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FRIEND
THE
'JTctu 80 J ic.i, "Id. 32, 3to. 5.
HONOLULU, MAY
THE FRIEND
MAY i,
.M,.
CONTENTS.
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Hawaiian Almanac and Annual
A Florist
Rescued Gilbert Islanders
New Guinea
Vale College in the Seventeenth and
Centuries
K.ighteenth
Rev. Sylvester Woodbridge, D.l)
Thoughts for the Thoughtful
Editor's Table
Hawaiian Ferns.
Marine Journal
a Dictionary of the Aneityumese I .anguage
Y. Al. C A
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Mr. John F. Bowler will find a
letter for him by inquiring at the office
of the Friend.
The Gazette has mentioned the contemplated
vacation trip to Boston,
which, through the generosity of some
family friends, Dr. Hyde of the North
Pacific Mission Institute, will take next
month. He leaves on the next mail
steamer, the Zealandia, June 3d. Mrs.
Hyde accompanies him, and their son
Henry, who expects to enter William's
College. Miss Laura Green and Miss
Iren Ii will also be of the party.
Hawaiian Almanac
and
Annual.
—We should feel disappointed not to
be greeted by this publication on the
first of each new year. This is the
fourteenth of its appearance.
It is
now putting on the appearance of
sturdy growth and vigorous young manhood, if not of age. If any one desires
a fair and candid view of Hawaiian
progress, from year to year, he should
not fail to
procure this annual,
and carefully preserved among his
valuables.
A full file twenty years
hence will be worth their weight in
silver, if not gold.
ICE CREAM SALOON.
The Hart Brothers seem determined
to meet, in this warm climate, the wants
of the community. How much better to
i,
1883.
visit their establishment and quench the
thirst and refresh the wearied body with
their c 00l drinks than to go to certain
other places of resort ? Temperance is
certain to be promoted, when men
eschew all alcoholic drinks and patronize
the soda fountain and the ice cream
saloon.
A
FLORIST.
It is highly gratifying to notice that
Mr, Kidwell, an Englishman, has started
an establishment on the plains for the cultivation of"flowers and plants. He certainly affords the assurance that the
lovers of flowers will have their tastes
fully gratified. Such enterprises merit
the liberal support of the public, and
we see no reason why Honolulu may
not became noted for its grand display
of the choicest specimens of the florist's
skill and taste.
RESCUED
GILBERT
ISLANDERS.
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Of> Setio, 'Vofiiiiw 43r-
a man who ap|>eared to be a leader,
gave thanks to the Almighty with be-
coming reverence." This old man,
would not take brandy as a restorative
because he was "a missionary."
A free passage on one of the Pacific
Mail steamers was given them to San
Francisco. In both Oakland and San
Francisco, these waifs of the ocean,
cheered the friends of missions by their
songs and testimony, that it is not a
vain and fruitless enterprise to send
missionaries to the distant islands of
the Pacific. They have now arrived in
Honolulu, and are under the Rev. Mr.
Bingham's care.
Many of our readers, are so familiar
with mission-work, that these manifest
fruits of the Gilbert Islands-work may
not appear as anything strange or
remarkable. Not so, however, did this
incident appear to Captain Slocum, or
to many in Yokohama, San Francisco
and Oakland. We rejoice an opportunity has occurred for these poor converted pagans to make known on an
elevated stage, that foreign missions
are not a failure, but that God's word
scattered abroad among the heathen
We have been much interested in
the narrative going the rounds of the
newspapers respecting five Gilbert Islanders picked up at sea by Captain
Slocum, of the Northern Light, of NewYork. This vessel fell in with a boat will not return unto Him void.
adrift from Apamana, of the Gilbert P. S. —Since penning the above reIslands, about 600 miles away from marks, we have met these wanderers,
land. Seven of the boat's crew had and were exceedingly pleased with
perished during their forty and more their appearance. It was the privilege of
days on the open sea. Captain Slocum the editor of the Friend to visit the
tried to land them, first on their own Gilbert Islands in 1861, or twenty-two
island, and failing in that, take them to years ago, and there witness the inthe Marshall Islands, but failing in habitants of those islands, in all their
that, also, he finally landed them at debasement and degradation, hence we
Yokohama, where they found many can fully bear our testimony, in favor
friends, among whom a purse of $500 of the elevating influence of the great
was raised.
mission-work. We could wish that
more
some of those who are experiencing the
Captain Slocum reports:
A
devout band of Christians I never met rich inheritance of Christianity, and
When first hauled out of their cheer- yet defame missions, would visit the
"
heathen in their heathen homes.
�THE FRIEND, MAY,
34
NEW GUINEA.
(By A. W. Murray.)
No. 4.
My next New Guinea ex[)erience was
a remarkable affair; perhaps, consider-
1883
I*el me now lay before you a few
facts illustrative of the present state
and prospects of the mission. It is already known doubtless to many of you
that a church has been organized at
Port Moresby. The number that have
been admitted to full membership is
small, only eight, but there is a goodly
number besides who seem to be sincere
inquirers. Thirty-five have been ba[>
tized, and a number more are candidates. "All those jwho have been baptized, Mr.
writes, "as well as some
others who are candidates, are very
poured out our hearts in prayer and
thanksgiving, and sang: " Jesus shall
reign where'r the sun." We felt as
though the great work was actually accomplished, though in reality our grand
opening was a very humble affaironly a "gate ajar," as it were.
Still the occasion justified our enthusiasm, for though we had not much for
the eye of sense to look upon, had we
not in addition to that the word of the
ing the place and circumstances, the
most remarkable ofall. My old friends,
Ruatoka and his wife, conceivd the idea
of showing their respect for their friends
and visitors by getting up a dinner party, after the fashion of civilized lands.
eternal God on which to rest ? What,
The guests numbered no less than fifty,
then, should be our feelings now that
and the occasion proved interesting and
God is so clearly going out before us,
instructive in no small degree. The earnest
in their profession of love to and setting before us open doors, wide
company was made up of the newlyChrist, and in intelligence and consist- and effectual, on the right hand and on
arrived teachers and their wives from
ency
theyare quite as advanced as our first the left. The opening of these doors
the other station on New Guinea. Mr. converts on
Niue were. We have been has been brought about chiefly through
and Mrs. I.awes and Mr. Chamers and
careful and cautions in receiving them.
our having been led, in the providence
parties from the John Williams. Every"The Lord knoweth them that are of (iod,
to the right place for a center
thing was in civilized style, and the arhis." He does not despise the day of of operations. The Port Moresby triberangement and management were highsmall things. I need not tell you, dear is beyond all
comparison the most in
ly creditable to the generous host and
our hearts are too full of fluential in the whole of the southeast
Brother,
that
his wife and those of their fellow labogratitude and thankfulness for expres- side of the peninsula. They are so
rers who lent their aid.
We need sion. You
will share it with us, for it politically. They are less numerous
hardly remark that there was an abwas you who began the work—laid the now than they were some
time before
sence of all intoxicants; pure water, the
first stone. "
the introduction of the gospel, owing
juice of thecocoanut, and the "cup that
cheers but not inebriates" were the Thus a beginning is made in the way to a visitation of smallpox having swept
wholesome drinks with which the guests of gathering in the first fruits; as yet it off many of them. They arc still nuis a day of small things in this respect, merous, however, and though they are
were regaled.
but these small beginnings are the pre- no longer dreaded as in the dark days
Speeches beffitting the occasion folcursors of a grand and glorious harvest of heathenism, their influence remains,
lowed the dinner. All turned upon the to
be reaped in due time. And of this and is a power for good. And, moreover,
one great subject that had brought us
coming harvest, the indications are clear Port Moresby is the center of trade,
together, the work of God on New Gui- and
widespread. From Port Moresby, and on that account is exerting
nea. All the speakers spoke hopefully
the center, influences are going forth a powerful and very widespread inand earnestly.
which are certainly preparing the way fluence. Trading parties from all quarRuatoka led off. The newly arrived for the spread and triumph of Christi- ters are
constantly coming and going,
teachers and their wives were accorded anity throughout the whole of the southremaining for longer or shorter periods,
a warm welcome, and loving words were east side of the peninsula.
and are being kindly and justly treated;
spoken to visitors and old associates.
All the principal villages in that and during their stay they learn someAppropriate utterances followed, and
region for the space of full 500 miles thing more or less of what is going on,
Mr Chalmers concluded a characteristic
have been visited by Mr. Chalmers, and they are not slow to report what
speech with a message to the friends
and everywhere there are open doors. they have seen and heard and experiand supporters of the New Guinea misSomething is known of Christianity, and enced, when they return to their own
sion to the following effect. "Tell
missionaries and teachers are known as homes, and in lands through which
them," he said "that whatever may be men
in whom full confidence can be they pass on their way thither. And the
their views with reference to the future
men who are the friends of Port Moresby people themselves do
placed—as
of the New Guinea mission, we on the
all and the enemies of none, and the much directly as pioneer teachers
spot have no manner of doubt as to its
consequence is that at this moment and missionaries.
They make long
progress and ultimate triumph, and
are openings for not less than fifty voyages for purposes of trade, and they
there
were the churches to withdraw their teachers
and ten or twelve missionaries. are obliged to go to distant parts to
support and leave us to our own reAnd what a pregnant fact is this! build their canoes, as they have no
sources, I have no doubt that every
When Mr. McFarlane and I succeeded, large timber in their own territory.
one of us, missionaries and teachers, eleven
years ago, in placing teachers The building of one of their large
would, to a man, at once determine to on a small island
in Torres Straits we canoes occupies many months, so there
stick to our work, and cast ourselves
at the thought that we is ample time and opportunity for them
were
overjoyed
on the providence of God." A noble uthad succeeded in taking a step which to communicate all they know to those
terance, full of promise as regards the
ultimately lead to the opening among whom they sojourn, and by
future of the New Guinea mission, and would
of
the
great dark land of mystery, their example to commend to their
breathing a spirit before which difficul- up
ties will vanish as the morning mist be- that lay at a distance before us, and in acceptance the new religion. And it is
the exurberance of our feeling we a pleasing fact that, though they themore the rising sun.
�THE FRIEND, MAY,
selves are but a slight remove from
heathenism, they do bear a practical testimony to Christianity. They abstain
from work on the Sabbath and generally
keep up some sort of service, and are
fair and honest in their dealings. The
brethern mentioned the case of one
party in which there was a young man,
somewhat in advance of his companions, who regularly acted as chaplain
during their absence from home.
REV.
SYLVESTER
WOODBRIDGE,
D. D.
We notice the death of this esteemed
Presbyterian clergyman in the Occident of San Francisco, of April 4th. He
died Sabbath morning, 2d. of the
month. Dr. Woodbridge has been for
over 30 years one of the most laborious
ministers of the gospel on the Pacific
coast. It was our privilege to meet
him in Benecia, on his first arrival in
1849. During our visit to Oregon and
California, in the spring and summer of
1849, we were permitted to witness the
first breaking of that wave of immigration which has not ceased even until
the present time.
From our journal, as printed in the
Friend of Nov.
15th, 1849, we
copy as follows:
"To-day, June 23d, 1 visited the
city of Benecia. Here I found the Rev.
Mr. Woodbridge, a Presbyterian clergyman, engaged in a school, and preaching
upon the Sabbath. He seemed to have
secured the confidence ofall classesjin the
community, and I was rejoiced to see
that he was laboring for the real benefit
of the future inhabitants of the country.
He left on Long Island a flourishing
societyand church, which were cordially
united in his support, where he had labored as a minister of the gosj)el for
fourteen years. After surveying the
country he decided upon Benecia as
prospectively opening a wide and promising field for ministerial usefulness.
He is expecting to return, ere long, for
his family, and cast in his lot with the
rising future of the people of the coun-
try."
Thus, for a period of about half a century, this faithful minister has been
preaching the gospel. He has also labored as an editor and teacher, but in
whatever capacity, he has labored hard
and faithfully. It has been our privilege to meet him whenever we have
visited the coast and always found him
engaged in his Master's work.
1883.
35
YALE COLLEGE IN THE SEVEN-TEENTH THOUGHTS FOR THE
THOUGHTFUL
AND EIGHTEEN CEN
If Christian teaching can make Chinese good
TURIES.
citizens, it ought to have every encouragement.
The important advance which has There was never a worthier work. To the
been in the educational facilities of writer it seems that no similar work was ever
Vale College, may readily be inferred, more intelligently planned than is this work in
from the following notice of the condi- these islands. It seems to be satisfactorily
maturing. If it shall
it will be by untion of that institution, about the close tiring effort under the succeed,
most favorable conditions.
of the last century, when Dr. Beecher The family relations must be maintainedor the
was an undergraduate. We copy the civilization of Chinese, in any Christian sense,
must continue the most wretched of farces.
following from his autobiography:
"As for apparatus, we had a great So long as unmarried Chinese shall be allowed
to herd in crowded, ill-ventilated, ill-smelling
orrery almost as big as the wheel of an
quarters, so long will they breed disease, foster
ocean steamer, made in the college by crime, and offend alike the moral sense and the
Joseph Bridger, afterwards misionary to sensitive nostrils of the usual white. If this
the Sandwich Islands. It was made tore- be race prejudice, we trust our tlearest foes—
volve, but was all rusty ; nobody ever and some of them are our dearest well-wishers
—will make the most of it, for it is part of the
started it. There was a four-foot tele(Jospel of Common Sense. Hut if your Chiscope, all rusty;
nobody looked nese male be mated judiciously, given a counthrough it, and if they did, not to edifica- trywoman, a Hawaiian woman, or any healthy
tion. There was an air-pump, so out woman to wife, to l>c the mother of children
oforder that a mouse under the receiver more brawny and as industrious as he; if he
would live as long as Methuselah. and his children and his children's children
may Ik- brought within the pale of Anglo-Saxon
There was a prism, and an elastic civilization; if
the Asiatic scheme of life may
hoop to illustrate centrifugal force. We be broadened by a sense of things spiritual
were taken up to these dingy, dirty which he knows not, as well as of things intelthings, and that was all the apparatus lectual antl physical, which he knows as well
as we; if you can make him understand that
the college had."
liberty and license are not synonyms, that love
The good Doctor's memory was in is not lust, that public spirit is the oxygen
in
fault about the name of the maker of the atmosphere of modern society; if you can
all this—it shall be well for your stewardthe orrery, as no man by the name of do
ship.—Saturday Press.
