https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/463d009717d4c95f867b97db83814a42.pdf 8356f4a0acab80ac8b6f1a2289edcfe5 PDF Text Text FRIEND THE HONOLULU, APRIL I, 18.6. ftrtu Scries, M. 25, 3M.J Dr. CONTKVrs For April I, ISIII. llr Taylor's Elijah, the Propht '■ Olivia Raleigh," Life on Ihe Deep, Chirks March Samuel Pliinsi.ll, M I* Poetry, Prayer Our New bbbVssbA SchoolLilirary Chinese Evening School Squash Power Early History awl Convict Life in Australia Murine Journal Editor. Tulile, Dr Twill's Life Letter from Japan Y M (J A P.fiK 24 ** 26, 27 27 28 28 28 28 « 29 29 20 30 32 THE FRIEND. AI'RII- 1. ISTB. We issue our paper a few days in advance of the regular publication day, April Ist, as we expect to embark before that day arrives on board the incoming Australian steamer, bound to San Francisco. During our absence, Tiik Friend wyi be issued as usual, on the first of each month. We expect to make a flying trip to New England, going and returning through Philadelphia. We intend our readers shall profit by the view we take of the great Centennial. The Editor's address—95 Summer street, Worcester, Mass. Special Correspondent for the S. F. Chronicle and Other Papers.—We have received a call from E. S. Baker, Esq., special correspondent and agent for the S. F. Chronicle and Resources of California, also the N. Y. Illustrated Christian Weekly, published by the American Tract Society. The Chronicle is well known on the islands, but not so well the Illustrated Christian Weekly. We regard this paper as one of the very best weekly papers, which could make its visits to the families in the islands, and we sincerely hope many subscribers may be obtained. Taylor's "Elijah the Prophet."— one year ago a friend in New York, About T. C. Doremus, Esq., sent us by mail, Dr. Taylor's " David," and hy the last mail we received " Elijah the Prophet,'' by the same author, who is Pastor of the Tabernacle Church, Broadway, N. Y. The books are, we suppose, the substance of the Sabbath Day Discourses of Dr. Taylor to thronging crowds surging along that central thoroughfare of New York, and gathering to listen both morning and evening, to his preaching. It is refreshing to know that such wholesome spiritnal food is furnished to those hungering lor the Bread of Life. As Dr. Taylor's David reminded us of Krummacher's "David, King of Israel," so does this volume, on Elijah, remind us of Krummacher's," Elijah," a volume of rare merit. Such books cannot have too wide a circulation at home, or abroad. When Christian laymen are thoughtful to scatter such books among ministers and missionaries, they have our sincere thanks. The " pews " desire eloquent and thoughtful discourses from the " pulpit," then let the Pastor's study and library be generously replenished with the fresh and invigorating volumes upon Biblical themes issuing from the press. Maunaloa.-A recent letter from the Rev. Mr. Coan informs us that " the old furnace of Mokuaweoweo, on Maunaloa, is sending up its red glare upon the heavens. The scene, when the conditions are favorable, is grand. The mountains are covered with snow, and shine in beauty." We hope the numerous tourists on Hawaii will be there in season for the grand display of volcanic action. 25 {©liberies, MM. " Olivia Raleigh."—Just as our paper is going to press a neighbor has loaned us a volume with the above title, written by W. W. Follett Synge, formerly British Commissioner and Consul-General in Honolulu, who now resides in London. Remembering his literary proclivities, we are not surprised to meet with this contribution to the current literature of the passing age from his pen. From our hasty perusal, we feel confident that the volume will find many admiring readers. We have not forgotten his Reading in the old Court House, when he drew some amusing illustrations from Charles Lamb. In glancing through the pages of "Olivia Kaleigh " we meet with an occasional remark, betokening a close observation of the world. The following is an example : "Half the unhappiness in the world arises from men judging others by their own standard." We have not time for additional remarks, or quotations. Beware of Your Associates, both real and imaginary, in reading Dr. Todd's life, we met with the incident, that after he had been reading a certain navel, he remarked that he was not pleased with the book, because he did not delight to associate with bad people, or admit them to his familyWhy should a person associate with impure and bad characters in his imagination any more than in real life ? Many persons would shrink from associating in real and social life with such characters as are too often depicted in works of fiction, then should we not beware of even our imaginary associates ? Many of tbe novels and illustrated papers should be kept as far away from our parlor tables and the family circles as impure and profane peisons. " Can one go on hot coals and not be burnt ?" asks Solomon. It is as impossible as for us to associate familiarly, or even in imagination with bad people and impure characters, and not receive a taint. According to late New York papers, Messrs. Moody and Sankey were holding A Monument to Plimsoll.-In a recent immensely large and attentive audiences in Our February number, containing English paper we noticed thai the sailors of New York City. The interest awakened is History of Kings of Hawaii," has been in Liverpool have started the idea of erecting a apparently deep and salutary. " great demand. Copies will be found at monument to Plimsoll, who has so nobly From Capt. Homan, $5 for the Friend. Thrum's. stood forth as their friend and defender. �111 X FRIEND, APRIL. 26 FSeamn's riend. IFrom Hpurgcon's Sword snd Trowel, Dec. 1876] Is 7(i tent's lips. Writing to a friend soon after his conversion, he says, " We are apt to think that God made us merely to enjoy his earthly blessings for a time, and then if we lead a moral life we shall reach heaven." This is, doubtless, the creed to which many subscribe, but it is altogether foreign to the spirit of Christ. " Faith only, or a steadfast, firm, immovable beliet in Christ," he says in the same letter, " is the condition of our salvation ; but let not our faith deceive us, it must be accompanied by good works or else it is dead." And then he adds, " we have no more reason to pride ourselves on our good works than the peacock on its beautiful LIFE ON THE DEEP. Charles March was a Christian of a bold nnd manly type, and never sacrificed his principles to expediency. " His sunny piety, ripening through a happy, though chequred life of more than threescore years and ten, may be instructive to many Christians," for the study of the biography of a true man of (Jod affords stimulus and help to those who , have just commenced the warfare of life. plumage." He resolved not to quit his old calling, but do," is a " What man has done, man can to serve God on the sea as opportunity proverb, the wisdom of which is breathed in should offer, and while waiting for an apevery page of the memoir before us. It is pointment in the merchant service he resided impossible to read it without being conscious with his brother, a Congregational Minister of a desire, if not a determination, to do at Bungay, whose influence and help strengthened his faith and inflamed his zeal likewise. to do good. The owner of the vsssel he was Lives of suck men all remind u.i to command wished him to sail oil "We appointed ma; make our livw. sublime." Sunday, but he refused to do so, though at True heroism is less likely to be enkindled a the risk of dismission. The first day on by abstract laws of right than by their em- board he commenced worship with the crew, bodiment in a concrete form, hence the value and maintained the practice with commendable consistency. His courage and presence of every true biography. Born at Barnstaple in 1793, and being fa- of mind in the midst of danger were frequently taxed by the vicissitudes of a seamiliar from his earliest infancy with the faring life. On one occasion his cabin boy exciting elements of a seaport town, it is not fell overboard, and, just as he was sinking surprising that he became possessed of a for the last time, he plunged into the water longing desire for the novelties and