https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/a06ab5bc335e454d029f75c4631fceab.pdf 761fb54e3b61a7f57f0c98f3f429662d PDF Text Text FRIEND THE $tto Series, m. i, M2M HONOLULU, CONTENTS Far Jaaaair 1, New Palace Corner-atone Key. Theophllua Davies Bamblea In the Old Woria-No. 3« Poetry—New Year Marine Journal Domestic Chinese Question T. M.C.A 1880. .* P*o« 1 * l-» * ' •*-'8 THE FRIEND. JANUARY I. 1880. Just as our paper was going to press on this 31st day of December, 1879, the interesting and imposing ceremonies connected with the laying of the corner-stone of the new Palace were in progress. Our limits will not aUow us to make even a meagre report of the proceedings. We would merely add that the box containing the articles deposited was fitted to its place and the corner-stone let fall at just one o'clock p. m. Imagine some thousands of years hence, when Hawaiian and English are among the " dead languages," some future Cesnola or Schliemann shall, with ruthless hands, displace this corner-stone and open the sealed box, when unfolding the various •documents there deposited, he should, after rh {(Bib Series, JANUARY 1, 1880. Davies—At White Croaa, Hereford, England, Nor. Ttb, of bronchitis, the Itev. Thkophillb Davies. aged HI yeara and 18 days. In copying the above from last week's Advertiser, we would add that, ten years ago, when visiting England, it was our privilege to spend a few days in the most agreeable society of the deceased, then residing in the vicinity of Manchester. We learn from his son that his honored father had uniformly enjoyed good health through his long ministerial career, and preached before an association only ten days before his much-lamented death. Respected and beloved by a wide circle of friends and old parishioners, he belonged to a denomination in England about which the eminent Rev. Dr. Hall of New York thus spoke in one of his lectures, delivered before the students of Vale Theological School: " The Congregationalists, I am glad to say, are very strong. They are quite numerous, and their influence is out of proportion to their numbers. They are fortunate, especially, in having a large number of very efficient ministers. A stranger stopping over the Sabbath in one of the English cities, and inquiring for the church where he can hear the best preaching, is very apt to be referred to the Congregational church." M37._ RAMBLES INTHE OLD WORLD-No. 36 Autumu Days in the Netherlands. ACROSS THE BORDER. It has always seemed to me rather an unnecessary exercise of parental authority, as manifested "in the case of those French peasants who, as I have somewhere read, were wont to take their children to the boundaryline and there administer to them a sound thrashing With rods," in order that they, poor little things, might remember where their own land ended and where the territory of the stranger and the foe began. It was alleged that this exterior application strengthened the memory to such an extent that it was never found necessary to repeat it. Now, as J was saying, it has always seemed to me quite unnecessary. For I am sure the dullest of people, the sleepiest of travellers, musl know by a sort of instinct when they are crossing the border. You /eel the new spirit ot the land you are entering waiting on the frontier to welcome or repel you. It would seem almost as if countries resembled certain individuals, whose mere presence has a greater and more moving eloquence than the spoken words of others. However this may be, I for one felt the presence of Holland in some mysterious, inexplicable way as I first entered Dutch territory with the early days of last September. The hour, the moonlight, the witchery of the night, may have had something to do with this. The land lay in one unending plain. One never sees mountains here, except those which the restless, tawny waves of the sea along the shore rear in swift, passionate moments. The moon lighted the landscape—not regally, lavishly, as with us in the tropics, but with a softened lustre which seemed in harmony with the quiet of the land. Through the night the gaunt arms of the windmills—those guardian angels of Holland—rose into view, but losing much of their stiffness, their goodnatured awkwardness in the silvery light and velvety shadows. The arrowy straightness and precise lines of the can.ls were rendered more poetic by the soft and billowy waves of pearl-grey mist which floated above thpm. On the horizon were dense masses of dark and sombre woodland and forest, pierced now and then by the friendly gleam " study, decipher the following : T-H-E F-K-I-E-N-D! Ah, that," he exclaims, " is the oldest Since writing the above, our attention has iper in the Pacific." Wonderful discovbeen called to a most interesting notice of ery—A. D. 4444! the life and death of the Rev. Mr. Davies, Dr. Scott.—We learn from the Reunion, copied from the Hereford Times of Novempublished in Lebanon, Ohio, that ber 2d. In it there is a report of the funeral our late U. S. Consul has been " elected by sermon, preached by the Rev. J. O. Hill, in a splendid majority to his old place in the the Eign Brook Congregational Chapel. He Legislature" of Ohio, and he is now at Co- chose for his text, O death ! where is thy lumbus. From a letter recently received sting." He spoke "most eloquently of the from him, under date of Dec. 6th, we copy as follows: I have just returned from a Jong and successful ministerial career of the " visit to Washington city. I dined with the deceased, commencing in }523. It appears President while there. He is still firm on that for over 200 years the family of Davies the temperance question. He told me that has been represented in the Congregational Mr. H. A. P. Carter called on him on bis ministry, the Rev. J. Alien Davies, of •way to Germany." Croydon, now representing the family name. It would appear that all the e-wnts connectWe have received a letter for Patrick ed with the life and death of the deceased Bark, of Hilo, which he will find with were such as to leave a most happy impresBey. A. O. Forbes. of yellow light. The sweet, faint odors of sion upon the minds of surviving friends. �2 THE FRIEND, the late summer, of the country, of the dewy night, filled the air. I felt on all sides the embrace and welcome of dear, brave, heroic, grand little Holland. I had been reading for months, with tear-filled eyes and throb- bing heart, the glorious history of that mighty struggle for-truth and liberty which was here waged for well-nigh one hundred years, and I felt it to be one of the greatest privileges of my life to be permitted at length to tread the soil which, for all lovers of liberty in every land and every coming age, must be Indeed holy I If there may seem in all this the sentimental enthusiasm of a traveller, then read and re-read the sublime epic of that marvelous period—then come and see the land where this tragedy was eliacted, iv the blaze of martyr-fires, amid the smoke and gore of sacked cities, dreary battle-fields and desolated homes, where a handful of great-souled men and women won the field before the greatest armies of the world, and gained for you and me the fair and fruitful blessings of liberty of conscience,—and you will but echo my enthusiasm. Through the infinite peace of the night I seemed to see the sad, earnest, now triumphant face and figure of my chosen hero, my knight " satis neur et sans reproche," the soldier, the Christian, the martyr—" William the Silent!" NORTH HOLLAND. I was pleased that circumstances permitted my seeing a portion of Holland not visited, perhaps, by the majority of travelers. My first halting place was Groningen, the great market centre for an extensive and most fruitful region. My hotel was situated on a great public " place," one of the largest in all Holland, which on fharket days is crowded with sellers and buyers from all the country round. The chiming of the bells gave me welcome in this first city I visited, something which was to accompany me, I found, ail through Holland and Belgium. There was something especially soothing and welcoming to a stranger, coming into a new city in an unknown land, at night, this soft, musical murmur of the bells, repeated with every recurring hour of the night, like a lullaby, a message of peace through the darkness. One of the most delicious experiences of travel is that sense of novelty which strikes you in everyday objects and sets you gazing like the most inquisitive child. 