145 10 11779 https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/279f1d0ddeeb4f581088e733e86cf2f4.pdf 767766c6d6cb122b25676c586c5837a5 PDF Text Text F THE RIEND Btto Series, M 27, Sfr.H.) CONTENTS Far \oT,Biber I, 1818. PAOS Sssss. So Haleakala Vomiting Pulu New Book—"Around the World In the Yacht Sunbeam," 86 Rambles In the Old World—No. 23 85—88 Grace before Meat 88 Editorials 88 Marine Journal 89 90 Yellow Fever 90 Japan 9S Y. M. C. A THE FRIEND. NOVEMBER I. 1878. Haleakala Vomiting Pulu.—Intelligence appears to have reached London, as we learn, from the " Supplement to the European Mail," one of the most reliable London papers, in commercial matters, that the grand old crater of Haleakala, on Maui, is now producing several thousand bales of pulu per annum. We would refer the editors of the European Mail to Miss Bird's book on the islands, page 92, where she speaks of Pulu, —" the silky covering of the fronds of one species of tree-fern." "Substitute for Horsehair.—lntelligence from San Francisco states that the import of pulu, a product of Hawaii, during last year only reached 240 bales and bags. Since 1873, when the import reached 2873 bales and bags, there has been a continual decline, the reason assigned being that the article has been supplanted by a home-made article of imitation hair, made out of the native soap-root, and which is generally preferred to the island product. The Hawaiians now find a market for their pulu product in the Australian Colonies, where there is now, we believe, quite a large sale for the article, and at fair prices. Pulu is vomited at red heat from the volcano Haleakala, and chilled by the currents of air, falls in filaments, fine as spun glass and soft as feathers. It much resembles asbestos in character, and is extensively exported to the United States for furniture purposes. ■ HONbLILU, 85 NOVEMBER 1, 1878. New Book—On the counter of Whitney & Robertson will be found a new book, entitled, " Around the World in. the Yacht Sunbeam," by Mrs. Brassey. The visit of this vessel in our waters is fresh in the recollection of many of our readers. The book has already passed into its second or third London edition, and has been republished in New York by Henry Holt & Co. Honolulu is not omitted among the many places where the Sunbeam shone, on its trip around the world. The style of the book is racy, familiar and eminently readable. Americans engaged in putting up fruits and vegetables for exportation, ought to feel themselves under special obligations for the following advertisement: " American tinned fruits and vegetables beat English ones hollow." (See p. 222.) P. S.—" We are requested," says the editor of the New York Independent, "by the publishers, Messrs. Henry Holt & Co., of this city, to announce that they have caused to be prepared a full index of Mrs. Brassey's late work, < Round the World in the Sunbeam.' This will be sent gratuitously to anyone who has the book and would like to render it more complete by the addition of alphabetical tables of its varied contents." Oahu College.—We are glad 'to learn that the number of students this term is over eighty, larger than we recollect was ever connected with the institution at any previous period of its existence. President Jones and his associates appear to have, entered upon their duties under most favorable auspices. We would acknowledge a box of Bibles from A. B. Society, N. V., forwarded freight free, by owners of Hawaiian schooner Papers and books received for distribution: Eustace, Williams, Blanchard & Co., agents. From C. M. Cooke, Mrs. W. C. Also, we would acknowledge, (freight free,) Parke, Mrs. C. B. Andrews, Dr. J. M. three boxes of printing paper, per •' Amy Whitney, and Mr. Atherton. Turner," C. Brewer & Co., agents. 161* Smes, Sol. SS. RAMBLES IN THE OLD WORLD-No. 22 A Few Weeks in Sandinavia-No. 1. NORTHWARD. There is an old Asiatic Proverb which runs thus, He who would grow rich must go to the North," and I feel as if I had of late tested and proved its truth in a most pleasing and agreeable way. During the past few weeks I have been rambling Northward, into lands new to me, amid scenes which had hithertobeen seen only through the eyes of my imagination and fancy—passing into a realm which I had scarcely thought, in other days, I should ever in reality enter. It has been an experience which is worth more to me than gold, the memories of which are the best of riches, for they cannot take to themselves wings, but will always remain a lasting and abiding treasure. So 1 say to you, the Eldorados of hope, beauty and inspiration do not always lie in the West, but sometimes may be found by following the guidance of one's Northern Star. I would fain share with you the treasure I have found here. And yet I feel my gold is still much in the rough, that I am, as it were, just beginning the work which for me will be rewarded more and more fully in coming years; but at least I can do this much, I can show you where the golden veins begin, and leave you to win your fortune at your leisure. 1 wish I could convey to you something of the enthusiasm which this Scandinavian world has awakened in me. It is so new, so beautiful, so full of poetic and practical suggestions, that I feel it has been the opening up of a new world for study and thought. It is comparatively a new world, one which even in these days of travel and swift transit still retains a freshness and simplicity which is fast fading away from many portions of Europe. From a land of myths and sagas and wild mythology; of fierce warriors and dauntless heroes; a wilderness of solemn, gloomy forests; girt about with wild waves; grey with Northern mists; the home of sunless winters, and summers lighted by a never-fading glory; distant, remote, unreal, it has to me grown to be a land full of grand, actual, progressive life; the home of earnest, noble men and women, bright with thriving towns and cities, where quietness, peace and harmony reign. And with this * �86 discovery of the actual there has fortunately waiters who keep watch and ward over your been no lessening of the romantic and poetic. coming and going. Hence, " as discretion is the better part of valor," we decided Still, Ifid theancient pine-tree forests it was wise to avail ourselves of the sturdy Far in Northland, home of warriors, Linger yet old saga mem'rlea— German tongue in .foreign lands, which has Treasures from the Asst days." a more sensible and economical ring. The hese are still here the same brave, earn- incognito which we assumed seems to have est, powerful natures, the same manly cour- been certainly in the start quite complete. age and gentle, womanly tenderness, as of For in the railway carriage in which we left yore; the grand mountains still stand; the Berlin we were taken by our fellow-passenbeauty of silver lakes in the embrace of gers for Germans. 1 felt it was the highest ancient forests has not vanished from the compliment which could be paid to our landscape; the tumult of foamy waves is knowledge of the language.) Towards the heard on the rocky coasts and in the no close of the journey, in which the late sumlonger mysterious North the winter glooms mer twilight faded away, we saw long and summer fflines as in other ages. We wreaths of mist floating over the lowlands have still the Past; we have more, the com- by the railway, showing that we were Hearfort of the Present and the hope and promise ing some body of water. The evening lamps of the Future. Nothing has impressed me had been long lighted when we reached the more strongly at the North than the peace quiet city of STETTIN, which seemed to have folded its brooding wings over these countries. While so many In Pomerania, an old commercial town, ramparts of Europe feel atready the shock of bling in a pleasant, old-fashioned sort of possible conflict and revolution, while so a way along both banks of the Oder. For a many rumors of unrest fill the air, here there long lime it was under Swedish rule, but seems to be truest repose, in which I most has now passed over to Prussia. Ships and earnestly wish other lands at present so dis- steamers, of considerable size, line the long turbed could share. I have met in all ranks busy wharves. One or two interesting old and classes a kindness and cordiality which churches and a gray and aged castle, give in this short time has made me, though a something of an antique appearance to'the town. But on the whole, it does not comstranger, feel most at home. But here, before turning to my note-book, pare, in point of interest, with many other let me give you a brief outline of my jour- of the north German towns. We were esney. I wrote you last in a very uncere- pecially interested in our morning's ramble monious way from Rugen. We came next in watching the busy market, people who to Stralsund, a most interesting old Hanse- had come to Stettin from different points on atic town, with interesting reminders of that the river with fruits and vegetables. There famous League. Here we found the Oscar, is nothing especially picturesque in the cosfor Malmo; took passage and were, the next tumes of the North German peasants, but day (noon), in Malmo, southern part of Swe- now and then one notices something in the den; dined there, making our first acquaint- fold of a handkerchief over the head, a bit of ance with Swedish manners and customs. color here or there which lends something From Malmo we took the steamer across the of brightness to the groups of women. It is Sound to Copenhagen. With Copenhagen scarcely fair, however, to speak of peasant I was most delighted. It is more interest- costumes. Most unfortunately the distincting, in point of Art collections, than Stock- ive peasant dress, which formerly interested holm, but it does not compare with it for the traveler, in passing from country to beauty of situation. One day we took train country, is now seen in only a few regions for Elsinore, where is the old " Hamlet Cas- of Europe. The people struck me as being tle." From Copenhagen we took steamer an earnest, kindly, hard-working race, with for Gothenburg, Sweden, being the whole of sun-burnt faces ai.d labor-worn hands. one beautiful day on the Sound We Though Stettin lies some distance inland, reached Gothenburg, the second city of Swe- yet the coming of river-craft, the steamers, den, at sunset; spent one night and a day the long wharves, the knots of sailors, give it here, and the next night took steamer for the appearance of a busy sea port. The Stockholm. We shall spend one day in the finest thing to be seen in the town, is a University town of Upsala, and before the statue of Peter the Great, by Schadow, in end of this week hope to be in Christiana bronze, very striking and life-like. Norway. From this point we shall find our Our course lay, by steamer, from Stettin way down to Hamburg,and perhaps Bremen, to Swinzmunde, where the Oder empties as they lie on our return route to Berlin, itself into the Baltic. The steamer was where we hope to arrive early in September. filled with summer travelers going to differIn turning to my note-book, I find the fol- ent points on the Baltic, all very bright, lowing: "in company with a fellow-student cheery and animated. The day was gloriI left Berlin, in the midst of the sultry ously beautiful, and the trip most delightful. heats of August, and traveled all the way The land lies low along the Oder, which, Northward to Stettin in company with a towards its mouth, widens till you feel grand thunderstorm. (By tbe way, this almost as if you were on the open sea. Must traveling as German students has its advan- picturesque were the sails of some of the tages. The sound of the English tongue boats which we passed. The Baltic gave has a marvellous effect upon all those who us a most kindly welcome, smiling peacecater to the wants of the traveling public in fully and joyfully at us as we sailed out of Europe, from hotel proprietor down. With the Oder, aa if it were a quiet lake and not it, is supposed to go limitless supplies of the home of storms well known to northern gold, that he who uses it enjoys nothing bet- sailois. But for its gracious, welcoming ter than throwing glittering largesses to the stillness, we will be grateful and try to solemn rows of black-coated, white-tied forget all the goodly, stalwart fellows that I" . . THE FRIEND, NOVEMBER. 1878. have gone down under its waters. What a fine sea it is, stretching away there to the north, with here and there a well filled sail, or the pale cloud of smoke on the horizon from a passing steamer. We scarcely lose sight of the German mainland, before the southern point of the Island of Rugen rises into view. I cannot wonder that artists come here, only I should think they would forget to paint, enjoying the fair world about them. It is a land of infinite restfulness, full of a wonderful peace in mid-summer, from the lap of the Baltic waves on the shore to the soft murmur of the forests of beech. It is a unique and interesting spot, both historically and in many other respects. The people still retain much of the simplicity of olden times. The population of the whole island is between forty and fifty thousand. It lias passed through many and important conflicts, and heathenism made a long and vigorous stand against the advance of Christianity. There are several towns of considerable size, and many small villages. The soil is wonderfully fertile in some portions of the island, producing large crops of grain. Just after the sun had gone down in the unclouded west, our steamer stopped off the little town of Sassenitz, a favorite watering place. The shore was filled with summer guests, to whom the arrival of the steamer is the sensation of the day. This is a most charming little town, running up from the sea-shore to the trees and gardens on the cliff, with pleasant hotels, and odd winding ways, where you meet at every turn pleasant German faces. From here our route lay along the sea-shore and through great forests to Lohme, where I am writing to-night. What a delightful day it has been, from early morning till towards evening on foot, with a long rest at noon. The road wound now on the shore, and now up on to the cliffs. The great expanse of the blue sea, glittering in the glory of unclouded sunlight, stretched before us, or we caught glimpses of it through the clustering trees. Grand, white cliffs of chalk, dazzingly white, lifted themselves from the blue sea to the bluer sky. These were worn into curious shapes by the wind and water, and rose in fantastic towers and domes. Verdant grass and clinging shrubs crested their summits, the green and white contrasting most beautifully. Inland at times, our way lay through fragrant pines, or under the intertwining boughs of fine old beeches, with a yielding carpet of moss under our feet. Mid-way in our day's tramp were two fine out-looks from the cliffs, named in honor of tbe Emperor and Crown Princess of Germany, who visited here some years since, the " Wilhelm Licht" and " Victoria Licht." The Konigs-sthul is another eminence near by, from which a most extensive and magnificent view is obtained. In the now quiet waters laving its base, a sea-fight took place between the Prussian and Danish Marines, in 1864. Not far away from here, so runs the legend, some famous northern sea robbers buried tbeir stolen treasure. We had no time, however, to look for it. Rugen has many reminders of the old daya of heathenism. There is a lovely little lake set in the midst of a murmuring grove, called the Hertha See, which you must be sure and visit in �THE FIIIKNV, NOVEMBER, coming here. Hertha was the worshiped goddess of tbe olden time, and it is supposed by some that near this lake her dark and mystic rites were performed. Here are two stones, which the imaginative are pleased to designate as the sacrificial stones, whereon human victims were offered. A remarkable encircling mound, evidently constructed by human hands, still remains, which may have served as the temple ofthe goddess. It may be that the white clad priesVs, like the old Druids, led the awe-struck multitude to the shores of the lake, and through these forests, but if so, the lake and forests keep their secret well. Scarcely a ripple rises on the quiet waters while, sleeping in the noonsunshine, girt about with a clustering growth of starry white water-lilies. And the forest murmurs softly to itself, but too softly for us to hear whether it is chanting the hymn of heathen days, or the psalm of a purer and better faith. We are stopping for the night in a little fishing village, perched on the summit of the cliff, with an out-look far seaward. A few quiet people come here for the summer, and are kindly entertained by the honest fisher folk. We have a roomy, breezy little hotel, with a genial host, whose words always run on the surface of a generous laugh, so excessively kind and good-natured is he. Arcona, August 12th—We were both to come away froi# the little village ofLohme, but the way which lay before us was still fairer, so we said " Good-bye," and came to Arcona. Where we have stood to-day,looking landward and seaward, while the twilight gathered, and later as the moonlight silvered the waters, was the principal stronghold of the old heathenism in Rugen. Here within these huge mounds of earth, now grass-grown, was the temple of the heathen deity Swantewit (the holy victor.) The idol was of wood, having four faces, looking in different directions. Within the holy of holies the high priest was alone allowed to enter. Here in the temple stood also the sacred banner which was. borne before the people in times of war, firing them to dar- fields. Flocks of white geese came over the dawns to meet us. We passed picturesque villagesand farm houses, with thatched roofs, and red walls, looking out from amid the garden shrubs, in which the bees had scarcely as yet begunio hum. At one part of the way a beautiful grove of trees lay across our road, through which we passed, down a perfect Gothic aisle, escorted by a little barefooted peaeant girl, to the fields beyond. Down by the sea we found still another village; and from the breezy pier the steamer came to take us, and away from the Island of Rugen, which 1 must say I left very, very regretfully. Some day, I trust, I may visit it again. We have visited perhaps the most beautiful, but not the most populous portions of the Island. There is Bergen, the capital, in the center of the Island, with 4,000 inhabitants, and there is Putbus still farther south, with its castle and park and beautiful surroundings. And well worth the visit, if one has the time, is that to Monchgut, almost entirely surrounded by the sea. Owing to the isolated nature of their situation, the people have retained very much of their original simple character. They are an earnest, industrious folk —the men devoting themselves principally to fishing, the women to weaving and spinning. They have striking costumes, the women being especially marked by their peculiarly high peasant caps. From our steamer we had a distant view of tbe little Island of Hiddensee, which lies near Rugen. The entrance to the old Hanseatic town of Stralsund is exceedingly fine. The harbor is excellent, and from the water the old church spires and tower present a fine appearance. The city has had a most varied and eventful history, and even in these later days seems conscious of its former glory. At one time it held an important and proud place among the proud cities of the Hanseatic League, which in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries ruled so imperiously in the affairs of Northern Euroiie. Not so very far away from Stralsund lie Lubeck, Rostock, Hamburg, and other of those cities who shared in this confederation, fn them all are still ing achievements. In autumn the great to be found lingering traces of the palmy sacrifices were celebrated here, to witness political history, though with which, came people from all parts of the days of their the old, elaborate buildings are fast time land. To show to what extent the worship passing away. Some points in Stralsund of this deity spread, it is only necessary to especially worthy of a visit. There is mention that at one time an embassy was are the old Rathhaus, with its singular pointed sent from Bohemia requesting a copy of the facade, and Gothic arches, and long stone idol. It was borne with pomp to Prague, passage, and some of the churches are most where a temple was reared in its honor. It The Marienkirche has a fine interesting. was not until the twelfth century that the interior, Gothic, finished in white. lofty power of heathenism was here broken, the The view from the lofty tower, which overinhabitants of the land making a long and looks the town, is very fine. Through little successful stand against the inroads of the openings in the old walls you catch glimpses Danes, but being forced at last to yield. of it on your way up, till finally on reaching The whole region is rendered intensely in- the highest portion of the spire, the whole teresting by these reminders of the olden fair and varied scene is spread out before time. you. At the base of the tower lies the town, Stralsund, August 13th.—In order to with its high and pointed red roofs, and narcatch the boat for Stralsund we had to rise row streets, and stone-paved market place, iright and early this morning, and take a where the people have dwindled to pigmies. >risk walk of some miles across the country About the city are the old fortifications. On o a little village on the west coast. The one side, with a narrow channel separating leavy mists faded away before the early it from the mainland, lies tbe Island ot un, nnd we had delightful weather. It Kuiren The eye wanders off over ■ great was n most inspiring walk. llim II of country, green with woodlands, The sun stood in the brightening e->st. sown with crops of grain, varied by houses The reapers were already at work in the and villages, and highways. Just beyond 87 1878. the town is the spot, nestling among the trees, where the renowned' General Wallen- stein had his camp, in the year 1628, when he was so hotly besieging the city. He swore that he would take the city, even if it were bound with chains to heaven. But notwithstanding the fierceness of his zeal, the citizens, with the aid of the Swedes, so valiantly resisted him that he was forced to abandon the siege. They have always been a brave people. Here it was that in 1809 the bold Prussian Col. Scbill fell fighting in the streets of Stralsund against the Dutch and the Danes. The spot where he fell is now marked by a stone with an inscription. Hotel Victoria, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 14th.—Certainly a day of changes! With the break of day our steamer, the Oscar, steamed away from Germany, at noon we were in Sweden, and this evening 1 am writing in Denmark. When I went on deck this morning Germany had disappeared, and soon Sweden rose mistily into view far on the horizon. There is nothing especially striking about the approach to Southern Sweden, as the country lies flat and evenly along the shore. The steamer which we have taken goes to Malmo, Sweden, and from there the passengers to Denmark take another steamer across the Sound to Copenhagen. Malmo is a busy commercial town, the third in importance in Sweden, ranking after Stockholm and Gothenburg, with a population of 30,000. The town is regular and well-built, and along the wharves presents an especially busy appearance. As we shall pass through it again, I will not now speak especially of it. It was a pleasant sensation to be in Sweden, though we were at this time simply passing through it on our way to Denmark. It was difficult to realize for the moment that we were really among a ne% people. But the sound of a new language in our ears; the presence of strange-looking signs on the shops; newspapers from which we could gain but little information; a " bill of fare" at the hotel from which we must choose rather by faith than by understanding—soon Set us right on this matter. We had been but a few moments on shore when we had a proof of Scandinavian politeness. We had come a land where our German marks, groschens, etc., would be of but little service to us, hence, our first object was to find a money-changer. We looked in vain, until we went into a shop we were passing and our interrogations brought out the fact that one of the young men spoke a little German. Would he be so kind as to tell us where we could find the place for which we were searching? Instead of that, tbe goodnatured youitg Swede takes his hat and goes with us through the town to the right to # place, so that in a few moments we ivf re ready with coin to face the dinner-bill at the good hotel Gustuviis Adolphus. Tbe coinage of Scandinavia is very convenient, within a few years the same system having been adopted for Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. The coins in use are the " krone" and " ore." The krone is, I think, in value worth a little more than our twenty five cent piece, and this is divided into one hundred ore. At the hotel we noticed a custom which is peculiar to Scandinavia, and which �88 IHE FRIEND, strikes a stranger oddly at first. In the hotels, and restaurants, and railway stations is a table spread with all manner 1 ot cold disbes, some of which are excellent; but a good many of them are to me unsolved mysteries. There are dishes of fish, served in all styles; shrimps,'salads, cheeses, cold meats, bread, etc. Every gentleman, before he "begins his dinner, goes to the table and helps himself to as much as he sees fit, taking therewith a small glass or more of brandy or Schnapps, which always stand ready. This is an " appetizer," just to give a relish to the coming dinner. I think the same custom prevails in Russia, though I think not in Norway. I have seen it at the tables in Denmark and Sweden. Denmark veiled itself in rain-clouds as our steamer neared Copenhagen, though from no ill-will, I am sure, as 1 have since had occasion to know that Danish skies can be as blue as those in more southern climes. The passage across from Sweden is made in something like two hours-.generally smooth sailing, with comfortable boats, which run often during the day. Again face to face with a new language and a new people, which have, however, much resemblance to the language and people we have left on the other side of the Sound. German and English will almost always put one through, and when these fail, one can readily resort to wild gesticulations,emphatic guttural sounds, smiles, tears, etc., and the few words of the language which one somehow unconsciously "absorbs" in coming into the Htmosphere of a new place. There are Custom House ceremonies to be gone through with, but as we were just two young men traveling quite sans ceremonie, our luggage was a matter of secondary importance, so that we were passed quickly through. A quiet little hotel, with pleasant-faced host, has given us welcome, and to-night we shall sleep in peace, and soundly, too, I fancy, in the Danish F. W. Damon. capital. Copenhagen, Aug. 14th, IS7S. In the September issue of The Friend we stated, upon the authority of an American exchange, that the mother of M. Waddington, the French delegate to the Berlin Congress, was an American lady, belonging to Boston. In a letter received by the last mail from the office of the New York Observer, " Irenams" informs us that we were in error in making this statement, remarkHis wife (not his mother) was Miss ing: King (not of Boston), of New York, daughof Charles King, 1.L.D., President of Columbia College." " Sir H. D. Wolff is a member of the -itisb. Foreign Office. He goes to Rou;lia. Being at Smyrna he wrote to a friend: Send me a wife by the next mail." " A sister of Lord Orford, seeing the letter, went out to Smyrna and married him. NOVEMBER. "Grace Before Meat." In a most charming and instructive volume on The Miracles of Jesus," by the Rev. A. A. Willits, D. D., a Pre«byterian Pastor of Philadelphia., we have met with the following beautiful paragraphs in his comments upon Christ's " Feeding the Five Thousand :" "It is the sweet spring-time—for the passover is at hand—the air is filled with the fragrance of flowers and blossoms, the fervor of the sun has passed, and the broad and gentle slope is covered with an abundance of fresh green grass, affording a fitting seat for those who are to partake of this remarkable feast in the wilderness. The marshaling and seating this vast multitude into such orderly groups consumes some little time, but the people readily and quietly consent, and soon the one hundred groups of fifty each, with the women and children on the outskirts, are seated upon the verdant plain. "It must have been a beautiful sight. In the Greek of Mark's Gospel he speaks of their having ' reclined in parterres,' as if the gay colors, the red, blue and yellow * 1878. in the hands of each one of the company as he divided with the companion next to him, we cannot say, for it is not in the record. But one thing is made clear, and that is that all partook of the feast; all ate until they were satisfied, and there was not only enough for all, but more than could be used; and seeing portions unused, Jesus, to teach a lesson of carefulness and to set for ever at rest any doubts as to the reality of the miracle, bade his disciples borrow from the people each a basket—a common accompaniment of the Jewish pilgrim, holding about a peck— and ' gather up the fragments, that nothing be lost.' " We would acknowledge pamphlets, papers and books as.follows: Terennial Catalogue, of Amherst College; papers from W. C. Bruce, Auckland, New Zealand; " The Miracles of Jesus," a beautiful volume, by Rev. A. A. Willets, D. D., from Chaplain Rose, U. S. N.; "Somebody Else," by G. P. Lathrop, from Mrs.Van Denburgh, San Francisco; two volumes of "Hours with Men and Books," and " Getting on in the World," by Prof. W. Matthews, from Mr. H. A. Pierce; clothing, which the poorest Orientals wore, three numbers of Spurgeon's " Sword and suggested to the imagination of the evan- Trowel/ from Mrs. Taylor, London. gelist a multitude of flower-beds adorning a vast and beautiful lawn. An American boy—Edward Crane, of while were Jesus stood New they being Jersey—carries ofT the first prize for " seated, holding in his hands the five thin excellence in French in the French College loaves made of barley meal, and the two of Avrauches, in Normandy. They have a small fishes, which the little lad had probcustom there of crowning such honor men his own simple supper. ably brought for all were seated and every eye with a laurel wreath and kissing him on the When '' fixed upon him, and silent wonder reigned forehead on commencement day. Young supreme, Jesus, in the sweet and sacred Crane is said to have reflected credit on his stillness of that twilight hour, lifted up his country in the way he stood the ordeal.— eyes to heaven and prayed—blessed God Jf. Y. Independent. for the bread. For our Lord never omitted the beautiful Jewish custom of "grace" Gladstone on American Finances.—In before meat. his recent article upon England and America, "And as we know the words of the 'grace' Gladstone declares that, " Although the Mr. Jews, we used by the have without doubt the very words uttered by Jesus at this in- annual income of Great Britain in round teresting moment: ' " Blessed be thou, 0 numbers is £1,000,000,000, America is Lord our God, the King of the world,, passing by us at a canter, and in 1880 will who hast produced this food from the be the wealthiest of all the nations, although earth." This was the form. But it was not from custom, but from the heart, Jesus the development of her resources and the uttered these words. His spirit rose in opening of her territory is as yet in its ingratitude to the infinite Father; and he as- fancy." sumed this devout attitude and used these fitting words, to impress the minds of that vast multitude, and to lead their hearts to God as the source of all good. The Jews did not bless their food, but the God who gave it, and this is evidently what is meant by the phrase, " He blessed and brake." They did not cut their bread, but baked it in loaves of a cake-like thinness convenient for breaking. American Genius for Invention.—The London Times gives three columns of description and two columns of editorial characterization of the American mechanical display at Paris. It declares that '' The activity and insight of the American inventive genius develops more that is new and practical in mechanism than all Europe "Having blessed God for the bread, Jesus combined." took the loaves and the fishes, and breaking them into portions passed these to the The Bible in Turkish Language.—A twelve, and directed them to distribute to complete translation of the Bible has just the companies. been completed, by tbe American Mission"And then began that mysterious and aries, in the Turkish language The work wonderful feast. "Whether the food grew in the hands of has been principally performed by the Rev. Dr. S. Wells Williams estimates Jesus as he brake and gave to the disciples, Elias Riggs, forty-five years a laborer in that 10,000,000 of the Chinese have per- or in the hands of the disciples as they gave Turkey. He preaches in six different lanished in tbe famine. to the head man of each of these groups, or guages, and can read fourteen. �THE FRIEND, NOVEMBER, 89 1878. the Ice would permit; found the natives all along the poor and destitute. July 4th started walrualng; found them very scarce; took 300, making m 220 barrels of oil. July 90th, Francis Fuller, second officer, died with kidney complaint; burled hia remains at 8t Lawrence Bay. August Oth waa at Cape Smith Is company with the moat of the fleet;all working north aa fast as the ice clearedaway. On August 2d brig W H Allen waa stove and sunk by the ice, near Point Barrow; crew all aaved; Captain Gilley on board the Onward. August 10th bark Florence waa stove and sunk by the Ice, near Point Barrow; crew all aaved. Up to August 22d but one whale had been seen; bark Mercury struck and lost one. There was plenty of open water to the eaat of Point Barrow, and ah Ipa hadbeen aa far aa Camden Bay and Return Reef, but finding no whales, had returned to the Point. The following ia a report of the fleet, as far as I could find out, up to August 22d: Coral, 3 whales, 600 walrus; Progress, 8 whales, 000 walrus Rainbow, 8 whales, 200 walrus; Thomas Pope, 860 walrus; Pacific, 2 whales, 700 walrus; Hunter, 8 whales, 800 walrus; Mount PORT OF HONOLULU. S. I. Wallston, clean—had aaved most of the oil from the Cleone and shipped it by the Syren; Helen Mar, 2 whalaw, 400 walrus; Eliaa, 1 whale, 600 walrus; John Howlamffl ARRIVALS. whale, 700 walrus; Northern Light, 900 walrus; Mercury, 1 whale, 1000 walrus; Dawn, 1 whale, 700 walrus; Bea Bept. 28—Haw schr Maria, English, 14 dye frm Faoning'i lid Breese, 3 whalea, 800 walrus; Norman, 600 walrus; Abrmm 20—Oerbk Prise ilia, 120 daya from Madeira. Barker, just arrived, clean; brig Onward, 800 walrus. 20—Am schr Eustace, 81 days from San FraDcl»co. Came out through Bhering Straits 26th August; have had 20—Am 3-niHit tchr Compeer, from Port Gamble. southerly winds roost of the way down; took the trades lv 30-P M 8 CUy of New York, Cobb, from Sydney. lat. 32° north. September 7th spoke schooner Bells, Oct. 2—French bk Jean Pierre, 68 daya from Hongkong from Onolaaka,bound to St. Paul's. September 17th sig2—Am bk Emma E Heal, Bailey, 21 dya from 8 Fran. nalled a large English bark standing to the east, in lat. B—Am achr Loleta, Dexter, from Arctic. 48.66 north, long. 167.11 west. Bark Legal Tender left 4—Am bk California, from Durrani's Inlet via Hilo. Marcus Bay, August 27th, for San Francisco in ballast; 4 —Am wh schr Y. M Ward. Whitney, fmm Arctic. no cargo; had been to Point Barrow. From lat. 32° to 7—Am bktne Grace Robert, Ohleaon, 18 daya from port have had moderate trades and fineweather. Ban Francisco. B—P MSB Australia, Carglll, 7 dayi and 8 bourn from PASSENGERS. Ban Franciaco. 11—Britah Pegasus, Hall, 102 days from Bombay, en Farming's Island—Per Mans, Sept 28—W Greig From to Panning'! guano. for Island load route For San Francisco—Per City ofNew York, Sept 30— 12—Am bk D C Murray, Frost, lo dyi fm Ban PranVo. 19—Tahltianachr ViVid, Bweet. 0 dya fm Farming's la. T H Daviesand son, P Stack, Mrs J H Wllber. 2 children 16—Amachr Joseph Wooley, Cornstock, from Guano la* snd servant, Miss 8 Munson, J Lyons, T Harris, T R MelliH, MiBS A Fuller, Mrs 8 A Thompson, Mrs B P 16—Am Bktne Eureka, Nordberg, 17 daya frm Humboldt. Adsms, 3 children and nurse, Miss Lucy Adams, G W daya Spauldlng, A Malllard, G Fitzgerald, G H Bsrber, T H 28 from Dur20—Am bk Henry Buck, Sormon, Jones, T B Lougee, F Hander, T F Flynn, Dan Gallagher, rani's lnl»t 8. 26—Hawachr Nettie Merrill, Hatfield, 16dayi fm F. Dr Scott and wife, Peter Gough, J Jonea,H Johnson, 1 W Pfluger, A Jsnssen, M Dehltz, and S Chineae. Fbom Fiinchal—Per Prisrllls, Bept 30—M Rodrlgues, DEPARTURES. wife snd sun, A Diss and wife, T Alfonso, wife and son, A dc Lonxa, wife and son, F Rodriguez, wife and B chilSept. 20—Peruvian ah E Dovale, for Callao. 1—P M 8 Ciiy of New York, Cobb, for San Franciaco. dren and servant. M Fernandez and wife, A d'Andrade, Oct. wife and four children, L d'Andrade, wife and threechilB—P MSB Australia, Carglll. for Sydney. dren, T Freltas, wife aud threechildren, T dc L Fereita, B—Haw bk Kalakaua, Jenka, for Ban Franciaco. wife and son, B A Nunes, wifeand Infant, M Fernandez, Macley. Pope, Mattie Portland. lor B—flaw bk B—Am schr Compeer, Berkholm, forPort Townaend. wife and five children,A F dc Farla, wife and threechildren, I* A Nunes, wife and five children, F Ferers, wife 0—Am bk Garibaldi, Forbes, for Potland. and son, A C Fernsudez snd son, A A Lucas, wife, slstsr o—Am bk Amy Turner, Newell, for Hongkong. and son. P da Caiuara, A T da Cruz, wife andson, T da H 11—BarkJean Pierre, Legaase, for Victoria, B O. Netto, T da 8 Papetua, A dc Freltas, M Rodrlgues, L 12—Frenchbk Pierre, Legarae, for Portland. d'Oliveira. A X Pimenta, F Uouiez, J da Camara, J Per14—Rrt ship Pegasus, Powell, for Fanning'a la. elrs, L J Perelra, F Fenelra, J Gomez, M Perelra, F da 14— Am bk California, Foster, Victoria, H C. Flgnerzo, J J R dc Monte, J Rodrlgues, J Nunes, Camara, 10—Am schr Kustace, Matthien, for Ban Franciaco. Rebella, J F Castroe, Ada Costa, V d'Andrade, J Joa10—Ambktne Grace Roberts, Ohlsen, for Port Towns- C qulm. J Rodrlgues, J E Trues and 8 Corend. mlf0 J Gomez, rea, L M Gonxega. M Gonna, F da (Sahara. A A da Sllva, 22— Tahltian achr Vivid, Sweet, for Farming's Inland. los J Ernest Pohhos, Neves, Ferrelrs, M M M M Hutchi24 Am bktne Kureka, Nordberg, for Port Townaend. son, J M dc Freltas and wife, A dc Nobrega, 8 H dc Bonza, M dc Sonza Perry, A Perelra, A Fernandez, A Perelra, M d'Andrade, F L Miner. MEMORANDA. Fsoai Austbalia—Per City of New York, Sent 30—Hiss M J Ulnes, John O'Connor, Wm Wyatt, J P Johnston,and Report or Whaling and Trading Schr c M Ward.— 39 In trsnsitu for San Francisco. April 3d for the Arctic Left Honolulu Ocean, and had From Sam Francisco—Per Eustace, Sept 30—J Gsrrsnd. good weather to Fox Islands. Weut through Segaum Hong Kong—Per JesnPierre, Oct 3—20 Chinese Hay and made Ice lat Fboh Straits April 37th, the 37® N 3d, long 179* W; foundplenty of Ice in Behring Bea. June laborers. 3d got through the ice to Cape Naverene; saw plenty of From San Francisco—Per Grace Roberta, Oct T—L D whales,and captured one; missed one. June 10th an- Hlxon, P Buckley, A Wallace, Geo W Page, Jos Carton, R chored In Plover Bay and saw plenty of whales working Tailor, Mrs Whits a 3 children. J H Watts and 21 Chinese. towards the Arctic, but could not get one. June 16th Fkancisco—Per Australia, Cct 7—Mrs Thos were off East Cape. July 14thwent in between the Ice G Fbom Sanchild, Msster Geary, A W Bush, Jo* Hyman, aud land at Cape Llsboru; passed Icy Cape July 33d. On M Thrum Terry, 8 B Dole, Miss Terry, W A Vernon Mrs Lohse, the 36th saw the steam tug commanded by Capt Williams a wife, C Brown, L G Nesmltb, M Msrtlu, Geo Lucas, C coming from tli" southward. Aug lat were off Point BelR Cotton a wife, Z H Spalding, wife 8 children, J cher and aaw eleven ships coming from south. Aug7th Lucas, Kenny, Eliza Delia Kenny, G dc Witt Fuller, F Paul, were off Refuge Inlet; on the 3th anchored off Point Bar- W W Danez, Jas Dolan, H Baper, H Frausen, Tho. Sherret. row, and laved In there 20 days; saw no whales. The T Chrestley, H Brodreck, T Stuart, Jas Kearns, JazaeaF fleet went as far as 36 miles east of Return Reef, and saw Uuum.il, L A Lueltv, G S Carglll, P Tally, J J O'Mshley, nothing there; had seen but threewhalesup to Aug 38th. The brig W H Allen and bk Florence were stove by Ice W Braidwood, Mrs McKenzie and 94 Chinese. Fob Australia—PerAustralia, Oct Bth—Miss M Woods, between Refuge Inlet and Point Barrow, and were sunk total wrecks. Left 16 veasels at anchor at Point Barrow JohnChapman, B Robinson, T Pejoley, T B Park and F t Percivsl. snd 4 off Cape Smith under way, the 16 could not get any to tbe South at that time; I come out from Point Barrow Fob Post Townbknd—Per Compear, Oct B—Captain F between the land and ice in 13 feet of water; aaw Ice Hall. again making from half way between Cape Terdxe and Foa San Francisco—Per Kalak.ua, Oct B—J W ChrisPoint Hope to the South, head of St Lawrence Bay, topher and JO'Connor. across Behring Straits- worked through the Ice to Plover Fos Portland—Per Msttle Macleay, Oct B—Harry Ton Bay, and spoke tbe schooner, left Plover Bay", Bept 6th for Honolulu; come through 173Paaaage Sept 17th, and Holt, J T Johnson and C W Trent lege. made north end of Oahu Oct 4th, after a pleaaant passage Fob Hongkong—Per Amy Turner, Oct V—A Oliverand Bznj Whitnky. down. 39 Chlneae. Report or Schr Loleta, Captain Dxxtxr. from the Fbom *si Francisco—Per 0 0 Murray, Oct 12—J W Arctic—Sailed from Honolulu March 16th, and steered Wilry, X M Overeod, Henry Harland, Wm Hamilton. Mary to the westward to long. 177.00 east; then took westerly X Abbott, Mr. Smith, Mr. ullllnghsia ami two children, Wm and northwesterly winds, which lasted through 73d Butler, Wm Phillip", snd 22 Chinese. Passage. Paased through April 36th. On the 39th made Fbom Howlard's IsL.aar-Per Jsseph Woolley, Oct 16— theice in lat. 67.60 north, 177.31) west long. Found plenty wife sod three children, ■ Wheeler, Chas of ice. From thence worked to the eastward to St Paul's Capt Jo. R Spencer, John MaeWiffina, Gabriel Holmes, aod M native Hines, Island; then to the north. On May 26tbarrived at Plover Bay. Bhore all clear of Ice. Found the natives very Üborers. poor, having caught no whales or walrus. Had to give Fbom Humboldt Bat—Per Carets, Oel Ift—M Bts*Teosoo. tlitm quantities of bread, as they were in a starving conFor Towr.bbd—Per Grace Roberta, Oct 19—1 H dition. Ou June 3d waa at St Lawrence Bay. Bay full of Watw. Post ice. Natives boarded us on the Ice; found the natives San Fbancibco—Per Has.bob, Oct 19—Capuua Sand, Fob here also very poor. 4une 13th aaw quite a good show of whsles; Htruck three; lost two by the Ice; aaved one, aod wife, C Eatenhaaer. which made 90 barrela of oil. Worked north as fast as Fo.Fanri.no'b IsLASD-l'cr Vivid, Oct2l—J T Aruudtl The first instance on record where a Chinese The Zealandia took a mail for the man has given a collection of books to United States containing 3,600 letters. an American institution, has just occurred in New Haven, where Yung Wing, a gradS. Broden, of Indianapolis, the only uate of Vale College, has given to the colAmerican boy ever entered in a British lege library a valuable collection of Chinese emnaval school, on the cadet ship Worcester, books, numbering about 1300 volumes, poetical classical, historical, and bracing has passed his examination, and been award- works, encyclopedias, etc. ed the highest honor given. It was awarded by vote of his brother cadets. He is thus made a midshipman in the British navy. coaat very - MARINE JOURNAL. Information Wanted. Mrs. D. H. Slmmonds, of Alta city, Washington Territory, Y. 8. A., writes to the United States Consul, asking information of her brother, John Clingensmith, who was landed from on board of a ship on one of these Islands, with two other men, about 1860. Respecting EbenezerEaster Hill, formerly of Buffalo, N. Y. He ssiled from New Bedford as a passenger on bosrd a whsle-ship, for Sandwich Islands, about the year IH.V2. He was at that time between 30 and 38 years ofage. Any information will be gladly received by the American Minister Resident, or by the Editor. To Whom it May Concern.—There now resides in Yokohama Mrs. M. I. Olbbs, formerly Mrs. J. Vaughn, of Honolulu. Any parties wishing for information will apply to Hawaiian Consul, L. P. Lilybridge, Esq., of Yokohama. MARRIED. McWayne—Robinson.—ln Honolulu, Oct 9th, at the residence of the bride's mother, in Nuuatni Vslley, by the Rev 8 C Damon. Albkht McWayne, Esq., to Miss Lucy H. Robinson, both of Honolulu. K<'ri.LiNa—Lubhwing.—ln Honolulu, Oct 10th, at the residence of J C Glade, Esq, by the Rev 8 CDamon, Chahles Xhelling, Esq., of Hanalei, Kauai, toMiss Leonora Luehwino, of Honolulu. Buckley—Bolster.—ln this city on the 16th October, by the Rev. 8. C. Damon, Mr. Peter Buckley to Martha, eldest daughter of Mr. A. 8. Bolster, all of Honolulu. Griffin—Stafford—ln this city, October 27th, by Rev. 8. C. Damon, Mr. Daniel B. Griffin to Eliza J. Stafford, of Kauclalre, Wisconsin.—Eauclaire papers please copy. Robinson—Hunt—ln Bodus, New York, by the Rev. T. Dwight Hunt (formerly Missionary on tbe Sand Islands and subsequently Pastor of the First Congregational Church of San Francisco), Denton 8. Robinson, Esq., a lawyer of Nunda, New York, to Miss Emily C. Hunt, daughter nf the officiating clergyman.—[Wayne County Alliance, Sodua, N. Y. DIED. By the arrival of the P. M. 8. 8. City of New York we received the sad intelligence of the death of her chief Hteward, Mr. James R. Hall, at Sydney, on the 2d Sept. Thedeceased was a native of Barbadoea, W. 1., and for a number of years in the service of the P. M. 8. S. Company. He was appointed to the City of New York on her first voyage to the Colonies, and succeeded, up to the time of Iris death, through perseverance In the fulfillment of his duties. In gaining the satisfaction of his employers, as also thst of the traveling public. The funeral took place on the following day, and was attended by a large and respectable concourse of friends. Directly behind the hearae followed as chief mourners Captain Wm. B. Cobband officers. Among the pall-bearers was Purser 8. A. Beardsley, all uniting to render a Just homage to the departed. Being a member of " Lodge of Australia," he was interred with Masonic honors, the membersof the slater lodge St. Andrew, in response to an Invitation from their R. W. M., attending In regalia, taking a prominent part. He leaveaa disconsolate wifeand three children to mourn the irreparable loss of a fond husband and loving father. Weight.—At Ahniraanu, Koolaupoko, Oahu, William Weight,aged 49 years. Deceased wsa for many years a resident of thia city. He leaves a wife and family to mourn his loss. The remains was brought to Honolulu, and the funeral took place from theresidence of hia Sonin-law, H. Schmidt, Esq. Freeman—ln Santa Monica, Cal., September 7, 1878, Mrs. Elizabeth Fbkeman, wife of Mr. John Freeman, formerly of this city, aged 67 years. Coleman—ln this city, on Friday, Oct 18th, Charles Alfred Castle Coleman, only child of C. C. and H. A. Coleman, aged 11 monthsand 16 days. Gill—The Rev. William Gill, formerly missionary at Rorotongs. SouthPacific, and for nearly twelve years Minister of Rectory, Place Chapel, Woolwich, on the 14thof August, at Camden Houae, LeeGlebe, BlackheatU, aged sixty-five yearn.—lllustratedLondon lSews. ' . ' �90 THE FRIEND, NOVEMBER, Japan. —We rejoice, from so many sources, to learn ot the progress of civilizaBY NATHAN ALLEN, M. D., LOWELL, MASS. tion, education and Christianity in Japan. We copy the following from a private letter The origin of 'this fever is traced to the received by a late mail from Mrs. Hepburn, West Indies, and it breaks out at times wife of Hepburn, who has been laboring Dr. violently in the southern parts of the United so successfully for many years at Yokohama, States. As this disease is now prevailing in under the auspices of the Presbyterian Board a most malignant form at the South, it is "He (Dr. H.) hopes his health well to have some definiteknowledge of its of Missions: be may spared to finish the New Testament nature and character. translation. Another eighteen months will The name of the fever is derived from suffice for that. Christianity is taking deep Yellow Fever. the fact that the disease changes very root in Japan. Had I time, I could tell you quickly the skin to a sallow or yellowish many facta to show that the Christian church color. No other disease produces such sud- has great encouragement to press forward in den and powerful changes in the human the work she has begun, of giving the gospel body, showing that it is a most virulent to this people. In our Mission alone (Am. poison. Formerly different opinions pre- Pres.) we have eight organized churches. I vailed as to the nature and origin of this do not remember the number of members, poison; but the general verdict now of the but about 500, connected with these. Our best judges, is that the disease is caused by Sabbath-school and Bible Classes are doing a specific living miasm or germ, which is a good work. The Theological School has capable, under certain conditions, of rapid twenty-six or twenty-seven young men in it. sell-multiplication, and spreads in every Perhaps you know the Scotch and American direction. It is not a contageous disease, PresbyteriansandtheDutehßeformed formed like measles or scarlet fever, and cannot be a Union Presbytery, about a year ago. This communicated by the breath or emanations school is under the care of this United from the body living or dead. These Presbytery. Great and marvellous have "germs," or the seeds of the disease, are been the changes in this land since we came ago. We often ex" exotic"—are imported—and may lie in a here, nineteen years God wrought.' How dormant state for months or yean, in walls, claim, • Lo, what hathanother, one barrier after which seemed has in floors, in furniture, in clothing, or in the to human view insurmountable, been .reground; but, under certain conditions, may moved." Our correspondent adds, '-We had the pleasure of having Miss Bird as our guest generate the most fatal poison. These conditions are a high temperature, when she first arrived in Japan." Subsequently Miss Bird left for a tour through the moist atmosphere, filth, decaying vegetables Maud of Yesso, and expected to visit the rrnwter, and in localities where and animal Amos. About the middle of September she there is great want of drainage and sewer- was expected to return, and would travel age. The disease breaks out generally in through the southern part of Japan. For a sea-ports connected with shipping, or in sketch of the Amos, see the Friend for Novillages along the water courses; vember, 1871. cities and but seldom prevails in rural districts or the country, and never upon high ground nor in a cold climate. It starts sometimes in June and July, and begins to decline by the middle of September or first of October, on the approach of frosts and cool weather. Prohibition in Maine.—The Portland Advertiser prints the following important testimony concerning the working of the prohibatory liquor law in that State: "Count Guipenberg, during a recent visit of Attorney General Emery to the Cimbria (the Russian ship in Southwest Harbor, A Pleasant Romance.—The Republican Maine), said: is responsible for the following story, which are very much pleased indeed "* We the knowing ones«*say refers to Rev. and with the workings of your Maine law. We Mrs. J. L. Fowle (formerly Carrie Farns- never saw or heard of anything so wonderful. Why, we send our men on shore with worth,) who sailed for Turkey last week: A graduate of Amherst College and An- the utmost freedom, and. they are orderly " dover Theological Seminary, having devoted and well-behaved; they make friends with himself to the missionary work and been as- the natives and come back to us at night all signed to a mission on India's coral strand, right. We are glad to have them go on was looking around for a congenial compan- shore, for the exercises and recreation they ion, for the American Board don't like to obtain there are very much to their advansend single young men to heathen lands, tage. Now, if liquor were sold we should when he met th* daughter of a Turkish be obliged to keep them on board all the missionary, and the two fell in love almost time, otherwise they would become intoxiat first sight. In a week they were engaged, cated, get into trouble among themselves now they are married, and such has been and with the inhabitants, destroy property, the gentle maiden's influence that what is insult your people, and make them all their Southern India's loss will be Central Tur- enemies. Oh! I assure ypu we are very key's gain."—Boston Congregationalism much pleased with your Maine law." 187 8. Author of "Peep of Day."—We have intelligence from England of the death of Mrs. Favell Lee Mortimer, author of"The Peep of Day" series of books for children, which have had an immense circulation, and which are unrivalled in simplicity and interest for youthful minds. The following is a list of her works: " Peep of Day;" Line " upon Line;" "Precept upon Precept;" " Light in the Dwelling;" " Near Home; or, the Countries of Europe Described;" " Far Off; or, Asia and Australia Described;" The English Mother;" » The Night of "Toil;" " Here a Little and There a Little," and "Reading Without Tears." Of the first of these volumes it was announced, some years ago, that over 400,000 copies of it had been sold, and of all more than 1,250,000 copies. An English paper, in announcing her death, says: " She had, perhaps, more juvenile readers than any other contemporary author." She was the widow of Key. Thomas Mortimer, and sister of the eminent London banker, Mr. R. C. Bevan. She died at Runton, near Cromer, aged seventy-six years.—New York Observer, Snpt. 12. Missionaries for China and Japan.— Twenty-five Missionaries, including wives, left this city on the steamer City of Peking, last Tuesday, for Japan, China and Siain. Four denominations—Congregational, Presbyterian, Methodist and Baptist—we understand to ha ye been represented in the company; and the two countries of America and Scotland. One of the number—Rev. Dr. Davis, lately pastor of the Congregational Church in Granby, Mass.—preached at Plymouth Avenue Church last Sunday morning; and another—Dr. Gordon, at the First Church, Oakland. On Monday evening a farewell meeting was held at Calvary Church, in this city, at which Dr. Scott presided, and Messrs. Gordon, Wilson of the Laos Mission in Siam, and DufTus from Scotland, on his way to Swatow, China, made addresses."— Pacific, Oct. 3d. It is a noteworthy fact that the Rev. Dr. Legge, a venerable Missionary of the London Missionary Society, should have been appointed Professor of Chinese in Cambridge University, England, and Dr. S. W. Williams, LL.D., should have received a similar appointment at Vale College, New Haven. These distinguished Chinese scholars are of the highest authority in all matters relating to China—its history and literature. Both the British and American Governments are more indebted to these two gentlemen for aid in translations of public documents than to any other men who have gone from England and America to China. �FRIEND , NOVE M B E |t, Places of Worship. ADVERTISEMENTS. Seamen's Bethel—Rev. S. C. Damon, Chaplain, King street, near tbe Sailors' Home. Preaching at 11 a. m. Seats free. Sabbath School before tbe DRS. T. P. & C. L. TISDALE, morning service, Prayer meeting on Wednesday evenings at 11, o'clock. Fort Street CwjRCH~Rev. • W. Frear. Pastor, corner of Fort and Beretania streets. Preaching on Sundays at 11 A. 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Pure religion and undeflled before Ood, the Father, is this: To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep one's self unspottedfrom the world. 92 Edwyn Shipton of London, of Paris; Christian Klug of Elberfeld, Germany; Francisco Albricias of Montserrat, Spain; and Richard C. Morse of New York. It is stated that the subject of Bible-readings elicited special attention and very animated discussion. The interest of the delegates generally in the more thorough study of the Word of God, and the more prominent instrumental use of it in realizing the aims of the Associations, appears to have amounted to an enthusiasm. Providentially considered, the occasion for the formation of Young Men's Christian Associations was due to the fact that the churches were neglecting and ignoring their work. Whether or not the churches could do the work as well, they are not doing the work which it falls specially to the Associations to undertake. With perhaps some faults of manner and methods, it is a grand place which they fill in the current agencies for popular evangelization. Mr. K. A. Burnell, whose interesting letters " round the world," have been appearing in this paper, was present.—Advance. W. Mcl by a Committee of tbe Y. I. C. A. I Geneva, Sue Dorian Heavenly City. BY REV. ELI CORWIN, D. D. U city of the pearly gates And of the streets of gold; Whose very walls are precious stones Of weight and worth untold: When may the poorest sinner share Those riobesWolfold? O righteous city of the sun. Where yet no nun doth shine; Irradient with the glory beams; A luster all divine: When shall these waiting eyes behold That living light ot thine? O tearless realms, where sorrows cense, Nor pains nor partings come: Where fiercest storms are bushed to peace; All angry voices dumb: When shall these weary ieet find rest. In that eternal horneT O sinless city of the pure: Where nothing can abide That taints or tarnishes the soul; Nor aught of evil bide: When shall I reach my blest abode Among the sanctified T Atthe last meeting of the Honolulu C. M. A,, it was decided to.assist Sit Moon in returning to this country and to his labors here for his countrymen. Also to begin anew the prayer meeting for young people. It .s held now every Sunday evening in the Lecture-room of Fort-street Church at a quarter before 7, continuing till just before the beginning of the regular evening service. The recent International Y. M. C. A. Conference, held at Geneva, Switzerland, was the eighth triennial gathering of this noble organization. There were present in •II about two hundred, and fifty delegates, representing eleven different nations. Of the two thousand Associations, about onehalf are in this country. Nowhere else has this aggressive and progressive enterprise been so notable. Mr. George Williams, a wealthy, benevolent business mapAf London, ia regarded as the originator of this particular form ofassociated Christian effort. Mr. Williams vas present at the Geneva Conference. The papers read, written in German, French and English, were each previously translated into the other languages and printed for distribution among the delegates. A Central International Comrjiittee was appointed to prepare the pro* gramme of topics and exercises for the next meeting, which will be held in London. This Committee consists of Mr. Ferman of The following is a different view from that taken by the correspondent of the Advertiser: The ■ Secularization of Schools' is a " popular phrase just now. We do not believe in it. The action under this rule which claims to be liberal, broad, ecumenical, is essentially heathen. It means, if it means anything, that religion has no place in our more elementary schools. The question was before the people of New Haven again last Monday. The endeavor was to elect officers who wjll restore the reading of Scripture (or some religious exercises) whichwas abolished last year. There may be practical difficulties, but they can all be adjusted on the principle that education should be based upon the threefold nature of the child—physical, mental and moral. Anything less than this is one-sided and erroneous. It may go on without any disastrous results for a certain period where most of the children belong to church-going families, but it is radically wrong. Better by far adopt the practice at Springfield, Mass., where the reading of the Bible is continned, but the Catholics use the Duoay edition. The moral and spiritual nature of the child should be distinctly recognized by the school authorities and the teacher. Yield one iota to the secularization theory, and you must .logically, and soon practically, eliminate every allusion to God and duty from all your textbooks; teachers will succumb to the general drift and abstain from inculcating anything touching the deeper wants of the soul; and children that most need instruction in moral and religious truth, will get nothing. If then our public schools shall become recruiting places for the jnil? and prisons, whose fault will it be ? Later. —The telegram reports the election of the officers favoring the Bible, by a vote of four to one." Advance. — The following is from a tribute to the late Prof. Raymond : A sentence, from one of his chapel sermons, is worthy of quotation, not only as beautiful in itself, but also as the expression of his own guiding principle. He said : When you can, be blind to the faults of another; and when you can no longer be blind, be dumb." Power without ambition, consecration '' without bigotry, enthusiasm without fanaticism, gentleness without timidity, perseverance without combativeness, dignity without pomp, mirth without frivolity, versatility without dissipation of energy, candor without uncertainty and piety without cant, —is it any wonder that features like these combined cannot be drawn to the life ? A man of such endowment anri such culture, if he had turned it all to personal ends, would have been recognized as great. Is his greatness any the less because he lived for others, and chose that which is most celebrated of all ? But we need not complain of even his earthly reward. His fame, like the fame of Arnold of Rugby, will live and grow through generations of those to whom, and to whose fathers and mothers, he was strong guardian, wise guide, dear friend. our A very grave question before churches, and one which ought to engage serious attention, relates to the observance of the Sabbath. In many and most of our New England cities and towns there seems to have been decided improvement during the last four or five years. But in some quarters matters have grown worse rather than better. Never before were so many steamboat excursions advertised in oar daily newspapers as this summer; and increasing numbers take the day for shorter and longer trips into the country. At certain seaside resorts Sunday is the great day ot the week. Crowds are landed by the boats, and the day is anything but orderly and quiet. How many professing Christians are among them it would not be easy to guess, but we happen to know that there are more than there should be, and that whatever physical benefit may be secured is nt Ste sacrifice of something far better. There can be no questiqn that pamp-meetjnjj associations are largely responsible {or. tho multiplication of Sunday railroad grains, and so for that gen. eral Sabbath desecration of whioh we are speaking. 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DECEMBER 2, 1878. $cto Series, M. 27, gf. 12.} CONTENTS -Tar llrrrsaWr 2, 187 8. End of Volume 35 Meetinß of the American Hoard of Missions Prof. Hjalmar Boyesen of Cornell University Rambles In the Old World Japan President Hayes' Proclamation Marine Journal TlianksßlvinK Hymn Letter ofPrince Bismarck to his Wife Y. M.C. A PAOK 9.1 93 93 93—1X1 96 9fi 97 98 98 100 THE FRIEND. DECEMBER. 2. 1878. — End of the Thirty-fifth Volume. With this number, we close another year of the Friend. As our subscribers have enjoyed the reading of our little sheet for the past twelve months, we would respectfully request that they promptly settle their bills when presented by the carrier or through the mail. If any errors are made in making out the same, they will be immediately corrected when made known to the publisher. Another volume will commence January Ist, 1879.—We wish you all a Merry Christmas. Meeting of the American Board of Missions.—The Annual Meeting of the Board took place this year' at the beautiful city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on Lake Michigan. This is one of the most elegant ' cities of the West, containing 125,000 inhabitants. The friends of Missions from various parts of the country were most royally welcomed and entertained during the meeting. We find full reports of the meeting in the various religious papers, while that of the Advance now lies before us. We have read with interest the able Report of Dr. Clark on"The Gospel in the Ottoman Empire."—The Annual Sermon was preached by Dr. H. H. Jerrup, Beyrout, Syria, in place of Dr. Manning, of Boston, who waa detained away by arickness. The receipts of the Board during the year were $482,204,73, while the expenditures of the Board amounted to 5438,757,04. Besides, after carrying forward the extensive operations, the society has paid off a debt of Professor Hjalmar Boyesen, of Cornell University. Our Berlin correspondent thus alludes to this distinguished professor, under date of October 6th : " Since returning to Berlin I have met most pleasantly young Prof. Hjalmar Boyesen, professor at Cornell and the well known novelist and author, and his beautiful young bride from New York. He has achieved a most remarkable literary reputation for a young man. He is a Norwegian only thirty years of age; came to America when he was twenty, and two years afterwards wrote in the most beautiful English a novel of Norwegian life,—Gunnar,—which has had a wide popularity. He has written much since. A work of his on Goethe and Schiller is shortly to appear. Notice a novel of his 'Falconberg' now appearing in 'Scribner's.' He is now traveling—writing up the European Universities for ' Scribner's.' His first article will be on the Berlin University. His early ho*e was on the Logne Fjord, near Bergen. It has been most pleasant for me to talk with him about Norway." Dean Stanley, now traveling in the United States, formerly remarked " in an address at the unveiling of the Bunyan statue, that there were only two prose works of universal popularity in all English literature, the Pilgrim's Progress, written by a Baptist preacher, a Nonconformist, and Robinson Crusoe, by a Presbyterian journalist, and a Dissenter. Macauley said that the seventeenth century produced only two men of original genius, John Milton and John Bunyan." Rev. W. Frear, Pastor of Fort Street Church, returned from a visit to the Eastern States by the last month's steamer from San Francisco. He has resumed his pastoral duties with renewed health. It is said that within the last year $47,000. We regret our limits will not allow us to give the report, in full, of the Queen Victoria has given $25,000 to the temperance cause. Board's Annual Meeting and operations. 93 {©li Series, gal. 35. RAMBLES IN THE OLD WORLD-No. 23 A Few Weeks In SeandinarU—No. I. August 15th.—Copenhagen strikes the visitor at first sight most pleasantly. It is a bright, animated city lying on the Island of Zealand, on the Sound, which at this point forms a fine harbor. In Danish the capital is written thus, Kjobenhaun. Owing to its fine situation, it has long been a great commercial town, its history running back through centuries. It would be scarcely possible here to enter into anything like an account of its varied history, but will mention in passing two events in its later history from which the capital suffered most severely. The city was bombarded by the English fleet in 1807 and greatly injured. The Danish fleet was also captured by the English, a loss which was a great impediment to the progress of Denmark. Now, however, the city is in a flourishing condition, and presents a fine appearance. The street running from our hotel brought us directly to the largest public place of the city, Kongens Nytoro. It is a splendid open Place, with streets running from it in all directions, and surrounded by hotels, public buildings, stores, etc. In the center is a little grove of trees, and groups of shrubs and flowers, surrounding an equestrian statue of Christian Y. Here is also the beautiful Royal Theater, with its fine bronze statues. Proceeding farther, we came to the noble building, the Palace of Christiansborg, properly the Royal Palace of Denmark, though the King now resides in the Palace Amalienborg, in another part of the city. The Crown Prince lives in a palace near his father. The Rosenborg is still another Royal Palace, surrounded by a most beautiful park. The King and Qecn were visiting their daughter, the Princess of Wales, in the Isle of Wight, justat the time we chanced to be in Copenhagen, so that we did not get a sight at them. Passing palaces, statues, along the canal, which runs up into the town, my walk brought me to the market, where the people were busily at work. The women all wear handkerchiefs over their heads and knotted under the chin. This seems to be the universal custom for working women in Scandanavia, and sometimes it has a very picturesque effect. Tbey are generally of black silk, sometimes of colored silk or cloth. One �94 THK rft 11H •, DECEMBER. could hardly ask for a trimmer, neater sight than that which a rosy-faced, modest-eyed northern girl offers, looking out from this simple black head-dress, which shows off nicely by contrast with the smoothly brushed brown or blond hair. One should never fail to visit the markets in coming to Europe. In coming to a new cily the market is one of the first places to which I go. Here you see more of the people than you can in any other place in the city. All are busily talking and bargaining. Ladies come with their servants to make purchases, and country men and women jostle them in the most pleasantly unceremonious manner. The strawberry season is a delightful time to be in Copenhagen. The fruit is brought in great quantities from the neighboring country, and Copenhagen " strawberries and cream" are famous. THE THORVALDSEN MUSEUM. Never have I been so impressed with the power which one master mind, one great creative imagination, may exert over a city and people as 1 have been in seeing something of the influence of the greatest sculptor of modern times, Thorvaldsen, in the city where he lies buried. To-day the chief glory of Copenhagen are the noble sculptures which he left as a heritage to the city which loved and still loves to do him honor. The Museum, where most of his works are deposited, is one of the most interesting places in Europe. It is at once the treasure-house of his works and the tomb of the sculptor. It is a low building, two stories only in hight, encircling a court, where is the grave of Thorvaldsen. The building is itself in the style of an ancient tomb, ornamented with frescoes in dark colors on a deep yellow background. In the court in the center is the grave of the sculptor. It is a most singularly impressive spot. The grave is overgrown with ivy and unmarked by any stone. There is no need ot any epitaph. The encircling rooms, with their treasures, the fruits ef his genius, speak his praise as no human words could do. Above is the blue dome of the northern sky, about him the solemn walls of the tomb, over him the mantle of clustering ivy. Thorvaldsen died in 1844, then an old man, honored and revered by the Danish nation and the world, and in Copenhagen watched over and cherished by King and people as few men have been in our own or any other day. It would be impossible here to give an account of the treasures which are here to be found. The first floor of the Museum is entirely devoted to his works, in marble or plaster. No other rival hand is here to contend with his, if, indeed, one could be found so bold. Here the master reigns supreme. You pass through room after room devoted to his works. Here are the originals of so many of those exquisite statues and medallions with which the world has grown so familiar. He seems to have spiritualized Greek thought with a power which, to me, was most striking. His many Homeric studies are beautiful beyond words. Here you see the originals of those works which have found a place in so many thousands of homes. I can remember them as a boy in ourfar-away Islands. " Night," with the dreaminess and hush of the stillwatches" over it; •« Morning," with the " freshness of the day-spring, the scattered flowers, and the awakening to life and hope. Then here, too, are the " Seasons," ofwhich I remember " Autumn" especially with the standing grain. You see the copies of his grand " Christ" and the Apostles," which stand in one of the churches of the city, and of which I shall speak presently, in the second story of the Museum are works of the sculptor, but especially the pictures which formerly belonged to him, and now the property of the city. 1 was especially struck by tbe collection of worksin plaster, which were the first models of the statues which were afterwards carved in marble. It was fascinating, feeling that you had here before you tangibly the first thought as it came from the mind and heart of the artist. Some of them were rough and jagged, fashioned roughly, with the quickness of inspiration. But how intensely suggestive ! It was the materialization of imagination, the expression of the artist's dreams in form ! One or two rooms are devoted to relics of this sculptor—articles which he had used; pictures of his home-life; his books; Homer in many languages; the last works upon which he had been engaged. On the last day of his life, I think, he busied himself with the bust of Luther, which he never completed. It is pleasant to think that such a grand hand was occupied with such a grand work. His death rame suddenly and unexpectedly. He had gone one evening to the opera or theater, and sat quietly waiting for the beginning of the play, and suddenly, so quietly that those sitting near thought he had fainted, the great heart ceased to beat, and the artist's work for this world was done. The music ceased and all over the house echoed the cry, " Thorvaldsen is dead." In his death he has been honored as in his life, and other generations will but add to the laurels with which he has already been crowned. Never can one feel the fullness of a genuine enthusiasm for him until he visits the city where he lived, labored, and died. One cannot go out into life again, after having gazed in earnestness upon some of his grander works, without feeling that he has' been lifted into a nobler, purer atmosphere. Not far away from the Museum stands the old palace of the Crown Prince, containing various collections, all of them valuable; one, however, especially worthy of note, the finest of its kind in the world, the " Museum of Northern Antiquities," a place where one might occupy himself for days with profit. The collections run far back into prehistoric times, to the ancient people who lived in the North, especially in Denmark, and embraces the Stone, the Bronze, and the Iron Periods, and the Middle Age and Renaissance epochs. For a traveler and student in this part of the world, they are of immense importance. Here you see the first dawn of civilization, taken by these rough stone instruments, to a time of which otherwise we know nothing. Here are mysterious stones with their " runes" and inscriptions; articles recalling the wild, fierce days of the Vikings; relics from Pagan and early Christian days —a strangely suggestive collection. The old " palace encircles quiet courts with shadowy trees. One I noticed, a fruited mulberry tree, almost looked in at the window, where some of these reminders of a vanished past 1878. are gathered, and the flooding sunlight of the summer's morning, made them seem strangely ghostly and out of place in our day. A DANISH FETE. The Danes seem as fond of out-door sum- mer amusements as the Germans, and in Stockholm it is quite the same thing. On summer evenings the city seems to be one succession of crowded, illuminated gardens with bands of music. In Norway, this is less the case. Here in Copenhagen there is a garden famous all over Europe for its beauty and attractiveness, Tivoli, where all Copenhagen, old and young, resort in the summer. We were fortunate this evening in seeing it in its full glory, together with such a gathering of the Danish people as is rarely seen. It was the thirty-fifth anniversary in the history of the garden, and those who have it in charge did everything in their power to celebrate the day in as brilliant a manner as possible. It was really very fine, the illuminations being something beyond my poor powers of description. We went just a little while before sunset, in order to see as much as possible. The gardens lie within easy reach of the town, and the entrance fee is so moderate that all classes can afford to go, so that it is peculiarly a garden for the people. These gardens, so common in Europe, are almost unknown in America. When rightly managed they can be made most useful for the middle and working classes'. Here families meet after the work of the day, little social groups gather quietly about their coffee, or beer, or ' ices; and under the trees and amid the perfume of flowers in soft, beautiful summer evenings, listen to the music of the bands. It is a most healthful, simple and rational recreation and amusement. But to this particular evening. When we arrived, early as it was, crowds had already begun to gather. Towards the close of the evening there must have been thousandsof people in the gardens. It was a little Denmark, all ranks and classes, merchants, soldiers, professional men, peasants, the women with their trim headdresses, little family groups, the parents leading the children, all ages, nil manner of dresses, all full of merriment and enjoyment. It was one of the happiest, quietest crowds I ever saw. The gardens are arranged in exquisite taste, with ponds of water, lovely arbors, buried half out of sight by clustering vines, with brilliant groupings of flowers and shrubbery on smooth, shorn lawns. As the sunlight faded away, and the throng began to increase, the lights and transparencies appeared on all sides. It is no mere use of hackneyed words to speak of it as an enchanted, a fairy-land. It was so, if all that human art, united with the loveliness of nature, can produce effects worthy of such names. There was an artistic refinement, a blending of brilliancy with a delicate perception of the harmonies of light and color, such as I have never seen in my life before. It was a radiant world of jeweled and fiery gleams, the brief but perfect representation of some dream of Oriental splendor. I should not venture to say how many light* there perhaps teni of thousands. In the shadows of the trees, in the topmost be*ghs, hung globe-shaped lanterns of different colore, looking like great, glorious bios* were, thousands, �95 THE FRIEND, DECEMBER, 18 78. soms. The flower-beds were thickly sown with colored lights. Over the great groupings of flowers on the lawns were placed reflectors with lights hidden within, which illuminated the brilliant blossoming beds. On the lake floated a ship of flame, being perfectly formed of colored lights.. Long avenues of arches hung with lights in red, in blue, in green, in white, stretched away in all directions. A " Labyrinth," one of the sights of the garden, where you may, in broad day-light, wander long in vain, seeking some clue to its windings through the leafy arbors, became doubly mysterious at night. At every turn, long vistas of gas jets, stretching off endlessly, faced you. Revolving lights, melting from blue to purple, to crimson, to yellow, met and dazzled you. At one point, the wonderful whiteness of the electric light, of which, just now, so much is being said, illuminated the faces of the crowd beneath. A great palace-like building, with fantastic architecture, flashed out inio the night, from base to roof, one mass of colored light. Here too, but it were useless to weary you with mere words which can convey so little idea of the reality. Towards the close of the evening, there was, to all this added, a display of fireworks, of the finest and most brilliant kind. There was enough to entertairt the people; shows, pantomimes, and music of all kinds. In one part of the garden they were amusing themselves with a wild kind of sport. The first time you engage in it with something of fear and trembling, certainly with some curiosity to know how it will turn out. I never saw it anywhere but here in Denmark. Great wooden buildings are constructed with towers at either end, between them pass a bridge, as it were, of wood, made with elevations and depressions all along its length. You take your seat with some friend in a car or carriage, at one of the towers, sitting securely and comfortably, n man, standing behind, gives your car a push and offyou go over the undulating track, which is laid with rails. Nothing could be wilder or more exciting. You go like the wind, out into space, you scarcely know where; now up. now down, whirling away as if some wild spirit were drawing you. Then almost before you have time to think, your carriage stops peacefully in the opposite tower, and your wild " Tarn O'Shanter " ride is over. We went once, then again, and 1 don't know when we should have stopped, if there had not been so much else to see. From the crowds that kept going all the evening, I should judge it was a very favorite pastime here. You might have had your pick of music at this Tivoli Fete. Bands were playing on all sides, some discoursing most excellent music, in a crowded pavilion, Edward Strauss, from Vienna, was leading the orchestra; filling the air with the brilliant melodies which he and his brother have sent all over the world. But now we must be getting home for to-morrow, we have something very pleasant in view, namely: AN EXCURSION TO THE CASTLE OF ELSINORE. August 16th. If you are in an incredulous frame of mind this lovely, sun-lit morning, I can scarcely think you will wish to accompany us on the trip which we take to-day. If on the contrary you are ready to believe all things, or at least are willing to put something of a solid foundation beneath the creations of a poet's brain, then come with us to the old Castle of Elsinore, where we wish to believe the Melancholy Dane, Prince Hamlet, once lived. 