adven- and rescued him. He then prayed that he tures of a sea-faring life. At the age of 13 might be " the instrument of saving his soul as well as his life." He put off in the jolly he left his home to serve as a volunteer of boat to rescue the crew of a dismasted and the first class on board H. M. S. Hindostan, water-logged brig, but they had all perished. under Capt. Hole; the following year he en- On returning to his ship he gathered his tered another ship as midshipman; four years crew and spoke of their dependence upon the gratitude they should feel to later he was promoted to act as master's God and Him for His preserving mercy. Losing a mate on board the Cornwall, and, at the age man in a storm, he prayed that the solemn of 20, he was put in charge of a vessel, re- mysterious event might prove a "warning and captured from the French, and took her the best of blessings to us all." He then safely into Dartmouth. He afterwards served adds, " The wind has risen to a gale, but thank God for sea room and a tight ship." in the Algerine expedition, under Lord When in the channel a gale, which drove an Exmouth, and was wounded in the encounEast Indiaman on the Goodwin Sands, ter. " Amidst all the tumult and danger of caused his ship to run out the chain cable, war, amidst the solemn strife of the ele- whilst he was conducting evening worship ments, there came to this young man's soul with the crew. All hands were soon on deck, vessel was once more secured no sense of God, no conviction of sin, no and when the returned to conclude the service, the they consciousness of a need of forgiveness. It captain remarking on the connection be" was left for the ordinary means of grace, as tween praying and working." He always had on board a good supply of enjoyed in the quiet of his own native land, to touch his heart and probe his conscience." Bibles and tracts in the language of the The sovereignty of Cod receives another il- people where his ship plied, and in spite of lustration in the conversion of a young man opposition and ridicule he was fearless in who remaineth insensible to his lost condi- their distribution. When his vessel was in tion amidst scenes which should have awed port on Sundays he would hoist the Bethel him into penitence. We must regard the flag and invite the attendance of the crews power of the human heart to resist the ap- of other ships at the service. The unofficial peals of God as one of the most solemn efforts of Capt. March was a means of blessing proofs of the depravity of our nature. The to many of his crew. Nor do we wonder, Spirit must give the hearing ear and the re- when we read such a prayer as this recorded ceptive heart, or the responsive echo to the in his diary : " O Lord, grant that I may divine voice, Speak, Lord, for thy servant not be weary in well doing. May 1 have heareth," will "never tremble from the peni- more love to all the souls that are with me, and exercise more meekness, patience, and Life on the Deep Memorials of Charles March, forbearance." His devotion to the good of Commander R. N. By hia nephew. London : Tbe Religious Tract Society, 66, Paternoster Row. A his fellow men was not a service regulated book whioh we can conscientiously aweommtDd, e»- by the rules of a society; it was the generous impulse of a soul fired with the love of God : and his fellow men. The sphere in which he earned his daily bread was the sphere of his Christian activity. We are more than ever convinced that if the world is to be won for Christ it will be by men who, realizing their individual responsibility, labor for souls as those who must give an account. When will our church members learn that they have not discharged their obligations when they have paid their pew-rent and subscribed me conventional guineu to the missionary society ? Ministers may do much when they prove true to their calling, but they cannot overtake the work unless their efforts are seconded by their people. The persecution which scattered the saints of the early church was the means of spreading the gospel, because every individual became a witness for Christ. Since profession of faith, and earnest service for Christ are two of the most important duties which a Christian is called upon to discharge. In a most literal way Capt. March " Cast his bread upon the waters." A number of empty bottles accumulating on board, he put a few tracts into each and, corking them tightly, committed them to the deep. When a man is really dead set upon serving Christ, his ingenuity in devising methods of usefulness is speedily developed. The scriptural injunction suggests novelty of procedure : " Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might." In answer to the objection that he was not an ordained minister, and had no business to trouble himself about men's souls, he charged the objectors with being inconsistent, for when they suffered from sickness they at once came to him for medicine, although he held no diploma. The life of Capt. March affords a striking illustration of the text, that " The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord." His escapes from peril were due to the interposition of a gracious providence. On a voyage to New York»the ship was in the vicinity of Long Island, and thinking she ought to remain on the same tack for another hour he went below to read his favorite commentator, Matthew Henry. " Overcome by heat and fatigue, he fell asleep. Suddenly it seemed as if a hand touched him. There was no one near, no unusual sound on deck. Looking at his watch, he found that the hour was more thad expired, and immediately hurried up the gangway and shouted ' 'Bout seip ' A thick fog had arisen so that no land was to be seen. As he was taking the helm from the man, and putting it a-lee a cry came from the bows, 'Breakers ahead !' He strained his eyes and, though he saw nothing through the enveloping mist, he could distinctly hear the sound of the surf on the shore. All eyes were fixed on him there was a dead silence, wlijch he was enabled in another moment to break, by saying 'All's right, the ship's about!' A few minutes more and the vessel would have struck, and in all probability would have become a total wTeck." In seeking a mooring in Broad Sound, in the Scilly Islands, the ship was in danger of being stranded upon the rocks. He writes, "The pilot was confused and called out to let go the anchor; but the anchor did not run, for God had stopped it. Seeing this, I thought I understood the voice; 1 ran aft and put the helm up, which soon brought the vessel ! �Til VKli: round How true it is, •' They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters, these see the works of the Lord and His wonders in the deep." Deliverance from danger excites our gratitude to God, but are we not quite as much indebted to His grace when we journey so quietly that no danger threatens ? To escape unhurt in a railway accident appears to us a great mercy, but is it not a greater mercy to travel safely to our destination withoutalarm ? After nearly twenty-five years of sea-faring life Captain March resolved to spend the remainder of his days on shore. In seeking a means of livelihood his temporal interests were always regarded as secondary to his He ultimately entered into ■sense of right. partnership with a gentleman at Gloucester, who carried on a general business with the shipping of the port, and afterwards the firm purchased several vessels. He very soon endeavored to establish services in the docks for the benefit of seamen. The dock authorities opposed this, but he secured the nearest chapel and opened it on Sunday afternoons. He became the superintendent of the girls' division of the Sunday School, and engaged himself in various philanthropic works. He lound time also to visit the sick and needy, and, as a deacon of the church, proved himself ready for every good word and work. The loss of his wife and children was a heavy trial to him, but " precious lessons were learned beneath the solemn shadows that fell from the hand of the Almighty." " "He was not all unhappy. The resolve Upbore him, and firm faith, and evermore Prayer from a living source within the will, And beating up through all the bitter world. Like fountains of sweet water in tbe