2 10 12 https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/ee0163d05b12e51234555f71e88a4036.pdf b2d2d59233c85ab57f7b2b315c97ad4b PDF Text Text FRIEND THE #tto Srrits. fol. 22. $0.2.} The "Mills Quarterly."—This is a publication issued under the auspices of Total Abstinence 9 "the pupils of Mills Seminary," Seminary At. Albrnn'. College 9 mill Annual Report Honolulu Sailer.' Home Society Park, Brooklyn, California. From this pub10 John We.lejr«nd the Church *.*-> American Home Life it appears that the 11 lication and the catalogue, Sailer." Sttug Harbor H Seminary is now in full and most successful Kv«nt. In the Monthol January 12 I'er.onal la operation. Over two hundred pupils are in W. 11. Bewarda. a Lawyer Naval IJ 18 attendance, and applications more than con Marine Journal 1* be accommodated. Twenty teachers are em11dc to l.unalllo 1* The Bad Ca.e of J.C. King in the Seminary, including the prinf"d. Garrcti '•* ployed Most heartily W V.M.C. A do we congratulate the cipals. proprietors, patrons, teachers and pupils of this Seminary on its existence. It is an FRIEND, honor to the State of California, and to the FEBRUARY 1. 1873. heads and hearts of those who have planned and built up this Seminary of learning. Total Abstinence a Christian Duty. A Reading.—We learn that Archdeacon In view of the. wide-spread evils of intemperance, the demoralizing influence of the Mason will give a reading of passages from fashionable drinking habits of society, and favorite authors next Monday evening. The the terrible curse inflicted upon families and lovers of choice literature served up in this individuals, we cannot see how any profess- style, will no doubt enjoy a rich treat, judgfrom this gentleman's former performing Christian, and much more any professed ing ances. There is a rich vein of the dramatic Christian minister, can refrain from giving in his nature, which crops out" whenever '' his name and influence to the cause of total an opportunity is afforded, and we hope his abstinence from all intoxicating liquors as a friends will give him a good benefit. beverage. Depend upon it, the Apostle Paul Persons having on hand newspapers, would have been a teetotalist of the strictest pictorials, magazines, books, etc., which they class. "If meat [or wine] make my brother desire to see distributed among seamen, will to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world confer a favor by sending the same to the standeth."—l Cor. 8:13. When the Apostle Depository, at the Sailor's Home. We Paul wrote to Timothy to " drink no longer would acknowledge packages from Mrs. (Dr.) water, but use a little wine," it was on ac- Whitney and Mrs. Chamberlain. Pictorials bound count of Timothy's "infirmities."—l Tim. are much desired by seamen, outward on long voyages. 5:23, No sound interpreter of Scripture St. Alban’s College.—This institution is would for one moment think of quoting this passage as a license for the debasing, demor- pleasantly situated in Nuuanu Valley, and learn, is worthy of alizing and destructive drinking habits of from what weofcan those who desire their the patronage fashionable life, such as are prevalent at the sons well taught a good English and present time. We are glad to learn that the French education. It is no longer under the Christian ladies of Honolulu have taken up special supervision of the English Bishop. this matter and are causing a pledge to be Mr. A. T. Atkinson is the Principal. circulated among high and low, rich and The Chinese New Year’s, January poor. We hope every man, woman and 29th, was observed as a holiday by all the child will subscribe their names and lend * in Honolulu and throughout the Chinamen their influence in promoting the cause of islands. Generally it is stipulated in all contotal abstinence. tracts that they shall have two or three days The King’s Birthday, January 31st, for festivities. They exceed the inhabitants was observed as a holiday* of other lands in their exchange of presents. CONTENTS Far THE Krbiiiorj, 187 3. {01bStriM0l.3O HONOLUfU, FKBKIIKI 1, 1873. 9 • Pica Eighteenth Annual Report of the Honolulu Sailor’s Home Society. • The opening of the new year reminds us that the Constitution and Charter of the Honolulu Sailor's Home Society require? new Trustees, and officers must be chosen. In reviewing the year, it appears that the falling off in the visits of whaleships to this port has essentially diminished the number of boarders. From the books it appears that ihe number of senmen boarding at the Home has been fifty-five, while a much larger number have lodged for a single night. The lodging for a single night includes mostly men-of-war's men ashore on liberty from the English and American vessels. Many of these men are very quiet and orderly, and it is a great pleasure to such persons to have a respectable and well-conducted lodging-house while on shore. The Reading Room and Depository have been visited by many scores of seamen attached to vessels lying in port. The crew of the English ship George Thompson, so much appreciated the benefits conferred upon seamen by the " Bethel," " Home," "Reading Room" and " Depository," that they deputized one of their number to call upon the Chaplain and express tkeir thanks, and desired to acknowledge the indebtedness of seamen to the friends and patrons of the institutions. I hope this fact will.encourage the Y. M. C. A. in their efforts in sustaining the Reading Room, which is so great a boon to seamen and strangers visiting Honolulu. Much of the usefulness of these various methods for benefiting seamen and others, is due to the constant attendance of Mr. Dunscombe, who is always ready to supply seamen yrith reading matter from the Depository, and with writing materials, if they desire to S. C. Damon, write to their friends. Chairman of Ex. Committee. Honolulu, January2,1575. We would acknowledge a pamphlet of eight pages, with a photographic fronticepiece of His Majesty Lunalilo, from W. M Gibson, Esq. �THE FRIEND, FEBRUARY, 10 John Wesley and the Church. sons were never answered yet, and I believe they never will be. I am glad you have unJohn has Wesley The following letter of dertaken that labor of love, and I trust it will lately been made public for the first time : increase both your spiritual and bodily health. London, jQctober 10, 1778. I am, my dear Miss Bishop, Mr Dear Miss Bishop:—l am not unYours very affectionately, willing to write lo you, even upon a tender John Wesley. -.übject, because you will weigh the uiatter —This letter of John Editorial Remarks. fairly. And if you have a little preposses- Wesley we the number from January copy sion, (which who has not?) yet you are willof the Honolulu or the Magazine," to it to reason. ing give up " HaThe original Methodists were all of the waiian Church Monthly Messenger," pubChurch ofEngland, and the more awakened lished under the special supervision of Bishop ihey were, the more zealously they adhered Willis. to it, in every point, both of doctrine and disJust now there is a sort of mania for cipline. Hence we inserted in the very first searching throughout all England and Amerrules of our society, " They that leave the Church leave us." And this we did, not as ica to discover memorials of the founder of a point of prudence, but as a point of con- Methodism. A large amount*>f materials science. We believe it utterly unlawful to has been collected and published. This letseparate from the Church, unless sinful terms of communion were imposed—just as did ter is a very good specimen of the good sense, Mr. Philip Hervey, and most ol those holy inconsistency and bigotry of much that was men that were contemporary with him. • written during the eighteenth century. Wesof it do not preach the ley says, We know no Gospel without sal" But the ministers Gospel." Neither do the Independent or the vation from sin." All true Christians, of all Anabaptist ministers. Calvinism is not the Gospel, nay, it is further from it than most sects and denominations, will say " amen " of the sermons I hear at church. These are to this sentiment. Wesley says, " Calvinism very frequently unevangelical, but ihose are is not the Gospel." Whoever said it was ? anti-evangelical. They are (to say no more) Wesley however approves of holding on to equally wrong, and they are far more dan- the "Church of England," yet the thirtygerously wrong. Few of the Methodists are nine articles are strongly pervaded with Calnow in danger of imbibing the grand vinistic doctrines. Read for example, Article the ministers. Calvinism—from Dissenting Perhaps thousands have done it already, Seventeenth. most of whom have drawn back to perdition. Wesley says the term Gospel " had beI see more instances of this than any one else come a cant term. We can well imagine can do, and on this ground also would exhort all who would keep to the Methodists, and how this was true, just as other terms become from Calvinism, "Go to the church,and not cant by their frequent wrong use and misto the meeting." application. Take for example, the term "But to speak freely, I myself find more "Church." This term as originally employed life in the Church prayers than in the formal in the New Testament, has come to signify extemporary prayers of Dissenters. Nay, I find more profit in sermons on either good quite another idea. The term now is applied tempers or good works, than in what are vul- to buildings in which the people congregate garly called Gospel Sermons. That term is for public worship, and also to national now become a mere cant word. I wish none church organizations," but it was not so origof our society would use it. It has no determinate meaning. Let but a pert, self-suffi- inally. Perhaps no better definition can be cientanimal that has neither sense nor grace, given of " the Church " than that found in bawl out something about Christ and his the Nineteenth Article of the Church of Engblood, or justification by faith, and his hear- land : " Tbe visible Church of Christ is a ers cry out, " What a fine Gospel Sermon." Congregation of faithful men, in the which Surely the Methodists have not so learnt the pure word of God is preached and the Christ. Welrnow no Gospel without salvaSacraments be duly administered according tion from sin. There is a Romish error which many Prot- to Christ's ordinance, in all of those things estants sanction unawares. It is an avowed (hat of necessity are requisite to the same." doctrine of the Romish Church that the According to this definition, are there not pure intention of the minister is essential to the validity of the Sacraments." If so, we thousands of true churches of Christ in Engought not to attend the ministrations of an land outside of the Established Church ? unholy man ; but in the flat opposition to Bishop Burnet (standard authority with this, our Church teaches, in the Twenty- churchmen) in his exposition of the "thirtyeighth Article, that " the unworthiness of the : minister does not hinder the validity •( the nine articles " thus remarks " According as we the find doctrines of Church to be any Sacraments." Although, therefore, there arc many disagreeable circumstances, yet I ad- true in the fundamentals, we ought to bevise all our friends to keep to the Church. lieve her to be a true Church." (Page 267, God has surely raised us up for the Church Oxford edition, 1819.) And again, "We chiefly that a little leaven may leaven the ought to account such a Church true in the whole lump. extent of the word true ; and by conlargest I wish you would seriously consider that little tract, Reasons Against a Separation sequence, we ought to hold communion with from the of England." Those rao- it." And again, "It is therefore suitable to " " " " " " 1873. the nature of things that every church should act n ithin herself as an entire and independent body." (Page 510.) Wesley says, "Go to-the church, and not to the meeting." If those calling themselves Wesleyans had followed this advice, we fear that vsst multitudes of them would have " fallen from grace," and failed of accomplishing the good which has been attributed them. Says Wesley, " I advise all our friends to keep to the Church." English and American Methodists have sadly departed from this advice, and in doing so have they not accomplished vastly more good than they would have done by remaining to wrangle about High Church," " Low Church," Broad "Church," " " Ritualism " and " Puseyism 7"— which latter term, " Puseyism," the celebrated Sydney Smith, a clergyman of the Church of England, thus defines: " A systo tem of posture and imposture, of circum- flexion and genu-flexion, of bowing to the East and courtesying to the West, with any amount of man-millinery and other tomfoolery." American Home Life at Christmas. Miss Fredrika Bremer, in her book entitled " The Homes of the New World," has sketched many charming and delightful homes scattered through America, from the Atlantic to the Falls of Minnehaha, in Minnesota. To understand and appreciate the American people, it is requisite to visit them in their quiet rural homes, away from the great centres of business and lines ofrailroad travel. One of our correspondents has briefly sketched one of these homes situated in Ohio, the very heart of the nation, which may be taken as a type of ten thousand such in other parts of the widely extended country. " Aunt Jeannie " and "Little Martha " are names we shall not erase, because they too are typical, although the characters are not fanciful, for they are like the " Old Town Folks " of Mrs. Stowe, which are said to be found in every town in New England. If our limits would allow, we might set over against this sketch of a Christmas scene in Ohio, a New England Thanksgiving sketch. " The family are busy for the near-coming Christmas-tide —the great Birthday has its meaning here. , with a young brought " Christmas friend from Columbus. They managed to keep the house very lively. The whole family entered with zest into all the Christmas festivities. Christmas eve we went to service in the prettily decorated church, when the Rector gave us an excellent sermon. Early Christmas morning we heard Little Martha" singing carols, in her pure" sweet voice, urging us all to hurry for our gifts. Twelve fill stockings in a row, with a table : �THE VRII: showing the I as *\ l». FEBRUARY, Sailors’ Snug Harbor. brimming over with presents, love of the family in as beautiful a way I | In Harper's Monthly for there " " have ever seen it manifested. ' The stranger nofire of is a most thflßnoble interesting within the gates' was not at all forgotten.*** ■ Every now and then there would be a ring | charity," situated on Staten Island, near, at the door, and an express-bundle incoming, New York city. During our last visit to the which would call forth a chorus of delighted | United States we improved the opportunity Ohs" and "Ahs." We were fairly flooded | to visit this institution, and can endorse all "with presents. ample morning service again in the that this writer has said respecting the " Christmas church, with a Pastoral letter from the accommodations for sailors who have retired Bishop, who is at present in Europe. We from the sea and are destitute of homes. The had dressed the parlor and dining-room with foundation of this charity was the bequest of greens. Everything said a right 'Merry Capt. Robeit R. Randall, dated June 1, 1801, Christmas.' The dinner was indeed bounthen the tiful. 'Aunt Jeannie' beamed on us all from of a farm, situated in what was York, the New but city of of upper part Her is wonderfully face her love-lit eyes. beautiful and refined, with its soft lines light- which is now in tlfe very heart of the city. ed with the beauty of an inner peace and For many years but little was realized from harmony, and set in a framing of silvery this estate; now it has increased from ground curls, and her voice so sweet and tender, annual sum of $127,000, and is touched one like music. I have rarely rents to the increase. Stewart's famous who lived as much her still the in upon known a mother children. In the evening our games occu- store is situated upon a part of this estate. pied us until the hours were getting small We copy as follows from this sketch again. There were, at the time of my visit, 396 you will forgive my dwelling so inmates in the Harbor, of all ages and be" I know much on this home-picture, there is so much longing to all nationalities. Paragraph XI. of beauty in it. The mother with her girls, of the by-laws of this institution declares : as bright and hopeful as the youngest of All mariners, including captains and mates, " the or fire-light, them. The family group in aged, decrepit, and worn-out sailors, are if busy fingers and bright faces over the home- the proper objects of this trust. But no per*made Christmas gifts, or the two full pews son shall be admitted as an inmate of the at morning service, —l can't forget them. institution (if a foreigner born) who can not We have a few moments, now and then, furnish satisfactory proof of his having sailed " With the business authors. for books and five years under the flag of the there are for at least v and pleasant homely cares of life, and States; United " and this further stipulation beausuch aspirations to take the bright is made " No person shall be received as a and music. Tho mothertiful things in books member of this institution who is a habitual presence at the head guides and directs all. drunkard, or whose character is immoral, or We are reading aloud Owen Meredith's who labors under any contagious disease." 