the races. The
Rut now bound together in this impos- Nearly every man who has risen in the Hawaiian Sunday School Association is
ing and symmetrical arch, they will world and become successful and great made up of schools connected with the
henceforth arrest the attention of every was, in his younger days, a Sunday churches of the Hawaiian Evangelical
passer-by. It was thus with those early school pupil.
Association and in its annual gatherings
missionaries. There was little in their
the language spoken is Hawaiian,
work or their surroundings that aroused
though interpretations are the general
the admiration of men. They were men Mr. Merritt's Proposed Visit.
rule. Another cause for the slow growth
of sorrows, and acquainted with hardWord has reached the editor of this of organized work is the lack of interest
ship, and when men saw them at their page that a plan is being considered on the part of many church members in
humble work there was no beauty that whereby the Rev. Win. C. Merritt, sec- the county and territorial work. It is difthey should honor them. But now men retary of the International Sunday ficult to win their services in the general
are beginning to see that these men were School Association for the Northwest work of the Association.
The first edition of Mr. Burnham's
catechism is freely distributed, through
the kindness of Mrs. H. P. Baldwin, who
for a long time, has desired something
of the sort for the education of our
young people.
Our Young People
�As conducted at present many of. the
methods are out of date and need reformation. The six departments—Primary, adult, teacher training, home, temperance and missionary, are not well organized on all the islands, and very little
is being done in some of these departments among the Hawaiian-speaking
schools. The reasons for this are not
hard to see. There is little in the line of
literature for the schools conducted in
Hawaiian and there is no way for some
of the heads of departments to spread
abroad their ideas among the people of
all races here. Moreover, the chairmen
of the work cannot accomplish much unless they secure sub-chairmen for the different islands. The efficiency of department work depends upon the faithfulness
of the island leaders and district workers. In spite of all the barriers, progress
is being made along the lines of approved
Sunday school work. Many schools are
doing splendidly. The weakness of the
work is in its failure to provide proper
support for the weaker schools, not financial but personal visitation and letters
of encouragement and literature of the
right kind and helpful county institutes
at the time of the semi-annual church
gatherings. It is true that the teacher
training department is deriving support
from the various island schools or institutes for ministers. If the ministers who
are being instructed in new methods of
work and improved systems of study,
will only gather about them their teachers and give them the benefit of their
new ideas and knowledge, then the problem will be solved, at least partially.
The greatest work that the ministers
may do in some places is in training
their teachers and leading classes of
young people to become teachers and
workers.
The home department is going forward in many localities, Oahu and Maui
being perhaps in the front rank. The
primary department is not well organized, neither are the adult, temperance
and missionary. These last two subjects
are usually presented adequately in the
church services which are generally attended by the majority of the school pupils. During the recent campaign preceding the plebiscite, the subject of temperance was a very live one before the
schools. A great deal of educational
work in this subject has been done this
year in Hawaii nei. The subject of missions is not presented very strongly in
some schools, although an appeal is made
for funds for work abroad, on the mainland and in the islands. It is in instruction
and information in mission work among
the peoples of foreign lands that we are
weak. Can we not do something to
arouse enthusiasm on this subject in our
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THE FRIEND.
August, 1910
island schools? We should pray more
for missions in our prayers before the
pupils, we should present the subject of
mission work definitely, giving specific information that will interest the pupils,
we should have missionary books in our
school libraries, and encourage gifts to
mission work abroad at home.
The adult department has some problems jxculiar to these islands, and the
systems that prevail in other lands may
Among the Hanot be worked here.
waiians there are adult classes, many of
whom are doing excellent work. There
is little organized work such as is being
urged Upon us constantly by the officials
of the International Association.
There is a future for organized work
along all the lines of the mainland work,
but it will take much time and patience
to put into operation the features that
are desirable.
A Sunday School Rally.
On Sunday afternoon, July 24, there
was a large parade and rally of the Sunday schools of Central Maui and parts
of East and West Maui. Special trains
brought the schools of Makawao, Pauwela, Paia, Spreckelsville, Puunene and
Kahului to Wailuku, where they were
met by a great gathering of the schools
of Waikapu, Waihee and Wailuku. After the line of parade had been formed
and banners given out to the paraders.
the county band started a march, and
the procession made its way to the green
in front of the town hall. Here speeches
were made by Messrs. Raldwin, White.
Turner and Kalua. and rousing temperance songs were sung. It was a most
successful affair, and gave evidence of
the interest taken by the Sunday schools
of Maui in the plebiscite. There were
over five hundred in line and nearly a
thousand at the rally.
existing international agencies for the
purpose of limiting the armaments of the
nations of the world by international
agreement, and of constituting the combined navies of the world an international force for the preservation of universal peace, and to consider and report
upon any other means to diminish the
expenditures of government for military
purposes and to lessen the probabilities
of war,
THE FEDERATION OF THE
WORLD.
HAMILTON HOLT,
Managing Editor the Independent.
The foreign relations committee has
just reported back favorably to the
House of Representatives a bill bearing
the name of Congressman Bennett of
New York, providing for the appointment of a commission "to consider the
expediency of utilizing existing international agencies for the purpose of limiting the armaments of the nations of the
world by international agreement, and
"Where is the Sunday
School Lesson?"
You can have It right in
front of you, on the wall
JOINT RESOLUTION
To authorize the appointment of a
commission in relation to universal
peace:
(House Joint Resolution 223 was fav-
orably reported in behalf of the commitMr. Bennett on June 4th, and
passed June 20, 1910.)
Resolved, by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the Uinited States of
America in Congress assembled, that a
commission of five members be appointed by the President of the United States
to consider the expediency of utilizing
I
tee by
Hawaiian Board Book Rooms
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�of constituting the combined navies of
the world an international force for the
preservation of universal peace." This
bill is a ways and means measure to
bring about a world federation, limited
to the maintenance of peace, so that our
recommendations to the Third Hague
Conference of 1915 may be well considered and far-reaching. It is indorsed by
the New York Peace Society, the International School of Peace of Boston, and
the New England Arbitration and Peace
Congress held at Hartford, Conn., on
May 11. If passed it will be the first
time in history that a government has
officially recognized that the true philosophy of the peace movement requires
world federation as a prerequisite for
universal peace.
In his famous essay Perpetual Peace
published in 1795. Emanuel Kant declared that we can never have universal
peace until the world is politically organized, and it will never be possible to organize the world [>olitically until the majority of the nations have a representative form of government. At last all the
IX'oples of the world have achieved in
some measure representative government. Russia has its Duma; China has
announced that shortly it will promulgate a constitution, while Turkey and
Persia have each just gone through the
throes of revolution and emerged with a
If Kant's philovigorous parliament.
sophy is sound, therefore, the world is
at last ready for world organization and
universal peace.
The only two powers that ever have
or ever can govern human beings are
force and reason—war and law. If we
do not have the one we must have the
other. The problem before the world is
how to decrease the area of war and increase the area of law until war vanishes
and law envelopes the world. At the
present moment the world is organized
into fifty-nine nations claiming independence and within their territories—nominally at least—organization, law and
l>eace prevail. We have already learned
to substitute law for war in cities and
states, and even up to the fifty-nine nations; but in that international realm
over and above each nation in which each
nation is equally sovereign, the only way
at the present moment for a nation to
secure its rights is by the use of force.
August. 1910.
THE FRIEND.
16
Force, therefore, or war, as it is called
when exerted by a nation against another
nation, is at present the only legal and
final method of settling international
differences. In other words the nations
are in that stage of civilization today
where without a qualm they claim the
right to settle their disputes in a manner
they would put their own subjects to
death for imitating. The peace movement, therefore, is nothing but the process of substituting law for war.
Rut how can we best create law in the
international realm.
Certainly not by
the cumbrous methods of the present.
Today there is no such things as a code
of international law which is binding on
the nations. What passes under the
name of international law is simply a
series of arguments, maxims, precedents
and opinions. It is the work, not of legislators, but of scholars. The nations are
at perfect liberty to accept it or reject il
as they wish. Before we can have 'i real
international law we must have behind it
some conscious political organization to
give it sanction and validity, and that
implies a federation of the world.
The history of international law prestriking analogies to the history of
private law. Likewise, the history of
the organization of the "United Nations," which is to give sanction to international law, will correspond to the history of the organization of the thirteen
American colonies into the United
sents
States,
therefore, furnishes
the model
for the United Nations. The Declaration
of Independence foreshadows the declaration of interdependence
The beginnings of world organization,
however, have already taken place. In
the Hague Court and the recurring
Hague Conferences we see the germs of
the international court and the parliament of man. The problem is how to
develop these so that they will become
the judicial and legislative departments
of a ixjwerful world constitution, just as
our Articles of confederation and Continental Congress developed into the present United States Constitution, which a
century of storm and stress has not
broken, and which still serves as a model
to all the republics of the earth.
A careful study of existing arbitration
treaties and of the work of the first and
second Hague Conferences shows that
our international law is at the same
stage of development as private law of
about the tenth century, while the organization of the "United Nations" has
reached the same stage of progress that
our thirteen states did before the Constitutional Convention of 17K7.
The problem, therefore, before the
world is to perfect the Hague Courts
and Conferences so that finally, if it be
deemed necessary, we may even add ,1
world executive and thus create the united nations in the very image of the
United States.
The peace advocates from Perm and
Kant and Hugo and Rurritt down to
Hale and I'.artholdt and Carnegie have
long realized that world federation is the
key to peace and disarmament. Even
Mr. Roosevelt in his remarkable Nobel
peace address the other day at Christiania goes so far as to urge a "league of
peace," to abolish war. paradoxically, by
force, it" necessary.
The governments
themselves, however, have not yet officially recognized that world organization
is the goal of international effort, though
they have unconsciously and inevitably
been driven much faster and farther
along this path than they realize. The
passage of the Bennet bill, however,
will remedy this. The creation of a world
federation commission would guarantee
to our own people as well as to the peoples of the world that the United States
is in earnest and ready to take the lead
in the only practical and promising
method of obtaining international peace.
It seems the destiny of the United
States to lead in the peace movement.
The United States is the world in miniature. It is a demonstration that all the
races of the world can live in peace under one government and its chief value to
civilization is a demonstration of what
this form of government is. We have
settled more disputes by arbitration than
any other nation. In all history no men
have done more to spread the gospel of
peace than the two Pennsylvanians,
William Perm and Benjamin Franklin.
David Low Dodge of New York in 1815
founded the first peace society of the
world. Two generations ago Elihit Rttrritt and a dozen others in New York and
New England went up and down this
country, and even over to Europe, urging
�August, 1910
THE
and prophesying the formation of an
international court which Rurritt declared
when it came into existence "would constitute the highest court of appeals this
side the bar of eternal justice." Coming
down to more recent times it is probably
a fact that the late Frederick W. I lolls
of New York had more to do with the
establishment of the Hague Court than
anyone else, while Mr. Carnegie has given it a palate in which it shall hereafter
sit. The United States tix>k the first case
to the Hague Court that ever came before
it, and the American minister at Venezuela sent the second case there, which
brought all the great powers before its
bar and established it in the estimation of
civilization. Mr. Rartholdt was the first
man who ever stood up in a national parliament and suggested turning the Hague
Conferences into a real international parliament. Flihu Root planned the idea of
having the Second Hague Conference
create a world court modelled on the
United States Supreme Court, and now
Secretary Knox has announced its early
establishment.
President Roosevelt's
Christiania address is nothing else than a
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plea for the federation of the world. Not
since the "Great Design" of Henry IV. of
France proposed in 1(>02, has one who
has represented a great people ever promulgated so comprehensive a plan for
universal peace. Mr. Taft says that if
the Rennet bill becomes a law he will
appoint Theodore Roosevelt as chairman
of the commission. Does not the last sen
tence of Mr. Roosevelt's address indicate
that he would feel compelled to accept
the honor? He says: "Rut the ruler or
statesman who should bring about such
a combination (league of peace) would
have earned his place in history for all
time and his title to the gratitude of all
mankind."
11" the world federation commission is
appointed by the United States government with Theodore R<x>sevelt as chairman, can anyone believe that the day will
RESPOISS/BLE
For those Ja|»nese Servants?
More than we think, perhajw. Let them
read a Christian paper in their own
tongue. It is THE TOMO. 50c. a year.
not be
as
brought measurably nearer, when
Victor Hugo prophesied in 1849, "the
only battlefield will be the market opening
to commerce and the human mind opening to new ideas?"
THE LATE UNPLEASANTNESS.
By Collins G. Burnham.
Said Teddie to him of the Vatican,
I would much like to sec you if I can.
The Vatican said, 'Twill be very nice,
It you do not do as did Mr. Ex-Vice.
Said Teddie to him of the Vatican,
II you put it so, my coming you ban;
Rut, Holy lather, just think of it twice,
Forgive and forget the worthy l^x-Vice.
The Vatican said, it cannot so be
For he fellowshiped the bold Methody,
And to be received by the Head of the
Church,
Such folk, dear sir, you must leave in
the lurch.
So Teddie and him of the Vatican
Missed seeing each other as man and
man.
Rut what think you, would it not have
I lad
been nice
they not mentioned the worthy ExVice.
You can
"Eat your cake and have it"
in a very real sense.
You can give away your property and have it,—really enjoy it, as long as you live. You couldn't have «
it longer than that anyway.
This is the idea of "The Conditional Gift Pi.an"s Your money.—property, or whatever can be converted into money,—pays you a good, steady income during your life and goes on working for you and
for humanity after you are gone.
So you ''make friends (by y the mammon of unrighteousness,"
So also, you "lay up for yourself treasures, etc'
This is no can't. It is Christian stewardship and sound business sense combined.
The Finance Committee makes you an offer of one whole per cent better than before. You can hardly
invest much better elsewhere and
the amount you invest with the Hawaiian Board in your life time will not be
wrangled for after you are gone.
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THE FRIEND.
August, I<>lo
In San Francisco, July 4, George CBeckJuly 18.—Prof, and Mrs. W. D. Alexander
ley, aged 61 years, descendant of the Kamecelebrated their golden wedding.
EVENTS.
July 19—Snakes from Australia for exhiJuly I—Col.1 —Col. Sam Norrli gives his 180,000
bition, killed according to Hawaiian law
acre ranch on Hawaii to Chaa. Q. Macomb- keeping all snakes
out of the islands.
er.—Waaeda baaeball team arrives from
July 20 —Kiitliusliisilc prohibition meet-
Japan.
ings.
July 2—Commerce, tonnage and trade of
21 Palama Settlement Incorporated.
Honolulu for tbe year ending June 30th,
July 22—Paia Plantation store burned.
971,276,000.
—
July 4—Secretary of War Dickenson
en- Prohibitionists enthusiastic.
—
24—Monster prohibition rally, Aala Park.
tertained In Honolulu. Visits all tbe Y. 8.
fortifications.—Two new ships planned for —Yacht Hawaii wins race from San FranPacific Mall Steamship line—Admiral Geo. cisco.
C. Beckley, a descendant of the KamehameJuly 26—Prohibition for Hawaii defeated
3 to I.
has, dies In San Francisco.
July I.—Yanagl confesses an attempt to
murder other Japanese In Manoa valley.—
MARRIED
Summer school opens, 200 teachers pre-
hatnehas.
At Schnfleld
Barracks, July s—Lieut.
Paul A. Adams, Y. S. Surgeon.
In Hilo, July f>. Hon. Rufus A. Lyman, of
the old missionary Lyman family, prominent in church and state for many years.
On Molokai, July 5, Otto 8. Meyer, accidentally shot while hunting; aged 16 years.
In Honolulu, July 8, Joseph R. Spencer,
for many years resident of Hilo, aged 80
yearn.
in Honolulu, July !), Captain 11. Brooks
Smith, an Kngllsh tourist stopping at Seaside hotel.
In San Francisco, July 15—Wray Taylor,
for many years organist and newspaper reporter In Honolulu.
sent.
In Honolulu, July 25, of heart disease,
July 6—Foundations
for fourteen Inch
Judd —Luqulens.—In New Haven, Conn., Charles VV. Booth.
roast defense guns reported finished at Fort
June 11, 1910, Charles Sheldon Judd or
On Midway Island. July 25, P. Y. Tinker,
lie Russey. At Fort Armstrong (named afHonolulu to Miss Louise Luqulens.
cable operator, from injuries received while
ter General Armstrong, of the Hawaiian
Honolulu, July 2, (living.
Islands), foundations finished for 12-lnch Cunha—Williams. In
May Williams.
Cunha
to
Miss
1910,
A.
R.
guns.
Williams—Kalel —At Haiku, Maui, July 2,
July 7—Joseph Leal, former chief of deJames A. Williams and Miss Daisy Kalel.
tectives, and others fined for gambling at
tbe Arlington Hotel.—lsoo,ooo cargo
re- Hurchard—Smith.—In Honolulu, July 6, by
the Rev. J. T. Jones, Daniel W. Buchard
ported destroyed by fire of twenty days in
and Miss Nellie G. Smith.
tbe steamer Alaskan at San Diego, Cat.
—
LIFE ANNUITY
THE IDEAL INVESTMENT.
( Continued from page 5 )
July B—Three little Japanese children Hunn—MeCormlck.—At Kawalahao Seminary, July 7, by the Rev. A. A. Kbersole,
crowded from railroad bridge at Wahiawa
Chester A Hunn and Miss J. S. MeCoranil all drowned.
»
July —Kakaako children of Mr. Rider's
mission have a great feast celebrating the
removal of the last saloon from their district. —A disgraceful prize fight, with rioting and betting, ut Aloha Park.
pic who already own one or similar
bonds.
mlck.
lie fore purchasing an annuity the cusPasco—White.—ln Honolulu, July 14, by the
Rev. 11. H. Parker, J. H. Pasco and Kll/.a- tomer is required to make a declaration.
beth A. White.
slating his or her age, place of birth, resiIleerman —Yon Berg.— In Honolulu, July 14, dence, occupation, and to acknowledge
by the Rev. F. N. White, Henry Heennan, the voluntary act of purchasing the anJr., and Miss Frledn Yon Herg.
nuity bond. No medical or other examHouston—Watson. —In Honolulu, July If,
ination of the applicant is required.
.Inly 13—The governors of Maine, North
Dakota, North Carolina, and Mississippi, all
prohibition states, write to Hawaii showing
benefits of prohibition.—The Rapid Transit
by the Rev. .1. W. Wadman, Lieut. Comsystem begins large improvements.
mander Victor Huston and Mrs. P. H.
Watson.
Inly 14—"Fall of the Bastlle" celebrated
by the French in Honolulu, French battle- Robinson —Hough—In Honolulu, July HI, by
ship Montcalm arriving In time for celebrathe Rev. A. A. Kbersole, R. W. Robinson
tion.—Kuhlo writes a letter favoring "cutand Miss llertha D. Hough.
ting out liquor," but falls to be on hand to Tracy—Oss.—ln Honolulu, July 18, by the
"assist."
Rev. A. A. Kbersole, Clifton Tracy and
Miss Thora O. Oss.
July 1*>—Col. Chas. Miles, in charge of
Salvation Army Pacific work, arrived In
Honolulu.—Marine Railway sold to the IslDEATHS
and Steam Navigation Company.
July 16—Punahou
baaeball club
win
game from the Japanese Waseda University
In Honolulu, July 2, Alexander Young,
Club, 1 to 0, In 17 Innings.
aged 78 years.
I
Hand Craft Wares
YE ARTS &
Life annuity bonds are not taxable.
Ilie following reasons for investing in
life annuity bonds show them to be superior to any other class of investments:—
First, the principal is absolutely safe.
Second, the annuitant will receive a
"Beginning at Jerusalem"
Our
(iosjiel responsibility probably I
covers the kitchen and the back yard.
50c. a year.
: : Kodak Developing and Printing
Artistic Picture Framing ■»
CRAFTS SHOP : Fort Street below King
:
—
:
I
Give the cook THE TOMO.
:
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�THE FRIEND,
August, l'»l()
high rate of interest as loii" as be OT she
shall live.
Third, interest is always paid promptly.
Fourth, no money tying idle, thus reducing the income.
Fifth, no commissions or expenses in
making investments.
Sixth, no ill-feeling against any person
who may have advised a certain invest
men! thai eventually proved to be a loss.
Seventh, knowing that no court costs
or legal expenses will consume a portion
or all of your estate.
Eighth, life annuity bonds cannot he
attached for debt.
Ninth, trouble and worry over finance*
eliminated.
Tenth, the assurance that the principal
will be used in some good channel after
the death of the annuitant.
Eleventh, the full enjoyment of know
ing thai your wishes will be carried out
after your decease.
Twelfth, the satisfaction that conies to
a person who knows he lias tried to help
others and by so doing has obeyed the
command, "Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor
rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do
not break through nor steal: for where
your treasure is. there will your heart be
also."
ll has often been said that annuity
bondholders live longer than other people; from the simple fact that all financial worry has been eliminated from
their lives.
After ten years experience and a careful inquiry into the life annuity business
the writer is firmly assured that the life
|V (laldntin Rational Sank
of JJalittlai
KAHULUI, MAUI, T. H.
BANKING, EXCHANGE, IN3URANCE.
annuity bond is by far the most satisfactory financial investment that can be
made.
Be strong !
It matters not how intrenched the wronn
How hard the battle noes, the day how TOO MUCH stress cannot l>e laid on
lon^,
the importance of having your eyes
fitted with proj)er glasses.
on ! To-morrow comes
Faint not,
—Maltbie Davenport Batxock.
Term* Depoelte,
Safe Depeelt
Vaults for Rent.
S. E. LUCAS, Optician
Masonic Temple,
Alakea Street.
HAWAIIAN IRON FENCE & MONUMENT WORKS, Ltd.
180 5
St
Phone 648
Sitfos, Vaults, Concwto Reinforcement.
King
%vt anto pitoto Uealtrs
1066 Fort Street
Pictures and Picture Framing > Local Views
Ansco Cameras ji Ansco Films
Art Pottery and Casts
DEVELOPING AND PRINTING
L.B.KERR&CO. ALLEN & ROBINSON
UMITED
-
LIMITED.
.
Ai.akea Street.
The only store in Honolulu where lumber and Building Material,
Builders' Hardware,
you can get anything in Wearing ApPaints, Oils, Etc.
parcl for
MEN, WOMEN or CHILDREN
Good Goods and Reasonable Prices.
Agents for Walkover and Sorosis Shoes.
55 Queen Street : : Honolulu.
W f\ni ftafional
$aiik of
AT HONOLULU.
CAPITAL ?500,000.
CECIL BROWN, Preg.
W. R. CASTLE,
M. P. ROBINSON, Vtce-Pres.
O. N.
WILCOX.
Jtautaii
SURPLUS $123,000.
L. T. PECK, Cashier.
Q. P.
CABTLE.
United States Government Depository
Genebal
Interest on
Is Your Japanese
Servant a Christian?
Let him have THE TOMO
Every Month.
50c. a year.
and Cable.
Savings Bank Department,
19
Drafts, Money Orders, Letters of Credit
Transfers available in all parts of the world.
Banking.—lssues
ACCOUNTS INVITED
�Attfttst, 1 >10.
THE FRIEND
20
(
f~*
C A. SCHAEFER at CO.,
If You
Are Wise
THE BANK OF HAWAII, Ltd.
Honolulu
HAVE A FULLY EQUIPPED
HOUSEHOLD DEPARTMENT.
including Garland Stoves and
Ranges, Aluminum Ware, Enameled Ware. Kitchen Furnishings,
Refrigerators, Garden Tools, Rubber Hose, &c. Second floor, take
the Elevator.
Day
& Co.
FINE GROCERIES
OLD KONA
COTFEE A SPECIALTY.
B. F. EHLERS&CO.
P. O.
BOX 71 c.
BALDWIN,
Trve Leading Dry Goods
House in the Territory.
Especial attention given to Mail Orders.
ALWAYS USE
California Rose
Creamery Butter
Guaranteed the Best and full 16
ounces.
HENRY MAY & CO..
LimiTKO
TELEPHONES
92
LBWEBi
& COOKE, Ltd.
LUMBER,
tion Co.. Klhel Plantation Co., Hawaiian
Sugar Co., Kahultil R. R Co, and Knhuku
Plantation.
B^*.
C. H Bellina, Mgr
Ttl. Main 109.
CLUB STABLES
FORT ST., ABOVE HOTEL.
RIGS
OF ALL KINDS,
GOOD HORSES,
,
,0^
Honolulu, T. 11.
CAREFUL DRIVERS.
THK
YON lIAMM YOUNG
"Thy Irian-Servant
and thy Maid~Servant"
AKK THEY JAPANESE?
CO Ltd
IMPORTERS, COMMISSION
AND
AUTOMOBILE MI'.RCHANTS
Honolulu, T, H.
A BIBLE WITH
COnnENTARIES
HONOLULU, T. H.
22
AGENTS FOR—Walluku Siignr Co., Ha
wailau Agricultural Co., Onomca Sugar Co.,
Pepeskeo sugar Co., Honomu Sugar Co.,
Ltd. Ihikalaii Plantation Co.. I'aauliau BllgSr
A LEXANDER &
I'lantiit'on Co., Hutchinson Plantation Co.,
v.iowalu I'lautatlou. Waliuanalo Sugar Co..
OFFICERS—H. P. Baldwin, Pratt; J. B. Honolulu Plantation Co., Kllauea Sugar
Castle, Ist Vlce-Pres't; W. M. Alexander, 2d Co., Hilo Sugar Co., Baldwin Locomotive
Vlce-I'res't; J. P. Cooke, Treas.; W. O. Works, Oceanic Steamship Co.
Smith, Secy; George R. Carter, Auditor.
LIST OF OFFICERS— K. F. Bishop,
President; Geo. H. Robertson, Vice-President and Manager; W. W. North, Treasur
SUGAR FACTORS AND COMMIS- or;
Richard Ivors, Secretary; .1. It. Qstft,
Auditor; C. H. Cooke. R. A. Cooke. 0. R.
SION MERCHANTS.
Carter, A. Gartley, Directors.
AGENTS FOR- Hawaiian Commercial &
Sugar Co., Haiku Sugar Co.. Paia Planta-
E. O. Hall <& Son
C. J.
General Mercantile Commission Agents.
Queen St., Honolulu, T. H.
COMMISSION MERCHANTS.
Honolulu, T. H.
you will think of future as
well as present needs. j» j*
Begin by opening a saving
account with this bank. .** >
Banking by mail, 4£% interest.
•
Importers and
'
BSBWBB & CO., Limited,
GIVE THEM THKTOMO
I
50c. a year.
\X7
W. AHANA k CO.,
TAILORS.
Telephone Blue 2741.
P. O. Rox 98G.
G2 King Street.
CLOTHES CLEANED AND REPAIRED.
MERCHANT
ALL ON THE SAME PAGE.
REVERENT, SCHOLARLY AND
FULL OF INSPIRING SUGGES-
TION.—IT
IS
Scofield's
LTD.
Henry
H. Williams
FUNERAL
DIRBOTOB.
Graduate of Dr. Rodgers Perfect Embalming School of San Francisco, Cal.,
also of The Renouard Training School
We have many otber kinds too.
for Embalmers of New York. And a
Licensed Embalmer for the State of
New York, also a member of the State
Funeral Directors Association of Cali-
Hawaiian loam book Rooms
AND TOMBSTONES
FURNISHED.
Chairs to Rent.
1142, 1144 FORT ST.
LOVE BUrLDINO,
fornia.
MONUMENTS
MERCHANT AND ALAKEA STREETS.
HONOLULU.
