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CONTENTS.
Our View Apprnwd
Persecution of Protestants in the Loyalty Island*.
Why are the Hawaiians Dying Out?
Episcopacy
The Bishop of Honolulu
Church I wii atloo si Pais
'•The Friend" Appreciated
Gilbert Islandi and Ponape
Monthly Record of Events
Marine Journal. Etc
Hawaiian Hoard
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Our View Approved.
A distinguished pastor writes to us :
"Accept hearty thanks, please, for the
January and February numbers of The
Friend. I have enjoyed them, and especially your leaders, very much. Your
views as to the protracted demand of
semi-converted nations foroutside.Christian aid, strike me as resting on broad
and strong reasonings. The student of
"Ancient Christianity" (as Isaac Taylor
sets it forth, c. g.) would draw the same
inferences. What did those early Christian communities shortly become after
the first instruments of their evangelization were withdrawn? What long ages
of subsequent relapse and agony followed! What throes accompanied the
Reformation back from relapse to ChrisI
tianity again throughout Europe.
thoroughly share, then, in your views
and deem them extremely important.
The Foreign missionary Secretaries have
caught up the cry, and are rehearsing it
all round the horizon, that our work is to
carry the Gospel as a witness through
and over the nations, that the evangelizing of the nations in this sense, and not
the absolute converting and changing of
the whole earth into a solid kingdom of
God (righteousness and peace and joy in
the Holy Ghost) is what we have to do,
and that this "may be done by the close
of the nineteenth century." That does
not interpret within conceivable limits
the great command, Matt. 18:19. They
are busy minifying the character, dimensions and call of their own work.
That were little. They are emasculating the grandest "marching orders" ever
heard on earth. Hut I imagine that
Premillenarianism, infectious even when
not accepted, has much to do with originating such talk."
Our friend's argument from the rapid
debasement of the early Churches is a
pregnant one. How different and how
bright might have been their history had
there somewhere existed at that period
a powerful body of highly advanced and
matured churches like those now in
America and England, who could have
taught and admonished them, and nursed
them into Christian stature and strength,
as the centuries went on. We seem to
see a clear reason why the Lord did not
stir up his churches in the earlier times
to extensively evangelize any except the
most vigorous and virile heathen peoples like our Teuton ancestors, just because they were incompetent to nourish
and mother them, in the way that churches of the weaker races need to be nursed
up. The chaste and rugged Teutons
fought their way through into the larger
light and back to Christ, and headed the
Reformation. Probably the history and
present condition of the Abyssinian
church is a sample of the results the
early church was capable of producing
in evangelizing even a race mixed of
stronger and weaker.
It looks as if the Head of the Church
had deferred the inspiring of his people
to go actively forward in the grand enterprise of evangelizing the vast outlying races of the world, until they had
acquired some degree of competence to
can}' that work out to a successful issue
by careful, wise, and patient iliseipliiig
of them. The early churches propagate
their debased and corrupted faith among
the powerful races of Northern Europe.
There it slowly develops, and with the
restoration of the Bible, bursts into glorious power. Three centuries of training
and maturing ensue, and now these
churches of the latter day are comparatively matured and established in enlightened faith. For their own higher
growth and for the world's expedited redemption, the Lord at last inspires
these blessed and favored churches to
carry their light to the dark, wretched
children of paganism, and lead them
into loyal obedience to the King of
Righteousness and Peace. We seem at
last to have been chosen for a work of
glorious privilege. Hut it is a work of
severe toil and patient, protracted service.
These children of darkness will have to
be tenderly and carefully trained into
Christian living by the labor of enlightened and devoted Christian men and
women for many generations before they
will stand alone in steadfast loyalty and
faith. Are our churches ready for this
great work ?
Persecution of Protestants in the Loyalty
Islands.
More than a year ago, we recorded
the brutal expulsion from Mare, of the
Rev. J. Jones, in December 9, IRH7, by
the French authorities. He had labored there with the highest success, for
twenty-three years. At the same time,
the people suffered much persecution for
refusing to join the French state church.
Their churches were forcibly closed.
They were forbidden to gather elsewhere for worship. They were not allowed to teach their children to read
their Bibles in Sunday schools. All
schools were closed except those taught
in the French language. The people,
however, diligently taught the Bible to
their children in their own houses.
The Protestant native pastors of Mare
were also sent in exile to New Caledonia, charged with no other crime than
refusing obedience to the Government in
matters of conscience.
Latterly, however, M. Nouet, the new
Governor ofNew Caledonia, has released
and returned to their homes all the Mart
exiles; he has determined that the persecutions carried on by his predecessor
in the Loyalty Islands shall entirely
cease.
Rev. J. Jones, since his exile, has begun with his former associate Mr.
Creagh, the revision of the entire Bible,
on the translation of which he had long
and diligently toiled. He was, however,
speedily summoned to England by his
Directors. He will probably soon resume and complete the preparation of
the whole Bible in the Mare tongue.
We have just received Handicraft
for
February, and welcome
this latest recruit to Hawaiian journalism. It purports to be "a monthly journal devoted to manual training," and
is "printed by boys of Kamehameha
School." It is evidently not edited by
any of that ilk, but by some more experienced sons of wisdom's household. Our
good neighbor of the Advertiser gets
such a castigation in the last number
for a recent freak of alliterate verbosity,
that The Friend must be on guard
against any similar indecorous saltations
or journalistic frivolosities. An address
of Hon. C. R. Bishop lends value to the
first number. The typography is thoroughly creditable to that department of
manual training in the school. The
prospectus of the school on each fourth
page is of high interest.
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1889.
evidence that these religions were all corruptions from an
WHY ARE THE HAWAIIANS DYING OUT?
original Monotheism, retaining something of that earlier
Elements of Disability for Survival Among the Hawaiian People. religious recognition of the Righteousness and Benevolence
By
[Read to Honolulu
Rev. S. E.
Bishop.
Social Science Association, Noveinbei, 1888.]
Concluded.
There are sacrifices of pigs and fowls; there are complex
incantations. There are doubtless various efforts allied to
mesmeric or hypnotic phenomena. Violent sweatings and
purgings are frequently used to promote the expulsion of
the demon, with great physical severities of different kindsi
such as often are of themselves fatal to the patient. The
tension of anxiety and dread is terrible and very weakening.
A great mortality results directly from this violent and terrifying treatment. Furthermore, there is a large mortality
caused by pure mental apprehension, where no disease originally existed. The sufferer is told that a sorcerer is at
work against him ; he at once sickens, and is prostrated, and
soon dies. Or he is solemnly warned by a learned kahuna
that he has symptoms of dangerous disease impending. Or
he is conscious of having committed some act, such as the
violation of a vow, which has offended the family deity, or
aumakua, and through mental apprehension, the same effect
of sickening ensues. All these things play into the hands
of the medicine man, bring him dupes and victims, increase
his revenue, and multiply the mortality of the people. It is
difficult to determine to what extent these superstitious
agencies are still at work. There is painful reason to believe that their activity has been greatly revived of late years.
There is much ground for thinking that a large proportion
of the more intelligent and educated Hawaiians, when they
fall ill, are prone to succumb to the inherited superstition.
It is commonly remarked that the Hawaiian, when sick,
shows a strange lack of recuperative power. He dies easily.
He becomes depressed and surrenders, where other men
would recover. Probably in most such cases, the cause is
his superstitious belief in a demon, whom he feels working
at his vitals, and whom it is hopeless to resist.
6. Idolatry. This is intimately connected with the
above-named agency. Its chief importance, however, in
this discussion, is in its character as the most efficient of all
the agencies that disorder the mental and debase the moral
action of the people, and»which frustrate and neutralize
remedial influences. It resembles Drunkenness in this respect, but I think very far exceeds it in its evil ethical
efficiency.
All thinkers, of whatever creed or type of skepticism, consider a pepple's religion to have an immense formative
power upon them. The institutions, the customs, and the
conduct of a people are certain to be shaped and patterned,
in a great degree, after whatever embodiments of moral
ideals they believe in, such as deified heroes, and deities of
whatever sort whom they fear and worship. If the gods of
any nation,-like those of early Egypt, are understood to exercise substantial justice, to reward virtue, purity, and temperance, and to punish vice, treachery, and cruelty, such a
nation will continue to cherish the higher, and to despise
the baser qualities. Righteousness has the sanction of
religion, and the nation grows and prospers. The Polytheisms of Egypt, of Greece, of Rome, of Chaldsa, in their
earlier and less corrupted forms, exalted much of the higher
elements of character; hence a good degree of civilization
became possible under these religions. This was also true
of the earlier Brahminism of the Vedas. There is strong
of the Heaven-Father, the Dyaus-Pitar, Zeus-Pater, or
Jupiter of the Aryan races. It is most noticeable how, from
debased races, these nations imported successively the worship of evil gods—the Baals, Molochs, Astartes, Kalis, gods
of lust, cruelty, falsehood, debauchery. These fastened as
parasites upon the earlier and cleaner Polytheisms, and so
corroded and poisoned the social and political life of those
great nations.