sea. Kept him a living soul." His wounds were partially healed by a second marriage, but were destined to bleed afresh when he followed his second wife to the grave. Five children in all were sum- moned to follow their departed mother, and in heaven grew stronger, there yearnings for the blessed reunion. Who that has thought of the dear ones at rest " over there " has not found some solace for his sorrow in the thought. as the ties came heart " We shall meet on that beautiful shore I " It now became evident that the old weather- beaten sailor was nearing port, for symptoms of heart disease grew more and more manifest. He writes, "As 1 have nlways told people during my life that my religion made me a happier man, and had taken away the sting of death, I trust God will not suffer me to falsify the assertion when I come to die. My sins appear immense, like the sands upon the sea-shore, but blessed be God, the blood of Christ can cleanse them all away." Nothing disturbed the serenity of his soul's peace or shook his confidence in the faithfulness of God. The most difficult lesson he had to learn was, that "They also serve who only stand and wait," and yet had he not often waited for the flood tide or the favoring breeze ? Why should he not now wait for his Master's appointed time? Faithful unto death, he passed away in the early part of the year 1865. It was with him as it is with alt the voyagers to the better land, " Then are they glad because they be quiet, so he bringeth them unto their desired haven." Vernon J. Charlesworth. \ li. [From APRIL, I 8.7 6. " Uifna of Our Times."] MR. SAMUEL PLIMSOLL, M. P. 27 and has taken part in the house-to-house visitation which those evangelists organized in London. One of his first public efforts was in connection with the great Exhibition of 1851, One of the most remarkable incidents as one of its honorary secretaries, acting in that ever took place in the House of Com- Sheffield. In this position Mr. Plimsoll, by mons, occurred on July the 22d, 1875, when his earnestness, activity, and ability, renMr. Plimsoll, in impassioned and burning dered good service, and it was, no doubt, language, protested against the refusal of owing to his activity and influence that Mr. Disraeli to pass a bill this session for Sheffield furnished a larger body of exhibithe protection of seamen from being sent to tors than any other town in the kingdom. sea in unseaworthy vessels. His language When at the close of the Exhibition the was so strong as to be considered unparlia- commissioners offered to compensate him mentary, but it was fully warranted by the for the services he had rendered, he refused facts of the case. to receive any pecuniary reward. The next work in which Mr. Plimsoll enThere was such a touch of nature in his fervid earnestness, as has aroused the nation gaged in the interest of the public was to to fresh interest in his mission, and numer- secure for London the continuous embankous public meetings of sympathy with his ment of the Thames up to Westminster efforts have been held throughout England Bridge. In 1865 he offered himself for election in during the past week. A cotemporary justthe Liberal interest as Member of Parliament ly says: " We do not see what else can be made for Derby unsuccessfully, but on again standof it but judicial murder if the government, ing in JB6B he was returned by a majority with its eyes open to the facts of the case, of nearly 2,500 as Liberal member. The subject, however, with which Mr. refuses to abrogate the law which makes it penal for a man to withdraw from his con- Plimsolls name is indissolubly associated is tract to sail in an unworthy ship, or the law that of which permits a ship-owner to man floating THE SAFETY OF OUR MERCHANT SEAMEN. coffins with living men." In this matter his activity has been so great, The Earl of Shaftesbury, who is chairman and his proceedings so public, by reason of of the Plimsoll Committee, did not lose a the notice they have obtained in the press moment in sending a noble letter to the and Parliament, that very little need be said memberfor Derby, in which he declares that to bring them fully to the remembrance or no language could be adequate to describe the British reading public. The evils he " the wickedness and folly " of giving the has so eloquently denounced in his very repreference to the Agricultural Holdings Bill markable book, Our Seamen, had existed over that for. the protection of the lives of for years Men were deliberately sent to sea our seamen—the former a measure for which in ships unseaworthy in many respects, and no one cares, and which is really not of the were drowned—not maliciously or spitefully slightest importance ; the latter affecting the —but without regret, simply because the lives of so many men, and the happiness of owners of the rickety ships were fully inso many families. sured, and sometimes so over-insured as to This widespread feeling of sympathy with make what was the worst form of calamity Mr. Plimsoll has already told upon the gov- to others a substantial gain ; nay, e,yeri d ernment, who gave notice subsequently of comforting consolation to them, their intention to introduce immediately a Mr. Plimsoll has made his own way in bill giving further power to the Board of the world; He knows what the dangers, the Trade to stop unseaworthy ships. sufferings, and the anxieties of workingmen's lives are ; he has, therefore, sympaSKETCH OF HIS LIFE. Samuel Plimsoll was born at Bristol in thized with them, and labored for those who least able to take care of themselves. In February, 1824. He was for some time are fact, he relinquished business in the full tide Birks, Sheffield, of after clerk to Mr. Mayor whose death he came to London, at the age of success in order to do what good hecould. of about twenty-six years, and commenced The Discovery of The Source'of the business as a coal merchant, near King's Cross. It is said that his entire capital con- Nile The New York Times calls attensisted of only one hundred tons of coal. His tion to the fact that Mr. Stanley can lny business prospered and increased, and he ob- claim to having won the great prize of Afritained a patent for a new system of loading, can exploration—the right to be recognized upon which he has a royalty. While at Sheffield he became a member of as th*discoverer of the true source of the the Rev. Thomas Smith's Congregational Nile. Says the editor: Stanley's fame is Church, and hisearnest Christian principles safe. He has found the true fountain of the have often been manifested in the alleviation Nile in the river Shimeeyn. Livingstone of distress and promotion of benevolent unsaw a drop of water that belonged to dertakings. In the disastrous flood at Shef- never Nile, and the discoveries of Speke and the 4,000 houses field some years ago, when were flooded, he was prominent in the miti- of Baker, important as they were, have been .gation of sufferingarising from that calamity. interpreted and completed by the bold AmerSome years ago Mr. Plimsoll married the ican who has finally grasped the prize which daughter of a coal merchant at Masbro', a has cost so many precious lives, and which member of the Wesleyan Church, who has recently taken a deep interest in Messrs. has eluded so many gallant and persevering Moody and Sankey's religious, movement, efforts. SKETCH OF HIS LIFE. —HIS HEAVEN-BORN MISSION OF MERCY ON BEHALF OF BRITISH SEAMEN. �111 K. FRIEND, 28 Prayer. • I."nl, wh.it a cbange within us one slcrt h"ur in Thy presence, will prevail to make I What heavy burdens from our hosnins take, What part bed yrouuds refresh, as with h ilinwcr ! We krii.l, mvl all around ns mrins to lower ; We riai*. and all, the distantand the near, (*|M"iit blands forth in sunny uuiliiie, brave nnd clear. '■We kneel how weak, we rise how full of power ! Why, therefore,should we do ourselvet, this wrong, Or others, that we are not always atrong ; That we are ever over-borne with care ; That we should ever weak or heartless be, Anxious or troubled ; when with vi is prayer. And joy and strengthaud courage are with Thee?" —K. ft Trench, "More things are wrought hy prayer Than this world dreams of. Wherefore let Uiy voice Kir- like a fountain for me night and day. For