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O.s and checks should be tained in Bank Building on Merchant Street, and Insurance Department, doing a Life, made out to Fire and Marine business on most favorable Theodore Richards, terms, in Friend Building on Bethel Street. Business Manager of The Friend. P. O. Box 489. THE BOARD OF EDITORS: LOW PRICES EASY TERMS OAHU rent account subject to check. ■ �The Friend. OLDEST HONOLULU, H. T., DECEMBER, 1910 Vol. LXVIII .. The Friend Gospel. TREASURER'S STATEMENT FROM OCT. 21 TO NOV. 21, 1910. RECEIPTS. K. B. C. F. M !.* 2.5C 203.85 \. M. A 3ush Place 74.0C 40.00 Chinese Contingent Fund 400.00 "onditional Gift 44.65 87.50 General Fund Uaw'n Gen. Fund 5.00 53.00 Hoaloha 99.00 nvested Funds 100.00 lapanese Work 280.10 \alihi Settlement 23.10 Kauai Gen. Fund 100.00 Maui Gen. Fund Ministerial Relief 175.00 2.00 Molokai Gen. Fund 901.37 3ahu Gen. Fund 2.00 Dfflce Expense 50.00 Palama Settlement 36.00 Portuguese Work 36.50 romo . .. . $2715.57 EXPENDITURES Alexander Settlement Bush Place Central Kona Settlement Chinese Work Salaries Eng.-Port. Work Salaries friend General Fund Salaries NEWSPAPER WEST OF THE ROCKIES, $ $101.25 568.75 77.55 896.50 149.60 542.00 75.00 62.00 25.00 670.00 ™ 974.05 67.10 It is a significant evidence of the awakening of America to the importance of the Pacific Problem that so distinguished a leader in journalism as Melville E. Stone should have begun to see and proclaim the menace of Asiatic industrialism to our own national development. Turning his newspaperman's genius for marshaling facts to this field, he shows how India is ready to try a fall with America in cotton, how Japan is gathering the carrying trade of the great ocean into her hands, and how China with her vast resources in iron and coal and grain fields is commencing to conjure with these in the domain of world commerce. The East with its cheap labor and untiring industry threatens the West with a conflict that bodes no good to our boasted high standard of living. At the centenary of the American Board, President Capen, himself a business leader and a civic reformer, put the case squarely to the workingman of the United States by showing him that he must cease holding his Asiatic brother aloof and get into closer touch with him in the hope of inoculating that brother with his own ambitions for larger life, that is for the higher wages and improved labor conditions which make for better living. Prosaic necessity to survive must bring him to this stand. It is refreshing to see such leaders of mainland thought at last recognizing doctrines of which Hawaii has been conscious for years, and which The Friend has long endeavored to drum into the minds of its mainland constituents. Little by little the dog in the manger policy pursued by our nation towards the Asiatic in denying him the privilege of naturalization and in refusing to admit him to the country on terms of equality with other peoples is being recognized as suicidal in the long run. It is but another proof that the right way is the wise way. The American people may be trusted ere long to see the point and to Square themselves with the Asiatic world by undoing the injustice. Meanwhile, let the merry dance of enlightenment go on. 3 No. 12 cation. The wonderful work of Chicago's Commercial Club in its campaign for the new Chicago, Boston's unique 1915 movement and the nation's plans for Washington set side by side with the outcome of the effort to develop the natural beauty of Honolulu, organized here some years ago when Landscape Engineer Robinson was brought from the mainland, is somewhat humiliating. The most distressing evidence of our worse than carelessness is our post office squabble. Years have been wasted and we are no nearer a solution of the difficulty than when we began. Large considerations of beauty and utility demanded the site on Palace Square. But business interests demurred and the Mahuka location was pressed upon the national government. Now at vastly increased cost we confront a cumbersome legal process to secure an adequate site for a building which will always be an eyesore because located where it should not be. What is needed is a revival of civic pride and civic unselfishness. Meantime every set back to the progress of locating the building at King and Fort Street is a providential blessing. If fate only is kind enough to keep on blocking this menace to Honolulu the Beautiful, Washington may yet make up to her duty to place the post office where it ought to be, on the Irwin site in Palace Square. * That Loving Cup. To have two of our local pulpits emptied the same week was an occurrence almost without precedent in Honolulu. 27.80 Revs. J. T. Jones of the Methodist and Hawaiian Work A. C. McKeever of the Christian 401.72 Salaries : 429.52 churches, both left for the mainland dur*6.45 ing the second week of November. They Hoaloh.a 120.75 lapanese Work will be missed by many friends. The 966 75 Salaries Young People's Union gave a united 1087.55 farewell that expressed the appreciation 380.25 Kalihi Settlement of the Endeavor Societies. The young 140.00 Kohala Girls School—Salaries people decorated both ministers and their 32.70 Office Expense wives with beautiful leis and then listened 167.00 Palama Settlement to a farewell address from each of ' 34.25 romo the four. Mr. McKeever then re75.00 Settlement ft'aiakea ceived from the enlisted men of the United States army the gift of a lov$5157.07 The Post Office Fight. ing cup in token of his faithful unselfish Excess of expenditures over reHawaii may be in the van in her ap- service for them covering the past few $2441.50 receipts 3685.75 preciation of Asiatic problems, but she is years. This expression of gratitude was Dverdraft at the bank made in such a genuine way by the army T. R. Hyde Property Income Hawaii Gen. Fund 691.60 195.85 3.75 �December, 1910 THE FRIEND 4 men present and was reciprocated so beautifully by Mr. McKeever that it formed a most significant part of the evening's exercises. There is no more needed or delightful service in this city than that of ministering to the spiritual needs of these enlisted men. The Elections. They were preceded by the usual exaggerated rhetoric, the picturesque distortion of truth and the customary "I'm angel, you're demon party declarations that condition the typical political campaign here. The outcome was generally good, that is a large number of excellent citizens were chosen to office. The parties seem to have named better candidates than usual. The new legislature, especially the House, is the best since Hawaii became a Territory. It ought to enact good laws. It looks as though education were at last to have a fair chance in the islands. Honolulu's city government also is in good hands. Mayor Fern's re-election was expected. The attempt to unseat turn is beneath contempt. In elections costing both sides what ours do, for one party to charge the other with shady practices is a pitiable instance of the pot calling the kettle black. After playing the game as it is played on these islands, even the kind of honor that prevails among professionals should make the loser take his luck more like a sport. Sheriff Jarrett's strength seems due to a conduct of his office that has eliminated the petty thefts and housebreakings so common a few years ago and given us what may perhaps be called a fairly efficient police. THE CASE OF DELEGATE KALANIANAOLE. It is not a pleasant task but it is a pubIk duty to set forth the truth in the matter of Mr. Kalanaianaole's relation to the late plebiscite campaign. It is an unquestioned fact that the Senate Committee would have reported favorably the Curtis Pill to prohibit the liquor traffic in Hawaii if Mr. Kalanianaole had not urged a plebiscite. hearing before the Committee rritories of the House of Repreives on the question of a joint resoproviding for a special prohibition election in Hawaii, Hon. J. G. Wooley stated, "With the earnest cooperation of the Prince [Kalanianaole] which is now assured, and under his leadership, we shall doubtless carry the Territory for a prohibitory policy." Mr. Kalanianaole was present and participated in this hearmi? the statement w«is mscic Deforc nim. Pthe and though he had taken exception to tence, "I want no laws which will workother remarks of Mr. Woolley, he made along race lines" is clear. The liquor no objection to this declaration that it interests had from him all they wanted, was his purpose to cooperate earnestly and they used it with terrific effect. When in the recent campaign the Deleto carry Hawaii for prohibition. In his published letter to Mr. Thurston, dated gate's desertion of the cause which he October 17, he states that be told Mr. had practically promised Congress that Woolley "that I [Kalanianaole] would he would support and lead was brought go home as soon as Congress adjourned home to him by an editor of The Friend, and lead the fight for prohibition myself." Mr. Kalanianaole made the following explanation of his course in his open Thus far there is perfect agreement. Some weeks before the special election letter to Mr. Thurston: "After the law the rumor reached I lonolulu and ap- providing for the plebiscite was passed. peared in the press that the Delegate I had a talk with Mr. Woolley about would not take part in the campaign. what was to be done. He said he was When it was insinuated in certain quart- coming back to Hawaii to work for proers that he had been "fixed" by the liquor hibition. Knowing the strong objection interests. Mr. Woolley scouted these ru- which Hawaiians have against malihinis mors, and as long as it was possible to trying to direct them what to do. I told hold thereto he proclaimed both in public him I thought it would be a mistake that and private his confidence in Mr. Kalani- I would go home as soon as Congress anaole's good faith, that he would come' adjourned and lead the fight for prohibiand redeem his promise to carry Hawaii tion myself. I le thought he knew best and came himself. I feared the consefor prohibition. On the evening of July 13 the after- quences then, but still I intended to come noon papers published with scare head- home as soon as I could and help. I said lines a letter from the Delegate to Mr. J. I would speak for prohibition, and I then C. Lane, in which they emphasized the intended to do so. although I" did not say quotations, "/ want no laws which work I would 'stump the Islands.' Soon after Mr. Woolley returned from along race lines." "I ant not a teetotaler and not a ■prohibitionist." This letter Washington some months before July 2C>. acted as a bombshell in the Prohibition in a conversation with the editor cam]) and was received with acclamation of The Friend concerning the camby the liquor men, who proceeded to paign in Congress he stated that after make the most of it. The letter also an- the agreement between him and the Delenounced that he was coming home by the gate, he (Woolley) had told Mr. Kalaniyacht Hawaii, a statement which exting- anaole that he thought it wiser not to uished the last spark of hope as to Mr. return to Hawaii, that he would be glad Kalanianaole's help in the campaign. to stay out of the campaign because he It is singular that the prediction of the a stranger, and that it would be best liquor interests that the Delegate would Mr. Kalanianaole to go to the Islands not return to aid the cause of prohibition, and conduct the campaign with him not a prediction made weeks beforehand, there. Mr. Kalanianaole however thought should thus have come true. that he (Woolley) would do well to reBut worse than this, the letter to Mr. turn and help in the fight. At the time Lane contained the significant slogan, "I when this statement was made by am not a prohibitionist," a splendid tell- Mr. Woolley, not a whisper had been ing sentence capable of being used with heard of the Delegate's backing out of tremendous effect among the men of his the contest. Mr. Woolley added his own preference for having men identified with race. It was so used. Worst of all, the words "I want no the Islands lead the movement. The plelaws which work along race lines" was biscite had not been his project. As a the strongest thing he could have said matter of fact. Mr. Woolley, though in support of the anti-prohibitionists made the objective point of the liquor inwithout directly coming out on their side. terest's fight, did not lead. His advice The liquor men from the first planned prevailed and the campaign was contheir campaign on one line, that of race ducted by others, most of whom were old prejudice. Their two arguments on this timers. So much for the contribution of the line were splendidly devised and magnificently engineered. They were first "the editor of The Friend with reference to whites have engineered the plebiscite to Mr. Kalanianaole's statement that he deprive the Hawaiians of liquor while tried to prevent Mr. Woolley from rethey themselves are to be unrestricted in turning to engage in the campaign. Forits use," and second, "this prohibition is- tunately a recent mail has brought the sue is the creation of a white stranger. following from Mr. Woolley himself on John G. Woolley, who wants to deprive this point.Kalanianaole's letter in the Ad"Mr. you Hawaiians of your liberties." The deady venom of Mr. Kalanianaole's sen- vertiser raises no issue as between him : ft �and me, except as to his alleged interview with me touching the advisability of my return to Hawaii to take part in the plebiscite campaign. His version of that in- terview is false in general and in particular. 