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National Fire Insurance Co. Protector Underwriters of the Phoenix of Hartford. New England Mutual Life Insurance Co., of Boston. ESTEY ORGANS — AT THE Hawaiian Board Book Rooms. �The Friend. OLDEST NEWSPAPER WEST OF THE ROCKIES. Vol. LXVIII HONOLULU, H. T., AUGUST, 1910 Speaking of the Election. Did we lose anything? Arguing that one never loses anything one never pos- sessed. WE lost nothing when the election was lost, for it appears we never even had a chance of winning. Besides. what we really had was the RIGHT in the matter, and it would be downright silly to call that lost, because, forsooth. a timid, befooled or degenerate majority voted WRONG. "IJut didn't you really think you'd win —"win out," in the popular sense?" Aye, we own up. We're just that sort of political "plum fool." We counted on something that wasn't there, but chiefly, we didn't count on something that was there We banked on the Hawaiian political conscience, and idiotically overlooked the Hawaiian's political training. It's that training we want to discuss right here. It is the secret of the '"losing" of the election. We can't prove that the Hawaiian collective conscience was with us on the "yes" side of that election, but we believe that it was,—is yet. Hut the money, the organization, the autos of the liquor people were convincingly in line with all of the Hawaiian's political experience, and of course, "won out.' "Why the other side, the Prohibs, just naturally didn't have interest enough in the election to buy up a man, tote a voter to the polls, much less stay around to button-hole every possible vote." Isn't the inference plain ? The Hawaiian had been trained to believe that Prohibition had no political right to win. Who Trained the Hawaiian Voter? "If you want to win this election," said a prominent gentleman when the campaign first started, "it will cost you about two dollars a vote." "Surely, a bit of prophecy," you say. Not at all, it was simply history. Some of the leading Hawaiians, genuinely interested to win in the Prohibition plebiscite, proposed a campaign involving the raising and spending of about fifteen thousand dollars. They were much crestfallen when told that the occasion that had arisen was not one of party politics, and that no such sum of money, even if it could be raised, might be spent in such a cause. "Why, the Republicans spent over $30,000 in a cam- paign?" Do they? How? Not criminally —there being no law. as in many States, to land the purchasers of votes in the penitentiary. Not wisely, we dare aver. Not without the heavy penalty which party and leaders pay when, they teach We a people to debauch the franchise. paid some of this penalty July 26. The proposition, put simply and frankly, is that the Republican party is largely responsible for the notion, very nearly prevalent among the Hawaiians, that the franchise is chiefly valuable for what there is to be made out of it. This was the weapon in the hands of the liquor men, many of whom wire leaders in party politics (though we would be willing to waive that last claim) that "did the business." "Here," thought the Hawaiian voter, "is the Simon-pure article of politics calculated to win out. This organization perspires dollars just like the Republican machine (which it resembles in other particulars), and there does not seem to be any other party in the running." We risk little when we call that the story of the election, and claim further that no Prohibitionist who happens to be a Republican has the right to rail at the Hawaiian voter. No. 8 that the Son of Righteousness would counsel us not to close up the saloons if our votes would do it. Would he tell us that something worse might happen if we forbade men their saloons, or that they had better be free than sober"? We hail Expediency as the greatest as well as the most insidious foe of Right. We fear him more than open opposition. Politics is ninety per cent Expediency—we do not know whether there is a remaining ten per cent. Hence we have no dependence on party manipulation to bring an end to the saloon. When (iod's word to the Christian churches of America is heeded. Christian votes will wipe out the saloon, nor will Non-Christian votes they stop there. will doubtless swell the overwhelming majority. Given a hope in the final conquest of the King, we can afford to differ in regard to the King's programme. T. R. Aole Loa. To try conclusions with big men about big matters, fairly and honorably, fills the air with the scent of moral ozone. reddens the blood, knits up the nerves of pain, and gives a twang of victory to the mere effort of contending. But to fight the organized cockroaches of society is at best a repulsive business We somewhat reluctantly admit that that, from first to last, tastes like defeat, it serves no purpose to scoff at the invet- whatever the outcome. That * is what erate folly of majorities whenever popu- makes it so hard to line up public delar governments first deal with moral is: cency in politics, against the concrete, sues. The man who pins his faith to a lavish brutality and cruelty of the saloon. mob and accepts its judgment as to the To be beaten so badly in the plebiscite ultimate social good, that man is a fool was very unpleasant; but it might have too sure. Let him not be too arrogant, been worse. We might have been drawn however, and imagine himself alone in into meeting the Greeks of beer-Sunday his class; he has no mortgage on folly. and "dago-red" for babies on their own That other man who "in his own heart" low levels of fraud and bribes and lies. says "there is no God." thus ruling Him We might have won, as they did, so out of the affairs of men ami nations, let meanly as to settle nothing, but to start such a man be the King of Fools. Alas! the whole fight new. We might have Great David, that there should be such a stooped to parley with them, to get some host of claimants to the throne. trifling certain gain. We might have "What chance for Prohibition?" Just surrendered to them, on the terms of all the ordinary chance that Right has. hands accepting the present license law as "What? Ignore the Honolulu bishops good enough if we could be sure of it. and deny their authority to speak for We might, indeed, have got worsted in God in this matter? Aye, if Right is a fair fight with men unhandicapped with God, He is against the saloon. If this compassion or conscience. were Galilee 1900 years ago and the We were badly beaten, but we were "God made flesh" walked among us, not whipped. We did not even have a could a bishop persuade any man of us fight. We were simply out^meraled, What Chance Has Prohibition, Then? �THE FRIEND, 4 and the real issue went glimmering in a wilderness of billingsgate. The verdict of the twenty-sixth of July was no true record of the Hawaiian voters' genuine will atxnit the liquor business. It was a demonstration of their insufficiency for such a test: of the impossibility of a fair election in this territory, on any issue; and of the futility of trying to suppress the hideous trade by territorial action—which, after all, may have been, at the last analysis, the real issue in the campaign. And the end is not yet. The first sentiment aroused by a study of the plebiscite from the inside is pity for the native voters. To see a fine native race, after the most marvelous advantages ever enjoyed by such a people, and in complete possession of a wonderful opportunity, go down in such a shallow pool of dirty politics, was a sight to dim the very eyes of civilization. Hut just that is what we have just witnessed. Individual Hawaiians may make good in politics hereafter, but the race, as a race, is out of the race forever, save as the ball to be snatched and carried and kicked by strong teams of white competitors who can play the game. If the liquor problem of Hawaii is discouraging, the general electoral problem is a given-up conundrum. Not knowing who, or what, specifically, is entitled to my humble confession, I apologize to infinite space for having been so dully credulous as to accept the "lemon"aid disguised in the joint resolution of Congress; although, to be sure, the special election has not made the electoral condition worse. It could not be much worse. The plebiscite has even done good. It has given a lot of good citizens, who had not thought much u|>on the subject, a glimpse of the hopelessness of a political situation where the masses are treated and have to be treated as inert and unmoral suffrage "material" to be "handled" in the interest of the "interests." The plight of the decent whites is even more pathetic. It is a tragedy in civics when high-class men of culture, benevolence, high ideals and great ability have to confess themselves possessed of nothing but money that can be safely invested in political enterprise. It is worse than tragedy. It is a farce with the murder of democracy at the end. Worst of all, of course, is the case of the patrons and victims of the victorious bloodsucker. The effect of the emphatic defeat of prohibition will doubtless be a great increase of appetite and "liberty" and scorn of restraint on the one hand and of redoubled and more merciless exploitation of the weak and degraded, on savage: August, l'no. the duction, pauperism and wife-beating? Would it not be an attack on vested propSome curiosity has been shown touch- erty rights to kill these condemned aniing my persona] post plebiscite Ixdiavior. mals? That matter presents no difficulty, owWhy not license tuberculous dairies? ing to a very early and disagreeable, but 1f people let diseased milk alone, will it very informing experience in my life. not let them alone? Cannot children be Many years ago, on my grandmother's taught to be careful in the use of it? farm I felt constrained to engage in a Will not the presence of the temptation to reform movement that seemed to me im- drink diseased milk conduce to strength Lan you make men portant, pertaining to the protection of and character? poultry. The decision was unfavorable, healthy by law? Is it not better for Haand as approached the house to have waii to be free than healthful? Will not some consultation with the wise and beau- the ignorant learn Will not infants tiful old lady she anticipated me and grow older? Or if in the process they called out promptly, wiili a soft North <lie, have we not undertakers who must of Ireland accent: "Stay where ye are live, and ample cemetery accommodaand burn vottr clothes !" tions? If consumption spreads, have we J. <i. W. not doctors and burial societies? Can we not segregate the sick at public expense, or line those who are able to pay? It A Daniel Come to Judgment. these sick cows be killed, shall we not A kind of zodiacal light is shed upon have concealed or illicit cow-sickness the Hawaiian view of the plebiscite mascattered through the Islands, and peojority by Daniel Hoolapa. editor of the ple drinking more diseased milk than Honolulu Examiner. The following is ever' Will not cow owners become quoted verbatim—orthography, syntax sneaks and liars? prohibition proand punctuation—from his issue of July hibit tuberculosis ifWill it increases swipes? 30: Is it not sexual excess rather than diseas" No' was the word, that sent joy: all ed milk that is killing the natives? Are of Hawaii. "No" was over the Territory we to the voices of the plebiscite the "two letters," that defeated the mali- and theignore Have not the Chrisepiscopate? and because his followers. Why, hini tian nations always used diseased and God looked down and saw that the dirty milk? Is it not plain that this is Liquor people were working hard to the secret of their greatness? Is not Dr. earn money, to support their families, in Norgaard a malahini? Is he not the paid an upright manner, therefore, God pitied agent of the Hoard of Agriculture? Is them, and granted their wishes. not a rich missionary trick to keep The Liquor dealers won also because this the poor man from his tuberculosis while they were right in every respect. Why, the wealthy have their own cows? Is not whoever heard of such trash to force a diseased milk "goixl for babies"? Are law down ones throat without the con- not some of these sick cows owned by sent of the people. Now Mr. Smarty. the mothers and sisters of the dairymen? I low do you feel after the defeat? Thats Should not these sick cows be licensed ? what you get, for playing smarty in the Should not the license be as high as the Territory of Hawaii. We people of Ha- diseased trade will stand, hut not so waii nei will not let you. or another like high as tomilk dry up the tuberculous cows? you come here and dictate to us as we not this increase the revenue? Would hare enough brains to run, the reins of What are we here for. anyway, but revour own country, and dont need you to enue 5 J. G. W. instruct us. it puts its torture, men, women captives to and children. ' I told you Mr. Malihini several times in the columns of this paper, that the Liquor dealers were the Lords" of Hawaii nei, and that they are very powerful people that when they looked up into the skies, the stars even droped because they are so powerful, and still you would not'listen." J. G. W. A Question of Privilege. Kahaha Political forecasters predict that the Territorial House of Representatives will include no member capable of holding the chairmanship of the judiciary committee, and that a hired agent will have to be employed. It may be so. Hut the man that calls attention to it is an unprincipled scoundrel. He might as well class us with Indians! next Anent the historic reciprocity between goose and gander. Why this clamor alxnit some 450 tuberculosis milch cows' Henry M. Alexander. Are not saloons more tuberculous than cattle, and leprous and murderous beThe Friend for last April contained a side? Is consumption a matter of more very brief notice of the lamented death public consequence than drunkenness, se- of Henry Martyn Alexander, which oc- �August. 1910 curred at Haiku, Maui. March 22nd, I<MO. The death of one loved and respected by so large a circle of friends and relatives seems to call for fuller notice. His father was the well known veteran missionary, the Rev. W. P. Alexander. I le was born at Waioli, Kauai, Jan. 7th, 183( >. His father was transferred from that station in 1843 to Lahainaluna, which was the home of the family during the next ten years. He was educated at I'unahou, wliere he was a student from 184') until 1860, first under the Rev. Daniel Dole, and then under Pres. E. G. Heckwith. After leaving that school, he was employed in various capacities in agricultural work, took a course in Heald's Business College, and finally learned the art of sugar boiling in Louisiana, and followed that profession for a number of years, both here and in these islands. Finding that his health suffered from the strain of this exacting employment, he started a cattle ranch in Kohala. Wholly unselfish as he was, and of stainless honor, he was yet subjected, in this part of bis life, to severe trials, of which more cannot be said here. In 1888 he disposed of his interest in the ranch, and removed to California, where he carried on a fruit farm in Shasta county, near Redding, with varying success, for many years. On the sth of April. 1905. he was happily married to Miss Ina H. Weist, at Red Hluff, Cal. Soon afterwards he returned to these islands, and invested in a pineapple farm at Haiku, Maui, which he carried on until a short time before his death. About the first of last March, he purchased a house and lot in Manoa, where he expected to spend many peaceful and happy days among his friends. Hut it was not to be. His removal was to be from this to a better home above. He died from a sudden attack of angina pectoris at his Haiku home on the 23d of last March. His funeral services, which were held the next day at the Paia church, were conducted by the Rev. E. B. Turner, and then what of him was mortal was laid to rest in the Makawao cemetery. He was greatly loved and respected by those who knew him in California, as well as in these islands. One writes of him that "he was one of the kindest, sincerest and best of men." Another friend writes: "Perhaps what impressed me most in him was his sweetness of nature, the fact that years of loneliness and sorrow produced not one particle of bitterness. Another strongly marked and beautiful trait was his love for his own. It is a cause of gratitude to us all that Ina came into his life and brightened it THE 5 FRIEND so well, and made his latter years so happy." Withal he was an humble and sincere follower of Jesus Christ, and his deep and unwavering faith helped to make him the Christian gentleman that he was. longer have need of them, will not be wasted, but will be used for the benefit of good causes in which they have always been interested. Again we say, give it a careful reading. F. S. S. THE LIFE ANNUITY MAN persona! relationship for with the author of the following years article on Life Annuity, and a knowledge of the remarkable work he is doing, lead me to heartily commend the careful perusal of the following article, which was written for The Friend at my request. Twenty years ago Mr. 11. A. Collins, now known as the Life Annuity Man. had a definite and remarkable experience in his Christian life, as a result of which he has ever since devoted his exceptional Intimate HENRY A. COLLINS, Havana, Illinois. "The Life Annuity Man." talent as a business man to the study of Christian stewardship. It seemed to him unreasonable that business conducted on high Christian principles should not be as remunerative as business conducted according to the lax moral ideals of the business world. Interesting and convincing investigation along this line led him into the advocacy of the following plan of investments, whereby persons may enjoy in security the fruits of their labors as long as they live, and at the same time be assured that their savings, after they no LIFE ANNUITY, THE IDEAL INVESTMENT Hy Henry A. Collins, "The Life Annuity Man." The only bond worth having is the life annuity bond, for it is the safest, the most lucrative and by far the most satisfactory bond of the present day. No other bond contains so many valuable features. Although life annuity bonds have been sold for more than a hundred and fifty years in the United States, yet there is now a much greater demand for them than, at any time in our past history. The United States Congress is now investigating old-age pensions and life annuities now in o|)eration in other countries, with a view of taking up a similar business. Life annuity bonds may be purchased on the life of one or more persons from three years of age and upward. The rate of interest is determined by the age of the individual for whom the annuity is purchased. The older the person is the higher the rate of interest is paid. The organization that receives money on the life annuity plan can and does pay a much higher rate of interest than the usual business rates, for the reason that at the death of the annuitant all interest payments cease and whatever sum that has been paid by the annuitant becomes the exclusive property of the organization having issued the bond. The economical management and no watering of stock also permits the higher rates of annuity interest. Annuity interest is usually payable annually, semi-annually or quarterly. The history of the life annuity business shows that nearly one-half of all the annuity bonds issued are purchased by peo(Continued on page iS) �Augst,1910. THE FRIEND 6 A GOLDEN WEDDING. Professor W. D. Alexander, LL.D. and his honored wife* celebrated their golden wedding Monday, July 18. A large number of friends assembled in the afternoon, filling house and lanais and overflowing into the beautiful grounds. The Hawaiian band was present, and added greatly to the pleasure of the occasion. Decorations and mottoes which had been made by the late W. W. Hall for the wedding fifty years before, were hanging on the walls. Some of the friends who attended the wedding in 1860 were with the company of 1910. Judge S. B. Dole and Rev. O. H. Gulick made addresses of a reminiscent character, and presented golden gifts, toward which many friends had contributed. Professor Alexander responded with very happy remarks. Mrs. Sereno E. Dishop, who was a guest of fifty years ago, and also at this time, had dictated the following paper which was read by Mr. Frank Damon: FIFTY YEARS AGO. Mrs. S. E. Hishop. As I was present at the marriage of these friends it gives me much pleasure today to renew my congratulations as they pass this golden milestone. May their pathway still be onward and upward, and peace, honor and happiness crown their future lives. Knowing the intimacy of the families it caused no surprise to friends that Father Alexander's eldest son William chose Dr. Baldwin's eldest daughter Abbie for his bride. The wedding occurred on the evening of Wednesday, July 18, 1860, at Lahaina, in the old rambling missionary house then occupied by Dr. Baldwin, which some of you may remember. A short time previous Mary Parker. Abbie's intimate friend, came to help in arranging for the festive occasion. There was ho confectioner to aid in those days. and all preparations must be made at home. Important gatherings were held in Mother Haldwin's room, and various cookbooks were consulted. The wedding fruit cake caused the most anxiety, but decisions were made and work began. The dining room was the scene of ac- tion. The old koa sideboard spread open its resources, and the long table was filled with materials. Busy hands were at work stoning raisins, washing currants, beating eggs, etc. The bride's loaf was Abbie's own handiwork. These loaves which were too large for the home oven were consigned to a Chinaman in town with fear and trembling. The results were successful. Chattering and merriment made a happy scene. Once cream of tartar was required, and application was made to Dr. Baldwin's medical dispensary. He looked Up with wondering surprise, saying, "That is a medicine; what do you want it for?" But he doled it out. We noticed, however, that he frequently took occasion to pass through the dining room watching our proceedings. The old domestics of the house were also much interested. Kali, the cook, often looked in at the back door, and the dignified old Kealoha sat at the window near by with her mending basket, fully enjoying the scene. The Alexander family from Wailuku and a few friends from Honolulu had arrived. Verbal invitations were given to the Andrews and Pogue families of Lahainaltma, and to ourselves—the Bishops—who lived next door, to be present at the ceremony. Written invitations to a reception afterward were sent to those living in the town: Mr. and Mrs. Chandler, of the U. S. Consulate; Dr. and Mrs. White. Mr. and Mrs. Brayton. Captain and Mrs. Bailey, Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Everett, Mr. and Mrs. Dickinson and family, Mr. and Mrs. Bond, Mr. and Mrs. Howies and their daughters (Mrs. Caverly and Miss Louise). Mr. G. D. Oilman. Mr. Bartow and Mr. Hustace. In due time the house was decorated and all was ready. Leis of made were festooned from the ceiling. Mottoes which you see here today were made at that time, the lettering being of mousefoot. These were placed on the wall, wreathed in green. One corner of the parlor was filled with green, dotted with white flowers. At the appointed hour the bridal party entered from the dining room, passing diThe bride and rectly to this corner. first, attended by four cougroom came pies: Emily Baldwin, the bride's sister; Henry Alexander, the groom's brother; Mary Parker and George Beckwith, Annie Alexander and W. W. Hall; Kitty Hall and Henry Baldwin. The bride wore a dainty white dress (made in the prevailing hoop style of that day), looped with orange blossoms, and a dainty long white veil, also fastened with orange blossoms. The veritable dress is seen here today. The two fathers officiated in the ceremony. Dr. Baldwin tied the knot, and Father Alexander gave his blessing. Family congratulations followed, and the other guests soon arrived. Mrs. Caverley and Miss Bowles, recently come from the States, were especially attractice to the younger members of the family by their pretty lace evening dresses, so daintily trimmed. These ladies added much to the enjoyment by their pleasant songs. After much urging Mrs. Caverly sang a comic song, entitled "His Name was Only Common Hill." After a pleasant social hour, all repaired to the beautifully decorated sitting room of the brother, D. D. Baldwin, where bountiful refreshments were served. At an early hour the gay company dispersed amid congratulations to the happy pair. The next morning the Alexander family left by steamer for their home, and at a later hour in the day, on Friday, the 20th, a party of young friends accompanied the bride and groom on horseback over the rough and rugged mountain road to the Alexander home at Wailuku. cße Strong I Be strong! We are not here to play, to dream, to drift. We have hard work to do, and loads to lift. Shun not the struggle. Face it. Tis God's gift. Be strong. Say not the days are evil—-who's to blame ? And fold the hands and acquiesce —O shame! Stand up, speak out, and bravely, in God's name. �7 THE FRIEND. August, 1910. Men Working for Men PAUL SUPER Didn't Want It. Railroad Secretary. This story was told at college. A young man attended a fraternity dance. Before going, however, he had visited a number of places to get liquor refreshment, and got to the dance hall rather the worse for it. Of course no one warned-to dance with him. Undismayed by this, he took his coat tails in his hands and walttzed himself over the floor. Repeated invitations to leave had no avail, so finally he was led to the stairs and thrown down. When he reached the ground he was heard to say, in a drunken mumble, "I knew why you threw me out. You can fool some people, but you can't fool me. You threw me out because you didn't want me." For this same reason the people voted against prohibition. They didn't want it. Of course there was lots of money spent by the liquor men, and we think undue influence brought to bear. But I think 7000 to 2000 represents more than undue influence. c* What We Got. Mr. A. L. Gordon, assistant secretary of the Railroad Y. If. C. A. of St. Louis, Mo., has been secured to come to Honolulu, and take the secretaryship of the new O. R. and L. Y. M. C. A. We have received word from three different and reliable sources that Mr. Gordon is an unusually good man.H He has had splendid training in one of the newest, largest and finest Railroad Y. M. C. A. buildings in the world, under two of the foremost railroad secretaries in America, W. W. Adair and J. J. McKim. Mr. Gordon is a splendid musician as well as a good secretary. Dr. Hand. •« The last letter from Dr. Hand tells about his visit to New York City and Rochester, where he attended the conference of the national playground association. He spoke at the conference, ami to a group of 300 men tit the New York Part of his time has City Y. M. C. A. been spent studying physical work in other associations, and looking into the matter of physical equipment. After spending August in the west he will return to Honolulu early in September. While we did not get prohibition, we did get something well worth while. We got the finest chance we have ever had to do some mighty effective educational work for temperance. Both sides were urging temperance, and temperance will Physical Work. result from the educational work done. Despite warm weather a good deal of It is pleasant to know that while we did not get the thing we went after, we got a physical work has been done in the gymn mighty good by-product. And then it's under Mr. Gault and volunteer leaders. fun to think what a scare we gave the The basket ball team defeated Fort Shafter 26 to 24. Hand ball continues to be enemy. c* popular, young business men finding it to be just what they want after an afterAugust. noon of desk work. This is the month the general secretary takes some time off to get up steam and new inspiration for the fall and win- John R. Mott. ter months. Work in the garden, instead Friends of Mr. John R. Mott, assoof in the office; tramping the trails of ciate secretary of the international comthe mountains instead of the streets of mittee of Y. M. C. A.'s will be pleased to the city. During August we get next to learn that while presiding at the great nature and sweat, instead of next to a missionary conference at Edinburgh, the starched collar and perspire. We will University of Edinburgh conferred the have to come to the city to look after honorary degree of LL.D. upon him. building operations a little, we hope, but J* hope for a good deal of recreation. Then Scoutcraft, Lifecraft. Woodcraft, during September we get ready for the greatest year of Y. M. C. A. work HonoThe Boy Scout movement which ttx>k lulu has ever had. etaoin shrdlu etsh England by storm and enrolled 300,000 lulu has had. We have said that same boys, has gripped America, and judging thing for several years and made good on by the all-of-a-sudden interest the public it. We expect to keep on saying it, and and press have taken in it, there will be making good. Faith in men and faith in thousands of boys in the American (rod form the basis of our expectation. "Scouts" working under its plan, pledge and principles. That it may become neither a military nor a make-believe movement for little boys, but rather realize its tremendous possibilities in character making, the Association has a responsibility to take a hand in guiding it. Already several Hoy Scout movements have been started, but undoubtedly the permanent one will be that now being authorized by Congress, and of which W. D. Boyce, of Chicago, is the backer. In this movement the International Y. M. C. A. Boys' Department will cooperate, and Ernest Thompson Seton, whose woodcraft books and Indian life studies furnished much of the basis of Baden-Powell's scout principles, will give it his aid. The Boy Scouts started with such a rush in England that General Baden-Powell, Mr. W. I!. Wakefield and others found it necessary to give all their time and strength to save it from becoming an irresponsible mob. As it is, they have made constructive units in the nation, and thrifty, intelligent and useful citizens, of boys who otherwise would have been hooligans and gangs of backboncless loafers. The boys are taught and trained in everything that has to do with wholesome, hearty, out-ofdcor life, and drilled in responsible groups by trained volunteer scout leaders. The movement in England has broken down class barriers and brought together separated denominations as nothing before, besides keeping boys in Sunday-school at the period when 90 per cent of them drift away. Already there are a thousand boy scouts in Toronto. At Silver Bay this summer, Messrs. Seton and Wakefield will teach 150 Association camp leaders woodcraft and scoutcraft and lifecraft as well. Scout Principles as Told by English Visitors. The visit of W. B. Wakefield to America has given us a new light on the Scouts. At a dinner given him and Mr. Heald at the Union League Club by Seth Sprague Terry, chairman of the International Boys' Department, he said: "The Boy Scouts are to play a big part in the salvation of Great Britain. Their watchword. 'He prepared.' is not a war, but a a service watchword. A scout 'must go ahead of the rest for the good of the rest.' His solemn oath binds him to 'fear Cod and honor the king." He must tell the truth, be thrifty, cheerful, respectful to seniors, obey orders, be kind to animals and have a bank account of at least one shilling, so that he may be able to help the other fellow in the time of distress. The movement is not a military one, but for education and business. The boy is first admitted as a 'tenderfoot,' and remains on probation for a month. �8 To secure the 'second-class' scouts' badge he must learn first aid, bandaging, track half a mile in twenty-five minutes, or, if he is in town, describe* correctly the contents of one out of four shop windows, observed for one minute each, go a mile in twelve minutes at scouts' pace, lay and light a fire with not more than two matches; cook a quarter of a pound of meat and two |x>tatoes in his 'billy' (tin cup), and know the sixteen points of the compass. To obtain other rank as a scout he must go beyond this in scout craft— swim fifty yards, travel a distance, and report, must name sixty wild flowers, stalk and photograph a wild bird or animal, and measure the height of a tree or width of a stream by triangulation, etc. That the boys are taught real service has been shown by their readiness in emergencies. One group was first at a railroad accident; another, which was trained by firemen, prevented a conflagration by their readiness. They have stopped runaway horses, and saved many from drowning. In fact, they are taught to be citizens with their first thought the good of others. After a boy is fifteen or sixteen years of age, he will not be content with makebelieve, either at play soldier, with a wooden gun, or play Indian, with arrows. painted faces, or feathers. The same weakness is with the Boys' Brigade, antl the Knights of King Arthur, as Mr. Seton also found with his first Indians. A difficulty has been found in securing capable scout leaders —one for every eight to twelve boys. There is the utmost value in the hardy and practical training given by the long hikes, teachinb it lx>y to handle and provide for himself under all circumstances, to shoot, to canoe, to meet every difficulty without fear. These all can be wrought into a plan and sys- tem which will not only attract the small- er boy, but keep him engaged through his teens and into his twenties. Then the movement will be strong, especially as its leaders carry with all this valuable train- ing the scout Bible class instructions. A New Note on*Giving. There is a new note on giving. The men who spoke at the Laymen's Congress in Chicago out of their experience in Laymen's and Association canvasses. gave an "illuminating" testimony. Governor Stubbs declared that his first beginning in giving was when he was forced to take the head of the Association He building campaign in Lawrence. planned to give $1,500, but gave $5000. He has just put a foreign secretary "on his payroll," and is glad. President Hyde, of the Wichita Association told of his "hilarious giving." He was asked by Mr. THE FRIEND. Augst,1910. This represents the limits of possibility Burt for $1,000 to extend the training work at Lake Geneva and almost floored today. Ten years hence, with air ships He ..aveling at the rate of 200 miles an horn the speed of 1910 may take its place beside the lumbering stage coach of our ancestors, and Hawaii's demand for statehood may not give the "Outlook" the shivers, as the mere suggestion thereof now does. A quiet day in Jersey City prepared the way for the thirtieth annual reunion in the Elm City. A college that makes friendship its cultural idea, as does Vale, is a good place to revisit. At all events our class —seventy out of a possible eighty—found it so, and every man of us left "the old home of days of long ago" with the hush of spirit that told the story of hours passed in the Holy of Holies. It was an experience that seemed but one step removed from a visit to Heaven. The good ship Romanic cleared Boston on time at the fashionable hour of high noon. Honolulu was well represented in the throng of farewellers by the Misses Bosher and Colwell in person, the Willard E. Browns in telegram, and not a few others by letter. Neptiinus Atliinticus, not to be outdone by his Pacific brother, welcomed us with broad smiles of placidity, and only lost his poise A. A. EBERSOLE once, and then but for a night. The ship's company is a good one. and all hands have behaved except Deacon Bowen and his minister, who have been gaming scandalously to win the prize of champion nodder. No hour and no presence has been sacred to these shameless devotees of Morpheus. The Deacon has had the best of it, thanks to his training tin tier the soporific sermons of his pastor. But for this professional coaching he might have been beaten. After five hours at Port Delgado, in the Azores, one is in a position to understand why Hawaii has so gootl an asset in her Portuguese. Neat houses, scrupulously clean streets, happy looking people, every available foot of land blooming with evidences of loving cultivation and picturesque scenes from every outlook tell the whole story. The Azorese are not afraid of heights, like us Honolulans. The entire coast line shows in general a shunning of the lowlands, the houses love to perch themselves on bold eminences with faraway views of ocean and shore. I-ong before Honolulu is as old A Letter from Dr. Scudder. as Porto Delgado its people will also have learned the lesson. (iibraltar, July 4. 1910. "What do you say for 'good mornHonolulu to New York City in one ing'?" the minister asked on landing. hour less than ten days by corrected "Buntha Dias" (forgive the spelling) clocks, but by actual elapsed time in ex- was what the answer sounded like. actly nine and three-quarters days with (iixxl! "Bunch of dears" let it be: a fine one hour and forty minutes in San Fran- name for these gems of the Mid-Atlantic, cisco and one hour and a half in Chicago the Azores. t< spare. DOREMUS SCUDDER. Burt when he offered him $5,000. rounded out Gillett's $10,000 fund for Seoul "at the last minute," and carries the salary of an International Y. M. C. A. secretary on the home field with satisfaction. "Such things as having money invested the world over in promoting the Gospel makes my life worth living," he declared. Alfred E. Marling, the buoyant chairman in his brilliant talk on Money, said. "I am thankful that I have been given a new incentive in life, that my outlook on life has a new dignity so that my money making is not a matter of drudgery. I want to live and be in business for the Master's sake. I do not care any more about wealth, but I do care for the use of wealth." One man gives half his income, another sixty per cent, along with half his time, but it is sure that his giving and that of thousands who have felt the touch of the new movement among laymen is not done grudgingly. Central Union News �THE August, 1010. Large Audiences Hear Dr. White In spite of the fact that an unusually large number of Central Union people are away this summer. Dr. White has from the very first Sunday had large audiences. The Sunday evening attendance has been especially large. This, no doubt, is partly due to the extensive advertising which we have given to these services. A large eight-poster bulletin board in front of the church and twelve smaller bulletin boards on the street down town have announced his subjects each week, while 1,000 cards distributed among the men in the stores, offices and shops have brought a direct invitation each week to at least a thousand men to attend the Sunday evening service. The large per cent of men in the Sunday evening audiences is noticeable. The newspapers, too, have given generous space to our announcements. I tut, while no doubt this thorough advertising has helped to get the attention of the general public it is the uniformly able, powerful addresses of Dr. White that have attracted and held the audiences. The popular character of his subjects arouse interest, and the masterful way in which he handles every subject wins and holds the people, some of whom have seldom been seen in church before. The subjects of his sermons have been as follows: AT THE MORNING SERVICES: 1. "The Keynote of Jesus Life" (Luke 19:10; 15:6. 7). 2. "The Everlasting Arms" (Deut. 33:27). 3. "Not to Destroy but to Fulfil" ( Matt. 5:17). 4. "The Three Specific Sins that Crucified Christ" ( 1. Cor. 15:3). 5. "An Expert's Definition of Life" ( Rom. 8 :61. 6. The Inheritance of the Meek" ( Matt. 5:5). 7. "The Flying Goal" (Matt. 5:47). And at the Evening Service: 1. "The Good Fellow and the Good Man" (Prov. 1:7. Ps. 111:10). 2. "Some One's Receiver is Down" (Mark 6:31). 3. "The Honor of the Flag " (a patriotic address delivered the evening before Independence Day). 4. "Making a Living, and Making a Life." 5. "The Three L's of the Sea." (). "Rite, Right, Wright." a 7. "Frying Running, Walking Bible Climax" (Isaiah 40:30). — 9 FRIEND. With four more Sundays still to fol- low. An Important Business Transaction The Scribe's Corner At a special meeting of the church and congregation held on Wednesday evening, July 6, Central Union Church, voted to authorize the trustees to transfer all property held in its name at Palama Settlement to the new corporation of Palama Settlement when such corporation REV. WM. BREWSTER OLESON sympathy with the religious beliefs and missionary activities of Central Union Church, the property hereby deeded to Palama Settlement shall revert to the Central Union Church." Palama Settlement was organized as a mission of Central Union Church, and has always been largely sup]X)rted by the members of the church. The fact (hat it is now to be separately incorporated will, we are sure, in no wise lessen the interest of the church people in this important branch of work. this kind is probably essential in clearing the way for a better holding of virile beliefs. But the tearing down has been a dusty business at best, and men have looked at the ruins rather than at the resources for reconstruction. And it must be admitted that there has seemed to be more fun in the tearing down than there has been purpose in building again. But the building operations have certainly begun, and some of our ablest thinkers are it work in reconstructing religious belief. That is, they are using again the same materials very much, while placing them in more modern relations. Among the foremost builders of belief is Henry Churchill King, President of the Oberlin College, now a guest in Honolulu, returning homeward from an extended lecturing our in India, China, and Japan. The mere mention of the titles of some of his published works, such as "Rational Living," "Theology and the Social Consciousness," "The Seeming Unreality of the Spiritual Life," and ''Reconstruction in Theology," reveal the builder's outlook, and are a sort of blueprint copy of his fundamental purpose to help men forward surely and rationally into a wholesome religious belief. We welcome among us such a force in the religious life of the men of today. We wish Dr. King might make a longer sojourn with us. We extend our hearty grip to our honored guest, and in parting with him God-speed in the great work of building the thoughts of men into a sane, and hopeful and livable belief. Corresponding Secretary. "Ullkr our life it most tartly of the quality that ouflht to eaftre, wt find It easier to believe la immortality." Henry Churchill King. shall be formed. There was some difference of opinion as to whether it should not be stipulated There has been a good deal done in in the deed of transference that three the past twenty-five years in the way of members of the Board of the new corporation should always be elected from destructive criticism. There have been among the members of Central Union iconoclasts by the score. Somehow men Church. After considerable discussion have found vulnerable places all along pro and con it was voted to make only the former breastworks of religious bethis stipulation, "that if at any time Pa- lief, and they have busied themselves in lama Settlement shall cease to be conducted as an active Christian agency in enlarging the embrasures. Something of Another Prominent Member Called In the death of Mr. Alexander Young Saturday, July 2, Central Union Church lost another most valuable member. Mr. Alexander was for many years a trustee of this church, and in that capacity always stood for progress and advance, lie was chairman of the Building Committee for the erection of the present magnificent building of Central Union Church. He was a regular attendant at the church services and always gave generously to the support of the church. One by one the vanguard lay down their work. It calls for men of ability and men of consecration to step in and fill their places. Private services were conducted at the home of Mr. Young at Waikiki at 2 o'clock on Sunday afternoon, July 3, and afterwards a public memorial service was held in the church. Although the summe rseason, and the holiday following had taken a great many people away, a large concourse gathered to pay thev respects to Mr. Young, who for many years has held a prominent place in the The Plebiscite! social and industrial life of the city as It is settled at last, overwhelmingly settled, that Hawaii does not want prowell as in his church. on �10 hibition. But is it settled right ? ()ther prohibitionists are asking this question. It is one of the evidences that such matters never arc settled until they are settled right. For the real issue does not hinge on mere prohibition. That may or may not be the best method of meeting the greatest problem of modern times. Honest men differ as to the metb od of tackling the problem, but they agree as to the need of tackling it. And the need will never be absent until it is tackled for a throw-down. And therefore the problem cannot be kept out of politics. Not the problem of how prohibition can be secured, but the problem of how the saloon evil can be effectively minimized. Does any political party suppose that the two thousand men who voted for prohibition are not to be reckoned with at the polls? Is the saloon element going to control party nominations in the face of the fact that two thousand prohibitionists probably hold the balance of power in any election that may be held? Are these tinpiirchasable. unterrified two thousand, so innocent and forgetful as to believe that friends of the saloon in the Legislature will keep this question out of men than politics? Why Was It? Each man has his own explanation why prohibition was so signally defeated at the recent plebiscite; but one man's explanation does not satisfy the other man. Doubtless many influences account for the result. It is well that we should consider some of them. 1. The liquor interest is a strongly intrenched one. Its very existence was at stake. Hence it was compactly organized, and its campaign was pressed without scruple, and at no limit of expense, and with a master-hand in control. That in itself was a mortgage on victory. 2. The anti-saloon element was divided, some of the natural leaders in such a contest being publicly opposed to prohibition, others of the leaders being absent from the country, while the rank and file of prohibition voters took but scant part in any practical effort to win the day. That meant a mortgage on defeat. 3. Nearly four thousand registered voters did not go to the jxills. It is quite improbable that the saloon interests overlooked any of these whom it had the slightest hope of inducing to vote "No." It is altogether probable, judging on general principle, and with the experience gained in investigations elsewhere, that these men would have voted "Yes" had they been persuaded to vote at all. 4. Without wishing to criticwe«4hc- policy adopted by the prohibition committee, it should be said that the system of employing numerous runners to get out THE FRIEND the vote is so established in Hawaiian elections that the practical abandonment of the system by the committee undoubtedly spelled defeat to the extent of several thousand votes. 5. Political considerations compromised the situation in no small degree. The date of the plebiscite was unfortunate inasmuch as it precipitated the election just as the political parties were getting their organizations to work. Men desirous of political preferment wore afraid to meet the prohibition issue squarely on its merits. These conditions were favorable to the organized force in politics that is al- August. 1910 is not only to show the results of mission enterprise in the more direct evidences found in church buildings and statistics, but in the no less important features of a progressive community that have been born out of missionary enterprise. The occasion will afford an opportunity to advertise I lawaii on its best side. If the exhibit is mainly confined to a representation of sixMal. industrial and religious features of life as it is among us today, it will prove a bureau of information well wortli while. A hearty co-operation will be welcomed by the committee in charge, viz.. Messrs. Ilorne. Scudder, own advantage, Castle. Richards and Oleson. ways figuring for its viz., the saloon interest. 6. There was unquestionably the survival of an old prejudice against prohibition instilled in the hearts of the people by the course of kings who forbade liquor Id their subjects while they used it themselves. ()nce the common people had prohibition against their wish. Now that the choice lay with themselves they refused to put themselves back into what seemed (o them like the class slavery of other days. 7. Demagogism was to the fore in the campaign, and demagogism is a trump card in elections in this county. X. Drinking habits tire on the increase among the people. And 1 lawaii wants no cross opposite the prohibition "Yes." l >. The question voted on was confusing. The question reiterated through the campaign was: "Do you want sal<x>ns?" "No," said our prohibition orators. So when the voters actually came to the polls, who knows how many voted "No" when their conviction called for a "Yes" vote? 10. Finally the evasive course of Prince Ktthio doubtless affected the result unfavorably for prohibition. We do not believe the question was decided on its merits. The majority, however, was such a decisive one that antisaloon men must now look in other directions for the effective curbing of the saloon evil. The World in Boston. Al last Hawaii has been assigned space in the exhibit hall of the great Missionary Exposition that is to he held in Boston in April, 1911. Now let every one interested contribute by suggestion and otherwise to make Hawaii's display a marked feature in the exposition. Among the things already suggested are relief maps of the Islands, models of Hawaiian fish, articles of furniture made of Hawaiian woods, lava specimens, oil paintings and photographs, Hawaiian curios, school displays, moving picture films, etc. The idea of the exposition Educational Advance F. W. DAMON Advance in the Mid-Pacific Institute. Steady advance has been made during the past year towards a fuller realization of this educational undertaking. Already has the girls' department of the Institute. Kawaiahao Seminary, rounded out two successful years of its history as a part of this new educational scheme. With the opening of the fall term, beginning September 12th, it is hoped that the boys' department, Mills School, will be definitely placed in its new and attractive home on the tine school campus in Manoa Valley, ready to enter upon what its friends trust will prove to be, with God's blessing, a long and fruitful career of useful and beneficent work. The spacious and imposing school hall, which is designed for the use of this latter department, is now rapidly approaching completion. Uninterruptedly for the past two years have large companies of workmen been engaged upon its construction. It is one of the largest buildings ever reared in the Territory and it is felt that it will be seen to be well adapted for the end for which it lias been planned. Those who have had charge of the work have been especially favored during the period of its construction by the fine weather which has prevailed, and by the quiet and temperate spirit which has characterized the scores of workmen, of different nationalities who have been engaged upon the building. In the basement are the workshops, laundry, baths, shower and tub, and all modern sanitary appliances. On the first floor are the dining room, recitation rooms, reception rooms, library and reading room. On the second floor are the sleeping nxjins for the teachers and the older boys, each boy having a separate room, and the magnificent assembly hall. On the third floor are the large dormitories, where the �August. 1910 THE FRIEND. smaller l>oys are under the special care of languages has l>een given throughout the the matron. Extensive operations in con- year. The sewing department under Mrs. nection with the grading of the athletic Hurt's guidance is well organized. Her field and the land immediately adjacent "Mid-Pacific Folder" is a publication to the boys' school hall arc going on at which the Institute may be justly proud the present time. It is an interesting fact to claim as its own. Regular cooking that a number of the students arc assist- classes have been held, and we hope to ing in this work during the summer vaca- do more next year in this department. tion. The school farm has already been Along with the. rapid strides in mental somewhat developed and promises to be development has come the gain in the a most helpful factor in the future his- spiritual development of the girls. We, It is a most grati- who have watched over and loved them tory of the Institute. buildings for two years, see such marked improvethat the splendid fying fact which have been erected during the past ment in their general behavior and moral three years on the extensive campus of tone that our hearts sing for joy. With the Mid-Pacific Institute in Manoa are the new playgrounds we hope to keep wholly free from debt, owing to the their physical development on a par with large-hearted and open-handed generosity of noble friends of this educational undertaking. An important beginning has been made in the line of endowment but it is but a beginning and there now arises with unmistakable emphasis the demand for its further development. Relations between the Mid-Pacific Institute, which has already taken over the Mills Institute, with certain other affiliated schools, namely, the Japanese boarding school and the Korean mission school ( Methodist) have been of the very pleasantest nature during the past year. From both these schools it is expected that a number of students will enter the Mid-Pacific Institute in September. A delightful evidence of the kindly feeling existing was seen in the union picnic, which took place in June, at which some two hundred persons were present in Manoa. A grand tour of the school grounds was made; the farm, in its different departments duly inspected ; the athletic field visited, after which the large company gathered in the splendid assembly hall of the boys' building, where interesting exercises were belli in English, Chinese. Japanese and Korean. Grandly did the voices of this student band sing in full chorus. "Praise God from Whom All Blessings Mow." thus fittingly acknowledging the divine source from which this new schoolhouse, with all its possibilities of helpfulness and inspiration, has come to them. A Good Year at Kawaiahao Seminary Miss Rosher says of the past year at the Seminary, "The student enrollment their mental and moral growth. The new teachers who are to come in September are Miss Stambaugh, Miss Faust, Miss Hamilton, for grade work; Miss (loold for the sewing department, and Miss Wintie for music. Miss Ting will assist in the sewing department. Applications are coining in for next year. There is every indication that the school will be as large, if not larger than ii has been this year. Mills School and Mills Institute. Mills school is now the legal appelation of the boys' department of the MidPacific Institute. Mills Institute, after a history of some eighteen years has been merged in this new educational undertaking. Already the pleasant schoolhouse in Chaplain lane, which for so many years has been a busy center of youthful life, has closed its doors and as an independent institution has become a memory of the past. It is, however, a beautiful and helpful memory to those who have come under its influence. In IH( >2 six Chinese boys found hjere a home, and since that day there have been hundreds who have reason to remember through life the blessing it has been to them and to whom the "old school" will bt ever dear. God grant that its mottoes "Onward and Upward," may ever find an echo in their lives, and its ideals ever be to them a guide and inspiration! Mr. Merrill reports a registration in Mills Institute for the year ending June 30th, 1910, of "one hundred and thirtyseven (137)" students. Of these eightyone (81) were in the boarding department and fifty-six (56) in the day department. The nationalities were as follows: Chinese and part Chinese, 113; Japanese, 12; Korean, 11; Marshall Isl- for the year has included one hundred and nineteen (119) names. The ages of the girls, ranging from six to twenty years, and their nationality, including ander, 1. full Hawaiian*, part Hawaiians, Chinese, Mills School of the Mid-Pacific InstiJapanese, Portuguese, Korean and other tute is a non-racial, Christian boarding races. Good work has been done in all school for young men and boys. So far the grades. In addition to the grade its faculty consists of Mr. Arthur M. teaching instruction in three Oriental Merrill, principal: Mrs. Osborne, mat- 11 Messrs. Walen, Hammond, Cross, Robinson and, and one teacher, still to be selected) as instructors in English. The teachers in the Oriental language department are being arranged for. In the Japanese section we hope to secure the services of a highly recommended Christian gentleman antl instructor of experience from Tokyo. The board of managers will find many matters calling for their earnest consideration in the conduct of the affairs of this school. The work, however, is one worthy of their best effort. The questions which will arise as to die care of the different races in the school, with their strong national feelings and prejudices, rivalries and temperamental peculiarities, will be many and insistent. The problems with reference to the food supply and its preparation for so varied a household will not be slight. The development of certain lines of industrial and agricultural pursuits will demand their attention, while financial responsibilities will be great and constant. Rut none of these difficulties are insuperable, and it is felt that, with patience, tact and devotion, a way will l>e opened to a large and harmonious development. Ron; Hawaii Cousins Voyage of "The Thaddeus" in 1820. (Continued from July number.) FAVORING WINDS ON THE PACIFIC February 1. Today we pass the meridian of the Foreign Mission School in Cornwell, Conn., U. S. A., sailing westward 7 or 8 knots an hour. During 24 hours we have made nearly 5 degrees. Our respected Captain B. says there never could be a better chance to get west from the cape. * *Feb.* 2.—This morning finds us rejoicing in prosperity. A fair wind from the south-west sets our faces directly to the scene of our anticipated labors. We are now 10 degrees or 12 degrees west of Cape Horn, and feel much as if we were on our way home. THE SPIRIT OF TRUE MIS- SIONARIES. Feb. 7. Advancing still rapidly toward the field of our toils and privations, we have today felt it to be of special importance to inquire, urgently and seriously, what qualities of character are specially needful to the missionary in order to �THE FRIEND. 12 meet the trials, to endure the suffering and to perform the labors of the missionary life; what are his peculiar wants; and what should be unitedly asked of God for those who are engaged in propagating the gospel. We find much to humble us and bring us on our knees much, indeed, to encourage us. * * We find new occasion to say the missionary cause has peculiar charms for US, and cheerfully will we wear out in its service. Whether success or defeat shall be our particular lot; we are comforted with the firm belief in the cause in which we are embarked and the best feelings of the Church enlisted, will finally triumph, the heathen will be converted, and to the praise of divine grace, it shall be everywhere known that there is a God in Zkin who hears united prayer. —* ADVENTURE WITH A SHARK. March 11. Again we entered our own hemisphere. We have this day special occasion to acknowledge the kind providence of (iod. About 1 o'clock p. m. there was a calm, and several of the brethren and some others, having been denied the privilege many weeks, allowed themselves to enjoy the pleasant and healthful exercise of bathing in the ocean. Not long after they were safely out, while one of the sailors was employed in painting the bowsprit, with his feet in the water, a common sized shark was seen to approach him. Had he not been seasonably warned to avoid the monster he might have lost his limb, if not his life. The shark then played or rather raved around the brig with the boldness and fierceness of a hungry tiger. Ry the dexterity of George P. Tamosee and one of the mates a snare was fixed upon him. Then flouncing like a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke, he seized with violence the end of a long pole, and though it broke many of his front teeth, he held fast until by the pole and ropes he was drawn on board. The mingled emotions in our company arising from a sense of danger escaped by the gracious interposition of our divine and strong deliverer, evidenced by tears and congratulations, cannot easily be described. On opening the shark, the men found a porcupine fish, and a large beef bone which had been thrown overboard by the cook at the time the brethren were bathing, so that he could not have been far distant at that time. FALLING OVERBOARD OF MR. WHITNEY. March 27. It is with peculiar emotions of adoring gratitude that we acknowledge the distinguishing goodness of God, seasonably interposed for our deliverance this day. While Rrother Whitney was assisting in painting the outside of the vessel, which he considered not only as pleasant and profitable, but needful exercise, the rope by which he held with one hand gave way and let him fall from a temporary scaffold into the sea. His weight and the force of the ship entirely broke his hold from the rope and left him astern calling for help. Captain B's orders were promptly executed, and the brig, though under full sail at the rate of six or seven knots an hour, was "hove to" in less than five minutes anil stopped sailing. In the meantime Brother W.. whose perfect self-]x>sscssion and skill in swimming enabled him successfully to buffet the waves after one or two had broke over him, happily gained a small bench which had been providentially carried on deck a few minutes before and was thrown overboard to serve him as a temporary buoy. On this he was easily sustained after it had once or twice deceived him by rolling, though his strength was considerably exhausted. Never before did the mission family know how much they loved him. In five minutes more the boat was cleared away and let down and sent to his relief, which reached him in about five minutes at a distance perhaps of 1-6 of a mile. Refore the boat set off he raised his hat and waved it. lest his anxious wife should be too much disturbed, and then composed himself to prayer; while many hearts on board were in this soultrying hour lifted up to God in fervent petition that he would spare his life for his appointed work among the Gentiles Not far from 20 minutes after he fell, by the blessing of Him who had said "When thou passest through the waters I will be with thee," he was safely returned and joyfully welcomed on board with many tears, and with thanksgiving to our strong deliverer who saved the sinking Peter, and who can with equal ease deliver those who trust in him from the waves and from the monsters of the deep, and from ungodly men. ARRIVAL AT HAWAII. March 30, 1820. Let us thank God and take courage. Early this morning the long looked for ()whyhee and the cloud-capt and snoweapt Manna Kea appear full in view to the joy of the animated multitude on lx>ard. (11 o'clock a. m.) We are now coasting along the north-east part of the island, so near the shore as to see the numerous habitations, cultivated fields, smoke rising in different parts, fresh vegetation, rocks, rivulets, cascades, trees, etc.. and with the help of glasses men and women, immortal l>eings, pur- August, 1910. chased with the cleansing blood. We are much pleased, not to say delighted, with the scene, and long to be on shore. (4 o'clock p. m.) Having turned the northern extremity of 0„ Capt. B, this afternoon sent oft a boat to make inquiries respecting the king, etc. Mr. Hunnewell, a mate, Tho. fiopoo, J. Honoree, and others, went nearly to the shore and fell in with 10 or 12 native fishermen in their canoes, who readily gave the important information that the aged King Kamehameha is dead—that Rehoreeho, his son, succeeds him—that the images of bis gods are burned —that the men eat with the women in all the islands—that one chief only was killed in settling the affairs of government, and he for refusing to destroy his gods—that Reehoreeho, the young king, and Kimokoo. the first chief, sometimes called Billy Rett, both reside at Owhyhce. If these are facts they are interesting facts, and seem to show that Christ is overturning in order to take possession, and that these islands are waiting for his law, while the old and decaying pillars of idolatry are falling to the ground. The moment seems favorable for the introduction of Christianity and customs of civilized life. THE BISHOP FAMILY. By Mrs. S. E. Bishop. Rev. Artemas Bishop and his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Edwards Bishop, were members of the first reinforcement of the Sandwich Islands Mission. They arrived at Kailua after a six months' voyage from America in April, 1X23. Mrs. Bishop was warmly welcomed by her old friend, Mrs. Lucy Thurston, who had not heard that she was coming to the Islands. They proceeded to Honolulu and afterwards to Kauai where they spent a short time. They were soon permanently stationed tit Kailua, associates of the Thurstons. They immediately began active work among the people, who received them kindly. The chiefs Kuakini and Kapiolani welcomed them cordially and often visited them in their home. Mrs. Bishop's health failed and after a long and painful illness she died in 1828. This was the first death in the mission circle, and elicited sympathy from the natives, by whom she was much beloved. Her grave may still be seen in Kailua churchyard. She left two children, Jane Fmzabeth, aged two, and Sereuo, a babe of one year old. Kind friends shared with the bereaved father the care of the little ones. In December, 1828 Mr. Rishop married Miss Delia Stone, one of the four �August, 1910 single ladies who had joined the mission that year. Thus the family were again united in a home. The home is thus described in a letter to a friend: "Our house is thatched with very long leaves of a certain tree which grows in this country. There are no floors, but the rooms are spread with large mats made of the same material as the thatch. The mats are very neat when new but they soon become dirty and cannot be easily washed. The house does not have windows, but blinds. The weather is always warm here, so that it never snows as it does in New York." In IK3O Mr. Bishop built a more convenient house. This was of stone, with comfortable rooms and accommodations for the family and a separate building for a cook house. This is still intact, as you till see at the present time—also the heavy stone wall which surrounded the premises. The social life between the Bishop and Thurston families was very congenial. The children made daily trips back and forth, both using the same school books. Mrs. Bishop spent many hours teaching in the native schools, and in guiding and directing the native women. But the education of her own children was not neglected. They rose at four o'clock in the morning, that this might be accomplished. With the dim light of a whale oil lamp they poured over their books. Their efforts were so successful that when Elizabeth and Sereno went back East, at the age of thirteen, they were in advance of the children of their own age. Mr. Bishop spent much of his time in the work of translating the P.ible, and in preparing other literature for the natives. The proportion of the Rible translated by him was about nine and a half books. Mr. Rishop removed to Ewa, on Oahu in 1836, as pastor of that large and flourishing church. There was much interest at the time of the great revivals, when, standing in the door of the church, he would address those inside and also hundreds of eager listeners on the outside. Mr. Rishop remained at Ewa until failing strength permitted him no longer to minister to the church. He then moved to Honolulu, passing his last years in quiet Nuuatui Valley. He died Dec. 18, 1871. WAILUKU NOTES. At the annual meeting of the Wailuku Union Church the trustees of the church were increased from three to five. The following were elected to office: Edward H. Railey, Daniel H. Case, Henry R. Penhallow, Clarence M. Roberts and Judge William A. McKay. Mr. Orlando THE FRIEND. 