https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/b6b4e76573d243c5ef3521c498460943.pdf 507c9c22ff3f4c21076125381ed27581 PDF Text Text THF E RIEND HONOLULU, AUGUST 1, 1817. • Heto Jwrits, M 2», $o. M CONTENTS Par Augaat 1, 1877. —. Pleaaant Memoriea Ramble*, in the Old World-No. 7 Plea for Science-Poetry Geneva Theological .Seminary Veatlgea of the Molten Globe Editor's Table Marine Journal How Ood Educates tils Children Japan Correspondence Y. M.C. A Paok 66 65-67 68 68 68 69 60 70 70 72 THE FRIEND. AUGUST 1. 1877. "Pleasant Memories."—In the issue of the Advertiser of July 21, the editor dilates upon the pleasant impressions made upon the minds of the passengers landing from the Australian steamers and spending a few hours in our shady bowers, riding up to the Pali and listening to the sweet music discoursed by Berger's band of Hawaiian musicians. This item reminds us of a paragraph in a letter received per last Australian steamer from the Rev. Dr. Fletcher, who passed our island** in 1871, and who will be remembered by his lecture in the Fort Street Church on the siege of Jerusalem by Titus. His letter opens thus : " Time is rapidly making our pleasant intercourse of a few days in Honolulu in 1871, seem a thing of the far past. I wish I could renew the pleasure, for your home in Honolulu always stands in my memory as a synonym for an earthly paradise. lam now at Adelaide, with as much labor, responsibility and honor as is good for a modest man like myself. I hope you and your paper are I have taken much still flourishing. * interest in Hawaiian affairs ever since I left you, and my experiences as your guest have given flavor to many a speech since 1871— even the 'grand tour' of the world has not obliterated the Sandwich Islands from my memory. I do not know if ever again I shall see your palm-girt isles, but I live in hope of so doing. Send me an occasional Friend as a reminder of the past. Your * 65 ,<BM Series, M 34. bound volumes are of much value and inter- RAMBLES IN THE OLD WORLD-NO. 7 est to me." Geneva, May 30, 1877. Such is the delightful impression which a This is really my last date from Geneva, view of our islands left upon the mind of a as I leave on to-morrow's train for StrasBale. passing traveler. This allusion calls to bourg via Berne, Fribourg, asZurich, thoroughly think 1 have seen Geneva I mind a paragraph in a letter recently re- as most people do who come here, and after ceived from our European correspondent, a six months' residence shall carry away the who claims the islands as his birth-place and pleatantest memories of the place and of inearly home : " Nowhere in all my travels numerable kindnesses of which I have been is now full of have I found a spot one-half so beautiful or the tecipient. The town hear ; American and English you strangers where people enjoy themselves so well ! wherever you go. It is surMy mind is fully made up that the islands, speaking peoplehow much our American and but especially Honolulu, is the best place in prising to see all the world, and whoever has the privilege English authors furnish reading for the conimportance of living there need not be in a hurry to go tinent. Nearly every work of is next away. I love the islands so dearly, and published in America or England in this is marked in French; seen especially mountain stream from every fern by every recent publications. the religious Hawaii to Kauai. The Granrl Louvre does The country was never more beautiful. not hold a picture one-half so beautiful in had expected to find Switzerland beautiful I my eyes, as that which used to greet me this season, but it surpasses my utmost looking through my open window to the at expectations. One day after another brings sunlight and ferns beyond ; so if strangers new revelations in nature. The fruit trees come to you asking for the islands' ' coleurare covde-rose,' you may know they are of my are in bloom, the hawthorne hedges leaves and feathery clusters of ered with sending—and Miss Bird." flowers, the blossom is so small and fine, Twelfth Annual Catalogue of Massa- coming in long clustering sprays and looks like light snow among the new leaves. The chusetts Institute of Technology —we horse chesnut trees all over the country seem would acknowledge from Prof. Kneeland, like enormous Christmas trees with white who visited our islands some years ago. tapers—the great waxy clusters of blossoms We rejoice to learn that the Institute makes are very beautiful. The rose bushes are so fair an exhibit of professors and pupils— covered with hundreds of buds which seem among the latter we notice the name of ready to burst into bloom at the first touch James B. Castle of Honolulu, in the 2d year of June. But this beauty of the country I of study. Total number of students 293, can take with me. Herewith 1 aend the remainder of my and 19 professors, including the president. sketches of a trip around the Lake. institute the of reputation This has being the most thorough of any in the United LAUSAUNE. States. Lausaun*, May 8. The loveliest of sunTemperance Cause in the United ny days and the picturesque views which have met us at every turn have made us so* States.—We rejoice to learn from so many in love with this old city that we are still reliable sources that this good cause is here though we had thought to spend the awakening renewed efforts in all parts of the night at Yevey. To use the words " old, United States. Public men hitherto stand- picturesque, historic " is a poor Way of telling aloof are becoming the stoutest advocates ing you what I want to tell. But what else of prohibition. The sin of drunkenness ap- am Ito do? Our first visit this morning pears to be standing out clear and maided, was to the cathedral, the finest in Switzerwhile the enormity oflicensing men to man- land. It crowns the city and shoots up ufacture drunkards is become too glaring to towers and spires into tbe blue of the sky above. Endless flights of steps lead up to find advocates among decent people. it, past red tiled roofs and under the toft, Donation for Bethel repairs—$10 from a lady. early shadows of the chesnuts. The inte- �66 THE FRIEND, AUGUST, rior is a beautiful gothic, and iconoclastic zeal and successive revolutions have left many interesting relics which have disappeared from St. Pierre in Geneva. Sculptured and excessively dusty bishops, with folded hands and shepherd's crook, lie in marble dignity. Noble families of Lausaune and Berne are still remembered in their coats of arms and lengthy descriptions. Workmen were busy in restoring a portion of the church and very persistently interfered with the historic memories of the interior. Under these arches Calvin, Viret, and Farel held their famous conference and ushered in the Reformation. But the real beauty of this old cathedral is in its exterior, in its flying buttresses, graceful spires, sculptured apostles, and massive walls. Worn and ancient steps led up to the belltower from which we caught a glorious view of the town and blue lake and encircling mountains On every object for miles about fell the softening beauty of the morning sunlight. The wooded slopes and distant plains were bright with the early leaves of May. A fine terrace shaded with old trees lies on oae side of the cathedral and in this quiet and cool retreat one would gladly stay and dream the whole day through. Just beneath 1 noticed a large class of laughing, merry Swiss girls, who were enjoying tbe sunshine (of which they seemed a part), far more than the instructions of their drawing master, who sat contentedly in their midst. Sketch books and pencils were powerless in this wonderful beauty of sky and cloud and mountain. The old academy from which the fine army of students have just issued, is a short distance beyond. This is the intellectual'center of an intellectual city. Lausaune has seen many noble thinkers and writers and students. Here Vinet, that fine representative of Christian scholarship lived and lectured. His widow is still here. The library is a little world in itselfand presided over by a most devoted custodian, who exhibited his treasures with a very enthusiastic fondness. Up the hill, a little farther on is the ancient chateau with.its four turrets, which basked in the sunlight, in a kind of sleepy indolent way, as its six or eight-centuries fairly entitled it to do. It has lost its former feudal and warlike character and