2 10 12 https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/9ef0e583a73da2489805f232c9802a7d.pdf 543bc54c12beeb345a72a73f98013132 PDF Text Text FRIEND THE SciuSeries, i)ri. 26, Skit.} HONOLULU, NOVEMBER 1, 1817. . — The late IT.lT S. Minister Resident, P.os sailed as guest of Capt. Glass, commanding 89 U. S. S. Jamestown. We think it admiraThe Treaty 89—91 Rambles Iv Ihe Old World—No 10 91 bly fitting that the Hon. Mr. Pierce should Island Tourist, in Oregon 92 be Kdilor'. Table—Cook.Lectures conveyed to America on board one of our »2 H M Whilney national vessels. Mr. Pierces associations »2 A Man of One Idea ..93 with our Islands are very strong, extending Marine Journal "4 A llrie 113 Years Old 94 over a period of more than a half-century. Christian Sympathy M The youthful supercargo of 1825, and prosY MC A perous Boston merchant of 1850, has ably and honorably represented the United States Government at the Hawaiian Court from NOVEMBER 1. 1877. 1869 to 1877. He left, wafted by the kind wishes and prayers of his fellow citizens The Treaty. upon the Islands, and may he enjoy peace From the San Ejancisco papers, we learn and happiness during his remaining years, that Commissioners are investigating the in- wherever his lot may be cast. fluence of Reciprocity on United States A new Photographic Establishment, —at trade and commerce. They discover from corner ef Fort and King streets, opposite the the testimony of merchants and others, O. Hall & Son's, has been fitted up, and E. that it is working most advantageously for is now one of the most complete establishthe benefit of the United States. This is for Photography. We are often ments just what we have always asserted would to examine the specimens on exhitempted and agriculbe the result. Not only lumber when passing up the street. The bition tural implements are now largely exported long experience at Rulofson & from the United States to the Hawaiian proprietor's establishment enworld-renowned Bradley's Islands, but some of our internal im- ables him to execute this work in the highprovements—the big ditch on Maui— est style of the art. We take pleasure in for a call large importation of iron piping giving this unsolicited notice, for we always Perm., costing from fifteen delight to commend those who are meritoPittsburgh, from rious. CONTENTS Car November 1. 187 7. THE FRIEND. " " to $20,000. Americans and Hawaiians are not alone benefitted, but Englishmen, Germans and PTpnchmen come in for their share. They are plantation owners. Here we have in Honolulu an English Iron Foundry, employing over one hundred hands, and now making extensive improvements and enlargements. If the Reciprocity Treaty should be abrogated by an English embroglio isf treaty negotiations, the fires of the furnace would be put out and the trip hammer would cease to chime to the busy hum of industry and profit. We should imagine Englishmen and Germans would be the loudest in their advocacy of Reciprocity. Loss of the Bark Java.—We have met with one of the crew of this vessel, which was wrecked June 7th near Fox Islands in Bherings' Sea. She had taken four whales and was " trying out," when she was stove by a cake of ice. The crew escaped on board the bark Eliza, and subsequently distributed among the other ships. Our informant was taken to San Francisco on the Jennie Pitts. So far as we can learn, out of the whole company of sixty men left last year in the Arctic, only two have survived. These were two kanakas, one Hawaiian and one Tahitian, who were sheltered among the Indians. 89 {■(©l* Series, M U. RAMBLES IN THE OLD WORLD-No. 10 Elberfeld, Germany, > Aug. 21st, 1877. S You see I am still in Elberfeld. As I wrote you in my last, at this season of the year I find it far more pleasant to be comfortably and "coolly " settled than rushing around in hot cities. A splendid thunder storm, with abundant ruin, has cooled the air and lifted somewhat the heavy atmosphere which has hung over the city for some days past, and rendered every one exceedingly hot and tired. For a summer, this has, on the whole, been very cool and agreeable, and we have had really nothing to speak of in the way of heat till of late. I had always supposed a cty in the summer must be quite intolerable, but this German town, with its surroundings of fields and beautiful woods, orchards and gardens, is almost always fresh and cool. We are just through the week of anniversaries here, which correspond to our meeting of the American Board or the May meetings in England. Here they continue one whole week, from Sunday to Sunday,—several different services taking place each day. A large number of clergyman from all parts of Germany have been present, and the "crowds at some of the meetings have been tremendous. One unique feature, especially striking to an American, is the " Coffee Meetings." There have been a number of these. One of them 1 attended at " Vereins-haus," in Barmen. There must have been from 800 to 1000 persons present. Long tables were spread in the large hall and in the gallery. Nearly every seat was taken. Coffee and currant-bread " and butter in abundance "were served, and every one partook most heartily. Every now and then there was a speech from some clergyman, layman or missionary, when people would pause and give their attention. The gentlemen, if they were so inclined, would quietly smoke, and the ladies as quietly knit. It would take an Englishman, or an American, some time to accustom himself to these decidedly Teutonic usages. It is rather startling at least at a religious gathering, to see a dignified ecclesiastic take out his cigar and commence leisurely to puff away at it. But here they seem to think nothing at all of it, but regard it as the most natural thing in the world to �THE FRIEND, 90 do. And on Sundays, at one or two gatherings, it was just the same. But you will understand, these were rather the social and informal gatherings, and of course never in churches. There it was quite another thing. The singing of the great congregations with the large organ, was, something very fine, and every one joined. It was almost impossible to get a seat. There were all classes of people present, but none seemed to enjoy themselves more than the bright-laced 1877. NOVEMBER, Unterbarmen, General Church Conference. Subject of discussion, Tbe Attitude of the Family, tbe Parish and the State toward the Educational Question. Referent Director, Dr. Thumofrom Keichenbach, in Saxony. Tirst Orator, Pastor Tillesson., 3 p. a. in the halls of the Evangelical Society's House at Barmen. President, Pastor Hermann. At the same time in the Evangelical Society's House at Wupperleld, President, Pastor Josephson, General Meetings with Addresses by the Deputies of several societies and visitors from abroad. 3 p. ii. First Annual Festival ol the Rhenish-Westphalia Sunday School Society in deaconesses and the pastors. Some of the the large hall of the Evangelical Society's House latter were fine looking men. A number of in Elberfeld. The chief subject of consideration. sermons on different themes were preached, The Significance of tho Sunduy School lor Church and an eloquent address was made by Dr. and People. Faber, of the Friday, Aug. 17th, 8.30 a. m. in the email hall of the Society Douce at Bnrmcn, Conference of Pastors. Subject, On the Capacity for the Clerical Office. Relerent Professor, Dr. Tlieo. Cremor, from Greifswald. 4 p. m. in the Reformed Church at Geniarke, Annual Festival of tho Wuppcrthal Tract Society. Orator, Pastor Schnicwend. from Braunßwendt. Afternoou meeting in the Evangelical Society's House at Barmen. Sunday, Aug. 19th, 4 p. u. in the old Lutheran Church at Wupperleld, Annual Festival of the Barmen Gusiav-Adolph Society and the Committee for German Protestants in Braeils. Speaker, most successful. Pastor Dr. Yon Criezvon, from Leipsig. DelegaI send the programme of the services held tion of two pastors for South Brasil, by Superinduring the past week of the Missionary and tendent Kirßhetein. Alter meeting in'the WupChurch Anniversaries, (and the following is perleld Society's Hou>e. 2:30 p. u. in the Elberfeld Society's House, Annual Festival of the Lutheran Saving House, and the to it annexed THS WUPPERTHAL FESTIVAL WEEK Evangelical Preparation Institute. Will be (God willing) celebrated this year from STRASBURG CATHEDRAL. August 12th to 19th. The programme of the leasts and reunions will be as follows is a " Mission-haus." Several young men were ordained for different mission fields. The places are assigned them, and they go where they are directed. Mr. George Muller, of Bristol, was advertised to speak, but there was some mistake about it; and instead I heard he was going to America. I should like much to have seen and heard him. A Mr. Bishop, from England, was here, who is much interested in work for children, and he made one or two addresses. The German missions have been rnslation): : Sunday, Aug. 12th—Annual Festival of tbe Rhenisb-Weetplialia Young Men's Association. Sermon, .Pastor L. Weber, from Dellwig. Afternoon, 24 o'clock, continuance of the festival in the Elberfeld Society Hall.—The General Assembly of the Rhenish-Westphalia Young Men's Association will be hold on Saturday, Aug. 11th, in tbe Elberfeld Society's Hall. s) Monday, Aug. 13th, at 9 a. M. in tbe Evangelioal Society's House at Barmen; conference of the friends of the Evangelical Society for Germany, and reports of messengers. 4p. h. Annual Festival of the Bible Society of Berg, ia the First Lutheran Church at Elberfeld. Orator, Pastor Dryandor, from Bonn, and Pastor Hendricks, from Joellenbeck. Afternoon meeting in the Evangelical Society's House at Elberfeld. Tuesday, Aug. 14th, 10 a. 11. Annual Festival of the Rhenish-Westphalia Society for Israel, in the. Reformed Church at Genarke. Orator, Pastor llersh, from Lintorf, and Pastor Walls, from Cologne. 7p. at. Meeting of the friends of Israel, in the Evangelical Meeting House. At 4 p. m. in tbe First Reformed Church at Elberfeld, Barmen. Annual Festival of tbe Evangelical Society for Germany. Orator, Pastor Van Andel, from Amsterdam; Inspector, Erdmann, from Elberfeld; and Pastor and Director G. Muller, from Bristol, —evening. Afternoon meeting in the Evangelical Meeting House in Elberfeld. Wednesday, Aug. 15th, 9 a. v. in the church at Unterbarmen. Annual Festival of the Rhenish Mission Society. Sermon, Pastor fiastian, from Bernburg. Ordination of several brothers by the Moderaman of tbe Cyrillsynod of Elberfeld. Ordination Sermon, SuperintendentKershsiein. Delegation by Inspector, Dr. Tbeo. Fabri. To close with a farewell address by a missionary who leaves. 3p. u. Public Mission Conference in tbe Church of Unterbarmen. Address and report, after this addresses and communications by missionaries and friends. 7p. m. Assembly In tbe small ball of the Evangelixriety House at Barmen. uradaj, Aug. 16th, 9a. in the Church at t m. This magnificent structure. We give a description of it in the words of another ; " Cathedrals have their individual characteristics as truly as their builders. The peculiarity of this one consists in having a kind of out-work of slender columns, arches, and inclosed niches, thrown like a vail of barred muslin over the front. In some places it nearly conceals the background of cathedral wall, apd holds the eye in its entanglement of beauty. Especially when the westering sun casts the shadows'of this projected out-work upon the main wall it seems doubled, and the real wall almost hidden. When one considers that this kind of work is carried up four hundred and sixty-six feet, the light, graceful, airy effect that is produced must be confessed to be indescribable. Into this delicate tracery crashed the shells and balls of the Germans in 1870. Its effects can be imagined. You can stand in one spot and count where thirty shells struck the spire. They tore into this slender drapery; they crashed through its gorgeous windows; they smote interior columns, leaving great ugly scars that time cannot heal. One made wild music in the organ, never intended by the builder; and on the night of August 25, the roof over the vast church took fire. Streams of melted copper poured down the gutters, and spires of flame leaped up to vie with the tallest spire of stone, man has ever erected. The flames ceased only when there was nothing more to burn. Still the French maintained a post of observation in the spire, and still the Germans rained their shells upon it. The very cross on the apex was hit, and saved from falling only The general effect is aiuch less than might be expected. A careless observer might hardly notice any effect of the bombardment. The open work let the shells pass in to the solid stone and out again. You see, far up, part of a battlenrent gone, " a pillar replaced by brick-work, and some light scantling where stone ought to be. To be sure, the roof is not yet replaced, but this is hardly noticeable from the ground, as the solid arches over the church were not affected by the destruction of the roof. The building teems with workmen, and soon most of tha marks of war will be seen only by bright new stones that take the place of those in- jured. " This magnificent structure has seen many perils nnd survived them all. It has been shaken by four earthquakes, struck by lightning, and more or less thrown down nine times—has been ravaged by fire five times—endured the Jacobin fury in 1793, tearing down two hundred and thirty-seven of the statues, and proposing to treat its lofty spire as they treated the column in the Place Vendome in Paris eighty years later. But it stands in such wondrous perfection as to make one see the propriety of comparing God's spiritual work to a temple. Begun long ago, it is not yet finished—room enough for new stones ; and none of it old. " it stands where the Celts once had a Druidical forest, and .offered human victims. The Romans built on the spot a temple to Hercules and Mars. One of the statues of the former still decorates the present building. Since 510 the site has been occupied by a Christian church. About 1015, one of those spasms of sacrisTCe seized the country, and from one to two thousand men toiled at the erection of this cathedral—not for pay but for the salvation of their souls. Grander than sculptured frieze, lofty column, grand facade, and pinnacled spire, is the fact connected with nearly all these old cathedrals, that men toiled at their deep foundations, cut the hard stone into beauty, and lifted it into its place for the good of their souls, for the joy of sacrifice. It sweetens much of the taint of blood that so deeply stains those ages, " It is hard at first to reconcile one's ideas of a church with the multitude of possible and impossible animals that these old builders scattered over their structures. You may stand either on the north or south side and count, without moving, over thirty huge animals, with heads of bulls, dogs, bats, gnome, and fiends, put on the most ir*o»nceivable bodies, and projecting two or three feet, to serve as ornaments and water-spouts. Some tear their jaws open with their hands, to let the water run out; others are doubled up with a perpetual belly-ache; others, again, have such Bn evident nausea, that a stream from the mouth is the most natural thing to be expected. They gruv leer, cock their heads one side, and setfced to roar with pain day and night, century by century. Gothic seems to be the right word to apply to this style. But these old builders believed that imps thronged the churches, so they set them to service, always on the outside—made by the Jightning-rpd. They say the build- them bearers of water—set them to do menial ing wr* struck by two hundred and fifty work. But that grim humor, that ran alshells. most wild in producing quaint images, could. ' �91 THE FRIEND, NOVEMBER, 1877.curb itself to carving the holy exaltation of an angel's face, or the tender sweetness of a child's. " Something is needed for variety, where such an immense number of human statues are introduced. Eighteen equestrian