https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/28e82565fb75c7d5b97ed43404d55864.pdf de047208ae4396c8d9fe3f6a2549b0ba PDF Text Text HONOLULU, H. 1., MARCH, 1902. Vol. 60.] WILLIAM R - CASTLE, [No. 3. gENSON, SMITH & CO., Ltd. & CO., LTD. 127-229 KtDf St. ATTORNEY AT LAW. Merchant Street, Cartwright Block TRUST MONEY CAREFULLY INVESTED Jm M. WHITNEY, M. D., D. D. S. DENTAL ROOMS ON FORT ST., Office: Brewer's Block, Cor. Hotel A Fort Sts. Entrance on Hotel Street £)R. CLIFFORD B. HIGH, ...DRUGGISTS... Honolulu, H. I. SUPPLIES. WATERHOUSE & CO. DR. A. C. WALL, DR. O. E. WALL, JJENRY SHIPPING AND Orricß lliiurh: U 8a.m.t04 p. m. Fort St., Honolulu. Bldg. # HACKFELD & CO., COMMISSION MERCHANTS. F. EHLERS & CO., DRY GOODS IMPORTERS. Fort St., Honolulu All the Latest NoTeltiea in Fancy Goods received \rj Every Steamer Ji\ Work, Sheet Metal Work and Plumbing ******************** .. ... OAHU , COLLEGE... COMMISSION MERCHANTS. 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Fags -1 Tlte Frland Changes Hands 21 '-I II Oospaj 'I'riil Meetings The Hawaiian Revival of ISH TheSupernaturallsiaitlal to t'ln Miuniiy Bops for Chinese Progress The Old sad the Hew.... ApostdHc Succession alleged Persecution 'In Multiply Liquor Licenses limits to Uauor Licensing Fuel Oil for Plantations Help (or chirk, n <ir H '-' '-■' '^''--' 2f> sren Record of Kvcnts -■' '-■> —* Births, Marriages ana Deaths 27 siniistii'Hof the Year-Book Rev. 11. s. Kiiiiuni, ii Japanese Revivalist Preacher 2" Letter from Kosale 9 2H Japanese Boarding School Bishop Potter and Eastern Religions Descrlptloß of Miss Wlllard 9 9 The Friend Changes Hands. It is with the greatest satisfaction that we make the announcement that after the present issue, The Friend will pass into the hands of editors appointed by the la I waiian Board. The responsible editor wili he the Rev. John l.eadingham. the able principal of the North Pacific Mission Institute, who will enjoy the co-operation of several other members of the Hoard. Mr. Theodore Richards, the Treasurer of the Board, will be the business manager of the paper. A program of the new plans will appear in the April issue. The present editor this change. With a ing abatement of both strength, at the age of greatly welcomes markedly increasbodily and mental seventy-live years, he has been growing very sensible that it must he only a short time before this pleasant duty, which has occupied him for nearly fifteen years, must be resigned into stronger hands. It has been a cause of much anxiety, who could be found to undertake it. At the opportune moment, the Hawaiian Hoard enter with this most welcome proposition. It has seemed as a special interposition of Providence, to continue the existence of the valued paper, which has long been the oldest newspaper west of the Rocky mountains. >LULU, 11. 1.. MARCH, [90a. 21 The Friend. [No. 3. I'm: I'ki.kni) was started in January a membership of 1,168 in a population of or less than one per cent of the 1843, l>y the Rev. Samuel C. Damon, who the who seemed to he living as folpre* people had arrived in Honolulu during vions year as Chaplain to teamen. At lirst it bore the title of "Temperance Advocate." To this name in February were added the words "and Seamen's Friend." In January [843, it became "The Friend of Temperance and Seamen," and in January 1845, simply "The Friend," under which title it has continued as a monthly journal to the present time. Under the new management and plans ue are sanguine of a great increase in the value of the paper, and of a large addition to its subscription list. There can he no doubt that this long and greatly valued journal is about to enter upon a new and lowers of the Redeemer. In 1840, the total mcinhcrshop had grown to 20*941, or over H> per cent of the whole population. In three years 19,773 members had been added to the churches, four-fifths <>f them during the fust two years. The whole increase of the three years was seventeen-fold. This was the spiritual birth of the Hawaiian people, which constituted them a truly Christian nation. It was the effectual establishment of Christianity as the religion of what had up to that time continued to he in a large degree a heathen nation. This great work of God supplied that prosperous period. Our best heart moral and spiritual renovation and rewishes go with it. demption which elevated and changed their prevailing sentiments so as to renGospel Tent Meetings. der them capable of receiving the great civil reforms which followed. It was this and of Central members pastor Tin' Union Church have felt impelled to take spiritual change in the people and chiefs special measures to carry the invitations which made possible their adoption of of their Lord to the many who do not the Representative and Constitutional visit the churches. It seems to be a Government which followed about eight Divine impulse which has grown in their years later. It was this which fitted the hearts for many weeks since the earnest before morally feeble Hawaiian* to rise prayer week in January and subsequent to something of a true Christian civiliza meetings. A proposition of the pastor lion. A great preliminary work had been in for tent-meetings was eagerly adopted bj several members of means. A tent hoi 1 progress for 18 years in preparation for seats was constructed, and the the outpouring of the Holy Spirit in ing opening meeting held on the evening of 1838. There had been a wide and thorthe J7th in a central point of the city. ough seed-sowing in hope of the harvest Many gathered from the streets, and which the mercy of God SO richly hetin-re was much earnest talk and praying. slowed. From the time of the arrival in A second meeting was appointed for the 1820 of the pioneer missionaries Bingevening of Saturday, March ist. From ham and Thurston and their associates, the way in which this movement has a great amount of diligent and most sucgrown up, there seems reason to believe cessful labor had been performed by that a great blessing awaits it. It calls them and by the many fresh companies for earnest ami believing prayers that the of missionaries who reinforced them. I loly Spirit may he given, and for Chri - The pioneers had found the ancient elabtians to keep their hearts and lives open orate and powerful system of pagan idoland unohstructivc to the Heavenly in- atry forcibly abolished several months before their arrival, through the wonderful fluence and Power. Providence of God opening wide the door for the entrance of His Word. The Hawaiian Revival of 1838. These able and devoted missionaries Read to the Ministerial Union, February and their associates had gained in a very high degree the confidence of the royal 17, 1902, by S. E. Bishop. chiefs and also of the greatly oppressed One of the most remarkable operations and degraded common people. Their inof the Holy Spirit in the history of the lluence was thoroughly in the ascendChurch of Christ, was the great revival ency, although the great mass of the peoin the infant churches of Hawaii during ple still cherished their ancient superstitions somewhat in secret, and practiced their ancient impurity of life. most �22 The missionaries had established schools in all districts of the Islands. A large proportion of the adults and children had learned to read.more or less imperfectly. A number of elementary school books bad been prepared and published. An edition of the New Testa incut had been published in the native tongue, and considerable portions of the < >ld Testament. With this access to the Bible, and with much diligent instruction, many of the people had received a considerable knowledge of divine truth. About 15 different stations had now beeii occupied by resident missionaries, with usually two families at each station. These men maintained regular Sabbath or week-day services at from 3 to 4 outstatioiis, so that the Gospel was preached by white missionaries weekly or monthly at from 50 to 60 different points. Besides this, there were the regular but very imperfect ministrations in every district by native lunas or deacons. There were' no native ordained ministers, and scarcely any instructed or trained preachers. Here and there were comparatively able school teachers who had enjoyed a four years course of instruction at the Lahainaluna High School, established in 1831. At most of these stations, Churches of Christ had been organized, embracing, as before stated, a total membership of 1,168. The largest of these churches was in Honolulu, with 281 members. Great caution and deliberation had been exercised in