1 found my bedroom, with its canopied bed, where curtains shielded me like a tent, especially delightful. In many a long day I have seen nothing so charming in its way as the hotel breakfast table which greeted me the first morning at Groningen. Certainly Dutch neatness, I thought, has not been exaggerated. The linen was spotless, the glass crystal itself, the silver laughing at its own brightness. The air was pervaded by a friendly bubbling and hissing of the water in the great central urn, which was fairly captivating. Each guest had his 'separate tea-service, arranged with the most exquisite care. The table was spread with preserves, with all manner of white breads and brown, with breakfast cakes and puffy buns, and the delicious cheeses for which the region is famed. Pardon me for tarrying so long at the breakfast table, but I found in it such an epitome of Holland that JANUARY, 188 0. I could scarcely forbear sketching it for you. Here was Dutch ease, love of comfort, slowness ; everyone sipped his tea as if he had nothing else in life to do to compare with the solemnity of this act. Here was Dutch justice shown in the generous portions, in the plenty of everything ; Dutch cleanliness and thrift, and Dutch love of the beautiful displayed in the minutest arrangement of the friendly board. It was a pleasant introduction to the day, in harmony with the sweetness and freshness of the morning, a moral stimulus to make the working hours exact, honorable, full of worthy deeds Our way (you know we are expecting to catch the early boat on the Zuyder Zee) lay through the rich farming lands between Groningen and Harlingen. This is one of the most productive portions of all Holland. It is the home, too, of a brave, thrifty, noble race—the Frisians, the old Germanic stock of whom Tacitus tells us. I enjoyed meeting them, watching them at the different stations. It chanced to be some fete day, and the trains were crowded with peasants in " brave attire." The costume defete is, you will acknowledge, staid and Puritanical enough—for the men, black, sober, clerical, angular; for the women, black; for the children, black. At first I thought there might be some great funeral in the district, but as tbe same costume appeared on every side, worn by people in the heartiest and jolliest humor, 1 found it better to laugh than weep. The women, many of them, wear heavy metal bands encircling the head, in front terminating oftentimes in beautiful ornaments of gold, all this Amazonian helmet being feHHnized and softened by little covering caps, dainty muslin affairs adorned with embroideries and lace, and above all this is perched a bonnet ofmodern make, ornamented with feathers and ribbons, the whole grayer sky, and our steamers pervous whistle impatiently called us on board, and we were soon foaming through the dullcolored waves of the Zuyder Zee. The steamer takes something like six hours to make the journey from Harlingen to Amsterdam. As you are aware, the whole Dutch coast has been, since unknown centuries the scene of the ocean's wildest sport. In the thirteenth century it invaded the land, and uniting with a near-lying lake, formed the mighty Zuyder Zee. Should you chance to have an atlas at your elbow, would you kindly follow me, steaming down to Amsterdam. The day is fresh and cool, in the morning the sky clouded, but later on revealing a blue and glorious heaven, so that we find the harbor of Amsterdam bathed in sunshine in the afternoon. We skirt the coast as far as Stavoren, where rises the friendly tower of the lighthouse. Here there is a little group waiting to receive us. Passengers are coming on board. It is noontime at the village school, and the wharf is filled with round-faced, rosy-cheeked boys and girls of the most pronounced Dutch type, and the air is filled with tneir laughing and shouting and the "clack, clack, clack of their great wooden shoes. The benevolent old p*tstor, with his smooth black cloak and spotless cravat, stands in the midst of them. His whole flock seems to be here. The coming of the steamer must be the day's sensation. We are taking on board scores of great round cheeses. At length they are in place. The chains are thrown off, and we steam across the channel to Enkhuizen. The little town, in the noon sunshine, forms a most beautiful pic. ture. All along the shore are precise and proper rows of trees, looking like a company of Dutch burgers wrapped in their mantles at conference or church. There is a picturesque, lofty tower of the middle ages, rising above an ancient gate, and in its old age, from its bells high up in air, tbe belfry sending out tender, mellow music to those far out at sea. In Enkhuizen, Paul Potter, the famous painter of animal life, was born in 1625. We shall see many of his paintings, so strong, so true, so lifelike, as we go on through the Netherlands, and especially his world-renowned " Bull," in the Royal Gallery at the Hague. Oddly enough, there was brought on board at Enkhuizen a fine young bull, with soft brown hair flecked with white, full of a grand, irrepressible life, and I felt that the stock had not run out— at least in the animals—since tbe days Paul " being the quaintest medley imaginable. They are a hardy, healthy iace, the North Hollanders—the women especially, in this district through which we are passing, being oftentimes strikingly handsome, with great, full, innocent eyes and satiny white skins stained with vivid rose. There was something Junonian about them, albeit their staid attire seemed to forbid such a classic and profane comparison. Ah, the delicious sweetness and meadow fragrance of that early autumn morning! As the train paused we glanced at Leeuwarden, the old capital of Frisia, set in the midst of a wide and smiling- landscape. Then came Irancker, where was once a University, which, however, Napoleon I trampled out of exist- Potter found studies" in the clover-carpet" ence. And a little farther on our train ed fields of his birthplace. But have we came to a standstill at the dock at Har- say painter now with his magic brush ? lingen. Out once more to the gray bosom of the A DAY ON THE ZUYDER ZEE. Zuyder Zee, which now broadens to a great There are certain names which make an and expansive bay. From Enkhuizen across indelible impression on our memories when the Zuyder Zee to Kampen, there is a proas children we bend over our geographical jectfor running a colossal dam, drawing off maps. For my fancy, at least, Zuyder Zee the water, and thus rescuing for Holland an was one of these, having a place along with immense tract of land. It would be a herother curious names, though less euphonic, culean piece of engineering, but if successas Skagerrack, Kattegat and Kamtschatka. ful, of immense importance to the country. Last year I faced the keen wind blowing But after what has been accomplished in down the two former. ' I faced this summer this land of wonders, nothing would be surthe Zuyder Zee. Will my wanderings lead prising. We are in the midst of a great me at length to Kamtschatka ? We had just bay; on all sides are passing sails of ships time to glance at the gray old houses and or fishing boats (the latter rising in great walls of Harlingen, rising upwards to a yet picturesque brown masses against the blue �sky), or the curling smoke from some hurrying steamer. The shores lie low, but varied by picturesque villages, by church spires, by forests of windmills. On one side we look off, far away through the blue haze, to the coast near which lies the town of Zwolle, where Thomas a Kempis, of holy name and fame, lived in the cloister for well-nigh 70 years where he wrote his immortal "Dc Imitatione Christi." Here he died in 1471, in his ninety-third year,—one of the sweetest, rarest, holiest men the world has ever known. On our right, just discernible, is the little village of Hoorn, the birthplace of Wilhelm Schouten, who was the first, in J616, to sail round that stormy southern cape, to which he gave the name of his native village in Holland. But before us is rising a stately and picturesque city into view, glittering in the sunshine, seen through a forest of masts, from which wave the flags of all nations. The sluices are passed, the haven reached, and we land on the busy wharf of Amsterdam. A FEW WORDS FROM BERLIN. The summer—short at the best here at the North—is gone, and winter is at the door. The brief gray days of November are with us. The Thier-garten has doffed its verdant garments of midsummer, and its glorious avenues bend before the winds mourning the death of the year, while the air is filled with myriads of falling, fluttering leaves, a veritable shower of gold. While nature mourns, the city seems filled with a tumultuous joy. The streets are agnin active and bustling and gay. The public drives and walks are filled with a brilliant throng. The Emperor is once more in the capital, his venerable, fatherly presence being a joy and comfort to every one. \ The German people have lost within a week or two one of their leading men—his Excellency Herr yon Bulow, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a man of marked ability and of great nobility and purity of character. His funeral, which took place last week, was of a singularly striking and impressive character. The services were held in the Church of St. Matthew, one of the smaller but more beautiful churches in the city. It was crowded till there was scarcely even standing