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Established in 1858. — Coiineb Queen & Nuuanu Streets, Wholesale >.n i Kitnil Dealer la ==_=_- Specially Low Prices —^ FOR FOURTEEN DAYS ONLY -——at L. B. KERR & CO. QUEEN STREET. �1 The Friend. HONOLULU, H. 1., JANUARY, 1901. Vol. 59] [January, 1901. THE FRIEND la published the first day of each our lovely domestic life, to see what ligion dominant among the superior month In Honolulu, H. I. Subscription rate Two Dollars per Tear In Advance. here, since it arriv- races. The outlook for the coming dewith Christianity has done All communications and letters connectedBooks the literary department of the paper, tre seeds of grace cades seems to be for cruel and bitter ed 80 with years ago and Magazines, for Review and Exchanges, should be addressed "Rev. B. E. Bishop, Hono- and truth, whose blossoms should unfold struggles for supremacy and control. We lulu, H. I." Business letters should be addressed T. O. and whose fruits should ripen as now. may hope that piety and humanity will Thrum, Honolulu, H. I." Entered at the Post Office at Honolulu as second class Those fruits shall go on multiplying and modify and soften. _ matter. S. E. BISHOP ---- Christmas ol 1900 Maunaolu Seminary Opened Old Memories ol Kailua Letter from Rev. A H Smith, D.D Diamond Jubilee of Kawaiahao Church Be Conciliatory to Conlucianism Tolerance Towards Heathenism Death of James A Hopper A JapaneseLady Editor Death ol David Lima Naone "Yellow" Philanthropy Record ol Events Births • Marriages Deaths Hawaiian Board ripening yet more profusely and deliciously, and the nations shall pluck thereEditor. of and eat, to their healing. Westward has the rich harvest of Christ's gifts extended, more than half around the globe. 1 Soon shall that harvest cover all the 1 2 earth. The Babe of Bethlehem became 3 4 the Lord of Heaven, "The Head once 4 5 with 5 crowned with thorns, is crowned 5 now." His shall kingdom good in glory 5 5 5 time prevail in all the earth. All man8 6 kind shall come to dwell in peace, light 8 rule. 7 and gladness under Jesus' The Meeting at Hana The Evangelistic Tour ol the North Pacific Missionary Institute—The Work at Hauula Mormon Jubilee Central Union Church Parsonage Our Exemption from Storm Meat Importation 7 7 8 9 9 9 Christmas of 1900. Nineteen centuries ago dawned the bright Morning Star of the Eternal Father's light and grace upon our dark world of sin and suffering. The babe was born in Bethlehem of the Virgin Mother, begotten of the Holy Ghost, Jesus, who should "save his people from their sins." He lived and wrought his marvels of power and mercy. He taught and loved, and died on the cross, God's sacrifice for sin. His disciples went forth and preached his Gospel, and planted and watered the infant churches Struggling, harried, trampled and broken, yet with undying vitality and vigor, the People of Christ lived on and multiplied through the long centuries. Today Christianity is the dominant religion of civilized humanity, and the one supreme element in society, although still confronting and warring against colossal and organized evils, deeply rooted in the baser proclivities of mankind. We in favored Hawaii, have but to look around upon our fair and fruitful civilization, our social peace and prosperity, and Portents of the New Century. As 1901 begins, we lift up our eyes and peer into the dim mist of the coming years, searching for what they have in store for the nations. We know not and cannot know. The nineteenth century opened amid the most portentous horrors of revolutions and wars. Yet men saw "the night of war depart, and the star of peace return." Our own twentieth century also strangely opens with protracted and severe military struggles of both branches of the leading white race in their remote possessions, and still more portentously, with a dark and cruel wartempest in China. Men had begun to hope that a reign of peace and good-will might be near at hand. It now looks as if calm and sunshine were far away, and a long period of tempest might intervene. It will not be strange if white civilization should have to gird itself for a long struggle with the ignorant and treacherous races of men. The saddest thing is that the nations which are Christian, or nominally so, are themselves still cherishing ancient ways of darkness which unfit them to impart light and righteousness to heathen people. Wickednesses of lust, drunkenness, cruelty, greed, are formidable and rampant. They bring reproach upon the re- One thing seems certain, that the coming years will make a demand of utmost magnitude upon all of Christ's followers for devoted and heroic activity in His service. As the struggles go on, they must be in the front, standing in His name, proclaiming righteousness, truth, and repentance. May we of Hawaii, and our descendants, who enjoy this grand Christian inheritance, be found faithful to our Lord. Many American and European men and women, many faithful Chinese Christians, have lately met cruel deaths and torture for their Lord's sake. May we and ours in the advancing twentieth century be not less heroic and stedfast. Let the record of the coming century be bright and grand with the free giving of life and strength and all for the "testimony of Jesus." Maunaolu Seminary Opened. The new building of the Maunaolu Seminary at Sunnyside, Paia. Maui, was formally opened with appropriate exercises on November 24th. One hundred and fifty guests at a time sat down to a bountiful luau at the tables in the dining room. Hon. H. P. Baldwin, the munificent donor of the building, acted as chairman. Addresses were made by Judge Kalua, by Rev. Kekela of Marquesas fame, by Rev. O. P. Emerson and Rev. S. Kapu. Rev. E. G. Beckwith was compelled by illness to leave the hall. Father Bailey sent a splendid bunch of white roses. He had conducted the erection of the former building which was recently burned, and had for sixty years been a chief leader in the work of education for Hawaiian girls. The new building is a large structure of two stories and nasement, with a wing on each side extending both in front and rear. One hundred and two girls are now boarding in the school. Miss M. E. Alexander is the experienced and beloved principal. Nearly $1100 were realized at a concert for the benefit of the lepers. Each leper received one silver dollar on Christmas day, and tOys were provided for the children. �January,1901. THE FRIEND. 2 _ Old Memories of Kailua. (Continued.) Our nearest missionary neighbors outside of the town of Kailua, were the Ruggleses, who lived at Kaawaloa, twelve miles south. Their dwelling was at Kuapehu, two miles up the mountain, a most verdant and attractive spot. It later became the residence of Rev. John D Paris. Kaawaloa proper was a village on the north side of Kealakekua bay. I was born there at the house of Mr. and Mrs Ely, only a few rods from the rock where Captain Cook was slain, and where his monument now stands. We often visited Kaawaloa, probably twice a year, going by water in a double canoe, generally starting two or three hours before daylight, so as to carry the land breeze a good part of the way. There were a number of paddlers in each of the two canoes, who would make the long craft fly swiftly through the sea. The steersman in the stern would give the signal by a slap of his paddle against the canoe, pud all the rowers would shift their paddles in unison from one side to the other We children generally laid upon the raised platform with the mother, thou eh sometimes in the bottom of a canoe. We were apt to be seasick, and then to sleep, sometimes awaking to see the waves dashing on a coast of black lava cliffs We would run up the little bay, and step ashore upon Cook's rock, whence it was only a few rods to the nice premises of the good Princess Kapiolani. These were prettily thatched cottages on a platform of white masonry which was studded with black pebbles. Kapiolani's quarters were neatly furnished within. She was generally there to receive us with the most cordial hospitality. Immediately behind the house was a precipise perhaps 200 feet high. This seems to have been caused by a former breaking off of the coast line for many miles. Great lava flows had subsequently poured over the precipice to the north and south, so as to enclose the bay. leaving half a mile of the precipice at the head of the bay untouched. The next thing was to