admitting professed converts to church privileges. ( )ften their spiritual experiences seemed to be dee]), and attended with manifestations of emotion. Occasionally something like revivals would occur to a limited extent. In treating upon the work preliminary to this Great Awakening, something may be said as to the forms in which the Gospel was commonly presented by the earlier missionaries, and a better form by those who came later. It is not necessarily a criterion of the soundness of the doctrines taught, that the Holy Spirit mercifully blesses the teaching. God may and does use very defective teaching of the word to produce great fruits in the conversion of sinners and the tanctification of Christians. Yet the more nearly the teaching conforms to that of the Holy Spirit in the Scriptures, doubtless the more effective it becomes. The teaching of the earlier missionaries had been blessed to the conversion of a great number of Hawaiian* in all grades of life from prince to serf. During these 18 preliminary years there had been formed in the image of Christ many pure and noble souls living in the joy of the Divine communion. Yet I think it true that the severer forms of Calvinism presented by the earlier missionaries were March, 1902. THE FRIEND. less adapted to facilitate the work of the Divine Spirit, than were the- gentler and sweeter forms in which the Gospel was presented by those more lately arrived, who had been in the wonderful revivals under Finney's preaching. There has conic down from my early childhood a most painful remembrance of the very harsh and severe idea of God's wrath and jealousy, and the terrors of his rule, which were prominent in the usual religious instruction of children. At the age of six or seven yean 1 knew chiefly of a God of severe and rigorous justice and nothing of 1 lim as a Loving Rather. 1 was taught to think myself a wicked little sinner, and that "God was angry with sinners every day." I must pray to he "converted" and have a "new heart," or else endless torments in hell awaited me, the actual terror of which was often very great. It is true that we were taught thai "God so loved the world that lie gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believed in Him should not perish.*' But it was nut made clear that all one had to do was to willingly come to t tirist. The "new heart" was in the way. God might or might not impart a new heart, according to I lis sovereign pleasure. All this seemed to place God at a repelling distance, and not in a Fatherly attitude. And I well remember the winning presentation of the Lord Jesus in our children's meetings in Honolulu, by some of the later arrivals, especially by Mr. Spaulding, who came in [832, and Mr. Coan in 1835. ( Mhcrs who brought a modified or New School Calvinistic Theology from Auburn Seminary were Baldwin, Dibble and Tinker in 1831, Lyons in 1832, and Lowell Smith in 1835. All of these earnest men had experienced more or less of the wonderful revivals that pervaded Central New York during the earlier labors of Charles G. Finney, whom Princeton theologians called a heretic. The entrance of these devoted men into the Hawaiian work gave a new impulse to the evangelization of the people. There was a more direct and efficient presentation of Christ, less encumbered by the old and stiff Westminster forms of doctrine. This i.ew preaching undoubtedly contributed r ■ eh to the great spiritual awakening among the Hawaiians. Signs of the special presence of the Holy Spirit began to be marked during the year 1837. The General Meeting of the missionaries that summer in Honolulu was attended by special earnestness of feeling. There had just arrived a large accession to their force of 32 men and women. During their meeting a great tenderness was created by the death in their midst of the very lovely wife of Rev. Lorenzo Lyons. The missionaries returned to their stations with greatly kindled hearts, full of love for souls, and hop* of gathering them in. During the latter halt of that year began to appear great and earnest attention to the Word in many parts of the islands. The Spirit had begun to come in power. Active measures of special work were taken throughout the mission during the following months. As recorded by Dr. Rufus Anderson, "The means employed were those commonly used during times of revival in the United States, such as preaching, the prayers of the church, protracted meetings, and conversing with individuals, or small companies. In the protracted meetings, much time was given to the plain preaching of revealed truth, with prayer in the intervals. The topics of discourse were such as these: the gospel a savor of life or death; the danger of delaying repentance ; the servant who knew his lord's will and did it not; sinners not willing that Christ should reign over them; halting between two opinions; the balm of Gilead; the sinner hardening iii.s neck; God not willing that any should perish. The topic most insisted on. was the sin and danger nf refusing an offered Savior." The revival in Mr. Coan's field of Hilo and Puna seems to have begun early in 1837. In his autobiography Mr Coan writes: "During all the years of 1837-K, Hilo was crowded with strangers; whole families and whole villages in the country were left, with the exception if a few ( ) ur of the old people. great native house of worship, nearly 200 feet long, by 85 feet wide, with a lofty 1 of of ll atch, was crowded almost to suffocation, while hundreds remained outside, una) le to enter. The word lell * * with power, and sometimes a; the feeling deepened, the vast audience was moved and swayed like a forest in a mighty wind. The word became like 'the fire and the hammer' of the Almighty ; and it pierced like a two-edged sword. Hopeful converts were multiplied, and 'there was great joy in the city.' " The wonderful work became general through all parts of the Island:,.. I was then, : ri 1838, a growing lad of 11 years, ami have much distinct recollection of the momentous movement in my father's field of I'.wa. There were various protracted meetngs, participated in by Mr. Lowell Smith of Honolulu, Mr. Emerson of Waialua, and Mr. Parker of Kaneohe. My father also attended similar meetings at the stations of these brethren. As the movement went on, our great church became too strait for us. It would hold 1,000 people, with 400 more packed within hearing on the wide verandahs. After * * * * �Vol. 60, No. a while, the north half of the churchyard was covered over with a great lanai, «o as to hold from 4,000 to 6,000 people, and the interior of the church was unused. Often the entire population, old and young, were present. 1 especially recall one Sabbath service, in the beginning of the revival, before we had moved into the great lanai, when a profound impression was made on my own mind by a manifest access of what may he seripturally termed prophetic power in my father. llc was usually colloquial in his preaching, without special inipressivencss of manner. (hi this oc- casion, he seemed to be another man, flaming with the power of me Spirit. I had at that time learned only a few words of Hawaiian, being seduously kept from doing so. But I remember the impassioned emphasis with which the preacher said "C'oki! U'oki!" (Stop! Stop!). He was manifestly another man, with a Divine Power inspiring him. I think that this was a common missionaries. 23 THE FRIEND. 