Bridger was ever connected with the
American Mission on the Islands, but
the miserable condition of the philosophical and astronomical apparatus remains the same.
Our object in referring this subject is
to call public attention to the "apparatus " at Oahu College. We should be
ashamed to rejiort thereon. Who is in
fault ? Not the Trustees, but the public
withholding funds from the proper endowment of the institution, but with the
limited funds, the Trustees have ordered a telescope from London, not to
cost over $500. Will not some of our
rich men come forward and liberally
endow the college with philosophical,
chemical and astronomical apparatus ?
We can think of no method that a few
thousand dollars could be more usefully invested for educational purposes.
A word to the wise and the rich.
A moral, sensible, and
well-bred
man will not affront me ; and no other
can.
Mrs. Dr. Happer of the American Presbyterican
Mission at Canton, Mrs. Winn of
Yokohama, Mrs. Flyer of the Central China
Mission and Miss Field of the Swatow Mission
were passengers on the Coptic
way to
the United States. These ladies came ashore
last Wednesday and were present at a special
meeting of the Hawaiian Woman's Board,
making interesting statements of the progress
of mission work in their various fields. In the
evening of Wednesday, the Fort street and
Bethel congregations held a united prayer
meeting in the lecture room of the Fort street
Church. The foreign mission ladies spoke at
some length. From the Advertiser's report is
taken the following fragment of one lady's
statement:
The Chinese bachelor on the Pacific Coast, and it
must be the same here in Hawaii, is a very much worse
man than when he left home. Nearly all Chinamen
over twenty five years of age, are married man. They
would gladly bring their wives and families here could
three conditions lie
i. if they were sure that their
families would be protected; a. If the wives of those
husbands now here could he brought here under the
care of some elderly women, according to Chinese customs: and 3. If the rate of passage (SAo) were not
virtually prohibitive. The Chinese immigrant ia poor.
If Hawaii desires these married immigrants to bring
their wives, then the Government must bearat least part
of the expense of bringing themhere. 'When theChinese
immigrant takes with him his family then he makes the
beat colonist in the world. He ia temperate, peaceable,
industrious, frugal; and comparatively moral.
met:
Following are the officers of H. I. R. M. S.
Nayesdnik, now at Kohala, attending the unveiling of the statue of Kamehameha:
„aptain
Jommander
lit Lieutenant
md Lieutenant (Paymaster)
i..
Kaioffueru
Tchckopk y
Mordoaoiir
ffritintl
It is not the part of faith but of unworthy, ird Lieutenant
GragoritfT
Lieutenant
TehemnchorT
StderetT
guilty unbelief, to assume that Ith
ist Engineer
md Engineer
VedernikorT
Obnonky
there is never in the Christian life, a jrd Engineer
Artillery Officer
Parcbetluw
victory that raises the devoted child of lit
Navigation Officer
VaaflMT
Navigation Officer
ind Ni
Vumnaf
God above a ceaseless fight over the Doctor
Biimoff
( IoanofT, Scheoank, WulpT, Uabr
yAiMB#n
Miiusnipmet,
selfsame ground.
dorf.BartcniefT.Pavloff andScfcolr.
�36
THE FRIEND, MAY. 1883
EDITOR'STABLE.
Around the World Tour of Christian Missions, a Universal Sur-
W. F. Bainbridge. Lati Co., Boston. Second
Edition, 1882.
vey.
By
throp
Tours around the world are the
common occurences of the age, and
ing. The portrait has been successfully executed by J. I). Strong, Esq.,
who has succeeded admirably in reproducing the features of the judge. It is
a graceful and becomg tribute to departed worth. No public officer of the
Hawaiian Kingdom ever labored with
more unwearied patience, fidelity and
integrity than the late Judge Robertson. It was our privilege to have been
upon the most intimate terms with
him, from the day of his landing in
Honolulu, in 1844, until his death, in
HAWAIIAN FERNS.
Some months ago we received a letfrom England, containing a request
for information respecting "Hawaiian
Ferns. " We are much gratified to be
able to refer an English lady and others
desirous of studying our Ferns, to a
new publication from the Saturday
Press office, written by E. Bailey Esq. of
ter
have ceased to attract sjiecial attention.
The volume just received, and the title
Wailuku, Maui.
of which is placed at the head of this
This is a pamphlet of 62 neatly prinnotice is, however, worthy of special
ted pages, and executed in the veryconsideration. This book contains the 1867.
best style, highly creditable to both
mature reflections of a Baptist clergyWe would refer to an incident of his author and printer. We are
confident
man, who was accompanied by his early career in Honolulu, never pub- this ij a work which will be
aphighly
wife and son, and who left the United lished. Soon after coming on shore preciated by the botanist and the amaStates with the settled purpose of he found employment as bookkeeper teur collector of Ferns. Any man or
visiting missionaries in most parts of and accountant in the mercantile house woman, who
will wander over our hills
the heathen world. He did not travel of
He had not and mountains and up our valleys,
in haste, but remained sufficiently been long in their employ before he searching out and classifying our many
long in Jai»n, China, India and other was requested to ]>erform some office- beautiful ferns and other indigenous
countries through which the party trav- work which he did not think was plan s, is deserving of praise
and reeled, to "study up" the work of mis- morally right. He came to us for ward, aside from that rich reward which
sions, visit schools, and in every reason- advice in the premises, stating that if is sure to await the students of Nature.
ably way, become acquainted with he declined, he was quite certain his We have heard in years past of young lawhat is now doing for the world's employers would dismiss him.
Our dies who devoted much attention to this
evangelization. About two years were advice was do not hesitate a moment. subject; among them we
refer to the
occupied in making the tour.
He declined, and, of course, was out of daughters of the late Rev. C B. AnWe have seen the notice of a series employment, but with a good con- drews. Mrs. Frear was also
most arof letters, written by Mrs. Bainbridge, science. It was our privilege to secure dently devoted to
this department of
in the United States. These have not for him a situation in the government, natural history. Hereafter,
the lovers
fallen under our notice. Judging from and in its employ, he labored faithfully of ferns, will find Mr. Bailey, treatise a
the contents of this volume, we can for more than twenty years. From the most helpful guide.
readily infer, that this series of letters first we were interested in his success On the fly leaf of this publication,
must be intensely readable.
The and advancement, and well remember we note that T. G.
Thrum is agent
perusal of books of this nature are saying to him, "If you expect to remain for the sale of Hawaiian Ferns from
"
"
inspiring to all the friends of Chirstian here, learn the Hawaiian language." Baldwin, Herbarium.
Complete
sets,
"
"
missions. We can only wonder that He did so, becoming thoroughly prospecies, $12. Part sets, 25, ofrarer
115
so much is actually accomplished with ficient in Hawaiian.
His career is and smaller species, $3.00. Orders from
the comparatively small number of worthy of the thoughtful consideration abroad, must include. Postage, $1.30,
missionaries and their limited funds. of young men landing on the Hawaiian and 30 cents respectively per set.
The costofthe cruise ofthefrigate around Islands. A lengthy notice of his career (U. S. Currency.)
the world, would exceed all the ex- will be found in the Friend for April,
penses of A B. C. F. M. for one year. 1867. From that notice we copy as
NEW GUINEA.
The cost of missions is a mere trifle follows:
compared with the cost of armies or
"He was a member of the Board of Any one desirous of acquiring infornavies.
Land Commissioners from 1851 until mation relating to New Guinea will find
Most heartily we recommend this it was dissolved. In all matters, re- at Thrum's book store, a new work in 2
volume to the reading public. The lating to land tenures and ancient vols, by L. E. D. Albertis, whose visit
more intimately Christians acquaint aboriginal rights, perhaps no one in to Honolulu, in 1873-4, will berememthemselves with the actual work of this kingdom has ever equalled him. bered by many. It is an interesting
missions, the more will they contribute He has served as a district judge, work, relating principally to natural hisif their wealth and the more heartily police judge, judge upon the supreme tory, together with much valuable
will they pray, "Thy Kingdom Come." bench, and during the absence of both general information.
Judge Lee and Judge Allen, as chief
PRAYER.
PORTRAIT OF JUDGE ROBERTSON. justice of this kingdom. I need not
thou
should
If
st
my face again
never
dwell upon his eminent sen-ices in Pray for my soul. Moresecthings
are wrought by prayer
We are rejoiced to learn that the these several offices and stations. He Than'this
world dreamsof. Wherefore let thy voice
Rise like a fountain for me night and day.
friends of the late judge have seen fit has also been frequently a representa- For what are men better than sheep or goats
Thatnourish a blind life within the brain
to honor his memory by placing his tive and speaker of the house, as well If, knowing God, they lift not holy hands
of prayer
Both for themselves and those who call them friends?
portrait in the hall of the Supreme as for many years a member of the
Court Room of the Government Build- King's Privy Council."
Tinnyso**.
.
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�THE FRIEND, MAY,
MARINE JOURNAL.
PORT OF HONOLULU,
H. I.
ARRIVED.
Oceanic, Brit. stmr. Davis, from Hongkong, via
April
Yokohama
Kauikeaouli, sch, from Honokaa
CR. Bishop, Ger. bk. Walters, from Bremen.. '*
Josephine, Am. wh. bk., Long, from Panama..
Elinor Vernon, Am. bktne, Humphrey, from
New York
**
Sadie F. Caller, Am. tern, Larsen, from Apia.. *'
Page, Am. wh. sch., McKenna, from San Fran-
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cisco
Navesdnik, Russian corvette, Kalogueras, from
Valparaiso
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3
3
3
5
5
5
5
6
UEPAHTHD.
W G Irwin, Am bgtne, Turner, for S F
Mrch 31
April 3
Aberaman, Brit, ship, Chapman, for S. F
Lady Lampson, Br. bk., Marston, for S. F....
4
Oceanic, Brit, stmr., Davison, for S. F
5
Panuonia, Am. sch. Higgins, for S. F
5
Sadie F. Caller, Am. tern, Larsen, for Port
Townsend
5
Josephine, Am. wh bk,
for Arctic
" 6
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Passengers.
ARRIVALS.
—
From Hongkong, per Olenelg, Mat 29 494 Chinese
for Honolulu.
From Bremen, per C R Bishop, April 2—H Ludwig,
J Wardmann, JHF Plump, M Suhr, H Wardmann.
From Hongkong, per Oceanic, April 3—511 Chinese
for Honolulu; 461 Chinese in transitu.
From San Francisco, per Suez, April 9—M W McChesney, N C Willfong, D Lyons, J O Ullaman, H
Johnson, S Ehrlich, W Flowerden, Mrs C L Augin, G
H Fassett, J W Ramsay, G Dugette, F Alvas, Wo
Long Chin, Ah John, Lung Fung, Non Fook, Ah
Bung, Ah Sow, Ah Kum, ChanQwai, T M Coffee, T
M Coffee, T Swanton, J M Daigle and wife, 300 chinamen.
From Sydney and Auckland, per Australia, April 10
-Miss Parrott, Mrs Le Lievre, W H Wood, Miss M A
Barstow, Miss F A Rarstow, Miss Simeon, Miss A
Eva, W Howard, T Bennett.
From San Francisco, per H W Almy, April 13—J W
Young, Samuel Norris, Lee Wood, G F Quirk.
From San Francisco, per Eureka, April 16—A T
Baker, J H Sherer.
From San Francisco, per I) C Murray, April .6—Mrs
Hixon, Mrs Bates, Mrs Derby, Mr Weik, Mrs Weik,
Mrs Dortmund, MissGleason, Miss Sheet, Mrs Harris
and 2 children, Mr Gimsburg, Mr Miller, J Mayole, J
Morris.
From San Francisco, per City of Sydney, April 16—
A H Bailey, J F Hackfeld, L Heynemann, W A Kinney. R I .ewers, Miss A Bcrger, R L Lillie, H J Levey,
J Lewis, N E (>uicciaidi, C H Ensign, S Hubbard, D
Bean, Miss V Haircloth, DGarstin, J Manick, J Monroe, M Marian, H Dotman, A Fisher, H Heimann, H
Hamilton, J Bell, L A Lapirre, A Ross, M A Smith,
WOliphant; W D Alexander, jr, 322 Chinamen, 13
Chinese women, 10 Chinese children.
From San Francisco, per Ella, April 17—C L Brito,
A Wallace, J W Davis, S H Boardman.
From Hongkong, per Coptic, April 18—596 Chinese
passengers.