1 rather like, the naive way in which my German Guide Book puts it, " If ever there existed a Prince Hamlet, outside of the poet's imagination, he lived in Jutland and died and is buried there." We will not stop to think now what historical sources, or authority Shakespeare had for his immortal play, but leave this to the commentators and critics, satisfying ourselves with the pleasant thought that in some inexplicable way legend or tradition has associated Hamlet's name with this old castle by the sea. There are two ways of reaching the castle which lies about two hours from Copenhagen, either by boat or rail. We were obliged owing to the lateness of the hour in the morning, to take the latter, though the sail up the sound along the green shore of Denmark in summer time, is very delightful. Our way lay through pleasant, farming lands, very fertile in this region, diversified by wood-land. Several Royal residences lie not far away from the road, said to be well worth the visit if one has the time. But our thoughts were rather with royal Ghosts of the past than living realities. The little town of Helsingoer, as it is called in Danish, lies directly on the sea. Here we had our dinner and discussed Shakespearian characters. The town itself is a queer little place, with narrow streets, and has an eminently plain and proper book. The castle lies just beyond the town on a little point, bending out towards the sea. You reach it by a shadowy, tree covered avenue, with a great plain on one side, where on the day of our visit a company of Danish soldiers were engaged in target practice, having their white tents pitched on the green turf. You pass the draw-bridge and double moat and pass, then the gate, with no one to impede your way. A Danish soldier paces before the entrance, but has no word for us. The castle was built some centuries since; is a fine large building with towers and turrets, surrounding a large paved court. It appears now to be used by the Government for soldiers—barracks, soldiers were to be seen on every hand. There is a legehd connected with the place, namely, that the deliverer of Denmark sleeps beneath the castle and in the time of Denmark's need will arise in her defense. Before the castle, which by the way is splendidly placed at the entrance to the sound, is a grassy platform reaching nearly from the castle to the sea whereon cannon are planted. And now let us give free play to our imagination, we will live the grand old play over again. How wonderfully every scene fits! Certainly the coincidences of the poet's fancy and the bare realities w| have about us are striking. We sit down on the grassy platform, grown sear and withered under the August sun. Our little volume of " Hamlet " seems almost to open of itself. Here is Elsinore, here is a platform before the castle. Here, certainly (away with unbelief) it must have been that the uneasy spirit of the murdered king walking. "In (he dead vast and middle of the night," —unfolded to the awestruck prince the mystery of his death and roused the son's heart to avenge the Father's wrong. If it all seems so real here under the genial summer sunlight, how much more so. must it seem in winter's midnight, in the nipping and eager air," with the wind blowing fiercely down from the channel of the north, and the storm clouds driving over head. A little old lady, a most praiseworthy guide who doesn't distract us with too many remarks comes to show us over the few rooms of the castle, which are shown to visitors. There area numberofthem filled withremarkably poor pictures, but the rooms themselves are interesting, or the indescribable spell which in some way seems to hover over this place renders them so. Here is a charming little room in one of the towers, looking off to the sea. Here are rooms and apartments enough for all the lords and ladies of the Danish Court of the past or present. The Knight's Hall which still retains some faded traces of its former splendor, was just the place for the players to perform in before the guilty King and Queen. At one end fancy the mimic stage, facing it the Royal Com- " pany. Here at this side Hamlet lying at Ophelia's feet; beyond in this narrow passage, poor old inquisitive Polonius may have fallen stabbed behind the arras. How it brings them all back, the villain King, stained with his brother's blood, bearing about under the purple, the sting of an endless remorse, the sinning Queen, forced to read her sin in her son's words of accusation and up-braiding—Hamlet, " th' expectancy and rose of the fair state;" Opl\»-lia, with her garlands of flowers and plaintive mad songs : "Polonius, Laertes, Horatio, Roeencrantz, Guildenstern." We go across the court to the castle chapel which is interesting for its carved woodwork, elaborately and oddly celored in various shades. Beyond this is the long stair-case when we ascend to the lofty tower. The view from this height is especially fine. On one side the mainland of Denmark green and fair, with rising wooded land, dotted with houses, and great windmills stretching their awkward, useful arms out into the air. On the other the bright glittering sweep of the sea, and just beyond the Swedish coast with the Swedish town ofHelsinborg. Here the two countries come very near together. Hundreds and thousands of ships pass here, and at times tbe sound is all alive with sails. My practical friend is very patient with my mania for procuring souvenirs. But I really must have some sprays from, the willows by the moat. Do you remember when the Queen says : There la a willow growsaslant a brook "That ahowahis hoar leaves In the glaaey stream," ate. At least no one can complain if I do gather a few. I was shown in Wittenberg the house where Hamlet is said to have lodged when he was attending the University there. But here at Helsingoer they surpass tbat. You pay a fee to go and see Hamlet's grave! I wonder that no one keeps the ghost of Hamlet's father on exhibition. The " grave " is marked by a circular heaps of stones, from which rises a stone shaft of a few feet in height. You are paid for your visit to the grave, for the view from the terrace where it lies over the sea, is fine. �96 111 X FRIEND, DECIM B E R. 1878. On our return to the town we passed an old Japan. church-yard where the ghastly jokes of the clowns—would have fitted well, and hurried We have received an interesting letter down to the railway. " Till Kjobenhavn," from the Rev. S. R. Brown, who has shouts tbe conductor, the car doors are been a missionary in Japan for nineteen closed, and we are whiVled off in the night to the Capital, leaving the old castle to its jsears. He refers to the rapid changes going forward in education, dress, habits, customs dreams. and religion. "Buddhism has been deserted A SUNDAY IN DENMARK. the Government as a national religion, August 18. The Church of Scandinavia by the support of the Mikado's govreceiving is Lutheran, and the people are eminently church-goers. You find the churches crowd- ernment, but Shintoism, which is scarcely ed. At another time I may be able to write more than an indigeneous worship of ancessomething in reference to the forms and cer- tors, has-been put in the place of the former emonials, etc., but now I must speak in a intervery few words of a church where we have established religion." Those who are attended service this morning. It is the ested in the work of mission, ought to look principal church of the city, and we found it at the difficulties that lie in their way." * crowded. The service was long, the music I will add that our Protestant Translation fine—some of the responses, chanted by the Committee have published about two-thirds choir were beautifully rendered. The clerand we hope in about twelve gyman wore a black gown with wide, full of the Bible, months to complete it." ruff. He spoke with great energy, but unfortunately in a strange tongue to us. The We have also received a letter from Rev. church itself is no way striking,—quiet and O. Gulick, under date of July 27th, givH. simple and appropriate. But here are placed some of the finest works by the master-hand ing interesting account of his missionary of Thorwaldsen. They are alone worth a work, but particularly of his editorial labors, visit to the city. On the porch of the church in publishing a monthly, circulating 1,000 is his ma Me freize, " John the Baptist from Nagasaki on the South to Hakodadi on preaching in the Wilderness," near the en- the North. Mr. Gulick adds: trance bas-reliefs, Charity" and the "Guardian Angel," high above the altar The Japanese Government now claims on the way to the Crucifixion, and the" Bonin Islands, of which many whale"inChrist side chapels "The Baptism of Christ" ships touched in former years, lying 600 or and the Sacrament," all of these are most 700 miles S. E. from Yokohama. The beautiful. But the chief interest centers Government has sent down a few settlers, about the grand and impressive figure of and send a steamer down once in three " The Risen Christ," which occupies the months. Two sons of Mr. Webb, the one place where generally the altar picture is man on the Bonin islands, who can read placed. I know of nothing in all the range and write, have just come to Kobe, to be inof Christian art so noble, so marked by mates of the household of Mr. Foss, our power and dignity, and yet so wondrously neighbor of the S. P. G. Society. The lads tender and* beautiful as this. Looking from are 11 and 14 years of age. Bright and the body of the church the effect is striking. intelligent, speaking English well. They The grand figure stands, raised above the say all the children speak English and only hushed multitude, the hands outstretched as English. The population is less than 100 " if in blessing, the head bending slightly downwards. The long flowing hair falls in Yale College.—The following correspondence ample fullness on 'the shoulders. Over one recently look place between a shoulder and the body hang the graceful Southern father and a gentleman of the facrobe, falling away draperies of a mantel or from the pierced side. The marble seems ulty of Vale college. South Carolina, animated by a kingly, a divine presence, the Prof. : Dear Sir—My son informs lips may at any moment part in benediction. "me that he is obliged to sit next a negro day It were indeed worth a life-time of artistic effort to leave to the world one such glorious, after day, which is highly disagreeable to inspiring work as this. On the sides of the him and offensive to me. Will you please prochurch are statutes of the Apostles in white vide some differentarrangement? Yours, etc." marble, all ot heroic size, so that you look To which he received the following reply : down through the vista formed by these Esq., Dear splendid figures to the "Christ" beyond. " Vale College, New Haven. The statute of John is especially striking, Sir—Your favor is at hand, it is true that with inspired'and upturned face, on which the students are arranged alphabetically for seems reflected the radiance of the heavenly the present term, and a colored student has vision. his place next your son. But, at the com* * Williams Damon. mencement of the next term, the arrangeFfANK rn%nt will be in tbe order of scholarship, in which case the colored youth will be so near The new method of instruction in the head of the class, and your son, I regret the Boston Primary Schools does away with to say, so near the other extremity, that no further embarrassment on the formal study of grammar; lessons in com- there will beYours, The speedy that score. etc. position, in the use of capitals, in letter result was a note from a disgusted father, writing, and in the arrangement of sentences calling home a disgusted son.—American • * " " - '' * * " will take it, place. Miscellany. Following is President Hayes' proclamation, setting apart Thursday, the 28th ult., as a day of thanksgiving : By the President of the United Stales A Pro- — clamation.—Tb» recurrence ol tbat season at which it is tbe habit of our people to make devout and public confession of tbeir constant dependence upon Divine favor for all the good gifu of life and happiness, and of public peace and prosperity, exhibits in the record ol tbu year abundant reasons lor our gratitude and thanksgiving. Exuberant harvests, productive mines, ample crops of staples, the products ol trade and manufactures, have enriched the country. Th« reaonrces thus furnished to our reviving industry and expanding commerce, are hastening the day when discords and distresses through the length and breadth of tbe land will, under the continued favor of Providence, have given way to confidence and energy, and assured properity. Peace with all nations has remained unbroken, domestic tranquility has prevailed, and the institutions, liberty and .justice, which tbe wisdom and virtue of stir fathers established, remain tbe ((lory and defence of their Children. Tbe general prevalence of the blessings of health throughout our wide land has made more conspicuous tbe sufferings and sorrows which the dark shadow ol pestilence has cast upon a portion ol our people. This heavy affliction, even, the Divine ruler has tempered to sutfeiing communities in tbe universal sympathy and succor which have flowed to their relief, and tbe whole nation may rejoice in the unitj of spirit in our people, by which they cheerfully share one another's burdens. Now, therefor*, I, Rutherford 15. Hayes, President of the United Stales, do appoint Thursday, of November next, aa a day of national thanksgiving and prayer, and I earnestly recommend that, withdrawing themselves from secular cares and labors, tbe people of the United States do meet together on that day, in tbeir respective plaoes of worship, there to give thanks and praise to Almighty God for His mercies, and to devoutly beseech tbeir continuance. Io witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at tbe City of Washington, tbia 30th day of October, in the year of our Lord 1878, and of the independence of the United States the 103d. It. B. Hates, President. Wm. M. Evabts. Secretary of State. A Wedding in Oakland.—The first wedding in the beautiful chapel of the First Congregational Church, of Oakland, took place on Friday, Oct. 25th. The happy pair were Russell W hitman, of this city, and Miss Laura A., daughter of Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Merritt. The officiatine clergymen were the father nnd Rev. D. McLean, pastor of the bride. The chapel was decorated in beautiful style. The ceremony was short if not perfect. At the close, the lady friends of the bride threw open some of the foldingdoors, and the hundred guests or more were treated to ice-cream, lemonade, cake, and a merry, happy time. May blersings of courage, patience, and life-long happiness follow and rest upon the two who have commenced the long or short walk of life together.—J. H. W.—Pacific, Oct. 31. We would acknowledge "Necrological Report of Princeton Theological Seminary " for 1878; thirty-sixth Annual Report of Rush Medical College, Chicago; ''American Clinical Lectures," from H. M. Lyman, M. D., Chicago;" Chiniquy's Lectures, delivered in Protestant Hall, Sydney; papers for distribution from the family of S. N. Castle, Esq. �THE ¥11 IK X Naval.—H. B. Majesty's screw corvette Opal, 19 days and 22 hoars from Tahiti, arrived in port on Wednesday last. Her complement of officers and men is 275, tonnage 1,864, and horse power 360. Tbe following ia a list of her officers: I», DECEMBER, MARINEJOURNAL. PORT OF HONOLULU. S. I. ARRIVALS. Oct 36—HasfSchrAvatcha, Weasels, 36 days from Petro- Captain Frederick C B Robirison paulakl. Lieutenants—J H Henderson, H Z Ross, VH 8 Robertson 28—R MS 8 Zealandla,Chavalier, 21 days from Sydney and A F Graves. and Auckland. Nay. Lieutenant Geo 8 Ralph 30—Am Schr Mary Swan, Jacobson, 23 daya from San Chaplain and Naval Instructf/r Rev F J Matthews Thos 8 Burnett Francisco. Staff Surgeon Ihymaiter Ed Tiadall Nov I—Haw bk R O Wylie, Rakemann, 126 daya from Geo F Bell firemen. CM'/ Engineer Sub-Lieutenant) EM Shaw and FAS Farewell I—Am ahip Hamilton, 18 days from San Francisco. Surgeon 2—Haw brig Elise, Permien. 20 days from San FranWm E Breton Chas H A Ward Atet. Paymaster cisco. Engineers. .Thos Russell, R 8 Kiernan and W W Wootton 3—British bk Eskbsnk, from Glasgow Gunner Thoe Murray 4-Am bark Linie Marshall, Dahler, 21 daya from Boatswain Jno Robbins Port Townaend. Carpenter Jno Radford 4—Haw brig Btormbird, Jackson, 34 days from South Midshipmen—% V8 C Messum, W E Elliot, A P Stoddard Seaa. and L B Denman. P.C.A. Nov. 23. 4—Am schr Rosario, Douglass, 16 daya from San Franciaco. 4—French bark Madellenr, Pateau,46 days from Hong- . British Bark Eskbank.— The wreck of this* fine vessel on Sabbath morning, November 3d, 1878, has formed the current news for the past month. She had safely brought a cargo valued at $200,-000, and insured for $175,000, from England, 18,000 miles, until within five miles and in full view of our harbor, when she most unfortunately went on shorejaear Diamond Head, on a bright Sabbath morning as ever dawned upon the ■ Sunny Isles." Wreck of the A Naval Court of Enquiry into the causes of the lots of the British bark Eskbank on the reef near Honolulu, which occurred on the 3d of the present month, was held on Saturday last, the 23d, on board H. B. M.'c Ship Opal, Capt. Robinson, now lying in this port. The Court consisted of Capt. Robinson, as President, two Lieutenants of the Opal, and Capt. Daniel Smith, an experienced ship master, the Harbor Muster of the port. The finding of the Court was that the master of the Eskbank had shown a want of judgment in placing his ship in the position in which she was when she went ashore, and the decision was that his certificate as master mariner be suspended for one year. We learn however that the decision is not final, as the proceedings must be submitted to the Board of Trade ofLondon. —P. C. Jldvertiitr, JVov. SOth. . Information Wanted. Miss Margeret Y. Upp, No. 204 Post street. Ban Francisco, writes to the American Consul at this port requesting information concerning the whereabouts ofher father Adam Upp, a carpenter by trade, who came to Honolulu in Jadnarylast. To Whom it Mat Concern.—There now resides in Yokohama Mrs. M. J. Glbbs, formerly Mrs. J. Vsnghn, of Honolulu. Any partieß wishing for information will apply to Hawaiian Consul, L. P. Lilybrldge, Esq., of Yokohama. MARRIED. Johnson—Diceson—At Hllo, Hawaii, Oct. Bth, 1878, at the Foreign Church, by theRev. A. 0. Forbes, Mr. Henry Johnson, of Kohala, to Mrs. Isabell H. Dickson, of Hllo. No Cards. Rubcrq—Kaukamanui—ln this city, Nov. 6th, by Rev. 8. C. Damon, Walter H. Rububo to Kaukamanui, both of Honolulu. Walker—Burd—ln this city, November 16th, at St. Andrew'sCathedral,by the Rev. Alexander Mackintosh, Thomas Rain, eldest son of William Walker, of Bayfield, England, to Mary Matilda, youngest daughter of the late William liurd, of Ardwlck, Manchester, England. Jones—Mcßhahi.—ln Wailuku. Maul,Nov 16th, by the Rev Sidney Wilbur, Mr Amos P Jones, of Makawao, Maui, to Mrs Rachel Mcßhane, of Honolulu, Oahu. Newsby—Haalou—ln this city, Nov. 28th, by Rev. 8. C. Damon,Lewis Newsby to Haalou, both of Honolulu. kong. 6—P M88City of New York, Cobb, 7 days and 14 hours from Ban Francisco. 6—Am batne Joseph Perkins, Johnson, 26 daya from Port Townaend. 10—Haw brig Onward, Smithera, from Arctic. 16—Am tern Hueoeme. from Port Gamble. 17—Am bktn Discovery. Winding, 21 daya fm San Fran 20—H M 8 Opal, Robinson, 19 days from Tahiti. 81—Am bktn Klla, Brown, 18 daya from Han Francisco 22—Am bk Jenny Pitta, Slevert, dys fin Port Gamble 23—Am schr Mary Swan from Kauai 24—8el atmr Perusla, McKlrdy, from Callao 26—P MSB Oily of Sydney, Dearborn, Im Sydney 27—Am bk Herbert Black, from Portland, Oregon — DEPARTURES. • Oct. 26—Ambk H W Almy from Freeman, for SanFrancisco 27—Ger bk Priscella, Ahrena, forSan Bias. 29—X M88Zealandla, Chavalier .or San Franciaco. 29—Am schr Jos Woolley Comatock, forfiua.no Islands. Nov I—Am bk Henry Buck, Sorman, for Victoria, BC. 6—P M 8 City or New York, Cobb, for Sydney 6—Am bk D C Murray, Froat, for San Franciaco 6—Ship Hamilton, Daly, Guano Islands. 9—Haw schrKamalle, for Panning'a Island. 12—Am bktne Joaeph Perkins. Johnson, for Ft Gamble. 13—Ambktne J A Falkinburg, Hubbard, for Portland. 13—Hawschr Mana, Franck, for South Sea Islands. 14—Am bark Lluie Marshall, Dahler, for Pt Townaend. 16—Amtchr Rosario, for San Franciaco 24—Frenchbk Madeliene, Pateau. for Hongkong 25—Del atmr Perusia, McKirdy, for Hongkong 26 P M 8 8 City of Sydney, Dearborn, for Ban Fran 26—Haw brig Btormbird, Jackson, for South Sea Is 27—Am tern Hueneme, for Port Gamble 27—Am schr Mary Swan, for San Franciaco 28—Am bk Herbert Black, for Hongkong - MEMORANDA. Disastf.b Susan.—New York Pilot boat" No. 8 " fell in at sea with the wreck of a New Bedford whaler, which had just left port for a long voyage. the Susan, Out of a crew of 25 only 3 were left, one of whom the cutting through the '* bluff" of the bow pilots rescued by and taking him out of the forcastle where he had been capsized in the gale a week ago. The when the ship North Atlantic is reported full of vj-ecks by Incoming but one disaster out of many. steamers, and thisis Ship Report of R M 8 8 Zealandia, Chevalieb, Commander.—October 10th, at 3.55 p m, left Sydney and reached Auckland on the 14th, at midnight; and left again on the following day at 6.45 pm. Panned from E Into W longitude on the 17th,and crossed the Equator on the 23d, in long 166° 18'W. Sighted Dlmoud Head on the 28th, at 6 am, and received pilot at 9a m. The weather from Sydney towards Auckland fresh westerly gale, with heavy sea; experienced for two dsys afterwards northwesterly and variably winds. From Auckland to Honolulu moderate trades and fine weather throughout. R Mcdonald, Purser. Report of PMBB City of New Yore, Cobb, Comman <j< ib—Left Ban Francisco Oct 28th, at 12 m, and encountered a Btr'ong westerly gale, with high head sea, the night of Oct 31st, which lasted to the morning of the 2d Inst; since that fine clear weather, with easterly wind. Arrived off pilot ground at Honolulu, Nov 6th, at 4:30 a m. Took pilot on board at 5:56 a m, and made fastto wharf at Bring for Honolulu 60 cabinpassengers and 136 6:50 steerage, 107 of these being Chinese; 4,490 pkgs (254 tons) of cargo, 11 bags mail, and 13 pkgs of treasure—s22,o7o. am. Report of Btmr Pebusia, McKirdy, Commander.— Left Callao on the evening of Nov 4th. Fine weather and smooth sea the entire passage. The Chief Engineer of the steamer, Robert McCord, died on the morning of the 23d, just offthis port. Repobt or P M 8 8 City of Sydney, Deasbobn, Commander.—Left Sydney Nov Bth, at 8.40 a m. having been detained 18 hours by the non-arrival of the Melbourne mail for Ban Francisco. Experienced fine weather and westerly winds to North Cape, thence to Auckland variable winds. Arrived at Auckland Nov 12th, at 11 am, making the fastest passage ever made—4 days and 63 minutes from pilot to pilot. Left Auckland on the same day, at 4.16pm. Experienced fine weather and light winds to Ist 16 o N; since then strong NE gales and high tea, with heavy NW swell. 97 1878. PASSENGERS. Fob SanFiiancmoo, per H. W. Almy, Oct. 25—Catherine Engel. Fiiom Ban Fbancssco, per Nettle Merrill, Oct. 26—Ed Smltb, Carrie Smith and Geo Markhain. From Sydney and Auckland, per Zealandla, Oct. 28— Mra G Jackson and fourchildren, G Edwards, J H Houghton, and JStraw. Fob Ban Francisco, per Zealandla,Oct. 28—Co] Kitchen wife, family and nurse, T Crawford Macdowell, A Titius, C H Woolratugton, Miss B Frankel, Mrs 0 T Rodger*, T Woodhead, T \v Paul, Mrs Macanley, Col M P Robinson and wife. Win Grelg, H Mclntyre, A McWayne and wife, H Hyman, L Perrot, H Will. H E Drysdale, T B Hopkins, 0 E Lenhart, and four Chinamen. Fob GuanoIslands, per Joa Woolley, Oct 20—J Smith, JDouglas, J Patterson, J Reed, J N Earle and 14 laborers. Fboh Ban F&ancisco, per Mary Hwan, Oct. 80—8 O Brazzel, 8 N Hundley, F Williams and 8 Eaton. From Bremen, per R C Wylle, Nov, I—Reglne Koch, MetaMuller, Johanna Sohluter, H Streubock, PJeasen and ThosPeterson. Fbom Ban Francisco—Per Ellse, Nov 2—M Miller and seven Chinese. Fbom Ban Fbancisoo—Per Rosario, Nov 4—W B God. frey, F Morrisy, T J Eaenly, E Roe, Z R Myers, and T McGlffln. Fbom South Seas—Per Htorroblrd, Nov 4—128 Im- migrants. From Honokonci—Per Madeliene, Nov 4—25 Chinese laborers. Fbom San Fhancibco—Per City of New York, Nov 6— Miss Hoffmann, E Hoffmann, Rev Mr Frear, Mr Lyman, Mrs Lyman, B F Farrar and wife, Mr Welch, wife and child, F H Sutton, T H Davlea and son, Mrs J A Mix, Mrs L 8 Beckwith, Mrs 8 Skinner, Chlng On, Mlaa D Clere,C E Stone, F C Havens, Dr N B Emerson, Miss M M Bird, JudgeL McCully, and wife and the Misses Thayer, Miss C F Atherton and 2 servants, Dr O 8 Cummlngs, wife, 2 children and servant, H Hart and wife, R Nunes, Ylen Quanand wife, H Tnrton, H Schlusser, wife, 2 children and 2 servants, M Crooks, Geo Macfarlane, Dr Marvin and wife, and 136 steerage. Fob Sydney—Per City of New York, Nov 6—EDelemar, JNellie. Fob SanFrancisco—Per D C Murray, Nov 5—H Free man, Captain Weasels, Chas Eldert, James Muller, Thos Murphy, Gilbert Waller, II M Abbott, M E Abbott. Fna Guano Islands—PerHamilton, Nov 6—Twonative laborers. Fbom Ban Francisco—Per Discovery. Nov 18—ColNorrls, J D Ramsay, E Ulner, W Wenner, W R Hardy a wife, Jas Knowles, i' 11 O'Brien, 8 F Shaw, W F Martin, W T McDonald. From Ban Francisco—Per Ells, Nov 21—J D Merrett, and 14 Chinese laborers for Prlnceville Plantation.» Fbom Callao—PerStmr Peruaia, Nov 26—E Blelenherg, Ho Kal, H Hentick, FDA Masquer, and 104 passengers in transitu far China. Fob China —Per Stmr Perusla, Nov 25—Mrs M I Giblis and child, and 17 Chlneae. Fob Sab Francisco—Per City or Sydney, Nov 25—Capt C R Smlthere, Oapt B Dexter, wife and child. F 0 Havens, G X HcGuire, M Crooks, Miss A X Ncwell, Miss M Plttman, Missß L Durfee. Mrs A F Dixon, and child, M J Feria, J Schneider, W r McElnay, L A Wuilty. X Anderson, Lukal, W Kaeha, Jas Keeler, Ah Young, Sam Hlog. Fbom StDNEY-Per City of Sydney, Nov 25--Mrs Wrigler F C Button, A Brack, H Robinson, A Wilson, M Roberts wifeand child, and 28 In transitu for Ban Francisco. Fob San Fbahcisco—Per Mary Swan, Nov 27—R McKlnnon. DIED. this city, at the Queen's Hospital, October 2d, Barnard Huohes, who came a passenger from Ban Francisco about the Ist of September. He was an invalid, suffering from consumption. He reported that his mother, Mrs. Catharine Hughes, resided st 18 Eldon Place, Berkenhead, near Liverpool. He was a beneficiary of theLadles' Stranger's Friend Society. Armstrong— At Stockbrldge, Mass.. Oct. 10th, Emma Walker, wife of Gen. 8. C. Armstrong,of Hampton, Va. Brown—ln this city, on the 9th of Nov., Malcolm Bsfce Brown, eldest son of J. H. Brown, aged 7 years and 8 months. Foley—ln thla city, Nov. 11, John Foley, a native of Bandon, county of Cork, Ireland, aged 68. He had been s resident of these Islands for 30 years. * Watson—At Koolan, Oahu, Nov. 13, John Watson, a native of Wales, aged 68. ftresident of the Islands for80 years. Buttles—At the Queen's Hospital, November 17th, after an illness of six weeks, Malone E. Buttles, aged 27 years, a native of Ohio. Deceased had been s resident of these islands forabout nine months. Coloradopapers please copy. Sheldon.—ln this city, November 22d, Eveline KaleiILUHIA, youngest child of John and Amy Sheldon, aged 15 months. Athkrton.—ln this city, Nov 24th, at the residence of her sister, Mrs. Oilman, Miss Caroline F Atherton, aged 67 years, formerly of Boston, but who has, for several years, been a resident of this city. Bhejurrtved June 80, 1866. During the earlier years of her reeSenee, she was most usefully engaged in teaching, first with M. E. Beckwith, Esq., in the Vestry of Fort Street Church, and subsequently In private schools, and In that of the government. Her long experience and peculiar fitness, eminently qualified herto Instruct the young,and many sre the young people who will remember her Instruction. She was a lady of decided Christian character and earnest convictions,and for many yearswitnessed a good profession of her faith In Christ. In whatever community or society her lot waa cast, it was wellknown that her sympathies andinfluence were found on the right side. Her loss will not only be felt among her immediate family circle, but among a wide circle of friends here and elsewhere. Hughes—ln �98 THE FRIEND, DECEMBER, American National Thanksgiving Hymn. great an innovation. The writer of this notice in the Observer, Mrs. Lucy £. SanAlmighty Lord of glory! ford, claims that Mrs. Hale's perseverance Our praise to Him we bring. finally achieved the point of inducing the And chant our country's story authorities at Washington to appoint a Where God (alone ia King. National Day for Thanksgiving. This was Hit outstretched arm sustaining, first done, we believe, by President Lincoln. Behold tbe May Flower come ! Bis mercy foreordaining This hymn, which we now print, was writOur land for Freedom's home. ten by Mrs. Hale six years ago, at the age of eighty-four. Long may she live to be Though wintry darkness gathers honored and beloved. And dearth and death prevail, The faithful Pilgrim Fathers Could look within tbe veil: Oh ! joy amid tbe sadness! They're free to do and pray, And keep, in sober gladness, Tbeir first Thanksgiving Day. These seeds of faith and freedom God's Word hath wafted free ; O'or rocks outsoaring Edotn They reach tbe sunset sea, And East and West uniting, One family becomo: With North and South relighting One lamp—wi ark all at home ! Witb half of heaven above us, An ocean on each hand, We've room for all who love us And join our brother-band. Praising tbe great All-Giver, Our borne least «c display, And through the years forever Keep free Thanksgiving Day. In palace and in prison Our Festival is one, Tbe witness Christ is risen Good will lor men begun. Our hearts one hope rejoices, Our souls in concert pray, 'Mid songs of choral voices— God bless Thanksgiving Hay! The Author of the above Hymn. The author of this highly appropriate hymn is the well known writer and editor, Mrs. Sarah J. Hale, of Philadelphia, now in her ninety-first year. This and many other interesting facts relating to this venerable and pateemed writer, we learn from the New York Observer of Oct 24th. She is a native of New Port, N. H., born Oct. 24th, 178S. Left a widow in early life, and with three children depending upon her, she betook herself to successful authorship, and for half a century has been an editor,residing in Philadelphia, and for most of that period conducted the Ladies' Book. She first edited the parties' Magazine in Boston, commencing in 1827, which was merged, in 1837, into the Ladies' Book, of Philadelphia, when she removed to that city where she has continued ever since to reside. In 1846 she suggested to the President of the United States the propriety of a National Thanksgiving, but he feared it would be too Letter of Prince Bismarck, to His Wife. During the past few months, we have been receiving the successive Weekly Nos. of the London Literary World, containing, " Choice Readings from the best New Books and Critical Reviews." In the No. for October 4th, we have met with a review of Prince Bismarck's letters to his wife, his sister and others, translated from the German, and published in London. Among these letters, we copy the following addressed to his wife, the day after the ever memorable battle of Sedan: Vendresse, Sept. 3, 1870. My Dear Heart—1 left my present quarters before early dawn the day before yesterday, came back to-day, and have in the meantime witnessed ihe great battle of 1878. A powerful contrast with our last meeting in the Tuileries in '67. Our conversation was a difficult thing, if I wanted to avoid touching on topics which could not but affect painfully the man whom God's mighty hand had cast down. I had sent Oarl to fetch officers from the town, and to beg Moltke to come. We then sent one of the former to reconnoitre, and discovered, two and a-half miles off, in Fresnois, a small chateau situated in a park. Thither I accompanied him with an escort of the cuirassier regiment of life-guards, which had meantime been brought up, and there we concluded with the French generalin-chief, Wimpffen, the capitulation, by virtue of which 40 to 60,000 Frenchmen, I do not know it accurately at present, with all they possess, became our prisoners. Yesterday and tile day beforeftjost France 100,-000 men and an Emperor. This morning the latter, with all his suite, horses, and carriages, started for Wilhelmshohe, near others were below. Cassel. It is an event of great weight in the world's history, a victory for which we will humbly thank the Almighty, and which decides the war, even if we have to carry it on againsjtf'ranee shorn of her Emperor. With heartfelt joy I 1 learnt from yours and Maria's letters that Herbert has arrived among you. Bill 1 spoke to yesterday, as already telegraphed, and embraced him from horseback in his Majesty's presence, while he stood motionless in the ranks. He is very healthy and Sedan, in which we made about 30,000 happy. I saw Hans and Fritz Carl, both prisoners, and threw the remainder of the Biilows in the 2nd dragoon guards, well and French army, which we have been pursuing cheerful. Good-bye, my heart; love to the children. since Bar-le Due, into the fortress, where v. B. Your they had to surrender themselves, along with the Emperor, prisoners of war. Yesterday morning at five o'clock, after 1 had The liquor bill of Great Britain in been negotiating until one o'clock a. m. 1877 was about §750,000,000, growing with about French generals with Moltke and the the capitulation to be concluded, 1 was frightful rapidity, whije every other trade is awakened by General Reille, with whom I suffering extreme depression, and while imam acquainted, to tell me that Napoleon mense numbers of the people are without wished to speak with me. Unwashed and and almost without food and unbreakfasted, I rode towards Sedan, found employment, necessaries of life. The other absolute the Emperor in an open carriage, with three and three attendance on in in traffic Great Britain is increasing liquor aides-dc camp horseback, halted on the road before Sedan. much more rapidly than the population, I dismounted, saluted him just as politely as with all ihe tremendous evils resulting from at the Tuileries, and asked for his com- it—poverty, pauperism, suffering nnd crime mands. He wished to see the King; I told —with the enormous taxation upon the him, as the truth was, that his Majesty had community growing out of these things. his quarters fifteen miles away, at the spot where I am now writing. In answer to The New York Observer in relation Napoleon's question where he should go to, to the effect of the prohibitory law in as was not I with acquainted him, offered I own at Donchery, quarters the country, my Majne, says: small place in the neighborhood, close by In the State of Maine the poor-houses, Sedan. He accepted, and drove, accom- jails and penitentiaries are almost vacant; panied by his six Frenchmen, by me and by Carl (who, in the meantime, had ridden taxes are very light; during the year, while after me) through the lonely morning every other State in the Union has suffered towards our lines. Before coming to the from financial depression and decrease in spot, he began to hesitate on account of the the valuation of property, in Maine the valupossible crowd, and he asked me if he could ation of the property of jhe State has been alight in a lonely cottage by the wayside ; I had it inspected by Carl, who brought word steadily on the increase; drunkenness is it was mean and dirty. ''N'importe," said almost unknown in parts of the State; the N., and I ascended with him a ricketty, attendance at school is larger in proportion narrow staircase. In an apartment of ten to the population than in any other State. feet square, with a deal table and two rush- What is the cause? Simply a prohibitory bottomed chairs, we sat for an hour, the law backed by a proper public sentiment. �ADVERTISEMENTS. Places of Worship. 9 THE FRIEND, DECEMBER, 1878.- SAILORS' HOME ! Seamen's Bethel—Rev. S. C. Damon, Chaplain, BR. T. P. TISDALE, King street, near tbe Sailors' Home. Preaching at 11 a.m. Seats free. Sabbath School before tbe OFFICE AND RESmorning service. Prayer meeting on Wednesday IDENCK, BereUnia Street, between fort Street Church evenings at 7<| o'clock. and Queen Kmnia'i. OFFICII HOURS—I" rum 8 to 10 a. m; 1 to 3p. m, and 6to Fort Street Church—Rev. W. Frear, Pastor, 0 ovenlnga. mh3o ly corner of Fort and Beretania streets. Preaching Sabbath on Sundays at 11 a. m. and 7Jp. m. HANCHETTE, Plaso-rsrlr Tuner Si Rrpalnr, School at 10 a. m. HOMEOPATHIST. JL. • many years connected with Kawaiabao Church—Rev. H. H. Parker. Pastor, King street, above tbe Palace. Services in Ha- D" waiian every Sunday at 11 a. m. Sabbath school at 10 a. m. Evening services at 74 o'clock, alternating with Kanuiakapili. District meetings in ■ various chapels at 3.30 p. m. Prayer meeting every Wednesday at 7J P. at. ED Chlckertng k Sons.) (For Ordersleft at the Bailors' Home or Whitney k Robertson's Bookstore. . M. DAVIDSON. A ttarnry at Law. Office over Mr. Whttney'a Book-store, formerlyoccupied by Roman Catholic Church—Under the charge of Judge Austin. Honolulu, H. I. de-1878 Rt. Rev. Bishop Maigret, assisted by Rev. Father Herntann ; Fort street, near Beretania. Services every Sunday at 10 A. m. and 2 p. at. Kauhakapili Church—Rev. M. Kuaea. Pastor, Beretania street, near Niiiiauii. Services in Hawaiian every Sunday at 104 a. m. Sabbath school at 94 A. m. Evening services at 74 o'clock, alternating with Kuwnhiliaii. Prayer meeting every Wednesday at 74 p. m. \y G. IRWIN fc ED. DUNBCOMBE, Manager. Honlulu, January 1,187V CO.. Commission Merchants, Plantation and Inaurance Agents, Honolulu, H. 1. ■ CASTLE & COOKE, *- DICKSON. 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(7 Adding the coat of binding. �Pure religion and undcjilcd before God, the Father, is this : To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep one's self unspotted from the world. EjiteHjJjomMttee oHjieY^M._C.A. The Old Man in the Stylish Church. Well, wife, I've been to church to-day—been to a atyllsh one— And teeing you can't go fromhome. I'll tell you what was done; Yon would have been surprised to see what I saw there to-day; The sister* were fixed up so fine they hardly bowed to pray. I had on these coarse clothes of mini;—not much the worse for wear— Bat, then, they knew I wasn't one they call a millionaire; 80 they led the old man to a seat away back by the door; 'Twaa bookless and uncusuloucd, a reserved seat for Ute poor. Pretty soon in came a stranger with gold rings and clothing fine, They led him to a cuahloned seat far In advance of mine; I thought that waa'ut exactly right to seat him up so near, When he was young and I was old,and veryhard to hear. But there's no accouutin' for wtiat some people do, The finest clothing nowadays, oft gets the finest pew; But when we reach the blessed home, and, uudetiled by sin, We'll see wealth begging at thegate, while poverty goes in. ********* Then why should man look down on man because of lack of gold? Why send him In thepoorest pew because his clothes are old? A heart with nobler motives—a heart that Ood ban blestMay be beatln' heaven's music 'neath that faded coat and vest. I'm old—l may be childish—but I love simplicity; I love to see It shlnln' In a Christian's piety; Jesus told us In His sermon, In Judea'smountain wild, He that wants to go to heaven must be like a little child. Our heads are growing gray, dear wife—our hearts are beating slowIn a little while the Master will call for us to go; When we reach the pearly gateways, and look iv with Joyful eyes, We'll see no stylish worship in the temple of the skies. The Thanksgiving Day Sermon By Rev. Mr. Jones, now Principal at Punahou, contained much that was worthy' of consideration. There was no spread-eagleism about it, but an earnest pressing upon the attention of his hearers the fact that without resolute effort the descendants of pioneers are likely' to deteriorate, if not physically, yet mentally, morally and religiously, and especially in a country like this. We would remark that our care now is for the third generation—the second is making its mark, such as it is. As members of the second generation however many of us may well ask ourselves the question—Is our religious character as finely tempered as that of thpse who have gone before ? It may be more finished, engraved, chased or whatever we may call it, but is it as true steel? It may be broader and more liberal, but is it as deep ? Does the religious culture keep its proportion to the general culture 1 We cannot get any one here to sit down and prepare a finished lecture on any subject, for our community to come and listen to. Partly because our men who can do that have their hands full already. Partly because the critical capacity here is greater than the producing capacity. What could be done however would be for one and another to communicate in a free and easy way what they know in their especial departments, and have experienced in practical life. For instance why should not a merchant give some of his experience as a business man; post up his audience on the ways of trade ? Or a lawyer tell us of his progression t Let some of the skippers only enlarge their audiences, and they will not fail to interest. A man always talks freely upon what he thoroughly understands. It is hoped that we have not arrived at the state which might be termed that of fastidious nonentity. A state this 'which may exist in religious circles as well as in literary. How much of the Divine Spirit, is needed to keep even prayer meetings from partaking of this. Is there any sarcasm in the first half of the following, from President Hopkins' remarks at the annual meeting of American Board? When Solomon went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding, and lo ! it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, that was according to the law of the survival of the fittest. The thorns were fittest to survive as compared with the* vines, and the strongest nettles as compared with other nettles. As compared with wheat, thistles—Canada thistles—are Attest to survive, and cockle as compared with barley. It may indeed be plausibly said that the things best fitted for the use of man are least fitted to survive. The finest fruits need the most care. Of all grains wheat is best fitted for food, and probably least fitted to survive. No one knows where it is indigenous, and, left to itself, it would soon perish from the earth. It has a natural tendency to survive owing to its environments, but that needs to be supplemented by the intelligence and the toil of man. To us it would seem that that which is fittest for the use of man should be fittest to survive. But in this, nature seems to be at cross-purposes with herself; and thus do we find, wrought into her very constitution, and proclaimed by science, the elements of that primeval curse, "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread." 10 YMoeunnC'gshH Ariotcaf onolulu. Aside from supernetural intervention, Christianty was, of all known or conceivable religions, least fitted to survive. It had not a single element that the world reckons on for influence. It began in a stable. It was laid in a manger. Place yourselves by the side of that. Follow the infant in his flight into Egypt; in his return to a remote part of a conquered province, and to a disreputable town. See him, without letters, at work as a carpenter. At the age of thirty see him traveling about the country on foot as a teacher, with a few peasant followers. After only three years see him apprehended, tried, cendemned as a malefactor by both Jews and Romans. See him hanging on the cross between two thieves. See him laid in the tomb with a great stone over its mouth, sealed with the senI of authority, and a wjfch set. Christianity was there. It was in that tomb. Not a person living fully understood it. The words spoken had been dispersed-in the air, and no record of them had been left. 1 ask you if imagination can add a single circumstance to heighten the improbability that a world-wide religion would spring from such a source ? Father Chiniquy again.—In our issue of October, we noticed the fact that some unknown person, about twenty years ago, had sent him a donation of $100. Under date of Nov. sth, the Rev. T. Coan thus writes from Hilo: "When we, in Hilo, heard of his sore trials in Canada, and of his exodus, at the head of 5,000 people to find praise and an asylum in one of our western states, we resolved immediately to express our sympathy with the sufferers, by sending a trifle of material help—sloo—raised in the native Church in about as short time as it takes to write this letter." From copies of the Sydney Herald and Witness, received by last steamer, we learn that Father Chiniquy is lecturing to large audiences and creating a great excitement. We copy the following from the Herald : Pastor Chiniquy delivered his third lecture to-night. Canon Smith occupied the chair. The rain fell heavily, but there was a tolerably large audience. Mrs. Constable is announced to lecture here on Tuesday in relation to Pastor Chiniquy. Rev. James Gardner.—This gentlemen, connected with the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland, and belonging to Edinburgh, passed in the last Australian steamer, having been on a visit to the Colonies, he having a brother. Pastor of one of the city Churches of Sydney, the Rey. Andrew Gardner. � 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 (1878) 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 - 1878.12.02 - Newspaper Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1878.12.02 https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/46ffe9df63da7842fc4529220873ad18.pdf 25a6e324222ad530779beee201278131 PDF Text Text FRIEND THE HONOLULU, JANU.RY 1, 1879. $rto Scries, tJoI. 28, $«.)., CONTENTS For Jnunarr I. 1879. The World's Great Hereafter Poetical Light Ramble, in the Old World, No. 24 Hon. Bayard Taylor's Sicklies, aud Death The Week of Prayer Murder of Capt. Moller An UnsurpassedHymn Marine Journal Editor's Table—Through the Dark Continent Y. M. C. A THE FRIEND, JANUARY 1. 1870. hear much about streets, but there P.O. Edison's electrical light for 1 is something exceedingly poetical about 1 1-4 lighting the streets of Honolulu. The lamps 4 4 are so few that, in Milto»ic phrase, they 4 and these few °•"» make ''darkness visible," 6 lamps are placed at such magnificent dis8 tances, that the dim twinkling rays, a? they go wandering away on their errands of mercy to light the path of the stumbling wayfarer, remind one of those beautiful lines of Shakespeare— The World's Great Hereafter!—As we have great faith that the inhabitants of the Pacific Islands and the surrounding shores of this great ocean, have an important part to play in the world's Great Hereafter, we again hoist this motto at the heading of our sheet. It was omitted during 1878 to make room for The Hawaiian Centennial." Senator Seward, standing on the floor of the United States Senate thirty years ago, was a true prophet. Could he have lived to see what we now see, we think he would have been one of the boldest and strongest advocates of the Hawaiian Reciprocity Treaty. Seward, Burlingame and Sumner have now passed away, but their prophetic vision foresaw what we are now witnessing pass before our eyes. The end is not yet; in the future, events still more momentous will be developed, showing that the " Star of Empire" is still moving " Poetical {401* Scries, M.Hi. RTAIMHBONLESWD2 RL-No. 4 Light.— We far that little candle throws bia beams ! " How So shines a good deed in a naughty world." Then, again, in other words of the same author— *' When the moon shone, we did not ace the candle." So very dim burns the street lamps. We do think our City Father, the Minister of the Interior, might give us a little more light! The theory of older cities is, that the better a city is lighted the less of a police force is required. The cost of several street lamps would not exceed the salary of one policeman ! Then, too, a street lamp, if the kerosene is good, will not go out, whereas a policeman might fall asleep. Bishop & Co. keep away the burglars and robbers by opening the shutters and burning a lamp. Why may not others do the same ? It is worth thinking about. Our readers will notice in another column that Edward Willis, of Kingston, Mass., is anxious to obtain information respecting Hawaiian chess, &c. As we must westward. plead ignorance upon topics of this nature, we publish his request, and should any one and Almanac Hawahan Annual Thrum's be inclined to give the desired information, for 1879.—1t is a capital idea of Mr. we will forward the same. Thrum, the stationer, of Honolulu," to gather Our readers will notice that the poem up the events of the fleeting years and register them in his Annuals, which have now of Mr. Bailey is about to be published (see been issued for five years. The information advertisement). Mr. Bailey, we understand, contained in the Annual for '79 is worthy of is also engaged in the publication of a volto Micronesia, having made a preservation. Mr. Gibson and Mr. Dole ume relatingpart of this great ocean on board to that trip contributions to this have also made valuable number. The paper of Mr. Dole upon the the Morning Star. Birds of the Islands forms a most valuable The C. M. Ward sails on or about the contribution to science. The Annuals of Micronesia, and will take a mail Mr. Thrum will essentially aid the future 4th inst. for Islands. the to missionaries. historian of the Hawaiian A Few Weeks in Scandinavia-No. 3. I wrote you last as we were in the midst of the sights and scenes of Copenhagen. This had been the limit which 1 had fixed for my northern rambling. After Riigen I had allowed myself Copenhagen, this glimpse of a new life and people. There had been perhaps a faint thought ofand a strong longing for Stockholm, the fairest of northern cities and capitals, but this had seemed too far away, quite beyond our reach. Yet when I stood looking northward, with only a few hours of sailing on a brilliant summer sea, between the Danish shore where I stood and the mainland of Sweden, and with my fancy quickened by all I had heard of the venetian-like beauty of the Sivedish capital 1 was forced to put the limit of my summer journeying still farther to the north. If you have ever felt the allurement of a similar temptation, you will confess with me that it One could tarry is no easy thing to resist. long with pleasure in Copenhagen. I have but faintly told you of the power of Thorwaldsen's works. It seems as if it must be a constant source ot inspiration to live in the city where they are placed. Copenhagen was also the home of that genial old man, loved of children of all nations, Hans Christian Andersen, that very prince of story tellers, to whom the secrets of fairy-land seem to have been revealed, and with these the faculty of telling them royally again to his eager, wondering audience of little folks. Andersen died only a few years ago, very much loved, very much mourned. To very few is it given to keep on into later life, that tenderness and childlikeness of heart, that subtle sympathy with all that goes to make up the little joys and sorrows of the nurseryworld, as it was to him. These wee sweetvoiced critics have crowned him over and over again, and must mjss him sadly now th»t he is gone. There is a great flowery, shadowy park in Copenhagen where hundreds of little Danish children, under the charge of their nurses, come in summer-time near the old castle of Rosenborg, and here a statue of tbis friend of children is to be erected before very long. One could not wish for a more appropriate place. There is a very charming walk all along the shore by Copenhagen, the favorite promenade of �THE FRIEND, JANUARY. 2 the city. On sunny afternoons 1879. imposing. There is nothing like the grandeur of the Norwegian coast. And yet there is something exceedingly interesting in this low-lying country, with wild wastes of barren land, where grey rocks and heaths face the mist and spray which blow in over the tumbling sea. A few villages and churches we saw on the coast, but for the most part it is a long, dreary, rocky coast. We are told that as soon as we strike inland we shall find fertile farming lands and a beautiful country of lake and the view of it strike me as the harbor with its many ships, the blue water dotted with the white sails of passing boats, is something most inspiring. Not very far away is an iqteresting monument, because of the incident which it recalls. A few yean since a young German, who chanced to be spending a few days in Copenhagen, was walking on thia promenade. A little boy, as he was passing, fell, into the water. Seeing that he was in danger of drowning, the young German bravely leaps in to rescue him. In this he succeeds, but at the sacrifice of his own life. Throughout all Denmark this brave deed awakened the greatest sympathy and admiration. Never in Copenhagen was any one interred with greater honors. The king himself laid "a medal" of honor on the coffin. Sad as was the fate of the young hero, yet in his death he served his Fatherland, for this circumstance led to a kindlier feeling between the forest. As the day was waning, we came into the still water bordering the shore. The land which had lain distant and indistinct on the horizon now grew near and apparent. The still evening air was of a crystalline purity and clearness such as I have rarely ever seen. A strange stillness seem to rest on all the barren waste of land. I was strongly reminded of the wastes which ancient lava Danish and German peoples, whom recent flows have made on Hawaii. There was a war and enmity had so estranged. strange fascination in the infinite loneliness of the scene, which seemed to impress all on SWEDEN-WARD! The traveler can reach Sweden by the board. The sun-set glowed in broad bands short steamer-route to Malmii, or by one of crimson and* gold low in the west, arid some hours longer to Gothenburg. At this the strange fiery fierceness of its light shone point I have recourse to my journal again, in sharp contrast to the passionless dullness which I find opens at August 19th, G'dte- of the desolate, forsaken landscape. A few lonely fisher-boats still lingered in the grey borg, Sweden. We had just time this morning to make twilight, on the darkening waters, hinting to a few purchases, settle hotel-bills, say "good us that behind the long stony barriers of the morning" to our very obliging host, and shore lay warmth, and welcome, and human catch the early steamer for Goteborg in life. Goteborg (Gothenburg, as we say) Sweden. Such a medley of people ! How appears to be admirably situated at the could they have all drifted to this steamer! mouth of the River Uota. The passage to There were French nuns or sisters of char- the sea is through a long winding channel, ity, English tourists, some very unmistak- sometimes seeming to be just wide enough able Americans, Swedes, Danes, etc., etc. to permit of the passage of the steamer. The day has been gloriously beautiful on I have been constantly impressed* so far in the water. We steamed along the Danish Sweden, with an activity and life, which I coast for some time, which was charmingly can in no way better characterize than green and inviting. Summer residences, American. There is a bustle and drive watering places, villages peeped out from here, a certain newness, an intense vitality the shrubbery on the shore. We spent the which seems wanting in many parts of whole day on deck. How the waves tum- Europe. Doubtless there is very much of a bled our steamer about! The Kattegat is no " glassy sea" when the wind sweeps future before Scandinavia, if the enerdown from the north. There was an artist gies and impulses which now seem so from Dresden on the steamer with us, a actively at work are rightly guided. All great blonde flaxen haired giant, who was this is most encouraging in the midst of going north to sketch, and bring home the unrest, uncertainty, and perplexity of " studies " from the wild landscapes of Scan- monarchical Europe. Goteborg has a popudinavia, I presume. But what a glory in lation of something like sixty or seventy sea and sky and land there was spread out thousand. It was founded in the year 1619 before him on this mid-summer day. Wind by Gustavus Adolphus, whose great name and rain " squalls " rushed over our sky, or seems thus to welcome us, as we first put gloomed for a moment on the misty northern foot on Swedish soil. The city lies surhorizon. Then clouds swept up from north, rounded by low hills, to whose heather-covand south, from east and west, only to part ered summit we climbed and obtained a like some marvelous curtain, disclosing the view of the city. The streets are broad and dazzling radiance of the summer's sun. The well kept. In the suburbs lie many villas, waves tossed white foam into the sunshine, surrounded by spacious and blooming garand leaped and sported around the path dens, where the rich merchants have their which our steamer sharply cut, in a kind of homes. Here in Goteborg are some of the wonderful glee. I wonder whether after all principal business houses of Sweden, and these centuries Christianity has fully exor- between this city and the neighboring councised the wild wayward spirits which we tries and England there is frequent and exread in the old mythologies peopled the cellent steam communication. Architectwoods and waters of this northern world! urally the city has nothing to boast. Its After we had taken a farewell glance at comfort, and order and moderate prosperity, the old castle of Elsinore, which it was a the contentment which seems to characterize pleasure to see once again, we said good-bye its people, make a most pleasing impression to Denmark, and directed our attention to on the new comer. Sweden, which lay low on the distant horiWe note immediately that in coming to zon. At no point, as we came nearer it, did Sweden, we have not come to a cheap eoun- try. In fact in all Scandinavia, i.e., in its large towns, one finds that he must as a general rule pay more than he would in Germany. 1 have been especially interested in glancing at the book-store windows in passing. They are a reading, thoughtful people. Among other books I noticed was Farrar's "Life of Christ" in Swedish translation, Stanley's last book only just out in English and here in translation, many German books in the original, etc. Our hotel is delightfully comfortable. It is enough to delight the heart of a traveler to see a warm, bright English carpet on the floor, after having perhaps for months been used to slippery waxed floors in Germany, where stray bits of carpet and rugs try in a forlorn way to be cozy and genial. But I fancy this luxury is owing to the fact that many English travelers come this way. The longer I live the more I am convinced that the only people in this world who know how to live really comfortably are those who speak the English language, and especially those who live in America. In this conservative old world they are slowly beginning to learn the meaning of carpets, furnaces, bright open-fires, rocking chairs, etc.! TO STOCKHOLM BY CANAL ! I may run the risk, in these hurrying days, of being considered an incorigibly lazy traveler when I write you that 1 saw fit to go to Stockholm by canal. There is a railway communication between Malmij and the capital, and Goteborg and Stockholm. But I was curious once in my life to take a canal journey, and I must confess that the three or four days thus spent en route to Stockholm were among the pleasantest I have ever enjoyed in traveling in any country. But dismiss from your mind your old conception of canaling, with a flat bottom boat, a worn and weary horse on the towpath, where he has walked eternally, driven by some wild-haired youngster or patient woman. No; certainly these picturesque phases of travel are fast fading away before all conquering steam. At Goteborg you take a comfortable steamer late Tuesday night, and arrive in Stockholm Friday afternoon. You pass thus if you will allow the Hibernianism overland by water, from the west to the east coast of Sweden. You have an opportunity of seeing one of the finest examples of canal-engineering in the world, you sail over the beautiful inland lakes of Southern Sweden, nnd pass through most fine and fertile reaches of country. The scenery does not compare for a moment with the wonderful grandeur of Norway, but there is a constant attraction in the landscape, a gentle beauty which cannot fail to charm and delight every traveler. Whoever visits Sweden should try this route if possible. As I have just said tbe canal is a remarkable piece of engineering. The southern portion of Sweden is intersected by numerous lakes, of which the Wenern and the Wettern are the largest; and it has been by the connection of these through canals, that the water route across Sweden has been rendered possible. For it was the desire of the Swedish kings to open this passage, but it was not completed until some time in this century. One can scarcely appreciate the greatness of the work, until he has personally made this journey, but it may be inter- �. esting for you to glance at the map of Southern Sweden and trace this course. Enormous sums of money have been expended upon the work, and those who undertook to prosecute the construction of the canal have at times met with great opposition. Foremost among these to whom Sweden should be grateful—is the Count Yon Platen, who died in this century. August 21st. —We left Goteborg last evening when the August moon was shining over this Swedish city, and this morning on waking and looking out from my stateroom, I found we were far inland, trees and forests on all sides, the fresh sweet morning calling to us from the heart of the pine forests. Our steamer was lazily taking a morning rest; here came sluices and other stoppages. We are told we have time to strike across country, visit the famous Trolhiita Falls, and that we should find the boat ready for us higher up. In this journey the steamers have a queer way of going up and down hill! The new canal at this point was built by Baron Ericson, brother of John Ericsnn of monitor memory in America. The Trolhata Falls are famous in Sweden, not for their height, for they are rather rapids than falls, but for the grand masses of rushing water which roar and foam over the rocks. It was delightful in the early morning to awake as it were in a new world. The sun was just beginning its course in the east, and the freshness and fairness of the new coming day bathed all the landscape. There are four falls in all, descending lower down in the valley. The last is especially fine; you pass on a frail-looking little bridge, strong enough, however, to a little wooded island in the midst of the river. On nil sides are the rapids; your little island is girdled by foam banks where countless rainbows flash and die to live again in a brief and brilliant resurrection—of color. We found a little village not fur away where we were to await the slow approach of the steamer. Near at hand was a busy paper-mill, where large quantities of paper are manufactured from wood, a process to me at least, new. I learned that some one of the London newspapers was supplied from this SwedisL mill. What n journey these sheets, lying so in the mill by these rainbow tinted falls, have before them before their mission is complete! We had our coffee in the inn by a quiet lake, and sunned ourselves in the early morning beams and were in readiness for our steamer. How oddly she looked slowly steaming through the stone borders of the canal, sometimes coming so close together that there is just room for passing. There was something amusingly American about this little town. Our host addressed us in English, with all the manner of an American tavern keeper. He had been years I believe, in the " States." The town looked thrifty, new and " woodeny," like so many one sees in the new lands of the west; and the people, by some resemblance (I can scarcely describe it, but it was none the less real) kept bringing to mind a village of " settlers " There is something delightful to me in these suggestions of the New World in the Old. The informality of this journey is refreshing. We have a very pleasant company of paslengers, and JANUARY. 187 9. as we steam lazily along, stopping now and then by the way, we are already beginning to get acquainted. The steamer table is excellent, and we are becoming acquainted with the mysteries of Swedish cookery. A young Swedish engineer, fresh from a visit to Paris, has been giving me mu:h information about his country. What warm hearted enthusiastic people they are ! I listen with pleasure to the language, though understanding so very little of it. Though so thoroughly different in formation, etc., yet as a spoken language, you are reminded of French. The people speak with great animation, and you can scarcely imagine that a language which on the printed page looks so hard and stiff, can be so musically spoken. We came about noon to-day to the great Lake Ven.er, the largest lake of Sweden and the third largest of Europe. It is a mighty sheet of water and widens like the sea. The banks lie rather low, so that it possesses little of the beauty of the Swiss lakes. A very few little islands lie within it. Our route lies across only a portion of it; as later on in the day we strike through the canal again to reach Lake Wettern. The stoppage? are •harming; at one place I grow interested in a family who join us, saying good-bye to their old home and going farther up country. Stranger as I am I cannot but feel a sympathy with them and all the kind friends who gather to shake hands with them, and wave adieu to them from the busy little wharf. It seemed hard work for some of them to keep the big tears back ; and just at evening we came to another little point, as we were leaving the lake where we had time to visit the busy glass factory of the place, and buy for a mere nothing fresh raspberries from the little Swedish maidens, who flocked down to the steamer to welcome us. The captain told us later on in the evening that we should have time for a brisk walk on the shore. So we gentlemen have just come on board again after a delicious run in the cool evening air. It seemed so strange and weird to be as it were almost alone in the heart of a great Swedish forest. The trees rose shadowy and mysterious out of the night and gloom ; stars gleamed overhead ; the water lay still and motionless in the canal; and as we stood waiting at the end of our walk, some one pointed to the silver light of the moon rising amid the darkness of the clustering firs. August 22nd.—The informality of the journey is fast making us acquainted with one another. There is a pleasant Swedish lady from Stockholm with her daughter. Some young Swedish gentlemen are with us whom every one on board likes, a Wesleyan clergyman from the north of England, American students, a talkative pleasant young German, English ladies and gentlemen, etc., etc. Our captain is a sunny faced, quiet eyed young man who makes it pleasant for every one, and with the charming summer weather, the beautiful and varied landscape, the constant making of new acquaintances, every one is voting this to be the most delightfuTW journeys. We have a long morning's ramble along the green shores, and let the steamer come up to us. Then come some hours on a charming lake, with wooded banks ; then slowly and quietly 3 TBE FRIEND, we steam" through narrow passages where we can almost touch the trees on the banks. A fair and fertile landscape spreads itself before us. We are in one of the most beautiful portions of Sweden. The fields stand golden wiih the wealth of splendid crops. Again we leave the steamer and visit an interesting old church with relics of the past; among them the coffin** in the vault of the Douglas Family, who come long ago from Scotland hither. Then we gather in the early evening, just as the sunset is flushing the waters of beautiful Lake Roxen, on the shores of the lake and await the steamer. Far above us rises the dark body of the steamer ; slowly and surely it descends the many watery steps of the canal to the level of the lake. One gate after another is opened and the water rushes and foams, and the steamer comes to take us over the sunset lighted lake further on our journey. What a new meaning such a journey gives to old terms! I shall never hear or read of locks, of sluices, etc., without thoughts of this August time in Sweden. Lately I came across a little sketch of the poet Longfellow in prose, which seems so full of a gentle quiet beauty that 1 am tempted to copy a few words from it here. Though it was written years ago, and though Sweden's life has oflate lost much ofits former picturesque and primitive character and simplicity, yet 1 think it cannot fail to be interesting in connection with this country, through which we are passing. is something patriarchal still lin" There about rural life in Sweden, which gering renders it a fit theme for song. Almost primeval simplicity reigns over that northern land, —almost primeval solitude and stillness. You pass out from the gate of the city, and, as if by magic, the scene changes to a wild, woodland landscape. Around you are forests of fir. Over head hang the long, fanlike branches, trailing with moss, and heavy with red and blue cones. Under foot is a carpet of yellow leaves; and the air is warm and balmy. Oh a wooden bridge you cross a little silver stream; and anon come forth into a pleasant and sunny land of farms. Wooden fences divide the adjoining fields. Across the road are gates, which are opened by troops of children. The peasants take off their hats as you pass; you sneeze and they cry, ' God bless you.' The houses in the villages and smaller towns are all built of hewn timber, and for the most part painted red. The floors of the taverns are strewn with the fragrant tips of fir boughs. In many villages there are no taverns, and the take turns in receiving travelers, he thrifty house-wife shows you into the best chamber, the walls of which are hung round with rude pictures from the Bible; and brings you her heavy silver spoons,—an heirloom, —to dip the curdled milk from the pan. You have oaten cakes baked some months before; or bread with anise-seed and coriander in it, or perhaps a little pine bark. Meanwhile the sturdy husband has brought his horses from the plough, and harnessed them to your carriage. Solitary travelers come and go in uncouth one-horse chaises. Frequent, too, are the village churches, standing by the road-side, each in its own little garden of Gethsemane. Near the churchyard gate stands a poor-box fastened feasants �4 THE FRIEND, by iron bands and secured by a padlock. If it be Sunday, the peasants sit on the steps and con their l'salm-books. Others are coming down the road with their beloved pastor, who talks to them of holy things, from beneath his broad-brimmed hat. He speaks of fields and harvests, and of the sower that went forth to sow. He leads them to the Good Shepherd. The women carry Psalm-books in their hands wrapped in silk handkerchiefs, and listen devoutly to the good man's words." August 23d.—Last day of our journey. During the night we have had a little touch of the Baltic, but by morning we were within sheltering shores again. What a glorious morning we had on Lake Miilar, before reaching Stockholm! The day was surpassingly fine. The beautiful banks of this most beautiful lake, rose about us covered with verdant groves. Numerous summer residences looked out at us as we passed. The Swedish gentlemen on board sang some of the sweet old melodious Folk Songs of 1879. The Week of Prayer. to a post the country. Every one seemed filled with the joy and gladness of the morning. Before long the spires and towers of the Swedish capital rose in the distance—growing more and more distinct as our steamer aavanced. We welcomed them, and yet in welcoming them we regretted that we must now say good-bye to friends and scenes which in the past few days had become most pleasant to us. To-night we sleep in Stockholm, of' whose beauty we had henrd much, but which my brief acquaintance of a few hours with the city leads me to believe is worthy of all the praise which has been given it. JANUARY. Theprogramme for the Week of Prayer, prepared by the Evangelical Alliance of Great Britain, has not been received In season for general use in tho rhurchea connected with the Hawaiian Evangelical Association. The Hawaiian Board voted at itn lawt meeting that a Hpeclal programme, In Hawaiian and English, shouldbe prepared for use In our churches, and In accordance with that vote the following liwt of subjects for prayer Is published. C. IM. Hyde, Kec. Bec'y. Honolulu, Dec. 37, 187K. Si*Ni>.\ Jan. 5. The Supreme Obligation of the Rlghtousuess which God requires. Matt. 6: .(.'. Monday, Jan. 6. The Church, its ordinances divinely appointed, its object the conversion of the world, its methods aggressive as well as attrnctive, its membership individually responsible, its purity in social life and its firm adherence to revealed truth essential to its progress, Tuesday, Jan. 7. The Home, the centre of elevating, purifying, hallowing influences to be made a type of heavenly blessedness. Wednesday, Jan. 8. The School,— all under-training for futureusefulness, whether in the Sunday school, the day school, the college and seminary, or taking the first steps in business life. Thursday, Jan. 9. Light for the Uncvangellzed, and all mission work to put the Light of the Gospel into the Lip of the world. I'it in \v, Jan 10. Help for thepoor, the weak, the erring; preparing the way of theLord by removing Intemperance, licentiousness, thrlftlessness and other social evils. Saturday, Jan. 11. The Nations of the Earth to be one UniversalBrotherhood in Christ, the Polynesian and the Asiatics, the European, the African, the American to be no more strangers and foreigners to each other, but fellow citizenswith the saints and of tbe household of God. Sunday, Jan. 12. Jesus Christ, the Divine Redeemer from sin, supremely loved and eternally adored by all. Rev. 5:11-13. v. 13th October, and was buried on shore the same night, in the presence of the ship's company, the burial service being read by the Key. Mr. Whitney." The vessel next sailed for Sydney, and the case was duly reported to the authorities. Gospel-Leaven at Work among the Chinese.