https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/6c588ee71ecacff8e11322c6dc31e783.pdf 6868c093c1dc7a6f6a6b61bf3dc1da4d PDF Text Text FRIEND THE HONOLULU, JULY 3, 1863. M .Scries, M.V2, $c 7,\ CONTENTS For Jnlv. 1803. Ordination of Key. H. 11. Parker TheBoard of the Hawaiian Evangelical Association Lecture upon Shakespeare, Court News, Missionary Sermon, Missionary Re-Organisation, Committee's Report on Oahu College, Meeting In Exeter Hall, 'The 4th," to., ftc, fee, Paob. 49 40 49, 60 »0 50, 63 63 64 64 66 THEJULY FRIEND. 1863. 3, Ordination of Rey. H. H. Parker. An ecclesiastical Council, convened on Saturday, June 27th, having duly examined Mr. Parker, and ascertained that the First Native Church of Honolulu were desirous that he should become their Pastor, took the necessary steps for his ordination and installation. This ceremony occurred on the following day, being the Sabbath. A very large audience, of Hawaiians and foreigners, assembled at Kawaiahao Church, at the appointed hour. Minutes of theCouncil were read by Rev. 8. E. Bishop. Prayer by Rev. L. Smith. Sermon by Rev. B. W. Parker, (father of the Pastor-Elect.) Ordaining Prayer by Rev. T. Coan. Charge to the Pastor, by Key. W. P. Alexander. Right hand of Fellowship, by Rev. M. Kuaea. Charge to the people by Rev. E. W. Clark, (late Pastor of the Church.) Benediction by Key. R. Anderson, D. D. All the exercises were uncommonly solemn and impressive. During the Ordaining Prayer, while the venerable fathers in the Christian ministry, laid their hands upon the head of the youthful servant of Christ, there was a hushed stillness and solemnity, everywhere apparent. The young Pastor enters upon his highly responsible duties under the most favorable auspices. It is a most encouraging fact that the Rev. H. H. Parker, being a native of the Islands and having been entirely educated here, should have been called to this important Pastorate, with the unamimous sentiment ofall. Long may he labor and preach among a people who have enjoyed the services of Rev. Messrs. Bingham, Armstrong, and Clark. One incident in the exercises was most strikingly impressive and suggestive. Among those laying their hands upon the head of the young man, while the Ordaining Prayer was being offered, we noticed on the right, the Rev. Dr. Anderson, a representative of the American Churches, and on the left, the Rev. Mr. Kuaea, a Hawaiian Pastor. It was surely most becoming to witness these ministers of the gospel set apart the son of one of the venerable fathers, to officiate in the First Church of Honolulu. Surely the good work is to be carried forward, when the fathers, by reason of age, are no longer 49 {(DIHStTUS, M2O. Lecture upon the Genius of Shakspeare. Literary lectures were formerly much more frequent in Honolulu than they have been of late years. Music appears to have supplied their place. Our Amateur Musical Concerts have certainly been of a very high order of excellence. While we should regret to have music neglected, we should cerable to preach. tainly rejoice to be occasionally favored with com"The Board" of the Hawaiian Evangelical a literary lecture. That our foreign Association. when thus emmunity appreciates talent is from the audience Under the auspices of this organization, a ployed, clearly manifest 22d, assembled on June Monday Evening, " Board" has been established, consisting of to listen to the lecture ofthe Rev. G. Mason, twenty-one members chosen from Foreigners and Hawaiians. This Board has been divi- a clergyman of the English Reformed-Cathded into several committees, viz.: on Foreign olic Mission. His subject was the genius of Missions, Home Evangelization, Publica- Shakespeare. He spoke extemporaneously, tions, Native Ministry, &c. The Board occupying one hour and three quarters. It will hold a monthly meeting the first Tues- would be quite impossible in a brief editorial day Evening of each month. Tbe Rev. Dr. Gulick has been chosen the Foreign Secre- to give even an outline of the lecture. The lectary of this Board, Rev. E. W. Clark, Re- turer uttered a great many pleasant remarks, cording Secretary, E. O. Hall, Esq., Treas- keeping up th* interest to the close, by inurer, Rev. T. Coan, President, and G. P. terspersing the recitation and reading of sevJudd, Esq., Vice-President. It will be seen eral passages from the play of Hamlet. His that this Board will become an important agency in the Missionary and Ecclesiastical recitation was excellent of the speech of Caraffairs of the islands. The Micronesian dinal Wolsey, from Henry VIII., closing with Missions, Merquesas Mission, Morning Star, the lines : Home Missions, and many other operations Cromwell, Cromwell, " 0my Ood with half the zeal will be carried forward through the active Had I bat served I served my king, he would not in mine age agency of the of this Board. Have left me naked to mine enemies." Editor's Table.—The Hesperian comes under thejnew title of the Pacific Monthly. May its ability and reputation, under the editorial management of the Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Strong, equal that of the Atlantic Monthly, and may San Francisco attain a literary reputation entitling it to be ranked with Boston, tho Athens of America, alias, " The Hub of tho Universe." Wo doubt not our old associates, Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Strong* will do their best to make the Pacific Monthly contribute its share to accomplish these grand results. We would acknowledge a file of the National Preacher, published by W. H. Bidwell, of Now York. In a future number we intend giving a more extended notice of this important publication. The January and February numbers contain a portrait of tho Rev. A. Barnes, and his great sermon on " The Conditions of Peace," which has liecn so extensively noticed in the religious and secular papers ofAmerica. While the lecture contained much, the utterance of which fell pleasantly upon the ear, (and perhapsno other English poet will bear a greater amount of fulsome praise,) yet we must dissent from some of the speaker's remarks. It certainly did not har- monize with our ideas of generous and highminded literary criticism, for the lecturer to make so furious a dash upon Milton. It surely was not becoming to endeavor to place a chaplet on Shakespeare's brow, by robbing Milton—England's greatest epic poet —of that meed of praise which has ever been awarded to his genius. Mr. Mason, with much emphasis and more than a slight touch of tragic skill, expressed great �THE FRIEND, JULY, 1803. 50 surprise that Milton shoul I have dared to have asceuded into heaven or descended into hell, for the purpose of introducing characters into his great poem, Paradise Lost. Shakespeare did not after this manner, for Shakespeare is the poet of nature! This may all be true. Granting that Shakespeare is Nature's poet, why thus denounce the Puritan-poet Milton ? That is the question," as Hamlet would say. Mr. Mason having laid down the rule that no true poet, not even Milton, must dare to enter the spirit-land, observe his own violation of this canon of criticism, in the conclusion ofhis lecture. Unexpected as it may seem, the lecturer, while denouncing Milton, goes himself into the spiritworld, and presumes, dares, to compare the Son of God, the second person of the ever " going utterances of Hamlet, read the followAnnual Sermon, ing, from the first speech of Satan in the Delivered before the Iluwaiian Missionnry Society, Jane 14, 1863, first book of Paradise Lost: BY REV. T. COAN. " What though the field be lost > All is not lost; the unconquerable will. And the study of revenge," &o. Rev. xxi: I—And I saw a new heaven and a earth, for the first heaven and the first oarth This is quite sufficient to show that new were passed away, and there was no more sea. Hamlet's character is more akin to Satan The Bible abounds in figures. Its metathan to Christ; and we are surprised phors often break upon us in startling bril- that the Reverend lecturer should so far have allowed his admiration of Shakespeare's genius to have misled his critical judgment. We had intended to have made some additional remarks upon other parts of the lecture, but our limits will not allow it. We from expressing the hope that Mr. Mason will favor the public with additional lectures, and that other literary gentlemen in Honolulu will follow his example. We should delight to attend at least one adorable Trinity, with mad Hamlet! What, compare Christ to Hamlet,—the lecture a month the year round. embodied essence of love to the personificaCourt News. tion of revenge! We cannot speak for His Majesty granted an audience (June 19) to the others, but for ourself, we say the utterance Commissioner of the United States to take leave of this sentiment grated most harshly upon upon his recall, and to present his successor in office, His Excellency James Mcßride. There were present our moral sensibilities. It needs, we think, on this occasion His Royal Highness the Prince Kabut a slight review of Hamlet's character, as mehameha, the Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs, his Lordship, tbe Bishop of Honolulu, the Associate portrayed by Shakespeare, and of Satan's, Justices of the Supreme Court, several members of as described by Milton, to show that instead tbe Privy Counoil, and many officers of the Royal Household. of comparing Hamlet with Christ, he should The Commissioner of the United States addressed be compared with the " Archangel ruined." His Majesty to the effect that he had been relieved of his official responsibilities by a letter of recall, and Hamlet may have given utterance to many that in requesting this audience, he had wished to more tbe kind feelings he felt, and has noble thoughts, but the predominant trait of express once always endeavored to manifest upon good grounds is to his his character revenge. Listen towards His Majesty and the Government of His Majesty, and also to introduce his successor Mr. speech in Act 4, Scene 4: James Mcßride. 