4 Lucille.' This morning we have, been These are the only conditions regulating reading one of Edward Garrett's quiet Eng- the admission of worn-out old mariners into *. * lish stories. * * * * the Snug Harbor. By the charity P. S.-" I must not forget to mention one ever and Sailors' of the founder, Captain Rangenerosity to be remembered visit to the famous Taylor dall, the gates of this snug harbor are open Lewis, of Union College, at Schenectady, to every nationality and every creed. Of N. V., the distinguished linguist and writer. the a96 inmates above mentioned, only 197 He is reading to the Seniors, extracts from were native Americans, and these were of an Prometheus Bound' of jEschylus. The average age of 57 years; the balance was 'Greek never seemed so animated and inmade up from the following nationtense, so vivified and picturesque before— mostly : alities word-pictures ! We found him at his writEngland, 44, of an average age ol 64 yeara. ■ 48 " ing-desk, correcting the proof-sheets of his Ireland, 33, " "" " ■Scotland, 14, " "" 63.) Commentary on Job. He is very deaf. We 66 Germany, 24, " "'• ■ "67 " Sweden, 26, " talked with him on little paper slips, he anNorway, 10, " 601 "" swering in his hearty, earnest way, with a 63 " Denmark, 10, " France, 6, " 411 " tone high-keyed and quaint. He has a fine "some" from ""Poland, One Malta, of about Homer. there were Then talking loving way might fancy them boys together ! He showed Cape dc Verd, and the Cape of Good Hope. us his library, dipping into the books as if he The average age ol the inmates is 55 years; looking at them for the first time. His the youngest man in the institution lleciion of Arabic writings is very rare and young sailor of about 23, who had lost his luable. If he had not explained the differ- sight by an accident, and the oldest was a ce, we would have jumbled up the 'Ara- colored man named Jacob Morris, who, at m Nights' and 'Euclid' in a sorry way. the time of my visit, had attained the ripe I had the time, I could talk to you of him old age of 103 years. id his books all the morning. As he Every morning at seven o'clock a bell calls owed us out,' he asked to be remembered all the inmates down to breakfast, which Mr. Bishop, who so long ago went to the consists of a quart of excellent coflee for indwich Islands, if indeed he remembers each, and an abundant supply of home-made ie who was a Freshman when he was a bread and butter. Dinner is on the table at twelve, and supper at half-past five or six P. snior at Union College." M., according to the season. At nine in the The Rev. R.B. Snowdon, who suppliedthe evening all the lights must be put out, exBethel during 1869-70,has recently cept the lamps in the halls aqd in the hosed a call to settle in Darien,Connecticut. pital, and the inmates are expected to istire : : : '• its 1873. 11 Except when tabooed or on the sicklist, every inmate is at liberty to leave the institution, and visit his friends in the city or elsewhere. All he is required to do is to report to the governor before leaving and upon his return. The gates are open for visitors every day during the week from nine in the morning till nine in the evening, except on Sundays, when no visitors are received. * * * * * In May of the following year (1831) the trustees purchased their present site upon Staten Island, consisting of a farm containing 130 acres of land, for the sum of 810.000. Subsequently they purchased 21 acres more, with a water-privilege, which had been originally a part of this farm, bat had been sold, and was used for manufacturing purposes, the price paid for this part of the property being $6,000. These two parcels of land now constitute the farm and grounds of the Sailors' Snug Harbor. At a still later period the trustees added to the farm, by lease, 36 acres of excellent woodland. In October, 1831, was laid the corner-stow: of.the main building, which, over a marblo foundation, was built of brick, two stories high, with a portico supported by eight Doric pillars in Vermont marble. A broad flight ol marble steps leads to the main entrance, and the centre of the roof supports a low cupola of an oval shape. This building, embracing all of what was then the Sailors' Snug HaFbor, was completed in 1833, and formally opened on the Ist of. August of that year with great festivities, furnishing a home for thirty aged and worn-out sailors. Subsequently two wings were added to the main building, and connected with* this by two covered corridors of one story each. These wings are built of the same material, and are of the same height as the main building, and are wholly occupied by sleeping apartments. The centre or main building has a frontage of 65 feet, with a depth of 100 feet; wch of the two wings is 51 feet by 100; and the connecting corridors are each 39 feet 6 inches in length. Later yet the rear building was erected, of dimensions nearly similar to those of the main building, but threr stories in height, the two upper stories being partitioned off into lodging and sleeping rooms. In front of the main building is the marble monument erected over the remains of the founder, which were in August, 1834, removed hither from their original place of to rest. interment. We regret that our narrow limits will not permit us to copy more from this interesting sketch. We would merely add that the Rev. C. J. Jones is Chaplain of the institution, ond Capt. Melville is Governor. He is it brother of Herman Melville, the author of , " Typee " and " Ornoo." Home.—Dr. and Mrs. Hepburn left Yokohama on October 26th by the English mail steamer, to return to America via India, Egypt and Europe. They expect to return to Japan in about a year or a year and a half. After the gigantic work ol the past fourteen years, the great lexicogrspher of Japan needs rest. Dr. Hepburn has done for Japan what Dr. S. Wells William did for China. Returning �THE 12 THE FRIEND. FRIEND, FE 11 R I Alt V . late Majesty was attended by an imposing assembly and procession. fKBRIIKV I. 1873. week of political excitement the of religious worship were uncomThe events occurring during the monly well attended every day by those of month of January, 1873, will form a most the foreign and native population interested important chapter in Hawaiian history. The in observing the Week of Prayer. Much month opened with a noteworthy and un- earnest prayer was offered in behalf of the heard of thing in Hawaiian annals. At the Hawaiian people and the inhabitants of the call of a Prince aspiring to the throne, the whole world. legal voters throughout the Kingdom (with During the past month three vessels of the exception of a few scattering votes) cast war, the California and Ileitieia belonging over twelve thousand votes for him who has to the United States, and the Seoul attached *mcc been enthusiastically proclaimed the to the British navy, have been lying in port. King of tho Hawaiian Islands. Such a tri- Salutes from the guns of these vessels, as umphant expression of the popular will would well as (rom those of the battery of the Habe worthy of record even in ■ Republican waiian Government, have been frequently form of government. The minds of the King fired in honor of His Majesty and the variand his subjects arc harmonious. His Maj- ous Ministers and Consuls who have particesty is reported to have said that he wanted i ipated in the ceremonies attendant upon the his Government as Republican as would be ! unusual events which have been transpiring. The San t 1rancisco and Australian steamconsistent with the existence of Monarchi«al and Constitutional forms. If the sovereigns jers have touched at Honolulu, having on board a large number of passengers, hence of some older and more populous nations than j j our little city has not lacked for excitement the Hawaiian had manifested equal confi- ! during the past month. We nre most happy to record the fact that dence in the people and the justice of their claims to the throne, there would not have everything has passed off without accident an extra array been the ground for the oft-quoted saying of or any disturbance requiring maintain iof police or military force to pence •Shakespeare : and quietness. " Uneany li.» lite head that wears a Mm,' We infer from the slight changes in GovA sovereign ruler supported by the will of ernment appointments as reported in the the people may dismiss his soldiers to till i weekly papers, that those in power are disposed to inaugurate an "era of good feelthe ground and his courtiers to seek their | ing," bury old animosities, husband the relivelihood in some useful employment more sources of the Kingdom, study economy, and dignified than that of obsequious and syco- navigate tbe Ship of State on such a plan as phantic attendance at Court. Hereafter we will subserve the public weal. If they do hope the will of the people will find free ex- not, we hope the voice of the people may be pression under this King, or whoever may be heard in tones that will command attention. Long Line King Lunalilo. his successor in office. Small as may*be the Hawaiian Kingdom, and few its inhabitants, Personal. depend upon it the Plebiscitum of January 1 I3§**" Rev. Mr. Turner, formerly connected will have its influence in distant lands. It with the English Mission in Honolulu, is will be the topic of conversation in every now preaching in Oakland, California. court and in every cottage of Europe, as weil IS" The Rev. Mr. Williamson, formerly as in Republican America. When a sover- connected with the English Mission in Honoeign asks the people to place the crown upon lulu, is now preaching in one of the Epishis head, it is an acknowledgment that polit- copal churches of San Francisco. ical power emanates from the people. Zy The First Congregational Church, of Prince Lunalilo was unanimously elected Jamestown, N. V., the lormer charge of Rev, Sovereign on the Bth of the month by the T. H. Rouse, have just given a unanimous Hawaiian Legislative Assembly, the consti- call to Rev. Eli Corwin, salary $2000. It is tutional body empowered to elect a King understood he will accept. when no successor to the throne has been td&"* Rev. Thomas Gulick, now on a visit legally appointed. to the islands, expects to leave soon and join January 9th, in the presence of a crowded the American Mission in Spain, where his assembly convened in the Stone Church, the brothers, the Rev. Dr. Gulick and the Rev. King was duly enthroned by taking the oath William Gulick, are now laboring. prescribed by the Constitution, and adminisUS" Rev. John Gulick, now on a visit to tered by the Chancellor of the Kingdom, His the islands, expects to leave soon for his Excellency Chief Justice Allen. An im- former field of labor at Kalgan, about one mense crowd gnthered around the church, hundred miles north-west of Pekin, near the and there was a brilliant military and naval walls of China. He labors under the ausdisplay on the occasion. pices of the American Board of Missions. Orflttie I lth of January the funeral of His l~W° Tho Rev. James Bassctt, an Eng- , ' 187 3. lish Baptist clergyman, a passenger on board tho Nevada, touched at Honolulu on his passage from Melbourne to San Francisco. He has preached several years in Adelaide and Melbourne. During his brief sojourn in Honolulu, he preached Sabbath morning at the Bethel, much to the acceptance of the audience. C2f° The Rev. G. Smiles, a Wesleyan clergyman, who has been connected for many years with the English Wesleyan Mission in New Zealand, having been on a visit to England, returned per the Dakota, and left for Auckland. He has been engaged in lecturing through England, to offer inducements for emigrants to go out to tho Australian Colonies, but particularly to New Zealand. W.H. Seward as a Lawyer. One of the celebrated cases with which Mr. Seward was connected was " the Freeman case." Freeman had been a convict in the Auburn Penitentiary. Soon after his discharge he killed three persons at one house, as fast as they came to him at tho door. The people were exceedingly outraged by the murder, and in almost any other community in this country ho would have been lynched. A Universalist minister and several other kind-hearted people urged Mr. Seward to defend the wretch. He was overrun with business and at first declined, but gave way finally. The trial occupied i> month. The Prosecuting Attorney was assisted by John Van Buren, then Attorney General. The Judge and jury were opposed to the prisoner from the* beginning, and ho was refused change of venue. A conviction followed. Mr. Seward held that the man was insane, made so by ill treatment while in prison. He then appealed to the Governor (Silas Wright) to suspend sentence until points could be carried to the Supreme Court. This was refused. Mr. Seward then sought out one of the Judges of the Supreme Court and argued the case in chambers. A writ of supersedeas was granted and a new trial ordered. All this time there was a great clamor kept up against Seward, but so sure was he that justice had not been done that he kept on his way steadily. After his return, he prevailed upon the Judge who had tried the case to visit Freeman in prison. The Judge was astonished to find that the prisoner was unmistakably insane and in a dying condition. He was much affected, and, turning to Mr. Seward, said " Mr. Seward, you were right, and we were all wrong; the man shall never be tried again." Soon afterward Freeman died, and a post mortem developed the fact that his brain was almost destroyed by disease. This case added much to Seward's fame, both as a lawyer and a just man in the end, (hough it had made him excessively unpopular for a time. His defense of Freeman was pronounced by Gladstone the ablest defense in the English language. An English gentleman said, "You forget Huskisson." Gladstone replied, "I do not forget— there is nothing in the English language equal to the defense." The defense mi : without fee.— Columbus Journal. �13 THE FRIEND, FEBRUARY. 187 S. Naval.—The D.S.S. Benecia. Capt. A.G. Clary, arrived at this port January 3tl, having left Saa Kraocisco*»Dec. 6, and arrived at Hilo Dec. 31st. Remained thero until Jan. 2d. The Renee.ia ia a2d PORT OF HONOLULU, S.I. rate, 2400 tons, and carries 12 guns, viz—l eleven inch, 10 nine inches, 1 <60-poiinder I'ttrrott ride. ARRIVALS. The following is a list of tbe officers of the Beiiecia. ; Jan. a-ll*\v l»k Chocola, T W Rug, 3i days from Aca- MARINE JOURNAL. t'aptain —A., ti. Clary, Commanding Lieutenant Commanders—i. D. tlrahani, Executive ;W. 11. Whiting, Navigator; Joahua Bishop. Lieutenants— A. B. Carter, W. Goodwin, Wm. Little. Master—Fred. Stager. Mate—V. 11. Win*,'. Chief Engineer—G. ¥. Kali. Paymaster —EdwinPutnam. Surgeon—U. ti. Pitkin. Ist Asst. Engineer—C. Amlratle. 2nd Asst. Engineer—J. A. Tobin. '2nd Lieut. Marines—11. G. Ellsworth. Jsst. Surgeon—M. I>. Jones. Capt's. Clerk—O. H. Everett. Paymaster's Clerk—Wm. SI. Muri.* Boatswain —Alex. Mark. , Satlinaker —Wm. Rogers. —Tho U. S. steamship Califoruiit, Admiral Pcnuook, commanding tbe North Pacific Fleet, arrived on the 16th of January. The California is 4,000 tons displacement, and curries '21 guns. The following is I Jan. a list of her officers: Kr.ilt AnsilllAi,— A. North Parlflo Station. M. Pennock, Commander in-Clli. t . STAFF. Captain—J. C. P. Dc KralTt, Chief of Stall. thief Engineer—Hl. Fletcher. Reel Eigiuecr. Paymaster—Caspar Schenck, Fleet Paymaster. Surgeon—T. W. Leach, Fleet .Surgeon. Lieutenant Commander—W H. HolT Captain—J. 11. Higltee, Fleet Marine Officer. Lieutenant —E. L. Aniory. Secretary—J. 8. rjtoddcr. Ensign—E. J. Arlhttr. Admiral's Clerk—Vl. A. Little. toria, B C. 23—Am bk Comet, A Fuller, 17 days fm Ban FranclKco. iiii— Nevada, J II Blelben, 19 days and 17 hours from Auckland. 27—Am bgtu Wm 11 Allen, Schmidur, 26 days from Tahiti. 27—Am bk Kdwin, Colby, 175 days from Boston. 31—11 B M's steam sloo|W)f*war Catneleon. Karl II A .Mainwar ing, 22j days trom Victoria, V I. DEPARTURES. 