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Direct Irnporler of MILLINERY AND FANCY GOODS, Ladies' and Gent's Furnishing Goods. janiB7yr. �HONOLULU, H. 1., SEPTEMBER, 1890. Volume 48. of both Hawaiians and whites are practically ruined by them in early life, in All conimuiii'at: ons and letter* connected with t'e literary health, in morals, and in substance. department ol ihe paper, Baoka and Mugasiiie-* for Re* view and Kachingea should l>e addressed "Kl-.v. S. E. Why do not our Legislators care as Bisnul', Honolulu, H. I." as Business !• ii is h >uld be addressed "T. (I. Tiikim, much for the well-being of the people Honolulu, 11. I. they do for the trees of Honolulu, and appoint a Commission to find remedies Editor. S. E. BISHOP, and stay the ravages of the saloons? Oh no, they half of them side with the CONTENTS. PAGI whiskey-mills and bring in petitions and o."> A Deadly War o.'» bills to multiply them in the out-districts. The Political Situation 06 Hawaiian Kaliuna-. and their Practices (17 Letter from a Protest mi Church in Rome hate to see trees withered and OS They Fine Churches OS blackened. Dr. Hyde's Reply to Mr, k. L. Stevenson Hut to see human faces The Tourists' Guide OS o'> made sodden with drink, forms decrepit, Mr. Gowen'a Chinee Work Girls' Industrial Home 6^> Monthly Record of Events Tn clothes ragged, homes broken up, souls 7(1 Marine Journal Hawaiian Hoard 71 bestiali/ed, that is all right! And the Y. M. C. A Tl Paris ami London Missionary Societies in the Pacific. .Cover city papers will print the saloonist's Rev, J. T. (lulick's View* on Evolution " beastly yelpings at those who labor to restrict and repress their destructive A Deadly War.—We went down ravages. the other day to take a look at the campaign. The field of battle is on the The Political Situation. luxuriant Samang or Monkey-pod trees The only occurrence of any apparent of the city. They tire here and there during the month, in respect importance getting dreadfully infested with the sopolitics, has been the preto Hawaiian called Cotton\- Scale, a horrid louse, sentation to the King, of a petition by a which covers the under side of all the so-called of Hawaiians, askCommittee tender twigs with its white cocoons, for a Convention of the People to ing robbing them of their juices and withera new Constibe assembled to prepare the trees. A Commission aping up and that the present declaring tution, to the evil have pointed remedy imported the "Australian Lady-bug," or Vedalia one has robbed them of their rights. Cardiualis. Large colonies of this pre- The King received the Committee with daceous insect arc rapidly multiplying, much state and formality, and sent their and devouring the lice. We wish them petition to the Legislature, with a Mesall possible voracity and fecundity. In sage, requesting them to order such a fact we believe they tire exhibiting won- Convention. derful abilities in both these important The thing is pretty well understood here. Our readers abroad, hearing of directions, leaving nothing more to be may need more light. The whole it, desired in their apparent ability to cope movement is a factitious one, got up by with ihe formidable and disgusting the King and his adherents. The soenemy. We were quite surprised to called Committee were assembled from find the envelopes of the lice to be the different islands as quasi delegates. sent smooth cocoons of very regular form, It cannot be found that anybodywere them, or that any public meetings about the dimensions of orange seeds, held to send them. Many of them are with a neatly fluted surface. The bugs persons of evil record. The great body were scattered among them, too intent of the people of all classes are fairly conupon rooting into the cocoons to pay- tent with the present excellent and liberal Constitution. The Hawaiian natives any attention to our molestations. have really no grievances in the matter, Now what a blessing it would be if and feel none, except as stirred up to we could only import some kind of a bug fancy them by evil-disposed persons who that would clean out the saloon! The desire to restore the old corrupt state of It will be understood that to saloons are a horrible blight upon all things. call a Convention to alter the Constituthat is good and fair in the young men tion would be an illegal and revolutionof our community. A large proportion ary proceeding. Any amendment may The Friend |a published the hmt day ot* aacJi month, ol Honolulu, II I. Sn m .'iptinn rale Two DOLLAR. »_* VEAK INVANIMIA IN ADVANCR* • - - 65 The Friend. Number 9. be made by a two-thirds vote of each of two successive Legislatures. The object of a Convention would be to throw the formation of a new Consti- tution into the hands of voters without any property qualification, and to rush the election through with an outcry. A constitution so made would be sure to be one removing the present restrictions on Royal power, and upon means of corrupting the Legislature. The grievance alleged against the present Constitution is that it robbed the native people of their Ballot, by imposing a property qualification upon electors of Nobles' ($6OO income, or $8,000 real estate). The truth is that this so far from being a diminution, was a great enlargement to the voting rights of the people. The old constitutions had reserved the appointment of Nobles to the King. It had never been thought that the common people were intelligent enough to be trusted to choose more than half of the Legislature. The makers of the new constitution were more democratic, and took the choice of Nobles away from the King, giving it to the more intelligent and capable portion of the people. It is we believe the decided opinion of most thinking men that the majority of the common people of this country have not yet acquired the qualifications which enable them to choose a majority of safe and reliable men to the Legislature. It is most necessary that for a time at least, one-half of the Legislature should be chosen by the more capable class of citizens. The property qualification is extremely low, and includes all mechanics and skilled workers. About one-third of the voters for Nobles are Hawaiians, who thus have so much added to, instead of subtracted from theii voting capacity. The outcry against this is wholly a work of demagogues, who have been working up a heat among the natives against the Reform Constitution and movement. Their real grievance is that foreigners have been admitted as they are entitled to be, to a full share in the government of the country. The more intelligent and sensible of the Hawaiians, cordially concede the necessity of this. They see that it is absolutely impossible to run this kingdom on the old lines of Royal arbitrary power, and native direction. They see that the attempt to return to the old way is an rnsane one, and can only result in a ruinous contest with the great and growing capital and business of the country, which must have intelligent and capable government. �THE FRIEND. 66 Meantime the best and truest friends of the Hawaiian people, who point out to them these facts and advise them to live harmoniously with the foreigner, as they have always done, are the objects of the most rancorous vilification by the native demagogues and theirwhiteallies. It does not appear likely however that their efforts will prevail. The Legislature may possibly favor some amendments to the Constitution, though we think not. They will certainly not order an unlawful Convention to do the work. The real enemies of the Hawaiians, that are destroying them, are the idolatrous kahunas, the Liquor power, and the still surviving social vice. These things keep a majority of the natives in poverty, incapability, and degradation. We rejoice to testify that a goodly number of the people are earnestly combatting these allies of the Evil One. Hawaiian Kahunas and Their Practices. BYRBICKNELL. EJVAM.ES In ancient times any one desiring to be a kahuna had to undergo a thorough training, but ever since idolatry was put under ban, and the practice of it made a crime punishable by law, the rules have been slackened. The majority of kahunas practising at the present time are self-constituted, and only quacks in the profession. A class called "he poe hoonohonoho akua," claim that they are the dispensatories of the spirits of deceased people. A native can be provided with a familiar spirit simply by going to a "kahuna hoonohonoho" and asking to be taught the proper ceremonies to be observed. Some, however, become depositories bymethods of their own, and without aid from anybody. Many church members have their familiar spirits for whom they have great aloha. Before taking up a case for treatment, kahunas invariably consult their gods by inquiring how they are to act. Even to the minutest details, they are dependent upon their gods for direction. What a power in the world Christians would be, did they trust in Jehovah with the implicit confidence that kahunas are said to do in their gods! As a preliminary offering some kahunas demand of their patients a bottle of brandy, a bottle of rum, and a bottle of gin. This liquor is said to be for the gods—the kahunas drink it nevertheless. Success in practice is the kahuna's only diploma. Proficiency in his art is called "ailolo." To be acknowledged and feared, a "kahuna anaana" must first pray to death some dear friend or relative. If he succeeds in killing in this way a member of his own family, his reputation is established and he becomes an object of dread to all around. Kahunas are inveterate smokers and awa drinkers. Awa and tobacco are the chief votive offerings to the