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HONOLULU, OCTOBER 1. 1873.
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Americans, Did Gaetano or Cook discover the Sandwich
Islands?
subscribers
to
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American
Relief
taat
Fund,
are
to
their
annual
subrequested
pay
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This is becoming one of those vexed his■; "'.
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DidGactanoor Cook Discover the Uswallan islands....si, »i scriptions for 1873. The President of the
torical
questions, which may prove as diffi|~
Letter from a Sailor
«■»
impressions Irom a Trip to theCoast
Association, A. J. Cartwright, Esq., is alThe Poet Kins
cult to decide, as who killed (Jock Robin ?
■•;,:■•;,
Mrs. Lewes, alias " Geoi*.4 hlhoi
»* ways ready to receive funds, and note applior was there ever a William Tell ? or did
Marine Journal
??
oo cations for aid.
Sacredness of Civil Government
so
Pocahontas save Capt. Smith's life? or did
Missionaries In China and Japan
»»
tfouni Men's Christian Associalion
Geography.-We have Caliph Omar bum the Alexandrian Library '.'
New Hawaiian
the disreceived from the Inspector General of We had supposed those interested in
about
to
cussion
of
this
had
come
question,
Schools, Mr. H. R. Hitchcock, a copy of n
OCTOBER I. I _7_.
these
the
thai
opinion,
upon
settle
down
new school book published in the Hawaiian
language. It is beautifully illustrated aud islands were seen by Spanish Navigators, in
Query.
neatly printed. The printing was executed the 16th century, and perhaps visited by
/Is there evidence that tin 1 Hawaiians of at the Gazette printing office. Hereafter them, but that to Capt. Cook belonged the
<ifty years ago had a conscience ?
Hawaiian boys and girls will be inexcusnble, honor of making them known to the world.
Conscience is defined to l* that faculty if they grow up in ignorance of Europe, We were led to adopt this inference from
which decides between right and wrong, ap- Asia,
Africa and.America, and the inlands the fact that English writers upon questions
proving the right and condemning the wrong. of Polynesia.
of this nature had fairly admitted the fact.
*
It has been declared that this faculty is uniRead tfie opinion of W. H. Kosser, author
A Pleasant Sight.—The morning and of North Pacific Pilot, published in London,
versal,—that there is no tribe of men so deevening visits of the two "busses" from 1876, and now copied in this issue of the
graded and savage as to be without it.
My inquiry has reference simply to the Punahou, gathering up and distributing the
Read also, the opinion of a certain
Hawaiians at the time the missionaries land- pupils, are among the pleasing sights of'
iard, who copies certain documents
ed on these shores. Is there evidence that Honolulu. The young people, going and from the Archives at Madrid, and which we
they prossessed a conscience ? As yet, I have returning, must have a jolly good time. also publish. This latter document was profound no evidence. Remorse ia an evidence Boys and girls do not, in these days, climb cured through the Spanish authorities in the
of the existence of conscience. Thieves, the hill of knowledge "on foot," as in the
Uast Indies at the solicitation of the Minisrobbers and murderers are lashed by con- days of their parents, who gazed on the pic- ter of Foreign Relations of the Hawaiian
science, if they have one. But did the Ha- ture in Webster's spelling book, representing
King.
waiians, who were admitted to the church the youthful student trudging up the high
We have been led to publish these docuin 1837 and 1838 give expression to any- hill through the hall of Science, to the tembecause we could not arrive at the
ments,
thing like remorse ?
ple of Fame on the summit.
of Mr. Gibson, as published in the
opinion
I have heard of mothers who expressed reJournal,
IV.,
Punahou
Vol.
No.
I.—We
Nuhou
of
Sept. 23d, viz.: •• the endeavor to
gret for having killed their children ; but it
are
to
receive
number
of
ancient imperfect Spanish disidentify
the
first
a
new
this
glad
was a feeling akin to that which they felt
near
volume
of
this
under
the American const with the
covery
The
publication.
a
or
article
of
for having lost dog any
propis absurd. The assumpare
to
Hawaiian
Islands
not
be
graduates of Oahu College
erty./
has
not
a
of evidence to sustain
particle
out-done
older
lads
older
countries.
tion
by
in
Now, Mr. Editor, if any of your corresit,
The
is
and
nor
a
available
fact for a foundasingle
Journal
and
improved
enlarged,
pondents will enlighten me on this subject, a
iavor will be conferred upon all who are in- abounds with original matter fresh and spicy. tion." Although not agreeing with this
Alliquis.
terested in such questions.
We are pleased with the idea of noting the writer, yet we are glad that he opened the
whereabouts
of the girls and boys who have discussion of this historical question, for
Return Borrowed Books.—The person
the institution during the past year, and reading upon such subjects is far more profitleft
St.
John's " Hellenes " from
who borrowed
able, than very much which is served up for
the editor, will please return the same. We we hope these notes will be followed by
the perusal of the reading public.
memoranda
to
the
of
forrelating
graduates
are always willing to lend, but how can we
mer
items
are
It has long appeared to us quite remarkaout
return
Such
years.
personal
always
do so, unless
friends will
those
ble that no English historical writer of
already out.
interesting.
Attention Americans.—All good
COXTKNTS
rest
Ofiobrv. I XIX.
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THE FRIEND.
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authority has given to this subject a most
thorough investigation. It is a subject which
we should have supposed some Englishman would have persued, even if it required
a visit to Madrid and a thorough reading of
the Journals of the Spanish Navigators of
16th century. No one doubts Cook's ability
as Navigator and Explorer. He was preeminently the greatest Explorer of unknown
seas, who flourished during the 18th century.
For his fair fame, however, he most unfortunately allowed himself to be treated and
worshipped as a god. We have thought
that this must be the reason why among
even his own countrymen here or in England, there never could be aroused sufficient
enthusiasm to erect a suitable and becoming
monument to his name, on the spot where
he so unfortunately was killed.
HISTORY OF TUB DISCOVERY OF THE sS_UU_, AND
I'iiogress or tue Pboplb.—ln the old Spanish charts
taken by Anson from the Manila galleon there is a
group of islands called Los Majoa, the different members of which are termed La Mesa, La Desgrocioda,
Los Monjes, ltocca Partida, La Nublada, &c.; and
they are placed between lat. 18° and 22° N., and between long. 186° and 139° W.; but their existence
in that position—at least as regards longtitude—was
disproved by the subsequent voyages to the Pacific of
LaPerouseiu 1786, ofPortlook and Dixon in 1786,
and of Vancouver in 1793. Tbe Spanish word Aftta,
however, signifies table, and is sufficiently indicative
of the island of Hawaii, tbe mountains of which do
not, like most volcanoes, rise into peaks, but are
flat at tbe top, making what is called by mariners
table-land ;'' while other points of coincidence—such
as an island-group extending through four degrees
of latitude and longitude, the position as regards latitude nearly correct, &c, —would seem to refer to
what is now called the Hawaiian archipelago. The
discrepancy as regards longitude (nearly twenty degrees) counts for little where dead-reckoning was
tbe means employed to determine that element; as
great an error was made by the Hon. E. I. Co.'s ship
Derby in 1719 proceeding from the Cape of Good
Hope to India, when tbe islands off the west coast of
Sumatra were thought to be the Maldivhs.