3.1 experience of the I do not recall witnessing any marked demonstrations of outward emotion among the hearers, although such often appeared in some of the fields, especially in those of Mr. Lyons and Mr. Coan on I law-an. The general practice of the missionaries was to maintain order and repress what were looked upon as hysterical expressions of feeling. Mr. Coan records the following peculiar case: "A young man came once into our meeting to make sport slyly. Trying to make the young men around him laugh during prayer, he fell as senseless as a log upon the ground and was carried out of the house. It was some time before his consciousness could be restored. He became sober, confessed his sins, and in due time united with the church." The ingathering of the great harvest of converts into the church was productive of some remarkable experiences, due to their extraordinary numbers. Although carefully sifted out from the unstable ones, their numbers often ran in a single field, high into the hundreds, and even into the thousands in the churches of Mr. Coan at Hilo, and Mr. Lyons at Waimea. One of the most remarkable memories of my childhood, is that of a wonderful communion service at Kwa when my father baptized 4<x) new converts in the course of two hours. These people had been accepted for church membership after repeated and careful examination, and a probation of several months. The pastor had made painstaking provision for their public baptism, by organizing them into groups of from ten to twelve each. The names of those forming each group were written together upon a separate piece of paper, which was put in charge of a luna or deacon. On the eventful Sabbath, about 6,000 people, an enormous crowd, were 1lacked under the great lanai. The 400 people to be baptized were arranged around the desk, each group separate, sitting in the same order as the names on the paper. As the pastor came to them, each groUp knelt. The luna handed him the paper. With a wet sponge he applied water to each forehead in succession, calling each name in order, thus: "Mark, Dorcas, Zedekia, Tabitha, Moses." &c, then pronouncing the formula "I baptize you all into the name of the bather, and of the Son. and of the Holy Spirit." By means of this expedient, the pastor was enabled to administer baptism to 4(H) persona in two hours. It would have been impossible in the ordinary way to have accomplished the service in the limits of any reasonable time. At Hilo, the problem was a much severer one. Mr. Coan thus described his method. "The 1705 persons selected had all been gathered at the station some time before the day appointed for their reception. They had been divided into classes, according to the villages whence they The hour came: during came. the time of preparation the house was kept clear of all but the actors. With the roh in hand, the leaders of the classes were called in with their companies of * * candidates in first of Hilo last of Kau. the first class the order of all the villages ; district, then of Puna, and From my roll the names in were called one by one, and I saw each individual seated against the wall, and so of the second, and thus on until the first row was formed. Thus after row was extended the whole length of the house, leaving spaces for one to pass between these lines. After every name had been called, and every individual recognized and seated, all the former members of the church were called in and seated on the opposite side of the building, and the remaining space given to as many as could he seated. "All thus being prepared, we had singing and prayer, then a word of explanation on the rite of baptism, with exhortation. After this with a basin of water, I passed back and forth between the lines. sprinkling each individual until all were baptized Standing in the center of the congregation of the baptized. T pronounced the words, 'T baptize you all into tin- name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the TToly Ghost. Amen.'" "The scene was one of solemn and tender interest, surpassing anything of the kind T ever witnessed. All heads were bowed, and tears fell. All was hushed except sobs and breathing." This event took place on the first Sabbath in July, 1838. A farther cxplanarow . tion of the possibility of so sprinkling as many as 1,705 persons is that it was facilitated by the use of a brush. On a succeeding page of his autobiography, Mr. Coan records that during the year ending April 30, 1839, he received into the church 5,244 persons, and 0.0*) during three years. During the 1 same period, Mr. Lyons received 6,177 persons ,hia district including Waimea, I lamakua and Kohala. In the memorial volume prepared by Mrs. Lydia Bingham Coan, on page 223---_>->5, is a letter of Mr. Coan in which he describes his own mental condition at that period in the following remarkable words: "It is only when the 'powers of the world to come' rest upon us that we have any power to win souls, or to draw sinners to a near view of the cross of Christ. It is then that the Spirit makes intercession for us with gro.mings that cannot be uttered. "I often felt this same power while preparing for the ministry, and numbers, both of adults and children, were drawn to the Savior in meltings, in schools, and in personal interviews. "When I came to these Islands, and before I could use the Hawaiian language, 1 often felt as if I should burst with strong desires to speak the Gospel to the natives around me. And when my mouth was opened to speak of the love of God in Christ, I felt that the very chords of my heart were wrapped around my hearers, and that some inward power was helping me to draw them in, as the fisherman feels when drawing in his net filled with fishes. "In 1 b(■ s,■ ■ '. ys and years f never rose li a.muss a native audience without feeling an assurance that a Divine power rested upon me, and that 'Death and 11(11' could .lot withstand the Word of Cod, hut that it was the 'Sword of the Spirit, quick and powerful,' that it was the 'lire and hammer,' and the gleaming battle-axe of Jehovah, ordained to conquer Satan and sin ; and that it is, in deed and in truth 'the power of salvation' to all who believe, whether speaker or hearer. "And the fruits of that faith were abundant and marvelous. The masses of our people were moved and swayed as the forest is .'•waved by a mighty wind, ('(inverts were multiplied by thousands, and they came rushing into the open gates of Zion like clouds of doves. The Kingdom of heaven suffered violence. And this continued, with more or less power, for ten years; and up to the present day, for more than forty-six years, we have had only one communion season, �24 THE FRIEND. without church. some ingathering into the * • * "The generation of simple, believing, and praying men and women in Hilo is gone, and another generation that knows not Joseph, has conic upon the stage." I believe that what Mr. Coan thus noted of his own mental experience in preaching, was also in a greater or less degree the personal experience of his missionary brethren*generally in all parts of the group during the years of that great revival. Some of them certainly experienced 't in a very high degree. Especial attention is due to his strong consciousness at that time of a Divine Power resting upon him while speaking the word; Also to be noted is his description of the mighty outreaching of his heart in loving desire towards his hearers, also of the all conquering assurance possessing him at such times of the irresistible, penetrating power of the Word upon the souls of the hearers. These are pngnantlv significant expressions. They are clearly in line with the lan guage of Paul to his Thessalonian converts in I Tiiess. 1:5—"How that out gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance." .Also z:8 "Even so being affectionately desirous of you, we were well pleased to impart unto yon, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were become very- dear to us." It is this Rower of the Holy Spirit, resting upon his servants and tilling them with a full assurance, and an all-conquering love, which we may well believe, is in the coming years, more and more to give the victory to the Gospel as it speeds over the Rarth. The Supernatural Essential to Christianity. It always used to be understood that Christian believer involved the belief in miraculous signs and direct revelations from Cod. Such things constitute an inseparable part of the Bible record They form the leading part of the record of Christ's life as well as of all recorded Divine manifestations before' his day. Those who denied Miracles and direct Revelation stood simply as unbelievers in Christ and his religion.. We used to call them Infidels and Deists. ()f later years, however, it has become the fashion for such deniers to still claim a place a Christians or adherents to Christ, on the ground of accepting his ethical teachings. Prof. Pearson, who is just now befor the public as a denier of Miracles and Revelation, doubtless claims to be a Christian. to be a \ow the writer is not disposed to quarrel about a name. More, we believethat our Lord will own as his follower and disciple one who has his spirit of love and obedience to truth and right, how ever astray in theory, while he will disown the person who is correct in opinion, but hard or false and selfish in life. ( )ur conformity to Jesus needs to be chiefly in character and heart, rather than in intellectual belief. One best shows love to the Lord and Master, by living like Him, and cultivating that likeness. Undoubtedly there are many true and lovely Christians, who are far astray in their mental belief. Yet correctness of belief is of vei\ high importance. It is a tremendous obstacle to our allegiance