Friend, 1876-03

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, JilRCH I, 1876. CONTE1'TS For March 1, l 876. sionaries, Mes~rs. Snow, Sturges, Doane, Bingha~, Whitney and others, we could Primu Ku11aie, Ebon Mission........................ 'Z wish we might do fqr them what the EvanThomas Guthrie................................... I gelist Luke has dpne for Christ and His Editor's Table-Dr. GoodeU's Memoirs ••••.•••••••••• •••• 19 A Hymn •••••••••••• • ••.•••••••••••• • •••••••••••••••••• 2p apostles, by writing His gospel an4 the The ' · Hera" .•• , ....................................... 20 "book of Acts." Our American missiP.11aJapan Correspondence .•••••••••••.•••••••••••••••••••••• l!O Marine Journal ............................. . ........... 21 ries in Micronesia are most worthy succes'." Trip of the Morning Star ....................... • •••••••• 22 sors of those first Christian mi~sionaries of Y. M. C. A ...... ... .................................... 24 the apostolic age. Small and insignificant j as this contribution may appear, we iµ1 tend that this little book shall, at the Preat MARCH 1, 1876. Centennial, represent the Micronesian ~nisPrimu Kusaie-A Buk in Lutlut ke Rid- sionaries. AGR THE FRIEND. Ebon Mission Press, 1875. The Great Centennial will embody the results of labor, skill, )earning, invention, and genius, on the part of Americans and other nations. We give above the title of a book of eighty pages, written and printed under circumstances, difficulties and disadvantages which can hardly be appre~iat~q. Mission labor cannot be fully :represented. Books are written and printed Europe and America with marvelous facility and 'rapidity, but how wide the contra~t in the way that a similar result is accomplished in Micronesia. This little book is in one of the dialects of Micronesia. In 1S52 the Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Snow landed on Kusaie, or Strong's Island ; for four years they labored to preach the gospel .and teach the people in "pigeon-English," and discarded the vernacular language, but found the effort fruitless. They then cast aside all they had done, and commencing anew thoroughly mastered the· vernacular of the islanders, and this little book is one of the results of their labor. Not only are they missionary linguists, but printers and book-binders. Such results, combine'1 ,.vith the benefits accruing to commerce and shipping in those remote seas, carinot be fully and fairly represented at Philadelphia. in THE "MORNING STAR" 'fE~L MANNED.-The following is what one of th-cl passengers of the Morning Star says of her captain, officers and crew : "Captain A. D. Colcord is a tip-top navigator, a thorough seaman, an excellent disciplinarian and an earnest Christian. H. S. 1Swint~q the ~ate is a g~od navigator and sailor, and, wa~ an invaluable pilot, equally at home iq the ~µrf boat and on bo.ard, always r~ac\y q~y {H mght. ~r,. Christian, second rna~e, is 3i, ~ne seco~q o(iicer who knows a sailor's wh~le duty anq did it with a will. The stewa.rd and c~o~ were unexceptionable. No ship cou'd ask for better. The Hawaiian crew were a~ admirable seamen as the M01·ning Star cpuld desire." DR. GEORGE B. BACON, who has for fifteen years been pastor of the Orange Valley Congregational church, and whose health has lately been very bad, offered, on Sunday, January 16, his resignation to the church. A meeting of the church was held to consider the resignation, and it was voted not to accept it. It was also resolved to give the pastor a long leave of absence, to extend to June 1, 1877, orlongerif his health required it ; to continue his salary at half, viz., $2,000, and to permanently supply his pulpit during his absence. A thorough unanimity prevailed, and such is the esteem in which Dr. Bacon is held by his people, and all who know him, that after the business of the church was concluded over twelve hun" Having had perfect understanding of all dred dollars were raised for him as a parting t hese things from the very fir~t," (Luke 1:3) testimonial of affection.-N. l": Observer, relating to the M irronesian mission and mis- Jan. 27. THOMAS CUTHRIE. '' From men like these old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her lov'd at home, rever'd alJroad."