—Facts are frequently falling under our notice, which indicate that silently yet surely, the gospel-leaven is at work. The means may be feeble to human view, but God employs at times, " the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe." The Key. Mr. Coan thus writes from Hilo, Dec. 26th, Our foreign church in Hilo " voted last evening, to call Wong E. for six months, and see that he is supported. Whether our Chinese will appreciate the efforts made for their good so as to lend a helping hand remains to be seen, or not to be seen. Most of them cleave more to the terrestrial than to the celestial." The Rev. Mr. Rouse, writes from Makawao, Dec. 27th, " Those Christian Chinamen of whom you wrote, 1 will endeavor to care for. They attend my service, quite regularly." Among the Chinese in Honolulu, a contribution of about $200 has been collected towards the new church building of the second native church. In our columns, will be Murder of Captain Moller. seen the notice of an effort to erect a Chithe for In Neic Zealand Herald Decem- nese church edifice in Honolnlu. All'these find of Frank Williams Damon. ber 10, we the sad narration the cir- "straws" point in the right direction inBerlin, Oct. Bth, 1878. cumstances of the murder of the master of dicating that there is a gentle breeze blowing from the " Better Land." Hon. Bayard Taylor's Sickness and Death. the Meg Merri/ies, an English trading one of or schooner, at Butaritari, the Gilbert The Bible in Japan.—In the last report Our Berlin correspondent, after referring Kingsmill Islands. It appears that Captain to the American Thanksgiving and the ad- Moller was ordered to go thither and look of the American Bible Society, we find this dress at the American Chapel by the Rev. after a trading establishment under the interesting statement : Dr. Thompson, thus remarks under date of management of one Thomas Rennels, an " I cannot better close my report than Nov. 29th: "No large and general Ameri- Englishman. Some altercation occurred with the mention of a case at Otsu, on the can dinner was given, owing to the contin- about the settlement of accounts, and Capt. lake Birva, near Kiyoto, which shows how the Scriptures can the heart and reued illness of Mr. Taylor. This serious and Moller began to remove some property, but volutionize the life.open Several copies of the prolonged illness has been most trying for was told if he did so he would be fired upon Japanese Scriptures, and other Christian, his family and friends. Sometimes it seems by Rennels. A shot .was fired, which took books, were some time since given by the as if he would never recover, and then again effect in his elbow. The wounded master Key. Mr. Neesima, of the American Board as yesterday and to-day he appears much goes on board his schooner, when the chief Mission, Kiyoto, to the officer of the prison at Otsu. He passed them over to one of the better. Mrs. Taylor does not receive any officer headed a force, comprising four of his prisoners, a scholar, whose crime was that ol calls, and does not go out at all into society. manslaughter. About six mouths.ago a fire in You may soon see Mr. Taylor's last poem. crew, and arrested Rennels " the Queen's took place in the prison, when the entire It is just out, and is an elaborate philosophi- name." He was taken and confined on of prisoners, numbering nearly 100, body understand for cal one, as I the mission instead of improving something after board. The schooner sailed the opportunity to make the model of 'Faust.'" station of the Hawaiian missionary on Bou- their escape, assisted in putting out the find the the following among We latest taritari, but not being able to obtain medical flames, and remained to a man to be again telegraphic dispatches via San Francisco: aid, the vessel put away for the Marshall imprisoned. Such a remarkable circum]'kri.in, Dec. 19th.—Bayard Taylor, Minister stance occasioned inquiry as to the cause, died at o'clock tbis after- Islands, about four days' sail. Unfortunate4 of the United States, that the scholar among came on suddenly. ly, Dr. Pease, the American missionary when* it appeared noon. The fatal symptoms He had been out uf bed and transacting '>UHinenn physician, was absent, when, remarks the them had been so impressed and convinced of the truth of Christianity that he had with an official of the American Legation- yestereditor of the Herald, ''poor Moller was taught it to his fellow-prisoners, and Chrisday. His death was peaceful and painless. iIKKi.iN, Deo. 20th.—Funeral services over tbe then taken to the house of the American tian principles, combined with his personal remains of the late Bayard Taylor will be held at influence, had such power over them as to the American Legation on Sunday, when tbe missionary, the Rev. Mr. Whitney, who used them from fleeing when the doors of restrain a be taken to and await body will mortuary every effort to relieve the poor fellow, but their prison were opened. The scholar was to On Ameritransportation America. Sunday, oan residents will take action at tbe American lock-jaw and putrefaction supervening, he consequently pardoned, but he remained in died in great pain at 4 p. in. on Sunday, the Otsu to still teach the prisoners. He has Chapel. �5 THE FRIEND, JANUARY, 1879. opened a Chinese school for young men, where Christianity is taught, and it is said he is now preparing to reprint a Chinese Commentary on the Gospel of John, with Japanese connectives, to render it more readable to Japanese scholars !" MARINE JOURNAL. PORT OF HONOLULU, S. I. ARRIVALS. Dec 2—Am sh Bullion, Reed, 20 days from Ban Francisco ■J -Hair bk KHlakauM, Jenks, 10 days from San tVran 3—l' M 8 Zealandia. Chevalier, Irom San Francisco 3—Am bk Edward James, O'Brien. 18 days fm Tahiti 6-Am bk Wealthy Pendleton, Hlaiirhard, 37 daya fat Kobe, Japan 6— Am top-wll schr W H Meyer, Williams, 17 dayi from Ban Francisco 6—Britbk Haselhurst, Goudey, 36 days from Victoria, bound for Hongkong 7—Am bktne W. H. Died, Eudicott, 20 dys fm 8 Fran li -Am hk Camden. Kobiuson, 36 dys fm Fort Gamble 11—H 1M 8 Albatross, Corv-Captain Menslog 1, 84 days from Y'okohsma. 12—Am tern Compeer, Uuckholm, 31 dya fm Pt Gamble 13—Am bk Alice Heed, Kelleran, H7 dys fm New York 17—Am achr Robert Emmett, Galloway, 21 days fm 8 F 20—Am bk Frement, Nickerson, from Uahului 24—Btr Australia, 16 days from Auckland 26—Kamaile, 12 days from Fanning* Inland 20—Leo, 17 days from Han Francisco 27—H W A liny, 22 days from San Francisco 27—D C Murray, 20 days from San Francisco 27—Hasard,27 days from Astoria •27—Maltte Macleay. 34 days from Portland 27—llellen Mar, 21 days from Sao Francisco Dec 3—P M 8 Zealandia, Chevalier, for Sydney 6—Am sh Bullion, Reed, for Guano \> Imni*. 6—Am bk Wealthy Pendleton, Blanchaid, lor Royal Roads 6—Haw bk R 0 Wylie. Rakemann, for Bremen B—Brit bk llazelhurst, Goudey, for Honickong 11—Am bktne Ella, Brown, for Nm Francisco 16—Am bk Camden, Robinson, for Port Gamble 19—Ambk T J Bouthard, Handy, for dan Franolsco 19—Am bk Edward James, O'Brien, for San Francisco 24—Sir Australia, for San Francisco 24—Discovery, lor Ban Francisco 24—W H DietE. for Bao Francisco 27—German Corvette Albatross for South Pacific. An Unsurpassed Hymn. fin the New Englandera for August, 1880, Dr. D. F. Bacon pronounces the following exquisite hymn unsurpassed in the English or any other language, and adds that " perhaps it is as near perfection as any uninspired language can be." It is usually ascribed to Hillhouse, the poet, i. ?., James A. Hillhouse; but according to Dr. D. F. Bacon, it was written by his younger brother, Augustus L. Hillhouse, who died near Paris, in March, 1559.] X TrembllnK before thlno awful throne, O Lord ! In dust my ulna I own, Justice and mercy for my life Contend ! Oh t smile snd heal my strife. The Saviour smiles! upon my soul, New tides of hopes tumultuous roll His voice proclaims my pardon found, Beraphlc transport wings the sound. — Earth has a joy unknown in heaven— The new-born peace of sin forgiven ! Tears of such pure and deep delight, Ye angels, never dimmed your sight. Ye «aw, of old, on chaos rise 'I'll'- beauteous pillars of the skies; Ye know where morn exulting springs, And evening folds her drooping wings. Bright heralds of the Eternal Will, Abroad his errand ye fulfill ■ Or throned Iv floods of beamy day, Syiiipliiuiiinir* in his presence play. I.tmd is the song—theheavenly plain Is shaken with the choral strain And dying echoes, floating far. Draw music from each chiming star. — But I amid your choir shall shine. Andall your knowledge shall be mine; Ye on your harps must learn to hear A secret chord that mine will bear. The American exhibit at the Paris exhibition took seventy-five per cent, of the awards in all grades. Information Wanted. When Capt. Cook first viaited the Sandwich Islands, he found the natives playing a game like chess or checkers. There la considerable interest felt as to the origin or antiquity of these games. Please send me a description of the game, of the board and manner of playing. Do they play the game now, and could a board be obtainedby sending a remittance? Respectfully yours, Edward Willib. Kingston, Mass., Nov. 14, 1878. Respecting Geobue S. Bretlin, who is supposed to have come to the Hawaiian Islands about twenty-live yearsago. He has friends residing In Philadelphia anxious to learn something respecting him. Please address Mhb. JamesH. I'iKK, yiiN N. 17 Bt., Philadelphia. DEPARTURES. MEMORANDA. wT" In the June number of the Friend, 1878, there is statement, that Captain Campbell called at Ascension on the (ith of J.unary, .nd ordered wood and took away a Meaning to one John Dc 8ylv«, boat anil whaling gear.Captain had not been heard from. Blnce which time, the belonged to '• boat and gear that said We wtsh to state, Captain C, and Dc Hylva had never advanced any thing Captain We would state that Cla now on for the same. board theNorman boundto Ascension, aud everything will Captaln C has called be put right. Wi- would add that upon us, and we take place In makiug this statement. been most always has kind in Captain C in former times, forwardlug packages aud Microneslan missionaries. Uki'iiut Of Haw Bk Kalakaiia, Jenkb, Master.—Left 8»n Francisco Nov 12th, at 4 p m. First two days calm, on third day took a HK gale, lasting twenty-four hours, and shifting suddenly to NW, and moderating to a light breeze whioh continued the entire passage. Took the trades lv lat 27 long 1.12 o. On tbe w.y down both side lights exploded, but doing no damage. Come to off Diamond Head at midnight of Dec Ist. A full cargo, also four cabin aud flfty-threc steerage passengers. Report of Am Babk Camden, Robinson, Master.— Sailed lnmi Port Gamble Nov 2d. C.me out of the Htr.lt* Nov 4. First 12 d.ys hail H E aud 8 W gales. On 14th of Nov had a very heavy 8 W gale, with tremendous ses running thenlud 8 d.ys of light H W winds. Took the trades lv lat .10.14, loug 133.12. From thence to port light winds and tine \vi-iitln r. Repobt op Am bk Alice Reed, J II Keli.eban, Master. —Left New York June20; had calms and line weather to the equator, 40 d.ys; was lil days from the equator to Cape Horn j passed around the Cape with pleasant weather and fair wind ; was 61 days from the Cape to the equator in the Pacific, experiencing very strong westerly thence to port light winds and Kales to Ist 35 B ; from pleasant weather, making the p.ss.ge iv 174 days. Hpoke, Hept. 13, In lat 41.20 8, loug 57.38 W, ship Columbus, from Bio Janeiro to Calls.. ; Hept 24, off Statin Land, ship America, to Han Francisco. Repobt ok the Schooner Kamaile. B. B. Hempstead. Master.—Hailed from Honolulu ou '.Ith November for Farming's Island. Arrived at the Island on the 18th. Balled from the Island on the l'Jth Dec for Honolulu. Dec 23, at 11 am. made the Island of Oahu, bearing north, distance 40 mileß arrived on the •24th. Sailed from Farming's Island, Nov 23, Tahltlan achr Vivid, Bweet ; Tahiti, Dec 12, English ship Pegasus, Powel, for Hamburg. Left at the Island, French bark " ° , . : , Ocean, loading. PASSENGERS. Fbom Ban Francisci>—Per Zealandia, Dec i—A Mc Wsyne and wife, J I Dowsett, Jr, G W Townsend snd Mlsb Margeret Y. Upp, No. 1104 Post street, San Franwife, Miss Nellie Austin, Col T Crawford McDowell, A Campbell, P M Olldea,Mrs P N Makee,childand servant. cisco, writes to the American Consul at this port requestBrewer, Miss Elixa Brewer, Miss L Roging Information concerning the whereabouts of her father H Ehrllch, Chas ers, T M Percltta, Mrs L McCauley, Mrs E F Taffany, J T Adam Upp, a carpenter by trade, wbo came to Honolulu Waterhouse and wife, B duff, B Alexander and wife, H E Mclntyre, W M Gibson, Mr I'unimlngs.Mr Woolmlngton, in January laat. J I'arrler. O H Higglns, a C 1.e.-s. L W Hand, James Me. To Whom it Mat Concehn.—There now resides in Dade, E McDade, F F Benedict. J E Carroll, J McGinn, P Yokohama Mra. M. J. Olbbs, formerly Mrs. J. Vaughn, of Hon", C EHmlth, J Fisher, W McDonald, D McKeniie, P Honolulu. Any parties wishing for Information will H Vicer, H E Friuk, A J J Phillips, Thos Wall, A Lorrls, Ct vi ■nings, J G I'levlor, T R Muuder, O P Williams, J apply to Hawaiian Consul, L. P. Lilybrldge, Esq., of W A G Jon is, I'has Fisher, J W Manchester, 176 Chinamen, Yokohama. 'J3 ualivj sailors, and SI In transitu for Australia. Fin <M San Fraßi-isco—Per Kslakaua. Dec 2—C C Marlon slid w!fV. Mra M Warrle, 1 V O'Brleu, F Mars.-. W B Wright, J Miller. T Hiirk. J Whldsner JLane, P Dlttner, I'l.iin. Hlii mls,.ii. CBroade, J Swatty, EFConnell, W Henry, J Watt., W Milutyre, A B MsJT.'tt. O B Manvn. W Urarren. F B Crane, F P Lord, A Sli.-pj.anl, \V Williams, D Walley, Chaa ltrailj, 8 Mi'Clußky, (I Baser, U Cherry, S (lasa, J Mm onsky, 1 ll.rili-, J M Mani-r, J Word, J lll™sun, W Wi-nj, J D Cspeland, B CodUne, (1 Osborn, r M.Lsnn, C Blurtlu. J Trainer, J Barry, E Smith, O .Murray, i Parker, E M K.ls«y, I. Brualey, J Manton, J Glusi-iin, G D I.aiisln, a W Smith, P M Stephens, E M Clark. Fbom Tahiti—Per Edward James, Dec «—Thos Adams, J Fr.r*, c Murray, Tbos Nelson, and 'J Hawaiian seamen. Fbom Han Fbancisco—Per W H Deltz, Dec 7—Charleß M. lull), M C Wilson, St Labo, Jas Howard, Wm Joss, P Deltz. Fbom Port Townbbnd—Per Camden, Dec 9—Mrs W Cox and 2 children, and 4 Chlnunen. Fob San Fbancisco, per ltd James, Dec 19—0 Murray, J J O'Neill, X H O'Brien. Fbom SanFbancisco—Per Fremont,—Dec 21 JE Bynde. Fob San Fbancisco—Per Discovery, Dec 24—8 Norrls. From Australia—PerAustralia, Dec 24—Mr Adelman and wife, J Noack, L Kerr, T X Park, and 42 In transitu for San Francisco. For San Francibco—Per Australia, Dec 24—J W PfluR-er, O W Maikfarlane, A Herbert, A F Graves, It N, J T Hit-sou, Jan Wyht, Capt JasHarr. T 11 Nesmlth. O C Waterhouse, J X Lee, M Boyce, T H McVlcar, and 4 Chinese. From Portland—Per Mattli* Macleay, Dec 27—J X Wlntler, E A Bulck. From San Fbancisco—Per H. W. Almy, Dec 27—J McPmli*. C Coleman, F Nelson, JRothweil, J D Conk, .IS Robertson, O H Frledlander, E W Oude, J A Hevuey, J Hogan. From Farming's Island—Per Kamalle, Dec 24—James m and two natives. "bom Ban Fbancibco—Per D C Murray, Dec 27—H Battey, D K.-iii-iiiv, M J li.l.iii. M McC.rlhv. M Fliiin, C Hancock, F Carp, liter, J 11 Van llandl. W UavL. C Shaw. M II Penry, T Kiley, W Hiley, M Uuiim, M Frank, Ii Quill, M Donlan, P 11..1nn. P Hameo, L M Shaw, V Ixinsm. W Rows, H X Canon, M Hoe, 0 Cain, II Meyer, T W J.rkson. J Beyliol.l. 1> McToes, J Cusey, J Lever, P Sherry, J C.ahniay, J Cornell, W O'Connor, A Toogood. C Kelrnay, W lloslie, D V Leanar, J Eppler, R Boyce, T Opady, T Qulnn, O l.uproil, M Roll., C Leon, X Francis, F Doyle. O Dean, C Harris, J U Logan, T Teale, W Slerryer. GeorgeLuproll, J A Uucunner, J B llen.hsw. C Kttlnger, Miss Lille Deshorn, F C Booth, M Latheiner, J Lennahan, A Stuart, J Itodgers, J White, J W Robertson, II II Smyth, F TowUar, J llyrns, T Lahey, 8 White, T Fsrd, W Scott, P DovaBher, W Cambell, F Laeler, M Wilson, C J Sherwood, C H Hanasey, U Connelly, P Woods, F Peterson, W Arlcin., T (in Ilanerty. MARRIED. Dodd—Booth—December Bth, by Rev. H. H. Pirker, Mm. J amkw Dodd to Mihh Qrack Booth, both of thin city. Weyle—Manuel— Iv this city, Dec 24, by Rev 8 CDtv moo, J H Weyle to Mahy Manuel, both of Honolulu. DIED. Wunoenbero—lnSydney, NSW, Oct 30. Mrs Ann WunHonolulu, aged 04 years. The deceased waa the oldest child of Ike Rev William Henry of Tahiti, one of the original pioneer missionaries of theLondon Missionary Society to the South Seas, sailing from London Aug lU, 1706. She was boru in August, IHI4, on the island of Moorea, one of the Hoclety group, and was the first whitechild born on that island. She came to the Randwlch Islands In 1844, and was married iv December, 1845, at Hanalel, Kauai, to U F Wundenberg. Hhe was at the date of her death, on a visit to her aged mother residing In Sydney. Hhe leaves a family of one son and six daughters to mourn her death and Imitate her many virtues, for in all the relations of life -she was a truly estimableand excellent woman and mother. Adams—At Boston, Mass., November Kth, Ruth Reed, beloved daughter of Edward P. aud Ellen F. Adams. Aged 4 months, 27 days. Welsh—lnKau, Hswali, December 4, James Welsh, a native of Halem, Mbbb, where his parents now reside. He came from Han Franclaco a few months since, tdek with consumption, and nl a beneficiary of the Ladle.' Htraugers' Friend Society. McLean—ln this city, Dec. 10. Oeoboe Christie McLean, a native of Aberdeen. -Scotland, aged 60 years, 6 months aud 21 days. He leaves a widow and six children to mourn the loss of a kind husband and father. Lovi—ln this city, Dec. 11, William Love, a native of Bydney, N. H. W., aged So years, 1 month and 6 days. The deceased came to these Islands with his parents when quite a boy, being the youngest of the firm ofLove Bros. Mitchell—Lu thl. city, Dec 17, of aneurism, John Mitchell, a native of London, England, aged SO years. He had resided on these Islands for about 'if, years, aud leaves a widow and two children. He was s good citizen, sober, industrious and honorable. His funeral waa attended by membersof Excelsior Lodge No 1,1 OO F, and Mechanics' Benefit Union, he having been a member of both societies. denhero, of A. NEW jPOEIVf, OF - WAII.I OUR MR. E. BAII.EV. I. snnounced Ihe Publisher, 8. C. Andrew., Ann BT Ibtll or Pacific entitled—Hawaii Arbor, KU, by bjbi, ab ths Mich, wierd tales and Islands. Being fall «f vigorous description, of poetic alloslon. to Ihe traditions snd romance, our beautiful makes Islsnds, it should be read by all our cltiaens. and alsofriend., sn elegant and appropriate present lo seisl to disl.nl bookseller, gent post |*ld by the Publisher or by the taland oo receipt of price. Paper, *0 cls»| C'lslfc, tl .00. �THE FRIEND, JANUARY, 6 187 9. ted to wander in almost certain safety the names of Livingstone, Speke, Burton throughout Uganda, and is hospitably treated and others, who have so nobly toiled amid Throcch the Dark Continent. By Henry M. as the Emperor's guest." the unknown deserts, mountains and rivers Stanley. Harper t Brothers, New York, 1878. of the Dark Continent. At some future This picture of heathenism will aptly cortime we hope to refer to this subject again. This is the record of a grand work, nobly respond with a passage of the Apostle Paul, We would merely add, let due thanks be executed. We do not believe the records of in the first chapter of his epistle to the ever rendered to the Proprietors of the land and maritime discovery in ancient or Romans, verses 21—32. Dark as are its and New York Herald modern times, can produce an instance of outlines, they are not so deeply drawn and London Telegraph for their and generous magnanimous supply foresight, endurance, persistency, or what so fearfully sombre as are those describing of funds to this Anglo-American out carry tribes the Congo, the English would call pluck, to equal this the condition of along Expedition. of Stanley's journey—occupying nine hund- through which he fought his way in thirtyred and ninety-nine days from the shores of three battles. Only imagine the moral We have always taken a peculiar the Jndian to the Atlantic oceans, via '• the character of tribes which would neither sell sources of the Nile, around the great lakes or give food to the strangers, but would fight interest in the future career and success in of equatorial Africa, and down the Living- them with poisoned arrows, and amid their life of those who claim the Hawaiian Islands stone river to the Atlantic ocean." war chants, shout " meat, meat, meat," so as their birth-place. Most vividly and pleaThese volumes are full of instructive in- voracious were their cannibal instincts. To santly we recall the daughters of A. G. formation—geographical, ethnological, botan- escape from such demons of savagery Abell, Esq., formerly U. S. Consul in Honoical, geological and religious. They should and war, Stanley was compelled to contend lulu. The following notice of the marriage be read by both the enemies and friends of in thirty-three engagements, and most of Miss Sarah Abell we copy from a late missions. There is one special class ofread- fortunately, while almost everything else number of the San Francisco Call: ers which, we trust, will not fail to give gave out, his ammunition did not fail. So MARRIAGE OF CAPTAIN CARL BAVLEY, IT. S. A., these volumes a thorough perusal. We far as possible, he appears to have conducted AND MISS SARAH ABEL, AT GRACE CHURCH. refer to unbelievers in Divine Revelation his intercourse among the savage Africans A wedding that created some little stir, and the Christian religion. Persons living in upon the most pacific principles. but one divested of ostentatious display, took Christian lands and surrounded by all the Our limits will not allow us to comment place at one o'clock yesterday afternoon, at the light, knowledge and blessings of gospel, upon many points of startling interest with Grace Church, the contracting parties being Captain Carl Bayley, of the United States and who deny the truth of that same gospel which these volumes abound. Stanley's Army, ih command of the post at Camp and the Divine Mission of our Saviour to ability to meet the difficulties of daily per- Bidwell, in the northern portion of the State, this world, should specially read and ponder plexity, irritation, hunger, care, anxiety, re- and Miss Sarah Abel, second daughter of the weighty statements which Mr. Stanley mind us of Homer's portraiture of Ulysses' Mr. Alexander G. Abel, Secretary of the Grand Lodge of Free Masons. makes respecting the condition of heathen character in the Odyssey : The church doors were opened at halfnations dwelling in the interior of Africa, The man, for wisdom's various arts renowned, past twelve, and by one the auditorium con" where no ray of gospel light has penetrated. Long exercised in -woes." tained a large and fashionable assemblage, There is no true conjecture respecting what including a number of officers of the army Stanley, however, was more fortunate and navy, whose uniforms added much io would have been the moral condition of our the wandering, crafty and cunning the attraction of the scene. The decorations than left, had been as globe if all other nations for the latter lost all his compan were simple but unique, consisting of an Ulysses, of tbe tribes have those heathen inhabiting extending over the ions, while the former successfully brought arch of white gauze the banks of the Livingstone or Congo. gates leading to the altar. Suspended from and fifteen of his the arch at spaces of about a foot were large Mr. Stanley has forcibly sketched the safely forth one hundred of the three hundred and bows of white ribbon, which gave a beautifellow out travelers moral status of the subjects of the Emperor with the expedi- ful effect. Mtesa on the banks of the Victoria Nyanza. more, who were connected and in the The bridal parly entered the church shortThe following paragraph we copy from vol- tion. Most honorably, heroically conducted these ly after one o'clock, Mrs. J. E. Tippett playmost manner he fatherly ume 1, page 409: ing the Wedding March on the organ while Zanzibar, their homes at children, to his The moral character of ihe people is far via C»pe of Good Hope. Stanley has re- the procession walked up the centre aisle. '' The party was preceded by the little sister below that of the Emperor. Indeed, if it marked, that to him the unknown regions of and brother of the bride, and then Lieutenwere not for him no stranger would dare to Africa represented by a blank sheet of paper, ant Harry Johnson, U. S. A., and Miss enter Uganda. They have no respect for possessed a peculiar charm and fascination, Maddie Abel, sister of the bride (the groomshuman life or human rights. Among them so the pages of his journals possess to the man and bridesmaid). The groom and Mrs. they recognize only might, and Mtesa might reader a charm and fascination. His honest Charles Tripler, wife of Captain Tripler, sister of the bride, followed, and in the rear even be pardoned for exercising greater and frank earnestness and sincerity so mani- came Mr. Abel and the bride. They took this does, than he for fierce severity people fest on every page, disarm all carping critiup their positions in front of the altar, when requires to be governed with the almost un- cism and fault-finding. Rev. Dr Piatt performed the ceremony acexampled severity of might and power which cording to the rites of the Episcopal Church. The reader of these ponderous but beautiSuna so cruelly employed. They are crafty, After the ceremony had been completed, fraudful, deceiving, lying, thievish knaves, fully printed and illustrated volumes, with the parties entered their carriages and were taken as a whole, and seem to be born with wonder and astonishment, lays them aside, driven to the residence of the bride's father, an uncontrollable love for gaining wealth by exclaiming: " How could the Leader of on the corner of Washington and Mason a wedding breakfast was parviolence and murder, in which they resem- the Expedition ever have accomplished what streets,of,where after taken which Mr. and Mrs. Bayley ble—except that they hive the lawless he has so faithfully, honestly and truthfully left for their new home at Camp Bidwell. instinct to a greater degree—nearly all the sketched." In all coming time the name The journey is a long and tedious one, over African tribes. Owing, however, to their of Stanley will rank among the first of the two hundred miles of the route being traterror of punishment, the stranger is permit- Ik-roes of African Discovery. All honor to versed in stages. EDITOR'S TABLE. �JANUARY, 1879. SAILORS' HOME ! ADVERTISBMEITTS. Places of Worship. 7 TRE FRIEND, BUB*ts*i*^«r**SßßßsUßßßßtW^*k. ■£•-. DR. T. P. TISOALE, Seamen's Bethel—Rev. S. C. Damon, Chaplain, OFFICE AND RES. Preaching street, near the Sailors' Home. King IDENCK, Beretania Street, between fort Street Church at 11 a. at. Seats free. Sabbath School before tbe and Queen Kinina's. OKKICK HOURS—FromB to 10 a.m.; 1 to 3p.m.. and S to morning service. Prayer meeting on Wednesday mh3o ly 8 ceiling.. evenings at 7J o'clock. .Br-w HOMEOPATHIST. lIANCHETTE, JL. • ' Fort Street Church—Rev. W. Fre«r, Pastor, Plaaa-Ferle Taaer ii Krpalrrr. corner of Fort and Beretania streets. Preaching (For many year, connected with Chickering A Bona.} on Sundays at 11 a. at. and 74 p. u. Sabbath XT Order, left at theBailors' Home or Whitney A Robertson's Bookstore. School at 10 a. M. Ka-waitiun Church—Her. H. H. Parker. Pastor, King Btreet, above the Palace. Servioea in Hawaiian every Sunday at 11 A. M. Sabbath school at 10 i. li. Evening services at 74 o'clock, alternating with Kaumakapili. District meetings in various chapel* at 3.30 i\ m. Prayer meeting every Wednesday at 74 P. M. | . M. Atiornry bi Law. ymr ED. DUNSCOMBE, Manager. IRWIN <v CO.. Commission Merchants, G. Honlulu, January 1, 1876. CASTLE *•& COOKE, Fort Street, Honolulu, H. 1. GENERAL MERCHANDISE! . Commission and Shipping Merchants, Honolulu, Oahu, H. I. P. ■71 Chinese Church Building Fund. iv their own in language. io AW . NOTICE TO SHIP MASTERS. DILLINGHAM &CO., Ns*. to and 97 King Street, KEEP A FINE ASSORTMENT OF Goods Suitable for Trade. PEIRCE St CO.. (Succors to C. L. Richard. A Oo.) Ship Chandlers and General Commission Merchants, Afttßts Piuloa Salt Usees, Works, Brand's Boats THOS. C. THRUM, STATIONERY AND NEWS DEPOT, Ne. 18 Merchant Street. --- Heaelaln. to lj A. L. Nil IT 11. IMPORTER & DEALER IN JEWELRY, King's Combination Spectacle., SHIP DILLINGHAM St. CO. STATIONERY it PERIODICALS. PUBLISHERS BOOK, OF THE HAWAIIAN QUID* Jarves' History of th. Hawaiian Islands, Hawaiian Phrase Book, Hawaiian Grammar, Andrew.' Hawaiian Uramm.r, Hawaiian Dictionary, Chart ot the Hawaiian I.land.. OTHER BOOKS ON THE ISLANDS. HAWAIIAN HONOLULU, DRAW CXCHANSB ON Bound Volumes at Redncetl Price ! BOUND VOLUMES WILL FURNISH one dollar per annua of tbe Friend WE fit. lor any number of year, from IU2 to the present at price Ume. u- Adding the cost of binding. (aubsoription ISLANDS. THE BINE OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO, — Naw 1 ork. AID TBBIB AUBBT. ■■ Bastea, — Parts, to order al and Plated Wan, Sewing Machines, Picture Frame., Vases, Brackeu, etc. etc. perience that the undersigned keep the beat assortment of TERMS BTRIOTLY CASH [lyl No. 73, Port St. Kingdom. Importers and Dealers in Foreign Books, MATTER-0F OF READING Papers and Mugs-tines, back numbers—put up PACKAGES reduced for parties going sea. rate, »• BOBBSVTSOB BISHOP k 00., BANKERS, And Perry Davis' Pala Killer. Hlasa And BeU Cheaper than any other Souse in the '• ALSO, OB BIBD, MASTERS VISITING THIS PORT darinf the last Six Years can testify from personal ex- GOODS F-01-t TRADE « Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaiian Islands. Tbe call for a Church comes from them- the Treasurer, Mr. Gookim, or Mr. Aseu. funds can also be remitted to Bishop <fc Co., Bankers, lor account of Chinese Church Building Fund. JOHN THOMAS WATERHOUBE. January Ist, 187*. d2B flm D., Late Surgeon Y. S. Army, to purchase AlmiKhty Pledges an Invited, to be paid on or before the 10th of January, 1880, whit* will be received by Mr. Joseph fi. Atherton, V MoOREW. Can be consulted at hi. residence on Hotel street, between Alakea and Fort streets. SUBSCRIPTIONS ARKSOI.ICITKD aid o. Christitn Chinese Und VOLUNTARY God In and build a Church Honolulu worship I.lf* lnsur.no. Company, Compsnjr, Ban Franelaoo, Company, The Kiih.l. Sugar The ll.iku Sugar Company. The Hamakus Sugar Company, Tbe W.i.lus Sugsr Plantsllon, The Wheeler A* Wilson Sewing- Machine Company, Br. Jayne Son. Celebrated Family Medleloei. tf_ Nesr England (Sueceuor. to H. M. Whitney), Fire-Proof Store, in Robinson. Building, Queen Street. * Matu.l Pickets, THE The Union Marine Insurance WHITNEY & ROBERTSON, Auction and Commission Merchant, S. AGENTS OF REGULAR PORTLAND LINE OF I. B. WHITBBT ADAMS. ■iIII N DEALERS IK IMPORTERS AND Church—Rev. M. Kuaea, Pastor, D., -a.! HOFFMANN, M Beretania street, near Nuuanu. Services in Hawaiian every Sunday at 104 a. m. Sabbath school Physician and Surgeon, at 94 a. M. Evening servicer! at 74 o'clock, alter- Corner Merchant snd Ka.hum.nu Streets, near the Poet oBee nating with Kawaiahao. Prayer meeting every sp BRE W E R A. CO.. Wednesday at 74 P. M. 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AND EDITED BT Marine Bod General Intelllpaos Temperance, PUBLISHED SAMUEL O. DAJkION. TERMS: One Oopy per annum Two Copies per annum Foreigu Subscriber., including postage ..|SOO *0O 1. 60 �YMoeunnH A'sgCochiartf onolulu. 8 Pure religion and undrflle.d before God, the. Father, is this: To visit thefatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep one's self unspottedfrom the world. Edited by a Comnvittee of the Y. M. C. A, |From Key. Jostipti Conk's licture, Nov. 11, IH7M.| ander and the Crusaders marched to the Regeneration of Asia. victories in the East, are ilenr to American Opium Smuggling. The regeneration of Asia is a colossal sympathies. event yet afar off", but approaching us wilh America gave to Syria the first scientific Recent developments in regard to smug- an assured and of late accelerated step. teacher, the first translation of the Bible into gling suggest several thoughts. For the Great Britain is now an essentially Asiatic Arabic, the first printing press, the first modsake of gain, or rather with the hope that power. This, indeed, is the claim of the ern church, the first college. In 1874 Amermoney may be made, there are men in our leader of the present administration in the icans printed at Beirut 30,000 volumes and community who are willing to run every United Kingdom ; and Lord Salisbury has 9,791,910 prayers in Arabic. hazard of detection, although knowing fully said that the boundaries of Turkey are in When Cyros Hamlin, who in many parthat detection will bring severe punishment. some sense the boundaries of England. It ticulars deserves to be called the father of There are men here who would scorn to is very interesting for Americans to notice education in Turkey in Europe, went abroad steal or to deliberately give poison to a how several dazzling illusions concerning the there was not a school book in the language neighbor that will likely ruin his health, and English occupation of Cyprus and the re- spoken by the people of Turkey. Now we yet they are willing to violate a law that form of the Turkish Empire under British have a long list, not only of text books on several successive Legislatures have thought political pressure have been dissipated by the grammar, rhetoric, logic, chemistry, surveya wise one in the interests of the Chinese progress of events and how the present atti- ing, history, zoology, mental and moral philand natives in this country. For the sole tude sober thought appears to be repre- osophy, political economy, anatomy, physiolhope of gain they introduce opium among sentedof the cool by proposition, long ago ad- ogy and medicine, but also of the best English the people, a drug which brings nothing but vocated by this Statesman on my left (turning works on distinctively Christian truth, nnd ruin to body and soul of its victims. toward the venerable Dr. Kufus Anderson, these in the Armenian, the Turkish and the How strong a hold the desire for money for many years Secretary of the American Asiatic tongues. There are 11,000 pupils must have upon such men! It outweighs of Foreign Missions), that religious in Turkish common schools which owe their Board not only the fear of the punishment of the rather than political causes must be relied origin to American influence. In the high law, surely to be inflicted upon them if deupon to regenerate Asia Minor. Sir, Lord schools founded by Americans for young tected, but the equal certainty of loss of women thousands are already Beaconslield is the left hand of reform in men and But character and reputation in the community. the facts which strike public, gathered. but the work you have been doing attention most at a distance nre the steady If undetected, and the great gain realised, Turkey; is the right hand! The left needs the right, shining of Robert College, at Constantinople, think of the anxiety and the nervous fears and the right the left; but the left needs its since 1552,—a beacon light on that stormy likely to be started at every moment while brother more than the right does. God grant coast between Asia and Europe; the steady the nefarious business is going on, in getting Protestant College at that the two may be clasped in sympathy— flame of the Syrian the goods in which the drug is concealed at Beirut, since IS6s—the gleaming of the British political influence opening the way Central Turkey College at Aintab, behind past all danger of the Customs officers, and for American religious effort in Turkey, and the hills; and the attempt to light another finally into the hands of the purchaser! American religious effort opening the way torch at Harput, on the flashing waters of Even when danger is supposed to be passed, those reforms which Great Britain would the upper Euphrates. These are American for the smuggler has an unquiet conscience and force upon the Sultan. * * * When I lighthouses on a dark Mohammedan coast, a pulse oft quickened at the mere thought where a very hungry surf wars yet and the look toward that portion of Asia which now beaches have been strewn with wrecks for that something at last may be found out. draws the attention of the whole world, the six hundred years. His Majesty, by his Royal veto, volunmost hopeful signs of progress are not, in tarily relinqished a large annual revenue my judgment, to be found in the British ocThe recent visit of Dr. A. P. Stanley, obtained by licensing the sale of opium, in cupation of Cyprus; nor in the project of a Dean of Westminister to the United States, the hope that with a stringent law opium from the Syrian coast to the heart has been attended with good results in the might become an unknown thing in Hawaii railwayPersian Gulf, although such a road cultivation of a greater catholicity of spirit, the nei, and many useful lives thus saved. The of be built before must many years. between Christians of all denominations. He, petitions that were addressed to the King on for Asia Minor is in a series of a dean of the established church of Enghope My this subject were signed by the Chinese facts illustrating the usefulness of American land, was the recipient of courtesies themselves in large numbers, and in a spirit teachers, physicians nnd missionaries there. by organized bodies of Baptists, Methoof loyalty, the thought of which ought to Indeed, Lord Stratford dc Kedcliffe used to dists, Presbyterians, etc. Such a man, bring a blush of shame to many who consay that the future of the East depended scholarly, devout, earnest and eminently sider themselves better than the Chinese, upon those >nen; and Lord Beaconsfield Christian cannot be made to be the excluthey have been true to the prayer of their himself has lately been drawing his best in- sive property of any one class of Christ's petitions. None of tbe recent developments formation from the reports of these Amerifollowers. Dr. Stanley preached many times in regard to opium smuggling implicate the cans. I undertake to affirm that in the Mis- during his short stay in America, and his Chinese, though undoubtedly there are many sion houses of Boston and New York more sermons reported in full by the religious who can be found to buy the opium when complete and authentic information concern- press we recommend as good reading. His presented to them for sale. condition and possible future address to the students of Union Theolothe ing present We hope and expect that public sentiin New York, was a eulogy gical of Turkey can be found than in the archives on theSeminary late Dr. Robinson, a Professor in that ment will sustain the authorities in ferreting out every case to the utmost, and in dealing of the Turkish Empire itself. institution whose work on Biblical revigorously and severely with the violators of The pleasant lands through which Xeno- searches in the Holy Land, had afforded the the law. phon led the retreat of the Greeks, and Alex- dean much pleasure and instruction. � 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 (1879) 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 - 1879.01.01 - Newspaper Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1879.01.01 https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/3a73e19a12c08ed84c9663d46a6c77f5.pdf b72b96b26f03cee99420af4cd79eff0b PDF Text Text $lcto Scries, vol. 28, FTHE RIEND HONOLULU, FEBRUARY I, 1879. 11.2.J CONTEIsTS Far IVkru.ri I, I 879. SBBSS. Stranger's Friend Society humble, in tbe Old World—No. 26 Letter from Vice Ailmlr.l Prevost New Cliurch st M.kswao Papulation of Honolulu Marine Journal Letter from Pitcairn'fl Island Editor's Table—Socialism V.M.C. A P.O. » 9—12 12 12 IS 13 14 14 lo THE FRIEND. KKHKI'ARY 1. 1870. Capt. Brewer. —We are glad to welcome once more in Honolulu, a merchant whose honorable mercantile life, extending over a period of more than half a century, has been most intimately associated with the commerce of the Sandwich Islands. During this long period he has been a member of the house of C. Brewer & Co. His first arrival here, in 1823, anti-dates, we believe, that of any foreigner now residing upon the islands. He was present, in 1824, when Kamehameha 11. sailed for England, and there were gathered fifteen thousand Hawaiians to witness His Majesty's embarkation. It is an interesting fact, that an English lady, Mrs. Taylor, is now residing in London, who was the first foreign lady arriving and residing in Honolulu, aside from the families of the American Mission. Mrs. Taylor is now about eighty-six years old, nnd her cheery and sprightly letters are frequently received at Honolulu by her correspondent, Mrs. Armstrong. Capt. Brewer pan relate many pleasing incidents of those " olden times" when Kaahumanu, Boki, Rinau, and many other Hawaiian Chiefs were in their glory, Since writing our book notice of Prof. Hitchcock's Socialism," we have met " with the following from Rev. Joseph Cook, in his lecture, published in the Boston Advertiser of Dec. 26, IS7S: " Professor Hitchcock, of New York, has just published on Socialism a book fit to lake the rank of a classic in the literature on fhis topic," Stranger's Friend Society. So many have been the calls upon the Society that the fund for current expenses has been entirely exhausted. Donations are much needed, nnd maybe forwarded to Mrs. S. E. Bishop, Treasurer, or to thePresident, Mrs. Damon. By the last mail a letter was received by the Editor from the mother of a young Englishman, residing in Birkenhead, who some weeks since was aided by the ladies and his funeral expenses defrayed by their Society. She writes under date of December 28, 187S : Sir : With feelings ofrespect and thankfulness 1 address you, out of the fullness of a sorrowful mother's heart. You may well imagine my feelings when I heard of the death of my dear son—my support for a living, having lost his father and another son, a young man 23 years of age. I am sorry to tell you I am a destitute widow, with one little boy left. Tell the good ladies that I hope and trust they will have a reward in heaven. And you, sir, was most good and kind to behave so kindly to my dying boy in a strange land, far from home. It makes me more resigned when I know he had such attendance on his dying bed." The following note was left by a passenger sailing this week on the Murray, for San Francisco. The grateful man was a member of the Society of Friends, and had been assisted by the Ladies. We might readily add other similar testimonials if we had the room : Honolulu, Jan. 23d, 1879. President and Members of the Ladies' S F. Society of Honolulu : I cannot sufficiently express my gratitude for the assistance you have rendered me. 1 feel indebted to you for placing me under the treatment of a physician (Dr. McKibbin at the Queen's Hospital) who, I believe, preserved my sight, the most precious of all the five senses, and which I would as soon die as part with. But words cannet express my gratitude ; so no more. J. W. Wicks. Gratefully yours, " 9 {t%S«ies,ool.3lt. RAMBLES IN THE OLD WORLD-No. 25 A Few Weeks in Scandinavia—No. 4. " VENICE OF THE NORTH." is a delightful surprise! I Stockholm had anticipated much, I found more. Some have seen fit to call it the " Venice of the North," finding in this Scandinavian capital some sisterhood of resemblance to the fair city which is the glory of the Adriatic, and the European traveler cannot fail at times to be reminded in his visit here of Geneva on Lake Leman, and others might find still further likeness to other cities and scenes which have in former days charmed and delighted them. But while one at a distance may find a certain suggestive helpfulness in the mention of such resemblances, yet after all a picture thus painted is far from satisfactory. Stockholm is not Venice, is not Geneva ! but Stockholm—a city which cannot fail to delight and interest every new comer by the beauty of its situation and the brilliancy and activity of its life. I have seen beautiful cities, but this Swedish capital is, I think, the most beautiful my eyes ever rested on. Our approach to the city was from Lake Malar, of the exquisite natural beauty of which I have already made some mention. The afternoon sun lighted the city with all the radiance of the ripened summer days of a late August. Before us rose the spires and domes of the capital. Towering above all the other edifices appeared the massive bulk of the Koyal PalSTOCKHOLM, THE ace; to the right and left of this, church spires, among them one shooting like a winged arrow heavenward, so delicate, so light and etherial was it in the symmetry of its gothic mould. From the sen the approach to the city is said to be still finer, a view of which I may speak later on. It is perhaps the presence nf blue gleaming arms water, encircling and embracing the city proper and its suburbs, which renders Stockholm so especially picturesque. Tbe Swedish capital lies on Lake Malar, and an arm of the Baltic, so that at this point the salt waves of this stormy northern sea are wedded to the sweet, still waters of this inland lake. The city has with time We are glad to welcome Mr. Sit. lovely divided itself into threeprincipal divisions— Moon and wife, and trust they will become the Norrrnalm, then Old Stockholm or eminently useful among their countrymen Staden, and lastly Sbdennalm. Of necessity these must be largely unmeaning names on the Islands. of �10 TII X FRIEND, FEBRUARY. 1579. to you, but on this foundation endeavor to which has acted as a wholesome leaven on troubled human children, who came for a recreate from a distance the city. The wa- American life, both in the east and west. time to rest in its shadow. ters mentioned above form a broad river- Our hotel lies on the long, busy DrottningStockholm rejoices in fine schools, in all like expanse, and on the two banks lie the gatan, Queen street, the principal street ot manner of public institutions, benevolent, first and last divisiqns just named, and be- the city, forming the backbone of the leading charitable, educational. There seem to have tween on an island, joined by bridges, lies business portion of the city. It is lined with been earnest, working souls here at the the crowded, busy Old Stockholm. This shops, most of them good, some excellent, north, who have tried to do their share in forms the body of the city, but on every side are projecting arms of land, half or complete islands also connected with the mainland by bridges, so that the city is a net-work of land and water. In its earliest days Stockholm was confined to the central island, but as it grew in number of inhabitants and importance, it overflowed its narrow limits and took possession of the adjoining banks, and there the growth still goes on towards the green forests which skirt the suburbs. The city's history goes back six or seven centuries, having .been founded by the renowned Birgerfarljffd his son, King Magnus Ladulos. In the old portion of the city there are still reminders of ancient days. Some of the streets are narrow, bordered with high houses, but on the whole there is comparatively little in the way of picturesque antiquity to attract the visitor. The central point of the city is the Royal Palace, which is most admirably situated. It is an enormous edifice, perhaps as beautiful architecturally as it is possible for such a huge building to be. The Royal Family were absent from the capital, at the time we chanced to be there, so that a good opportunity was afforded us of seeing the Palace. But European palaces come to be sadly monotonous after you have seen several, there is a vastness about them, a wearisome sameness, a monotony of gilding and mythological frescoes, of royal portraits, historical paintings, antiquated and fading tapestries, and so on ad infinitum. 1 was however interested in the apartments occupied by the Crown Prince and his younger brothers, which were furnished appropriately but with comparative simplicity; there was enough of bomelikeness about them to render them attractive, but still the warmth and which brightens the homes of " coziness" not of royal birth, was lacking many boys, here. But the views from the palace are the most interesting. On one side, looking past the splendid portal with its guardian lions in stone, is a fine and inspiring scene. At this point a noble bridge connects the sundered banks, and beyond lie some of the finest buildings of the city—the Grand Hotel, the finest hotel in Scandinavia, the Museum of Art, palaces and public buildings. Leaving now for a little while tbe general let me give you a few notes from my journal. Saturday morning, Aug. 24th.—Surely some good angel, guardian spirit of travelers, has brought us to this quiet " Hotel dc Suede," where we have our pleasant rooms, with coffee' in the morning and are at liberty after that to seek luncheon, dinner and tea wherever we may see fit. The maid who cares for our rooms has all the quiet dignity and sweet comeliness of a New England fanner's daughter. lam irresistibly reminded in the self-possessed but modest manner, in the full, rich womanliness of this Scandinavian maiden, of that type of earnest, ntble womanhood, which has been the boast and pride of New England and and I was pleased in noticing that the book-stores had the most well-to-do ap" pearance of any. J couldn't resist my old temptation "The Market" in starting out this morning, but found nothing in particular to reward me. I must wait till I get to lifting up the race. One of the foremost of these, one whose name should ever be spoken with a tender love and reverence was Frederika Bremer, who labored so truly for her native land. Miss Bremer died some years since, a noble specimen of a great hearted, Norway for picturesque scenes. large souled Swedish woman. Her books of After a ramble out a short distance in the travel, her novels and other writings are country, where a fine sweep of woodland widely known and loved. She visited borders the city, we came back to our day's America many years ago, and many still work of sight-seeing. As we stood at the read with pleasure her thoughts and obserhead of the Drottninggatan, we were charm- vations on America, embodied in her ed with the splendid view which faced us at " Homes of the New World." She was esthe close of the long, narrow vista of this pecially desirous of advancing all that tends thoroughfare. The domes and spires of the to noble, national progress, especially in reold city gleamed in the sunshine and against lation to woman's work, education and posithe blue of a northern sky. And with what tion. She was anxious for a large, bro»d. a glorious blue these northern skies robe generous charity in matters of life and relithemselves, clear, intense, perhaps scarcely gion, and was one who looked as few can warm enough in tint, but full of a marvel- or will do into the heart of things, a brave, ous strength and purity, rejoicing in an in- true, most womanly woman. I write with finite, passionless peace ! enthusiasm. For out of the memories of Along this street are several exhibitions other days, I think with especial fondness of of Scandinavian antiquities, and we found those with whom 1 read everything which the one which we visited extremely interest- pertained to the sights and scenes of this ing and helpful in bringing the past of Swe- old world, which Miss Bremer's glowing, den before us. Several Swedish girls in eloquent descriptions put so strikingly before peasant costume, (brilliant under-dresses and me. And hence it was a pleasure for me to aprons, trim bodices, and closely fitting little come where she had once lived, even though caps, framing round good humored faces) she was gone. who acted as guardians of the exhibition, I might weary you should I endeavor to aided much in this revival of the past. Not give anything like a detailed account of the far away from here is the Academy of Nat- various public buildings which the stranger ural Science. The renowned botanist, Lin- here visits. But I should feel as if I had naeus, was the first president of the Scienti- omitted a very important point should I fail fic Society of Stockholm. Sweden glories to mention the church where Gustavus Adolin some of the greatest names in science. phus rests, the Riddarholmskyrkan. Tho In the vestibule of the academy we saw a church is no longer used for divine service, huge meteorite brought here in 1871 from but is changed into a royal mausoleum. It Greenland, the largest meteoric fragment in is rather cold, lonely and cheerless. Thouthe world. One would scarcely believe see- sands of naval and battle flags are festooned ing it now restfully placed, that it had had on the sides of the nave, from which lead such a wild and tumultuous career. What burial chapels to right and left. From all a singular, absorbing fascination there is in others we turn with greatest interest to the such dumb stony fragments, the only mate- chapel where are the remains of the great rial, tangible possessions which we have Gustavus Adolphus, the greatest name in from a sphere without our own ! One clings Swedish history. The chapel is in the to them as the first step towards further gothic style. A plain but handsome marble knowledge, towards a fuller answer to those sarcophagus contains the body, and beneath restless, passionate questionings which men the window is placed this inscription in throw out into the mysteries of the infinite Latin— 'ln angustiis intravit. Pietatem space in which we float. At the end of a amavit. Hostes prostravit. Regnum side street is the Adolph-Friederichs Church dilatavit. Svecos exaltavit. Oppressos where is a monument to the great philoso- liberavit. Moriens triumphavit." pher Descartes, who died in Stockholm and From the time of Gustavus began a new was buried here, but whose remains were epoch for Sweden, and this far northland taken to France in 1616. I was charmed entered as one of the leading powers into with the sunlit, tree shadowed graveyard or the field of European politics and stateschurch yard which surrounded the church menship. The history of this King is pregand where at the still noon-time, little nant with interest to all who enter into the groups of people or stray individuals were study of the exciting days in which he lived. seated on the benches under the trees, as if He fell in battle by Liepsig in 1632, while it was the most natural thing in the world valiantly pushing forward the protestant to do. 1 have seen this also about other crusade which he had left his own realm to churches in Scandinavia, and it has pleased accomplish. Beside those of Gustavus me much. The church doors were open Adolphus are here placed the remains of and we could look up towards the altar and other sovereigns {lis \m, antf here too pulpit, and down the aisles, and the old rests the Prussian, ofPrincess Louise Olrika, church seemed to keep a kind of motherly sister of Frederick the Great, who was mar. watch over its glad and sad, thoughtless and ried to a. Swedish King of this family. In " �1879. 1 THE FRIEND, FEBRUARY, this mausoleum is also a chapel for the Bernadotte family, of which the present reigning King of Norway and Sweden is a member. It may not be uninteresting in closing our visit to this royal mausoleum of Sweden, to glance at the history of the remarkable man to whom the Scandinavian Peninsula owes so large a debt of gratitude, nnd who was so instrumental in introducing a better state of political affairs for these sister countries. It is difficult for the traveler of the present day who visits Scandinavia, finding here almost a realization of the old dream of a golden age of peace and universal concord, to realize that for centuries this region has been disturbed by wars, great and petty, by jealous feuds and rivalries. Thankful should we be that we are permitted to see the dawn of a better day, which all lovers of peace and national harmony cannot fail to pray, may grow brighter and brighter to a full and settled radiance. King followed King in rapid succession. The country was disturbed by discord at home and wars without. Finally inasmuch as the regular line had become, or promised to become extinct, a successor to the Swedish throne was sought in the person of Prince Christian August, of Augustenburg, but his death rendered a further choice necessary and the French Marshal Bernadotte was elected as Crown Prince under the name of Carl Johann. As I find the outline of his history sketched, 1 give it in the briefest manner possible. With the arrival of Bernadotte began a new era for Swedish politics. In order to make amends for the loss of Finland, he determined to unite Norway and Sweden in one country, and threw himself, with this object in view, into the midst of European politics. As an ally of Russia had he already in 1812 fully broken with his old Emperor. In 1813 he entered Germany with 30,000 Swedes and took part in the campaign of that year. After the battle of Liepsig he led a portion of his army to Holstein, where, in the " Peace of Kiel," he induced the Danish Norwegian King Frederick VI. to cede the Kingdom of Norway to Sweden. But Norway failed to acknowledge this " Peace," and the parliament assembled at Eidsvold and chose Prince Christian Frederick as King. Accordingly, Karl Johann was forced to make war upon his future subjects. This, however, was of an unimportant nature, and on the 4th of Nov. 1814, after that Christian Frederick had renounced the Norwegian throne—followed the union of the two Kingdoms—as two independent realms, under one King. Since this union, Norway and Sweden have taken an honorable place among European Powers. Wisely, however, have their successive Sovereigns devoted themselves to the wiser improvement of their peninsular, arid have Norway say) of Norway and Sweden is the talented ana much loved Oscar 11. The Crown Prince is just entering upon the years of his young manhood. STOCKHOLM AS A SUMMER CITY. Stockholm, from the brilliancy of its life— the fondness of its citizensfor pleasure—and the gay and animated and light-hearted appearance of its people, has been called, "The Paris of the North." And certainly there is much—in miniature—to recall Paris and Parisian life here. The French, perhaps owing to the fact largely, that the present Dynasty is of French extraction, seem to be most popular here; and may have influenced to some degree, the tastes and lite of this people. But the resemblance arises, I think, from certain inherent traits ofcharacter which seem to mark the Swedes, and which it is surprising to notice, are so largely lacking in the Norwegians. In entering Norway we shall be constantly struck, I imagine, not simply by the striking differences between the natural features of the two countries, but also between the two peoples who inhabit them. We saw Stockholm in the full brilliancy of its summer life, and I must confess it surpassed anything I had antici pated. In the evenings the whole city seemed to be on the streets or in gardens; it was like one continuous fete. Was it not possible that we had mistaken the latitude ? Could it be that not so very far away from the frozen heart of the north was all this warmth and music and gaiety ? For the time the whole city seemed like some wonderful tropical exotic which had been brought here from the south, and must die with the coming of winter! One of the dearly loved places of rendezvous of the Stockholm people is the Zoological Garden, a verdant, cool, inviting place. Here are summer theatres, large restaurants, and amusements of all kinds. The garden is reached by land, or better by taking a little steamer and crossing one of the bays of blue water which, in summer time, are alive with pleasure parties. Here you meet crowds from the city, who seem as lighthearted and gay as if sorrow and trouble and human pain had no abiding place at the north. Coining home this evening from the garden, the Parisian tone of the life here was more than ever manifest. We passed one crowded summer garden, brilliantly illuminated, where some band of music was flooding the evening air with melody, only to find another just before us. It was like a gorgeous fairy land. Lights glowed in the shadows of the dense summer foliage, and mirrored themselves in the countless dancing ripples of the ever present water, which, like some glittering form of mysterious life, made itself manifest. And the language and manners of the people only add to these refrained, with slight exceptions, from med- scenes an intense animation. From these dling in the ever unsettled state of European northern lips comes an unceasing flow of politics. Under this new regime, the pro- often times very musically accented words. gress which the countries have made is They speak with rapidity, with an ease and worthy of all commendation, and a bright delicate intonation which I have found most future seems to lie before them. Of the pleasing. present state of affairs in Norway and SweAnother favortte place of resort, and I den I may take occasion to speak more fully single this out from many others, is the at another time. Karl Johann reigned from Moseback, a famous restaurant, from which 181S to 1843 Oscar I died in 1859, Karl a superb view is obtained of the city and its XV iii 187k!, and the present King of Swe- environs. I shall not soon forget the deden and Norway, (or as the good people of lightful sun-set hour which 1 spent there the first evening I was in Stockholm. The whole city was spread out like a map before us; the towering palace; the many spires and buildings of the city; the clustering masts of the shipping. In the west, as the bright light of the August day died away, glowed a soft crimson radiance; contrasting with the grey clouds of smoke which still gathered over portions of the city, evidenco of toil and labor. To the west stretched far away the blue, deeply blue waters which lead to the outer sea, (a wonderfully inspiring view) over which came the fresh air of the evening. I was reminded in this westward view, of the Hudson; though here was lacking the breadth and majestic sweep of that most beautiful river. All over the city are scattered public gardens or open squares, in the centre of which are set statues, or fountains. The recently completed library is a noble building, and the art museum is an ornament to the city. I was especially interested in paintings by Scandinavian artists. The unique life of this northern world, the wonderfully grand beauty of its scenery, its old poetic, halfsavage mythology, the stirring incidents which have marked its historic growth, are inspiration enough for generations of artists and poets. And it is most pleasant to see that native artists have felt the power and grandeur of their Fatherland, and have been able, in some degree, to put before us the and essence of this wild northern " spirit I remember one grand, stirring picpoesy. ture, The Descent of Thor, his chariot drawn by wild, long-horned goats, brandishing his almighty, all-conquering" hammer," a strange picture, painted in lurid colors, And then in pleasing contrast to this, a smaller painting, than which for delicacy of conception and finish, I think I have never seen anything finer. At a distance it seemed simply to represent the bosom of a quiet lake, in the moonlight, over which float soft, grey mists. On closer examination, however, I found that the mist took on the guise of floating female, fairy forms, that " looked through this almost imperceptible, yet ever present, shadowy veil, that the water mirrored others looking downward, and that from the low-lands by the lake-side, rose a spirit-band towards the silver moon. It was a marvelously delicate, imaginative, weird painting, and I shall rarely ever see mist clouds hanging over river or lake without thinking of what they may possibly contain. In the same building, with its fine collections of paintings and sculpture, are very interesting historical collections for the relic hunter; all manner of reminders of the Sovereigns of Sweden. They have here the horse even, stuffed and preserved, on which the great Gustavus rode the day he fell by Liepsig. Sunday, Aug. 25th.—We have been to one of the Stockholm churches this rooming. All through Scandinavia we find the churches crowded, and the congregations seem most devout. The Lutheran creed is that of the Swedish church. The ritual here is, I notice, quite elaborate. The chanting and responses by the choir were finely rendered. The altar with altar-painting and the pulpit were gorgeous with heavy gilding, and the sunlight so flooded the church that on the whole it was rather dazzling. From the �12 of this gilded glory, I II X midst rose the form of the clergyman, his plain black gown and snowy, ecclesiastical ruff contrasting markedly with his resplendent surroundings. The sermon was long, but seemed to be followed with close attention by the congregation. We experienced this morning another of those thoughtful little attentions which are so grateful to a traveler. As we were standing in the aisle with many others, waiting until the time when those not owning pews could be given seats, a little uncertain exactly what to do, a courteous old gentleman in a seat near by, came to our rescue. Evidently we must have looked like strangers, though in the great church all present could not have been known to him. At any rate he invited us in the kindest manner to take seats with him, wrote out for us the preacher's name, making us forget that we were strangers. From his card which he kindly passed us at the close of the service, I learned that he was a Swedish nobleman attached to the court. I shall probably not have the pleasure of meeting him again, but it is pleasant to think that so much of courtly politeness still lingers in the world. Nooblige ! his afternoon have had a most delicious ble out to one of the headlands, which fronts the blue bay. In all this fair world no brighter, gladder sunshine this afternoon shone, than over this rarely beautiful queen ««e of northern ciiies. To-morrow we visit Upsala, the old university town of Sweden; of our visit there and further rambles more another time. Uood-night, with greetings from the north star to the southern cross. F. W. Damon. Letter from Vice-Admiral Prevost. Some weeks ago it was our privilege to receive a letter from Admiral Prevost. We take the liberty of copying that portion which relates to mission work among the Indians in the North-west, or rather on Vancouver's Island : California, passage from Sitka ) " S.S. to Victoria. B. C , July 15, 1675. J My Dear Mr. Damon If you have forgotten me, I have not forgotten you. though nearly twenty-five years have told their tale since we met in your beautiful Island, when 1 commanded H. M. steamer Virago. * be delivered * * * to you by " This note will Capt. Mclntyre, who is a fellow-passenger, who will give you some account of the beautiful scenery we are passing here. I should like much to revisit your Island, had I spare time, having very pleasant reminiscences of my visit to it; but I am obliged to return to Europe as soon as I can. I left England to visit a much-loved son, his wife and children, living at Victoria. After my arrival there I went north to visit Mitlakattla, an Indian village, where God has done such a work that it is " marvelous in our eyes He has blessed in a wonderful way the labors of a devoted servant—William Duncan—who went amongst the Tsinschila tribes of Northern Indians in 1859. I spent a month there, and I rejoice to tell to : FRIEND, FEBRUARY. 1879. Gospel has done for the most debased of heathens. It may encourage you and other faithful servants of Christ to persevere and labor on faithfully, with faith in God and His promises, never doubting. All things are possible with God, and He has shown His power in taming cannibals and dogeaters, and in making use of them to carry the glad tidings of salvation harmlessly to other tribes who formerly would have murdered them. I know you have difficulties, A New Church Organized at Makawao, Maui, January 5th. 1879. The foreign population, resident at Makawao, and Haiku, Maui, have at last attained the realization of the hopes and plans and efforts of many years. On the first Sabbath of the present year, a church of eighteen members was duly formed, and its organization perfected with appropriate services. Key. T. H. House, formerly of Jamestown, N. V., more recently of San Mateo, California, having received an invitation to take the pastoral over-sight of the foreign community, went to Makawao in March last. The parsonage was secured for him, and his family joined him in June. He preached on alternate Sabbaths at Maknwao and Haiku. Measures were immediately begun, looking to the formation of an independent church. With jjreat unanimity a brief, yet comprehensive confession of faith, was prepared perhaps greater than most of God's workers, but His promise to Joshua, •' Be strong and of good courage, be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed, for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest," is still as binding us it was 3,500 years ago, and will ever continue so. Therefore let us comfort one another with these words, and be on the watch tower, watching and praying till He comes. " Ever believe me yours faithfully in " James C. Prevost, Vice-Admiral. Christ, Many of our readers may not be aware that English missionaries are laboring successfully among the Indians of the Northwest coast. It was among them that the Key. A. C. Garrett, now Bishop of Northern Texas, labored for several years. His visit at Honolulu, in 1860, and his addresses and preaching in the Bethel and Fort Street Churches will not surely have been forgotten by those who listened to his eloquent appeals. Some will remember his address in the Bethel on the subject of Temperance, when most unexpectedly to many present he left the pulpit, and in the presence of the audience signed the total abstinence pledge. Ten years afterwards we met him in San Francisco, and he was still the advocate of temperance. Frequently we see notices of his labors in Texas. Hilo Chinese Colporteur. Hilo, Hawaii, Jan. 20th, 1879. Brother Damon :—Yours introducing Wono E, was handed to me by himself on his arrival. Thanks for your interest in getting him here. He has taken hold well, and I am better pleased with him, in some respects, than 1 have been with any of our more scholarly Chinese Colporteurs. We shall see that he is furnished with rooms suitable for his work. Our Sabbath School (foreign) are to buy him a " Colporteur Horse," to be kept and used for this work; and we hope soon to have him provided for in that respect. I hope he may do much good. He finds a number of Chinese in this region whom he knew in California. One of them was n member, it serins, of Mr. Gibson's Church there, —Methodist Chinese Mission. There is a large Chinese element throughout this with a covenant for the admission of members. These preliminary matters being duly settled, the first Sunday in Januajy was appointed for the public services, and some simple rules for the government of the church. Key. T. H. Rouse preached the sermon, pertinent to the occasion, on the "Objects arrived at in the Organization of a Church." The ministers resident at Honolulu had been invited to attend, but their duties in connection with the Week of Prayer in their own churches prevented them from being present. The veteran missionary, Key W. P. Alexonder, now resident at Wailuku, offered the constituting prayer after public assent hnd been given by the membership to the Confession, Covenant and Rules. Bros. Morris Beckwith and Amasa Pratt were chosen Deacons. Bros. George Beckwith and M. H. Baldwin, wild the Pastor and Deacons, constitute a Standing Committee. Other persons are expected to unite with the church very soon. It is hoped that this concentration of Christian sympathies and Christian labors will result in marked and steadfast spiritual progress in this enterprising and prosperous community. There ought to be another church on Maui, for the residents of Wailuku and vicinity ; and the foreign population on Kauai ought to be moving to secure a resident minister for that island. H. fy The annual meeting of the Hiilon' Home Poci.ty took place on Monday the 300. of Pec. last, when the following Ri'titlciiifn were elected Trualeea for a term of three year*: 8N Caatle. J Hl'mv.H || Dole, 8 0 WIMrr.JO Dickaon, F A Schaefer. The Trenailrer made the followinf report: The Sailort' Home Society—ln account with Chat. R. Bishop, Treasure. CREDIT. 25, 1877—By balance, caah on hand prll 18,1878—By donation »»f I. Mora Mom lee uk 27, 1H7M—Hy 12 montha rent of Corner Office to December 31.1878. 9 SI 30 00 100 00 DEBIT. lept 20,1178—To paid Mil i>l founseomhe for repairs, 03 "8 supplies, etc U> a>l *c 30, 187»-Tu balance in bank of Blshup ft Co l'JS 31 )ec SO. HT8—Br balance H M district, and the prospect is, that there will Cats. R. Bishop, Treasurer, H. S. H. S. I. e)0. E. be more before there are less. Honolulu, December SOili, 1878. The Christian Chinese at Popaikou Plan- 'ursdajr. Dec. 81,6 pm Circuit of Hawaii 'rlday. January 10. 6p m NawHlwill tation, hold on their way remarkably well. Officer* of the Trualeea were elected aa followa fur the They show that they have the root of the enauina; yeart President. Hon 8 N Castle; Secretary, F A Ever, yours truly, matter in them. tfchaeferi Treasurer, lion Chus H Diahop; Executive Com. A. O. Forbes. others what the preaching of the simple mlitee, 6 C Damon, E O Hall, X 1' Adams. " �XXI! It I llt t. 18 78. 13 THIS FRIEND, We would acknowledge papers from the Purser of the Australia and H. A. Pierce, Esq. Also, papers for distribution from Castle family, Mrs. Gilman, and Dr. J. Mott Smith. From Mr. Hastings, Vice U. S. Consul, 3 Nos. export issue of Scientific American. Mr. Ho, one of thesecretaries attached Legation at London, is engaged in translating Shakespeare into Chinese. He has also made considerable progress in a translation of Blackstone's "Commentaries " into the same language. to the Chinese Teachers for Wailuku.—We are glad to welcome Mr. and Mrs. Kinney as teachers for Wailuku. He is a son of the Key. Mr. Kinney, formerly missionary at Waiohinu, Kan, Hawaii. They come under the auspices of the Board of Education. MARINE JOURNAL. PORT OF HONOLULU. S. I. ARRIVAL.!). Dec. 2ft—Buena Vista, 2fi daya from Port Towuaeud 30—Norman, 14 days from Han Franclaco ■ in—Monitor, 2*3 days from Eureka :ti>—Htr City of Sydney, 6 d 22 h from Ban Franclaco 31—Kosarto, 15 days from San Franclaco Jan 2—Job Woolley, 32 daya from Bakera Inland 'J—J oh Perklua, li* daya from Port Townaend 3—Violet, 1H daya from San Franclaco Census of Honolulu. 4—Am bktne J A Falkinburg, Hubl.art, 17 days from Portland. O. 6—Am bk Adelaide Cooper, Emerson, from San FranThe following table gives the result of the ciaeo via Kahulul. census of the population of the Honolulu B—Am bk l.i/.zie Marshall, Dthlmann, 1? dayi from Port Blake ley. district, which was taken in December last: B—Am bk Kainler, Wolfe, from Port Ramble. B—Am bgtneT W I.uaca, Wentwortli, 17 daya from Year 1S72 Year 1878 Humboldt. 18—Amethyst, Hattvea 19 days from Ban Franclaco. 11,210 !l,272 17—KalateaSchr Vivid, 12 days from Farmings Is. rlalf-iastea 1,013 1,301 in Hhw ateam tug Kapiolanl, from Han Franclaco. L'uineae 632 1,2119 Hawaiian born of foreijm pan-lit*.. r>:H) M 21—Am atmr City of New York, from Sydney. 660 Americana C07 23—Am bktne Eureka, 16 daya from San Franclaco. British Sdl 478 28—Haw achr Lulta, Flihal, 19 daya from Port Townaend [lerinana* 160 Ui 29—Brit atmr Australia, Carglll, from San Franclaco r'reni'o 46 39 30—Am schr American Girl, Hk kus, from Kahulul 222 am h111»rtUKU<JHe inr forelgners 168 11H DEPARTURES. Total 14,852 14,114 Dec 28—Kalakana, forSan Franclaco. Total decrease ti years, 738. 31—I'lty of Sydney, for Sydney. for SanFranclaco. half-castes In 6 years 288 Jan I—Eltae, 3—W II Meyer, for SanFrancisco. rr'hsc < :hinese In ti yearn 667 6—Am schr 0 M Ward, Whitney, for cruise, rease Hawaiian burn of foreign parents In 6 yearn !M c—Ame—Am topsail achr Leo, Barker, for San Francisco. rease Americana In t> years 57 bktne Monitor,Emerson, forlliunl.ol.lt. 10—Am ream; British In 6 yean* U7 11—Am Bk 11 W Almy, for San Francisco. ;t4 ream- Portuguese In 6 years 11—Am Schr Jose]*. Woolley, for Uii.no 11. 50 rMH other foreigner** In 6 years 13—Hubert stamen, for Tahiti. ecreawe of natives In 6 years l.lWH 15—Ki.si.ni), for San Francisco. II nTCHHc Germans In (> years 17—Am Ilk Bueena Vista, fir fort Gamble. ecrease French In 6 years 7 IS—Am liKtm* T W Lucas, for llinnliol.lt. 21—Am Btmr City of New York, for San Francisco. under 6 yeara of age in 1878 1,629 23—Hatateaachr Vivid, for Fannlnfr'a Island. lldren under (J years of age in 1872 1,564 27—Bk Lizzie Marshall, Dahlluanu, for Port Blakely 2»—Brit stmr Australia, Carglll, for Sydney Increase 65 'it— Am bk Kalnler, Wolfe, for Port Uamble 30—Am hk D U >l orray, frost, for Bun Francisco Childrenbetween 6 and 15 years in 1872 SO—Am bktneFremont, Nlckerson, forBan Francisco 2,225 Children between 6 and 15 years in 1878 2,137 Ircane fildren Decrease 88 •A number of resident** of German birth have returned themselves as American!), having been naturalizeml 1 America. We copy the following obituary notice from a late number of the Advance. The visit of Mrs. Bradley to the Islands a year or so since will be remembered by niany of our Honolulu readers: " Mrs. Mary C. Bradley, wife of Mr. William H. Bndley, Jr., died Friday night, Dec. 27, at 10:30, in Springfield, Mass. She was buried Monday afternoon, Dec. 30. She had been ill since the birth of her babe, in the early summer. At Ipss than two months of age the baby died. Despairing of her recovery in Chicago, her friends took her, though very much of an invalid, by the Lakes, in company with her physician, to her mother's home in Springfield, Mass. There she slowly wasted away, through much suffering, until death came to her relief, and she sweetly fell asleep in Jesus. She was a lady of great beauty and excellence of character. Calmly, confidently, joyfully, she welcomed the approach of death. Now she is among the glorified, nnd with her dear little babes, one of whom perished in the Ashtabula disaster. Hers was a rare character, perfected through suffering. MEMORANDA. RKPOnT OF BKTNK JOS I'KHKINH, JOHNSON, COMMANDER. —Sailed from Port Gamble Dec 13 via Port Towns-end. Dec 14. First H days out had light variable windsand flue weather. Then got a gale of wind 8 E for 20 hours, thence to port moderate wind from ENEto 8 8 E. Jan Ist at 6-30 p m, anchored outside the bar, ID days passage. Kui'oitT from R Bbiuob, Ki.i-'t cf Baker'b Island. Nov 20.