3—Am bktn Jane A Palkinhurg, Forl>es,for l'orllaud,o. 4—Haw bk Chocola, T W Rugtr, for San Francisco. 6—Haw wh bk R \V Wood. B Whitney, to cruise. B—Am wh ship Progress, Howdcn, to cruise. B—Am wh bk Mid**, HhuiUl, to cruise. 12—Am bgtn Hesperian, Wilkinson, lor Humboldt. 18—Am stmr Nebraska, I Harding, for Auckland. IS—Nor Cer ship Georges, Finch, lor Hongkong. 18—Am ship Syren, C A Johnson, for New Bedford. 18—.Ambk D (' Murray, Shepherd, for San Francisco. 27—Am atmr Nevada. J II Bletbcn, tor San Francisco. 30—Am bk Comet, A Fuller, for Sim Francisco. Report op orFtCGRS OK KHII'. Brioawtimj , W«. H. Allen, Bchrbidkr * M Rollins, E II Dlmond, Mrs Dlroond, Willie Diiuond, Wm Duncnn and wife, Wm Sissou, Le II Sisson, R W l.alne, Waller Hill, 8 in steerage, and 23 in transitu for Auckland. For At cki.ami—Per Nebraska. Jan. 18th—Mrs Hughes, T (.fury and wife, (J Risley, and 28 in transitu f>oin Sim Fran* ciscu. For Ho.noko.no—Per Cieorgfs, Jan 18th—Dr Dudley. wlf<: and child, Q Pauncelort, Look Tong, Tonk Xi, Ah On and boy. For San Francisco—Per D. C. Murray, Jan. 30th—\ Smith, A Semes, A Herbold, F S Rcdflckl and wile. W Burnham, Mr Tallant, wifeand child, Mrs Tallaul, Mrs Hamilton and 2 daughters, Mr Cooke an I son, Mrs Scott and son, Mr* Christian und child, M C Janson, 8 Willoughby, Chas blill man, Master Fred Horn. Fro* San Francihco—Per Comet, Jan..23d—J W Widdifield, Louis Kiunekaua, wifeand 2 children, Robt Forbes, ( lit Kolling, Louis Sheppard, II Hunter. . MARRIED. - llA>T—NafKLA—In this city, ill Kawuiali 10 Ulmirli. Thurr day evening, January 30th, by the llcv. II. II. I'arkcr, Mt. lll.NHV Hakt to Mint llAl.EAKAI.A N APELA, both of llorv*- " h11 DIED. Bark Chocola, T. W. Rio, Master.—First eight days had light 1affling winds and calms, siuce then had Whitney—At Waiinca, Island of Kauai, on the 2tfth •■( moderate trades well to the eastward with very heavy rain December, Mrs. Mkriv P. Whitnbv, widow of the lata squalls. Arrived in Honolulu January 3d, after a passage of | Ramuel Whitney, aged 77 yearn. e*ne wu one of the pintie. r 32days from Acojutla, CentralAmerica. • band of missionaries, whoarrived here in the brig Tkmdtm*. Report of Bark Liuhtfoot, P. C. Hanans, Master.— in 1820. Mie waa the mother of Mr. II. M. Whitney aixl Mr. Left Shanghae Nov l.Mh, 1872, with light breeze and fine J. F. Pogue, of thla city. weather. Passed the lightship at the mouthof the Yangtze U. Peck, T. C. Terrlll. Master— Sam. Ames. Midshipmen—A. Ward, W. M. Irwin, C. D. Galloway, D. Nov 23d. Hud moderate weather with rain until Dec 13th, I, Wilson, T. 8. Ptanket, and .1. C. Burnett. when it grew squally. At 6:30 p m, two men felloverboard. Vast Assistant Surgeon—O. 8. Culbreth. ship w:is brought to the wind, but there was no poesiThe Surgeon—J. Ross. W. Assistant -1 bility of getting the life-lwat clear of the ship's side, an she Assistant Paymaster—l. C Burnett. Engineer—ii rolling Tower. was and lalwring very heavily, and it grew dark very First Assistant B. 1 second Assistant Engineer—A. F. llixoti ! soon. Wind increased to a gale during the night with heavy Grace. rain. Dec 18lhhad a heavy gale, and found that the ship was Boatswain—ll. P. 1 making water considerably. Set the pumps going, the gate banner—C. Moran. increasing ship laboring heavily. Started chain platrs of and Carpenter—L. Uanscom. main rigging, and carried away two In long 178° 8' W, Ut Saitmaker—N. Lynch. U. Car. 37° At this time a heavy sea struck the ship's stern, 42' N. j Captain's Clerk— I*. breaking cut two planks, ship making more water. Had now Paymaster's Clerk—E L. Talh.it Paymaster's Clerk—l. J. about three feet iv the hold. Concluded to abandon the voyFleet Taltmt. age and make for the Sandwich Islands to save the ship, fie* cured the as Km well as possible. Wore thip and kept her —Her Brittaiiio Majesty's steam corvette Scout, making about twelve inches water per h <ur. During the 1,400 tous, 400 horse power, arrived ou the 17th Jan- SK, next twenty-four hours had heavy galea, copfier dropping off uary from Victoria, Y. I. Tin* following isa list of the ship's sides, and oakum working out id' the seams. Had part of the bulwarks carried away by a heavy mra. Dec 23d her officers had a heavy blow. Sea struck the stern and broke pieces out. Captain—Ralph P. Cator. Secured the stern with two parts.of 7-Inch rope around it, Lieutenants—Koitert 11. C Lawson, William R. Clntter- I; with a block and tackle to the mfesen-tnast head, to keep her linck, Edmund H. Oldham, George Worth. from going down altogether. Kept the pumps going conNavigating Lieutenant— Edward 8. Clapp. stantly. From this time the weather moderated, but the leak i Lieutenant Marints—E. Ford. ', slowly increased, Sighted Kauai Jan 2d. 1873. Jan 7th a Chaplain andNaval Instructor—Rev. F. C. Autridge, M.A. sudden squall curried away the jib, foresail, lower forelopsail i Surgeon —Raymond 11. Carroll. and upper forctuppalls fore and main, and split the maintopPaymaster— William 11. Clyiua. mast aud mlxxen staysail*. From that date to time of arrival Engineer— Robert Muds'*. chief had light winds and good weather. Arrived in Honoluluat 11 iVavigiting Suh-Lieutenant—llichar.l 11. Welting-.. a M Jan 10th. Assistant Surgeon—John Jennings. Report of Stbamnhip Nebraska, I. Harding, Com' Assistant Paymaster— E J. J. 11. Sandifc.nl Engineers— Win. Ball, John Taylor, Frederick W. Hooper. mandkr —Iseft Sau Francisco Jan oth at 10:30 a m, having been detained eight days awaiting European mails. Arrived Gimnsr—Frederick Tull in Honolulu Jan lTtli at 12:30a v, Mt-r a passage of 7 days Boatswain—Willi, mi Ik.ik.liu.* ]>. E. Brewster, Parser. and 14 hours Carpenter—Alfred Evans. Midshipmen—Edward F. Tyackc, John Lc.lgar.l, t'..rtisralUkfost of lUhk DiUWAN, W. M. Marton, Masterlis J. Trower, Frederick P. Graves, Joseph 11. P. Tliuckwell, —Left Victoria, B 0, December 10th. Experienced heavy John A. M. Eraser, Reginald tie la P. B. Peirse. southerly gales first part of passage to Ist 38 N. From navigating Midshipman— Junes W. Taylor. thence had light SW winds to lat 27° N, then light NX and HE winds to this port Sighted east point Island of Maui at Naval —11. B. M.'s steam sloop-of-war Cameleon, 4 f m January 19th, bearing SW by H, distance 66 miles. arrived in this port Januaray 81st, '22k days from Arrived o(T t he port on the morning of January 21st, and was in by ih*? steam tug "Pele." Viotoria, Y. I. Her tonnage is 962, 200 horse-power, towed Report of Bark Comet, A. Fuller. Master.—Lei. San carrying 7 guns. The following is a list of her Francisco Jan 6lh First five daya%at had light winds from officers : WN W to N and Ane weather, then for two days light winds from SSW and light from E to NX, which continued most of Commander—Karl 11. A. Malnwaring. the way. The last dsy had light wind from S to EBK. Lieuts.—Chas McLaughlin, James 11. Corfe. Sighted East Maui Jsn 21st at 3 p m. Arrived in Honolulu Nay. Lieut —Joseph Proctor. Jan 23d, after a passage of 17 days. Surgeon—Duncan M'N. Johnston, MP Paymaster—Henry dcRldder. Messrs. C. A. Williams At Co, agents of the American Chief Engineer—George Fitsgrrald. Company, have furnished us with the following report Cuano Sua. Lieuts—l. 0. gtrachey, Thos. Magil. of vessels: Asst. Surgeon—Bt. Lawrence Mullen, M.D. At Baker's Island—Am bk Agate, sailed Nov 26th with 860 Asst. Paymaster— A. W. Pearson. lona guano, loaded in 12 Engineers—John Taylor, Edward Barret., Italian ship Grlmsldo,sailed Richards. Henry Oct id class— 6th with K49 tons guano, loaded hi 11 days ; Norwegian Uunner, shtpOito At Anionic, sailed Oct 18th with 1,800 tons guano, Boatswain, id class—Christopher Pellow. loaded Id 13 days. Carpenter—UenryGay. Mssm*spmtem—S. It llosc»w<- n tUas B. T. Hum*-. Ru*l**lph At Howland'a Island—Brit ship Ivaulioc, sailed Nov Uth, 1.-100 tons guano, |~*d«'d in W <Uys Norwegian ship Xt PeI.islo. E. I>*' tersburg, sattqrf i*i i!>th, i,\iAi itNM guano, fr'aded iv 16 day*. Haw. Mid.- Ivor.I •-< MM Bfere. : = • , or light pleasant weather At 3 k m on the 6th, Albert Hervoyaut, a French aailor. jumped overboard. Brought the vessel to the wind, and hove overboard a spar. Wore ahlp every half hour until daylight Sent a man to the mast-head, but saw nothing of lite man m thespar. Laid by for some time and then made sail* Had light and pleasant weather with occasional squalls the entire passage. Crossed the line Jan 14thand 16th in long 160° W ; julla, CentralAmerica. from thence had squally weather ; close hauled thewhole linn 3—li 8 8 Benecia, A <» Clary, 27 days from Shu FranWere under Hawaii at noon Friday, Jan 24th, having calm cl*co, via Hilo. weather. Were off1 Diamond Head all day Ihe following Sun10 Urit bk Llgbtroot, P C Hanuus, in ballast, 62 dayi day, arriving in Honolulu on Monday, Jan37th. from Shaughae, eu route for Burrard's lulet. 15—II 8 iteam frigate California, Hear Admiral A M PASSENGERS. Pennock, IS daya from San Francisco. 17—Am Atmr Nebraska, I Harding, 7 days and 14 hour* Francisco. from San For Hi .mbhi.iit —Per Hesperian, Jan. 12th—Mr Ahwal. 17—II II MV iteam corvette Scout, R P Catur, 17 dayi From San Francisco—Por Nebraska, Jhii. 17th—L BrenJjrom Victoria, V 1. ner man, R Deliasand wife, Mrs Merle, R II Stanley, Capt F -1 ~kW bk Delewarc, W M Mai ton, 33 days from Vic- MEMORANDA. Captain—J. C. P. Dc KrttlTl, Commanding Commander—Louis KemptT, Executive tllllcer. Lieut. •> >' -J. H. Sands. NaviiHitlog Officer. Lieutenants—V,. T. Strong, W. Maynard, It. M. Cults, 11. Rbpokt Mastbk.—Left Tahiti Jaa 2d with , ObitUHiT Nol.if. It becomei uur duty to record the death of minHier Bf tho»c pioneer niteslonarica who came to theae islands when the people were savages, and the voyage hither was )8,000 miles around Cape liorn. Mrs. Mercy P. Whitney died at Wain tea. Kauai, December 26, 1872, where che had reaided since the summer of 1830, or during the longperiod of more than half a century. She waa born In Pitteheld, Mass., August 14,179->. and came to these Islands in the first company of miaaiouarto>. Mr. ami Mrs. Whitney on Ihelr arrival were atatinoed ou Kauai, in consequenceof a sou of the former King of that island having accompanied the inisttionariea ou their voyage froea Boston, where he had (teen educated. This young man. Geoff* P. Kaumualii, on Ida return waa kindly welcomed by hi* father, who made provudou for the missionaries destined for the Island of Kauai. Mrs. Whitney labored there with her hutiband until his death In Decernher, 1845. A long ul>ituat% noticeofhis death will be found in the Friend of January Iftlfi, 1846. After her huahand's death she preferred to remain at her early home. It has always been her practice, however, in visit Honolulu once a year at the annual meeting of the toisaionarlea In May or June. Bhe out I quo I this practice when the hil.rinitii-s of age would indicate that ahe should have ceased voyaging among the islands. Her interest in the welfareof the Mission waa abiding tn the taat, aa indicated by her will, bequeathing her late residence to thenative pastor of ilxWaiinea church, and one thousand dollars to fhe \uieriraM Hoard of Mission*. On the Sabbath after her death, we made fhe following allusion to her departure from the pulpit: "Our venerable friend who has just left us, and whose presence was so recently seen hi thia assembly, waa one who discharged the duties of mi*siouary, wife, mother, friend and Christian in a manner >•• commandour esteem, respect,affection and veneration. In the establiahmcntof Christian institutionsamong a heathen neopl.. it is all-important that fhe Christian family—the Christian household—sltall be fairly exhibited; hence a wide sphere or list-fulness Is open to woman. The Christian wife and moth, r4hc missionary's help-meet—Is an all-Important auxiliary. I regard the female missionary helpers of the mistionnry work on tbeaeislands as occupying a position second only to that ol fhe ordained missionary preacher and evangelist. Over the grave of her whosedeath is now referred to I can repeat the words of the apocalyptic angel, upon which I commented an recently when discoursing upon thelife and death of theVet. A. Bishopi 'I heard a voice from heaven saying onto me, write, Blessed are the dead which die in the LordTrom hence. forth yea, aalth the Spirit, that tbey1 may real from their labors, and their worksdo fotlow them. Kkmwat—At Ililo, Hawaii, December 28th, UKoaai fin MOua Kenwav, a native of Brid port, Dorsetshire, west of England, aged 64 years, 10 monthsand 17 daya. • g~y London papers please copy. HNon<iSA*«—In this city, January 11th,of hemorrhage, W. KiaaraTaicx Hmodgsabs, aged 47 yean and 8 Rftotitha.a native of New York city. lie hasresided in theae islands lor the last 32 yean. {CT New York papers please copy. Hiuw—In this city, January l'itb, suddenly, Mr. John Shaw a native of the United State*, aged ahoot 60 vv*r«—* resident of theae islands for the laat thirty yean. Br.-a- In this eify, January 13th. Martin Baca, agrd 80 years awl 7 months? -, , " - �14 TH X VKI X N [Wrliuo (or "Jie P. C. Admliri] LUNALILO. From oast lo wast, from north lo south, Within tills kingdom fair, t»oes up a shoalof wildcat Joy, From hearts set free from care. And well may rocks and rills return The glad refrain, and sing TheNation doth to-day rejoice In Lunalilo, King f — Ten thousand loyal hearts have told The world, of their/r«« choice. And shall wfew possess Ihepower To quench the people's votes .* God rules the world,—on high he hears Theprayers his children bring ; Fur Rioht makes Mioht ; Justice and Truth Make Lunatilo, Kino ! No war or sound of battlecry Disturbs our Island realm ; Our ship of slaterides calmly on, Our Chosenat the helm And while our course with care he steers 'Midstrocks and shoals that spring, God (We advisers wiseand true To Lunalilo, King. So burn ye torches, rockets blase— Ye bells, ring out your peal— From sunny yales to mountain lops, Let Heaven ihe compact seal. Hope beamsupon the opening reign, Her banner wide doth fling *,— Thenation rests, and prays Oh God, Bteta Lunalilo. Kino ! The Sad Case of James C. King. The career of this man as a book-keeper and merchant is so well known to our readers on the islands, that we need make no apology for inserting the following sketch of another sufferer under his lawless and revengeful, guilty and murderous hand. If any one deserves to suffer the extreme penalty of the law, we think it must be this man, who escaped with far too light a punkhment for shooting his father-in-law, and now appears to have deliberately taken the of another of his fellow-men, not to menn his repeated acts of fraud and swindling: The Murdered O'Neill—Anthony Frant O'Neill— The subject of this sketch was m in Glamorganshire, in Wales, on theBth y, of June, 1840, and at the age of eight years came to this country with his parents and settled in Boston, Mass. He was educated as a civil engineer and draughtsman, is but about the year 1861 entered the navy, and was rapidly promoted until he became a lieutenant, and had command of three different gunboats on the Mississippi, and participated in seventeen engagements, the most important of which was that before the forts below New Orleans. He bore an excellent reputation among his fellow officers for personal courage. After the war he resigned from the navy and practiced his profession at Boston Highlands, Mass., where he continued until he received an appointment as freight agent of the Erie Railway Company in October, 1869, which position he held at the time bf his death, which occurred on the 18th inst., he having been shot by one James C. King, against whom the deceased had testified in a suit for divorce brought by Mrs. ■ling against her husband, Mrs. King haypreviously found a shelter Hnd home the deceased and his wife.. Mr. O'Neill's K I), ¥KBRI A R V , relatives state that when all the facts connecting him with the case in which he lost his life are made public, it will reflect great credit upon the deceased, and vindicate him against every reproach. His wife says of him: "He wi.s a good man, a kind and faithful husband, and a loving father. He lost his life in saving that of a noble, truehearted and much injured woman." She further says that " since his marriage he never placed his head upon his pillow at night without commending his soul to God." He was esteemed among his friends and acquaintances as an exemplary ni. His funeral took place on WednesdayTrom St. Stephen's church, and was attended by a large number of his friends and acquaintances.