https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/5f5b5de0b728feec15269ea505f8a245.pdf 095c3566de67e137a27883491fab2d6a PDF Text Text �January, iyio, THE FRIEND. 2 BISHOP JimvianantTrustCo. THE FRIEND . LIMITED. and Accident /^ffifSS^ SURETY ON BONDS. Employers' Plate Liability, and Burglary Insurance. 923 FORT STREET, Safe Deposit Building. All business letters should be addressed and all If. O.s and checks should be made out to COLLEGE HILLS, The magnificent residence tract of the Oahu College. COOL CLIMATE, SPLENDID VIEW The cheapest and most desirable lots offered for sale on the easiest terms; onethird cash, one-third In one year, one-third in two years. Interest at 6 per cent. For information as to building requirements, etc., apply to TRUSTEES OF OAHU COLLEGE, 205 McCandless Building. OAHU - • Hawaiian Islands. • COLLEGE. (Arthur P. Griffiths, A.8., President.) —and Punahou — Preparatory School (Charles T. Fttts, A. 8., Principal). 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Deposits received on curper year. rent account subject to check. WW cents apiece Fire, Marine, Honolulu & COMPANY, We have one, and have sent for a number more. Hawaiian Board Book Rooms. Citizens Insurance Co. (Hartford Fi-e) Fireman's Fund InsuranceCo. (Marine Dept.) National Fire Insurance Co. Protector Underwriters of the Phoenix of Hartford. New England Mutual Life Insurance Co., of Boston. GEORGE J. AUGUR, M. D. HOMEOPATHIC PRACTITIONER. Residence, 435 Beretanla St.; Office, 431 Beretanla St. Tel. 1851 Blue. Office Hours.—lo to 12 a. m., 3to 4 and 7. �The Friend. OLDEST NEWSPAPER WEST OF THE ROCKIES. Vol. LXVII HONOLULU, H. T., JANUARY, 1910 TREASURER'S STATEMENT FROM NOV. The Church and the Drama. 21-DECEMBER 20, '09. leceipts $ A. B. C. F. M 17.30 12.00 125.35 Chinese Work Friend General Fund Hawaii Gen. Fund Hawaiian Work Hoaloha Invested Funds Japanese Work ICauai General Fund Kohala Girl's School.. Maui General Fund... Ministerial Relief Fund Molokal General Fund Oahu General Fund... Office Expense Palama Settlement Portuguese Work Training Preacher's . 100.00 75.40 3.50 28.95 84^.76 275.00 530.70 55.00 104.50 33.05 15.00 1001.07 62.4650.00 ... 30.00 30.00 Fund 5.75 Tomo $3406.48 Ixpenditures Chinese Work ..108.50 Salaries ...803.50 . & Work Salaries Port. Eng. $ 912.00 12.00 657.00 669.00 Foreign Missions —Salaries Friend Hawaiian Salaries 100.30. 78.50 Work 32.25 426.93 459.18 45.65 1.90 Hoaloha Interest Japanese Work. 159.35 797.00 Salaries Kohala 956.35 Girl's — School Salaries Ministerial Relief Fund—Sal- 100.00 aries Office Expense.. 61.40 salaries 447.00 58.45 . 508.40 250.00 Palama Settlement Portuguese Work—Salaries 275.00 . Tomo Waiakea Settlement Workers Wailuku Settlement Workers 24.00 50-00 50.00 James' Upchurch 3. 5 Excess of expenditures over receipts $4543.48 $1137.00 Overdraft at the.. .3719.67 T T} The Christmas carol arranged by Mr. James A. Wilder with the musical collaboration of Captain Berger and Messrs. W. A. Love and Blackman was presented twice during Christmas week in the The chapel of Central Union Church. wording was almost entirely scriptural, the music subdued and beautiful, the details very simple and natural but all conceived with such perfect art that the impression made on every one was profound and moving. It was the drama in the Church yet it was distinctively a religious service, as far above the ordinary Christmas entertainment for Sunday Schools as can be imagined. The drama in the Church ! Why not ? The drama was the daughter of religion. One of the noblest Bible works is drama. The ancient Hebrew prophets were actors who employed the resources of dramatic art to produce their deep impressions. Jesus Himself was the great histrionic Master, an inspiration to the actors of every age. He came to enact the good tidings of God's love. In doing so he conformed to the canons of dramatic art. Witness his scourging the hucksters out of the temple, his consumate art in dealing with the case of the woman taken in sin, his incomparable use of that dramatic form, the parable, his last message to the Baptist, his triumphal entry, many of his signs as he called them. They are the masterpieces of the Great Dramatist and all culminated in the crucifixion at the passover season, exactly when his enemies least desired such a consummation. The Church has been false to its Master in allowing the theater to monopolize her most potent resource for public teaching of religion. And if the Church means to do the large work in the world that her Great Head demands, she must call back to her aid the supreme power of the drama. She must build her meeting houses so that great presentations of truth may be enacted therein with all the present day artistic resources. Men like Mr. Wilder gifted with power to serve in endeavor of this nature should be encouraged to use their talents for the Great Master. Music must be invoked to lend all of her rich charm. In this renascence the histrionic ability latent in numbers of men and women will be put to loftiest No. 1 employ. Sunday evening will become the Church's noblest teaching opportunity and the people will not only throng the meeting houses, not only drink in truth made beautiful and attractive and be moulded thereby but will have their taste educated away from the debasing plays which are proving such a menace to better living in many of our great cities. Passing On. The Japanese have a good custom ot passing on gifts from one to another until they reach at last the one who can make use of them. It is a common thing for one living in the Sunrise Empire to hear a Japanese friend say in presenting a gift, "Its a mere trifle, given to me and so has cost me nothing. I'm but passing it on." The formula is one of politeness and often covers a present of much value which the giver has purchased. There is no more intended falsehood in the statement than in some of our own forms of courtesy. But it emphasizes one of the things which it is proper to do with a gift for which the recipient has no special use, that is, pass it on to some one else. The essence of a real gift is not its intrinsic value but its revelation friendly thot. That received, appropriated by the spirit and made par? of the inner life of the friend is the most that the giver cares about. If in addition the gift can be utilized by the recipient, good. If its highest use be to carry another assurance of friendship from him to a third person, good also. Jesus emphasized this truth of the extrinsic value of a gift when he rebuked Judas at the Bethany feast. "There's no waste," he said in effect, "because Mary has given the most delicate evidence of friendship possible—her clear insight into my inmost soul. She knows I must suffer and has told the story of her sympathy in this fragrant form." The value of the gift great or small or its usefulness fibred as nothing in the Savior's mind. The heart language it bore was everything to him. Fortunately we are learning this and every Christmas emphasizes it in the form of gifts which the givers intend may be shared with others. Books that used to bear inscriptions now come with enclosed cards so that the recipient may pass them on. Many of the more �THE FRIEND. 4 beautiful Christmas and New Year's cards are planned for repeated use. We are thus getting further and further away from the habit of looking gift horses in the mouth and are prizing what we receive not at its money value, not at its cash cost to the giver but at its friendship value, what of spirit has been put into it by the donor. It is well. The world is advancing. J* Cats and Dogs. The past weeks have had their quota of minor disagreements, and exhibitions of spleen. The most amusing and unaccountable of them all has been Delegate Kuhio's outburst against Governor Frear. What it was all about is not very clear except that the Delegate lost his temper over some detail of tweedledum and tweedledee anent our land laws and indulged in Ananias anathemas against the Governor. The latter was as usual master of the situation in his quiet effective manner and the laugh was on the Delegate who seems to have tried to read himself out of the Republican party. The Home Rulers have opened wide their arms to receive him and the coy Democrats have handed him the mitten. But these antics arc not peculiar to Hawaii and next year the Prince may bob up serenely as the love feast candidate of his old time friends. These squabbles in family-ruled Hawaii mean nothing. It is all in the home circle and attributable to the Kona winds that periodically rile every one out here in the Mid-Pacific only to give place to the genial trades that restore the normal good feeling. Meanwhile the Anti-Coastwise shipping law conflict went off with remarkable smoothness. At the public meeting called by the Civic Federation, which summoned a very representative assembly, there was in evidence but one man's dissent to emphasize the overwhelming public sentiment in favor of granting Hawaii common justice in freedom of travel. What Congress will do is another matter. Rumors of the early passage of a subsidy bill which may delay the more pressing reform are rife. It is regretable that President Taft who certainly is aware of our transportation hardships has not been secured to champion fairer traffic treatment of these islands. The Carlisle Way. ecently General R. H. Pratt, who :ed Honolulu last yeat, issued a most resting pamphlet describing the inion, work and priciples of the Indian ustrial School at Carlisle, Pennsylva- t January, 1910 nia. It is a short document but into its their appeals. Quietly the islands have pages are packed much political wisdom been covered by a movement which has of the highest order. Gen. Pratt's con- had little or no organized direction. For tention from the outset of his epochmaking work has been that the only way to solve the Indian question is to assimilate the Indian into the American nation. It is simple and Carlisle has demonstrated its feasibility past all dispute. Like all great discoveries it is so easy that one wonders why the American people had not stumbled upon it centuries ago for experiment had made it clear to the early colonists. Yet Gen- Pratt met the stub bornest opposition of many statesmen; and the Indian Bureau has consistently fought him. Thruout our national history we have demonstrated with ever increasing clearness that assimilation is the key to every troublous racial problem. The most diverse peoples have melted into one common life and quickly disappeared as separate racial stocks only to contribute elements of strength to our broadening and deepening American life and character. With strange inconsistency however, we have segregated fit si the Indians politically and next the negro socially. Strangest of all we have striven to keep out entirely the Eastern Asiatic, whose character strength we can ill spare ,in building up the dominating human race to be. In these islands our nation has chosen the Carlisle way of admitting the Hawaiian at once to the suffrage and welcoming him into the national life. Meanwhile historic causes have saved us from the folly of caste exclusion in dealing with him. The Asiatic too is with us and is bound to tincture By all means our blood increasingly. let the Carlisle way be tried out here naturally with no forcing or repression. The result is bound to be instructive to the entire human family. instance Kaumakapili Church appoint a committee to canvass its constituency with the result that some eleven hundred letters have been written to members of both national Houses tcqiiesting the pasNumbers of sage of the Johnson bill. these have been penned by men or women who themselves are addicted to drink and who pray to have the temptation removed. Others are sufferer! from the excesses of relatives or friends who plead that Congress come to the help of their loved ones. Kawaiahao Church had a like committee but the story of its work has not been reported to us. On Maui under the leadership of Rt\. R. B. Dodge a like campaign has been mstittied. All this must give our national legislators pause. Let every Christian not forget to pray for the passage of this bill. Our representative Mr. Woolley is haul at work and reports success as wilhin the realm of possibiilty. He urges all Christians to exhaust every effort to influence every member of Congress personally The fight will be won known to them. only thru the employment of spiritual weapons. In such a conflict opposition movements like those of our legislature and Delegate are no discouragement. They send us direct to our mighty reenforcement—God. We can win and in the end will win thru Him. Welcome. It is good to see on our streets again the faces of men like Mr. George F. Castle, Rev. W. D. Westervelt and Attorney Withington whose countenance shines with joy over the athletic achievements of his son Lothrop, president of his class and Harvard 1910 football captain. Even Yale Honolulans are proud Not by