https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/ed0e9612841b75d9c090c5a0129767a3.pdf 07b5f77fb9557619e35882603d33d31d PDF Text Text F THE RIEND 110 NOLI LI. DECEMBER 2, 1878. $cto Series, M. 27, gf. 12.} CONTENTS -Tar llrrrsaWr 2, 187 8. End of Volume 35 Meetinß of the American Hoard of Missions Prof. Hjalmar Boyesen of Cornell University Rambles In the Old World Japan President Hayes' Proclamation Marine Journal TlianksßlvinK Hymn Letter ofPrince Bismarck to his Wife Y. M.C. A PAOK 9.1 93 93 93—1X1 96 9fi 97 98 98 100 THE FRIEND. DECEMBER. 2. 1878. — End of the Thirty-fifth Volume. With this number, we close another year of the Friend. As our subscribers have enjoyed the reading of our little sheet for the past twelve months, we would respectfully request that they promptly settle their bills when presented by the carrier or through the mail. If any errors are made in making out the same, they will be immediately corrected when made known to the publisher. Another volume will commence January Ist, 1879.—We wish you all a Merry Christmas. Meeting of the American Board of Missions.—The Annual Meeting of the Board took place this year' at the beautiful city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on Lake Michigan. This is one of the most elegant ' cities of the West, containing 125,000 inhabitants. The friends of Missions from various parts of the country were most royally welcomed and entertained during the meeting. We find full reports of the meeting in the various religious papers, while that of the Advance now lies before us. We have read with interest the able Report of Dr. Clark on"The Gospel in the Ottoman Empire."—The Annual Sermon was preached by Dr. H. H. Jerrup, Beyrout, Syria, in place of Dr. Manning, of Boston, who waa detained away by arickness. The receipts of the Board during the year were $482,204,73, while the expenditures of the Board amounted to 5438,757,04. Besides, after carrying forward the extensive operations, the society has paid off a debt of Professor Hjalmar Boyesen, of Cornell University. Our Berlin correspondent thus alludes to this distinguished professor, under date of October 6th : " Since returning to Berlin I have met most pleasantly young Prof. Hjalmar Boyesen, professor at Cornell and the well known novelist and author, and his beautiful young bride from New York. He has achieved a most remarkable literary reputation for a young man. He is a Norwegian only thirty years of age; came to America when he was twenty, and two years afterwards wrote in the most beautiful English a novel of Norwegian life,—Gunnar,—which has had a wide popularity. He has written much since. A work of his on Goethe and Schiller is shortly to appear. Notice a novel of his 'Falconberg' now appearing in 'Scribner's.' He is now traveling—writing up the European Universities for ' Scribner's.' His first article will be on the Berlin University. His early ho*e was on the Logne Fjord, near Bergen. It has been most pleasant for me to talk with him about Norway." Dean Stanley, now traveling in the United States, formerly remarked " in an address at the unveiling of the Bunyan statue, that there were only two prose works of universal popularity in all English literature, the Pilgrim's Progress, written by a Baptist preacher, a Nonconformist, and Robinson Crusoe, by a Presbyterian journalist, and a Dissenter. Macauley said that the seventeenth century produced only two men of original genius, John Milton and John Bunyan." Rev. W. Frear, Pastor of Fort Street Church, returned from a visit to the Eastern States by the last month's steamer from San Francisco. He has resumed his pastoral duties with renewed health. It is said that within the last year $47,000. We regret our limits will not allow us to give the report, in full, of the Queen Victoria has given $25,000 to the temperance cause. Board's Annual Meeting and operations. 93 {©li Series, gal. 35. RAMBLES IN THE OLD WORLD-No. 23 A Few Weeks In SeandinarU—No. I. August 15th.—Copenhagen strikes the visitor at first sight most pleasantly. It is a bright, animated city lying on the Island of Zealand, on the Sound, which at this point forms a fine harbor. In Danish the capital is written thus, Kjobenhaun. Owing to its fine situation, it has long been a great commercial town, its history running back through centuries. It would be scarcely possible here to enter into anything like an account of its varied history, but will mention in passing two events in its later history from which the capital suffered most severely. The city was bombarded by the English fleet in 1807 and greatly injured. The Danish fleet was also captured by the English, a loss which was a great impediment to the progress of Denmark. Now, however, the city is in a flourishing condition, and presents a fine appearance. The street running from our hotel brought us directly to the largest public place of the city, Kongens Nytoro. It is a splendid open Place, with streets running from it in all directions, and surrounded by hotels, public buildings, stores, etc. In the center is a little grove of trees, and groups of shrubs and flowers, surrounding an equestrian statue of Christian Y. Here is also the beautiful Royal Theater, with its fine bronze statues. Proceeding farther, we came to the noble building, the Palace of Christiansborg, properly the Royal Palace of Denmark, though the King now resides in the Palace Amalienborg, in another part of the city. The Crown Prince lives in a palace near his father. The Rosenborg is still another Royal Palace, surrounded by a most beautiful park. The King and Qecn were visiting their daughter, the Princess of Wales, in the Isle of Wight, justat the time we chanced to be in Copenhagen, so that we did not get a sight at them. Passing palaces, statues, along the canal, which runs up into the town, my walk brought me to the market, where the people were busily at work. The women all wear handkerchiefs over their heads and knotted under the chin. This seems to be the universal custom for working women in Scandanavia, and sometimes it has a very picturesque effect. Tbey are generally of black silk, sometimes of colored silk or cloth. One �94 THK rft 11H •, DECEMBER. could hardly ask for a trimmer, neater sight than that which a rosy-faced, modest-eyed northern girl offers, looking out from this simple black head-dress, which shows off nicely by contrast with the smoothly brushed brown or blond hair. One should never fail to visit the markets in coming to Europe. In coming to a new cily the market is one of the first places to which I go. Here you see more of the people than you can in any other place in the city. All are busily talking and bargaining. Ladies come with their servants to make purchases, and country men and women jostle them in the most pleasantly unceremonious manner. The strawberry season is a delightful time to be in Copenhagen. The fruit is brought in great quantities from the neighboring country, and Copenhagen " strawberries and cream" are famous. THE THORVALDSEN MUSEUM. Never have I been so impressed with the power which one master mind, one great creative imagination, may exert over a city and people as 1 have been in seeing something of the influence of the greatest sculptor of modern times, Thorvaldsen, in the city where he lies buried. To-day the chief glory of Copenhagen are the noble sculptures which he left as a heritage to the city which loved and still loves to do him honor. The Museum, where most of his works are deposited, is one of the most interesting places in Europe. It is at once the treasure-house of his works and the tomb of the sculptor. It is a low building, two stories only in hight, encircling a court, where is the grave of Thorvaldsen. The building is itself in the style of an ancient tomb, ornamented with frescoes in dark colors on a deep yellow background. In the court in the center is the grave of the sculptor. It is a most singularly impressive spot. The grave is overgrown with ivy and unmarked by any stone. There is no need ot any epitaph. The encircling rooms, with their treasures, the fruits ef his genius, speak his praise as no human