— World. Who is "Edward Garrett?" Some years ago we read a charming English story, entitled, " Occupations of a Retired Life," by " Edward Garrett." We have often wondered who the author might be. An American correspondent of the New York Observer now traveling in England, gives the following sketch of this hitherto mysterious personage, over whose name the significant motto of Junius has hitherto stood— " Stat umbra : " 1 am able to answer this question. I have seen the author, Edward Garrett, and have enjoyed the hospitalities of the author's house. Through the kindness of Dr. Guthrie I was introduced to Mrs. Mayo, of London, who is Edward Garrett. She is now twentynine years of age, and was married two years ago to John R. Mayo, Esq., solicitor, .of London. Mrs. Mayo's maiden name was Isabella Fivey. Her father was a baker, who lived over his own shop, near Charing Cross, 8 7 3. gifts. She is now the principal or first writer in the " Sunday Magazine" since George McDonald has gone to America. Mrs. Mayo is now writing in serial numbers for the Sunday Magazine," " Crooked '• Places," which will not be concluded for about one year. " "It has been decided in executive circles that the official receptions for the season will set an example of strict temperance."—Hatchange paper. In one of our American exchanges we find the above item mentioned. It is highly gratifying to learn from this and other sources, that temperance principles are gradually gaining ground at Washington. " The Bar" has been banished from the Capitol, and other reformatory measures adopted. The advocates of whiskey appear to hold on to their old demoralizing habits and prac tices with as tenacious a grasp as the slave holders did upon their human chattels. Whiskey and its attendant evils are a gwate curse than slavery ever was. The natioi expends hundreds of millions lor alcoholi drinks, and some of the noblest and best men are the sad victims of intemperance. We should rejoice to hear that there was an uprising of the people against the great evils brought upon the nation by intemperance. A gentleman at Rome writes to the Rev. John Macdougall, of Florence : "In my printing-office in Borgo Vecchio (at the entrance of St. Peter's Square) we are now printing 10 000 copies of the New Testament, under the very eyes of Pius the Ninth, so to speak, for from the Papal apartments London. At an early age she began writing verses. they can sec the printing-affice. Does not As she grew up she proceeded to write short this appear to you a divine dispensation stories, which she had great difficulty in get- which permits a printing-office, established the ting published. She sent some to Mr. Strong, in the face of the Vatican and close to that to publish publisher of " Good Words." Dr. Norman Palace of the Inquisition, McLeod coming in one day, was struck with Evangelical Word which has been so persethe cleverness of the writer, and advised Mr. cuted by the Inquisition and the Vatican ?" Strong to encourage her. About this time Mr. Strong had made an engagement with a A recent number of the Bombay gentleman to write a series of twelve essays, Gazette says " The centre of the East Afriunder the norn dc plume of Edward Garrett. can slave trade is neither in Africa nor ZanThe subject was to be " Occupations of a zibar, but in Bombay, whence the money is Retired Life." This gentleman, before com- furnished which carries on the revolting trafpleting the first essay, abandoned the under- fic." If this is true, the British government taking. Mr. Strong had announced that the can easily exercise the power needed to crush first essay would appear in December. In the trade, and the speciul qualifications of his dilemma he asked Miss Fivey if she Sir Bartle Frere for thatservice will be most thought she could write them. She replied useful. He is intimately acquainted with that she would try; but instead of making Indian affairs, and will doubtless exert himan essay of it, she made it a story. With self to the utmost to remove this blot fjom great trembling she took it to the publisher. the civilization of the age. He was with it, and thus commenced " Occupations of a Retired Life." The new manse, the first owned by Mrs. Mayo is very simple, unaffected and the Presbyterian Society in Nunda, N. V., almost girlish in her manners. She appears is now completed and occupied by the reto be not more than twenty-five years of age, of medium height, with large, sparkling eyes. joicing pastor, T. Dwight Hunt, and his She has a broad, intellectual forehead, but a happy family. face of great sweetness and gentleness. It is evident, from her dress and manners, that she The Rev. James Daly is now settled has lived most of her life a stranger to fashCongregational Church in Painsover the she is selfionable society. In all respects educated and self-made, wiih great natural ville, Ohio, near Lake Erie. : �& co. »r> AND 97 KlfrC. STREET, NOS. 15 18 T3. THE FRIEND, FEBRUARY, ADVERTISEMENTS* m.l HOFFMANN, • MCa D., M. Physician and Surgeon, Corner Merchant sod Kaahumanu Streets, near lh« Post OB oo HAVE ON HAND AND FOR SALE A FULL ASSORTMENT OF **p HARDWARE, fITIEHJ. .HiHIl llfI MIL IHHUMR, HOLLOW WARE, BREWER, fc CO.. Commission and Shipping Merchants, Honolulu, Oahu, H. I. ADAMS. P. 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M. C. A. THE ORGAN-BLOWER. BYOLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Heprint. Kcvoiitcet of my .Sunday friends. The patient Organ-blower bends ; 1 sec his tigtire sink and rise, This many-diapasoned maze, * Through which the breath of being strays, Whose music makes our earth divine. Has work for mortal hands like mine. My duty lies before me. Lo; '1 he lever there ! Take bold and blow And He whose band is on tho keys May play the tune as He shall please. ' Y.M.C.A.—The December meeting of the Association was of more than usual in(Korgivc me, Heaven, my wandering eyes ') terest. Mr. P. C. Jones read a valuable paA moment loot, the next half soon. on the subject of Opium, and its use in per screen, head the above Hi* scanty Still measuring out bis deep salaams the Hawaiian Islands, which we published in Through quavering hymns and panting |isalmB. | our last issue. Discussion took place in favor of a series ol lectures upon different subNo priest that prays in gilded stole, jects, to be instituted under the management To save a rich man's mortgaged soul; of the society* A letter was read from a No sister, fresh from holy vows So humbly stoops, so meekly bows; member of the Toledo (Ohio) Y. M. C. A., llis large obeisance puts to shame full of warm sympathy, and expressing a deThe proudest genuflecting dame, sire for a nearer acquaintance: which we sinWhoeo Easter bonnet low dscends cerely reciprocate. A letter was also read With all tho grace devotion lends. irom a sailor, telling, in grateful terms, the O brother with the supplo spine, comfort and benefit he had received from the How much we owe those bows of thine! Keading-room. Mr. Chickering, the Topic Without thine arm to lend the breeze, ■Committee for January, announced for his How vain the finger on the keys ! subject the " Drama." Though all unmatched the player's skill, The January meeting, owing to an unThose thousand throats were dumb nnd still : usual pressure of business, and other engageAnother's art may shape the tone, ments, was omitted. Mr. Chickering's paper The breath that fills it is thine own. Jon the "Drama" will be in order at the Six days the silent Memnon waits ; meeting fortius month. Hetiind the temple's folded gates; But when the seventh day's sunshine falls "Two men I loathe, and no third. First, Through rainbowed windows on the walls. huckstering tradesman who unites in the ho he He breathes, sings, he shouts, fills naming a ticket with the men whose princiThe quivering air with rapturous thrills Tbe roof resounds, the pillars shake, ples he despises, so that he may obtain a And all tbe slumbering echoes wake ! clerkship, or may plunder the treasury. " A second man I loathe, and with disgust .The preacher from the Bible-text more Stygian. It is the man-parasite, who With weary words my soul has vexad ; eats the bread which others have planted, (Some stranger, fumbling far astray To find the lesson for tbe day;) and drinks the wine from other men's vinHe tells us truths too plainly true, tages. He adorns himself with garments And reads the service all askew— which other men wore, and lifts himself from Why—why the—mischief—can't he look his native mud in shoes which other men Beforehand in the service-book made. He speaks in other men's words; for he never knew the luxury of a conviction. with face, But thou, decent mien and He sneers at other men's energy; for he Art always ready in thy place ; does not know what a purpose is, or ambiThy strenuous blast, whate'er the tune, As steady as tbe strong monsoon ; tftn. When his country needs a soldier, he Thy only dread a leathery creak, is looking at a ballet-dancer in Vienna ; and Or small residual extra aqueak, when she needs a vote, it proves that politics To aend along the shadowy aisles are exercise too rugged for such a popinjay. A sunlit wave of dimpled smiles. " I loathe no third as I loathe these two." Not all the preaching, O my friend, Old and New. Comes from the churoh's pulpit end Not all that bend tbeknee and bow The importation of American books Yield service half so true as thou • into France, Germany and Russia is increasOne simple task performed aright, ing at a very rapid rate. At Leipsic the book With slender skill, but all thy might, want American firms to establish agenfirms Where honest labor does it* best, cies in that great book market of thecontinent. And leave* the player all the rest. — : ' '' — Samoa. Our readers willremember that some month* sinoe, there was considerable talk in newspapers about the offer made by the native,authorities of the Navigator Islands to cede the sovereignty of the group to the United States, and that Commander Meade of the JVarragantell had made a treaty, whereby a harbor (Tutuila) Into been secured as a naval depot and coaling stiitia*. We have been permitted to make the following interesting extracts from a letter recently received in this city from one of the English Wesleyan missionaries stationed in Samoa : "The natives of this group are still continuing their strife. The war is carried on in a very desultory manner. They profess now to be waiting the arrival of a definite reply from America with respect to the proposed annexation. You may perhaps like to know the views of our mission on this subject. I think I may state them generally in a few word*. There is such a lack of authority in any of the chiefs, so many rival interests which are constantly giving rise to quarrels, and so much jealousy lest one should become greater than tbe other, that we are hopeless of seeing a settled form of government if the Samoans are left to themselves. The natives also feel this, and the better part of them have long wished cither England or America to come and help them. The last war hag made the desire for foreign help stronger than before. Consequently the protectorate of America, or tbe annexation of tbe Islands, if tbe U. 8. Government does not leave them to the tender mercies of speculators bat takes a paternal interest in the welfare of the people, will be welcomed by nearly all. We shall welcome the establishment of a government in the Islands by the United States which will do justice to the natives, if such be the intention of the promoters of annexation. We sincerely hope that the Island* will not be left in the bands of a private and irresponsible company, but anything determined on and carried out by the U. S. -Government will " " secure our hearty support. " The Romish priests are doing all they can to stir up a spirit of resistance. We, on the other hand, advise tbe people to wait quietly for the decision of the United States; and, should tbe annexation be completed, to go heartily into the movement an. secure for themselves peace and quietness and such institutions as shall help them to advance in all that is good. An immense quantity of land ha* been sold to the Polynesian Land Co.,' and to other* in the Islands. Many of the sales have been made by individuals who had no right whatever to tbe land, and a great deal ha* been sold two or three times by different purchaser*. There will be land disputes in abundance to settle, either by justice or by might, as soon a* the annexation ia completed; and if America rejects* the offer, or leave* them in the hands of a private company, there is no knowing what may be the next. The native war ha* been kept on much longer than it would have lasted through the instigation of foreign settlers, who have purchased land of one war party which they pretend to have obtained by right of conquest, bat which they cannot hold." 1 " ' The election on Saturday last to all the vacant seat of a Representative for Honolulu, resulted in the choice of Mr. J. P. Green, by a small majority. The principal advantage that may accrue tor the gentleman elected, will be that he will have a *ort of pre-emption claim to be again elected next year. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Friend (1873) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Friend - 1873.02.01 - Newspaper Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1873.02.01 https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/c341a0dec32a215aa36ee9a90e7a25a9.pdf d294b0e6778eb785f2e24647ea4c42e7 PDF Text Text FRIEND THE 3gR Smts, 0ol. 22. SJo. U CONTENTS Far 1873. _. January, Kamehameha Dynaity Tribute lo Rev. A. Blahop President's Message An English Visitor The Foiure King A Sailor Turned Missionary Marine Journal Meeting of the Sailors' Home Society Hebrew Schools of the Prophets Young Hen's Christian Association \m Series, *tol.3fl HONOLULU, JANUARY 1, 1815. tki.r. ••! I,# » J ** * o «8 THE FRIEND. IBT3. JANUARY t, Kamehameha Dynasty. Kamehameha I. was born in 1753, or twenty-five years before the islands were discovered by Capt. Cook, 1778. He has been styled the " Napoleon of the Pacific," having conquered all the islands of this group, and established a dynasty, which has lasted nearly a century, having been almost cotemporary with the Republic of America. He died at Kailua, Hawaii, May Bth, 1819. Kamehameha 11. was the son of the former, and was born in 1797, on the island of Hawaii. He was proclaimed King on the death of his father. During the first year of his reign idolatry was abolished, and during the second year the American missionaries arrived, or rather they arrived just at the close of the first year of his reign, in March, 1820. He sailed for England in October, 1823, where he and his Queen botji. died in July, 1824. They were kindly received by George IV., and after their death their remains were returned to the islands on board H. B. M.'s S. Blonde, commanded by Capt. Byron, a cousin of the poet. Kamehameha 111. was also a son of Kamehameha 1., and was born March 17, 1814. He died at the age of 42,December 15,1854. During his reign the old feudal system of the Kingdom was abolished and a Constitutional Government established. Tbe lands were surveyed and fee-simple deeds granted. Many other important changes were effected. The King was acknowledged as independent by the great nations. Kamehameha I Y. was proclaimed King, having been adopted and appointed successor by the former King. He was son of Kinau, a daughter of Kamehameha 1., by His Excellency Kekuanaoa, Governor of Oahu. He was educated at the Royal School, taught by A. S. Cooke, Esq. He was a well educated gentleman, and while a Prince accompanied his brother, the late King, and Dr. Judd on a visit to America and Europe. He died November 30, 1863, at the age of 29 years, and was succeeded by his brother, Kamehameha V., who has since reigned. He died on the 11th of December, 1872, at the age of 42 years, having died upon his birthday. His late Majesty not having appointed a successor, it devolves upon the Legislature to elect a successor on the Bth of the current month. RTMEretiVbmouFF.heyaMBiIfsSYAftRHoyrTOnFEaPMB,AsIHMCASa.towshineflands. A Discourse preached Sabbath Morning, in the Bethel, December 22d, 1872, BY REY. S. C. DAMON. Last Sabbath morning, while discoursing upon the death of the King, from the text, None can keep alive his own soul," Ihere was one seated in the assembly, venerable for years and respected for wisdom, enjoying his usual health., who has sin.ccpassed away, and it now devolves upon me to notice in a becoming manner his departure. The foll/jaying passage, selected for my text, seems peculiarly appropriate in view of the well known career and happy dea'ji of this much venerated missionary and minister of the gospel " : And I heard a voice from heaven saving unto Write, Blessed are the dead whioh die in tb* "We the People."—A month ago, when me, Lord from henceforth ; Yea, aaith the Spirit, that commenting upon President Grant's Procla- they may rest from their labor* ; and their work* do the that the follow them."