Friend, 1877-12

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.

Its Shores, its Islands, and i, ~. : ·. the vast regions beyond, wW ~... become the chief theatre Ip f:; of events, in oltl , ,.·.Jt J),s GRE~rt13,te,\\~ ,.i~V · 8 ~w. um, U. s. sen {@lb £cries, fol. .ff-4. HONOLULU, DECEMBER · 4, 1817. CONTE1'1TS For Decenibet• 4, 18'7'7. _ Hawaiian Centennial. P.AGYI: End of Volume XXXIV •••••••••••.••••••••••• • ..... • • • .97 Hawaiian Centennial. •••• ; .................... •·•·••••·.97 Rambles in the Old World, No 11 .................... 97-99 The Rev George Morris •••••••.••••••.••• •••· •· ••••• • • • .99 A Hiirher Law ••...••••••••••••••••••••••••••• r . . . . . . . . 100 New Zealand Correspondence ...........................100 Death of an Early Convert ••••••••••••••• • ..... • • • • • .101 A Lull in Life-Poetry .•••••••••• ~•·••· ................. 102 Island of Suwarrow ........................ , .......... 102 Y. M. C. A ................................ ............ 104 THE FRIEND. DECEMBER 4, 181'7. END OF VOLUME XXXIV. With this number closes another year and volume of the FRIEND. We really have no space left for moral reflections on the closing of the year or the flight of time. As we have furni5hed our subscribers with twelvfl numbers of our paper, in order that we may pay our printer and discharge all liabilities incurred in its publication, we trust our subscribers and friends will see the importance of making prompt payment when their bills are presented. If any error or mistake appears, the same ·will be rectified by making it known to the publisher. -As we have not received our usual donations from the whaling fleet, ~e hope persons favorably disposed to the publication and gratuitous distribution of the FRIEND will not forget that five h ndred copies of each number are distributed gratuitously. Donations thankfully received. NEW BooKs.-'l'he number of new books seen at Whitney's bookstore, when his invoices are opened is gratifying, but still more gratifying to look in a few days after, and find most of them have disappeared and been scattered over the islands. Many of these books are among the best publications of the age,-historical, literary, scientific. Such books would not be ordered and sold, unless readers were found for them on different parts of the islands. RAMBLES IN THE OLD WORLD-No.11 For several months we have been expectELBERFIELD, Sept. 19, 1877. ing that some of our English residents would DEAR FRIEND.-The French, you know, take the initiative for a centennial celebra- say, "qui s'excuse s'accuse," so that perhaps tion, if the governm~nt officials did not it will be wiser for me not to attempt any move in the matter. It really seems quite line of d·efense for my meagre epistolatory correspondence this summer but creep intoo bad, too unpatriotic, too stupid,-to allow stead under the folds of your broad mantle so good an opportunity to pass without a re- of charity, finding balm for my conscience spectable demonstration. Less than two in the thought that you have _found somemonths remain,-for January 18th, 1778, is thing far better than my rambling and ra~. • , dom sketches for your columns. I arm afraid the day when .Cook is reported .to have d1.s- that something of the "dolce far niente" of covered these islands. · Who will move m midsummer days must have had its effect this matter 1 upon me, for how otherwise . could I have To compare great things with small, the delayed telling you of my d~ifting from 18th of January ·is also memorable for an- among Swiss scenes, and the presen~e other event of minor importance. On the of its snowy uplands and blue lakes, to this 18th of January, 1843, thirty-five years ago, fair and fertile region which cradles the the first number of the FRIEND ·made its ap- Rhine? And what a summer this has been pearance, and has continued its monthly re- for this world of ours, which seems to find wars a:nd rumori:, of wars its perpetual heritappearance ever since. age! With you, though a little nearer the MR. AsEu, one of the Chinese merchants scene of action, we have been watching the sad, bloody confl~ct which darkens all the of Honolulu, on his voyage to China via San eastern horizon and which seems to grow Francisco and Japan, reports under date of darker and m0re bloody as the summer gives September 17th the following persons as his place to autumn, and the first frost and chill fellow passengers, on board the City of Pe- in the air hint at the added wretchedness _and anguish which must come to those on king, from San Francisco to Yokohama: the wild, bleak battle-fields, unless peace From the American Board for Japan: comes with the early snows Then too, Rev. Isaac Pierson and wife, Miss Lizzie B. how wanly and beseechingly have all those Pierson, Miss Julia Wilson, Miss H. 1". countless famine-stricken faces in India been Parmlee. looking to us out of their dreadful and terriFrom the Presbyterian• Board: Miss hie need! And it is a i,leasure to see how Doctress G. J. Anderson, Miss Mary E. nobly hearts, both in England an~ the ConBarr. tinent, have been touched by this human From the Methodist Episcopal Board: agony. We are watching ~ith inte?stest Rev. H. H. and Mrs. Lowrie, RP.v. W. G. interest to see whether there 1s anythmg to Benton, Bishop J. W. and Mrs. Wiley. come of that thunder-cloud which seems to Yokoyama, Japanese missionary, educa- have been gathering over our next-door ted four years at a mission school in the neighbors, the French, who are craving for United States, now returning home to do a new sensation and revolution! Perhaps mission work. however the political tempest will vanish as Three going to Japan, and the others to the heat and muttering thunder from our China. autumn skies. What a superb tribute the THANKSGIVING.-The day was observed French paid to the memory of the veteran Theirs, the other day. Rarely does such a as i~ former years, by public religious ser- tremendous throng follow a man to his tomb. vices at the Fort Street Church. An admi- A troublesome and annoying state of affairs rable discourse was delivered by Rev. Dr. also the American people have been meeting Hyde, •specially invited by our U. S. Minis- with, in their riots and strikes, which I trust ter Resident Mr. Comly. The sermon will have now been quietly adjusted. But really it' is hardly my province in your columns, be found in this week's Gazette. I 98 THE FRIEND, DECEMBER, 1877. to enter into the politics and troubles of the earth at large, and in leaving them I most sincerely h'ope that our Hawaiian skies have in them only the happiest portents for the future. It is pleasant to feel that there is one favored nook where the great tide of suffering and famine and bloodshed hasn't found its way. Peace now, and ever to your rustling cane fields, and, to this sunny Rhine-land where the grapes are purpling for the vintage ! ' and one additions to modern travel permit before us. This wonderful Strasbourg spire! them to leave at all. One thinks with a What pigmies seem the men and women besigh of these blessed days when Oliver Gold- low! You feel indeed 'twixt heaven and smith won his way among the Swiss pea- earth, and yet far above this tower where santry with the sweet notes of his flute, we are standing there are heights which we travelling as he listed. have not gained. The round red sun· is too Next' to the sight of a grand face or the near its dipping in the hazy west for us to sound of a voice which has thrilled multi- try them to-night. There is a terrible fastudes by the wonder of its melody, that of a cination about the downward look, down, famous river seems to me the most inspirit- down, down ! And there is only this little ing. There is an eloquence in it more pow- stone parapet between us and the fearful leap! erful than words; a mysterious, sympthetic Something of the same indescribable spirit OUT OF SWITZERLAND. which seems to have somethmg al- which leads you on to the brink at Niagara, I promised to give you a running sketch of quality most human about it. How it links the cen- and draws you towards its gulfs of snowy my tl'ip from Geneva to Elberf~ld, whic_h I will now do, so far as the tadrng outlmes turies in one continuous chain! What num- foam and shattered rainbows, or holds you berless tragedies hav~ mirrored themselves spell.bound on the near edge v.f the tiery 1 can be re-produced : Perhaps you have gleaned already from m its waters ! Men work