words could do. Above is the blue dome of the northern sky, about him the solemn walls of the tomb, over him the mantle of clustering ivy. Thorvaldsen died in 1844, then an old man, honored and revered by the Danish nation and the world, and in Copenhagen watched over and cherished by King and people as few men have been in our own or any other day. It would be impossible here to give an account of the treasures which are here to be found. The first floor of the Museum is entirely devoted to his works, in marble or plaster. No other rival hand is here to contend with his, if, indeed, one could be found so bold. Here the master reigns supreme. You pass through room after room devoted to his works. Here are the originals of so many of those exquisite statues and medallions with which the world has grown so familiar. He seems to have spiritualized Greek thought with a power which, to me, was most striking. His many Homeric studies are beautiful beyond words. Here you see the originals of those works which have found a place in so many thousands of homes. I can remember them as a boy in ourfar-away Islands. " Night," with the dreaminess and hush of the stillwatches" over it; •« Morning," with the " freshness of the day-spring, the scattered flowers, and the awakening to life and hope. Then here, too, are the " Seasons," ofwhich I remember " Autumn" especially with the standing grain. You see the copies of his grand " Christ" and the Apostles," which stand in one of the churches of the city, and of which I shall speak presently, in the second story of the Museum are works of the sculptor, but especially the pictures which formerly belonged to him, and now the property of the city. 1 was especially struck by tbe collection of worksin plaster, which were the first models of the statues which were afterwards carved in marble. It was fascinating, feeling that you had here before you tangibly the first thought as it came from the mind and heart of the artist. Some of them were rough and jagged, fashioned roughly, with the quickness of inspiration. But how intensely suggestive ! It was the materialization of imagination, the expression of the artist's dreams in form ! One or two rooms are devoted to relics of this sculptor—articles which he had used; pictures of his home-life; his books; Homer in many languages; the last works upon which he had been engaged. On the last day of his life, I think, he busied himself with the bust of Luther, which he never completed. It is pleasant to think that such a grand hand was occupied with such a grand work. His death rame suddenly and unexpectedly. He had gone one evening to the opera or theater, and sat quietly waiting for the beginning of the play, and suddenly, so quietly that those sitting near thought he had fainted, the great heart ceased to beat, and the artist's work for this world was done. The music ceased and all over the house echoed the cry, " Thorvaldsen is dead." In his death he has been honored as in his life, and other generations will but add to the laurels with which he has already been crowned. Never can one feel the fullness of a genuine enthusiasm for him until he visits the city where he lived, labored, and died. One cannot go out into life again, after having gazed in earnestness upon some of his grander works, without feeling that he has' been lifted into a nobler, purer atmosphere. Not far away from the Museum stands the old palace of the Crown Prince, containing various collections, all of them valuable; one, however, especially worthy of note, the finest of its kind in the world, the " Museum of Northern Antiquities," a place where one might occupy himself for days with profit. The collections run far back into prehistoric times, to the ancient people who lived in the North, especially in Denmark, and embraces the Stone, the Bronze, and the Iron Periods, and the Middle Age and Renaissance epochs. For a traveler and student in this part of the world, they are of immense importance. Here you see the first dawn of civilization, taken by these rough stone instruments, to a time of which otherwise we know nothing. Here are mysterious stones with their " runes" and inscriptions; articles recalling the wild, fierce days of the Vikings; relics from Pagan and early Christian days —a strangely suggestive collection. The old " palace encircles quiet courts with shadowy trees. One I noticed, a fruited mulberry tree, almost looked in at the window, where some of these reminders of a vanished past 1878. are gathered, and the flooding sunlight of the summer's morning, made them seem strangely ghostly and out of place in our day. A DANISH FETE. The Danes seem as fond of out-door sum- mer amusements as the Germans, and in Stockholm it is quite the same thing. On summer evenings the city seems to be one succession of crowded, illuminated gardens with bands of music. In Norway, this is less the case. Here in Copenhagen there is a garden famous all over Europe for its beauty and attractiveness, Tivoli, where all Copenhagen, old and young, resort in the summer. We were fortunate this evening in seeing it in its full glory, together with such a gathering of the Danish people as is rarely seen. It was the thirty-fifth anniversary in the history of the garden, and those who have it in charge did everything in their power to celebrate the day in as brilliant a manner as possible. It was really very fine, the illuminations being something beyond my poor powers of description. We went just a little while before sunset, in order to see as much as possible. The gardens lie within easy reach of the town, and the entrance fee is so moderate that all classes can afford to go, so that it is peculiarly a garden for the people. These gardens, so common in Europe, are almost unknown in America. When rightly managed they can be made most useful for the middle and working classes'. Here families meet after the work of the day, little social groups gather quietly about their coffee, or beer, or ' ices; and under the trees and amid the perfume of flowers in soft, beautiful summer evenings, listen to the music of the bands. It is a most healthful, simple and rational recreation and amusement. But to this particular evening. When we arrived, early as it was, crowds had already begun to gather. Towards the close of the evening there must have been thousandsof people in the gardens. It was a little Denmark, all ranks and classes, merchants, soldiers, professional men, peasants, the women with their trim headdresses, little family groups, the parents leading the children, all ages, nil manner of dresses, all full of merriment and enjoyment. It was one of the happiest, quietest crowds I ever saw. The gardens are arranged in exquisite taste, with ponds of water, lovely arbors, buried half out of sight by clustering vines, with brilliant groupings of flowers and shrubbery on smooth, shorn lawns. As the sunlight faded away, and the throng began to increase, the lights and transparencies appeared on all sides. It is no mere use of hackneyed words to speak of it as an enchanted, a fairy-land. It was so, if all that human art, united with the loveliness of nature, can produce effects worthy of such names. There was an artistic refinement, a blending of brilliancy with a delicate perception of the harmonies of light and color, such as I have never seen in my life before. It was a radiant world of jeweled and fiery gleams, the brief but perfect representation of some dream of Oriental splendor. I should not venture to say how many light* there perhaps teni of thousands. In the shadows of the trees, in the topmost be*ghs, hung globe-shaped lanterns of different colore, looking like great, glorious bios* were, thousands, �95 THE FRIEND, DECEMBER, 18 78. soms. The flower-beds were thickly sown with colored lights. Over the great groupings of flowers on the lawns were placed reflectors with lights hidden within, which illuminated the brilliant blossoming beds. On the lake floated a ship of flame, being perfectly formed of colored lights.. Long avenues of arches hung with lights in red, in blue, in green, in white, stretched away in all directions. A " Labyrinth," one of the sights of the garden, where you may, in broad day-light, wander long in vain, seeking some clue to its windings through the leafy arbors, became doubly mysterious at night. At every turn, long vistas of gas jets, stretching off endlessly, faced you. Revolving lights, melting from blue to purple, to crimson, to yellow, met and dazzled you. At one point, the wonderful whiteness of the electric light, of which, just now, so much is being said, illuminated the faces of the crowd beneath. A great palace-like building, with fantastic architecture, flashed out inio the night, from base to roof, one mass of colored light. Here too, but it were useless to weary you with mere words which can convey so little idea of the reality. Towards the close of the evening, there was, to all this added, a display of fireworks, of the finest and most brilliant kind. There was enough to entertairt the people; shows, pantomimes, and music of all kinds. In one part of the garden they were amusing themselves with a wild kind of sport. The first time you engage in it with something of fear and trembling, certainly with some curiosity to know how it will turn out. I never saw it anywhere but here in Denmark. Great wooden buildings are constructed with towers at either end, between them pass a bridge, as it were, of wood, made with elevations and depressions all along its length. You take your seat with some friend in a car or carriage, at one of the towers, sitting securely and comfortably, n man, standing behind, gives your car a push and offyou go over the undulating track, which is laid with rails. Nothing could be wilder or more exciting. You go like the wind, out into space, you scarcely know where; now up. now down, whirling away as if some wild spirit were drawing you. Then almost before you have time to think, your carriage stops peacefully in the opposite tower, and your wild " Tarn O'Shanter " ride is over. We went once, then again, and 1 don't know when we should have stopped, if there had not been so much else to see. From the crowds that kept going all the evening, I should judge it was a very favorite pastime here. You might have had your pick of music at this Tivoli Fete. Bands were playing on all sides, some discoursing most excellent music, in a crowded pavilion, Edward Strauss, from Vienna, was leading the orchestra; filling the air with the brilliant melodies which he and his brother have sent all over the world. But now we must be getting home for to-morrow, we have something very pleasant in view, namely: AN EXCURSION TO THE CASTLE OF ELSINORE. August 16th. If you are in an incredulous frame of mind this lovely, sun-lit morning, I can scarcely think you will wish to accompany us on the trip which we take to-day. If on the contrary you are ready to believe all things, or at least are willing to put something of a solid foundation beneath the creations of a poet's brain, then come with us to the old Castle of Elsinore, where we wish to believe the Melancholy Dane, Prince Hamlet, once lived. 1 rather like, the naive way in which my German Guide Book puts it, " If ever there existed a Prince Hamlet, outside of the poet's imagination, he lived in Jutland and died and is buried there." We will not stop to think now what historical sources, or authority Shakespeare had for his immortal play, but leave this to the commentators and critics, satisfying ourselves with the pleasant thought that in some inexplicable way legend or tradition has associated Hamlet's name with this old castle by the sea. There are two ways of reaching the castle which lies about two hours from Copenhagen, either by boat or rail. We were obliged owing to the lateness of the hour in the morning, to take the latter, though the sail up the sound along the green shore of Denmark in summer time, is very delightful. Our way lay through pleasant, farming lands, very fertile in this region, diversified by wood-land. Several Royal residences lie not far away from the road, said to be well worth the visit if one has the time. But our thoughts were rather with royal Ghosts of the past than living realities. The little town of Helsingoer, as it is called in Danish, lies directly on the sea. Here we had our dinner and discussed Shakespearian characters. The town itself is a queer little place, with narrow streets, and has an eminently plain and proper book. The castle lies just beyond the town on a little point, bending out towards the sea. You reach it by a shadowy, tree covered avenue, with a great plain on one side, where on the day of our visit a company of Danish soldiers were engaged in target practice, having their white tents pitched on the green turf. You pass the draw-bridge and double moat and pass, then the gate, with no one to impede your way. A Danish soldier paces before the entrance, but has no word for us. The castle was built some centuries since; is a fine large building with towers and turrets, surrounding a large paved court. It appears now to be used by the Government for soldiers—barracks, soldiers were to be seen on every hand. There is a legehd connected with the place, namely, that the deliverer of Denmark sleeps beneath the castle and in the time of Denmark's need will arise in her defense. Before the castle, which by the way is splendidly placed at the entrance to the sound, is a grassy platform reaching nearly from the castle to the sea whereon cannon are planted. And now let us give free play to our imagination, we will live the grand old play over again. How wonderfully every scene fits! Certainly the coincidences of the poet's fancy and the bare realities w| have about us are striking. We sit down on the grassy platform, grown sear and withered under the August sun. Our little volume of " Hamlet " seems almost to open of itself. Here is Elsinore, here is a platform before the castle. Here, certainly (away with unbelief) it must have been that the uneasy spirit of the murdered king walking. "In (he dead vast and middle of the night," —unfolded to the awestruck prince the mystery of his death and roused the son's heart to avenge the Father's wrong. If it all seems so real here under the genial summer sunlight, how much more so. must it seem in winter's midnight, in the nipping and eager air," with the wind blowing fiercely down from the channel of the north, and the storm clouds driving over head. A little old lady, a most praiseworthy guide who doesn't distract us with too many remarks comes to show us over the few rooms of the castle, which are shown to visitors. There area numberofthem filled withremarkably poor pictures, but the rooms themselves are interesting, or the indescribable spell which in some way seems to hover over this place renders them so. Here is a charming little room in one of the towers, looking off to the sea. Here are rooms and apartments enough for all the lords and ladies of the Danish Court of the past or present. The Knight's Hall which still retains some faded traces of its former splendor, was just the place for the players to perform in before the guilty King and Queen. At one end fancy the mimic stage, facing it the Royal Com- " pany. Here at this side Hamlet lying at Ophelia's feet; beyond in this narrow passage, poor old inquisitive Polonius may have fallen stabbed behind the arras. How it brings them all back, the villain King, stained with his brother's blood, bearing about under the purple, the sting of an endless remorse, the sinning Queen, forced to read her sin in her son's words of accusation and up-braiding—Hamlet, " th' expectancy and rose of the fair state;" Opl\»-lia, with her garlands of flowers and plaintive mad songs : "Polonius, Laertes, Horatio, Roeencrantz, Guildenstern." We go across the court to the castle chapel which is interesting for its carved woodwork, elaborately and oddly celored in various shades. Beyond this is the long stair-case when we ascend to the lofty tower. The view from this height is especially fine. On one side the mainland of Denmark green and fair, with rising wooded land, dotted with houses, and great windmills stretching their awkward, useful arms out into the air. On the other the bright