statues will be needed to fill the niches on the front. A single portal has fifteen life-size statues (of from two to five figures) twenty inches high, and so admirably done that the Scripture scenes they represent are recognizable at once ; besides ninety-six figures cut in basrelief. In addition to all this statue-work, the pedestals, canopies, little animals, not over three inches long, and arabesque work, fine as a worsted thread, are too wonderful for description. Nothing short of a study should be given to these grand results of human thought and toil. All the best work, thought, feeling, and love of centuries crystallized in :'iese glorious piles. What seems but a maze of meaningless marbles at first glance, marches out as the whole story of sin, redemption, and final glory, to him who patiently lingers to study and feel. These men were earnest, and full of the sublime gospel that they put into stone. Few in those ages could read the printed page ; but written in stone, the one object that towered toward heaven, the first the sun kissed in the morning, and the last on which he smiled at night, every untaught peasant could read " that sweet story of old." And because we have learned other languages, and have other pages to read, is no reason why we should be blind to what men felt in their hearts, slowly cut into stone, and set up to endure. There is often more power to stir feeling in a stone than in a page. Each truly holds, and yet utters what feeling was put into it. The very gates nnd stones of Jerusalem were precious to God and his people. So is every stone over which a human heart has brooded, till it has been warmed into life, and made to talce the heart's meaning. How much more where millions have been builded into shapes of beauty and power." P. S. The war still goes on at the East, the Russians are winning in the main. Everythtng is quiet in this part of Europe. It is impossible now to say, what will be the political state of affairs among the Great Powers, certainly it will be very strange, if the Russo-Turkish war is concluded without the assistance or cooperation of some other nations. It remains to be seen what course F. W. Damon. things will take. Capt. Gifford, of the American whaler Young Phenix, who befriended the survivors of the wrecked British emigrant ship Strathmore in the Pacific Ocean, is to receive, through Minister Pierrepont, a gold watch from them in recognition of the service rendered. Island Tourists in Oregon. In reading the journal of the Rev. Alexander Mackintosh, as published in the Ad' vertiser of Oct. 20ih, we were forcibly reminded of a trip, which we made to Oregon and California, in 1849, over twenty-eight years ago. Sketches of our visit were published in the Friend of that year, under the title of " A Trip from the Sandwich Islands, to Lower Oregon and Upper California." It was our privilege to go, as the guest of Capt. D. Wood, commanding the U. S. Store ship Massachusetts. This was the first propeller in the Pacific, having originally been built under (he special supervision of Ericson, the inventor. She was coveying U. S. troops to Oregon, from around Cape Horn. In the October number of the Friend, for 1849, we find our notice of Portland runs as follows, and we think our readers wil be interested in the contrast as here presented between Portland, in 1849 and 1877: PORTLAND, OREGON, " Portland. —Arrived at 1849. Portland about 12 o'clock last night, May 15, in company with Judge Bryant, the newly appointed Territorial Judge and Capt. Crosby. We were rowed in a small ship's boat from Vancouver, about twenty miles, by four Indians, and having a strong current against us, our progress was slow. On waking this morning, looked out upon the rising town of Portland, situated fourteen miles above the junction of the Williamettsf with the Columbia. The town is handsomely laid out on the east side of the fiver, and is well situated, having in the rear an extensive forest and beyond that forest, at the distance of fifteen or twenty miles, a beautiful farming country. The first settlement here was made in the autumn of 1845, by Capt. Crosby and Mr. Stark, the former, master, and the latter, supercargo of the barque Toxdon. Ttteir first building was a log-store, which is now standing; between twenty and thirty buildings have since been erected, and others are in progress. Thehouse built by Capt. Crosby is an excellent dwelling house, and cost 85,000, and at the present time the premises are valued at $10,000. The buildings, including store and a dwelling house, erected by Mr. Pettegrove are substantial, and do credit to the place. The number of inhabitants in Portland is now about one hundred. The site of the town is admirably selected, being well adapted to the landing and discharging of vessels. I find but one vessel in port, the O. C. Raymond, undergoing repairs, and belonging to Capt. Crosby. This vessel is engsged in the lumber trade with California, and must be doing a good business, enabling the owner to pay the master $300, the mate $200, and the seamen $100 per month."— Rev. S. C. Damon, Friend, One of the most hearty and efficient helpers at the Clear Lake Sunday School Assembly was Dr. E. Corwin, of Jacksonville, 111. He spent a fortnight at the Lake, throwing himself with characteristic enthusiasm into the work, preaching, lecturing, and taking a leading part in the daily normal class instruction.— Exchange paper. Oct. 15, 1845. PORTLAND, OREGON, IN 1877. Portland is on both banks of the Willamette River, a tributary of tbe Columbia, and is about 105 miles from Astoria ; it has a population of about 15,000 inhabitants. A ferry boat, which runs perpetually, connects East Portland with Portland proper. The whole country within range of our vision is bounded by a densely wooded circumference. Outside this circle tho snow-capped mountains called Mt. Hood, Mt. St. Helens, Mt. Adams and Mt. Jepberson, lift up their lofty heads, but they are only visible now and then, owing to the dense smoke caused by the burning woods. Through the centre of tbe circle flows the river Willamette. On tho right bank Portland rises as it were in terraces, the streets forming the meridians and parallels of latitude of tffe sphere. Every block ol buildings and of building land is most regularly laid out. One has only to remember the name of the latitudinal and meridian streets, and then the way is easily lound without tbe aid of compass, sextant, chronometer or policeman. The only difficulty one finds in navigation, is th rareity of the street names being posted upon tbe walls—but this no doubt is little felt by the citizens. Very few of tbe old residents seem to know the Btreets by tbeir names. People are directed by tbe presence or absence of a church, or of some government building. Front Street lies along the bank of tbe River Willamette, and goes from one end of the town to the other. In this street are situated all the principal wholesale business bouses, among which a resident of Honolulu can recognize some familiar names. Corbitt and Macleay, Allen and Lewis, McCrukcn & Co. tfUawmian Consul.) Jiinian & Co. The traffic busy street is ceaseless; it would astonish our quiet Honolulu merchants. They would, I should think, imagine that it was perpetually steamer day, and even this thought would give them but faint idea ol the business. In fact, there in very little difference between this street and also the next, which is called First Street, and any Thames Street, Blackwall, Lime St. or Broadway in tbe world. To give just one c»» ample of trade which I accidentally learned—tl c average number of eggs per week which aie brought into tbe wholesale house from tbe country is twenty thousand dozen, and not unfitquently the number daily is live thousand dozen ; not that this firm is solely in the egg line, seeing that in one year, the samo firm shipped to foreign parts eighteen cargoes of wheat valued at one million and a half dollars gold, and the money turned over in one year by this said firm was two and three-quarter millions of dollars. Throughout the length of Front Street can are constantly moving up and down. In First Street are the principal retail stores, and these are truly magnificent. However, there is not much difference between the merchandize, sold in these grand buildings and that in Honolulu either in force or quality. Then the public buildings, tbe Banks, the Custom House, tbe Post Office, tbe Prison are all of beautiful stone. There are lour banks: The British Columbia; Ladd and Tilton; First National Gold Bank; and the Oregon Saving's Bank—the last named deriving the stock principally from Scotland. Second and Third Streets, together with the streets wbieb intersect them, are taken up with stores, both wholesale and retail. Along Fourth Street runs tbe Railway wbicb extends about thirty miles into tbe country, as far as Grove. From tbis street until the town rises Into tbe hills, tbe streets are paved with wood, the sidewalks being also of wood. And now begins tbe prettiest and most picturesque part of tbe town. Every one seems to vie with his neighbor aa to who shall have the neatest and most beautiful residence. Tbe one acre lots are very often wholly taken up with one bouseand its surroundings. —ifto. A. Mackintosh, P. C. Advertiser, October 20,1877. �THE KRIEND, 92 THE FRIEND, NOVEMBER 1.1877. EDITOR'S TABLE. Bostoiv Monday LecrrjßEs. Biology By Joszpb Cook, Boston. J. R. Osgood A Co., 1877. Although we read and re-read Mr. Cook's Lectures as published in the Boston Advertiser, yet we are exceedingly glad to welcome the same in a neatly and compactly printed volume, still damp from the printer's office. This book was printed on the last days of September, and we received a copy by the steamer's mnil, Oct. 18th, hence our readers* may infer that Honolulu is ftot very far away from Boston, the " Hub of the Universe." There is something exceedingly fresh and about the Lectures of Mr. Cook, inded '• to present the results of the freshest rnian, English nnd American scholarship on the most important and difficult topics concerning the relation of Religion and Science." Mr. Cook advances into the arena of discussion without apology and takes his stand beside Huxley, Tyndall, Darwin and the great army of doubters and sceptics, and says : " Come, now, let us reason together." He asks no favors, buAH ready to give and take as hard blows ns»sß nature of the discussion demands. We are glad there is one youthful David, with " sling and smooth stones," who fears not the Giants who have been stalking about frightening timid believers in Divine RevelaTion, Miracles, God and Immortality. The time has come when Christian Philosophers and Divines have no business to skulk and apologize ! It is equally refreshing to con- tezy template George Muller,—physically, mentally and spiritually—grandly endowed,— step upon the shores of America and declare : During fifty-two years I have known the Lord Jesus Christ, whenever I have believed, I have received. During the past fifty-two years I have received a thousand, yes, ten thousand answers to my prayers." Such declarations are truly Pauline : "I know in whom I have believed." We regard Muller, Cook and Moody as three great and mighty forces now operating upon the American mind and the world's spiritual agencies. A better time is coming, although the conflict will be sharp and fierce, even as that now witnessed on the bloody battle-field of Bulgaria and around Plevna. Victory is inscribed upon the Banner of Truth. Mr. Cook has already commenced another course of Lectures, and they will appear first in the Boston Advertiser and will be extensively copied in other papers. We commend them to the attention of our " readers. We would acknowledge papers for gratuitous distribution from Judge Judd and Mrs. Dickson. Also, from Mr. W. Wright, of Koloa, a valuable donation of books. NOVEMBER, 1877. H. M. Whitney, Esq.—The onward march A Man of One Idea. of improvement is removing certain old This man is the Rev. George Muller of landmarks about our city, familiarized by Bristol, England, now on a visit to the long years of association. We do not feel United States, where he expects to spend half the sadness to part with these old and several months. This one idea is simple, familiar mementoes, that we do to have noble, grand, sublime; it is taking God at some of our old neighbors and friends take bis word, and heartily believing what God their departure. It is with emotion of real has said in the Bible about prayer and his sorrow that we learn our friend, neighbor willingness to answer prayer. Prayer is not and fellow-editor, H. M. Whitney, Esq., has a mere fanciful idea with him, but a hearty finally decided to remove his family to Kau, practical belief in God's willingness to do Hawaii. Of course mere matters of senti- what he has said. As the papers will report ment must succumb to business prospects. his speeches and sermons, we would call the For nearly thirty years Mr. Whitney has attention of our readers to whatever is pubbeen a live element in the business affairs lished relating to the one idea of prayer, and and news circles of Honolulu. He arrived the method of its illustration Mr. Muller's in here in the autumn of 1849. In a few case. months after his arrival he organized the He commenced his career in England Post Office, and printed the first post office almost fifty years ago, or 1830. During this stamps, and was honored with the appoint- period he has provided for the support and ment of postmaster. A book-store was soon education of 35.500 orphans, costing over added. In 1556 he established the Pacific $3,000,000, and he has distributed 467,000 Commercial Advertiser newspaper, which Bibles, besides doing a vast amount of miswas followed in four years by the native sionary work. The character, career and life of such a newspaper Kuokoa, both of whicp. papers man is worthy of profound study. It is the are now in successful operation. We are contemplation of such a career which will confident in asserting that Mr. Whitney has do much to arrest infidelity and scepticism. done more than any other individual on While Europe is sending over to the these islands to cater for the ever-insatiable United States a wave of doubt, unbelief and desire for news in the public mind. He has scepticism, we are glad there is this one noble Christian German to stand forth never spared expense or exertion. Bennett boldly as a man of simple prayer and Greeley never did more for New York and earnest belief in God as a hearer of than Mr. Whitney has done for Honolulu prayer. Our Savior said, when upon earth, and the Pacific generally. We are glad to " If ye shall ask anything in my name I learn that his business interests are not to be will do it." Read the fourteenth chapter of entirely withdrawn from Honolulu, and we the Gospel of John. hope at some future *lime he and his family may return hither, where they have spent so " A Yankee Tar and His Friends."— many years, and when they do jeturn, it is This is the title of an article in the October our fervent hope they may come with a comnumber of Scribncr's Monthly, by Mrs. W. petence from the cane fields of Kau. F. Armstrong, wife of W. N. Armstrong, More Gospel Ministers in Demand.