room. The scene was one not soon to be forgotten. Before the altar, which was almost hidden in a •thicket of greenery, was placed the coffin, surrounded by burning tapers and hidden from sight by masses of costly wreaths— rarest garlands of laurel leaves, pale roses, floral crosses and drooping palm branches. At the foot of the coffin, on cushions of purple velvet, were the numerous glittering orders and decorations of the deceased. The body of the church was one, of the most brilliant scenes imaginable. Ail the leading officers of Government in their varied and beautiful uniforms, such as are seen in no country as in Germany; hundreds of the military, the Diplomatic corps, and an immense throng besides, were presThe Emperor, with his brother, ent. sat on one side of the coffin, facing the widowand family. Everyone present seemed moved by the solemnity, by the impressive pathos, and 1 may say beauty of the scene. The fading light of tbe lato autumn day JANUARY, 18 8.0. came softly through the crimson and purple and gold stained windows. The hundreds of brilliant uniforms glittered like one immense jewel; the music of the organ rose and fell in full waves of mellow sound accompanying the hushed chant, Sei getren bis in den Tod.v Before all stood the flower-wreathed coffin of the departed, awing all by its voiceless eloquence ; on one side the patriarchal figure of the Emperor, on the other the group of mourners, while triumphantly above the altar was seen a picture of the risen Christ! During the past two or three weeks the General Synod of the Evangelical Church of the older Provinces of Prussia has been holding its sessions, which closed only last Monday. This has been an important session. The action of the body has been such as to show that there was much earnest life and purpose in the Church, whatever may be said by many to the contrary. The assembly, consisting of full two hundred members, clerical and lay, presented a fine appearance at its sittings. These were held in the chambers-of the Prussian House of Lords, a simple but dignified apartment. For my eye at least, there is scarcely a finer or more impressive sight in the world than that of a company of clergymen, and here in Germany i make no exception. There is a dignity in theircarriage, a peculiar mingling of sweetness, of strength, of lofty purity in their faces, especially marked in the older clergy, those who wear as a sort of halo at the close of long years of service the glory of their silver bair. Among this large company I noticed the stately Dr. Jaber, of Barmen, at the head of the Mission House there ; Professor Christlieb, from Bonn ; Dr. Kogel, one of the Court chaplains ;*Pastor Frommel, that most genial, most loveable, most charming of German clergymen ; Pastor Fincke, of Bremen, who resembles him in many respects, whose Life of St. Paul" is a choice and noble work; Dr. Brucken, one of the leading and most thoughtful preachers of Berlin, and a host of others. Among the most important ofthe lay members of the Synod were His Excellency Count Putkammer, "Cultus Minister," who has just taken the portfolio left by Dr. Falk, famous for his attacks upon the U [tramontanes ; Count Boitzenberg, Count BismarckBo Iland, etc. Every year Berlin enjoys an exhibition of modern paintings, which is for this city what the Academy is for London and the Salon for Paris, and is here called the Kunst Ausstellung." All through the autumn it has delighted and feasted the eyes of hundreds of visitors. Most of the artists whose pictures are here exhibited are resident in Berlin. Great as would be the pleasure to describe some of the beautiful paintings which have charmed us here, I must confine myself to the mention of one portrait, which is the glory of the collection, and which has been, so to say, an art event this autumn for all Germany. It is the portrait of Queen Louisa of Prussia, the mother of the present Emperor, and is executed by that master in modern portraiture, Herr Gustav Richter. Queen Louisa's name is written in luminous letters in the history of Prussia. She was the daughter of the Duke of Mccklenburg-Strelitz. She was " " " " " 3 THE FRIEND, married at an early age to Frederick William HI of Prussia, and became one of the most prominent figures in the stormy political conflicts of her period. She was a woman of extraordinary loveliness of person, of a lofty character, marvelously actuated as it were by a sense of her holy mission in the cause of Prussian liberty; in her lifetime the idol of tbe people, and since her death regarded almost as a saint or guardian angel by the German people. She died in 1809 at the early age of36, mourned perhaps as no other woman has ever been mourned in Germany. Though the present Emperor was a mere child at her death, he has cherished her memory with a devotion and sacredness, with a poetic tenderness, which still in these late years of his old age is as marked as it is beautiful. The painting by Richter is of transcendent loveliness. You recognize the lovely Queen, transfigured, exalted, inspired by her great purpose. It has been ordered by one of the citizens of Cologne, and is already hung upon the walls of the museum of that city, its rarest treasure. It represents the Queen at the height of her ripened and perfected beauty. The face is full of indescribable hopefulness, sweetness, steadfast purpose, heroic resolve —the face of an Empress, of a leader, softened by the tender, timid lines of wife and motherhood. The figure is superb, clad in a simple robe of white ; one dimpled hand is laid upon the breast, the other holds the heavy ermine-lined velvet mantle, which falls upon the marble steps she is descending. The eyes seem to be gazing upon some far distant horizon, invisible to us, Above her brow is a golden star of hope. Behind her aie storm-clouds; the air is filled with a winter sadness. Against such a background this glorious, luminous, queenly figure rises like some fair Angel of Hope F. Williams Damon. and Inspiration. Berlin, Nov. sth, 1879. We copy the following paragraphs from private letters : P. S—l have been very busy with my lectures since writing you last, and they a opening upevery day more and more deligh fully. Just came in from a noble lecture from grand old Adolph Kirchhoff, the cele brated Greek scholar, on Thucydides. am expecting to hear in addition Professo Steinthal on Language in General; Pro Hubner on Classical Philology; Prof. Cur tius (a famous name) on Athens and it Monuments; Dr. Zummer on the Indo Germanic Languages ; and Prof. Lepsiuson Egyptian Antiquities. As some of these lectures require but two or three hours a week, 1 think I can, without crowding, tak them all. The Sanskrit Grammar, by goo< Professor Whitney, which has appearei within a few days, is like all that he writes exact, wonderfully clear, and as perfect as anything ofthe kind can be. He is regarc ed as one of the very first authorities in everything of this kind. My lectures are the source of the very greatest pleasure anc delight to me, and the days seem to fl away on swift wing. I am in a state c mental crystallization " The condition is " A thousand things in m delightful! studies seem to be coming into place ; facts, principles, theories are righting themselves. . �4 THE FRIEND, JANUARY, Every day 'this horizon of language, of philological study, seems to be widening; and then to me the wonderful living breath which seems to animate the great body of this union, this comparative philology bringing together of races 10 long sundered, this grand thought of tbe human .brotherhood, is inspiring, stimulating, glorious ! Have just received a little book with a Bible verse, printed in over 200 languages. To-day, received a letter from Prof. Mather, ordering a cast of ihe Olympian " Hermes" for Amherst College. — 1880. For the Hew Year. The veilla hung before mine eyes, 1 stand beside the open door. Behind that veil the future Ilea, I cannot see a step before I stand In alienee aa 1 watoh. Upon the threshold of tbe year ; That I, dearLord, Thy voice may catch, I lend to Thee my listening ear. I know not whether sun or shade Lies stretched before me on the plain ; I know not whether flowers may fail**, Or whether they shall bloom again. I know not whether bright and clear And gladsome days before jne lie. Or whether dark and chill and drear The paths that Thou shalt lead me br. I know not, and I wouldnot know, Content I leave It all with Thee ; 'Tie ever beat It ahould be ao, Aa Thou wilthave It, let It be. And yet I know for every day. That every step for me Is planned ; I aurely cannot miss my wsy, By keeping hold of Thy dear band. And thia I know, wbate'er betide, 1 never shallbe left alone, Thou atsndest ever by my side, To Thee my future all la known. Thus,wheresoe'er my lot may fall, The way before la marked by Thee, The windings of my life are all Unfoldlnga of Thy love to me. Yesterday, the 25th day of November, will be one of my "In Memoriam" days. It brought me word of my brother's " grand promotion"—of his " home-going"—l cannot bring myself to use the word death. This was the most glorious beginning of a better life. Above all my griefand pain and personal loss, I feel thankful that 1 was permitted on earth to call him brother—that 1 am privileged to feel, in humble reverence of The Week of Prayer, 1880. heart, that he is to-day one of that redeemed host who stand before the throne. My playSunday. Jan. 4—Sermons on tbe •• fulness of mate, my brother, my friend—this he will Cbriat'a salvation." Momday, Jan. 6.