0, from this time forth, " My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth." If our readers would view the deep-seated malice that dwelt in Hamlet's bosom, let them read Act 3, Scene 3, where Hamlet declines to kill the King while kneeling in prayer. Then he might have done it, but if he had done so, he would have sent a soul to heaven! Hamlet longs for an opportunity when he might send a soul to hell! "Then trip him, that his heels msy kiok at Heaven, And that his soal may be as damned and block As hell, whereto it goes." We cannot see how any one can discern traits which are noble and lovely in Hamlet's character. Tried by any jury of twelve honest Danes or Englishmen, Hamlet would have been sentenced to a madhouse or to the gallows, as a murderer, guilty of killing his - cannot refrain Mr. Mcßride having been presented in form, addressed His Majesty in the following terms Mat it plbisb Yocb Majbstt :—I have thehonor to pres- :— from Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, addressed to Your Majesty, accrediting me aa Minister Resident near Your Majesty's Court. I congratulate myself on the privilege now tendered me of cultivating a personal acquaintance with Your Majesty. I am directed by she President to offer to You, and to Iler Majesty the Queen, his cordial good wishes for your future health, happiness and prosperity, and I am specially charged to say that the President's sincere desire is that the friendly relations which have so long existed between the two Governments shouldcontinue and increase with the advance of time and the growth and prosperity of the two nations. As for myself personally, I hope that my residence near Your Majesty's Government may be satisfactory to thecitizens of my own country and acceptable to Your Majesty. The King in reply was pleased to say :— Mb. Mcßbidb—l have much pleasure in receiving this letter from the President of the United Stales of America, and In welcoming you as the Representative of the Government of the United Stales. Accredited as you are, your position among your Diplomatic brethren will be high, indent the highest; and In the fact of tbe President desiring to be represented here by a Minister Resident, I flatter myself I see an intention to do honor to me and to my Government. I beg you to make known to the President, the satisfaction I experience in receiving through you those expressions of kind feeling and cordial good wlahea for myself and the Queen which you have just declared on his part, and I can assure you that no wish is dearer to my heart than that perfect amity may exist between our two countries, and that the intercourse of the two may be mutually advantageous. Believing aa I do, that the President has not aent you to this Court without feeling a certainty, that in you all his kind feelsngfl will find an able interpreter, I look forward with pleasure to your futureIntercourse with me and my Government. ent a letter victim with malice aforethought." Then, too, in the closing scene of the play, when he stabs his uncle, the king, how The Minister of the United States then introduced bitter his language, Then, venom, to thy his Secretary of Legation, Mr. John L. Barnard, " the Rev. Rufus Anderson, D. I)., of tbe American work." Surely, we fail to discover anything Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, Mr. ofthe spirit of Him who exclaimed, " Fath- Wm. Salon Ugden and Mr. Henry B. Auohincloss. ty At half past eleven o'clock, of tbe same day, er forgive them." the British Commissioner had an audience of His We have intimated that Hamlet and Majesty to present Colonel A. C. Wight, of H. B. M. the above mentioned Satan have traits which link their characters. E I. Service, on whiob oooasion of the Government and of the Royal HouseWe believe it. Keeping in mind the fore- members hold were also present.— Polynesian. When it is said of Jehovah, " He looketh on the earth and it trembleth ; He toucheth the hills and they smoke—when he is represented as making the clouds his chariot, as careering on the wings of the tempest, as surrounding himself with a pavilion of dark waters, of riding upon a swift cloud into astonished Egypt—when we listen to the rustling of cherubic wings, to the roll of celestial chariots, and to the awful thunder-note, "as the voice of Almighty God,"—then we get a glimpse of the beauty, the power and the majesty of Bible figures. The Book of the Revelations is redundant with oriental iniHgery, with metaphors and similitudes of the most graphic character ; but all designed to represent, to symbolize, illustrate or enforce truths, in their relations to the Church of Christ, and their bearings on its history in this world. As in the Book of Daniel, the four great empires of Chaldea, Medo-Persia, Greece, and Rome, were prefigured under the emblems of a lion, a bear, a leopard and a nondescript with iron teeth and also under the figure of a colossal image of gold, silver, brass and iron ; so in the Revelation, the whole prospective history of Zion is foreshadowed under the emblems of seven seals, seven trumpets, seven plague vials; beasts rising from the sea and earth, horses, horsemen, locusts, dragons, hail, fire, blood, earthquakes, a darkened sun, baleful moon, falling stars, burning mountains, waters turned to worm-wood, and many other startling figures, calculated to awake the intensest interest, and excite the keenest curiosity in the reader. Much of the interest alluded to, is awakened by our text and its connections. When the seals, the trumpets, the vials, have all accomplished their mission ; or, when the seven great periods in the conflicts of the church and the progress of Christ's Kingdom, shall have ended in the triumphs of the gospel, then we find the peace and brightness and glory of this kingdom predicted under the images of " a pure river," tree of life, a new Jerusalem, with walls of gems, gates of pearls, streets of gold, with the ineffable effulgence of God and the Lamb for its light and its temple. The revelator sees a a new heaven and a new earth. Before his beatific vision, the sea retires, all the elements of nature move, and a new universe bursts into being; all renovated and more glorious than that which first waked the song of the morning stars, and the shouts of the sons of God—while the behest which spoke suns and systems into being, and brought light and order out of chaos, again echoes through the Universe, Behold 1 make all things new." By a large number of our most learned and reliable commentators, the scenes described in the last two chapters of the Revelation, including our text, are supposed to reliancy. , " �51 THE FRIEND, JULY, 1 863. fer to the glorified saints in their eternal the persecutions and conflicts which were to home. In Chapter xx, the resurrection, the rage in the church of Christ, until Zion and great white throne, the august Judge, be- her Lord should gain the final victory over fore whose face the heavens and earth re- sin and satan, and the devil find no more tire, the rising and gathering dead, the open- entrance into the visible church, through the ing books, the judgment, the sentence, the agency of hypocrites, traitors and persecutors. execution, are all portrayed in such solemn To say that there will be a new heaven, may grandeur, that it seems difficult to reconcile be synonymous with saying there will be a the burning figures with anything short of new church—a reformed, renovated, holy the final assizes, and the future everlasting church, or, as the prophet has it, a new heaven and a new earth, wherein dwelleth state of the righteous and the wicked. Doubtless this is a true interpretation of righteousness. In Rev. xii: 1, 3, John says, the subject. And yet, like many other pre- " There appeared a great wonder in heaven, dictions in the Bible, there may be, and we a woman clothed with the sun, &c. Again, think there is, a two-fold sense to our text, a another wonder in heaven, a great, red dragprefiguration. which will be realized in this on, and his tail drew the third part of the world, and also a more glorious and final fulfilment in Heaven. To the former thought we propose to turn .our principal attention on this occasion. We inquire then : ' I. What is the import of the phrase, " A new Heaven ?" 