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Scenes on Ponape
The Call to the Universal Day of Prayer forStudents. 8
4
Christ's Second Coming
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Hilo Boarding School Changes
4
Episcopal changes Agreed to
4
A Missionary for Mindanao
5
Thrum's Annual, 1902
8
Beautiful Illustrations
5
Heavy Rainstorm
5
Ex-Queen's Pension
Hilo
Railroad
6
o(
Progress
6
Record ol Events
6
Rirths. Marriages, Deaths
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Pelekunu and WBilau
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Institute.,
Missionary
Pacific
i
The Work in the North
8
Visiting Chinese Camps on Hawaii
8
Rev. Doremus Scudder, M. D
8
Life in Mindanao
Scarcity ol Shixl in Honolulu
9
Price of Naval station Lands
Recent Martyrs in China
Green's Tetraheilral Theory
Christ's Advent
Christmas Observances
How God Forgives Bins
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Christ's Advent.
11l Christian lands, people of all classes
have been, at least nominally, paying respect to that supreme event of near two
thousand years ago, the coming into human life of the Divine Son of God. The
season of the Advent has been made one
of rejoicing and festivity.
But "He came unto his own, and his
own received him not." We have celebrated his coming, but how many of us
have received the Lord Jesus into our
hearts? This dear Son of God comes
knocking at our heart's doors, and claims
to be admitted there as an abiding and
cherished guest. It is there that his true
advent must be made, if real and effectual. The Son of God put on mortal
flesh for this purpose, that he might be
seen and known of men, and his pure,
heavenly loveliness be so revealed to us,
that we should love him, and receive him
into our inmost souls, there forever to
abide.
But this access the sin-clinging souls
of men do not readily grant to him. We
have long gone wrong. Many evil things
have found lodgment and entrenched
themselves within us, and the Lord Jesus
cannot enter and dwell in us while these
his enemies occupy his place. And so
his true Advent is thwarted and nullified.
1., JANUARY,
1902.
[No.
i.
Then let us not indulge in any self-satis- Inevitably much and deep self-reproach
faction as having worthily celebrated our would long continue to wound his soul.
Christmas days, so long as we leave our But so tender and encompassing was his
inmost hearts occupied by sin, and our father's love, that it brought rich and
Lord and Saviour neglected outside. Oh thorough healing to the anguish of rethat we may be able to say
morse. Yet human love is imperfect.
"There is room in my heart, Lord Jesus, The Divine love is perfect and almighty.
There is room in my heart for thee!"
God's fatherly consolations administered
When the Lord Christ thus finds en- to the sin-bowed spirit are complete in
trance into the hearts *>f~all who profess | their healing. The guilty sinner, admithis name, and they are filled with his ted into the glory and joy of the loving
spirit, how quickly the world will be con- presence of God, will no longer feel disverted, and the corroding ills of society tressed and abashed by the wretched
healed.
memory of his past evil-doings. That
soul will be filled with the sense of God's
Christmas Observances.
love, and enraptured beyond the possibility of anguish for the past. Such is "the
Both festively and religiously, the an- love of God, shed abroad in the heart
niversary of Christmas received very full by the Holy Ghost."
observance in Honolulu. Special serThere is an erroneous doctrine often
vices were held on the day in most of maintained
that the wounds of sin once
the churches of the city. There was a committed are incurable; that every sin
very general and copious exchange of
brings its natural penalty, which must
pleasant gifts in the homes. Especially always be endured. We are told that
were these gratifications made in the kinsuch is the law of nature. Every violadergartens and in the Sunday Schools tion
of nature's laws has its inevitable
on successive evenings during the ChristBut this reasoning overlooks
penalty.
mas week, and a multitude of poor chil- the marvelous
healing power which there
dren were made happy. There was a
is in nature —what is known as vis medibeautiful exercise on the evening of the catrix Naturae. Terrible wounds are
26th in the Japanese Church which was healed. Restoration is to be had from
crowded. A very remarkable decoration destructive maladies. To this fact all
back of the platform was a scene of the hospitals testify and the whole art of
three wise men on their way to the healing.
cradle of Christ, done by a Japanese arA like law pervades the spiritual
tist, with Japanese peculiarities.
world. There is marvelous and perfect
healing in God's hand from the terrible
How God Forgives Sins.
wounds and debasements of sin. The
case
of the wretched and abandoned sinOne of the most important clauses of
the Apostles' Creed is, "I believe ' in ner is not hopeless if he will come to the
the Forgiveness of Sins." (ireat Healer of souls. God can cure and
*
And in this we cannot believe too strong- restore hjm. This was the greatest and
ly or too completely. That God does best revelation of our Redeemer, his
forgive our sins is to us sinning souls, great message from the Father to his
the succor for our direst need.. We need lost and erring children. He came to
not minimize this great and wonderful "seek and save the lost."
grace of our Heavenly Father. He does
The greatest tragedy of a sinful life is
completely forgive the contrite sinner, not that the blot of evil-doing is ineraand make his sins as though they had dicable by God's grace. It is not so. Its
not been committed, and so that they worst evil is that continued sin indisshall not again rise up to reproach the poses the soul to repentance. The sinner
pardoned evil-doer. "Who," asked Paul, becomes hardened and stupefied, so that
"shall lay anything to the charge of he will not turn and come to the only
God's elect? It is God that justifieth." source of healing and salvation. The
The Parable of the Prodigal Son is final work of continued sinning is that
fitly held up as an illustration of the atrophy of conscience and moral relentcompleteness of the Divine Forgiveness. ing which hopelessly bars out God's
That most wicked but repentant son was grace from the averted heart. Final perentirely restored to his father's favor. dition comes, not because a man's sins are
He was absolutely and entirely forgiven. too many and too great to be blotted out.
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�but because he is hardened in evil, and
will not seek to return to God.
May our faith in the fullness ami richness of Clod's salvation offered to men
in his son Jesus Christ be entire and
without qualification. May we feel able
to offer complete salvation to every lost
and erring soul who can be induced to
listen to the call.
[January, 1902.
THE FRIEND.
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problem, but it is now solved.
Mr. Gray has organized a class in English for three mornings each week,—the
students to come two hours before school
and work on the place. There arc forty
members in the class and on lesson mornings a flotilla of canoes can be seen gliding over the lagoon, each young man
with bis wife and perhaps a child or
two.