and fight, chil- terrible surge of our Kilauea, keeps. you something I may have written how 1 found dren laugh and play on its banks. Armies here. W O\~ld the stone apostles, the winged die its waters red with their blood genera .. angels or Gothic sculptures reach out helpmy way hither. Not i~ a very direc_t so.rt of a route but wandermg and ramblrng m tion after generation, castles are built and ing hands in the whirling, murderous fall? this wav and that, something as the Rhine crumble away, but still the silent :river holds One could scarcely find a more fitting spot likes to~ do in one or two parts of its course. its course unshaken, a symbol of eternity. for the scene of the prologue of Longfellow's Imagine these airy I wish 1 could tell you of all the places and But · this is rhapsodizing, and quite unpar- '' Golaen Legend." people I have seen in the past few months, donable rn a letter. Hut it is a little more heights, _ wind-swept and storm-lashed, witQ but this would certainly be too much even parponable perhaps when you stand for the Lucifer and his legions in their wild fury 1 for your patience, which, kind and charitable first time on the Cathedral terrace at Basel hurrying on to their work. '• Hasten! Hasten! as it is, must have its limits. Then too in full view of the Rhine and of th~ splendid 0 ye spirits! there keeps creeping in the thought that you sweep which its pal~ green waters make at From its station drag the ponderous Cross of iron, that to mock us know them just about as well as I do, and this po~nt. It is really a magnificent sight \s \:\\)lifted high in ~\r!" devoid of all ~ssociat~ons,-\JUt with thesethat you can point to innumerable people But l 1nust be QQ my way leav,ng behind who have told the same story over and over it is a feast for eyes and heart ! No where again, and some so faultlessly that it seems have l seen the River to such good advan- the city where Goethe so long studied~ where Calvin found his wife, the seat of insacrilege to utter a sound o_n the same tage a(3 here. It broadens like a lake, fullnumerable important events in history; thesubject. Far back as Johnson's time, you swee:ping, majestic, as if conscious of the capital of those fair provinces which one alknow, that prince of growlers, launched his magical spell which seems hidden in its ways thinks of now-a-days in the guise of criticisms on those who would enter upon waters, not clear and blue and crystalline two sad-eyed peasant girls, whose hearts are such a well-worked field as that of continen- like the blue Rhine at GenevJl., but even in the glory of the full noon blaze of light, still with " la belle France," Alsace and tal travel, in a way to frighten any one. keeping the secret of its cool green depths. Lorraine, BERNE, l\LA(::K FOREsr. l3ut more of this bye and bye-we shall soon I shall always remember a few hours un- be on it and can look more clos.ely. StepWhat a world of witchery there is .in the der a very bright June sun in the old city of :ping into the Cathedral near the terrace, we very sound of the words " Wack Forest." Berne, its historical scenes ; its " bear-pit" see the stone to the memory of the learnec\ Don't they make you long for th~ days when and bears, singularly stupid, but which every- Erasmus, whose learning by the way did not you rea~l' of d,wa:rfs and giant~ ~nd spirits, body goes to see; its quaint old fountains render him any more decided a character in good and evil, of pQantom steed~ and huntsand statues ancl long arcades with their in- the matter of the Reformation, in which he men, that soqie how or other seemed to find viting scarlet-cushioned seats in the grey played, however, no insignificant a part. a congenial home iQ these woods which lie stone walli of the houses; the cathedral In one of the rooms of the Cathedral, are SQ invitingly on the horizon in the gather• with its splendid views without and sculp- fragments of a most famous and peculiar ing, mysteriou~ gloom Qf the long twilight. tured Christ within and above all the distan~ mural · p&inting, entitled the .Dance of It would have been a pl~asure to have dived glimpses of the ~er~ese ~berla!1d, veiling .Death, formerly I think, on the walls of a into them, but one can't see every thing, and its snowy summits m sh1mmermg snowy cemetery. It is rather comforting on the this was not in my plan just then. 1 wonclouds, wafted through the air, heateJ by the whole that only ragged sections of it remain, der if one would be disappointed; I can't earlysu.mmersun, brought refreshing thoughts for in all truth these are ghastly enough. think ~o. There seems too genuine a fraof those fal' off retreats, which are full of in- The whole represented a wild ca:rnival of grance in tnese old German legends and spiration to those who visit them and ga2;e grinning skeletons, whirling on terrified fairy stories; you can almost hear the wind u·p on the majesty and purity of the Jung- knights, shrinking girls, mitred Bishops, in tQe trees, and scent the perfume of the frau, Next came, Zunich and its lovely ( whose mitres• and crosiers were of little pines and catch glimpses of cool, shadowy lake, on whose shores I watche~ for seve:ral avail), wealthy burgers, and others of every lakes, whose surface the stars pierce with week$ the subtle growth of summer beauty, class, to their doom. What uncomfo:rt~ble their silver gleai. .. s; and where deer stay for in tho simple little Swiss village of Manne .. imaginations some of those old painters a moment their hurried flight. But the The old hoQse of train rushes on and night shuts down on the dorf, where is carried on a most interesting seem to have had. work founded by the well-knqwn Dorothea Erasmqs ii:; not very far away, and a ~tatue world of spirits.and men as we enter HeidelTrudell. No where can you find more fra .. of CEcohimpadius, who, notwithstanding his berg. grant roses in J u~e or_ kinder ~earts the name, did good service among the Reformers. HEIDELBERG. year round than in this lovely httle spot, STRASBOURG CATHEDRAL. , This place is charmingly situated on the whose vineyards run down to the clear I watpbecl the fading of the same daylight, river Neckar, is rich in historical associawaters of Lake Zurich, and over which the . distant Rigi keeps guard. Then by Zurich which l had seen glittering in Basel .on the tions, and is attrartive to the tourist, chiefly again, I rambled on to Basel. We call it Rhine at nopntime, at sunset on the tower from its university and its castle, which is · certainly a most -imposing a11d magnificent rambling now.,a ..days you know, when peo- of Strasbourg Cathedral. The singular roofs of the city, mounting ruin. With the mat~ns 9.f the birds and ple take a guide.,.book in hand and rqsh hither and thither in fear &nd trembling, that they story above ·story 1 the flat far reaching !3ur~ the early morning \y~I~ to the glorious ivyare going to loose the " express" for the rounding coqntry from which the Prussians 1 grown pile, whi~h stands still as a sentinel next station, if the crowd of porters and not so v~:ry long since, tossed their uncom-1 aboy~ thf:! city, faithful to its mediaevdl hotel keepers and souvenir-vendors and fortable cannon balls into the terrified town; ir-ust-ihough scared and maimed-came punctilious railway-officials, and the thousancl the lines of r,amparts fortifications, etc.,all lay one of those delightful surprizes which are 1 THK FRIEND, DECEMBER, 1877. 99 among the rare and beautiful things of travel. things leaped up to hide their nakedness. now absent on a tour to Hawaii and Maui. Out of my limited European experience They have crept up its sides, softening, em- On his return, he hopes to spend some days there are very few places on this side the At- bossing with their tangled and verdant in Honolulu. Something may be gathered ]antic better worth seeing. The wings of growth its crumbling arches, even penetratof the efficiency of the Order from the folmy rather too exuberant imagination have ing to its stony heart and in its broken and been clipped more than once during the past shattered old age, giving it a tenderness and lowing extracts from a circular published by few months, but here every realization and beauty, which its proud and haughty youth the Order 1 • anticipat10R. has been more than fulfilled. never possessed. One needs an Ariadne in " Tbe Grand Lodge of the Independent Order Some one has written of it " next to the Al- this labyrinth, or her silken-clue ! Room of' Good Tern plars of the ~tate of California, su borhambra of Grenada, the most magnificent ttfter room open before you; long winding dinate to the Right Worthy Grand Lodge, 1. 