— Esq., who have recently paid our islands a It is a source of rejoicing, that we learn, a visit. "The Yankee Tar" was no other correspondence is in progress to provide each personage than her honored father, Capt. E. of the following localities with a foreign E Morgan, of Say-Brook, Conn , who compastor —Makawao and Wailuku, on Maui, manded for many years some of the finest and Kohala, on Hawaii. This is a move- passenger ships belonging to the Black Star ment in the right line. Good preaching and Line, sailing between New York and Engfaithful pastoral work are much needed, and land. In making his passages he was frethe friends of good order and the gospel can- quently honored with the presence of many not possibly, be engaged in more healthful distinguished personages, among whom were and wholesome christian work. Do not wait Joseph Bonapart, Dtckens, Thackeray and until rich, ere the good work is accomplished, others. Through an acquaintance thus in the early days of the California gold fever, formed, he was introduced to much good it was said : society in England, including some very All hearts " distinguished artists, Landseer, Doyle and Are chill'd into tbe selfish prayer for gold." others. This article is most skillfully illusWe trust it may never be said and pub- trated by autographs and sketches, and lished, that all generous, noble and christian richly merits a careful perusal, illustrating hearts on the Hawaiian Islands, what a Yankee lad can accomplish, com'• Are chill'd into the selfish prayer for sugar." For Sale.—An organ, with 8 stops, from the manufactory of S. D. & H. W. Smith, of Boston. This instrument is in good order and may be inspected at the Sailor's Home. Price, $70. mencing his career as a common sflbr. After retiring from the duties of his profession as n ship master, he did not loose his interest in the welfare of his sea faring companions, but in many ways labored for the • physical and spiritual improvement.—Scribner's St. Nicholas for May contains another article from the facile pen of Mrs. Armstrong. �THE FRIEND, NOVEMBER, MARINE JOURNAL. PORT OF HONOLULU. S. I. ARRIVALS. on account of foggy weather and the prevalent winds being adverse to working through the ice to where they were, and finally most of the fleet passed into tho Arctic Ocean ahead of whales In foggy weather. Respectfully, Ac. L C Owtlt, Late Masterbk Three Brothers Report op Haw wh brio VV H All-en, G Gilley, MamTeh.—Bailed from Honolulu April 21st, and arrived at Fox Islland May 10th. 10 days passage. From that date to June 22d cruised In theice for whales,and oo the 24th passed Cape East. July 6th, while becalmed between Cape East and Cape Prince of Wales, three canoes approached the vessel, for the purpose of obtaining liquor, but were refused, on account of their being drunk, in consequence thereof a row enaued on board, and we were compelled to drive them off as soon as possible, resulting In killing one of thecrew (Ifuwalian)and wounding two. From that time to Ihe 31st cruising for walrus and trading*, found plenty of ice aod scarcity of whalea on the eaat ahore. Cruised off Point Barrow and to the east aa far as Return Reef until September,started for the south; paa-ed through good deal of young Ice and alao harder ones further south. On the 18th passed throuiih Cape Eaat, and Oct Oth went through Ontmack Strait, thence to port had variable weather. Capt Hamblin of the whaleship Milton, which arrived Oct 26th, reports that his ship aprang aleak tn the Arctic by coming in contact with a piece of Ice, which struck her about six feetbelow the water line. Put back and ran into the land, ship leaking 16,000 strokes In 21 hours. Sept 20, after getting clear of the ice succeeded in partially stopping the leak. Pasaed through Fifty paaaage Oct 0. Reports ship Roman, atove on bluff of bow, about the water line, and put back lo Point Barrow to repair. I—Am schr Joseph Woolley, Bnggs, from fiuano Is. 3—Am schr Bonanza. Miller, 14 days from Ban Fran 6 Am bktne Eureka, Wallace, 17 dys fm Eureka, Cat 6—Am brig Hesperian, W hiding, 33 dys fni Baker's Is B—French war steamer Uuiier, Capt Puech, 23 days from Gsqulmalt, B C. B—R M s Australia, Uargtll, 12 days and 23 houra from Auckland. 10—Ambktne Monitor, Emeson, 10 dya fm Eureka, Oil 10—Am bk ti'-rr.i Nevada, Koerner, 63 days from Newcaatle, N rt ft. 11—Am schr Loleta, Dexter, from Arctic. 1- li S trainiiig-a.itp Jamestown, Com Glasa,fm cruise 13—Am brig W II Meyer, Urown, 14 days fm San Fran. 13—Haw brig Julia M Avery. Avery, from Kau»i. 15—Haw achr Giovanni Apiani, Weeks, 15 daya from Farming's Island. 15—Am schr Una, Stoddard, 16i dya from San Franco. 17—Am bk Turner, Newell, 144 days from Boaton. 17—Am bktne Victor, Sievcrt, 28 daya fm Port Gamble. 18—P M S City of Sydney, Dearborn, B days from Han Francisco. 20—Am wh bk Hunter, Whitney, from a cruise 25—Haw wh brig Wm II Allen, Gilley, from ihe Arctic with 200 bids walrus, 6000 ivory, 6000 bone. 25—Haw schr Haleakala, Hempstead, 174 days fm San Francisco. Report or Amer Schr Jos Woolley.— Left San Fran26— 4in wh bk Milton, Hamblin. from Arctic, clean. cisco June 30 at 5 p m; experienced very heavy weather first 28—German brig Wilhelminc, 36 daya fin Yokohama three daya out. wind from NW; light winda from that lime up to 17th July, with heavy rains. Arrived at Fanning 1 Island * left DEPARTURES. on the 18th; found Gov Gregg and all on the island well; there on the 20th for Jarvts Island, arriving on the261h. Fouud the bark Belle of Oregon loading; everything going on Oct. s—Am hk Edward James, O'Brien, far Portland, O, prosperously on theisland; left there on the 28th fur (taker's O—R M S Australia, Curgill, for dan Francisco. Inland, and experienced a atrong easterly current with heavy *>—Am bk D C Murray, Fuller, for Han Francisco. rama, arriving there on the 21at Auguat. Found all welt on 10—Haw hk Maltio Macleay. Pope, for Portland, O. the island; landed provisions and laid off and on all night, 13—Am brig Hesperian, Winding, for Port Townsend. .wind died away, carrying ua to eastward on tbe 22d In long 13—Am bktne Eurtka. Wallace, for Eureka, Cal. 16—Am schr Joseph Woolley,Briggs. fr Guano Islands 176 o o2Uat7° N; on the 29th full In with brig Hesperian, Capt Winding, found Ihe brig had lost her false keel in lat 7 ° 17—Am bktne Monitor, Emeson, fur Fort Townsend. S, long 175 3 64' W, having experienced light baffling winda 18—P M rt City id' Sydney, Dearborn, for Auckland. 23—French war steamer Umier. Capt Pucch, lor Tahiti and rain fur some 30 days. Sept 1arrived buck al the island; 25—U H traininf,'-nhtp Jamestown, Glass, for Han Fran landed balance of auppliea and left same day for llowland's 26—Am brig W II Meyer, Brown, for San Francisco. Island, leaving brig Hesperian lying off and 00, landing supplies and material; proceeded to Howland's, arriying there on 26—Am schr Una, Stoddard, for Puget Hound. tbe 3d Sept, found all welt and left for Honolulu same day. '27—Am bktn Victor, Bievert. for Port Gamble Hi— Am bk SierraNevada. Koerner, for Port Townaend First 14 days out had light airs from E and ESE, with a light easterly current up to long 165° 15' Wand lat 20 °N, and 30—Am achr Bonanza, Miller, for San Francisco found the current had shifted to go to westward, found east31—Gertnau brig Wilhelmiue. for San Franciaco erly current had shifted from 5 to 7 N whereIt ia alwaya ° found, the weather appearing much better than It had for a MEMORANDA. month; sighted Kauai and Oahu oo the 271h, arriving at Honolulu on the2d Oct at 6 p m, alt well; taken in low by the LateFsromA the rctic. steam tug "Robbie," Capt Black, and towed in successfully By thearrival of the Hawaiian whaling brig Wm II Allen with exception of the parting of ihe ring stopper ou schooner, whichof courae waa no fault of the tug. on the '25th Oct, we have advicea from the whaling fleetup to Robert Brioos, Master. Sept 15th. Capt Owen furnishes the following: Report of Am schr Lolkta, Dexter, Master.—Left 1 bowhead, 660 wa'rua Honolulu for the Arctic May 7th, with light windsand pleasant Bk W A Farnsworih 125 sperm, 1 buwhead. 476 walnut weather all theway up; 20th, made the ice in lat 67 ° 40' N, Bk Cleone bowhead, 650 walrus long 178° 30 1 E. found tbe ice heavy and closely packed, 1 Bk Ellin 4 bowheads, 300 walrus cruised along to (tie eaatward untltl JuneOth, then finding the Bk Helen Mar 1250 walrus tee more open went in through; after the first day found the bowhead, 1 Mercury Bk clean Ice more open, worked through and came into open water in Ship Milton (since arrived) 100 walrus Anatdas Sea; 12th. at Marcus Bay and Indian Point the howheads, 4 Mount Wol.Hs.ton Bk 125 sperm, 3 bowheads, 660 walrus shores all clear of ice; 16th, Diomedea and Cape East found Bk Northern Light U0 sperm, 6 bowheads, 700 walrus considerable quantity of ice to thia vicinity; aaw quite a numBk Norman 1 bowhead, 600 walrus ber of ships and schooners after this; from 25th to the 27th Bk Pacific Progress 2 bowheads, 660 walrus saw quantity of whaleswhile lying at Cape East, the natives Bk 140 sperm, 6 bowheads, 700 walrus succeeded tn killing three. Spoke nnd heard from previous to Bk Hainbow SO sperm, 3 bowheads, 400 walrus August Ist the following vessels: Barks Progress,600 walrus: Bk Roman 1260 walrus Thomas Pope, 400do; Mercury, 800 do; Florence, 800 do and Bk .-ea Breeze 2 bowheads, 660 walrus 1 whale; Roman, 500 do and 2 whalea; Helen Mar, 400 do and Bk Thos Pope 2 bowheads, 450 walrus 1 whale; Mt Wo.laston, 400 do and 2 whalea; W A FarnsBk Dawn 4 howheads, 700 walrus worth, 300do; Sea Breeze, 1000 do; brig W II Allen, 4J|fe Bk Florence 250 walrua 3000 lbs bone and 5000 ivory; she was boarded betweeflpPBri* W H Allen •» medes and Cape Prince of Wales by natives from Cape fin, Report and Lobs of Bark Turks Brothers or New and attempted to uae force to obtsin liquors aod tobacco, etc, Bedporo-—Sailed from Honolulu for the Arctic Ocean March but they were repulsed by the captain, officers and crew, 16 killed and hove overboard,and two of the brig's crew 25,1877; passed Fox Islanda April 11, and made the ice on natives cut Ihe Indiana, notdangerous. Bsrka Rainbow, 146 sperm, Ihe 14th in lat 67 N and long 157 ° W. From this date to 1000by and 2 whalea; Three Brothers, 600 bbla oil. Barks walrus June 10 cruised along and among the ice In Behring Sea, with- Jenny Pits and Legal Tender were at StLawrence Bay, waitout success. Passed Behring Straits June 22; took 600 bbla ing from the whalers, but as yet two had only artake oil to walrus oil, also 6 bowheadaoff Point Barrow In Auguat which rived the Rainbowand Three Brothers, and their oil shipped made 450 bbls oil and 7600 lbs bone. Legal Tender. Left St Lawrence Hay Aug lat Sept 7 ahip whs closed In the pack Ice In foggy weather, and on board theBay Plover on the 7ib, arriving at Petropaulvaski on tbe while trying to work In shore to a safe position waa pressed and 2lt\. and salted again on the 6tli September; Hutchlngson, Hole between large floes in fli fathoms water to the eastward or *t CVs schr Dug mo and stmr Alexander were at Pelro]>aulPoint Barrow, and remained in this exposed situation until the vaski, the former hound to Rubin's Island. Ochostk Sea, Ihe 10th, wheuafter consulting my officers we decided could see San Francisco ou the ftth- The whaling bark no chance of saving the ahlp, and were compelled to abandon latter to sailatfor Petropaulvaski.about the middle of June to gets her to save the lives of myself, otHcera aod crew. Accordingly Milton was permit to whale In the Ochoa k Sea, but could not get It aa provisions and took whst ice hanltd our boats across the we no authority to give It. The natives on Behring's wecould and a bag of clothing for each man, and made the there waa found a large sperm whale which drifted ashore, ihey best of our wsy to three vessels in sight which proved to be Island about obtained 40 bbls oil, and shipped by steamer Alexander. bark Pacific. Capt Smithers, Mount Wollastoo, Capt Barker, The weather throughout the season has been very mild and aod brig W H Allen, Capt Gilley, who we found were ooly pleasant. Crossed (he Meridian in 45° 30'N; oo the 19th waiting for us, viewing our chance as hopeless to save our apoke hunter, from uchostk Sea, with Flying achr Mist, otter acknowledge here thanka for the kindness ship.—and I would otter 166 aklna ths season. From lat 40° N, long 170® W, and hospitality shi-wn us by them, and also to Capt Keenan light winds Irom SSW to ESE; been 36 days from Petroof bark A W Farnsworth and Capt Campbell ofbark Norman, had to paulvaaki, aod had beat of the way. Took tbe trades moat who were in sight and waiting to receive a part of my officers 28 ■ 80' N, from thence to port had atrong trades. and crew. I accepted theInvitation of a pussage down in the in lat Repobt or Schr Haleakala, B B Hrmpstead, Master. W II Allen, and would again add heartfelt thanks to Capt —Left San Franciaco Oct 7 with light winds from the southGilley for hia gencroua hospitality. —The past season has been quite a singular one, some of west; lay 26 hours outside the bar lo a calm, n«xt two daya the ships getting into Behring Straits early In May and others fresh breeses from ths northwest; next alx days light baffling not until the middle ofJune; the first finding many walrus and winds from all points of the compass, next alx daya light winda from northeast to southeast; last three days stormy winds doing welt, and the others became involved tn the ice In Behfrom east. Oct 25 at tf am made the Island of Molokai bearring Sea. It has proved that tliere wss quite a show of howheads iv theice iv the lallci place, but ouly a few Rbjbbj ukeu ing somli distance 20 mites. Arrived in port at 4 p in. Oct. ° 93 1877.. Haw bchb Giovanni Apiani, Wh P Wkkki, Master.—Left Honolulu Aug 27th for Farming's snd Washington Islanda, the NE trades blowing strong until we arrived in lal 7° N, when It hauled to the westward. For 10 days we encountered nothing but light variable windsand ralnia, with a strong easterly current. Binding It Impracticable to reach Farming's Island In thelatltutde ol it, we worked to ths southward, got a slant from SE snd ran up to the island, after an 18 daya paasage. While at Farming's had much rain and heavy squalls ol wind, accompanied with very violent thunder aod lightning. Took Mr Graigg and family up 10 Washington lalaod, after taking In oil returned again to Farming's with my passengers. Left Oct Ist with light winds until in lat 14° N, whenit came on to blow from the NE with heavy squalls and very high cross sea. On nearitig Hawaii was compelled lo heave-tounder close sail in order to aave my deck load, and in lhat manner worked through the heavy sea at tbeSW snd of Hawaii, arrivingat Honolulu on the 16th, 16 days passage. Report op PASSENGERS. From San Francisco—Pur Bonansa, Oct 3—Mr Mann, Mr Olsen, Mr Shielda. From Sydney— Per Australia, Oct Bth—Miaa Mount, Mr Robertson. Mr Anson, Jas Davidson. Fob San Fbancibco—Per Australia, Oct Oth—Jos Hyinan, Mrs J H Joaaelyn, Rev Mr Dodge and 2 ladies, E Clauaseo, Capt Holt and servant, Jno Young, 9 Morton and wile, G B Peacock, A P Johnson,Ed Rowe. D McAvoy, Jno Jones,Wm Jesselt, Wm Gable, II C Diamond, R F Coleman, W R Coleman, Ahseu. For San Francisco—Per D C Murray, Oct Oth—Mr Lambert, wife and 2 children, Mr Wooley, wife and 2 children, W* F Needham, C L Norrts, F Barker, Mrs Soule and daughter, Miaa Dudoit, H H Chamberlain. From Ban Fbancibco—Per W H Meyer, Oct 13th—J Gen* tile, Thoa Fleinmlng, Mr Rudle, F Andenot. Fob Guano Inlands—Fer Joseph Woolley, Oct loth—John Smith, Chaa Gliddco, Wm H Foye and 20 native laborers. Fbom Port Gamble—Per Victor, Oct 17th—M J Holgate. From San Franc isco—Per City of Sydney, Oct 18th—His Ex Jno O Domtnis, F S Pratt, O G Rose, Capt A W Pierre, Mrs P D Peterson and daughter, Joa Brewer, D Noonan, Miss Noonan, W W Durham, wife and infant, Mrs Fleck, G W Fogg, W Weight,Z S cpaldtng, wife, 3 children and servant, W ii Dlmond, Mra Frank Brown, H TTurlon, wifeand family. Mrllteus, H Turton, M Phillips, C l.'Orange. wifeand maid, Dr J W Smith, Dr T FTiadsle, A Herbert, G W Dickie, W 11 Lewea, W If Reed and wife, and 30 In aleerage. For San Francisco—Per WII Meyer. Oct 26th—8 Rudgc, Ms-Red.em, G ¥ Wells. MARRIED. Pfluobb—Mount.—ln thia cily, Oct 10th, by Ihe Rev Mr Blackburn. Mr John William Plucks to Mlsi Emily, only daughter of the late Henry Mount, M 1), of Melbourne, A us. lovejot— Uwioht.