They have to be taught how to
study and how to think. .Mr. Gray has
Scenes on Ponape.
to oversee the work each morning before
school or most of the nun would sit
down in the shade and do nothing. They
By Mrs. Leta D. Gray, of Ponape.
have to be taught how to work as well
Xear to us in our Microncsian home as how to study and to think, and this
at ( >ua on the Island of Ponape, live two requires patience. But the class is very
good old natives. Ruben and Rubenia. interesting. We learn inure than the
his wife. One evening the boys paddled students: they are helping us to learn the
our canoe to the little nook where theil people and the language.
house stands. It is built on rocks piled
When the missionaries were driven
up in the water a few feet from the
from Ponape ten years ago by the
away
shore. There is but one room, about
Spanish,
Henry Nanpei took the cows
seven by nine feet. The roof is probably
at ( hia around to Kiti, on the
they
left
four and one-half feet from the floor on opposite side of the island of Ponape.
the sides. The door is so low you could
now a herd of twenty cattle and
not stand in it, but they usually climb lie has
he gave us a nice cow which was led
in from a canoe. There are enough large over here two weeks ago. We have givrocks about for them to make their way en her special care and get a good quanto shore when they wish. When the tity of
milk. A few days ago I made a
three or four grown people and the two little butter, the
first good butter we
children saw US coming, they hastened to have had in six months. Immediately
find suitable garments in which to re- after church on the Sunday following
ceive guests. Ruben crawled out of the the arrival of the cow, many of the nahouse and stood on a rock, buttoning his
tives went
to see her and the calf.
shirt, and gave us a hearty welcome. All of the down
children
and quite a number
The w« men came out as soon as they of
grown persons had never seen a cow.
found dresses. They were much pleased The people an- afraid of her and even
and from the general flutter considered run from the little
calf, which is as genour call quite an event.
tle
as a kitten.
Xot long after. Ruben told us he was
There is a great deal of work to be
going to build a new house. Mr. Gray
went over to see what his plans were. done among the women. It is of little
The new house was to be built on rocks use to teach them how to keep house unout in the water, the same as the old til the men are taught to build houses
one. It was to be nine by fourteen feet. worth keeping.
Usually they have no
and the roof to be four and one-half feet dishes and only an iron kettle for cookfrom the floor on the sides. But after ing. Some of those who were in the
some talking they were persuaded to Girls' School before the mission was
build it on the shore, make it fourteen by driven out are married women now.
eighteen feet, raise the roof two feet, They are all beautiful writers, read Foand put in a partition. Ruben said there napean well, and are superior in many
was no use to build such a big house, ways to the other women and girls. They
that only six people would live in it ; but do plain needle work as well as I ever
when Mr. Gray took tools and with one saw it done in the States. Friends at
of our boys went over to help them until home need not feel that the work and
the foundation was laid and the work money expended years ago has counted
well started, Ruben was delighted. Mi- for nothing, lint most of the women
Gray still goes over to see how the work- here dress for ornament rather than for
progresses and helps a little from time covering. At their homes they rarely
to time. We must try all the ways we have anything more than a yard or two
can to get the
to build better of cloth wrapped around the hips and
reaching nearly to the knees, but they
homes.
There must be a large amount of never think of going to the missionary's
planting to supply food for the student; home without a dress, though they often
who are anxious to come when we have put it on while approaching the house
a place to keep them. To get this plant- and on leaving take it off before they are
ing done without too much expense has out of sight.
Men a
One day we were invited to a feast
Majejo, given in honor of Nanakin,
a chief. The new feast house at this village is a building about thirty feet long
and twenty feet wide; it is entirely open
at one end. On three sides is built a
sort of platform, three feet high and four
feet wide, where the guests specially
honored lounge. As we came in sight of
this building the crowd of natives lying
about under the trees rose as a token of
respect. Edgar, a man who speaks some
English and dresses like a white man,
came forward and escorted us to the seat
on the platform kept for us near Nanakin and his wife. There were two chairs
for us while the natives sat on the floor.
In the center of the building were six
large piles of stones with hot fires burning inside. Soon after we arrived a
number of men with no clothing except
their kauls, came in with long poles and
began punching the red-hot rocks apart.
The heat was intense. Fortunately we
were situated where the sea breeze
fanned us and blew the heat the other
way. As soon as the piles of rocks were
knocked down, great baskets of bread
fruit, yam and "mar" were hurriedly
passed to the men at the fires, and they
emptied them on to the hot rocks, and
with poles and tongs covered the food
with some of the rocks and on top of it
all piled green leaves and grass to hold
in the heat. Ten roasted pigs were carried in from a place outside where they
had been cooked, and these were placed
over a pit in front of Xanakin. Great
quantities of uncooked yam were placed
under the trees just outside the door
where Xanakin sat. This food and the
pigs were then divided among the people. Only those of high rank received
any pork.
They count th missionaries
with their chiefs, and the largest and best
young pig was given to us to carry home,
also a fine yam which was so large it
required two men to carry it.
When the food in the "urn" was done,
the rocks were taken off and the articles placed in baskets, all the people receiving an abundance. They knew our
way of eating differed from theirs and I
think the more civilized were ashamed
to have us watch them, so we were invited over to Edgar's house. He had
taken our boys over previously to help
arrange dinner for us. The house has
two small rooms built of lumber. Edgar
is quite progressive and has a few chairs,
an ancient bureau, and a small table, that
is quite aristocratic. The table had a
cloth on it, and a bouquet placed in the
center. The dinner consisted of yam,
hardman, pigeons in gravy, lorn beef,
hot cakes made of scraped yam fried in
lard, and candy. Evidently their only
dishes were soup plates, and I saw why
at
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I had .been requested to bring a deep
dish, for the pigeons and gravy were
served in it. After dinner we returned
to the feast house. They had music (?)
and drills for entertainment. Young men
marched in to the music of an old accordion and went through a drill which
would startle a Delsarte class. Part of
the time they sang, but no two were in
the same key and the tune was a weird
one, which seemed to go in a circle and
had no place to stop, so we were not
particularly charmed. A long procession
of men, each carrying an immense stock
of sugar cane, came in and placed the
cane in a great pile in front of Xanakin.
When we were ready to start home we
discovered quite a little procession was
ready to accompany us and help our boys
carry the roast pig, yam, baskets of
cooked bread fruit, sugar cane and other
things which had been given to us.
It is the custom in Micronesia for all
the people in a neighborhood (where it
it Christian) to come together each evening for prayers. Every evening about
seven o'clock some of the boys blow the
horn (a very large shell which makes a
noise like a fog horn) and the people
gather here at the church. No one lives
on the mission land except the native
preacher and his family, but usually there
arc a number of others about his house,
and a few natives come from quite a distance; frequently there are twenty or
even thirty present at prayers. The people have been in the habit of singing a
song or two and offering a prayer, with
a few words from the preacher, perhaps.
But neither here nor at Kiti nor Mant
did they read any Scripture before we
came.
The Call to the Universal Day of
Prayer for Students.
For several
years the Christian student
of Germany, Great Britain,
Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland,
Holland, France, Switzerland, the
United States, Canada, South Africa,
Australasia, and also Japan, China, India, Ceylon, and other mission lands,
have united in observing the second Sunday of February as a Universal Day of
Prayer for Students. Reports received
from over thirty countries give facts
showing that the observance of this day
of prayer has been attended with most
graitfying spiritual results in all parts
of the world. The General Committee
of the World's Student Christian Federation, composed of official representatives of all these movements, hereby calls
upon all Christian student organizations,
and upon Christians in general, to observe Sunday, February 9th, 1902, as a
movements
day of special prayer on behalf of students.
It is believed by leaders in Christian
work among students that there is indeed great need of united prayer for
students. The past few years have witnessed an unprecedented multiplication
of Christian student organizations and
a world-wide extension of the student
Christian movement. There is needed a
correspondingly great intensive work.