—Thanksgiving for tbe blessever be to me ; but now, above all, a comol tbe past year, and prayer for their continpanion of glorified souls, one of the messengers ings uance. o the heavenly court, luminous with divine Tuesday, Jan. 6.—Confession of em and humililight. Ah, through my tears 1 repeat it, we ation before God. Wkunkmiiav. Jan. 7.—Prayer for the Cburcb of have been wondrously honored. Willies ita ministers, its growth in grace and ita was the purest, sunniest, most childlike and Cbrial, enlargement, and for revivals of religion. Thursday, Jun. 8.—Prayer for Christian eduaa generous nature I ever knew. The .memory of his hearty, rich and joyous laugh seems lion, tor tbe family and institutions ot learning, Sunday schools, and Cbiiatian associationa. to be ringing about me still, and 1 hope to forFriday. lor nations, rulers, and hear it all through my life. I can truly people, Jan. 9.—Prayer and religious liberty. say, " God's will be done," snd rejoice that Saturday, Jan. 11).—Prayer fur home and forhe is safe beyond the pain arid sin and sor- eign missions. row of earth, clothed with raiment of light, William Halford.-The gunner of the U. S. S. whiter than snow. " Blesfrd are the pure Lackawanna, now in this port, has a history of no in heart, for they shall see God " little interest. William Halford was coxwaiu of the This morning I went with Mrs. Thomp- Captain's gig. on the U. S. Steamer Saginaw, which son out to the Jerusalem Kirchhoff, where veaael, under the command of Captain Montgomery having left Honolulu on tbe Ist of October, Dr. Thompson is buried. She has entrusted Sioerd, on a cruise in tbe North Paoißo, went ashore 1870. the grave to me. I shall tend it with a two- on Ooean Island, distant about 1100 miles northfold love and care, for I loved most truly the west of this island, on the 29ih of tbe same month, dear " Doctor," and I shall feel as if, in so and in a few houra became a total wreck. Proviand aaila were saved and the crew remained on doing, I was caring at the same time for sions tbe barren islet until the 4th of January following, more sunny sky. another mound under a when tbey were taken ofl and brought to Honolulu F. W. D. on tbe steamer Kilauea, Capt. Thomas Long, dis- Rev. C. T. Haley.—By the passing mer bound to Australia, this gentleman gave us a call. He is on a voyage around the world for his health, having been granted a furlough by his parishioners, connected with a Presbyterian church in Newark, New Jersey. He was accompanied by his sister. patched to tbeir relief by the Hawaiian government immediately on hearing of the disaster. Tbe news bad been brought bere by Halford, in this wiae: On the 16tb of November, the Captain's gig, which bad been raiaed upon, decked, and thoroughly fitted for tbe purpose, smled from Ocean Island for Honolulu, to prooure aaaistaooe. She was under command of Lieut. J. Q. Talbot, and her crew consisted of William Halford, ooxwain, Peter Frauds, Jaa. Muir, and John Andrews. Tney were thirty-one days io tbe boat, sufleiing many hardships, and made tbe bay of Haualei on December 16th at night, and lay off for daylight, being exhausted tbev fell asleep and tbe boat gettiux into tbt breakers was and Lieut. Talbot, Francis and Andrews Rev. O. G. Thompson.—This gentleman, capeised, were drowned in the surf Halford and Muir sucafter preaching for nearly fifty years in De- ceeded in reaching tbe shore—tbe latter only to die hoapitahly troit, Michigan, and vicinity, has been mak- of exhaustion soon after. Halford waa treated by tbe natives of Kalihiwai, (near Haualei) ing a visit to California and the Islands. wbeie be was found on the beaoh in the morning, was brought to Honolulu in the schooner WatHe was among the first ministers in Mich- and o/u, Capt. Dudoit, wbo gave op hia trip for tbe purigan. Having returned from the volcano pose. Lieut. Talbot was boried at Hanalei, but the and taken to with his daughter, he was ready to embark remains were subsequently disinterred tbe United States. Captain Siosrd, his officers and with some fifty or more other passengers crew, arrived bere on the steamer Kilauea, Jan. 14, expressed their apprefor San Francisco had the Australian 1871, and in a published cardkind aotion of the Hawciation of the generous and as hence he was usual, steamer called aiian Government in promptly sending to tbeir obliged to remain till next month* relief. In our Issue of Jan. 27 we gave a fall so- count of Ihe shipwreck of tbe Saginaw, and of "Tbe midway Island Speculation, and what came of it." llalford, for bis exemplary conduct, was given a gunner's commission in tbe navy, winch ba hsa beld aver since. Capt. Long, wbo bad volunteered to go in the Kilauea for tbe relief of the shipwrecked waa presented by tbe U. S. Government with a gold obronometer. Through Mr. Peiroe, the American Minister Resident, tbe U. S. Government tent tbe sum of 8108. to be distributed among tbe natives wbo rendered assistance to Halford saved property from tbe wreck of the boat at Kauai. P. C. Advertiser. crew, Death's Doings.-Our community was startled by the announcement on Saturday afternoon last, of tbe death ol Mr. S. L. Lewis, a well known dry goods dealer on Nuuanu street. Mr. Lewis had gone to bis rosidem-.* on Deretania street at noon, and was sitting ai ibe dinner table conversing pleasantly with bis wife and children, wben be suddenly fell over snd expired. A post mortem exam- ination revealed the cause to have been aneurism. He was much respected by all wbo knew bim for bis probity of character and kindly dispoaition. —On the Ist instant. Mr. Charles H. Rose, of tbe firm of Wilder & Co., died at bis residence in this city of malarial fever, alter an illness of two weeks. Few men will be more missed in business circles, where be was deservedly popular, than Mr. Rose. He was born in New York City in 1838, and at tbe age of IS removed with his family to Waverly, New York.—P. C. Advertiser. Information Wanted. If Frank Swanton, from Han Francisco, Is at work on tbe Sandwich lalanda, he will please communicate with the Editor, or Mrs. It. H. Lambert, President of the Ladles' Seamen's Friend Society, No. 6, Eddy street, San Francisco. Philadelphia, Not. 34, 1879. Dear Sib : I address you with a desire for obtaining, through your Influence, Information of a friend of mine, Mr. Oeorge S. Britton. Some years ago he left California for tbe Sandwich Islands. Since then nothing has be* u heard from him. It was understood be was going among the natives. As our Minister to the Islands, you have powers given you,which gives us hopes of receiving good and welcome news of our friend. Yours, fee, A. E. Ohif-tith. No. 1331, North 19th st., Philadelphia, Perm. To General J. M. Oomly. MARRIED. Gbeen—McGuirk—ln Ban Princinco, Nov. 38, by the Rev. Mr. Reed, Fbkd M. Green to Miv Amelia McGuibk of Honolulu. KiKcHorr—Wilhelm—At Hllo, on the 37th Nov., by theRev. Db. Forbes, Mb. M. KmcHorr to Mim Caroline Wilhelm. No cards. DIED. Woods—On Sept. 30th, at her parents residence, Fair light.Manly, near Sydney, N. 8. W., Maggie Jane, thlr beloved daughter of John Woods, aged 17 years 7 month and 7 days. Deceased waa a late resident of Honolulu Hattrice—At the Evergreens, New London, Conn., o the 21st ult. Mart Crawford Hattrick, the wife of th late Rkv. Joseph Hurlbut, aged 74 years. Duncan—ln thia city, December 5, of malarial fever Rose Baktlktt, wife of John A. Duncan, aged 28 yeara. A tender and watchful mother, a faithfuland devoted wife and a alncere Christian. Our loss is her gain. Vernon.—ln this city, December 7th, Agoua Vernon wife of Augustus Vernon, sged 35 years. Shimmin—ln this city, December 12,F. A. Bhlmmin, native of Illinois, aged about 33 years. Funeral will tak place from the residence of Captain Fuller, Nuuan Avenue, at 3 o'clock this afternoon. Peterson—ln this city, Dec. llth, of malarial fever James Austin, aon of I. B. and Henrietta A. Ft torso aged 12 years, 1 mouth and 2 days. He was a youth o singular promise. Whitney.