https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/3c3ea7950806ba713c34f6e4f5301354.pdf 3580d4849936a6bc82f196c4c40ff42d PDF Text Text FRIEND THE Sfo Series, M. 27, $0.8.1 HONOLULU, AUGUST 1, 61 CONTENTS For Asigiiat I, I 878. __. P*o« Hon. H. A. Peiree "S 1 :. 61—6J ly World—No. Rambles In the Old M Editorials Semi-centenary of the American Seamen'sFriend 1 61 M I Society Marine Journal '**; <™ Letter from Micronesia W> Judge Caton'a and Chaplain Rose'BLetters Hampton Normal School *» I>B Y. M. C. A • . THE FRIEND, AUGUST 1. 1878. Honorable H. A. Peirce. With the departure of this gentleman for his native land, we are reminded of his long and honorable career, connected with the Hawaiian Islands. More than a half century ago (1825) he arrived supercargo ofji vessel bound to the N. W., coast. After being engaged there for three years, he returned to the Islands, and became connected with Mr. Hunnewell in mercantile pursuits, they together established the house of C. Brewer & Co., which is now the oldest established house in the Pacific, for many years known under the name ofPeiree & Brewer. After the dissolution of the firm, Mr. Peiree withdrew, and for a score of years successfully engaged in shipping and mercantile business in Boston; his ships running to all parts of the world. In 1848, he visited the islands on board a vessel of which he was the owner, and invested $60,000 in the Lihue Plantation, unsuccessful for a few years, but now one of the most prosperous on the islands. After the close of the civil war in the United States, Mr. Peiree made some unsuccessful investments in Southern Plantations. In 1869 he received the appointment as Minister Resident to the Hawaiian Government in which highly honorable position he has managed tbe American Legation to the mutual advantage of America- and Hawaii, as is well known from his earnest and successful advocacy of the fieciprocity Treaty. We sincerely rejoice there is in contempla- 1878. tion some substantial testimonial by the planters nnd merchants, in appreciation of his valuable services. His recent connection with the Hawaiian Government, as Minister ofForeign Affairs, was brought to a close through no fault on his part. Most earnestly we hope for him a pleasant voyage and years of quiet happiness among friends in his native land. Death of J. D. Duncan.—Almost from his childhood we have been wont to meet the deceased in our visits to the printing office. He was a most excellent workman, and his genial demeanor endeared him to all in the office and to those frequenting it. Most manfully has he refused to yield to disease, and was found at his post of duty until within a few days of his death. We well remember when, some twenty years ago. the deceased and his brother entered the Advertiser office, where they have worked, with occasional intervals, ever since. The Friend having received the following, passes it along To the ladies of Honolulu and vicinity : We, the undersigned, hereby most respectfully solicit a continuance of your patronage, heretofore so liberally bestowed upon our predecessors. We always add supplies of new goods to our present large nnd wellassorted stock. We also continue the quarterly account system. : Grant & Robf.rtson, (Successors to A. S. Cleghorn & Co.), Corner Fort and Hotel Streets. Soon after the A. S. F. Society was organised. 1829 the semi-centenary of which will be found in our columns—the Seamen's Mission to the Hawaiian Islands The Bethel in Honolulu was undertaken. was built in 1833, under the management of the Rev. John Diell. The parent society has not only extended a fostering care over this chaplaincy ever since, but for several years sustained at Lahaina a Bethel, where the Rev. T*. E.Taylor and Rev. S. E. Bishop officiated as chaplains. — {®!b Scries, M 35. RAMBLES IN THE OLD WORLD-No. 19 I am half afraid that this heading for my letters, and sketches is coming to be something of a misnomer, not that I have given up " rambling " aliogether, but the limits in which I may ask you to follow me, now and then, will perhaps be narrower than they have been before. Having entered the University here, this beautiful city will be my home for some time to come, and I may say that of all the cities 1 have seen abroad, Berlin is the one I would choose first of all for my residence; that is looking at the rare opportunities which ore here afforded for acquiring a broad and liberal culture—at the splendid stimulus and the incitement there seem to be to study and thoughtful research and at the interesting opportunity which is given for seeing and studying all ranks and classes of one of the strongest, most energetic, and vigorous nations of the world. The main building of the University, one of the largest in the world, numbering between four and five thousand students, is situated on den Linden."* Back of the Univer-' " Unter sity, which was long ago a palace, is a beautiful grove of trees, just now of the loveliest green. Here we are, right in the center of a great busy city, but the grove is so quiet and beautiful that the old Athenian philosophers would have enjoyed it for their walks and conversations. 1 find one has to put the curb on himself here, there are such splendid lecture courses—such a wealth and variety of subjects, that one could go almost from early morning to evening dusk anal find a rich treat awaiting him. I shall not soon forget my first lecture in a German University. It was quite early, from eight to nine. The morning was sweet and rich with all the beauty of the first day of May. The lecture room was quite small. The Professor had hair and beard white, with a •German UsiVEUiTtss.—From a late numbar The of the Loudon Globe tbe following is copied: latest statistics published ou tbe subject show tbat the universities, whioh Dumber 21 Id all, cost tit* Imperial Treasury do leas a sum than half a mill) in a year. This is Ihe exact amountebarged for them in Ibe Budget of ihe Empire, and tbs money thus speot is divided amongst 1,800 professors. The students for whom tbeir services are thus retained number 20,229, of wbom 4,687 belong to Ibe University of BerllD, whioh ia by far the largest, while Rostock, whioh is the smallest, contains only 144." " �62 THE FRIEND, venerable age. His subject was, " Homer and the Iliad." A great window, at one end, looked out into the very heart of a cluster of trees fresh withthe freshness of the morning And the spring; one of them was a perfect wilderness of white blossoms, and claimed, I am afraid, some of the attention which ought to have been given to Homer and his critics. (1 confess 1 am a spring enthusiast ever since I came to know anything of this marvellous resurrection in nature. I have been so, from the early Freshman days, in the valley of the Connecticut, till now, and it is a story that never grows old.) There were just nine young men, and I could not help thinking there was something rather suggestive in the number. Yet I am afraid your imagination will fail to follow me in picturing the nine Muses in those nine prosaic young fellows and the " blind old Bard" in the snowy-haired Professor invoking the same to sing the " wrath of Achilles." The lectures promise to be very interesting and profitable. I heard Latin spoken for the first time in my life to-day, and it sounded beautifully. My room is nearly opposite and about two minutes' walk from the University, so that I get to my lectures without a moment's loss of time. The public garden directly before my windows is beautifully kept, and the Linden presents from early morning till far on into the evening a most animated spectacle. I am within almost a stone's throw of the Palace and of the Royal Library, with its nearly million volumes and priceless manuscripts. Truly it is a goodly neighborhood. It seems as if in Berlin one thing followed another with amazing rapidity. This year has been one continuous stream of exciting events —from the double marriages in February to the