glittering sweep of the sea, and just beyond the Swedish coast with the Swedish town ofHelsinborg. Here the two countries come very near together. Hundreds and thousands of ships pass here, and at times tbe sound is all alive with sails. My practical friend is very patient with my mania for procuring souvenirs. But I really must have some sprays from, the willows by the moat. Do you remember when the Queen says : There la a willow growsaslant a brook "That ahowahis hoar leaves In the glaaey stream," ate. At least no one can complain if I do gather a few. I was shown in Wittenberg the house where Hamlet is said to have lodged when he was attending the University there. But here at Helsingoer they surpass tbat. You pay a fee to go and see Hamlet's grave! I wonder that no one keeps the ghost of Hamlet's father on exhibition. The " grave " is marked by a circular heaps of stones, from which rises a stone shaft of a few feet in height. You are paid for your visit to the grave, for the view from the terrace where it lies over the sea, is fine. �96 111 X FRIEND, DECIM B E R. 1878. On our return to the town we passed an old Japan. church-yard where the ghastly jokes of the clowns—would have fitted well, and hurried We have received an interesting letter down to the railway. " Till Kjobenhavn," from the Rev. S. R. Brown, who has shouts tbe conductor, the car doors are been a missionary in Japan for nineteen closed, and we are whiVled off in the night to the Capital, leaving the old castle to its jsears. He refers to the rapid changes going forward in education, dress, habits, customs dreams. and religion. "Buddhism has been deserted A SUNDAY IN DENMARK. the Government as a national religion, August 18. The Church of Scandinavia by the support of the Mikado's govreceiving is Lutheran, and the people are eminently church-goers. You find the churches crowd- ernment, but Shintoism, which is scarcely ed. At another time I may be able to write more than an indigeneous worship of ancessomething in reference to the forms and cer- tors, has-been put in the place of the former emonials, etc., but now I must speak in a intervery few words of a church where we have established religion." Those who are attended service this morning. It is the ested in the work of mission, ought to look principal church of the city, and we found it at the difficulties that lie in their way." * crowded. The service was long, the music I will add that our Protestant Translation fine—some of the responses, chanted by the Committee have published about two-thirds choir were beautifully rendered. The clerand we hope in about twelve gyman wore a black gown with wide, full of the Bible, months to complete it." ruff. He spoke with great energy, but unfortunately in a strange tongue to us. The We have also received a letter from Rev. church itself is no way striking,—quiet and O. Gulick, under date of July 27th, givH. simple and appropriate. But here are placed some of the finest works by the master-hand ing interesting account of his missionary of Thorwaldsen. They are alone worth a work, but particularly of his editorial labors, visit to the city. On the porch of the church in publishing a monthly, circulating 1,000 is his ma Me freize, " John the Baptist from Nagasaki on the South to Hakodadi on preaching in the Wilderness," near the en- the North. Mr. Gulick adds: trance bas-reliefs, Charity" and the "Guardian Angel," high above the altar The Japanese Government now claims on the way to the Crucifixion, and the" Bonin Islands, of which many whale"inChrist side chapels "The Baptism of Christ" ships touched in former years, lying 600 or and the Sacrament," all of these are most 700 miles S. E. from Yokohama. The beautiful. But the chief interest centers Government has sent down a few settlers, about the grand and impressive figure of and send a steamer down once in three " The Risen Christ," which occupies the months. Two sons of Mr. Webb, the one place where generally the altar picture is man on the Bonin islands, who can read placed. I know of nothing in all the range and write, have just come to Kobe, to be inof Christian art so noble, so marked by mates of the household of Mr. Foss, our power and dignity, and yet so wondrously neighbor of the S. P. G. Society. The lads tender and* beautiful as this. Looking from are 11 and 14 years of age. Bright and the body of the church the effect is striking. intelligent, speaking English well. They The grand figure stands, raised above the say all the children speak English and only hushed multitude, the hands outstretched as English. The population is less than 100 " if in blessing, the head bending slightly downwards. The long flowing hair falls in Yale College.—The following correspondence ample fullness on 'the shoulders. Over one recently look place between a shoulder and the body hang the graceful Southern father and a gentleman of the facrobe, falling away draperies of a mantel or from the pierced side. The marble seems ulty of Vale college. South Carolina, animated by a kingly, a divine presence, the Prof. : Dear Sir—My son informs lips may at any moment part in benediction. "me that he is obliged to sit next a negro day It were indeed worth a life-time of artistic effort to leave to the world one such glorious, after day, which is highly disagreeable to inspiring work as this. On the sides of the him and offensive to me. Will you please prochurch are statutes of the Apostles in white vide some differentarrangement? Yours, etc." marble, all ot heroic size, so that you look To which he received the following reply : down through the vista formed by these Esq., Dear splendid figures to the "Christ" beyond. " Vale College, New Haven. The statute of John is especially striking, Sir—Your favor is at hand, it is true that with inspired'and upturned face, on which the students are arranged alphabetically for seems reflected the radiance of the heavenly the present term, and a colored student has vision. his place next your son. But, at the com* * Williams Damon. mencement of the next term, the arrangeFfANK rn%nt will be in tbe order of scholarship, in which case the colored youth will be so near The new method of instruction in the head of the class, and your son, I regret the Boston Primary Schools does away with to say, so near the other extremity, that no further embarrassment on the formal study of grammar; lessons in com- there will beYours, The speedy that score. etc. position, in the use of capitals, in letter result was a note from a disgusted father, writing, and in the arrangement of sentences calling home a disgusted son.—American • * " " - '' * * " will take it, place. Miscellany. Following is President Hayes' proclamation, setting apart Thursday, the 28th ult., as a day of thanksgiving : By the President of the United Stales A Pro- — clamation.—Tb» recurrence ol tbat season at which it is tbe habit of our people to make devout and public confession of tbeir constant dependence upon Divine favor for all the good gifu of life and happiness, and of public peace and prosperity, exhibits in the record ol tbu year abundant reasons lor our gratitude and thanksgiving. Exuberant harvests, productive mines, ample crops of staples, the products ol trade and manufactures, have enriched the country. Th« reaonrces thus furnished to our reviving industry and expanding commerce, are hastening the day when discords and distresses through the length and breadth of tbe land will, under the continued favor of Providence, have given way to confidence and energy, and assured properity. Peace with all nations has remained unbroken, domestic tranquility has prevailed, and the institutions, liberty and .justice, which tbe wisdom and virtue of stir fathers established, remain tbe ((lory and defence of their Children. Tbe general prevalence of the blessings of health throughout our wide land has made more conspicuous tbe sufferings and sorrows which the dark shadow ol pestilence has cast upon a portion ol our people. This heavy affliction, even, the Divine ruler has tempered to sutfeiing communities in tbe universal sympathy and succor which have flowed to their relief, and tbe whole nation may rejoice in the unitj of spirit in our people, by which they cheerfully share one another's burdens. Now, therefor*, I, Rutherford 15. Hayes, President of the United Stales, do appoint Thursday, of November next, aa a day of national thanksgiving and prayer, and I earnestly recommend that, withdrawing themselves from secular cares and labors, tbe people of the United States do meet together on that day, in tbeir respective plaoes of worship, there to give thanks and praise to Almighty God for His mercies, and to devoutly beseech tbeir continuance. Io witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at tbe City of Washington, tbia 30th day of October, in the year of our Lord 1878, and of the independence of the United States the 103d. It. B. Hates, President. Wm. M. Evabts. Secretary of State. A Wedding in Oakland.