Might. enuf almost to wish for and certainly The opposition in our Legislature to not to hope against crimson success next the Johnson Bill now before Congress November with so popular a young Isand Kuhio's unaccountable temperance lander in command. The Friend is also sumersault have left this reform to stand happy to learn that l'ishop Rcstarick upon its legitimate basis of inherent who has had such a long siege of illness righteousness. If the fight on behalf of is far on the way to complete recovery. prohibition for Hawaii by Congressional We wish for him a New Year full of action be won, the victory will not be due health and joy. It is pleasant also to to influence in high places but to the greet so large a throng of visiting guests public Christian conscience of America. enlivening our hotels and bringing their That conscience as embodied in the cheering messages from far away fi lends hearts of our national lawmakers is being 1910 promises a greater number of tourappealed to with quiet force that is sine ists than Hawaii has ever known esto have weight. Many of the school chil- pecially if Congress will help us out by dren of Hawaii have written most touch- exempting us from the provisions of the Rumors of ing pleas coming out of the experience coastwise shipping laws. of their own homes and in some cases the mundane sugar situation also pledge replies have been sent them showing that more prosperity during this new year of some consideration is being granted to grace than any of its predecessors. The �THE FRIEND, January, 1910 Army anticipates flooding us with in- eh $onor of 5 tfte KALAUPAPA CHRISTMAS BOX. creasing cohorts and naval engineeis talk glibly of the millions which they anThe following contributed: ticipate expending. Our churches are The Kings Daughters Kealakekua. alive to their own responsibilities in the Halawa Catastrophe Fund, W. B. movement this and stir. To face of all Oleson. turn every thing to account for their Laupahoehoe Christian Endeavor. Master is their motto and certainly they BBS HEN God sought a king for His peoP. C. Jones. are better equipped than ever for such Mrs. Hopper. a campaign. The Methodists, Christians ™= He went to the fields to find him; shepherd was he, with his crook A Ahahtti Hoike Manaoio, Hanalei. have new will C. houses A. and Y. M. and his lute A Friend. during 1910, the Episcopalians rejoice in And a following flock behind him. F. C. Atherton. the completed Priory building. Mills InMrs. J. P. Green. stitute will move into its palace in Manoa of the sheep, O joy of the lute, G. P. Castle. Valley and all over the Territory church- O love And the sling and the stone for the Mrs. H. Waterhouse. es are planning enlargement. Welcome battle; Mrs. H. C. Coleman. then the New Year! May it prove the A shepherd was King; the giant was naught Mrs. Liftee. us have ever happiest and the best all of And the enemy driven like cattle. Mrs. W. F. Frear. known. The Bishop Memorial Church. J« When God looked to tell of His good will W. A. Bowen. Thrum's Annual. to men, The Deaconesses Central Union And the Shepherd King's son whom He For the thirty-sixth time this splendid Church. gave them; handbook comes to greet a new year and shepherds, made meek a' caring for A Total of $102.85 to meet a hearty reception from the read- To sheep, is Paid for purchase "Better than ever" its ing public. He told of a Christ sent to save them. motto and 1910's Thrum's fully justifies made by Mrs. J. L. Hopwood it. It is impossible to detail all the treas- O love of the sheep, O watch in the night, 67.80 ures it unfolds. Only a careful perusal C. J. Day apples... And the glory, the message, the choir; 4-5^ can do that for each reader. But we 'Twas shepherds who saw their King in The "Palm" candy.. 12.75 must call attention to some rare bits of the straw Sachs dolls good work. Of the very first value is And returned with their hearts all on 2.50 the account of the "Ascent of Mount fire. Express •50 Hualalai." taken from Menzies' Journal over anBalance for which abounds in interesting informa- When Christ thought to tell of His love to other year 14.80 tion. Legend and travel have their due the world place of course as well as antequarian He said to the throng before him, $102.85 $102.8 description. But the devotee of island "The Good Shepherd giveth His life for development will find more to interest the sheep"— This year the pastor Kcv. D. Kaai And away to the cross they bore Him. him than perhaps any other class among made a careful estimate of his people and us. The Hilo article is most timely and found that there were eighty-one regular the resume of 1909 very convenient for O love of the sheep, O blood sweat of attendants of his church with about {orty The complete tables prayer, ready reference. to be added who might be termed the and incidental information make the O Man on the cross, God-forsaken; "Christmas casuals." (Some of our city work most useful for all who crave up- A Shepherd has gone to defend all alone churches would average higher in "caThe sheepfold by death overtaken. to-date information made accessible. suals"). He had a list, dividing these according to age and sex, and the buying D. S. When God sought a king for His people, was much simplified. Still we feel like for aye. guaranteeing that few could have securA HAPPY NEW YEAR. He went to the grave to And him; ed, in number and quality, the individual The Friend extends to all its readers And a shepherd came back, Death dead gifts that Mrs. Hopwood, thanks to her in His grasp, best wishes for a Happy New Year. several years of experience, obtained And a following flock behind him. Honolulu's generous storemen. from J* woman received a complete outfit Every life from the dead, of the sheep, O Mr. K. Kondo, son of one of the in- O lovestrength the way of dress materials, buttons of the faint and the fearing; in O fluential members of our Lihue Japanand thread. Every man was gladdened King, kingdom and will His A Shepherd is ese Church has become teacher of a new a shirt and necktie,—which latter with come, course, school at Anaholi, Kauai. Mr. Kondo of his wife did not buy for him. coming nearing. His is And the day of is an earnest Christian and has opened All the boys received good knives, and JOSEPH ADDISON RICHARDS. a Sunday School to which all of his the girls got pretty dressed dolls. The "Casuals" received handkerchiefs all, and scholars gladly go. He is joined in the entire congregation had a box of sympathy with our Japanese force of candy and an apple each. An account workers and makes our Kauai contin- Glory to God in highest heaven, man given! Who unto his Son hath of the celebration has not come to us and or gent four. We wish there were six we simply imagine that they all were seven. There are promising fields While angels sing, with pious mirth, happy to have been so well remembered. enough, all close together to claim the A glad New Year to all the earth. LUTHER. T. R. MARTIN full strength of seven men. . . * �6 THE FRIEND. EFFECT OF PRAYER ON ONE WHO PRAYS. (Rev. Charles D. Milliken.) Reading the sixth chapter of Luke gives the impression that a remarkable day in Christ's ministry followed a night of prayer. The first deed of that day was choosing the Twelve; apparently a simple act. but of supreme significance, requiring accurate judgment of men. These were the men who could best maintain Christianity after He had gone. The second deed was healing the infirmities of a multitude. Virtue went forth from Him so that all who touched Him were made whole. The first was it work of wisdom—a clear head. The .second of compassion—a warm heart. The third labor of the day was preaching the most remarkable sermon the world has heard: "Love your enemies; do good to them that hate you; be kind to the unthankful and the evil." To preach and practice these precepts require both wisdom and compassion. These working together in a life can strike through doubt and wrath straight to the law of Love; can bring words which seem visionary into actual accomplishment. It is not likely that Christ would have done any of these things immediately after turning water into wine or after feasting with publicans and sinners. He did them after a night of prayer. Prayer clears the mind and warms the heart; it puts one in the best condition to perform serious duties and carry heavy responsibilities. These are the effects of prayer on one who prays. Prayer must be sincere and continuous in a life that attains these results. There is much so-called prayer that is not real, and some real prayer that is not continuous, and the results are meagre. At a certain public exercise I was asked to offer a prayer. The prayer was sincere, but feeling was absent. Afterward I wondered if any one really heard—if even God heard. One can discern from the tone of another's voice the reality of his prayer, and the fruitage of a life will always determine if one sincerely prays. Listening to some public prayers, I have been skepti- eal of their worth. And how important is constancy! The soul must be always open to Divine communications. The formality may be infrequent but the spiritual feature must be continuous if results are to show. As a pianist detects deficiency in execution if a day's practice be omitted, so does a heart finely strung detect weakness in itself if prayer is neglected. It is probably a sad fact that too man}' nominal Christians imitate the old lady in the "Manxman" who, threatened with calamity, cried to the Lord that she hadn't bothered Him for a very long time, and if He would only deliver her now from the impending trouble she wouldn't bother Him again for another long time! The effects of sincere and continuous prayer in a life are wisdom and sympathy; virtue that goes forth which, if it cannot heal every infirmity, does soothe sorrows, heal wounds and drive away fears. Indelibly stamped in memory which will ever be a benison is the influence of a few whose lights are now shining in celestial windows, whose prayers, while here, must have been like those that Sandalphon gathers as he stands listening,— January, 1910 PALAMA SETTLEMENT 1909. A Few Facts—Briefly Put. 1908 *iox)9 1 Dispensaries Operated 2 2 Nurses Employed 4 1,588 3.989 Cases under Care 1,364 3,623 Visits made by nurses Treatments in Dispensaries 3,933 13,402 Number Supplied with Sick Room Requisites, Nourishment, etc 665 374 under Care Babies 71 17° 54,212 82,012 Bottles Milk dispensed * For Eleven Months. Clubs. Classes. Etc- Men and Boys Enrolled 56 138 122 Women and Gils Enrolled 97 Evening Classes 94 i,93 f> 3.3Q3 Baths 46 14 Employment found for The Settlement Maintains: Two dispensaries, four nurses, two milk depots, a well equipped gymnasium with baths, bowling alley and locker rooms, an employment department, evening classes, industrial classes for girls, a well equipped play ground, dormitories for single men, model cottages, children's gardens, a kindergarten, a "That change into flowers in his hands, reading room, a Sunday School and Into garlands of purple and red; While beneath the great arch of the portal vesper services. Through the streets of the city immortal Its work is non-sectarian. Its aim is Is wafted the fragrance they shed." to develop self-dependence in the peoamong whom it works. ple Those were lives that irradiated peace In its medical work it ministers to and that learned, if ever human beings whole city. can learn, to do good to those who de- the J* spitefully use and persecute. Read again what Christ did after He spent a WAILUKU. night on the mountain with His Father. Miss Turner writes a letter full of enSee how wisdom and sympathy become and enthusiasm over the couragement dominant in you when you have learned in Wailuku. There is work Japanese often to walk and talk with Him. more and regular attendance at large Church, Sunday School, Day School and Six young men were Night School. THANKS. baptized and received into the church The Committee that had charge dur- on December 26th. The Woman's Soing the past year of the religious services ciety has lately had two lively meetings, at the Lcahi Home and the Oahu Prison one a social gathering at which 36 were wish to thank the public for their ser- present, the other a "Laura Bridgman" vices and gifts. Most especially do they meeting, at which 53 were present and appreciate the kindness of the one who Miss Tanaka gave a most interesting talk furnished conveyances for the ladies each on the young woman, who, though deaf, month and of that commission merchant dumb and blind, had won distinguished on Fort Street who made a substantial fame. At the Christmas celebration the gift to each of the patients in the Leahi Home. church was a bower of beauty, and over JOHN M. MARTIN, For the Committee. 