surmount the formidable pali. There were plenty of natives to carry up the lady and children in the lack of animals* From the summit, two miles of slope brought us to the delightful home of the Ruetrleses. wrier*: we were a train loving! v welcomed. Mrs R. was a tall sweet-faced woman, of kindliest character. Mr. R. was a pleasant man of small stature, who was absent from home tourine amnne the natives, his health requirine such activity. There was a luxuriant frarden. with luscious grapes and figs, and coffee trees in fruit. There were also orange trees and in the vicinity, many old ohia trees with the ripe apples bestudding their. Ed our locality to that degree. We burngnarled trunks. The mission dwelling ed a good deal of wood, mostly the yelwas a large thatched house, with several low ahakea, or "false sandal wood," glass windows. A matter of special de- which emitted a pleasant odor. Our light was the company of two very agree- altitude was nearly 2700 feet. Several able children of our own ages, named rounded green hills lay to the north of Huldah and Samuel, of whom we were us, which must have been tuff-cones, the relics of former explosive eruptions. We always very fond. The Ruggles family returned to Amer- made another visit to Waimea in 1836, ica about 1834, and we saw no more of shortly before removing to Oahu. The them. Mr. R. had done good service fti Rev. Lorenzo Lyons was then occupying a teacher and preacher for fourteen years. the station having been there over three Their places were taken by Mr. and Mrs. years. The infant Curtis was running Cochran Forbes, four of whose grand- about the house. This was a building children now reside in Honolulu. Mr of thatch, but witn a foreign style of Forbes was a forceful and zealous mis- frame, with four rooms. On the route, at Kawaiahae, we had sionary. There are memories of pleasant visits with them also, both at Kuapehu again enjoyed the hospitality of the aged and at Kailua. On one occasion a fast- Mr. Young, who was very bald. I reday is remembered, such as we observed member several fine looking young at Kailua four times a year by omitting women, his daughters. A coffin was susthe noon-meal. The Forbes were more pended under the ridge of the house. Tt rigid, and no breakfast was served. Dis- was the old chief's habit, whenever he covering this, Mrs. Bishop made for the went to Honolulu, to provide himself safe, and seizing some cold chicken and with a new coffin, in order to be so far taro. enabled her hungry family to break in readiness for the chance which was their fast. She was always to be relied approaching. T trust that he was otheron in the commissariat. wise not unprepared. A still conspicuWe once extended our visiting to the ous object at Kawaihae was the great inland elevated station of Waimea, in the Heiau of Puukohala, built by Kamehabeginning of 1832, Mr. Bishop being meha in 179t and consecrated to his delegated to initiate Rev. Dwieht Raid- war-god by the sacrifice therein of the win, M.D., in his new field. We travel- corpse of his rival Keoua. John Young ed to Kawaihae by canoe, meeting the had been captured in 1790. Vancouver Baldwins at the house of Mr. John first came two years later, forty years beYoung, the aged lieutenant of Kameha- fore mv first sight of those arid hills, and meha. The ladies and children were car- the mighty Matinakea behind them. This second visit was made en route ried up the hill for ten miles by natives in maneles. T particularly recollect the to Hilo and the volcano, via the mounfeeble appearance of Mrs. Baldwin with tain road to Laupahoehoe. The lady and her voting babe as her bearers passed us children were provided with maneles or on the road. Tn due time we reached the litters, borne by natives, who were paid Waimea plateau at that time covered in trade and food. We had pone a few with dense scrub forest for some miles miles, when by an accident, the writer's west of the mission station. We found arm sustained compound fracture, which two good-sized cottages, of which each caused a return to Mr. Lyons' house, and family took possession. There must further burden of four weeks upon their have been some hardship from lack of extremely cordial hospitality. There crockery and furniture. We had an old were hardly any children's books, but I iron stove which helped keep us warm in devoured a considerable part of Rollin's the cold rainy mountain winter. There Ancient History while the bone was knitwas also a large fire occasionally lighted ting, and formed a strong attachment to in the center of the main room, whence both Mr. and Mrs. Lyons, who were the smoke must have escaped through most amiable as well as devoted and cathe roof. I think we children quite en- pable missionaries. Mrs. Lyons died at joyed the novel experiences. The Bald- Honolulu in the summer of 1837, amid wins being new-comers, must have found the profound grief of the assembled misit very hard. On one occasion the two sionaries. missionaries were absent for several days Starting again, we camped for the on a visit to the people of Kohala. That night on a splendid slope of Mauna Kea. must have been a dreary time for the amid lovely koa glades, and groups of young wife. wild cattle. A lone open hut was conFor the Bishops, the coolness brought structed for our large. party, in front of recuperation and health after the heats of which an immense fire was built for Kailua. On one morning we were told warmth. Fresh beef had been procured that "frost" had been seen on the grass from the Paniolos. and abundant steaks iust beforp sunrise. With snow mantling were broiled on the coals. It was a deMauna Kea nearly to its base on the lightful experience. From LaupahoeWaimea plain as it sometimes did, a hoe. then a populous villape, we prostrong southerly breeze might have chill- ceeded by water in a double canoe, in . �THE FRIEND. 3 Vol. 59, No. I.] which we were caught in a slight squall Letter from Rev. A. H. Smith, D.D. but perhaps there has not within the cenmidway under the high palis, and the tury been a more open and shameless sail carried away, to the terror of the exposition of the sub-cutaneous lawlessiiiiia, .\ov. iientsin, >. lyni, lyoo. lady passenger and the children. At ness of Christian Nations (under the Ueai ur. —.uiicu nas jjisnop: iiappciibeautiful Hilo, we were entertained for outer forms of Law) than has been wita week by Mr. and Mrs. Coan, the Ly- eu in litis uistiactcu empire since mm J. nessed since the Eight Nations planted mans contributing thereto. Another wrote you auouc nine luoiiius ago, anu their banners on the walls of Peking, week was spent in going to Kilauea the attention 01 tne woiui lias Deen turn- which they proceed to loot in the name of where we passed two nights in a rain- ed in tins uireetion as never oeiore. une humanity, which had been shocked at storm in a leaky shanty, which our na- ol our oldest anu most vaiueu worKtus violations of international law in the tives had imperfectly patched up. Before lias just returned iroin a uiriougli in tne siege of the legations. Instead of that light on the third day, we were awaked, Lnited States, and he writes trom I'eking "harmony" so much vaunted, there has and from the brink of the descent, watch- that lor a time he was so dazeu by the been an evident effort to make private ed the brilliant fires below. At daylight, new conditions tliat it was very dimcuit capital out of the anomalous conditions, himself the to to them. Une ol adjust we descended to the "black ledge," on on the part of more than one power, unwhich we went out half a mile, and look- telegrams which we succeeded in sending til there is serious danger that the whole home the the during siege, contained ed down into an immense elongated business of setting China right will end chasm where seemed to be great activity. words: "All property destroyed." in the fiasco of demonstrating to the what those lew syllables mean, the universe the incurable The features of the volcano I at once rec- Think imbecility of any ognized as those familiar in Ellis' picture scores of Mission stations laboriously group of Christian "Powers"—especialcarried on and for years in faith made twelve years earlier. Those features begun, if there chance to be eight of them. had mostly become obliterated at my prayer, and in a moment they are tram- ly Here in Tientsin there is a panorama wild boars, or plunnext visit in 1857. The