Friend Supplement, 1881-08

Published by the Rev. Samuel Chenery Damon from 1845 to 1885, The Friend focused on temperance and Christian mission to seamen. It began as a monthly newspaper that included news from both American and English newspapers, and gradually expanded to adding announcements of upcoming events, reprints of sermons, poetry, local news, editorials, ship arrivals and departures and a listing of marriages and deaths. From 1885 through 1887, it was co-edited by the Revs. Cruzan and Oggel. The editorship then passed to Rev. Sereno Bishop, who held the post until the publication of the paper fell under the auspices of the Board of the Hawaiian Evangelical Association in April of 1902 where it remained until June 1954. Since then, it has continued in a different format under the Hawaii Conference-United Church of Christ up to the present day, making it the oldest existing newspaper in the Pacific. Note that there are some irregularities in the numbering of individual issues, so that two issues may have the same volume and number, but different dates will distinguish them.

HONOLULU, CONTE~TS f.i'or OF THE A.u11;1111t I. SUPPl,EMES'l', 1881. A Highel' Christian Education ..•......••..•.•..•.. 73-76 Hampton Institute .................................... The Pure \Vortl ....................................... A :Fresh Breeze from Kohala ......................... A Fresh Breeze from Hawaii. ......................... 76 73 73 73 THE FRIEND AUGUST 1. 188 t. A FRESH BREEZE FROM KOHALA.-The friends and Trustees of Oahu College are looking out to learn which way the wind blows. Here is a fresh breeze from Haw:aii: '' You who speak through the press, prny keep up the fire, now that you have kindled it, and that too under favorable auspiee~, as it seems to me. Keep the thing aglow" Our .correspondent adds: '' It seems too bad to be drawing on the Home Community (unless, indeed, from old Sandwich Islanders) for this endowment. Can't it be made out here ? Trust in God, and try again." Such encoure,ging . language ought to make the 'l'rustrees feel confident and nerve them to make a strong appeal for both rebuilding and endowment. ANOTHER BREEZE FROM HAW AU FOR M. w., Esq., from Kau, thus writes : "I am heartily in sympathy with you bere,in regard to Oahu College, and I know there are many others who have the same feeling. An Aloha for the Institution, and .a hope that some action may be taken which shall bring forth a rich Endowment harvest for it, making it more useful to the rising generation of both our native and foreign-born population. Take the catalogue of those who have already received instruction at Punahou, resident here and au road, and mark the names of those able to contribute by the thousand dollars, and then add the names of the wealthy friends of the Islands, living abroad, who received the foundation of their income here, and who will probably consider it a pleasure rather than a burden to join in the contribution, and you can easily reckon on a noble Endowment of $100,000 for Punahou. Go ~head with this Punahou Endowment, until success crowns your efforts." OAHU .._.COLLEGE.-H. AUGUST I, 188 I. The Pure Word. Psalm CXIX. HO. BY REV. DWIGHT WILLIAMS. '' Thy word is ve1·y pure;'' As springs among the hills, Where the soft rain distils, And sinks to caverns low, And thence in overflow Glides down the valleys green 'ro gladden all the scene, And give the cattle drink Beside the water brink, So is thjr word, a blessed fountain, That floweth from thy holy mountain. " Thy word is very pure;" As crystals in the light Transparent to the sight Seem touched with living hues; As when the diamond dews Give beauty to the morn First in the azure born, Thy word reveals thy love Jn beauty from above; And we sit in the radiance tender Till earth is bathed in holy splendor. '' Thy word is very pure;'' 'Tis gold unmixed with dross, With gaiu in every loss; It holds the healer's art For eve1·y troubled heart, Till pain is driven hence With health to soul and sense; Thy servant loves it well, Let him the rapture tell; The spring flows on, a boundless river, From thee, 0 Lord, the royal giver. Let us remember that we . cannot fairly throw ourselves upon God's fatherly care unless we also do our best to do His will. To be able to feel this freedom, we should be of the number of those to whom He bas pledged Himself that all things shall work together for good; and that clase: is the class of those who "love God." 'ro throw ourselves upon Him is au act of love 1 and it is a hypocritical act unless it is connected with a sincere resolution to obey Bim.-Canon Mozley. According to the report of the Commissioners of Education, the pe9ple of the PRINCELY GIFTS TO COLLEGES.-The United States expend upwards o,f $86 1 000,000 sum of $19,000,000 has been given by pri- annually in sustaining the public school vate individuals in this country towards system, which is intended to overcome the the cause of education within the past fif- ignorance that is felt to be dangerous to the liberty of the country.