The positions given above are, according to various
authorities, those in which tbe Spaniards plaosd the
islands of Los Majos but from a note, p.
second volume of Voyage dc La Perouse atsflj r d u
Monde, redigc par M. L. A. Milet
lisbed in Paris in 1797, it appears,—that Gaetano in
1542 sailed from Navidad on the west coast of Mexico
(lat. 20° N.); he steered a due west course for 900
leagues, when he discovered a group of islands inhabited by savages nearly naked ; the islands were
fringed with coral, and grew oocoanuts and other
fruit ; there was neither
nor silver ; he named
them Isles del Rev ; the island 20 leagues more to
tbe west he called Isle dc las Huertas. It is also
stated that the Spanish editor of Gaetano's account
placed tbe islands between 9° and 11° N, a clerical
error for 19° and 21°.—Now Navidad is in lat 19°
10' N., long. 104° 40* VY.; 900 leagues in lat. 194°
is 2864' diff. long, (or 47° 44'), which added to the
•long, ot Navidad gives I(2° 24', or 24 degrees short
the long, of the nearest point of Hawaii,—but 64
'egrets short of the long, of Oahu,—and the next island (Kauai) is 60 miles or 20 leagues distant. Thus,
if the information conveyed in the note to La Perosse's
Voyage is correct, it is more than probable that
Gaetano did visit the Sandwich Islands ; but it is
extraordinary, as Cook observes, that considering
their favorable position, the Spanish galleons did not
visit them.—JVcrfA Pacific Pilot, London, 1870.
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Government or thb Marianas Islands, )
Ayana, January 27th, 1866.
cry of the Hawaiian Islands
isis.
by Spanish navigators.
It gives me great pleasure to transmit to you, herein
enclosed, said notifications translated into the English
and French languages, obtained from the archives of
Spain, by order of Her Catholic Majesty. These
documents will satisfy you that thia long contested
discovery took place in the year 1666. These notifications reached me at the same time as your letter.
I am much gratified to comply with your desire on
this subject, and I should be happy to have some
other occasions to be agreeable to His Hawaiian Majesty,and to strengthen the ties of our good relations.
May Ood keep you in his guard.
Felipe dc la Corte.
[Signed,]
To His Excellency Ihe Minister of Foreign Affairs of
His Hawaiian Majesty.
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The author most explicit in regard to these surmises,
is the said Fleurien, who, on the 422 dpage of the
By taking from Captain Coo*
first volume, says
the barren honor of the first discovery of the Sand
wich Islands, I do not endeavor to diminish the glory
he has so justly merited :'' and he continues, on page
423:
Lieutenant Roberts, who constructed tho
chart of the third voyage of the English navigator,
in which are traced his three voyages around the
world and towards both poles, has preserved the Mesa
group of the Chart of the Spanish Galleon, and has
placed it with its centre 19° east ofOwhyhee, and in
the parallel of the latter island. He doubtless thoughl
that by preserving the group found by the Spaniards.
none would dare dispute with the English the first
discovery of the Sandwich Islands. But Arrowsmith,
in his General Chart, of 1790, aad in his Planisphere
of 1794, sacrificing his amour proprt to the evidence,
only lays down one of the two groups. Since 1786,
La Parouse, desirous of ascertaining if such island.)
really existed to the eastward of Sandwich, passe
over in the same parallel, 800 leagues from east Iv
nest, and in the whole of this expanse be found
neither group, island, nor any sign of land ; and did
not doubt that the island of Owhyhee, with its arid
mountain in the form of a table, was 'La Mesa' of
the Spaniards;" and he adds, at page 126: "In
the charts, at the foot of this Archipelago, might be
written
Sandwich Islands, surveyed in 1778, by
Captain Cook, who named them, anciently discovered
by the Spanish navigators.'" Perfectly in accord
with this opinion, and strengthening it by an evident
proof, is the log of the corvettes Descubierla and
Atrtvida, on their voyage from Acapulco to Manill.i.
which manuscript is preserved in this office, and
apropos to this cose, states, at folio 26 : With a
sea so heavy from N. W. and N., that while tbe rolling of the ship increased, and with it the irksome
interruption of our internal duties, the speed decreased, with considerable delay to our voyage
scarcely by noon of the 20th could we consider ourselves to be at 72, in tbe meridian of Owhyhee, about
66° longitude and 13° latitude ; nevertheless we had
not, according to our calculation, an error of less thau
7" to the eastward, which, considering the long logline we made use of and that that error ought not
necessarily to be the maximum to which it should be
circumscribed on the voyage, strongly supported the
suspicion that the Sandwich Islands of Captain Cook
were Los Monges and Olla of the Spanish oharts, discovered by Jaun dc Gaytan in 1666, and situated
about 10° to the eastwai d of the new position fixed
upon by Uie English." We thus see that the presumptive or circumstantial evidence as to the true
discoverer of the Sandwich Islands is indubitable ;
having on its side the opinions of distinguished men,
among whom figure countrymen of Cook himself,
men whojprefer justice and reason to a vain national
The last observation to be considered is the
ifferenoe in the dates given to the first discovery.
Foreign authors say that it took place in 1642, in the
expedition commanded by General Rui Lopez dc Villalobo ; while the Spanish Chronicles denote 1665.
The latter date should be the more correct one, for
Juan Gaytan wrote the narrative of the voyage of
1642, and mentions nothing respecting thoseIslands,
while he gives an account of Roca Tartida, (Split
Rock), and Ambloda, (Cloudy Island), and of all
those he discovered on that expedition. To complete
and terminate, therefore, these investigations, there
is only wanting the narrative of Gaytan corresponding to the voyage in whioh he made that discovery ;
though in my opinion it is not required to make clear
the truth of this fact. I have the honor to transmit
this to Y. E. by Royal order, so that you may communicate the preceding information to the Government of the Sandwich Islands, and as being consequent to Y. E.s letter No. 864, dated the 18th July
ultimo. God guard Y. E. many yean. Madrid, 21
February, 1866. Sit as. To 11. E. tbe Superior
Civil Governor of the Philippines.—lt is a true copy.
Jose Fhlipe del Pan, Acting Colonial Secretary.
Es traduccion inglesa.
Florkxcio Laen dr Vizmano.
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Colonial Office, No. C4.—Sir The Marine Department communicated to this office on the 28th
January, instant, that which follows. As there do
not exist in the archives of this office any records
whatever bearing dates previous to the year 1784,
when all those of dates anterior to it were transmitted
to the Archives Simancas, the Royal order of the 4th
instant, communicated by your Excellency lo this
office, was referred to the Ilydrographical Department, for obtaining particulars respecting the discovery of the Hawasianas or Sandwich Islands, in order
to ascertain whether there were to be found records
that could elucidate in any way the date of that discovery, and the name of the discoverer. On the 25th
instant, tbe Chief of that Department replied as follows:
Sir : In fulfillment of the Royal order dated the
7th instant, for the purpose of ascertaining the historical information extant in this office regarding the
discovery of the Hawasianas or Sandwich Islands, I
have the honor to send Y. E. the result of the investigations made with tbe diligence recommended to
me in that Royal order.
By all the documents that
have been examined, it is demonstrated that that
discovery dates from the year 1566, or 223 years before Captain Cook surveyed those Islands ; and that
the discoverer was Juan Gaetano or Gaytan, who
gave names to the principal islands of that archipelago. It is true that no document has been found in
which Gaytan himself certifies to this faot, but there
exist data which collectively form a series of proofs
sufficient for believing it to be so. The principal one
is an old manuscript chart, registered in these archives as anonymous, and iv wbioh the Sandwich Islands are laid down under that name, but which also
contains a note declaring the name of the discoverer
and date of tbe discovery, and that he called them
Islas dc Mesa," (Table Islands). There are, besides, other islands, situated in the same latitude,
but 10° further east, and respectively named
La
Mesa," (the table), La Desirraoiado," (tbe unfortunate), "Olloa," or Los Monges," (the Monks).