13 J. Whitehead was elected treasurer of by 40, a large locker room, office, showthe church. Mr. George W. Wilbur was ers and all necessary equipment, an excellent bowling alley, and a billiard and chosen deacon. ()n June 24th at the parsonage library pool room, which latter is to be over the for the board of trustees held a meeting. alocker room. The specifications calla defirst class which be building, will Fifty new Pilgrim Hymnals were ordered for the church and congregation. cided acquisition to the town and the It was voted to give the offering of Eas- island. Miss Lttcena Merriman, the new setter Sunday to the Hawaiian Roard and tlement has arrived, and become that of Christmas Sunday to the Ameri- somewhatworker, acquainted with the conditions can Missionary Association. of the work in Wailuku. For some years Ulrica Church membership has increas- connected with university life at the ed almost fifty per cent since [anuary Ist, of Arizona, and having speUniversity 1910. cial charge of young women in that inThe Hawaiian Church congregation stitution, she comes admirably prepared has been worshipping for the past few for her Wailuku duties. She has also weeks in the Town Hall, because of the had special training in the kindergarten repairs under way on their building. and a wide experience in just the kind of This fine old edifice will be the best in work that is preparatory to her wide field Central Maui, after all is done that is of service in Wailuku. contemplated. The rotten floor has been Miss Merriman has already endeared taken up and a new one laid. The old herself to the many on Maui, who have lines of the church, first established by had the opportunity of meeting her. We "bather" I'ailey have been unaltered. predict a bright future for the Wailuku New cement steps have been built for the settlement in its many new departments approach to the church, new acetylene under the efficient leadership of Miss gas chandeliers installed, the inside walls Merriman. retrimmed, while the whole of the woodThe Maui Aid Association report for work has been repainted inside and outthe last year has been published, and side, and a large amount of preservative shows a wide field of activity. The repumped into the interior framework. port can be obtained by dropping a are to replace New pews sadly needed card to Rox 32, Wailuku, Maui. postal the worm-eaten ones that must be disThe excellent catechism prepared by at present in carded, but no money is Rev. Collins G. Rurnham of Lahaina sight, as all available funds are now ex- has just issued from the press of the hausted in the work that had to be done Maui Publishing Company. The first on the building itself. edition of one thousand copies (500 in The county is now keeping the spa- Hawaiian, 500 English), in will be freely cious yard of the Kaahumanti church pro- and widely distributed among the island perty in excellent condition, and Kaahuchurches. This gift of so valuable a manti Church is in the center of the work for our Sunday schools and sociebeautiful lawn. ties of Christian Endeavor has been Miss Nora Towner, who has won so made possible by the tireless efforts of many friends throughout the Territory, Mr. Rurnham in writing the English has lieen called home to care for her in- questions, and answering so simply that valid mother. The whole community they will be of use to our Japanese, Chisorely misses her. Her earnestness and nese, Portuguese and Hawaiian-English wonderful ability have accomplished workers. The whole of the'English verwonders in her department of the work sion is less than two thousand words, in Wailuku. She got together close to but it would be hard to find two thous$3000 for the new swimming pool and and words so packed full of the best that gymnasium, and before she left she felt religion contains for the growing and sure that the large dream of her four thinking mind of the youth. The Hayears work was about to be realized in waiian edition has been worked over and a substantial gymnasium that would be over again, so that it might express in an ornament to Wailuku, and help all the simplest and plainest way the exact classes of people to get more out of life. meaning of the English. We predict Hon. H. P. Baldwin came generously that the hard work that Mr. Burnham to her assistance with $1,000 for the and his translators have done will reap a swimming pool, which is almost finished rich reward in winning men to the simunder the excellent workmanship of Mr. ple, beautiful Gospel of Jesus, and in W. R. Patterson, who is a valuable asset bringing to the minds of our thousands to the business and spiritual side of the of young people in our churches a clear Wailuku work. This pool is 50 by 25, knowledge of the truth we love, a knowand large enough for some really excel- ledge which cannot be undermined by lent work in swimming contests. Plans the strange doctrines that have previousare practically completed for the gymna- ly turned so many here into the ways of sium, which is to have a floor space 60 error. �14 THE FRIEND. August, 1910 the profound forces under God that have fies the appreciation of the Hawaiian steadily brought this land to this day of people, and their gratitude, for the work of the missionaries, and likewise their light and blessing in which we live. This arch is not a useless heap of love and gratitude to Opukahaia, whose stones. Neither is it like those ancient words and tears and prayers, under God, memorials which the Hebrews raised to turned the eyes of Christians this way. commemorate some event of the past. ■ad led to the coming of the missionaries. This arch looks forward as well as back- For the funds for the erection of this AT MEMORIAL ARCH THE ward. It stands at the entrance to these memorial have come not from the men KAILUA. grounds of this Christian church, a per- of wealth in Hawaii, but from thousands petual invitation to enter in and to com- of men and women and children in our Address at the Memorial Arch Exercises mune with God. May this arch perpetu- Hawaiian churches from Kauai to Haate the pressing call of the fathers, and waii. No more impressive evidence could at Kailua, Sunday, June 26. may many in the coming years who pass be given of the present day valuation by By Rev. W. B. Oleson. beneath it into yonder house of (rod, like- Hawaiians of work of the missionary solid, at gates wise last the into fitthers than this substantial and inthrough pass we memorial that are here to "This dedicate rises on two pillars, one in mem- the heavenly city. Finally, this arch typi- viting gateway into this house of God." ory of the first missionaries who landed here ninety years ago, the other in memory of Opukahaia, and his Christian comrades, who came hither with the missionaries. These two pillars rise and blend in this beautiful arch, which thus HENRY P. JUDD typifies the union of all races in the kingdom of God. with headquarters at Tacoma, Wash., Some Sunday School Ideals. This arch is simple rather than ornate visit these islands the latter part of will and properly taught and elaborate. It is not built of costly A well organized this year or in the early part of 1911. material, nor of marble imported from Sunday school is one of the most potent I'he plan has not yet been definitely desome foreign land. Rather it is built out factors of the stability and spread of the cided, but it is probable that we shall of the lava rocks among which the early Christian religion. Ry religion is meant have the pleasure of hearing Mr. Mermissionaries and the Hawaiians of that the broad principles and beliefs of that ritt speak to many gatherings of Sunday day lived and wrought. It represents the religion which purifies and elevates the day school workers on the various islbuilding forces of the world, for these moral, social and spiritual nature of the ands. The object of his visit is to enstones have come up from the depth in human race, by impressing the Rible courage the Sunday school work and the lifting of Hawaii above the sea. It truth? The nature, being and attributes of give us valuable suggestions and inspiratherefore typifies the work of the fathers. have clear conceptions of the source tion. They ha done great passion, viz., to save from which all blessings come. What As Mr. Merritt was president of Oahu men from sin and to build them up in a truths? The nature, being and attributes College from 1883 to 1890, he is no blessed hope and joy. This arch is large of God, the Atonement of Christ, the Re- stranger in the islands, and many kamaand strong and solid. Generations shall surrection, the new man in Christ and ainas will remember him and surely give come and go, but this memorial shall other chief doctrines of the Christian re- him a cordial welcome to these shores It thus typifies the ligion. These are some of the truths that from which he has been absent twenty stantl unshaken. splendid purity and integrity of those should and can be taught in the Sunday years. pioneers of the gospel, and the thorough schools. Impress these truths upon the and substantial character of their work. minds and hearts of the young people, They were rugged, patient, noble men and it will be a comfort and support to The Departmental Works. and women, who laid foundations deep, them all through the days of their lives. Organized work among the schools of and solid for a Christian civilization in They will then be prepared to go out in 1 lawaii nei has been attempted, and has Hawaii. This arch has dignity and the world, stalwart Christians and citi- proved a partial success in many places. beauty, and thus fittingly typifies the zens worthy of the name. On the whole, however, it would appear worth of the men who wrought in the The children are the hope of the that the work is not progressing rapidly, beginning of new Hawaii. These stones Church and the State in the ages to and in some instances has actually retrowere only a few weeks ago scattered all come. As they are trained now, so will graded. There are several reasons for about here. They had never interested they be in the future. There is no better this state of affairs, the chief one being, any one. There was nothing about them place for the accomplishment of this according to many, the barrier of lanto attract the eye or to cause comment. great work than in the Sunday school. guage and the mixture of the races. The Rut now bound together in this impos- Nearly every man who has risen in the Hawaiian Sunday School Association is ing and symmetrical arch, they will world and become successful and great made up of schools connected with the henceforth arrest the attention of every was, in his younger days, a Sunday churches of the Hawaiian Evangelical passer-by. It was thus with those early school pupil. Association and in its annual gatherings missionaries. There was little in their the language spoken is Hawaiian, work or their surroundings that aroused though interpretations are the general the admiration of men. They were men Mr. Merritt's Proposed Visit. rule. Another cause for the slow growth of sorrows, and acquainted with hardWord has reached the editor of this of organized work is the lack of interest ship, and when men saw them at their page that a plan is being considered on the part of many church members in humble work there was no beauty that whereby the Rev. Win. C. Merritt, sec- the county and territorial work. It is difthey should honor them. But now men retary of the International Sunday ficult to win their services in the general are beginning to see that these men were School Association for the Northwest work of the Association. The first edition of Mr. Burnham's catechism is freely distributed, through the kindness of Mrs. H. P. Baldwin, who for a long time, has desired something of the sort for the education of our young people. Our Young People �As conducted at present many of. the methods are out of date and need reformation. The six departments—Primary, adult, teacher training, home, temperance and missionary, are not well organized on all the islands, and very little is being done in some of these departments among the Hawaiian-speaking schools. The reasons for this are not hard to see. There is little in the line of literature for the schools conducted in Hawaiian and there is no way for some of the heads of departments to spread abroad their ideas among the people of all races here. Moreover, the chairmen of the work cannot accomplish much unless they secure sub-chairmen for the different islands. The efficiency of department work depends upon the faithfulness of the island leaders and district workers. In spite of all the barriers, progress is being made along the lines of approved Sunday school work. Many schools are doing splendidly. The weakness of the work is in its failure to provide proper support for the weaker schools, not financial but personal visitation and letters of encouragement and literature of the right kind and helpful county institutes at the time of the semi-annual church gatherings. It is true that the teacher training department is deriving support from the various island schools or institutes for ministers. If the ministers who are being instructed in new methods of work and improved systems of study, will only gather about them their teachers and give them the benefit of their new ideas and knowledge, then the problem will be solved, at least partially. The greatest work that the ministers may do in some places is in training their teachers and leading classes of young people to become teachers and workers. The home department is going forward in many localities, Oahu and Maui being perhaps in the front rank. The primary department is not well organized, neither are the adult, temperance and missionary. These last two subjects are usually presented adequately in the church services which are generally attended by the majority of the school pupils. During the recent campaign preceding the plebiscite, the subject of temperance was a very live one before the schools. A great deal of educational work in this subject has been done this year in Hawaii nei. The subject of missions is not presented very strongly in some schools, although an appeal is made for funds for work abroad, on the mainland and in the islands. It is in instruction and information in mission work among the peoples of foreign lands that we are weak. Can we not do something to arouse enthusiasm on this subject in our 15 THE FRIEND. August, 1910 island schools? We should pray more for missions in our prayers before the pupils, we should present the subject of mission work definitely, giving specific information that will interest the pupils, we should have missionary books in our school libraries, and encourage gifts to mission work abroad at home. The adult department has some problems jxculiar to these islands, and the systems that prevail in other lands may Among the Hanot be worked here. waiians there are adult classes, many of whom are doing excellent work. There is little organized work such as is being urged Upon us constantly by the officials of the International Association. There is a future for organized work along all the lines of the mainland work, but it will take much time and patience to put into operation the features that are desirable. A Sunday School Rally. On Sunday afternoon, July 24, there was a large parade and rally of the Sunday schools of Central Maui and parts of East and West Maui. Special trains brought the schools of Makawao, Pauwela, Paia, Spreckelsville, Puunene and Kahului to Wailuku, where they were met by a great gathering of the schools of Waikapu, Waihee and Wailuku. After the line of parade had been formed and banners given out to the paraders. the county band started a march, and the procession made its way to the green in front of the town hall. Here speeches were made by Messrs. Raldwin, White. Turner and Kalua. and rousing temperance songs were sung. It was a most successful affair, and gave evidence of the interest taken by the Sunday schools of Maui in the plebiscite. There were over five hundred in line and nearly a thousand at the rally. existing international agencies for the purpose of limiting the armaments of the nations of the world by international agreement, and of constituting the combined navies of the world an international force for the preservation of universal peace, and to consider and report upon any other means to diminish the expenditures of government for military purposes and to lessen the probabilities of war, THE FEDERATION OF THE WORLD. HAMILTON HOLT, Managing Editor the Independent. The foreign relations committee has just reported back favorably to the House of Representatives a bill bearing the name of Congressman Bennett of New York, providing for the appointment of a commission "to consider the expediency of utilizing existing international agencies for the purpose of limiting the armaments of the nations of the world by international agreement, and "Where is the Sunday School Lesson?" You can have It right in front of you, on the wall JOINT RESOLUTION To authorize the appointment of a commission in relation to universal peace: (House Joint Resolution 223 was fav- orably reported in behalf of the commitMr. Bennett on June 4th, and passed June 20, 1910.) Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Uinited States of America in Congress assembled, that a commission of five members be appointed by the President of the United States to consider the expediency of utilizing I tee by Hawaiian Board Book Rooms 60 Cents �of constituting the combined navies of the world an international force for the preservation of universal peace." This bill is a ways and means measure to bring about a world federation, limited to the maintenance of peace, so that our recommendations to the Third Hague Conference of 1915 may be well considered and far-reaching. It is indorsed by the New York Peace Society, the International School of Peace of Boston, and the New England Arbitration and Peace Congress held at Hartford, Conn., on May 11. If passed it will be the first time in history that a government has officially recognized that the true philosophy of the peace movement requires world federation as a prerequisite for universal peace. In his famous essay Perpetual Peace published in 1795. Emanuel Kant declared that we can never have universal peace until the world is politically organized, and it will never be possible to organize the world [>olitically until the majority of the nations have a representative form of government. At last all the IX'oples of the world have achieved in some measure representative government. Russia has its Duma; China has announced that shortly it will promulgate a constitution, while Turkey and Persia have each just gone through the throes of revolution and emerged with a If Kant's philovigorous parliament. sophy is sound, therefore, the world is at last ready for world organization and universal peace. The only two powers that ever have or ever can govern human beings are force and reason—war and law. If we do not have the one we must have the other. The problem before the world is how to decrease the area of war and increase the area of law until war vanishes and law envelopes the world. At the present moment the world is organized into fifty-nine nations claiming independence and within their territories—nominally at least—organization, law and l>eace prevail. We have already learned to substitute law for war in cities and states, and even up to the fifty-nine nations; but in that international realm over and above each nation in which each nation is equally sovereign, the only way at the present moment for a nation to secure its rights is by the use of force. August. 1910. THE FRIEND. 16 Force, therefore, or war, as it is called when exerted by a nation against another nation, is at present the only legal and final method of settling international differences. In other words the nations are in that stage of civilization today where without a qualm they claim the right to settle their disputes in a manner they would put their own subjects to death for imitating. The peace movement, therefore, is nothing but the process of substituting law for war. Rut how can we best create law in the international realm. Certainly not by the cumbrous methods of the present. Today there is no such things as a code of international law which is binding on the nations. What passes under the name of international law is simply a series of arguments, maxims, precedents and opinions. It is the work, not of legislators, but of scholars. The nations are at perfect liberty to accept it or reject il as they wish. Before we can have 'i real international law we must have behind it some conscious political organization to give it sanction and validity, and that implies a federation of the world. The history of international law prestriking analogies to the history of private law. Likewise, the history of the organization of the "United Nations," which is to give sanction to international law, will correspond to the history of the organization of the thirteen American colonies into the United sents States, therefore, furnishes the model for the United Nations. The Declaration of Independence foreshadows the declaration of interdependence The beginnings of world organization, however, have already taken place. In the Hague Court and the recurring Hague Conferences we see the germs of the international court and the parliament of man. The problem is how to develop these so that they will become the judicial and legislative departments of a ixjwerful world constitution, just as our Articles of confederation and Continental Congress developed into the present United States Constitution, which a century of storm and stress has not broken, and which still serves as a model to all the republics of the earth. A careful study of existing arbitration treaties and of the work of the first and second Hague Conferences shows that our international law is at the same stage of development as private law of about the tenth century, while the organization of the "United Nations" has reached the same stage of progress that our thirteen states did before the Constitutional Convention of 17K7. The problem, therefore, before the world is to perfect the Hague Courts and Conferences so that finally, if it be deemed necessary, we may even add ,1 world executive and thus create the united nations in the very image of the United States. The peace advocates from Perm and Kant and Hugo and Rurritt down to Hale and I'.artholdt and Carnegie have long realized that world federation is the key to peace and disarmament. Even Mr. Roosevelt in his remarkable Nobel peace address the other day at Christiania goes so far as to urge a "league of peace," to abolish war. paradoxically, by force, it" necessary. The governments themselves, however, have not yet officially recognized that world organization is the goal of international effort, though they have unconsciously and inevitably been driven much faster and farther along this path than they realize. The passage of the Bennet bill, however, will remedy this. The creation of a world federation commission would guarantee to our own people as well as to the peoples of the world that the United States is in earnest and ready to take the lead in the only practical and promising method of obtaining international peace. It seems the destiny of the United States to lead in the peace movement. The United States is the world in miniature. It is a demonstration that all the races of the world can live in peace under one government and its chief value to civilization is a demonstration of what this form of government is. We have settled more disputes by arbitration than any other nation. In all history no men have done more to spread the gospel of peace than the two Pennsylvanians, William Perm and Benjamin Franklin. David Low Dodge of New York in 1815 founded the first peace society of the world. Two generations ago Elihit Rttrritt and a dozen others in New York and New England went up and down this country, and even over to Europe, urging �August, 1910 THE and prophesying the formation of an international court which Rurritt declared when it came into existence "would constitute the highest court of appeals this side the bar of eternal justice." Coming down to more recent times it is probably a fact that the late Frederick W. I lolls of New York had more to do with the establishment of the Hague Court than anyone else, while Mr. Carnegie has given it a palate in which it shall hereafter sit. The United States tix>k the first case to the Hague Court that ever came before it, and the American minister at Venezuela sent the second case there, which brought all the great powers before its bar and established it in the estimation of civilization. Mr. Rartholdt was the first man who ever stood up in a national parliament and suggested turning the Hague Conferences into a real international parliament. Flihu Root planned the idea of having the Second Hague Conference create a world court modelled on the United States Supreme Court, and now Secretary Knox has announced its early establishment. President Roosevelt's Christiania address is nothing else than a 17 FRIEND plea for the federation of the world. Not since the "Great Design" of Henry IV. of France proposed in 1(>02, has one who has represented a great people ever promulgated so comprehensive a plan for universal peace. Mr. Taft says that if the Rennet bill becomes a law he will appoint Theodore Roosevelt as chairman of the commission. Does not the last sen tence of Mr. Roosevelt's address indicate that he would feel compelled to accept the honor? He says: "Rut the ruler or statesman who should bring about such a combination (league of peace) would have earned his place in history for all time and his title to the gratitude of all mankind." 11" the world federation commission is appointed by the United States government with Theodore R<x>sevelt as chairman, can anyone believe that the day will RESPOISS/BLE For those Ja|»nese Servants? More than we think, perhajw. Let them read a Christian paper in their own tongue. It is THE TOMO. 50c. a year. not be as brought measurably nearer, when Victor Hugo prophesied in 1849, "the only battlefield will be the market opening to commerce and the human mind opening to new ideas?" THE LATE UNPLEASANTNESS. By Collins G. Burnham. Said Teddie to him of the Vatican, I would much like to sec you if I can. The Vatican said, 'Twill be very nice, It you do not do as did Mr. Ex-Vice. Said Teddie to him of the Vatican, II you put it so, my coming you ban; Rut, Holy lather, just think of it twice, Forgive and forget the worthy l^x-Vice. The Vatican said, it cannot so be For he fellowshiped the bold Methody, And to be received by the Head of the Church, Such folk, dear sir, you must leave in the lurch. So Teddie and him of the Vatican Missed seeing each other as man and man. Rut what think you, would it not have I lad been nice they not mentioned the worthy ExVice. You can "Eat your cake and have it" in a very real sense. You can give away your property and have it,—really enjoy it, as long as you live. You couldn't have « it longer than that anyway. This is the idea of "The Conditional Gift Pi.an"s Your money.—property, or whatever can be converted into money,—pays you a good, steady income during your life and goes on working for you and for humanity after you are gone. So you ''make friends (by y the mammon of unrighteousness," So also, you "lay up for yourself treasures, etc' This is no can't. It is Christian stewardship and sound business sense combined. The Finance Committee makes you an offer of one whole per cent better than before. You can hardly invest much better elsewhere and the amount you invest with the Hawaiian Board in your life time will not be wrangled for after you are gone. N If you are ** at* It H I* it ii It . 20 years ' ~Q i( - _~ or over your money will earn 5 per cent. 'it H tt tt a it tell ll tt ti it It ti ft It M tt tt ti it fl it tt ti Q ti See the Treasurer of the Board and talk over the security, the form of gift, etc. 7W "R. F? IF~ —make your money make friends. Make it work. BOARD OF THE HAWAIIAN EVANGELICAL ASSOCIATION. ■SBBBBBBBBBBSiIBBBBBBBBBBBBBIB^iIBaSBBBBBBBBBSBBiIkIBBBBBBBBBB^ �18 —- THE FRIEND. August, I<>lo In San Francisco, July 4, George CBeckJuly 18.—Prof, and Mrs. W. D. Alexander ley, aged 61 years, descendant of the Kamecelebrated their golden wedding. EVENTS. July 19—Snakes from Australia for exhiJuly I—Col.1 —Col. Sam Norrli gives his 180,000 bition, killed according to Hawaiian law acre ranch on Hawaii to Chaa. Q. Macomb- keeping all snakes out of the islands. er.—Waaeda baaeball team arrives from July 20 —Kiitliusliisilc prohibition meet- Japan. ings. July 2—Commerce, tonnage and trade of 21 Palama Settlement Incorporated. Honolulu for tbe year ending June 30th, July 22—Paia Plantation store burned. 971,276,000. — July 4—Secretary of War Dickenson en- Prohibitionists enthusiastic. — 24—Monster prohibition rally, Aala Park. tertained In Honolulu. Visits all tbe Y. 8. fortifications.—Two new ships planned for —Yacht Hawaii wins race from San FranPacific Mall Steamship line—Admiral Geo. cisco. C. Beckley, a descendant of the KamehameJuly 26—Prohibition for Hawaii defeated 3 to I. has, dies In San Francisco. July I.—Yanagl confesses an attempt to murder other Japanese In Manoa valley.— MARRIED Summer school opens, 200 teachers pre- hatnehas. At Schnfleld Barracks, July s—Lieut. Paul A. Adams, Y. S. Surgeon. In Hilo, July f>. Hon. Rufus A. Lyman, of the old missionary Lyman family, prominent in church and state for many years. On Molokai, July 5, Otto 8. Meyer, accidentally shot while hunting; aged 16 years. In Honolulu, July 8, Joseph R. Spencer, for many years resident of Hilo, aged 80 yearn. in Honolulu, July !), Captain 11. Brooks Smith, an Kngllsh tourist stopping at Seaside hotel. In San Francisco, July 15—Wray Taylor, for many years organist and newspaper reporter In Honolulu. sent. In Honolulu, July 25, of heart disease, July 6—Foundations for fourteen Inch Judd —Luqulens.—In New Haven, Conn., Charles VV. Booth. roast defense guns reported finished at Fort June 11, 1910, Charles Sheldon Judd or On Midway Island. July 25, P. Y. Tinker, lie Russey. At Fort Armstrong (named afHonolulu to Miss Louise Luqulens. cable operator, from injuries received while ter General Armstrong, of the Hawaiian Honolulu, July 2, (living. Islands), foundations finished for 12-lnch Cunha—Williams. In May Williams. Cunha to Miss 1910, A. R. guns. Williams—Kalel —At Haiku, Maui, July 2, July 7—Joseph Leal, former chief of deJames A. Williams and Miss Daisy Kalel. tectives, and others fined for gambling at tbe Arlington Hotel.—lsoo,ooo cargo re- Hurchard—Smith.—In Honolulu, July 6, by the Rev. J. T. Jones, Daniel W. Buchard ported destroyed by fire of twenty days in and Miss Nellie G. Smith. tbe steamer Alaskan at San Diego, Cat. — LIFE ANNUITY THE IDEAL INVESTMENT. ( Continued from page 5 ) July B—Three little Japanese children Hunn—MeCormlck.—At Kawalahao Seminary, July 7, by the Rev. A. A. Kbersole, crowded from railroad bridge at Wahiawa Chester A Hunn and Miss J. S. MeCoranil all drowned. » July —Kakaako children of Mr. Rider's mission have a great feast celebrating the removal of the last saloon from their district. —A disgraceful prize fight, with rioting and betting, ut Aloha Park. pic who already own one or similar bonds. mlck. lie fore purchasing an annuity the cusPasco—White.—ln Honolulu, July 14, by the Rev. 11. H. Parker, J. H. Pasco and Kll/.a- tomer is required to make a declaration. beth A. White. slating his or her age, place of birth, resiIleerman —Yon Berg.— In Honolulu, July 14, dence, occupation, and to acknowledge by the Rev. F. N. White, Henry Heennan, the voluntary act of purchasing the anJr., and Miss Frledn Yon Herg. nuity bond. No medical or other examHouston—Watson. —In Honolulu, July If, ination of the applicant is required. .Inly 13—The governors of Maine, North Dakota, North Carolina, and Mississippi, all prohibition states, write to Hawaii showing benefits of prohibition.—The Rapid Transit by the Rev. .1. W. Wadman, Lieut. Comsystem begins large improvements. mander Victor Huston and Mrs. P. H. Watson. Inly 14—"Fall of the Bastlle" celebrated by the French in Honolulu, French battle- Robinson —Hough—In Honolulu, July HI, by ship Montcalm arriving In time for celebrathe Rev. A. A. Kbersole, R. W. Robinson tion.—Kuhlo writes a letter favoring "cutand Miss llertha D. Hough. ting out liquor," but falls to be on hand to Tracy—Oss.—ln Honolulu, July 18, by the "assist." Rev. A. A. Kbersole, Clifton Tracy and Miss Thora O. Oss. July 1*>—Col. Chas. Miles, in charge of Salvation Army Pacific work, arrived In Honolulu.—Marine Railway sold to the IslDEATHS and Steam Navigation Company. July 16—Punahou baaeball club win game from the Japanese Waseda University In Honolulu, July 2, Alexander Young, Club, 1 to 0, In 17 Innings. aged 78 years. I Hand Craft Wares YE ARTS & Life annuity bonds are not taxable. Ilie following reasons for investing in life annuity bonds show them to be superior to any other class of investments:— First, the principal is absolutely safe. Second, the annuitant will receive a "Beginning at Jerusalem" Our (iosjiel responsibility probably I covers the kitchen and the back yard. 50c. a year. : : Kodak Developing and Printing Artistic Picture Framing ■» CRAFTS SHOP : Fort Street below King : — : I Give the cook THE TOMO. : | �THE FRIEND, August, l'»l() high rate of interest as loii" as be OT she shall live. Third, interest is always paid promptly. Fourth, no money tying idle, thus reducing the income. Fifth, no commissions or expenses in making investments. Sixth, no ill-feeling against any person who may have advised a certain invest men! thai eventually proved to be a loss. Seventh, knowing that no court costs or legal expenses will consume a portion or all of your estate. Eighth, life annuity bonds cannot he attached for debt. Ninth, trouble and worry over finance* eliminated. Tenth, the assurance that the principal will be used in some good channel after the death of the annuitant. Eleventh, the full enjoyment of know ing thai your wishes will be carried out after your decease. Twelfth, the satisfaction that conies to a person who knows he lias tried to help others and by so doing has obeyed the command, "Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: for where your treasure is. there will your heart be also." ll has often been said that annuity bondholders live longer than other people; from the simple fact that all financial worry has been eliminated from their lives. After ten years experience and a careful inquiry into the life annuity business the writer is firmly assured that the life |V (laldntin Rational Sank of JJalittlai KAHULUI, MAUI, T. H. BANKING, EXCHANGE, IN3URANCE. annuity bond is by far the most satisfactory financial investment that can be made. Be strong ! It matters not how intrenched the wronn How hard the battle noes, the day how TOO MUCH stress cannot l>e laid on lon^, the importance of having your eyes fitted with proj)er glasses. on ! To-morrow comes Faint not, —Maltbie Davenport Batxock. Term* Depoelte, Safe Depeelt Vaults for Rent. S. E. LUCAS, Optician Masonic Temple, Alakea Street. HAWAIIAN IRON FENCE & MONUMENT WORKS, Ltd. 180 5 St Phone 648 Sitfos, Vaults, Concwto Reinforcement. King %vt anto pitoto Uealtrs 1066 Fort Street Pictures and Picture Framing > Local Views Ansco Cameras ji Ansco Films Art Pottery and Casts DEVELOPING AND PRINTING L.B.KERR&CO. ALLEN & ROBINSON UMITED - LIMITED. . Ai.akea Street. The only store in Honolulu where lumber and Building Material, Builders' Hardware, you can get anything in Wearing ApPaints, Oils, Etc. parcl for MEN, WOMEN or CHILDREN Good Goods and Reasonable Prices. Agents for Walkover and Sorosis Shoes. 55 Queen Street : : Honolulu. W f\ni ftafional $aiik of AT HONOLULU. CAPITAL ?500,000. CECIL BROWN, Preg. W. R. CASTLE, M. P. ROBINSON, Vtce-Pres. O. N. WILCOX. Jtautaii SURPLUS $123,000. L. T. PECK, Cashier. Q. P. CABTLE. United States Government Depository Genebal Interest on Is Your Japanese Servant a Christian? Let him have THE TOMO Every Month. 50c. a year. and Cable. Savings Bank Department, 19 Drafts, Money Orders, Letters of Credit Transfers available in all parts of the world. Banking.—lssues ACCOUNTS INVITED �Attfttst, 1 >10. THE FRIEND 20 ( f~* C A. SCHAEFER at CO., If You Are Wise THE BANK OF HAWAII, Ltd. Honolulu HAVE A FULLY EQUIPPED HOUSEHOLD DEPARTMENT. including Garland Stoves and Ranges, Aluminum Ware, Enameled Ware. Kitchen Furnishings, Refrigerators, Garden Tools, Rubber Hose, &c. Second floor, take the Elevator. Day & Co. FINE GROCERIES OLD KONA COTFEE A SPECIALTY. B. F. EHLERS&CO. P. O. BOX 71 c. BALDWIN, Trve Leading Dry Goods House in the Territory. Especial attention given to Mail Orders. ALWAYS USE California Rose Creamery Butter Guaranteed the Best and full 16 ounces. HENRY MAY & CO.. LimiTKO TELEPHONES 92 LBWEBi & COOKE, Ltd. LUMBER, tion Co.. Klhel Plantation Co., Hawaiian Sugar Co., Kahultil R. R Co, and Knhuku Plantation. B^*. C. H Bellina, Mgr Ttl. Main 109. CLUB STABLES FORT ST., ABOVE HOTEL. RIGS OF ALL KINDS, GOOD HORSES, , ,0^ Honolulu, T. 11. CAREFUL DRIVERS. THK YON lIAMM YOUNG "Thy Irian-Servant and thy Maid~Servant" AKK THEY JAPANESE? CO Ltd IMPORTERS, COMMISSION AND AUTOMOBILE MI'.RCHANTS Honolulu, T, H. A BIBLE WITH COnnENTARIES HONOLULU, T. H. 22 AGENTS FOR—Walluku Siignr Co., Ha wailau Agricultural Co., Onomca Sugar Co., Pepeskeo sugar Co., Honomu Sugar Co., Ltd. Ihikalaii Plantation Co.. I'aauliau BllgSr A LEXANDER & I'lantiit'on Co., Hutchinson Plantation Co., v.iowalu I'lautatlou. Waliuanalo Sugar Co.. OFFICERS—H. P. Baldwin, Pratt; J. B. Honolulu Plantation Co., Kllauea Sugar Castle, Ist Vlce-Pres't; W. M. Alexander, 2d Co., Hilo Sugar Co., Baldwin Locomotive Vlce-I'res't; J. P. Cooke, Treas.; W. O. Works, Oceanic Steamship Co. Smith, Secy; George R. Carter, Auditor. LIST OF OFFICERS— K. F. Bishop, President; Geo. H. Robertson, Vice-President and Manager; W. W. North, Treasur SUGAR FACTORS AND COMMIS- or; Richard Ivors, Secretary; .1. It. Qstft, Auditor; C. H. Cooke. R. A. Cooke. 0. R. SION MERCHANTS. Carter, A. Gartley, Directors. AGENTS FOR- Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Co., Haiku Sugar Co.. Paia Planta- E. O. Hall <& Son C. J. General Mercantile Commission Agents. Queen St., Honolulu, T. H. COMMISSION MERCHANTS. Honolulu, T. H. you will think of future as well as present needs. j» j* Begin by opening a saving account with this bank. .** > Banking by mail, 4£% interest. • Importers and ' BSBWBB & CO., Limited, GIVE THEM THKTOMO I 50c. a year. \X7 W. AHANA k CO., TAILORS. Telephone Blue 2741. P. O. Rox 98G. G2 King Street. CLOTHES CLEANED AND REPAIRED. MERCHANT ALL ON THE SAME PAGE. REVERENT, SCHOLARLY AND FULL OF INSPIRING SUGGES- TION.—IT IS Scofield's LTD. Henry H. Williams FUNERAL DIRBOTOB. Graduate of Dr. Rodgers Perfect Embalming School of San Francisco, Cal., also of The Renouard Training School We have many otber kinds too. for Embalmers of New York. And a Licensed Embalmer for the State of New York, also a member of the State Funeral Directors Association of Cali- Hawaiian loam book Rooms AND TOMBSTONES FURNISHED. Chairs to Rent. 1142, 1144 FORT ST. LOVE BUrLDINO, fornia. MONUMENTS MERCHANT AND ALAKEA STREETS. HONOLULU. Residence, 240 King Street. Telephones: Office, 64; Res., 1020. � 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 (1910) 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 - 1910.08 - Newspaper https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/4474af095a86bc68c9bb9ff3a0b4fc67.pdf 8a4123ca087de0cfc6b08f5360eb5881 PDF Text Text �September, I'MO THE FRIEND. 2 BISHOP Hawaiian Crust Co. THE FRIEND LIMITED. & COMPANY, BAN KERB. Is published the first week of each month in Honolulu, 1. 11., at the HaMarino, Life Fire, HONOLULU, HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. Maw waiian Board Book Rooms, cor. Alakea and Accident and Merchant Sts. Subscription price, Established in 1858. $1.00 per year. SURETY ON BONDS. A special rate is made to Mission Transact a General Banking and ExPiste Glass, Employers' |m\ Churches or Sunday Schools in the change Business. Loans made on approved Liability, and BurBills discounted. Commercial Islands. Clubs of 25 to one address 25 security. glary Insurance. Credits granted. Deposits received on curw?9MHffr cV cents apiece per year. rent account subject to check. 923 FORT STREET, | sLZL-Ml R»/ Safe Dspoalt Building. Lots for Sale IN "q~ollege pi All business letters should be address-1 Regular Savings Bank Department maintained in Hank Building on Merchant Street. cd and all M. (r.'i and checks should be and Insurance Department, doing a Life, made out to Fire and Marine business on most favorable TheodOM Richards, terms, in Friend Building on Bethel Street. Business Manager of The Friend. P. O. Box 489. All Communications of a literary charac-1 ter should be addressed to THE FRIEND, corner Alakea and Merchant Sts., Honolulu, T. H. and must reach the Board Rooms by the 24th of the month. hills THE BOARD OF EDITORS: LOW TRICES EASY TERMS Trent Trust Co. Ltd. Doremus Scudder. Editor in Chief. Frank S. Scudder, Managing Editor. F. W. Damon. John O. Woolley. A. A. Eberaole. Orramel H. Gulick, H. P. Judd. W. B. Oleson Theodore Richards. Paul Super. William D. Westervelt. OAHU Perley L. Home. Ernest J. Recce COLLEGE. Edward W. Thwlng, (Arthur F. Griffiths, A.8., President.) — —and Punahou Preparatory School. (Charlea 1 For T. Pitts, A. 8., Principal). Offer complete College preparatory work, together with special Commercial, Muale, and Art courses Catalogue, address Foreign Correspondent. • The BOY Wants Stories There are none so good as the old BIBLE stories, the boy himself as judge. We know for we have tried with a number of boys, girls too. But you should have GOOD PICTURES as texts when you tell Bible stories. We have a Riblc with 800 good illustrations. We knew one copy of it to be Business Agent, worn out by the use of one family,— Honolulu, H. T. four children one after the other literally wearing it to pieces. JM. • WHITNEY, M. D., D. D. 8. DENTAL ROOMS. Henry Waterhouse Trust Co. UMITKO STOCKS, BONDS AND ISLAND SECURITIES Fort and Merchant Streets, Honolulu. HF. • WICHMAN & CO., LTD. Manufacturing Optician, Jeweler and Silversmith. Diamonds, American and Swiss Watches, Art Pottery, Cut Glass Leather Goods, Etc. • Hawaiian Islands. Honolulu Importer of Castle & Cooke, Ltd. SHIPPING AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS, SUGAR FACTOR AND t'.ntereci Octnlurr ij, iqoi, at Honolulu, Hmroff, da seetmrf clam matter, tiinfer <irf at Cnngrtm at March j, IS7O. GENERAL INSURANCE AGENT. REPRESENTING JONATHAN SHAW, Oahu College. 1 We have one. and have sent for a number more. Kwa Plantation Company, Waialua Agricultural Co., Ltd. Kohala Huirar Company, Wairaca Sugar Mill Company. Apokaa Sugar Company, I.t J. Wahlawa Con. Pineapple Co., Ltd. Kulton Iron Worka of St. Louis, Blake Steam Pumps. Marsh Steam Pumps, American Hteam Pump Co. Weston's Centrifugal*. Huldwin's Automatic Juice Weigher, Rabcock ft Wilcoi Hoilers, Dcmingi Superheaters, Green. Fuel Rconomlsera. Planters Line Shipping Co. Matton Navigation Co. Insurance Company. (Hartford Fire) CitizensInsurance Co. Fireman's Fund Insurance Co. (Marine Dept.l National Fire Insurance Co, Protector Underwriters of the Phoenix of Hartford, New England Mutual Life Insurance Co., of Boiton. ESTEY ORGANS — — Hawaiian Board Book Book Rooms. Board Rooms. Hawaiian AT THK Fort Street • • - Boston Building. " �The Friend. OLDEST NEWSPAPER WEST OF THE ROCKIES. Vol. LXVIII HONOLULU, H. T., SEPTEMBER, 1910 TREASURER'S STATEMENT. From July 21 to August 20, 1910. RECEIPTS A. B. C. F. M Alexander Settlement A M. A Bush Place Chinese Work 140.00 200.00 4.25 154.00 112.40 15.85 83.66 Friend Hoaloha Invested $ Funds Japanese Work Kalihi Settlement Kauai General Fund Kawaiahao 8emlnary Maunaolu Seminary Maui General Fund Mills Institute Ministerial Relief Oahu General Fund Office Expense Palama Milk Palama Settlement Preachers' Training Fund Tomo 971.33 127.80 191.35 403.00 52.80 8.40 100.00 34.80 166.75 290.55 27.00 In the old days of college rushes, the well as the most risky was that when class met class in huge triangles of human weight, apex to apex. It was an honor to be chosen for the point of contact. The boldest and brawniest usually got the job. and bore the brunt and most of the bruises too. When the Liquor interests and the prohibitionist clashed in the plebiscite rush, we had our best and brainiest at the apex all right, hut it verily looked as though the enemy did most of the planning of our formation with a view to mangling our front. The Bulletin, the "paid agitator" of the liquor people, may have been said to have done a good stroke of strategy for its client when it kept ringing the changes on "Wooleyism" as the mainspring of the movement against the saloons. To make the people believe that the fight against liquor was purely the result of a "butt in" on the part of an outsider, seemed to be a puerile and ini|X)ssiblc task. We are not sure altogether whether a paper of the low morale of the Bulletin really succeeded in accomplishing this or whether it but voiced the sentiiiKiit of many who wanted to believe it. It was clear enough that many whose financial interests suggested that they find a "scapegoat" gladly hailed a chance to put the odium on the back of the malahini for the violation of what they were pleated to call their "consciences." So John (i. Woolley, after thirty years of big battle over large areas with at least plenty of fresh air, appeared to be presenting the spectacle of standing at hay in the nation's backyard ("cow-pen" the Advertiser would call it) both ears and nostrils affronted by the little local emanations. To be sure, it will not hurt him, but we are sorry that it had to be. Hail to the chief. T. R. most spectacular as No. 9 There are two classes of persons who arc not permitted to read this article. First, those who are such ardent admirers of New York that they can see no fault in it: for herein appear certain aspersions upon the city, although it is to me the most homelike and beloved of all the cities of the world. Second, no one may read this who has not been away from New York for at least seven years, for lit will only say, "I knew all that before." No! this is written only for those who can claim some remote relationship to Rip Van Winkle, and can appreciate the experience of waking up in a familiar place and finding its familiarity gone. Without Form and Void. The Grand Central Station is the first surprise. Even children can remember the short time ago when men Said "It is 8.40 too small." ami forthwith enlarged and 50.00 beautified it. and garnished it with art; 17.40 but that splendid station has had to give 2.10 place again to a new and mammoth struc$3,161.83 ture. Into, or rather towards this strucEXPENDITURES ture our train makes its way; the con$ 5,884.20 A. B. C. F. M ductor calls out "(Jrand Central Station," 225.00 Alexander Settlement and we look out on a vast expanse of ex65.25 Bush Place cavations, which make us think of the 25.00 Central Kona Settlement ruins of Pompeii, and involuntarily in188.00 Chinese Work quire, "Isn't the train going in any fur628.50 Salaries ther ?" at which the conductor smiles, and 716.50 the passengers begin their pilgrimages of $31.50 Eng. and Port. Work several minutes to reach the exit from Salaries 771.50 the station. 803.00 The amused expression on the face of 9985 Friend the initiated causes a momentary embarGeneral Fund lncld 82.00 rassment, but this is soon dispelled when 541.00 Salaries 3.75 we see the crowds of people rushing to Hawaii General Fund and fro in the station, trying to find out Hawaiian Work $ 11.75 where they are "at," while outside, and 516.15 Salaries even up against the station are scores of 527.90 people asking "Where tinder the sun is Hoaloha 64.45 20.35 the dumb thing anyhow, and how do you Invested Funds get into it?" Japanese Work New New York. $359.80 Yes, even New Yorkers around 640.85 Salaries In seven years, it is sometimes said, Crand Central 1,000.65 Station act like mildly mad 253.24 a growing body undergoes a complete men, or like a hill of ants that has been Kalihi Settlement 197.60 change. That New York belongs to that stirred up with a stick. Kawaiahao Seminary 167.00 class is apparent to one who has been Palama Settlement 33.00 away from it a little while. Having noted Tomo J* 75.00 Waiakea Settlement the changes as reported in the papers one Out of Chaos Comes Creation. $10,184.74 imagines he is prepared to see them withExcess of Expenditure over Reout surprise, but let him not deceive himSurprise No. 2 is the splendid underceipts 7,022.91 self, the man who has been away will be ground transportation service. Seven 2,362.05 surprised when he sees the things of years ago there were evidences of a proBalance at the bank mised subway, but a strike was on, and T. R. which he has only read and heard. �4 the city had the appearance of having been rent in twain by an earthquake, and the rift deserted in despair, rather than of being near the realization of a grand subway system. Now we ride through that same fissure over miles of elegantly appointed road, with stations embellished with vari-colored marble glazed tile and mosaics, through which there is a constant procession of express and local trains. Yet with all the new facilities for travel, the traffic already outstrips the capacity of the road. A Firmament Above and Below the Waters. Three new spider-web wonders have appeared in the sky during these seven years—the new bridges across the Fast river, while under the rivers east and west, we speed through the tunnels of which we heard plenty but saw nothing when last I was in New York, and under the feet of the people on the firmament above, and over the heads of those in the firmament below, the ocean tides ebb and How, carrying their large freight of human lives and the commerce of the nations. Surely man has not heard in vain the command. "He fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth and subdue it!" But the marvel of it all to me is that the most of these wonders I have mentioned have been brought forth in the six creative days that I have been out of the country, and on this the seventh day I can open my eyes and see them completed, and hear the universal verdict, "Behold it is very good." What untold skill and energy and millions of money have been expended upon these works, and yet seven years ago they were not. now they arc. and so far as we are concerned, last night when we closed our eyes on N. Y. scenes, these things were not; this morning they are. They have sprung up in a night: yesterday we stumbled along this earthquake riven street; today we spin through its white tiled underground palaces. We duck our heads down in New York City and bob them up serenely in Jersey City or Brooklyn. I really think this out-Alices Alice in Won derland; a little round copper or nickel is the key to the trap-doors that open into these new sub. subter. super, inter, extra, circum worlds. And are there no new worlds for New York to open up? Oh yes, unnumbered dreams of them. She has a new proposition to match every remaining preposition in the Latin dictionary. Already one can hear the wheels of progress chanting them off in rythmic prophecy. A or ab, abs, absque, dc. Coram, palam. cum. ex, c. Sine, tonus, pro and prae. THE September. 1910 FRIEND The Heavens Above. If. following the genius of Oriental languages. I were to coin a descriptive title for New York. I think I might call it "The Heaven-Aspiring City." How many stories high are the sky-scrapers ? I cannot tell you. The steps heavenward are too many. We count the stories bytens now. not by units. You get into an express elevator for the twentieth, thirtieth or fortieth story and change cars to a local if you must figure by units. It reminds one of the story of the man who after going indefinitely up, knocked at the door and said, "Is God in?" Or of the story of a little four-year-old who, seeing one of these sky-scrapers, mid, "Father, isn't there a story in the Bible about people who built a house up to Heaven, and God didn't like it?" "Yes," "Well, there's one pretty near up. I guess He'll knock that down." ()ver and above the skyscrapers is another evidence of the heaven-aspiring character of Xew York, as the airships and balloons frequently rise, and from the high roofs of houses spectators are "rubbernecking with the ever upward gaze. Surely this is no groveling age. Nlan no longer meekly claims kinship with the worms of the dust, but return to the (ireek idea of man—the anthropos —the being with his "face up." The Earth Beneath. But his feet are in the dirt, and dirt is plenty enough in New York. New York grows so fast it can't keep clean. Really it is the dirtiest civilized city I know. It is always tearing down and tearing up. Like a growing boy, always tearing his clothes and without time to wash his hands and face. Even if he should be persuaded to dress up clean, his insatiate activity would prevent him from keeping so. New York never has the finished touch one notices in other cities. Compare it. for instance, with Paris, or even with foggy London. San Francisco, which has gone down and up again within the last four years, is not such a mussy city as New York. ( Positively no NewYorker is permitted to read the above But we must make allowparagraph.) ance for the growing boy. His last year's clothes are never big enough for this year. He seems to be gifted with perpetual youth, and after all. would we not rather see him a trifle unkempt in his appearance than beginning to show a spirit of decrepitude? Still we do not say we would not be better pleased if he would wash and be clean. Then we could look upon this wonderful new creation with real pride and say. "Behold it is very good. We might even share the opinion of a certain commercial traveler whom I ocean voyage, and who in answer to my inquiry said, "I come from the city." "What city?" said I: to which he made the calm retort. "The City; F. S. S. there is but one city." met on an Samuel Newell Emerson. Oct. 10, 1832—Aug 12, 1910. On the 12th of August in the Queen's Hospital of this city there passed on to the world of spirits one of the sons of the early missionaries, who for a lifetime of nearly 78 years had been well known and highly respected by the circle of the old residents u|x>n the island of ()ahu. He was the oldest of the eight children of Rev. John S. Fincrson. and his beloved wife, Mrs. M. S. N. Emerson, who together from their landing as missionaries u|>on these islands in April. 1831. until 186", a period of thirty-six years, held and led the flourishing mission station of Waialua, in the northwest part of this island, with a break of four years spent as teachers in the high school of Lahainaluna. After the death of his father, Mr. Saml. Emerson took filial care of his mother in their Waialua home until she passed on. He was never married, and for late years has lived entirely alone. llc was a wide reader and possessed information in many lines, a most thoroughly conscientious Christian man. He was one of the charter members of the Honolulu Young Men's Christian Association, and one ever worthy of the esteem of his fellow citizens. A marked feature of his career was that of cheerfulness under adverse circumstances, and faithful endeavor for the l>enefit of others. In spite of the almost total deafness that clouded the latter twenty years of life he was a regular attender and worshipper in the house of God. He may in brief be characterized as a humble, cheerful and conscientious O. H. G. Christian man. "Cannot and WILL NOT Be Observed." The following from the May 1 number of the "Brewers' Journal," New York, gives the real attitude of the liquor traffic. It says: "No matter what laws may be made to cripple the bevereges industries of our present time, They cannot and will not be observed by those managing these industries." �THE September. 1910 FRIEND. 5 challenging and skirmishing, it has be- Range Lights gun. Voices of the Future. By JOHN G. WOOLLEY, LL. D. Popular Prohibition. I low vividly we can still recall the sound of tears in Frances Willard's voice When the dog days thin the blood, when, like a glorified Peter the Hermit, anil the Kona breeze makes thinking a she went sweeping from state to state, drudgery, we take a trip to the main- half angel, half nemesis, pleading, arland. Why not let our minds go voyag- raigning, inspiring. ing to shake out the dead air of an illThat was in the seventies snislling plebiscite? The Prohibition Party, with set, sad To date nine states have made the countenance, did a great work greatly. liquor business an outlaw. Ten states It broke a new way for liberty of conarc now in the midst of campaigns for out state-wide prohibition. News of the Texas, that eleventh has just come. would cut up into forty-five Hawaiis, has had a plebiscite, and an emphatic majority of her four millions has directed the legislature to present a prohibition lull for the whole great state. Good news comes, too, of better enforcement in the difficult areas, and the howls of the liquor dealers that "prohibition does not prohibit" furnish eloquent corroboration. The only time when they can be believed i? when they lie. At last the time has come when i speech against the liquor business can begin with a strong, high note of cheer. Not that the deep, dark pathos and outrage of the thing have greatly diminished, but because the apathy, the ignorance, the subserviency of decent citizens is disappearing like the valley mists at sunrise; and the sparse and sorrowful militia of former days has grown to an enthusiastic army of invasion, keen and fit for war to.the finish. To those of us who bore the heat and burden of the movement in the lean, gray years, this day has seemed a long time on the way. When Doctor Billy Clark convened the first temperance society of modern times, in Saratoga County, New York, Ik did not dream of anything so extravagant as a campaign to stop the trade, that lawfully, respectably, and as a matter of course held out the cup that curses while it cheers, to all ranks and conditions of society. Even the exjiectation of a little human salvage in his own neighborhood seemed fantastical. That was In 1808. It was a forlorn hope of all but ruined men that formed the Washingtonian Society in the forties. And in the fifties when that movement burst into a flame of righteously indignant legislation, that would have swept the liquor business from the map of trade, the earthquake of civil war came and engulfed it in a tidal wave of Mood and beer and bossism. That was in the sixties. of the partizan wilderness, science, the polls. If there is any human activity in civil or moral engineering entitled to be called fundamental ami eternal, it is that of casting up highways for the people. The Roman Empire has been dead for centuries ; but Roman roads still stretch their brawny arms in full, beneficent efficiency, untouched by age; for kings may come and dynasties may go, but roads rule on forever. A road is an atonement laid in economics. The spirit of God is the togetherness of men, in the name of progress "two or three," or a billion. It was no accident that Jesus never said, "I am the man," but "I am the way." The Prohibition Party was the bridge builder of the great reform, a rough mechanic, but its work abides and will abide. It fixed the hated word "prohibition" in ]K)litical language and put its haughty rival "personal liberty" in permanent contempt. It drove the tough, straight-grained and pointed tree trunks of knowledge, conscience and conviction into the shifting sands of party politics, down to the hardpan. Its persuasions fell like blows, vexing and spattering the Christian voters camping supinely by the party streams, until for very shame, they stood erect at attention, caught the key and rythm of the pile-driver, enlisted in the ragged regiments, crossed the rubicon of Christian independence, and threw their party badges in the stream. So that tonight we stand within the gates of victo — tory. But that means only that we have got a chance to fight. This is the net achievement of a hundred years, that we have made the enemy come out from his distilleries and breweries, his warehouses and saloons, his clubs and speakeasies, his drug stores and canteens, his gambling houses and brothels, into the ojien and into battle form. And this is why we cheer as we go forward ; not because the fight is finished, but because after a baffling century of But our present cheers must not conceal the voices of the future. We shall have hot work, from now on. Villainy takes naturally to strategy; cruelty dies hard. This coward driven farther and farther into a corner will fight like hell. That is to say, will strangle with the brimstone fumes of slander, will trap and torture with the flying cavalry of lies. Yet we do well to cheer, in celebration of the simplified conditions of the conflict. After all the carking yearn of tricks and bribes and crimes, the liquor trade, hemmed in by mountains of public sentiment and rivers of popular knowledge, takes up the gage of battle and with grim and dreadful impudence, proposes a "campaign of education." This itself is victory, and the beginning of the end. And if democracy is not a failure our complete triumph is in sight. All the signs are auspicious. In the first place, a fine new spirit runs through our own ranks. The critical attitude among ourselves is dying out. It was excusable and inevitable in the boom days of mere agitation, and did little harm. Looking back, we see abundant justification, and even abundant, credit, for us all Every move, however rashly made, was well worth while. Every rivalry promoted zeal and sharpened the focus of the public mind. But looking forward, we see that divisions would be hurtful. Cooperation is the keynote for the future. The right hand of fellowship among ourselves is the best weajion we can raise against the . enemy. Shaking hands is good training for the grip and heart muscles, and these are what we shall use mostly. We have to get our ballots, the white fingers of our citizenship, to the throat of the liquor traffic and squeeze its accursed gullet till it quits forever. There must, of course, be a few cavilers where so many are engaged. They are hard to understand. They are impossible to reconcile. They remind one of the baby that was crying bitterly. When a tender-hearted passer asked the boy in charge of the infant "Why doeH the baby cry?" the boy answered resignedly, "Oh, I don't know what makes him cry! He is all the time crying; I never saw anybody look on the dark side like he does." But we who compose the great working body of the movement ought to adopt as a great working commandment, "Thou shalt not cheapen a comrade." In the second place, we have learned �6 slowly and reluctantly, but surely, that economics is the basis of public morality: clothes, shelter, food, efficiency, diversion, justice, man to man. Moral muscles and religious nerves that do not play on these produce mere political hysteria. The present turn of the tide of battle came when the Blucher of "big business" brought its burly reinforcements into action. And now we are as willing as we are able to meet the economic argument where it is, without any show of condescension or superior virtue. The economic argument is on the ground, on the counter, on the bench, on the desk, in service, not in services. The organized liquor trade is base and crooked to the core; but many a citizen who knows that, is yet honestly persuaded that the license system, poor as it is, is all the prohibition that is practicable at present. Such men are not to be belittled, or preached at. They must be met and taken into camp with facts. In the third place, the height and the length of our endeavor, no longer blind us to the breadth of it. The variations of local sentiment and local symptoms have come to be recognized as clearly, and taken as seriously as the great central purpose. County man-ship is seen to be as worthy in its way, as statesmanship. The doctrine of the parable looms large in reason and experience, as well as authority, that the faithful over a few things is in the true line of honorable service and promotion. It is a pity that the charge may yet be heard, sometimes, that local option is immoral. For one thing, the statement is rank nonsense—unless democracy is immoral ; and for another thing, some of the best work in the world is of the masonry of honest mistakes corrected: and the sure correction of the weaknesses of local option is state and national prohibition. The John Brown days are past and gone. This is the Lincoln period of our reform, and Lincoln's charity should pervade it. In the fourth place, the ugly old phrase "whiskey party" has gone to the scrap-heap. There is a whiskey party, but it has no relation to the political parties save that of a highwayman to the stage-coach to hold them up and rob them. The political parties are very disappointing, mixed and human, but they are fundamentally and practically patriotic. Human weakness and selfishness abound in them, but strength and loyalty much more abound. Party lines are fading out, in the light of the new national morality,and we have outgrown the folly of wounding men to win them. THE FRIEND. In the fifth place, the lampooning of Congress is going out of fashion. It is high time. To keep it up would be to advertise our ignorance, or malice, as well as to obstruct our progress. Congressional action is absolutely necessary in aid and recognition of the police power of the states. The Department of Internal Revenue and the regulations of inter-state commerce are in effect the two most powerful friends of the organized treason to everything from the cradle to the flag. To bring them to our side, or shame them into standing up for fair play, is the most important work we have on hand. Meanwhile Congress has become friendly toward our work. Any reasonable statute in aid of state or local prohibition will pass the Senate and the House, by a broadly and splendidly nonpartisan majority, once it can be got on the floor for passage. The peril to such bills is in committee, where minorities may be powerful for delay. I speak from personal and recent knowledge when I say that we can look to Washington with confidence, if only we are sane enough and just enough to be patient with the slow turning of the great federal millstones that have to work on such enormous crops of public sentiment and grind the grist so fine. Finally, we realize better, a fact selfevident, but often overlooked by reformers, that we can go no faster than the people. They are interested in many things, and different groups place the accent of precedence differently. The liquor problem has no warrant to demand the right of way and a clear track. It must simply take its place with the rest and put its trained and mighty shoulder to the wheel of general progress. One still hears, now and then, that we must have "prohibition with a party behind it." That, I think, is precisely what we must not have. Parties, while not unrighteous, are the weakest engines of righteousness. They run by weathercock power. Their cardinal doctrine is "Thou shalt follow the multitude to do whatever will round it up in the party corral." Their message to their young men is: "My son, if enough sinners entice thee, consent and be quick about it." Minority parties are exceptions. But when they come to majority the Delilah of dalliance with power crops their hair. What we need and all we need is prohibition with the people behind it. J« The Outlook. This, I think, is the rationale of the We have won our present situation. fight to get our question to the people. The liquor trade has lost its fight to September, 1910 keep it away from the people. The party boss, our enemy and the liquor dealers' friend, has been Jonahed overboard by the crew of the ship of state, and no political whale appears to have the stomach for a prophet of that flavor. The party constituencies are running together u]>on issues of vital morality. Government of the people, by the people, and for the people, has begun to arrive. In the present forward movement we have every advantage of equipment. The breath of victory is in our nostrils The truth of history is with us. The voice of science is heard in our camp. The sanctions of religion gird us to battle. The The press corroborates our message. daily walk and conversation of the business world is toward us. The license system is itself a plea of "guilty," both on the part of the trade and the people. In the past, until the advent of the Anti-Saloon League, we scorned the critical study of "methods." Our work was not education but appeal. "Stand up and be counted for the good you know and have published" was what we said and all we said. Drunkards and drunkenness were the self-evident proofs we offered, and our whole demand was made upon the Christian voter. We won that fight, and that brought us to the present point of departure. But let no man fool himself with the thought that we have whipped the liquor traffic. I know the splendid gains that we have made, and to my own heart I boast about them. But I know also, all too well, that relatively we have made little difference in the volume of the liquor business. I recall how General Braddock. able, brave, proud of his country, loyal to his King, marched with his little army into the Western wilderness against the French and Indians at Fort Duquesne. The Indians met him first. From every British point of view they were contemptible. He could have wiped them out before breakfast if he could have laid hands on them. They were there but he scarcely caught sight of them. In one respect they were anything but contemptible—tenacity and singleness of purpose. They cared nothing about honor. They cared nothing about military form. But they knew the value of their hunting ground, and they were there to save it. They were not too proud to crawl like snakes in the grass. They dodged from tree to tree. They ran like hares. But they shot straight. They staid by the stuff. And General Braddock got into history as the author of "Braddock's defeat." Our enemy is like that. But we are not like that. The advance guard of the liquor trade are moral, industrial and . �THE September. 