what are in- n belter than sheep or p-oats, That MBi-A a blind life within the brain. If, knowing <iod, ibey lift Dot handt of prayer, Uoth for thfinseWea ;in.i thuae who call them friend! For an Ihe whole round earth is every way Bouud by gold chumsabout the feet ol God." —Ttnnyson Our New Sabbath School Library at the Bethel. Children will read, and hence too much effort cannot be expended in procuring the best of books to supply the demand. A few months ago the Bethel Sabbath School sent lorward its annual contribution for new books to Mr. Hoyt, of Boston. This time, as on former occasions, he has forwarded a choice selection of books. It is a real pleasure to witness the eagerness of the young folks to obtain their weekly supply of read- ing matter. Among the recent additions to our library we find many suited to the taste of children of an " older growth." The circulation of these among the fumilics of Honolulu, is most wholesome and salutary. We cannot imagine how an equal amount of money could be more usefully appropriated for the public good. We drew from the- library, recently, in the church, from Philip, A. "D.Evangelists 33, to Maed> and Sankey, A D. 1875," by Rev. P. C. Headlcy. We cannot say that this book fully met our expectations, APRIL. 181 C. bany, and identified herself with him in his revival labors, and was thoroughly appreciated by his large and noble heart. Aunt Dinah followed him to a number of places, even to New York City, where she did excellent service for her new master. The tidings of the Spirit's presence was the welcome call to her; and distance, inclement weather, and pilgrim-travel were no hinderance to the loving disciple. Nor was Aunt Dinah intellectually an ordinary woman. She had a clear, discriminating mind, intuitive knowledge of character, rare discernment in respect to preaching, and by a thorough Chinese Evening School. Mr. Dunscombe's health requiring a vacation, he left is the last steamer for San Francisco, to be absent two or three months. Since his departure, we haye< been looking over the catalogue of his Chinese pnpils at his evening school, in the Bethel vestry. We learn that the school was commenced in March, 1869, or seven years ago, and has been kept up to the present time. It BbU averaged about fifteen, and sometimes constudy of the Bible possessed an amount of tained over twenty. Some of the pupils theological lore which often surpassed the have remained as regular attendants for two, skill of doctors in divinity. 'But most of three and four years, while others only for a all was she distinguished for her humble, few months. The fee of one dollar per genuine, and glowing piety, for her love month has been charged, although we notowards all God's creatures, and for her ab- j sorbing interest in the redemption of sinners, j ticed on the catalogue, " free," opposite Her person was not attiactive. She was j several names. The Board of Education much bent, not by years, but by an injury to appropriates fifty dollars per quarter, or two her back, caused by a blow from her master; ) hundred dollars per annum, for the support her features were strongly marked, her color of the school. Respecting the usefulness of that of the full-blooded African, strikingly the school, there can be no reasonable doubt. with the snow-white head-dress contrasting Among the names, we notice some of the she usually wore, and her manner heartily j merchants of Honolulu, and regular attendaffectionate, blunt, earnest, and derided. Herl upon the preaching of Sit Moon, while ants conversations on religious subjects, and she | some have become connected with the talked of little else, were prized by all. Her I church of Christ, and others manifest a expositions of Scripture were discriminating, friendly spirit. Humble as this effort may with the peculiar unction which comes from be, to impart knowledge among our Chinese a living experience; her personal appeals population, yet we hope that it may be kept pungent and effective, as well as pathetic; up until some more efficient agency can be and her frequent talks in female prayerintroduced and sustained. meetings, Sabbath Schools, and occasionally in religious gatherings of both sexes, were "Squash Power."—The attention of the never amiss. She inspired strong affection scientific world has been called of late, byin those who knew her ; and her circle of President Clark, of Amherst Agricultural friends was not only large, but included some College, to the expanding force of a squash of the prominent citizens, at whose houses while growing. The some subject has more she was always welcome. The anecdotes recently been taken up by the celebrated lecabout her are numberless, but our limit turer, (in New York) Prof. Doremus. The forbids their mention. For the last few enormous weight of 5000 pounds was raised she a the in of her life room occupied years by one squash ! From a New York paper basement of one of the New York churches, we copy as follows : making occasional visits to her old friends. "Never before, siid Prof. Doremus, has 20th, 1846, died She March aged seventy- the development of a squash been observed lour years. more or by a greater number of this time there was stopping at the people.critically " AtHouse thousands of men, women Many the brother of an English offi- and children, from all Astor classes of and cer, who preferred the request that Aunt of various nationalities, visited it.society should be buried Greenwood Cemin Dinah Mr. Penhallow watched with it several etery by the side of his brother, in accord- days and nights, making hourly observaance with his dying request. It seems this tions. officer was taken sick at a New York hotel, Prof. Parker was mover) to write a poem and Aunt Dinah, happening to hear of it, about it, and Prof. J. H. Seelye declared sought his room, ministered to his wants, j that he positively stood awe of it. in and begun in her usual way to talk with Prof. Doremus closed his discourse by reabout his He him encouraged j soul-interests. the beautiful lines of John Mason the poor negro's remarks, for they afforded j citing Good: him relief from the tedium of confinement; Not worlds od worlds in phslanx deep but, as they were continued and repeated, he Need we to prove a God is here; began to awake to a higher interest, and The daisy, fresh from wiuter's sleep. Tells of His hand in lines as clear. finally became a penitent and believing Christian. His wish was complied with. For who but He that arched tbe skies And pours tbe day spring's living flood, Twenty-six dollars were found in her room, Wondrous alike in all He tries. laid by for her funeral expenses. To this Could rear the daisy's purple bud ? more was added. A procession of carriages Mould its green cup, its wiry stem, her to their followed remains resting-place in lis fringed border nicely spin. Greenwood, and a slab of Italian marble was And cut the gold embossed gem. erected above it, which bears an appropriate That, set in silver, gleams within T I I bnt it does contain, however, much useful and entertaining reading. Great is the variety of consecrated talent which God employs for. the building up of His church. In reading this volume, we were specially interested in the notice of Rev. E. N. Kirk, of Boston, and of " Aunt Dinah," one of Dr. Kirk's helpers : " Dr. Kirk had a very humble and yet an efficient co-worker in some of his fitflds of spiritual harvest, Who was doubtless drawn to him by his anti-slavery position : we refer to Aunt Dinah, who had been a slave in Duchess County. N. V., but who had purchased her own freedom. She was converted in a Methodist revival, and learned to read the Bible after being taught the alphabet by her master's little daughter. She became inscription.'" familiar with standard theological works, of James Anderson, Esq., will find two which those of Dr. Jonathan Edwards were her favorites. She joined Dr. Kirk at Al- letters at the office of The Friend. Then fling it unrestrained and free, (i'er hill and dale and desert sod. That man, where'er lie walks, may see In every Btcp the stamp of God." �rII X The Early History and Convict Life of KKIKMI, APRIL, mh 8 7 6 We would acknowledge the regular .reception of the " Sunday at Home " and " Leisure Hour," published by the Religious Tract Society of London. These are most choice monthly periodicals, and we should be glad to extend their circulation over the islands. Either Whitney or Thrum we Australia. By the mail steamer, says the Weekly Auckland Herald, the Rev. P. P. Agnew will be u passenger. The Rev. gentleman intends doing the grand tour of New Zealand, and delivering a series of lectures on know, would order them for subscribers. the early history and convict life of AustraPapers for distribution have been relia. The Rev. Mr. Agnew, who is one of the few popular lecturers and preachers in ceived from Mrs, Scott, and Mrs. Severance. Australia, was originally sent out to New Zealand from the University of Oxford to assist and travel with Bishop Selwyn. In 1864 Mr. Agnew, disagreeing with the policy PORT OF HONOLULU, S. I. of the present Bishop of Sydney, gave up his emoluments, and during the last nine ARRIVALS. years has traveled the Australian colonies, Feb. 26— Am hk II W Almy, Freeman, 18 ilys fin Humboldt 29—P mss City of rt Francisco, La.ch.lau, IS days from preaching and lecturing with considerable success. The Rev. gentleman's almost un- Mar. I—II Sydney. UM S Myrmidon, Com Hare, from Hawaii. 