https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/db59b29a002c0fecb53d9c89f03e6b73.pdf 7d6b8a82d2373c9dff8f74849499cc1f PDF Text Text �THE FRIEND. 2 Kauai, IMITED tiost cOc, THE FRIEND pISHOP & COMPANY, . BANKERS. Marine, Life jr£± Accident rv on ■!» Is published the first week of each month *-* in Honolulu, T. H., at the Hawaiian Board Book Rooms, Progress Block, 11K.S Fort St. Subscription price, $1.50 per year. HONOLULU, HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. Established in 1858. / All business letter should be addressed Transact a General Banking and Exchange and all M. O.s and checks .should be made Business. Loans made on approved security. ~.,njl<iri/ Insurance Iw3I)JJJS^BSBR9,Hr/ Bills discounted. Commercial Credits grantout to ed. Deposits received on current account sub923 Fori Street, Safe Deposit Theodore Richards, ject to check. Building. liiisincss Manager of The Friend. Regular Savings Bank Department mainP. (). 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Orramel H. Gulick. Theodore Richards. Rev. Edward W. Thwing. Key. Edward B. Turner. Rev. William D. Westervelt. Entered October tft /<><>?, »t f/ono/u/u, ffa'taii, as tecond 1lass mattrt, uudet tut of Gtngreuof Afaxh ?, /#?y. ... MOVEB into new quarters in the /-\ AHU COLLEGii. Business Agent, Honolulu, H. T. Progress Block where hereafter may be found Bibles in English Hawaiian Japanese Chinese Portuguese as well as general RELIGIOUS LITERATURE We plan to keep a stock of T M. WHITNEY, M. D., D. D. S. Henry Waterhouse Trust Co., Ltd. STOCKS. BONDS AND ISLAND SECURITIES The Board or Editors : Judd Building. . . . (Arthur 1188 F<>rt St., Progress Block, Honolulu, T, H. mid tniif 1 rntrh tin liuard HtHtmt l>y the 24th of the month Sunday School materials Fort and Merchant Streets, Honolulu. HF. ' WICHMAN, & CO., LTD. Manufacturing Optician, Jeweler and Silversmith. Importer of Diamonds, American and Swiss Watches, Art Pottery, Cut Glass, Goods, Etc. Honolulu Leather .... 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The Friend begins its sixty-fifth year with this, the first number, of its For the Month Ending December 20th. 1906. sixty-fourth volume. The first copy was issued in January, 1843, by its UCEIPTS. founder and for exactly forty-two years editor, Rev. S. C. Damon. Throughout To Cash received on the following accounts: its career the dominating characteristic November 21, igofi—To Cash on hancl.$ 10.40 of The Friend baa been its advocacy of Order Department 3*9* everything making for larger life, highAS°o Ka HoaJoha Ministerial Relief Fund 300.00 er ideals and better conditions through\'hr Friend 7-65 out these Islands. Its most strenuous Chinese Work 50.20 early battles wire waged against inA I!. C. F. M 19^S temperance. For many years it was 99.9K conspicuously a newpaper, but the Publications Leo lloonani 15.no 105.00 monopolization of this function by the Waince Church (Hale Aloha) (laliu (ieneral Fund -',078.50 dailies led gradually to the change 80.00 which today sees it the special advocate Palama Mission General Fund 9000 <>f all that makes for the triumph of Kauai (ieneral Fund 6.432.75 righteousness in the Territory. Its inAtherton Fund 75 00 Bishop Fund 19500 terpretation of righteousness is as wide (". \l. Cooke Fund 120.00 is the uni\ erse of good things. (>n an70.00 other page the announcement of its Japanese Work 40.00 A. M. A The list of Portuguese Work 15.00 plans for HJO7 appears. Hawaii General Fund 3.50 writers for our columns promises a betHush Place 4x °o ter year than any preceding volume Maui General Fund 2.50 has known. Meantime we call upon all our friends throughout the Islands to $9,915.69 add to the attractiveness of our pages by tending us snap shots or photos of lIISWKSEMKNTS. island life recording scenes of unusual interest. The Friend is reaching a Office Expense $ 175 7.1 large number of mainland readers Salaries 540.50 $ 716.23 who desire to keep in touch with the march of events in this Territory. We Japanese Work $358.00 Salaries 77300 invite the widest cooperation in en1,13145 abling us to satisfy this desire. Our English Work $ 15.00 wish for all is that the year 1907 may Salaries 698.00 prove the richest in blessing and most 713.00 fruitful in service of any thus far exPtihlications 61.51 Palania Mission 78-75 perienced. Palama Mission Fund Kauai General Fund Order Department Ka Hoaloha General Fund Chinese Work Salaries 50.00 207.00 Hawaiian Board Headquarters. Since August i, iooi, the fourth floor of the Boston building has been the 40.00 $102.05 busy center of the Hoard's official life, 971.00 but for many months evidences have 1.073.05 accumulated to force the conviction Periodicals 326.95 that the growth of our business The Friend 42.51 Hawaiian Work—Salaries 286.00 department must cease or removal Portuguese Work—Salaries 258.00 to larger quarters on the ground Settlement 10.00 tloor must supervene, The sale of Interest 12.36 in languages and of other Bibles all Cash on Hand '... 79.89 Balance at Bank 4,285.81 religious books and periodicals has steadily augmented until it has fairly $9.9i 5-691 compelled recognition as one dis504.31 38.87 No. i Unci feature of the Board's enterprise, fortunately commodious and centrally located premises] in the Progress block, corner of Fort and Beretania streets, (1188 Fort street), were available and on December 15 the removal was effected. It seems a happy augury that within a few months of the issue >f its annual report entitled "That They Go Forward," the Hoard should be constrained to make its headquarters in a building bearing the name of Progress Block. Let us trust that this may prove a prophesy not only of material growth but far better of new and constantly enlarging spiritual ministry. Thanksgiving. the afternoon preceding our National religious holiday. The Hoard was in debt. Just what the way out was to be no one knew. A telephone message canu' asking, "What is the exact amount of the debt of the Hoard?" Our stenographer and bookkeeper, who received the message, answered "I will look it up and reply as soon as possible." Then somewhat later the message went, "Six thousand two hundred and twenty-five dollars and seventy-five cents." Not long thereafter a messenger entered bearing a check for this amount with the brief announcement, "Mother Rice wishes to pay the debt of the Hoard." For the rest of that afternoon an unusual quietness reigned in the office. Soon the only officers of the Hoard who were present were on their knees pouring out their thanksgiving to the Great Giver and beseeching forgiveness for doubt of His loving care. Far over on Kauai a holier joy reigned in the heart of the servant of Jehovah who once more was testing the richness of the promise, "It is more blessed to give than to receive." It was great : Dr. Barton's Visit. The tidings that the American Board had appointed a special delegation to visit the four great Missions in China sent several letters from Honolulu to Boston urging that Hawaii be included in the itinerary. The gentlemen ap- �4 THE FRIEND. pointed to the task were Rev. James consisted of Very Rev. Henry H. WyL. Barton, D. D., foreign secretary of nian and Rev. Henry 1.. Stark. For the Board; Rev. Edward C. Moore, jsome weeks they held services in the D. D., chairman of the Hoard's Pruden- Roman Cathedral, the meetings gential Committee and Professor in Har- erally being crowded to the doors. A vard University, and Lucien C. Warn- cordial invitation was extended to Proer. M. D., L. L. D.. of New York City. testants as well as Romanists to attend The In reply to the invitation from the Is- and was generously accepted. lands it was learned that only Dr. Bar- Paulist Fathers are well known to Conton was to be expected this way and gregationalists because of the promi that he would arrive on the Mongolia nence in their order of the late Father December 27. Preside nt Jones of the Hewitt, son of a noted Congregational local Board immediately mapped out a preacher, and of Father Wyman, anfull day for the distinguished visitor. other convert from the same church. On the arrival of the steamer a large! The order has done notable work delegation of friends and members of throughout the East, especially in Xew the Board headed by the president York City where its missions for Prowere on hand to welcome Dr. Barton, testants have won not a few to the Rowho waswiven at once to Mr. Jones': man communion. We are glad to rechome, where a host of friends had been ognize the good work done here and invited to a reception and lunch. After elsewhere by these faithful ministers of a delightful season of sociability Dr. Christ. Until the Spirit of God shall Barton, accompanied by a dozen or have wrought such vital changes in all more members of the Board, in a gen- Churches as shall lead Christians of erous barge provided by the host of the every name to unite on the basis of day, was taken to the Capitol to call tight living rather than that of whit upon the Governor, after which a drive each may consider correct thinking, the through the city and to the Aquarium Protestant and Roman divisions of the followed. In the evening a grand in- true Catholic Church arc likely each to ternational rally of welcome was held consider that the other holds certain in historic Kawaiahao Church. A good- doctrines that are not sound. Meanly audience, which but for the heavy time there are and will continue to be rain would have been sufficiently aug- Protestants and Romanists who are mented to fill the auditorium, gathered such merely in name, minus that to testify the gratitude of the Chris- vital religion which consists in personal tians of the Territory regardless of race loving union with God. If any misto the American Hoard for the wonder- sioncr of the Church of Rome can so ful work done here under its auspices. present the Gospel to one of these conStirring hymns sung in unison by Ha- ventional Protestants as to arouse in waiians, Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese him the consciousness of Cod's life and and Americans, each in his own tongue, lead him to let that life have its will music by Kamchameha (ilee Club, with him. we shall sing the Tt Peum prayer by the venerable missionary to over the conversion : for there are some the Gilbert Islands, Rev Hiram Bing- natures to whom the Church of Rome ham. D. I).. son of the first pastor of makes its special appeal and like XcwKawaiahao Church and member of the man and Faber the sooner they yield pioneer band that came to Hawaii in to it the better. There are also in the 1820, scripture reading by Rev. W. X Roman Church not a few whose makeLono, himself a missionary to the (iil- nn is essentially Protestant. To such bertese for 20 years, and words of wel- the contact with some messenger of come from Churches of five nationali- the freer Church is the open door into ties ushered in a ringing missionary the realm of happy religions life. As address by Dr. Barton, Rev. (). H. Gu- long as this continues to be true, work lick closing with the benediction. It by Romanists for Protestants and by was one more memorable scene added Protestants for Romanists will be workto the many which this glorious old well done. Herein is the true answer meeting house has witnessed. On the to the question, why maintain our Pormorning of the 28th Dr. Barton spent tuguese mission work? Because theresome hours looking into the local work by we are leading men and women and at noon he was given a typical Ha- from bondage to liberty. So we rejoice over every convert from nominal waiian farewell. to real religious life by whomsoever The Paulist Fathers. made and we congratulate our Roman The past month was made memor- friends Upon the successful mission able for our Roman Catholic friends by inst closed. The removal of the Hathe campaign of evangelism conducted waiian Board rooms to a location almost opposite the Catholic Cathedral is. let us trust, a presage of brotherly regard and of sincere fraternal relations ever to characterize our respective entcprises as they move on side by side in the great mission of opening mens eyes to their supreme privilege as sons of the Eternal Father. Library Extension. A question recently put to one of our Hoard by the efficient Head Worker of I.aid win House, Lahaina, Miss Mary J. Austin, disclosed one of the vital unmet needs of the people of Editorial this Territory. It asked whether it would be possible to secure the loan of library books from Honolulu for the US€ of the constituency of the Settlement. The reply unfortunately was thai since Honolulu possessed no free public library such a demand could not be supplied. Our local library under the able management of Miss Hillebrand does meet the wants of subscribers