crater had then pled under foot by of Nations which is a perpetual sugAll much filled up, and the fires had been dered by savages and then burned to at the Colum"mid-way" of the gestion transferred over a mile south to Hale- ashes, the inmates either driven away like bian Exposition, the same polyglot of noxious animals, or hunted to death like maumau. We were off for Hilo before noon criminals unfit to live. We can by no races and peoples, the same unhampered the same frank exhibiMost of the road between Kilauea and means enumerate all the stations of intercourse, andworst in each and in all, tion of what is Olaa had been handsomely corduroyed which some one of these things has been over the pahoehoe with the trunks of tree true, but they abound in the provinces for the edification of the Chinese, who ferns, which made progress rapid down of Chihli, Honan, Shensi, Shansi, Shan- organized the Boxers because they were and vainly hoped to get hill. The then large population caused tung and Manchuria in all which vast tired of the Westone can sympathize with rid of it. Now much travel between Hilo and Kau. We territory clear up to the Amur river there of this Emthem, the occidentalizing if no reason to homeward, faces Hais that Chrissuppose any set our taking the were an to be extension of what has pire makua coast and Waipio Valley on our tian building, either Roman Catholic or route. The strongest impression on the Protestant remains standing. Besides already been done. This is one side of juvenile mind was that of the ocean view- this the reflex waves have extended the shield. On the other hand, China has ed from the lofty pali, and the mighty through mid-China, to the extreme west- a great abundance of able men from afar, walls of the great valley with its immense ern boundary, so that for the first time who wish well to the Empire and to all since the Empire was occupied as. a mis- who inhabit it, and who know much betwaterfall. Some mention should be interesting sion field, China may be said to have ter than any Chinese, or than all the milof memories of visits at Kailua from almost no missionaries left in the interior. lions of the Chinese race combined what various missionaries. Such visits were They are massed in Peking and Tientsin, it is imperatively necessary that China always delightful to us. Yet the ladies Chefoo and Shanghai, and in the latter should have if she is to continue to exist. and sometimes the children were apt to port in great numbers, especially those Unfortunately not many of these men be landed from their schooners in sad of the Inland Mission, which a year ago have any opportunity to make their inplight, after the hardships of the voyage. had 814 missionaries in the field. Now fluence felt, though the press of the world I remember two fair young women being it is said that half of them have gone is no doubt open to them as it never was brought in in fainting condition in the home, or to Australia, pending the open- before. Modern diplomacy has some excellent qualities, but it has not mastered litters which tney had occupied on the ing of the doors at present closed. This is the first time since the crusades the art of reconciling irreconcilable and deck of the vessel. These were Mrs. Dr Chapin, and Mrs. Ephrain Spaulding. —which took place so long ago that selfish interests, and until it has done so The Spauldings made us a long visit, dur- most of us have but an imperfect recol- it is hard to see how the Chinese puzzle ing which I formed an intense childish lection of the details—that the whole is to be settled. But there is a large and attachment to Mr. S., who was a sweet Christian world has been moved to co- perhaps an increasing number who beand devout man. An earlier visit is re- operate in one common cause; and for lieve that in His hands are all the Corcalled, made by the Bingham family the sake of the cause, of the Christian ners of the Earth, of which China is unabout 1833. Most of their time was world, and also of, the non-Christian doubtedly a large one, and that God does spent on the upland above us. Mrs. B. world, it is to be hoped it will be the not mean after halving kept this most anwas much of an invalid. Father Bing- last. If it is ever possible to tell the cient of Empires with its incomputable ham was a somewhat stately, courteous secret history of the combined move- millions of people all these millenniums, gentleman, for whom I had much liking, ments of this year, with all the ad cap- to have China divided and become an and a little fear. The Baldwins repeated- tandttm vulgus pretensions, and the futile Asiatic Poland. Indeed there are signs ly visited us from Waimea. Dr. B. we and disappointing execution of high that the hopelessness of such a solution all liked. He was personally active, even promises, it will be a great disillusion to has forced itself upon even the most ambreaking into a run, something rarely the enthusiastic friends of humanity who bitious diplomats of Europe, who have seen in grown men in Kailua. My child- had hoped that millennial auroras were more than they can do with the regions ish impressions of all these friends was being woven a few months ago at the already under their rule or within their wholly favorable, accompanied by the Hague. In former years Asia has seen "sphere." It is too early to tabulate utmost reverence for their spirituality and a great deal of the "seamy side" of the the losses, even of missionary life, for devoutness. much vaunted Civilization of the West. even as I write a circular dispatch comes ' �4 around to all the Consulates and Missions saying that word has come from some German at T'ai Yuan Fu that several Swedes and British-subjects (missionaries) supposed to have been killed have been found, and are to be brought to the coast. They will have an even more thrilling story to tell than the many which have been already widely told by (he refugees of the China Inland Mission, several of whom are now in Tientsin. It may have come to your notice that the American Board headquarters in Pang Chuang, Shantung, (from which for thirteen years I have sent you occasional letters), enjoys the unique distinction of being (aside from treaty ports defended Tientsin and Newchwang) the only Protestant mission property intact in all China, from the Yellow to the Amur rivers! The Boxers had a plan to make it a Boxer headquarters, and some of their leaders were friendly to us, and made a private bargain with our native pastor and some members, in consideration of a feast and the present of a horse, to spare our place. Later they disagreed among themselves, and with the capture of Peking the tide turned. It is still guarded by soldiers, but we think the danger has probably passed. Of many of the members we know that they were swept away by the mandatery Edicts from the Throne, followed by local proclamations not less so, and many went through the form of recantation to save their lives and their property. Multitudes of them have been pillaged, some four different times, and some are wanderers on the face of the earth with the cold winter upon them, and their only Shepherds hundreds of miles distant We shall try to help them a little, but it is difficult to get the facts, and the wisdom of the two native pastors and helpers is taxed to the utmost to know what to do and how to do it in the unexampled circumstances. Many readers of The Friend have been interested in this field for many years. Will they not all pray for guidance for the missionaries and the native Chinese leaders, and for deliverance for the flock into greener pastures and beside stiller waters in the near future? We are watching your progress under the new regime with the greatest interest. Very sincerely yours. Arthi'r H. Smith. Diamond Jubilee of Kawaiahao Church. Upon the first Sabbath of last month. December 2d, was fitly celebrated the 75th anniversary of the organization of the first Church of Christ among the natives of the Hawaiian Islands. The greatest caution had been exercised in admitting converts to baptism and THE FRIEND. church privileges. But on December sth, 1825, after six months of probation, eight of the leading chiefs who had given clear evidence ol Christian character, were baptized, and organized into a Church of Christ. Their names were Kaahumanu, the Cjueen Regent, Kalanimoku, the prime minister, Namahana, sister to the