1. Can it be that the great celestial dome, which seems to hang over our world, will be removed, or 2. That the heavenly orbs will cease to move in their circuits, and to measure their solemn cycles? Will they explode "with a great noise," melt with fervent heat, and pass away, to give place to brighter suns and more glorious worlds, which shall shine and roll forever? We think that neither philosophy, analogy, or scripture warrant such a conclusion. The language of Peter, (2 Peter, iii:lo,) litertdly understood, would seem to imply either an annihilation, or an entire reconstruction of the physical universe—but his vivid imagery, like numerous other figures in the Bible, probably implies great changes, modifications, improvements, renovations in the moral and spiritual world, for 3. It cannot be that Peter's language applies to the paradise of departed saints. More probably, the "New Heavens" spoken of, refer to the future enlightened, peaceful and holy state of the church on earth. Of this holy, happy state Isaiah speaks thus, ah. lxv:l7-25—" For behold 1 create new heavens and a new earth, and the former shall not be remembered or come into mind." Then follows the illustration of the prophet, applying his language to the future church militant. He speaks of the blessedness of the new order of things ; by building houses, planting vineyards, living long on the earth, enjoying peace, and rejoicing in the absence of want, of sin, and of sorrow. The language of John (Rev. xxi:2, 3) seems of similar import: And I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down from God, out of heaven, ice. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them." It is clear that the terms heaven and heavenly are often applied to the church, or to Christ's kingdom on earth. When we read in Rev. xii:7-12—" And there was war in Heaven, that Micliael and his angels fought with the dragon and his angels—that the former conquered —that there was no more place found in heaven for the dragon ; but that the old serpent, called the devil and satan, was cast out,—we understand this of " stars of heaven," &c. Now, by what follows in this chapter, it is clear that these wonders in heaven were figures of the Church under bloody persecutions instigated by the old dragon called the devil and satan ; for it is added, " The woman fled into the wilderness before the dragon, and that he cast out waters as a flood, or a flood of wrath and cursing, out of his mouth, after the woman," &c. Again in Key. xiii:6, 7, we read of a beast who received his power from the dragon or satan, and who blasphemed God, his name, his tabernacle, or church, and those that dwell in heaven, and he warred with the saints and overcame them, and he had power over the nations, and all on earth whose names are not written in the Book of Life, worshipped him. All this evidently refers to the persecutions of the church on earth. I will only add in illustration of the sentiment stated, that the term heavenly is often used as applying to the church and people of God on earth. In Eph. i:3, Paul speaks of the church as blessed with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places. To the Phillipians (eh. iii:2o) he says, For our conversation (or citizenship) is in heaven." In Heb. iii:l, the brethren are made partakers of the heavenly calling. In eh. viii:s, the priests are said to serve under the shadow of heavenly things, and in eh. ix:23, speaking of the Christian in comparison with Jewish Church, Paul says, it was necessary that the pattern of things in the heavens—i. c. the sanctuary, its vessels, ice. —should be purified with these (bloody sacrifices); but the heavenly things themselves, i. c. the saints, with better sacrifices. Again, eh. xii:22, 23, Ye are come unto Mt. Zion— the city of the living God—the heavenly Jerusalem, &c. All these texts, and many others that might be adduced, prove, as we think, that the terms heaven and heavenly often refer, in a figurative sense, to the church of God on earth, and that the phrase a new heaven, in Isaiah and John, may refer to the time when the church militant shall be so illuminated with the truth and spirit of God, so purified from the elements of tho world, so triumphant over sin and satan, and so transformed into the image of her holy Head and Redeemer, that she shall represent or symbolize a new heaven, a new and renovated state of being. " 11. We will now examine the phrase, A New Earth. In Scripture the term Earth sometimes means the entire globe on which we live. Sometimes it refers only to the appearances and conditions of its surface. Sometimes earth or world applies to its inhabitants, and sometimes to their moral character as sinners. In the days of Noah it is said, The earth was corrupt before God, andrthe earth was filled with violence. And God looked upon the earth and behold it was corrupt, for " all flesh had corrupted his way upon, the earth." In Isaiah xi:4, the Lord threatened to smite the earth with the rod of his mouth and with the breath of his lips to slay the wicked. Isaiah xiii:l3, » I will shake the heavens and the earth shall move out of her place." Isaiah xxiv: 1,4, 5, 6, 19, 20. The Lord maketh the earth empty and waste, and turneth it upside down. The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth. The earth is defiled, therefore hath tbe curse devoured the earth. The windows from on high are open and the foundations of the earth do shake. The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly. The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgressions thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall and not rise again. Jer., also, eh. iv:23, 24, 28, speaking of the commotions among the nations, and the distresses in Judea, uses the like bold and graphic figures. I beheld the earth, and 10, it was without form, and void ; and the heavens, and they had no light. I beheld the mountains, and 10, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly. For this shall the earth mourn and the heavens above be Zeph. iii:B, says: "For all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy." In the New Testament, also, we find the terms, earth, earthy, world, &c, used to express the same idea, i.e., the peoples of the world, and especially the wicked. John iii: 31, He that is of the earth is earthy, and speaketh of the earth." Jo. i:10, He was in the world, the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him not. Ch. xiv:l7, Spirit of Truth, whom the world can" The not receive, because it seeth him not." Ch. xv:18,19, If tho world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love its own, but because ye are not of the world, but 1 have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you." Ch. xvii:l4, The world hath hated them because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the " " " " world." Ch. xvii:2s, " O righteous Father, the world hath not known Thee, but I have known Thee," The foregoing are examples of a very large class of texts which speak of wicked men and nations under the terms earth, world, earthy and earthly. We may now assume that the phrase "A New Earth," implies physical, social and civil regenerations, rather than annihilation and re-creation. That a particle of matter was ever annihilated, is without proof j thaj a particle ever will be, is contrary to all known analogy or philosophy. The B*°~ also asserts that the earth abideth forever, and that whatever God doeth it shall be forever. Phyaical changes are constantly taking place in matter. Decomposition, new eoa»- �THE FRIEND, JULY, 1863. 52 binations, with the numberless modifications developed through chemical, mechanical, and other agencies, often so change the appearances of matter, as to excite the exclamation, all things are new. Many are of the opinion that the globe on which we live, with its surrounding atmosphere, will one day be wrapt in flames ; that the visible heavens over us will catch the conflagration—that all will explode with startling detonations, melt with vehement heat, and pass away forever, to be succeeded by a new and more glorious universe called from nonentity by the fiat of Jehovah. We are of the number who doubt such a literal interpretation of biblical figures. But we do believe: Ist, That the time is hastening, when the face of the earth shall be so renovated, improved, beautified by cities, towns and hamlets, by cultivated fields, by orchards and vineyards and gardens, by roads and ncqucductt and bridges, by chariots of fire, nnd flashing telegraphs, by the leveling of mountains and filling of valleys, by the subduing of jungle, the draining of marshes, and the irrigation of sandy wastes, and by the ten thousand thousand discoveries in science and improvements in art, in which the world is yet in her infancy, thnt it will be so filled with riches, and so udorned with robes of beauty and glory, as to warrant the language, and " A new earth." Hints of such changes improvements may now.be found on a limited scale, in many parts