twice-attempted assassination of the Emperor; and now the Congress has, within a few days, begun its sessions, and you, with us, will anxiously await the result of the same. Of course, not much as yet is known of their proceedings, as of necessity they must remain secret. The telegraph will give the news of the result before my letters can reach you. I feel it to be a rare opportunity, at the present juncture of affairs, to be in Europe, and especially in Berlio, which is the most important city of Europe just now. The year from its very beginning has been crowded with remarkable events. A FEW WORDS ABOUT THE GEOGRAPHICAL SO- CIETY OF BERLIN. This may essentially be called a " geographical" epoch. The old spirit which animated the adventurous hearts of the Spanish and Portuguese seems to have awakened in these later days in many other nations. And never was there a time when the discoverer was crowned with prouder laurels than in our day. Stanley, the hero of Africa, is the " lion" of the hour. And well does he deserve the hearty welcome which has been extended to him since his return from his last triumphant efforts in the heart of Africa, a continent which seems at last reluctantly to be giving up the secrets which she has for centuries been so loath to yield. Here in Berlin of late there ."(.IST. 1878. have been most interesting ceremonies in connection with the Semi-Centennial of the Geographical Society of this city, one of the oldest and most honored in the world. I regret that my limited time will not permit of my giving any detailed accounts of the> same, for they were most interesting. I was privileged to enjoy and share in them, through the kind invitation of Dr. Abbott, an American gentleman who has resided many years in Berlin, and whose name I am pleased to mention here as being that of a gentleman who in numberless, thoughtful and courteous ways renders kindness to strangers coming to this city, and whose largeness of heart and generous and genial character will long be remembered by many who have had the pleasure and privilege of his acquaintance and friendship. On one evening we attended the opening anniversary meeting, held in the large and splendid hull of the Kath-Haus. The meeting was honored by the presence of the Crown Prince. The assemblage itself was a choice one, consisting of many of the leading men of the Capital. An address was delivered by the President, followed by reports, etc. The Geographical Society of Paris had sent a representative to convey their congratulations to the sister Society here. This gentleman himself is a well-known traveler. He addressed the assemblage in German, and his remarks were followed by enthusiastic applause. It is most gratifying to witness such evidences of a better state of feeling between these two great nations. Various congratulatory telegrams were likewise read. On the following evening I enjoyed extremely a grand dinner given by the. Society in honor of their fiftieth anniversary. It was one of the most brilliant events of the season, and participated in by some hundreds of guests. One of the opera-houses of the city was arranged for the occasion in the most beautiful manner. The floor was filled with tables, which were in turn surroundad by a very brilliant company. The walls, galleries and ceiling were decorated in the most beautiful and artistic manner with palm-branches, the flaps of ail nations, furs brought from different parts of the world, and various articles which would serve to remind one of the peculiar mission of the Society. The space usually occupied by the stage of the opera was converted into a splendid bower and garden of tropical and other plants, from the center of which rose the giant hust of the famous Humboldt, who was in his lifetime a member of this Society. Qn the sides of the stage were paintings of natives of different countries. The effect of these various devices and the brilliant coloring of the flags was at once unique and beautiful. At the plate ofeach guest, in addition to the menu, was a picture most cleverly and artistically conceived and executed, in which "Geography," under the guise ofa majestic female figure, stood with lighted torch. At her feet and side were grouped a motley throng of eminent members of the Society, scholars travelers, etc., in costumes of various lands and surrounded by suggestions of torrid and arctic climes. The place of each guest was designated by a card bearing his name and being in itself a pleasant little picture. I remember that mine represented some Bedouin or African family mounted on camels approaching a little village lying in the distance. Others were a Japanese " study" or subject, etc. During the dinner the company was treated to instrumental music, and to what was far better to some, exquisite vocal music from a company of ladies and gentlemen. Several toasts were given and most enthusiastically fKeived, and the whole affair was a must splendid success. Towards the close of the evening, Dr. Nachtigal, the famous African traveller, made a long and pleasant speech, explaining the many •' points" in the picture of which I have been speaking'to you. On another evening of the same week 1 had the pleasure of attending a regular meeting of the Geographical Society. The main thing of the evening was an address from an eminent and well-known gentleman, a Professor from Hamburg, I think, on the "Currents of the Ocean." I was most pleased n meet Dr. Nachtigal personally, who is a gentleman of about forty years of age, with an energetic face and manner. He is busy on some book relative to his travels. Hillebrand, another well-known discoverer in Africa, was likewise present. He told a friend of mine that he was beginning to grow * 4 homesick" to be back there again. I have alluded in a very brief and running manner to these various meetings of one of the European Societies interested in a subject and cause which in our age is being investigated with so much interest and success, as I wish to allude to A FEW MORE POINTS OF INTEREST ON OUR ROUTE THROUGH CENTRAL GERMANY. One is inevitably reminded in endeavoring to describe such an interesting journey, of that»game we used to play as children, when from an intricate and confused mass of straws, the players endeavored to dislodge one without disturbing the others. Such an innumerable and interesting mass of historical facts are associated with these central German towns, which follow each other so rapidly on the road we have chosen, that even with the most skillful management I am afraid that if I endeavored to touch upon theit history, 1 should find myself immediately overwhelmed with matter, so it will be wiser to pass rapidly by them to Wittenberg where we shall complete our Lutheran pilgrimages for the present. At Gotha we visited the fine picture gallery and enjoyed for a time watching the skaters at their sport, a most picturesque winter scene. At Erfurt, where Luther studied for a time and where he entered the Augustinian convent, all relics of the reform ■ were destroyed by fire" in 1872. We spent a Sabbath quietly in Weimar, formerly the Athens of Germany, famous as being the home of so many illustrious literary men, foremost among whom stand Goethe and Schiller. At another time I hope to send a description of this still most interesting city and hence merely allude to it in passing. Leipeic was the next city which claimed our attention, the seat of one of the largest universities of Germany, whioh numbers .on its catalogue some three thousand students, a city also whioh is extremely interesting in, connection with the history of German inde- �63 THE FRIEND, AUGUST, 1878. pendence at different times, especially in this century in the time of Napoleon. Not far distant from Leipsic is Halle, another university town. WITTENBERG, THE HOME OF LUTHER AND ME- LANCTHON. On our route to Berlin, we passed directly through Wittenberg. But during this month I have had the pleasure of visiting somewhat more at my