2—Haw brig I'omare, Engli.h, 24 day.from Tahiti. interrupted intercourse with the convict and 3— Ger schr I.evuka, Micklesou, 4u days from Apia. prisoner population for a period of over 30 Sainoan Islands. MARINE JOURNAL. years, and the deep interest he has taken in their early history and ultimate settlement, has put him in possession of some ot the most remarkable and thrilling histories of the present age. The documents possessed by the government on these matters have appeared so startling and so easily identified with existing persons and circumstances that the authorities considered themselves DEPARTURES. justified in burning all the criminal records of the colony. Mr. Agnew has, however, Feb. 26—llrit .cnr Favorite, McKaye, for Victoria, BU. wh bk Desmond. Green, for cruise. we are informed, diligently and faithfully, Mar. 2'i—Haw I—l'MssCily of San Francisco, Laehlan, for San from personal knowledge and intercourse, Francisco. I—II I J .M steam cor T.ukuba-Kan.T Y I to, t'aplain. collected everything of interest which his lor Japan. him; have and 6—llrit bktn Marama. Domine, for Tahiti. offered rare opportunities 0—Am sehrC M Ward, Cluney, for Guano Islands. from these materials has arranged a series 7—Ger achr Levuka, Mickleson, for Tahiti. 9—l' M ss Mikado, Moore, for Auckland .k Sydney. of lectures, illustrating the " Convict and 11—Am bk II W Almy, Freeman, Tor Vtetsria, II t:. Bushranging History of Australia." The IS—Haw brig Giovanni Apiani, Until v, for arctic. 15—Am wli bk Cornelius Howland, [lonian, for Arctic. press has everywhere borne unqualified tes16—Am wh bk JamesAllen, Keenan. lor Arrlic. and excelof 16—Am bk D G Murry, Kuller, for San I'rancisco. Mr. Agnew's power timony 2U -Haw wh bk Arctic, Whitney, for the Arctic Ocean, lence as a preacher and lecturer. An Australian cotemporary says:"The bare MEMORANDA. relation of this secret portion of our colonial Report of bark Helen \V Almv, Freeman, Master.— history has thrilled us with a strange sensa- Left Humboldt Bay Feb Bth wilh strong SE giile blowing for for us anxious further tion, and made deeply about 12 hours, then hauling to the westward with heavy revelations. The strange lights so skillfully squalls; split upper main topsail and lower fure-topsail. The thrown on the dark pictures called forth westerly wind continued for about 15 hours, then modemting hauling lo tho SSW with rain, which continued for two bursts of applause, and showed a very rare and days} wind thenhauled to N <V, from thence to NE and I.NI. and extraordinary power of description on with moilerate breese and fine weather. Made east, end of Hs> 1 kai at 3 a m Keb iMi, and arrived in Honoluluat 2 p m same the part of the reverend lecturer." Mr. day, 18 days passage. Agnew has, we believe, had very liberal Retort of SS City of San Francisco, Lachlan, Comoffers made to him to lecture in Great Brit- mander.—Left Tort Chalmers Feb 9ih, at 2:45 pm, with ain and America; and he intends to visit mails, pass enters and cargo; Feb 10th arrived at Lytileton; at Napier: the 13th at Auckthese countries when he has completed his the lllh at Wellington; the 12th 15th, am, 4—Am bk Mary Belle Roberts, Gray, 16 days Irom San Fradcisco. B—Am wh bk Cornelius Howland, lloinan. fm cruise, with 180hbls sperm. 9—P Mss Mikado Moore, 8 days and 15 hours from Sao Franciaco. 9—Am wh bk James Allen, Keellftn, from cruise. I.;—Am wh bk Onward, Hayes, from cr.iiae. 21—Am bktn J A Falkinburg, Hubbard, 21 days from Astoria. 22—Am wh bk Mt Woliaston, Mitchell, from a cruise. 2a—Java 2d, Fisher, from a cruise, with 37b bbl. .perm. 23—Three Brothers, Owen, from home, via Uilo, clean. New Zealand tour. We would acknowledge a package of valuable reports and pamphlets, relating to Massachusetts, from Dr. Nathan Allen, of Lowell, Mass.—Copies of Spurgeon's "Sword and Trowel " have been received from Mrs. Taylor, of London, but formerly of Honolulu.—From G. W. Finch, of West Trinity, Ohio, we would acknowledge an illustrated copy of D. M. Feery & Co.'s Seed Annual, for 1576, of Detroit, Michigan. This is n finely illustrated pamphlet of 250 pages. If any of our island readers wish to order garden or flower seeds, we would be glad to loan to them this catalogue. land. Left Auckland Feb and arrived at at 12:30 Kandavu on the 18th, at 8:30 p m; at that port connected wilh the ss Granada, and received the New South Wales malls, passengers, and 'eft on the 19th al 7:30 a m; arrived at Honolulu. on the 29tb at 10 p in, aud all well. The whaling bark Faraway, Capl Jos Spencer, touched at Rarotonga, Jau 6th, and was also tpokeu at sea, Jan 19th, bound for Sydney. Kki'ukt of Bark MarY Belle Rodehth, Gray, Master.— Left San Francisco Feb 17th. Had light trades all the passage; made Coco Head Mar 2d, and was two days becalmed insight of land. Arrived on the morning of the4th. Rkport of SS Mikado, F Moore, Commander—Left Sau Francisco I-eb 29th, with the Australian and New Zealand mails. The first 48 hours experienced fresh gales from BV7 with high confused oca and light variable winds from 8 to BE the remainder of the passage, with an unpleasant sea throughout. She bring- 34 passengers lor this port aud a considerable cargo. Measle* having developed in several instances, the ship was placed in quarantine during her stay here, hut every facility wan given coni|»orlnble with thesafely of the inba'biteiiin'fiir the dispatch of tbe vessel. Arrived in port Mar '.Mb, at 3 45 a m. R Y Graham, Purser. On the passage down to Honolulu of Ihe •> lea mer Uranada, in .lan last, whenabout 460 miles N. E. of Honolulu, she ran wilhiu 20 feet of a wreck, supposed to he the Varuna. . 29 PASSENGERS. fao« Sydney si Kandsvu—Per City of Ban Francisco, Feb 29—S U Wright, A II Thomss, E Lsrdic, F W Reichell, E Oakley. Fob San Fbancibco—l'er City of Pan Francisco, March 1 —Z rt Spalding, wife and 2 children. IE II Spalding and wife, F. T Train. Miss M II J. hk., Capl llos-elager, II X Hitchcock, Miss II A and II X Castle, J T Walerhouse. II E Whitney. M Jafle,lam X E Smith. E IJun.cnn.be, 0 P Shillaber, J II Selveira, A lliandrade, M V dc Maceda. Fro* Apia—Per Levuka, Mar Bd—Frank Plait. Fbom San Francisco— Per Mary Belle Iloberls, Mar 4th— Chas Anderson, Thos Boye, Geo Green. For Guano Islands—l'erC M Ward, Mar 6th—Mrs Cluncy, D Kennedy, W II Foye. G Holme, and 3anative laborers. For Tahiti—Per Marsina, March6th—Chas Slltlwell. Fob Sydney—Per Mikado, March9th—F E Jackson. From San Francisco—Per Mikado, Mar9lh—Mr Huntley snd wife. Mr. C E William., Mr. yon Pflaler. Miss Attwoisl, E B Upturn, Mr Walker, W J Macomlier, E 8 Baker, Mr Green, Mrs Kodgers, T M Blair, 11 U Haste and wife, James Wtehtman and wife, Mrs Dcnman,G F Long, O Tessier, Miss E lngraham, F W Glade, Ino Mlller,B Mitchell. Chas Oester, J I'urvi., Mrs Murphy. W A floe, N Benson, Robt Moore, W A Vl'llber, E Snyder, J C Towuscnd. For San Fbancibco—Per D C Murray, Mar 15lh:—J W Hanson, J J Peavey, Geo Woods, G Tesser. .1 Mitchell, Mrs J O Carter and 2 children, R P Baker, 11 Mauley, O Emerson, Capt Provost, wile and child. MARRIED. On tli*1 24th February, at the residence of the bride's father, Koloa, Kauai, Mei.icknt I'iuleina, daughter of the Rev. Dr. J. \V. Smith, to William, ion of John Thomas Waterhouse, I:kii ,of Honolulu. Jurboenhkn—RnoEH«.