1910 Who teaches that it is a hardship that political savages. They are out for pelts and scalps and subsistence. They sneak, the saloon must pay a thousand dollars a they crawl, they burrow, they murder year for the mere privilege of showing while they run. They torture the cap- its painted harlot face upon the street? tured, they rob the dead. Who teaches that it is a short-sighted But ours, if not better soldiers than our kinsmen at Fort Duquesne, knew their enemy better. Baffled and checked by treachery, they kept right on. Shot in the back they fell forward, and we steplied over them, and sounded the advance, until by sheer devotion we have torn the blanket Indians of the liquor trade from their cover. And now, at last, they form in the open under the walls of their twin citadels, the brewery and the distillery, where the sleek and epauletted field marshals of the business are in council and command. And now these strategists of hops and malt and mash have set up a bureau of fake statistics and ordered "a campaign of education." It is a paltry battle for real fighting men, but we must accept it. J* So, Then, Forward ! So. then, at last and finally, we face the issue and the enemy, and the ancient, eternal general orders for righteousness run along the line, "Say unto the children of Israel that they go forward." Prohibitionists in Bands of Hope and Loyal I.egions, with gentle insistence getting little boys and girls to sign the pledge of total abstinence. Go forward! Prohibitionists in Rescue Missions, throwing the life-line to half-dead derelicts of the saloon, Go forward! Prohibitionists in the Women's Christian Temperance Union "doing everything" to save and build up womanhood. (io forward! Prohibitionists in leagues and federations, marshaling the troops of trade and health and order against exposed positions of the enemy, Go forward! Prohibitionists in bureaus at Washington carrying ammunition for the heavy ordinance on Capitol Hill, Go forward ! Prohibitionists in press and pulpit keeping watch over the springs of civic righteousness and justice, Go forward! Prohibitionists at large, enlisted but voteless home-makers, bearing the arc of the covenant of democracy, Go forward ! Now, what are the branches taught in the liquor dealers' campaign of education ? I shall take that up presently. What is not taught is most instructive. Who teaches that a saloon, a brewery, a distillery, a jobbery, a blendery, is a good thing for any community? Who teaches that the liquor seller grades up to the baker or the carpenter, in the scheme of business life? 7 FRIEND business policy to forbid the sale of liquor to men below the age of twentyone? Who teaches that the best patron of the saloon acquires the best judgment for such buying? Who teaches that in advertising the attractions of a community saloons should be set down with churches, schools and factories ? Not a man, drunk or sober, in all the motley multitude of teachers and pupils in the "campaign of education" was ever heard to claim one atom of virtue or of righteousness for the business. Call up the grocery and challenge it, "What right have you to live?" "The right of being honest and useful and helpful. By so much as my merchandise goes out into the homes of the community, it is made a better place to live in." tt Tar and Feathers. Call up the saloon: "Why should we not tar and feather you and ride you out of town upon a rail? Why should we not hang you by the neck at the edge of the city as a warning to others of your kind?" And it answers solely and finally: "My license." Year after year it shuffles to the city hall and buys a permit to live, like a dog. by virtue of the tag of bloody gold upon its neck. Affirmatively, the liquor "campaign of education" includes about a dozen propositions. They are mere effigy epigrams printed to look like arguments: "Prohibition is sumptuary legislation; it violates personal liberty ; it hurts business :it increases taxes; it attacks vested rights; it causes "blind pigs;" it makes men sneaks; it discriminates against the poor; it creates a demand for drugs; it is unscriptural; it does not prohibit; you cannot make men sober by law." Where is the proof in support of these propositions? There is none. They are not set up to be proved. They are not meant to be studied, but to be swallowed bolus Ixilus. They are mere iteration directed at weakness, prejudice antl ignorance. Who are the iterators? Simply the advertising agents of the trade, garnished by a handful of unfortunate preachers who have lost their bearings. The liquor trade's own classification of itself is with the brothel, as a necessary evil—a safety valve for lust. But let us surprise these new educators by taking them seriously—as seriously as ]>ossible. And first: What is a sumptuary law ? It is. or was. a law directed at the buyer, attempting to regulate his conduct, in matters of mere indifference, without any good end in view. For instance, in the reign of Edward IV. a statute was enacted prohibiting anybody "under the degree of a lord," from buying shoes having pointed toes over two inches long. The idea was to discourage habits of luxury among the common people, but it was manifestly unjust and foolish. A prohibitory liquor law is directed at the business of selling and of maintaining a rendezvous for temptation, dissipation and disorder. It says to no "Thou shalt not buy or drink"—though it may, and may well, come to that. It is in the nature of a quarantine regulation, which never says: "Thou shalt not catch yellow fever," but: "Thou shalt not spread yellow fever." Incidentally a law that restrains a man from doing mischief to his neighbor restrains the neighbor's liberty to spend his own money and experiment with his own body, but that does not make it a sumptuary law. How does prohibition violate personal liberty? Personal liberty, in this country, according to Judge Cooley, our greatest writer on constitutional questions, is simply that condition in which rights are established and protected by means of such limitations and restraints upon the action of individual members of the political society as are needed to prevent what would be injurious to other individuals, or prejudicial to the general welfare. Absolute liberty exists only where the person possessing it is powerless to injure others with it. A shipwrecked man, alone on a raft in mid-ocean, has jt, but would give the whole world to swap it for the limitations of civil liberty—the only kind of liberty worth having. In short, absolute liberty is only the obverse side of bankruptcy of opportunity. The liquor business is injurious to everybody, including the owner. Nobody denies that. Prohibition is not tyranny, but protection, for all men, women and children. Does prohibition hurt business? Yes, all the business that tends to ruin—brothels, gambling dens, the white slave trade, vagrancy, begging, pawning, divorcing. But it helps every business that makes for "more abundant life." There is plenty of answers to the complaint that prohibition increases taxes. In the first place, there is no limit to the right of the people to increase taxes for the general welfare. In the second place, the ]>eople never object to increased taxes, if the money be honestly spent for the public betterment. If prohibition sometimes increases taxation, the people's ability to pay is much more increas- man: �8 cd. The tax rate does sometimes rise, when prohibition is adopted, but the rise is only temporary. The assessed valuation of property increases, industry revives, earning |x>wer improves ; court, police, poor-house expenses decrease, and, after a year or two, the rate swings back to normal or below. If not, it is because increased school attendance compels new schoolhouses and teachers, or the quickening of civic pride demands better roads and public buildings, or new public works for light, water, transportation, sewers and the like. As to the destruction of property. A liquor license is not property. It is a mere badge of incorrigible meanness and a tcmiiorary waiver of the inalienable right to protect life, liberty and happiness. Even if it were property, prohibition does not destroy it, but only declines to resurrect it when it dies; or if prohibition does destroy it, it is only the tearing down of a shack to save a city. Does prohibition discriminate against the poor? It never does. It knows no rich or poor or gixxl or bad. It is the license system that squeezes out the poor. The whole merit claimed for high license is that it favors the applicants that have the most money. Does prohibition make men sneaks? It simply brings a moment of decision to be a man, or a sneak. It segregates the sneak into his own class, apart from men who will not sneak. It did not put the sneak in office at Newark, Ohio. It only coagulated the bad blotxl ill the body |xilitic so that the surgeon-governor could cut out the embolism and save the city's life. Does prohibition cause the use of other drugs? The disease ami depravity induced by alcohol doubtless seek solace and excitement in other equivalents of poison; but that argument would cut out prohibition of opium and cocaine, which are indeed less dangerous on the whole than alcohol. Does prohibition breed "blind pigs?" High license is the snouted, swill fed mother of that breed of swine. Prohibition puts out the eyes of the pigs that can see, and makes the whole litter game for the sheriff. "Blind pigs" are real "razor-backs," and hard to catch. But they do little harm as compared to the open-eyed kind. The blind pig suckles its own, but makes no strong bid for the better born. Its dirty dugs are uninviting to the more cleanly animalism. Prohibition kills the open saloons and chases the blind pigs. License protects the open saloons and feeds the blind pigs. But we shall still have the blind pigs, under prohibition! Yes. any good housekeeper may have a cockroach in the kitchen. But no good housekeper would THE FRIEND, September, 1910 agree to keep one cockroach in her to the contempt and confusion of law ? Wherein is the sender of obscene literakitchen. Is prohibition unscriptural? Who says ture through the mails a meaner degenerit is? The brewery, who says it is not? ate than the merchant prince that ships The church. Which should know best? alcoholic liquor to illicit dealers in proThe whole area of scriptural endeavor, hibition areas? What kind of traitor is from Sinai to Salvation Army, stands for more dangerous to liberty than the liquor prohibition. Paul's advice to Timothy, to use a little wine as a medicine, is irrelevant. That Jesus made wine—if he did— at Cana, for guests who after hours of festivity and having "well drunk," were still so clear-headed and clean-mouthed that they detected and enjoyed the new, fine flavor of a better article, docs not bear. We arc not dealing with ancient oriental hospitality, or wine miraculously made, but with twentieth century breweries and distilleries that organize appetite into trusts to exploit the weak and ignorant and vicious to the tune of billons annually. The scripture that is in point is "Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor drink." When a man tells you that "you can't make men moral by law," you may knowthat you arc being instructed fay a parrot, a fakir or a fool. He might as well say you can't produce a bent tree by inclining the twig. That is about all you can tlo fay law. Laws are almost never enforced literally. Comparatively few receive punishment for broken law. Not many give obedience to law through fear. A remedial statute cuts comparatively little figure in the first fifty years of its existence. It is the silent, unfelt pressure of it on incoming generations that makes the people moral by so much as it is moral. A Fake with a Label. The assertion that "prohibition does not prohibit" is a curiosity—a fake labeled "fake." It might, if one were not afraid of being inelegant, be called a ltuuiniferous lie. It analyzes a shaft of darkness, as the prism dissolves a ray of light into the solar spectrum. Who is it says: "Prohibition does not prohibit ?" The liquor dealer. Who profits when it fails ? The liquor dealer. Who is in command of the powers of administration when it fails? The liquor dealer. Why does it fail? Because the average liquor dealer is confessedly and incorrigibly a criminal, a combination of Fagan and Bill Sikes, in treason against the popular will and the popular right. Dtx's somebody resent that generalization on the ground that many liquor dealers are men of gtxid repute? I am I am speaking not speaking of repute. broadly of character, and I weigh my words, Tell me wherein is a fence for stolen goods worse than an offset of big business that knowingly and wilfully supplies liquor to brothels and speakeasies. dealer who denies and prevents the right of the people even to vote on the question of prohibition? For that treason if for no other reason the liquor traffic ought to be killed. These are the ugly high lights brought out in this rough- brief analysis of the failures of prohibition. We have in this country an organized band of outlaws, the most compact, determined anil efficient body in American politics, the crudest master and the most generous rewardcr of weaklings and criminals in office. It is undeniably difficult to control them. But unless this is to be a government of liquor dealers, by liquor dealers and for liquor dealers, this masterful cabal of traitors, now seen so clearly and so unanimously despised, is due for destruction. And that is not prophecy, but living, growing fact. The law abiding are already coming to their own. Decency and sobriety under law are gaining ground and the full-pocketed, red-handed, blackhearted conspiracy is giving back, with snarling* and curses, to its fall. Prohibition already works well in country palees. next best in villages and little towns, worst in the cities, but better and better everywhere. In Maine notwithstanding its millions of summer visitors from the cities, and the swarm of unruly men incident to the present era of internal development, the law makes headway. The people, the hardest-headed in the union, loyally maintain the law; the Congressional delegation, the ablest in Congress, affirm the value of the policy, and the governor certifies to its increasing success in practice. In Kansas, the plague spots of nullification are clearing up. Kansas City. Topeka, Wichita and Leavenworth obey the law, the jails are nearly empty, and the rxxir farms are rechristened "prosperity stations" and devoted to agricultural instruction and experiment. North Dakota shows a similar record. In every prohibition state conditions of enforcement go visibly from good to better. I lalf the territory and half the population of the nation, arc under prohibitory law by the vote of the citizens. Still better conditions are near at hand in Congressional relief, against the states being cheated and defeated in a measure. by bad neighbors on their borders and the unfair status of the inter-state commerce law. �THE FRIEND. September, 1910 Meanwhile the moral level rises and the civic fiber toughens, in town, city, county, state and nation. The day of the "good man" in office has arrived. The sun of partyism is going down. And prohibition of the liquor traffic today prohibits better than the decalogue. This, briefly, but fully enough, is a Study of the liquor campaign of obscuration. It seems necessary to treat it thus respectfully for the benefit of the great number of vaguely favorable voters, for whom the old-fashioned strong, bulk, arguments assume too much of knowledge and of interest. It remains to present our case, briefly and summarily, in rebuttal. J* The Case in Rebuttal. It has been shown conclusively that the use of alcoholic liquor tends to excess ; and on that wonl "excess" the whole stress of former argument has been laid until now. The strong, welldisposed and well-to-do have confessed and avoided the issue by answering: "But alcohol is a food, a medicine, and a legitimate article of trade, to be sold under careful regulations and used in reason. Nursing mothers require it, the anaemic, the dyspeptic, the tuberculous, the over-worked. We must forbid sales to minors and drunkards. We must prescribe hours for the business. We must police it rigidly. We must provide, at public expense, for treatment or imprisonment for inebriates. We must encourage the Salvation Army and private benevolences in the interest of the weak and the depraved." This answer, if it were sound, was so -.hallow that it seems both heartless and stupid. It made no accounts of the parents, wives and children of the pations and victims of the trade. Nor of the economic losses and injustices entailed upon the citizens who serve the people in the useful trades and professions, and upon the general public. But it was not sound. Alcohol has practically no food value. It is a dangerous medicine and a more demoralizing article of trade than opium, cocaine and lottery tickets. The ohl argument that centered on "excess" holds good today of course, and strengthens with the years. But the new century brings forth new challenges ami better reasons. And now the accent of the argument moves up from "excess" t: moderation, from weak men to strong nun. from minors and drunkards to the mature and the sober. This is part of the same change that has taken place in all the lines of moral and intellectual progress. The historicthat we older people studied were the genealogies of kings; those that children study now are plain stories of the cus- of the common people. Almost the youngest of us can remember how the patriotic speeches used to ring the changes on the evils of monarchy, the insolence of kings, our escape from old-world oppression, lilxrty of conscience and the great, raw rights of toms man. 9 beverage without suffering actual and measurable reduction of his higbest efficiency, and a lowering of his power of resistance to disease, we can command his attention and his aid. This man, pent up in the midst of terrific competition, demanding the liest, and keen to give the best, is sure and ready to listen when we tell him that alcohol is not only a habit-forming beverage, but also and more certainly, a disease-bearing drug, the prolific cause of Blight's disease, tuberculosis, insanity and paresis—that the whole liquor business stands for waste, inefficiency, failure, sickness —that it stands for race suicide, milkless breasts in motherhood, and rickets and epilepsy in children, even from the womb. We claim this man for prohibition because we can prove that the liquor business is the public school of the drink habit. We claim this man for prohibition because we can prove that the liquor business is like an iceberg, showing above the surface only a tithe of its whole bulk of peril. We demand that this man read into the license "opium" instead of liquor and then take his bearings. We claim this man for prohibition precisely for the reason that the Board of Health conscripts him into the extermination of rats that carry bubonic plague. We claim this man for prohibition on the same ground that the state slaughters tuberculous cows, and the municipality taxes him to drain the marshes where the mosquitoes breed, in malaria and yellow fever. We claim this man for prohibition for the same reason that we compel him to clean up his stable and cart away the dung hill where the housefly breeds and sticks in cholera for distribution when its wings have grown. We claim this man for prohibition, not because we hate the liquor dealer. Liquor dealers are vermin. We don't hate vermin. We don't kill many by law. We break up their breeding places. We claim this man for prohibition by every sanction of good citizenship. The Church has put "the drink" out of the communion. We must put it out of busi- But today we laugh at that kind of Popular statesmanship consists no longer ill twisting the British lion's tail, but the American elephant and donkey have fallen upon evil times for tail culture. Normal, present, detailed matters of internal right and duty are at the bar of public opinion. The moral ami mental revolution that came in with the new century has for its nucleus the new, great word "conservation." It concerns not only the care of forests, mines and water power, but also, and more, the preservation of health, opportunity, efficiency and man-power. ()r, put negatively, for the sake of greater clearness, since a great part of the business of democracy today consists in throwing up defenses against pests and raitlers and robbers, the public mind is focusscd now. on problems of preventing waste, privilege, poverty, sickness and preventible suffering. Religion that used to thunder about heaven and hell and damnation, today speaks quietly of a new earth here and now, with salvation running in the streets. Medicine that used to be anchored at the bedside of disease is now the minister of health, and works in the open, treating the streams and marshes where the purveyors of sickness lay their ■pawn. Law that used to revel in breaches of contract, damages for torts, and punishments for crimes, concerns itself today with counsel for avoidance of actions and trespasses, and the devising of wholesale measures of reform. The great charities that used to lay their emphasis on misery, now put their millions into playgrounds, parks, schools of research, with a keynote of happiness. Rescue work that used to sit and scan the sea of life for wrecks, now carries cheer and instruction to the homes where the small craft of citizenship are outfitting for the deep. Prohibition is simply a part of this ness. At revolution. And it is only fair to say, the The American Pharmaceutical Asother way around, that this revolution is in part the work of the prohibition move- sociation placed itself on record as adment. vocating the abolition of alcohol as a Many a strong man indulges a temper- commodity of sale in all American ate drink habit without fear or danger of drug stores, and earnestly urged the elibecoming debauched. To him the hor- mination of all traffic in what it termed are rors of the old-fashioned argument "habit forming drugs" as harmful to not impressive. But when we know and public morals and detrimental to the as we do authority, prove by irrefragable now, that no man can use alcohol as a best interests of the American people. oratory. �PAUL SUPER Delivery. A few days ago a member came in and said his nephew was coming in on the boat that day, and would want a job. Helping the stranger connect is right in our line, so Mr. Member was told to bring his nephew around. He did so. Within an hour from the time his nephew landed we had placed him in a position paying a good wage, to the delight of the member, his nephew, the man that got the employee he needed, and ourselves. J* Another. When this man came to town a few weeks ago he came right to the Y. M. C. A. with the comment that he thought he could find the sort of friends and help he wanted. He joined the Association, and applied for a job. Within a week from his arrival the Association liad placed him in a ix>sition with fine possibilities of advancement. J* This Time a Soldier. He arrived in Honolulu with alxnit seven dollars in his pocket, and a friend in the membership of the Y. M. C. A.. which was letter. He was a fine big fellow, but uneducated, and it looked as if it would be hard to land him in a good place. His friend brought him to the Association, and we tried to get on the trail of work for him. Temporary work was found, and soon a permanent position on a plantation. These cases show how helpful an organization the Association can be in a community. js The Last Year. September 6 Dr. Hand will arrive from the States, the last of our force to return from vacation, and right away the work of the year, the last in the old building, will begin. We go into the fall work with the highest of hopes and best of spirits. Vacation time has given us opportunity to get a new vision of our field and work, to plan new features, to correct methods, study, and get new inspiration. While we have no such spectacular stunt as last year's building campaign up our sleeves, yet we will interest a good many young men, anil let folks know we are alive. The membership committee says i; is going to get a total of 800 members in the Association, and the educational committee wants 300 students in the night school. The old Greeks said. "They can. because they think they can." Our committees have a good deal of that kind of canning in their system. sf Our Basket Ball Team. The warm weather of summer did not discourage our athletes. They organized Jas. S. Nott as captain, and went after the nearest scalp. I* happened to be that of Fort Shatter. We beat them first on our court, then a little worse on theirs, and then still worse on a neutral court. To celebrate this series of victories, the general secretary gave the Ixiys a party at his house. Souvenir lead soldiers with a paper basket ball attached were found at each man's plate at table as mementoes of the suin'mer's work. a basket ball team with J> Our Field. The following discriminating stateregarding the field of the S. M. C. A. is taken from the annual rejxirt of Mr. L. Wither Messer, for many years general secretary of the Chicago Young Men's Christian Association, an Association that has won the approval of the business men of the city. This is shown by the statement that it has received over $1,700,000 in gifts during the past two years. Sober reasoning has led the Asstxriation to believe that its effort should be mainly directed to the building of Christian character of men and boys, the preoccupying of such lives by the constant use during leisure hours of constructive forces which make for symmetrical manhood. In accomplishing this object the Association believes that its evangelistic spirit was never so strong, if by evangelism is meant the real and practical interpretation of the spirit and teachings of Jesus to those who arc in greatest need. For the Association to attempt to conduct great evangelistic campaigns for the city in general would be to usurp the functions and privileges of the clergy, the churches ami other organizations which stand for that specific thing. For tlie Association to promote movements for the civic and stxrial l>etterment of the city would be to do in a less effective way what the clubs and specific societies organized for the purpose are doing with an ever-increasing degree of efficiency. To Specialise for the man who is down ment | iQIO and out and to crowd its buildings with men of that type would mean the closing Men Working for Men Quick C-a,|- THE FRIEND. 10 of the door of opportunity to the boy and young man who is in the making and who should be prevented from sowing his wild oats. The Assix'iation, therefore, would forfeit its claim for continued support if its lines of advance should be similar to those organizations which are already effective in meeting existing needs. The great future work of the Association must be the building of Christian character among men and boys who are not effectively helped by other agencies. For the Association to follow the method of the professional evangelist, or devote its energies in drastic condemnation of the habits and beliefs of the non-Christian, or even immoral, man, or to set itself as a judge of disputes between capital and labor, or tti purify the municipal life of the city or to clean up the vice districts, would be to close the door of access to the great multitude of men who today, through prejudice or ignorance, fail to respond to the forces which stand for the moral and six:ial betterment of our city life. The Association has but one job, as before stated, namely, the building of Christian character in young men and boys who fail to respond to other agencies which seek to help them. The Association is able to bring to its buildings and under its influence many thousands of men and boys each year who never darken the doors of a Protestant church, and, in fact, many who do not go to any church. Here is where the final test of Association efficiency is found. The supporting membership of the Governor of Nagasaki, one of the fortythree prefectural chiefs appointed by the emperor, is breaking down prejudice and attracting interest in Christianity in that section of Japan. The Governor said, "I am not giving this money to the Association because it is a proselyting stKiety, but because it is doing a wholesome and needed work, and because the country needs just such moral influences thrown around its youth. The seventy-five men, who composed the new Chinese Provincial Parliament, sent an invitation to the secretary of the Poochow Association, the only foreigner invited, to attend its first meeting, which marked the beginning of an era of representative government in the oldest ami largest nation of the world. • jl Causing Talk. (hit in one of the smaller Western cities, where everybody knows everybody else, a change came over a certain banker that is a testimony for Christian faith. A few years ago he started a rival bank out �September, 1910 of spite. It was said that he had given a site for a church antagonistic to the Christian faith and refused to give to the Association building. His wife had left him, and he lived cordially hated and alone in his big house. Less than a year agt> he called on the Association secretary, and said, "How can I get a Bible?" He was shown a catalogue and told he might get one for twenty-five cents. "No," said he, "1 want a good one—the best." One was ordered for him and delivered, and that was the beginning of a series of long talks about the Bible and the Christian life. He seized every opIKirtunity for help. He applied for church membership. People were astonished to see him and the president of the bank he had antagonized walking down the street arm in arm, and much more so when both, together with a leading attorney of the city, came before the church for baptism and membership. Then ensued an intense personal work among the business men. more than fifty of whom have been won through him and the men he has enlisted. What a change! Central Union News A. A EBERSOLE Under the Spell of the "Other Sheep." Our first Sunday in Italy was spent by us two alone. Staying over night at La Cava, among the hills, we took the early train for the ancient Greek town of Paestuiu or Poseidon's Town, that is the Town of the Sea God. Six centuries before Christ a prosperous Greek colony peopled the plain and had built their city on the shore of what is now the lovely THE FRIEND, bay of Salerno. There they expressed their faith partly in the form of a series of massive temples, the ruins of three of which have withstood the tempests, the more terrifying earthquakes and the still more jxitent wear of two and a half milleniums. The place was not on the itinerary of our party, hence we slipped off by ourselves. It was a perfect summer's day, the heat tempered to coolness by a refreshing sea breeze, and when we reached the little station we found only four other persons bound on the same quest as ourselves. The temples are in the midst of green fields, surrounded by prosperous farms, the deep blue sea on one side, and mountains in the background. The Temple of the Sea God is the best preserved of the three, a structure in se- vere simple Doric style, the stone mellowed by age into a rich brown in perfect harmony with the brilliant greens and blue of land and sea. Here we two seated ourselves in the shade of the splendid columns and held our quiet service of worship. As we joined in prayer and psalm it seemed as though the centuries faded into nothingness and the thronging thousands of the past, who here had expressed their devotion to the unknown God by building this noble temple and resorting hither to worship, were all about us. A fuller meaning of Jesus' words, "Other sheep have I which are not of this fold" flooded our souls and we found ourselves in mysterious blessed communion with the worshipful spirits of all ages and all faiths. It was a wonderful morning and will linger in memory as long as time endures. No better introduction to strange who differ in manifesting their sense of dependence upon the Common Father of us all, could have been provided for us. Its inspiration has continued every subsequent day. It has proved the key to open doors of sympathy in all our contact with both past and present in this wonderful country. We realize as never before that the strongest of all ties is not family or country or race, but the common humanity which Jesus came to reveal by showing all men their Father and by binding them together in Himself their Elder Brother antl Friend. DOREMUS SCUDDER. J« President King's Visit. ()nce again have we been made to realize how great an advantage it is to live on"the cross-roads of the Pacific," where we may get to see and hear so many of the leading men of America, either as they go out to visit the Orient or return from there. 11 President Henry Churchill King, of Oberlin College, has just spent two weeks in Hawaii on his way home, in his trip around the world, and has enriched us all by his splendid addresses, and by his association with us this little while. He arrived in Honolulu on the steamer Korea Saturday afternoon, August 6, at exactly 4 o'clock, just in time to attend a public reception which had been arranged for him by Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Castle on the lawn of their beautiful home from four to six o'clock that afternoon. "Just like President King," said one of his former pupils, as the automobile swept up to the house and President King stepped briskly out just in time to meet the first of the arriving guests, "always coming in to his class just at the last minute, but never late. Although it was mid-summer and a great many of the leading families were away, there was a large attendance at the reception—several hundred of the best people of Honolulu being present to meet "resident King. And on Sunday morning Central Union Church was crowded, it having been announced that if the boat got in in time President King would preach. He gave a most able discourse on "Thy Kingdom Come, Thy Will Be Done." Sunday evening he spoke in the old historic Kawaiahao Church to a union meeting of the Hawaiian churches of the city. The pastor of the church, Rev. Henry Parker, introduced him in the Hawaiian language, and as President King arose he said that that added one more to the many different languages in which he hail been introduced the past year. He gave them his "Laws of the Djvine Friendship" in such simple, forceful language that an interpreter was hardly necessary. There were very few among all the Hawaiians present who did not understand the greater part of his address. By special request he gave an address on his impressions of the Orient at a union mid-week meeting on the Wednesday following, taking for his subject, "The Program of the Advance of Western Civilization in the East." This was in reality one of the lectures which President King has been preparing while in Honolulu to give at the University of California as soon as he reaches the coast. We could not help but wish that it might have been possible for him to give the entire series here. Let us hope that they may soon be published, that we may all enjoy them. But the address which the people of Honolulu will remember longest was his address, "Facing the Facts of Life," and the question box which he conducted after it. at Central Union Church on the second Sunday evening. We all felt sat- �THE FRIEND. 12 isfied, for Honolulu had heard our president at his best. With his speech-making done and his California lectures completed, everything was favorable for the trip to Hawaii, and the volcano Kilauea, which he had planned to make the second week. Rev. W. D. Westervelt accompanied him, and as good fortune would have it, the volcano was very active while they were there. President King came back very enthusiastic over the trip. The "(Iberlinites," of whom there are some thirty in Honolulu, wished very much to have an evening with President King. Fortunately the Nippon Maru, which was to sail on Saturday, was a day late, and that left Saturday evening for this delightful occasion. A goodly number of former Obcrlin students, their wives and husbands, gathered at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Forbes. Toasts on"The Oberlin of the Past," "The Oberlin of the Present," "The Oberlin of the Future," "Our King," and "Mrs. King" were happily responded to, after which Mr. Percy Pond presented to the president a large album of Hawaiian views to carry home with him as a memento of his visit here." 1 le left for San Francisco Sunday afternoon, carrying with him Honolulu's warmest "Aloha." and their wish that he might return some time again. A. A. E. The Library Alcove ERNEST J. REECE Trails and Prospects. Stranger indeed to Nature's fondest whispers is he who knows not the delights of the trail. For feet wearied with the town there is no rest like that of the way which narrows from street to lane and from lane to grass-hid path. The limb timed to easy rhythm by the heavy tramping shoe takes vigor from each pressure upon the soft earth. Minds clamped to the shuttle of daily routine loosen their racking grip as they search the gulch and scan the ridge. With the constraint of time and task removed, nerves cease to assert themselves. To the hills, for the hills' sake! If there be a panacea, it lies not hidden in sorcerer's hut or within chemist's crucible or behind physician's mien of wisdom. Rather it is instant in the skies and the earth and the sea—here are the repairing and soothing agencies of creation. He who would remember his God does well to seek him September, 1910 on the prairies and in the wood, for here cosed the power to make or mar mighty he is most approachable. For escape from corporations, dictated the utterance of exthe thralldom of petty things, for action ecutives and the policies of parties. Meanthat inspires the lagging processes of the while other builders have labored with no body, for joy that flashes the energies of less faithfulness. The establishes of the the mind into a thousand clogged chan- township school-house were the precursnels, for a new love of life, for a revived ors of an army pledged to the enlightenintimacy with God—for these the trail ment of the normal, the backward, the handicapped, the unprivileged, the alien, and a peak at its end. So much for by-trails. The path trod by under every circumstance that can arise the occasional journeyer liasbeciiworn and —in a word the benefits of education fitpressed into shape mayhap by the toiler. ted to the individual. The paper mill esthe hunter in quest of furs, the crofter tablished at Germantown in 1690 forebearing his bag of wheat to the mill, the shadowed the era of manufacturing suherdsman carrying his scant store of sup- premacy —an era in which our nation has plies to a retreat in the hills. Just so the set itself to the machine to fashion the laying of most trails has to do with the world's clothes, furnish the worlds moserious affairs of life. Conversely the tive power, and nourish the world's highbusiness of life directs each man over his er life. Difficult problems, perplexing vexatious obstacles our own particular trail. He may follow it conditions, with assurance or with uncertainty, de- country has met. They are a part of the votedly or with grudging allegiance, vol- trail, and America thinks no more highly untarily or through force of circum- of herself than the world thinks of her stances. He may push hurriedly over it when she indulges a just pride in her to its terminus or pause at intervals to achievement. explore liberal areas of country. He may Perhaps the worst to be said of our nasee only the trig station at the summit, or tion's devotion to the trails that constihe may taste the joy and beauty and ex- tute her tasks and symbolize her progress hilaration awaiting the traveller who is that it exhibits a normal degree of seeks not to cover miles but to enrich error. Would that the same might be life. said for her attention to that which Americans as a nation have been ard- stands as token of her higher life! To ent trail followers. Individually and col- endure the labors of the trail and ignore lectively our people have sought tasks the glory of its prospect is like attempting and stayed by them. Some times the peak- to separate the stars from heaven. Some has been visible, sometimes beclouded. years back an American student at LeipNow and again the question has occurred sic was hurrying to a lecture on Horace U to whether there were a goal, at which when the breath of a spring wind brought junctures a heaven-born faith and the "an appeal from Horace dead to Horace consciousness of an upward pull alone living." He forsook the vapid literary athave sustained. The work has been here mosphere of the class-room and sought that of clinging to old trails, there that the by-ways of Thuringia to live for a of opening new courses. With our Teu- time the life that the Augustian poet tonic kinsmen overseas we have shared in lived. The day began for him a new enterprises of stupendous moment. Not epoch. No longer could he content himsince Graeco-Roman civilization over- self with the drudgery of verb forms and spread the east has there been such a philological acrobatics. Even the illuminconquest of continents by the will of a ing of a derivation by an enthusiastic insingle race. Our history opens with the structor or the vistas revealed in the disliteral trail-makers, self-chosen citizens of solving of his sixty lines a day could not a wild world, thrusting themselves un- satisfy. Completeness could come only provisioned into the fastnesses of the as he trod the roads anil scaled the hills frontier, as did Anchieta and Kcichler in whose genius was the inspiration of the Spanish America. Europe pressed upon odes. our coast and the trails became roads, It may Ix.- that in our national life we highways from town to town and over have not yet reached the (xiint from the mountains into the domain of the abo- which we may look out Upon the measrigine. The projecting of national thor- ureless miles and the unending hills. oughfares agitated early congresses and There are stretches at the start of many interested an entire people. Then came a climb where the sun beats hard and the great steel treks across the prairies, barren ridges tower with prison-like foreplanned and unified and magnified until boding. However that may Ix;, it is at the master trail builder of modern times least time that we listen for the note of controlled sufficient mileage to belt the the lark and scan the summit of the nearglobe, carried on his payroll twice as est ridge for a glimpse of that beyond. many men as arc numbered in the stand- Shy flowers, threadlike ferns, dainty ing army of the United States, held in mosses are thickening about our feet as his palm the fate of banking houses, fo- we move more deeply into the wilds, hull �September. 1010 placid expanses of valley and bottom wait to burst upon us from the crests. The quickening air of the heights hovers above ready to charge us with life even as the mysterious "sa" in which the Egyptian gods sought energy in realms beyond the known world. And so if our country has been engrossed in the building of her trails and the assembling of her powers and the fortifying of her institutions it is not that she lacks the ear attuned and the eye alert for the more splendid offerings of ex|>erience. The way has been toilsome and exacting. But the ascent has well begun. Strength accruing has released strength over and above that required for the climb. America is on the verge of a new appreciation of the beautiful and a deep revelation of herself. What else can be the meaning of the noble hills that our Carreres and Cass' and Burnhams are rearing, exhibiting as they do a grandeur gleaned from Greek and Moor and from the Gothic era? What other significance in the art that adorns their walls, conceived by our Abbeys and Sargents and Alexanders in the very spirit of our age anil therefore redolent with that faithfulness which lies at the center of beauty's soul ? < )r who can doubt that our St. Gaudens' and Barnards and Wards, sculptors of life and labor and world visions, are giving classic form to a craft of which they know well the spirit? As for the art that trembles in their air, is not its reign heralded in the keynotes touched by our MacDowells and Dc Kovens? And what shall be said of that most subtle of all forms of beauty— poetry ? Possibly Lanier and Gilder are the earliest beams of its renaissance. It is not worthy of America to pursue the trail for the mere brute exhilaration of violent exertion. A loftier purpose should guide her even than that involved in setting a record of achievement. Her glory need not be a glory dimmed by cloud, inevitable as it is that the fog should now and again descend and blanEven were she to ket the outlook. slacken perceptibly from her terrible endeavor the apparent retardation need not be one of disadvantage or loss. But a little beyond the bird songs are echoing and the peaks rising. There is completeness, for there the life of the spirit downs the soul that has been reaching upward to discover itself. The trail has been found. The prospect waits to break Upon us. ranges of hills and THE FRIEND within them souls of their own. If such be conceivable of trees, how much more so of many an old homestead sheltered by yews or elms or perhaps fantastic algarobas and centering in a simple old house which the storms of a hundred winters and the passing of successive generations have consecrated. The charm of such spots lies partly in their associations, but no less in the unaffected dignity with which an age of simple living and unpretentious ideals invested them. The want of this simplicity, attainable in a building of whatever day or character, robs many a modern structure of its sole claim to respectability. In this out of door community one's unconscious conviction is that houses are an alien necessity at best. They exist by sufferance as a concession to Hawaii's inheritance of northern civilization. Of how great import, therefore, that our homes be of unobtrusive accommodating appearance. Architectural axioms are easy of comprehension. The precepts of beauty for the home builder are not complex. A house of pleasing appearance costs no more to construct than does an ugly one. Some time our new social conscience will comprehend what now is too often regarded as one of the neglibles in its campaign for city improvement. The citizen will feel the force of a public sentiment which forbids him to ignore the canons of good taste in rearing his rooftree. In that day the city home as well as the modest manor will invest itself with the soul atmosphere —an atmosphere which, consorting with the genius of the spot, grows rich in associations as the years go by. The Scribe's Corner REV. WM. BREWSTER OLESON Corresponding Secretary. "It thall come to pass that 1 will Dave compa»slo» oh them, sad will brlag them siaia, (very mas to bis heritage, and every ssaa te hi* laa*. —fsaiah. 0 Away from the Land. The Hawaiian was once a farmer. His conditions made him such. His welfare kept him such. There were no sufficient inducements in former days to detach him from the land. But such inducem ments came later on. And when they Houses and 1 louses. came hisconditionslikewisechanged. The In commenting upon the elusive beau- abandonment of the land by many Haty of Japanese cherry blossoms Lafcadio waiians was incidental to the industrial suggests that the jealous care lavished changes that have taken place. Those upon the tree- for ages has nurtured changes made large sugar estates desir- 13 able, and it was easy to dispose of kuleanas to the fancied advantage of their owners. New avenues of employment created restiveness. The allurements of city life were persistent and appealing. Being a naturally gregarious people the current city-ward made the left-behinds discontented, and they too sought fellowships of city life. So that while there are yet many Hawaiians getting a comfortable living from the land, there are districts that have been abandoned by them to such an extent as to make their absence noticeable. j» Where Have They Gone? Some have perished from the land. But a considerable contingent is to be found in Honolulu. In that number are not a few who are helplessly stranded. Their resources are exhausted. They are living in great poverty. They are the prey of untoward circumstances. That means dissipation, insufficient food, close crowding in limited quarters, unsanitary conditions, and the white plague. ji The White Plague. In this wonderful climate, where outdoor life is a year-round privilege, tuberculosis was once an almost unknown disease. Now there is a death every day the year through from this scourge. And a large proportion of the deaths are in Honolulu and among Hawaiians. Various devices and projects are fairly under way to check the inroads of this white plague. The public has been generous in its support of schemes to corral this evil and to lessen its ravages. Some of these schemes look forward to better housing for the poor under more sanitary conditions. But these schemes have in view the continued stay in the city of the people among whom this disease is making the greatest headway. Would it not be a wiser scheme to induce some of these people at least to return to the country? J« Back to the Land. The best housing, the best conditions, the greatest comfort, are to be found by these people by going back again to the land. Freedom from the depraving influences of city life, the wholesome effect of honest toil under healthful conditions, the new outlook that comes with the sense of ownership, the physical vigor that comes from a sufficiency of good food — these are the best combatants of a disease that thrives on beings who have lost heart, and have become dissipated and are living in unsanitary conditions. The surest way to combat the white plague is to cut off its supply of material. There �14 are doubtless hundreds of strong, ablebodied men and women living in untoward circumstances in Honolulu who will fall victims to tuberculosis if they keep on as they are, but who might be rescued from such a disaster if they could get back again to the land. a* The Economic Advantage. We are spending considerable money per head for immigrants to come into this country and to go upon the land. Some experiments in this line have had a ques- tionable outcome. If further experiments are to be tried, why not try some of them with the natives of the soil ? It surely would be more economic to induce stranded Hawaiians in Honolulu to return to the soil, than to spend so much money in charitable expedients to meet the needs and to ward-off the evils of their continuance in present conditions. Besides, the Hawaiians have a clear claim to primary consideration in the present movement for the resettlement of the land. Once they were splendid producers. Given favorable conditions they can become such again. And it is better to rescue a good producer out of the slums of I lonolulu than to go abroad for one. We are in the early stages of some very radical changes in industrial methods in Hawaii, and it will prove an economic advantage all around to give the willing Hawaiian a fair chance on his native soil. September, 1910 THE FRIEND. bably be to invite failure in many instances. They love to be in communities together. There are certain advantages that come with proximity to others, such as schools and churches, that depend on united action. Hence the most hopeful method of securing a permanent return to the land would be that of colonizing. That would mean a careful selection of location, as to soil, rainfall, facilities for transportation, and general wholesomeness. It would mean a central supervision that would act in behalf of the general good. It would mean wise planning for the sixrial betterment of the colony. It would mean such a holding of the land that each individual would possess ownership rights in definite pieces of land subject to reversal to the colony whenever the individual should cease to reside on such land. Jl Making the Colony Christian. for colonizing, under present arrangements, would need to be acquired from private owners. Benevolent individuals or an organization specially ef- fected for the purpose could purchase suitable land for colony purposes. But that ought to mean in this land a definite purpose to give the colony such religious advantages as would promote the unity of the community. Given a section of land, specially 'desirable for profitable settlement so far as health and productiveness are involved, and a corporation JS that seeks the religious as well as tempMovement Back Already Begun. oral well-being of the colonists, the excould be tried under most favperiment Frear's for 1909 Report Governor In orable conditions. we are informed that 226 pieces of land were disposed of that year for homestead purposes, of which 129 pieces were taken up by Hawaiians. Great eagerness is be- Thing Done Elsewhere. ing manifested among Hawaiians at the This idea of colonizing stranded men present time in the desire to acquire is no novelty. The Salvation Army alhomestead sites. It may be said, and ready has most successful enterprises of doubtless with much truth, that this eag- this character on the mainland. What erness is more a desire to acquire than to has been done elsewhere can be done cultivate. But even then it certainly points here. If the real friends of Hawaiians to an awakened readiness to listen to any will canvass some such scheme, and try proposition looking to their betterment an experiment in a small way with through a return to the land. A well- twenty-five families, we believe much considered scheme to promote the settle- can be done in preventing poverty, idlement on the land of those who do not ness, dissipation and disease. js now own any land, would be most opportune and most helpful. For schemes of Meetings. settlement have to be worked up for the Association Hawaii Association will hold its The with proaverage man. His unfamiliarity cedure, his lack of capital, his ignorance next meeting with ,the Haib Church, as to best locations, his dependence on Hilo, beginning Wednesday, September others for the wise choice of products to 14. The Maui Association will hold its be raised, are all elements that promote next meeting with the Kaunakakai Church, Molokai, beginning Sunday, inertia on his part. September 18. Let the friends of the JS churches pray that these important gathMethod of the Return. erings may be greatly blessed, and that For Hawaiians to go back to the land they may minister to the spiritual wellas individuals, here and there, would pro- being of our pastors and laymen! Hawaii Cousins "AULD LANG SYNE." delightful reunion of old PunaA hou boys and girls was held at the residence of Judge and Mrs. S. B. Dole, on the afternoon of August 31st, 1910, at four o'clock. David B. Lyman and Mrs. Lyman, with Mrs. Mills, were the guests of honor. Judge and Mrs. Dole, in their own gracious and inimitable manner, received their guests, and at once set them at ease, saying, "You are William, David, Orramel, Ellen, Bob, Mary, just boys and girls again, today." After the reception all repaired to the spacious lanai, with its hanging baskets, vines and palms, its large cage where canaries flew free from perch to perch among the green ; and its wide, surrounding ledge, which served as well for seats for the silver-haired boys and girls, as for the rare plants. Here were tables and chairs, and the book for registering names, and here delicious refreshments were served by graceful maidens in dainty attire. Judge Dole welcomed the guests in an address humorous, eulogistic and retrospective. He introduced his remarks by explaining, in a pleasing way, why Chicago cousins seldom return to Hawaii. Something in the air holds them, but David Lyman, going out for a breath of fresh air .founded a city, and has spent his time since in developing it. Mr. Dole recalled many incidents of this "iron age" at Punahou. Mrs. Mills was called upon, and spoke of the economics of this "iron age," and of the fine class of boys and girls at Punahou at that time, and she was glad to see the developed lives of these students and to know the good they have done. When asked if she remembered certain boys, she said, "I remember nothing bad." Mrs. Weaver recalled names and games anil many incidents of Punahou life in olden times. A. B. Clark regretted that Judge and Mrs. Lyman could not remain. He had spent many years in Chicago and had many friends there, but there is no place like the Islands for a home. He felt very grateful to Mrs. Mills that her memory was no better. C. H. Dickey especially welcomed Mrs. Lyman and claimed to be her oldest friend in Hawaii, as he knew her as a little girl in Tennessee, and had attended the wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Lyman. most - �September. 1910 When Mr. Lyman was called upon, his apology for reading his address was lack of time to tell half or even a small fraction of what he had to say, and he must either condense on pa]x;r or talk till morning. Mr. Lyman s(X)ke as follows: Receiving an intimation at a late date from our honored host that I might be asked to say something on this occasion, and fearing 1 may say too much and abridge our social intercourse, I have hastily noted a few thoughts. I confess, however, that I feel somewhat embarassed to speak as an Old Punahou Boy. 1 was one of the smallest, youngest and most humble of the splendid lot of Punahou boys and girls with whom I associated at school some years ago. I was shown the Blue Book a few days since, with the remark: "We girls were always tender about our ages, and you need not expect that any of the old girls who were of your age or older, will attend the reception of any old Puimliou Boy." I replied: "The boys and girls of Punahou never grow old, and are as young in their hearts as ever." 1 am quite willing to concede, as I have probably experienced more snowbound winters than anyone here, that 1 am the oldest of the crowd present, but I am not a Rip Van Winkle, as I have brought my wife with me. The old days of Punahou in which we lived were in the Iron Age, and when 1 meet or hear of the boys and girls of that age, I am filled with wonder and admiration at their position and success. They stand like the Cedars of Lebanon or the Towers of Heshbon. We are all proud of President and Mrs. Alexander, who have just entered into their golden age ; of the eloquent and saintly Henry Parker, who leads and guides the oldest and most ini|X)rtant Hawaiian body of Christians: of Judge Dole, the former president and governor, the first and foremost of our statesmen and politicians, who reminds us. by his wisdom, of his saintly father, the founder of Punahou School and Oabu College; of Mr. Henry Baldwin, William Castle, Samuel Damon, George Wilcox, and many other equally well known successful business men. lawyers and statesmen, who are fitting representatives of the Iron Age of Punahou. I miss, too, many men and women belonging to that age, who have been leaders at home and abroad, among whom are General Samuel C. Armstrong, Chief Justice Frank Judd, Samuel T. Alexander, Charles H. Cooke. Henry M. Lyman, Porter Green and others. We can say of all that they fought the good fight and finished their course and left the impress of their lives in this and other parts of the world. • THE FRIEND. We had co-education in those days and the most lovely and beautiful girls in the world. The Misses Judd, Pattie Cooke Alexander, Emma Smith Dillingham, Sarah K. Clark Lyman, Lucinda Severance. Juliette Cooke Atherton, Annie and Emily Alexander. Emily Baldwin and many others equally able and attractive. When I left the Islands, most of our dear fathers and mothers were alive and doing God's work with that ability and vigor which made the Hawaiian nation a Christian nation, the motto of which was, "Ua Man Ke Ea O Ka Aina I Ka Pono." I find on my return only one of that noted band living, namely, dear Mother Rice. 94 years of age. who. with her faculties intact, still prays for the peace of Jerusalem, and rejoices in the progress of the world. With this single exception, every one of our fathers and mothers who were living when I left Hawaii, and who consecrated their lives for the redemption and salvation of the Hawaiian people, now rest from their labors. I find everywhere, the impress of their lives upon the people of Hawaii, through their sons, daughters, grand-children and great-grand-children. I am asked daily: "How do the Islands look to you on your return?" My answer is. they are perfectly lovely, and our few weeks stay in the Islands has been a joy to my wife and myself. I have had more pleasure and fun to the square inch than during any other equal time of my life. I have realized what was so well said by another, that to get the most out of any land, one must have loved every hill, mountain and stream from boyhood. He must have seen, as he has often gone over it, sunsets and sunrises, mountain and bay, winter frosts and summer harvests: he must have had a heart as full as a bobolink's, and a friend by his side, whose presence irradiated and glorified all things. One's native land, only, can furnish the finest drive in the world, and, during our brief visit here, all of these conditions have been realized, and we have had the joy and privilege to ride over roads and through scenery unequaled in any part of the world. The drive to the top of Punchbowl; through Ntuianu Valley, over the Pali and around the Island of 15 Oahu; on Kauai from Lihue to Waimea, and from Lihue to Hanalei; the drive from Hilo to Kalapana, and from Hilo to Kilauea; and the wonderful automobile road from the Volcano House to the Lake of Fire, Halemaumau, equal, and perhaps surpass the drives in Switzerland and Italy; or even what is called the finest drive in the world, the road along the shores of the Bay of Naples from Sorrento to Castel-a-Mare. Leaving here fifty years ago, making a swift voyage of 125 days in a sailing vessel around Cape Horn to New Bedford, and leaving the country without many of the comforts of life at that time, I return to find the cozy grass houses replaced by substantial wooden and stone homes. Kukui candles, tallow dips, whale oil lamps, are replaced by gas and electric lights, and by modern lights in the country. Even the food has changed—in some cases for the worse. Poi, fish, cocoanuts, cocoanut water, sugar cane, limu, luau. kalo. the praises of which were chanted and sung by the bards and priests of Hawaii from time immemorial, and re-echoed by the boys and girls of Punahou of the Iron Age, have mostly disappeared, and have been superseded by the dyspeptic, rheumatic and appendicitis-producing food so highly recommended by some of the successful doctors and surgeons of the present age. I find the grand old hills and mountains in every part of the islands unchanged. The blue sky and old ocean, and the swiftly rolling surf, are as they were. But, many changes have come, which seem strange. The dear old monarchy, under which I was born and loved, is sii|xjrseded by the stable government of our common country. The barren plains adjoining Honolulu have been irrigated and are covered with the most luxuriant vegetation. Trees, ornamental and fruit, have made Honolulu the garden spot of the Pacific. Hilo. the Paradise of Hawaii, has only six houses standing which existed fifty years ago, and, in place of the sleeping paradise, a city is springing into existence, with a mighty harbor, in which the United States is expending over three millions of dollars on the breakwater alone. The three or four sugar mills operated by cattle pow- How about your Sunday School Supplies for next Year ? Consult the Hawaiian Board Book Rooms �16 THE FRIEND. September. P.UO In the Master's skillful hand er, wooden rollers and try kettles obThis address was followed by a much All shall be made clear; tained from whaling ships, producing a admired poem, written by Mrs. Dole And the deepest chords of pain a some time few hundred tons of sugar year, have ago. and read by Dr. N. B. Shall give back a sweet refrain; Every harshest note of discord given place to vast sugar fields extending Emerson. Then shall disappear. from the south ix>int of Hawaii to the J« northern part of Kauai, equip|)ed with PUNAHOU ALUMNI POEM, 1875. While man}, who had attended Punathe most modern machinery and managhou in those olden times, were out of ed with the highest ability by a God-fearPilgrims we from many countries. town, others were there who are seldom Tolling early, tolling late ing class of capitalists who rcs|K'Ct the seen at social functions, and not only the Rest our cares and burdens here; consumer and producer, the rights of the hooking back, with heart of cheer, guests of honor but all present were the laborer. On each fairest Alma Mater, to Judge antl Mrs. Dole for this thankful Where we forged our fate. While one cannot but regret the passmeeting which was never-to-be-forgotten ing of many beautiful things, I am an opclosed of hands and singing joining by pictures gather How the crowd and timist, and believe that Hawaii—the HaAs that past comes thronging by, Lang Sync," to the accompani"Auld to rewaii of today—is only beginning Glorious in its coloring fair, ment of a Hawaiian orchestra. alize its importance and the greatness of Richest dyes and tinting rare, J» Like the works of the old smile masters is future < hir grand-children will The That can never die. annual reports of the H. M. C. in a few years at our self-complacent Society, in the printing office delayed congratulations over the present Every Eager youths, with souls on lire. since May 13th, are being distributed as portion of Hawaii will be developed, and its citizens will reap the benefit of its strategical position in the heart of the Pacific ; controlling the commerce of a large portion of the world ; while tourists, bringing millions of dollars, will flock to our shores to behold the wonders of creation uncqualed in any other part of the globe. Fifty years ago I visited Kilauca from Hilo. traveling on foot, taking two days to reach the volcano. Another day was consumed in descending to the depths of the crater, and passing, by slow and painful stages, to the Lake of Fire On the opposite side. Within the last few days 1 visited the same crater, going by automobile from Hilo to the volcano, staying in a luxurious hotel on the brink of the crater, and then by swift passage in an automobile, almost to the Lake of Fire. Having occasion to call in the services of a physician from Hilo, 1 used the telephone, and obtained the presence of the doctor ill two hours. We have received a warm welcome from my old frientls and from many new ones. My wife and myself will leave Hawaii with the deepest gratitude to one and all, and with our most earnest tiesire for the peace and prosperity of all our friends and the people at large. I have been greatly impressed with the cosmopolitan character of the people, iii every portion of the Islands. The dear, lovely, true-hearted Hawaiian is giving place to a more mixed and new people. Hawaii is the "Melting Pot" of the Pacific, anil is moulding many nationalities into a new life, which, I believe, will be better and stronger than any that has gone before; provided, that those who are the leaders, will repsect and carry out the old motto of the nation, and will bring the Shinto and Buddhist temples and other strange religions which are coming to our shores, into peaceful harmony anil obedience to the Golden Rule and the religion taught by the Son of Righteousness. Maidens with the heart of May, Sought we still through wisdom's pages All the wealth of all the ages; Knocking at the gates of knowledge— The golden gates of Day. And she gave us fairest glimpses Of the land we sought; Dealing with unstinted measure, From her richest hordes of treasure, To the one who delved the deepest In he mines of thought. Then we stood upon the threshold