Friend, 1871-01

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, Jt\NUAltY I, 1871. I©lh jcries, tJot 2H fol. 21. ~o. 1. l - - - - · - - - ·-- --·. -=====-=---=--=----=--=----,===-=----=---- - - .. ·-=-·_----===---·-- ·-·---======-=- -------- }lelu ~cries, Wn,LCAJ\l HALFORD.-This man is the sole Visits to Places of Special Interest in the survivor of the "gig's" crew, coming from Old World.-No. 1. Another Yt>ar (original) ................................... 1 Visits lo l'lace>1 of Special Interest in the 01<1 World .••••• 1, 2 Ocean Island to announce the wreck of the "I will away to }~gypt."-SlwkespParP.. Nokohama ·Mungero .................................... 2, 3 I.! • H t h · d Sixteenth Annual Report Honolulu Sailor's Home Socie1y ..• 3 J.Jctginaw. e appears O ave experience [Uy our" Compa~non de Voyage."] 'l·helateGeneralWilliams ................................. s a series of disasters. November 10, 1866, Loss of U.S. S. "Saginaw" .............................. 4 Visit to Sweden ........................................ .4 while 011 board the bark Elizabetli J enkius, PYRAMIDS, SPHINX, ANTIQUITY OF EGYPT. Marine Journal, &c ....................................... fl rr E Chinese Testimony ....................................... o she collidPd with another ves:Sel in the Brit1.'he traveler in gypt lives in the ages of Young Men's Christian Association ........................ s ish Channel. Seven were saved and twelve the past. The obelisks, the temples and the ··- · - pyramids speak to him of a time not measl~st. July 1, 1867, while on board the Nel- ured by modern chronology. The Nile, with lie For;u.rty, bound from New York to San all its ancient associations from the time of 1 • JS'Tl. .' _ _JANUARY _ _ _ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 F ranc1sco, t he vesse l was burnt, an d t he Moses to the time of Cleopatra, and even to [Communicated.] crew were taken to Pernambuco. August, the time when Napoleon fought the battle of Another Yea1·. 1867, while passenger on board a schooner th e Pyramids, st ill lives in th e present, with its annual inundations making fruitful the bound from Pernambuco to Bahia, the vessel beautiful valley, but almost everything else The years speed by with meteor flight, wa~ dismasted. November, 1867, while on is clouded in mystery. And warn us of t.he tomb ; board the Iovan .Francisco, a Portuguese It was a beautiful morning in December, Another one has quenched its light vessel, bound to Liverpool, the 8hip foundered; ~hen we left Cairo for the purpose of visitIn everlasting gloom. but he was saved. Now he comes reporting _m~dthefteGmhp~eshof WS~kkara, adntlththe pyradAnother mile stone on life's road m1 s o 1ze . e crosse e sacre ls now forever past ; the wreck of the Saginaw, and the wreck of river of the Nile and soon found ourselves Perchance-no one can know save Godthe "gi.g." We_trust that hereafter the young on the sandy des~rt,--the desert, so quiet, so We've tottered by our last! man w1ll experience a less checkered lot. calm, so emblematical of rest. When these temples and pyramid5 were built, we do not We are as fragile as the leaf A CHRISTIAN Hrnooo's OPINION OF THE believe there was any desert here. It was a Quick yellowing to decay ; W AR.-ln "Trubner's Monthly," published fruitful part of the great :Nile valley, but the '.l'he longest life is but a brief in London, we find an article from a native of sands for ages have been driven here from And strangely checkered day. India, who gives his opinion respecting the the Nubian desert, and have made waste 'Tis surely time to rest our oar, places, where once were green pastures and combatants in the French and Prussian war. To pause awhile for breath, fruitful fields. The night on the desert was Before we reach the silent shore, The writer displays a knowledge of European passed in our comfortable tent, but we could And yield our dust to Death. politics, complications and character quite hear the whispering of the wind, and there But not with sorrow, tremblingly, remarkable. "A Celt," he argues, "is no were voices ot the past, speaking with no Need we survey our chart; match for a Teuton." What strikes the doubtful sound. During the afternoon we had been wandering among the temples and Wrestling with storms upon the sea, Hindoo's mind with the greatest astonish- tombs of Sakkara, the site of the ancient Should stouter make the heart. ment is this, that "the most Glirislian Em- Memphis; and magnificent these temples And we, who on the sea of Life peror of the French, and the eldest son of and tombs were--broad, deep and long, With fiercest storms have striven, the Church," should have declared war on almost buried in the sand, the walls still Should courage take in times of strife, SuNDAY (July 17th.) showing the pictured hieroglyphics so comAnd leave the helm to Heaven. mon in Egyptian temples. The colors were .EmToR's TA BLE.-Our table is well sup- bright, and looked as if they had been made Yet, still 'tis well, as years roll round, plied with new books. including " China and a few days ago. How these huge masses of Our good life-bark to view. And see that cord and plank are sound, the United States;" "Coming Events in stone were ever brought here, and so finely Rudder and compass true ; the Australian Colonies;" '' Christianity and cut and fitted one to the other, we could not understand. The ancient Egyptians had the Greek Philosophy," and several other some power of locomotion that we moderns For many a bark, that long ago, works, which we hope to find leieure to notice are ignorant of. Launched forth with colors bright, in our next issue. Heavy with weeds, lies dark below We went into one temple tomb, where The sunshine and the light. there were thirty-two immense stone sarcophDoNATIONs.-From Capt. Lewis, $10 for agi and monoliths-empty now, but once U Calvin S. Mattoon, Esq., United States the Friend and $10 for the chapel; from containing either the sacred bulls, or perhaps Consu I for this port, arrived here by the Capt. Little, $5 for the chapel and $5 for the the bodies of the ancient kings. The temples are supposed to be of thP.~ s~me age as steamer llfoses Ta.ylo1'. Frien:d. CONTE1'TS For J11nnn1•1·. 1871. PAGI!. 'f H E F H, { E N D , I THE Ii'RIEND, JANUiiRY, 1871. ------------------ -·---..,... the pyramids, and they were as much a marvel to old Herodotus ns they are to us. After that night in the desert among those temples and tombs, we rode over to the pyramids of Cheops and Cephrenes, called the great pyramids. The desert is here again, but the sand has not buried the pyramids and the sphinx, as it has the temples and tombs of Sakkara. No date can with certainty be determined for the building of the pyramids. There they stand as they did three or four thousand years ago, a~ great a mystery to us as they were to the oldest known historians. The largest pyramid, that of Cheops, covers eleven acres, measuring 82.110,000 solid feet, and weighs 6,316,0l'l0 tons. The height is four hundred and eighty feet. We ascended this latter pyramid, assisted by two sturdy Egyptians. The ascent was toilsome and somewhat difficult, owing to the height of the steps. From the top the view is grand. The Nile stretr.hes far in a silvery thread through the green valley;the desert skirting the valley. We were in a vast solitude, a sandy waste. We could see the sphinx gazing with prophetic eye at the Nile. The sphinx has a beautiful face, calm and resolute, though somewhat defaced, with the body of a lion and the head of a woman,emblematical of wisdom and strength. Here on top of the pyramids, for thou~ands of years, the names of pilgrims have been cut in the solid rock. Time seems to have no influence over the pyramids. From age to age they appear the same. Man, if he had had the power, would haYe destroyed them, but they are too vaRt to be removed by the hand of man. They defy the assaults of time. We entered the inner chamber of the great pyramid. There was a large sarcophagus, once containing the body of the king in whose honor the pyramid was probably built. It is an immense stone cut from the solid rock, hollowed out in fine proportions and bea,1tifully polished. A Lord Elgin, if possible, would have removed it from its ancient base, but it is too vast and too massive ever to be removed, at least in our time. How were these great stones cut from the quarries? Obelisks ninety feet long and statues forty feet high were cut from the solid rock by the ancient Egyptians. It is only lately the probable discovery has been made. A recent writer has remarked, that the blocks of stone selected for these