of the world. But 2nd : We apprehend that the import of the phrase, a new earth, will be more fully realized in the social and civil condition of our race. Instead of the selfishness, pride, envy, jealousy, malice, hatred, hypocrisy, and other baneful passions, which often afflict families and neighborhoods, embittering all our social relations, all will be harmony, peace, love and happiness. And thus it will be in all civil institutions and administrations. Governments will be organized on principles of justice, reciprocity and fraternity. They will be paternal, impartial, pacific. They will be for the many, not for the few. Law will be equity, and peace will throw her broad shield over right and goodness, while her bright sword will flash terror into the soul of the transgressor. In civil matters all men will be free and The proud oppressor and the equal. haughty tyrant, like fossil remains, shall be numbered with the monsters of past ages. Rulers shall be benefactors, not devourers, of the people. No foot of power shall tread upon the neck of man. Prison doors shall open, chains shall fall, poverty, weakness and misfortune shall be pitied, birth and complexion neither favored or despised ; personal merit shall be appreciated, physical, mental and religious liberty shall be accorded to all; no civil arm shall be raised to gratify the blind and bigoted zeal of those who would crush and chain the conscience of man. Righteousness shall wave her wand, truth shall shine forth as the light, justice shall hold her balance high in view of all nations, and the whole earth shall rest from wrong, and break forth into singing. HI. And now, what is to be understood by the phrase, No more Seal Can it be that the ocean and all the waters of our ptanet will be dried up? or. that this globe will give place to a new world without —.a.. «. sea ? Such is the opinion of many, but with all deference to their wisdom, I am inclined to believe that the term sen, in the text, is used only as an emblem or similitude of affliction and sorrow of nations, multitudes, peoples or individuals, in turmoil, commotion, strife, revolution, ice.., and this opinion is founded on the fact that a very free and ample use is made in the Bible, of the sea in commotion, to represent men agitated and swayed by human passion and in conflict with one another. " The wicked are like the troubled sea." In Ps. lxii:B, David in speaking of his sore trials through his enemies, says, Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy water-spouts; all thy billows and thy waves hnve gone over me." Ps. xlv:7, "Which stilleth the noise of tho sea, the noise of their waves and the tumult of the people." Ps. xliv:l, 2, " Save me, 0 God ; for the waters are come in unto my soul. I nni come into deep waters, when? the floods overflow me." Isaiah, also, often uses the same figure. Speakinrrof the gathering of the nations against Judah, and of the noise of their roaring, he says, "They shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea, and if one look unto the land, behold dnrkness and sorrow." Isn. v:29,30. Again, eh. xvii:l2, 13, " Woe to the multitude of many people, who make a noise like the noise of the sens ; and to the rushing of the nations who make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters. The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters." Ch. 1i:42, " The sen is come up upon Babylon. She is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof. Her cities are a desodry land, a wilderness." " A sound of a cry from Babylon, nnd great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans, because the Lord hath spoiled Babylon—and destroyed out of her the great voice, when her wnves do roar like great waters." In Jer. vi:23, a nation from the North is threatened against Judah, cruel and without mercy, riding upon horses, and with a voice or noise roaring like the sea. The same language is repented against Babylon in eh. 1:42. Ezekiel also mnkes n free use of the same bold figure in predicting the overthrow of Tyre. Ezck. xxvi :3, "I am against thee O Tyrus, and will cause many nations to come up against thee, as the sea causeth her waves to come up." Y. 18, 19, " Now shall the isles (nations) tremble in the day of thy fall; yea, the isles in the sea shnll be troub- " led at thy departure." "When I shall bring up the deep upon thee, and great waters shall cover thee." Similar language is used in describing the overthrow of the proud Assyrian Monarchy. " Thus saith the Lord God, In the day when he went down to the grave 1 caused a mourning ; I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the floods thereof, and the great waters were stayed. I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall." Ezek. xxxi: 15. 16. Our Lord also uses like similitudes in foretelling the destruction of Jerusalem and the overthrow of the Jewish Commonwealth by the Romans. " There shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars j and upon earth distress of nations, with perplexity ; the sea and the waves roaring." Luke, xxi 26. " Men's henrts failing : for fear," ..." for the powers of heaven shall be shaken," that is, civil nnd ecclesiastical dignitaries shall be overthrown and subverted by the desolating waves of war, about to roll over the land. Jude, xiii, speaks of wicked and contentious men under the metaphor of " Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame." St. John, in the Revelation, viii : 8, 10, startles us with the figure of " A great mountain, burning with fire, being cast into the sea, changing its waters into blood, destroying a third part of its animal life, and a third part of its ships. Again, the third angel sounds, and n great blazing star falls from heaven upon the rivers and fountains of water, and multitudes of men died of those bitter waters." Whnt more graphic emblems could be used to describe the bitter pangs and the direful horrors of war when its flaming is thrown among the nations ? In eh. xii : 13, the devil is represented tinder the metaphor of n great dragon, or serpent, casting out of his mouth a flood of wuters after the woman, (the church), who had fled into the wilderness. These waters can tic no more nor less than persecutors of the saints, instigated nnd filled with bitter hatred to the truth by Satan. Agnin, the Revelator is taken by an angel into the wilderness, where lie sees a great harlot arrayed in purple and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls, sitting upon many waters, having a golden cup in her linnd full of abominations nnd filthiness, anil drunken with the blood of the saints and martyrs of Jesus. As the Apostle stood amazed at this vision, the attendant angel explained the mystery thus, " The woman whom thou sawest is that great city, (Haliylon, er Rome), which reigneth over the kings of the earth.'' And"The waters which thou snwest where the harlot sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues." Key. xvii. Thus, step by step, the Apostle is led over the fields and seas, and along the path of Zion's conflicts, until he comes to the final catastrophe, when tyranny, oppression, persecution and wnr, (all emblemized under the type of haughty Babylon or Rome), shall fall to rise no more, and when the shout of Zion's triumph, and the song of salvation shall echo and re-echo from heaven to earth, and from earth to heaven, and shall roll in an anthem of jubilee over the nations. " And a mighty angel took up a stone, like a great mill-stone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city, Babylon, be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all. Then a voice came out of the throne, saying, Praise our God all ye his servants, and ye that fear him both small and gTeat. And I heard, as it were, the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia! Jorthe Lord God Omnipotentreigneth." Rev. xviii: 21; xix 5, 6. '• And I saw a new heaven and a new : earth. And there was no more sea." From the darkness of ages and from ancient bigotry, superstition, intolerance and persecution; from the ashes and ruins of a debased, selfish and brutalized world ; from the bitter waters of strife; from the tempest �53 THE FRIEND, JULY, 1863. and thunder of war; from the rivers, the seas, the oceans of sorrow and blood with which the earth has been cursed, St. John saw a holy church and a happy world coming forth in robes of henvenly light, adorned like a joyous bride for her nuptials, and shining like the glorious sun, breaking forth from a night of darkness and of tempest Let the entranced prophet spcuk, And I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven, saying, Behold the tabernacle of God is with And men, nnd.Ho will dwell with them. God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain, for the former things are passed away. And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold I make all things new." Rev. xxi : 2, 5. " Whatever reference the foregoing language may have to the state of glorified saints in heaven, it does also, if we mistake not, assuredly hold up the picture and inspire the hopes