Residence, 240 King Street.
Telephones: Office, 64; Res., 1020.
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�September, I'MO
THE FRIEND.
2
BISHOP
Hawaiian Crust Co. THE FRIEND
LIMITED.
& COMPANY,
BAN KERB.
Is published the first week of each
month
in Honolulu, 1. 11., at the HaMarino,
Life
Fire,
HONOLULU, HAWAIIAN ISLANDS.
Maw waiian Board Book Rooms, cor. Alakea
and Accident
and Merchant Sts. Subscription price,
Established in 1858.
$1.00 per year.
SURETY ON BONDS.
A special rate is made to Mission
Transact a General Banking and ExPiste Glass, Employers'
|m\ Churches or Sunday Schools in the change Business. Loans made on approved
Liability, and BurBills discounted. Commercial
Islands. Clubs of 25 to one address 25 security.
glary Insurance.
Credits granted. Deposits received on curw?9MHffr cV cents
apiece
per
year.
rent account subject to check.
923 FORT STREET,
|
sLZL-Ml
R»/
Safe Dspoalt Building.
Lots for Sale
IN
"q~ollege
pi
All business letters should be address-1 Regular Savings Bank Department maintained in Hank Building on Merchant Street.
cd and all M. (r.'i and checks should be and
Insurance Department, doing a Life,
made out to
Fire and Marine business on most favorable
TheodOM Richards,
terms, in Friend Building on Bethel Street.
Business Manager of The Friend.
P. O. Box 489.
All Communications of a literary charac-1
ter should be addressed to THE FRIEND,
corner Alakea and Merchant Sts., Honolulu, T. H. and must reach the Board
Rooms by the 24th of the month.
hills
THE BOARD OF EDITORS:
LOW TRICES
EASY TERMS
Trent Trust Co.
Ltd.
Doremus Scudder. Editor in Chief.
Frank S. Scudder, Managing Editor.
F. W. Damon.
John O. Woolley.
A. A. Eberaole.
Orramel H. Gulick,
H. P. Judd.
W. B. Oleson
Theodore Richards.
Paul Super.
William D. Westervelt.
OAHU
Perley L. Home.
Ernest J. Recce
COLLEGE.
Edward W. Thwlng,
(Arthur F. Griffiths, A.8., President.)
—
—and
Punahou Preparatory School.
(Charlea
1
For
T. Pitts, A. 8., Principal).
Offer complete
College preparatory work,
together with special
Commercial,
Muale, and
Art courses
Catalogue,
address
Foreign Correspondent.
•
The BOY Wants Stories
There are none so good as the old
BIBLE stories, the boy himself as
judge. We know for we have tried with
a number of boys, girls too. But you
should have GOOD PICTURES as
texts when you tell Bible stories.
We have a Riblc with 800 good illustrations. We knew one copy of it to be
Business Agent,
worn out by the use of one family,—
Honolulu, H. T. four children one after the other literally wearing it to pieces.
JM.
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WHITNEY, M. D., D. D. 8.
DENTAL ROOMS.
Henry Waterhouse Trust Co.
UMITKO
STOCKS, BONDS AND
ISLAND SECURITIES
Fort and Merchant Streets, Honolulu.
HF.
•
WICHMAN & CO., LTD.
Manufacturing Optician,
Jeweler and Silversmith.
Diamonds, American and Swiss
Watches, Art Pottery, Cut Glass
Leather Goods, Etc.
•
Hawaiian Islands.
Honolulu
Importer of
Castle & Cooke, Ltd.
SHIPPING AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS, SUGAR FACTOR AND
t'.ntereci Octnlurr ij, iqoi, at Honolulu, Hmroff, da seetmrf
clam matter, tiinfer <irf at Cnngrtm at March j, IS7O.
GENERAL INSURANCE AGENT.
REPRESENTING
JONATHAN SHAW,
Oahu College.
1
We have one. and have sent for a
number more.
Kwa Plantation Company,
Waialua Agricultural Co., Ltd.
Kohala Huirar Company,
Wairaca Sugar Mill Company.
Apokaa Sugar Company, I.t J.
Wahlawa Con. Pineapple Co., Ltd.
Kulton Iron Worka of St. Louis,
Blake Steam Pumps.
Marsh Steam Pumps,
American Hteam Pump Co.
Weston's Centrifugal*.
Huldwin's Automatic Juice Weigher,
Rabcock ft Wilcoi Hoilers,
Dcmingi Superheaters,
Green. Fuel Rconomlsera.
Planters Line Shipping Co.
Matton Navigation Co.
Insurance Company. (Hartford
Fire)
CitizensInsurance Co.
Fireman's Fund Insurance Co. (Marine Dept.l
National Fire Insurance Co,
Protector Underwriters of the Phoenix of
Hartford,
New England Mutual Life Insurance
Co., of Boiton.
ESTEY
ORGANS
—
—
Hawaiian
Board
Book
Book
Rooms.
Board
Rooms.
Hawaiian
AT THK
Fort Street
•
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Boston Building.
"
�The Friend.
OLDEST NEWSPAPER WEST OF THE ROCKIES.
Vol. LXVIII
HONOLULU, H. T., SEPTEMBER, 1910
TREASURER'S STATEMENT.
From July 21 to August 20, 1910.
RECEIPTS
A. B. C. F. M
Alexander Settlement
A M. A
Bush Place
Chinese Work
140.00
200.00
4.25
154.00
112.40
15.85
83.66
Friend
Hoaloha
Invested
$
Funds
Japanese Work
Kalihi Settlement
Kauai General Fund
Kawaiahao
8emlnary
Maunaolu Seminary
Maui General Fund
Mills Institute
Ministerial Relief
Oahu General Fund
Office Expense
Palama Milk
Palama Settlement
Preachers' Training Fund
Tomo
971.33
127.80
191.35
403.00
52.80
8.40
100.00
34.80
166.75
290.55
27.00
In the old days of college rushes, the
well as the most risky
was that when class met class in huge triangles of human weight, apex to apex.
It was an honor to be chosen for the
point of contact. The boldest and brawniest usually got the job. and bore the
brunt and most of the bruises too.
When the Liquor interests and the prohibitionist clashed in the plebiscite rush,
we had our best and brainiest at the apex
all right, hut it verily looked as though
the enemy did most of the planning of
our formation with a view to mangling
our front. The Bulletin, the "paid agitator" of the liquor people, may have
been said to have done a good stroke of
strategy for its client when it kept ringing the changes on "Wooleyism" as the
mainspring of the movement against the
saloons. To make the people believe that
the fight against liquor was purely the
result of a "butt in" on the part of an outsider, seemed to be a puerile and ini|X)ssiblc task. We are not sure altogether
whether a paper of the low morale of the
Bulletin really succeeded in accomplishing this or whether it but voiced the sentiiiKiit of many who wanted to believe it.
It was clear enough that many whose financial interests suggested that they find a
"scapegoat" gladly hailed a chance to
put the odium on the back of the malahini for the violation of what they were
pleated to call their "consciences." So
John (i. Woolley, after thirty years of
big battle over large areas with at least
plenty of fresh air, appeared to be presenting the spectacle of standing at hay in
the nation's backyard ("cow-pen" the
Advertiser would call it) both ears and
nostrils affronted by the little local
emanations. To be sure, it will not hurt
him, but we are sorry that it had to be.
Hail to the chief.
T. R.
most spectacular as
No. 9
There are two classes of persons who
arc not permitted to read this article.
First, those who are such ardent admirers
of New York that they can see no fault
in it: for herein appear certain aspersions
upon the city, although it is to me the
most homelike and beloved of all the
cities of the world. Second, no one may
read this who has not been away from
New York for at least seven years, for
lit will only say, "I knew all that before."
No! this is written only for those who
can claim some remote relationship to
Rip Van Winkle, and can appreciate the
experience of waking up in a familiar
place and finding its familiarity gone.
Without Form and Void.
The Grand Central Station is the first
surprise. Even children can remember
the short time ago when men Said "It is
8.40
too small." ami forthwith enlarged and
50.00
beautified it. and garnished it with art;
17.40
but that splendid station has had to give
2.10
place again to a new and mammoth struc$3,161.83
ture. Into, or rather towards this strucEXPENDITURES
ture our train makes its way; the con$ 5,884.20
A. B. C. F. M
ductor calls out "(Jrand Central Station,"
225.00
Alexander Settlement
and we look out on a vast expanse of ex65.25
Bush Place
cavations, which make us think of the
25.00
Central Kona Settlement
ruins of Pompeii, and involuntarily in188.00
Chinese Work
quire, "Isn't the train going in any fur628.50
Salaries
ther ?" at which the conductor smiles, and
716.50
the passengers begin their pilgrimages of
$31.50
Eng. and Port. Work
several minutes to reach the exit from
Salaries
771.50
the station.
803.00
The amused expression on the face of
9985
Friend
the initiated causes a momentary embarGeneral Fund lncld
82.00
rassment, but this is soon dispelled when
541.00
Salaries
3.75
we see the crowds of people rushing to
Hawaii General Fund
and fro in the station, trying to find out
Hawaiian Work
$ 11.75
where they are "at," while outside, and
516.15
Salaries
even up against the station are scores of
527.90
people asking "Where tinder the sun is
Hoaloha
64.45
20.35
the dumb thing anyhow, and how do you
Invested Funds
get into it?"
Japanese Work
New New York.
$359.80
Yes, even New Yorkers around
640.85
Salaries
In seven years, it is sometimes said, Crand Central
1,000.65
Station act like mildly mad
253.24 a growing body undergoes a complete men, or like a hill of ants that has been
Kalihi Settlement
197.60 change. That New York belongs to that stirred up with a stick.
Kawaiahao Seminary
167.00 class is apparent to one who has been
Palama Settlement
33.00 away from it a little while. Having noted
Tomo
J*
75.00
Waiakea Settlement
the changes as reported in the papers one Out of
Chaos Comes Creation.
$10,184.74 imagines he is prepared to see them withExcess of Expenditure over Reout surprise, but let him not deceive himSurprise No. 2 is the splendid underceipts
7,022.91 self, the man who has been away will be ground transportation service.
Seven
2,362.05 surprised when he sees the things of years ago there were evidences of a proBalance at the bank
mised subway, but a strike was on, and
T. R.
which he has only read and heard.
�4
the city had the appearance of having
been rent in twain by an earthquake, and
the rift deserted in despair, rather than
of being near the realization of a grand
subway system. Now we ride through
that same fissure over miles of elegantly
appointed road, with stations embellished
with vari-colored marble glazed tile and
mosaics, through which there is a constant procession of express and local
trains. Yet with all the new facilities
for travel, the traffic already outstrips the
capacity of the road.
A Firmament Above and Below the
Waters.
Three new spider-web wonders have
appeared in the sky during these seven
years—the new bridges across the Fast
river, while under the rivers east and
west, we speed through the tunnels of
which we heard plenty but saw nothing
when last I was in New York, and under the feet of the people on the firmament
above, and over the heads of those in the
firmament below, the ocean tides ebb and
How, carrying their large freight of human lives and the commerce of the nations. Surely man has not heard in vain
the command. "He fruitful and multiply,
and replenish the earth and subdue it!"
But the marvel of it all to me is that the
most of these wonders I have mentioned
have been brought forth in the six creative days that I have been out of the
country, and on this the seventh day I
can open my eyes and see them completed, and hear the universal verdict,
"Behold it is very good." What untold
skill and energy and millions of money
have been expended upon these works,
and yet seven years ago they were not.
now they arc. and so far as we are concerned, last night when we closed our
eyes on N. Y. scenes, these things were
not; this morning they are. They have
sprung up in a night: yesterday we stumbled along this earthquake riven street;
today we spin through its white tiled underground palaces. We duck our heads
down in New York City and bob them
up serenely in Jersey City or Brooklyn. I
really think this out-Alices Alice in Won
derland; a little round copper or nickel
is the key to the trap-doors that open
into these new sub. subter. super, inter,
extra, circum worlds.
And are there no new worlds for New
York to open up? Oh yes, unnumbered
dreams of them. She has a new proposition to match every remaining preposition in the Latin dictionary. Already one
can hear the wheels of progress chanting
them off in rythmic prophecy.
A or ab, abs, absque, dc.
Coram, palam. cum. ex, c.
Sine, tonus, pro and prae.
THE
September. 1910
FRIEND
The Heavens Above.
If. following the genius of Oriental
languages. I were to coin a descriptive
title for New York. I think I might call
it "The Heaven-Aspiring City." How
many stories high are the sky-scrapers ?
I cannot tell you. The steps heavenward
are too many. We count the stories bytens now. not by units. You get into an
express elevator for the twentieth, thirtieth
or fortieth story and change cars to a
local if you must figure by units. It reminds one of the story of the man who
after going indefinitely up, knocked at
the door and said, "Is God in?" Or of
the story of a little four-year-old who,
seeing one of these sky-scrapers, mid,
"Father, isn't there a story in the Bible
about people who built a house up to
Heaven, and God didn't like it?" "Yes,"
"Well, there's one pretty near up.
I
guess He'll knock that down."
()ver and above the skyscrapers is another evidence of the heaven-aspiring
character of Xew York, as the airships
and balloons frequently rise, and from
the high roofs of houses spectators are
"rubbernecking with the ever upward
gaze. Surely this is no groveling age.
Nlan no longer meekly claims kinship
with the worms of the dust, but return
to the (ireek idea of man—the anthropos
—the being with his "face up."
The Earth Beneath.
But his feet are in the dirt, and dirt is
plenty enough in New York. New York
grows so fast it can't keep clean. Really
it is the dirtiest civilized city I know. It
is always tearing down and tearing up.
Like a growing boy, always tearing his
clothes and without time to wash his
hands and face. Even if he should be
persuaded to dress up clean, his insatiate
activity would prevent him from keeping
so.
New York never has the finished
touch one notices in other cities. Compare it. for instance, with Paris, or even
with foggy London. San Francisco,
which has gone down and up again within the last four years, is not such a mussy
city as New York. ( Positively no NewYorker is permitted to read the above
But we must make allowparagraph.)
ance for the growing boy. His last year's
clothes are never big enough for this
year. He seems to be gifted with perpetual youth, and after all. would we not
rather see him a trifle unkempt in his appearance than beginning to show a spirit
of decrepitude? Still we do not say we
would not be better pleased if he would
wash and be clean. Then we could look
upon this wonderful new creation with
real pride and say. "Behold it is very
good. We might even share the opinion
of a certain commercial traveler whom I
ocean voyage, and who in answer to my inquiry said, "I come from
the city." "What city?" said I: to which
he made the calm retort. "The City;
F. S. S.
there is but one city."
met on an
Samuel Newell Emerson.
Oct. 10, 1832—Aug 12, 1910.
On the 12th of August in the Queen's
Hospital of this city there passed on to
the world of spirits one of the sons of
the early missionaries, who for a lifetime
of nearly 78 years had been well known
and highly respected by the circle of the
old residents u|x>n the island of ()ahu.
He was the oldest of the eight children
of Rev. John S. Fincrson. and his beloved wife, Mrs. M. S. N. Emerson, who
together from their landing as missionaries u|>on these islands in April. 1831.
until 186", a period of thirty-six years,
held and led the flourishing mission station of Waialua, in the northwest part of
this island, with a break of four years
spent as teachers in the high school of
Lahainaluna. After the death of his father, Mr. Saml. Emerson took filial care
of his mother in their Waialua home until
she passed on. He was never married,
and for late years has lived entirely
alone. llc was a wide reader and possessed information in many lines, a most
thoroughly conscientious Christian man.
He was one of the charter members of
the Honolulu Young Men's Christian Association, and one ever worthy of the
esteem of his fellow citizens.
A marked feature of his career was
that of cheerfulness under adverse circumstances, and faithful endeavor for
the l>enefit of others. In spite of the almost total deafness that clouded the latter twenty years of life he was a regular
attender and worshipper in the house of
God. He may in brief be characterized
as a humble, cheerful and conscientious
O. H. G.
Christian man.
"Cannot and WILL NOT
Be Observed."
The following from the May 1 number of the "Brewers' Journal," New
York, gives the real attitude of the
liquor traffic. It says:
"No matter what laws may be
made to cripple the bevereges industries of our present time, They
cannot and will not be observed by
those managing these industries."
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September. 1910
FRIEND.
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challenging and skirmishing, it has be-
Range Lights
gun.
Voices of the Future.
By
JOHN G. WOOLLEY, LL. D.
Popular Prohibition.
I low vividly we can still recall the
sound of tears in Frances Willard's voice
When the dog days thin the blood, when,
like a glorified Peter the Hermit,
anil the Kona breeze makes thinking a she
went sweeping from state to state,
drudgery, we take a trip to the main- half angel, half nemesis, pleading, arland. Why not let our minds go voyag- raigning, inspiring.
ing to shake out the dead air of an illThat was in the seventies
snislling plebiscite?
The Prohibition Party, with set, sad
To date nine states have made the countenance, did a great work greatly.
liquor business an outlaw. Ten states It broke a new way for liberty of conarc now in the midst of campaigns for
out
state-wide prohibition. News of the
Texas, that
eleventh has just come.
would cut up into forty-five Hawaiis, has
had a plebiscite, and an emphatic majority of her four millions has directed
the legislature to present a prohibition
lull for the whole great state. Good
news comes, too, of better enforcement in
the difficult areas, and the howls of the
liquor dealers that "prohibition does not
prohibit" furnish eloquent corroboration.
The only time when they can be believed
i? when they lie.
At last the time has come when i
speech against the liquor business can begin with a strong, high note of cheer.
Not that the deep, dark pathos and
outrage of the thing have greatly diminished, but because the apathy, the ignorance, the subserviency of decent citizens
is disappearing like the valley mists at
sunrise; and the sparse and sorrowful
militia of former days has grown to an
enthusiastic army of invasion, keen and
fit for war to.the finish.
To those of us who bore the heat and
burden of the movement in the lean, gray
years, this day has seemed a long time
on the way.
When Doctor Billy Clark convened
the first temperance society of modern
times, in Saratoga County, New York,
Ik did not dream of anything so extravagant as a campaign to stop the trade,
that lawfully, respectably, and as a matter of course held out the cup that curses
while it cheers, to all ranks and conditions of society. Even the exjiectation of
a little human salvage in his own neighborhood seemed fantastical.
That was In 1808.
It was a forlorn hope of all but ruined
men that formed the Washingtonian Society in the forties. And in the fifties when
that movement burst into a flame of righteously indignant legislation, that would
have swept the liquor business from the
map of trade, the earthquake of civil war
came and engulfed it in a tidal wave of
Mood and beer and bossism.
That was in the sixties.
of the partizan wilderness,
science,
the polls.
If there is any human activity in civil
or moral engineering entitled to be called
fundamental ami eternal, it is that of
casting up highways for the people. The
Roman Empire has been dead for centuries ; but Roman roads still stretch
their brawny arms in full, beneficent efficiency, untouched by age; for kings
may come and dynasties may go, but
roads rule on forever.
A road is an atonement laid in economics. The spirit of God is the togetherness of men, in the name of progress
"two or three," or a billion. It was no
accident that Jesus never said, "I am the
man," but "I am the way."
The Prohibition Party was the bridge
builder of the great reform, a rough mechanic, but its work abides and will
abide. It fixed the hated word "prohibition" in ]K)litical language and put its
haughty rival "personal liberty" in permanent contempt. It drove the tough,
straight-grained and pointed tree trunks
of knowledge, conscience and conviction
into the shifting sands of party politics,
down to the hardpan. Its persuasions
fell like blows, vexing and spattering the
Christian voters camping supinely by the
party streams, until for very shame, they
stood erect at attention, caught the key
and rythm of the pile-driver, enlisted in
the ragged regiments, crossed the rubicon
of Christian independence, and threw
their party badges in the stream. So that
tonight we stand within the gates of victo
—
tory.
But that means only that we have got
a chance to fight. This is the net achievement of a hundred years, that we have
made the enemy come out from his distilleries and breweries, his warehouses
and saloons, his clubs and speakeasies,
his drug stores and canteens, his gambling houses and brothels, into the ojien
and into battle form.
And this is why we cheer as we go forward ; not because the fight is finished,
but because after a baffling century of
But our present cheers must not conceal the voices of the future. We shall
have hot work, from now on. Villainy
takes naturally to strategy; cruelty dies
hard. This coward driven farther and
farther into a corner will fight like hell.
That is to say, will strangle with the
brimstone fumes of slander, will trap and
torture with the flying cavalry of lies.
Yet we do well to cheer, in celebration
of the simplified conditions of the conflict. After all the carking yearn of
tricks and bribes and crimes, the liquor
trade, hemmed in by mountains of public
sentiment and rivers of popular knowledge, takes up the gage of battle and
with grim and dreadful impudence, proposes a "campaign of education."
This itself is victory, and the beginning of the end. And if democracy is
not a failure our complete triumph is in
sight.
All the signs are auspicious. In the
first place, a fine new spirit runs through
our own ranks.
The critical attitude
among ourselves is dying out. It was excusable and inevitable in the boom days
of mere agitation, and did little harm.
Looking back, we see abundant justification, and even abundant, credit, for us
all Every move, however rashly made,
was well worth while. Every rivalry
promoted zeal and sharpened the focus
of the public mind.
But looking forward, we see that divisions would be hurtful. Cooperation is
the keynote for the future. The right
hand of fellowship among ourselves is
the best weajion we can raise against the
.
enemy.
Shaking hands is good training for the
grip and heart muscles, and these are
what we shall use mostly. We have to
get our ballots, the white fingers of our
citizenship, to the throat of the liquor
traffic and squeeze its accursed gullet
till it quits forever.
There must, of course, be a few cavilers where so many are engaged. They
are hard to understand. They are impossible to reconcile. They remind one
of the baby that was crying bitterly.
When a tender-hearted passer asked the
boy in charge of the infant "Why doeH
the baby cry?" the boy answered resignedly, "Oh, I don't know what makes
him cry! He is all the time crying; I
never saw anybody look on the dark
side like he does."
But we who compose the great working body of the movement ought to adopt
as a great working commandment,
"Thou shalt not cheapen a comrade."
In the second place, we have learned
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slowly and reluctantly, but surely, that
economics is the basis of public morality:
clothes, shelter, food, efficiency, diversion,
justice, man to man. Moral muscles and
religious nerves that do not play on
these produce mere political hysteria. The
present turn of the tide of battle came
when the Blucher of "big business"
brought its burly reinforcements into action.
And now we are as willing as we are
able to meet the economic argument
where it is, without any show of condescension or superior virtue.
The economic argument is on the
ground, on the counter, on the bench, on
the desk, in service, not in services. The
organized liquor trade is base and crooked to the core; but many a citizen who
knows that, is yet honestly persuaded that
the license system, poor as it is, is all the
prohibition that is practicable at present.
Such men are not to be belittled, or
preached at. They must be met and taken into camp with facts.
In the third place, the height and the
length of our endeavor, no longer blind
us to the breadth of it. The variations
of local sentiment and local symptoms
have come to be recognized as clearly,
and taken as seriously as the great central purpose. County man-ship is seen to
be as worthy in its way, as statesmanship.
The doctrine of the parable looms large
in reason and experience, as well as authority, that the faithful over a few
things is in the true line of honorable service and promotion.
It is a pity that the charge may yet be
heard, sometimes, that local option is immoral. For one thing, the statement is
rank nonsense—unless democracy is immoral ; and for another thing, some of
the best work in the world is of the masonry of honest mistakes corrected: and
the sure correction of the weaknesses of
local option is state and national prohibition.
The John Brown days are past and
gone. This is the Lincoln period of our
reform, and Lincoln's charity should pervade it.
In the fourth place, the ugly old
phrase "whiskey party" has gone to the
scrap-heap. There is a whiskey party,
but it has no relation to the political
parties save that of a highwayman to the
stage-coach to hold them up and rob
them. The political parties are very
disappointing, mixed and human, but
they are fundamentally and practically
patriotic. Human weakness and selfishness abound in them, but strength and
loyalty much more abound.
Party lines are fading out, in the light
of the new national morality,and we have
outgrown the folly of wounding men to
win them.
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In the fifth place, the lampooning of
Congress is going out of fashion. It is
high time. To keep it up would be to
advertise our ignorance, or malice, as
well as to obstruct our progress. Congressional action is absolutely necessary
in aid and recognition of the police power of the states. The Department of Internal Revenue and the regulations of inter-state commerce are in effect the two
most powerful friends of the organized
treason to everything from the cradle to
the flag. To bring them to our side, or
shame them into standing up for fair
play, is the most important work we have
on hand.
Meanwhile Congress has become
friendly toward our work. Any reasonable statute in aid of state or local prohibition will pass the Senate and the
House, by a broadly and splendidly nonpartisan majority, once it can be got on
the floor for passage. The peril to such
bills is in committee, where minorities
may be powerful for delay. I speak from
personal and recent knowledge when I
say that we can look to Washington with
confidence, if only we are sane enough
and just enough to be patient with the
slow turning of the great federal millstones that have to work on such enormous crops of public sentiment and grind
the grist so fine.
Finally, we realize better, a fact selfevident, but often overlooked by reformers, that we can go no faster than the
people. They are interested in many
things, and different groups place the
accent of precedence differently. The
liquor problem has no warrant to demand
the right of way and a clear track. It
must simply take its place with the rest
and put its trained and mighty shoulder
to the wheel of general progress.
One still hears, now and then, that we
must have "prohibition with a party behind it." That, I think, is precisely what
we must not have. Parties, while not unrighteous, are the weakest engines of
righteousness. They run by weathercock
power. Their cardinal doctrine is "Thou
shalt follow the multitude to do whatever will round it up in the party corral."
Their message to their young men is:
"My son, if enough sinners entice thee,
consent and be quick about it."
Minority parties are exceptions. But
when they come to majority the Delilah
of dalliance with power crops their hair.
What we need and all we need is prohibition with the people behind it.
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The Outlook.
This, I think, is the rationale of the
We have won our
present situation.
fight to get our question to the people.
The liquor trade has lost its fight to
September, 1910
keep it away from the people. The party
boss, our enemy and the liquor dealers'
friend, has been Jonahed overboard by
the crew of the ship of state, and no political whale appears to have the stomach
for a prophet of that flavor. The party
constituencies are running together u]>on
issues of vital morality. Government of
the people, by the people, and for the
people, has begun to arrive.
In the present forward movement we
have every advantage of equipment. The
breath of victory is in our nostrils The
truth of history is with us. The voice of
science is heard in our camp. The sanctions of religion gird us to battle. The
The
press corroborates our message.
daily walk and conversation of the business world is toward us. The license
system is itself a plea of "guilty," both
on the part of the trade and the people.
In the past, until the advent of the
Anti-Saloon League, we scorned the critical study of "methods." Our work was
not education but appeal. "Stand up and
be counted for the good you know and
have published" was what we said and
all we said. Drunkards and drunkenness
were the self-evident proofs we offered,
and our whole demand was made upon
the Christian voter.
We won that fight, and that brought
us to the present point of departure.
But let no man fool himself with the
thought that we have whipped the liquor traffic. I know the splendid gains
that we have made, and to my own heart
I boast about them. But I know also,
all too well, that relatively we have made
little difference in the volume of the
liquor business.
I recall how General Braddock. able,
brave, proud of his country, loyal to his
King, marched with his little army into
the Western wilderness against the
French and Indians at Fort Duquesne.
The Indians met him first. From every
British point of view they were contemptible. He could have wiped them out
before breakfast if he could have laid
hands on them. They were there but he
scarcely caught sight of them. In one
respect they were anything but contemptible—tenacity and singleness of purpose.