gods. In order to placate the gods, and to keep Septmbr, 1890. them always well-disposed, kahunas are teacher round their fingers and make driven to the constant use of these believe that they are all fair. It takes a articles. The excessive use of awa by Hawaiian to find out what is in his the kahunas and those natives who ad- fellow Hawaiian. Greek must meet here to the ancient superstitions lessens Greek in the case, or there is no hope. the quantity for exportation. Alcohol, Again, it is not every Hawaiian that however, is coming into use as a sub- can ferret out fetiches. In the Associstitute for awa-drinking. It would not ation for the Suppression of Idolatry is be surprising to see spirituous liquors a native who has a special gift for the ultimately supplant awa as nectar for work, and delights in it. He is a carthe gods. Kahunas are beginning to penter by trade, has only a common find out that alcoholic drinks are more school education, but his faculty for delectable than awa. probing people's consciences and findKahunas always make a libation to ing out their secret practices is remarkthe gods before drinking awa. A able. Put him on the track of a hoo- stranger unacquainted with the Hawaiian custom in this respect would consider it as asking a blessing. The custom is to dip the index finger in the liquor and then snap it in the air, at the same time repeating the prayer, "O ye gods of the east, west, north, and south, ye gods above and below, ye gods all around, here is your portion." Kahunas are centers of influence, and they do a vast amount of mischief in inciting the people to maintain their allegiance to the aumakuas (gods). They teach that it would be unpatriotic to sever the connection with the aumakuas, and that those who"do so are unfaithful to the traditions of their race. This teaching insnares many a young Hawaiian. The dread in which the gods are held is well illustrated by the case of a native family living in this city of Honolulu, and whose household god was the shark (mano). There are four in the family. The mere sight of a shark used to fill them with fear. To touch a piece of one would throw them into convulsions. One of their number being at the fish market saw some dried fish hanging up and examined it, thinking it was albicore. On being told that it was shark, he fell into a fit and had to be carried home. This incident shows how greatly Hawaiians are influenced by imagination. Hearing of the case, the Secretary of the Association for the Suppression of Idolatry went and labored with them. After a time he persuaded them to partake of a supper of shark flesh which he and two other members of the Association had prepared. These people have been delivered from their fears, and abandoned the worship of theshark god. Some have fetiches to represent their gods. The fetiches are consecrated by the kahunas, and are greatly revered. It is like cutting off a limb for a Hawaiian to part with his fetich. In the course of my missionary work a great many fetiches have come into my possession, but not one of them has been obtained by myself; they have all been gotten by Christian natives who had been freed from the idolatrous spirit. In truth, as far as idolatry is concerned, the case has supervened and gotten beyond the reach of the foreign teacher. Idolaters are such adepts at hypocrisy that they will twist the foreign manamana case, and he will follow it up as intently as an ichneumon searches for crocodile eggs. He has had many a contest with the kahunas, they hate him for dispossessing the people of their fetiches. Had I the means I would give this man a support, and keep him constantly employed in ICvangelistic work. Aumakua, (ancestral god), and unihipili, (familiar spirit), are names by which the gods are known. The designation "aneia kiai" (guardian angel), is now used by kahunas. This is a cunning device of theirs to make the people believe that the spirits are benignant •beings. Natives say that the aumakua and unihipili have as real an existence as did the demons in the time of our Savior's ministry among the Jews. The best of church members are puzzled to account for the manifestations in those which are said to be possessed of the aumakua, and in dealing with them they do so with the firm belief that they are contending against real spirits tenanting the bodies of men. They point to these manifestations and ask, "How do you haoles explain them ?" It would be a satisfaction could the manifestations under discussion be subjected to scientific tests, and the causes which produce them fully explained. Perhaps some medical man well acquainted with the native language could be prevailed on to take up the study, and make clear what is now obscure. Among women nervous complaints peculiar to the sex prevail, and are commonly attributed to demoniacal possession. Here is a field for the school teacher. Let the girls in the various seminaries be well instructed in physiology and hygiene. Kahuna medical practice is based upon the belief: I—That sickness is caused either by demoniacal possession or by disease. 2—That the spirits possess people of their own will, or are commissioned to do so by ill-disposed kahunas. The spirits being the "akua hoounauna," (messenger gods). 3—That cases of possession are always curable through the use of charms under the direction of kahunas. 4—That .cases of actual disease being dependent upon the use of medicine for cure, recovery is not always certain. �Volume 48, No. 9.] THE FRIEND. The belief in "hoounauna"—witch- Jehovah is an unknown God, but when craft —is almost universal. Kalaipahoa they become acquainted with Him, and is the chief malevolent spirit. The are freed from the idolatrous spirit, they fetich which represents it is a red wood will then substitute Jehovah for the ausaid to be found only on the Island of makuas and pray to Him alone in sickMolokai. Hoounauna is performed by scraping the Kalaipahoa fetich with a sharp instrument and then blowing the scrapings in the air, the kahuna tells the spirit to go on its mission of destruction. The natives affirm that the Kalaipahoa is often seen traveling through the air like a ball of fire. In many respects witchcraft as it prevails in New Mexico resembles the Hawaiian system of hoounauna. The Youth's Companion of February 20th of the current year contains an illustrated article on " New Mexico Witches." The article says: ".It is believed that the witches can do anything they wish, but that they never wish to do a good act unless bribed or scared into it. They never injure dumb brutes, but confine their evil spells to human beings, whohave knowingly or unwittingly incurred their wrath. At night they go flying to the mountains to meet other witches, and hundreds of ignorant people declare that they have seen them sailing through the dark sky like balls of fire. Before leaving home they always exchange their own legs and eyes for those of a dog, cat or coyote, cry out, "Sin Dios y sin Santa Maria,' which signifies 'Without God and without St. Mary,' and then fly off." In New Mexico the witches, it seems, effect their evil purposes by transforming themselves into spirits. In Hawaii nei it is the Kalaipahoa, through the in- fluence of evil-minded kahunas, that be- witches people. Kahunas pretend that they are able at first sight to distinguish a case of possession from one of disease. In cases of possession the spirits answer questions addressed to them, and will, if asked, give the reasons for their occupancy of the bodies of men. This creed of the kahunas is received by the people, and is the stumbling block to their acceptance of the Gospel in its integrity. Influenced by it, some church members say, "It is not well to follow Jehovah fully, latitude should be given." "Aohe pono ke hahai pololei loa ia lehova, c aho ke hookapakahi iki ae." These people entertain the idea that Jehovah cares only for the soul, and does not hear prayer for physical ills. And as the body is the immediate object of concern to them they naturally enough think it would be hazardous to trust in Jehovah alone, they must hold on to the aumakuas its well to insure help in sickness. With strange inconsistency they pray to Jehovah for a blessing on their food, but upon their medicine they ask it of the aumakuas. To the majority of church members ness. Idolatry is religion for the body; its business being physical healing, consequently an idolater has occasion for his god only in sickness. It is during sickness that the fetiches are brought out and the incantations practised. Having no use for his god during health, an idolatrous church member can dispense with it and worship Jehovah, but when sickness comes he turns again to his god with the thought that it alone will help him in his extremity. It is impossible to crush idolatry until the fact is established that Jehovah cares for the body as well as for the soul. Those natives who have learned Christ seek out idolatry in its hidden places and attack it whilst the incantations are being practised. This method of dealing with it is a discovery of their own. Advance the church members in the faith, bring them into communion with God, and the fate of idolatry is sealed; but the laborers must be left to their own judgment, under God, in dealing with it. A truly consecrated Hawaiian can deal with the evil better than anyAnglo-Saxon could tell him. To dispossess idolaters of their fetiches a Christian must have a special gift from God for the work. No novice can accomplish it. Christianity and the hoomanamana ate so tangled together in the churches, it looks as if nothing but a mighty display of power