leisure the scenes associated with the life-work of Luther and his helper, assistant and friend Melancthon. I have before this told you of Worms, the scene of one of the greatest triumphs of the Reformation at the 44 Diet there held; we have together visited the Wartburg, where the castle served as hiding place, till the storm was past for the Reformer, and we alluded to Eisenach and Erfurt, which will ever be connected in histoiy with the name of Martin Luther. It was however in Wittenberg that the most important working years of his life were spent, here too he is buried. My time does not permit me to paint for you Wittenberg as I would. I do not mean the Wittenberg of to-day, a quiet, unimportant town, but that Wittenberg which once was here, and which with the reminders of olden days on every hand, it is not difficult for the imagination to re-create. Here, as you mny remember, one of the Electors of Saxony had founded a University which became one of the most celebrated of that time. Here Luther cnme as Professor of Philosophy. Our Hotel was situated on the old market place, one of the principal gathering points of modern Wittenberg. In the center of the square are placed two monuments, one to Luther and one to Melancthon, his fellow laborer. Here rises also the old "Rath-Haus" which is still used by the government. Among its treasures is a great sword used by that great " Swedish defender of Protestantism, Gustavus Adolphus. In that corner-house looking into the market lived Lucas Crannch, one of the early German painters, whose portraits of his friend Luther are most interesting. Following the quiet Streets to the old townchurch, with its lofty tower and ancient carvings and inscriptions, we find ourselves where Luther preached so long ago. The interior has been renewed, but it was in this edifice that in 1522 the holy communion was administered in both kinds. Still more interesting is the castle-church at the other end of the town. The old doors, to which Luther nailed the •' Theses which were the watch-words of Protestantism were destroyed by fire in 1760. In their place now stand massive " metal doors " inscribed with the "Theses" in Latin. Nothing could be simpler than the last resting place of the two reformers who are buried within the church. In about the cenire of the church are placed iwo wooden coverings, which being lifted, one sees beneath the metal plates, bearing the names of these great and good men, who are buried beneath. The Church contains other reminders of the glorious days of Germany, but nothing more interesting than that to which I have just alluded. The old Electoral Pilace lies just beyond, but is now in a partially ruined condition. The long Collegien Strasse," the princi- " " pal street of Wittenberg leads from this fixion, I think, fashioned by Frau Luther, church to ihe farther end of the town, past an accomplishment learned probably in those many of the most interesting .points in the old convent days when she lived as a nun at town. An amusing tradition has designa- Nimbschen, little dreaming of the joys which ted one of the houses situated upon it as the were in store for her loving heart, and that Hamlet House." which would probably instead of embroidering altar-cloths her "havemuch diverted Shakespeare, who I think fingers would be busy fashioning garments makes his melancholy hero study at Wit- for her own little ones in her great husband's tenberg. " Melancthon's House " now be- home. In this old building, too, is tbe longs to the government, but is still shown. lecture-room where Luther spoke many of I found the old garden especially interesting, those words which Richter has said were of with its trees and shrubs just budding into themselves " half-battles," so great with spring freshness. At one side is an old meaning were they. Here is a portrait by stone-table dating from the days when good Cranach, of him and others whose names Dr. Martin Luther and Dr. Phillip Melanc- have now become so well known- through thon may have sat and supped here beneath the part they once had in the work of the the shadow of the old evergreen which looks Reformation. Below is the garden, changed as if it had weathered the storms of many many, many times since Luther gathered years. In therear of the garden is a gate his friends about him here and drew such now closed to the world, where we are told countless lessons from the leaves and flowers Melancthon used to pass when he would vis- and birds. And yet after all the same, as it his friend Luther who lived in the old the same beauty which he saw is still with building, whose roof we can see over the us, standing under the clear blue of the garden wall. The little room is shown heavens and amidst the glorious promise of where Melancthon lived and wrote and died. the coming summer. I would fain tarry His table faced the north and above the longer here in the midst of the reminders of spot where it stood is an inscription to that those happy, peaceful days which came effect. There in the corner was where he with such beanty to Luther in the later died, this gentlest and sweeiest spirit of the years of his life, it seems like the calm yet Reformation. The beauty of an ineffable radiant light which comes with the sunset at peace seems to have rested on his face after times after a day of storm. death, as we may judge from the picture We pass where the old Elsterthor or gate which Cranach has left us, taken afterdeath. of the city once stood, and through which, I The long Infantry Barracks in the near think, they brought the body of the Reneighborhood were once the seat of the Uni- former, who had died in the town where he versity which acquired such a celebrity and was born, Eisleben, to be buried in Wittenwhere gathered students from all parts. berg, honored by a nation. In the little inStill one more spot claims us, to me the. closure beyond is ll un oak surrounded by a pleasantest of the scenes where we may small gnrden which is said to mark the spot think of Luther, —his home. Fierce as were where Luther publicly burned the Papal the early spiritual struggles of the student Bull the 10th of December, 1520." And and monk; hard and trying ns wete the here we must end our pilgrimages for the later contests upon which the leader of Prot- present. We are in the midst of a country estantism was called to enter, there were which constantly recalls his name. We are also joys in his inner family life which were just leaving the city where he so long sources ofuntold happiness and inspiration to labored. Not far away is Eisleben, where him. His home as Professor and as head he lived and died. Still nearer is Torgau, of the new movement, which was thrilling where his true wife Catherine is buried. all Germany to its inmost hea»», was n part We are in Germany, which owes more of the old Augustinian Monastery, where to Martin Luther than to any other man, Luther had once lived as " Brother Augus- whose truest treasure is the legacy which he tine," and where he afterwards brought his has left of his name and work. In closing, good wife Catharine yon Bora, and where his permit me to give the eloquent words in children's voices and innocent laughter which a great man of our day, Thomas Carechoed through the cloisters where the lyle, has expressed his admiration of this monks and penitents of old had once " told greatest of German heroes: their beads." The larjre building in the front a true great man; " I will call this Luther is now used as a Theological Seminary. In in courage, affection and intellect, in great this is the resr of a court surrounded by ancient buildings and an ivy covered wall, and integrity; one of our most lovable and premen. Great, not as a hewn obelisk; just beyond this, the Luther house. At the cious liut.ns an Alpine mountain—so simple, honentrance are two stone seats, with little canest, spontaneous, not setting up to be great where we the may fancy of stone good opies another purpose than Doctor with the helpful, cheery Frau Luther at all; there for quite unsubdu.