From San Francisco, per J C Ford, April ao—Dr G
A Rawson, C F Cheeseman.
From Eureka, per Lena Sweazy, April 22—Crabtree.
From Port Townsend, per Lizzie Marshall, April 24
E Glass.
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DEPARTURES.
1883
For San Francisco, per Suez, April 17—S Spencer, A
Muller. M F Beier, J A Hassinger, wile and family, P
X Arnold, S Forbes, G A Carter and wife, S Delaney,
Dr R McKibbin, E Webby, P Kelly, J C Frisbie, F
Hrownell, I Deboy, Mm M C Roper, C Musker, H E
I-arson, M Brenhab, A Bergan, H Yost, W H Wagner,
Mrs H A Uwis, E Kelly, Lieut Benson, J Apler, A H
Mcl-ean, A Uoden, W Peckham, J Maaon, J O Davis,
C L Kynnersley, J T Shipley, C Anderson, wife and
2 children, I Hopkin, M Hyman, wife and child.
M
Parr, Mrs B F Dillinghamand daughter, Mrs C T JDillinghamand 3 children, D Sheehey, T Sheehan, Mrs
A Castle and 2 children, COlsen, Mrs Coleman, T
Merton, wife and child, Miss V Faircloth, O A Ereekson, wife and child, M Boyle, C Coalkes, P I Holten,
H A Pratt, T W Sandsten, N Oliver, W E Wilson, F
Alvos, C M Welsh, S Corery, I Enos, O P Nichols. J
William, J Phcnery.l
For San Francisco, per Coptic, April 19—E C Webb,
W H Woodf J Norris, I. Kuntr, J C Patrick, H Sueyee.
For Royal Roads, per (llenelg, April 25—3chinenam.
For San Francisco, per W H Dimond, April 27—M
Davis, wife and family, F Reitanker, R B Benham,
R
Jubey, Mrs W F Johnson and child, O C Swain, E R
Underwood, F Caniff, M Buthune, J W Davies, A
Wallace, J Ramsdul, J Ackroyd, T Keren.
For San Francisco, per W H Meyer, April 28—A F
Voss.
For San Francisco, per J A Falkinburg, April
Mrs Colby and 2 children, 1 Halloran, (i Fraasch, 30—
EJ
Stafford, wife and child, J Jenkins.
MARRIED.
Cook-Horn.—ln this city, on the 3d inst., Charles
Matthew Cook and Miss Frederica Augusta Horn.
Caldwell— Deacon.—At the residence of C. C. Kennedy, Hilo, Hawaii, March aad, by the Rev. E. P.
PLACES OF
WORSHIP.
Kort Street Church—Rev J. A. Cruzan,
Pastor, corner of Fort and Beretania streets.
Preaching on Sunday at II A. M. and "]% P. M.
Sabbath School at 10 a. m.
Roman Catholic Church—Under the
charge of Kt. Rev. Bishop Hermann, assisted by
Rev. Father Clement; I'ort street near Beretania. Services every Sunday at 10 A. M. and
2 P. M.
Seaman's Bethel—Rev. S. C. Damon,
Chaplain, King street, near the Sailors' Home.
Preaching at II A. M. Seats free. Sabbath
School before the morning service. Prayer
meeting on Wednesday evenings at 7% o'clock.
Kaumakapili
Church—
Pastor, Beretania street,
near Nuuanu. Services in Hawaiian every Sunday at
A. M.
Sabbath School at
A. M. Evening services
at 1% o'clock, alternating with Kawaiahao.
p. M.
Prayer meeting every Wednesday at
Chinese Church—On Fort street, above
Beretania, Services in Chinese language every
Sunday morning, at II A. M., and jy£ p. M.
Sunday School at
A. M. every Sabbath
morning, and at 2% P. M. Prayer meeting at
7)4 P. M. every Wednesday evening. Singp. M. every Friday evening.
ing School at
The ANGLICAN Church—Bishop, the Rt.
Rev. Alfred Willis, D. D. j Clergy, Rev. Mr.
Wallace, Rev. Alex. Mackintosh, St. Andrew's Temporary Cathedral, Beretania street,
opposite the Hotel. English services on Sundays at t'/i and 11 A. M., and 2% and 7%
A. M.
Sunday School at the Clergy House at
Maker, E. Caldwell of Waiakea, and Miss Jane
Deacon.
Peacock-Wilson -At the residence of A. J. Cartwright, April 21st, by the Rev. J. A. C'ruzan, Walter 01 A. M.
C. Peacock to Mary Alice Wilson
Kawaiahao Church—Rev. H. H. Parker,
Oat-Fi'llkk—ln this city, April 24th, by the Rev. J. Pastor, King street, al>ove the Palace. SerA. Cruzan, at the residence of J. B. Atherton, John
M. Oat of this city, and Miss Lydia Fuller of San vices in Hawaiian every Sunday at II A. M.
Francisco.
Sabbath School at 10 A. M. Evening services
Rambek—Woodward—Married in Honolulu, May at yyi o'clock, alternating with Kaumakapili.
6th, by Rev. S. C. Damon, Mr. William I). Ramber, District meetings in various chapels at 3:30
of Oakland, Lai., to Mrs. Maggie Woodward, of San p. M. Prayer meeting
every Wednesday at
Francisco.
7\i
DIED.
P. M-
INFORMATION WANTED.
Respecting Amos M. Merrill, reported to have
Flitnek—At Kalihi, March 30th, David Neil Flitner,
a native of Pittston, Maine, aged 60 years, and a lived on the Islands, about 25 years ago. Communicate
with
Editor or Mrs. Mary M. Dunlap, No. 34, corner
resident of this city for the past tnirty-six years.
Harbottle—At Kapalama, April n, 1883, William
Harbottle, a native of England, in the 75th year of
his age.
Flitner—ln this city, April 11, 1883, Jennie, daughter
of Capt. A. Mclntyre, and relict of the late D. N.
,
,
Flitner.
Burns—At sea, on the 23d of March, in latitude South
s
(4 and longitude East 152 John Burns, was swept
on ship Moravian and drowned. He was a native of
Carryfurgus, Ireland, aged 28 years.
Bush—ln this city, 4:45 p. m. Sunday, May 6th, Mrs.
Bush, wife of His Ex. J. E. Bush, Minister of Interior.
Her lamented death was in consequenceof a fall from
the horse upon which she was riding. The accident
occurred near the Pali.
For San Francisco, per WG Irwin, Mar —Miss
Chamberlain, Mrs Ashley, H Unna, H Unna 31
jr., L A
(tarbs.
Unna, J M Carmick, I Burke, ) H Best, W M Best,
Henry Unna, R Mantnil, O Sahisyler, F Anderson, F
Robertson, Phil. Smith, H Miller, P Peterson.
For San Francisco, per Lady Lampson, April 4—Mrs
E Gilson, C H Ashworth, wife and 2 children, Rev G
P. ADAMS,
H Smith, wifeand 3 children, W Benson.
For San Francisco, per Oceanic, April *j—A Young,
C C Merriman, G M Knight, X McAlphine, Mr and AUCTION AND COMMISSION
Mrs Robinson, B E Sampson, Miss h Gay, Miss A
Merchant.
Gay, C Gay, M Scholtz, wife and 4 children, W W
Dimond, H Dimond, Mrs Herriot and 5 children, C
Fire-Proof Store in Robinson's Building,
Young, H Wille, D Aird, A Short, C Johnson, 0 AnQueen St, Honolulu.
derson, O Smith, O O'Neil.
For Port Townsend, per Otago, April 10—H Hager,
EWERS & COOKE,
L Walter, C Brown, WTregloan.
(Successors to Lewers & Cooke,)
For San Francisco, per J. F. Miller, April 11—G W
Flowers, R Gerke.
Dealers in
For San Francisco, per Australie, April 11—MrsF M
Green and child, J Edson, Mrs Solomon, J C Bailey, LUMBER AND BUILDING MAC P laukea, H Poor, Father Leonor, Dr Visick. S <;
terial.
Wilder, J Welsh, wife and child, C F Homer. Mr
Monkeouse, J Fowler, W F Osburn, ) H Windier, J
Port Street, Honolulu.
Parrel, J Donnolly, W Henry, J H Harrison.
HOST. LEWERS.
C. M. COOKE.
For San Francisco, per Kalakaua, April 16 T Lehman, J C Kolstead, Mr and Mrs Pomeroy, C T Jones,
HOFFMAN, M. D.
J Chnstianson.
For San Francisco, per Caibarien, April 17—A Stark,
Dickson,
W
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Crawerxoiro,
Bosnell,
Totzner,
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Respecting Fded. C. Canniff, discharged from
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Topeka, Kansas. Any information will be gladly received by the Editor or his father, H. J. Canniff, M.D.
Topeka, Kansas, or W. N. Fisher, Topeka, Kansas.
Respecting James Martin, who died at the U. S.
hospital, Honolulu, Oct. 27, 1865. He is reported to
have lived for some months in Honolulu. Please communicate with the Editor or his father, Samuel H.
Martin, Manchester, New Hampshire, or Thomas
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1883.
A
DICTIONARY
Science has as yet found no argument
in proof of that thesis, and the theological argument we do not intend to discuss in this place.
But the position
the Rev. John Inglis, thirty-three
and
precise
of the author to
testimony
years missionary, etc.
Williams &
the distincly radical and linguistic difNorgate; London, 1882.
Gradually, if slowly, light is break- ference between the Papuans and the
ing over the dark places of the earth, Polynesians, is of great value against
and " knowledge comes. " even if "wis- men of such literary prominence as
dom lingers." One might say that Alfred Russell Wallace, who holds that
three hundred years ago the Pacific the Polynesian race is merely a modifiOcean was a "mare incognituum" to the of the Papuan race, superinduced by
scientist, as well as a " mare mortuum" an admixture of Malay or some lightto the Christian and the philanthropist. colored Mongol element (" Malay
The knowledge of the one was of the archipelago," eh. XI). And the author
crudest; the wisdom of the other slum- is doubtless equally correct when he
bered. To-day that ocean is traversed considers the Polynesian migration subin every direction, its depths are sequent to the Papuan
sounded, its treasures explored, its Throughout the introduction to his
islands mapped out, their inhabitants work the author designates the Polydescribed and classified with an activity nesians of the Eastern Pacific by the
and zeal which, if not always success- name " Malays," as if Malay and Polyful, are at least always commendable. nesian were synonymous, and onlyrarely
One hundred years ago the dark curtain uses the term " Malay-Polynesian. "
of heathenism and barbarous isolation The one is certainly as correct as the
hung low over the entire Pacific Ocean. other, but the latter has at least the
To-day the whole Polynesian portion sanction of a hundred years of usage.
has been brought within the grasp of For our part we have combatted such
civilization and the light of Christianity, misleading classification, and we are
and the curtain is rising slowly, but glad of late years to notice that literati
steadily over the Milanesianor Papuan like A. H. Keane in England, and
portion.
Quartrefages and Lesson in France are
Not only for the objects of science, as repudiating the conception rendering
well as of commerce, but much more so the term " Malay-Polynesian.
for the purpose of conversion, is it of
We are not, just now, in a position
primary importance to be acquainted to compare the Aneityumese language
with the language of the people whose with any other of its claimed congeners,
commerce is sought and whose conver- except the Fijians, with which, howsion is desired. And, for the futher- ever, it seems to have little in common.
ance of both these objects, too much We have no leisure to analyze its grampraise can not be given to those who mar, but notice as peculiarities, not
bring the language of a rude and un- shared by every branch of the Papuan
known people to the knowledge of the family, that nearly all its nouns are pretrader, the missionary and the scientist fixed with In or N, as "In-pas," an
Such meed is due to the author of axe; "N-atimi," a man, etc., and that
the " Aneityumese Dictionary " now it is provided with the auxiliary verb
before us. We will not hese refer "to be," and with the Triad number in
to the advantage which such a work its pronouns.
will afford not only the traders, but
That the Aneityumese, at some
also the missionaries themselves, now period of their existence, have come in
there or hereafter to come; but from a contact with one or more streams of
scientific and literary point of view Polynesian wanderers is probable. We
this little work is a great gain and a cannot otherwise account for the Polyvaluable contribution towards the final nesian words which we have found in
and more correct genealization of lan- the dictionary. They are not many, it
guages and races.
is true, but inasmuch as they do not reIn view of so much that is valuable, fer themselves exclusively to any parit would be ungenerous to quarrel with ticular Polynesian dialect, it may be
some of the author's ethnological opin- fair to infer that that contact goes back
ons, such as deriving the Papuans from to a period when, either the divergence
Ham (Noah's son), and what he calls among the Polynesian dialects was not
the " Malay-Polynesians " from Shem. as great as at present, or when those
Of
the Aneityumese Language, etc.,
and outline* of aneityumese gramBy
MAR, and an Introduction, etc.
who now speak these dialects occupied
a less expanded area on the face of the
globe than they now do. It is vain to
search Polynesian traditions for the
when or where of such contact. Will
the author inform us if Aneityumese
tradition throws any light on that sub-
ject.
The dictionary contains 4,240 words,
of which barely twenty-seven are of apparent Polynesian origin.
Being so
few, we subjoin them, bearing in mind
that In and .A'are, with few exceptions,
the constant prefixes of Aneityumese
nouns, and that in the pronounciation
of Aneityumese words, the author tells
us that // at the end of a syllable sounds
like the Scotch eh or gh, that c sounds
like g in go, that g sounds like ng in
singer, and that / sounds like te in
righteous.