Panting for the fight. Did not see the rank and flic Pressing on each weary mile, Only saw the plumes of heroes Waving In the light. Heard the thunder of the battle. Saw the flashing of the blade, But the weary groans and sighing, The sharp agony and crying, All were lost in martial music And the cannonade. Since then we have waged the conflict; Since then we have felt the steel; Have our hearts been brave and steady, Have our arms been always ready When the foe came charging on With furious zeal? Are we conquerors In life's battle? Are we winning victor's palms? Does the fragrance of our living, Rich in pure unselfish giving, Rise to heaven daily like the Sweet-toned notes of psalm-i? Have we learned the hardest lesson That this earthly life can give? How in pure self-sacrifice The real fame and honor lies; How by sweet unselfishness We learn the way to live. There are fields of vaster learning, There are halls of larger thought, And the Master's voice, sublime, Kinging down the aisles of time, ('alls us in those halls to gather, He the teacher, we the taught. At His feet we shall lay down All the vexed things of life; Problems that we tolled on late, Questions hard and intricate, Mysteries that we could not solve, With dangers rife. fast as they come from the printer. Since the report was finished in early May. five of our family of cousins have passed beyond this life. Three of these names appear in the first report of the society, published in 1853. WILLIAM W. HALL. W. W. Hall has filled almost every office in the sixriety. He was on the editorial board of the "Maili Wreath" for many years, and through all the half century and more he has attended every meeting when possible, and in every way took an interest in its affairs and helped in its charities. At the last meeting of the society, the adjourned meeting, held at the home of Governor Frear, on April 30, I°lo, Mr. Hall was acting president. It will lx' a long time before the members cease to look around for his familiar face, or listen in vain for the voice now joining in the harmonies of heaven. MR. RUFUS LYMAN. Mr. Lyman's name appears as a member in that first report of 1853,-and though living in Hilo, and unable to attend many meetings, he loved the society and made eleven children members of it. Mr. Lyman was Ixirn June 23rd, 184:!, at Hilo. Having a good foundation for an education laid at the home of his parents, who were good teachers, be attended school at Punahou from 185ti to lXfii. In lXfrfi he married Miss Rebecca Brickwood, whose life was full of good works, and who died in 1906. A noble family of children rise up to call them blessed. Ten or eleven of these children attended Punahou College, and three have gone to West Point. Mr. Lyman was the adviser and righthand man of Ruth Keelokolani, the governess of Hawaii during the monarchy, and was respected, trusted and loved by the natives as well as by his own' countrymen, He was faithful at religious ser- �17 THE FRIEND. September, 1910 vices, able in prayer, helpful to his HENRY TAYLOR. country, and true SO his God. Mr. LyMr. Henry Taylor was the son of Rev. man died July sth, I'HO. T. E. Taylor ami Persis Thurston Taylor. He was born at Kailua May 20, 1856. When Quite small he went with MR. SAMUEL N. EMERSON. his parents to California, where his fathMr. Emerson died August 12, 1910. er was a home missionary. He was edu11c was also one of the first life members cated in that state, returning to the islof the society. He was born at Waialua, ands as a civil engineer some time in the Oahu, October 10th, 1832, and was the '80s. He was quiet and retiring by nateldest son of Rev. John S. Emerson and ure, faithful in duty and kind to those in He attended Punahou from 1842 to 1846. He studied in the United States, perhaps at Andover, for a time, where he made good progress in mathematics, and became a He used the compass, the surveyor. kind of instrument used by George Washington in surveying, for this was before the days of the transit instru- Ursula Sophia Emerson, ments. During many years of his middle life he carried on a dairy ranch at Waialua, on lands now covered by the Waialua plantation. Mr. Emerson returned in 1855. His loss of hearing was a handicap for many years, and the silence of the world and the loneliness of life turned his thoughts inward and made him peculiar at times, but the missionary spirit was in his veins and he was accustomed even in the later years of his feebleness, to gather the children of the street into his rooms for a Sunday school service. To one who for so long walked in silence, what must it be to hear the "Welcome," the angel's song and the "Come, ye blessed of the Father!" ji ROBERT MILLS FULLER. Mr. Robert Fuller died July sth, 1910. He had been a member of this society since 1872. His father, Josiah Fuller, was teacher of the Royal School after the Cixikes left, and his mother was Mary Ann Mills Fuller, a sister of MothHis brother Edward anil er Damon. sister Ellen reside in California. Mr. Fuller was born in Koloa Nov. 18, 1851, and attended Punahou from 18(i6 to 1869. For a time he pursued his education in the United States, and returning, was for many years a trusted employe of the firm of Allen & Robinson. He had a faithful wife and a very interesting family of children. The long years of pain, of suffering and helplessness were hard for such a man to endure, and like a refining fire. "I think man's great capacity for pain Proves his immortal birthright. I am sure No merely human mind could bear the strain ( )f some tremendous sorrows we endure. his employ. When the end came his brother and one sister were at his side, and the impressive funeral service was held at the home of his sister, Mrs. Winne. The exquisite flowers, arranged by Mrs. James Taylor, the soft strains of music. "Thy Will Be Done," sung by Mr. Stanley Livingston to an accompaniment by Miss Jane Winne, his mother's paintings on the wall behind the casket, the sympathetic words and tones of the minister. Rev. Ebersole, and most of all the many inspiring passages from the Bible, such as "I know that my Redeemer liveth," all' tended to take away the sadness of death and bring heaven nearer. Mr. Taylor died August 21st, 1910. Our Young People HENRY P. JUDD Teacher Training Department. The most important position in connection with our religious life of today is that of Sunday school teacher. All factors in the Sunday school work are inuiortant; the superintendent should be a specialist; the other officers are all im- |x>rtant elements; the music, the social atmosphere and class-room equipment are necessary to a successful school, and these arc all means to an end. The great end of Sunday school work is to give a knowledge of God's Word, or, as some of our training class textbooks put it, "To lead to Christ, not to train up in Christ." The supreme work and the supreme factor for the accomplishment of this end is the teaching. Without teaching any school is a failure With gixxl teaching the problems of Sunday school work arc easily solved. Though many consider teaching a trivial task it is the greatest work that (Jod has ever given his people to perform. The commission of our Master was "Go teach." The commission of the Gospel is today identically the same. livery teacher is an assistant pastor, and ought to feel that his duty is to have pastoral care over those whom he teaches. There are certain elements which a teacher should possess. First of all, he should be an earnest Christian. He is the shep- herd of the flock, and must be able to interest the pupil, must know what to teach and how to teach it. Sixriety news, baseball talk and sports in general may be the right means to hold the attention of some obstreperous boy or giddy girl for a time, but this is a failure unless it is used as a means to a larger and more important end of interesting the pupil in religious and sacred things. The Bible is the greatest book in all the world, but no one can teach the Bible any more than he can teach any other book without a knowledge of its structure, the relationship of the various parts, and the purpose for which these parts were specifically given. A knowledge of the gradual development of Coil's Word to men is necessary, and while other and extraneous matters maydraw for a time, in the last analysis it takes the knowledge of the Bible to accomplish the results expected. The teacher must not only be devoted to his work and interested in it, but he must be able to interest. He must be interested in his pupils, whether they are men or women or boys or girls; interested in their welfare: interested in their home environment and every day conditions. No one .can have the necessary elements for teaching unless he understands three things. First. he must know the book which he is to teach ; second, he must know the object which he seeks, and lastly, he must know how to teach. Because of the importance of the subject, there should be in every school as far as possible, a teacher-training class Now is the time to organize such classeall over the Islands. The summer vacation is over and the public schools have recalled to their posts of duty many of our most faithful Sunday school teachers. The school year is beginning. Why Who hasn't heard of ESTEY ORGANS? YOU, I ERHAPS, did not know that we keep them here at the Board Book Rooms. �THE 18 should there not be a beginning of new things in the Sunday schools ? We should all help to arouse our schcxils to greater effort and stimulate the work of the teachers. This matter of teacher training has so often been mentioned in these columns that some one may be tired of reading about the same object continually. The editor of this jwge feels the importance of the subject so keenly, however, that he must keep the matter before his readers. What are you doing alxmt it ? Are you floing your part in training others in this necessary evil? For yourself, you can gain knowledge of the Bible from a careful study of the Book each day, together with the reading of many valuable works on the subject. Now that so much study has been given to the Bible by the most learned men. we have countless sources of help in the field of Biblical research. If you are a teacher in the Sundayschool, will you not try to train yourself in the knowledge of the Bible and do what you can in the training of others? In this way you may be of great assistance in the promoting of the Kingdom of Heaven. JS A Brief Catechism. Mention was made in the last issue of The Friend of the brief catechism prepared by the Rev. C. G. Bumham of Laliaina, Maui, and its virtues set forth among the "Wailuku Notes." It seems fitting to make further mention in this department of The Friend, because of its relation to the training of our young people, of this worthy little work and to commend the booklet to teachers in our Sunday schools. Instruction of this character is greatly needed in our schools, and we should do all we can to promote the knowledge of the Truth as it is in lesus. J» Home Influence. San Francisco, 1911. Craft Wares — YE ARTS & and the various departments seem to Ikalive to any new method that will make for progress. It is the wish of the Association that organized work in Hawaii may Ix,' more effective. If each school will do its part and each teacher and superintendent do his work faithfully, and each island association do what it can and the Territorial Association do all in its power, then organized work in Hawaii will be of real value anil the work will go forward steadily. EVENTS. July 31—Sunday baseball at Athletic Park attended by gambling and rioting; several arrests Aug. I—Dr. Victor S. Clark appointed head of Hoard of Immigration for this Territory 2—Honolulu Iron Works reported as having contract to build another big Biigar mill in Formosa. s—University Club occupied Its new home. 6—President Henry Churchill King of Oberlin College visits the islands. 7—John Agulas, Portuguese boy employed by llmies & Co., drowns at Walklkl, a result of bathers pretending to be drowning.— Corner stone of Kaumakapill Church laid. 9—Tidal wave at International Sunday Maul. McGregg's Landing, 10—Final plebiscite returns printed. For Prohibition 2,262. against Prohibition 7,501. 11—Barkentlne Helga (British) wrecked and already word has come from the auWatkiki reef. Total loss.—Agitation for thorities htat Hawaii is expected to send on free milk brings out official testimony in not be a good-sized delegation. It may lavor of Pond Dairy, which had aided Disjxissible for us to send as many delegates pensary. as we should like, but surely there arc 12—Owners of Fort street Mahuka propsome Christian workers who are in a po- erty want United States to pay over half to represent these islands at the million dollars for the property. School Convention will be held in San Francisco, Cal., from June 20-27, 1911, sition convention. \xi any who arc planning to visit in California next June please bear in mind the date for the great gathering of Sunday school workers and make an effort to be present, J» There arc three great lessons to be taught a child as a beginning of religious training—reverence, obedience and duty to others. The foundation of religion is reverence —that recognition of the spiritual which surrounds us and awes us. This sense of reverence begins in the home. Is it not natural that the little child should look [Hand up to the su|x?rior ]xiwcr and knowledge his patents, under whose care he finds himself? At an early age we may sec signs of his reverence for the beautiful. What little child ever looketl at the stars at night or the glories of the sunrise or sunset without a feeling of sublimity? It is easy for him to reverence, love and trust the one who made these wonderful things, as well as all creatures, both great and small. The next great lesson for him to learn is obedience, and this lesson is learned at home. His future welfare demands that he learns to obey. If he learns to obey his parents, submit his will to theirs, it will not be so hard for him to submit to the will of God, but the latter is a hard lesson for him if he has not learned the former. The third lesson is duty to others, which also has its beginning in the home where the child should learn to be fair, to consider others. Teach him the Golden Rule. After he leaves his home if he has learned this lesson well he can easily extend to his larger circle of fellow men with whom he comes in contact. So a child should grow in reverence, obedience and duty to others, to the extent that the spirit of the home is sincerely Christian. a* Of The thirteenth September, 1910 FRIEND. The International Association. Judging to reports and letters and other literature, the International Sunday Schixil Association is doing a very active and helpful work in the interests of the Sunday schixils all over the United States and in other parts of the Western Hemisphere. The work is well organized 13—Gov. Frear planning to Incorporate features of "George Jr. Republic" in the reform school at Waialae. 16—Nuuanu dam cost 5298,. i63. Governor Frear says it is worth three times cost. 19—American Hawaiian Steamship Nevadan carries a passenger as assistant purser; question of evading tlaw arises. r RESPONSIBLE For those Japanese Servants? More than we think, perha[». Let them read a Christian paper in their own tongue. It is THE TOMO. 50c a year. | : : : : : Kodak Developing and Printing ■■"= Artistic Picture Framing ~~ CRAFTS SHOP : Fort Street below King ~ �September, P'lo THE FRIEND, 19 H, Final game of excellent polo ttuiriiaFF.KN-SII.VA- 111 Honolulu, Aug »'., Mayor Kauai, Oahu Joseph J. Fern mid Mrs. Kniina Silva, by the ttntl Muni. Itighl Key. Bishop Libert. J» 22—Spoil of shooting Hying llsh inaugurated. "STRONGER EACH Is Your Japanese Servant a Christian? 'A wave of prohibition is sweeping over this country from one end to the 21—Qeorasj Freeth, formerly of Honolulu. awarded mhmlhl by special act of Congress other, that threatens to engulf and carry to destruction the entire whisky enterfor lite saving at Venice, California. li*>. —Precinct tioniinatlon.s of lU>|Hiblicaii prise. It is growing stronger each day, parly, more excitement than In Prohibition and each day towns and cities, counties, campaign. Increased iiiiiiilici- of cavalry and even states, are added to that class companies orders*! for oahu. whisky business cannot be 2s. automatic ti'lcphtnie system installed. in which the legitimately.'—Bonfort's carried on 29—Visit of honorary commissioners of As- TOO MUCH stress cannot be laid on the importance of having your eyes fitted with pro|>er glasses. menl attended liy riders from DAY." .:: Waialua Agricultural Co. propane one shipment of K4 gasoline drums tilled with lintiey, 2fi,Him gallons. sociated Chanihers of Comnierce of the Pa< ilic Coast en route to Japan ami China J* Wine and Spirit Circular, N. Y. City. Honolulu, Aug 21, Henry H years. Thurston GVRgfYS* IVrt ano photo Dealers 1066 Fort Street Pictures and Picture Framing j» Local Views Ansco Cameras j» Ansco Films Art Pottery and Casts DEVELOPING AND PRINTING ——————— L.B.KERR&CO. ALLEN & ROBINSON _—_———.^—-—^—— LIMITED. LIMITIO. — • ■""~-— JJ Alakea Street. MARRIED. BOND-KLSTON—JuIy 30, 1910, in Berkley, Cal., Robert Bond and Miss Rowena Klston. MACKINTOSH-CLARK—In San Francisco, August 3, 1910, C. A. Mackintosh and Miss Susan J. Clark. Hie Baldwin jlafiona! $ank of Kalinlui KAHULUI, MAUI, T. H. BANKING, EXCHANGE, Phone 648 INSURANCE. Savings Bank Department, Interest on Tsrms Deposits. Bafo Deposit Vaults for Rent. The only store in Honolulu where L »nibcr and Buildin Material Builders' Hardware, you can get anything in Wearing ApPaints, Oils, Etc. parel for MEN, WOMEN or CHILDREN , Good Goods and Reasonable Prices. Agents for Walkover and Sorosis Shoes. 55 Queen Street : : Honolulu. * - In Taylor, aged H. Alakea Street. Concrete Reinfmvemeiit Safes, Chares. In San Francisco, Aug. 2», William Berger, aged 33 years. Masonic Temple, & MONUMENT WORKS, Ltd. HAWAIIAN IRON FENCE Vaults, in Honolulu, Aug. 2, Mrs. Alice M. Tackuberry Johnston. Services at the Methodist in Honolulu, Aug 3, Adolpli Kroll, son of Rev. Leopold Kroll, aged 7 years. In San Francisco, Aug. ."«, Mrs. J. S. Hopper, aged 77 years. In Honolulu, Aug. 6, F. M. Otremba, wood carver, aged f>7 years. In Honolulu, Aug. 12, Samuel X. Kmerson, oldest son of the Kmerson missionary family, aged 7S years. In Honolulu, Aug. 19, Francis Dower, son of the late Captain Dower, aged 9 years. In Honolulu, Aug. 20, Captain Andrew Fuller .aged 60 years. S. E. LUCAS, Optician msmmsmmmmsmm»wmmmmmsmsmsmmmmmmssmmmmmmmamm 180 S King St DEATHS. Let him have THE TOMO Every Month. 50c. a year. flit firs! national $atik of Hawaii CAPITAL «500,000. AT HONOLULU. CECIL BROWN. Pres. W. R. CASTLE. M. P. ROBINSON, VlcePres. O. N. WILCOX. SURPLUS 1123,000. L. T. Q. P. PECK. Cashier. CASTLE. United States Government Depository General Banking.—lssues Drafts, Money Orders, Letters of Credit and Cable. Transfers available in all parts of the world. ACCOUNTS INVITED �September, 1910 THE FRIEND. 20 C * COMMISSION MERCHANTS. If You Are Wise THE RANK OF HAWAII, Ltd. Honolulu HAVE A FULLY EQUIPPED HOUSEHOLD DEPARTMENT. including Garland Stoves and Ranges, Aluminum Ware, Enameled Ware. Kitchen Furnishings, Refrigerators, Garden Tools, Rubber Hose, &c. Second floor, take the Elevator. Co. FINE GROCERIES OLD KONA COFFEE A SPECIALTY. B.F. EHLERS&CO. P. 0. BOX 716. The Leading Dry Goods House in the Territory. Especial attention given to Mail Orders. General Mercantile Commission Agents. Queen St., Honolulu, T. H. California Rose Creamery Butter Guaranteed the Best and full 16 ounces. HENRY LIMITED MAY & CO., 02 L Plantation. EWERS & COOKE, Ltd. LUMBER, >s«^^S. C. H Bellina, Mgr Tel. Main 100. CLUB STABLES FORT 8T„ ABOVE HOTEL. '"-^ Honolulu, T. H. . RIGS OF ALL KINDS, GOOD HORSES, CAREFUL DRIVERS. THE YON HAMMYOUNG CO , Ltd "Thy Man-Servant and thy Maid-Servant" IMPORTERS, COMMISSION ARE THEY JAPANESE? GIVE THEM THE TOMO AND 50c. a year. AUTOMOBILE MERCHANTS Honolulu, T. H. A BIBLE WITH ALL ON THE SAME PAGE. REVERENT, SCHOLARLY AND FULL OF INSPIRING SUGGESTION.—IT IS Scofield's ALWAYS USE TELEPHONES Sugar Co., Haiku Sugar Co.. Paia Plantation Co.. Kihel Plantation Co., Hawaiian Sugar Co., Kahului R. R. Co., and Kahuku COHHENTARIES HONOLULU, T. H. 22 BREWER & CO., Limited, AGENTS FOR—Wailuku Sugar Co., Hawaiian Agricultural Co., Onomea Sugar Co., Pepeekeo Sugar Co., Honomu Sugar Co., A LEXANDER & BALDWIN, Ltd. Hakalau Plantation Co., Paaunau Sugar Plantation Co., Hutchinson Plantation Co., oiowalu Plantation, Waimanalo Sugar Co., OFFICERS—H. P. Baldwin, Pres't; J. B. Honolulu Plantation Co., Kilauea Sugar Castle, Ist Vice-Pres't; W. M. Alexander, 2d Co., Hilo Sugar Co., Baldwin Locomotive Vice-Pres't; J. P. Cooke, Treas.; W. O. Works, Oceanic Steamship Co. Smith, Secy; George R. Carter, Auditor. LIST OF OFFICERS—E. F. Bishop, President; Geo. H. Robertson, Vice-President and Manager; W. W. North, TreasurSUGAR FACTORS AND COMMIS- er; Richard Ivers, Secretary; J. R. Gait, Auditor; C. H. Cooke, R. A. Cooke, G. K. SION MERCHANTS. Carter, A. Gartley, Directors. AGENTS FOR—Hawaiian Commercial & E.O. Hall & Son Day & f* Honolulu, T. H. you will think of future as well as present needs. .** «** Begin by opening a saving account with this bank, «*» .** Bankingby mail, 44% interest. C. J. A. SCHAEFER & CO., Importers and • We have many other kinds too. \lf W. AHANA & CO., LTD. MERCHANT TAILORS. P. O. Box 986. Telephone Blue 2741. 62 King Street. CLOTHES CLEANED AND REPAIRED. H. Williams Henry FUNERAL DIRECTOR. Graduate of Dr. Rodgers Perfect Embalming School of San Francisco, Cal., also of The Renouard Training School for Embalmers of New York. And a Licensed Erabalmer for the State of New York, also a member of the State Funeral Directors Association of California. MONUMENTS Hawaiian Board Book Rooms MERCHANT AND ALAKEA STREETS, HONOLULU. AND TOMBSTONES FURNISHED. Chairs to Rent. 1142, 1144 FORT ST. Residence. 240 King Street. LOVE BUILDING, Telephones: Office, 64; Res., 1020. � 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 (1910) 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 - 1910.09 - Newspaper https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/e3c524f578f7234f935e094d9923d85a.pdf 7be7975c51d82336a0e4244f870c41f5 PDF Text Text �2 THE FRIEND . October, 1910. Hawaiian (Trust Co. THE FRIEND LIMITED. Fire, Marine, Life SN» and Accident BURETY ON BONDS. Plate Class, Employers' Liability, and Burglary Insurance. 923 FORT BTREET, Safe DepoeM Building. [ffl-^j~— frjl V^HwfcZt^O/ $%/ x^ggXgjJ' Lots for Sale IN pg HILLS Ltd. — John Gv Woolley. A. A. Ebersole. Orramel H. Qulick, H. P. Judd. W. B. Oleson. to Henry Waterhouse Trust Co. LIMITED STOCKS, BONDS AND ISLAND SECURITIES Offer complete College preparatory work, (Castle & Cooke, Ltd. Foreign Correipondent. Commercial, Music, and Art courses. Catalogue, address The BOY Wants Stories We have a Bible with 800 good illustrations. We knew one copy of it to be Bualness Agent, worn out by the use of one family,— Honolulu, H. T. four children one after the other liter• • College, ally wearing it to pieces. WHITNEY, M. D., D. D. S. We have one, and have sent for a DENTAL ROOMS. number more. JONATHAN SHAW, JM. SHIPPING CHANTS, COMMISSION AND Ewa Plantation Company, Waialua Agricultural Co., Ltd. Kohila Sugar Company. Waimea Sugar Mill Company. Apokaa Sugar Company, Ltd. WahiawaCon. Pineapple Co., • Boston Building. Ltd. Fulton Iron Works of St. Louis, Blake Steam Pumps, Marsh Steam Pumps, American Steam Pump Co. Weston's Centrifugals, Baldwin's Automatic Juice Weigher, Batxock & Wilcox Boilers, Demings Superheaters, Matson Navigation Co. A' in t Insurance Company, Green's Fuel Economizers^ Planters Line Shipping Co. Citizens Insurance Co. (Hartford Fire* Fireman's Fund Insurance Co. (Marine Dept.) National Fire Insurance Co. Protector Underwriters of the Phoenix of New Hartford. Mutual Life Insurance Co., of Boston. England ESTEY ORGANS Hawaiian Board Book Rooms. Hawaiian —Board Book Rooms. AT THE Fort Street MER- SUGAR FACTOR AND GENERAL INSURANCE AGENT. REPRESENTING There are none so good as the old BIBLE stories, the boy himself as judge. We know for we have tried with a number of boys, girls too. But you should have GOOD PICTURES as texts when you tell Bible stories. together with special WICHMAN & CO., LTD. Manufacturing Optician, Jeweler and Silversmith. - - - School. Fitts, A. 8., Principal). HF. • Diamonds, American and Swiss Watches, Art Pottery, Cut Glass Leather Goods, Etc. Hawaiian Islands. Honolulu .,-, Preparatory Fort and Merchant Streets, Honolulu. Importer of Kntrrtd Oetnlirr Z7. igai. tit lliniiihihi. Ilnniiii, aSMSMMI rlum liKlttrr, umlcr del nf Vn, fjrrm nf Mnnli i,V;q. —and Oahu All Communications of a literary character should be addressed to THE FRIEND, corner Alakea and Merchant Sts., Honolulu, T. H„ and must reach the Board Rooms by the 24th of the month. Paul Super. William D. Westerrelt. Perley L. Home. Ernest J. Recce. Edward W. Thwing, (Arthur F. Griffiths, A.8., President.) For account Theodore Richards. COLLEGE. (Charles T. . All business letters should be address-, Regular Savings Bank Department mained and all M. O.s and checks should be tained in Bank Building on Merchant Street, and Insurance Department, doing a Life, made out to Fire and Marine business on most favorable Theodore Richards, terms, in Friend Building on Bethel Street. Business Manager of The Friend. P. O. Box 489. Doremus Scudder, Editor In Chief. Frank S. Scudder, Managing Editor. F. W. Damon. Trent Trust Co. Punahou BAN KERB. is published the rirst week ot each month in Honolulu, I. li., at the HaHONOLULU, HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. waiian Board Book Rooms, cor. Alakea and Merchant Sts. Subscription price, Established in 1858. $i .00 per year. A special rate is made to Mission Transact a Banking and ExChurches or Sunday Schools in the change Business.General Loans made on approved Islands. Clubs of 25 to one address 25 security. Bills discounted. Commercial Credits granted. Deposits received on curcents apiece per year. subject rent check. THE BOARD OF EDITORS: LOW PRICES EASY TERMS OAHU BISHOP & COMPANY, �The Friend. OLDEST NEWSPAPER WEST OF THE ROCKIES. Vol. LXVIII HONOLULU, H. T., OCTOBER, 1910 No. 10 HARMONY TOO HIGH PRICED. Did he not accept a place on the Prohibition Campaign ComPeople's Aug. 20 to Sept. 20, 1910. The Republican party in Hawaii is mittee? again in quest of solidarity. It is buying RECEIPTS Did he get a "tip" that the Liquor peoup peace in its ranks in order to win at A. B. C. F. M The price that it pays (at ple were going to win, that he went back $ 115.00 the polls. A. M. A 3.00 least a part of it) looks innocent enough: on his promise to "stump" the Islands for Chinese Work Prohibition? 20.00 it is SILENCE. English Portuguese Work 30.00 Was his trip to Reno "for his health" But Silence is by no means unfailingly Friend 24.70 fair. or to kill time ? Hawaii General Fund 30.50 Was the coming in of the yacht Hawaii Concerning the Delegate, for instance, Hawaiian Work 5.00 (ahead of expectations) somewhat disis UnSilence unfairness. working great Hoaloha 143.99 spairing praise is heaped on Kuhio for appointing to a man who could not on Hyde Property Income 2.80 a number of benefits from Con- election day inform the public explicitly Invested Funds 382.20 securing gress for Hawaii. He will be voted for which way he was intending to vote? Japanese Work 93.00 on that issue, while George B. McClelAll this may involve a dead issue in Kalihi Settlement 253.25 lan, who factor all the minds of some. But the liquor issue large in very was a Maui General Fund 100.00 effort, is a dead one; neither is the quesCongressional commonly igis never Oahu General Fund 644.00 tion of a man's honor. nored. Office Expense 3.20 Kuhio will lose some votes unless he Probably a recent criticism of Kuhio Palama Settlement 50.00 Tomo 2.00 by a Honolulu gentleman had a slant too can explain himself satisfactorily on the unfriendly when he said, "One act of Ku- above points. $1,902.64 hio's alone has my unqualified approval T. R. —his selection of a secretary." As it Ji seems more probable that the "selection" EXPENDITURES. referred to is not Kuhio's but the result A DISTINGUISHED VISITOR. Alexander Settlement $ 75.00 of a political maneuver whereby a strikBush Place 12.42 1 lonolulu is again honored by the preing Hawaiian figure looms big at the Central Kona Settlement 25.00 sence of Mrs. S. L. Mills, so well known a head of ticket—properly ballasted by Chinese Work $193.50 to many residents here, who is spending some unadvertised criticism ability—the Salaries 510.95 falls still wider of the mark. It all seems a few weeks in her old home, where she 604.45 on Mr. McClellan; but it may be so successfully labored in the cause of rough Educational Fund 140.00 answered that he knew what he was do- education, with her husband, the late English Portuguese Work...* 32.00 when he took that particular posi- Rev. C. T. Mills. D. D. Though for over ing Salaries 728.50 tion. In which latter case the unfairness forty years Mrs. Mills has been a prom760.50 is more apparent than real: perhaps few- inent figure in educational circles in CaliFriend 62.05 er are fooled people by the combination fornia, she retains a warm and vivid General Fund 11.10 memory of the days she spent in the we than supposed. Salaries 605.00 "sixties" at Punahou, helping in a markHawaii General Fund 3.75 ed degree, to guide into active manhood Speak Up. 417.05 Salaries and womanhood many who have held Hoaloha 49.51 But there is a graver count against and are still occupying positions as leadHyde Property Income 50.00 Silence in the case of Kuhio. The big Investment 336.25 winsome dollar that so readily covers the ers in the enlarging life of Hawaii nei. Prior to their residence in Hawaii, it Japanese Work $ 78.00 public eye, seems to have spread down will be remembered that Dr. and Mrs. Salaries 761.75 over the mouth, so that there is no seeing Mills were engaged in missionary educa839.75 nor speaking of anything else. In the beKalihi Settlement 314.00 lief that there is something bigger than tional work under the American Roard in Office Expense 28.25 dollars and finer than silence, we hold India. After their years of earnest effort Palama Settlement 166.00 that Kuhio should be held to account for at Oahu College, they entered upon their great work for the education of the Preachers' Training Fund 25.12 his political trickery in the matter of the young women of California and adjacent Tomo 33.00 plebiscite. As a candidate for one of the states and territories. Many of our own Walakea Settlement 75.00 most important offices in the gift of the island young ladies have shared in the people, let him answer to his record on benefits of the Seminary and College life, J4.633.20 that question. initiated by them both at Benicia, and Excess of Expenditures over reWas he not avowedly for Prohibition later at the beautiful school home near $2,730.56 ceipts in the hearing before the Congressional Oakland. After the death of her husband Overdraft at the Bank $ 413.66 Committees—fighting the Curtiss bill Mrs. Mills carried forward alone this T.R. only on the issue of "Home Rule"? splendid undertaking, with a heroism, dcTREASURER'S STATEMENT. �4 October. I'HO. THE FRIEND termination and ability which places her Bishop Museum. The real article gave in the front rank of leaders in the cause place to the large golden fan-like leaf of of woman's education in the United the Amelia Siboldi, held high, and carStates. She has lived to see the accomp- ried with as much stately dignity as memlishment of a great work, and prophetic- ory could bring out of the old Kahili ally sees the coming of a still greater. days. Halting before our alii, Mrs. Mills, Within the past year she has resigned with profound res|>ect all offerings were her position as active president, and to placed at her feet. Bedecked with leis this important post the trustees have and Sower crowned she stood, smiling elected Dr. Luella Carson, a lady of and bewildered at the puolus of bread marked ability and leadership. With this fruit, I lawaiian oranges, papaias and coming year the history of the seminary, guavas, with their appetizing flavors and so fruitful in good results, will close, and the luau suggesting ti leaves so picturMills College, now well established, will esquely wrapped about them. Past and continue its beneficent work for young present were discussed on the hospitable women. Hawaii owes a debt of gratitude lanai with its charming vista of mounto this noble woman, now "within our tains, valleys and cane fields. .Names were gates." On the eve of her eighty-fifth spoken tenderly that will never again rebirthday, she radiates still the marvelous spond to the roll call. Photographs of vitality which has so preeminently char- Mills College were made living pictures acterized her through a long lifetime of by Mrs. Mills' enthusiastic comments. mtensest effort. Her heart still beats true Dainty refreshments were served. for the best interests and the highest deThe cool sherbert brought to mind the velopment in these "isles of the sea," as blessings of today, against the time when for the advance of all that is good on ice was unknown, and with cherished the mainland. She still remains with us memories of a taro leaf folded into a as an inspiration and benediction! We Clip and filled with clear, cool water at feel that we voice the sentiment of a host the I'unahou bubbling spring in the long 'iiff of friends here in the land of her earlier ago. ii activities, in extending to their noble lady ELLEN A. WEAVER. a hearty and affectionate " Aloha ntii Honolulu. Sept 25th, I'MO. j» loa." P. W. D. CANDY STAND. THE the schools at the People who pass by A HOOKUPU TO MRS. MILLS recess periods are greeted with a sight which is anything but creditable to our A group of "old girls" of the Mills city. Standing near the school gates period of I'unahou school days made a will be seen one or more candy and soda pilgrimage to Moanalna on a Saturday water stands, from which Chinamen of afternoon to pay their respects to their benign countenance dispense their sweets old-time teacher. Mrs. Mills, founder to a swarm of boys and girls and little with her husband of Mills College, Cali- children. The crowd of pupils is somefornia, who is the house guest of Mr. times so great that one wonders if there and Mrs. Frank Damon in their "Isle of has been an accident, but on drawing tranquil delights." Repudiating "The nearer he finds them drinking, smacking Blue Book," with its unerring birth dates, their lips, sucking their sticky fingers and all the evidences of the marches and and talking to each other with mouths countermarches of time on their beaming half full. faces they drove dull care away to be With stomachs thus polluted and their girls again just for the day, and enjoy mind's keen edge already turned these the unique pleasure of a hookupu witli pupils take up their studies in the early all "its historical associations," modifying morning; at recess, instead of rushing details to suit up-to-date conditions. Mrs. out for healthful s|x>rt, again they hang Mills and her hostess, Mrs. Damon, stood around the candy stand; at noon likein the doorway of the pretty bungalow wise, and sometimes at the close of school to receive the approaching procession, the scene is repeated. headed by a "Mills Girl" bearing the (riven a permanent candy stand at the mammoth flower of the Aurelia Sil>oldi, school gate and the debauchery of the its twelve great spoke-like fronds radiat- child's mind is well nigh inevitable. To ing like a rimless wheel from the center, protect their children from it many parand all studded with crimson buds just ents try to inspire them with better ideals ready to burst into bloom, its bearer lost and give them no money to spend, but in the mazes of the great red flower octo- candy and soda water thrust under the pus, and flanked by a Daughter of Ha- very nose of the ever hungry and A thirsty school child—how can they help waii chanting a Kamehameha mele. company of kahili bearers followed with being a severe temptation? How often their offerings. Kahilis are rarely seen does a child harbor resentment against these days beyond the confines of the kind parents because they do not give him a few nickels for refreshments! or how often may he be tempted to get a little change by deceit, so that he may enjoy himself and l>e like other boys! We cannot help inquiring, why are these candy stands allowed to encamp around the schools? Do we think our children ought to be thus pampered? Or is it the dear Chinaman's smile we cherish for the children, so that we can not bear to banish him from our school gates? We wonder how many parents are aware of the demoralizing influences that center in the candy stand! MIDWAY ISLAND Hall to thee, watcher on this somber waste. Thy mother Is the first of earth-born daughters, The deep abyss congealed from primal mists. And there the brooding Spirit still persists, Upon the bosom of the surging waters; From great creative days that never haste, 2. Set as a beacon In the boundless ocean, Built on a rock, thou dar'st to stand alone. Alone when cloud-banks fill the gloomy sky; Alone when lightnings flash and storms beat high; Alone when dying surges cease to moan, And slumbering waters He without a motion. 3. Far out upon these barren solitudes; Beyond the rush of eager throngs; beyond The strife for all that warring men have sought; Beyond the civic claims that warp our thought, Holding us down to forms as with a bond, I'd rest at last, and cease from all these feuds. 4. The fellowship of ever-thronging waves Has not the fevered touch of toil and stress. The thrilling cries of far off Beablrds sound Upon thy cliffs, and echoes shrill re- bound. Till plaintive strains are stirred in each recess, Within the somber depths of all thy caves. r>. These birds that greet us with their piercing tone, Are the swift flying tenants of the deep, Are messengers of courage, hope and cheer; For they are free. Their voice Is loud and clear. While their triumphant wings mount with a sweep I'll to the dizzy heights to man unknown. 6. Oh that to me were known those sacred heights, That I might see what man has never seen; Might And the pillars thou hast planted so For That storms can never shake. down below The storm-line lies the stable rock, in green Pellucid waters, full of subtle lights. JOHN T. GULICK. �October, 1910. HIE FRIEND 5 his first contact with missionaries, whose Dodge. Between fifty and sixty pastors religion he greatly despised but whose and delegates from .Maui were present. We have been r lad to welcome Bishop righteous lives and patient, painstaking This number swelled to 140 for the SunHonda, who stopped over in this city for disposition he came more and more to day morning service and by afternoon a few days on his return from the World admire. Men, like Doctors Brown and over two hundred people were present for Missionary Conference in Edinburgh. Ballagh of the Dutch Reformed Mission, the Sunday School convention. (>n his arrival in New York a few greatly interested him and influenced him The Hawaiian Board should feel very weeks ago, Bishop Honda with Dr. Ibuka, in the right direction. nappy over the work which Rev. Mr. BISHOP HONDA. president of the Meiji Gakuin, Tokyo, en- deavored to arouse interest in the proposal to establish a Christian University in Japan. The matter was laid by them before an informal conference of board secretaries and members held recently The proposal has in a in New York. general way been supported by the Edinburgh Conference and it is hoped that something may issue from it. Bishop Honda has the distinction of being the first, and thus far the only Japanese who has been consecrated to the office of bishop. In him the great test has been made, and we have heard ol no one who disputes his personal fitness for the office. In the political world as well as in the religious Bishop Honda is well known. Strong pressure was brought to bear upon him to represent his district in the Diet, when that body was first opened in 18't). It was a great temptation, and most of his friends, both Japanese and American, expected that he would regard this as a higher call, but after a long hard struggle he "decided to serve the Lord as one of his humble servants." Story of His Conversion to Christ. Fact opened at Kaunakakai a little over two years ago. From the old tumbledown BISHOP HONDA Tlir only Oriental linMlng ilir officr ol lliilinp. At last, eleven of the young men of meetings have been held in all his class in English were secretly bapof the Japanese churches in this city and tized in 1870 and the first Protestant addressed by Bishop Honda. In his ser- Christian Church was organized in Yomon in English at the Methodist church kohama. The following year he also was on September 2?, he gave an account of baptized and admitted to membership. his conversion to Christ, of which the Then followed severe persecution. Sevfollowing is a brief resume: I le had been eral of these young men were disinherfrom early youth a sincere follower of ited. They weie driven from home and Union meeting house the congregation, now considerably enlarged over former days, has moved into a beautiful new structure, costing over $1,300, built under the direction of a committee of which Mr. Geo. I'. Cooke was chairman, and Rev. David W. K. White, our Lahaina pastor, architect and inspector. Green and white are the color effect on the outside; the inside is highly polished with exposed truss work to the very roof. The accoustics are perfect. The church is supplied with an organ and hymn books, the gifts of Mr. and Mrs. Cooke, who attend church here every week. Mr. Cooke plays the organ, and keeps the congregation up to excellent time in the singing. Rev. Mr. Gulick preached the sermon of dedication. A printed service, which was prepared with the help of Mr. NaIcuina some two years ago, and published by Mr. Dodge, was used by the pastor and his congregation. Over $200 was raised by the convention for the church, and the small remaining debt is now entirely cleared off. The work of the Monthly Ministers' School of Maui showed good results in the presentation to the meeting of some excellent work in the Old Testament prophets by those who had been working together along other lines of study for the past few years. Under Mr. Judd's stimulating opening lecture at the class last month upon the Prophets, the suggestion was made that several of the men prepare and read papers at this Kaunakakai meeting. Excellent work of an unusually interesting character was presented by Mr. John Kalino and Key. George M. Kauaulalena, and some Knglish speaking Obedience to deserted by friends and relatives. But they all stood the test and most of them continue even to this day as leaders of church work in Nippon. The Bishop gave an interesting account of the present status of Christian work pastors. A delightful feature of the days on in his own country as well as the new mission recently established among the Molobai was the excellent luau given by ten thousand or twelve thousand Japan- Mr. and Mrs. Cooke at their beautiful attention to military tactics. 'Ibis proved ese in Korea, under the direction of Rev. ranch home in honor of the first birthday some diversion. 11. Kihara. formerly paster of River celebration of their young son, George Paul Cooke, Jr. The delegates greatly Later came the restoration of the Em- street church of this city. appreciated this delightful occasion. peror, the overthrow of feudalism and the confiscation of all lands belonging R. B. D. MAUI HAPPENINGS to the Samurai class. His family was reduced to poverty. It was then that his The semi-annual meeting of the Maui, spiritual struggles were renewed and in- Molokai and Lanai churches was held in "Beginning at Jerusalem" Our Gospel responsibility probably tensified. He journeyed five hundred the new church at Kaunakakai, Molokai, miles from his home in the northeast beginning Sunday, the 18th of September. covers the kitchen and the back yard. The Hawaiian Board was represented part of the empire, on foot mostly, to YoGive the cook THE TOMO. kohama and joined a class of young by Rev. W. B. Oleson, O. 11. Gulick, H. 50c. a year. men for the study of English. This was P. Judd, C. G. Burnham, and R. B. the ethics of Confucius. parents, loyalty to the empire, truthful in conversation, respectful to elders—had Constituted the whole of his moral training. He had, however, early awakened to a dee]) sou! hunger which ethics alone could not satisfy, lie longed for spiritual peace and power. While still a youth, came the Civil War, and he devoted his I �6 THE FRIEND MISSIONARY WORK FOR RUSSIANS IN HAWAII. Professor Alexander's History informs us that one hundred years ago, or from 1809 to 1816, through the agency of the Russian governor of Alaska, Baranoff, and others, several Russian adventurers and traders visited these islands, and gained a slight foothold on the island of Kauai, but by the command of Kamehameha I. their enterprises were thwarted and they were expelled from these islands. In 1816 the famous explorer Kotzebue visited these islands and held friendly intercourse with Kamehameha. Since then for a hundred years the Russian people have scarcely touched Hawaii. Now in a wholly different form have the Russians come into our midst. A few of them are to be found at Pahoa in the ohia forests of Puna, working in the saw mill which is producing ohia ties for California railroads. Companies of them arc to be found on several of the sugar plantations. A scattered few have found employ in Honolulu; and there remains a small colony in the district of Iwilei in I lonolulu. A most interesting work for the children of the Iwilei settlement has been begun by Miss Isabel Namau, assisted by Miss Mabel Ahina, of the Kaumakapili church. These two ladies have gathered upwards of forty of the children of this suburb in a Sunday school. From 25 to 30 of these interesting Russian children, together with six or seven Hawaiian, and two or three Porto Rican children were in attendance at the Kaumakapili Sunday school review last Sabbath morning, led by the tact and loving supervision of these two Hawaiian maidens. The gospel light was brought to these shores ninety years ago. and now we find these Hawaiian Christian ladies bringing these gospel blessings to these children of Russia. God bless the faithful Sunday school teachers and give them the joy of seeing gospel light spreading among our jwlyglot people. O. H. G. Ji BOY SCOUTS. Colonel Bullard. of the 2'2nd U. S. Infantry, who has been conducting the instruction camp for the officers of the National Guard, gave an address on the Boy Scout movement in K. of P. Hall Tuesday night, Sept. 18th. A number of prominent local educators and people interested in boys heard him, and as a result are "boosting" the movement. About 70 boys are already enrolled. FOR FLOOD SUFFERERS IN JAPAN. Some contributions have come unsolicited to the Hawaiian Board for the flood sufferers in Japan. Naturally there are sonic who like to contribute in this way because of their friendship with missionaries in Japan. Especial interest is felt by some because in the very center of the flooded district lives Rev. Hilton Redley, who is well known and highly esteemed here both by Americans and Japanese, and through whose co-operation a new evangelist and wife are now on their way to take up work in Hawaii nei. Mr. Pedley's personal losses by reason of the flood were heavy, and the homes of many of his Japanese fellow workers and Christians were damaged or swept away. If others wish to aid the sufferers thus through the agency of the missionaries of the American Board, their contributions will be forwarded by Mr. Theodore Richards, treasurer of the Hawaiian Board. Box 489, Honolulu. Ji A NOBLE RECORD We feel sure that the readers of The Friend will find this report of the educational work carried on by Rev. Mr. Okumura most interesting: During the past fifteen years 251 children have been received into the Japanese Christian Boarding School for the purpose of English and Japanese education under my care of Christian training. ()f these students ?i~ were girls. Some of the children have remained with us more than ten years, while some have left in a few months. Our school has provided for mercantile life in Honolulu, two faithful banking clerks; also several clerks and workers who fill responsible places in stores and on plantations. Eight of our young men are receiving higher education on the mainland. We give especial thanks to God for His help and guidance in sending one of our earnest Christian workers to the field at F.wa, while another is sent to the Osaka Bible School. My son is taking a theological course at Vale College. Six more young men are preparing for Christian ministry. These are encouraging facts, and we feel sure our kind-hearted friends who have so generously assisted our work, from time to time, will join us in thanksgiving. The much-talked of Mid-Pacific Institute is a reality. We take pleasure in sending our boys to the Institute. We are grateful that the many hard problems are solved, and that our school con- October. 1910. tinucs tinder the auspices of the Hawaiian Evangelical Association as a preparatory to the Institute. By the kindness of the Hon. W. R. Castle we fere now happily located iv a pleasant and beautiful home on King street. We express our sincere thanks and deep gratitude to the Hon. W. K. Castle and to others, who have rendered assistance towards the deficit of the last re|)ort by the followingidonations Mr. S. M. Damon. $25.00; Mr. G. I'. Castle, $100.00; Mr. F. A. Schaefer. $25.00; Mr. A F. Cook, $10.00; Rev. F. S. Scudder, $5.00; Prof. W. D. Alexander. $5.00; Hawaiian Board, $200.00; Investment Hyde Premises Fund, $100.00, making a total of $470.00. and leaving the small deficit of $108.20, to be carried over to the next report. During the winter we had 64 children; 8 were supported free of charge, 11 paid half rates. The semi-annual financial report is respectfully submitted. T. OKUMURA. Principal. : Semi-Annual Financial Rejxjrt Japanese Christian Boarding School, From January Ist to June 30th, |910. RECEIPTS. Boarders Mary Castle Trust $1,UU2.MJ Mary Castle Trust (for familv board) Mrs. J. B. Atherton Mrs. II. C. Coleman Hawaiian Hoard 150.00 150.00 100.00 50.00 n0.00 $1,512.50 Total DISBURSEMENTS. $ 445.65 Rice and bread 823.75 Groceries 50.00 Fuel 110.25 Washing Wages, cook and general servants 174.00 50.30 Minor Expenses Total Deficit Deficit from last rq>ort Total deficit 11453.95 $141.45 108.20 $249. :249.f>5 f>5 A HEALTH PRECAUTION. The automobile will stir op and scatthrough the air a thousand times more germs than the pedestrian can do Is it not even more important therefore to keep the streets clean than to guard the sidewalk from pollution. Strict regulations against spitting on the sidewalk only aggravate the danger unless the rule is as strictly enforced on the street. ter �The Scribe's Corner REV. WM. BREWSTER OLESON Corresponding Secretary. "Hot by chance Is It that the Iscomisg ecuI* tury find* to many thousands of souls rcprcsenflna all the greater nations and greater faiths or east and west, rilled with the conviction that the world Is capable or bclag made bener. that sin Is the social plague that blasts humanlire. and that they that are strong ought to bear the infirmities ot the weak, and sot to please themselves." —Charles Cuthberl Hall. to promote this kind of training by allowing the school to use land suited to this end is the wisest kind of paternalism. We trust the government may SM its way clear to give the largest measure of approval to the plans of Prin. Lyman by making it easy for the school to acquire the land in question for the proposed ex- periment station. Note.—Since this paragraph was in type, the above mentioned tract of land has been placed under the control of the Federal Experiment Station, who will establish on it a Farm Experiment Station under the direct management of Prin. Lyman. This arrangement is an eminently wise one, and we congratulate all parties concerned. J» Clinching a Good Thing. A pledge to give $5000 to the perma- endowment of llilo Boarding School has just been received by the trust-cs conditioned on the securing of $10,000 from other givers, thus making a prospective addition of $15,000 to the permanent funds of this well-known and successful school. There is no more worthy call before the giving public of Hawaii today than to clinch this generous gift by raising the necessary $10,(KM) to secure it. It should be an easy matter to accomplish this. The securing of the $15,000 thus hoped for would bring the permanent endowment of the school to within $1().0(X) of the $100.<XX) fund which would make the school under present conditions self-supporting. Will not some of the generous givers of the Territory take Up this matter at once, and make it possible, first of all, to secure the $5000 conditionally pledged, and then later to secure the final $10.()(K) to make the permanent endowment of $1(X),(MX) complete? nent Jl Working 7 mi-: FRIEND October. I'MO on Right Lines. The training at llilo Hoarding School is specially practical, and suited to the needs of the young men who are served by this school. Special training is provided in intelligent farming. Efforts are being made to secure a specially desirable tract of government land adjoining the school premises, which will be devoted to farm experiments under Mr. Clowes, a man well equipped by nature and educa- tion for this responsible task. There is no measurement of the value of this kind of training for many of the youth of Hawaii. They must get on to the land, in considerable numbers, or go to the wall. To know how to compel the land to give forth its riches is an education worth having. For the government Politics and Religion. They will mix. In fact, they mix a good deal in this country. Were it not for this fact, possibly politics would be worse than at present. In all likelihood religion helps polities more than politics helps religion. Certainly the deeper religious convictions have less sway where the atmosphere is surcharged with political excitement. This was the case recently at llilo where the Association was sandwiched in with two political conventions, At some of the gatherings it was difficult to detect at a distance whether a man was a Republican or a Home Ruler or a Christian! The writer was A Seven Days' Wonder. The paflplie of Molokai have witnessed a mysterious transformation. A bell buoy off Kamaloo Point, that has for years refused to ring, and has Ix-en a sort of tossing sphinx on the uneasy billows of that treacherous coast-line, has suddenly acquired the |>owcr to semi out a searching flashlight that has amazed the fishermen. This has been due to the installing of an acetylene gas lamp in the buoy, that, I am told, needs no caretaker, but works automatically, and is good for six months' service without renewal. No one goes to the light at eventide, but lo! the astonished beholders see the Hash come out across the waters regularly with the dying of the day. Three of us rode for miles together alongshore, a Japanese, a Hawaiian, and a haole. We talked about the mysterious light. We talked in a comical mixture of Hawaiian, English and nondescript. The Japanese was the inquisitive one, the iiaole furnished the requisite information and the Hawaiian dilated in detail on every feature of the marvelous light. The marvel grew in the eyes of the Japanese at every new development. The cheapness ness of the light, the long duration of the light, the value of water in producing the light, the simplicity of the process, all appealed to the ()riental imagination. He had evidently had his troubles with kerosene lamps. Here was an easy solution for all his troubles. Why couldn't he have a flashlight buoy in his house? present at a Supervisors' meeting during And after a fashion he may. and probliis stay in Hilo that was opened with ably will, for nothing is more than a prayer; and he passed the hall where a seven days' wonder in these crowding political convention was singing days that bring the world's latest inventions and plant them squarely in th* face, "( hir fathers' (iod, to thee. of primitive people who are fast becomAuthor of liberty, ing the only ones who wonder at anyTo thee we sing: thing. However, many a mariner will rebright our land be Long may joice every time he sees the Kamaloo Willi freedom's holy light ; gas-light buoy, and will go on his course Protect us by thy might. content and happy. Great (iod, our King." Certainly we are many of us home rulers in our love of country and in our longing for God's blessing on the land. It would certainly be no disadvantage to our )x>litics if there were a little more of genuine religion mixed with it. The writer has known political conventions where the atmosphere seemed surcharged with the sentiment: 'He who enters here should leave his religion outside.' But the world makes headway. Politics and religion are becoming letter friends, and the coalition is not likely to hurt politics any. We are working for the coining of the kingdom of heaven on earth, and when that conies |>olitics and religion will coalesce in a final merger, and the Father's will on earth will be done as in heaven. 'T am only One. but I am One; I cannot do Everything but I can do Something. What I can do I ought to do, And what I ought to do, by the Grace of God. I will do." RESPONSIBLE I For those Jajianese Servants ? More than we think, perhaps. Let them I read a Christian paper in their own I tongue. It is THE TOMO. 50c. a year j �THE FRIEND. 8 Educational Advance F. W. DAMON A MID-PACIFIC GENESIS WITH AN INTERNATIONAL SIGNIFICANCE In a recent issue of The Friend a somewhat detailed account of the developing work of the "Mid-Pacific Institute," in both its departments, was given. Hence, at the present time, we would only call attention to the fact that the work of "Mills School," the Boys' Department, has been definitely launched on the campus in Manoa Valley, when "Kawaiahao Seminary" has preceded it by some two (m September I,2th the doors of splendid new school hall opened in welcome to the noble company of young years. our which it was designed. We feel sure that the noble friend who, with such large foresight, gave this spacious structure to the cause of Christian education, and those other friends, who have so generously aided in its most satisfactory furnishings, will rejoice in the good use being made of this new school home. It will be of interest to our friends, we believe, to know that in the boarding department of Mills School there are now one hundred and forty-four (144) students, and in the day school forty (40) additional pupils, a total of one hundred and eighty-four students ( iX4). Of this number 87 are Chinese. 64 Japanese, 27 Koreans, 4 Hawaiians. 1 Marshal Islander. 1 Philippino. In our (iirls' Department, Kawaiahao Seminary, there are one hundred and six (106) pupils. The student enrollment in the "Mid-Pacific Institute" now numbers two hundred and ninety (**o) with combined faculties numbering over twenty-five ladies and gentlemen. The trustees, faculty and students hope a little later to invite the friends of the work to join in appropriate dedicatory exercises in connection with the opening of this new school hall. men and boys of many different nationalities, who, with hearts filled with high hope and expectancy, found here the heartiest of welcomes. The long corridors with their massive stone arches, framing glorious views of mountain, plain and sea, were alive with their joyA MEETING IN MID OCEAN. ous voices and hastening feet. Principal Merrill and his efficient and enthusiastic The Student Alliance of Hawaii reco-workers in the faculty found a great cently most heartily and enthusiastically work calling them. Registration and or- welcomed a large number of Chinese ganization have filled recent days to the students en route to the mainland and bebrim with work. Splendid contingents came their hosts, assisted by certain Chifrom the Japanese Boarding School of nese merchants, during their stay in lltour honored co-worker. Rev. Mr. Oku- waii. Last year a body of Chinese govniura. and from the Korean Mission ernment students passed through HonoSchool of our loyal friends of the Meth- lulu, numbering over forty persona, but odist church, with many others, met the in this last company there were nearly "Old Guard" of Mills Institute and al- seventy students. They presented a fine ready a harmonious and inspiring union appearance as they landed, courteous, has been formed. Work is well under gentlemanly, fine-looking young fellows, way, ranging from early studies in the clad in the array of Harvard, or Vale or grades, up through, to. and well into Chicago; just from Canton, from Shanghigh school work; a good start has been hai, and Peking, yet. many of them made in our commercial department and speaking English with fluency and disHawaiian sunlight was floodbeginning to take form. The Oriental ing the wharf, but it seemed as if we studies of this international school are were dreaming. The world and the people being guided by able instructors. Above in it certainly "do move." Three comall else from the first, the keynote of this missioners of education accompanied the school, dedicated to Christ and the ad- party. We were soon "old friends," and vance of His Kingdom, has been sounded the company marched up to the beautiin the Institute Hymn, shared by both ful grounds of the Executive Building. departments of our "Mid-Pacific Insti- Here bands of ten were formed, each tute:" placed under the leadership of a member "We've a Message to give to the Nation*, of the local Alliance, and a pilgrimage to the "sights of Honolulu" was begun. That all of the world* great peoples, Luncheon was served in the spacious May come to the troth of God." dining hall of the Kawaiahao Seminary The new building is proving itself ad- in Manoa. Long tables, decorated with mirably adapted for the purposes for tropical fruits and flowers, welcomed our industrial and agricultural work is tinction. October, I'MO. well over one hundred guests. Principals and professors from a number of our local institutions joined in meeting the students at the festive board. The Chinese Consul and his secretaries were with us as honored guests. Later the company adjourned to the beautiful assembly ball, where a most stimulating and interesting hour was passed. "America" and "The Star Spangled Banner" were sung in full chorus, with rousing and inspiring effect. Addresses in the Cantonese and Mandarin dialects and in English followed in quick succession. As the names ot the different provinces of the empire were called, the students representing a particular province rose ami, as the list was made up we found that nine of the provinces of the great land of China had their representatives in our sea-girt territory. From Chili on the north to Ouangtung and Quangsi on the south, including many of the central provinces, bordering the great YangtsekiaiiLT river, they brought their greetings. One told us of his home in that mighty province, in the far west of China adjoining Thibet, a province with an area equal to that of France. Some had been students in different imperial institutions, while others came from St. John's College in Shanghai, from the Christian College of Canton, and other missionary schools. It was a wonderful and splendid roll-call, eloquent in its suggestions of the great work now going forward in China, and prophetic of that still greater work which is to be accomplished. These students have gained the privilege of continuing their studies on the mainland of the United States as a result of their success in passing recently certain competitive examinations in Peking. Their expenses are paid from the lioxer Indemnity Fund, the return of which to China by the government of the United States is one of the noblest and most Christian acts in the history of the onward growth of the human race. These young men, the flower and hope of modem China, form the largest band of students yet sent out by the Chinese government. They are by this time busily at work in some nine of our leading American universities. It is a pleasure for the Friend to present with this issue a picture of this truly historic company, with certain of their island friends, taken at the entrance portal of Mills School, of the Mid-Pacific Institute. College "yells" and cheers filled the air as the steamer bearing these young Argonauts,seeking a treasure more precious than the "Golden Fleece," swung out into the harbor, on its further journey. May their highest hopes be realized and China and the world be blessed through their efforts! �October. l') 10. 9 THE FRIEND GOVERNMENT STUDENTS FROM CHINA, En Route to the Mainland, visiting the Mid Pacific Institute. THE GOOD WORK AT THE HILO the expenses at about $1200. Of this THE NEW YEAR AT MAUNAOLU sum $735 have already been donated. SEMINARY. BOARDING SCHOOL. The steam plant connects with the We are glad to hear as follows from We are glad to hear from Principal kitchen, the dairy and the poi house. In our system of improvements it is pro- Miss Heusner with reference to this Lyman as follows: mised to place steam kettles in the kitch- Seminary: "School opened on September sth with en, and to fit up a neat little up-to-date "Maunaolu has once more opened her a promising number of pupils, the new dairy, the fittings for which have already doors to the girls of Hawaii nei for the pupils being mainly Hawaiians. During been ordered and are on the way. purpose of training their young hearts the vacation we have erected and fitted It was rather an exciting time when and minds to true and useful womanout a new three-roomed building. Con- the poi factory turned out its first poi on hood. Nearly all of last year's pupils siderable complicated work has been done the third day of the school, as machine- have returned and many new ones enin connection with its construction, as it made poi was a new idea to the new tered, so that the prospects for a full atcombines steam plant, dairy and poi fac- pupils. tendance are most promising. tory. The masonry, the setting of the Mrs. E. H. Westervelt, who for the Our teachers found that a delightful steam boiler, and the rather complicated past ten years has. been identified with vacation could be spent on the islands, arrangements in the poi factory of auto- the work, severed her connection with and have come back to their work rematic lifts, shafting and carrier trays re- the school last June, in order to place her freshed and ready to put forth their best quired some careful work, and we are children in college. efforts. With these exceptions there are Miss Helen Clowes has been added to no changes in the faculty. Mrs. Buckproud to say that we found our school force able to do the work. Not only have the force. Mr. Nelson Stacy entered the enham succeeds Mrs. Mason as matron, the boys received very valuable instruc- field last April to substitute in the car- and Miss Estelle Balcom, sister of our tion in this practical work, but their ef- pentry department for Mr. M. Yama- music teacher, comes as trained nurse. forts have greatly decreased the total ex- moto while the latter was on a leave of We are thus enabled to give much more pense. A skilled workman would have absence in Japan. Mr. Stacy remains in attention to the teaching of physiology charged from $2 to $7 a day for the labor the carpentry department, and as Mr. and hygiene. Yamainoto has returned from Japan, we they thus covered. And so we can truly say we are started It is only through our doing the work have thus doubled the strength in the in on a new year's work under most favorable conditions." ourselves that we have been able to keep busiest department of the school." .T1...W 1.N.11l I. �Illl'. FRIEND 10 OPENING DAYS AT KOHALA SEMINARY. Miss McConnick writes as follows: "()ur school opened last Monday, but we are hardly in order yet. and so have much to rci>ort. I spent my vacation in Japan, and returned to find the school buildings had all been repaired and many needed improvements made. We have two new teachers this year: Miss Claribel Bickford, of Los Angeles (a graduate of Oberlin ) takes the intermediate work, and Miss Gladys L. Grose, a graduate of Oberlin Conservatory, takes the primary and music work. The other teachers remain the same. We have enrolled fifty-six girls, but have had to refuse others because of a lack of room and scholarships. The enrollment reached fifty-one the first day, which is splendid for here. There seems to be a tendency toward older girls coming. This year we have only seven in the three lowest grades, the others all entering higher grades —most of them the fifth and sixth." not Jl SHORT CUTS A Sermon by Rev. Frank Ncwhall White. D. D •t Central Union Church. . Some who could not have the privilege of hearing the series of sermons delivered by Dr. White this summer at Central Union Church have expressed a wish that one of them might be printed in The Friend. We take pleasure, therefore, in presenting to our readers the following, which was the last of the series: Doctor White said: " 'No sign shall be given to it but the sign of the prophet Jonah.' The Pharisees asked for a sign, that is, they were after a shortcut to intellectual certainty. The passion for shortcuts, so characteristic of our age, and of all ages, is by no means always a reprehensible thing, as Jesus asserts it was in this particular case. Whether it is wholesome or vicious depends on the kind of shortcut a 111.111 is after. "A goodly fraction of the railway activity of recent years has gone into precisely this work of securing straighter and shorter tracks from place to place, the abolishing of curves, the avoidance of high grades, the tunneling of ridges and mountain ranges. The whole difference between failure and dividends frequently hinges on the discovery of a short cut that makes possible the avoidance of the curve over and the curve around. "I.cc had Grant at bay and foiled him repeatedly during that awful summer of 1H64, for the Simple reason that be bad possttsiou of the inside lines: in other words, controlled the short cuts. Lee could go straight: Grant had to go around. Every successful invention represents a short cut to efficiency: every tool furnishes a short cut to the working hand and arm: telegraph and telephone afford short cuts for speech; speech itself is the consummate short cut in getting ideas from man to man. The history of civilization might be written in terms of the short cut. All honor then to th: human endeavor that keeps up a rest less search for the short cut. "But there are short cuts and short —those that merit only praise, those on the other hand that spell disgrace; those on the one hand that represent a large investment of energy and treasure, those on the other that express sheer laziness and ineritia and the passion to get something for nothing. It is needles to say that Jesus accuses the Pharisees, in their search for a sign, of being guilty of this latter thing. "For wjiat has happened? A wonderful man has appeared that has set the nation agog. The crowd is talking about him. The mob is thronging him. I le said striking things. Never man spake like this man. He spoke with an insight and authority never detected in the scribe. He did marvelous things., Health exhaled from his touch like fragrance from an apple orchard in full bloom. He was unusual from every point of view. His personality, his treachery, his character, his deeds, all presented a puzzle that baffled the cleverest. Who was he? What might he be? What they should do is honestly to test him. study him, observe him, examine his claims; in a word, think their problem through. But that takes time, takes brains, takes a costly expenditure of energy. They balk at that. They are busy men, they will have the question settled out of hand. 