Whether, as Fornander maintains, any traces of an ancient Monotheism can be discerned in the Polynesian Pantheon, may be considered doubtful. It is certain, however,
that the prevailing characteristics attributed to even the
highest gods, such as Pomander's Trinity of Ku, Kane, and
Kanaloa, were wretchedly evil and unclean. There arc-not
merely strong tendencies to animalism and cruelty, with
frequent lapses into crimes of lust and revenge, such as disfigure Greek mythology. These gods of the Hawaiians become absolute embodiments of bestiality and malignity, like
Moloch and other gods of the Canaanites.
The impure and malignant essence of Hawaiian deities
is visibly embodied in their images. In contrast to the personal beauty of the Greek gods, the aim and the effort of the
carver is to depict an extreme of malignity and sensuality.
The lineaments are made as revolting and horrific as the
artist can combine them from vicious types of animal
savagery, such as the shark or the boar. The first impression is a just one, that a people who worshipped such deities
as these images represent could not be otherwise than profoundly perverted in their ethical sentiments.
The various legends of the chief gods abound in attributes
of the most excessive bestiality. They are generally incapable of being printed without extensive expurgation. A
loathsome filthiness is not mere incident, but forms the
groundwork of character, not merely of the great hog-god
Kamapuaa, but even of the more human-like Ku and Kane
of the chief Trinity.
The moral ideas of the worshippers of such gods could
not fail to suffer extreme perversion. Justice and Purity
were in contempt. Cruelty and Lust were exalted into
religion. The late Matthew Arnold, eliminating personality
from the idea of the God of Christendom, defined Deity as
"The Stream of Tendency in the Universe that makes for
Righteousness." If we could eliminate these horrific personalities from the Hawaiian Pantheon, we might well
count the ideal residuum to stand for the stream of tendency
that makes for all wickedness. It was an embodied
Diabolism.
As a shaping force upon character, and a moving force
upon conduct, this diabolic religion takes its energy from
Sorcery. Sorcery brings these evil gods down as living
active powers interposing in all circumstances of life. By
the arts of the kahunas the people were held, and, to a considerable extent, are still held, in habitual fear of these
powerful gods and their subordinate demons. Their lives
are continually threatened by them. Every internal sense
of illness is the deadly touch, sensibly felt, of a god. So
the people were held in abject slavery to their gods, and to
the priests who could influence them. Slaves to such unclean beings, they tend to be like them; their moral sentiments are overturned; evil becomes good, and good evil.
Lewdness, prostitution, indecency, drunkenness, being godlike, are exalted into virtues. Recent practical illustrations
of this are not lacking.
One of the foul florescences of this great poison tree of
Idolatry is the Hula. This is most intimately connected
with the whole system, and forms an essential part of its
services, just as Sacred Music does of Christian worship.
The hula dances are habitually idolatrous in practice, having their special patron gods, whom the dancers invoke and
worship. The chief posturings and movements of the hulas
are pantomimes of unnameable lewdness, illustrated and
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of such schools conducted by Protestants, Anglicans, and
Catholics. Adversely, the youth who go out of these
schools are at once plunged into a sea of indescribable
temptation. Yet much of our best hopes for the future of
the race is in the increasing numbers of these well-trained
Hawaiians. They tend to form an elevated and civilized
social class of their own. This is opposed and disintegrated
by a Hawaiian social leadership," whose tendencies are all
adverse.
4. Christian Instruction will continue to be regarded by
earnest believers in Christianity as the chief effective agency
in healing the nation's maladies. They hold that Faith in
Christ has power to emancipate from fear of demon-gods:
they believe that the implanting of the high ideal of righteousness of which Jesus of Nazareth is the source, will
in the end erect in all minds a standard of integrity and
purity which will be more effectual than anything else
in securing moral and healthy living among the people.
Probably the most of the many true and earnest friends of
right living who do not accept the supernatural element of
Christian doctrine would agree that for the Hawaiian, in his
present mental stage of development, such a faith would be
a more efficient antidote than any scientific or philosophical
teaching could be.
If it be asked why sixty-eight years of Christian teaching
has not availed to lift the Hawaiian people out of the mire
of impure living, if it be thus efficacious, its teachers would
point to the great increase of adverse influences for the last
thirty years, and to the direct fostering of sorcery and hulas
by authority during that time, and latterly to the promotion
of hardly concealed worship of the gods. They would also
point to the immense growth of foreign elements whose unfavorable influence has been illustrated in the case of the
Chinese. They would also call special attention to the fact
that, during the period of powerful missionary ascendancy,
say from 1833 to 1853, while nearly the whole people became nominal adherents of Christianity, only a minority become actual members of the churches, while the great
majority, although outwardly assenting, remained wedded
to their habitual vice, and secretly to their superstitions, and
that the more Christian minority gave place by death to another generation far less strongly impressed and less fervid
in religious interest.
In accordance with the foregoing statement of facts, as I
clearly understand them, and whose substantial correctness
I think cannot be gainsaid, there seems to be no radical
remedy for the two great causes of infertility and mortality,
viz: Unchastity and Sorcery, except a system of vigorously
extirpating those two allied agencies in which they generate
and are nourished, the Hulas and the Kahunas. Both are
purely heathen institutions of the most pronounced and detestable type, and are totally incompatible with any true and
wholesome civilization. They should both be hunted down
and exterminated like the venomous reptiles that they are,
poisoning and slaying the people. Until this is done with
determined thoroughness, I see little prospect of arresting
the decrease of the Hawaiian people.
The Hawaiian Race is one that is well worth saving.
With all their sad frailties, they are a noble race of men,
physically and morally. They are manly, courageous, enterprising, cordial, generous, unselfish. They are highly
receptive of good. They love to look forward and upward,
even though very facile to temptations to slide backward
and downward. In an unusual degree, they possess a
capacity for fine and ardent enthusiasm for noble ends.
Should the Hawaiian people leave no posterity, a very
sweet, generous, interesting race will have been lost to the
world. They can be saved. They have deserved too well
of mankind—they have been too kindly, too friendly, too
lofty.
and magnanimous, not to merit the most devoted
trustful
Domestic and Industrial Training in boarding schools has
to
avert their threatening fate, and to set them forefforts
excellent
work
for
and
is
doing
accomplished much more,
ward
a
hopeful course. It seems as if this might most
in
both sexes, by their practical training in the ethics, the conbe
accomplished,
if there were only a wise and resoeasily
duct, and the industry of Christian civilization. Several
it.
lute
to
do
purpose
the
advantages
hundred youth of each sex are now enjoying
varied with elaborate art, and accompanied with chants of
unspeakable foulness of diction and description. This is
the Sacred Music of Idolatry, its Opera and its Drama.
The multitudes of men, women and children who throng to
these royal /ih/ii-operas there drink in the heathen ethics of
social life in unmitigated directness and grossness, made
sensational with vivid pantomime of beastliness, and embellished with foul wit and jest in song, extolling and dramatizing impurity. Against such schooling, it must be a
powerful civilizing force that can make head and redeem
any Hawaiian homes from becoming brothels.
7. Wifeless Chinese. This is an evil of recent growth,
which acts most perniciously upon the social life oi Hawaiians. There are some 80,000 Chinamen of the lowest class,
without their women, distributed throughout the islands in
close contact with the natives, and in many districts outnumbering the Hawaiian males. The effect is necessarily
very destructive to the purity of native families, although
not more so than the presence of a similar number of unmarried whites would be. There is no doubt but that many
native households in all parts of the country are maintained
in comparative affluence by the intimacy of Chinese with
their females. Some of the heads of these families are
members in good standing in the Protestant churches,
whose easy-going native pastors lack the energy and authority to deal with the offenders, while the moral sentiment
prevailing both within and outside of the church is too feeble
to put them to shame.
The catalogue of destructive elements making for the
death of the Hawaiian people, as enumerated above, is an
appalling one. It certainly suffices to account for any
amount of infertility and mortality. On the other hand,
there are many sanative and restorative agencies at work,
which inspire hope for the repression of these evils, and
afford prospect for the reinforcement and augmentation of
healing agencies. I briefly name some of the most efficient:
1. Government Medical Aid. Paid physicians are within reach of most of the people, whose services to them are
free of charge. Their help should save many more lives
than they do, or than they will, so long as the people are
taught Idolatry, and to trust in the kahunas. It is not in
itself a very easy thing for a skilled physician to gain the
confidence of the native people in the degree that he needs
for any considerable success. It is nearly impossible for
him to do so, when contending as he generally is with active
superstition in the minds of his patients, and their friends,
and with the army of kahunas working with all their arts
against him. His prescriptions will very commonly be
neglected, and his injunctions disobeyed.
I have not the slightest doubt that a hearty reception by
the Hawaiian people of the medical aid now provided, discarding their kahunas, would at once cause births to preponderate over deaths.
2. Hygienic Instruction. There has been a great deal of
instruction given upon the laws of health and simple remedial treatment in the schools and churches, and by means
of books. Dr. Judd's translation of Cutter's Anatomy and
Physiology was printed nearly fifty years ago, and used as
a text book in the leading high school. Such instruction
has done great service. It has proved insufficient, however,
to make head against the inveterate belief in the supernatural
cause of disease. It is likely to continue inadequate, so long
as the kahunas are encouraged to ply their arts.