-ible granite, Ah yes, being great! often sat in the summer twilights when the the heavens; yet far and wide into piercing work was of the betdone and thought day's fountains, it green beautiful the clefts of in ter day that had dawned on Germany and with flowers spiritual hero ! A right valleys which they were permitted to see. Above son of nature more, and once a true prophet; room, is the family with its antique stove and /act, for whom these centuries, and and table. The windows are composed of that are to come yet, will be thankful many of set metal bits circular glass in frames of or lead, quaint and picturesque in their ef- to heaven." F. W. Damon. fect. Beyond are other rooms, with other relics; here a beer-glass of Luther, who wbs Behren Strasse, a real Teuton in his liking of beer, and here Hawaiian Legation, 39 20, June 1878. work, Berlin, a cruciI notice something in needle �64 THE FRIEND, AUGUST, - 1878. Kamehameha I.—The memory of this Restoration Day.—Yesterday, July 31st, was the anniversary of the restoration of the veteran old Warrior King—who has been AUGUST I. 1878. Hawaiian flag by Admiral Thomas in 1843. styled the Napoleon of the Pacific— is to be kept fresh by a statue, for "Advertiser's" European Correspondent. The recogniiion of this day, by observing it which the Legislature hasthe erection of appropriated —In the last issue of our neighbor, the as a national holiday, has been allowed to 85,000. Although our sporting gentlemen Advertiser, we find an interesting letter, pass into oblivion during the last few years. honor his memory by observing the 11th of believe the last observance was in 18fJu. June as a holiday devoted to racing at Kapidnted London, June 10th. The writer cer- !We i items is successful It was gathering in many thought, from various reasons, that iolani Park, yet we hardly think an equestainly trian statue would become his sans-culotte Islands. to the Hawaiian the day was " more honor'd in the breach Majesty so much as a seat in a war of interest relating canoe. We learn the correspondent to be Frank Birg- I than the observance." Among those reasons, ham,Esq.,who visited our Islands two or three jit was supposed by some of our English Fornander's 2d Volume.—We understand years since, and attributes his cure of con residents that it cast a certain reflection that Mr. Fornander is now engaged sumption to a residence at Kona, Hawaii. upon the British Government which might upon the preparation of the second volume of now a resident of Wiesbaden, Ger- jas well be annually dispensed with. That, his work on the Migrations of the Polynesian Race. It ie exceedingly gratifying that in The Times, i however, depended very much upon the our Island ly. We copy as follows community we have men like May 25th, has the following: "The manner ihe transaction was '4 put;" as the Professor Alexander, Rev. Mr Lyons, Mr. Sandwich Islands.— Messrs. Ransome & Country Parson says, much depends upon Fornander, Mr. Bailey and others, who are have received en order for the full the way a thing is « put." Now, as we turning their attention to literary, linguistic and scientific pursuits. ipment of a railway for the Sandwich think the restoration of the Hawaiian flag nds, as a beginning of railway work might and should be ''put," it was really Rev. W. Frear.—Letters from the pastor there." * * Mrs. Brassey has just pub- one of the most honorable transactions on of Fort Street Church have been received, lished " A Voyage in the Sunbeam," with the part of the British Government, as car- announcing his departure East from San many illustrations, some of them of Ha- ried out by Admiral Thomas, after whom Francisco, with health much improved. the square on the Plains is named Lord waiian scenes, the volcanoes, &c. The numPaulet had, in the most unauthorised manIt is a notable fact that most of the ber ot the Leipzig Illustrated News of ner, taken away the Hawaiian flag, and for recent advances in practical electricity hnve April 27 contained well-executed portraits of the time being the sovereignty of the King- been effected in America. It is to the United King Kalakaua, his two sisters and the dom was ceded to England. When, how- States that we ore indebted, for example, for ever, Rear-Admiral Thomas arrived here the introduction, if not for the original inQueen. The July number of Petermann's from Valparaiso, and learned the state of vention, of the quadruplex telegraphy and of Geographical Magazine will publish an affairs, in the most speedy and honorable telephony. The new method of transmitting excellent map of the leeward group of manner he restored the flag to Kamehameha and magnifying sounds by means of electriKauai, Niihau, Lehua and Kaula, accom- 111, as His Majesty felt assured would be city is due to Professor D. E. Hughes, of panied by a descriptive article by your cor- done, when he gave utterance to that senti- London, the inventor of thewell-known typerespondent. The last Hamburg Geogra- ment which has become Hawaii's national printing telegraph, who is, however, an phical Monthly contains a graphic descrip- motto, By righteousness the life of the American citizen long settled in this countion of Kilauea by Dr. Max Buchner, who land is preserved." try. The Nineteenth Century, London, visited Hawaii in lS7t>. A recent number June, 1878. of the French magazine Le, Globe brought Andrews' Dictionary, Enlarged.—Before out an article on " The Volcnnoes of the the death of Judge Andrews, we recol- Semi-Centenary of the American Seamen's Sandwich Islands," by L. H. dc L. A proFriend Society. to have heard him remark that he was fessorship of English Language and Litera- lect The American Seamen's Friend Society ture will be founded next year at the flour- continually discovering new words in the celebrated its fiftieth anniversary at the Hawaiian language which he had not emishing young University of Otago, N. Z." Broadway Tabernacle, on Monday last. The bodied in b| s Dictionary, although he had following account of its organization, in Lord Beaconsfield.-Mr. Gladstone, in recorded some 16,000 or 17,000! We are 1828, is taken from the Annual report: 4 In the month of September, 1825, a a recent speech at Oxford, said: "When glad to learn that this work has now been taken up by Rev. L. Lyons, of Waimea, ac- communication appeared in the Mariners' the you of Government mean speak you knowledged the best Hawaiian scholar liv- Magazine, signed by one hundred and fourLord Beaconsfield. [Cheers and laughter.] ing. His success in Hawaiian hymnology teen masters and mates of vessels, expressing There are many men in the Government is something quite remarkable, as he com- a deep interest in the promotion of morality who will compare very honorably with Lord poses hymns with the ease and facility of and religion among seamen, and a hope that Wesley and Isaac Watts in Eng- the project of a National Society, on the Beaconsfield in many respects, but there is Charles lish. We trust Mr. Lynns' life may be principles of the other general institutions of not one man in the Government that has a spared to complete his additions to the Dicbenevolence in this country would be carried tenth part of the tenacity of will and the pa- tionary, which we understand are quite ex- into effect The plan having also been retientpurpose which belongs to Lord Beacons- tensive and critical. Surely no one living is commended by others in various parts of the field." These remarks of Gladstone are more cnpable of carrying forward this work. country, a public meeting was held October 25th, to take action in the premises. highly honorable, as coming from Lord BeaWe are requested to give notice that 44 The committee reported nt a meeting As events consfield's political opponent. the Children's Missionary Society will hold held 11th January, 1826, but from various have recently transpired at the Berlin Con- its next monthly meeting