0. ruin of the middle ages." I am afraid I passages; banqueting halls, whose only fre- G. 'f., was instituted May 29th, 1860, and com• shall never see the Alhambra. or hear the scoes are those of the drifting clouds and prised at that time eleven subordinate lodges, murmur of its fountains, except through the silver stars on the heavens above them ; un- holding a membership of less than five hundred. medium of Irving's splendid descriptions, der ground passages where waves of ferns Since then by the employment of competent lecbut I shall never, never forget the glory of and mosses and trailing vines have swept in turers, printing temperance literature, and other available means, the principles of the Order have the old " Heidelberg :Schloss," its ruin but with the years. Then up to the battlements extended and been generally embraced, until now adding to its perfect beauty, the remem- where the only pennants that wave in the the subordmate lodges within this State oxceed brance of which, will, I trust, live in my summer air are those which the kindly hand two hundred in number, and ten thousand in thoughts and heart as greenly as does the of nature has unfurled, a symbol of the in- membership. Scarcely a town of importance; or ivy on its walls. The castle is situated on finite peace which seems to brood over these a county within the State is without its " Loda;e a wooded height just above the town, and is walls. There are the chapel, the museum of Good Templars." The Grand Lodge of Calicenturies old. One elector after another with a thousand interesting relics, and after fornia has special jurisdiction also over the St~te of Nevada, and the Territories of Utah and Ari., added to it, till it acquired huge dimensions. all this splendid vision which is almost in- zona, as also the Sandwich Islands, in each of Long ago, the French General Melac had it toxicating in its poetry and beauty, it is which Lodges of the Order have been established blown up. And in 1764 the lightning came well to come down to the earth again and and are now working. to complete the ruin. 1t would seem as if visit the cellar and its famous "Tun," for JUVENILE TEMPLARS. some curse had rested on its battlements. the people who lived in this enchanted This is a juvenile institution recently fornied It would scarcely be possible for me in the palace were of the Parth, earthly. Can you for the benefit of the children of our land, and is compass of this letter to attempt a descrip- imagine 49,(,00 gallons of wine ? Then directly under the patronage of the Grand Lodge, tion of it, and I feel as if l should be wholly enclose it all in a cask, which is more hke THE WEEKLY RESCUE. inadequate to do this as it should be done. some bloated monster than anything else, Fourteen years ago the Grand Lodge, feeling The immensity of it at first confused me, as and you have the Tun on which everybody the neccessity of a representation in the newspaI came out of the narrow foot-path which. I mounts by ladder. To obtain an idea of its per world, founded and adopted as its official orhad followed up to the avenue which runs size, consider its dimensions, 32 feet long, gan The Weekly Organ. in its rear, and wandered about at my own and 22 feet high, holding sop hogsheads. THE GOOD TEMPLARS' HOME FOR ORPHANS, · sweet will. This led me under the leafy- The circmnference around the centre is 231 In 1869 a capacious and elegant structure was sculptured portal or gateway which the eler.- feet, and the diameter of the head 22 feet. erected near Vallejo, in Solano County, and in tor Frederick V. caused to be erected in ln my delight, I am keeping you very, October, 1870, it was dedicated and opend under honor of his English wife, the Princess very long over the castle, but I forget and the auspices of the Grand Lodge, and entitled the Elizabeth, and into the tree-shadowed gar- live my visit over again. But just one mo- "Good Templars' Home'for Orphans.'' Its title den beyond, the very perfection of a place ment more for a glimpse from the "Molken- is not meant to convey any idea of exclusive11ess for dreaming and love-making, then into the kour," a height just above the castle and I as to the class admitted to its sheltering offices. great castle-court and over its heavy draw- am done. Heidelberg lies at our feet, with On the contrary it is open to all ; the only passport required at its portals is to be a homeless bridge and under its raised port-cullis, and its roofs and spires and university, of whose orphan child. Uhildren under fourteen years of through its huge and massive gateway. fame you know so well, and beyond the long age are recived and cared for, and 'over seventy Every step of the way has its peculiar reach of the Neckar, "the dark green Eden orphaned children are now being cared for within charm, and we would stay the sun in his world,'' the low-lying lands which border its walls. The buildinge are sightly, capacious coursa if we could. Before us is the paved on the Rhine, fertile fields, and distant for- aud pleasantly located. The Home is under the and ITlistening court. How the horses' hoofs ests, a very quiet beautiful scene. But the general management of a Board of Trustees, and musthave rung on it, in the brave old days! morning sun is hurrying on and we must Board ot Lady Managers-the former compri6ing nine gentlemen of the Order, who have charge of There i:s the R ·uprechts-Bau, and there the say "good-bye" to the sunny gardens and the buildings, grounds, (20 acres), and financial granite columns from Ingelheim with their terraces where the good people of Heidelberg matters, while the Board of Lady Managers is memories of Charlemagne, and there the love to come for their beer and music; and composed of eight prominent lady members of the Friedrichs-Bau and there-but what sig- out from the spacious balcony, down a cool Order, selected from various portions of the ~tate, nify names in the presence of all this color and sloping path, into the busy life of travel and bas charge of the internal and domeMtic rela• and warmth and beauty 1 Just see how again. And yet not just as before, for I tions of the imititution. Within the Home a school, under the '' Public School Syssplendidly the golden sunshine illumines the have ]eft my heart somewhere in your green graded tem '' of the State, is tau~ht by two competent facades of the palaces which face and encir- fastnesses, dear o]d castle on the hanks of tea-chers. Upwards of $10,000 has been excle us and warm the sculptures and statues the Neckar, and ever more, at mention of pended in the ereclion, care and maintenance of in their niches, and seems to find a sort of your name shall breathe a prayer that you this institution. The Good Templars of this companionship in their rich and varied may speak messages of beauty and tender- jurisdiction have accepted the self-imposed duty adornments. This is a terrestrial paradise ness to those who shall come after, as you ofs,1staining this "Horne .'' gratefully, and the membership is linked together in its support with for painters. 1 met one, whose Scotti~h did to me that rare morning in June! unfo.ltermg devotion. birth had not checked his artistic spirit, and F. W. DAMON. RESULT. who was, as perhaps some of his stern The cause of tamperance bas thus been promocountrymen might say, well nigh daft in THE REv. GEoRGE MoRRis.-We are ted by all available and honorable means-by an the midst of all this beauty. For the instant, happy to welcome, as a fellow laborer and organized association ot men and women within the dullest and most unimpressible of travelgospel minis~er, this gentleman from Cali- the Lodge, and the youth and children within lers must feel something of the throb of the the Temples. By the education of all through He is the Pastor of a Congregation- the press, and from the platform and pulpit, and fornia. poet in him at sight of the Towm· which the French so cruelly blasted. It was a wick- al Church, in South Vallejo, but come.s as by tenderly caring for the children bereft of paredly mean thing of them to do, but hal'e we Agent and Representative of the Good Tem- ents and natural guardians through the use of not on the whole gained by it? lt stands plars of California. He was formerly a mis- intoxicating drinks and concomitant crime. Thus do we claim ours to be the most powerful and like some great stone giant,· shorn of his complete temperance institution ever organized. sionary of the London Missionary Society strength! Down in the ravine below fell An invitation is extended . to all to " come and huae gigantic masses, and the trees and at Tahiti. On his arrival, he preached at join us '' and assist in this grand warfare in be• sh;lhbery and thousand green and living the Bethel and Fort Street Churches, but is half of truth, temperance and morality. "',, THE ~~RIEND, 100 THE FRIEND DECEMBER 4, 1877. EDITOR'S TABLE. HAWAIIAN ALlltANAO AND ANNUAL FOR 1878.