—ln this city December 13th, of typhol fever, Mart Louise, only daughter of Dr. J M. and Mra M. 8, Whitney. aged five yeara two months and flftee -days. Dwioht—At Leleo, Kapalama, on Dec. 13th, Jambs A. Dwioht, in the 33d year of hia age. BiDERs-In this city, on Dec. 15th, Mart E. Siders aged 27 years, 2 monthsand 7 days. Brewer—ln fnls city, December 15th,of typhoid fever Johk D. Brewer, aged 34 years. Tbe deceased waa son of Charles Brewer, Esq., of Boston, Maaa., and was born in this city, July 30, 1346. Shortly after, the famil removed to Boston, and Mr. Brewer graduated at Har yard Unlveralty In IM6. He returned to Honolulu 1 1867, and entered the old-established house of C. Brewer fc Co., of which he waa a member at the time of hi death. In business circles he was noted for strict in tegrity and probity of character, andhis private life waa pure. Heleaves a widow and four children. Nott—At Hill Top, Honolulu. Dec. 19th, of typhol fever, Samuel Wilson, eldest son of Samuel and Mary I Nott, aged 8 yeara and 6 weeks. Banning—ln Honolulu, December 18th, Frederic Armstpono, aon of Frederick and Clara Banning, aged 1 yeara 6 H months. Dwioht—ln thta city, Dec. 17, of malarial fever, Mra Anna M. Dwioht. �JOURNAL. MARINE OF HONOLULU, S. I. PORT ARRIVAL*. Not IS—Am achr Honor*, Beeier*, 88 dan from Aeiorla 8 Francisco 20 day Dec ■fm SO—Am bktne Dlecovery, Smith, I—A* bkllne Grace Roberta, Olaan, SO day* from Newcsetle, N S W 2—P MS 8 City of Sydney, De*rboni, fm 8 Francisco as bk Helena, Snow, 74 day* from Ne* Castle 10—Garbk AURU.tr, Schumacher. 144 day. fm Cardiff 10—Am bktne Mooitor, Nelson, 81 day* fin Humboldt 11 ii £ a Lackawanna, Chandler, 60 day* fm Samoa IS—Am bktne J A lalklubarg, llubbart, lot day* from Portland, O. 14 ||a* bk Hawaii, Wood, 80 day.from Jalalt 17—Am aohr W H Meyer, Jordan, 80 daya from 8 F 17—Haw bri* Julia M Avery, Avery, fm Johnson', lad U_Haw bglne Storm Bird, Hatteld, 30 daya fm Jalalt 10— U 8 8 gunboat Ranger,Boyd, 44 daya from Yokohama, en route for San Francisco 10—Amachr Idarchnauer, Bchnauer, 21 dyi fm Eureka jo—Am bk Arkwrlght, Newhall, 68 daya from Newcastle. N H W St—Am bktne Vlcior. 43 daya from Fort Gamble 08—P H* 8 City of New York, Cobb, from Sydney 26—Am bk Rainier, Wulff, 80 daya from Seattle 21-lm tern W L Beebe, Erachen, 22 day* from Port * 1880. BY P. McINKItNY, Tl, fori street, above Hotel CONFECTIONER*. Constantly on hsnd. an of the best French and street. assortment Csliforntsn Caudles, msde hy the beat confectioners In the world, and these he offers for sale at Trade or Retail Prices. ly For Bale, at Sailors' Home Depository. . 5 THE FRIEND, JANIAKV, Domestic Chinese Question. Kkaiwa, Kau, Dec. 12, 1879. " My Dear Dr. Damon i • • " Your Thanksgiving sermon deserves •a wider circulation than it can possibly get in it will receive it. Although you do not say so in so many words, yet I gather that you AND riIIMONK L.BSSONS. By ENGLISH Rev. A. W. Loomis. Published by American Tract any of our Island periodicals, and I hope Society. Price 76c. $8.00 per Doaen. A Long Felt Want to be Supplied. advocate unrestricted Chinese immigration IV COURSE OP PREPARATION into Hawaii \»U nei. I formerly held this view, Kingdom snd soon to tbe Hawaiian Statistical appear, In!Commercial Directory Tourist's "aide* have and This Directobut since their corrupting I DM ry * will contain Information with regard to ths location, occu- influence on the witnessed native female population, pation and residence of every business man, oatlre and foreign, on all the Islands. Also a complete list ol the planta1 say, if we must have Chinese, let their tions, farmland ranches, their location, sgents, manageri, post-office address, snd distance from ths metropolis, list of numbers be restricted to those who are vessels under Ihe Hawaiian flags besides other statistical matwilling to bring their families, tbeir wives ter useful and Interesting. This Directory will be of incalcuDec lable value to business men at home or abroad, as the Informa- and children, to remain and become permantion contained in The Hawaiian Kingdom Statistical and Commercial Directory and Tourist's Gude, will be such aa has ent settlers among Us. To all such imminever before appeared under tbe covers of any single book. grants, be they Portuguese, Japanese, ChinThe publisher would respectfully draw the attention of tbe Blakely public generally to the following facta. Thia Directory now ese or South Sea Islanders, I say, let them 28—Am bk Camden, Roblnaon, it dayi fm Port Gamble In course of compilation, unlikeany other directory published, come ; nay, more, help them to come, and conttlns Important statistics! Information for merchant!, 28—Am bktne Eureka, Nordberg, 16 day* from 8 F manufacturers, real estate dealers, plantation proprietors, give them every inducement to settle. I DEPARTURES. lawyers, hotel keepers, tourists, and In fact almost every O would go still farther,—offer a premium for Dec I—Brit bk Viola, Price, for Portland, class of business men. It will contain the names of all busiB—P MSB City of Sydney, Dearborn, for Sydney every ness men. all the town and female or child who comes here to every clasaitied,on Islands, vil2—Am bk Cyane, Hanson, for San Franciaco lage will be duly represented, giving the names of all foreign The simplest way to do this is to 2 - Kaiate* achr Vivid, Kngllah. for Fannint'a lalaod arranged. It will give a full descrip- remain. residents alphabetically 4—Am bktne Ella, Brown, for San Franciaco tion of all the sugarand rice plantations) also all Ihe farms or a free passage Irom China, Dec 11—Aniukin Laura R Burnham, Phillips, lor 8 Fran ranchea, with names of owners, msnsgers and aitentsi the dis- offer them Dec 13—Ambk D 0 Murray. Ritchie, for San Franciaco or the South Sea Islands, with the Japan (Honolulu); each from the tance of plantation metropolis the 17—Am bktne Monitor, Nelaon. for Kureka distance from the chief town, the name of the road, etc., etc. above condition. IX—Am bktne Discovery, Smith, for 9an Franciaco It will alao contain a description cf each of the lalaods from Deo JB—P M88 City of New York, Cobb, passed the port personal If I am not mistaken, the Chinese Governresearch, and not copied from any previous descripfor San Franciaco tion) the time occupied In travel from one Island to theother, ment formerly tabued the departure of mode of conveyance, the ohargesby steamer or sailing vessel, MEMORANDA. the accomodation on each Island and the probable coat to tra- females to foreign countries ; and if the law velers, which will make thebook Invalusble to tourist. Asa or custom The following Is a list of tbe officers of the D 8 8 work is not now as rigidly enforced as of reference snd a first-class advertising medium, It canChandler Lieut ComCaptain, Ralph ; Lackawanna: not be excelled, as every name Is solicited personally, and the formerly, the women still fear the old law, mander. Yates Stirling ; Lleutensnts, John JBrlce, John Directory when completed will go Into the hands of a large which B Drlgga, Nelson T Houston ; Masters, Jeremiah C BurWas undoubtedly established for the nett, Benjamin F Rlnehart; Cadet Midshipmen, C 8 proportion of the proprietors ofplantations and raiohee on the theclass of people that advertisers gen- self-preservation of the Chinese people. Met lain, J E McDonnell ; Surgeon, E 8 Matthew ; Ass't various Islands,and to erally compilation directory desire reachThe of this Is Kurgeon, Francis s Nssh ; Psynisster, Frank II Hlunisn ; law of this Chief Engineer, Richard M Bsrtleman ; Ass't Engineer, entirely new ss regards the statistics! portion, snd gives in- Now, if that government made a and of late date. This nature with this object in view, we certainly Geo W Snyder | Cadet Engineer, Charles L Wight ; formation that Is correct and reliable Second Lieutenant of Marines, James D'Hervllly-; Boat- work Is to be a home production In every respect, and should cannot be blamed if We make a law designed swain, Jsmes Fsrrell: Gunner. William Halford ; Car- receive a generous patronage. Subscription Price, $3.00. Advertising Rates. Whole enter, Warren Barnard. Ballmsker, William Redstone for the preservation of the Hawaiian people, Page. Page, 00) Half $13 Quarter Page, $7.60. $20 00; ? ay Clerk, W J Larklu. addressed to the Publisher, by compelling Chinese wishing to settle here Liat of officers of the U 8 gunboatRanger I Commander. Oiders should be GEORGK BOWSER. Robert Boyd i Ex. Officer Lieut W P Rsndsll ■ Masters. H to bring their families with them. Our inPublisherand Proprietor. W Schsefer I Ensigns, A Reynolds, O E Hutter, B O terests require guarding as much, as theirs. O" P. O. Box 172, Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands. Scott; Chief Engineer. J B Cerpenter; P'd Assistant Engineer, W L Bsllle ; P'd Asslstsnt Surgeon, H L Law; There is no injustice in this. /We simply P'd Assistant Paymaster, Z T Brown ; Cadet Engineers, to Chinese and all others, the wants of F J Schell, H W Bpsngler ; Csptaln's Clerk, E W Hance ; say Boatswain, P Johnson. Hawaii nei demand that immigrants who come here in large numbers must bring their PASSENGERS. wives witn them. All such will be welFrom Astoria, per Honors,Not 'iS—T S Noch, Henrias permanent settlers, from whatever comed From Han Francisco, per