This chart appears to be a copy of that called the
Chart of the Spanish galleon, existing long before
the time of Cook, and which is referred lo by all the
national and foreign authors that have been consulted, such as the following: "Batavian Qforgraphy,
2d Vol. of the Geographical Atlas of William Blaen,
Amsterdam, 16C3." In the first map, entitled
"America Nova Fabula," the neighboring Island,
La Desgraciado," and those of Los Monges," are
placed towards the 21st degree of north latitude, and
120° west of tbe meridian passing through the Island
of Teneriffe.—" Georgraphical Atlas of D'Auville,
published in 1761, and revised and improved in 1786,
by Barbie dv Bocage." In the second map, and in
the Hemisphere of the Mappa Mundi, the Islands
Desgraciado," Mesa," Olla " and Los Monges," are found in the 20th degree of north latitude,
and about 17° further east, than the Sandwich
group, augmented by Barbie in this chart. James
Burney, in the Chronological History of the discoveries in the South Sea, or Pacific Ocean, cites the
Atlas of Artelius, entitled, Theatrum Orbis," in
which the same islands are found, and placed in
nearly the same position.—" Alexander Findley's
Directory for the navigation of the Pacific Ocean,
Edition of 1867." In the second part of this work,
page 1120, the author expresses and recapitulates
the ideas already brought forward respecting this
We would acknowledge papers" for
matter by Mr. Flurien, in his description of Marchand's Voyage, and by Mr. Ellis, in his Voyage gratuitous distribution from His Ex. H. A.
around Hawaii ; and conceives strong suspicions that Peirce, Minister Resident, and Mrs. C. II
the true discoverer must have been one of the Spanish navigators of the 16th century, because of the Judd. Such favors are always very acceptiron articles found by Cook in those islands, one of able, and
our friends need not fear that fhey
them being a fragment of a wide sword, whose existcan
more than the demand.
he
not
account
for.
supply
satisfactorily
ence there
could
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ihe friend,
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Sir I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt
of your Excellency's esteemed communication of the
24th of April, alt,, informing me that you had not
yet received the notifications referring to the discov-
�THE FRIEND,
OCTOBER,
sionally. Meanwhile as I write some thoughts
Letter from a Sailor.
are suggested by our Sabbath service. I
Among the pleasant things resulting think I will just write them down :
from our labors and intercourse among sea1 Sm 1.1. Sec Him, bit Not Now."
men, is an occasional letter from some sailor O'er the valley of lite hang tbe dark clouds of sin
ihe veil hides Ihe holy of holies within,
whom we have met in Honolulu. By a late And
And ire (rope through the gloom for Ihe clue he has given,
man,
nail we received a letter from a young
To guide the inly blind Irom their darkness to heaven.
We wander, oft stumbling, oil going astray,
whose poetical effusions appeared in some For
the door is so strait and narrow the way,
numbers of the Friend, for June and August Still faith whispers, Hope when the day's work is done
us to trust in ihe crucified One.
1872. This young man was then attached And leads
Yes, by faith, 'lis we walk not discerning yet Him—
Having
to the U. S. S. Nmrityansctt.
The redeemer we seek, for our eye-sight is dim,
been discharged from that vessel in Callao, And our joyonly springs from the promise of love
shall see Hi in some day in His mansionsabove,
he seeks employment on shore. As his let- We
We shall see Him cxnlied, once tempted and tried,
ter contains a narrative of his wanderings Who came down among us and sufferedand died,
When we cross thedark scream to that country so fair,
until he arrives at Antwerp, we think the We
shall sec ami be like Him for Jesus is there.
to
our
stme may not prove uninteresting
When the sky ol file's evening is golden and red,
readers, inasmuch as it vividly depicts the When ihe tempest is past aud the storm clouds have lied,
When the harp-vtrings have ceased their vibrations ; ami now
heckered course of one who is struggling No
traces of sorrow are left on the brow.
better
to
lead
a
amid many discouragements
When thesilver chord loosens, and the golden bowl broken.
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life.
Seamen's Reading Koom,
Hanseatic House, Antwerp,
Belgium, July 21, 1573.
The Nurniyansette went to Callao and
there 1 left her to seek a fortune amongst the
Andes. But though eligible opportunities
offered, and my engineering knowledge was
very useful, it pleased the Lord that this
-houkl not be my rest. 1 was seized with
■ever, and hurried to the coast in order to
escape if possible with my life. I soon got
a ship bound for England and embarked.
But we had scarcely got to sea ere the fever
broke out upon me again, and for several
weeks 1 lay between life and death, given up
by Captain and shipmates, and given up by
myself if I knew anything at all, being
mostly in a state of apathetic stupor. But on
reaching the colder latitudes of Cape Horn
it pleased Him to heal my sickness, and I
began to amend, and by the time we reached
the warm weather on the Atlantic side 1 was
my duty, gaining strength every day, and
now for the first time since I left you, I felt
a gush of gratitude and love to God flood my
heart and I asked Him to take the life He
had given back to me, and let it be hence-
at
#
forth for His honor and glory. God accepted
t and all the passage home I experienced
a 1 continual manifestations of His love, and
looking back over the long path of the past,
I can see now how in all the events of my
spent life, He has been near to me, caring
for me, helping me. I have learned to trust
Him now.
Last Monday 1 ioined the Good Templars,
two Captains kindly defraying my subscription, and the next day I received a present
from one of our officers for services privately
rendered on board, which enabled me to repay it. There are bright spots to look back
on now,and not the least bright is the memory of a little study shaded by tall trees
sphere I still seem to hear a kind voice sayright in and sit down, and tell
" Come
me how
it is with you."
My father has written me to come home
and rest, and I think I shall do so. You were
pleased to approve once of some few lines I
had written. If I go home 1 will send you
others, and i am going to try and send you
a yeaj's subscription for the Friend which
I shoild like much to get a glimpse of occa-
When we hear the t'linl welcomeby angel bands spoken,
We shall BBS Him sll glorious! what joy In the sight
O'er thedark grave, victorious, therest, oh, how bright
:
"Impressions from a Trip to the Coast."
Sabbath morning, August 24th, the Key.
W. Frear pienclied a sermon in Fort street
Church, suggested by his late trip to California. Text, Psalms civ:24, " O Lord, how
manifold are thy works; in wisdom hast thou
made them all; the earth is full of thy
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trains. He should pass from one mountain
chain to another, through valleys that seem
interminable. He should look upon territory, so broad that whole nations could sleep
in their bosom. He should follow water
courses for hundreds of miles, and then find
that they empty themselves into yet larger
rivers that extend on for thousands of miles.
He should go from great city to great city
each the centre of trade and exchange, and
influence, financial, moral, social and religious, for many lesser ones, which are yet
great in themselves. He should go to the
length and breadth of states that are almost
empires in themselves, and survey the countless homes of industry and look upon the interminable miles of grain fields, and count
up the acres of furnaces and huming factories, and then think what room there ia for
cities yet unbuilt, and for industries yet undeveloped, and for population yet unborn,
and for enterprises yet unconceived, nnd for
greatness yet unachieved.
" Skeptics say that our n-orld is small,
too small to be the theatre of such great doings on the part of God, as are involved in
the gospel scheme of redemption —too small
to be visited by the revealing God in person
and to be ransomed by the divine soil. They
say that it is but a speck amid all the great
spheres, and so it.is; and yet how great
may even a single nation be—great not only
in extent and resources, but great in what
God has wrought for it, and in the exhjbition of his power and love and purposes—
great as the theatre of destinies and as the
developing place of immortal and divine
ideas."
riches."'
This discourse was published in the Advertiser, and our space will allow us to copy
only as follows :
" Here upon these small islands there are "Blessed are Those who Take the World
but few types of scenery. They are grand
Easy and Don't Fret."
ones, but there is little variety to them.