—Revelation xiv : 18. mation, " sentiment setting forth American Government was the creation of the people, we little imagined that so soon massmeetings would be held throughout the Hawaiian kingdom to discuss the manner of electing a King, and arguing that all governments are derived from a consent of the people. A new era has dawned upon the Hawaiian nation ; an hereditary chief, and one doubtless having the best right to the vacant throne, has made his appeal to the people, thus proclaiming that he deems the voice of the people a better title than a "Divine right" of hereditary descent. Verily the There is an elevation, sublimity and grandeur running through the Book of Revelation, which gives to this portion of the Bible a position not only above all uninspired books, but even above many portions of the inspired volume. The Apostle John had been banished to the isle of Patmos, a small, rocky and mountainous island in the Sea. While there, he was favored with a series of visions, which he was instructed to describe. Many different interpretations have been given to these marvelous symbolic representations. Scattered through this Book of Revelation there are however many single and detached sayings and declarations, the meanworld moves. ing of which is so plain and obvious that he who runneth may read and understand their Doeath f Sir John Bowring.—By late evident meaning, although be may not be mail, the intelligence of the death of this able to understand tbe book as a whole, or distinguished author, poet and diplomatist is be able to explain satisfactorily the succession of grand, sublime and symbolic figures announced. For many years he was the and representing angels blowing British Minister in China and Siam. He their pictures trumpets ; horses of a variety ofcolors ; was the author of several books relating to vials full of the last plagues; start falling that part of the world. Some of his hymns from heaven; thunders and lightnings; have become widely known throughout tbe earthquakes and convulsions; a city fourChristian world, especially the following, square, with gates of pearl, and streets of commencing, Watchman, tell us of the gold ; a pure river of life proceeding out of night," and In the cross of Christ I glory," the Throne of .God and the Lamb. The etc. learned or the unlearned reader, I remark, " " �TBE FRIEND. 2 may not be able.to explain correctly and satisfactorily all these symbols, but still, in regard to the obvious meaning of detached portions of this book, no ordinary reader can be ia doubt. The passage selected fpr our present consideration is one of this clasSaaaThe fievelator John declares that he heawsPi voice from heaven, saying unto him, Write," or make a record of what he was about to hear. He then heard this communication : Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth ; Yea, staith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors, and their works do follow them." do not imagine that any reader or hearer this verse can be in doubt respecting its ident meaning. The truth flashes out as ightly as the light flashes from a diamond when uncovered in the mines of Brazil or Africa. The miner may not be able to explain the chemical analysis of the earth which he turns with his spade or loosens with his pick, but when the diamond is unearthed he knows that he has discovered a most precious stone. The gold-digger may not be able to unfold aod explain the geologic structure of our globe, but he needs no one to inform him that he lifts a valuable ore when he takes in his hand the nugget of gold. Just so it is with the reader of this verse of the Book of Revelation. He may know at a glance that here is a truth more precious than any diamond, or more valuable than the largest lump of gold ever dug from the mines of Peru, California or Australia. " " (I • *#•** JANUARY, and the progress of the nations in science, art, religion and .civilization, he confidently anticipated the universal spread of Christianity over the whole earth. Tho Rev. Artemas Bishop was born in Pompey, N. V., December 30th, 1795, hence in a few days would have been seventy-seven years old. He graduated at Union College in 1819. While in college he had as fellow students the late Right Rev. Bishop Doane, of New Jersey, who was distinguished not only as a divine but as a poet, Bishop Potter, of Pennsylvania, and the Hon. William H. Seward, late Secretary of State at Washingtod, whose death has been so generally noticed throughout, not only in America, but the whole civilized world. What is quite note-worthy, the very last literary performance of our departed friend was a carefully I have selected the words of my text, this morning, as suggestive of some remarks wfcich I now propose to offer upon the life AND CHARACTER OF THE ReV. ArTEMAS BlSHop, whose death most unexpectedly occurred during the past week. His career as a. Missionary of the American Board is well known, having been protracted to the ripe No longerrepose in theborders of gloom," t>c. period of half a century. I take the more After a long passage, the company landed pleasure in selecting this passage on this occa- at Honolulu, on the last Sabbath of April, sion, because it is from a part of the Bible 1823. He was stationed at Kailus, Hawaii, departed friend made his special there to become the associate of the Rev. A. id examination during the last fifteen Thurston. Prior, however, to his entering upon the duties of a missionary, at that stastudied the prophecies old "He he was appointed to accompany Messrs. And strove their deep ien*e to unfold tion, In age at in youth." Ellis, Goodrich and Thurston on an explormister of the gospel, he necessarily ing tour around the Island of Hawaii. Mr. le whole Bible his life-study, but Ellis became the historiographer of their exceased from the active duties of the plorations, a narrative of which was publishministry, and enjoyed time for calm reflec- ed in the 4th volume of his Polynesian " tion and meditation, his mind has dwelt Researches," forming a most valuable conalmost exclusively upon the prophetic parts tribution to Hawaiian literature. After comof scripture, but especially upon the Book of pleting this tour, he settles down to the matRevelation. This book he has studied in ter-of-fact routine of a Missionary's life the original, and attentively consulted all the among a heathen people. Having acquired commentators within his reach. The last, I the language, he becomes associated with the believe, waa that of the Dean Alford. This Rev. Mr. Thurston in the wcrk of traajfUing he read with a delight quite remarkable lor the Biblo. Together they translate a man verging upon tbe life of an octogena- of Genesis, Numbers and Deuteronomy; berian. He has often told me that while dif- longing to the Old Testament, and the Episfering from many commentators in their tles of Paul to the Romans and Galatians; views of this Book and that corresponding while alone, he translates the 2d of Samuel Book of Daniel in tbe Old Testament, yet and the Ist of Chronicles. be had arrived at what he regarded a correct After remaining about twelve years at theory of interpretation, and it afforded him Kailua, he removed to Ewa, on the Island nnspsakable satisfaction to contemplate the of Oahu, where he labored for about twenty future triumphs of the gospel as unfolded in years with great usefulness and success. these prophetic parts af scripture. He had While residing at this station, he translated no doubts and misgivings upou the subject, Pilgrim's Progress," and many other books. but from hi, extensive, reading of history. " His accurate knowledge of the Hawaiian lan- Rur guage always gave him authority in all matinvolving questions of criticism and translation. His fondness for study, reading and literary pursuits was preserved to the very close of his career. He was always exceedingly fond of reading periodical literature. Ail the monthly mags zincsand reviews found a place on his table. At the same time he never failed to peruse the latest news of the world. From this wide range of reading he was ever gathering a fund of useful knowledge which furnished him the materials for thought and reflection, thus enabling him to ters - " Assert eternal Providence, And justify theways of Ood to men." He was wont to take cheerful views of life, •ever looking on the bright side of all subjects. There was a golden thread of interwoven into the texture of rrrw* rnjiid. prepared sketch of Mr. Seward's life and Solomon says, A man that hath friends, career, which was published in the native must show himself friendly." He was one newspaper Kitokoii of December. Not long of those friendly, genial and companionable since, Mr. Bishop showed me a letter which men whose presence does not chill, but warms he had received from his oldcollege room-mate society. If a neighbor had a leisure hour to Mr. Seward, written amid all the cares of spend, he could find no more agreeable comstate transpiring during the late civil war in panion. Home was the spot in which he America. He graduated at Princeton Theo- took special delight. Give him a book and logical Seminary, in 1822. While a theo- his study, and he was content to allow the logical student, he was associated with the outside world to move on undisturbed. It is late Rev. Albert Barnes and some others quite remarkable that with the rapid tide of who have become distinguished as ministers travel rushing past our islands, he never of the gospel in America, and as foreign should have left them since his arrival in missionaries. After marriage with Mrs. April, 1823, except on a visit as delegate to Elizabeth Edwards, of Boston, he embarked, the Marquesas Mission in 1858. He never in November, 1822, at New Riven, with the had rode upon or seen a railroad, or witnessed first reinforcement of missionaries destined the operation of the telegraph. Few men, for these islands. Among his associates however, were better acquainted with the were the Rev. Messrs. Richards and Stewart, progress of scientific discovery. EmphaticMr. Chamberlain, and several others. At ally might Goldsmith's description of the his embarkation a large concourse assem- Vicar in the Deserted Village apply to bled, and then was sung for the first time the him, while officiating for nearly forty years Hymn, written by William B. Tappan, as a missionary at Kailua and Ewa : he was to all the country dear, which has'been so oft repeated : * AAndmanpsssing rich with fortypounds a year -, Remote from towns he ran his godly race, " Wake, Itles of tbeSouth ! your redemption it near. . • 18 73. " " " Nor e'er had chang'd, nor wished to change bis place. I'nskilirul he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashion'd to the varying hoar ; Far other alms bis heart had learn'd to prise, More beot to raise tbe wretched than to rise." It is quite impossible not to admire the life of such a veteran missionary, who left his country fifty years ago, and after voyaging around Cape Horn, settled down among the Hawaiians to learn their language, assist in reducing it to a written form, and then spend a long lifetime in preaching and laboring among this people. His thoughts have become their thoughts. By means of the sermons which he preached, books and hymns which he wrote and translated, and above all, by the, life which he led, his own lifethoughts, have become interwoven and intertwined with the life-thoughts and literature of Hawaiians. In a good old age Sir Christopher Wren, the architect of St. Paul's Cathedral, died and was buried, and over his remains there is a marble slab, upon which is inscribed this sentiment in Latin : Reader, if you " Wren's seek his monument, look around." monument is that noble Cathedral, the pride of London and glory ot England. If any visitors to these shores should inquire for the monument of Mr. Bishop or those of his associates, could we not say to them, " Look around. You will see their monuments in the schools and school-books, in the Bible and hymn-books, in the fifty native churches, �all which has contributed to build up this people, intellectually, morally and spiritually." Most honorable and praiseworthy are the works of such men, and they will follow •.hem, agreeably to the sentiment of my text, in both this world and the world to come. Such works as these are the treasures which in may be laid up " in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal." Man cannot take with him gold or silver, honors or pleasures of earth to another world, but the moral results of his life and labors willaccompany him. Characteris indestructible and imperishable. This will live, and live on forever. In this respect eternity will of this life. "He that beJ^ut �prolongation istjjjafMy, let him be holy still," and " he which is filthy, let him be filthy still." Mr. Barnes admirably remarks : " It is one of the highest honors of our nature that we can make the present affect the future for goods that by our conduct on earth we can lay the foundation for happiness millions of age; hence. Jn no other respect does man appear so dignified as in this; no where do we see so clearly the grandeur of the soul as in the fact that we to-day may determine our happiness in that future period, when all the affairs of earth shall have been wound up, and when ages which cannot now be numbered shall have rolled away. It is then a glorious thing to live and a glorious thing to die." Yes, it is a glorious thing to die, when a person has lived long and labored faithfully in tbe cause of his Divine Master; whose language finally will be, " Well done, good and faithful servant; enter thou into the joy of thy Lord." A few hours before Mr. Bishop died, he asked his physician respecting the nature of his disease, but noticing that there was a little hesitation on his part to reply, only saying, " You are a very sick man," he spoke up in a very cheerful and characteristic manner, " You need not be afraid to stale the truth, for I have been ready to go these twenty years." When a good man dies in old age, having served his day and generation faithfully, having enjoyed health and prosperity, having accomplished the great end of life and goes prepared to another world, I think we may catch something more than a glimpse of what our lot in this world would have heen, had not Satan, through the sin of our first parents, * Brought death into theworld and all our woe." It is useful also to contemplate the lives of good men, living and dying iff bur own as well as in past ages. God is now working as truly through good men as he did two, three and four thousand years ago. Our Saviour's last command is both explicit and encouraging: "Go ye, therefore, and teach all nations; * * * and 10, I am with you alwav, even unto the end of the world." It is our favored privilege to live in an age and part of the world when and where we may see this command fulfilled and the promise carried out. I do not suppose our departed friend ever entertained a doubt since leaving the shores of America in November, 1822, or fifty years ago, that he ■had mistaken the nature of that command in coming hither* neither do I imagine he ever doubted "»« ii S& ,h - ■— FRIEND. J ■N I 1R V , 18 73. presence of his Divine Master. He always labored cheerfully, heartily and hopefully in his Master's employ. The record of such a life passes into the annals of the history of Redemption. It will no more be lost than will that of Paul. Such men may rest from their labors, but their works will follow them through time and eternity. They will form a part of that glorious spectacle referred to by Isaiah when he speaks of the Messiah, seeing " of the travail of his soul and shall be satisfied." As I stood by the grave opened to receive the remains of our departed brother, and by the side of the graves of Armstrong, Knapp, Chamberlain, Cooke and others whom I had seen there committed to the dust, I felt as if for the moment, 1 had- reached with Bunyun's pilgrim the land of Beulah, and heard the voices of the shining ones on the other side of the river. I could hardly be mistaken in the impression that they had come to warn some of our company to make all necessary preparation for crossing, for I saw that the locks of several of the older missionaries standing there were already " silvered o'er with the frosts of age." It required no stretch of the imagination to hear a voice issuing from that opened grave, saying, " Be ye also ready, for in such an hour as ye think not, the Son of man cometh." Let us then join in singing the Pilgrim's Hymn : 3 THE for tbe relief of citizens iv distress abroad, other than seamen. It is understood to be customary with other governments to authorise oonauß to extend auch relief to their citisena or subjects in certain cases. A similar authority and appropriation to earrj it into effect are recommended in case of United States' degtittrvte or aick under such circumstance*. It is well known that such citizen* resort to foreign countries in great numbers, and though most of them are able to bear the expenses incidont to a location, there are some who, through accident or otherwise, become penniless, and have no friends at homo able to succor them. Persons in this situation must either perish or cast themselves upon the charity of foreigners, or be relieved at private charge by our owu officers, who usually even with tho most benevolent disposition* have nothing to spare for such purposes. Should the authority and appropriation asked for be grunted, care will he taken to carry the beneficence of Congress into effect, that it shall not be unworthily bestowed. An English Visitor.