-Ha- W>lii's Centennial, it being one hundred years since the discovery of these Islands by Capt. Cook. A band book of information on matters relating to the Hawaiian Islands, original and selected, of value to merchants, planters, tourists, aud otbers. Carefully compiled by Thos. G. Thrum. Fourth year of publication. Mr. Thrum deserves much credit for the care and trouble which he has devoted to the preparation of this publication. No one who has not engaged in similar work can fully estimate or appreciate the work, hence we sincerely hope the public will evince their appreciation by liberally pur.c hasing the ANNUAL. The table of chronological events is very valuable. DECEMBER, 1877. [(r By the last California mail, we received a letter from one of our old seafaring friends, whom we have known for a score of years. He has settled in Santa Rosa, where, he ,vrites, are "good schools, eight churches and two colleges," and where he will be glad at all times, to give his island friends a " sailor's welcome." " I forward you," he acids, '' a local pa per with a statement mad~ by one of our Ex-city-fathers. I think it is time such men were shown up to the public through your island papers." It is not ordinarily in accordance with our editorial ideas, to notice the many foolish and erroneous statements which float back to the islands from the coast. Many of them are utterly absurd, and a notice would only lift them into importance. It appears that a man by the name of Gable, vi11ited the islands some weeks ago, from Santa Rosa, A HIGHER. LAw.-The drift of a discusand on his return, was interviewed by a yesion which has been carried forward of late porter of the Santa Rosa .Daily .Democrat. in our Honolulu weeklies, would lead the We find the following in his report : reader to infer that some of the writers and Have the natives any idea or literature? contributors imagined that if our Sabbath The natives are all educated in thei1· own lanLaws and marriage regulations were abro- guage. During my stay l did not fi~d one who gated or annulled, then being brought back could not read and write. Have they any established religion'! None by law, yet nine-tenths to Rosseau's state of nature, they might live of the population belong to some church. Some as they list, and do as they please. No are Catholics, some Protestants and some Mordoubt there are men who would be glad to mons. 'fhe Protestants largely predominate. 'fhere are missionaries there of all these denomiwitne::;s such a triumph of sin and immoral- nations, who tax every member of a family 25 ity, but would it not be well for all s?ber- cents per month for religious services, and sell rninde<l and law-abiding people to keep in them BibleR and other books at most exhorbitant prices. These missionaries become wealthy from mind, that there is a Higher Law? We tithes wrung from the poor and laboring classes. do not think that God and God's baw can 'l'hey are strongly opposed to any white immigration to the country. What are the accomodabe thus summarily voted out of existence. tions for travellers'? Outside of the cities no We should not suppose any one required such thing is known as a public house. 'l'he namore co~vi.ncing proof of God's government tives live in houses made of grass, the floors are covered with matting. They are very hospitable. over the world than the fearful retribution A stranger may travel all over the country and coming down upon transgressors of God's never be charged for anything he may eat or drink, yet he will be welcome to the best they have. Moral Laws. Any one partially blind~ we We have a distinct recollection of Mr. should suppose, might see that the i, way of the transgressor was hard." The sad vie- Gable. We invited him to our house and . tims of intemperance, lust and crime, tell the also met him at our office, taking special story in language sufficiently plain to make pains to furnish him with correct informaa sensible man take warning. To repeal the t10n about the islands and the people. He ]aws relating to the sale of intoxicating liquors, had very many questions to ask, and to the the Sabbath and · certain other practices best of our ability, furnished him with the would tend to foster .and educate the Hood- desired information. So far did we become lum element in our community, which ele- interested, that when he expressed the desire ment recently made the San Franciscans for a lucrative office under the government re-organize the Vigilance Committee, as we did what we could for him, by speaking their only safety f~om anarchy, flames and to two government officials, but frankly inutter demoralization. \Ve hope His Majesty formed him, that the office he desired reand the authorities will give this subject a quired a knowledge of the native language, careful consideration before breaking away from established law and traditional usage. and unless he acquired the requisite knowlWe trust the Higher Law is not altogether edge, he must not expect the appointment. inoperative in this kingdom. It becomes Perhaps his disappoiniment in not obtaining the duty of every lover of good order, family this office may have rendered him rather purity and morality to uphold the authori- disaffected towards the islands. ties and be careful not to trample i_ipon law. While bearing testimony to the intelliDoNATION from Capt. Cobb, of P. M. S. gence and hospitality of the Hawaiians City of New Yorfc, $7.00 for the Honolulu towards missionaries, he appears to have a special antipathy. We do not give him Sailors' ome. credit for believing what he stated to the reporter of the .Democrat, and if he did believe it, and went away from the islands with such a ridiculous and absurd impression, then it does not speak very well for his good sense. The idea that missionaries have becoll)e " wealthy " from the sale of " Bibles " and "tithes," and that they are opposed to any " white immigration " is so absolutely absurd, that for a man of Mr. Gable'~ standing as a '' city-father " of Santa Rosa, to believe appears ridiculous. Furthermore for any newspaper to print such foolish nonsense is equally ridiculous. · Until Californians have reformed their Hoodlums and refrained from abusing Chinamen, we think they might as well refrain from publishing false and ridiculot1s reports about our islands. New Zealand_Correspondence. AucKLAND, N. Z., Oct. 22d, 1877. EmToR oF THE FRIEND :-I see by your last i~sue to hand, by the R. M. S. S. Zealandia., that you have some notice of a letter written by H. B. Sterndale, and published in the Weekly News of June 2d. You also expressed a wish to have the preceding letters. By the mail leaving here by the City of New York, I send you six papers which contains the whole of the letters and trust that you will receive them safely. By what you say in your notice quoted above a short sketch of Sterndale may not prove uninteresting to you, so I give you all I know of him. He is a short, spare man, very dark and wears a most piratical look, dress and all. He has been for years sailing and residing amongst the Pacific [slands, and has sailed with the " Bully Hayes," of whom he always speaks very highly. He resided on the Island of Suwarrow for some years and claims it as his own property under the following circumstances : The island was taken possession of by a company formed in Melbourne, who got a title -for it from the Briti&h Admiralty, and they used it as a trading station for the production of copra and other island produce. There was rep-arts of enormous treasures being buried on the island in the very early days by the "Wild Rovers," who frequented the Pacific, and they prospected for that as well. Sterndale was the manager of the compar,iy, and he resided on the