Regent, Laanui, Kapule, Kealiiahonui, Kaiu, and Kalaaiula. Such was the origin of Kawaiahao Church, a leading event in the history of Hawaiian Christianity. The anniversary was observed by special exercises in the Kawaiahao edifice, both in the morning and the evening, These were in botn the native and English languages, under the able direction of the Rev. W. D. Westervelt. Addresses were made by Rev. Henry W. Parker, who has been the pastor of the Church for thirty-seven and a half years, by Hon. E. K. Lilikalani, who spoke in English, giving a brief resume of the history of the Church, by Rev. John C. Hay giving "Aloha from the Denominations," by Hon. W. R. Castle, giving "aloha from the Descendants of the Missionaries," and by Rev. E. S. Timoteo giving "aloha from the Hawaiian Churches," and the recounting of the origin of the sister Church of Kaumakapili in Honolulu. A letter of felicitation was also read by Rev. O. H. Gulick, as Committee of the Central Union Church, the church home of a large number of the children and grandchildren of the Missionaries. Among those occupying the platform were the Rev .Dr. H. Bingham and Mrs. L. B. Coan, a son and daughter of the first pastor of the Church, Mrs. Ann E. (Clark) GuHck, daughter of the second pastor, and Mrs. Ellen (Armstrong) Weaver, daughter of the third pastor. There was also the venerable Mrs. Angeline Castle, who has for 58 years lovingly co-operated in the work of the Church. Mrs. Persis Taylor was there, the daughter of Father Thurston, the pioneer colleague of Father Bingham. Mrs. Taylor has several adult grandchildren. On the platform were also the Revs. O. H. Gulick, O. P. Emerson and S. E. Bishop, who pronounced the benediction at the close of the evening service. Music was a prominent feature»in the exercises, including anthems sung by Kawaiahao and Kamehameha pupils. The world-admired voice of Mrs. Annis Montague Turner contributed rich melody. Her youth was passed under the shadow of Kawaiahao Church, which she loves. Of all those present, probably the only individuals who could remember the features of Kaahumanu, or the great native congregations of the early thirties, were Mrs. Taylor and Dr. Bishop. Dr. Bingham, now in his 70th year, must remember something of the January,1901. times in the immense old thatched church, which preceded the present edifice completed in 1840, of which the writer saw the corner stone before and after it was laid. In its massive solidity, the Kawaiahao edifice well symbolizes the solid vigor of the Christian life here established in a by-gone generation. In the renewed beauty of its interior, it exhibits the loving and conserving care of those now concerned for Hawaiian Christianity. In its dwindled congregations, it suggests the sad diminution of the native race, In the crowding business life invading its neighborhood, are indicated the stress and bustle of foreign and commercial activities, which tend to obliterate the past. Be Conciliatory to Confucianism. Said Rev. E. P. Thwing, addressing the Honolulu Ministers Union: I think we can agree with the suggestion of a recent writer, to hold to the "true Catholicity that tells the heathen that all the good, the truth, all that is worthy and pure in his system will be included in, and conserved by Christianity Christianity puts away Judaism, and yet the spirit in which our Divine Master introduced it was, T came not to destroy, but to fulfill.' A writer in 'China's Millions' the other day tells us that he had much ado to prevail upon a convert to, give up Confucius.' I should think so, indeed; but why must Confucius be 'given up'? The Jew did not give up Moses when he became a Christian. Jesus is a Savior, the only Savior. This is a blessed truth. Confucius never made the slightest pretension to be such, but is he therefore not a Sage? "Take the idea that the hearts of these people are as a garden. You feel he is not growing the true life-giving tree. So you run into his garden, and, with small explanation and no apology, you trample his plants under foot, pull them up with rash haste, call them all weeds and rubbish, pronounce the fruit to be all poison, and shout lustily for the axe to hew down his trees. He is sure to get into a rage, to pronounce you a ruthless destroyer bent only on reducing his garden to a waste, and, without waiting to see what you have to offer, will expel you ignominiously from the ground. Go more quietly to work. Be in less haste to uproot ,more anxious to plant and cultivate. Take your own good seed and sow it quietly. Set hardy plants by his. They will look strange and foreign for a time and even when he brings them to the table their taste may be alien at first. But have patience; toil in the gentleness of love. Your 'lily of the valley' has a silent charm of lowly beauty, which will steal into his heart; your 'Rose of Sharon'—he has seen no flower that has one- �thousandth part its entrancing loveliness; and when the 'Tree of Life' bears fruit in his orchard, that will be fruit such as his lips were never blessed with." With a Christian spirit of conciliation, not compromise, we will seek to win them to a full surrender to Christ as King of Kings, and Savior of the World. With His spirit to lead and guide them they will see how far superior is the wisdom of God to the philosophy of men. Tolerance Towards Heathenism. A local daily fears The Friend tends towards undue severity, as appears from the following: "Rudyard Kipling's new serial 'Kirn,' in the current number of McClure's, begins with this sentiment: Oh ye who tread the narrow Wav By Tophet flare to Judgment Day Be gentle when the heathen pray To Buddha and Kamakura. We commend this sentiment to the Friend when dealing with the Heathen party." In dealing with sincere but erroneous beliefs, one should be gentle and tolerant, but not so with the destructive and poisonous practices inseparately connected with heathenism, such as the lewtl dances, and the practices of sorcery, both of which were actively fostered by Kalakaua and his Hale Naua, in his systematic building up of his Heathen Party. These are the vile things which have contributed more than all others to the wasting away of the Hawaiian people. Gentle tolerance of these hideous deviltries is deadly hostility to this suffering and dying Hawaiian race. Death of James A. Hopper. One of Honolulu's oldest and most esteemed citizens has just passed away in his 70th year; having resided here over forty years. By his skill and enterprise in several branches of industry he accumulated a large fortune, and has always been both respected and personally beloved. Mr. Hopper had long been a trustee in the Central Union Church. He had been absent at the Coast for several months, dying in San Francisco on Dec* 11, from a stroke of paralysis a few days previous, his wife and eldest daughter being with him. The funeral was held in Honolulu on the 23d ult. "The righteous hath hope in his death." A Japanese Lady Editor. The only Japanese daily paper in Honolulu, is also the only Japanese newspaper anywhere conducted by a woman. The Hawaii Shinpo has for three years and a half been very successfully managed by Mrs. Masa Takahashi. She is thir- THE FRIEND. 