-Exchange. teen montbs.-New Yorlc Independent. AHUIUR CHRISTIAN EDUCATION, - - A.ND - - ITS CLAIMS UPON THE FOREIGN COMMUNITY OF THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. A DISCOURSE, PREACHED IN FORT STRf:.ET REV_ s_ a_ CHURCH, Sabbath Evening, July 10, 1881, - BY- DA.M:ON. [PUBLISHED BY REQUEST.] Proverb 22 :6. " Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it." This precept, or proverb of Solomon, is ordinarily applied t~ the religious educa" tion of little children; but such an application is quite too narrow and restricted. I see no good reason why it should not apply to that broad and comprehensive training which goes to fit the young for the responsible duties of this life, and the retributions or' the life to come . Every child has many teachers. His parents are his earliesi, but soon other teachers come forwar4 tc, perform their part, and contribq.te their influtnce to that training which every child must receive. This training is not confined to mere childhood, bqt extends forward to youth-even to manhood. Supposing the word train to partake of a rnihtary character, then children must qndergo a lung course qf discipline, for soldiers undergo training as long as they are soldiers. They never cease to be trained. l propose now giving the term a much broader applicatiqn than that usually given. I woulq. apply it to the higher departments of an educatioq. Train up a child, not only when very young, but keep training that child untii he or she becomes a fQllgrown man o~ woman. President Jones remarkeq ·tq the graduating class, on pre- / 74 '!,HE FRIEND, AUGUST, 1881. sen ting their Diplomas, " Your education, of a Christian education. We have our remember, has now just" -commenced." Oahu College, established and p:.trtially enI propose now to speak of "The Import- dowel by the American Board of Missions. a~ce of a Higher Christian Education, and the Hawaiian Government. ancl its Claims upon the For·eign Com· The rare to which we belong-includmg rnunity of the Hawaiian Islands.'' the Engl-ish and American branches of that First :-We belong to a race leading the I race-is ' nobly leaJing thead~ancing col~mn van in the Christian civilization of -the · of the great Christian educational army that world. Our affinity of race demands of the is marching around the world. On its banEnglish-speaking portion of our Island com- ner might well be inscribed "Train· up a munity that we do not rest satisfied with a child in the way he should go, and when he limited primary education fo1· our children. is old he will not depart from it." To read, to write and cypher are not enough Second :-The Ame1·ican Board of for the foreign children on these islands. Missions left an u,nflnished work on Tbey should enjoy an education correspond- these Islands, to be carried f m·wa'r d and ing with that of the rising generation in completed. America, in England, and on the Continent This is the work the generation now of Europe. The standard of education in upon the islands is expected to complete. all those countries has been gradually rising, 1t is labor in the higher departments of and now our standard must correspond to education. The Government most considtheirs. There is a growing international erately looks after the common schools. sympathy among all the leading nations of According to the showing of the President the world upon the subject of a higher of the Board of Education, on a recent education. This appears in those great In- occasion, it appears that in the lower deternational Expositions which have been partments and some of the higher grades, held in London, Paris1 Vienna, and Phila- the work is being nobly and successfully adelphia. We belong to a race leading off accomplished. " Not less than 100 persons in all educational matters. It is for us then, of foreign extraction," said Mr. Bishop, so far as possible, to come forward and take "are now engaged in teaching the English our position in this advancing column, language in Government and independent which is now pressing so hard upon the scnools." This indicates that the unfinished opposing array of ignorance and sup~rsti- work is being accomphshed. Some of the tion in heathen lands. It was one of the teachers were born and educated here, but grandest strategic movemnets of the last most are from abroad. Hawaii, ought to half of the 18th century that Christians in supply her own teachers, educated on the England &ent Missionaries to Tahiti, and ground. Such an institution as Oahu Colan equally grand movement that during ihe lege is needed as a Normal school for teach.: .first half of the 19th century Christians in ers. Remarked Judge Hartwell, who knows America threw out an advanced post upon well the condition of education in this these Islands. Our father~ "builded better country and America : "Oahu College ihan they knew." The Arnencan Board of should have an endowment of at least Missions spared neither men nor money to $100,000, from the income of which tbree .b uild up on these Islands a Christian