1 had serious misgivings as to the wisdom of my returning, which 1 presented frankly to him and Mr. McClcllan, for 1 had become convinced of the Delegate's sincerity and of his belief in mine. I asked him to advise me, and told him of my strong desire to keep out of the way if my return might work adversely. I le was not emphatic in advising me to go, but in several interviews said he could sec no reason against it. He said for me to go ahead and look after the whites, that we should carry the Hawaiian vote by a very large majority; that I was at liberty to report privately that he was for prohibition, but that he wished to make public announcement in his own way and his own time, and that he would be home by the first of June and rally the Hawaiian voters. He gave it as his opinion that we should surely win; that his wife was even more interested than himself. He gave me a list of Hawaiian men and women to see, and authorized me to quote him as being with me in the movement." Lowell's familiar verses run: "()nce to every man and nation conies the moment to decide. In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side; God's new Messiah, offering each the bloom or blight, Some great cause. And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light." Such an opportunity faced Mr. Kalanianaole. Rarely if ever has such a splendid chance to show himself a true patriot and devoted lover of his race come to a Hawaiian. He might have been hailed as the savior of liis people. If he had redeemed his promise to Congress, had hastened to I lawaii, had appeared side by side with Mr. Woolley. had gone from Island to Island showing the miserable untruth of the liquor dealer's pleas, he could have rallied his people against their bitterest foe. the drink evil. He failed. He suffered the man, who trusted him. to bear the brunt of opprobrium directed against the measure which he himself had secured from Congress, and to be hounded about the city like an enemy of mankind by his own people. The Delegate did not have it in him, that was all. Lit the curtain fall on the pitiable business. The strangest part of it is that this is the man whom the vast majority of Republicans have chosen to be the Territory's delegate to Congress for another term—the majority, I say, for there were 5 THE FRIEND. December, 1910 a few loyal Republicans who could not HAWAII TODAY. vote for him. And now that the nation At the National Council held in Dcs has elected a Democratic House, Providence has exposed the fine irony of the Moines in 1904 it was said that if our situation. THE DAILY BIBLE. The World's Morning Watch is file- name of an establishment at 156 Fifth Avenue, New York, the object of which is to promote the highest interests of the religious life. Religion being defined to be (iod's life in man, that life cannot accomplish anything against the will of the individual. To become dominant in a man that life must be cultivated in his consciousness. This demands time, quiet time. Amid the rush of the modern world and the steady insistence of business, pleasure and social intercourse God is apt to be allowed scant courtesy. To cultivate His friendship some portion of every day should be rigorously set apart and that portion par excellence should be at the very outset of the day when a man's powers are at his best. To call incessant attention to this demand of man's nature and to devise means for helping men realize this privilege and duty is the purpose which the World's Morning Watch has in view. In order to forward this purpose it publishes monthly a little pamphlet called The Daily Bible. In this are arranged tiny sections of Bible selections, one for every day of the month, together with a brief comment. During the early part of 1(>10 Dean Edward I. Bosworth of Oberlin edited the selections and comments. It is needless to say that he did ideal work. I lis brief pointed sentences gave the meat of the passage for the day in a form most suggestive and helpful. He was followed by Rev. F. K. Mathews, who culled his comments with great care. The last months of this year have contained passages from the Psalms rather carelessly selected and ill adapted to the present day man, with comments neither illuminating nor suggestive. With 1911 the Daily Bible will enter upon its eleventh year and will doubtless return to its former standard of excellence. It is upto-date in version, using the American Revision. It puts into the hands of fathers a most excellent medium for family prayers about the breakfast table. For travelers it is invaluable. For men who must do much of their Bible reading on railroad sleepers or other cars it is a boon, and when edited by such a man as Dr. Bosworth it is a delight in the Quiet I lour of any Christian. Costing only fifty cents a year or in clubs of five to separate addresses only forty cents, this little periodical ought soon to reach its ambition. "A magazine with a million readers." mainland churches would adequately back the work in Hawaii, the history of the next twenty years there would read upwards faster than it had downwards the previous few decades. You took us at our word and though you did not do all we asked—no man of vision at once gets everything he prays for—we come to you today with our prophesy more than proporttonately fulfilled. 11VK YKARs' KIX'ORI). In 1904, ten of our 83 churches gave the American Hoard. In 1908, the last year for which I have full figures, 77 (76 per cent) of our 101 churches contributed to foreign missions. Hawaii follows the sensible procedure of combining in one society, called the Hawaiian P.oard, the functions of home missions, church building, Sunday school work and education. With this organization the American Missionary Association cooperates. Our local Hoard expends about $50,000 annually in addition to the grant from the A. M. A. In 1904, 28 of our 83 churches gave to the Hawaiian Board. In 1908, 81 churches (80 per cent) contributed. Last year our church members gave more per capita ($6.15) to this Home Hoard than those of Massachusetts did ($6.05) to Home Missions. We also contribute to the A. M. A. and to the Society for Ministerial Relief. During the five years, 1904-1909, since you began to stand by us the gain in membership in our Island Churches has been 23 8-10 per cent, and in our purely Hawaiian churches. 26 per cent. Last year cent 727 persons or a trifle over 10 of our total membership for the previous year were added on confession, the largest annual gain since 1869. In five years we have reversed the record of forty. This has been achieved through the policy of remanning the field with missionaries from the mainland, inaugurated because of your generous contributions, with men like Dr. Baker of Kona and Mr. Dodge of Maui, sons of Massachusetts, in the lead. Since the Dcs Moines meeting, and under the impulse of advance then received we have had courage to organize our schools in Honolulu into the Mid-Pacific Institute, that now owns 40 acres of land in the choicest section of the city and two magnificent buildings, a total value of over $250,000. in addition to a productive to 'Address delivered before the American Association at the National Council, Boston. Mass.. October 19, 1910, by Rev. Doremus Scudder. •The official returns were, for prohibition 2262, against prohibition 7511, total 9773. Missionary �6 THE FRI EXD endowment of more than $80,000, and with 300 students from a half dozen races. Do you think your partnership with us through the American Missionary Association has paid? If so, go home and tell your churches to give more to the A. M. A. and cheer it on to still larger cooperation with us. For with Russians crowding in upon us we need from you a round $10,000 annually. sistent policy of the Kamehameha sovereigns and suffer liquor to butcher the native races as it is doing was in the nature of a crime. To cheapen the ballot by removing incentives to thrift in its full acquirement and to give over this innocent-hearted people to the tender mercies of grafter and vote buyer was a twin wrong. PROBLEM LAND. Seven years residence in Hawaii has convinced me that the American negro of the future will have cause to look back with gratitude to the action of his Southern white brother in depriving him of the ballot until he should have demonstrated his ability to use and not abuse it. He will esteem it a real service to his race, notwithstanding the manner in which it was done. There is no apology here for that manner. In a democraticelectorate a majority element which is too ignorant or undeveloped or thriftless for self-government is a deadly menace to free institutions. For the great temptation facing the minority in such a community is to control the majority by means which by debauching it shall negative all possibility of character development. The gift of the franchise to the Hawaiian without safeguarding conditions was the crudest present our nation could have handed him. The problem before the Christian citizenship of the Territory is to counteract the effect of this blunder. It is no easy task and it does not seem as though any headway were being made. The dread question is will liquor and its comrade tuberculosis end the Hawaiian before any substantial gain shall have been registered. If Congress had desired to preserve the Hawaiian from extinction it should not only have insured him a just, efficient and economical government, such for example as that under the Republic, but also at the same time have tempted him by the promise of the franchise to develop himself into full American manhood. Hawaii today may well be called Problem Land, but we shoulder our burdens cheerfully in that sunny home of the rainbow. Chief of our responsibilities just now is the Hawaiian voter. We understand what Pres. Woodrow Wilson means when he says: "Self-government is not a thing that can be 'given' to any people, because it is a form of character ami not a form of constitution. Xo people can be 'given' the self control of maturity." Senator Morgan of virile memory knew that, when he served on the Commission to recommend an Organic Act to Congress for the government of our youngest and now only remaining Territory. The South had been taught this lesson by the most drastic experience any section of our nation had ever known. Hence the Alabama Senator as well as his four confreres in the commission favored a franchise for Hawaii based upon thrift as well as intelligence. It would have been well for the Hawaiians if Congress had heeded the advice of these statesmen. What his own chiefs and kings, what Provisional Government and Republic knew that the average native did not possess, power to govern himself, Congress essayed to give him. So without reservation it put the ballot in his hand and made him at once the bone of contention between graft-hating supporters of good government on the one hand and the unscrupulous, liquor dealing, law despising element on the other. There was dearth enough of stimulus in his heredity and of incentive in the mild environment of the subtropics to threaten him with perpetual racial childhood without denying to him the promise of the franchise as soon as possession of the power of self-government should be proven —the mightiest spur to self development that can prick on a man in America to better things. As it is the Hawaiian has become the prey of the unscrupulous and his ballot an incentive to lose what manhood he already has. In the prohibition plebiscite last July some ten thousand votes* were cast, the liquor men securing more than 7000. It cost them, according to the best authority I can find, in the neighborhood of $50,000 to do it. Fancy what that means for those child-men, the Hawaiians. For our nation to reverse the con- THE FRANCHISE AND MANHOOD. ASIA IN HAWAII. There is no time to talk about our Asiatic problem. This is so little dreaded that we should not mind Congress admitting a little more of it from China and Japan. We are busy preparing some ten thousand Asiatics born on our shores to become as good Americans as the second generation of your immigrants here in Boston. I'd like to tell you all about it but Sec. Ryder is worrying now over my 15 minutes. GET TOGETHER. Hawaii today is a blissful center of Christian union. We have learned Pres. Hayes' maxim, "The way to resume is to December, 1910 resume," only we put it, "The way to get together is to get together." Others preach, we practise it. We don't use the word Congregational out there. We don't need to, we have the thing; why bother over a divisive name? We also have the best of Presbyterianism in our l>olity. the fervor of Methodism, the whole Pacific ocean for the Baptist part of us and a number of title-less bishops such as Baker of Hawaii, Dodge of Maui, Lydgate of Kauai, with Archbishop Oleson (also of Massachusetts) at their head, plus the only sort of apostolic succession God or man cares anything about. Xo wonder our churches number all sects including former Confucianists from China, Buddhists from Japan, religious head-hunters for aught I know from the Philippines, Mormons, Romanists, and nearly every stripe of ism known to Dr. Carroll of the Independent. When Bishop Libert, Pius X's Hawaiian representative, loses a church by fire, he knows that the first checks that will come to him unbidden will bear the signatures of our people: when his Protestant Episcopal brother Restarick wants a new parish school building, children of our missionaries head his subscription list: when the Methodist Episcojxxs—l can't give you his kaleidoscopic name because he changes every year or two— plans a $35,000 church for Honolulu, he is sure of nearly half coming from our union loving people. O, the way to have union is to have it, not debate it to death as you did in Cleveland three years ago. Xext time you want to celebrate me banns between Congregational and other ists, fix the marriage ceremony at Honolulu. The sweetness of the atmosphere out there, spiritual as well as physical, will insure a June wedding. CARNEGIB I-I'NDERS. Hawaii today needs perhaps more than anything else families from mainland America. Six years ago we asked for money and sympathy. You gave both and today I have rendered a brief account thereof. Try us again, this time witli Christian homes. There are literally thousands of mainland families to whom residence in Hawaii would be the greatest of all earthly boons, families that have secured enough of this world's goods to make struggle for a living no longer necessary, and are spoiling for the opportunity of larger influence, families to whom our northern winters are a dread. Hawaii needs this type of Carnegie funder. Xo garden spot on earth is so alluring to men and women with time and money enough to take up a little plot of land and lend a hand in developing the rare products with which Hawaii is destined to bless America. Each such home �standing for the best in Americanism would form a center of light and of social salvation for Hawaiian families round about, to say nothing of influencing directly far away Asia or of incidentally prolonging for a decade or two its own efficient life. Here is a call for a new variety of twentieth century missionary. 