3. School Education. Book knowledge, and even the
much vaunted education in English, have sadly failed to
arm Hawaiians against succumbing to superstition and its
kindred impurity, either in the ranks of the lowly or the
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THE FRIEND.
Episcopacy.
—
The Krienii. Sir. In asking
permission to say a few words in your columns
with reference to your article on "Episcopacy"
in your March issue, I will promise at the outset
that I am not going to write a dissertation on
Episcopacy, for as I cannot expect you to regard
that institution from my point of view, so I freely
admit that the opinion you express is the result
of the position in which you stand towards it.
Hence it does not in the least disturb my
equanimity to find myself regarded by The
Friend as an anachronism in the nineteenth
century, like some unfortunate dodo that may still
be lingering in the unexplored parts of Australia
having survived the geological period to which
it properly belongs, one occupying an office
which having ceased to be beneficial to mankind, (I suppose since the days of Oliver ofblessed
memory) should be relegated to the dust heap of
the past.
But, when not satisfied with consigning both
kings and bishops to your heap ol old lumber,
you proceed to dogmatize as follows: "In all
communities where intelligence is increasing and
character enlarging, there becomes less and less
use for one-man control, either in state or
church," you give utterance to a statement which
is certainly open to discussion before it is admitted
into the creed of mankind, and which moreover
may be discussed without trenching on matters
of theological or ecclesiastical controversy.
I» it, then, the case that there is less use today for one-man control than formerly ? Where
is the proof of the statement? If a man-of-war
comes into the harbour, no matter whether she
carries the flag of England, or the United States,
whether she belongs to autocratic Russia, or to
republican France, the ship is under one-man
control. There is not a ship afloat, from the ship
of war to the small coasting schooner, that is not
under one-man control. Come ashore and enter
the police court; fines and imprisonment are
daily imposed on transgressors of the law, by one
man sitting alone on the bench, who will commit for contempt of court any one who murmurs
at his decisions. Go into a school, and you find
the order and discipline dependent on one-man or
one-woman control. If you want to cross to one
of the other islands, you find yourself under oneman control, who notifies you that you will be
allowed a deck passage, if under the qualms of
seasickness you lie down in your berth with
your boots on. When you return home, should
you venture to interfere with the celestial oneman control that dominates your cook-house,
a ruined dinner will be your just retribution.
Travel abroad, and in every hotel you enter,
every train you travel by will still be under oneman control.
So far then from the growth of any community rendering useless one-man control, it appears
rather that the increase of activity, and the interchange of commercial, social and political relations between communities makes the need of
one-man control to be increasingly felt in every
department. It matters not whether it be a department of the state, or a factory, or a trading
company, or a plantation, or a ship, or a railway
train, or even your cooking range, the one-man
control centralizes at once authority and responsibility. One-man control is the surest safeguard
against despotic and arbitrary conduct. The
principle underlying one-man control, whether
the one-man be the captain of a man-of-war, or
the manager ola plantation, or an engine-driver,
is that whilst invested with supreme authority in
his own department, he is yet a man under
authority, who can be called to account should
he on the one hand arbitrarily neglect to exercise
the authority committed to him, or on the other
presume to transgress the limits of his instructions.
Now this is precisely the position occupied by
a Bishop in the church. If invested with the
chief authority within her own jurisdiction, he is
still under the authority of the church of which
he is a minister. It is his office not to make but
to administer the laws of the church, and to see
that they are observed. And when charges of
arbitrary conduct are freely scattered abroad
Euitor
of
against an overseer, one might justly complain o
an editor lending wings to such charges before
he has made inquiry into the foundation on which
they rest. To the mind ol the schoolboy, a head
master is terribly arbitrary who inquires into and
takes notice of an offence, but no suspicion of
arbitrariness crosses the schoolboy mind when
an extra holiday is given. In later life popular
judgments too often follow the schoolboy way of
looking at things.
Were I disposed to be cantankerous, I might
take you to task for the impression unfavorable
to myself that your article was clearly intended
to leave in the minds of your readers, and that
on, as you admit, imperfect information with regard to the matter in hand. But rather than do
this, let me say that I entirely agree with your
statement that arbitrary proceedings have of late
come to be at a considerable discount. Yes, has
not the arbitrary power of a secret council
which not two years ago gagged the press, and
under which no man durst call his soul his own,
vanished away like smoke? If I mistake not
certain arbitrary proceedings with which my responsible position has brought me into antagonism, will be similarly discounttd and discountenanced by all who have respect for law, and desire to see the religious and social as well as political fabric built up on the foundation of truth
and integrity. Yours faithfully,
ALFRED WILLIS,
March 22, 1889.
Bishop of Honolulu.
The Bishop of Honolulu.
After much hesitation, and at some
inconvenience, we have given space to
Bishop Willis' communicator. We sin-
cerely regret the division in the Anglican
Church, and apprehend that this letter
will not tend to allay it. This, however,
is not for us to judge, and the Bishop
has some claim to a hearing in the
Friend, after our allusion to the case,
for making which we thought that we
had sound reasons. Our information
was by no means confined to what appeared in the Anglican Monthly, as the
Bishop seems to infer. The tone of his
letter may assist our readers in forming
an opinion as to whether any element of
"arbitrariness" entered into the Bishop's
recent proceedings, or whether he exhibited due regard to the opinions of the
able and esteemed gentlemen with whom
he is at issue, and who are by no means
"schoolboys."
In regard to the "Secret Council" who
initiated the late political Reform, we
would say for the information of our
readers abroad, that substantially all the
measures of Reform which the League
devised are now part of the Constitution
and laws of this Kingdom, and that the
Ministry nominated by the League are
still in their seats, administering our
public affairs with reasonable success,
and not more than the average wholesome amount of adverse criticism. Having successfully accomplished its task of
suppressing Autocratic and establishing
Responsible government, any further activity on the part of such secret council
would seem uncalled for, and inconsistent with their own principles. Herein,
however, the Bishop seems unable to repress the exhibition of that profound
sympathy for Autocracy in opposition to
Constitutional government, which has
always characterized the Prelatical order.
Although we do not, like Bishop Willis,
[April, 1889.
consider theprelatical Episcopate to have
any special Divine sanction, we feel no
such disrespect for that office, or for the
office of a king, as he imputes to us. In
certain very common social conditions,
those officers are more or less indispensable, like parental control over minors.
In advanced social conditions, they may
continue to be useful and endurable, if
prudently administered. We have the
highest respect for a monarch like Victoria, who scrupulously keeps within her
established limitations, or for a diocesan
Bishop, who ministers faithfully and
wisely, as a' servant of the Church, and
not as an autocrat.
Our observation about "use for one
man control," was specially limited (as
quoted by the Bishop) to "either in state
or church." None of his instances are
of either civil or ecclesiastical administration, and so have no application to
the case. Three of the leading nations,
England, France, and America, are now
under almost purely Representative government. A large proportion of the leading Protestant churches are quite emancipated from hierarchic control. We
seem to clearly see this to be the line
upon which our Lord is guiding the
world's upward progress towards his
coming kingdom of righteousness and
peace. We look upon the present unhappy trouble in the Anglican church in
Honolulu as an instructive object-lesson
as to this resistless tendency in enlightened communities towards liberal and
against autocratic administration. Such
a lesson seemed too important and interesting to be passed by without such
application as we made of it. In all this
we disclaim any personal disrespect for
the Bishop, whom we regard a most estimable and conscientious gentleman.
Church Dedication at Paia.
On Sunday, March 10th, the Makawao Foreign Church occupied for the
first time their commodious and elegant
church edifice at Paia. Special dedicatory services were conducted by the pastor, Rev. Thos. L. Gulick, assisted by
Rev. Messrs. W. B. Oleson and S. E.
Bishop, who were invited from Honolulu
for that purpose. An audience of fully
two hundred persons were assembled,
nearly all whites. After the introductory
services, including anthemsand responsive readings, " Dedicatory Remarks"
were presented by the pastor, in an address of great force and earnestness. A
responsive service was then recited by
the pastor and people, standing. It closed
with formal words of solemn dedication
of the the house to the worship and
service of God. Dedicatory prayer was
offered by Rev. S. E. Bishop. Messrs.
Oleson and Bishop addressed the people
on the topics of " The Church and the
Community," and "The Church and the
World." The services closed with a dedicatory hymn, and prayer and benediction by Rev. Mr. Morrison, an aged vis-
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29
THE FRIEND.
itor of the Episcopal Church. The lapse for want of funds. Your February policemen. A young man from Rev.
services were manifestly of deep and issue asserts that the unparalleled phe- Mr. Rand's Training School had been
solemn interest to all participating. All nomenon of a surplus in the treasury stationed on Ngatic, an island sixty
was throughout impressive. The day exists. So you see we get the hostile miles S.W. from Ponape, and never before occupied as a part of the mission
was fine, the house was beautiful, the reports first."
field. The native assistant is left in
people were happy and expectant. The
church
was
Gilbert
Islands.
charge of the school during Mr. Rand'sthat
the
feeling prevailed
absence, Mr. Doane exercising such
entering upon a new period of serviceFrom the Gilbert Islands we learn supervision as he may find opportunity
able and successful activity. The exercises were happily arranged and well that Rev. W. B. Kapu, who had resign, to do. Mr. Doane reports continued
carried out, befitting the importance of ed as a missionary of the Hawaiian and increasing interest in religious work,
the occasion.