POLYNESIAN WORDS FOUND IN THE ANEITYUMESE LANGUAGE.
Aneityumese.
Ahau, to drive, chase, pursue.
Ahlo, to drive away.
Ahti, to cut as a rock, to dig.
Apuke, to hill up earth round yam plants.
Areparepa, to flap, as with the wind.
Auwe, alas.
Caig (pronounced Caing), to eat.
n-Efana, a how, an arrow.
n-Efata, shelf, altar.
in-Hat, a stone.
in-laula, cord.
Kuri, dog.
Lah, light, to shine.
in-Lahlah, daylight.
in-Man, bird.
Nijman—Nikman, arm, hand.
Nijin—Neijin, edge, corner, point.
n-Uh, yam.
in-l'as, ax, halchet.
Tah,
some
one, a, an.
in-Tan, red earth.
Naclan Tan, bare earth.
Taig(pronounced Taing), tocry, weep, lament.
in-Tal, taro.
in-Tap, a sacred place.
Itap, forbidden, sacred.
Tau, to fit, to suit, to hit.
in-Wai, water.
Nofo-wai, river.
Waleh, sweet potato.
Umnyi, to drink as water.
Polynesia.
Tah. Hahau, (o drive through as heavy rain.
Haw. Hahau, to whip.
Sam. Alo, to fan.
Tong. Alo, to hunt.
Haw. Alo, to dodge.
Sam. Ali, to pierce through.
Tah. Ati, to sting.
Haw. Tah. Pu'e.tohillupearth round plants.
Sam. Pu'e, mounds thus made.
Tah. Reparepa, edge of a garment fluttering
in the wind. Ta-repa, to (hake, flap.
I'olyn. übique. Auwe, alas.
N. Z. Tong. Kai.
Sam.
Ai, to cat.
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X. Z. Kainga, food, meal.
Tah. Fana, a bow.
Tong. Fana.
Haw. I'ana, id.
Sam. Tah. Fata, shelf, altar.
Sam. Fatu, a slone.
X. Z. Patu, Kowhatu.
Haw. Pohaku, id.
Polyn. übique. Kaula, Tattla, Taura, rope,
cord.
N. Z. Kavat. Mangav. Kuri, dog.
Sam. Tah. Uli, id.
Polyn. übique. La, sun, day.
Polyn. übique. Mann, bird.
Tong. Nima, hand.
Sam. Haw. Lima, id.
Ceram. Niman, id.
Haw. Xihinihi, on edge, mountain ridge,
corner.
Sam.
Central
Uhi, Ufi, yam.
Haw. Pahi, knife.
Tah. Ta-pahi, a cleaver.
N. Cel. Pahigy, a knife.
Tah. Tahi, one.
Paumotu. Tena, a district.
Malgasse. Tan, land, earth.
Sam. Tangi, to cry, lament.
Tah. Ta'i, id.
Polyn. übique. Talo, Taro. Arum csculentum.
Polyn. übique.
Polyn. übique.
Tapu, forbidden, sacred.
Tau, Kau, to place, put
upon, to strike.
Polyn. übique. Wai, water.
Sam. Uwala, sweet potato.
Tah. Uara, id.
Haw. Unu, to drink.
Fiji. Unu, Gunu, id.
With this short review we leave a
work deserving of deeper criticism and
greater encomium than we can bestow.
It is an uphill and generally thankless
task to bring order out of chaos,
whether in the linguistic or traditional
lore of a rude and little known people;
and a kind and encouraging word
should be freely given by those who
are competent to estimate the toil of
the task in the past, and the results to
science in the future.
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Ma-nifi, thin, narrow.
Polyn. übique.
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drunkard, he must avoid the first sip of
that which has the dread color in the
cup. If a man would not become a
A SECOND PROBATION.
liar, he must scorn to utter or insinuate,
Such a theory, not found in Scrip- or in anyway act so much as the
If a man
ture, is simply rationalistic or humani- shadow of a falsehood.
would be sincere and trustworthy, he
tarian.
Failures in nature are failures forever. must be scrupulous about the small
The bud nip[>ed by the frost passes concerns which are the stepping stones
not on to the blossom, nor is old age to hypocrisy. If a man would not be
ever permitted to renew its earlier days habitually profane he must make it an
that it may regain its lost opportunities. object never to sjjeak the name of God
"Oh give me back my youth " is an in other than a devout and reverent
unheeded cry.
tone. If a man would not be a gamThere is a tide in the affairs of men, bler, let him be careful to withhold
which taken at the flood, leads on to countenance even from a church raffle.
If a man would be undefiled of lechery,
fortune. "
The Scriptures plainly teach us, that pure-hearted and clean in life, with a
now and here is the time and place of sound marrow in his bones, and a
blood in his veins which will not turn
our probation.
They set forth moral law administered and curse him in his children, and his
by an infinitely holy, wise, powerful and children's children after him, then in
loving being. They appeal to me as a no circumstance and under no pretense
person, having a conscience, and capa- should he ever come nigh unto the
ble of the idea of responsibility.
door ofher whose feet go down to death,
Among the designs of the Moral Go- and whose steps takehold on hell. No
vernor, they set forth that he adminis- man can be self-indulgent, and foolish,
ters discipline for the purpose of the and reckless, and criminal, up to a cerupbuilding in me of something which tain stage of life, and than emancipate
he regards as of priceless value, namely, himself, and go on just as though there
high and holy character. My "proba- had been no squandering ofmoral force,
tion" is the test of the manner in which no turning from the right, no base reI am going to use that discipline for creancy to duty. Evil does not readily
yield any advantage it may have gained.
my upbuilding.
Now, if it is going to be a fair test, There is at once a startling significance,
there must be furnished by the Good and a profound philosophy in the words:
Governor everything necessary for the "His own iniquities shall takethe wicked
accomplishment of the designed end. himself, and he shall be holden with
If this world is the theatre of God's }he cords of his sins." Dr. F. A. Noble.
infinite grace, then we have every necessary help. If it is not, it is not a fair WHERE DOES THE SIN COMMENCE?
"
—
probation.
It is the plain teaching of the Holy
Scripture that I am now on probation.
All that I can learn upon this subject
is what I find in the Bible. — Illustrated
Christian Weekly.
BEWARE OF THE FIRST SIN.
If a man keep his moral character
without spot or blemish, he must begin
the beginning, and studiously avoid
all contacts which can possibly soil the
soul. If a man would not be a miserable miser he must, hold in check
the first impulse of the miserly spirit,
and see to it that the miserly habit is
not formed. If a man would not be a
at
To drink deeply—to be drunk—is a
sin; this is not denied. At what point
does the taking of strong drink become
a sin ? The state in which the body is,
when not excited by intoxicating drink,
is its proper and natural state; drunkenness is the state furthest removed from
it. The state of drunkenness is a state
of sin; at what stage does it become sin ?
We suppose a man perfectly sober who
has not tasted anything which can intoxicate; one glass excites him, and to
some extent disturbs the state of sobriety,
and so far destroys it; another glass excites him still more; a third fires his eye,
loosens his tongue, inflames his passions; a fourth|increases all this, a fifth
makes him foolish and partially insane,
a sixth makes him savage; a seventh or
eighth makes him stupid—a senseless,
degraded mass; his reason is quenched,
his faculties are for the time destroyed.
Every noble and generous and holy
principle within him withers, and the
image of God is polluted and defiled !
This is sin, awful sin; for "drunkards
shall not inherit the kingdom of Cod."
But where does the sin begin ? At the
first glass, at the first step towards complete intoxication, or at the sixth, or
seventh, or eighth ? Is not every step
from the natural state of the system towards the state ot stupid intoxication
and advance in sin, and a yielding to
the unwearied tempter of the soul ?
—John Bright.
OUR SUPPLEMENT.
With this number of the Friend is
issued an eight-paged Y. M. C. A.
supplement. It contains a full report
of the proceedings, at the dedication of
our new building, which is, both an
ornament to the city and a most admirable monument to the liberality of
the friends of our association. To start
with a building so well suited to the
purposes of the society and at the same
time, to have it free from debt, is something for which we cannot be too thankful. We hope this will ever be the
policy of the association, to avoid debts,
and yet go forward with liberal appropriations, based upon the pledges of
the members and friends of the society,
who feel determined that the good work,
in which we are engaged, shall result
in a fevorable issue. We are fully confident of this happy result, provided,
each member shall do his duty,
promptly and cheerfully. Let each one
feel that he has a personal responsibility in this enterprise. Past success
should encourage us to go hopefully
forward.
RELIGIOUS WORSHIP AS
AMONG THE CHINESE.
The City
SEEN
of Perkin arrived last Sun-
day, bringing twelve saloon passengers,
and forty Chinese in the steerage.
Among the Chinese was a Chinese missionary, who held services every Sabbath among his own people, preaching
and singing Moody and Sankey hymns.
These were the only religious sen-ices
on board during the voyage.— The Pa-
cific.
�Y. M. C. A. SUPPLEMENT TOFRIENDT.H
HONOLULU, MAY i,
1883.
41
Yea. I trill rejoice orer the.nt to do tftrm
good.— Jer. XXXI[-41.
follow our Master and go about doing
The dedication of our new building
good, confidently leaving the results of was joyfully participated in by all
our efforts to Him, not expecting that classes of the community, and patronY. M. C. A. SUPPLEMENT TO
argument or debate will convince such ized by the king. At an early hour the
THE
an element, but let us Refrain from audience room began to be occupied,
MAY, IM3.
these men, and let them alone; for if and before the hour announced for the
Prts.-Hon. A. F. Judd. I Treasurer-T. G. Thrum.
Vke-Prcs.-C. M. Cooke. \ Rec'd See'y-F. J. Lonrey. this counsel or this work be of men, it opening exercises every seat was filled
Generat Secretary-Isaiah Bray.
will come to nought. But if it be of and the beautiful new hall presented
CONTENTS.
(.rod, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply an appearance of animation and cheerA Season of Gratitude and Rejoicing
41
Dedication of th=Honolulu Y. M. C. A. Building.. .41 ye be found even to fight against God." fulness.
At the appointed hour, Hon.
TheNew Y. M. C. A. Building
44
The Affiliated Association
45 It is with praise and joy that we con- A F. Judd, President of the Y. M. C.
Meeting of the Y. M. C. A
46 sider the
steady growth of our associa- A.; Prof. Amasa Pratt, the retiring
Special Meeting
47
Miscellaneous.
48 tion during the past five years and note
Which will you choose?.
48
President; Rev. S. C. Damon, Rev. J.
A Cordial Invitation
48 how wonderfully the mode of manageA. Cruzan, Rev. C. M. Hyde, T. H.
Practical Christianity
48
ment has been blessed, until we have Davies, Esq. and P. C. Jones, Esq.,
A SEASON OF GRATITUDE AND now reached the point of wordly suctook their seats u]X)n the platform.
REJOICING.
cess, out ofdebt, and surrounded with all Immediately after which a duet was
Certainly no friend of righteousness, the means for a successful spiritual played by Mrs. T. H. Davies and Miss
peace, and good will to men, can fail to campaign against the powers of dark- H. Dickson.
President Judd then
rejoice with the young men of Hono- ness and sin.
opened the exercises by a request for
From this point we can only count all to join in singing the hymn,
lulu at this season of entering upon a
"Jesus
new and promising era of their Y. M. our success by the salvation of souls, shall reign,*' which request was heartily
C. A work.
and while we strive to furnish all the complied with by the audience, and as
The new home we have entered comforts, pleasures, employment, etc., the volume of song arose from earnest
must necessarily contribute largely to- may we never forget that these are only and sincere hearts and filled for the
wards successful work, for we have the means to an end of winning souls first time our new hall, many were the
greatly felt the need of a building and for Christ, and to save young men (and hearts present that thrilled with blessed
old) from eternal death.
home of our own.
joy and a determination that as far as
But a building alone, however beauThere is every reason to rejoice and they were concerned, there should be
tiful and convenient, will not insure be glad that we are not bound by de- no other reign there than the subject
success. The success must all arise nominational cords or sectarian differ- of our song. Rev. S. C. Damon, for
from the spirit of those who occupy and ences, but are free from these fetters, so many years Pastor of the Bethel
work therein, and only so far as the taking our stand upon the rock Christ Church, and a father to the thousands
spirit is that of our Lord and Master Jesus, and yet it is of the utmost im- of young men who have come and gone
can we look for success.
]>ortance that our position be unmis- to and from these islands during those
We have no reason to expect success takably defined, and we shall do well years, then offered the dedicatory prayer
without difficulties and opposition, for to remember and accept what our re- with earnest thanksgiving from a heart
our Lord loves all His work too well tiring President has suggested as the filled with praise for the prosperity and
of our association—that word
not to have it triedand proved. Already keystone
succejs of Christian work among the
Christian.
has the voice of calumny and criticism
men of the Hawaiian Islands.
DEDICATION OF THE NEW HONOLULU young
begun to be heard, and it is well to be
The impressive anthem,
Hark!
Y. M. C. A. BUILDING.
prepared with the expectation that the
Hark ! my soul" was next rendered by
more prospered we are of the Lord the
The evening of April 11, 1883, was a choir of the best musical talent of the
and
one
of importance and interest, not
longer will that voice be
louder
city, and followed by the report of the
it
shall
to the Christian young men of
only
heard, until
succeed in raising
Committee, given by P. C
Building
these islands, but to all the people in
all the persecution possible.