on God's part could separate them. Such a display as occurred in 18;18 would answer the purpose. But few foreigners are acquainted enough with the state of things among Hawaiians to understand their besetments. Led astray by the kahunas, and deceived by their own senses, the wonder is, not that so few of them are real Christians, but that there are so many. To understand their true state, and the almost superhuman difficulties that beset their pathway, one must adopt Paul's method of procedure and descend to the people. Christ had to touch humanity in order to be a perfect Savior. Could we for a moment see with a Hawaiian's eyes, and hear with his ears, we should find that it is vastly more difficult for him to live a Christian life than it is for an Anglo-Saxon. Almost at every step he is beset by some enchantment. He not only has to overcome fleshly lusts, but he has to discredit the evidence of his senses as well. When exhorted to give up the belief in the aumakuas, he replies, "How can I, when I see all about me so many signs of their pre- sence." The ordinary preaching ot the Gospel does not meet the needs of the times; the invincible power of the Holy Spirit should accompany it to break the chains 67 which hold the people in bondage to Satan. The belief in the aumakuas is so real and deep-rooted in the minds of Hawaiians that nothing but supernatural power can overcome it. When we realize this fact fully, and pray earnestly for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, the blessing will come, and then shall be swept away all the obstacles to the onward progress of the Gospel on these Islands. Through the events that are transpiring at the present time, God is teaching us to lean more upon Him and less upon ourselves in the ministration of the Gospel. When we learn the lesson, the Holy Spirit will then be poured out and the power of Satan destroyed. Letter from a Protestant Church in Rome. On a recent trip to Italy, Mr. J. S. Emerson visited the Evangelical Military Church in Rome, whose work is especially among the Army. On his return Mr. li. reported his observations to the Central Union Church, and was requested by them to convey their greetings to the Italian brethren. The following letter is their response. It will be seen that they regard the Papal Church as degrading Christianity, and producing confusion as to religious truth in the popular mind. If we have come to regard the name "Man of Sin" as not applicable to the Papacy, we should nevertheless consider the severe trials and persecutions encountered by these Evangelical brethren, to whom the aspect of the Roman hierarchy, seen close at hand, is one of dreadful corruption and bitterness. This is undoubtedly true, notwithstanding the great numbers of Roman Catholics who are pure and consecrated Christians. The grace of God has in all ages worked wonders of holiness in human hearts through gospel truth, however dimmed by error. The Deacons and the Brethren of the Evangelical Military Church in Italy, to Mr. J. S. Emerson and to the Brethren of the Central Union Church, and to the Congregations of Kawaiahao, and of Kaumakapili, in the Island of Hawaii. Peace and love with faith in the Father and in the Lord Jesus Christ. Beloved Brethren: Your letter was read to us by our dear Minister Cavaliere Capellini, on Whitsunday, the day on which others of our companions, put on for the first time, the Armour of God, and presented themselves to swear fealty to Him in the solemn act of Communion. Whilst we were gathered together round the Table of the Lord to partake of the Holy Supper, the power of God seemed to descend upon us, the recollection of His great mercy moved our hearts, �Septmbr, 1890. THE FRIEND. 68 the thought of His ever-present help strengthened our faith and we felt ourselves encouraged to persevere in the way of Truth. Soldiers of all branches of the service were present, and your salutations, your good wishes, the knowledge that you pray for us, was a great pleasure to every one of us; and we all felt able to say from our hearts "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me," and who will lead us on from strength to strength. How pleased we are to think that in countries so far from us, there are dear brethren who think about us ; we believe as you do, and we rejoice that both you and we have the same access to the Father through Christ. You know that we are here in the very city where is the seat of Satan, where the Man of Sinhasdegraded Christianity, and the people confounding truth and falsehood, have come to hate the very name in which only is Salvation. Our difficulties are great in testifying for Christ publicly; and great are the persecutions which we encounter, but we feel ourselves strong because an unseen powerful hand is on our shoulder and a voice whispers in our ear "Be not afraid," and this voice is our standard of peace and love, uniting us to Christ. We shall never forget you, but shall pray continually that the Lord will give you His strength to drive away Satan, and that you may, like us, brave the tempests of sin which surround us all, and that your days to come ma}- be enlightened with Divine Light. The Rev. Cavaliere Capellini sends you his fraternal and Christian salutations and we wish the same to you with a holy kiss. And may the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you all and with all those who love Him in sincerity and truth. For the Church, the Deacons, Catonf. Salvatork Sergente, Firikrk Tatta Pki.lkorino, Purirre Vincen/o Guerriero, Vkruzro Edoaroo. Brig'f. Fine Churches. Dr. Lyman Abbott describes a certain class of city churches, as follows: "They are placed in our towns and cities among the rich residents, not where the poor live. They are made Nonsense ! Let us not deceive ourselves; they are our Sunday luxuries, as much so as the easy chairs, the painting! and engravings, and the grand pianos in our parlors at home. A fair pew-rent in a fashionable church in New York Citycosts more than three months' income of a well-to-do mechanic." In Honolulu there are no pew-rents, and we trust our churches will always make the poor feel a warm home wel- Some nine years since Mr. T. taught for some time at Lahainaluna, and so has the local experience and past history of the school. He made an excellent record in the last Legislature as a Noble and a member of solid ability. We believe that he will command the confidence of the native people, and that no better selection could have been made for the advancement of the interests of this fine old pioneer High School. come. We are glad to welcome back Rev. T. L. Gulick from a lengthy visit to the Coast, where he has explored the Yosemite, etc., and gained a stock of vigor which we trust will last him for a good while in his Paia and Makawao charge. Rev. W. D. Westerveldt has supplied the Makawao pulpit during Mr. Gulick's The new pipe organ of the Paia Church, Maui, donated by Hon. H. P. Baldwin, was inaugurated on Thursday, August 21st, by an Organ Recital by Mr. Wray Taylor, and other appropriate exercises. absence. Dr. Hyde's Reply to Mr. R. L. Stevenson. The Tourists' Guide through the Hawaiian Islands, Descriptive of their In a late number of the CongregationScenes and Scenery. Compiled and a three columns alist, we find letter of Edited by H. M. Whitney, pp. 17G. from Rev. C. M. Hyde, D.D., mainly in This is an entirely new book, and not reply to Mr. Stevenson's pamphlet ata new edition of Whitney's old Guide tacking him on account of the expresBook. The text appears to give very sions used by him about Father Damien descriptions of the chief obsatisfactory in his hasty private note published by of interest upon each island. jects Mr. Gage. Dr. Hyde's letter is tem- These are aidetl by four excellent outperate in tone and language. As a lady line maps of the different -slands upon friend observed, who had never met him, a large scate, indicating with accuracy written by a gentleman. it was evidently towns, plantations, harbors the principal Without reiterating or specially supportand roads. There are twenty woodcuts his most serious ing allegation against phototypes, till specially got up for Damien'e character, he expressly makes and this book, and mainly well executed. no retraction, and states his source of The gem of the whole is the birds-eye information to be not bar-room gossip, view of Hilo, from a point of view high but thirteen years' intimate acquaintance Cocoanut Island, admirable in and correspondence with persona of all above and in accurate detail of the conception, classes connected with the leper settlelovely town and grand landscape. We ment. wish Mr. Whitney would have the origThe nature of Mr. Stevenson's philipof this reproduced on a large scale. pic made necessary a particular state- inal would surely be in great demand. It ment of Dr. Hyde's own extended exThere is a good index of topics, and perience with lepers, and active labors six pages of well arranged statistics. -a both interesting for them statement (iuide Book it seems complete and As a and instructive. He gives the highest most serviceable. We say emphatically praise to the character and labors of the that no stranger landing here should Franciscan Sisters for the lepers. He fail at once to possess himself of Whitalso awards more credit for serviceableGuide Book, if he wants to know ney's himself than we ness to Father Damien what to look and how to find it. have generally heard imputed to him by For those at. wishing to study Island most conversant with his work. those statistics and history more fully, we reWe write the foregoing from recollection, commend Thrum's series of Annuals not having the article before us. and Alexander's forthcoming School History. Mr. H. S. Townsendhas been apluxurious in furnishing, and resplendent under that the pretense pointed Principal of Lahainaluna Semiin architecture, Rev. Elias Bond, of Kohala, has rebest is none too good for God! The nary, vice Mr. John A. Moore, who is ceived the degree of D. D. from Bowcushioned seats that we sit upon; the appointed Assistant Inspector ofSchools. doin College. This missionary father stained-glass windows that moderate (of the Bowdoin class of '37) has thus promotion Townsend has earned his Mr. the light that puts a halo around our received a well-merited dignity. not saintly heads; frescoing that makes as the very efficient associate of the the beholder uncertain whether he is in Rev. W. B. Oleson, formerly at Hilo News from Mars.