This must conic in large degree through
prayer. The difficulties and perils in the
pathway of the student movement are
Xo field is
many, subtle, and great.
without its difficulties, problems, and
dangers. Prayer is an essential factor
in removing all these hindrances. The
opportunities for usefulness which today confront the student movement in
every land are greater and more inspiring than ever. God alone can enable
us to recognize and improve these opportunities. The words of St. Paul to
the Corinthians are expressive of the
present position of the student movement, "A great door and effectual is
opened unto me, and there are many adversaries." Above all it must be borne
in mind that the student movement came
into being as a spiritual movement, and
such it must remain if it is to accomplisH its mission in the world. Xo movement can preserve its spirituality apart
from God, and lie manifests His presence and power in answer to prayer. In
view of considerations like these it is
hoped that the coming Universal Day
of Prayer for Students may be more
widely and faithfully observed than in
any preceding year.
A few suggestions are given to facilitate making the most out of the day:
(i) If practicable let more than one day
be observed. In some placet it has been
found desirable to devote the Saturday
preceding the Day of Prayer to preparatory services. In other cases the following Monday is used for special student
evangelistic meetings. (2) Let there be
meetings of earnest Christian students
given up largely if not entirely to intercession. In connection with this Call are
given a number of objects for praise and
intercession. (3) There should be also
at least one meeting for all students in
which the aim shall be to present the
claims upon them of Christ as Savior
and Lord.
(4) This Call should be
brought to the attention of Christian
ministers and they should be requested
to preach sermons designed to influence
students for Christ, and to call forth on
their behalf more prayer among Christians. The Call should also be reprinted
in the religious press.
Unbelief, indifference, and other difficulties, should not be permitted by any-
one who is interested in the progress of
the Kingdom of Christ among students
to keep him from doing all in his power
to enlist in their interest the definite and
earnest prayers of Christians. The teachings of Christ Himself on united prayer,
the prayer achievements of the early
Christians, the signal triumphs of prayer
in the life of all spiritual movements,
should encourage us to work for and to
expect a large spiritual fruitage in connection with the coming Day of Prayer.
On behalf
of the general commit-
tee of Tin:
world's
student chris-
tian FEDERATION,
Karl Fries, Chairman,
Stockholm, Sweden.
John R. Mott, General Secretary,
West
29th Street, New York City.
3
December 1, 1901.
GROUNDS FOR THANKSGIVING.
Thanksgiving that the Christian students of the world are united in spirit
and in effort to make Christ King.
Thanksgiving that during the past
year in many lands there have been
spiritual awakeneings among students.
Thanksgiving that in all parts of the
world there is a growing interest in the
study of the Word of God.
Thanksgiving that the past year has
witnessed encouraging spiritual developments among the students of some of the
most difficult fields, for example, Belgium, Italy, Russia.
Thanksgiving that among students
throughout Christendom there is a deepening sense of responsibility for the
evangelization of the world.
OBJECTS FOR INTERCESSION.
Pray that in all countries there may
be an increase in the number of men who
feel a burden of persona] responsibility
for winning students to Christ.
Pray that the missionary spirit in the
universities of Christian lands may continue to grow in intensity and in helpfulness.
Pray that the student movement may
result in influencing students to bring
to bear upon the social and political
problems of their day the teachings and
spirit of Christ.
Pray that the Christian students of
non-Christian lands may mightily further the evangelization of their own people.
Pray that the results of the tour of the
General Secretary of the Federation
throughout the student centers of the
Far East may be conserved and augmented.
Pray that the next convention of the
Federation, to be held in Denmark in
�THE FRIEND.
4
Judgment of mankind. For any one of
these conflicting opinions, it is not very
difficult to find plausible support from
the language used in different prophecies. To the writer's mind, the Preniillenarian view seems to be most clearly
in accord with the language of prophecy,
in both the Xew and the Old Testaments, and especially in Revelation.
As to the precise time when the Lord
is to return, it was evidently not intended that we should know. Utterly futile
have been various attempts at arithmetical calculation of the time. There is,
however, a most impressive line of indications pointing to a not very distant
crisis and consummation in this world's
history. The present progressive changes
in Civilization, in Social Order, in Political affairs, seem full of portent. All
things seem to be hastening with accelerating speed towards a great Crisis.
There seems to be a general tendency
towards a Better Day, yet the Powers of
Evil are most formidable. The rising
Sun of Righteous reorganization of Society is enveloped in thickest clouds.
At such a portentous time, the Christian's expectation of a great Heavenly
interposition by the Lord of the Kingdom imparts confidence and courage.
We are not preaching the Gospel of
Peace, Repentance and Righteousness
unsupported. There is a vast Heavenly
reserve of force ready to act at the critical time. The Church is to go forward
with fullest assurance in its great work
of preaching the Gospel to the ends of
the earth, and making Christ known to
all mankind. In His own time and way
be will make the victory complete.
August, 1902, may exert a helpful influence on the spiritual life of the students of all lands.
Christ's Second Coming.
At a meeting of the Ministerial Union
on December 16th Rev. B. L. Howe,
pastor of a Second Advent Church, read
a paper on this subject, confining him-
self mainly to the Scripture prophecies,
without indulging in their interpretation.
This was followed by a full hour of
earnest discussion, developing various
and adverse views. Some of the speakers expressed a strong sense of the great
importance of belief in this doctrine to
the spiritual life of Christians, others
doubting it.
The apostle Paul certainly held a very
strong belief that the Lord Jesus would
again appear from heaven in great power
and glory. He especially exhorted the
Thessalonian Christians to be widely
awake respecting that coming event. It
seems clear that Paul expected that event
to occur within his own life-time. In
that he was mistaken, since it has not yet
taken place. As recorded in Mark 13:
32, the Lord expressly told his disciples
that he did not know when his great appearing would take place. The time
seems to have been divinely left uncertain, so that the new and young Church
might feel the fullest stimulus of that
great hope, without thinking it to be
postponed to a far distant future. Their
strong expectation of the Lord's reappearing certainly acted as a great incentive to zeal and support to steadfastness
amid their terrible persecutions.
After the lapse of many ages of delay
in the fulfilment of this great prophecy,
modern Christians very generally adopted a belief that the world is to lie gradually converted to Christ by existing
spiritual agencies, and that a long "milleniuni" of earthly holiness is to elapse,
an age of universal righteousness and
peace, after which Christ will come to
the General Judgment Day. Many however, the present writer included, interpret the prophecies to mean that our
Lord will come in person to give the
victory and usher in the Millenium, so
establishing his Kingdom on earth. We
are called Pre-millenarians, the larger
body Post-millenarians. Both parties believe in the complete overthrow of sin in
the world, and in the establishment of a
purified social state of justice, holiness,
and happiness.
Unless we are mistaken, the denomination known as Seventh-day Adventists
differ from our view in expecting at
Christ's Advent a complete dissolution of
present earthly conditions, and the final
Dr. L. M. Hartley, the superintendent
of the Anti-Saloon League, has retired
on account of the failure of the health
of Mrs. Hartley in this climate. This is
greatly to the regret of the friends of
this important work. It is however
cheering to know that the Rev. \V. 11.
Rice will take Dr. Hartley's place in the
work, which we may believe will be carried on with energy and ability. Such
work is greatly needed in order to resist
the lately growing tendency to multiply
saloons in city and country.
Hilo Boarding School Changes.