Jones, Esq., as follows:
Amid it all, we have only quietly to
FRIEND.
"
"
�THE FRIEND, MAY,
42
1883
Supplement.
Mr. President:—As Chairman of the
The retiring president, Prof. Amasa organizations. But we have no other such
Building Committee, I beg to submit our final
as ours. None with a meanwas then presented to the audi- organization
Pratt,
some
report this evening.
There are still
ing like ours. This is an association,
things to be finished, and some slight alterations to be made, but they will not interfere
with our occupying the building.
The committee consists of Mr. C. M.
Cooke, Mr. J. B Artherton and myself. The
working man in the committee has been Mr.
Cooke. We have had much to perplex and
annoy since we accepted this trust; we have
been misunderstood and misrepresented; and
I feel that it is proper for me to make an
explanation of some of the delays which have
come up from time to time, through no fault
of the committee.
We were anxious to select a location that
was central and easy of access. Some lots
thought to be desirable we could not get a
perfect title to; one lot was selected, but it was
necessary to communicate with the owner,
who lives in the United States. We corresponded with him, causing a delay of two
months; but he declined to sell.
We finally decided upon the present site,
but had to wait three months before we could
obtain possession.
Again we were delayed in obtaining plans.
Many promised, but at our annual meeting last
year only one complete plan was presented,
and one rough plan designed by Mr. Cooke.
This latter was accepted by the Society, but
we were delayed in getting our working plans
so as to get our tenders. We were obliged to
postpone opening tenders in order to give all a
chance to bid. When they were opened the
lowest bid was about $16,500, the highest
over $19,000.
Nine bids were received.
Without reducing the size of the building, or
the
we reduced the cost
structure,
weakening
to $16,400, and finally concluded and signed
the contract at that price, fixing the date at
which the building should be finished, Dec.
22i1, but no penalty was attached for nonfulfillment as to date, and it is now four months
since that time when we take possession.
The Committee are all fully satisfied with
the work done. We belive Mr. Lucas has
given us all the contract called for, and the
work has been faithfully and honestly done.
I herewith present a statement of the cost of
this property:
Cost of land
Contract tor building
Altering gas pipes
Water pipes
Casing windows
Recording deed of land
Working plans
Advertising,
Cornerstone
etc
$ 4,000 00
14,600
00
'.$10 00
7
35
00
00
42 00
5 00
15000
59 00
29 50
Back fence
45 00
Total cash
$18,968 75
And now, Mr. President, I present you with
the keys of this building, with the hope that
the object for which this building has been
erected may be fully realized.
May its door be thrown wide open to all the
young men of this city, and to all strangers
coming to our shores; may the members of
this association cordially welcome all who
come within these walls, and may those who
enter here not only be instructed and amused,
but may they also be led to the Savior who
died for all.
ence by President Judd, and addressed
them in his usual entertaining and instructive manner, as follows:
Your Majesty, Mr. President, Brothers, Ladies and Gentlemen:—We gather
to-night to celebrate the fourteenth anniversary of our existence, and as the retiring President of the Association, it has been thought
fitting that I should briefly call to mind the
events of the year past, and as best I may,
give expression to the gladness that tills our
hearts as we now dedicate our new building
and enter our permanent home. The interest
excited in our association during Mr. Hallenbeck's first visit to our city, and the earnest
assistance of Rev. W. J. Smith, of San Francisco, then on a visit here, paved the way for
the erection of this substantial structure.
The Building Committee has placed before
you the work undertaken and accomplished
under their direction. So quiet and undemonstrative has our work been during the twelve
months past, that it seems to me possible that
but few now present to-night realize that we
have held eleven monthly and three special
meetings with an average attendance of 32;
that we have sustained a reading-room at the
Sailors' Home, have in connection with contributions from the Fort street and Bethel
churches, supported a Chinese colporteur, who
has been of invaluable assistance to Mr. Frank
Damon in acquiring the language and prosecuting his work; that a service has been held
every Sabbath mom at the prison, a prayer
meeting sustained at the Fort-Street vestry;
and a Gospel Temperance meeting each Saturday evening in the Bethel vestry; that our
committee and others have visited the hospital
with great regularity, cheering the lonely
hours of those who were sick and suffering
there with reading matter; that an effort has
been made to reach those who have come in
the various crafts that have entered our harbor,
and that as far as possible, employment has
been procured for those who were out of work.
Up to this time we have had no place of
abode, no spot we could call our own, no
place about which our affections could cluster
and where we could invite those whom we
wished to interest and if possible, in manyinstances, to reach and save. Such a place we
enter to-night, and we need it.
Ist. For ourselves, " There is no place like
Home."
2nd. We need such a place for those who
come as strangers to our shores.
It has been said, I know, that no home is
closed against any worthy young man. But
how often it is that strangers are timid, and
shrink from going into the family circles of
those with whom they have no acquaintance.
An old classmate and friend thus relates one
of his experiences: Having allured one of the
comparatively friendless young men of our
town into my study, I urged him to keep out
of the saloons. "But where should I spend
my evening?" he replied. "Spend them,"
I said, " in some respectable place where you
will be out of harm's way." " Where's that ?
What respectable place wants me ? " Unable
to think just what place wanted him, I said
desperately: " Come up and see me." " What,
every night ? " said he. The prospect of the
young man drumming on my desk " every
night," while I tried to write a sermon, did
seem alarming, but I said, as stoutly as I could,
"better that than the saloon.'
"Now,
Dominie," said he, "you know you don't
mean it.
Why you can't mean it. What
would you do with me ? You'll get awfully
tired of me, but you wouldn't be bored any
more than I would. You mean all right," said
but I tell you it won't
he, apologetically,
and is an association for young men, true, but
it is the Young Men's Christian Association.
That word Christian is the keystone of our
association.
But it is said,—Ist. You have a home at
great expense. To which I reply, yes, and
everything in this world that is worth having
is expensive. We usually expect to build but
once, and our surroundings ought to be as
attractive and tasteful as our means will allow,
and planning, as we do for the future years
sometimes beyond the present ability to pay.
2nd. Now they say, that you have the
building, it will be very difficult to furnish it
and provide for needed expenses. True, it
will be an expense; but, I am firm in the
belief that the same generous hearts and hands
which have placed this building in position
here, will not fail us in the hour of our need.
And now, my brothers, in closing, addressing you as I now do, for the last time as a
body, let me urge upon you the necessity of
hormony, enthusiasm and fidelity to the work
before us. We enter this building to-night
one hundred strong in members now residents
in this city. How much can one hundred
earnest, strong, active men in a community
like this accomplish? Let the answer
come in what shall be actually done in
the coming months of this new year of the association. To speak kindly of those who are
willing to work and do little or nothing ourselves, will not bring the best results. To criticise, and so actually hinder work that would
otherwise be done is easy. Let it not be possible for any young man, or boy of suitable age,
now residing here, or who shall come among
us to say, as you gather here to celebrate your
fifteenth anniversary: "I have never had a
kindly word from any member of that association. I looked on my right hand, and behold,
but there was no man that would know me;
refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul."
At the conclusion of Mr. Pratt's address,
Mr. F. W. Damon ascended the platform and
delivered the following poem, written for the
occasion by Mrs. B. F. Dillingham:
A joyful theme inspires the song
Our voicesraise to-night,
And thrills withricher tones the lyre,
Now swept by fingers light.
A song of glad thanksgiving this,
Oftriumph over doubt;
This day we own with grateful hearts,
God's guidinghand throughout.
Long years of patient toil are ours.
Of constant watchand care,
Ofplanning, working, helping cheer,
Of earnest faith and prayer.
A handful once, now grown a host,
With purpose firm and true,
Whose heart hasalways grasped the love
Which ever upwards drew.
God bless the friends who joined our ranks
With cheer, and generous gold,
God crown them with a full reward,
The promised " hundred-fold."
As holy men in olden times,
Who walked and talked with God,
Were wont to mark with rough laid stone,
The sacred bit of sod.
His presence thus had glorified,
So we would raise to-night
President Judd, in accepting the cusOur Ebenezer in the land,
Inscribed withlines of light.
tody of the keys, said that he did so
We dedicate this fair new hall
with joy, on behalf of the officers and
Complete in every part.
To Him, who ne'er has suffered us
members of the association, feeling the
To fall in aim or heart.
dignity placed upon the officers of the
A pledge for mercies great received,
Replete with joy and pain,
Young Men's Christian Association,
An earnest of the years to come,
With all they may contain.
launching, as he believed the association
finds us ever firm and true,
God
now was, upon a more extended sphere
And watching out for souls.
And may our mite rich treasure yield,
"
of usefulness, and closed his remarks do."
When He our work unrolls.
We need just such a place for the
by saying that he hoped and trusted 3d. men
and boys now residing among us.
The hymn Crown Him " was then sung
young
t hat the hall should ever be devoted to It is said that the place for boys is at home, by the choir "
and audience, his majesty jointhe advancement of all good to the but they cannot be always at home. We have ing heartily in the general outpour of song.
of
plenty
organizations in this city of young President Judd, at the conclusion of the hymn,
community.
men, and the young men appreciate those introduced Mr. Theo. H. Davies, who dc
�Supplement..]
THE FRIEND, MAY,
livered the following witty and pithy peroration:
Mr. President, Your Majesty, Ladies
and Gentlemen: —My situation before you
this evening is the result of an unhappy combination of innocence and guile. The innocence was my own—the guile was all Dr.
Whitney's. We know how calmly that gentleman can administer the most severe shock to
one's nerves, and follow it with a soothing,
gentle manipulation that makes pain a pleasure and agony a balm. So he treated me,
and said: "We may depend on you for a few
words, just for ten minutes or so." I felt the
shock, and said (as so many have said before),
But I
Oh, Dr. Whitney ! and I added:
shall be on Hawaii." Then the balm came:
But you doit so beautifully "—and I fell;
Dr. Whitney was the spider—l am the fly.
But, although I feel that I am in my wrong
place to-night, I am not ashamed to stand before
you, ladies and gentlemen, as an advocate of
and a co-operator in the Young Men's Christian Association. If there be an association in
our midst that can challenge criticism, this is
one. It has no origin on earth but the love
of man for man; it has no object but the cultivation of love for God and man; it has no
name but that of Christ. My own connection
wi'h this association has not been so intimate
that I need fear to chant the praises of those
whose warm hearts and active hands have
reared this monument of Christian love; nor
am I so far a stranger to this enterprise that I
may not ask, at least, to stand beside their
finished work and place my poor garland
there.
I have called this a monument of Christian
love, and I am sure you will agree with me in
this definition. Of all the Christian churches
and Christian men who meet for worship in
our city, none can claim pre-eminence here for
any special creed; no words of sectarian
rivalry find echo here; neither masonic ceremonies nor odd-fellows' rites are used to
characterize our meetings. It is but an association of Christian men to welcome and to
help their fellow-men. And it was no slight
work that was undertaken when this building
was projected.
It was not by the patient
exertion of our clergy, nor by the generous
endowment of men of wealth that this was
brought about, but by the enthusiasm of men
whose heads and hands are fullest of the busy
claims of life. I confess I like enthusiasm.
Now-a-days they store electricity and carry it
about in bulk, and work wonders; but you
may do as much and more by storing enthusiasm and carrying that about in bulk. I
remember, that at one of the early meetings
some one feared there was little hope of
getting the money for building this edifice,
and Mr. Jones exclaimed:
111 guarantee it
for 2% per cent." I felt that there was en
thusiasm stored and carried about, and it did
me good in its explosion. It was enthusiasm
that built this hall, and when the men who
had most to do showed that they could give
as liberally as they could work, even for such
an intangible object as the good of young men
yet to be; then the others gave too, and we
all came in for the triumph.
So I speak to-night of enthusiasm, but
qualified as follows: "Not slothful in business, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord."
That is my description of the men who built
this hall, and that should be the description
of those who are to carry it on—for the world
is carried on by just such men. Of course,
pure enthusiasm is as bad as pure thunderbolts; but to ordinary amounts of everything
else, add plenty of enthusiasm, and there wifi
be little fear of failure in life. Is there anything more disheartening than to have to contend with young men who will make encouragements and keep them, if nothing better
turns up, or who make them in such a halfhearted way that one never expects them to
be kept ?
Somehow I fancy that this is the one great
evil we have to chasten us in this climate of
ours. There is a certain mental sponginess,
which readily unites with and absorbs every
liquid of every hue, and has a most imposing
"
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"
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effect; but collapses
1883
43
as readily when you at- their homes," and I mentally added "see
tempt to rest upon it; perhaps this is, in part, them in your own homes."
due to our having so many institutions and so How well I remember, when I came
first to
few members to divide amongst them, so that Honolulu, the whirl of kindness which
seemed
two societies can hardly be in session at the to envelope me from every side. I was asked
same time. We have Firemen, Freemasons everywhere at every time.