on the other Islands, but this service is necessarily restricted by the cost of subscription. Why should not Hawaii give immediate attention to the need vocalized by Miss Austin? There can be no question that the Hawaiians are book-lovers, but unfortunately those of them who read only their own language have no means for gratifying this passion because of the dearth of books in their own tongue. Steadily and very rapidly however, those who suffer from this disability are slipping away and already the larger proportion of the race can read F.nglish. If the voting people whom we take so much pains to teach the national language are to grow up to be strong, progressive, intelligent and widely useful citizens, the treasures of English literature and of contemporary thought must be placed within their reach. Should it not be the aim of our philanthropists and of our legislature to supply this demand? To secure a like end Xew York State has for vcars pursued a very simple and effective plan. Any company of persons in that commonwealth with the guarantee of some reliable citizen can apply to the State Library in Albany for a set of selected books on any subject and they will be immediately sent. The only expense is that of carriage. On their return other sets may be procured in succession indefinitely. Thus the entire library, outside of reference books and the like, is being placed at the service of all the people. Reading clubs of women, groups of workingmen, bands of school children recruited by teachers, all sorts of organizations for mutual study and improvement make large �THE FRIEND. use of this privilege and the area of culture is being constantly widened. There is good reason to believe that as noon as the local government, Territorial or t ounty. will agree to make an adequate annual appropriation for its upkeep and steadily enlarging equipment. Mr. Carnegie may be induced to consent to present to Honolulu a spacio.is library budding with generous reading rooms and up-to-date facilities. We trust that Governor Carter may find it possible to include in his niessage to the Legislature of 1007 a recommendation for such an appropriation. While it would seem as though the Honolulu Library might serve as an excellent nucleus for such an institution, it may be doubted whether a private enterprise of this kind will find it possible to come into such a scheme. it certainl) is time that the Territory of Hawaii should cease to stand unique among all the States and 'Territories of the American Cniou in having no Free Public Library. The Call to Prayer. We print in another column a letter to the Churches of Hawaii from the American Hoard, signed by its Foreign This is easily Secretary, Dr. Barton. the most important communication which has come hither from that honor ed Society in many years. 'The Hawaiian Board calls upon all ministers to read it to their people upon the first Sabbath of the Xew Year. The most casual acquaintance with the deep current of modern life shows its irresistable set towards the spiritual. 'There is a new ferment in the world, made cvi dent by the emergence of men of the type of Theodore Roosevelt, by the tremendous earnestness of the propaganda against predatory wealth and in behalf of social unselfishness, by the books which most profoundly are stirring men's souls, by Great Britain's repudiation of the abhorrent opium i'l " iquity, and by mighty religious movements. Japan is literally being born into a higher moral experience. The insufficiency of old time sanctions, the rottenness of much of its family life, its lack of commercial honor and the terrible plight of its best young manhood and young womanhood without God and without hope are burning into the soul of the nation a craving for Friendship with the Eeternal, which 1nicks a spiritual awakening beside which that of the past 30 years into the world consciousness will pale. China is just passing through the gates into a paradise of hope and life which must constitute for the nation an ex- perience unparalleled in the history of humanity. For China is so great that the transformation must move upon a colossal scale, dazzling to contemplate. Blessed are the heroes now being forged who are to lead in this wondrous campaign. Central in it all stands the Lord C hrist, whose life is already forming a part of the curriculum of every school in the Imperial province of C"Dili li. and soon doubtless to be studied by every boy and girl in the great Empire. The pmyers of the ages are hastening to their fulfilment with a Speed that light alone can typify, Xo wonder that we read with amazing joy how Gipsy Smith is stirring staid Boston as never before, how centers of learning which twenty years ago seemed almost careless of religj »n now strive to outfoot one another in establishing foreign missions and in sending their leading professors to inspect mission fields, how the Bible is coming to its own again in careful reverent study on the part of hundreds of thousands of college students, men of affairs, clerks and laborers. There never was a time when prayer was more needed or the prospects of its achievements so bright. Here in Hawaii we have seen the scale turned from dejection over a decline that has lasted more than forty years into a glorious upward movement brimful of promise. By all means let uprav. l.et every Church read the message of the American Hoard and burning with new optimism seek the Mercy Seat, longing for that baptism of Fire and the Spirit which shall usher in the full noon-day of achievement for Christ and His Kingdom which reverent prophecy seems to declare at hand. 5 series of events which culminated in the enunciation of the Monroe Doc trim-. A hundred years ago the new commonwealth in the Western Hemisphere was confronted by the problem of how to adjust itself to the conflicting interests of European States. After many years of diplomacy and not a few of warfare the pronunciamento which bears the name of our fifth president settled the questions at issue justly and permanently. It was one of the great achievemena of the early nineteenth century. Today America faces Asia and a mere accident of race prejudice bids fair to raise the question of the relations of the vast multitudes peopling and to people the two sides of thf The nineteenth ocean of the future. century was still the slave of war civilization, hence the Monroe Doctrine was a threat. 'The twentieth century aspires to become the hand maid of Peace, therefore the decision will move in the realm of commerce. San Francisco's point of view as outlined in the Chronicle of December 20 in reply to a demand from the Eastern Stales for a dispassionate statement of Golden Gate sentiment is that the opposition to tin Japanese is based on the conviction that if they be allowed to continue to emigrate freely they will impose their Oriental civilization upon the Western States. "Hawaii is today a Japanese colony." "Within a quarter of a century the whole Pacific Coast would become what Hawaii is now a Japanese community with a Japanese civilization." "It is not a question of 'labor' but of the preserva- — tion of American civilization. Hie Asiatic civilization, as we see it here. differs from our own. first, in overcrowding in tenements, in a lower Well Done. standard of diet and a lower standard Churches and pastors are surpassing >f comfort generally. Americans can themselves. Revs. R. A. Buchanan of compete with them only by adopting Desha of llilo carry L. S. Kohala. and their standards: secondly, in the ideas off the banner for early reports. They of personal and family morality." as December 20. sent them as early Notwithstanding the declaration that Other first honor men were Revs. J. X. "it is not a question of labor'," that Ho Kainoku and M. Kuikahi. Dec. 23; "at present no white man in this State Tsz Tsung, Dec. 27: J. Fukuda and X. is deprived of work by the presence of Washivama. Dec. 28; K. Maeda. S. P. the Asiatics, nor are his wages reducTanaLee G. Kui. Kaaia.J. M- Lydgate. ed," the article gives clear evidence that ka. D. Kahooio. G. L. Kopa and L. D. the economic argument is the main i< Keliipio, Dec 31. Such promptness a great comfort to the Secretary. spring of the entire contention. "But should times change and the labor supply exceed the demand, white labor THE JAPANESE QUESTION. would go to the wall in an instant. Wotkingmen know that they would be The complications involved in the the first sufferers, and hence lead in treatment of Japanese children by San the agitation." Francisco promise to eventuate in the Other utterances of the San FrancCc > most serious international question press on the issue reveal an unfortuwhich America has faced since the nate race prejudice affecting the minds �6 THE FRIEND political boss, Abra- tending towards the type of Americanof a large circle of people. Japanese ling and indicted has made President of ism that San Francisco is by some been Ruef, are so difham waYS of looking at things reputed to represent so much as that ferent from ours, they themselves are the Hoard." which characterizes Southern Califorto retain that strives demagoguery The such strangers to us that the primitive nia and the East generally. Honolulu as it the sand-lot in today rises did enemy power as of stranger conception and is better governed than its big sister to race hatred it era both appeals by unbidden and dominates, just as does by the Golden Gate. a that will of to fear of competition case the in degree to a less the though Certainly in view of the conquest of the raw immigrant from the less at- starve out American labor and that disolder civilization at the hands Japan's to the Nation by hopes impress countries. man's "A tractive European of that of the Western world it is a man for a that" is a hard lesson for a playing the generation—old scarecrow to San Frandebate that on the Pacific puerile Asia over-awing to learn. of immoral provincial American t( coast Asiatic will supplant Christian love of seems righteousness to view of this cisco's opposition darker A ideals. If they ever should do so, it the Japanese is frankly stated by a San die hard. It is strange that the attempt is made will only be because they ought. Xo, let Francisco weekly. 'The Was]), of Deto buttress San Francisco's case by cit- San Francisco learn a lesson from Hacember 8, in the following terms: ing Hawaii's experience. No possible waii's experience, begin to treat the the trouble has been caused by "All local labor politicians and a few news- statement could be farther from the Asiatic as a brother man, and be honorpapers working in harmony with them truth than the assertion that "Hawaii is able towards him, and he will respond to create a race war. 'The number of today a Japanese colony." Numerical- there as he has done here. lapanese school children now in San ly the people of this race predominate 'Take for instance the school quesFrancisco is insignificant. Many times but the one most noticeable feature of tion. Honolulu had to face it years ago. more negro children go to the public the life of these Islands is the victors Young Japanese men desired to enter our schools and sit side by side with their of American ideals over those of Asia public schools. Ignorant of English white companions. Every day one can here. Some years ago vice was they were graded into the primary With full annexation the classes, but unable to sit in the seats see kinky haired little negroes going licensed. laughingly to school, accompanied by American spirit demanded the abolition for the little tots, they quickly dropped white children and no protest has been of this abhorrent system. Among its out. At the same time the religious raised by politicians or newspapers. In advocates were many white men and agencies of the city have been quick to • he South the same scene would almost women including some Americans pro- supply a large number of evening lead to a lynching. On the other hand minent in church life. Many Japanese schools which do more for them than a Southern community would raise no non-Christians and the baser sort of all merely give them a knowledge of our objection to the attendance of a hand- nationalities helped swell the rank and language. ful of Japanese pupils at its public file that marched after this leadership. As to the young children, the universal testimony is that they are schools. So far, therefore, the Japa- Hut the American spirit won. Again last November a grafting among the best behaved pupils we nese question in San Francisco has not become more than a small local one. police force hand in glove with Asiatic have. If the politeness and docility and the President is to be commended and white gamblers menaced Honolulu which they evince could by some happy in endeavoring to prevent it from being with the threat of complete domination. accident be inoculated into multitudes magnified into an international dif- ()ne Japanese sheet was bold enough of American boys and girls throughout ficulty which might cause grave com to side openly with this element. Here the Mainland, our country would owe mercial complications and perhaps lead again not a few of our leading Ameri- Japan a debt of deepest gratitude. To up to a serious war. It cannot become cans publicly supported the corrupt us in Hawaii who know Japanese far a casus belli, as long as the Govern- machine. But the spirit of the Nation better than San Francisco with its race hatred possibly can hope to do, the ment of the United States declares downed the combination. In each of these instances Christian prejudice against Japanese children positively that the Japanese shall have all the rights to which they are legally Asiatics as well as their nobler non- seems the acme of absurdity. It may, of course, be true that there entitled under their treaty with us. Christian compatriots sided loyally This at once changes the quarrel, from with the victorious forces of righteous- have been cases of diseased or depravone between the United States and ness. Instead of Hawaii being Japa- ed Japanese boys and girls in the San Japan to one between the United States nese in civilization, it is more truly Francisco schools, but no one would Government at Washington and the American than San Francisco has been think of objecting to their being exGovernment of Mayor Schmkz and since the era of pure government im- cluded just as diseased or depraved Abe Rticf in San Francisco. 