Board, had married a native wife. He two new churches organized, two new
The new church is placed exactly upchurch buildings erected, two books of
and his son-in-law were engaged in Kings translated and forwarded for
on the site of the old sugar works of
Paia Plantation, one and a half miles in- trading on Tapiteuea. Rev. Z. S. K. publication, also a theological class
1
P. Kaaia are sta- book. Mr. Rand brought up with him
land from the Paia K. R. station, and Paaluhi and Rev. S.
large a native boy from Yap, and with his asthree miles seaward from the old meet- tioned at different sections of this
island,
but
seem
to
have
had
little sistance has begun the preparation of a
ing house. It is centrally and conspicuously located. The building is a beauti- success in checking the passion for Bible Primer in that language. At Mokil
ful one, well proportioned in lateral drinking, dancing, and gambling. On a half-caste has been doing injury to the
spread and height of spire. This is the Nonouti two French Catholic priests natives in pushing the sale of liquor,
first church built in these islands upon had been landed, and with presents of and under his influence some of the
the modern plan so prevalent in Evan- clothing or medicine had induced some church members had taken up again
gelical Churches with auditorium and of the people to wear a rosary with the the vile practices they had abandoned.
school room opening into each other, image of Mary, and come to their Suna
Monthly Record of Events.
and seats in amphitheater form. The day worship. On Apemama Gilbert
with
Island
Catechist
had
met
favor
200,
is
and
100
schoolin
seatingcapacity
March id.—Honolulu takes a halfroom. Both architectural grace and from the chief, and was making pro- holiday
to witness a promised balloon
On
Maiana
Rev.
Lono
W. N.
gress.
convenience have been thoroughly was
ascension at Kapiolani Park, and dewith
but
little
success
in
meeting
all
studied. Exterior arrangements were
scent of the aeronaut by a parachute,
in beautiful order. The entire cost was introducing Gospel light and life. On but the event has not yet transpired.—
Tarawa,
the
island
from
large
which
$10,000.
within
Hon.
probably
Of this,
took his name for the Arrival of S. S. Omi Maru from YokoH. P. Baldwin contributed the larger Capt. Wilkes fighting
had ceased, and hama with 90H Japanese.
part, as was his proportionate share, he whole group,
of
had
won many adGospel
peace
the
3d.—Incendiarism frustrated and arhaving grown to be the chief capitalist
of the district. It is not so very often herents. On Apaian Rev. M. Lutera rest of alleged youthful aspirant after
that we can record a moneyed man do- and wife had been busily at work, and Nero honors.
were planning to open schools the com4th.— Inauguration day passes off
ing his fair proportion in this way.
ing year. Mrs. Lutera had quickly with tropic indifference to the WashingMakawao
brethren
have
a
charmThe
ing church building to "live up to," and learned the language and had much in- ton event.—Native killed by a rock cavewe believe they will do it. To our eyes, fluence over the native women. The in at the Kalihi quarry.—Chief Engineer
Makawao has always seemed the most chief had promulgated new laws against Warfel, of the Mikahala, "caned" by his
On Marakei fellow-officers on the eve of his departure
beautiful of all the lovely districts of drinking and gambling.
Kanoho
has
accused by for San Francisco.
D.
Rev.
been
Islands.
the
afternoon
we
drove
In
these
for giving his time
up in a dense fog and mist to hold na- the resident traders
ftth.—Double execution of the Chinese
tive service in Father Green's old church. to trading in disregard of the positive murderers, Ahapa and Akana. —Messrs.
About twenty-five natives were gather- instructions from the Hawaiian Board. W. A. Bowen and E. D. Tenney admitMaka reports
ed. Mrs. Green with her daughter was On Butaritari Rev. R.
ted to an interest in the firm of Castle &
had made
though
gambling
progress,
faithfully instructing them, keeping up
Cooke.—Wedding bells: Tenney-Makee,
the work in which her venerated husband the people poor, and heavily burdened at St. Andrew's Cathedral, and recepformerly ministered to the many thou- by debts to the traders. On Banaba, or tion at residence of Mr. F. P. Hastings.
sands of Hamakua and Kula, for forty Ocean Island, occupied for the first time
6th. —Bark Lady Lamfson, from San
years. It was touching to find this sur- on the last voyage of the Morning Star, Francisco, grounded near the entrance
vival of old missionary labor still going the Gilbert Island Catechist had done to the port, but after some lightering
well, and a church had been organized was
on.
got off with but slight damage for
this year. On Pleasant Island, now
dear
called
and
dined
with
our
We
her twelve hours rest. —Arrival of stmr.
claimed
three
additional
by
Germany,
friend Miss H. E. Carpenter, at the
Australia from San Francisco, and misSeminary, where sixty-three girls are native Catechists were left in charge.
sionary packet Morning Star from Minow abiding. It has grown much in
cronesia.—Steamer Kinau brings back a
capacity and numbers since we last visitPonape.
large and enthusiastic volcano party over
ed it in 1877. Miss C. has labored there
Madame Pele's pyrotechnic displays.
do
The Spanish priests on Ponape
for eighteen years, and is now about to
Gibson-Nott wedding at residence of
resign the presidency to younger hands. not seem to have been very aggressive bride's parents.
The work of few individuals can tell more thus far, but keep quietly within the pro7th.—Reception at residence of Hon.
beneficially upon the Hawaiian race
The Gov- C. R. Bishop, to Hon. E. H. Allen, Hacompound.
tection
of
the
than hers.
ernor's residence is quite an imposing waiian Consul-General at New York,
building for Micronesia. Liquor flows and Mrs. Allen.
"The Friend" Appreciated.
of grading for the Oahu
freely, and licentiousness is doing its Bth.—Work
Prof. C. H. Hitchcock writes: " You
Railroad commenced, Master Harold
deadly work. Rev. Mr. Doane has or- Dillingham turning the first turf.
would be surprised to see all the items
dered a new supply of Spanish Bibles,
9th.—Arrival of Zealandia from the
we get about the Islands. Not long ago
hoping
for opportunities to circulate Colonies, en route for San Francisco, reit was gravely announced in the press
that the government was about to col- them among the Spanish soldiers and porting matters quiet at Samoa. —Stmr.
—
�Gaelic from San Francisco touches off
port en route for China, leaving next
day with 147 Chinese passengers.
10th.—Dedication of the new Foreign
Church edifice at Paia, Maui.
12th.—Auction sale of the Leilehua
Stock Ranch, the property of His Majesty and Col. C. H. Judd; Hon. J. I. Dowsett becomes the purchaser for the sum
of $41,500.
13.—Death of Mrs. Margaret, widow
of the late Hugh Mclntyre, aged seventy-
[April,
THE FRIEND.
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Cook, J Dedd, Capt D F Ilevol, Mr~ J I Dowsetl. Mm A
Domett, Capt T I. His, Mis, Marion Everaon, Capt T C
Cifford, (apt O V GitTord, Amos Ononis, M Green, H R
Hitchcock. M Judah, Capl X Laphani, Cyrus H McCorPORT OF HONOLULU.—MARCH.
niick, and wife, Mr, H A Parmelee, Miss Charlotte I'armel«e, D P Reamer, Mr, J RoseobuTg, 1 n A W Saxe, X J
Saxe, Capt A ( Sherman, Arthur 'I'urton. Capt Geo 'l'ripp,
Mi„ I M White, C*p« 1 1' Warren, W E Pack and wife,
ARRIVALS,
and 1.1 in steerage and 77 in transit.
From Fanning Island, per >chr Waimalu. Mar '24—Geo
2—Jap S S Omi M;iru, Conner. 1l"j gays from Yokohamae
Grcig and Mis, Greig.
L'SS Alert, Green, from the Windward Islands,
a—Am brlf G«0 II Douglas, Jacoh>on, L&dnyi from San
Dtl'AK
Francisco
4—H UM fe Cormorant, Nichols, from Kauai.
Townsend.W
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Port
T, per hktne Klikitat. March 0
r
wh ftiii'.r Narwhal, McGregor, -1 days from San Masleri H C and T X Bickmon,
i—Am Francisco.
R P Huckland.
S N Castle, MarchS—Mrs
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San
Francises.
hktne
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6—Haw S Australia, Houdlette, 7J> pays from San
J X Bidwell. -Mrs Nicholr*, M Mortenesn, wife and four
FrancUro.
Am Mi-.-, packet Morning Star, Garlands 36 days from children, I' t Atwatci ami rsnY
'I'ruk, Carotin* Islands.
For Yokohama,per S S Omi Mara, March B- G W Bald
Am bftn« J 1> SprtckeU Christiansen, '-4 hours from win, I C S Parcher, Mrs M l.ane, and ISB Japanese and
Kahului, Maui.
l.t Chinese steerage passengers.