7 THE FRIEXD December, 1910. «. THE WONDERFUL WIZARD SEA. ' the slow-rolling, hearted sea! Oh, 1. My home was by the wonderful wizard sea. Listening to the lashing sea. Swimming: In the splashing sea. I floated down the years of childhood dream- low-moaning, sad- Hiding storms that are soon to arise; the wrath of their passion pulse For smites Through the heart of the lies. ing. Scanning the world In Its mystic seeming, Floating on the flashing sea. Borne upon the dashing sea. sea. as lt heaving Oh the flerce-dashlng. high-mounting, stormdriven sea! Creaking its billows on the rock-ribbed THE PACIFIC CHRISTIAN GIBRALTAR. dreamI drifted down the years of childhood coast. ing. Lifting itself against the wild boast Hawaii should become the great ChrisOf the lofty mountains. Each wave as lt dies tian Gibraltar of the Pacific World. It Tears off a few grains and strews them 2. will if enough Americans help to make it abroad swarming to with sea, such. "Bah, five and a half days out the wonderful Oh, On the sands of the somber sea; things, sea" you say. Yes, just now but such a Each urging the same earnest plea; Fancy fishes with their finny wings, summer sea with steamships growing Each breaking its heart in passionate cries. Slugs in their slime, and sand-screws more palatial every year. Tomorrow we with their stings; 7. may wake to find the new aerial service All in the wizard sea, where I waded, fully established, bringing Hawaii within twenty or thirty hours of San Francisco. In accordance with God's just laws, silently but surely, out in the great ocean a community is growing, virile, kindly, more human than elsewhere on earth, with a finer, more practical conception of inter-racial brotherhood than any known here on the mainland. That community some day will knock at the door of Congress and notwithstanding the Outlook's horror of the outcome will be admitted among the sovereign states of the Union, because her high character will command it. This ambition characterizes the Hawaii of today, but she has no wish to make undue haste towards her manifest destiny. The character of a community already admitted to the status of a Territory of the American Union should be the supreme consideration in the question of its right to share the privilege and responsibility of statehood. We mean to develop the character that will earn this right and we want a few thousands of the best Christian families of the mainland to come and help us in this high enD. S. deavor. When the flowing crystal tides invaded, In their whirling eddies; waded. From the early morning; waded. Till the light of day in darkness faded. 3. Oh, the wonderful sea! full of things that are She gave the proud mountains their mantles of green; The pleasant hills, their laughing rills, change (That all run to the sea, though the sea His visage, as the actor changes his plaint; never fills), as screen, a The cuttle-flsh. pouring forth Ink She opens their fountains, that none of them A blinding blast that is blown dries. In the eyes of the merciless drone, Her bosom is heaving with anguish unseen; That would seize him, and kill him, or brand And her swelling, passionate heart, how him unclean; > It breaks The fairy, finny beauty, hiding her splendor O'er the heights of the barren cliffs; how In the coral groves of the reef; it shakes And the wary assassin and thief. The bed-rock of the couch where her sleeping Lurking beside those groves for meat that son lies. is tender. For the sea Is the home of the strange And the wierd;—the squid that can JOHN T. QULICK. 4. day, too. We have no fear but that the "Siloam" Church at Kalaupapa will be gladdened as heretofore by the overflow of Christian cheer from Honolulu. Jl — Oh, the wonderful sea! with treasures filled: To work; to help and be helped; to learn With pearls that lie hid in the hearts sympathy through suffering; to learn faith Of the clams, in the quiet parts Of the sea; in the coral fields that are never by perplexity; to reach truth through wontilled; der—behold! this Is what It is to prosper, With sponges as soft as the silken down this Is what it is to live.—Phillips Brooks. the borne on seed, wind, Of thistle the (Though they rest In their coral beds Jl pinned). the gems of a The sovereign cure for worry is religious faith. The Buddhists' prescription, which is not ineffectual, says, "To get rid of worry you must destroy the desire to live, and the goal of all being is Nirvana. It means absolute acquiescence; the end of worry be5. cause the end of life." Chrlstianlay, aspiring higher, says,"The great need is not less, but Oh, the light-hearted, merry-making sea! Rippling and dimpling on the sandy more abundant life. Worry is something shore. that may be transcended, and the power by As it rises and sinks on the shifting which you transcend it is trust in God and floor Keeping time evermore with the pulse of the the service of man." crown. The distinctive thing about this notice in The Friend from year to year is the difference in dates. This year your gifts (preferably money) should be at the Board Rooms before Saturday, Dec. 17. Our boxes should go the following Monday. Our lady buyers will need time previous to Satur- deep sighs. quaint; There, colors as bright as CHRISTMAS AT THE LEPER SETTLEMENT. For the long-suffering sea is a warm-hearted queen; And the Islands are children once born of her pain. She gave them their life; she fed them with rain; When forgotten by these, she Is rent with Adorn the multiform shells of the fountains, In the reefy arcades of the sea. Where the beautiful cowries roam free, As the squirrels are free on the cloud-laden mountains. deep. J* Oh, the quick-footed, gay-dancing, laughing sea! When you miss a car, do not say, "There Swiftly turning, and tossing its spray, goes my car!" but rather "The next car is Where the sand-hoppers love to play. And the crabs their threatening vigils keep. mine." It is better for your health to take it Oh, the soft-swelling, low-murmuring, slum- philosophically. bering sea. Rolling and folding, in Its glassy bed. "Anyone can stand what he likes; it takes Too languid to lift Its somnolent head, Too contented-to wake from its dream-laden a philosopher to stand what he does not s sleep. like." �8 December, 1910 THE FRIEND Men Working for Men PAUL SUPER "The Million Dollar Day White House." at the The following taken from "Association Men," is an account of what has been called the most unique and significant Christian conference of recent years: On Invitation of President Taft Two Hundred People Assemble at the White House to Consider Extension of the Foreign Work—An Appeal for $1,500,000 Made for Association Buildings In Forty-nine Cities—Nearly $1,000,000 Pledged—Most Significant Day in Association History. It took nearly sixty years to make possible this day in the history of the Young Those Men's Christian Association. years, with their toil, their devotion, their tips and downs, were well spent to bring about this historic culmination—a day which Mr. Morse called "the whitest day in the record of the Association." There was something audacious in the idea of calling a conference in the interests and welfare of the young men of the Orient and of Latin America to be held in the White House, the official home of the President of the United States. It would not have been done, probably, but for the fact that a man occupied that national home as the honored and trusted tenant of the American people who had become convinced, during a long official residence in the East, and by personal knowledge of other countries, that the work of the Young Men's Christian Association was an essential factor in building on safe and enduring foundations the new life coming to these people. Who Came ? The attendance embraced more than more character, coming from all sections of the United States and of Canada. The conference was under the auspices of the foreign work committee of the International Committee, of which John R. Mott is the secretary, who personally conducted the program. The conference lasted for six hours, the two sessions divided by a lunch at the Willard Hotel. It may be invidious to give special names, but such persons as John Wanamaker, Gen. John W. Foster; George W. Perkins, Bishop Roots, of China; Bishop Nelson, of Georgia; Gen. Leonard Wood, Chief of Staff of the Army; Dr. Harrada, President of the Doshisha; Helen Miller two hundred men, with a dozen or women, of the most representative Gould, and others, made this conference as remarkable in its personnel as it was unique in conception and memorable in result. The conference was called to order by Hon. H. B. F. Macfarland, who referred to the gathering in the historic East Room as the only one ever held in the White House the object of which looked beyond the limits of the United States, to consider the welfare of all mankind. Mr. Mott gave a survey of world conditions and a statement of the imperative need on the part of non-Christian nations for the essential principles of Christian civilization. He gave this with the authority growing out of his wide travel and observation during the past five years. Mr. Mott emphasized the urgency of the imperative obligation upon America, the leading Christian nation of the world. The nations now in flux were rapidly crystallizing, and it was a question whether they would set in a Christian mold or would be allowed to set in a nonChristian mold. Mr. Taft Speaks. While Mr. Mott was speaking the President entered the room, the audience rising and greeting him with prolonged applause of the heartiest character. The President returned to Washington only this morning. He showed evident relish in being the personal and official host of the conference. When the applause subsided the President insisted upon Mr. Mott finishing his address, to which he listened with closest attention. On rising to speak the President received another expression of good will and respect. Opening with a tactful allusion to his action in welcoming to the White House such a gathering, he said the principle at the bottom of all the work of the Association was, that it was the duty of one people to pass on to other peoples the best they had that made for higher and better national life. The Constitution and the proprieties of governmental action might and did put limitations upon official conduct between nations; but in the work of the Young Men's Christian Association there were no limitations. The President stated strongly how, upon the basis of trade merely, the theory and practice had been for nations to make out of each other as much as possible; and in certain phases of commerce it had been an effort to get something for what might well be called worse than nothing. The commerce in which such agencies as the Association is engaged was something entirely different, and its work commanded his cordial and emphatic approval. Then came a rapid survey of the principal countries. President Harada, of the Doshisha, Mr. Wang, a Chinese student, and national secretaries gave brief addresses, followed by an endorsement from Major-General Leonard Wood of the work of the Association as he had seen it in Havana, in Manila, in the coast cities of China and Japan, and lastly in Montevideo and Buenos Aires, he having but recently returned from an official trip to South America. The Appeal. Mr. Mott then opened what may be called the more practical part of the conference. Three characteristics mark the policy of the Young Men's Christian Association the placing of experts in charge of the work, as had been demonstrated by the men whose reports had been heard; wise and close supervision, both in the field and from the home office; and the provision of suitable buildings and facilities. The Association had great memories in the past, but it had immeasurable opportunities in the future which must be provided