300 people were present. �January, 1910, The Library Alcove ERNEST J. REECE Accessions of Equipment. It is perhaps fitting that so closely upon Hawaii's pledge of allegiance to one noble public enterprise it has enlisted outside beneficence in support of another. Uplift equipment increased to the extent of a quarter million—this is what the new library and Young Men's Chirstian Association plants mean. Two institutions which stand primarily for education and opportunity and richness of life are to be given efficient tools for their work. The influences making for justice and harmony in the relations of man to man, of breadth and self-realization in the development of the individual, of clarity and adjustment in the problems that confront Hawaii have received mighty impulse. Truly the promise they have brougt is such as to make memorable the closing months of 1909. The Generosity in Which We Share. Apropos of the library gift it is interesting to recall that up to Jannary i, 1909, Mr. Carnegie had furnished funds for the construction of almost 1800 buildings, costing in the aggregate over rii'tyone million dollars. Practically all English speaking countries are represented on the Carnegie map, including the West Indies, South Africa and the Fiji and Seychelles islands. The donations have varied in size from the earliest gift of a single alcove of technical books made to the Mercantile library at Pittsburg to the note which promised the library system of Greater New York the construction of seventy-eight buildings. The Carnegie Method. Mr. Carnegie's beneficence is far removed from whim or chance. It is systematized by a secretary whose office is conducted on a rigid business basis. Church organs, the hero fund, the Carnegie institution, libraries—each of these headings stands for a distinct To each applicant for department. library funds the secretary sends a blank calling for the information which Mr. Carnegie desires to guide him in giving. The answers received furnish facts regarding local conditions, important among which are the population of the community and the readiness of its citizens to comply with certain conditions of library maintenance. It may almost be said that any English-speaking com- THE FRIEND munity in the world may secure money for a library building provided it does accept these conditions. The Carnegie Spirit One of the questions Mr. Carnegie asks of a petitioning community is whether it is willing to dedicate to the maintenance of a library one tenth of the sum that is requested for building purposes. In some instances, however, there have been deviations from this requirement. The inhabitants of a fishing settlement in the Orkney Islands employed a method which recalls the pledges made by some of our own New England pioneers toward founding their early colleges. Having little ready .cash the fishermen filled their subscription list largely with such items as the following : Fifty pounds of dried fish. Twenty pairs of knitted socks. Four weeks of service by laborers. Two days' carting. The town was given its library. This and the experience of another Scottish village who.-c pledge was matched shilling for shilling reveal the heart in the Carnegie system. Dunfermline and the Carnegies. The public library of Dunfermline owes its origin not to the steel king but to his father. Shortly after Andrew was born the elder Carnegie joined with a group of fellow-weavers in a plan of pooling book collections and loaning to outsiders any volumes that might be desired. Gradually the little library grew, becoming merged finally in a larger institution. In recent years Mr. Carnegie has housed the public library of his native town in a splendid building. Not content with this he has established at Dunfermline a magnificent social center, the purpose of which, expressed in his own words, is "to attempt to introduce into the monotonous lives of the toiling masses more of sweetness and light, to give them, especially the young, some charm, some elevating conditions of life which their residence elsewhere would have denied; so that a child in his native town will feel, however, far he may have roamed, that simply by virtue of being such his life has been made better and happier." Compensation. Economically the country is poorer for the vast wealth that it pours into defense. Batteries are not reared of clay or dreadOre noughts spun from gossamer. drawn from Escanaba lodes and coal dug from Lackawanna veins are not to be replaced. The peace advocates are 7 beyond refutation when they buttress their argument with figures showing the drain of war upon our national resources. But possibly there is compensation in the fact that much of this natural wealth has been converted indirectly into forms more enduring and of infinitely greater value. Mr. Carnegie's riches have come largely from the mines; they have been transformed into agencies of religion and art and knowledge. The material built into the battleship may be lost, but the public moneys which purchased it have passed thro steel into education and culture and character. Dibble's "Sandwich Islands." Only here and there in the libraries of the many pet sons interested in Hawaiian history has it been possible hitherto to find Dibble's "Sandwich Island." The recent reprint of this work by T. G. Thrum now brings its possession within tit reach of all. Moreover a most valuable bit of Hawaiiana is given added usefulness. It is a matter of regret that the workmanship on the new volume is not bettor and the binding more attractive. If the report that the Burrows Brothers Company has another reprint in preparation be true, however, there is still promise of a suitably beautiful Dibble. This firm has a reputation for lavish expenditure in the publication of historical works. Thwaites "Jesuit Relations" and Avery's "History of the United States and its People" are exGenerous co-operation amples of this. with authors, tireless patience in the verification to details, unlimited care in reproduction work, scrupulous choice of material and processes—these' are some of the Burrows hall-marks. Sheldon Dibbles "Sandwich Islands" is worthy the attention of such book-maker.-, and al! interested in bygone Hawaii truV' well hope that the Burrows company has decided to bestow effort upon it. LANTERN SLIDES TO EXCHANGE. Rev. August Drahms, of Hilo would be glad to exchange stereoptican views with some one else in such a way that it will be of mutual advantage. 0 Over one hundred persons were present at the last union prayer meeting of the Japanese in the Nuuanu Street church. J» a saint is a good deal like being a woman, I reckon," said Cynthia, dryly. "There's a heap in being born to It."—Ellen "Being Glasgow. �8 THE The Scribe's Corner REV. WM. BREWSTER OLESON Corresponding Secretary. "R man may know It or not, bat a real reference tor humanity follows from the practical recognition of God ai the father of as all." —Harnack Siloam. It is not generally known that there has been a Protestant church at Kalaupapa, Molokai, almost contemporaneous with the inauguration of the leper settlement. This church has been a remarkably useful and successful organization. It began with a membership of 35, and at times has had a membership of over 300. It has been continuously ministered to by a succession of noble and faithful Hawaiian pastors, the present pastor, Rev. David Kaai, being the eighth in this These men have been worthy roll. maintained by the Hawaiian Board, the salary of the present pastor being entireThis church has ly met in this way. received acccessions by letter from churches all over the territory, and has received notably large additions on confession of faith. It has been one of the most generous of all our Hawaiian churches in its benevolent contributions. It has been a spiritual home for many afflicted with this dread disease who have found in its light and fellowship a better healing than that of the body. It was well-named Siloam by its organizers, for it was sent, that is,' made possible by the compassionate love of Christian men and women from Niihau to Hawaii. The patient ministry of its pastors, who have suffered self-abnegation in behalf of their fellows, has been a chapter in modern heroism that is as remarkable as it has been unheralded. An Urgent Need. The Bible School for the preparation of young men for the ministry is about to open its doors to five or six promising students. Several of the instructors are salaried officers of the Hawaiian Board and there will therefore be no expense on that account. Kawaiahao church has generously proffered the use of one of its well-equipped rooms, and there will be no expenditure on that account. The sole expense will be in providing for the living needs of the students, and to help compensate them for such service as they may be able to render pastorless church- FRIEND, January, 1910 es during vacations. The scheme calls his face because his music-loving soul for approximately six months' study in has found congenial expression. Honolulu each year and six months' supply of vacant pulpits. By this arrangement, the young men will be able first FIELD HAPPENINGS. to put their preparation to the test by actual service, and second to learn more Some specially valuable touring clearly what preparation they need most. has1.been done during the quarter ending Incidentally this plan will secure preach- September Rev. H. P. Judd and ing for places during a part of the year Rev. R. B. 30. made the circuit of Dodge that only get it now infrequently. Finally East Maui together preaching and holdin the stress for ministers for our pas- ing meetings at many points. Rev. torless churches, this is the best workto Timoteo Rev. H. P. S. and Judd E. able scheme available. The financing of gether or separately preached in all the the school calls for approximately $1800. Molokai churches, and the latter made It is believed that the churches served a preaching tour through Hamakua, by the vacation supply will pay at least Hilo, and Puna. Rev. E. S. Timoteo $5 per month. This would mean $300 has been specially useful in the Koolau from five churches supplied. The Ha- district of Oahu. He has been instru waiian Board has already made provision mental also in securing regular preach for about $400 of the needed amount. ing services for the Hauula Church Another $400 is likely to come from an- through supplies from Honolulu and other interested source, thus making Waialua. Rev. A. S. Baker has done an about $1100 in sight. The remaining unusual amount of visiting in the home; $700 is necessary to give the experiment of the people in the region of the typhoid a fair test. This ought to be in hand fever epidemic in Kona. before the school opens in January, or 2. There has been special activity in We deem the repair of church property, and in the at least the pledges for it. this school a vital necessity at the pre- erection of new buildings. Three churchsent time. It affords the most practical, es on Kauai have been renovated and and economical arrangement to secure put in first class condition. The Fort men adequately equipped for the press- Street Chinese Church has received exing needs of our Hawaiian churches. tensive repairs, and presents an attractive The scheme contemplates no call now appearance. A Worker's Cottage has or in the future for new buildings or been added to the Kalihi Settlement at a salaries. If after a few years' trial the cost of $600. A fine gymnasium has results justify its continuance, it will be been erected and dedicated at Palama an easy matter to add it as a department Settlement thus distinctly enhancing it.> to some one of our present schools. For service to that community. New buildthe present the need is urgent that we ings have been erected at Olaa, Hawaii do what we can to fill the places of Ha- for Hawaiian Church, and at Waiwaiian ministers made vacant by death luku the for the Japanese Church. Parson or disability. This is the most avail- ages also have been secured for the pasable and promising arrangement. Will tors at Wailuku and at Koloa. you back it up? Some very necessary" and expensive That Mandolin Again. sanitary improvements have been comWell, it has come into the Scribe's pleted at our Honomu Settlement, the Corner, and has gone out again, to make expense being generously met by the one man happy in his hard tasks. Only agents of the plantation. Similar mucit it was not a mandolin after all, but a needed improvements at our Chinese and guitar. It was the gift of Mrs. Nina Japanese parsonages at Hilo are about Wolfe, and the gift will make music in completed. 