—ln thia city, Oct 11th, by the Rev Mr Dwight, Mr J H Lovbjot to Miss Juliettb Dwicjht. Campbell—Maipinbfine—ln this city, October 80th, by Rev. IS. C. Damon, James Campbbll, Esq., to Miss Abisail Maimnbfime. DIED. • Bni.Aßoi.A~On board bark Three Brothers In the Arctic Ocean, August 18, of consumption, David Bolabola, a native of Tahiti. Cato—On boardbark Three Brothers, Aug 25, John Cato, a Portugese of the Western Islands, ftty suddenly; disease unknown. Peibcb—On board steamer City of Sydney, Oct 15th, on the passage from Ban Francisco to Honolulu, HakbiitAtwood Dubfee, wife of Capt A W Peirce of this city, a native of Tiverton (now Fal IRiver) Mass, aged 01 years. Herremains were brought to Honolulu for interment. (Jj New Bedford and Fall River papers please copy. BISHOP fc 00., BANKERS, HAWAIIAN HONOLULU, DRAW KXCIIaNQS OM ISLANDS. THE SINK OF CALIFORNIA. SAN FRANCISCO, New — AID TBIIB AU.ST. IS Vsrk, bbSSsbbbsbss Pari.. — Aaß*Sststsßßts THE ORIENTAL BANK CORPORATION. LONDON, — ASD THBIB BSISCSSS IM —■ lIOBgkOBiK, Srstacr, »nd , MelbsmrM, ap',ll ly And Transact a General Banking DnaIDSSS. . A. L. SitllTH, IMPORTER & DEALER IN JEWELRY. King's Combination Bpectisslei, Glass and lated Ware, Sewing Machines, Picture Frames, Vases. Brackets, etc. etc. [ly| No. 73, Fort rit. TtKMS STRICTLY CAHH �94 THE FRIEND, The following lines were written by a reyoung lady in her early teens,—who found much to admire in our island scenery. We are glad our mountains have not escaped her notice, although in her travels she has looked upon Mount Lebanon, the Alps, and other mountain ranges. cent visitor, —a The ion was just appearing, Oo the oalm and lovely (lav, When our strong and noble steamer Entered Honolulu Bay. Jutt on the shore before us The half hidden oily lay, Looking green aud lovely In the light of coming day. Behind tbe peaoeful valley An if to guard it, stand Those dark and rugged mountains Proud monarch" of the land. But now our ship draws nearer, Aod as it onward glides, The natives orowd around it Eager to olirab its sides. But soon we reach the cily And see to our surprise, The rows of pretty oottages Ou every hand arise. And when we meet the wklcomks So oordially bestowed. We feel almost at home ngain With all the kiudness showed. For lingering in the sunlight Of this lovely sea-girt isle, We lose, io all its quiet beauty, Our troubles for a while. And when we leave Oahu's shores, And reach our home and osres, We'll not forget our Inland friends, But name them in our prayers. A. The "Brotherly Love,"—A Brig One Hundred and Thirteen Tears Old. To render intelligible an extract from a letter recently received from a correspondent in Liverpool, we republish the following item from our May number: Captain Cook's Vessel.—That the Brotherly Love, the vessel on board of which the great circumnavigator, and discoverer of New South Wales and Victoria, Captain Cook, served his time and obtained his certificate as mate, should be at this time, after the lapse of upwards of a century, going on her accustomed voyages, must appear wonderful to every one—but peculiarly interesting to the colonists of the continent whose unbounded resources, through Cook's scientific genius, were opened to the world. Yet, there is the fact, that only the other day, this fine old vessel, amidst the admiration of numbers who-witnessed her departure, left South Shields for one of the ports on the Baltic. With the exception of Nelson's ship, the Victory, there surely cannot be any vessel afloat of such historic interest. This grand old hulk ought, if not preserved as a great maritime relic by the British nation, to be floating in the New World, in the beautiful harbor of Port Jackson, at Sydney. Sydney Herald. — NOVEMBER. " 1 am no stranger to your excellent paper the Friend, which, through the kindness ot my friend Mr. Geo. Legge of Messrs. Balfour tt Williamson's Home, I generally get a look at every month. In a recent issue you give an extract from a Sydney paper regarding the ship Brotherly Love, rendered notable as being the vessel in which the famous Captain Cook learned his first rudiments of seamanship. Feeling interested in that statement, I wrote to the owner of the Brotherly Love, and sent him your paper, which he read with much satisfaction and returned, accompanied with a pleasant letter and a photograph of the good old ship. She stands in Lloyd's book thus: 'Jirotherly Love, bjig of Shields, built in Ipswich, 1764, 1214 tons; owner, James Young, South Shields.' 1 have much pleasure in enclosing the picture and a copy of Mr. Young's letter; they may prove interesting to some in your far away isle of the sea. The Sydney paper says something about the propriety of having the Brotherly Lore, sent out to Australia as a memento of Captain Cook. How would it do, after having spent her 113 years in their stormy latitudes to have her sailing in Hawaiian waters? Surely the place where the gallant navigator met with his untimely death, (permit me to repent the words of his excellent first lieutenant, King, on finishing his account of the tragedy— ' Thus perished our great, our honored commander'!) would be more in keeping with his memory than any spot in Australia. * * # # # " I send you a copy of the letter from Jas. owner of the Brotherly Love: Young, Esq., " ' Dear sir: lam much obliged by your sending me the Honolulu paper for perusal. The old ship still goes on her way rejoicing, in good order. Her qualities as a sea boat we may expect has saved her weathering many a storm. The only fear at sea with her is being run down by S. S. (screw ajaamers).' Martin .Robinson. ' "Yours, Sec., "6 Hope Place, Liverpool, Aug. 30, 1877." N. B.—We would acknowledge a photograph of the Brotherly Love, which may be seen in Whitney's book-store. (For tbe friend] Christian Sympathy. BY REV. D. DOLE. ■ Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ." The law of Christ is love. "A new commandment I give you that ye love one another." " I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you." Now the Lord Jesus, our great high priest, can and does sympathize in our infirmities. Sympathize is the very word used in the Greek. (Heb. 4:15). Peter exhorts, " Be ye all of otic mind, nym- 1877. pathizing one with another." (1 Pet. 3:8). When love is in exercise in the htorts of Christians, when every succeeding day brings a new experience of the faithfulness and loving kindness of their heavenly Father, and every succeeding night marks an advance in the pilgrimage towards the celestial city, then sympathy is easy. Then they that fear the Lord speuk often one to another. Then with the Psalmist, they delight to make the praise of their heavenly Father glorious, and to tell what he has done for their souls. (Ps. 66 : 2 and 16). Then with tender sympathy they find out the discouragements and perplexities, the conflicts and the triumphs, the sorrows and the joys of fellow pilgrims and strengthen them with kind words, rejoicing wilh them lhat rejoice and sharing the sorrows of the sorrowful. Thus do they bear one another's burden. But in seasons of declension, when worldliness invades the church, and the love of many waxes cold, and church members, speaking out of the abundance of the heart, cease to speak of heavenly things, and their prayers lose their fervency, and the word of Cod is no longer their study and meditation, and salvation seems of little importance, ilicn is Christian sympathy well nigh extinct. Young disciples are left to get along as best they may. If any of them are prisoners in doubting castle, no one knows it. Consequently there is no one to point them to the key of promise, by which they may unfasten the locks and make their escape. If any of them become discouraged through many temptations, there is no one to find it out, and to point them to the Lord Jesus, who was in like manner tempted, who tenderly sympathizes with all his tempted followers, and who succors all who apply to him. In this state of things it is not to-be expected that efforts will be made to win to Christ those who are without hope and without God in the world. There are none to say to those in the broad way as Moses said to his father-in-law, " Come with us, and we will do you good; fo»the Lord hath spoken good concerning Israel." Does this language apply to the people of Honolulu ? A young merchant came to town, took a seat in one of the churches, and there he appeared regularly Sabbath after Sabbath for months, yet during all this time, no one bid him welcome; no one enquired after his spiritual condition. Was it strange that the conviction forced itself upon his mind that no one cared for his soul? To be able to exercise Christian sympathy one must be in sympathy with the Lord Jesus; must feel his constraining love, and to that influence. He that loves the ord Jesus will love his image wherever it is discovered; and more than this, he will love those whom the Lord Jesus loves, and for whom he died. This is Christian sympathy, and it is not a latent power. It manifests itself in kind words and in self-denying works. It is the spirit of Christ acted out; " and if any one have not the spirit of Christ, he is none of his." Lield �FRIEND, TO THE PUBLIC! AaPy-BRTISBsMsBMrTB. . M. DAVIDSON. ■ »• A Homer FIRST PREMIUM GOLD MEDAL was awarded at theIndustrial inhibition, 1875, TMIE JK. F. Law. B. HUTCHINSON, Ottos at Drue Store, corner ot Fort and Merchaut Streets, Keildence, Muuanu Avenue, near School Street. fel '70 Offloe Hours, 9 to 11 A. M. %y IRWIN A. «• . .v For the Best in the World! BRADLEY & RULOFSON'S ART GALLERY No. 429 Montgomery street, Sn.ii UT* x- .r\ xx ol<w o o Dealers in Lumber and Building Materials, Honolulu, II I. HOFFMANN. M D., ViL-we, urtl Landicape Physician and Surgeon, II II X W I. X J. rollection of Photographs, I>. IV. Corner Merchantand Kaahumanu Streets, near the I'oat Offloe A 1 CONTINUES CO.. Honolulu, Oahu. 11. I. . - -.. .. --yaSH Ofßcora' Table, with lodging, per week, $6 6 do. do. Celebrities, Stereoscopic .Seamen's do. Views of thewholePacific Coaat. Shower Bath* on the Premises. ED. DUNSCOiMBE, llonlulu, January 1, 1875. Manager. lIJTIiGII, ... • ms OLD BUSINESS IN TIIK HRK-l'lsOiiK Commission and Shipping Merchants, . _—I— j-j- Yoti are cordially invited to an inspection of our imtnenie . HWB& M AND THE VIENNA MEDAL! DICKSON, r.ni Mn-i-i, f^l[]jrTi[jii' "*iir,B OFFICE OF Plantation and Insurance Agent., Honolulu, H. I. EWERS HOME! BRADLEY & RULOPSON! CO.. Commission Merchants, ■ SAILORS' For the kest Photogrtphs «. Crayons ia San Francisco THE NATIONAL GOLD SIKDAL! For the Best Photographs in the 1 mud Stales! l'h,sh ii.ii staid Surnrnn, O. 1877. to OBoe over Mr. Whitney's Book-.lore, formerlyoccupied by de.!B7S Judge Austin. Honolulu, H. I. ■ NOVEMBER. 95 I II X llulldlng, Kuuhuinanu street. Chroxom sticks rated by observations of the iun and stars with a intimit iii.uiuLue.il accurately adjusted to Ihe meridian of Honolulu. Carriage Making and Trimming! WE WOULD RESPECTFULLY inform you that we dow employ the beat Mechanics in the line ot Carriage Making, Carriage and General Blacksmithing, Painting, liepairing, die. Sextantand qumlrant glasses slivered and adjusted. Charts and nautical Instruments constantly on hand and (or sale, On the Hawaiian Qroup; and it is a well estabAuction and Commission Merchant, fel lished faot that our Carriage Trimming ia aa Firs-Proof Store, in Robinson's llulldln(, Queen Street. well executed as any in New York City or elsewhere. We therefore feel warranted in saying that D., |() II N S. McGRKW, M we oan manufacture as good a olass of work in Honolulu as onn be found in any part of the world. We Late Surgeon U. S. Army, will also state here that we fully intend to work at Hotel between Gsn be consulted at hi. residence on street, lowest possible rates. WEST & CHAYTER. tat Alakes and street.. a,. P. ADAMS. Fort ,p 74 and 78 King Street, Honolulu. fl_r I.land orders piomptly esecutsd at lowest r.te. ■**- NOTICE TO SHIP MASTERS. DILLINGHAM & CO., No.. 0a and 07 King Street, WEST, Wagon and Carnage Builder, A Particular attention given to Fine Watch Repairing * it. CO.. (Succeiors to 0. L. Rlchsrd. k Co.) W. PIERCE M. DICKSON, Photographer, KEEP A FIXE ASSORTMENT OF MASTERS VISITING THIS PORT SHIP during* the last Six Years can testify from personal exundersigned keep the best assortment of perience that the Ship Chandlers and General Commission Mer GOODS FOR. Tli WOE Honolulu, Oahu, llswaiian I.land.. 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And before each step of my onward path He causes new scenes to rise; And each Joy that he sends me, comes As a glad and sweet surprise. I see not a step before me, As I tread out the days of the year, Bui.the past Is still in God's keeping, The futurehia mercy will clear; And what seems dark In the distance* May brighten as 1 draw near. For, perchance, the dreadful future Has less bitter than I think; The Lord may sweeten the waters Before I stoop to drink; Or If Marah must be Maralt, He will stand beside its brink. • It may be, he has waiting For the coming of my feet, Borne gift of such rare blessedness, Borne joy so strangely sweet. That my lips can only tremble With tbe thanks I cannot speak. Oh, blissful, peaceful ignorance. It's blessed not to know; It keeps me quiet In those arms Which will not let me go; And hushes my soul to rest On the bosom which loves me so. So I go on, not knowing— I would not if I might— I would rather walk with God in the dark Thanwalk alone In the light; I would rather walk with him by faith Than walk alone by sight. My heart shrinks back from trials Which tbe futuremay disclose; Yet I never had a sorrow But what the dear Lord chose; 80 I press back the coming tears. With the whispered words, "He knows." [Selected for the Friend.] Prayer. There is no real harm, but prayer will aid us to escape. There is no real good, but prayer will aid us to secure. There is no' burden in life, that prayer will not bring us new strength to bear. There is no temptation that ever assails us, but prayer will give us new power to resist. Prayer aids us in our perplexities, and gives us strength to rise above depression. There is no dark cloud lowering over the future, but prayer will enable us to look above and beyond it. Christian experience in all ages of the world testifies like the voice of many waters, that prayer intensifies every blessing and lightens every burden; it scatters our fears and transfigures our sorrows ; it invigorates in us all that is good, and weakens whatever is bad ; it helps to understand ourselves and God, and to live in joyous peace with both and in jubilant readiness for Heaven.— Congregationalist. The laurel wreath is just about to be laid upon his brow. And below him there is 1 met a traveller from an antique lttnd Who said : Two vast and trunkless legs of stone represented the misery and sorrow of the Stand in tbe desert. Near them on tbe sand world. Men stagger under great burdens or Half sunk, a sbattej'd visage lies, whose frown sit with head in hand bewailing their distress. And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command trunks lie prone on battle-fields. Headless Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which still survive. starap! d on these lifeless things, Old age beseeches war for mercy vainly ; Tbe hand that mock'd them and the heart that ted; tender maidens and little children lift up imAnd on the pedestal these words appear; ploring hands but are struck ruthlessly down. 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: And all the time Augustus, now become a on and works, despair !' my ye Mighty, Look God, unmoved, never turning so much sits Nothing beside remains. Round the decay as one pitying glance earthward, but gazing Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, always straight away in stolid unconcern. Tbe lone and level sands stretch far away. Such was man's idea of God till Jesus came. P. 15. Shbli.rt. Ozymaudias of Egypt. (From the Chriatian Union.] Christ's Answer to the Great Question. BY KEY. WASHINGTON GLADDEN. What is God ? men asked. The Stoics answered and said : God is the impersonal soul of the universe. God is everything, and everything is God. Matter is divine. The soul is but more etheral matter. Stones and mountains, trees and animals, men and women are but manifestations of the diety. The universe itself is only a period in the development of God. All things are as they are by inseperable necessity. Storms must blow on until they exhaust themselves, and if you are caught in them there can be nothing for you but to take your chance. The only support for life is a granite will. Indifference is religion. Pleasure is no good ; pain is no evil. The noblest man is he who dwells apart, in sublime apathy, unmoved by any change, unstirred by any passion t asking no assistance, wasting no sympathy, gazing from an iron earth toward a brazen . heaven. 