Saturday evening, causes the project was allowed to rest, until gress, these remarks of Gladstone are AuguBt3d, p. m., at the residence of E. Monday, May sth, 1828, when the Ameri7J the can Seamen's Friend Society was organized, freighted with increasing importance and C. Damon, on Plain. with the Hon. Smith Thompson, one of New significance. York's noblest citizens, then holding the high Information Wanted Mr. Chauleb Bhown, a native of England, position of Secretary of the Nnvy, for iis We are glad to welcome Mr. Hyde, Respecting but sailing In American whalingvessels. In 1662 he was President; Rev. C. P. Mcllvaine, D. D on board the "General Williams," at HonoPresident of the Bank in Ware, Mass. He blacksmith lulu. He la about 66 yearn of age. He Is reported as nfterwards Bishop of Ohio, for its Corresconies from a circle of friends and region of working on some of the plantations on Maui. Mary A. Smith thus wrlten from Newburyport.Mass., June4,lB7B: ponding Secretary, and the Rev. Dr. Joshua country deeply interested in the welfare and " Pleaaebefriend me by finding blra, and addrevs your Leavitt for its General Agent." latter, 16, First Btroet, Newburyport. Ma*w." A letter for people of the Hawaiian Islands. The records of divine grace in connection bim will be foundat Sailors" Home, Honolulu. THE FRIEND. ; »is tiier : I '' — : ' , �THE FRIEND, AM,I S T . with the work of this Society in behalf of nished to shipwrecked and destitute seamen. the men of the sea having been so remark- Many also hnvc found at the Home, not able, it was deemed by the officers and only physical comfort, but the forgiveness friends of the Society incumbent on them, to of sin, and spiritual life and peace. A buildmake recognition of God's blessing upon its ing of enlarged capacity and with increased labors by a special celebration of this anni- •facilities for carrying out the object of a versary. Accordingly a number of gentle- Sailors' Home is greatly needed, and is men who have been interested in the work hopt-d for as a suitable commemoration of were, some time since, invited to prepare our Semi-Centenary. The Society has published during the papers on the history and the various aspects of the cause. The morning and afternoon past year, 80,000 copies of the Sailors' of Monday were devoted to the reading and Alayuzine, and for gratuitous distribution discussion of these papers, which were pre- among seamen, in all, 40,000 copies of the pared with great care, and which elicited Seamen's Friend, and over 300,000 copies great interest. The variety and importance of the Life Boat, for the use of Sabbath of the topics discussed may be gathered from schools throughout the land. the followiug catalogue of the papers: '-The In the year ending April 1, 187S, the reOrigin and History of the American Sea- ceipts of the Society into its Treasury from men's Friend Society," by Rev. S. H. Hall* all sources (including a small previous baD. D. ; The Great Change in Public Senti- lance) have been $85,520.97. Expenditures, ment in regiird to the Conversion of Sea- $54,997 91. The local Societies, auxiliary men," by Rev. Ch»rles J. Jones; "The to this, have in the same time, raised for the Recent Remarkable Revival of God's Work Seamen's Cause, $9 t541.23. A semi-centennial hymn, written for the Among Seamen," by Rev. J. Spaulding, D. D.; " Christian Characteristics of Sea- occasion by Rev Edward Hopper, D. D, men," by Rev. Edward Hopper, D. D.; pastor of the Church of the Sea and Land, " Harmonious Co-operation of all National was sung, and the chairman, after reading a and Local Institutions in Behalf of Sea- telegram from Hon. R. W. Thompson, Secmen," by Rev. J. E. Rockwell, D. D.; retary of the Navy, stating that he was de44 Ships' Libraries," by J. S. Pearson, Esq.; tained at Washington by pressing public •' Relations of the Work for Seamen in the duties, called on Rev. Mr. Jones, agent of Pacific to the Evangelization of China," by the Western Seamen's Society, to address Rev. S. C. Damon, D. D.; Relations of the the meeting. A company of twenty-four sailor lads, Work to other Forms of Evangelical Effort," by Rev. J. P. Warren, D. D.; " Encourage- from the U. S. steamer Minnesota, here filed ments to Prayer for Seamen," by Rev. E. in upon the stage and sang a gospel song, that was received with great and well-meritN. Sawtell, D. D. At the Anniversary in the evening the ed enthusiasm on the parf of the audience. chair was taken by the President, Richard The Rev. Dr. Howard Crosby was then inP. Buck, Esq. After the devotional exer- troduced, and said : " Many years ago I was cises an abstract of the Annual Report, as in a wreck on the Atlantic. The night was follows, was read by the Secretary, Samuel dark and stormy, and the captain held out no hope of our reaching land. My mother H. Hall, D. D : me into the cabin and read to me the "During the past year. 4S missionaries, led She put her hand on my 107 th colporteurs, ice, have been employed at va- head, Psalm. said, ' Howard, never fear ; the and rious ports in different parts of the world. who inspired that psalm is with us now They have preached the gospel in Bethels God in this cabin.' The memory of that night, and on ship-board, have visited sailors in the my mother's faith, have been an inspirforecnstle, hospitals, and elsewhere, circulat- and ation to me ever sine*." ing the Scriptures, &c, and in every way Bishop Fellowes, of the Reformed Episcohave befriended them. pal Church, dwelt forcibly on sailors as inDuring the year, 883 ships' libraries have struments of mission work, affirming that been sent out on vessels carrying 11,521 when they are thus employed, and not till men: making the total number of new libra- then, will the isles of the sea be given to ries sent out since the work was inaugurat- Christ and the uttermost parts of the earth ed, twenty years ago, (i,252; containing at for his possession. least 322,644 volumes, nnd accessible, by Hon. Stewnrt L. Woodford, Esq., (J. S. 5 175 reshipments, to 245,959 men. "The District Attorney, followed in an earnest whole number of libraries shipped in the U. plea for enlarged effort in behalf of the S. Navy is BS6, accessible to 100,549 men. sailor. He would give, he said, two practiThe number of hopeful conversions nt sea, cal thoughts: first, that to make sailors previously reported (more than a thousand,) missionaries of the gospel was to follow the in connection with this single agency, has example of Christ, who chose his first workof late been largely increased. ers not from the schools of ihe Rabbis, but The Suilors' Home, 190 Cherry Street, from the ranks of fishermen and sailors ; the latterly so managed as to return us some- second thought whs that Christ reached the thing for charitable purposes, has during the common manhood in men by using common past year accommodated 1,787 boarders. men—workinginen who appreciated tbe digThese men temporarily deposited with the nity of labor, men who suffered and appreSuperintendent, $17,107, of which amount, ciated the sufferings of the masses to whom $7,725 were sent to relatives and friends, they belonged. $1,935 were placed to their credit in the After the adoption of a series of resoluSavings Banks, and tho balance returned to tions, the meeting closed with the singing of the depositois. The whole number of board- another hymn written for the occasion by eis since the, Home was established, in 1842, Rev. John Spaulding, D. D. is 93,195. Relief has frequently been far* Nev> York Observer, May 9, 1878. " " — 65 18 38. MARINE JOURNAL. PORT OF HONOLULU, S. I. ARRIVALS. Jane M-Am bk W II almy, freeman. IS days from Ban July francisco. I—Am Mj Jenny put., Baans, «S daya rrom Port Gamble. B—l' M 8 Zealandia, Chevalier, 18 days from Bydney and Auckland. 10—Norwegian ship Ariel, Nlelson, 13 days from San Franclaco. 