3. Gratifying progress has been made her soul, as the guitar will in the recipient's ears. I am glad he didn't have in securing pastors for some of our pasto wait until he got his harp in the Gold- torless churches. This has been accomen City. The harp is a good thing to plished however in two instances at the look forward to, and we shall all of us, cost of making two other churches pas who are lucky enough, be glad to hear torless. Thus the church at Olaa has David on his harp; but that.does seem given up its pastor to the church at Li a long way off, and so we all rejoice that hue, and the church at Kaupo has lost its our almost blind but youthful preacher pastor, while the church at Haiku has sein Kona can thrum a guitar in his home cured him. On the whole our Hawaiian churches after some of those long journeys about his large parish; and I think that this are better provided with pastors than for people will love him even more than they some time previous, though the need is General Superintendent'! Digest of Quarterly do now, when they see the added joy in Report* • Fromending September :», 1909. �January, 1910. Officers for the Bible School: Superintendent—Ed. Towse. Assistant Superintendent—Mrs. E. A. great for men to supply churches sin' without pastors. Several new fields could be opened in our Japanese work, and five evangeiisU could be wisely placed if the men we.c calls available. There are similar urgent to enter evangelists on for us pressing new fields among the Chinese. Several promising enterprises could be inaugurated if the right men could be secured. Our Japanese work has been Strengthened by the coming of Rev. Mr. Hori to be the pastor of our Nuuanu Street Jones.. Secretary—A. E. Larimer. Treasurer —W. J. Forbes. Librarian—Harold Gear. Supt. Sunbeam Class—Mrs. R. D. Mead. Supt. Primary Dept.—Miss Chatlctte Hall. Supt. Junior Dept.—Mrs. R. W. Andrews. Supt. Home Dept.—Mrs. E. B. Waterhouse. Church. There have been numerous accessions to our churches, but the number has not been as large as during previous quarters, probably due to the fact that this quarter includes the summer seasor. when there is less activity in our churches than at other times. Noteworthy accessions however are reported in the Hawaiian churches at Lihue and at Halawa, Molokai. 5. The spirit of co-operation has manifested itself in a variety of helpful ways. Rev. Mr. Burnham has been of great assistance at Lahaina in work among the Chinese and in Settlement enterprises. Dr. Waterhouse and wife have done splendid misionary service at Koloa in the Hawaiian Sunday School and in the Japanese mission. Miss Tappan of the Mid-Pacific Institute has rendered helpful assistance at our Chinese The Settlement on Beretania Street. visit of Dr. Scudder to Kona, Hawaii. was a stimulus and encouragement to our workers there. 6. We are glad to report large en. rollments at all our schools. Probably these schools were never in better condition than today; and yet several of them find it difficult to meet the demands on them for lack of funds. No definite announcement has yet been made by the Committee on the Bible School as to the date of opening, but progress has been made in mapping out a course of study. Two of our agents are holding monthly classes for Bible study of the Sunday School lessons. 7. Generous gifts have been received including $1500 to be added to the Mrs. M. S. Rice fund; $500 for the Pastor's Aid Society of Hawaii; $200 to aid Mrs. R. B. Baker in her work; and $100 to the Kaiwiki Chapel Fund. The reports of our agents and superintendents are full of interesting facts which it is impossible to include in a brief survey of this nature. Jt 4. Central Union News A. A. EBERSOLE A Healthy Growth. It is as it should be, when at every communion service a goodly company of new members come into church memberThe December communion wa» ship. made especially joyous because twenty more were received, making seventynine who joined us during the year. Of these twenty who came in at this time five came on confession of faith, one on reaffirmation and fourteen by letters from other churches. * Annual Meeting. The mid-week service on December 15, gave way to the annual business meeting of the church, for the election of officers, and such other matters as might be presented. The election resulted as follows: Deacons—Wm. D. Alexander and P. W. Rider (Re-elected). Deaconesses —Mrs. T. G. Thrum (reelected), Mrs. W. W. Hall. Standing Committee Members—P. L. Home, Geo. W. Paty. Clerk—W. W. Hall (Re-elected). Treasurer—O. C. Swain (Re-elected). Trustees—S. M. Damon and Zcno K. Myers (re-elected), J. P. Cooke (in While Thanksgiving has its foundation on place of J. O. Carter, deceased), C. H. mouth Rock, Christmas rests upon the Cooke (in place of C. M. Cooke, deceask of Ages.—Charles Dudley Warner. ed.) S 9 THE FRIEND Woman's Society. In the general reorganization of the Ladies' Society the name was changed to "Woman's Society." The following officers were elected for the ensuing year. Mrs. W. C. Hobdy, President. Mrs. Malcolm Mac Intyte, Vice-President. Mrs. A. C. Alexander, Treasurer. Mrs. W. W. Thayer, Secretary. Councillors At Large: Mrs. Z. K. Myers. Mrs. F. W. Peterson. Mrs. J. M. Whitney. Committee Chairmen: Mrs. Alonzo Gartley, Cailing. Mrs. W. F. Brown, Educational. Mrs. A. C. Alexander, Finance. Mrs. Marston Campbell, House. Mrs. Stanley Livingston, Membership. Mrs. Forbes, Religious Work. Mrs. Abram Lewis, Social. These officers, councillors and committee chairmen constitute the Executive Committee. With more than two hundred qiembers the Society enters the new year with greater promise than ever. An Important Line of Study. On Thursday evening, December 9, a group of men called together under the auspices of the Social Section of the Men's League, organized a class for a If careful study of modern socialism. the first meeting is any criterion this will prove an exceedingly interesting and profitable cause. The work is outlined for seven months and at each meeting certain phases of the subject will be presented by appointed speakers and the meeting is thrown open for discussion. Some lively debates are sure to follow. J* Ministers' Class. Parents are beginning to appreciate the value of the class which the minister conducts each year during the winter �months, for the boys and girls of the church who are thirteen years of age. This year there are twenty in the class ten boys and ten girls. The class meets The attendevery Friday after school. ance is almost perfect and the interest in the work most encouraging. The little book which they use "Our Children for Christ" is a new edition of the minister's own series of lessons setting forth, largely in the language of Scripture, the fundamentals of the Christian life. Christmas Carol. January. 1910. THE FRIEND. 10 Ed them among the poor families in Pa- was needed than the joyous faces of the lama and Kakaako. Besides many use- ; children as they came with laden arms ful articles and great piles of toys, $36 that it is "more blessed to give than to was handed in in money. No better proof jreceive ." Men Working for Men PAUL SUPER " * The Bible School presented this year what was, by all who saw it, pronounced to be the most beautiful representation of the Nativity ever given in Central Union Church. It was an entirely original production written and staged by Mr. Jas. A. Wilder. The first scene represented some shepherd boys lying asleep while in the distance could be seen the village o( Bethlehem. The brightness of the star and the far away voices of herald angeis awoke them. Then came the Three Wise Men clad in silks and jewels carrying their gifts to the new born King—and enquiring the way to Bethlehem. The dialogue, mostly the language of Scrip ture, was most impressive. The second scene was a tableaux tcpresenting the wise men and shepherd boys gathered in worshipful adoration about the mother and child in the stable. Not a word was spoken in this scene. Although the room was crowded to the doors a hush fell upon the audience and the effect was one not soon to be forgotten. The music was in charge of Mr. W. A. Love, chairman of the Musical Section of the Men's League. A splendid orchestra played most effectively the music accompanying the carols and during the final tableaux. Everyone was so delighted with the presentation that Mr. Wilder and those who so ably assisted him were persuaded to repeat it on Monday evening, December 27. for the general public who were not able to attend the first presentation on Thursday evening, the 23rd. when another large audience was present. "More Blessed to Give Than to Receive.** In accordance with the custom of the Bible School, this was the year for the scholars to give gifts instead of receive. It was a beautiful sight to see class after class bear their gifts to the platform and present them to the minister and the deaconnesses who the next day distribut- A FEATURE OF THE NEW BUILDING. The New Building. Building matters are now moving along. The whole corner of Hotel anti Alakea streets has been secured for the This includes i42 feet building site. front on Hotel street, extending from Alakea to Adams' Lane. The Alakea side is 2x2 feet long, including the whole of the Library land, and the Adams Lane side is about iB5 feet. The total area is about 28,000 square feet, and costs the Association $57,000. The building will not occupy the whole of the lot, but will have a frontage of about 90 feet and about i6O feet length. The rear of the building will be about nO feet wide. The Building Committee is now complete, except for the appointment of one man and consists of Messrs. T. Clive Davies, Chairman; F. J. Lowrey, W. G. Hall and A. Gartley. Their first business will be the choice of an architect, which choice will be made early in January. J* Religious Work. The two most satisfactory features of the Association's religious work are the shop Bible classes and the Monday night meeting for the students in the night school classes. The class in the Catton Neill Shops meets every Thursday noon and averages between 25 and 30 in atThe Honolulu Iron Works tendance. class meets Friday noon and averages around fifty. The average for December was si. The course followed is called "The Master Man," a series of incidents from the Life of Christ. Each man has a copy of the text, extracts from the scriptures, from which the class read.-, before the talk on the days' lesson. The young men in the educational dc partment take kindly to the Monday night meetings, held at nine o'clock in the Social Rooms, the attendance running from 35 to 40 each week. Thus in the.c three meetings about i2O men a week ate reached, many more than we formerly got together for the Sunday meetings in the building, and to quite a large extent, composed of non-church-going men. J* Notes. A class in Commercial Law, to be taught by Judge Alexander Lindsay, Jr., begins work January 18. O. H. Ingalls has had to resign his position as office secretary owing to ill health. Seabury Short, son of the Key. �TRY A OAME OF CHECKERS Mr. Short of the Episcopal Church, tooK his place January first. The January Round-Up will be 'Seeing Honolulu by Moonlight." The December one, "A Trip to Frisco on the Alameda," was such a success that the committee will try that form of edutainment again. Various phases of Honolulu life will be burlesqued on an nuginary tour of the city. R. L. Gault, the new elected secretary for boys' work, is expected early in the year. The present force anxiously await his coming, and hope for big things in boys' work when he gets here. Dr. Scudder will begin a series of talks in the building at noon, once a week, taking up religious problems of young men, and answering such questions as the men care to ask. A chess tournament and a tennis toutnament are interesting a number of members, young and not so young. 