'The Fed- mediately succeeding the rise of the children of any other race should eral Government can be trusted to take vigilantes and preceding: the day of be. The crux of the situation is care ol itself, in such a controversy. fierce anti-Chinese agitation. The test that San FYa'ncisco has in effect declarand see that nothing will be done ex- of a civilization is not found in the ed that the Japanese child is not fit to cept what is creditable to the people of clothes worn or in skin color but in the associate with the child of American, the United States. The man who rep- spirit which moves forward towards Irish. British, Italian. Greek. Slav, resents the American people in this realization of higher ideals. Armenian or Syrian parents. This decHawaii is steadily proving the propo- laration is both untrue and an internacontroversy is President Theodore Roosevelt, who has placed himself as sition that when two civilizations meet, tional insult. near to the hearts of his countrymen as the higher and more vital must prevail. It is exactly here that the battle is any person who has filled his exalted With about two-thirds of the popula- to be joined. The American Republicposition. The man at the head of the tion Asiatic and a large proportion of set out upon its national career with Hoard of Education in San Francisco is the rest Polynesian, our civilization is the assertion that all men are equal. a small politician, who, by reason of intensely American and it is becoming What it meant by this was clear close family relationship to the bood more so— fortunately, however, it is not enough, not equal in material or mental �THE FRIEND. 7 of In- Asia's power to deal American comendowment but equal by reason of of equality which our Declarationnational, as asserts to be our mercial expansion a blow that for deequal great dependence God's family, sonship in brothers are equal. When the Consti- ideal. cades will be irreparable. If we pertution was framed economic considera-j Japan sees all this with absolute clar-| sist in our cruel treatment of the tions prevented the States from squar- itv of vision. Therefore she has ex- Asiatic—for nothing in the material ing their treatment of slavery with this; perienced a most violent shock to rea-j realm can compare in cruelty with the fundamental axiom. But after more son and moral sense in the discovery of i to a felthan three-quarters of a century of the fact that the America of today is being denial of essential brotherhood human race —this blow must fall. the axiom low moral conflict culminating in war the strongly moved to belie both as a state that existence be to live underlies her Asia not able always may doctrine of equality prevailed. The her character, and the revelation of not at once to it can more expected could be unto alone hut do this South itself accept fully the result. It will take made when she rudely awakened Dai successfully than we can. Much better generations of bitterness and struggle Nippon to the consciousness of hen for us to go hand in hand each reacting to bring Xegro and White to the status membership in the family of Nations. to force of brotherhood that equality demands. It is a most critical moment in her ex- helpfully upon the other than of the most serious crisesi Asia into a bitterness of competition Similarly though to a far lesser de-! perience—one in present day history. wherein her ideal resources in labor and gree the coming of poor, ignorant, opmust course China and Japan to us Of in land give her such vast advantage. with habits pressed Europeans If Is it not time lor labor in the United strange and uncouth has always awak- 1 stand together in the near future. ened in many Americans a sentiment of the solidarity of the human race is to States to become truly international in distrust, dislike and superiority. The be realized these nations must pool is- spirit? Much labor literature delights Italian today is finding it necessary to sues. They are doing it. If human in the expression, human solidarity. It anything at all they is more than a term, it embodies a live down the epithet "Dago" just as brotherhood means America, "You shall treat mighty truth. But to restrict it to must to say sneer the the Hebrew must conquer President whites is to stultify it. It is perfectly and contempt which lurk in the term us as you do other men." has proved clear that acting under this general He right. Roosevelt is "Sheeny." 'These prejudices are marks himself a seer in demanding the priviprinciple of equality it may be both just of provincialism, of slavery to traits of naturalization for Japanese. lege and wise for nations to regulate and bred into our savage ancestors. But step will be to grant this to restrict immigration so as to protect The next winning is slowly the ideal of equality all men upon precisely equal terms. workingmen from a disturbance of its way. We have no right to refuse it. economic conditions likely to prove disFor setting aside the black man, the astrous to large numbers of men. This mean we should This does not that process of learning to treat as brothers not safeguard our citizenship. Japan is a question of policy to be determined men of racial stock so closely allied to incalculable bene- by experiment. But all such regulaus as the various European peoples is will have done us an interfere with the fit if as an outcome of this controversy •ions must never brotherhood, not proving so discouraging. We are of hubasic of principle that be led to require doing well. And the main reason our government be man solidarity. Japan and China care before no alien shall naturalized therefor is that we admit them readily an English examination in not a whit what labor exclusion or to our citizenship and thus they soon passing of regulation laws our Nation enacts as acquire formidable powers. With the American civics under the auspices long as they bear equally upon- all Asiatic, however, the case is entirely- a Board constituted somewhat after the aliens. Whether we wish to extend to manner of our Board of Civil Service different. Unlike the black he is the Commissioners. With such a safe- their nationals the privilege of natuproduct of a hoary civilization, one far guard we can afford to admit men of ralization or not matters nothing if we treat other foreigners likewise. Race antedating our own. In many ways lit- any race to our citizenship. is our superior, evolution having taught hatred, discriminations on the ground him certain lessons which we have not Unless insensate folly should lead of such mere accidents as color or place yet learned and which have equipped California people to commit some great of birth, or that deny such a concept as him with rare powers for survival in outrage upon Japanese, war between humanity, are the factors in this prothe great industrial era of peace, now the two nations is unthinkable. The blem that demand absolute elimination dawning on earth. He is so far from us statesmen of the Emperor are as wise before a righteous solution can be had. in some of his habits and in his mental as our own. It may please the press We believe the American Nation can approach to subjects of common interest of both countries to make larger sales be trusted finally to decide the questhat he evokes the distrust and dislike hv war scare talk, but there is too much tion aright. We have a splendid asset to which differences so easily predis- conscience in the world today to suffer in our undaunted President. If the ispose. Hence we have denied to him any such outcome as a reference of the sue be clearly joined and fair free discussion press it home to the minds and the privilege of citizenship, the mighti- question to arms. far est unifying force in our national life. The danger is something graver consciences of the people, there is no The most remarkable feature of the and of much greater menace to human fear of the outcome. Some day San situation is that we need him and he progress. A ruptured friendship be- Francisco will be the happiest port in needs us. Annihilation or conquest of tween individuals is an experience the Union because the Nation refused me by the other is impossible. We whose pain may blight a lifetime, but a to let provincial narrowness and that race lave got to live at peace, to trade, to sundered international relation of mutual most despicable of all emotions, lave ever increasingly intimate associa- trust, respect and admiration just at hatred, prevail over the principle of tion with one another. America in fact this moment when the world stands on human brotherhood in the shaping of convinced Japan of this fifty years ago. the threshold of the New Era of Peace the relations of Great Asia and Great D. S. nexorable fate ordains the conditions will be unspeakably tragic. It is in America. �8 THE FRIEND THE FRIEND FOR 1907 While no startling new departures are planned for this year it is the hope of Editorial Board to be able to keep the Friend close to its ideal. That ideal is to advocate the interests and give tidings of The Kingdom of God in Hawaii. This we understand in its widest sense, as involving the entire higher interests of the Territory, political, social, industrial, educational and religious. The Friend aims to give a monthly resume of the more important occurrences, to discuss questions of public interest and to record the progress of every reform. The work of such organizations as the Civic Federation and the Anti Saloon League receives especial consideration. Particular attention is given to the many sided enterprises of the Hawaiian Board. Space is devoted regularly to the Hawaiian Mission Children's Society and to news from the Churches. During the year the following special contributors will write for our columns: REV. S. E. BISHOP, the expzrt on Hawaiiana, well known by his norn dc plume of Kamehameha. JOHN T. GULICK, Ph. D., D. Sc, whose contributions to the Theory of Evolution are so familiar in scientific circles. PRESIDENT PERLEY L. HORNE, of the Kamehameha Schools. REV. J. W. SYLVESTER, D. D., Pastor of Central Union Church, Honolulu. W. D. ALEXANDER, L. L. D„ Hawaii's leading scholar. RIGHT REV. HENRY B. RESTARICK, Bishop of Honolulu. PRESIDENT ARTHUR F. GRIFFITHS, of Oahu College. JUDGE EMMA METCALF NAKUINA, one of the few women in the United States who adorns the bench, will write on Hawaiian antiquities. MRS. J. M. WHITNEY, President of the W. C. T. U. of Hawaii. MRS. W. F. FREAR, President of the College Club. REV. W. D. WESTERVELT promises a number of Hawaiian legends. HON. GORHAM D. GILMAN of Boston will contribute several of his charming reminiscences. As a chief attraction also we are able to announce that Rev. Hiram Bingham, D. D., will tell some of the stirring incidents that he experienced in the heroic days of his sojourn in the Gilbert Islands. �9 THE FRIEND AN APOSTOLIC APPEAL. with the Spirit of God no obstacles can dential (,'oiniuittee of the American block the way and no lack of external Hoard, To the Churches of the Hawaiian means can stay the progress of the JAMES