—The bark Mary Goodellarrived at Baker'sIsland Bept Kith, and sailed Oct 7th with 930 tons guano for Cork, for orders. Bark Sonoma arrived Oct Gth, and came to the moorings the 7th, sailing Nov 7th with 1,660 tona guano. The ship Hamilton arrived here Nov 17th, and has on board '250 tons guano vheu the schooner leaves. Tbe schooner Staghouud of Ban Francisco touches here Nov 23d, en route for the Gilbert Group on a trading voyage. Arrived at Victoria, B C, Dec 30, bk Wealthy Pendleton; hence Dec 5. Arrived at Qneenstown, Dec 30, ship Portland Lloyds; hence March 12 via Howlauds Island. Arrived at SanFranclaco, Dec 40, achr Mary Swan■ hence Nov 27. Arr Jan 10, bktne W H Dietz ■ hence Dec 26. Arr Jan 11,bk Edward James; hence Dec 19. Arr Jan 11, bktne Discover}'; hence Dec 26. Arr Jan 13, bktne Ella; hence Dec 11. Arr Jan Hi, bkKalakaua; henceDec 28. From San Francisco—Per Bliss, Dec 31—P Brown, J D Merritt. Fob Btdbby—P.r City of Sydney, Dm 31—Dr and Mra Wifht.J A Inmao. Fbom Gii.no Island.—Per Jos Woolley, Jan B—B Oormley, Chas Olkldensnd 3 natl.es. FoaSiß Pbabciboo—Per H W Almy.Jan S—Ch«. OiWiisn. Fbom Sab Francisco—Per Violet, Jon3—M Powor. and 3i Chinese. Fbom Bab Fbabcisco—Per Violet, Jan 3—H Powers, and 33 Chinamen. Fbom Pobtland—Per J.nfl a. Falkinherf, Jan4—D. foster. Mis. II Poster, R C Lord, and Ah Young. Fbom Post Townsrnd—Per Llatie Marshall, Jan X—P Jorgenaen. Fob Bab Fbabcisco— Per l.co, J.n 9— W F Cummins.. Fob Bab Francibco—Pit H. W. Aim/, Jan. 11—J II Kearney. Fob Guano Islands—Per Joseph Wooley, Jan. 11—H B Ryan, J Harris, Fob Tahiti—Per Robert Kmmelt, Jan. 13—T Adams, A J Adam.. Fbom Rab Fbabcisco—Per Amethyst, Jan. 17—W Bshm, A R Bullaway, J 8 Jolin.tone, 11 Cruise, P H Austin, I Carlton. From Fannino'b Island—Per Vivid, Jan 18—J T Arundel, A Pale, C Btillwell, C Lewis, and 21 native.. From Australia—Per City of New York, Jan 81—Mlaa E F. Hint*., E E He(lki-n, J stauftVr, J McCormack, lira K.-rr aud child. Fob San Fbancisco—Per City of New York, Jan 21—Mra 8 T l.adil. X llsgin, Mr aud Mrs Edelmaun, Mrs II M Whltuey. J D Ackermanu, J. T. Arundel, A E Webb, 11 B Chsve, MIM X Moses, Jit Whitney, Miss 8 E Brsdley, (lam Blug, linn Ah Foun, B Seller, J Leech, A Schmidt, E Schmidt, Chung Yon, F Moresey,Leung Hong, Luna Boa, W Bobm, M A Samuels, Ah Ham, T Sutton, T Mimd. Fbom San Fbancisco—Per Eureka, Jan 23—D Mc-Mi-1 lcn and wife, W 8 Terry,. Capt 11 Oroper, F McCarty, T Craln, A D Frazler, li. Fritz, P Sullivan, A Weka, H Oenewaus. From Ban Francibco—Per Australia, Jan 20—Mrs 8 M Rogers, Mis. 8 Boree, H Jonea, (i Abbot, W H Patten, M P ltoblu.cn .nd wife. Mrs H C Barnes, A W Lawrle, J It Houghton, A M Cameron, C II Woodward, J P Slarson, CI T Hwltzir, S Trekett, P A Ameß, C Bolte, II W Ms.-fsrl.ni*, A Herbert, Franklin, H C Austin, C H Letnian, F Havon. H A Kenney and wife, C A Olbaon, Dr McOrew, daughter and son, W S Barnes, F Tillman, W Sclnnl.lt, Mrs 8 Hollander, two children and aervant, W P Mason and wife, FW Merrill. A Houghton and boh, Mlbh Waasmer, WWaIt.TH. W l'tliigi-r, Mrs Cr.ws, J W Kohler, 33 Europeans and 51 Chluamen In the steerage. Fob Sydney—Per Australia, Jan 29—W Heine. For San Francibco—Per D C Murray, Jan30—F Booth, C 110..th, Mra Campbell and son, Mr Foster, Hattlt* Foster, U 8 Hi inshaw, J Wicks, W Cottin. Fob Ban Francibco—Per Fremont, Jan 30—8 D Hlscon, H Faahel, P Hemes. - MARRIED. Bit Moon—Wono Kam—ln Canton, China, In Second Preabyterlan Church,Nov. ID, 1878, by Rev. B. C. Henry, in accordance with therules of the Prcabyterian Church, Mr. Sit Moon, of Honolulu, to Wono Kam, of Canton. Honey—BosßKfl—ln thia olty, at the realdence of Mr Macauley, .Inn 4th, 1H79, by the Rev W Frear, Captain M Honey, of Perth, Scotland, to Mr» Theuesa Bohmek, of Honolulu. French—Norton —In thia city, January 15th, by Rev. Father Kockeraann, Mr. Robebt Frknch to Miaa Bakaii Nobton, both of Honolulu. *»*" No Carda. Kellett—Huntley—In New London, Conn., December by the Rev. Wooda, B. A. Mr. John Kbllett, SIS, IS7B, formerly of Honolulu, to Miaa Lilian P. Huntley, of London. New Gay—Rowell—At Walmea, Kauai, January 16th. by the Rev. O. B. Rowell, Ueokcie F. Uay, Eaq., to Miaa Marion E. Rowell, third daughter of tbe officiatingclergyman. DIED. Kibtleb.—At Port Clinton,Ohio, Dec. 21,1878, Joseph Kibtleb, aged 73 yeara and 9 moDthe. Deceased waa the father of E. Klstler, of the firm of O. Segelken k Co., of thia city. gtmTia.—ln Waiohlnu. Ksu, Hawaii. Dee 31st, 1978, Amies r Faasen Hi-ntkii, aged 13 months and It daya. Uo to thy rest, fair child. Go to thy dreamleae bed. While yet so gentle, undented, With bleaainga on thy head." Ff.aby—ln thiacity, Jan 2, Jebome C, youngeat aon of Jerome and Sarah Feary, aged about 5 yeara. Whitb.—ln Honolulu, Jsn oth, of congestion ot the lungs, Jons CoaatTT, Infant aon of J C and Martha J White, aged 3 years and 11 months. PASSENGERS. Castes tin the 13th Jan, of diphtheria, Sabhibl ||, third son of bainoel M and Harriet Carter, aged 8 yeara and 4 From Pobtlabd—Per Mattle Maclcay, Dec 27—J R Wlntmunthe. ler, X A llulck. genu for his Kingdom, " He will gather the all Vbom das Fbabcisco— Per II W Aliny, Dec 27—J McDade All thepure ones, the bright ones, C Coleman, T Nelson, J X thwell, J D Cook, Ja. A Robertson, and Ilia own." His loved O Fredlander, X W Glide, J A He.iney, J Hogan. Qilliland—At her residence, near Nuuanu avenue, Fbom Bab Fbabcisco—l'tr Kalakaua, Dec 28—Mr Lrtlia- Honolulu, on the 30th of January, Mhs. Kosalik J. Gilney, Mr Coleman. liland, relict of the late Richard GUllland, aged «> City Sydney, San Fbabcisco—Per of Dec. 30—Miss yeara. Decetaed waa a daughter of the late John Coffin Fbom f> X llrs.lle.v. A M:iii|iies. W I' Toler wife, H II Corllm, Jonea, at one time American Consul at Honolulu,and a luigeinaii, llyman, Psrmalee M II A C II HrsiMieii. A II Is grauddauglitcr of Franclaco Paula dc Marin, a Spanish arias, a i; Standard, O W Peicey. Miss I. Irwin, W W Hall ft gentleman, who arrived at Honolulu from Mexico earlylu (I wife, Mis. I'eiis. Mr. \v,ii„ r the present century. Seuor Marin waa the Introducer in wile, 11 I' xhi Oasst-i A.cry.m. V II tipuhn, ,1 II Pulton, J E Tuft., Cluing Plug, A these Islands of a number of valuable trees and plants. i;l.-y. li Williams, M Whliucy, sod 81 iv ilk Sn.-er.gc, and Including the coffee, the mango, the tamarind and the grape vine. •J36 Chinese. * ,* " �14 THK FRIEND, FEBRUARY, Letter from Pitcairn'sIsland. The reception of this letter has led us to re-read the journals of Beechey, who visited the island in 1825. Bennett, who followed in 1833, and several other volumes relating to the early and later history of the inhabitants—descendants of the mutineers —on this island. From our correspondence with the people upon Pitcairn's and Norfolk Islands for over thirty years, and the information of visitors and these numerous books, we can truly say, that their history appears more and more remarkable and worthy of study. Only two out of the sixteen guilty mutineers died a natural death. The conversion and earnest efforts of John Adams, in behalf of the rising generation, indicate wonderful Christian zeal and persistence in right doing. From all we can learn of the present condition of affairs on both islands, there are most hopeful signs of God's abiding presence among the people. The interests of education and true piety are carefully attended to, and appear to be crowned with God's blessing. Pitcairn's Island, Sept. 9, 1878 Bear and liev. Friend:—By the arrival of H. B. M. S. Shah, and favor of the Admiral, who very kindly offered to forward any letters we may desire to send abroad, I now address a few lines to you. After leaving Vancouver's Island he arrived at this place yesterday,—Sunday, thirty days from San Francisco, on his way to Valparaiso. It was his intention to spend but a few hours with us, then proceed on his way; but having landed with nearly all his officers, he was prevailed on by us to extend his visit till to-day, providing the weather should be lavorable. We h»d a large congregation on shore during morning service; the prayers were read by myself, and a discourse was delivered by the Chaplain, the Rev. Joseph Reed, on the subject of Christ Crucified. The service being over the Admiral, with his retinue of officers, left us and went on board. It is now nearly a year ago since we have heard from Mr. John Buffett, on Norfolk Island, and he wishes to be again with us. 1 — time ago, the first that was born on the island after the mutineers landed. She is still strong and hearty for her age, but her memory now appears to be failing her very fast. There are thirty-four children who attend school, of this number the females exceeded in learning as well as in number. It is our custom to meet together for social prayer and for the extension of our Redeemer's Kingdom, on the first Friday of every month; it does not include all the members of our community, but it is daily gaining ground, extending to some of the younger class of the community. The members each choose a subject on which he speaks verbally, or commit his thoughts to writing. Thinking you may desire it, 1 send you a few copies of those who have written their thoughts; I have endeavored to have the writers compress their thoughts on a single leaf of letter paper, so' that they may be entitled leaflets; but there are some which are extended much longer than is expected. I have given some of them to Mr. Reed, who was very much pleased with them. They are simply worded, which is much the better for comprehending them. Some have the signature of the writer's name stitched to them, whereas others do not desire to give their names. You can see at once the writers are females; the men spoke their thoughts verbally. I would have enclosed a copy of my daughter Rosalind's poems, but we have but one copy of them on the island, in Mrs. Young's possession, which she would not wish to part with. They,"can be had from San Francisco, as they were first printed there two years ago. 1879. EDITOR'S TABLE. Socialism: By Rev. R D. Hitchcock, D. D. Randolph & Co., New York, 1879. When the political atmosphere of Europe and America is so full of the noxious fumes of Communism, Socialism, and Nihilism, it is most hopeful to read a discussion of the general subject by a Theological Professor. This class of writers have not hitherto enjoyed the credit of coming to the front and discussing questions of viial interest to the well-being of society, as affected by the agitations of such questions as communism and socialism, capital and labor. This volume and numerous articles in the recent numbers of the Princeton Review, by learned Professors in Europe and America, indicate a most hopeful future among the leading scholars and thinkers of the age. The crisis demands men who can give a right direction to the minds of the people, hence this volume is most opportune, and furnishes wholesome material for popular thought. Dr. Hitchcock's numerous citations show that he has given the subject a thorough investigation, as it relates to the past, present and future, in both Europe and America. He discusses the subject under these four headings : 1. Communism in General. 2. Communistic Socialism. 3. Anti-Communistic Socialism. 4. Christian Socialism. While the writer would make short work with those disturbers of society "in Paris, seven years ago, in Pittsburg last year, in Berlin this year," yet he manifests a deep and profound sympathy for the great and increasing numbers who are dependent for their " daily bread " upon the proprietors and owners of large manufacturing establishments. The struggle is coming, or rather has come, between capital and labor." Dr. Hitchcock. Rev. Joseph Cook, (in his present course of lectures in Boston) and other writers, are awake and aroused. While inculcating obedience to law among the " toiling millions," the possessors of the golden millions " will not be allowed to "retire to their counting-rooms and country residences, taking shelter under the plea, that " corporations have no souls." Writers and Lecturers of this stamp are now needed to "tone up " society and imprison Glasgow and Fall River Corporators and Bank Defaulters. Read Dr. Hitckcock's fourth chapter on '• Christian Socialism," and Rev. Joseph Cook's Lecture, " Mrs. Browning's Cry of the Children." We have taken much pleasure in perusing this volume, written by our old college classmate and correspondent, Prof. Hitchcock. More than forty years ago we sat together in the lecture rooms of Amherst College, and a reference to the catalogues of that institution will show that we had as our associates not a few who have since taken an active part in the religious and political affairs of the world. We recall the names of Beecher and Storrs of Brooklyn ; ExGovernor Bullock of Worcester and E. H. Kellogg of Pittsfield, Mass., (the latW was the American Commissioner on the Fishery Question;) the Rev. Dr. Robinson of Louisville, Kt., the Rev. Dr. Palmer of New Orleans, Bishop Huntington of New York, and Mr. James Russell McCoy is now Chief Magistrate of the island, and as far as he has acted, I think he is a fit man for the place. I will now conclude this letter by desiring you to remember us iuyour approaches to the throne of grace, that we may be steadfast, and grow in the knowledge, love, and fear of God. Norfolk to help probrother at wrote to my I remain, yours affectionately, in the vide him a passage, should he carry his plan bonds of Christian love, Simon Young. into execution. There is a gentleman in San Francisco who wrote me, stating that if Hard Times in San Francisco.—Why Mr. Buffett would find his way to San Francisco, he would provide for him while should it not be so? The inhabitants of there and procure him a passage to this that city, 300,000, supporting about 8,000 place. If he should undertake the voyage, rum shops ! This statement is made he will go by way of Honolulu, thence to by Dr. Cuyler, of Brooklyn, N. V., who San Francisco. lately visited the State of California. Add now numbers ninety per- to the support of these liquor saloons, the Our community and forty-nine females. ruinous effects of gambling in stocks, and all sons, forty-one males We have still the old woman with us, of other demoralizing practices of that city,— whom we had communicated with you some. causes of " hard times " are quite manifest. many others. " �18 79. Places of Worship. 15 THE FRIEND, FEBRUARY, SAILORS' HOME ! ADVERTISEMENTS. Seamen's Bethel—Rev. S. C. Damon, Chaplain, L. HANCHETTB, Plisiso-Puru* Tunrr St Hrsalrer, King street, near tbe Sailors' Home. Preaching (For many yearsconnected with Chickeriof ss Sons.) at 11 a. M. Seats free. Sabbath School before the rooming service. Prayer meeting oa Wednesday IT Order, left st the Sailor.' Home or Whitney Robsnaon's Bookstore. evenings at 74 o'clock. J• * Fort Street Church—Rev. W. Frear, Paßtor, corner of Fort and Beretania streets. Preaching on Sundays at 11 a. m. ami School at 10 A. M. 7J p. m. Sabbath Kawaiaiuo Church--Rev. H. H. Parker. Pastor, King street, above the Palace. Services in Hawaiian every Sunday at 11a.m. Sabbatb school at 10 a. M. Evening services at "4 o'clock, alternating wilh Kaumakapili. District meetings in various cbapels at 3.30 p. m. Prayer meeting every Wednesday ut 7£ p. \i. . M. DAVIDSON. ■ Attorney al Law. -- Office over Mr. Whitney's Book-store, formerly occupied by da-IS7» Judge Austin. Honolulu, H. I. G • •* %' IRWIN It CO.. Commission Merchants, - Plantation and Insurance Agents, Hooolulu, 11.I. EWERS ■ Roman Catholic Church—Under the charge of Rt. Rev. Bishop Muigret. assisted by Key. Father Hermann ; Fort street, near Beretania. Services ■■! every Sunday at 10 a. m. and 2 p. m. St DICKSON, . GENERAL MERCHANDISE! Church—Rev. M. Kuaea. Pastot-f Corner Merchantand Kaahumanu Streets, near the Post OBoe Beretania street, near Nuuanu. Services in HaBREWER Si. CO.. waiian every Sunday at 10£ a. m. Sabbatb school ft M. a. servict'B at altero'clock, Evening at 9j 7J Commission and Shipping Merchants, nating with Kawaiuhao. Prayer meeting every p. m. AUKNTS OF Packet!, New Knglaml Mutual L.fs Insurance Company, TMIK The UnionMarine Insurance Company, San Fraucleco, REGULAR PORTLAND LINE OP The Kobala Sugar Company, The Haiku Sugar Company, The Hamakua Sugar Company, The Waiaiua Sugar Plantation, The Wheeler k Wilson Sewing Machine Company, Dr. Jayne & Sons Celebrated family Medicines. Honolulu, Oahu. 11. I. The Anolu-ak Church —Bishop, the Rt. Rev. Alfred Willis, D. D.; Clergy. Rev. Bob't Dunn, M. A., Rev. Alex. Mackintosh, St. Andrew's Temporary Cathedral, Beretania street, opposite tbe Hotel. English services on Sundays at (IJ and 11a. m.. and 24 and "i p. M. Sunday School at the Clergy House at 10 a. m. ADAMS. P. Auction and Commission Merchant, H. K. WHITMIT S. M. McCREW, I) Late Surgeon Y. S. Army, ~ To the Planters and Foreign Residents. \V A *•*■*■■! * . PEIRCE St Importers and Dealers in Foreign Books, STATIONERY PUBLISHERS BOOK, CO.. (Socceaors to C. L. Richard. & Co.) SUBSCRIPTIONS ARE I.ICiTKDIa aid ol Christian Chinese purchase land VOLUNTARY and build aCburch Honolulu worship Almighty Ood Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaiian Islands. SO- to in to In their own language. The call for a Churru cornea from Ihemaerrea. Pledges are invited, to be paid on or before Ihe 10thof January, 1880, which will be received by Mr. Joseph B. Atherton, the Treasurer, Mr. Gookim, or Mr. Asen. Fund, can also be remitted to Biabop At Co., Banker., tor account of Chinese Church Building Fund. JOHN THOMAS WATKRHOISE. January Ist, 187°. d-ja Am NOTICE TO SHIP MASTERS. 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A statute passed by the Legislature of 1872, "to make all persons retailing spirituous and intoxicating liquors liable in damages for injuries done or received by those becoming intoxicated on such liquors, and as the result of such intoxication," has never been resorted to by any suitor, though the occasion has undoubtedly often arisen. The statistics of the Custom House show that large quantities of cheap liquor are imported here, far in excess of the presumable consumption of the white portion of our population. The Chinese are large purchasers, but the public have but little evidence that they are large consumers, for drunkenness is rare among them. Where does the liquor go to? The inference is frequently made that it must be illicitly sold by the Chinese to natives. But drunkenness is not especially rife among our natives, except in the district of Kau. Hawaii, where, it is supposed, liquor illicitly distilled is mainly drank. But though there is no apparent outbreak of public drunkenness, enough has been developed of late to cause the thoughtful to ask what can be done to lessen or suppress intemperance. This is a practical question. Do the organizations of societies accomplish much good ? The securing of signatures to pledges of total abstinence by those who are by the habit of their lives total abstainers accomplishes but little, nor do temperance meetings attended only by those who are temperate secure the end aimed at. Personal example is always powerful. We believe this has done great good in our community, and will continue to do good. Social drinking is not so common in good society in Honolulu as it once was, and bar drinking is less respectable here than ever. But mere silent example is not sufficient. Let the Christian decline to deal in intoxicants as an article of traffic : let him forbid its presence at his table ; and let him, above all, speak a kind word ofremonstrance against its use to all who may seem to be inclining that way. We do not intend to discuss here tbe question whether a moderate use of wine and ale, etc., can be defended ethically or religiously. One thing we are sure of, that the best and safest course for the individual and his neighbors is not to try and see how near he can walk to the line of total abstinence and yet indulge moderately, but to " Touch not, taste not, handle not." 16 Pure religion and undeflled before God, the. Father, is this : To visit the fatherless and widcnvs in their affliction, and to keep one's self unspottedfrom the world. here for ivory snd slaves, and we have seen that they do not always speak the truth, and that they buy men of their own color and treat them badly, putting them in chains and beating them. The white men, when offered slaves, refuse them, saying, ' Shall we make our brothers slaves ? No ; we nre all sons of God!' I have not heard a white man tell a lie yet. Speke came here, behaved well, and went his way home with his brother Grant. They bought no slaves, and the time they were in Uganda they were very good. Stamlee came here, and he would take no slaves. Abdul Aziz Bey (M. King Mtesa's Address. Linant Bellefonds) has been here, and is The following are the remarks of Mtesa, gone, and he took no slaves. What Arab the Emperor of the Uganda country in would have refused slaves like these white Equatorial Africa, on his embracing Chris- men? Though we deal inslaves.it is no tianity, which we quote from H. M. Stan- Season why it should not be bad ; and when I think that the white men are ley's " Across the Dark Continent" : said, Now, with a God smile, greatly superior to the Arabs, and I " Mtesa be thanked, a white man, Stamlee,' has think therefore that their book must be a come to Uganda with a book older than the better book than Mohammed's, and of all Koran of Mohammed, antl Stamlee says that that Stamlee has read from his book I see Mohammed was a liar, and much of his nothing too hard for me to believe. The book taken from this ; and this boy and Idi book begins from the very beginning of this have read to me all that Stamlee has read world ; tells us how it was made, and in to them from this book, and I find that it is how many days ; gives us the words of God a great deal better than the book of Moham- Himself, and of Moses and the prophet Solomed ; besides, it is the first and oldest book. mon, and Jesus, the son of Mary. I have The prophet Moses wrote some of it a long, listened to it all well pleased, and now I ask long time before Mohammed was even heard you, Shall we accept this book or Mohamof, and the book was finished long before med's book as our guide ?" Mohammed was born. As Kintu, our first To which question, no doubt seeing the king, was a long time before me, so Moses evident bent of Mtesa's own mind, they all We will take ihe white man's was before Mohammed. Now I want you, replied, my chiefs and soldiers, to tell me what we book ;" and at hearing their answer a manifest glow of pleasure lighted up the Empeshall do. Shall we believe in Isa (Jesus) ror's face. and Musa (Moses) or in Mohammed ?" In this manner Mtesa renounced Islam ism Chambarango replied, Let us take that and professed himself a convert to the Chriswhich is the best" The Katekiro said, tian faith, and he now announced his determination to adhere to his new religion, to " We know not which is the best. The build a church, and to do all in his power to best, book is the the and Arabs say their promote the propagation of Christian sentiwhite men say their book is the best. How ments among his people, and to conform to then can we know which speaks the truth i" the best of his ability to the holy precepts Kauta, the imperial steward, said, '• When contained in the Bible. 1, on the other whom \ hail Mtesa became a son of Islam, he taught me hand, proud of my convert, wilhmonth&, during prolabored three diligently wrong j having got more knowledge, he can mised that, since Dallington wished it, I now teach me right. I am waiting to hear would release him from ray service, that he his words." Mtesa smiled and said, "Kauta might assist to confirm him in his new faith, speaks well. If I taught him bow to become that he might read the Bible for him and a Bible reader until a Muslim, I did it because I believed it to perform the service of the good people of Europe should send a us take be good. Chambarango says, Let priest to baptize him and teach him the that which is best.' True, I want that duties of the Christian religion. Stamlee," which is the best, and I want the true book; said Mtesa to me as we parted, nearly two but Katekiro asks,' How are we to know months after the massacre of the peace •fAO.ple, when yow which is true?' and I will answer him. party, " say to the write to them, {haf I am like a roar, siW'tWf Listen to me : The Arabs and the white in darkness, or \x»n blind, and that all I ask men behave exactly ns th«*y are taught by is that l may be taught Ikiw to see, and 1 their books, do they not ? The Arabs come sha,l| continue n Christian while I live." The number of strange faces among us, so many being of young men, suggests the question, What is the Y. M. C. A.of Honolulu doing for them ? Does every member of this Association do what he can towards lending these new comers a helping hand ? Many of these strangers are young men of good character and education—they are not all "tramps" and "vagabonds." Let us do what we can for them in the way of friendly counsel and directions as to where labor may be obtained. " ' '' " ' " � 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 (1879) 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 - 1879.02.01 - Newspaper Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1879.02.01 https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/f7dee8abb2977e617ba4cb1f32c9b6dc.pdf d79e5643109691f3d8b3c755adf9428d PDF Text Text 17 SUPLEMNT O T FTHE RIEND. HONOLULU, FEBRUARY 12, 1879. EUROPEAN CORRESPONDENCE. The Return of Emperor Wilhei.m to Berlin 1 After the trying and tragic events which came a shadow over Germany, and Berlin in particular, during the past Spring and Summer, tbe recent return of tbe German Emperor in restored health and spirits, to bis capital, welcomed by hundreds of thousands of bis subjects,—bas been a most pleasing and satisfactory event. During the Summer and early Autumn, the Kaiser has been visiting in different places in the Empire, regaining the strength and vigor which is so striking a characteristic of bis advanced age, but which, it was feared, bad been hopelessly shattered last June by the cowardly bullets of a would be assassin. All Germany has followed with joyful interest the encouraging statements which have appeared from time to time in tbe official reports in reference to bia convalescence and returning strength, and tbe recent jubilee of welcome here proves bow true and lasting a hold he bas upon tbe hearts and love of bis people. Specially marked bas been tbe cordiality of the Rhenish Provinces, where he bas been travelling and visiting during tbe Autumn, one city vicing with another in testifying to their Imperial Head and Father the sincerity, and depth of their loyality. From tbe time it was announced definitely tbat his return to Berlin would be in December, very little else bas been spoken of here in all circles, but or the most fitting manner in which to give bim welcome. Tbe papers were crowded with accounts of what was to be, and old and young, high and low, were eager to bave a share in such a celebration. Artists, Architects, City Authorities, private citizens, all seemed to enter into a friendly compact to do theirbest and utmost to translate the prose of regular streets, buildings of brick and stone and mortar, everyday and common-place sights and objects into a poetry of decoration, of color, of effect which would bear witness to tbe love and affection of those who staod ready to welcome tbe Emperor. Certainly the result was ample compensation for all tbe labor bestowed upon tbe preparations, and all who love the German Fatberland cannot but feel tbat tbe old year passes away more pleasantly because of tbe memorable triumphal welcome of the 6th of December. For some days before the sth, the city presented tbe quaintest and most picturesque appearance. In the principal avenues crowds of work-men were busily occupied in constructing triumphal arches, rearing statues and allegoric and symbolic groups. Public and private edifices began by degrees to hide themselves under floating sb festoons of national colors and drooping fragrant wreatbes and garlands of evergreens. Far into tbe night of the 4th aod morning of the sth the work went on. Eve.ry one was eager to know if it could be finished in time. I chanced to pass through one of the public places during tbe evening preceeding the entry, and although I have since then seen tbe glory of the pageant wbicb followed, I can scarcely soon forget tbe odd and I may say beautiful effects which the unfinished work produced. The night was dark, and through its shadows flashed and glowed great torches of ruddy flame which were borne from one place to another as more light was needed. Busy workmen—soldiers and others—were passing hither and thither. Artists stood near by giving directions. On all sides lay fragments of statues ; a crowned bead ; laurel wreatbes ; symbols of victory; of Germania ; uplifted bands ; drooping white wings —so tbat one might almost fancy himself in tbe midst of the ruins of some ancient and classic city. Great painted banners were being swung into place. Moist and fragrant mounds of evergreens la; waiting, dumbly appealing to be fashioned into some welcoming shape. And so all night long, under the flare of tbe torches the work went on, and when tbe morning came, beauty and order and symmetry crowned tbe chaos of preparation. Tbe. arrival of the Emperor was fixed for twelve, noon. Hours before, the Linden and tbe other long avenues through which the procession was to pass were lined by thousands and thousands of people, patient and ordely, every window in tbe line of march was crowded and the roofs of tbe bouses were often times occupied. Every bouse was decorated, some most elaborately. Facing tbe depot was a towering obelisk, ornamented with appropriate devices and Biblical texts, and covered with a profusion of palm branches and surrounded by massed shrubs and clinging vines, within whose embrace tbe waters of a fountain foamed and gleamed. From this point on. followed an almost unending avenue of arches festooned with flags and evergreens, until at the Brandenburg Gate, tbe entrance to tbe avenue Unter den Linden," the effect was superb. About this grand and historic gate, transformed into a triumphal portal, were grouped towering evergreens until it seemed almost difficult to realize tbat it was in reality no longer summer. Looking southward from this entrance, was tbe verdant avenue we have just passed, and before us lies tbe Linden one succession of elaborate arches and statues. The Emperor, just before reaching Berlin, received from tbe Crown-Prince the Government," which had " * been entrusted to him as regent, and hence entered bis capital again as active ruler. From the windows which our party had on the Linden," a most excellent opportunity was afforded us of watching the procession. It was really the grandest of eights. Tbe center of the avenue was kept clear, but on both sides stood thousand and tens of thousands of people. Bands ot music filled the air with martial strains. As tbe Emperor's carriage appeared tbe crowd broke out into tbe most enthusiastic and jubilant shouts. What a glad and pleasing contrast it was. this welcoming, rejoicing burst to the still, bushed throng which filled the Linden on tbe first Sunday in last June. The Emperor looked extremely well. With bim was tbe Empress. Then followed tbe Crown Prince and Princess, and then many other carriages, and then the endless procession, corporations, tbe military, different guilds, the old veterans, but most interesting of all tbe students who came by hundreds and hundreds. The Corps Studenten were conspicuous in their caps and sashes of blue and orange and purple and crimson, and other colors, certainly a most picturesque sight. Some forty or fifty American students walked in tbe procession, led by the stars and stripes. The old Emperor appeared on the Balcony of the palace and was again most enthusiastically greeted by tbe crowd below. " " " But tbe finest thing of all in tbe reception celebration was tbe illumination of the evening. Tbe whole city was one sea of flame. I can scarcely imagine anything finer. It would be utterly impossible to put into words tbe magical effects produced. Tbe intense brilliancy of tbe newly discovered electric ligbt is something marvelous, and at such a time as this may be used to splendid purpose. Nothing could be more striking and brilliant than the flashing through the night of this strange weird light. Modern art and science bave brought new elements of beauty into such a scene as that of wbicb I am speaking so tbat tbe old and well-known method of illumination seem almost to have vanished from thought and sight Out of tbe dazzling, brilliant splendor of this illuminated nigbt there will always live in my memory tbe recollection of one or two especially beautiful and striking scenes. Above tbe Brandenburg Gate rises a chariot of victory, drawn by four horses; at all times interesting and imposing, it was rendered peculiarly effective by tbe arrowy gleams of electric light wbicb fell upon It. Beyond this rose into tbe nigbt a winged victory, lifted high into tbe air on a towering column similarly illuminated. Like an enchanted tower, seemed tbe beautiful and symmetrical tower of city-hall, so lighted by �THE FRIEND, FEBRUARY, 18 a glow of crimson Ore tbat it seemed almost possessed of a vivid, passionate life. In the poorest houses were lighted tapers or some other attempt at adornment. In nearly every other window was a bnst of the Emperor, surrounded by flowers or plants, and crowned with laurel. Since bis return the Emperor has been busily engaged, receiving deputations and corporations. A few days since the diplomatic corps were received at tbe Palace and paid their respects to the Emperor and Empress. Tbe Empress made particular mention of the Minister, Mr. Carter, inquiring for bim most kindly. B*otb the Emperor and Empress are looking extremely well—though tbe Emperor still carries bis right arm in a sling, but his iace is as bright and healthy—bis smile as geaial and bis words as kindly as ever. On the Sunday following bis return, especial services of Thanksgiving for bis recovery were held in tbe different churches of the olty. _ The death of Bayard Taylor, the American Minister in Berlin, brings sorrow to many hearts, both in the Old World and tbe New. Mr. Taylor's appointment to bis important post as tbe Representative of tbe United States at the Court of Berlin gave universal satisfaction both in Amerioa and Germany. On his arrival here last spring be was received with warmest and sinoerest cordiality, aod from the very first bis rare and genial charaoter, his personal worth, bis marked' and well-used talents, won for him a wide oircle of friends. His health, wbicb since his arrival bas been far from good, has during the autumn been steadily failing, so that for some time past there has been but little if any hope of his recovery. His death on Thursday last, tbe 19th, came with painful suddenness, however, to many. Tbe sympathy manifested for tbe afflicted widow and daughter has been most genuine, and even in tbe midst of their grief and desolation oannot fail to be of some comfort and consolation. Mr. Taylor's oareer has from the first been most striking and interesting—full of encouragement lo every young man desirous of making for himself an honorable ptaoe in the world. His large acquaintance with German life and manners and literature, and his perfect command of the German language, fitted bim peculiarly for the post to which be was called. As a lasting bond between German and English-speaking people will remain his masterly translation of Goethe's Faust," perhaps the most striking work in all the wide range of German literature. Tbe 44 Life of Goethe," upon which be was engaged, must now probably remain for ever unfinished. An elaborate philosophical poem of bis, whioh has recently appeared, Prinoe Deucalion," will now be read with deepest interest. By those who have come to know and love bim here, in hia new home, his loss will be most deeply felt, and yet in our present personal loss we feel tbat we bave through our acquaintance with him gained a treasure whioh death is powerless to take. Since I wrote tbe above, we bave attended the funeral ceremonies at tbe Amerioan Legation, which were in the extreme simple and impressive. Rev. Dr. Joseph P. Thompson delivered an eloquent address, briefly but lovingly sketching the life history of the poet and world-traveller. Auerbach, the famous German novelist, followed bim, in a similarly tooohing poetio apostrophe to tbe departed, tender with words of deepest personal affection. The Emperor and Crown Prinoe were represented by was in their adjutants ; Ihe Corps Diplomatique attendance, and distinguished writers. Government officers, citisens and a large company of Americans were present. Tbe German papers are filled wilh most eulogistic notioes of Mr. Taylor as a man and Frank Williams Damon. author. Hawaiian Legation, Berlin. Deo. 10.1878. " " " " A raw WORDS ABOUT CHRISTMAS. Germany, the birthplace of tbe Christmas Tree, is now centering its thoughts upon tbe festivities of the coming week. The very air seems filled with a spirit of preparation. In some circles, the recent death of the Grand Duchess of Hesse Darmsladt, Princess Alice of England, will however bring sadness at this Christmas tide. Throughout the Empire the mourning for this young wife and mother has been moet deep and genuine. It has been said that no death since tbat of the idolized Queen Louisa, many years ago, has been so deplored. There was something peculiarly touching about the circumstances of her death. During the illness of her husband, the Grand Duke and that of her children, from diphtheria, she had retained her health and was enabled to care fcr them unweariedly. When they seemed no longer to need her oare, she was herself seized with the same disease and shortly afterwards died. The Duchess has taken great interest in a Hospital in Darmstadt, and it is thought that the disease was contracted there. Berlin presents a very animatedappearance just now. The principal streets are crowded with busy buyers, and the shop windows are beautiful and tempting in the extreme. Little forests of Christmas trees, mounted on stands, make the public market places seem almost summer-like. In Germany no home is without its Christmas tree. There is something very beautiful in the universality of tbe custom, aod in the interest with which the old as well as the young look forward to the lighting of the tapers on Christmas Eve. In different parts of the city little villages of booths bave sprung up, where all manner of articles are being sold, so that the city seems to be one large lair. Tempting as the city is juet now, your correspondent is running away for a few days at Christmas to friends in tho country, who promise him a real German Christmas, difficult to find in large cities. Germany can no longer claim an exclusive right to the "Christmas tree" on the ,4 Eve" doar to children. For round our world runs now at this blessed festive season a verdant belt of gleaming "trees," and all nations, where Christianity has found acceptance, join in this pleasant, old, but ever new custom. But Germany is still "par excellence" the land of "Christmas" and the 44 Christmas tree," and a visit here is scarcely complete without a "Christmas" celebration ! and this I have had this year in perfection. My dear friends, tbe Yon P. family, by their warm and urgent invitation, tempted me away from Berlin for the holiday week to their beautiful estate in Mecklenburg. As I left Berlin, the city lay robed in white, snowy draperies, growing whiter and whiter under the soft touch of the falling snow flakes. It was impossible not to know it was Tbe trains were filled with nearing Christmas. merry travellers, muffled up to the eyes in huge furs, going borne for tbe holidays. And at every station the keen air was warmed into a sort of summer mildness by laughter and welcoming words and hearty greetings. How like some gladdening burst of sunshine through rilted olouds in the midst of the world's business and cares and troubles these bright days in the heart of winter! In the Mecklenburg landscape there is but little variety ; wide spreading plains stretch- 187 9. ing off to tbe Baltic. And yet there is for one born in the tropics, a never failing source of pleasure in the quietest of landscapes, purified by the whiteness of winter. And in the few hours' ride from Berlin, 1 felt, as scarcely ever before, the restful influence of gray skies, limitless expanse of spotless snow, sombre but richly shadowy forests. At one of the stations coming north our company were met by our host and son. who were just returning from hunting on their estate in Pomerania, so tbat we received a pleasant addition to our party. At Rostock, a quaint old town, one ofthe Ilanea- league, our railway journey ended. The early winter twilight had already gathered over the antique gable roofs of the houses, so that we saw but little sof the city, The family coach, with its four stalwart horses, was ready for us, and soon we were dashing off through dark evergreen forests, over roads sheeted with snow, and under the clear, starry December sky for a fifteen mile ride. What a warm, genial welcome in its comfort and elegance tbe Castle had in waiting for us, and better than all, tbe kindly, smiling faces of our friends greeting us as we left the darkness and cold I am sadly tempted to give you a long account of our Christmas week here, but my time really permits mo only to sketch it very hastily. My host is proprietor of one ol the fine old Mecklenburg estates, which he manages with wisdom and skill. The castle, its surroundings, its interior, etc., are charming. There is a certain primitiveness, a conservativeness, a reminder of some old regime about the life and people here, so tbat lam half tempted to think I am ! reading some old romance, or poem or chronicle, or that during this holiday week 1 have been enjoying a long and pleasant dream, whioh will fade away as soon as I am once more in tbe midst of the realities and prose of Berlin. The "modernizing" spirit which bas of late made itself sq much felt in Germany, has, happily, not to any very marked extent invaded tbe order and peace of this region of Mecklenburg. In this district are a number of old families of tbe nobility, owning large estates, and about whomcluster little villages of tenants and working people, whose fathers and forefathers lived and worked very much as they sjork to-day. It would be untrue to say that the condition of the people had not been much improved in some respects, that a freer and broader spirit does not exist here. But on tbe whole, the old times still linger, modified and mellowed by the new. We have passed directly into all the enjoyments of winter country life. Each one is free to amuse himself aa he may like, with walking, hunting, riding, sleighing, skating, etc., etc. The weather was perfect for Christmas. The snow which bad fallen a few days before was in excellent condition for sleighing, and the sun glowed and gleamed in a gloriously blue northern sky, and reflected itself endlessly in snow crystals, in arrowy-pendant icicles, in frozen brooks and ponds. The castle stands on slightly rising ground, with a little lake on one side, now frozen and still, beyond which a wide and beautiful park of beech and oak, and pine and fir, stretches away. Not fur off is tbe little village of Kolzow, which rests peacefully undor the sway of tbe Schloss and its master. From the �THE FRIEND, FEBRUARY, drawing-room windows is a charming view of the little cbutch, surrounded by now leafless trees, and hemmed in by glorious drifts of snow. As the shadows of Christmas eve gathered over the country, little groups of the country people might be seen wending their way on foot to tbe church, or coming in large parties in sleighs from the neighboring estates. The little church back with history some two or three hundred years, and yet seemed not too old to enter with a sort of quaint simplicity and earnestness into the services of Christmas. Before the altar stood two evergreen trees gleaming with tapers, —a pretty custom which I have seen only here. Tbe cburch was further decorated with sprays and wreaths of green. The Mecklenburg church is Lutherian," the ,4 Reformed" being in a minority here. The altar of the church is profusely decorated with old carvings and paintings, and the high pulpit, where tbe young clergyman stood in black robe and bands, was similarly ornamented. Tbe gallery in tbe rear is an ancient affair with wood carvings, family arms, etc. Facing the pulpit and near the altar are the high pews, fenced and railed in for the gentry of the neighborhood, and in the body of the church are seats for the people. The services on Christmas eve consisted of chants and choral singing from the cboir of boys and men, and prayers and reading of passages of Scripture by the clergyman— a quiet vesper service. As we came out again into tbe evening air and gray-lightedatmosphere, it seemed like the finding of some old picture which I had seen and tried to realize long, long ago in the Tropics as a boy, thinking of what a nortbern Christmas eve must be. Through the door of tbe church, framed in curving arches of stone, came glimpses of the twinkling, gleaming tapers. Quiet stars shown in the softly darkening skies. The suow clothed the land far as the eye could reach with a mantle of stainless purity, lifted itself in massive waves over fences and walls, crested tbe roofs and lighted the gloom gathering in tbe firs. Sleigh bells tinkled in the frosty air, and pleasant words passed between those hastening home to delight the little ones' eyes with the ever new-born beauty of tne Christinas tree. In all the snow-covered houses of the village stood Chrißtmas trees. The 44 Foreeter " bad seen that each family was provided with one. And the fathers and mothers and children gathered about them and gave and received their simple gifts as has been so long a custom in this German-land. In tbe castle we had the same pleasant custom, runs " though perhaps on a somewhat larger scale. The ringing of a bell announced to us that our presence was desired, and we entered the large, brilliantly lighted hall, in triumphal procession, while the music of a German choral came to us irom one of the neighboring rooms. It was one of the prettiest Bights imaginable. Two trees with tapers, covered with all manner of bright and glittering ornaments, which it is the delight of German children's hearts to make and buy, gave us welcome. Running all around the great room were little tables, bright with gifts and lighted with Christmas tapers. Each one had his or her tabic What a bright, merry time we had ! No one was forgotten; and amid the pleasure of renewed surprises, of giving and receiving 19 18 79. of thanks, tbe evening passed pleasantly away, and swift deer, lures to the hunter. The snow though not, however, without leaving an impress has partly melted away, showing now and then upon one heart and memory, at least from which brown earth and faded turf, and on tbe huge it can never be effaced. old-fashioned barn roofs, vivid patches of emerald Some times in this region of country, and in moss. In the park, gothie aisles of myriad leafSweden also I think, they have an odd and very less twigs and ourving branches, stand waiting amusing way of distributing presents. The com- for the resurrection glory of tbe spring. Sounds pany is seated in one room, and presently and of all kinds of feathered and animal life come to mysteriously a great parcel is thrown amid tbe us from barn and stall. Solemn cawing crows waiting group. It is often of mammoth size, fly like a shadow over the snow, and countless carefully and elaborately enveloped in coverings, sparrows make summer in the trees. Peace, and directed to some of the company. He opens plenty and prosperity seem to reign on every it with eager expectation, to find that beneath side, from the castle, with its tower, to the simhisaddress is that of Borne one else. The next ple peasant-cottage, from which the smoke rises in turn is doomed to similar disappointment, into tbe quiet air. As I close, the sun sends a and so tbe joke goes round, until some happy golden shower ofbeams over the landscape, and person is found for the gift. It is often pro- as it passes westward I send with it to you my New Year's greetings. ductive of much fun and merriment. F. W. Damon. Christmas day was exceedingly pleasant. In tbe morning we attended tbe services in tbe KOLZOW BEI SULZE. Mecklenburg, December 30tb, 1879. church, and bad a good Christmas sermon from the young clergyman. Later a grand Christmas My Grandfather's Clock. dinner, and a pleasant evening en famtlle. Tbe Christmas festivities here are prolonged to two Hy grandfather'a clock was too large for the shelf. holidays, but tbey are spent more quietly than So It stood ninety years on the floor; with us and are regarded somewhat more as It waa taller by balf than the old man himself, Though It weighed not a pennyweight more. sacred days. It was bought on the morn of the day that be waa born, On New Year's there is a more boisterous life And was always his treasure and pride; among tbe common people. We have bad during But It stopped short—never to go again— Christmas week a charming gathering of friends When the old man died. CHOEt'S. of the family to celebrate the birth-day of the Ninety yearswithout slumbering (tick, tick, tick, tick), eldest daughter of tbe house. The guests came Hislife-seconds numbering (tick, tick, tick, tick), through tbe snow, some of them from a consid- It stopped short—never to go again— erable distance. The great family coaches and When the old man died. sleighs presented quite an imposing appearance, In watching its pendulum swing to and fro. drawn by four horses. The country life of the Many hours he had spent while a boy; in childhoodaud manhood theclock seemed to know gentry here is very pleasant. They have large, And And to share butli his grief andhis Joy. comfortable homes, plenty reigns on every Bide, For it struck twenty-four when he entered at the door and each estate is a sort of little kingdom. A With a blooming and beautiful bride; certain charming stately old-fashioned formality But it stopped Bhort—never to go again— When the old man died. and politeness, colored and warmed by truest he could hire, and simplest friendliness, which one sees here, is My grandfather said that of those Not a servant so faithful he found; very delightful and interesting. Our time passes For it wasted no time, and had but one desire swiftly by. During the day the gentlemen bunt At tho close of each week to be wound; or ride or write, and the ladies busy themselves It was kept in its place, not a frownupon its face. And its hands never hung by its side; with their work, or conversation. At dinner we But it stopped short—never to go again— all meet, and the evening is filled up with music, When the old man died. with games, con venation, etc. The ice has been It rang alarm in the dead of the night— an in most excellent condition for skating, but the An alarm tbat for yearshad been dumb; And we knew that bis spirit was plumiug for flight, little thaw which we arc now having is a disap- — pointment for tbe skaters. With the festivities of Sylvester evening and New Year's will close our holidays in the country, and we shall say good-bye to our kind friends and be in a few hours in Berlin. In closing, I cannot but think amid how widely different ecencs I am, writing these few words from those in which you in the tropics may read them. I watched the sun rise this morning in the gray east. First came a soft warm glow in the winter sky, a low lying band of amber light, growing brighter and brighter, and yet seeming almost shy of its own brightness, so strangely reluctant does color seem to make itself felt in a winter landscape. Now a blue sky, with slowly gathering clouds lorms itself above us as the day goes on. Not far away to tho north lies the Baltic, cold and gray nnd wintry. Forest lands That his hour of departure had come. Still tbe clock kept the time, with a soft and muffled chime, As we silently stood by his side; But it stopped short—never to go again— When the old nun died. Berlin, Jan. 19.—The North German Gazelle denies the sensational report relative to Germany's intended action toward tbe Samoan Islanders, and states tbat Germany will merely keep a suftioieut naval force in tbat neighborhood to retain possession of two small ports on the Island of Upola, wbicb they seised and will hold as a pledge until Ibe Samoan Government grants Germany ber treaty rights. Bismarck is preparing to submit to tbe Federal Counoil a law for tbe regulation of railway tariffs. Bismarck has written and caused to be published a letter apealing to tbe agricultural community of Germany to afford bim their united and vigorous support In bis work of tscal reform. new duties to be levied upon imstretch to cast and west, north and south. In He refers to the ported corn and cattle, and expresses tbe opinion on the here there the woods and fields and lie tbat such taxation bas become an unavoidable traces and tracts in tbe snow of tbe timid bare necessity. �I II X 20 rRIE N D, FEBRU ARf, Places of Worship. Seamen's Bethel—Rev. S. C. Damon, Chaplain, King street, near tbe Sailors' Home. Preaching at 11 a. at. Seals free. Sabbath School before tbe morning service. Prayer meeting on Wednesday evenings at 74 o'clock. Fort Street Church—Rev. W. Frear, Pastor, corner of Fort and Beretania streets. Preaching on Sundays at 11 a. m. and 74 p.m. Sabbath School at 10 A. at. SAILORS' HOME ! ADVERTISEMENTS. HANCHETTE. JL. Tasser Si • manyPlaae-Ferle with years M Repairer, . M. DAVIDSON. | Atteraey at rV—It—9a ~"T IMPORTERS AND DEALERS IN Fort Street, Honolulu, H. I. . Commission and Shipping Merchants, P. Auction and Commission Merchant, S. McOREVV, M. D., SUBSCRIPTION'S ARESO- Late Surgeon Y. S. Army, ol Cbnttlan Chinese to purchase land -I.ICITBD in snd build Church Honolulu lo worship Almighty God consulted at his residence on Hotel street, between their own language. The call for a Church comes from them- Can be A lakes and Port streets. the lOih of JanuPledgea are Invited, to be paid on or before Joseph Atherton, B. by received Mr. ary 1880, which will be the Treasurer, Mr. Gooklm, or Mr. Aseu. THOS. C. Funds can alto be remitted to Bishop k Co., Bankers, lor Church Building Fund, account of Chinese v account, v, THRUM, NOTICE TO SHIP MASTERS. DILLINGHAM & CO., No. 87 Port Street, KEEP A FINE ASSORTMENT OF Goods Suitable for Trade. --- STATIONERY AND NEWS DEPOT, Na. 19 Merchant Street, Heaelala. A. L. SMITH, IMPORTER & DEALER IN JEWELRY, King's Combination Spectacles, Glassand Plated Ware, Sewing Machines, Picture Prsmei, Vases, Brackets, etc. etc. Hyl TERMS BTBICTLY CASH MASTER* VISITING THIS PORT daring the last Six Years can testify from personal exthat th« undersigned keep tbe best assortment of No. 73, Port St. perience SHIP GJ-OODS FORTRADE Bound Voliia.es at Reduced Price! And BeU Cheaper than any other Bouse in the Kingdom. DILLINGHAM A CO. FURNISH BOUND VOLUMES friend at one dollar per annum WEof tbetorWILL number of years from 1852 to the present any (subscription price %'i), time. (7 Adding the cost of binding. Company, Lit: New England IV.HE The Union Marine Insurance Company, ban Fraucisco, Packets, Mutual Insurance The Kohala Sugar Company, Tbe Haiku Sugar Company, The Ilamakua Sugar Company, The Waialua Sugar Plantation, The Whec]er Wilson Sewing Machine Company, Dr. Jayne k Sons Celebrated family Medicines. * tf J. W. B0BBBTSO« B. B. WHITBBT WHITNEY & ROBERTSON, (Successors to H. M. Whitney), Importers and Dealers in Foreign Books, PERIODICALS. OF THE HAWAIIAN QCIDK Jarves' History of theHawaiian Island!, Hawaiian Phrase Book, Hawaiian Grammar, Andrews' Hawaiian Grammar, Hawaiian Dictionary, Chart of the Hawaiian Islands. ALSO, OB BUD. OTHER BOOKS ON THE ISLANDS. BISHOP k 00., BANKERS, HAWAIIAN HONOLULU, DRAW EXCHANGE ON ISLANDS, — TBE BANK. OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO, — New lark, OF READING MATTER-OP Papers and Magssloei, back numbers—put up to order at lp reduced rates for parties going lo sea. PACKAGES AGEHTSOF REGULAR PORTLAND LINE OF BOOK, PUBLISHERS ADAMS. Fire-Proof Store, in Robinson's Building, Queen Street. ■011 N GENERAL MERCHANDISE I STATIONERY Si Honolulu, Oahu, H. I. SPECIAL NOTICE. Jaaaary Ist, MT9. ED. DUNSCOMBE, Manager. Honlulu, January 1, 1875. CASTLE & COOKIE, tbeRt. Rev. AlThe HOFFMANN, M D .*, fred Willis,D. D.; Clergy, Rev. Rob't Dunn, M. A., np Rev. Alex. Mackintosh, St. Andrew's Temporary Physician and Surgeon, Cathedral, Beretania street, opposite tbe Hotel. Corner Merchantand Eaahnmsnu Streets, near the Post Otßoe English servioes on Sundays at 64 and 11 a. m., and BREWKR Si CO., 24 and 74 p. m. Sunday School at the Clergy ATi House at 10 a. m. WATBRHOCSB. d4»*» BtAW SWA^F^ chants, Anglican Church—Bishop, To the Planters and Foreign Residents. 1; 3 Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaiian Islands. Dealers in Lumber and Building Materials, Wj< !4tMbbbi Itsilj *"~~~-' VYBSBBBBBB-TBsrßsi Ship Chandlers and General Commission Mer- Prayer meeting every r T]'H T3^4S^4SV^^^aBBXSaBBaSBBBB 24 3sSs^BBBBB^BBBB4 74 JQHN THOMAg " ■ JmPHI HI Sfg, PlttjaW »X! Agents Pantos Salt Works, Brand's Bomb Lances, Chi'ROH—Rev. M. Kuaea, Pastor, And Perry Davla' Pala Killer. Beretania street, near Nuuanu. Servioes in Haa. Sabbath school waiian every Sunday at 104 m. EWERS Si DICKSON, o'clock, alter- | a. servioes at In aid VOLCNTART in a ' Offlce over Mr. Whitney's Book-store, formerly occupied by de-187« Judge Austin. Honolulu, H. I. Kaumakapili Chinese Church Building Fund. SsW^Bk Law. . AW * at 94 M. Evening nating with Kawaiabao. Wednesday at 74 p. m. ■ — (for Oblckering k Sons.) connected C7* Ordersleft at the Sailors'Home or Whitney k Robertson's Bookstore. Kawaiahao Church—Rev. H. H. Parker, Pastor, VMT O. IRWIN Si CO.. King street, above tbe Palace. Services in HaCommission Merchants, waiian every Sunday at 11a.m. Sabbatb school services alterPlantation and Insurance Agents, Honolulu, H. 1. o'clock, at 10 a. m. Evening at 7J nating with Kaumakapili. District meetings in PEIRCE Si CO., various chapels at 3.30 p. m. Prayer meeting (Succesors to C. L. Richards k Co.) every Wednesday at 74 p. m. Roman Catholic Church—Under the charge of Rt. Rev. Bishop Maigret, assisted by Rev. Father Hermann ; Fort street, near Beretania. Services every Sunday at 10 a. m. and 2 p. m. 18 79. ABO TBSIB AOBXTS IB Beatea, Paris. Aurblnaal, THE ORIENTAL RANK CORPORATION, LONDON, — AMD TBKIa BBABOaas IB Hauajkantf, Sydaey, and — Malaaurar, aptOlv And Transact a General Banking Business. m THE Temperance, AMONTHLV FRIEND," JOURNAL DEVOTED TO Seamen, Marine and General lutelllgeuc* PUBLISHED AND EDITED BT SAMUEL O. DAMON. TERMS: On* Copy per Annum Two Copies per Annum -• Foreign Subscribers, including postage $200 •>.... 800 2.M � 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 (1879) 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 - 1879.02.12 - Newspaper Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1879.02.12 https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/a34d7982b3b8eee605db6b33cb72fde0.pdf ad629109b3bf9447bc620c6e6b6b8289 PDF Text Text Friend The HONOLULU, MARCH 1, 1879. 2BetoS«us,M2B,2M.J CONTENTS — F«r March I. 1819. Pans 31 31 81-23 4* 34 34 36 26 26 3« 38 Custom House Statistics, 1878 Arrival of Morning Star Rambles In the Old World, No, 28 Poetry : Bayard Taylor Good Advice to Young Men Census or HawaiianIslands F.'iuale English Lecturers Marine Journal Letter from Japan Letter from China Y. M. C. A THE FRIEND, MARCH 1. 1879. Custom House Statistics for 1878. In the last issue of the Advertiser there was a most full and interesting report of Collector General W. F. Allen, Esq. Our limits will only allow the most meagre summary : The total amount of Exports Is The total amount of Imports la $3,548,471 84 3,046,369 70 $ 603,102 14 Thus it appears the exports exceed imports by a half-million ; thus the Hawaiian Kingdom forms one of a trio of nations whose exports exceed their imports. The United States is one of those nations. All other nations throughout the civilized world have a balance of trade against them, according to the newspapers. Considering the Treaty of Reciprocity, the United States derives the lion's share accruing from the commerce of the Hawaiian Islands. This is as it should be. More than 38 millions of pounds of o«r sugar crop go to the United States, and in exchange our Islands are importing from the United States machinery, groceries, and all the great staples of commerce. We do not wonder the Pacific Coast of the United States is strong and united in favor of the Treaty. The Gospel precept is verified, be given unto you," " Give and it shall " Reciprocity" is the sound principle of commerce. At the Temperance gathering held at Fort street Church, Sabbath evening, 22d ult., we learn that one hundred and seven signatures were obtained to the pledge. 21 {01H Series, M 30. Arrival of the "Morning Star."—We RAMBLES IN THE OLDWORLD-No. 26 always welcome the arrival of this vessel A Few Weeks in Scandinavia—No. 6. from her yearly visits among the MicroTHE UNIVERSITY OF UPSALA. nesian Islands with peculiar joy. Great are The Stockholm wharves are a tempting the dangers of navigation in those remote for tourists. Here you may take place seas. During her ten months' absence she steamer for almost any northern port, and has anchored forty-five times. She brings in a few hours or days be in the midst of the most satisfactory reports of the success scenes which have formerly been known to of mission work. New islands have been you only through the medium of the school occupied, and the work of evangelization is geography or the traveller's journal. My progressing. We would acknowledge let- companion was strongly tempted to start ters from Dr. Pease, Rev. J. F. Whitney, immediately for St. Petersburg. A most Rev. Mr. Rand, and Rev. Mr. Logan. Capt. interesting journey it would have been, Bray's Report will be found in another truly. But 1 think we were wiser for this column. We heartily congratulate Captain time in confining ourselves to Scandinavia. Bray on his successful trip, being his first in In this way the journey will have a symthose seas in command of the Morning metry, which would have been marred had Star. Mrs. Sturgis and Rev. Mr. Mukka we gone into the midst of another people and another language. As one passes steamcame as passengers. er after steamer, from which the colors of The Chinese Question in the United different nations are flying, which will soon States.—Reports come that the anti-Chi- be on their way to near or distant cities, he nese party are hurrying forward their bill is impressed by the importance of this Swedish center. I have also felt through Congress. The time may come northern this especially during our stay here, front when the statesmen and politicians of Amer- the fact that just now the Prison Congress ica will regret their opposition to this class is holding its sessions here, with representaof immigrants. An old and life-long mis- tives and delegates from all parts of the sionary, who has labored for nearly a half- civilized world. We have appropriated toto an excursion to Vpsala, the old century in Japan and China—the Rev. Dr. day town of Sweden, an excursion University Brown, of Yokohama—thus writes under which travelers in this region should not fail date of January 27th to make. Unfortunately, our time was too hope the Californians who have so limited to permit of our taking the steamer I " grievously abused the Chinese will have a route, said to be very delightful, through quietus given to their proceedings. The Lake Malar, but we were obliged to content story of the wrong done to the Chinese there ourselves with the railroad. Just at the must be told more distinctly and minutely station we met friends who had been in the than it has yet been. What would the steamer from Gothenburg to Stockholm with Coast politicians say if China were to re- us, and their company added much to the taliate ? I cannot yet believe President pleasure of the day. The road lies through Hayes and his Cabinet or the United States quiet farming lands, varied now and then by Senate will be dragged into subserving the stretches of forest—nothing especially strikRepresentatives of California, or disgrace the ing, but always charming in its varying name of our country and the Government in colors. Our visit to tJpsala chanced to be during vacation time, so that we saw but the sight of mankind." few students,—just enough, however, to Le Kwei, one of the Chinese Commissioners remind us that this was a University town. to the Philadelphia Centennial The city was founded in the early days of Christianity in Sweden, and seems to visitExhibition, has published in four volumes ors of a later day like some watch-tower, an account of the Exposition and his travels from whose turrets the eager gaze could in and his impressions of the United States, catch far glimpses of shadowy forms, the spirits of the old and vanquished paganism, England and Europe. : �22 THE FRIEND, MARCH, 187 9. the once proud heroes of legend and mythology retreating before the consecrated sword of the new Faith. Here was the Jiome of the Bishops, and here for a long period of years the Swedish kings were crowned. There is but little now to recall its mediaeval history—far too little, we thought—modern edifices and regular streets provailing. And yet the old spirit still lingers, and as you stand in the shadow of the ancient Cathedral, or review the history of the University, you feel that all the links which join the past and present have not been severed. The only other University in Sweden, besides Upsala, is at Lund, in South Sweden, of which I may have occasion to speak hereafter. The latter, however, while occupying an honorable position, is not of as great importance as this at Upsala. Here may be seen the most characteristic features of Scandinavian student-life. The students are divided into " nations" or divisions, according to the district or region of Sweden from which they come, thirteen in all. Each " nation" has its " inspector—one of the professors ; they have each their own treasury, and most of them have some building or hall, where they have their social gatherings, entertainments, etc. Of course, this arrangement, which I think is peculiar to Scandinavia, has its advantages ; but I should think it would tend to encourage sectional feeling and prejudice. Duels, fortunately, do not occur in Scandinavia among the students, as in Germany—one of those relics of barbarism which that land has not as yet thrown off. As you are aware, the Scandinavian students are famous for their beautiful singing, the concert of the students from Upsala and Christiania having formed one of the interesting features of the recent Exhibition in Paris. On the average, Upsala counts something like 1,500 students on her roll. At Lund there are from 500 to 600. Education has made great and encouraging progress in Sweden. The schools are numerous and of a superior class, public and private. The excellence of the Swedish schoolhouses is widely known. One of the extremely interesting features of the Exposition in Philadelphia, as may be remembered by many, was a bona fide Swedish schoolhouse, with all its improvements, arrangements and apparatus. Attendance at school is compulsory from seven to fourteen years of age. So much has been said about Swedish education that I may be pardoned this slight digression in alluding to it in general. This rigorous educational life is a most healthful sign. In Upsala the most interesttng edifice, next to the Cathedral, is the University Library. It occupies a noble position on a slight elevation above the town, facing the principal street of the city. In the rear ofthe Library lies a large wooded park, where, amid " murmuring pines," a the students, and fine promenade is afforded where we may fancy many a young Scandinavian ponders on the long centuries which have gone before, and looks with the glow of youthful hope and enthusiasm to the bright future which may be yet awaiting his Fatherland. The Upsala Library is one of the treasures of Scandinavia—in a general way we may say it is a world treasure! Its two hundred thousand or so volumes, embracing every branch of philosophical, scientific, literary thought, are most carefully and conveniently arranged. I found here, carefully preserved as a rare and precious possession, an ancient manuscript, which I may say had more than anything else lured me to Upsala—the " Codex Argenteus," the Gothic translation of the four Evangelists by Bishop Ulfilas. It is impossible for one to gaze on this ancient manuscript, venerable and hoary with its fourteen centuries, the only surviving relic of the Gothic language, this monument to the memory of its brave and faithful translator, this radiant gleam, as it were, thrown upon the still lingering night of paganism—it is impossible, 1 say, to gaze upon this faded parchment, with its silver letters, without being deeply, tenderly, irresistibly moved. I could appreciate and sympathize with the enthusiasm manifested by our guide in pointing it out to us. There is something most exquisitely and intensely poetic in the reverent, loving, and deeply earnest spirit which such a precious relic of long-vanished days has the power to evoke. I trust that some may be interested in a short extract from the pages of one of Max Muller's most interesting works, in reference to Ulhlas and his translation : " He was born in 311. His parents were of Oappadocian origin, and bad been carried away by the Goths as captives from a place called Sadagothina, near the town of Parnassus. It was under Valerian and Gallienus (about 2G7) that the Gotbs made this raid from Europe to Asia, Galatia and Cuppadocia, and the Christian captives whom they carried back to the Danube were the first to spread the light of the Gospel among the Goths. Ulfilas was born among the Gotbs ; Gothicwas his native language, though he was able in after-life to speak and write both in Latin and Greek. Pbilostorgius, alter speaking of the death cf Crispus (326), and before proceeding to the last years of Constantino, says that about that time ' Ulfilas led his Gotbs ' from beyond the Danube into the Roman Empire. They bad to leave their country, being persecuted on aecuunt of their Christianity. Ulfilas was the leader of the faithful flock, and came to Constantino as ambassador. * * We must suppose that, after having crossed the Danube, Ulfilas remained for some time with bis Gotbs, or at Constantinople. Auxentius says that he officiated as lictor, and it was only when be bad reached the requisite ago of thirty that be was made bishop by Eusebiue, in 341. He passed the first seven years of his episcopate among the Goths, and the remaining thirty-three of his life ' in Solo Romaniae.' where he had migrated together wiih Fritiger and the Thervingi. * * Ulfilas translated the whole Bible, except tbe ' Books of Kings.' Unfortunately, the greater part of his work has been lost, and we have only considerable portions ot the Gospels, all tbe genuine Epistles ol St. Paul, though these again not complete; fragments of a Psalm, of Ezra, and Nehemiab. Though Ulfilas belonged to tbe Western Goths, his translation was used by all Gothic tribes when they advanced into Spain and Italy. Tbe Gothic language died out in tbe ninth century, and after the extinction of the great Gothic empires, the translation ol Ulfilas was lost and forgotten. But a MS. of the filth century bad been preserved in the Abbey of Werden, and towards tbe end of the sixteenth century a man of the name of Arnold Mercator, who was in tbe service ofWilliam IV, the Landgrave of Hessia, drew attention to this old parchment, containing large fragments of tbe translation of Ulfilas. This MS., now known as the Codex Argenteus, was afterwards'transferred to Prague, and when Prague was taken in 1648 by Count Konigsmark, bo carried this literary relic to Upsala in Sweden, where it is still preserved as one of the greatest treasures. The parchment is purple, the letters in silver, and the MS. in solid silver. In 1818,Cardinal Mai and Count Castiglione discovered some more fragments in, the Monastery of Bobbio, where they had probably been preserved ever since the Gothic Empire ol Thcodoric the Great in Italy bad been destroyed. Ulfilas must have been a man of extraordinary power to conceive, for the first time, the idea of tranblating tbe Bible into the vulgar language of his people. At his time there existed injEurope but two languages which a Christian bishop would have thought himself justified in employing—Greek and Latin. All other languages were still considered ns barbarous. It required a prophetic sight, a faith in the destinies of these} half-savage tribes, and a conviction ulso ol the utter efletencse of the Roman and Byzantine Empires, before a binhop could have brought himself to translnte the Bible into the vulgar dialect of his barbarous countrymen." bound Beside this most interesting and precious manuscript is the original of that most exquisite poem, " Frithyof's Saga," by Esaias Tegner, the first of Swedish poets in any time. A recent visit to the house of the poet, and acquaintance with a grandson of Tegner, worthy of the honored name which he bears, rendered this modern manuscript exceedingly interesting to us. Here also was some ancient " Edda." But I must not weary you with a further account of this library, now that we have discovered its rarest pearl in the Codex Argenteus. The other University buildings lie not far away, the students having their rooms in the town. Upsala, I should think, would be the rarest place for earnest study, in the depth of a Northern winter. The Cathedral is a fine old building, dedicated to St. Erik, St. Lawrence and St. Olaf. We were in doubt just how to find the sacristan. Fortunately, an Upsala student, perhaps some " vacation worker," chanced to be passing. Just a word to him, and he was at our service. The sacristan is soon found, and our newly-made student friend joins himself to our company in that kindly, genial way they have here at the North, and with his ready explanations makes our Cathedral visit far pleasanter than it would otherwise have been. May the good saints, Erik, Lawrence, Olaf, and all the holy ones of the Swedish Calendar, take him under their especial patronage and bless him as he deserves! The church is surrounded by mortuary-chapels, containing tbe remains of Sovereigns and celebrated men of Sweden On the walls of one of the chapels were paintings portraying incidents in the life of Gustavus Vasa, whose adventurous life reminds one of the career of Alfred of England. Here is the tomb of Eric Oxenstiern, and here also rests the great botanist Linne, known generally as Linnasus in scientific writing, one of the most famous of Sweden's sons. A faded wreath still hung over the monument, placed there probably on some recent anniversary. Faded as it was, it was pleasant to see this reminder here of that world of natural beauty in which Linne walked as one privileged above all others to read beneath the outward bloom and form and fragrance the mysteries of those delicate, marvelous laws of growth, order, and development which give to the humblest of humble flowers a strange and sublime dignity. And with these buildings concludes our �THE FRIEND, MARCH. I>S7 inspection of Upsala. It is a busy place, I " Raknihongen," is to be found in Norway. fancy, when hundreds of white-capped stu- Near these lies another mound, from which dents are thronging its streets. It was very the ancient Kings were accustomed to adquiet and slumberous as we saw it in late dress the great gatherings of the people. Of August; we had the streets pretty much to the Northern mythology and its wild and ourselves. How long the summer holidays poetic character I may take occasion heremust seem to shopkeepers, to widow ladies after to speak, in connectien with Norway, who, with memories of generations of stu- the savage grandeur of the scenery in the dents at their tongue's end, support a slen- latter country seeming to be more in symder gentility by providing for the ravenous pathy with it than with the fertile plains of appetites of hungry scholars ; to sentimental Sweden. The old village church lies near Scandinavian maidens, who build high hopes by, half hidden among the trees, and heathen on each new coming class! But the first mounds and Christian spire seem to have frosts of autumn will bring the " white caps" struck a lasting truce and forgotten to be back to them, and also the fulfilment of their hostile. But this is only the portal to Walhalla. Everyone comes to Gamla to drink fondest hopes, 1 trust. " mead," that drink of gods and heroes. A GAMLA UPSALA. little boy guided us through winding ways old, and connection in signifies Gamla" " with Upsala has reference to a little village to a little cottage, set in the midst of a bloslying a few miles to the north of the Uni- soming garden. Nothing could have been versity town—a charming bit of antiquity, if more charming and inviting. There, in the you are of an antiquarian tendency —the neat little "best room "of the cottage, we oldest of heathen shrines in Sweden. We were given seats, and presented with a horn, long and tapering, filled to enjoyed keenly our afternoon's wajk, under silver-mounted, the gray and clouded sky, with the cool the brim with foamy, frothy, tempting Northern air falling freshly on our faces. " mead " Did you ever drink this sweetest Such a delicious sense of freedom ! No one of sweet drinks, brewed from honey and The foaming to bar our way as we struck across the fields other simple ingredients ? passed from hand to hand, from mouth and climbed ancient and tottering fences, or horn rolled (one who has lived at all in Germany, to mouth, and again around. Thus, you that land of strict regulations, can appreciate know, the heroes in Walhalla drink,—they the luxury of this) on the grassy and heather- who never fled before the foe, they who tufted plain, on a carpet of soft, creamy- never quailed in the thickest of the fight, white northern moss, stained here and there with the gleam of some vivid crimson berries. To tne the very air seemed freighted with the spirit of the olden times. As we strode onwards, we cast backward glances now and then at the town we were leaving, with its University buildings. There was something in the sight of those buildings cresting the hill above the town which reminded me of other college buildings cresting another hill—so very fur away from here. Wide as is the reach of land and sea which lies between this home of Swedish learning, set in the embrace of this quiet Northern landscape, and the halls of Amherst, set amid the fairest of New England scenes, yet I could not but feel that the sympathy of-kindred pursuits, the love of truth and the brotherhood of youthful hopes and aspirations, joined in a covenant of lasting, although unspoken, friendship those institutions in the Old World and the New. Before us, not very far away, rose the spire or tower of the village church, the goal of our ramble. Now the way lies over some deserted moor and now through a fertile field, through whose billows of golden grain a narrow way led us to the farther side. Still on, till at last we stood face to face with three huge grass-grown mounds, on whose sides a few late wild flowers still lingered, which stood like sentinels before our way. And these were the objects which we came especially to see, these same three commonplace grass-grown mounds! You see, " Gamla Upsala " was, long long centuries ago, the very center ofthe old heathen religion in Sweden, and was held in especial reverence, and these three mounds were supposed in some mysterious way to be connected with the ancient deities, and are named after Odin, Thor and Frey. These are the largest mounds of this nature in Sweden. One still greater, however, and who now at unending banquets quaff this ambrosia of the North, perhaps from the skulls of the vanquished and slain! But, oh earth-child, be wise in time, and do not tempt the jealous souls of Walhalla heroes, for the joys which this mead produces are but fleeting, and this sweet may become indeed a bitter. But we were cautious, and have only pleasant memories of this our nearest approach to the mysterious realm in which the heroic souls of Scandinavia rest after conflict. I think the horn from which we drank was presented by King Karl Johann. There were others there from other princes. Several large " visitors' books" testified to the numbers who from time to time visit this spot. But the coming of evening forbids our longer tarrying here, and we hasten back to Upsala, taking thence a slow and sleepy train to Stockholm. A fresh-faced peasant girl, with her neat handkerchief decorously folded over her head, seems to bring a bit of light and brightness into our compartment. Every one nods kindly to evey one else. Some one hums a Swedish air ; the car moves slowly on ; the twilight gathers softly in the forests ; large drops of rain fall on the car windows; city lights gleam on us through the mist, and soon the train lands us in the station at Stockholm—and not at the vestibule of Wal- ». 