ci-vili- chairs, say of English literature, mathezation. They laid their plans not only to matics and the classics, could be filled with preach the gospel, but to encourage the first-class men. \Vhen this is done, this higher departments of Christian education. country will be safer and happier than it is At Lahaioaluna and Punahou we may see now. No country is safe until it estabtheir foundations and plans. The Rev. Dr. lishes the nobility of letters on a sound Anderson, one of the best friends of Oahu basis." .College, says a nation cannot be spoken of That Oahu College bas done a noble as truly civilized, until it sustains a well work is acknowledged, but its means are endowed college. too lim1ted. The time has come to take an These .institutions are an exponent of advanced step. Our youth must not only what our race-the Anglo-Saxon race-is be trained in the common and primary de doing elsewh~re. An American College is partments, but in the higher; They must the typical institution that is now taking its be trained up. To· remain where we now position in almost every part of the world. are 1s no mor.e nor less than fot the chilGlance your eyes abroad to Robert College, dren of rich foreigners on these islands to in Constantinople, the Syrian College, in be educated in a Mission school. Children Beyrout, and similar colleges in other parts and youth now educated at Oahu College; of the Turkish EmpirP, In Japan, in ·are as truly beneficiaries of the American China, in Brazil, and South Africa, similar Board of Missions, as are the children of colleges are gradually arising in the inter-1 the inhabitants of the Micronesian Islands. --'e sts of science and the hig~er departments The foreign community has done n.ext to nothing for endowing Oahu College. The unfirnshed work left by the American Board, it is now proposed to carry fo~ward. Who will come forward and help? Mr. .P. C. Jones, on the 4th of July, remarked: "AmP-tica is the best friend Hawaii ever had. She it was that first sent the gospel to this people, and though the Missionary fathers have mostly passed away, yet their names are not only dear . to all Americans, but to all Hawaiians as well. She was the first to recognize the independence of Hawa11. She has given us a treaty that is pouring wealtl,, into this land, and which has also increased the trade with other nations." Now, what I am pleading for is, that _some of this abounding wealth may be diverted into channels which invigorate our higher seminaries of learning. Standing in this pulpit, pleading for Home Evangelization, in June, 1879, I argued tbat the higher education of the people was a part of that Evangelization, and .L furthermore remarked, "when the scheme of annexation was agitated some twenty and more years ago, it was stipulated that one tenth part of the 1,000,000 of dollars to be paid for these islands was to be devoted to tbe h icrher institutions of learning, and Oahu College was to be handsomely endowed. I have regretted that when Reciprocity was initiated. and secured, the cause of higher education was not to receive a generous portion of the duties remitted on sugar and other isiand exports to the United States. One tenth of duties remitted during the "seven years of plenty,'' would have been a handsome contribution to the higher purposes of education." I still hope something generous and noble will he done by private contribution. Here let me remark, that unless we do something worthy or the cause of educatioD, and to carry fonvard the unfinished work left for us to perform, I fear a portion of that '' woe " pronounced by our Savior on the Jews of his generation, will fall on us, for, like them, we are disposed to garnish the sepulchres of the Missionary fathers, and " build the tombs of the prophets," but are we willing to give and ·labor to carry forward the work · of higher education which they initiated and committed to our hands? This 1·ernains to be seen . In no way can the children and. grandchildren of the Missionary fathers and mothers confer higher honor upon them than by building a noble structure upon the foundation which they laid. The present and coming generations on thPse islands need to keep this noble purpose continually before their minds. Let it not be said that the spirit of the Missionary tathers bas degenerated i_nt9 a low, time-serving, moneygetting and mercenary race for gain. Is 'rHE FRIEND, lUGUS'l', · 1881. there not da_n ger lest •• All hearts are Christian enterprises on these islands need·chilled in the selfish . prayer for gold?" ing them sadly, aud the healthy _dev;lopHence, I call upon all to awake and com•,- _ment ~f our churches r:_q uire __ that th~se lete the unfinished work that bas be'en left ~ enterpnses should be earned forward_. I do . P ·· · believe the building up of good schools of to us.1 Thircl :-The pr·esent Generation owes a high order; is among the most useful r.r t IJ bt ·n th-is line 0 1-' Christian methods of Christian benevolence. We an .LI.Ones e •i 'J . d b a· h d. owe a debt which shqul