224 men and boys have joined the Association since September first. conferences gave splendid opportunity to meet with old friends and to make new. Quite an extensive tour has been made through Japan, visiting churches. schools and colleges. Fifty addresses have been given, reaching some thirteen thousand students. The Japanese seem interested in the International Reform idea. A very pleasant visit was had with Dr. Dc Forest at Sendai. The good Hawaiian coffee at his table made me think of the fine coffee the ladies of Central Union Church always provide. Perhaps the greatest treat enjoyed Ims been the Protestant Semi-Centennial Conference. The report and the review of the fifty years' work in Japan was full of interest. S Christian Progress in Japan. An extract from Dr. Imbrie's address will show something of the progress of missionary work during the past fifty years: "Fifty years ago there was not a Christian in Japan, now they are to be found in the Imperial Diet, on the Judge's bench, and in the Imperial I'niviTsity. On this occasion they had gathered from all parts of the country to celebrate the founding of Christianity. It has made for itself a place worthy of recognition in this nation, and this assemblage today is a fact of profound significance. "At present 500 men have been ordained, and 300 more are preparing. There are 200 financially independent congregations, and 500 that are not yet independent. In Japan there are 1,200 Schools, and 90,000 school and students, while 260,000 teachers been contributed to the yen have churches. more than statistics '' What is needed sense of responsibility as is a deeper and a new vigor of churches of Japan, life as never before. The Church of Christ that goes forth to conquer must have a message. "Christian ideas and principles have been working in the minds of the people. Christian literature is read to a large extent, or the apostles or disciples are quoted in the daily papers along with the wisdom of the Japanese sages. Sunday A GOOD TRIER. Foreign Correspondence E. W. THWING Tokyo, Oct. 22. '09. The days have been passing so rapidly that it is hard to realize that over three months have been spent in Japan. The summer at Karuizawa was most delightful. The many meetings and 11 THE FRIEND January, 1910 The English work most read is the Christian Scripture. "What is the outlook? A voice is heard—the voice of one crying to prepare the way of the Lord. There is an open door. The great work is yet to be done. The evangelizing of Japan can only be accomplished by time and toil. In the process, time is an essential element. It is like the siege of Port Arthur. Endure hardship like a good soldier. That is the injunction to be taken to heart by the churches of Japan." J» Count Okuma Speaks for Christianity. I had a very pleasant visit with Count Okuma at his home a week ago. He is very friendly and spoke most highly of Ihe work of the missionaries in Japan. He is much interested in the International Reform work, and believes in the said true brotherhood of mankind. Hething such to me: "There is really no among peoas the East and the West ple. We are all men of the world, very much alike and truly brothers. It is a mistake to speak of the Orient and the Occident as so different." Count Okuand ma also attended the Conference of value gave this testimony as to the Christian missions: "I am not a Christian, but I am the indirect beneficiary of Christian influence. The civilization of Japan is Anglo-American, and largely brought by about by the missionaries, sometimes conscious, and sometimes by indirect, influence. I wish to congratulate you on your achievement in these fifty years. I warn you that today and henceforth is the time to go to work for Christianity, and that which you have done is but a small part of the work you are destined to do in this Empire." Good News for Hawaii. It was good news to learn from The Friend that Dr. Scudder is to stay in the mid-Pacific, where he is so much needed. Some of his words much impressed me as looking forward to unity, uai. as they say. We may hope so. Many people would like to get some Pacific problem of the future and the hope of being able in a small way to help on that mightiest of all inter-racial (Continued on base 16} �THE 12 Our Young People HENRY P. JUDD ringing in their ears and gone to the lunch tables there to delight themselves further in the delicacies and to enjoy social conversation and then departed to their homes in no wise spiritually strengthened or enlightened. We suggest that the district superintendents devise some scheme which will prove to be of great benefit in the conducting of the hoikes. The spirit of worship should take the place of hilarity and confusion; there should be one or two speakers prepared to give practical talks on some of the live S. S. topics, instead of so much bouquet-throwing as is noticed so often; there might be an exhibition of a model class or perhaps a black-board talk. An informal conference of the teachers present might result in much profitable discussion. Other methods may easily suggest themselves as feasible and advantageous. The hoike is a good institution if well conducted. Let us try to improve it all along the line and make it a real force, of spiritual and educational value as The Hoike Session. well as social. The last of December has been the time for the usual district "hoikes." The general superintendent has been in- The Superintendent on Molokai. vited to attend several of these gatherSoon after arriving from the Mainland ings but, not being able to divide his to refuse with his bride on November 23rd, the several has had parts, body into Superintendent started out for a three almost all of the invitations. Readers of the "Nupepa Kuokoa" can week's tour of the islands of Molokai easily keep posted as to the time and and Lanai. The first two weeks of the journeying place of the various "hoikes." The spent at Kauluwai, Molokai as were the mind popular hoike has a hold upon of the Hawaiian people and is very use- guests of Mr. and Mrs. George P. From this delightful home ful as a means of gathering in the indif- Cooke. to the various places on and were made Sunday-school trips ferent members of the of attracting some who are not members the Kona side of Molokai. The Supof any school. It is a great success as erintendent's attention to church activity a social entertainment, as a popular gath- on the island was attracted immediately ering for the singing of hymns and the upon his arrival late at night on Novemrecital of Bible verses and Sunday-school ber 30th. Near the end of the long wharf, the lessons. The spirit of friendly rivalry between new Kaunakakai church loomed up schools of different localities is apparent prettily in the moonlight. The buildat times; the appeal for a large offering ing was erected under the immediate from the schools is made sometimes supervision of the Rev. D. K. White of noisily and always urgently, and through Lahaina and is a beautiful and spacious all the proceedings is the note of joy house of worship. The dedication serWhat vice was held on Christmas day and was and delightful entertainment. spiritual very impressive and helpful. for a opportunity splendid a On Sunday December sth we visited uplift and also for the gaining of valuamethods Kalaiakamanu Sunday-school at new the regarding ble knowledge and ideas is thereby thrown away. Too Kaunakakai in the old church building often has the crowd filed out from the and were most cordially received by the church with the beautiful songs still people. Being called upon by Mr. Ua- It will be noticed in this issue chat the expositions of the Sunday-school lessons have been omitted from this department. It has been thought unnecessary to give these brief outlines of the lessons considering the fact that so many excellent quarterlies and lesson helps are accessible to all at very low prices. For the year 1910 this department will be limited to one page and will contain items of interest in the Sunday-School and Christian Endeavor work. We will be glad to receive any reports, items or suggestions from any Sunday-school or C. E. society in the Territory for we wish to keep in touch with all the phases of Christian activity among the young people of Hawaii nei. It is a true saying that knowledge begets interest, and the axiom applies in the Sunday-school and C. E. work as well Let us hear what our as elsewlk schools and societies are doing. January, 1910, FRIEND hinui, the Superintendent, I gave a talk in Hawaiian and Mr. White, the minister-carpenter of Lahaina followed. He spoke of the new church building and what it should mean to the people, also referring to the benefits that were to be received from the Christian influences of such men as Mr. Gay of Lanai, Mr. Cooke of Molokai and Mr. Baldwin of Maui. On Saturday the nth, I rode to Halawa, stopping en route at Kaluaaha for luncheon with Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Hitchcock. Just before dark I rode into the beautiful valley of Halawa and was the guest of Hon. Joel Nakaleka over Sunday. The Rev. E. S. Timoteo had been holding a series of evangelistic meetings during the week with the result that on Sunday morning thirteen new members were received into the church. The services of the day were unusually interesting, beginning with an excellent hoike, following with the morning worship at which time Mr. Timoteo preached, and concluding with a C. E. installation of new officers and a wide-awake The Halawa Chrisprayer meeting. tians gave evidence of great interest in their church life and work for the Master. On Monday morning.Messrs. Nakaleka, Timoteo, Kaalouahi, the minister, and Judd rode over to Waialua and held a meeting in the church. An opportunity was afforded us to speak first to the school children in English and then to the adults in Hawaiian. After our meeting we were delightfully entertained at luncheon at the home of Mr. Cathcart, the school teacher. On Lanai. The following day we sailed for Lanai, having a few hours en route at Lahaina, where we received many favors from the Rev. and Mrs. C. G. Burnham and the workers at the Baldwin Settlement House. A short passage across the channel from Lahaina found us at Kahalepalaoa and a cordial welcome awaited us from Mr. and Mrs. Gay. Our stay on the island was most enjoyable. The services on Sunday in the Lanaihale church were interesting as usual and the people of the island are actively engaged in Sunday school, C. E. and other phases of Christian life. It is good to know that Mr. and Mrs. Gay are to stay on the island and will continue to be the earnest workers in the vineyard that they have been during the past few years on Lanai. �13 THE FRIEND. January, 1910 i. A Temperance Superintendent to devote his time to this department. SYNDICATE GREATEST 2. A white secretary to be located in the Southland. By REV. E. B. TURNER. 3. A superintendent for the work An organization that covers all of among the negroes of the South. North America, managed by a Com4. An Intermediate Superintendent mittee of one hundred of America's for this most important department. choicest business and professional men, 5. A College and Seminary Secreall without salary; directing the study tary—a college bred Sunday School and Christian activity of more than man who shall impress the Sunday twenty millions of people. All this at school idea and the Sunday school opan expense for administration of one- portunity upon the student bodies of the third of one per cent, per annum per land. 6. A Missionary Superintendent who capita of its constituency; and having as its sole purpose the honoring of God and shall devote himself to giving the schools the betterment of the world by the build- the missionary vision. ing up of strong Christian character; by 7. The additional office assistants rebringing the best in each denomination quired by the installing of any or all of to the support of all, as it calls together these Superintendents or Secretaries. $10,000 will do most of this work outannually something like three millions of people in its seventeen thousand stimu- lined above; of this amount $4,000 has lating educational conventions, through been pledged, provided the balance can the intelligent, efficient study of the Bi- be secured in pledges by January I, 1910. ble—surely such an organization may One hundred Life Memberships in the Association have been issued to the properly be called first one hundred persons who subscribe THE WORLD'S One Thousand Dollars each to this fund. GREATEST SYNDICATE Three years are given in which to make and that organization is the complete payment, the proceeds of THE INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY the fund to be expended only for the extension of the work of the Association. SCHOOL ASSOCATION. Inasmuch as this Association directThis Association needs at once ly benefits the Chritian work of our is- THE WORLD'S - lands, as well as much of the world, for the International lessons are used whereever English is spoken, it is eminently fitting that we should have a part in subscribing to this noble fund. Our islands could at least raise $1,000 to seNo money cure one life membership. Dividends could be better invested. are guaranteed in the World's Greatest Syndicate. Would you like some stock ? During those days when the men of the Japanese cruiser Idzumo were granted shore leave, the Makiki Church was very active in welcoming and entertaining them. Thirty of the young men went each morning to the ship to act as guides, each young man taking a party of about fifteen to the various points of interest in and about Honolulu. By the kindness of the Promotion Committee these guides were able to present each one of their party with some promotion literature, and some good Christian ammunition was likewise put into the hands of the officers and men in the form of tracts such as "Christianity and War," by Dr. Dc Forest, and others, which would especially attract the attention of those to whom they were given. You can "Eat your cake and have it" in a very real sense. You can give away your property and have it,—really enjoy it, as long as you live. You couldn't have it longer than that anyway. This is the idea of "The Conditional Gift Plan"s Your money,—property, or whatever can be converted into money,—pays you a good, steady income during your life and goes on working for you and for humanity after you are gone. So you ''make friends (by) the mammon of unrighteousness," So also, you "lay up for yourself treasures, etc' This is no can't. It is Christian stewardship and sound business sense combined. The Finance