become a very proper and sedate modern affair in the interior and been converted into public offices. The shady court near at hand was filled with gentlemen at noon time discussing business and politics, etc. Very important looking characters in green coats with huge brass-buttons passed here and there, the very personifications of propriety. Off on.the hills lay beautiful residences, iv the cool recesses of groves and shrubbery. In tbe suburbs is the former home of Kemble the actor, and his body is buried in the cemetery on the road to Berne. Then in the forest still farther on tradition tells us tbe Druids once worshiped. Eyes and head and heart have to be kept very busy, linking all these dates and names and events with the present. Then came a little visit at the Arland Museum to see some fine pictures of Swiss scenery and historical events. Lausaune has had its brilliant days. Literature and literary people bave found a home here and the names of Voltaire and Gibbon, of Hallerand Constant, and Vul- 1877. liemin are all more or less connected with Lausaune and the Canton dc Vaud. Geneva and Lausaune have furnished thought for Europe and the great problems of life, and death, the investigation of scientific and literary subjects, the foil and free discussion of all high themes have had here those who have taken a vigorous and intense interest in them. Few greater thinkers or purer hearts has the world ever known than Alexander Vinet, a man who united to an intellectual capacity of the highest order, a heart most delicately sensitive and exquisitely attuned to all spiritual influences. As a lecturer in theology and literature he drew his pupils about him with a remarkable magnetism and in his own beautiful life portrayed the noble ideal he held up before them. After its centuries of political strife, and its intellectual struggles and victories, Lausaune is to-day a thriving city, of beautiful homes, of quiet and regular life and full of many hopeful prophecies for the future. But Geneva, Lausaune and ideed all Switzerland need the same rich spiritual blessings which America and England have of late enjoyed. There is much real earnestness among many of the pasteurs and their followers, but the country thirsts for some glorious wave of religious revival and inspiration, which shall bring to these Swiss cantons a renewal of that spirit of earnest piety, which has shown here so markedly in other days. Pray that it may soon come. : TOQHUENAYVEVEY. AT May S. I can't resist the temptation to sit right down here on the quay to write a few lines, in the presence o'f these wonderful mountains, with my face to the open valley of the Rhone, where the sunset is just now saying good-bye and lighting up the distant peaks. This is on the long promenade of this favorite and fashionable town, whose elegant hotels and pensions, with their terraces and gardens and balconies border the shore. The lake is quiet and peaceful, stirred only by a gentle ripple. A little puffing steamer is hurrying down towards Geneva. A few boats break the still surface of the waters. On the far western horizon hangs a fringe of showers, veiling the mountains. A muttering of thunder comes to us, which is too distant, however, to disturb our enjoyment of the sunset. Directly opposite are the towering Alps of Savoy, rising sheer from the waters of the lake. The majestic Dent d'Oche is just seen under the heavy masses of cloud, farther on the Dent dv Midi, then curving splendidly about the ends of the lake come peak after peak, whose snows are soft and warm in the fading light. Chillon lies a distant white speck in the gathering mists on the edge of the dusky waters. We lA Lausaune this morning while the big drops fell ceaselessly about our car. A few small towns lay along the route, but none of them of any especial importance. Long stretches of budding vines, ancient and gnarled and mossy, like armies of little black dwarfs, and orchards' of snowy pear and tinted apple trees and blossoming lilacs followed us all to Vevey. Vevey, the guide-book says, is the old Roman Vibiscum. By the way every other place you visit along the road seems to be built on Roman foundations, and some old inscription or carved stone links these later days with tho/e long ago times when the eagles of the empire ruled where now the white cross of the feudal flag keeps watch and ward over these wave washed picturesque towns. This warm and favored nook is dearly loved by those who come from the cold and rigorous countries of the nortn; and summer and winter is frequented by English, Russians, Germans and Americans. We found a most delightfullly picturesque spot among the poplars on the outskirts of the town, a tower of the middle ages. Near this once lived Ludlow, one of tbe judges of Charles 1., of England, who made Vevey his home for thirty years. He, with one Broughton, who read the sentence of death to Charles, is buried on the hill above the tower. This tower is in partial ruins, and with its mantling ivy, and wide fosse, grassy and flower-grown, makes most charming picture. Two rooms in the round tower are furnished in antique style, hung with armor and ancient portraits. In the tower room, dimly lighted by narrow openings in the massive walls, sits a knight in full armor, looking i»it grimly at those who are thus intruding on his privacy. Finely carved cabinets, helmets, huge swords, cross-bows, and faded tapestries, nil serve to uid the imagination in retracing the centuries to old Peter of Savoy, who once held the tower. At the other end of the wall rises another tower half concealed in the ivy, where our quiet concierge pointed out the gloomy opening into which the poor victims were thrown by their conquerors. I had looked forward to a quiet little supper at Rousseau's favorite inn, La Clef," but though I discovered an immense swinging key, I was unable to obtain from the proprietor sufficiently definite information to lead me to sacrifice a very comfortable, modern hotel for the uncertain possibilities of more poetic surroundings. Do come to Vevey when you can, it is charming beyond words, and more comfortable than I can tell. Right along with this most majestic scenery you have every possible convenience of hotels, of beautiful shops, of art and bookstores, and everything is done to render the tourist oblivious to that which is in any wise unpleasant in travel. Alontreux, May 10. You see we are moving on step by step, pitching our camp where inclination leads us. But we are nearly at the end of our week's excursion and just beyond us lie Chillon s white walls which are our morrow's goal. It is astonishing how much one can see in a very short space of time if one is only in earnest! —Just back of Vevey perched on the heights is one of the most interesting • feudal remains of Switzerland, the chateau of Blonay, which has been in, the same family for some seven or eight hundred years. The air was vibrant with bells and the streets dotted with country people in gala-dress, on their way to church as we walked up to it this morning. Certainly a most glorious Ascension Day ! It seemed as if all the world bad caught the inspiration of this day of triumph and victory and sang praise unto Him who is its Lord and King. Our way lay under arches of fruit-blossoms, inlaid on the perfect blue of the sky ; perfumed vistas, where birds sang and shadows played and made a phantom-outline of each �THE FRIEND, spray and bud and blossom that bent above our heads. A free, joyous mountain stream leaping from rock to rock came down in a perlect holiday mood from the mountains above and glanced in and out of the trees and their shadows, crowning its surface with wreaths of foam one moment, only to throw them into the keeping of the sunshine, the next. Then there were fields and fields of long grasses, of butter cups, daisies, crimson clover-heads, forget-me-nots, dandelions, and a host of other wild flowers, whose names I do not know, rising in brilliant terraces up to the fine old castle, on the mountain side. The arched gateway, the massive Roman tower in the center, the long corridors, the spacious dining hall, all remain as in the days when the lords of the castle held sway over the country for miles about. In jousts and tourneys, in battles and contests, in wars and crusades the knights of Blonay held a conspicuous part. From their high vantage ground they could sweep the coast and country and lake at one glance and kept in submission their vassals. Nowhere have I been able to realize the life of the middle ages as here, in the narrow lane down which the horsemen without doubt dashed with their fleet footed steeds, in coat of mail, to the foray in the valleys below; the heavy gateways, the paved court, the windows from which the ladies waved adieu to the knights departing, the AUGUST, 1877.. 