23 mainly live in the along the Norwegian boundary, whither they came about the year 1600 on account of the disturbances in their native country; and finally a few Laps, who have a nomadic life, and in the summer generally wander with their reindeer to the Norwegian coasts. The land seems astir in all respects. New industries are opening and old are continued. More and more attention is being paid to agriculture, and the fertile land in the southern portion of the country is carefully tilled. There are two agricultural colleges or academies. Mining is one of the oldest pursuits in Sweden, especially iron and copper. The lumber business is assuming great importance, the country being exceedingly rich in forests. Lumber is largely exported to England, France, Denmark, Germany and other countries. The fisheries of Sweden do not compare with those of Norway. Manufactures of woolen and cotton goods, in metals, of paper, brandy, tobacco, etc., etc., are constantly increasing. Swedish commerce advances in a like degree with the internal development of the country. The Church of Sweden is Lutheran. The country is divided into twelve dioceses, the Archbishop living in Upsala, and is regarded as the Primate of the Swedish Church. The highest authority is entrusted to the King, who with his Cabinet has the government of the land. There are separate ministers for Norway and Sweden, with the exception, however, that the Department of Foreign Affairs is the same for both countries. The Minister of State for this Department must be a Swede, and is responsible oniy to the Swedish Parliament. The foreign representatives of the Kingdom may be either Swedes or Norwegians. Every year the Swedish Parliament (distinct from the Norwegian Storthing) meets at Stock- holm, before 1565 consisting of four orders— the Nobles, Clergy, Burgers and Peasants— now simply divided into two houses. The army numbers something like 30,000 men, with a reserve of 100 000 or more. The navy is very small, but increasing. Fortunately, Sweden is a land of peace, and has other use fer her men than holding them in readiness for war. Of the educational advantages of Sweden 1 have already spoken. At the head of Sweden's poets stands the name of Esaias Tigner, the author of " FrithyoPs Saga ;" then those of Bellmann, of Allinquist, of Atterborn, Franzin, Geizer, and many others especially well known in their native land. But particularly in the department of science have Swedes been illustrious; it is only necessary to mention Linne, Swedenborg. Berzelius, Nilsson, Ritzius and Agardh, to recall halla ! 4 'names held in honor through all Europe. From Sweden have come some of the A FEW CLOSING WORDS ABOUT SWEDEN. The growth and progress and promise of sweetest of singers, and in painting and this most interesting country would repay sculpture are well-known Swedish artists. any one for devoting some time and atten- It is with pleasure that 1 repeat in closing tion to the study of the same. The popula- what 1 have before said—that the Sweden tion of Sweden was, according to the census of our day is a country where law, order, of 1574, 4,341,659 persons; in the year justice and prosperity reign, where internal 1800 only 2,347,303. The large majority improvement and develoyment are preferred of the inhabitants are Swedes; besides to foreign war and conquest, and where, it is these are a few Germans, Norwegians and to be fondly hoped, peace and brotherly love Danes, who have emigrated hither. There have found an abiding home. Frank Williams Damon. are also a few thousand Finnlanders, who �24 I II X THE FIiIEND. MARCH 1. 18TB. Bayard Taylor. LOKOVELLOW's POM READ*AT THE BOSTOS MCETIMO. Dead he lay among his books ! The price of Qod was in bis looks. As the statues* in the gloom Watob o'er Maximilian's tomb, 80 those volumes from their shelves Watobed him, silent aa themselves. Ah ! bis band will never more Tarn their storied pages o'er ; Never more hia lips repeat Songs of theirs, however sweet. Let tbe lifeless body rest! He is gone who was its guest. Gone aa travelers baate to leave An iuo, nor tarry until eve. Traveler '. in what realms afar, In what planet, in what star. In what vast aerial space Shines tbe light upon thy face? In what gardens of delight Rest tby weary feet to-night T Poet! tbou wboae latest verse Was a garner on tby hearse, Thoa bast sung with organ tone In Deukalion'a life thine own. On tbe ruins of the Past 15looms tbe perfect flower at last. Friend ! but yesterday tbe bella Rang for tbee their loud farewells ; And to-day they toll for Ibee Lying dead beyond the sea ; Lying dead among thy books, Tbe peace of God in all tby looks. MEMORIAL FRIEND, MARCH, 1879. Good Advice to a Young Man.—A physician writes to young men as follows: "My profession has thrown me among women of all classes, and my experience teaches me that Heaven never gave man a greater proof of His love than to place woman here with him. My advice is :Go and propose to the most sensible girl you know. If she accepts you, tell her how much your income is, and from what source derived; tell her you will divide the last shilling with her, and that you will love her with all your heart into the bargain. And then keep your promise. My word for it, she will live within your income, and to your last hour you will regret that you did not marry sooner. Stop worrying about feminine untruth. Just you be true to her —love her sincerely, and a more fond, faithful, foolish slave you will never meet anywhere. You will not deserve her, I know ; but she will never know it." Now read what an old man writes: is certainly a surprise, a novelty, a " There glory of enthusiasm in the early dawn of [From the P. C. Advertiser, Feb. 22.] Census of the Hawaiian Islands, taken December 27th, 1878. GENERAL SI'MHARV. For the following figures, which are compiled from official sources, we are indebted to the Hon. W. Jas. Smith, Secretary of the Board of Education. The following statement of the arrivals and departures of Chinese during the six years embraced in the census returns, i.e. up to Deo. 27th, 1878, has been furnished by the Collector General of Customs from the records kept at his office; and by L. Severance Esqr. Collector at the port of Hilo. 'otal Dumber of Natives in 1878 44,088 Half-castes in 1878 .1,420 ■' Chinese 6,916 M Americana 1,276 •' *' Hawaiian-born of foreign parents. 947 British In 1878 883 Portugese " 436 " " Germans ** 272 '* " » French 81 Other forelgnera 666 " •• " " " " Total population Dec. 27th, 1B78 87,988 'otal number of Natives and Half-castes in 1872 .. .81,631 1878 .47,608 " •' Decrease since 1872 4,033 'otal number of foreigners in 1878 10,477 1872 6,368 .. " love in one human soul towards another " human soul; it is the most radiant thing of which they have any knowledge ; it transcends all words and symbols ; it is the most Increase since 1872 6,111 beautiful thing two such souls can have up 'otal increase of Foreigners alnce 1872 6,111 4,023 to that time ; but they are wed ; they live 'otal decrease of Natives since 1872 together ; for years and years they struggle Total increase of Population since 1872 1,088 'otal number of Chinese in 1878 with time and the world ; children are mul6,916 1872 1.938 tiplied to them; some of these children Increase of Chinese since 1872 3,978 sicken and die ; they experience joys and number of Chinesearrivals 4,820 sorrows innumerable together; and at last lonolulu—Total departures 656 " " '• ; come the summer of life and to Indian they Honolulu—Excess of arrivals 3,965 when their heads are white, and they sit lilo—Total number of Chinese arrivals 214 side by side tremulous with age, I declare 4,179 that the later love is as much richer and ?otal No. of Chinese in Kingdom by Census of 1872. 1,938 •In theHofklrche at Innsbruck. deeper and more voluminous and more ex6,117 than the first flush of early dawning 'otal No. of Chinese In Kingdom by Censusof 1878. 5,916 quisite 27th, our Under date of January love as ripeness is better than greenness." ?o be accounted forby deaths and departures other Berlin Correspondent writes thus : than as paasengers 201 Police of Honolulu have The a few many Mrs. Taylor and daughter leave in of their Chinese School at Hilo.—The Rev. A. days for America, via Hamburg. All feel difficulties to meet in the discharge the greatest sympathy for them. A pleasant duties. They should see well to it that the 0. Forbes thus writes under date of Feb. little incident in connection with Mrs. Tay- laws are strictly enforced against those 13th : "We have just started an evening lor's leaving Berlin has been her reception places licensed to sell spirituous liquors. are strictly bound by the terms school for Chinese, and I trust it will do by the Empress. She had never been pre- Those places sented, and by her husband's death her con- of their licenses not to allow drunken people much good. There are several Chinese nection with the Court was, of course, about their premises, or to furnish liquors to here who have been scholars in the school ended. But the Empress sent word through those already intoxicated. We fear Hono- taught by Mr. Dunscombe and in the Fort one of her ladies, asking to see Mrs. Taylor lulu will lose its good name unless there is street Chinese Sabbath school. They refer informally and without any ceremony. She strict and wholesome vigilance on the part with much interest to those schools, and will received her so like a sister, waived all of the police. and rebe a to us in our school here. We help her, they Court ceremony, kissed Prof. Alexander and Brother—We mained together a long time. It was cer- are happy to welcome home these gentle- have a worthy young Christian brother, a tainly interesting to see how the sacredness men from their foreign travels. They have Mr. Jones, who is a member of my church, of sorrow brought together one of the proud- visited the United States, England, France, for teacher. It is an interesting fact that he est Empresses in history and the wife of a Switzerland, Italy, Egypt and Palestine, noble man, who bad ennobled himself by spending a month in each of the latter is a nephew of our good sister, Mrs. Reed the work of his hands, head and heart." countries. We know they must have (formerly Mrs. Shipman), and his father, a vast fund of information now deceased, was for many years a misWe would acknowledge papers and brought back many and varied subjects, for, accord- sionary of the English General Baptist dePpon periodicals for gratuitous distribution from ing -to the saying, those bring back most nomination to the negroes on Jamaica. How Dr. J. Mott Smith, Mrs. Severance, Mrs. from their "foreign travels who take most little that father ever thought that he was, Hobron, Mrs. Banning, and Mr. J. P. Cooke away with them. We only regret that the through his son, to participate in the Chinese (Castle & Cooke). exigencies of travel did not allow the Pro- as well as in the Negro work. We have to visit Athens and gaze upon the succeeded in renting a good-sized room, fessor a The Chinese in California are reported Parthenon, although he saw the Colosseum, convenient location, for present use inas to have contributed more for the the Pyramids, and other sights and scenes school-room and general head-quarters for relief of the yellow fever sufferers last sum- without end. Knowing the Professor's love our Chinese work. We shall also fit it up mer than was contributed by the whole for the classics and antiquity, we only hope for use as a chapel for the Chinese until the United States for the relief of suffering from he may be permitted to go abroad once way may be open for more permanent armore. the great famine in China. rangements." " " �THE FRIEND, Female English Lecturers and Workers. MARCH, 187 S. MARINE JOURNAL. A correspondent of the Boston CongrePORT OF HONOLULU. S. I. gationalist thus writes ARRIVALS. At some of the large temperance gather- Feb 3—Fr bk Alphonslne Zelle, Lebeaupin, 16 days from " San Francisco ings—for England is awakening to the fact S—Am bßtne Hesperian, Winding, 17 days from Humboldt that she has more drunkenness than any r>—Am schr Bonanza, Miller, from San Francisco other nation, and needs to arouse her people viaKahulul 13—Ambktne Constitution, HacDonnell, 28 days as wife of from Rsiatea heard such leaders the speak —I 13—Am bk JenniePitta, Blevert, 26 days from Port .Rev. R. W. Dale, so well known in America, Gamble 15—Brit bk Lady Lampson, Marston, 73 days from Miss Richardson, of the Bristol School New Castle, N 8 W. 17—Am bktne Ella, Brown, 18 dye fm San Francisco are an honor to their Board, and 18—Britstmr Zealandla, Chevalier, from Sydney. 20—Am topsail schr Eustace. Bole, from San Fran. sex. Agnes Weston, too, is the admiration Cisco viaKahulul. 20—Am bk Edward James,O'Brien, 23 days from of all temperance workers, from her marvelSan Francisco. 21—Haw bk Kalakaua, Jenks, 21 days fm San Fran ous labors in the Royal Navy. She has 23—Raiatea schr Vivid, Sweet, 9 days 7 hours from Fannlng's Island been instrumental in forming 202 floating 26—Ambark Camden, Robinson, 37 days from Port Gamble the National branches of Temperance 26—Am missionary packet Morning Star, Bray, 32 days from Jalnig on board Her Majesty's ships. She League 26—Am str City of New York, Cobb, 7 days hours from San Francisco has agents ashore at Yokohama, Bombay, 28—Am bktne Grace Roberts, Olsen, from Kahulul 23—Ambktne Discovery, Fuller, 23 days from San Barbadoes, St. Helena, etc., who visit the Francisco 28—H BM 8 Opal, Robinson, from cruise. ships as soon as they are in port, tell the men of temperance boarding houses, and DEPARTURES. Feb B—Am bk Amethyst, Slocum, for Hongkong give addresses; and agents afloat in the 9—Am bktne Eureka, Norburg, for San Francisco 10—Ambk Adelaide Cooper, Emerson, for S F Mediterranean, East African, Australian, 16—Ambgtne Hazard, Miller, for San Francisco. 18—Brit stmr Zealandla, Chevalier, forSan Franco Chinese and Pacific squadrons. She sends 18—Amschr American Girl, Backus, for 8 Franco. bgtne Hesperian, Winding, for Humboldt. 20—Am each month 2,900 copies of a •' Temperance 21—Am bk JennyPitts, Blevert, forPort Gamble. 26—Am bktne Constitution, McDonnell, for San monthly letter" to the sailors, and gives Francisco 26—French bark Alphonslne Zelle,Lebeaupin, for on the as addresses ships as often possible. San Francisco her, City make to and her name is a Btr ofNew York, Cobb, for Sydney 27—Am reports All 27—Am schr Bonanza, Miller, for San Francisco 27—H BM 8 Opal, Roblnnon, for cruise household word." are glad to learn that Miss Weston MEMORANDA. efficient agents among the seamen of "Morning Star's" Voyage. board H. B. M. S. Opal, now lying Summary Hailed from Honolulu June 10th, 1878. Arrived at can to usetheir testify in this port. We Peru, the first laland visited, June 36th. fulness. Homeward bound, sailed from Ponape Jan Ist, 1879; : Bfe "Know Ye Not that Ye are the Temple of God."—The argument for total abstinence drawn from the fact that God honors our bodies as His temple, elevates the subject of Temperance above the common and ordinary grounds upon which men are urged to refrain from the use of intoxicating liquors as a beverage. Alcoholic drinks debase, degrade and brutalise the body. If God deign to come down and take up his abode in the sinner's heart, and thereby fit the soul for heaven, should we not strive to furnish a pure and holy abode as the dwelling place of the Holy Ghost ? Drunkenness and intemperance are certainly among the most debasing and polluting of vices. 'Drunkards are certainly enumerated among those classes which are not to inherit the Kingdom of God." " By the last steamer Miss Carpenter turned from a visit to the United States, bringing an associate (to assist in teaching in the Mabawao Female Seminary), Miss Martha Perry, belonging to Holden, Mass. Having been acquainted with the parents and grand-parents of this lady, and knowing her antecedents, we can most heartily congratulate the trustees and patrons of the Seminary where she is to be engaged in Ebon, Jan 17th, and Jaluit, the last Island visited, Jan 21th. We left all the missionaries In very good health. To Mrs Randa son was born, Oct 24th, two days after our arrival at Ponape with Dr Pease and wife. We have visited twenty-six different Islands. At all these we stopped once. At MUle, Arno, Mejuro, Namerik, Ponape, Lukunor, Nomr, Namolouk and Pingelap we stopped twice, and at Ebon and Jaluig three times, making In all thirty-seven stoppingplaces. We have visited five new islands—those of Aur and Malwonlap In the Marshall group, and west of Mortlocks, Nomr, Losap, and Namolouk—leaving teachers upon the two former. Held general meeting of the Marshall Islands at Ebon, after which we took Mr Whitney to visit all the stations upon them. Took Mr Sturgia to visit Pingelap and Mokll, and all his fields west of Ponape. Have entered lagoons 21 times ; have anchored 45 times ; have laid at anchor 108 days; have boated 622 miles ; have sailed 11,560miles ; have encountered 950 milesadverse currents ; have had 171 hours calm ; have transferred from one island to another 142 passengers. Had one death on board, at Arno, fromheart disease—Opuuul, a seaman on his second voyage In the " Morning Star." Had one marriageon board—William, of Mokll, to Tallta, adopted daughter of Obadlnia. Have had four hopeful conversions on board—three of the sailors. All except three of the crew are now Christiana. Havehad but one accident. We were obliged to leave Mejuro lagoon iv the night; In the attempt we ran upon a coral patch and stuck fast forlive hours, when the rls-' lug tide floated us off withoutany apparent Injury. J. Brat, Master.* RipoitofKd Jamks, O'Brien, Mastsr—Sailed from San Francisco, Jan 28 at 6 p m, firstlire days had freah northerly wlnda, thence light variable breeiei to port, aighled Mauilira daya before arriving port, had no trade wlnda during 22 dayi passage. RgPORT OF R M 8 ZSALAHUIA, CKSVILIIB, COMHANDia— Jan35th 3 pm, oaat off from moorings Sydney harbor, and proceeded to sea 3.67 p m, discharged pilot, reached Auckland 12.15 p m, Feb 4; and left again 6.30 p m,passed Tuiullla Island noon, Feb 0, crossed tbe Kquator 12 midnight, 169° long W; received Honolulu pilot on board Feb IS, 7 am; weather moderate with variable trades Feb 6.lst 26 a, long 177 W, apoke ship Lahore of London, itwring S W, Feb IS, 9 p m. very thick weather, engines slowed down in consequence !'■ McDohald, Inner. until 6 a m of the 18. 25 PASSENGERS. From San Francisco—Per Alphonslne Zelle, Feb 3—M Martulsen, E Orcoropp, Geo Hereellay, Ed Cook, and 21 Chinese. Fob Saw Francisco—Per Adelaide Cooper, Feb 10—O E Maddlaon, G HaarU. Lishman—McConnell— In this city, Jan. 30, at the residence of Mr. RobertLlahman, by Rev. W. Frear, Mr. William Lishman to Miss Mama McConnell, all of Honolulu. Chii.ii—Dovkk—ln this city, Feb. 1,at theresidence of W. C. Parke, Esq., by the Rev. Dr. Hyde, B. Wainwrioht Child to Miss Susie H. Bovee, of San Francisco. (San Francisco papers please copy.) Zikolbr—Wasshek—ln Honolulu,Feb. 4, by Rev. 8. C. Damon, Mr. William Zieoler, of Wahlawa, Kauai, to Miss Tillt Wassmei, of Honolulu. From Sydney.—Per Zealandla, rch IK—Rnht Stirling and wife, W Firming, J Borne and wife, P F Franck.J H Roetiethwaiit-, G F Roatiethwalte. Miss X J Taylor, Mis, Kate, atlas J W<kil worth, Mist F Butterfleld, and 60 paasenfera In transitu. Foa Bar Fkascisco.—Per Basard, Feb— IS—Capl. W B Godfrey and wife. Foa San Fsaschco.—Per Zealandla, Feb 18—Mrs W H L Barnes, W B Barnea, A W Lowrle, 0 Lehmann, TTlllmann, H H Corllsa, X C Lard, B C Kuril, W H Bailey, G W Parey, W H Pa ton. S B Dole, J R Houghton, O AbhoiL J T Waterhouse and wife, U H Woodward. 5 C Hedges, J McKormlck. C V uabnru. G C Borntraeger, A Silra. F Author,, A Loewenberg, T t: Havens, J N Wright. J C Gladeand Son, Wm Gardner, T A Dow, J H Stewart, J G Wilson. MARRIED. Andrews—Puosle*—ln Paw Paw, Mich, Dec 31, 1878, Samuki. C Andrews, of Ann Arbor, son of thelate Key C B Andrews of Maui, to Emma W Pumley. Hbndbksob—May—AtBt Andrew's Cathedral, Honolulu, by the Chaplain of the ■hip, assisted by the Rev A Mackintosh, Lieut John H Henderson of H B M 8 Opel, to B A Mat, neice of H May, Esq., of Honolulu. Coats—Hai—lnHonolulu, February 28th, by Rev. 8. C. Damon, Me. William Coats to Hai, both of Honolulu. DIED. Wilder—At theresidence of her husdand, Nmiatm val- ley, February Ist, after a painful and lingering illness, Mrs. .John K. Wildeb, in her 34th year. The deceased was a native of theseIslands. As a mod* el wife and mother, and a modest sincere christian lady, she had few superiors here or elsewhere. She was held in the highest esteem by all who had the pleasure of her acquaintance, becanse she was kind and courteous to all with whom she came in contact. She lived a lifeof purity and womenly virtues,and died as thosedie, who have a blessed hope of ■ higher and holler life beyond this vale of tears. Her funeral took place on Sabbath afternoon, at theNuuanu valley cemetery, theRev. Dr. HydeofficlatlngThe deceasedleft a devoted husband and live children to mourn the loss of thebest of wives and mothers. But their loss is her gain—while they have the sympathy of this whole community in their sore bereavement. Hohdon—At Walalua, Oahu, Feb. 6th, of pneumonia, Henry Gordon, aged about 60 years. Fxabt—ln Honolulu, Feb. 6th, after a long Illness, Louis Jerome Feary, aged 63 yearsand 3 raos. Mr. Feary came to the Islands In the year 1860, and ex* cept a short time in California, has been a resident ever since. He was born in Clalrmont, Columbia County, New York. Heleaves awife and four children. Hchbki —In this city, Feb. 0, Mrs. Eliza Schbei, aged about 42 years. Kellett.—ln this city, Feb. 13, Helen Keonaona, infant daughter of Danson and Helen Kellett, aged nearly 3 montha. Smith—ln this city, Feb 18. Helen Caroline, infant daughter of Henry and Maria Smith, aged 24 days. Cook—ln this city, Feb 8, Ralph, only too of John and Kukana Cook, aged 3 years, 0 months and 28 days. Wayne—Feb 11, of consumption, on board bark Kalakaua, Geoboe G. Wayne, of Philadelphia. Spooner—At Kalihi, near Honolulu, Feb. 26th, Mary Kaulumama, wife of Mr. J. Spooner,aged 40 years. Information Wanted. Respecting George 8. Brittin, whose friend andrelation Mrs. James H. Park (formerly Miss FranulH A. Matthias), 906, North 17th street, Philadelphia, la very anxious to learn something about him. He visited the Islands about twenty-five yearsago. Respecting Charles Brown, of New Bedford, supposed to have left a ship in Honolulu. Please communicate with hia sister. Mrs. Mary Ann Smith, 15, First street, New Bedford, or the Editor. Respecting Dr. Samuel H. Lea, who was a resident of Honolulu In ISBI. Please communicate with William H. Rodman, M. D., 491, Chapel atreet, New Haven, Ct., or with theEditor. Dr. Lea was a graduate of Tale, 1838. and subsequently resided in New Orleans. Mikhsapolis, Nov. Bth, 1878.—My brother, Ephraiiu Pettlngill, was a sailor. About the year 18S9 he wrote to me at Lewlston Falls, Maine,and stated that he was at port of Honolulu, Hawaiian Inlands, and had engaged to ship to the Arctic Ocean on board the ship AVuUno. Yon will do me a great favor in making searches of the registers kept at the above port, and report the fate of my brother, dead or alive. I shall be happy to pay all reasonable expenses attending thla matter.—N. B.: Enquire after ship Ocean Wave and ship Rebecca Sims." Information may be sent Manasseh Pettenglll, Minneapolis,or " to the Editor. �26 I II X FRIEND, MARCH. 1879. Letter from Japan. Letter from China. Kobe, Japan, Jan. 6th, 1879. the To Editor of the Friend. Dear Sir : In your"issue of September, IS7B, you publish a letter from Key. L. Lyons, which is of the greatest interest to those who desire the preservation of the relics of primitive forms of civilization. What other monument of the ancient culture of the Hawaiian people can compare with this collection of sixteen thousand words, given in Andrews' Hawaiian Dictionary, and how rapidly would it have perished except for the industry and zeal of such scholars as Andrews and Lyons. But that the labors of Mr. Lyons should be brought within the reach ol those who are most interested in the study of the different forms of social evolution, it is necessary that the dictionary which he is revising should be published by some scientific society that will distribute it to other societies. The American Oriental Society would perhaps hardly be ready to undertake so heavy a work; but I think that there is little doubt that the Smithsonian Institute would be ready to take it up. In Jhe first place, it is, I think, much the most .complete presentation that has ever been made of the ideas contained in any language of thePolynesian race. In the second place, new words and idioms are gradually convng in, so that if such a work is delayed much longer it will be difficult to find scholars who can distinguish between those that belong to the primitive language and those that have been produced through the influence of European ideas. The value of such a dictionary to philologists and anthropologists will be greatly increased if modern words are mark ed as such and their derivation given when known, and if the new meanings that have been attached to old words ure pointed out. In making such discriminations, one who commenced the study of the language nearly fifty years ago would, of course, have a great advantage over a younger student. The words that Mr. Lyons speaks of as bed words will be of as much value to the philologist as other words ; but if used only for expressing spiteful feelings, or if in any way offensive to the original Hawaiian sense of propriety, the fact should be noted. I have no doubt that the officers of the Smithsonian Institute would be glad to publish such a dictionary of the Hawaiian language as Andrews' Dictionary might be made under the revision of Mr. Lyons; and I trust that those at the Islands who are interested in the matter will bring it before CHINESE ON HAWAIIAN ISLANDS SEND CONTRI- them. It may encourage you in taking up the know that a dictionary of the Dakota language, prepared by Rev. S. K. Riggs, was published by the Smithsonian Institute some years ago. By special arrangement, extra copies were printed for the American Board's Dakota Mission, of which Dr. Riggs is a member. Hoping to hear that some way has been iound for bringing before the world the results of Mr. Lyons' studies on the dictionary of the language, I remain ever yours faithfully, John T. Gvlick. matter to BUTIONS TO CHINA—OPPOSERS OF MISSIONB SILENCED—BASEL MISSION IN CHINA. 30th Dec, 1878. Rev. S. C. Damon, Honolulu Two letters from you, dated sth October and 25th November, are before me. The first came by the sailing ship Amy Turner, and the second by the steamer Perusia. Many thanks for your kind communications, and no less for the papers you sent me, which give me always great pleasure to read. There is at present a sailing ship here, the Crusader, which is bound for Honolulu, and a Hawaiian woman, the widow of a Chinaman of the name of Ahyong, who seems to have been engaged in evangelistic work, expects to return to her native land with three boys of hers. A certain Dr. Kitteridge wrote to me about this woman, and said that he would send the money for her passage if he knew how much was wanted. She now tells me that the Hawaiian Consul here has promised to provide a passage for her and her boys. The man who returned to China in the Amy Turner brought a good many letters and also some money from different parties for their relations here. I was also much surprised and pleased to receive a handsome subscription from my old friends the Chinese Christians of the Sandwich Islands to the amount of 8137.50. I value this token of grateful acknowledgment very highly, and it shows how unfair the slander is which now and again is uttered against the Chinese in newspapers. It was only under date the 17th October that the China Mail copied a letter from a Foochow paper, where it was said that large sums of money were annually collected in England and America for mission work in China, but is it wisely or properly expended, and have the united Protestant missions in all China one single sincere and thorough convert to Christianity excepting those whose services are regularly paid for by the mission t A high authority in mission work in China has frankly stated he is afraid not, and it is notorious that all the servants in foreign •mploy, female as well as male, who have been educated at the expense of a mission, are most vicious in all their habits ; and as to their morality and virtue, the least said on this subject the better. It so happened that on the 3d of December there was the annual day of intercession for foreign missions, and the English Bishop invited me to give an address on mission work. I brought my subscription list from Hawaii, and referred to the above unkind expressions, and asked the auditory to compare and judge for Hongkong, : themselves. I also translated some of the letters and gave them to the editor of the China Mail, who made extracts and admitted that these facts practically disposed of such aspersions ns were made in the above-mentioned letter. However, the principal drift of his leader was to the effect that the Chinese seemed to be well off on the Sandwich Islands, and it was a pity that the Governor had stopped two vessels from taking emigrants there. If you know a Key. Dr. Hyde, will you please tell him that afeeceived his letter inquiring after the precedents of Shat Fan and what he had been taught in school. He belonged to the Rhenish Mission, and 1 gave Dr. Hyde's letter to Mr. Faber, who will answer it by and by. You ask me if I have any publications in English giving accounts of the labors of the Basel Mission in China, but I am sorry to s<y I cannot oblige you, as we have never made any publication here, and the reports to our Board are German, and are printed at home in the same language. If I should endeavor to give you a general sketch of our work here, it would amount to this : I arrived here in 1847, as the first missionary of the Basel Mission, with another brother, who died in 1854. Two missionaries of the Rhenish Mission came with me in the same ship, and are now also dead. After many futile attempts to get a footing in the country, we succeeded in 1852 in getting a permanent station among the Hakkas, some distance inland. The Anglo-Chinese war in 1866 compelled us to flee for our lives and stay in Hongkong for two years. After that time, and in consequence of the better opening up of the country by the Treaty of Tientsin, our work had more success. Hongkong was kept on as a station, and forms now, as it were, the basis of our operations ; but the principal work is in the country, where we have three stations now, occupied by nine European and three Chinese missionaries, who have studied in our college at Basel, and have returned as ordained ministers of the Gospel. Our census of last year stood thus: Four principal stations, 16 out stations, 10 catechists, 9 evangelists, I itinerant preacher, I bible-woman, 15 teachers of schools ; church members in full communion, 1,048; children, 669 ; catechumens under instruction, 136 ; 16 schools, with 372 pupils (266 males and 82 females). Church funds for the providing of the poor, the widows and orphans of catechists, and for building cha- pels and schools and paying salaries to catechists and teachers, $4,000, accumulated from yearly contributions of the native Christians. Only the interest is used up, as the funds are not sufficient yet, and must accumulate still more in order to serve their purpose. God bless you for the kind interest you take in our Chinese Christians, and prosper you in all your work to the glory of His holy name. Yours, in Christian friendship, very sincerely, R. Lechler. Do not for a moment suppose that you can wink at individual corruption, and yet leave the world of this great country Dean Stanley. uninjured. �Places of Worship. 1879. MARCH, ADVERTISEMENTS. . Skamen's Bethel—Rev. S. C. Damon, Chaplain, King street, near the Sailors' Home. Preaching %» 7 G IRWIN A. CO.. at 11 a. m. Seats free. Sabbath School before the Commission Merchants, morning service. Prayer meeting on Wednesday o'clock. Plantation and insurance Agents, Honolulu, H. I. evenings at "4 Fort Street Chorch—Rev. W. Frear. Pastor, PEIRCE fc CO.. \V corner of Fort and Beretania streets. Preaching A (Bocceaora to C. L. Richards At Co.) on Sundays at 11 A. v. and 7J P. M. Sabbath School at 10 A. m. Commission MerKawaiahao Church—Rev. H. H. Parker. Pastor, Ship Chandlers and General King street, above the Palace. Services in Hachants, waiian every Sunday at 11a.m. Sabbath school Honolulu, Oshu, Hawaiian Islands. at 10 a. M. Evening services at 74 o'clock, alternating with Kaumakapili. District meetings in various chapels at .3.30 p. m. Prayer meeting Agents Panto* Salt Works, Brand's Bomb Lancet, every Wednesday at 74 p. at. Ami Perry DavlV Pain Killer. Rohan Cathouc Church—Under the charge of Father Rt. Rev. Bishop Muigret, assisted by Rev. Hermann ; Fort street, near Beretauia. Services | EWERS *. DICKSON, every Sunday at 10 a. m. and 2 p. M. Dealers in Lumber and Building Materials, Kauhakapiu Church—Rev. M. Kuaea. Pustor, Beretania street, near Nutianu. Services in HaFort Street, Honolulu, H. I. waiian every Sunday at 104 A. at. Sabbath school at 94 A. M. Evening services at 74 o'clock, alterHOFFMANN, D., M nating with Kawaiahao. Prayer meeting every |y Wednesday at 74 p. m. and Surgeon, Physician The Anglican Church —Bishop, the Rt. Rev. Al- Corner Merchant and Kaahamanu Streets, near the Poit OBce fred Willis. D. D.; Clergy. Rev. Kob't Dunn, M. A., Rev. Alex. Mackintosh. St. Andrew's 'lYmporury d 1 BREWER At CO.. Cathedral, Beretauia street, opposite the Hotel. a. and m., English services on Sundays at 64 and 11 Commission and Skipping Merchants, 24 and 74 p. H. Sunday School at the Clergy House at 10 a. m. . Honolulu, Oanu. H. I. No. 37 Fort Street, P. a/s ADAMS. Auction and Commission Merchant, Fire-ProotStore, in Robineon'e Building, Queen Street. Goods Suitable for Trade. MASTERS VISITING THIS PORT £*HIP CT during the last Bii Yeara can testify from personal ex- |011 And Sell Cheaper than any other House in the Kingdom. DILLINGHAM & CO. TREGLOAN'» NBW S. MeGREW, M. D., Late Surgeon Y. S. Army, Bui. ED. DUNBCOMBE, Manager. Honlulu, January 1, 1876. CASTLE <fc COOKE, IMPORTERS AND -- STATIONERY AND NEWS DEPOT, Nat. 19 Mrrrhail Slreeg, » Honolulu. PACKAGES OF READING MATTBR-OF Papers and Magasinei, back numbers—put up to order at 1/ reduced rates for parties going to sea. CALL, THE ATTENTION ef the Clilaem of Oahu and the other I aland, to the fact that I have No. 73, Fort St. UPENKD a large I First-Class Establishment. can find a Stock of Goods, Well-selected Chosen with great as to and adapted Hiving had an extensive experience in connection with some of the largest importing homes in New York and Philadelphia. I can assure hit customers that they will not only Very Best Materials bat will also obtain at my place The BEST FITTINC CARMENTS that can be turned out ol any establishment in the Eastern cities. English Hunting Pantaloons! AND HABITS LADIES' RIDING A SPECIALITY. MADE Children's Suits, in Eastern Stylet. W. TREOLOAN, Honolulu. DEALERS IN GENERAL MERCHANDISE! — AGENTS OF REGULAR. PORTLAND LINE OF England Mutual Iniuranos Company, Packets, THE The Union MarineInsurance Company, Ban Francisco, Lit] New TheKohala Sugar Company, The Haiku Sugar Company, TbeHamakua Sugar Company, TheWalalua Sugar Plantation, The Wheeler at Wllaon Sewing Machine Company, Dr. Jayne At Bona CelebratedFamily Medicines. J. w. wmiNsr tf noiUTioi WHITNEY & ROBERTSON, H. M. Whitney), STATIONERY fc PERIODICALS. King's Combination Spectacles, Qlaae and Plated Ware, Sewing Machines, Picture Framei, ESTABLISHMENT, ■ ■ ~jj-V THOS. C. THRUM, Corner Fort and Hotel Streets. secure the - —■»* Importers and Dealers in Foreign Books, A. L. SifllTll, IMPORTER & DEALER IN JEWELRT, care, style, to this climate. ™lliJl|l™i[ai MillI iiiiilHwiiiM lflK2j£ (Suocesaori to Merchant Tailoring (Jentlemen *TpJn Can be consulted at his residence on Hotel street, between Alakea and Fort streets. perience that the undersigned keep the beat aasortment of GOODS FOR. TitADE N KJL LOW* a.a. KEEP A FINE ASSORTMENT OF Where SAILORS' HOME ! . * NOTICE TO SHIP MASTERS. DILLINGHAM & CO., 27 TBE FRIEND, Chinese Church Building Fund. SUBSCRIPTIONS ARE SOpurchase land Christian Chinese VOLUNTARY LICITED In aid in and build a Church Honolulu worship Almighty o| in language. to to God The call for a Church cornea from them- Pledges are Invited, to be paid on or before the 10th of January, IMO, which will be received by Mr. Joseph B. Alhertoq, the Treaaursr, Mr. Gookim, or Mr. Aseu. Fundi can also be remitted to Bishop it Co.,Bankers, lor account of Chinese Church Building Fund. JOHNTUOMAB WATF.RHOUSE. January Ist, 1870. d» am Bound Volumes at Reduced Price ! WILL FURNISH BOUND VOLUMES Friend ono dollar per nun WEof tbe for any number of years from MM tbe present at pries 12), also, o« iaxd, OTHER BOOKS ON THE ISLANDS. * 00., BANKEBS, HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. HONOLULU. 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TERMS: One Copy per Annum Two Copies per Annum Foreign Subscribers, Including postage $200 3 00 2.M �Pure religion and undefiled before Ood, the Father, is this: To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep one's self unspotted from the world. Edited by a Committee of tbe T. M. C. A. Y. M. C. A. The regular quarterly meeting of the Y. M. C. A. was held at the Lyceum, on Friday evening, Feb. 21st. After prayer and the reading of the minutes, Dr. Damon, from the Committee on Missionary Work among tbe Chinese, reported that religious services were regularly held every Sabbath in the Lyceum at 11a. m. and in the Bethel vestry in the evening, besides a prayer meeting on Wednesday evenings and a Sunday school at 3 p. m. on Sunday. That measures were in progress to organize a church among the Chinese, there being about 30 Christians among them here. Articles of faith had been drawn up in Chinese, and a committee of the Hawaiian Board was cooperating with them, and in a few weeks the church would be established. Sit Moon had returned from China with his wife, and had resumed his work. Sat Fan, who had been preaching to the Chinese and acting as a colporteur among them during Sit Moon's absence, was ready for any Christian work. He hoped arrangements would soon be made either for his employment at Wailuku or Makawao, Maui, or, in case Sit Moon was called to be pastor of the Chinese Church, as a colporteur in this Island. A Chinese colporteur, Yung E, was already at work in Hilo, supported by the Foreign Church, and another one at Kohala, supported by the plantation. A Committee, consisting of Drs. Damon and Hyde, was appointed to make all necessary and prudent arrangements for the employment of Sit Moon and Sat Fan as might seem best to all concerned. Many of tbe members engaged in familiar conversation and discussion on this subject, from which much encouraging information in regard to the evangelization of the Chinese was elicited. The main feature of the evening was the reading of an essay by Dr. Hyde on the subject of Hawaiian literature, which consisted mainly of the Doctor's notes and comments in making up a catalogue of all the works published in the Hawaiian language. Of these there are 107, but no one collection comprises them all, and some copies and editions are extremely rare. He exhibited some copies of the early editions of the Bible, primers, maps and engravings, which attracted much attention. The Doctor also commented favorably on the industry and devotion of the early missionaries in reducing the Hawaiian language to writing, and in forming its grammar. He was of opinion that they made no mistake in giving the Hible to the natives as speedily as possible in their own language, and that the success of Christianity among them was owing to the fact that they preached and taught the people in their own tongue, which sentiments many who spoke afterwards concurred in. After the appointment of the usual committees and a collection, the Association adjourned, having spent a most profitable evening. We suggest that the essay ot Dr. Hyde be procured by some one of tbe Honolulu newspapers for publication, for, as a permanent contribution to the bibliography of this Kingdom it is of great value. Another suggestion is that there must be many more in our community who would be interested in attending the meetings of this Association, and they occurring but quarterly would not prove to be a severe tax. Under date of Adrian. Michigan, Jan. 14, 1879, Major Cole writes to a friend in Honolulu: confined to my house with " I haveas been illness, well as every member of my family. The brethren in Jacksonville have urged me and my family to labor with them all winter, but sickness compels us to decline. Yesterday was the first Lord's Day ( have been out, save one, since I left Jacksonville. I did not intend to go, but after prayer in the morning I felt impressed to go I know it was of to the African Church. the Holy Spirit, but my faith was tried as 1 went into the little church (for the first time in my life) and saw only two persons. The pastor said, ' When the hour for service arrives I always begin.' So he read the hymn, and two of us—the congregation— sang with him ; and we had a good song, for the Holy Spirit was there to help us. Then he called on the layman to pray (I think ministers miss it in not doing so often), and then he preached to us, and just as earnestly as though the house was full, and wound up by saying, ' As long as I can find one of God's children to comfort, or one sinner to talk to about Jesus, 1 am going to do it; and if the whole Church turn their hacks upon Christ, I mean to follow him.' At the close of his sermon, the layman said a few words, and encouraged the pastor by saying, ' You will always find one here to work with you.' ' Well,' says the brother, will always have a blessing, for 1then we two are met in my name, Where " be there." or three I'll ' The layman ihen told the pastor who I was, and he asked me if I would not give them a word of cheer; and so I opened the Word and gave them words of cheer from the dear old book, and pointing out promises that had been specially 28 AHsYCMochoiearutnn'gf onolulu. blest to me. At this period in came another brother, and the pastor was encouraged because they had increased a hundred per cent, since the meeting was opened—it began with two and ended with four. He then asked me if I would not come and speak to his people in the evening. After prayer 1 decided to come if they would pray for God to give me physical strength, and then that the Holy Spirit would incline the people to accept the call toshe meeting, and that the Holy Ghost would give me a message to them. We knelt down and prayed for all this. On my way home I called upon a poor invalid colored sister, and we prayed for the meeting. " I was surprised in the evening to find the little church, which holds only about 150, quite full of colored people. The Lord was faithful to his promise, and gave me a message which was blest to my soul and the congregation. The pastor's face was radiant with thanksgiving, and an occasional amen would break from his lips —a Holy Ghost amen—and could not be kept back. Before the meeting closed, I invited cold Christians to get up and ask for prayers and confess their backwardness. Many did so, to the delight of their pastor. Then the unconverted were invited to Christ, and those who desired then and there to do so to stand up. Some twelve or fifteen rose, and the Holy Spirit filled the house as we knelt in prayer. " They asked permission to take up a collection, as the pastor wanted to send away a letter, and he had not a postage stamp. I could not keep back the tears at this announcement, nor my hand from my pocketbook, and I praised God for the privilege 1 had had to be made a blessing to that little flock, but they were made a greater blessing to me. This morning a couple of white ministers called on me and told me how much they were tried and what trouble they had. I waited until they had finished, and then Tclated to them my experience of the day before and of the faithfulness of that poor colored pastor. They listened attentively, and then acknowledged they had no trials, and to night they begin evangelistic meetings in their churches, and I hope they will find their faith increased. The dear Jesus has not lost His drawing power. Last week I ventured out one afternoon to speak at the funeral of a blessed little girl, eleven years of age, whom the dear Master enabled me to lead to Him. The poor child bad a diseased hip, and fire inches of bone was taken from her leg. She lived several days after the operation, and the day before she died I was sent for. I could not refuse, though so poor in health myself. Whilst " there, she asked for water. They brought to her some; she tasted of it, and then looked at me with my Bible and said, * Oh, give me water from the book ;' and as we read Rev. xxii., ■ Yes, water from the book,' she would repeat over again. The last words I heard her otter were,' Jesus, Jesus, Jesus.' " � 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 (1879) 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 - 1879.03.01 - Newspaper Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1879.03.01 https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/9d6d3dbd8afb62bdbf89c9aba290fac2.pdf 045cfecaa2260b527d8f8fc2aa211e42 PDF Text Text THF E RIEND $elu Serits, $O.* M. 21.} HONOLULU, APRIL 1, 1879. to preach, and the Rev. S. C. Damon to the fellowship ol the Churches, on present Pane 39 the following Sabbath, when the Lord's Foreign Chllrrh at Kohala, Hawaii 29-31 Supper should be celebrated. Rambles In the Old World—No. 97 32 American Shipping and the Reciprocity Treaty On Sabbath morning, March 23d, there Bey. E B. Tuthill 33 gathered at the church a goodly company of Editorials 33 the foreign population of Kohala. The exBey. Mr. and Mrs. Whitney's Journal 33 the Rev. Mr. Marine Journal 33 ercises were introduced by Origin of a Well-known Hymn 3-1 Frear, Scribe, reading the minutes of the Y. M. C. A3« Council. Then followed singing and prayer. The sermon was preached by the Rev. Mr. Frear, in which the speaker described the organization of the first Church in JerusAPRIL 1. IB7D. alem, as stated in the second chapter of the Book of Acts. He spoke of the organizaForeign Church at Kohala, Hawaii. tion of that Church as a model Churcn, and For some years there has been preaching although the history of the eighteen centuin English at Kohala, by the Rev. Mr. Bond, ries presented a great variety of modificayet there was no safer in a neat church edifice erected by the for- tions and additions, course than for Christians in the nineteenth eigners in that locality. The work in Eng- century io go back and copy that model lish and Hawaiian was too laborous for the organization. Historic references and illusmissionary who has labored there during the trations introduced were exceedingly apt and past forty years. With the increase of sugar satisfactory. This sermon was followed by the presencultivation, now supplying six large sugar tation of the fellowship of the Churches by mills, the number of foreign families called the Rev. Mr. Damon, the Church rising for a settled pastor. Something over one with their chosen pastor and signifying their year ago, the Rev. L W. Atherton was in- assent. Then followed the celebration of vited from California, a graduate of Bowdoin the Lord's Supper, several for the first time of the elements who had then College in Maine, and Auburn Theological partaking made a public professin of their faith. The Seminary, N. Y. Under his labors a For- exercises were closed with the benediction eign Union Church has been organized. by the pastor, the Rev. Mr. Atherton. The Sabbath morning, March 23d, was designa- singing was good, and the length of the exted as the season when said church should ercises was such that the Sabbath school celebrate its first communion and find recog- was omitted. In the evening, public services were again held in the chapel. Most nition as a church of Christ. The Fort heartily we can congratulate the good people Street and Bethel Churches of Honolulu of Kohala on the establishment of this were invited to be represented by their pas- Church. The trustees and congregation tors and delegates. Only the pastors of have evinced much liberality in pledging support and.erecting a commothese churches were able to attend. On their pastor dious parsonage. Mrs. Atherton has opened Saturday a council was held at the parson- a parish school, which is well sustained. It age, when the Rev. Mr. Atherton brought affords us much pleasure to note these eviforward the request and action of those dences of religious prosperity at Kohala, wishing to be organized as a Christian following similar efforts at Makawao, on Church. The articles of faith and by-laws Maui. We trust other organizations of like proving satisfactory, it was voted to recog- nature may soon spring up at points on the nize said church as a Church of Christ, in Islands where foreigners are now gathering. sympathy and fellowship with theProtestant The importance of such movements cannot Evangelical Churches of the Hawaiian be over-estimated. Unless the spiritual and islands, associated with those acting in har- religious interests of the Islands are susmony with tbe Hawaiian Evangelical Asso- tained, our material prosperity will not preciation. The Rev. W. Frear was appointed sent a healthful and hopeful outlook. CONTENTS — Par April 1, 1878. THE FRIEND. 29 \m Series, M 3ft. RAMBLES IN THE OLD WORLD-No. 27 A Few Weeks la Stsntllssvli—No. 6. Berlin, Jan. 29, 1879. A VISIT TO THE HOME OF THE POET TEGNER. I cherish among my books a dainty little volume in gold and purple bearing the title Saga of Esaias Tegner," and in " FrithyoPswritten it I find '* In memory of a ' red letter day' at Lund, in company with Professor Tegner, grandson of the great Swedish poet—Copenhagen Aug. 17th 1878 and with the opening of this book, come"— to me in my Berlin home in the midst of this snowy New Year's time, a host of pleasant memories of the day in last year's summer time when I enjoyed so much in visiting the home of the Author of this most exquisite poem. We left Copenhagen early one Saturday morning, taking the swift little steamboat across the tossing channel to Malmo, through which city we had passed some days before, coming from Germany. One can have a charming excursion in this way, the boat over early from Denmark, the day in Sweden, and back again with the evening to Copenhagen, Lund, the university town which we were planning to visit lay only a short distance from Malmo, by rail. We were there in vacation-time, and very still did this former home of Tegner seem. It has now lost much of its old glory but it is still interesting as one of the intellectual centers of Sweden. Formerly it belonged to Denmark and was during the middle ages one of the most flourishing cities in Danish possessions. Now the university the next after Upsala in Sweden, with about 500 students renders it important. We had a card to young Professor Tegner, professor of oriental languages in the University, who received us with that hearty sincerity of manner, which is so delightful here st the North. We found him surrounded by his books among which was waiting a welconifor me which I had not anticipated, sarcely were we seated when our host stepped to his book case and passed me the little " Hawaiian Grammar" of my respected teacher and friend Profesor W. D. Alexander, published in Honolulu and ever to be pleasantly remembered by all the boys and girls, who have endeavored to master the rudiments of the musical Hawaiian at Punahou. Like a dear and familiar face or the melody ofthat s we test of greeting Aloha" seemed this little volume, in my friend's li- tg " �30 TIIK FRIEND, brary, so far away from tbe home of its Some traveller friend, passing through Honolulu, and remembering the linguistic tastes of Professor Tegner had purchased it and brought it home to Sweden, where 1 found it in its place of honor, birth. among the books of wisdom of the Orient and the wild poetry of the Northern world. Lund, must be a charmingly pleasant, social town, if we may judge from the friends we found. Prof. Tegner brought us soon to young Professor Vikander, Professor of Physics, whom we had lately met in Berlin. He had just returned to town with his charming young bride, and as she had herself not seen the town, we planned a little party of exploration, and had a most delightful day together Just before us, as we came out of the Professor's blossoming garden, was the Tegner Platz, in the center of which stands the noble statue of the poet whose name and memory all Scandinavia now so tenderly cherishes. It is a finely-finished statue by Quarnstrom, and tne head and face seemed to me especially noble, the perfect realization of a grandly poetic nature—intense, vigorous, unfettered, aspiring, infinitely tender. Although Tegner's name in this part of the world is a household word, and although his poems have been widely translated, yet there are probably very many to whom his name has a strange sound. He was born in 1782, the son of a Swedish clergyman. He lost his father early in life, and seems to have, when a mere boy, done much to aid himself. He developed, along with a rare poetic genius and an intense love of nature, a remarkable ability for acquiring languages. He studied at Lund, where afterwards he became instructor and then Professor of Greek. As a pastor, and later Bishop, he is well known ; but he will live in history as the poet of Sweden, and especially as the author of " FrithyoPs Saga." I shall have occasion to speak of this poem at another time in describing the scenes where tradition relates that the hero and heroine of this Northern Saga lived and died, the glorious Sogne Fjord, on the west coast of Norway, and hence will not attempt to give any outline of it here, but would only say, if any one desires to breathe the fresh, bracing air of this North land, to catch glimpses of Northern skies red with the glow of the strange Northern lights, to walk among forests of murmuring pines, and to breast the waves of Northern seas, to live over again the wild heroic days of the Northmen, let him read this most beautiful, melodious poem, this exquisitely musical saga, the story of the love snd life of the hero Frithyof and the lovely maiden Ingeborg. It was pleasant indeed to have the grandson of the poet to do the honors of the house where for so many years the poet had lived. The house, standing on one of the side streets of the town, is now the shrine " of Lund for the traveler. From all parts of the world come visitors to these little rooms, with their low, old-fashioned ceilings, to see the few relics which still remain of the poet. An important collection of translations of the " Saga" constitutes one of the roost interesting objects to be seen. These are in many languages, and, if I remember correctly, there are something like eighteen translations in English, and the * APRIL. 1879. same number, if not more, in German. It would be a pleasure to see it in Hawaiian ! 1 missed one thing which 1 had hoped to see, and which 1 think Longfellow somewhere refers to—the old study floor/ I wonder that this most poetic souvenir has not been preserved, and that something new and modern has been put in its place. Tegtiir was in the habit of pacing up and down his room as he composed, and at the point where he turned, the floor had been so worn away that a little depression had been made. This certainly was the materialization of poetry—as if the working, thinking brain and the singing or sorrowing heart above had left their impress on the very way the poet's feet had trod ! But now it is gone. Here we saw the books which he had used, many pictures of himself and his contemporaries, his worn writing table and other humble reminders—for the poet-professor and Bishop had here no splendid home— was here unburdened by the often geniusquenching adornments of a luxurious life. 1 shall long cherish the memory of our morning's visit to the poet's home, and hope that some day I may see once more this shrine (how these wayside shrines begin to illumine the way as I look back along the rambling pilgrimages I have made!) in which still lingers the warmth of a poet's life and heart. But would it ever be quite so delightful in other company ? Not far away from this spot is the ancient Cathedral of Lund, once the Metropolitan Church of all Scandinavia, erected in the llth and 12th centuries. Singular wood carvings adorn the choir, and there is an atmosphere of antiquity, a union of stately plainness with a richness of adornment in the interior which is very interesting. The crypt beneath the Cathedral is excessively odd. There is a very great deal of stone carving, no two pillars alike, and there are many elaborate monuments to archbishops. I was particularly struck by a singular reminder of an old tradition which is perpetuated here in two of the stone pillars. The story runs that the heathen giant Finn and his wife endeavored to prevent the building of this Christian temple on Scandinavian soil, and that they were finally overcome and turned into stone by the holy Saint Lawrence. Two of the columns are rudely carved in shape of the giant and his heathenish companion, and these wild shapes seem, through the ages, out of their cramped and stony imprisonment, to dumbly and yet fiercely protest against the aggressions of the new faith. One is constantly reminded here of the old beliefs which lingered and warred so long. Some such scarred, weird reminder as this seems often to lie along our way. The University of Lund is much smaller than that of Upsala, but it is an important institution for Sweden. The library contains many thousand volumes and numerous manuscripts. We enjoyed much visiting the University buildings, which our friends, the Professors, so kindly showed us, especially the large hall where the students assemble and where many of their entertainments are given, the walls being covered with portraits of former instructors. The students are here, as in Upsala, divided into nations," that of Skane being by far " the largest. , I should indeed be omttting to speak of one of the pleasantest features of this pleasant day should I fail to make mention of our charming dinner together at the Botanic Gardens. What a wonderful world-brotherhood there is after all, and how much dearer this common fellowship of sympathy, tastes, feelings, aspirations grows to be as we meet people of all nations ! We were young men together, with much of sympathy in our lives and aims, and though we had known one another but a few hours, our real acquaintance seemed of much longer duration. And then, to give just the requisite grace and charm to our gathering, there was the sweet young wife of our friend, a bride of a few days, whose gentle, innate dignity seemed to fit her rarely for the position to which her husband had brought her, and in which I fondly trust she may remain through many, very many brightening years. How the pleasant table-talk went round in German and English! We all had lived in Germany, that land unsurpassed for study and inspiration ; and then there were a few words spoken in Finnish (the bride is from Filmland) just to show us how it sounded. My knowledge of Finnland and Finnish culture was somewhat vague. You know sometimes we feel a little piqued that dwellers in other lands show such a lamentable ignorance about our sunny islands and the progress which has been made there ; but I scarcely think we could give much of an idea of the state ofculture in Finnland ; and yet here is a charming lady sitting next me, the very embodiment of a gentle and deep culture, who says to me, as if it were the most natural thing in the world, that it is expected of an educated Finnish lady that she should speak four or five different languages ! And then she goes on to tell me of the poetry of Finnland, of the life there, society, etc., so that before it is time for dessert an entirely new idea has dawned upon me in reference to this land at the North. But even cozy and agreeable dinners must have an end. And as we separated—our Swedish friends to their homes and work, and we to further travel—l think there was a very sincere and hearty ring in the Auf wiederschen" we exchanged. A few hours by rail and channel and we were safely back again in Copenhagen, just as the evening lamps were being lighted. Few days of my life have been more satisfactory than this, spent in the past and present of this little University town, so that, in recalling these pleasant hours and the cordial and warm hospitality of our friends, I feel as if this Swedish holiday excursion was indeed worthy of being marked in my calendar with a " red letter." ' The monthly letter of our European Correspondent is shorter than usual this month, and we copy the following paragraphs from private letters : Berlin, January 12th. Of late the theme of conversation has been the weather, and with reason. We are having the pleasantest of winters, with plenty of snow and firm ice for those who skate. This last week has been, in its winter glory and beauty, something long to Temember. The " Thier Garden," as I �THE FIII X !\ walked through it the other day, was more like a place of enchantment than a leafless forest on the borders of a busy city. Every twig was silvered and gleamed in the sunshine. Imagine, if you can, a diamond forest. The skating is attracting many, and the sleigh-bells fill the air with their merry music. On Thursday last 1 came, home from Mecklenburg. Up to the very last we had such a pleasant time. The journey I enjoyed very much, for it gave me an opportunity of seeing the picturesque, quaint and extremely interesting old Hanseatic town of Rostock, with its University and monument to Blucher, who was born here, and also of spending an hour in Schwerin, the capital of Mecklenburg, where I saw the beautiful castle of the reigning Grand Duke, one of the finest edifices in North Germany. Feb. 17th.—In the pleasantest sense of the term we have the Carnival season just now, and this lasts untilLent puts an end to the many entertainments and merry-makings The Court has gone out of mourning, and the Court festivities began some little time ago with the Schleppencan," or grand " when the ladies appear opening reception, their Court trains and the Court in long presentations are made. I have described to you before the Schloss and other entertainments there, so you know already something of these scenes, which are repetitions of last year's festivities, but always most brilliant and interesting. At the Court reception, the Emperor and Empress received in the Hall of the Knights, a most beautiful apartment, one of the many rooms which are thrown open on such an evening. The Hawaiian Representative stood next to Mr. Everett, now acting as American Charge d'Affaires since Mr. Taylor's death. The Emperor and Empress were most gracious and kind. She wore a long train of dark red velvet bordered with fur, and about the shoulders was much of the same brown fur, studded here and there with great diamonds, and the under-dress, from which the train swept away, was in white and silver. The diamonds which she wore on her neck, head and breast were most grand and dazzling. The Emperor still wears his wounded hand in a sling (a mute reminder of that wild, tragical, almost disastrous day last June), but looks remarkably well, so bright and genial, smiling on every one. There is something wonderfully sweet and attractive in his old age. After the Emperor and Empress pass through the different apartments, welcoming their guests and receiving the new-comers to Court, all retire to the White Saloon, where stately lackies in gorgeous liveries pass around tea, ices, creams and sherbets (for at the drawingroom there is no supper). Then comes the beautiful Court concert. The leading singers of the opera and the best of choruses have alreudy taken their places on a stage erected at one end of the hull. Oh, such music !—the choicest, the rarest you can possibly imagine, and then amid such surroundings—the glory and sheen and magnicence of this Imperial Court. A few days after followed the first Court ball, very much the same as that of which 1 sent you a description last year. The Empress was splendid in long while brocade l>, APRIL, 1879. dress, with a broad red band near the bot- tom and running up in front, sown in beau- tiful coral pattern with large white pearls. The dresses of the ladies at this ball were unusually gorgeous and fine. The Russian ladies are always the most elegant. The suppers at Court are something splendid. On one table was an elaborate centre-piece representing a windmill—perhaps the old windmill famous in the history of Frederick the Great, at Potsdam. On Thursday, Parliament was opened in most impressive style in the White Saloon by the Emperor in person. Every one was in grand uniform. The Emperor stood under the dais with the Crown Prince, and made his speech in a full, clear voice, but in which the quaver of his advanced age came now and then. Bismarck was present —grand and imposing in his white uniform. He is growing old, but will to the end, I think, look like the wonderful man he is. The " Reichstag" promises to have a lively session this season. Bismarck's Parliamentary soirees on Saturday evenings have already begun, but the Diplomatic Corps are unfortunately not invited. It is much harder to get a sight at Bismarck than at the Emperor. You may have seen a translation of a book which has made much talk in Germany of late, written nnd compiled by a former secretary of Bismarck, in reference to the great statesman during the FrancoPrussian war. It is already translated into English, and will shortly appear in French —a book which does not represent Bismarck as wholly infallible. As I said, the opening of the Parliament was very impressive. The Emperor was announced with all his titles by some one acting as herald, and greeted with loud cheers by the assemblage. As he placed his helmet on his head, just before reading his opening speech, you could see that it was done with much difficulty, his wounded hand and arm having not fully recovered their old strength and vigor. Something almost like a murmur of sympathy ran through the spacious hall as this was noticed. As he left the throne he was repeatedly cheered, which he acknowledged by bowing to right and left. Feb. 25th.—The Carnival season is now drawing to a close, and it will be pleasant to settle'down again to quiet, studious ways. Last evening there was a large gathering at the Italian Embassy—a very brilliant and beautiful affair. The Emperor and Empress were present for a portion of the evening. This evening the last Court ball will take place at the Schloss ; and on Thursday the Princess Louisa, grand-niece of the Emperor, will hold a farewell reception before going to England to be married to Prince Arthur Feb. 26th.—The ball last evening was a very splendid affair. In the midst of all its brilliancy, I enjoyed nothing more than a pleasant, quiet talk with Prof. Mommscn, the famous historian, of whose History of Rome you have heard. He is rather an old gentleman, with long streaming gray hair ; and another interesting chat was with Berthold Auerbach, the celebrated novelist, who is pleased that his novels, '* On the Heights" and " Villa on the Rhine," are read in Honolulu. I send his autograph, written on his visiting card, which he gave me the other evening. 31 At a similar entertainment at their priPalace, last Thursday, which was very beautiful, my especial delight was in the softly lighted conservatory, with its white statues, beautiful palms and ferns. I was much pleased to see in one of the Empress's apartments a small case of pink Micronesian vate coral. I am just now meeting a great many literary, artistic, musical people, who, as you know, have always had very much of a fascination for me. On Monday evenings Herr and Frau Dohm receive their friends— a large and brilliant gathering of literateurs, etc.—Bnd where I have been made to feel I am a welcome guest. Herr Bohm is one of the editors of the " Kladderadatsch." His wife has written much, especially in reference to the cause of woman in Germany. They are most genial,kindly-hearted people, and gather a brilliant circle about them. On Saturday evening I was invited, with Professor and Mrs. Whitney, to a most interesting evening gathering at the home of Key. Mr. and Mrs. Davies. This is quite ftiother phase of life from that to which I have just referred. The former represents the most brilliant, cultured, talented, literary side of German society ; the latter the quiet, aristocratic, dignified, religious, and also cultured side. I enjoy seeing both. At the Davies' one meets the religious aristocracy of the city, such as Madame yon Biilow, wife of the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, and Count Engelstein. My dear friends Pastor and Mrs. Frummel were also present, and the dear pastor, with his gleaming, cheerful, sunshiny face, and rich, musical voice, kept us midway between laughter and tears for nearly an hour with that wonderful gift of story-telling, in which scarcely any one in Germany excels him. His theme was that quaint old clergyman, Pastor Strauss, famed for his quaintness and originality, simple piety and rough poetry—a sort of German Spurgeon. What a delicious word-picture Pastor Frummel gave us about this old Westphalian preacher! If you ever see the "Encyclopaedia Britannica," look at an article there on Berlin by ut. Davies. As 1 look through the island papers and see the notice of some unexpected death, my goes out in a wonderful tenderness to all who are called upon thus to mourn, and my congratulations to all the happy young couples who are getting engaged and married. I shall scarcely know Honolulu if they go on at this rate. My room is bright and warm, though outof-doors the snow is blowing in a rough Scandinavian sort of a way. Think how cold it must be in that winter-land, though always grand. You would laugh to see hi**' the chubby little cherubs, sculptured on the portal of "my opposite neighbor the church of St. Hedwig, and whose pleasant duty it is to carry through all time between them heavy wreaths of " stone " roses, stand in the drifted snow. And now, dear people, not another word ; you will think it all a Carnival, but I wanted to give you just a little picture of the season here. Id the midst of it all I think 1 have enjoyed Old Homer aa never before, this undying music of the past. The University lectures have commenced, and are now fully under way. 1 thinkI am pretty skillful in mofaicing a diplomatiu and student life. * * Berlin, Fob. 2Gth. Fkank W. Damon. " �32 THE FRIEND., THE FRIEND. APRIL. 1. 1879. American Shipping and the Reciprocity Treaty. Mr. Editor : A few days ago I picked up an eld copy of the Friend, which had served as a wrapper to preserve from salt water a book on its cruise among the four channels of Hawaii, and remembering that the Friend always contains something worth reading, I sat down to look it over, when my eye caught the heading " Reciprocity will enrich American merchants and shipowners." Although the article was published nearly five years ago, and long before the Treaty became a law, yet the views expressed in it struck me more forcibly than when 1 read them in the paper fresh from the press. It presents an argument that is generally overlooked when speaking of the Treaty. I copy a paragraph from it: we argue that a Reciprocity Treaty " Now, will increase tenlold the number of these bitrks, briga and schooners flying like shuttles between the Hawaiian Islands and the western coast of America, the natural market Tor our sugars, rice, bananas and other products, while our lalanda form n market (or manufactures and produels of the United States. Last year—lB73— according to Custom Houae returna, these lalanda exporied to the United States products to tbe value of $1,139,725.81, while imports from the United States amounted to (529,982.08. Reciprocity would quicken trade, multiply ves- aela laden with products of each country, and enrieb Dot only the Hawaiian lalanda but merchants and shipowners on the Coast. What the East India Islands are to Europe and the West India Islands to the Atlantic States, the Hawaiian Inlands will prove to the Pacific Const of America if commerce ie increased and our products find a good market. How can we buy goods unless our products find a good market? Fur two hundred and more yeara the cities of the United States on tbe Atlantic Coust bave been trading profitably with Cubs, Jamaica and other neighboring islands. Portland, Boalon, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and other cities have grown rich from trade with those islands. San Francisco. Portland and others will derive similar benefits and profile from a quickened trade with APRIL, 18 79. same period 53 tons ! Can anything show more clearly the benefit which this treaty has secured to American commerce ? This is quite an important point to consider when asked " where the reciprocity comes in." Before the treaty expires, your statement predicting a " tenfold increase " may prove true. While I have my pen in hand let me add one or two more paragraphs to illustrate the stimulating influence that this treaty has had on our foreign trade, as compared with former years : [awalian Imports ifrom " ... .... all countriea in 1874 11,186,183 1870.... 1,811,770 2,4-28,000 1877 •• 1878 .... .I.Wfi.MO Again, the trade between the United States and Hawaii exhibits a most extraordinary growth under the treaty : '0U1 import* a from U t 629,982 I nitted SStates In 1873 187fi 1,032,664 1877 1,681,402 1878 a,ll'i,011* •The total for 1878 is obtained by including imports free under the Tresty, $1,619,987.61 ; duty psying, $315,-416.36 ; bonded, $111,498.79 ; duty paying at Hiloand Kawaihae, $6,823.71 ; snd one-half of the freelist, $66,286. Here we find that the trade of the United States with Hawaii has grown from $529,-982 in 1873, as stated in your article, to $2,112,011 in 1878. If to this extraordinary fourfold gain we add the freight and passage money earned by the large fleet of American vessels now carrying for us American and Hawaiian produce, which cannot be less than $400,000 per annum, we have a total of $2,510,000 derived by American farmers, merchants and shipowners from their trade and commerce with Hawaii, which could not have been the case had the treaty not gone into operation! These are facts which American statesmen can point to with pride, and which should not be overlooked by them when studying the results of the Reciprocity Treaty with Hawaii. I was pleased to see Judge Caton's wellexpressed views on the Reciprocity Treaty in point. He is a man of keen observation and large experience, and whatever he utters is reliable and impartial. The opinion of such a man, who has reached it only after thorough personal examination, will have more weight than any newspaper article published here. And it is hardly possible for any intelligent person to come to this group, and by observation learn the working of this treaty, without becoming fully convinced that it is resulting beneficially to both America and Hawaii, enriching American farmers, merchants and shipowners, and ought to become a perpetual the Hawaiian Islands."