for. The foreign department, after careful deliberation, the plans having been gone over by men with the largest wisdom and experience both in this country and in Europe, had determined that there must be sent out during the next three years fifty secretarial workers, the expense for whom would be Forty-nine two thousand dollars each. buildings must be provided, the aggregate cost of which would be $1,515,000. Twelve of the proposed buildings are for students. : The Response. Mr. John Ross, of Montreal, told how the city had raised $700,000 for new buildings: but they had agreed to contribute 5 per cent of the amount they were to expend for themselves, and guaranteed $40,000 for the foreign work. Other reports came in quick succession, interspersed with brief addresses, and the reading of telegrams from William Jennings Bryan and ex-Vice-President Fairbanks expressing their favorable verdict upon Association work as they had seen it in their tours around the world. Hon. John Wanamaker said no man who had ever put one dollar into Association work would take five dollars for the investment. In earnest words he pleaded for larger things than the committee had planned. "America cannot go slow in �December, 1910 Association work ; the pace must be measured by the call of the work." He told of his last interview in Paris with Sir George Williams, who sent by him to his American brethren the message: "Tell them to love one another, to be sweet, to keep together and to fight." On leaving the room Mr. Wanamaker sent word to Mr. Mott that when he had finished with the Peking building, about to be erected (the fifth he has given), he would take another in China. Mr. Hugh Kennedy announced that the Uuffalo delegation, after raising $290,000 for extension work and having proposed to do no more, would take over two of the new buildings. Mr. Rockefeller Pledges $540,000. At this point Mr. Mott stated that John D. Rockefeller would give $540,000 on condition that a like amount was given otherwise. In making this announcement Mr. Mott said that he regarded Mr. Rockefeller as one of the most discriminating and broad-minded givers in the world, and that if an object did not commend itself to his judgment as worthy of support he was pretty sure there was something wrong in the object. "No man is giving more painstaking attention to the investment of his surplus in philanthropy and education." Mr. Mott read a remarkable letter from Mr. James Stokes offering $50,000 for a building in Moscow, if a like amount could be secured, and it was pledged by one gentleman right there. Dumont Clarke, Jr., a Princeton College man. who had spent one year in India, pledged a building for Bangalore. S. W. Woodward, of Washington, in memory of \ erling Helm, agreed to pat up a memorial building in Kobe, to cost $35,000. Mr. John Penman, of Ontario, Canada, chairman of the Provincial Committee, was announced as having offered $50,000 for a building at Hankow, China, just as Bishop Roots took his seat, after describing how, eight years ago, he had made a plea for a building for that city. Other gifts were announced, among them one by Mrs. Meade for $5,000, and other addresses made, by George W. Perkins, of New York; Mr. R. S. Miller, of the State Department; Hon. John P»arrett, director of the Pan-American Bureau; Professor Ilurton, of the Chicago I'niversity; Hon. John W. Foster, and by Silas Mcßee. the latter being a prophecy of the Christian unity which must come by virtue of the unified service of the Young Men's Christian Association, which was, after all. the Church at work. A resolution offered by Mr. Ross, and to which these addresses were seconds, that in the judgment of the conference the 9 THE FRIEND. plan of the foreign commitee was feasible and reasonable, was unanimously adopted. A brief concluding address was made by Mr. Alfred E. Marling. CHEER GIVING STATISTICS The Bureau of the Census has published during the year two volumes that deal with the religious bodies of continental United States. These volumes are the result of the numbering of the people in reference to their religious affiliations. They give the statistics and a brief account of the history, faith, polity and work of all the religious organizations or churches, Christian or non-Christian that existed in the land in the year 1906. This account of the religious life of the nation is impressive and suggestive. It makes clear two points. 1. The large place of religion in the life of the nation. There were 212,230 churches or religious bodies counted; 210,418 of these made reports and the statistics given arc taken from their reports. These nm%\ property in houses of worship (192,795) valued at more than a billion dollars ($1,257,757,867). There is an army, in itself, of leaders of these churches consisting of 161,628 clergymen or religious teachers. And the great host of those who are so closely interested in religion as to be identified with these organizations as members, counts up to a grand total of 32,936,446. In other terms nearly two of every five of the estimated population of that year were members of these churches and of religious bodies. Of this grand total 20,287,742, or 61.6 per cent, were reported as members of Protestant churches, and 12,079,142, or 36.7 per cent of the Catholic Church Impressive also are the figures relating to the Sunday schools. There were 192,-722 of them in all. They had 1,786,074 officers and teachers, and the scholars were 15,337,811. As these scholars were largely children it appears that there are large numbers being trained for future membership of the churches. No figures can express the extent or strength of Christian sentiments and principles in the nation. Many people are governed by Christian sentiments and principles who are not connected as members of Christian churches, but when so many people are counted in the membership of the churches it gives ground for hope. Religion in its Christian form is a large and mighty influence in the land. 2. The increasing place of religion in the life of the nation. When we compare the statistics of 1906 with those of 1890-the comparison . is made in these volumes—we are impressed with the increase of religion in the land. There is increase in the number of religious organizations, of members, of clergy, of houses of worship and value of property. The growth of religious organization is from 165,151 to 212,230; of membership, from 20,597,954 to 32,936,445. The Protestant churches have increased from 14,007,187 in 1890 to 20,257,742 in I(X>6; the Catholic Church from 6.241,708 to 12,079,142, in the same time. The remarkable increase of the Catholic Church in sixteen years is largely due to the fact that during these years the nation received more than nine millions of immigrants, most of whom were Catholics. In 1890 32.7 per cent of the population were members of Christian churches; in 1906, 39.1 of the (estimated) population a gain of 6.4 per cent. There were six states and territories in which at least 50 per cent of the population were church members, and there were twelve more in which the proportion was between 40 and 50 per cent. These statistics show, as far as mere figures can do so, that Christianity has a large place in the life of the nation and a growing place. It would be bad if Christianity were at a standstill, and it would be worse if it were losing ground, but the story these statistics, which have been gathered with so much care, tells us is not of< arrested development or decay, but the cheering story of vigor and growth. COLLINS G. BURNHAM. A NEW JAPANESE CHURCH. On Sunday, December 4, the Japanese of Kakaako came into the fruitage of five years of patient labor ig a diXficult field, and had the pleasure of being organized into the Japanese Church of Kakaako. with 25 members. They have a fine Sunday school of about 100 members. The acting pastor is Mr. T. Kajiro, under whose faithful work the present organization has been built up. RESPONSIBLE For those Japanese Servants? More than we think, perhaps. Let them read a Christian paper in their own tongue. It is THE TOMO. 50c. a year �THE FRIEND 10 Educational Advance F. W. DAMON EDUCATION AND DEMOCRACY. Recent events in Portugal are directing attention to many phases of national life. While civil and political matters come in for the largest share of attention, yet the influence of education on national welfare is quite as great in the long run as politics or civic affairs. As a general rule any ]>eople will live peacefully and happily if they live well and under such circumstances the kind of government that promotes the well-being of the industrial classes will be supported. There is, also, close co-relation between the well being of a people and a system of education that includes all classes of people and all activities by which the people earn their living. In this characteristic, the United States differs from other nations. Democracy in education is in keeping with democracy in politics and civic affairs. The spread of demcoracy throughout the world is one of the striking features of the present times. While in some instances the forms of government have not changed as in England, Germany and other parts of Europe, yet in recent years there has been remarkable change in the sentiments of the people towards the freedom of expression and the distribution of knowledge. Russia, China and India, comprising one-half of the world's population, are now at the portals of a new freedom. It is happy to note that the means by which these changes have been brought about have been most largely through agitation, education and constitutional methods. The question has been raised, however, as to whether the highest standards of education and scholarship can be attained in a democracy like our own. It has been asserted that democracy and scholarship are incompatible, that culture can not be fostered in a country or commonwealth where materialism, commercialism and the demand for the practical are manifested on every hand. The charge that scholarship has not developed in the United States as in some countries of Europe is true, and it is also true that scholarship is not always set at its intrinsic value to the community and the state. But this is a passing phase of our civilization. In the United States men have been busy with the economic affairs incident to the development of a new country. Up to the present time new lands had to be occupied, new lines of transportation built, and new implements of industry developed in order to meet the demands of a population growing in numbers, economic needs and wealth. Hut we are now face to face with a new era of development, that of building upon the foundations laid; and in order to consummate the scheme our democracy is reaching out and taking possession of all activities and stages in education. Scholarship is no longer allied with aristocracy. The past decade in this country has witnessed a remarkable correlation between the work of the scholar and the bread and butter affairs of life. It can be easily shown that the support of education in all of its phases by the state is one of the best investments that the state can make. This is not only demonstrable in the character of citizenship but also in the increased earning power of all citizens and the results in all lines of production and commerce. In order to emphasize this argument an instance from the great industry of crop and animal production may be mentioned. Since \UD our population has increased about 100 per cent, our area under cultivation has increased 100 per cent, but our production of cereals has increased 300 per cent. Notwithstanding this great increase in production per capita and per unit of area, agriculture has during the same period spared 11 per cent of its workers for the benefit of the trade, transportation and manufacturing industries. The cost of the education by which these results have been brought about is merely nominal compared with the great gain in welfare to the whole, people. there is a need for its judicious and raeducation in the scheme of democracy but There is not only a place for higher tional support. No race or people can make progress without leaders, and in order that this leadership may be always in the interests of the democracy it is important that the state should provide for their training. In the absence of trained and judicious leaders, we sometimes have to witness the contemptible spectacle of the "boss." But the boss can not always retain his leadership; intelligence will drive him out. In the second place, a democratic system of education promotes industrial opportunity and prosperity; and it tends to prevent the accumulation of wealth and power by the few. In the last analysis the state will find its most lasting safety and welfare in providing an educational system that will reach all the people and increase both their skill and knowledge in the activities of life. Under such conditions the existence of false leadership and corrupt practices can only be short lived. It is frequently asserted that a publicly supported system of education, whether December. 