67 There was something very touching in the country that there were only two prisoners under sight oL so many tomb-stones in this same lock aud key. Tho guide first leada you to tbe little enclosure, in English, telling how that old chapel; then to a rough, rock-hewn couch one after another, young and old from Eng- where the unfortunate captives slept (?) the last before their execution, with the opening in land and America, seeking health and rec- night the wall, now closed, where the bodies were afterreation in these quiet and beautiful scenes, wards thrown into the lake. And amid the had died far from their native land. shadows peera out the beam to which tbey were hung, lint the real point of interest is in the May 14th. next room, the cell of Bonivard. Now .while MONTREUX AND CHILLON. this would not be at nil an agreeable habitation, I wrote you last 1 think from Montreux, yet Myron's limey has given it a gloom and above which Humboldt, 1 believe, says dreariness which it never possessed, and any one that you have the finest view in all the who would prefer to keep his poem with its beauworld. Of course this is as it seemed to tiful embellishments, rather than the more subhim, and 1 suppose there are few scenes stantial circumstauces of fact and history, would which surpass it. Still from the midst of do well to road it at a distance from the scene. however the pillars " of gothic mould," all these famous landscapes, which for cen- Thereare and tho spot is pointed out whore Bonivard, turies the most gifted men and women have tho prisoner of Chillon, ' walked back and " delighted to write about, I find that my forth, leaving the trace ol his weary tread. thoughts very often turn to the Pacific, and " Chillon ! thy priaon la a holy place, And Ihy aad floor an aitar; for 'twas trod I love to think that amid our valleys and Until hia very atepa have left a trace mountains are scenes which are only waitWorn, aa if the cold pavement were a sod By Bonivard ! may none those marks efface ing for some eloquent voice to render them a For they appeal from tyranny to God." part of the world's treasures. The constant Bonivard, prior of St. Victor, was one of the stream of visitors has made Montreux what active workers in Genova fur those liberties it is, a perfect hot-bed of hotels and pen- most which have been the greatest glory of the city, sions. The beautiful wooded slopes of the lie became, in consequence of this, very disamountains rise up finely from the shore, greeable to the Duke of Savoy, who ultimately terminating in sharp and jagged peaks and succeeded in capturing bim and imprisoning him needles, which gather the mists and clouds for aix years in his Castle of Chillou. After these of imprisonment, Bonivard finds himself about them as a kind of shield and protec- years day surrounded by friends and deliverers, who tion. Glion, a little village, clings like a one besieged hia prison by sea and land, and he bird to the cliffs above Montreux; farm- have is borne off in triumph to Geneva, where he houses and chalets perch on the vine-cover- seems to have passed the remaining years of bis countless little eloquent objects, which in the ed and sunny uplands, and everything seems life in the greatest peace and plenty. Byron's hush and stillness of the spring noon-tide, to reach up towards those heights which imagination is responsible for tbe pathetic fate of seemed as so many voices from that past like a constant inspiration to the the brothers, dying one by one, and those exglitter upon which we are accustomed to look quisitely drawn but painful pictures of slow and either as a picturesque study for the pen of dwellers below. lingering pain and torture, which bave made hi* Is there any one point in Europe which a readers shed the poet or brush of the painter, but which sympathizing tears. The pillars, poet has rendered more celebrated than which give the cell, something of the appearaDce now was peopled with living, actual presthe Castle of Chillon t Don't yc\u a chapel, are covered with mimes of visitors, Byron, ences. The present heir to the name of those lines of his, which sooner or among them being those of some of the most disBlonay is living at Lausaune, coming to his recall later creep into every one's memory? tinguished literary people of the country, Dickens, ancestral castle in the summer. Many Shelley, Mrs. Stowe, etc. You feel in coming "Lake Leman lies by Chllloii's walls, legend; of the old romantic days in connecout of the dungeon, however, that you are leaving A fflouaaiid feet it, depth below Its tnaaay watera meet and 11..w; tion with the history of the family still reone of tbe moat fascinating spots in Europe, Tims much Ihe fathom-line waa sent because of the wealth of associations wbioh cling main, but I musn't trouble you with these. 1 r in Chillou'a snow-white battlements Which round shout the wave enthralls; to the bare stone walls and hover in this dusky Clarens, a little village which Rousseau A double dungeon wall and wave light, and you put down the time passed in the has rendered famous as the scene of his Have made—andlike a living grave recesses, notwithstanding all the disalluaionsyour Below the surface of the lake Nouvelle lies a distance Heloise short be" The dark vault Ilea wherein we lay " imagination has suffered, aa being most satisfacWe heard It ripple night and day. yond Vevey. Rousseau and Byron have by torily spent. But there is still something more In Chillon'a dungeona deep and old that indescribable power of genius given to to be seen, and with that morbid appetite for There are seven columns maesy and grey, Dun witha dull, impriauned ray all the localities in this neighborhood a terrible things, if they have the glamour of cenA sunbeamwhichbath lost lis way." turies over them, every one stop; to look at the name and fame, which otherwise, notwithTbe castle was so familiar to me through de- pillar where the tortured person was suspended in standing the rare beauty of the surrounding scriptions and pictures, that as I passed under hopes of wresting from biut tbe desired avowal. scenes, they would never have possessed. its ancient gateway, it seemed wore like coining Tbe marks of the cruel and pitiless iron are So that people in distant countries feel as if back to something 1 had always known than like burned in the wood, very fearful testimony to the this Lake is strangely familiar to them, al- the first visit. You bave it also 1 am sure, very possibilities of cruelty, which are in the heart of most as if they had indeed seen. it. The accurately in mind; the curving line of the rail- man. In a little room, entered by a great, iron frowning crags of Meillerie are on the oppo- road, the ivy-testooned wall, aud the towers and bolted and barred door, is the Oubliette, where walls, tbe mirroring lake, and the accused met the most dreadful of deaths. He site 'shore of Savoy. The heights above turrets and white the iv background. The chateau was forced to walk down, in tbe darkness, a little were white with heavy snows, as we saw the mountain into the lake, so that in looking out Irom flight of throe steps, but when be sought the projects is them in the gathering twilight. There some of tbe windows, you feel almost as if you fourth it was to step out to meet a sure and hornothing at all striking in the town itself, but had drifted away Irom the main land into tiie rible fate in the depths below. How quietly one Byron, who here saw everything through open sea. It seems like rehearsing an old story can look at these barbarous reminders of a barthat luminous haze of poetic feeling, -could to tell you anything of the interior, for you must barous age! be so familiar with every shadowy nook that it is Tbe Duke and Duchess of Savoy bad fine an* say of it, almost useless to think that you will find any- gorgeously frescoed apartments in tbe upper ** Clarens! awset Clarens, birth-place ofdeep Love, thing new in what I can say* Alas tbe utter in- part of the castle. JTbe