L. BARTON, Kingdom. Islands. Foreign Secretary. Let us therefore—we in this country Dear Urethral: 'There has hardly been a time in the history »>f our coun- and you our Christian brethren across THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. try when the leaders in the Congrega- thesea—unite our prayen and efforts, never to bring done before, tional churches of the United States as we have By a Wanderer far from Home. have been so united in earnest prayer into the Kingdom this winter multiand effort for a special outpouring of tudes who do not \et know their Lord, () lonely islands of the boundless waste! the Holy Spirit upon the churches of lie who declared that all power in () children at the watery world! All wrapped the land, that through them a mighty heaven and in earth was committed to In wealth of terns and flowers wild, and capped work of grace may be experienced. Him has promised to be with us as we Why should not this effort be wid- strive to this end. We need but claim Willi forests green, from which the fountain* haste ened to include the fellowship of the promise of the Lord as we join in a Id S'.'iid tlhHr sparkling streams down to the churches that encircle the world? united prayer for the outpouring of llis vales. There is inspiration in the thought thai Spirit. It is time for everyone wdio has There languid summer weaves her subtle spell. through such an effort, belting the a voice with which to utter the tender lo sleep within each dell, globe, a union of prayer will be formed, invitation, or a hand to stretch out to a Anil beauty sinks hrooks recite their endless Murmuring While which, brother, to conat some point of at all hours of needy I'cllownian and tales. the day and night, devout men and secrate that voice and that hand in a () calm retreat upon the sunlit seas. O quiet shades, beyond this toil and strife; women will be engaged in prayer and special manner to the service of the Beyond the ceiseless rush ami di/zy whirl! Maslci. We believe God is waiting for special service. On your fair shores may I my canvas furl. 'The great aim of all our effort is t" us to reveal our faith by our works that And resi from all this care and fevered life. ma\ of heaven open the windows bring the nations of the earth into the He Waiting the final call, when God shall please. Kingdom and make them know Jesus and pour us out a measureless blessing. John T. Gulick. — A HAWAIIAN FOREST Christ as ■ personal Redeemer and '1 lie Officers and Prudential CommitLord. Perhaps, absorbed in the mul- tee of the American Hoard urge that titude of labors, for the moment the this call to special prayer and effort be main purpose of all our endeavors has read in all the churches, that it be been obscured Let us together turn printed in the vernacular papers and our thoughts to the fact that it is not made the subject of conference and primarily by great institutions or prayer. 'This will demand personal through multiplied agencies or by use sacrifice, tireless effort, unwavering of money that the power of God is to faith, and absolute reliance upon (iod. be supremely manifested and the na- Let us hold to (iod and His promises tions brought into the light. All these until He bless us as He never yet has external means, although necessary, done. Pray for us, brethren, that we must lamentably fail unless we have here at home be not found wanting in with us the presence and power of the faith, prayer and sacrifice. On behalf of the Officers and PruHoly Spirit. But if we are in accord MAUI, THE DISCOVERER OF FIRE. Key. W. 1). Westervelt. Piomcthcns, the classical fire finder, stole fire from the sun—Maui, the Poly nesian, captured the sun, but paid no attention to its power to grant fire. Nor was he satisfied to carry away coals lighted by volcanic forces. He found the secret of fire in the wood of certain trees and then taught his frit nds how to rub sticks together until the flame burst forth. Promethens be- �THE FRIEND. 10 longed to Greece and Home—but Maui sometimes Ins grandmother bore the out: "I have hidden the fire in a green belonged to the length and breadth of name Hina, Ina or I ma. His ances- stick." the Pacific < )cean. tress was sometimes called Mahuia or Maui worked hard but not a spark of 'The American Indians found tire in Mafuie. This change in orthography lire appeared. Again he caught his Hakes of Hint and grouped their legends was due to dialect-pronunciation which prisoner by the head and wrung her about the hard rocks in which the light- varied in different parts of Polynesia. neck, and she named a kind of dry ning had forced itself. Flint rocks as Taking these variations into account wood. Maui rubbed the sticks together fire producers are not found in the the fact remains that in almost all of but they only became warm. The the widely separated groups of islands twisting process was resumed —and rePolynesian myths. said, Australia was that the in it In in the main part of the Pacific ocean peated again until the mud hen was allong, long ago an old man and his the discoverer of a method by which to most dead—and Maui had tried tree daughte; lived in the realm of darkness, make fire was attributed either to Maui after tree. At last Maui found fire. 'Then they found their way into the >r to some member of his immediate Then as the (lames rose he said : "'There is one more tiling to rub." He took a light, and were at once surrounded by family. a great host of serpents. 'The daughter Maui's home in the Hawaiian Islands fire stick and rubbed the top of the head seized a staff and begun to kill them. was not far from Rainbow Tails, near of his prisoner until the feathers fell off SCENE NEAR HILO She wielded it so vigorously that •it became hot in her hands. At last it broke, but the heated splinters rubbed against each other and broke into flame. Thus mankind learned that fire was buried in wood. The" natives of l)e Peyster's Island say that their ancestors learned how to make fire by seeing smoke rise from crossed branches rubbing together while the trees were shaken by fierce winds. In most of the groups of islands of the Pacific the supernatural element is introduced and the stories recognize a fire-god and his connection with Maui or one of his family. Maui's full name was Maui Tikitiki a Taranga, sometimes spelled Kiikii a Kalana or Tiitii. His father was sometimes known as Taranga and sometimes as Kanaloa (Tangaroa), one of the four greatest, gods of Polynesia. His wife, his mother, his sister and ihe town of Ilio, on the island of Hawaii. He was in the habit of going out fishing with his brothers. Sometimes when they turned their eyes toward the mountain side they saw fire burning near a place where the sacred bird, the ohie. lived with its family. Maui ultimately caught the alae and was disposed at first to kill the old bird in his anger because she had not revealed the secret of f.re-inaking to mankind. Hut the Alae cried out: "It you arc the death of me—my secret will perish also—and you cannot have fire." Maui thin promised to spare her life if she would tell him what to do. 'Then came the contest of wits. 'The bird told the demi-god to rub the stalks of water plants together. He guarded the bird and tried the plants. Then she told him to rub reeds together— hut they bent and broke and he could make no fire. He twisted her neck until she was half dead—then she cried and the raw flesh appeared. 'Thus the Hawaiian mud hen and her descendants have ever since had bald heads, and the Hawaiians have had the secret of firemaking. They learned to draw out the sparks secreted in different kinds of trees. The sweet sandalwood was one of these fire trees. Its Hawaiian nam-.' is "lli-ahi"—the "ill" (bark) and "alii" (fire), the bark in which fire is concealed. A legend of the Society Islands is somewhat similar. Ina (Hina) promised to aid Maui in finding lire for the islanders. She sent him into the underworld to find Tangaroa (Kanaloa). This god 'Tangaroa held fire in his possession—Maui was to know him by his tattooed face. Down the dark path through the long caves Maui trod swiftly until he found the god. Maui asked him for tire to take Up to men. The god gave him a lighted stick and sent him away, lint Maui put the fire out and went back after fire. 'This he did several times, until the wearied giver decided to teach the intruder the art of fire making. He called a white duck to aid him. 'Then, taking two sticks of dry wood, he gave the under one to the bird and rapidly moved the upper stickacross the under until fire came. Maui seized the upper stick, after it had been charred in the flame, and burned the head of the bird back of each eye. 'Thus were made the black spots which mark the head of the white duck. 'Then arose a quarrel beween 'Tangaroa and Maui—' but Maui struck down the god and thinking he bad killed him, carried away the art of making fire. His father and mother made inquiries about their relative—Maui hastened back to the fire fountain—and made the spirit return to the body—then coming back to Ina he bade her good-bye and carried the fire sticks to the upper world. The Hawaiians, and probably others among the Polynesians, felt that any state of unconsciousness was a form of death in which the spirit left the body but was �THE FRIEND. called back by prayers and incanta- tions. The New Zealand legends picture Maui as putting out, in one night, all the fires of his people. This was serious mischief, and Maui's mother decided that he better go to the under- las', finger nail on the ground. Tire poured out and laid bold'of everything. Maui ran up the path to the upper world, but the lire was swifter-footed. Then Maui changed himself into an eagle and flew high up into the air, but the fire and smoke still followed him. world and see his ancestress, Mahuika, Then he saw water and dashed into it, the guardian of fire. She warned him but it was too hot. Around him the against attempting to play tricks upon forests were blazing, the earth burning the inhabitants of the lower regions. and the sea boiling. Maui, about to Maui gladly hastened down the cave- turned to Mahuika, asking another gift, which he destroyed. This he did for both hands and feet until only one nail remained. Maui wanted this. Then Mahuika became angry and threw the , 'The Samoan Islanders tell almost exactly the same story as the New Zealanders, only using the name Ti'iti'i for Maui and Mafuie for Mahuika. They accuse Maui of leaving the god Mafuie only one arm. With this the earthquakes are made *vhich sometimes shake the islands. The Savage Island legends are similar except that that they say Maui stole the fire and was chased by his father into the Upper world with a great burst of fire. In 'Tahiti the fire god of the underworld lived in a banyan tree. For this reason the fire maker of ancient times uttered the following incantation while rubbing the sticks together: "Grant, oh grant me thy hidden fire, () Banyan 'Tree ! Perform an incantation. Utter a prayer To the Banyan 'Tree. Kindle a fire ir. the dust Of the Banyan Tree." In the P.owditeh or Fakaofa Islands the fire god Mafuika, when conquered, taught not only the method of making fire by friction, but also what fish were to be cooked and what were to be eaten raw. In the Hervey Island legends we read that the form of a pigeon and long tunnel left in the lava until he entered Hawaiki—the Tahitian underworld. Here he found Mahuika, the god of fire, one of his an cestors, and entered into a "tossing" contest with him. Maui agreed to let the fire god throw him up first. Mahuika tossed Maui so high that the fall seemed to be certain death. Hut Maui uttererl an incantation and became a feather and floated lightly to the earth. 'Then he seized the fire god and threw him up again and again with such violence that he soon Begged for mercy. Maui gave him rest on condition that lie be taught the secret of making fire. The Tokelau Islanders have the legend of Kalanga (Kalana, Maui's father), finding Mafuike a blind, but bloodthirsty goddess. He compelled her to leach him how to make fire. The Gilbert Islanders say that Tangaroa, the god, gave fire to an old woman who put the sparks in certain trees, and taught me nhow to find them. JtjNGWC-" perish, called on' the gods for rain. Then floods of water fell and the fire was checked. 