island. After working at it for some considerable period, the company got into difficulties and found they could not pay what they owed Sterndale for wages and monies he had expended, and they ceded him the i:dand in payment, and I understand that he got everything .arranged with the British Admiralty to acknowledge him as the owner of Suwarrow. After knocking about the islands he came to this place and entered into a partnership with a mercantile firm ( Hender&on & Mac- '1' • DE .F R I E ND, DECEMBER, I 8 7 7 . farlane) to work the island, and left with a vessel and crew to commence c,perations. Henderson & Macfariane sending another . vessel down to proc11re labor from other islands. Things went on smoothly for a time when a quarrel ensued and Sterndale and his wife were made " prisoners of war," by Henderson & Macfarlane's people, and sen"t here. Sternda.le was to be tried for attempting to murder the Captain of one of the vessels, but the magistrates here refused to hear the case as they had no jurisdiction. Henderson & Macfarlane then commenced an action against him civilly to compel him to render an account of his receipts and expenditure, and whilst that was going on, a number of persons who were or had been connected with him amongst the islands raised money to buy and equip a vessel for the purpose of going down and taking forcible possession of the ishnd. • Henderson & Macfai:lane to prevent Sterndale going had him arrested for debt and he was put into Limbo, where he remained until the vessel had gone, and he at once commenced action against Henderson & Macfarlane for false im'prisonment. The firm got into difficulties, I believe, and to prevent himself coming under the composition with the other creditors, as he would have to do, Sterndale leaves the Colony and the action is at once quashed. 1t is stated that Sterndale has gone to London to get his papers proving the island to be his, which are in the hands of the British Admiralty, so he says, and will commence action against Henderson. & Macfarlane on his return. You express some surprise that he has not mentioned the good the missionaries have done at the different islands, but you will not do so when I tell you that he in common with a great many more of his kmd hate and detest these brave men who bring the savage out of the darkness in which he is. When the missionaries begin teaching the blacks, these · men generally move further away from civilization, as their deeds would probably not bear the light of day. We here in Auckland, have great ~espect for men who leave home, friends and every comfort to go out amongst savages and face , death in its most horrid shapes for the purpose of shedding the light of God's go~pel over the souls of the poor natives of the Pacific and other islands. Severel gentlemen born here have gone out as missionaries. Notably the Rev. Mr. Atkins, who was mur<lered with the good Bishop Patterson, of Milenesia, and the Rev. Geo. Browne, who inaugurated the mission to New Guinea. rr * * * Death of an Early Convert. The manifei,tations of divine mercy are no where more striking than in tbe lives of the good. When instances occur of a long life-time of piety, closing with tbe humble hope of a blessed iinmorta1ity ,-especialiy when the departed llave lived in our midst,-it may be useful to bring them to the notice of the community, for the edification and encouragement of the living. In a country like this, so recently redeemed from pagan benightment, all good christians must rejoice to find that there are bright examples of true christian lite to be met with amongst the native population of these Islandti. Such a bright example may be recorded in the case of a venerable native Hawa• iian woman, who departed this life on Nov. 27th, at Nuuanu Valley. Her name was Julia Kealoha ; she had been a widow for the last twenty• seven years, and she is supposed to have been in the eightieth year of her age at the time of her demise. She was born at Hamakua, on the Island of Hawaii, in the year 1798, as far as the date can be ascertained. When thirty years of age, she became a member of the Mission Church of Lahaina, only a few years after the arrival of the first christian missionaries at these Islands. During half a century she continued a worthy member of the church ; and she had the special privilege to be engaged for one half of her long life-time, in the same missionary family, that of the (Rev. D. Baldwin. Her love of prayer and her exemplary conduct.edified ail those who knew her, and for this reason she was greatly beloved by her pious Mawaiian brethren and sisters. During the whole course of fifty years, from her first admission to church-membership down to her dying hour, never was there ·heard even one word of accusation or suspicion against her spotless christian reputation. Her death was like her life, holy and peaceful. She bas gone to receive her eternal reward with the hope of ·a true Christian and a good and faithful servant of the Lord. To firm believers in the religion of the Christ, it must be both edifying and consoling to read the simple narrative of the earthly career of this poor old Hawaiian woman, a contemporary of the great pagan conqueror Kamehameha, and an eye-witness of the arrival of the first Christian Missionaries •upon those then heathen shores, who occupied for fifty years tbe very holiest place in the fold of the Church, unnoticed by the multitude blindly bent upon worldly vanities, while she sought alone to lay up treal:jures incorruptible and eternal. Her edi(ying life and holy end may well claim a serious thought even from the most frivolous and worldly-minded, and it is a pleasing duty for us to record this bright example of a truly christian and virtuous life-however lowly-amongst the converted women of the once pagan and benighted Hawaii nei. There are but few left of her sort. Sbe "Clung to her faith-'twas higher than the thought That questioned of her faith." · -P. C• .fl.dvertiser, Dec. I. REV. GEORGE PRICHARD.-This English missionary, formerly residing at Tahiti, we are gratified to learn, is still living and able to preach •. Our informant, Mr. Arundel, says that Mr. Prichard now preaches twice and sometimes thrice upon the Sabbath, being vigorous and hale at the age of four score, and more. Mr. Prichard will be remembered as having officiatPd as British Consul at the Society Islands, at the period of the French troub~es, about forty years ago. IOI MARINE JOURNAL. PORT OF HONOLULU. S. I . ARRIVALS. Nov. 4-Am bk Camden, Robinson, 31 dys fm Port Gamble. 6-Am wh bk Hainbow, Cogan, from Arctic. 6-P MS City of New York, Cobb, 13 day!! and 19 hn from Auckland. 9-Haw bk Courier, Ahiborn, 16 days from San Fran. 9-H aw >!Chr J.\11 E Foster, Sears, 18 tlys fm Port Ludlow 10-Am bk Colombia, Johnson, 27 days from Tahiti. 14-P M 8 Australia., Ca1·gill. 7 dys frm San Francisco. 17-.\m wh bk Norman, Campbell, from Arctic. 17-Nicaraguan bktne Uhristina A P Capra, 60 days frorn Hongkong. 18-Am bktne Jos l'erkins 1 Johnson, 26 days from Port Gamble. 21-Am bk H W Almy, Widdensou, 22 days from San Francisco. · 21-Am bk D C Murray, Fuller, 17 days from San Fran cisco. 23-Bolivian bk Remejio, Howard, 62 days from New Castle, en route for San Francisco. 26-Am schr Uasaie Hayward, Hayward, fm Lahaina, · Maui. 28-Haw schr Minnehaha, Freeman, 22 days from Ban Francisco. DEPARTURES. Nov. 2-Am bktn .I A Falkiuburg, Hubbard, for Portland 0 3-Haw bk RC Wylie, Wolters, for San Francisco. 3-Haw brig Julia Yl Avery, Avery, for Tahiti. 7-P MS Oity of New York, Cobb, for San Francisco 12-Am bk Camtlen, Robinson, for Port Gamble. lii-R M S Australia, Cargill, for Auckland. 22-Haw bk Uourier, Ahlborn, for San lfrancisco. 22-Am wh bk Milton, Hamblin, to cruise. 24-Bolivian bk Remejio, lfoward, for San Francisco. 24-Am bktne Jos Perkins, Johnson, for Port Gamble. 24-Nicaragua bklne Christina AP, Capra, for <.Jallao. 28-Am bk Columbia, Johnson, for San Francisco. 