—Some months ago nn English Wesleyan Clergyman, returning from a tour through the Australian Colonies, spent a week in Honolulu, and preached on the Sabbath at the Bethel and Fort Street Churches. Since his return to England he has resumed preaching in Durham. While here he was olive to examine schools, government, people, and everything relating lo the inhabitants of this island. By the last mail we received a letter, from which we cppy as follows : A few more years shall roll, *' A few more seasons come ; " I cannot forget your charming scenery, 1 cannot forget the hospitality and christian And we ahsll be with those that rest. Asleep within the tomb. | courtesy with which I was received among Then O, my Lord, prepare you. I cannot forget the many tekens which My soul for thut great day ; Oh, wash me In thy precious hlnod. j 1 saw of the progress of a high civilization, Anil Like my tins away," etc. (he conquests of the cross, and I often ! and wish earnestly that the masses of the people President Grant's Message. surround me here were as orderly, as The President's Annual Message to Con- which intelligent and as welleedncated as the Hagress was presented Dec. 2d, and fully re- waiians of Oahu. 1 was profited and gratiported on the 6th, in the Sair Francisco fied by my visit to the United States. I have weekly Bulletin, and received at Honolulu now a deeper love than ever for the Amerion the 15th, or thirteen days from Wash- can people, and a loftier admiration for their Owing to illness, which robbed me of ington. Our special attention to the mes- land. a week's time, I did not visit the New Engsage i-i called by the following paragraphs, land States, but 1 am fully determined thar. relating to the relief of Americans in foreign at the first opportunity, I will revisit Amerlands, who are not seamen. This is a sub- ica, and then New England shall have the share of my time and study." ject upon which we could write a document lion's Another English visitor thus writes from as long as the President's Message. For a peCoventry riod of thirty years our attention has been con"I often think with pleasure of visiting stantly called to this subject. Many thou- your beautiful islands, especially while feelsands of dollars have we raised for the sup- ing the raw, cold fogs and generally dull port and aid of our countrymen. Year after weather of England at this season (Novemthe year. This city of Coventry, year has the question been referred to in the ber) ofwhich 1 write, is one of the most anfrom columns of The Friend, and by other means have we labored lo promote it. Although cient and interesting cities in England. We on all sides with places rich we have our "American Relief" Fund, are surrounded associations. Within a few in historical Stranger's Friend Society, and other ussocia- miles of Coventry are Kenilworlh Castle, still all do not meet the cases eXuctly tioq|i, where Queen Elizabeth has more than once referred to by President Grant, and most sin- been entertained ; Warwick, with Its cerely do we hope the subject will not be castle,royally old fortress ; and Stratford on a grim : over and passed neglected by Congress Avon, the the birth-place of the immortal KKLIKF Or AMBKICANS IN FOREIQN LANDS. I renew tho recommendation made on a pre- Shakespeare. You will pfease pardon me vious occasion for tbe transfer to the Department writing about these things. I do not expect ol the Interior, to which they seem more appro- they will interest you a tenth part as they do priately to belong, all the power* and duties in myself, but Englishmen love to look at and relation to the foreign territory with which the talk about these old places." Department ofState is now charged by law or by We would remark that Americans have a customs of Congress. From tbe beginning the interest in all such old historical places, deep for the Government has wisely made provi-sion re else do so many, like Hawthorne, revisit why lief of distressed seamen in foreign countries. No such provision, however, hae hitherto been made and write about "Our Old Home." - ' : �THE FRIEND, 4 THE FRIEND. JA.M'ARV I, IBT3. The Future King. There appears to be a general uprising of tbe Hawaiian people on all part*) of the islands, from Hawaii to Niihau, in favor of His Royal Highness Prinre William (J. Lunalilo. Mass meetings have been held at various localities for the purpose of giving expression to public sentiment, and for instructing the Representatives how they shall vote at the coming meeting of the Legislature. By acclamation, Prince William is the candidate for the throne. It is peculiarly fortunate for the pence of the community that there should bo this unanimity in the popular mind. Agreeably to the proclamation of the Prince, there will be a gathering of the people to-day, January I, in all the districts for .(he purpose of voting. Although this is not a decisive and binding vote, yet it will more fully indicate the people's mind. Perhaps our readers abroad may be interested in learning something respecting the position of the incoming Sovereign of the Hawaiian Islands. Prince William C. Lunalilo wss born January 31, 1835, and ishence thirty-seven years of age. He derives his rank as a chief from his mother, Her Royiil Highness Miri.ima Kekauluohi, who died June 7, 1845. At the time of her death she was the Premier of the Kingdom, having succeeded Kinnu, the mother of Kamehameha IV. and Y. Sh%was a chiefess of the highest rank at the time of her death. Mr. Jarves in an obituary notice published in the Polynesian of June 21, 1845, writes thus : " She was the last adult member of that distinguished family which for the past sixty years has, as it were, shared the Hawaiian throne with the Kings themselves. Her grandfather, Keeaumoku, was the most noted of all the warriors of Kamehameha 1., and by his personal prowess placed thateminent man on the throne of Hawaii; first by slaying with his own hand his great antagonist Kiwalao, and subsequently Keoua, the only remaining enemy on that island." He became chief counselor and executive agent in conducting the affairs of the Kingdom. Key kauluohi, his grand-daughter, was the mother of Prince William. According to Hawaiian history, she was betrothed in her youth to Pemarc, the King of Tahiti, but his death prevented the union by marriage of the Kingdoms of the Hawaiian and Society Islands. She is reported to htve been remarkably handsome in her youth, and as having possessed a very tenacious memory, treasuring up the old genealogies of the islands. Our readers wilj find i good likeness of this chiefess in the fourth JIMIRV, 1873. volume of " Wilkes' Exploring Expedition," snd also in Anderson's Hawaiian Islands." " Reference to Ihe foregoing facts will account for that deep feeling among Hawaiians for Princo William as their future King, in preference over all other candidates. He was educated at the Royal School, and we remember him as a bright scholar. He speaks and writes the English language with much ease. Should he succeed to the throne, we earnestly hope and pray that he may enjoy a long and happy reign. Profiting by the successes and errors of the past, we hope the Kingdom of Hawaii will now take a new departure in all those elements of prosperity which go to make the people happy and the rulers beloved, fully believing with Solomon thnt " Righteousness exalteth a nation but sin is a reproach to any people." : The Japanese and the English Language.—At the late meeting of the Oriental Society at New Haven, tho corresponding secretary read a letter from Mr. Mori, Ihe representative of Japan at Washington. Mr. Mori's letter caused considerable discussion, in consequence of the novel opinion which he entertains in regard to the Japanese language. He thinks the spoken language too poor for the progress of that people, and that a new language-is demanded. He speaks of the schools and books of Japan as being almost useless. He favors the adoption of the English alphabet, and the preparation of text books of the most simple forms. He would make all verbs radical. He feels assured, if Japan would attain to the highest civilization, she must have a better language. Prof. Whitney and others felt that this never can be done; that the present Japanese language must be developed, and whatever is good must be retained, while the useless element, must be goj rid of.— Thf I'aiific. The Japanese may accomplish much in the way of peaceful revolution, but one thing they will not find it easy to perform. They cannot banish the vernacular language of the common people. Novices and ignoramuses censure missionaries for not banishing the Hawaiian and other languages spoken by a once heathen people, but it cannot be done immediately. The most noteworthy example wherein a missionary attempted to preach the gospel in English or pigeonvEtiglish to a heathen people, was that of the Rev. Mr. Snow to the inhabitants of Strong's Island. When we visited that island in 1861, Mr. Snow stated these interesting facts: The peculior dialect of (he people of that island facilitated the acquisition of English words and pronunciation of the sounds of our language. A broken English was slready known to the people. For four years Mr. Snow endeavored to preach to the people in that lingo, but then fell back upon the pure vernacular of the islanders. He sat down anew to tho work of acquiring the language, and what is quite remarkable, actually sue ceeded. He found it utterly impracticable to change the language. The French at Tahiti have tried lo banish the native language, but have failed. Eight hundred years ago, William the Conqueror tried to make the common people of England speak French, but failed. The English language may spread over our globe, but the process cannot be forced. A Sailor Turned Missionary. Our colporteur, Mr. Dunscombe, received a letter by a late mail frcm an old seafaring friend who left his ship in Siain, and during tho last seven or eight years has been laboring under the auspices of the AmericM Missionary Association. The letter is daa-H Bankok, from which we quote ns follows : " I came here in 1863. After our arrival here I left the vessel and went mate* of a Siamese vessel for one voyage. I then joined the Mission. I have plenty of work and good health. Here there is a plenty of work for those who are ready to work for Christ. True there are some fourteen or sixteen missionaries, but what arc they among so many ? It is about forty years ago since the first missionaries came to Sin in, nnd there urc two now living who came in 1836, yet with all those years of labor and patient waiting the progress appears but small. This people are Buddhists—about the worst people on earth to be influenced by the mild doctrines of Christianity and the story of the Cross. It is next to impossible to awaken in their minds a sense of guilt, a need of pardon, or even an idea that there is n living God who rules over all, to whom they are accountable. They believe that their own merits will take them to heaven, or Naffan as they call their highest heaven ; this is in fact endless sleep, or rather annihilation. Accnrding to their system Buddha, or their God, is now in a state of unconsciousness—neither knows, hears or sees, exercises no supervision nor control over anything here below, and in fact is blotted out of existence entirely; and this is what each and every one aspires to. If this is so, better adopt the Darwin theory, and return to a state of monkevhood;" The Order of Good Templars.—From the reading of the thirteenth annual report of the Grand Lodge of California and the eighteenth report of the Lodge of Wisconsin, we infer that this Order is making rapid progress in the United States and accomplishing much good. The usefulness of the several Lodges on these islands is clearly manifest. They have caused peace, prosperity and happiness to enter many a family where formerly the demon of intemperance reigned. Many young men bylheir usefulness have been reformed, as we can testify. Our old friend, Captain A. D. Wood, formerly of the China clipper ship Oracle, appears to have left his command on the sea to take charge of the ship " Good Templar " of California. Success (o him, his associates and all laboring to put down intemperance, on land or sea. — * �THE FRIEND, 18.3. 5 J.IMIKJ, Annual Meeting of the Sailor's Home Society. There will be held the annual meeting of the Honolulu Sailor's Homo Society at the Depository at 11 o'clock, A. M., to-mortow, Thursday, January 2d, for the choice of Trustees and Officers, and the presentation of reports. The following Trustees retire at the end of 1872: S. N. Castle, F. A. Schaefer, F. Banning, D. Foster, W. L. Green, J. O. Carter. Going ovt in 1873—H. A. P. Carter, A. F. Judd,' J. H. Wodehouse, P. C. Jones, Jr., A. W. Pierce. Going out in 1874—5. C. Damon, C.K. Bishop, D. Smith, J. C. Pfluger, E. O. Hall, T. H. JJavies. MARINE JOURNAL PORTOF HONOLULU, S. I. ARRIVALS. REPORT Or BarkENTINE JaME A. FaLEINRI RO, FORREB, Uft Columbia River Not Slat. First four daya fresh NW wlnda. Next ton days a sucoeasloo of had out heayvy southerly gales. On Not 27th, during a very heavy gale from the 88 w, thebarometer fell to 28 80. L*at ten daya had light variable winds and calms. Arrived In Honolulu Dec 18th,after a passage of So days. Report or Italian Htiam* Propeller Glenbannox, DoMENtco Capello, Master.—Led Macao Nov 17th for Punta Orena, wlih Mbcoohes Had very rough weather on the coast ol Japan. Lost seven coolies on the passage, health ol all the rest very good. Arrived In Honolulu Dec 20th. RsroßT or Bask D. C. Murray, Shepherd, Martkr.— Left Him Francisco Tuesday, Dec 3d. Had light NW winds for two daya. then for eleven days had wind hauling from NE lo BE. Made Fast Maul Dec 17th. From thence to port had SandßW wlnda. Arrived In Honolulu Saturday, Dec '21st. Report or S ikminek 0* M. Ward, Ricrman, Master.— .en Honolulu Nov oth, wind light from HVY light winds and Ibaffling to lat 6° N, long 101 * 47* W ; thence fresh from BK. Arrived at Endorlmry Island Nov 23d, wind light from ti. .fit Enderhury for Baker's Island Nov Sbth, arriving there on I the38th. Left Baker's for Howland's Island Nov 30th, arriving there aame day. Left aatne day for Honoluluat 6p m, wind light from K. From lat 6° N, long 174° 60' W, had heavy squalla with rain from eaatward. In lat 3° N, long 180° 50' W, taw l.trge achoolapenn whalca. Carried squally weather (o lat 2J° N, long 160* W, then had wind light from northward. At 6a m Dec vi-d, had wind light from aW to l«»rt, arriving in Honolulu aame day. Report or Brioantini Hkhpkrian, Wilkinson, Master.—Left Han Fraucltcn for Humboldt Oct 18lh, arriving there Nov Bth. Lett for Honolulu Nov* 26th. encountering Br. galea which laaled until the 30th. Then had light alra and moderate and SW wlnda until Dec 7th. Had N W wind to the trades In lat 27° W N, long 132° SO' W which we carried to lat 22° in' N, long lbo° to' W. Hlnce then had head wind*, calms and squalls from the H\V until arrival. On tho 23d had a strong BVV gale, hove lo for 24 houra, and arrived In Honolulu Dec 26th. North Pacimc Ocean Sandwich Islands—Depth on the Bar or Honolulu Harror. Thch'rborof Honolulu Is accessible at all times only for ships drawing not over 3 fathuma water. Shlpa of greater draught, but not exceeding 21 feet, must wait for high water In order to enter or leave. Hhips of from 21 |*M to 22 feet draught must wait for spring-flood, or at leaat until wlnda have caused an uncommon accumulation of water on the bar, which aoinctlmea occurs, especially- between December and May, when the outer anchorage Is dangerous, lv etiacn ol ciuiTj»eticy a vessel drawing even 23 feel may attempt to enter-, hut it la exposed to danger when passing the bar, over winch there are only 20*} to 32J feet The ahlp " Flora," drawingnearly 21 feet astern, having left the harbor Juat after high water, touched twice on the aand of thebar. By Ottlor ol the Bureau of Navigation. R. 11. Wvman, Captain I'. H. N llydrographer. Hydrographic Ofiicu, Washington, D. C, Aug. S7lh, 1872. MASTaa — . • —— Nor. 30—Italian bk Anna Ouela, li Cicclonc, 106 dayi from Montevideo,bound for Howland's I-land. Dec. 7-Am wh ship Marengo, Barnes, 21 days from Ban Francisco, with 1,700 bbla wh, 14,000lbs lame, lo—Am ihlp Syren, C A Johnson, 6*3 daya from Newcastle, N 8 W. 14—SBNebraska, Harding, 16g days from Auckland, calami. ■ hip ProgTfßa, Dowdcn, 26 days Irom San ico, wllh 1,180 bbla wh. 16—Amwh bk Midas, Haiulll, 26 days from Ban Francisco, with 1,100 bbla wh. 16—Am stmr Dakota, lugeraoll, U days from Ban Francisco. 