e 1sc arge rn Benevolence. '!'here are few communities in the worlc~ which have been more signally blessed, directly and indirectry, through the influence of Christian Missions, than our Island community. I refer not alone to the native population, but to the foreign as well. Fortunes have been accumulated on the Hawaiian IslanJs, that never would have been accumulated but for the mfluence of Christian Missions. How can the debt of obligation resting upon those thus blessed be discharged in a more becoming and appropriate ·manner, than by doing something for the higher education of the present and future generations of these islands? Furthermore, our foreign island communitv embrcaes an uncommon number of ed~cated men and women. Many of these have been educated at the best of schools and colleges in America and Europe. Do not they owe a debt which may legitimalely be discharged in building up schools and seminaries on these islands, where the higher branches may be taught? Suppose a few go a broad for their education ,. yet a majority ot those born here will here obtain all their education. and they should enjoy the best that can be afforded. I have carefully studied the character of schools and colleges in other lands , and unless a youth is bound for a professional career, I think that hP-re he may be as well educated as in other lands. .We should aim to see our children and grandchildren as well educated as possible, without going abro'ad. The men of means and eci ucation owe a debt which they are now called upon to discharge. When approached, many reply: "We cannot help until we are out of debt.'' Most merchants and planters acknowledged as worth one, two, or three hundred thousand dollars, owing debts amounting to one quarter or one tenth, are probably as near out of debt as they ever will be. Debts are a necessary incumbl'ance to many business men. Get rid of debts as soon as possible, but do not wait until ali are paid before engaging in deeds of genuine benevolence. There is no one thing that our island Christian community so much. needs as a few examples of noble, Christian young men in the professional and businfiss circles, who ind ,cate that they are accumulating wealth with which to do good. There are this particular line. mark, in the This leads me to re- Fourth place :--The 1·ising Genera.:. tion among Foreigners, Demands that a step Forward ancl Upward should be taken. The rising generation has claims u_pon those possessing the means , which can only be answered by our doing all in our power for their mental and- moral improvement. Remarked the late Pastor of this church, Mr. Frear, at the Puuahou Festival, '• I regret to leave these islands under any circumstances, but chiefly do I regret on account of my children. Wherever I go, be it to the West coast, or be it farther East, I shall never find a place with which I am so thoroughly satisfied as Punahou. Once my children entered this institution I felt perfectly at ease concerning them. A noble work has been done here. There is more to do, and 1 rejoice that the means for doing it will shortly be provided " This parting testimony of your Pastor, respecting Oahu College, 1 trust will be remembered. When we have such testimony r~~pecting the usefulness of this rnstitution with its limited resources, ·it must seem as if the members of this church arid congregation, and this whole foreign community on the Hawaiian Islands, would need no other appeal to be made upon them ere they came forward, not with limited amounts, but with generous contributions. Standing here and pleading rn behalf of the foreign children of this Ki~dom, I beseech our monied men, and those possessed of limited means, to come forward and place at the disposal of the Trustees of Oahu College all they need to keep the present buddings from dec~y, and to re-build such as the absolute necessities of the College demand. As one gentleman has expressed it, Oahu College has been the i,:piritual nurspry of the Bethel and Fort. Street Churches. Yet what have the members of these churches and congregations done for that institution, except paying term-bills, and in some instances most reluctantly? Friends of education, guardians of the young, well-wishers to humanity and the Church of Christ, has not the time arrived for you to come forward and su&tain the Trustees by your generous contributions, and for those Trustees to go forward laying their plans, and c111ling upon you for the 75 requisite aid ? Out from among the children of the various nationalities · and races now · settling upo-n these islands, it will be strange if many noble and educated men and worn.en do not arise, if they shall enjoy the opportunity of a higher education. Not to respond in a becoming manner indicates that we are unfit to occupy the position we now hold , and it becomes us to step aside and give place to others. The young are appealing to us in tones which I trust will not pass unheeded, " Train us up in the way we should go, and when we are old we will not depart form it. Give