Haw bk Lady Lampsou, Sodergrcn, 15J4 days from
Foi San Francisco, par S S Zealand!*, March D—C H
San Francisco.
and H X Merrill. S suwhiney, V Vandervanter, F S HebB Am wh bk Andrew Hi.ks, Basset!, from a cruise.
ard,
J liartram, J I) Wilde, S Fhrhcli, E Clifford, I-ie„t
!>—R MS S Ztalandia, Otcrcndorp, 12 days frum Auck- Garvin.
TJ Emery, Mrs II N IVele, Mr*E Alexander
land.
7 steerage and 170 pa„engcr, in transit.
O & () S S Gaelic, fN arne. 7 i ay* from Sail Francisco.
For
San
Franci* per bark t arion, March IS (~, Rich11—Brit, bk Velocity, Martin, fi days from Hongkong.
14—Am schr Rosalind, Lc Ballistier, -0 days from San ardson, A Rodugal, M kitto and wife.
FrancUc ■.
From San Francisco, per scat Rosalind, March 14—Mrs
1"' Am bfftaa W G Irwin, McCullock. 1>' 2 day> from San II Kvans.
rnnciacoe
lor San Francisco, per S S Australia. Mar 14—Mrs M
Am tern Glendale, Falk, 25 day> from Humboldt.
Mi„ Belle Loutason. .Mrs Coit and maid. T
16-R MS S Mariposa, Hayward, ~li Jays from San Louisson,
Bergen, Mis, X Mihan, Mr, H I'erger and ton, X A Ward
Francisco.
Treibcr.
wife and child. R J Lillieand wife, Mrs Ben'
D
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Am tern W S 11owne, Bluhm, 16J£ days from San nett,
Mrs Gibbons, Rev A C W'alkup and :l children. Wm
Fraactsco.
Miller
and
Mrs A dc S Canavarro and child, O B
wife,
Am bk G I) Bryant. Let, 17 days from San Francisco. Spalding. H Robinson
J
and wife. W lUirnham, Mrs A A
Am hktne F.ureka, Peterson, 27 days from Kureka.
Mrs
Pratt,
P
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Cro„,
JT(
Mrs M F Marshall and
18—Nor hk Victoria, Barren-en, 83 days from Newcastle, child, I. McLean
J
and
lion X H Allenand wife, Mrs
wife,
N S \V.
Fletcher
and
children,
2
Clan,
Spreckets, Mrs SpreckCol
Am wh bk Andiew Hick>, lia»ett. from San Francisco. els, Miss
Fmma Mircckels, Win Whitehead, J S Richards
Am stm wh Williani Lewi-,, from >an Francisco*
and
Hiliiard
wife,
E
A M Tufts, Miss M
and
Mrs
wife,
R
'21 —Am wh bk Alice Knowles, Wi._ks, from a cruise.
V Tufts, Miss M F Cushing, Mr, M F Grilling, Mi,s 1. 1'
:':' It bk Iton, Regnier, .'«1 days fioin Hongkong.
Parks, H P Roy, H W Parkes, H A Smith, Urates Smith
28—Shcr Waimalu, \\'ei-.barth, from Howland's and Far- (4), W William,, A Page and wife, Henry
X Hyde, F E
ming's Islands.
Rand, LVGaldner, Mrs A Clarke, Sister Winifred, P C
from a cruise.
Am wh bk Coral,
Jones
and
wife.
0
Gohi-mith
and
wife,
lioyce Miss
H
27—Brit bk Royal Tar, Bowers, from Newcastle viaTahiti. M X
Derby, Mrs J H Fisher and child J A McCandless,
21)— Brit bk Ma/allan,
64 days from New Castle.
Dr P A Morrow, C E William,, I: Irahara,
H C Lyon, H
D Taylor, and 148 steerage passengers, including 133 I'm
Marine
Journal.
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six years, and a resident of these islands
for nearly forty years.—Royal breakfast
in honor of distinguished guests.
14th.—Morning wedding of Jas. L.
McLean and Miss J. R. Grieve.—Departure of the Australia for San Francisco with a large freight and passenger
list.—Four-fifths of the Supreme Court
declares unconstitutional An Act of last
session designed to suppress the unlawful sale of intoxicating liquors.
15th.—Oahu College Musicale by Prof.
A. D. Bissell and pupils.—Fire on premises of J. F. Bowler, corner Palace walk
and Punchbowl street; loss $2,000
17th—The IT. S. Bowne, on arrival
from San Francisco, grounds off Kakaako at daybreak, but after lightering was
got off at 1 p.m. by the aid of two tugs,
with the loss of portion of false keel.—
Kamehameha day.—Arrival of steamer
Mariposa from San Francisco en route
DEPARTURES.
for the Colonies, with rumor of trouble
in the naval camp at Samoa.
r>—Am bktne Wrestler, C>ok, for San Francisco.
li Am bktne Khkitat, Cutter, for Puget Sound.
18th.—Omnibus load of sight-seers 7—Am bk Alex. McNeil, Frits, for San Francii
Brit bk Ivy, Caroti, for Paget Sound.
returning from the Pali by moonlight, S—Jap
S S Omi Maru, Conner, for \ okohama.
Am bktne S N Castle, Hubbard, for San Fram Isco.
are capsized near the half-way house, 9—R
MS S Zealandia. < terendorp, for San Fr.r
fortunately without serious injury to any
Am wh bk Ohio, Gtfrard. for Arctic Ocean.
Am «ii !ik Northern Light, kills, for Arctic Ocean.
of the party.
Am stm wh Marshal, McGregor, for Arctic Ocean.
Am wh !>k Reindeer, Baker, for Arctic Ocean.
22d. —Meeting called to form a Royal 10—0
SS raelic, Peame, f«r Yokohama and Hongkong.
Hawaiian Academy of Music, Lyric and 13—Am bk Colusa, Backus, for San Francisco.
Am bk Ceyl m, Calhoun, f.*i San Francisco.
Dramatic Art, fails to obtain sufficient 14- Haw
S S Australia, Houdlette. for San Francisco.
Am bgtne Alexan ler, Halsey, for Arctic Ocean.
patrons to warrant organization.
16—Ambk Edmund I'hinney, Young, for Kahului.
Hayward. ioi the Colonies,
23d.—Oahu College Athletic Associa- 17 -R M S S Mariposa,
—Am wh hk Lancer, Blossom, for Arctic Ocean.
tion gave a full afternoon's exhibition of \s
10—Haw brig Geo H Doogtas, /acobson, for San Francisco.
bk Lady I ampson, Sodt rgren, for San Francisco.
sports at Kapiolani Park to a large num- ■J" Havewh
bk 1 riton. Warner, for Arctic Ocean.
Am
ber of invited guests. —Bark C. D. BryAla wh bk Eliza, Kclley, for / relic Ocean.
Am wh hk Andrew Hicks, for Arctic Ocean.
ant libelled for indulging in opium.—
21 Am eclir Rosalind, Le Ballister, for San Francisco.
Makiki reservoir supply of \vater aided 22 Am bgtne J I) Sefcckela, Christiansen, for San Fran
by 123,200 gallons forced through the 25—Am cucc*
tin W S liowne, Bhihtn, for Sari FrancisCOe
Am bk Hesper, Ryder, for San Fran :■■
pipes from the artesian well at Thomas
Am wh bk Alice Knowles, Howland, f..r Arctic Ocean.
Square, by aid of-one night's service of 20 -Am wh bk Coral, Wicks, for Arctic < iccan.
Am wh bk La Ninia, Winchester, fur Arctic Ocean.
Fire Engine No. 2.
Am stm wh William Lewis, SheiDUUl, for Arctic Ocean.
Am bktne Eureka, Peterson. for Gray's Harbor,
28th.—Successful concert by the HoAm tern Glen fale, Falk, for San Fram
nolulu Arion at their Hall.— Douglas- 28 Am bk Al.ien Bessc, Cousins for San Francisco.
Br bk Velocity, Martin, for Hongkong
McGowan wedding at residence of the
bride's mother.
PASSENGERS*
29th.—Bark C. D. Bryant is forfeited
abjmvaLs.
to the government, and at request of
defendant's counsel A. Fuller, Jas. A. From Saw Francisco, per S S Australia, Mar 6—JTWater*
and wife. H J Agnew, wife, child, a d nurse, Mrs
King and Jas. Lyle are appointed ap- nouse
F M Swanry, Jno B X- btnson and wife, Geo AbuL Miss B
Parke,
praisers.
J 1) 'tucker, Capt M V Millard, Capt J G Baker,
Arthur Huntley, C Fisher, H Richardson, J A Cook, L
30th.—The appraisers value the bark Pease, Lieut R L Carn.ody C H Ath-rion, wife and child,
Wttchell and wife, Dr R W Haynes, Dr F L Hay, E G
Bryant with all her belongings, as she JElm
wood, J> B Smith, and 32 Steerage passengers.
now lies, at $19,000. —Second attempt From San Francisco, per O it O S S Gaelic, Mar !> T
Tiernan, Col (Jeo W Grannis, J II McCandiess and 17
by steam fire engine No. 2 to replenish saloon
and
Chinese
pas>engers in transit.
Makiki reservoir supply of water from From San103Francisco, steerage
per bgtne W G Irwin, Mar I">—F ri
Smiley, \V G Kendall, Miss Mescrale and 3 steerage pasThomas Square artesian well, giving a sengers.