—A series of phoa church or an opera house, till he looks Boarding School, and for the past two tographs of Mars have been taken by to see whether there is a stage or a pul- and a half years in the Kamehameha pit; a choir who furnish a musical per- School. We learn that Mr. Townsend the Draper expedition in South America. formance which needs only a programme will introduce at Lahainaluna the Manual They prove that between April 11th and and applause to make a sacred concert Training system, which has been so 12th an immense snow fall occurred in of the first quality—these for God? successful at the Kamehameha School. the Southern hemisphere of that planet. �Volume 48, No. 9.] 69 THE FRIEND. — Girls' Industrial Homk. Mrs. Stratford arrived the 30th, on the Zealaudio, to take charge of this new institution, accomjianied by Miss Benner, who will conduct the dress-making department. The Home is located for the present in a house rented for the purpose at Makiki, on Beretania street, convenient to the tram cats. The house has been furnished by special donations of furniture, etc. A house-warming reception is planned for Thursday evening next. The Home is intended for educated Hawaiian girls, of good character. They are expected to pay something for board, and to be trained and directed into profitable lines of employment. The Hawaiian Mission Children's Society have undertaken the maintenance of the Home, and have appropriated 82,600 towards this years' expenses. Of this amount, $. >oo has ahead}' been contributed by Hon. H. P. Baldwin, and $1,000 by Mr. P. C. Jones. The need has been seriously felt, of such a provision for many of the promising graduates of the Girls' Seminaries. We learn that the idea is popular with Hawaiians, and that the Queen and the Princess Liliuokalani are much interestin it. r Mr. Gowen's Chinese Work. The Rev. 11. 11. Gowen sailed last Friday on the Australia for a visit to his home in England. We learn that his leaving waa in consequence of serious differences with his Bishop, in which he had the sympathy and support of most of the Anglican laity. Mr. Gowen had been a leader in the Blue Ribbon League, and had won great influence among the Y. M. C. A. people. He is a young man of superior ability and scholarship, and of unusual personal magnetism, and, as we believe also, of earnest devotion to Christ and his work. Mr. Gowen has particularly distin guished himself by very successful labors in building up an Anglican Chinese Mission Work, having established a considerable Chinese congregation, with a very nice little church edifice, also an efficient Chinese school. We learn that he has attained considerable proficiency in the use of the Canton dialect. We hope and believe that this mission will be the means of an extensive dissemination of the true knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ among the Chinese in these islands, and that many of them will be brought by this instrumentality into personal allegiance to the Savior. Some of Mr. liowen's methods have seemed to us objectionable, although doubtless justifiable from his point of view, and probably approved of by his associates. We refer to his aggressive and relentless proselyting from the Chinese Mission chinch and schools which had been long before established by our Congregational Churches, and which were under the care and supervision of Mr. Prank W. Damon. As we understand, Mr. Gowen recruited hie Chinese adherents and his Chinese school mainly from the church and the schools with which Mr. Damon was connected, thereby seriously impairing the strength of the older mission work. We are reliably informed that be was in the habit of urgently soliciting Chinese parents lo remove their children from Mr. Damon's schools to his own. We do not impute I his to Mr. Gowen as a matter of grievance. No doubt he considered it his duty thus to win souls into the true and Apostolic Church, from what he regards as an erratic and schismatic "conventicle." just as we consider it duty to strive to lead Mormons and Roman Catholics out of those corrupt churches into enlightened Christian faith. At the same time, Mr. Gowen'a work must be esteemed as mainly one built on other men's foundations. The matter furnishes a good illustration of the foil}- of advocating Christian Unity, until one has learned to exercise a decent Christian Comity. Meantime, we hope and expect that this antagonism to our Chinese Mission work will call forth our must earnest labors, gifts and prayers, that it may go forward and prosper. Rev. Dr. L. H. Gulick is reported to be making good progress towards recovery, and able to indulge in an occasional sermon. Ile expresses the strong est desire to revisit his native land. The Railway has delivered 1500 tons of N. S. W. coal at Ewa Plantation during the past fortnight. The coal was dropped into the cars at the ship's tackles, and dumped into the bunkers at the plantation, seventeen miles distant. A band}' piece of work, and good for all concerned. Young Walter S. Dole, a Kauai boy, has been distinguishing himself as a member of the winning crew of Cornell University, racing on Jul}' 19th and 36th, with the Bowdoina and the Perms, doing the three miles in the former race in 1-1 minutes 43 seconds, being the fastest time on record. Central Union Church Edifice.— The work of laying the foundation is progressing, at the South corner of Beretania and Richards street. A force of men are at work getting out stone for the superstructure. Monthly Record of Events. August Ist—The Australia departs with a goodly freight and passenger list. — Death of Mis. li. Humphreys, aged 00 years, a resident of this city since 1851. 2nd.—Arrival of the Mariposa en route for tile Colonies.—The Legislature, by invitation, takes a railroad trip to Ewa.— Co. Aof Honolulu Rifles indulge in an excursion by rail to Remond Grove for a moonlight picnic.—The Kamehamehaa lose in their game with the Honolulus by a score of 2 to 6 in the weekly baseball contest at Makiki. 4th.—Arrival of the new steamer Clandine from Glasgow, to extend the Wildei's I titer-Island service.—Wm. G. Irwin & Co. become a chartered corporation. r ith.—Narrow escape of Mrs. Dr. J. M. Whitney from a serious carriage accident.—New Crown Land Commissioners appointed, viz., G. Brown, A. P. Peterson, G. W. Macfarlane. Gth.—Selection day for choice of Pearl City lots by privileged bondholders of the O. R. & L. Co.—Farewell dinner at the Palace to Rear-Admiral Brown. 7th.—Departure of U. S. F. S. Charleston under sealed orders.—PrattDickson wedding at the family residence, Beretania street. Bth, •Trouble reported at the Leper Settlement; Marshal Hopkins with Superintendent Evans and a posse of police go up, per Kilauea Hon, to investigate. Hawaii reported "shakey" in the 11ilo and Rau districts, and Madame Pele'a summit abode on Mauna Loa • smoking. . '.Kb.—Another railway excursion to Ewa to witness the flow from the six In inch artesian wells.—ln the weekly base ball game Honolulus beat the Stars in a score of 8 to I.—Large sales of Kona hinds at auction, realizing $13,599. 11th. Steamer Kilauea Hon returns from Molokai with six ringleaders in the recent disturbance under arrest. 12th.—11. M. Whitney's new "Tourists' Guide through the Hawaiian Islands" makes its appearance. First loaded train at the O. R. wharf takes its freight of coal direct to its destination, Ewa Plantation.—Wilder's S. S. Co. increases its capital stock $50,000 and buys the Claudius. 11th.- A procession of some 80 natives styling themselves a Conventional Committee wait upon the King with a petition to have the Legislature in session enact a law to authorize a Convention for a new Constitution. He promises to "submit the matter to the Legislature and request that body to take the steps required to carry out their desires."—The Government return 153 New Hebrideans to their homes per bark C. O. Whitmore. 15th.—Dinner party by Mrs. Spreckels, at their residence, Punahou, in honor of Queen Kapiolani. — �Septmbr, 1890. THE FRIEND. 70 16th.—Carriage accident at Waikiki, Mrs. J. T. White badly, and Consul Severance slightly, hurt.—The closing game of the base ball season, played between the Hawaiis and Honolulus, is won by the latter in a score of 10 to 9 after ten innings. This gives the season championship to the R.imehaniebas; Hawaiis and Honolulus tie for second place, with the Stars far in the rear. 19th.—Schooner Kaalokai returns from her guano cruise to Laysan and adjacent islands. Prof. A. B. Lyons brings back samples for analysis that promises success to the venture. 22nd.—Arrival of the Australia from the Coast with a number of returned kamaainas.—Consolidation of plantations of Maui, from Wailuku to Haiku, in contemplation, to be under one management. 23rd.