Sewing societies
and Foresters, and when one meets, I suppose were then at their height and ice
creams were
the other two adjourn. We have a Chamber not invented, but sponge cake and coffee
were
of Commerce, a Planters' Company, and a at their very best. When I call to mind the
Consular Corps ; but they have to meet alpha- marvellous disappearance of cake and
coffee in
betically, or not at all, and all except the Con- those palmy days, and in the presence of ladies
suls are paralyed during jury term; while, as and gentlemen whom I see still around me, I
to the Musical Society, we all know that a can but wonder at the unimpaired digestions,
dinner, a dance, or an ice cream festival is and admire the marked preservation of youth
absolutely fatal to its existence. I believe that and beauty by which we are surrounded. But
this same tendency is carried into the serener I am wandering amongst these old
Egyptian
air where I have never been, and that when coffee pots. There were one or two
homes
the board of one branch of the government where I was invited to go sometimes to dinner
meets, all the other boards are left without or to tea. There was no sewing, no
crush, no
even a head.
coffee, only an extra chair and a plate or cup
To some extent, these collisions are un- and saucer. But somehow I was made to feel
avoidable ; but, to a great degree, they might that I was in a home, and not in a crowd.
l>e controlled by the adoption of a more vigor- My own home was a bedroom up the valley,
ous individual loyalty to established engage- and these other homes were so bright and so
ments. Especially do I now appeal to those genial that they moulded all my ways and all
not only by whom, but for whom this hall has my friendships ever since. Ladies and gentlelieen erected, to make some definite arrange- men, who have homes of your own, believe
ments of your time, which shall include its me that in no way can you more effectively
claims. This is a Christian association—not a gain an influence over young men and boys
church association—just as our homes should who come to us, or grow up with us, than by
be Christian homes. There are, I fear, men asking them individually—not merely to call,
who are unwilling to own themselves members but to come at a definite time, to sit at your
of a Christian association, and yet they would table, and then at your fireside. Let them
refuse to call their homes by any other name. feel that there is an individual interest in them
But it is in the sense applied to a Christian apart from the gathering in of large parties; an
home, that this is a Christian association. interest which will live in their memories, and
What is that sense ? I am sorry the words are perhaps make them feel that one word of
so long—for Y. M. C. A. conveys neither the advice and counsel from you has more influmeaning nor the music to the heart. We go ence than all the ridicule which comes from
back to hours of evening prayer in the years the thoughtless lips of those who cannot claim
long ago, and who that has such memories the right of friendship. Perhaps in our desire
would give them up for all the recollections of to exert collective influence, we are liable to
mirth and revelry ? Many in our midst have overlook the value of individual influence; but
such memories, but only memories; their surely this ought we to have done, and not to
homes are far away, and while we are saying: have left the other undone. Time was when
"What shall we do with our boys, and with the candidates for this influence came to us
our young men," they are here waiting for our from abroad, but now they are growing up in
answer. We offer them this home for their and around our homes, and the claims seem
quiet hours. It has no other purpose, no other a thousand times as strong. Day by day we
end. All the hours of those who would be see some son fluttering on the border line
"not slothful in business, fervent in spirit, between boyhood and manhood, and then he
serving the Lord," cannot be spent here--for tries his wings and floats away, and friends
the world needs their energy and enthusiasm; watch and watch with terrible suspense. Can
but when they want the quiet resting-place, we help to guide him aright ? Can we make
then this Christian home is open; and over its our homes and this hall so lead to each other
door-way, in letters of love are the words: that it shall seem natural for those who come
under the influence of one to seek the shelter
''Aloha in the name of Christ."
It is sad to think that some, perhaps heed- of the other ?
lessly, throw ridicule and almost scorn on an Brethren, our hall is ready, but our work is
association like this; and sneers are easily hardly begun. Look around and see, for lo
the fields are already white unto the harvest.
made and very cheap. Let us not forget that
How shall we address ourselves to our work ?
those for whom this work has been done are
often exposed to fierce raillery, and the mis- What shall be out' inspiration ?
chievous insinuation that by coming here they
Olead me, Lord, that 1 may lead
I'he wandering and the wavering feet,
proclaim themselves better than their fellows.
0 feed me, Lord, that 1 may feed
And when such taunts are uttered, they are
Thy hungering ones with manna sweet.
often applauded, very hard to bear, and imO, strengthen me, thatwhile I stand
possible to answer effectively. We may wonFirm on the rock, and strong in Thee,
der that men who Iwast of their Christian land,
1 may stretch out a loving hand
To wrestlers with the troubled sea.
and would fight for what they call their
Christian hearths, and who are conscious that
Pastor J. A. Cruzan delivered the closing
the birth of the christian era sent a flood o'er address, in his usual earnest manner, and prethe world, obliterating all other times and facing his remarks with the announcement
dates-, and impressing its own sacred Anno that refreshments were in the rooms below
Domini on the lands where the persecutors awaiting the attention of the
lovers of ice
and scorners of the Lord Himself were strong cream, cakes and coftee, he would endeavor
to
when they see that name of Christian used to satiate their
of
the
happy occasion
herald a society which can do them no harm, by the brevityenjoyment
of his remarks. He said:
and which, if it cannot benefit at least will not
I will not presume upon your
but a
assail them. I say we may wonder that such few moments, while I present a patience
single thought,
men should let anger rise in their hearts and which is this: This building will stand as a
words of sneer and ridicule touch their lips. monument of the loving, practical, self-denying
How such words can chill the enthusiasm and thought of Christianity for the welfare of
stifle the ardor of those who hear, and how young men. Lessing has said
that "when
they add to the difficulties which an associa- the world finds out which church does most
tion like this must encounter. I believe it is for humanity, and best meets the wants and
next to impossible for us to draw into our lists; instincts of the human soul, then the world
young men who have such influences as these will know in which church to believe." It
around them, unless we can do something was well said. The test is a
fair one with
more than open our hall and announce our which to tfy all
institutions,
readiness to see them here. A writer in the systems, religions, and beliefs. governments,
Christianity
late number of the Anglican Church Chronicle gladly accepts such a test. This is an age of
impressed me by saying, "Visit young men at religious unrest. Men, and especially young
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44
1883
men, are keenly questioning all faiths. It has with which to fill any aching void that might
come to be regarded as a mark of intellectual yet remain amongst any of their
guests of the
strength to doubt. So young men in the pride evening; he invited all present to partake of the
of superficiality, sometimes proudly draw
themselves up, and say, I have outgrown the
Bible: My mother still lielieves it, but it does
not satisfy me !
But this is also an age of
utility. It stands with hard steady hand, holdits
ing
l«tlance, on which it has written as its
motto, "will it pay?" and weigh remorselessly everything offered for its acceptance.
Utility counteracts and destroys superficial
infidelity. Christianity willingly steps into
one scale and bids young men who are inclined to doubt to put infidelity into the other.
We are willing to abide this practical test.
What has organized infidelity ever done for
the welfare of the human race ? Where has
infidelity ever founded and fostered an institution of learning. Where has she ever built a
home for the aged, or an asylum for the
suffering, or the poor ? Christianity does this
everywhere. In all lands, beside the Christian Church, Christianity builds the Christian
College, and l>cneficient institutions of every
name. Where has infidelity ever gone into a
city slum redeemed it ? Christianity can
show its five |>oints in New York, its Bithany
Mission in Philadelphia, its Railroads and
Newsboys' and Bridgeport Missions in Chicago, and other missions in every city almost
wbrld-round. Where has infidelity ever gone
to a heathen people, and led then out of
superstition and idolatry into civilization ?
Christianity can point to many such trophies.
A distinguished heathen philosopher, visiting
America, said: "Your prisons, your dungeons, your scaffolds and yours armies I understand; my country can out-do yours in these
but your orphan asylums and your old
things;
men s homes astonish me, and your homes for
old women would seem to my people ridiculous." Dc Toquevitle said, speaking of
America's prison reforms:
In my country,
once a rascal always a rascal, you do things
differently." Yes, we do. Christianity does
do things very differently from heathenism,
atheism, or infidelity. It uses the Cross as a
might lever with which to raise humanity in
the scale of being.
Now in regard to the special line of work
for which this building was erected: Going
into Portland, (Oregon,) Y. M. C. A. building
one day, in mid-winter, I found a group of
young men seated comfortably around the
stove. One of them was loudly sneering at
Christianity as an old fable, and at Christians
as hypocrites and boasting of hisown infidelity.
I listened for a moment and then asked if he
had seen much of the world ? and was told
that he had been quite a traveler. I expressed my gratification, for he would perhaps be
able to give me some information. Then I
asked these pointed questions, and I ask them
of any young men here to-night who may call
himself an unbeliever in Christianity: Where
has organized infidelity ever erected a building
or opened and fitted up rooms, for the use and
benefit of young men ? Where do Liberal
Leagues seek out yonng men who are strangers
try to obtain them situations, and seek to surround them with good influences, and shield
them from evil ? Where do Liberal Leagues
send out into the streets and down into the
"slums" their "good Samaritans" to lift up
young men who have fallen among the thieve
and robbers of sin ? Infidelity does none of
these things. Christianity does them in nearly
every city in the world.
As the light-house on a dangerous coast lifts
its massive column heavenward and holds aloft
its light to warn those in peril and to give
guidance and cheer to those battlirtg the waves
and storms, so this building will stand, holding
up the open Bible as its great light, to warn
young men and save them from the deadly
peril ofsin, and as a home and a refuge to the
stranger from all lands, and this building will
also stand as a monument of the pratical value
of Christianity to the young, to this city, to
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good things provided. Before proceeding further, however, he wished to state that when
the programme for the evening was made up,
the most modest man in the Association was
assigned the task of presenting to the attention
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is of brick, the street fronts of pressed
brick; the cornices also are brick, artistically arranged for the most pleasing
effect. All the windows are arched.
The Alakea street side is unbroken by
any projection, except the belt course,
which divides the upper and lower
stories. For convenience, as well as
for architectural effect, the corner is cut
off, giving an angular frontage at the
junction of Alakea and Hotel streets, a
flat or fifth side, 8 feet wide.
The Hotel street front has a central
projection, 22 feet wide, tyi feet deep.
This has at the roof a triangular pedi
ment on which stands out in raised letters the initials Y. M. C. A., and the
date 1882. In front of this projection
stands the porch, 20 feet deep. It has
a balcony supported by four Corinthian
columns, and two antae. The intercolumniations, or spaces between the
pedestals of the columns, are filled with
neat balustrades The balcony is also
enclosed witha balustrade, having paneled and moulded pedestals, surmounted
by ornamental urns. French mullioned
of the audience the needs of the Association.
This modest gentleman was so overcome by
his feelings that he was unable to perform the
task assigned him, and he (Mr. Jones) being
the next most modest man (laughter) was
made a substitute. He then said that the expenses connected with the building was $18,
968.75, the sum of $18,532.50 was all that the
Association |>ossessed toward the liquitation of
this indebtedness, leaving a deficit of $436.25.
Besides this balance the sum of $1000 was required to furnish the building and he called for
donations from the audience to furnish the
amount, commencing the list by putting his
name down for $100. Considerable enthusiasm
was manifest, and the following persons added
their names, pledging $iooeach: E. O. Hall,
T. H. Davies, 1. H. Atherton, J. T. Waterhouse, Jr., C. M. Cooke, W. W. Hall, G.
C. Williams. For $50 amounts: A. F. Judd,
B. F. Dillingham, Mrs. Lack, Mrs. E. O.
Hall, Mrs. L. Dickson, J. A. Hopper. For
$25 amounts: Dr. Whitney, T. Sorensen, A.
O. Forbes, Goo Kirn, C. J. Lyons, Mrs. P.
C. Jones, Jr., Mrs. Burgess, Mrs. \V. W.
Hall, Mrs. T. H. Davies, Mrs. J. B.
Atherton, Mrs. Dillingham, and Mr. Jones
endtxl the list by giving $100 more, his action
meeting with enthusiastic applause. The audience then indulged in the freshments provided, his majesty mingling with the guests
and partaking of the abundant cheer, which
had boot most liberally provided by the ladyfriends of the Association. At 9:30 the assem- windows give access to this balcony
blage began to disperse, and by 10 o'clock the
first building owned by the Y. M. C. A.of from the upper story. A flight of four
Honolulu stood alone in its glory, a noble mo- steps leads up from Hotel street on to
nument to the energy and perseverance of the
generous Christian men and woman of this the porch in this central projection.
city.— Gazette, April
The whole building is set back
1 o feet
from the street lines, giving opportunity
THE NEW Y. M. C. A. BUILDING
for any further widening of Alakea
OF HONOLULU.
street by the municipal authorities of
For the benefit of our foreign readers,
after years.
we reprint largely from the detailed deOn entering the hall-way, which is
scription of the building as given by
feet
wide and 30 feet long, a door to
Rev. Dr. C. M. Hyde at the laying of 9
the
right
gives access to the gymnasium,
the corner-stone on September 28, 1882:
"
is
"
which
a
room 25 by 47 feet. A platThe lot on which the building stands
"
"
form
feet
wide along the hall side,
5
is in shape an irregular quadrilateral.
room
for
s|>ectators. A flight of
gives
It extends 116 feet on Hotel street,
stairs
at
end
of this platform leads
each
feet on Alakea street, forming an
down
the
floor
to
of the gymnasium,
acute angle at the intersection of these
which
four
feet below the nais
about
has
streets.