-Burns. The name of Thomas Guthrie of the Free Church of Scotland may be familiar to some of us as that of a man of rare eloquence and !I, lea4er in many philanthropic undertakings. ~ut to ot~ers it may be nothing but a name, if indeeq. raver heard, yet dimly remembered, smce in pp "'7ay t"Onnected with the daily ~~ment of th~ir ihoughts and lives. To all ~uch we wonld y~ry heartily commend the recently publisheq rpemp,ir and autobiography of Dr. µuthrie, as most delightful reading, from w~ich oqe would gq oµt into Jife with. a strqnger, braver desire tp strive for mastery ov~r all tli~ngs low apd ignoble, to lead up into the free heights qf their being those \\<ho haye faHen by the way, and to lift high~r tha~ ~~fore th~ ~anner of Christ's blesseq µ,o~pe~. Tp ltterature of this ~\ass, this me~oir is a niqst yal\l;able adqitic,n, and w~ ppubt whether in all the range of \)iogr~phica\ sketclws ~ne could find anything more won~ derful'y fresh and vigorous and stimulating. In fact it seems to us to form an epoch in biograpµical history, so in ccmtrast is it with the s~mewhat too prevalent tone of such writing. so free from all ascetic or morb~d tendencies, so illumined by the joyoµs presence of a great, sympathetic, b.rotherly loy~, which w~rms and vivifies everything with which it comes in contact. What Guthrie said of :Qr. Chalmers, at the tiqw of his death, may be said with singular ~ppr9priateness, ()f Guthrie himself, now tha~ ~e is go'1,e, " 1"].en of his caliber are like great forest trees ; we don't know their size till they are down.\' G;uthrie died in 1873, the greatest man after Ch~lm~rs in the Scottish Church, Looking throug~ ~he pages of his memoir, drinking the story ~ll~ significance of his life and thus viewi~g fro111 all sides this forest tree before us, havf; we. Autobiography ofThoma11 Guthrie, D .D., and memoir. ~f hi11 sons, Rev. David K. Oulluie and Charles t. Guthrie, M.A. ln two volumes.- Robe1·\ Ca rlet & Brolhei-,, New Y ol'k, 1875. 18 TH~~ FRIEND, ~li\RtH. 1876. been struck . by its wonderful size and lished church of that. gay, so that young anters, determined II to maintain the right of strength, which enabled it to stand unmoved ministers waited, as it ~ere, for II dead men's Jesus Christ, as King to reign within His amid the fiercest storms, but especially by shoes." Or, to use his own words: '' While own Church." "So we had naught else to that firm unerring aim which must have matrons turned to the newspaper for the list do," says Guthri~, " but to pluck the old marked it year after year as it grew to\vards of births, and spinsters to the list of mar- weapons from the dead men's hands, and the heaven that was over it. riages, it was the list of deaths the poor when the state came down on us in its pride The autobiography of Dr. Guthrie was be- preacher first scanned on his outlook for va- and power, man once more the moss-grown gun but never complete<l. The work thus cant charges." ramparts where our fathers had bled and left was taken up in the memoir very lovingHis first appointment was to the parish of died." The Disruption of 1843, which was ly and faithfully by his sons. It must have Arbirlot, where he remained some years. virtually the abandonment of the old estabbeen a joy and inspiration to have known This country pastonwe was most fruitful in lished Kirk of Scotland by well nigh five and seen him in the midst of his labors, if experiences and in the knowledge of human hundred of her clergy, inspired by the highthese pages speak but half the truth. Such nature it gave the young preacher, and was est principles of Christian duty and heroism, an ever varying mosaic are they, of anecdote a grand preparation for the years of service is among the sublime things of history. We and incident, warm with feeling and stirring before him. Hut more than all else the know of no grander processional the world with grand purposes ! Guthrie was a born outer world ,vith its freshness and peace and has ever seen than that which, "bursting story-teller, and as he sits down in the even- beauty, ftA-nished him with themes and illus- from the doors of St. Andrew's Church with ing of his years to tell the story of his Jife, trationff which came in other days as a bene- Chalmers at its head, marched out file by and his thoughts wander into the past, they diction to both speaker and listener, hemmed file in steady ranks, giving God's people who come back laden with rarest treasures of within the city's limits. In 1837 he entered a usly thronged the streets occasion to faney and narrative, records of great men upon his ministry in Edinburgh, where he tears, not of grief but of joy, as they with whom he labored and of humble men spent the best working years of his life. cried, ' They come ! they come! thank God whom he loved, flashes of most genial huIt has