'The great rain fell on Mahuika and she fled, almost drowned. Her stores of fire were destroyed, quenched by the storm. Hut in order to save fire for the use of men, as she CHRIST'S BODILY ASCENSION fled she threw sparks into different TO HEAVEN. kinds of trees where the rain could not reach them, so that when fire was needThe very noted heresy case of the ed it might be brought into the world again by rubbing together the fire Rev. Algernon S. Crapsey, Rector of St. Andrew's Church, Rochester, N. V., sticks. IN AN ISLAND path to the house of Mahuika, and asked for fire for the upper world. In some way he pleased her so that she pulled off a finger nail in which fire was burning and gave it to him. As soon as he had gone back to a place where there was water, he put the fire out and re- 11 ' �12 was formally closed on November 3D, by Mr. Crapsey's formal resignation of his ministry into the hands of his Bishop. Mr. Crapsey refused to renounce either of the two heresies proved against hini, one being his denial of Our Lord's Virgin Mirth, and the other, his denial of His Hodily Ascension into Heaven. This present notice of the case is not intended to express any opinion as to the justice of Mr. Crapsey's condemnation by the Church Court, in which it appears that his appointed judges were unanimous. He seems to be a devout and conscientious Churchman, even if disqualified by his intellectual errors to continue as a teacher in the Church. His mental attitude appears to be one averse to belief in anything miraculous, or contrary to the regular working of Natural Law. Our present object is only to controvert his language relating to the Hodily Ascension of our Lord, of which he writes as follows: "When I say of Jesus that he ascended into heaven I do not mean and cannot mean that with his physical body of flesh, blood and bones he floated into space and has for 2000 years been existing, somewhere in the sky, in that very physical body of flesh, blood and bones. Such an existence would seem to me not glorious but horrible, and such a conception is to me not only unbelievable, it is unthinkable." In these sentences Mr. Crapsey seems to exhibit a very gross misconception of the event which the Scripture explicitly declare to have taken place. It seen.s like a perverse disposition, so to travesty the fact described, and to ignore the universally accepted Christian understanding of that fact. In the act of ascending to Heaven, Christ's earthly body became "glorified," celestialized, as it were, etherealized. Such is Paul's language, Phil. 3:27: "Who shall fashion anew the body of our humiliation, that it may be conformed to the body of his glory." The nature of that "glorified" or "celestial" body as distinguished from its earthly condition, has been very explicitly discussed by Paul in the 15th chapter of Ist Corinthians. That conception has ruled in Christian thought from the earliest period. How dares this good divine Crapsey. thus to ignore and travesty the well known record? In the closing passages of the (iospel records there are the clearest intimations that the risen body of our Lord after it left the tomb, had become endowed with extraordinary qualities which it did not possess before death. Such a quality repeatedly exhibited THE FRIEND. was his power to disappear and appear He wore in his earthly life. Whenever at will, such as he never had exercised he chooses, he can resume its earthly before his death. That same body form. S. E. P.. which had hung on the cross, and had lain in the tomb, when reoceupicd by THE HOLY CITY COMING DOWN OUT his glorified spirit, became at will inOF HEAVEN FROM GOD.* . visible, presumably etherealized, and at will resumed its earthly condition. This strange fact we are incapable of explaining, simply because we are unfamiliar with celestial conditions, and the physiology of heavenly bodies. An analogy suggests itself in the existence of water as. a visible fluid or solid, and its sudden conversion into invisible vapor, while still retaining its identity. ()f what kind of substance the celestial human body is composed, what are its physical properties and capabilities, we have no knowledge. It is probable that earthly human faculties are incapable of ever penetrating such mysteries of higher forms of existence. We must wait until we ourselves by God's grace ascend to that higher state of being. But this our ignorance does not in the least render improbable the theory that there is a celestial sphere of existence, whose denizens may at will assume terrestrial forms. Thus angels might appear and commune with men. Thus did Jesus appear to Paul on the road to Damascus. The gross futility of such a blind materialistic attitude as Mr. Crapsey's is becoming more evident than ever thruugh the advanc+hg progress of science. Later researches are breaking up the old boundary lines of demarcation between tangible substance and the immaterial region of ethereal substance pervading the universe. The N-rays and Radium emanations are throwing into confusion the long-established theories of the atomic constitution of matter. Those supposedly fixed principles are adrift. This solid, tangible bodily substance which we seemed to understand, is being proved to be something changeable into material forms which are beyond the cognition of our human faculties. There is evidently a vast universe of ethereal being which lies outside of our scope of cognition. It is evidently not for our purblind faculties to assert the limits of existence. Heaven is immeasurably higher and wider than our poor experiences of visible or tangible matter. The Lord Jesus in his Ascension has given his Church a glimpse of those measureless possibilities. He still retains his earthly body in a glorified condition. For lack of a better word, we may say that it is etherealized. But it continues to be the same body which Daily, daily sing the praises Of the City, soon to be Built by men inspired of Jesus In this world from sin set free. REFRAIN. Grant us, Christ King, Thy strong Spirit, God's dear Will to do alway; That th' ideal now so distant May be nearer brought each day. In the hearts of all Her people Naz-reth's Carpenter is Lord; Pestilence and Want and dark Crime Ne'er disturb the blest accord. There the air is sweetly laden With the songs of children's glee: Gaily decked with fragrant flowers, All the streets bloom endlessly. Strong and weak their burdens sharing; Ix>ve the City's holy light; Work which yieldeth life abundant Every citizen's birthright! Anon. lines were suggested by Baring* These s "Daily, daily sing the praises," etc. Gould GENERAL COMMISSION OF EDUCATION. The Educational Committee recently organized by the Civic Federation -hould prove an effective agency in bettering the public school system of Hawaii. It should be fully understood hat the creation of the new commission is in no way a reflection on the Territorial Hoard of Education. This ommission is but another step in the progress of development. 'The Superintendent of Public Instruction gladly cooperates in every way with the commission, giving it the benefit of his experience and his advice, and placing before it all the material at hand that may he of aid to the commission in its work. In Massachusetts in 1905, the Hon. W. L. Douglass, then Governor, recommended the creation of a similar commission for Massachusetts, to study the claims of technical education; and he further asked that a well considered report be brought before the State Legislature with suggestions for bettering public education. Such a commission in Hawaii is a need. Its creation marks an onward step. We all recognize defects in our present system in Hawaii. The public schoor teachers are poorly paid, so poorly that the Territory can scarcely ex- �THE FRIEND. pect efficient, service if relief does not come almost immediately. Inadequate provision is made for students, the schools are too crowded, more schools arc needed. Modern education demands that systematic courses of study he provided in gardening, agriculture, manual training, domestic science, nursing, sanitation and the like. How best to educate the children is one of the live questions of the decade. It is not a new question. 'The problem has not been solved. Hut new light is being shed constantly on many questions by those whose lives are devoted to the profession. 'The results of their experiences can well be collected and studied. Many helpful suggestions will he found. The knowledge of what other cities do, the finding out of their problems, and of how they have met these problems will present new possibilities to us here in Hawaii. We are cut off from the inspiring educational conferences and conventions, the stirring talks from renowned educators, and practical discussions by many teachers assembled together to go over at length all phases of school work. In Massachusetts, there are separate commissions on the study of English, of Mathematics, of Modern Languages, and on technical work. Certainly Hawaii needs at least one general commission to take up the study of her educational problems. Many questions will immediately present themselves to this commission. Let me enumerate a few: 'The scope of education, its administration, its method and its course ; the enriching of elementary education because this branch of the work affects by far the greatest number of young people; education for adults ; supplementary education; the using of school buildings and premises for other than distinctly school purposes; free evening schools conducted by the city in public school buildings; the introducing, in part, at least, of the many lines of technical education for boys and girls, now confined largely to a few private schools; taking the necessary steps to secure for Hawaii a Territorial agricultural college; equal educational opportunities for all children; the question of free text books; questions, particularly of health and sanitation ; systematic and regular medical inspection of all pupils in all schools, not a hurried running over, but a careful well-defined study of each pupil with the record kept of each and subsequent examinations compared and tabulated the probation system and its beating upon juvenile delinquency ; parental responsibility. : 13 'These are but a few of the questions home from I'.wa. The hope of every that a cursory review of the situation land is in the children and the hope suggests. Many others will follow nat- that the children of our public schools urally. will make worthy citizens of the Grand A comprehensive statement of exist- Republic yet to be, depends largely ing conditions with definite recommen- upon the influences that the teacher exdations for legislation should be pre- erts in our common schools. 'The counsented to the 'Territorial legislature. try school teacher has one of the finest Perhaps this cannot be done in such a missionary fields in the world. The way at the present session, for the sub- hope of Hawaii today rests largely ject is too large to be studied in so short upon the shoulders of the devoted a time, but a beginning can be made. Christian women who upon small salaEvery large community has at least ries, and leading self-denying lives are four legalized institutions: the jail, the working for the blessing of the young poor house, an asylum for the mentally people who daily come under their inunbalanced, and the school. The fluence. greater the attention paid to the last, Not a school boy, he he Portuguese, the less will be needed for the other Japanese, Chinese, Porto Kican, or Hathree. Neglect the school, and the oth- waiian, who has stubbed and broken ers will demand constantly increasing his toe, not a girl who has lost mother, attention, a steady out-go with no re- sister, or brother, not a soul comes to turn but an added curse. The free pub- the Fvva government school but feels lic school, established by the wisdom the up-lifting influence of the earnest, of our fathers, developed to the highest telf-deuying Christian woman principal efficiency along the broadest lines is jf that school—one who lives for serthe greatest factor in giving every com- vice, and not for money. And this good munity a high social order. The new woman is not alone. All over our iscommission certainly has much work lands today are to be found many exahead of it, and I believe that the re- cellent Chiistian men and women, livsults it brings will justify its creation. ing and working in our schools for P. L. H. something better than the gold or silver for which so many spend their lives. O. H. G. A SABBATH AT EWA. ; 'The Sabbath, December 16th, was at Lwa, where the Hawaiian Hoard has providentially placed as evangelist one of the most humble and faithful of our Japanese fellow labores. THE COUSINS' MEETING. As a result of six months' instruction on the part of this diligent evanAn adjourned meeting of the gelist, accompanied, as we believe, by the influence of the Holy Spirit, sixteen H. M?C. Society was held at the resipersons—thirteen young men and three dence of C. 11. Cooke, Keeaumoku young women—professed their faith in street, on the evening of Dec. i, 1906. the Saviour, and joyfully received bap- This was an especially interesting tism. 