They cared nothing about honor. They
cared nothing about military form. But
they knew the value of their hunting
ground, and they were there to save it.
They were not too proud to crawl like
snakes in the grass. They dodged from
tree to tree. They ran like hares.
But they shot straight. They staid by
the stuff. And General Braddock got
into history as the author of "Braddock's
defeat."
Our enemy is like that. But we are
not like that. The advance guard of the
liquor trade are moral, industrial and
.
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September. 1910
Who teaches that it is a hardship that
political savages. They are out for pelts
and scalps and subsistence. They sneak, the saloon must pay a thousand dollars a
they crawl, they burrow, they murder year for the mere privilege of showing
while they run. They torture the cap- its painted harlot face upon the street?
tured, they rob the dead.
Who teaches that it is a short-sighted
But ours, if not better soldiers than
our kinsmen at Fort Duquesne, knew
their enemy better. Baffled and checked
by treachery, they kept right on. Shot in
the back they fell forward, and we steplied over them, and sounded the advance,
until by sheer devotion we have torn the
blanket Indians of the liquor trade from
their cover. And now, at last, they form
in the open under the walls of their twin
citadels, the brewery and the distillery,
where the sleek and epauletted field marshals of the business are in council and
command.
And now these strategists of hops and
malt and mash have set up a bureau of
fake statistics and ordered "a campaign
of education." It is a paltry battle for
real fighting men, but we must accept it.
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So, Then, Forward !
So. then, at last and finally, we face the
issue and the enemy, and the ancient,
eternal general orders for righteousness
run along the line, "Say unto the children of Israel that they go forward."
Prohibitionists in Bands of Hope and
Loyal I.egions, with gentle insistence getting little boys and girls to sign the
pledge of total abstinence. Go forward!
Prohibitionists in Rescue Missions,
throwing the life-line to half-dead derelicts of the saloon, Go forward!
Prohibitionists in the Women's Christian Temperance Union "doing everything" to save and build up womanhood.
(io forward!
Prohibitionists in leagues and federations, marshaling the troops of trade and
health and order against exposed positions of the enemy, Go forward!
Prohibitionists in bureaus at Washington carrying ammunition for the
heavy ordinance on Capitol Hill, Go forward !
Prohibitionists in press and pulpit
keeping watch over the springs of civic
righteousness and justice, Go forward!
Prohibitionists at large, enlisted but
voteless home-makers, bearing the arc
of the covenant of democracy, Go forward !
Now, what are the branches taught
in the liquor dealers' campaign of education ? I shall take that up presently.
What is not taught is most instructive.
Who teaches that a saloon, a brewery,
a distillery, a jobbery, a blendery, is a
good thing for any community?
Who teaches that the liquor seller
grades up to the baker or the carpenter,
in the scheme of business life?
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business policy to forbid the sale of
liquor to men below the age of twentyone?
Who teaches that the best patron of
the saloon acquires the best judgment
for such buying?
Who teaches that in advertising the attractions of a community saloons should
be set down with churches, schools and
factories ?
Not a man, drunk or sober, in all the
motley multitude of teachers and pupils
in the "campaign of education" was ever
heard to claim one atom of virtue or of
righteousness for the business.
Call up the grocery and challenge it,
"What right have you to live?" "The
right of being honest and useful and
helpful. By so much as my merchandise
goes out into the homes of the community, it is made a better place to live in."
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Tar and Feathers.
Call up the saloon: "Why should we
not tar and feather you and ride you out
of town upon a rail? Why should we
not hang you by the neck at the edge of
the city as a warning to others of your
kind?" And it answers solely and finally: "My license." Year after year it
shuffles to the city hall and buys a permit to live, like a dog. by virtue of the
tag of bloody gold upon its neck.
Affirmatively, the liquor "campaign of
education" includes about a dozen propositions. They are mere effigy epigrams
printed to look like arguments:
"Prohibition is sumptuary legislation;
it violates personal liberty ; it hurts business :it increases taxes; it attacks vested
rights; it causes "blind pigs;" it makes
men sneaks; it discriminates against the
poor; it creates a demand for drugs; it
is unscriptural; it does not prohibit; you
cannot make men sober by law."
Where is the proof in support of these
propositions? There is none. They are
not set up to be proved. They are not
meant to be studied, but to be swallowed
bolus Ixilus. They are mere iteration directed at weakness, prejudice antl ignorance. Who are the iterators? Simply
the advertising agents of the trade, garnished by a handful of unfortunate
preachers who have lost their bearings.
The liquor trade's own classification of
itself is with the brothel, as a necessary
evil—a safety valve for lust.
But let us surprise these new educators
by taking them seriously—as seriously as
]>ossible.
And first: What is a sumptuary law ?
It is. or was. a law directed at the buyer,
attempting to regulate his conduct, in
matters of mere indifference, without any
good end in view. For instance, in the
reign of Edward IV. a statute was enacted prohibiting anybody "under the degree of a lord," from buying shoes having pointed toes over two inches long.
The idea was to discourage habits of luxury among the common people, but it was
manifestly unjust and foolish.
A prohibitory liquor law is directed at
the business of selling and of maintaining
a rendezvous for temptation, dissipation
and disorder. It says to no
"Thou
shalt not buy or drink"—though it may,
and may well, come to that. It is in the
nature of a quarantine regulation, which
never says: "Thou shalt not catch yellow
fever," but: "Thou shalt not spread yellow fever." Incidentally a law that restrains a man from doing mischief to
his neighbor restrains the neighbor's liberty to spend his own money and experiment with his own body, but that does
not make it a sumptuary law.
How does prohibition violate personal
liberty? Personal liberty, in this country,
according to Judge Cooley, our greatest
writer on constitutional questions, is
simply that condition in which rights are
established and protected by means of
such limitations and restraints upon the
action of individual members of the political society as are needed to prevent
what would be injurious to other individuals, or prejudicial to the general welfare.
Absolute liberty exists only where the
person possessing it is powerless to injure others with it. A shipwrecked man,
alone on a raft in mid-ocean, has jt, but
would give the whole world to swap it
for the limitations of civil liberty—the
only kind of liberty worth having. In
short, absolute liberty is only the obverse side of bankruptcy of opportunity.
The liquor business is injurious to everybody, including the owner. Nobody
denies that. Prohibition is not tyranny,
but protection, for all men, women and
children.
Does prohibition hurt business? Yes,
all the business that tends to ruin—brothels, gambling dens, the white slave trade,
vagrancy, begging, pawning, divorcing.
But it helps every business that makes
for "more abundant life."
There is plenty of answers to the complaint that prohibition increases taxes.
In the first place, there is no limit to the
right of the people to increase taxes for
the general welfare. In the second place,
the ]>eople never object to increased
taxes, if the money be honestly spent for
the public betterment. If prohibition
sometimes increases taxation, the people's ability to pay is much more increas-
man:
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cd. The tax rate does sometimes rise,
when prohibition is adopted, but the rise
is only temporary. The assessed valuation of property increases, industry revives, earning |x>wer improves ; court, police, poor-house expenses decrease, and,
after a year or two, the rate swings back
to normal or below. If not, it is because
increased school attendance compels new
schoolhouses and teachers, or the quickening of civic pride demands better roads
and public buildings, or new public
works for light, water, transportation,
sewers and the like.
As to the destruction of property. A
liquor license is not property. It is a
mere badge of incorrigible meanness and
a tcmiiorary waiver of the inalienable
right to protect life, liberty and happiness. Even if it were property, prohibition does not destroy it, but only declines to resurrect it when it dies; or if
prohibition does destroy it, it is only the
tearing down of a shack to save a city.
Does prohibition discriminate against
the poor? It never does. It knows no
rich or poor or gixxl or bad. It is the
license system that squeezes out the poor.
The whole merit claimed for high license
is that it favors the applicants that have
the most money.
Does prohibition make men sneaks? It
simply brings a moment of decision to be
a man, or a sneak. It segregates the
sneak into his own class, apart from men
who will not sneak. It did not put the
sneak in office at Newark, Ohio. It only
coagulated the bad blotxl ill the body
|xilitic so that the surgeon-governor
could cut out the embolism and save the
city's life.
Does prohibition cause the use of other
drugs? The disease ami depravity induced by alcohol doubtless seek solace
and excitement in other equivalents of
poison; but that argument would cut
out prohibition of opium and cocaine,
which are indeed less dangerous on the
whole than alcohol.
Does prohibition breed "blind pigs?"
High license is the snouted, swill fed
mother of that breed of swine.
Prohibition puts out the eyes of the
pigs that can see, and makes the whole
litter game for the sheriff. "Blind pigs"
are real "razor-backs," and hard to catch.
But they do little harm as compared to
the open-eyed kind. The blind pig
suckles its own, but makes no strong bid
for the better born. Its dirty dugs are uninviting to the more cleanly animalism.
Prohibition kills the open saloons and
chases the blind pigs. License protects
the open saloons and feeds the blind pigs.
But we shall still have the blind pigs,
under prohibition! Yes. any good housekeeper may have a cockroach in the
kitchen. But no good housekeper would
THE FRIEND,
September, 1910
agree to keep one cockroach in her to the contempt and confusion of law ?
Wherein is the sender of obscene literakitchen.
Is prohibition unscriptural? Who says ture through the mails a meaner degenerit is? The brewery, who says it is not? ate than the merchant prince that ships
The church. Which should know best? alcoholic liquor to illicit dealers in proThe whole area of scriptural endeavor, hibition areas? What kind of traitor is
from Sinai to Salvation Army, stands for more dangerous to liberty than the liquor
prohibition. Paul's advice to Timothy, to
use a little wine as a medicine, is irrelevant. That Jesus made wine—if he did—
at Cana, for guests who after hours of
festivity and having "well drunk," were
still so clear-headed and clean-mouthed
that they detected and enjoyed the new,
fine flavor of a better article, docs not
bear. We arc not dealing with ancient
oriental hospitality, or wine miraculously
made, but with twentieth century breweries and distilleries that organize appetite into trusts to exploit the weak and
ignorant and vicious to the tune of billons annually. The scripture that is in
point is "Woe unto him that giveth his
neighbor drink."
When a man tells you that "you can't
make men moral by law," you may knowthat you arc being instructed fay a parrot, a fakir or a fool. He might as well
say you can't produce a bent tree by inclining the twig. That is about all you
can tlo fay law. Laws are almost never
enforced literally. Comparatively few
receive punishment for broken law. Not
many give obedience to law through fear.
A remedial statute cuts comparatively
little figure in the first fifty years of its
existence. It is the silent, unfelt pressure
of it on incoming generations that makes
the people moral by so much as it is
moral.
A Fake with a Label.
The assertion that "prohibition does
not prohibit" is a curiosity—a fake labeled "fake."
It might, if one were not
afraid of being inelegant, be called a
ltuuiniferous lie. It analyzes a shaft of
darkness, as the prism dissolves a ray of
light into the solar spectrum.
Who is it says: "Prohibition does not
prohibit ?" The liquor dealer. Who profits when it fails ? The liquor dealer. Who
is in command of the powers of administration when it fails? The liquor dealer.
Why does it fail? Because the average
liquor dealer is confessedly and incorrigibly a criminal, a combination of Fagan
and Bill Sikes, in treason against the popular will and the popular right.
Dtx's somebody resent that generalization on the ground that many liquor
dealers are men of gtxid repute? I am
I am speaking
not speaking of repute.
broadly of character, and I weigh my
words, Tell me wherein is a fence for
stolen goods worse than an offset of big
business that knowingly and wilfully supplies liquor to brothels and speakeasies.
dealer who denies and prevents the right
of the people even to vote on the question of prohibition? For that treason if
for no other reason the liquor traffic
ought to be killed.
These are the ugly high lights brought
out in this rough- brief analysis of the
failures of prohibition. We have in this
country an organized band of outlaws,
the most compact, determined anil efficient body in American politics, the
crudest master and the most generous
rewardcr of weaklings and criminals in
office. It is undeniably difficult to control them. But unless this is to be a government of liquor dealers, by liquor dealers and for liquor dealers, this masterful
cabal of traitors, now seen so clearly
and so unanimously despised, is due for
destruction.
And that is not prophecy, but living,
growing fact. The law abiding are already coming to their own. Decency and
sobriety under law are gaining ground
and the full-pocketed, red-handed, blackhearted conspiracy is giving back, with
snarling* and curses, to its fall.
Prohibition already works well in
country palees. next best in villages and
little towns, worst in the cities, but better and better everywhere.
In Maine notwithstanding its millions
of summer visitors from the cities, and
the swarm of unruly men incident to the
present era of internal development, the
law makes headway. The people, the
hardest-headed in the union, loyally
maintain the law; the Congressional delegation, the ablest in Congress, affirm
the value of the policy, and the governor
certifies to its increasing success in practice.
In Kansas, the plague spots of nullification are clearing up. Kansas City.
Topeka, Wichita and Leavenworth obey
the law, the jails are nearly empty, and
the rxxir farms are rechristened "prosperity stations" and devoted to agricultural instruction and experiment.
North Dakota shows a similar record.
In every prohibition state conditions of
enforcement go visibly from good to better. I lalf the territory and half the population of the nation, arc under prohibitory law by the vote of the citizens. Still
better conditions are near at hand in
Congressional relief, against the states
being cheated and defeated in a measure.
by bad neighbors on their borders and
the unfair status of the inter-state commerce law.
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September, 1910
Meanwhile the moral level rises and
the civic fiber toughens, in town, city,
county, state and nation. The day of the
"good man" in office has arrived. The
sun of partyism is going down. And
prohibition of the liquor traffic today
prohibits better than the decalogue.
This, briefly, but fully enough, is a
Study of the liquor campaign of obscuration. It seems necessary to treat it thus
respectfully for the benefit of the great
number of vaguely favorable voters, for
whom the old-fashioned strong, bulk, arguments assume too much of knowledge
and of interest. It remains to present our
case, briefly and summarily, in rebuttal.
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The Case in Rebuttal.
It has been shown conclusively that
the use of alcoholic liquor tends to excess ; and on that wonl "excess" the
whole stress of former argument has
been laid until now. The strong, welldisposed and well-to-do have confessed
and avoided the issue by answering:
"But alcohol is a food, a medicine, and
a legitimate article of trade, to be sold
under careful regulations and used in
reason. Nursing mothers require it, the
anaemic, the dyspeptic, the tuberculous,
the over-worked. We must forbid sales
to minors and drunkards. We must prescribe hours for the business. We must
police it rigidly. We must provide, at
public expense, for treatment or imprisonment for inebriates. We must encourage the Salvation Army and private benevolences in the interest of the weak and
the depraved."
This answer, if it were sound, was so
-.hallow that it seems both heartless and
stupid. It made no accounts of the parents, wives and children of the pations
and victims of the trade. Nor of the
economic losses and injustices entailed
upon the citizens who serve the people
in the useful trades and professions, and
upon the general public. But it was not
sound. Alcohol has practically no food
value. It is a dangerous medicine and a
more demoralizing article of trade than
opium, cocaine and lottery tickets.
The ohl argument that centered on "excess" holds good today of course, and
strengthens with the years. But the new
century brings forth new challenges ami
better reasons. And now the accent of
the argument moves up from "excess"
t: moderation, from weak men to strong
nun. from minors and drunkards to the
mature and the sober.
This is part of the same change that
has taken place in all the lines of moral
and intellectual progress. The historicthat we older people studied were the
genealogies of kings; those that children
study now are plain stories of the cus-
of the common people.
Almost the youngest of us can remember how the patriotic speeches used
to ring the changes on the evils of monarchy, the insolence of kings, our escape
from old-world oppression, lilxrty of
conscience and the great, raw rights of
toms
man.
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beverage without suffering actual and
measurable reduction of his higbest efficiency, and a lowering of his power of
resistance to disease, we can command
his attention and his aid.
This man, pent up in the midst of terrific competition, demanding the liest,
and keen to give the best, is sure and
ready to listen when we tell him that alcohol is not only a habit-forming beverage, but also and more certainly, a disease-bearing drug, the prolific cause of
Blight's disease, tuberculosis, insanity
and paresis—that the whole liquor business stands for waste, inefficiency, failure, sickness —that it stands for race suicide, milkless breasts in motherhood, and
rickets and epilepsy in children, even
from the womb.
We claim this man for prohibition because we can prove that the liquor business is the public school of the drink habit.
We claim this man for prohibition because we can prove that the liquor business is like an iceberg, showing above
the surface only a tithe of its whole bulk
of peril.
We demand that this man read into the
license "opium" instead of liquor and
then take his bearings.
We claim this man for prohibition precisely for the reason that the Board of
Health conscripts him into the extermination of rats that carry bubonic plague.
We claim this man for prohibition on the
same ground that the state slaughters
tuberculous cows, and the municipality
taxes him to drain the marshes where
the mosquitoes breed, in malaria and yellow fever. We claim this man for prohibition for the same reason that we compel him to clean up his stable and cart
away the dung hill where the housefly
breeds and sticks in cholera for distribution when its wings have grown. We
claim this man for prohibition, not because we hate the liquor dealer. Liquor
dealers are vermin. We don't hate vermin. We don't kill many by law. We
break up their breeding places.
We claim this man for prohibition by
every sanction of good citizenship. The
Church has put "the drink" out of the
communion. We must put it out of busi-
But today we laugh at that kind of
Popular statesmanship consists
no longer ill twisting the British lion's
tail, but the American elephant and donkey have fallen upon evil times for tail
culture. Normal, present, detailed matters of internal right and duty are at the
bar of public opinion. The moral ami
mental revolution that came in with the
new century has for its nucleus the new,
great word "conservation." It concerns
not only the care of forests, mines and
water power, but also, and more, the
preservation of health, opportunity, efficiency and man-power. ()r, put negatively, for the sake of greater clearness,
since a great part of the business of democracy today consists in throwing up
defenses against pests and raitlers and
robbers, the public mind is focusscd now.
on problems of preventing waste, privilege, poverty, sickness and preventible
suffering.
Religion that used to thunder about
heaven and hell and damnation, today
speaks quietly of a new earth here and
now, with salvation running in the streets.
Medicine that used to be anchored at
the bedside of disease is now the minister of health, and works in the open,
treating the streams and marshes where
the purveyors of sickness lay their
■pawn. Law that used to revel in
breaches of contract, damages for torts,
and punishments for crimes, concerns itself today with counsel for avoidance of
actions and trespasses, and the devising
of wholesale measures of reform. The
great charities that used to lay their emphasis on misery, now put their millions
into playgrounds, parks, schools of research, with a keynote of happiness. Rescue work that used to sit and scan the sea
of life for wrecks, now carries cheer and
instruction to the homes where the small
craft of citizenship are outfitting for the
deep.
Prohibition is simply a part of this ness.
At
revolution. And it is only fair to say, the
The American Pharmaceutical Asother way around, that this revolution is
in part the work of the prohibition move- sociation placed itself on record as adment.
vocating the abolition of alcohol as a
Many a strong man indulges a temper- commodity of sale in all American
ate drink habit without fear or danger of drug stores, and earnestly urged the
elibecoming debauched. To him the hor- mination of all traffic in what it termed
are
rors of the old-fashioned argument
"habit forming drugs" as harmful to
not impressive. But when we know and public morals and
detrimental to the
as
we
do
authority,
prove by irrefragable
now, that no man can use alcohol as a best interests of the American people.
oratory.
�PAUL SUPER
Delivery.
A few days ago a member came in and
said his nephew was coming in on the
boat that day, and would want a job.
Helping the stranger connect is right in
our line, so Mr. Member was told to
bring his nephew around. He did so.
Within an hour from the time his
nephew landed we had placed him in a
position paying a good wage, to the delight of the member, his nephew, the man
that got the employee he needed, and ourselves.
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Another.
When this man came to town a few
weeks ago he came right to the Y. M. C.
A. with the comment that he thought he
could find the sort of friends and help
he wanted. He joined the Association,
and applied for a job. Within a week
from his arrival the Association liad
placed him in a ix>sition with fine possibilities of advancement.
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This Time a Soldier.
He arrived in Honolulu with alxnit
seven dollars in his pocket, and a friend
in the membership of the Y. M. C. A..
which was letter. He was a fine big fellow, but uneducated, and it looked as if
it would be hard to land him in a good
place. His friend brought him to the
Association, and we tried to get on the
trail of work for him. Temporary work
was found, and soon a permanent position on a plantation. These cases show
how helpful an organization the Association can be in a community.
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The Last Year.
September 6 Dr. Hand will arrive from
the States, the last of our force to return
from vacation, and right away the work
of the year, the last in the old building,
will begin. We go into the fall work with
the highest of hopes and best of spirits.
Vacation time has given us opportunity
to get a new vision of our field and
work, to plan new features, to correct
methods, study, and get new inspiration.
While we have no such spectacular stunt
as last year's building campaign up our
sleeves, yet we will interest a good many
young men, anil let folks know we are
alive. The membership committee says
i; is going to get a total of 800 members
in the Association, and the educational
committee wants 300 students in the
night school. The old Greeks said. "They
can. because they think they can." Our
committees have a good deal of that kind
of canning in their system.
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Our Basket Ball Team.
The warm weather of summer did not
discourage our athletes. They organized
Jas. S. Nott as
captain, and went after the nearest scalp.
I* happened to be that of Fort Shatter.
We beat them first on our court, then a
little worse on theirs, and then still worse
on a neutral court. To celebrate this
series of victories, the general secretary
gave the Ixiys a party at his house. Souvenir lead soldiers with a paper basket
ball attached were found at each man's
plate at table as mementoes of the suin'mer's work.
a basket ball team with
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Our Field.
The following discriminating stateregarding the field of the S. M. C.
A. is taken from the annual rejxirt of
Mr. L. Wither Messer, for many years
general secretary of the Chicago Young
Men's Christian Association, an Association that has won the approval of the
business men of the city. This is shown
by the statement that it has received over
$1,700,000 in gifts during the past two
years.
Sober reasoning has led the Asstxriation to believe that its effort should be
mainly directed to the building of Christian character of men and boys, the preoccupying of such lives by the constant
use during leisure hours of constructive
forces which make for symmetrical manhood. In accomplishing this object the
Association believes that its evangelistic
spirit was never so strong, if by evangelism is meant the real and practical interpretation of the spirit and teachings of
Jesus to those who arc in greatest need.
For the Association to attempt to conduct great evangelistic campaigns for the
city in general would be to usurp the
functions and privileges of the clergy,
the churches ami other organizations
which stand for that specific thing. For
tlie Association to promote movements
for the civic and stxrial l>etterment of the
city would be to do in a less effective way
what the clubs and specific societies organized for the purpose are doing with
an ever-increasing degree of efficiency.
To Specialise for the man who is down
ment
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and out and to crowd its buildings with
men of that type would mean the closing
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of the door of opportunity to the boy and
young man who is in the making and
who should be prevented from sowing
his wild oats.
The Assix'iation, therefore, would forfeit its claim for continued support if its
lines of advance should be similar to
those organizations which are already effective in meeting existing needs. The
great future work of the Association must
be the building of Christian character
among men and boys who are not effectively helped by other agencies. For the
Association to follow the method of the
professional evangelist, or devote its energies in drastic condemnation of the habits and beliefs of the non-Christian, or
even immoral, man, or to set itself as a
judge of disputes between capital and
labor, or tti purify the municipal life of
the city or to clean up the vice districts,
would be to close the door of access to
the great multitude of men who today,
through prejudice or ignorance, fail to
respond to the forces which stand for the
moral and six:ial betterment of our city
life.
The Association has but one job, as
before stated, namely, the building of
Christian character in young men and
boys who fail to respond to other agencies which seek to help them. The Association is able to bring to its buildings
and under its influence many thousands
of men and boys each year who never
darken the doors of a Protestant church,
and, in fact, many who do not go to any
church. Here is where the final test of
Association efficiency is found.
The supporting membership of the
Governor of Nagasaki, one of the fortythree prefectural chiefs appointed by the
emperor, is breaking down prejudice and
attracting interest in Christianity in that
section of Japan. The Governor said, "I
am not giving this money to the Association because it is a proselyting stKiety,
but because it is doing a wholesome and
needed work, and because the country
needs just such moral influences thrown
around its youth.
The seventy-five men, who composed
the new Chinese Provincial Parliament,
sent an invitation to the secretary of the
Poochow Association, the only foreigner
invited, to attend its first meeting, which
marked the beginning of an era of representative government in the oldest ami
largest nation of the world.
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Causing Talk.
(hit in one of the smaller Western
cities, where everybody knows everybody
else, a change came over a certain banker
that is a testimony for Christian faith. A
few years ago he started a rival bank out
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of spite. It
was said that he had given a
site for a church antagonistic to the
Christian faith and refused to give to
the Association building. His wife had
left him, and he lived cordially hated and
alone in his big house. Less than a year
agt> he called on the Association secretary, and said, "How can I get a Bible?"
He was shown a catalogue and told he
might get one for twenty-five cents.
"No," said he, "1 want a good one—the
best." One was ordered for him and delivered, and that was the beginning of a
series of long talks about the Bible and
the Christian life. He seized every opIKirtunity for help. He applied for
church membership. People were astonished to see him and the president of the
bank he had antagonized walking down
the street arm in arm, and much more so
when both, together with a leading attorney of the city, came before the church
for baptism and membership. Then ensued an intense personal work among the
business men. more than fifty of whom
have been won through him and the
men he has enlisted.
What a change!
Central Union News
A. A EBERSOLE
Under the Spell of the "Other Sheep."
Our first Sunday in Italy was spent by
us two alone. Staying over night at La
Cava, among the hills, we took the early
train for the ancient Greek town of Paestuiu or Poseidon's Town, that is the
Town of the Sea God. Six centuries before Christ a prosperous Greek colony
peopled the plain and had built their city
on the shore of what is now the lovely
THE FRIEND,
bay of Salerno. There they expressed
their faith partly in the form of a series
of massive temples, the ruins of three of
which have withstood the tempests, the
more terrifying earthquakes and the still
more jxitent wear of two and a half milleniums. The place was not on the itinerary of our party, hence we slipped off
by ourselves. It was a perfect summer's
day, the heat tempered to coolness by a
refreshing sea breeze, and when we
reached the little station we found only
four other persons bound on the same
quest as ourselves. The temples are in
the midst of green fields, surrounded by
prosperous farms, the deep blue sea on
one side, and mountains in the background.
The Temple of the Sea God is the best
preserved of the three, a structure in se-
vere simple Doric style, the stone mellowed by age into a rich brown in perfect
harmony with the brilliant greens and
blue of land and sea.
Here we two seated ourselves
in the shade of the splendid columns and
held our quiet service of worship. As
we joined in prayer and psalm it seemed
as though the centuries faded into nothingness and the thronging thousands of
the past, who here had expressed their
devotion to the unknown God by building this noble temple and resorting hither
to worship, were all about us. A fuller
meaning of Jesus' words, "Other sheep
have I which are not of this fold" flooded
our souls and we found ourselves in mysterious blessed communion with the worshipful spirits of all ages and all faiths.
It was a wonderful morning and will
linger in memory as long as time endures.
No better introduction to strange
who differ in manifesting their sense of
dependence upon the Common Father of
us all, could have been provided for us.
Its inspiration has continued every subsequent day. It has proved the key to open
doors of sympathy in all our contact
with both past and present in this wonderful country. We realize as never before
that the strongest of all ties is not family
or country or race, but the common humanity which Jesus came to reveal by
showing all men their Father and by
binding them together in Himself their
Elder Brother antl Friend.