18— Am bktit Jane A Fnlkinburg, Forbes, 26 dayi from Portland, Oregon 20—Italian steam propeller Glensannox, Domenlco Capello, 83 daya from Macao. 21—Am bk D C Murray, Hhephurd, 18 daya from Ban Francisco. 22—Am schr C M Ward, Hickman, 22 daya from HowT f t'aptnin MiihciM'k, one of the pilots of this port, publand's Uland. lishes the following card, called forth by tin- notice from Capt 26—Am bgtn pßssjsjrlaii, WMiam 28 days from HumWymau.of Ihe Bureau of Navigation al Washington, In relaboldt, with lumber lo 11 llackfeld A Co. tion to the depth of Honolulu haihor As theharbor of Honolulu aud the bar at itscutrance have, within Ihe pas! few yeara, been carefully surveyed and sounded I'KIMIMIKKS. by competent ofrieer* of the American Navy, whose re|siria are no doubt in Ihe Hydrographic Offlcu, it Is somewhat singuNot. to -Am wh ship Raintmw, lirav. lo cruise. lar that statement* aa erroneous aa some in the above extract 80—Am wh bk. Acilve, Campbell, f> RrahVßshould emanate from (hero. Except at very rare intervals the Dec. 2—Am wh bk Triton, Hepplugatone, to cruise, harbor of Honolulu la accesalhlo to vesacls (sailing or steam) •t—Brit wh bk Faraway, Herendeen, for Sydney, drawing as much as twenty one feet, the water in thechannel d—Am wh bk Bartholomuw fiosnold, Willis, to cnusc (he bar being at the hnvmt tide* not less than 33 feet. over 7—ltalianbk anna Ouela, Clcclone, for Howland's Is, A i high tide any vessel drawing 22 feet can easily and s ifvly 7—Haw wh bk Arctic, A N Tripp, to cruise. enter the harbor with steam, and under ordluauMdrcum14—Brit bk Excelsior, Edgar, for Htarlmck Island. atancea those drawing aa much as 23 feet would riiirvrrtak In 14—Nor tier ahip Madura, F Klorm, for Maiden Inland crossing the bar al high tide. I api*end the following Hat of 18—Am stmr Nebraska, I Harding, for Ban Francisco. vessels which have, of late years, entered thla harbor, m>n< of 18—Am atmr Dakota, Inxeronll, for Auckland. which have drawn less than 20 feet of wateri 18—(law wh brig Kamehameha V, Weeks, to crulae. Oct. 16, 1800,ahlp T. N. Thayer 21J feet. 10—Am ship Ceylon, Woods, for Ban Kranciaco. Dec 20. 1880. Austrian ship Donau 20 20—Am wh ihlp Marengo, Barnes, to cruise April ahlp French La flora 10,1872, 22 21—Am wh bk James Allen, Kelley, lo crulae. Nov. 11, 1872, ship Madura 21 26—Am wh bk Aruolda, (l F Bauldry, to cruts*. Nov. .0, 1872, ship Alice Hull 21 27—Am ahlp Alice Ball, Quest, tor Enderhury Island. 27—Italian •team propeller (•lensaunox, Horn* nleo CaThe Flora drew twenty-two (instead of "nearly twentyone "j feet of watur, and waa not oba-Tvcd to touch on tho bar polio, for Coata Rica. once, either by the opinio or pilot, both of whom were watching the TssrjH closely during the time of her passage over the Res|X'cifully your.*, bar. Wm. Barcock, MEMORANDA. — « , : Pilot al Honolulu or Ship Syren, Johnson, Master.— l-eft Hom>. lulu April 25th for Callao. Crossed tho equator April 28 ih In long 160° 20' W. Had the NE and eK t.adoa moderate with pleasant weather. Passed to the eastward of Hervey group of Islands. Took a westerly wind May 10th In Ist 84° B, long 140° W, which lasted until Juno Ist, having reached lat 31 B, long 93° W. From thence to lat 23° S, long 70° \V, had a constant aucceaaion of light head winds and culms. Were IS daya going 000 miles. From thence to port had light soutbeastorly wlnda and fogiry weather. Arrived at Cullao on the morning ol June 22d. Left Callao July 20th. Paaaed between the Pomatou and Marquesas gr.nipo. north of theNio igator and FIJI Islands, between tho FIJI and New Caledonia. Experienced lair trade* and mostly pleasant weather the enSept 12th, at 11 am, look a Newcastle tow-boat tire passage oft' Red Ilea*]. Anchored at 2 p m In Newcastle harbor Have had fair wind the entire passage, with exception of a N W wind In lat 12 ° 8, long 160 W, lasting 12 hours. Passage 44 dayi) whole distance run 8,100 miles, averaging 184 miles per 84 hours. Left Newcastle, N 8 W.Oct 14th at B p m. First 6 daya out had light baffling hood winds and pleasant weather. Oct 10th aaw Lord Howe's laUnd. Oct 26.h passed tho north end of New Zealand. From thence to lat .'l6° S, long 160° W bad light winds, mostly from the westward. Afterward! had thewind from Nto E- Paaaed to the eastward of the Pomatou group. Had tbe BE trades from the northward of east throughout. Crossed tht equator Nov 27th In long IM° W. At daylight Dec (.th made Maul hearing "»hvv, dlstanrs 'JO miles. At midulght hove tj off Cocu Head. Passage 66 da) a. Report • * Os PASSENGERS. From Stfal Pat Faraway, Nov. ;',oili—lgn irlu line. Fan* Hab Fsanciim:o—Per Marengo, Dec. 7th— George Gllly. Jas Green, J T Whltforil, Chas Weir, Joe Koralonga, Joe Amelia, and .1 Hawaiian.. Fbom Ban Fbahcisco—Per llskola, Dec 16lh—Mr Greenteeeaiiil wil', A Nell, Msjor .l.arkyui', Mlsa Wumleuhurf, W gggggghjke, C h liHike, Mrs Huuilllon ami t ilniigliters, J R K.n■JvhV nnd child, B II l.yon, II l; While, M Lew, Miss waßjHaWisin. Mi> McGrrw, F II Blcknell, Rev T I. Gulick and wile, Hi v J Gulick, wifeand girl, Godfrey Brown, B 1' Robinson, J Csahman. N W Tallani. A Herbold, Wm Powell, VI Chinamen, and 81 In tranallu for Auckland. Fob San Frabcisco—Her Nebraska, Hoc. ISih—Miss Jenny Armstrong, Mr Pierce, Young Bheoug, \V Bctirnubatedler, W Males, John M Powless, J D Hall, Msdsme Htatra, Mgnor Orlandlnl F Porter, wlfu ami 2 daughters, Lieut Mitchell, I' B N, Rohl Moore, Geo Ncheker, aod 17In tranallu from Auckland. Fbom Portland, O.—Per Falklnburg, Dec. loth—Mr Foster and child, Geo Real. For Bah Fbaniibco—Per Cevhm, Dec 19th— Oawlev, John 8 Wilson. Fbom Sab Fbancik o—Per D. <J. Murray, Dec. slst—e M Dal, wife aod arm, T A Lord, Mrs Mary Mcoti, Mis. Jennie Hour. Frank Heott. F B lledfleld and whY, Mr- F HoHwrUr, Mm llolli.lcr, Msttct D Picric, Manuil rtalrtr. * From aviso Uland*—Per C. M. Ward, Doc. atd—Elias Hempstead and wife, Autone Hugo, Thos Martin, Wm Young, and 18 native laborers Fbom II t *Boi,DT-Per Hesperian, Dec. il&th- Mrs Wilkinson aud 8 children. MARRIED. Mitk in tosh —\ on Holt—ln thlacity. December inn., at Hi. Amirew'a Teinj-orary Cathedral, by the Right Rev. Bishop of Honolulu,Roy. Alexander Maceintobh lo Alicr, onl\ .laughter of Thomas Brown, Registrar of tho Hawaiian lal ands, and widow of the late Herrman Yon Holt. Bet, Mo cards. Rosa—Smith —In this city, December 30th, at tho rtstdence of the bride's mother, by Rev. H. C. Damon, UaOhnK J. Roan, Esq., to Mlsa Henrietta K. Hmith, both of Honolulu. DIED. , Oilman—lii Newton, Mmii November bill. Mr- Eliiarktii Field Oilman, wlff of (Jorham l> Oilman tuxl daughu r of Rev. 8. W. and X 11. Field, aged 31 year*. Williambon —In thla city, on Thursday, December bib, James Williamson, (colored.) w. 11 known as Jim the ccofc, aged about 40 years, imtlvr of Kingston, Jamaica. * Iti Hjiiii* In thli <:Ity, December lmh, the Rtv. Antemab Bishop, for nearly fifty year* a missionary of theAmerican Hoard at these Islands. The subject of thin notice wan horn in ttic town of Pompey, N. V., December .'Huh, 17W6,and couaffluently lacked but a few days of aeelog the 77th annlveraary of hla hirth-day. Jle graduated at Union College. N. V., in 18111*anil embarked aa a missionary for theae Islands NoveinlirrJDih. 1822, arriving here wltli ihe lirat reinforcement- in AtpK, 1823. He waa atatloncd at Kallua. Hawaii, where he •remained from 18'J4 to 18.14. a perl d of 12 yeara,when he waa removed to the a tatlon at Kwa, on Oahu. He remained al the latter place In the discharge of hla missionary labora until within a few yearsilnce, when he removed lo Honolulu- He waa much beloved and reelected by the native*, and ha waa the translator Into Hawaiian <>fa law portion c.f the tfcrlpturea and many hymna. He leaves a widow,and two children by his drat marriage, Rev. H X Hiahop ami Mrs. hi|i<t.ran,l The following persons look part In the funeral exercises at Kawaiahao Church 1. Rending of the Scriptures, Rev. 11 1.1 JO, m Hawaiian, by Rev. |>r Baldwin 3. Hymn In Hawaiian, (translated by Rev. Mr. Bishop,) and read by Rev. J. D. I'arla. 3. I'rayer In F.ngllnh, by Rev. W. I*. Alexander. 4. Short addres- In English, by Rev. H. C. Damonft. Addresa in Hawaiian, by Rev. 1,, flmlth. 8. Prayer in Hawaiian, by Rev. B. (3. Parker. 7. I'rayer In English and Hawaiian, by Rev. Mr IVgir. To Ihe Mi rr of X* v. Arlrmni DUhop. We heard In thesoft hush of night, The rualle of angel wings bright,— Ciruviug the air And when broke the fresh rosy dawn,— Another tried spirit waa gone. Freighted with prayer. No iouih! of the drum or Ihe Hie, <>aye sign of the well finished life, Ko patiently -i»nt Yet one of Christ's soldiers moat brave, Who battled, a loat race to save, Had struck his Ira.l tent The banner waa one he beat loved, In nervier his armor had proved Truest of steel. In front of the battle he bore The Cross, whirl, for sin evermore. In iHTfi'd to heal. And he, who through lung yeara of toil Had faithfully wrought thehard soil, Oft watering with tears ; Now laying his worn armor by,— lias J 'hud the hleat MMMPH on high. (.alluring through J earn. Heatuilled the prophecies old, And -trove theft imp sense to unf »ld In agf ua In youth. Now, numbered with prophet* and kin*.*. Through Heaven hla voire Joyful ring", Triiiuipliatit in truth. So f.od calls hi* children above. To And In lhat bright home of love, Their record on high. A life nobly spent In the Held, Where Owl hla bravo warrloradoth shield, A faith that no terror* can move, A hope madeall jwrfecl lv love. Be num when we die. - - — — Information Wanted, Concerning John Neuk, who sailed from Honolulu on board the brig Jnnir Purler In February, 1870, and arrived at hhanghue the following June. Since then hie anxloue mother has received no tidfnge of him. Any information reelecting him will be thankftally received by the Editor of thie paper, Dt by hla atflter, Jane Nash, Mr. Le Gror Clark. " The Thorn-," Seven Oaks," Kent, Enguuid. Respect Itig A BtrUfofd d"VMr, a young Frenchman, who wh laet heard from at the Fiji lalande. The Editor haa ren-lvisd a letter from Paris, under date of June33d, Irom which we copy ka fellow* i •» There haa been a great weal of fighting goijig on among the tut Uvea, andhe waa appointed leader of one aide. They went to war, but the army waa very iiiiillenlgll—d. and ha had a vary hard time. Hie aide won the battle aad. he came out uuhjured, but the other aide Vuwed v«ngeaoce en this leader,and hla friends arc afraid he Is murdered, aa he Uvea sow- waya frrwe la the .a»e of Ova*." fleas* " �6 Hebrew THE FRIEND, Scho ls of the Prophets. BY REV. D. DOLE. As a Hawaiian school of the Prophets has been recently established at Honolulu, it may not be uninteresting to the readers of the Friend to see an sccount of the Hebrew schools of the Prophets, such as may be gleaned from the Bible. A prophet is a messenger, or interpreter of the Divine will. It pertained to the prophetic office not only to JANUARY. 1873. edge that I cannot find authority for all this in the Sacred narrative ; but historians often make much put of little. From this passage it may be inferred that music was a part of the education of the young prophets. Four kinds of musical instruments are mentioned, and a fifth, the cymbal is specified in 1 Chron. 25:1. The utterances of Miriam the prophetess were accompanied with timbrels, when she and the women of Israel joined in the triumphal song on the shore of the Red Sea.—Ex. 15:20, 21. Elisha on one occasion called for a minstrel to play, in order to soothe his perturbed spirit and fit him to receive the Divine message.—2 Kings 3:14,15. "ofDavid separated to the service of the sons Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthan, who should prophesy with harps, with psalteries, and with cymbals."—l Chron. 25:1. The study of-poetry, the sister art of music, was doubtless a part of their education. Bishop Lowth says : •' Though the Sacred history affords us but little informa- predict future events, but also to teach the law and to exhort to holy living. Paul says He that prophesieth speaketh unto men to "edification, and exhortation, and comfort."— 1 Cor. 14:3. He meant by " prophesying the same that we mean by "preaching." So" did Jeremy Taylor in his treatise " On the Liberty of Prophesying." But " prophecy came not in old time by the will of man, but holy men of old spake as they were moved by the Holy Spirit."—2 Pet. 1:21. In this they had great advantage over many preachers of the present time, who give little evidence of being moved by the Holy Spirit. tion, and that in a cursory manner, concernBalaam was anything but a holy man ; but ing the institutes and discipline of the schools yet it seems that he was a true prophet. He of the prophets, we nevertheless understand spake as he was moved by the Holy Spirit.— that a principal part of their occupation conNum. 24:1-9. David the sweet psalmist of sisted in celebrating the praises of Almighty Israel said " The Spirit of Jehovah spake God in hymns and poetry, with choral chants by me, and his word was in my tongue." accompanied with stringed instruments and 2 Sam. 23:2. Jeremiah says, 20:9: •' His pipes. word is in my heart as a burning fire shut up it reasonable to suppose that " Nor isadmitted in my bones, and 1 weary myself with for- prophecy poetry and music to a bearing, and cannot." The Apostles were participation in name alone: on the contrary moved in the same manner by the Holy we find that she did not disdain to unite Spirit. Peter declares: " We cannot but herself with harmony, and to accept of her speak the things which we have seen and assistance. And 1 am inclined to believe heard."—Acts 4:20. And Paul says : " Ne- that the prophet himself accompanied the cessity is laid upon me ; yea, woe is me, if minstrel, and uttered some hymn, or rather I preach not the Gospel."—l Cor. 9:16. This the prediction itself, to the music of the harp. Divine afflatus came repeatedly upon Saul. " It is sufficiently evident that the proAnd the lying prophet of Bethel experienced phetic office had a most strict connection it once at least.—l Kings 13:20-22. with the poetic art. They had one common It is in the time of Samuel that we first origin, one common author, the Holy Spirit. read of the schools of the Prophets; and Those in particular were called to the exerthey were doubtless instituted by him. The cise prophetic office who were previyoung men gathered in those schools are ously flnversant with Sacred poetry. It was sometimes called " prophets " (1 Sam. 10:5), equally a part of their duty to compose verses butoftener, "sons of the prophets."—l Kings for trrFservice of the church, and to declare 20:36, and 2 Kings 2:3, 5, 7, 15. The first the oracles of God ; and it cannot therefore mention of a school of the prophets is found be doubted that a great portion of the Sacred in 1 Sam. 10:5, 6. Samuel tells Saul:; hymns may properly be termed prophecies, When thou art come to the city, thou shalt or that many of the prophecies are in reality "meet a band of prophets coming down from hymns or poems."—Lowth's Poetry of the the high pl»ce with a psaltery, and a tim- Hebrews, ISr'A lecture. brel, and a flute", and a harp, before them, So were the earliest Greek poets believed and they shall prophesy : and the Spirit of to be inspired. " The poet, like the prophet Jehovah will come upon thee, and thou whom he so much resembles, sings under, shalt prophesy with them." Milman in his heavenly guidance, inspired by the goddess history of the Jews says: "But the youth to whom he has prayed for assisting impulse. (Saul) was to be prepared for his high office She puts the word into his mouth and the by a course of religious instruction ; and his incidents into bis mind. He is a privileged mind imbued with deep and powerful enthu- man, chosen as her organ, and speaking tram siasm for the national law and national faith. her revelations."