—The first wedding in the beautiful chapel of the First Congregational Church, of Oakland, took place on Friday, Oct. 25th. The happy pair were Russell W hitman, of this city, and Miss Laura A., daughter of Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Merritt. The officiatine clergymen were the father nnd Rev. D. McLean, pastor of the bride. The chapel was decorated in beautiful style. The ceremony was short if not perfect. At the close, the lady friends of the bride threw open some of the foldingdoors, and the hundred guests or more were treated to ice-cream, lemonade, cake, and a merry, happy time. May blersings of courage, patience, and life-long happiness follow and rest upon the two who have commenced the long or short walk of life together.—J. H. W.—Pacific, Oct. 31. We would acknowledge "Necrological Report of Princeton Theological Seminary " for 1878; thirty-sixth Annual Report of Rush Medical College, Chicago; ''American Clinical Lectures," from H. M. Lyman, M. D., Chicago;" Chiniquy's Lectures, delivered in Protestant Hall, Sydney; papers for distribution from the family of S. N. Castle, Esq. �THE ¥11 IK X Naval.—H. B. Majesty's screw corvette Opal, 19 days and 22 hoars from Tahiti, arrived in port on Wednesday last. Her complement of officers and men is 275, tonnage 1,864, and horse power 360. Tbe following ia a list of her officers: I», DECEMBER, MARINEJOURNAL. PORT OF HONOLULU. S. I. ARRIVALS. Oct 36—HasfSchrAvatcha, Weasels, 36 days from Petro- Captain Frederick C B Robirison paulakl. Lieutenants—J H Henderson, H Z Ross, VH 8 Robertson 28—R MS 8 Zealandla,Chavalier, 21 days from Sydney and A F Graves. and Auckland. Nay. Lieutenant Geo 8 Ralph 30—Am Schr Mary Swan, Jacobson, 23 daya from San Chaplain and Naval Instructf/r Rev F J Matthews Thos 8 Burnett Francisco. Staff Surgeon Ihymaiter Ed Tiadall Nov I—Haw bk R O Wylie, Rakemann, 126 daya from Geo F Bell firemen. CM'/ Engineer Sub-Lieutenant) EM Shaw and FAS Farewell I—Am ahip Hamilton, 18 days from San Francisco. Surgeon 2—Haw brig Elise, Permien. 20 days from San FranWm E Breton Chas H A Ward Atet. Paymaster cisco. Engineers. .Thos Russell, R 8 Kiernan and W W Wootton 3—British bk Eskbsnk, from Glasgow Gunner Thoe Murray 4-Am bark Linie Marshall, Dahler, 21 daya from Boatswain Jno Robbins Port Townaend. Carpenter Jno Radford 4—Haw brig Btormbird, Jackson, 34 days from South Midshipmen—% V8 C Messum, W E Elliot, A P Stoddard Seaa. and L B Denman. P.C.A. Nov. 23. 4—Am schr Rosario, Douglass, 16 daya from San Franciaco. 4—French bark Madellenr, Pateau,46 days from Hong- . British Bark Eskbank.— The wreck of this* fine vessel on Sabbath morning, November 3d, 1878, has formed the current news for the past month. She had safely brought a cargo valued at $200,-000, and insured for $175,000, from England, 18,000 miles, until within five miles and in full view of our harbor, when she most unfortunately went on shorejaear Diamond Head, on a bright Sabbath morning as ever dawned upon the ■ Sunny Isles." Wreck of the A Naval Court of Enquiry into the causes of the lots of the British bark Eskbank on the reef near Honolulu, which occurred on the 3d of the present month, was held on Saturday last, the 23d, on board H. B. M.'c Ship Opal, Capt. Robinson, now lying in this port. The Court consisted of Capt. Robinson, as President, two Lieutenants of the Opal, and Capt. Daniel Smith, an experienced ship master, the Harbor Muster of the port. The finding of the Court was that the master of the Eskbank had shown a want of judgment in placing his ship in the position in which she was when she went ashore, and the decision was that his certificate as master mariner be suspended for one year. We learn however that the decision is not final, as the proceedings must be submitted to the Board of Trade ofLondon. —P. C. Jldvertiitr, JVov. SOth. . Information Wanted. Miss Margeret Y. Upp, No. 204 Post street. Ban Francisco, writes to the American Consul at this port requesting information concerning the whereabouts ofher father Adam Upp, a carpenter by trade, who came to Honolulu in Jadnarylast. To Whom it Mat Concern.—There now resides in Yokohama Mrs. M. J. Glbbs, formerly Mrs. J. Vsnghn, of Honolulu. Any partieß wishing for information will apply to Hawaiian Consul, L. P. Lilybrldge, Esq., of Yokohama. MARRIED. Johnson—Diceson—At Hllo, Hawaii, Oct. Bth, 1878, at the Foreign Church, by theRev. A. 0. Forbes, Mr. Henry Johnson, of Kohala, to Mrs. Isabell H. Dickson, of Hllo. No Cards. Rubcrq—Kaukamanui—ln this city, Nov. 6th, by Rev. 8. C. Damon, Walter H. Rububo to Kaukamanui, both of Honolulu. Walker—Burd—ln this city, November 16th, at St. Andrew'sCathedral,by the Rev. Alexander Mackintosh, Thomas Rain, eldest son of William Walker, of Bayfield, England, to Mary Matilda, youngest daughter of the late William liurd, of Ardwlck, Manchester, England. Jones—Mcßhahi.—ln Wailuku. Maul,Nov 16th, by the Rev Sidney Wilbur, Mr Amos P Jones, of Makawao, Maui, to Mrs Rachel Mcßhane, of Honolulu, Oahu. Newsby—Haalou—ln this city, Nov. 28th, by Rev. 8. C. Damon,Lewis Newsby to Haalou, both of Honolulu. kong. 6—P M88City of New York, Cobb, 7 days and 14 hours from Ban Francisco. 6—Am batne Joseph Perkins, Johnson, 26 daya from Port Townaend. 10—Haw brig Onward, Smithera, from Arctic. 16—Am tern Hueoeme. from Port Gamble. 17—Am bktn Discovery. Winding, 21 daya fm San Fran 20—H M 8 Opal, Robinson, 19 days from Tahiti. 81—Am bktn Klla, Brown, 18 daya from Han Francisco 22—Am bk Jenny Pitta, Slevert, dys fin Port Gamble 23—Am schr Mary Swan from Kauai 24—8el atmr Perusla, McKlrdy, from Callao 26—P MSB Oily of Sydney, Dearborn, Im Sydney 27—Am bk Herbert Black, from Portland, Oregon — DEPARTURES. • Oct. 26—Ambk H W Almy from Freeman, for SanFrancisco 27—Ger bk Priscella, Ahrena, forSan Bias. 29—X M88Zealandla, Chavalier .or San Franciaco. 29—Am schr Jos Woolley Comatock, forfiua.no Islands. Nov I—Am bk Henry Buck, Sorman, for Victoria, BC. 6—P M 8 City or New York, Cobb, for Sydney 6—Am bk D C Murray, Froat, for San Franciaco 6—Ship Hamilton, Daly, Guano Islands. 9—Haw schrKamalle, for Panning'a Island. 12—Am bktne Joaeph Perkins. Johnson, for Ft Gamble. 13—Ambktne J A Falkinburg, Hubbard, for Portland. 13—Hawschr Mana, Franck, for South Sea Islands. 14—Am bark Lluie Marshall, Dahler, for Pt Townaend. 16—Amtchr Rosario, for San Franciaco 24—Frenchbk Madeliene, Pateau. for Hongkong 25—Del atmr Perusia, McKirdy, for Hongkong 26 P M 8 8 City of Sydney, Dearborn, for Ban Fran 26—Haw brig Btormbird, Jackson, for South Sea Is 27—Am tern Hueneme, for Port Gamble 27—Am schr Mary Swan, for San Franciaco 28—Am bk Herbert Black, for Hongkong - MEMORANDA. Disastf.b Susan.—New York Pilot boat" No. 8 " fell in at sea with the wreck of a New Bedford whaler, which had just left port for a long voyage. the Susan, Out of a crew of 25 only 3 were left, one of whom the cutting through the '* bluff" of the bow pilots rescued by and taking him out of the forcastle where he had been capsized in the gale a week ago. The when the ship North Atlantic is reported full of vj-ecks by Incoming but one disaster out of many. steamers, and thisis Ship Report of R M 8 8 Zealandia, Chevalieb, Commander.