DOREMUS SCUDDER.
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President King's Visit.
()nce again have we been made to realize how great an advantage it is to live
on"the cross-roads of the Pacific,"
where we may get to see and hear so
many of the leading men of America,
either as they go out to visit the Orient
or return from there.
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President Henry Churchill King, of
Oberlin College, has just spent two weeks
in Hawaii on his way home, in his trip
around the world, and has enriched us all
by his splendid addresses, and by his association with us this little while.
He arrived in Honolulu on the steamer
Korea Saturday afternoon, August 6, at
exactly 4 o'clock, just in time to attend
a public reception which had been arranged for him by Mr. and Mrs. W. R.
Castle on the lawn of their beautiful
home from four to six o'clock that afternoon. "Just like President King," said
one of his former pupils, as the automobile swept up to the house and President
King stepped briskly out just in time to
meet the first of the arriving guests, "always coming in to his class just at the
last minute, but never late.
Although it was mid-summer and a
great many of the leading families were
away, there was a large attendance at the
reception—several hundred of the best
people of Honolulu being present to meet
"resident King.
And on Sunday morning Central Union Church was crowded, it having been
announced that if the boat got in in time
President King would preach. He gave a
most able discourse on "Thy Kingdom
Come, Thy Will Be Done." Sunday evening he spoke in the old historic Kawaiahao Church to a union meeting of
the Hawaiian churches of the city. The
pastor of the church, Rev. Henry Parker,
introduced him in the Hawaiian language, and as President King arose he
said that that added one more to the
many different languages in which he
hail been introduced the past year. He
gave them his "Laws of the Djvine
Friendship" in such simple, forceful language that an interpreter was hardly necessary. There were very few among all
the Hawaiians present who did not understand the greater part of his address.
By special request he gave an address
on his impressions of the Orient at a
union mid-week meeting on the Wednesday following, taking for his subject,
"The Program of the Advance of Western Civilization in the East." This was
in reality one of the lectures which President King has been preparing while in
Honolulu to give at the University of
California as soon as he reaches the
coast. We could not help but wish that
it might have been possible for him to
give the entire series here. Let us hope
that they may soon be published, that
we may all enjoy them.
But the address which the people of
Honolulu will remember longest was his
address, "Facing the Facts of Life," and
the question box which he conducted after it. at Central Union Church on the
second Sunday evening. We all felt sat-
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isfied, for Honolulu had heard our president at his best.
With his speech-making done and his
California lectures completed, everything
was favorable for the trip to Hawaii, and
the volcano Kilauea, which he had planned to make the second week. Rev. W.
D. Westervelt accompanied him, and as
good fortune would have it, the volcano
was very active while they were there.
President King came back very enthusiastic over the trip.
The "(Iberlinites," of whom there are
some thirty in Honolulu, wished very
much to have an evening with President
King. Fortunately the Nippon Maru,
which was to sail on Saturday, was a day
late, and that left Saturday evening for
this delightful occasion.
A goodly number of former Obcrlin
students, their wives and husbands, gathered at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. J.
Forbes. Toasts on"The Oberlin of the
Past," "The Oberlin of the Present,"
"The Oberlin of the Future," "Our
King," and "Mrs. King" were happily responded to, after which Mr. Percy Pond
presented to the president a large album
of Hawaiian views to carry home with
him as a memento of his visit here."
1 le left for San Francisco Sunday afternoon, carrying with him Honolulu's
warmest "Aloha." and their wish that he
might return some time again.
A. A. E.
The Library Alcove
ERNEST J. REECE
Trails and Prospects.
Stranger indeed to Nature's fondest
whispers is he who knows not the delights of the trail. For feet wearied with
the town there is no rest like that of the
way which narrows from street to lane
and from lane to grass-hid path. The
limb timed to easy rhythm by the heavy
tramping shoe takes vigor from each
pressure upon the soft earth. Minds
clamped to the shuttle of daily routine
loosen their racking grip as they search
the gulch and scan the ridge. With the
constraint of time and task removed,
nerves cease to assert themselves. To the
hills, for the hills' sake! If there be a
panacea, it lies not hidden in sorcerer's
hut or within chemist's crucible or behind
physician's mien of wisdom. Rather it is
instant in the skies and the earth and the
sea—here are the repairing and soothing
agencies of creation. He who would remember his God does well to seek him
September, 1910
on the prairies and in the wood, for here cosed the power to make or mar mighty
he is most approachable. For escape from corporations, dictated the utterance of exthe thralldom of petty things, for action ecutives and the policies of parties. Meanthat inspires the lagging processes of the while other builders have labored with no
body, for joy that flashes the energies of less faithfulness. The establishes of the
the mind into a thousand clogged chan- township school-house were the precursnels, for a new love of life, for a revived ors of an army pledged to the enlightenintimacy with God—for these the trail ment of the normal, the backward, the
handicapped, the unprivileged, the alien,
and a peak at its end.
So much for by-trails. The path trod by under every circumstance that can arise
the occasional journeyer liasbeciiworn and —in a word the benefits of education fitpressed into shape mayhap by the toiler. ted to the individual. The paper mill esthe hunter in quest of furs, the crofter tablished at Germantown in 1690 forebearing his bag of wheat to the mill, the shadowed the era of manufacturing suherdsman carrying his scant store of sup- premacy —an era in which our nation has
plies to a retreat in the hills. Just so the set itself to the machine to fashion the
laying of most trails has to do with the world's clothes, furnish the worlds moserious affairs of life. Conversely the tive power, and nourish the world's highbusiness of life directs each man over his er life. Difficult problems, perplexing
vexatious obstacles our
own particular trail. He may follow it conditions,
with assurance or with uncertainty, de- country has met. They are a part of the
votedly or with grudging allegiance, vol- trail, and America thinks no more highly
untarily or through force of circum- of herself than the world thinks of her
stances. He may push hurriedly over it when she indulges a just pride in her
to its terminus or pause at intervals to achievement.
explore liberal areas of country. He may Perhaps the worst to be said of our nasee only the trig station at the summit, or tion's devotion to the trails that constihe may taste the joy and beauty and ex- tute her tasks and symbolize her progress
hilaration awaiting the traveller who is that it exhibits a normal degree of
seeks not to cover miles but to enrich error. Would that the same might be
life.
said for her attention to that which
Americans as a nation have been ard- stands as token of her higher life! To
ent trail followers. Individually and col- endure the labors of the trail and ignore
lectively our people have sought tasks the glory of its prospect is like attempting
and stayed by them. Some times the peak- to separate the stars from heaven. Some
has been visible, sometimes beclouded. years back an American student at LeipNow and again the question has occurred sic was hurrying to a lecture on Horace
U to whether there were a goal, at which when the breath of a spring wind brought
junctures a heaven-born faith and the "an appeal from Horace dead to Horace
consciousness of an upward pull alone living." He forsook the vapid literary athave sustained. The work has been here mosphere of the class-room and sought
that of clinging to old trails, there that the by-ways of Thuringia to live for a
of opening new courses. With our Teu- time the life that the Augustian poet
tonic kinsmen overseas we have shared in lived. The day began for him a new
enterprises of stupendous moment. Not epoch. No longer could he content himsince Graeco-Roman civilization over- self with the drudgery of verb forms and
spread the east has there been such a philological acrobatics. Even the illuminconquest of continents by the will of a ing of a derivation by an enthusiastic insingle race. Our history opens with the structor or the vistas revealed in the disliteral trail-makers, self-chosen citizens of solving of his sixty lines a day could not
a wild world, thrusting themselves un- satisfy. Completeness could come only
provisioned into the fastnesses of the as he trod the roads anil scaled the hills
frontier, as did Anchieta and Kcichler in whose genius was the inspiration of the
Spanish America. Europe pressed upon odes.
our coast and the trails became roads,
It may Ix.- that in our national life we
highways from town to town and over have not yet reached the (xiint from
the mountains into the domain of the abo- which we may look out Upon the measrigine. The projecting of national thor- ureless miles and the unending hills.
oughfares agitated early congresses and There are stretches at the start of many
interested an entire people. Then came a climb where the sun beats hard and
the great steel treks across the prairies, barren ridges tower with prison-like foreplanned and unified and magnified until boding. However that may Ix;, it is at
the master trail builder of modern times least time that we listen for the note of
controlled sufficient mileage to belt the the lark and scan the summit of the nearglobe, carried on his payroll twice as est ridge for a glimpse of that beyond.
many men as arc numbered in the stand- Shy flowers, threadlike ferns, dainty
ing army of the United States, held in mosses are thickening about our feet as
his palm the fate of banking houses, fo- we move more deeply into the wilds, hull
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placid expanses of
valley and bottom wait to burst upon us
from the crests. The quickening air of
the heights hovers above ready to charge
us with life even as the mysterious "sa"
in which the Egyptian gods sought energy in realms beyond the known world.
And so if our country has been engrossed in the building of her trails and
the assembling of her powers and the
fortifying of her institutions it is not
that she lacks the ear attuned and the eye
alert for the more splendid offerings of
ex|>erience. The way has been toilsome
and exacting. But the ascent has well
begun. Strength accruing has released
strength over and above that required
for the climb. America is on the verge of
a new appreciation of the beautiful and
a deep revelation of herself. What else
can be the meaning of the noble hills that
our Carreres and Cass' and Burnhams
are rearing, exhibiting as they do a
grandeur gleaned from Greek and Moor
and from the Gothic era? What other
significance in the art that adorns their
walls, conceived by our Abbeys and Sargents and Alexanders in the very spirit
of our age anil therefore redolent with
that faithfulness which lies at the center
of beauty's soul ? < )r who can doubt that
our St. Gaudens' and Barnards and
Wards, sculptors of life and labor and
world visions, are giving classic form to
a craft of which they know well the
spirit? As for the art that trembles in
their air, is not its reign heralded in the
keynotes touched by our MacDowells and
Dc Kovens? And what shall be said of
that most subtle of all forms of beauty—
poetry ? Possibly Lanier and Gilder are
the earliest beams of its renaissance.
It is not worthy of America to pursue
the trail for the mere brute exhilaration
of violent exertion. A loftier purpose
should guide her even than that involved
in setting a record of achievement. Her
glory need not be a glory dimmed by
cloud, inevitable as it is that the fog
should now and again descend and blanEven were she to
ket the outlook.
slacken perceptibly from her terrible endeavor the apparent retardation need not
be one of disadvantage or loss. But a
little beyond the bird songs are echoing
and the peaks rising. There is completeness, for there the life of the spirit downs
the soul that has been reaching upward
to discover itself.
The trail has been
found. The prospect waits to break Upon
us.
ranges of hills and
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within them souls of their own. If such
be conceivable of trees, how much more
so of many an old homestead sheltered
by yews or elms or perhaps fantastic algarobas and centering in a simple old
house which the storms of a hundred
winters and the passing of successive
generations have consecrated.
The
charm of such spots lies partly in their
associations, but no less in the unaffected
dignity with which an age of simple living and unpretentious ideals invested
them. The want of this simplicity, attainable in a building of whatever day or
character, robs many a modern structure
of its sole claim to respectability. In this
out of door community one's unconscious
conviction is that houses are an alien necessity at best. They exist by sufferance
as a concession to Hawaii's inheritance
of northern civilization. Of how great
import, therefore, that our homes be of
unobtrusive accommodating appearance.
Architectural axioms are easy of comprehension. The precepts of beauty for the
home builder are not complex. A house
of pleasing appearance costs no more to
construct than does an ugly one. Some
time our new social conscience will comprehend what now is too often regarded
as one of the neglibles in its campaign
for city improvement. The citizen will
feel the force of a public sentiment which
forbids him to ignore the canons of good
taste in rearing his rooftree. In that day
the city home as well as the modest
manor will invest itself with the soul atmosphere —an atmosphere which, consorting with the genius of the spot, grows
rich in associations as the years go by.
The Scribe's Corner
REV. WM. BREWSTER OLESON
Corresponding Secretary.
"It thall come to pass that 1 will Dave
compa»slo» oh them, sad will brlag them
siaia, (very mas to bis heritage, and every
ssaa te hi* laa*.
—fsaiah.
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Away from the Land.
The Hawaiian was once a farmer. His
conditions made him such. His welfare
kept him such. There were no sufficient
inducements in former days to detach
him from the land. But such inducem
ments came later on. And when they
Houses and 1 louses.
came hisconditionslikewisechanged. The
In commenting upon the elusive beau- abandonment of the land by many Haty of Japanese cherry blossoms Lafcadio waiians was incidental to the industrial
suggests that the jealous care lavished changes that have taken place. Those
upon the tree- for ages has nurtured changes made large sugar estates desir-
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able, and it was easy to dispose of kuleanas to the fancied advantage of their
owners. New avenues of employment
created restiveness. The allurements of
city life were persistent and appealing.
Being a naturally gregarious people the
current city-ward made the left-behinds
discontented, and they too sought fellowships of city life. So that while there are
yet many Hawaiians getting a comfortable living from the land, there are districts that have been abandoned by them
to such an extent as to make their absence noticeable.
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Where Have They Gone?
Some have perished from the land. But
a considerable contingent is to be found
in Honolulu. In that number are not a
few who are helplessly stranded. Their
resources are exhausted. They are living
in great poverty. They are the prey of
untoward circumstances. That means
dissipation, insufficient food, close crowding in limited quarters, unsanitary conditions, and the white plague.
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The White Plague.
In this wonderful climate, where outdoor life is a year-round privilege, tuberculosis was once an almost unknown disease. Now there is a death every day the
year through from this scourge. And
a large proportion of the deaths are in
Honolulu and among Hawaiians. Various
devices and projects are fairly under way
to check the inroads of this white plague.
The public has been generous in its support of schemes to corral this evil and to
lessen its ravages. Some of these schemes
look forward to better housing for the
poor under more sanitary conditions. But
these schemes have in view the continued
stay in the city of the people among
whom this disease is making the greatest
headway. Would it not be a wiser scheme
to induce some of these people at least
to return to the country?
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Back to the Land.
The best housing, the best conditions,
the greatest comfort, are to be found by
these people by going back again to the
land. Freedom from the depraving influences of city life, the wholesome effect of
honest toil under healthful conditions,
the new outlook that comes with the sense
of ownership, the physical vigor that
comes from a sufficiency of good food —
these are the best combatants of a disease that thrives on beings who have lost
heart, and have become dissipated and
are living in unsanitary conditions. The
surest way to combat the white plague is
to cut off its supply of material. There
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are doubtless hundreds of strong, ablebodied men and women living in untoward circumstances in Honolulu who will
fall victims to tuberculosis if they keep
on as they are, but who might be rescued
from such a disaster if they could get
back again to the land.
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The Economic Advantage.
We are spending considerable money
per head for immigrants to come into this
country and to go upon the land. Some
experiments in this line have had a ques-
tionable outcome. If further experiments
are to be tried, why not try some of them
with the natives of the soil ? It surely
would be more economic to induce
stranded Hawaiians in Honolulu to return to the soil, than to spend so much
money in charitable expedients to meet
the needs and to ward-off the evils of
their continuance in present conditions.
Besides, the Hawaiians have a clear claim
to primary consideration in the present
movement for the resettlement of the
land. Once they were splendid producers.
Given favorable conditions they can become such again. And it is better to rescue a good producer out of the slums of
I lonolulu than to go abroad for one. We
are in the early stages of some very radical changes in industrial methods in Hawaii, and it will prove an economic advantage all around to give the willing
Hawaiian a fair chance on his native soil.
September, 1910
THE FRIEND.
bably be to invite failure in many instances. They love to be in communities
together. There are certain advantages
that come with proximity to others, such
as schools and churches, that depend on
united action. Hence the most hopeful
method of securing a permanent return
to the land would be that of colonizing.
That would mean a careful selection of
location, as to soil, rainfall, facilities for
transportation, and general wholesomeness. It would mean a central supervision that would act in behalf of the general good. It would mean wise planning
for the sixrial betterment of the colony.
It would mean such a holding of the land
that each individual would possess ownership rights in definite pieces of land
subject to reversal to the colony whenever the individual should cease to reside
on such land.
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Making the Colony Christian.
for colonizing, under present
arrangements, would need to be acquired
from private owners. Benevolent individuals or an organization specially ef-
fected for the purpose could purchase
suitable land for colony purposes. But
that ought to mean in this land a definite
purpose to give the colony such religious
advantages as would promote the unity
of the community. Given a section of
land, specially 'desirable for profitable
settlement so far as health and productiveness
are involved, and a corporation
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that seeks the religious as well as tempMovement Back Already Begun.
oral well-being of the colonists, the excould be tried under most favperiment
Frear's
for
1909
Report
Governor
In
orable
conditions.
we are informed that 226 pieces of land
were disposed of that year for homestead
purposes, of which 129 pieces were taken
up by Hawaiians. Great eagerness is be- Thing Done Elsewhere.
ing manifested among Hawaiians at the This idea of colonizing stranded men
present time in the desire to acquire is no novelty. The Salvation Army alhomestead sites. It may be said, and ready has most successful enterprises of
doubtless with much truth, that this eag- this character on the mainland. What
erness is more a desire to acquire than to has been done elsewhere can be done
cultivate. But even then it certainly points here. If the real friends of Hawaiians
to an awakened readiness to listen to any will canvass some such scheme, and try
proposition looking to their betterment an experiment in a small way with
through a return to the land. A well- twenty-five families, we believe much
considered scheme to promote the settle- can be done in preventing poverty, idlement on the land of those who do not ness, dissipation and disease.
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now own any land, would be most opportune and most helpful. For schemes of
Meetings.
settlement have to be worked up for the Association
Hawaii
Association will hold its
The
with
proaverage man. His unfamiliarity
cedure, his lack of capital, his ignorance next meeting with ,the Haib Church,
as to best locations, his dependence on Hilo, beginning Wednesday, September
others for the wise choice of products to 14. The Maui Association will hold its
be raised, are all elements that promote next meeting with the Kaunakakai
Church, Molokai, beginning Sunday,
inertia on his part.
September 18. Let the friends of the
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churches pray that these important gathMethod of the Return.
erings may be greatly blessed, and that
For Hawaiians to go back to the land they may minister to the spiritual wellas individuals, here and there, would pro- being of our pastors and laymen!
Hawaii Cousins
"AULD LANG SYNE."
delightful reunion of old PunaA
hou boys and girls was held at the residence of Judge and Mrs. S. B. Dole, on
the afternoon of August 31st, 1910, at
four o'clock.
David B. Lyman and Mrs. Lyman,
with Mrs. Mills, were the guests of
honor.
Judge and Mrs. Dole, in their own gracious and inimitable manner, received
their guests, and at once set them at ease,
saying, "You are William, David, Orramel, Ellen, Bob, Mary, just boys and girls
again, today."
After the reception all repaired to the
spacious lanai, with its hanging baskets,
vines and palms, its large cage where
canaries flew free from perch to perch
among the green ; and its wide, surrounding ledge, which served as well for seats
for the silver-haired boys and girls, as
for the rare plants. Here were tables
and chairs, and the book for registering
names, and here delicious refreshments
were served by graceful maidens in
dainty attire.
Judge Dole welcomed the guests in an
address humorous, eulogistic and retrospective. He introduced his remarks by
explaining, in a pleasing way, why Chicago cousins seldom return to Hawaii.
Something in the air holds them, but
David Lyman, going out for a breath of
fresh air .founded a city, and has spent
his time since in developing it. Mr. Dole
recalled many incidents of this "iron age"
at Punahou.
Mrs. Mills was called upon, and spoke
of the economics of this "iron age," and
of the fine class of boys and girls at
Punahou at that time, and she was glad
to see the developed lives of these students and to know the good they have
done. When asked if she remembered
certain boys, she said, "I remember nothing bad."
Mrs. Weaver recalled names and
games anil many incidents of Punahou
life in olden times.
A. B. Clark regretted that Judge and
Mrs. Lyman could not remain. He had
spent many years in Chicago and had
many friends there, but there is no place
like the Islands for a home. He felt very
grateful to Mrs. Mills that her memory
was no better.
C. H. Dickey especially welcomed Mrs.
Lyman and claimed to be her oldest
friend in Hawaii, as he knew her as a
little girl in Tennessee, and had attended
the wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Lyman.
most
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When Mr. Lyman was called upon, his
apology for reading his address was lack
of time to tell half or even a small fraction of what he had to say, and he must
either condense on pa]x;r or talk till
morning.
Mr. Lyman s(X)ke as follows:
Receiving an intimation at a late date
from our honored host that I might be
asked to say something on this occasion,
and fearing 1 may say too much and
abridge our social intercourse, I have
hastily noted a few thoughts. I confess,
however, that I feel somewhat embarassed to speak as an Old Punahou Boy.
1 was one of the smallest, youngest and
most humble of the splendid lot of Punahou boys and girls with whom I associated at school some years ago.
I was shown the Blue Book a few
days since, with the remark: "We girls
were always tender about our ages, and
you need not expect that any of the old
girls who were of your age or older,
will attend the reception of any old Puimliou Boy." I replied: "The boys and girls
of Punahou never grow old, and are as
young in their hearts as ever."
1 am quite willing to concede, as I have
probably experienced more snowbound
winters than anyone here, that 1 am the
oldest of the crowd present, but I am not
a Rip Van Winkle, as I have brought my
wife with me. The old days of Punahou
in which we lived were in the Iron Age,
and when 1 meet or hear of the boys and
girls of that age, I am filled with wonder
and admiration at their position and success. They stand like the Cedars of Lebanon or the Towers of Heshbon.
We are all proud of President and
Mrs. Alexander, who have just entered
into their golden age ; of the eloquent and
saintly Henry Parker, who leads and
guides the oldest and most ini|X)rtant
Hawaiian body of Christians: of Judge
Dole, the former president and governor,
the first and foremost of our statesmen
and politicians, who reminds us. by his
wisdom, of his saintly father, the founder
of Punahou School and Oabu College;
of Mr. Henry Baldwin, William Castle,
Samuel Damon, George Wilcox, and
many other equally well known successful business men. lawyers and statesmen,
who are fitting representatives of the
Iron Age of Punahou.
I miss, too, many men and women belonging to that age, who have been leaders at home and abroad, among whom
are General Samuel C. Armstrong, Chief
Justice Frank Judd, Samuel T. Alexander, Charles H. Cooke. Henry M. Lyman,
Porter Green and others. We can say of
all that they fought the good fight and
finished their course and left the impress
of their lives in this and other parts of
the world.
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We had co-education in those days and
the most lovely and beautiful girls in
the world. The Misses Judd, Pattie Cooke
Alexander, Emma Smith Dillingham,
Sarah K. Clark Lyman, Lucinda Severance. Juliette Cooke Atherton, Annie and
Emily Alexander. Emily Baldwin and
many others equally able and attractive.
When I left the Islands, most of our
dear fathers and mothers were alive and
doing God's work with that ability and
vigor which made the Hawaiian nation a
Christian nation, the motto of which was,
"Ua Man Ke Ea O Ka Aina I Ka Pono."
I find on my return only one of that
noted band living, namely, dear Mother
Rice. 94 years of age. who. with her faculties intact, still prays for the peace of
Jerusalem, and rejoices in the progress
of the world. With this single exception, every one of our fathers and mothers who were living when I left Hawaii,
and who consecrated their lives for the
redemption and salvation of the Hawaiian people, now rest from their labors. I
find everywhere, the impress of their
lives upon the people of Hawaii, through
their sons, daughters, grand-children and
great-grand-children.
I am asked daily: "How do the Islands look to you on your return?" My
answer is. they are perfectly lovely, and
our few weeks stay in the Islands has
been a joy to my wife and myself. I
have had more pleasure and fun to the
square inch than during any other equal
time of my life. I have realized what
was so well said by another, that to get
the most out of any land, one must have
loved every hill, mountain and stream
from boyhood. He must have seen, as
he has often gone over it, sunsets and
sunrises, mountain and bay, winter frosts
and summer harvests: he must have had
a heart as full as a bobolink's, and a
friend by his side, whose presence irradiated and glorified all things. One's
native land, only, can furnish the finest
drive in the world, and, during our brief
visit here, all of these conditions have
been realized, and we have had the joy
and privilege to ride over roads and
through scenery unequaled in any part of
the world. The drive to the top of
Punchbowl; through Ntuianu Valley,
over the Pali and around the Island of
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Oahu; on Kauai from Lihue to Waimea,
and from Lihue to Hanalei; the drive
from Hilo to Kalapana, and from Hilo to
Kilauea; and the wonderful automobile
road from the Volcano House to the
Lake of Fire, Halemaumau, equal, and
perhaps surpass the drives in Switzerland and Italy; or even what is called
the finest drive in the world, the road
along the shores of the Bay of Naples
from Sorrento to Castel-a-Mare.
Leaving here fifty years ago, making
a swift voyage of 125 days in a sailing
vessel around Cape Horn to New Bedford, and leaving the country without
many of the comforts of life at that time,
I return to find the cozy grass houses replaced by substantial wooden and stone
homes. Kukui candles, tallow dips, whale
oil lamps, are replaced by gas and electric lights, and by modern lights in the
country. Even the food has changed—in
some cases for the worse. Poi, fish,
cocoanuts, cocoanut water, sugar cane,
limu, luau. kalo. the praises of which
were chanted and sung by the bards and
priests of Hawaii from time immemorial, and re-echoed by the boys and girls
of Punahou of the Iron Age, have mostly
disappeared, and have been superseded
by the dyspeptic, rheumatic and appendicitis-producing food so highly recommended by some of the successful doctors and surgeons of the present age.
I find the grand old hills and mountains in every part of the islands unchanged. The blue sky and old ocean,
and the swiftly rolling surf, are as they
were. But, many changes have come,
which seem strange. The dear old monarchy, under which I was born and loved,
is sii|xjrseded by the stable government
of our common country. The barren
plains adjoining Honolulu have been irrigated and are covered with the most luxuriant vegetation. Trees, ornamental and
fruit, have made Honolulu the garden
spot of the Pacific. Hilo. the Paradise of
Hawaii, has only six houses standing
which existed fifty years ago, and, in
place of the sleeping paradise, a city is
springing into existence, with a mighty
harbor, in which the United States is
expending over three millions of dollars
on the breakwater alone. The three or
four sugar mills operated by cattle pow-
How about your Sunday School
Supplies for next Year ?
Consult the Hawaiian Board Book Rooms
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THE FRIEND.
September. P.UO
In the Master's skillful hand
er, wooden rollers and try kettles obThis address was followed by a much
All shall be made clear;
tained from whaling ships, producing a admired poem, written by Mrs. Dole And
the deepest chords of pain
a
some
time
few hundred tons of sugar year, have
ago. and read by Dr. N. B.
Shall give back a sweet refrain;
Every harshest note of discord
given place to vast sugar fields extending Emerson.
Then shall disappear.
from the south ix>int of Hawaii to the
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northern part of Kauai, equip|)ed with
PUNAHOU ALUMNI POEM, 1875.
While man}, who had attended Punathe most modern machinery and managhou in those olden times, were out of
ed with the highest ability by a God-fearPilgrims we from many countries.
town, others were there who are seldom
Tolling early, tolling late
ing class of capitalists who rcs|K'Ct the
seen at social functions, and not only the
Rest
our
cares
and
burdens
here;
consumer
and
producer,
the
rights of the
hooking back, with heart of cheer,
guests of honor but all present were
the laborer.
On each fairest Alma Mater,
to Judge antl Mrs. Dole for this
thankful
Where we forged our fate.