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satisfactory result.
1889.
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t
tuguese.
For the Colonies, pel S S Mariposa, Mar 17—J W Bruce,
Mr Flavin and family, I. S BrOBSOn and wife, Mrs Robt J
Oeightnn. J Witched and wife, D J Griffin Mr Hodge and
i in transit.
For --.in Francisco, i>er Lady Lampion, Mar in—W S
Trenn, J M Whinton' and IS Japanese.
Fur San Francisco, per Ir ifan tine |ohn H Spreckels,
Mar'Ji—O Grann, ne and wife. T Crowe, G BonaitO, P
Stephen, M SchalU, P F Hitzmager, aid F Filter.
For San Francisco, per ten, W S liowne. Mar Si— Mr,
•
Weeks.
Fur San Francisco. per bark Hesper, Mar -"—Captain
Bstteu.
For San Francisco, per baik Allien Basse, Mar 98—P H
Ro-,. wife and :i children, Mi, G W Pittock F H Smiley
atid 3;t Portuguese.
For Hongkong, per hark Velocity, Mar is—7o Chinese.
BIRTHS.
VOGE L March 4. to the wife of Anton Vogel, a daughter.
DESHA- At KapsUaroa, March 10, to the wife of Geo. L.
Desl a, a SOU.
GLADE—At Kekaha, Kauai. M;.rch 12,tothe wife n{ Y.
W. Glade, Esq., a daughter.
MARRIAGES.
TENNEY—MAKEE—In this city, March fith.at St.
An
drew* Cathedral, by the Rev. A. Mackintosh, E. I'.Tenney, youngest stm o( L. P. Tenney, Esq., of New York, to
Rose William.-. Makc-e. youngest daughter of the late
Capt. James Makee, of Ulupalakua, Maui.
McLEAN--GRII.VE— In thi-, cfty, March 14th, by the
Rev. 1". G. Beckwith, Mr. lames L. McLean to Miss
Jennie R., only daughter of Mr. and Ma. Robert Grieve.
DOUGLAS—McGOWAN—In this city. March 2Mb, by
the Rev. E. G- Beckwith. David Douglas to Miss Alice
McGowan.
DEATHS.
HARDCASTLE—In this cily. March 4th, Mr. Simon
Hardcastle, a native of Yorkshire, England, in the (Wth
year of his age.
SILYLRHURG-At Waialua, Oahu. March Kith, Mrs.
Mary Silvtrburg, of Toronto, Canada, aged Cs years.
MeT NTYRE—At herresidence on King street, Honolulu,
M re, Margaret Mclntyre. aged 70 year* and 4 months.
CAMPBELL- At Waikiki, March 23d, James, aged 3
years and 6 days, son of James Campbell.
CUTTER—In Honolulu, March 2'>th, of consumption,
Mary Abrams, wife of 1-. 1. Cutter, aged 34 years.
From San Francisco, per S S Mariposa, Mar 16—N B
�Volume 47, No. 4.]
BQA&B.
HAWAIIAN
HONOLULU H. I.
This page is devoted to the interests of the Hawaiian
Board of Missions, and the Editor, appointed by the
Board is responsible for its contents.
Rev. 0. P. Emerson,
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Editor.
Arrival of the Morning Star.
A little past noon on Wednesday,
March Gth, the Morning Star steamed
into our harbor, and was soon alongside
of her usual wharf. In reference to the
return of the Star, the old saying is
verified again and again, that "the unexpected always happens." According
to the programme of the voyage, April
29 was to be the day of return, making a
full ten months' voyage from the time of
departure, July 13. The Secretary of
the Hawaiian Board, Rev. O. P. Emerson, started on Tuesday (only the day
before the arrival of the Star) to make a
four weeks' tour around the island of
Hawaii. His absence during the hurrying times between the arrival of the Star
and the departure for the States of the
missionaries who came up from Micronesia and left March 14 on the Australia
for San Francisco, was much regretted.
Effort was made to get word to him in
season to ensure his return on the 12th,
but it was unavailing. Rev. F. E. Rand
and Miss J. E. Fletcher from Ponape,
Rev. D.J. Treiber, wife and babe from
Ruk, Rev. A. C. Walkup and three motherless children from Kusaie, came up
in the Star on their way to the States.
Mr. Snelling was left living alone in his
house at Ruk to care for that large field,
with such assistance as the helper, H. F.
Worth, could give. Mr. Doane, now
nearly 70 years of age, is left alone to
attend to the church work on Ponape,
while Miss Ingersoll and Miss Palmer
must carry on the Ponape Girls' Hoarding School with all the disadvantages of
ill health and over-taxed energies. The
Gilbert Islands Training School on Kusaie is closed. The school on Kusaie
for Gilbert and Marshall Islands girls,
12 of each, is under the charge of Miss
Smith and Miss Little. The Gilbert Island girls expect to be taken home on
the next voyage of the Star for a visit.
Miss Crosby assists Dr. and Mrs. Pease
in the training school on Kusaie for the
Marshall Islands Mission, but her health
is not good, even when she is at her
best.
The Star was favored with exceptionally good weather during the whole voyage. The change made in the usual
route, so as to give the first of the time
to the Marshall Islands work, proves to
have been a better arrangement for securing freedom from detention and danger, than the plan of previous voyages.
The work was so far advanced early in
the trip that nearly four weeks less than
the allotted time sufficed for doing up
subsequently the Gilbert Islands work,
and returning to Kusaie to take the final
departure for the Carolines, Their work
among the Mortlocks was shortened far
within the allotted time, but the Star
did not return to Ponape lest the provisions should not suffice for the voyage to
Honolulu with so many passengers.
Besides the returning missionaries, the
Star brought up the officers of the shipwrecked San Francisco trading vessel
Champion,from Ponape. They had waited nearly four months for an opportunity
to return to the States. At Tarawa, one
of the Gilbert Islands, the Star found remains of the wreck of a vessel whose
name, the Rock Terrace, Captain Garland found after several hours search,
on a piece of board that had drifted
ashore. The vessel itself had been
abandoned at Guam, and drifted over
2,000 miles, with only slight damage, to
be finally wrecked only a few yards from
the channel into the lagoon, where it
might have found a harbor of safety for
an indefinite period. Very little of her
cargo of kerosene oil was secured by the
islanders. The Star had her narrow
escapes as usual, and touched twice on
the coral reefs of islands visited. Capt.
Garland dropped anchor forty-one times,
visited thirty-two different islands, some
of them never before visited by this Star,
Mejuro, Ujae and Namu in the Marshall
group, and Xgatic in the Carolines. It
is always an occasion for regret that a
steam windlass for hoisting was not part
of the equipment of the Star. With the
few seamen that constitute the crew, the
difficulty and danger of weighing anchor
would be greatly diminished if steam
power could be used for this purpose.
The vessel must be newly coppered before the next voyage. The paint put on
a year ago has proved of great benefit
in protecting the copper, but the excessive saltness of tropic seas corrodes the
metal with great rapidity. The Star's
copper is remarkably clean, probably
from lying so long in fresh water at Kusaie. The German officials in the Marshall Islands have established such regulations for vessels plying in the group
as greatly to enhance the difficulties of
the voyage. Two hundred and fifty dollars must be paid for a license to sell
goods; and to visit Pleasant Island, recently annexed by the Germans, a vessel
must get the requisite papers from Jaluij,
the only port of entry in the Marshall
Islands, to which group Pleasant Island
does not belong. The German commercial firm which has agreed to make up
the expenses of administration, must, in
order to save themselves from pecuniary
loss, fillout the cash balance to their
credit by heavy taxation on the people
and the traders.
One great difficulty in the proper
management of the Star seems to be the
failure always to secure Christian men,
interested in helping forward its missionary work, and in maintaining its good
name as a missionary vessel while managing their special work of navigating
the ship. In spite of the many perplex-
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THE FRIEND.
ities peculiar to the character of the
work, Capt. Garland has shown admirable patience and consistency. It must
not be forgotten, in the interest felt for
the success of the Micronesian mission,
that much of that success must depend
on the character, ability and helpfulness
of the master of the missionary packet.
Marquesas Islands.
It is pleasant to learn through Mr.
Robert Louis Stevenson, the well-known
author, who has recently visited the
Marquesas group, that the veteran Hawaiian missionary Rev. S. Kauwealoha,
continues to exercise a strong personal
influence in the cause of religion and
morality. Amid the foreign residents,
with their loose living and rough words,
he bears himself with geniality and courtesy, yet with dignity and prudence, as
befits a Christian minister. Rev. A.
Savran, a protestant French missionary
from Tahiti, has assisted Rev. James
Kekela since March, 18N2, in his work
at Puamau, where there is a school with
80 children. Kekela's youngest daughter
has been sent to Tahiti to acquire a better knowledge of the French language,
which is now the only language to be
used in the schools. She will be fifteen
years old in July, at which time she expects to return to the Marquesas. Emily
Hapuku has a school at Atuona with 70
scholars. The children at Fatuiva and
Uapou must go to the Catholic schools,
because no other teachers are provided.