us the highest Christian education that can be imparted on these islands. Let it no longer be said to your reproach, by the President of Oahu College, standing on those hallowed grounds. " we h11 ve to teach chemistry without a laboratory. astronomy without a telescope, natural history only from books. More men and more machinery are what we need." Present accommodations and apparatus are meagre and unsatisfactory. The appliances are not what they should be to carry out our Minister Comly's suggestions: " It seems to me that that education is most liberal which best fits and equips men and women for their life work. There is so much to do and so little time to do it in. we need the very best tools to work with. This is what education should do for us: it should teach us how to use thA tools. It is said that, coming into the presence of the Apollo, the body insensibly assumes a nobler posture. It i:,eems to me that there are moral and intellectual natures of such purity and elevation and strength, that one insensibly a::;surnes a more upright and noble attitude in the serene presence of their spotless lives. This is the highest education-to be so fitted to give out strength and sweetness that the divine essence of love·of strengthening and helping and savingmay pour out from one·s daily life like a never ceasing ·benediction, lifting all souls toward God, the Father Everlasting.'_' FijUi :--The Chiwch of Clwist JJenu..t-nds tlwt a 1Voble Ejfo1·t ,,;hoitlcl now be rnade. The appeal now made for the re-building, enlargement and endowment of Oahu College is not made on the ground that this is an institution where Christianity is ignored, and the Bible as a text book cast aside. No one will question the fact that the original school there started in 1841, was upon Christian principles. Around it centered the prayers of the Missionaries. In the ch~rter of 1849 it is spoken of as "a school for the training of youth in the various br~nches of a Christian education." This clause is repeated when it was rechartered as Oahu College, in 1853. In the lat~ published catalogue the statement 76 1' ff i; is made : " The aim ·of th~ Trustees has always been to secure a high standard of Christian life, as well as a high degree ot intellectual culture. To this end a Biblical recitation was made a part of the regular course . of study." Here is the basis, the immovable faundation upon which Oahu College now stands. \Ve do not believe in a merel y secular education for the young. They · bave immortal souls to be trained, as well as mrnds to be educated. We advocate the training of man's whole nature . Our- ideas upon this subject are aptiy and eloquently set forth in Prof. Alexander's oration, on our late Anniversary. We ins.cribe upon our banner " Christo et llcclesiae,'' as trrnmphantly as did the Puritans two hundred and fifty years ago . when they laid the foundations of Hi.lrvard University. A II willing to labor with us, marshalling under this ban.ner, we welcome to our ranks, and invite t_o aid by their contributions. This enterprise is in harmony with that broad phalanx of educational and Chnstrnn undertakings wh ich is now marching around the globe, leaving in its rear--not burning cities and devastated fields-not mourning widows and helpless orphans--but lofty cathedrals in cities, churches in villages, and a school-house in every hamlet or at every cross-roads, while hill-tops and prominent eminences are surmounted with colleges, seminaries, and institutions, from whose towering domes, spires and observatories, Science and Christianity flash out their cheerful rays. Yes, the time may come when telephonic tidings shall be com,. municated from one school to another in separate lands, until Cowper's poetic idea shall become a matter-of-fact: "The dwellers in the vales, and on the r ocks, Shout to each other : and mountain tops, From distant mountains, catch the flying joy." ~, R I N D , A U G U S 'I' , I 8 8 I. expression to my utterances ; allow me to increasing in its richness, depth and intenadd that my residence on these islands is sity ; first uttered by Solomon, the wise coeval with the existence of Oahu College. man, and echoed by the wise men, the l have been present at 33 of its 40 Annual teachers and educators of succeeding ages, Examinations. I have been a Trustee for and confirmed by Hirn who " Spake as about 30 years, and personally acquainted never man spake :" " Train up a child in with all its teachers and most of its pupils . . the way he should go, and when he is old My sons have been there educated, and I I he will not depart from it." If we follow hope , for generations to come, my descend- this precept, coming generations, to the end ants will be there trained. 