been said of him, " He was a they come ! ' We did not come out a small mor, hearty words of cheer heard by the man who, by sheer force of his emotional and scattered band ; but, on the day of the way. pictures of home-joys and peace, and eloquence, might have stirred a nation to Disruption burst out of St. Andrew's Church, shadows from the crowded haunts of sin and revolution." Nor does this seem exaggera- as a river bursts from a glacier,-a river at vice. He lived a man among men; with a ted when we consider the mighty services he its birth. In numbers, in position, in wealth message of hope ever on his lips to those performed and the success he achieved, call- as well as in piety, our Church, I may say, way-worn and weary. Bound by no false ing for exertions which would have prostra- was full grown on the day it was born. bands of ecclesiasticism, yet the most valiant ted an ordinary man. Living so remote as Above all and next to the prayers which son when the Church of Christ called for his we· do from the time and scene of their oc- sanctified our cause, we were followed by a aid. In prose a very Burns; his words currence, we find it difficult to con- host of countrymen, whose enthusiasm had fragrant with odors of heather anci the ceive of -ihe events connected with the revo- been kindled at the ashes of martyrs, and Scottish fields he loved so well ; now full of lution in the Scottish Kirk. Into the ecclesi- who saw in our movement but another phase the peace of Highland glens and quiet astical questions of his day Guthrie threw of the grand old days that won Scotland her moorlands, and now grand and stormy himself with an ardor and enthusiasm, char- fame, and made her a name and a praise in as if caught amid the spray and tu- acteristic of the man. In crowded assem- the whole earth." mult of the tumbling German Ocean, beat- blies, fired almost to fanatical fury by their Such acts of moral heroism are far from ing against its Scottish barriers. . All this views in regard to church legislation, he meaningless when we consider the costliness becomes real, vivid to you in the recital walked undaunted and while the waves of of the sacrifice which they involve. Henceof one who never in latest manhood lost the party feeling surged about him never waverforth those who had thus come forth could buoyancy of boyhood, but rather as the years ed, waiting his opportunity, and when the look to no state-organization for support. waned grew into an atmosphere of immortal storm seemed ready to burst calmed it by Hundreds of manses were closed forever the magic of his words and presence. He youth. against those, who had for so long found in Dr. Guthrie was born in Brechin in 1803, seemed most gleeful whera the fight was them a home and about which clusterP.d the which carries one back to a period in Scotland, thickest, and all the grand, old Scottish fire most sacred and tender associations. Sornly of which but few vestiges now remain, and within him leaped into action when the enewas the faith of these brave men tested, but to customs fast becoming obsolete. Through mies of right anJ justice arrayed themselves it never faileq. Out of the ranks stepped his pages you look into Scottish home-life of most strongly. The questions of Church Guthrie with his lion heart and purpose, and well nigh a century ago with a clearness, as and State, which every nation must meet took upon himself the burden of procuring if it were being lived about you now. It sooner or later, were grandly met in Scotnew homes for the homeless clergy. Through was a grand spirit, if rightly used, which the land. To-day Germany ~nds that they the length and breadth of Scotland he travChristian Fathers and Mothers of the olden baffle the wisd.om of her· profoundest stateseled, warming all hearts by the story of their ~cottish time inspired in their children, one men. In England the day of their solution suffering and destitut_ion. Over half a ~·hich made martyrs of men if need be. On comes slowly but steadily · on. During the million of dollars was the result of this such a foundation Guthrie stood through ten years from 1833 to 184::J, there was single year's effort, while" many a dwelling life, as if planted on granite. waged in Scotland one of the keenest wars by seashore and in high}~µ~ glen wil\ lo~g~ His university-life was passed in Edin- any church has ever witnessed. The estab, long remain his m9~ument. , · · pij.rgh, and after completing this he spent fo,hed church had enjoyed a proud history But it was not only in fields of