'Show us a sign,' they demand. In other words. 'Do someWe thing startling, extraordinary. haven't time to waste over you. If you want us to take you at your own rating, compel us to l>elieve by some feat of magic power.' You see what that means, the demand for satisfaction without being willing to pay the cost. They wanted the quarry without the fatigue of the hunt. They asked that the truth be put in their open palms done up in a neat parcel, properly labeled and accredited, without so much effort on their part as the turn of a hand. They wanted, in a word, something for nothing. cuts, October, 1910. "The moment you get at the true inwardness of the situation, you see what a common, prevalent thing it is with which we are dealing, lt has a score of disguises, but is the same spirit of mischief and evil under every disguise. Why do people wear amulets and repeal charms? Simply because they have juggled themselves into believing that they can cheat the laws of nature and purchase personal safety in some cheap way that requires no personal watchfulness and effort. I low explain the vogue of the fortune-teller and the medium? Why. they stand in popular thought for clever shortcuts to bidder* information, to fortune and success. What is the secret of the sway of popular superstitions concerning numbers and days, lucky and unlucky, and the like? Simply, that they are supposed to represent occult influences beyond the control of the will, which, if you can manage to avoid their CV I eye and curry favor with them, will work for you instead of against you, and guarantee immunity from danger and a sure road to success, and leave you care free into the bargain. "These, however, only begin the enumeration. Men are after the short cut in health. A familiar advertisement pictures a gormand with a broad smile on his face seated behind a plethoric turkey sprinkling it with pep-salt, some such legend as this underneath: 'He has no fear of a hearty meal." The advertisement is a symptom; it answers to a widespread demand, the demand for some device by which a man may eat what and all he pleases, abuse his digestion, violate every law of health, throw caution to the winds, and be immune from the consequences. Many a man, and woman, too, has use for the doctor only as a sort of insurance to cover the risks of reckless indulgence and vicious habit. "Men want the short cut in business, and so long as they want it with such unanimity there will be no lack of lambs to be fleeced by the bucket shop and devoured by the larger carnivora of the board of trade. Each new day will furnish a fresh quota of gullible victims for the fake mine, oil well and real estate promoter; and all the king's horses and all the king's men will not be'able to hold back the crowds that throng the gambling halls and j)ore over the colored dope sheet of the yellow press. Mighty is the hunger of humanity to get something for nothing. "Men want intellectual short cuts. Multitudes have found a haven of mental rest in the Roman Church; for �THE FRIEND October, I'MO. the church has said with siren voice, 'Trust your minds and consciences with me, and I will hold them in safe keeping. Leave your doubts with me for solution. I will think for you. prescribe for you, si live problems for you, guarantee the fufor you.' "Storm-tossed and perplexed spirits through the centuries have yielded in vast numbers to the fascinating spell of a great institution that saves them the stern necessity of hard thinking and perplexing discrimination, and stands ready at any moment to speak the final word. Its power will continue so long as men are caught by the lure of the elusive shortcut to spiritual certainty. ture "Men want the short cut in character Most men. it is safe to say all men, would like to be better than they are. They would rather be good than bad. They would be good if it weren't too inconvenient and costly. If only they could take goodness in capsule or tabloid form at night and wake up the next morning transformed in tastes, purposes and enthusiasms—if they could but take their old natures to the tailor or cobbler, and. Tike clothes or shoes, have them mended while you wait—if only they might make a lucky find of a remnant character on the bargain counter, to be purchased for a song—you could have heaven on earth tomorrow. I believe with all my heart in a genuine and passionate evangelism, lint if popular evangelism is suffering any disrepute, it arises from the fact that it offers to the unthinking crowd the one thing it dearly loves, viz., an easy, too easy, shortcut into the kingdom of heaven. Thousands repudiate the Christian life today because they look upon themselves as the victims of misplaced confidence. For were they not assured that, given but the lifting of a band, a word of confession, a breath of prayer in a moment of contagious excitement, and. presto! old things would pass away and all things would become new; whereas, they found themselves facing the old devil the next day, with a fiercer fight on than before? The hunger for short cuts in religion is ineradicable; men are bound to have something in character for nothing. And in the reaction of disillusionment and disappointment that inevitably follows the abortive attempt they renounce the whole quest with a curse, to the infinite loss of the Master and their own. " 'An evil and adulterous generation seeketb after a sign,' replied Jesus to the demand of the crowd, 'and there shall no sign be given it but the sign of Jonah the prophet: for even as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so shall also the Son of Man be to this generation.' What hapand destiny. Simply this: Jonah the prophet Nineveh and warned the people of impending calamity. The Ninevites saw the point. They did not parley, or palaver, or hedge, or shuffle or evade. Without more ado they did what all people in the possession of their senses should do—they set about averting the calamity. They knew where the shoe pinched. They made use of eye and ear and brain and conscience and common They repented, reformed their sense. lives, paid the price in changed characters, cleaned house morally—and the threatening clouds cleared away. 11 are no others. "Men want intellectual certainty. They ask for a sign, a voice out of the sky, a message written on the heavens, an authoritative verdict from a papal chair. And they can have no sign but that of the prophet Jonah. Oh, you cannot have something for nothing. You must pay the price of honest search, eager striving, genuine struggle, determined thinking. You have reason. Do not despise it; use it; it is from God and leads to God. You have conscience: cultivate it. You have the Bible; study and interpret it. You have prayer: revel in it. You have a heart; open it to the light. There is no JS shorter road. There is no cheaper way. " 'And that,' Jesus says to the Pharisee, These are the signs; there are no others. 'is all the sign you shall have. The signs yon are after are not outside you. but in" And what of character? If. conceivside. You ask me to convince your doubt ably, at every other point—health, busiby a spectacular display of magic power. ness, intellectual rest and peace—one It would mean nothing if I did. Here I might hope to get something for nothing, am. My credentials are the words 1 when you come to the character that fits speak, the things I do, the life I live, the one for heaven there, and makes heaven man I am. Use your eyes, your ears, here or there, it is a case of thus far and your brains, your consciences. These are no farther. If, conceivably, one might the only signs you or any other men will the prizes of body, mind and receive! Consult them. They are avail- capture the magic of some occult sign, trade by able; they are enough.' character presents an iron wall to the "The words are as pertinent and valid interloper. If you might possibly hypnoas though spoken this very hour to men flesh, brain and fortune, character is and women of today. Men want short tize and can never be taken by sursleepless latitude to live cuts in health ; they want Salvation is free; you cannot buy prise. as they please. They ask for a sign, but But it costs tremendously before you it. the only sign that shall be given them get through with it; costs alertness, costs is the sign of the prophet Jonah. They costs rigorous denial unflinching courage, can have health on the same terms as the sacrifice, costs the fight for mastery, and Ninevites of old, and on no other—clean costs the toil of the arduous campaign, living, every appetite held in leash, no costs obedience, loyalty, calmness if yen quarter given to any traitor impulse please; costs money, brain, brawn, found in camp, the holy keeping of the —costs everything. It would be worthbody as the sacred temple of the Spirit of less it did not. It is the costliest thing if (iod Himself. They have eyes, and ears, world, because it is the best. The the in consciences, God and intelligence, and given, meant for use. The laws of health best comes high. "You are seeking a sign ? All well and are the only road to healUi, and these arc so long as you are after the right good, the signs that light the road. kind of a sign. But you have no need to Jl seek signs. You yourself are full of them "Men make haste to be rich, and they Eyes and ears; use them, profit by exseek a sign. And they, too, shall have no perience. Common sense ; actually follow sign but that of the prophet Jonah. it, and you'll be amazingly uncommon; Again the only road to success is that most men are playing the fool. Reason; furnished by the nature of things—so- stop trifling and begin to think. C Mibriety, industry, honor, integrity, econo- science; listen to it, honor it, obey it,, my, thrift, truth, justice. 'Something for quicken it. Heart; follow its instincts, nothing' is a will-o'-the-wisp, that floats and give it the God for whom it thirsts only over the bog. The short cut is short, as the deer pants for the water brooks. and the end is the quicksand and the Prayer; pray without ceasing, make evmire. Nineveh is just another way of ery deed a prayer. The eross—the cross spelling Honolulu. Honolulu can avert on Calvary; in the heart of God, in your calamity and earn success, as did its an- own life of sacrifice and loyalty. By this cient Assyrian counterpart, by repentance sign—by these signs—conquer. By these of its signs, by disinfecting its moral signs, and by these alone, shall you enter plague sjMits, by bringing its total life into into the character that gives share in the absolute obedience to the will of God. The inheritance of the saints in light. Work open mind, the sensitive conscience, the our your own salvation; for it is God that obedient spirit, the ready will, the con- worketh in you to will and to do of His secrated life—these are the signs. There own good pleasure." peued? went to �October, I'MO. THE FRIEND 12 Men Working for Men PAUL SUPER Going After Them. The advertising of the Association this fall is the most systematic system of getting men interested in the organization that has yet been made. First a pamphlet called "Where to Invest Your Surplus: A Suggestion to Young Men," was issued. This described the Association in action, showing the prospective member just bow it would be to belong to the Association, the things he could do, and the men he would meet. This was followed by a letter to a selected list of business men urging the importance of exercise and describing our facilities for regular and special gymnasium work. To rouse the ambition of young men and get them interested in the educational work, a short illustrated pamphlet called "Some Pointers on Getting There" was issued. There were five of these pointers, of which we reproduce the first: POINTER NO. 1. of work in our night school. < )ver a hundred attractive window cards were distributed. An exhibit of former students' work was placed in the window of Day & Co. An attractive sign in front of the building tells the courses we offer, and a similar one shows what classes are held in the gymnasium. With What Re.ult ? We are going to break all records in membership and educational enrollment and men using the gymnasium. We now feel sure of 800 members, and 250 in the night school, How we need our new building! That 250 might as well be 400. We could get the men if we could accommodate them. The only question now is one of finding room for those who apply. Meanwhile those who do not come now owing to the unattractiveness of our present building are put iv the mood to join once we are well housed. Business man after business man has said this in. response to our fall advertising. Y. M. C. A. stock is high, politics and a low stock market not affecting us. in themselves; but they are made harder by the lonesomeness of which almost all newcomers complain. The solution of this problem is the work of the young Men's Christian Association and the churches. We put the Association first because of its more ready access to the young men. and its all-week adaptability to their needs. To y;et hold of these men is the chief ambition of the religious work committee. To this end it has organized a "Watchman's Band," a group of young men who will keep their eyes open for strangers coining to town, and also be on the watch for young men who appear to be going wrong. The group will meet one night a week for Bible study ami conference under the leadership of a business man who has had very successful experience in work for young men, leading them to right living and church activity. Mr. ED TOWSK Vvt ilir ( oinmittrr. The Mountain Top of Success was not Stumbled Upon. It was Reached by Climbing. Religious Question Club. You will never meet a good Position and a Share in the Business rolling lap Hill. Success in Life will not call and send in its Card, and wait if you are out. You must Work to get to the Top or even well started. If you wish to RISE, resolve to Hustle. This is another feature of the religious plana for the winter. Robert E. Speer has outlined a splendid course of studies in what Jesus' attitude is or would be to certain questions. Under the leadership of Mr. Ebersole, a group of men will meet one evening a week in an informal discussion of these topics. It is expected that this discussion will attract many of the members who come in for different purposes. These two classes or groups, we hope, will develop a nucleus for a strong religious work in the new building. work Jl A clincher was needed, to tie up the results of this cultivation. It was sent out in the form of a pamphlet called "Pay Day," gotten up by Mr. Larimer to show the relation of education to the pay envelope. What more was needed? Just one thing. Proof that we could do what we promised. This we offered in the form of a leaflet called "A Delivery Boy Who Delivered." the story of a delivery boy who rose to bookkeeper as a result Chairman id the Membership Mr has reduced the work uf this iiiinmiltrr In a fifir an past (ivr years A. K. LAKIMKK, Who l> mikliK Watchmen. • Hl( lnilllulli.il ul llir SCHOOL. Mi.HI Y. M C. A. m This year as never before we have had the problem of the-strange-young-man"Say. Dick, what Is thla new fad they call coming-to-town presented to us. The phonetic spelling?" temptations the young men coming to "It's the kind, Jim, they uaed to flog me Honolulu have to fight are fierce enough and you at school for using." �Our Function. Last issue we published a quotation from a Chicago secretary on the field of the Young Men's Christian Association. Let us now offer the following quotation from Prof. Theo. C. Scares of Chicago I'Diversity on the function of the Association. "If anyone ever had the notion, from a study of the Young Men's Christian Association, that a gymnasium or a reading room or a cafe were provided in order sooner or later to get a man into a prayer meeting, he failed entirely to grasp the Association idea. The objective is not the prayer meeting but the man. The man is to be found through every avenue of interest, and his full manhood is to be developed in relating his complex self to his task in the world in a real consecration to human advancement. The function of the Association, then, is not to get men converted, the various privileges being the baits that are used to catch the fish. Nor is it to provide a respectable young men's club, a little religion tacked on to justify the Christian name. This great brotherhood, nearly a million strong all over the world, means an ideal of manhood that refuses to be satisfied while any single son of the race is stunted, cramped, limited, prevented from coming to his best. It means an ideal "f society in which pure blooded, 13 THE FRIEND. October, I 1) 10. Notes From the Field FRANK S. SCUDDER Echoes from the Edinburgh World Conference. The World Missionary Conference at Edinburgh has sounded a clarion note to all Christians to enter the whole world held—-to take a new grip all together to win the world to Christ This conference has set a new standard for missions. It came together, not so much for the purpose of stirring the masses on the subject of missions, but to make a scientific investigation of the present condition of the field as a whole, and one that would serve as a basis for more thoroughgoing work in the future. When we understand that 1200 delegates and 2500 visitors assembled, every one of whom had devoted years of study to the problem, and many of whom bad spent years of patient, self-sacrificing devotion to the work under consideration, we can imagine what must have been the intensity of interest experienced by those who attended. The distinguishing characteristic of this conference was that it was a body of exftrts, chosen from among all professtrong manhood, is contributing its best sions, and from all nations to study facts in loyal devotion. It means an ideal of and conditions which had been ascertainreligion in which the great word of Jesus ed by years of painstaking investigation. is interpreted in all its fullness. "I am come that ye might have life and that ye Unity in Diversity. might have it abundantly." "More languages were spoken than at The brotherhood exemplifies and actu- Pentecost, yet the proceedings were in ally practices these ideals with increasing English and all understood." Practically significance, and it is clearly iv a position every Protestant denomination was reto contribute most vitally to the realiza- presented, yet the question of denomination of these ideals in the Christian so- tioualism, whenever brought forward, ciety of the future." only revealed an overwhelming desire to Mr. W. A. Bowen will represent the minimize the difference and magnify the Honolulu Association at the International underlying principles of unity between Convention of Young Men's Christian all Christians, while the spirit of brotherAssociations, to be held at Toronto Octo- ly love and the sense of the presence and ber 28-31. leadership of Christ were realized as perMr. A. 1.. Gordon has arrived in Hono- haps never before. lulu and has taken up his work as secretary of the O. R. ft L Co. Association Reports of Experts. work. Mr. Cordon is a college man. and The work of the conference was much has bad three years' experience in work by the reports prepared by with railroad men, having been assistant facilitated commissions which had been apeight Railroad Louis secrctarv of the great St. advance, and which were comin pointed Y. M. C. A. The building for this asso- posed of prominent leaders in the misHelen Gould ciation was erected by Miss sionary world. Each commission had at a cost of $225,000. been engaged many months in studying and obtaining by letters information resubject assigned to it, and Unless we are very unlucky Indeed, we lative to the days the in of its presented report together with the good fair all get a share course of our little lives. conclusions and recommendations of the commission. These reports will later be "There U nothing so kingly as kindness published in eight volumes, and will form as truth." and nothing »o royal a most valuable library of missionary knowledge. The subjects thus presented ( 1 ) Carrying the Gospel to All were the Non-Christian World; (2) The Church in the Mission Field; (3) Education in Relation to the Christianization of National Life: (4) The Missionary Message in Relation to Non-Christian Religions; (5) The Preparation of Missionaries: (6) The Home Base of Missions; (7) Missions and Governments; (8) Cooperation and Promotion of Unity. For Business, not for Parliamentary : Debate. An interesting feature of the confer- inflexible rule of limiting each speaker to seven minute* in debate. ence was the Lord Balfour was chairman. All discussions were carried on in committee of the whole, of which John R. Mott was chairman. Mr. Mott with his customary tact enforced the rule upon all alike, regardless of their position or fame —a circumstance which caused not a little amusement. The consequence was a series of pithy speeches, full of fire and wit and epigrammatic wisdom, such as may rarely be heard in any assembly. In order to avoid waste of time over parliamentary procedure all resolutions were excluded, excepting one only, which provided for the formation of a Continuation Committee, in order that the forces set in motion by the conference might be made effective for broader cooperation and further investigation. Self Criticism. Another epoch-making feature of the conference was the disposition to face without flinching every defect that could be pointed out in the wide mission enterprise. There was little self-glorification ; en the contrary, often the warmest api lause was elicited by s|>eakers who fearlessly exposed the weaknesses of the present work and methods. The church will be brought face to face with the wicked waste of duplicated effort when it hears the emphatic statement that "by reasonable cooperation among the churches the efficiency of the present working force on the foreign mission field would be doubled straightway." There was no disposition to apologize for short-sighted methods or to cover up disagreeable facts. Facts were welcomed at whatever cost to pride or personal feelings. �14 THE FRIEND. October, 1910. jects presented by cx|>erts after deep and can be reached by any economy or organizaexhaustive study and investigation, the tion of the existing forces We need suChristian world should listen to its voice premely a deeper sense of responsibility to with as much reverent interest as could Almighty God for the great trust which He be accorded to any church council. We has committed to us In the evangelization urge upon our readers therefore to give of the world. That trust Is not committed more than passing heed to the following in any peculiar way to our missionaries, or to societies, cr to us as members of this Conopen letter: Cooperation and Unity! No stronger sentiment found expression than that in favor of cooperation and unity. To the foreign missionary it is soon demonstrated that what appeals to the people of all nations are not the doctrines that divide, but the fundament.d spirit and teachings of Jesus. This was ference. It is committed to all and each the Members of the Church in within the Christian family; and lt It as inwell illustrated by the laconic statement A Message to Christian Lands. cumbent on every member of the Church, as of a Manchu who said: "Denominational distinctions do not interest the Chinese." Dear Brethren In Christ: are the elementary virtues of the Christian That which There was no need of any further comWe members of the World Missionary life—faith, hope and love. ment. The spirit and conviction of the Conference, assembled In Kdinburgh, desire makes a man a Christian makes him also a conference on this subject was thus sum- to send you a message which lies very near sharer In this trust. This principle Is admed up by Dr. Barton: to our hearts. During the past ten days we mitted by us all, but we need to be aroused lt out in quite a new degree. Just "Most foreign missionaries are teach- have been engaged in a close and continu- to carry great national danger demands a new as a study Christianity ous of the of In position the non-Christian world the essentials ing of Christianity which are held in com non-Christian lands. In this study we have standard of patriotism and service from mon by all bodies of Christians. There surveyed the field of missionary operation every citizen, so the present condition of the the missionary task demand from is not a quarter as much sectarianism and the forces that are available for Its oc- world and two years we have been every Christian, and from every congregacupation. For is at home; and there is abroad as there testimony about every de- tion, a change In the existing scale of misless of it in foreign missionary circlce.i gathering expert Christian missions, and this tes- sionary zeal and service and the elevation ol of partment at home than anywhere else. It is Mgspiritual Ideal. nificant that foreign missions is the only timony has brought home to our entire Con- our The old scale and the old Ideal were framconclusions which we desire ference certain p'atform eft which a world conference ed In view of a state of the world which has to set forth. could have been held." ceased exist. are no longer adeJ» Magnitude of the Work. They to Our survey has Impressed upon us the momentous character of the present hour. quate for the new world which is arising out We have heard from many quarters of the awakening of great nations, of the opening of long-closed doors, and of movements which are placing all at once before the Church a new world to be won for Christ. The next ten years will in all probability constitute a turning-point In human history, and may be of more critical importance In determining the spiritual evolution of mankind than many centuries of ordinary experience. If those years are wasted, havoc may be wrought that centuries are not able to repair. On the other hand, if they are rightly used, they may be among the most glorious in Christian history. We have, therefore, devoted much time to a close scrutiny of the ways In which we may best utilize the existing forces of missionary enterprise by unifying and consolid- of the ruins of the old. It Is not only of the individual or the congregation that this new spirit is demanded. There is an imperative spiritual demand that national life and influence as a whole be Christianized; so that the entire impact, commercial and political, now of the west upon the east, and now of the stronger races upon the weaker, may confirm, and not impair, the message of the missionary enter- - We quote again from Dr. Barton: "The very magnitude to which the foreign missionary enterprise has grown callr, not so much for exultation as for a sense of solemn responsibility. It was comparatively easy to supervise the early stages of the work when there were but few missionaries and a small expenditure. prise. But now there are 19,280 missionaries, 9*,388 native workers, 1,925,205 adult The providence of God has led us all into, coemmunicants, 5,29i,871 adherents. 81 a new world of opportunity of danger and of duty. cclleges and universities, 489 normal and God is demanding of us all a new order of theological colleges, 111 medical colleges, 92 nurses' training schools, 1,594 boardlife, of a more arduous and self-sacrificing nature than the old. But If, as we believe, ing and high schools, 284 industrial the way of duty Ib the way of revelation, 28,113 kindergartens, training schools, there Is certainly Implied, in this Imperative -901 elementary and village schools, 1,571 hospitals and dispensaries which treat..] ating existing agencies, by improving their call of duty, a latent asurance that God la the training of their greater, more loving, nearer and more availin a single year 4,231,635 patients, J55 administration and everything within able for our help and comfort than man has We have done agents. oiphanages, 88 leper asylums, 21 for untainted children of lepers, 25 n- our power in the interest of economy and dreamed. Assuredly, then, we are called to this endeavcr we have make new discoveries of the grace and pow scttnf c« for the blind and for dct f efficiency; and In unity of common action er of God, for ourselves, for the Church, and inute*. 21 rescue homes fo- fallen wom- reached a greater Christian for the world; and, in the strength of that en, 103 opium refuges, 15 homes Or than has been attained in the centuries. Church for firmer and bolder faith In Him, to face the widows, Z'i industrial homes, and the anage and the new task with a new conclear to us new Increasingly But lt has become nual expenditure is $24,613,000, while something far greater than secration. that we need Ine ,000 more are contributed by !f2,72* i.ativcs. t! vinselves. Foreign missions 'ias tiiiis liecomc a vast undertaking. It affects the character and destiny of twothirds of the human race. Such a movement demands clearness of vision, soundness of judgment, statesmanship, and administrative capacity of the highest order." Consult the Hawaiian Board Book Rooms' When such a body of men as assembled in this Edinburgh conference has thus devoted itself to ten days of debate on sub- How about your Sunday School Supplies lor next Year ? �October, 1910 THE FRIEND. 15 faithful mule "Hattie," amused and surprised most of the newcomers. There was ample room in the village for the [delegates, and all were soon comfortably ihoused. Mr. James Munroe entertained HENRY P. JUDD the Rev. C. G. Burnham, Mr. and Mrs. L B. Nevin of Kualaputi were hosts for The Maui Association Meeting. the Rev. R. B. Dodge, and Revs. Gulick, ()nce more the season for the semi- Oleson and Judd were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. G. P. Cooke at their lovely annual meetings of the Sunday School home at Kauluwai. Associations and the Christian Endeavor The opening session of the AssociaSocieties in the Territory is upon us. The gathering of the S. S. Association tion was on Sunday morning, the 18th. and the C. E. Societies of Maui County A short business meeting to appoint a took place in the new church at Kauna- committee for the service of dedication kakai, Molokai, in connection with the was followed by the preaching of the semi-annual meeting of the Maui Evan- dedicatory sermon by the Rev. O. H. gelical Association, from September 18th [Gulick and the responsive readings and to 20th. On the afternoon of the 17th, prayers of dedication. Then the sacrathe "Mikahala" sailed from Kahului har- ment of the Lord's Supper was observed, bor with about fifty delegates and minis- after which an offering was taken for the ters of Maui bound for Kaunakakai. debt of the new church building. The Fortunately the sea was unusually usual luau in the cocoanut-leaf lanai adsmooth, and the added charm of the al- joining the church was a pleasant feature. most full moon made the passage a de- The afternoon's program included a Sunlightful one. At Pukoo, Rev. O. H. Gu- day school hoike. The schools of Kalualick and Rev. W. B. Oleson came aboard, aha, Kamalo and Kaunakakai were rehaving just attended the meeting of the presented by good delegations and showHawaii Association at Hilo. Arriving at ed much careful training and preparathe Kaunakakai wharf, the visitors were tion. The Wailau school was represented greeted by Rev. I. D. laea, pastor of the by the superintendent and one pupil. The church, and many others. The trip up excellent team work and correct answers the long wharf in flat cars, drawn by the of the pupil excited unusual interest Our Young People among the audience. Perhaps the clearest recitation of the day was made by an aged Hawaiian woman, of eighty-eight summers, who is the only one left among the thousand and more members of "Father" Hitchcock's church on Molokai. The time will soon be here when no one living can remember this pioneer missionary of this island. Sunday evening there was a concert which netted quite a sum for the expenses of the convention and the church building fund. Monday morning the Association proceeded to the business on the program. The Rev. I. D. laea made a few introductory remarks of welcome and explained about the new church building, who made the building possible, and what the future offered in possibilities for the church work at Kaunakakai. The usual routine business then occupied the Association until 11a. m., when the "School for Ministers" began its work. There were three papers on the Prophets of Israel and Judah, the first by Mr. John Kalirto of Kahului on "Amos," the second by Rev. R. B. Dodge of Wailuku on "Isaiah," and the third by Rev. C. G. Burnham of Lahaina on "Micah." These papers were carefully (Continued on page 18) "How much did he leave?" Was asked concerning "a certain rich man" who had just died. "He left it all" was the absolutely correct answer. He could take nothing with him. Still, he might have left it working for him. This is the merit of "The Conditional Gift Plan: Your money,—property, or whatever can be converted into money,—pays you a good, steady income during your life and goes on working for you and for humanity after you are gone. So you ''make friends (by) the mammon of unrighteousness," So also, you "lay up for yourself treasures, etc' This is no cant. It is Christian stewardship and sound business sense combined. The Finance Committee makes you an offer of one whole per cent better than before. You can hardly invest much better elsewhere and the amount you invest with the Hawaiian Board in your life time will not be wrangled for after you are gone. If you are „ „ (I 20 years or over your money will earn 5 per cent. « « <( N II 1, (i /r. « H H it _- 11 " .-. « ii " " ii "•< «« " " '< " " " fj J g " " " " See the Treasurer of the Board and talk over the security, the form of gift, etc. —make your money make friends. Make It work. F" F7W 7T IP" 1 P «S BOARD OF THE HAWAIIAN EVANGELICAL ASSOCIATION. �16 October, 1910. THE FRIEND FROM DR. WHITE. Although addressed specially to Central Union Church, the following word from Dr. White will be of interest to many of our readers: At Sea, September 5, 1910. Central Union News A. A. EBERSOLE Bible Study at the Mid-Week Service. During September and October the mid-week services are being devoted to a systematic study of "The Sermon on the Mount." It is proving a very pleasant and profitable variation from the regular prayer meeting. The following outline, based on Prof. Votaw's treatise on the Sermon is being followed: "THE IDEAL LIFE" To Central Union Church—Greeting: May I have a little space in the weekly calendar to speak a message of gratitude, from Mrs. White and myself, for the cordial welcome and the choice hospitality extended to us by the good people of Central Union Church ? Never, we feel confident, has a brief term of service been made more of a privilege and delight by the rare courtesy and generous appreciation of those to whom it has been extended. The whole experience has for us been uniquely tropical,—the land, the scenery, the climate, the friendships. The retrospect holds few sensations but those of satisfaction and joy. To the absent pastor, whose generous thought made this period of service possible, to the worthy associate pastor—a true ministerial great-heart, to the royal friends, old and new, who have made the days of-our Honolulu visit gleam like the wake of a ship sailing through a phosphorescent -sea, Mrs. White and I send our affectionate Aloha. God bless us every one! Your faithful comrade in the kingdom and patience of the Master. FRANK NEWHALL WHITE. j« Dr. Scudder in Switzerland. forth in "The Sermon on the "Nature is very lavish of her charms Mount") this season in Switzerland. Instead of the great heat that often prevails here in I. The Ideal Life Described. 1. Its Characteristics. (Matt. 5: summer, we find cold everywhere. Except when we walk or are tucked for the night 1-12) under a Swiss down-mountain, we find it 2. Its Mission. (5:13-16) easy to indulge in shivers. A few days 11. Its Relation to the Earlier Hebrew ago we visited Schynige Platte. It was (5:17-20) too degrees above freezing the morning of the Ideal Life. Outworkings 111. of that day, and, though Sol had done his Motives. best (5:2iDeeds and to efface the record, when we rode 1. In -48) Five Illustrations. up in the evening it seemed freezing, 2. In Religious Worship. (6:1- though it was not more than 40 degrees. All this is fine tonic for heat-pampered -18) Three Illustrations. Honolulans. Self Devotion. 3. In Trust and Switzreland also is wet as well as cold (6:19-34) this year. This sounds disappointingly, 4. In Treatment of Others. means over-full rivers and swollen but it (7:12) cascades everywhere. The added beauty IV. The Duty of Living the Ideal Life. is difficult to describe. Then, too, the (7:13-27) clouds lend a glory to every scene in The assistant minister directs the study, mountain land that unaided sunshine can but others take part, definite parts be- never attain. The perfect days (and we ing usually assigned to them beforehand. are having many of them) are all the (As set more beautiful for the contrast of peace with the war that cloud and shine love to wage here. At Schynige Platte, for instance, we were treated last Sunday morning to a sermon on mist power which we shall never forget. Out of nothing the rolling battalions charged upon the sunbeams, winning victories that blotted out miles of mountain, valley and lake, only to issue in overwhelming defeat as the great luminary shot his arrows and put to eternal rest the daring Amazons of the white veil. Then in the quiet that reigned, a new world of glory was born, and we gazed spellbound upon the vast panorama of beauty. Amid it all we love to take you with us and to share in spirit these rare experiences. DOREMU.S SCUDDER." Hawaii Cousins THINGS SEEN AND HEARD. My father has written The Friend of our visit in Palestine at Christmas tide, but we have been asked to write of our journey home. In Egypt. We left Jaffa New Year's Day for Cairo, a city of two types, one which we slighted with broad streets and modern buildings, the other crowded with strange peoples, men with one eye, men and boys in fezzes, women with brass spools between the eyes and black or white cloths hiding all of the face below, light carts without sides holding seven or eight women and one man, apparently a husband and his wives, all using heads rather than hands for carrying, a sight we became used to. In Cairo l saw a woman with a chicken coop on her head holding live, noisy chickens, and in Calcutta four men carrying a large bureau, each man under a corner. There was not as much English language as we expected. As in India the street car conductors talk no English. A restaurant we entered had two menu cards, one Arabic and one French. When we ordered from the French the waiter went out the door and down street to get our order translated. When this happened twice, the viands ordered not being in stock, we tried the Arabic and discovered that Arabic is written backward, for we got fruit when we expected meat. For church services we now depended on missionaries. In Cairo we went to the United Presbyterian Mission. Its Sunday school room was divided in two �by a close board fence, on one side the boys with their red fezzes, on the other the girls. They could alike see the superintendent and hear but not see each other. There were four Christian Endeavorer societies in this church, one attended mostly by white folks, one for Egyptian young men attended principally by those who wear the fez, one for boys and one for girls. We saw many familiar trees and plants. In the garden a tree we took to be a ponciana regia (not in bloom) was labelled "Gold mohr tree of Madagascar," and a sacred banyan such as is in our Honolulu yard was called a "pipul" tree. There were fine monkey jwd avenues, and we saw sugar cane at Heliopolis. In India. From Egypt we went on a French liner to Bombay. A fellow passenger was a Hindu in the government service on his way home from England, where he had been studying for advancement. At Bombay ammunition was discovered in a false bottom in his trunk, and a recipe for making bombs hidden in his shirt and he went to jail. In Calcutta I dropped into a Baptist missionary conference and saw Rev. Wm. Cary, grandson of the pioneer missionary. In Bombay at the American Congregational Mission we attended a Christian Endeavor celebration of the 25th anniversary of the society in that church, and afterwards went to a school C. E. meeting where the members were eager for us to tell of Hawaiian C. E. societies and how Hawaiians looked, what they liked to eat, etc, They played some Indian instruments for us. A boy sat with a drum between his knees and another on a chair before him and played the low notes on one and high notes on another with his fingers. At the anniversary flower leis full of glittering spangles were put around the necks of those who had started the C. E. 25 years before. But of occasional Christian meetings and seeing a few white people India seemed a land of heathenism. The prevailing color tone was a dingy white. The Taj Mahal is not a typical building. The ordinary place of worship is a dingy mosque, a dirty Hindu temple or a Jain In one glittering with colored glass. Ahmedabad we saw wedding processions of child brides and grooms. One little boy rode a toy horse. He was too small for a real one, though old enough to be married. In an empty palace at Amber I went into the former zenana and in a little room decorated with tiny mirrors I could see hundreds of reflections of myself. Both in jewelry and in looking in the glass the Indian women surpass 17 THE FRIEND. October, 1910 dust with fifteen bracelets on her left the Yang Tse Kiang six hundred miles arm sold us some guavas that lacked the and a Chinese railroad across China to Peking. At Wuhu on the Yang Tse Honolulu flavor. we found some rosy-cheeked, Calcutta before India just leaving Kiang In we met Mrs. Laura Wilder Wight and cheerful, vociferous beggars, who came daughter, who were bound around the world in the opposite direction, and advised them to visit the Kalighat temple, where we had seen goats' heads chopped off and the head of the goddess dripping with blood. J* In the Hotter Tropics. We took the Ss. Kut Sang for Singapore with party of Methodist missionaries bound home. One was insane, perhaps from having the sun shine on the back of her head through the school room window. The two ladies taking her home to lowa took turns watching her night and day for fear she would jump overboard. Another had been wakened three days before leaving on her furlough by being beaten violently with a stick by a Hindu, who escaped unidentified when her screams had brought help. Missionaries still have hardships and dangers. The wooded valleys back of the town of Penang made us think of Hawaii, but the town is Chinese like Singapore, where we found, however, a long line of Malay young gentlemen in calico dresses sitting on a fence watching a ball game played by other young men in dresses. At Bangkok in the mission school we found cousins and a sister of a Kawaiahao teacher. Bangkok wears less clothes than India but is more cheerful. The Buddhist priests with cropped heads and bright yellow dresses brighten the crowds. The white elephants were less white than I expected though my expectations were low. A greater surprise was to find a statue of St. Paul in front of a Buddhist temple. The jewels of the Taj Mahal are mostly agates but in a modern Buddhist wat in Bangkok we found furniture inlaid with precious stones. In China. In Canton Rev. Jas. Henry, once of Mills Institute, was our host and guide through the busiest city of the world in my experience. The narrow streets are laid out at right angles so there is not the danger of losing one's way that there is in many an American city. One day we two walked about Canton alone and easily found our way out, by an entirely different route than that we had taken going in. From Hongkong we tried a British steamer to Shanghai, a Japanese one up about the steamer in little boats and lifted baskets on the ends of long bamboos to us for alms. We waked in Peking on Easter day to find the trees covered with snow. An immense city with immense walls, but quiet compared with Canton. Our most exciting experience was a wild jinricksha ride on arrival, our Chinamen horses racing at full speed in a street crowded with moving rickshas, woolly camels, twowheeled carts shaped like prairie schooners and men on horseback. We stopped with Rev. W. A. P. Martin and met many other survivors of the Peking siege. 1 took a walk alone one day on the north wall and was entertained with a cup of tea by a Chinese sentry I found at the N. E. corner. Personally we experienced no race or religious prejudice anywhere. Turks, Arabs, Egyptians, Hindoos, Siamese, Chinese and Japanese all were cordial to us. js And the Nearer East. From Peking we took a trip to Mukden on a railway line that travels only by day and rests at night. The first night it dropped us at a little village called Shan Hai Kwan at the great Chinese wall, which we climbed and inspected before sunset. We were the only white men in town. There were two hotels, a dirty looking Chinese one kept in foreign style, and a Japanese. We chose the Japanese, took off our shoes, and had our first experience of a genuine Japanese hotel. In Seoul Rev. R. O. Reiner, formerly of Mills Institute, met us. We passed the Japanese rickshas at the station and walked half a block to the Korean ones, who must give the Japanese rickshas first chance at arriving tourists, and drove to his house. We got glimpses here of the wonderful revival going on through the country. On the steamer from Korea to Japan I found a Japanese photographer of Seoul bound to a photo convention, who had heard of Hawaii and could talk English. "Honolulu is Eden in waters. So says all men," he said. Japan was a delight, but this account is now too long. In Kyoto we saw Rev. Sidney L. Gulick and family, and climbed Mount Hiei with a party of young folks led by him. In hunting up his house the first evening we had the pleasure of meeting Mrs. Joseph Neesima in a house we entered to inquire our way. �18 THE FRIEND, We have been on seventeen steamers, British, French, Russian, Austrian, German, Chinese and Japanese, but no American ones. We tried camels, donkeys and elephants; jinrickshas pulled by Chinese, Siamese, Koreans and Japanese. I tried a chair in Canton and an ekka in Benares, but my father refused. The ekka is a two-wheeled cart without springs, seats or sides but an awning to keep off the sun. Home's best and ahead in most things, though sadly behind all the world in the matter of putting up street signs with street names on them. LYLE A. DICKEY. Our Young People. (Continued/tornpage ij) prepared and gave in concise form the messages of these great prophets of national righteousness. Adjournment was made soon after noon, to accept the invitation of Mr. and Mrs. Cooke to a luau at their home in honor of the first anniversary of the birth of their son. G. P. Cooke, Jr. Many of the Maui delegates had never seen that part of Molokai before, and it was a treat for them to ride up in the ranch wagons and "view the landscape o'er." The luau was a great success and everyone seemed pleased and happy over the afternoon's festivities. In the evening the Sunday School Association began its sessions and was able by expeditious work to finish all of the reports that evening Tuesday morning the work of the Association was continued, and the first item on the program was the School for Ministers. The discussion of some of the representative prophets was resumed. Several of those to whom work had been assigned were unable to be present, but the Rev. (i. M. Kauaulalcna of Ulupalakua gave a most interesting treatment of the prophet Jeremiah, his life and work. It was felt by the delegates that the work in the prophets was very instructive and helpful, and it is hoped that similar work may be carried on at subsequent meetings of the Association. The remainder of the morning was spent in conducting the routine business of the Association. The work was put through in a splendid spirit and with expedition. The labors of the C. E. and the S. S. Association were completed in the Hand Craft Wares |YE ARTS & afternoon, and thus a record was made for speediness in the meetings, a marked contrast to the meetings of a few years ago, which usually lasted more than a week. It is likely that this precedent of three days' meetings will be followed on Maui, and thus she will become like ()ahu, Kauai and I lawaii in the matter of brevity in her Association gatherings. ()n Tuesday evening there was aC. E. consecration meeting for the new island officers. This meeting was in charge of Mr. P. N. Kahokuoluna of Paia, the president of the island C. E. Rev. (). H. Gulick gave an interesting address in the Hawaiian language, packed full of good advice to Christian Endeavorcrs. After this there was a farewell meeting. It was the plan of the chairman to hear from representatives of the various districts of the county. Mr. D. W. Napihaa of Keanae, was called on to respond for East Maui. In the midst of his speech word came into the church that the "Mikahala" was sighted. Speechmaking after that had little attractions for the multitude, and there were no more words of appreciation in the form of a speech from the visitors, although they had opportunities later on to show their gratitude for the hospitality of the Kaunakakai people. These hosts formed two lines in the main aisle of the church and the Maui delegates marched through the lines shaking hands with the Molokai people and expressing their alohas to them. In a short time the visitors made their way to the wharf via the mule tramway, and climbed aboard the "Mikahala." An inter-island trip, be it ever so short, is always interesting as a means of studying human character, and the trip over to Maui that night was no exception. Every bunk was occupied and sleeping room on deck was at a premium. But sleep was out of the question for many. The sound of the waves, the sweet I lawaiian songs sung by some of the delegates, the lovely moonlight, all tended to keep one awake. Pukoo was reached while it was still dark, and the rising sun found us almost across the channel at I-ahaina, the beautiful ex-capital of the group. Here, at "Main Ulu o 1.e1c," the various ministers and delegates separated to return to their several homes, having had the delightful and inspiring experience of the Kaunakakai meeting to nerve them on to greater service in the Kingdom of Heaven. (tetober, 19io, "HE CARETH." It 1 could only surely know That all the things that tire me so Were noticed by my Lord— The pang that cuts me like a knife, The lesser things of daily strife— What peace it would afford! I wonder if He really shares In all these little human cares, This mighty King of kings? If He who guides through l)oundlcss space Each blazing planet in its place Can have the condescending grace To mind these petty things? It seems to me, if sure of this, Blest with each ill would come such bliss That I might covet pain, And deem whatever brought to me The loving thought of Deity And sense of Christ's sweet sympathy, Not loss, but—richest gain. J* A MEMORIAL TO JUSTICE BREWER. A copy of the late Justice David J. Brewer's address, entitled '"The Mission of the United States of America in the Cause of Peace" has come to hand. Prom this address we quote the following sentences: "To lead in the cause of peace no one of the great nations is so well circumstanced as the United States of America se|>arated and distant from other nations, and thus in the least danger of attack, with a continental |>opulation of eighty millions and over, with resources uncqualed by those of any other nation, with the most cosmopolitan population, a population gathered from all races, and hence linked to all by home ties of affection, with the freest government, the widest popular knowledge, the most loyal in its devotion to the Christ of Galilee, and therefore with an ear open to the music of the song of the angels of Bethlehem, and thus, may we not truly say, indicated as the fitting leader in the great cause of peace. "If we fail, the cause of peace will not fail. We shall simply stand in history as the nation which lost the great opportunity." A memorial edition of this address is being published .and may be secured at 5e per Copy. The American Peace Society, N. Y. .. : : : : Kodak Developing and Printing Artistic Picture Framing CRAFTS SHOP : Fort Street below King : | �Tllh: FRIEND October. ll>lo EVENTS. Auk. 34). Monki'.vs on itMtnahlp Utrllne sending eseii|ie iiiui get into wireless room their own messages. :'l The first printing press In Oregon, although from the Hawaiian Islands, Is shown hy Professor Itallon to he one Of the later presses received liy Ihe Hawaiian Mission and not the tlrst. Sept. I Three hundred thousand rubber trees on the Hawaiian Islands approaching lapping stage. A Korean tries to kill a fellow countrymiin, for upholding annexation hy Japan. 2— l.hpior men claim thatthey are out of polities and uphold present llipior law. XxQueen l.iliuokalanl celehrates her 72nd birth day. First It. It. engine crosses llonolil gulch. S—(Treat Interest In Honolulu prlinurles. Chinese Students «f.s) en route to America entertained at a luncheon given hy Mr. Frank Damon and Chinese Students Alliance of Honolulu. 4.— Hear Admiral (Vrwln |». Rocs reaches retiring age, but is continued In charge of 11. S. Naval Station here. 7—Prea. King of Oberlin College in a letter calls Kilauea "one of the great natural sights of the world, alone worth a Journey to the Islands." 12—Prince Kuhio renominated as Delegate to Congress. Japanese woman killed by stepping off electric car backwards, while the car was in full motion. IS—Prtnes Tsai Maun of Chirm visits Honolulu en route to America. 17—Republican and Democratic county and territorial ticket, both completed. Prince Kuhio renominated. 11l Anderson Orace (negro murderer) recaptured after five months' concealment, 22--Smuggled opium worth $10,000 captured. 24- ThomaH (i. Thrum celebrated the fortieth anniversary of his stationery business In Honolulu and the thirty-fifth anniversary of "Thrum's Annual." 2fi—D. 8. War Department ceti apart Hawaii as a separate war division under a Hrlgadier General. 28 (ieologieal investigation seems to show that the Hawaiian artesian supply Is nt held In caverns but in porous rock. — J» MARRIED. RIKI'KN-.IOHNSON—In Honolulu, Sep tember 2, by the Rev. A. ('. MeKeever, Walter Klepen and Miss Anna JohnHon. (JRAHAM-BURNHAM—In Lahaina. Aur. by the Rev. C. (1. Burnham, M. W. Graham and Miss Katherlne B, Hurnham. LEACH-HARBOUOH—In Honolulu, Sept. 3, by Rev. A. Ebersole. Raymond H. Leach and Miss Beatrice Harboiißh. RENTON-FISHER— In Honolulu Sept. ft, Ceorße Renton and Miss Irene Fisher. WICHMAN-STOEVER—In New York, Sept. 14, H. F. Wiehman and Mrs. Anna M. Stoever. WILDER-LAMBERSON—In Portland, OreRon, Bept. 7, Harry Wilder and Miss Oraee I<amberaon. BROWN-HORNER—In Oakland. California, Sept. IS, D. L. Brown and Miss Kathe-rine E. Homer. MUNTER-HOFFMAN—In Honolulu Sept. 20. Lieut. Wm. H. Munter and Miss Hazel Hoffman. METT-SHIPMAN—In Honolulu. Sept. M. W. 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Marsh Steam Tumps,Pump American Steam Co. Weston's Centrifugals, Baldwin's Automatic Juice Weigher, Babcock & Wilcox Boilers, Demtngs Superheaters, Green's Fuel Economizers Matson Navigation Co. PlantersLine Shipping Co Mini Insurance Company, Citizens Insurance Co. (Hartford Fire) Fireman's Fund Insurance Co. (Marine Dept.) National Fire Insurance Co. Protector Underwriters of the Phoenix of Hartford, New England Mutual Life Insurance Co., of Boston. ESTEY ORGANS Hawaiian Board Book Rooms. Hawaiian —Board Book Rooms. AT THE Boston Building. MER- CHANTS, SUGAR FACTOR AND GENERAL INSURANCE AGENT. REPRESENTING . �3 The Friend. OLDEST NEWSPAPER WEST OF THE ROCKIES. HONOLULU, H. T., NOVEMBER, 1910 The Late Campaign. TREASURER'S STATEMENT From September 21—October 20, 1910 It certainly was an educational one. It such to the surprise of some of our $ 41.00 would-be statesmen. For while they inA. B. C. F. M 2.50 A. M. A augurated the campaign with the merest 84.00 buncombe, they found that the mood of Bush Place 40.50 the voters was far more serious. Chinese Contingent Fund There 100.00 were big questions to discuss. Conditional Gift There 15.00 were matters of grave public moment Flood Sufferers Japan W.M that called for honest and serious treatFriend 3.00 ment. Mere ward-politics and party shibGeneral Fund 8.75 boleths missed the mark. I'nless a man Hawaii General Fund 9.00 could intelligently discuss the merits of Hawaiian Work "2.00 immigration, the just claims of wageHoaloha 1966.T>0 earners, and the necessary conservation Invested Funds 123.00 of the chief industry, men were bored at Japanese Work 176.15 his puerilities. The voters have had scant Kalihi Settlement 375.00 respect for the man who could not talk Kauai General Fund 75.00 with becoming ability on matters of such Kohala Girls School 103.75 vital importance as came to the front in Maui General Fund 24.50 this campaign. Ministerial Relief Fund 1204.05 Oahu General Fund Some of the campaigners realized the 2.00 gravity of their responsibility and made a Office Expense 50.00 sincere effort to meet the issues with the l';iliinia Settlement 49. uO intelligent discussion that those issues Tomo campaign 4604.75 deserved. Such men made the a genuinely educational one. The public EXPENDITURES. to them. They set a proper $ 75.00 is indebted Alexander Settlement standard, and it r* to be hoped that men !*•** Bush Place elections 25.00 who come to the front in future Central Kona Settlement in this Territory will drop all political $113.50 Chinese Work twaddle, and will show to the voters by 480.50 Salaries 593.00 their utterances that they have the requisite ability to justify casting of ballots 24.50 Eng.Port. Work in their behalf. 896.50 * Salaries 921.00 S RECEIPTS. Friend General Fund Salaries Hawaii General Fund Hawaiian Work Salaries Hoaloha Japanese Work Salaries was - 55 92 64.25 623.00 3.75 $ Vt.lt 327.10 231.75 981.00 Kalihi Settlement Kohala Girls' School—Salaries Office Expense Palama Settlement Tomo Waiakea Settlement Wailuku Settlement 384.25 43 7n 1212.7;> 348.25 280.00 ii 38 5 167.00 34.53 7;>.00 45.00 $5348.10 Excess of ceipts expenditures Overdraft at the Bank over re- $743.35 1212.61 T. R. Calling Names. It is easier to call a man a liar than it is to inject into his system the corrective serum of sound principles. Hut it does no good to call a man a liar. It does not add to his comfort to be so denominated, and it is noticeable that it always makes a man mad to call another man a liar. And a man mad is a man who has missed his mark. The English language is certainly extensive enough and fertile enough to make it possible for men who disagree to be at least courteous to one another. We believe that the trend of things is distinctly away from personalities, ond toward the courteous discussion of principles. It is probable that the demagogue in politics will continue to resort to personalities rather than to principles; so also the anonymous contributor to the drily press. These two species repre- No. 11 sent cases of arrested development. The rest of the world has moved on to beter tilings. And how much saner it is! And how much more that is worth while And how much better it is gets (lone! Calling names is ]xx>r business. It helps no cause to resort to such tactics. If a cause is a bad one the calling of names will not cloak it with respectability and if a cause is a good one its advocates cannot possibly promote it by calling names. It is poor politics and poor morals that lias no better weapon to use than that of resorting to person- done! ; alities. New Hawaii. There are too many people still who know only one Hawaii. That is the old Hawaii with its heiaus and idols and nudities. On all other matters these people seem to be fairly intelligent. They count themselves also intelligent as to I lawaii; for have they not read Cook's Travels, and seen the idol at Andover Seminary, and heard the yarns of old skippers in New London's famous "l'ocastle," and owned a share in the first "Morning Star"? It would almost seem as though the early impressions of these people were so persistent that the only hope of their ever gainnig a true vision of the Hawaii of today would be through a cranial operation whereby the musty pigeon-holes of memory would be*cleansed for good. However, less harsh methods may well be tried first. The problem is. How can intelligent people in the East be made to realize that there is a New Hawaii? We take it for granted that everyone in Hawaii recognizes the value of having this Territory thoroughly well advertised for what it really is. The Promotion Committee have done laudable and fruitful services in this direction. It would be in line with their policy to avail ourselves of every additional opportunity to correct misapprehensions as to Hawaii, and to impress our friends on the mainland with the facts as they are among us today in social and industrial lines. Such an opportunity offers in the great missionary exhibit called "The World in Boston, which is to be held in April and May, 1911. Hawaii has been assigned space in the Main Exhibit Hall, and has also been given all the room desired in the Main Auditorium. - Vol. LXVIII �TUT. FRIEND. 4 : Primarily this is a missionary exhibit something of what He did not mean. but it is not for the purpose of display- When he told thai woman to "go and sin ing actual missionary operations so much no more." he did not endorse her for the as results directly or indirectly trace- position of President of the Ladies' Aid able to Christian agencies. So that an Society, nor did he encourage her to run exhibit of the state of civilization in lands for "Rebecca" of some lodge. She was once under mission influences will he wel- forgiven, hut not recommended to ofcomed. Once this land was not Christian fice. TWs distinction is too evident to now it is, and the tokens are to he found discuss. in every phase of life among us. Whatever conveys a true transcript of our so- Charity Not Ballots. cial, industrial, political, educational and religious progress js evidence of great In these days a Christian's attitude tochanges that have been wrought here in ward conspicuous offenders may safely less than 1(X) years. We want the world go no further than is warranted by the hirst, there is no to know us as we are. That does not Master's example. kill; for stones to secondly, when place mean that we have yet attained perfecpf there is repentance (as clear evidence but are tion. We have big problems, we (lure was in the given inwe believe doing as well with them as people are elsewhere. We are in touch with the stance) no room should be left for anybest that is known in the most advanced thing but the kindliest acceptance among Christian nations. We want to prove -the army of the forgiven. As to elevatthat New Hawaii asks n Ids of New ing such a one to leadership in our reliMexico or of New England for that mat- gious, political and social life, that is anter. We believe it would be a good other matter. We get no support from thing to let the multitude in Boston next the Master, nor from Paul, nor from any spring see by our fruits what New Ha- of the sacred writers for any such policy, Furthermore, it is no "Charity" to our waii really is. institutions, nor to mankind in general, w. B. 0. : November. P'K). us and represent us and the measures will be something to be proud of. Cleaner, wiser, happier men and women spen Progress and Prosperity. Fairer distribution of men's good things is only one of the elements of progress toward this goal, Tearless battling against wrongs and the championing of the downtrodden calls for men and measures. Letter provision for our children is the crying need of tin' hour, and dollars may he (often are) the very last poorest heritage we can leave them. 