of a brighter future for our world. It clothes our globe with the glories of heaven. It heralds the approach of golden ages when the physical, social, civil and spiritual features of the earth shall have been renovated and harmonized, so that the world will be a type of heaven, so that its songs shall be in symphony wirWthosc on high. And this jubilee of the earth will come. God has promised it. Prophets have foretold it. It is foreshadowed in the Bible by types, and symbols, and metaphors. The sweep of ages announces it. The signs of the times proclaim it. We read it in the stern conflicts and conquests of principles—in the solemn march of truth-rin the rapid translations, the multiplied copies and the widening circulation of the Bible—in the progress of art and science—in the exploration of continents, islands and oceans—in the facilities of communication among the nations—in the flashing of thought on the wings of lightning, and above all, in the silent spread and Calm, omsure triumphs of Christianity. over all as is itself diffusing it light, nipotent the earth, and old systems of idolatry, intolerance, oppression and bigotry are falling before it. Mind is being unchained. It is bursting from its cell and expatiating in new fields of light, and gathering, classifying and harmonizing the countless Taws and facts in the great handy-works of Deity, nature and revelation One thing is sure. Whatever side issues may arise, and whatever apparent reverses may be met in the great conflict of ages, truth and right will prevail at last. Righteous principles are assuming power on earth. The world moves in its spiritual as in its sidereal orbit. Civil and religious liberty force their claims upon the attention of the powers temporal and spiritual, and upon the of the gospel masses. The holy principles nre felt. The stone cut out of the mountain increases. The mustard-seed grows. The leaven works. The rill from the sanctuary depens and widens as it flows toward the Christ's kingdom will rise and great sea. extend and fill the earth. And who will not say Amen f So let it be. Let this kingdom, which is righteousness, and peace, and joy, prevail. And now, what can we, and what unit we do to hasten on this kingdom ? First, let us be loyal. Let us truly love and adore our King. Let us love his cause. Let us see to it that our hearts are with Christ; that we are in full and harmonious sympathy with Him ; that we urc Christian patriots; that our love for our Lord cannot die; that it will survive floods, tempests, fire and the wreck of all temporal things. Such adoration is the true result of success in the cause of truth. This is a power which moves all things—heaven, earth, man, and God. Without this love all else is vain. Words, forms, and nil the agencies and instrumentalities of human conception will make no true conquests for Christ. Second. If the heart be right, its love will be manifested. Its spiritual fires will work outwardly. There will be inquiry, like that of the converted Saul, " Lord, what wilt thou have me to do ? " There will be a senrching after the path of duty ; a desire to know the spiritual state of the world, the means to evangelize it, and our own personal duty in the work. Indifference and inactivity are inconsistent with true love or patriotism. All who love the kingdom of Christ will pray earnestly and while life lasts, " Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as in heaven." O, the glorious and unspeakable import of this prayer. The heart of the saint swells and fills with this desire. It is not mere sentimental pathos when he exclaims, " If I forget thee, O Zion, let my right hand forget her cunning." The true friend of Christ will also rejoice to use his substance and his influence in the The man who interests of this kingdom. gives grudgingly to the poor and suffering does not love the unfortunate ; and he who will not open his hand and offer his sympathies to his country in her hour of peril and of agony, is a rebel, and not a patriot. All who intelligently and truly love the kingdom of our Lord will be ready to engage in such personal services in this cause as the Master shall require. A sufficient number will stand ready to go among the heathen. Others will act as " Home Guards," as " recruiting officers," as producers, suppliers &c„ while those abroad and those at home will vie with each other tn desires, in prayers, in efforts nnd sacrifices to bring on the day when all shall know the Lord; when the ransomed nations shall return to Zion with songs and everlasting joy ; when the kingdom and the dominion and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven shall be given to the people and the saints of the Most High God : when a new heaven and " a sea of sorrow and a new earth " without blood shall bless our race; when love shall spread her celestial wings over all kindreds of men, and when the peace-banner of our glorious Lord shall wave around the world. Missionary and Ecclesiastical Re-Organization. For weal or woe, the affairs of the American Protestant Mission have recently undergone some very important changes. These changes have been initiated by the Rev. R. Anderson, D. D., Senior Secretary of the American Board of Foreign Missions, and during his repeated conferences with the members of the Hawaiian Evangelical Association. The occasion calling for these changes was the fact, that a Christian community had grown up upon these Islands, which no longer requires to be led, but which, it is believed, combines all the essential elements for self-government and control. Starting with this primary idea, it necessarily led to a re-organization of the basis of Missionary operations and ecclesiastical government. To bring afaffairs upon this new platform, has required much discussion and conference, but we are most happy to add, all of these deliberations have been conducted in the most friendly and becoming manner. There has been manifested a noble spirit of concession and deferential respect for each other's opinions. The following measures have been carried : first. All the Fathers of the American Mission upon these Islands, will hereafter be supported by appropriations of the American Board of Missions. This measure was adopted in order to relieve the native churches and as an act of justice to those who came to these Islands for the sole purpose of planting the institutions of the gospel. Second. The necessary steps have been taken to call into the Christian Ministry, and place as Pastors over native churches, Hawaiians. This measure has been absolutely necessary, in consequence of the fact, that in a very few years, the Fathers of the Mission must be removed by death. Third. The Hawaiian Evangelical Association has been so re-organized as to carry forward the work of Foreign and Home Missions, educate a Native Ministry, publish religious books, and combine both theforeign and native evangelical communities on these Islands. In due time the detailsof this undertaking will be spread before the public. So far aa we are able to form a correct estimate of these changes, and judge of their necessity and importance, it is our firm conviction that great and lasting good will be the result to the present and coming generations upon the Sandwich Islands. Taking this view of the subject, we regard the visit of the venerable Dr. Anderson to our shores as marking an important crisis in out ecclesiastical affairs, Queen's Hospital.—At the biennial meeting of the ana a* among the note-worthy events in Hatrustees of this institution, June 22d, the following waiian history. Hereafter we shall refer to retiring truttees were rs-eleotsd : as period 1863, the when the Christian 0. sad Bases, Ball, B. «. a Casus, A. W. A. Aldrlch, N. W. L. Green. Evangelical community on these Islands The following were appointed by the government: attained its majority, and assumed the attriBis Is. a. 0. Wyllie, lion. 0. M. Robertson, Bis Lordship butes of manhood. Our population and Bishop Stalej, Tbso. C. 11 tack and Stephen Spencer. His Majesty appointed 11. R. II Prinoe Kamehame- resources may be limited, but the principles ha Vice President. And at the quarterly meeting, evolved in our growth are important. The Jans 28, the following offioers were eleoted : Sandwich Islands are as a city that is set oa Serreiary-W. O. Davis. Trsssairar—o. R. Bishop. an hill, which can not be hid. Anditar—fa. L. Orsen. I �THE FRIEND,JULY, 1863. 54 REPORT Of the Examining Committee at the Annual Examination of Oahu College. The annual examination of Oahn College transpired on the 16th and 17th of June, in tbe spacious upper hall of tie College.