monuments were not chance splinters from barbarous efforts of splitting and smashmg, but clean slices separated from the native rock, after being selected and accurately defined. And how was this done? By driving in huge iron wedges? No indeed; that would probably have split the stone. By infinite labor in chiseling and sawing? No; the ancient Egyptians knew better than that. They cut a small groove along the whole length of say gne hundred feet, and in this inserted a number of wooden wedges. Then they poured water into the groove, and the wedges expanding simultaneously and with great force, broke away the huge fragment, as neatly as a strip of glass is taken off by a diamond. Cairo is a fair type of an Oriental city. The people are mostly Mohammedans, although the Copts, who are believed to be the descendants of the anr.ient Egyptians, form a larcre class of the population. They hnve a -=-- ·----- form of Christianity, but that form seems lifeless and fruitless. The mosques are large, but with no adornment in the interior. Daily from the minarets of the mosques the voice ot the muezzin is heard : "There i:s no God but God, and Mohammed is his prophet." The streets are narrow, except in the modern part of the city, where the Khedive is endeavoring to imitate Paris in the erection of long boulevards. We visited the Royal Mosque, which was magnificent, with its marble and alabaster. The population of the city is estimated at five hundred thousand, but a more wretched, ignorant and degraded population it would be difficult to find. Modern civilization makes little impress on the people. The town of Bqu lac is the port of Cairo on the Nile, and lies about a mile from the city. Here the Khedive is forming n museum of Egyptian antiquities. It is a very valuable and extensive one now, probably the largest in the world, although the Louvre in Paris and the British Museum contain a noble collection. It was pleasant to wander through those galleries of Boulac. Here were rich antique jewels, that the daughters of the Pharaohs may once have worn. Here were statues and busts, perchance of the Shepherd Kings. Here was mortality in the shape of the ~kin and bones of royal mummies, all wrapt in perfumed cerements, which we trnst may yet put 011 the robe of immortality. Their bodies have not yet crumbled to dust, for the asphaltum has thus far preserved their witherecl forms. We prefer the quiet grave to the stately mummy for our resting place in this world. Nokohama l'tlungP,ro, one of the .Japanese Envoys to Europe. --- ---· One of them, John Mung, accompanied Capt. W. to the United States, where he was educated in a good common Rchool, besides having acquired the cooper's trade. ·' He has returned to the [slands, and here finds his former shipmates, two of whom propose to accompany him, and, if possible, return to Japan. He has purchased a good whaleboat and outfit, Capt. Whitmore, of the American ship Sarah Boyd, having kindly offered to leave them somewhere off the Loochoo falan<ls, and from thence they hope to make their way to Japan. To complete the outfit is wanted-a compass, ct good fowling-piece, a few cwticles of cloth- in,q, shoes, ancl a nautical almanac for 1850. Will not some benevolent person aid forward the enterprise. The subscriber will be responsible for the safe delivery t>f the articles referred to. S. C. DAMON." The Sa1·ah Boycl sailed on the 17th, but before sailing, the United States Consul, Judge Allen, at our request furnished Mungero with a duly certified document of American citizenship, well supplied with '' seals." Capt. Whitmore reported on his arrival at 8hanghae that he launched the boat and his three Japanese passengers off the Loochoo Islands. The original account of the expe• dition will be found in the F'riend of January 1st, 1851. Ten years passed before we were able to obtain a single item of information respecting Mungero, although we made most diligent inquiry of several officers attached to Perry's United States Exploring Expedition. On the 17th of May, 1860, the Japanese steamer I{"anclinmcwrali arrived in Honolulu, having our old friend Mungero on board as interpreter. Never were we more surprised. He appeared to us as one from the dead! At our request he gave the following account of himself, which will be found in the F'riencl of June 1st, 1860. "In January, 1851, Capt. Whitmore, of the Sar-ctl-1, Boyd, launched the boat 'Adventurer' from his deck off Great Loochoo, wind blowing fresh from N. W., accompanied with hail. The ship was about five miles from land. After rowing hard for ten hours, we anchored near the land. Next morning I sent Denzo on shore, but he returned with a 'tear in his eye,' because he had forgotten his native language, and was unable to communicate with the people. We all went' on shore, and I took a loaded pistol; we made signs to the people for water, and they conducted us to a pond; we now boiled our coffee and ate some beef and pork, 'American fashion.' The people gave us some sweet potatoes and rice. As we could not speak to the people, we were conducted to a government office, about one mile off, where some rice was given us, in order to see if we could eat rice with t\\ o chop-sticks ! We showed them that we knew how to handle the chopsticks, and this exploit settled the question of our nationality, for we were pronounced From a New Bedford paper, as well as from a letter from Capt. Whitfield, we learn that seven Japanese have arrived in the United Stutes, en route for Europe, who have been sent by the Japanese Government upon a tour of inspection relative to the war now raging. Respecting one of these Envoys a remarkable story may be told, confirming the old saying that "truth is stranger than fiction." Our part of the story shall commence with his arrival in Honolulu in the fall of 1850, just twenty years ago. He then came from the m inijs of California, and deposited with us about $75, stating that he was desirous of returning to Japan. We listened to his plan of an expedition with no small amount of incredulity, intimating that he would be executed if he returned to his native land ; but so earnest was he, that we gathered about $100 from a few of the foreign residents of Honolulu, to add to the money already in hand, for the purpose of buying a whaleboat and outfit. This was done, but a few more fixtures were needed, and the following appeal was inserted in the Polynesian of December 14th, 1850 : "EXPEDITION FOR JAPAN.-The public is aware that from time to time wrecked Japan- Japanese! ese have been brought to the Sandwich Isl"A messenger was then dispatched to a ands. There are now three who were brought city about ten miles off, and after some banhither by Capt. W. H. Whitfield in 1841. tering and threats, we were taken under the THE FRIEND, JANUARY, 1871. eare of the King of Loochoo, who treated us very kindly. We spent six months in Loochoo, when we were conveyed in a junk to the island of Kiusiu, near the southern point of the island ; we were there taken under the care of the Prince of Thiztumar ; we remained at this place forty-eight days. The Prince made very many inquiries respecting America and American people, and our treatment. This prince has great influence; he treated me with much kindness. "We were then removed to Nangasaki, where we were joined by five more shipwrecked Japanese sailors, who had been forwarded from Honolulu to their own country via China. At N'angasaki we were detained thirty months, not however being confined to a close prison, but allowed large liberties. At the end of two and a half years, we were allowed to proceed to our homes, and, so far as I know, all my companions safely reached their homes, and were welcomed by their friends. I went to Xicoco. After thirteen years' absence, I was joyfully welcomed by my mother. My father died before I left home. My mother had mourned for me as dead ; under that impression, she had built for me a tomb. I remained at home 'three days and three nights;' I was then removed, with my good boat 'Adventurer,' to Yeddo, where I was promoted to the rank of an Imperial officer, wearing two swords ! For several years I was employed in Yeddo. I was for a long time occupied in translating " Bowditch's Navigator; " it was a long and laborious work. I have built manv boats after the model of the American whaleboat 'Adventurer.' My old whaleboat is now in government store-house at the city of Yeddo. I have been very often consulted a, respecting questions relating to Americans and foreigners. I have had charge of some of the presents which were brought by Commodore Perry. I was in Yeddo