Committee makes you an offer of one whole per cent better than before. You can hardly invest much better elsewhere and the amount you invest with the Hawaiian Board in your life time will not be wrangled for after you are gone. It It ti It "tt tt 4T- tt ti tt tt tt tt tt _ tt tt tt j_~ tt it tt It it It It O If you are M 20 .q years or over your money will earn 5 per cent. ar N M a tt M tt tt tt ti See the Treasurer of the Board and talk over the security, the form of gift, etc. /V\ f-\ F~ j-— \*(. I EE 1 3> —make your money make friends. Make it work. BOARD OF THE HAWAIIAN EVANGELICAL ASSOCIATION. �THE 14 The Liquor Problem in Hawaii the National Convention of the American Anti-Saloon League, Chicago, December 5-12, 1909, by John G. Woolley. Report to have not been idle in Hawaii, but unreport is a record, not of accomplishment, out of opportunity ani ncea. Draw a line from San Francisco to Port Darwin; another from San Diego to Singam; pore; another from Acap.ilco to Yokoua. anotber from Panama to Hong Kong; ananother from Valparaiso to Vladlvostock; Wellington. to other from Sitka These lmes will cross in the Hawaiian Islands—the Pleiades of the Pacific. Eight r inhabited floating gardens, marvels ot beauty, salubrity and hospitality. Where, even as here, the liquor trade, the leprosy of human Industry, eats off the fingers ot opportunity; eats away the lips of truth; eats out the eyes of ambition and the heart Of hope; and pays.a rake-off to the revenues, for the jTlvllege." That Is my parish and my home. These Islands were discovered by Captain Cook In 1778, Just at the time when King George 111 was discovering Mr. Oeorge Washlrgtoi:. Exactly 120 years later, the Hawaiian Re- public left' itself on the door-step of the ed their hot fury from the ocean bed, ana Biouted red defiance at the stars, while tne sea boiled like a kettle. But here they stand, groups of bucolic statuary, catching rainwater, for miles and mites ot sugar cane. The boiling lava waß land, in iTie making; the bellowing eruption was tne love song ot the elements; and the fire was lite, or full of life. To the left, I spend many an Hour watctling the long catapult of the South Pacific, green, Jealous, cruel, ramming, wave on wave, ten thousand miles of sullen protest against these upstart' specks of change, only to fling out flags of surf against the corai bayonets of the reef, where ships of all nations ride in utter calm, and brown Hawaiian boys disport themselves as in a pond. It is the truce of Reaction to Reform. The blue haze on the mountains, the green interminableness of the sea, the gracious brooding of the soft, sweet sky, the quiet of the scene and of the life, induce a spell almost hypnotic. The spirit of Hawaii seems to say: "There, do not hurry, there is plenty of time. Work If you will, but don't ferment; what is left today, will be good for tomorrow, or mahope! there will be other days." If you gather from this, that Hawaii is Indolent or slip-shod, you mislead yourselt. Where nerves do not sputter, fewer motions give more results. Ha-wail is slow but busy. We have great riches, but no idle rich. The extra-natural conditions conduce to tolerance and breadth of beam. Ships are civilizations; and Hawaii is the crossroads for the ships of all nations. All sorts and conditions of me:i mlngl' on our waterfront. All freaks and ingenuities of vice, of virtue, gather and all the standard there. American civilization is on trial in Hawaii, with every known competition present and workng, and tourist statesmen, students and philanthropists from the four quarters of the earth, taking not.sa The Territory of Hawaii itj Inspector Genhealth, against the eral of American invasion of Oriental JI—MM. No infectea ship gets farthct ttWi Uuaiaiitlne in Honolulu bay. Nor (HVal that port without full United States and became The Territory of Hawaii, in line for statehood, and already beginning to play a part of prodigious significance in the drama of World politics, for the New World has moved to Asia, America fronts west and the Pacific ocean is the future. Uncle Sam has no niece that can compare in loveliness with his adopted daughter. The Hawaiian year has but one month —365 days of rare North temperate June. The Hawaiian dictionary contains no word for "weather.'' But the climatic perfection implies no monotony of temperature. The ocean currents and the contour of the land ensure variety, all the way from perpetual snow on the top of Mauna Kea to 85 deg. Fahrenheit in the lea of Punchbowl. If one knows what climate he wishes, he takes a walk and gets It; that is all. At a given joint, the mean annual variation is about 10 deg. and the range from noon to midnight about the same. The Hawaiian landscape matches the climate by contrast. The one Is as bold as t::nely warning to the ir,»>ulM)d. the other Is mild. The Territor' <f Htiwaii is the masterFrom my office window, to the right, halt a dosen exquisite valleys open,, thick wlfh Vey of the Pacifc, \r> csro o" war. No fleet bungalows at first, but later, mounting Into f'om the f.'.r l"ast con!;' tntv Oeliver a chalprimeval lava-shards and scraps of Tainbow, vocal and fragrant with voices and odors of the woods, and In The upper reaches, damp with frequent rains and capricioffs mountain streams. In front, the Walanae range of mountains ■crawls Its long indenture on die sky-line, witnessing to tTTe indefeasable title of life against the tyranny of force, and even death, the trespasser; for, all these quiet, reassuring summits are old volcanoes that, in some youthful passion of the world, hlss- January, 1910 FRIEND lenge to America, without coaling at Hono- lulu. The great American question, in the event of trouble with Japan, would be, "How strong Is Hawaii?" And the federal government Is constructing ihe answer now, regardless of expense. In the curve of the beach at Walklki, deep emplacements are waiting for the grea' guns that will command the roadway from the harbor lo fhe sea. Dead 1n front of the channel, and sweeping it ..om end to enu another battery has its position. Further on. Pearl Harbor hides impregnable armaThe entrails of the old volcano, Diamond Head have been replaced with vitals ment. of artillery and ammunition for action indefinitely prolonged. The adjacent sea Is platted in mathematical squares; and from his look-out on the lip cf the crater, an expert aims the great mortars in the pits below. To man the batteries and shipyards and police every foot of the shore, bodies or picked men from all arms of the service are on duty. It has been a part of my business to observe them carefully. They are young, clean, quiet, and a credit to the country. But the monotony and enforced idleness ot the life they lead put heavy strain v] on the soundest character. And it is there, that the liquor trade gels in its sneaking, poisoning work among them. More than seventy-flve saloons are licensed to lay for them in the one island ot Oahu—about 150 in the group. Wholesale liquor stores are mere saloons in Hawaii, except two or three great Arms that sell liquor incidentally, and bona fide wholesale. The others are dram-sellers and the worst of dram-sellers, willing, and legally entitled, to sell any quantity, however small, as "bottled goods," and to operate outside bars. The federal government has drummed the drink out of the camps, for the health, safety and efficiency "of the soldier. The rule is enforced, and Increasingly respected by the officers. The territorial authorities cooperate, as to the camps outside the city, and refuse to license man-traps at the gates, nut distances "are short. The marine barracks is in the heart of the city. And the (fty is a cr.nt.i.'ir.K ni of saloons. It fs not worse. In this respect, than other license cities of its size. It is rather better. But. the conditions that obtain, make the saloons of Honolulu more mischievous than those tKat prey upon mainland cities of the same class. The Island of Oahu is to all intents ana purposes a naval and military cami, from the water to the clouds on the mountains. The rule of conaxess should embrace ft all, and the illicit liquor seller should be hunted out as diligently as plague rats, for the health and honor of the soldier and the country. The native Hawaiians, reduced now, by the vices and diseases of Christian nations, to some forty thousand in number, are as fine a race, under the circumstances, as the world can show. Measured by any standard, they exhibit some virtues that would adorn the nations that are more advanced. They are nominally Christians. That Is, they are precisely like other Christians. But they are still the veriest barbarians when they take to drink. They have no love of money, to make them stingy. They have no love of power, to make them prudent. They have no loud call to thrift and industry. They are gentle, handsome, hospitable, peaceful. But they are only ninety years removed from naked animalism. The liquor traffic simply murders them. For the sake of humanity and decency, the spirit of the international agreement to keep alcoholic drinks from South Sea peof)f\ f)(\fT/* T if\"\ i \ottttfl �January, THE iqio FRIEND Notes From the Field FRANK S. SCUDDER "UJhat a thought that was when God first thought of How the Tree-Planting Proposition Was Received. That the offer of trees for planting on Arbor Day met a felt want on the part of the Japanese living in camps on the various Islands, was evident from the glad response accorded to the proposal that they should celebrate Arbor Day by beautifying their home surroundings. The above samples of trees were taken from place to place and the people were invited to order such as they a tree." to any who chose to build a protecting fence around their trees in the camps in the vicinity of Lihue. Others offered to raise from seed any kind of trees that might be desired and furnish them free of cost to the laborers. The number of trees ordered reached the grand total of 5,522, though, because of the exhausted supply of certain varieties, the number actually sent out fell short of that number by several hundreds. One gratifying result has been that the Christians have in some cases laid plans for the general improvement of the camps in which they live, planting, here a windbreak, there a tree that shall give shade for playing children, or for women who do the washing. The following letter from Mr. Tsuji gives a vivid description of the interest taken in one locality: desired, seizing this opportunity to improve the camps for their own sake, for the sake of their children and those who should afterward enjoy the result of their endeavors. Plantation managers and other friends also gave hearty encouragement to the plan, in some eases to such an extent that the Tomo Prizes for the best results in tree-planting sank into insignificance. Mr. B. D. Baldwin offered a prize of Lihue, Kauai, Nov. 16th, 1909. $25 for the best results obtained on the Dear Sir: Makaweli plantation by the end of 1910. "I thank you very much for your Mrs. Hans Isenberg gave a carte kitid trouble for the trees. Mr. Weber blanche order for fence posts and wire sent the wagon and carried them to my The above photo was kindly contributed by Mr. K. house. We are so thankful and glad Hamumoto, of the Pacific Photo Gallery, Hot.l St. 15 we got nice trees so many. I carried about ten boxes to Hanamaulu and gave them all before the Arbor Day, so many people planted trees on Arbor Day. My school boys and girls planted many trees in my school yard on that day. Mr. Weber is so kind for planting trees around Japanese camps. He gave men to dig holes to plant trees and made fences so nicely for two or three places near the public road. If the trees grow it will be a very nice view. All Japanese are so glad they got fences around their homes and planted trees. They promised with me to take care of the trees, to give water and clean the yards hereafter. When you make a visit next time upon us you may see some places nicely changed and trees growing. All people say, now Lihue Japanese have a very fine place. By and by Lihue will be number one place on Kauai. Many people hope to get some of the Cypress. These trees look very nice, so they like to get them very much. I told them they will get some after six months after, as you wrote to me the other day. May I ask your trouble to send any book or materials to study for trees or planting. We are expecting to study on the subject of planting trees. Mrs. H. Isenberg is very kind, to give help so much for fence posts and wires. Some people are now making little gardens around their houses. Please give thanks to her and also the officers of the Agriculture and Forestry Department for their kind trouble for sending trees this time. All Japanese are so thankful and glad for them." Thanks for Pictures. I am working now in Makaweli, Kauai, always visiting laborers' houses for missicrary work. I found that they all feel very lonely with nothing to interest them. Then I was thinking