Discovery, Dec I—A McWsyne Thirty-fourth Annual Report! country they come. And my own belief is SpaldMsdame Louise Louise, snd wife, W D McWsyne, ing, John Newblgglng, John 0 Rysn, John Oreen. that we have only to let this be known to For Bydney, per City of Sydney, Dec I—Mlbs Rose ASSETS (Cash) 138.000,000 the common people of China, as it is being Cousins, Miss Emily Cousins, L Hsmbrecbt, F Ellis and wife, O Barstow, Mlas Tailor, Wm Tidd, James Jenkins, ANNUAL. INCOME 5,000,000 made known among the South Seas, and Noel Fressuer, Captain Knurl 7,000,000 females will migrate hither as freely as do For San Frsnclsco, per Rlls, Dec 4—T McNulty, Peter CASH SURPLUS Woods, W Btlnger, Q Schanks. the males/ We have no means of publishSydney, of I—J T From San Francisco, per City Dec H. HACKFELD Si CO., Waterhouse, wife snd maid, W W Dlmond, Miss Hempthis to them (in China or Japan), and ing stead, Mrs Martin and child, Mr and Mrs Trest, P IsenGeneral Afsati. the best wny to make them acquainted wit berg, Miss Isenberg, Miss Thompson, O C Thompson, Miss Johnson, Mrs B W Sears snd child, J C lllsde, A 8 C. O. BBROBR, it will be to pass a law and compel them to Hsrtwell, Henry Csstle, Mrs snd Miss Csstle, MissM TslSpecial Agent for the Hawaiian Islands. comply with its demands, which all wh cott, Capt Brigga, C P Ward, wifeand two children, Miss F Dickson, A Ehlers, W 8 Toler, F M Hanley, F A Hamseek to come here will very soon learn." don, MlssT Lyons, Mr Lyons, Mr snd Mrs Rlelerger.Mlss Psty, Wm Psty, O Macfsrlsne, W 0 Irwin, J B Castle snd We have received the above letter from Carl Onng, wife, L L Rice, J M Thompson. Remnant, WniHerb, H Bradley, Mrs JChilton, J Oertz and wife, our old editorial associate, H. M. Whitne Myhue Joe Suhan, B Cross, 8 Rodemsnn, H A Myhue, L snd wife, John Ferris, Joseph Ferris, Mrs X Townsend, ISSUES Esq., of Kau. It did not fall within th THAT E Buckley, Thomas Bsdler, Thoniss Melra. M Ware, J M Raupp, H Miller, Mra Miller and child, D S Sear*, 8 01line ofremarks which we had sketched fo -sen, E Sullivan, W B Thompson, T J Reardon, J W that discourse to comment upon the Don Smith, C W Andrew*, T X McDonsld, H Schroeder, Hngo " Mulko. J Cameron, J Fletcher, J H Beaton, H E Gerdner. estic Chinese Question." We hardly thin F Anderson, F Richards, M Brown, J Ramsdale, F Davis, T 8 Collins, H Mackey, G 8 Smith. M Watson and wife, and 13 Chinese. 73 passengers in transitu. the reader would be justified in drawing th From Eureka, per Monitor, Dec 11—EB Barilett. inference from that discourse, or any othe From Portland, O, per Jane A Falklnburg, Dee 11—Mr and Mrs C F Mayhew, Mr and Mrs P J Mann, E F Allwritings of ours, that we " advocated unre bright, Cant John Wolfe. For San Francisco, per D C Murrsy. Dec 18—G M Franstricted Chinese immigration into the Ha cis. H Frledlander, Miss Htrsnd, Lieut J d'Hervllley, Geo H Craig, Dr Spies*, D Wayland, D Kenealy, Mrs Ganrick. SEING PRACTICALLY waiian Islands." So far is this from bein From Jaluit, per Hawaii, Dec IS—G I G Jackson, H Tbede and child, and MS islanders, Including men, women and children. An Endowment Policy true, that privately and publicly we have From Jaluit, per Storm Bird, Dec IS—lO7 Islanders, urged the point, that not only Chinese im men, women and children. AT TBI For Sen Frsnclsco, per Discovery, Dec 18—Dr Hunter, migrants should bring their wives, but also Capt Ferryman, Capt Weutworth. Col Norris, Cbaa Lewis. From l'ort Gsnible, per Camden, Dec 16—3 Chinese. from America and Europe. We immigrants per Wm L Beebe, Dec IS—T Heron. Port LIFE RATEB. : LIFE INSURANCE CO. (1 THE ONLY~COMPANY TONTINE INVESTMENT POLICIES. From Blakely, USUAL �6 THE FRIEND, have written letters upon this subject to China, and made it a special point with the Chinese themselves who were going Ut China and were expecting to return. The following editorial appeared in tbe Friend in July last: the time about come for the " Has notGovernment to take decided Hawaiian action about the introduction of so many Chinese immigrants, unaccompanied by tbeir wives ? Would it not be well to convene the leading and prominent Chinese merchants of Honolulu, and let the subject be fairly discussed ? Does not the magnitude of the subject demand the appointment of a Minister Plenipotentiary who shall visit China and confer with the authorities ? If the Hawaiian Government supports a Minister at Washington, ought it not also to support a Minister or Consul-General at Pekin ? Hawaiian affairs are as deeply involved in what passes in China as what passes in America. Tbe California watchword may be, " The Chinese must go," but that of Hawaii is, must " TheandChinese come," to work our cane rice fields. Now let us treat them fairly, and do all in our power to introduce Chinese families and diffuse among them Christianity." This editorial does not convey the idea that we advocate " unrestricted immigration from China." Touching this question of the Chinese and the proper manner of treating them, we would add in conclusion : AYe have no sympathy with the policy vfhich has been pursued in Peru, Cuba and California, of inviting Chinese laborers and then reducing them to slavery, or treating them otherwise than as free and voluntary immigrants who have the same right to " come and go" as immigrants from any other country. To no other country have Chinese immigrants been more cordially invited— nay, urged to come and labor, than to these Hawaiian Islands. The Hawaiian Government, Board of Immigration and planters have combined to make the passage easy for the Chinese to leave iheir own country and come hither. The record of Dr. Hillebrand's mission to China and the East Indies, and the mission of the Hon. Mr. Wilder as the planters' agent, are fresh in mind. To induce them to migrate hither, their passages have been paid wholly or in JANUARY, 1880. twenty years we have been laboring to may bless all your efforts to Christianize the Christianize our Chinese immigrants, and Chinese in your Islands, 1 remain, yours in Christian bonds, for more than ten years we have sustained A. P. Happer. a Chinese school at the Bethel, in Honolulu, We are glad to hear such testimony from where nearly two hundred Chinese have Rev. Mr. Happer respecting some of our been taught the English language, and some Chinese Christian workers on tbe Hawaiian of these are now members of Christian Islands, viz., Sit Moon, acting pastor of churches. While we have never exerted Chinese Church, Honolulu ; Wong Ec, our*influenoe to invite Chinese to come, we Hilo, Hawaii; Kong Tit Yen, Kohala, Hahave aimed to Christianize those who have waii ; Sat Fan, Makawao, Maui; Shin come; and this will be our aim in the Chak, Oahu ; Ho Pui, Kauai. Shin Chak has recently left for California, future. We opened with a letter from M r. he is expected to return. before leavbut rejust we close with a letter Whitney; ing he made .the tour of the districts of Hilo, ceived from the Rev. Mr. Happer, a mis- Hamakua and Kohala, preaching among sionary of the American Board in Canton : the Chinese on the plantations, having been Canton, China, Oct 16, 1879. Key. Dr. Damon. My Dear Brother: We have been separated from each other by the Pacific for these thirty odd years. While I have known much of you, I have never had any personal intercourse. Now, as Canton is to be connected with Honolulu by a line of steamers, and as the number of Chinese who will be in your Islands will be increased, I feel free to write to you of matters of common interest connected with the cause of Christ. I feel much connected with Chinese interest there, as two of my pupils, Ho Pui and Shin Chak, are your colporteurs, and an acquaintance, Sit Moon, is temporary pastor of the Chinese church in Honolulu. 