'There is nothing new about all this: We might be reasonably suspicious of it were it new. (live us MEN as leaders then, and we will throw up our hats with the most enthusiastic of you. Some of us are fairly hungry lor a man we can gel into a glow about and follow to the last ditch t. R. WARNING. Certain persons, purporting to have the sanction of the Hawaiian Hoard, arc abroad with subscription papers requesting aid for private projects. It should he borne in mind that no ento suffer the inference that there are no clean strong men and women whose re dorsement is given by the Hawaiian Wrested to Political Ends. eoids require over them no generous Board to any project whatever unless it T. K. is given over a signed statement of the When Scripture tests an' used in poli- mantle of silence. corresponding secretary of the Board. tical controversy it is generally tor purposes of rebuke. For reasons, psycholo- Progress and Prosperity. List Newspaper gically easy of analysis, it is the proThis is thi' present slogan and ii fessed Christian who is most frequently sounds By Wilbur F. Crafts. Ph.D. good. It is good. Under certain the target, and the man who uses the he the best. It is said that when Collier's Magazine conditions even might it text generally claims to be quite free a business man. however, talks was making its fight against drugs that from its application as "he makes no pro- When about Progress and Prosperity, distinctly ari' half whiskey, some one wrote the ed fession." Let the latter fallacy remain unto federal appropriations, and itor: "You are attacking whiskey by the challenged for the present, and let us referring no sane man will vote for anything spoonful in your editorial columns, and says freely gladly admit that the Christian hut the continuance of the same through recommending it by the bottle and barrel ought to hi' judged by the Hook. Hold the same political party, he may be whit ii: your advertsiing columns." To which up the Hook by all means and note how the big phrase very small. It the proprietor is said to have replied: tliiij, down Christians fall below it. if you will, for is no cant to say that everybody knows "You have got a good one on us. We "ye shall know them by their fruits." limitations of dollars Rarely, if will stick to the fight against the drugs "Know" whom? The men to "beware" the ever, can you spell Progress and Pros- ami put out the drinks." And the liquor of,—false teachers, wolves in sheep's But suppdse you advertisements, although commercially perity with them. clothing, Now look back into the con- could. conns an overturn in the worth hundreds of dollars, were there Here text and see to whom the "ye" refers, political complexion of Congress; it has upon banished from that periodical. and who may—must —claim critical become Democratic—such things have We subjoin a long list of magazines rights in the premises. happened and what says your business thai have the same policy, some of them man now? The "sane" thing, in the pur- because of similar letters. VVe shall he suit of the two "l''s." would he to elect glad to add to tin- list any other magaStones and Offices. a Democratic delegate. Perhaps some zines of the same class that are entitled "He that is without sin among you let will not even shy at that, and dare main- to he in this roll of honor, which we prohim first cast a stone at her." This text, tain that the cardinal point in "Party pose to send out widely, when revised, to together with "Judge not. that ye Ik 1 not principles" is to yet "next" to the ap- Y. M. C. A. reading rooms and others that are anti-alcohol. judged" is a frequent reminder that propriating power. Christians should be charitable. Charity It would be well if some one would How despicable now has become your should be a generous blanket to cover Progress and Prosperity! make a list of prominent daily papers (all loo few) that, like the Philadelphia North shortcomings, especially those of a canAmerican, refuses liquor advertisements. didate for office. "Christ said these And it would be interesting to have a list things?" Yes, and we will stand with Men and Measures. hands over our mouths to learn what he Here's a better slogan, that will cover of weekly papers also other than the remeant. By process of elimination we may all there is good in the other and add to ligious ami reform papers, which take the get nearer and until we dare aver at least it and refine it too. Ilig men to work for same stand. r �We suggest that every one who believes that the drug habit and the liquor traffic are harmful to the race shall carefull) look over those which he new takes before making bis selection of magazines for l'Ml, and notify those which contain liquor advertisements that unless they are intending to turn over a new leaf in this matter with the New Near, the subscriber will have to change to some magazine that does not bring into the home deceptive invitations to indulge in poisonous Ileverages. Mis. /.ilia Foster Stevens, secretary of the International Sunday School 'Temperance Department, is said to have learned from the publishers of the following magazines that they do not advertise liqm n's : All St >ry. Aiiierleiiii Hoy. American Magazine. American llevlew of Reviews. Arena. Argosy. Collier's Country Life 111 America. Oratory. Circle. current Literature. Delineator. Designer. E very body 'h Magazine. Garden Magazine. Good Housekeeping' Housekeeper. Housewife. Ladles' Homo Journal. Literary. Digest LiviiiK Ago. MeClHra'S 5 THE FRIEND. November, I'MO. Magazine. Modern I'rlHcllla. Hobsonism. And yet there are people who either through The Japanese Training Ships. 'The visit of the Japanese training squadron under the command of Admiral Yashiro has given the citizens of Hawaii another opportunity to strengthen the bonds of friendship between these two nations that fringe the ocean in whose center we are situated. Nations like inindividuals, have an inborn tendency to speak kindly of each other when they come face to face, and these kindlf expressions are of great value in alleviating such little irritations as arise from'time to time, and in cementing more firmly the ties of international friendship. There is probably no nation on the face of the earth which so deeply appreciates national friendship, and from the heart SO assiduously cultivates the spirit and the expression of it as Japan does. Her people everywhere show an intense sentimental and chivalrk desire to win the world's friendship and to be worthy of it. The same religious fervor that breathes in her patriotism yearns to express itself in her endeavors to cultivate a real friendship with the world nations. The courtesies extended to the foreigner on public occasions in Japan would be enough to turn his head if he did not real ize that this courtesy proceeds largely from the respect which the Japanese people have for the country of which he is a citizen. The Friendship of Japan for America. Toward no nation is there a more uniform and constant expression of grateful New Idea than towards America. Pubappreciation New England Magazine. lic speakers among the Japanese never Ocean. tire of recalling the acts of friendship Outlook. shown by the American government in Railroad Man's Magazine. the peaceful opening of Japan; in our Saturday Evening I'ost. readiness to grant equal treaties before Scrap Hook. any other nation would do so; in the reSt. Nicholas turn of the Sliinionoseki indemnity, on Suburban Life. the discovery, years after its payment, Success Magazine. that it had been exorbitant; for relief Magazine. I'ncle Hemus's time of famine, and for sympathy in sent Woman's Home Companion. shown to |a|>an in other ways. Woman's Magazine. Everywhere one goes, throughout the World Today. country, the flags of Japan and America Youth'H Companion. are hung together, at the entrances to school yards, over welcome arches, and in banqueting halls. 'The school children Seek not to quench or drown your sorrow, of Tokyo last year adopted a resolution but transform the grief that looks pledging themselves never to draw a into the grave into a grief which l<x>ks up sword against the school children of the to the stars. I nited States. Munsey's Magazine. K mss ignorance or the most wil- ful misrepresentation, attempt to persuade the peopk of the I'nitcd States that Japan is spoiling for a war with America, and the most disheartening comment upon the good sense of our people is the fact that so large a portion of them would rather tie up to such firebrands than to believe in the published statements of the two governments themselves. It is constantly reiterated by trouble breeders that Japan has aggressive designs towards the Philippines, Why, then, did she not seize her unparalleled opportunity when the Filipino emissaries came to Japan and tried to get the Japanese to join them in their resistance of the United States? That Japan would like to own the Philippines may naturally be inferred, hut we venture the assertion that she will never want them at the cost of a war with the United States, imr even covet them at the cost of damaging the much prized "historic friendship" between the two countries. The other great bugaboo of the international scarecrows is that Japan has 7(),(XX) of her subjects "armed to the teeth" domiciled in Hawaii," and is awaiting the psychological moment for the seizure of these islands. 'This Statement is true in all particulars excepting that the arms of the Japanese in these islands terminate at the shoulder blade instead of at the teeth; and, that they are domiciled here at the express desire of the great plantation interests, and have by their "arms" contributed mole labor than any other nationality in the production of the vast wealth of these islands; and, that Japan is not contemplating the seizure <ff these islands; and has publicly so declared herself. Sane Guides. Witness the notes exchanged between Japan and the United States, November 30, l'K)ri„ in which Ambassador Takahira outlined the common aim, policy and intention agreed upon between the United States and Japan, and by the authorization of the lni|>erial (iovernment, presented it to Secretary Root for confirmation. In this note, which was confirmed the same day by Secretary Root, the two Governments express it as their policy mutually to encourage their commercial interests in the Pacific ocean, to defend the principle of equal opportunity in China, and "reciprocally to respect the territorial possessions belonging to each other." It would seem worth while also to listen to the testimony of Americans who live among the Japanese, having learned their language, adapted themselves to �THE FRIEND 6 . their customs and mingled with them socially for years, attending their public functions and visiting them in their schools and homes. As they walk through the streets or ride in the cars, one would think they would have unusual Opportunity to catch the people off their guard and to hear things which, being uttered in Japanese, the foreigner is not supposed to understand. Such is the unique position of the missionary in Japan for learning the real sentiments of the people, and yet. three years ago. when the Californian situation was irritating in the extreme to the sensitive Japanese, and all kinds of wild rumors were abroad in the United States, a paper was prepared and signed by practically the whole body of American missionaries in Japan in which the following statement was made "We, the undersigned, wish to bear testimony to the sobriety, sense of international justice, and freedom from aggrcssk't designs exhibited by the majority of the Japanese people, and to their faith in the traditional justice and equity of the United States, and our belief that the alleged 'belligerent attitude of the Japanese' does not represent the real sentiment of the people." forms, the system of education and business methods of the West, and as I'rofessor Ladd has said. "The citizen of the United States may feel more at home in Japan than in certain parts of Europe itself." But, supposing them to be assimilable, would not their intense patriotism and devotion to the Ettiperor, in case of war, lead them to fight for Japan rather than America?—(parenthetically we would ask. how is it in case of our British American or German American citizens? And again, could we expect good American citizenship in a man who had not spirit enough to love his mother country?) —on the contrary, we consider the very presence of a large number of Japanese in the islands as an additional safeguard to peace. Even selfish considerations would incline the Japanese here to bring all their influence to bear against the breaking out of a war between the two countries, for it could mean nothing short of ruin to them, and added to this would be the reluctance to take up arms against a country which from the beginning has been Japan's best friend, and. as they say, her "teacher." The Local Problem. Here then lies Hawaii's opportunity; deepen the bond of friendship with the Japanese by that respectful consideration for them to which they as a people are worthily entitled: by the avoidance of that suspicious attitude which some hold toward them as (Irientals, an attitude : fear that is entertained by thoughtful people in regard to the great preponderance of Japanese in the island population is that within a generation there will be a citizen-born Japanese population of such magnitude as to throw the balance of political power into the hands of the Japanese, who could then do with the islands what they please. Should the situation thus contemplated really begin to look serious, we believe that in the intervening years the United States, having full opportunity to observe the trend of things, would prove easily competent to deal with if. but we really do not share the fear thus expressed. For in the first place, we believe that the Japanese are an assimilable people. The dreadful language barrier once broken down, as is being accomplished by our public schools, they show themselves adaptable to our ways of life and government. Some writers would lead us to believe that the ()rient and the Occident are so radically different as to make mutual understanding impossible. We emphatically dissent from this view; and further, would recall the fact that the Japanese are so essentially occidental that immeidately on emerging from their 250 years of seclusion, they cast in their lot With America and Europe, and since that time their assimilation of Occidental civilization has been too wonderfully manifest to require comment. They have adopted and adapted the constitutional The policy and legal .. November, I'MO, pros and cons of the questions are freely and daily discussed—a university in which our whole population is at school, while the government officials, plantation managers, business and professional men are investigating, experimenting and teaching, and forming altogether a distinguished corps of professors who are specialists in this branch of social science. With her peculiarly favorable geographical location, and her large Japanese population, Hawaii has an opportunity enjoyed by no other community for the exchange of courtesies that will strengthen the bonds of international friendship, and she has used that opportunity well. If now, by practical demonstration through education, she can show on a large scale what has already been demonstrated in a wide circle of smaller communities in the world, that the ()riental and the (Accidental are not irreconcilably different, but are brothers with like interests, and each incomplete without the other, she will have performed a service to the world which will give her a unique place in history. F. S. S. Hawaii's Opportunity. to which could not operate otherwise than to delay the process of assimilation; and by proclaiming to the world that though we are in the middle of the Pacific and nearest target for Japan, we dwell in tranquality and in full confidence in the mutual expressions of friendship exchanged by the United States and Japan. Hawaii can render no more distinguished service to the cause of peace than by believing in peace. Mutual misunderstanding is the cause of more international friction and war than is brought about by clashing interests, for diplomacy can manage the latter, while the former stirs up race prejudice and Chauvinism till it becomes as ungovernable as the fanaticism of "holy war." "As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man." A community like this, whose own selfish interests are deeply involved in the right solution of race issues is, for its own sake, compelled to give the most exhaustive study to such questions. In this way Providence uses even the selfishness of men to help forward the cause of peace and good will among men. Race issues are constantly with us, and Hawaii has thus become a forum in which the LETTER FROM GUAM. Friend: —'Thinking that you have taken the pains to express our need to our friends and brothers at Central Union, we send you our thanks, hoping that you would always think and pray Dear for us. We have just received a letter from 11. ft. P>. Case, our minister, stating that the American Hoard has given the mission up, so now we are doing our best to encourage each other, hoping also that with the help of our God we should prosper, On August 1 the island was visited by an earthquake, but no damage: thank (iod for I lis love to US. We are now preparing for our Christmas tree, for which we would ask you, and the Central Union Church, the Y. M. C. A., and all who would like to help the church, for toys for the little ones, or other things which we would like to receive. Hoping always tliat you would always remember us. Very sincerely yours, J. P. CUSTINO. "Beginning at Jerusalem" Our Gospel responsibility probably covers the kitchen and the back yard. Give the cook THE TOMO. ' 50c. a year. _= �7 THE FRIEND November, PJIO. The Scribe's Corner REV. WM. BREWSTER OLESON Corresponding Secretary. ««r>rams and pains and prayer arc an D irresistible trinity. When the gray matter and the finger tips and the knees get intocombination great results always come." S. D. Cordon — The Endeavor Arch. of the notable features of the reEvangelical the dedication of the Memorial Arch at the entrance t.; the grounds of the Hawaiian Church. This arch was primarily a mcmoriial to Rev. Mr. Emerson, the first pastor of the Waialua Church. The funds for its erection were subscribed largely by descendants of missionary families who thus sought to show their appreciation of the work of Father and Mother Emerson. The arch like that at Kailua is built entirely of field lava, and is Moorish in structure. It is set in from the street and presents an attractive and hospitable welcome to the passer-by. Sometime, it is to be hoped, suitable bronze tablets will be embedded in the pillars from which the arch springs commemorating not only the Emersons but also the Gulicks ami the Wilcoxes, who were also missionaries at Waialua later and for shorter periods. Mr. Emerson was missionary pastor for nearly thirtyfive years. In the cemetery adjoining the church yard a large boulder has been placed at Mr. Emerson's grave, and on it is a bronze tablet designed by St. (>ne cent meeting of the Oahu Association at Waialua was (iaudens. Beautifying Church Premises. likely due to an unregenerate imagination. Some people really need a course in a religious kindergarten, where they may learn the handiwork of the Great Artist in the beauties of color and form. There is certainly great satisfaction in watching the attempts of awakened souls to make the premises of God's house attractive and inviting. If they do no more than to clear away ancient debris and give stone walls some setting-up exercises, they are pioneers of a better future. If they go further and try their hand at some primitive landscape gardening, they are prophets of a new era. If they overcome natural obstacles ami make a croton or a hibiscus grow where before a kikauia could not have survived, they are apostles of the millenium which shall usher in new heavens and a new earth, especially the latter. There is certainly one man at Waialua whose soul has caught a vision of what a church yard should be. We have seen him at his work, and the fruits of his efforts are beginning to make themselves seen. Would that every church might have one such man or woman, —one who can pray, and plant as well to tlu' glory of God. LEADERSHIP IN COMMUNITY LIFE By Charles F. Dole, D. D. The character of any community is generally what a few of its leading people make it. The trouble with Sodom was that there could not be found in it a dozen men who possessed integrity. Ten men of the right sort could have changed the city and made it fit to live in. The glory of the little city of Athens in its glorious period was centered in a small group of men, statesmen, poets, thinkers, never so many as a hundred I suppose at any one time, who had character enough to set every one else to thinking and acting on their lines. You will often see a strange difference of quality between one class and another class of the same size in a school. You will trace the difference to a few, perhaps not more than two or three, who in one case are good and forceful leaders in the direction of every wholesome and honorable thing, or in the other case are shifty and irresponsible and carry the whole class clown with them. We know just such curious difference between neighboring towns. One is marked by its saloons and its squalor and untidiness, and the other by clean streets, neat looking homes and well-kept churches and school-houses. In one town a few people care about their town and in the other nobody cares! The love of God and the love of the beautiful are natural allies in lifting men to better things. One works from within and the other from without. But both aim for man's best. Somehow while both are natural co-workers, they fail to make connection in altogether too many instances. In many churches they go hand in hand, while in many ,one of them, the love of beauty, seems to be a stranger. Thus the church is unattractive in its architecture, and its surroundings are uncouth and homely to a degree. It seems never to have dawned on the souls of some men who have a genuine love for God, that God delights in the beautiful. We are talking about no undemocratic It may be that theology is to blame for all this. I trow not, however. It is more fact. It is in human nature. If you had a Socialistic Commonwealth tomorrow the same fact would hold true. We all like to see the biggest man at the head of the procession: we want a man somewhat stronger than the average for President or Mayor. It is good for every man of us to see someone better than we are ourselves to admire. See what it did for Jesus' disciples, at first rather commonplace and cowardly men, to keep company with the Master! Let us agree that good leadership is about the most precious commodity in the world. How shall we find it, or develop it? 'The democratic gospel is that it lies about us like ore, in the common human nature. Seek and you shall find!" There is more skill, more music, more dramatic talent, more virtue, more heroism in most communities than ever goes into the newspapers. So there is more power of leadership. Sometimes it is waiting to be called out. as (ieneral Grant's powers simply slumbered till the call of the Civil War came. Often, again, the power is running to mischief. 'The story is told of the governor of one of the States of Mexico, that he had been a formidable captain of bandits in his part of the country. President Diaz sent to this man a proposition that he should enter the service of the Government, and offered to make him governor of the state. He accepted the offer, and they say that no district in Mexico, or indeed anywhere else, was safer than that over which this former robber presided. Why not? The man had energy and brains which he needed to use. Give him the chance to use all his power for the good and you make him happier than he ever was, when putting it out to mischief. In fact you use more of the man now than he used before, and men, specially men of force, are never so happy as when you put every ounce of power and skill in them to use. There are certain boys and men in many a village, maybe loafing around sawaste or even to loons and pool-rooms, making fun and sometimes disturbance, perhaps getting up clubs or leading gangs, setting the fashions of vulgarity for younger boys, running their energies to the demoralization of the community, and yet never really meaning to do harm, to whom no one has ever suggested what better fun they might have by putting their power of leadership on the side of the good! The question is how to turn this waste power where it will help everyone, in- stead of running to waste and hurt. It is like the engineer's problem how to convert the wild power of the waterfall into light and heat. The first point is to �8 face the problem and study the facts. What are the most forceful influences in a given community? .The next point is to have faith that what ought to be done can and must be done. I can only here make certain brief suggestions. For example, you can bank on the fact that there is no community so hopeless, run down and depraved, in which there is not the susceptibility to the stirring of local pride, or better, local patriotism. This is simply to say that man is essentially a social being and he likes to see the social betterment of his neighborhood. They say not even the pigs like to live in a stye! If men and women ever seem to be content to live in squalor, you may be sure that it is because no one has ever given them a reasonable hope of living better. Thus, there is no group of children whom you cannot interest to clean up their streets and plant flowers in the dismal back yards, and put a gleam of beauty and brightness into their windows. In the worst type of community, because it is bad, you have a ready means of appeal to the latent leadership among its people, and specially in its young people, to win it over to the side of the good. ()f course you will use proper tact, so that each new proposed undertaking shall seem to be not some stranger's idea, but the will and the enterprise of the community. November, 1910. THE FRIEND free of shuns and bar-rooms, with proper playgrounds and club rooms, and a civilized people, living in happy homes. He ought to have a deal of sympathy: he must be careful not to denounce people, and so to rouse their opposition. He must see what kind of poisonous or barbarous influence goes to make men "bad," and he must never forget what would have happened if he too had been brought Up and exposed to such kind of bad atmosphere. He must "play fair," even if at times he has to make a distinct stand against some kind of abuse, "graft." "injustice," or immorality. He is never fighting against men. but always for men. even the worst men. 1 le must have plenty of faith in the good nature in men. This is only to say that he needs to believe that men are always the children of God, and, if so, that there must be a good nature in them, and not an evil nature. If anvone wants some fresh evidence of this fact, let him read the true stories in a book published by the Revel! Company, "Twice Born men.!" This is to say. that the one victorious force in this universe is goodness, that is, justice, mercy and modesty. This force is irresistible. ()ur worker cannot carry it with him into any neighborhood and be defeated. Everywhere people respond to it. provided only they are sure it is genuine. They will often not be sure at first: they have frequently been imposed upon: there is an idea with some that "goodness" is a varnish, concealing conceit and selfishness. People are shy of the name of goodness and we must not blame them, but they are never shy of courage or friendliness or honor or generosity, in living human form. Once more our worker needs to take with him a lot of dynamite or energy, (iood will is the highest and most effective form of power. But it is not merely because it is good, but because it is tvill, that is, purpose, determination, devotion. Obviously, again, if we wish to help in the uplift of any community, we shall take advantage of every live growth that we can find in the place. Paul's figure of the wild olive tree, grafted to bear good olives, is fine. 'This is simply using Nature in Nature's own way. Is there a grange in the town, or a club of any sort. or even a dead-alive kind of a church? Wherever there is life we propose to take it to our purpose. We have heard on occasions, of the conversion of a club of "hooligans" into excellent young citizens. It is more fun to be citizens than to be hooligans, if anyone will show the way. LITERARY NOTE. There is more for the young citizens' to club do. Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., the publishers One naturally sets before his mind the of C. F. Dole's "The Coming People," which kind of worker which the Young Men's was received with so much favor on its apChristian Association needs to put into pearance but which has been out of print the field in order to get results in behalf for some time, announce that the book has Of course we been reprinted, and is now available in a of rural communities. should like to have him a natural leader new and cheaper edition. himself. Perhaps there are not enough J* of such men to go around ? I am not sure that a man must always be a leader in order to find out and develop and train "Thy Man-Servant leaders and show them what ought to be done. He ought certainly to be a man and thy Maid-Servant" of some vision or imagination; he ought ARE THEY JAPANESE? to be able to catch the ideal of the best GIVE THEM THE TOMO possibilities of any place. He ought to 50c. a year. i> able to see t in his mind's eye. clean, Library Alcove Wherein We Glory. Probably the average American regards less grudgingly no item of the national budget than the moneys which Uncle Sam appropriates once a decade to take the nation's roll. Our typical good citizen may in times of discontent look askance at the increasing sums demand ed by his local school system. He may cultivate convictions anent the proposed pruning of the pension list. If he be ultra radical he may even suspect the wisdom of transferring some millions of unearned increment to grafting contractors through the medium of a new state house. But the census touches him at a vital spot. Boys who grow rapidly sometimes exhibit awkwardness and embarrassment in becoming accommodated to novel conditions. But American municipalities never. To a people that has chosen for itself a magnificent future the appeal of mere hugeness is likely at a certain stage to be irresistible. Wherefore it happens that as the population of the various larger cities is announced by Washington one community after another shouts itself blue in the face in the proclaiming of its prowess, the heralding of its achievements and the disparagement of its rivals. But as with with individuals self esteem is often illogical, so with municipalities. We glory in our cities. Their bigness thrills. We rejoice in the comforts with which they surround us. We hasten to avail ourselves of the enhanced opportunities for useful work which they place within our grasp. We felicitate ourselves upon the intellectual life which they foster. Too frequently we blind ourselves to the plague spots—the iniquity in the council chamber, the peonage in the commercial system, the moral disease which only the privacy of a great town makes possible. And granting even the Utopian elimination of such evils it still remains to be proved whether city conditions can ever allow of sane and normal and healthy life from generation to generation. The call of the soil, feeble as it is, reminds us that our pride of bigness involves a glorying in congested living, a tolerance of scant air and sunshine, an endorsement of the inevitable handicap which the city places upon no small number of those who compose it. In view of this we may well pause at the thought that our national metropolis is nearing the five million mark, and that the automobile industry has swelled certain middle west cities at rates varying from fifty �November, l°dO. THE FRIEND. to two hundred per cent for the decade. All considered, woods and meadows and brooks and birds do more for men than motor cars and subways. An increase in the area of land and in the cubic footage of pure air alloted to each individual is after all more to be desired than a raising of the per capita wealth or success in reaching the seven figure population column. There are sermons in the census, and the citizen who peruses with pride the returns will do well to think further than the satisfaction of national' selfmeasurement. Whither We May Move. If the city is eventually to vindicate itself as a wholesome abode a two-fold process will be necessary. Both phases of it have begun. In the first place, abnormal conditions must be met by a determined effort to import the helpful features of a rural environment. 'The tenement of the notorious type must give way to a system of homes and home-grouping which shall permit a maximum of sunlight and air. As far as such a thing is possible the park and playground must take the part of the woods and meadows. 'This is the phase of substitution. How far it will succeed is for experiment to demonstrate. About the second phase there can be no question as to policy or efficacy. Certain accompaniments of city life are unmistakably a menace and owe their continued existence only to the lackadaisical tolerance and inertia of our civic consciousness. To them measures of elimination should be applied at once. They include what may be classed as the minor nuisances. A certain amount of noise and confusion is of course unavoidable in certain city sections. It is false altruism, however, to treat more considerately the ledger of a corporation than the nerves of a community and in consequence allow a transportation system to make the streets hideous. It is criminal to endanger the peace and safety of a town for lack of initiative to banish certain practices which once had their use but have become obsolete and harmful. Recent criticisms upon the sounding of tire alarms in Honolulu are well taken. The alarm had its origin when the means of checking conflagrations were less adequate than they are at present, and in the need for assembling fire-fighters and arousing the community to its danger. Now iliat the extinguishing of fires is left to a paid organization it would seem that the less the disturbance the better that organization could do its work and the greater would be the tranquility of the community. The same principle applies in large measure to the ringing of church bells. Once it was necessary to summon . 9 the clockless countryside to meeting by means of a signal. Today each vest pocket bears its timepiece and the hour of service is set. 'To burden the air with a paroxysm of bell tolling is therefore a needless desecration of the Sabbath peace, and in a city constitutes no mean addition to the liabel of unavoidable noises. The boisterous factory whistle, the rattling conveyance, the fire alarm and the church bell are a few of the nuisances which deserve to go the way of the fire-cracker. It may be possible eventually to achieve a sensible year as well as a sane Independence Day. One More Nuisance. To those who work for the of the billboard a suggestion periodical may he of interest. comments that no community elimination in a recent of western education in China. Some weeks ago a group of seventy Chinese students paused at Honolulu on their way to American universities. They are nearing the heights of what the Occident is pleased to call higher learning. The young men showed themselves accomplished, liberal minded, filled with worthy purpose. It was an inspiration for .us at the cross-roads to meet them. It will be a matter of some satisfaction presumably to the chairs of several mainland universities to grace them with the final touches. In rejoicing at the product, however, let us not overlook the planning and the endeavor, the sacrifice and the disappointment which have entered into their preparation. For several decades an army of devoted Americans and Europeans has labored in the east at what, but for its faith and vision, must again and again have seemed a hopeless and thankless task. To love an Asiatic in the rough, to continue loving him individually anil in the aggregate for indefinite years, to bridge the differences that yawn between his footing of view and morals and one's own. to work unceasingly for his self-discovery and toward the stimulation of his nobler instincts—these are the motives that have actuated mission forces for the last few decades, and that have made possible the Boxer indemnity bond. And today many a courageous worker is sifting his hordes and picking his promising children, drilling them in fundamentals, passing them on to the preparatory school, then waving them farewell as they leave to learn the ways of engineers and lawyers and teachers. They are to honor China and America in their labors. To the isolated missionary belongs the bulk of the credit, and the world should know it. May the finishers not forget to stretch hands across the sea to the patient beginners of the Chinese uplift. 'The article seems thus tar to have adopted the expedient of taxing billboards, and argues that the advertiser might fairly be required to make return for his privilege of display. If he occupies a page in a daily he remunerates the publisher as well as the artisan. If he inserts his card in a car he compensates the transportation company as well as the printer. Why not, therefore, when he borders and crosses a street with bis sign, pay the city as well as the agent? His display entails a sacrifice on the part of the public, and should command a return to the public. Of course it is not to be supposed that such a device would materially lessen the billboard evil, for "System" and a host of other authorities declare that "advertising pays." Put it does suggest supervision, Certainly the community vests tire right to prescribe the conditions under which its thoroughfares shall be used, and that as regards not only traffic but building. If power to tax, power to restrict; and if power to restrict, finally perhaps the boldness to remove altogether. Whatever the point 0 of view the advertiser owes more than an I have never anything about the reunsightly sign to the populace from solutions of theheard disciples, but a great deal which he draws his patronage. about the acts of the Apostles.—Horace Mann. sr- Honor to Pioneers. J* Always laugh when you can—it is a cheap is a philosophy not It is usually a long reach from the medicine—merriment well understood. It is the sunny side of inception to the fruition of a notable so- existence. —Byron cial movement. The imitators must work J» unrewarded—their theories Unproved and their faith unvindicated. The finishers Self is the only prison reap the glory, too often with eyes blind That can bind the soul, to the record of vision and struggle with Love is the only angel Who can bid the gates unroll. which their cause arose. But in this day And when He comes to call of increasingly rapid consummations it thee. Arise and follow fast; sometimes happens that pioneers and fulThe way may lie through darkness. flllers may join hands. Such is the case But it leads to light at last. with those whose task is the introduction —Henry Van Dyke. �THE FRIEND 10 Men Working for Men PAUL SUPER The Directors' Line. That was an interesting meeting of the directors at the Commercial Club Octob- er 10. After eating a good dinner together the Hoard gathered in the small dining room at 7:30 o'clock and for an hour and a half listened to talks from the employed officers and committee chairmen outlining the work of the year. Every committee had a big plan to work to. membership. social, educational, religious work, physical and financial, and building. Not the least important feature of the meeting was the voting in of 119 new members, men and hoys who had applied during the four weeks prior to the meeting. The membership now stands safely anchored to the 800 mark. A membership of this size in the old building shows what a fine bold the Association has on the community, and indicated a large and prosperous work in the new plant a year from now. were, The Waiting List. "Capturing the Cities." The church was veil filled, many young men from the city and the schools attending the meeting, which was held Sunday night. ()ct. 23rd. A Great Campaign for Men. interesting group with which to work. "Association Men" comments as folThey arc in town by the scores, and no lows on the Puffalo Conference, October is those reaching institution Christian 25. 26:. who do not attend church. Mr. Damon has long held a fine group together by "The supreme issue for the men of North railroads, banks, stocks, the strength of his personality and genu- America is notlands, politics or education, mines,, forests, interest, would serve as a and these ine but rather the right comprehension and virile nucleus for a good Association. A adoption of the Christian religion. Victory conference was held Tuesday night. Oct. in this means victory and success all along the pathway of the future and with equal 2?. attended by members of the present certainty it can be said that failure here Chinese Y. M. C. A., and several from means absolute confusion and defeat, the to see more efif white Association, the (nly unknown element being how rapid will fective work could be instituted, and be the processes. and showed a grasp of its duties and problems that gives promise of a splendid season's activities and results. The when and how. committees reporting November. 1910 Ground Broken. After a year's hard work on plans and specifications bids have been secured for the new Y. M. C. A. building, contracts let, and ground broken. 'The contract was let to the Pacific Engineering Co., for 5132.200.00. the building to be delivered complete October of next year. 'This is a remarkable bid. being within $100 or Wednesso of the architect's estimate. 26th was brokground October day noon. en. Governor Frear using the pick and shovel on that occasion. Mr. 'Trent, president of the Association, presided. Rev. A. C. McKeever of the Christian Church invoked a blessing on the work about to begin. After a few words from the general secretary. Mr. Super, the Governor loosened the earth with a pick and removed the first shovelful of earth with a new spade, purchased by the superintendent of the works for the purpose, and now kept by him as a trophy. The benediction was pronounced by Canon Auld of the Episcopal Church. As the crowd dispersed the real work of building the building began. The great present day patriots of these two nations are not the greedy money grabbers, jealous politicians, hysterical non-re- ligious reformers, or indulgent "joy riders" but the men who. amid the straining scenes of an over-pressed life, are making big, deep, far-reaching plans for the extension of the matchless power of Jesus Christ. Every man thus engaged is building foundations that will stand the superstructure of coming years' growth. In this connection a plan is being rapidly developed of unparalleled proportions to bring the men and boys of the continent to face anew their opportunity and responsibility in relation to the Christian religion. The plan contemplates a program of mighty emphasis for the next eighteen months, and is being backed by the denominational brotherhoods, the Men's Department of the International Sunday School Association, the Young Men's Christian Associations, and through these the very strongest pastors and Christian laymen. The movement is to reach its highest point in eight-day campaigns in about ninety cities during the season of 1911-12, but the advance is to begin at once, and is to be given its strongest impetus in the setting-up conference to lie held in Buffalo, October 25 and 26. At this time delegates from the ninety cities will meet in Westminster Presbyterian Church to perfect the plan and set the forces in action. Ninety pivotal cities are to be included in the first call, but campaigns of equal force Ballou vs. will, it is expected, be conducted in at least A number of Japanese have applied 1,500 cities and towns during that period. has seen for The best chess Honolulu from time to time for instruction in bookThis is a call to men of the spirit of the Crusaders to make Jesus Christ known to keeping to enable them to keep their own some time was played by Judge I'allou in which the men and boys of the world. The Laybooks. This we have been unable to sup- and Mr. W. White in a match latter, the the who is men's Missionary conventions gave testichallenged former them, demonstrated ply experience having of an indisputable character to the Judge mony M. A. the of the C. champion Y. that the Japanese are not advanced enmethod and by prayer, consecration, and games and the earnest endeavor, this movement ought to ough to keep up with our other students. Ballou won four straight were played at be of even greater power. Put the middle of the month Mr. Larimer touranment. Two games two Association and at the Univerthe The Buffalo meeting will be very largely organized a bookkeeping class in the Japone of conference upon detail methods, but Club. sity this demand is C. and A. anese Y. M. addresses will be given by Bishop William now being met. P. McDowell, John R. Mott, James G. CanC. A. Night. Y. non, Hon. Henry B. F. McFarland, ('has. W. Chinese Young Men. This is an annual affair at Cetnral Un- Gilkey, Will R Moody, Hon. H. M. BeardsProf Graham Taylor, Rev. John TimOne of the most pressing needs along ion Church, usually coming in October. ley, othy Stone, Rev. Fayette L. Thompson." a the speakers Mr. A. E. year This is strictly the latest thing in the educational department of the Association. Our enrollment of 205 different students taxes our capacity to the utmost in some classes, and a waiting list has been started. If for any reason a student drops out of a class the next man on the list is notified to enroll at once, and be does so. This enrollment at this time means that we will handle about 300 students <luring the year, the increase to come in Commercial Law and perhaps one other class. Extention. White. J. M. the line of our work is the need of good Chinese Y. M. C. A. Those of us who come in contact with these bright, strong young men know there is no more This were Larimer on "Claiming the College Man," We await the reports of this conferMr. A. L. Gordon on "Moulding the ence with interest. Will Honolulu lint Man of the Rail." and Paul Super on up with the national movement? �November, 1910 Central Union News A. A. EBERSOLE Launched for Another Year. 'The Men's League has entered the third year most auspiciously. The date of the annual meeting was changed to November 1, in order that we might make it at the same time a "Welcome I lonic" to Dr. Scudder, who with Mrs. Scudder returned on the morning of Nov. 1 from a five months' tour abroad. One hundred and forty-five men were present. After partaking of a splendid supper the business of the evening was taken up. 'The retiring chairman. Mr. Walter F. Dillingham, read a most interesting report of the past years' work, and the treasurer. Mr. R. K. Reidford, gave a statement of the financial condition of During the year, $1604 the League. had been raised by the League toward its .Anti-Tuberculosis work in connection with the day camp established at Palama. Of this a balance of $794.25 is still on band to be applied during the coming months to this important work. In the general fund $746.65 bad been paid in. and after all bills for the year were paid there remained a balance of $20.37 on hand. A nomination committee previously appointed then reported the following nominations for officers for the new year: Abram Lewis, Jr., chairman: A. F. frith, vice-chairman; W. H. Babbitt, -etary; J. R. Gait, treasurer. a 11 THE FRIEND Councillors at Large: J. P. Cooke, W. helpfulness to the largest possible number F. Dillingham, K. A. Cooke, A. H. Tar- of people. lcton, J. H. P.eadle, Jas. A. Rath: which officers were unanimously elected. Dr. Scudder was given a most hearty greeting when the chairman introduced of the evening. He The work for the coming year is to be him as the speaker Forward Movement on"The spoke sections. Each the following carried on in on the Churches the Men of the Among of the section leaders spoke briefly on the Mainland," on the men here and called work of his section. in Honolulu to fall in line with the men I.—Friendship Section (W. A. P.owen, on the mainland in making the church leader).—To seek the acquaintance of the vital, lifegiving institution it should the men who come to this city and welworld. come them into the fellowship of the be in the church. League and to the services of the Ministerial Union. 2.—Social Study Section (Victor S. 'The Program Committee of the MinisClark, leader).—'To make a study each conditerial Union has outlined quite a pretenrear of some phase of the social for the coming year. It is tious program Territory. This city of this and tions be that the pastors and Christian important year the immigration problem will in workers here the Mid-Pacific keep studied. on the big questions informed 3.—Social Service Section (W. C. themselves at large has to with church which the Hobdy, leader) —To undertake each meeting of this union year, with the support of the entire deal. 'The monthly of opportunity getting tois our only League, some definite line of social serquesa of these study make gether to we to continue propose vice. 'This year most of the order to make the In tions. the maintenance of the Anti-Tuberculosis been assigned, have topics opportunity Day Cam]). and others appointed to lead in the dis4. Civic Section (Wm. L. Whitney, cussion. The program follows: leader) —To make a non-partisan study November 7th.—Devotional exercise, of local civic problems as they arise, to "Centenwork for needed legislation, and to stand, f. T. Jones; topic for the day, Speakers, American Hoard." nial of at all times, for good government. Dorcmus Scudder, P. C. Jones. s.—Religious Work Section (Paul sth—Devotional exercise, Super, leader) —To enlist the men of the (). 1kecmber (iulick topic for the day, "Church 11. Church in active religious work outside I'nitv;" paper, Perley L. Home: to open the regular church services. discussion, J. W. Wadman. 6.—Bible Study Section (Clias. R. exercise, C. Frazier, leader) —To promote the Men's January 2nd—Devotional for the topic day, "The 1). Williams; League Bible Class held in the church Social Order:" parlors every Sunday morning at 10 Church and the Changing o'clock. (1) By attending and inviting paper, W. P. Oleson; discussion, Jas. A. others to attend, and (2) P>y participat- Rath. ing in the discussions. This year the February 6th—Devotional exercise, A. class will study "The Principles of Jesus Y. Soares; topic for the day, "Present Applied to Present Day Problems." Day Evangelism;" paper, R. E. Smith; 7.-—Music Section (Wm. A. Love, discussion, John P. Erdman. leader) —To increase the effectiveness of Devotional exercise. March 6th our church music. (1) By joining a Sun- Major Willis; topic for the day, "Modern day school orchestra or playing at special Use of the Bible;" paper, A. A. Eberservices; (2) By informing the section sole; discussion, J. L. Hopwood. leader: (a) of any voice that may fill a April 3rd—Devotional exercise, M. K. possible vacancy in the choir; (b) of Nakuina; topic for the day, "The Intergood music heard elsewhere; (c) of national Peace Movement;" paper, Frank musical visitors in town who may give Scudder; discussion, W. D. Westervelt. assistance; (d) of any helpful criticisms May 1st—Devotional exercise, P. W. or suggestions. Rider; topic for the day, "The Boy Pro8. Sunday Evening Section (J. W. blem ;" paper, Theodore Richards; disGilmore, leader). —To arrange for and cussion, Paul Super. secure the attendance of the men of the June sth: Annual Outing—Committee city at special Sunday evening services to be appointed later. during the year. This will not prevent our hearing, 9.—Mid-Week Service Section (Ed. from time to time, any prominent reliTowse, leader).—To co-operate with gious leaders who may be passing the ministers in making the mid-week through Honolulu, but will insure us service of the largest possible interest and something worth while at each meeting. : — �12 THE FRIEND. Notes From the Field FRANK S. SCUDDER A Japanese Christian Funeral It was not modelled on prayerbook or liturgical form, nor even patterened just after funerals seen in churches, but its ceremony was beautiful because it was planned out in that spirit of love which "doth not behave itself unseemly, and seeketh not her own." A poor man had died of a contagious disease. During his sickness no one wanted to expose himself to the disease, so Mr. , our evangelist, stepped into the breach and nursed the dying man until he had no further need of human ministry, and then with his own hands washed the corpse and prepared it for the burial. According to custom, the funeral is regarded as a legitimate source of large income to the temple. Money is demanded for this and that, and even the humblest funeral is costly to the bereaved; but, said the evangelist, we will establish a new custom, and as this man's family is poor, let us have everything done without asking for any money. So the believers bought the coffin, and brought flowers in abundance and a company of 'H) persons, members of the church and the temperance society, accompanied the mourners all the way to the grave, walking, to save the heavy expense always incurred in providing carriages. ()ne thing which the evangelist could not refuse without causing embarrassment and offense to the friends of the dead, was the gift of money they offered him as a slight token of their appreciation for his services. This therefore he accepted, but with it at once purchased some of the necessaries of life, and presented them to the family as a token of his sympathy. Illiterate Japanese, who have been away from their own country during its progress in Christian enlightenment, still hold strange ideas in regard to Christian customs. One of these is that Christians drive nails into the bodies of the dead as a symbol of union with the nail-pierced Christ, but the high regard for the memory of even the humblest brother Christian, which was shown on this occasion, has banished such notions from those who came and saw and listened. It is needless to say that every person in the camp who was able to sit or stand attended this unusual funeral, and the evangelist had an audience of over 300 persons who listened long and eagerly to a ; gospel whose spirit was so beautifully exemplified by the devoted brotherhood. OF JAPANESE WORK, WAILUKU, MAUI. REPORT Since the last quarterly report quite a number of changes have taken place. The departure of Rev. (J. Tanaka, his son and niece and Miss Asa Konichi for California, and Mrs. S. Kanda for Japan, all active workers in the Japanese mission. Recent letters from Mr. 'Tanaka show that he is pleasantly located in his new home and work at Riverside, Cal. We are looking forward to the return of Mrs. Kanda about Christmas time. We gladly welcome the new workers. Rev. Mr. Mamiya and wife, also Miss [garashi, all recently from Japan, all enthusiastic in the work, which moves mi with a good degree of success. The day school has an attendance of lifts, all, of which are members of the Sunday school. Several of the young nun have left Wailuku because they wished to seek employment elsewhere, or because of ill health, which made a change necessary. We are sorry to say that Mr. G. Nakatsu, an earnest faithful worker in our mission, is now in Kona because of failing health. 'The Y. M. C. A. meetings are still well attended as arc also the Sunday evening services. Mr. Mamiya has a class of young men for Bible study each Sunday morning, also the first and third Sunday afternoons of each month a similar class for women, and the first and third Monday evenings of each month a Bible study class for the young men at Kahului, at the home of Mr. Kobayashi. The Japanese Woman's Society still forms an interesting part of the mission work. Since the opening of the new school two meetings have been held. At the first seventeen women and many children. At the last meeting October 15th there was a larger gathering of twentyfive women, and as many children, mostly the mothers of the children connected with the Mission Day School. The women gathered first in the church, where a short program was prepared which consisted of opening exercises conducted by Miss Igarashi, followed by a brief talk on"The Care of the Body," by Miss Turner, after which the November, 1910, women adjourned to the schoolroom to have a good time, (lames were played, such as trying to pin the hat on the cloth picture of a man. which was pinned to the wall, witli the eyes blindfolded, then blowing out the lighted candle. This seemed to cause much merriment, both by women and children. Anything in the line of simple games seem to be enjoyed by the Japanese women. The Japanese school for young men for the study of English has a membership of ten. Miss Turner assisting them two evenings of each week, while Mr. Love gives them two evenings. Miss Igarashi has made about thirtyfive calls on Japanese families within the past month and a half. CHARLOTTE L TURNER, Resident Worker, (Jctober 16, 1910. Mother Rice's Ninety-fourth Birthday October meeting of the I lawaiiwas made to the approaching birthday of Mother Rice, which falls on October 11. and the corresponding secretary was authorized to send a wireless message congratulating her on the happy occasion. It is a matter of common rejoicing that she could be with lis in comparative vigor and in the full enjoyment of God's blessings, and that she appreciated the mesAt the an ( Board reference sage sent to her. Eightieth Birthday of the Rev. O. H. Gulick. By a happy coincidence the eightieth birthday of the Rev. Orramel Hinckley (lulick and the regular monthly meeting of the 1 lawaiian Board came upon the same day, ()ctobcr 7th. To have a member of the Board at eighty years of age in full and active service as superintendent of the Hawaiian work and senior superintendent of the Japanese work, editor of the Ho Aloha. and engaged in many other prominent lines of work, was an occasion of peculiar rejoicing and of mutual congratulation. 'The assembly room of the Hoard was decorated with flowers, and large and numerous bouquets were presented to Mr. (iulick, and the corres|«)iiding secretary presented the following resolution, which was adopted by a rising vote: 'Whereas in the good providence of (iod we have still among us as an honored member of this Board and as one of its resiKinsible superintendents, one of the first generation of the sons of the mis- �November, 1010. tut: friend .sionaries, born ten years after the landing A of the pioneer missionaries, and whose years today reach a full four-score: Therefore be it resolved: That this Board extends its loving con- gratulations to ley Gulick the Rev. Orramel Hinck- on this noteworthy anniver- 13 PROBLEM FOR THE BOYS costs twice as much to live now AND It "It did a hundred years ago, but it's worth as every cent of the difference." GIRLS. Thought unexpressed dleß. A certain hundred millionaire wanted a manager for his estate. He found a sary, and that it expresses to him its high suitable man hui was unwilling to pay esteem for his long and faithful record him the salary he asked. At last the as a Christian man, and its appreciation would-be manager proposed a comproof his remarkable career as a missionary mise worker in this and other lands. We trust that there may he for him yet many years of service for the Master; that we may continue to have his helpful counsel and comradeship; that the passing days may make him steadily richer in the experience of the grace of God; and that his years may shine brighter and brighter unto the perfect day. And be it further resolved: That these resolutions he spread on the records and that a copy be presented to Rev. (). II. Gulick with the Aloha Nui members of this Board. Honolulu, (tctobci 7. 1910." <>f the : A man is not half a man until he is married, nor a whole man until he knows the love of a child in his home. A Chinese philosopher wrote ages ago: "The legs of the stork are long, the legs of the duck are short: you can not make the legs of the stork short, neither can you Why make the legs of the duck long. worry?" "If you will pay me 1 cent for the first be mistaken, but I take toleration week, 2 cents for the second week, 4 I bemay part of religion.—Burke. to on, so doubcents for the third wck. and ling the amount each week I will serve "Joy, after all, is best; we grieve too eas<)f course it will ily, we modern folk." you for one year. amount to something towards the end of Kach day its blessings brings From His dear hands; the year, but meantime you have the Kach night its sweetness sings use of your money." O'er many lands. Then why should I withhold 'The rich man began to figure it up, and My gratitude found that at the end of ten weeks he And hoard my time, or gold, would have paid altogether $10.23. EviOr any good. dently this would be a good bargain, he —Henry Van Dyke. thought, and so he agreed. Can you tell us how much he must pay his manager by the cud of the year.-' What would be his salary the 52nd week? For those Japanese Servants? weeks? and what the total for the More than we think, perhaps. Let them Send us your answer and we will tell read a Christian paper in their own you next month whether you have it tongue. It is THE T0M0. 50c. a year RESPONSIBLE "Student: —'There niiisl be some mistake In my examination marking. I don't think I deserve an absolute zero.' Inspector: •Neither do I, but it is the lowest mark I am allowed to give.' " — right. "How much did he leave?" Was asked concerning "a certain rich man" who had just died. "He left it all" was the absolutely correct answer. He could take nothing with him. Still, he might have left it working for hint. This is the merit of "Tin; Conditional Gift Plan Your money,—property, or whatever can be converted into money, pays you a good, steady income during your life and goes on working for you and for humanity after you are gone. So you •'make friends (by) the mammon of unrighteousness," So also, yon "lay up for yourself treasures, etc' This is no cant. It is Christian stewardship and sound business sense combined. The Finance Committee makes you an offer of one whole per cent better than before. You can hardly ' : invest much better elsewhere and the amount you invest with the Hawaiian Board in your life time will not be wrangled for after you are gone. . If vou are « „ „ U '« « «• « « 20 so .<- M monev will earn 5 per cent. years or over vour ' '" " " " 6 " u » « « " " " " >' << " " ' " " 7 8 " " See the Treasurer of the Board and talk over the security, the form of gift, etc. —make your money make friends. Make it work. r~ F~ 7W 7T I EB LOS BOARD OF THE HAWAIIAN EVANGELICAL ASSOCIATION. �November, 1910. THE FRIEND. 14 Our Young People HENRY P. JUDD Boys. A very important part of the _work amoung young people of our islands is with the boys. The youth of today is the citizen of tomorrow, and we have a great responsibility in training the boys it: the elements of good character and good citizenship. To this end it is well for us to face the question, "How shall we present to boys an idea of life which in their hearts they recognize as good and desirable and as possible for them to try for?" We must first determine whether boys have this right idea or standard instinctively or whether they need to have it given them. Is it not true that the average boy needs to be waked up to a comparison of his own life with a better standard? Is the right standard given him by home trainiing? To know Christ as the standard and to have personal loyalty to Him is being a Christian. That is, that a boy needs to know Christ as the standard in such a way that Christ is real to him, that he will admire Christ, and, to an extent, understand Him, will want to be like him. not only in the qualities that appeal to him. but in those that he does not understand. He needs to learn that putting all of one's energy, purpose and life into everything one does is Christ's way of doing. What qualities should be put emphasis on? We should begin with what a boy can understand, and if he follows Christ he will in time learn all he needs to know. In so starting a boy there are certain inefficient and harmful things to beware of. We must avoid, first, stock phrases such as "Coming to Christ," "Doing God's will," and the like; second, we should avoid telling a boy to be "good," "kind," "gentle" (these words have no attraction for a genuine boy); third, avoid making appeal to self-interest. Do make Christian living too easy. There is something in us all, and above all in a boy, that responds to an appeal to do hard things without hope of reward. Study Christ's words to those who wish to follow Him. Fourth, we should avoid appealing much to feelings, pressing on his attention the emotional side of religion. He hears now of God's love and sacrifice, but it is later that it will make its strongest appeal to him. The impression made on him now by this should become a motive of action. Give the boy something to do. Avoid sentimentality in religion as you would the plague. A boy who is the victim of these mistakes is disgusted or mystified or made morbid if he docs not become a hypocrite or a prig. not The boys who are the least trouble are not the most promising, but rather those wdio keep things in a turmoil. We have many kinds to deal with, and in some cases the manly qualities are to be built up, in others directed and cleared of evil. A boy needs to know that God has given him his boy nature to use in a boy's way and yet in God's way, and that he is not called to put off boyhood when be is a Christian. A boy'needs first, squareness, honesty, fair-play. This in games, in work, in fighting, in trading and swopping. Second, he needs generosity, the sense of honor, standing for fair-play, chivalry. This is the ground of friendship as illustrated in the case of David and Jonathan. 'Third, he needs serviceableness, bearing one's share, unselfishness, kindness (do not call it that), going out of the way to help. Tell a boy, "Think of other people instead of yourself and do not try to get the best for yourself." Fourth, the boy needs grit, "sand," sticking to work, not to be downed by anything, be it problem, homesickness or pain, and he needs steadfastness and faithfulness to duty. Fifth, he needs moral courage, fearlessness and not to be afraid to acknowledge himself in the wrong. Sixth, he needs clean living and thinking and speaking. Some one has written, "Don't you think that a Christian boy is one who tells the truth, keeps his speech and his thoughts clean, and is slow to fight, keep- How about your Sunday School Supplies for next Year ? Consult the Hawaiian Board Book Rooms ing his temper under control? A soft answer turns away wrath, and how many quarrels have been avoided by a laugh and a joke. This does not mean being a coward, however, for he must be brave above all things, physically and morally, and must stand for fair play, daring to fight a boy twice his size if he is bullying a small one; or if he finds he is wrong, to admit it before the whole school. Thoughtful of what he can do for others always ready with a helping hand and cheerful word—doing his work cheerfully and well. In playtime he throws himself into the games with a zest and good fellowship and sense of fairness which makes the recess twice as much fun for all. Such a boy is bound to be a leader; vile stories and mean acts will stop when he is present, and what he says will go with the boys. Who can say how much good such a clean, wholesome honest boy will do just by living in his little world? I think this is what it means to be good and to do right, and the reason I recommend it is because the three most Christlike men I have ever known began by being such boys as this." The "Teen" Age and How We May Win and Hold Them. The "Teen" age, from thirteen years nineteen, is a critical period in the lives of many young people. If they are won and held for the Master in those years, there is a strong likelihood that they will continue to be followers of Christ during their lives. The practical question is two-fold, first, how may they be won, and second, how may we hold them ? They may be won, first, by personal touch, the close, vital contact of a life earnestly, quietly, confidently seeking to be of real help. There follows the necessity of knowing and understanding the boys and girls well. And there is also the need of knowing the interests and inner lives of the pupils and meeting their needs and interests along the lines of their tastes. It is after all not a very hard matter to win the young people in a formal way at least. The real problem is not one of how to attract them into the church and Sunday-school, but of how to hold their interest and make them loyal to the higher life. One answer that has often been given is "Build a wall of fathers between them and the door." Give them the idea that the Sunday-school is not a "kid's affair," but a place for manly men. That is good, but we shall find the boys burrowing under or climbing over or boring through that wall unless we do something more than that. If we put all our men into one big class, and try to build to �November. 1910. THE FRIEND. 15 For six months the waves tossed this kind singing sharply, and the other singat ing from time to time. For this tree I burden from one place to another, on reef the branch the largest of last threw daughter the chief's will save the life near the beach of Kailua, on the island and her child." Gladly the sick girl and her friends Hawaii. The people saw a very wonderpromised to give this beautiful tree to ful thing. Where this branch lay stranded the best material available. This age de- Haumea. It was a tree greatly loved and in the water fish of many kinds gathered it. The chiefs took this mands teaching that is thoughtful, earn- enjoyed by the princess. Haumea com- leaping around est and genuine. When the teacher makes menced the prayers and incantations wonderful branch inland and made the Makalei, which was a god of Hawaii these young people feel that he has some- which accompanied her treatment of the god generations. for grew chiefess rapidly sick. And the has an to important thing which relation Another branch came into the posseslife—not 2,000 years ago, but here in this stronger. 