ecclesiassome time on the continent pursuing his for centuries. But to those who loved her studies. Some years intervened between best, it became at last painfully evident that tical polemics that he won his laurels, but in his return and his entrance upon the active a further connection with the state was im- the midst of the sin and misery of the crowdAbove all things and amid all ed city, where man has fallen so low that work of the ministry, owing to the cumber- possible. dangers were the brave Sons of the Coven- 1the Divine image seems almost effaced. He ous working of the machinery of the estab- • THE saw before him the most fearful forms of vice and suffering, and set himself with all his might to the righting of these grievous wrongs. Some one has called him "The Apostle of the Ragged School Movement." Instead of delaying his efforts at reformation till manhood, when the seeds of sm and impurity are fully developed, and the man is sent out to work ill for himself and the world at large, Dr. GuthriP- aimed to reach in childhood as many as possible of those born amid surroundings of poverty and crime. These schools brought within the range of Christian sympathy and training those who had before received the world's frown and curse, and who in very despair became in turn its natural enemy. It was a very blessed work, yet which needed almost infinite love an • tience . But it has been grandly successful, and thousands have been redeemed from a life of sin and shame. The most successful preachers of any time seem to have been those who, like our Saviour, employ figures and illustrations to impress the truth upon their hearers' minds. Guthrie early set himself to acquire a style which would most influence those to whom he would bring the word of life, and this with his God-given talent of vigorous yet poetic utterance made him one of the most powerful speakers of his day. . Rarely if ever has he been surpassed in his powers of description and narrative. A little incident may best illustrate this. Some one writing of him says : " During one of Dr. Guthrie's powerful appeals to the unbeliever to cl~se with the free offer of Salvation through Jesus Christ, he described a shipwrec~ and the launching of the life boat to save the Perishing crew in such vivid colors, that the dreadful scene appeared actually to take· ·1 b£ C · C Pace e ore our eyes. aptarn ., a young naval officer who was sitting in a front seat of the gallery, was so electrified that he seemed to lose all consciousness of what was around him. l saw him spring to his feet and begin ·10 take off his coat, when his motber took hold of him and pulled him down. It was some time before he could realize where he was." This power never failed him. To the "grey capital of the North" came men to hear from him the message of th~ new life. Up into the earnest, glowing, tea1-ful face of the spealier, year after year, looked silent throngs, the rich and the poor,• noble and peasant, and heard the pure Gospel of Jesus Christ from lips which seemed almost divinely inspired. It was no philosophy of the schools but the word of life. • After retiring from the active service of th_e ministry , he busied him self in literary l•~UIEND, MARCH, 1876. 19 undertakings, speaking to thousands of read- these elements with a sprinkling of tableers through the pages of the "Sunday Mag- talk are combined, after the style of ".Bosazine." His interest in the great questions well's Johnson," we think the acme of bioof the day never flagged, but over them all graphy is attained. Although familiar with rose the grander issues -of the Redeemer's the main facts, from reading missionary peKingdom. The closing scenes of his life are riodicals, as detailed in this life of Dr. Goodmost beautiful and touching, and true to the ell, yet it is most agreeable reading to run genius and spirit of the man, who always over with them again. American missionasaw things in pictures. As the symptoms ries in the Turkish Empire have performed of the fatal disease gained on him, he said a noble work during the last forty years, and with exquisite imagery : "It minds me of they never were more energetic in that work the land-birds lighting on the shrouds, that than at the present time. This volume will teH the weary mariner he is nearing the de- prove most useful, and already the third edisired haven." ln 1873, when w nt out tion has been called for. It finds extensive that Thomas Guthrie was dead, Scot- circulation among theological students. There are special reasons why we have land