30-Am schr Cassie Hayward, Hayward,·for San Fran Dec 1-Am schr Mary Swan, Jacobsou, for Flint's Island 3-Am wh bk Hunter, Homan, to cruise PASSENGERS. FOR SAN FRANCISCO-Per Bonanza., Oct 30- Joo T Inman and wife. FOR AST0RU. AND PORTLAND-Per J A Falkinburg, Nov··2 -Miss Miller. FROM PORT GAMBLE-Per Camden Nov 6-J B Kellogg. FOR SAN FRANCISCO-Per City of New York, Nov 6-J M Davidson·, 8 Adonis, LC Owen wife & child, 0 Hill, Dr W Cheney, Joo Spence, A Unna,. Miss 6orman & nephew, J S Josselyn & wife, Mrs B F Josselyn, J Walker, G W Dickie WW Durham & wife, W H Dimond, Miss Ada Van Winkle, Miss Alice Van Winkle. J J YateH, F R Mellis, J C Glade, wife & children, Mrs M Webster, W W Taylor, E Hillman, Mra! Sarah Cushingham, H Causland, Ah Sin. FROM PUGET Sou ND-Per Mary E Foster, Nov 9-Capt I Hall. FROM NEW CASTLE, NS W-Per Columbia, Nov 10--Mr Wrett, wife and daughter. FoR l'ou·r TOWNSEND-Per Camden, Nov 13-Capt I Hall, Mr Wrett, wife and daughter. FROM SAN FRANCISCO-Per Australia, Nov 14-Mrs PP Shepherd, daughter and infant, F J Scott, W P Toler, Miss M Connell, H Alexander, Mi11s Gothe, J A Arundel!, Miss May, H May, CC Knowles, F A Schaefer, Rev Geo Morris, J R Whitney and daughter, Rev Mr Moncany, Mrs Hickmott and daughler, Alex. Young. Jacob Miller, Mrs Fred Barnard. H A Widemann, J C Merrill, T F Hackfeld, H H Jones, Eli Peck, 0 H Jones, Capt B F Homan. 0 Waterhouse, H C Meyers, D Monroe, Alex Wallace, Mrs F L Flynn and 2 childr·en. T W Bartholf, C C 8eafoo11, E W Manshall, Jas Hanlow. Wm Marriott and 13 Chinamen. FROM SAN FRANCisco-Per DC Murray, Nov 21-Miss R Lackma.un, Mrs TC Sands, EN Walker. wife and 4 children, Mr Townsend, wife and daughter, J L Richardson, J M Bryant, C Seli,r, W S Dryer, L H Lichtenstein, A J Racine, Col Norris, MF Weeks, EA McDuffy, MEdward, L Breman, 24. Chinese and 16 llrwaiian seamen. Fon SAN FRANC1sco-Per Courier, Nov 22-B F Sears. FOR SAN FRANCISCO-Per Columbia, Nov 27-J (.) Kellogg, A Sanford. MAR.RIED. 1 5 We would acknowledge, from Mrs. th~:!~ !~~-;~:0c.~~~NWI~~!: 1:k~:!~; 1~;~t~~tls; ~~,A~~ . T ay l or, of L on don, copies f 'O 1 spurgeon's !SSA EM JACKSON. R0BINSON-CAMPDELL.-At St Andrew's Cathedral, Nov " Sword and Travel " for July, August and 20th, by the Rev A Mackintosh, COL, MARK PREVIER ROBINSON, to SOPHIA LOUISE, daughter of Alex Campbell. Esq, all September. •· of Honolulu. PARKEa-K1moA.-ln this city, Nov 22d, by Rev M Kuaea, N - F rom Dr. l. • All en, 0 f L owe 11 , M ass., Mr RoBERT PARKER to Miss SARAH KEK0A, both of Honolulu. rd a copy of. the "Sanitarian," and other pub- O::?~""'N""'o~C~a""'""'s""'.""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""~""""""""""~~ lications. DIED. - From Prof. Hitchcock, of Amherst ColB0RREs-At Liverpool, 23 miles from Sydney, N. s. w., on Sept. 29th, of consumption, Capt. BENJAMIN BuRR~;s, aged 53 lege, a copy of his '' Hygiene in Amherst years, formerly of Honolulu, where he was for many years enCollege.'' gaged in the ceasting trade. RoBimTs-At Kupeke, Molokai. Oct 27th, of lingering illness - From Rev. Dr. Grammer, of Balti- of nearly 2 months cor,tinuance, Mr. JOHN ROBERTS, an Engmore, a copy of "The Balti_more Pulpit." biI!i~~lve~n: ~Ir:~~ l~~~r~°iirser;:/ resident of these -Also from the following persons of this city: , __ Mrs. Paty, papers; Castle&_ Cooke, book~; Mrs. a::r Letters will be found at the otnce of the FRIEND for the H11lebrand and Rev. S. E. Bishop, magazmes,- following persons: JoHN ToNJcE, SAMUEL FAGANs Enall for gratuitous distribution. w ARD J NEWHALL, CHARLES GAVET. ' I T H E ~, R I E N D , 102 A Lull in Life. "And He said unto them, Come ye yourselves apart into a de11ert place, and rest awhile: for there were many coming and going, and they had no lesiure so much as to eat."Mark vi. 31. Oh for" a desert place" with only the Master's smile! Oh for the "coming apart" wilb only Bis ••rest awhile!" Many are "coming and going" with busy and ru1tless feet, And the soul is hungering so, with "no lesiure so much as to eat." Dear Is my wealth of love for many and valued friends, Best of the earthly gifts that a bounteous Father semis ; Pleasant the counsel sweet, and the interchange of thought, Welcome the twilight hour with musical brigh,ness fraught. Dear is the work He gives in many a varied way. Little enough in itself, yet something for every day, Something by pen for the distant, by hand or 'voice for the near, Whether to soothe or teach, whether to aid or cheer. Not that I lightly prize the treasure of valued friends, Not that I turn aside from the work the Master sends, Yet I have longed for a pause in the rush and whirl of time, Longed for silence to fall instead of its merriest chime. • Longed for a hush to group tbe harmonies of thought Round each melodious strain that the harp of life hath caught, Anti time for the fitful breeze lEolian chords to bring, Waking the music that slept, mute in the tensionless string ; Longed for a calm to let the circles die away That tremble over the heart, breaking the heavenly ray, And to leave its wavering mirror true to the Star above Brightened and stilled to its dephts with the quiet of" ~erfect love:" Longed fitr a sabbath of ltfe. a time ofrenewing of youth, For a full-orbed leisure to shine on the fountains of holy truth; And to fill my chalice anew with its waters fresh and sweet While resting in silent love at the Master's glorious feet. ' There are songs which only flow in the loneliest shades of night, There are flowers which cannot grow in a blaze of tropical light There are crystals which cannot form till the vessel be cooled and stilled; Orystal, and flower, and song, given as·God hath willed. There is work which cannot be done in the swell of a hurrying tide, But my hand is not on the helm to turn mv bark aside ; Yet I cast a longi11g eye on the hidden and waveless pool, U oder the shadowing rock, currentless clear, and cool. Well: I will wait in the crowd till He shall call me apart, the silence fall which shall waken the music of mind and heart; Patiently wait till Be give the work ofmy secret choice, Blending the song of life with the thrill of the Master's voice. '.l.'11) PRANCES RIDLEY HAVEGAL. Island of Suwarrow. Reference to this island will be found in our New Zealand Correspondence. This island is thus described by H. B. Sterndale, in the Weekly News of March 10, 1877 : " ln a direct line between Auckland and Honolulu, ~nd nearly about half way, is situated the island of Suwarrow, an immense triangular atoll, about 50 miles in circuit, en.closi?g a land-~ocked harbo~, 10 miles by 7 in diameter, with a convenient entrance for the largest class of vessels, upon the enclosing coral !eef of which a man may traverse at low tide the whole extent with the exception of the one channel. There are 12 islets or cays, ranging frnm about 20. to 200 acres in extent. Some of these are covered wit~ taJl · forest, others with good grass, while the rest are mere barren rocks clothed with ironwood scrub. No fresh water has been di3covered. upon any of them except such as after rams may have been found in D E CE M B E R , I 8 7 7• the hollows of rocks or in the boles of trees. could not have contained much less than 15, There are cocoanut trees in all stages of 000 dollars. Whether he had dreamed of growth, but not more than 100 in full bearing. its existence, or upon what mysterious in• The soil of the larger islets is extremely fertile formation he act~d, was known to himself and of great ~epth. The entrance channel only. One f~ct 1s very remarkab]e,:-that is wide and deep, opening straight down he was acquarnted from the day of his first from north to south (without an angle or landing, with the precise spot, within a few bend of any kind), the most suitable direc- rods, where this treasure had_ been concealSome years after this occurrence, tion with regard to the prevailing wind, ed. which blows steadily from the eastward dur- another associate of mine unearthed, upon ing the greater part of the year. Marines a detached islet, about a mile distant from acquainted with this place (of which there the locality of the former deposit, 2400 dolare not many) do not hesitate to go in or out lars, which had been buried at the root of on a clear night withoqt apprehension, as an old ironwood tree. He declared he had there are no hidden dangers or rocks below been informed of this many years before, by the surface above the level bottom, which a stranger, whose acquaintance he had made -carries 5 fathoms of water at the lowest in a grog-shop of Tahiti. This man pro-:tides. Within the harbor are all depths fessed never to hav·e been at this island, from 30 fathoms, shoaling to the beach, with but nevertheless was able to describe very a fine sandy bottom, white as snow. Be- circumstantiaUy the place of concealment yond the outer reef are no outlying dangers, of the hidden treasure, the aspect of the either in the shape of promontories or de- islet, and the form and bearings of the