* This ball was tastefully decorated with evergreens by tho fair hands ot tbe young ladies of tbe institution, assisted by tbe yoong men. The walls were hung with maps and drawings executed by the pupils in neat and beautiful style. Several expressive mottoes printed in moss upon white oambrio were arranged around the walls; as, " Live nnd Learn ;" " Onward and Upward." On tbe outside the beautiful flags of Hawaii and the United States floated in harmony upon one staff. The hall of examination was filled by the teachers snd students and an intelligent and appreciative audience. Classes were examined by the President, C T. Mills, in Geometry, Meteorology, Algebra, Elements of Criticism, and Intellectual Philosophy. These all acquitted themselves admirably, showing a thorough preparation on tbe part of the President, and a successful application on the part of tbe students. All were exceedingly interested in the Me teorologioal exercises. This is comparatively a new science, and its future developments are destined to awake the wonder of tbe world. Prof. W. D. Alexander examined classes in the Latin Reader, Sophocles, Virgil, and Analytical Geometry. Under tbe instruction of this truly classical professor, these pupils hare made excellent profioiency, showing a clear understanding of the ground over wbiob they have been so carefully led. In solving severe mathematical problems the class appeared admirably. Mrs. Mills examined classes in Chemistry, Geology, Botany, Natural Theology, and English Grammar, all of wbioh acquitted themselves to the admiration of the Committee. The Natural soienoes passed in rapid and animating review under the guidance of their accomplished and thorough teaoher, and both pupils aud spectators seemed to partake of the enthusiasm which an illustration of those soiences is calculated to awaken. The claases in History and Rhetoric taught by Miss H. F. Coan, showed a wakeful interest in their studies, and a good acquaintance with the branches in whioh tbey had been instructed, and gave much satisfaction to the Committee. Tbe paintings and drawings which adorned the walls were executed by the pupils under tbe direction of Miss Coan, and elicited much commendation. The classes of Mr. W. H. Bailey, assistant teacher, aoquitted themselves with honor in Arithmetic and Geography, including the exhibition of neatly executed maps, showing that they had been skillfully and faithfully taught. On both days of tbe examination the audience were entertained with exercises in Calisthenics, introduced and taught by Mrs. Mills. The music, the grace of motion, and the precision ol evolution of the young ladies, excited much enthusiasm on tbe part of the spectators. Tbe class in Vocal Music under tbe instruction of Mr. Sipp, thrilled the audience with performances of a high order, and gave evidence of the faithfulness and taste of their former instructor, Mr. Hassloober. Some of tbe selections exceeded anything of the kind before listened to on suoh an occasion. So spirited was tbe movement, and with so much soul was the expression rendered, thata listener remarked, "This is music on fire." Compositions were read in the following order Master Cbarlie Cooke gave us a good little account of Glaciers;" Master Eddie Damon entertained us by a story of Pets," beginning with Cowper's rabbits and ending with his own grey squirrel; Master Willie Csstle read us an interesting history of" Money;" Miss Minnie Rowell discoursed entertainingly on "Travels in California;" Miss Lisiie Lyons on a "Trip to Mauna Kea," "ouriosity snd wonder" were aroused by sll written dissertation on tbe attributes of the 1 by Miss A. Alexander, while Miss Sarah E. ond presented us a vivid panorama of Geology from the first day of creation through sll its periods •sal developments till the present time. : " " tour C. H. Corgstt told us of the Origin of Wands." both voloanio and ooraline, and S. L. Coan elucidated and enforced "The Importance of Mental Culture." Miss E. Armstrong amused us with a dendralogio fable, or A Convention of Trees," and Miss Ellen Lyman read a well studied essay on the Literary Claims of the Bible." Misses A. M Paris, and E. L. Smith in closing the readings presented ns with farewells; the first to the out-going members of tbe school; the second from that class in turn. Kach moved the fountains of tbe soul by reminisceDOes of Punahou, and by tender allusions to tbe past, present and future. It would not be well to specify the peculiar excellencies of any one or more of these productions, but we will remark in general, that they were all good, aud many of them of a high order. Some of these compositions received the compliment of audible applause, or the higher one of silout tears. Taking the examination as a whole, it was very satisfactory; and the Committee are happy to Bay that the President and his corps of teachers deserve all praise for their wise, energetic and successful labor in the College, and the students for their application to study, their progress in mental discipline, and in social nnd moral culture. The chief criticism we would moke is that some of the pupils spoke in so low a tone as to make it difficult or impossible for many of the audience to hear. This may be corrected if the students will gain more assurance and self possession by feeling that their teachers, the examining committee, and tbe spectators, are all in kindest sympathy with them. On each day of the examination the visitors were refreshed with a bountiful lunch, which did the highest credit to the training of tbe young ladies in the domestic department of tbe institution. The Rhetorical exercises were reserved for Thursday evening, June 18th, in the Stone Church at Honolulu. This large edifice was filled by an immense crowd of spectators, twice as many, perhaps, as ever assembled before on a similar occasion. The great audience room was decorated with devices and mottoes in evergreen; the Royal Hawaiian standard spread like a pavilion over the assembly; while the English, American, French, and German Digs hung over the platform. The exercises, under the direction of the President, opened with singing in solo and ohorus, accompanied by the piano. Then followed a declamation by F. O. Lyman, Reform Irresistible;" succeeded by another on Genius nnd Study" from Abraham Kahai, a native Hawaiian. Next came singing in quartette, and a solo and ohorus followed by an oration on Nature Contrasted with Art" by A. Caldwell, jr., and a second on Truth the great object of Study" by Joseph Emerson. Animated singing in trio and solo and chorus followed, after wbioh two orations were pronounced; one on " Patriotism," by H. P. Baldwin, another on Liholiho" by J. E. Emerson. A sweet solo and a spirited chorus were next in order, and the audience was then entertained by an oration on "Literature," by H. Thompson, and another on the Growth and Position of the United States," by A. B. Lyons. A graduating class of nine young ladies then presented themselves upon the platform to listen to a tender and paternal farewell address from their honored President, at the close of which eaoh of the nine was presented through the Treasurer, Mr. S. N. Castle, with a Diploma. Dr. Anderson next briefly addressed tbe class, when tbe ohoir, under the direction of Mr. Sipp, thrilled the great audience with the closing duet and ohorus, and the scene ended with a thousand expressions of satisfaction. On Friday evening, the 19th, a reunion of the teachers, pupils, friends and patrons of the institution took place in the parlors and college balls. Tbe evening passed in free and cheerful conversations, each one seeming to communicate and to enjoy happiness. A long table extending nearly the whole length of the hall was tastefully laid with a great variety of refreshments, while the presence of more than three hundred guests gave pleasing evidenoe that Oahu College has the confidence and oordial support of an enlightened Christian public The oommittee most heartily commends the institution to theprayers and the patronage of the friends of a sound Christian education. T. Coak, "I R. Asdbbsob, I Examining R. W. Wood, ; f Committee. G. B. Rowill, J " " " " " " " " " " The Exeter Hall Meeting.