1 have seen another picture. It is called Christus Consolator. Christ is seated on a throne. He is Lord of all. Before him are gathered the outcast and. miserable of the world. The aged man bent beneath the burden of a century, the sick man wasting with slow disease, the slave lifting hands heavy with chains, the mother weeping above her dead babe—all these are there ; and over all the Savior's hands are lifted and he is speaking heed and care and help for all. It is such a God men need—the God made maifest in Jesus Christ. Prayer into his heart is mightily real. There is shining hope amid the densest darkness since God is such a God. t In the States, especially in New England, the Y. M. C. Associations are accustomed to make, occasionally, a thorough canvass of of the more thickly populated districs with a view to arouse religious interest amongst all classes. Committees are appointed by the State Association, of some evangelist or clergyman assisted by three or four young men, who visit a certain number of towns, staying two or three days at each place and holding meetings morning, afternoon and evening, talking also personally with as many as possible. The hearty cooperation What is God f men asked again. The of the local ministry is always met with. Epicureans answered the question and said : These canvasses have been signally blessed gfleasure is the end of life. If animal indul- and thousands trace their first interest in meetings. A proposal of gence be the highest pleasure, be it so ; en- Christ to such of'the kind in behalf of these something joy yourself. If the action and culture of Islands was made at the last meeting of our the intellect be the highest pleasure, be it so. Y. M. C. A. We believe much could be But self-indulgence is the end. All things accomplished especially amongst the native centre in the self. And so it follows that population by this kind of work and hope to the sick woman in the crowd could not touch see the experiment tried. the utmost fringe of his garment but that he Another tent service was held on the Eswould notice it. When the sisters of Beth- planade by the Y. M. C. A.on Sabbath any are weeping Jesus must mingle his evening Oct. 21st. The audience was contears with theirs. Nor could little children siderably larger than at the,previous meetbe brought within- his presence except the ing. Interesting addresses were made by Lord " would take them up in his arms, put Or. Damon, Pres. Pratt, and S.B. Dole, Esq. his bands upon them and bless them." I have seen a wood-cut of an old Vienna There are in the United States and Cacamera representing the apotheosis of the nada 800 Young Men's Christian AssociaEmperor Augustus. He is seated on a tions with a membership of 100,000 and throne. The God's surround him. He owning property to the extent of $250,000,holds the emblems of dominions in his hands. � 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 (1877) 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 - 1877.11.01 - Newspaper Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1877.11.01 https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/e083108279f9c8c889b3e00f0c45b43d.pdf ec715bde580d266119bf87189ff93bc0 PDF Text Text 97 F THE RIEND HONOLULU, DECEMBER 4, 1817. Ktto Series, M. 28, $0.12.} CONTENTS Far December 4, 1877. —_ End or Volume XXXIV II awaiian Centennial Ramblea in the Old World, Noll The Rev George Morri A Hither Law New Zealand Correspondence Death of an Early Convert A Lull in Life—Poetry laland of Snwarrow Y. M. C. A Hawaiian Centennial. Paoa 97 VI 97—99 99 WO 100 101 102 102 104 THE FRIEND. DECEMBER 4. 1877. END OF VOLUME XXXIV. With this number closes another year and volume of the Fbiend. We really have no space left for moral reflections on the closing of the year or the flight of time. As we have furnished our subscribers with twelve numbers of our paper, in order that we may pay our printer and discharge all liabilities incurred in its publication, we trust our subscribers and friends will see the importance of making prompt payment when their bills are presented. If any error or mistake appears, the same will be rectified by making it known to the publisher. —As we have not received our usual donations from the whaling fleet, we hope persons favorably disposed to the publication and .gratuitous distribution of the Friend will not forget that five hundred copies of each number are distributed gratuitously. Donations thankfully received. For several months we have been expecting that some of our English residents would take the initiative for a centennial celebration, if the government officials did not move in the matter. It really seems quite too bad, too unpatriotic, too stupid,—to allow so good an opportunity to pass without a respectable demonstration. Less than two months remain,—for January 18th, 1778, is the day when Cook is reported to have discovered these islands. Who will move in this matter? To compare great things with small, the ISth of January is also memorable for another event of minor importance. On the ISth of January, 1843, thirty-five years ago, the first number of the Frienp made its appearance, and has continued its monthly reappearance ever since. Me. Aseu, one of the Chinese merchants of Honolulu, on his voyage to China via San Francisco and Japan, reports under dote of September 17th the following persons as his fellow passengers, on board the City of Peking, from San Francisco to Yokohama: From the American Board for Japan: Key. Isaac Pierson and wife, Miss Lizzie B. Pierson, Miss Julia Wilson, Miss H. F. Parmlee. From the Presbyterian Board: Miss Doctress G. J. Anderson, Miss Mary E. Barr. From the Methodist Episcopal Board: Rev.* H. H. and Mrs. Lowrie, Rpv. W. G. Benton, Bishop J. W. and Mrs. Wiley. Yokoyama, Japanese missionary, educated four years at a mission school in the United States, now returning home to do mission work. Three going to Japan, and the others to China. New Books.—The number of new books seen at Whitney's bookstore, when his invoices are opened is gratifying, but still more gratifying to look in a few days after, and find most of them have disappeared and been Thanksgiving.—The day was observed scattered over the islands. Many of these as in former years, by public religious serbooks are among the best publications of the vices at the Fort Street Church. An admiage,—historical, literary, scientific. Such rable discourse was delivered by Rev. Dr. books would not be ordered and sold, unless Hyde, specially invited by our U. S. Minisreaders were found for them on different ter Resident Mr. Comly. The sermon will be found in this week's Gazette. parts of the islands. {(Dili Series, 001.34. RAMBLES IN THE OLD WORLD-No.1 Elberfield, Sept. 19, 1877. Dear Friend.—The French, you know, say, " gui s'excuse s'accuse," so that perhaps it will be wiser for me not to attempt any line of defense for my meagre cpistolatory correspondence this summer but creep instead under the folds of your broad mantle of charity, finding balm for my conscience in the thought that you have found something far better than my rambling and random sketches for your columns. I am afraid that something of the " dolce far niente " of midsummer days must have had its effect upon me, for how otherwise could I have delayed telling you of my drifting from among Swiss scenes, and the presence of its snowy uplands and blue lakes, to this fair and fertile region which cradles the Rhine? And what a summer this has been for this world of ours, which seems *o find wars and rumors of wars its perpetual heritage ! With you, though a little nearer the scene of action, we have been watching the sad, bloody conflict which darkens all the eastern horizon and which seems to grow darker and more bloody as the summer gives place to autumn, and the first frost and chill in the air hint at the added Wretchedness and anguish which must come to those on the wild, bleak battle-fields, unless peace comes with the early snows Then too, how wanly and beseechingly have all those countless famine-stricken faces in India been looking to us out of their dreadful and terrible need ! And it is a pleasure to see how nobly hearts, both in England and the Continent, have been touched by this human agony. We are watching with intenstest interest to see whether them is anything to come of that thunder-cloud which seems to have been gathering over Our next-door neighbors, the French, who are craving far a new sensation and revolution! Perhaps however the political tempest will vanish as the heat and muttering thunder from our autumn skies. What a superb tribute the French paid to the memory of the veteran Theirs, the other day. Rarely does such a tremendous throng follow a man to his tomb. A troublesome and annoying state of affairs also the American people have been meeting with, in their riots and strikes, which I trust have now been quietly adjusted. But really it is hardly my province in yoqr columns, �98 THE FRIEND, DECEMBER, to enter into the politics and troubles of the and one earth at laige, and in leaving them I most them to additions to modern travel permit leave at all. One thinks with a sincerely hope that our Hawaiian skies have sigh of these blessed days when Oliver Goldin them only the happiest portents for the smith won his way among the Swiss peafuture. It is pleasant to feel that there is santry with the sweet notes of his flute, one favored nook where the great tide of travelling as he listed. Next to the sight of a grand face or the suffering and famine and bloodshed hasn't found its way. Peace now, and ever to sound of a voice which has thrilled multiyour rustling cane fields, and, to this sunny tudes by the wonder of its melody, that of a Rhine-land where the grapes are purpling for famous river seems to me the most inspiritthe vintage! ing. There is an eloquence in it more powerful than words ; a mysterious, sympthetic OUT OF SWITZERLAND. which seems to have something alI promised to give you a running sketch of quality human most about it. How it links the cenmy trip from Geneva to Elberfeld, which I turies in one continuous chain ! What numdo, so far as outlines the fading will now berless have mirrored themselves tragedies can be re-produced : in its waters ! Men work and fight, chilPerhaps you have gleaned already from dren and play on its banks. Armies something I may have written how 1 found die itslaugh waters red with their blood generamy way hither. Not in a very direct sort tion after castles are built and of a route but wandering and rambling in crumble generation, but still the silent river holds away, this way and that, something as the Rhine its course unshaken, a symbol of eternity. its course. parts to do one or two of in likes But this is rhapsodizing, and quite unparI wish 1 could tell you of all the places and donable in a letter. But it is a little more months, the few seen past in have people I pardonable perhaps when you stand for the be too much even but this would certainly first time on the Cathedral terrace at Basel for your patience, which, kind and charitable of the splendid as it is, must have its limits. Then too in full view of the Rhine and its waters which make at sweep pale green there keeps creeping in the' thought that you know them just about as well as I do, and' this point. It is really a magnificent sight devoid of all associations,—but with these— that you can point to innumerable people it is a feast for eyes and No where who nave told the same story over and over have 1 seen the River toheart! such good advanthat it seems so faultlessly again, and some as here. It broadens like a lake, fullsacrilege to utter a sound on the same tage sweeping, majestic, as if conscious of the subject. Far back as Johnson's time, you magical spell which seems hidden in its know, that prince of growlers, launched his not clear and blue and crystalline criticisms on those who would enter upon waters, the blue Rhine at Geneva, but even in such a well-worked field as that of continen- like the glory of the full noon blaze of light, tal travel, in a way to frighten any one. keeping the secret of its cool green depths. BERNE. But more of this bye and bye—we shall soon I shall always remember a few hours un- be on it and can look more closely. Stepder a very bright June sun in the old city of ping into the Cathedral near the terrace, we Bert*, its historical scenes ; its " bear-pit" see the stone to the memory of the learned and bears, singularly stupid, but which every- Erasmus, whose learning by the way did not body goes to see; its quaint old fountains render him any more decided a character in and statues and long arcades with their in- Mie matter,of the Reformation, in which he viting scarlet-cushioned seats in the grey played, however, no insignificant a part. stone walls of the houses; the cathedral In one of the rooms pf the Cathedral, are with its splendid views withoutand sculp- fragments of a most famous and peculiar tured Christ within and above all the distant mural painting, entitled the Dance of glimpses of* the Bernese Oberland, veiling JJeuth, formerly I think, on the walls of a its snowy summits in shimmering snowy cemetery. It is rather comforting on the clouds, wafted through the air, heated by the whole that only ragged sections of it remain, early summersun, brought refreshing thoughts for in all truth these are ghastly enough. of those far off retreats, which are full of in- The whole represented a wild carnival of spiration to those who visit them and gaze grinning skeletons, whirling on terrified upon the majesty and purity of the Jung- knights, shrinking girls, mitred Bishops, fratt. Next came Zunich and its lovely (whose mitres and crosiers were of little lake, on whose shores I watched for several avail), wealthy burgers, and others of every weeks the subtle growth of summer beauty, class, to their doom. What uncomfortable in the simple little Swiss village of Manne- imaginations some of those old painters dorf, where is,carried on a most interesting seem to have had. The old house of work founded by the well-known Dorothea Erasmus is not very far away, and a statue Trudell. No where can you find more fra- of CEcolampadius, who, notwithstanding his grant roses in June or kinder hearts the name, did good service among the Reformers. year round than in this lovely little spot, STRASBOURG CATHEDRAL. whose vineyards run down to the clear I watched the fading of the same daylight, waters of Lake Zurich, and over which the which I had seen glittering in Basel on the distant Riyi keeps guard. Then by Zurich again, I rambled on to Basel. We call it Rhine at noontime, at sunset on the tower rambling now-a-days you know, when peo- of Strasbourg Cathedral. ple take a guide-book in band and rush hither The singular roofs of the city, mounting and thither in fear and trembling, that they story above story, the flat far reaching surare going to loose the express" for the rounding country from which the Prussians, " of porters and not so very long since, tossed their uncomnext station, if the crowd hotel keepers arid souvenir-vendors and fortable cannon balls into the terrified town; punctiliousrailway-officials, and the thousand thelines of ramparts fortifications, etc.,alllay 1x77. before us. This wonderful Strasbourg spire! What pigmies seem the men and women below! You feel indeed 'twixt heaven and earth, and yet far above this tower where we are standing there are heights which we have not gained. The round red sun is too near its dipping