tree, tached rocks, neither is there any land with- which leaned over to the eastward in a pecuin 160 m.iles of it in any direction. The liar manne.r. None of the coin was of this shallow portions of the vast lagoon which · century : some of it was very old and black, forms the harbor produce great quantities of and of a date coincident with the era of oysters of a superior kind, as likewise beche- Commodore Anson. The finder possessed de-mer of the !argest and most valuable still further information (which he imparted species. The existence of this island was to me very minutely) of other similar but first reported about 50 years ago, by one more valuable deposits, but fate did not afLieutenant Lazareff, a Russian, who named ford him an opportunity to profit by his it after the famous Muscoyite, General knowledge, for he died uyon the island of Suwarrow, wb_om Byron describes, in his .Manihiki, where he went to visit his wife, "Don Juan," as conducting the siege of very shortly thereafter. The stripping and Ismael. Lazareff landed upon it, but, by burning of the wreck having been complethis own account, found no Jiving creatures ed, the Caroline Hort, the vessel employed save only birds, crabs, and rats. He does on that service, took her departure, and the not appear to have found any entrance, for island was left to its primeval solitude. be makes no mention thereof, neither to have noticed any cocoa palms, although tbere must have been many in existence at A. J..,. SMl~'II, the time of his visit. In fact he seems to IMPORTER & DEALER IN JEWELRY, have mistaken it for a mere bank of coral Spectacles, gravel, washed up by the sea, and over- King's Cc,mhination Glass and , lated Ware, Sewing Machines, Picture Frames, grown with forest and scrub, upon which no Vases, Brackets, etc. etc. subsistence could be found for man. No. 73, Fort St. [ly] TERMS STRICTLY CASH Nothing more appears to have been known of this island until 1856, when an THOS. C. THRUM, American whale-ship called the• Gem ran STATIONERY AND NEWS DEPOT, ashore upon it. She was full of oil, and No. 19 Me1•cho.nt Street, • • • Houol.ulu. being copper-fastened throughout, offered ·a great prize to any adventurous wreckers ACKAGES OF READING MATTER-OJ!' who might undertake the breaking up of Papers and Magazines, back numbers-put up to order a& ly her. She was driven far up on the flat reef; reduced rates for parties going to sea. so that at low tide the water was not more than knee deep alongside of her. A hole was stove in her bilge, out of which rolled ND FOR SALE AT COST PRICE AT three casks of oil, whioh were carried away the Bible Depository, Sailor's Heme, a few copies of the by the sea ; .t hey were picked up soon after, following valuable books : and Truth ............... ,. ..... by lJr. W. P. Mackay floating side by side, oft Falealupo, in Savaii, Grace Wondrous Love.............................. by D L Moody " 600 miles due west of the scene of the Various Addresses.......................... " Dorothea '!'rude! or Tbe l'rayel' of Faith ...... wreck, which will give an idea of the uni- Tell Jesus ............................ by Mrs Anna Shipton •• " form direction of the current in this locality. Cottage on the Rock.................. " Asked of God ....................... . The captain an crew made their way to the Promise and Promiser •••••••••••••••• Various Addresses .••••••••.•••••••• by Rev J Denham Smith Navigators Islands in their boats, and after- The Christian Hero ................. ,.by Rev J Macpherson wards went to Tahiti. There 'the wreck Ourselve~ .............................. by Brownlow North Yes or No............................. •' '' was sold to Mess!:'rs. Hort Brothers, mer- Shadow and Substance ................... by S A Blackwood T .iiumph of Faith..... • • .. • .. • • • • • • • .. • • • " " chants of that place, who despatched one of The Soul and its Difficulties ................ by B W Stolteau their vessels with a supercago in search of The Blood of Jesus .................... by Rev William .l.teid it. It was in company with this gentleman Also, a variety of small Books by the above authors. that I first visited the island of Suwarrow. He superintended the breaking up of the wreck, which turned out immensely profita- Bound Volumes at Reduced Priee ! ble ; discovered the pearl fishery, and after WILL FURNISH BOUND VOLUMES six weeks of unsuccessful search, dug up a • V of the Friend at one dollar per annurn (subscription price $2), for any number of years from 1862 to the pr~sent box of specie, which from its dimensions time. ID" Adding the cost of uinding. P Just Received from Boston! A ,,rE 'fHE FRIEND, DECEMBER J• TO THE PUBLIC! ADVERTISEMENTS. T M. DAVIDSON. AUoruey at Law. Office over Mr. Whitney's Book-store, formerly occupied by Judge Austin. Honolulu, H. I. de-1876 DR· F. B. HUTCHINSON, Office at Drug Store, corner of Fort and Merchant Streets; Residence, Nuuanu Avenue, near School Street. Office Hours, 9 to 11 A. M. fel '7o G. IRWIN & BRADLEY & RULOFSON ! For the Best Photographs in the United States? AND THE VIENNA MEDAL! For the Best in the World! 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ID" Island orders p1omptly exec~ted at lowest rate11 A w. PIERVE & co (Succesors to C. L. Richards & Co.) with lodging, per week, •• $6 5 ED. DUNSCOMBE9 Manager. Honlulu, January 1, l8i5. £arriage Making and '!'rimming ! W E WOULD RESPECTFULLY inform you that we uow employ the beet Mechanics in the line of Carriage Making, ()a,·riage and General Blaclcsmith-ing, Painting. Repairing, &c., ~extant and quadrant glajises silvered and adjusted. Charts On the Hawaiian Group ; and it ie a well estaband nautical instruments constantly on hand and for sale. Particular attention given to Fine Watch Repairing ADAMS, .!J.uction and Cqrn,miHHior,, Merchant, J Officers' Table, Photogra1,hs, Drawings, Celebrities, Stereoscople Seamen's do. do. do. Shower Baths on tbe Premises. Yit:ws, avd Landscape Views or the whole Pacific Coast. Porner Merchant and KaahumanQ. Streets. near the Post Office C HOME! OFFICE OF Plantation and Insurance Agents, Honolulu, Il. I. & SAILORS' For the best Photogra1>hs &. Crayons in San Frauelseo CO •• Commission Merchants, LEWERS 103 THE NATIONAL GOLD MEDAL? Play11lcian noel Sur&eou, w. HE FIRST PREMIUM GOLD MEDAL was awarded at the Industrial Exhibition, 1875, to I 8 7 7. •• Ship Chandlers and General Commission Mer chants, Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaiian Islands. Agents Pnnloa Salt Works, Brand's Bomb Lances, KEEP A FINE ASSORTMENT OF Goods Suitable for Trade. S HIP MASTERS VISITING THIS PORT dqring the last Six Years p~n testif)' from personal experience that tl).e undersigned keep the best assortment of GOODS FOR TRADE And Sell Cheaper than any other Bouse in the Kingdom. And Perry ~aviM' Pain Killer. DILLINGHAM & CO. lished f'act that our Carriage Trimming is us well execated as any in New York City or elsewhere. We therefore feel warranted 10 saying that we can mR.nufacture as good a class of work in Honolulu as can be found in any part of the world. We will also state here that we fully intend to work at the lowest possible rates. WEST & CHAYTER. M. DICKSON, Photographer, Gl Fort Street, Honolulu, A LW A t·s ON HAND A CHOICE ASSORT• MENT OF PHOTOGRAPHIC STOCK, 4 Large Collection of Beautiful Views of Ha.waiian Scenery, &c., &c. CURIOSITY HUNTERS will find at this establishment a SPLENDID COLLECTION OF Vole-.nip Specimeu11, Coralll, Sbell11. War Implement• , Fernl!I, Mat•• Kapa • , 4nd a Great Variety of other Hawaiian and Micronesian Curiosities. PICTVRE FRAMES A SPECIALITY! ~al 1874 CASTLE & COOKE~ DIPORTERS AND DFALERS IN GENERAL MERCHANDISE -AG-ENTS OF,..,.,.,- REGULAR PORTLAND LINE OF Packets, New l<Jngland Mutual Lif~ Insuraqce Coµip11,ny, · 'l,HE The Uniou Marine lnsurance Company, San Fi:-ani:isp,o, The Kohala Sugar Company, 1.'he Haiku Sugar Uompany . Tbe Hawaiian Sugar Mill, W. H, Bailey, The HawakQ.a Sugar Company, Tl)e Waiaiua Sugar Plantation, The Wheeler & Wilson Sewing M:acJiine Comp11,ny, Dr. Jayne & Sons Celebrate<} FainilY Medicines. SEAiflEN'S IIOlllE, SA.N FRANCISCO, CA.LIF.OR~JA.? HARRISON, BETWEEN MAIN AND SPEAR STREETS. the Gem.eral Government, a SEAMAN'S HOME is now being fitted up on Harrison, between :Main and Spear streets, to T which aeamea all nations are invited to make iheir home while in this port. RR.OUGH THE ~XERTIONS OF THE LADIES' SEAMEM'SFRIENDSOCIEl'Y,anqtheliberalityof -0f The Building is or brick, large and commodious, fronting on three streete, commanding a fine Tiew of the harbf'lr and ,city. cesvenient1y located near tbe center of the water front, and capable of accommodating about 500 lodgers, with goou dining room, ,r eading and smoking room, chapel, etc. The hoµse wUl be conducted on strict temperance principle11 like liimllar homes i u -01.