Grand Knights or ReThine air is the young breath of paaslonate thought, The trees take n-tf In Love; the snows shove capability of a modern guide to understand any ception Hall, with iw mammoth fire-place, is a The very flaclera have hia colours caught. sentimental desire to.linger among the shadows. spacious room, with an out-look on the lake. And sunset into rose-hues sees them wrought By rsys which sleep there lovingly." But, poor man, be had, lie told me, a wife lying What a contrast there must bave been between Just back of Clarens is a little cemetery so ill at home that his heart was too full of the theae upper rooms and tboae dungeons when we where the great Vinet is buried, whose name present to care much about the woes of those have juet been. Don't you think, however, somehad centuries ago found within these walls thing of the gloom ana dreariness of the captive* is one which would hallow far more this who tbe harsh discipline of captivity and death. A mast have crept up now and then into tbe gay town and fair landscape, than those of the [tortiim of the entitle is now utilized by the Swiss company above ? The clouds and rain which pertwo poets, whose ideals and aspirations were government as a store house lor cannon and am- sistently ahut in about tbe old castle, walls seemed ever chained and fettered by the presence of munition and alao as a prison, though I thought strangely in keeping with the memories of tbe earth-born and passionate associations. that it spoke well fur the morals of tbe adjoining place. ' F. W. Damon. Irom - �THE FRIEND, AUGUST, 68 THE FRIEND. Al Ol ST 1. ISTT. Pleato Science. EBYL A WHEELER. 0 Science,reaching backward through (he diiUnca, Mott earnest whlld of Qod, Kxpotfng all the secreta of eiistence, • i Wiih thy divining rod. 1 bid thee speed up to the heights supernal, Olear thlaker, ne'er sufficed ; Go, ieek aod And ihe laws and truths eternal, Bat leave me Christ. t'pon tbe vanity of pioas sages. Let in the light of day ; Break down the superstition of all tges, Throat bigotry away. Stride on, and bid all stubborn foeadefiance, Let truth and reason reignBut I beseech thee, 0 immortal Science, Let Christremain. What canst thoa give to help me bear my crosses, In place of llfm, my Lord ? And what to recompense for all my losses, And bring me sweet reward ? 7*4*11 coolJit not with thy clear, cold eyes of reason. Thou couldst not comfort me Like One who passed through that tear-blotted season, In sad Gethsemane. Through all the weary, wearing hours or sorrow, What word that thou bsst said Would make me strong to wait for some to-morrow, When I should find my dead ! • When I am weak, and desolate, and lonely, And prone to follow wrong: Not thoa, 0 Science—Christ, my Saviour, only Can make me strong. Thoa art ao cold, so lofty, aod so distant. Though great my need might be. No prayer, however constant and persistent, Could bring theedown to me. Christ stands so near, to help me through each hour. To guide me day by day i O Science, sweeping alt before thy power. Leave Christ, I pray. Geneva Theological Seminary. Perhaps 1 have told you before that this seminary was to fit and prepare young men for the evangelical churches of Switzerland. There is another seminary in the national church, but the views held are rather liberal. Through the kind introduction of Prof, dc la Harpe of the former, I have met the professors and students, and received a most warm and Christian welcome. I think the students at the New Haven Seminary would see something of a difference between their surroundings and those of the students here. They have a few rooms in the rear of the church of the Oratone, very simple and plain. The young men seem to come from the poorer classes, just such men as 1 fancy went out in Calvin's day as missionaries and teachers. The opening conference was in an upper room which isjpached by winding stone-stairs. Here I found quite a room full. There were present five or six professors-men with noble faces, refined and cultured and Christian. I was especially struck by the earnest, thoughtful yet cheerful tone of all their remarks. The president read a translation of a very interesting sermon by 1877. Mr. Spurgeon, and Prof, dc la Harpe and one or two other gentlemen spoke in a way wnich I am sure would receive the tion of brave old Calvin, who undoubtedly through these bright heavenly years has been adding the sweetness ol the Saviour's love to the righteous and just decrees of the law. Surely his pale face in his portrait on the wall had nothing in it of disapproval. The first morning there was one lecture on Exegesis, one on the history of religious Dogma, and one on the Archeology of the Old Testament. I could understand very well and am sure it will prove a most useful exercise. I certainly shall endeavor to devote three mornings in a week to it. Some of the students are most agreeable. 1 had a very interesting conversation this morning with a young Swiss from Vevey and with a Spaniard from Malaga, who is fitting himself for the work in Spain. original spheroidal form with slight devia- tions. This tetrahedroid shape into which the solid crust of the earth collapsed necessarily gives to the surface its three great shoulders in the north temperate zone of the American continent, the Europe-Africa continent, and the Asiatic mass, each with their tapering southern prolongations, the last in Australia, along the three ridges of the tetrahedroid. It has also given the apex of the tetrahedroid in the Antarctic continent, with its antipodal base in the depression of the Arctic Polar Sea. Each ol the continent shoulders also has its antipodal ocean depression. A collateral and very important part of Mr. Green's hypothesis is that of a " twin shift of the crust." Owing to the smaller diameter of the southern hemisphere attendant upon the pear shape of the globe given March, 1877. F. W. D. by the tetrahedral collapse, that hemisphere (For Ihe Friend ] ■ has tended to assume a more rapid revolution upon the axis than the northern. Hence Vestiges of the Molten Globe. as exhibited in the flgure of the earth, in the earlier and thinner stage of the crust, Volcanic Action, and Physiography.— the southern half shifted eastward, causing By William Lowthian Green, Minister the similar eastward inclination of the great of Foreign Affairs to the King of the southerly projections of America, Africa and Sandwich Islands. Parti. London, 1875. Australia. The line of clea-fage from the northern This book put into our hands to-day was half is clearly traced along Honduras and read with fascinated interest. The writer the Antilles, the Mediterranean, India and attempts, as it seems to us with entire suc- Malaysia. It is marked by the cutting off cess, to find the law which determined the without exception at this line of every transform of the original collapsing of the hard- verse mountain chain. Near this line also are most of the earth's volcanoes. ened crust of the earth upon its molten inteThis simple and beautiful hypothesis is so rior as the latter contracted by loss of heat. completely in accordance with the great obLeading geological theories have lpng at- vious facts of the earth's form, and so pertributed the formation of the great mountain fectly explains them, that it seems strange chains and consequent shapes of the conti- it was not long since detected. We unhesitatingly hazard the prediction, that benents to the wrinkling up of the earth's fore many years this theory in its substancrust upon its shrinking interior. Students tial elements will be considered essential to ofphysical geography have also been accus- any satisfactory system ol physical geotomed to note a certain marked regularity in graphy. This is illustrated by admirable the forms of the continents and the distribu- colored volume and diagrams. We await with maps tion of land and water ; such as the broad- high expectation parts 2 and 3of this reening southward oi" the three great oceans ; markable work, carrying out the bearings of the southward tapering of the three great this' theory upon the facts of volcanic action S. E. B. southerly continents ; and the eastward in- and of physiography. Honolulu, June 30, 1577. clination of each ; also that large masses of land are antipodal to large masses of water. Rev. Joseph Cook's Lectures.