5 Vol. 59, No. i.] ty-five years of age. She keeps all the on accounts, and conducts the finances. Mr Takahashi contributes to the columns^ Thrum's Hawaiian Annual, 1901. This issue of the uhequalled Annual is of superior quality, befitting the new century. The 47 pages of old and newstatistics of the Territory, with 16 pages of register and directory, are of greatest value. One hundred and thirty-five pages are occupied by twenty miscellaneous original articles by various contributors, all of which are of great interest, many of them rarely so. We may name especially "Hawaii's Forest Foes," by Prof. Koebele; "Geology of Oahu," "Honolulu in Primitive Days," "Hawaiian Fish Stories and Superstitions," "Lowrie Irrigating Canal," "Farming in Hawaii," and "The Meaning of Some Hawaiian 'Place-names'." Such a gathering of twenty choice contributions, as well as the statistical and other arranged information is the result of the rare ability and experience of Editor Thrum. A list of the titles of 126 principal articles that have appeared in 26 successive issues, indicate what a library of choice and exact information about Hawaii this series of Annuals contains. M. s. steamer tuu ac junaro having uecn engageu to labor on tne rionecr .sugar naiuaiion ai the i'. lor noiioiuiu, Before reaching the snip, howweie assaueu Oy sucn leplescntations as to tne hornble siavc.y i.ahuiua. ever, tney they were doomed to in Hawaii, that /o oi tneni relused to embark, and only 50 came down on the steamer. The latter are now comtortably installed in good quarters in the balmy climate of Lahaina, where they immediately entered upon permanent employment, with houses, fuel and medical attendance free, and the men receive wages of $20 a month in gold, for ten hours' labor a day. The remaining 78 deluded wretches, ill clad and totally destitute, in a wintry climate, when labor is in little demand, became at once dependent on publiccharity and the poor house. Their wretched fate is wholly due to the violent misleading of the San Francisco Examiner, which sent out its agents a thousand miles down the railroad, and followed the poor people clear to the steamer, urgently warning them that they were to be sold as slaves to Chinamen in Hawaii. In the meantime the Examiner flamed with "yellow" scareheads denouncing the wickedness of the "missionaries' sons" here who were dragging these poor Porto Ricans into slavery. No doubt a large number of the people of Death of David Lima Naone. California were persuaded that the £.rThe above named excellent and hon- -ainincr was a noble champion of the opored Hawaiian gentleman passed away pressed. As a matter of fact, no missionary's somewhat suddenly on 28th ult. His presence has been a familiar and hon- descendant is connected with the Pioneer ored one in political, and especially in Plantation, which is conducted by most religious circles, and the news of his reputable Germans. When last heard death brought to us a deep feeling of from, the Examiner's people were noisily grief. Lima, as we were accustomed to asking whether the planter's agents were call him, was the most prominent among not going to come to the relief of the sufthe many sons of the late excellent fering Porto Ricans, whom themselves Deacon Naone, long a leading official of had misled into misery. There is no Kawaiahao Church. He has for many doubt that the employment and wages years been the very active and efficient paid here are a great boon to the Porto Assistant Superintendent of the large Rican laborers, who can earn no such Sunday School. He was a carpenter by- pay at home, and who get their passage trade. For several years he has conduct- hither free. It is quite doubtful, howed large contracts for painting houses. ever, whether they will prove capable Mr. Naone was elected to the Legisla- workers. Our best laborers are the Porture of 1894, and became the Speaker of tuguese, numbers of whom are now bethe Lower House. He was one of the ing recruited in New England for our three members of the late Registration plantations. They are glad to come, beBoard. He was a cluef leader in Y. P ing guided by the favorable reports of S. Christian Endeavor work, and a dele- their friends who preceded them. Their gate to the National Endeavor Conven- wages are larger than those promised to tion in San Francisco three years ago. the Porto Ricans. As an ex-Speaker, Mr, Naone was buried with military honors. Few men Record of Events. of his age have done more honor to the Hawaiian race. Dec. ist.—Hawaii's Delegate-elect, R W. Wilcox and Secretary, leave by the "Yellow" Philanthropy. Rio Janeiro for Washington.—St. Andrew's church fair, at the cathedral A company of 134 natives of Porto grounds, proves an entertaining, and Rico, men, women and children, arrived financial success.—Reception of the at or near San Francisco over two weeks Young Men's and Young Women's ago, with the expectation of embarking Christian Associations at Progress Hall �6 passes off with much satisfaction both as to numbers and sociability. 2nd.—Kawaiahao Church fittingly celebrates the seventy-fifth year of its organization by special historical and musical services, and is largely attended by an interested audience of natives and foreigners. 3rd.—The Protective League of Honolulu organizes for work with W. A. Bowen, president; Rev. G. L. Pearson, vice-president; D. H. Case, secretary, and Jos. P. Cooke, treasurer.—Regular meeting of Social Science Club discuss wireless telegraphy and kindred electrical subjects. sth.—The People's Ice Company and the Hawaiian Electric Company amalgamated.—Several small parcels of city real estate sell at public auction to satisfy a partition suit, realizing $48,000. 6th.—The government accepts and takes over from the contractors the down-town sewer system section of district No. I.—Pleasant evening concert at Pauahi Hall to guests and pupils of Oahu College. Bth.—The dredger at work near the Marine Railway meets a serious mishap to its machinery through long continuous use, and two of its hands narrowly escape injury in the crash. 10th.—A delegation of prominent Mormons arrive per Zeakmdia to participate in the approaching fiftieth anniversary of Mormonism in these islands.— Annual meeting of the Historical Society at the Y. M. C. A. hall. After the election of officers the president, Dr. N. B, Emerton, read an Historic account of the old fort of this city.—The Republicans decline to join hands with Independents in framing a city charter for Honolulu, but will form a committee of its own for such purpose. 12th.—Mormons' semi-centennial jubiliee exercises open at the Orpheum.— The plate-glass window of Frank Kruger, watchmaker and jeweler, corner of Fort and Merchant streets, is smashed by some unknown miscreant, but no loss of goods occurred.—Dr. J. H. Raymond is the new president of the Board of Health.—Mysterious death of Miss Clara Schneider, a domestic employed in the family of P. Neumann, Esq. 15th.—The concert of Mrs. W. Hoffmann and Wray Taylor, at the Opera House, for the benefit of the lepers' Christmas fund, realized a handsome sum, and the varied program gave delight to the large audience. 16th.—Frank P. Bennett, a noted Indian scout and for some time past a teamster of Camp McKinley, is found lifeless in his room; evidently a case of suicide, from a note found addressed to his commanding officer, dated the 13th, probably the day of his death,—Three Chinese are arrested for the inhuman act of turning a sick countryman out of doors to die. [January, 1901. THE FRIEND. lytli.—The Kaniehaineha schools celebrate Founder's Day by appropriate exercises, a luau, and memorial services.— The Board of Health begin retrenchment in expenses of its Bureau.—Policeman Lambert makes a gallant rescue of lady and child by stopping their runaway horse and saving the carriage from a smash-up. 20th.—A Japanese bicyclist collides with a heavy dray and falling under its wheels sustains injuries which cause death within a short time.—The new Honolulu Meat Market Company opens for business in the Wavcrley Block, and the crush of patrons and visitors indicate due appreciation of the up-to-date enterprise —The new S. S. Sierra arrives from San Frandsco en route to the Colonies, belated awaiting the English mail and delayed by an exceedingly stormy passage. She brings a large list of passengers tor Honolulu; also the remains of the late Jas. A. Hopper, whose death occurred two days before the steamer's departure for this port. 21 st.—A steady stream of visitors throughout the day inspect the new steamship Sierra and arc pleased with its appointments, —Christmas tree gatherings are led. off by the Central Union Church Sunday school, so as not to conflict with home plans for the eventful day. 23rd.—The first lot of Porto Rican laborers, 56, arrive by the Rio Janeiro for plantation work. —Sunday open air sacred concerts (,so called,) by the government is precedent for further intrusion of like character at the Orpheum, to which the management arc aiming to charge an admission fee. 24th.—The Ashley property, on Thurston avenue, is secured tor a parsonage for Central Union Church.—Holiday shopping and delivery of Santa Claus' tributes throughout the city causes unusual animation in all circles, and is only temporarily checked by a heavy down pour of rain at dusk.—The 2-year old child of Wm. Boyd succumbs to fatal injuries to spine, sustained by a fall. 25th.—Merry Christmas to all. Special services in several of the churches.— Christmas dinner to young men at the Y. M. C. A. hall, arranged for and served by members of the sister association. —F<x>tball contest between ()ahu College Alumni and Maile Ilima teams, result in a tie of no score. 