1910 graded schools or universities, ought to be more concerned with those studies which are likely to contribute directly towards the earning of a living rather than those which have no immediate connection with the obtaining of the necessities of life. The continued success of our form of government and our state of society not only permits but requires devotion to the pursuit of abstract sciences, and the cultivation of the imagination a-; well as to those more concrete subjects which minister to the direct benefit of either the individual, the class or the community. It is commendable to study out how to make two blades of grass grow where one grew before, or how to improve our soil so that the product of the acres shall continue to feed the multitude of our growing cities, and how to harness the forces of nature to complicated machinery so that sufficient food and clothing may be put within the reach of all. But what shall we say to justify the expenditure of public money and the bestowal of public interest for the abstract subjects of history, philosophy, mathematics and literature, or in our elementary schools of the traditional "3 r's.'' In the opinion of many these subjects are often considered as of little or no use but that there is no necessary conflict in the needs of our state and society, between the two groups of studies that we have mentioned. It is not easy to state which is the more important; those subjects which promote the material welfare of the people or those which create and uplift their spiritual and intellectual ideals. In the long run, and for the great mass of people, the one group is quite as important as the other, and those who are constantly advocating the introduction of industrial and vocational subjects into the curriculum at the expense of thorough drilling of the fundamental subjects of reading, writing, mathematics and the fundamental sciences, should take npte of the fact that if it had not been for people who have sat quietly and studied the conic sections or to those who have given their lives to the study of astronomy and the relations of our earth to the heavenly bodies, there might today be no commerce over the seas; and, if there had not been those who have quietly studied the laws of gravitation and moving bodies and the elastic properties of gases and vapors there might today be no steam engines or so far as we can judge, motors of any kind that in our modern lives are so essential that we scarcely ever think of the principles of study that underlie their existence. The immediate application of these thoughts is that in a democratic society like our own there is necessity for a system of education that will reach all the �11 THE FRIEND December, 1910. people of all ages and with the information that will fit them for the largest measure of usefulness of which each individual is capable. Education and enlightenment are not antagonistic to industry. If all men live most men must work and the fault of our system is still apparent that we are teaching children in accordance with a pedagogic creed rather than for individual needs and usefulness. JOHN' W. GILMORE. A fly and a flea in a flue Were imprisoned. Now what could they do? Said the fly, "Let us flee!" "Let us fly!" said the Ilea So they flew through a flaw in the flue. — A little more and we could raise men; for Corn has ears. Potatoes have eyes. Cabbages have heads. Squashes have necks. Cucumbers have warts. Celery has a heart. Wheat has a beard. Grapes have skin. —Puck. BOOK REVIEWS The Story of the American Board. A book of especial interest to the people of Hawaii. No student of world movements can well afford to neglect the story of a movement which has just reached its one hundredth birthday, having increased its activity each year until the record of its centennial year represents an outlay just 1000 fold greater than the outlay of the first. "On its pages breathes the romance of the great adventure; figures of heroic men and women appear in quick succession. Great crises on these battlefields of the Kingdom and the daily round of life at a single station are both pictured. The progress of the organization at home and abroad, so set forth, is the record of an unfolding life: it has the charm of personal history. The book is enriched with numerous illustrations of historical interest ; and with a series of new and specially prepared colored maps, portraying both the field as a whole and the several missions." The book contains special chapters on "Transforming the Sandwich Islands," and "Some of the American Board Ships" and frequently refers to matters of local interest to the people of Hawaii, while linking us with the world-wide move- of the American Board in China, Japan, India, Turkey, Spain, Austria, Africa, Mexico, Micronesia and the Philippines. ment THE CANDY STANDS AGAIN. In the October Friend attention was called to the baleful influences exerted by the candy push carts which encamp around the various city schools. We have been requested to refer again to the subject, especially because of the disregard of sanitary precautions on the part of these street vendors. Notice, for example, the way the glasses in which soda water has been served are dipped into a pail of dirty water which has done service for the best part of a busy day, and are then wiped off with a rag which is still more offensively unclean. Parents who are alarmed over the dangers to their children from infantile paralysis and other diseases will do well to caution them against patronizing the candy stand. j •- V AT Zjr>, I old u«JTB JTMm. f IV--' f * 2s**%£& JL*zi f B Ik SO / Ii «. nsliatov*Tf\ru©r. \ ■ I rrc£\ I - I 3 Cunos Cnores �December, 1910 THE FRIEND 12 pie have learned to get up and give a word of personal testimony or make remarks on the topic of the evening. A new interest has been taken in the three mission meetings for which the society is resjxmsible each month. So, from every viewpoint, the campaign has been a great success and will leave the society a great deal stronger and more effective than it has been for years. Travalog"*. Central Union News A. A. EBERSOLE Doctor Scudder has begun a scries of Travel Talks at the Sunday evening services, which arc attracting a great deal of attention and bringing out much larger audiences than are usually in attendance at the evening service. In these talks Dr. Scudder not only gives vivid descriptions of the scenes and peoples which he and Mrs. Scudder visited on their five months' tour abroad this summer, but each evening draws some most helpful lesson from his observations. The three addresses given thus far were on 1. "Going Abroad." 2. "Where the Broad Atlantic Smiles." Increase Campaign. 3. " 'Neath the Grim Shade of Death." Our Christian Endeavor Society is just In the first address he spoke not of completing a very successful increase "When to go abroad" or "Where to go." campaign. Early in September the so- oi "what preparations are necessary," ciety was divided into three equal sections and a twelve week's triangular contest was begun, to see which section would score the largest number of points for all round work during that time. Each section chose a section leader who would be primarily responsible for the work of that section, and to report each week to the secretary of the society the points earned during that week. The following items were counted in making up the points: 1. Number in attendance at Endeavor Meeting. 2. Number who took part in the meeting. 3. Number remaining to evening church service. 4. Number attending mid-week church service. 5. Number attending mission meeting of society. 6. Number of new members secured. Twenty-six new members have been added since the campaign began, the attendance at the meetings has almost doubled, and the meetings have been the brightest, breeziest, snappiest meetings it has ever been our privilege to attend. Often as many as thirty would take part in some form or other during the hour. An increasing number of the young peo- but of the great importance of everyone seeing as much of this world and the people in it as he can. The desire to know and to see is a God-given instinct and should be heeded by all. Only so can we come into intelligent sympathy with other peoples and experience in any vital way universal brotherhood. The second address proved to be more of a description of "grim Gibraltar" than of the "broad and smiling Atlantic," and gave Dr. Scudder opportunity to voice an emphatic protest once again against any such complete fortification and militarization of this our own fair island as to make it, what some have already been pleased to call it, "The Gibraltar of the Pacific." On the third evening he took the congregation with him into the shadow of the ever-threatening Vesuvius, into Naples and about the Hay of Naples, and over the excavation of ancient Pompeii and Herculaneum. The persistence of the people continuing to live where destruction always hangs over them and in building homes and city on the very spot where former homes and cities lie buried, teach us, as hardly anything else could do, the supremacy of life over death. Man never despairs. Life mounts up and builds as fast as death destroys. To all who have traveled in these countries, and to those of us who hope to do so some day these travel talks are certainly most fascinating and interesting. Bible Study Groups. With the return of Dr. Scudder, the assistant minister, relieved of pulpit and pastoral duty, resumed his Bible teaching. The Sunday morning class, conducted under the auspices of the Men's league in the church parlor, is taking up this year "The Social Teachings of Jesus," following in the main "The Principles of Jesus Applied to Present Day Life." but using also Jenk's "The Social Significance of the Teachings of Jesus," Shailer Matthews' "The Social Teachings of Jesus," IVabody's "Jesus Christ and the Social Question," and Rauschcnbush's "Christianity and the Social Crisis." The class already has an enrollment of over thirty, and every Sunday sees some new faces. The discussions of what Jesus has to say and what his attitude was on the various social problems of his time are proving quite as interesting and suggestive as the more distinctly religious questions which occupied our attention in this class last year. Such questions as the following are being studied: 1. Jesus' General Attitude to Society. 2. Jesus' Ideal Society—The social order which he foresaw and for which he worked. 3. Was Jesus a Socialist? 4. Jesus' Teachings on The Family — involving a study of his attitude to marriage, divorce, woman and the child. 5. Jesus' Teaching in regard to The Shite, involving his attitude on such questions as observance of law, non-resistance, war and international relations. 6. Jesus' Teachings regarding Wealth, Care of the Poor. Crime and Treatment of Criminals. 7. Jesus' Teachings concerning the Industrial Order, Capital and Labor, the (iolden Rule in Business, etc. Every Tuesday evening the assistant minister presides at the meeting of "The Religious Question Club" recently organized at the Y. M. C. A. This is an organization of a group of young men that meets every Tuesday evening at 7:30 for an hour's discussion of such questions as : What is Religion? Can we know God? I )ocs it do any good to Pray ? Why is it so easy to Sin ? What do we mean by forgiveness? Was Jesus Divine? Is man Immortal? �13 THE FRIEND December, 1910 What is Heaven like? Is there a Hell? Will there be a Judgment Day? How did we get our Bible, etc. The meetings thus far held show conclusively that there is a demand for just such a frank treatment of these fundamental religious questions in which all men are interested. It may be that more will be accomplished in the religious life of these men in this way than a more formal Bible study would do. Of course, in all these discussions the Bible is the chief text book. LETTER FROM GUAM. October 25, 1910. Dear Friends and Brothers: —We are sorely in need here, in our mission church work, and thought as you were acquainted with Jose Cristino, who is one of our church deacons, we would send a letter to you and to many pastors and churches in the states. We are sending out a general call for help in the way of finances and money and reading matter for our Sunday school children. Do you not feel as if you would like to have a part in this fund or offering to help defray our expenses? If so, would you kindly put this before your church board or have a special offering taken for us. We are planning some Christmas work, and everything must come from the States and individuals whose hearts are in the work of bringing the heathen into the light of knowledge and the true faith of Jesus Christ. It being only a few days now before the transport arrives, and we have many of these letters to write, we are not able to go into details as much as we would like to to show you the situation. I am sure if you could call on us and investigate our work here, you would not hesitate to help us. God will bless you. is my earnest prayer, and your work and church.