—We These prominent facts and many others would acknowledge copies .of the Boston are all accounted for by our author under one general hypothesis which he has elabor- Advertiser from J. W. Austin, Esq., in ated with a wide and careful collation of which these lectures are officially published. last, No. 80, was delivered May 30th, facts. He finds the form of the collapsing The and on that occasion the Rev. B. G. Snow of the earth's crust to have been substantialof the Micronesian mission, was upon the ly tetrahedral. A tetrahedron, it will be and offered prayed. A second remembered is a kind of pyramid with three platform series by Mr. Cook will be commenced Octosides and a triangular base, or more accu- ber Ist, when the influence of German rately a solid with four triangular sides. thought upon America will be discussed. Of course tbe spheroidal shape of the solid The influence of the lectures is felt not only earth is understood to be but very slightly in America, but they are republished in England and quoted in while modified in the tetrahedral direction, while they are read wherever Germany, the English lanthe surface of the ocean maintains, the guage is spoken. . �THE FRIEND, AUGUST, What comments upon tbe American peoEDITOR'S TABLE. that their history for the last two hunple, History of the Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America, by Henry dred and fifty years should have given rise Wilson, Vol. 3. James R. Osgood & to works such as the Rise and Fall of the " Co., Boston, 1877. Slave Power" and " Uncle Tom's Cabin." The third and last volume of this impor- Surely it is wqrthy of thanksgiving, that the tant work has appeared, and it affords us days ol African slavery in the United States much gratification to have a copy laid on our table. The former volumes we noticed in the Friend of June, 1873, and October, 1876. It is highly gratifying to read in the publishers' notice, a full recognition of the important services of the Rev. Samuel Hunt, who was for several years Mr. Wilson's private secretary, and without whose aid Mr. Wilson could not have written this voluminous historical work amid his many public duties as Vice Piesident and lecturer. Mr. Hunt, as we have good reason for asserting, acted a far more important part than that of a mere amanuensis or copyist. It is the joint work of the two men, and perhaps neither could possibly have written it without the other's efficient aid and co-operation, and hence is quite unique in the history of literature. If Mr. Hunt felt at liberty to state just the part he took in the premises, while just to Mr. Wilson, it would be interAn editorial esting te»the reading public. notice in the Christian Union expresses the desire for this information. The literary character of volume 3d sustains that of the former volumes. After reading the former volumes Judge Allen remarked to us, that the work possessed the interest of a romance, although consisting of matters purely historical. As years roll on much of the interest connected with events treated of in this work will die away, yet the " slave element" in American history will never be -forgotten or cease to exert an important influence, hence the value of a trustworthy history like this of Mr. Wilson and Mr. Hunt. Works like this and that of " Uncle Tom's Cabin," will not cease to find readers for ages to come. There is a desire—morbid perhaps—in the public mind to revert to scenes of plantation life and the influence of the institution of ' slavery upon American politics and Ameri- can history. In a late number of the Boston Advertiser, the following notice attracted our attention as indicative of this feeling, even in Boston : " Every evening at 7.45 and Wednesday and Saturday afternoons at 2, Mrs. Harriet have come to an end! Precautions of a Book Lender.—A cor- o. c. HOWARD, HPOSNLRUT,.FI. ARRIVALS. — June 30—Am brig J M Avery, Avery, dye from San FrinJuly I—Haw bk Lunalilo, Marston, bi daya from Nestcaatla, N 8 W, viaLahaina, Maul. B—Am bk Buena Vista, Bardies, mt days from Townsend. 10—Ambk D C Murray. Fuller, 18 days fm San Fran13—Ambktne Jos Perkins, Jonhson, 16 days from Port Gamble. 14—Britishbk Eakhank, Barr, 138 daya from Glasgow. 17—P M 8 City of New York, Cobb. 18 daya fm Sydney 19—Am bk Ocean Gem, Hoffman from Labaina Maui, ill —Am achr Bonansa, Miller, 18 dys*from San Fran ro. 26—Am bk A talanta, Gatlee, 36 days from Port Gambia — wife, R Young aud wife, George Young, Mrs Herlot and 6 children, Geo Laudeman. Fbob Sydney—Per City or New York, July 17—W Buchanan. A. L. Fob Bab Francisco—Per City of New York, July 18—W Bradley and wife, G C Zeh, Mra J A Hopper and daufhier, JEWELRT, HMlas IMPORTER & DEALER C A Carter, Misa Julia Judd, F 8 Pratt, Mrs Vanden Burgh and daughter, J McUade. W H Cornwall, Mrs B CornKing's Combination Spectacles, well, 8 Callahan, Hon 8 N Caalle. wife and 2 children, R II Olaaaand lated Wart*, Wilcox, R Whitman, B Barry, P Peterson, A U Loekwood, C Sewing Machines, Picture Frames, Hammond, J C Keynon, D Manson, Jos Arasa. M 8 Crocker, Vases, Brackets, etc. etc. sons, wife sod Nellie Crocker, Mrs Esston, Miaa EaaNo. 73, Fort St. I ly I TERMB STRICTLY CASH ton, Mrs 2Taylor,Mlas () H Hurler. Fbob San Francisco—Per Bonansa, July 21—Mra J II Hare and eon. Mrs W II Kind and daughter, Mrs J Grieve, THRUM & Miss Jennie Grieve. Mlas Jsne P Hare, Miss gelina 8 Poanro*., Capt J C Gunn, James Knwright, A Kerr, F R Barnard, Wn STATIONERY AND NEWS DEPOT, Doe. Honolulu. Stri-rl. re hunt Km. 19 Mi* number ofthe Bibliotheca Sacred. SMITH, IN OAT, PACKAGES --- Papers and Magasines, back numbers—put up to order at Ijf reduced rates for parties going to sea. — — MARRIED. Or READING MATTBR-OF AND TISIB IGSKTS 111 — in her great original character of Naw York, Boston, TOPST." Paris, Aarhlaail, and a G. C Howsrd speMr. Supported by cial Dramatic Company. THE ORIENTAL BANK CORPORATION. LONDON, AID tHBIR BRANCHSS IV The Old Dominion Jubilee Singers, and Hongkong. 100 other genuine Southern Colored People, Syelnrj, and Melbourne.. who were slaves before the war, will particiepll ljr And Transact a General Banking Business. pate in the Great Plantation Scenes." " MARINE JOURNAL. respondent of the Boston Transcript writes: " I have a considerable library, quite miscellaneous in make-up, and I have for years lent books under certain restrictions. In the DEPARTURES. first place, I seldom lend a volume out of a June bk Belle of Oregon, Merrlman, tr Jarvis Island 30—Am set, or if for good cause I make an excep30—Haw bk lolani, Garrela, lor Bremen. tion, I stipulate the time of its return, as I July 6—H B Ma f Fantume. Cum Macquay, for Victoria. 10—Hawbk Mattle Macleay, Pope, lor Portland. am a firm believer in what is worth borrow12—Am bktne Discovery, ghephertl, for San Francisco. ID—Haw bk lunalil... Marslon, for Pnget Sound. returning. is worth the second In ing place, 18—Am bk Buena Viata, llardiea, for I'ugel Sound. I keep an account of the books I loan, to 17—Am brig Hesperian, Winding, fur Guano lalanda, 18—V M 8 City of New York, Cobb, lor San Franclaco. whom, and when. In the third place, when 10—Am bktue Joe Perkins, Johnson, for Puget Sound. loaned, book when think Jl—Hawbrig Julia M Avery, Avery, for San Franclaco I need to use a I or 23—Am bktne Jane A I alklnburg. Hubbard, fr Portland it has been out long enough to be read, I 23—Am bk Ocean Gem, Hoffmann, for Victoria. send for it, whether the borrower be friend, MEMORANDA. neighbor, or acquaintance. In the fourth place, I always intend to cover with paper a RiroitT or P M 8 City of Nkw York, Con, Comma** Sydney Judo 29th, at 3 pm; experienced atronjt book I lend, though I believe a careful bor- Din.