—October 10th, at 3.55 p m, left Sydney and reached Auckland on the 14th, at midnight; and left again on the following day at 6.45 pm. Panned from E Into W longitude on the 17th,and crossed the Equator on the 23d, in long 166° 18'W. Sighted Dlmoud Head on the 28th, at 6 am, and received pilot at 9a m. The weather from Sydney towards Auckland fresh westerly gale, with heavy sea; experienced for two dsys afterwards northwesterly and variably winds. From Auckland to Honolulu moderate trades and fine weather throughout. R Mcdonald, Purser. Report of PMBB City of New Yore, Cobb, Comman <j< ib—Left Ban Francisco Oct 28th, at 12 m, and encountered a Btr'ong westerly gale, with high head sea, the night of Oct 31st, which lasted to the morning of the 2d Inst; since that fine clear weather, with easterly wind. Arrived off pilot ground at Honolulu, Nov 6th, at 4:30 a m. Took pilot on board at 5:56 a m, and made fastto wharf at Bring for Honolulu 60 cabinpassengers and 136 6:50 steerage, 107 of these being Chinese; 4,490 pkgs (254 tons) of cargo, 11 bags mail, and 13 pkgs of treasure—s22,o7o. am. Report of Btmr Pebusia, McKirdy, Commander.— Left Callao on the evening of Nov 4th. Fine weather and smooth sea the entire passage. The Chief Engineer of the steamer, Robert McCord, died on the morning of the 23d, just offthis port. Repobt or P M 8 8 City of Sydney, Deasbobn, Commander.—Left Sydney Nov Bth, at 8.40 a m. having been detained 18 hours by the non-arrival of the Melbourne mail for Ban Francisco. Experienced fine weather and westerly winds to North Cape, thence to Auckland variable winds. Arrived at Auckland Nov 12th, at 11 am, making the fastest passage ever made—4 days and 63 minutes from pilot to pilot. Left Auckland on the same day, at 4.16pm. Experienced fine weather and light winds to Ist 16 o N; since then strong NE gales and high tea, with heavy NW swell. 97 1878. PASSENGERS. Fob SanFiiancmoo, per H. W. Almy, Oct. 25—Catherine Engel. Fiiom Ban Fbancssco, per Nettle Merrill, Oct. 26—Ed Smltb, Carrie Smith and Geo Markhain. From Sydney and Auckland, per Zealandla, Oct. 28— Mra G Jackson and fourchildren, G Edwards, J H Houghton, and JStraw. Fob Ban Francisco, per Zealandla,Oct. 28—Co] Kitchen wife, family and nurse, T Crawford Macdowell, A Titius, C H Woolratugton, Miss B Frankel, Mrs 0 T Rodger*, T Woodhead, T \v Paul, Mrs Macanley, Col M P Robinson and wife. Win Grelg, H Mclntyre, A McWayne and wife, H Hyman, L Perrot, H Will. H E Drysdale, T B Hopkins, 0 E Lenhart, and four Chinamen. Fob GuanoIslands, per Joa Woolley, Oct 20—J Smith, JDouglas, J Patterson, J Reed, J N Earle and 14 laborers. Fboh Ban F&ancisco, per Mary Hwan, Oct. 80—8 O Brazzel, 8 N Hundley, F Williams and 8 Eaton. From Bremen, per R C Wylle, Nov, I—Reglne Koch, MetaMuller, Johanna Sohluter, H Streubock, PJeasen and ThosPeterson. Fbom Ban Francisco—Per Ellse, Nov 2—M Miller and seven Chinese. Fbom Ban Fbancisoo—Per Rosario, Nov 4—W B God. frey, F Morrisy, T J Eaenly, E Roe, Z R Myers, and T McGlffln. Fbom South Seas—Per Htorroblrd, Nov 4—128 Im- migrants. From Honokonci—Per Madeliene, Nov 4—25 Chinese laborers. Fbom San Fhancibco—Per City of New York, Nov 6— Miss Hoffmann, E Hoffmann, Rev Mr Frear, Mr Lyman, Mrs Lyman, B F Farrar and wife, Mr Welch, wife and child, F H Sutton, T H Davlea and son, Mrs J A Mix, Mrs L 8 Beckwith, Mrs 8 Skinner, Chlng On, Mlaa D Clere,C E Stone, F C Havens, Dr N B Emerson, Miss M M Bird, JudgeL McCully, and wife and the Misses Thayer, Miss C F Atherton and 2 servants, Dr O 8 Cummlngs, wife, 2 children and servant, H Hart and wife, R Nunes, Ylen Quanand wife, H Tnrton, H Schlusser, wife, 2 children and 2 servants, M Crooks, Geo Macfarlane, Dr Marvin and wife, and 136 steerage. Fob Sydney—Per City of New York, Nov 6—EDelemar, JNellie. Fob SanFrancisco—Per D C Murray, Nov 5—H Free man, Captain Weasels, Chas Eldert, James Muller, Thos Murphy, Gilbert Waller, II M Abbott, M E Abbott. Fna Guano Islands—PerHamilton, Nov 6—Twonative laborers. Fbom Ban Francisco—Per Discovery. Nov 18—ColNorrls, J D Ramsay, E Ulner, W Wenner, W R Hardy a wife, Jas Knowles, i' 11 O'Brien, 8 F Shaw, W F Martin, W T McDonald. From Ban Francisco—Per Ells, Nov 21—J D Merrett, and 14 Chinese laborers for Prlnceville Plantation.» Fbom Callao—PerStmr Peruaia, Nov 26—E Blelenherg, Ho Kal, H Hentick, FDA Masquer, and 104 passengers in transitu far China. Fob China —Per Stmr Perusla, Nov 25—Mrs M I Giblis and child, and 17 Chlneae. Fob Sab Francisco—Per City or Sydney, Nov 25—Capt C R Smlthere, Oapt B Dexter, wife and child. F 0 Havens, G X HcGuire, M Crooks, Miss A X Ncwell, Miss M Plttman, Missß L Durfee. Mrs A F Dixon, and child, M J Feria, J Schneider, W r McElnay, L A Wuilty. X Anderson, Lukal, W Kaeha, Jas Keeler, Ah Young, Sam Hlog. Fbom StDNEY-Per City of Sydney, Nov 25--Mrs Wrigler F C Button, A Brack, H Robinson, A Wilson, M Roberts wifeand child, and 28 In transitu for Ban Francisco. Fob San Fbahcisco—Per Mary Swan, Nov 27—R McKlnnon. DIED. this city, at the Queen's Hospital, October 2d, Barnard Huohes, who came a passenger from Ban Francisco about the Ist of September. He was an invalid, suffering from consumption. He reported that his mother, Mrs. Catharine Hughes, resided st 18 Eldon Place, Berkenhead, near Liverpool. He was a beneficiary of theLadles' Stranger's Friend Society. Armstrong— At Stockbrldge, Mass.. Oct. 10th, Emma Walker, wife of Gen. 8. C. Armstrong,of Hampton, Va. Brown—ln this city, on the 9th of Nov., Malcolm Bsfce Brown, eldest son of J. H. Brown, aged 7 years and 8 months. Foley—ln thla city, Nov. 11, John Foley, a native of Bandon, county of Cork, Ireland, aged 68. He had been s resident of these Islands for 30 years. * Watson—At Koolan, Oahu, Nov. 13, John Watson, a native of Wales, aged 68. ftresident of the Islands for80 years. Buttles—At the Queen's Hospital, November 17th, after an illness of six weeks, Malone E. Buttles, aged 27 years, a native of Ohio. Deceased had been s resident of these islands forabout nine months. Coloradopapers please copy. Sheldon.—ln this city, November 22d, Eveline KaleiILUHIA, youngest child of John and Amy Sheldon, aged 15 months. Athkrton.—ln this city, Nov 24th, at the residence of her sister, Mrs. Oilman, Miss Caroline F Atherton, aged 67 years, formerly of Boston, but who has, for several years, been a resident of this city. Bhejurrtved June 80, 1866. During the earlier years of her reeSenee, she was most usefully engaged in teaching, first with M. E. Beckwith, Esq., in the Vestry of Fort Street Church, and subsequently In private schools, and In that of the government. Her long experience and peculiar fitness, eminently qualified herto Instruct the young,and many sre the young people who will remember her Instruction. She was a lady of decided Christian character and earnest convictions,and for many yearswitnessed a good profession of her faith In Christ. In whatever community or society her lot waa cast, it was wellknown that her sympathies andinfluence were found on the right side. Her loss will not only be felt among her immediate family circle, but among a wide circle of friends here and elsewhere. Hughes—ln �98 THE FRIEND, DECEMBER, American National Thanksgiving Hymn. great an innovation. The writer of this notice in the Observer, Mrs. Lucy £. SanAlmighty Lord of glory! ford, claims that Mrs. Hale's perseverance Our praise to Him we bring. finally achieved the point of inducing the And chant our country's story authorities at Washington to appoint a Where God (alone ia King. National Day for Thanksgiving. This was Hit outstretched arm sustaining, first done, we believe, by President Lincoln. Behold tbe May Flower come ! Bis mercy foreordaining This hymn, which we now print, was writOur land for Freedom's home. ten by Mrs. Hale six years ago, at the age of eighty-four. Long may she live to be Though wintry darkness gathers honored and beloved. And dearth and death prevail, The faithful Pilgrim Fathers Could look within tbe veil: Oh ! joy amid tbe sadness! They're free to do and pray, And keep, in sober gladness, Tbeir first Thanksgiving Day. These seeds of faith and freedom God's Word hath wafted free ; O'or rocks outsoaring Edotn They reach tbe sunset sea, And East and West uniting, One family becomo: With North and South relighting