in the hazy west for us to try them to-night. There is a terrible fascination about the downward look, down, down, down ! And there is only this little stone parapet between us and the fearful leap! Something of the same indescribable spirit which leads you on to the brink at Miagara, and draws you towards its gulfs of snowy foam and shattered rainbows, or holds you spell-bound on the near edge of the fiery, terrible surge of our Kilauea, keeps you here. Would the stone apostles, the winged angels or Gothic sculptures reach out helping hands in the whirling, murderous fall ? One could scarcely find a more fitting spot for the scene of the prologue of Longfellow's "Golaen Legend." Imagine these airy heights, wind-swept and storm-lashed, with Lucifer and his legions in their wild fury, hurrying on to their work. "Haalen! Ilaaten! ye apirita! Kium ita atatlon drag the ponderous I'm." "I ii,-n, that to mock ua li uplifted liian In air! O " But I must be on my way leaving behind the city where Goethe so long studied, where Calvin found his wife, the seat of innumerable important events in history; the capital of those fair provinces which one always thinks of now-a-days in the guise of two sad-eyed peasant girls, whose hearts are still with " la belle France," Alsace and Lorraine. BLACK FOREST. What a world of witchery there is in the very sound of the words " Black Forest." Don't they make you long for the days when you read of dwarfs and giants and spirits, good and evil, of phantom steeds and huntsmen, that some how or other seemed to find a congenial home in these woods which lie so invitingly on the horizon in the gathering, mysterious gloom of the long twilight. It would have been a pleasure to have dived into them, but one can't see every thing, and this was not in my plan just then. 1 wonder if one would be disappointed; I can't think so. There seems too genuine a fragrance in tnese old German legends and fairy stories; you can almost hear the wind in the trees, and scent the perfume of the pines and catch glimpses of cool, shadowy lakes, whose surface the stars pierce with their silver gleams, and where deer stay for a moment their hurried flight. But the train rushes on and night shuts down on the world of spirits and men as we enter Heidel- berg. HEIDELBERG. This place is charmingly situated on the river Neckar, is rich in historical associations, and is attractive to the tourist, chiefly from its university and its castle, which is certainly a roost imposing and magnificent ruin. With the matins of the birds and the early morning walk to the glorious ivygrown pile, which stands still as a sentinel above the city, faithful to its mediaeval .trust—though scared ap4 maimed—came one of those deljght,fuj surprizes which are �THE FRIEND, DECEMBER, among the rare and beautiful things of travel. Out of my limited European experience there are very few places on this side the Atlantic better worth seeing. The wings of my rather too exuberant imagination have been clipped more than once during the past few months, but here every realization and anticipation has been more than fulfilled. Some one has written of it " next to the Alhambra of Grenada, the most magnificent ruin of the middle ages." I am afraid I shall never see the Alhambra, or hear the murmur of its fountains, except through the medium of Irving's splendid descriptions, but I shall never, never forget the glory of the old " Heidelberg Schloss," its ruin but adding to its perfect beauty, the remembrance of which, will, I trust, live in my thoughts and heart as greenly as does the ivy on its walls. The castle is situated on a wooded height just above the town, and is centuries old. One elector after another added to it, till it acquired huge dimensions. Long ago, the French General Melac had it blown up. And in 1764 the lightning came to complete the ruin. It would seem as if some curse had rested on its battlements. It would scarcely be possible for me in the compass of this letter to attempt a description of it, and I feel as if 1 should be wholly inadequate to do this as it should be done. The immensity of it at first confused me, as I came out of the narrow foot-path which I had followed up to the avenue which runs in its rear, and wandered about at my own sweet will. This led me under the leafysculptured portal or gateway which the elector Frederick Y. caused to be erected in honor of his English wife, the Princess Elizabeth, and into the tree-shadowed garden beyond, the very perfection of a place for dreaming and love-making, then into the great castle-court and over its heavy drawbridge and under its raised port-cullis, and through its huge and massive gateway. Every step of the way has its peculiar charm, and we would slay the sun in his coursa if we could. Before us is the paved and glistening court. How the horses' hoofs must have rung on it, in the brave old days ! There is the Muprechtn-Bau, and there the granite columns from Ingelheim with their memories of Charlemagne, and there the Friedrichs-Bau and there—but what signify names in the presence of all this color and warmth and beauty? Just see how splendidly the golden sunshine illumines the facades of the palaces which face and encircle us and warm the sculptures and statues in their niches, and seems to find a sort of companionship in their rich and varied adornments. This is a terrestrial paradise for painters. I met one, whose Scottish birth had not checked his artistic spirit, and who was, as perhaps some of his stern countrymen might say, well nigh daft in the midst of all this beauty. For the instant, the dullest and most unimpressible of travellers must feel something of the throb of the poet in him at sight of the Tower which the French so cruelly blasted. It was a wickedly mean thing of them to do, but have we not on the whole gained by it ? It stands like some great stone giant, shorn of his strength! Down" in the ravine below fell huge gigantic masses, and the trees and things leaped up to hide their nakedness. They have crept up its sides, softening, embossing with their tangled and verdant growth its crumbling arches, even penetrating to' its stony heart and in its broken and shattered old age, giving it a tenderness and beauty, which its proud and haughty youth never possessed. One needs an Ariadne in this labyrinth, or her silken-clue! Room after room open before you ; long winding passages ; banqueting halls, whose only frescoes are those of the drifting clouds and silver stars on the heavens above them ; under ground passages where waves of ferns and mosses and trailing vines have swept in with the years. Then up to the battlements where the only pennants that wave in the summer air are those which the kindly hand of nature has unfurled, a symbol of the infinite peace which seems to brood over these walls. There are the chapel, the museum with a thousand interesting relics, and after all this splendid vision which is almost intoxicating in its poetry and beauty, it is well to come down to the earth again and visit the cellar and its famous "Tun," for the people who lived in this enchanted palace were of the earth, earthly. Can you imagine 49,000 gallons of wine ? Then 1877. 99 now absent on a tour to Hawaii and Maui. On his return, he hopes to spend some days in Honolulu. Something may be gathered of the efficiency of the Order from the following extracts from a circular published by the Order: " The Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of Good Templars of the State of California, euborilitmte to the Right Worthy Grand Lodge, 1. O. G. T., wan instituted May 29th, 1860, and com- prised at that time eleven subordinate lodges, holding a membership of less than five hundred. Since then by the employment of competent lecturer", printing temperance literature, and other available means, the principles of the Order have extended and been generally embraced, until now the subordinate lodgea within this State oxoeed two hundred in number, and ten thousand in membership. Scarcely a town of importance, or a county within the Suite is without its " Lodge of Good Templars." The Grand Lodge of California has special jurisdiction also over the State of Nevada, and (he Territories of Utah and Arizona, as also the Sandwich Islands, in each of which Lodges of the Order have been established and are now working. JUVENILE TEMPLARS. This is a juvenile institution recently formed lor the benefit of the children of our land, and is directly under the patronage of the Grand Lodge. enclose it all in a cask, which is more like some bloated monster than anything else, and you have the Tun on which everybody mounts by ladder. To obtain an idea of its size, consider its dimensions, 32 feet long, and 22 feet high, holding 800 hogsheads. The circumference around the centre is 231 feet, and the diameter of the head 22 feet. In my delight, lam keeping you very, very long over the castle, but I forget and live my visit over again. But just one moment more for a glimpse from the " Molkenkour," a height just above the castle and I am done. Heidelberg lies at our feet, with its roofs and spires and university, of whose fame you know so well, and beyond the long reach of the Neckar, " the dark green Eden world," the low-lying lands which border on the Rhine, fertile fields, and distant forests, a very quiet beautiful scene. But the morning sun is hurrying on and we must say " good-bye " to the sunny gardens and terraces where the good people of Heidelberg love to come for their beer and music ; and out from the spacious balcony, down a cool and sloping path, into the busy life of travel again. And yet not just as before, for I have left my heart somewhere in your green fastnesses, dear old castle on the banks of the Neckar, and ever more, at mention of your name shall breathe a prayer that you may speak messages of beauty and tenderness td those who shall come after, as you did to me (hat rare morning in June ! Fourteen years ago the Grand Lodge, feeling the necoeasity of a representation in the newspaper world, founded and adopted as its official organ The Weekly Organ. THE GOOD TEMPLARS' HOME FOR ORPHANS. In 1869 a capacious and elegant structure was erected near Vallejo, in Solano County, and in October, 1870,it was dedicated and opeod under the auspices of the Grand Lodge, and entitled the Templars' Home for Orphans." Its title "is Good not meant to convey any idea of delusiveness as to the class admitted to its sheltering offices. On the contrary it is open to all; the only passport required at its portals is to be a homeless orphan child. Children under fourteen years of age are recived and cared for, and over seventy orphaned children are now being cared for within its walls. The buildings are sightly, capacious aud pleasantly located. The Home is under the management of a Board of Trustees, and loard of Lady Managers—the former comprising nine gentlemen of the Order, who have charge of the buildings, grounds, (30 aorea), and financial matters, while the Board of Lady Managers is composed of eight prominent lady members of the Order, selected from various portions of theState, and has charge of the internal and domestic relations of the institution. Within tbe Home a graded school, under the " Publio School System " ol the State, is taught by two competent teachers. Upwards of $10,000 has been expended in the erection, care and maintenance of this institution. The Good Templars of this jurisdiction have accepted the soil-imposed duty of sustaining this Hoine'' gratefully, and the membership is linked together in Its support with unfaltering devotion. The Rev. George Morris.—We are happy to welcome, as a fellow laborer and gospel minister, this gentleman from California. He is the Pastor of a Congregational Church, in South Vallejo, but comes as Agent and Representative of the Good Templars of California. He was formerly a missionary of the London Missionary Society at Tahiti. On his arrival, he preached at shrubbery and thousand green and living the Bethel and Fort Street Churches, but is The cause of temperance has tbus been promoted by all available and honorable means—by an organised association of men and women within tbe Lodge, and the youth and children within tbe Temples. By tbe education of all through tbe press, and from tbe platform and pulpit, and by tenderly caring for tbe children bereft of parents and natural guardians through tbe use of intoxicating drinks and concomitant crime. Thus do we claim ours to be tbe most powerful and complete temperance institution ever organised. An invitation is extended to all to " come and join us " and assist in this grand warfare in behalf of truth, temperance and morality. F. W. Damon. THE WEEKLY RESCUE. feneral " RESULT. �100 THE FRIEND, DECEMBER, 1877. THE FRIEND, O" By the last California mail, we rea letter from one of our old seafaring ceived lIKCEMHER 4. 1871. friends, whom we have known for a score of EDITOR'S TABLE. years. He has settled in Santa Rosa, where, Hawaiian Almanac and Annual roa 1878.—Ha- he writes, are "good schools, eight churches waii's Ontaetoial, it being one hundred years since and two colleges," and where he will be the discovery of these Manila by Capt. Cook. A band book of information uti matters relating lo glad at all times, to give his island friends the Hawaiian, Itlanda, original and selected, of a sailor's welcome." " " I forward you," he value to merohauta, planters, louriata, and others. Carefully oompiled by Tboa. Q. Thrum. Fourth adds, " a local paper with a statement made year of publication. by one of our Ex-city-fathers. I think it is Mr. Thrum deserves much credit for the time such men were shown up to the public care and trouble which he has devoted to the through your island papers." preparation of this publication. No one who It is not ordinarily in accordance with our has not engaged in similar work can fully editorial ideas, to notice the many foolish estimate or appreciate the work, hence we and erroneous statements which float back sincerely hope the public will evince their to the islands from the coast. Many of them appreciation by liberally purchasing the are utterly absurd, and a notice would only Annual. The table of chronological events lift them into importance. It appears that is very valuable. a man by the name of Gable, visited the islands some weeks ago, from Santa Kosa, A Higher Law.