—Arrival of the Alameda from the Colonies, en route to San Francisco. —Minister of Foreign Affairs disbands the Honolulu Rifles.—Mr. Frank McIntyre meets with a painful accident through a runaway horse and brake at the Kinau wharf. Several carriages also meet with damages thereby.—A native Custom House guard at the landing of goods from the Australia makes a seizure of 300 tins of smuggled opium. 2Cth.—Royal dinner at the Palace to Col. C. Spreckels and A. Hoffnung, followed by a Ball at the Hotel by Hon. H. A. Widemann in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Hoffnung and daughter.—At 11 P. M. the King, with Messrs. A. Hoffnung and S. M. Damon, leave per steamer Kaala for a visit to the Leper Settlement, returning next day. 27th. Mrs. H. Cornwall gives a din ncr party in honor of Col. and Mrs. Spreckels.—Moonlight Band concerts al Waikiki inaugurated at the Waikiki villa. —The Government becomes purchaser of Queen Emma's Nuuanu Valley residence, at auction, for $8,000. 28th.—After four days free fight in the house the railroad bill passed its second reading, modified, etc., by several amendments.—Gear Peterson wedding at the residence of the bride's parents, Emma street, Rev. W. B. Oleson officiating. 29th. —Incendiary fire at 3 a.m. at Grocery store of C. Hustace; lire extinguished, but goods badly damaged. Departure of the Australia with a number of distinguished visitors, and aspiring collegiates. —The Kamehameha base ball team breakfasted their departing center-fielder, John Wise, at the Hamilton House. 30th.—The Zealandia effects an early arrival, en route to the Colonies. A through passenger, Mrs. J. H. Sutton, dies while in port and is interred here. 31st.—The Discovery makes the best sailing trip from San Francisco in several years, 10 days passage.—Death of Mrs. Ena, at their Waikiki residence. - Marine Journal. POH RTF ONOLULU.—AUGUST. ARRIVALS. IIKI'AK I I MHv • Pot S.in Tr.i i. is. ••. per Australia, Attg. 1 Mr. Win 0 Irwin, hild anil Ituid, Mr- X Hers, Master Hen Holtaday, Iv Hobror and wife. Hon W l Allan end Mm Allen, Ran W I Meritl .in.l wife. Mrs A (1 Halve, Master Hi I'M, X A F.ldy ami wife. Mrs I I' Poster, Mis Mather, II X Miller, |i.. Mi. C Boh* and child, Mr, (. I. How*, \V ll Bailey .mil family, Mis T Rawlins and lour children, Ml I I li.it. liaiti, ll W Po'ger, l)r N II Fmersoii, wife ~,, ; ,i,i1,1. Mi.. Pierce, Mis, N koh—Uon, Mr. W X Seal, It Lowrty. Matter A l.c-wl.-, .Mr. w II McLean and child, S F.lirlich, J II Thoma., wife, daughter and son, lieu McL.od. Mr I N P—tar. Mis Walter Hill and daughter, C F. Williams, Miss M.T Cununins, Mrs X F Mi and Mrs Henry Rdwarda, Mis J I icke and child, Han, Mi.s Daly, II Cannon, Harry Hell, I Bowler, Mi..M,. Harry Avon, I I' Rata, Mis n.,t, W Blaiedelt. David Dawaell, P Wallace, W I lean■,, II N OraanweO, W A Johnson, Mis Hopkins, Mi., t Ira, i,- Kopkioa, w C Paaoock, Mm Ethel Wimhrop, Harrj Gates, II 11 Ki.-e, J II Rice, I S Muiiliead. Bnj Dennis, Miss j Shaw, Miss llelene Courtney, t lift Phillip*, c J I ana, Mrs Booth, J C Lam, Master Miles, 11 I. Keller; .'l4 in tile steerage. Par s.ui Pranriano, par Iraurardi Aug. '> "T A Kerr, Mr* M Vattthan, Master S Hall, Mist Alice W inter, Mist ani.ua Am s s Mwipoae, Havwa*t_, from Suit Franciacfl-4 Haw Slinr < laudine, Dodd, 1M days fi ..in < rfaugOWT. Am bk Ahb-ii Beaae, Kriis. l*.J*j duyifm San PVnna itco. !) Am bkinr S G Wilder, Griffith-, 1_■ days from San Krami-i ■>. Am bamtam) Maty \S i nkt-1man, N.ss.m, 17 day-* from Port < iambic M days from Newcastle. 10- Am bk Wchona, 10 -Am tern Mary Dodge, rullop, Irl days lr.mi Huttboldl H.tu bk w Godfrey, Dubai, 11 daya from San Francisi.». 140 day from Delaware, 17—Am bk Hatvesicr, Nor bk Uagnat. nut, f-o day- ii"'» Meurcuadu, tl '22 Am S S Australia, lli>ul!ette, 7 days from S B Fran i i-i o, IS Am S S Alameda, Mum', fnmi the (nlnnit-s. :'.'> Am bk Matilda, Siviiiviii, days from Departure Buy, day* from Kit Hlakrly. 'JO Am bk t 'ohimbia, Go dinan, tier bk l'aul laenbent, Wolterm, IOTdAYi fin Liverpool. an,l daughter. Maw sch Waimaln, Weisharth, fr.nn Kann'unj's Island. F>>i S.m Pranciaco from 11 il-,, p-r Katie Flick inger Au ;. U Am bkine S N Ca-lle Hubbard, 12 days from San in Mi>j I'sis Miss Mary Hitchcock. I'l.iin Emu, Tor San Flan, i-i o. pal SOW il.l. I An,'. Is ■ C Seili;IB \m bktne Planter, Dow, 16day* from San Franciaco. wiok W and illiauis. Jni> Am bkllie W II Dimond, DteW, IS .lays froUJ San Por San Pranciaco, par Alameda, Aug. M Captain W h'rani'isro. M D0,1,1, II J X Lyman, I. f l.ym.in. M Loaiaaoo. Mis* 10 Haw S > /.ilandia,(�lereiulorp, 7 days from San Krau- Kinma Shaw, Mrs F P fJuattroltth, Miss Carson, Mrs A .l i :tl Am bktnt- nilCUiaijJf. McNeil, 10 days from San Frau- Hurlis, Mrs I N HoMis, W II Smoyer, Chai P titles, Mrs cisc.i. Weil.er. I. Moms, O, I P Colburn, S R.rtll, Hi r I. Miner, wile, chilli and maid, Ml luttica X Y Hiiiterlon, J W Bargatrom, Mis. I. Sevarance, Mrs llaitlett and family. DBPAkTURBS. Miss I. Moon, S M I'.i.ili.iiii, X X Hendry and sevci.,l ste, rac,e. an,l 111 in tiallsit. 1 Am S S Ausli.dia. Hoiiilelt'tle, for San Kraneisio :i Am s s Mariposa, Hayward, lor th* Culoniea. For S.tn Pram i CO, per Australia. Alii1 29—C0l Clans b Am Si li Rol'irt l.ewers. Pcnha low, for San Fiancisiu. Sjpreckebi, MrsSpnsckela, Mi.. Kmma Sprecka'a, Hon Wn under staled orders. SCharieaton, Reoaty, S II ti Irwin, J A Hack and wife, A Hoflnung and wife, .Mi.s '.i Am likine Irmtard, Manaon, ii .s.m Pranciaco, Hoßhung and maid, '. \' \\ ilder and wife, Miss McLaine, 11 Ilk Opl.ir, i, .1 s.ui Flaniis, o. I.and E llowland, Mn R M HowMiss Kaufman, Mi Am liklur ti C Parkin*, for Poll li.wnseii.l. land, M I'hillips. \\ II Clarke, Mis M X I'enuey, Miss M 14 —Aiii bk C O Wliinnoic, Ward, fa New H*bridet. Baldwin, F Btrdaall, Miss F. Birdaall, V X Newman, Or It, Am lik Allien Beaae, Kriis. for Nnimiinn. Furry, Hi M EGrouunan, Mis F L. Sioka, Mis. M At ril is, Sti San o. |S Fran, l.klne for Wilder, tiriftillis, Am teiiden, Mrs S N Hundley and daoshtar, Anton* I'erry, :!u tier lik Ailoiiis. Itrane, for San I'ram is. Harry Baldwin, CW I >i. k.i. W-. Hillabrand and dawn, ■.'.'l Am tern Mary Uodga, Uallop, for llnmli lot. tar, AC Alexander, F. M WaUh, .1 A Hopper and wile, Am S S Al.uniil.i, Morse, for San Pram is, o. Mi.. BrowseO, l< C Scotl, Captain Lov*lar.a and wife. J H Souer, Is, liini.it, E Dowmu, II Hi.knell, J Bicknell, t9 Aim S S Australia, Hinideletli', foi San Flan, is 0. :m Haw s s Zealandia, Otatwadorp, lot lha Colonies. Mrs Bartlatt and family, MlwC Lowe, Key H H Gowen, i.vi, San t isi... Nisson, inkelinan. y tor Am liktne Mai \\ W II Pan, J„lm Wi-., C II Willis, W 11 Cornwall, Jr., Mini (j'Kcefe, II Lycurgua, S Savldge, W V Lockwood, Mr. X Mclaughlin ami 'i'l iteenigv. PASSENGERS. For the Colonies, per X M S /ea'aiulia, Attg. -I" J A I'll Unas, C VaOghan, and B6 in uausit. AKKIVAI.S. From San Pranciaoo, per M>ipoaa, Annual I. Mrs laiehl, A Aacheua, Miss MA Brownell, Mim LCCanon, K.i BIRTHS. Cunha, Footer 1. Davie, Chas F Giles, Mrs C Langley, MissG Lfsb«r, F W Macfariune -nd wife, CW Macfai HERBER -In Honolulu, August Ist, to the wife of Mr. I lane, wife ami child, J A Thomas, J M Moiisarrat, Carl reo. Herbert, a son. Maas, Mrs Paul Neumann, Mi-s Inez Neumann, \VC In Honolulu, Auguel 10th, u> ihe wife of Parke, I 11 Pratt and wife, VV II Smoyer, Chas U Spear, C REICHTON Charles i reighton, 1.5.i., ." daughter. Rr. brink Thomson, USN, Hermann Widemann, Mr. A Pltuisiiri and se vant, .10 steerage and t$ in transit for the SCOTT At Waiuaku. Mil., on July Slat, to ibe wife of I 011.l ii-. W. K. SGOtt, a son. From S«n FrandiOO, per Alden Hesse, Aug. 4 X An- SIMS In Honolulu, August Iftfl, to [be wife of W. R. children, drew- wife and I Mr Men ill ami Mr Buxton. Sims, a -on Ii .11 San Front iaCo, i>ei Sll Wilder, Aug !' Mr Arnold MAGOON In Honolulu, AugraW] lath, to the wife of J. and Mr M tl Alfred MagDOO, a son. ii.m San Fl nci CO, per W H Godfrey, All); 16—VV 'j _ _ ,r < , ~ - . — .. . » .. • . .. la) toll. . . I«r San Francis. per Au-traha, Aug U Mi s W Mamblar, I'ahuec P Woods, Miss Belle Woods, X X Kobins, G S I'a.teii, liank Hi ks and wife, Mis Thos. Gray an 1 infant, Mrs J A Hopper, Mrs X W Petersenand child, Mrs K. W ( ooper and two children, Geo Lycurgus, Mis / k Myers, Rev TL Guli.k. Miss Ann,.- O'Neil, Chas llavison, | W I 'ul Mile end Wife, Mis Nettie Ham mi.i.il. I'lios Hind, Alfred H Slllilli ai\A Wile, Mis, Rose Adler, W T Oilman, P X Robiiis..n. I S Muirhead, H N Maya ami Wife, Miss Kmh Wan! a id M in steerage. From Sydney and Auckland pel Alameda, Annua 23d wife, daughter and maid, Miss O'keefe, A A HoafArang, M UuriU, l> Mai Ibayiie, Clayton Ulyn, C G kenrick, ogiwell, Ll> Le Ward, T laoneu and IHJ in transit for tSan Francisco. from San Fran, isco per S N Casile, Aui*. —I A r Brown, Miss N L /eel, Peter Hmkley, Mastei John Buck ley, Mis-cs Catherine, Carrie and Man Huckley. N X Malcolm and wife, Charles Pei-rson, k L Moore, Arthur Leppete, Johi lluik | and William Davvr. From San Francisco per Platter, Aug 29 Frank kent field, Mrs McGregor, Oliver S Garrison, I, VV Skinner and Jain.s Hunan. From San Francisco per \V II Dimond, Aug 29 Mi Grinds Mrs Irwin and 2 sons, Mr Herald, Mr Vonham and Mr. I ware. From San Francisco, par R M S Zealandia. Aug. 30-Heniy Adams, Miss A X Ihimer, Joseph Biltroff, I) Center, N Greenwell, W wife and 3 hudren, Miss M Flax man, HHoppin, A II ek1> k Gibson, II J Galliher, Miss Ruth Paul Kolhe, kcnwill, ing, Miss Jordan, Miss Margaret l.nwrey, Mrs J A Lowell and inLa Miss N Part*. John X Mahn and wife, Capl Matson, Mis Nidiwitz and fant, child, Miss Patch, WC Peacock, wife and child, Miss Pindar, Miss Ida M Pope, Mrs Saiucdo, Mrs Anna Scrat ford, W P loler and wife, J T Waterhouse and wife. Miss Wilson. Miss Carrie P Winter, PS Wools-y, Hon Edwin Wright and wife, H Gilmaii, Aooki and 96 in tran*it for the Colonies. From San l*MM_eo. per bktne Uiscovery, Aug- 31 Misses M A Brewer, J Wileman and M I Porter, Jno Brewer, Stephen and Louis Schmidt. - . MARRIAGES. Ai Si. Amir w\ Cathedral, Honolulu, August 3rd, by the Rev, Ale*. Mackintosh, Edwin Hugh Cant to A.lri. ime Elhnche Oudoii. cook ASEGENT In Honolulu, Attguai 2nd. b*j the K«v. II lb Gowen, He iry K. Cook to Anna M. CANT DUhOir Ascgenl. PRATT-DICKSON- In Honolulu, August 7th, by Rev. Hr. E.G, Beckwith, In*, lohn S. B, Pratt, of Albany. N V., to Miss Sarah C. Ui-ksoii, daughter ol" ihe late Joshua G, and l.uir., F. Dickson ofihiscity. GEAR PETERSON In Honolulu, August nth, at the residence of the bride's parents, by the Rev. W. B. Ola son, Mr. A. Van ( lief Geal to -Mi.. Ad,lie P.. Peterson. .