26th—Board of Health following retrenchment policy discharges Bacteriologist Hoffmann, Dispensary Physician Howard, Examining Physician Myers and Veterinarians Monsarrat and Shaw ; Board declares it will purify Chinatown. 27th —Supreme Court of Hawaii declares vested rights the law of ways over land; also that adoption of child gives it no rights as heir.—Japanese woman at Iwilei nearly murdered by a countryman sue had given ncr earnings. 2»tli—Evidence accumulates thai Japanese secret societies composed ol paralo whom sites defeat justice in Hawaii, itueiuing their criminal members. —David L. \aonc, a leading native, dies. 2yth—Last ot the business trusts "in restraint of trade" bows to the Federal law ; the tight against them begun by the Advertiser some months ago is apparently won.—Murderer Pueo dies at the hospital of consumption, induced by his selfinflicted wounds. 30th—Funeral of David L. Naone from Kawaiahao Church.—One ol Honolulu's coldest days; the thermometer it Punahou was at 55 tlegrees this a. 111.; the lowest known there is 52 degrees, some years ago. 31st—Fire at l'alama destroys four Chinese stores and dwellings, all new buildings.— The Advertiser, recognizing the value of The Friend's record ol for lyoo publishes them in their entirety as the "Chronology of local events for the past year."—Advices received Of the loss, at Hilo, of the steamer Kilauea Hon.—()rgan recital and midevents night watch services Church. Jan. 1st—New at Central Union Year's Day.— The Ad- vertiser outdoes all its former efforts in an illustrated holiday issue of 32 pages. —Editor W. Horace Wright of the Inde- pendent is found dead at his desk from a big dose of carbolic acid.—Annual reception and collation at the V, M. C. A. to young men of the city. BIRTHS. PARIS—Io this city, Dec. lxth, Edwin 11. Parte, ,i son. to the wife of MARRIAGES. Chloairo, 111., Nov. C, N. I'ond, of Oberlln, Miss Edith o. Rtdredge, POND—ELDRBDOB—III Mth, by the Rev. Percy M. I'ond to both of Honolulu. Bng., BTARKEY—HUTTER-ln Devonshire, Dec. Bth, by the Rev. A. E. Robinson, Wm. 1!. Starkly, of Kaupo, Maul, to Miss Lucy J. Kutter, of Ilminster, Somerset. 11110, Dec. Nth by the Key. J. A. Cruian, Archibald A. Steele to Miss Helen Willis. THOMI'SON-COOK—At Kuwalahao Church. this city, Dec. 12th, by the Rev. H. 11. l'arker, Jno. 11. Thompson to Miss Lillian I'. Cook, both of Honolulu. CARTY—MERVY-ln this city. Dec. 21st, by the Rev. Hamilton Lee, Franklyn Carty, of Papaaloa, Hawaii, to Miss Almee Mervy, of Oakland, Cala. HKiELOW—BAIN-At Punahou, this city, Dec. Hath, by the Rev. Wm. M. Klncald, Mr. Oeo. L. Hlgelow of this city, to Miss Helen Bain of Wallenbeen, N. 8. W. AI'BTIN-<;AKM>KK Al KobaU, Hawaii, Deo. 27th by the Rev. J I" Knlinnn, awMcd b) Rev Sl'Pern Rev (has Andcraon Aii»lin„ paxlor of the Kohala) Union Church, Ho Mlkn Helen X (ianlncr of Cleveland STEELE-WILLIS-In ' Ohio. ———— DEATHS. OKHR-In HUo, Doc. 3rd, Mrs. Vlrla, wife of H. B. Oehr, born In Northport, Wis., aged 27 years. Hori'E×ln San Francisco, Dec. 11th, Jas. Alexander, beloved husband of Ellen Hopper aged 69 yearn. Hllo, Dec. 22nd, C Steele, Manager Hllo Tribune, Archibald a native of Scotland, aged 34 years. DOIRON—In this city, Dec. 27th, A. A. Dolron aged 87 years, a long time resident of these Islands. STEELE—In �THE FRIEND. is under this latter name we are to win representation and participation in its affairs, the motion for a change of name This page la-devoted to the Interests of the Ha- came quickly. Would that methods on wallan Board of Missions, and the Editor, appointed by the Board, l« responsible for Its conthe mainland were as elastic and that tents. transfers over denominational lines could easily be effected. Editor.i as Hereafter Rev. O. P. EMERSON monies collected by subscription papers passed around among The Meeting at Hana. the different parishes of the islands of Maui, Molokai and Lanai, are not to be of the collectors, or in On account of the election, which was left in the hands treasurer the hands of the of the church 6th, of the meeting the held November Maui and Molokai Association was post- circulating the papers; such monies are to be put for poned till the 14th. And again, owing by vote of the Association,into the hands to the severe Kona storm which swept safe keeping till wanted for those islof the Board agent of the deover the group, the meeting had to be layed till the 19th; from that date it con- ands, who at present is Miss N. J. Malone tinued nearly the entire week, the S, S of Wailuku. Rev. S. Kapu, late pastor of the Association closing as late as Friday p. at Wailuku, and who for over a Church 111., when the pastors and delegates from suspension from the western Maui and Molokai had- to em- year has been under ministry, has been service of the active bark on the return voyage of the steamer The meeting was well attended and was restored to full standing. Rev. Nu a has been doing good worka good one. There was noticeable on the liana. It is expected that he may go in desire for of some and unusual the part to the assistance of Mr. Pali, pastor at best things. The presence of Rev. James Lahaina. Messrs. Pali and Nawahine. Kekela, our veteran missionary to the veterans the of the Maui and Molokai Marquesas, was felt as an inspiration. were Association both absent from the noticeable, was on the of part There also liana at home by sickness. meeting, kept some of the leaders, a tendency to talkA student was found for the theologitoo much. But that has always been a cal school, and a motion was passed to fault of this body. the effect that the members of the Assoa of speaking When Rev. judge in wish the general meeting this year pastoral visitation, reiterated his often ciation quoted saying, that the spring is not sup- to be at Tlilo. posed to go to the thirsty ox. but the ox lo the spring, he was rebuked by a quiet The Evangelistic Tour of the North Pacific Missionary Institute— brother from one of the inaccessible valleys of Molokai. who said, that by followThe Work at Hauula. ing such foolish advice he had almost wrecked his work, but now he had By Rev. J. Leadingham. learned better. "He maketh me to lie down in green pastures, he lesdeth beDoubtless to many readers this moveside the still waters, is spoken of Him ment will require a word of explanation. who seeks the hungry and the thirsty The change which has taken place in wherever they can be found and would late years in these islands, involving, as not let them perish for lack of bis fond, it has done, the transition from the use loviiir care. Sun-lv the pastors of the of the Hawaiian to the English language churches-in caring for their people can- in the schools; and the great development of business interests, thus bringing not find a better example to follow." The name "Presbytery of Maui and the native population into contact more Molokai" is no more, it is a part of the than ever with the advantages as well as history of the past, which perpetuated the temptations of outside civilization, the names of such Pood men as Alexan- have made it imperative that the standard der and Baldwin. Hitchcock and Forbes: of education for the native pastors should in the future the body so lone: designated be raised to such a degree as to fit them by this honorable and reverend name is for their positions now rendered more to be known as the Association of Maui difficult by these facts. Accordingly it and Molokai. The change was effected has been the policy of the school for some without a iar or a word of complaint. No time to admit only young men of at least change of method was required, for the a fair degree of previous education, who methods of the Association of Maui and had some knowledge of English and Molokai arc practically the same as those were of such an age that they could be of the three other associations of the expected to acquire more. The object in croup. When it was explained that the regard to the EnHish was not so much great body to which we helonp-. which to give them the ability to preach in it as sent us our early missionaries and which to read it easily, and thus oocn the field has ever since helped us in our work, of EnHish literature to their use. does not employ the word presbytery. hut Such young men as a rule can be prefers the word association, and that it found only