While one cannot but regret the passmeeting which was
never-to-be-forgotten
ing of many beautiful things, I am an opclosed
of
hands and singing
joining
by
pictures
gather
How
the
crowd
and
timist, and believe that Hawaii—the HaAs that past comes thronging by,
Lang Sync," to the accompani"Auld
to
rewaii of today—is only beginning
Glorious in its coloring fair,
ment of a Hawaiian orchestra.
alize its importance and the greatness of Richest dyes and tinting rare,
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Like
the
works
of
the
old
smile
masters
is future < hir grand-children will
The
That
can
never
die.
annual
reports of the H. M. C.
in a few years at our self-complacent
Society,
in the printing office
delayed
congratulations over the present Every Eager youths, with souls on lire.
since May 13th, are being distributed as
portion of Hawaii will be developed, and
its citizens will reap the benefit of its strategical position in the heart of the Pacific ;
controlling the commerce of a large portion of the world ; while tourists, bringing
millions of dollars, will flock to our
shores to behold the wonders of creation
uncqualed in any other part of the globe.
Fifty years ago I visited Kilauca from
Hilo. traveling on foot, taking two days
to reach the volcano. Another day was
consumed in descending to the depths of
the crater, and passing, by slow and painful stages, to the Lake of Fire On the
opposite side. Within the last few days
1 visited the same crater, going by automobile from Hilo to the volcano, staying
in a luxurious hotel on the brink of the
crater, and then by swift passage in an
automobile, almost to the Lake of Fire.
Having occasion to call in the services
of a physician from Hilo, 1 used the telephone, and obtained the presence of the
doctor ill two hours.
We have received a warm welcome
from my old frientls and from many new
ones. My wife and myself will leave Hawaii with the deepest gratitude to one
and all, and with our most earnest tiesire for the peace and prosperity of all
our friends and the people at large.
I have been greatly impressed with the
cosmopolitan character of the people, iii
every portion of the Islands. The dear,
lovely, true-hearted Hawaiian is giving
place to a more mixed and new people.
Hawaii is the "Melting Pot" of the Pacific, anil is moulding many nationalities
into a new life, which, I believe, will be
better and stronger than any that has
gone before; provided, that those who are
the leaders, will repsect and carry out the
old motto of the nation, and will bring
the Shinto and Buddhist temples and
other strange religions which are coming
to our shores, into peaceful harmony anil
obedience to the Golden Rule and the religion taught by the Son of Righteousness.
Maidens with the heart of May,
Sought we still through wisdom's pages
All the wealth of all the ages;
Knocking at the gates of knowledge—
The golden gates of Day.
And she gave us fairest glimpses
Of the land we sought;
Dealing with unstinted measure,
From her richest hordes of treasure,
To the one who delved the deepest
In he mines of thought.
Then we stood upon the threshold
Panting for the fight.
Did not see the rank and flic
Pressing on each weary mile,
Only saw the plumes of heroes
Waving In the light.
Heard the thunder of the battle.
Saw the flashing of the blade,
But the weary groans and sighing,
The sharp agony and crying,
All were lost in martial music
And the cannonade.
Since then we have waged the conflict;
Since then we have felt the steel;
Have our hearts been brave and steady,
Have our arms been always ready
When the foe came charging on
With furious zeal?
Are we conquerors In life's battle?
Are we winning victor's palms?
Does the fragrance of our living,
Rich in pure unselfish giving,
Rise to heaven daily like the
Sweet-toned notes of psalm-i?
Have we learned the hardest lesson
That this earthly life can give?
How in pure self-sacrifice
The real fame and honor lies;
How by sweet unselfishness
We learn the way to live.
There are fields of vaster learning,
There are halls of larger thought,
And the Master's voice, sublime,
Kinging down the aisles of time,
('alls us in those halls to gather,
He the teacher, we the taught.
At His feet we shall lay down
All the vexed things of life;
Problems that we tolled on late,
Questions hard and intricate,
Mysteries that we could not solve,
With dangers rife.
fast as they come from the printer.
Since the report was finished in early
May. five of our family of cousins have
passed beyond this life. Three of these
names appear in the first report of the
society, published in 1853.
WILLIAM W. HALL.
W. W. Hall has filled almost every office in the sixriety. He was on the editorial board of the "Maili Wreath" for
many years, and through all the half century and more he has attended every
meeting when possible, and in every way
took an interest in its affairs and helped
in its charities. At the last meeting of
the society, the adjourned meeting, held
at the home of Governor Frear, on April
30, I°lo, Mr. Hall was acting president.
It will lx' a long time before the members cease to look around for his familiar face, or listen in vain for the voice
now joining in the harmonies of heaven.
MR. RUFUS LYMAN.
Mr. Lyman's name appears as a member in that first report of 1853,-and
though living in Hilo, and unable to attend many meetings, he loved the society
and made eleven children members of it.
Mr. Lyman was Ixirn June 23rd, 184:!,
at Hilo. Having a good foundation for
an education laid at the home of his parents, who were good teachers, be attended school at Punahou from 185ti to lXfii.
In lXfrfi he married Miss Rebecca Brickwood, whose life was full of good works,
and who died in 1906. A noble family
of children rise up to call them blessed.
Ten or eleven of these children attended
Punahou College, and three have gone to
West Point.
Mr. Lyman was the adviser and righthand man of Ruth Keelokolani, the governess of Hawaii during the monarchy,
and was respected, trusted and loved by
the natives as well as by his own' countrymen, He was faithful at religious ser-
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THE FRIEND.
September, 1910
vices, able in prayer, helpful to his
HENRY TAYLOR.
country, and true SO his God. Mr. LyMr. Henry Taylor was the son of Rev.
man died July sth, I'HO.
T. E. Taylor ami Persis Thurston Taylor. He was born at Kailua May 20,
1856. When Quite small he went with
MR. SAMUEL N. EMERSON.
his parents to California, where his fathMr. Emerson died August 12, 1910. er was a home missionary. He was edu11c was also one of the first life members cated in that state, returning to the islof the society. He was born at Waialua, ands as a civil engineer some time in the
Oahu, October 10th, 1832, and was the '80s. He was quiet and retiring by nateldest son of Rev. John S. Emerson and ure, faithful in duty and kind to those in
He attended
Punahou from 1842 to 1846. He studied
in the United States, perhaps at Andover, for a time, where he made good
progress in mathematics, and became a
He used the compass, the
surveyor.
kind of instrument used by George
Washington in surveying, for this was
before the days of the transit instru-
Ursula Sophia Emerson,
ments.
During many years of his middle life
he carried on a dairy ranch at Waialua,
on lands now covered by the Waialua
plantation.
Mr. Emerson returned in 1855. His
loss of hearing was a handicap for many
years, and the silence of the world and
the loneliness of life turned his thoughts
inward and made him peculiar at times,
but the missionary spirit was in his veins
and he was accustomed even in the later
years of his
feebleness, to gather the
children of the street into his rooms for
a Sunday school service.
To one who for so long walked in silence, what must it be to hear the "Welcome," the angel's song and the "Come,
ye blessed of the Father!"
ji
ROBERT MILLS FULLER.
Mr. Robert Fuller died July sth, 1910.
He had been a member of this society
since 1872. His father, Josiah Fuller,
was teacher of the Royal School after
the Cixikes left, and his mother was
Mary Ann Mills Fuller, a sister of MothHis brother Edward anil
er Damon.
sister Ellen reside in California.
Mr. Fuller was born in Koloa Nov.
18, 1851, and attended Punahou from
18(i6 to 1869.
For a time he pursued
his education in the United States, and
returning, was for many years a trusted
employe of the firm of Allen & Robinson. He had a faithful wife and a very
interesting family of children.
The long years of pain, of suffering
and helplessness were hard for such a
man to endure, and like a refining fire.
"I think man's great capacity for pain
Proves his immortal birthright. I am
sure
No merely human mind could bear the
strain
( )f some tremendous sorrows we endure.
his employ.
When the end came his brother and
one sister were at his side, and the impressive funeral service was held at the
home of his sister, Mrs. Winne. The exquisite flowers, arranged by Mrs. James
Taylor, the soft strains of music. "Thy
Will Be Done," sung by Mr. Stanley
Livingston to an accompaniment by Miss
Jane Winne, his mother's paintings on
the wall behind the casket, the sympathetic words and tones of the minister.
Rev. Ebersole, and most of all the many
inspiring passages from the Bible, such
as "I know that my Redeemer liveth,"
all' tended to take away the sadness of
death and bring heaven nearer.
Mr. Taylor died August 21st, 1910.
Our Young People
HENRY P. JUDD
Teacher Training Department.
The most important position in connection with our religious life of today
is that of Sunday school teacher.
All
factors in the Sunday school work are
inuiortant; the superintendent should be
a specialist; the other officers are all im-
|x>rtant elements; the music, the social
atmosphere and class-room equipment are
necessary to a successful school, and
these arc all means to an end. The great
end of Sunday school work is to give a
knowledge of God's Word, or, as some of
our training class textbooks put it, "To
lead to Christ, not to train up in Christ."
The supreme work and the supreme factor for the accomplishment of this end is
the teaching. Without teaching any
school is a failure With gixxl teaching
the problems of Sunday school work arc
easily solved. Though many consider
teaching a trivial task it is the greatest
work that (Jod has ever given his people
to perform. The commission of our
Master was "Go teach." The commission of the Gospel is today identically the
same.
livery teacher is an assistant pastor,
and ought to feel that his duty is to have
pastoral care over those whom he teaches.
There are certain elements which a teacher should possess. First of all, he should
be an earnest Christian. He is the shep-
herd of the flock, and must be able to interest the pupil, must know what to teach
and how to teach it. Sixriety news, baseball talk and sports in general may be the
right means to hold the attention of some
obstreperous boy or giddy girl for a time,
but this is a failure unless it is used as a
means to a larger and more important
end of interesting the pupil in religious
and sacred things. The Bible is the greatest book in all the world, but no one
can teach the Bible any more than he can
teach any other book without a knowledge of its structure, the relationship of
the various parts, and the purpose for
which these parts were specifically given.
A knowledge of the gradual development
of Coil's Word to men is necessary, and
while other and extraneous matters maydraw for a time, in the last analysis it
takes the knowledge of the Bible to accomplish the results expected. The teacher must not only be devoted to his work
and interested in it, but he must be able to
interest. He must be interested in his pupils, whether they are men or women or
boys or girls; interested in their welfare:
interested in their home environment
and every day conditions. No one .can
have the necessary elements for teaching
unless he understands three things. First.
he must know the book which he is to
teach ; second, he must know the object
which he seeks, and lastly, he must know
how to teach.
Because of the importance of the subject, there should be in every school as
far as possible, a teacher-training class
Now is the time to organize such classeall over the Islands. The summer vacation is over and the public schools have
recalled to their posts of duty many of
our most faithful Sunday school teachers.
The school year is beginning. Why
Who hasn't heard of
ESTEY ORGANS?
YOU, I ERHAPS, did not know that we keep them here
at the Board Book Rooms.
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should there not be a beginning of new
things in the Sunday schools ? We should
all help to arouse our schcxils to greater
effort and stimulate the work of the
teachers.
This matter of teacher training has so
often been mentioned in these columns
that some one may be tired of reading
about the same object continually. The
editor of this jwge feels the importance
of the subject so keenly, however, that
he must keep the matter before his readers. What are you doing alxmt it ? Are
you floing your part in training others in
this necessary evil?
For yourself, you can gain knowledge
of the Bible from a careful study of the
Book each day, together with the reading
of many valuable works on the subject.
Now that so much study has been given
to the Bible by the most learned men.
we have countless sources of help in the
field of Biblical research.
If you are a teacher in the Sundayschool, will you not try to train yourself
in the knowledge of the Bible and do
what you can in the training of others?
In this way you may be of great assistance in the promoting of the Kingdom
of Heaven.
JS
A Brief Catechism.
Mention was made in the last issue of
The Friend of the brief catechism prepared by the Rev. C. G. Bumham of Laliaina, Maui, and its virtues set forth
among the "Wailuku Notes." It seems
fitting to make further mention in this
department of The Friend, because of its
relation to the training of our young
people, of this worthy little work and to
commend the booklet to teachers in our
Sunday schools. Instruction of this character is greatly needed in our schools,
and we should do all we can to promote
the knowledge of the Truth as it is in
lesus.
J»
Home Influence.
San Francisco, 1911.
Craft Wares
—
YE ARTS &
and the various departments seem to Ikalive to any new method that will make
for progress.
It is the wish of the Association that
organized work in Hawaii may Ix,' more
effective. If each school will do its part
and each teacher and superintendent do
his work faithfully, and each island association do what it can and the Territorial Association do all in its power,
then organized work in Hawaii will be
of real value anil the work will go forward steadily.
EVENTS.
July 31—Sunday baseball at Athletic Park
attended by gambling and rioting; several
arrests
Aug. I—Dr. Victor S. Clark appointed
head of Hoard of Immigration for this Territory
2—Honolulu Iron Works reported as having contract to build another big Biigar mill
in Formosa.
s—University Club occupied Its new home.
6—President Henry Churchill King of
Oberlin College visits the islands.
7—John Agulas, Portuguese boy employed
by llmies & Co., drowns at Walklkl, a result of bathers pretending to be drowning.—
Corner stone of Kaumakapill Church laid.
9—Tidal wave at
International Sunday Maul.
McGregg's
Landing,
10—Final plebiscite returns printed. For
Prohibition 2,262. against Prohibition 7,501.
11—Barkentlne Helga (British) wrecked
and already word has come from the auWatkiki reef. Total loss.—Agitation for
thorities htat Hawaii is expected to send on
free milk brings out official testimony in
not
be
a good-sized delegation. It may
lavor of Pond Dairy, which had aided Disjxissible for us to send as many delegates pensary.
as we should like, but surely there arc
12—Owners of Fort street Mahuka propsome Christian workers who are in a po- erty want United States to pay over half
to represent these islands at the million dollars for the property.
School Convention will be held in San
Francisco, Cal., from June 20-27, 1911,
sition
convention. \xi any who arc planning
to visit in California next June please
bear in mind the date for the great gathering of Sunday school workers and
make an effort to be present,
J»
There arc three great lessons to be
taught a child as a beginning of religious
training—reverence, obedience and duty
to others.
The foundation of religion is reverence
—that recognition of the spiritual which
surrounds us and awes us. This sense of
reverence begins in the home. Is it not
natural that the little child should look
[Hand
up to the su|x?rior ]xiwcr and knowledge
his patents, under whose care he finds
himself? At an early age we may sec
signs of his reverence for the beautiful.
What little child ever looketl at the stars
at night or the glories of the sunrise or
sunset without a feeling of sublimity? It
is easy for him to reverence, love and
trust the one who made these wonderful
things, as well as all creatures, both great
and small.
The next great lesson for him to learn
is obedience, and this lesson is learned at
home. His future welfare demands that
he learns to obey. If he learns to obey his
parents, submit his will to theirs, it will
not be so hard for him to submit to the
will of God, but the latter is a hard lesson
for him if he has not learned the former.
The third lesson is duty to others,
which also has its beginning in the home
where the child should learn to be fair, to
consider others. Teach him the Golden
Rule. After he leaves his home if he
has learned this lesson well he can easily
extend to his larger circle of fellow men
with whom he comes in contact.
So a child should grow in reverence,
obedience and duty to others, to the extent that the spirit of the home is sincerely Christian.
a*
Of
The thirteenth
September, 1910
FRIEND.
The International Association.
Judging to reports and letters and other literature, the International Sunday
Schixil Association is doing a very active and helpful work in the interests of
the Sunday schixils all over the United
States and in other parts of the Western
Hemisphere. The work is well organized
13—Gov. Frear planning to Incorporate
features of "George Jr. Republic" in the reform school at Waialae.
16—Nuuanu dam cost 5298,. i63. Governor
Frear says it is worth three times cost.
19—American Hawaiian Steamship Nevadan carries a passenger as assistant purser; question of evading tlaw arises.
r
RESPONSIBLE
For those Japanese Servants?
More than we think, perha[». Let them
read a Christian paper in their own
tongue. It is THE TOMO. 50c a year. |
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CRAFTS SHOP : Fort Street below King
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H, Final game of excellent polo
ttuiriiaFF.KN-SII.VA- 111 Honolulu, Aug »'., Mayor
Kauai, Oahu Joseph J. Fern mid Mrs. Kniina Silva, by the
ttntl Muni.
Itighl Key. Bishop Libert.
J»
22—Spoil of shooting Hying llsh inaugurated.
"STRONGER EACH
Is Your Japanese
Servant a Christian?
'A wave of prohibition is sweeping
over this country from one end to the
21—Qeorasj Freeth, formerly of Honolulu.
awarded mhmlhl by special act of Congress other, that threatens to engulf and carry
to destruction the entire whisky enterfor lite saving at Venice, California.
li*>. —Precinct tioniinatlon.s of lU>|Hiblicaii prise. It is growing stronger each day,
parly, more excitement than In Prohibition and
each day towns and cities, counties,
campaign. Increased iiiiiiilici- of cavalry
and even states, are added to that class
companies orders*! for oahu.
whisky business cannot be
2s. automatic ti'lcphtnie system installed. in which the
legitimately.'—Bonfort's
carried
on
29—Visit of honorary commissioners of As-
TOO MUCH stress cannot be laid on
the importance of having your eyes
fitted with pro|>er glasses.
menl attended liy riders from
DAY."
.:: Waialua
Agricultural Co. propane one
shipment of K4 gasoline drums tilled with
lintiey, 2fi,Him gallons.
sociated Chanihers of Comnierce of the Pa< ilic Coast en route to Japan ami China
J*
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Honolulu,
Aug 21, Henry
H years.
Thurston
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1066 Fort Street
Pictures and Picture Framing j» Local Views
Ansco Cameras j» Ansco Films
Art Pottery and Casts
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BOND-KLSTON—JuIy 30, 1910, in Berkley, Cal., Robert Bond and Miss Rowena
Klston.
MACKINTOSH-CLARK—In San Francisco, August 3, 1910, C. A. Mackintosh and
Miss Susan J. Clark.
Hie Baldwin jlafiona! $ank
of Kalinlui
KAHULUI, MAUI, T. H.
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Interest on Tsrms Deposits.
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Builders' Hardware,
you can get anything in Wearing ApPaints, Oils, Etc.
parel for
MEN, WOMEN or CHILDREN
,
Good Goods and Reasonable Prices.
Agents for Walkover and Sorosis Shoes.
55 Queen Street : : Honolulu.
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H.
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Concrete Reinfmvemeiit
Safes,
Chares.
In San Francisco, Aug. 2», William
Berger, aged 33 years.
Masonic Temple,
& MONUMENT WORKS, Ltd.
HAWAIIAN IRON FENCE
Vaults,
in Honolulu, Aug. 2, Mrs. Alice M. Tackuberry Johnston. Services at the Methodist
in Honolulu, Aug 3, Adolpli Kroll, son of
Rev. Leopold Kroll, aged 7 years.
In San Francisco, Aug. ."«, Mrs. J. S. Hopper, aged 77 years.
In Honolulu, Aug. 6, F. M. Otremba, wood
carver, aged f>7 years.
In Honolulu, Aug. 12, Samuel X. Kmerson,
oldest son of the Kmerson missionary family, aged 7S years.
In Honolulu, Aug. 19, Francis Dower, son
of the late Captain Dower, aged 9 years.
In Honolulu, Aug. 20, Captain Andrew
Fuller .aged 60 years.
S. E. LUCAS, Optician
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180 S King St
DEATHS.
Let him have THE TOMO
Every Month.
50c. a year.
flit firs! national $atik of Hawaii
CAPITAL «500,000.
AT HONOLULU.
CECIL BROWN. Pres.
W. R. CASTLE.
M. P. ROBINSON, VlcePres.
O.
N.
WILCOX.
SURPLUS 1123,000.
L. T.
Q. P.
PECK. Cashier.
CASTLE.
United States Government Depository
General Banking.—lssues Drafts, Money Orders, Letters of Credit
and Cable. Transfers available in all parts of the world.
ACCOUNTS INVITED
�September, 1910
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If You
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THE RANK OF HAWAII, Ltd.
Honolulu
HAVE A FULLY EQUIPPED
HOUSEHOLD DEPARTMENT.
including Garland Stoves and
Ranges, Aluminum Ware, Enameled Ware. Kitchen Furnishings,
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Co.
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Especial attention given to Mail Orders.
General Mercantile Commission Agents.
Queen St., Honolulu, T. H.
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HENRY LIMITED
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IMPORTERS, COMMISSION
ARE THEY JAPANESE?
GIVE THEM THE TOMO
AND
50c. a year.
AUTOMOBILE MERCHANTS
Honolulu, T. H.
A BIBLE WITH
ALL ON THE SAME PAGE.
REVERENT, SCHOLARLY AND
FULL OF INSPIRING SUGGESTION.—IT IS
Scofield's
ALWAYS USE
TELEPHONES
Sugar Co., Haiku Sugar Co.. Paia Plantation Co.. Kihel Plantation Co., Hawaiian
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oiowalu Plantation, Waimanalo Sugar Co.,
OFFICERS—H. P. Baldwin, Pres't; J. B. Honolulu Plantation Co., Kilauea Sugar
Castle, Ist Vice-Pres't; W. M. Alexander, 2d Co., Hilo Sugar Co., Baldwin Locomotive
Vice-Pres't; J. P. Cooke, Treas.; W. O. Works, Oceanic Steamship Co.
Smith, Secy; George R. Carter, Auditor.
LIST OF OFFICERS—E. F. Bishop,
President; Geo. H. Robertson, Vice-President and Manager; W. W. North, TreasurSUGAR FACTORS AND COMMIS- er;
Richard Ivers, Secretary; J. R. Gait,
Auditor; C. H. Cooke, R. A. Cooke, G. K.
SION MERCHANTS.
Carter, A. Gartley, Directors.
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you will think of future as
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Begin by opening a saving
account with this bank, «*» .**
Bankingby mail, 44% interest.
C. J.
A. SCHAEFER & CO.,
Importers and
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P.
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Telephone Blue 2741.
62 King Street.
CLOTHES CLEANED AND REPAIRED.
H. Williams
Henry
FUNERAL DIRECTOR.
Graduate of Dr. Rodgers Perfect Embalming School of San Francisco, Cal.,
also of The Renouard Training School
for Embalmers of New York. And a
Licensed Erabalmer for the State of
New York, also a member of the State
Funeral Directors Association of California.
MONUMENTS
Hawaiian Board Book Rooms
MERCHANT AND ALAKEA STREETS,
HONOLULU.
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1142, 1144 FORT ST.
Residence. 240 King Street.
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Vol. LXVIII
HONOLULU, H. T., OCTOBER, 1910
No. 10
HARMONY TOO HIGH PRICED.
Did he not accept a place on the
Prohibition Campaign ComPeople's
Aug. 20 to Sept. 20, 1910.
The Republican party in Hawaii is mittee?
again in quest of solidarity. It is buying
RECEIPTS
Did he get a "tip" that the Liquor peoup peace in its ranks in order to win at
A. B. C. F. M
The price that it pays (at ple were going to win, that he went back
$ 115.00 the polls.
A. M. A
3.00 least a part of it) looks innocent enough: on his promise to "stump" the Islands for
Chinese Work
Prohibition?
20.00 it is SILENCE.
English Portuguese Work
30.00
Was his trip to Reno "for his health"
But Silence is by no means unfailingly
Friend
24.70 fair.
or to kill time ?
Hawaii General Fund
30.50
Was the coming in of the yacht Hawaii
Concerning the Delegate, for instance,
Hawaiian Work
5.00
(ahead of expectations) somewhat disis
UnSilence
unfairness.
working
great
Hoaloha
143.99
spairing praise is heaped on Kuhio for appointing to a man who could not on
Hyde Property Income
2.80
a number of benefits from Con- election day inform the public explicitly
Invested Funds
382.20 securing
gress for Hawaii. He will be voted for which way he was intending to vote?
Japanese Work
93.00
on that issue, while George B. McClelAll this may involve a dead issue in
Kalihi Settlement
253.25 lan,
who
factor
all
the
minds of some. But the liquor issue
large
in
very
was
a
Maui General Fund
100.00
effort,
is
a dead one; neither is the quesCongressional
commonly
igis
never
Oahu General Fund
644.00
tion
of
a
man's honor.
nored.
Office Expense
3.20
Kuhio will lose some votes unless he
Probably a recent criticism of Kuhio
Palama Settlement
50.00
Tomo
2.00 by a Honolulu gentleman had a slant too can explain himself satisfactorily on the
unfriendly when he said, "One act of Ku- above points.
$1,902.64 hio's alone has my unqualified approval
T. R.
—his selection of a secretary." As it
Ji
seems more probable that the "selection"
EXPENDITURES.
referred
to is not Kuhio's but the result
A DISTINGUISHED VISITOR.
Alexander Settlement
$ 75.00
of a political maneuver whereby a strikBush Place
12.42
1 lonolulu is again honored by the preing Hawaiian figure looms big at the
Central Kona Settlement
25.00
sence
of Mrs. S. L. Mills, so well known
a
head of ticket—properly ballasted by
Chinese Work
$193.50
to many residents here, who is spending
some
unadvertised
criticism
ability—the
Salaries
510.95
falls still wider of the mark. It all seems a few weeks in her old home, where she
604.45
on Mr. McClellan; but it may be so successfully labored in the cause of
rough
Educational Fund
140.00
answered
that he knew what he was do- education, with her husband, the late
English Portuguese Work...* 32.00
when
he took that particular posi- Rev. C. T. Mills. D. D. Though for over
ing
Salaries
728.50
tion.
In
which
latter case the unfairness forty years Mrs. Mills has been a prom760.50
is
more
apparent
than real: perhaps few- inent figure in educational circles in CaliFriend
62.05
er
are
fooled
people
by the combination fornia, she retains a warm and vivid
General Fund
11.10
memory of the days she spent in the
we
than
supposed.
Salaries
605.00
"sixties" at Punahou, helping in a markHawaii General Fund
3.75
ed degree, to guide into active manhood
Speak
Up.
417.05
Salaries
and womanhood many who have held
Hoaloha
49.51
But there is a graver count against and are still occupying positions as leadHyde Property Income
50.00 Silence in the case of Kuhio. The big
Investment
336.25 winsome dollar that so readily covers the ers in the enlarging life of Hawaii nei.
Prior to their residence in Hawaii, it
Japanese Work
$ 78.00
public eye, seems to have spread down will be remembered that Dr. and Mrs.
Salaries
761.75
over the mouth, so that there is no seeing Mills were
engaged in missionary educa839.75 nor speaking of anything else.
In the beKalihi Settlement
314.00 lief that there is something bigger than tional work under the American Roard in
Office Expense
28.25 dollars and finer than silence, we hold India. After their years of earnest effort
Palama Settlement
166.00 that Kuhio should be held to account for at Oahu College, they entered upon their
great work for the education of the
Preachers' Training Fund
25.12 his political trickery
in the matter of the young women of California and adjacent
Tomo
33.00 plebiscite. As a
candidate for one of the states and territories. Many of our own
Walakea Settlement
75.00 most important offices
in the gift of the island young ladies have shared in the
people, let him answer to his record on benefits of the Seminary and College life,
J4.633.20 that question.
initiated by them both at Benicia, and
Excess of Expenditures over reWas he not avowedly for Prohibition later at the beautiful school home near
$2,730.56
ceipts
in the hearing before the Congressional Oakland. After the death of her husband
Overdraft at the Bank
$ 413.66
Committees—fighting the Curtiss bill Mrs. Mills carried forward alone this
T.R.
only on the issue of "Home Rule"?
splendid undertaking, with a heroism, dcTREASURER'S STATEMENT.