but the world at large, felt th a brave, read this volume with peculiar interest. ln true hearted friend a.nd brother was gone. The lesson of such a life cannot be too the autobiographical portion. of the book, Dr. thoughtfully studied. Dr. Guthrie was an Goodell refers to his marriage in Holden, exponent of the most get1ial form of Chris- Mass., in 1822. Mrs. G. was a native of tianity. He threw himself into his Master's that town, which is also our native town. service with all the fervor of his nature, and We can well remember when, fifty-four years with a song of thanksgiving in his heart. ago, the youthful missionary visited that litLife here was a joy to him, and he looked tle country place and married Miss A. P. forward to another more grand and glorious Davis. Most honorable mention is made in than this could ever be. While here he this volume of this goodly woman and "Mother in Israel." She was a grandwould teach men that the religion of Jesus daughter of the Rev. Joseph Davis, the first Christ meant joy even in trial, peace even minister of Holden who settled there one in the midst of storm, and victory at last •. hundred and thirty-five years ago. His de• He was the honored guest of the Queen of scendants long continued to inhabit the "Old England, admired by Thackery and Ruskin Parsonage " on the hill ! A half century and by leaders in Church and State, and yet ago, going on a foreign mission, was quite a the friend of the sinful and lowly, one of whom different affair from what it is at present. If has pronounced his most touching eulogy : we mistake not, Mrs. G. was once our teacher " He was the only father I ever knew." in the village school ; most cettainly a Would that there was more of this joyous, brother of hers was our teacher in a winterChristlike living in the world ! Would that term of our village school, and he called we all might put into daily practice these lines, upon us (then a lad of seven) to carry which Guthrie loved to style his •'favorite around a contribution-box for the miss10namotto: " ries ! And we also remember that an ol~ "I live for those that ·1ove me, For those that know me true, school-mate of ours, now residing at WaiFor the heaven that Bmiles above me, luku on Maui, dropped into the box "two And waits my coming to; For the cause that needs assistance, cents," which make a penny ! For the wrongs that need resistance, These and other incidents of by~gone days For the future in the distance, For the good th.at I can do.'' are recalled by the perusal of this charming F. \V. DAMON. memoir. We commend it to the perusal of our readers, for its contents will afford much EDITOR'S TABLE. valuable information upon the internal affairs of the Turkish Empire, as well as tipon the Forty Years in the Turkish Empire, or l\lemolrs of labors of the American missionaries among t11e Rev, Wi1iiam Goodell, D,D,, Late .Missionary whom Dr. and Mrs. Goodell were pioneers. of the A, B, C, F, lU, at ConstantinoJllt.,-By his Son-in-law, E. D, G, Prime, D,D, '' ONE or TEE Six HuNDRED."-Hev. John Carter & Brothers, N. Y. C. Edgar has lately delivered his lecture on This is the record of a nob1e life. Dr. the Battle of Balaklava in Chelsea, Jamaica Goodell, the well known and justly honored Plain,· Charlestown, and elsewhere. He was missionary of the American Board at Con- in the famous " Charge of the Light Brigstantinople, has found in his son-in-law (Dr. ade,'I came to this country seven years since, Prime) a fmthful and skillful biographer, studied at Andover and Bangor Semina~ies, who has made his father-in-law write his and is now pastor of the Congregational The two elements of bio- church in Heath, Mass. Mr. Edgar secures own memoirs. the undivided attention of his audience. It graphy and autobiography are happily blend- is worth something even to see a man who ed in this volume, as they are in the me- has been through such a fiery ordeal.-Bos• moirs of Dr. Guthrie by his sons. Where ton paper. • 20 'I' H THE FRIEND. I' R I E N D , !I A ll U II , _I 8 7 6 . father in 1864-. In 1866 he sailed for Canada to visit an uncle, and for rea• sons unknown to the world for several years was a sailor on board several American vessels, making voyages to various parts of the world. From Houston, Texas, he thus wrote to his brother, " There is no better or happier place in the world than a good small American vessel." On the report of his death, a messenger was sent by the family to America to ascertain the facts. One who knew him inti• mately in the United States writes thus: he was a useless burden, and so gave· him poison (with his food, I think), but having MARCH 1, 1876. heard an older brother beg her not to do it, he would not swallow it. I think it was a A Hymn relative of his, and also of one of the girls BY DR. J . 