at the period of Commodore Perry's visit, but was not introduced to any of the officers of the expedition. I am thirty-six years old. I am married, and have three children. I am captain in the navy, and, at home, have charge of a vessel." At the time of his visit in 1860, he presented us with a sword, reported to be two hundred years old, and also with another gift, which we prize vastly more than we do the sword. It was a translation of "Bowditch's Navigator," in two volumes, which we still retain as amon!s the most rare and remarkable of literary coriosities. This translation includes dia,qrams and logar'itlimic tables in full. ·when noticing Munjero's visit in 1860, we closed an article with the fo1lowing paragraph: 3 and progress of which he is most ardently devoted. His love for Japan is great." During the last ten years we have occasionally heard from the HERO of our story, but surely we never expected to learn that we should have the pleasure of recording the fact that his government had honored him with the appointment of an Envoy to Europe, to inspect lhe warlike operations of the Prussians and the French. We hope on his return to Japan, he may take Honolulu in his route. neatly kept and well conducted under the "' constant supervision of Mr. ·Dunscombe, employed by the Young Men's Christian Association. In concluding our report, we would remark that until the traveling community visiting Honolulu will authorize the establishment of a first clasl" hotel, the IIome claims to be sustained for the benefit of transient boarders and travelers, as well as for seamen. ~- C. DAMON, Chairman of Ex. Committee. Sixteenth Annual Report of the Hono• Honolulu, Dec. 22<l, 1870. lulu Sailor's Honie Society. Sixteen years ago the friends of seamen in Honolulu organized the " Honolulu Sailor's Home Society," and stated their object to be, the improvement of "the social, moral and religious condition of seamen resorting to this port, by promoting the establishment and maintenance of a Home of good character, from which all intoxicating liquors shall be excluded, and in such other ways as shall be de~med proper." The Home was finished and opened for boarders in the fa]l of 1856, or fourteen years ago, and never has been closed. If the Home has not accomplished all that its founders and patrons hoped for, yet enough has been accomplished to pronounce the Home a success. The trustees have been hitherto peculiarly fortunate in securing the services of efficient keepers. The present occupant, Mrs. Crabbe, has done all that could be accomplished to carry out the original design of 1 the institution. During the past year, or few years, while the number of foreign seamen resorting to this port has diminished, and consequently a proportional less number of common sea• men have resorte~ to the Horne as boarders, the rooms and table have been occupied by a greater number of ship-masters and their families, and by transient boarders from the other islands and abroad ; hence the Home has not ceased to prove a blessing to the Honolulu public, which has liberally contributed for its erection and support. One thing must be admitted in favor of the Horne and those who have carried it forward,-in The late General William Williams. Recent papers and private letters announce the death of General Williams, of Norwich, Ct., at the advanced age of 82 years. Few men in New England of the generation now passing away, have occupied so high a place in the love and esteem of the friends of education, domestic and foreign missions, and public charities, as this gentleman. He was t1·uly a, Christian gentlemctn. In his own neighborhood he was associated with every g:ood and philanthropic enterprise. The interests of the Mohegan Mission, common schools and the Norwich Free Academy occupied his constant thoughts, while he was scrupulously punctual to his duties as a bank officer and citizen. His sympathies were not narrowed down to his own church or neighborhood, but his thoughts went abroad with missionaries in Asia M.inor, China, India, and the islands of the sea. Long wiU his friends, acquaintances and guests remember his generous hospitality, genial kindness and .Princely beneficence. Our young College at Punahou is indebted to him for a part of its endowm8nt. The death of such men recall the words of the Revelator John : "And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth; yea saith the spirit, that they may rest from tµeir labors; and their works do follow them." U M.any thanks to the several writers who have communicated their thoughts and reflections for the readers of the J?riend. We are glad to have another pen describe no way has it ever been a source of pecuni- scenes in the Old World. The communicaary loss to any merchant, grocer, baker, tion respecting Egypt will be read with inmechanic, or any other person who has had terest. In conversation a few days since dealings with its trustees or its keepers. 'fhe '3/ith a gentleman associated with the judi" The end is not yet. If we live a few Horne has always promptly paid all its bills, years, other events equally worthy of record and to-day has a small balance in its treasury. ciary of this kingdom, the subject of Chinese testimony came up for discussion. We rewill have occurred. We shall anxiously The arrangement made one year ago wi th quested him to pen a few thoughts upon the await the development of the future. Nine years ago we wrote, 'Success to Captain the Young Men's Christian Association re- subject. The importance of this will readily Mung, commanding the whaleboat 'Adven- specting the Reading Room, . we are happy appear, when a person for one moment returer,'' but we now add, Success to Captain to report has been most satisfactory and sue- fl t · " a . ec s upon th e a bsur d 1' ty of" swearing Mungero, of the Imperial Navy of Japan, lt 1s the only well kept and well Ch' b 1· · · B dd' cessful. . . . marnan e 1evrng m u ism upon ti1e Acting Interpreter of the Oandinmwrrah, supplied Readmg Room, open to the public, Bible. But how shall it be done? Shall a and Translator of 'Bowditch's Navigator.' Long may he be spared to benefit his native in Honolulu, and being free, it is resorted to Christian court administer a hen then oath ? land, to the interests, prosperity, civilization by seamen and stranger visitors. lt has been "That's the question." I :• 4 THE lrRJEND, JANUARY. IS71 ========-- - - - - THE FRIEND. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - --- - - ----- -- - - tion of it was spoiled by the ~alt water and Visit to Sweden. was thrown overboard. This misfortune l enjoyed myself much while at home in JANUARY 1. 1871. ·made it necessary for the c1ew to put themselves on still shorter rations, causing grerit Sweden. Found all my relatives well, but Loss of the U. S. IS. "'Snginaw." sllffering. At tbe time of the arrival of the many changes had taken place since I was boat off Kauai, there were no provisions lelt last there. Friends and acquaintances were It. is our painful duty to record the loss of except a few_ spoonsful _of a }?reparation of : ~i:ssing; some had gone to their long homes, the United States steamer Su[Jinmn on the potatoes, whirh was mt~ed wi th water a nd I others were scattered to different portions of morning of Saturday, October 29th, on Ocean eaten by the almost farmshed crew. Fortu- 1 Island, one of the numerous small and barren nately, the supply of water held out, there the earth. sand islets which comprise the chain begin- being some sixteen g::11lons left. After the In many ways Sweden has paf&;sed through ning at French Frigate Shoals and extenc,1- boat capsized in the surf, William Halford great changes since my boyhood days. The ing some twelve to fourteen hundred miles clung to the boat for some time, when he introductions of railroads has made a marked across the ocean. This island is about N. saw James Muir still in the boat (Lieutenant f N. W. from Midway hland, being in about Talbot, Peter Francis and John Andrews change in the commercial interests o tne 28 20' N ., and 178 10' W. We a re having been washed overboard), in n state of country. Gotheburg is now the largest shipunable to learn the precise circumstances stupor. Halford made him fast to the deck, ping port, from which to the east coast of under which the VP::isel went ashore. She and taking a tin box containing papers and England, somewhere about twenty steamers left Midway Island on the 29th of October, d<~spatches, went on shore, tbe boat having are engaged in the transportation of freight and the next morning at two o'clock and in the meantime been thrown