[January, 1902.
new buildings, one on either side of the
knoll where the present old buildings are
located. The center of the knoll will be
occupied by the residence of the principal. The whole is on a commanding
site, with a fine view of Hilo city and
bay.
The new buildings are expected to cost
$15,000 each. The money is not yet all
in sight, but many substantial promises
have been made, and the necessary
amount is confidently expected.
The girls are to he taught all the
domestic arts, as well as other branches
of industrial training. The boys are already being taught various trades. The
different crops grown on the premises
for the food of the scholars have long
given ample facility for instruction in
agriculture. Sixty-eight boys are in attendance at the present time. The course
of training covers seven years.
The Hilo Boarding School was founded in 1836 by the missionary Rev. David
B. Lyman, whose grandson is the present
principal, and is conducting the important changes in progress. There is an
endowment of $40,000, which goes far
towards maintaining the ordinary expenses of the school.
Episcopal Changes Agreed to.
A lengthy meeting of the Synod of the
Anglican Church in Hawaii was held
during the first half of December. It resulted in determining that on April ist,
1902, the present diocese of Honolulu
will become a missionary district of the
Protestant Episcopal Church in the
United States. It also transpired that
the acceptance of this change by the
General Convention in San Francisco
had been facilitated by a subscription of
certain members of the Church in Honolulu of $1,500 for five years towards
the stipend of a new Bishop, to be a
person not at present ministering in Hawaii.
Although the sessions of the Synod
were not free from acrimonious expressions, it is pleasant to record that they
closed in an amicable manner, and with
resolutions of regard and sympathy for
the retiring Bishop. Dr. Willis during
his long episcopate has shown himself
a devoted and laborious worker, and of
much public and private benevolence.
He now expresses doubt whether he shall
return to England, or remain in Hawaii.
Preparations have begun for new
buildings for the Hilo Boarding School,
the old historic institution where so many
A Missionary for Mindanao.
j noble and successful Hawaiian men began their early training.
It is a pleasure to be able to reprint
The plan provides for a building for the following statement from the Misgirls, which creates a new departure in sionary Herald for November:
the work of the school, making it "coThe matter of opening mission work
educational." It is planned to erect two in one of the Philippine Islands has been
,
�before the Prudential Committee of the
American Board for a long time, but with
the existing deficit in the treasury it was
deemed wholly out of the question to undertake new work in a new field. The
Board has been asked repeatedly to send
one or more misisonaries to Mindanao
the second of the Philippine Islands in
area, having a population of not less
than a million and a half. We arc rejoiced to say that through the good
fices of a few friends, chiefly in New
York City, and, so far as is known, not
heretofore belonging to the constituency
of the American Board, gifts, with
pledges of annual subscriptions, have
been received sufficient for the opening
and maintenance for five years of at least
one station on Mindanao, in the care 01
the funds
the American Board. Sincesources,
and
from
outside
are provided
regupon
its
least
draw
not
the
will
in
ular income, the Board is most happy to
undertake this work and will immediate
the
lv proceed to carry into execution
the
donors.
benevolent purposes of
TnE FRIEND.
Beautiful Illustrations.
A really splendidly illustrated Christ-
5
Vol. 60, No. i.]
in those lands, which lapsed to the government of the Hawaiian Islands. If she
was unjustly dethroned, she might show
a claim for compensation. But if justl>
dethroned for her misdeeds, as we fully
believe, she will do best to be contented
with such pension as this government
may considerately grant her.
mas edition of the Paradise of the Pacific has been received. Nothing approaching this in sumptuotisness and
beauty has hitherto been printed in Honolulu. Most of the pictures are entirely
new, and taken expressly for this ediProgress of Hilo Railroad.
tion. Honolulu street scenes are numerous. Hilo and its environs are very fully
illustrated. We note one error, where a The following facts are from an artiline picture of the last eruption of a cone cle in Thrum's Annual: The Hilo Railon Mauna I.oa is entitled '"Volcano of road extends seven miles to (he < Maa SuKilauea.''
gar mill, connecting it with Hilo harbor. From the mill a branch 17 miles
long has been completed southeast to KaHeavy Rainstorm.
poho in the Puna Sugar Plantation. The
The heaviest rainstorm of the year main line, or Olaa division, extends to
came just before Christmas, completely the 22 mile post on the Volcano road.
interrupting street and car traffic on Five miles of this is completed, and the
Christmas eve. < >ur own rain gauge re- remaining twelve miles of track will
corded 4.09 inches of rainfall on the r. probably be laid by next March.
This will give rail communication to
It. of the 24th, besides 1.56 inches on
the two preceding days. The rainfall
was even heavier in the lower sections of
the city which were more exposed to the
southerly wind. Fortunately but moderThrum's Annual, 1902.
ate damage was done by floods. Dealers
in Christmas goods had to mourn much
has
loss
of custom.
publication
This indispensable
Its numer()ur record of the whole rainfall of
appearance.
yearly
its
made
six inches.
ous statistical tables are brought down Christmas week is over
note Christmas Day itself was happily withwe
statistics,
new
Of
to date.
"Seating capacity of principal halls out rain.
churches, etc.," and "list of principal
Ex-Queen's Pension.
stock and sheep ranches."
Among the miscellaneous articles,
The ex-Queen Liliuokalani, who lateornithologists will be interested in one of
W. Henshaw, ly went to Washington, is perhaps inH.
by
prepared
pages
5a
giving the first part of a complete list correctly reported to have given out that
an<l description of the birds of the Ha-ol she had refused to accept any small allowance from the Territorial Govern
waiian Islands, preceded by a history
this
been
done
upon
has
ment. The actual fact is that she reguwhich
the work
subject by various naturalists. Thirty- larly draws her annual pension of $7,500,
six species of birds are described at or 5625 monthly. It is certainly fitting
for the Territory to pay her as much as
length.
Miss Josephine E. TiWen furnishes a that, and for her to receive it. She is
now in Washington for the purpose, as
list of 100 species of algae.
the son well understood, of urging her claim to
The Hawaiian story of Aiai,
of Kuula the Fish God, is continued the former Crown lands, and to ask from
Congress compensation for their loss.
from the last number.
Five pages are devoted to a history of She is understood to be willing to comthe establishment of wireless telegraphy promise her claim for a lump sum of
in these islands. "It is anticipated that $250,000.
It is held here by all experts on the
in a short time telegraphic communicathat she has no claim whatever
subject,
tion will be established between Oahu upon those lands. She certaily has none
and Kauai. The distance to be spanned by inheritance, not being in any sense a
is sixty-one miles."
lineal heir of the old Royal stock. As
retrospect
of
long as she continued to be queen, she
a
valuable
13
There is
held
a life interest in the income of those
variety
a
covering
large
pages for 1901,
lands, which was devoted to the support
of subjects.
of the throne. It amounted to between
Seven pages are occupied by "informa- $50,000 and $100,000. The total value
tion for tourists and others."
of the Crown lands is probably under
Besides the above, are a number of in- $1,500,000. With the abolition of the
throne, the ex-monarch lost her interest
teresting articles on other subjects.
within nine miles of the Volcano by
stage. Passengers can reach the Volcano
House in two hours from Hilo. The
plantation fields and luxuriant forests
afford a delightful variety of scenery.