'This rite was followed by the meeting. Nine papers were read, givLord's Supper, in wdiich celebration the ing incidents in the lives of the misyoung members united with perhaps sionaries, long ago, away back in the 20's and 30's. 'The papers were writtwenty-five of the former members. 'The evening preaching service was ten by tiie children of the missionaries, held at the lower camp, perhaps one and read by Mrs. E. A. Weaver, Mrs. and a half miles from the point of the L. H. Coan, Mrs. W. F. Frear, Mrs. C. first meeting. This service was attend- H. Austin, Rev. O. H. Gulick, Mr. F. ed by fifty or sixty, the most of whom W. Damon and Judge S. B. Dole. were not at the earlier service. 'These Some personal reminiscences were listened with attentive interest to the given, and then an animated discussion was held on the needs and benefits of a preaching of the Word. We congratulate Brother Maeda, on permanent home for the society and the having sown the seed which has fallen danger by delay. W. O. Smith, Govon good ground. Gospel seed! sowing, ernor Carter, Dr. A. B. Clark and F. W. and the reward thereof, was to be seen Damon were the speakers, and they that day in the midst of the immense were unanimous in the opinion that the fields of waving cane—a better crop we old coial Chamberlain house, near Katrow than ever cane field yielded. waiahao church should be bought and Still another thought we brought renovated for this purpose. spent The Cousin's Society. �'THE FRIEND. 14 (iovernor Carter spoke of such memorial buildings at Montreal and other cities which he'had visited, and urged the establishment of such a home. 'The committee, who have been working up this matter for the past two years, was enlarged by the addition of Governor Carter and Mr. J. P. Cooke. A beautiful piano solo was rendered by Mrs. Henry Hicknell, and Mrs. A. Francis Judd led the Cousins in the opening hymn. "Come Thou Almighty King," in the very appropriate song, "The Breaking Waves Dashed High," and in the closing hymn, "From Greenland's lev Mountains." From Berlin. A letter to Miss Chamberlain, from Mrs. Laura Wilder Wight, in Berlin, ierinany, says: "While the Americans set apart a special day for thanksgiving, the German people have a day to especially ask for forgiveness, and it is kept in the strictest manner. Our landlady told us at the supper table last night that no pianos could be opened today, no loud talking or laughing in the halls, and warned all of her boarders that in case of any one being arrested for not obeying the rules she was not in any way responsible. So I am spending the morning with my friends. ' First I write to mother, then to Aunt Nellie, and now to you. "Last Sunday I went to the 'Doni,' the State Church of Berlin, where the Emperor worships nearly every Sunday. We left the house two hours before the hour of service, for hundreds are turned away every Sunday. Church begins at ten o'clock and though we were there at nine, the crowds were large. However, I had made up my mind to enter, and after some patience I found a German who spoke some English and went in with his wife and himself. He had a sitting which he gave to me. It is a round church and very beautiful, though of course a modern one, and after the wonderful cathedrals in Cologne, Milan and Paris, was tame to me. The singing was only by children, two hundred boys, and the pastor was most eloquent. I could almost understand by his manner. "Thursday, the King and Queen of Denmark came to Berlin for a two days' visit. I was up early and away to the park to get a good place to see all the royal family meet him. With my poor German and the help of an American, I got one of the police to get me a good place on the corner, where turn to enter the the carriages parade ground. When the Household Guards, 200 men, all six feet tall in silver armour on white horses went by, I shut my eyes and wished for the days >f Ihe Hawaiian Monarchy. "I he GernUHt Kaiser is a very fine looking man, and very fond of gold lace and glory and as a king does not come lo call on him every day in the week, the streets were all trimmed in great display. "I particularly noticed the cape of ermine that the Queen of Denmark wore She is the richest queen in the world for she owns many copper mines. "'The American Church, which is a union church of all creeds, is only around the corner from here. You can sign your name and the name of your •hurch in the church record, and that makes yon a member during your stay in Berlin. Now that I am planning to Stay longer, I shall do so on Thanksgiving Day. "You have no idea how interested the people here are to have me tell about the early missionary days, and I have quite an audience whenever 1 si: down stairs after supper in the Public Salon. I am so proud of my grandfather and grandmother Judd, and of my own parents. I wish I knew more. "'This is winter and the trees are bare, and every day the young people are looking forward to skating. "'There are so many nationalities in this house. First, there are many Americans, young and old, for music mostly; three Russians, two professors, one who has his family, three little girls, and can you imagine how surprised I was to hear them sing "Lightly Row—Over the Glassy Waves We Go,' and 'Hop, Hop, Hop, Nimble as i 'Top.' Aunt Hattie Judd used to sing it with us, and how we used to yell when the last line of 'Hop' came! Then there is a 'Turk here, his name is James Hey; such a fine looking polished man. who is attached to the embassy here. There are Swedes, Norwegians, English, Italians, a Servian and a Roumanian, but all speak the German language." LAURA WILDER WIGHT. Cousin Norton. We have already called the attention of the H. M. C. Society to the Presbyterian College, lately opened at Eustis, Florida, where Miss Helen S. Norton, once so prominent in educational circles here in Hawaii as the head of Kawaiahao, is now happily engaged. The first year closed about the first of July. Miss Norton decided to spend her vacation in the beautiful old homestead in Howell, Michigan. As she is a good sailor, she went from Florida, north to New York, by ocean travel. She had made arrangements with other relatives to have a family gathering in New York State, not far from Buffalo and Niagara Tails. She was able to carry out these plans and greatly enjoyed Niagara. From here, by railroad to Michigan, the family party reached Howell. Of her return trip she says: "I had a very unpleasant time on my journey back to Florida, because the trains were behind time and we failed to make connections everywhere. We were obliged to change cars at Cincinnati, Oakdale. Knoxville, Ashville and Jacksonville. I took a carriage and drove for an hour about historic Knoxville. Saw Parson Brownlow's old home with the door-plate marked Hrownlow on the door. It is a curious house on the hillside and a front veranda coming out even with the sidewalk. There are many fine shrubs and trees. Some of them were new to me and the driver could not give me information. Knoxville is very hilly and the University of Tennessee is on an eminence overlooking the whole country and the river, a branch of the Term. I have never seen a more picturesque town with its many beautiful homes, grounds and buildings. The old homes were very quaint, and perched often on hillsides reminded one of the pictures of some of the European cities. I wanted to stay several days, and hope I can some time. "I chose this route to see the country as I had been by Chattanooga several times. The country was most picturesque and beautiful all the way, reminding me of Hawaii; clouds, mountains, valleys, rivers, all with changing aspects and colors made a panorama not to be forgotten. "We made our last change at Jacksonville about 9:30 a. 111. in time for the Eustis train and arrived here at 6:30 Monday evening. I was very tired but busy Tuesday as the collegfc opened next day. The college opened with many more students than we had last years at this time." M. A. C. Siberia Guests. On Monday, the 19th of November, there was an arrival of the steamer Siberia from the Orient, and to the great pleasure of the Cousins it was �15 THE FRIEND. At the close of Mrs. Palmer's lecture, fount' that among the passengers were debt on it—which will be the interna: tional center of this work for which young urged the study of living things great wdiom we felt a interest those n —members of the Society, "by inheritance or adoption; and before the day was over they had sought their own, and had received the warm alohas and been claimed. The first to be mentioned are Rev. Wm. 11. Day and his wife, Julia Lyman Day, who passed through the shipwreck of the Manchuria and then visited almost a month on Hawaii. We are glad to know they have safely returned as far as Honolulu where they spent a day as they are now homeward bound to their church and people in Los Angeles, in Southern California. Then there were Rev. and Mrs. H. C. Cheek, of Siam. Mrs. Cheek is remembered here by the young people as Lucy Wilcox, who visited Honolulu in the early part of i<x)4, on her way to be married at her sister's, in 'Tokyo, Japan. As Mr. and Mrs. Albert S. Wilcox, her uncle, happened to be in town, he insisted upon their leaving the steamer for a week's visit on Kauai. Then Rev. and Mrs. Wm. W. Ranney, of Hartford, Conn., at the winding up of the day, after having found our peerless cousins and entertainers, Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Damon, and had spent a day that they will not soon forget, said they must find their old friends and call before they went on board the people and relieve the United Society of the large rentals now paid for office space; second, to establish a fund to promote the work of Christian Endeavor. During the last twenty-five years Dr. Clark and his associates have been helping on the cause of Christian Endeavor without a cent of support from any source. They have earned their own living conducting various publishing enterprises, writing for the press, etc. Moved by the opportunity offered to Christian Endeavorers in missionary lands for the past five years they have raised $10,000.00 a year to aid in establishing Christian Endeavor in mission fields. To its usefulness Rev. Mr. Fitch, the president of the Chinese C. E. Union, testified when here from the Manchuria wreck. Under this burden Dr. Clark's health gave way last year. The Endeavorers of the world should not allow him to bear it. The first C. E. Society outside the United States was formed in Hawaii long before annexation. We should take our part in this memorial. Let each society in the Territory try to contribute an average of twenty-five cents apiece for all its members. All money is to be sent to Mr. Wm. Shaw, treasurer, 600 Trcmont Temple, Boston, Mass. Lyle A. Dickey of Honolulu is member for Hawaii of the Memorial Committee and will receive steamer. send forward any contributions if and Mrs. Ranney is the daughter of Mary desired. There must be many on the Anderson Street, who visited us in her islands not now connected with any soyouth, when her father, Rev. Rufus ciety who will wish to join in this Anderson came here in 1863. memorial. L. A. D. The Damons directed these friends the Hinghanis and the Chamberto find lains. It was an exquisite pleasure to GOOD WORK FOR ONE "M. A. C." to greet Helen Street, and EVENING. to say she had, perhaps "telepathetic" notice of this interview, having turned Alice Freeman Palmer had an enover a box of letters received in 1904, gagement to speak one Sunday evenand taken out the latest letter of her ing to some boys in connection with mother and made up her mind to an- work of a social nature carried on by swer it again to Helen Rannev. the University of Chicago. When the M. A. C. night of her appointment came, the registration of the thermometer was far below zero. It was doubtful if any of Y. P. S. C. E. the lads would be in their place of quarter-century has passed since meeting, yet, not willing to run the risk c first Christian Endeavor Society of disappointing any who might come, was formed. It is proposed that a the faithful woman, accompanied by Christian Endeavor memorial com- one of the students of the university, memorate this. 