'This had come so quickly and sion of some of the Maui chiefs, and was she the of the gift that easily repented vital, some20th century—something as a stick for hanging bundles upflowers, and cried used thing interesting, then he will hold his tree with the beautiful on. It became a god for the chiefs of tree." Immeout, not the give will "I young people. and Maui with the name Ku-ke-010-ewa. strength, He may hold them by appreciation. diately she began to lose body of the tree rolled back and that The give to she would called Haumea 'This is the age of aspirations—of reachalong the beach near the four wating out to conquer obstacles—to reform the tree if she could be forgiven and forth healed. However as strength came to her ers, and was wrapped in the refuse of all the evils of the world. once more she again felt sorry for her the sea. our a pupils may be held by Many of A chief and his wife had not yet found tree, and refused to let it go. Again the word of appreciation now and then. Let a for their home. In a dream they god broken off and the diincantations were to words good us encourage them by were told to get a god. For three days withdrawn. showing our interest in their efforts, and vine aid consulted they priests, repeated prayers, cried to his daught< agony Hopana in let us not neglect to use this gift of sayincantations, use and and offered sacrifices "Give tree. Of what up your ing "well done" whenever we see special er, the while great gods, they made search if die." to you it be with its flowers will effort being put forth by our young to for wood from which cut out their god. laumea final strength, gave her the Then I people, with the most powerful incantations and On the third night the omens led them mother and child both lived and became down to the beach and they saw this trunk of a tree rolling back and forth. A well and strong. Haumea took the tree and traveled dim haze was playing over it in the over the far seas to distant Hawaii. On moonlight. They took that tree, cut out that larger island she found no place to their god. and called it Ku-hoo-nee-nuu. W. D. WESTERVELT plant the tree. She crossed over to the They built a heiau or temple for this god, island Maui, and came to the "four riv- and named that heiau Waihau and made ers." There she found the awa of the it tabu. THE GOD OF PAKAKA HEIAU. gods and prepared it to drink, but needed 'The mana, or divine power, of this god was very great, and it was a noted god was a the water to with it. She laid her I'akaka heiau located in fresh mix long ago on the western side of the foot tree on the ground at I'uu-kumc by the from Hawaii to Kauai. Favor and prosof Fort street, about the place where a Wai-hee stream and went down after perity rested upon this chief, who had lumber yard is now to be found. There water. When she returned the tree had found the tree, made it a god, and built arc several legends connected with this rooted. While she looked at it it began to a temple for it. heiau. One of the most interesting is stand up, and give life to its branches. The king who was living on the, island that which tells how the god of the She built a stone wall around it shutting Oahu heard about this tree, and sent out the winds. When it blossomed Hau- servants to the island Maui to find out temple came into being. The story of the god of this temple is a ema returned to her divine home in Nuu- whether or no the reports were true. If story of voyages and vicissitudes. Olo- niehalani, in the unknown land of mists true they would bring that god to Oahu. They found the god and told the chief pana had sailed away from Waipio, Ha- and shadows, where the gods dwelt. waii, for the distant islands of distant By and by a man took his stone axe and that the king wanted to establish it at seas. Somewhere in all that great num- went out to cut a tree, perhaps to make a Kou (ancient Honolulu), and would ber of islands which were grouped under god. He saw a new tree, short and beau- build a temple for it there. The chief the general name Kahiki. Olopana found tiful, and after hours of labor cut it readily gave up his god and it was cara home. Here his daughter Mu-lei-ula down. The night was coming on, so ried over to its new home. The temple, or heiau was built at Kou was near to childbirth. "Mv" "with the he left it as it fell and went home. That night a fierce and mighty storm and the god Ku-hoo-nee-nuu placed in it. red garland," was experiencing great trouble. For some reason Haumea, one came down from the mountains. Blood This temple was Pakaka, near the foot of of the divine Polynesian ancestors, had red were the streams of water pouring Fort street, the most noted temple on the stopped for a time to visit the people of down into the valleys. During twenty island Oahu, while its god, the log of the that land. When the friends were afraid nights and twenty days the angry rain tree from a foreign land, became the god that "Mv" would die, Haumea came to punished the land above and around Wai- of the chiefs of Oahu. help, saying "In our land the mother hee. The river was more than a rushing lives. The mother and child both live." torrent. It built up hills and dug ravines. MAMALA, THE SURF-RIDER. The people said, "If you give us aid, how It hurled its mighty waves against the can we render payment or give you a re- wall inside which the tree was lying. It broke the wall, scattered the stones, and Kou was the ancient name of Honolulu ward?" Haumea said "There is a beautiful tree bore the tree down one of the deep ra- —the place for games and sports among with two strange but glorious flowers, vines it had dug. The branches were the chiefs of long ago. A little to the which I like very much. It is 'the tree broken off and carried with the trunk of east of Kou and inside the present filled of changing leaves' with two flowers, one the tree far out into the ocean. land used for the United States quaranthe wall with that we shall fail. For boys, and girls too, are going where they know that they will get something worth while. We must hold them by good teaching, not by "goody-goody" teaching. We must man our young people's classes with Honolulu Legends �16 tine and coal station was a pond with a grove Of coconut trees belonging to a chief, I lono-kali-pu, and afterwards known by his name. Straight out toward the ocean was the narrow entrance to the harbor, through which rolled the finest surf waves of the I lonolulu part of the island ( )ahu. 'The surf bore the name "Ke-kai-o-Mainala," "the sea of Mamala." When the surf rose high it was called " ka-nuku-o-MamaU," "the nose of Mamala." So the sea and entrance to the harbor were known by the name Mamala, and the shore gave the name Kou to the bay. Mamala was a chiefess of Kupua character. This meant that she was a moo or gigantic lizard or crocodile, as well as a beautiful Beautiful woman, and could assume whichever shape she most desired. One of the legends says that she was a shark anil woman, and had for her husband the shark-man, < hlha, afterward a shark god having his home in the ocean near Coco head. Mamala and < Hlha drank awa together and played konane on the smooth konane stone at Kou. Mamala was a wonderful surf-rider. Very skillfully she danced on the roughest waves. The surf in which she most delighted rose far out in the rough sea. where the winds blew strong and whitecaps were on waves which rolled in rough disorder into the bay of Kou. The people on the beach, watching her, filled the air with resounding applause as they clapped their hands over her extraordin- ary athletic feats. The chief, I lono-kau-pu, chose to take Mamala as his wife, so she left Ouha and lived with her new husband. ( hlha was angry and tried at first to injure Mono ami Mamala, but be was driven away. He fled to the lake Ka-ihi-Kapu towards Waikiki. There he appeared as a man with a basketful! of shrimps and fresh fish, which he offered to the women of that place, saying, "Here is life (i.e., a living thing) for the children." He opened his basket, but the shrimps and the fish leaped out and escaped into the water. 'The women ridiculed the god-man. 'The ancient legendary characters of all Polynesia as well as of Hawaii could not endure anything that brought shame or disgrace upon them in the eyes of others. Ouha fled from the taunts of the women, casting off his human form, and dissolving his connection with humanity. 'Thus he became the great god-shark of the coast between Waikiki and Coco Head. The surf-rider was remembered in the beautiful mele or chant coming from ancient times and called the mele of llonokau-pu. "The surf rises at Koolau, Blowing the waves into mist, tut: friend. November, 1910, Idently felt justified in his actions, if the Into little drops, public did not. Spray falling along the hidden harbor. Pew people realize that the area of 'There is my dear husband ()uha. There is the shaking sea, the running i Alaska is as large as Great Britain, sea of Kou, France and Spain combined. Her popuThe crab-like moving sea of Kou. lation is only (i.S,(KX), as compared with Prepare the awa to drink, the crab to eat. 100,000.000 of the above named countries. The small konane board is at llono-. Alaska is twice as large as Maine, Xcw kaupu. I l.impsliirc, Vermont, Massachusetts, My friend on the highest point of tin- Connecticut, Rhode Island, Xcw York surf. and Pennsylvania put together, or XX 'This is a good surf for us. times as large as the Territory of I lawaii. but has only about one-third the populaMy love has gone away. Smooth is the floor of Kou, tion. She has a coast line of 26,000 miles, Fine is the breeze from the mountains, ami has the richest gold, copper, silver, wait for you to return, and mineral mines to be found anywhere, IThe as well a- the largest fisheries in the games are prepared, w>rld. Pa-poko, pa-loa, pa-lele, Leap away to Tahiti lly the path to Xuu-inea-lani (home of An Interesting Mission. the gods |, We left Spokane July l-'th at '» p. m. Will that lover ( ( hlha I return ? ill the good S. S. Spokane, with J(X) firstto I lono-kau-pu. I belong class passengers. The next day visited From the top of the tossing surf waves. Victoria, with its parliament and public The eyes of the day and the night are buildings, museum, hotels and waterfront, forgotten. also the dry <lock at Ksquimalt. 'The Kou has the large konane board. city has 50,000 population, being first setThis is the day, and tonight tled by the white man in IXSX. We sailed The eyes meet at Kou. at 10 a. m., and passed up between Vancouver Island and the mainland by the inland seas. ( )ur first port of call in Alaska Hawaii Cousins Vacation Trip to Alaska. It may not be out of place at the end of a summer outing, to tell the readers of "The Friend" some of our experiences while away on the other side of the "Pond." Many of our readers visited Europe; some spent pleasant weeks with friends in old America, but a few of us journeyed North from San Francisco, passing through Salem and Portland, ( Oregon, crossed the Columbia Isiver, visited Taconia and Seattle, with their various attractions, and continued still further North into South-Eastern Alaska. From Seattle it was only a twelve days' round trip by steamer to Skagway and return, yet time enough to see and learn much of a most interesting country and its people. ()f this most northern possession of Uncle Sam's, much has been written of gicater Alaska, yet a few lines may be of interest to some. 'This frozen land of the X'orth which Secretary Seward purchased from Russia March 18th, 1807. for $7,200,000, and which many thought was money thrown away, was not was at New Metlakatla, arriving there at 10 a. in. July 15th. This is the mission established by Wm. Duncan, the first missionary to Alaska, arriving on the His own field from Loin lon in IXSX. graphic description of bis experiences were most interesting but too lengthy to recount at this time. He owns the island, which was j;iven to him by Congress, and has with him about 1,500 Indians, comprising the settlement, lie is now 72 years of age, hale and hearty, the only white man living among the Indians at this place. His large trading stores, salmon cannery, saw mill, and other operations are worked by Indians under his directions. 'The village is well laid out, with its wharves, streets, town hall, schoolhonses and large church building. 'These arc all the work of the mission people, tinder Mr. Duncan's supervision. 'The people are all religious, and appear as well civilized and educated as our own people here. Laborers in the cannery and saw mill receive wages as follows: Women, 15c; boys, 10c; and men 20c per hour. 'Their last season's output was 46,-(XX) cases salmon. Mr. Duncan teaches practical religion in the government, business, family relations and citizenship. ( )ur next calling place was at Ketchikan, a village of ( ) years growth, with a population of 1.500. Its waterworks, electric plant, saw mills for spruce timber. St. Johns school, shops, etc., is a busy little town built on piles; a shipping port so bad a The yearly revenues from the mines and fisheries alone is more than was paid for the whole territory. 'The circumstances which led up to the ultimate purchase may be unknown to most of us, but Seward cvi- for minerals, lumber, etc. purchase after all. �Till-: FRIEND. November, 1910. Totem Poles. ( Hir next port was Ixissau. the remains of a deserted village, with its totem poles and buildings still standing in their decaying condition, showing the high slate of Indian life at the time the scourge visited the village, some 70 years ago. We landed on a beautiful pebble beach, anil found our way through the overgrown vegetation and enter the council houses and homes of the departed, From this village many of the totem poles have been taken to different parts. ( >ne is in Seattle Square; a dozen or more in Indian River Park, Sitka. Thirty-eight poles still stand ami are from 10 to 40 leet in height, and one flag pole Not an Indian was [,, oil feet high. he seen in the place. 4 Sitka the Beautiful. Jul) 17th we arrived at Sitka. Old Sitka tin- Beautiful, the former capital on llaranoff Island, is a queer old town, with its ill log buildings, Kussiaii settlers and a few Indians. lis C. S. military sta tion of 50 men and modern buildings is in contrast with the old conditions. Curio stores make the business of the place interesting. Indian River Park, a mile out of town, with its g Ily number of imported totem pules stationed In pairs and groups, near the sea shore, at the mouth of the Indian River, are most interesting, ami one might sa\ beautiful with their new paints anil decorations. The roadway under and through the tall pine Irees. anil along the river and shore line, make most delightful walks while the tourist is waiting for the hour of sailing to the next We attended the Presbyterian prrt. church services in the morning, and visited the old Greek church in the afternoon. The old Russian eight-sided block house, made of heavy logs, stands on a hill near the town in the old cemetery grounds, hut is decaying away. The grounds are very much overgrown from want of care for many years. The population of Sitka is only 700; one third natives: one-third Russians, and the balance mixed nationalities, including Americans. Muir Glacier. Oar next port of call was Muir Glacier, we anchored at S a. in. July 18th. all landed in the ship's boat-, and We spent several hours walking on this solid chunk of ice, 300-500 feet thick. 3 miles wide, and so far as estimated is 100 to 2(X) miles long, but of this no one has any definite knowledge. It is thought to fill the space between two islands, and some day may lie all melted away, giving a new and nearer passage to the far North. Some of our party liar! never handled where 17 snow before, and many snowballs tilled butt gently into a good sized berg, cutting the air between times. 'This glacier was off quite a slice from its corner. This discovered by John Muir and named af- was an experience not often met with. ter him. Since the discovery it has moved In the afternoon we stopped at Treadquite a distance, and during the past well mine and before leaving the vessel three years as much as a mile or more we could hear the roar and din of the has broken off. During the summer many K50 stamps pounding out the gold from icebcrges arc constantly floating out to the largest stamp mill in the world today. We visited the works and saw a gold sea. brick valued at $1().U(X)—the result of 24 hours' work gathered from the 5000 White Pass Trail. Early on the morning <>f July P'th found us approaching the wharf at Skagway. At 9 o'clock we boarded the White Pass and Yukon Railway at the dock for a JO mile ride to the summit of the White Pass Valley, with an elevation of feel, h was a cold damp morning hut a grand ride. Aside from the historic interest of 1898 attached to Skagway, this city was the early camping ground fot the army of gold hunters in 1898-99, Tbii was a town of IX.(XX) people, but now only about n(X) remain to bold the town together, < >nly empty buildings and gardens are left to show what were once the homes of the goldseekers, many having died, some going on to the interior, but most have returned to their old homes to count their losses and to start again in other directions. At the summit we saw the flags of (licit Britain and the United States living over the monument which marks the dividing line between Canadian and American soils, and here we shook hands with each other in token of brotherly friendship. 'The Yukon River, just beyond this point, starting in Canada, is some 3TXX) miles long and drains over 2(X).(XX) square miles of Central Alaska, and carries the commerce of the 'Territory to the coast of ore, the daily output Employment is found for 1500 men, divided into three shifts of eight hours each; the mill runs .V).? days of every year, Fourth of July and Christmas day being the only days tin- stamps are silent. The mine has its own boarding and rooming houses, club rooms, reading rooms, entertainment hall. etc. ions The New Capital. Juneau, the new capital of Alaska, across the channel, and two miles from the Treadwell mine, is a small village of 12(H) to 1500 people, situated on a side hill, with its planked streets, public buildings, custom house and school houses. Plans were already under way to open large mills for gold and copper mines back of the town. A site hail been chosen for a $150,000 capitol building. An old Indian village is established here, and the men are employed fishing for the canneries near by. Leaving Juneau at midnight we arrived at Wrangell 3 p. in. the Here we visited the totem next day. (Miles and had the meanings of the figures explained to us by a Mr. Richards of the Episcopal Mission, who is located here. This was the fust settlement made by the Russians in Alaska. Passing line. through Discovery Passage, Georgia ( >n our return trip by the railway we Vancouver at 8:30 p. m„ Saturday. July wen- afforded an excellent view of the 22: and spent all day Sunday at VanWhite 'ass cantilever bridge spanning a couver. We arrived at Seattle at <> a. m. July canyon some 250 feet. We crossed several times both going and returning, the 25th. feeling well repaid for the $100 famous White Pass Trail, over which the passage moeny which the trip had cost us gold seekers of the IX'IX-')*) boom period from Seattle. had to pack their belongings on their Alaska has been called "the show place of the earth." A full description of its way to the Klondike and Dawson. snow-capped mountains; its smooth, narrow its wooded slopes and Tourist Boom. wonderful wealth will be material for Statistics show that 6.000 tourists visit- writers for years to come. A well-known ed Skagway last summer, Leaving Skag- writer lias said "The Yosemite is beautiway at 4 p. in., passing down its beautiful ful; the Yellowstone is wonderful; the bay on through to Lynn Canal, we ar- Grand Canyon of Arizona is colossal, but rived in sight of the Davidson Glacier at Alaska, with its fiords and mountains, 6:30 p. in.. July 20th; visited Taku Inlet, glaciers and rivers, jxissibilitics and disthen into Glacier Hay. with its large fields tances, is all of these. It is not only of broken ice and icebergs; viewed Win- colossal, but wonderful and beautiful as -1 tinl dead glacier near to Foster or Taku well." live glacier. For the interest of the pasYours respectfully, sengers Captain Thomas in a slow and cautious manner allowed the steamer to A. F. COOKE. I passages; �THE 18 November, 1910. FRIEND. thoughtful, outlining as it does a broad EVENTS working creed which the church of the BOOK REVIEWS future could adopt with profit to itself and uplift to the community at large. Sept. 30—Large meeting of business men Thomas I'. Crowell & Company, New at 4 p. m. to protest agatnRt election of LinFaith and Health, by Charles Reynolds coln McCandless hh delegate to Congress on Brown. Dr. Brown's name is a guaran- York. 240 pages. $1.00 net. business grounds. tee of the value of his writings. He has 7/ic li'iiiiiing of Immortality, by Oct. 3.—The Imported Russians are not peculiar qualifications to speak upon this Frederic Palmer. 'The author argues that doing much stevedores on the wharves, subject, as he has specialized in it for a we arc by no means necessarily immortal getting only asabout 13000 in twenty-four period of years. He says, in a vigorous but that immortality is the result of com- weeks. discussion of Christian Science, "I began ing into harmony with Christ; that this 4 —Rudolph Spreckels arrives from San the study of Christian Science twentv- is the view which was held by the early Francisco, expecting to conclude sale of varto tlnee years ago, in the city of Boston, Christians, who either did not know of ious Spreckels properties.—Subscrlplonstotal Japanese flood sufferers closed: and under Mrs. Eddy herself. 1 have in any such doctrine as the necessary im- aid $5000. my home a diploma certifying that I am mortality of the human soul or regarded amount stocks in San Francisco very —Sugar I a entitled to practice as Christian Science such a view as unwarranted. The opeuhealer." Nevertheless, he contests every mindcdncss of the author is refreshing. panicky. 7—Eightieth birthday of Rev. O. H. claim of the cult. 'The Winning of Immortality is no kind Gulick. —Gain of about eleven hundred reof hook for those who are iiteralistic in gistered voters reported 1 !)(>!>-1910. their views of the I'.ihle ; an enlightening it—Seven men In row boats come too near book to those who see in the I'.ihle a pro- coral reef and are swept by heavy surf on escape.—Four gressive revelation ; a good book to put reef; boats broken,in narrow Iwllel. pigs" found "blind come to of who have the hands those in 10—Business men's meeting again descotf at immortality because of their recides for Manuka site for U. S. building. of expositions dogmatic vulsion against Co., the subject. Thomas Y. Crowell & 12—Last company of Fifth Cavalry arrives; second time in fifty-five years when 235 pages, $1.00 net the regiment has been united. Pretty little Christmas Gift Books may 14.—Oahu Association of Congregational be found among the "What is Worth ChurchM at Waialua. While Series" of 'Thomas Y. Crowell & 16.—Emerson memorial arch unveiled at Co., and books handsomely illustrated in Waialua. color, by J. R. Miller, issued by the same IS—Prince Kuhlo reaffirms strongly his desire for prohibition in these islands, and publishing house. his vote therefor, in face of large vote against prohibition. IS—Joe Leal and others habitually gambling under cover of D. S. Customs, discovThe Story of the American Hoard. By Wm. ered; several Customs officers discharged.— E. Strong. The Pilgrim Press, Boston; Twenty-sixth anniversary of W. C. T. IT. BOOKS RECEIVED. $1.75 net. The Winning of Immortality. By Frederick Palmer. Thomas Y. (rowell & Co.. N.Y. $1.00 net. Choice Verses, and other matter to be commltted to memory Edited by Chas. F. Dole, Jamaica Plain, MasB. By A New Heaven and a New Earth. Thomas Y. Charles Brodie Patterson. Crowell & Co. $1.25 net. Faith and Health. By Charles Reynolds Brown. Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. $1.00 CHARLES R. BROWN, D.D, Author of "The Young M»n'§ ArJtlrt" Thoi. Y. Ctowell Co.. New York * With the Eramaneul movement leaders he is more in syni|)athy, but believes that the movement itself could be extended to churches generally only at serious risk. A minister must have very especial qualifications for this sort of thing, he contends. This profession has no more right to encroach upon that of medicine than the latter has to arrogate spiritual duties. The broad field of co-operation between the two forms the ideal ground of the future. The final chapter on"The Church and Disease" is especially valuable and net. 1!)—Fire destroys one of the cottageB of Royal Hawaiian Hotel. New $200,000 hotel is being promoted. 22—Hllo selected as postal savings banks. one of the V. S. 24. —Judge Andrade resigns from bench of Police Court on account of checks given to Contract signed for aid defaulting clerk. new Y. M. C. A. building, $132,000.—Governor Frear sets apart $2,500 for study of fish and meat markets. 25.—"The Democrat," a new political New Bible Country (Worth While Series). By Thomas Franklin Day. Thomas Y. paper, started. Crowell & Co. By James Allen. From Passion to Peace. Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. 50 cents net. Seeking After God. By Lyman Abbot. $1.00 net. Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. The Master's Friendships. By J. R. Miller, I). D. Let him have THE TOMO Thomas Crowell & Co. By King C. Gillette. World Corporation. Every Month. The New England News Co., Boston. 50c. a year. Is Your Japanese Servant a Christian? $1.00. 1 Kodak Developing and Printing : : : : =======e=e========== Artistic Picture Framing YE ARTS & CRAFTS SHOP : Fort Street below King Hand Craft Wares : —— 1 �November, lvio, THE FRIEND, 19 MARRIED. Clark-Dreir—hi Honolulu, October S, 1!H0, by the Rev. Father Valentine, Henry Clark and Mrs. Emma Dreler. Schmidt-Grace—ln Honolulu, October 6, Paul Hi 10, by the Rev. A. A. Ebersole, Schmidt and Miss Mildred Grace. McMahon-Franklin—ln Honolulu, October 8, lit 10, by the Rev. Canon Ault, P. M. .Mc.Malion and Mis* Pollie Franklin. Morse-Ah Chuck—In 15, HMO, G. Morse and Chuck. Honolulu, October Miss Mary Ah Moiicicith-Kenney—ln Honolulu, October 12, 1910, M. Moncreith Kenney. and Miss Marie Hutchinson-Clapperton—ln Honolulu, Oct. 17, 1910, Robert Hutchinson and Miss Mary Who hasn't heard of ESTEY ORGANS? know YOU, PERHAPS, did not that we keep them here tit tlu: Hoard Book Rooms. HAWAIIAN IRON FENCE & MONUMENT WORKS, Ltd. Safe*, Vaults, Concrete Reinforcement. 180 5 King St Phone 648 Clappwtoa, llowley-Ena—ln Los Angeles, October 20, Daisy Ena. Sex ton-Rice—In ihue, Kauai, October 26, 1910, Dr. L. U Sexton and Miss Emily Rice. 1910, John .1. Howler and Miss atift DEATHS. Wilcox—On June 2:!, 1910, at Newark, N. 1.. Catharine Cooke Wilcox, sister of "Father Cooke," in the 78th year of her age. 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The only store in Honolulu where Lumber and Building Material, Builders' Hardware, parel for Paints, Oils, Etc MEN, WOMEN or CHILDREN Good Goods and Reasonable Prices. Agents for Walkover and Sorosis Shoes. : Honolulu. 55 Queen Street you can get anything in Wearing Ap- flit first Rational $anfc of fiamaii CAPITAL CECIL S500.000. AT HONOLULU. BROWN. Pres. W. R. CASTLE, M. P. ROBINSON, Vlce-Pres. O. N. WILCOX. 8URPLU8 $123,000. L. T. PECK, Cashier. CASTLE. G. p. United States Government Depository General Banking.—Issues Drafts, Money Orders, Letters of Credit and Cable. Transfers available in all parts of the world. Savings Bank Department, Interest on Terms Deposits, Safe Deposit 1066 Fort Street Coit October E—-In Honolulu, Arthur Watson, aged 24 years. Healers Vault* for Rent. ACCOUNTS INVITED �THE FRIEND 20 • THE BANK OF HAWAII, Ltd. Honolulu E. O. Hall & Son HAVE A FULLY EQUIPPED HOUSEHOLD DEPARTMENT. including Garland Stoves and Ranges, Aluminum Ware, Enameled Ware. 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Telephones: Office, 64; Res., 1020. � 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 (1910) 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 - 1910.11 - Newspaper https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/b9be4893066ecfd58fd88e32dc3ee88f.pdf 200df5f3f79d395695f36130286a2ecc PDF Text Text 1 �December, 1910 THE FRIEND 2 Hawaiian Artist Co. THE FRIEND LIMITED. BISHOP & COMPANY', BANKERS. Is published the first week of each Fire, Marine, Life month *in Honolulu, T. H., at the HaHONOLULU. HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. Win waiian Board Book Rooms, cor. Alakea and Accident and Merchant Sts. Subscription price, Established in 1858. $1.00 per year. SURETY ON BONDS. A special rate is made to Mission Transact a General Banking and ExPlate Glass, Employers' Churches or Sunday Schools in the change Business. Loans made on approved Liability, and BurIKIMl Bills discounted. Commercial glary Insurance. vy^mlmwtUtJ-0/ Islands. Clubs of 25 to one address 25 security. Credits granted. Deposits received on cur/ o&mk /^PPle©jfc, ?d^~ _ ! cents apiece per year. FORT BTREET, Safe Deposit Building. 523 Lots for Sale IN "College PH HILLS Trent Trust Co. Ltd. COLLEGE. (Arthur F. Griffiths, A.8., President.) All Communications of a literary character should be addressed to THE FRIEND, Alakea and Merchant Sts., Honocornet jlulu, T. H, and must reach the Board Rooms by the 24th of the month. Preparatory Doremus Scudder, Editor in Chief. Frank S. Scudder, Managing Editor. F. W. Damon. John G. Woolley. A. A. Ebersole. Orramel H. Gulick, H. P. .ludd. W. B. Oleson. Theodore Richards. Paul Super. William D. Westervelt. Perley L. Home. Ernest J. Recce. Edward W. Thwing, Foreign Correspondent. Offer complete College preparatory work, together with special Commercial, Music, and Art course*. For Catalogue, address The BOY Wants Stories There are none so good as the old BIBLE stories, the boy himself as judge. We know for we have tried with a number of boys, girls too. But you should have GOOD PICTURES as texts when you tell Bible stories. We have a Bible with 800 good illustrations. We knew one copy of it to be Business Agent, worn out by the use of one family,— T. College, Honolulu, H. • Oahu four children one after the other literally wearing it to pieces. 1 If. WHITNEY, M. D., D. D. S. We have other Bible Story Books. DENTAL ROOMS. JONATHAN SHAW, - J. LIMITED STOCKS, BONDS AND Fort and Merchant Streets, Honolulu. HF. • WICHMAN ft CO., LTD. Manufacturing Optician, Jeiveler and Silversmith. 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COMMISSION MERCHANTS, SUGAR FACTOR AND GENERAL INSURANCE AGENT. SHIPPING REPRESENTING School. (Charles T. Fitts, A. 8., Principal). Henry Waterhouse Trust Co. ISLAND SECURITIES Kiitrml (Motor -T. iw. at Hmiuliihi. ltmraii. a* tetmd cliim mutter, under nit of Cot'artm »f Jtarenj, ityo. — —and Punahou Regular Savings Bank Department mainAll business letters should be addressed and all M. O.s and checks should be tained in Bank Building on Merchant Street, and Insurance Department, doing a Life, made out to Fire and Marine business on most favorable Theodore Richards, terms, in Friend Building on Bethel Street. Business Manager of The Friend. P. O. Box 489. THE BOARD OF EDITORS: LOW PRICES EASY TERMS OAHU rent account subject to check. ■ �The Friend. OLDEST HONOLULU, H. T., DECEMBER, 1910 Vol. LXVIII .. The Friend Gospel. TREASURER'S STATEMENT FROM OCT. 21 TO NOV. 21, 1910. RECEIPTS. K. B. C. F. M !.* 2.5C 203.85 \. M. A 3ush Place 74.0C 40.00 Chinese Contingent Fund 400.00 "onditional Gift 44.65 87.50 General Fund Uaw'n Gen. Fund 5.00 53.00 Hoaloha 99.00 nvested Funds 100.00 lapanese Work 280.10 \alihi Settlement 23.10 Kauai Gen. Fund 100.00 Maui Gen. Fund Ministerial Relief 175.00 2.00 Molokai Gen. Fund 901.37 3ahu Gen. Fund 2.00 Dfflce Expense 50.00 Palama Settlement 36.00 Portuguese Work 36.50 romo . .. . $2715.57 EXPENDITURES Alexander Settlement Bush Place Central Kona Settlement Chinese Work Salaries Eng.-Port. Work Salaries friend General Fund Salaries NEWSPAPER WEST OF THE ROCKIES, $ $101.25 568.75 77.55 896.50 149.60 542.00 75.00 62.00 25.00 670.00 ™ 974.05 67.10 It is a significant evidence of the awakening of America to the importance of the Pacific Problem that so distinguished a leader in journalism as Melville E. Stone should have begun to see and proclaim the menace of Asiatic industrialism to our own national development. Turning his newspaperman's genius for marshaling facts to this field, he shows how India is ready to try a fall with America in cotton, how Japan is gathering the carrying trade of the great ocean into her hands, and how China with her vast resources in iron and coal and grain fields is commencing to conjure with these in the domain of world commerce. The East with its cheap labor and untiring industry threatens the West with a conflict that bodes no good to our boasted high standard of living. At the centenary of the American Board, President Capen, himself a business leader and a civic reformer, put the case squarely to the workingman of the United States by showing him that he must cease holding his Asiatic brother aloof and get into closer touch with him in the hope of inoculating that brother with his own ambitions for larger life, that is for the higher wages and improved labor conditions which make for better living. Prosaic necessity to survive must bring him to this stand. It is refreshing to see such leaders of mainland thought at last recognizing doctrines of which Hawaii has been conscious for years, and which The Friend has long endeavored to drum into the minds of its mainland constituents. Little by little the dog in the manger policy pursued by our nation towards the Asiatic in denying him the privilege of naturalization and in refusing to admit him to the country on terms of equality with other peoples is being recognized as suicidal in the long run. It is but another proof that the right way is the wise way. The American people may be trusted ere long to see the point and to Square themselves with the Asiatic world by undoing the injustice. Meanwhile, let the merry dance of enlightenment go on. 3 No. 12 cation. The wonderful work of Chicago's Commercial Club in its campaign for the new Chicago, Boston's unique 1915 movement and the nation's plans for Washington set side by side with the outcome of the effort to develop the natural beauty of Honolulu, organized here some years ago when Landscape Engineer Robinson was brought from the mainland, is somewhat humiliating. The most distressing evidence of our worse than carelessness is our post office squabble. Years have been wasted and we are no nearer a solution of the difficulty than when we began. Large considerations of beauty and utility demanded the site on Palace Square. But business interests demurred and the Mahuka location was pressed upon the national government. Now at vastly increased cost we confront a cumbersome legal process to secure an adequate site for a building which will always be an eyesore because located where it should not be. What is needed is a revival of civic pride and civic unselfishness. Meantime every set back to the progress of locating the building at King and Fort Street is a providential blessing. If fate only is kind enough to keep on blocking this menace to Honolulu the Beautiful, Washington may yet make up to her duty to place the post office where it ought to be, on the Irwin site in Palace Square. * That Loving Cup. To have two of our local pulpits emptied the same week was an occurrence almost without precedent in Honolulu. 27.80 Revs. J. T. Jones of the Methodist and Hawaiian Work A. C. McKeever of the Christian 401.72 Salaries : 429.52 churches, both left for the mainland dur*6.45 ing the second week of November. They Hoaloh.a 120.75 lapanese Work will be missed by many friends. The 966 75 Salaries Young People's Union gave a united 1087.55 farewell that expressed the appreciation 380.25 Kalihi Settlement of the Endeavor Societies. The young 140.00 Kohala Girls School—Salaries people decorated both ministers and their 32.70 Office Expense wives with beautiful leis and then listened 167.00 Palama Settlement to a farewell address from each of ' 34.25 romo the four. Mr. McKeever then re75.00 Settlement ft'aiakea ceived from the enlisted men of the United States army the gift of a lov$5157.07 The Post Office Fight. ing cup in token of his faithful unselfish Excess of expenditures over reHawaii may be in the van in her ap- service for them covering the past few $2441.50 receipts 3685.75 preciation of Asiatic problems, but she is years. This expression of gratitude was Dverdraft at the bank made in such a genuine way by the army T. R. Hyde Property Income Hawaii Gen. Fund 691.60 195.85 3.75 �December, 1910 THE FRIEND 4 men present and was reciprocated so beautifully by Mr. McKeever that it formed a most significant part of the evening's exercises. There is no more needed or delightful service in this city than that of ministering to the spiritual needs of these enlisted men. The Elections. They were preceded by the usual exaggerated rhetoric, the picturesque distortion of truth and the customary "I'm angel, you're demon party declarations that condition the typical political campaign here. The outcome was generally good, that is a large number of excellent citizens were chosen to office. The parties seem to have named better candidates than usual. The new legislature, especially the House, is the best since Hawaii became a Territory. It ought to enact good laws. It looks as though education were at last to have a fair chance in the islands. Honolulu's city government also is in good hands. Mayor Fern's re-election was expected. The attempt to unseat turn is beneath contempt. In elections costing both sides what ours do, for one party to charge the other with shady practices is a pitiable instance of the pot calling the kettle black. After playing the game as it is played on these islands, even the kind of honor that prevails among professionals should make the loser take his luck more like a sport. Sheriff Jarrett's strength seems due to a conduct of his office that has eliminated the petty thefts and housebreakings so common a few years ago and given us what may perhaps be called a fairly efficient police. THE CASE OF DELEGATE KALANIANAOLE. It is not a pleasant task but it is a pubIk duty to set forth the truth in the matter of Mr. Kalanaianaole's relation to the late plebiscite campaign. It is an unquestioned fact that the Senate Committee would have reported favorably the Curtis Pill to prohibit the liquor traffic in Hawaii if Mr. Kalanianaole had not urged a plebiscite. hearing before the Committee rritories of the House of Repreives on the question of a joint resoproviding for a special prohibition election in Hawaii, Hon. J. G. Wooley stated, "With the earnest cooperation of the Prince [Kalanianaole] which is now assured, and under his leadership, we shall doubtless carry the Territory for a prohibitory policy." Mr. Kalanianaole was present and participated in this hearmi? the statement w«is mscic Deforc nim. Pthe and though he had taken exception to tence, "I want no laws which will workother remarks of Mr. Woolley, he made along race lines" is clear. The liquor no objection to this declaration that it interests had from him all they wanted, was his purpose to cooperate earnestly and they used it with terrific effect. When in the recent campaign the Deleto carry Hawaii for prohibition. In his published letter to Mr. Thurston, dated gate's desertion of the cause which he October 17, he states that be told Mr. had practically promised Congress that Woolley "that I [Kalanianaole] would he would support and lead was brought go home as soon as Congress adjourned home to him by an editor of The Friend, and lead the fight for prohibition myself." Mr. Kalanianaole made the following explanation of his course in his open Thus far there is perfect agreement. Some weeks before the special election letter to Mr. Thurston: "After the law the rumor reached I lonolulu and ap- providing for the plebiscite was passed. peared in the press that the Delegate I had a talk with Mr. Woolley about would not take part in the campaign. what was to be done. He said he was When it was insinuated in certain quart- coming back to Hawaii to work for proers that he had been "fixed" by the liquor hibition. Knowing the strong objection interests. Mr. Woolley scouted these ru- which Hawaiians have against malihinis mors, and as long as it was possible to trying to direct them what to do. I told hold thereto he proclaimed both in public him I thought it would be a mistake that and private his confidence in Mr. Kalani- I would go home as soon as Congress anaole's good faith, that he would come' adjourned and lead the fight for prohibiand redeem his promise to carry Hawaii tion myself. I le thought he knew best and came himself. I feared the consefor prohibition. On the evening of July 13 the after- quences then, but still I intended to come noon papers published with scare head- home as soon as I could and help. I said lines a letter from the Delegate to Mr. J. I would speak for prohibition, and I then C. Lane, in which they emphasized the intended to do so. although I" did not say quotations, "/ want no laws which work I would 'stump the Islands.' Soon after Mr. Woolley returned from along race lines." "I ant not a teetotaler and not a ■prohibitionist." This letter Washington some months before July 2C>. acted as a bombshell in the Prohibition in a conversation with the editor cam]) and was received with acclamation of The Friend concerning the camby the liquor men, who proceeded to paign in Congress he stated that after make the most of it. The letter also an- the agreement between him and the Delenounced that he was coming home by the gate, he (Woolley) had told Mr. Kalaniyacht Hawaii, a statement which exting- anaole that he thought it wiser not to uished the last spark of hope as to Mr. return to Hawaii, that he would be glad Kalanianaole's help in the campaign. to stay out of the campaign because he It is singular that the prediction of the a stranger, and that it would be best liquor interests that the Delegate would Mr. Kalanianaole to go to the Islands not return to aid the cause of prohibition, and conduct the campaign with him not a prediction made weeks beforehand, there. Mr. Kalanianaole however thought should thus have come true. that he (Woolley) would do well to reBut worse than this, the letter to Mr. turn and help in the fight. At the time Lane contained the significant slogan, "I when this statement was made by am not a prohibitionist," a splendid tell- Mr. Woolley, not a whisper had been ing sentence capable of being used with heard of the Delegate's backing out of tremendous effect among the men of his the contest. Mr. Woolley added his own preference for having men identified with race. It was so used. Worst of all, the words "I want no the Islands lead the movement. The plelaws which work along race lines" was biscite had not been his project. As a the strongest thing he could have said matter of fact. Mr. Woolley, though in support of the anti-prohibitionists made the objective point of the liquor inwithout directly coming out on their side. terest's fight, did not lead. His advice The liquor men from the first planned prevailed and the campaign was contheir campaign on one line, that of race ducted by others, most of whom were old prejudice. Their two arguments on this timers. So much for the contribution of the line were splendidly devised and magnificently engineered. They were first "the editor of The Friend with reference to whites have engineered the plebiscite to Mr. Kalanianaole's statement that he deprive the Hawaiians of liquor while tried to prevent Mr. Woolley from rethey themselves are to be unrestricted in turning to engage in the campaign. Forits use," and second, "this prohibition is- tunately a recent mail has brought the sue is the creation of a white stranger. following from Mr. Woolley himself on John G. Woolley, who wants to deprive this point.Kalanianaole's letter in the Ad"Mr. you Hawaiians of your liberties." The deady venom of Mr. Kalanianaole's sen- vertiser raises no issue as between him : ft �and me, except as to his alleged interview with me touching the advisability of my return to Hawaii to take part in the plebiscite campaign. His version of that in- terview is false in general and in particular. 1 had serious misgivings as to the wisdom of my returning, which 1 presented frankly to him and Mr. McClcllan, for 1 had become convinced of the Delegate's sincerity and of his belief in mine. I asked him to advise me, and told him of my strong desire to keep out of the way if my return might work adversely. I le was not emphatic in advising me to go, but in several interviews said he could sec no reason against it. He said for me to go ahead and look after the whites, that we should carry the Hawaiian vote by a very large majority; that I was at liberty to report privately that he was for prohibition, but that he wished to make public announcement in his own way and his own time, and that he would be home by the first of June and rally the Hawaiian voters. He gave it as his opinion that we should surely win; that his wife was even more interested than himself. He gave me a list of Hawaiian men and women to see, and authorized me to quote him as being with me in the movement." Lowell's familiar verses run: "()nce to every man and nation conies the moment to decide. In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side; God's new Messiah, offering each the bloom or blight, Some great cause. And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light." Such an opportunity faced Mr. Kalanianaole. Rarely if ever has such a splendid chance to show himself a true patriot and devoted lover of his race come to a Hawaiian. He might have been hailed as the savior of liis people. If he had redeemed his promise to Congress, had hastened to I lawaii, had appeared side by side with Mr. Woolley. had gone from Island to Island showing the miserable untruth of the liquor dealer's pleas, he could have rallied his people against their bitterest foe. the drink evil. He failed. He suffered the man, who trusted him. to bear the brunt of opprobrium directed against the measure which he himself had secured from Congress, and to be hounded about the city like an enemy of mankind by his own people. The Delegate did not have it in him, that was all. Lit the curtain fall on the pitiable business. The strangest part of it is that this is the man whom the vast majority of Republicans have chosen to be the Territory's delegate to Congress for another term—the majority, I say, for there were 5 THE FRIEND. December, 1910 a few loyal Republicans who could not HAWAII TODAY. vote for him. And now that the nation At the National Council held in Dcs has elected a Democratic House, Providence has exposed the fine irony of the Moines in 1904 it was said that if our situation. THE DAILY BIBLE. The World's Morning Watch is file- name of an establishment at 156 Fifth Avenue, New York, the object of which is to promote the highest interests of the religious life. Religion being defined to be (iod's life in man, that life cannot accomplish anything against the will of the individual. To become dominant in a man that life must be cultivated in his consciousness. This demands time, quiet time. Amid the rush of the modern world and the steady insistence of business, pleasure and social intercourse God is apt to be allowed scant courtesy. To cultivate His friendship some portion of every day should be rigorously set apart and that portion par excellence should be at the very outset of the day when a man's powers are at his best. To call incessant attention to this demand of man's nature and to devise means for helping men realize this privilege and duty is the purpose which the World's Morning Watch has in view. In order to forward this purpose it publishes monthly a little pamphlet called The Daily Bible. In this are arranged tiny sections of Bible selections, one for every day of the month, together with a brief comment. During the early part of 1(>10 Dean Edward I. Bosworth of Oberlin edited the selections and comments. It is needless to say that he did ideal work. I lis brief pointed sentences gave the meat of the passage for the day in a form most suggestive and helpful. He was followed by Rev. F. K. Mathews, who culled his comments with great care. The last months of this year have contained passages from the Psalms rather carelessly selected and ill adapted to the present day man, with comments neither illuminating nor suggestive. With 1911 the Daily Bible will enter upon its eleventh year and will doubtless return to its former standard of excellence. It is upto-date in version, using the American Revision. It puts into the hands of fathers a most excellent medium for family prayers about the breakfast table. For travelers it is invaluable. For men who must do much of their Bible reading on railroad sleepers or other cars it is a boon, and when edited by such a man as Dr. Bosworth it is a delight in the Quiet I lour of any Christian. Costing only fifty cents a year or in clubs of five to separate addresses only forty cents, this little periodical ought soon to reach its ambition. "A magazine with a million readers." mainland churches would adequately back the work in Hawaii, the history of the next twenty years there would read upwards faster than it had downwards the previous few decades. You took us at our word and though you did not do all we asked—no man of vision at once gets everything he prays for—we come to you today with our prophesy more than proporttonately fulfilled. 11VK YKARs' KIX'ORI). In 1904, ten of our 83 churches gave the American Hoard. In 1908, the last year for which I have full figures, 77 (76 per cent) of our 101 churches contributed to foreign missions. Hawaii follows the sensible procedure of combining in one society, called the Hawaiian P.oard, the functions of home missions, church building, Sunday school work and education. With this organization the American Missionary Association cooperates. Our local Hoard expends about $50,000 annually in addition to the grant from the A. M. A. In 1904, 28 of our 83 churches gave to the Hawaiian Board. In 1908, 81 churches (80 per cent) contributed. Last year our church members gave more per capita ($6.15) to this Home Hoard than those of Massachusetts did ($6.05) to Home Missions. We also contribute to the A. M. A. and to the Society for Ministerial Relief. During the five years, 1904-1909, since you began to stand by us the gain in membership in our Island Churches has been 23 8-10 per cent, and in our purely Hawaiian churches. 26 per cent. Last year cent 727 persons or a trifle over 10 of our total membership for the previous year were added on confession, the largest annual gain since 1869. In five years we have reversed the record of forty. This has been achieved through the policy of remanning the field with missionaries from the mainland, inaugurated because of your generous contributions, with men like Dr. Baker of Kona and Mr. Dodge of Maui, sons of Massachusetts, in the lead. Since the Dcs Moines meeting, and under the impulse of advance then received we have had courage to organize our schools in Honolulu into the Mid-Pacific Institute, that now owns 40 acres of land in the choicest section of the city and two magnificent buildings, a total value of over $250,000. in addition to a productive to 'Address delivered before the American Association at the National Council, Boston. Mass.. October 19, 1910, by Rev. Doremus Scudder. •The official returns were, for prohibition 2262, against prohibition 7511, total 9773. Missionary �6 THE FRI EXD endowment of more than $80,000, and with 300 students from a half dozen races. Do you think your partnership with us through the American Missionary Association has paid? If so, go home and tell your churches to give more to the A. M. A. and cheer it on to still larger cooperation with us. For with Russians crowding in upon us we need from you a round $10,000 annually. sistent policy of the Kamehameha sovereigns and suffer liquor to butcher the native races as it is doing was in the nature of a crime. To cheapen the ballot by removing incentives to thrift in its full acquirement and to give over this innocent-hearted people to the tender mercies of grafter and vote buyer was a twin wrong. PROBLEM LAND. Seven years residence in Hawaii has convinced me that the American negro of the future will have cause to look back with gratitude to the action of his Southern white brother in depriving him of the ballot until he should have demonstrated his ability to use and not abuse it. He will esteem it a real service to his race, notwithstanding the manner in which it was done. There is no apology here for that manner. In a democraticelectorate a majority element which is too ignorant or undeveloped or thriftless for self-government is a deadly menace to free institutions. For the great temptation facing the minority in such a community is to control the majority by means which by debauching it shall negative all possibility of character development. The gift of the franchise to the Hawaiian without safeguarding conditions was the crudest present our nation could have handed him. The problem before the Christian citizenship of the Territory is to counteract the effect of this blunder. It is no easy task and it does not seem as though any headway were being made. The dread question is will liquor and its comrade tuberculosis end the Hawaiian before any substantial gain shall have been registered. If Congress had desired to preserve the Hawaiian from extinction it should not only have insured him a just, efficient and economical government, such for example as that under the Republic, but also at the same time have tempted him by the promise of the franchise to develop himself into full American manhood. Hawaii today may well be called Problem Land, but we shoulder our burdens cheerfully in that sunny home of the rainbow. Chief of our responsibilities just now is the Hawaiian voter. We understand what Pres. Woodrow Wilson means when he says: "Self-government is not a thing that can be 'given' to any people, because it is a form of character ami not a form of constitution. Xo people can be 'given' the self control of maturity." Senator Morgan of virile memory knew that, when he served on the Commission to recommend an Organic Act to Congress for the government of our youngest and now only remaining Territory. The South had been taught this lesson by the most drastic experience any section of our nation had ever known. Hence the Alabama Senator as well as his four confreres in the commission favored a franchise for Hawaii based upon thrift as well as intelligence. It would have been well for the Hawaiians if Congress had heeded the advice of these statesmen. What his own chiefs and kings, what Provisional Government and Republic knew that the average native did not possess, power to govern himself, Congress essayed to give him. So without reservation it put the ballot in his hand and made him at once the bone of contention between graft-hating supporters of good government on the one hand and the unscrupulous, liquor dealing, law despising element on the other. There was dearth enough of stimulus in his heredity and of incentive in the mild environment of the subtropics to threaten him with perpetual racial childhood without denying to him the promise of the franchise as soon as possession of the power of self-government should be proven —the mightiest spur to self development that can prick on a man in America to better things. As it is the Hawaiian has become the prey of the unscrupulous and his ballot an incentive to lose what manhood he already has. In the prohibition plebiscite last July some ten thousand votes* were cast, the liquor men securing more than 7000. It cost them, according to the best authority I can find, in the neighborhood of $50,000 to do it. Fancy what that means for those child-men, the Hawaiians. For our nation to reverse the con- THE FRANCHISE AND MANHOOD. ASIA IN HAWAII. There is no time to talk about our Asiatic problem. This is so little dreaded that we should not mind Congress admitting a little more of it from China and Japan. We are busy preparing some ten thousand Asiatics born on our shores to become as good Americans as the second generation of your immigrants here in Boston. I'd like to tell you all about it but Sec. Ryder is worrying now over my 15 minutes. GET TOGETHER. Hawaii today is a blissful center of Christian union. We have learned Pres. Hayes' maxim, "The way to resume is to December, 1910 resume," only we put it, "The way to get together is to get together." Others preach, we practise it. We don't use the word Congregational out there. We don't need to, we have the thing; why bother over a divisive name? We also have the best of Presbyterianism in our l>olity. the fervor of Methodism, the whole Pacific ocean for the Baptist part of us and a number of title-less bishops such as Baker of Hawaii, Dodge of Maui, Lydgate of Kauai, with Archbishop Oleson (also of Massachusetts) at their head, plus the only sort of apostolic succession God or man cares anything about. Xo wonder our churches number all sects including former Confucianists from China, Buddhists from Japan, religious head-hunters for aught I know from the Philippines, Mormons, Romanists, and nearly every stripe of ism known to Dr. Carroll of the Independent. When Bishop Libert, Pius X's Hawaiian representative, loses a church by fire, he knows that the first checks that will come to him unbidden will bear the signatures of our people: when his Protestant Episcopal brother Restarick wants a new parish school building, children of our missionaries head his subscription list: when the Methodist Episcojxxs—l can't give you his kaleidoscopic name because he changes every year or two— plans a $35,000 church for Honolulu, he is sure of nearly half coming from our union loving people. O, the way to have union is to have it, not debate it to death as you did in Cleveland three years ago. Xext time you want to celebrate me banns between Congregational and other ists, fix the marriage ceremony at Honolulu. The sweetness of the atmosphere out there, spiritual as well as physical, will insure a June wedding. CARNEGIB I-I'NDERS. Hawaii today needs perhaps more than anything else families from mainland America. Six years ago we asked for money and sympathy. You gave both and today I have rendered a brief account thereof. Try us again, this time witli Christian homes. There are literally thousands of mainland families to whom residence in Hawaii would be the greatest of all earthly boons, families that have secured enough of this world's goods to make struggle for a living no longer necessary, and are spoiling for the opportunity of larger influence, families to whom our northern winters are a dread. Hawaii needs this type of Carnegie funder. Xo garden spot on earth is so alluring to men and women with time and money enough to take up a little plot of land and lend a hand in developing the rare products with which Hawaii is destined to bless America. Each such home �standing for the best in Americanism would form a center of light and of social salvation for Hawaiian families round about, to say nothing of influencing directly far away Asia or of incidentally prolonging for a decade or two its own efficient life. Here is a call for a new variety of twentieth century missionary. 7 THE FRIEXD December, 1910. «. THE WONDERFUL WIZARD SEA. ' the slow-rolling, hearted sea! Oh, 1. My home was by the wonderful wizard sea. Listening to the lashing sea. Swimming: In the splashing sea. I floated down the years of childhood dream- low-moaning, sad- Hiding storms that are soon to arise; the wrath of their passion pulse For smites Through the heart of the lies. ing. Scanning the world In Its mystic seeming, Floating on the flashing sea. Borne upon the dashing sea. sea. as lt heaving Oh the flerce-dashlng. high-mounting, stormdriven sea! Creaking its billows on the rock-ribbed THE PACIFIC CHRISTIAN GIBRALTAR. dreamI drifted down the years of childhood coast. ing. Lifting itself against the wild boast Hawaii should become the great ChrisOf the lofty mountains. Each wave as lt dies tian Gibraltar of the Pacific World. It Tears off a few grains and strews them 2. will if enough Americans help to make it abroad swarming to with sea, such. "Bah, five and a half days out the wonderful Oh, On the sands of the somber sea; things, sea" you say. Yes, just now but such a Each urging the same earnest plea; Fancy fishes with their finny wings, summer sea with steamships growing Each breaking its heart in passionate cries. Slugs in their slime, and sand-screws more palatial every year. Tomorrow we with their stings; 7. may wake to find the new aerial service All in the wizard sea, where I waded, fully established, bringing Hawaii within twenty or thirty hours of San Francisco. In accordance with God's just laws, silently but surely, out in the great ocean a community is growing, virile, kindly, more human than elsewhere on earth, with a finer, more practical conception of inter-racial brotherhood than any known here on the mainland. That community some day will knock at the door of Congress and notwithstanding the Outlook's horror of the outcome will be admitted among the sovereign states of the Union, because her high character will command it. This ambition characterizes the Hawaii of today, but she has no wish to make undue haste towards her manifest destiny. The character of a community already admitted to the status of a Territory of the American Union should be the supreme consideration in the question of its right to share the privilege and responsibility of statehood. We mean to develop the character that will earn this right and we want a few thousands of the best Christian families of the mainland to come and help us in this high enD. S. deavor. When the flowing crystal tides invaded, In their whirling eddies; waded. From the early morning; waded. Till the light of day in darkness faded. 3. Oh, the wonderful sea! full of things that are She gave the proud mountains their mantles of green; The pleasant hills, their laughing rills, change (That all run to the sea, though the sea His visage, as the actor changes his plaint; never fills), as screen, a The cuttle-flsh. pouring forth Ink She opens their fountains, that none of them A blinding blast that is blown dries. In the eyes of the merciless drone, Her bosom is heaving with anguish unseen; That would seize him, and kill him, or brand And her swelling, passionate heart, how him unclean; > It breaks The fairy, finny beauty, hiding her splendor O'er the heights of the barren cliffs; how In the coral groves of the reef; it shakes And the wary assassin and thief. The bed-rock of the couch where her sleeping Lurking beside those groves for meat that son lies. is tender. For the sea Is the home of the strange And the wierd;—the squid that can JOHN T. QULICK. 4. day, too. We have no fear but that the "Siloam" Church at Kalaupapa will be gladdened as heretofore by the overflow of Christian cheer from Honolulu. Jl — Oh, the wonderful sea! with treasures filled: To work; to help and be helped; to learn With pearls that lie hid in the hearts sympathy through suffering; to learn faith Of the clams, in the quiet parts Of the sea; in the coral fields that are never by perplexity; to reach truth through wontilled; der—behold! this Is what It is to prosper, With sponges as soft as the silken down this Is what it is to live.