among those who have been HAWAIIAN BOARD. HONOLULU. H. I. -- ' 7 Vol. 59, No. I.] for sometime in the higher schools for boys, as the Kamehameha, Lahainaluna and Royal Schools. These young men, however, have not as a class been in the habit of looking to the ministry as an inviting field for their life work. The attractions in other directions are much greater. They easily find employment, more or less renumerative, in teaching, or in business and mechanical pursuits. Even if they should have cherished the thought of entering the ministry, as some of them have, the pressure brought to bear by those who wish to secure or retain their services is frequently more than they can stand, and they give up their purpose and go into other callings. The problem is, therefore, to keep up the grade of the school and at the same time secure an adequate number of properly qualified students. Resides the difficulties already mentioned, and also as a partial cause of them, is a low spiritual condition among the native churches and people. The question hence arose, how can these difficulties be overcome? It was very clear that unless some way could be devised, the school so far as the natives are concerned was destined to die a natural or unnatural death. The writer having the chief responsibility in the conduct of the school, naturally gave the subject a good deal of attention. The thought at last suddenly came to him Why not take the young men now in attendance and go amon£ the churches and try to arouse a new interest in spiritual things? Tt seemed that such a movement might, though the religious interest awakened and through the example of young men already devoted to the work of the ministry, be a new and powerful motive in turning the minds and hearts of other young men to the same calling, and result in a great strengthening of both the school and the churches. The thought was mentioned to Mr. Theodore Richards and struck him favorably. After further consideration the matter was referred to again and Mr. Richards agreed to join in helping to carry it out. It was then brought before the Home Committee of the Hawaiian Board, and by that Committee recommended to the Roard. by which it was approved. A month was then, devoted to preparation for the tour. Special topics tor presentation to the people were studied. Mr. Richards drilled the men who were to go on the trip in singing and in the use of small tracts and Scripture texts in dealing with people individually., It was strongly felt from the beginning that if the effort was to succeed it must be a work of God and not of the mere human instrumentalities. A short prayer meeting was held daily for the latter part of the time, in which prayer was offered up that the Holy Spirit might be the guide throughout the whole movement, and that both workers and people �8 might be prepared in advance for whatever was to be done. Whatever has been accomplished already we believe to be due to this agency alone: It becomes increasingly clear also that where there is absolute dependence on this divine aid and trust in it results will be secured. It had been the plan to start on the trip immediately after election, but the excessive rains prevailing at that time prevented us from getting away. Another question had been as to the place of beginning. It did not seem desirable to thrust ourselves upon a community without the wish of the people and the pastor, as cooperation is necessary to success. The purpose to make the tour had been laid before the Oahu Ministerial Association, but it had not been enthusiastically received. This may have been due to the fact that the nature and method of the effort were not fully understood. Tt SO happened that there was a church building in process of erection near Hauula, on the windward side of the island of Oahu. The pastor. Rev. S. D. Niuihiwa, had been struggling for a number of years to bring it to completion but it still remained in an unfinished state. As help bail been furnished to this church from the Pastors' Aid Fund, it was felt that it would be proper to go to this field without any formality anil aid in the manual work of finishing the building, and at the same time do as much as possible among the people. This plan was adopted and on November 19th the students took the train for Kahuku, the end of the line, and from there rode to Hauula, eight miles away, with a Chinaman. Mr. Richards and myself went the next day. We took with us blankets, mosqnito nets, books, clothing and such things as we needed for our work or comfort. We also had a magic lantern and slides and a. small organ. We slept in the house of the pastor and each one took his turn a day at a time in being cook. We found that the pastor with his own almost unaided strength had put up the frame of the building, put on the siding, the roof boards to which the shingles were to be nailed, and a part of the shingles themselves. We set about at once getting the roof finished so that we could work inside in case of rain, and so that we could have a place for meeting the people. There was no government school at the time in the place, and the children came to the home of the pastor and were taught by his wife, a most excellent Hawaiian woman. This gave us a chance to meet them from the start. When school was over Mr. Richards taught them to sing, using some new songs which are to appear in the new Hawaiian hymn book that he is editing. The children were very much interested in this work, and it was kept up daily. one of the students taking Mr. Richards'place whenever he was obliged to be away. , , January,1901. THE FRIEND. On the first Sunday a Sunday School was held followed by a service in the church. About fifty people were present; a sermon was preached by Mr. David Ai, one of the students. In the evening another meeting was held at which the magic lantern was used. Some of the songs which the children liar been learning were thrown upon the screen and sung by the audience. Resides these songs scenes from the life of Christ were shown each one being accompanied by suitable explanation and application. ()n the following days several meetings were held in the afternoons. At one of these, after an address had been made from the words "Looking unto Jesus the Author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is now set down on the right hand of the throne of God," the opportunity was given to any who wanted to be followers of Christ to show it by rising. After some hesitation and with a good <deal of deliberation some half dozen arose. At another meeting a day or two later a similar opportunity was given and these same people and some others arose. From this time a daily meeting was held at the close of the exercise in singing with those who had thus expressed the desire to become Christians, and others who cared to join them, for a study of the fundamental ideas of Christianity. This was really a Bible study. Verses and passages bearing on the subject of the day were looked up under the direction of the leader by the people themselves. In this way they were led to see just what the Rible had to say on such subjects as, God. Jesus Christ, Sin, repentance, confession of sin, faith, the new heart, and kindred topics. The striking thing about this exercise was the power of the simple statements of the Scriptures to interest those who studied them in this way. To most of them the Mible was not a very familiar book. Those who attended the class were nearly all young people. There were about twenty in all, of whom twelve or fourteen attended with great regularity. There were of course different degrees of intelligence and earnestness in the professions they made. Some gave the most positive assurance they intended to follow Christ and lead right lives. Others showed by their manner that they were not so deeply affected. An instance showing that there was a quiet but none the less real work of the Spirit going on was brought to light just before we left the place. One of the young people whoregularly attended the daily Bible-class was a boy of sixteen, who was one of the most promising of all the number. He came to me and said that some of the younger boys wanted to become Christians. He told me that one of them had come to him and said, "I want to follow Jesus. Tell me how you tlo it." I afterwards found the boy and spoke to him on the subject, and found that it was true. Another