'The plan is for present drove through the piercing cold far to and past Endeavorers to contribute the outskirts of the city. When the hall was reached it was or more—one cent for each the twenty-five years of the society. found to be nearly full of expectant The money is to be used, first for a street lads, representing various nationbuilding—one of modest size and no alities. KA Scents about them, the boys approached her and told her what special group of animals they wished to study. Among them was a group which seemed rougher than the rest. They had chosen one of their number as spokesman, and he exclaimed in eager tone and broken English, "We take lizards. We take lizards." It was some time before she could discover the meaning of his words, and he was unable, because of his limited English vocabulary, to enlighten her. But finally she learned that this group of urchins had decided to confine their scientific studies to lizards. Their success in this line of research was great. They explored the surrounding country, far and near, and were constantly bringing their specimens to the university for the students to preserve in alcohol. They even discovered two or three new varieties of the lizard, which the scientists duly entered in their classified lists. But the most encouraging result of that Sabbath evening lecture was its influence upon the young scientists themselves. 'Their interest in something new and their touch with nature made new beings of them. They seemed to unconsciously break away from their evil habits, and one of them, who had been under the constant watch of the police officers, now gave them no further trouble.—Alice May Douglas in the I lousekeeper. A MESSAGE. Many years I've lived and waited, By the ocean's sandy shore, And the changes all about me Are recalling days of yore. Days when merry were the Monarch?, ()f our Island Kingdom dear; I Jays when Missionary Fathers Worked and prayed for visions clear. 'To these Music loving People, I've a message,. I would give— Sing your praises to the Highest, And in glory, shall you live. In your singing, in your laughter, 'There is pleasure evermore; (iod above you, gave His promise Of the Love, He has in store. For the dear Hawaiian People, Listen ere it is toto late— Do not loose the Life Eternal, Do not hesitate and wait. �16 THE FRIEND. As the sunshine never fails you, And the glories of your Land Gladden weary, heartsore travelers, God will bless you, take His hand. Take His hand and He will guide you. (iuide you o'er the stormy, way— And at last, at rest beside Him You will find the Brightest Day. E. L. T. R. widow was last heard from at ClareHis best monument is the Gospel among the Marshall Islanders in their own tongue. S. E. B. mont. DOES HIGH LICENSE ABATE THE EVIL OF ALCOHOLIC DRINKS? Says 'The Advance of Chicago, in its issue of Oct. 4, 1900: "High license in Chicago has not The Christmas exercises of the Por- hindered the sale of beer. Notwithtuguese Church were held on the standing the fact that the saloon license Christmas night. A very large number fee was raised from $500 to $1,000, the of people being present: parents, sales of beer in August amounted to friends of the mission and also some ,504.597 barrels, or 51,057 barrels more who had never been there before. It (than in August, 1005. 'The sale of beer was very pleasant to hear the children months were 3,066,565 barrels, eight for sing and recite the beautiful songs and ! a gain of barrels over the same 309466 recitations appropriate to the occasion. period of last year." The children all did well. Again, in The Advance of Oct. 18, 'The exercises were strictly religious, we have the following: helpful and instructive. "We must do something more than increase the license of the liquor seller. REV. EDWIN MORRIS Chicago doubled the saloon license, and according to published statistics, more PEASE, M. D. I beer is sold than before. It is the liquor This obituary notice of a very noble drinker who pays the bill, not the liquor veteran Missionary to Micronesia is seller, and increasing the cost does not condensed from one appearing in the stop the drinker. lie pays the added Pomona 'Times. Dr. Pease died No- price and in the end his family foots the vember SOth at Claremont, Cal., where bill out of the comforts and necessaries he had made his home for the past of life. The wife who takes in washtwelve years, since his return from ing or goes out to work, the child who seventeen years of strenuous mis goes to school in thread-bare clothes, sionary labor in Kusaie and the Mar- and the baby neglected ami pinched shall Islands, whither he went in 1877. with hunger arc the victims. Surely Hr. Pease was a graduate of Amherst this kind of process can not be called College, I'nion Theological Seminary, intelligent reform." and Columbia Medical College. He 'There are sonic kinds of grass that served three years as army surrceon in are not injured in the least by running the Civil War. entering Richmond in 1 lawn mower over them. The oftcner Col. Armstrong's" regiment. After 11 mown the more vigorous the growth. 'The liquor business possesses this years local medical practice, he married, and went to Micronesia as a Mis- same irresponsible quality. 'The most sionary, lie was especially serviceable of legislative tinkering with it, avails in developing the Training Schools for little or nothing in the way of abateCatechists located at Kusaie or Strong's ment. Island. He compiled a dictionary of High license may have some effect in the Marshall language, hymn and tune closing up the cheap and shabby saloon, books and many educational books. hut does it not contribute to the apHe translated the Xew Testament parent respectability of the business, which he brought to America and pub and thus promote the financial pros lished in 18K4. Since 1894 in Clare- perity of the traffic? The more gilded mont he had completed a translation of the drinking hall, the better furnished the Old 'Testament as far as Isaiah, and the more elegant the appointments when death suddenly interrupted his the greater the temptation the gin pallabors at the age of nearly 78 years. ace presents to the young, the self-inThe members of the Hawaiian Hoard dulgent and the easily persuaded. Let none of our legislators imagine and Missionary workers in Honolulu used to be familiar with Dr. and Mrs. that their electors who have had a Pease and their labors. Two sons were vision of the death and ruin of all that born to them in Kusaie, one a medical is highest and best in this world, that is student in Kansas City, the other a the direct outcome of the liquor busifreshman at Pomona College. His ness, are to be satisfied with a high PORTUGUESE CHRISTMAS. license. No indeed: It is doubtful whether high license is of any avail in reducing the evils of the dram shops, evils that are imposed upon the whole community that a few may be enriched. No: What the temperance man wants is to put an end to this whole business, and the right to express his opinion upon this question by the passage of a local option law, which will give the community, say every two years, a chance to say whether they will have the saloon in their midst or not. \\ hen the whole community have the opportunity to decide at the polls whether or not they will have this destructive snare laid in the pathway of their sons and daughters, then, and not till then, will the voters have cause to be satisfied with the course of their representatives, o. IT GULICK. EXTRACTS FROM MISS LUCIA LYON'S LETTERS. Pang Chuang, China, March id, 1900. have been marking the questions in I your letters and will proceed to answer them. 'The Chinese get their water from streams or springs if there are any,—if not, from wells. Of course, we did not drink water on the journey—only tea or cocoa, but you can always buy (hot) boiled water wherever there is an inn. THE-I THE GROWING FAMILY NEEDS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA The cost hitherto has been so great that al though CHILDREN ARE FOREVER WANTING t» consult one in their school work, few can afford a set. /VOW COMES, \__ THE BEST YET Thus. Nelson & Sons, the great Bible Pubproduced the most complete at the lisher has least cost; £12.00 will buy set in cloth. Better binding up to |72.00. liright bojn and girls as ABENTS wanted in every town. Write to the HAWAIIAN BOARD BOOK ROOMS �17 THE FRIEND. I realize that I have not told much about Dr. Tallmon. She is thirtythree years old and her home is in Berkeley. She has seven sisters and one brother, all married but two, and sixteen nephews and nieces. Until three years ago they lived in lowa, first on a farm and then in Grinnell. Her mother died when she was seventeen, but her father is still alive. Her past history, with such a big family, is just like a story. She tells the boys stories and gets them interested in all sorts of scientific things which she makes very interesting. Well, to go on with the questions: There certainly are good sized trees here, lots of them, both in the village and in the compound. All the villages have nice trees. The villages arc not walled always—more than half are not. 'The walls are usually of mud. But the cities, of all three grades, arc walled, and usually the walls are brick. We have been having warm weather this week. 'The grass is beginning to have a slight greenish tinge. Tuesday morning ground was broken for the academy building in the hoys' school yard. They had a little service which we all attended. The boys were all assembled at the place, and some mats were fixed up on frames along side of them so that the school-girls could also be there without being seen. We went over with them and all the women in the yard went too. We went in at the side gate and stood on our side of the mats very properly. We sang two hymns, one of the teachers read from the Bible and one made a prayer, and Chang Hsien Sheng "opened the grounds," as they say, with three strokes of the pick-axe. 'Then we all departed, the boys all gazing after us as we went back into the school-room. Mr. Stanley took a picture of this divided group; I hope it will be good. Wednesday afternoon the boys and I got Mrs. Chapin to go walking with us. In the evening we went to the Stanley's as usual. Mr. Stanley is having trouble with his eyes so Miss (irace did the reading. About half the people I know are having bad eyes just now. The Chinese are having dreadful times, with their eyes all swollen and inflamed and tearful. Miss Grace goes over to the school every night to put in eye medicine for the people. This afternoon we took the girls to walk again, around the village. When we came back Miss Grace sent out a basket of pears, one apiece, which was a great treat. The girls and women, men too, in fact, are shedding their wadded garments and seem to be much thinner than they were. With some of them your chief feeling is one of relief lo *•* something that can be washed. Of course, the wadded garments can't be washed, yet they are made of cotton and show the dirt. I meant to tell you last week about Mrs. Stanley's woman, the baby's nurse. She is a Tien-tsin woman, a Christian, but one who could not read and knew very little about the Rible. Now Mrs. Stanley is helping her learn, and she is very much interested in Matthew. She said the other day, "Chia Mv Shih preached one Sunday that we ought to have hope. When I am reading Matthew T keep thinking 'How good this is!' and I am almost afraid to go on for fear the next page won't be so good as the last; I suppose I ought to have hope about that because it always turns out that it is just as good." Think of having the Bible as fresh to you as that! March 24. —It Is interesting to see the men at work. They "pound" with a great stone which eight of them raise by means of ropes and let fall with a thud. livery time they lift it they all shout out strange noises, very much as sailors do. There are ever so many workmen here now; these who are pounding the ground for foundations, and the masons and carpenters for the boys' building and the ladies' house. Yesterday they were all called into the church where the pastor and others told them how they should behave. Yesterday noon I went over to the school to "open shop." 'There was the usual rush to buy cloth for shoe linings. Quarterly meeting comes at Easter and people will come from all over the field to the communion service. So it behooves the girls to have their new shoes and spring garments ready, and it takes time to embroider. As I write there are two or three girls who conic and gaze in at the window—people from some other village who are interested in the wonderful foreigner. April Ist.