- DEATHS. , KarKKid, Germany, July Mth, Parker Nor(t ton Makte, aged M years, nioiilhs, 2tf days. k1.1.1.1.V In Oakland, Cal July lid, llervey C, only ,n I L. t and Helen W. kelh-y, aged four nioiilhsand MAKE- At fifteen d i\ HUMPH REV*' In Honolulu, Auaus, Ist, Mrs. Eliaabeth Humphreya, rwlicl of the late William Humphreys, aged 00 years and (I months. I'AYI.OR—In Honolulu, August 6th, at the residence of Captain Harrison, kin.; Mud, liankie Taylor, aged eight and a half yeais. CAMERON—In this city, Auguat 2lst, Mrs. Ua_a Cameron, aged 47 years, »if.- of Capl. B. F. Cameron u( the steamer Hawaii. GLOVER—In Honolulu, Auguat 20th, D. W. Glover, a native of South Adams, M ,ss,, aged 59 years. SUTTON- On hoard the R. M.S. Zealandia, August BOth, of pluro pneumonia, Mrs J H Sutton, a native of Warren, Pennsylvania, aged 'Ml years. In Honolulu, Augu t 31st, Mary k. wife of Hon. John Ena, aged 31 years, ENA �Volume 48, No. <).] BOARD. HAWAIIAN HONOLULU 11. I. This page is devoted to the Interests of the Hawaiian Board of Missions, and the Editor, appointed by the Board is mapOfiaible for its iniiunls, Rev. 0. P. Emerson, - Editor. The Shanghai Conference. I letter from Key. Atthtir 11. Smith.] \ Gulf op Pbchili, Between Shanghai and Tibntiin, My 71 THE FRIEND. June !Uli, IS'.H). ) Dsab Mk. Bishop: We are tin our way back from the General Conference of Missionaries in China, which met in Shanghai May 7th, and was intended to last ten (lavs, hut which ran over to two full weeks. The last .meeting of this sort was in 1877, and was attended by about 110 delegatea. There was some difference of opinion as to the wisdom of holding this meeting (strange to say), and even a few months ago it was not certain that it would be a pronounced success. Uut all fears of this sort were set at rest when the names began to be sent in. The number of persons in attendance was about 430, nearly all missionaries or those in connection with some form of missionary work. This number is greater than the whole body of missionaries in China at the time of the last Conference. A good number of missionaries came from Japan, and one or two from India. We were glad to slu the face of Mr. Ostroni, who brought greetings from the church in Kohala and from the Hawaiian Kvangelieal Association. The National Council of Congregational churches in the United States deputed Dr. Porter a delegate to that bod)-, to convey their greetings to the Conference. The comprehensive programme covered all subjects likely to be of interest to missionaries in China. Warned by the experience of the former meeting, the Committee of Arrangements decided to print all the papers in advance and have only abstracts read, thus greatly economizing time for the debates. As the papers were nearly all in the hands of those who desired them, this was on the whole a plan very satisfactory to all but the poor reader of the paper, who often felt that he (or she) had already carried condensation to its maximum. The first Saturday was Ladies' Day, and was wholly devoted to hearing papers written and read by ladies, although few of the ladies joined in the discussions. One of the most helpful and interesting meetings was given to questions and answers, a rare opportunity to pump wisdom in short, sharp jets from deep and generally inaccessible wells. The ladies had also two meetings of this sort by themselves. The most important and the most difficult question before the Conference was the unification of Bible translation, which has been a matter of division and of controversy for forty years. It is not simply the question of "terms" for "God," "Spirit" and "baptize," but still more a matter of style, and of the relation of revision to existing versions. In spite of strong personal feeling and a well-grounded fear at the beginning that union on this point was impossible, such a spirit of concession was on all sides manifested that the "impossible" become a fact. The Conference elected by ballot from long lists of nominees executive committees of ten and twelve persons, whose duty it is to select translators for the various revisions needed. One version will be in the high classical style, and When one in the easy classical style. completed these will tend to supplant all existing versions, and will be uniform for all China. Another revised version in the Mandarin will be uniform in the extensive ranges where that dialect prevails, perhaps three-fourths or even four-fifths of China. Besides this other committees have in charge particular vernacular versions, and the romanized form of the same, such as the Ningpo, Foochow, Amoy, Swatow, and Canton colloquial. The great confusion heretofore existing will be corrected and unity will gradually emerge. Besides this, competent committees recommended specific methods of writing for the blind, and symbols for the deaf and dumb. The work of the Conference in regartl to the revised Bible was characterized by the senior missionary, Dr. Happer, as "the crowning work of the Conference." But aside from this steps have been taken to secure an annotated Bible, which many feel to be quite as important as a unified Bible. Brief notes of a strictly unsectarian character, prepared by a carefully chosen committee representing all shades of creed and requiring unanimity in action, will be appended to the Bible text and offered to the tract societies for publication. The method of selecting translators and annotators was probably the wisest practicable by means of the executive committees elected by ballot. In the final result, there is every prospect of full acquiescence. A committee was chosen for the presentation to the Chinese Government of a statement in regard to the nature and aims of Christianity, thanking it forprotection in the past and asking for the suppression of injurious slanders now circulated semi officially. Another committee was chosen with a view to securing harmonious working in literary effort, arranging for the business management of such matters in a much better way than heretofore. A permanent committee on comity and on division of the field was appointed which may do much towards remedying friction by adopting prophylactic measures. A permanent committee of correspondence has been chosen to serve as a medium between missionaries in China during the interval before the next Con- furence. A committee on opium took that difficult subject into consideration, and was made permanent with a view to continued agitation. Action was taken recommending the discontinuance of the sale of "anti-opium" pills containing morphia. Carefully prepared statistics show that the number of native communicants has increased since 1877 from 13,035 to 37.287, or more than 286 per cent. The contributions of the native Christians only, for 188!) were 536,884.54, or within $1(13 of a dollar a member for all the native communicants in the Umpire. There are 520 organised churches, of which ninety-four are wholly selfsupporting and forty-nine* others partly so. In the sixty-one hospitals and the numerous dispensaries without hospitals were treated in 1889 a total of 348,499 patients. At the close of 18M(J the number of missionaries in China was 1296, and during that year the increase over 1888 was 172. The China Inland Mission alone now numbers 382 members, of whom eighty or ninety attended the Conference. With such a record behind it the Conference was authorized to lift up its voice and call for 1,000 men within the next five years, besides a great increase in the force of lady-workers. The field was never so open, and the work never so hopeful. The preliminary stage of work in China is past. The largest and most important religious gathering ever held in China makes an urgent appeal to Christendom for an increase of labor, of laborers and of prayer for China. The forty-two societies working in this great empire are hut regiments of a common army, and are substantially a unit against heathenism. Ultimate success is as certain as the promises of God. Sincerely yours, Arthur H. Smith. ' A Craft for Micronesia.—Captain Matthew Turner is buildingat Benicia— a small, handy craft for the use of the missionaries in the Mortlock Islands. She is modeled by Mr. W. F. Herrick especially for sailing among the islands, and is as strong as wood and copper can make her. Length, over all, 56 feet; tonnage, about 50 tons. She will be commanded by Captain H. F. Worth. The name will be the Robert W. Logan, in memory of Rev. Mr. Logan, whose widow still labors at those islands. If the boys keep a good lookout they will see this craft on the bay in about a month, when she will sail for the islands, where she is to remain. She will take letters, papers and parcels to the missionaries.