—ln thU cily, Mar fith, nt Ihe resi- rtenceof Dr X B Hutchinson, by Key II II Piirker, Mr Eilkk \ miiikas CiißirsToriißn .ir-inciUNBEN. i)fCo|renhafen, Denmark, to Mrs Kkbecca Rociekh, ol San Francisco. Bmitii—HonßON —In thii" <i:y. Msrrh'jail, at (he residence of Capt Thomas Hohmn. by "U» \v [-rear, ms*)stsji by ReT D Dole, Wm O Smith, Ekq, to M vnv A Uobieon. Hoth of this city. DIED. Ci'MCK—At Kobe, Jaran. on Jamuvy 27th 1876, OMiVIL 11. (Im,!(K. son of Uev. I.uther (iulirk M I>, jijrent o( the Mil. rir in Ilible Society lor ChliM imil JttU, anil to***? sun 0 Hi'v. Orrnmel H.GaHelr. nrx-nonnry nf the Anvricun, Uoan t at Kobe, .)a;>an,—Igtd ejr'il years and ten months' Snel.!-. —ly tlii* city. Mnr 4>h. o| ani'iirhtm. V r A VV Snkm., a n;iiivr «>f tln> Pt»te "f M«ii.f, ;i n-siilunt of tbOM inlands fur th*' lust :o yearn, air-ii Ms Mcicw—ln thin cily. H«ff 7lh. of comunijilimi, Katie A, eldest diiuchter nf the late Robert D Morgan, aj(ed 20 years, 2 months and 7 days. MrKmaiN—ln Honolulu, March llth. R MrKtnnii*, Sr M. D.,a Hutive nf Conn.y Down. Ireland, in ihe Btst yeur of his nee. Dr. McKibhin bad resided here since 1850. and was much esteemed ns a g- ntlurnan, a philnsojihi-r and a Chrint.an. AM'K'snv—ln Honnlu'u, March 14th. of «on»umt-tlnn, Chaim.br A:»Di!RKnN. a unlive of Nova Scnlia, sgi-d ft;; yisis. He was a memher.nf I'adrtc Lodge, N<>. l'..i, F X A. M.,"f Han Francisco. Hi* rpmains were Inierrnl in 11i*r Maatifllc bit, Nuunnu cemetery, the funerai being Hiieiided by the Ciafl of ihisciiy. , PACIFIC MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY! am FOLLOWING MAGNIFICENT SHIPS of the Company will leave Honolulu a. per Time Table TIHE ,— below SS CITY OF HAN FRANCISCO SS ZKALANDIA SSCITYOFNKW YOBK SS AUSTRALIA SS CITT OF SYDNEY For San Francisco, on or about— Msroh Msrrh April May June July Annual September October November December 3400 Too. .3200 Ton. 3400 Tons 3200 Tons 3400 Too. I For FIJI, Port. In New Km. land, snd Sydney, KBW, on or snout— B 1 Msrcb... W\ April S 4 28 May Jons 24 1 20 .21! Jane l»;Jaly 18 Aubu.i 13 September UlOctober ft N0vember.......... 0 December 2T» 24 21 IS 16 14 XT For Is.sage, Freight and all further information, apply to inhlB76 11. Ii.K'KFKI.II X I'll.. AOKNTS. �THE HtIEND, APRIL, Is7«. 30 EDITOR'S TABLE. Japan Correspondence. Japan, Dec. 10, 1875. Joint Todd.—The story of his life told mainly by Todd, Dear Friend—Let roe tell you some of himself, compiled and edited by John E. Paator of tbe Cbwrch of the B.edeemer, New the privileges of the Kobeites A mild and Haven. Conn.—Harper & Bros., New York, 1876. healthful climate—latitude 34 N.—the Kobe, : In our last issue, notices appeared of Dr. Guthrie and Dr. Goodell—the former, Scotland's favorite preacher; and the latter, a most successful American Missionary in Turkey. The biographical and autobiographical lives of these two men have been admirably presented to the reading public. They were representative men of the passing ■ge. There lie before us the memoirs of another representative man and gospel minister. All three agree in one point, they were noble workers. They did not spend their lives in dreamy inactivity, but putting on the " gospel armor," they went forth as valiant soldiers of tbe cross and nobly fought under the banner of the Prince of Peace— in Scotland, in Turkey, in New England. They were aggressive men. The study of ° °. mercury seldom below 30 ■ or above 90 A traveler said: It basks in a climate almost perfect; on account of its serenity and freedom from extremes, it should be the very paradise of pleasure seekers. The scenery is truly lovely. Lofty mountains bound the landscape. In summer, light fleecy clouds hover about the higher slopes, while through openings, in the stately range ofheights,glimpses are caught of still higher peaks beyond, bathed in violet haze, or dissolving into the misty distance. Fronting the water are pine-clad hills, with varied and fantastic outlines, natural to a volcanic region. Their sides are seamed with valleys, in which nestle pleasant villages, half hid in the variegated foliage of shady trees. The great Osaka Bay is usually studded their lives as now written by their sons and with boats of fishermen, and flecked with son-in-law, are worthy of the careful reading the white sails of scores of trading junks. of the Christian community in all parts of Ships and steamers, of nearly all maritime the world. nations, are constantly coming and going. Dr. Todd was a genuine son of New INTELLIGENCE. England. We cannot readily conceive of We have the Japan. Weekly and Ifiogo such a character as being produced in any News. A semi-monthly mail from Daily other part of the world. California, and weekly from Shanghai. A This story of his life is skillfully woven China, which brings us news via telegraph, by his son, Irom the letters, memoranda, about a week from the great centres of in publications, sermons, and recollections of action. the father, first us a Pastor, in Grolon. Muss, RELIGIOUS PRIVILEGES. next in Northampton, and subsequently in There is a union chapel, a neat brick Philadelphia and in Pittsfield. Mass. He which will seat about 200. It was building, was no less successful as a Preacher and built by the efforts of Mr. Green, the chiefly Pastor thnn as an mithor. His " Lectures to first missionary of the A. B. C. F. M., to children," " Truth made simple," and other but from the Board. It without aid Japan, hooks have rendered his nume and fame is occupied on alternate Sabbaths by Evanworld-wide. We remember when, as a colgelical Episcopalians from Osaka, and by lege student, we read on its first publication, the Board's missionaries. There is also a Dr. " Todd's Student Manual." This book Wednesday evening prayer meeting in Enghas had a most happy influence among stu- lish, at my son's house, and on Friday evendents in Europe and America. It is a novel ings in Japanese, besides several week-day idea, that a man should acquire fame and public meetings, and two on the Sabbath, in money by publishing a Blank Book, yet this the latter. Although I can understand very was true of Dr. Todd when he published his little Japanese, it is very pleasant to hear " Index Rerum." them sing the songs of Zion in familiar We are reading this story of Dr. Todd's tunes. For, if they don't sing accurately, life wilh much interest, and can most cordino one near them can doubt, but that they ally recommend it to our readers. Its read- are seriously, and pretty successfully, bent ing recalls to mind many well-nigh forgotten on making a joyful noise. events, with which we were familiar forty MEANS OF LIVING. years ago. At the risk of repeating somewhat, that 1 When the silk-worm weaves her have written, I will name some of our daily curious work, she hides herself under the comforts. From our own garden we have silk, and is not seen ; so when we have done first rate tomatoes, beets, sweet corn and our best, we must vanish in our own strawberries. All but the last, several months thoughts, and transfer the glory of all to in succession, and pretty fair peas and cabbage, and inferior beans. In the market we VsOU. find apples, pears and quinces, which, when stewed, are quite palatable; first rate grapes, second rate peaches, oranges and plums; medium beef and mutton, but poor pork ; second rate sweet and Irish potatoes, and turnips ; poultry, but higher than at the islands; eggs and strawberries about half as high. Fine flour, butter, and a few other groceries, we get from San Francisco. Tolerable fish are cheap and abundant; but I must stop, lest you think me to be " Man given to appetite.'' IN REGARD TO HEALTH. Kobe has been called a sanitarium for China, and such I think it would be, if board could be had at a reasonable rate, say $1 25 or $1.50; (it is now $3.00) still many come, and often spend a short time in mission families. In the thirteen months that we have been here seventy-five missionaries, chiefly from China, have called on us here ; many staying only twenty or twenty-four hours. The last two months my son, from North China, has been with us for the benefit of his health, his wile and adopted daughter being with him. His nervous system is seriously impaired, and the extreme cold at Kalgan, (occasionally 15° below zero) seemed likely to be fatal to him. He had leave to come here for six months. He has recruited a little, and Dr. Berry, our physician, thinks he may quite regain his health. On the 29th of November I fell from our veranda, about two feet, and struck heavily on my left shoulder, bruising it seriously and slightly injuring the collar bone. Though not quite well, lam fast recovering. With kind salutations to all my friends, I am, as ever, yours, P. J. G. Dr. McGibbon, of Sydney.