—Friend, Nov. 1874. Knowing that there had been a large increase of late in the American shipping at the Islands, and wishing to see how large it was, I turned back to examine such data as 1 bave by me, and found what will be interesting, if published, and very flattering to American pride. 1 give the tonnage and convention. Very truly yours, H. M. Whitney. number of American vessels for the wily that the statistics have me— by I years A lecture on "Scholars and School 1874-6-7 and 8: Vessels. Tonnage, Life in Syria" was delivered, Feb. 18th, .meriran vessels, including whalers, enbefore the Young Ladies' Free Classical 35,294 gaged In tradewith Hawaii, 1874 96 130 76,000 Do. 187« Bible College, Binghamton, N. V., by and 146 90,947 Do. 18TT 183 110,671 Do. 1878 Rev. Dr. Jessup, of Beyrut, Syria. At the Here is an increase from 95 vessels, register- close of the lecture, two young ladies of the ing 35,294 tons, in 1874, to 183 vessels of college, recently from Jerusalem, saluted the 110,671 tons in 187S, showing a gain in four learned lecturer in true Oriental style, conyears of 75,377 tons; while the Hawaiian versing fluently in the Arabic language, shipping has actually decreased during the their native tongue. Return Borrowed Books.—The person who borrowed Hawthorne's " Scarlet Letter" from the Editor will please return the same, otherwise the set will be broken. We would acknowledge three packages of Chinese publications from the Rev. L. Lechler, for the benefit of the Chinese on the Islands. They were forwarded per Chocola, freight-free. Hampton Institute.—We are glad to learn from the Southern Workman " and other sources that General Armstrong's efforts are wonderfully blessed. A new feature of the enterprise has been added, in gathering youth from the Indian tribes, and success crowns this effort. The following extract from a letter of Gen. A. addressed to his mother will be read with interest: "To-day at our Communion Service, eleven Indians, full blooded, once savage, most of them implicated in cruel murders in Texas in 1874, were admitted to our Church. Their baptism was very simple and touching. They had been well proved. Our effort for Indians here is in the line of a most remarkable chain of events. It is an interesting and wonderful experience. I have just raised $10,000 for a new building for them, and must get $6,000 more for a new workshop. Probably Pres. Hopkins, of Williams College, with his wife and daughter, will come and stay two months with us this summer, while Will and his family go north. It will be pleasant." " Rev. E. B. Tuthill.—This clergyman, pastor of the Congregational Church in Martinez, Cal., came to the Islands about one year ago for his health. Oahu College needing a teacher about that time, he rendered temporary and satisfactory assistance. During the summer he spent a lew weeks in Hawaii, but returning he settled down to quiet study in Honolulu, where few knew how he was employed; but incidentally we learned that he was investigating the "fish" caught by the native fishermen and exposed for sale in the market. He informed us that he had minutely examined and taken notes upon 94 species. More than one-halfof this number he had copied or painted, thus catching the marvelous and varied colors of these many strange varieties of fish. A person who has examined his drawings expresses his surprise at his wonderful success. We hope this retiring and modest student of nature may be rewarded by some society anxious to make a collection. We are not aware that Mr. Tuthill has preached more than twice on the Islands, as his health prevented him from accepting invitations. Twice, however, he consented to occupy the Bethel pulpit, and we feel quite confident his audience on those occasions will not soon forget his sermons on " Jonathan's Armorbearer " and " becoming partakers of the Divine nature." These were not ordinary sermons. We trust that with renewed health and reinvigorated strength he may reach San Francisco and be able to resume his pastoral and ministerial labors, having recently left in a sailing vessel. �THE FRIEND, APRIL, Four Children.—In pronounce it the best paper in the United States—certainly the best I have ever been acquainted with. If any of you do not take it you had better subscribe at once, even if you have to give up all your other papers. The price is $2.50 a year, in advance; clergymen $2. Address the Agent, Am. Tract Society, 150 Nassau st., N. Y." We copy the following as a hint to those putting up supplies for missionaries : "The Morning Star remained two weeks. husband spent a good deal of his time My Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Whitney's Journal. between sessions of general meeting in solGERMAN MAN-OF-WAR—TEMPERANCE—ILLUS- dering. We have for several years had our flour come in 50-pound tins, put up in San TRATED CHRISTIAN WEEKLY, ETC. The tins are all boxed, two in a It has been our privilege to peruse the Francisco. box, and ought to come perfectly good. Last Journal of these most excellent missionaries, year we found some of the tins not perfectly residing at Ebon, Marshall Islands. It was closed. A crack large enough for the end written for friends in the United States, but of a knife blade is sufficient to give the inallowed to be read by friends of missions in isects a chance to begin their work. Warned by the experience of last year, my husband Honolulu. It details the labors of the opened all the boxes this year and examined missionaries from day to day, and almost the tins. Of the white flour not a single tin from hour to hour. It relates to domestic was tight. Of the oatmeal, wheat, etc., put affiirs, labors in printing and correcting up in the same way, but in smaller tins, a proof-sheets, schools, preaching, sickness, large proportion had cracks in them. I have loneliness, arrivals of vessels, condition of learned better than to worry about such the people, lights and shadows of everyday matters. We shall be provided for in some missionary life. Perhaps our interest in the way, even if the whole shall prove worthjournal has been heightened from the fact less, which it will not. My husband has that it reminds us of the departure of Dr. soldered and puttied and painted the tins, Pierson and his wife from Honolulu on until I think they will keep as good as they board the bark Belle, Captain Handy, in are now. We may have to throw away May, 1855, on an exploring voyage. At some. I so wish the man or men who do that time voyagers were afraid to land upon the soldering for could be converted." those islands, as so many visitors and sailors had been cut off. Now, how changed the scene ! Under date of Dec. 2d, 1878, Mrs. Whitney writes as follows : " School was to begin Dec. 2d, but was PORT OF HONOLULU, S. I. put off by a ' Sail, ho !' The sail proved to ARRIVALS. be the German man-of-war Ariadne, bring2—Am schr Venus, Dodd, 27 days from Humboldt ing us a glad surprise in the shape of a Mar 3—Am schr Western Home, Johnson, Irom San Franhome mail. There were very interesting cisco via Kahului topsail schr W H Meyer, Williams, 22days 6—Am letters from several of our friends, some of from San Francisco whom had not written by the Morning B—Am bk II W Almy. Freeman, 18 days fm San Fran 7-H I X M clipper Djlgaiit, dc Lirron, 42 days Irom Star. We are puzzled to know how this Valparaiso 9—Am ship Robert Dixon, Osgood, en route to Baker's mail had come, as the Ariadne was from Island, anchored i.utside Samoa. The probability is that an agent of IB—Am wh bk Hunter, Homan, Irom cruise, oiland on 16 —Am wh bk Fleetwing, Hepptngstone, irom Home Hernsheim & Co., who was at Honolulu, snd cruise, 400 sperm. 800 whale. took the mail to Sydney for us, knowing he 18—Am stmr Cily of Sydney, Dearborn, from Sydney. Bolivian schr John Bright, Mills, 64 daya from •iO— might have a chance to send it this way. Klngsmlll Group. The Ariadne had been to Jaluij and made 21—Am bgtn Nautilus. Mclssac, 24 days fm Kaiatea. -I—llrit bk Chocola, Kenneth, 98 dsys fm Hongkong a treaty with the chiefs Kabua and Loto26— P MSB Zealandla. Chevalier, from Sao Francisco 28—Am bk D C Murray, Frost, 27 days frm SFrsncisco blui. One thing was very encouraging— 28—Am bktne Monitor. Emerson, 20 days fm Humboldt the decided stand which the Captain took 28—Am schr Kosarlo, Douglass, 27 dsysfm S Francisco 28—Am schr Joa Woolley, Drlggs, 26 days from Guaoo for temperance. He said he would not Islands 28—Am ship Springfield, Peart, 24 days from Iliogo, recognise as a chief a habitual drunkard. I J span rule could be officewish that applied to 20— Am bk Martha Davis, Benson, from Boston 29—Am bktne Koreks, Nordberg, from San Francisco holders everywhere." 29—Am bktne Jos Perkins. Johnson, from Port Gamble Dec. 9.—We had a visit from our , from Hongkong 31—Am bk Crusader, " neighbors, Mr. Foster, his son and daughter. April I—Am stmr Alaska, from sea in distress Mr. F. is living about one mile away, an DEPARTURES. agent for Capelle & Co. He was formerly A Kalkinburg, Huhbart. fr Portland, 0 (J. S. Consul at Samoa. It is quite a new Mar 1—Am bktne JViolet, I—Haw bgtne Anderson, for Mice Island for Vivid, Knglish, for Fanning* Island to have a white a 3—Kaiateaschr lady neighbor thing Am schr Western Home, Johnson, for Humboldt 4— who is not a missionary. We had nearly 4—Am bktoe Ella, Hrown. for San Francisco fr—Am topsail schr Kustace, Bole, for San Francisco 30 scholars in school. 1 think we have S—Am bark Camden, Robinson, for Port Qamlile never had a school more interested than I.l—Am sh Knlit Hui.ii. Osgood, for Baker'a Inland 16—Am topsail schr W H Meyer, William*, for Ban during this term. There seemed to be some Francisco. interest the numamong 15—Am bktoe Grsce Roberta, Olaen. for San Francisco. religious pupils. A 17—Am wh bk Hunter. Homan, for Arctic Ocean. ber have begun to take part in the meeting." IS—Haw bark l.iliu, O'Brien, for Port Midison. 11, 19—Am sttnr City of Sydney, Dearborn, for San Fran I Jan. 1879.—Before let me fojgetit, " 22—Brlt hk Lady Lampson, Marston. tor SanFrancisco me ask if you all take the Illustrated 23—Am schr Venus. Dodd, fr.r San Francisco 2d—P M 8 S Zealandia.Chevalier, for Sydney Christian Weekty ? Of course you do, if 26—Haw bgtne Pomare, Gooding, for Ookala, Hawaii you know what it is. / am not afraid to 28—Am bktue Discovery, fuller, for San Francisco Mrs. Aheong 33 18 79. and 1870, Mr. Aheong, who had officiated as colporteur among his countrymen on the Islands, returned to China, accompanied by his Hawaiian wife and three children. He died about two years ago, and now the Hawaiian Board of Immigration has paid the passages of the widowand her children from China to Honolulu, per the Crusader. MARINE JOURNAL. PASSENGERS. For San Francisco—Per Zelle, Feb 20—Geo Grey. Foa Sydney—Per City ofNew York, Feb 26—8 Tickell, A Clay, A Brandt, C Gray. For San Franciboo—Per Bonanza, Feb 27—W G Long and wife. From SanFrancirco—Per Discovery, Feb 18—Morrill P Stein, J Murray. J Hamilton, P Harrison, E Claflln, J Kmmiliitli, J Berry, P Smith. From Ban Franclaco, per City of New York, Feb 28—J T Aruiuli 1. H Morrison, J Davidson, Miss Lottie Alexander, Mlhh Mary Hopper, W D Alexander, S F Alexander, C C Fallenlns. Mrs <■ Fallenlus,Rev Belssel.Rev Polrled, Rev Panlin, Mrs J F Thompson, 2 children and aervant, Mra X Maifarlane, A Jaegerand wile, Mlsa M A Perry, Capt B Dexter anil wife, S Vrenachoff, Mrs O P Gordon, H D Van Wyke, X Corlngton, Mra R Corington, Mr Niece, G B BlMhop. O H Bishop, H Hawley, Mra H Hawley, N Bumpus, Miss H E Carpenter. Mrs M E Butler, Mrs M A Hall, Mrs D Moore, 29 in ateerage, and 119 Chinese. From Micronesiata lalands, per Morning Star, Feb 26— Mrs C A Sturgts, Mrs J Bray, N Gregor, It Maka, Mary Maka, X Ksnoa. For Fannlng's Island—Per Vivid. Mar 3—A Hoolder, A V Houlder, T A Thrum. For San Francisco—Per Ella, Mar 4—J Connor, J Bulllford, F Goll. For San Franclaco—Per Eustace, Mar 6—Capt Bweet. From Ban Prancisco—Per W H Meyer, Mar 6—D Norton, D McNeill, C R Maron,and 7 Chinese. From San Francisco—Per H W Almy, Mar 6—J Lemon, W Bohn, G Googh, 11 Nlehue. For San Franclaco, per Grace Roberts, March IS—Geo H White, wire and 2 children, Mrs Downer. For Port Tnwneend. per l.illu, March 18—J Bulck. From Australia—Per City of Sydney, Mar 18—Mlas M H Slisun. W Phillips, F Phillips, W X Mark, AgneaEugliah, W Robertson wife and children, J Crother. For Ban Francisco, per City of gydney, March 19—Miss Woolworlh. Miss Mutlerrleld, Mrs J II Blsck, Mrs Berrilland son, C II Judd. Mrs 0 P Gordon. M D van Wyke, 0 0 Follenius and wire, G C Beckley, W P Mss.hi and wife, P A Ames, W H Williams, P B Brsnnen, C R Bishop, Mrs A A Slurgrs, J Davidson, D McNeill, J Qninlsn. Wm llutler, G W Macfsrlane A Birch. F Short, F Sievert, W H Place, M F Sullivan, Miss Diets, J J O'Msll. y. G W Hoffmann, T Dufl°, F X Mason. T Bourke. For Han Frsnciaco—Per Lady Latnpaon, Mar 22—E B Tuthill. For San Francisco—Per Discovery, March28—N A Jacobson, R Burnett 0 Smith. A Wllks, Wong Lung. From Humboldt—Per Monitor, March 28—G A Dauphing, H C Thompson. From San Francisco—Per Rosario, March 28—W Willetl, J N Mackee, T ferrell. From GuanoIslands—Per Jos Woolley, March 28—Captain Brifgs and wife, JosMcGuire, Jas Douglass, W Earle, and 10 nativea. From Ban Francisco—Per D C Murray, March 28—W Godfrey, J Lyons. W Shermanand mother, 0 Moury, J A Sampson. Miss Booth, C B Hopkins, W McKlvay, 8 J Hall, D N Bhofer, J Nelll. and 32 Chinamen. From San Francisco—Per Zealandia, March 26th—J Sessions, J W Sessions, R T Wslhrldge, Mrs R M Overend, Mrs C X Williams, B Cogan, Mrs J H Bumpson, Mrs H M Whitney, Mrs 8 D llubbert and wife, X B Lapham, W M Barnes, D L aifTsrd, W H Bailey, B C Kuru. T J Newton. T Dixon, N F Remington, Mrs W L Wilcox. Mrs X P Adams, A Milliard, J Hsle, W Cogswell and wife, R N Honsman, Jsa Peake, J J Wenant.F M Wilt, J CGlade, J N Wright. D Manton, Miss 8 Carrigan, G P Scriven, Mrs D Sears, A W Smith, Miss X Ooodall, J 0 Oilflllen and wife, J Watson and wife. Mra J X Carroll. A W Kdwsrds, J Hotter, M Francisco, W Keinhsr.lt. CUsrson.T Lindsay, W Robson, Mrs Williams, M Tarpey aod 92 Chinamen. » MARRIED. Carlson—Donnell—ln thin city. March Ist, by Rev. Charles Parker, H. H. Mr. F. Carlson to Ml tut Emily T. Donnell,all of Honolulu. Lucas—Hrimv—ln thin city, March ISth, by the R*»v Father HenuannKorkemsn, Mr ThomasR Lucas to Miss Lydia Huddy, both of Houolulu. Silva—Mamk—ln Honolulu, March 6th, by Rev. 8. C Damon, Jobs it. Silva, jr., to Mamk, both of Oahu. DIED. Richardson—ln this city, on the IHh March, at his resi- dence on Chaplain Htreet, Ira Richardson, aged 62 years anil 6 months. V Andrews—At herresidence in Nuuanu avenue, on the iftth March, Mary A. Andrkwh, relict of the late Judge Andrews, aged 1 5 years. Prescott—At Kohala, Hawaii, od the 12th Inst., of consumption, F. Phescott, aged 42 years. Aylett.—ln this city, March 16th, Catherina Mart Ann, youngest daughter of the late John Aylett, aged 12 years 11 months and 32 daya. Km.—At Hilo, on the Island of Hawaii, on the 10th of March, Samuel Kipi, seed 63 yean 10 monftn and 7 days Aaoso—ln thlt city. March 28th, Akoio, a natlre of China, aged 61 jeers. Deceased was the proprletoi of the International Hotel. Glade—ln Honolulu, Sabbath evening, March 30th, Johanna, sged three mouths, Infant twin-daughter of J. C. and Alexandra Gladl. �34 THE FRIEND, APRIL, Origin of a Well Known Hymn. We have always taken much interest in reading incidents, connected with the origin of many well known and oft-sung hymns. That commencing, ,fcl love to steal awhile away," by the late Mrs. Brown of Munson, Massachusetts, is worthy of record. The following letter from her son, the Rev. S. K. Brown, D. D. of Yokohama, will be read 187 9. the garden to see, and she said it was you, that you came to the fence, but seeing her turned quickly away, muttering something to yourself. There was something in her manner more than her words that grieved me. I went home, and that evening was left alone. After my children were all in bed except my baby. 1 set down in the kitchen with my child in my arms, when the grief of my heart burst forth in a flood of tears, I took pen and paper, and gave vent to my oppressed heart in what I called "My apology for my twilight rambles, addressed to a lady." It will be found in its original form, in an old manuscript among my papers. In preparing it (some years Nettleton's Village Hymns," after) for some three or four verses were suppressed, and a few expressions altered in the original » the first stanza was with interest: Yokohama, Jan. 27th, 1879. Deab Dr. Damon— You ask me to give you some account of my mother's hymn, the first line of which was " I love to steal awhile awny." I have seen several notices of the origin of that " hymn, but never one that was accurate in its details. I have often heard the story from my dear mother's lips, in my youth, and in late years have frequently thought it I l«ve to ateal awhile -awny Frum little ones and care, &c. might be my duty as her only son, to give to the public the information I possessed reThis was strictly true, I had four little specting the circumstances under which she children, a small unfinished house, a sick wrote that hymn. 1 now have before nic sister in the only finished room, and there my mother's antobiography in manuscript was not a place above or below where I written at the urgent request of her children could retire for devotion, without a liability at Chicago, 111., in 1849, and I can not do to be interrupted. There was no retired room, better than to copy from it, her own account rock or grove, where I could go as in former of the occasion that induced her to write in days, but there was no dwelling between our her journal the verses, which have since house and the one where that lady lived. been published in many hymn-books, and Her garden extended down a gnod way sung by thousands in whose hearts they below her house which stood on a beautiful awakened emotions that are common to de- eminence. The garden was highly cultivout hearts. When she wrote them, she vated with fruits and flowers. 1 loved to had not the remotest idea that they would smell the fragrance of both, though I could even be printed, or be seen by any but her not see them, when I could do so without children, perhaps, should they survive her. neglecting duty, and I used, to steal away You will observe that she speaks of from all within doors, and going out of our Nathan Whiting of New Haven, Conn., as gate, stroll along under the elms that were her brother. When my mother was 18 planted for shade on each side of the road, years old, (having been left an orphan before and as th@re was seldom any one passing she was two years of age) she was sought that way after dark, I felt quite retired and out by Mr. Nathan Whiting's father of alone with God. 1 often walked quite up Canaan, Columbia Co. N. V., where she that beautiful garden and snuffed the fragwas born, and received in to his family as a rance of the peach, the grape, and the ripendaughter. There she was treated with the ing apple, if not the flowers. I never saw greatest kindness, an experience to which any one in the garden, and felt that I could she had been a stranger for many years, and have the privilege of that walk and those there she made a profession of her faith in few moments of uninterrupted communion Christ. She always cherished the most with God without encroaching upon any greatful and affectionate remembrance of one. But after once knowing that my steps the Whiting family, to the day of her death. were watched and made the subject of reI will now transcribe an extract from her mark and censure, 1 never could enjoy it as manuscript. She says : I had done. I have often thought Satan 1 had while living in East Windsor," had tried his best to prevent me from prayer " (to which place she removed soon after her by depriving me of a place to pray." marriage in 1805), kept a kind of diary and Thus, my dear friend, you have my continued it in Ellington, Conn. 1 wrote mother's own account of the way in which several scraps of poetry in Ellington, which that hymn came to be written. I may add were published by my brother Nathan Whit- that this production of my beloved mother's ing, in the Religious Intelligencer at New pen became public property some years after Haven, Conn. It was in Ellington that 1 it was written through the Rev. Dr. Nettlewrote the Twilight Hymn. My baby daugh- ton's calling upon my mother in Monson, ter was in my arms when 1 wrote Mass., for some hymns to be printed in the had been out on a visit at Dr. Hyde's and Village Hymn-book" that he was then several were present. After tea one of my "preparing to publish. She gave him this, neighbors who, 1 had ever felt was my supe- and I believe three others, which may be rior in every way, came and set down near found there by any one who has a copy of me, chatting with another lady without no- the book. Mine, with all the books, tales ticing me. Just as I was rising to go home, and poems written by my mother, was she turned "suddenly upon me, and said, Mrs. burned up in 1867, when my house at YoBrown, why do you come up at evening so kohama was destroyed by fire and my entire near our house, and then go back without library was lost. 1 remember the first lines coming in? If you want anything why of some of the hymns, c. g.: don't you come in and ask for it? I could Saviour t.*uk bis aeat, " Aa once tbe not think who it was, and sent my girl down Attracted by Hi*. Hum*," founded on the interview of Christ with the woman of Samaria. 1 Welcome, ye hopeful heirs of heaven," was written on the occasion of a large accession ol converts to the church of which Rev. Dr. Ely was the pastor in Monson. There was also, I think, a morning prayer meeting hymn, beginning, " How sweet the melting lay." My mother published a book entitled publication I " Tales of Real inLife," whose between 1*832 superintended New York and 1836 ; also another called" The Village School," which was a smaller volume, descriptive of the work of Divine grace in the only school she ever taught, I believe, in Canaan, N. Y. She wrote many articles for the Religious Intelligencer, of which Dea. N. Whiting, of New Haven, was the proprietor and editor for many years. She also contributed a good many short poems to the same paper and to others. Several times she wrote the New Year's " Carrier's Address " for the N. Y. Observer. She wrote a good many tales of real life, depicting a variety of most thrilling scenes through which she passed in early life. But my mother never went to school Irom the time she was nine years old till she was eighteen. Those were years of intense and cruel suffering. Had she not been possessed of a heroic spirit she would have been utterly crushed and ruined by what she was compelled to endure. At eighteen years of age she went to school three months in Cloverach, N. V., in a common school. Then and there she learned to write. Previous to this she could not write her own name. At the end of the three months she was graduated, and never went to school again. The tale of her early life which she has left her children, and which I have but lately had sent me from Chicago, is a narrative of such deprivations, cruel treatnent and toil as it breaks my heart to read. But she came out of the furnace as gold tried in the fire, and was such a mother, such a wife, such a member of society, and withal such an energetic and widely useful Christian woman, as to have left her memory embalmed in many other hearts than those of her children. A month ago I received a sprig and clover blossom from her grave in Monson, sent me from a gentleman in Walton, N. V., who always visits her grave when he goes to Monson, his birth-place, because he cannot forget histeacher, having been a member of an infant class she taught there for many years. It was a large class, and she prepared lessons for them that were published by the Massachusetts Sunday School Society. But excuse me ; I had not intended to say all these things about my darling, blessed mother when I began to write. Her record is on high, and she is with the Lord, whom she loved and served as faithfully as any person I ever knew— nay. more than any other. To her I owe all I am, and if I have done any good in the world, to her, under God, it is due. She seems, even now, to have me in her hands, holding nig up to work for Christ and His cause with a grasp that I can feel. I ought to have been and to be a far better man than I am, having had such a mother. She and all my father's family have gone �THE FRIEND, APRIL, to their rest. I only remain, and I pray God that my remaining life, be it longer or shorter, may be a walking in her footsteps who gave me birth and consecrated me to ADVERTISEMENTS. IAT God. But I must lay down my pen ; it is late in the evening, and I must mail this letter A for the steamer that goes to-morrow morning ■**■ at daylight. Yours, etc., S. R. Brown. Us Hermann ; Fort street, near Beretania. Services every Sunday at 10 a. m. and 2 p. M. Kaumakapim Church—Rev. M. Kuaea. Pastor, Beretania street, near Nuuanu. Services in Hawaiian every Sunday at 104 a. m. Sabbath school at 94 a. if. 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Even those followers of Christianity whose " doing evil that good may come " leads them to a rigid and intolerant adhesion to what they regard as essential doctrine, and those whose sense of the importance of the inspired word will not permit them to find excuses for various readings of what they consider should be verbally believed, must look hopefully to the period when differences of creed in Christendom will cease and true catholic unity will prevail. But if we cannot all yet regard each other as being entirely right, we shall surely do no harm and may help towards much good by seeking to walk in unity and to help one another as far as possible. It is a hopeful sign for the Christian world that religious intolerance, instead of being regarded as in past periods in the light of a high virtue and a mark of sanctity, should now be rejected by so many and deplored by those even who cannot be tolerant without in their honest belief sacrificing principle. We have read with interest two paragraphs in a recent New York paper, one referring to the visit to that city of the Dean of Westminster, the other speaking of the " Quaker poet " Whittier. The Tribune speaks of the Dean as follows : " He has maintained his own opinions, but he has scrupulously respected the honest opinion of others. He has been listened to by great crowds of all denominations and has kept their attention without the least resort to rhetorical tricks or sensational expedfents. If he is not a great pulpit orator, he is something better and rarer—a great pulpit teacher, provoking thought, disseminating knowledge and exciting earnest inquiry. The mind with which the Dean has been regarded is to be read in the addresses which he has received from several classes of Christians. The Baptists expressed the feeling of all others when they spoke to him not merely of bis learning and his printed works, but of ■ the uniformly genial and loving treatment which it is his wont to mete out to men of all Christian fellowship as well as to those of his own.' One of the chief lessons, we may be permitted to say, which the presence of Dean Stanley has given us, is that of the possibility of a much more harmonious relation of churcnes of differing professions to each other than has been common—of liberality without any latitudinarian lapse or loose indifference. To many this may seem easy enough, but perfect charity is not easy to men of strong convictions, intellectual and spiritual. We all admit its theoretical value—the visit of Dean Stanley, now so auspiciously concluded, has demonstrated that there may be fear of 36 CYhoMriusetnPonolulu. angof'sA ociat n Pure religion and undeflled before God, the Father, is this: To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep one's self unspotted from the world. a unity quite independent of creeds, and not think " that the true method of watching for in.the least subversive of their real author- our Lord's returning, and of hastening unto, and hastening the day, is for Christians to ity." And the following paragraph is not less concentrate all their energies on the conversion of sinners, the edification of believers interesting and the rectification and reconstruction of " Mr. John G. Whittier, in the mellow society on Christian principles." This is Autumn of hjs useful and beautiful life, is the only safe-guard from delusion, and frequently heard from, and whenever heard Thus, Christian life adorning. from, he gives us fresh proof, hardly needed, " Never the ihould we be afraid; of the liberal sweetness of his nature. The Should he come at night or morning. early Quakers, we suspect, had but little Early dawn, or evening shade." fondness for the Roman Church, and George Fox would hardly have thought itconsistent An Article entitled, "Certain Dangerous for any Friend to countenance even by a Tendencies in American Life," appeared word the erection of a cathedral—a " steeple house," wiih the aggravation of a superflu- anonnmously in the Atlantic Monthly, for ous number of steeples. Mr. Whittier September. It has been extensively noticed, writes kindly when he is requested to con- reviewed and replied to. It certainly draws tribute an original poem to the newspaper a pretty black picture, especially where it published at the Fair of St. Patrick's Cathedral in this city. His health, we are speaks of the failing power of the church to sure, unfortunately, will not permit him to draw and influence men. We cannot admit send any new verses, but there is an old that its premises are verified by facts, but its poem of his, he say*, called ' The Female as to what would if the church Martyr,' written on the death of one of the deductions its should lose in human society Sisters of Charity during the prevalence of we must admit.influence The here suggests question be cholera, which would not inapplicable itself, if a of the person power of thought to the present time and the Christian and of the writer of this article judgment heroines of the fever of the South. A thus views the tendencies of in a land Quaker of the seventeeth century would so greatly blessed with gospelthings privileges and have written no such reply to such Christian civilization, may we not view with a request. He would have felt it to be his duty to improve the opportunity by greater charity the short comings of our Hawaiian Churches and the failings of its fervently protesting against the vain and membership? frivolous cathedral service, and indeed against the improper lady of Babylon gene- : rally. But Mr. Whittier is of too large and liberal a nature for such narrowness, which we are glad to believe is becoming less and less common among all denominations of Christians. Nobody can charge him with latitudinarianism or indifference, for he is Quaker to the very " 10 mo. 17" of the date of his letter, and is rigidly orthodox as to his personal pronouns. In old times he might have been dealt with by " the high seat," but the meeting now is proud of him and loves him, and leaves him sensibly to say and to write as he pleases." A "Prophetic Conference," so-called, was lately held in New York, composed of learned and influential clergymen of various denominations; but all imbued with the be- lief that the Second Advent of Christ will be " pre-millennial," that is, thut Christ will soon commence a personal reign upon the earth, fo be followed by a thousand years of freedom from sin among earth's inhabitants. This does not seem to be a doctrine of any practical importance—on the contrary, a phase of it called " Millerism " has proved to be a very dangerous dogma, disorganizing society and driving many to insanity. We prefer to refer all the passages of Scripture that speak of a near coming of the Lord, to the meeting of the soul with Christ at death. With a recent writer on this subject, we Chinese Masonry. We clip the following frrom a letter to tho New York Corner Stone, written from Denver, Colorado: " Many features of Chinese or heathen Freemasonry are similar to those of the Order in Christian lands. For instance, benevolence and mutual aid are principal objects of the organization; it has four graded degrees, the initiation ceremonies into which are thorough and peremptory ; they have their grips, signs and passwords, and exact a high standard of morality from every member. One feature of the initiation is blood-spilling. From every candidate a small quantity of blood is taken and placed in a common jar. Their mode of salutation is to extend the right arm grasped at the elbow by the left hand. In handing an article to a brother it is grasped with both hands drawn in close to the body and then slowly extended towards the recipient, who also receives it in both hands, palm to palm. The Order is not exclusively Chinese, as Coon Sing informs us that in Montana and California several « Melican men ' are among the brethren, and that petitions (or membership have U*ii received froin A'm-*-*r u cans in this city. The initiation fee is f3Jj, � 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 (1879) 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 - 1879.04.01 - Newspaper Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1879.04.01 https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/14359b723e78bb1c552348f1973cf19b.pdf 03c7c356a8326c01ba15fda8d2094143 PDF Text Text THF E RIEND 3Jfto Series, $0. 5, tfol. 28.} CONTENTS lor May I. 1879. , . Paob Editorials ■ :17-:I6 Ilaiubles In tbe Old World—No. 28 40 Bnyarri Tavlor's Hneeessur ss Minister to Germany.. 40 I Hawaii Installation of the ilnvfm 40 U. 8. Consul for Honolulu Foreign Community at Mskawso 40 40-41 A Mlssionsry's Monument 41 Marine Journal 42 Heaven's Beauties—Poetry 42 Editor's Table 42 Temperance in the British Navy Sanctified but Part In 42 " " 44 Y. M. C \ . THE FRIEND, MAY 1. I 87R. The event of the past month has been the visit of His Royal Highness Prince Henry of Prussia, son of the Crown Prince of Germany and grandson of Queen Victoria. Our young people enjoy a rare opportunity in attending the course of Historical Lectures which Mr. Atkinson, Principal of Fort street School, is now delivering every Monday evening at the lecture room of Fort street Church. If to hear them repeated at " second hand " is so improving, what must be their first delivery ? Portrait of Judge Allen.–On Monday next. the 21st instant, the. Supreme Court will sit in Bunco. On the coming in of the Justices, the portrait of Ex-Chief Justice K. H. Allen will be timm in position in the Hall.—P. C. Advertiser, April 18. O, wad some power the giflie gie us To sue; ourselves, as others see us." " A good portrait painter has the " power." Those so disposed may realize this oftexpressed wish of Burns by visiting the Government House and doing as His Majesty and His Excellency Mr. Wilder have done, and employ Mr. Cogswell to paint their portraits. The artist has admirably reproduced upon the canvas the portrait of our Minister at Washington, whose dignified and courtly presence for so many yeara graced the Supreme Court room. HONOLULU, MU 1, 1879. Blue-Jackets.—That earnest veteran for temperance, Key. Dr. Cuyler of Brooklyn, thus writes for the National 2'emperance Advocate for April: " A good work is going on in the Brooklyn Nnvy Yard among the " blue-jackets." Captain Gerhardi, of the United States frigate Colorado, is as zealous a teetotaler as the late Admiral Foote. A few evenings since he mustered a large crowd of sailors from the different Governmentvessels, and I have never addressed a more enthusiastic audience. A long procession of tars moved up to the table afterwards to sign the teetotal pledge. Mr. Thomas Williams, the preacher in the chapel for the Yard, is co-operating with Captain Gerhardi in this Temperance among movement." Ocean Telegraph.—Late Eastern papers contain full reports of the 25th anniversary meeting of laying the Atlantic Telegraph, held, at the residence of Cyrus W. Field in New York. From the report as published in the Boston Congreejationalist, we copy as follows: •' Mr. Field nnnounced that, on this very anniversary day, he had received from the King of the Sandwich Islands a concession, promised four years ago, for landing on those islands the cable that is to connect the United States with Japan. He also spoke with great enthusiasm of the recent improvement by which the company, a few days before, had been able for the first time to transmit despatches to and from England at the same instant through a single cable." E. Bailey, Esq.—A correspondent writes from Holden, Mass., that Mr. Bailey was there on the 23d of March, but would leave for Honolulu on the Ist of May, and hence may be expected in the next steamer. We understand that his poem, " Hawaii Nei," has been published by Mr. Andrews of Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Mr. B.s book on the We would acknowledge papers for Micronesian Islands was going through the distribution from Mrs. W. F. Allen, Mrs. press and would appear soon, to be pubSeverance, and W. H. Rice, Esq., of Kauni. lished, we suppose, in Boston. 37 {©ID Suits, »nl. M. RAMBLES IN THE OLD WORLD-No. 28 A Few Weeks in Seandinavia–No. 7. AT THE GATES OF THE NOItTH LAND. Though for some weeks I have been writing of my rambles in Scandinavia, speaking with enthusiasm of our entrance into a Northern world from the first moment we caught the gleam of the waves of the Baltic, yet now that our faces are turned towards Norway and we catch glimpses on the distant blue horizon of mountain peaks, I feel as if all the way we have before passed was as it were but a preparation for the real glory of the North land upon which we are now entering, i would here say that it is impossible for me to speak of Norway in other terms than those which enthusiasm prompts —an unaffected, loving, glowing enthusiasm. I feel also actuated by something of a missionary spirit in putting this feeling into words. Norway is still known but to a comparatively small portion of the traveling world, 1 may even say of the reading world. Much has been written of late in reference to Norway, and the world is just beginning to realize what a glorious treasure of natural beauty and inspiration it possesses in this land of grand mountains, glittering glaciers, winding, solemn fjords, splendid forests and waterfalls. Still, very few visit Norway in comparison with the thousands who journey yearly to Switzerland. We will not comp- are, however, these lands in point of gran- deur and beauty, for I feel almost as if it were a sacrilege to do so. They need no praise, no comparison. But Switzerland is known as are but few countries. Its mountains have been measured and its takes sounded, and with an almost amusing audacity modern engineering has enabled the somewhat blase traveling world of our century to scale heights and to gaze upon scenes (surrounded by all the appliances of civilized comfort) which were formerly visited only by the hardy mountaineer or swiftfooted chamois. Switzerland is growing too civilized ! But Norway is still fresh, wild, untamed—a world where each new-comer m»y become u discoverer. If I could feel that any enthusiastic words of mine might induce some one to visit this glorious Northern land, I should feel indeed that I had led him to a source of unfailing inspiration. Standing as we do nt the gates of the �THB FRIEND, MAY, 38 1879. Northland, I can appreciate these words of and good public buildings, and a most comtheir National Song : fortable hotel. In the neighborhood are How grand is my dear native land ! large iron-works. The next morning, while That seagirt land where mountains tower the day is still sweet and fresh, we are on Like castle walls, that in their power our way to Norway. You can scarcely destroy time's all timid. Defy inn help feeling and knowing it, stranger though These monuments from former ages, Stand Arm 'gainst every storm thai rages, you are. I glance at my journal, full of Like giants clad in armor blue. jottings and impressions of the day, and it With helmets ola silver bue. bock to me the feeling of "ascension" brings c » • which the dny brought me. You feel as if Yes, grand is my dear native land ! some wonderful power was slowly,steadily Old Norway, wiib ber summer bowers. Her rock-bound abores. ber snow-crowned towers. lifting you upwards; wide stretches of Defying time's destroying band. shadowy forests dawn upon you; slowly Though storms tbe very earth should sever, peak after peak lifts itself in the distance ; These mountains shall remain for ever ; As monuments they yet sball stand you have left the monotony of a level world To sbow where lay my tatberiaod. behind and are gaining the glory of the Owing to the lateness of the season (the heights—where we are told alone lies refirst of September) in which I visited Nor- pose ! This change is to me all the more way, I did not extetid my journey farther delightful because of its unexpectedness. In north than Bergen on the south-west coast, crossing the geographical boundary which but the time which I spent in Southern Nor- separates Sweden and Norway, you pass in way and the route which I took enabled me an almost astonishing manner from one natto form a comparatively good iden of its ural world to another—from a wide plain scenery and the wondrous natural beauty of studded with great lakes into a network of its mountains and lakes, and especially of uplands and mountains. No two countries that unique feature of Norway, its splendid lying so near each other could possibly be fjords. Among the pleasantest of all my more unlike. In tbe early afternoon of the memories of travel will ever be those of the second day we changed cars at Charlottendays which I spent on the shores of the berg, on the Norwegian boundary. We are glorious Sogne Fjord. But not to anticipate. fast getting into an atmosphere of the old My last to you was, if I remember correctly, heroic, warlike days. For here, on the from Sweden. The journey from Stockholm boundaries between Sweden and Norway, to Christiania is easily made by train. far too much good blood has been shed in There is also a charming route partly by border skirmishes, so that there was at one rail and partly by canal, if one has the time time an almost unending petty warfare. for it, and over the lovely Lake Malar and But now we have the better days of peace. wide-stretching Lake Wenern. Taking the We are passing during the whole afternoon train from Stockholm in the morning, you through a glorious country, lighted by unpass all day through a charmingly wooded clouded sunshine, arched by a marvelously country, varied by swiftly passing gleams of blue Northern sky with scattered clouds. quiet silver-bright lakes among the pines We have gained us traveling companion the and firs; and at noon you are allowed a stately, majestic river Glommen, the largest long, restful halt at Laxa, a little station set river in Norway, which flows through the in the midst of a wide-spreading plain, not beautiful valley we are passing. On one of far aw»y from Lake Wenern. By one of the heights above the river is the fine old those strange and pleasant magical tricks ruin of the Castle of Kongsvinger, a rewhich our memories play us now and then, minder of the Middle Ages. All this withthere comes to me at this moment, writing out, and within the hurrying train the pleasin the midst of a German winter, when a antest and kindest of Norwegian coinpahy. mantle of purest snow drapes all my outer A few chance words—a question—one hardworld, a vivid picture of the drowsy August ly knows how—have opened up the way to noon-time we spent at Laxa. Scarcely a long, delightful conversation with some of sound breaks the dreamy stillness. Far our traveling companions, mainly young away a cock proclaims with his shrill note men, one nf whom, young Mr. Halvorsen, I the hour of noon. The flowers bend their cannot but mention by name, because of the heads—those Northern flowers—to slumber cordial brotherly kindness and generous till the evening dews come. Travelers walk hospitality he showed me in the following up and down before the station, or gather in days, and because he is so noble a represenlittle groups and wait patiently for the train. tative of the strong, true, manly manhood of There is a wonderful quiet and restfulness the North. about the scene. In the dining saloon is as As we passed down the fair valley of the abundant and plentiful a dinner as you Glommen towards Christiania, tbe atmoswould find in a New England farm-house of phere was clear as crystal; and far off in the the good old type, ending with great, gener- horizon we could catch glimpses of little ous dishes of fresh raspberries and cream. country villages under the guardianship of The country through which we pass is far the church spire. As the sun sinks in the from being thickly populated. Sweden has, west and the grey twilight gathers, we see I think, given up almost too many of her before us the roofs and spires of a large city, quiet, industrious people for America. But and are soon in what a splendid gain the New World has in christiania, the capital OF NORWAY. this Northern blood—and the times were hard at home ! And yet one cannot help We found the streets crowded, full of life wishing there were more left here in the and bustle, everything en fete. Hotels were Fatherland, even if the soil is a little less crowded, and it was with some difficulty fertile and the crops a little less golden. We 1 got a room for the night at the Scandistop for the night at Carlstadt, a fresh, new, navia." The visit of the King of Norway re-built, flourishing town, with broad streets and Sweden with the Koyal Family, and a • • • " Congress of Jurists of Scandinavin, which is being held at this time, have filled the city with strangers and visitors. Nothing could have been more interesting to a traveler. I had reached Christiania just at the right time. As soon as it was possible, I had joined the great throng that was assembling at "Tivoli," the favorite summer resort and garden of the city, where a grand evening fete was to be given in honor of the King. The night was warm, mild and delicious— balmy and soft as in the tropics—and great, glorious stars lighted up the deep vault of the sky with a radiance such as it seemed to me I had scarcely ever before seen. The gardens were all aflame with torches and variously colored illuminations. The cafes were crowded with gentlemen and ladies, and thousands stood without. All Christiania had gathered here to see the King, who appears to be extremely popular. His arrival was announced by the music of the National .Anthem—the music being the same as that of the National Hymns of England, Germany nnd America. Seats were arranged for the Royal Party in the open air, in order that they might see to advantage the brilliant display of fire-works which were to constitute the amusement of the evening These were of the most gorgeous description, and blazed and glittered in a most royal way. The King Oscar 11. was present with his sons—a quiet, pleasant, dignified looking man. He is a grandson of Carl Johann, the French Marshal Bernadotte, and came to the throne in 1872, at the denth of his brother, Carl XV. He is a man of liberal education and culture, and has manifested a decided literary and poetic talent ss his brother before displayed very considerable artistic ability. The Norwegians are very fond of having him visit Christiania, though he lives the greater portion of ihe year in Sweden. The great throng were most loyal in their cheers. A brilliant arrangement of gas jets flamed through the night, forming the words, " Leve Kongen," Long Live the King. After the fire-works, the Royal Parly left the gardens and passed, with their invited guests, to the Palace on the hill, where a banquet closed the evening. Christiania is most beautifully situated at the head of the Christiania Fjord. The city was founded in 1624 by King Christian IV. on the site of a more ancient city, Osloe. This old city must have been extremely interesting. It contained the cathedral of St. Halyard, "then one of the richest in Europe." Here James VI. of Scotland and 1. cf England was married to Anne, of Denmark, sister of Christian IV. in 1589. Christian; IV. who founded the present city, named it Christiania, nfter himself. It has been the capital of Norway instead of Trondhjem, since Norway was united to Denmark. The present population is, if I am correctly informed, about 90,000. The city is growing in all directions. There are many fine pubs lie buildings. Here is the Royal Palace, the University of Norway, the Stoetbing or Parliament House, elc. 1 will give you one or two pages from my journal at this point: August 30th.— H called early this morning to act as my guide about the city. We have the morning free for walking. First along the wharves, wpere lie vessels from. �THE FRIEND, MAY, all parts of the world, and where there seems to be much busy life. You know the Norwegians are never more at home than when they are on the water. Then following the bend of the shore, every step bringing the beautiful Fjord more in view, we reach the Castle and Fortress of Akershus, from which we gain a most superb view. Here is one of the favorite promenades of the good people of Christiania, and the walks are crowded on Sundays between 12 and 2. From this height you see the Fjord with its numerous beautifully wooded islands, between which ships and steamers peacefully glide, coming from the stormy, troubled sea beyond. Across the blue bay, gleaming white in the midst of the luxuriance of summer foliage, can be seen on the mainland, the picturesque " Oscar's Halle," which " was originally built by the Norwegians and presented to King Oscar, but now belongs to the city of Christiania." Skirting the new and out-lying portions of the city, we reach the Palace, which stands at the head of the fine Carl Johann Gade, the principal street of the capital. The Palace is situated on rising ground, just above the city, and the view on all sides is something most beautiful. As the Royal Standard is flying, we know that there is no admission, and are content to wait in the delightful sunshine out-of-doors. The Palace itself is an extensive and imposing building, comparatively new. Just before the Palace is a splendid equestrian statue of Carl Johann, by the Norwegian sculptor, Brynjulf Bergslien.and erected by the Norwegian people who were devoted to this King, who loved them as his own race. In the rear and on the sides of the Palace are beautiful gardens and parks and lakes, where white swans lazily float. In the " place " before the Palnce, the Royal Band often plays; and this is one of the favorite gathering places of the city. Il is a delightful and inspiring scene here on a bright, summer day. Before you lies the beautiful Fjord, beyond the city the splendid hills and uplands, reaching away for miles; beautifully wooded and diversified by tiny villages and country houses. At your feet is the busy city, with its towers and spires— into the very heart of which leads the noble avenue of which I have spoken above. I scarcely know which city to admire most, Stockholm or Christiania—they will both amply, richly reward the visitor, and in so different a way, that if it is possible, I should advise every one to see them both. I scarcely tnow when I should have satisfied myself with gazing, had not my Norwegian friend come to me with a kind invitation to join some of his friends at dinner. I was welcomed in a bright, pleasant home, where flowers and home-brightness and the society of most agreeable Norwegian ladies made me feel indeed that I was most highly favored. I shall not soon forget the cordial hospitality which, beginning in this charming Christiania home, has welcomed me during all my stay in Norway; and which makes my memories of this land somewhat more "couleur dc rose" than they otherwise might have been In the afternoon ourdinner company had coffee together in one of the gardens of the city. The evening was spent most pleasantly, closing with a Norwegian Hipper. After which I went home to 1879. 39 dream most pleasantly of my first day in the words of Schiller's Song of the Bell." Christiania. It has been a pleasure"to me to learn that Feb. 26th, 1879. the Musical Society was succeeding so well in Honolulu. I saw a notice in the papers We again take the liberty of quoting from of Mr. Berger having received a Decoration private letters: from the Queen. 1 see that a German Band Berlin, March 12, 1879.—Spring is Master is shortly to go to Japan to take again here, and the long winter seems to charge of the Military Music of the Empire, have disappeared. The buds on my dear ordering it after German methods. 1 have old Geneva friends, the chestnut trees, are heard one or two splendid oratories lately. growing daily larger, and before very long One, the Fall of Jerusalem, was especially we shall see the tiny leaves shooting out. well rendered. The singing of the choruses Yesterday was a day of radiant sunshine, here is something grand beyond description, the first perfect day of spring, and it seemed such perfection of training. as if all the world of Berlin was on the I have heard several most interesting lecpromenade in the Thier Garten. The walks tures of late in a general course, which is were crowded for hours in an unending pro- being given for the public, at the Academy cession, and the avenues were filled with of Music. One in reference to Excavations carriages, a most brilliant sight. and Discoveries at Olympia, by Prof. Ernst The University Winter Semester is over, Curtius, was especially interesting nnd inand the students are scattering fast for their structive. The German Government has vacation trips. Many of the young Ameri- done nobly in carrying on the work there, cans go south to Italy. 1 quite enjoy the and has been richly repaid by the treasures prospect of remaining here, now that most of which this classic soil has given to tbe presthe winter festivities are over and there will ent. There is an exhibition here of the be more quiet and opportunity for study, casts which have been discovered, the origiand then Berlin will grow so beautful in the nals remain in Greece. Prof. Adler lectured next six weeks. You see 1 have grown very a week ago on Mykenai, referring enthusiasfond of the Prussian capital. Professor tically to Schlieman, who has worked so Whitney and family soon leave us for successfully there. Gotha, where he expects to remain for Berlin, March 24th.—This morning, at several months working on his Sanskrit the Foreign Office, I was introduced by Grammar, which will probably appear in Herr Yon Kusserow to a Dr. Finsch of Brethe early summer. Prof. Leo of Berlin, who men, who is expected, before many weeks, to has devoted himself to Shakespearian studies, has be in Honolulu. I will enclose his card. lately published in splendid style the Plutarch He is a prominent member of the Geographiwhich Shaltespeare used, and to whioh he was so is going to study the largely indebted fur so much historical informa- cal Society, and he natural history of our Islands. tion. The secretary of tlieChincHo Legationin LonOn Saturday last was the Emperor's don is now translating Shakespeare into Chinese. Among the pleasantest acquaintances 1 birthday. There were foreign guests at have made of late have been that of Dr. and Court, among them the King and Queen of Mrs. Rodenburg. He is the editor of the Saxony. The Emperor lately fell and inRundschau," the principal literary maga- jured himself, so that for some days he has "zine of Germany. He tells me that shortly not been well. Though on his birthday he there will appear a most interesting and was much better, the large " Congratulagraphic article in the same on Honolulu and tions-Cour" did not tajte place, and in the the Hawaiian Islands, written by a gentle evening the Slate gathering which generally man who was in Honolulu several years occurs in the Schloss was also omitted, since, as surgeon on the German man-of- a smaller concert being given instead. dkr Arcona. He assures me that it is Music and soldiers in bright uniform might written in such a spirit of friendly enthus- be heard and seen. Before the Palace, iasm that it made him and Frau Rodenburg about the stutue of Frederick the Great, very eager to visit Honolulu. I have also were splendid laurel trees and quantities of met Professor Lepsius, a white-haired, ven- flowers in pots, presented by one of the rich erable looking man, who had many ques- bankers of the city The general European news I never make tions to ask about the Hawaiian language. The great musical sensation of late has mention of, for you always learn the prinbeen the playing of the famous Russian cipal events by telegraph before my letters pianist Rubenstein. The effect of his play- reach you. The morning papers are bringing is something indescribable, and I feel as ing us sad and tragic accounts of the desit indeed at last I had heard one of the great struction of a town in Hungary by flood, a masters. One forgets the instrument, and most dreadful catastrophe. The phantom is lifted out of himself by the wonderful, pest which has been troubling Russia seems almost supernatural, genius of the man. to have disappeared. The Reichstag, or Then his appearance is so striking and Parliament, are having a not very peaceful original. He is somewhat lame, and comes session. 1 heard Bismarck speak lately. slowly on to the stage. His long, straight The House is always crowded when he has black hair is brushed away from a dark, sad, a word to say. 1 called lately upon a gentleman, a former striking face, and he bows in a mechanical of Honolulu, and was quite amused nt resident audience, to the and self-absorbed way his saying that though living here in Berlin, one But when he touches the keys of the piano of the first capitals of the world, he took scarcely he is a changed man ; such a spiritual and any notice ol the newspapers, but when one musical metamorphosis it is impossible to came from Honolulu he read every word, adverdescribe. The constantly recurring ques- tisements and all. 1 told him that [ should have tion in society is, Have you heard Ruben- to make a note of this for the Friind, showing stein 7 Young Herr yon Zon Muhlen sang the affection of an old resident for tbe Islands. lately in a new composition by Burch, with Frank Williams Damon. �I II X 40 THE FRIEND. MAY 1.1 870. Bayard Taylor's Successor as Minister to Germany. Notices have appeared in American papers that the position would be offered to Dr. Thompson, who now resides in Berlin, and in so many ways has served and honored his country. We understand if it had been offered him he would have positively declined, on account of the precarious state of his health. We rejoice that President Hayes has appointed a Minister so eminently fitted for this responsible and honorable position, as will appear from the following notice clipped from the Chicago Advance: " The Hon. Andrew D. White, who has been appointed Minister to Germany to succeed ihe late Bayard Taylor, is a native of Syracuse, N. V., his father being a wealthy and prominent resident of (hat city. His collegiate studies were begun at Hamilton College, where he spent a year, and finished at Vale in 1853, where he was graduated at the head of his class, and took first prize for scholarship and oratory. He then went to Europe, where he was for a time an attache to the American Legation at St. Petersburg, nnd where he laid the foundation of his present magnificent library. On his return he was elected to the chair of History in the Michigan University at Ann Arbor, which he accepted after declining a similar position ofTered him at Vale. Owing to ill health, Mr. White resigned in 1863, and spent six months in Europe. On returning to Syracuse he was chosen a State Senator, serving two terms at Albany. He met Mr. Ezra Cornell, founder of Cornell University, at Ithaca. When the University was organised in 1866 Mr. White became its President; an office he has held ever since. In 1871 he was one of the Commissioners to visit San Domingo. During the same year he presided over the Rpublican State Convention at Syracuse, and in 1876 he was a delegate-at-large from this State to the Convention which nomi- nated President Hayes." FRIEND, MV Y . 1879. Installation of the Governess of Hawaii. Her Excellency the Princess Likelike, who was recently commissioned by His Majesty as Governess of the Island of Hawaii, arrived at Hilo on the 10th instant on tbe steamer bearing Her Excellency's name, and was heartily received by the people. Tbe Governess was accompanied by her husband. the Hon. A. S. Cleghorn, His Excellency the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Mrs. Kapena, Mrs. Mailcai, and Capt. J. H. Boyd of Gov. Dominis' staff. Captain Thomas Spencer, U. S. Consular Agent at Hilo, conveyed the Governess and suite from the steamer to the shore in his barge, which was decorated with ferns and tlowers tor the occasion, and threw open hie house for Her Excellency's use; and at tbe landing the party was received by a committee of tbe people, under an arch ot evergreens. The church building, where Her Excellency met and addressed the people at large, was tilled to overflowins. The venerable missionary of Hilo, the Key. Titus Coan, opened the proceedings with prayer, after which His Excellency J. M. Kapeua read the itoyal Commission appointing the Princess to the office. Her Excellency then read in a clear and distinct voice, and with remarkable prepossession, the following address : Loyal Hawaiians:—lt hat* pleased His Majesty the King, our Gracious and well-beloved Sovereign, to confer upon me, the appointment of Governess of this, the largest Island of our group, the cradleof our chiefs, at whose breast the kings am! noble families of this nation have been nourished. It has not been unusual for you to ho under a Governt'NH, may venerable cousin Her Highness. Hutu Keelikolani occupied this position for a number of years,and I trust that my official acts and my intercourse with you will be such as to commend me to your acceptability, as was the case with the honored chiefess before me. On entering upon the duties of this offlce, permit me to assure you of ruy sentiments of sincere sorrow and regret on the demise of your late Governor. I havereceived the appointment of Governess of Hawaii, with no small degree of satisfaction, not merely hecause here was the. ancestral home of my forefathers, but mainly because it Is my earnest desire to join together with you in the advancement of every good work which shall have for its object the progress and prosperity of all. On the accession of His Majesty to the Throne of Hawaii, he expressed his ardent desire that the people nf our land might increase and prosper. But these good wishes of our King cannot be accomplished, even by a wise admin istration of tho affairs of our Government, unless we all heartily assist in the good work by strictly observing the laws of health and by carefully attending on our children. During the past few years, we have witnessed the beginning here of an era of prosperity in therapid increase of important agricultural industries, whereby our hitherto waste lands are becoming utilized, and affording flattering prospects for the future. I trust we shall all industriously improve the opportunities thusafforded for our material progress, and while living In peace and order, under our wholesome laws, provide for ourselves and families comfortable and happy homes. People of Hawaii: In conclusion allow me to assure you of my respectful regard and sincerealoha toWTinis you. I pray Almighty God to bless and keep you: that He, will smile upon our industries, and that He will be graciously pleased to grant long life to our Sovereign Lord the King. The reading of the address was listened to with and elicited frequent expressions of Bishop marked interest, applause, and at the conclusion there hearty cheers of Exeter (says the N. Y. Observer), speak- were given for the new Governess. Tbe Rev. Mr. ing recently at Exeter, alluded to the politi- Coan and others spoke in response, toand expiessed at tbe sentiments which Her cal aspect of tempera nee reform, and ex- much satisfaction Excellency had given utterance. The announcehis satisfaction that the pressed question ment was made of the appointment of the Hon. F. was now making its way rapidly. At one 8. Lyman, as Clerk to the Governess, aud after time he was the only bishop on the bench singing by tbe children, the highly interesting meetwho was a total abstainer, but it was not so ing was closed.—P. C. Advertiser,, April 19. now ; besides which they found peers of the U. S. Consul for Honolulu. realm, men holding high office, and members of the House of Commons, all avowing We olip Ihe following from tbe S. F. Chronicle themselves on the side of temperance. He ot Ilie 14th instant : endorsed the opinion ot Lord Derby, that of Among the passengers to arrive here by tbe overall reforms the reform of the drinking habits land train to-morrow evening is J. Al. Morton, lately United States Consul to the Hawaiian of this country was most important to the appointed Islands. Mr. Morton is the oldest son of the late working classes. Senator Oliver P. Morton of Indiana, many of whose Temperance in England.—The No season within memory has been so unfortunate for the Greenland whaling fleet ts that just past. The whole Scotch fleet secured but six whales, and one steamer was totally lost. attributes he is said to possess, tie has been upon the Pacific coast for about eight years, and claims San Francisoo as his permanent place of residence. He was last employed as a special government agent at Alaska. Consul Morton, with his wife aud family, will sail in a few days for tbe field of bis new labors at tbe Sandwich Islands.— P. C. Advertiser, Apr. 26 Foreign Community at Makawao. The Rev. T. H. Rouse thus writes to the editor of the San Francisco Pacific under date of February 10th : You said, in recommending the islands, that" it was a good easy life for a minister. But I have found nowhere a greater stimulus to study and thorough preparation. The people are very intelligent, and well up with the times. Private libraries are large, and of the best books. There are several good classical scholars in my congregation. All the leading newspapers, magazines and quarterlies are taken, from the " North American " and Bibliotheca " down. I never, in any place, had so large an access to the best current periodicals as here. There are two good pastors' libraries in my parish, besides private: that of the Rev. J. S. Green, the venerable missionary recently deceased, and that of Rev. J. M. Alexander, formerly of San Leandro, a choice man and a most helpful ministerial brother—compelled by ill health to leave temporarily the ministry. Then, all these islands feel, in the direction of intelligence and piety, the spirit and influence of the old missionaries, a few of whom yet linger—Rev. W. P. Alexander and Dr. Baldwin, 'venerable and lovely men, whose labors have been espec- ially associated with Maui." A Missionary's Monument.—The late Dr. John Geddie, being then the minister of Cavendish, in Prince Edward Island, gave himself to missionary work in the South Seas in 1846. He reached Aneityum in the middle of 1848. For some years he and his family endured many trials and hardships on that heathen island. In 1852 he formed his first church in the New Hebrides. A few years later, through his efforts and those of his fellow-laborer, Mr. Inglis, the whole of the population, numbering 3500, was professedly Christian. In 1863, by their united efforts, the Aneitumese were supplied with the complete New Testament. Dr. Geddie continued to labor on Aneityum, making frequent visits to the other islands, until June 1872, when he had a stroke of paralysis. He retired to Geelong, near Melbourne, where he died on the 14th of December, 1872. Quite recently a marble tablet to his memory was placed in the wall of the chapel where he had so often preached in Aneityum, and on it are these words, worthy of being printed in letters of goW : " WHEN HE CAME HERE, THERE WERE NO CHRISTIANS ; WHEN HE WENT AWAY, THERE WERE NO HEATHEN." —N. Y. Observer, Feb. 6, 1879. Reading the foreeoing notice of the Rev. Mr. Geddie's missionary labors reminds us of his visit to Honolulu in 1847, when making his circuitous voyage from Nova Scotia to the New Hebrides Islands, via Boston, Cape Horn, and Honolulu, a distance of at least 25,000 miles, equalling the circumference of the globe. Mr. Geddie, having been a settled pastor for eight years, felt called to go " far hence" and preach the �41 THE VRI E Wi l), MAY, 1879. Gospel among the savages of the South Seas. He went forth with his family, including wife and two children, accompanied by a lay missionary, Mr. Archibald. They arrived in Honolulu passengers on board the Eveline, of Newburyport, Captain Goodwin, after a boisterous passage of 167 days. (See Friend for July 1847.) After remaining on the Islands about two months, Captain Westfall, of Sag Harbor, gave them a gratuitous passage to the Samoan Islands on board the whaleship Crescent. While here Mr. Ueddie visited the other Islands, and before leaving published the following •' card ": Book in Hawaiian.— We rejoice Whitney & Robertson's Bookstore the new song book in Hawaiian, by Rev. L. Lyons, the Isaac Watts of Hawaii nei. What Moody and Sankey's hymns and songs are for English singing people, this book is for Hawaiians. This is a rare collection of choice music, original and selected. Those fond of the curious and strange in Historical and Archaeological Studies,will find at Whitney & Robertson's Piazzi Smith's book, •' Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid." Thanks to the Purser of the steamer Australia for late Australian papers. New A Card.—We, the subscribers. Missionaries from the Presbyterian Church of Nova Sootia to the South Sens, have been compelled by circumstances to take a circuitous route by way of the Sandwich Islands to our prospective field of labor. During our sojourn of nearly two mouths on these islands, it has been our privilege to receive numerous acts of kindness, and to enjoy a degree of hospitality which lays us under obligation to tender public acknowledgments PORT OF HONOLULU, S. I. to His Majesty who kindly furnished ourselves and ARRIVALS. our families with a free passage to and from Lahaina —to His Majesty's Ministers, Messrs. Wylie and Mar 29—Am wh bk Rainbow, from cruise 31—Am wh Hk Progreu, from cruise Judd; to Wm. Miller, Esq., Her Brittanic Majesty's 31— Am wh bk Abram Barker, Smith, from cruise Consul Qeneral, and to the Consul of France; to the I—Am topsail schr Leo. Barker, 19 days from Sid Seamen's Chaplain, and the American Missionaries Francisco 3—German bk A later. Bolt, 167 days from Liverpool generally. Please, gentlemen, accept our sincere bgtne Timaodra, Thomas, 26 days from flan 4—Am our thanks accompanied with fervent prayers for Francisco via Hilo your prosperity, spiritual and temporal. We leave April 6—Am wh bk Mercury. Mirkmott, from cruise 6—ll B M flagship Triumph, Admiral Dc Honey. 24 with many regrets, but still confidently hope that a days from Aoapuico via Kealakekua, Hawaii gracious Providence will smile upon our humble ens—Am bk Warmion. Jordan,88 daya from Victoria deavors to do our Divine Master's will. 8— Am achr American Girl, Backus, 16 daya from San John Geddie, Missionary, Francisco B—Am tern Uera, Monsen, 27 days from Astoria Isaac A. Archibald, Assistant. B—Am wh hk Eliza, Murray, from cruise Honolulu, September 7th, 1847. 9—Am wh bk Bea Breese, Barnes, Irom crulae MARINE JOURNAL. . 9—Am wh bk Pacific, Knowles, from crulae 9—Am bk JaaCheaion, Swanton, 64 dayi from Port Gamble, leaking 12—Raiatea schr Vivid, English, 12 days from Farming's Island 16—p MBH Australia, Cargill, from Sydney 16—Frenchbk Alphonsine Zelie, Lebeaupin, 18 days from Ban Francisco 19—Am ship Robert Dixon, Osgood, Irom Guano Isl'ds 19—11 1 G M 8 i'rinK Adalbert, MacLean, fm Acapulco 10—Am tern A P Jordan, Crack, from Ban Francisco Via Kiiliului 21—Am bktne J A Falkinburg, Hubbart, 21 daya from Portland, 0 22—P MSB Cityof Sydney, Dearborn, from S Francisco 22—Am bk Jenny Pitts, Sievert, 27 days from Port Gamble 22—Am bktne Klla, Brown, 18 days from San Francisco 23—Am wh bgtne Tropic Bird, Jernegan, from borne and crulae, witli one sperm whale 23—Am bgtne Hesperian, Winding, 19 days fm Bureka 23—Am bk Forest Queen, Wallace, 19 daya from Ban Francisco 24—Am bktne Mignon, Soule, 46 daya from Hongkong We fully sympathize with Mr. Gibson in his views, as unfolded in the weekly papers, respecting the inequality of the sexes upon the Islands indicated by the census. So far as the Chinese are ncerned, we are glad to learn that the linese females brought hither are of the tter class. Many of them are Christians, having been brought under the influence of German missionaries in China. Cannot something be done to introduce more of this claJjtf , (lent Naval — The Triumph, the flag-ship of the British naval forces in the Tacinc, carrying the broad pennant of Rear-Admiral dc Horsey, arrived at this port from Acapulco on Saturday last, and anchored in the roadstead, drawing too much water to enter the port. She carries ten 12-ton guns nnd four ot smaller calibre. She is armorplated, and is 3893 tuns and 800 horse power. Tbe following is a list of her officers : Rear-Admiral—Algernon F R dc Horsey Flag-Lieutenant—Fritz Haucb X Crowe Secretary—John H Cleverton Clerks to Secretary—WalterParnell, Geo E Tuck Captain—Frederick O D Bedford Vmnmandtr—Henry Rose Lieutenants—Fits Herbert Coddington, Malcolm II Prummond, Reginald O B C Brenton, James H P Galloway. Clement W Bweotenham, Angus W 8 Douglas Staff Commander—John J Covey Lieitteiuint Marines—Sewallis A Kewell Chaplain and Naval Instructor—Rev JosephReed, M A /'/../ Rurgetm—William II Crnice Juymaster—George W D Siiuuionrts 1)Beaton Chief Engineer—Wllloughby Soli-Lieutenants—Sidney G Cooper, Arthur II Wlllson .Surg,Mt—Albert 0 (Jueely, Geo It 1) Charlton Assistant lliymoslir—John W N Dsvcy Engineers —Alexander Smart, Edward McLcish, Win H G Webb, John X R Potam (.'miner— Samuel Tilley Boatswain—Henry Hearle Carpenter—James Goodwin Assistettsi Engin»e r—Thomas Williams .Xuv.il Cadet—Spencer V Y dc Horsey —/'. G Advertiser, April VI. DEPARTURES. April jT PASsCKGCR.. Song to see at 2—Am wh bk Abram Barker, Smith, for Arctic 2—Am wh bk Fleetwing, lleppingatone, for Arctic 2—Am wh bk I'mirreas, Lspham, for Arctic 2—Am wh bk Rainbow, Cogan, for Arctic 3—Am bgtne Nautilus, Mclsaac, for San Francisco 3—Haw bk Kalakaua, Jenks. for Ban Fran isco 3—ll I 11 M rt Djiguitt, dc Livron, for Japan 6—Am tpsl RChr Leo, Barker, for Arctic 7—Am bktne Monitor, Emerson, for Humboldt 7—Am schr Jos Woolley, Hempstead, lor Guano Isl'ds 7—Am ship Springfield. Peart, fur.larvis Island g—Am bgtne Tiuiandra, Thomas, for ArcMc 9—Am tpsl schrLoleta. Dexter, for Arctic 10—Bolivianschr John Bright, Mills, for fan Francisco 10—Ambk H W Almy, Freeman, for Sao Francisco In Am wh bk Mercury, Hickmott,for Arctic 10—Am wh bk Eliza, Murray, for Arctic 12—P M88Alaska, Seabury, for Yokohama 16—Haw schr Giovanni Apiani, Gilley, for Arctic 16—11 BM 8 Triumph, Admiral Dc Horsey, for Esqui- From Boston—Per Martha Davis, March 31—Charles R Scarborough. For San Francisco—Per Nautilus, April 3—A B Hodgkins. For San Franciaco, per H W Almy, April 10—MiaaMary Slders, F Ma. arty, P Sullivan, John Sholte. For Hongkong, per Alaska, April 12—J WSessions, and tt Chinamen. From Tanning's I.land, per Vlrld, April 14—A H Houlder, A F Houlder. For Port Usmhle, per Jo. Perkins. April 16-E P Janaen. For San Francisco, per D C Murray, April IS—Mr Bsrton and wife, Mra Ward, J Farnsworth, wile and child. Dr Tufts, Mis, Frear, Thoa Price, Mr Hardy and wife, Mr Simpson. For Hongkong, per Martha Paris, April IT—James Hubert, A W Snow, Mi.c Lulu Dc Haven,and 18 Chinese. From Australia, per Anairalia, April It—J Day, A Mason and wire. W Valcould. W Jenkins, W Mount, F Tkm,and 116 In transit lor Sau Francisco. From San Franciaco,per Alphonaine Zelie, April IS—Mr Smith and wife. Ja> Hubert, and 41 Chinamen. For San Franci.co, per Au<lrnlla, April 16—J ft Carmody, wifeand two children, Ed Furalenau, ('has Brewer, Mias Elisa Brewer. Mia. I. Rodger., Mrs 8 F Thompson, two children and servant. Mra M X Butler, J Dixon, Wm Maertins, N r Remington, Sir. W 8 Wilcox. Ja. Wood., J Lyon, Jiunrs Campbell and trite, J X Smitli, O P Severeo Mia. Cutter, II Cornwell, Mr. II Turton, H Weil, F N Danby, Mrs PrasMii and.on, Mr. J Neal, J F Vane, L W Ilahn, O Larson, H, Kunast. J D Rnbertson, Mr. McKensie. J B Griffin, R Green Jos West. H Robinson, Josl Nicbovsky, P Stuk, Mra M L Smith and 2Chinese. From San Francisco, per City of Sydney, April 22—Mr Turner, Mr Mtdlon, Mr Derapsle. Miss Frankel, Mr drove, E N Bnnndry, E Butliard. J w Tolland, J Moore, Col C Spreokles, C R Bishop, Mr Bendell.Mr Buck.E 0 Berger, Mrs L Swan, P Oleeson, T L Wesson, J A Murphy, Dr Estleman, Miss B Rb.nahan,Ova Spreckles, O W Macfarlane, W H Place, D T McGraw and wife, J Seaman and wife, W B Home, J Kaupland, D Meyer., T H Wilt, J Wallace, H .laii.es, A Btisbton, Q Cohen, O Hanlon, Q Snyder, E H Walltngford, J Dickson, E A Lambert, H Houthworth,Mra M Steward, Annie Davis, Mike Huberty, H Edwards, A Bates, and 177 Chinese. From Portland, per Falkinburg, April 22-J J Kelly, M A Krieg, A D Marshall, and one Chinese. From San Francisco, per Ella, April 32—Mrs B M Oildea, Miss D S Oildea, E Frlnk and wife, Mr Moaer, Mr Jager, Frank Colgan. L Dee, and 8 Chinese. For Australia, per City of Sydney, April 29—T C Button, F Y Newton, J Reeves, Wm Hollworth. From Eureka, per Hesperian, April 21—Jas Paul. For Farming's Island, per Vivid, April 24—A Houlder, A Oale, E Probart. For San Francisco, per Rosario, April 25—G C Hilton, Jas Luproil and wife, Dr L S Thompson and daughter, and 2 Chinamen. For Hongkong, per Crusader, April 28—D Root, J McCloskey. MARRIED. Maooon—Eshlf.man—At Waialua, Oahu, March 16ih, by His Lordship the Bishop of Honolulu, Mr. J. A. Ma- ooon to Miss Hannikva Eshi.kman. Tbkadway—Mouse—ln this city. March J&th, by the Rev. 8. G. Dwight, Mr. Henby G. Tbeadway to Miss Ellen Mobse, both of Honolulu. WsT* No cards. Macfablane—Widemann—At Walklkl, April Sth, 187!