The immense sugar mill at Olaa, now in
full operation is well worth a visit. No
streams have to be bridged. The road
is wdl equipped, having three locomotives of 50 tons each, also ample foundry
and machine shops for the manufacture
of cars. The road opens for settlement
large tracts of desirable Government
land.
A large dredger has been built for the
work of removing the Pearl Harbor bar.
It was launched December 21st. The
work of fitting it up with the powerful
machinery provided, will proceed immediately. Operations on the Bar will soon
be begun. It may now be anticipated
that before the end of this year it will
be practicable for large Steamers to enter
that harbor. This will be the beginning
of a great period of commercial progress
for Hawaii, by the provision of a firstclass commercial port, as well as a great
United States Xaval Station.
Preparations are being made for the
immediate dredging of the whole harbor
of Honolulu to a depth of 30 feet below
low water. This is properly the work
of the United States Government. But
the need of the improvement is too urgent to wait for the action of Congress,
and it will be done by the Territory.
The deepening is especially needed on
account of the Siberia and Korea, the
big liners of the Pacific Mail Company
which are expected soon to arrive at this
port.
�THE FRIEND.
6
Record of Events.
Dec. ist.—U. S. battleship Wisconsin
arrives from Samoa and anchored off
the port, where she remained during her
visit of several days.
2nd.—Protective League assigns its
sphere of usefulness to the Anti-Saloon
League and disbands.—The sixth diocesan Synod of the Anglican Church begin their sessions for the consideration
of measures looking to the coming
change from the English to the American
Episcopal jurisdiction.—At the Herman
Lubeck inquest the jury find that the man
came to his death as the result of a
premeditated plan of murder by a person
or persons
unknown.
Porto Ricans indulge in a
knifing contest; one receiving serious injuries is conveyed to the Queen's Hos-
3rd.—Two
pital.
4th.—Judge Estee denies the prayer of
the Tramways Company for an injunction against the Rapid Transit Company,
and sustains the decision of the Supreme
Court.—Brilliant evening wedding—H.
R. Macfarlane, Jr. to Miss M. L. Dunn —
at the residence of the groom's parents,
Punahou street.
sth.—Steam Fire Engine No. I, in
rushing to a fire, overturns in rounding
into Richards street from Beretania, the
driver and horses luckily escaped unhurt.
—Sudden death, at the hospital, of Johnson Xickeus, a prominent attorney of
Hilo, who had recently come to the city
to attend some cases in court.—The twoyear old son of C. B. Danielson, of the
Makiki fire station, is killed by a kick
from one of the horses.
7th.—A Chinese tailor, Yong Hklg,
commits suicide to end his financial troubles.—Hold-ups and burglaries are becoming matters of too frequent occurence, two of each being reported this
week.
Oth.—The police frustrate the attempted robbery of an upper Fort street
jewelry store, but the burglars get off
in the darkness. A suspected party was
searched for and eventually found, and a
trunk on his premises taken to the station contained watches and various articles of jewelry valued at some $2,500.
10th.—Another of the burglars caught
by the police in a lantana thicket. The
two confess to seven depredations within
the past two months. Both men are of
the lot of Tennessee negroes.—Excelsior
Lodge I. O. O. F. celebrates its fiftyfifth anniversary by a literary and musical entertainment which was largely attended by members and affiliated organizations.
nth.—The Anglican Synod closes its
session by an address to the Bishop.—
Meeting of the McKinley Memorial
[January, 1902.
Committee at which plans
were discussed badly damaged by fire.—A large party,
and steps for an active canvass deemed as guests
of Mr. and Mrs. Conradt, inadvisable.—Rev. L. M. Hartley resigns dulge in a trolley car ride over
the lines
as superintendent of the Anti-Saloon of the Rapid
Transit
Co.
League, on account of health, and Rev.
28th.—Ship Benj. Scwall, 54 days
W. 11. Rice is chosen in his stead.
from Port Townsend for Australia, puts
13th.—Jury returns a verdict of $52,- in here in distress.—A Hawaiian-Chinese
-737.50 as the value of the Bishop Estate lad at Mclnerny's store meets sudden
property taken by the U. S. Government death in
turning on the electric current
at Pearl Harbor, following which, actions for the
evening's lighting.
against the Oahu R. & L. Co., the John
—Bishop Willis gives
Ii Estate and Oahu Sugar Company
were discontinued.
15th.—A party of eleven young people
that had set out yesterday morn for a
pali tramp, with a light lunch, reach a
valley residence in a famished and bedraggled condition, having lost their way
and been obliged to spend the night on
Lanihuli.—Foetus body of an infant is
found in the stream at Kakaako, making
the third discovery of this character in
this neighborhood within a few weeks.—
Honolulu boasts 1,400 telephones in active use for its population of 40,000, only
200 being among the Hawaiians, Orientals and Portuguese estimated as numbering 30,000.
18th.—Plans maturing for the extension of Bishop street through to Merchant, and possibly to Queen, thus obtaining another outlet to the waterfront.
lOth, —Kaniehameha Schools observe
Founder's Day in memory of Beraice
Pauahi Bishop by appropriate exercises
W. R. Castle delivering the address.
21 st. —A registered mail bag, forwarded from Hamakua, Hawaii, is stolen
from the Kinaii in the landing of the
mail and rifled of its contents.
22nd.—Thunder storm with much rain
follows a day of drizzle and shower.
23rd. —The band seranades Dr. J. S.
McGrew in honor of his 80th birthday.—
Robt. Manson. a plumber at work on the
roof of the Kaniehameha Girls' School,
slipped and fell to the ground, sustaining
injuries that caused death in a short
while.
24th.—A heavy down-pour of rain sets
in, flooding the streets and certain sections of the city, interrupting car travel
for a time, putting a stop to Christmas
shopping and delaying the exchange of
parcels; up to six p. m. 4.40 inches had
fallen for the twenty-four hours. Xo
material damage reported.
25th.—Christmas opens too damp for
merriment, but improves as the day advances. Special services in many of the
churches.—Frank D. Haskell, imprisoned
under a severe sentence for a light offence, is pardoned by the Governor.
26th.—The second case of the Pearl
Harbor condemnation suits by the U. S.
Government begins.
27th.—Corner store at King and Maunakea streets, and its contents, gets
29th.
notice of
his plan to unite the two Cathedral congregations which is interpreted as attacking the vitality of Rev. Mr. Mackintosh's congregation, whereupon a meeting of all members to hear and consider
the same.
30th.—The McKinley Memorial Committee decide, by unanimous vote, in
favor of a square and play ground as a
memorial to the late President, qnd a
committee is appointed to consider sites
and cost.—The Cathedral Second Congregation declines to accede to the plan
of Bishop Willis.
31st. —Annual meeting of Sailors'
Home Society and election of officers.
Treasurer E. F. Bishop reports a balance
in hand of $255.34 after the payment of
all expenses, including the deficit of 1900.
Jan. ist.—The new year is ushered in
with the usual din of steam whistles,
horns and bombs. Happy Xew Year to
a"-—The Advertiser special edition issues: a splendid illustrated number of
handy size, 78 pages, in cover.
BIRTHS.