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October. I'HO.
THE FRIEND
termination and ability which places her Bishop Museum. The real article gave
in the front rank of leaders in the cause place to the large golden fan-like leaf of
of woman's education in the United the Amelia Siboldi, held high, and carStates. She has lived to see the accomp- ried with as much stately dignity as memlishment of a great work, and prophetic- ory could bring out of the old Kahili
ally sees the coming of a still greater. days. Halting before our alii, Mrs. Mills,
Within the past year she has resigned with profound res|>ect all offerings were
her position as active president, and to placed at her feet. Bedecked with leis
this important post the trustees have and Sower crowned she stood, smiling
elected Dr. Luella Carson, a lady of and bewildered at the puolus of bread
marked ability and leadership. With this fruit, I lawaiian oranges, papaias and
coming year the history of the seminary, guavas, with their appetizing flavors and
so fruitful in good results, will close, and the luau suggesting ti leaves so picturMills College, now well established, will esquely wrapped about them. Past and
continue its beneficent work for young present were discussed on the hospitable
women. Hawaii owes a debt of gratitude lanai with its charming vista of mounto this noble woman, now "within our tains, valleys and cane fields. .Names were
gates." On the eve of her eighty-fifth spoken tenderly that will never again rebirthday, she radiates still the marvelous spond to the roll call. Photographs of
vitality which has so preeminently char- Mills College were made living pictures
acterized her through a long lifetime of by Mrs. Mills' enthusiastic comments.
mtensest effort. Her heart still beats true Dainty refreshments were served.
for the best interests and the highest deThe cool sherbert brought to mind the
velopment in these "isles of the sea," as blessings of today, against the time when
for the advance of all that is good on ice was unknown, and with cherished
the mainland. She still remains with us memories of a taro leaf folded into a
as an inspiration and benediction! We Clip and filled with clear, cool water at
feel that we voice the sentiment of a host the I'unahou bubbling spring in the long
'iiff
of friends here in the land of her earlier ago.
ii
activities, in extending to their noble lady
ELLEN A. WEAVER.
a hearty and affectionate " Aloha ntii
Honolulu. Sept 25th, I'MO.
j»
loa."
P. W. D.
CANDY
STAND.
THE
the
schools at the
People who pass by
A HOOKUPU TO MRS. MILLS recess periods are greeted with a sight
which is anything but creditable to our
A group of "old girls" of the Mills city. Standing near the school gates
period of I'unahou school days made a will be seen one or more candy and soda
pilgrimage to Moanalna on a Saturday water stands, from which Chinamen of
afternoon to pay their respects to their benign countenance dispense their sweets
old-time teacher. Mrs. Mills, founder to a swarm of boys and girls and little
with her husband of Mills College, Cali- children. The crowd of pupils is somefornia, who is the house guest of Mr. times so great that one wonders if there
and Mrs. Frank Damon in their "Isle of has been an accident, but on drawing
tranquil delights." Repudiating "The nearer he finds them drinking, smacking
Blue Book," with its unerring birth dates, their lips, sucking their sticky fingers
and all the evidences of the marches and and talking to each other with mouths
countermarches of time on their beaming half full.
faces they drove dull care away to be
With stomachs thus polluted and their
girls again just for the day, and enjoy mind's keen edge already turned these
the unique pleasure of a hookupu witli pupils take up their studies in the early
all "its historical associations," modifying morning; at recess, instead of rushing
details to suit up-to-date conditions. Mrs. out for healthful s|x>rt, again they hang
Mills and her hostess, Mrs. Damon, stood around the candy stand; at noon likein the doorway of the pretty bungalow wise, and sometimes at the close of school
to receive the approaching procession, the scene is repeated.
headed by a "Mills Girl" bearing the
(riven a permanent candy stand at the
mammoth flower of the Aurelia Sil>oldi, school gate and the debauchery of the
its twelve great spoke-like fronds radiat- child's mind is well nigh inevitable. To
ing like a rimless wheel from the center, protect their children from it many parand all studded with crimson buds just ents try to inspire them with better ideals
ready to burst into bloom, its bearer lost and give them no money to spend, but
in the mazes of the great red flower octo- candy and soda water thrust under the
pus, and flanked by a Daughter of Ha- very nose of the ever hungry and
A thirsty school child—how can they help
waii chanting a Kamehameha mele.
company of kahili bearers followed with being a severe temptation? How often
their offerings. Kahilis are rarely seen does a child harbor resentment against
these days beyond the confines of the kind parents because they do not give
him a few nickels for refreshments! or
how often may he be tempted to get a
little change by deceit, so that he may enjoy himself and l>e like other boys!
We cannot help inquiring, why are
these candy stands allowed to encamp
around the schools? Do we think our
children ought to be thus pampered? Or
is it the dear Chinaman's smile we cherish for the children, so that we can not
bear to banish him from our school
gates? We wonder how many parents
are aware of the demoralizing influences
that center in the candy stand!
MIDWAY ISLAND
Hall to thee, watcher on this somber waste.
Thy mother Is the first of earth-born
daughters,
The deep abyss congealed from primal
mists.
And there the brooding Spirit still persists,
Upon the bosom of the surging waters;
From great creative days that never haste,
2.
Set as a beacon In the boundless ocean,
Built on a rock, thou dar'st to stand alone.
Alone when cloud-banks fill the gloomy
sky;
Alone when lightnings flash and storms
beat high;
Alone when dying surges cease to moan,
And slumbering waters He without a motion.
3.
Far out upon these barren solitudes;
Beyond the rush of eager throngs; beyond
The strife for all that warring men have
sought;
Beyond the civic claims that warp our
thought,
Holding us down to forms as with a bond,
I'd rest at last, and cease from all these
feuds.
4.
The fellowship of ever-thronging waves
Has not the fevered touch of toil and
stress.
The thrilling cries of far off Beablrds
sound
Upon thy cliffs, and echoes shrill re-
bound.
Till plaintive strains are stirred in each
recess,
Within the somber depths of all thy caves.
r>.
These birds that greet us with their piercing
tone,
Are the swift flying tenants of the deep,
Are messengers of courage, hope and
cheer;
For they are free. Their voice Is loud
and clear.
While their triumphant wings mount with
a sweep
I'll to the dizzy heights to man unknown.
6.
Oh that to me were known those sacred
heights,
That I might see what man has never
seen;
Might And the pillars thou hast planted
so
For
That storms can never shake.
down below
The storm-line lies the stable rock, in
green
Pellucid waters, full of subtle lights.
JOHN T. GULICK.
�October, 1910.
HIE FRIEND
5
his first contact with missionaries, whose Dodge. Between fifty and sixty pastors
religion he greatly despised but whose and delegates from .Maui were present.
We have been r lad to welcome Bishop righteous lives and patient, painstaking This number swelled to 140 for the SunHonda, who stopped over in this city for disposition he came more and more to day morning service and by afternoon
a few days on his return from the World admire. Men, like Doctors Brown and over two hundred people were present for
Missionary Conference in Edinburgh.
Ballagh of the Dutch Reformed Mission, the Sunday School convention.
(>n his arrival in New York a few
greatly interested him and influenced him The Hawaiian Board should feel very
weeks ago, Bishop Honda with Dr. Ibuka, in the right direction.
nappy over the work which Rev. Mr.
BISHOP HONDA.
president of the Meiji Gakuin, Tokyo, en-
deavored to arouse interest in the proposal to establish a Christian University
in Japan. The matter was laid by them
before an informal conference of board
secretaries and members held recently
The proposal has in a
in New York.
general way been supported by the Edinburgh Conference and it is hoped that
something may issue from it.
Bishop Honda has the distinction of
being the first, and thus far the only
Japanese who has been consecrated to
the office of bishop. In him the great
test has been made, and we have heard
ol no one who disputes his personal fitness for the office.
In the political world as well as in the
religious Bishop Honda is well known.
Strong pressure was brought to bear upon him to represent his district in the
Diet, when that body was first opened in
18't). It was a great temptation, and
most of his friends, both Japanese and
American, expected that he would regard
this as a higher call, but after a long
hard struggle he "decided to serve the
Lord as one of his humble servants."
Story of His Conversion to Christ.
Fact opened at Kaunakakai a little over
two years ago. From the old tumbledown
BISHOP HONDA
Tlir only Oriental linMlng ilir officr ol lliilinp.
At last, eleven of the young men of
meetings have been held in all his class in English were secretly bapof the Japanese churches in this city and tized in 1870 and the first Protestant
addressed by Bishop Honda. In his ser- Christian Church was organized in Yomon in English at the Methodist church kohama. The following year he also was
on September 2?, he gave an account of baptized and admitted to membership.
his conversion to Christ, of which the Then followed severe persecution. Sevfollowing is a brief resume: I le had been eral of these young men were disinherfrom early youth a sincere follower of ited. They weie driven from home and
Union
meeting house the congregation, now considerably enlarged over former days, has
moved into a beautiful new structure,
costing over $1,300, built under the direction of a committee of which Mr. Geo. I'.
Cooke was chairman, and Rev. David W.
K. White, our Lahaina pastor, architect
and inspector. Green and white are the
color effect on the outside; the inside is
highly polished with exposed truss work
to the very roof. The accoustics are perfect. The church is supplied with an organ and hymn books, the gifts of Mr.
and Mrs. Cooke, who attend church here
every week. Mr. Cooke plays the organ,
and keeps the congregation up to excellent time in the singing.
Rev. Mr. Gulick preached the sermon
of dedication. A printed service, which
was prepared with the help of Mr. NaIcuina some two years ago, and published
by Mr. Dodge, was used by the pastor
and his congregation. Over $200 was
raised by the convention for the church,
and the small remaining debt is now entirely cleared off.
The work of the Monthly Ministers'
School of Maui showed good results in
the presentation to the meeting of some
excellent work in the Old Testament
prophets by those who had been working
together along other lines of study for the
past few years. Under Mr. Judd's stimulating opening lecture at the class last
month upon the Prophets, the suggestion
was made that several of the men prepare
and read papers at this Kaunakakai
meeting. Excellent work of an unusually
interesting character was presented by
Mr. John Kalino and Key. George M.
Kauaulalena, and some Knglish speaking
Obedience to deserted by friends and relatives. But
they all stood the test and most of them
continue even to this day as leaders of
church work in Nippon.
The Bishop gave an interesting account
of the present status of Christian work pastors.
A delightful feature of the days on
in his own country as well as the new
mission recently established among the Molobai was the excellent luau given by
ten thousand or twelve thousand Japan- Mr. and Mrs. Cooke at their beautiful
attention to military tactics. 'Ibis proved ese in Korea, under the direction of Rev. ranch home in honor of the first birthday
some diversion.
11. Kihara. formerly paster of River celebration of their young son, George
Paul Cooke, Jr. The delegates greatly
Later came the restoration of the Em- street church of this city.
appreciated this delightful occasion.
peror, the overthrow of feudalism and
the confiscation of all lands belonging
R. B. D.
MAUI HAPPENINGS
to the Samurai class. His family was reduced to poverty. It was then that his The semi-annual meeting of the Maui,
spiritual struggles were renewed and in- Molokai and Lanai churches was held in "Beginning at Jerusalem"
Our Gospel responsibility probably
tensified.
He journeyed five hundred the new church at Kaunakakai, Molokai,
miles from his home in the northeast beginning Sunday, the 18th of September. covers the kitchen and the back yard.
The Hawaiian Board was represented
part of the empire, on foot mostly, to YoGive the cook THE TOMO.
kohama and joined a class of young by Rev. W. B. Oleson, O. 11. Gulick, H.
50c. a year.
men for the study of English. This was P. Judd, C. G. Burnham, and R. B.
the ethics of Confucius.
parents, loyalty to the empire, truthful
in conversation, respectful to elders—had
Constituted the whole of his moral training. He had, however, early awakened
to a dee]) sou! hunger which ethics alone
could not satisfy, lie longed for spiritual peace and power. While still a youth,
came the Civil War, and he devoted his
I
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THE FRIEND
MISSIONARY
WORK FOR RUSSIANS
IN HAWAII.
Professor Alexander's History informs
us that one hundred years ago, or from
1809 to 1816, through the agency of the
Russian governor of Alaska, Baranoff,
and others, several Russian adventurers
and traders visited these islands, and
gained a slight foothold on the island
of Kauai, but by the command of Kamehameha I. their enterprises were thwarted
and they were expelled from these islands. In 1816 the famous explorer Kotzebue visited these islands and held
friendly intercourse with Kamehameha.
Since then for a hundred years the Russian people have scarcely touched Hawaii.
Now in a wholly different form have the
Russians come into our midst. A few of
them are to be found at Pahoa in the ohia
forests of Puna, working in the saw mill
which is producing ohia ties for California railroads. Companies of them arc to
be found on several of the sugar plantations. A scattered few have found employ in Honolulu; and there remains a
small colony in the district of Iwilei in
I lonolulu.
A most interesting work for the children of the Iwilei settlement has been begun by Miss Isabel Namau, assisted by
Miss Mabel Ahina, of the Kaumakapili
church. These two ladies have gathered
upwards of forty of the children of this
suburb in a Sunday school. From 25 to
30 of these interesting Russian children,
together with six or seven Hawaiian, and
two or three Porto Rican children were
in attendance at the Kaumakapili Sunday
school review last Sabbath morning, led
by the tact and loving supervision of
these two Hawaiian maidens. The gospel
light was brought to these shores ninety
years ago. and now we find these Hawaiian Christian ladies bringing these gospel
blessings to these children of Russia.
God bless the faithful Sunday school
teachers and give them the joy of seeing
gospel light spreading among our jwlyglot people.
O. H. G.
Ji
BOY SCOUTS.
Colonel Bullard. of the 2'2nd U. S. Infantry, who has been conducting the instruction camp for the officers of the National Guard, gave an address on the Boy
Scout movement in K. of P. Hall Tuesday night, Sept. 18th. A number of prominent local educators and people interested in boys heard him, and as a result
are "boosting" the movement. About 70
boys are already enrolled.
FOR FLOOD SUFFERERS IN
JAPAN.
Some contributions have come unsolicited to the Hawaiian Board for the flood
sufferers in Japan.
Naturally there are sonic who like to
contribute in this way because of their
friendship with missionaries in Japan.
Especial interest is felt by some because in the very center of the flooded
district lives Rev. Hilton Redley, who is
well known and highly esteemed here
both by Americans and Japanese, and
through whose co-operation a new evangelist and wife are now on their way to
take up work in Hawaii nei. Mr. Pedley's personal losses by reason of the
flood were heavy, and the homes of many
of his Japanese fellow workers and
Christians were damaged or swept away.
If others wish to aid the sufferers thus
through the agency of the missionaries of
the American Board, their contributions
will be forwarded by Mr. Theodore
Richards, treasurer of the Hawaiian
Board. Box 489, Honolulu.
Ji
A NOBLE RECORD
We feel sure that the readers of The
Friend will find this report of the educational work carried on by Rev. Mr. Okumura most interesting:
During the past fifteen years 251 children have been received into the Japanese
Christian Boarding School for the purpose of English and Japanese education
under my care of Christian training. ()f
these students ?i~ were girls. Some of the
children have remained with us more
than ten years, while some have left in a
few months. Our school has provided
for mercantile life in Honolulu, two
faithful banking clerks; also several
clerks and workers who fill responsible
places in stores and on plantations. Eight
of our young men are receiving higher
education on the mainland.
We give especial thanks to God for His
help and guidance in sending one of our
earnest Christian workers to the field at
F.wa, while another is sent to the Osaka
Bible School. My son is taking a theological course at Vale College. Six more
young men are preparing for Christian
ministry.
These are encouraging facts, and we
feel sure our kind-hearted friends who
have so generously assisted our work,
from time to time, will join us in thanksgiving.
The much-talked of Mid-Pacific Institute is a reality.
We take pleasure in
sending our boys to the Institute. We
are grateful that the many hard problems are solved, and that our school con-
October. 1910.
tinucs tinder the auspices of the Hawaiian Evangelical Association as a preparatory to the Institute.
By the kindness of the Hon. W. R.
Castle we fere now happily located iv a
pleasant and beautiful home on King
street. We express our sincere thanks
and deep gratitude to the Hon. W. K.
Castle and to others, who have rendered
assistance towards the deficit of the last
re|)ort by the followingidonations
Mr. S. M. Damon. $25.00; Mr. G. I'.
Castle, $100.00; Mr. F. A. Schaefer.
$25.00; Mr. A F. Cook, $10.00; Rev. F.
S. Scudder, $5.00; Prof. W. D. Alexander. $5.00; Hawaiian Board, $200.00;
Investment
Hyde Premises
Fund,
$100.00, making a total of $470.00. and
leaving the small deficit of $108.20, to be
carried over to the next report.
During the winter we had 64 children;
8 were supported free of charge, 11 paid
half rates.
The semi-annual financial report is respectfully submitted.
T. OKUMURA.
Principal.
:
Semi-Annual Financial Rejxjrt
Japanese Christian Boarding School,
From January Ist to June 30th, |910.
RECEIPTS.
Boarders
Mary Castle Trust
$1,UU2.MJ
Mary Castle Trust (for familv
board)
Mrs. J. B. Atherton
Mrs. II. C. Coleman
Hawaiian Hoard
150.00
150.00
100.00
50.00
n0.00
$1,512.50
Total
DISBURSEMENTS.
$ 445.65
Rice and bread
823.75
Groceries
50.00
Fuel
110.25
Washing
Wages, cook and general servants
174.00
50.30
Minor Expenses
Total
Deficit
Deficit from last rq>ort
Total deficit
11453.95
$141.45
108.20
$249.
:249.f>5
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A HEALTH PRECAUTION.
The automobile will stir op and scatthrough the air a thousand times
more germs than the pedestrian can do
Is it not even more important therefore
to keep the streets clean than to guard the
sidewalk from pollution. Strict regulations against spitting on the sidewalk
only aggravate the danger unless the
rule is as strictly enforced on the street.
ter
�The Scribe's Corner
REV. WM. BREWSTER OLESON
Corresponding Secretary.
"Hot by chance Is It that the Iscomisg ecuI* tury find* to many thousands of souls
rcprcsenflna all the greater nations and
greater faiths or east and west, rilled with
the conviction that the world Is capable or
bclag made bener. that sin Is the social
plague that blasts humanlire. and that they
that are strong ought to bear the infirmities
ot the weak, and sot to please themselves."
—Charles
Cuthberl Hall.
to promote this kind of training by allowing the school to use land suited to this
end is the wisest kind of paternalism.
We trust the government may SM its
way clear to give the largest measure of
approval to the plans of Prin. Lyman by
making it easy for the school to acquire
the land in question for the proposed ex-
periment station.
Note.—Since this paragraph was in
type, the above mentioned tract of land
has been placed under the control of the
Federal Experiment Station, who will
establish on it a Farm Experiment Station under the direct management of
Prin. Lyman. This arrangement is an
eminently wise one, and we congratulate
all parties concerned.
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Clinching a Good Thing.
A pledge to give $5000 to the perma-
endowment of llilo Boarding School
has just been received by the trust-cs
conditioned on the securing of $10,000
from other givers, thus making a prospective addition of $15,000 to the permanent funds of this well-known and successful school. There is no more worthy
call before the giving public of Hawaii
today than to clinch this generous gift by
raising the necessary $10,(KM) to secure it.
It should be an easy matter to accomplish this. The securing of the $15,000
thus hoped for would bring the permanent endowment of the school to within
$1().0(X) of the $100.<XX) fund which
would make the school under present conditions self-supporting. Will not some
of the generous givers of the Territory
take Up this matter at once, and make it
possible, first of all, to secure the $5000
conditionally pledged, and then later to
secure the final $10.()(K) to make the permanent endowment of $1(X),(MX) complete?
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on Right
Lines.
The training at llilo Hoarding School
is specially practical, and suited to the
needs of the young men who are served
by this school. Special training is provided in intelligent farming. Efforts are
being made to secure a specially desirable
tract of government land adjoining the
school premises, which will be devoted to
farm experiments under Mr. Clowes, a
man well equipped by nature and educa-
tion for this responsible task. There is
no measurement of the value of this
kind of training for many of the youth
of Hawaii. They must get on to the
land, in considerable numbers, or go to
the wall. To know how to compel the
land to give forth its riches is an education worth having. For the government
Politics and Religion.
They will mix. In fact, they mix a
good deal in this country. Were it not
for this fact, possibly politics would be
worse than at present. In all likelihood
religion helps polities more than politics
helps religion. Certainly the deeper religious convictions have less sway where
the atmosphere is surcharged with political excitement. This was the case recently at llilo where the Association was
sandwiched in with two political conventions, At some of the gatherings it was
difficult to detect at a distance whether
a man was a Republican or a Home
Ruler or a Christian! The writer was
A Seven Days' Wonder.
The paflplie of Molokai have witnessed
a mysterious transformation. A bell buoy
off Kamaloo Point, that has for years
refused to ring, and has Ix-en a sort of
tossing sphinx on the uneasy billows of
that treacherous coast-line, has suddenly
acquired the |>owcr to semi out a searching flashlight that has amazed the fishermen. This has been due to the installing
of an acetylene gas lamp in the buoy,
that, I am told, needs no caretaker, but
works automatically, and is good for six
months' service without renewal. No one
goes to the light at eventide, but lo! the
astonished beholders see the Hash come
out across the waters regularly with the
dying of the day.
Three of us rode for miles together
alongshore, a Japanese, a Hawaiian, and
a haole. We talked about the mysterious
light. We talked in a comical mixture of
Hawaiian, English and nondescript. The
Japanese was the inquisitive one, the
iiaole furnished the requisite information
and the Hawaiian dilated in detail on every feature of the marvelous light. The
marvel grew in the eyes of the Japanese
at every new development. The cheapness
ness of the light, the long duration of
the light, the value of water in producing
the light, the simplicity of the process,
all appealed to the ()riental imagination.
He had evidently had his troubles with
kerosene lamps. Here was an easy solution for all his troubles. Why couldn't
he have a flashlight buoy in his house?
present at a Supervisors' meeting during And after a fashion he may. and probliis stay in Hilo that was opened with ably will, for nothing is more than a
prayer; and he passed the hall where a seven days' wonder in these crowding
political convention was singing
days that bring the world's latest inventions and plant them squarely in th* face,
"( hir fathers' (iod, to thee.
of primitive people who are fast becomAuthor of liberty,
ing the only ones who wonder at anyTo thee we sing:
thing. However, many a mariner will rebright
our
land
be
Long may
joice every time he sees the Kamaloo
Willi freedom's holy light ;
gas-light buoy, and will go on his course
Protect us by thy might.
content and happy.
Great (iod, our King."
Certainly we are many of us home
rulers in our love of country and in our
longing for God's blessing on the land.
It would certainly be no disadvantage to
our )x>litics if there were a little more of
genuine religion mixed with it.
The
writer has known political conventions
where the atmosphere seemed surcharged with the sentiment: 'He who enters here should leave his religion outside.' But the world makes headway.
Politics and religion are becoming letter
friends, and the coalition is not likely to
hurt politics any. We are working for
the coining of the kingdom of heaven on
earth, and when that conies |>olitics and
religion will coalesce in a final merger,
and the Father's will on earth will be
done as in heaven.
'T am only One. but I am One;
I cannot do Everything but I can do
Something.
What I can do I ought to do,
And what I ought to do, by the Grace of
God. I will do."
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For those Jajianese Servants ?
More than we think, perhaps. Let them I
read a Christian paper in their own I
tongue. It is THE TOMO. 50c. a year
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Educational Advance
F. W. DAMON
A MID-PACIFIC GENESIS WITH
AN INTERNATIONAL
SIGNIFICANCE
In a recent issue of The Friend a somewhat detailed account of the developing
work of the "Mid-Pacific Institute," in
both its departments, was given. Hence,
at
the present time, we would only call
attention to the fact that the work of
"Mills School," the Boys' Department,
has been definitely launched on the campus in Manoa Valley, when "Kawaiahao
Seminary" has preceded it by some two
(m September I,2th the doors of
splendid new school hall opened in
welcome to the noble company of young
years.
our
which it was designed. We feel sure that
the noble friend who, with such large
foresight, gave this spacious structure to
the cause of Christian education, and
those other friends, who have so generously aided in its most satisfactory furnishings, will rejoice in the good use being made of this new school home.
It will be of interest to our friends,
we believe, to know that in the boarding
department of Mills School there are
now one hundred and forty-four (144)
students, and in the day school forty (40)
additional pupils, a total of one hundred
and eighty-four students ( iX4). Of this
number 87 are Chinese. 64 Japanese, 27
Koreans, 4 Hawaiians. 1 Marshal Islander. 1 Philippino.
In our (iirls' Department, Kawaiahao
Seminary, there are one hundred and
six (106) pupils. The student enrollment in the "Mid-Pacific Institute" now
numbers two hundred and ninety
(**o) with combined faculties numbering over twenty-five ladies and gentlemen. The trustees, faculty and students
hope a little later to invite the friends
of the work to join in appropriate dedicatory exercises in connection with the
opening of this new school hall.
men and boys of many different nationalities, who, with hearts filled with high
hope and expectancy, found here the
heartiest of welcomes. The long corridors with their massive stone arches,
framing glorious views of mountain,
plain and sea, were alive with their joyA MEETING IN MID OCEAN.
ous voices and hastening feet. Principal
Merrill and his efficient and enthusiastic
The Student Alliance of Hawaii reco-workers in the faculty found a great cently most heartily and enthusiastically
work calling them. Registration and or- welcomed a large number of Chinese
ganization have filled recent days to the students en route to the mainland and bebrim with work. Splendid contingents came their hosts, assisted by certain Chifrom the Japanese Boarding School of
nese merchants, during their stay in lltour honored co-worker. Rev. Mr. Oku- waii. Last year a body of Chinese govniura. and from the Korean Mission
ernment students passed through HonoSchool of our loyal friends of the Meth- lulu, numbering over forty persona, but
odist church, with many others, met the in this last company there were nearly
"Old Guard" of Mills Institute and al- seventy students. They presented a fine
ready a harmonious and inspiring union appearance as they landed, courteous,
has been formed. Work is well under gentlemanly, fine-looking young fellows,
way, ranging from early studies in the
clad in the array of Harvard, or Vale or
grades, up through, to. and well into Chicago; just from Canton, from Shanghigh school work; a good start has been hai, and Peking, yet. many of them
made in our commercial department and speaking English with fluency and disHawaiian sunlight was floodbeginning to take form. The Oriental
ing the wharf, but it seemed as if we
studies of this international school are were dreaming. The world and the people
being guided by able instructors. Above
in it certainly "do move." Three comall else from the first, the keynote of this missioners of education accompanied the
school, dedicated to Christ and the ad- party.
We were soon "old friends," and
vance of His Kingdom, has been sounded the company marched up to the beautiin the Institute Hymn, shared by both ful grounds of the Executive Building.
departments of our "Mid-Pacific Insti- Here bands of ten were formed, each
tute:"
placed under the leadership of a member
"We've a Message to give to the Nation*,
of the local Alliance, and a pilgrimage to
the "sights of Honolulu" was begun.
That all of the world* great peoples,
Luncheon was served in the spacious
May come to the troth of God."
dining hall of the Kawaiahao Seminary
The new building is proving itself ad- in Manoa. Long tables, decorated with
mirably adapted for the purposes for tropical fruits and flowers, welcomed
our industrial and agricultural work is tinction.