—Yours in his service. Notes From the Field FRANK S. SCUDDER <<7»oday is your say and mint, the only V day we hapr. the day lit which wt play ear part. What ear part may »ignify ia the great whole, we aay not aadmtaad, but we art here to play It and now Is the tint. this wt know, it Is a part of actio, not ot whining. It Is a part of love, set cynicism, it is for as to tipress low ia itrau of hiimaa htlpftlacss." The Opening of the Mid-Pacific Institute. The formal launching of the MidPacific Institute with full sail spread out to the Manoa breezes called together a large company of enthusiastic spectators on Saturday, November 26. It was an occasion distinguished for original features that probably could not be rivaled in any part of the world, for here in Hawaii is found a conspicuous variety in nationalities, a remarkable generosity in behalf of the education and religious culture of these various nationalities, and a faithful attempt to bring all into one homogeneous people. The MidPacic Institute was conceived and born and brought to the magnificent development it has now reached through the inspiration of Hawaii's opportunity for rendering this high service to the world and through faith in the essential oneness and brotherhood of all mankind. The exercises were held in the newly completed Mills School, which has twice the capacity of the building erected three years ago—the Kawaiahao Girls' School —and is built of the same beautiful mossgrown lava rock. From two o'clock in the afternoon visitors began to throng the building, praising the architecture, the superb view and the fine accommodations, and enjoying the hearty social intercourse, while the arches echoed with the music of the Hawaiian Band. ji "I feel It a very great privilege," said he, "to welcome you to this new home of Mills From small beginnings we are Institute. now hopefully launched, and I am gratified to see so many of our friends here today to see the result of their support in the work which we have been planning to do. I am pleased furthermore to see so many active workers and supporters of the institute from numerous races, all working together for the advancement of the brotherhood of man. With united action, the Mid-Pacific Institute is becoming stronger and stronger and surely God's blessing Is upon us." Thanksgiving Service. A Thanksgiving service was then enacted by the students of the institute, led by Miss M. E. Bosher, principal of Kawaiahao Seminary, after which the audience arose and joined with them in singing the Doxology. "The Significance of the Institute to the Territory and the World" was the subject of the address of Rev. Doremus Scudder, D. D. He said in his opening remarks that this was quite a weighty subject to deal with in the four minutes which had been allotted to him. "President Damon is used to doing big things in a short time," said he, "and I will have to try to keep up with his pace. He has done wonders In the past three or four years, as will be seen from the development of this Institute, these handsome buildings and the them. fifty-seven acres surrounding - Hawaii an Object Lesson. "Ood has created and ordained Hawaii to be an object lesson of twentieth century the West. Here the children of many races are trained and educated to become loyal Americans. Here the boys and girls of various nationalities study and work on terms of absolute equality and this Institute offers a grand friendship between the East and opportunity for cementing the friendship of the naUons of the Pacific." The speaker hoped that all the children, of whatever nationality, would become true and loyal American citizens, but that they could still remember with love the countries from which they or their parents came. He commended the institute upon the work of drawing together the peoples of the Pacific, which meant so much for the future peace of the nations bordering upon this ocean. Fred E. Osbornk. The dedicatory exercises took place at Pastor of the Mission Church. four o'clock in the auditorium, which has Care of U. S. Naval Station, Guam. a seating capacity of about 1,000. President Francis W. Damon delivered the address of welcome, in which he OMISSION. dwelt upon the growth of the Institute his appreciation of the generous asand lhe Story of Ihe American Board, sistance given by the Hawaiian Board Principal Arthur M. Merrill then rose, by William E. Strong, Reviewed on page greeted by hearty applause, and spoke on v, is published by The Pilgrim Press, "Mills School. Past. Present and Future." Boston, price $1.75 net. I)k. �December, 1910 THE FRIEND 14 Paid. With patience, indefatigable work and lundry $4,236.11 firms Merrill has accomsplendid tact Mr. l,250.0i lalance to this account plished the difficult feat of* amalgamating Chinese, Japthe several boys' schools, $5,486.11 anese and Korean, with large numbers of In concluding the exercises Mr. other boys into one harmonious whole, manner voiced and he is indeed to be congratulated, not Damon in a very happy for the gifts and enthe of all gratitude success, but upon only for his complete who aided this of those had the maintenance of an undiminished couragement said that while silence had and project, popularity. been enjoined upon him, he could not but The students of Kawaiahao Girls' break through the bars and speak of the School rendered a "Humming Chorus," one who had stood by the enterprise from which was highly appreciated as one of the beginning, and by his princely gifts the delightful features of the afternoon. made this day possible—Mr. George No one present will forget the Lin- hadWilcox, whose name would forever be N. guistic Quartet, or rather Fugue, for the enshrined in the life of the Mid-Pacific four parts were rendered separately, but Institute, and in the hearts of its students. the music was one—the music of BrotherMr. Damon referred to a still further hood. The words were unintelligible to generous gift received within the past some, but the harmony was enjoyed by Mr. Wilcox which makes all, Rev. T. Okumura took up the first few days from to look ahead to new and larger it possible part. "Our Japanese Students," then Mr. which, in the near future it was Tse Xi I'en, "Our Chinese Students." plans might be realized, and by which hoped Rev. ['. S. Kirn followed on "Our Kopupils housed in cottages and younger rean Students," and Rev. (). H. Gulick under the care of competent house came in for the double bass, speaking in fathers and mothers, would be able to enon both Knglish and Hawaiian the subthis educational of advantages the joy ject, "Our Hawaiian and other Students." centre. Already a tine tract of land has The Mills School students gave a spiradded to the campus looking to this ited rendering of the thought "God of been result. the Nations," to the music of the Anvil Then followed a dedicatory prayer by Chorus from "II Trovatore," which was Rev. W. Wadman, D. D., the Institute followed by this statement by Treasurer Hymn, "We've a Story to Tell to the Theodore Richards: Nations," by the students, and the beneSCHOOL FUND. diction by Rev. H. K. Poepoe. BUILDING BOYS' . Received. B. N. Wilcox Interest on above am't to June 30 Mrs. M. 8. Rice Mrs. Msry Foster Mrs. B. M. Allen Interest on gift of Mr. and Mrs. O. H. Gullck, afterwards transferred to '•Furnishings" »115,000.00 2,285.35 600.00 COMMENDED FOR THEIR GOOD SENSE. 250.00 5,000.00 The American Board, during its first century of activities, has sent forth 2572 missionaries, 571 of whom are now on its rolls. There are now connected with it 584 churches, with 73,671 enrolled communicants, and in its 1,483 schools of all grades there are 70.M70 pupils. The receipts for the first year were less than $1000, and for the last year nearly $%0,- -000. sonic The second century ought to see eye-opening results. DEATH OF REV. EL C. OGGEL. Tidings come to hand of the call to the higher life of Rev. Fngelbert Christian Oggel, D. 1)., on November 6 last, aged 69 ycais, who, from his former services in this city and the friendships formed is entitled to more than passing notice. Rev. Mr. Oggel succeeded the Rev. Dr. S. C. Damon as pastor of the Bethel Union Church in 1884, and .served faithfully and acceptably till the movement for uniting with the then Fort Street Church was mooted, whereupon he resigned. Together with Rev. J. A. Cruzan they also succeeded Dr. Damon in the editorship and publishing of The Friend in 1885, materially enlarging it for new added features. Mr. Cruzan relinquished his interest at the close of the year while Mr. Oggel continued its editorship till his departure from the islands in the fall of 1887, when he was succeeded by Rev. S E. Bishop. It was during Mr. Oggel's pastorate that the old Bethel Church was destroyed by the Chinese fire of 1886, whereuiion through his personal effort funds were secured toward a new edifice, and the corner site of the present Central Union Church was purchased for that object. ()n Mr. ()ggel's return to the States he was called to the First Presbyterian Church of Pulman, Pi; then to the Dutch Reformed Church of St. Thomas, W. I. Spending with Mrs. Oggel a two years' sojourn in Europe, he accepted a call in 1896 to the charge of the Reformed Church of New Paltz. N. Y.. which he continued to serve till 1908, when ill health, through Bright's disease. compelled him to relinquish active ser- In the face of a perfect hailstorm of criticism from the Japanese press and 123.50 members of their churches, for maintaining silence pending the action of the Y. $123,158.85 M. C. A. directors on Vice-Consul Mori's Paid. application for membership, the Japanese contractors and firms te 116.440.79 ministers of this city sent a letter to 1,206.19 President Trent saying "we have confi>unt of furniture 1,500.00 sunt of playground our Christian brethren of the 4,011.87 dence in to this account Young Men's Christian Association that $123,168.85 they will arrive at a right decision." In reply a very courteous letter was Against this balance of $4,011.87 there are Trent, expressfour outstanding accounts, not settled on ac- received from President count of need of adjustment, the total of ing appreciation of the confidence and which the building committee estimate to be patience exhibited by the Japanese min- vice. well within this amount. The Treasurer feels isters in the trying position in which they It may interest his island friends to Justied, therefore, in declaring this building were placed. know that his latter days were spent in to be free of debt. the field of his first ministerial labors, BOYS' FURNISHINGS. T. G. T. Holland, Mich. Ious Automobiles and Missions. Received. Irs. C. C. Allen Ir. B. F. Dillingham Ir. and Mrs. O. H. Oullck iterest on Oullck Fund rom Building Fund Ir. F. J. Lowrey lary Castle Trust $1,000.00 In the state of Massachusetts alone 28,000 automobiles, costing 30.00 $56,000,000, which is $16,000,000 more 1,206.19 250.00 than the entire cost of all the missions 1,000.00 carried on by the American Board in the $5,486.19 one hundred years of its history. 500.00 1,500.00 there are "Thy Man-Servant and thy Maid-Servant" ARE THEY GIVE THEM JAPANESE? THE TOMO 50c. a year. �December, 15 THE FRIEND. 1910. Our Young People HENRY P. JUDD Arbor Day. On Friday, Nov. 11th, Arl>or Day was observed generally in every part of these islands. Not only among the public school children, but also by sonic of the Sunday schools, was there the carrying of the excellent custom of beautifying and improving the appearance of the country by planting trees. It is well that the voting people of these islands are being taught in a very practical manner the value of trees and the importance of preserving the natural resources of the land. The Kaliului Union Sunday School observed the day by planting some ironwood trees in llic church yard. A prise of $5.00 was awarded to Fanny Apo for having grown the tallest tree during the hist twelve months. A year ago each child was given an ironwood, and a prize of $5.00 promised to the member of the school who succeeded the best with his or her tree. One of the boys who had been m the school up to three months ago had his tree attain the height of 10 feet and 2 inches. Because of his withdrawal from the school lie could not receive the prize. The winner's tree was 8 feet 10 inches high, and the next tallest was 8 feet 2 inches, the third 7 feet, and the others at heights varying all the way down to 1 foot 5 inches. Considering how small the trees were when planted, it would seem that the results were excellent. This year more ironwoods were given out to the children and four prizes were announced for next year. To the one having the tallest tree $2.00 will be given, the second tallest tree owner will receive $1.50, the third $1.00 and the fourth 50c. out visions of a joyful time with Santa Claus and a tree and presents fill the minds of the young ]>eople. It is their time to make merry. Ixt them enter heartily into the Christmas festivities and catch the spirit of gladness that is the essence of the season. The glad Christmas songs and the Pible verses and recitations will make a lasting impression upon the youthful minds, even though they may cease their attendance upon the Sunday school as soon as Christinas is over. Many new pupils are brought into the schools because of the special features of the Christmas season and out of this number there is always a large proportion who will remain permanent members of the school. Ji Was it Yours? Seen in Some Sunday Schools. A teacher attempting to teach the les- son without a BiMe. A superintendent reading before the whole school out of the quarterly. A secretary interrupting the teacher and class to get reports or offerings. A secretary who is exceedingly noisy and talks and whispers to pupils and others during the teaching period. A superintendent trying to make his school run smoothly when no program has been previously arranged. An organist who never gets in until the school has begun. A primary department that is compelled to meet with the main school and undergo an "opening exercise" ordeal with it. Jl Rev. Wm. C. Merritt. In view of the fact that the Rev. W. C. Merritt, the international Sunday school secretary for the northwest, is contemplating a visit to Hawaii nei for the purpose of stirring up greater interest in Ji the schools of these islands, it will not he out of place to record here what Mr. President Taft's Estimate Marion the general secretary of the Sunday School. of the association, says concerning him in At the great convention of the World's his annual report recently submitted. He Sunday School Union in Washington, writes, "We arc sorry to announce that I). C.'last May, President Taft said, "No our efficient secretary for the Northwest matter what views are taken of general education, we all agree—Protestant, CaSunday School tholic and Jew alike—that Sunday school education is absolutely necessary to secure moral uplift and religious spirit." inform this committee. His purpose is to retire from active service unless it may lie some phase of work that will not require traveling. He was for many years in charge of the work in Washington and .'literal the international family in October. 