—The drift of a discus- and on his return, was interviewed by a resion which has been carried forward of late porter of the Santa Rosa Daily Democrat. in our Honolulu weeklies, would lead the We find the following in his report render to infer that some of the writers and the natives any idea of literature? contributors imagined that if our Sabbath Have The natives are all educated in their own lanLaws and marriage regulations were abro- guage. During my stay I did not find one who gated or annulled, then being brought back could not read and write. Have they any esto Rosseau's state of nature, they might live tablished religion '! None by law, yet nine-tenths of the population belong to some church. Some as they list, and do as they please. No are Catholics, some Protestants and some Mordoubt there are men who would be glad to mons. The Protectants largely predominate. There are missionaries there of denomiwitness such a triumph of sin and immoral- nations, who tax every memberallofthese a family 25 ity, but would it not be well for all sober- cents per month for religions services, and sell minded and. law-abiding people to keep in them Bibles and other books at most exhorbitnnt prices. These missionaries become wealthy from mind, that there is a Higher Law ? We tithes wrung from the poor and laboring classes. do not think that God and God's Law can They are strongly opposed to any white immigrato the country. What are the accomodabe thus summarily voted out of existence. tion tions for travellers? Outaide of the cities no We should not suppose any one required such thing is known as a public bouse. The namore convincing proof of God's government tives live in houses made of grass, the floors are covered with matting. They are very hospitable. over the world than the fearful retribution A stranger may travel all over the country and coming down upon transgressors of God's never be charged for anything he may eat or drink, Moral Laws. Any one partially blind, we yet he will be welcome to the best tbey have. should suppose, might see that the " way of We have a distinct recollection of Mr. the transgressor was hard." The sad vic- Gable. We invited him to our house and tims of intemperance, lust and crime, tell the also met him at our office, taking special story in language sufficiently plain to make pains to furnish him with correct informaa sensible man take warning. To repeal the tion about the islands and the people. He laws relating to thesaleof intoxicating liquors, had very many questions to ask, and to the the Sabbath and certain other practices best of our ability, furnished him with the would tend to foster and educate the Hood- desired information. So far did we become lum element in our community, which ele- interested, that when he expressed the desire ment recently made the San Franciscans for a lucrative office under the government re-organize the Vigilance Committee, as we did what we could for him, by speaking their only safety from anarchy, flames and to two government officials, but' frankly inutter demoralization. We hope His Majesty formed him, that the office he desired reand the authorities will give this subject a quired a knowledge of the native language, careful consideration before breaking away from established law and traditional usage. and unless he acquired the requisite knowlWe trust the Higher Law is not altogether edge, he must not expect the appointment. inoperative in this kingdom. It becomes Perhaps his disappoiniment in not obtaining the duty of every lover of good order, family this office may have rendered him rather purity and morality to uphold the authoritowards the islands. ties and be careful not to trample upon law. disaffected While bearing testimony to the intelliDonation from Capt. Cobb, of P. M. S. gence and hospitality of the Hnwtiiiuns City of New York, 17.00for the Honolulu towards missionaries, he appears to have a Sailors' Home. special antipathy. We do not give him : credit for believing what he stated to the reporter of the Democrat, and if he did believe it, and went away from the islands with such a ridiculous and absurd impression, then it does not speak very well for his good sense. The idea that missionaries have become " wealthy " from the sale of Bibles " " and " tithes," and that they are opposed to any " white immigration " is so absolutely absurd, that for a man of Mr. Gable's standing as a "city-father" of Santa Kosa, to believe appears ridiculous. Furthermore for any newspaper to print such foolish nonsense is equally ridiculous. Until Californians have reformed their Hoodlums and refrained from abusing Chinamen, we think they might as well refrain from publishing false and ridiculous reports about our islands. New Zealand Correspondence. Auckland, N. Z., Oct. 22d, 18T7. Editor of the Friend :—I see by your last to hand, by the R. iM. S. S. Zealandia, that you have some notice of a letter written by H. B. Sterndale.and published in the Weekly News of June 2d. You also expressed a wish to have the preceding letters. By the mail leaving here by the City of New York, I send you six papers which contains the whole of the letters and trust that you will receive them safely. By what you say in your notice quoted above a short sketch of Sterndale may not prove uninteresting to you, so I give you all I know of him. He is a short, spare man, very dark and wears a most piratical look, dress and all. He has been for years sailing and residing amongst the Pacific Islands, and has sailed with the " Bully Hayes," of whom he always speaks very highly. He resided on the Island of Suwarrow for some years and claims it as his own property under the'following circumstances : The island was taken possession of by a company formed in Melbourne, who got a title for it from the British Admiralty, and they used it as a trading station for the production of copra and other island produce. There was reports of enormous treasures being buried on the island in the very early days by the " Wild Rovers," who frequented the Pacific, and they prospected for that as well. Sterndale was the manager of the company, and he resided on the island. After working at it for some considerable period, the company got into difficulties and found they could not pay what they owed Sterndale for wages and monies he had expended, and they ceded him the island in payment, and I understand that he got everything arranged with the British Admiralty to acknowledge him as the owner of Suwarrow. After knocking about the islands he came to this place and entered into a partnership with a mercantile linn (Henderson & Mac- �THE FRIEND, farlune) to work the island, and left with a vessel and crew to commence operations. Henderson & Macfarlane sending another vessel down to procure labor from other islands. Things went on smoothly for a time when a quarrel ensued and Sterndale and his wife were made " prisoners of war," by Henderson & Macfarlane's people, and .sent here. Sterndale was to be tried for attempting to murder the Captain of one of but the magistrates here refused to hear the case as they had no jurisdiction. Henderson & Macfarlane then commenced an action against him civilly to compel him to render an account of his receipts and expenditure, and whilst that was going on, a number of persons who were or had been connected with him amongst the islands raised money to buy and equip a vessel for the purpose of going down and taking forcible possession of the island. Henderson & Macfarlane to prevent Sterndale going had him arrested for debt and he was put into Limbo, where he remained until the vessel had gone, and he at once commenced action against Henderson & Macfarlane for (alse imprisonment. The firm got into difficulties, 1 believe, and to prevent himself coming under the composition with the other creditors, as he would have to do, Sterndale leaves the Colony and the action is at once quashed. It is stated that Sterndale has gone to London to get his papers proving the island to be his, which are in the hands of the British Admiralty, so he says, and will commence action against Henderson & Macfarlane on his return. You express some surprise that he has not mentioned the good the missionaries have done at the different islands, but you will not do so when I tell you that he in common with a great many more of his kind hate and detest these brave men who bring the savage out of the darkness in which he is. When the missionaries begin teaching the blacks, these men generally move further away from civilization, as their deeds would probably not bear the light of day. We here in Auckland, have great respect for men who leave home, friends and every comfort to go out amongst savages and face death in its most horrid shapes for the purpose of shedding the light of God's gospel over the souls of the poor natives of the Pacific and other islands. Severel gentlemen born here have gone out as missionaries. Notably the Rev. Mr. Atkins, who was murdered with the good Bishop Patterson, of Milenesia, and the Rev. Geo. Browne, who inaugurated the mission to New Guinea. •» Death of an Early Convert. •• DECEMBER, recorded in the case of a venerable native Hawaiian woman, who departed this life on Nov. 27th, at Nuuanu Valley. Her name was Julia Kealoha ; she had been a widow for tbe last twentyseven years, and she is supposed to have been in the eightieth year of her age at the time of her demise. She was born at Hamakua, on tbe Island of Hawaii, in the year IT'JB, as far as the date can bo ascertained. When thirty years of age, she became a member of the Mission Church of Laliaina, only a few years aftor the arrival of the first christian missionaries at these Islands. During half a century she continued a worthy member or the church ; and she had the special privilege to be engaged for one half of her long life-time, in the same missionary family, that of the |Key. 1). Baldwin. Her love of prayer and her exemplary conduct edified all those who knew her, and lor this reason she was greatly beloved by her pious Hawaiian brethren and sisters. During the whole course of fifty years, from her first admission to church-membership down to her dying hour, never was there beard even one word of accusation or suspicion against her spotless christian reputation. Her death was like her life, holy and peaceful. She has gone to receive her eternal reward with the hope of a true Christian and a good and faithful servant of the Lord. To firm believers in the religion of tbe Christ, it must be both edifying and consoling to read the simple narrative of the earthly career of this poor old Hawaiian woman, a contemporary of the great pagan conqueror Kamehameha, and an eye-witness of tbe arrival of the first Christian Missionaries upon those then heathen shores, who occupied for fifty years tbe very holiest place in the fold of the Church, unnoticed by the multitude blindly bent upon worldly vanities, while she sought alone to lay up treasures incorruptible and eternal. Her edifying life and holy end may well claim a serious thought even from the most frivolous and worldly-minded, and it is a pleasing duty for us to record this bright example of a truly christian and virtuous life—however lowly—amongst the converted women of the once pagan and benighted Hawaii nei. There are but few left of her sort. She "Clung to her faith—'twaa higher than the thought — Thul tiuealioiH.fl other faith." P. C. Advertiser, Dec. 1. Rev. George Prichard.—This English missionary, formerly residing at Tahiti, we arc gratified to learn, is still living and able to preach. Our informant, Mr. Arundel, says that Mr. Prichard now preaches twice and sometimes thrice upon the Sabbath, be- ing vigorous and hale at the age of four score and more. Mr. Prichard will be remembered as having officiated as British Consul at the Society Islands, at the period of the French troubles, about forty years ago. We would acknowledge, from Mrs. Taylor, of London, copies of Spurgeon's " Sword and Travel " lor July, August and September. From Dr. N. Allen, of Lowell, Mass., a copy of the " Sanitarian," and other publication's. From Prof. Hitchcock, of Amherst College, a copy of his " Hygiene in Amherst College." From Rev. Dr. Grammer, of Baltimore, a copy of '• The Baltimore Pulpit." Tho manifestations of divine mercy are no where more striking than in the lives of the good. When instances occur of a long lile-time of piety, closing with the humble hope of a blessed immortality,—especially when tbe departed have lived in our midst, —it may be useful to bring them to the notice of the community, for tbe edification and encouragement of tbe living. In a country like tbis, so recently redeemed from pagan benightment, all good christians must rejoice to find —Also from the following persons of this city: that there are bright examples of truo christian Mrs. Paty, papers; Castle & Cooke, books; Mrs. life to be met with amongst the native population Hillebrand and Hoy. B. E. Bishop, magazines,— of these Islands. Such a bright example may bo all lor gratuitous distribution. — — — 1877. 101 MARINE JOURNAL. PORT OF HONOLULU. S. I. ARRIVALS. Nov. 4—Am bk Camden, Robinson, 31 dye fm Port Gamble. o—Am wh bk Rainbow, Cogan. from Arctic. 6—P M 8 City of New York, Cobb, 18 daya *>* W hre from Auckland Haw bk Courier, Ahiborn, 16 tUyi from Han Fran. 9—Haw achr M E foaier,Keari, 18 dye An Port Ludlow lU—Am bk Colombia, Joli-iaon, 27 daya from Tahiti 14—P M IS Australia, Caritlll 7 dya fnn <San rruocieco. 17—Am wh bk Norman, Campbell, from Arctic. 17 Nicaraguaii bktne Christina A P Capra, 60 daya from Hongkong. 18—Ambktne JotPerkini, Johnaon,26 daya from Port ' — Gamble, 21—Am bk 11 W Almy, Wlddeoeon, 22 daya from Baa Francisco. 21—Am bk O C Murray. Puller. 17 daya from San Fran claco. 23—Bolivian bk RemoJlo, Howard, 62 daya from New Cattle, en route for Han Pranciaco. 26—Am achr Caaaie Mayward, Hay ward, fm Lahaina, Maul. 28—(law achr Minnehaha, Freeman, 22 daya from ten Franciaco. DEPARTURES. 2—Am bktn J A Falkinburg, Hubbard, for Portland 0 3—Haw bk R C Wylle, Woltera. for rtan Franclacu. 3—Haw brig Julia M Avery, Avery, lor Tahiti. 7—P M 8 City of New York. Cobb, for dan Pranciaco 12—Am bk Camden, Robinaoa. for Port Gamble. 16—R M H Auatralla, Camilla for Auckland. e> 22—Haw bk Courier, Ahlborn, for San Pranciaco. 22—Am wh bk Milion, Hamblio, to crulee. I*4—Bolivian bk Remt-jio, Howard, for can Pranciaco. 24—Am bktne JoaPerkina, Johnaon, for Port Gamble. 24—Nicaragua bktne Chrlatina A P. Capra, for Callao. 28—Am bk Columbia, Johnaon, for Han Pranciaco. 3u—Am achr Caaaie Hayward, Hay ward, for San Fran Deo I—Am achr Mary Swan, Jacobaou. for Fllut'a I •land 3 —Am wh bk Hunter, lloronn. to crulae Nov. PASSENGERS. Foa Han Fbabcisco—Per llotiaou, Oct 30— Jno T lonian and wife. Foa Abtobia and I'ohtumi-Per J A Falkinburg, Nov 2 —Mlaa Miller. Faoai I'okt Oamblb—Per Camden Not O—J B Kellotg. Fas Sam Fbanciboo—i'er City of New York, Nor s—J M child, O 11111, Dr VI Davlilaon, H Adonta, I. C Owen wife Cheney, Jno Spence, A tlnna, Mia. Uornian St nephew, J H Joaaelyn fc wile. Mra B P Joeeelyn, J Walker, O W Dickie w W Durham a wife, W II Dlmond, Mi.a Ada Van Winkle, Mlaa A lie- Van Winkle. J J Yalea. F R MelUa, J C Glade, wife k children, Mra M Webater, W W Taylor, X Illllman, Mra Sarah Cuahlngham, II Caualand, Ah Bin. Fbom Puoit Bound—Per Mary E Foeter, Nov 9—Can* 1 Ball. Fbom Naw Cabti.s, N S W—Per Columbia, Nov 10—Mr Wretl, wife and daughter. Fna I'obt Townbbnd—Per Camden, Nor 18—Capl I Hall, Mr Wretl, wife and daughter. Fbom Ban Fbanciboo—l'er Auatralia, Nor 14—Mra P P Shepherd, daughter and inlant, F J geott, W P Toler. Mlaa M Connell, H Alexander, Mia. Oolhe. 1 A Arundel!,Mlaa May, II May, C 0 Knowlea. F A Hchaefer, Her Geo Morrla, J R Whitney and daughter, Rer Mr Moncany, Mr* Illrkmoll and daughter. Alex Young. Jacob Miller, Mra Fred Barnard. H A Wiilrmann, J C Merrill, T F Hackfeld, 11 H Jonea, 81l Peek, O H Jonea, Cap! B F Hooian. O Waterhouae, H 0 Meyer., II Monroe, Alex Wallace, Mra F I. Flynn and S children. T W Bartholf. G 0 Beafoot, B W Manahall, Ja> Hanlow. Wm Marriott and 13 Chinamen. Fbom Ba» FaAßClaco—Per D C Murray, Nor 11—Mlaa R l.ackmann. Mr. T C Manila, E N Walker, wifeand 4 ehlldien, Mr Townai-nd, wifeand daughter,J L Rlchardron, J M Bryant, 1} Sell*, w B Dryer, I. II IJchlenaieln, A J Racine, Col Norm. M F Weeka, E A McDuffy, M Edward, L Ureman, 84 Cainm and IS llrwaliao aeainen Fob San Fbanciboo—Per Courier, Nor M—B F Sear.. Foa San Fbancibco—Per Columbia, Nor 27—J U Kallogg, A Bauford. * MARRIED. At Makawao, Maal, Oct 2tlh, by COMMtNoa—Jacibon the Rer J S Green, Mr William II Cumminob to Mlaa Ci.abJackbob. laaA E M Robinbon—CamfbßLL—At St Andrew'a Catliedr.l, Nor SOIh, by the Rer A Mackluioah, Col. Mabb Pacviaa Robinbon, to flopHiA Loulaa, daughter of Alex Campbell. Eaq, all of Honolulu. Pabkbb—Kiboa.— In thia city, Nor 21d, hy Rer M Kaac., Mr Robbnt Pabkbb to Mlaa BababKbkoa, both of llooolulu. Jj- No Carda. DIED. Boaaca—At Liverpool, 21 mile, fro* Sydney, N. 6. W., nn Sept. 20th, ol cooaumplluii, Capt. Bknjahin Bobbbb, agad da year., formerly of Honolulu, where he wa. for many yean engaged in the coasting trade. Kobbbtb—At Kopeke. Molok.l, Oct 27th, of lingeringlllueaa of nearly 2 month, cot.tinu.nce, Mr. Jott* Robbbtb, bo Engliahman by birth ami for Hie laat 10 yeara a rwald.nl of Ibwae lalanda. lie learea a wife to mourn hi. lorn. Letters will be foundat theoffice of the Friend for the John Tobicb, Banubl Fasamb, Kdfollowing peraona-. WABII J HSWHALL, CHABLBbUAVBT. �THE FRIEND, DECEMBER, 1877. 102 A Lull in Life. M Andlie .aid onto tbem, Come ye yourselves apart Into a desert place, and rest swhlle: for there were many coming and going, and thty had no leaiure so much a. to eat."