— The Pacific. Good speech consists in saying all that is required, and in saying only what is required. You and I, toiling for earth, may at the same time be toiling for heaven, and every day's work may be a Jacob'a ladder reaching up nearer to God. �72 Septmbr, 1890. THE FRIEND. THIS T. M. C. A. HONOLULU, H. L This page is devoted to the intern i el tl ■■ Honolulu Young Mens Christian AsiMJcialion, ar.il thi Board ol Directors are rcsDonsible foi it* contents, - - - S. D. Fuller, Editor. The General Secretary Mr. S. D. Fuller has been away for the whole month of August for a much needed vacation. He passed the greater part of the time at Makawao, Maui. Owing to the fact of his absence the material for this page of The PrIEND has been selected from various sources. When Mr. Puller again assumes full duties, there will be the usual preparation of editorials and selections. How I Became a Prohibitionist. BY JOHN G. WOOLEY. In August, 1887, I went to New York City and wandered up and down the streets of that great metropolis, with its ten thousand saloons, a man alone without God, trying to get sober anil keep sober. I went to bed hungry many a night. I knew a great many people in the city but never went near them. I was winning the fight very well ; but one morning I got up with that awful feeling of restlessness that is called "appetite for drink." I knew I was to drink that day, yet I made a struggle. I remember I would look at my watch and think, "Now it is seven o'clock; I'll not drink till half-past seven." Then at half-past seven I said, "Not till eight," and so on through the weary hours; I spent the forenoon walk ing up and down from Harlem toward the Battery and back again, hesitating at every saloon door, but passing every one, living desperately half an hour at a time. Such an expenditure of nervous energy could have but one ending; I knew it, but would not yield. It was nearly noon; I was walking up Broadway and heard a band of music coming down. As it came near 1 stood on the edge of the sidewalk to look ami to listen. Back of the band there was a long line of sjilendid carriages with flags and banners, and in the carriages were well-dressed, well kept, comfortable looking men. It seemed some del egation of distinguished visitors. What was it? The saloon-keepers of New York and Brooklyn out for a holiday ! If you had been there, you would have seen nothing hut the band and carriages and the men; but / could see such sights as language fails to picture. You know the way of industrial processions is to carry samples of their handiwork in their parades, and the saloon business is an "industry," men say. In this line there were no samples carried openly, but I could see chained the carriage wheels a countless multitude of men shrieking and struggling, reeling, staggering, stumbling down Broadway, to celebrate the triumph of the drink. Back of these another multitude, more pitiful—of women, Bad-faced ami heavyhearted, dragging on behind, with little wailing children clinging to then skirts or tugging at their barren breasts, and starving, though 'twas a holiday, and from there back, the miaeryofthe pageant shaded off into the light laughter of the tippling boys and thoughtless girls who laughed at drunkenness and wondered at despair. Farther than the eye could reach the long procession stretched away through the great city, over the Harlem river, anil was lust to sight in the pitying woods of Westchester county. I could see at every revolution of the wheel the idol of some woman's heart crushed beyond recognition. Broadway seemed paved with the bodies ol the hundred thousand men who had died drunk in America in the year. And the wheels went crushing over their upturned faces in tin: summer moon. I could see in the smoke that curled up from the cigars of the merry-makers, shreds of burnt food, and books and clothes from the homes of the poor. I could see in the clothing that these men wore, lilver threads, torn from the heads of Buffering mothers, along with man)' Colored threads drawn from the dresses of dispirited ami broken-hearted wives. I could see my own wile among the followers in the line. I could see my own children trampled beneath the wheels. I thought things unutterable! When the music came I was was about giving up the struggle—when I turned from the spectacle, I felt I had grown. My body was erect, my lips compressed, my heart linn, and I knew I would not drink that day; and then and there alone, though jostled by a thousand men, I made a new resolve. My own children might live to be a spectacle in such a procession to the eyes ol other men. What should I do? Wait till the juggernaut had passed over them, then gather up their mangled forma and cany tlie-in to their mother and say, "Here are the boys ?" The thought drove me mad and I said, "Never another instant of waiting, but here anil now I join the men, be they called fanatics or philosophers, who have the bravery to cry aloud and spare not, and lo lay their hands upon the horses' hits and stop the procession, though they be sneered at and though they tlie for it." That's the way I became a ProhibiIn tionist. Let us take care how we speak of those who have fallen on life's field. Help them up—don't heap scorn upon them. We did not see the conflict; we do not know the scars.--The Reformer. Topics for September. Sept. 7. Work near at hand. —John i, 10 ~7. Sept. 11. Thou knowest me altogether.—l'salm cxx.xix, 1-12. Sept. 21. Knowing what he ought to do; but refusing.■-- Mark x, 17-22. Sept. 28. In earnest but needing instruction.—Acts viii, 20-40. The duty of doing, not great things, but what we can, is the very top and sum of human obligation. One can't get beyond it; one ought not to stop this side of it. It means the doing of everything you can, and chiefly it means the doing of things that issue out of the heart toward God and man. It means the setting aside of ihe self, and laying out one's best energies in unselfish, not to be requited, service. It means not merely occupation, industry, attainment, but noble industry, occupation, attainment; not merely busy hands, but busy affections, sympathies, purposes. You cannot sum its almost limitless significance. -J. P. \V. Hare. Crokinole is the leading parlor game at the Association rooms. Any of our members or friends who have not tried the game will find it one of interest. Chess, checkers, etc., can always be had by asking the Secretary Sunday at or Janitor. Watering—Places.— There is no surplus of piety at wateringplaces. 1 never knew anyone to grow rapidly in grace at such summer gatherings. It is generally the case that the Sabbath is more of a carousal than any other day, and there are Sunday walks and Sunday rides and Sunday excursions. Fillers and deacons and ministers of religion, who are entirely consistent at home, sometimes when the Sabbath dawns on them at Niagara Falls or the White Mountains, take the day to themselves. If they go to the Church, it is apt to be what is called a crack sermon, that is, some discourse picked out of the effusions of the year, as the one most adapted to excite admiration; and in those churches, from the way the ladies hold their fans, you know that they are not so much impressed with the heat as with the picturesquenss of half disclosed features. Four puny souls stand in the organ loft, and squall a tune that nobody knows, and worahippera with two thousand dollars worth of diamonds on the right hand, drop a cent into the poor-box with the left, and then the farce is ended. Talma ge. — The morals of a nation seldom rise higher than the virtue of the rulers. Sin bestarred and epauletted makes crime respectable, and brings it to canonization. Malarias arise from the swamp and float upward, but moral distempers descend from the mountain to the plain. �THE FRIEND. Paris and London Missionary Societies on French Soil in the Pacific. Rev. F. Y. Cooper of Huahine writes to the Australian Independent of the expected withdrawal of the L. M. S. missionaries from that island, .which has been occupied by the French from Tahiti 100 miles distant. The following extracts are of interest. natives would have had us "spurring" tendency to rapid divergence of type in them on to warlike deeds, and in every any new species at its earliest period way countenancing all that they have said and done in defiance of the French. And they have long said; "The missionaries are French; they are not with us, and therefore must be against us." They point to our advice as proof. They have no more confidence in us, and very little respect for us —try as we will to explain our position from every point of view. So that from the very first days of the later French activity leading up to actual annexation, we have been in the "black books" of our people—that is of seven-eighths of the population. If any are disposed to contrast with this the successful influence of Messrs. Doane and Rand on Ponape in securing the quiet submission of the people to the Spaniards, it should be .borne in mind that from the beginning, no resistance was contemplated by the Ponape people, and arose only after special and extreme provocation. That provocation being withdrawn, the missionaries were able to pacify them. whilefew and scattered. At the earliest period of the human race, for example, various causes, c. g., such as that attributed to Cain, may have sent isolated families into remote wanderings. So isolated, they would easily evolve new and very divergent types of humanity, such as the Kskimo, the Negro, the Mongol, and the Fuskarian. As soon as its habitat filled up, each new type would tend to become permanent