into shoal forty-five minutes, went ashore on Ocean water bv the surf. Retur~ing to tbe boat he and passengers, all of them between 500 and Island. Very few provisions were saved from took th~ chronometer ashore, and again re- 1,000 tons burden. Like other parts of the the ship, although she did not entirely go to turning, took his exhausted companion and world, steam is taking the place of sails in pieces until the morning of the 14th of carried him safely to land, making a bed for vessels. November, when the after part, which had hnn as best he could from the few old clothes There has been much of a change also in held together till then, went to pieces. he could get from the boat. He then re- the city of Gotheburg. It has been enlarged On the 18th of November, Lieutenant moved everything movable from the boat, Talbot, the executive officer, and four of the having been obliged in doing so, to wade and remodeled. Several large churches have aew, namely: Peter Francis, quarter-master, through the surf five times, showing the been erected, and fine public parks laid out. James Muir, John Andrews, and William most heroic fortitude, as our readers will ap- During my stay, water-pipes were being- laid Halford, coxswain, all of whom had volun- preciate, when they reflect that he had been down to convey water all over the town. In teered for the expedirion, left the island in exposed for so many day!'l in the boat upon the past it has been labonous and expensive the ship's gig with the hope of reaching these merely enough food to sustain life, besides islands to obtain assistance. The boat ex- having boen further exhausted in his efforts to obtain water, there being only three places p@rienced very heavy weatner, having been to keep hold of the boat during the time she where it could be obtained, from whence it obliged to "heave-to" in three severe gales, was in the surf. · was carried to the different quarters of tber:ity. and losing all thP oars that were on board. Ne\\'S arrived in Honolulu of the disaster I took pleasure in viewing the schools, and After incredible suffering, tbe crew in the on Saturday, wh~n steps were immediately , the new school system. When I was a boy bo~t sighted Kauai on the 18th of December, taken to send relief to tbe wrecked people on 1 having been at sea in a small boat for thirty Ocean Island. The schooner Jio?W JJ((l·ket there were but few free schools; now there days, all of them being quite exhausted from was despatched on Saturday eve~ing with are over one hundred. When a scholar has long exposure and the hardships suffered provisions and water by th£> A rnencan Mm- learnt all that is taught in a free school, he during their perilous voyage of over one ister Resident. On Monday, owing to the is ready to enter college, if he desi-rcs a thousand miles. After sighting the land, uncertain state of the weather, and the prob. the wind shifted to the N. W., with heavy abilitv that tho schooner might be a long higher educauon. rain squalls, during which the boat was time 1n reaching the island. His Exrclleney But the greatest change I noticed was in drifted a way from the land. With great ef- requested this Government tlrn t tile s teamer the cause of vital religion. You are a,vare fort, she was beat up again on tbe night of J{ilaw' ft might be despatcheJ ou the mis- tbat the state and church were connected, the 19th. unfortunately, in approaching the sion. Tbe steamer wa~ prornptly pla1..:ecl l-lt and no other denomination than the Lutheran shore near Hanalei, the boat got into the his disposal, and the proper quautity of coals tolerated. Now all those old hindrances are breakers and was capsized-the crew being for the voyage and prnvi:-;ions having been so weak and exhausted that thev could do placed on board, she sailed at half-past five gone. While I was in Gotheburg, the Methbut little to direct her course. Lieutenant o'clock on Monday evening. 1t is to be oc!ists dedicated a fine place of worship. Talbot and two men were drowned. Hal- hoped that she will make a q?ick p::i.-s sage, Tbev have a congregation of about two ford, the survivor, succeeded in getting one as the wrecked crew-some ninety 111 nurn- hundred mPmbers, ~nd I believe they are inof his comrades on shore, but he was so far ber-were placed at once. after the disaster, creasing. The Baptists have a fine hall, rrone that be died in a short time. On the on quarter rations, and require aid as soon ~ame day the bodies of Lieutenant Talbot as it can be rendered them. -- (iu;~ctte. . which was built by a person somewhat acand one of the seamen washed nshore, and quainted with you, whose name is G. Schro- . were take n charge of by Mr. Bindt, manager . II7" To the published account of the wreck der. He ~as master of a ship sailing out of of the Hanalei Plantation. They were buried of the Bag,i naw, we would add that all tbe the States for many years. He married a the next day at Hana.lei, together with the laborers and the contractor engaged in cleardaughter of the late Rev. Mr. Stewart, who man who had died ou shore. During the time the boat was near the shore on the ing out the channel of Midway Island . were for a long time . was pastor of the Baptist evening of the 19th, the schooner lVaiula, on board the vessel when she was wrecked. Mariner's Church in the city of New York. Captain Dudoit, must have been very near Two of th; unfortunate men who were Capt. Schroder became acquainted with you the unfortunate crew, as they saw her light, drowned belonged to this company. One of in Honolulu, while on. a voyage from San but owi1w to the darkness of the night, those them, James Andrews, was the principal Francisco to China. A. TrNGSTltoM. on board ool the schooner missed seeing the diver. He belonged to Boston, where his boat. d A l J Goon TEllIPLARs.-W e rejoice to learn The o-io- in which Lieutenant Talbot and wife and family now resi e. not 1er, ames from various sources that this organization his ere,~ took passage for these islands, had Muir, was also attached to the same party, is vigorous, and accomplishing. J?uch good been raised a few inches and decked over but volunteered to come off in the "gig" to in Honolulu and at other localtt1es on the preparatory to making the passage. She _was report the loss of the vessel. He belonged islands where branches have been estabprovisioned for thirty-five days at half rations d W l h when she started from Ocean Island, b11t dur- to Glasgow, Scotian · e earn t, ese par- lished. Quite a number of captains and seamen have lately become members. ing the heavy gales experienced, a large por- ticulars from Halford , the sole survivor. ° ° I THE FRIEND, JANUAitY, 1871. - ____---- -- ----- .,,_ MARINE.-'l'he U. S. S. •Nyack, (fourth rate) Lieutenant Commauder Henry Glass, forty-four days from Callao, Peru, arrived in this port on Thursday ]nst. She has been condemned, and is en route for San Francisco, touching here for fresh provisions, &c., and will remain about a month, or until communication is had with the wrecked crew of the Saginaw. 'fhe .Nyack carries eight guus, bas a compliment of fifty-five men, and is 410 tons burthen. The following is a list of her officers : Lt. Commander and Executive Qffecer-C. II. Craven. Lieutenant and NavigrAtor-H. R . Baker. L'ie-utenants-M. B. Field and W. I. Moore. En~ign-E . P. Ward. A.ding Payma.~ter-A. J. Greely. First .Llctiny Engineer-A. S. Green. Past Assistant Su.ryeon-S. F. Shaw. Captain's Clerk-Thos. Nickerson. SUBSCRIBERS AND HEADERs.-No newspaper publisher ever hud better paying subscribers than the Fn:encl, but we have a multitude of readers who seldom aid us bv their pecuniary contributions. Will not sorn~ of our readers remember the .Friend? Five hundred copies are printed for gratuitous distribution on ship and shore. SHIPWRECK AT THE F1Jis.-The yacht .lllbatross, belonging to the Earl of Pembroke, which was on a cruise among the South Sea Islands, struck on a reef off one of the Fijis on the night of Oct. 21, and bilged. 'l'he crew all got safely to Levuka in their boat. Thirty years ago, every one of them would have been killed and eaten. LANDING OF THE P1LGRIM:s ......:..The two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of this event was generally commemorated throughout the Northern States. In Honolulu a sermon was preached at the Bethel. REv. WALTER FREAR.-We are happy to welcome this gentleman as a co-laborer in the work of the Christian ministry. He has been a successful pastor in Santa Cruz, California. o:::? There was a pleasant gathering at thP Session Room of Fort Street Church on the evenmg of the 20th ult., to welcome the Rev. W. Frear. REv. J. D. STRONG.