1 write to say, that if we can help the work amongst the Chinese in your midst in any way, by sending books or tracts, we will be glad to do so Letters from any of the Chinese to their friends here may be sent to me. In view of the increased number of Chinese there, I would advise that one of your young ministers should come to Canton and study Chinese for two years or more. You will find it very difficult to carry on the work among the Chinese unless some American understands Chinese. There is a want of integrity even amongst Chinese Christians which you will have to guard against. There is a Wesleyan here from Australia studying Chinese, in order to have charge of the work there on his return. The Presbyterians of Australia took Rev. D. Vroomnn from this place to superintend their work there. It appears to me that you will need to put forth strenuous efforts to Christianize the Chinese in your Islands, or there is danger that they will turn many of your own islanders back You will notice that an to heathenism. part. Agent goes from here to the Islands. It apReferring to the question of the Chinese pears to me very important that, in any bringing tbeir wives, it is a noteworthy fact arrangements made, there should be a that the only ship which has ever brought a stipulation for women and children to go. due proportion of respectable women and This was the regulation in the emigration children was the last ship chartered by Mr. to Demerara, and was the most important and beneficial of all the regulations. The Aseu, about two years ago. More than one- emigrants there are doing very well and half of this ship's company of immigrants becoming Christians. Give my Christian Were Christians from the German church regards to Sit Moon, Ho Pui and Shing Ho Pui is the best Chinese scholar in China. We are happy to bear the most Chak. any of them, and would make a good unqualified testimony to the good Character of teacher for anyone who wanted to study of these Christian immigrants. /, Chinese there. Hoping to hear from you by One paragraph more. For more than the return steamer, and praying that God sustained by funds contributed privately by J. I, Waterhouse, Esq. O ur readers, we think, will peruse with interest two letters which we have recently received from two of our Chinese colporteurs, Sat Fan on Maui, and Ho Pui on Kauai. The former is one of those receiving honorable mention in Dr. Hopper's letter: Koloa, Dec. 5, 1879. Rev. S. C. Damon.—My Dear Sir: I received your letter last month and ought to answer you immediately, but my eye has been sick. This is reason 1 do not write. Please excuse me. 1 was around the Island the third time, and know four men who like trust Jesus Christ. For I have seen them reading Bible when they have time, and they tell me pray to God to help them. They go to native church every week. Please you prsy the Lord give Holy Spirit to them to deliver them from evil. The Lord bless you and your family. Ho Pui. Palcili, Makawao, Nov. 14, 1879. Rev. S. C Damon.—Dear Sir: I have heard bad news from a Christian man, who said your son has died with a high fever last week. My dear sir. do not feel troubled for him, because he die by God's providence. I think God will receive his soul up to heaven. Now you should take good care of your health. Do not be over sorry ; if you sorry so much 1 fear that you will be failing in your health. Please see the Holy Bible instructs us, because God's hand has shield us from every danger in this world. God might be able to preserve his soul too when he died. Although we cannot see him at this time, we shall see him in the Kingdom of God. My dear sir, I wish to go to see you, but I cannot go, for there is a great deal to do here. So it make me very sorry. Now I only write to you to comfort you, and I will pray to God to bless you and give you strength to publish the gospel of Jesus at Honolulu ; and God also make you to instruct all heathen and foreign people with comfort. Afterwards all the heathen people will believe on God at your preaching. Now 1 tell you about myself. Sir, I preach in this islsnd of Maui with very good attendance of a great many Chinese who has been baptized by Rev. Mr. Rouse last month, and also thirty Chinese wbo had joined the Y. M. C. A. Now I have found some more �1880. APV-H-RTISBBttIIM-TS. Chinese who would like to believe on God, whom I hope will become a church for the •**r G. IRWIN fc CO.. Chinese Christian here, and I also hope you Commission Merchants, will pray to God for me that He will make Plantation and Insurance Agents, Honolulu, H. 1. me to do many things for God, so it will PBI R U E Si CO.. make my soul to go home with triumph. I AW to C. L. Richards k Co.) hope you will excuse me for any mistake, * (Saecesors and please give my compliments to Rev. Ship Chandlers and General Commission Merchants, Dr. Hyde. Honolulu,Oahu, Hawaiian Islands. Yours very truly, Y. S. Satfan. The Christian Chinese here ask me to Agents Pialsa Salt Works, Braid's Brab Lances, Ausi Perry Davl*' Pal*-, Killer. compliment you and Rev. Dr. Hyde. 7 THE FRIEND, JOIIARV, SAILORS' HOME! . Places of Worship. M. HOFFMANN, S,' I> m\\%A\ tb I «fyl MnllrlfJlmmM.WMlLJlLiiiiHiiiiß B ~ Physician and Surgeon, Seamen's Bethel—Rev. S. C. Damon, Chaplain, King street, near tbe Sailors' Home. Preaching Corner Merchantsnd Kaahumanu Streets,near thePostOtnoe. at 11 a. M. Seats free. Sabbath School before tbe BREWER Si CO.. morning service. Prayer meeting on Wednesday **p evenings at 74 o'clock. Commission and Shipping Merchants, Fort Street Church—Rev. W. Frear. Pastor, Honolulu, Oahu. H. I. corner ol Fort and Beretania streets. Preaching P. ADAMS. on Sundays at 11 A. M. aud 74 p.m. Sabbath School at 10 a. m. Auction and Commission Merchant, Kawaiahao Church—Rev. H. H. Parker. Prfstor, lire-Proof Store, in Robinson's Buil.lin j, Queen Strut. King street, above the Palace. Services in Hawaiian every Sunday at 11 a.m. Sabbath school at ID a.m. Evening services at o'clock, alternating with Kaiitnakaptli. District meetings in various chapels at 3.30 p. M. Prayer meeting every Wednesday at 74 p. M. Roman Catholic Church —Dnder tbe charge of No. 37 fort Street, Rt. Bey. Bishop Maigret. assisted by Rev. Father Hermann ; Fort street, near Beretania. Services KEEP A FINE ASSORTMENT OF every Sunday at 10 a. m. and 2 p. m. Kaumakapili Church—Rev. M. Kuaea. Pastor, Beretania street, near Nuuanu. Services in Hawaiian every Sunday at 104 M Sabbath school at 94 A. M. Evening services *•at 74 o'clock, alterMASTERS VISITING THIS PORT during the last Six Years can testify from peraonal exnating with Kawaiahao. Prayer meeting every of ED. DUNSCOMBE, Honlulu, January 1, 1876. Manager. CASTLE & COOKE IMPORTERS AND DEALERB IN NOTICE TO SHIP MASTERS. GENERAL MERCHANDISE! AQEHTS OF DILLINGHAM & 00., REGULAR PORTLAND LINK OF Mutual Packets, THE The UnionMarine Insursncs LIT* Insuranca Company, New England Company, San Francisco, TheKohala Sugar Company, Ths Hslku Sugar Company, ThsHemakua Sugar Company, Ths Walalua Sugar Plsntallon, TheWheeler k Wilson Sewing Machine Company, tf Dr. Jsynek Sons Celebrated Family Medicines. Goods Suitable for Trade, Wednesday at 74 P. M. The Anolican Church—Bishop, the Rt. Rev. Alfred Willis, D. D.; Clergy. Rev. Rob't Dunn, .M. A., Rev. Alex. Mackintosh, St. Andrew's Temporary Cathedral, Beretania street, opposite the Hotel. English services on Sundays at 64 and 11a. m., and 24 and 74 p. m. Sunday School at tbe Clergy House at 10 a. m. JOHN 9. MeGRJGW. M.l> Late Surgeon Y. S. Army, ~ Can be consulted at his residence on Hotel street, between Alakea and Fort streets. a. I. WHITHBT J. W. kOaaeTBOS WHITNEY ftto H.ROBERTSON, M. (Successors Whitney), SHIP TJEIEGH-.OA.N»H perience that the undersigned keep the beat assortment NEW—•— GOODS FOB TRADE ESTABLISHMENT, And Sell Cheaper than any other House in the Kingdom. DILLINGHAM ft CO. Just Received from England Corner Fort and Hotel Streets. THE ATTENTION •ribs CIHb»« that I has* I CALL ol Oahu and the other Islands to the SO a large (Act OPEN First-Class Establishment. Where (Jenilemen can find a AND of Goods, Well-selected Stock aod great ears, as to Chosen FOR SALE at COST PRICE At tbe adapted style, with to this climate. BIBLE DEPOSITORY, SAILOR'S HOME, Having had an eitensive experience In connection with A few copies of the following excellent works* some of the largest Importing houae* lo New Yorkand Phila** Dally Remembrancer, or Horning and Evening Portions for delphis, I can assure my customers that they will not only the year, by Rev JamesSmith. secure ths "Ihj first Love." Christ's Message to Epheaua, by Rev Dr Culross. ••Behold I Smnd at theDoor and Knock." Christ's Message to Laodlcea, by Rev Dr Calross. STATIONERY fc PERIODICALS. Grsce and Truth, by Dr W P Mackay. Dorothea Trudel, or tbe Prayer of faith, translated bom Ihe German. Or THE HAWAIIAN OUIDK Life hf Joshua Poole. A RemarkableConversion. BOOK, Ths Message from the Tbrooe,by Mrs Anna Bhlptou. Jams' History of the Hawaiian Islands, TheLost Blessing, by Mrs Anna Shlpton. Hawaiian Phrase Book, Asked of Ood, by Mrs Anna Shiplon. Hawaiian Grammar, Tbe Watch Tower in ihe Wilderness, by Mrs Anna Shlpton. Andrews' Hawaiian Grammar, The Child Minister, by Mrs Anna Shlpton. Hawaiian Dictionary, Life Truths, by Rev J Denhsm Smith. Chart of the Hawaiian Islands. 