through interbreeding of the progeny. We can thus see how important a contribution seems to have been made by Mr. Gulick to the great subject of Involution of Species. His latest exposition of his theory is in the American journal of Science, January, 18110, Article 111. The raising of the French flag on these islands changed altogether the old and free conditions under which the society had so long carried on its work here. Had the change been accepted quietly by the natives, the probability is that we might have remained here as a mission for Borne years more; but a "French atmosphere" is not healthful for a foreign society to breathe, and especially for a society which seeks to have If you've any task to do, let me and use a moral influence over those whisper, friend, to you, do it. If you've who have become French subjects, and anything to say, true and needed, yea or are sought to be made French in symnay, say it. If you've anything to give, pathy. And we cannot blame the that another's joy may live, give it. If have the people French for seeking to you've anything to love, as a blessing whose lands are annexed to them equalabove, from love it. If some hollow with French governly in sympathy doubt, creed though the whole world you Rev. John T. Gulick's Views on Evolution. ment and institutions. hoot and shout, doubt it. If you know Notice appeared last year in our col- what torch to light, guiding others However much the English missionthrough the night, light it. If you've ary might feel that the spiritual interests umns of Mr. Gulick's deductions on any debt to pay, rest you neither night of the people called upon him "to be all Evolution from his studies of Oahu land nor day, pay it. If you've any grief to things to all men," there must eventu- shells. His theory of Divergent Evolu- meet at the loving Father's feet, meet it. ally he friction between missionaries If you've any "joy to hold next your and officials. National jealousy on the tion through Cumulative Segregation heart lest it get cold, hold it. If you're seems to be considerable atreceiving part of the French would naturally give given light to see what a child of God rise to it, to say nothing of religious tention. Mr. Alfred Russell Wallace should be, see it. Whether life be bright animosity, and lament it as we may, we combats it earnestly. Mr. E. Ray Lan- or drear, there's a message sweet and are bound to acknowledge it, and bow (Nature, Oct. 10, 1859) as warm- clear whispered down to every ear— before it. Therein is my explanation kester it. So also does Mr. Geo. hear it. ly supports of the Lifu trouble some years ago, and of the Mare trouble just recently. The J. Romanes. To be the object of active The particular annoyances which beCatholic, or the no-faith-at-all French- controversy between such distinguished fel you this morning; the vexatious man, cannot bear to have and to see naturalists, may be considered an hon- words which met your ear, and grieved English influence under theFrench flag, your spirit; the disappointment which but I am glad to be in a position to state orable tribute to Mr. Gulick's careful was his appointment for to-day; the that not all Frenchmen are so animated. work and acute reasoning. slight but hindering ailments; the presHis theory, as we understand it, is ence of some who are a "grief of mind" MR. JONKS, OK MARK, that wherever species continue for a to you; whatever this day seemeth not has had no more sincere sympathizers in grievous, is linked to "the his trouble than our brethren of the long time to be segregated from all joyous, but of his goodness," with a good pleasure as are the in the Achatinellae Paris Missionary Society in Tahiti. others, afterward of "peaceful corresponding deep canyons range, has towof the Konahuanui Their Protestant Christianity fruit," the seed from which, if you very ered above national differences, and a natural tendency to variate appears, only do not choke it, this shall spring have sorrowed all the more with they which is not arrested, as it is elsewhere, and ripen. our Brother Jones because they are constant interbreeding with other by Christian Frenchmen. Look at the sinner through the eyes varieties. Thus new species are rapidly of your Master, and you will see a very developed, by means of a simple herediAS MISSIONARIKS WE ARE TO-DAY "REperson from the one you see different tary tendency to variate, without the when you look at him through the eyes JECTED OF THE PEOPLE." And why? Because we have wisely influence of natural selection. Mr. Gu- of the world. In the one case you will recognized the inevitable, and advised lick supports this by a large induction of see underneath all the soiled and marred the natives to accept the challenge facts in the case of the Oahu Achatinellae. exterior a precious immortal soul, for peaceably. Here we are not in conflict Such a theory, after it once commands whom Christ died. In the other you will see only a miserable worthless with the French, but our own people are in conflict with us. They profess attention, necessarily disturbs the natur- wretch—a tramp.—y. H. Hoadley. not to understand our position, and are alists of the natural selection school of Do not wajt for extraordinary oppormore than angry—positively hostile— Evolution, although their theory does because we have held aloof from all not exclude his. This theory would tunities Tor good actions, but make use their schemes of active opposition. The help to support the theory of a special of common situations. �THE FRIEND. Selections. Work like a man; but don't be worked to death. A.proud heart and a lofty mount..in are always barren. Spend less nervous energy each day than you make. We may be as good as we please, if we please to be good. Thou art ignorant indeed, if thou knowest not thyself. When a new book comes out, I read an old one.—Rogers. The only way of setting the will free is to purge it of wilfulness. When the law of God is in our hearts, our duty will be our delight. Every accepted prayer is not immediately an answered prayer. He lives long that lives well, but time misspent is not lived, but lost. The greatest happiness we can feel in life is that of comforting others. Through the wide world he only is alone who lives not for another. Putting square pegs into round holes ruins both the peg and the hole. Work for thy character until it be renowned, then it will work for thee. A man who is not ashamed of himself need not be ashamed of his early condition. Hear both sides and all shall be clear; hear one and you still may be in the dark. How much better is the love that is ready to die than the zeal that is ready to kill. Honor is a precious stone, the price of which is amazingly lessened by the least flaw. The trouble with a man covering up his tracks is that he makes new ones in doing it. The commonest round of labor may be beautiful with fidelity, cheerfulness, and love. The tears of earth are the crystals of heaven. Earthly subtraction is heavenly addition. Life would get nauseating if it were all honey; its spiked nettles are part of our discipline. Familiarity does not breed contempt except of contemptible things or in contemptible people. If the young man knew, if the old man could, there is nothing but would — All who have been great and good without Christianity, would have been much greater and better with it. I have had many things in my hands, and have lost them all: but whatever I have been able to place in God's, I still possess. Luther. A thing which does not appear wrong of itself shows its true character when brought to the judgment of God and the knowledge of Jesus Cheiat.—Bengel. Brave quiet is the thing for thee, Chiding thy scrupulous ferns Learn to be real from the thought Of the eternal years. P. \V. Palier. Scriptural repentence is that deep and radical change whereby a sinner turns from the idols of sin and self unto God. and devotes every movement of the inner and outer man, to the captivity of his obedience. When time, with iron-shod feet, steps on a handsome face, the hoof-marks remain: it is silly to try to hide them. But all the passage ofyears cannot take out of your face benignity, kindness, compassion, and faith. So far from subtracting from one's vitality, religion is a glorious addition to it. Other things being equal, a man will lift more pounds, walk more miles. and live more years with religion than without it. The world is a looking-glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his face. Frown at it, it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly companion.— Thackeray. I want an expert to handle this job. Willingness to do won't do, can't do, this! Four experts at moving Chickerings will send careering upstairs a concert-grand, that fourteen muffs couldn't get through the first doorway without carrying away both jambs. Bestow thy youth so thou mayest have comfort to remember it, when it hath fors.iken thee, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof. Use it as the spring time which soon departeth, and wherein thou oughtest to plant and sow all provisions for a long and happy life.— Raleigh. Confronted with Christ's kingdom, in antagonism to it eternal and implacable, is another kingdom, compact, arrogant, aggressive, sustamed by forces most formidable, because they represent all that is hostile in human depravity, all that is consolidating in affinity for evil and hatred for what is good.—M. D. Hoge. — be done.- Italian Proverb. Happiness is a perfume which one cannot shed over another without a few "DEA VER SALOON, drops falling on one's self. H. J. 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