>, by Rev. Father Hermann, Mr. F. W. Macfablane to Miss Emelie, daughter ol Hon. H. A. Widemann, all of Honolulu. Petebson—Meliea—ln this city, April Bth, by th. Rev. 8. C. Damon. Mr. Petkbson, (keeper of the Telegraph Station) of Honolulu, to Melixa, of Kwa. Haine—Walaea—ln thl. city, April 17th. by the Rev. 8. 0. Damon, Haine, (Chinaman) of Klklhale.to Walaea. of Waikiki-kai. Eclevebhia—Maikai—ln this city, April 18lh, by the Rev. 8. C. Damon, DanielEclevebbia to Wahine Mai eai, both of Honolulu. Shipman—Johnson—ln Honolulu, April Mth, by Rev. S. C. Damon, W. 11. Shipman, Esq., of Hilo, Hawaii, to Miss M. E. Johnson, of Honolulu. DIED. Seinneb—At Makawao, Maui, March 31, at the rem. deuce of ber son-in-law, M. B. Heckwith, Mrs. Betsy. widow of the late Barton Skinner, Esq., of Keenc, New Hampshire, aged 79 years. Smith—At Hilo, on Monday, April 7th, at hia place of residence, Dr. Jakes s. Smith, aged 40- years. He was a native of the State of Ohio, U. S. (Ohio papers please Thompbon—ln this city, April 18,of consumption, Mrs. Rachel Thompson, wife of Dr. L. S. Thompson, of Ko. mau halt, Hawaii, formerly of Minnesota, U. 8., aged 3'J years. 16—H BM 8 Opal, Robinson, for Esquimau Mkhseiii'ko —In this city, April 18th, Wm. Mebsebhio.. Knowles. for Arctic I'acitlc, 16—Am wh bk Sheriff ofKohala, Hawaii, a native of Germany, aged fis 16—P M8B Australia, Cargill, forSao Franciaco years. He had resided in these Islands for nearly thirty 16—Am bktne Jos Perkins, Johnson, for Port Gamble years, and was the first leader of a Hawaiian band of 16—Ambk D C Murray, Frost, for Ban Francisco music, organized in 183a. 16—Am wh bk Bea Breese, Barnes, for Arctic Lawson—At the Queen's Hospital, April Md, Andbew 17—Am bk Martha Davis, Benson, for Hongkong C. Lawbon, a native of Breveg, Norway. He had been It, -Am schr General Harney, Tripp, for Arctic sailing forseveral years out of American ports. The de2'—Am bk' Munition. Jordan, for Victoria, B C ceased was a trustfuland simple-minded Christian sailor. 23—P MSB City of Sydney, Dearborn, for Sydney He was a beneficiary of the Ladles Strangers' Friend So24— Nrlthk Chocola, Kenneth, for Honykong ciety of Honolulu. 24—RaiateaschrVivid, English, for Farming's Island 24—11 IG M B i'rinz Adalbert, MacLean. for Yokohama GirFABD—In this city, April 24th, 1879, at theresidence 26—Am achr Rosario. Douglass, forBan Francisco of her mother Mrs. Dudolt, Blanche, wife of Walter M. 25—Am wb biituc Tropic Bird, Jcrocgac, fur Arctic Giffard. �42 111 X FRIEND, MAY. Heaven's Beauties. Since o'er tby footstool bere below Such beauteous gems are strown, Oh, what magnificence must glow, My God, about thy. throne! So brilliant bere these drops of light; There tbe lull ocean rolls, how bright! If night's blue curtain of tbe sky, With thousand stars inwrougbl— Hung like some royal canopy With glittering diamonds fraught— Be. Lord, thy temple s outer vail. What glory round the shrine must dwell I Tbe dazzling aim. at noontide hour, Forth from bia flaming vase Flinging o'er earth the golden shower, Till vale and mountain blaze. Rut shows, 0 Isold, one beam of tliine ! What, then, the day where ibou dost sbine ! Ab, how shall these dim eyes endure That noon ol living rays ? Or how my spirit, so impure. Upon thy brightness gsze ? Anoint, () Lord ! anoint my sight, And robe me for that world of light! —[By Dr. Muhlenberg, author of the hymn, " I would not Live Alway." EDITOR'S TABLE. " UNCLE TOM " AND HEINHCH HEINE. Among the new books, we notice at Thos. G. Thrum's, Fort street, an illustrated edition of Uncle Tom's Cabin. The print and illustrations are in the highest style of the art. That the demand should call for an edition of this nature indicates that the story of Uncle Tom, by Mrs. Stowe, has taken its place among the standard books of modern literature. Although slavery has passed away, yet the genius displayed in this book will not allow the work a merely ephemeral popularity. Having recently re-read the book, (an old mutilated edition, together with » The Key," published in 1853, falling in our way,) it is gratifying to glance at this superbly illustrated edition. It is accompanied by an interesting bibliography of the book, by Mr. Bullen, of the British Museum, who shows, by his memoranda, that Uncle Tom has been made to speak just twenty different languages, besides several separate editions in some of these languages. We have thought it might take as a good " serial " if some one would translate it into Hawaiian and print it in the native newspaper Kuokoa. Tbe introduction contains a most interesting correspondence between Mrs. Stowe and several distinguished personages and writers, including the Prince of Wales, Dickens, Macauley, and others. The most noteworthy reference to the book is in a paragraph from the writings of the late German writer, Heinrich Heine, so well and widely known, who died in Paris about twenty years ago. It appears that Heine had become notoriously sceptical in regard to the Bible, but in his last days was most inarvclously brought to 1879. confess bis error and accept of the Gospel of Christ as man's only hope. The following beautiful paragraph we copy : " The awakening of my religious feelings 1 owe to that holy book, the Bible. Aston ishing ! that after I have whirled nbout all and heartfelt thanks for your great kindness to us in allowing us the use of the Bethel school-room to hold our temperance meetings. We pray God in his great mercy lo spare you a long life in the great cause, and that he will grant you every happiness on earth for your goodness to us and all the seafaring community. We hope and trust that the temperance cause will flourish on the Island and all over the world. We leave here on Saturday for Vancouver's Island. Good bye. We remain your obedient servants. C. F. Johnson, Secy. (Signed) my life over all the dance-floors of philosophy, and yielded myself to all the orgies of the intellect, and paid my addresses to nil possible systems, without satisfaction, like Messalina, after a licentious night, I now find myself on the same stand-point where Uncle Tom stands—on that of the Bible. I kneel down by my black brother in the same prayer! AVhat a humiliation! With nil my science I have come no farther than the "Sanctified but in Part." poor ignorant negro who has scarce learned to spell. Poor Tom, indeed, seems to have Many, many men are converted to faith, seen deeper things in the holy book than I. but not to generosity. I have known men Tom, perhaps, understands them better than that prayed very well, that sang very beauI, because more flogging occurs in them— that were very agreeable in their that is to say, those ceaseless blows of the tifully, manners, that were very exemplary in their whip which have aesthetically disgusted me in reading the Gospels and the Acts. But a households, that were very devout, that were poor negro slave reads with his back, and very sincere, doubtless, and that were all understands better than we do. But I, who right until you came to the question of selfused to make quotations from Homer, now begin to quote the Bible as Uncle Tom ishness, but they shrank if you touched that habit. They were converted to this point,but does." they were not converted there, though that Temperance in the British Navy. was just the point where they needed conCaptain Grant, who commanded one of version more than anywhere else. the largest ironclads in the British service, 1 was informed by the engineer who had denies that it was necessary to give the sailor charge of the survey of that great treasure brandy-and-water to make him fight. On which Mr. Seward secured for us in Alaska, the contiary, the smartest men in his ship were the teetotalers, who kept their pledge the eternal ice-house of the globe, that even where summer brings vegetation, if you and lived in the fear of God." take a staff and drive it down in many We copy the above paragraph from one two or three feet, you strike a solid parts of our exchanges. Teetotalism is rapidly summer never goes lower than ice, because spreading in the British Navy, and we are that. not surprised the old-fashioned grog-fighters And as it is there, so it is in men—only should discredit the fighting qualities of the different men are very different in this retemperance sailors. Two of Her Majesty's spect. In some men, if you go down six ships ol war have just left the port of Hono- inches you strike ice; in some men you strike ice if you go down a foot; and in lulu. On board the Admiral's ship, out of men you do not strike ice imtilsvou go some a crew of six hundred there were sixty-four down two feet; but somewhere or SWer. in teetotalers, and on board the smaller vessel every man, if you go down far enough you about twenty, who were organised tinder the will come to a solid foundation where sumGood Templars' pledge. From what we mer does not reach. What we want, therefore, is tropical heat that pierces to the very can learn from officers and seamen, tempercenter; and there are many in whom only ance principles are spreading in the British heat of a very searching nature is sufficient. Some men are thorough Christians in Navy. Perhaps no one is more instrumental in promoting this good work than Miss every thing but pride. That they keep for Weston, a Christian lady of England, who their own using. Other men are thorough in everything but vanity. In is doing a noble work among British sea- Christians that they arc not converted; and if you men. She is establishing temperance homes were to open the chambers of his soul, out nnd lodging places for seamen throughout would fly a million butterflies, beautiful, but British seaports. She also publishes a useless. Different persons are converted and in different degrees; but monthly letter, which is sent to all parts of differently wants to go on and develop all everybody the world. his faculties; and each faculty wants to be We would add that during the visit of specially dealt with, wants its own developthe Opal in this port the Good Templars of ment, and wants to be developed little by the ship have held their weekly meetings on little—for the true work of God in tho his people is progressive, and shore at the Bethel, and on the departure of hearts toofbe so carried as to fulfill the comought the ship we received the following note : mand, "Grow in grace and in the knowHonolulu, April 10, 1879. ledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Rev. Sir We, the Good Templars of Christ.—H. W. Beecher's sermon, Dec. H. M. S. Opal send you our most sincere 11, IS7B. " " " : �SAILORS' ADVERTISEMENTS. Places of Worship. 43 1879. THE FRIEND, MAI. • Skamen'h Bktiikl—R«v. B> C. Damon, Chaplain, a IRWIN «V CO.. King street, near tbe Sailors' Home. Preaching IV at 11 a. m. Seats free. Sabbath School before the Commission Merchants, morning service. Prayer .meeting on Wednesday Plantation and Insurance Agent., Honolulu, 11. I. evenings at 7A, o'clbck. Fort Stkkkt Chuiicii—Rev. W. Frear. Pastor, Is. HANCUBTTE. I'limo-Koris- Tuner sV Rewalrrr, corner of Fort and Heretania streets. Preaching (For many years connectedwith Chick.ring A Sons.) on Sundays at 11 a. m. and 'I, r. m. Sabbath RuhertJ_y- Order, let. at tin- SalKir.' Home or Whitney School at IU a. m. son'a Bookstore. HOME! J• * Kawaiahao Ciiuhch—Rev. H. H. Parker. Pastor, A VV. I- KIIt C X fc CO., King street, above the Palace. Services in Ha(Succesor. to O. L. Richard. A Co.) waiian every Sunday at 11a. m. Sabbath school "™ # at 10 A. M. Evening services at 7J o'clock, alterChandlersand General Commission Mernating wilh Kaumakapili. District meetings in Ship chants, various chapels at 3..10 r. >i. Prayer meeting every Wednesday at 7J P. M. Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaiian I.land.. Roman Catholic Church—Under tho charge of Rt. Rev. Bishop Maigret. assisted by Rev. Father Agents Pinlot Salt Works, Braid's Bomb Lances, Hermann ; Fort street, near Beretania. Services Am* Perry Pi»rl.' Pols. Killer. every Sunday at IU a. m. and 2 r. M. Kai mak him Ciii'kch—Rev. M. Kuaea. Pastor, | EWERS v DICKSON, Beretania street, near Nuuami. Services in HaDealers in Lumber awl Building Materials, waiian every Sunday at lt)£ a. m. Sabbath school Fort Street, Honolulu, 11. I. at 94 a. M. Evening services at 7J o'clock, alternating with Kuwniahao. Prayer meeting every ■.' HOFFMANN, M I> Wednesday at ?i p. il. Thk Amii.ican'Church—Bishop, the Rt. Rev. Alfred Willis. D. D.; Clergy. Rev. Rob't Dunn, M. A.. Rev. Alex. Mackintosh. St. Andrew's Temporary . Physician and Surgeon, Corner Merchant ami Kaahumauu Street., near the Poat Offlce Cathedral, Beretania street, opposite the Hotel. £-\ English services on Sundays at ti/j and 11 a. m.. and and 74 I'. M. Sunduy School at the Clergy 24 House at 10 a. m. TKEC* IsOAN'IS NKW Merchant Tailoring ESTABLISHMENT, Corner Fort and Hotel Streets. fCALI. THE ATTENTION *riheClllar*s of Oahsi and Ike Os'KNKK a largo other Islands to tke fact that I have First-Class Establishment. \\ litre Uentiemen can And a Stock of Goods, Well-selected Choaeu and great adapted aa to style, this climate. Having had an extensive experience in oonnectiou with aonit* or the largest importing houaea in New York and Philadelphia, 1 can assure my cualuuiers that they will not only secure Uie with can*, (o •• Very Best Materials but will alao obtain at my place ~ Si. H X X \ V Y. X CO.. . Fire-Proof Store, in Kohinson'. lluiltlinc, Queen Street. JOHN MeGR E W M. I) Late Surgeon U. S. Army, R. 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P. asTt- I'IIK Packet., New England Mutual Life Insurance Company, The Union Marine Insurance Company, Ban fr.ucl.co, Commission and Shipping Merchants, Wf —^ REGULAR PORTLAND LINE OF The BEST FITTING GARMENTS MAIIK A SPKCIALITV. ' ■»■ '» BOUND VOLUMM of the Friend at one dollar per annua (subscription price %1), for '"J number of year, from ISM to th* present lime. S3- Adding the coal of binding. �—. Pure religion and undeflled before Ood, the Father, is this : To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep one's self unspotted from the world. Edited by a Committee of tbe T. I. C. A. Annual Report of the Y. M. C. A. There have been held during the past year, five meetings; four regular and one annual. There are now 58 members to the Association. During the last year the meetings have been held quarterly, instead of monthly; the object thereof being to make the meetings more inreresting and entertnining, and nt least once a quarter have a full attendance of members. The experiment, however, has not proved satisfactory, and the regular monthly meetings will be taken up again during the coming year. The principal work of the Association is still among the Chinese. Our Colporteur, Sit .Vioon, having returned from China, after a visit of some months there, is again at work among his countrymen, by whom he is much liked. Sat Fan is at present on Kauai, traveling around among the Chinese there. On the Chinese work in general, I will add : That there is a regular Chinese Colporteur stationed at Kohala, and one at Hilo; but none on Maui. Although at Makawao we learn that they have meetings among themselves, conducted by some of their number who are Christians. There seems to be a growing interest among the Chinese in general all over the islands. The Chinese Y. M. C. A.of Honolulu have invested their money in a crockery store on Nuuanu street, the proceeds of which are devoted to charitable work among their countrymen. The sum of (4000 has been pledged— principally among the Chinese of Honolulu —for the erection of a church in this city. There has been some talk of our Association dropping this work, or at least of placing it in the hands of some other one or more religious societies, as being a work that bids fair to grow out of our hands in the future, and devote our funds to what it might seem our natural work. The establishment of a reading room and a place of harmless and attractive amusement for young men—there are no developments, however, to report in this line. The annual meeting of the Association was held at the residence of J. B. Atherton, Esq., on Thursday evening, April 24th. There were present about seventy ladies —of Sacramento, .- The following is the result of the election of officers for the coming year : President, W. R. Castle; Vice President, Dr. J.M. Whitney; Secretary, Wm. Kinney; Treasurer, W. F. Damon, re-elected. The following Committees were appointed by the President ; Beading Room—E. Dunscombe. Entertainment—William 0. Smith, T. H. Davies. Chinese Mission—Rev. S. C. Damon, H. Waterhouse, J. B. Atherton, Rev. C. M. Hyde. After the meeting adjourned, the company partook of a bountiful repast. Thus endeth the Tenth Anniversary of the Y. M. C. A.of Honolulu. G. P. Castle, Secy. S.—The President's Address Retiring P. our issue. in appear next will 4 YMoeunnH A'sgCochiartf onolulu. * r ■ one of the most prominent Divines of the State, and brother of Judge Dwinell. His article closes thus : " All of our better people believe in treating them well, doing them good, and Christianizing them as far as possible, and in maintaining all treaty stipulations with the Chinese Government, till the treaty can be wisely and honorably modified. They feel there is no need of hot haste in checking the immigration, for any reasons of social ardor, political economy, or Christian states- manship. It would, doubtless, occasion more distress to the American population in California to remove the Chinese summarily, even if that could be done without injury to them and with their good will, before other good laborers could be found to take their places in the families and elsewhere, than their presence here has cansed ever since their arrival." Chinese on Kauai. TREASURIES retort. The Treasurer of the Young Men's ChrisKoloa, April 18th, 1879. tian Association would respectfully submit the following summaries of receipts and dis- Reverend Brother bursements during the year ending April Sat Fan brought me your note of the sth 24th, 1879 : inst. He held a meeting last Sabbath at ACCOUNT OF THE CHINESE MISSION COMMITTEE. the native church, and a good number ot JteceipU $100 00 !asb received of HawaiianBoard Chinese attended and paid excellent attenspecial subscription by from " ** members of the Association to aid Bit tion. We like Sat Fan. He has gone now Moon in returning from China 100 00 70 35 'ash received from Bethel Church to Waimea, but we expect him back here Fort Street Church 60 00 balance transf'd to account of V. M. < A.. 1*21 fi6 again to have another meeting next Sabbath. 00 1442 IHsburaem*rUs The late census makes the number of (270 00 'aid Hat Fan salary, 9 months at $30 70 00 " Hit Moon, salary, 2 mouths at $35 Chinese on Kauai to be 848 men and 9 100 returning to aid Hit Moon 00 in " 2 00 *' Passage Hat Fan to Kauai Most of them are orderly and law$442 00 women. ACCOUNT OF T. M. C. A. abiding men, and 1 believe a good, faithful Receipt*— $ 13 97 Ulance cash on hand evangelist would have success amongst them. .mount of collections at meetings 62 25 received from 21 members per I wish Sat Fan was to be here S%elve "Pledge Book 336 00 .mount received from a friend 1 60 months instead of two. box in Beading K'm. 1 85 "** •*** drop donation from George C. It seems to me to be the highest wisdom Williams or Kohala 10 00 amount received, proceeds W. D. Alexanto make all possible effort to Christianize the der's lecture 23 50 $439 07 Chinese amongst us. Here they are at our Disburtements ''aid E. Dunscombe, one year care of Readdoors, and here they will stay; and their $109 00 ing Boom 'aid Whitney & Bobertsou, periodical ac. number will increase; and they will be either count for Reading Room 77 50 >atd forlast page of "Friend" 75 00 heathen or Christian. The people of Cali10 60 k Coolie, 2 oases oil " Castle Whitney fc Robertson, stationery 125 " Post fornia would have done better to have made 5 99 Omce account, throequarters.... 3 60 L. Sheldon, printing notices "" H. a grand effort to evangelize the Chinese inJ. H. Black, Praise Service 1 50 " Postage on " Friend " sent to Y. M. " stead of the futile effort to drive them out of 12 12 C. A'a in variousparts of the world 'aid T. J. Mossman, 1 banging lamp 6 00 the country. Let us profit by their mistake. 12 10 O. Hall & Son, oiland hardware " E. balance Chinese Misalon account 121 65 to I hope, however, at the annual meeting "" to balance cash on hand to new acc't.. 4 90 $439 07 in June, something definite will be done W. F. Damon, Treasurer. E. and O. E. and on a liberal scale. Some months ago About Chinese in Mr. Bingham sent me a copy of a report A Sober Thought California. made by a comrpittee on this Chinese quesThe California papers come to us freight- tion, which, to me, was very unsatisfactory. something should be ed with so much nonsense and ill-will The committee thought was an important the Chinese—it done for it towards the Chinese, is pleasant to meet nothand so on—but recommended subject, the with an occasional sensible article upon you heard the report. Doubtless definite. ing the Boston Congregationalist In — — — . — —..... and gentlemen. The Reports of the retiring Secretary and Treasurer were read, and the retiring President, C. M. Cooke, made an subject. address. we find an article hy the Rev. Dr. Dwinell, Very truly yours, J. W. Smith. � 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 (1879) 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 - 1879.05.01 - Newspaper Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1879.05.01 https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/81480298da6585f127f4f9adfdd7eb99.pdf 49192d35d9d2457f9299f9ad6f607f92 PDF Text Text FRIEND THE $eto Strirs, $0.6, HONOLULU, JUNE 2, 1879. M2W CONTENTS For June 2, 1879. Fair for Benefit of the Bethel Church Kambles in the Old World, No. 20 Record—Poetry Annual Meeting and Examinations for June Church Fair. Marine Journal The Worlds—The New and Old Opium Smuggling in Japan and Hawaii , Y. M. C. A P.O. 48 45—47 48 48 48 49 BO 60 62 THE FRIEND, JUNE 2. 1879. The Fair for the Benefit of the Bethel Church. Nearly seven years having elapsed since some of the the last Bethel Fair, to ladies of the choir, proposed hold a fair for the purchase of new hymn and tune books, and other church purposes. The Bethel having always been sustained as a Free Chapel, its supporters are under the necessity of occasionally making an appeal of this nature. From the first, it was determined there should be no means employed, at which the most fastideous should take exception, and they feel that success has crowned their efforts. They would return their sincere acknowledgements to all who have so generously aided in this euterprize. We would gratefully acknowledge the ki-ndrvess of Mr. Waterhouse, for the free use of the Lyceum, which proved so admirably suited to the large number of visitors; to Mr. Berger, and the band, which discoursed such charming music ; to the young peopie whoaided so essentially by their gratuitous efforts; and to the editors of the w-eekly newspapers. The amount realized, $852.00, has fully met the most sanguine expectations of those initiating the O* We would acknowledge, " Final Cause, a critique of the Failure of Paley, and Fallacy of Hume," by Dr. J. P. Thompson, Berlin ; " Historical Sketch of Missions," by Rev. I.R.Worcester; January, February and March, numbers of Spurgeon's Sword and Trowel ; The Words of Grace," an illustrated religious monthly, published in Sydney, the number for March, containing, portrait of Father Chiniquy; Proceedings of the Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Mass., containing portrait of Hon. S. Salisbury, the President, and much valuable antiquarian reading relating to Central America; "In Memoriam," Rev. John Lang, D. D., of Sydney ; The " N.W. Coast," a most interesting phamplet, on the resources of Oregon,Washington and Idaho, by Rev. G. H. Aitkinson, D. D.,of Portland, Oregon ; 30th Annual Report of Congregational Association, of Oregon and Washington Territory ; " Notes of 50 years efforts for Seamen," from 1828 to 1878, under the patronage of Am. Sea. F. Society, N. V.; Physical Education and Hygiene, of Amherst College, by Prof. E. Hitchcock, " M. D. Mr. Fornander's Book.—At the late meeting of the Y. M. C. A., C.J. Lyons, Esq., offered some remarks commendatory of this work, on the Polynesian Dialects. He expressed much satisfaction, thatthework had been published, and although he might not endorse every sentiment expressed, yet he thought the book would do good and elicit much well-timed discussion. We are also in the way of learning that the book has been favorably received nt London, Berlin Stockholm. There will be always found a certain class of inquisitive, readers delightundertaking. ing in the disscussion of such topics, as are brought out in this volume. We hope volume We would acknowledge papers for 2nd, will erelong make its appearance. gratuitous dirtribution from Mrs. Paty, Mrs. Rev. E. T. Doane, arrived by the last Yates, Mrs. Parke, S. N. Castle, Esq., and from San Francisco ; and will sail steamer a file of Christian Union,from some member of the great Smith family, found on our on board the Morning Star, on his third Missionary voyage to Micronesia. office table. 45 \®\b Series, M 38. RAMBLES IN THE OLD WORLD-No. 29 A Few Weeks in Seandinavia—No. 8. OVERLAND THROUGH NORWAY. I had said goodybye to my friends in Christiana, despatched by steamer to Hamburg everything in the way of luggage, which was not absolutely necessary and was ready for the journey. We steamed and whistled out of the city just as the good people were starting their work for the day. Beautiful city, may all the hopes your children cherish for you be more than realized, and may peace ever dwell with you ! Our way northward lay at first through quiet farming and forest lands. The cars were filled with country people. I noticed some fine old Norse faces. At the little settlement of Eidsvold, we caught our first glimpse of the beautiful lake of Mjosen, the largest of Norwegian Lakes, —a most beautiful sheet of water—some seventy or eighty miles in length. At the little wharf of Eidsvold we took passage on the steamer Oscar. Nothing could be more delightful than a few hours on the lake. Splendid mountains rise from the shores of the lake with extensive forests. At wide intervals are scattered little settlements, or a farm house in the midst of a clearing rises into view. It must be wild and bleak here in winter—the air of this early September day was fresh and cool, but in summer it cannot fail to be wholly charming. The waters of Lake Mjosen rose twenty feet and suddenly retreated again during the great earthquake at Lisbon, September Ist, 1775. One's attention is constantly called in different directions here to a little boat gliding swiftly over the waters from one point to another, now to a group of peasant children on the shore, or to a little church among tbe trees. At the little town of Hamar you notice the remains of an old church of the middle ages, a Basilica in the Roman style, picturesque in this Norwegian landscape. At Gjovik I leave the steamer which goes farther on to Lillehammer, where its passengers take the train for Trondjhem. Now really my overland journey has begun. I find on the shore a " Diligence" with a white canvas cover, in waiting, drawn by two horses, with a pleasant driver, and a spry little boy,one of those wonderful Norwe- �46 THK FRIEND, JUNE. gianboys, who are the bravest, brightest, boys in all the world, worth their weight in gold. As it was late in the season, there was only one passenger beside myself. Through the afternoon, through the twilight, and even after the stars came, we dashed onward and upward. My traveling companion proved to be a cultured young lawyer, graduate of the Christians University, a fine specimen of fresh young Norwegian manhood, while the fleet, sure footed little ponies trotted onwards, and the pines grew taller and thicker about us, we talked of the Norway of the past and present, and of the Norway of the future. We had come this evening as far as Odnaes, one of the first stations on the route. I had caught through the night the gleam of water far down in the shadows of the valley, and hoped in the morning for some glorious view. The " Inn" was warm, bright and comfortable, and I fell asleep, deliciously to the lullaby of the wind in the pines. Night spread its tent among the firs as we arrived, so that, as I said, I saw nothing but the silver gleam of water faraway like a star in the darkness. But |he faith which this distant quivering light awakened as to the hidden beauties of the region, has this morning been crowned with the fullest realization. It would seem almost as if one might thus awake to the enjoyment of a fuller, richer life after the lifting of the night shadow, which we call death. We see or think, we see broken lights in the gloom, we enter within the shadow, and before we are aware the mystery of a new and more glorious life is revealed to us. I found myself in a most beautiful region of mountain, forest and water, which the night and dusk had veiled from me on first arriving. Far below us, in the valley, the pale light of the previous evening had expanded into a lake of wonderful beauty, while before us rose mountains above mountains whose wooded sides we were to ascend with the sun which was now peering above the pines. I felt as if the gates of the Northland had been opened very wide to give me welcome, and in the stillness of the early dawn, touched by the grandeur and tender loveliness of the scene, so unexpectedly spread out before me 1 thought it were fitting for one to enter with bowed head and reverent heart within this splendid portal. Travel on the route which I have chosen, (the overland route from Christian ia to Bergen over the " Fille Fjeld,") is delightful and comparatively easy. All along the way lie comfortable stations or way-side-inns, where travelers are well and generously cared for. I was, as it seemed, almost the last one of the season. Hence I traveled with the greatest comfort, no crowding in the Diligence, mine host, always waiting to give me welcome, with a smile as broad and greeting as hearty, as he would have had for twenty in mid-summer. On this particular morning, I decided to remain true to my choice of the previous day, and continue in the Diligence which was now ready. This vehicle is most comfortable, goes swiftly, and surely and is, 1 think, the best way of traveling in Norway and I have tried, I believe, almost every thing, except riding behind rein- 1879. The brisk little ponies, were trotting fleetly on through the valley, in the cool fresh early autumn morning. On the box sat a bright eyed little Norwegian boy, and I as sole possessor within the stage. For all the early hours of the morning, I watched the struggle of the sun and the heavy masses of grey cloud for mastery, and was at last reluctantly compelled to see the victory of the latter over the brightness of the day. Still there seemed a singular harmony between the sombre over arching sky and the strangely solemn forests and the lofty mountains. Our way was ever upward, winding through lofty forests of pine, over foaming roaring mountain streams, the view growing with every advancing mile more and more impressive. I was especially delighted with the splendid valleys which parted the moun- deer. soon tains. As the Diligence halted now and then far up on the mountains, 1 had rare opportunities of studying this especially beautiful feature of Norwegian scenery. Lofty mountains, mantled with evergreen forests hemmed in and encircled the fertile low-lying lands, through which a silver stream wound its glittering way. In the enrly part of the route, we passed sometimes little picturesque farm houses, but as we advanced higher among the mountains, even these disappeared, now and then some traveler or peasant on foot or in the little " carnole,"that peculiar feature of Norwegian travel passed us, and nlways with a pleasant word of greeting. Often the air was rendered musical by the tinkle of the bells of the cattle, which were being driven down from the uplands into the valley, before the winter snows began. Far upamong the stunted pines we found a great roomy hotel, where invalids or others in search of pure clear air can have it in abundance. At noon our Dilijjence drove up to the very comfortable station of Frydenlund, where the bountiful dinner of mountain trout was not unwelcome to an appetite sharpened by the keen air of the mountains. After the wild and lonely grandeur of the mountain range we had passed, there was something especially restful and agreeable in the quiet and peace of the little village lying so contentedly in the warmth of the September sunshine. A little white spired church formed the centre about which the houses and gardens of the parish grouped themselves. Two or three waterfalls gleamed against the dark back ground of the opposite mountains. To north and south opened grandly a wide and spacious valley. Through the long afternoon our road lay through this valley, passing one beautiful lake after another, the scenery growing more and more picturesque until as we again beto ascend higher among the mountains, felt as if my anticipations were more than realized. As tqe night began to gather, great drops ofrain began to fall, the canvascover of the stage was ample protection against the storm as we dashed onward through the darkness. Very pleasant however was the cheery gleam of light which came with the opening of the door at the comfortable station at Tune, and the even more cheery greeting of the dear gray-haired old host, who brought me in to the warmth. rin of his home, rather more as a returning son than as a stranger. A SABBATH ON THE SHORES OF LAKE LILLE MJOSEN. Sweet Day, ao cool, ao calm, so bright " Tbe bridal of the earth and sky." Peculiarly appropriate seem these lines of rare old George Herbert to the peace and hush of this lovely Sabbath morning among the mountains. After the storm of last night the day has dawned, purified, sanctified, transfigured. The air is crystal clear, and the heavens are spread above us like a glorious canopy, supported by the " everlasting hills." My host brought me early this morning out on to a little spot of rising ground, near the house/commanding a rare view, I could scarcely suppress a cry of delight and surprise, so glorious was the scene. We were thousands of feet above the sea, and thousands of feet above us towered other heights. Every sign of the grand forests of yesterday had disappeared, only low lying shrubs and grassy slopes showed that we were still in a world of verdant-life. Before us lay the glorious bosom of Lille Mjosen, the loveliest lake in Norway. From the water's edge rose superb, snow-capped mountians of granite, to the infinite vault of the bending sky—Oh, it was the sight of a life-time, one of those culminating points in a traveler's experience, when it would seem as if, having passed through the trial, and difficulties of the wilderness-way, he was given fjltmpsW of the promised land. If there is such a thing as worship in nature, it would seem this morning as if the very hills and heavens bowed in praj%r. The hush and repose encircled-enfolded-you-like a garment. Involuntarily the words of Goethe's exquisite little poem come to me as if breathed through the air. alien Gipfeln " Ueber Ist Hub, In alien Wipfeln Spureet dv Kaiim einen Ilauch; l)ie -tugeleiu scliweigen in Waldo; Wane our, balde Ruhest da auob." Long winters, tryingand severe, and swiftly passing summers are the lot of the dwellers in this elevated region. The crops are scanty, and the people far from rich. To the south and in the valleys lie the more productive lands. Here just below us on the shore a little villiage with its church and parsonage. But to-day the clergyman is absent in another parish on the shore of the lake, so that there is no service here. From the other side of the lake come clear as bells on the evening air, the calls of the peasants resembling the jo-del in the valleys of the Tyrol. Before closing my letter I wish to allude to a most tragic event in Norwegian History, in connection with the fate of the brave Scottish Colonel George Sinclair. I regretted extremely that my chosen route of travel over the Fille Fjeld to Bergen, prevented me from visiting the monument erected to his memory, which lies on the route from Christiana to Throndhjem. It would have been to me a source of satisfaction thus to have linked the beautiful home--of the Sinclairs, among the wooded highlands of Kauai in the far �Pacific with this monument by the wayside in the heart of Norway. Very pleasant was it for me, however, to feel that so near me lay a reminder of the family who still live to honor the name so honored in .history. Often as I listened to the solemn music of the Norwegian pines, my thoughts reverted the days, so full of rest and inspiration, which I spent far up among the ferns and forests of the loveliest of our Islands, where after their ocean journey, these modern Argonauts of the Pacific, have made their home and found, I trust, the "Golden Fleece " they sought. In Christiania, I saw to several historical paintings, illustrative of the valiant struggle and fate of Colonel Sinclair; so that those stirring events were often and vividly in my thoughts. 1 give a brief account of the same as found in Laing's Norway, which may prove interesting to some. is a square, un" Theslabmonument hewn, stone with the following inscription marking the spot where Coi. Sinclair was buried. Her blev Skotterncs Anferer Georg Sinclair begraven efterat han var faldeii ved Kringelen den 26 August 1612. Translation—Here was buried George Sinclair, the leader of the Scotch, after having fallen at Kringelen on the 26th August, 1612. During the war between Christian IV of Denmark and Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, a body of Scotch troops had been raised for the service ofSweden. The Danes were at that time in possession of Gottenburg; and from Calmar in the Baltic to the North Cape, the whole coast was occupied by the subjects of Christian IV. The Scotch, therefore, decided on the bold plan of landing in Norway, and fighting their way across to Sweden. A portion .landed at Throndhjem, and the rest, 900 strong, commanded by Col. George Sinclair, landed in Komsdalen, Irom whence they marched toward this valley, ravaging the country on their way. At Kringelen an ambush was prepared by about 300 peasants; huge quantities of rock, stones, and trees were collected on the mountain, and so placed that all could at once be launched upon the road beneath. Every thing was done to lull the Scotch into security, and with perfect success. When they arrived beneath the awful avalanche prepar- ed for them, all was sent adrift from above, and the majority of the Scotch were crushed to death, or swept into the river and drowned; the peasants then rushed down upon the wounded and stragglers, and despatched them. Of the whole force only two of the Scotch are said to have survived. Sinclair's lady is said to have accompanied him, and it is added that a youth, who meant to join the peasants in the attack was prevented by a young lady, to whom he was to be married next day. She, on hearing that one of her own sex was with the Scotch, sent her lover to her protection; Mrs. Sinclair, mistaking his object, shot him dead, and then herself shared the sad fate of her compan- ions." Frank W. Damon. Berlin, April 9th, 1879. P. S.—Since writing you last week, we have all been pained and surprised by the sudden death of Prince Waldemar, the youngest son of the Crown Prince. The first announcement which the city had in reference to it was the sight of all the Imperial flags at half-mast. The Prince was ill only two or three days, and nothing serious was apprehended until within a few hours of his death. He was a bright, pleasant, intelligent boy, and his loss is a terrible blow to his parents and grand-parents, and the greatest sympathy is felt in all ranks. The Diplomatic Corps, as is customary, went immediately to the Crown Prince's Palace and registered their names. Among others in the reception room, towering above every one else, I noticed Prince Bismarck. The Court is in mourning for two weeks. It seems as if the Royal Family were fated to pass through all extremes of- sorrow and gaiety. The parents of Prince Waldemar had just returned from the grand wedding iji England to assist at the festivities of the Emperor's birth-day, and in a day or two after they were in mourning for their son. The funeral services were very private. Strictly so here in the city; and in the FriedensKirche in Potsdam, only the highest officers, besides the Family, were present. The funeral procession as it passed down the Linden, was very impressive. It was between eight and nine o'clock in the evening. First came a detachment of mounted cuirassiers, then mourning coaches, then the coffin of the little Prince, on a low carriage, covered with white satin, with a cross in gold, and surrounded by men bearing great torches, which produced a strange effect. Then followed other coaches, in one of which were the Crown Prince and Princess, and Prince William, their oldest son. Then soldiers and out-riders. The coachmen, etc., had long crape scarfs, falling from their hats, after the English custom. There was no band. Trie utmost silence prevailed. And as the little procession passed down the Linden, I thought it one of the saddest, most impressive sights I had ever witnessed. The Crown Prince's family are all now in Wisbaden, wishing to be away, I presume, from the capital for a time. We are just now having the Easter Holidays. This is Easter Monday, and all the shops are closed, and all the people are having a holiday season. Easter and Christmas are great times here for merry-making, family re-unions, etc. Good Friday and Easter Sunday are observed very strictly. Every one goes to church, even those who never see the inside of a church the rest of the year. The throng at the Cathedral yesterday was something tremendous. It was impossible for me to reach the Diplomatic stairways were so " Loge," the aisles andwere forced to stand blocked that our party hemmed in the crowd, and listen thus to the lovely Easter music which the Cathedral choir render so beautifully. There are three holidays at Easter—Sunday, Easter Monday (when all the shops are closed) and to-morrow, when the mechanics, etc., have their day. This is a great time for German children. They have a custom here of hunting eggs. These are hidden in every imaginable place, and the children try to see how many they can find. The eggs are hard-boiled, and colored in all fanciful ways. Others are of chocolate, sugar, etc. Mrs E. gives a little party to-morrow for her children, and they are going to hide two hundred eggs. Very costly presents are given by ttie rich at this season. Eggs of all colors and sizes, in satin, porcelain, etc., 47 THE FRIEND, JUNE, 1879. filled with bonbons. Berlin is a great city for amusements, anil just now, at this holiday season, everything is crowded, from the classical concerts to the little theatres and shows, where clowns and jokers amuse the people. The papers here have much to say about the Silver Wedding of the Emperor and Empress of Austria, which takes place this week. There will be, among other entertainments, a grand triumphal procession, directed by Mahart, one of the most famous of modern painters. The Golden Wedding of the German Emperor and Empress takes place in Berlin the 11th of June. The old tradition is, that no one of the House of Hohenzollern has lived to see his Golden Wedding, but this time I think the legend will prove false. Report says, the Emperors of Russia and Austria will be here, and the King of Italy. I have been much interested in looking over the Island papers, certainly there seems to be a new vitality among the people. The papers are full of accounts of new undertakings, telephones, steamers, railways, etc. I like the progress and enterprise which seems to be awakening. That the Chinese are to be an important element in the future development of the islands, seems to me inevitable, hence the great desirability of getting the best men at the start. I grow more and more interested in the members of the Chinese Embassy here. We are on the best of terms. The Charge d'Affaires, who is at the same time superintendent or head of the committee for the education of the Chinese in Europe, Is at present in England studying the educational system there. These Chinese are, I think, quite a puzzle to the Europeans. Take, for example, Major Tcheng-ki-tong, the Military Attache, a gentleman of remarkable refinement of manner and highly cultivated, well read in French. German and English, perfectly at home in the best society, member of one of the fashionable clubs of the city, and with all this, a gentle, quiet, unobtrusive, delightful man. His library is most carefully selected. He has just finished a communication for a Paris publication in the most perfect French. All this, you see, is a little different from the former idea which was entertained of the Chinese. J spent the other morning at the Embassy. The Chinese here have a most delightful villa. I enclose a note from Sannomya, the Japanese Secretary ot Legation, to whom I entrusted a letter for Mangero. I have just met him, and he says, within a day or two, he has learned that Mangero is still living in the north of Japan, and is occupying a govposition. I have recently had a very pleasant visit from the Rev. Mr. Dodge, who retains such bright and. pleasant memories of his Honolulu visit. He is just from Italy, on his way to America. Have also met Captain and Mrs. Samson, who spent several months on the islands, visiting the volcano, Ulupalakua, etc., and are never weary of talking about the islands. Their intention is to remain a few weeks in Berlin and then make the Scandinavian tour, which afforded me so much delight. F. W. D. Hawaiian Legation, Berlin, April 17th, 1579. ernment �111 I FRIEND, 48 THE FRIEND. 1879. JUNE 2. Record. BY REV. E. CORWIN, D. D. nn to understand The reading of thy word; Let every counsel and command, With willing heart be heard; Thy law be precious In our sight; Thy truth our treasure and delight Cuiae Help us with reverence to read What the great Teacher saya; And with sweet confidence to plead His precious promises. Tbe faith that leans upon his Word, Shall learn the secret of theLord. Thy law Is our delight, Our counsellorand guide, Oh. that it* sacred statutes might In every heart abide. Help UK therecord to rpreive. And by ita perfect precept* live. Jackionvillf. 111. Annual Meetings and Examinations for June. June I—Sabbath Evening, the Rev. Dr. Hyde, preaches Annual Foreign Missionary Sermon, in Fort Street. June 3—Meetings open of H. E. Association at Kawaiahao church. —Annual meeting of Women's Board of Missions. June 4—Examination of Miss Bingham's Boarding School. Juno s—At 5 p. m , Missionary tea-party at parlors of Fort Street church. June 6—Examination North Pacific Theological School, 9 a. m. Fair at Miss Bingham's school-room, for the support of the school, at 5 o'clock p. m. June 7—Sabbath School celebration. Procession marches from Kaumakapili to Kawaiahao. June B—Home Missionary Sermon at Fort Street in the evening, by Key. S. C. Damon. In the morning, the Rev. E. T. Doane, preaches at the Bethel. At 2 p. M, organization of Chinese church at the Lyceum. At 3.30, communion of churches at Kau- JUNE. 1879. l--c" When one is sure of his ground nnd minor details connected with the arrangeconfident of going in the right direction then ment and workmanship which are a he may take for his motto "Go ahead," but neccessnry part of the grand whole, and when he is doubtful about his premises and which to be properly appreciated need to is not quite satisfied that he is doing right, have befen viewed personally, as no descriplet him " make haste slowly." Now it ap- tion could convey the peculiar beauty of fhis pears to us from what we can learn respect- most appropriate and elegant present. It ing the bringing of immigrants or laborers speaks well for the thoughtful head and from Micronesia, "the Board of Immigra- heart from which eminated so beautiful and tion " ought to be exceedingly cautious complimentary a token, and it is to be how they push forward this enterprise. The earnestly boped that H. R. H. Empress subject demands thorough investigation. Augusta will appreciate the true feeling of The interests of the planters are not alone our Island King as contained in the motto, to be consulted. The British ships of war " sincere and constanter."— P. C. Adverare hovering about those islands, and unless tiser, May 24. great caution is taken in bringing those peounderstand, have looked into. Letters, been received from our Hawaiian missionaries, not altogether favorable to those engaged in carrying forward this business. Sooner or later the whole subject will be up for discussion. We were glad to read the " leader" in the last week's Aelvertisvr respecting the coming of so many Chinese without their wives. The question arises what can be done to obviate the evil? Some months ago Mr. Aseu brought here a company of Chinese, accompanied by a larger proportion of females than any other company which ever arrived. It is noteworthy that these families were many of them Christians, who had been under the instruction of German missionaries. Could not the Hawaiian Government employ an agent in China who would dispatch hither Chinese laborers, accompanied by their wives ? we The Rev. A. Allerdyce, a Scottish clergyman, now visiting the Islands, has made the tour of Kauai. His family is in Honolulu. He has preached at the- Bethel and" Fort street, churches. In the number of the Christian' Union, for April 2nd, Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher has some remarks, relating to Church Fairs, which are most timely, appropriate and suggestive. In conclusion she remarks We have just passed seven weeks of steady work for a fair. It was carried on " : honestly. " Many new friends were made who never will be forgotten; many old friendships were made brighter and stronger by the daily intercourse of seven weeks and the crowning success of the end. " No doubt there have been many fairs as successful and as free from any approach to the right and wrong means for securing success, but we doubt if there have been many which will have as fragment memories, which have been so free from unfair sales, so free from any heart-burnings and ill-temper. We believe we shall be the better, in our church relations, closer in our friendships, more ready to work together in every good cause; yea, cordially and heartily looking forward to, or seeking for, something to bring us all together again, ready for every good word and work. " If there was no greater good, resulting from a fair than bringing the congregration of our church into close and active sympathy with each other, and also with sister churches who are ready to co-operate in the work, it would have richly paid for all the trouble. And let it once be fully understood that the work will be so directed, that no element unworthy of an honest nature and a Christian character will be tolerated, it will not be long before they will be known and patronized by all as being a healthful and beneficial institution." left respectively, is ornamented with the insignia of the Order of the Red Eagle, surrounded by the motto, " sincere et constanter," and surmounted with a golden crown ; and the second, on each side, with a crossed scepter and sword, also golden and also surmounted with a golden crown. There are five nuts on each side of the centre, and the ornamentations alternate with each other on either side, and all combine to make a very beautiful and artistic appearance. There are a great many more Sad Occurrence.—The ship Moro Castle arrived a few days since from New York. Last Saturday night one of the sailors came on board late in the evening much intoxicated. He provokes a quarrel with one of his shipmates and as a result, he inflicts a fatal stab with a knife upon John Frederick, a Finnish sailor, a quiet and sober man, who was immediately taken to the Queen's Hospital, where he died Monday afternoon, —the sad victim of a murderous assault by one infuriated by rum. The guilty man has been confined to await his trial. By the last steamer for San Francisco His Majesty King Kalakaua forwarded a beautiful necklace, as a token of esteem and regard, to be presented to H. K. H. Augusta, Empress of Germany, on the celebration of her " golden wedding," which event occurs on 11th of June, 1579. This token is a colof kukui nuts, twenty-one in number, lection makapili. which have been connected by golden bands, June 9—Adjournment of H. E. A. and thus made to form a necklace. The June 10—Sailing of Morning Star. June 12, 13 and 16—Examination of centre nut bears upon its face, in gold, the Oahu College. German Royal monogram." W. R." (WilMrs. Ada C. Bowles writes to the Woman's Journal that one needs to live but a little time in San Francisco to see that it is not Chinese labor which prevents general prosperity, but stock gambling, which makes a few very rich, and a multitude of poor men and women. Church Fairs. ple away, depend upon it, the matter will be liam Rex); the next nut, to �Just as a mother with sweet pious face Yearns toward her little ohiMren from ber seat, Gives one a kiss, another an embrace, Takes this upon her knee, that on ber feet; And while from actions, looks, complaints, pretences She leads their feeling and their various will, To this a look, to that a word dispenses. And whether stern or smiling, loves them still; 80 Providenoe for us high, infinite, Makes our necessities its watchful task, Hearkens to all our prayers, helps all oar wants, And c'en if it denies what seems our right, Keitber denies because 'twould have us ask. Or seems but to deny, or, in denying, grants. Felicoja's Sonnet on Providence. — Rev. John Sessions, D. D.—Again do we welcome this gentleman to the Islands, where he hopes to spend his remaining days, with his daughter, Mrs. S. E. Bishop. He has been a preacher for over a. half-century, and is well and favorably known in New Y ork and California. Rev. Mr. Tuthill, of Martinez, Cal., after his return was compelled to resign his Pastoral office, on account of sickness. Arrival of the Lehua.—Messrs. Wilder & Co.'s new steamer which has been expeoted from San Francisco, arrived at this port on the afternoon of the 26th mst. Her arrival was the occasion of the gathering of a large number of people, both natlTe and foreign, on ihe wharf, and she was no sooner made fast than her decks were thronged by an eager, curious crowd, who seemed greatly interested in listening to any details of the trip down. The Lehua ■was built by Messrs. Dickey Bros., of San Franoisoo, and is 120 feet in length, 24 feet beam, is 219 tons burden, and has cabin accommodations for twenty persons. Her captain and officers speak in high terms of ber qualities as a good sea boat, while ber engineers assert tbat 10 knots oan be made. Her appearance on her arrival reflected credit upon her offioers, and they no doubt felt proud at the favorable comments made on tbe cleanliness and neatness whicli was everywhere notioeable. Tbe Lehua made the trip (rem port to port in 11 days and 22 hours, bringing a small cargo and two passengers. Following is a list of her present officers: Captain Geo. C. Beckley; Chief Officer A. M. Panier; Chief Engineer W. Pierce. For a month to come the Lehua will run to ports to windward, after which time she will be placed on a regular route to Kauai.— P. Y. Advertiser, May 31. New York, May 13.—The Evening Post, referring editorially to tbe death of Mrs. J. W. Simonton. She was a woman of singular sweetness of ■ays : disposition, of uniform charity in heart and act. Her bold upon the afleotious of ihe many who had tbe privilege to know her was warm and strone. Mr. Simonton and his family will have the profound sympathy, in their affliction, of a wide oirole of lriends, and the irreparable nature of tbeir loss will be nlßst deeply appreciated by those who best knew tbe wife and mother wbo has been called away. " "THE FRIEND," 111-V JOURNAL. DBVOTBD TO Temperance, Seamen. Marine and -Oeneral Indulgence PUBLISHED AND EDITED BY AMOVr SA.MITEIL. C. DAMON. TERMS: One Copy per Annum Two Oaf, iss |s-r A initial l-onn-n ttul>*crlbcr., including poslau. $20" 3 00 J MI 1879. MARINE JOURNAL. 49 THE FRIEND, JUNE, PASSENGERS. From Hongkong, per Mlgnon, April 24—!0 Chinese. For fl.n Fr.nriscu, per Amerir.n (lirl. Apr 28—DLambert. For San Francisco, per A P Jurdan, April 38—0 R Brown. PORT OF HONOLULU, S. I. From Bremen, per Louise. April 30—C Warmbold sad wile, J Frei.i, C Speiloer wire sod child. ARRIVALS. From Whsmpoß, Chios, per bk Helene, May I—lBo Chinese April 29—Gerbark Louise, Meyer, 171 days from Bremen snd 8 females. May I—Ger baric Helene, Volquardseu, from Wbampoa, m.les Fob Ban Fbancisco—Per Eureks, May 3—J J Win.nl, China 6—Am topsail irhr W II Meyer, Brown, IT days from C Cyll, T Steinberg, J Hulllv.ii, J Oroper. Mvi Francisco Fob. Humboldt—Per Hesperian, May o—O A Dauphlng. 7 Am ship cprniKfield. Peart, from Jurvis Island For Guano Islands—Per Sprlngfleld, May 7—William 7—Am bk Camden, Robinson, 27 days fm Port Gamble Kyan. 7—Am schr Honansa, Miller, 16 dya from Bau Frau'co, From Pobt Gabble—Per Camden, May 7—l Hawaiian i-n route lv WaUnac. Oahu 10—Hawbgine Storm Bird, Jackson, 49 days fm Jaluig .ml J Chinamen. 12—P MBH City of New York, Cobb, from Bydn*-y From Ban Francibco—Per W H Meyer, May 6—H l.i Brit bk Lalla Rookh, Mender, 122 days fm Glasgow Hunt li, T Perkins, C H Broad, and S'2 Chinese. 16—Uaiateaschr Vivid, English, 9 days from Farmings For Portland, O—Per J A Falkinburg, May 9—Mrs 11 Islands W Lalue and child, 11 F Farrsr and wile, Mark King, M 18—Am bglne Josephine,ogilvle,3ldaysfrom Burrsrds Marßh.ll. MM From HoulliSea Island×Per Storm Bird, May 10—71 18—Am bktne Discovery, Fuller, 16 days from San Biltillxand -a children. FrancUco For Hongkong—Per Helen, May 12—16 Chinese. 18—Hawbk Kalakaua, Jenks, 15 dayi from San Fran 19—Britbk Lady Lampson, Mnrstou, 10 days from San From Sydney and Auckland—Per City of New York, Francisco May l:i—Misses It k X Cousins, I.oul« Yon Tempaky, X T 19—P MSB Australis, Cargill, from Ssn Franclaco llictli.nl wife snd child, A Bolster, John Falrburn, Win 21—Am ichr Bonanaa Miller, from VVaianae, Oahu Heine, and 1:17 in tranflltu fur Han Prsiicl.co. 22—Am Ship Gen Butler, Ryder, 70 days from New For Han Francisco—Per City of New York, May IS— Castle N S VV Mm C H Jadd, W P Toler wife and son, J H Coney and 26— Am achrLa Glronde, Genereaux 18 dys frtn Bureka daughter, .10. Moore, John A Buck, E W Jordan, 8 L 26—Haw stmr Lehua, Beckley, 11} Irom San Francisco AiiHtln wifeand Infant, l)r E 8 Eshleman, Mtb M.goon, 27—Am bk Morn Castle, Jewett, 120 days from N Yurk Lieut W H Grove, Mr. 8 G Wilder »nd .on, 8 L Lewis. 27—Brit bk Zepbyrua, Walker, 23 days from Mazstlan Mm Hulele., H A Wldemann, Miss M Widemaun, Mrs Hollaiuler:l child aud nurse, J Boardman, J A Murphy, F 1, Wcssen. L Cabot. W H Armitagc. Mra H J Aguew, DEPARTURES. Frank Green, E A N0.., J P Cooke, J 11 Dickson wife snd ;l children, H P Rlch.rds, Hon C R Bishop, Jas J Bhelds, April 26—Am schr American Girl, Backua, for San Francisco H .1 Hall. <! .1 Velcourt. Win Campbell, Jas Lewis, Adam 26—Am bk Cruaader, Means, fur Royal Roads Upp, J Parrier, H Korenaon, O Frledlsnder, Henry Plots, for San Francisco Jordan, Crack, 29—Am tern A P J Pereirr, JRobert., Antone George, Kamakaplopto .nd 3u—Am tera Hera, Monaco, for dan Francisco son, N.kaula aud sou, G H Peacock, W R Castle and wife, May 2—Am bk JasCheston. Swan ton, for Port Gamble Beiidel, C SprockleH aud sou, 11 Chiueee. H 2—Haw bk .Maine Macleay, Pope, for Portland. O From Glasgow—Per I.sll. Rookh, May lI—F M Al.ton, 3—Am bktne Bureka, Nordberg, for San Francisco II X Wild. 7—Am hgtne Hesperian, Winding, for numboldt From San Francisco—Per Discovery, May Ift—Mis. 7—Am ship Robt Dixon, Osgood, for Baker's Jaland 8—Am frhr Bonanza, Miller, for Waianae,o Flora Wood, Miss Maud Kelly. Dr 1H Holiday, M Fray., 9—Am bktn J A Falkinburg. Hubbart, for Portland, O Mr Green, Henry Smith, James Meredith, Tho. Me. Crater, Arz. E W.rreun, Frank Flyun, P C Justiceand 9—Am bktn Ella, Brown, for San Francisco 9—Am ship Springfield, Pearl,for Jarris Island. 29 Chinese laborers. Jenny for Port Gamble Pitts, Sterert, bk 12— Am From San Francisco—Per Ktlakaua, May 19—Wm 13—Qer bk Heleue, Valquardsen, lor Hongkong Unger, H Hlbb.ru. Mr. C H Dalay aud child, Mrs Need13—P M88City of New York, Cobb, for dan Francisco ham and 2 children. 3 Chinese. 15—Am tpMl schr VV II Meyer, Browne, for 4 Francisco From SanFranclaco—Per Lady I.snip.on, May 19—J E 16—Frenchhk Alpbonsioe Zelte, Lebeaupio, forS Fran Ward, Wm Dnuu, E Barkwllle. J Stephenson, W B Irvlu, 17—Am bk Camden, Robinson, for Port Gamble Alice Maun, C 8 McDuffe, Alex Mann, and 4H Chinese. 17—Gerbk Abler, Bolt, for Apia From San Franclaco—Per Australia, Mays 19—Albert 19—Ambktne Mlgnon, Soule, for Port Townsend Rock, Rev E P Do.ne, Mrß Gale, J Lake, Mrs Mcillniil*. 20— P M H H Australia, Cnrgill, for Sydney and Infant; W 8 Wall, Mrs C Hanaman, Mr. Smith. Dr .1 22—Raiateascbr Vivid, Enalish, for Farming's Island X Smith, Miss Hannah Hooper, B Haymansen, Mrs J 11 27— Am bk Forest Queen, Wallace, for San Franciaeo Black, P W William., 8 N Castle, X J McOlnnlß, A X Htenning, Mrs C Burns, Mrs Waterhouse and 2 Bona, Miss Rice, 8 B Rune wife and child, Mrs D W Horsburgh, 33 MEMORANDA. Europeans and Mi Chinese In steerage. Report or thk P M 8 8 Crrv or Nkw York, W B Cobb, For Sydney—Per Australia, May 20—John Hodgson, A Commaniier —Left Sydney April 24th at 4.60 p ni, with 75 Hsrrison, Jubu Smart, Fred Harrison, John Rosser, 1' Joneß, W Cuthbert. cabinand 40 steerage passengers, 85 ton. cargo and 162 For Farming's Island—Per Vivid, May 21—A Houlder, bagH mail. Continuous head wind from time of leaving Mrs Gale. For San FranclßCo -Per Forest Queen, May 2d—A II to arrival at Auckland, April 29th at 12 m. Landed 17 Capt Buchanan, Chaa Naury, L Joseph and cabin and 10 .teerage passengers, 7 tons cargo and 7 bags Steuulng, wire, H P Folaom, Thos M'Cune, C R Peterson. From Ran Francißco—Per Lehua, May 27—Aug Ahem, mall; received 45 cabin and 9 steerage passengers, 28 tonß cargoand 137 bags mail, and left the name day at 5.40 p m. H W Tool. Experienced heavy gale from BE to W, with high sea. (in tbe 30th and May Ist lay hove-to 11 *... hours, head to MARRIED. wind. Crossed I*o° W long May Ist. On the 2d, «t6.11) Hchaifkr—Robkrthon—ln this city, April 20,1879, at Bt. p in, Btopped the .hip to communicate with steamer City of Sydney, lat 22° 52' 8, long 174° 39' W, all well. On Andrews Cathedra I, by Rer. Alex. Mackintosh, f A Schaefer, the 4th sighted Tultullaof tbe Navigator group, 6 milex Esq., Consul for Italy, to Mm Klizibetm, eldest daughter of city. No card>. "W ; since then have experienced strong NE trades. Ar- tbe late Judge Geo. M. Robertion, ol thin Hakhih—TirvsMiY—ln this city, May Ist, at the residence rived at Honolulu on the l.ith at 2.40 a m, with 3 cabin and 6 steerage passengers, 65 tuns cargoand 5 bags mall of Col. W. r. Allen, by Hla Lordahlp the bishop of Honolulu, for thlh port. Stopped offreef waiUng for pilot May 12th aasinted by the Rev. Mr. Mackintosh, the Honorable Crarlin at 11.45 p in, and pilot boarded the steamerat 2.15 a m on OorriN Ilaaaia, ChiefJusticeand Chancellor of the Kingdom, to Km.l* Fbbsenden Tiffany,daughter of Hfa Excelthe 13th. S A Bkard.lky, Purser. lency Ellaha H. Allen, ex-Chief Justice and Chancellor, and Report of Hawbk Kalakaua, Jenkß, Master.—Left San Hawaiian Minister Resident In the United States. Wallace—Cuwhins—ln thia city. May 10th, at the re**. Francisco May 3d at 1 p m. Had moderate Wand NW of Tims. Cuuinilna, Eaq., by Key. H. H. Parker, winds until we took the trade., in lat 29= long 130° ideuce Andrew L. Wallace, formerly of New York, U. 8. A., to In lat 26" 50', long 140" 26' aaw a very large school of Jennie, second dauKhttr of Hon. J. A. Cummins, of Hosperm whales, going slowly to the NNW. Arrived May nolulu aud Walmaualo. 18th, making the passage In 15 days. Hmwk Way- In thinrity, May 31, at the residence of father, by tbe Key. H. C. Damon, Geomot Report of Am bktne Discovery, Fuller, Master.—Left the bride's Everett Howe, Eay., to Mlas Barah Harriet Wat. Ban Francisco May 2nd at 7.10 a in. The first two days out very strong NW wind, had to run the ship to the 8 to DIED. save the mules from being washed overboard, as ahe waa O'Hallobah—ln thla city, May Bth, Edward Kicb.il very heavily loaded, drawing 17ft aft and 16ft9in forOHalloran, aged is years and 8M months, ward. After this It moderated and had very light airs Thwnsbnii Ireland. the next three day.; then we got the trades lightand kept a native of Galway, city, May this 9th, of typhoid fever, Adoubt Bom—In on Increasing, but afterwards decreaaed again to very light trades, which lasted to port. At li p in, May 17th, Bokbb, a native of Thedlnghausen, Germany, aged 32 and 'it dsys. 2 months aaw E point of Maui, bearing BSW, distance 26 miles; at years, voir Schmidt.—ln Walluku, Maul, May 13th, Alexis I, 2am paaaed E point of Molokal. yon Schmidt, aged about 32 years. The parents of the Franclaco. Report of the R M S 8 Australia, Carglll, Commander. deceased reside In Bancity. May 19th, James Thompson, «f Thompson—ln thla —Dischargedpilot off Golden Gate at 1.60p m of the 12th dropsy, aged 68 years. The deceased was a native of hazy and had resided on these Islands about 30 weather; 1., (San Francisco time); fresh breese at Hudson, N and 3.30 Farallone Island bore NW. Light unsteady winds years. heavy showers Haiiiasua. prevailed up to the 17th. Experienced on Hicknk.i.i—ln Hawaii. M.y 10th. Chablt.b thatdate, and a continuance of unsteady windsand cloudy W, son of the Key James and Ellen M Btckuell, aged 21 weatherup to 19th. Was boarded by pilot off Honolulu month, and 14 days. at 9.40 p in oi 19thInst, and came alongside wharf at 10.30 Wblcr—At Kawaihae, May 23d. 1879, of hemorng* ot j p iv same date. the lungs, fc. llc •»' - , . . �THE FRIEND, 50 The Worlds-The New and the Old. Peace, In ber palace over the Atlantic, From the New World dealaher awards around, While war's leashed hounds, a-straln, for bloodshed frantic, In our Old World can scarce be held in bound. Lo! here, each nation armed against its neighbor Cross in the face of Crescent reared for fight; There to theblessed battle-fields of labor United States that all the world Invite. For a fardifferent shock from the lmplngings Of broadsides t wixt a " Cheapcake" and"(Shannon," The strife of Corliss and bis mounter engines. With Cyclops Krupp and Essen's monster cannon. Happy Young Titan, thatbetween two oceans, Thy guardian Atlantic and Pacific, — Groweat apart from our Old World's commotions, With room to spread, and space forpowers prolific. Wisely exchanging rifles, swords, and rammers, For spades and plowshares, axes, saws and treadles, Thou putt'st thy strength In engines and steam hamincr-s. And thy gun-metal inouldest Into medals. Earth has no clime, no sky, but thou commsndest. No growth, but thy wide-spreading soil can bear; No ore, but therich ground on which thou standest, Homewhere or otber, bids thee stoop and share. No height thouhast but all thy sons may reach; No good but all are free to reap its profit; No truth, but all thy race may learn and teach, No lie, but whose lifts Its mask may Bcofflt. Oh happy in thy stars, still rising higher, Happy c'en in tby stripes ao lightly borne. How farmay thy meridian growth aspire. That shuweat so majestic in thy morn? To what height may not heaven's high favor lead thee, In cycle of theages yet to be, When these firsthundred years of life hath made thee, For arts and strength the giant that we see t Lamt inn launch. — Opium Smuggling in Japan and Hawaii. We copy the following from the May Missionary Herald: is not altogether strange that the Jap" It government anese is slow to give foreigners the right of residence when, according to present treaties, the premises occupied by foreigners are exempt from the operation of Japanese law. An illustration of the workings of this provision is seen in a recent case of an Englishman who was tried before the English consul for smuggling opium, and acquitted, though clearly guilty. His Japanese accomplice was tried by Japanese officials, and sentenced to imprisonment for ten years. The consul subsequently repeated the offense under aggravating circumSuch outrages would naturally stances. irritate the Japanese, and lead to acts of retaliation. It is reported that the British government has repudiated the act of its consul, and for the credit of the nation it is to be hoped that the report is true." Thus it appears that Japan as well as Hawaii makes opium smuggling a crime, punishable with imprisonment. We think the British government in the matter of forcing opium upon China might as well, for its credit before a civilized and Christian world, change its policy. The time may come when China will rise up in its might, and cast aside the unjust and iniquitous im- position. The American Consul in Siam has succeeded in inducing the King to establish a general system of education, with an American ex-missionary, Dr. McFarland, as Superintendent, with a salary of $5,000. JUNE, 187 9. Chinese opposed to Long Sermons.— Education in Japan.—We copy the following It is our custom occasionally to attend the relating to Prof. Murray, from one of Chinese service Sabbath evening in the our exchanges. It was our privilege some Bethel vestry. At a late service a recently- ten years ago to meet this gentleman while arrived exhorter from California was address- connected with Rutgers College. In his ing the audience, whose sermon was rather parlor we met several Japanese students longer than that of the regular preacher, Mr. connected with the college; hence we have Sit Moon. On the occasion now referred followed Prof. Murray's career with peculiar to, one of the audience in a quiet and re- interest, and we heartily congratulate him spectful manner, instead of leaving the lec- on the success which has crowned his efforts ture room, quietly takes out his watch, walks in behalf of education in Japan. to the desk and calls the speaker's attention " We understand that Dr. David Murray, to the time ! He then returns to his seat, formerly a Professor in Rutgers College, and and the speaker soon brings his remarks to for several yeais past the Superintendent of a close. This was certainly a far more re- Education in Japan, left Yokohama for this spectful way of reminding the speaker that country, by way of India and Europe, on lie was trespassing upon the hearer's pa- the 23d of last month. The high appreciatience, than that sometimes adopted by more tion with which Professor Murray's eminent Christianized audiences! services are regarded by the Japanese, is atby the many valuable gifts he received Rev. James A. Daly.—This gentleman tested just before his departure. We learn that he will be remembered by many in Honolulu. was presented with a gift of one thousand A new church has been built for him as pas- dollars in money, many elegant works of art tor in Wellington, Ohio. From a copy of in bronze, porcelain, and lacquer; and that the Wellington Fnterjirise for April 10th, a series of farewell dinners, was given in his honor. The Emperor expressed his hioh we learn that this church-edifice cost fully esteem for Dr. Murray conferring upon completed and all debts paid $28,000. It is him the decoration of thebyRising Sun of the of as spoken uncommonly handsome and Third degree—an honor seldom bestowed complete in all its arrangements, even to upon foreigners. From all the reports which have reached this country it is eviaiding the deaf to hear. dent that Dr. Murray's departure is sincere"A novel feature of this pulpit is its apparegretted both by the foreign and native ratus for enabling the deaf to hear. In the ly pulpit is a hopper for catching all sounds. residents of Japan." These are conveyed through tubes under the We are glad to learn from the Advance floor to each seat occupied by persons hard of April 3d, that one of "our island of hearing, and conveyed to the ear by rubber pipes. This arrangement works well." boys," Dr. Lyman of Chicago, is lecturing The only additional suggestion we can the ministers: "At the Monday morning Minister's think of will be to fit up a church with teleMeeting, H. M. Lyman, M. [)., by special phone wires and connect the pulpit with the invitation, addressed the ministers on the various households of the parish. relations of science to the interpretation of The Rev. T. K. Beecher of Elmira, N. the Bible, especially its account of the creation. The discussion which followed, V., preached the dedicatory sermon. and in which all participated, showed how Since writing the above, we have met deeply their interest had been stirred.. It with the following: was generally insisted that science, true " The first church in Chicago to introduce science, is something broader than the mathe telephone and microphone to send the terialist scientific advocates are willing to songs and sermons home to the invalids is admit; and that the church's doctrines of Trinity Methodist Church, Rev. W. F. the supernatural—the creation, inspiration, Crafts, pastor." revelation, prophecy, miracle, the incarnation, prayer, regeneration and the The London Post's Berlin correspondent forgiveness of sin—are, in the highestdivine and says : The Chinese Government have most legitimate sense, scientific. The " purchased machinery and engaged experi- thanks of the meeting were heartily voted to enced engineers and spinners in Germany to the scholarly Doctor for his remarks and his establish cotton mills in China so as to free answers to the running fire of questions that country from dependence upon English which he was subjected. It is good for to the and Russian imports." minister to learn " how it sounds at the The Japanese naval officers in England other end of the trumpet," and what the have reported so favorably of the Royal pews think about it." Naval College at Greenwich that their Dr Talmage says of the memorizing of government has determined to establish an imperial naval college at Tokio upon its Scripture by Sabbath-school children : They should learn the first chapter of model. "Genesis that they may know how the world Kai Kah Wong and Shon Kie Tsai, two was made ; the third chapter, that they may of the Chinese students sent to this country know how it fell ; the first chapter of John, to be educated at the expense of their gov- that they may know how it is to be rehave been graduated from the deemed and the twenty-first chapter of lartford high school with honors.—Ameri- Revelation, that they may know how it is can paper. to be reconstructed." • frnment, ; �ADVERTISEMENTS. Places of Worship. Seamen's Bethel—Rev. S. C. Damon, Chaplain, King street, near the Sailors' Home. Preaching at 11 A. m. Seats free. Sabbath School before the rooming service. Prayer meeting on Wednesday evenings at 11, o'clock. Fort Street Chcrch—Rev. W. Frear. Pastor, corner of Fort and Beretania streets. Preaching on Sundays at 11 a. m. and 74 p.m. Sabbath School at 10 A. m. r O. YY IRWIN i. 51 THE FRIEND, JUNE, 1879. HOME! SAILORS' 4s^sb3^^sbsbbbbbbbbbbs^bV CO.. Commission Merchants, Plantation and Insurance Agents, Honolulu, H. 1. HANCHRTTE. JL. Tuner At • I'lisno-Kortf* many year, connectedwith Repairer, (For Chlchering Ac Son..) Order, led at the Sailors' Home or Whitney at Kobertson's Bookstore. ID* -jJHUßg'fr^irT-MsniM Kawaiahao Church—Rev. IT. H. Parker, Pastor, A W . PEIRCE St CO.. King street, above tbe Palace. Services in Ha(Succesors to O. L. Richards A Co.) waiian every Sunday at 11 a. M. Sabbath school •*-*• at 10 a. m. Evening services at 7J o'clock, alter- Ship Chandlers and General Commission MerDistrict meetings in nating with Kaumakapili. cliants, various chapels at 3.'10 r. M. Prayer meeting Honolulu, Oahu, HawaiianIslands. every Wednesday at 11, v. m. Roman Catholic Church—Under the charge of Rt. Rev. Bishop Maigret, assisted by Rev. Father Agents Puloa Salt Works, Brand's Bomb Lances, Hermann ; Fort street, near Beretania. Services Aad Perry Uhtl.' Pain Killer. every Sunday at 10 a. m. and 2 P. \i. W EWERS <Y DICKSON. Kiuikii'iu Church—Rev. M. Kuaea. Pastor, Beretania street, near Nuuanu. Services in HaDealers in Lumber and Building Materials, waiian every Sunday at in*} a. m. Sabbath school Fort Street, Honolulu, 11. I. at 9-J a. m. Evening services at 74 o'clock, alternating with Kawaiahao. Prayer meeting every HOFFMANN, M * Wednesday at . Wf 74 >'. \i. U* P. Merchant Tailoring a <1 11 V ESTABLISHMENT, Corner Fort and Hotel Streets. CALL THE ATTENTION of the Citlxena ofO.huand the other Island, I •OPF.NKD a large to the fact that I have First-Class Establishment. Where Gentlemenran find a S. McGREW. M. ~ Late Surgeon U. S. Army, THOS. C. THRUM, STATIONERY AND NEWS DEPOT. No. 19 Mercha.it Street, -- adapted Papers rates Having had an extensive experience in connection with tke largest importinghomes In New York and Phila1can assure mycustomers that they will not only sonit* of delphia, ■secure the Very Best Materials but willalso obtain at my place The BEST FITTINC GARMENTS that can be turned out ol any establishment in the Eastern cities. number.