There is but little diversity of interest and
We copy the following paragraph from i»
but few phases of life. We scarcely have
written by an eminent physician in
letter
the world in miniature. We scarcely hear
more than a faint echo of its noise. The New England. Fortunate are those who
questions that trouble us, though to us great, will take the hint and not overwork:
are yet in the great world, but minutely
"Overwork! overwork! Our national sin.
small. 1 was sometimes asked if I did not I am seeing its ruinous results continually.
feel myself shut in down here, or as if I were
at sea on a chip, and yet we are a part of There is nothing gained in the long run by
the world and that world is full of greatness undue effort. The break-down follows. But
and of divine importance. It is good to feel on the many go, like the sensible old farmer
that we are not sundered from it, that v/m
on his jockey of a boy: 'If
are a vital part of it. We doubtless do re*
Tom
was riding chain-lightning round the
alize this more as we go to larger places,
and feel more of the great world pulses, and pasture, he'd lick up, and so founder the
look upon broader and more varied reaches colt and the lightning !' Now the real true
of land. We can it is true read of what is and wise way to get along in the world is to
transpiring in the great world, but to be work itinlly and diligently—to make haste
where the fuller tides of life are flowing, to
says, and then one has a
be amid industries of many different kinds, slow, as the Paddy
■
to see the manifold products of shop and good time and gets there' generally. A
field and mine, and streams of prosperity man may work, of course, he must work, its
flowing in many different channels, to travel in him and he will! But eating, sleeping,
through varied and extended scenes, no playing and laughing help real effectual
doubt helps us to realize more the riches of
God's goodness and the greatness of country work. These last are an essential aid to the
and of the world, and the importance of the effectual calling of success in life, and so I'll
issues that are pending and waging. We end this Homily by the old refrain ' Blessed
can, for instance, look upon the United are those who take the world easy and don't
States as a country pictured on the map. fret,'' work and play,' like the useful and
We may tell off the miles of its length and
breadth. We can think how long are its the beautiful which God so often puts side
riyers and mountain ranges, but to realize its 'by side in life, is the highest wisdom in pracextent one needs to spend days on the swift tical life."
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FRIEND,
OCTOBER,
isl3
also spoken of as fond of agriculture, and has ! but she neither desires nor will accept their
gathered much information by foreign travel, proffered recognition. She did not overstep
speaking several of'the Languages of modern 1the conventional laws of society without due
OCTOBER 1. 1813.
; she knew the price she must
Europe. In 1871, while on a visit to Eng- | consideration
for
a
happy
pay
home and a satisfied heart,
land, he delivered an address, at the conse- ! and she is content to pay it; nor does she
The Poet King.
!
cration of the Norwegian Seamen's Chapel, 'find it too high. It was a perilous experiKing Oscar the Second, recently elevated at Kotherhithe, which was published. He ment, and one that no woman, unless she be
I
to the throne of Sweden and Norway, be- was crowned King of
Sweden, 12 of May, las strong, as brave, and as pure, and as sure
longs to a literary family and is himself an 1873, and of Norway on the 18th of July. of holding her lover as Miss Evans, would
do well to repeat.' "
author of celebrity- We have received from
Long live the Poet King.
Messrs. Trubner & Co.. of London, publishP. S.
writing the above, we have
Civilization.
• ers of the poetical works of King Oscar, a received a Since
private note from the Hon. ValI have been wishing to find a good definihroilitirt' containing an interesting sketch of demar
Knudsen, residing at Waimea, Kauthe KiugV life and notices of his family. ai,
tion of civilization ; and here is what Guizot
from which we take the liberty of quoting
.says about it " Civilization is, as it were,
Among all the proteges of the great Napo- as follows :
leon, who once sat upon the thrones of Euthe grand emporium of a people iv which all
"Sept. 18. The mail this afternoon
its wealth, all the elements of its life, all the
rope, only one succeeded in establishing a brought me the
pamphlet relating to the corpower.- of its existence are stored up."
permanent dynasty. This was the famous
onation of Oscar 11., as King of Norway.
And again, Wherever the exterior conBernadotte. a Marshal of France. He was ' " I have seen Bernadotte or
Charles XIV., dition of man "becomes
the son of a lawyer, and born at Pau,among
enlarged, quickened,
his sou Oscar 1., and attended the same lectand improved; wherever the intellectual naihe Pyrenees, in 1764. During the many ures with
(
Oscar 11., and his late brother ture of man
revolutions accompanying the wars of Napo- Charles
distinguishes itself by its energy,
XV."
leon, Bernadotte was formerly adopts- by
brilliancy, and its grandeur; wherever these
the King of Sweden, under the name of
signs occur—and they often do so, notwithMrs. Lewes alias "George Elliot."
Charles John, having previously adopted the
standing the gravest imperfections in the soProtestant faith. On the death of Charles
This writer ol romance is now much icial system—there man proclaims and apXIII, he became Kinp under the na
ol praised on both sides of the Atlantic. Her plauds civilization."
genius is even compared with that of ShakeCharles John XIV.
Not very satisfactory: and we may truly
Oscar 1.,a son of Bernadotte alias Charles speare. A volume of her pithy sayings has My that it is not ea>y to define the word.
Ai.mqcis.
John XIV., was born in Paris 1799, suc- been published, and the odd corners of newsceeded his father upon the throne of Swe- papers are filled with items from her works. A Card.—The Seamen's Chaplain would
den. He was a man exceedingly fond of We met with a paragraph in a letter of one acknowledge receiving the sum of
8168
scientific and literary pursuits. He had four of our American lady correspondents,—who from the crew of the U.
S. Portsmouth,
S.
sons and one daughter. His oldest son be- is well read in current literature, and has a to be devoted to the purchase of a
tombstone
came King under the name of Charles XV., keen insight into human character.—which for their late shipmate. William Foley, and
and upon his death a lew months ago. his reads as follows:
the support of the Friend, agreeable to insecond son succeeded his brother, who died
" I am not sensible enough <~- something, structions by Lewis Clark. Esq., Lieutenant
without leaving an heir. From the docu- to like George Elliot's works. Have no Commander.
ment lying before us, we copy as follows sympathy with any character she draws. I
A Good Suggestion.—The Advertiser
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Oscar I. was blest with gifted children, have not seen one trm teaman of her creato convert the old agricultural gar- <
suggests
all
tion.
She
herself
is
who
inherited from their father a lore for
not a true woman as
den
into
a
Public Garden or Square. Capiand
means,
and
God
made
and
literature, and the King spared
science
helps inonia/i to
no pains to foster that love in them by the be. She cannot write of woman. She may tal thought. Let there be entrances openmost careful and painstaking education. Of write of men perhaps. We have just begun ed on School and Emma streets. At a veryhis four sons, all elegant and accomplished her ' Middlemarch,' but 1 read it under pro- trifling expense the public might appropriate
scholars, Oscar, Ihe present King, gave the -o*l. just because it has lieen so praised to to public use what now belongs to the people.
We can see no possible objection.
greatest promise, when all were young, by me by ' good judges.' ''
Whether our correspondent had ever met
his quickness and the versatility of his powProtection of Seamen.-The New York
ers. He was born in Stockholm, 21 Janu- with the following paragraph, copied from shipping List says ins understood mat the
ary, 1829, and was consequently in his the London Lihrmij Wortd for July, we Association of Sailor Boarding House Keepforty-fourth year when he ascended the cannot say, but if she had not, we think our ers of this city has formerly decided no
throne last year. He married the Princess friend may have discerned by merely read- longer to oppose the United States Shipping
the enforcement of which has hitherto
Wilhelmina Marianne Henrietta of Nassau, ing her works—a sad defect iv her moral Law.
been
attended with so much difficulty.
by whom he has four sons." The King is character, naturally tending to Iter guilty There is now, therefore, little or no difficulty
in procuring crews for vessels. But as the
described as " handsome in person, tall and Unison with Mr. Lewes :
The admirers of the author of Middle- hard class of boarding-house keepers cannojfe
commanding—to this are added a pleasing
"
' may not generally know that she has easily change their habits, in respect to saiP
musical voice, quickness of observation, and inarch
no legal title to the name of Lewes. The ore, by any formal action, their present actreat courtesy ol manner, such natural gifts Literary World has the following item quiescence may prove merely a truce to enof themselves would be sufficient to make a upon this point, in which morality and ex- able them to make t.nother and stronger efsovereign popular with his people." He is pediency are somewhat mixed : ' Mrs. Lewes fort to resist the law. By the terms of the
the author of several poetical works in the never visits the houses of other people, and Shipping Law, Congress has made seamen
only her special friends at her own. the wards of the nation, but the effort to imSwedish language, and various translations receives
Since
she
has achieved fame she might be prove their condition as a class, without reIrom other languages.