—Phillips Brooks. the borne on seed, wind, Of thistle the (Though they rest In their coral beds Jl pinned). the gems of a The sovereign cure for worry is religious faith. The Buddhists' prescription, which is not ineffectual, says, "To get rid of worry you must destroy the desire to live, and the goal of all being is Nirvana. It means absolute acquiescence; the end of worry be5. cause the end of life." Chrlstianlay, aspiring higher, says,"The great need is not less, but Oh, the light-hearted, merry-making sea! Rippling and dimpling on the sandy more abundant life. Worry is something shore. that may be transcended, and the power by As it rises and sinks on the shifting which you transcend it is trust in God and floor Keeping time evermore with the pulse of the the service of man." crown. The distinctive thing about this notice in The Friend from year to year is the difference in dates. This year your gifts (preferably money) should be at the Board Rooms before Saturday, Dec. 17. Our boxes should go the following Monday. Our lady buyers will need time previous to Satur- deep sighs. quaint; There, colors as bright as CHRISTMAS AT THE LEPER SETTLEMENT. For the long-suffering sea is a warm-hearted queen; And the Islands are children once born of her pain. She gave them their life; she fed them with rain; When forgotten by these, she Is rent with Adorn the multiform shells of the fountains, In the reefy arcades of the sea. Where the beautiful cowries roam free, As the squirrels are free on the cloud-laden mountains. deep. J* Oh, the quick-footed, gay-dancing, laughing sea! When you miss a car, do not say, "There Swiftly turning, and tossing its spray, goes my car!" but rather "The next car is Where the sand-hoppers love to play. And the crabs their threatening vigils keep. mine." It is better for your health to take it Oh, the soft-swelling, low-murmuring, slum- philosophically. bering sea. Rolling and folding, in Its glassy bed. "Anyone can stand what he likes; it takes Too languid to lift Its somnolent head, Too contented-to wake from its dream-laden a philosopher to stand what he does not s sleep. like." �8 December, 1910 THE FRIEND Men Working for Men PAUL SUPER "The Million Dollar Day White House." at the The following taken from "Association Men," is an account of what has been called the most unique and significant Christian conference of recent years: On Invitation of President Taft Two Hundred People Assemble at the White House to Consider Extension of the Foreign Work—An Appeal for $1,500,000 Made for Association Buildings In Forty-nine Cities—Nearly $1,000,000 Pledged—Most Significant Day in Association History. It took nearly sixty years to make possible this day in the history of the Young Those Men's Christian Association. years, with their toil, their devotion, their tips and downs, were well spent to bring about this historic culmination—a day which Mr. Morse called "the whitest day in the record of the Association." There was something audacious in the idea of calling a conference in the interests and welfare of the young men of the Orient and of Latin America to be held in the White House, the official home of the President of the United States. It would not have been done, probably, but for the fact that a man occupied that national home as the honored and trusted tenant of the American people who had become convinced, during a long official residence in the East, and by personal knowledge of other countries, that the work of the Young Men's Christian Association was an essential factor in building on safe and enduring foundations the new life coming to these people. Who Came ? The attendance embraced more than more character, coming from all sections of the United States and of Canada. The conference was under the auspices of the foreign work committee of the International Committee, of which John R. Mott is the secretary, who personally conducted the program. The conference lasted for six hours, the two sessions divided by a lunch at the Willard Hotel. It may be invidious to give special names, but such persons as John Wanamaker, Gen. John W. Foster; George W. Perkins, Bishop Roots, of China; Bishop Nelson, of Georgia; Gen. Leonard Wood, Chief of Staff of the Army; Dr. Harrada, President of the Doshisha; Helen Miller two hundred men, with a dozen or women, of the most representative Gould, and others, made this conference as remarkable in its personnel as it was unique in conception and memorable in result. The conference was called to order by Hon. H. B. F. Macfarland, who referred to the gathering in the historic East Room as the only one ever held in the White House the object of which looked beyond the limits of the United States, to consider the welfare of all mankind. Mr. Mott gave a survey of world conditions and a statement of the imperative need on the part of non-Christian nations for the essential principles of Christian civilization. He gave this with the authority growing out of his wide travel and observation during the past five years. Mr. Mott emphasized the urgency of the imperative obligation upon America, the leading Christian nation of the world. The nations now in flux were rapidly crystallizing, and it was a question whether they would set in a Christian mold or would be allowed to set in a nonChristian mold. Mr. Taft Speaks. While Mr. Mott was speaking the President entered the room, the audience rising and greeting him with prolonged applause of the heartiest character. The President returned to Washington only this morning. He showed evident relish in being the personal and official host of the conference. When the applause subsided the President insisted upon Mr. Mott finishing his address, to which he listened with closest attention. On rising to speak the President received another expression of good will and respect. Opening with a tactful allusion to his action in welcoming to the White House such a gathering, he said the principle at the bottom of all the work of the Association was, that it was the duty of one people to pass on to other peoples the best they had that made for higher and better national life. The Constitution and the proprieties of governmental action might and did put limitations upon official conduct between nations; but in the work of the Young Men's Christian Association there were no limitations. The President stated strongly how, upon the basis of trade merely, the theory and practice had been for nations to make out of each other as much as possible; and in certain phases of commerce it had been an effort to get something for what might well be called worse than nothing. The commerce in which such agencies as the Association is engaged was something entirely different, and its work commanded his cordial and emphatic approval. Then came a rapid survey of the principal countries. President Harada, of the Doshisha, Mr. Wang, a Chinese student, and national secretaries gave brief addresses, followed by an endorsement from Major-General Leonard Wood of the work of the Association as he had seen it in Havana, in Manila, in the coast cities of China and Japan, and lastly in Montevideo and Buenos Aires, he having but recently returned from an official trip to South America. The Appeal. Mr. Mott then opened what may be called the more practical part of the conference. Three characteristics mark the policy of the Young Men's Christian Association the placing of experts in charge of the work, as had been demonstrated by the men whose reports had been heard; wise and close supervision, both in the field and from the home office; and the provision of suitable buildings and facilities. The Association had great memories in the past, but it had immeasurable opportunities in the future which must be provided for. The foreign department, after careful deliberation, the plans having been gone over by men with the largest wisdom and experience both in this country and in Europe, had determined that there must be sent out during the next three years fifty secretarial workers, the expense for whom would be Forty-nine two thousand dollars each. buildings must be provided, the aggregate cost of which would be $1,515,000. Twelve of the proposed buildings are for students. : The Response. Mr. John Ross, of Montreal, told how the city had raised $700,000 for new buildings: but they had agreed to contribute 5 per cent of the amount they were to expend for themselves, and guaranteed $40,000 for the foreign work. Other reports came in quick succession, interspersed with brief addresses, and the reading of telegrams from William Jennings Bryan and ex-Vice-President Fairbanks expressing their favorable verdict upon Association work as they had seen it in their tours around the world. Hon. John Wanamaker said no man who had ever put one dollar into Association work would take five dollars for the investment. In earnest words he pleaded for larger things than the committee had planned. "America cannot go slow in �December, 1910 Association work ; the pace must be measured by the call of the work." He told of his last interview in Paris with Sir George Williams, who sent by him to his American brethren the message: "Tell them to love one another, to be sweet, to keep together and to fight." On leaving the room Mr. Wanamaker sent word to Mr. Mott that when he had finished with the Peking building, about to be erected (the fifth he has given), he would take another in China. Mr. Hugh Kennedy announced that the Uuffalo delegation, after raising $290,000 for extension work and having proposed to do no more, would take over two of the new buildings. Mr. Rockefeller Pledges $540,000. At this point Mr. Mott stated that John D. Rockefeller would give $540,000 on condition that a like amount was given otherwise. In making this announcement Mr. Mott said that he regarded Mr. Rockefeller as one of the most discriminating and broad-minded givers in the world, and that if an object did not commend itself to his judgment as worthy of support he was pretty sure there was something wrong in the object. "No man is giving more painstaking attention to the investment of his surplus in philanthropy and education." Mr. Mott read a remarkable letter from Mr. James Stokes offering $50,000 for a building in Moscow, if a like amount could be secured, and it was pledged by one gentleman right there. Dumont Clarke, Jr., a Princeton College man. who had spent one year in India, pledged a building for Bangalore. S. W. Woodward, of Washington, in memory of \ erling Helm, agreed to pat up a memorial building in Kobe, to cost $35,000. Mr. John Penman, of Ontario, Canada, chairman of the Provincial Committee, was announced as having offered $50,000 for a building at Hankow, China, just as Bishop Roots took his seat, after describing how, eight years ago, he had made a plea for a building for that city. Other gifts were announced, among them one by Mrs. Meade for $5,000, and other addresses made, by George W. Perkins, of New York; Mr. R. S. Miller, of the State Department; Hon. John P»arrett, director of the Pan-American Bureau; Professor Ilurton, of the Chicago I'niversity; Hon. John W. Foster, and by Silas Mcßee. the latter being a prophecy of the Christian unity which must come by virtue of the unified service of the Young Men's Christian Association, which was, after all. the Church at work. A resolution offered by Mr. Ross, and to which these addresses were seconds, that in the judgment of the conference the 9 THE FRIEND. plan of the foreign commitee was feasible and reasonable, was unanimously adopted. A brief concluding address was made by Mr. Alfred E. Marling. CHEER GIVING STATISTICS The Bureau of the Census has published during the year two volumes that deal with the religious bodies of continental United States. These volumes are the result of the numbering of the people in reference to their religious affiliations. They give the statistics and a brief account of the history, faith, polity and work of all the religious organizations or churches, Christian or non-Christian that existed in the land in the year 1906. This account of the religious life of the nation is impressive and suggestive. It makes clear two points. 1. The large place of religion in the life of the nation. There were 212,230 churches or religious bodies counted; 210,418 of these made reports and the statistics given arc taken from their reports. These nm%\ property in houses of worship (192,795) valued at more than a billion dollars ($1,257,757,867). There is an army, in itself, of leaders of these churches consisting of 161,628 clergymen or religious teachers. And the great host of those who are so closely interested in religion as to be identified with these organizations as members, counts up to a grand total of 32,936,446. In other terms nearly two of every five of the estimated population of that year were members of these churches and of religious bodies. Of this grand total 20,287,742, or 61.6 per cent, were reported as members of Protestant churches, and 12,079,142, or 36.7 per cent of the Catholic Church Impressive also are the figures relating to the Sunday schools. There were 192,-722 of them in all. They had 1,786,074 officers and teachers, and the scholars were 15,337,811. As these scholars were largely children it appears that there are large numbers being trained for future membership of the churches. No figures can express the extent or strength of Christian sentiments and principles in the nation. Many people are governed by Christian sentiments and principles who are not connected as members of Christian churches, but when so many people are counted in the membership of the churches it gives ground for hope. Religion in its Christian form is a large and mighty influence in the land. 2. The increasing place of religion in the life of the nation. When we compare the statistics of 1906 with those of 1890-the comparison . is made in these volumes—we are impressed with the increase of religion in the land. There is increase in the number of religious organizations, of members, of clergy, of houses of worship and value of property. The growth of religious organization is from 165,151 to 212,230; of membership, from 20,597,954 to 32,936,445. The Protestant churches have increased from 14,007,187 in 1890 to 20,257,742 in I(X>6; the Catholic Church from 6.241,708 to 12,079,142, in the same time. The remarkable increase of the Catholic Church in sixteen years is largely due to the fact that during these years the nation received more than nine millions of immigrants, most of whom were Catholics. In 1890 32.7 per cent of the population were members of Christian churches; in 1906, 39.1 of the (estimated) population a gain of 6.4 per cent. There were six states and territories in which at least 50 per cent of the population were church members, and there were twelve more in which the proportion was between 40 and 50 per cent. These statistics show, as far as mere figures can do so, that Christianity has a large place in the life of the nation and a growing place. It would be bad if Christianity were at a standstill, and it would be worse if it were losing ground, but the story these statistics, which have been gathered with so much care, tells us is not of< arrested development or decay, but the cheering story of vigor and growth. COLLINS G. BURNHAM. A NEW JAPANESE CHURCH. On Sunday, December 4, the Japanese of Kakaako came into the fruitage of five years of patient labor ig a diXficult field, and had the pleasure of being organized into the Japanese Church of Kakaako. with 25 members. They have a fine Sunday school of about 100 members. The acting pastor is Mr. T. Kajiro, under whose faithful work the present organization has been built up. RESPONSIBLE For those Japanese Servants? More than we think, perhaps. Let them read a Christian paper in their own tongue. It is THE TOMO. 50c. a year �THE FRIEND 10 Educational Advance F. W. DAMON EDUCATION AND DEMOCRACY. Recent events in Portugal are directing attention to many phases of national life. While civil and political matters come in for the largest share of attention, yet the influence of education on national welfare is quite as great in the long run as politics or civic affairs. As a general rule any ]>eople will live peacefully and happily if they live well and under such circumstances the kind of government that promotes the well-being of the industrial classes will be supported. There is, also, close co-relation between the well being of a people and a system of education that includes all classes of people and all activities by which the people earn their living. In this characteristic, the United States differs from other nations. Democracy in education is in keeping with democracy in politics and civic affairs. The spread of demcoracy throughout the world is one of the striking features of the present times. While in some instances the forms of government have not changed as in England, Germany and other parts of Europe, yet in recent years there has been remarkable change in the sentiments of the people towards the freedom of expression and the distribution of knowledge. Russia, China and India, comprising one-half of the world's population, are now at the portals of a new freedom. It is happy to note that the means by which these changes have been brought about have been most largely through agitation, education and constitutional methods. The question has been raised, however, as to whether the highest standards of education and scholarship can be attained in a democracy like our own. It has been asserted that democracy and scholarship are incompatible, that culture can not be fostered in a country or commonwealth where materialism, commercialism and the demand for the practical are manifested on every hand. The charge that scholarship has not developed in the United States as in some countries of Europe is true, and it is also true that scholarship is not always set at its intrinsic value to the community and the state. But this is a passing phase of our civilization. In the United States men have been busy with the economic affairs incident to the development of a new country. Up to the present time new lands had to be occupied, new lines of transportation built, and new implements of industry developed in order to meet the demands of a population growing in numbers, economic needs and wealth. Hut we are now face to face with a new era of development, that of building upon the foundations laid; and in order to consummate the scheme our democracy is reaching out and taking possession of all activities and stages in education. Scholarship is no longer allied with aristocracy. The past decade in this country has witnessed a remarkable correlation between the work of the scholar and the bread and butter affairs of life. It can be easily shown that the support of education in all of its phases by the state is one of the best investments that the state can make. This is not only demonstrable in the character of citizenship but also in the increased earning power of all citizens and the results in all lines of production and commerce. In order to emphasize this argument an instance from the great industry of crop and animal production may be mentioned. Since \UD our population has increased about 100 per cent, our area under cultivation has increased 100 per cent, but our production of cereals has increased 300 per cent. Notwithstanding this great increase in production per capita and per unit of area, agriculture has during the same period spared 11 per cent of its workers for the benefit of the trade, transportation and manufacturing industries. The cost of the education by which these results have been brought about is merely nominal compared with the great gain in welfare to the whole, people. there is a need for its judicious and raeducation in the scheme of democracy but There is not only a place for higher tional support. No race or people can make progress without leaders, and in order that this leadership may be always in the interests of the democracy it is important that the state should provide for their training. In the absence of trained and judicious leaders, we sometimes have to witness the contemptible spectacle of the "boss." But the boss can not always retain his leadership; intelligence will drive him out. In the second place, a democratic system of education promotes industrial opportunity and prosperity; and it tends to prevent the accumulation of wealth and power by the few. In the last analysis the state will find its most lasting safety and welfare in providing an educational system that will reach all the people and increase both their skill and knowledge in the activities of life. Under such conditions the existence of false leadership and corrupt practices can only be short lived. It is frequently asserted that a publicly supported system of education, whether December. 1910 graded schools or universities, ought to be more concerned with those studies which are likely to contribute directly towards the earning of a living rather than those which have no immediate connection with the obtaining of the necessities of life. The continued success of our form of government and our state of society not only permits but requires devotion to the pursuit of abstract sciences, and the cultivation of the imagination a-; well as to those more concrete subjects which minister to the direct benefit of either the individual, the class or the community. It is commendable to study out how to make two blades of grass grow where one grew before, or how to improve our soil so that the product of the acres shall continue to feed the multitude of our growing cities, and how to harness the forces of nature to complicated machinery so that sufficient food and clothing may be put within the reach of all. But what shall we say to justify the expenditure of public money and the bestowal of public interest for the abstract subjects of history, philosophy, mathematics and literature, or in our elementary schools of the traditional "3 r's.'' In the opinion of many these subjects are often considered as of little or no use but that there is no necessary conflict in the needs of our state and society, between the two groups of studies that we have mentioned. It is not easy to state which is the more important; those subjects which promote the material welfare of the people or those which create and uplift their spiritual and intellectual ideals. In the long run, and for the great mass of people, the one group is quite as important as the other, and those who are constantly advocating the introduction of industrial and vocational subjects into the curriculum at the expense of thorough drilling of the fundamental subjects of reading, writing, mathematics and the fundamental sciences, should take npte of the fact that if it had not been for people who have sat quietly and studied the conic sections or to those who have given their lives to the study of astronomy and the relations of our earth to the heavenly bodies, there might today be no commerce over the seas; and, if there had not been those who have quietly studied the laws of gravitation and moving bodies and the elastic properties of gases and vapors there might today be no steam engines or so far as we can judge, motors of any kind that in our modern lives are so essential that we scarcely ever think of the principles of study that underlie their existence. The immediate application of these thoughts is that in a democratic society like our own there is necessity for a system of education that will reach all the �11 THE FRIEND December, 1910. people of all ages and with the information that will fit them for the largest measure of usefulness of which each individual is capable. Education and enlightenment are not antagonistic to industry. If all men live most men must work and the fault of our system is still apparent that we are teaching children in accordance with a pedagogic creed rather than for individual needs and usefulness. JOHN' W. GILMORE. A fly and a flea in a flue Were imprisoned. Now what could they do? Said the fly, "Let us flee!" "Let us fly!" said the Ilea So they flew through a flaw in the flue. — A little more and we could raise men; for Corn has ears. Potatoes have eyes. Cabbages have heads. Squashes have necks. Cucumbers have warts. Celery has a heart. Wheat has a beard. Grapes have skin. —Puck. BOOK REVIEWS The Story of the American Board. A book of especial interest to the people of Hawaii. No student of world movements can well afford to neglect the story of a movement which has just reached its one hundredth birthday, having increased its activity each year until the record of its centennial year represents an outlay just 1000 fold greater than the outlay of the first. "On its pages breathes the romance of the great adventure; figures of heroic men and women appear in quick succession. Great crises on these battlefields of the Kingdom and the daily round of life at a single station are both pictured. The progress of the organization at home and abroad, so set forth, is the record of an unfolding life: it has the charm of personal history. The book is enriched with numerous illustrations of historical interest ; and with a series of new and specially prepared colored maps, portraying both the field as a whole and the several missions." The book contains special chapters on "Transforming the Sandwich Islands," and "Some of the American Board Ships" and frequently refers to matters of local interest to the people of Hawaii, while linking us with the world-wide move- of the American Board in China, Japan, India, Turkey, Spain, Austria, Africa, Mexico, Micronesia and the Philippines. ment THE CANDY STANDS AGAIN. In the October Friend attention was called to the baleful influences exerted by the candy push carts which encamp around the various city schools. We have been requested to refer again to the subject, especially because of the disregard of sanitary precautions on the part of these street vendors. Notice, for example, the way the glasses in which soda water has been served are dipped into a pail of dirty water which has done service for the best part of a busy day, and are then wiped off with a rag which is still more offensively unclean. Parents who are alarmed over the dangers to their children from infantile paralysis and other diseases will do well to caution them against patronizing the candy stand. j •- V AT Zjr>, I old u«JTB JTMm. f IV--' f * 2s**%£& JL*zi f B Ik SO / Ii «. nsliatov*Tf\ru©r. \ ■ I rrc£\ I - I 3 Cunos Cnores �December, 1910 THE FRIEND 12 pie have learned to get up and give a word of personal testimony or make remarks on the topic of the evening. A new interest has been taken in the three mission meetings for which the society is resjxmsible each month. So, from every viewpoint, the campaign has been a great success and will leave the society a great deal stronger and more effective than it has been for years. Travalog"*. Central Union News A. A. EBERSOLE Doctor Scudder has begun a scries of Travel Talks at the Sunday evening services, which arc attracting a great deal of attention and bringing out much larger audiences than are usually in attendance at the evening service. In these talks Dr. Scudder not only gives vivid descriptions of the scenes and peoples which he and Mrs. Scudder visited on their five months' tour abroad this summer, but each evening draws some most helpful lesson from his observations. The three addresses given thus far were on 1. "Going Abroad." 2. "Where the Broad Atlantic Smiles." Increase Campaign. 3. " 'Neath the Grim Shade of Death." Our Christian Endeavor Society is just In the first address he spoke not of completing a very successful increase "When to go abroad" or "Where to go." campaign. Early in September the so- oi "what preparations are necessary," ciety was divided into three equal sections and a twelve week's triangular contest was begun, to see which section would score the largest number of points for all round work during that time. Each section chose a section leader who would be primarily responsible for the work of that section, and to report each week to the secretary of the society the points earned during that week. The following items were counted in making up the points: 1. Number in attendance at Endeavor Meeting. 2. Number who took part in the meeting. 3. Number remaining to evening church service. 4. Number attending mid-week church service. 5. Number attending mission meeting of society. 6. Number of new members secured. Twenty-six new members have been added since the campaign began, the attendance at the meetings has almost doubled, and the meetings have been the brightest, breeziest, snappiest meetings it has ever been our privilege to attend. Often as many as thirty would take part in some form or other during the hour. An increasing number of the young peo- but of the great importance of everyone seeing as much of this world and the people in it as he can. The desire to know and to see is a God-given instinct and should be heeded by all. Only so can we come into intelligent sympathy with other peoples and experience in any vital way universal brotherhood. The second address proved to be more of a description of "grim Gibraltar" than of the "broad and smiling Atlantic," and gave Dr. Scudder opportunity to voice an emphatic protest once again against any such complete fortification and militarization of this our own fair island as to make it, what some have already been pleased to call it, "The Gibraltar of the Pacific." On the third evening he took the congregation with him into the shadow of the ever-threatening Vesuvius, into Naples and about the Hay of Naples, and over the excavation of ancient Pompeii and Herculaneum. The persistence of the people continuing to live where destruction always hangs over them and in building homes and city on the very spot where former homes and cities lie buried, teach us, as hardly anything else could do, the supremacy of life over death. Man never despairs. Life mounts up and builds as fast as death destroys. To all who have traveled in these countries, and to those of us who hope to do so some day these travel talks are certainly most fascinating and interesting. Bible Study Groups. With the return of Dr. Scudder, the assistant minister, relieved of pulpit and pastoral duty, resumed his Bible teaching. The Sunday morning class, conducted under the auspices of the Men's league in the church parlor, is taking up this year "The Social Teachings of Jesus," following in the main "The Principles of Jesus Applied to Present Day Life." but using also Jenk's "The Social Significance of the Teachings of Jesus," Shailer Matthews' "The Social Teachings of Jesus," IVabody's "Jesus Christ and the Social Question," and Rauschcnbush's "Christianity and the Social Crisis." The class already has an enrollment of over thirty, and every Sunday sees some new faces. The discussions of what Jesus has to say and what his attitude was on the various social problems of his time are proving quite as interesting and suggestive as the more distinctly religious questions which occupied our attention in this class last year. Such questions as the following are being studied: 1. Jesus' General Attitude to Society. 2. Jesus' Ideal Society—The social order which he foresaw and for which he worked. 3. Was Jesus a Socialist? 4. Jesus' Teachings on The Family — involving a study of his attitude to marriage, divorce, woman and the child. 5. Jesus' Teaching in regard to The Shite, involving his attitude on such questions as observance of law, non-resistance, war and international relations. 6. Jesus' Teachings regarding Wealth, Care of the Poor. Crime and Treatment of Criminals. 7. Jesus' Teachings concerning the Industrial Order, Capital and Labor, the (iolden Rule in Business, etc. Every Tuesday evening the assistant minister presides at the meeting of "The Religious Question Club" recently organized at the Y. M. C. A. This is an organization of a group of young men that meets every Tuesday evening at 7:30 for an hour's discussion of such questions as : What is Religion? Can we know God? I )ocs it do any good to Pray ? Why is it so easy to Sin ? What do we mean by forgiveness? Was Jesus Divine? Is man Immortal? �13 THE FRIEND December, 1910 What is Heaven like? Is there a Hell? Will there be a Judgment Day? How did we get our Bible, etc. The meetings thus far held show conclusively that there is a demand for just such a frank treatment of these fundamental religious questions in which all men are interested. It may be that more will be accomplished in the religious life of these men in this way than a more formal Bible study would do. Of course, in all these discussions the Bible is the chief text book. LETTER FROM GUAM. October 25, 1910. Dear Friends and Brothers: —We are sorely in need here, in our mission church work, and thought as you were acquainted with Jose Cristino, who is one of our church deacons, we would send a letter to you and to many pastors and churches in the states. We are sending out a general call for help in the way of finances and money and reading matter for our Sunday school children. Do you not feel as if you would like to have a part in this fund or offering to help defray our expenses? If so, would you kindly put this before your church board or have a special offering taken for us. We are planning some Christmas work, and everything must come from the States and individuals whose hearts are in the work of bringing the heathen into the light of knowledge and the true faith of Jesus Christ. It being only a few days now before the transport arrives, and we have many of these letters to write, we are not able to go into details as much as we would like to to show you the situation. I am sure if you could call on us and investigate our work here, you would not hesitate to help us. God will bless you. is my earnest prayer, and your work and church.—Yours in his service. Notes From the Field FRANK S. SCUDDER <<7»oday is your say and mint, the only V day we hapr. the day lit which wt play ear part. What ear part may »ignify ia the great whole, we aay not aadmtaad, but we art here to play It and now Is the tint. this wt know, it Is a part of actio, not ot whining. It Is a part of love, set cynicism, it is for as to tipress low ia itrau of hiimaa htlpftlacss." The Opening of the Mid-Pacific Institute. The formal launching of the MidPacific Institute with full sail spread out to the Manoa breezes called together a large company of enthusiastic spectators on Saturday, November 26. It was an occasion distinguished for original features that probably could not be rivaled in any part of the world, for here in Hawaii is found a conspicuous variety in nationalities, a remarkable generosity in behalf of the education and religious culture of these various nationalities, and a faithful attempt to bring all into one homogeneous people. The MidPacic Institute was conceived and born and brought to the magnificent development it has now reached through the inspiration of Hawaii's opportunity for rendering this high service to the world and through faith in the essential oneness and brotherhood of all mankind. The exercises were held in the newly completed Mills School, which has twice the capacity of the building erected three years ago—the Kawaiahao Girls' School —and is built of the same beautiful mossgrown lava rock. From two o'clock in the afternoon visitors began to throng the building, praising the architecture, the superb view and the fine accommodations, and enjoying the hearty social intercourse, while the arches echoed with the music of the Hawaiian Band. ji "I feel It a very great privilege," said he, "to welcome you to this new home of Mills From small beginnings we are Institute. now hopefully launched, and I am gratified to see so many of our friends here today to see the result of their support in the work which we have been planning to do. I am pleased furthermore to see so many active workers and supporters of the institute from numerous races, all working together for the advancement of the brotherhood of man. With united action, the Mid-Pacific Institute is becoming stronger and stronger and surely God's blessing Is upon us." Thanksgiving Service. A Thanksgiving service was then enacted by the students of the institute, led by Miss M. E. Bosher, principal of Kawaiahao Seminary, after which the audience arose and joined with them in singing the Doxology. "The Significance of the Institute to the Territory and the World" was the subject of the address of Rev. Doremus Scudder, D. D. He said in his opening remarks that this was quite a weighty subject to deal with in the four minutes which had been allotted to him. "President Damon is used to doing big things in a short time," said he, "and I will have to try to keep up with his pace. He has done wonders In the past three or four years, as will be seen from the development of this Institute, these handsome buildings and the them. fifty-seven acres surrounding - Hawaii an Object Lesson. "Ood has created and ordained Hawaii to be an object lesson of twentieth century the West. Here the children of many races are trained and educated to become loyal Americans. Here the boys and girls of various nationalities study and work on terms of absolute equality and this Institute offers a grand friendship between the East and opportunity for cementing the friendship of the naUons of the Pacific." The speaker hoped that all the children, of whatever nationality, would become true and loyal American citizens, but that they could still remember with love the countries from which they or their parents came. He commended the institute upon the work of drawing together the peoples of the Pacific, which meant so much for the future peace of the nations bordering upon this ocean. Fred E. Osbornk. The dedicatory exercises took place at Pastor of the Mission Church. four o'clock in the auditorium, which has Care of U. S. Naval Station, Guam. a seating capacity of about 1,000. President Francis W. Damon delivered the address of welcome, in which he OMISSION. dwelt upon the growth of the Institute his appreciation of the generous asand lhe Story of Ihe American Board, sistance given by the Hawaiian Board Principal Arthur M. Merrill then rose, by William E. Strong, Reviewed on page greeted by hearty applause, and spoke on v, is published by The Pilgrim Press, "Mills School. Past. Present and Future." Boston, price $1.75 net. I)k. �December, 1910 THE FRIEND 14 Paid. With patience, indefatigable work and lundry $4,236.11 firms Merrill has accomsplendid tact Mr. l,250.0i lalance to this account plished the difficult feat of* amalgamating Chinese, Japthe several boys' schools, $5,486.11 anese and Korean, with large numbers of In concluding the exercises Mr. other boys into one harmonious whole, manner voiced and he is indeed to be congratulated, not Damon in a very happy for the gifts and enthe of all gratitude success, but upon only for his complete who aided this of those had the maintenance of an undiminished couragement said that while silence had and project, popularity. been enjoined upon him, he could not but The students of Kawaiahao Girls' break through the bars and speak of the School rendered a "Humming Chorus," one who had stood by the enterprise from which was highly appreciated as one of the beginning, and by his princely gifts the delightful features of the afternoon. made this day possible—Mr. George No one present will forget the Lin- hadWilcox, whose name would forever be N. guistic Quartet, or rather Fugue, for the enshrined in the life of the Mid-Pacific four parts were rendered separately, but Institute, and in the hearts of its students. the music was one—the music of BrotherMr. Damon referred to a still further hood. The words were unintelligible to generous gift received within the past some, but the harmony was enjoyed by Mr. Wilcox which makes all, Rev. T. Okumura took up the first few days from to look ahead to new and larger it possible part. "Our Japanese Students," then Mr. which, in the near future it was Tse Xi I'en, "Our Chinese Students." plans might be realized, and by which hoped Rev. ['. S. Kirn followed on "Our Kopupils housed in cottages and younger rean Students," and Rev. (). H. Gulick under the care of competent house came in for the double bass, speaking in fathers and mothers, would be able to enon both Knglish and Hawaiian the subthis educational of advantages the joy ject, "Our Hawaiian and other Students." centre. Already a tine tract of land has The Mills School students gave a spiradded to the campus looking to this ited rendering of the thought "God of been result. the Nations," to the music of the Anvil Then followed a dedicatory prayer by Chorus from "II Trovatore," which was Rev. W. Wadman, D. D., the Institute followed by this statement by Treasurer Hymn, "We've a Story to Tell to the Theodore Richards: Nations," by the students, and the beneSCHOOL FUND. diction by Rev. H. K. Poepoe. BUILDING BOYS' . Received. B. N. Wilcox Interest on above am't to June 30 Mrs. M. 8. Rice Mrs. Msry Foster Mrs. B. M. Allen Interest on gift of Mr. and Mrs. O. H. Gullck, afterwards transferred to '•Furnishings" »115,000.00 2,285.35 600.00 COMMENDED FOR THEIR GOOD SENSE. 250.00 5,000.00 The American Board, during its first century of activities, has sent forth 2572 missionaries, 571 of whom are now on its rolls. There are now connected with it 584 churches, with 73,671 enrolled communicants, and in its 1,483 schools of all grades there are 70.M70 pupils. The receipts for the first year were less than $1000, and for the last year nearly $%0,- -000. sonic The second century ought to see eye-opening results. DEATH OF REV. EL C. OGGEL. Tidings come to hand of the call to the higher life of Rev. Fngelbert Christian Oggel, D. 1)., on November 6 last, aged 69 ycais, who, from his former services in this city and the friendships formed is entitled to more than passing notice. Rev. Mr. Oggel succeeded the Rev. Dr. S. C. Damon as pastor of the Bethel Union Church in 1884, and .served faithfully and acceptably till the movement for uniting with the then Fort Street Church was mooted, whereupon he resigned. Together with Rev. J. A. Cruzan they also succeeded Dr. Damon in the editorship and publishing of The Friend in 1885, materially enlarging it for new added features. Mr. Cruzan relinquished his interest at the close of the year while Mr. Oggel continued its editorship till his departure from the islands in the fall of 1887, when he was succeeded by Rev. S E. Bishop. It was during Mr. Oggel's pastorate that the old Bethel Church was destroyed by the Chinese fire of 1886, whereuiion through his personal effort funds were secured toward a new edifice, and the corner site of the present Central Union Church was purchased for that object. ()n Mr. ()ggel's return to the States he was called to the First Presbyterian Church of Pulman, Pi; then to the Dutch Reformed Church of St. Thomas, W. I. Spending with Mrs. Oggel a two years' sojourn in Europe, he accepted a call in 1896 to the charge of the Reformed Church of New Paltz. N. Y.. which he continued to serve till 1908, when ill health, through Bright's disease. compelled him to relinquish active ser- In the face of a perfect hailstorm of criticism from the Japanese press and 123.50 members of their churches, for maintaining silence pending the action of the Y. $123,158.85 M. C. A. directors on Vice-Consul Mori's Paid. application for membership, the Japanese contractors and firms te 116.440.79 ministers of this city sent a letter to 1,206.19 President Trent saying "we have confi>unt of furniture 1,500.00 sunt of playground our Christian brethren of the 4,011.87 dence in to this account Young Men's Christian Association that $123,168.85 they will arrive at a right decision." In reply a very courteous letter was Against this balance of $4,011.87 there are Trent, expressfour outstanding accounts, not settled on ac- received from President count of need of adjustment, the total of ing appreciation of the confidence and which the building committee estimate to be patience exhibited by the Japanese min- vice. well within this amount. The Treasurer feels isters in the trying position in which they It may interest his island friends to Justied, therefore, in declaring this building were placed. know that his latter days were spent in to be free of debt. the field of his first ministerial labors, BOYS' FURNISHINGS. T. G. T. Holland, Mich. Ious Automobiles and Missions. Received. Irs. C. C. Allen Ir. B. F. Dillingham Ir. and Mrs. O. H. Oullck iterest on Oullck Fund rom Building Fund Ir. F. J. Lowrey lary Castle Trust $1,000.00 In the state of Massachusetts alone 28,000 automobiles, costing 30.00 $56,000,000, which is $16,000,000 more 1,206.19 250.00 than the entire cost of all the missions 1,000.00 carried on by the American Board in the $5,486.19 one hundred years of its history. 500.00 1,500.00 there are "Thy Man-Servant and thy Maid-Servant" ARE THEY GIVE THEM JAPANESE? THE TOMO 50c. a year. �December, 15 THE FRIEND. 1910. Our Young People HENRY P. JUDD Arbor Day. On Friday, Nov. 11th, Arl>or Day was observed generally in every part of these islands. Not only among the public school children, but also by sonic of the Sunday schools, was there the carrying of the excellent custom of beautifying and improving the appearance of the country by planting trees. It is well that the voting people of these islands are being taught in a very practical manner the value of trees and the importance of preserving the natural resources of the land. The Kaliului Union Sunday School observed the day by planting some ironwood trees in llic church yard. A prise of $5.00 was awarded to Fanny Apo for having grown the tallest tree during the hist twelve months. A year ago each child was given an ironwood, and a prize of $5.00 promised to the member of the school who succeeded the best with his or her tree. One of the boys who had been m the school up to three months ago had his tree attain the height of 10 feet and 2 inches. Because of his withdrawal from the school lie could not receive the prize. The winner's tree was 8 feet 10 inches high, and the next tallest was 8 feet 2 inches, the third 7 feet, and the others at heights varying all the way down to 1 foot 5 inches. Considering how small the trees were when planted, it would seem that the results were excellent. This year more ironwoods were given out to the children and four prizes were announced for next year. To the one having the tallest tree $2.00 will be given, the second tallest tree owner will receive $1.50, the third $1.00 and the fourth 50c. out visions of a joyful time with Santa Claus and a tree and presents fill the minds of the young ]>eople. It is their time to make merry. Ixt them enter heartily into the Christmas festivities and catch the spirit of gladness that is the essence of the season. The glad Christmas songs and the Pible verses and recitations will make a lasting impression upon the youthful minds, even though they may cease their attendance upon the Sunday school as soon as Christinas is over. Many new pupils are brought into the schools because of the special features of the Christmas season and out of this number there is always a large proportion who will remain permanent members of the school. Ji Was it Yours? Seen in Some Sunday Schools. A teacher attempting to teach the les- son without a BiMe. A superintendent reading before the whole school out of the quarterly. A secretary interrupting the teacher and class to get reports or offerings. A secretary who is exceedingly noisy and talks and whispers to pupils and others during the teaching period. A superintendent trying to make his school run smoothly when no program has been previously arranged. An organist who never gets in until the school has begun. A primary department that is compelled to meet with the main school and undergo an "opening exercise" ordeal with it. Jl Rev. Wm. C. Merritt. In view of the fact that the Rev. W. C. Merritt, the international Sunday school secretary for the northwest, is contemplating a visit to Hawaii nei for the purpose of stirring up greater interest in Ji the schools of these islands, it will not he out of place to record here what Mr. President Taft's Estimate Marion the general secretary of the Sunday School. of the association, says concerning him in At the great convention of the World's his annual report recently submitted. He Sunday School Union in Washington, writes, "We arc sorry to announce that I). C.'last May, President Taft said, "No our efficient secretary for the Northwest matter what views are taken of general education, we all agree—Protestant, CaSunday School tholic and Jew alike—that Sunday school education is absolutely necessary to secure moral uplift and religious spirit." inform this committee. His purpose is to retire from active service unless it may lie some phase of work that will not require traveling. He was for many years in charge of the work in Washington and .'literal the international family in October. 1905. He has rendered great service in the Northwest. It was practically all missionary ground when he began—and now, after six years of faithful service, every state and province in that section (eight in all) has its own secretary, and this is largely because of what he has done. It has been a paying investment, lie is a lovable man, an efficient officer and the embodiment of fidelity. We shall greatly miss him. and I am sure our prayers will go with him wherever he may go, and in whatever service he may engage." Jl The Future of Organized Sunday School Work. Mr. Marian Lawrance writes of the future of the organized Sunday school work as follows: "The methods of Christian work along all lines are in a transitory state. New conditions demand new treatment, and new conditions are constantly arising. The past year has been a year of unusual prosperity in the Sunday school work everywhere. The marvelous advance during the last few years is due largely to a quickened Sunday school consceince. We are holding annually more than 17,000 conventions, attended by fully 3,000.000 people. We reach eevry part of the great field, holding literally thousands of helpful, �stimulating conventions where it would be impossible for any denomination to hold one unless with a single school, thus leaving out the schools in that locality. Among all the organizations that are standing for co-oj)eration, the International Sunday School Association has an honored place. God has led us in a wonderful way, and if we are teachable. He will lead us still. Let us go forward with greater energy than ever. Let us have faith in God and in our work. My faith in the future was never so Lesson Charts bring the Lesson right before you every day Ji The Christmas Season. This month of December is when the children's interests come prominently to the front. The Sunday schools are growing rapidly as Christmas is coming, and is to withdraw from our work September 1, 1911, and has requested me to so Pell's notes, Tarbell and Peloubet to help you, at the Hawaiian Board Book Rooms I Consult us about Song Books. We have many Samples. 1 �16 THE FRIEND. December, 1910 said, "Let me say that your chief text"I want that shell very much," said book in English will be the English Kapuni. Kaakau told him that the task Bible; it will give you the best model of would be very difficult and dangerous, English style in any language, therefore, for the shell was guarded by watchman as a key to literature we ought to know from hill to hill, from the sea to the sumsomething of our llible." Should not each mit of the valley, and along all the pathone of us, then, undertake a serious and ways to the neighboring villages. The gods, however, crossed the chansystematic study of the Holy Scriptures (1908). for our instruction the truth and as a nel to Oahu, and rested at night above in Louisville Convention since the Kahakea. I lere was a temple above WaoThe day will never come when we shall means to a liberal education? lani. It was upon a hill. In it was a not be needed. The more effective our noted drum. The name of that temple work, the more the denominations will was Pakaaluna. Kapuni told his friends need us, and the more effective their to stay there waiting for him. If he did work, the more we can do for them. We not return before the red dust of the seek co-operation, not union, and the world believes in that. We should plan dawn was in the sky they would know W. D. WESTERVELT he was dead. If he returned he would greater things for the future. The next have the shell. three years should see our work doubled Then he went near to the prison enTHE WONDERFUL SHELL OF in amount, our workers doubled in numclosure outside the temple. Here he waitbers, and our budget at least $100,000 a NUUANU VALLEY. ed by a rock for all the watchmen on the year. We can do it. The Sunday school is the best of the world's evangelizing high places around the temple to fall and missionary agencies. Near Niolopa, on the eastern side of asleep. When the stars arose in the heavAs the world's greatest Sunday school Nuuanu Valley, is the stone where Ka- ens above Nuiianu and all were sound organization, composed of all denomina- puni rested when he came after the shell asleep, he entered the temple and took He flew away and found his tions, helping all, hindering none, we known as the Kiha-pu. Kapuni was a the shell. companions. Kauhola, was to who said have should, having set up our banners in child of God's name, keep on, and keep on keep- been a chief, who was born, was walking They made a great jump and leaped to ing on. until the world is won for Him. and had grown up, had become a father, Kalaau point. As they flew over the a grandfather, and had died, all in one water to Molokai the shell touched the day. Kapuni was born in Waipio valley, top of a wave and sang with a clear voice. The god of Waolani temple heard the and was placed in Pakaalana, the heiau. Our Sunday School Text Books. shell singing, leaped up and found that and was made a god. Two gods came from Puna. They were it had been stolen. He rushed from the The llible is the most popular book in Kaakau and Kaohuwalu. They waited temple, flew over the Nuuanu precipice the world. We are not to assume, howand out into the channel from which he ever, that because it is widely spread, it above Hakalaoa looking down into Waihad heard the sound. He they Kapuni leaping. There saw ]>io. i> widely read. It is found on the ocean Kapuni hid among the waves, the shell steamers, in every jail, in every Chris- touched a branch of a kukui tree, and gave up its song. The god of Waolani fell down. He and again touched leaped tian home, in every school, but there are went back and forth over the water but many families who keep a llible on the the short top branches of the kukui and could find nothing. center table and never touch it except to fell down. When he gave up the search Kapuni Kaakau said to Kaohuwalu, "Suppose dust it. There are many students brought went on to Molokai and then to Maui and with our travus as up in Christian homes whose knowledge we get Kapuni to go Hawaii. When flying across the channel one us fierce elling in companion, with of baseball and football is wonderful, but between Maui and Hawaii the shell of night." who know next to nothing about whether storms or the cold heavy dews a high wave and broke off a struck Koohuwale assented and arose they the book of Judges is in the Old or New to Kapuni corner. Testament Many of them have never and went down. They called tried him asking to He leap again When they were on the hills of Hawaii up. read the most beautiful love story in all they found the temple built at Ilainoa. literature, the book of Ruth. The study and again and always fell back. Kaakau caught him as he fell and cut There the gods of Hawaii were gathered of the llible, if it did nothing more than give us a key to the noble passages of off part of his body because he was too together. Kiha was high chief of Hawaii at that literature, would be worth our while. heavy, then he could fly to the sky and time, and had been dwelling in Waipio Shakespeare and Milton, Dante and return again. Kaakau asked him how he was suc- Valley, cultivating his plant, planting Longfellow, Whittier and Lowell, Spencer and Cooper and many others are ceeding. He replied "Very well, indeed, awa, and building a temple for his gods. When that temple was finished and the continually referring to the Bible. Tenny I am swift in flight." Then Kaakau said "Will you go with tabu of silence lifted from all the surson has 460 references to the Old and New Testament in his poems. I low us on a journey?" Kapuni said "Yes.'' rounding country, he went to Kawaihae much enjoyment can we get out of They went away to the lands of Ka- and built another temple, establishing anthe great art galleries if we do not hiki and returned to Kauai. From there other altar for his gods. He placed the know our Bibles? Drama goes to the they heard the wonderful voice of a shell usual tabu upon all the land around KaBible, and so does fiction, because the sounding from the Temple Waolani in waihae. Bible is the great tin folder of mankind. N'uuanu Valley near Honolulu. Put the tabu was broken by the sound When they asked Daniel Webster the Kapuni said "What is that thing which of that shell blown by the gods of the reason of his wonderful power, he makes such a sound ?" Hainoa temple. He was very much said, "I read the Bible through once a Kaakau said. "That is a shell which be- troubled, but the gods were too strong year." Charles A. Dana when addressing longs to the eepa (distorted gnomes), the for him. At last help came to him from the graduating class of Vale University, people of Waolani, Oahu." Puapualenalena, "The Yellow Flower," a strong as today. We are entering upon the best era of our history. God is with us. In every state and province, more money is being used, and in many of them more workers are being employed than ever before. It is probably safe to say that in money and work and workers, our field "will show a 50 per cent gain Honolulu Legends �17 THE FRIEND December. 1910. "We acknowledge and adore one supreme and infinite God. We acknowledge his Son, one Christ; the Holy Ghost or Divine Comforter; and man In God's ismge and likeness." —Ibid., p. 497. "Jesus came to destroy sin, sickness and death." —Ibid., p. 474. If then, Dr. Brown contests every claim of Christian Science, as your reviewer asserts, he contests what I understand to be certain treasures of KalaKing tabu awa roots of the king, which were was among the principles of the Christian refundamental growing on the hillsides of Waipio valley. kaua, and now has its resting place in ligion, as taught by Christ and his apostles, When that place was stripped, he sent the hands of ex-Queen Liliuokalani in and ever since maintained by those professing to be his followers. It Is therefore with the dog to the precipices of Waimanu Honolulu. certain feeling of surprise that I And his and he took nearly all that was there. When Kapuni died his bones were aviews so highly endorsed In the eminently one at kept as of the worshipped gods, Then the king commanded his people orthodox columns of the Friend. dog belonging to a master whohad left derful sound, and could call the warriors of the king from any distance when the his home in Niihau some time before. Puapualenalena, "The Yellow Flow- king caused it to be blown. It was known er," was seeking his master and found as Kiha's shell, "The Kiha-pu." This shell was carefully preserved by him on the uplands of Hawaii. That dog excelled in his skill as a thief, the chiefs of Hawaii from that ancient Generation after generation it stealing pigs, chickens, tapa cloth, all time. was cared for. In the time of Kamehakinds of property for his master. The master told that dog to get the meha 111. it was kept in his palace. It to watch the awa fields and catch the one Kaawaloa until the tabu and the temples who was stealing his growing awa. were overthrown. They began their watch. When the night was almost over and the dawn was A Communication touching the sky, they found the thief. These men followed the thief and caught Hilo, Hawaii, Nov. 26. 1910. his master in a cave, all wrinkled from Editor of The Friend, Very sincerely yours, W. H. SMITH, Christian Science Committee on Publications for the Territory of Hawaii. (Teachings which are held in common can not be regarded as the "claims of a cult." Teachings which are specially taught or drinking much awa. cultivated by any body of persons organized Honolulu, Oahu, H. T. for that purpose are the teachings of a cult. They took the master and the dog to Dear find in the "Book Reviewer" We both recognize that we do not agree In the King Kiha as prisoners, and the king of yourSir:—l November number a highly comour religious beliefs, and no discredit of the planned to have them steal that shell mendatory notice of "Faith and Health," beliefs of others was intended by the use which troubled If they failed they as well as of the author, Charles Reynolds him. should be put to death. This was the sentence of the king upon his prisoners. The master talked with Yellow Flower, his dog. and told him all the word of the king. They planned to pay for the theft of the awa. but not by the death of their bones. The dog went out to win the shell from the gods, under cover of the night when the darkness was great and all kinds of shell voices were singing with all other voices of the woodland and wilderness. Then came the resounding voice of that shell blown by the gods. According to an ancient chant:—"The song of Kiha-pu calls Kauai," meaning the song is listened to from far distant Kauai. The dog ran swiftly, while the sound of the shell was great and hid in a corner of the stone wall of the heiau. He waited and waited, a long time. The dawn was almost at hand. Then the watchers fell into deep sleep. The dog crept softly inside, seized the shell and slipped it away from its (dace, then leaped over six walls of the heiau. but touched the seventh and outside wall. Then the shell sang out, loud and clear. The gods were aroused. They followed, but the dog leaped into a pool of water, and concealed himself and the shell while the gods dashed by. They searched the road toward Waipio, then rushed toward the Kona district. The dog flew from the pond down the precipice of Waipio valley, and laid the shell at the feet of Kiha. the King of Hawaii. The dog and his master were given a high place in the affections of the king. The shell was renowned for its won- of the word "cult."—Reviewing Editor. Brown, with reference to whom your reviewer says: "Dr. Brown's name Is a guarantee of the value of his writings," a statement which seems to amount to a high, if not unqualified endorsement of both the author and the book. I have not as yet had the pleasure of reading the work in question, and must therefore depend entirely for my knowledge The P. C. Advertiser of Nov. 14th thereof upon the statements of your re viewer, who says that Dr. Brown "in a vig- gives an account of the passing, on Nov. orous discussion of Christian Science—Con- 5, of our Cousin Edward Bailey, in the tests every claim of the Cult." seventy-fourth year of his age. He is one By the word "cult" I presume your rewoven into the hisviewer refers to Christian Science, though whose life has been why "cult" is the term employed I do not tory of Maui, and with his death ends a know, except that it is a word often applied long chapter in the social, business and by those who consider themselves particu- religious history of Wailuku. larly orthodox, to some religious movement On Sept. 26 another of our loved of which they have no particular first-hand information, and of which they therefore members, Mrs. Sarah Atherton Gilman, Hawaii Cousins , disapprove. I have been a trifle perplexed as to the exact ground of your reviewer's statement that "Dr. Brown contests every claim of the Cult." Is it based upon the reviewer's own investigation of the "claims" of Christian Science, and comparison therewith of Dr. Brown's views; or does Dr. Brown say that he "contests every claim of the Cult," or does your reviewer merely infer that he "contests every claim of the Cult?" Whatever the reason, I must credit your reviewer with the statement of an actual fact, and that Dr. Brown does indeed contest "every claim of Christian Science." Now, some of the claims of Christian Science are the following, taken from the Christian Science Text Book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," by Mary Baker Eddy:— "Spirit Is God." —Science and Health, page 192. "Spirit is God and Man Is his Image and likeness." Ibid. p. 468. "God, omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent being." —Ibid., p. 465. Life, Truth, Love." "God Is —Ibid., 465. ... . left us. For many months she waited the gates of heaven for the welcome "Come," but her "kamaaina" friends love to think of her in the years of her busy life when her earnest help was given to every good work, and her sympathy extended to all. A letter has come from Persia, through Miss Grace Van Duzer, showing the unsettled conditions of religion and society, which is very interesting, but for political reasons we are asked not to let it find its way into print. at MORE ABOUT THE "THADDEUS." At a meeting of the Cousins held on April 30, 1910, at the home of Gov. and Mrs. Frear, there were read extracts from a journal written on board the "Thaddeus," in 1819-20. These were printed in "The Friend" of June, July, and August of this year. �December, 1910 THE FRIEND 18 We now give some extracts from the memoir of Captain James Hunnewell, on the "Thaddeus," then first which will interest as supplementing the missionary journal. On the 23rd of October 1819, Mr. Hunnewell left Boston in the brig "Thaddeus," Captain A. Blanchard, bound on a "trading voyage to the North West Coast," touching at the Sandwich Islands. He was an officer, and, as he wrote, the voyage was memorable to him as the first when he had an interest in vessel and cargo. While it thus had private importance to him, it had public importance that even now cannot be fully estimated, for this voyage of the "Thaddeus" made her, it seems as if in simple truth, the American Mayflower of the Pacific. She bore a company of nineteen passengers, the pioneer agents of a great and good constituency of Americans, organized to carry the teachings of Christianity and of civilization to a world then wild and little known,—a small world it EVENTS. may have been, but a center with large' possibilities, far reaching through the fu- October 26—Governor Frear used pick and shovel in breaking ground for the new Besides these nineteen passengers, the 1132,000 Y. M. C. A. building. "Thaddeus" carried twenty officers and 27—Homestead drawings of public lands crew. She was 85 ft. 5 1-2 in. long, 24 ft. in Kohala—Philip L. Weaver appointed 7 1-2 inches wide, 13 ft. 2 in. deep, and second magistrate to preside over police ture. her registered tonnage was 241 23-95 tons. The daily journal of Mr. Hunnewell, kept during this voyage, is preserved. It describes the passage as only an experienced traveler on the sea really does, and a few extracts from it are here given. The journal abounds in minute details, for instance: "March 14.—At sunrise hoisted the long boat out of the chocks, and broke open the main hold; hoisted our large guns on deck and sundry other articles. At 11 a. m. found the remains of poor Tom, our cat. He had been missing for about two weeks. Previous to disappearing he had been subject to fits of delirium and otherways indisposed. — (To be continued next month) court temporarily. 28—An additional mortar battery for Honolulu defense, ordered to be located at Pearl Harbor. —W. A. Bowen, made a vice-president of the Y. M. C. A. gathering in Toronto. —W. B. Lymer accepts appointment as permanent police court judge. 29—Dr. Wayson presented a leper before the medical association. The doctors accept him as cured. Nov. I—Death1 —Death of Hon. A. S. Cleghorn, largely interested in public and charitable affairs. Former Governor of Oahu, husband of Princess Likelike and father of Princess Kaiulani. —Domingo Ferreira caught smuggling opium in S. S. Mongolia. 2.—Japanese cruisers Asama and Kasagi arrived from Japan. 3_Flood on Kauai made it necessary to blow up the dam of the Lihue plantation reservoir.—Japanese consul and war ships' re ception, Emperor's birthday. ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■iss«mssssssssssi^ii»iiiiiii»s«»iii»iii™i»iiiiiiiiii^iiiiiiiii«»»»»»»»»»»»"»^,^,^,^I^^^— *^^^^^^^^^ I "How much did he leave ? " Was asked concerning "a certain rich man" who had just died. "He left it all" was the absolutely correct answer. He could take nothing with him. Still, he might have left it working for him. This is the merit of "The Conditional Gift Plan : Your money,—property, or whatever can be converted into money,—pays you a good, steady income during your life and goes on working for you and for humanity after you are gone. So you ''make friends (by) the mammon of unrighteousness," So also, you "lay up for yourself treasures, etc' This is no cant. It Is Christian stewardship and sound business sense combined. The Finance Committee makes you an offer of one whole per cent better than before. You can hardly invest much better elsewhere and the amount you invest with the Hawaiian Board in your life time will not be wrangled for after you are gone. If you are 20 years or over your money will earn 5 per cent. » •• " 6 " " ««u-0««»« (l « l< >< (l «< £r -- <• « "« "« "«« "» " " " " 7 8 " " See the Treasurer of the Board and talk over the security, the form of gift, etc. yyr TT! Ci PCDI CZ [SJ O —make your money make friends. Make it work. BOARD OF THE HAWAIIAN EVANGELICAL ASSOCIATION. Hand Craft Wares : '.".': : : Kodak Developing and Printing : Artistic Picture Framing YEARTS&CRAFTSSHOP : > b!Jhop YOUNO buildin street �19 THE FRIEND December, 1910 DEATHS. 4. —Yellow fever case on Hong Kong Maru coming from Manzanillo, Mexico. Census for 1910 reported as 191.909—Serious shootIn Honolulu, Oct. 26, 1910, Ira C. Carter, ing affray corner Fort and Hotel Streets. managing owner of the Union Electric Co. s—Rev rends5—Reverends A. C. McKeever of the supply station. Christian Church and J. C. Jones of the Methodist church, preached farewell serIn Lihue, Kauai, Oct. 28, 1910, Mrs. Jane mons—Governor Cleghorn burled with royal E. Myers. honors in Kalakaua tomb. —Rev. Doremus Scudder began series of Travelogs. 7.—Road from Volcano House to crater costs 59.116, beside prison labor. Republican 8.—Almost entire ticket elected on Oahu.—Ainahau, the Cleghorn home, given to the government; curios given to the Bishop Museum. 9.—Spreckels property on Fort street sold to Brewer & Co. commenced 14.—Planter's Association session 1910. 16.—Large meeting held to discuss conservation of Territorial resources. —Libby, McNeil & Libby enter pineapple cannery business of Oahu, purchasing half interest in Hawaiian Cannery Co. 17.—"Boost Club" organized to make Honolulu 100,000.—Lower warehouse of Pepeekeo Sugar Co. burned. 20.—Strong editorials in Honolulu American and Japanese newspapers condemning Y. M. C. A. membership committee for rejecting the Japanese from membership. Japanese Vice-Consul Mori rejected because he was Japanese. 23.—Committee organized to secure Ha- 1910, Dr. L. Sexton and Miss Emily Rice, daughter of Hon. W. H. Rice. Honolulu, Oct. Rosenberg-Cannon—ln 29, 1910, Albert Rosenberg and Miss Flora Cannon. Kinney-Robinson—ln Honolulu, Oct. 31, 1910, by Rev. 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CLOTHES CLEANED AND REPAIRED. P. O. Box 986. Henry H. Williams FUNERAL DIRECTOR. Graduate of Dr. Rodgers Perfect, Embalming School of San Francisco, Cal., also of The Renouard Training School for Embalmers of New Tork. And a Licensed Embalmer for the State of New York, also a member of the State Funeral Directors Association of California. MONUMENTS AND TOMBSTONES FURNISHED. Chairs to Rent. 1142, 1144 FORT ST. LOVE BUILDING, Residence, 240 King Street. Telephones: Office, 64; Res., 1020. � 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 (1910) 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 - 1910.12 - Newspaper 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 (1843-1910) Subject The topic of the resource Temperance -- Newspapers. Sailors -- Hawaii -- Newspapers. Christians -- Hawaii -- Newspapers. Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Newspaper Description An account of the resource <h2 style="text-align: center;">The Friend</h2> <div><img src="http://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/d2dc67f21441a9f6c6b9c7f408734af3.jpg" width="471" height="228" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /><br /><br /></div> Rev. Samuel Chenery Damon was sent by the American Seamen’s Friend Society to be chaplain in Honolulu. The Damons sailed from New York March 10, 1842 aboard the Victoria, Captain Spring, and arrived in Honolulu October 19, 1842. He was the pastor of the Bethel Union Church, Seamen's Chapel for 42 years and was the publisher and editor of the periodical The Friend from 1843 — 1885, when he retired. <br /><br />The first issue was published in Jan. 1843, originally under the name Temperance Advocate, then as Temperance Advocate and Seamen’s Friend, with the Advocate and Friend being published as an extra, then as The Friend of Temperance and Seamen, with The Friend as an extra, and finally simply as The Friend, beginning January 1, 1845. <br /><br />From 1885 through 1887, it was co-edited by the Revs. Cruzan and Oggel. The editorship then passed to Rev. Sereno Bishop, who held the post until the publication of the paper fell under the auspices of the Board of the Hawaiian Evangelical Association in April of 1902 where it remained until June 1954. Since then, it has continued in a different format under the Hawaii Conference-United Church of Christ up to the present day, making it the oldest existing newspaper in the Pacific. <br /><br />The Friend began as a monthly newspaper for seamen, which included news from both American and English newspapers, and gradually expanded to adding announcements of upcoming events, reprints of sermons, poetry, local news, editorials, ship arrivals and departures and a listing of marriages and deaths. Rev. Damon published between a half million and a million copies of The Friend, most of which he personally distributed. Because of its longevity, The Friend is an excellent resource for scholars of nineteenth-century Hawaiian history. 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 (1843-1910) Citation Information Description An account of the resource <strong>Preferred Citation</strong> <br />Author (Year, Month Date of Publication). Article Title. The Friend, volume number(issue number), pp. xx-xx. Collections of the Hawaiian Mission Children's Society Library, Hawaiian Mission Houses Historic Site and Archives. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Friend Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Hawaiian Mission Children's Society Library, Hawaiian Mission Houses Historic Site and Archives. 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