DAVIS In this city. Dec 1 id the wife of Henry
Davis, h son.
BENNER-In this city, Dec. H, to the wife of Edwin
Bcnner, a son.
HILLS-In this city, Dec. 22. to the wife of William
J. Hills k son.
STODAKT-In Honolulu. Dee, 29, to the wife of
Arthur (i. Stodart, of Waimaiialo, a daughter
BARKLEY—In this city, Dee. 4, to the wife of
.lames A. BarkUy, a daughter.
MARRIAGES.
MOORE-lIOFFMANN-In this city, Doc 3 by the Rev
W. M. Kincaid, R. (i. Moore to Miss Edna Q
HoiTniann.
ACFARLANE-DUNN-At the late Widcmann home
I'unahou St., this city, Dec. 4 I,v the Rev Alexander
Mackintosh, Henry R Mscfarlane. Jun. to Miss
Mary Lowrie Dunn, of San Francisco
lIAWKSIIURST-NICKEUS-ln this city Dec n at
the residence of Dr. C. B. Cooper. Robert llawkshurst, Jun., to MissElesaß. Niekeus Rev W M
Kincaid officiating.
lIJORTU-MAY—At Lihue. Kauai, at the German
Lutheran Church, by the Rev. H. Isenberg Mr
John L Hjorth and Miss Mary Louise May
BVRTLETT-GURNEY-In this city, Dec 28 at 8t
Andrew's Cathedral, by the Rev. 'Alexander
Mackintosh, Charles Garfield Bartiett
to Ktlicl
Pearl
Gurney.
.
DEATHS.
NIOKEIM—At the Queen's Hospital, this eitv Dee 5
after a brief illne-s. Johnson Nickens ''of Hilo'
Hawaii, aged SI years, a native of the District of
Columbia.
JOHNSON-In this city, Dec 10, Mr.. W. H Johnson
after a long illness.
'
WADBWORTH-In this city, Dec. 12, of Bright',
disease, Mrs. Dudley L. Wadsworth, a native OI
of
South Bend Ind aged 81 years.
MCMILLAN -Dec. 8, at the Queen's Hospital Honolulu. Hugh McMillan, a member of the M E •».».
B A
No. 85 of San Francisco, Cal.
WOLTER-In this city, Dec 28, Marie, beloved wife of
.
"
Jurgen Wolter, aged 81 years.
MANSON-At Honolulu, Dec. 28, Robert Manson aged
40 years, a native of Scotland, brother of George
Manson and Mrs McDonald, of langslde Terrace
I ■■■■■,
Glasgow. Scotland.
GII.FILLAN-In Philadelphia, Dec. 21, by a fall from
an electric car, Archibald T. Gllflllan, of this city
"
�HAWAIIAN BOARD.
HONOLULU,
H. I.
of the HaThis page ia devoted to the interests Editor,
apwaiian Board of Missions, and the
pointed by the Board, la responsible for Its con-
tents.
Rev. O. P. EMERSOX
- -
_______=__-
Editor.
Pelekunu and Wailau.
These two lonely valleys on the north
island'of Molnkai form one
under
the care of Rev. G. W. Koparish,
lopapeta. About eighty people live in
one valley and between fifty and sixty in
the other. The chief industry carried on
by tliem is taro culture. There is very
little chance for fishing, a few mats are
made and some awa is grown. When
the taro business is at its height, sometimes six hundred or more paiai are
shipped weekly.
In the winter season these valleys are
very inaccessible. (ireat waves pound on
a boulder-covered beach and make landing there impossible at all seasons of thcyear. The only approach by boat to Peiekuiui is under the lee of a cliff which
reaches out from the side of the valley.
It has a sort of rocky shelf, up against
which boats can run at intervals and
give the passengers a chance to jump
for the shore. They must then climb
up the face of the cliff for a couple of
rods and follow a zigzag path that finally
descends into the valley. As the landings are often made in the darkness of
the early dawn, the course of the boat
and the steps of the traveller have to be
guided by torches that flare up along the
pathway on the face of the cliff, casting
an uncertain light on the rocks and
waves beneath. It is by no means a comfortable landing for either shoreman or
sailor.
The only other road into or out of Pelekunu valley is up at its head and over
the peak of Kilohana which has an attitude of over 5.000 feet. Starting from
the mouth of the valley, the traveller has
to cross and recross the valley bed of
the stream many times and then wind
his way along a steep ridge that runs up
Hands, as
the face of the mountain.
well as feet, have to be engaged in the
laborious ascent, which takes from three
to four hours according to the agility
and strength of the climber. All luggage
has to be strapped to the back. They
tell of a strong kukini (runner) who
carried a pig over the road and down
into the valley, but when he had accomplished the feat it was found that the ribs
of the pig, as he lay across the man's
back, had been broken by the jolts of
the rough descent. From the top of the
mountain the descent to Kamalo requires
side of the
two or three hours more of comparatively easy mountain travel.
The mountains that pile up and form
a sort of semi-circle behind and to the
south of the three valleys of YVaikolu,
Pclekunu and Wailau catch the clouds
and form the water-shed of the island,
most of the waters being deflected back
into these valleys, each of which is shut
off from me other by arms of the mountain and has a branching water system of
its own. Millions upon millions of gallons of water thus hourly run to waste
which might be utilized in fertilizing the
broad, deep, rich, though arid, lands of
western Molokai.
The people of Pclekunu have a school
attended by more than twenty pupils.
There is also a church where services are
held every Sunday, the deacons taking
turns in officiating. The pastor, who is
supposed to be a resident ol Wailau, can
at best, without a great deal of labor,
make Only occasional trips to Pelckunu.
To get there he must go by canoe or
boat, or when that is impracticable, be
must wade up the Wailau stream to its
head waters, climb out of the valley
over a spur of the mountain-range and
descend into the valley of Mapulchu.
Thence he must take the public road to
Kamalo, where he must begin again to
climb, this time to the top of the island
where Ml. Kilohana lifts its head, and
then descend, to the shore through the
head-waters of Pclekunu valley. Such
a visit would take a strong man and two
days of difficult travel, after which it
would be -pleasant to rest for a week.
The people of Pclekunu can all easily
be got to church, as they live within gunshot of each other and are not so supplied with novelties as to make their occasional church-going uninteresting.
I am told that the dampness of the valley, caused by the almost continuous
rainfall of winter, the northern exposure
and the lofty mountain walls that shut
it in on the other three sides, make it
malarial. Doubtless the vast amount of
vendure which the valley contains has its
effect. Here is a region practically undisturbed by cattle or horses or the
browsing deer or goat. It should be
kept so, that it may continue to give its
perennial water supply which some
future enterprise may apply to use.
With the exception of two or three
Chinamen and two Japanese, all the inhabitants of these valleys are Hawaiians,
who live a secluded peaceful life of labor. Everything is primitive. There
are no stores to go to for supplies, and
whoever lands there must live on the
food of the people. We ate dried squid,
taro, paiai and chicken and fared well.
Xature lends its charm to this interesting region. The nights are long and
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Vol. 60, Xo. I.]
the day are short and the people have
few cares to burden them.
The Work in the North Pacific MissionaryInstiue.
By Rev.
John
Leadingham.