boy of the same age also said the same thing. Owing to lack of time and some peculiar difficulties existing in the community, we were not able to make the careful canvas of individuals that we had hoped and consequently did not bring the work to as definite a conclusion as could be wished. There is no question, however, that it was a work of genuine spiritual profit to a good number of people in the community. Aside from what has been mentioned, there was a growing friendliness among the people toward us. This was especially seen on the last Sunday we were there, after they had heard that we were to leave on the next day. The afternoon service of that day was one for children, led by Mr. Richards, in which he showed them the graphophone. and followed this with a short sermon in Hawaiian. Although it was a meeting for children, the old people were there as well. At the close of the service they lingeied about for a considerable time, and showed a most cordial spirit and gave us many expressions of their good will. We were in Manilla four weeks. This long stay was due to rainy weather and delays in getting material for the workon the church. Even then we were obliged, on account of a mistake made in the measurement of the spaces for the windows, to come away before the church was finished. In the meantime, however, a better understanding of the work we were doing had gone abroad, and we now find that the way is opening on all sides for further effort. Mormon Jubilee. A three days meeting was held in Honolulu in the middle of last month, attended by enthusiastic Mormons or "Latter Day Saints" from all parts of the group, in commemoration of the first landing here of Mormon emissaries from Salt Lake in 1850. Their leading figure was President George Q. Cannon from Utah with one of his wives and three boys. Cannon was the leader of the first Mormons in Hawaii, and claimed in a subsequent publication, to have acquired the Hawaiian tongue suddenly by miraculous gift. He was always a vigorous man, and still retains much activity I last saw him in 1861, when he was entering a whaleboat at Lahaina to go tb Lanai with others of a delegation from Utah, in a futile effort to recover for his church the lands on that island of which they claimed to have been defrauded. I had a speaking acquaintance with several of those early Mormon preachers and was once horrified by one of them, who came to my study for a bible, assert- �59, Xo. THE FRIEND. i.J ing that Jesus Christ had several wives >ur interview suddenly ended. That individual bad a sinister face. Sonic of these men gave the impression ol sincerity, but not of being spiritually minded Their religion is a carnal one. and seems to know nothing of dee]) reverence or ( 9 Vol. whose title adhered to it. Another old- through a gorge so as to do mischief, but 1 never on the open sea. tinier gniie. Ala Moana is being graded and opened An immense excavation now occupies a broad Straight avenue from the the length of Alexander Young's proFishmarket, through the Naval Reser- jected hotel, extending from King to vation, past the Marine Railway, the new Hotel streets. The concrete walls of the heavenlj aspiration although they cm Iron Works and the Sewer I'uinp, to foundation are being rapidly placed. utter devout prayers. They do not be- connect with the ocean boulevard leading This will be the largest single building lieve that "(rod is a Spirit." He is a man to Waikiki. :in the city. greatly developed, and the Fathei ol all mankind, by literal, carnal procreation. I The keels have just been laid of the Meat Importations. have had a youth lul preacher express to two largest ships in the world for the me the most evidently honest wonder Great Northern Railway, to ply between Recent increase of refrigerating acthat anyone could think of God in any Seattle and the Orient, mainly as cargo Upon our steam lines is commodation other way. carriers. They have 33,000 tons displace- working a great revolution in our meat In 1850, I visited a seminary classmate ment or 30 per cent more than the mamyears the local supat his home in Palmyra, \\ V., and there moth Detitschiand. They will, however, supply, for some of beef and mutton has been inadeply of met several of the old neighbors have a need of only 14 knots an hour. Joseph Smith, wh > had known him and Length 030 feet; beam 71, feet. Cost of quate and much of it of poor quality. his father's family. They all testified to each $5,000,000. I lonolulu will not see Two large concerns, the Metropolitan the low and dishonest character of that them—probably their depth is too great Market, and the Honolulu Meat Co. arc now importing several hundreds of tons Smith family, and that Joe was a knavish for this harbor. of meats and poultry monthly from San and tricky fellow, who got a living by his Francisco and Seattle. The quality is wits. It was near his home in Palmyra extra, and the prices not exorbitant. Our Exemption from Storm. that Joseph Smith discovered the famous metal plates which contained the Rook of Mormon, and which an angel translatDecember in Hawaii has been a month QAIIU RAILWAY & LAND CO. ed to him. of most charming weather. It has been I'or the past thirty venrs the Mormons a surprise to us to learn what a furious have maintained in Hawaii a missionary tempest lias raged to the eastward durforce of perhaps twenty young and ing the middle of the month. A thunder zealous white preachers, who live famistorm (if unprecedented violence broke liarly with the natives and manage to over San Francisco. Five large steamers earn their own living. They are changed which Kit the Coast, two of them from every three years. Several thousand of Vancouver and Seattle, Trains Run Between speedily encounthe native Hawaiians are enrolled under tered a gale which for three or four days PEARL CITY, EWA HONOLULU, their standard. A majority of these are battered them a severity beyond with AND WAIANAE PLANTATIONS believed to be perverts from the Roman anything on record in that part of the Catholic faith, rather than from the Pacific. Everyone ot the five ships had Protestant. Headquarters arc at Laic their passage to Honolulu prolonged TAKE AN OUTING SATURDAYS. near the north end of this island, where the disabling from two to three days by is a considerable colony of Hawaiians. of All experienced damage Trains will leave at 9:15 a. m., and 1:45 p. at. They live industriously and are well reg- to machinery, or cargo by the flooding of arriving in Honolulu at 8:11 p. m. and 5:55 p.m. baggage ulated. Good profits are gained by their the sea. Rut our section of the Pacific labor in cultivating sugar cane which is ( ROUND TRIP TIOKErS; rcean is truly Pacific. Hurricanes, cyground at Kahuku mill. The great Mor- clones, Ist Class 2nd Class never found their Pearl typhoons have City mon church at Laic is a conspicuous edi$ 75 $ 50 way hither. Sometimes in a storm the 1 00 Plantation 75 fice. In Hawaii as in Utah, the Mor- gale will draw around a headland or Kwa Waianae 150 125 mon leaders display good" business abilU ity. Importers of Live Stock Central Union Church Parsonage. Certain members of Central Union Church have contributed to buy the lately finished residence of Mr. Geo. Ashley for $17,000, and donate it to the church as a home for the pastor. The house is commodious, upon an elevated site, on Thurston Avenue, on the slope of Punchbowl. MODERN LIVERY and BOARDING STABLE MANUFACTURERS and DEALERS IN HARNESS WAGON MANUFACTURING and REPAIRING BLACKSMITHING and HORSE-SHOEING DEALERS IN HAY, GRAIN and FEED HORSES, MULES, COWS, CHICKENS and VEHICLES The dilapidated old Edinburgh House has been torn down to give place to a warehouse for the Union Feed Co. This was once the residence of (lov. Kekuanaoa, and then of his royal son. Lot Kamehameha Y. It was later fitted up W. for the use of the Duke of Edinburgh, HONOLULU STOCK-YARDS CO. LIMITED. H. RICE, Resident. W. 8. WITHERS, Msnsgcr. �Q t 10 THE FRIEND. ]}ANK OF HAWAII, Ltd., THE BREWER & CO., Lti, (Incorporated under the laws Repulilic.) General Mercantile COMMISSION AGENTS. HAWAIIAN ANNUAL Queen ft, Htiohilu, HI. FOR 1901 ! I>l HECTORS: tleo. R. Carter II Wiiterlionai' C. M. Cooke Candless. Exchange drawn on Wells, Fargo & Co.'s Hank, in San Francisco and New York, and their correspondents throughout the worlil. Attend to General Hanking Busincs=s. 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