He is an imitator as received by many ladies who, before this, forming the individual members, is likUy K>
would have refused her entree to their homes, prove a difficult matter.— American Paper.
THE F X I E ND
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Information Wanted.
UcspccUug JohnDenns, belonging lo Shultt, Dutches Cc.,
months
N. Y. lie was last beard from In Honolulu, about 18
ago, writing hence to hia friends.
Respecting James BtcGonm or McGowan, who left Kil-or
A son
mornock, Ayreihire, Scotland, about fifty yearssgo.
a British vessel, visiting
ibis man, commanded the •' Poctena,"
manrethat
time
a
certain
years
ago.
15
At
about
port
this
.idinjln
Honolulu, went.on board the »P_tena arf taouhed some important information about tbesaid James Mc-own
to have settled somewhere in
or McGowan, who is supposed Land,
about I_nnccstor.Au>
New Zealand or Van Dleman's
information relating lo the subject of this enquiry, wHlbe
Sladly received by the editor, or James Lnmpbell, Banker.
Saltcoats, Ayreshire, Scotland.
Respecting Jacob Q. Lufkins and S. KUa, both ol whom
,re welladvanced in years and gray headed. They MW
fornia for Tahiti via the Sandwich Islands, aud when last heard
irom (May. 1872) were residing hers, awaiting an opportunity
Any informatom
io be conveyed to their port of destination.
regarding them will be gladly received by J M. Owen, rotten■
ville, Tulare County, California.
Concerning John Nash, who nailed (ran Honolulu ou board
lie brig Annie Porter iv February, 1870, and arrived at
Slianghae the following June. Since then his anxious mother
has received no tidings of him. Any information respectuig
him will be thankfully received by the Editor of this paper, or
by his sister, Jane Nash, Mr. Le Oror t'birk. The Thorns.
44
Seven Oaks," Kent, England.
Concerning James Thorn, wliu lias been absent from kill
home lor the past six years anxious friends desire to hear ol
his whereabouts. Any informatibu regarding him will be
thankfully received by the editor or Mosen I. Hot* 81 -tin
mreet, Newark, New Jersy
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MARINE JOURNAL.
PORT OF HONOLULU, S. I.
ARRIVALS.
nt.
■pt.
Couch. Si itajfa IkMi
Auckland, N Z.
I—Am atrar Costa Rica, \\ I Uptdja,» dtjabum
Ban Francisco.
11—Am achr Undine, Knstel, 15,lays fin Man Francisco.
11—Ambktn Jane A Palklnburg, Brown, 18 day* front
Astoria, O.
i\— Am brig tanner, Jim t Black, 32 day. ftom rort
:aj—Brii bgtu Magellan Mow),
Townaend.
;;0—Schr Dauntless, Beirltl, from Sydney.
TO—Schr Mary Foster, Cluney, from Sydney
•»—Brit brig Windhover, Ravel*, 73 day* from Sydney,
N, 8. W.
DEPART! REV
>p<.
B—Am sttur Coata Rica, Lapidge, fur sun I- mnciaco,
9—Brit bgtn Magellan Cloud, C Couch, for Auckland.
11—Am schr Undine, Kustel, for fort May, Siberia.
17—Haw ketch Lunalilo, Hatfield, for Auckland, N /..
•:i—Haw bk R C Wylie, H Haltcrmann, for Bremen.
•lb— Am bktn Jane A Falkinburg. .1 A Brown, fur Portland, O.
J9—Am brig Tanner, Black, for Pugel Sound.
MEMORANDA.
,
Refobt of Babe B.C. Wylie, 11. Haltebmann, Masihe.—Left theRiver Weser on the Bth ol May anchored in
Dover Bay for the tide on the 10th passed the Landsend the
Utb Crossed theline in the Atlantic the 7th ot June in 28 °
W long, 32 days out; crossed 60° B lat In 63° W long Utb
of July, 88 days out. Krom there around Cape Horn to 50°
Slat and j]° W long it took us 11 days ; experienced heavy
rales from N W aod SW, and much hail and snow. Crossed
"he line in the Pacific in 135° W long 19th ol August, 105
daya out, and arrived in Honolulu the 30th of August, 115
days passage from Bremen, and 107 days from Landsend.
One of the sailorsdied during ihe passage.
o, Cotcti, MasRefobt of Sciiooneb Magellan Ci.ui
with light SE wind July
tee.—Left Auckland July 28th,
Whangaroa
Bay
for two days ;
28th, a NE gale, anchored in
on the 30th, moderated, weighed anchor and proceeded on the
from
ESE
aod
voyage. Aug 3d took a gale
hove to for three
daya. Aug_7lh, lat 23° 10' B, long 174° 40' W, spoke whalcshowers
Wind
8W
with
of rain from lat
sbip Mary Frances.
140 and long 170°, then strong breezes from the eastward.
Danger
noon
made
lalandbear-,
Aug 12th, strong breeses at
-In| E+B, distance 15 miles. Aug 17th,strong wind from easts
long
182
W,
22 days out.
ward, crossed tbe equator in
Wind from the east up to lat 8° N. Variable winds to lot
ol
part
158°
Latter
thepassage
w.
strong
14* N aod long
breeses with squalls, wind ENE and NE. Aug 27th, made the
Island of Hawaii, 31 days from land to land, and arrived In
Honolulu Aug 30th, 35 days from Auckland.
Refobt of Steamship Costa Rica, W. F. I.afiuue,
Left San Francisco Aug 23d at 3 r st. Had
commandeb
pleasant weather and favorable winds the whole voyage. ArBepi Ist at 3 F M, after a passage of nine
Honolulu
rived in
James E. Tlckeb, Purser
.lays.
Refobt 01 fcuooeeb L'noine, Kustel, Masteb Left
light winds and pleasant
filth
had
;
San Francisco Aug
weather during the passage to the islands. Arrived at Honodaylight
Uth
Bound
for Port May, Eastern
at
lulu Sept
Siberia.
Refobt of Baskbntinl Jane A. Faleinbcbo, J. A.
mows, Masteb—left Astoria i« the 24th Aug ; first part
oaasage strong BW winds aao squally from Columbiabar to
lat 37 N, thence moderate NW winds to lat 32° N ; and
from thence to lat 29° windsvery light from S to BW ; took
the tradea lat 28° N very strong from E to ESE and squally.
At 4 4 M Bept Uth made east end of Molokai Island, arriving
in Honolulu same day. after a passage of 18 days.
;
,
—
°
OCTOBER,
85
la .3.
.
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Buck, Msetse.—
JUroBT or Beio Tabb-". J ""a
MARRIED.
Left Port Townsend Aug 20th Brat pari of passage wind
Ught from B to SE middle part llg-« from westward i took
winds
balance of W'oLKE-GooDALt—Al the Chotcb In Waialua, Oahu.
NE wind in Ist 31 , lone 135 ; modera.'e
passage In lal 27° 25', long IM° 50', SaY a ship bound Sent. 4th, by lev. 8. C. Damon, Mr. Chmitiax F. VToi.i
north. Arrived in Honolulu sept 21st, after a paissge of X toMiai NlNA B. GOODALE, both of Waialu*.
,
,
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,
°
,
days.