1905. He has rendered great service in the Northwest. It was practically all missionary ground when he began—and now, after six years of faithful service, every state and province in that section (eight in all) has its own secretary, and this is largely because of what he has done. It has been a paying investment, lie is a lovable man, an efficient officer and the embodiment of fidelity. We shall greatly miss him. and I am sure our prayers will go with him wherever he may go, and in whatever service he may engage." Jl The Future of Organized Sunday School Work. Mr. Marian Lawrance writes of the future of the organized Sunday school work as follows: "The methods of Christian work along all lines are in a transitory state. New conditions demand new treatment, and new conditions are constantly arising. The past year has been a year of unusual prosperity in the Sunday school work everywhere. The marvelous advance during the last few years is due largely to a quickened Sunday school consceince. We are holding annually more than 17,000 conventions, attended by fully 3,000.000 people. We reach eevry part of the great field, holding literally thousands of helpful, �stimulating conventions where it would be impossible for any denomination to hold one unless with a single school, thus leaving out the schools in that locality. Among all the organizations that are standing for co-oj)eration, the International Sunday School Association has an honored place. God has led us in a wonderful way, and if we are teachable. He will lead us still. Let us go forward with greater energy than ever. Let us have faith in God and in our work. My faith in the future was never so Lesson Charts bring the Lesson right before you every day Ji The Christmas Season. This month of December is when the children's interests come prominently to the front. The Sunday schools are growing rapidly as Christmas is coming, and is to withdraw from our work September 1, 1911, and has requested me to so Pell's notes, Tarbell and Peloubet to help you, at the Hawaiian Board Book Rooms I Consult us about Song Books. We have many Samples. 1 �16 THE FRIEND. December, 1910 said, "Let me say that your chief text"I want that shell very much," said book in English will be the English Kapuni. Kaakau told him that the task Bible; it will give you the best model of would be very difficult and dangerous, English style in any language, therefore, for the shell was guarded by watchman as a key to literature we ought to know from hill to hill, from the sea to the sumsomething of our llible." Should not each mit of the valley, and along all the pathone of us, then, undertake a serious and ways to the neighboring villages. The gods, however, crossed the chansystematic study of the Holy Scriptures (1908). for our instruction the truth and as a nel to Oahu, and rested at night above in Louisville Convention since the Kahakea. I lere was a temple above WaoThe day will never come when we shall means to a liberal education? lani. It was upon a hill. In it was a not be needed. The more effective our noted drum. The name of that temple work, the more the denominations will was Pakaaluna. Kapuni told his friends need us, and the more effective their to stay there waiting for him. If he did work, the more we can do for them. We not return before the red dust of the seek co-operation, not union, and the world believes in that. We should plan dawn was in the sky they would know W. D. WESTERVELT he was dead. If he returned he would greater things for the future. The next have the shell. three years should see our work doubled Then he went near to the prison enTHE WONDERFUL SHELL OF in amount, our workers doubled in numclosure outside the temple. Here he waitbers, and our budget at least $100,000 a NUUANU VALLEY. ed by a rock for all the watchmen on the year. We can do it. The Sunday school is the best of the world's evangelizing high places around the temple to fall and missionary agencies. Near Niolopa, on the eastern side of asleep. When the stars arose in the heavAs the world's greatest Sunday school Nuuanu Valley, is the stone where Ka- ens above Nuiianu and all were sound organization, composed of all denomina- puni rested when he came after the shell asleep, he entered the temple and took He flew away and found his tions, helping all, hindering none, we known as the Kiha-pu. Kapuni was a the shell. companions. Kauhola, was to who said have should, having set up our banners in child of God's name, keep on, and keep on keep- been a chief, who was born, was walking They made a great jump and leaped to ing on. until the world is won for Him. and had grown up, had become a father, Kalaau point. As they flew over the a grandfather, and had died, all in one water to Molokai the shell touched the day. Kapuni was born in Waipio valley, top of a wave and sang with a clear voice. The god of Waolani temple heard the and was placed in Pakaalana, the heiau. Our Sunday School Text Books. shell singing, leaped up and found that and was made a god. Two gods came from Puna. They were it had been stolen. He rushed from the The llible is the most popular book in Kaakau and Kaohuwalu. They waited temple, flew over the Nuuanu precipice the world. We are not to assume, howand out into the channel from which he ever, that because it is widely spread, it above Hakalaoa looking down into Waihad heard the sound. He they Kapuni leaping. There saw ]>io. i> widely read. It is found on the ocean Kapuni hid among the waves, the shell steamers, in every jail, in every Chris- touched a branch of a kukui tree, and gave up its song. The god of Waolani fell down. He and again touched leaped tian home, in every school, but there are went back and forth over the water but many families who keep a llible on the the short top branches of the kukui and could find nothing. center table and never touch it except to fell down. When he gave up the search Kapuni Kaakau said to Kaohuwalu, "Suppose dust it. There are many students brought went on to Molokai and then to Maui and with our travus as up in Christian homes whose knowledge we get Kapuni to go Hawaii. When flying across the channel one us fierce elling in companion, with of baseball and football is wonderful, but between Maui and Hawaii the shell of night." who know next to nothing about whether storms or the cold heavy dews a high wave and broke off a struck Koohuwale assented and arose they the book of Judges is in the Old or New to Kapuni corner. Testament Many of them have never and went down. They called tried him asking to He leap again When they were on the hills of Hawaii up. read the most beautiful love story in all they found the temple built at Ilainoa. literature, the book of Ruth. The study and again and always fell back. Kaakau caught him as he fell and cut There the gods of Hawaii were gathered of the llible, if it did nothing more than give us a key to the noble passages of off part of his body because he was too together. Kiha was high chief of Hawaii at that literature, would be worth our while. heavy, then he could fly to the sky and time, and had been dwelling in Waipio Shakespeare and Milton, Dante and return again. Kaakau asked him how he was suc- Valley, cultivating his plant, planting Longfellow, Whittier and Lowell, Spencer and Cooper and many others are ceeding. He replied "Very well, indeed, awa, and building a temple for his gods. When that temple was finished and the continually referring to the Bible. Tenny I am swift in flight." Then Kaakau said "Will you go with tabu of silence lifted from all the surson has 460 references to the Old and New Testament in his poems. I low us on a journey?" Kapuni said "Yes.'' rounding country, he went to Kawaihae much enjoyment can we get out of They went away to the lands of Ka- and built another temple, establishing anthe great art galleries if we do not hiki and returned to Kauai. From there other altar for his gods. He placed the know our Bibles? Drama goes to the they heard the wonderful voice of a shell usual tabu upon all the land around KaBible, and so does fiction, because the sounding from the Temple Waolani in waihae. Bible is the great tin folder of mankind. N'uuanu Valley near Honolulu. Put the tabu was broken by the sound When they asked Daniel Webster the Kapuni said "What is that thing which of that shell blown by the gods of the reason of his wonderful power, he makes such a sound ?" Hainoa temple. He was very much said, "I read the Bible through once a Kaakau said. "That is a shell which be- troubled, but the gods were too strong year." Charles A. Dana when addressing longs to the eepa (distorted gnomes), the for him. At last help came to him from the graduating class of Vale University, people of Waolani, Oahu." Puapualenalena, "The Yellow Flower," a strong as today. We are entering upon the best era of our history. God is with us. In every state and province, more money is being used, and in many of them more workers are being employed than ever before. It is probably safe to say that in money and work and workers, our field "will show a 50 per cent gain Honolulu Legends �17 THE FRIEND December. 1910. "We acknowledge and adore one supreme and infinite God. We acknowledge his Son, one Christ; the Holy Ghost or Divine Comforter; and man In God's ismge and likeness." —Ibid., p. 497. "Jesus came to destroy sin, sickness and death." —Ibid., p. 474. If then, Dr. Brown contests every claim of Christian Science, as your reviewer asserts, he contests what I understand to be certain treasures of KalaKing tabu awa roots of the king, which were was among the principles of the Christian refundamental growing on the hillsides of Waipio valley. kaua, and now has its resting place in ligion, as taught by Christ and his apostles, When that place was stripped, he sent the hands of ex-Queen Liliuokalani in and ever since maintained by those professing to be his followers. It Is therefore with the dog to the precipices of Waimanu Honolulu. certain feeling of surprise that I And his and he took nearly all that was there. When Kapuni died his bones were aviews so highly endorsed In the eminently one at kept as of the worshipped gods, Then the king commanded his people orthodox columns of the Friend. dog belonging to a master whohad left derful sound, and could call the warriors of the king from any distance when the his home in Niihau some time before. Puapualenalena, "The Yellow Flow- king caused it to be blown. It was known er," was seeking his master and found as Kiha's shell, "The Kiha-pu." This shell was carefully preserved by him on the uplands of Hawaii. That dog excelled in his skill as a thief, the chiefs of Hawaii from that ancient Generation after generation it stealing pigs, chickens, tapa cloth, all time. was cared for. In the time of Kamehakinds of property for his master. The master told that dog to get the meha 111. it was kept in his palace. It to watch the awa fields and catch the one Kaawaloa until the tabu and the temples who was stealing his growing awa. were overthrown. They began their watch. When the night was almost over and the dawn was A Communication touching the sky, they found the thief. These men followed the thief and caught Hilo, Hawaii, Nov. 26. 1910. his master in a cave, all wrinkled from Editor of The Friend, Very sincerely yours, W. H. SMITH, Christian Science Committee on Publications for the Territory of Hawaii. (Teachings which are held in common can not be regarded as the "claims of a cult." Teachings which are specially taught or drinking much awa. cultivated by any body of persons organized Honolulu, Oahu, H. T. for that purpose are the teachings of a cult. They took the master and the dog to Dear find in the "Book Reviewer" We both recognize that we do not agree In the King Kiha as prisoners, and the king of yourSir:—l November number a highly comour religious beliefs, and no discredit of the planned to have them steal that shell mendatory notice of "Faith and Health," beliefs of others was intended by the use which troubled If they failed they as well as of the author, Charles Reynolds him. should be put to death. This was the sentence of the king upon his prisoners. The master talked with Yellow Flower, his dog. and told him all the word of the king. They planned to pay for the theft of the awa. but not by the death of their bones. The dog went out to win the shell from the gods, under cover of the night when the darkness was great and all kinds of shell voices were singing with all other voices of the woodland and wilderness. Then came the resounding voice of that shell blown by the gods. According to an ancient chant:—"The song of Kiha-pu calls Kauai," meaning the song is listened to from far distant Kauai. The dog ran swiftly, while the sound of the shell was great and hid in a corner of the stone wall of the heiau. He waited and waited, a long time. The dawn was almost at hand. Then the watchers fell into deep sleep. The dog crept softly inside, seized the shell and slipped it away from its (dace, then leaped over six walls of the heiau. but touched the seventh and outside wall. Then the shell sang out, loud and clear. The gods were aroused. They followed, but the dog leaped into a pool of water, and concealed himself and the shell while the gods dashed by. They searched the road toward Waipio, then rushed toward the Kona district. The dog flew from the pond down the precipice of Waipio valley, and laid the shell at the feet of Kiha. the King of Hawaii. The dog and his master were given a high place in the affections of the king. The shell was renowned for its won- of the word "cult."