October, I'MO.
well over one hundred guests. Principals and professors from a number of
our local institutions joined in meeting
the students at the festive board. The
Chinese Consul and his secretaries were
with us as honored guests. Later the
company adjourned to the beautiful assembly ball, where a most stimulating
and interesting hour was passed.
"America" and "The Star Spangled
Banner" were sung in full chorus, with
rousing and inspiring effect. Addresses
in the Cantonese and Mandarin dialects and in English followed in
quick succession. As the names ot
the different provinces of the empire were called, the students representing a particular province rose ami, as
the list was made up we found that nine
of the provinces of the great land of
China had their representatives in our
sea-girt territory. From Chili on the
north to Ouangtung and Quangsi on
the south, including many of the central
provinces, bordering the great YangtsekiaiiLT river, they brought their greetings. One told us of his home in that
mighty province, in the far west of China
adjoining Thibet, a province with an
area equal to that of France. Some had
been students in different imperial institutions, while others came from St.
John's College in Shanghai, from the
Christian College of Canton, and other
missionary schools. It was a wonderful
and splendid roll-call, eloquent in its suggestions of the great work now going
forward in China, and prophetic of that
still greater work which is to be accomplished. These students have gained the
privilege of continuing their studies on
the mainland of the United States as a
result of their success in passing recently
certain competitive examinations in Peking. Their expenses are paid from the
lioxer Indemnity Fund, the return of
which to China by the government of the
United States is one of the noblest and
most Christian acts in the history of the
onward growth of the human race. These
young men, the flower and hope of modem China, form the largest band of students yet sent out by the Chinese government. They are by this time busily
at work in some nine of our leading
American universities. It is a pleasure
for the Friend to present with this issue
a picture of this truly historic company,
with certain of their island friends, taken
at the entrance portal of Mills School, of
the Mid-Pacific Institute. College "yells"
and cheers filled the air as the steamer
bearing these young Argonauts,seeking a
treasure more precious than the "Golden
Fleece," swung out into the harbor, on its
further journey. May their highest hopes
be realized and China and the world be
blessed through their efforts!
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GOVERNMENT STUDENTS
FROM CHINA,
En Route to the Mainland, visiting the Mid Pacific Institute.
THE GOOD WORK AT THE HILO the expenses at about $1200. Of this THE NEW YEAR AT MAUNAOLU
sum $735 have already been donated.
SEMINARY.
BOARDING SCHOOL.
The steam plant connects with the
We are glad to hear as follows from
We are glad to hear from Principal kitchen, the dairy and the poi house. In
our system of improvements it is pro- Miss Heusner with reference to this
Lyman as follows:
mised to place steam kettles in the kitch- Seminary:
"School opened on September sth with en, and to fit up a neat little up-to-date "Maunaolu has once more opened her
a promising number of pupils, the new dairy, the fittings for which have already doors to the girls of Hawaii nei for the
pupils being mainly Hawaiians. During been ordered and are on the way.
purpose of training their young hearts
the vacation we have erected and fitted
It was rather an exciting time when and minds to true and useful womanout a new three-roomed building. Con- the poi factory turned out its first poi on hood. Nearly all of last year's pupils
siderable complicated work has been done the third day of the school, as machine- have returned and many new ones enin connection with its construction, as it made poi was a new idea to the new tered, so that the prospects for a full atcombines steam plant, dairy and poi fac- pupils.
tendance are most promising.
tory. The masonry, the setting of the
Mrs. E. H. Westervelt, who for the Our teachers found that a delightful
steam boiler, and the rather complicated past ten years has. been identified with vacation could be spent on the islands,
arrangements in the poi factory of auto- the work, severed her connection with and have come back to their work rematic lifts, shafting and carrier trays re- the school last June, in order to place her freshed and ready to put forth their best
quired some careful work, and we are children in college.
efforts. With these exceptions there are
Miss Helen Clowes has been added to no changes in the faculty. Mrs. Buckproud to say that we found our school
force able to do the work. Not only have the force. Mr. Nelson Stacy entered the enham succeeds Mrs. Mason as matron,
the boys received very valuable instruc- field last April to substitute in the car- and Miss Estelle Balcom, sister of our
tion in this practical work, but their ef- pentry department for Mr. M. Yama- music teacher, comes as trained nurse.
forts have greatly decreased the total ex- moto while the latter was on a leave of We are thus enabled to give much more
pense. A skilled workman would have absence in Japan. Mr. Stacy remains in attention to the teaching of physiology
charged from $2 to $7 a day for the labor the carpentry department, and as Mr. and hygiene.
Yamainoto has returned from Japan, we
they thus covered.
And so we can truly say we are started
It is only through our doing the work have thus doubled the strength in the in on a new year's work under most favorable conditions."
ourselves that we have been able to keep busiest department of the school."
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OPENING DAYS AT KOHALA
SEMINARY.
Miss McConnick writes as follows:
"()ur
school opened last Monday, but
we are hardly in order yet. and so have
much to rci>ort.
I spent my vacation in Japan, and returned to find the school buildings had all
been repaired and many needed improvements made.
We have two new teachers this year:
Miss Claribel Bickford, of Los Angeles
(a graduate of Oberlin ) takes the intermediate work, and Miss Gladys L. Grose,
a graduate of Oberlin Conservatory,
takes the primary and music work. The
other teachers remain the same.
We have enrolled fifty-six girls, but
have had to refuse others because of a
lack of room and scholarships. The enrollment reached fifty-one the first day,
which is splendid for here. There seems
to be a tendency toward older girls coming. This year we have only seven in
the three lowest grades, the others all entering higher grades —most of them the
fifth and sixth."
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SHORT CUTS
A Sermon by Rev. Frank Ncwhall White. D. D
•t
Central Union Church.
.
Some who could not have the privilege
of hearing the series of sermons delivered
by Dr. White this summer at Central
Union Church have expressed a wish
that one of them might be printed in The
Friend. We take pleasure, therefore, in
presenting to our readers the following,
which was the last of the series:
Doctor White said:
" 'No sign shall be given to it but the
sign of the prophet Jonah.' The Pharisees asked for a sign, that is, they were
after a shortcut to intellectual certainty.
The passion for shortcuts, so characteristic of our age, and of all ages, is by
no means always a reprehensible thing,
as Jesus asserts it was in this particular
case. Whether it is wholesome or vicious
depends on the kind of shortcut a 111.111 is
after.
"A goodly fraction of the railway
activity of recent years has gone into
precisely this work of securing straighter and shorter tracks from place to place,
the abolishing of curves, the avoidance of
high grades, the tunneling of ridges and
mountain ranges. The whole difference
between failure and dividends frequently
hinges on the discovery of a short cut
that makes possible the avoidance of the
curve over and the curve around.
"I.cc had Grant at bay and foiled him
repeatedly during that awful summer of
1H64, for the Simple reason that be bad
possttsiou of the inside lines: in other
words, controlled the short cuts. Lee
could go straight: Grant had to go
around. Every successful invention represents a short cut to efficiency: every
tool furnishes a short cut to the working
hand and arm: telegraph and telephone
afford short cuts for speech; speech itself is the consummate short cut in getting ideas from man to man. The history
of civilization might be written in terms
of the short cut. All honor then to th:
human endeavor that keeps up a rest
less search for the short cut.
"But there are short cuts and short
—those that merit only praise,
those on the other hand that spell disgrace; those on the one hand that represent a large investment of energy and
treasure, those on the other that express
sheer laziness and ineritia and the passion to get something for nothing. It is
needles to say that Jesus accuses the
Pharisees, in their search for a sign, of
being guilty of this latter thing.
"For wjiat has happened? A wonderful man has appeared that has set the
nation agog. The crowd is talking about
him. The mob is thronging him. I le
said striking things. Never man spake
like this man. He spoke with an insight
and authority never detected in the
scribe. He did marvelous things., Health
exhaled from his touch like fragrance
from an apple orchard in full bloom. He
was unusual from every point of view.
His personality, his treachery, his character, his deeds, all presented a puzzle that
baffled the cleverest. Who was he? What
might he be? What they should do is
honestly to test him. study him, observe
him, examine his claims; in a word, think
their problem through. But that takes
time, takes brains, takes a costly expenditure of energy. They balk at that. They
are busy men, they will have the question
settled out of hand. 'Show us a sign,'
they demand. In other words. 'Do someWe
thing startling, extraordinary.
haven't time to waste over you. If you
want us to take you at your own rating,
compel us to l>elieve by some feat of magic power.' You see what that means,
the demand for satisfaction without being willing to pay the cost. They wanted
the quarry without the fatigue of the
hunt. They asked that the truth be put in
their open palms done up in a neat parcel, properly labeled and accredited, without so much effort on their part as the
turn of a hand. They wanted, in a word,
something for nothing.
cuts,
October,
1910.
"The moment you get at the true inwardness of the situation, you see what
a common, prevalent thing it is with
which we are dealing, lt has a score of
disguises, but is the same spirit of mischief and evil under every disguise. Why
do people wear amulets and repeal
charms? Simply because they have juggled themselves into believing that they
can cheat the laws of nature and purchase
personal safety in some cheap way that
requires no personal watchfulness and
effort. I low explain the vogue of the
fortune-teller and the medium? Why.
they stand in popular thought for clever
shortcuts to bidder* information, to fortune and success. What is the secret of
the sway of popular superstitions concerning numbers and days, lucky and unlucky, and the like? Simply, that they
are supposed to represent occult influences beyond the control of the will,
which, if you can manage to avoid their
CV I eye and curry favor with them, will
work for you instead of against you, and
guarantee immunity from danger and a
sure road to success, and leave you care
free into the bargain.
"These, however, only begin the enumeration. Men are after the short cut in
health. A familiar advertisement pictures
a gormand with a broad smile on his face
seated behind a plethoric turkey sprinkling it with pep-salt, some such legend
as this underneath: 'He has no fear of a
hearty meal." The advertisement is a
symptom; it answers to a widespread demand, the demand for some device by
which a man may eat what and all he
pleases, abuse his digestion, violate every law of health, throw caution to the
winds, and be immune from the consequences. Many a man, and woman, too,
has use for the doctor only as a sort of
insurance to cover the risks of reckless
indulgence and vicious habit.
"Men want the short cut in business,
and so long as they want it with such
unanimity there will be no lack of lambs
to be fleeced by the bucket shop and devoured by the larger carnivora of the
board of trade. Each new day will furnish a fresh quota of gullible victims for
the fake mine, oil well and real estate
promoter; and all the king's horses and
all the king's men will not be'able to hold
back the crowds that throng the gambling
halls and j)ore over the colored dope
sheet of the yellow press. Mighty is the
hunger of humanity to get something for
nothing.
"Men want intellectual short cuts.
Multitudes have found a haven of
mental rest in the Roman Church; for
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the church has said with siren voice,
'Trust your minds and consciences with
me, and I will hold them in safe keeping.
Leave your doubts with me for solution.
I will think for you. prescribe for you,
si live problems for you, guarantee the fufor you.'
"Storm-tossed and perplexed spirits
through the centuries have yielded in vast
numbers to the fascinating spell of a
great institution that saves them the stern
necessity of hard thinking and perplexing
discrimination, and stands ready at any
moment to speak the final word.
Its
power will continue so long as men are
caught by the lure of the elusive shortcut to spiritual certainty.
ture
"Men want the short cut in character
Most men. it is safe to say
all men, would like to be better than they
are.
They would rather be good than
bad. They would be good if it weren't
too inconvenient and costly. If only they
could take goodness in capsule or tabloid
form at night and wake up the next
morning transformed in tastes, purposes
and enthusiasms—if they could but take
their old natures to the tailor or cobbler,
and. Tike clothes or shoes, have them
mended while you wait—if only they
might make a lucky find of a remnant
character on the bargain counter, to be
purchased for a song—you could have
heaven on earth tomorrow. I believe with
all my heart in a genuine and passionate
evangelism, lint if popular evangelism
is suffering any disrepute, it arises from
the fact that it offers to the unthinking
crowd the one thing it dearly loves, viz.,
an easy, too easy, shortcut into the kingdom of heaven. Thousands repudiate
the Christian life today because they look
upon themselves as the victims of misplaced confidence. For were they not assured that, given but the lifting of a
band, a word of confession, a breath of
prayer in a moment of contagious excitement, and. presto! old things would pass
away and all things would become new;
whereas, they found themselves facing
the old devil the next day, with a fiercer
fight on than before? The hunger for
short cuts in religion is ineradicable; men
are bound to have something in character for nothing. And in the reaction of
disillusionment and disappointment that
inevitably follows the abortive attempt
they renounce the whole quest with a
curse, to the infinite loss of the Master
and their own.
" 'An evil and adulterous generation
seeketb after a sign,' replied Jesus to the
demand of the crowd, 'and there shall no
sign be given it but the sign of Jonah the
prophet: for even as Jonah became a sign
to the Ninevites, so shall also the Son of
Man be to this generation.' What hapand destiny.
Simply this: Jonah the prophet
Nineveh and warned the people
of impending calamity. The Ninevites
saw the point. They did not parley, or
palaver, or hedge, or shuffle or evade.
Without more ado they did what all people in the possession of their senses
should do—they set about averting the
calamity.
They knew where the shoe
pinched. They made use of eye and ear
and brain and conscience and common
They repented, reformed their
sense.
lives, paid the price in changed characters, cleaned house morally—and the
threatening clouds cleared away.
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are no others.
"Men want intellectual certainty. They
ask for a sign, a voice out of the sky, a
message written on the heavens, an authoritative verdict from a papal chair.
And they can have no sign but that of
the prophet Jonah. Oh, you cannot have
something for nothing. You must pay
the price of honest search, eager striving,
genuine struggle, determined thinking.
You have reason. Do not despise it; use
it; it is from God and leads to God. You
have conscience: cultivate it. You have
the Bible; study and interpret it. You
have prayer: revel in it. You have a
heart; open it to the light. There is no
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shorter road. There is no cheaper way.
" 'And that,' Jesus says to the Pharisee, These are the signs; there are no others.
'is all the sign you shall have. The signs
yon are after are not outside you. but in" And what of character? If. conceivside. You ask me to convince your doubt ably, at every other point—health, busiby a spectacular display of magic power. ness, intellectual rest and peace—one
It would mean nothing if I did. Here I
might hope to get something for nothing,
am. My credentials are the words 1 when you come to the character that fits
speak, the things I do, the life I live, the one for heaven there, and makes heaven
man I am. Use your eyes, your ears, here or there, it
is a case of thus far and
your brains, your consciences. These are no farther. If, conceivably, one might
the only signs you or any other men will
the prizes of body, mind and
receive! Consult them. They are avail- capture
the magic of some occult sign,
trade
by
able; they are enough.'
character
presents an iron wall to the
"The words are as pertinent and valid interloper. If you might possibly hypnoas though spoken this very hour to men
flesh, brain and fortune, character is
and women of today. Men want short tize
and can never be taken by sursleepless
latitude
to
live
cuts in health ; they want
Salvation
is free; you cannot buy
prise.
as they please. They ask for a sign, but
But it costs tremendously before you
it.
the only sign that shall be given them get through with
it; costs alertness, costs
is the sign of the prophet Jonah. They
costs rigorous denial
unflinching
courage,
can have health on the same terms as the
sacrifice, costs the fight for mastery,
and
Ninevites of old, and on no other—clean costs the toil of the arduous campaign,
living, every appetite held in leash, no costs obedience, loyalty, calmness if yen
quarter given to any traitor impulse
please; costs money, brain, brawn,
found in camp, the holy keeping of the —costs
everything. It would be worthbody as the sacred temple of the Spirit of
less
it
did not. It is the costliest thing
if
(iod Himself. They have eyes, and ears,
world, because it is the best. The
the
in
consciences,
God
and intelligence, and
given, meant for use. The laws of health best comes high.
"You are seeking a sign ? All well and
are the only road to healUi, and these arc
so long as you are after the right
good,
the signs that light the road.
kind of a sign. But you have no need to
Jl
seek signs. You yourself are full of them
"Men make haste to be rich, and they Eyes and ears; use them, profit by exseek a sign. And they, too, shall have no perience. Common sense ; actually follow
sign but that of the prophet Jonah. it, and you'll be amazingly uncommon;
Again the only road to success is that most men are playing the fool. Reason;
furnished by the nature of things—so- stop trifling and begin to think. C Mibriety, industry, honor, integrity, econo- science; listen to it, honor it, obey it,,
my, thrift, truth, justice. 'Something for quicken it. Heart; follow its instincts,
nothing' is a will-o'-the-wisp, that floats and give it the God for whom it thirsts
only over the bog. The short cut is short, as the deer pants for the water brooks.
and the end is the quicksand and the Prayer; pray without ceasing, make evmire. Nineveh is just another way of ery deed a prayer. The eross—the cross
spelling Honolulu. Honolulu can avert on Calvary; in the heart of God, in your
calamity and earn success, as did its an- own life of sacrifice and loyalty. By this
cient Assyrian counterpart, by repentance sign—by these signs—conquer. By these
of its signs, by disinfecting its moral signs, and by these alone, shall you enter
plague sjMits, by bringing its total life into into the character that gives share in the
absolute obedience to the will of God. The inheritance of the saints in light. Work
open mind, the sensitive conscience, the our your own salvation; for it is God that
obedient spirit, the ready will, the con- worketh in you to will and to do of His
secrated life—these are the signs. There own good pleasure."
peued?
went to
�October, I'MO.
THE FRIEND
12
Men Working for Men
PAUL SUPER
Going After Them.
The advertising of the Association this
fall is the most systematic system of getting men interested in the organization
that has yet been made. First a pamphlet
called "Where to Invest Your Surplus:
A Suggestion to Young Men," was issued. This described the Association in
action, showing the prospective member
just bow it would be to belong to the
Association, the things he could do, and
the men he would meet. This was followed by a letter to a selected list of business men urging the importance of exercise and describing our facilities for regular and special gymnasium work. To
rouse the ambition of young men and get
them interested in the educational work,
a short illustrated pamphlet called "Some
Pointers on Getting There" was issued.
There were five of these pointers, of
which we reproduce the first:
POINTER NO. 1.
of work in our night school. < )ver a
hundred attractive window cards were
distributed. An exhibit of former students' work was placed in the window of
Day & Co. An attractive sign in front of
the building tells the courses we offer,
and a similar one shows what classes are
held in the gymnasium.
With What Re.ult ?
We are going to break all records in
membership and educational enrollment
and men using the gymnasium. We now
feel sure of 800 members, and 250 in the
night school, How we need our new
building! That 250 might as well be
400. We could get the men if we could
accommodate them. The only question
now is one of finding room for those
who apply. Meanwhile those who do not
come now owing to the unattractiveness
of our present building are put iv the
mood to join once we are well housed.
Business man after business man has
said this in. response to our fall advertising. Y. M. C. A. stock is high, politics
and a low stock market not affecting us.
in themselves; but they are made harder
by the lonesomeness of which almost all
newcomers complain. The solution of
this problem is the work of the young
Men's Christian Association and the
churches. We put the Association first
because of its more ready access to the
young men. and its all-week adaptability
to their needs. To y;et hold of these men
is the chief ambition of the religious work
committee. To this end it has organized
a "Watchman's Band," a group of young
men who will keep their eyes open for
strangers coining to town, and also be
on the watch for young men who appear
to be going wrong. The group will meet
one night a week for Bible study ami
conference under the leadership of a
business man who has had very successful experience in work for young men,
leading them to right living and church
activity.
Mr. ED TOWSK
Vvt ilir
( oinmittrr.
The Mountain Top of Success was not
Stumbled Upon. It was Reached
by Climbing.
Religious Question Club.
You will never meet a good Position
and a Share in the Business rolling lap
Hill. Success in Life will not call and
send in its Card, and wait if you are out.
You must Work to get to the Top or
even well started. If you wish to RISE,
resolve to Hustle.
This is another feature of the religious
plana for the winter. Robert E.
Speer has outlined a splendid course of
studies in what Jesus' attitude is or
would be to certain questions. Under
the leadership of Mr. Ebersole, a group
of men will meet one evening a week in
an informal discussion of these topics.
It is expected that this discussion will
attract many of the members who come
in for different purposes. These two
classes or groups, we hope, will develop
a nucleus for a strong religious work in
the new building.
work
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A clincher was needed, to tie up the
results of this cultivation. It was sent
out in the form of a pamphlet called "Pay
Day," gotten up by Mr. Larimer to show
the relation of education to the pay envelope. What more was needed? Just
one thing. Proof that we could do what
we promised. This we offered in the
form of a leaflet called "A Delivery Boy
Who Delivered." the story of a delivery
boy who rose to bookkeeper as a result
Chairman id the Membership
Mr has reduced the work uf
this iiiinmiltrr In a fifir an
past (ivr years
A. K. LAKIMKK,
Who
l> mikliK
Watchmen.
•
Hl(
lnilllulli.il ul llir
SCHOOL.
Mi.HI
Y. M
C.
A.
m
This year as never before we have had
the problem of the-strange-young-man"Say. Dick, what Is thla new fad they call
coming-to-town presented to us. The phonetic spelling?"
temptations the young men coming to "It's the kind, Jim, they uaed to flog me
Honolulu have to fight are fierce enough and you at school for using."
�Our Function.
Last issue we published a quotation
from a Chicago secretary on the field of
the Young Men's Christian Association.
Let us now offer the following quotation
from Prof. Theo. C. Scares of Chicago
I'Diversity on the function of the Association.
"If anyone ever had the notion, from
a study of the Young Men's Christian
Association, that a gymnasium or a reading room or a cafe were provided in order sooner or later to get a man into a
prayer meeting, he failed entirely to
grasp the Association idea. The objective
is not the prayer meeting but the man.
The man is to be found through every
avenue of interest, and his full manhood
is to be developed in relating his complex self to his task in the world in a
real consecration to human advancement.
The function of the Association, then,
is not to get men converted, the various
privileges being the baits that are used to
catch the fish. Nor is it to provide a respectable young men's club, a little religion tacked on to justify the Christian
name. This great brotherhood, nearly
a million strong all over the world, means
an ideal of manhood that refuses to be
satisfied while any single son of the race
is stunted, cramped, limited, prevented
from coming to his best. It means an
ideal "f society in which pure blooded,
13
THE FRIEND.
October, I 1) 10.
Notes From the Field
FRANK S. SCUDDER
Echoes from the Edinburgh World
Conference.
The World Missionary Conference at
Edinburgh has sounded a clarion note to
all Christians to enter the whole world
held—-to take a new grip all together to
win the world to Christ
This conference has set a new standard for missions. It came together, not
so much for the purpose of stirring the
masses on the subject of missions, but to
make a scientific investigation of the present condition of the field as a whole, and
one that would serve as a basis for more
thoroughgoing work in the future.
When we understand that 1200 delegates and 2500 visitors assembled, every
one of whom had devoted years of study
to the problem, and many of whom bad
spent years of patient, self-sacrificing devotion to the work under consideration,
we can imagine what must have been the
intensity of interest experienced by those
who attended.
The distinguishing characteristic of
this conference was that it was a body of
exftrts, chosen from among all professtrong manhood, is contributing its best sions, and from all nations to study facts
in loyal devotion. It means an ideal of and conditions which had been ascertainreligion in which the great word of Jesus ed by years of painstaking investigation.
is interpreted in all its fullness. "I am
come that ye might have life and that ye Unity in Diversity.
might have it abundantly."
"More languages were spoken than at
The brotherhood exemplifies and actu- Pentecost, yet the proceedings were in
ally practices these ideals with increasing English and all understood." Practically
significance, and it is clearly iv a position every Protestant denomination was reto contribute most vitally to the realiza- presented, yet the question of denomination of these ideals in the Christian so- tioualism, whenever brought forward,
ciety of the future."
only revealed an overwhelming desire to
Mr. W. A. Bowen will represent the minimize the difference and magnify the
Honolulu Association at the International underlying principles of unity between
Convention of Young Men's Christian all Christians, while the spirit of brotherAssociations, to be held at Toronto Octo- ly love and the sense of the presence and
ber 28-31.
leadership of Christ were realized as perMr. A. 1.. Gordon has arrived in Hono- haps never before.
lulu and has taken up his work as secretary of the O. R. ft L Co. Association Reports of Experts.
work. Mr. Cordon is a college man. and The work of the conference was much
has bad three years' experience in work
by the reports prepared by
with railroad men, having been assistant facilitated
commissions
which had been apeight
Railroad
Louis
secrctarv of the great St.
advance,
and
which were comin
pointed
Y. M. C. A. The building for this asso- posed of prominent leaders in the misHelen
Gould
ciation was erected by Miss
sionary world. Each commission had
at a cost of $225,000.
been engaged many months in studying
and obtaining by letters information resubject assigned to it, and
Unless we are very unlucky Indeed, we lative to the
days
the
in
of
its
presented
report together with the
good
fair
all get a
share
course of our little lives.
conclusions and recommendations of the
commission. These reports will later be
"There U nothing so kingly as kindness
published in eight volumes, and will form
as
truth."
and nothing »o royal
a most valuable library of missionary
knowledge. The subjects thus presented
( 1 ) Carrying the Gospel to All
were
the Non-Christian World; (2) The
Church in the Mission Field; (3) Education in Relation to the Christianization
of National Life: (4) The Missionary
Message in Relation to Non-Christian
Religions; (5) The Preparation of Missionaries: (6) The Home Base of Missions; (7) Missions and Governments;
(8) Cooperation and Promotion of Unity.
For Business, not for Parliamentary
:
Debate.
An interesting feature of the confer-
inflexible rule of limiting
each speaker to seven minute* in debate.
ence was the
Lord Balfour was chairman. All discussions were carried on in committee of
the whole, of which John R. Mott was
chairman. Mr. Mott with his customary
tact enforced the rule upon all alike, regardless of their position or fame —a circumstance which caused not a little
amusement. The consequence was a series of pithy speeches, full of fire and wit
and epigrammatic wisdom, such as may
rarely be heard in any assembly.
In order to avoid waste of time over
parliamentary procedure all resolutions
were excluded, excepting one only, which
provided for the formation of a Continuation Committee, in order that the forces
set in motion by the conference might be
made effective for broader cooperation
and further investigation.
Self Criticism.
Another epoch-making feature of the
conference was the disposition to face
without flinching every defect that could
be pointed out in the wide mission enterprise. There was little self-glorification ;
en the contrary, often the warmest api lause was elicited by s|>eakers who fearlessly exposed the weaknesses of the present work and methods. The church will
be brought face to face with the wicked
waste of duplicated effort when it hears
the emphatic statement that "by reasonable cooperation among the churches the
efficiency of the present working force
on the foreign mission field would be
doubled straightway." There was no
disposition to apologize for short-sighted
methods or to cover up disagreeable
facts. Facts were welcomed at whatever
cost to pride or personal feelings.
�14
THE FRIEND.
October, 1910.
jects presented by cx|>erts after deep and can be reached by any economy or organizaexhaustive study and investigation, the tion of the existing forces We need suChristian world should listen to its voice premely a deeper sense of responsibility to
with as much reverent interest as could Almighty God for the great trust which He
be accorded to any church council. We has committed to us In the evangelization
urge upon our readers therefore to give of the world. That trust Is not committed
more than passing heed to the following in any peculiar way to our missionaries, or
to societies, cr to us as members of this Conopen letter:
Cooperation and Unity!