Aitixo—Keawekii.oi —In tola city, September 26th, at
By the way of Auckland we learn that the wkaleshlp the residence of
1
A. P. Judd, Esq Attorney General, by Ret.
Mary Hamilton, of Melbourne, Capt Norton, was lost on a
to
sunken reef between Pitt's and Napean Island, near Norfolk 8. C. Damon, Amino Keawekvloa
J
Island, May 17th. She had on board 62 bbls sperm, 9 months
although
every
She
struck
oo
ihereef,
and
exertion
was
out.
DIED.
made, she could not be got off, and waa sold as she lay for £6.
George Glover, formerly of Honolulu, was first officer.
Dawkun—At l.ahaitui, Maui, September till, of typhoid
bt telegraph Irom Wellington, N. /.., Jsly 2Slh, lo the Iter- fever, Mra. I'hebe Dawso*. wife of Mr. Jame» Dawson,
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aid of Aucklitnd, we learn the following respecting the ship aged 37 years.
Sinclair—Bept. 21, on Statu, Mi Jumes Hinclnir. i>
rVm. Tapscott, I'lino, ninster, which vessel b_ here ou the
particular* hare been reeeired.
9tli of May lust for Enderbury Island i
Armiateaii—July Slat, of consumption, at thereildence cl
The William Tapscott, an American chip of l.iiuu ions,
bound from Enderbury Island, for Quecnslown, Ireland, with her aiater, Mra. F. B. Blanton, Mra. Carrie Uiell Armlatcad,
2,000 tons ofguauo, has arrived. The vessel is commanded wife of James M. Armiatead, Richmond, Va., and youngest
by Bernard King, chief officer. The captain was in Irons, and daughter of the tote Rer. John Dlell, former chaplain or pV:ibad been shot In tbe knee by the mate, who gave himself up, men's Friend Society, nt the Sandwich Island*.
and demanded that the chief officer should take charge of the
vessel. On the voyage the captain cut down one sailor with
InMemory
an axe und another with a cutlass, and committed further
brutalities on tbe crew, who then mutinied. Tho vessel has
twelve feet of writer in thebold, and is believed t-» be unsea- Ol htss. Asm Hn.1.1. Katiibune, WMS MM it Hi I
vvortby.
inn. March sth, 1870.
The citpiniu'> version of the affair ou the American ship
(Tbe following lines were written In memory of anodic,
William Tapscott i- »s follows i The ship left Enderbury
Island on the Dili June. All proceeded quietly until the daughter of the Rev John Well Both daughters were born In
twenty-third day, when off the Navigator Islands the chief
mate sulked duty, he was therefore ordered to his cabin. The Honolulu ]
matedenied captain's authority, and challenged his power to
Hidden beneath the sheltering screen
keep order,also asked all hands to be called aft, in order to
hear the grounds on which he was placed under arrest. This
Of leaf and twig and bow ;
captain
but
the
the
Irom
exwas complied with,
mate stopped
A nest in spring a thrush had built,
plaining the matter, and complained to the crew of the ship
Twas hung with scarlet now.
being unfit lo proceed round the Horn. He used violent language,and the crew also became violent, Insisting on the vesWhen on iv edge withlifted wing.
captain
replied
The
that
he
port.
sel being run to tbe nearest
She sangher parting song,
did not think ihe circumstances justified tbe course, but If
Then xvithher mate sought sunnier climes
necessary he would adopt it. The crew refused dnly. After
Where summer lingers long.
some negotiation between the captain and the crew, the latter
rushed at the former, knocked nun down,and put him in irons,
ami by orders from the second and third officers confined him
Another nest 'mid balmier airs,
to his cabin. In tbe evening the captain got his irons off one
Another brood to rear.
hand, and arming himself with the only available weapon(an
to
The
second
threatened
shoot
axe), went on thepoop.
mate
To swing at ease, untossed by stoims.
him, and was about to carry the threat out when the captain
No chilling frosts to fear ;
struck him with the axe on Ihe cheek. The mate had preVet when withresurrection robes
viously fired a revolver shot from the main deck at captain,
capsecond
shot
took
effect
the
In
but without effect. The
Spring decks each tree and vale.
tain'sleft knee. The crew began to pelt the captain with all
Her song may fill our ears
sorts of missiles, and five other shots were fired at him by the
As odors scent Ihe gale.
mate. The captain was obliged to go below, being severely
bruised Since thatbe has been kept in his cabin, under close
arrest.
Het sweet home-nest with beauty robed.
Fixed White Light at Cape Foulweather
She may not seek this spring,
(YaquinaHead.)
No more her song may thrill our ears.
Who just has lifted wing
TBBASI si HhrISTMESIT.-FFICELIOIIT-lIOISLBoABO, (
For cliinei so fair,and fields so green,
Washington, D. C, July 25th, 1873. >
evening
on
and
after
the
ol
Notice is hereby given that,
And streams that flow so still.
August 20ih, 1873, s fixed white light will be shown from the
No pang may ruffle her sweet calm.
Cape
(Vaqnina
Head,)
erected
Foulwcather
on
tower recently
Disease no more may chill.
Oregon.
The focal plane ia at a height of 81 feet above Ihe ground,
and 150 feel above sea level. In clear weather, theeye being
Ye saw her pluming for ber flight l
15 feet above sea level, the light should be seen at a distance of
And yet must tarry here
ISA nautical miles.
Ye saw her soaring into light,
The illuminating apparatus is a lens of the first order, fixed,
illuminating 240 degrees or Ihe horizon.
Intrammeled by a fear -,
The tower is of Mick, painted while, and the lantern is
Ye felt the sweep ol unseen wlngi
painted black.
About ye whenshe fled
The keeper's dwelling, a two-story frame building east ol
tbe tower, is painted white.
thepeace they sometimes bear to those
light-house
the
is
as
lollows
The approximate position oi
Who mourn their blessed dead.
Latitude 44d. 43m. 30s. North.
Longitude 124d. sm. West.
From the'light-bouse Cape Disappointment (Hancock) lightMid life's fair trees her summer home,
house bears N. by W.JW.M nautical miles Vaquina(llarThe covenant angel weaves,
bor) light-house bears BK. by 8.1 B. } nautical miles | Cape
His blessed presence fills her heart i
Perpetua bears 8. by E. I F.. 24 nautical miles ■, Cape Arago
(Gregory) light-housebears 8. by E. 84 nautical miles.
A Father's arms receive.
By order of the Light-house Board t
dimShe may not seek earth's changeful
Joseph Heniiy, Chairman.
Her cherished home below,
Nor press her nestling to her breast-,
PASSENGERS.
But thither ye may go.
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Fbom Bremen-!' i R. C. Wylie, Aug. :iotli-Mi»' Anna
Pundt, F Conradl.
Fbom Alcelanu, N. /..—Per Magellan Cloud. Aug. ;;oih—
Mrs White and 3 children.
Fbom Ban Fbancibco—Per Costa Rica, Sept- Isl—Samuel
Parker, E C Waller and wife, B C Allen, J Van Dyke, Mrs
Turrlll, Miss Alexander, M B Beckwlih, Lieni E R More, U 8
8 Portsmouth, 1 G Dickson, wife and child. Miss Bond, Miss
Havens, H C Sprague, J C Conn,Frank Bates, 14 in steerage.
and 12 Chinese.
Fob Sab Fbancibco—Per Costa Rica, Sept. Btk-Cbas
Nordboff, wife, 4 childrenand servant, HAP Carter and son,
W J Mayer, T N Lee, Mrs 8 G Wilder, Miss Jane Lewers, N
Simpson, wife and 4 children, D Smith and wife, W H JBeehWhltler, JameaTllton, H Le Monnyer, Miss E D Paly, E 8 T
comb,Albert Lachmann, R T Taylor, Harry M Black, Del8
ehanty, B M Borrougbs, W Gallagher, O Washington, Asliton, J Marriott, N John, J Hawkins. Master Challamel, J
Blair, T H Fitigerald, Mr Ahoi.