—Reviewing Editor. Brown, with reference to whom your reviewer says: "Dr. Brown's name Is a guarantee of the value of his writings," a statement which seems to amount to a high, if not unqualified endorsement of both the author and the book. I have not as yet had the pleasure of reading the work in question, and must therefore depend entirely for my knowledge The P. C. Advertiser of Nov. 14th thereof upon the statements of your re viewer, who says that Dr. Brown "in a vig- gives an account of the passing, on Nov. orous discussion of Christian Science—Con- 5, of our Cousin Edward Bailey, in the tests every claim of the Cult." seventy-fourth year of his age. He is one By the word "cult" I presume your rewoven into the hisviewer refers to Christian Science, though whose life has been why "cult" is the term employed I do not tory of Maui, and with his death ends a know, except that it is a word often applied long chapter in the social, business and by those who consider themselves particu- religious history of Wailuku. larly orthodox, to some religious movement On Sept. 26 another of our loved of which they have no particular first-hand information, and of which they therefore members, Mrs. Sarah Atherton Gilman, Hawaii Cousins , disapprove. I have been a trifle perplexed as to the exact ground of your reviewer's statement that "Dr. Brown contests every claim of the Cult." Is it based upon the reviewer's own investigation of the "claims" of Christian Science, and comparison therewith of Dr. Brown's views; or does Dr. Brown say that he "contests every claim of the Cult," or does your reviewer merely infer that he "contests every claim of the Cult?" Whatever the reason, I must credit your reviewer with the statement of an actual fact, and that Dr. Brown does indeed contest "every claim of Christian Science." Now, some of the claims of Christian Science are the following, taken from the Christian Science Text Book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," by Mary Baker Eddy:— "Spirit Is God." —Science and Health, page 192. "Spirit is God and Man Is his Image and likeness." Ibid. p. 468. "God, omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent being." —Ibid., p. 465. Life, Truth, Love." "God Is —Ibid., 465. ... . left us. For many months she waited the gates of heaven for the welcome "Come," but her "kamaaina" friends love to think of her in the years of her busy life when her earnest help was given to every good work, and her sympathy extended to all. A letter has come from Persia, through Miss Grace Van Duzer, showing the unsettled conditions of religion and society, which is very interesting, but for political reasons we are asked not to let it find its way into print. at MORE ABOUT THE "THADDEUS." At a meeting of the Cousins held on April 30, 1910, at the home of Gov. and Mrs. Frear, there were read extracts from a journal written on board the "Thaddeus," in 1819-20. These were printed in "The Friend" of June, July, and August of this year. �December, 1910 THE FRIEND 18 We now give some extracts from the memoir of Captain James Hunnewell, on the "Thaddeus," then first which will interest as supplementing the missionary journal. On the 23rd of October 1819, Mr. Hunnewell left Boston in the brig "Thaddeus," Captain A. Blanchard, bound on a "trading voyage to the North West Coast," touching at the Sandwich Islands. He was an officer, and, as he wrote, the voyage was memorable to him as the first when he had an interest in vessel and cargo. While it thus had private importance to him, it had public importance that even now cannot be fully estimated, for this voyage of the "Thaddeus" made her, it seems as if in simple truth, the American Mayflower of the Pacific. She bore a company of nineteen passengers, the pioneer agents of a great and good constituency of Americans, organized to carry the teachings of Christianity and of civilization to a world then wild and little known,—a small world it EVENTS. may have been, but a center with large' possibilities, far reaching through the fu- October 26—Governor Frear used pick and shovel in breaking ground for the new Besides these nineteen passengers, the 1132,000 Y. M. C. A. building. "Thaddeus" carried twenty officers and 27—Homestead drawings of public lands crew. She was 85 ft. 5 1-2 in. long, 24 ft. in Kohala—Philip L. Weaver appointed 7 1-2 inches wide, 13 ft. 2 in. deep, and second magistrate to preside over police ture. her registered tonnage was 241 23-95 tons. The daily journal of Mr. Hunnewell, kept during this voyage, is preserved. It describes the passage as only an experienced traveler on the sea really does, and a few extracts from it are here given. The journal abounds in minute details, for instance: "March 14.—At sunrise hoisted the long boat out of the chocks, and broke open the main hold; hoisted our large guns on deck and sundry other articles. At 11 a. m. found the remains of poor Tom, our cat. He had been missing for about two weeks. Previous to disappearing he had been subject to fits of delirium and otherways indisposed. — (To be continued next month) court temporarily. 28—An additional mortar battery for Honolulu defense, ordered to be located at Pearl Harbor. —W. A. Bowen, made a vice-president of the Y. M. C. A. gathering in Toronto. —W. B. Lymer accepts appointment as permanent police court judge. 29—Dr. Wayson presented a leper before the medical association. The doctors accept him as cured. Nov. I—Death1 —Death of Hon. A. S. Cleghorn, largely interested in public and charitable affairs. Former Governor of Oahu, husband of Princess Likelike and father of Princess Kaiulani. —Domingo Ferreira caught smuggling opium in S. S. Mongolia. 2.—Japanese cruisers Asama and Kasagi arrived from Japan. 3_Flood on Kauai made it necessary to blow up the dam of the Lihue plantation reservoir.—Japanese consul and war ships' re ception, Emperor's birthday. ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■iss«mssssssssssi^ii»iiiiiii»s«»iii»iii™i»iiiiiiiiii^iiiiiiiii«»»»»»»»»»»»"»^,^,^,^I^^^— *^^^^^^^^^ I "How much did he leave ? " Was asked concerning "a certain rich man" who had just died. "He left it all" was the absolutely correct answer. He could take nothing with him. Still, he might have left it working for him. This is the merit of "The Conditional Gift Plan : 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 cant. 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. If you are 20 years or over your money will earn 5 per cent. » •• " 6 " " ««u-0««»« (l « l< >< (l «< £r -- <• « "« "« "«« "» " " " " 7 8 " " See the Treasurer of the Board and talk over the security, the form of gift, etc. yyr TT! Ci PCDI CZ [SJ O —make your money make friends. Make it work. BOARD OF THE HAWAIIAN EVANGELICAL ASSOCIATION. Hand Craft Wares : '.".': : : Kodak Developing and Printing : Artistic Picture Framing YEARTS&CRAFTSSHOP : > b!Jhop YOUNO buildin street �19 THE FRIEND December, 1910 DEATHS. 4. —Yellow fever case on Hong Kong Maru coming from Manzanillo, Mexico. Census for 1910 reported as 191.909—Serious shootIn Honolulu, Oct. 26, 1910, Ira C. Carter, ing affray corner Fort and Hotel Streets. managing owner of the Union Electric Co. s—Rev rends5—Reverends A. C. McKeever of the supply station. Christian Church and J. C. Jones of the Methodist church, preached farewell serIn Lihue, Kauai, Oct. 28, 1910, Mrs. Jane mons—Governor Cleghorn burled with royal E. Myers. honors in Kalakaua tomb. —Rev. Doremus Scudder began series of Travelogs. 7.—Road from Volcano House to crater costs 59.116, beside prison labor. Republican 8.—Almost entire ticket elected on Oahu.—Ainahau, the Cleghorn home, given to the government; curios given to the Bishop Museum. 9.—Spreckels property on Fort street sold to Brewer & Co. commenced 14.—Planter's Association session 1910. 16.—Large meeting held to discuss conservation of Territorial resources. —Libby, McNeil & Libby enter pineapple cannery business of Oahu, purchasing half interest in Hawaiian Cannery Co. 17.—"Boost Club" organized to make Honolulu 100,000.—Lower warehouse of Pepeekeo Sugar Co. burned. 20.—Strong editorials in Honolulu American and Japanese newspapers condemning Y. M. C. A. membership committee for rejecting the Japanese from membership. Japanese Vice-Consul Mori rejected because he was Japanese. 23.—Committee organized to secure Ha- 1910, Dr. L. Sexton and Miss Emily Rice, daughter of Hon. W. H. Rice. Honolulu, Oct. Rosenberg-Cannon—ln 29, 1910, Albert Rosenberg and Miss Flora Cannon. Kinney-Robinson—ln Honolulu, Oct. 31, 1910, by Rev. Canon Ault, George G. Kinney and Miss Catherine L. Robinson. Leslie-Paty—In San Francisco, Nov. 1, 1910, Robert W. Leslie, of San Francisco and Miss May E. Paty of Honolulu. Williamson-Rhodes—ln Honolulu, Nov. 16, 1910, William Williamson and Miss Ada Rhodes. Greenwell-Law—In Honolulu, Nov. 17, 1910, by the Rev. Dr. Scudder, W. A. Greenwell and Miss Lulu Law. Wolff-Crane—In Honolulu, Nov. 22, 1910, by the Rev. J. W. Wadman, Adolph Wolff and Miss Nettle M. Crane. KAHULUI, MAUI, T. H. BANKING, EXCHANGE, INSURANCE Savings Bank Department, In Honolulu, Nov. 12, 1910, Mrs. Arthur K. Jones, wife of the manager of the Dowsett ranch, aged 35 years. Interest on Term* Deposits, Safe Deposit Vaults for Rent. L.B.KERR&CO. ALLEN & ROBINSON LIMITED. LIMITED. Alakea Street. 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. Who hasn't heard of ESTEY ORGANS? YOU, PERHAPS, did not know that we keep them here, I'hillips-Rosa—ln Honolulu, Oct. 20, 1910, Sexton-Rice—In Lihue, Kauai, October 27, J{ahn!ni In Honolulu, Nov. 9, 1910, Mrs. Mary Borgess. MARRIAGES. briga. nf In Honolulu, Nov. 1, 1910, Hon. Archibald S. Cleghorn, father of the late Princess Kaiulani, aged 75 years. waiian material for "The World in Boston." 24.—Dr. Scudder preached Thanksgiving sermon for union services. Manuel Phillips and Miss Gussie Rosa. Lutz-Nobriga—ln Honolulu, Oct. 26, 1910, ('. W. Lata and Miss Virginia Nobriga. Silva-Nobriga—ln Honolulu, October 26, l!U(i. \V. A. Silva and Miss Charlotta P. No- IV $ alduiin jlalional fiank at the Board Book Rooms. HAWAIIAN IRON FENCE & MONUMENT WORKS, Ltd. S King St Phone 648 Safes, Vaults, Concrete Reinforcement. 180 fht JFirsi Halional $atik of Jiatuait CAPITAL KOO.OOO. CECIL BROWN, Pres. W. R. CASTLE, AT HONOLULU. M. P. ROBINSON, Vlce-Pres. G. N. WILCOX. BURPLUB $123,000. L. T. PECK, Cashier. G. P. CASTLE. United States Government Depository General and Cable. Banking.—lssues Drafts, Money Orders, Letters of Credit Transfers available in all parts of the world. ACCOUNTS INVITED �20 THE FRIEND. —————— If You Are Wise THE BANK OF HAWAII, Ltd. Honolulu EQUIPPED HOUSEHOLD DEPARTMENT. including Garland Stoves and Ranges, Aluminum Ware, Enameled Ware. Kitchen Furnishings, Refrigerators, Garden Tools, Rubber Hose, &c. Second floor, take the Elevator. Day & Co. FINE GROCERIES OLD KONA COFFEE A BPECIALTY. B. F. EHLER>&CO. P. O. BOX 716. The Leading-Dry Goods House in the Territory. Especial attention given to Mail Orders. ALWAYS USE California Rose Creamery Butter Guaranteed the Best and full 16 ounces. HENRY UMITKO MAY & CO., 22 • Importers and 92 BREWER & CO., Limited, General Mercantile Commission Agents. Queen St., Honolulu, T. H. AGENTS FOR—Wailuku Sugar Co., Hawaiian Agricultural Co., Onomea Sugar Co., Pepeekeo Sugar Co., Honomu Sugar Co., A LEXANDER & BALDWIN, Ltd. Hakalau Plantation Co., Paaunau Sugar Plantation Co., Hutchinson Plantation Co., oiowalu Plantation, Waimanalo Sugar Co., OFFICERS—H. P. Baldwin, Pres't; J. B. Honolulu Plantation Co., Kilauea Sugar Castle, Ist Vice-Pres't; W. M. Alexander, 2d Co., Hilo Sugar Co., Baldwin' Locomotive Vice-Pres't; J. P. Cooke, Treas.; W. O. Works, Oceanic Steamship Co. Smith, Secy; George R. Carter, Auditor. LIST OF OFFICERS—E. F. Bishop, President; Geo. H. Robertson, Vice-President and Manager; W. W. North, TreasurSUGAR FACTORS AND COMMIS- er; Richard Ivers, Secretary; J. R. Gait, C. H. Cooke, R. A. Cooke, G. R. Auditor; MERCHANTS. SION Carter, A. Gartley, Directors. Sugar Co., Haiku Sugar Co.. Pala Plantation Co.. Kihei Plantation Co., Hawaiian Sugar Co., Kahului R. R. Co., and Kahuku L EWERS & COOKE, Ltd. LUMBER, J^^^S. Plantation. Tel. Main 1109. C. 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CLOTHES CLEANED AND REPAIRED. P. O. Box 986. Henry H. Williams FUNERAL DIRECTOR. Graduate of Dr. Rodgers Perfect, Embalming School of San Francisco, Cal., also of The Renouard Training School for Embalmers of New Tork. And a Licensed Embalmer for the State of New York, also a member of the State Funeral Directors Association of California. MONUMENTS AND TOMBSTONES FURNISHED. Chairs to Rent. 1142, 1144 FORT ST. LOVE BUILDING, 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 - 1910.12 - Newspaper