11—Am b(tne Hesperian. Wludlng, il days fm New. esstle 11—Am wh bk Abrsm Barker. Sairh, from Ttlcahuano, with 100 l>l>L sperm oil. 16—r MSB City of New York, Cobb, 7 days A 8 hours from San Francisco, lli—Am bk Arkwrisbi, Seara. from Newcastle 18—Am schr Joseph Woolley, ling-its, fm Guano Is 18—Am ship Benleiidi, Ucyd. 100 days irom tancVn S3—P MS 8 Wilmington. Fuller, 0 dys fm S Francisco. 24—Am bk Edward James, O'Brien. 17 days fm Tahiti. » DEPARTURES. lune 30—Am bktne Discovery, Winding, for San Kranclsco July I—Am bk Christine, fur Pan Francisco B—llawalisn bgtne Stormbird, Johnson, fur South Sea Islands B—Am bk Jenny Pills, Evans, for Port Gamble 9—P M S 8 ZealandU, Cheva'ler, for San Francisco 12—Hawbk Katakaua, Tr.sk, fur San Francisco 13—Brit hk Madura, Stanton, lor JarvisIsland 13—Am wh Aleram Marker. Snrllb. for Ihe Arctic 18—P MSB City of New York, Cobb, for Srdnev 21—Am brg Hesperian, Winding, for Paget Bound. 23— Am bkme J A Fslkenberg. Hubbard, fr Portlsnd, O 24—Am bk II W Almy. Freeman, for Ban Francisco. MEMORANDA. — Rm-ORTor Am Bk Kdwird Jamis, O'Brikk, Mi»tkr ■.ailed from Honolulu May 11. On the fourth day out, Mr W Motllr, owner of the micl died. Preserved the body. Arrived at Tahiti on the 9th of June. 23 day* paaaage. Sailed for Bolabola on the 20ih, arriving there on Ihe following dny. Took in cargoand tailed for this port, reaching hereon the 23d July, alter a pasaageof 17 daya. RHPORTOFPM 8 8 Zkalakdia, Chivalikr, CommanDRR.—-June 20th at 3 p m, left anchorage In Sydney harbor; p 4 m discharged pilot) atrong HW gale, experienced for two daya; reached Auckland on the24th at 1038 p m, aud teflon the Zfiih at 4.46 pm. for the first forty-eight houra. it rone SW winds, experienced afterwards X winda and aqually weather up to July2d) thence moderate aod One to Honolulu, lighted weat point II a m. July 8. received pilot on board at 1.02 and made faat to wharf at 1.80 pm. June 26th, at 946 pm. passed and signalled the P M H fl Australia, bound for Auckland, Ist 20 ° 28* S, long 173 ° 27* W. R McDonald, Purter. Report or P M 8 S City op Nkw York, Cobb. Commandf.r Left Han Franclaco July 8, at 12 in, discharged pilot off Head*., Ml 1.28 p rr>, have experienced fine weather with N I) wind*, arrived at Honolulu July 16, at 9 p n, made Ihe paasnge in 7 days, 6 hours and 28 minutes. — PASSENGERS. Per Zeslxnilln, July B—J B Harden, C S Mayor. C II Smlih. Mra Smith, Air llodfeon, W H Mackenzie, J X Smart. Fanst Pan Francisco- Per City of New York. Ju y IS— Mrs W B Godfrey, Jaa Woodhead. Win Hyde k ilauiilner, Miss Sage. P Mcliierny At wife, A lleranf. 8 llarl, W A lloaren. Miss A Knyce At maid, W II llalley, A IV Peiree, Mia F. It Durfee, Dr F 11.11.-z-. Fbom London —Per Ben Ledi. July 18—J Holdsworlli. Faoa Baxbb'j Is—Per Job vVooley. July 18—HT Reynold*. A L'avasso, J finiili. and 11 native laborers. Fbom Ban Francisco—lVr S B Wilinlmton. July 23—R, v At Mra IV I. Jones, Ml» U X Jones, ilrWI Jones, Mr F S Pratt. Mr John I nairurle. Mr VI in Metralfe, Mr Geo H Barber, Mr Janie, Junes.At 1 rliinarua.ii. foa Portland—l'er J A Falkiubcif, July 23—11 O Bucklin. C Derby. Fbom Tahiti—Per Edward James. July 34—Capl J Rutsel, f: llouthlailiisi. J McCarthy, Hermann Horn. Fbom Sydbbv— . MARRIED. AasKK—Wahe—In thin city, Auimttt Int. by lie v. s C. Dimon, Amu (Chinese), to Waiik (Hawaiian), both nf Honolulu. DIED. Hackfeld—In Bremen, (iermany. May 27,1878, Mr John HACKtBLD, formerly a t-Miduiit of Honolulu, aged M yearn MorrET—On board the bark Edward Jan.ru, Lit 12:62 *\I, Long. ltV6:41 W, Mr. Walter MorraT, a native of England, for many yearn a resident in the United State*, and lately of Portland, Oregon, where he leave, a lamlly. Aged 48 yeara. Duncan—Iu thin city, July 26, of consumption, Jamlh Dovkb Duncan, Foreman of the Auvebtiaeb printing atkcm, aged 33 yt-arn and live months, a native of Hoik lulu. The funeral will take klaet to-morrow (Sunday) afternoon, from tin- Catholic Church, at half-pant :t - o'clock. William*—In Honolulu, July IWth, Jeukhiam Wilmaw*, aged 45 yearn; native of Salem, Mans. Hetu»re~ wider! on theinland* about one year. �66 I II X Letter from Micronesia. Ebon, April 12th, 1878. Brother Damon:—l embrace the present opportunity which is tolerably direct. San Francisc* is for the first tfme our P. O. The 44 Maggie Johnston " schooner was in this group last November and in January, but did not come to Ebon. The " John Bright" schooner is now at anchor here and soon to sail for San Francisco. From the former 1 was able to get some fresh supplies, as also the "Morning Star" was able to get sufficient supplies to go on with her western trip. There seems to be considerable stirring in regard to the copra trade and there are a great many new vessels suiting about in search of the dried cocoanut. We infer that this means a greater demand for the article in civilized countries. The price has advanced here to more than double what it was when I came here in 1871. Our people have become awakened to the of drunkenness and have taken active ■asures for the prohibition of the traffic or mufacture of the poison. The following are the Laws referred to the foregoing letter: A LAW Forbidding the Sale or Drinking of toxicating Liquor on the Island of Ebon. We the people of Ebon seeing that intoxting liquor tends to weaken and distress Dple, and to destroy their property, and it we may protect ourselves from this rse we do make and proclaim 1. It is unlawful for any person on this and to be drunken or to drink any kind of oxicating liquor. 2. It is unlawful for any person on this and to make, to buy, or sell, or give away y kind of intoxicating liquor to any native these islands or the Islands of Micronesia lis :— ing on Ebon. 3. Those who do not obey these laws, hether chief or common native) shall be Id guilty, and shall pay a fine of not less in ten dollars, (810.00) nor more than c hundred dollars .($lOO 00) as the chief Iging shall say. 4. All foreigners who come to this isid, Ebon, are hereby notified of these laws d that they are not to break them. If a trader on Ebon, or a foreigner nn any vessel, or captain and ship's company on any foreign vessel from whatever country, shall sell or give any kind of intoxicating liquor to any of the natives of the Islands of Micronesia living on Ebon, they shall be held guilty and shall pay a fine of two hundred dollars ($2OO 00) for every time they sell it or give it away. Made and proclaimed this twenty-eighth February, in the year one thousand undred and seventy-eight, at Kube, K [Signed] [Signed] Kaiboke. Lejebrik. Loiruj. [Signed] ;losc a copy of this law and also a FRIEND, AUGUST, 1878. copy of a temperance hymn which we printed last summer. Of our own work I can not say much. School is in session, and we have quite an intelligent number of young men in the work of getting an education. Some of the younger boys are much more rapid learners than the older ones. There is no special religious interest among us, but there has been a manifest growth on the part of many of our Christians. Quite a number of our church members have been set aside from church fellowship during the yepr past. Our mission band are in usual health. Thanks for the Friend which reached us Jan. 18th per "Lotus" yacht of Capelle & Co. The '4 Norman " calling at Jaluij only about New Years. Truly yours, J. F. Whitney. Judge Caton's and Chaplain Hose's Letters. We would acknowledge copies of the "Prairie Farmer" and the " Chicago Medical Journal & Examiner," containing letters by Judge Caton and written while at the Islands. It is gratifying to find a new class of correspondents, writing from the Islands and about the inhabitants. We hope the age of " growlers," "cynics " and " cavillers " has come to an end. What we desire is fair and honest observers. For them there is plenty of room.