&ec parts of this country and Europe. • 4 tr u THE FRIEND," MON'fH:C.Y JOURNAL DEVOTED TO Temperance, Seamen, Marine and General lt.teJligence FUBLlSHED AND EDITED BY SAMUEL C. DAMON. TERMS: One Copy per an!lum ••••••••.••••••••••••.••••••••••• $2.00 Two Copies per annum •.••• • •.•••.••••••••••••..•••••• 2.50 Foreign Subscribers, including postaiie ................. 3.00 lo~ng ltm's atbrisfom issodation of Jonolulu. Pure r·eligion and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: To visit thefathm·less and widows in their ajfiiction, and to keep one's seljunspottedfrom the world. Edited by a CommittBB of the Y. M. C. A. the presence and addresses of Rev. Joseph Cook, Rev. L. T. Townsend, D. D., Rev. L. W. Munhall, of Indiana, Rev. A. J. Gordon, and Mr. L. P. Rowland, of Philadelphia, who respectively addressed the sessions on · · the topics appomted for consideration. Among these topics were the following: The Power of Personal Effort; Association Work in Colleges ; Christian Workers-the qualifications necessary to success ; Present condition of Associations in the State; and At a recent Y. M. C. A Convention held at Cambridge, Vt., it was stated by the SecThe Belfry Pigeon. retary of ·the State Executive Committeee, that during the past year, sixty-nine places On the cross-beam under the Old South bell were visited; among them, four where there The nest of a pigeon is builded well. In summer and winter that bird 1s there, were no churches, and ninety-nine gospel Out and in with the morning air ; meetings were held. Thirty-six of the I love to see him track the street churches report eight hundred and thirty-five With his wavy eyes and active feet, conversions; thirty-five report an aggregate And I often watch him as he springs, of three hundred and ninety-nine additions. Circling the steeple with easy wings 'l'he State is divided into four districts and Till across th e dial his shade has passed, each district is in charge of a srcretary. And the belfry edge is gained at last. There 1s also a general secretarv for the 'Tis a bird r love, with its brooding note Bible Instructions in the Light of Science. State. And the trembling throb of its mottled throat ; The latter theme was expounded by Prof. At a recent reunion of the Y. M. C. A. of There's a human look in its swelling breast Townsend who made this point among 0thAnd the gentle curve of its lowly crest ; ers : "The teacher must be prepared to Bordeaux, France, the very zealous and effiAnd I often st op wi th th e fear 1 feelanswer the honest doubts of inquirers who cient General Secretary bade the AssociaHe runs so close to the rapid wheel. find in this scientigc theories of Darwin tion farewell to enter the evangelical minisWhatever is wrung on the noisy bellHuxley and other modern investie-ators' try, to which he goes with many prayers. Chime or the hour or funeral knell, '-' The Y. M. C. A. of Binghampton, N. Y., The dove in the belfry must hear it well. stumbling blocks to their faith. Instead of When the tongue swings out to the midnight moon- · maktng the sweeping statement that Darwin- holds a gospel meeting every Sunday afterWhen the sexton cheerily rings for noonism and like theories are atheism the teacher noon at five o'clock at the Erie depot for When the clock strikes clear at the morning light- should show what is true, that these modern railroad men. At the same time a Bible When the child is waked with "nine at night"h r d scientists ave a pro1oun reverence for God class is held at the rooms, preceded by a serWhen the chimes play soft in the Sabbath air, and that there are numbers of devout Chris- vice of song. On Sunday morning a prayer Filling the spirit with tones of prayerWhatever tale in the bell is heard, tians who are Evolutionists and who look and praise meeting is held especially for He broods on his folded feet unstirred on E~olution as God's method in creation. young men. Or rising half iri his rounded nest The result would be a new and strengthened A series of interesting meetings have been He takes the time to smooth his breast faith in the truth of the Scriptures. So held the past season under the auspices of Then drops again with filmed eyes And sleeps as the last bibration dies. with respect to other questions of science, the Y. M. C. A. of Providence, R. I. Mr. Sweet bird ! 1 would that 1 could be the brightest intellects will not accept for an E. D. Ingersoll, the agent of the executive A hermit in the crowd, like thee ! answer to their queries a sweeping condem- committee railroad men, held meetings reWith wings to fly to wood and glen: nation of these theories." cently at Providence in behalf o.f this class. Thy lot, like mine, is cast with men; Mr. Cook in his address upon Christian It is probable that steps will be taken to orAnd daily with unwillini feet, association work in its relations to and ganize a railroad branch. I tread, like thee, the crowded street ; claims upon the Church was effective as But, unlike me, when day is o'er, 'f he revision of the Bible now in progress Thou canst dismiss the world, and soar, usual, commending the associations in the is being conducted in such a conservative Or, at a half-felt wish for rest, strongest terms, and arguing that the day spirit that ninety-five per cent. of the people Canst smooth the feathers on thy breast was past when any justification of their exAnd drop, forgetful, to thy nest• istence was called for. To the Young will not know the new Bible from the present rev1s1on. Among the changes that have I would that in such wings of gold Men's Christian Association idea he accordbeen agreed upon· are the following: The I could my weary heart upfold ded the revival movements of the past year. fourth verse of John v. will be excluded; the And, while the world throngs on beneath, Incidental to the regular meetings of the l Iy b reat he; S moo th d own my cares an d cam passage in John i. concerning the three And only sad with other's sadness Convention were the usual devotional exer- heavenly witnesses will be omitted; "strainAnd only glad with other's gladness cices, including an open air meeting on the ing at a gnat" will be translated "straining Listen, unstirred, to knell or chime, common, on Wednesday evening, at half-past a gnat." Othe., changes will be. these: And, lapt in quiet, bids my time. N. P. WILLIS. six, and a "gospel meeting" later in the "Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye Hall. The attendance· throughout the two Y. M. C. A. Notes. believed? " will be translated, u Did ye redays was exc~llent, including two hundred ceive tha Holy Ghost when ye believed ? " • The State Convention of Young Men's and forty-five delegates. The hospitality of " Baptizing in he name,, will be translated, Christian Associations of Massachusetts was the Natick brathren was generous; and a "Baptizing into the Dame'\ the passage in held in Natick, on Wednesday and Thurs- generally good time was enjoyed. day, Oct. 10th and 11th, at Clark's Hall, Among the resolutions passed was one in- Peter, chapte~ i.~~ wr~e!> \{~, '•'.Add to your tp. virtue knowledge," ·will Russell Sturgess, Esq., of Boston, presided, viting Moody and Sankey to continue their faith virtu~, assisted by a large staff of vice-presidents work the present winter.- Congregation- be change~ tp read, 'l In ·your faith minister · virtue, and in your virtue knowledge"; the and secretaries. Foity-two associations were alist. represented in the state report, embracing At a recent meeting of the Honolulu Y. reference in John, chapter x., verse 16, "One four thoµsand members, and verbal accounts M. C. A., it was voted that the regular fold, one shepherd," . will be corrected t~ 4'0ne flock, one shepherd"; "The love of of more than half were rendered to the Con• meetings of the Association be held here• money is the root of all evil," will be changvention. after on the second Friday before the full ed to "The love of money is. a root of all The interest of the exercise centered in moon, in the second month of each quarter. evil."