—The following extract from a private letter written by a Bostonian in London will be read with interest: London, Jan. 30,1963. Yesterday, in the evening, we went to the great Emancipation Meeting at Exeter Hall —really a very great affair, I send you this morning's Star, with a full account ofit. Exeter Hall holds about as many people as Boston Music Hall; it was packed full before the time of beginning; another large hall next it was then filled; and finally a great additional meeting was held in the street. Many thousands of people were present of middle classes, representing the different degrees of these. There were a few Southerners (rebels) close by me, and extremely small comfort they gained at that meeting. You must understand that other very large similar meetings have been held, with similar results, at Manchester, Liverpool, Bradford, Stroud, Bristol and other places. Further, you may have learned that the Times and theother pa pers in the Southern interests have been proclaiming that England had no sympathy for the North; that the South really represented the cause of freedom ; that England had abandoned her anti-slavery principles, and the like. These Meetings have been held to pronounce denial to all this, and to express sympathy with the North in its struggle against the sUa/c power. I must refer you to the publisrred account for particulars of the speeches and resolutions, explaining to you simply the manner in which they were delivered and received. I will say first, that this meeting, composed of over three thousand people (mostly nen, though there were many women), was most decidedly and enthusiastically in favor of the free North. The Times was hissed and groaned at as strongly as it would be in America. It wns denounced (along with other public prints and speakers) as belieing the feelings of the English people, The history of slave aggression and lesigns was clearly stated by the speakers ..nd the strongest case made out for the North. President Lincoln was cheered in a manner that would do credit to old Faneuil Hall, and the sentiment " Union & Emancipation" brought down the house with tremendous applause, the clapping and cheering was splendid people jumped up and waved their hats and handkerchiefs, presenting one of the most exciting scenes I ever witnessed. The resolutions, embodying the fullest sympathy for the President and the loyal people of America, were carried with hearty cheers and waving of hats and handkerchiefs. " No more Alabamas to prey upon American commerce," was ; stronglyapplauded. The sentiment by Thos. Hughes—" No recognition of the Slave Empire of America; no reception of a Minister representing the atrocities of slavery by England ; no pollution by the kiss of a slave ambassador on the hand of England's Queen ;" was received with tremendous applause, lastihg many minutes, and repeated. I wish you could have heard that meeting. It ought to be known all over America. It was a thorough vindication of old English reputation for devotion to Freedom, and an expression that I doubt not will accomplish what it was evidently intended it should— the strengthening of the hearts and the hands �55 THE FRIEND, JULY, 1863. of those fighting the battle of Freedom in America. The sentiment "No war with free America" was received with great applause. 1 can't tell half the effective incidents of the evening. Three attempts were made by Southern sympathizers to address the meeting, and I never saw men more completely put down. The first, a Mr. Field, tried for ten minutes to speak in favor of the South, and all the while he was greeted by jeers, groans and hisses, and made inaudible. The next man got up in the gallery, and after bawling inaudibly to a similar din, was taken out by the police. The last man read his resolutions, and was coughed and jeered off the stage. Field's resolutions in favor of the South were at last read. About a dozen voted for them, and one tremendous " No" pealed out against them. The speakers for the North were They listened to with great attention. ought to be publicly thanked from America. Hon. and Rev. Baptist Noel, Thomas Hughes, Rev. Newman Hall, and, indeed, all the speakers, ought to be remembered as friends indeed. Tbe old spirit of English devotion to freedom is waking up, I assure you, and does not intend being longer quiet or misrepresented. It takes old England some time to get started, but she is starting now, be assured, unmistakably. J. F. H. ADVERTISEMENTS. ADVERTISEMENTS. ADVERTISEMENTS. BAM'L. B. J. B. ITlUlirti.,. CASn.Pt. AMOS. a. OOOKB CASTLE & COOKE, AGENTS FOR Pr Javnes Medicines, Wheeler «V Wilaon'i Sewing Machines, ThalVew England Mutual Life Insurance Company, cash •Bssets $2,350,000, KiiPiOlds, Devoe «fc Pratt—lmporters and Manufacturers of Paints, Oil and Varnish, and Crystal Coal OH, C. Van Home &. Co.'s Carriages and Carriage Materials. AUOTIONBBH, (SnOCBSSOB TO A. F. EVBBBTT.) 389-ly At his late rooms. Queen Street. ii. w. severance, atjotionbeh, AND COMMISSION MERCHANT, Fire-proof Store, Robinson's Building, QUEEN STREET, HONOLULU. Will continue business at the new stand. 336-ly SHERMAN PICK, H. A. P. CARTKR, Honolulu. Honolulu. C. BREWER & CO., - . BBSBWaM I &■—^-"JK Commission & Shipping Merchants, Honolulu* Onlm. 11. I. —RKFKK TO— John. M. Hood, Ksq., JamesHunnkwkll, Eaq.,^ Charles Brrwkr, Ksq.,> ) H. A. Pkirck, Es i-, Messrs. Mcßukr & Merrill, > Chas. Woloott Brooks, Ksq., Messrs. Wm. PdStau & Co., KSM, I'kki.k, HC6BELL & Co. \ 330-ly New York. Boston. . „ »...„IMW San VnaciKo „ Hongkong. Manila. ALLEN St BERRILL, SUCCESSORS TO George "W. TVEacy, rpHE SAILORS' HOME, BUILT AND owned by the "Honolulu Sailors' Horns Society," has recently been placed under the management of the undersigned. They hope, by strict attention and fidelity, to merit the patronage of the seafaring community. The House has tees built snd fitted up in a style to suit the wants of Officers and Seamen who are spending a few weeks on shore, or wish to remain for a single night, or a single meal. Shower Baths on the Premises. X AWAIHAK. HAWAII, Ship Masters and Agents, while putting their vesWill continue the Oeneral Merchandise and Shipping basines sels under repairs, are respectfully invited to send at the above port, where they are prepared to furnish the their crews to the Home, where every attention will justly celebrated Kawaihae Potatoes, and such other re be paid to their comfort. cruita aa are required by whale ships at the shortestnotice, Officers' table, with lodging, $6 per week,. 320-ly and on the most reasonable terms. BOOKS AND INSTRUMENTS FOR THE MARINER. Y. N. FLITNER'B Watch and Jewelry do. do. do. 6 CAPTAIN AND MRS. OAT, March 1861. 1, Managers. Honolulu, \T Establishment, found following ia Kaahumanu street, will bo works the Almanacks for 1862. Merchant's, Shipmaster'sand Mechanic'sAssistant. Laws of the Sea. The Art of Sailmaking. : Ship's Compasses and Dividers. —also— Mast-head Glasses and Marine Telescopes. —ALSO— Chronometers and Chronometer Watches. SEIVTIST. 332-ly Offioe corner of Fort and Hotel Streets. E. HOFFMANN, M. D., Physician and Surgeon, Makee'sBlock, corner Queen and Kaa 320-ly humanu streets. H. STANGENWALD, M. D., BURCEON, PHYSICIAN ANDPhysician, member of the Late New York City Dispensary Medico Chirurgtcal College and of the Pathological Society ofNew York. Street. Residence in Office at Dr. Judd's Drug Store, on Fort Nuuanu Valley, opposite thatof E. O. Hall, Baa,. 330-ly M. D. C. H. WETMORE, PHYSICIAN fc SURGEON. HILO, HAWAII, S. I. N. B.—Medicine Chests carefully replenished at the HILO DRUG STORE. 6_tf — —ALSO TlrKri.lt ie MERRILL, Commission Merchants AND AUCTIONEERS, Ambrotype and Photographic A great variety Mariner. — AND— Many ornamental articles, including Breast Pins, Rings, Cups, &c, &c. Particular attention given to repairing and rating Chronometers. * Wheeler CASTLE COOKE, AOENTS FOR & Wilson's SEWING MACHINES! ALLTHELATEST MACHINE HAS former premiums, was IWIS Impiovenients, and, addition awarded the Ms-heat prise alwve all Kuropean and American to Sewing Machines at the Worlds Exhibition iv PARIS in 1881, GALLERY * * P'esuT ?U ££f of Honolulu Packets. rxr All freight Arriving in transitu for the Sandwich Island*., will be received and forwarded by the Regular Dispatch Line' " rata op commission. Particularattention paid to forwarding and transhipment of merchandise,sale of whalemen's bills, aud other exchaafa, In —ALSO— of merchandise and specie under open policies, sappy of other articles useful to the aarance njr whaleship., chartering ships, etc. and at the Exhibition in London in 1882.Machineis found in the The evidence of thesuperiority of this record ofiv salea. In 1861— The Urover Baker Company, Boston, The Florence Company, Massachusetts, stairsOffice—up the Post Tbe Parker Company, Connecticut, to Next door J. M. Singer lr Co., New York, over the Commercial Advertiser" Flnkle Lyon, Caaa. W. Hovrlund,Delaware, Printing Office. Co., Cincinnati, 0., M. Greenwood -Brß.irTiTli.irs TAKEN IN EVERY STYLE. N. 8. C. Perkins, Norwalk, 0., Pholoeraphs, MHalneotype» for Smith, Connecticut, Wilson H. sold 18,600, whilst the Wheeler Wilson Compsay, of llridge LockUto., Landacapes, Views of Dwellings, tc, at reasport, madeand sold 19,726 during the same period. 5, assortment of c *f ON HAND—A good 11 tf H. L. IHABL. XT Picas* Cssll and Examine. 11-ll] FRAMES, " AGENTS OF THE Regular Dispatch Line English Charts of North and South Pacific. in CHASE'S 1. O. MBBBIIX D. O. MntOBB. —ALSO— 314-ly DR. J. MOTT SMITH, f/c. LOSS ■dSBStp-—. I Seamens' do. J. U. COLE, ""aLSO SAILOR'S HOME. Importersand Wholesale and Retail dealers in General Merchandise, In the Fireproof Store in King street, opposite tho Seamen's Ch&pcl. " " * * 117 and 119 California street. Captain B T. Snow, » BKrElt TO | Meters. C Bauwaa «V 00., Honolulu i REMOVAL. G. W. VOLLUM, BOOK-BINDER: HAVING TAKEN TilK STAND ON KAA- humanu street, over the store of Bolles k Co., opposite Bishop k Co.'s Bank, is now prepared to execute all orders for Binding Books,- Pamphlets, Newspapers, Music, Old Books, &c„ site. Particular attention paid torebiuding old and choice Books. Mr. Y. baring had many years experience In Book-binding, In all its branches, hopes to receire a share of the business required In Honolulu. Orders from the other islands should be accompanied with particular directions as to tbe style, and IT tbe work is to match volumes previously bound, a aample volume should be ssnt with tbeJob. BOUND VOLUMES to 18Mvelwswe, FRIEND,FROM 1845 sate by th« Publisher-Price •! per OFrorTHE bound together. �THE FRIEND , J l L 1, 1863. 