111. NEALE. and the grandmother of the other, that begged E. to take them, Rnd she, knowing Art thou weary, art thou languid, her husband's feelings, could not refuse. Art thou sore distrest? Another girl, said to be five years old, but so ·• Come to Me," saith One, '' and coming, nearly starved that she weighed only 10 or Be at rest ! " 11 pounds, they were obliged for months to Hath He marks to lead me to Him, keep her on rice wate1· to save her life. On If He be my .guide? being . asked by a friend why, if she took " In His Feet and Hands are wound.prints, Chinese children, she did not take likely and And His Side." promising ones? Emily replied, •' The ve better cause to mourn bis early de- Lord gave me these." The blind boy soon Hath He diadem as Monarch be seamen of this and bis own country; showed that he had a bright intellect. He That His Brow adorns? spared to carry out hit! plans, I think committed to memory rapidly and correctly "Yea, a Crown, in very surety, ave instituted a radical change in the by hearing sentences read. By this means mercantile marine, and would have been regarded But of thorns." he had learned by heart the four gospels and by sailors almost with veneration." If I find Him, if I follow, ost of the 1st Corinthians, and 50 or 60 Now his mother, with a double purpose, What His guerdon here ? ns, and also with very little aid had that she may carry out his wish to benefit " Many a sorrow, many a labor, ed to play many tunes on the melothe class of men with whom he companied, Many a tear." and to conserve his memory, has made her deon, and sometimes accompanied the tune gift. It will put a hundred loan libraries with an extemporaneous base. And better If I still hold closely to Him, for sailors afloat on the sea which covers his still he gave good evidence of 0.aving a new What bath He at last 7 remains. Each case that holds the books hem·t. Not long since he died of scarlet " Sorrow vanquished, labor ended, has on it this inscription, suggested by the fever. One of the females also died recently Jordan pa.et." of teething sickness. The two surviving Countess: If I ask Him to receive me, girls speak English well, and have a pros1 AMERICAN SEAMEN 8 FRIEND SOCIETY, l,OAN LIBRARY. pect of being well educated. The one so Will He say me nay ? Sent to sea by hi11 motlier, in memory of George, Earl of " Not till Earth, and not till Heaven Aberdeen, Liimself a sailor, and lost at sea in January, 1870, nearly starved is now in the family of a Mrs. aged 28. Collins, a dear friend of E.'s, and studying Pass away." "Be hath made the depths of the sea a. way for the ransomwith her daughters. A few years since, she ed to pass over." Finding, f.ollowing, keeping, struggling, And so, this Scottish Earl's life of was with her foster parents in the United Is He sure to bless ? mystery, ended when it might seem that its States, and at Boston in Mr. Durant's fam• "Angels, Martyrs, Prophets, Virgins special 'Usefulness was just ready to begin. ily, the late Dr. Kirk being present,he being Answer, Yea ! " He being dead yet speaketh to those among then nearly blind, was led about by her; and hearing her sprightly prattle, on being told whom hi3 last days were so strangely cast. The "Hera." she was a Chinese, said: "Now I see hope This three-masted American schooner, for China, since education can so quicken Japan Correspondence. which has recently made Honolulu harbor a their stolid minds." The other girl, a bright five year old, speaks English correctly. KoBE, JAPAN, December, 1875. visit, it will be remembered, is the vessel These children, exr.ept the boy, were support1 will give you a few particulars of the refrom whose deck the young Earl of Abered without drawing on missionary funds. deen was washed overboard on the night of cent trying but merciful dispensation of ProvTo return to the funeral. Some 60 or 70 the 27th January, 1870, when she was six idence toward us. persons were present at my son's house, Our daughter-in-law, John's wife, had about half of them Japane:se, to whom <lays from Boston on her voyage to Mel(See FRIEND, December, 1874). been with us ten weeks, and was so cheer- brother Atkinson gave the substance of Mr. bourne. He ~hipped under the name of George H. ful, well and active, up to the morn of the Doane's