—This gentle- man, who is Pastor of a Presbyterian Church in Sydney, and editor of the Protestant " Standard," passed on his way to London as Delegate to the Pan-Presbyterian Assembly, to convene at London, in July. Before leaving the city, where he has been a laboring Pastor for a quarter of a century, he received a handsome testimonial at a gathering of his friends, including many of his brother ministers of Sydney. The testimonial was a purse of 700 guineas, or $3,500. The people of Sydney indicate their appreciation of earnest ministerial labors in a substantial manner. It was only a few months ago that the Rev. Mr. Curnow, a Methodist Clergyman, passed through Honolulu on his way to England, and before leaving Sydney his friends presented him with a purse of 400 guineas, or $2,000. Such generous testimonials bespeak ministerial fidelity, and an appreciative Christian community. �ADVERTISEMENTS. Places of Worship. 31 TBE FRIEND, AP R t L,, 187 G . SAILORS' HOME! S. C. Damon. Chaplain. ■ |K. P. I!. HUTCHINSON, King street, near tho Sallow Home. Preaching Physician and Surg.on. al 11 A. M. Seats free. Sabbath School before the morning service. Prayer meeting on Wednesday Office at Drug Store, corner of Fort and Merchant Streets; evenings at 74 o'clock. Residence, Nuuanu Avenue, near SchoolStreet. Fobt Stkkkt Church—Rev. W. Frear. Pastor, fel "Ii Offlce Hour., 9 to 11 A.M. K«5 " corner of Kurt and Beretiuiiii streets. Preaching Sabbalh on Sundays at 11 a. m. and 7J P.M. G. IRWIN A. CO.. %y School .It 10 A. M. t)ommis.iion Merchants, Kawaiaiiao Ciu:kch—Rev. 11. H. Parker. Pastor, Plantation and In.ursine Agent., Honolulu, 11. I. ICinjr street, above the Palace. Services iv Hawaiian every Sunday at 94 a. m. nnd 3 P. li. sfJL-isJ|L—Jl i '':lißiTfiiiiiimptpi Roman- Catholic Church—Under Hie charge of ■ EWERS -v DICKSON, Rt Rev. Bishop Miiigret. assisted by Rev. Father Materials, near Beretania. Services Dealers Lumber and in Building Hermann Fort street, Fort Street, Honolulu, 11. I. every Sunday at 10 a. m. aifd t v. M. Kaiimakapii.i Chi.kch—Rev. M. Ktiaea, Pastor, HOFFMANN, M D., M Beretania street, near Niiuanu. Services in Hawaiian every Sunday at 10 A. M. and 24 P. M. Physician and Surgeon, Thk An-iii.icax Church—Bishop, the Rt. Rev. Al| fred Willis. I). D.; Clergy. Rev. Rob't Dunn, M. A.. Corner Merchantsnd Kaahumanu Street., near the Poll.Offlce Officcra' Table, with lodging, per week, Rev. Airs, Mackintosh, St. Andrew's Temporary •'6 Cathedral, Beretania street, opposite the Hotel. A 1 II XX W Klt 4. CO.. Seamen's do. do. do. Kuglish services on Sundays at 64 anil 11 A. M., and Shower Baths on the Premises. Commission and Shipping Merchants, '.'4 and 74 P. M. Sunday School at the Clergy House at 10 a. m. Honolulu, Oahu. H. I. ED. DUNSCOMBE, Honlulu. January 1, 1875. Manager. SA P. ADAMS. IsHslW'l Bktiiki Key. 30330 , s% ; . .. ..• THOS. G. THRUM, Auction and Commission Merchant, STATIONER, NEWS AGENT AND BOOK BINDER, MERCHANT STREET, HONOLULU. O.V HAND THK FOLLOWING KKKI'S Works pertaining the Hawaiian Islands : . or 50 to .larvls* History theSandwich Islands Price, $2 Bennett's Historical Sketch ol the Hawaiian Islands, *• 1 60 Hawaiian Club Papers, 1868 " 160 Hawaiian Almanac and Annual for 1876 and 1876, 50 eta each TheSecond Interregnum, with cabinet photograph of llin Majesty Kalakaua, c mtaining an account of all the events in* cldent to hia election to the Throne Price, $1 50 Hassinger's HawaiianTariff and Digest of Laws and Regulations of theCustoms, Ac, in paper & boards, price $1 A I.2ft Andrews* HawaiianDictionary, sheep Price $5 00 u 60 Hawaiian Phrase Book Bynopsis of Hawaiian .Jramm.ir 75 160 ..urns' Kiana, A Romance of the Sandwich Islands, Charts of the Hawaiian Islands, $1.50 each,and Letter Sheet Maps of same, $1.00 per quire. Sets of Hawaiian Postage Stamps, with specimen Hawaiian Flag, price $1.00. Photograph View of Honolulu, 9x24 inches, mounted or unmounted, price $2.00 and $2.60. The above will be mailed to any part of the world on receipt of price and postage. Any Books published pertaining to the Islands will be procured to order. "" THOS. 6. 19 Merchant Street* PACKAGES --- |1 R. MOTT SMITH, Carriage Making and Trimming! I WOULD RESPECTFULLYINFORMYOU THAT I now employ tha beat Mechanics in the line of Carriage Making, Carriage and General Blacksmithing, Painting. Repairing, etc.. Having resumed practice, can be found at hi. room, over R On tbe Hawaiian Group ; and it ia a well established Sirens & Co.'. Drug Store, corner ofFort snd Hotel at.. that fact oar Carriage Trimming, by Mr. R. WhitS. McGREW. M. D., man, la aa well executed aa any in New York City or ■«I 11 N elsewhere. I therefore feel warranted in aaying that Irate Surgeon Y. S. Army, we oan manufacture as good a olaaa of work in HoCan be consulted at hi. residence on Hotel .treet, between nolulu aa oan be found in any part of tbe world. I will also atate here that we fully intend to work al Alike, and Fort .treets. Q. WEST. Ihe lowest possible rate*. JJentist, .pi WEST, Wagon and Carriage Builder, 74 and 76 King Street, Honolulu. %T I.land order, piomptly executed at lowest rstes a * At CO.. (Succesors to C. L. Kich.rd. k Co.) W. PIERCE M. DICKSON, Photographer, 01 Fort Street, Hunolnla, ASSORT- HAND A CHOICE MENT OF fHOTOOKAPHIC STOCK, ALWAt'SON Ship Chandlers and General Commission Mer A Large Collection of Beautiful Views of Hawaiian Scenery, &c, &c. Honolulu,Oahu, Hawaiian Islands. CURIOSITY HUNTERS will And at thia establi.hmeiil a SPLENDID COLLECTION Of ■™- chants, Agents Pnuloa Salt Works. Brand's Bomb I.anrrs, Volcanic THRUM'S STATIONEBY AND NEWS DEPOT, No. Fire-Proof Store, in Robioeon'e Building, Queen Street. Honolulu. OF READING MATTBR-OF Papers and Magazines, back numbers—put up to order at ed ucrd rates for parties going to sea. ly THE HAWAIIAN HOTEL! 8$ And Perry Davis' Pals. Killer. o. Sprrlnarnx. 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AM> LARGE ROOMS TO LET FOR PITRLIO MKETINGB, OR 80CIKT1H8. Goods Suitable for Trade. PORT The Haiku Sugar Company. The Hawaiian Sugar Hill. W. 11. Bailey, The Ilamaku. Sugar Company, The W.laius Sugar Plantation, The Wheeler k Wilson Sewing Machine Company, Dr. Jsyne a Sons Celebrated Family Medicines. If "THE FRIEND," MASTERS VISITING THIS MONTHLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO during the last Six Yesrs can testify from persons! exSHIP Seamen. Marios sod General Intelligence. A Temperance, perience that the undersigned keep tbe best assortment of PUBLISHED AND EDITED BY BOOMS CAS BE HAD BY Till. NIGHT OR WEEK ! 