—"The early part of this week our woman's husband, Mr. Chang Chili Ping, came back from his field for a few days, and Tuesday afternoon he gave his report at prayer-meeting. He goes to a good many different towns and villages, and this time he has come upon one where the people were very much interested. About twenty were willing to put down their names as inquirers, and—he opened a package ami brought out three bronze idols which they gave up. He told in very graphic language, which I could not understand, how afraid the men were to take them down, and how they expected some sort of retribution, and how long they hesitated. One was a very old Buddha which had come from India and been in the family for a great many years. It had wooly hair. The other two were Chinese. You should have seen the interest of the boys and girls as these idols were produced, exactly as if they had lived where there were no idols. I think they are to be given to Miss Gertrude. On Friday Mrs. Stanley's cook made a special cake in honor of Mrs. Ellis, and Miss Grace, Dr. Tallmon and I were invited to help eat it up. It was a delicious cake and was decorated on the top with Chinese characters in pink frosting to the effect that the love of preaching "the doctrine" would even make a husband and wife willing to be separated for a while. There were also some English words which we could not make out. Yesterday afternoon we all went to look at the building's. The boys' school has got about three feet above the ground. Dust was flying around everywhere, and there is lime mixed with it. Mr. Campbell says it is hard on the eyes. We call the building operations "Mr. Campbell's school," for he is teaching the Chinese so many better ways of doing things, and they are so glad to learn. April 8. —Thursday night, Mrs. Ellis told all about the station class. She had been taking notes so as to know how to do. She told about one- old woman wdio came with some one else and V new nothing at all about "the doctrine." She wanted to study, but had nothing to begin on, so after explaining and talking with her for a day or two Miss Gertrude told her to go home and take down her kitchen god and come back. She wanted to prove the woman's sincerity. Her home was eight miles away and she went off and for some time she didn't come back. Finally, just before the end of the class, she walked in. Miss Gertrude asked her what she had done at home. She told of a funeral and other things she had attended to. The kitchen god ? Oh yes, she had burned him all right and now she was ready to study. She was old and the time was short, but she learned the little rhymed prayer and the blessings and two or three Bible verses. Mrs. Ellis' birthday came while they were there, and she gave them a feast of meat dumpling:. Three women, who had been delayed in starting arriv- �18 rd at the class that very morning; they were hot and tired after an eight-mile walk, but said it was surely the grace of God that they arrived in time for the dumplings. There were other interesting people there. Quite a number of women unbound their feet while they were there. The Choti family matters have worked out beyond our hopes. The older brother who was not in the church has at last consented to give up his opium shop, and it has been bought by the Tuckers, Ellises and Mrs. Smith and turned into a street chapel. The young men in the church, several of them, take turns going there to preach, and Ting Hsien Sheng, the Ellises' teacher, goes every night to take to the more educated men. Dr. Tucker wrote that he went the other night and there were 150 people there. You spoke of thinking Lin Ching was a new work. It is only a newly awakened work, for the Chapins, Perkins and Dr. Wagner's family were all there a good while. But it was only after the Boxers had devastcd things as much as possible that there began to be any interest. Now the harvest is suddenly at hand with no one there but Mrs. Smith to take charge of the reaping. That is why we are so anxious to go there next year, for although Dr. Tallmon and I could not work yet, Mr. Chapin would be in his parish instead of two days' journey away. ANENT THE CHINESE. The new work on Hotel street is growing. Night school and children's meetings are showing larger attendance every week. The pressing need is for more teachers to help instruct those who come so eager to learn. Mr. H. Jackson reports a splendid opportunity at the station just opened at Hanapepe, Kauai. Between 30 and 40 Chinese children attend the Mission school daily. More would come if there was more room. Mr. C. How Fo writes from Kula, THE FRIEND. FA. Maui: "1 want the readers of 'The SCHAEFER & CO., Friend' to know that our church is doImporters and • ing better now than at this time last COMMISSION MERCHANTS. year. The communion is held every three months. Twenty children, 16 Honolulu, T. H. boys and 4 girls, now attend the Mission school, and come to Sunday School also. Mr. Thwing came up here the first part of the year, and we arc nOPPS COMPANY, ■ Importers and Manufacturers of hoping that he will come again. The FURNITURE AND UPHOLSTERY. work is in good condition." CHAIRS TO RENT. Wailuku welcomes back Miss'Turner Nos. 1053-iosg Bishop St. \Honolulu. after her year at home. She is glad to be back and writes of much encour& BALDWIN, Ltd. agement in the work there. OFFICERS—H. P. Baldwin, Pres't; J. B. E. W. T. ' - TTEXANDER ITEMS FROM WAILUKU. Castle, tst Vice-Pres't; W. M. Alexander, ad Vice-Pres't; J. P. Cooke, Treas.; W. O. Smith, Secy; George R. Carter, Auditor. SUGAR FACTORS AND COMMISSION are planned for MERCHANTS. the Chinese children at Wailuku, Pats and Makavvao. AGENTS FOR—Hawaiian Commercial ft 'This will be the first Christmas in Sugar Co., Haiku Sugar Co., Paia Plantation which the Chinese of Makavvao have Co., Kihei Plantation Co., Hawaiian Sugtir taken part, and it is probable that they Co., Kahului R. R. Co., and KahuWu Plantation. Christmas festivities will unite with the Pookela Church in having a Christmas tree, and share with them Christmas joys. Makavvao is indeed a very important Mission center. Tor the past fourteen days all our work has been hindered on account of the presence of diphtheria, measles and whooping cough, which closed all the schools and all of the Mission work. Schools have again opened, and all is •Vcl) so that work moves on as usual. C. L. T. . RECORD OF EVENTS. C. H. Bellina, M«r Tel. Main 109 CLUB STABLES FORT ST.. ABOVK HOTKI. HIGH OF ALL KINDS GOOD HORSES CAREFUL DRIVERS CLAUS SPRECKELS & CO., BANKERS. j» * Draw Exchange on the principal ports of th« world and transact a general banking business. Ji Nov. 23—Sleet in quantity at Vol- Honolulu cano Hotel. 'Temperature 44 29th—Rainfall in Honolulu, 4.15 HERE'S inches.—Thanksgiving Day duly ob- J» Hawaiian Islands MONEY served. to the Dec. 1st—Arrival of S. S. Suveric, Youno Man or Youno Woman who sells with 1325 Portuguese immigrants, 51 a set of the best Encyclopedia for the days, from the Azores. lowest price ever issues. Write to the Hawaiian Board. You 2d.— Lava begins Rowing copiously can get a set Kilauea. at lalemaumau pit in 1 (jth—Mother Parker enters her io2d FOR YOURSELF year. �THE FRIEND. 19 /-> BREWER & CO., Limited, th—After a week's severe contest for the Shrievalty, the Supreme Court' General Mercantile Commission Agents. t'nder the Lnws of the Incorporated Territory decides the count of votes for laukea Queen St., Honolulu, T. H. of Hawaii. against A, M. Brown. — The body of AGENTS FOR—Hawaiian Agricultural Co., $600,000.00 I. \V. (iirvm. an esteemed old resident, Onomea Sugar Co., Honomu Sugar Co., WaiPAID UP CAPITAL 300,000.00 is found floating in the harbor, after luku Sugar Co., Makee Sugar Co., Haleakala SURPLUS 107,346.65 three UNDIVIDED PROFITS Ranch Co., Kapapala Ranch. i.c s submersion. oI'FICKKS AM) DIRECTOB& Planters' Line Shipping Co., Oiarlai Rraiar end, President —'The I sth Charles M. Cooke after k Ca.'a Lim at HSW Vmrit Paeliata. southerly rains Agents Roston Board of Underwriter*. Vice-President P. C. Jones more than 14 inches of rainfall in four Agents '2nd Vice-President Philadelphia Doard of Underwriters. Y. W. Mncfarlaiic The Bank ofJlawaiUiQ. ii Cashier weeks. Assistant Cashier Kith —New house at Assistant Cashier Y. B. Damon K. Y. Bishop, K. I). Tenney, J. A. McCandless, tion of I'. L. Waldron C. 11. Atlierton anil !•'. C. Atherton. .\];mon. destroyed by COMMKKCIAb AM) SAVINGS DKI'ARTInsured for $10,000. MKNT. joth—Albert }■'. Strict Attention Giro to all Branches of C. 11. Cooke Ilustace, (has. JUDD .)r Hanking. BUILDING. Judd In addition to Hardware and General Merchandise have now a complete assortment of HOUSEHOLD GOODS, including Crockey, Glassware, Stoves, Kitchen Furniture, Refrigerators and Ice Chests, E.tc. Al«o Garden 'Tools of all kinds, Rubber Hose, Lawn Mowers. Call and examine our stock at the Hall Building. C. J. DAY & CO. TIME QROCCRICS OLD Kona Coffe a Specialty B. F. Ehlers & Co. P. O. BOX 716 HONOLULU, X. H. The Leading Dry (ioods House in the Territory. Especial attention given to Mail Orders. arrives from UFAVER LUNCH ROOM. joth to afith —Heavy easterly rainstorm, especially severe on Maui. Guaranteed the Be«t and full 16 ounce-". HENRY HAY fr CO. Ltd. 32 COFFEE HOUSE. Jt Fort St., Honolulu. T. H. j* L J/mmmY^\ Jm g* «I if mml.% MARRIED. JAMIE-HUTCHINSON—AI Hilo. Nov. 24th. VT7 James Muir Jamie, of Ayr, Scotland, to Mi^s Bessie Hutchinson, of Scotland. <X WYFORII-AAKS—AI Puuncne, Maui. F. I'. Crawford 10 Miss Ragna Aars. II xS^l^^ Honolulu, T. H. G. IRWIN & CO., Fort Street, Honolulu SUGAR FACTORS AND HALL-BROWN —At Honolulu, Dec. i, COMMISSION AGENTS. Charles 1.. Hall to-Miss Annie K. Brown. Agents for the Oceanic Steamship Co. DOLE-DICKEY—At Jamaica Plain. Boston, Nov. 24. James P. Dole to Miss Belle Dickey. \jy\ W. AHANA & CO., both of Onlin. WHITE-WRIGHT—At Honolulu, Dec. 10, «f MERCHANT TAILORS. Fred. White to Miss Elizabeth Wright. Telephone Blue 2741 HANSON-TOLLEFSON—AI Honolulu, Dec P. O.jßoi 986. 62 Kink' Street I". Harold E. Hanson to Miss Margaret TolJefson. BORN-SMITH—AI Paia. Maui. Dec. 25, CLOTHES CLEANED AND REPAIRED. Fnicsi 0. Born, of Khliiilui, to Miss Evelyn LTD?" Smith. HOUGHTAILING—In OBEAMBRY BDTTBB j* EWERS & COOKE, Ltd., Capt. W. B. Seabury, for 30 years in Dealers in paints. Etc. P. M. S. S. Co. service. 27th — Reception in Kawaiahao WALL PAPERS, Church to Rev. Dr. Barton, secretary materials, |1 LUMBER, BUILDING of A. B. C. F. M. HENRY H. WILLIAMS .. DIED. California Rose... TEMPERANCE inches of rain in 1 lonolulu. 26th—Death in San Francisco of M. ALWAYS USE Jt experiment, Mrs. Eliu TELBPHONKH Jones, C. H. Cooke, J. R. (ialt, Directors. FORT STKKKT. Manila with 15 Filipino laborers as an E. O. HALL (H. SON 22 LIST OF OFFICERS—CharIes M. Cooke, point of comple- President; Geo. H. Robertson, Vice-President in College Hills, and Manager; E. Faxon Bishop, Treasurer and fire at 0 ]'• m. Secretary; F. W. Macfarlane, Auditor; P. C. FUNFRAL DIRECTOR Honolulu, Nov. 20,' hToughtailing DUNBAR—In Bclvidere, CaL No*, 10 Mrs. Genevieve Dowaetl Dunbar, aged 20 years. GIRVIN— In Honolulu, Dec. oth, by drowning James W. Gin in. an esteemed old resident. aired hi years. CLARK—AI Honolulu. Dee. 10. Walter Clark, j ' aged is years. Registrar of Kamehameha [ Schools, ENA—At Lot Aageka, Cal., l.na. aged o.t. tnlist. a prominent \h-c. 12. John Honolnlu capi- Graduate of Dr. Rodgers Perfect EmSchool of San Francisco, Cal., also of The Renouard Training 1 School for Embalmers of New York. And a licensed Embalmer for the State of New York, alao a member of the State Funeral Directors Association of California. MONUMENTS AND TOMBSTONES FURNISHED. balming Chains to Rent. KAAE—At Honolulu. Dec. 19. Junius Kaae. 114J, 1144 FORT ST. formerly prominent in the service of King LOVE BUILDING K-ilaknua. PEASE—AI Claremont. Cal.. Nov. 20, Rev. Telephones : < Office M fin 64. Res. cor. Richards and Beretania. Blue 3561. Edwifl Morris Pease. M. D., aged 78 years. �j( J \C NOT. 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To have collected and arranged in 12 full volumes the endeavors and achievements of the human race up to the present time—to have at hand the knowledge of the world sifted, certified and presented in one great working library for quick and easy reference; all done effectual}' and completely. This of itself has been cause for wonderment, but that the entire set should be offered to the public at the amazingly low price of $42.00 for the set, marks the undertaking as the wonder in this day of wonders in the realm of book publishing. Imagine its'price four times what it is, put it to the severest encyclopaedia tests you know, either as to comprehensiveness, accuracy, reliability, newness, clearness and charm ol expression, profusion and character of illustration, character of paper, binding—examine it from every standpoint and you will finding nothing lacking. We might write pages about its 60,000 subjects, its 7,500 three-column pages, its 6.000 illustrations, the color plates the full-page plates, the perfect cross-reference system and the many other advantages. Hut we won't. We will do betThey can be seen at the Hawaiian Board Book Rooms. ter than that. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Friend (1907) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Friend - 1907.01 - Newspaper