to Christ, if we deny the record of his life, and of his Resurrection from the dead. It is almost incompatible with spiritual activity and to hold the Bible record of Revelation to be a compound of incredible legends and myths, as so many (not all) of the Higher Critics would have us do. It is an undeniable fact that a majority of these Critics are governed in their rejection of any part of Scripture as being "unhistorical" by the rule or principle that every miracle is impossible. Every such alleged record is therefore a legend or myth, and not written by eyewitnesses.' Even the circumstantial story of OUr Lord's Resurrection, which was the supreme miracle, was only a legend. This whole attitude of rejection of Miracle;, is based upon a spurious Science. The Science of Mature can deal only with \atural Law, and Physical forces. It cannot go hack from these to (iod who is immanent in all these forces. Science is necessarily ignorant of (iod. I tut that does not make us ignorant of Him. And I lis existence as a living Person, hi Whom and by Whom are all things, makes Him entirely competent to quickening faith • [March, 1902. in an Incarnate Son of Cod, nor in his Resurrection. It is only a false misconItlUCtion of Science which does :hat Hope for Chinese Progress. Seldom has a more remarkable statemade, or change of demeanor recorded, than in the account of the entertainment recently given by the Dowager Empress of China to the Legation ladies, at which she seized the hand of Mrs. Conger, and bewailed the error of the attack upon the legations, with tears, sobbing and trembling. It is not strange that the severe experiences of the Empress since the taking of Peking by the Allies have- wrought this wonderful breaking down of her former pride and insolence. She- was compelled to flee from her pal ace and capital in desperate haste, to travel many hundred miles in great hardships, and to endure a remote exile for more than a year. She seems now to have returned to the "Forbidden City" deeply humbled, and hardly caring to "save her face " ( )ne is encouraged to hope for a genuine and earnest adoption of measures of reform and progress from a ruler in so contrite- a frame' of mind. We wait to see this hope verified. mint been The venerable Mrs. William Gulick last month attained the great age of ninety-eight, and is still in good health and strength. She is a sister of the late Mrs. Peter J. Gulick, the mother of so many missionary sons. Their husbands also were brothers. Mrs. Mary E. Parker still lives in great feebleness, at the age of ninety-six, the last survivor of the older missionaries who reached here before 1837. She interpose amid the laws of matter either has lived here seventy years. by his direct personal action, or by that of his angelic servants. Every man conWe most heartily rejoice with our dear stantly acts upon matter. And just the brethren of the Methodist Episcopal same can (iod do it, or any superhuman Church, and with their excellent Pastor, agents of God. Thus Miracles are en- upon their success and joy in lately paytirely possible and reasonable, and Sci- ing off the debt of $6,000 Upon their ence does not at all forbid us to believe church building. in them upon sufficient evidence of their existence. This speculative unbelief, in the name of Science, is wholly irrational, base 1 upon a spurious Philosophy, which is not Science at all. It is true that Science locs forbid us to believe in Six days of i cation, and probably in some other allegorical statements of Genesis, but it lots not in the least interfere with our icceptance of Cod's miraculous disclos tires of Truth and Raw to man. Above The Old and the New. A greatly esteemed and still vigorous old classmate of 1851 writes us as follows: "Auburn (Theological Seminary) is a vastly different thing from what it used to be. It is in many things greatly improved. All the old buildings have long since vanished. We have for the most all Science decs not forbid us to believe p 1 uj 1 , �25 THE FRIEND. Vol 60, No. 3.] . gowns and sashes at public functions, duty Any outcry about intolerance is have a great deal to say about sociology, wholly out of place. The ancient Chrisand pedagogies, and ecclesiology, and lit- tian beliefs will stand firm amid all the urgies, and hynmology, and social ideals, vagaries of arlicr and later rationalists, and tie Lord knows what. All very fine, whatever reasonable modifications of no doubt; but it makes an old stager like statement of those beliefs may be prome feel almost abashed iii the presence duced by the progress of knowledge. of such, almightily smart young bloods. Yet 1 notice that often when sonic young To Multiply Liquor Licenses. fellow from the Sem comes before our Presbytery for examination, he makes a The Anti-Sal. urn League, which repretty poor showing." gards the saloon as the enemy of society What will some survivor of the Au- and seeks to reduce its spread, runs burn class of 1901 be writing about Au- square up against Treasurer Wright, who burn in 1951? What new 'ologies and holds great personal power as to the 'ogics will he wonder at ? granting of licenses. The Treasurer appears to regard saloons as highly desirApostolic Succession. able for the public welfare. He proposes to increase their number, and to extend The latest Anglican prelate and scholar the limits wherein they may be estab- speak disrespectfully of the priority oi the Episcopal polity is the Bishop »l Salisbury, who in his book. The Ministry of Grace, says that he finds that up to the third century after Christ the government of the church both in Rome .and Alexandria was Presbyterian, Canon rlenson, preaching in Westminster Abbey, has added to his other recent offenses by stating that the' doctrine' of the apostolic succession crumbles at the touch of scholarly tn investigation. We C'ongregationalists have- no quarrel with an Episcopal form of Church government. We cordially recognize it . legitimate. In certain depressed conditions of society, it may even be the best and most efficient form. We resent only the claim that is made for Episcopacy as being the sole Apostolic form of Church government, and the sole channel for the transmission of Divine grace 1 That too common claim is unscriptural and prepOS tenuis. It must deeply wound and grieve the Lord Jesus by obstructing as it does the cooperation and union of Christians in their Lord's service. as Alleged Persecution. A great to-do has lately been made .about the removal from his chair of English literature of Prof, C. W. Pearson, of the Northwestern University of Evanston, Illinois. This is a Methodist in- stitution established for the training of men for the ministry of that church. Mr. Pearson has publicly denounced the Inspiration of the Bible, and the possibility of Miracles, both of which are fundamental to Christianity. In expressing such opinions, he necessarily disqualifies himself for a teacher in a specifically Christian college. He has the right to any opinions he chooses to hold, but ii<") right to remain teacher in a Christian institution while denouncing Christian belief. There is therefore no persecution in his removal, but only a manifest voting Fuel Oil for Plantations. The announcement is made that Castle & Cooke are contracting for the delivery of oil from the California wells at the ir- rigating pumps of the Rwa and Waialua sugar plantations. These pomps are now making steam by the consumption of about 40,cxx:> tons of coal a year. To do the same work will require about 160,000 barrels of oil. To ensure a constant suppi v, the California company will maintain large storage tanks near the Oahu Railway wharves with a capacity for loo.txxi barrels of oil. It is estimated that the reduction of expense for fuel will thus be very large. The oil will come in tank ships specially built for the purpose. Thus the recent immense development oil wells in California is helping Halished in this city to perhaps double their waii, in addition to the prospective depresent dimensions. In politics, Mr. velopment on the Coast of sti-cl manufacWright represents the anti-Dole party, ture, hitherto prohibited by the high cost whose action in the Legislature secured of fuel. his appointment. With that party in a voting majority the Anti-Saloon effort Help for Chicken Growers. labors .against the greatest difficulties. The' first bulletin from the Hawaiian but with activity and persistence, it may Agricultural Station is devoted to giving do much to restrict the deadly evil. very welcome light upon the sore-head malady which