It
a depth of 60 feet
tural
level
of
the
or 8 feet below
lot,
measuring from the Hotel street front to
the rear boundary line. The building the level of the hall floor, giving to the
is erected two-stories wholly, devoted to room a height of 20 feet. At the rear
the work of the Association. It does not end of the spectators' platform is a
occupy the whole of the land purchased. door and passage-way to the yard in
"
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A frontage of 36 feet on Hotel street is the rear of the building. This door gives
reserved for future improvements in access also to the private staircase leadbuilding, either lor the use of the Asso- ing to the Assembly Room above. At
ciation or for rental as a means of an- the left side of the front entrance is the
nual income. The present building is main stairway to the upper story. Adof irregular shape,- conforming to the joining this stairway is an open recess,
outlines of the lot, 53 feet in depth from designed for the Central Office, and
the Hotel street front, and on the Ala- affording complete supervision of the
kea street side running outward with a entrance to the various rooms. Next
humanity.
length of 50 feet rear and 67 feet front, beyond the office, in the hall, is the
Mr. P. C. Jones, Jr., informed the audience
so
as to make the Hotel street front 17 entrance to the parlor. This is a room
that the Association had a kindly feeling for
those present, and had provided refreshments feet longer than the rear. The building 18 feet by 23, communicating as also
25th.
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THE FRIEND, MAY, 1883
45
does the Office with the Committee Coupon of issue O," Census Tables our hall, as the most fiting place, by
Room, which occupies the angle of the of 1878, Programme of Exercises at the generosity of the largest business
building at the corner of Hotel and Laying of the Corner stone of the Y. firms in the city, and by Mr. Furneaux,
the artist.
Alakea streets. Beyong the Parlor, is M. C. A.
The audience room is superior to
No visitors have yet tailed to remark
the Reading Room, 18 by 27. separated
by sliding doors. There is a door at any in the city for comfort, brilliancy that our new hall is a |>erfect success.
the end of the hall, opening into the andacoustic powers—well lighted, venReading Room, which has also a door tilated, and seating comfortably three THE AFFILIATED ASSOCIATIONS.
opening out to the yard in the rear of hundred and seventy-five ]>eople. This
THE ORGANIZATION AND WORK.
the building. Here are to be found hall is the first and only part of the
The International Convention. The
the various needful out-houses kitchen, building yet furnished.
field and work of individual Associabath-rooms, and ultimately, it is hoped,
The lower rooms will at once be fur- tions have been descril>ed. But
these
a suite of lodging rooms for temporary nished and made ready for use.
could not have reached their
societies
The hall is lighted at night by twenty■occupancy. The building is well lighted
present position isolated from one
and ventilated. The lower story is 12 eight lights—four chandeliers of six
other. Their growth and prosperityfeet higfit; the upper 17 feet. The lights»and four single burners at the are
largely due to the fact that they
whole upper floor is occupied by the sides.
constantly sought, by co-operative
have
A Grand Piano stands at the left of
Assembly Room. The main entrance
to strengthen one another, and
action,
to this is on Hotel street, by stairs the platform (from the audience), and
to promote the common cause.
leading up from the left of the front on the platform a black walnut table.
In the beginning, they met each year
door. The private staircase is in the Here lies a beautiful Pictorial Bible
first meeting being at Buffalo,
(the
•corner of the building diagonally op- presented to the Association by Mrs.
York, in 1854), as an InternaNew
I).
Upon
Baldwin.
the walls are
posite. The platform, 8 feet by 16, and D.
tional
Convention of the Associations
feet
is
the
nine
of
voltwo
side opposite the hung
high on
magnificent paintings
the
United States and British Provfront entrance. The clear space for canic scenery by Mr. Furneaux, adding in
inces,
with
a central committee located
the audience is equal to a room 48 by greatly to the beauty of the hall. They
some
in
leading
city, and having a cor52, and will comfortably seat 375 ]>er- are in heavy gilt frames.
member
in each state and in
responding
sons. The general arrangement of the
No. Y. Is an excellent general view
of
the
Dominion
of Canada.
province
rooms was planned by Mr. .C. M. of Kilauea volcano and crater.
These
conventions
in
have,
turn, disNo. 2. Is a view of Halemauinau
Cooke, of the Building Committee.
cussed
and
made
recommendations
The building plans and specifications and south lake ofKilauea.
No. 3. Represents the lava flow of about all the details of the association
were prepared by Mr. Isaac Moore,
1868, near Kilauea-iki, or little Kilauea. work, have aided greatly in the procurand built by Mr. George Lucas.
No. 4. Gives and awe-inspiring ing of association buildings, and in the
The following list of contents of the
multiplication of bible-classes, have
box were dejiosited in the corner-stone: representation of Kilauea, Mauna Loa settled the sound, evangelical basis of
Kea,
Mauna
two active and one
An English Bible, New Testament in and
membership, so indispensable to the
Hawaiian, Constitution and By-Laws extinct craters.
success
of the cause, have united in the
No. 5. Mauna Loa and Mauna
of the Y. M. C. A., Address on the
of
an ever-growing sympathy,
bonds
Young Men's Mission by Rev. V\'. J. Kea, from near the Volcano House,
and
leading Christian
unity,
fellowship
Smith, List of subscribers to building showing the Kau flow of 1880.
young men in all parts of the contiand copy of terms of contract, Manual
No. 6. The new lake in Kilauea
and have in all available ways inof Fort-Street Church, Articles of Faith November 1880—a scene of grandeur nent,
sured
the shapely, harmonious growth
and list of membership of Bethel Union and terror.
of this vigorous branch of Christian
Church, Report of Hawaiian Board,
No. 7. The eruption of Mauna effort.
Report ofWoman's Board of Hawaiian Loa November 5 1880, as seen from
The Executive Committee, located
Mission Children's Society, of Board Kawaihae. The lava of which so nearly
1866 in New York, have educasince
of Education, of Minister of Finance, overrun and destroyed Hilo.
ted
an
extensive correspondence, have
of Minister of Interior, of Chief Police,
No. 8. The eruption of Mauna I .oa issued pamphlets and periodicals
relatCotalogue of Oahu College, Circular as seen from Hilo Bay November 10
to
the
and
of
late
work,
as
ing
years,
of Kawaiahao Seminary, of Sailors 1880.
were
supplied,
funds
have
conducted
Home, Constitution and B-jrtsWn of
9. A fall of lava near Hilo, an extended visitation, which has
Hawaiian and Chinese Y. M. C. A.of Nov.1881.
July,
reached over 400 communities, and has
Honolulu, Hawaiian Almanac and AnAnother beautiful picture, presented resulted in organizing and invigorating
nual, Hawaiian Guide Book, Hawaiian
Grammar, newspapers of the city, both by Mr. \V. \Y. Hall, is a large engrav- a multitude of associations. In carryEnglish and Hawaiian, copy of the ing of the Triumph of Christianity over ing on this extensive work, the commitHoku ao Nani by L. Lyons, United Paganism, by Dore." This appropriate tee employ a secretary and a visiting
States dollar of 1882, photographs of picture is hung directly over the plat- agent.
their Majesties and of Kawaiahao form and at once strikes the observer State and Provincial Conventions.
as the right thing in the right place.
But a single annual meeting soon
Church, specimens of Hawaiian Po
These pictures are valued by the proved inadequate to the wants of sostage Stamps, Hawaiian Postal Cards artist at fifteen
hundred dollars. They cieties so widely scattered. By vote
and Hawaiian Government Stock and were purchased and kindly placed in dl the
International Convention, in
1
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1866, state and provincial conventions
and have since
been maintained in Canada and in
twelve states. In ten other states also,
conventions have been more recently
established. At these annual meetings,
were recommended,
THE FRIEND, MAY, 1883,
which they can best accomplish uni-
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MEETINGS OF THE Y. M. C. A.
tedly.
This religious inspiration or enthusi'The annual meeting of the Honolulu
asm, which is the motive power of the Y. M. C. A. was held on the 19th of
society, has had its source in personal April, in the Bethel vestry. Thirty
love and devotion to Christ. In his person were present, twenty-eight of
the International Convention has been name, and for him, the work has been whom were members.
represented by some member of its undertaken; to bring men to the
The meeting was called to order and
committee, and the state and provincial knowledge of his abounding grace, it oi)ened with prayer by the retiring preorganizations have developed more or has been prosecuted; upon his help and sident, Amasa Pratt. The principle
less upon the pattern of the Interna- sympathy those who are active in it business transacted was that of electing
tional, with an Executive Committee have relied, and in closer communion officers for the coming year. The folconducting useful correspondence and with him they have realized their fel- lowing officers were elected: Presivisitation, and serving as a bond of in- lowship with one another, and have re- dent, Hon. A. F Judd; Vice-President,
tercourse and means of growth to the ceived the richest blessing upon them- Charles M. Cook; Recording Secretary,
individual societies. In four states al- selves and upon their labors.
Fred. J. Lourey; Treasurer, 'Thomas
ready, these committees employ, each,
a secretary, who devotes his time to the
study, organization, watch and care of
the work. Each of the state organizations has excellencies peculiar to itself.
It is the province of the Internal Committee to promote among them helpful
knowledge and emulation of one
another, to foster in states where the
cause js feebler a similar work, and to
carry to districts destitute of this blessed
organization information of its benefits,
and of the mode in which these may be
secured.
I have enumerated the principal
forms of effort in which the members
of the Young Men's Christian Association have, for the past twenty years,
carried on their work. It has required
devoted individual activity on the part
of the Christian young men. They
have come from various churches to
associate themselves in this fraternity.
But a deep religious sympathy has
united them, inspiring an enthusiasm
which has triumphed over many obstacles. 'The source of this enthusiasm,
and the bond of their unity has been a
common love to their divine Lord.
They have found how good and pleasant it is for brethren to dwell and work
together in unity. They have not belittled the things in which they differed.
These have been silently acknowledged,
and frankly respected. Indeed, the
society is invariably made up of those
who are among the most active and
faithful in the churches to which they
belong, and who bring to the meetings
and work of the association the best religious experience and Christian activity of these churches. But in the association their common aim is to magnify the faith, the hope, and the love in
which they are agreed, and to find in
these the inspiration for that work
Very delightful has been the spirit of
harmony and Christian brotherhood
prevailing among these young men.
Often it has been felt in the churches
of the community, promoting a unity
of feeling, a better knowledge of one
another, and a fraternal sympathy and
co-operation that have honored the
name of the Master, who said, "By
this shall men know that ye are my
disciples, because ye love one another."
It is an era of intercommunication.
Rapid and growing intercourse is occasioning marvelous changes in every department of human industry. Better
acquaintance with one another is promoting among men happier and more
fruitful concert of action. 'The spectacle, therefore, of hundreds of Christian
young men from the various evangelical
churches assembled to deliberate how
they may best work together in a single
department of Christian effort, may
certainly be counted among the promising signs of the time in which we live.
The institution they seek to benefit
is indeed still in its infancy. What has
been done in defining and extending it,
is only the beginning of a good enterprise. None feel this more deeply
than those who have thus farbeen most
active and devoted in the work. But
its steady growth, its present strength
and activity, and the divine blessing
which has so constantly attended it,
combine to give fair promise that the
Young Men's Christian Association is
in [x>wer and usefulness till its
influence for good is felt in every part
of the continent.
G. 'Thrum; Directors, T. H. Davies
and Henry VVaterhouse.
After the election of these officers,
Mr. Pratt, whose term ofoffice as pressident had expired, withdrew from the
chair, which was then taken by the pre-
sident-elect.
The report of the retiring treasurer,
Mr. Frank M. Eckley, was read, showing
a balance on hand at the beginning of
the year of five cents, and total receipts
for the year $792.60. Disbursements,
$789.36, leaving a balance on hand of
$3-24Mr. Wm. A. Bowen, the retiring secretary, then made his report and address, as follows:
Mr. President and Members of the
Youni; Men's Christian Association: Your
recording secretary, believing that it is neccessarily due to his position to refer briefly to certain facts recorded in his minutes, would respectfully report as follows:
Buisness has been done at fourteen meetings
during the year; viz, one annual, three special
and ten regular meetings.
The annual meeting of April 20, 1882, was
held at the house of the retiring president, Mr.
Henry VVaterhouse, the principal business of
the evening being to listen to the reports of the
retiring officers and the election of new officers.
At this time was the first election, under the
new constitution, of the trustees whose period
of office was for six years, the most important
position within the gift of the association.
This election resulted in the choice of Messrs.
Chas. M. Cooke, P. C. Jones and B. Y. Dillingham. Of the other meetings of the year,
one special and three regular meetings were
held at the Lyceum, and two special and seven
regular meetings were held at the Bethel vestry.
The average number in attentlance upon all
the business meetings of the year (not including
the annual) has lieen thirty-two, showing a decided increase tqion the preceding years. The
largest attendance was fifty-five and the smal-
lest but ten.
The three special meeting were held to consider and transact business, with reference to
our new building. The ten regular meetings
have been to listen to the usual monthly reports of work done by the various standing
The question was once asked if it committees, and to transact any business that
might lie neccessary. The minutes bear record
was not possible for a person to get in of the laying of the corner-stone of the newwith the customary ceremonies, 11 |h n
the habit of praising the 1 .ord without building,
September 281882.
what
he was saying. The an
knowing
And, in consideration of the sum of two
fifty dollars, or over, having been
swer was, that the Lord is not much hundred and new
building by persons who degiven to the
troubled with that class of peoplebecome
life members, their names
sired to
to grow
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have been placed on the records as such, and
are as follows:
Life memhershi* Roll. J. B. Atherton,
C. R. Bishop, S. N. Castle, W. R. Castle,
H. A. P. Carter, H. P. Baldwin, Chas. M.
Cooke, A. Frank Cooke, T. H. Davies, S. M.