Kekela and Kauwealoha are doing their
best to translate the New Testament into
the Marquesan language. They would
like to receive letters frequently from
Hawaii, but few persons write to them,
and they are sad to think how completely cut off is all personal connection
with the home land and home friends.
The Japanese Mission.
Rev. K. Miyama is indefatigable in
his labors for the good of his countrymen. Nearly 200 of them returned to
Japan by the last steamer, but before
their departure presented $ 160 to the
Buddhist priest who came by that vessel, and who is now maintaining Buddhist rites at Hilo. There are six class
meetings now organized, and meetings
are held every Friday evening at Waikiki.
The Sunday school, the singing class,
the English evening school, the Sunday
morning and Wednesday evening classes, the Y. M. C. A. semi-monthly meetings, the Mutual Benefit Union, the
Temperance League, are all flourishing.
Mr. Ukai had remarkable success in his
recent preaching tour on Hawaii. Mr.
Takeshita has visited every plantation
on Maui. Rev. Mr. Miyama went to
Hilo via the volcano on the W. G. Hall,
on the 26th ult., expecting to be absent
from Honolulu several weeks.
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The Secretary received a very pleasant
call from Mr. C. H. McCormick of Chicago, who it enjoying a trip to these islwedding tour. Mr.
This page is devoted to the interests ot the Honolulu ands as a part of his
Young Men's Christian Association, and the Hoard ol McCormick is a prominent member of
Directors are responsible forits contents.
the Chicago Y. M. C. A., and also is a
member of the International Committee.
Editor. He will doubtless carry home much
S. D. Fuller,
valuable and interesting information
Notes.
about these islands, as he is a live young
man who travels with eyes and ears
The next monthly meeting, which oc- wide open.
curs on April 18, will be the annual
meeting for the election of officers for
Evangelists.
the ensuing year. Will the voting memnatural
tendency
among Christian
The
bers please bear this in mind and make a
when
isolated fields
they
occupy
workers
special effort to be present.
is to become narrow and get into grooves,
class
has
reached
nearly
The singing
to become stereotyped in thought and
the close of its second course of instruc- effort. To lose the freshness and powtion under Mr. Bissell. It has been a er born of a wide range of observation,
real success, although not so largely at- and frequent contact with some of the
tended as we had hoped it would be.
leading spirits in this growing age. A
The experiment of holding the Sunday fresh face cheers; there is attractiveevening meeting in the Parlors was ness and inspiration in a new voice, alrecommended to the Committee, and though it utters old and well known
A.
THEHONOLULU,
T. M.H. C.
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tried, but did not prove to be the success truth.
One hinderance to the progress
anticipated by some. A return to the of Christian work in this ocean-girt KingHall has resulted in increased attendance and more profitable meetings.
The Blue Ribbon entertainments have
not been held so frequently for the past
few months, but have been better attended when held, more men present and a
larger number of names have been added
to the pledge roll. Several have called
on the Secretary during the intervening
days and signed the pledge; showing
more good is wrought than appears at
the time, in the meetings.
Now that we are shut up to our own
resources in gospel work, let the following words of the Psalmist become more
emphatically our motto: "I will lift up
mine eyes unto the hills, from whence
cometh my help. My help cometh from
the Lord, which made heaven and earth."
The book-keeping class has been suspended during the limited absence of
Mr. Jones. It will be resumed on his
return.
Personals.
We miss the familiar and helpful presence of Mr. P. C. Jones, who, accompanied by his wife, has taken a briefbusiness trip to San Francisco.
Mr. Henry K. Hyde, who for the last
two years has been a regular attendant
upon our meetings and a quiet helper in
our work, has left these tropical shores
to make his home in the East.
Mr. T. S. Southwick, who after an absence of two years in Southern California, has returned to Honolulu to fill a
business engagement for a year, at least.
Mr. Southwick served the Association
most faithfully as its treasurer for two
years during his former residence here.
We are glad to welcome him again to
our working force, and especially at this
time when others are taking their departure.
dom is its isolated location. We are
largely shut in to ourselves and become
so well acquainted with the workers and
their methods, that the very familiarity,
robs both men and means of their power
to move and affect us for the highest
good.
For the last two or three years there
has been a deepening conviction among
our leading Christian workers, that a
wise, able and consecrated evangelist
should be secured to come down and
stir us up. From a human stand-point
this seems to be our supreme need. And
the right man, under God will rind this
a fruitful field for evangelistic labor.
Earnest efforts have been made at different times to secure the help of three
prominent Evangelists in America, but
each has sent a negative response owing
to uigent calls at home. Yet we believe
early and well matured plans may secure
a desirable Evangelist for a series of
meetings next fall or in the early winter.
And thereby we may share in the large
blessing enjoyed in so many cities in the
States, where hundreds of young men
have been won to the Master during the
last few months through the efforts of
these divinely appointed messengers of
life.
Topics.
The Gospel Praise Service held in the
Y. M. C. A. Hall e\ery Sunday evening
at 6:30 o'clock, will have the following
topics for this month.
April 7—Ruined by Appetite. Gen.
2.r>:2 J-34. Heb. 12:16.
April 14—A Strange Cause for Rejoicing. Acts 5:40, 41. I Peter 4:13-19.
April 21—Is My Name' in Both Books?
Mai. 3:16-18. Rev. 21:2, 27.
April 28—A Home we all may have.
II Cor. 1:1-9. John 14:2, 3.
Young men and strangers are cordially
invited to the above services.
,
Christianity Forcibly Defended.
The worst kind ofreligion in no religion at all, and all these men, lying in
ease and luxury, indulging themselves
in the "amusement of going without religion," may be thankful they live in
lands where the gospel they neglect has
tamed the beastliness and ferocity of the
men who, but for Christianity, might long
ago have eaten their carcasses like the
S. S. Islanders, or cut off their heads and
tanned their hides like the monsters of
the French Revolution. When the microscopic search of skepticism, which
has hunted the heavens and sounded
the seas to disprove the existence of a
Creator, has turned its attention to human society, and has found a place on
this planet ten miles square, where a
decent man can live in decency, comfort
and security, supporting and educating
his children, unspoiled, unpolluted—a
place where age is reverenced, infancy
respected, manhood respected, womanhood honored, and human life held in
due regard—when skeptics can find such
a place, ten miles square on this globe,
where the gospel of Christ has not cleared the way, and laid the foundation and
made decency and security possible, it
will then be in order for skeptical literati
to move thither and ventilate their views.
But, as long as these men are dependent
upon the religion, which they discard,
for every privilege they enjoy, they may
well hesitate a little before they seek to
rob the Christian of his hope, and humanity of its faith in that Saviour who
has alone given to man that hope of life
eternal which makes life tolerable and
society possible, and robs death of its
terrors and the grave of its gloom.—
jfames Russell Lowell.
Some persons instead of "putting off
the old man," dress him up in a new
shape. St. Bernard.
What the Bible brings to you will depend in a large measure on what you
bring to it. You may have a crumb, or
a loaf, or a granary full to bursting, just
as you choose.—Dr. Behrcnds.
Unless a man has trained himself for
his chance, the chance will only make
him ridiculous. A great occasion is
worth to a man exactly what his antecedents has enabled him to make of it.
William Matthews.
One thousand four hundred and ninetythree young men profess conversion in
the associations of Illinois. Of this number, 562 are known to have joined evangelical churches from October, 1887, to
October, 1888.
A Vale graduate who was a student
about thirty years ago, said, in speaking
of changes that had taken place since
his time: "I never knew whether to attach any significance to it or not; but
when I was there the law school adjoined the jail, the medical college was
next the cemetery, and the divinity
school was on theroad to the poorhouse.
—
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The Bible in the Pacific, by Rev. A. W. Samoan teachers, and carried forward Old Testament to Ruth. These
Murray, author of F fty Years' Mission Work by the Missionaries of the London Mis- lately been printed in New York.
in Polynesia and New Guinea." London,
sionary Society.
Mortlock Islands and Ruk.
James Nisbel & Co., 1888, pp. 292.
"
This book is a carefully written history of the translation of the Bible and
parts thereof which have been printed
and circulated in the different languages
of the natives of Oceanica. The dates
of the first and of later editions are
In the Loyalty Islands, the New Tesin 1867, in
Lifu in 1868, and in Uvea in 1878.
These have also been the work of the
London Missionaries, save an edition of
500 copies of Mark, in 1859, in Lifu,
translated by Mr. (afterwards Bishop)
Patteson. Mr. Jones who was lately expelled by the French from Mare, has the
entire Bible nearly ready for the press
in that tongue.
In New Britain, the chief laborer has
been Rev. Geo. Brown, since 1875. He
is supported by the Australian Wesleyans. He published Mark in 1882 and
other portions in 1886. Like the more
debased savages elsewhere, and especially the very sunken tribes of Melanesia,
the people of New Britain have a multiplicity of tongues.
The missions of New Guinea were
begun as late as 1871 by Messrs Murray
and McFarlane, of the London Missionary Society. The four Gospels were
printed in 1884 in Motumotu, which is
the Malayan branch of the mission, at
Port Moresby. Mark and John are translated into the Papuan tongue spoken at
the other branch at Murray Island. This
is a young mission of great promise.