has been so fatal to m isl Limits to Liquor Licensing. attempts to multiply fowls in these ''■ Dole has just islands. The disease is shown to be due Attorney-General ' -• rendered to the Territorial Treasurer an to a parasitic fungus which attacks esofficial opinion upon the limits to his dis- pecially the head and eyes of the young cretion in granting licenses for the sale chicken, and if not remedied, usually of intoxicating liquor. From this opin- proves fatal. The treatment recommended is chiefly antiseptic and healing, It ion we extract the following! "The discretionary issuance of a liquor is to be hoped that large numbers of license involves considerations inapplica- fanners will be successful in the treatble to pursuits which do not menace the ment of their fowls, and thus the price of public welfare. I think the Treasurer of chickens be brought down below the the Territory, if authorized to issue a present dollar rate, eggs also below fifty license, is justified in withholding it cents a dozen. It has long been a sad whenever in the exercise of a reasonable thing to see one's large broods of choice and honest discretion, keeping the letter chickens in a few weeks disabled and dcs and spirit of the law in view, he is satis- tro\ed by this fell disease fied that an increased number of licenses in the desired locality would substantially What seems to have been a very great increase the difficulty of controlling and disaster is the evident loss at sea of the minimizing the liquor evil." British gunboat Condor, with over 300 We are glad to find here, as we should officers and men. She left Esquimau!! expect, a distinct recognition of the prin- in December, bound for Honolulu, and ciple that the liquor traffic is a "pursuit has never since been heard from. One which menaces the public welfare." and of her boats was found on the western that Covcrnment should keep in view the shines of Vancouver's Island, indicating ''controlling and minimizing of the liquor that she foundered soon after leaving the evil," even when granting licenses for the straits, when she encountered an adverse traffic. This attitude is certainly a more storm of great severity. worthy one than that of the Government itself participating in the saloon business, Some mirth has been excited by proby reason of licensing it. which attitude vision made in the School Bill of Deleour last issue reprobated. gate Wilcox, to supply fuel for Hawaiian school houses. The Delegate is bussing Our winter has been extreme!v dry, himself in introducing various bills hit i with only 0.33 inch of rain in January, ( ongress for the benefit of his Territory, and T. 47 in Rebruary. This is the least which he seems to have had copied from the laws of various states, without due (if . a �26 [March, 1902. THE FRIEND. inspection. Hawaii can best make its own I2th.—Work begins on the Waikiki school laws. It is a satisfaction to know extension of the Rapid Transit line by the that scarcely one hill in a hundred gets construction of a road through the McCully tract. —Weight-Raty wedding at passed by Congress. the residence of the bride's mother, Rev. at the bar 11. H. Parker officiating work of deepening The Rearl Harbor has actually begun. The 13th.—Judge Rstee renders a decision contractors' new dredger has been towed declaring the Primo beer law unconstituto the passage and is scooping out the tional and void.—E. M. Griffith, expert forester from the Department at Washsand. ington en route to the Philippines, gave an interesting address on conditions here, Record of Events. from his observations in a recent tour of I'cb. 2nd.—Death of Mrs. Abigail the windward islands. [6th. —Stmr. Sierra arrives from San Drew, a well known resident, aged 75 Rranciseo four days late on account of delights large Miss Castle a numyears.— ber of guests with a well arranged nitis- delayed English mail and an unusually stormy passage.— In the throes of a rainicalc at her Manoa valley residence. less Kona storm Honolulu awoke this a. scheme to swindle Japlottery 3rd. —A 0 anese laborers is being foisted, with in. to find the thermometer down to 52 promise of prises as high as $3,000, to her lowest record. be drawn in front of the Judiciary build17th.—Six-acre block on crest of Kaimuki tract is selected as the Hospital for ing. jth.—The vital statistics for January Incurables' site; building operations soon show 77 deaths, 7b births and 33 mar- to commence. —Death of Dr. G. M. Saul, from typhoid fever after but a brief illriages registered. 5111.— Iwilei wash house conditions are ness. condemned by the Board of Health: al 19th.—Judge Robinson, the new third tcrations and improvements suggested to judge of the first circuit, opens his court cost probably $i,.S(X). —At Wade's re-trial this day.—Work on dredging Rearl harfor the death of Gillespie he is found bor bar commenced, the dredger, built at guilty of manslaughter in the first de- this port, having been towed to its locagree.—So-called "calico" masked ball at tion yesterday,— Two more retail liquor the drill shed, for the benefit of the Eye licenses granted for central Honolulu, and Ear Infirmary, was largely attended, and an attempt is made to extend the pergreatly enjoyed, and doubtless netted a mitted are-a. neat sum. 21st. —Win. Meyers, a well borer, 6th.—Chinese begin their Konohi shoots his wife, a native woman, then (New Year's) celebrations, to the dis- takes his own life. comfit of many households. —The Tua32nd.—Washington's birthday, observlua plant is in demand for experimental ed as a general holiday, and commemoruse at Molokai, and a quantity will be ated by the Society of the Sons of the sent thither. American Revolution at the residence of 7th.—Xew Year's reception at the its president, W. R. Castle, as also in United Chinese Society's building from several schools of the city. 11 to 1 o'clock ; Merger's band in attend23rd.—Stmrs. Alameda and Doric ance.—J. S. Bailey is thrown from his make a longer passage than usual from a severe wagon, in runaway, and sustains thecoast. They both left the city on injuries. regular schedule time and experienced Bth.—A mass meeting addressed by llawaiians, at the drill shed, to consider unusually rough weather the entire trip. —Patriotic services at Central Union the Wilcox Leper bill introduced in Con- Church, with addresses on the life and inits gress strongly protest against passage, as also any attempt to amend the (Irgauic fluence of Washington by Governor Dole Act relating to the suffrage of the natives and Judge Rstee, listened to with marked of these islands.— AChinese woman, dis- attention by a packed bouse. 24th. —The Chamber of Commerce met turbing a burglar in his search for valuables, is stabbed in the shoulder, the as- to consider a resolution of the Merchants' Association relative to Federal aid for sailant escaping in the darkness. 10th.—The two-story building on Fort city sanitation. A committee of three street, adjoining the convent premises, was appointed to confer with the Board once the Aldrich residence, is another of Health and the Federal quarantine oflandmark that succumbs to the march of ficer as to possibilities, for early report. —Bids received for the construction of improvements. the long-desired ditch, for the improveT1 tli.—An unusually large ulna, weighing 27 pounds and measuring three feet ment of the Kevvalo and Kakaako tracts, in length, is caught with hook and line in which Asiatic labor is to be excluded. off the Irmgard wharf, 26th—R. W. Breckons, U. S. District . , Attorney fo rthis Teritory, arrives, with his family, on the transport Warren. 27th.—Several sugar plantation corporations hold their annual meetings for the presentation of reports, etc. Ewa heads the list both for total crop, tons, and yield per acre, which averaged 10.89 ton* throughout, for plant and rattoon cane.—Kihei votes to issue bonds for $500,000 to provide funds for further development of the plantation.—The Attorney-Genera] replying to the Treasurer's enquiry for legal authority to restrict the number of liquor licenses, says the discretionary power he holds is in the nature of a public trust: limited, not absolute.—Rev. W. M. Kincaid inaugurates Gospel tent services on Fort street, near the corner of Hotel, to reach those who fight shy of the churches. The tent's capacity of 300 chairs was fully occupied. 28th.— Blustering March winds arrive to do February homage.—Transport Warren leaves port for Manila with loss of one blade of her propeller, and returns six hours later having lost another.