what to do. Just in time, Rev. Frank Scudder sentI to me very plenty of nice pictures. was to divide these among the Japanese of our camp. All at once they began to make nice each room and they are very glad feeling interest in the pictures. I thank our friends for the trouble they have been so kind as to take for me. S. TAKAHASHI. �16 THE FRIEND. THE LIQUOR PROBLEM IN HAWAII. (Continued fro\n page 14) pies; and the policy of our own government ninety years of missionary work surely abides. But the soil of barbarism is very porous; and the application of Christian ethics to democratic social tillage is still a matter of many years of social engineering. In short, the present developed police power of the Territory cannot meet the liquor situation. It can help and is ready to help, and In the long run It would win. But the present need is too great to wait for a remotely future remedy. Hawaii Is the Capitol of American peace, and the model of American missions. The federal government ought to control, can control, the liquor traffic in the islands. The ports are in its hands. The federal officers are capable and locally unentangled. Its power is respected and feared. The federal judges are independent, and very able. The federal government ought to take the matter In charge promptly and finally. The native people are entitled to it. The best interests of the army and navy demand it. All classes of helpful and honorable business men would favor it. And the object lesson would be famous throughout the world. I therefore ask your earnest cooperation in an effort to secure the passage of Senate BUI 1862 now pending in Congress giving prohibition to Hawaii. which keeps American Samoa safe from the saloon; ought to Include Hawaii. But the Territory Is unequal to this plain duty, though well enough disposed, until the sturdy, middle-class democracy arrives. It has not arrived, and Is not yet beginning to arrive. Hawaii has a population of 170,000. Seventy thousand of these are Japanese, presenting a problem that is serious, If not dangerous. Their children born In Hawaii are American citizens. The time Is not far away when they will be an Important factor In politics. Twenty thousand are Chinese. Sixteen thousand are Portuguese. Seven thousands are hybrids. And ten thousand are AngloSaxon. A percentage of the beneficiaries of Hawaiian plantations reside away from the Islands. They receive their monthly dividends on sugar stock and their Semi-Annual interest on Sugar bonds, and contribute nothing to the actual man-to-man problem of good government. A few of the strong white men take their political duty seriously but, speaking broadly, the better whites FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE. avoid politics. The legislature is controlled by natives. The constabulary is native. The Territory Is at the mercy of the liquor men, (Continued Page 11) who are white, expert, unscrupulous, and movements, the closer binding together Indefatigable. A majority of the natives are opposed to of Asia and America, is strong." the liquor trade. But they cannot cope with "The World waits for the coming the liquor power either In cunning or stabilIs abundant sentiment and courfree Union Church, where men of great ity. There age; but both are undeveloped as to flght- all denominations and none, men of all ing-power and staying-power. Even if the native officials were more sorts of doctrinal creeds and none, may nearly adequate to deal with the cleverest worship God as brothers and eo-operatc of all public enemies, the representatives of as fellow servants under the leadership the Internal Revenue Department of the I federal government, while very efficient in of the Master Man, Jesus Christ. that service, are —even by their very effi- know of no place where the first examciency—practically abettors of the illicit liquor sellers. The fault is not In the offi- ple of such a church is so possible today cials, but in the law, save In one particular; as Honolulu. Here we are off by ourthey do not enforce the law that requires selves in the midst of the great free the Special liquor dealer's tax receipt to be ocean of the future." posted up in a conspicuous place. The Illicit business in the Islands Is not "Finally the ideal demands that we great In volume, but It Is very serious. The government and the military and naval offi- in Honolulu realize our manifest descers protect the camps on the Inside, and tiny as the missionary center of the the Territory does its best to cooperate, and to protect the fish market—the great gath- Pacific world. Here is the culminating ering place of the natives. But the illicit privilege of Central Union Church." liquor seller—with his federal tax receipt These are some of the good reasons concealed —largely nullifies them all, and In his brethren of the the operation, furnishes for his staying in Hawaii, and there cerlegitimate trade with the stock argument for tainly is a grand work there. May their business existence—that "prohibition Hawaii well do her important part and does not prohibit." Hawaii Is purely a problem of conserva- bring the East and the West closer totion and reclamation. The porous lava mountains are saturated with water, like gether so that the Pacific may indeed be giant sponges. Leaward agriculture means the great "Peace Ocean" of the future. first and always development of the latent from moisture and its distribution by irrigation Titanic pumps, today, are lifting water five hundred feet for farming purposes. This means enormous capital and herculean labor. Leeward sociology presents precisely the same characteristics. The Hawaiian race, which controls the law-making, law-enforcing function In the islands, is rich In moral and political potentialities. The fruit of systems. We are leaving in about two weeks for China, and expect to spend the winter in Tientsin and Peking. Our address is care of Mr. K. M. Gordon, American Board Mission, Tientsin, China. Best wish to all friends in Hawaii. E. W. THWING. January, 1910 A Social Settlement in Japan. Miss Alice P. Adams, an American Board missionary of Okayama, Japan, stopped over in Honolulu on her return to her field, in order to interest the Japanese of this city in the work of the Hanabatake (Flower Garden) Christian Social Settlement, at Okayama, of which she is the enthusiastic superintendent. This work was started eighteen years ago under her care and now has seven departments, all free and all for the very poor: 1, Evangelistic; 2, Educational; 3, Industrial; 4, Medical; 5, Bath; 6, Boys' Club; 7, Loan Association. As a result of the work of this Settlement the whole neighborhood has gradually improved and people who were strongly anti-Christian have been won over to aid in its support. The following vivid account of Miss Adams' work and influence has been written for The Friend by Mrs. John T. Gulick: Told in Japanese. The recent visit of Miss Alice P. Adams of Okayama, japan, was an event of much interest to many of the Japanese residents of Honolulu. On Sunday evening November 28, she spoke to an audience of over three hundred of that nationality at the Nuuanu Japanese church and the interest manifested in her address was very marked. No time was wasted on an interpreter as none was needed. Her subject was the work in which she is engaged in Okayama. Miss Adams has been a missionary of the W. B. M. I. for about nineteen years. Beginnings. On taking up work in Okayama she was obliged to pass through the very poorest portion of the city as she went to and fro in her attendance upon her The children of the Sunday school. neighborhood amused themselves by �January, 1910 THE throwing small stones and dirt at the strange foreign woman and by saluting her with uncomplimentary epithets. These children did not look clean, happy or comfortable and Miss Adams sympathy went out to them. To show her kindly feeling toward them she began to distribute among them copies of illustrated American newspapers which, of course ,they could not read but they liked the pictures. These newspapers paved the way for a closer acquaintance and when Christmas came, Miss Adams invited quite a number of the children to her house for a little entertainment at the close of which they begged to be allowed to come again. Miss Adams appointed the next Sunday for the meeting telling them however, that there would be no sweetmeats and no gifts. This satisfied them and the Sunday school thus begun has continued to the present time. Out of it has grown a day school, evening school and regular preaching services, also a genuine settlement work with boys' clubs, and girls' sewing-classes, free baths, free dispensary and a small hospital. Five of the city physicians freely give certain hours of their time to this work and Japanese friends furnish the means for the purchase of medicines. A Blind Woman's Gifts. Many interesting incidents were given which show the results of this work in individual cases. One blind woman who with her son had been helped by the mission found a way of earning 30 sen (15 cents) a month came to Miss Adams with the money she had earned and giving her 10 sen said: "I want to give this 10 sen toward heating the bath. I have had so many baths here." Then handing her another 10 sen she said "I want this to go toward buying medicines for the dispensary." And giving her the third 10 sen she said, "Please use this 10 sen toward the expense of the evangelistic work." Since that time the blind woman has shown her gratitude for what she has received by bringing her "little all," 30 sen a month as her contribution to the work. Teaching Her Father. A little girl troubled that her father was a gambler, plead with him to give it up, telling him that she had learned at school that it was wrong to gamble. When she saw that he was not wholly ready to change his habits she began to think. "Father can't read, he can't write and of course he is lonely. I will teach him." So she got out her books and assuring him that reading and writing were exceedingly interesting, the little daughter, every evening taught her father what she had learned during the day at school. The result was that he ceased to gamble, went to work, and is now supporting his family. One of the boys reached by Miss Adams' work is now a student in the Doshisha Theological Seminary. Miss Adams has just spent her vacation in the United States, and the Japanese whom she met while in the States contributed $2,600 for the erection of a building to be used in connection with her work. A collection was taken at the meeting in the Nuuanu Church which amounted to more than fifty dolIn all, the Honolulu Japanese lars. contributed $230 for the building. Hawaii Cousins We are glad to have this letter from a much missed friend: Milan, Italy, Nov. 21, 1909. So far as I know I have never as a "Cousin" written a letter to the Secretary of the Hawaiian Mission Children's Society and so will seize the present opportunity. My father and I have been having a glorious time and seen too much to tell of in a single letter without tiring you. Landing at Victoria, P>. C, we came . —— . Union Pacific Transfer Co., Ltd. BAGGAGE, SHIPPING, STORAGE, WOOD, PACKING, COAL. Phone C .ft O FURNITURE AND PIANO MOVING —' 17 FRIEND 426 KING STREET == south to Oakland, Cal., through Seattle and Portland, then eastward visiting relatives in Chicago, South Salem and Greenffield Ohio (where I looked up the grave of my great-great-grandfather Robert Dickey, South Carolina's soldier in the Revolutionary War) and Washington, 1). C. Sailed from New York to Queenstown and have in quick succession seen parts of Ireland, Scotland, England, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Switzerland and Italy. I have taught Sunday school classes on the way in Chicago, Washington, Glasgow and London in Presbyterian, Congregational, Wesleyan and Baptist denominations; classes of young girls, young ladies and boys and in no class did I have a scholar who could tell where Honolulu was or the Hawaiian islands. Christian Endeavor Societies I have found and visited in Ireland, Scotland, England and France. Hearthy welcome is given everywhere to visitors from Hawaii. Honolulu Sunday schools seem to me much more cheerful than any I have visited. Most of those I have seen are held in the afternoon in basements of churches and at this time of year in the gloaming or in the dark. A great many childrens' meetings are held after dark. Wearing a collar put on bankwards is a universal badge of the clergy here of all denominations. The pastor of the American church in Paris has adopted it. To describe the places we have seen would be tedious and only repeat what others have written before. In Cologne we saw Zeppelin's dirigible balloon over the cathedral, causing great excitement in the streets below. We have enjoyed as much as any part of our trip two walks. The first was up the Rhine from St. Goar's to Bingen. We called to the Loreley who answered us sweetly