After the period of evangelistic work
which occupied the greater part of last
year, the North Pacific Missionary Institute took up regular school work again
at the usual time this year. The nationality of the students and the pro
vision made for their instruction, however, plainly show the transitional stage
through which the school is passing.
When it opened there were seven students who wished to enter—one old student and six new ones: of which three
were Hawaiians and three Japanese. Of
the three new Hawaiian students, two
were approved by the Oahu Association
at its October meeting, while approval
was withheld from the third until some
technicalities which stood in his way
could be satisfactorily adjusted. This
young man has however without being
granted aid or being admitted to standing as a member of the school, been permitted to attend the classes as he has
been able.
()f the three Japanese
students, one is
a graduate of the Hilo Hoys' Hoarding
School, and is qualified to carry on the
work. The other two were still deficient
in their knowledge of English and hence
not able to take the same work as the
others; and so in order to save the expense of additional teaching, one of them
was put into Mills Institute for instruction in English and the other who found
a boarding place with Rev. Mr. Okumura, attends the government school on
Beretania street.
There are, therefore, seven young men
in the line of preparation for the ministry, although only five of them receive
instruction in the institute. As yet Mr.
Leadingham has been the only teacher
this year. Rev. Mr. Parker's other duties have kept him from his customary
share in the work. It is hoped that with
the new year he may again find time to
take up the work.
The classes are
studying Church History, Moral Science
and the Life of Christ as embodied in
the four Gospels. This latter study ; s
carried on constructively, each student
preparing a life of Christ of his own
from the data gathered.
Several of the former students who
have fields in Honolulu and vicinity still
have homes on the school premises.
These are Mr. David Ai, who assists
Mr. Parker in Kawaiahao Church; Mr.
Henry Poepoe, who is assistant pastor
of Kaumakapili Church; Rev. Wm. K.
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Poai, the pastor of the Churches of Kalihi and Moanalua, and Rev. L. K. Kakani, assistant editor of the Hoahana,
the Sunday School quarterly used in the
Hawaiian Churches. These men are doing effective work in their various places.
In the past few years the school has
given instruction to one Portuguese and
several Chinese students. The presence
of the Japanese this year would seem
to prophesy that in the not distant future
these various nationalities will figure
more largely in the membership of the
school.
Janury,1902.
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We tried to make clear to them how
much trouble the opium and the gambling made for them, and that Christ
could help them to overcome these habits.
They gave good attention and often
would say, "that is good." The men
seemed much pleased and asked us to
come again.
I trust it brings a little sunshine into
their hard toilsome lives, where there is
so little of joy and brightness. There
were many similar meetings held in
other Chinese camps on the island, and
every where they seemed glad to see us.
We trust that the seed scattered here
Visiting Chinese Camps on Hawaii. and there will not be in vain. Don't forget these toilers in the fields, and help
"What! Do you understand Chinese?" them upward.
E. W. Thwixc.
"Have you been to Hongkong? and to
San King?" "Why, that is where I
Rev. Doremus Scudder, M.D.
lived." Such are a few of the questions
that greet the missionary as he stops to
talk with a few Chinamen on the road
An article from The Outlook, respecting the coming of Dr. Scuddcr to labor
in I laniakua. Hawaii.
"Yes, we have been in your country, among the Japanese in Hawaii, has been
and the Chinese are our good friends. reprinted here, and needs some modificaWe are going to have a meeting up at tions. Active and very prosperous misthe camp this afternoon and will tell you sionary labor has been in progress for
some news from China (the Chinese are many years among this class of our popualways asking, What is the news?), and lation, which numbers nearly 70,000. jir
we want to tell you of the 'Happy sound 44 per cent of the inhabitants of this
doctrine' (the gospel)."
Territory, and is continuing to increase
And so our friends all promise to by immigration. Twelve Japanese preachcome to the meeting, and to tell the other ers and pastors are laboring among these
Chinese about it and then they go on people in various towns and districts of
their way, talking to themselves, and the group. There is as the result of this
laughing at the idea of a white man talk- labor, already a church membership of
ing Chinese to them. A few Hawaiians QJO Japanese convents. The whole work
stand looking on in astonishment and en- has been for several years under the very
joyment at the strange "Haole" (for- active and able superintendence of the
eigner! who seems to be also a "Pake" Rev. (). 11. Gulick, aided for two years
(Chinese), and they exclaim "Maikai!" past by Miss Eliza Talcott, both of whom
(good) "Pake liiaoli" (real Chinaman). have been veterans in the work in Japan.
It has for two years past been deemIn this way we start the news of our
ed
necessary to secure the help of a very
Chinese meeting.
able
Soon after 4 o'clock we reach the was missionary. The Rev. Dr. Gordon
engaged to come nearly two years
camp. The Chinese have just finished
ago. His lamented death more than a
their rice. It would never do to have a
frustrated this expectation.
meeting before that important item was year ago
then the services of the Rev. DoreSince
over. Put they have rice early on SunScuddcr, M.D., have been secured.
day, other days our cam]) meetings have musScuddcr was
Dr.
engaged in medical and
to be held in the evening. Rut now rice
evangelistic
work
in Japan for five years
is over and the Chinese all seem happy from
to 18X0. For six and a half
18K4
ask
to
drink
One
fellow
and
me
tea.
years lie has been pastor of the First
comes along and says, "Oh! you are "lo
Church in Woburn,
Ting" (old Thwing). The old is pat Congregational
Mass.
Mrs.
Scuddcr
was also in Japan
on to be very respectful. It seems he
for
two years. Dr. Scuddcr is a son
had met me on a plantation in Lahaina. of the distinguished missionary and
We visited all the houses to get them preacher, Dr. Henry M. Scuddcr, and
out.
grandson of the eminent missionary Dr.
They gathered about in an open place, John Scudder of Madura, India.
some forty or fifty men, and seemed glad
Dr. Scudder has formally accepted
to hear of their own country and also appointment from the Hawaiian Board
the gospel message. We had the hymn to the work here in co-operation with
"Come to Jesus" written in Chinese on Mr. Gulick. He is first to proceed to
a large white cloth, and this was explain- Japan for a sojourn of some months to
ed to them.
renew his familiarity with the language,
and come into complete touch with Japanese sentiment. He will then return to
I lawaii to take up active work. It is
anticipated from his past record that he
will be a strong power among us for the
upbuilding of all our Christian interests,
as well as among the Japanese.
Life in Mindanao.
From the P. C. Advertiser.
How do we live in Zamboanga, do you
ask? Well, perhaps an answer to this
question will prove of interest to our old
friends in Hawaii. To give that answer
in a word, we lead a very simple life.
In a former letter it was said that the
majority of the people of this town live
in thatch houses; and we are in the majority. ■ These houses usually stand high
above the ground, leaving room for a
first story to be used for such purposes
other than residence as the owner may
determine. With the Spaniards it was
a favorite place for the carriage, and
even for the horse and cow. Now it is
not at all uncommon for the first floors
of the residences of "our best people"
to be used for the storage or sale of merchandise. Even the pretentious palace
of the rajah, or king, of the Moros has
two Chinese stores on the ground floor.