—Lelt wind* from 8 mod BE with heavy aea to Aucklaud, arririDg rower should do this if the book is taken un- July 4th, in 4 dayi and 19 houra. Left aame day at 6pm; Prime Meridian on the 6thj Oth. al 7.oft a m, Samoan covered. As to fine bindings, lam more cnwaed Inland ot Tlutula, abeam, diilaol 12 miiea W; arrived m Houolulu on the 17th, at 4.30 pm. Experienced from Auckchary about loaning, my decision depending land The ■• Zealand ia arrived at Aydoey oo upon the borrower and my opinion of him or Ihe 220,fine50weather. houra overdue. her. I seldom have lost a book by lending. Report or Au acHR Bonanza, C F Miller, Maitki I.cli Sau Fraacieco July 3d. Flrat Aye daya out moderail N If the borrower dislikes being reminded of aod NW wind*; next four dayi NE wind and cloudy, »lih his delinquency in keeping the book an un- light ahoweraof rain} next aeveo daya light variable wledi, heavy N W iwell*, last two dayi NE wind with heavy with necessarily long time, or of my (the owner) cron aawell. Made Eait Maul at daylight of the 21it, bearing ri twelve mllea, with very heavy cloudi hanging over the land. same, he not soon needing the perhaps will again borrow, which decision on his part PASSENGERS. suits me exactly, if my experience with him Fob Jar Island—Per Belle of Ofefon, June 2»—Geo via shows his principles."' W Kini, Mr Hinda, Mrs Spencer and 8 children,and IS natives Faoia Bah Francisco—Per I) O Murray. July 10—Miss A —Wishing often to borrow books, we are Cordlog, G H McConoell and wire, JnoSllva, A Roeehill, F O determined not to be behind our neighbors Bastings, Teasky and 12 Chinamen. Fob Portland—Per Mattle Macleay, July 10—Rev Alea in loaning, but the borrower of a large vol- Mackintosh and wile, II yon Holt. Fob San Francisco—Per Discovery, July 12—Rev J F ume, first series of the Friend, is requested Pofne, Miss Pogue, Col Norrls, Miss I Scott. to return the same, and also the January Fbob Glisoow—Per Eskbank. July 14—Robt Young and BISHOP fc CO., BANRERS, Beecher Stowe's world-famous work, entitled HAWAIIAN ISLANDS HONOLULU, UNCLE TOM'S CABIN, DRAW EXCHANGE ON with the popular artist, THE RANK OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO, MRS. 69 1877. — San Francisco, June 13th. by Rev J Rowell. Capt Wh B Godfrey, of San Fraociaco, to Mlas Cabbie E Mel.ear, of thia city. Ti>nt>—Cook— At the Ridge House, Rons, Hawaii, Jan* 26th. by Rev J D Paris, Mr Williab Todd to Mbs Barak Cook. MaTTHßw—Mabvkona—ln Honolulu. July M>h, by Ro» 8. C. Damon, Matthew (Japanass), to Maria Maeveoßa Godfrey—McLbsb.—ln (Hawaiian). . DIED. M asanas—At Hoookaa Plantation, Hawaii, JaneIMb, Mr Narsdcn. aged 18. Jordak—ln this city, June 33d. 1077, thsInfant son of E. W. and Sarah Jordan. Also In this city, Jane 30th, 1877, Harsh, the beloved wife of E. W. Jordan,(daogkter of 8. •. Owen, tag.,)aged 30 yean. Adams—lo thia dry, July 13th, Mr Johb AnAns.sjM shout 63 ysars, son of the late Capt Alexander Adams. Ellis—Al Sweat Home, Honolulu, July 2Wi, Miss Rashilt Ellis, aged 23 yeara. �70 THE FRIEND, AUGUST, ( For the Faierq. ) How God Educates His Children. BY REV. D. DOLE. Paul, in writing to" Titus, (2:11, 12) says, The grace of God bringing salvation to all "men hath appeared, teaching us that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously and godly." The word rendered teaching means the training or educating of children, a? in Acts 7:22—" Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians," and growing out of this, it has the meaning also of chastening, disciplining. This appears very clearly in Heb.-12:5, 11. Here the verb and its kindred noun appear eight times. In the tenth verse appears the object God has in view in disciplining his children—" That we may become partakers of his holiness." In a kindred passage, (2d Peter, 1:4) " The exceeding great and precious promises " are made prominent in God's way of educating His children ; and the object is the same, that they may be partakers of the divine nature. Sometimes it is necessary that the discipline be very severe. Then there is danger of discouragement, of yielding to despondency, and the exceeding great and precious promises, as the Holy Spirit suggests them, one after another, to the mind of the sorrowful, are like light in darkness, the dawning of hope. To become partakers of the divine nature is something glorious, calculated to call forth our noblest aspirations. This is not like the longings of the Brahmans to be absorbed in God, lost in Him. It is to become like God in holiness, in knowledge; to be changed into His image from glory to glory. This, and only this, will satisfy, -as the Psalmist declares, " When I awake, I shall be satisfied with Thy likeness." Disappointments enter largely into the discipline to which God's children are subject. We are disappointed in ourselves. We hope for intellectual and moral excellence in a high degree, but very seldom are our hopes realized. Some hope for those accomplishments that will attract admiration. Others hope for wealth, and for the deference and power that come fronf wealth. They are disappointed. A few, one in a thousand, or one in a million perhaps, attain tbe object sought, whether it be wealth, fame, or power ; still they are not satisfied. Their anticipations are not realized. Byron sought fame, or be awoke one morning and found himself famous. Yet he could recall only three happy days in all his life. Thus it is with all who expect satisfaction in power, riches, or fame. Vanity and vexation of spirit is their experience. The soul is 1877. God-like to be satisfied with anything that the world CHn give. People are disappointed in their friends also. If, in prosperity, many are their professed friends; but in adversity, most of these stand aloof, and manifest a coldness that is little akin to true friendship. Job was disappointed in his friends. They seem to have Had a strong affection for him ; and, for a time, their sympathy soothed him in his sore afflictions; but it would have been more for his peace if they had kept away. They did not understand his case, or in charging him with wickedness, they aggravated his sorrows. Nor was it strange that he should call them " miserable comforters." Thus people, in every profession, in every calling of life, are subject to disappointment; and every disappointment whispers, " earth is not your rest; there is no satisfying portion below the skies " In every disappointment is an exhortation to choose the better part that can not be taken away. God himself is the better part, the portion of those who love Him, as the Psalmist asserts, '• His loving kindness is better than life." God trains his children for the better land in various ways. He draws them to Himself by loving kindness. He tries and refines them by afflictions. He weans them from earth by disappointments. And He has given His Son to bear our griefs, to carry our sorrows, and to take away our sins. Of His fulness have we received ; and we may still receive until we are full,—until it is no longer we that live, but He liveth in us, the life of our lives. too Japan Correspondence. Kobe, Japan, April, 1877. Dear Old " Friend."—For reasons which shall be explained, let me give you some extracts from the Japan Weekly Mail: " Before the country was open to foreigner* or bad felt tbe street) of foreign ideas, protected prostitution and infanticide, all but legalized, had kept down the population of theseislands to the point at which, with the assistance of an occasional epidemic, it could produce a sufficiency of food: and the means of clothing, housing, and over using itself without assistance from outside; which constitutes independence, according to the advocates of protection in exe/cis. That threefourths of the population toiled in comparative penury to support the remainder in idleness and luxury. That the nation made no progress whatever, as we understand progress to be, viz :—lmprovement in the condition of all; but remained sunk in a slumber of anything but sleeping beauty —all tbis to protectionists of the true type, matters not what. The country was independent. But the conditions of the problem are changed. Japan is awake. Both the evil practices wo have mentioned are recognized by the government, as at all events, something to be ashamed of; and as the last census shows, the population is increasing, at something like the normal rate. Its people are no longer contented with their misery. They clamor for real progress. " New wants have been created; new habits are forming; new voices are speaking. nation been dependent on for" Twice has tbe grain, for salvation from famine. eign imports of And we take it, the problem, as it will soon begin to press on Japanese economists, is much tbe same as that which began to distress English- 1840, vis—however its limited average bo made to produce enough of valuable consideration to purchase needlul tmpplies.'' men in This was said in behalf of free-trade. I quote it in behalf of a free gospel. Nothing else can eradicate these odious vices. When people hear of the great changes now effected here, the schools, colleges, railroads, telegraphs and steamers—and see the rich silks and exquisite works of art which they produce, some think it is a waste of time and money to try to evangelize them, that is a mistake.