— Miss Barber gives a delightful concert at the Y. M. C. A. hall, which was well attended and thoroughly enjoyed. BIRTHS. LINDBKY—At Kamuela, Smith Kohala, Hawaii, Jan. 18, In the wife of William Lindsay, Jr.. n sun. CHKEK—In this city, Feb. »rd, to the wife of Mr. M. A. Check, a daughter. SIMONTON— In Honolulu, Ken. |ih, to tin- wife ill' M. T. Sfmonton, a son. I.ovkk IN In this city. Feb. 10th, to the wife of A. C. l.ovckln, a son. BARTH—Feb. IJtb, at the Kaptolanl Maternity Home, to the wife of A. K. Barth, a son. R.OWELL—In this city. Feb. 2flth. to the wife of JoHcph W. Howell, a daughter. PECK—In this city, Feb. Bnd, to the wife of Mr. L. Teiinev Peck, a son. TKAPHAOKN—In this city, Feb. ttnd, to the wife of Mr. O. O. Traphagen, a son. WEAVER—In this city, Feb. lcth, to the wire of Philip 1.. Weaver. Jr., ii daughter. MOORE—In this city. Feb. 27th. to I >r. and Mrs. W. L. Moore, a daughter, CaraJ Lowrey. MARRIAGES. MACFARLANE-BALLINOER—In San Francisco, Feh. fith, by the Rev. Father Lyons. Bdward C. Macfarlane, of this city, to Miss Florence I. Balttnger. WEIOHT-PATV—In this city, Feb. Bth. at the residence of the bride's mother, by the Rev. 11. 11. Parker, ('has. S. Weight to Miss Catherine M. Patv. WOOTTEN-CUTTER—In this city, Feh. nth. at the residence of the bride's sister. Mrs. w. 11. Kromley, by the Rev. 11. 11. Parker Mr. 11. Wootten to Miss Elisabeth C. Cutter, both of Honolulu. MAOMII.I.AN-lIAUOHS-ln this city. F. 1.. 19th. at the home of Rev. W. M. Klncald. David Haughs to Mary Maeniillan. daughter of Or. Thomas Macmillan, of Walanae. (5. DEATHS. DREW—In this city, Feb. 2nd, at the residence of the Misses I.add, Nuiianu avenue. Mrs. Abigail Drew, aged 7!i years and 5 months. CHASM—In Alameda, Cal., Feb. Bth, Mrs. Louis,, M. Chase, mother of F. M. Chase, or New York City, and Mrs. (i. \V. It. King, of Honolulu, aged 72 years and 4 months. this elty, Feb. 17th. at the Queen's Hospital, Dr. G. M. Saul, Jr., of Petaluma. Cal., aged 26 years. CONNON—In Honolulu, Feb. 22nd, John J., beloved husband of Josephine Connon. father of Virginia, Mildred, George and John Leslie Oonnon, and oldest son of George and Annie Connon, a native of Chicago, III.; age 32 years 10 months. MURRAY-In this elty, Feb. 23rd, Timothy H. Murray, after a long Illness; a native of �HAWAIIAN BOARD. HONOLULU. H. I. This pace 1* devoted to the Interest* of the Hawaiian Board of Mission*, and the Editor, appointed by the Board, Is responsible for Its con- tents. Rev. O. P. EMERSON - - Editor. Our dear friend, Stephen L. Desha, who for the past fortnight or more has been confined to his bed by an attack of pleurisy, has suffered a sad loss in the death of bis youngest child, Mary Kaakopua. She was a beautiful girl of eleven years of age, who was loved by all her teachers and schoolmates at Kawaiahao Seminary, where she was a faithful and talented pupil with an especial gift for music. Statistics of the Year—Book. The statistics of the churches of the Territory of Hawaii for the Congregational year-book have just been collected, compiled and sent on to Rev. Mr. Asher Anderson, of Mcriden, Conn., who is the Secretary of the National Council of Congregational Churches, and hence the final compiler and publisher of its statisticse in the year-book which generally appears during the second quarter of the calendar year. It is a very difficult matter to secure accurate statistics from the I lawaiian Churches. We believe it nevertheless to be a valuable training along a line which hitherto (before [901 ) has not been followed except by the local organizations. The statistics of the annual report of the Secretary of the Hawaiian Evangelical Association cover the church year, reaching from June to June. The statistics of the year-book of the Congregational Council of American Churches, cover the calendar year. Hence one set of statistics is in a measure a check on the other. The following are some of the facts collated from the statistics just collected. ()f the thirty-seven churches responding, all hut two have reported accessions during the year, making a total accession of 401 members, against a loss of 177. This is a net gain for the past calendar year of 224. The statistics of twenty-four churches which have sent in reports for the last two years have been compared with themselves, with the result of a total accession for these twenty-four churches for the past year of 176, an increase over the previous year of 71. The reports just received are more complete than those of the previous year and it is hoped that in time they will reach a much greater com- pleteness. 27 THE FRIEND. Vol. 60, No. 3.] It is but fair church on the head and front others with it, above report. say that the strongest islands which is at the of the work, and several are not included in the llucnee of his Street preaching, and chapel services, many hitherto indifferent have been awakened to listen, and some to heed the Gospel Message. About the middle of January he left for a tour of Maui, where during the past Rev. H. S. Kimura, a Japanese RevivalistPreach. six weeks he has visited the three Congregational stations, and the three Methodist stations, awakening the several About the middle of December there preachers to a new sense of the vital arrived from San Francisco, en route to power of the Cospel Message, and arousJapan, a young man of twenty-eight ing some scores of the indifferent to emyears of age of very interesting history brace the faith, and many more to listen to the Message of Life from < iod to man. and of lofty purpose. This young preacher's discourses are Mr. Kiinura was the son of a soke Of liquor manufacturer living in a small city remarkable' for direct (lospcl simplicity, in the Province of Niigata. While but a mingled with loving earnestness and lad, some fifteen years ago, he persuaded power. They are fitted to reach the his unwilling mother to permit biin to at- humblest, and to quicken the thought of tend some Christinas exercises where the the most profound. It was hoped that he would visit the Sabbath school children under the teach ing of missionaries, were gathered Stations on Hawaii ; but he feels that duty around a Christmas tree. "There he first calls him to go on to meet loving parents heard Gospel singing and was given a who have now found the Savior upon tract entitleel John 3:lb, which was writ- whom he so earnestly believed so long ten in Japanese under the picture of a since. He purposes to take the Nippon poor boy. ile asked his mother, what Mam, leaving Honolulu March 4th. That his preaching may he blessed to does John 3:16 mean. Hut tin- poor heathen mother did not know. Then he multitudes of his countrymen in his said I will tell you what 1 think : ()nce he native land, is the prayer of his many ( ). 11. (i. was three years old, now he is sixteen. friends in these islands. His mother said 1 guess it is. -Then he Letter from Kusaie. said I will read it to you. It began, '( iod so loved the world that he gave his only By the following letter from Miss Wilbegotten Son.' After he had finished reading it, his mother burnt it up, hut it son, taken from The Pacific, we grieve had made an indelible impression on his to learn how greatly our missionaries in Micronesia are suffering from the poor heart." From this beginning he was leel on to service given by the "Carrie and Annie," surrender for the sake of the Gospel, his the last year's temporary substitute for heirship to his father's property, and lat- the "Morning Star." er to leave for America in pursuit of an Lbllu, Kusaie, C. [~ Oct. 25, 1901. education. It is so nice to receive mail * Ik' spent several years in San Jose, once in three months, but as there is no California, connected with a Methodist special reason why the steamer should college or academy, and later was an ard- call at Kusaie, we tremble every time ent student in Moody's Chicago training they come for fear they will say they are school, now under the guidance of Rev. not going to stop here any more. 1 believe the real reason for their coming is Dr. Torrey. He feels himself called of God to pro- that they thought they had received some claim the Gospel Tidings to men, and encouragement from Mr. Frear that they has delivered his message at many places might bring our freight to us year by in the States within the past year. year. Perhaps they will get it in time. lie says, "Once I was blind, now I The little schooner "Carrie and Ansee. Once I was a heathen, now I am a nie" left us for the islands west of us Christian. Once I was the son of a wine twelve and a half weeks ago. As they merchant, now I am a son of God. John sailed away, Captain Foster called out, 1:12. I was sick of sin ; finally I came to 'We will he back in four weeks." Put the greatest Physician and only Savior, the four weeks have lengthened into aland the work was done in my soul and most thirteen and still they do not come. the Holy Spirit sealed it." Just what has become of them we don't He feels now called to declare the know. It begins to look as if they had great Salvation to his countrymen. For gone onto the reef somewhere. When about u month he labored in the Metho- Capt. Melander came from Ponape some dist and Congregational Japanese weeks ago he said Capt. Foster told him churches of Honolulu, impressing many he was going to Guam before returning of the believers with the power and duty here, so as to get rid of some of his crew, of a spiritual life; while through the in- as he could do nothing with them. They to * * �[March, THE FBIEND. 