One lamp—wi ark all at home ! Witb half of heaven above us, An ocean on each hand, We've room for all who love us And join our brother-band. Praising tbe great All-Giver, Our borne least «c display, And through the years forever Keep free Thanksgiving Day. In palace and in prison Our Festival is one, Tbe witness Christ is risen Good will lor men begun. Our hearts one hope rejoices, Our souls in concert pray, 'Mid songs of choral voices— God bless Thanksgiving Hay! The Author of the above Hymn. The author of this highly appropriate hymn is the well known writer and editor, Mrs. Sarah J. Hale, of Philadelphia, now in her ninety-first year. This and many other interesting facts relating to this venerable and pateemed writer, we learn from the New York Observer of Oct 24th. She is a native of New Port, N. H., born Oct. 24th, 178S. Left a widow in early life, and with three children depending upon her, she betook herself to successful authorship, and for half a century has been an editor,residing in Philadelphia, and for most of that period conducted the Ladies' Book. She first edited the parties' Magazine in Boston, commencing in 1827, which was merged, in 1837, into the Ladies' Book, of Philadelphia, when she removed to that city where she has continued ever since to reside. In 1846 she suggested to the President of the United States the propriety of a National Thanksgiving, but he feared it would be too Letter of Prince Bismarck, to His Wife. During the past few months, we have been receiving the successive Weekly Nos. of the London Literary World, containing, " Choice Readings from the best New Books and Critical Reviews." In the No. for October 4th, we have met with a review of Prince Bismarck's letters to his wife, his sister and others, translated from the German, and published in London. Among these letters, we copy the following addressed to his wife, the day after the ever memorable battle of Sedan: Vendresse, Sept. 3, 1870. My Dear Heart—1 left my present quarters before early dawn the day before yesterday, came back to-day, and have in the meantime witnessed ihe great battle of 1878. A powerful contrast with our last meeting in the Tuileries in '67. Our conversation was a difficult thing, if I wanted to avoid touching on topics which could not but affect painfully the man whom God's mighty hand had cast down. I had sent Oarl to fetch officers from the town, and to beg Moltke to come. We then sent one of the former to reconnoitre, and discovered, two and a-half miles off, in Fresnois, a small chateau situated in a park. Thither I accompanied him with an escort of the cuirassier regiment of life-guards, which had meantime been brought up, and there we concluded with the French generalin-chief, Wimpffen, the capitulation, by virtue of which 40 to 60,000 Frenchmen, I do not know it accurately at present, with all they possess, became our prisoners. Yesterday and tile day beforeftjost France 100,-000 men and an Emperor. This morning the latter, with all his suite, horses, and carriages, started for Wilhelmshohe, near others were below. Cassel. It is an event of great weight in the world's history, a victory for which we will humbly thank the Almighty, and which decides the war, even if we have to carry it on againsjtf'ranee shorn of her Emperor. With heartfelt joy I 1 learnt from yours and Maria's letters that Herbert has arrived among you. Bill 1 spoke to yesterday, as already telegraphed, and embraced him from horseback in his Majesty's presence, while he stood motionless in the ranks. He is very healthy and Sedan, in which we made about 30,000 happy. I saw Hans and Fritz Carl, both prisoners, and threw the remainder of the Biilows in the 2nd dragoon guards, well and French army, which we have been pursuing cheerful. Good-bye, my heart; love to the children. since Bar-le Due, into the fortress, where v. B. Your they had to surrender themselves, along with the Emperor, prisoners of war. Yesterday morning at five o'clock, after 1 had The liquor bill of Great Britain in been negotiating until one o'clock a. m. 1877 was about §750,000,000, growing with about French generals with Moltke and the the capitulation to be concluded, 1 was frightful rapidity, whije every other trade is awakened by General Reille, with whom I suffering extreme depression, and while imam acquainted, to tell me that Napoleon mense numbers of the people are without wished to speak with me. Unwashed and and almost without food and unbreakfasted, I rode towards Sedan, found employment, necessaries of life. The other absolute the Emperor in an open carriage, with three and three attendance on in in traffic Great Britain is increasing liquor aides-dc camp horseback, halted on the road before Sedan. much more rapidly than the population, I dismounted, saluted him just as politely as with all ihe tremendous evils resulting from at the Tuileries, and asked for his com- it—poverty, pauperism, suffering nnd crime mands. He wished to see the King; I told —with the enormous taxation upon the him, as the truth was, that his Majesty had community growing out of these things. his quarters fifteen miles away, at the spot where I am now writing. In answer to The New York Observer in relation Napoleon's question where he should go to, to the effect of the prohibitory law in as was not I with acquainted him, offered I own at Donchery, quarters the country, my Majne, says: small place in the neighborhood, close by In the State of Maine the poor-houses, Sedan. He accepted, and drove, accom- jails and penitentiaries are almost vacant; panied by his six Frenchmen, by me and by Carl (who, in the meantime, had ridden taxes are very light; during the year, while after me) through the lonely morning every other State in the Union has suffered towards our lines. Before coming to the from financial depression and decrease in spot, he began to hesitate on account of the the valuation of property, in Maine the valupossible crowd, and he asked me if he could ation of the property of jhe State has been alight in a lonely cottage by the wayside ; I had it inspected by Carl, who brought word steadily on the increase; drunkenness is it was mean and dirty. ''N'importe," said almost unknown in parts of the State; the N., and I ascended with him a ricketty, attendance at school is larger in proportion narrow staircase. In an apartment of ten to the population than in any other State. feet square, with a deal table and two rush- What is the cause? Simply a prohibitory bottomed chairs, we sat for an hour, the law backed by a proper public sentiment. �ADVERTISEMENTS. Places of Worship. 9 THE FRIEND, DECEMBER, 1878.- SAILORS' HOME ! Seamen's Bethel—Rev. S. C. Damon, Chaplain, BR. T. P. TISDALE, King street, near tbe Sailors' Home. Preaching at 11 a.m. Seats free. Sabbath School before tbe OFFICE AND RESmorning service. Prayer meeting on Wednesday IDENCK, BereUnia Street, between fort Street Church evenings at 7<| o'clock. and Queen Kmnia'i. OFFICII HOURS—I" rum 8 to 10 a. m; 1 to 3p. m, and 6to Fort Street Church—Rev. W. Frear, Pastor, 0 ovenlnga. mh3o ly corner of Fort and Beretania streets. Preaching Sabbath on Sundays at 11 a. m. and 7Jp. m. HANCHETTE, Plaso-rsrlr Tuner Si Rrpalnr, School at 10 a. m. HOMEOPATHIST. JL. • many years connected with Kawaiabao Church—Rev. H. H. Parker. Pastor, King street, above tbe Palace. Services in Ha- D" waiian every Sunday at 11 a. m. Sabbath school at 10 a. m. Evening services at 74 o'clock, alternating with Kanuiakapili. District meetings in ■ various chapels at 3.30 p. m. Prayer meeting every Wednesday at 7J P. at. ED Chlckertng k Sons.) (For Ordersleft at the Bailors' Home or Whitney k Robertson's Bookstore. . M. DAVIDSON. A ttarnry at Law. Office over Mr. Whttney'a Book-store, formerlyoccupied by Roman Catholic Church—Under the charge of Judge Austin. Honolulu, H. I. de-1878 Rt. Rev. Bishop Maigret, assisted by Rev. Father Herntann ; Fort street, near Beretania. Services every Sunday at 10 A. m. and 2 p. at. Kauhakapili Church—Rev. M. Kuaea. Pastor, Beretania street, near Niiiiauii. Services in Hawaiian every Sunday at 104 a. m. Sabbath school at 94 A. m. Evening services at 74 o'clock, alternating with Kuwnhiliaii. Prayer meeting every Wednesday at 74 p. m. \y G. IRWIN fc ED. DUNBCOMBE, Manager. Honlulu, January 1,187V CO.. Commission Merchants, Plantation and Inaurance Agents, Honolulu, H. 1. ■ CASTLE & COOKE, *- DICKSON. 