—Nothing short of the gospel and the grace of God can save Japan or any other people, as Egypt, Greece and Rome testify. Cheating and lying are so prevalent among all classes, that it is extremely difficult to ascertain the truth, either through the press or by conversation. Those who employ servants to do their marketing, take it for granted that they will be squeezed a little at every opportunity. From all accounts I think the mass of church members appear very well. They contribute cheerfully, and considering their means liberally, for benevolent object. May 18. The divine blessing continues to rest on all efforts, so far as I know, to evangelize Japan. And it is marvelous to see how the government, without designing to do it, is aiding this good work. First by opening easy and quick communication to different parts of the empire ; and secondly by adopting the Christian Sabbath as a day of rest, and thereby giving its employees liberty to keep the Lord's day holy; and thirdly, by its great liberality in the cause of education. In these particulars it is, I think, without a parallel in heathen lands. Beside Professor Clark, and Griffis (author of " The Mikado's' Empire "), who were very useful, they have employed four men as teachers who have been wonderfully blessed in their labors, both for the mental and moral culture of their pupils. President Clark (of the Agricultural College of Massachusetts), who was engaged for one year to organize such a college in Japan, succeeded by tact and decision in getting permission to use the Bible as his text book for teaching morality, and used it so skillfully that he had the pleasure of seeing his whole class of sixteen hopefully converted; and at the same time his employers, government agents, highly approve his conduct, and would gladly have him continue his labors with them. Another person, Captain Jones of the United States, employed in teaching English in his own house, taught the Gospel and more than thirty were hopefully converted, most of whom are now preparing for tbe ministry. Two Canadian clergymen, acting as teachers, have also organized churches, one of 16 members and the other of 80. A member of Kobe church is employed as a superintendent of the prison, and hopes that through his labor and prayers 50 or 60 prisobers are converted. As ever yours in Christ, P. J. Gulick. �THE FRIEND, AUGUST, . ■ FIRST PREMIUM GOL.D MEDAL waa awarded tbe Industrial Inhibition, 1875, IMIK M. DAVIDSON. Allotni-i «l TO THE PUBLIC! l,nw. at Photographs A. Crayons In San Francisco I'hr.i. inn anal Snrge>»>, OlBoe at Drug Store, corner of Fort anil Merchant Streets; Reaidence, NuuanuAvenue, near School Street. Office Houra, itoll A. M. fel "IS AND THE VIENNA MEDAL! For the Best in the "World! Y\T • HUTCHINSON, IRWIN a Si CO.. | DICKSON* HOFFMANN, |.l M . .. ... D., Urn V IXI Corner Merchantand Kaahumanu Streets, near the Poat Offlce ■pi BREWER sex* -*» ■i_y You are cordially invited to an inspection of our imOfficers' Table, with lodging, per week, mense collection of do. do. Photographs, Drawings, Celebrities, Stereoscopic Seamen's do. Shower Baths tbe Premises. on Views, ai'tl Landscape Views of the whole Pacific Coast. Physician and Surgeon, Si I, No. 420 Montgomery street, San Franciwco. Dealers in Lumber and Building Materials, Fort Street, Honolulu, 11. I. *r .- BRADLEY &RULOF SON' ART GALLERY Commission Merchants, k. , OFFICE OF Plantationanil Insurance Agents, Honolulu, H. I. EWERS HOME ! ' THE NATIONAL GOLD MEDAL! For the Best Photographs In the lulled States'. | SAILORS' BRADLEY & RULOPSON! Offlce over Mr. Whitney'. Book-ltore, formerly occupied by Judge Auatln. Honolulu, H. I. ile-1876 For the best JK. F. B. to 71 . ADVERTISEMBUfTS. 1877. I'NER, COM'I Commission and Shipping Merchants, Honolulu, Oaliu. 11. I. 6 ED. DUNSCOMBE. Manager. Honlulu, January 1. 1875. MKS M is OLD BUSINESS IN TIIK HKK-PKUOK liuilding, Kaahumanu Street. ChroX ousters rated by observationsof tbe sun aod start with a transit instrument accurately adjusted to Ihe meridian of Honolulu. CO.. $6 Carriage Making and Trimming! I WOULD RESPECTFULLY INFORM YOD THAT I uuw employ the best Mechanics in the line of Carriage Making, Carriage and General Blacksmithing, ■/ Painting, Repairing, die. Sextantand quadrant glasses silvered and adjusted. Charts On the Hawaiian Group ; and it is a well established audnautical instruments constantly on hand and for sale, Auction and Commission Merchant, fel faot that oar Carriage Trimming, by Mr. R. WhitFire-Proof Store, in Roblnion'a Building, Queen Street. man, is aa well executed as any in New York City or elsewhere. I therefore feel warranted in saying that S Mc (; It KW , M.D ■ 11 II X we can manufaotute as good a class of work in Honolulu as oan be found in any part of the world. I Late Surgeon Y. S. Army, will also state here that we fully intend to work at Q. WEST. Can be consulted at hia residence on Hotel street, between tbe lowest possible rates. Particular attention given to Fine Watch Repairing ADAMS. . P. ~ NOTICE TO SHIP MASTERS. DILLINGHAM & CO., Alaltea and Fort streets. .•p Nos. 95 and 97 King Street, WEST, KEEP A FINE ASSORTMENT OF Wagon and Carnage Builder, 74 and 76 King Street, Honolulu. XT lalandorders piomptly executed at lowest M. DICKSON, Photographer, 61 Fort Street, Ilonulnla, Goods Suitable for Trade, ALWA rs ONor A CHOICE ASSORT* PHOTOGRAPHIC STOCK, HAM) rates HUNT SHIP MASTERS VISITING THIS PORT A Large Collection of Beautiful View* of Ship Chandlers and General Commission Mer GOODS FOR, TBAJDE CURIOSITY IIUNTKKS will And at this establishment a SPLENDID COLLECTION OF Volcanic Specimen., L'arils, Shells. War Implements. Ferae, Mat*. Kaaae. A -**• * Si CO.. (3uccesors to C. L. Richards A Co.) \V. PIERCE chants, Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaiian Islands. Agents Paolo* Salt Works, Brand's Bomb Lances, during the last Six Years can testify from personal experience that the undersigned keep the best assortment of And Sell Cheaper than any other House in the Kingdom. And Perry Davia' Pain Killer. DILLINGHAM * CO. Hawaiian Scenery, &c, &c. __ And a Great Variety of. other Hawaiian and M\cronesian Curiosities. PICTURE FRAMES A SPECIALITY I jal 187i CASTLE & COOKIE, IMPORTERS AND DEALERS IN GENERAL MEBOHANDISE! AGENTS OF REGULAR PORTLAND LINE OF Mutual Packets, New TIHE Ths Union MarineInsurance . Lif; Insurance Company, Kngland Company, San Francisco, TbeKohaat Sugar Company, Tbe Haiku Sugar Company. Tbe Hawaiian Sugar Hill. W. B. Bailey, The Hamakua Sugar Company, The Walaiua Sugar Plantation, The Wheeler k Wilson Sewing Machine Company, It Dr. Jayne Sons Celebrated family Medicines. « "THE FRIEND," SEAMEN'S HO.TI X, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA ! HARRISON, BETWEEN MAIN AND SPEAR STREETS. THROUGH THE EXERTIONS OF TH E LADIES' BKAMKN'S FRIEND 80CIKTY, and the liberality or being SEAMAN'S HOME Is DEVOTED TO JOURNAL Seamen. Marina and General A MO NTHLl' PUBLISHED EDITED BT Temperance, Intelligent AND SAMUEL C. DAMON. tbe General Government, a now Atted up on Harrison, between Main and Spear streeu, to which seamen of all nations are Invited to make theirhome while Id this port. The Building is of brick, large and commodious, fronting on three streets, commanding a une view of theharbor and city, conveniently located near the center of tbe water front,and capable of accommodating about 500 lodgers, with good One Copy per annum dining room, nadlng aod smoking room, chapel, etc. The house will he conducted on strict temperance principles like Two Copieajwrar.num It ordgn Subecrtl* trs, including postage •malar bomes in other parts of thia country and Europe. TERMS: • $1.00 iW I.M �Pure religion and undeflled before Ood, theFather, in this: To visit thefatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep one's selfunspotted from the world. Edited Hy a Cuntittte it tie T. I. C. i. amounting to over seven hundred dollars, and it is the intention at some time to build The Petrified Fern. a hall or a Chinese home, where they can have a reading room, and hold their meetIn a valley, centuries ago. Grew a little fern-leif, green and ilender, ings, and provide entertainments of various Vetoing delicate and fibres tender; kinds. They have lately purchased twentyWaving when the windcrept down so low. three lots in the new cemetery on the east Hushes tall, and mow, and graai grew round it, Playful sunbeamsdarted in and found It, slope of Punchbowl. This is certainly a Drops of dew etole in by night, and crowned It, step in the right direction, and will tend to Hut no foot of man e'er trod that way; do away with the foolish custom that has Earth wai young,and keeping holiday. heretofore prevailed, of taking the remains Momtf r fishes iwim the illent main, of deceased friends back to the Flowery Stately forests wared their giant branrhea, that, as they supposed, their spirits Kingdom Mountalna hulled their anowy avalanrh*-*. may associate with those of their ancestors Mammoth creaturea stalked across the plain; and be worshiped by their We Nature reveled In frand myiterlee. But thelittle fern wan none of these. hope this Association will accomplish much Did not number with the hills and tree*; good among the Chinese ol these islands. Only grewand waved ita wild aweet way. Let us as an Association, assist them in None erer came to note it day by day. every possible way, and wish them God Earth one time put on a frolic mood. speed in their good work. Heaved the rocka and changed the mighty motion [P. S.