1 recognize the of time, will rise up to approve what we good which the school has done, is doing, have done; and. not only shall we have and is destined to accomplish, although I their approval, but the approval of Hirn who, might not express my ideas upon this point welcoming us to His courts and mansions in language as elegant and eloquent as did above, will say, "Well done.! good and Mr. · Dole at our late Anniversary. He faithful servants.'' Entering that world of said: "And, we find that the waters of bliss and glory, our education, commenced the Punahou spring--a current so soft and on earth, will be perpetuated throughout weak that a hand might stop it or turn it Eternity 's e:ndless ages. as1de--have flowed around the world; toHAMPTON INSTITUTE. day they refresh the war-worn fields of the We copy the following from General Southern States, they irriga 1e the mountain Armstrong's last Report, showing that slopes· of Spain, they water the ·islands of endowment is much needed: Japan,they have trickled through the wastes "l have repeatedly urged the need of an enof China, their music is heard amid the dowment fund which should yield an income Southern Seas " ot not less th11n ten thousand dollars. The ten I entertain no doubts or misgivings res- thous~nd a year from the State .may, by the pecting the final success of the institution. terms of the grant, be at any time withIn many ways I am encountering reminders I drawn. This institution should, as soon as which convince me that my years of .Minis- possible, have an invested fond of terial labor~ are drawing to a close. [ have THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND DoLLARs. been invited to meet in Council with the There would thPn be over twenty thousChurches and Christim Ministers of Hono- and dollars a year to collect, for current lulu, for the settlement and dismissal of four expenses, to say nothing of funds for buildordained and settled PastQrs of this Church, ing and improvements; but public interest, and yet my Mini::.try commenced in this never so strong as now, would, I think, city ten years before this Church was or- readily supply that. A measure of dependganized. Great and marked have been the ence on the people is well. changes which I have witnessed in this part I would suggest the following treatment of the world, but l rejoice that here 1 have of the Endowment question, supposing that be~n privileged to preach the Gospel in the fund would yield not over four per cent. harmony with my brethren, and for a few interest: , • 'I ']} b more years l hope t hlS pnv1 ege may Stl e . . Are we not most favorably situated on grante d to me. Th ere IS one enterprise, • this gem of tlle Pacific to form a- connection however, t hat most earnest 1y r des1re to see between the Continents of America and accomplished, and that is the building up Asia? Here the Orient and Occident and generous endowment of Oahu College. meet. For us not to be laboring, praying I may be luk,,warm and tame upon many and giving to bring about this sublime e·vent subjects which ought to engage my atteuwould indicate that our soul~ are qeaq. tQ tion, bqt upon this I am full of enthusiasm, all noble, generous, grand a,nd Qhristian and this js qo sudqen impulse. This has sentime11ts. l have a better opinion of my always been my feeling; anq this feeling fellow-Christians and citizens on the Ha- has always purned rnost fervently after my waiian Islands. A portion of our island visits to my native country, and foreign community has subscribed many thousands lands. Never has the feeling gathered so for an Academy of Music, and additional much strength and iq.tensity as when last thousands for a Park, and for their support year I passed uqder the shadow ot the uni~xpect to add annually many more thous- versities and colleges of .L\.merica and ands. I do tl)ink the time has come when Europe. I came back," i:lQd seeing what a the Christian ·community and friends of glorioqs fqture lies before the islands, I am Education ought to do something nobl~ for keenly alive to the possibilities that lie withOahu College. in oqr grasp, if we improve the golden opI fancy no apology on my part is needed portunity. I seem to be listening to a for the warmth with which I have now given . voice comin·g to us over the centuries., and For expense of administration (Principal and Treasurer 's salaries) ....... ................... $100,000 For a "Foundation," the income of which wo111,1 forever pay the salary of a t eacher of us,1ful practical knowledge to the Negro and India~ races.. ............................................. 15 ,000 Not less than twelve such foundations are needed. But a large fund for general purposes is the most desirable. Negro and Indian civiliz~tion need as strong and permanent foundations as any other. The ·idea of Hampton is to always meet the need of the day; to do what is needed rn.o$t and wliat 1:8 needed now. The salaries of our forty-one officers and teachers amount to $25,000 per year. A seventy dollor scholarship for each of 350 students would amount to $24 500. Gov. eroment does not pay the tuition of Indians. The annual cost of the Hampton Institute is about $42,000, of which $10,000 are paid by the State~ as interest on the Agricnltural College land fund; the rest is given by friends, chiefly in the form · of annual scholarships.\'