9tM A FINE ASSORTMENT OF Ij GOODS FORTRADE And Sell Cheaper than any other House in the Kingdom. DILLINGHAM 4 CO. SAMTTEL C. DAMON. TERMS: One Copy per annum Two Copies per annum Foreign Subscribers, Including postage $S.OO 3 00 2.60 �Pure religion and undcflled before God, the Father, is this : To visit thefatherless and widoimt in their affl'ution, and to keep onc'tt si If vinputtnlfrom the world. At thb Monthly Concert for March, the subject of Christian labors among the Chinese was prominent. It is customary with some to sneer at work among this people. "Can any good thing come out of Nazarethi"' We might here present a number of instances showing the genuineness of conversions among the Chinese here and in California, but this is not to the purpose. Our duty is to do what wn can for this people, now placed within reach of our influence, and leave the results with that Power which is so surely effecting the conquest of the wojjd to Christ. /M.a.ny of the Chinese residing here have Hawaiian wives, and their homes are neat and creditable. They guard their homes from vice and immorality with jealousy, especially those who have come under Christian influences. They have a great influence among the Hawaiians for good or evil, and those who would labor for the preservation of tne Hawaiians cannot be unmindful of this influence. If anything would have a recuperative effect upon the native race, it would be to check the immorality and licentiousness so fearfully prevalent among them. With the care and nurture of homes in tbe true sense of the word, the children would multiply nnd families increase. Among the Chinese who have shown a disposition to learn and put themselves under good influences a large proportion ore those who are married to native wives. In view of these relations, it is more than ever our duty to multiply the means of moral culture among the Chinese as possible, a nnd thus make them, blessing, rather than a blight upon this peoone who watches the labors of Mr. ple. Sit Moon, the Chinese colporteur of the Y. M. C. A., and attends the meetings he holds, can fail to doubt the value of his labors to this community. //No This is a traveling community. By the for San Francisco will commence the annual hegira. The number of migrating birds this year will be greater than usual. Many natives of the United States and children of household, where sentiments of revenues for the Great Republic have been cherished as household words will go to join in the rejoicing incident to the Centennial celebration. It has been said that traveling always improves the head, but not always the heart; but we think the moral lessons of the great centennial will be full of culture for the heart. The observant visitor will see much that will encourage him with refejence to the progress nnd elevation of man. There will probably be few, if any, crowned heads there, but there will be gathered the trophies of the kings of art and of mechanical science. Methods of education and much that will illustrate the advance of the last century will attract attention. Pondering upon this great gathering of man and his achievements, the mind will be expanded and the heart quickened to— next steamer doubtless astonished at the number and variety of appliances rendered necessary by life in a northern climate, and after sweltering in a degree of summer heat unknown to us in these islands, or shivering in the chill blasts of a northern winter, will return to their embowered homes content with the fate that cast their lot in Hawaii nei. To all who are favored with opportunities of travel this year we extend our best wishes for pleasant journeyings, and heart and mind enriching experiences. "Let the Dead Bury Their Dead." Christ, the loving Christ, said these words, and joined with them the injunction, " follow me." What meaning had that strange and seemingly harsh command ? There was the sacred duty of burying with due respect the father of this disciple. Yet Christ tells him there is even a higher duty for him, and that those who are not prepared for this higher duty—who are, as he terms them, as yet dead " in regard to the higher life, are nevertheless fully ready and competent to perform the other tender and necessary duty to the departed. is this not so with respect to much of the strictly Christian work before us ? There is that in the line of charity and of benevolence which is human. It commands and demands indeed our sympathy and attention, and yet it will be done by those who h«ve not yet risen into the Christian life. Meanwhile the sacrifice and labor requisite for the purely Christian and evangelical work can only be given by disciples of the Savior. While enterprises, good in themselves, are going on by the efforts of thosp able and willing to undertake them, is knot expected of the Christian that he will husband his strength for what ho has more especially pledged himself to do? We cannnot, the most of us, do everything. This view of the case applies to the Y. M. C. A. work. It is, or should be, a purely Christian enterprise ;—evangelical, 1. c., gospel-carrying. Those engaged in it may well keep in mind the meaning of the words C. J. L. " singleness of heart." " Men are made up of potences. We are magnets in an iron globe. We have keys to all doors. We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck ; the earth sensitive as iodine to light; the most plastic and impressionable medium, alive to every touch, and. whether searched by the plough of Adam, the sword of Cassar, the boat of Columbus, the telescope of Galileo, or the surveyor's chain of Picard, or the submarine telegraph, to every one of these experiments it makes a gracious .response. 1 am benefitted by every observation of a victory of man over nature—by seeing that wisdom is better than strength ; by seeing that every healthy and resolute man is an Him from whom all blessings flow." "OurPraise friends from our sunny clime will be erganizer, a method coming into a confusion 32 AsYCMochoiearutnnH'gf onolulu. and drawing order out of it. We are touched and cheered by every such example. We like lo see the inexhaustible riches of nature, and the access of every soul to her magazines. These examples wake an infinite hope and call every man to emulation. A low hopeless spirit puts out the eyes; skepticism is slow suicide. A philosophy which wees only the worst.believes neither in virtue or in genius ; which says 'tis all of no use, life is eating us up, 'tis only a question who shall be last devoured—disspirits ns ; the sky shuts down before us. A Schoppenhauer, .with logic and learning and wit, teaching pessimism—teaching thnt this is the worst of all possible worlds, and inferring that sleep is better than waking, ami death than sleep—all the talent in the world cannot save him from being odious. Hut if instead of these negatives you give me affirmatives—if you toll me that there is always life for the living; that what man has done man can do; that this world belongs to the energetic ; that there is always a way to everything desirable ; that every man is provided, in the new bias of his faculty, with a key to nature, and that man only rightly knows himself as far as he has experimented on things,—l am invigorated, put into genial and working temper; the horizon opens and we are full of good will and gratitude to the Cause of Causes.— ll. W. Emerson on J!i sources. ■ A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some spot of a native land, where it may get the love of tender kinship fur the face of earth, for the labors men go forth to, for the sounds and accents that haunt it, for whatever will give that early home a familiar, unmistakable difference amidst the future widening of knowledge : A spot where the (lefiniteiiess of early memories may he �nwrought with affection, and kindly acquaintance with all neighbors, even to the dogs and donkeys, may spread, not hy sentimental effort and reflection, but as a sweet, habit of the blood. At five years old. mortals are not prepared, to be citizens of tho world, to be stimulated by abstract nouns, to soar above preference into impartiality ; and that prejudice in favor of milk with which we blindly begin, is a type of the way body and soul must get nourished, at least for a time. The best introduction to astronomy is to think of the nightly heavens as a little lot of stars belonging to one's own homestead. Goodness isa large, often a prospective word; like harvest, which at one stage when we talk of it lies all underground, with an indeterminate future : Is the germ prospering in the darkness? At another, it tins put forth delicate green blades, and by and by the trembling blossoms are ready to be dashed off by an hour of rough wind or rain. Each stage has its peculiar blight, nnd may have the healthy life choked out of it by a particular action of the foul land which rears or neighbors it, or by damage brought from foulness afar From George Elliot, in — Daniel Deronda, � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Friend (1876) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Friend - 1876.04.01 - Newspaper Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1876.04.01