1..10 In Christ, by Rev J Denliam Smith. Walk and Warfare, or WildernessProvision, by Rev J DenALSO, O* BAUD, ham Smith. Various Addresses, by Rev J Denhsm Smith. Various Addresses, by D L Moody. OTHER BOOKS OUT THE ISLANDS. The Tsbernsclesnd ths Priesthood, by H W Soltsu. F. male Characters of the Bible, by Rev Dr Hughe*. Tbe Boy's Watchword. Also a variety of smaller Books by Browulow North, IM Hsoghton, *o. Very Best Materials but will also obtainat my place Importers and Dealers in Foreign Books, PUBLISHERS The BEST FITTINC CARMENTB that can be turned out ol any eit%bluhmeut In ibe Kutern cities. English Hunting Pantaloons! ! AND RIDING HABITB LADIES' MADE A SPECIALITY. Children'! Suits, in Eastern Styles. W. TREOLOAW, Hoootnl*. | THE HAWAIIAN HOTEL. EWERS ** DICKSON, Dealers in Lumber and Building Materials, fortgtrest, Honolulu, H. I. __^^_^_____^____^__ A. L. SIWITR, IMPORTER & DEALER IE JEWELRY. King's Combination Spectacles, Glass and elated Ware, Sewing Machines, Picture Frames, Vases, Braokets, etc. etc. TEKIU STRICTLY CASH [lyl No. 78, Fort t. BISHOP fc 00., BANKERS, HAWAIIAN HONOLULU. DRAW THE BANK. OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO, — N*w l»rk, ISD TISIS 40SSTS II B-ratwa, THOS. C. THRUM, STATIONERY AED EEWS DEPOT, THE ORIENTAL BANE Km. 19 M*»reb»»t Streak. ALLEN HERBERT, PROPRIETOR, ALL THE MODERN IMPROVE- HASmeat* requisite for carrying on a nxst-class Hotel. « ■ » Hmaalalas. OF READING MATTER-OF Papers awl Mafaalnes, back numbers—put ap to order at ly rednoed rats* for partlei going tosea. PACKAGES ISLANDS. EXCHANGE OX — Aao rasis U»W(k*>w(. — Pari*, A askl-SB-*. CORPORATION, LONDON, saascass is Sy*»»ey.snd — Melbearas, And Transact a Gsn.rel Seeking Buains**. apl»T» �Young Men'Chrisstiof AasnHonolociationulu. 8 Pure religion and undefiled before Ood, the Father, is this : To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep one's self unspotted from the world. KTHIS Bi by a Committee of the Y. I. C. A. PACK IS The Y. M. C. A. meet the third Thursday of every month, at the Lyceum, for business and discussion. The topic for discussion at the January meeting is, " Our duty in regard to preventible conditions of disease." All interested in Y. M. C. A. work are cordis lly invited to attend. List or OaricßßS A*D Hti«di«o Cummittsis or Tin Y. M. Y. A. President, W. R. Castle ; Vice President, Dr. J. M. Whitney | Secretary, W. A. Kinney ; Treasurer, Reeding Room Committee—E Dunscoenbe adltor—Charles Peterson, kdllor of the Sth page of Ths FbiBND for tins quarter. Chioeae Mission Committee—Rev. 8. C. Damon, H. Waierhouse, J. B. Atherton Rev. C. M. Hyde. Kntertsinmenl Committee—Vim O. Smith, T. H. Davles. Employment Committee—B. B. Dole, E. Uuoecombe, B F. DUrafkesa. Committee to Visit the Hospital and Prison—o. U. Leas, E. Dempsle, W. W. Hail, Dr. 0. M. Hyde. Our plan, as set forth above, —the struggle to maintain a pure religion before God—comes home to us with renewed force at the beginning of this new year. The past lies dead behind us, and yet in its offspring, the present, we recognize, in changed form, the pure spirit of the old. Progress has been made, but thoughtful activity is ever the necessity. Ministrations have been made to the bereaved, and we count as fatherless and friendless, not alone those whose earthly ties have been sundered, but recognise also those whom the terms in their widest application would embrace the wanderers through the world with no infinite hand to guide them. There are those whose hearts know not the feeling induced by heavenly love and paternal protection; those whom adversity has claimed as its victims ; those to whom earthly justice has meted out punishment; those whose feet have been stumbling along life's pathway ever since they first breathed the air of heaven, whose minds have always been enveloped in the darkness of a spiritual night. These sre to be considered " in affliction." The command comes, " Visit them." We are not to wait till the temporal or spiritual cloud has lifted ; but while the shadows still shroud the soul in darkness, then is the time to let in the bright rays of consolation and sympathy. The work has been begun and is progressing. The Prison and Hospital an visited weekly, and their inmates helped and comforted as far ss possible. too, an attack has been made upon ■atbendom in these Islands ; and to show result of this attack, we have simply to mention the report before the Y. M. C. A. last meeting, in which it was stated it 91 Chinese had been admitted to mem- — (Then, ijts bership in Rev. Mr. Rouse's church, Maui. Still there is ample room for Christian work. Now, when we hare accomplished all this, when we have done our duty faithfully to the sick and imprisoned, we have attained, as it seems, the easiest part of the requirements of Pure Religion. We have worked for others; but that is not enough. "To keep one's self unspotted from the world" is still incumbent. And how much that means ! The effort is a life work. The struggle is against self and the natural heart. Obstacles of evil are on every hand, and instead of straight, the path ahead seems crooked indeed. Perfection is impossible with finite beings, and some stains will cling ; but with the primal motive, God's will, those spots will be washed out in forgiveness. Have we this '•*' Religion undefined ?" The present is with us. The needy are around us, and if our own hearts are right, the only question with each one of us will be, How shall we best attain the requirements of pure religion? Then, when another year has flown, in the present that shall confront us we shall trace the lineaments of a past full of glorious achievements. In One Life-time. Some one has recently written : "I am not an old man, yet in material things 1 have seen the creation of a new world. lam contemporary with the railroad, the tele- graph, the steamship, the photograph, the steam plow, the friction match, gaslight, chloroform, nitre-glycerine, the monitor, the caloric engine, the California gold discoveries, the oil-well discoveries, gutta percha, canned fruits, the electric light, the telephone, etc. Gentlemen conservatives, these are some of the footprints of material progress of the present generation. Do you think the moral world will remain tbe same as before ? that society will be unaffected by these changes ? If you do, let me call your attention to the fact that this same generation has seen the abolition of slavery on a grand scale, the ascendancy of republican America, the opening of China aud Japan, the institution of world's fairs, the spread of the insurance system, and the agitation for the freedom of women. And the march is steadily on, with accelerating motion. What is its meaning ? Where will it end ?" The meeting of the Association took place Thursday evening, Dec. 18th. Tbe attendance was very poor, there being but ten members present. After various items of business and reports from members of committees, the subject '< Unequal Taxation l was discussed. We call attention to tbe subject for next month in our advertisement, and would ask for a fair atendance at least of the members of the Association. The corner-stone of a new Congregational chapel was recently laid at Milton, England, by a member of the Established Church, and an English Church newspaper, commenting on the fact, says: "In these days many a good Churchman is thankful to have a Dissenting chapel to go to, who would never have been induced to cross its threshold before our churches were turned into Mass-houses." "The wind is unseen, but it cools the brow of the fevered one, sweetens the summer atmosphere, and ripples the surface of the water into silver spangles of beauty. So goodness of heart, though invisible to the material eye, makes its presence felt, and from its effects upon surrounding things we are assured of its existence." Ruskin never said a truer thing than this: "If you want knowledge, you must toil for it; if food, you must toil for it; and if pleasure, you must toil for it. Toil is the law. Pleasure comes through toil, and not by self-indulgence and indolence. When one gets to loving work, his life is a happy one. Said a poor man in Brooklyn, the other day, with a family of eleven to provide for : " If I were worth a million dollars 1 should not wish to do much different than I do now every day, working hour afterhour. I love it a thousand times better than to. rest." He has for nearly half a century been surrounded by workers, and hns caught the spirit of industry. He loves his work better than food or sleep. He is happy who has conquered laziness once and forever. He that has an eye and a heart can even now say, Why should I falter ? Light has come into the world ; to such as love light, so as light must be loved, with a boundless, all-doing, all-enduring lore. Here on earth we are as soldiers fighting in a foreign land, that understand not the plan of the campaign, and have no need to understand it, seeing well what is at our hand to be done. Let us do it like soldiers, with submission, with courage, with a heroic joy. " Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with all thy might.'' Behind us, behind each one of us, lie six thousand years of human effort, human conquest. Before us is the boundless time, with its aa yet uncreated and unconquered continents and Eldoradoes, which we, even we, have to conquer, to create; and from the bosom of eternity there shine for us celestial guiding stars. inheritance, how -wide and fair I •• My Timela my fair M*d field-of Una I'm heir." — Cttrlyle, � 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 (1880) 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 - 1880.01.01 - Newspaper Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1880.01.01