and clearly. Though it was not the season for ripe grapes, autumn colors made the hills along the way beautiful. The second walk was quite different, being a twenty-nine mile walk through the snow over the Simphon Pass through the Alps to Italy. It was snowing when we started and in taking short cuts we may have missed the way a little for we took much longer than our guide book says was necessary, not reaching the highest point (a little above the elevation of the west Maui mountains) until about three in the afternoon when we were glad to stop for the night at a Our supper hospice kept by monks. with the three monks was most interesting and we managed to let them know �18 THE where we lived and that we were on a trip round the world and that the queer stove at which we had warmed ourselves was made in the year of my birth though we spoke no Italian and but little French and the monks spoke those languages only. The names of but few Americans appeared in the visitors' book of the hospice but we found the name of one member of the Hawaiian Mission Children's Society, Ruth Cornelia Shaw, written there last July. The snow had been well packed down on our climb up (a goatherd with a score of two-colored goats went ahead of us part of the way tramping the path) but during the night was a heavy fall of snow and as we started down toward Italy about seven in the morning we had to walk through snow a foot deep for several miles before other travelers had made an easy way for us. The universal snow must have made the scene superior to any seen by those who only go over in midsummer. In the Gorge of Gondo a narrow gorge with walls two thousand feet high there was some blasting as we came through. The effect of the echoes was tremendous. It sounded for a moment as though that were an avalanche. With best wishes to you and your • household, • Aloha nui, LYLE A. DICKEY. j» A great joy is in store for those Cousins who are yet to hear of the munificent gift to the Society of the old coral Chamberlain house. To own this house, has been a pet idea of Dr. A. B. Clark ever since his return to Hawaii nei, and the Chamberlain heirs have refused tempting offers, hoping that this place of history-making, this building hallowed by memories of the early days, might continue to speak the message of love and service which the fathers and mothers built into its walls. The longing to possess the building has grown in the hearts of the Cousins, and petitions have ascended to Him who said, "Before they call I will answer, and while they are yet speaking I will hear." Negotiations have been under way for some time, and the transfer was made in October, but on December 13th, at a meeting of the Board of Managers, the SGo d FRIEND, January, 1910 president, G. R. Carter, read a statement, making public the fact that, "Through the generosity of the Chamberlain heirs, of the sons of C. M. Cooke in memory of their father, and of I!. R. Banning, the transfer was made and the property was deeded to the Society as a memorial of the Sandwich Island Mission." Plans have been submitted for the renovation of the building, and as soon as money is available such changes will be made as shall make it suitable for storing and preserving relics of the old mission. There will also be an assembly room, a library, and a fireproof vault. Another generous gift was from the Castles, who bought and deeded to the Society the frame house adjoining the coral building, with the lot on which it stands. This makes possible other interesting and important changes, helpful to the city as well as to the Society. flag Dec. 2. Kaimuki Improvement Club votes to raise $5000 for permanent concrete home for the big telescope of College of Hawaii. Building to be ready for observation of Halley's comet. Dec. I—Circuit1 —Circuit Judge John T. Dc Bolt endorsed by Bar Association to sue ceed Justice Wilder on Supreme Court Bench. Dec. 2—Ex-Queen Liliuokalani practically makes her will and disposes of her estate by deeding all her property in trust to Ex-Governor Clcghorn, W. O. Smith and C. P. laukea. John Dominis Aimoku is named her principal heir. Dec. 3 —Grand Jury declares former Chief of Detectives Joseph Leal guiltless of graft charges brought against him. Dec. 4—Ex-Queen Liliuokalani leaves for Washington for the winter. Cable from Governor Frear reports gift of $100,000 from Andrew Carnegie for Public Library for Honolulu. Local hut buys Island of Lanai of W. G. Irwin and will start cotton plantation. EVENTS. Dec. s—An ual5—Annual impressive memorial services of the Honolulu Lodge No. 616 at Nov. 26—Harold Dillingham chosen B. P. O. E. Hawaiian Opera House. Dec. 6—British ship Celtic Chief by Promotion Committee to take chatge grounds on Kalihi reef while entering of Floral Parade, Feb. 22, 1910. harbor. Floated Dec. 9. Arthur McTotal eclipse of the moon. Duffie becomes Chief of Detectives for United States Congress Y. M. C. A. special committee decide Honolulu. on lot opposite present building for new opens. location if it can be secured. Dec. 7—Second Federal Judge George Woodruff resigns. Merchants' AsW. Nov. 27—Washington correspondence indicates great increase soon in militaty sociation cables to Washington urging Congress to act on coastwise suspension and naval equipment of Honolulu. Acting Governor Mott-Smith as PresiCol. Walter Schuyler, Fifth Cavalry, dent of Board of Health declares a mosU. S. A. detailed on army general staff quito campaign. with headquarters at Washington, D. L. Dec. 10—Mass meeting called by Civic Nov. 29—Sale of Red Cross Stamps Fedration unanimously votes in favor of to secure funds for tuberculosis cam coastwise suspension. paign begins this a. m. Dec. 11—Delegate to Congress Kuhio The Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Asso- has declared himself Opposed to the preciation decides upon a new labor rate for sent local administration. The feeling is the coming year. The contract system that this portends a break in the Repubof labor is to be still further developed. lican party. Bureau of Navigation decides that Dec. 13—President Taft names Horace Steamships calling for Bunker Coal or Harmon Lurton of Tennessee for Assooil to pay only port charges and not reg- ciate Justice of the Supreme Court of ular tonnage duty. the United States. Dec. 14—British steamship Swanlcy Nov. 30—High lift pump to be installed and two new Artesian wells to be arrives with 874 Portuguese laborers. bored at the Beretania Avenue pumping Dec. 15—Superintendent of Public Instation. Rear Admiral Corwin P. Rees struction W. H. Babbitt resigns, resigna recives his commission and will raise his tion to go into effect December 31. Antt- Printing and Developing : : : Eastman Photographic Supplies Tasty Frames for Pictures at =^ THE ARTS & CRAFTS SHOP: Fort Street below King | �THE FRIEND. January, 1910 19 tuberculosis special committee organizes PERRY—At Volcano House, Hawaii, SMITH—At Honolulu, December with J. P. Cooke as chairman. Dec. 19—Founder's Day of the Kamehameha Schools celebrated. Hon. W. O. Smith the orator of the day. Japanese school at Waimanalo opened. Dec. 20—Children's Hospital opened for patients. Dec. 23—Father of Annexation Dr. John S. McGrew is 89 today. Y. M. C. A. directors buy the Library property for $27,000. Price paid previously for the property Ewa the library building is $30,000. This $57,000 property insures a fine location for the future work of the Association. Biblical Representation of the Birth of Christ given at Central Union Church parlors. Excellently done. Credit is due James A. Wilder. November 27, 1909, Mrs. Anna Perry, age 70 years. Mrs. Perry came to Honolulu in 1865 and has since resided here. BRICKWOOD—At Honolulu, November 30, 1909, Mrs. Louisa BrickwoO'! aged 81 years. MA HOE—At Honolulu, December 4, 1909, S. K. Mahoe of Honolulu. CERBE—At Honolulu December 4, 1909 Miss Emma Cerbe aged 25 years. WILLS—At Pahala, Hawaii, December 4, 1909, Mrs. Mailolo Wills, widow of the late T. A. L. Wills, aged 75 years. APO—At Lahaina, Maui, December 12, 1909, Miss Helen L. Apo, a teacher in the Public Schools, aged 22 years. 15, 1909, Miss Harriet Smith of Hyannis, Massachusetts, aged 25 years. THE YON HAMM-YOUNG CO., Ltd IMPORTERS, COMMISSION AND AUTOMOBILE MERCHANTS Honolulu, T. H. TOO MUCH stress cannot be laid on the importance of having your eyes fitted with proper glasses. S. E. LUCAS, Optician Masonic Temple, : Alakea Street. MARRIAGES. HALL-HOUGHTON — In Oakland, Cal., November 16, 1909 Seymour Hall and Miss Ruth Houghton. In Aurora, HUGO-HATHAWAY Ind., November 17, 1909, Herman Hugo and Miss Grace Smith Hath- — away. BOYLE-FRANCO—In Honolulu, 1066 Fort Street Pictures and Picture Framing j» Local Views Ansco Cameras jt Ansco Films Art Pottery and Casts DEVELOPING AND PRINTING De- cember 15, 1909, E. Boyle of Levy and Company and Miss Emily Franco. L.B.KERR&CO. ALLEN & ROBINSON LIM,TED DIED. FhfgafdminilanonalSatik of Kahului KAHULUI, MAUI, T. H. INSURANCE. The only store in Honolulu where Lumber and Building Material, Builders' Hardware, you can get anything in Wearing ApPaints, Oils, Etc. parel for MEN, WOMEN or CHILDREN Good Goods and Reasonable Prices. Agents for Walkover and Sorosis Shoes. 55 Queen Street : : Honolulu. IV ftei jlaltonal gaiik AT HONOLULU. CAPITAL ?500,000. CECIL BROWN, Pres. W. R. CASTLE, M. P. ROBINSON, Vice-Pres. Q. N. WILCOX. nf Hawaii BURPLUB 9123,000. L. T. PECK, Cashier. Q. P. CASTLE. United States Government Depository General Banking.—lssues Drafts, Money Orders, Letters of Credit and Cable. Transfers available in all parts of the world. Savings Bank Department, Interest on Terms Deposits, Safe Deposit LIMITED. Alakea Street. FERREIRA—At Kaiwiki III, Hawaii, November 21, 1909, Jacintho Ferreira, age 62 years, 9 months. He had resided in Hawaii 25 years. MORRISON—At Honolulu, November 27, 1909, Alexander Morrison, hea> moulder of Catton & Neill. BANKING, EXCHANGE, - Vaults for Rent. ACCOUNTS INVITED �January, 1910 THE FRIEND. 20 /*> C A. SCHAEFER & CO., If You Are Wise * you will think of future as well as present needs. > j* Begin by opening a saving account with this bank, j* ■> Banking by mail, 4\% interest. General Mercantile Commission Agents. Honolulu, T. H. Queen St., Honolulu, T. H. AGENTS Vlce-Pres't; J. P. Cooke, Treas.; W. Smith, Secy; George R. Carter, Auditor. SION MERCHANTS. AGENTS FOR—Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Co., Haiku Sugar Co.. Paia Planta- tion Co.. Kihei Plantation Co., Hawaiian Sugar Co., Kahului R. R. Co., and Kahuku Plantation. C. H Bellina, Tel. Main 109. HOUSEHOLD DEPARTMENT. including Garland Stoves and Ranges, Aluminum Ware, Enameled Ware. Kitchen Furnishings, Refrigerators, Garden Tools, Rubber Hose, &c. Second floor, take the Elevator. L I CLAUS Honolulu, T. H. G. IRWIN & CO., SPRECKELS & CO., BANKERS. Fort Street, Honolulu. SUGAR FACTORS AND Draw Exchange on the principal ports of the world and transact a general banking business. Honolulu, P. O. BOX 71 c. HONOLULU, T. H. Dry Goods the Territory. Especial attention given to Mail Orders. COMMISSION AGENTS. Agents California Rose Creamery Butter Guaranteed the Best and full 16 ounces. HENRY LIMITED MAY & CO., 22 : : Hawaiian Islands. MERCHANT TAILORS. A BIBLE WITH ALL ON THE SAME PAGE. REVERENT, SCHOLARLY AND 92 for the Oceanic Steamship Co. W. AHANA & CO., LTD. P. O. Box 986. Telephone Blue 2741. 62 King Street. CLOTHES CLEANED AND REPAIRED. Henry FULL OF INSPIRING SUGGESTION.—IT IS H. Williams FUNERAL DIRECTOR. Graduate of Dr. Rodgers Perfect Em- School of San Francisco, Cal., also of The Renouard Training School for Embalmers of New York. And a Licensed Embalmer for the State of New York, also a member of the State Funeral Directors Association of Calibalming Scofield's ALWAYS USE TELEPHON E8 : COMHENTARIES Trie Leading LUMBER, CLUB STABLES OLD KONA COFFEE A SPECIALTY. B. R EHLERS&CO. EWERS & COOKE, Ltd. Mgr HOTEL. RIGS OF ALL KINDS, GOOD HORSES, CAREFUL DRIVERS. FINE GROCERIES House in Ranch. LIST OF OFFICERS—E. F. Bishop, President; Geo. H. Robertson, Vice-President and Manager; W. W. North, Treasurer and Secretary; G. R. Carter, Auditor; P. C. Jones, C. H. Cooke, J. R. Gait, R. A. Cooke, Directors. FORT ST., ABOVE & Co. Agricultural O. SUGAR FACTORS AND COMMIS- EQUIPPED FOR—Hawaiian Co., Onomea Sugar Co., Honomu Sugar Co., Walluku Sugar Co., Pepeekeo Sugar Co., OFFICERS—H. P. Baldwin, Pres't; J. B. Kapapala E. O. Hall & Son Day COMMISSION MERCHANTS. Castle, Ist Vice-Pres't; W. M. Alexander, 2d Honolulu C. J. Importers and A LEXANDER & BALDWIN, Ltd. THE BANK OF HAWAII, Ltd. HAVE A FULLY BREWER & CO., Limited, We have many other kinds too. fornia. Hawaiian Board Book Rooms MERCHANT AND ALAKEA STREETS, HONOLULU. MONUMENTS AND TOMBSTONES FURNISHED. Chairs to Rent. LOVE BUILDING, 1142. 1144 FORT STy ■ Residence, 240 King Street. Telephones: Office, 64; Res., 1020. � 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 (1910) 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 - 1910.01 - Newspaper