56 "The 4th." All men are born free and equal;" so declared the Signers of the American De- " claration of Independence, eighty-seven years ago. Washington and his compatriots vindicated and established this great truth during the Revolutionary War, with reference to the Anglo-Saxon, or white races, scattered over North America. Unfortunately, the negro, or black race, was not included among those to whom this principle was applied, that, " all men are born free and equal." The time has now come when the negro race must be admitted into the enjoyment of the same rights as the white man. This we honestly believe to be the decree of Heaven, notwithstanding Jeff, Davis and his fellow rebels declare that negro-chattel slavery is, and shall be, the corner-stone of the Southern Confederacy. Here lies the grand secret of this fearful struggle. Some writer' may throw dust in the eyes of the people and the reading public, by declaring that this is not the cause of the war, but facts speak, in language not to be misunderstood. We arc glad that Americans in Honolulu are disposed to observe the day, and and we hope, in the midst of their festivities, they will remember their countrymen who are struggling to maintain the flag of the Union. Agreeable to a Programme, which we have seen, the following Order of Exercises will be observed at the Fort Street Church, at 10 o'clock, A. m. 1. 2. 8. 4. Voluntary, l>rayer, - ---- National Ode, Oration. 5. National Ode, 6. Benediction, • By the Choir. By Rev. S. C. Damon. " America." Rev. E. Corwin. • » Hail Columbia." • Rev. R. Anderson, D. D. Plcale ait Oahu College. - 7. Raising of United States Flag. 8. Singing, " Star-Spangled Banner." Declaration of Independence." 9. Reading, " 10. Singing, " Charleston Ode." 11. Impromptu, " Flag of our Union. --- Hawaiian Language.—Hereafter the native language is to become the medium of communication in the meetings of the Hawaiian Evangelical Association. The records are to be kept in English and Hawaiian. It has also been announced by Dr. Anderson, and approved of by the missionaries of the American Board, that all persons supported by the funds of the Board, at Oahu College, must acquire the Hawaiian language. The Rev. H. H. Parker has been invited to instruct in this department during the coming year. His reputation as an adept in the language is very high. This is a movement in the right direction. The masses of the Hawaiian people will always speak this language. Their numbers are as one to thirty of the Anglo-Saxon, then let their language be cultivated and improved. We hope the Dictionary of Judge Andrews may be published without delay. Never was there a more urgent call for a book of this rharaoteT. abodes, with schools for their children and religious instruction for all, and the introducexpressing This distinguished Officer of the United tion of the marriage tie. Without th«m, an opinion as to policy of arming they States Navy, now commanding the naval make excellent soldiers and are brave." forces off Charleston, will be remembered by •ome of our old residents as formerly ComThe Ebony Race and the War. mander of the U. S. Sloop Cyane, (184T), In our private correspondence, we occain the Pacific. He visited the lislands-mThe sionally meet with an idea worthy of a wider Rev. Mr. Coan lately received a letter from circulation. The attention of all classes of him, from which we are permitted to copy the American people is now so entirely abthe following extracts: sorbed in the great struggle, that our private Port Royal, S. C, ) contain frequent allusions to the pro" Wabash," February letters 8, 1863. , of events. In a letter lately received gress " My appreciation, however, of your remembrance has not been dimmed by this from the Rev. Roswell D. Hitchcock, D. D., delay, for I experienced heart-felt pleasure on Professor in the Union Theological Semireading, many times, that most interesting nary, of New York City, we find the followepistle. Not alone because it evinced how than closely you had followed my career during ing. (We were fellow collegians more this terrible war, and thereby showing your a quarter of a century ago). affectionate regard for me, but because I feel " But these last two years have been heavencouraged and strengthened by the views ily laden with cares and labors. We are in you have expressed in regard to the war the midst of one of the greatest movements itself. So patriotic and yet so consistent of modern history. The war is not yet with true Christian principles, which have ended; and the feeling is.strong with me governed, so eminently, your long life of that it is not likely to end very soon. I doubt usefulness. 1 remember well your aversion the ending of it till the nation, in its masses, to war and all its accessories, for I once had takes kindly hold of the negro. Victory has to defend my profession in one of those for its price, I suspect, a hearty, general acpleasant hours I passed with you and Mrs. knowledgment of human rights, as such. Coan, at beautiful Hilo, in the only way I The Revolutionary War of s<jven years yin« presume a Christian can, by referring to the dicated the rights of white men. This war, love of the Savior to the Centurion, and the whether it be three, or four, or seven, or ten remarkable fact that all four of the Roman years, is for the black man. It is a solemn officers, mentioned in Scripture, are alluded fact, that the per-c.entage of " God's people " to in a favorable light, and no exception is larger in the ebony than in the ivory race. taken to their calling. I believe that wars God be praised, public sentiment is moving The growth of the are, very often, very wicked, and undertaken in the right direction. for greed or conquest, ice., but if ever a Anti-Slavery sentiment in the loyal States nation was driven by stern necessity into has had a tropical rapidity of late. Be paone, it has been ours, and as dark as the tient. The leaven works." hour seems to be, I have entire faith that Hawaiian Evangelical Association. we shall have the blessing of God upon it. Before He may vouchsafe this, He may conThe following members were present to tinue to scourge, for we have, as a nation, attend the Annual meeting of this Associawantonly offended Him in many ways. But this rebellion is too wicked a one to succeed. tion:—from Hilo: Rev. T. Coan, Rev. D. B. clings to us like the shirt of Hawaii.— Dr. Wetmore. Kau: Rev. O. 11. " Slaveryprovoked the war, and is now a Lyman, and Nessus—it Gulick. Kealakeakua: Rev. J. D. Paris. Kodisturbing element in states where it never hala: Rev. E. Bond. existed. It is a leprous spot which taints Maui. Lahaina: Rev. D. Baldwin, Rev. J. everything it touches. I have never been an F. Pogue. Wailuku: Rev. W. P. Alexander. abolitionist—on the contrary, most of my Hana: Rev. S. E. Rishop. oAnn.—Honolulu: Rev. L. Smith, Rev. E. W. life, a sturdy conservative on the vexed Clark, Rev. L. Andrews, Rev. P. J. Gulick, how can cannot now see we question; but I Rev. C. T. Mills, Key. E. Corwln, Rev. A. Bishhave peace and the Union again, with slav- op, Rev. S. C. Damon, Prof. Alexander, S. N. ery in our midst. If our deluded Southern Castle, G. P. Judd, A. S. Cooke, E. 0. Hall. people could only see their true interests, in Kaneohe: Rev. B. W. Parker. Waialua: Rev. J. the light which strikes all who come to this S. Emerson. £ma. 4Rev. J. Bicknell. Rev. G. B. Rowell. Koregion, using this unhappy race as free Kauai.—Waimea: laborers, what a blessing it would be. The loa: Rev. D. Dole, Rev. J. W. Smith. Waiolc: degradation, over-work and ill-treatment of Rev. E. Johnson, Mr. Wilcox. (C7 The only American Protestant clerthe slaves is greater than I deemed possible, while the capacity ofthe negro lor improve- gymen absent were the Rev. J. S. Green, of ment is higher than I believed. He is docile, Makawao, Maui, and Rev. L. Lyons, of not vindictive, emotional, with strong religi- Waimea, Hawaii. ous tendencies, and great local attachment. He will run from slavery, but as a free laDIED. borer would rarely leave the place of his Wbitb—ln Santa Crui, California, on the26th of May. Mrs. birth. Some good people have come down Sophia K. White, aged 26 years, eldest daughter of E. 0. Hall, of this city. as missionaries to those who have remained Esq., Holt—ln Honolulu, June 18, Hannah, wife of J. D. Holt, on the plantations, producing marked results, Esq., of Una city. Jobbs—ln Honolulu, June 20, of dropsy, John Coffin Jones, first, in improving their physical condition, aged 27 years—a son of the late J. C. Jones, Esq., formerly at this place. teaching tnem cleanliness of person, with AmericanConsul PbaTT—At Marshall, Michigan, March 30, Hon. Abnrr order and arrangement in their humble Pratt, lata U. 8. Consul at this place. Admiral Dupont's Opinion of the War, And the Negro Question. — > � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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