There remain to be noted the issues
of the American Bible Society in the
various tongues of Micronesia, as given
in this book. The translation of the
New Testament was begun by Key.
Hiram Bingham, Jr., into the language
of the Gilbert Islands in 1859, and portions thereof were soon printed and in
the hands of the people. Mr. Hotchkiss
the printer, at Apaiang, of several books,
is still living in Honolulu. Owing to
repeated failures of health, the New Testament was only completed in 1873. A
revised electrotype edition was issued in
New York in 1880, and many thousand
copies have been sold.
Mr. Bingham has also translated a
considerable portion of the Old Testament, six books of which have been
issued from the press. He hopes to
complete the whole Bible by 1893.
The New Testament in the Marshall
Islands tongue was brought to completion by Rev. Dr. Pease, and published
in 1885. Dr. Pease is proceeding with
the Old Testament. Genesis was printed in 1882, from Rev. J. F. Whitney's
translation.
Kusaie or Strong's Island,
Through the labors of Rev. B. G.
Snow, enjoys the chief portions of the
New Testament, and a few fragments
of the Old. Only 400 of the natives remain. Mr. Snow died in 1880.
tament appeared in Mare
given; the numbers of books printed are
stated; the names of the translators of
different portions are recorded. Interesting and important circumstances connected with the foregoing are related.
A brief resume of the missionary operations in each group is given as a necessary part of the history of the circulation
of the Scriptures. This volume is thus
not only a history of the work done in
the Pacific at the cost of the British and
American Bible Societies, but also a
very lively, although abridged history of
Protestant Missions in the Pacific. It
possesses a high value as a book of
reference on the latter topic, while it
must be the standard of reference upon
the former subject.
We have hastily gone over the book,
and find in it the history of the publication of the entire Bible by the British
and Foreign Bible Society in six Polynesian languages, namely Tahitian, 1838,
Rarotongan, 1852, Samoan, 1859, Tongan, 1859; Fijian, 1864, and New Zealand, 1869; also the New Testament in
Niue and Rotuman in 1866 and 1870,
with half the Old Testament in the former, and portions of the same in the
latter. The first Scripture printed in
Rotuman, was Matthew, translated by
Rev. Joseph VVaterhouse.
The American Bible Society completed the entire Scriptures in the Hawaiian
tongue in May, 1839, just a half century ago, and one year later than the
Tahitian mission, which was begun
twenty-three years earlier than the Hawaiian. The New Testament was first
issued in the Hawaiian tongue in 1833,
in Tahitian, 1830, Rarotongan, 1838,
New Zealand, 1837, Samoan, 1850. In
Tonga, Fiji and Rotuma, the work was
done by Wesleyan Missionaries; in the
rest, except New Zealand, by those of
the London Missionary Society. The
New Zealand work was done by men of
the Church Missionary Society.
The British Society has also printed
the Scriptures in thirteen languages of
Melanesia. Seven of these are in the
New Hebrides group, viz.: Fotuna, Niua, Aneiteum, Tanna, Eramanga, Vate
or Sandwich 1., and Nguna. In five of
these tongues only portions of the Scriptures have been printed.
The New
Testament is just being issued in Tanna,
besides much of the Old Testament.
The entire Bible was published in
Ponape or Ascension Island.
Aneiteum by the labors of Messrs GedMr. Gulick translated the first eight
des and Copeland, in 1881, the New
Testament having been previously chapters of Matthew, which were printed
issued in 1862. The evangelization of in 1859. Messrs Sturges and Doane
the New Hebrides was begun through completed the New Testament, and the
have
These are closely allied in language.
Mr. Logan got Mark printed in 1880.
Through the American Bible Society he
published the whole New Testament
in 1883. This was done, and quite
well done, in five years after he began
to learn the language. This was rapid
work. The best time we find to have
been made elsewhere in the Pacific, was
twelve years in Hawaii, thirteen in Mare,
and fourteen in Aneiteum. Dr. Pease
translated half the New Testament, and
revised and published the whole in eight
years after beginning to learn the Marshall language.
This completes our schedule of the
statistics scattered through this book.
They are interwoven with the history of
these missions of Oceanica, filled with
incidents of toil, perils, even martyrdoms of blessed harvests of souls, and
of light pouring into all dark places.
It is cheering to know that after forty
years of French domination, the Tahitians have in the last twelve years, bought
9,000 new Bibles.
This volume bears strong testimony
to the high character of most of the
translations as to critical accuracy, and
happy rendering of the original tongue
into the native idioms.
In all the versions of the Old Testament, "the sacred name Jehovah is
transliterated, never translated, thus adding immeasurably to the force of the contrast between the ever living God and
the objects worshipped by the heathen.
The English rendering of I Kings, 18:21
is tame indeed in comparison with the
Rarotongan," or the Hawaiian. "If Jehovah be God, follow him.".
We are indebted to Rev. H. Bingham
for the use of his copy of this valuable
book, for which he furnished the author
with the material for the chapters on the
versions of the Bible made in the North
Pacific.
Catholicism Inhospitable to Truth.
If a Church claims to be the alone
adequate representative of the religion,
and in itself sufficient for the religious
needs and aspirations of man, then in
the degree it has failed to be either or
both its claims will be a fatal hindrance
to the truthful handling alike of religion
and history. As a simple matter of fact,
the higher the claims of a Church the
more sectional its spirit. In the very
proportion that it limits to its own borders the higher truth and goodness, its
judgments become less true and less
just. Its fundamental doctrine is its
own sufficiency for the truth, rather than
the sufficiency of the truth for it and for
all other societies. A. M. Fairbairn.
—
The specious panorama of a year
But multiplies the image of a day,—
A belt of mirrors round a taper's flame.
-Xeuophanes.
�THE FRIEND.
Selections.
He only can enrich me who can recommend to me the space between sun
and sun. 'Tis the measure of a man,—
his apprehension of a das\— Works and
Days.
Daughters of Time, the hypocritic days,
Muffled anddumblike barefoot dervishes,
And marching single in an endless file,
Bring diadems and fagots in their hands.
To each they offer gifts after his will,
Bread, kingdoms, stars, and sky that
holds them all.—Days.
that for every active mind,
believe
I
in its own direction, there is a thought
waking every morning,—a new thought;
that every day brings new instruction
and facility; that even in dreams of the
night we are helped forward. Address
to the Law Students, Howard University,
—
Virginia.
How long since was it that we heard
something aboet Tolstoi and the eternal
nature of his fame? Last week (or was
it the week before?) the Russian fad
faded out with a final number about insanity. Outside the metropolitan walls,
the public mind kept its balance all the
time and foresaw the factitious and ephemeral influence that Tolstoi was to
exert.- Maurice Thompson..
A Southern speaker told of a farmer
in the Shenandoah valley, who used to
hang out a Federal flag when the Yankee troops came along, and the Confederate flag when their troops came along.
One day one of his neighbors went to
him and said 'look here, now! What are
you, anyhow ?' 'If you will tell me what
troops are going to be along to-morrow'
replied the trimmer, I'll tell you!' Oh!
-we know all about that. What I want
to know is what you are down in your
heart? 'Well, neighbor,' was the reply,
'if you won't tell anybody, I'll tell you.
I'm nothing nothing, and blame little of
that.' There are some specimens of the
same type hanging around the churches.
(1) Get a good start in the morning by
having time for prayer when you rise.
(2) Put the word of God in the right
place. Feed upon it. Make yourself a
Bible and prayer union. (3) Pray for
what you want. Talk the day's business over with the Lord. (4) Get a dinner-time for the soul. Don't go on from
morning to night without a few minutes
of spiritual retirement in the middle of
the day. It is common-sense that baffles
the devil. (5) End the day well. Review it and call your sins by the right
name. Have straightforward dealings
with the Lord. Don't confess sins you
have not committed. Mark Guy Pearse.
Sacerdotalism.—If our church continues to scorn gifts that do not flow
down Episcopal lawn and through Episcopal fingers; if she will prefer shallowy
succession to grace, learning and power;
if she perseveres in her haughty exclusiveness, her future in America is plain.
—
—
—
She will alienate and forever the masculine intelligence of a free people.
Her success will be more and more
among the enervated rich and the superstitious poor. Spectacular displays
will soon degrade her majestic liturgy,
emasculate her faith, enfeeble her pulpits,
and contract her influence. Having
lost the spirit of the Reformation she
will change her name and obliterate her
Articles. From the catholicity she boasts,
she will sink into the sectism of a mimic
sacerdotalism and a petrifying ecclesiasticism.—f. McDowell Leavitt, D.D.
The mind wants steadying and setting right many times a d,ay. It resembles a compass placed on a rickety table
—the least stir of the table makes the
needle swing round and point untrue.
Let it settle, then, till it points right.
He perfectly silent for a few moments,
thinking about Jesus; there is almost a
divine force in silence. Drop the thing
that worries, that excites, that interests,
that thwarts you; let it fall like a sediment to the bottom, until the soul is no
longer turbid, and say, secretly: "Grant,
I beseech Thee, merciful Lord, to Thy
faithful servant pardon and peace, that I
may be cleansed from all my sins and
serve Thee with a quiet mind." Bishop
—
Huntington.
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