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(7 Adding the coat of binding. �Pure religion and undcjilcd before God, the Father, is this : To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep one's self unspotted from the world. EjiteHjJjomMttee oHjieY^M._C.A. The Old Man in the Stylish Church. Well, wife, I've been to church to-day—been to a atyllsh one— And teeing you can't go fromhome. I'll tell you what was done; Yon would have been surprised to see what I saw there to-day; The sister* were fixed up so fine they hardly bowed to pray. I had on these coarse clothes of mini;—not much the worse for wear— Bat, then, they knew I wasn't one they call a millionaire; 80 they led the old man to a seat away back by the door; 'Twaa bookless and uncusuloucd, a reserved seat for Ute poor. Pretty soon in came a stranger with gold rings and clothing fine, They led him to a cuahloned seat far In advance of mine; I thought that waa'ut exactly right to seat him up so near, When he was young and I was old,and veryhard to hear. But there's no accouutin' for wtiat some people do, The finest clothing nowadays, oft gets the finest pew; But when we reach the blessed home, and, uudetiled by sin, We'll see wealth begging at thegate, while poverty goes in. ********* Then why should man look down on man because of lack of gold? Why send him In thepoorest pew because his clothes are old? A heart with nobler motives—a heart that Ood ban blestMay be beatln' heaven's music 'neath that faded coat and vest. I'm old—l may be childish—but I love simplicity; I love to see It shlnln' In a Christian's piety; Jesus told us In His sermon, In Judea'smountain wild, He that wants to go to heaven must be like a little child. Our heads are growing gray, dear wife—our hearts are beating slowIn a little while the Master will call for us to go; When we reach the pearly gateways, and look iv with Joyful eyes, We'll see no stylish worship in the temple of the skies. The Thanksgiving Day Sermon By Rev. Mr. Jones, now Principal at Punahou, contained much that was worthy' of consideration. There was no spread-eagleism about it, but an earnest pressing upon the attention of his hearers the fact that without resolute effort the descendants of pioneers are likely' to deteriorate, if not physically, yet mentally, morally and religiously, and especially in a country like this. We would remark that our care now is for the third generation—the second is making its mark, such as it is. As members of the second generation however many of us may well ask ourselves the question—Is our religious character as finely tempered as that of thpse who have gone before ? It may be more finished, engraved, chased or whatever we may call it, but is it as true steel? It may be broader and more liberal, but is it as deep ? Does the religious culture keep its proportion to the general culture 1 We cannot get any one here to sit down and prepare a finished lecture on any subject, for our community to come and listen to. Partly because our men who can do that have their hands full already. Partly because the critical capacity here is greater than the producing capacity. What could be done however would be for one and another to communicate in a free and easy way what they know in their especial departments, and have experienced in practical life. For instance why should not a merchant give some of his experience as a business man; post up his audience on the ways of trade ? Or a lawyer tell us of his progression t Let some of the skippers only enlarge their audiences, and they will not fail to interest. A man always talks freely upon what he thoroughly understands. It is hoped that we have not arrived at the state which might be termed that of fastidious nonentity. A state this 'which may exist in religious circles as well as in literary. How much of the Divine Spirit, is needed to keep even prayer meetings from partaking of this. Is there any sarcasm in the first half of the following, from President Hopkins' remarks at the annual meeting of American Board? When Solomon went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding, and lo ! it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, that was according to the law of the survival of the fittest. The thorns were fittest to survive as compared with the* vines, and the strongest nettles as compared with other nettles. As compared with wheat, thistles—Canada thistles—are Attest to survive, and cockle as compared with barley. It may indeed be plausibly said that the things best fitted for the use of man are least fitted to survive. The finest fruits need the most care. Of all grains wheat is best fitted for food, and probably least fitted to survive. No one knows where it is indigenous, and, left to itself, it would soon perish from the earth. It has a natural tendency to survive owing to its environments, but that needs to be supplemented by the intelligence and the toil of man. To us it would seem that that which is fittest for the use of man should be fittest to survive. But in this, nature seems to be at cross-purposes with herself; and thus do we find, wrought into her very constitution, and proclaimed by science, the elements of that primeval curse, "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread." 10 YMoeunnC'gshH Ariotcaf onolulu. Aside from supernetural intervention, Christianty was, of all known or conceivable religions, least fitted to survive. It had not a single element that the world reckons on for influence. It began in a stable. It was laid in a manger. Place yourselves by the side of that. Follow the infant in his flight into Egypt; in his return to a remote part of a conquered province, and to a disreputable town. See him, without letters, at work as a carpenter. At the age of thirty see him traveling about the country on foot as a teacher, with a few peasant followers. After only three years see him apprehended, tried, cendemned as a malefactor by both Jews and Romans. See him hanging on the cross between two thieves. See him laid in the tomb with a great stone over its mouth, sealed with the senI of authority, and a wjfch set. Christianity was there. It was in that tomb. Not a person living fully understood it. The words spoken had been dispersed-in the air, and no record of them had been left. 1 ask you if imagination can add a single circumstance to heighten the improbability that a world-wide religion would spring from such a source ? Father Chiniquy again.—In our issue of October, we noticed the fact that some unknown person, about twenty years ago, had sent him a donation of $100. Under date of Nov. sth, the Rev. T. Coan thus writes from Hilo: "When we, in Hilo, heard of his sore trials in Canada, and of his exodus, at the head of 5,000 people to find praise and an asylum in one of our western states, we resolved immediately to express our sympathy with the sufferers, by sending a trifle of material help—sloo—raised in the native Church in about as short time as it takes to write this letter." From copies of the Sydney Herald and Witness, received by last steamer, we learn that Father Chiniquy is lecturing to large audiences and creating a great excitement. We copy the following from the Herald : Pastor Chiniquy delivered his third lecture to-night. Canon Smith occupied the chair. The rain fell heavily, but there was a tolerably large audience. Mrs. Constable is announced to lecture here on Tuesday in relation to Pastor Chiniquy. Rev. James Gardner.—This gentlemen, connected with the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland, and belonging to Edinburgh, passed in the last Australian steamer, having been on a visit to the Colonies, he having a brother. Pastor of one of the city Churches of Sydney, the Rey. Andrew Gardner. � 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 - 1878.12.02 - Newspaper Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1878.12.02