-California papers re-· port this gentleman as having returned from the East, and as about to resume his ministerial labors ih California. [ ? The Hawaiian Club gave the Rev. T. Coan and wife a reception at the United States Hotel in Boston, where a dinner was spread. l~lAJ{lN}~ JOUl{NAJ-', PORT OF HONOLULU, S. I. A. RRIVALS. ~!J-Am bk Coloma, ,J It Potter, 22 days fm Port Town~eod, WT. 20-Ilaw bk A J Pope, 0 G Plasse, 146 days fm Bremen. 2U-Am schr Lovet Peacock, C Gustafson, 30 da,vs from l'ort Townsend. 3U-Am schr C 1\1 ·Ward, J W Ilatlield, 10 days from Jarves' Is. 30-Am schr Margaret Crockard, W B Godfrey, 56 days from Newcastle, NS W. lo-Am brig Shelleko:ff, L Hopken, 21 days from San Francisco. 16-Am bk Edward James, C M Patterson, 26 days from Astoria, 0, en route for Hongkong. 16-Brit brig Robert Cowan, WP Weeks, 41 days from Victoria, B C. 17-Brit bk Antipodes, .Jno Kirkpatrick, 64 days from N ew Castle, N S W, via Tahiti, 25 days , 19- Am bk Comet, A Fuller, 18 dayR rm Sa n Francisco. D ec, 28- U S g-nn hoat N yar.k, Lieut Com H G!aas, 8 guns, 4.! t.lay s fru1,11 Callao . -·-- DEPARTURES. 26-Brit stmr City of Melhournc, Grainger, t:Jr Au c kland and Sydney. 29-Am wh bk llelen Snow, Campbell, for New Bet.lfonl. !!!:I-Am stmr Moses Taylor, Floyt.l, for S:rn Francisco. 29-Am wh sh California, Willis, for New Ue<lford. 29-Am wh bk Alaska, Fish, for New Bedford. 29-Am wh bk Trident, l\farchant, for New Bedford. 29-Am wh bk Acors Barnes, .Jeffery, for New London. 29-Am bktn Grace Roberts, Knacke, for Ilumboldr, Cal. 30-Brit l>k Anna, Thompson, for Fiji and Melbourne. 30-Am bk Coloma, Potter, for Ho11gkong. • 30-Am wh bk JD Thompson, Allen, to cruise. 30-Am wh bk Sea Breeze, Week~, for New Bi:dford. 2-Am wh bk Midas, Hamill, to cruise. 2-Am wh hk Lagoda, Swift, to cruise. 5-Haw ship lolaui, Ropes, for New Bedforcl. 5-Haw bk It C Wylie, llalterm~nn, for llambur~. 5-Am wh ship Josephine, Cogan, for New Bedford. 5-Am wh hk Hercules, McKenzie, for New Bedford. 6-Am wh bk Vineyard, Smith, tor Edgartown. 8-Am wh bk Seneca, Kelley, to cruise. 8-Am wh ship Cor Howland, Potter,for New Bedford. 8-Am wh ship Roman, .Jernegan, to cruise. 9-Am wh bk John Wells, Dean, to cruise. 9-Am wh bk llen Cummings, Halsey, for New Bedford. 10-Am schr C M Ward. Rickman, for Guano Islands. 10-Am wh bk Thos Dickasnn, Lewis, to cruise. 10-Am wh bk Oliver Crocker, Fisher, to cruise:. 10-Am wh sh Marengo, Little, for New lledfonl. 13-Am wh bk ActiAe, Rlackmer, for New Bedford.I 15-Am brigtn North Star, Hatch, for San Franci,co. 15-Am schr Lovet Peacock, Gustafson, for Port Townsend. 16-Am wh ship Janus, Nye. for New Iledforrl. Hl-Am hk Edward James, Patterson, for Hongkong. 19-Am wh ship Europa, Mellen, to cruise. 20-U S sloop-of-war St Marys, Harris, for Talcahuana. 20-Am hk Bhering, Burr, for Falmouth, for orders. 21-Am wh bk Eugenia, Nye, to cruise. 21-Arn wh hk Elizabeth Swift, Bliven, to cruise. 21-Haw wh bk Arctic, Tripp, to cruiise. 23-Haw wh ship Julian, Ueppingstone, tc, cruise. 23-Am wh bk Wm Rotch, Whitney, to cruise. 23-Am wh bk Minerva, Allen, to cruise. 28-Am stmr ~loses Taylor, Floyd, for San Francisco. 28-Am brig Shellel10:ff, Ilopken, for Tahiti. 29-Am wh bk Navy, Bauldry, to cruise. 29-Am wh bk Concordia, .Jones, to cruise. 31-Bark Comet, Fuller, for San Francii'CO. MEMORANDA. REPORT OF SCHOONER P ..M. WARD :-Left Honolulu, uctober 31st, arrived at .Jarvis Island, November 13th, experienced light winds all the passage down; was detained at the island eight days. Left Jarvis Island, November 20th, ancl on the 26th, sighted Hawaii, being six days and eighteen hours from land to land ; arrived off the harbor on the night of the 29th, making the passage in nine days and sixteen hours. Yours, JAMES w. 1-IA"rFIELDREPORT OF IlARK COMET, CAPT. A. FULLER.-Left San Francisco December 1st. First three day~ out heavy gale from SE to SW with plenty rain. Ship under small canvass most the time. Then light winds from north and wef\t with heavy westerly swell. Took the trades in 27 north, which lasted to within 600 miles of the islands, when we had a succession of SW and NW winds, arriving in Honolulu December 19th, 18 days passage. P A.SSENGERS. Fon AUCKLAND AND RYDNEY-Per City of Meihourne, Nov. 26 :-Capt Austin, R lllackmore, J lllackmore, .T N Luke, 5 Japanese adults and 4 children, Thos Eastwood, D C Dumes, Mrs Berrill and 3 children, Miss Crittenden, Capt Norton, W Sea, and 71 in transitu from San Frandsco. Fon FIJI ISLANDS-Per Anna, Nov. 26 :-Clrns .Jennings. Fno~r PonT TOWNSEND, W T-Per Lovet Peacock, Nov. 29 :-P Keach, wife and 3 children. Fon SAN FnANCisco-Per Moses Taylor, Nov. 29 : - ·w Naples, W Richards, .J D Sueador. S Green, Mrs Bliven, G F Bliven, W M Roon, A S Comstock, H Sherman, J A Smith, Mi~s L Mann, R Nealey, ,J E Fbh, Jos Enos, Capt Green, wife, child and nurse, C K Clark, Peter Good, Mrs Wilson, R Bri~gs. J Avery, W L R .Johnston, J Fisher, A H Johnson, Ram'! Williams, Claud Buwre, C Tibault and wife, I' Wynne, Albert Fouttrer, l\la.nuel C Viere, ;u J Silva. W Folcher. W H Murphy, W Phillips, S K McDonnell, W S11erwin, Mr Small, Mrs Carnndini and 4 daughters, M Raphael, and 21 in transitu from Aucklan,i and Sydney. FROM NEWCASTLE, NS W-Per Margaret Crockard, Nov. 29:-Alex'r Stark. Fnonr JARVIS lsLAND-Per C 1\1 Ward, Nov. 30 :-A Edwards, W .Johnson, W Mosher, 1 Hawaiian. Fnonr PonT TOWNSEND-Per Coloma, Nov. 30 :-Ci.pt H Swift and wife. FnoM BREMEN-Per A ,J Pope, Nov. 29 :-Marie·Jenckel. Fon HAM.BURG-Per R. C. Wylie, Dec. 5th-II P Jespersen, Franz Fabro-2. ' Fon Gu .~NO ISLANDS-Per C. M. Ward, Dec. 10th-Ben Hempsten.d, Geo Hempstead, A Edwards, Dau Lyons, Louis Micoll-5. FlwM SAN FRANCisco-Per Shellekotf, Dec . 15th-William Allen, H Woltmann. Capt Moller, Capt Hecbtel, Mr Classen, Mr Cloyn, H Lhomanu, 2 Hawaiians, 1 l\Janilaman-10. Fon SAN FRANCISCO-Per North St;tr, Dec. 151.h-Gco A Smith, Geo A Smitlt, .Ir, Sa m P S mith, Wm A Sanrlhoum , Capt Gray, l\lr Hatfield , Mr llrunton, l\lrs Brunton, Mr Wm Sh,nv, wife and 7 childnm, Andrnv ::itark- 18. 5 Fon Po1t·1· TowNs1rno, ,v 'l'.-l'er Lovet l'eac•.ock 1 Dec. 15th-Capt H :-Swift aml wile, P Keach, wife and 3 cllitdren, ,Juo Dempsey-8. FnoM SAN FnANC1sco-Per Comet, Dec. lOtll-Mrs Bea-• man, 2 children and nurse, :\lrs Howe 1md daughter, Mr 1' A Lord, 11 B Forrester, [I J Agnew, J W Armstrong, James \Villiams, John Rihello, Cha~ Christmas, Hemyvan Beal-14. Fno~t NEw CASTLE, N, S. W.-Per Antipodes, Dec.19thJ Thompson-], Fno~t SAN FnANC1sc;o -Per Moses •raylor, Dec 25 :-Ur J B Saun<lers ancl wife, .J G ti'tiller, Mrs !'ti 8 Rice and <laughter, Mrs .I Dudoit and Child, Mrs Corney, Miss A Dudoit, l\li~s D Dut.loit and servant, Mt's Dau'! ::imith, Chas O'Neil, ,J ,I Wheeler, Dr A Kennedy and wife, 1l Gile,s wife and infant, A B Cate, Mi~s E Brewer. 1' n ileazell, CS Matoon and wife, .I ll Helen, R Driggs, W G U Whipple wile and:! childreu, Mrs H F Loveland and 2 children, Rev \V Frear wife and 5 Chilllren, anrl 35 others; 3L in tra.nsitufor Australia. Fon IloNoLuLu-Per Wonirn Wonga, D ec. 24 ,-Mr. and ~lrs. Preston. ::itecrHge, 9 and 2 children ; 41 in transitu for Sein Francisco. Fon AusTllALIA-Per \Vonga Wonga, Dec. 2<3-Rt ltcv Dr Sheil, Rt Rev Dr Goold, Titos Ball, Miss E Ball, ES Bray, WA Hunt, .r G :5terr.v,::; Sticker, M llolfe, Hon Q Rolfe and wife, Mr Knowles, Robt Kaye. mail agent, and 19 others. Fon SAN FRA "c;1sco-Per Moses Taylor, Dec. 28th-Capt. Homan, wife a.nd child, Capt ,1 A Howland, S Magnin, l\l Phillips, Thos llend erson, .Jr,. M Hyman, I\Ir Houghton and wife . F Fisherman, W B 'I'hornpsoo, G Claremont, Rosa Evans, lJ V l'ar~r, W E Rogers, Nellie Hosmer, R Newcomb, Geo Allen, Jllanuel Dalgot and wife, W H Mosher, Henry Woatman, T llendersrm. S E Forrl. Frank Manuel, Chas H Gibl-s, .1 Crinckshank, and 35 iu tran~ilu from Sydney and Auckland-63. Fon SAN FRANG1sco-Per Comet, Dec . 31st-Mr I Bartlett, Mr .Jordan, Mr Haskins, Mr MattheW8, Mr Fisher, Mr Forrester, Mr and Jllrs Brahatn-8. MARRIED. Gl!AVES-IIAKAU- ln Ilonolulu, Dec. 3d, by Rev. A. 0. Forbes. Sutl'EL GitAVES to l\lALBKA HAKAU. HAR~ISON-CllOCKER-1n Ilonolulu, December 10th, by Rev. S. C. Damon, Capt. J II. HARRISON, to Miss l'HEBB CROCKER. Both of this city, ALMY-ROUINSON~ln Honolulu. December 15th, hy Rev. S. V. Damon, Capt. Alexander Almy to :\liss Alice S. Robinson. Lusco~rn-HANA-In Honolt1lu, December 17th, hy Rev. A. 0. Forbes, CHAS. II. Luscmrn to HANA, of Wailnku, East Maui. Prno-JAnRE'l'T-At the Roman Catholic church, in thi:i dity, on Thursday evening, Decemller 22d, by IJis Lordship Bishop Maigret, .JOSEPH l'1co to !(ATE ,JARRETT, daughter of Mr. William Jarrett. DIED. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ------·- -·- --- BRIGHTMAN-tu Honolulu, at the American ~ospital, on Saturday, Dec. 3d, GEORGE BnIGH'l'MAN, aged 24 years, a native of D:.i.rtmouth, Mass. llARKElt-lu Honolulu, Dec. 8th, R1cH-ARD BARKER, aged about seventy, a native of llristol, R. I. LANCO-At the American Hospital, December 8th, FR1m, LANCO, aged 32 years, late steward of ship Ceylon, a uativc of Pennsylvania. TnntTPP-At Kaiwiki Plantation, Hilo, Hawaii, December 22d, .JoHN THRUPP, a native of Mosely, England. Information Wanted, Information wanted of James Lock1uood, tinsmith, who left Honolulu, H. I., in thC' ~•ear 1861. Wh~n last heard from wa~ in Victoria, V. I., and le!t there in er about the year 1863, buund 11,r Carrihoo or Alaska. Please address William C. Lochcrty, No. 8 Astor House, Ne1v York city, U.S. A. Of Heman Webster, formerly <if Stephenson County, Illinois. Was last heHrd from in these IslHnds in 1853 or 1854. 1 He will hear something to his advantage by calling on the editor of this paper, or to .I!,. A. Snrnll Chicago, Illinois. Information is wanted in re1?anl to An.drew Harper, of New Iledfonl. Heigl1 t 5 feet, H inch. Light complexion, brown hair, blue eyes. A sailor. He left the Eastern States about twelve years ago, und has not been heard from since. If thi3 should meet his eye, or the eye of any one who can give an.v information concerning him, they are requested to direct a letter to l\lr. Jame~ Harper, New Bedford, l\lass., and all expense11 will be paid, and due thanks rendered. Information wanted cnncerning John ll'ePk.~, who some time ~ince was suppose<] to have l1een on tiJ l' Sandwich Islands. Any tidings of him will be thankrully receive,! hy the 1<:<1itor, nr hy his mother, whose address is l\Jrs. Susan K Towery, i.iti6 ::iou,ti Fourth Street, J ers<:?y City, N. Y. Information wanting respecting Thomas S. Comior, or any of his family. lli~ mother writes l'rmu New Yurk, l'eeiing muclr anxiety about l1irn. Any information will be received thankfully \Jy the .!!:di tor of this paµel'. Respecting Gl'Orge Barrows, of Norwich, Connecticut, who wheu last heard from, kept a :store near Hilo. Auy information concerning him will be thankfully received by his Mister, Mrs. Mary G. Gardner, Colchester, Conueelieut, or at the office of this paper. Respecting John Allen, who lert the General PikP. at Honolulu some yea.rs ago. He originally shipped at New Bedford. Any information will be gladly received by E. Dunscombe, Sailor's Home, or by Fletcher Allen, Colorado •rerritory, Sydney Station, Union Pacific Railroad. As regardo }'rans Osca1· Tengstrnm, who left his home in Gottenbevg, Sweden, in the year 1854; he is supposed to be some where in the P11ei6e; and tidings of him , or hili whereabr,uts, will he gratefully receiv ed oy hi s youn ger brother, Capt. Adolj<h S. Tengetroru ; Honolulu , H . L : or at the office of lhis paj<er. T H E i' R I 6 LCommuaicated.J N U , J A N U A It Y , l 8 7 I . outward ceremony ; but neither ju<lge nor jury can be presumed to know when they • The effect of Chinese customs, social and have such persons as witnesses, hence the supposed necessity of th.is general rule. It religious, upon the rules which have so long is also certain that most men who recognize regulated the introduction of testimony in a Supreme Ruler of the UniversP are more English and American courts of justice, guarded m statements made under oath. We presents a question of peculiar interest, which believe, however, that the correct view is, if we mistake not, wi!l require the serious that toe oath is for the purpose of calling the witness' own thoughts especially to the attention of legislator:-;, as well as moruli st s. soiemnity of his act, and is not merely to call We do not refer to di.scrjminations on ac- God to witness the act and to punish false count of race, once made by statutes in other testimony. countries, whereby certain classes were held Of the forms of administering an oath incompetent to testify against "pure blooded to Christians, kissing the book, usually a copy of the Gospels, or raising the right whites,'' but merely to the forms of admiuis- hand, are most common. The former custering the oath to witnesses. The practice tom is traced back, from the imitation of the of swearing Chinese according to their own priests in kissing the missal, to the customs idolatrous forms bas never been adopted of the Romans. The ancient Romans, Greeks here, but it is not many years since it pre- and Persians swore by the sun, by the gods, and their "genii," or presiding genius. vailed elsewhere, if in fact it is yet out of Women swore by Juno, laborers by Ceres, date, and it was held to be the only safe and who was supposed to preside over harvests, legal mode. Every person, it is said, requires Vestals by Vesta, &c. It the middle ages, the oath to be administered in some form oaths were taken on the altar, on relics and which is binding upon his own conscience; tombs of saints, and in many forms borrowed from the heathen, as on a beast's or idol's hence, because in China the ceremony is per- head, on warlike armor, on bracelets, or by formed of breaking a saucer or cntting off a the hair, eyes or face of a patron or friend, cock's head, in order that the witness may by laying hold of the hem of the garment or understand that a like fate awaits him if he on the sepulchre of a debtor. The Jews testify falsely, wiseacres in law have con- swore on a chain fastened to the synagogue eluded that this mockery of religion must be door. set up in courts of civilized lands. The sure Roman Catholics in some of the United result of introducing such forms is not only States were required to kiss the book, a certo lend, in appearance if not iu fact., the emony not usual with New England Protsanction of the law to heathen superstitions, estants. They often objected to this distincbut to defeat the object sought. The tion, and it is now removed by act of legislaslightest deviation from their own usages, or ture. This form is regarded as idolatrous the omission of the most trivial thing. may by many Scotch l'resbyterians. in the Chinese mind, remove all sanction of It was at one time, and may yet be, the the proceeding, and allow license greater custom in France to take an oath simply by than would be taken with no attempt what- declaration ,vith ttplifted hand, or with hand soever to adopt these ceremonies. on the breast, and by signing. This was \Vhat is the object of administering an held to be sufficient testimony in a Massaoath, and what additional assurance does it chusPtts case. give? Webster defines an oath to be, "A The following forms have been adopted in solemn affirmation or declaration, made with courts, and decided by them to be correct, an appeal to God for the truth of what is viz: for Jews, by swe~ring on the Pentaaffirrned. The appeal to God in an oath teuch; Mahommedans, on the Koran; Chiimplies that the person imprecates H~s ven- nese, by saucer breaking. Statutes give the geance, and renounces His favor, 1f the effect of an oath to solemn affirmations by declara~ion is false; o~, if the declaration is Quakers, Moravians and Separatists whose a promise, the person rnvokes the vengeance I consciences will not allow them to take an of God if he fails to fulfill it." Let U5 look oath. at the nature and object of this solemn act. Now we ask, why ~hould not the LegislaA person invol<es God not only to witness ture enact a law, that Chinese may testify his own truth and sincerity, but "to :Henge on simple affirmation to tell the truth, "subhis imposture or vio_lated faith." _The in- ject to all the pains and penalties of perjury vocation of God to witness, and t?e 1mpreca- if they testify falsely?" The difficulty must tion of vengeance on f~lse _testunony_ form be evident to any person, on reflection, either the legal oath. The 0~1ect 11~ the °:md of in administering an oath according to an the person who takes the oath 1s that his own idolatrous form, or in administering it in mind may be impressed with the importance Christian form to a heathen ignorant of its of ~pea_king deliberately an~ cautiously, a~d meaning, and perhaps regarding it as of no to mspHe confidence rn his truthfulne'3s m binding force on his conscience. We hope the minds of others. The intention of the to see the subject duly considered. law which makes an oath a prerequisite to For the Friend. legal evidence is merely to obtain greater Who will Go td Heaven? security of testimony, or that the promise made will be fulfilled. There are tho~e How does the Bible answe~? Turn to whose "word is as good as their bond," who Revelation 22: 14 and read, "Blessed are make no hasty statements of facts, especially in matters affecting their neighbors' interest, they that do his commandments, that they reputation o;.