—ln a late number of the National Baptist," published in Phi" ladelphia, we find a most sensible letter from the pen of Chaplain Kose, of the U. S. S. " Pensacola," whose visit will be remembered and whose sermons in the " Bethel " and ''Fort street" churches will not be forgotten. He writes as follows :— " A century is a short period in the world's history, but it embraces all of importance that is known of these Islands. Many a volume has been devoted to the elucidation of their history and their problems, and yet there are few pluces upon the globe of which the mass of Christian people are more absolutely ignorant, than of these very volcanic isles." Judge Caton nnd Chaplain Rose have adopted a very good method for enlightening the benighted people of the United States, and as the people of the mother country are still more benighted, we hope, more candid correspondents will write for the English papers. We had a call from an English passenger some weeks since, passing around the world from England, hy the way of Australia. He was a gentleman of refinement and intelligence, but candidly confessed, that he was astonished to find a respectable, intelligent and orderly community in Honolulu, for hitherto his knowledge of 14 carpers," the islands was mostly confined to Cook's voyages and the death of the great navigator ! ! We are glad to see Judge Caton's letters republished in the Gazette." Our limited space will not allow us to copy them. " Hampton Normal School. General Armstrong, Principal of this Institution, concludes a .Report, occupying eight columns, in " Southern Workman " with the following paragraph "The plan of the Hampton School was suggested by the educational system of tde Sandwich Islands, introduced by American missionaries and built up chiefly by the labors of the Rev. Richard Armstrong, D. D., Minister of Public Instruction. The twenty yenrs' personal observation of the Principal, and of the Treasurer, Gen. J. F. B. Marshall, :— of the civilizing work in that country has been an important element in the direction and result ol the efforts at this institution." It is surely something of an honor that an effort to educate Hawaiians, should have_ suggested the founding and establishment of the most successful institute in the United States, for educating the colored race. We find the following note in Harper's Weekly, July 13th : 41 The good work which General Armstrong has been carrying forward in the education of freedmen at Hampton, Virginia, still prospers. During the past school year 332 pupils have been in attendance. The graduating class numbered fifty-seven. In the year the students earned by their own labor on the farm and in shop $12,236. The printing-office shows a cash balance of $326. The farm has all the necessary appurtenances —stables, a large barn, smith-shop, etc. The youne men are taught the lessons of industry and self-reliance. The Institute is under the care of the American Missionary Association, but owes its prosperity largely to the enthusiasm and tact of General Armstrong, the principal. His manliness and his entire self-abnegation have won for him the esteem of the people of East Virginia, and as a consequence " Hampton is popular in all the surrounding region." " A schoolmaster, who had an inveterate hnbit of talking to himself, was asked what motive he could have in so doing. He replied that he had two good and substantial reasons. In the first plnce he liked to talk to a sensible man ; in the next place he liked to hear a sensible man talk. Mr. Bret Harte, the author, who has been an applicant for office underthe present Administration, has at last been promised the commercial agency at Crefeld,Germany, which pays about $3,000 a year. He was a candidate for the Chinese mission. A novel feature of the Yale Law School graduation was a Master's oration by a Japanese student on " The Japanese as comwith the Roman Family," by Kazou liura, LL. 8., of Tokio, Japan. Mr. Miura is a graduate of Columbia College. Sared �18 78. 67 THE FRIEND, AUGUST, Places of Worship. SAILORS'. HOME! Seamkn's Bktiiki.—Rev. S. C. Damon, Chaplain, DRS. T. P, k C. L. TISDALE, Kino; hired, near tbe Sailors' Home. Preaching OITICBAND RF.Sat 11 a.m. Scats free. Sabbath School before tbe IDENCK Beretania Street, between Fort Street Church morning service. Prayer meeting on Wednesday •and Quern KinmiiV evenings at 11, o'clock. 17 One of the Doctor* may be found In the nfl.ee it til timet. calls will receive prompt attention bulb night Fort Street Church—Rev. W. Frear. Pastor, amiFntfvisional mh3u dtur. corner of Fort and Beretania streets. Preaching nn Sundays at 11 a. v. and 7£ r. M. Sabbath lIIMIIIHK, 1.. ~V~ School lit 10 A. 11. a I'iuua-Karli' Tinirr Si Krfairrr, many /ears counecleri with Clilckeriiig at ouua.) Kawauhao Church—Rev. H. H. Parker. Pastor, IT (for Otitis left, at the Pallors' Home ur Whuuey at Kooortson'a Uookalore. King street, above the Palace. Services in Hawaiian every Sunday at 94 a. M. and 3 P. m. Roman Catholic Church—Under the charge of ■ M. DAVIDSON. Rt. Rev. Bishop Maigret. assisted by Rev. Faiher Allonu'T al l.nw. Hermann ; Fort street, near Beretaaia. Services every Sunday at 10 A. M. and 2 P. M. OlBceover Mr. Whitney's liook.etore, formerly occupied by de.18711 Kaumakapii.i Ciiukch—Rev. M. Kiniea. Pastor, Judge Austin. Honolulu. H.J. Beretania street, near Niinann. Services in HaIRWIN Si CO.. \WT G waiian every Sunday at HI a. m. and 2£ p. m. The Axui.ican Church—Bishop, the Rt. Rev. AlCommission Merchants, Officers' Table, with lodging, per week, $6 fred Willis. D. I). ; Clergy. Rev. Rob't Dunn, M. A., Plantation and Insurance Agents, Honolulu, 11. I. 6 Seamen's do. do. do. Rev. Alex. Mackintosh, St. Andrew's Temporary Cathedral, Beretania street, opposite the Hotel. Shower Baths on the Premises. English services on Sundays at li£ and 11 a. m.. and | i:« Kits At DICKSON, ED. IM'NSI 'OMBE, 24 and 7J P. m. Sunday School at tbe Clergy Dealers'in Lumber and Building Materials, Manager. House at 10 a. m. Honlulu, January 1, 1875. HOMROPATIIIKTS. Ejjfc* lßßnis^BaVlfrrV J . . . p^v . ... Fort Street, Honolulu, H. I. NOTICE TO SHIP MASTERS. DILLINGHAM & CO., Noa. So ami 97 King Street, L! M HOFFMANN, . Physician and Surgeon, IMPORTERS AND DEALERS IN CornerMerchant and rUahumsnu Streets, near the PostOßne | Si BREWER 1 CO.. KEEP A FINK ASSORTMENT OF Commission and Shipping Merchants, Goods Suitable for Trade. Honolulu, Oaliu. 11. I. MASTERS VISITING THIS PORT during tbe laat Six Yeara can testify from personal experience that tke undersigned keep the beat aaaortment of SHIP GOODS FOP* TRADE And Sell Cheapfr than any other House in the Kingdom. DILLINGHAM & CO. CASTLE & COOKIE, D., » GENERAL MERCHANDISE! AGENTS OF REGULAR Packets, TMIK UnionMarina The ADAMS. P. Auction and Commission Merchant, Fire-Proof Store, in Robinson 4! Building, Queen Street. S. JOHN MoOREW. M. D . Late Surgeon Y. S. Army, Can be consulted at hla residence on Hotel street, between Alakes and Fort streets. TheKohala Sugar Company, TbeHaiku Sugar Company, TheHamakua Sugar Company, The WaUiua Sugar Plantation, TheWheeler A Wilton Sewing Machine Company, Dr. Jayne ft Sons Celebrated Family Medicines. HAWAIIAN HONOLULU. DRAW KXCUAMIiS ON — AW. A. Is. 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Glass and tf BISHOP fc 00., BANKERS, PEIRCB King'e Combination Spectacles, PORTLAND LINE Of New Kng-Unt. Mutual Ufa Insurance Company, Insurance Company, Sau Irauciecu, ISLANDS. A«D TBBIB BBABOIBB IB llaaajkaag. — Syelary, and Melkaarae. ap3oly And Tranaaot a Oenaral Banking Bnimaaa. Just; Received from Boston! A ND FOR HA LB AT COST PRICE AT J\ the Rlhla Drposllorv, Sailor's Home, a far copies of Ihe Mlowing valuable books i Grace and Tratk of In. W. P. Maekay by D L Mood/ Wondrous Lova " " Various Addresses Dorothea Trudal or The Prayer of faith by Mra Anna Shlpton Tell Jesus Cotlaaeon the Hock " " Asked of Und 44 Promise and fromner by Ear J Denham Smith Various Aildres.es by Bey J Macpharaao TheOhrl.tian Hero Ouraelves *T Brownlosr North YeiorNo . A Blackwood by 8 "., Hhadow and Huhstance Triumph of Faith ** by B W gtolteau TheSoul and Its DlSlcultlee by Rev-William Basal TbeBlood of Jesus Also, a variety of small Books by ths above Bathers, " " " " •" "TBE FRIEND," JOURNAL DIVOTID TO Temperance, Seaman. Marina and Oenaral I. telllfaooa AMONTHLV PUBLISHED AND EDITED BY SAMUEL O. DAMON. TERMS: One Copy per annum Two Copies per annum Foreign Subscribers, Including poetare ■ 00 S.SO ». M �YCMhoeriusntnH Aa'gocf onolulu. • Pure religion and undefiled before God, the Father, is this : To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep one's self unspottedfrom the world. 