—Just as our paper was going to Of the deep, atrong currenti of the ocean; Moved the plain and ahook the haughty wood, press, we received a visit from our colporCruahed the little fern in soft moist clay.— teur Sitmoon, who has been making a three Covered It, aod hid It aafe away. weeks'tour around this island. He arrived O the long, long centunea since that day O the agony !flO life's bitter coat, this a. m. from Waikane; he reports 360 of Since that useless little fern vraa loat his countrymen living at various points, Ussless 7 Loat 1 There came a thoughtful man among whom he has been laboring and* Searching Nature's secrets, farand deep; preaching. He was kindly received by all, From a fissure In a rocky ateep distributed nearly 400 tracts on various reliHe withdrew a atone, o'er which there ran gious topics, besides eight copies of the New Fairy penciling*, a quaint design, Velnlngi, lealage, fibres clearand Ane, Testament. He came to Honolulu to reAnd the fern's life lay In every line! plenish his materials for gratuitous distribuSo, I think, Ood hides some souls away. tion and returns to complete the tour of the Sweetly to surprise us, the last day.—Anonymous. island. During his absence his place as religious teacher in Honolulu has been supThe Chinese Y. M. C. Association of plied by who came in the last comHonolulu has made much progress during pany from China, who had been there emin missionary work by the English the past year. The President of the Asso- ployed missionaries.—Ed ] ciation, Mr. Sitmoon, is an earnest Christian worker, and in his capacity of colporteur Extract from a Sermon by H. W. and ezhorter, has visited most of his coun- Beecher on Faithful Stewardship.—The trymen on the different islands of the group. way of honesty and integrity is the plain and the safe way. Govern avarice. The officers of the Association consist of way Restrain haste to be rich. Disdain any president, vice president, secretary, and riches for which you have not rendered an treasurer. Their meetings are held every equivalent of honest thinking, honest skill Tuesday evening in the new Bethel lecture and honest industry. Refuse to take a gambribe. Turn your back on that which room, towards the building of which the bler's is damnation to your pocket and to your Association and some of the individual mem- soul. Stand on honesty. Observe moderabers have contributed. tion. Get no more than you can get by The meetings are opened with prayer and building yourself while you build your forreading of Scriptures, then the minutes of tune. Never buy property at the expense manhood. Seek only that which the previous meeting are read, after which of your stand you instead in the day of trial, will remarks are in order from any member. and be of permanent benefit to you. HonMr. Asiu, the treasurer of Association, esty is yet, and forever will be, the best brought with him from China lately quite a policy—even if you insist upon putting it as collection of Chinese books, also a number low as that; and dishonesty is like the through of water where if one drop of Chinese newspapers; and they have late- breaking can pass more can follow. Every step you ly made arrangements to have papers sent take in misjudgment, in bad management, regularly from China and San Francisco. in venturing upon wrong doing in business These papers and books are for the use of affairs, prepares the way for another, and the members at the weekly meetings, and another, and another. This brings us to that point where we largely to bring them together, and need the blaze and cqneentrated light of ike the meetings interesting.' The As*orevelation—namely, that point in which so ition has accumulated quite "a fund, many men who have been good, and who by ' • »lp ' 72 ChYAMrsiooetucann'gHf onolulu. nature mean well, are drawn out of.good intentions into criminality—into the position of culprits. And oh! the wildness, when a man has ventured, and fallen, and begins to hide his wrong, with which he will throw out his hands on every side to save himself from exposure ! And here is where the Lord's Prayer applies with terrific force, when it says, " Lead us not into temptation." When a man is under a pressure, and is striving for his own safety, and his heart's love for his family is awakened, and the respect which he commands in the community and his reputation for uprightness are in danger of being sacrificed, and some desperate expedient is opened to him—under such circumstances a. man does not know what he will do. And how many men there are who breakdown in just this manner! They begin by simply betraying trust in a safe way. That brings them to a point in which they have to betray it a little more extensively. Then they must retrace their steps, or they must take a more audacious step that takes them nearer and nearer to destruction,; and crime at last stands before them, and says, " 1 only can save you ; " and with horror and resistance they plead against crime ; but at last, the alternative being utter destruction or crime, they take crime, and in taking that they take destruction too ; for crime cheats ; it lies ; it promises in the ear while it stabs with fatal poison stroke. There is but one thing that is safe. Truth is safe. Honesty before men is safe. Moderation of desire is safe. Trust in God, do nothing that you are ashamed, morning T night, to open up before him in prayer, and then you will be.safe ; but one single step aside from that is full of peril. The Duke of Wellington, it is said, replied to every letter, no matter from how humble a source. A clergyman who lived in a distant part of the kingdom once wrote to his Grace, on whom neither he nor his parish had a shadow of claim, to beg for a subscription to rebuild a church. By return of mail came back a letter from the Duke to the effect that he really could not see why in the world he should have been applied to for such an object; but the parson sold the letter as an autograph for five pounds sterling, and put the Duke down for that amoqnt among the subscribers. TRACT SOCIETY, 150 Nassau Street, TAMERICAN HE New York City, baa established a DEPOSITORY AT 767 MARKET STKKKT, HAN FRANCISCO, withRev Frederick E Shearer aa Distrlot Secretary for the Pacific Coast. This Depository is the Head-quarters of the Coast for ALL SUNDAY SCHOOL AND RKLIIHOUH LITKRATURB, and has the special agency for the CAMFORNIA BIBLE SOCIETY. THK AMERICAN SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION. CONGREGATIONAL PI HUSHIV) SOCIETY, PRRBBYTKRIAN BOARD OF PUBLICATION. HENRY HOYT RoBT CARTER k BRO., RANDOLPH CO., aod other'leadinr publishers. SUNDAY SCHOOL LIBRARIES will be selected with (treat care, and sold at New York priors and discounts. BOOKS WILL BE SENT BY HAIL TO MINISTERS at the discountallowed by New York Houses, and postal*- added the price and postage payaide u Lulled States Carreoty. Thus Sunday Schools and Mloiatera will be supplied at New York rates, and reoel?** any hook lo beround in Sea Francisco In the shortest possible time * — � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Friend (1877) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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