28 say they are a tough set and that the vessel might be lost on account of their stubbornness to pull together. We felt that she was *a poor apology of a vessel to do our work, as so tew could go on her, and the scholars are feeling tlie need of a change, to say nothing of the missionaries. Yet she was better than nothing, and we wish we had some way of returning some of the scholars we don't wish to keep. * * It will be too had if all the goods for the teachers in the Gilbert and Marshall islands are lost, yet if the vessel returns at this late day I am afraid the goods will * all have to he thrown overboard, for they will be thoroughly rotten by this time. Our goods were thoroughly soaked with salt tea water and dirt and some twentybolts of calico had to he washed, dried and ironed. In this way we managed to save some of it, hut much is rotiin and useless, riddled with holes. Miss lloppin has been making some of it up into skirts for the girls, but it will soon go to pieces. And the cotton thread was black with dirt and mildew. ()f course, that could not be washed. There was till of a gross spoiled in this way. And our new books that we' had purchased were all damp, and in spite of all the sunning 1 gave mine they stay damp still. So two We append some interesting made by Mr. (Ikuniura. It Statements will be noticed that no teachers are- employed. The children receive all their school instruction at English and Japanese public schools. Board STATEMENT i:v REV. I. oki'mika. In publishing this semi-annual report of the Japanese Boarding School, I must thank all the friends who have assisted the school with money and in other ways. I thank Dr. S. Kobayashi and Dr. Iga Mori who have attended many of our sick children, and gave them medicine free of charge. I wish to take this means of making a short history of the school and how it happened to be organized. It was in the month of August of 1896 that at the request of a friend, I took a boy to my house and began to take care of him. Shortly afterwards, two or three boys were sent to me. At that time I had no idea of starting a boarding school. Not wishing to refuse my friends' requests, I took charge of as many children as 1 was able to do. In a short while I had lour or five children. One of them was a child of seven years, who was a very bad and disobedient boy. Alter having been with me for several months, he became quite changed ftir the better to the surprise of much for coming in contact with the salt his friends and neighbors. There was water. Some one remarked that this was also a boy of nine years who was very a good time for us to learn to "take the disobedient. When I reprimanded him for his naughty actions he would become spoiling of our goods joyfully." We were very glad to see Dr. and Mrs. angry and would throw stones at me Rife again. Our school work goes on as After having been with me for a long usual. There is nothing new to write while lie gradually became better. I le is about. We have had and are having now very obedient and faithful, lie is some pretty warm weather. It seems as always the first one to volunteer to go to if my blood was at fever heat most of the postoffice on steamer days, and seems the time. I have been afflicted with boils to feel very happy to hear me express the for almost two months. That is the rea- words "Thank you," after he handed me son I have run away from home and the mail. The improved conduct of these work for a short time, to see if a little children have so impressed upon the change would make me feel better. This minds of the Japanese parents that they is the third time I have had them since began to bring their children to me for coming down here. I often sigh care. This is thus the beginning of the * for a place' where we could go and cool formation of the Japanese Boarding off for a few weeks and then be able to School. Accordingly, 1 rented a house return to our work. But that place is on Kuktii street for the boarders. The thousands of miles away and no wav of school was recognized by the Hawaiian getting to it without taking plenty of Hoard as a mission work at the end of time and money, two things which are 1898. As time passed by, the number of not plentiful in our lives. children began to increase. In the month L. E .Wilson. of (October, iByy, the school was removed to its present premises across the street. In the month of October, 1901, a new Japanese Boarding School. two-storied dormitory 20x40 feet was interesting hoarding school for erected, and beds for 50 children were c hoys has been maintained for provided, of which all of them are nowrs by Rev. T. Okumura, the pas- occupied. 1 wish to mention briefly, how te Japanese Church. It is located the children pass their time. Every * Hist * :ui street near the church. The s were bought and some building f funds raised by Rev. (). 11. Gttth the sanction of the Hawaiian 1002. conduct themselves during the day. They are then sent to the English school during the forenoon, while in afternoon they attend the Japanese school on Nuuaiut street. In the afternoon after school hours, they spend their time in physical exercise, such as military drill, sword fencing, baseball, football and tennis. In the evening, meetings are held, which are presided over by the elder children. Songs are sung, prayers offered, and short remarks .are made by the children. They then go to their study room to review their lessons before' retiring for the . night. All of the children are in direct charge of Mrs. Okumura Mrs. Okumura and are not trained teachers and do not know the method of education. \\C are doing our best to bring the children up and educate them and teach them "I.nve and Truth." In performing our work we pray to Cod and ask for lib guidance and help so that the many children entrusted in our care may be brought up according to His wishes. I am glad to state that we are being greatly assisted by the older children, who by their good conduct and behavior help us a great deal to control the newones. The boarding school is conducted without any funds whatever, merely relying upon the money paid by tin- boarders which amounts to $5 per month for each child, and to the generosity of the friends of the school. I am glad t» state that we are' able to carry 011 the work through the valuable assistance of our friends. I hope that our kind hearted friends will still continue to assist us in the future as they have 'lone in the past. We have at present in our care 50 children, out of which number seven are supported free of charge, while five are paying half rates 011 account of the poverty of their par- myself ents. 'The financial report of the past six months is hereby submitted. T. Okcmika, Principal Japanese Boarding School I Idiiolulu, Feb. 10, 1902. SEMI-ANNUAL REPORT, Ist to December 31st, From July Receipts— Received from Boarders 1901. $i.o*>3'. 