Damon, H. Dimond, E. O. Hall, W. G.
Irwin, P. C. Jones, R. Lewers, Henry May,
W. O. Smith, J. T. Waterhouse, G. N. Wil
•cox, A. S. Wilcox, B. F. Dillingham, Geo.
Lucas, Geo. C. Williams, T. H. Hobron Jr.,
H. Waterhouse, E. B. Thomas.
While the regular memlwrship roll has been
increased during the year by twenty-eight new
names, the association has suffered the lost of
three highly valued memliers, one by his own
withdrawal, and two by death. Memorial services were held at the vestry of Fort Street
Church, Sunday evening Oct. Ist, for our brother
and treasurer Charles T. Dillingham, whose
death took place on September 23d; and less
than two months later there followed the death
of Bradley Bishop.
While these items, as thus far presented, are
offered only as a general statement of facts,
found recorded upon the minutes of your secretary, he would, in closing, emphasize the importance of one particular transaction of business, viz: that of taking the initiative steps towards securing a general secretary. For as it
has been, and is at present, much of telling
labor, in such work as our association aims to
do, cannot lie done, because of our not having
in the field as general secretary a man whose
whole time, attention and heart can be given
to it. Many a thing deserves better than it
gets.
A request comes from a mother from abroad
to look up her lost son, who has not been
heard from for over two years, and then from
some place on Hawaii. Again, some foreign
association will, though its general secretary-, ask
us to lie on the lookout for the arrival of a
certain vessel, and seek out and gjve special
attention to certain individuals who will be on
board. Again, officers and members of foreign
associations, as they occasionally call, in passing through on the great steamship line, make
inquiries for and hunt up the Secretary of the
Honolulu Association, since he is unable to
hunt them up; and, as steamer days are the
busiest of days for those engaged in business,
these stangers generally find your secretary so
thoroughly busy that he can illy afford the
time that is their due. Again, our own housework has its special needs for care and attention, and as we enter into our own house building, these needs will liecome more numerous
and urgent, and attention to them ought not
be asked of your president, and recording secretary, whose time belongs and must be given
elsewhere. Whatever services in this line nave
been done during the past year, have been
given cheerfully and gladly, but our appreciation of what can be none makes us hail with
pleasure the act of the association towards
meeting the urgent need of a general secretary,
whose whole time can l>e given to the work.
Respectfully submitted,
William A. Bowen.
Recording Secretary.
20th,
April
1883.
Remarks followed regarding the
necessity of a general secretary, and
was finally left to the new board of directors for recommendation. Action was
then taken upon the question of issuing
a supplement to the Friend, containing
the lull account oftheoixming exercises
of the new building, andall the business
of interest connected with the association at this interesting and important
period, and Captain Bray was chosen to
collate and edit it
Votes of thanks were [Missed to Miss
Parke for her musical services in connection with our Y. M. C. A. Sunday
THE FRIEND, MAY
1883
47
evening meetings, Mr. Dunscombe for
SPECIAL MEETING.
his care of reading room and lighting
up for meetings, Rev. S. C. Damon A special meeting was held April
for the use of Bethel vestry, and Mr. 26th, in the new hall. The object of
A. Dickson for a copy of the Illustra- this meeting was to take action upon
ted Bible Gallery, presented by him to several recommendations of the Board
of Directors.
Mr. P. C. Jones was
the association.
added to the committee appointed to
The report of the board of managers furnish the hall
for dedicatory exercises,
was then taken up and the following
and these gentlemen empowered to finpersons elected to membership: J. A.
ish the furnishing of the building comKennedy, A. W. Kirkland, J. Monplete, and to make use of the money
sarrat, F. H. Macy and W. Myers.
provided for that purpose.
Messrs T. G. Thrum and W. W.
The old reading room at the Sailors'
Hall were appointed a committee to
Home was voted to be discontinued.
make necessary purchases, and to attend
Captain Isaiah Bray was invited to
to the necessary furnishing of the new act as
general secretary until his probuilding for dedicatory exercises.
jected departure for the East, in June,
The meeting adjourned with prayer and to inaugurate the work of the assoby Rev. Dr. Damon.
ciation.
A committee was appointed to have
So we begin our new year of work
officered by men of character, influence charge of letting the hall, and the standand wealth, and there is certainly no. ing committee, for the year, as follows:
small degree of satisfaction in having
Reading Room Committee—T. G.
for our presidents men of such deter Thrum, chairman; J. S. Emerson, W.
mined Christian character and influence Clark.
as Hon. A. F. Judd, Chancellor of the Chinese—F. W. Damon, J. B. AtherKingdom, who is not ashamed to be Dr. C. M. Hyde.
identified with the side of Christianity
Employment—P. C. Jones, B. F.
and right; and Charles M. Cooke, Esq., Dillingham, J. Cassidy, N. F. Burgess,
one of the most enterprising and lead- J. A. Kennedy.
Prison and Hospital—Capt. Lees,
ing Christian business men of the community, neither of which are depending E. C. Damon, W. J. Lowrie, Dr. C. T.
upon the arm of flesh for support and Rodgers, George Kock, G. C. Kenyon.
success, but upon that wisdom and
Tem|>erance—Rev. A O. Forbes,
power that comes from above. And so Dr. J. M. Whitney, J. Cassidy, W. A.
it is with the remainder of these offi- Kinney, Rev. J. A. Cruzan.
cers, all of whom are important busiEarly Sabbath Evening Meetings—
ness men of this city, who, amid all Dr. J. M. Whitney, Rev. S. E. Bishop,
their care and drive of business, find it F. M. Eckley, J. T. Waterhouse, Jr.
in their haarts to turn aside and say to
Entertainments—W. W. Hall, W. 0.
those about them, " Come with us Smith, C. M. Cooke, Dr. Emerson,
and we will do you good."
T. H. Davies, W. R. Castle.
Visiting Sick and Destitute —Robert
lowers,
C. W. Gray, J. D. Tucker.
A minister once said, commenting
and Hotels—D. P. PeterShipping
on the passage of Sripture which says
A. F. Cooke, Capt. Babcock, J.
son,
that " It hath pleased (iod by the fool- Monsarrat, J. S. Webb.
J. A. Dower.
ishness of preaching to save them that
Public Preaching—Rev. S. C. Damon,
believe. " Brethen, this does not mean Capt. I. Bray, P. C. Jones.
Invitations—W. A. Bowen, E. A.
foolish preaching, for if it did there
Jones,
J. M. Oat, J. G. Garrett
a
would be great many more men saved
It was proposed that members specthan there has been. Mere talk will ify a certain evening of each week to
not make usefulness. We would not spend at the rooms and entertain visiundervalue effective s])eech or the need tors.
Unanimous and hearty votes of
of giving expression to thought by the
thanks
were passed to the Building
living voice. Yet how often good Committee
for their faithful services,
causes and worthy plans have been de- to the gentlemen who had subscribed
feated by mere idle talk. They have for the painting in the hall, and to Mr.
ended in words, not deeds. A good W. W. Hall for the gift of the handcause deserves better treatment. Let some engraving.
Mr. J. S. Emerson conveyed the
us learn the value of doing the right
aloha nui of the Native Y. M. C. A of
thing, as well as making speeches Hookena, after which the meeting adabout it.
journed.
�THE FRIEND, MAY, 1883,
48
If what shone afar so grand,
Turn to nothing in thy hand,
On again, the virtue lies
In the-struggle,
not
the prize.
After receiving salvation, work it out.
Best men, they say, are moulded out
of faults.
It is excellent to have a giant's
strength, but it is tyrannous to use it
like a giant.
God has two thrones: one in the
highest heaven and the other in the
lowest heart.
If all the good men of any large citywere
taken away, would we dare to live
there ? Then what will it be in hell ?
Many an honest Christian man often
finds it hard work at times to provide for
the daily wants of himself and family;
then Satan is busy plying the temptation that the Lord has forgotten him,
and is regardless of his wants. Scanty
fare, an empty cupboard, an ill-furnished table, thread-bare clothing ; are
these the evidences and proofs of God's
favor ? Satan will ask, and then he will
say, also, that many careless, godless
|>ersons have more than heart can wish.
God thus tries the faith of His children,
and He delights to honor it.
•
WHICH WILL YOU CHOOSE?
Every young man that reads this pamust have some pleasures. If you
|jer
telling
with
The devil often tempts us
do
not
get them from God you will be
then
us we shall be great ment, but
we need to sink into nothing, and in supplied with them from the devil.
Choices between the two you must
that way slip through his fingers.
make. You cannot have both. You
There are many tests by which a gentleman must take either what Christ offers or
may be known, but there is one what Satan offers. Satan invites you to
that never fails how dose he exercise an
excursion, labeled the pleasures
power over those surbordinate to him ? of sin for a season." 'The Lord
Jesus
If you feel prompted to an unnoticed calls you to an up-hill climb, with some
act of kindness, do not hold back be- hard conflicts and rich joys, too, on the
cause it will be unnoticed. Ask your- road. At the top of the hill is Heaven.
self, what was the the name of the Which will you choose ? Watchman.
"
good Samaritan?
A mean Christian was once disturbing
a prayer meeting by his shouts of
glory, and amen when a good deacon,
who knew the brother, went to him and
quietly held before him the contribution box. 'The brother remained |>erfectly quiet the remainder of the
service.
If appealed to for a second subscription
to a good object, let us try to
-
THE FIRST RELIGIOUS SERVICE
IN THE NEW HALL
Was held on Sabbath afternoon at three
o'clock. It was conducted by Prof.
Amasa Pratt, and consisted of earnest
prayer, praise, and testimony—a meeting of special thanksgiving to the Lord
for His mercies and favors to us in the
]jast as an Association and petitions for
a continuance of His Almighty help in
the future.
It was largely attended, and of such
a nature and spirit that no one present
could fail to receive new impulse and
courage to take up and carry on the
good work begun.
remember whether w« have received a
dividend or some other blessings since
making the first subscription, and give
again even as God continually is giving
to us.
The more closely man's work is examined
A CORDIAL INVITATION
by the microscojx: the more
seems
to
be.
It
is
the
just
defective it
Is extended to every man who comes
opposite with all of God's works. 'The
to
this city to visit the new Y. M. C.
closer that is examined by the best mi
croscopes the more perfect and beau- A. rooms.
tiful it seems. So it is also with God's
The rooms are for you—the library
word and man's word.
is for you- -those comfortable chairs
A little child whose father had at one are for your use while you sit and
timebeen in the habit of having family make use of any of the reading matter
prayers, but becoming cold had given you find in the reading room. And
it up, said to her father: "Is (soddead." there you
will find books and periodi"No, my child, why do you ask ?" " Becals
to
suit
your taste —all the local,
cause I used to see you pray to him,
but now I never do, so I thought he and many foreign papers, and stationmust be dead"
ary to do your writing.
[Supplement.
We shall do all in our power to procure situations for you, point you to
good boarding places and render any
service in our |x>wer, and all free of
charge.
You need not become a member,
unless you desire, but still you can
have all the privileges of one.
'The comfortable, pretty parlor is for
you to spend your evenings in, in fact,
all you see in this large and comfortable building is is there on purpose
for your comfort and use.
Come and occupy your new home.
PRACHRISTIANITY.
CTI L
The Boslon Young Men's Christian Union
provides a truly catholic and admirable series
of entertainment during the winter. Not only
are religious services held by clergymen of all
denominations, but there are courses of pleasant lectures upon practical ethics, such as
novel reading, amusements, economy, and
"talks" upon the political history of the United
States, upon banking, upon travel, and geography, physical training, photography, and elocution, with illustrated charts. These entertainments occupy several evenings in the week.
They are the voluntary contribution of the
most eminent and accomplished clergymen and
citizens, and the public is cordially invited to
attend with the memliers of the union. To
young men who are busy during the day such
a resort, with itsgymnasiumandrcacing-rooms,
is a most attractive club, and is but another
striking illustration of that all-embracing Christian civilization which is constantly seeking to
elevate and purify and educate and restrain.
We print the foregoing from Harper's
Weekly. There are innumerable good reasons
why the Y. M. C. A.of Honolulu should be
patronized by all classes of the community. It
is of course right that the Christian element
never should be lost sight of. Yet the conductors well may take a cue from the example of
Boston, and make Christianity as popular as is
consistent with due regard for both good morals and the best intellectual effort. We take
the liberty of suggesting a series of topics for
discussion, feeling assured that we have a number of gentlemen who ought to lie able to speak
thereon entertainingly:
Success in Busines
Methods; Music; Literature; Art; Politics;
The Chinese as Colonists; The Annexation
Idea; Young Hawaii; Law, Order and Progress ; Society ami Moral Growth ; The Necessity of Segregating Lepers; Hawaiian Folk
Lore; Mathematical and Kindred Sciences;
Domestic Economy—but that subject offers too
extended a field of accomplished exemplars.
In all seriousness, we think some such scheme
of topical talks, weekly or twice a month,
might be made vastly entertaining and profitable no end.
A moral, sensible, and well-bred
man will not affront me ; and no other
can.
It is not the part of faith but of unworthy,
guilty unbelief, to assume that
there is never in the Christian life, a
victory that raises the devoted child of
(k>d above a ceaseless fight over the
selfsame ground.
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