— Mark ri. SI. Oh for "a deeert place" with only the Master', amlle ! Ob for 100 "coming .part" with only Hia "realawhile !" Many are "coming and going" with buey arid rtatleas feet, And the soul la hungering so, with "no leaiure so much aa total." Dear la nir wealthof lore lor many and rained frl-nds, Bast of the earthly gifts thata bounteous Pather aeuda -, Pleasant thecouoeel aweel, and the Interchange of thought, Welcome the twilight hour with musical brightness fraught. Dear la the work He fires in many a rarled way. Little enough in itself, yet something forerery day, Something by pen lor the distant, by hand or rolce for the near, Whether to soothe or uach, whether to aid or cheer. Not that I lightly prise the trearare ofrained friends, Not that I turn aalde from the work the Master sends, Yet I hare longed for a pause in the rush and whirl of time, Longed for .Hence to fall Instead of Its merriest chime. Longed for a hush to group Ihe harmonlea ol thought Round each melodioua atraln that the harp of life hath caught. Anil tAe lor ihe fitful breeae ißollan chorda to bring, Waking Iheinuaic that alept, mute in the tenalonlaaa airing ; Looged for a calm 10 lei tbe circle, dieaw.y That rem We orer ihe heart, breaking the hearenly ray, And lo leave It. wavering mirror true to Ihe Star above, Brightened and stilled lo Ita depht. with the quiet ol " perfect t lore:" longed far a sabbath of life, a lime ofrenewing of youth, For a full-orbed leisure lo chine on the fountains of holy truth) And to 811 my chalice aoew with Us waters fresh and sweet. Whileresting In silent lore at the Master', glorious feet. There are songs which only flow in the loneliest .hade, of night. There are flower, which cannot grow in a blaae of tropical light There are crystal* which cannot form till Ihe vessel be cooled and stilled | Crystal, and flower, and song, given as God hath willed. There la work which cannot be done in the awell of a ing tide, hurry- ; But my hand ia not on the helm to turn my bark aside Yet I cast a longing eye on the hidden and w.rele.. pool, Under Ihe shadowingrock, curreutless clear,and cool. Well i I will wail in ihe crowd till He ahall call me apart, Till the alienee fell which ahall waken Ihe oiuaic of mind and heart; Patiently wait till He glee thework ofmy secret choice, Blending the song of Ufa with the thrillof the Master'srolce. FBABCSS BIDLBY HAVtOAL. IsS laondf uwarrow. the hollows of rocks or in the boles of trees. There are cocoanut trees in all stages of growth, but not more than 100 in full bearing. The soil of the larger islets is extremely fertile and of great depth. The entrance channel is wide and deep, opening straight down from north to south (without an angle or bend of any kind), the most suitable direction with regard to the prevailing wind, which blows steadily from the eastward during the greater part of the year. Marines acquainted with this place (of which there are not many) do not hesitate to go in or out on a clear night without apprehension, as there are no hidden dangers or rocks below the surface above the level bottom, which carries 5 fathoms of water at the lowest tides. Within the harbor are all depths from 30 fathoms, shoaling to the beach, with a fine sandy bottom, white as snow. Beyond the outer reef are no outlying dangers, either in the shape of promontories or detached rocks,' neither is there any land within 160 miles of it in any direction. The shallow portions of the vast lagoon which forms the harbor produce great quantities of oysters of a superior kind, as likewise bechtde-rner of the largest and most valuable species. The existence of this islnnd was first reported about 50 years ago, by one Lieutenant LazarelT, a Russian, who named it after the famous Muscovite, General Suwarrow, whom Byron describes, in his " Don Juan," as conducting the siege of Ismael. Lazareff landed upon it, but, by his own account, found no living creatures save only birds, crabs, and rats. He does not appear to have found any entrance, for he makes no mention thereof, neither to have noticed any cocoa palms, although there must have been many in existence at the time of his visit. In fact he seems to have mistaken it for a mere bank of coral gravel, washed up by the sea, and overgrown with forest and scrub, upon which no subsistence could be found for man. islet, and the form and bearings of the tree, which leaned over to the eastward in a peculiar manner. None of the coin was of this century : some of it was very old and black, and of a date coincident with the era of Commodore Anson. The finder possessed still further information (which he imparted to me very minutely) of other similar but more valuable deposits, but fate did not afford him an opportunity to profit by his knowledge, for he died uyon the island of Manihiki, where he went to visit his wife, very shortly thereofter. The stripping and burning of the wreck having been completed, the Caroline Hort, the vessel employed on that service, took her departure, and the island was left to its primeval solitude. A. 1,. SMITH, IMPORTER & DEALER IN JEWELRY. Klng'a Combination Spectacle., Qlaa. and lated Ware, Sewing Machines, Picture Frames, Vase., Brackets, etc. etc. [lyl No. 73, Fort 81. TERMS STRICTLY CASH Nothing more appears to have been known of this island until 1855, when an THOB. C. THRUM. American whale-ship called the Gem ran STATIONERY AND NEWS DEPOT, ashore upon it. She was full of oil, and No, Honolulu. 10 Merchant Street* being copper-fastened throughout, offered a to wreckers any adventurous greut prize OF KKAIMXG MATTER—OF Papers and Mafrmfnea. back numbers—pat up to order at who might undertake the breaking up of PACKAGES rates far parties going to »eu. ly redaoed her. She was driven far up on the flat reef, Reference to this island will be found in so that at low tide the water was not more our New Zealand Correspondence. This than knee deep alongside of her. A hole island is thus described by H. B. Sterndale, was stove in her bilge, out of which rolled three casks of oil, which were carried away in the Weekly News of March 10, 1877 : by the sea ; they were picked up soon after, In a direct line between Auckland and floating side by side, ofl Faleslupo, in Savaii, Honolulu, and nearly about half way, is sit- 600 miles due west of the scene of the uated the island of Suwarrow, an immense wreck, which will give an idea of the unitriangular atoll, about 50 miles in circuit, form direction of the current in this locality. enclosing a land-locked harbor, 10 miles by The captain an crew made their way to the 7 in diameter, with a convenient entrance Navigators Islands in their boats, and afterfor the largest class of vessels, upon the en- wards went to Tahiti. There the wreck closing coral reef of which a man may trav- was sold to Messers. Hort Brothers, mererse at low tide the whole extent with the chants of that place, who despatched one of exception of the one channel. There are 12 their vessels with a supercago in search of islets or cays, ranging fram about 20 to 200 it. It was in company with this gentleman aores in extent. Some of these are coveted that I first visited the island of Suwarrow. with tall forest, others with good grass, He superintended the breaking up of the while the rest are mere barren rocks clothed wreck, which turned out immensely profitawith ironwood scrub. No fresh water has ble ; discovered the pearl fishery, and after been discovered upon any of them except six weeks of unsuccessful search, dug up a such as after rains may have been found in box of specie, which from its dimensions - could not have contained much less than 15, 000 dollars. Whether he had dreamed of its existence, or upon what mysterious information he acted, was known to himself only. One fact is very remarkable, —that he was acquainted from the day of his first landing, with the precise spot, within a few rods, where this treasure had been concealed. Some years after this occurrence, another associate of mine unearthed, apon a detached islet, about a mile distant from the locality of the former deposit, 2400 dollars, which had been buried at the root of an old ironwood tree. He declared he had been informed of this many years before, by a stranger, whose acquaintance he had made in a grog-shop of Tahiti. This man professed never to have been at this island, but nevertheless was able to describe very circumstantially the place of concealment of the hidden treasure, the aspect of the --- Just Received from Boston! AND FOR. DALE AT COST PRICE AT the Bible Depository, Sailors Heme, a lew coulee of the following .Billable books I by br. W. P. 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And I often watch him as he springs, Ciroling the eteeplo with easy wings Till across the dial his shade has passed, And the belfry edge is gained at last, "fis a bird I love, with its brooding note And the trembling throb of its mottled throat; There's a human look in its swelling breast And the gentle ourve of its lowly crest ; And I often stop with the fear I feel— He runt so close lo the rapid wheel. Whatever is wrung on the noisy bell— Chime or the hour or funeral knell. The dove in the belfry must hear it well. When tbe tongue swings out to tbe midnight moon— When tbe aexton cheerily rings for noon— When tbe dock strikes clear at tbe morning lightWhen the ohild is waked with nine at night" When the chimes play soft in the Sabbath air, Filling the spirit with tones of prayer— Whatever tale in the bell is heard. He broods on his folded feet unstirred Or rising half in his rounded nest He takes the time to smooth his breast Then drops again with filmed eyes And sleeps aa tbe last bibration dies. " "Sweet bird ! I would that I could be A hermit in tbe crowd, like tbee ! With wings to fly to wood and glen Thy lot, like mine, is oast with men ; And daily with unwilling feet, I tread, like thee, the crowded street ; But, unlike me, when day is o'er, Thou oanat dismiss tbe world, and soar. Or, at a half-felt wish for rest, Canst smooth the feathers on thy breast And drop, forgetful, to thy nest. : I would that in such wings of gold I could my weary heart upfold And, while the world throngs on beneath. Smooth down my cares and calmly breathe ; And only sad with other's sadness And only glad with other's gladness Listen, unstirred, to knell or chime, And, lapt in quiet, bida my time. N. P. Willis. the presence and nddresses of Rev. Joseph Coolt, Rev. L. T. Townsend, D. D , Rev. L. W. Munhall, of Indiana, Rev. A. J. Gordon, and Mr. L. P. Rowland, of Philadelphia, who respectively addressed the sessions on the topics appointed for consideration. Among these topics were the following: The Power of Personal Effort; Association Work in Colleges ; Christian Workers—the qualifications necessary to success ; Present condition of Associations in the State ; and Bible Instructions in the Light of Science. The latter theme was expounded by Prof. Townsend who made this point among others : " The teacher must be prepared to answer the honest doubts of inquirers who find in this scientigc theories of Darwin Huxley and other modern investigators' stumbling blocks to their faith. Instead of inaktng the sweeping statement that Darwinism and like theories are atheism the teacher should show what is true, that these modern scientists have a profound reverence for God and that there are numbers of devout Christians who are Evolutionists and who look on Evolution as God's method in creation. The result would be a new and strengthened faith in the truth of the Scriptures. So with respect to other questions of science, the brightest intellects will not accept for an answer to their queries a sweeping condemnation of these theories." Mr. Cook in his address upon Christian association work in its relations to and claims upon the Church was effective as usual, commending tbe associations in the strongest terms, and arguing that the day was past when any justification of their existence was called for. To the Young Men's Christian Association idea he accordded the revival movements of the past year. Incidental to the regular meetings of the Convention were the usual devotional exercices, including an open air. meeting on the common, on Wednesday evening, at half-past six, and a "gospel meeting" later in the Hall. The attendance throughout the two days was excellent, including two hundred and forty-five delegates. The hospitality of the Natick brathren was generous; and a generally good time was enjoyed. Among the resolutions passed was one inviting Moody and Sankey to continue their work the present winter.— Congregation- Y. M. C. A. Notes. The State Convention of Young Men's Christian Associations of Massachusetts was held in N stick, on Wednesday and Thursday, Oct. 10th and 11th, at Clark's Hall, Russell Sturgess, Esq., of Boston, presided, assisted by a large staff of vice-presidents and secretaries. Foaty-two associations were alist. represented in tbe state report, embracing At a recent meeting of the Honolulu Y. four thousand members, and verbal accounts M. C. A., it was voted that the regular of more than half were rendered to the Con. meetings of the Association be held herevention. after on the second Friday before the full The interest of the exercise centered in moon, in the second month of each quarter. At a recent Y. M. C. A Convention at Cambridge, Vt., it was stated by the held Sec- retary of the State Executive Committeee, that during the past year, sixty-nine places were visited ; among them, four where there were no churches, and ninety-nine gospel meetings were held. Thirty-six of the churches report eight hundred and thirty-five conversions ; thirty-five report an aggregate of three hundred and ninety-nine additions. The State is divided into four districts and each district is in charge of a srcretary. There is also a general secretary for the State. At a recent reunion.of the Y. M. C. A.of Bordeaux, France, the very zealous and efficient General Secretary bade the Association farewell to enter the evangelical ministry, to which he goes with many prayers. The Y. M. C. A.of Binghampton, N. V., holds a gospel meeting every Sunday afternoon at five o'clock at the Erie depot for railroad men. At the same time a Bible class is held at the rooms, preceded by a service of song. On Sunday morning a prayer and praise meeting is held especially for young men. A series of interesting meetings have been held the past season under the auspices of the Y. M. C. A.of Providence, R. I. Mr, E. D. Ingersoll, the agent of the executive committee railroad men, held meetings recently at Providence in behalf of this class. It is probable that steps will be taken to organize a railroad branch. The revision of the Bible now in progress is being conducted in such a conservative spirit that ninety-five per cent, of fIR people will not know the new Bible from the present revision. Among the changes that have been agreed upon are the following: The fourth verse of John v. will be excluded; the passage in John i. concerning the three heavenly witnesses will be omitted; straining at a gnat" will be translated " straining a gnat." Other changes will be these: Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed ? " will be translated, " Did ye re- " " ceive the Holy Ghost when ye believed ? " Baptizing in the name " will be translated, " Baptizing into the name"; the passage in " Peter, chapter ii. verses 1-5, "Add to your faith virtue, and to virtue knowledge," will be changed to read, " In your faith minister virtue, and in your virtue knowledge") the reference in John, chapter x., verse 16, "One fold, one shepherd." will be corrected to "One flock, one shepherd"; "The love of money is the roof of all evil," will be changed to "Th,c Ipve pf money is a root of all evil." � 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 (1877) 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/. 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