68 a German missionary, because so many Edited by a Committee* of the V, M, C. A. Chinese Correspondence.— For some of of the Christian were instructed GC/r The following hymn was composed by T. C. MarDowell. Esq., editor of the Hawaiidn Gazette. It was originally printed, with appropriate music, by H. C. Urth, and published in Philadelphia. The publication was dedicated to Messrs. Moody and Sankey, and repeatedly sung hy them in their Revival meetings : CLING TO THE CROBN, RINNKK Cling to the rroa*, slimer, cling to the OOM, It miint be a benefit,—can't be a lo** While Jenua,your Captain, whose voice nf111M the wave, U ready and willing the dinner to nave. 'TiH .I('wuh invite* you to come and be clean. To waah In hla blood,—a (tweet Lethean stream. In whichall who wind, are fully set free ; <>, come to the fountain ; tin open for thee. Bring all your burdenh, no matter how great; Com* now, he Invite* you, 'tin fatal to wait; The aeaaon may paa*, and tbe night with It* gloom May mini) your laat hope in the pltUe** tomb. Tula earth, with Its treasure*, can never mifflic The loula of Immortal*; then pau*e andbe wine. While angela are singing sweet anthem* of pralxe • In coronal chant to the Ancient of Pay*. " Immauuel—CWkl with v*,"—ever the Maine, Saviour.—how precluu* the name To those who in faith can look upward, and prove Tbe power and the patho* of Inilntte loveI A Ufe-glvlng Then cling to tbe crotia, dinner, cling to the crons. It muat be a benefit,—can't be a loa*. While Jesuit, your Captain, whose voice etlll'd the wave, Is ready and willing the nlnner to nave. Hawaiians Abroad. Among our islanders abroad, we rejoice that Professor Alexander and his brother have started upon their trip around the world. While absent, we trust the Professor may enjoy the opportunity of meeting some of the eminent European scholars who are interested in the study of the dialects of the great and widespread Polynesian language. Professor Alexander is the highest authority on linguistic questions. We doubt not he will meet Captain Tupman in Lon- don, who visited our Islands at the time of the transit of Venus. We have good authority for stating that the labor of Professor Alexander and his associates, Mr. Lyons and others, in their trigonometrical survey of these Islands, is a work of the highest value and importance, and is now being executed in a manner most creditable to their ability as mathematicians and scholars. On board tbe next steamer, we learn that E. Bailey, Esq., will sail for the United States, having in mind to publish a work on the Micronesian Islands. It is certainly most gratifying that we have gentlemen of scientific and literary ability who are thus looking forward to authorship, months there have been repeated allusions in our Island weeklies to unfavorable reports which have gone to China, and which have led the Chinese authorities to forbid ihe emigration of Chinese laborers to these Islands. The question is asked, ' Who could have sent these letters ?" The point to which we would call attention is this The English reading public, perhaps, would be surprised to learn the amount of correspondence and interchange of letters which is now carried forward between the Hawaiian Islands and China. The Chinese are a reading and writing people. From some facts which have come to our knowledge, we are confident that the people of China are much better informed respecting our Islands tha.n we imagine. Most certainly those Chinese residing here keep their friends fully informed respecting the treatment which their countrymen are receiving here and in California—both good and bad. We think from most of the plantations ttie most favorable reports go to China; but where the treatment is not good, depend upon it the most full reports are made in China. This is a point to which the Boerd of Immigration would do well to direct attention. If the Board or the Government is made acquainted with the fact that laborers are not properly treated on any particular plantation, then the matter should be thoroughly investigated. It will readily .appear how important it is that our Islands should keep untarnished and unsullied their good name. " A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches." Wt must keep our good name. The Chinese know when they are well treated, and if they are not so treated it is very certain they will inform their friends in China,/ 4 : "Kou Akao," writes the Rev. Mr. Bond, of Kohala, under date of July 26th, " is doing well, and 1 like him much, so far, and the spirit he manifests. But we are far apart as to communication in any degree satisfactory. How I long to see somebody who can act as a medium for a thorough talk between us. From 40 to 50, I think, is the number of his Sabbath service. On Wednesday we meet together; 20 to 30 Chinese usually attend." [These remarks of the Rev. Mr. Bond indicate just what is now much needed on the Hawaiian Islands—an American or German missionary who can communicate with the Chinese in their own language. We speak Chinese by the Basle missionaries in China. .Report snys the Christian Chinese held religious services among themselves on the Haiku plantation.—Eu. Friend] For papers sent for distribution, Chaplain Roue, of U. S. S. Pensacola, writes us to thank Mrs. H. A. P. Carter for her contribution of files of newspapers for the reading on shipboard. This reminds us that Mr. Dunscombe's supply of good reading matter lor seamen and strangers visiting Honolulu is getting rather low. Copies and files of Independent, Christian Union, Advance, Evanyelist, Harper's Monthly, and other standard periodicals are always welcome for distribution. We clip the following from the Advance, of July 4: "Rev. W. B. Oleson, late of Gambier, has accepted an invitation to take charge of the academy at Hilo, Sandwich Islands, which was formerly under the care of the American Board. His health has improved materially during his rest from pastoral labor, and he starts for his new post after a few weeks' visit with friends in New England." The American papers publish exultingly the honors conferred upon the American exhibitors at the Paris Exposition but, according to our way of thinking, the following paragraph from the London Nineteenth Century for June, 1878, places a wreath upon the brow of the educators in America, which is a compliment of the very.highest description. It is a complimentary admission which we should have hardly expected from the pen of a German, published in an English periodical. Dr. Charles Waldstein thus writes : : "In German schools great attention is given to the education of.the intellect, but the forming of the character is sorely neglected. Nay, it is not only neglected,— much is done positively to spoil the character. Entire submission, as well in thought as action, is exacted. Hence springs a habit of dissimulation, trickery, or tale-telling while in the master's presence, ridicule and bravado behind his back. The idea of gentleman,' which has worked so well with 4the little boys in American public schools, is totally unknown. Much has been said as to German schools, and they have been constantly held up to the world as models ; but though this high opinion is no doubt justified in the department of learning, yet we cannot hold it as regards the formation of character. In this respect the system of American public schools is certainly better." � 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 (1878) 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 - 1878.08.01 - Newspaper Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1878.08.01