— Grote's Greece, rolsm He was sent to one of those schools of the v 355. The first school of the prophets was at prophets, most likely instituted by Samuel, when the pupils were initiated in the circle Ramah. Afterwards they were established of Hebrew education, religious knowledge, at Bethel, Gilgal, Jericho and Jerusalem. religious music, and religious poetry. Here But they were not richly endowed establishthe character of the youth was totally ments, with many professors and large librachanged : be mingled in the sacred dances; ries. Of the school at Ramah Samuel may hia spirit became full of lofty and aspiring have been tbe only teacher; for Saul's mesthoughts. So totally were the former levity sengers saw him presiding over the young and carelessness of his youth cast off that his prophets.—l Sam. 19:20. When the school wondering compatriots exclaimed, /*■ ."vti/J of the prophets under Elisha became too : : — omona the Prorthetsf" I suknnwl- 2:16-18. We have no evidence that there were any prophets between Ma lac hi and John the Baptist. We read iv 1 Mace. 14:41, "That the Jews and (heir priests had consented that he (Simion) should be their prince and high priest forever, till there should arise a faithful prophet. This implies that at that time there was no prophet in Israel. The book is supposed to have been written about one hundred and twenty years before Christ. See also 1 Mace. 4:46 and 9:27. November 18, 1872. "How I Found Livingstone."—This is the title of Mr. Stanley's new book, justpublished in England and America". In the London llluxtrateil Xcics for November 9, 1872, we find a notice of the book. It is a volume of 736 octavo pages, fully illustrated with six maps and twenty-eightlull-page engravings. It will no doubt prove an intensely interesting volume. Altogether, Mr. Stanley's expedition into the interior of Africa, employed 192 persons. Four caravans started from Zanzibar, and he followed with the caravan. He left Zanzibar March 21st, 871, but did not reach Ujiji and discover Livingstone until Nov, 10th, He remained with him about four months, and then started again for the coast March 14th, when he bade farewell to the illustrious explorer. Mr. Stanley did not reach Zanzibar until June. The expedition is reported to have cost 840,-060. There is no doubt but that immense good will result, for already the British Government has fitted out a naval expedition for the suppression of the Slave Trade, inakinq lrtrr/B for thrir nri-ominodation.s.thrv nronor.ed Zanzibar its head quarters. . yho go into the forest and cut timber and build a place by the Jordan. The building thus erected must have displayed some of the features of a log cabin in the woods of America. -And if their dwelling place was simple and rude, their food also must have been frugal and cheap. When there was a famine, pottage was provided for the sons of the prophets, and one of the ingredients of the pottage was wild cucumbers. These were disagreeable to the taste, and supposed to be poisonous; but the one who gathered them was ignorant of their qualities. The young prophets had no sooner begun Xo eat than they perceived there was something wrong, and they at once exclaimed, " There is death in the pot." They supposed that their food had been poisoned. And must they gs>hungry ? for it seemed that they had no second course. By the direction of Elisha, a little meal was cast into the pot, their fears were allayed, and they partook of the pottage, without injury.—2 Kings-4:38-41. There is little probability that the sons of the prophets on these islands will be called to practice greater self-denial in pursuing their education. The Sacred writers have neither told us how many of these schools there were, nor how many students any one ojMhein contained. Obadiiih concealed andrMrpported a hundred of them for a time during the reign of Ahab.—l Kings 18:4. And fifty of them were sent in a fruitless search over mountains and valleys after Elijah.— 2 Kings to Kftli �187 t. JAM IK I, DILLIlNra-IlAM & CO. Mft NOS. SO AND 97 KINK STREET, A.JVT> DRY, JSIFLES, GUNS, PISTOLS, CARTRIDGES, CAPS AND POWDER, '■ O n. i- cl | Auction and Commission Merchant, r|R. SMITH, MOTT Dentist, mm J.TJ. a ... 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Army, Can be consulted at his resldeoceon Hotel street, between Alalcea and Fort streets. g1 H. W E T M O R E, M I» Physician and Surgeon, Hllo, Hawaii, 8.1. N. B.—Medicine Chests carefullyreplenished at the a if lllls, Drssg TIIOS. IHPORTEHS AND DEALERS IN G.ENERAL MERCHANDISE! COMMISSION AGENTS OF Kngland 8TATI0KEBY AITD HEWS DEPOT, OF READING MATTER-OP papers and Magssines, back numbers—pat up to order at reduced rates for parties going: to tea. 1/ PACKAGES l.if; Company, Company, The Kohala Sugar Company, The Ilaiita Sugar Company. The Hawaiian Sugar Mill, W. II. Bailey, The Hamakua Sugar Company, TheWalalua Sugar Plantation, The Wheeler at Wilson Sewing Machine Company, Dr. Jayne Sou Celebrated Family Medicines. S. THRUM'S -- - * tf Carriage Making and Trimming! I » upwards of seven years, and belue; bulldlnr, we are prepared!* *•«•"• proof dispose of lilandttaplei.iuchas Sugar,Rtce,B»rups,Pulu, Coffee, ke, to advantage. Consignments especially solicited for the Oregon market, to which personal attention will be paid, upon wtieb. cash advances will be made when required WOULD RESPECTFULLYINFORM YOU THAT I dow employ the best Mechanics in the line of • Sab Fbabcibco EiriBCMW: Jss. Patrlek Co., W. T. Coleman k Co., Frad. Iken, Stevens, Baker A Co. POSVLABD RsrißßßO**: Allen k Lewis. Ladd k Illtoo. Leoaard «!**« Hosoixuj Raraaaacas: 17 Walker & Allen. Belt Badger k Llndenberger, FOB THE BEST, CO TO THE COSMOPOLITAN PHOTOGRAPH GALLERY New. 64 ■■■el 66 Fart Street. Alto for Sale, Photographic Views, etc., etc H. L CRAB. JO«a« «*»*«*■ J. O. HIUIILL. J. C. MERRILL & Co., Commission Merchants and Auctioneers 204 and 200 California Street, CONTINUES THE HAWAIIAN HOTEL! * * GEORGE WILLIAMS. PHOTOGRAPHS ! Portland. Oreion. BEEN ENGAGED IN OUR PRE- and Carriage Making, Carriage and Qeneral Blaektmithing, Painting, Repairing, etc., Hawaiian Group ; and it ia a well established On the faot that oar Carriage Trimming, by Mr. R. WhitLICENSED SHIPPING AGENT. man, Is as well executed as any in New York City or elsewhere. I therefore feel warranted in saying that THE BUSINESS ON HIS OLD Plan of settling with OBocra and Seamen Immediately an we can man«faetere as good a class of work in Hotheir Shipping at hit Odea, Hawing no connection, either nolulu as ran be found in any pert of the world. I direct or Indirect, with any outfitting establishment, and aHow will also state here that we fully intend to work at lag no debts to be collected at his office, he hopes to giro ai M. BENFIELD. the lowest possible rates. good satisfaction in the future aa he has in the paat. %y OaWe so Jaa. Bobiuaoo at Co.'s Wharf, near the U 8. 680 gm Coosaiate. MERCHANTS, REGULAR PORTLAND LINE OF HAVING sent baiiness lor Mutual Insurance Packets,New THE brick tad In a Sre San Francisco, The Union Marine Insurance Stare. AND CIRCULAT1NO LIBRARY, Honolulu. No. IB Merchant Street, FORWARDING AND San Francisco. ALSO, AGENTS OF THI San Francisco and Honolulu Packets. Partleßlarettentlon givento tha sale and pareaas* ol air JSMS. THE NEW HOTEL IS NOW OPEN ehandlse, ships' business, lupplrlng whalsshlpl, negotiating spare reception Proprietor ■ for the P»ln of guests. The will ge. Ac. ,nU K1 «»ant Hotel FIRST CLASH exebanAll freight arriving at Baa Frsnelsco, by or to the Ho XT He Intends to aaake the charges oolulu Line of Packets, will bsforwarJsd raaa OF onaMasaloa especially reasonable. lUll HaW-SWAT, Proprtetor. XT Biehaog* on Ilooolala bought and sold. J3 —B*f*BB*0*»— Messri. 0. L. Richards a Oo Roaetula •• H. HaokrMd a Co ll'sH in erery partlcalar. •JaalaWaV " mak' or rooms and board no t0 Baud V olumes at Reduced Prlee! WE WILL FURNISH BOUND TOLTJMS •f the FHni at oae dollar per aomn (subscription any number of years from 11K to the present price »a>, Ilea*. XT Addlag the ooat of binding ** •• " C.lrmrkOo Boa. I. B. Allan •• : *::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: , " �YMoeunnC'gshH Ariotcaf onolulu. Pure religion and undeftled before God, theFather, in this: To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep one's self unspotted from theworld. est into sunny light the faces of long buried purpose of profit to themselves, and in order beauties and other blessed household counte- to realize any profit, they must make great nances, cleansed from the ' dishonors of the exertions to make extensive sales; conseOpium in the Hawaiian Islands. quently they have runners about the dif"Opium," says Webster, "is the inspis- grave.' Thou only givest these gifts to man; ferent islands, who supply it to the plantation sated juice of tbe somniferous poppy, with and thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh ! just, hands and others ad libitum. It is difficult to ascertain exactly the which the fields of Asia Minor sre sown as subtle and mighty opium ! " No wonder that a drug having such prop- amount paid out in one year at these islands ours are with wheat and rye. It flows from for opium by the consumers, but the actual incisions made in the heads of the plant, and erties should be indulged in by the ignorant cost to the licensed parties is, viz and oppressed. It can be indulged in for ihe best flows from the first incision. It has Amount psid HawaiianGovernment for license from years without injuring the body, but at last j June, 1872. to June, 1873... $21,0 000 a faint smell, and ils taste is bitter and acrid." it biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an mount paid Custom House, invoice coat imported " 25 in 1872 21,000 Dc Quincey in his Confessions of an adder," and its effects are much more horri-' mount freight, dutiesand charges, 26 per cent.... 6,307 81 imount coat of rent, clerkhire, etc 3,600 00 Opium Eater " says, " That some truths ble than "delirium tremens;" and when; once is contracted it is almost Total dealers 60 im-[ coat to habjt $49,830 the have been delivered to the world in regard to to break it off. Opium has been the j Of the qunntity imported during the prespossible npiuro. Thus it has been repeatedly affirmed cause of much trouble and distress in the ent year, $8,500 worth is still in bond. In by tbe learned that opium is a dusky brown world, and has been the cause of long and June last, just before the old license expired, in color ; secondly, that it is rather dear, and bloody wars. The famous " opium war" be- the parties who had it disposed of their surthirdly, that if you eat a good deal of it, most tween England and China in 1840 is perhaps plus stock at a discount on the regular price, The Chinese authorities pro- which very materially affected the sales for probably you must—die. These weighty familiar to all. the English bringing opium several months, but that being now consumed tested aguinst propositions are all and singular true; I can- from India in their ships; stringent laws the sales are increasing, and will continue to not gainsay them. But in these three theo- were passed by the Chinese Government pro- increase until the present license expires. It is safe to estimate that not less than rems I believe we have exhausted the stock hibiting the importation of opium into that is expended in one year at these of knowledge as yet accumulated by man on Empire, yet large quantities were smuggled $60,000 order to stop this trade, English ships islands by the consumers of opiumMvhich is in. In the subject of opium." in Chinese waters were searched, and more nearly five times the total receijns of the In announcing this subject some two than twenty thousand chests of opium were Hawaiian Board for carrying on the work of months ago, it was thought a subject had i delivered up and destroyed. England took Christ here and in the islands of the Pacific. been selected that would be easy to write offense, and a war was the result. England Is it not sad to think that such a' contrast exupon, but after reading Dc Quincey and as- of course was successful, yet she gained but ists hote—five times more paid out annually little honor, although the island of Hongkong for misery, ruin and death by this one evil, certaining how little was known by him, who was added to her domain and 821,000,000 to say nothing of liquor, which costs the nahad been a constant user of opium for more in cash to her coffers. Mr. Gladstone, one tion three times the amount, than for life, than sixteen years, we began to be discour- of England's statesmen, said of this war: peace and eternal joy ? it is a aged, and concluded we had undertaken a " I am not competent to judge how long this It is claimed by the authorities that its source of revenue to the country, and therewar last or how be protracted may may task altogether beyond our ability, and the operation, but this I can say, that a war more fore should be licensed. What short-sighted members of this Society will pardon us if not unjust in its origin, a war more calculated policy ! What would the result be if a promuch more is attempted than to present a few in its progress to cover this country with hibitory law was enacted and properly enfacts which may be already known to majiy permanent disgrace, I do not know and have forced ? Would it not teach to abolish the use of this death-dealing drug-, and the imnot read of." of this Association. mense sum now expended be used for better war is felt The result of that being to-dny Opium in its place is an invaluable mediupon the Hawaiian Islands./As the Chinese purposes? Would not those who now spend cine when administered by skillful physicians, at first had this drug forced upon them in their all," and even steal in order to procure " but used as a narcotic indulgence, it is a their own country, they have now become their daily allowance, be improved in health lovers of it, and their appetite is not lessened and become better citizens ? Would they not rurse to the world. money and invest it in The effect of opium upon those under its by a change of climate. A majority of the begin to savethetheir resources of the country by developing upon these islands are Chinese opium influence is said to be delightful, almost be- smokers," and as it is an expensive luxury, tilling the land, building and otherwise imyond the powers of description. The pleas- a large proportion of their earnings is re- proving their condition ? It stands to reason ures experienced are totally different from quired to purchase it. There are upon these that such a result would follow, and not only the effects of liquor. It produces a sweet islands at the present time about 2,000 Chi- the morals of the people be improved, but the not Government would reap a rich reward in peace, it gives an expansion to the heart and namen, and it is safe to estimate that users of taxes and taxable property yearly increasing less of them are three-fourths brings out the better part of a man's nature. the than drug. Nor is its use confined to the in value, besides gaining in population, which Dc Quincey thus alludes to its delights: Chinese alone. Hawaiians are rapidly ac- is now steadily decreasing. quiring the habit, as well as many foreigners Is it not the duty of the Young Men's " Oh! just, subtle and mighty opium ! that from Christian Association to act in this matter? of Europe and America. alike, hearts and rich for the poor to the Let us resolve that we as a Society will use in increasing The use of is opium rapidly wounds that will never heal and for 'the islands, while our population is rapidly our efforts to stop the sale of opium in these these pangs that tempt the spirit to rebel' bringest decreasing. This fact is easily proved by islands, and also endeavor to reform those an assuaging balm ; eloquent opium, that the Custom House statistics, which Show who are under its baneful influences. We with thy potent rhetoric stealest away the that the imports for the year 1872 are largrft can do much between now and the next Legpurposes of wrath ; and to the guilty man for by tlO.OOO than for the past four or five islature in discussing this subject, and if we Government allow a use our " page of the Friend as we ought, one night givest back the hopes of his youth years. The Hawaiian of the sale of opium to one firm, besides our individual influence in society, monopoly and hands washed pure from blood; and to who pay the sum of 921,000 this year for we can bring about a change, and so stir up the proud man, a brief oblivion for wrongs the privilege of telling alone. The pur- the people that public opinion will demand unredressed and insults unavenged, and chasers,, who are mostly an unprincipled set a law that shall forbid the sale of opium on from the anarchy of dreaming sleep ' call- of Chinese, have procured this license for the these islands. 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