Fob Beemen-Per R. C. Wylie, Isept. 234-C F Pfiuger
and 2 children.Master Frank Kruger, Master Hermann Kru
fer, F Fariariis, Mrs A Blanch and child.
.
Tbe land is worthy of thesearch.
Itneedeth but to seek;
And oh ! bow fast are lathering there
Our gentle ones and meek
Aod shall she In the witness cloud
For any watch In vain'
When oh ! how blest her heart would be,
"
"
All these to meet again.
Oh
passage " are we all!
: * birds offoes
beset,
Harassing
And earth hath trees of Usage fair,
Whose trail la tempting*?*
Bat only Christ the crumbs may give,
On which our sonla may grow,
And heavenward lift our drooptag wings,
When poising here below
a. CM.
Syracuse. March 17th, 1870.
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THE FRIEND, OCTORER,
Sacredness of Civil Government.
We listened with much delight, Sabbath
evening, Sept 21st, to the Rev. Mr. Frear,
at Fort street Church, as he discoursed upon
the » Sacredness and Benefits of Civil Goveminent." He based his remarks upon the
opening verses of the 13th chapter of Paul's
epistle to the Komans. " This passage of
Scripture" heremarked in the exordium ofhis
discourse, "as you are awire is the old war<:lub with which oppressors have been wont
to strike down the rights of thr-ir thinking
and liberty-loving subjects."
After describing the condition ol the Roman Empire in the days of the apostle, Mr.
Frear proceeded to discourse very satisfactorily and soundly upon the sacredness of civil
tjovemment. The views which he presented
and opinions advanced were so eminently in
accordance with our own sentiments upon
this subject, that we heartily rejoice to see
the sermon is to be printed in the Qaattte,
We copy as follows :
" First, its Sacredness. There is sanctity to civil government, which God himself
has given it. There is that about it which
makes it a kind of sacrilege for a man to lay
a ruthless or destroying hand upon it. Its
authority demands respect and obedience.
It awakens in all right hearts a feeling of
deference and regard. It is that which cannot be sinned against with impunity. It
claims the allegiance and loyalty of man.
To trample on its laws is to be criminal, to
rise up against its supremacy is to be traitorous.
"It has this sacredness because, as our
text says, it is ordained of God. Kings even
do not give to it aught of its sacredness.
Human pomp and show of royalty add nothing to this its sacredness. It is sacred because it is God's institution, and not man's.
It is not the creature of man, neither did it
result from any compact among men. It is
something that God has given to the human
race, and from Him it derives its sacredness.
For this reason, at our text says, he who resisteth the power, i.e., the proper civil government, resitteth the ordinance, the institution, the commandment of God.
In this respect the state or nation is like
the" family. The family institution never
sprang out of any arrangement of men
among themselves; but God in the beginning set them in families, and put that nature in them which necessiated the family
institution and He has perpetuated the race
under the family organization. For this
reason the family has sacredness and centralized binding force, and for this reason
the violation of the family obligation is a sin
against God, and not merely the breaking of
a human compact.
"Oar Creator has made strong the ties of
family in the human heart. He has encircled it and bound it together with peculiar
affections, respoiiajbilities and interests. He
works out in it -Hove, a life, and a history
of its own. He has planted in it a family
feeling, a family pride; a family spirit, and
there is such a thing as a family fortune,
family reproaches, and visitations of judg-
1873.
ment, the iniquities of the father upon the sic among the books on China, " The Midchildren being visited sometimes unto the dle Kingdom," and doing all kinds of per-
third and fourth generation.
"Very much in the same way the powers
that be are ordained of God. He made us
to live under civil government, and gave us
natures that necessitate it, and has organized
the race in that way. He has put men in
nations, and has put a national feeling and
spirit in their hearts, and has planted there
an .obligation of allegiance. The duty of
submission to law and legitimate civil authority as something that is sacred, and not
merely politic, is a feeling deeply implanted
in the human breast. No nation or state
ever originated in any mere mutual agreement of men, nor ever derived its autority
from that source. Men find themselves, and
ever have from the beginning found themselves in nations, a part of the national body
and life, without any agency of their own.
They are born into the community, a part
of it, and with its responsibilities and privileges. The nation always has its birth in
the providence of God ; and it has its distinct growth, organic unity and development,
under circumstances of His overrulings and
ordering, God has thus placed men everywhere under sacred binding government,
without any choice of their own, and He has
made this one of the unavoidable conditions
of our earthly life."
Missionaries in China and Japan.
Twenty-nine years ago, in June, 1544, live
missionaries met together for the first time
in China. They were young men then, and
the year 1873 finds them gray-haired and far
on in life, though all are still alive and not
yet out of harness. These men were the
medical doctors, McCartec and Hepburn
(American), the printer, S. Wells Williams
(American), and the ministers, Rev. S. R.
Brown (American) and J. C. Legge (English.) Now they are all D. Ds. or LL. Ds.,
and the work actually done by these men
would have killed twenty ordinary scholars.
Dr. McCartee, after twenty-nine years of
continual study, translation, hospital and
dispensary work, and evangelizing labors
among the Chinese at Ningpo, is now professor of natural history in the Imperial College in Tokei, Japan. His original composition in Chinese and translations, consisting
of religious books, manuals of devotion,
tracts, critiques, etc., number about fifty volumes. Dr. Hepburn, after many years of
hospital and dispensary work in China, came
to Japan, carried on the same healing work
for the bodies and souls of the Jrpanesc, and,
after eleven years of unremitting labor, has
produced the master-work of his life and has
chiseled the monument that will keep his
name green for generations to come—the
Japanese and English Dictionary. Dr. Hepburn has also spent several years, in company with Dr. Brown, in translating the Gospels into Japanese. He is now engaged in
carrying through the press a pocket edition
of his dictionary in San Francisco. Dr. S.
Wells Williams, besides being the soul of
the mission printing press in Shanghai for
years, acting as interpreter for Com. Perry
in his expedition to Japan, writing that clastwo
sonal missionary work, has crowned the labors of hit life by issuing, through the press
at Shanghai, his Chinese English Dictionary, the fruit of thirty years of mental toil.
Dr. Williams is now the Secretary of the
United States legation in Peking. Rev. S.
R. Brown, after laboring for many years in
China, was one of the first pioneers ih Japan, and besides his ordinary missionary labors has composed a valuable grammar ol
the Japanese language, has been the chiel
translator of the Scriptures into Japanese,
and will end his days at that work. The
Rev. Dr. Legge, the last one on the list, is
the world-known translator of Confucius.
For thirty years as teacher, translator, pastor, preacher, and student Dr. Legge has
lived in Hongkong, averaging in his earlier
years fifteen hours of study n day, and
now at 65, ruddy and stalwart, seems ready
to spend thirty years more either at the anvil or tho study-desk, with pen or sledgehammer. What labor it has been to master
the Chinese language, the text and hosts of
commentaries on Confucius' writings, only
they who attempt it can fully understand
:
and when it is remembered that his work
has been done amid the routine of ordinary
work, often amid pestilence and political
commotion, the capacity for work in this
man can be imagined. Dr. Legge, before
he left China, visited Pekin and the tomb ol
Confucius. He now goes home to England
to visithis large family, including ten grandchildren. In the long roll of missionary
names and honors we can point to nd greater
names than these, to no greater monument
of labor, to no greater missionary success,
at least, within the present century. All
have won long life, honor, fame, and earthly
comfort—showing that they have realized
the promise of the life that now is, as well
as that which is to come. Let no' young
man about to beceme a missionary think
that the days of great triumphs are over.
There is work to be done, honor in this life,
and more in the world to come. AH these
men have numbered their converts by scores
and Dr. Legge has baptized with his own
hands about 700 souls. In the harvest of
souls Dr. McCartee, doubtless, comes next ;
while all will, doubtless, find that many
forgotten seed dropped long ago has borne
fruit and will appear as fruit in the harvest
above. We shall not yet believe that the
day of missionary triumphs are over when
our own generation furnishes us with such
noble examples of work, devotion, and substantial results.—.V. )'. Independent.