—put Magssincs, parties going to al ly NOTICE TO SHIP MASTERS. DILLINGHAM & CO., No. 37 Fort Street, KEEP A FINE ASSORTMENT OF English Hunting Pantaloons! Goods Suitable for Trade. AND VISITING THIS PORT can from exSHIPthatMASTERS the last Six the beat of the LADIES' RIDING HABITS Year, testify undersigned keep during perience MADE A BPKCIALITY. Children* Suits, in Eastern Styles. W. TREQLOAN, Honolulu. m personal Assortment GOODS FOR TRADE And Sell Cheaper than any other House in the New Knglanil Mutual Lll* Insurance Company, THE The I'nion Marine Insurance Company, San I'srkfts, Fr.ucisco, The Kohala Sugar Compßny, The Haiku Sugar Company, The Ilamaku. Sugar Company. The Wsiaiua guitar Plantalion, The Wheeler ft Wilson Sewinpr Machine Company, Dr. Jayne St Son. Celebrated Family Medicine.. tf J. W. BOBBBTBOM B. WIHTM.Y WHITNEY & 11.ROBERTSON, M. Whitney), Importers and Dealers in Foreign Books, PERIOO'ICALS. OF THE HAWAIIAN BOOK, PUBLISHERS Jarves' History of th. Hawaiian lainmis, UUIDB Hawaiian Phrase Book, Hawaiian Grammar, Andrew.' Hawaiian Qrammar, Hawaiian Dictionary, Chart of the Hawaiian I.land.. ALSO, OB BIBD, OTHER BOOKS ON THE ISLANDS. A. L. SMITH, IMPORTER & DEALER IN JEWELRY, King. CombinationBpectaoles, Olaas and Hated Ware, Sewing Machines, Picture Frames, Vsaes,Brackets, etc. etc. TERMS STRICTLY CASH [ly] No. 13, Fort St. SPECIAL. NOTICE. To the Planters and Foreign Residents Kingdom. THE HAWAIIAN HOTEL, r.«*« AGENTS OF REGULAR PORTLAND LINE OF STATIONERY A. m Honolulu. DEALERS IN GENERAL MERCHANDISE! (Successors tv Can tie consulted at his residence on Hotel street, between Alake, and Fort streets. Stock and of Goods, Well-selected OF READING MATTER-OF up to order Chosen with great as PACKAGES .nd back reduced for sea. to style, care, to this climate. IMPORTERS AMI H. I» _ CASTLE & COOKE, ADAMS. Fire-Proof Store, in Robinson's Building, Queen Street. r ED. DUNSCOMBE. Honlulu, January l, 1875. Manager. Auction and Commission Merchant, NBW - D., Physician and Surgeoti, The Anglican Church—Bishop, the Rt. Rev. Alfred Willis, D. D.; Clergy. Rev. Kob't Dunn, M. A., CornerMerchant .nd Kaahum.nu Streets, near the Post Office Rev. Alex. Mackintosh. St. Andrew's Temporary BREWER St CO.. Cathedral, Beretania street, opposite the Hotel. A 1 English services on Sundays at 64 and 11a. m., and Commission and Shipping Merchants, 24 and 74 p. M. Sunday School at tbe Clergy House at 10 a. ii. Honolulu, Oahu. 11. I. TREGLOAN'S -*- Chinese Church Building Fund. DILLINGHAM <fc CO. VOLCNTARV SUBSCRIPTIONS ARE 80- BISHOP & 00., BANKERS, -I.ICITKD in aid ol Christian Chinese In purchase land Honolulu to worship Almighty Ood In HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. and build a Church inThe call for a Church comes from mem their own language. DRAW BXCHANOI ON Belres. Pledges are Invited, to be paid on or before the 10th ofJanuTBE BANK OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO, ary, 1880, which will be received by Mr. Joseph B. Atherton, tbe Treasurer, Mr. Gookim. or Mr. Assu. AMD THBIB AQBUTS IB Fund, can also be remitted to Bishop k Co.,Bankers, lor New fork, account of Chinese Church Building Fund. BBBBBjaaMs. JOHN THOMAB WATBRHOfSE. Paris, dJWom January l.t, 1879. Anrklaad. HONOLULU, — — THE ORIENTAL BANK CORPORATION, LONDON, ALLEN HERBERT, PROPRIETOR, IMPROVE- ALL THE MODERN HAS ments requisite for carry ioe, on a Arsl-claa- Hotel. — ABD THBIB lls-a-|k •■lt. BBABOnS IB Sydaer. and — Mrlkssrsr. Aud Traaiact a General Banking Business. »Pl» Bound V olunu's at Reduced Price ! VOLUMES .» FURNISH BOUND Prima at one dollar per annum WEof theforWILL number of year, from 1862 to the price $•!), any time. HJ- Adding the cost of binding. (subscription present �AsYCMochoiearutnnH'gf onolulu. 52 Pure, religion and undeflled before God, the Father, is this: To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep one's self unspottedfrom the world. Edited liy a Committee of tbe Y. M. C, A. Address by thePresident C. H. Cooke, Esq. In looking over the records of this Association we find in them points to which we will direct our attention this evening. In April 1869 a few of the young men of Honolulu came together and formed a Society to be called the Young Men Christian Association of Honolulu. Therefore this evening is the Tenth Aniversary of this Association. Ten years is a large portion of a person's life after reaching maturity. One cannot help questioning whether ten years of good faithfull work has been done in this past decade. The preamble of our Constitution says : " We young men of Honolulu, feeling the need of an organization for Christian work in our midst do hereby form ourselves into an Association, the aim and object of which shell be the religious, moral and social improvement of ourselves and others." Article fifth of the By Laws reads as fol. lows : The duties of the committees which the Association may appoint, shallrelate to one or more of the following objects, public preaching, meetings of prayer, teaching in the Sabbath School or other schools, tract distribution, visiting the sick, destitute, and afflicted, the offering of hospitality to strangers, lectures, public readings, general leaching, libraries, reading rooms, the providing means for desirable amusement and recreation for young men &c. The Association took a broad field to cultivate, and with energy, activity and perseverance, a great deal should have been accomplished in the past ten yesrs. It is often said that the climate of these islands, has an enervating influence, I 'will not undertake to say, how much ought to have been done, and what haR not been done, can be debited to the climate—but 1 will say, that, without doubt, we have lost some golden opportunities, that will not return, shall we not think of this and try to profit by our failures in the past? But do not understand me to ignore, or depreciate what has been done. For though the Association has not been wide awake, it has managed to live, and accomplished some valuable work. The Chinese Sabbath School under its patronage, has continued to meet and has had an influence for good, bringing together those of the Chinese who wish to improve, and they do not learn merely the English language ; but they sing hymns and repeat together the Lord's prayer and other lessons in their own tongue. Let me here say, that the thanks of this Association are due to many of our friends who have so kindly assisted as teachers. I understand that the superintendent wbo has been so faithful for so many years, has resigned. The society will 1 suppose take up this subject and dc- cide whether they will carry on this branch of their work. The Reading room has been well supplied with papers and Magazines. Our Library has very few books in it, and is hardly worthy of the name. This reading room has not been all that it ought to have been. Still it has doubtless done good so far as it has done, shall it be given up or be improved ? Perhaps one benefit that has come from this branch of one work, has been to make the wnnt of a library and reading room so apparent, that a new society has arisen with great success to meet this necessity. Public preaching—there has been nothing of the kind attempted, since the meetings in the Circus tent several years ago. Meetings for prayer, for a time were conducted in the Lyceum Sabbath afternoons, for the last three months, the Association has maintained a meeting on Sabbath evenings, the hour previous to the Fort Street Church services. Our work for the Chinese is a good work ; and can hardly be overestimated. When the attention of this Association was first directed to this element of our community, there was nothing being done for their religious advancement. We have directed and become responsible for the support of a Chinese colporture for the past five years, who has not only labored with those of his race here in Honolulu but visited them on the other Islands. This branch of our work has grown, so that now Chinese preachers are being located in other districts of the Islands. The Chinamen of Honolulu have also formed a Y. M. C. A. of their own, who' talk of building a church lor themselves in the near future. The importance of Christian work among the Chinese is every day increasing, as they are oonstantly arriving on our shores, and because of the influence they will exert on the native race. This work and field is now so great and important, is it not a question, as well as our duty to request some stronger body, such as the Hawiian Board to assume its direction. If some branches of our work have become independent of us, we still have a large field left. There is a greater call now, than ever before, for work among the strangers of our own nationalities. There are many young men coming here, some for a little while, others to locate among us. They need to find here friends who will lead them upward. Those who lead downward are always on hand, shall we be less active than they ? Let us take pains to get acquainted with these strangers, and enlist then on the right side for their own good, as well as for the good of this nation. Kindness is appreciated by all classes and by none so much as by strangers in a strange- land. I cannot report on tract distribution or visiting of the sick and afflicted. The fact is, that many of the members of this association are engaged in various kinds of Christian work, not reported or credited to the Y. M. C. A. If good work is done by any of our members, it matters not to the cause, who gets the credit of it. Would not more be accomplished and with better results if there were more system in our efforts ? I hope some of the points alluded to will be called up for discussion, that we shall all interest ourselves and stand ready to take a share in this work. There is one thing that I feel quite sure you will do this new year, that is, you will display more wisdom in your choice of President. To Committee of Y. M. C. A. editing Bth page of the Friend—Dear sir : In your last issue you publish a letter from Rev. J. W. Smith, in which some reference is made to the late action of the Board of the Hawaiian Evangelical Association on the general subject of Chinese Evnngelization in these Islands. As it may be helpful to this good cause that Christian Planters and other friends of our Lord Jesus interested in the spiritual welfare of the Chinese in onr midst should know just what action the Hawaiian Board has token, and what the Board is prepared to do to nid them in this work, will you do the Board the favor to publish in full the report of their standing Committee on Home Evangelization, which was adopted by the Board on the 17th of December, 187S. It is as follows : "In view of the increasing numbers of the Chinese, and of the close relations that they are sustaining to the Hawaiians, it is the opinion of the Committee that this Board in its Home work, should hold itself ready to encourage and aid, according to its best judgment, such efforts for their evangelization as may meet its approval. The Committee consider that the Board should recognize this as a part of its Home Missionary work; and that it should be prepared to act and assume responsibility in reference to this part of our population, the same as in reference to any other." It has not been the policy of this Board to commission evangelists to labor among the Hawaiian churchps at the entire expense of the Board; but it has long been in the way of aiding such feeble churches in the support of ministers working among them as are dispised to do what they can for themselves; and it is equally disposed and ready to aid such Christian people in these islands as may be desirous of doing what they can for the evangelization of the Chinese in their employ or locality through the labors of approved Chinese Evangelists. It will be to the point to know that such laborers in the vineyard can be supported for about $30 a month. Let Christian people on Maui or Kauai or elsewhere in this group where provision has not already been made, see what they can do toward raising that amount, tnen state to the Committee on Home Missions what they have done, and how much assistance they still need from the Hawaiian Board, and I doubt not a cordial response will be made to such application. Very truly yours, H. Bingham, Cor. Sec. Honolulu, May 7th, 1879. � 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 (1879) 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 - 1879.06.02 - Newspaper Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1879.06.02 https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/46720dc077c4f064a6e35f77b1f7293f.pdf 9c3b3cb23b1752db29b121da6ad705c2 PDF Text Text FRIEND THE 3Ktto Series, #0.7, M2M CONTENTS Far July I. 1879. Consul Morton and Kdltnrlals Kamblea In the Old WorM—No. 30 Editor's Tahle Our Island Girls Abroad Marine Journal. -. 'Abidewith Me," Poetry Endowment of Oahu College Fornander'a Book Again Y .11. C A THE FRIEND, JIM 1. 1 879. y Paos W 63—66 M 67 67 68 -.68 68 ao HONOLULU, JULY 1, 1879. -rr = Has not the time about come, for the Hawaiian Government to take decided action about the introduction of so many Chinese immigrants, unaccompanied by their wives ? Would it not be well to convene the leading and prominent Chinese merchants of Honolulu, and let the subject be fairly discussed ? Does not the magnitude of the subject demand the appointment of a Minister Plenipotentiary who shall visit China and confer with the authorities? If the Hawaiian Government supports a Minister at Washington, ought it not also, to support a Minister or Consul-General at Pekin ? Hawaiian affairs are as deeply involved in what passes in China, as what passes in America? The California watchword may be " The Chinese must go," but that of Hawaii is, " The Chinese must come," to work our cane and rice fields. Now let us treat them fairly, and do all in our power to introduce Chinese families, and diffuse among them Christianity. U. S. Consul.—We welcome with pleasure, the Hon. J. M. Morton, as U. S. Consul. He has been for several years Government Agent, superintending the Fur Seal fishery on the coast of Alaska, and hence is transferred from one department of Government service to another. His father, the late U. S. Senator, from Indiana, was well known throughout the country and during the war rendered his country distinguished service. Mr. Morton, comes accompanied with his family and we trust will find his sojourn most pleasant. Mr. Hastings, who A Step in the Right Direction.—The has so faithfully served, as Vice-Consul, barbers of Honolulu are to be highly comunder Dr. Scott, still retains his position, mended for the movement on their part to and we feel confident a better could not have close their shops on the Sabbath. The been secured. authorities also merit commendation for clearWe read with much gratification the ing our streets on the Sabbath of the " exrecently published instructions given by the press " nuisance. The public welfare does Minister of the Interior to the master of the not demand such an array of running exour streets upon schooner Nettie Merrill, or those engaged presses as has obstructed This upon the Sabstep the Sabbath. to these Islands from in bringing immigrants " in keeping" with the moveis bath question There is stringency necessary, Micronesia. and we sincerely hope they will be strictly ment in the United States, for a most strict observed. Unless great carefulness is ob- observance of Sabbath laws. served and due caution practiced, the whole A Card.—The Religious Tract Society of enterprise will prove an utter failure as has has made a grant of books and tracts London been the case in the transportation of Polylanguages to this Chaplaincy, valvarious in nesian laborers to Tahiti, Fiji and Queensued at £6. This grant Is especially acceptland. able, as our supply was running quite low. The Rev. W. Frear and family spend The package was kindly forwarded, freight this summer at Hilo. free, through the house of Messrs. Houlder The Rev. Dr. Hyde and wife are reported Bros., of Liverpool, and their agent in Honolulu, T. H. Davies, Esq , per GlenifTer. on Maui, at Lahainaluna and Makawao. 53 {©lUSerits,»flL3o. RAMBLES INTHE OLDWORLD-No. 30 A Few Weeks In SeandinaviaNo. 9. OVER THE FILLE FJELD ON FO9T ! As I had tried nearly every otber mode of travel, I was determined to do a little pedestrianism in Norway; and the ascent of the Fille Fjeld on foot was a great temptation, and one to which I yielded, and though it was a long climb I shall never regret it. I never thought of being lonely, the mountains and water-falls kept me company all the way. My attention was first attracted by a great stone which stood by the way-side, covered with quaint runic inscriptions and twisted carvings. It was placed near the entrance to a little church-yard,and the contrast between this sign of the olden time and the Christian church was very sinking. Occasionally I passed little settlements, a few houses grouped together, the roofs, sometimes quite covered with turfand moss. Skulls of bears and spreading deer antlers were now and then to be seen nailed to the walls. At one of the stations where I halted for a little time early in the day, I saw some of the furniture which the peasants take pleasure in painting and ornamenting during the long winter evenings. It is a favorite present from parents to children, and is cherished with care and reverence long after those who have fashioned it are gone. Some of the designs in fruit and flowers are quite artistic. The day was, to me, a most impressive one, being quite alone, I felt brought strangely near to the wonderful, natural world about me. For miles the road lay through splendid valleys formed by lofty mountains, whose sides were adorned with a succession of water-falls, sometimes so light and graceful that they seemed to cling for a moment like a silver veil caught on the cliff, and then borne away by the wind. The valleys were fairly alive with the music of the falls. 1 scarcely lost the murmur of one before that of another broke upon my ear, till my way seemed attended by the music of some mighty harp, from whose silver strings wailed and murmured an infinite melody. Ever higher and higher, sometimes the way formed a zigzag of ascent, and then swept through a spacious and open plain. Nearly all signs of vegetation disappeared. The snow lay in scattered patches on the bleak mountain sides. Far up on �54 THE FRIEND, JULY. the mountain summit 1 found a strange little settlement. During the summer the cattle arc driven up on to the highlands for pasturage, and the people who have charge of them live in little huts or hovels, called They are most miserable look"ingSaeters." affairs. Rough walls of stone supporting roofs of turf. Just out ofcuriosity, I turned 1879. entirely of wood, and ornamented with the most grotesque and unearthly carvings which run up its sides and on to the steep roof, meeting in sharp saw-like edges at the top. The entrance is finished in intricately carved arabesques and rounded pillars. Notwithstanding that it was a Christian temple, and cruciforfe, there was a wild heathenish something about the structure which impressed me strangely. I made me a couch in the summer grass before the door, and with the drifting clouds over my head, and the murmur of the river floating up to me, tried in the shadow of the sombre portal to make acquaintance with this weird little church. There are two old runes on the western portal which hands now long folded quietly away, wrote for us. I give them for the quaint language—'• porir raist runur pixsar pan olau mixso,"—and another, Pittai kirkia a kiekinvilli. All along the wild romantic way on which I journeyed during the day, my thoughts reverted to the little church in the valley, as if a spell of enchantment had been laid on them. But the royal dinner my hostess at Husum spread out before me was more than enough to dispel all the spectres of the morning. The rest of the journey to the Fjord was accomplished in a little carriole, a method of travel peculiar to Norway. These carrioles, or Skyds, are light little breaks, with two huge wheels, and just room enough for one person. They are owned at the different stations, which lie along the route. You take them irom one station to another, and then they are driven back by the little boy who accompanies you. It was a rare afternoon. Our way lay through wild rocky mountain gorges, which gradually gave way to a grand and stately valley lying between splendid mountains, aside from the road to look at one, and in this dingy little interior, to my great surprise, I found a bevy of rosy-cheeked Norwegian maidens, hardy and strong as this wild life could make them, seated about the huge stone fire-place, busily knitting and making the air ring with their merriment. There was something indescribably pleasant in this glimpse of rosy, happy humanity in the infinite loneliness and almost weird dreariness of the landscape. All through the afternoon a storm had been creeping after me, and with the coming- of the twilight the rain came in torrents from the clouds. Onward, onward I was forced to walk, beginning to long for the pleasant " station " which 1 knew was awaiting me in the valley below. The snow patches gleamed ghostly through the gathering gloom; the wind moaned sadly down from the mountains; the rain fell pitilessly. The wild spirits of the old Norwegian myths seemed to take form in the sullen, darkening clouds. Soon the white, withered moss gave way to stunted shrubs, then scattered trees, and then splendid avenues of forest-growths, fragrant with moisture, bending over the road. Then far ofF down the dusky vista a wavering gleam, growing brighter and brighter, till it settled into a warm and welcoming glow of yellow light, out of which looked kindly laces, and I knew I was at the little station of Hoeg, in the lovely valley of Borgund; and that my interesting journey over the grand summit of the Fille Fjeld was accom- reaching to the Sogne Fjord. My bronzed and wiry little Norwegian attendant deplished. lighted me immensely. A thousand blessFROM THE MOUNTAINS TO THE SEA. ings on your curly-head, little Olaf of Far inland as 1 still was, high up, among Husum. As another travelling companion the mountains, still after the Fille Fjeld for miles I had a riotous, glorious mountain had been passed I seemed almost to hear the stream, revealing now depths of emerald throb of the restless Atlantic on the bleak green, now of deepest blue, through the western coast, and felt eager to hasten inanteling foam. Olaf tells me that in its forward. The mellow golden light which jewelled waters is the home of the finest had guided me through the shadows of the salmon. Now, long avenues of trees in previous night had proved no " will o' the the beauty of summer foliage, farm-houses wisp," but the welcoming lamps ol the cheer- in the midst of spreading, fertile fields, iest of mountain inns, where I found the now clustering fisher-houses, and we are in best of welcomes awaiting me. The storm the little town of Laerdalsiiren and with the of the previous night had died away, and in Greeks of old, after the mountain journey, the early morning hours the sun stood in we shout, The Sea ! The Sea !" " cloudless radiance in the glorious northern ON THE SOGNE FJORD. wild and bleak loneliness of sky. After the You are aware what a strangely serrated yesterday's journey, the returning signs of humanlife which came to me, as I descended coast Norway possesses and in looking at more and more into the valleys, were pecul- the map you will be almost confused by its iarly welcome. During the forenoon I labyrinth of indentations and deep penetrareached one of the little villages, lying along ting inlets. Norway is unique in its glorithe route, where stood an ancient and pecul- ous Fjord scenery. One could with profit iar church, which is one of the most interest- and constantly growing pleasure spend weeks ing relics of the past in Norway. It is no in exploring this wonderful region. The longer used as a place of service, but two most beautiful Fjords of the western stands in the midst of the pleasant Norwe- coast, are Sogne and Hardanger, the former gian valley as a mute reminder of long van- running one hundred and twenty miles inished days. I caught glimpses of it coming land. Lest you should think me too enthudown the valley, and must confess at first siastic let me give you, in the words of this quaint, dark structure produced some- another a description of the journey from thing of an uncanny impression, cen- Landal to Gudvangen the route which our turies old and black with age. It is built steamer took on the first day. The scenery " — is grand beyond all conception, and never have 1 beheld in any other country sights that so impressed me with the awe-inspiring majesty of nature as did these on this journey. We left Saerdalsiiren at eight o'clock, and for four and a half hours were sailing down the sublime Fjord, this part of which is unquestionably the finest piece of Fjord scenery in Norway. We passed some thirty water-falls or cascades, tailing in an endless variety of graceful shapes from various altitudes down the enormous mountains which form the sides of this truly grand Fjord. These mountains rise almost perpendicular 4,000 or 5,000 feet high from the surface of the Fjord, which is the sea level. Their summits were crowned with snow and ice, and stood out sharp and clear against the bright blue sky, and their gigantic forms from base to peak stood deep reflected in the calm, clear fjord water, perfect as a mirror. At the junction of the Aurlands and Noeroens Fjords the scenery defies description. Here an amphitheatre of mighty mountains rises upwards of 4,000 feet sheer from the silent Fjord and the solemn grandeur which this sight imposes is quite overpowering. No storm can enter here; all is still as death ; even the water-falls which here present themselves appear to hang in silence all around. We could think of no place that would compare with this most wonderful sight. We thought of the lakes of Lucerne and Como, but they are weak in their impressiveness compared with this. The mountains and fjord wear a kind of sombre gloom which would depress were it not for their surpassing magnificence. Entering the right arm, or Noervens Fjord as it is called, the mountains increase in height and grandeur as the Fjord narrows up to Gudvangpn. Sunshine only reaches the water here when the sun is nearly vertical, in consequence of the great altitude of the mountain's sides, whose enormous shadows almost perpetually overshadow the narrow fjord. * The wonderful sights had gradually*worked up our feelings so as to produce a state of exciting adoration, such as I had never before experienced, when, just before arriving at Gudvangen the climax was reached. A solitary peak lifts its pointed head 1000 feet clear above the other mountains, and towering like a monarch over all, 5000 ieet in height, it seemed to touch the sky; and scarcely had our admiration of this wonderful sight broke foshi, ere the captain pointed on the opposite side of the Fjord to what appeared to be a strip of silvery fleecy cloud suspended from the mountain. This was the Keel Fos, which falls 2000 feet! "From Gudvangen out is a most interesting route to Hardanger Fjord, and then on to Bergen. The glorious glacier-fields and the beautiful Voring Fos, one of the most beautiful waterfalls in all Europe, and the ever romantic scenery of the coast attract many travelers to Hardanger. From Gudvangen our little steamer passed swiftly out into other winding arms of the Fjord. I was the only passenger, and found the captain a well-informed, agreeable young man, speaking some English. His home is in this region, and he knows every recess and inlet of Sogne. Not far away from Gudvangen, he related to me a tragical incident in the history of �THE FRIEND, JULY, the little settlement. Some ten or twenty its progress even better than at the Wengern years ago, on a winter's day, a young couple Alp. Close to its very border beautiful dressed in all their bridal finery, the bride ferns and wild flowers and rare and exquiadorned with one of those towering crowns site mosses might be gathered. Viewed which every Norwegian peasant bride wears, from all points the Glacier is gi-andily imhad started in their boat, attended by all pressive. We scaled some of its icy heights, their friends and relatives, a little bridal but found the passage across would occupy train, for the church which lay farther up too much time and accordingly were forced to the Fjord. Just as the company were pas- content ourselves with a partial survey. It sing through one of the narrow passes, where was necessary to use great care in climbing the towering cliffs come very near together, and walking on the surface, as on all sides a noise like thunder was heard, and a huge huge rifts in the ice-masses opened about us avalanche of snow and ice fell with fatal into whose shadowy depths we scarcely force over the terrified peasants below and dared to gaze and yet towards which we buried them in the deep waters of the Fjord. were continually drawn by a strange almost During the winter months the captain tells irresistable attraction. At the lower porme that the steamer does not visit some of the settlements, owing to the fact that the tremendous avalanches render the navigation dangerous. It was so late in the season that our little steamer was visiting some of the villages for the last time, and I thought some of the little groups who stood on the shore and waived adieux to us would find the winter months very long, before the little herald from the outer world came back with the opening spring. From one point o another the little " Oscar " darted, seemng especially privileged and loved among lese solemn mountains and deep blue waters. Cozily and comfortably they tucked le away for the night, and with the grey awn 1 found we had reached one of the rms of the Fjord which 1 had especially esired to visit. FJAEHLAND AND ITS GLACIERS. The rain was pouring in torrents, and yet le intense desire which I felt to visit the >eaiitiful Glacier lying up among the mists : the valley was more than sufficient to md a way out of the difficulty. I had the morning hours and the captain promised to gnal for me in time. Among the fishermen on the shore I found one willing to itce the rain and storm and drive me to the Jlacier. It was a wildly delightful ride, n all sides rose huge mountains with summits lost in grey and solemn banks of mist, oaring mountain torrents, showing tawny nd troubled waters beneath the tossing wreaths of creamy foam, dashed down irough the ravines and across our road, so that at times we seemed almost borne on their surface. At last we were forced to our horse and proceed on foot through c moist fragrant forest to the base of the glacier. The Suphellenbrace is exceedingly interesting, being one of the easiest of access in the world as it descends to about 159 feet above the level of the sea. Few are more strangely impressive than it which a glacier affords. I stood spellund before this glorious frozen-wonder, till my guide called to me to follow him in The storm of the attempting its morning had passed away and the ists had lifted so that the Glacier stood revealed in its splendor before us. From the green-valley where we stood, far of to summit of the mountain rose one enorious mass of ice and snow, glittering and lotionless. The Glacier has already descended some istance into the valley and is slowly, very lowly making its way to the sea. One is fforded here a rare-opportunity of studying «ive Efhts Crly !ie 55 1879. tions of the mass, numerous streams rushed forth into the valley, out of caves, so blue, so cold, so wonderously beautiful they seemed fit for the abode of enchanted spirits of the ice. The longer I gazed, the greater grew the glory of the scene. Never in my life had I seen such a marvelous blue as in these icefissures, and in the pinnacles and battlements which rose into the air. And then the infinite, almost painful stillness, in this desolation, this awfulness of certain irresistible destiny in the onward march of the glacier through the fertile, smiling valley, which no human power can hinder, which, in the darkness and light, through all the changing seasons, must go forward till the end is reached. I thought involuntarily of the great, desolate lava wastes on Hawaii, so strangely different in their sullen blackness to the terrible whiteness of this scene, and yet producing something of the same impression. By neither should I wish too long to stay. To see both is worth very much. All down the valley I kept glancing back through the forest at its white face, lying unmoved in its death likeness, and felt something as if a weight had fallen from me, as I stood once more among the warm-hearted fisher-folk upon the shore. As our little vessel steamed out of the Fjord the sun appeared in all its radiance, and the glaciers ol the valley lifted themselves triumphantly into view. A more splendid sight it would be difficult to conceive of. Among the passengers who had come on board the captain pointed to one who, years before, h»d lost his companion while exploring the icy mysteries of the glaciers, and whose body was never found. Ah ! the beautiful, pitiless glacier! ON THE SOGNE FJORD. Here 1 spent two or three rare days of my life. It was in the little village of Balholmen, close down by the water's edge. My host and hostess and the people about, were kind-hearted, delightful friends, desiring eagerly to show me every kindness in their power. The windows of my room opened upon the glorious tvaters of the Fjord, where the silver light of the moon, and the red of the dawn, are reflected as in a mirror. About us and before us rose stately mountains, and the shores were fresh and beautiful with full-leaved groves. The people of this district are busy workers. Life flows quietly on ; change comes seldom; and the din and confusion of the great world is kept away by the mountain barriers. They seem happy and contented. Near every village rises the spire of a little church, and rosycheeked boys and girls fill the school houses. It is a region poetic in the extreme —the region ola thousand Sngas—from which rises into especial prominence that of Frithyof and Ingeborg, which Tegner has so beautifully rehearsed in his exquisite poem. At another time I may give the out lines of this legendary story, as I read it while here amid the very scenes where the poem is laid, with great interest. Among the groves near where I was staying, tradition says, stood the temple of the God Balder, and opposite at Framnaes is a huge burial mound, where the peasants say the hero Fruhyof and Ingeborg are buried. The murmuring waves and whispering leaves had a thousand tales of the olden time to tell me. And I seemed to catch glimpses in the distance of shadowy companies passing through the groves; or as some near sail shot round the cliff", or swift oar cut the silver Fjord, I glanced up from my dreaming to give Frithyof welcome. The very air seemed filled with the spirits of the grand old Norwegian mythology, and 1 almost felt the presence of Balder, Odin and Thor I * * * But there is more than dreaming on the Sogne Fjord.—The last day of my stay, a Sabbath, near the middle of September, will always have a loving remembrance in my book of memories. As there was no service in the little village, but in the settlement of Framnaes, some miles across the Fjord, my host and his family invited me to row with them over the waters of the Fjord. We started early in the morning. The boat was rowed by bronzefaced Norwegians. It was a stormy passage, and the waves ran high; sharp gusts of wind sweeping down every now and then from the mountains and whitening the waters. We found friends waiting on the opposite shore to receive us, and went with them to the little while church on the hill-side. It was a most interesting sight. Many of the women wore their old-fashioned, picturesque costumes The white caps, with their spreading bands and full stiff borders, filled the church like snowy wings. High up in his pulpit stood the young curate, himself most interesting with his pale, intellectual face, rising from the white ecclesiastical bands and black draperies of his gown. At the close of the service there was a baptism, which was singularly touching, and then the young people placed themselves in two rows, running down the aisle, the girls on one side and the boys on the other, and the Pastor conducted the services in the Catechism. After the service we were entertained at dinner by friends, who spread before us a generous Norwegian repast. Seldom have 1 seen such delicacy of hospitality, such a thoughtfulness for the happiness of others as here, accompanied by a certain childlike simplicity, which is indescribably beautiful. As the afternoon waned, we found our boat waiting for us, and, bidding good-bye to our friends who had accompanied us to the pebbly-strand, and whose kindly wishes, "well over! well over!" came sweet and mellow through the twilight, we shot out over the waters of the Fjord. It was a delicious evening, which I shall not soon forget. From our company rose into the quiet air the sweet music of hymns, sung now all . �56 THE FRIEND, JULY. 1879. round the world, and which had an especial various departments, and in this way to gain tenderness amid these grand surroundings a general view, which will be of service in of towering mountains and dnrkening future visits. Everything is represented, On the from heavy machinery to the most remarkawaters, waterfalls and glaciers. other side 1 found the, young Curate, whom ble productions in chocolate and sugar. NothI had heard during the morning, waiting to ing is more beautiful than series of the most give me welcome at the foot of his father's exquisitely and artistically furnished rooms. garden, where flowers almost drop their Those who were in Paris last summer say petals into the waters of the Fjord. Choice that these surpass anything of the kind there. friends had I found in this young man and The colors, and hues, and forms, lights and his father, the Pastor of this district, and in shadows, are studied with the most delicate his cultivated mother and sisters. It was a care, and the result is something most beaubeautiful family picture, and 1 cherish few tiful. I huve such a passion for draperies things more than the memory of this last and hangings, tapestries, carved woods, etc., rare evening on Sogne Fjord. The parson- that these " rooms " have had an effect on age is most beautifully situated at the base me like music or poetry. Then the porceof grand mountains, and commands a superb lains and glass, etc., from the Royal Factoview of the Fjord. Within you find evi- ries, are superb in their way. There are dence of the most perfect culture and refine- restaurants, pavilions and places of amusement. I must confess it seemed almost like ment without end, and Berlin, a city which a dream to me, this revelation of so choice a is fond of its play as well as its work, home in this grand and lonely region. rejoices immensely over this new sensation. I am busily occupied in hearing iectures Books and flowers and music, cultivated ladies stimulating converstion on most inter- having three a day, one on Latin Gramesting themes, and here, ttfo, that same in- mar, another on Sanskrit Grammar, and andescribable charm of simple, noble natures ! other which is most interesting on Latin The grand lessons which these hills and and Greek, with a special reference to mowaters teach are not heard in vain. And dern Greek and the Romanic languages. now, in bidding good-bye to the Fjord There is a pleasant little garden in rear the dwellers on its shores, I do so very of the University, where I enjoy going bevingly, thanking land and people for the tween two of our lectures. The spring is joy and beauty which they have brought daily growing more beautiful, though the air is still fresh and cool. The markets are into my life. F. W. Damon. radiant with flowers, and the flower-stores are my perpetual delight. We have now Berlin, May 20, 1879. forget-me-nots, hyacinths, lilies-of the-valley, etc. I have enjoyed the time of buds, with BERLIN EXPOSITION. us in the tropics the buds are so rarely noP. S —May 6th. The great theme of ticed, we are always in the full enjoyment conversation now in all circles is the " Gu- of perfected leafage, but there is especial verbe Ausstellung," or Industrial Exposition, beauty in these first heralds of awakening which has recently been opened here. As you nature. are aware, Germany has not been considered The debates in Parliament are going on a rival of England or France in the depart- very actively now in reference to the Tariffment of her industries and manufactures, bills which Bismarck proposes, every one but of late there has been very considerable seems much excited about the matter. F. W. D. progress in this direction, as the present very creditable exposition testifies. It was opened on the first of May, and is limited to articles Miss Bird.—Some months ago the papers manufactured in Berlin alone. Every one announced this lady as traveling in Japan. who has seen it is delighted. Dr, CJulick thus writes us from Yokohama. The buildings are in one of the pleasant suburbs of the city, and it will be a favorite " Miss Bird was recently here, and made an place of resort for the Berliners and strangers adventurous journey alone among the naduring the summer. Bands of music are tives of several hundred miles. She is enplaying every evening there. The ground gaged upon a volume on Japan." We covered with buildings, gardens, etc., is, I shall await with much interest this forthunderstand, about one-fifth of that covered coming volume. by the recent Paris Exposition; though of Rev. Henry M. Booth.—Letters were received course there is nothing here to compare with the French arrangements. Speaking of exby the lest steamer intimating that positions, I follow with much interest the this young Presbyterian clergyman and preparations for the Australian Exposition of wife might be expected on the next steamer. the coming year. It marks, I think, a re- He is a son of the well known New York markable epoch in history. Here European merchant and friend of missionaries, W. A. manufacturers and artists are preparing their Booth, Esq. exhibits. The old mode of ballasting ships by 1 have spent some hours at the exhibition, and 1 am speaking with no exaggerated en- fragments of rock, sand, etc , is likely to be thusiasm when I say that it surpasses tny entirely superseded by a new and cheaper most sanguine expectations. The buildings way. Iron tanks are placed on either side of are simple, but most appropriate and tasteful; the keelson, and when the" ship is ready to and when one realizes that the exhibits are leave port these tanks are pumped full of from the industries of one city alone, it sea water by the ship's donkey engine. On seems marvelous. In the four or five hours arriving at her destination the water is which I was able to spend there, I had pumped out into the harbor. Many ships scarcely more than time to walk through the are adopting the new plan. ¥id EDITOR'S TABLE. Lectures on Preaching. Delivered before the Theological Department of Vale College. By Matthew Simpson, D.D. L.L.D., Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church. New York, 1879. We read some of these lectures as they appeared, when reported in the religious newspapers, and were much pleased with their sentiments. Mr. J. T. Waterhouse has kindly sent us from New York a volume containing all the lectures—ten in number. We have carefully read every one of the three hundred and thirty-six pages of the volume. Our admiration for the book increased, as we turned over page after page, to the close. The Bishop shows that he possesses a sanctified common sense, combined with a good theological training, which fits him to give sound advice to young men preparing for the christian ministry. We are surprised to find a " self-made Divine occupying the position of Bishop Simpson, so absolutely free from narrow views and sectarianism. With no apparent display of scholarship and learning- there is a dignified and broad-minded tone running through the whole course of Lectures, which leaves the most favorable impression up«n the reader's mind, and indicates that he is the peer of Beecher, Brooks, Hall and other lecturers, who have been invited to sppak at Vale, on the " Lyman-Beecher Lectureship." " The Land of the Pharaohs. By Key. Samuel Manning, L L.I). The Religious Tract Society, London. This beautifully illustrated volume introduces the reader to Egypt, and its perusal imparts a delight next to a visit to that oldest of all lands. This volume takes us back to that marvellous country, and again we ascend the Pyramid of Ghizeh, and wander through the streets of Cairo. The author. Dr. Manning, has published several books of this character, including one upon Palestine, entitled " Those Holy Fields." If possible let one visit those old countries, but if that cannot be accomplished, then by all means read such books, the titles of which we here mention. Rev. J. W. Smith, of Koloa, Kauai, thus writes under date of June 24th. "If there are 800 Chinese on this Island, it is our duty to do something to Christianize them." We are of the same opinion. Chinese Christian Workers on the Hawaiian Islands.—Sit Moon, Acting Pastor of Chinese Church, Honolulu; Wong Ec, Hilo, Hawaii; Kong Tit Yen, Kohala, Hawaii; Sat Fan, Makawao, Maui; Shin Chack, Oahu; Ho Ah Pui. Kauai. �57 THE F RIEND, J U LT. lift. Oahu of the Examining Committee as published in the Gazette and Advertiser, bears the most favorable testimony to the prosperity of our highest seminary of learning. Most heartily we can endorse that testimonial havinc also been present at the examination. We do not imagine that our Island pupils abroad enjoy the advantage of any better teaching, than they would have had, had they remained on the Islands. One fact is patent, our pupils going abroad either to California or further East, are generally found fully up to the standard of scholarship with those pupils educated there. Now what we desire to see is the endowment of Oahu College, then its advantages will fully equal those of similar institutions in the Father Land. Good and rich people have endowed those seminaries of learning, and we confidently hope good and rich people, will erelong be found generously to increase thp endowment of Oahu College. Summary Report of Ladies' S. F. Society. Our Island Girls Abroad.—In years past, we have often referred to the high standard of scholarship attained by " our Island Boys," in the seminaries of learning of the United States. It affords us much gratification that our young lady-pupils abroad are not behind in their scholarship, when brought into competition with their fellow pupils of olden countries. At the late commencement exercises of Mills' Sem- PORT OF HONOLULU. S. I. College.—The report inary we notice, the names of three of " our Island Girls," among the "graduating class," viz: Harriet N.Foster, Julie Jadd and Charlotte A. Carter. The latter bore off the honor of the Valedictory Address. Several others from the Islands have been connected with the school during the past year. Mills' Seminary has acquired a high position as the best Female Seminary this side of the Rocky Mountains. Most heartily we congratulate the Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Mills upon the success which has attended their effort in the cause of female education. One of the teachers, Miss Goulding is now visiting the Islands, and we learn that before the summer close, the Rev. Mr. Mills and another teacher may arrive. Expended on hehalf of fifteen beneficiaries during the year ending June, 1879 $379 89 RKCKtVKD. Cash on hand June 6,1878 Annual Memberships Donation from Mrs. C. D. OVullivan Dillingham & Co Henry May A. Kelly's expensed refunded Cach Tound anion* of B. Hughe* Donation irom Mr. Smith, Maui Interest on investment Donation from C. Brewer Cash overdrawn on Bank account Total • 9 61 6 20 16 62 11 10 140 60 .*... 6 79 50 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 60 $370 89 Mas. 8. E. Bisbop, Treasurer. Golden Wedding of the Emperor of Germany.—Late telegraphic dispatches report that the 11th of June was appropriately celebrated in Berlin. Among other items we notice that six hundred prisoners received pardons, and there was a prospect for more to be pardoned. MARINE JOURNAL. ARRIVALS. June I—Brit ship GlenitTer. Gumming, 133 days fm Liverpool 6—Am bk Anlioch, Weeks, 26 days fm Port Townaend en route to Hongkong, put in for water. 7—Am bktne Jos Perkins, Johnson, 26 days from Port Gamble. B—Am bk H W Almy, Freeman, 17 daya from San Francisco 9—P MS S Zealandia, Chevalier, from Sydney 10—Amship Springfield, Pe-.rt, from Guano Islands 11—Am hk I) C Murray, Norris, 18 days fm San Fran 12—Am bktne Catherine Sudden, legalIn, 47 days from New Castle. N S W 12—Am schr American Girl, Backus, 14 daya from San Frsnciaco 13_Bolivian hk Surprise, Curtis, 71 daya from New Castle, KSW, 13—Haw bgtne Pnmare, Gooding, from Ookala. Hawaii 16—AmhkineKureka, Nordberg, 14 days from 8 F 16—Haw stmr James Makee. Godfrey, 10 daya and 20 hours from San Francisco 15— Am schr Jos Wnot ley. Hempstead, from Guano la 16—PM88City of New York, Cobb, from San Fran 17—Am tern I) S Wifllams, Clement, from San Frsnciaco. via Hilo 18—Am topsail schr Eustace, Boie, from San Francisco via Kahului ]Q_Am bk Rainier. WuliT, fromPort Gamble 21— Kalatea set. Vivid, English. 12 dys fm Farming's Is. 22—Haw hk l.lliu. O'Brien, 28 days from Port Madiaon. 22—Am bk Helena, Snow, 22 daya from Victoria, B C. 24—German stmr Casaandra, Langer, 22 days from Whsmpoa. China. Holmes, 43 days fm Hongkong. 27—Am bktne Ella, Brown. 14 days fm San Francisco. 27—Am schr Glaus Spreckles. Yon Schmidt, from San Francisco, arrived st Kahului, 9 daya 20 hours. July I—Am bk Vigilant, Smithers, 168 days fm New Bedford. lost two men, killed by falling from aloft—both Portuguese. Clean—sawwhalea three times. 26—Am ship Republic, DKPAK'I I KKS. May 31—Am bgtne Josephine, Og-ilvie, fur Port Townaend 31—Ger bk Louise, Meyer, for Royal Koads June 2— Haw hk Kalakaua, Jenks, for San Francisco ivedFrom England 2—Am schr Bonanza, Miller, fi>r San Francisco AND 3—Haw schr Nettie Merrill, Wallace, for South Sea Is 4—Brit bk Lady Lampson. Marston, for San Francisco SALE at COST PRICE 7—Am bk Antloch, Weeks, for Hongkong FOR P M S 3 Zealandia, Chevalier, for San Francisco 10— At the 11—Am bgtne Morning Star. Bray, for Micronesia ahip Springfield, Pearl* for Guano Islands 12—Am BIBLE DEPOSITORY, SAILOR'S 16—Am schr La Gironde, Genereaux. for San Fran copies following of the excellent works: 18—P MS S City of New York, Cobb, for Sydney few A 18—Am bk H W Almy, Freeman, for Ban Fran Daily Dememhrancer, or Morning and Evening Poems for the ship Gen Butler, Kydt-r, for Port Gamble. 21—Am year, by Rev James Smith. 21—Am bk Morro Caalle, Wooda, for San Francisco. First Lore." Christ's Menage to Ephesus, by Rer. Dr. " The Joseph VVoolley, Hempstead, for Guano Is. schr 21—Am Cttlross. 22—Am bk Helena, Snow, for Sydney. Behold I Stand at the Door and Knock." Christ's Message 23—Ralateaschr Vivid. English, for Fanning* Is. to Laodlcea, by Rer. Dr. Culross. 24—Am bktne Discovery, Fuller, forPan Francisco. Grace and Truth, by Dr. W. P. Mackay. Williams, Clement, for San Francisco, D8 24—Am tern Dorothea Trudel, or the Prayer of Faith, tranalated Iroin the 24— Brit bk Lalla Rookh, Gender, fir Portland, O. German. Bird, Jackson, for Sooth Sea Is. bgtne 24—Haw Storm Life ofJoshua Poole. A Remarkable Converaion. The Measage from the Throne, by Mra. Anna Shipton. PASSENGERS. The Lost Blessing, by Mrs. Anna Shipton. ABkert of God, by Mra. Anna Shipton. For Ban Francisco—Per Kalakaua, June 3—Miss Llllie The Watch Tower in the Wilderness, by Mra, Anna Shipton. MissLottie Williams,Miss Ada Williams,Miss Williams, The Child Miolaler, by Mrs Anna Bhiptoo. Datay Williams, JohnLenehao, JWard, JohnHowe. Life Truths, by Rev. J. Denham Smith. For Micronesia—Per Morning Star, June 10—Rev X T Life iv Christ, by Res. J. Denham Smith. Walk and Warlsre, or Wilderness Provision, by Res. J. Den- Doane. For San Francisco—Per Zealandia, June 10—T W Williams, ham Smith. W C Psrke and son, A II Knight and wife. Miss E Piatt, Vsrli.ua Addresses, by Res. J. Denhsin Smith. 8 Sellg. A Maillard, Mra C B Andrews, E O Hall and wife, Various Addresses, by l>. L. Moody. Mrs J 8 McGrew snd 2 children, A W Pierce, Mrs J P Cooke The Tabernacle and the Priesthood, by H. W. Loltau. soo. C X Williams and wife, A Rstin, M Swain, JohnLee, | Female Characters ofthe Bible, by Rev. Dr. Hughes. I snd Wm McElnay, G Murray J C Logan, C B Richards, T Shore, Watchwonl. The lluy's Also, variety olSmaller Books by Broivnlow North, 8. M. ! 3 Le Donato, J Sutherland, W <J Dv Bois, Wing Ling, Gum Haubtilon, ac, I I King, Ah See, Qack Chon*, Ah Baoi, RJusetce " HOME. From Sao Franclaco—Per 11 W Almy. JuneO—T Cornell, John Wilcox, John Crane, C Chisholm, James 'fatten, R B Wiltren, Arthur I'eteraoD. Mary Siilers, and three Chinese. from Sydney—Per Zealandia, June 9~Mra C Browne, \V Marienens, J Johnston, C E Harbeck, A Crawley, M Fredericks, Airs Brans, G Kavanagh. From Ban Francisco—Per D C Mnrry, June 12—Mr Flenimtng, Frank Coll, Jaa Bouytblu, T Waddle, Steward Blanc and In Cbiueae. From San Francisco—Per American Girl, June 12—J J Moorehfad, J G Ktpp, Mr MrGlnnla, A One, O Sam and 7 Chinese. From Guano Islands—Per Joseph Woolley, June 18 Capt Robert ltrixgH, ('apt Hiram Closaon, wifeand son, Chan Himes, -li'lui Smith, James Gordon, William Jones, and 22 Hawallans. From San Francisco, par James Makee, June 16—FP Makeuzle, Fred Wagman. From flan Francisco, per City of New York, June 17— Mrs Gibson, Misses Coney, U A Wldemann, Mra M E Wood, C Lehman and wife. Miss Wldemann, Mary Lehman, Henry Lehman,Hauz Lehman,T C and JLehman, £ Bailey, Jas G Fair, Jas Day, J G Fair Jr. Otto Frinsch, Mary Frinsch, £ Rehse, Mrs A L Cushlng, Mrs C X Goulding. H H ClulY and wife, Mr Hould and wife, C Anderson and wife, Mary Hould, J Knell, Jas Campbell and wife, Mrs H Turton, L Godfried, Col C H Judd, Mrs Alex Campbell, W H Campbell, H Cornwall and wife, Wm Pearson, £ Bowles, M H Brings, M Ashley, H W O Melvery, J Moore. J N Wlukotehlll, J M Coleman, F Orena, A Unna and wife, Mrs Capt Cobb, C H Eldrldge, John M Mortou and wife, Mary Morton, Henry Morton, Jane Brown, Mr Antrum, Mary Cornwell, Kate Cornwall, Elizabeth M'Cormlck, Margaret Sullivan, Mary Smith, J 8 Bishop, Allen Ratnaay. Wm Burt, Wm Chassel* Elias A Hurt, J Brehe, Patrick Egan, C Htngley, Frank TthbeUa, Antonio George, Otto Frledlander, J Blalney, Jno Davla, Ja*Moore, Wm Hutch, I. A Beawooln Geo Chapman, Matilda Williams, Annie Kheppard, Mrs F Sandman, J Howes, Robt (ltggina, M F Sullivan. Jno Adams. Barry Friedlander, Jno Clark, Jamea Dailey, James Hogan.Chaa Bonohue, Wm Elliott, Robert Williams, Sarah Williams, Mrs. Eliza Oxley, Mra J Kelahaw, Henry Kelahaw. E Kelshaw, Mra Bella Frasier, Miry Frailer, Helen Frazier, Frank Frazier, Jaa Silva, Thoa Moon, 68 Chinese, and SO passengers In transitu. From San Francisco—Per Eureka, June 16—Chas Kamar, wife and child, Martin Anderson, Henry Forster, Benjamin Wilcox, Henry Goldstein, Join, lioppen, 38 malea, one female and threechildren, Chinese. For Sydney—Per City ot New York. June 17—A Jourinne, F D Walker, wife and 3 children, F Wirth, D Jones, B — Hymanaon. For San Francisco—Per Wll Almy, June 18—G J Lansiog, Geo L Blake, John Wilcox. For San Francisco—Per Morro Castle, June 31—J N Wiskotscmll. From Fanuings Island, per Vivid, June 21—E Prober!, 6 Hawallans and one Chinese. From Victoria, per Helena, June 22—A Relss and wife. From Port Madison, wT, per Liliu, June 24—J H Bean, L P Hanson. For SanFrancisco,perDiscovery, June24—A £ Warrell, H P Chappell, James Quimi, £ M Pauser, A R Sllloway, C Smith, F M Alston, Jas Savldge, W Schmidt, W F Fraga, H Buudy. From Whampoa, China, per Stinr Cassandra, June 28— 492 Chinese. From Hongkong, China, per Republic, June 26—20 Chi, MM, MARRIED. Weight—Blaisdell— In this city, June 3d, at Bt Andrew's Cathedral, by the Rev Mr Mcintosh assisted by the Key T Blackburn, Wm Weight to JennieBlaisdell, both of Honolulu. No cards. Giles—Afono—ln this city June Mb, by His Lordship the Bishop of Honolulu, Mr Henry Giles to Miss Kmmklink Aoatiia Marie, eldest daughter of the Hon C Afong. Walker—Cummins.—ln this city, June 21, by Rev H H Parker, at the residence of the bride's father, Hon J A Cummins, Thomas Walker, formerly of London, England, to Miss Matilda Cumnins. Hinds—Kkomailani.—ln thia city, June 23, by Key. H. Parker, Charlbs Hinds to Annie Kkomailani. DIED. Gay—At Waimea, Hawaii, May 21st, Athol X Gay, second sou of James and Mary Gay. Aged U months and 21 days. Isenberu—At Libue, Kauai, May 29th, Beta Helena Ottoilie, beloved daughter of Otto and Helen Isenberg. Aged 1H monthsand lb days. Jewett—ln this city, June 3d, at the residence of JB Atherton, Esq. of disease of the heart, Captain George W Jewett, a native of Bristol, RI, aged 47 years. He was master of the bark Morro Castle of New York. Peter Morrison—At tbe Queen's Hospital, (suddenly) in Honotaiu, June 11th. Peter Morrison, aged about 24 years, a native of Scotland. Howard—At Walkapu, Maul, June 18, of heart diaease, Charles Howard, a native of Massachuaetta, US, aged about SO years. Parke—ln this city, June 22d. Mary H. Parke, lister of the Hon W C Parke. (Boston papers please copy.] Grieve—ln this city, June 24, after a short Illness, William Grieve, a native of Scotland, aged 76 years. He had resided in Honolulu during the past 12 years, and for a number of years previously in the United States. Ryan—At his residence, Queen street, Honolulu, June 27th, W. P. Ryan, aged 62 years. For many years a resident of this city. Williams—At Halawa, Oahu, June 27, J. R. William.. District Justice of Lwa, aged about 60 years. . �58 THE FRIEND, "Abide With Me." Abide with me," the day is past and gone; lis even tide, and night is coining on; The darkness o'er me creeps, And my sad spirit seeks Tiiy presence, Lord, for I am taint and lono. " The wny is long and dark, and often drear; Tbe thorns are springing up, and clouds appear; And heavy shadows lay Aerosa uiy weary way, And I am sinking last, and tilled with Tear. "Abide with me." The tempter's power is strong, And I am weak; I often dv the wrong 1 would not, iiml I pray That Thou would'st Irom this day Abide with me;" and bear me safe along. " Abide with me ;" 1 cannot let Thee go "Unless Thou dost a blessing, Lord, bestow, I I feel my need of Thee. Savior, abide with me ;" know Thou wilt not, canet not answer, No. " Endowment of Oahu College. some remarks which the Editor offered his sermon on " Home Evangelization," preached by request of H. E. Association, the endowment of Oahu College, found a place. The subject is one of cardinal importance to our Island community. We copy as follows: It is now nearly, if not quite a quarter of a century, since any steps have been taken effectually to increase the endowment of that institution, and to broaden the course of study there taught. To educate and evangelize a people you must have not only Sabbath Schools, Primary Schools and «In Boarding Schools for young children, but schools of a higher grade are needed. Oahu College has, during the last forty years done a good work, and God's blessing has rested upon the institution, but for the Home Evangelization and education of the rising generation, that institution needs a generous endowment. The President's position ought to be made, independent of tuition fees. One or two good Professorships ought to be speedily endowed. A Professorship of languages, including tbe modern languages, ought be established, and another Professorship of Natural History, including the Department of Chemistry. New buildings ought to be erected, and the whole establishment lifted up and made more potent for science, learning and Christianity. One hundred thousand dollars ought to be raised for buildings and Professorships. Such an advanced step would have a most important bearing upon the Home Evangelization of the Hawaiian Kingdom. It would correspond to similar efforts among the American people, in behalf of Harvard, Vale, Dartmouth, Amherst, and other institutions of learning. Some of our rich planters might well afford to endow a Professorship of Chemistry, as a pecuniary venture. Our men of wealth, our mer- JULY. 187 9. chants and planters, should realize, that the highest end of their lives, is not merely to enrich their families, and expend their acquired wealth, in material display. In no way could the Hawaiian and Chinese portions of our population, be more favorably impressed and elevated, than by seeing Americans and Europeans in our midst, coming noble forward and handsomely endowing some institution of learning of a decided Christian type and character. In this way, the gospel leaven would appear to be operative and potential. Our young people ought to be educated, highly educated, and this cannot be accomplished without the endowment of a Christian college. Oahu College made, what it ought to be made, would exert a most powerful influence upon all the other seminaries of learning throughout this kingdom, Micronesia and the world. Home Evangelization implies, not merely distributing tracts and preaching the Gospel in the streets, but a thorough infusion of Gospel ideas and principles into families, and all the avenues of trade and commerce. When the scheme of annexation was agitated, twenty and more years ago, and it was stipulated that the United States would pay one million of dollars and more, one-tenth part of this amount was to be devoted to the higher purposes of education, and Oahu College was to have been handsomely endowed. I have regretted that when Reciprocity was initiated and secured, in tome way, the cause of higher education, wns not to receive a generous portion of the duties remitted on sugar, and other island exports to the United States. One-tenth of the duties remitted during "these seven years of plenty," would have been a handsome contribution to the higher purposes of education. Something ought to be done. Fornander's Book Again. Dr. Gulick thus writes us from Yokohama, Japan, under date of April 22d : " Mr. Fornander's first volume has thrown much light on the past. Whether we accept or not his theory of the Aryan (and Cushite) origin of the Polynesians, 1 shall watch for his second volume with impa- tience." We received a note from Mr. Fornander a few days since, in which we find an allusion to the second volume, and some of our readers, we feel confident, will be much interested to learn that it is nearly ready for publication. If I can now have a month's uninterrupted "time to myself, 1 think I can finish the second volume. I mean to stop at the time of the conquest and consolidation of the islands under Kamehameha I„ at the battle of Nuu- anu, 1796, with perhaps a short reference to the cession of Kauai in 1809. The acces- sion to supreme power of Kamehameha 1. closes the old regime, the really ancient history of the Hawaiian people, with which alone I have been concerned. Since these new systems of government, new political relations, new social customs, new religious ideas have gradually, or "per saltum," worked themselves up to the surface, I think it as well, or rather better to commence the Hawaiian Modern History at the battle of Nuuanu, as at the arrival of Capt. Cook or the arrival of the missionaries, forty years later. The former prepared the way for the unification of the islands; the latter put the seal of Christianity on that unification; another border line between darkness and light, between the old and the new, may as well be drawn where 1 intend to draw it, as at any other intermediate period. Without unification these islands might to-day be what the Samoan and Marquesas still are; with unification they have become what they are, a marvel in history, a crown of glory to their civilizers, and a puzzle to the sceptics. With modern Hawaiian history, 1 do not think that I shall occupy myself. That is a matter of documentary evidence, to be gathered from book-stores and archives accessible to any diligent inquirer ; that is a question of the present, its diversified beginnings and its tortuous but ever upward development; a period of broad daylight, historically speaking, during which a careful and candid investigator cannot possibly go wrong. For my part, I have chosen to describe the past, whose only lights were the scattered stars of legend and myth. Let others bask in the. sunshine ; God's world is beautiful, even when seen by starlight." Fate of the Shenandoah —Everybody has heard of the Shenandoah, the notorious privateer of the Southerners of the American civil war; but I do not suppose that many know what was the ultimate fate of the ship when the war ended. Of all the places in the world she now lies ' fathoms deep " o the Island ol Socotra, in the Arabian gul Her story is a strange one. She was bus burning whalers in Behring Straits, whe Waddell, her commander, the " mildes mannered man who ever scuttled ship or cv a throat," heard of the collapse of the south His occupation being gone, and being with out home or harbor to which he durst, wit safety, return, he ran the Shenandoah t Liverpool, and immediately surrendered he to her Majesty's ship Donegul, in the Mer sey, She was handed over to the America Consul, and afterVvards bought at auction b Nicol, Fleming k Co.—a firm that ha earned a notoriety in connection with th failure of the City of Glasgow Bank—fo the Sultan 6f Zanzibar. After remaining idly at Zanzibar for some years, she was sent to Bombay for repairs, but foundered off Socotra, all hands being lost except one Englishman and a few Lascars. �59 THE FRIEND, JULY, 1879. ADVERTISEMENTS. Places of Worship. Seamen's Betiiei,—Rev. S. C. Damon, Chaplain, King street, near tbe Sailors' Home. Preaching %Mr at 11 a. M. Seats free. Sabbath School before the morning service. Prayer meeting on Wednesday IRWIN It. G. SAILORS' HOME! CO.. Commission Merchants, Plantation and Insurance Agents, Honolulu, H. 1. o'clock. Fokt Street Church— Rev. W. Frear. Pastor, las lIANCHBTTE. I'iiiiia-luilr Tuner A. K<-B>niri-r. corner of Fort and Beretania streets. Preaching (For many yrara connected with .V Sona.) on Sundays at 11 a. m. and "\ P. x. Sahbalb U" Orders leiI at the Sailor,' Home or Whitney as HobertSchool at 10 a. h. i i Bookatore. Kawaiaiiao Church—Rev. H. H. Parker, Pastor, \\ PEIRCE ti. CO.. A King street, above tbe Palace. Services in Ha(Buoceaors to C. L. Richards & Co.) waiian every Sunday at 11a.m. Sabbath school *™ nt 10 a. m. Evening am-vices at 74 o'clock, alterand General Commission Mernating with Kautnakiipili. District meetings in Ship Chandlers chants, various chapels at 3.30 P. M. Prayer meeting every Wednesday at 74 p. 11. Honolulu, Oahu, HawaiianIslands. Roman Catholic Church—Under the charge of Rt. Rev. liishop MaigfM, assisted by Rev. father Agents Pailoi Salt Works, Brand's Bomb Lances, Hermann ; Fort street, near Beretania. Services Anal Perry Onria' Pain Killer. every Sunday at 10 a. m. and 2 i'. M. ti. DICKSON, Kaumakapii.i Ciicrcii—-Rev. M. Kuaea. Pastor, | EWERS Beretania street, near Ntitianu. Services in HaDealers in Lumber and Building Materials, waiian every Sunday at 104 A. M. Sabbath school Fort Street, ilonolulu.il. I. at 94 A. M. Kveniii|r services at 74 o'clock, alterratitig with Kawuiahao. Prayer meeting every ■V*. HOFFMANN, M D., eveuings at 74 J• . M. Physician and Surgeon, The Axtii.KAN Church—Bishop, the Rt. Rev. Alfred Willis. D. I). ; Clergy. Rev. Rob't Dunn, M. A.. Corner Mercbautand Kaabumsnu Streets, near the Post Office Rev. Alex. Mackintosh. St. Andrew's Temporary BREWER k CO.. Cathedral, Beretania street, opposite the Hotel. d 1 P.nglish services on Sundays at 04 and 11a. m., and Commission and Shipping Merchants, 24 and 74 p. M. Sunday School at the Clergy linns.' at 10 a. M. Honolulu, Oahu, 11. I. ' TREGLOAN'S ■,' P. Merchant Tailoring ESTABLISHMENT, Corner Fort and Hotel Streets. I CALL THE ATTENTION of.he Citizens ofOahu and the other lalanda to the fact that 1 have OI'ENKI) a large First-Class Establishment, Where Gentlemen can find a of Goods, Well-selected Stock aod Chosen care, as with great to style, adapted to this climate. Having had an extensive experience In connection with *onii* of the largest impnrting houses in New York and Philadelphia, I can assure my customers that they will not only secure the Very Best Materials but will also obtain at my place The BEST FITTINC CARMENTS that can be turned out ol any establishment in the Kasit-ru cities. ADAMS. Auction and Commission Merchant, NKW Fire-Proof Store, in Robinson's Building, Queen Street. 1 II II \ S. McGREW, M. 1) , Late Surgeon Y. S. Army, THOS. C. THRUM, STATIONERY AND NEWS DEPOT, Net. 19 Merchant Street, --- Honolulu. to rates LADIES' RIDING HABITS MA 1)1: A'SPKCIALITY. Children's Suits, in Eastern Styles. W. TREQLOAN, Honolulu. at to NOTICE TO SHIP MASTERS. DILLINGHAM & 00., No. 37 Fort Street, • KEEP A FINE ASSORTMENT OF MASTERS VISITING THIS PORT during the last Six Years can testify from personal exSHIP of perience that the undersigned keep the best assortment GOODS FOR TRADE And Sell Cheaper than any other Bouse in the Kingdom. THE HAWAIIAN HOTEL. ■rjjgSjjajy..- -=- DILLINGHAM & CO. <mt| BISHOP k CO., BANKERS, HAWAIIAN HONOLULU, IIKAW RXCHANGC ON ISLANDS. THE BANK OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO, — New York. AMU TBBIB AOBBTS IB Beaten, — Paris, Aurkliausl, THE ORIENTAL BANK CORPORATION, LONDON, 11.1.r.N HERBERT, PROPBIETOR, 41.1. THE MODERN IMPROVE- HASmenu requisite for carrying on a first-class Hotel. — ABbTHBIB BBABOMBSII Hengknnaj, — ED. DUNSCOMBE, Manager. 1, 1875. 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HEr' ' k. v . • Wednesday at ~\ P. i*Kbw'.~ SV |i^DaHaIHaBaBBaBBS>S Hawaiian PhraßC Book, Hawaiian Grammar, Andrewa* Hawaiian Grammar, Hawaiian Dictionary, Chart of the Hawaiian lalainls. ALSO, OB HISD, OTHBR BOOKS ON THE ISLANDS. SPECIAL NOTICE. To the Planters and Foreign Residents Chinese Church Building Fund. VOLUNTARY SUBSCRIPTIONS ARE SOI.ICITKD in aid ol I'hrulian Chinese to purchase land and build a Church In Honolulu to worship Almighty God in their owd language. The call lor a Church comes from tbesnselvea. Pledges are Invited, to be paid on or before the 10th of January, 1880, which will be received by Mr. Joseph B. Athcrton, tbe Treasurer, Mr. Qooklm. or Mr. Asen. Funds can also tie remitted to Bishop at Co., Bankers, lor account of Chinese Church Building Fund. JOHN THOMAS WATERHOUBE. dMges January Ist, 18T9. V I . STil I 11. IMPORTER & DEALER IN JEWELRY, King's Combination Spectacles, Glaaaand I lated Ware, Sewing Machines, Picture Frames, Vases, Brackets, etc. etc. (tyl TERMB STRICTLY CASH No. 78, Fort St. Bound Volumes at Reduced Price ! WE WILL, FURNISH BOUND VOLUMES of the Friend at one dollar per annum (subscription Melbnnrat), price $2), for any number of years from 1863 to tbe prssaut aplV 79 time. ]_r Adding the coat of binding. And Transact a GeneralBanking Business. Sydney, and �Pure religion and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and tokeep one's self unspottedfrom the world. Edited by a Committee of the T. M. C. A. Organization of the Chinese Church. The Honolulu Y. M. C. A. have been actively engaged for several years in carrying forward evangelistic work among the Chinese, it is with unfeigned delight that we are able to report that our efforts, combined with those of other Christian workers, have finally culminated in the organization of the firstChinese Church on the Hawaiian Islands. It is a marked and signal event in our religious history. Below we present the official Report of the Ecclesiastical Council which was convened on Sabbath afternoon, June Bth, for the organization of this Church : Honolulu, June Bth, 1879. Pursuant to letters missive an Ecclesiastical Council convened at the Lyceum, Sunday, June Bth, at 2 p. m., to consider the expediency of organizing a Chinese Church, as voted by the persons sending the letters missive ; and if thought advisable, to take part in public exercises appropriate to the organization of such church. Rev. S. C. Damon, D. D., read the letter missive. All the parties invited were present, as follows : From the Bethel Church, Rev. S. C. Damon, D. D., Pastor; Rev. S. E. Bishop, Delegate. Fort Street Church, Rev. W. Frear, Pastor; Brother J. B. Atherton, Delegate. Kawaiahao Church, Key. H. H. Parker, Pastor; Brother Lapaki, Delegate. Kauroakapili Church, Rev. M. Kuaea, Pastor; Deacon E. S. Kalauao, Delegate. Rev. H. Bingham, Secretary Hawaiian Board. Rev. C. M. Hyde, President North Pacific Mission institute. The Council was organized by the choice of Rev. Dr. Damon as Moderator, and Rev. Dr. Hyde as Scribe. The Moderator led in prayer. A list of those proposing to unite from other churches was shown, and their certificates of membership. Also, the names of those proposing to unite by profession of faith. The Council voted that they were so far satisfied with the proceedings that they would join in public services of recognition. Accordingly, as previously arranged, Rev. M. Kuaea led in prayer; the hymn, "Nearer My God to Thee," was sung in Chinese and English; the names of those presenting certificates, and of those uniting on profession, were read, and the parties named arose in response; the Creed and Covenants were read; the six uniting by profession were baptized by Rev. Dr. Damon; an infant child, Charles Keai En, son of Joseph Yap Tin Scow, was baptized; Rev. Dr. Damon made a brief address; Rev. W. Frear led in prayer; and the exercises were closed by singing the hymn, " Rock of Ages," in Chinese and English; and the benediction was pronounced by the Moderator. The members of the new church were invited to attend the Communion with the 60 ChYHAMrsiooetucann'gf onolulu. An Extraordinary Sentence. The following extract is taken from a sentence recently pronounced by Judge Reading, of Morris, 111., upon the liquor dealers who had violated the law by selling liquor to minors : "By the law you may sell to men and women, ifthey will buy. You have given your bond and paid yourlicense to sell to them, and no man has a right to molest you in your Evangelical Association at Kaumakapili; legal business. No matter what families are and according to vote, the Council was then distracted and rendered miserable; no matter dissolved. what children starve or mourn over the degA true copy. Attest: radation of a parent, your business is legalS. C. Damon, Moderator. ized and no one may interfere with you in it. C. M. Hyde, Scribe. No matter what mother may agonize over the loss of a son, or a sister blush at the The Y. M. C. A. held a meeting at shame of a brother, you have a right to disthe Lyceum on Friday evening,-the *27th regard them all and pursue your legal callult., at which Dr. Kinney presided. After ing—you are licensed. You may fit up your the Reports of Committees, the topic of the lawful place of business in the most enticing evening was discussed, viz: The Book of and captivating form. You may furnish it Job. Mr. Bowen read an admirable essay with the most costly and elegant equipments upon the point, "whether Job's vindication for your own lawful profit; you may fill it was correct." Mr. Kinney read another with allurements of amusement; you may essay on The argument of Job and his use all the arts to induce visitors; you may friends." Mr Lyons offered remarks upon skillfully arrange and expose to view your the question, " What had Satan to do with choicest wines and most captivating beverthe afflictions of Job?" Dr. Whitney read ages; you may then induce thirst by all conan essay upon the Plan of the Book. Dr. trivances to produce a raging appetite for Damon and Rev. S. E. Bishop offered re- drink, and then you may supply that appemarks upon the Time and Place, When and tite to the full, because it is lawful; you have Where the Book was Written. So much paid for it—you have a license. You may interest was awakened by the discussion allow boys, almost children, to frequent your that a similar programme was sketched out saloon; they may witness the apparent satisfor the next meeting, when Homer and the faction with which their seniors quaff the " " and Book sparkling gUssj you may be schooling training tbem for the period of 21, when they, too, can participate, for this is lawful. You may hold the cup to their lips, you Hon. William E. Dodge says: "The must not let them drink—that is unlawful. statesmen of Europe are beginning to look For while you have all these privileges for to the enormous amounts worse than wasted the money you pay, this poor privilege of in drink as one of the great causes of the selling to children is denied you. Their have the right to say, « Leave my increase of distress and misery in those parents son to me until the law gives you the privicountries across the water. The amount ac- lege to destroy him. Do not anticipate that tually spent is not all. The pauperism and terrible moment when I can assert for him misery directly resulting from the effect of no further rights of protection. That will be soon enough for me, for the liquor thus consumed may safely be said his"mother, for his sister, for his friends and to amount in dollars and cents to as much for this community to see him take his road more. This is rendered certain by the to death. Give him to us in his childhood amounts which are known to be spent in at least. Let us have a few hours of his charity and the administration of justice youth, in which we can enjoy his innocence, consequent upon the effect of the liquor traf- to repay us in a small degree for the care and love we lavished upon him.' This fic. In England, as he said, the interest in is somethinghave which you who now stand the economical aspect of this question is be- prisioners at the bar have not paid for; this coming very intense, and the very ablest is not embraced in your license. For this men—men of wealth, men of position, men offense the court sentences you to ten days' who had not hitherto ranked themselves imprisonment in the county jail, and that among the class of total abstainers—are you pay a fine of $75 and costs; and that earnestly bestowing their best thoughts on you stand committed until the fine and costs the subject." of this prosecution are paid." Iliad " would take the place of of Job." " The � 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/. 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