15 60.00 I [awaiian board Mrs. Mary Castle, Mrs. II. C. Coleman and Miss C. 1). Casibo.oo tle Mrs. M. S. Rice 50.00 Mr. J. I!. Atherton 50.00 Mr. C. M. Cooke 25.00 Mr. S. M. Damon 25.00 morning at 7:30 all the children gather \lr. Shinoda 3.00 at the assembly hall. Some offer prayer Mr. Kashiwala and Saito 2.00 while others read a verse from the Bible. Total I speak to them as to how they should $1,438.15 �29 THE FRIEND. Vol. 60, No. 3.] — "Naturally charmed by the hospitable childhood. Her eyes were blue. She reception of his distinguished East In- wore a new black satin gown and seemed dian hosts, it would seem that the Bishop well dressed. She laid aside her bonnet of New York had been misled into pictur- during the meetings. She presided well, ing the life of Indian woman in brighter and as one thoroughly accustomed to the work, and carried the business through; colors than the facts justify." secretary of the she showed herself to be a woman largely vants 138.00 Mr. Robert E. Speer, Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, endowed with the rare gift of conlmon Kerosene oil and other minor writes in similar vein to the Churchman sence. You never once thought of her 2 expenses 731 "Truly every religion should be judged office as bigger than the woman. She its best as well as its worst. But the controlled the convention without being by $i,532.5o Total worst of Hinduism is sanctified and sanc- arbitrary and arrogant —points in which Deficit 94-35 tioned in its sacred books. Its vilest prac- men often fail. I wonder if I shall be Okumura, T. not digPrincipal Japanese Boarding School. tices are in the name and under the for- misunderstood if I say she was was drawn Sir Charles seemed to me she religion. of nified. It approval mal Examined and found correct. 'Trevelyan once testified before a parlia- so close to the hearts of the women, there, A. K. Ozawa. mentary committee that when, with some officers and delegates, there was no room a society to put for the stiff formality we call dignity. Bishop Potter and Eastern Religions. others, he joined to form and they She often called her officers by her own practices, native down cruel 'that all pet names for them. Mrs. Stevens was found subject, they went into the Bishop Potter's recent articles on "Inso mixed up with the "Stevie." They all seemed like girls towere practices •these its have Religions," dia: Its People and and grew so di- gether. Miss Willard was cheerful, aroused some hostile criticism from mis- Hindu religious system, short of the bright and even merry at times. Pernothing that it, out of rectly sionary circles. Mr. John W. Wood, edto Christianity haps because of the strength of her faith, of the natives c onversion itor of The Spirit of Missions, writes: ' change.' Here the bright, hopeful side of everything ap"If these articles had been written by would effect any real moral no moral evil or pealed to her. sanctions religion some avowed opponent of Christian mis- our worst of India is its religion. The She seemed to feel no sense of discoiupwrong. sions, or by one less closely identified its religion. To agement or of defeat in her work. VicAmerica is The best of missionary enterprise, they with the two, as is done in the art- tory might be delayed, but in the end it might have passed unchallenged. But it compare thereview, is misleading and un- would surely come, seemed her spirit to icles under not be strange if many persons are will view which these articles pre- me. It was entirely evident that sh.6 had The just. convinced by the articles that missions to And truth is the the hearts of the women of the convena true view. sent not is India—and why not to China and Japan? it is fatal to tion. I think she could have manipulatWhether thing. supreme —are quite unnecessary. side, on or to an ed that body if she had so chosen, bemissions one Christian "Certainly no exception can be taken tolerance on cause every delegate loved her- so. unstudying to the nine extracts quoted by Bishop easy-going and What Against their own opinions and prinlittle consequence. is of other, the Potter from the laws of Manu, on the say that in his authority of his Indian friends. But, un- is the truth? I regret to what he thinks ciples? O, no! There was no question of heart toward goodness discussed and voted on involving princihappily for Indian womanhood, these parown ple. It was at this convention that the his in and misjudged, has been not be accurately ticular injunctions can of 'India, its People office of vice president at large was credescribed in the Bishop's words, as 'those superficial judgment Potter has un- ated and filled, and it seemed to me each Bishop its Religions,' and laws which define the place of woman in to serve delegate sought to know what Miss Wilopportunity missed an the economy of East Indian life.' They wittingly has lard wanted, and when they found out, unwittingly equally and truth, the are exceptional passages in a code which voted in the way to give it to her. may be fairly described as containing in ministered to error." She was queen. But she was very its more than 500 printed pages much Description of Miss Willard. simple. There was one little lady pres'unutterable filth and intolerable drivel.' ent who gave the most watchful care to One has only to turn to the code as it At a memorial meeting of the W. C. Miss Willard. Miss Anna Gordon, her has been translated in Prof. Max MulMcCully-Higler's 'The Sacred Books of the East,' to T. U. on the 18th ult. Mrs.word-picture of secretary. Miss Willard was not strong, choice a very read gins and Miss Gordon's anxiety saw every be convinced of this and to learn what at the religious teachers and law-givers of Miss Frances Willard, as she saw.her sign of approaching fatigue and anticiIndia have taught concerning the nature, Cleveland in November 1894. We make pated by tea and some little refreshment sent to Miss Willard's table, and which position, and duties of woman. Many of room for the following extracts: "Her pictures are so familiar I need was taken while some delegate talked. the passages are too offensive for quotaThe general tendency of not tell you how she looked. By means During the convention a telegram was tion. acthe code is to degrade woman as the in- of those pictures you have all become of received announcing the death of Mrs. ferior and subordinate of man, and to as- quainted with her sweet face, the look the Woodbury, National Corresponding Secsign to her a naturally wicked nature the soft wavy hair, the little tilt of retary. A memorial service for her was (ii., 213-215; iv., 17-20). She is spoken head usual with people who wear glasses. arranged. It was held just at dusk. of as 'the marital property' (ix., 51) of But perhaps you do not quite see in her From the busy stir and noise of business man, and is classed with 'cows, mares, pictures the steady, straight, candid look the convention settled itself into a solemn female camels, slave-girls, buffalo cows, of the white soul through her eyes and on silence, and a tender spirit of rememher face, the patient but undismayed ex- brance and holy peace seemed to enter she-goats, and ewes' (ix., 48)." "The census returns show that millions pression of one who makes no compro- and fill the place. A large picture of Mrs. Woodbury, heavily draped in black, stood of child-marriages are still being consum- mise with a great evil, but with no spirit mated every year in India. Infanticide of hate. She was not a large woman, but on an easel on the platform. There were several speeches, justly and enforced widowhood are common, medium sized, and fairer than I had ima fine solo, and then Miss Wiland systems of prostitution are sanctioned agined her to be. Her hair was a light eulogistic, brown which may have been blond in her by religion itself." Disbursements $ 98.20 Deficit of last report 1,108.70 «ood stuff 89.90 Washing T uel 33-5o salary for cook and general ser- : ° . . .. �30 THE FRIEND. lard made a prayer, and such a prayer! THE The center of the convention during every moment of its time, every thought HAWAIIAN ANNUAL now seemed specially to turn toward Miss Willard, as though the loss of her faithful helper and friend would be a FOR 1902 ! special grief to her; but she behaved like a weaned child. She led the way to the 28th Issue. Mount of Vision, and there for herself and us who heard her, looked into the face of God. Only when she pasyed did Bigger and Better than Ever one get any idea—could anyone guesj> that the work she was engaged in and so Isan Illustrative Number Beplete withValuable Historic Information pertaining to Hawaii loved had been so heavy a burden upon Handy Reference. her, and that sometimes the end and rest for revised Statistical and Cenene Tsblss, Carefully were joyfully anticipated—that to depart Specially prepared Articles on Timely Topics, and be with Christ was better than the relating to the Progress nnd Development of conflict. It seemed as though in •her the Islands. Research and Current History oonoisely dealt with. sense of God's presence and her forgetfulness of those about her as she prayed One of the Most Interesting Numbers yet Published. Alike Valuable for Home and she unconsciously betrayed the secret that sometimes she longed to rest. 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