- happiness. Their reverence may have righ~to the tree of life, and may for simple truth may be strengthened by no . enter in through the gates into the city." Chinese Testimony. Hefld also the Saviour's words, Matthew 25:34-40: "Come ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world : for I was. hungry, an<l ye gave me food; I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink; I was a stranger, and ye took rne in;· naked, and ye clothed me; I was sick, and ye visited me ; I was in prison, and ye came unto me. Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me." WHO WILL FAIL OF REA VEN ? Let the Bible ar.swer. Read L Corinthians 6:9, 10 : " Be not deceived ; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor. drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God." Ponder also the Saviour's words in Matthew 25:41-46: "Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels; for I was hungry, and ye gave me no food; I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me not in : naked, and ye clothed me not; sick and in prison, and ye visited me not. * Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me." Those will go to heaven who believe in the Lord Jesus; who love him, and who manifest their love in doing good. * RussrANS THE ONLY MoDERN NATION MEN• TIONED IN THE BrnLE.-In Ezekiel 38:3 we read, "Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, behold I am against thee, Gog prince of Rosh, Meshek and Tubal." See also Ezekiel 38:2 and 39:1. This rendering is authorized by the Septuagint, the most ancient version of the Old Testament, where Ros is used, the very term used by the Byzantine writers of the tenth century to designate the Russians. It seems altogether probable that the Russians will occupy a much larger space in the world's history than heretofore, and any mention of them, or allusion to them in the Bible, cannot be without interest. Of Me5hek, the 11Ioschi, and Tubal, the Tibareni, scarce anything is known. Chm!lo R. Bishop, T1•en1turcr, IN ACCOUNT CURRENT WITH THE IJONOLULU SAILORS' HO~fE SOCIETY, 1870. DR. Jan. 5-1'o bal. cash on hand, as per account rendered.$ 3 86 6-Amount from D. Foster............. .'...... 2 00 7-Amount from S. N. Castle................. 2 00 Oct. 5-Amouut from Rev. S. C. Damon, rec'd for rent of otnce in corner tor the year 1870 ........ 100 00 Dec. 19-Amount from Bolles & Co., for 12 months rent of cellar, to 31st inst., at six dollars....... 72 00 $179 86 1870. CR. l\lar. 2- By paid H. M. Whitney to Dec. 31st, 1869.... $ 3 00 2do do to Jan. 26th, 1870... 1 75 2-By paid Dlack & Auld to Feb. 9th, 1870.. .. 85 2-lly paid E. Dunscomb to March 1st, 1870.... 1 35 Oct. 29-Balan~e L. L. Torbert's account for repairs, Mrs. Crabbe havmg paid $61 09,. ........ 70 00 Dec. 21-By !Jalance on hand to date ..•.••.• ,, •••..•. 1U2 41 $179 86 'I' II E 1'' It I E N V , J A N U A R Y , 7 Week of Prayer-from 1st to 7th of January, 1871. AD VER TISE MEN TS. ADVERTISEMENTS. Snndny, Jan. l.-SE11.1110Ns.-Nature and importance of prayer, and of prayer in concert. Monday. Ja11. 2 -PERSONAL.-Thanksgiving for individual mercies, confession of sin, and prayer for personal holiness and more entire consecration to ~od's service. Tnesdny, Jn.11. 3.-NATIONAL.-Prayer for all in authority in our own and other lands ; for universal peace ; for religious liberty, and advances of truth in countries where religious Jibe1·ty is enjoyed and where it is sought. \Vechu! ..day, Jnn. 4.-DoMEsnc AND Soc1u.. Prayer for parents and childrt"n, anJ. the blessings of the Chri8tian home; for employers and the employed ; for all schooh1 and colleges. ThUl'l!l•lny, Jn11. ~.-CHRISTIAN UNION.-Thanksgiving for Christian Union, and prn.yer for it~ increase; special supplication in hehalf of the efforts of the Evangelical Alliance throughout the world. Fridny. Jan. 6.-THE CHRISTIAN Cnuucn.-Prayer for all ministers of the \Vorel, and that the Lord would send forlh more laborers; for all oJticers and members of Christian churches, and for the removal of false doctl'ine. Sa1111•clay, ,Jan. 7 -THE WoRLD.-Pra.yer for the spread of God's Word and a pure literature in all land::1; for men of commerce and science; that our civilization may be Christianized, and its material resources consecrated ; for Christians in heathen and idolatrous countries ; for mi,sioual'ies a111I missionary and religious societies, and for th.: conve'°sior, of the world to Christ. STE AIU To Australia and· New Zealand. SAILOR'S HOME! The California, New Zenhuad and And1•ulin11 Muil Lhae of &1ila:iui:iiiiiiir.iill:iiJSlen111 Pncl,el!i. 'l'IIE GPLENDID ::;'l'J,JA;\ISHIPS WONGA ,voNGA, 1,450 Tou11 ................... J. Stt•w1u•1., Cona'r• -AND- (JITY o:t JJIELBOURNE, 1,200 Ton!!l-······•·· ... ···-'-1'• G1•ui111,;c1•, Oo111'r, Will run regularly ht"tween Honolulu and the auove ports, connt!ctin~ at Honolulu with the Nurth Pacific 'l'ransportation Compat1y's ::lteawers. -AGgN'l'S ATH0N0Ll1LU .......................... WILLIA~l L. GH.lmN. AoCKLAND ............... CRUICKSII.ANK, S'.\IAR'l' <1;, llU. SYDNl>Y .................... . ... ll. U. HALL, U. S. Uuusul. ol 3m ADVERTISEMENTS. C• S. BARTOW, M CRACKKN J. C. MERRILL & Co., PLACES OF WORSHIP. SEAMEN'S BETIIEL-ltev. S. C. Damon Chaplain-Kin~ street, near the Sailors' Home. Preaching at 11 A. M. Seats l!'ree. Sabbath School before the morning service. Prayer meeting on Wednesday evenings at 7½ o'clock. N. ll. Sabbath School or Bible ClaRs for Seamen at 10 o'clock Sabbath morning. FOll.'r S'l'ltEJ<.:1' UHURCH-Corner of Fort and Beretania stre•Hs-Preaching on Sundays at 11 A. M. and 7½ P. M. Saliba.th School at 10 A. l.\'l. ISFONE UHUIWH-King street, above the Palace-Rev. II. H. Parker Pastor. Strvices in Hawaiian every Sunday at~¼ A. M. and 3 P. 1\1. CATHOLIU CHUl:WH-Fort street, near Beretania-under the charge of Ut. Rev. Bishop l\la.1gret, assisted hy Rev Pierre Faveus. Services every Sunday at 10 A. '.\Land '.! I! . 111 SMI'fll'S CHURUII-Beretania street, near Nuuanu strectRev. A. O. Forbes Pastor. Service!! in Hawaiian every Sunday at 10 A. M. and 2½ P. M. RE}'ORl\IED CATHOLIC UHURCH-F1mma Square, under charge of Rel'. Charles G. Williamson. JOHN J. O. Ml':RRILL, Commission _Merchants and Auctioneers, Officers' table, with lodging, per week,. Seu.mens' do. do. do. do. Shower Baths on the P1·emises. CEORCE WILLIAMS, 204 o.ncl 206 California Street, .A. N' S F ~.L.\..N" C XS CC>. AI.SO, AGENTS OJ!' 'flIE San Francisco and Honolulu Packets, Particulanttention given to the sale and purchase of mer ehandise, ships' b11ijiness, supplving whaleships, negotiati1111 exchange, ..tc. c, All rrei~ht ~rriving at San }'r:incisco. by or to the Honolulu Line of Packets, will he forwar.letl FREE OF IJ0MMIS~ION. u Kxchauge on Honolulu nought and sold . .a R~!FlmENC~;sMessrs. C. L. Richards & Cu .•••.•.••••••••••••••• Honolulu " I-1. Hackfeltl & Co........ ................ " C. Brewer & Co ............ ·............. . Bishop & Co .•••.•••••••••••.•••••••••••• Dr. R. \V. Woml ................................ . Hon.E. II. Allen ................................ . D. C. \\-'atennan, Esq ........................... .. n27 ly o CRABB. J1'/anager. .\11•1,1o Honolulu, April 1, 1868. $6 LICENSED SHIPPING AGENT. C ONTI NI! ES THE BUSI.NE~S ON HIS OLD 1 Plan of settlin,:r with Officers and Seamen immediately an their Sl1ipping at t.iis Office. Having no connection, either direct or indirect, with any outfitting establishment. and allow ing no dehts tv he collt"cted at his nffice, he ho11es to give ae ~ood satisfaction in the future as he has in the JmRt. {O" Ollice on Jas. Robinson II; Uo.'s Wharf, near the U B Cnosulate. 566 3m Photog:raphy. I MPROVEMENT IS TH~ ORDER OF the day. Having constructed a new Sky-liµ-ht, and made various other impr1,vements, I hope now to be able to dUit the most faijtidious with .A. Ph.o1;o~raph. Of any Size.from a Crystal to a Mammoth, talcen in the best ::Jtyle of the Art, Auctioneer. CASTLE & COOKE .. S!'les Room on Queen Street, one door from Kaahumanu Street. AGENTS FOR And on most reasonable terms. ALSO, for sale Vi.;ws of the Islands, Port..aits of the Kings, Queens. arnl other Notables, &c, 689 ly H. L. CHAS.I<.:, Fort Street. WHEELER & WILSON'S THvS. G. THRU1'1'S FAMILY SEWING MACHINES, STATIONERY AND NEWS DEFOT. 'W'M• NEWCOMB, Dentist. Office corner or Fort and Hotel Streets, Honolulu. E. HOFFM.