This custom of living only on the second floor, or at least as high as the second floor, probably originated in considerations of health. Physicians strongly
advise all Americans coming to this
country to conform with this custom,
which prevails in other parts of the islands no less than in Zamboanga. Some
tribes -of the natives of the island of
Mindanao have the interesting custom of
building their houses high in the trees.
Some of these houses stand fifty or sixty
feet from the ground, and are reached
by rattan ladders, which are drawn up
at night. This custom seems to have
had its origin in the less interesting custom of other natives of thrusting their
spears up through the frail floors, generally made of splints of bamboo, on which
their enemies sleep—just to tickle them
in the ribs; so we come back to the question of health.
1 lere let me say that the deadliness of
our climate has been very much overworked abroad. Soldiers stationed on
Mindanao and Jolo make better health
records than those stationed in the
United States. So when charging up to
the war the deaths due to disease, please
omit those few which occur in this region.
"Return we to our muttons," and that
reminds me that mutton and beef are
luxuries such as we are not able to enjoy in our new home. Pork can be had
�at the market almost any day, but turtle
meat is coming to be our stand-by. Fish
is abundant and cheap, but not of first
quality. Chickens are used as food here
to such an extent as to wear out one's
appetite. Eggs, also, are abundant, but
frequently only "tolerably good." Sweet
potatoes are plentiful, but of bad quality.
For the most part they are gathered wild
from the mountain regions. Bananas
are plentiful, cheap, and of good quality.
This is about the list of things we found
in the markets on our arrival. "Groceries!" exclaimed a leading merchant.
of whom I had made inquiries. "Groceries! If you want copra or rice 1 can
get it for you; but groceries are not to
lie had in this town." Yet we have been
able to get a very limited supply, though
we had to wait for a steamer from Singapore to bring us so common a thing as a
bag of flour. It was amusing to read,
under the gorgeous Chinese label which
decorated the bag, the name of a California mill.
Servants? Well, yes; I think we have
servants here. In fact, we seem to have
the solution of the whole servant question in the "muchacho," or boy. The
muchacho can do but one kind of work,
and to that he gives his whole attention.
One is called the cook —not that he
knows anything about cooking, but because he likes to watch the lady of the
bouse cook. Yet he learns rapidly, and
within a week knows how to turn off the
flame of an oil stove. Hut this is not
"cooking," and is apt to result unsatisfactorily. Unless he is told when to turn
it off and is watched while he does it,
the flame is apt to burn on from onemeal to another, unless the oil in the
tank is all burned out. All this confusion
results from trying to get the muchacho
away from his favorite calling.
The cook cannot wash dishes, and he
refuses to compromise himself with trying. He has "cooked" for all the principal people, past or present, on the island, and he has always had a dishwasher. The dish-washer may not know
your way, but, like the cook, he is quick
to learn. He will put his dish-pan on the
floor, sit down by it to do his work, and
stand the dishes in the sun about the
kitchen door to dry, unless you object.
Put when you have once shown him
your way he will always follow- it thereafter—provided you stand by and compel
him to do so, vi et annis.
Another muchacho acknowledges his obligations to sweep the floors, carry in
water and wait on the table, lie waits
on the table better than he does anything else, because he is under closer
supervision. As to his house-work, he
could probably give points to the most
negligent servant who ever swept a bach-
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Vol. 60, No. I.]
the southeast side of Pearl lochs, including the tract where the railway first
strikes the shores. A large breadth of
this land is alreirdy planted with cane by
the Honolulu Plantation.
elor's room in Hawaii. But the most
marked characteristic of this muchacho
which he shares also with the dish-washer, is the facility with which he can
get out of the way of his work. As
inuchachos do not live at the house of
the employer, they have to be watched
with the greatest of care or they will
"disappear like the morning dew." But
they will return very promptly when the
pleasures of the town pall upon their
sated souls. Great is the muchacho!
The muchacho has an unfortunate reputation for his "taking ways," but we
have not found this reputation deserved.
We trust him as we trusted servants in
Hawaii, and have not found our trust
betrayed.
Since coming to this town, a little more
than two months ago, I have travelled
about twelve hundred miles on official
business. Traveling here is much more
difficult and unsatisfactory than in Hawaii. Twice within the last week I have
passed along a coast for a hundred miles
without seeing a house, though I did sec
some evidences of the existence of habitations in the interior. Of course, there
are no roads on such coasts, and my
traveling must be by sea, either in a
coasting steamer or in a Moro boat. For
the most part I am studying the situation and the people. What 1 learn has
no place in this letter, but will be told
later.
Henry S. Townsend.
Zamboanga, Mindanao, Nov. 23, 1901.
Recent Martyrs in China.
"The careful estimate of Dr. J. R.
Hykes, agent of the American Bible Society in China, is that 183 Protestant
missionaries (60 men, 75 women and 48
children) were martyred, and the number of native Christians (including Roman Catholics) he places as h'gh as 40,-000."—Chinese Recorder.
"The North China Mission lay in the
very track of the Boxer whirlwind, which
swept everything foreign before it, and
left a bloody ruin in its train. One by
one the mission premises at Pinching,
Paotingfu, Peking, Tungcho and Kalgan
were visited by robbers, sacked and
burned to the ground. At Tungcho the
college campus, where once stood Williams hall, and four new and commodious
houses, surrounded by happy life, was
plowed and sowed to corn. Happily the
missionaries all escaped alive, except at
Paotingfu, where Mr. Pitkin, Miss Morrill and Miss Gould, unable to escape and
cut off from relief, after weary days of
waiting, were captured and slain. Many
native Christians with their families and
friends also shared in the massacre, these
losses falling with especial weight upon
the churches of Tungcho, Peking and
I Paotingfu. The examples of true marScarcity of Sand in Honolulu.
tyrdom were presented again and again;
the stern test of idolatry or death was
Both black and white sand are now sustained by women and boys and girls,
obtained with difficulty by builders in 'as well as by the leaders of the church.
this city. Black sand or volcanic ash ii The names of these true souls—Teachfound in sufficient quantity in most ex- 'cr Wang, Pastor Meng—with those of
cavations for foundations in central loca- the missionaries who suffered, must be
tions, but cannot now be had as formerly written by the side of those in earlier
from the hill sides. Beach or shell sand 'days who were faithful unto death—the
cannot be taken any longer from the Polycarps, the Cyprians, the Perpetuas
Waikiki beach, which was becoming I—whom1—whom we sing and praise foreverdestroyed. Considerable sand has been more. It is not strange that some failed
brought by railway twenty-five miles in the trying hour, as others failed in
from sand dunes in Waianae. This is the early church; but what are we that
intimated not to be of good quality. Iwe should censure them. The great outPossibly it has been ground too fine by standing fact is that these Chinese Chriswind, without being washed out by tians stood the test as well as their
waves.
brothers and sisters of other lands and
other days; that the celestial light of true
martyrdom has been kindled on the
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Green's Tetrahedral Theory.
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upon its molten interior assumed a quasi
tetrahedral form, resulting in the existing collocation of the continents." It is a
great satisfaction to the present editor of
The Friend to have published in this
paper in 1875 an enthusiastic commendation of that theory, which Mr. Green
had elaborated at great length in "Vestiges of the Molten Globe." This resulted in pleasant and profitable relations
with the able scientist.
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