No stronger sentiment found expression than that in favor of cooperation and
unity. To the foreign missionary it is
soon demonstrated that what appeals to
the people of all nations are not the doctrines that divide, but the fundament.d
spirit and teachings of Jesus. This was
ference. It is committed to all and each
the Members of the Church in within the Christian family; and lt It as inwell illustrated by the laconic statement A Message to Christian
Lands.
cumbent on every member of the Church, as
of a Manchu who said: "Denominational
distinctions do not interest the Chinese." Dear Brethren In Christ:
are the elementary virtues of the Christian
That which
There was no need of any further comWe members of the World Missionary life—faith, hope and love.
ment. The spirit and conviction of the Conference, assembled In Kdinburgh, desire makes a man a Christian makes him also a
conference on this subject was thus sum- to send you a message which lies very near sharer In this trust. This principle Is admed up by Dr. Barton:
to our hearts. During the past ten days we mitted by us all, but we need to be aroused
lt out in quite a new degree. Just
"Most foreign missionaries are teach- have been engaged in a close and continu- to carry
great national danger demands a new
as
a
study
Christianity
ous
of
the
of
In
position
the
non-Christian
world
the
essentials
ing
of Christianity which are held in com non-Christian lands. In this study we have standard of patriotism and service from
mon by all bodies of Christians. There surveyed the field of missionary operation every citizen, so the present condition of the
the missionary task demand from
is not a quarter as much sectarianism and the forces that are available for Its oc- world and
two years we have been every Christian, and from every congregacupation.
For
is
at
home; and there is
abroad as there
testimony about every de- tion, a change In the existing scale of misless of it in foreign missionary circlce.i gathering expert
Christian missions, and this tes- sionary zeal and service and the elevation ol
of
partment
at home than anywhere else. It is Mgspiritual Ideal.
nificant that foreign missions is the only timony has brought home to our entire Con- our
The old scale and the old Ideal were framconclusions which we desire
ference
certain
p'atform eft which a world conference
ed In view of a state of the world which has
to set forth.
could have been held."
ceased
exist.
are no longer adeJ»
Magnitude of the Work.
They
to
Our survey has Impressed upon us the
momentous character of the present hour. quate for the new world which is arising out
We have heard from many quarters of the
awakening of great nations, of the opening
of long-closed doors, and of movements
which are placing all at once before the
Church a new world to be won for Christ.
The next ten years will in all probability
constitute a turning-point In human history,
and may be of more critical importance In
determining the spiritual evolution of mankind than many centuries of ordinary experience. If those years are wasted, havoc may
be wrought that centuries are not able to
repair. On the other hand, if they are rightly used, they may be among the most glorious in Christian history.
We have, therefore, devoted much time to
a close scrutiny of the ways In which we
may best utilize the existing forces of missionary enterprise by unifying and consolid-
of the ruins of the old.
It Is not only of the individual or the congregation that this new spirit is demanded.
There is an imperative spiritual demand
that national life and influence as a whole be
Christianized; so that the entire impact,
commercial and political, now of the west
upon the east, and now of the stronger races
upon the weaker, may confirm, and not impair, the message of the missionary enter-
-
We quote again from Dr. Barton:
"The very magnitude to which the
foreign missionary enterprise has grown
callr, not so much for exultation as for a
sense of solemn responsibility.
It was
comparatively easy to supervise the early
stages of the work when there were but
few missionaries and a small expenditure.
prise.
But now there are 19,280 missionaries,
9*,388 native workers, 1,925,205 adult
The providence of God has led us all into,
coemmunicants, 5,29i,871 adherents. 81
a new world of opportunity of danger and
of duty.
cclleges and universities, 489 normal and
God is demanding of us all a new order of
theological colleges, 111 medical colleges,
92 nurses' training schools, 1,594 boardlife, of a more arduous and self-sacrificing
nature than the old. But If, as we believe,
ing and high schools, 284 industrial
the way of duty Ib the way of revelation,
28,113
kindergartens,
training schools,
there Is certainly Implied, in this Imperative
-901 elementary and village schools, 1,571
hospitals and dispensaries which treat..] ating existing agencies, by improving their call of duty, a latent asurance that God la
the training of their greater, more loving, nearer and more availin a single year 4,231,635 patients, J55 administration and
everything within able for our help and comfort than man has
We
have
done
agents.
oiphanages, 88 leper asylums, 21
for untainted children of lepers, 25 n- our power in the interest of economy and dreamed. Assuredly, then, we are called to
this endeavcr we have make new discoveries of the grace and pow
scttnf c« for the blind and for dct f efficiency; and In
unity of common action er of God, for ourselves, for the Church, and
inute*. 21 rescue homes fo- fallen wom- reached a greater
Christian for the world; and, in the strength of that
en, 103 opium refuges, 15 homes Or than has been attained in the
centuries.
Church
for
firmer and bolder faith In Him, to face the
widows, Z'i industrial homes, and the anage and the new task with a new conclear
to
us
new
Increasingly
But
lt
has
become
nual expenditure is $24,613,000, while
something far greater than secration.
that
we
need
Ine
,000
more
are
contributed
by
!f2,72*
i.ativcs. t! vinselves. Foreign missions 'ias
tiiiis liecomc a vast undertaking. It affects the character and destiny of twothirds of the human race. Such a movement demands clearness of vision, soundness of judgment, statesmanship, and administrative capacity of the highest order."
Consult the Hawaiian Board Book Rooms'
When such a body of men as assembled
in this Edinburgh conference has thus devoted itself to ten days of debate on sub-
How about your Sunday School
Supplies lor next Year ?
�October, 1910
THE FRIEND.
15
faithful mule "Hattie," amused and surprised most of the newcomers. There
was ample room in the village for the
[delegates, and all were soon comfortably
ihoused. Mr. James Munroe entertained
HENRY P. JUDD
the Rev. C. G. Burnham, Mr. and Mrs.
L B. Nevin of Kualaputi were hosts for
The Maui Association Meeting.
the Rev. R. B. Dodge, and Revs. Gulick,
()nce more the season for the semi- Oleson and Judd were the guests of Mr.
and Mrs. G. P. Cooke at their lovely
annual meetings of the Sunday School home at Kauluwai.
Associations and the Christian Endeavor
The opening session of the AssociaSocieties in the Territory is upon us.
The gathering of the S. S. Association tion was on Sunday morning, the 18th.
and the C. E. Societies of Maui County A short business meeting to appoint a
took place in the new church at Kauna- committee for the service of dedication
kakai, Molokai, in connection with the was followed by the preaching of the
semi-annual meeting of the Maui Evan- dedicatory sermon by the Rev. O. H.
gelical Association, from September 18th [Gulick and the responsive readings and
to 20th. On the afternoon of the 17th, prayers of dedication. Then the sacrathe "Mikahala" sailed from Kahului har- ment of the Lord's Supper was observed,
bor with about fifty delegates and minis- after which an offering was taken for the
ters of Maui bound for Kaunakakai. debt of the new church building. The
Fortunately the sea was unusually usual luau in the cocoanut-leaf lanai adsmooth, and the added charm of the al- joining the church was a pleasant feature.
most full moon made the passage a de- The afternoon's program included a Sunlightful one. At Pukoo, Rev. O. H. Gu- day school hoike. The schools of Kalualick and Rev. W. B. Oleson came aboard, aha, Kamalo and Kaunakakai were rehaving just attended the meeting of the presented by good delegations and showHawaii Association at Hilo. Arriving at ed much careful training and preparathe Kaunakakai wharf, the visitors were tion. The Wailau school was represented
greeted by Rev. I. D. laea, pastor of the by the superintendent and one pupil. The
church, and many others. The trip up excellent team work and correct answers
the long wharf in flat cars, drawn by the of the pupil excited unusual interest
Our Young People
among the audience. Perhaps the clearest recitation of the day was made by an
aged Hawaiian woman, of eighty-eight
summers, who is the only one left among
the thousand and more members of
"Father" Hitchcock's church on Molokai.
The time will soon be here when no one
living can remember this pioneer missionary of this island.
Sunday evening there was a concert
which netted quite a sum for the expenses of the convention and the church
building fund.
Monday morning the Association proceeded to the business on the program.
The Rev. I. D. laea made a few introductory remarks of welcome and explained about the new church building,
who made the building possible, and
what the future offered in possibilities
for the church work at Kaunakakai.
The usual routine business then occupied the Association until 11a. m., when
the "School for Ministers" began its
work. There were three papers on the
Prophets of Israel and Judah, the first
by Mr. John Kalirto of Kahului on
"Amos," the second by Rev. R. B. Dodge
of Wailuku on "Isaiah," and the third by
Rev. C. G. Burnham of Lahaina on
"Micah." These papers were carefully
(Continued on page 18)
"How much did he leave?"
Was asked concerning "a certain rich man" who had just died.
"He left it all" was the absolutely correct answer. He could take nothing with him. Still, he might have
left it working for him.
This is the merit of "The Conditional Gift Plan: Your money,—property, or whatever can be converted into money,—pays you a good, steady income during your life and goes on working for you and
for humanity after you are gone.
So you ''make friends (by) the mammon of unrighteousness,"
So also, you "lay up for yourself treasures, etc'
This is no cant. It is Christian stewardship and sound business sense combined.
The Finance Committee makes you an offer of one whole per cent better than before. You can hardly
invest much better elsewhere and
the amount you invest with the Hawaiian Board in your life time will not be
wrangled for after you are gone.
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BOARD OF THE HAWAIIAN EVANGELICAL ASSOCIATION.
�16
October, 1910.
THE FRIEND
FROM DR. WHITE.
Although addressed specially to Central Union Church, the following word
from Dr. White will be of interest to
many of our readers:
At Sea, September 5, 1910.
Central Union News
A. A. EBERSOLE
Bible Study at the Mid-Week
Service.
During September and October the
mid-week services are being devoted to
a systematic study of "The Sermon on
the Mount." It is proving a very pleasant and profitable variation from the regular prayer meeting. The following outline, based on Prof. Votaw's treatise on
the Sermon is being followed:
"THE IDEAL LIFE"
To Central Union Church—Greeting:
May I have a little space in the weekly
calendar to speak a message of gratitude,
from Mrs. White and myself, for the cordial welcome and the choice hospitality
extended to us by the good people of
Central Union Church ?
Never, we feel confident, has a brief
term of service been made more of a privilege and delight by the rare courtesy and
generous appreciation of those to whom it
has been extended.
The whole experience has for us been
uniquely tropical,—the land, the scenery,
the climate, the friendships. The retrospect holds few sensations but those of
satisfaction and joy.
To the absent pastor, whose generous
thought made this period of service possible, to the worthy associate pastor—a
true ministerial great-heart, to the royal
friends, old and new, who have made the
days of-our Honolulu visit gleam like
the wake of a ship sailing through a
phosphorescent -sea, Mrs. White and I
send our affectionate Aloha.
God bless us every one!
Your faithful comrade in the kingdom
and patience of the Master.
FRANK NEWHALL WHITE.
j«
Dr. Scudder in Switzerland.
forth in "The Sermon on the
"Nature is very lavish of her charms
Mount")
this season in Switzerland. Instead of
the great heat that often prevails here in
I. The Ideal Life Described.
1. Its Characteristics. (Matt. 5: summer, we find cold everywhere. Except
when we walk or are tucked for the night
1-12)
under a Swiss down-mountain, we find it
2. Its Mission. (5:13-16)
easy to indulge in shivers. A few days
11. Its Relation to the Earlier Hebrew ago we visited Schynige Platte. It was
(5:17-20)
too degrees above freezing the morning
of the Ideal Life.
Outworkings
111.
of that day, and, though Sol had done his
Motives.
best
(5:2iDeeds
and
to efface the record, when we rode
1. In
-48) Five Illustrations.
up in the evening it seemed freezing,
2. In Religious Worship. (6:1- though it was not more than 40 degrees.
All this is fine tonic for heat-pampered
-18) Three Illustrations.
Honolulans.
Self
Devotion.
3. In Trust and
Switzreland also is wet as well as cold
(6:19-34)
this
year. This sounds disappointingly,
4. In
Treatment of Others.
means over-full rivers and swollen
but
it
(7:12)
cascades everywhere. The added beauty
IV. The Duty of Living the Ideal Life. is difficult to describe. Then, too, the
(7:13-27)
clouds lend a glory to every scene in
The assistant minister directs the study, mountain land that unaided sunshine can
but others take part, definite parts be- never attain. The perfect days (and we
ing usually assigned to them beforehand. are having many of them) are all the
(As set
more beautiful for the contrast of peace
with the war that cloud and shine love
to wage here. At Schynige Platte, for instance, we were treated last Sunday
morning to a sermon on mist power
which we shall never forget. Out of nothing the rolling battalions charged upon
the sunbeams, winning victories that blotted out miles of mountain, valley and
lake, only to issue in overwhelming defeat as the great luminary shot his arrows
and put to eternal rest the daring Amazons of the white veil. Then in the quiet
that reigned, a new world of glory was
born, and we gazed spellbound upon the
vast panorama of beauty.
Amid it all we love to take you with
us and to share in spirit these rare experiences.
DOREMU.S SCUDDER."
Hawaii Cousins
THINGS SEEN AND HEARD.
My father has written The Friend of
our visit in Palestine at Christmas tide,
but we have been asked to write of our
journey home.
In Egypt.
We left
Jaffa New Year's Day for
Cairo, a city of two types, one which we
slighted with broad streets and modern
buildings, the other crowded with strange
peoples, men with one eye, men and
boys in fezzes, women with brass spools
between the eyes and black or white
cloths hiding all of the face below, light
carts without sides holding seven or eight
women and one man, apparently a husband and his wives, all using heads rather than hands for carrying, a sight we
became used to. In Cairo l saw a woman with a chicken coop on her head holding live, noisy chickens, and in Calcutta
four men carrying a large bureau, each
man under a corner. There was not as
much English language as we expected.
As in India the street car conductors
talk no English. A restaurant we entered
had two menu cards, one Arabic and
one French. When we ordered from the
French the waiter went out the door and
down street to get our order translated.
When this happened twice, the viands
ordered not being in stock, we tried the
Arabic and discovered that Arabic is
written backward, for we got fruit when
we expected meat.
For church services we now depended
on missionaries. In Cairo we went to
the United Presbyterian Mission. Its
Sunday school room was divided in two
�by a close board fence, on one side the
boys with their red fezzes, on the other
the girls. They could alike see the superintendent and hear but not see each
other. There were four Christian Endeavorer societies in this church, one attended mostly by white folks, one for
Egyptian young men attended principally
by those who wear the fez, one for boys
and one for girls.
We saw many familiar trees and plants.
In the garden a tree we took to be a
ponciana regia (not in bloom) was labelled "Gold mohr tree of Madagascar,"
and a sacred banyan such as is in our
Honolulu yard was called a "pipul" tree.
There were fine monkey jwd avenues,
and we saw sugar cane at Heliopolis.
In India.
From Egypt we went on a French
liner to Bombay. A fellow passenger
was a Hindu in the government service
on his way home from England, where
he had been studying for advancement.
At Bombay ammunition was discovered
in a false bottom in his trunk, and a recipe for making bombs hidden in his
shirt and he went to jail.
In Calcutta I dropped into a Baptist
missionary conference and saw Rev. Wm.
Cary, grandson of the pioneer missionary.
In Bombay at the American Congregational Mission we attended a Christian Endeavor celebration of the 25th
anniversary of the society in that church,
and afterwards went to a school C. E.
meeting where the members were eager
for us to tell of Hawaiian C. E. societies
and how Hawaiians looked, what they
liked to eat, etc, They played some Indian instruments for us. A boy sat with
a drum between his knees and another
on a chair before him and played the low
notes on one and high notes on another
with his fingers. At the anniversary
flower leis full of glittering spangles were
put around the necks of those who had
started the C. E. 25 years before.
But of occasional Christian meetings
and seeing a few white people India
seemed a land of heathenism. The prevailing color tone was a dingy white. The
Taj Mahal is not a typical building. The
ordinary place of worship is a dingy
mosque, a dirty Hindu temple or a Jain
In
one glittering with colored glass.
Ahmedabad we saw wedding processions
of child brides and grooms. One little
boy rode a toy horse. He was too small
for a real one, though old enough to be
married. In an empty palace at Amber
I went into the former zenana and in a
little room decorated with tiny mirrors I
could see hundreds of reflections of myself. Both in jewelry and in looking in
the glass the Indian women surpass
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dust with fifteen bracelets on her left the Yang Tse Kiang six hundred miles
arm sold us some guavas that lacked the and a Chinese railroad across China to
Peking. At Wuhu on the Yang Tse
Honolulu flavor.
we found some rosy-cheeked,
Calcutta
before
India
just
leaving
Kiang
In
we met Mrs. Laura Wilder Wight and cheerful, vociferous beggars, who came
daughter, who were bound around the
world in the opposite direction, and advised them to visit the Kalighat temple,
where we had seen goats' heads chopped
off and the head of the goddess dripping
with blood.
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In the Hotter Tropics.
We took the Ss. Kut Sang for Singapore with party of Methodist missionaries bound home. One was insane, perhaps from having the sun shine on the
back of her head through the school
room window. The two ladies taking
her home to lowa took turns watching
her night and day for fear she would
jump overboard. Another had been wakened three days before leaving on her
furlough by being beaten violently with
a stick by a Hindu, who escaped unidentified when her screams had brought help.
Missionaries still have hardships and
dangers.
The wooded valleys back of the town
of Penang made us think of Hawaii, but
the town is Chinese like Singapore, where
we found, however, a long line of Malay
young gentlemen in calico dresses sitting
on a fence watching a ball game played
by other young men in dresses.
At Bangkok in the mission school we
found cousins and a sister of a Kawaiahao teacher. Bangkok wears less clothes
than India but is more cheerful. The
Buddhist priests with cropped heads and
bright yellow dresses brighten the
crowds. The white elephants were less
white than I expected though my expectations were low. A greater surprise
was to find a statue of St. Paul in front
of a Buddhist temple. The jewels of the
Taj Mahal are mostly agates but in a
modern Buddhist wat in Bangkok we
found furniture inlaid with precious
stones.
In China.
In Canton Rev. Jas. Henry, once of
Mills Institute, was our host and guide
through the busiest city of the world in
my experience. The narrow streets are
laid out at right angles so there is not the
danger of losing one's way that there is
in many an American city. One day we
two walked about Canton alone and easily found our way out, by an entirely
different route than that we had taken
going in.
From Hongkong we tried a British
steamer to Shanghai, a Japanese one up
about the steamer in little boats and lifted
baskets on the ends of long bamboos to
us for alms.
We waked in Peking on Easter day to
find the trees covered with snow. An
immense city with immense walls, but
quiet compared with Canton. Our most
exciting experience was a wild jinricksha
ride on arrival, our Chinamen horses racing at full speed in a street crowded with
moving rickshas, woolly camels, twowheeled carts shaped like prairie schooners and men on horseback. We stopped
with Rev. W. A. P. Martin and met
many other survivors of the Peking
siege. 1 took a walk alone one day on the
north wall and was entertained with a
cup of tea by a Chinese sentry I found
at the N. E. corner.
Personally we experienced no race or
religious prejudice anywhere. Turks,
Arabs, Egyptians, Hindoos, Siamese,
Chinese and Japanese all were cordial to
us.
js
And the Nearer East.
From Peking we took a trip to Mukden on a railway line that travels only
by day and rests at night. The first night
it dropped us at a little village called
Shan Hai Kwan at the great Chinese
wall, which we climbed and inspected before sunset. We were the only white men
in town. There were two hotels, a dirty
looking Chinese one kept in foreign style,
and a Japanese. We chose the Japanese,
took off our shoes, and had our first experience of a genuine Japanese hotel.
In Seoul Rev. R. O. Reiner, formerly
of Mills Institute, met us. We passed the
Japanese rickshas at the station and
walked half a block to the Korean ones,
who must give the Japanese rickshas first
chance at arriving tourists, and drove to
his house. We got glimpses here of the
wonderful revival going on through the
country.
On the steamer from Korea to Japan
I found a Japanese photographer of
Seoul bound to a photo convention, who
had heard of Hawaii and could talk English. "Honolulu is Eden in waters. So
says all men," he said.
Japan was a delight, but this account
is now too long. In Kyoto we saw Rev.
Sidney L. Gulick and family, and climbed
Mount Hiei with a party of young folks
led by him. In hunting up his house the
first evening we had the pleasure of
meeting Mrs. Joseph Neesima in a house
we entered to inquire our way.
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We have been on seventeen steamers,
British, French, Russian, Austrian, German, Chinese and Japanese, but no
American ones. We tried camels, donkeys and elephants; jinrickshas pulled by
Chinese, Siamese, Koreans and Japanese.
I tried a chair in Canton and an ekka in
Benares, but my father refused.
The
ekka is a two-wheeled cart without
springs, seats or sides but an awning to
keep off the sun.
Home's best and ahead in most things,
though sadly behind all the world in the
matter of putting up street signs with
street names on them.
LYLE A. DICKEY.
Our Young People.
(Continued/tornpage ij)
prepared and gave in concise form the
messages of these great prophets of national righteousness.
Adjournment was made soon after
noon, to accept the invitation of Mr. and
Mrs. Cooke to a luau at their home in
honor of the first anniversary of the birth
of their son. G. P. Cooke, Jr. Many of
the Maui delegates had never seen that
part of Molokai before, and it was a treat
for them to ride up in the ranch wagons
and "view the landscape o'er." The luau
was a great success and everyone seemed
pleased and happy over the afternoon's
festivities. In the evening the Sunday
School Association began its sessions and
was able by expeditious work to finish all
of the reports that evening
Tuesday morning the work of the Association was continued, and the first
item on the program was the School for
Ministers. The discussion of some of
the representative prophets was resumed.
Several of those to whom work had been
assigned were unable to be present, but
the Rev. (i. M. Kauaulalcna of Ulupalakua gave a most interesting treatment of
the prophet Jeremiah, his life and work.
It was felt by the delegates that the work
in the prophets was very instructive and
helpful, and it is hoped that similar work
may be carried on at subsequent meetings
of the Association.
The remainder of the morning was
spent in conducting the routine business
of the Association. The work was put
through in a splendid spirit and with expedition. The labors of the C. E. and the
S. S. Association were completed in the
Hand Craft Wares
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afternoon, and thus a record was made
for speediness in the meetings, a marked
contrast to the meetings of a few years
ago, which usually lasted more than a
week. It is likely that this precedent of
three days' meetings will be followed on
Maui, and thus she will become like
()ahu, Kauai and I lawaii in the matter
of brevity in her Association gatherings.
()n Tuesday evening there was aC. E.
consecration meeting for the new island
officers. This meeting was in charge of
Mr. P. N. Kahokuoluna of Paia, the
president of the island C. E. Rev. (). H.
Gulick gave an interesting address in the
Hawaiian language, packed full of good
advice to Christian Endeavorcrs.
After this there was a farewell meeting. It was the plan of the chairman to
hear from representatives of the various
districts of the county. Mr. D. W. Napihaa of Keanae, was called on to respond for East Maui. In the midst of his
speech word came into the church that
the "Mikahala" was sighted. Speechmaking after that had little attractions
for the multitude, and there were no
more words of appreciation in the form
of a speech from the visitors, although
they had opportunities later on to show
their gratitude for the hospitality of the
Kaunakakai people. These hosts formed
two lines in the main aisle of the church
and the Maui delegates marched through
the lines shaking hands with the Molokai
people and expressing their alohas to
them. In a short time the visitors made
their way to the wharf via the mule
tramway, and climbed aboard the "Mikahala." An inter-island trip, be it ever so
short, is always interesting as a means
of studying human character, and the
trip over to Maui that night was no exception. Every bunk was occupied and
sleeping room on deck was at a premium.
But sleep was out of the question for
many. The sound of the waves, the sweet
I lawaiian songs sung by some of the delegates, the lovely moonlight, all tended to
keep one awake. Pukoo was reached
while it was still dark, and the rising sun
found us almost across the channel at
I-ahaina, the beautiful ex-capital of the
group. Here, at "Main Ulu o 1.e1c," the
various ministers and delegates separated
to return to their several homes, having
had the delightful and inspiring experience of the Kaunakakai meeting to nerve
them on to greater service in the Kingdom of Heaven.
(tetober, 19io,
"HE CARETH."
It 1 could only surely know
That all the things that tire me so
Were noticed by my Lord—
The pang that cuts me like a knife,
The lesser things of daily strife—
What peace it would afford!
I wonder if He really shares
In all these little human cares,
This mighty King of kings?
If He who guides through l)oundlcss
space
Each blazing planet in its place
Can have the condescending grace
To mind these petty things?
It seems to me, if sure of this,
Blest with each ill would come such bliss
That I might covet pain,
And deem whatever brought to me
The loving thought of Deity
And sense of Christ's sweet sympathy,
Not loss, but—richest gain.
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MEMORIAL TO JUSTICE
BREWER.
A copy of the late Justice David J.
Brewer's address, entitled '"The Mission
of the United States of America in the
Cause of Peace" has come to hand.
Prom this address we quote the following sentences: "To lead in the cause
of peace no one of the great nations is so
well circumstanced as the United States
of America
se|>arated and distant
from other nations, and thus in the least
danger of attack, with a continental |>opulation of eighty millions and over, with
resources uncqualed by those of any
other nation, with the most cosmopolitan
population, a population gathered from
all races, and hence linked to all by home
ties of affection, with the freest government, the widest popular knowledge, the
most loyal in its devotion to the Christ of
Galilee, and therefore with an ear open
to the music of the song of the angels
of Bethlehem, and thus, may we not truly
say, indicated as the fitting leader in the
great cause of peace.
"If we fail, the cause of peace will not
fail. We shall simply stand in history
as the nation which lost the great opportunity."
A memorial edition of this address is
being published .and may be secured at
5e per Copy. The American Peace Society, N. Y.
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their own messages.
:'l The first printing press In Oregon, although from the Hawaiian Islands, Is shown
hy Professor Itallon to he one Of the later
presses received liy Ihe Hawaiian Mission
and not the tlrst.
Sept. I Three hundred thousand rubber
trees on the Hawaiian Islands approaching
lapping stage. A Korean tries to kill a fellow countrymiin, for upholding annexation
hy Japan.
2— l.hpior men claim thatthey are out of
polities and uphold present llipior law. XxQueen l.iliuokalanl celehrates her 72nd birth
day. First It. It. engine crosses llonolil
gulch.
S—(Treat Interest In Honolulu prlinurles.
Chinese Students «f.s) en route to America
entertained at a luncheon given hy Mr.
Frank Damon and Chinese Students Alliance
of Honolulu.
4.— Hear Admiral (Vrwln |». Rocs reaches
retiring age, but is continued In charge of
11. S. Naval Station here.
7—Prea. King of Oberlin College in a letter calls Kilauea "one of the great natural
sights of the world, alone worth a Journey
to the Islands."
12—Prince Kuhio renominated as Delegate to Congress. Japanese woman killed
by stepping off electric car backwards, while
the car was in full motion.
IS—Prtnes Tsai Maun of Chirm visits
Honolulu en route to America.
17—Republican and Democratic county
and territorial ticket, both completed. Prince
Kuhio renominated.
11l Anderson Orace (negro murderer) recaptured after five months' concealment,
22--Smuggled opium worth $10,000 captured.
24- ThomaH (i. Thrum celebrated the fortieth anniversary of his stationery business
In Honolulu and the thirty-fifth anniversary
of "Thrum's Annual."
2fi—D. 8. War Department ceti apart Hawaii as a separate war division under a
Hrlgadier General.
28 (ieologieal investigation seems to
show that the Hawaiian artesian supply Is
nt held In caverns but in porous rock.
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