\.NN, -WITH ALL- D., M. THE LATEST IMPROVEMENTS% Physician and Surgeon, Corner Merchant and Kaahumanu Streets, near the Post Office. The HIGHEST PREMIUM GOLD MEDAL BREW .E R & co .. Commission and Shi'[YPing Merchants, A\V .1RDED AT THE GREAT WORLD'S EXPOSITION C. c. Ove1~ all Others ? Honolulu, Oallu, H. I. L. RICHARDS AT CO., & Ship Chandlers and Commission Merchants, and Dealers in General Merchandise, Keep constantly on hand a full assortment of merchandise, for the aupply of Whalers and Merchant vessels. E. P. ADAKS. S. G, ADAMS &, WILDER. WILDKR. .IJ.uction and Commission Merchants, S. McGREW, M. D., Late Surgeon U. S. Army, Can be consulted at his residence on Hotel street, between Alakea and Fort streets. c. 6 tf II. WETMORE, M. D., AGENTS, ALSO, FOR THE HALL TREADLE A LABO.R•SAVING AND HEALTH-PRESERVING INVENTION! 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R Y , I 8 7 I . lnnng ltin's &:hrlZtian~iszottation of ]ionoluln. -=================- ---- -.. -----·--- --, \Vorldlincss. It would seem difficult to define the exact meaning of the words of Christ, "If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him," from the rarity with which it is correctly explained. lt is nevertheless moS t important, for by teachings, based upon a mistaken interpretation, much harm may be done. To those whose religion consists more in avoiding what is wrong than in seeking that which is right, the question, what is worldliness, is a most miserably perplexing one. Under a wrong understanding of it, and from a failure to app1eciate the spirit of the command, 'Come out from among them, and be ye separate from them,' much that is innocent is forbidden, while on the other hand, much that is injurious is allowecd. From the frequent expression of religious teaching, it would seem that Christ's words tr.e world witb an enthusiasm and an enjoyment impossible to those whose love is centred upon an inferior object. Therefore if we read the text, "If any man's life is consecrated to the world, the love of the Father is not in him," its meaning is pl~in and most forcible, for whoever loves himself supremely is sure to think littie of God and much of the world, for the simple reason that he can make the world minister most directly to his self-service; and so the word worldliness ::onveys to us its real meaning, and the religiqus teacher under the simplicity of the truth need worry himself and perplex his hearers less, in oph . • posing worldliness with ex ortat10ns agamst trespassing on the prerogatives of the world, . as if the world had a single prerogative over the church, or with elaborat~ disquisitions on the evangelical superiority of one recreation over another, on this subject are too often misunderstood. Delight in the good things of the world; Christians are exhorted to come out from joy in its beauty, in the thousand rich influthe world, to renounce its pleasures, in words enc·es it yielEis to the needy heart of man, which show a meaning no deeper than the idea of a liteml separation to a certain ex- these do not corrupt humanity: it is selfishtent from the rest of mankind in matters of ness, .pride, envy, a want of charity, or in social intercourse, of rigidly shunni_ng worldly one word, worldliness, which separate men amusements and delights, and generally of from the Father. the cultivation of a feeling of disregard for Doers of Good. the world, and the chings of the world. Hap"Went ye not forth in prayer? pily the divine instinct in man is too great 'l'ben ye went not f'ortb in vain : for this kind of teaching to have very much Tbe sower, the Son of .Man, was there, And Ilis was that precious grain. influence, anu he finds his brotherhood in "Ye may not see the bud. the whole human race, unlimited by bars or 'l'he tlrst swei>t sign of Spring- ; bounds of dogma or creed : he finds in the The first slow dropH of the quickPning shower On the dry. bard ground that ring. glorious universe, with its forms of beauty, its possibilities of delight, an emblem of " But the Harvest-home ye'll keep, The Summer of life ye'll share ; God's love to him, and he learns to love it as Wben they that sow and they that reap, he loves the memento of his absent friend. Rejoice together there." It is impossible that Christ, so evidently a One of the best features of an Association student and a lover of Nature, who drew the like ours is its disinterestedness. lts memillustrations of his teachings from the trees hers become members for the sake bf doing and the flowers and the birds, who mingled something for others; at least this is the freely with men, and participated in the so- theory: to do something by which other men cial :pleasures of his time, should hav.e in- may be benefited, their lives made happier, tended such an understanding of his words. their burdens lighter, themselves stronger to God, and to kindly exertion for others ou_t of love to both God and man : and much to be doubted is that profession, however correct in doctrine it may be, which yields not the fruit of Charity. "Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father, is this : To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.'' This is the grand and common ground on which all \\ ho love the Father may meet and fully sympathize, without regard to bars of sect; and to the doers of good, and to them only, come the great promises of the future glory. In doing good, results do not decide the blessing. The vineyard laborers of one hour received the wages of a full day; the widow's mite, and the gift of spikenard, were not insianificant, for they were accompanied with tht>e largess of love from foll hearts, which did what they could. Life-times of service and the gift of princely fortunes could do no more: they would even count for nothing, without the motive actuating- the •others. We have the promise th~at efforts to do good will riot be lost or come to nothing; we may not know when or where, but the harvest will be gathered in to the Master. (t7' The Commiss10ners on Ritual seem to have had a tough time with the Athanasian creed, especially with its terrible damnatory clause. Lacking the courage squarely to advocate its rejection from the Prayer Book, after long consideration of how to do it, and . how not to do it, they finally hit upon the remamable expedient of putting into the rubric in the margin, the following highly Ensign-Stebbins-ish note : "}Vote, that the condemnations in this confession of faith are to be no otherwise understood than as a solemn warning of the peril of those who willfully reject the Catholic faith." They are in favor of the creed, but opposed to its enforcement! FRoM ABROAD.-Interesting State Conventions of Young Men's Christian As~ociations have been held in Massachusetts and Vermont. which were attended with much enthusiasm, and during which many thing~ came up in the reports and discussions of special value to the enterprise of such assoWhat then is Vy orldliness ? All men's and better. Our only condition of mt:imber- ciations. lives are consecrated to some object, whether ship is a desire to work for these ends : and (D"' The regular meeting of the Associathey acknowledge it or not; and this object besides working with the Association in such tion for last month failed for want of a is always what they love the most. Some- a cause, there is no privilege the members quorum. This is the first instance of the times it is God, sometimes a friend or their enjoy over others . . We thus seem to possess kind since the origin of the Society. A special meeting will be held shortly, of child, often, it is themselves. It is the most an advantage over the church organizations which due notice will be given, at which a self-evident truth, that the fact of consecra- of modern times, which are not so specially large attendance is particularly desired. tion to any obiect does not bar a lesser de- working bodies, and which encourage memJ U The Sunday afternoon prayer-meetgree of love to any other object. A man who bership, perhaps too distinctly, on the ground ings at the vestry-room of the Fort Street loves himself supremely, still may love his · of personal needs; certainly too little influ- Church are again resumed by the Associawife and children. And supreme love to ence is exerted in favor of the sentiment that tion. God cannot interfere with a delight in the religion consists rather in unselfish doing, [t7" The open air religious services on the good things of the world, the gifts of than in negatiTe being. Glorious mdeed is Steamer wharf are discontinued for the God ; it will on the contrary make u.s love the faith th.1.t leads to a pure life out of love present.