Mrs. Turrell.—After an absence of nearly
a quarter of a century, this lady returns
to visit the places familiar from a residence
here from 1846 to 1850. She was tbe wife
of the American Contul, Judge Turrell. We
can most vividly recall their arrival, for they
came passengers on board the U. S. frigate
Congress, Commodore Stockton, and were
about eight months on theirpassage via Cape
Horn, touching at Rio, Valparaiso, and other
ports. Mrs. Turrell is the guest of Hit Ex.
C. R. Bithop, Minister of Foreign Relations.
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�Pure religion and undcftlcd before God, tin Father, is this:
To visit the fatherless and widou's in their affliction, and to keep out* self unspottedfront tin world.
Mel toy a Committee of the Y. M. C. A.
industry and trade when the wages of labor
all over the country have reached a point
heretofore unthought of, there is presented fb
us the extraordinary fact, that poverty and
pauperism and crime are vastly on the increase. And it is acknowledged by the
highest authorities that liquor is the cause
of this unnatural state of things. Eren the
government has taken the alarm and at the
last session of Parliament took one step in
the right direction by diminishing tho number of hours during which the public houses
may be kept open.
Sir Wilfred Lawson, in a debate in the
House of Commons, denounced the licencing
policy of the government in very strong
terms, as calculated and intended to produce
a large revenue from the degradation of the
people. The government, he said, had given
no indication of an intention of doing anything whatever to remove from the people
the abounding temptations to drunkenness to
which they arc exposed; and he quoted
against the Ministers the well-known lines
The Rum Question.
One bright sunshiny morning it few
months ago us the writer was riding over
the grass-covered hills on a neighboring
island, he overtook a man on horse-back, —a
machinist, who was bound to the next plantation to make some repairs. In the course
of the conversation which ensued the man,
who was slightly corned himself, took occasion to remark that he did not believe in any
one drinking to excess, but he liked to see
a man able to take his glass without indulging intemperately. "Old fellow," thought
we, "your principles are sound, but they
don't quite coincide with your practice."
It is just this weakness in humanity that
" causes
liquor to be a curse. Principle and
practice are like two tubs floating down the
river side by side. As long as they stick
together the man who navigates them is all of Cowper i
The excise is gathered with _crk_ rcsoll
right. But when, as is generally the case, 44Of
all this riot -, and ten thousand cask*
dribbling out their base contents,
Forever
practice lags behind, the navigator finds it
Touched by the Midas linger of the Stat'-,
more and more difficult to stick to both tubs.
Bleed gold for Ministers to sport away.
Drink and be mad then ; 'tis your country bids
The angle formed by his divergent legs beGloriously drunk, obey the importantcall j
Her cause demands the assistance of yew throats:
comes every moment more obtuse, and the
Ye all can swallow,and sheasks no more."
embarrassments of his position finally beAnd he stigmatized this mode of raising
come so great that he is obliged to abandon our revenue as mean, cruel and shortsighted.
Mr. Muudella, member of Parliament for
one or the other, in the case of the drinking
Sheffield, in a debate on the education bill,
man too often principle, and clinging to prac- described the low parts of London, and said
tice is ere long sunk in degradation and woe. he was horrified at the scenes of misery
A writer in one of the weekly papers of which he saw there, wretched, ragged and
this city recently startled us with the brilli- hopeless. And where are their parents ? In
the public houses and gin-shops! And Sir
ant axiom that " no more moral depravity
Wilfred Lawson said, " These public houses
attaches to a cask of Hawaiian made rum and gin-shops are fixed among the people by
than to a similar cask of Jamaica rum "lying us, for the sake of collecting our revenue.
by its side in Ihe Custom House store." We * * * '* * And is their any member of this
women and
trust that the evolution of this undeniable House who will deny that to the
state of things
children
of
this
this
country,
not
interfere
with its author's di- has been an unmitigated curse ? It is imtruth did
gestion. But does no moral depravity then possible for a nation any more than for an
attach to the cask of Jamaica rum ? A wail individual, to sin against the laws of moralof anguish arising to heaven from thousands ity with suffering for it sooner or later. The
Times said not long ago that' the public
and tens of thousands of wounded hearts to house
degrades, demoralizes, and brutalizes a
whom rum has been an untold curse is an- large portion of our population.' Surely,
swer enough.
giving legislative sanction to such places
It is every day growing more apparent to must be immorality in the highest degree."
And shall Hawaii now in this age of adthe world that there is moral depravity, not vancement
a step backward ? Shall we
only in manufacturing, but in importing and aid in the take
production and dissemination of
exporting and buying and selling any article that which must be acknowledged to be the
which ia the bane of the many, even though most stupendous evil of the nineteenth cenit be allowed that it is a blessing to a few. tury ? Some have the arrogance or the
to maintain that rum could be mangreatest good to the greatest number " knavery
ufactured on our plantations for exportation
"isThe
a Christian maxim, and one which were and not a drop of it be consumed here.
it adopted would put a stop to the manufac- But to every man who has the slightest acrdent spirits, except for quaintance with this country and people it
ture and
is obvious that such a thing would be utterly
medical and aeiemmc purposes.
If here in Honolulu, when there
Let ut look at the present condition of impossible.
is a comparatively efficient police force, who
England and take warning. In a season of are constantly under the eye of an energetic
unexampled prosperity in every branch of Marshal, thousands of gallons of liquor are
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annually clandestinely furnished to natives,
how can any one believe that in the out-districts where opportunities are greater, and
the police are often nearly worthless, rum
could be manufactured in large quantities
and the populace be kept from guzzling.
Through the cupidity of distillers, the unfaithfulness ol officials, and in a hundred
other ways, the product of the stills would
be diffused among the community, and the
utmost endeavor of government and planters
could not prevent it.
But this is not the question at issue.
Bom is a curse whether drunk by Patagonians, or Esquimaux, or Hawaiians, and the
turpitude of the Hawaiian distiller would be
in no wise diminished because he manufactured for exportation.
The regular meeting for September
was unusually well attended and interesting.
A committee of three, appointed the previous
month to investigate the feasibility of inaugurating and carrying on a Chinese Mission
in these islands, and of sending to China for
Mr. Aheong to aid in the enterprise, reported favorably. The project was afterward
discussed at some length, and a committee
of five appointed to ascertain what financial
support could be relied upon in carrying out
the proper measures, and to report in two
weeks at a special meeting of the Association. This meeting was held on the 26th
ult. The report of the committee was of so
encouraging a nature that the meeting passed a resolution to send for Mr. Aheong by
the first opportunity, guaranteeing his traveling expenses, and his salary here. The
interest in this importaut enterprise is wide
spread and the offers of assistance numerous
and generous and representing many of the
well to do Chinese citizens, the foreign
churches and a number of the benevolent
societies of the islands.
This year’s International Convention of
the Young Men's Christian Association has
again proved the growth and influence of
these organizations. The Convention met
at Poughkeepsie on the 9th inst., when it
was reported that there are nine hundred and
twenty-four associations on the roll, or eighty
more than a year ago. Thirty-eight have
permanent buildings, valued at one and three*
quarter million dollars, and nearly as many
more have building funds.
Associations
have been organised in thirty-two colleges
and literary institutions. Following this
report came the discussion of a variety of
topics relating to the work and management
of these associations, such as the value of
Bible-classes, the qualifications of the general
secretaries, the efficiency of personal visitation, etc. The subject, " What can young
men do through associations to destroy pernicious literature?" appeared to be as important as any, and brought out some excellent remarks from Rev. Lyman Abbott, Mr.
Anthony Comstock, and others. There is a
wide field here for usefulness and thorough
work, and no organizations seem better qualified to enter it than these very associations
of active youths.
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