discourse. The hymns, beginning as follows, were sung : " We are passmg Osborne, as first mate. A sailor belonging 16th inst. and most of that day, that we along to our home in the skies,"" Safe in the to his watch, thus describes his fate : '' l could hardly realize how near she was to the arms of Jesus," and "There's a land that is was in the watch of the first mate, George grave. That night she was taken ill, and fairer than this/' Six or seven missionaH. Osborne. He had the watch from four although our skillful missionary physician ries were here from Osaka. Two Episcopal to eight a. m. We were lowering the main- had the advice of several other doctors, they clergymen from 0. (one of them an Englishman), aided by four of our missionary ba_nd, sail ; Osborne and I were side by side haul- could not save her life. Her time had come. bore the body to its last resting place in the ing on the s ame rope. The ship gave a Of her we can say, "Thou art gone to the lot of the female seminary, about an eighth heavy roll, and the down•haul g0t slack; grave, but we will not deplore thee," for she of a mile distant. After it was lowered into then with the other roll the down-haul got gave good evidence that she was- prepared the grave, part of the hymn-"Asleep in Jesu:!i, blessed sleep," was sung, and Mr. Attaught. Osborne and l were both caught in to be forever with the Lord. Brother kinson, of our mission, offered a. 'Very approthe bight of tb.e down-haul. The first shock Doane preached the funeral sermon from the priate prayer. And we left the -s pot with came on him, because he was nearer the sail text, 2 Tim., 4.6 : " I am now ready to be the joyf.l!ll ho,pe of meeting the dear departed than I. I had time to lay myself down, and offered;" dwelling chietly ·11m the word ready. "In the Sweet ~y and By." We and John the rope passed over me, while Osborne was He showed that her hope ()! salvation rested ha-ve the sympa>thy of many friends, beside on the grace of God, through Christ Jesus, ,tha,t ·of our blessed Saviour. dragged across me, and into the sea. I saw to all believers. He also gave a -s ummary As ever yours, P. J. GULICK. him fall into the sea, but I could do nothing of her labors for the Chinese and Mong@ls; to prevent it. It was the work of a second. and especially for four Chinese children, REV. J. A. DALY, formerly of Honolulu, I saw him come to the surface; it was a whose parents would have killed them or dark night. I threw him a rope as soon as ieft 1them to perish. Three of them they at- ha\ again offered his resignation of the pastotempted to kill, two infant females by smothrate to the church at Painesville, Ohio, and 1 was able.' ' ering, { think, and one a lad of about 'three But it was too late ! Thus sadly perish- years by poison. He had lost hi s eyes by this time so urgently tha t it has been accepted the unfortunate Earl , succeeding to his small-pox , and his unnatura l mother thoug ht ed. He is to remain till the close of Apri l. THE REv. C. L. McCuLLY.-We observe in late Hollowell papers that a council of churches was lately called to decide whether this gentleman should accept a call to a church at Calais. It was contended by his present church that the interests of the church at Hallowell and the Sabbath school would be injured by his dismissal to the other church according to his desire, but the council decided that the change was desirable. Mr. McC. will therefore settle at Calais, carrying with .him the good will and affection of his people who so reluctantly part with him. lfRIEND, MA.llCH, l iYlAHJN~ .JUUl{NAL. PORT OF HONOLULU, S. I. ARRIVALS. Jan. 28-Tahltian bk Iouia, Lovcgrovc, 22 days lrom Tahiti. Feb. 4-P M HS Mikado, Moore, 20 days from Sydney via Auckland & Kandavu. 5-Am bk Mattie Macleay, Pope, 14 days fm Portland 6-Am brig Morning Star, A D Uolcord, - day11 from Butaritari. 6-Am schr Fanny Hare, Lee, 17 days Im S Francisco, bound for Manila. 9-Haw brig W H Allen, Chave, 20 days from Talnti. 10-Am schr Hera, Miller. 14 dayK from l'!an Franci,ico 11-B I J M's steam cor Tsukuba, TY Ito, Captain, 20 days from San .Francisco. 12-Am bk D C Murray, Fuller, 13½ days from San Francisco. 14-Brit ss City of Melbourne, Brown, 8 days from San Francisco. 15-French corvatte lnfernet, Pierre, Captain, 15 days from San J!'rancisco. JI-Brit bktn Marama, Domine, 16 days from Tahiti. W-Brit schr Favorite, McKaye, 24 days from Victoria, ll C. 25-Am schr C M Ward, Cluaey, 27 days from Bowlaod's Island. 26-Am bk B W Almy, Freeman, 18 dys fm Humboldt 29-Am stmr City of S .l!'rancisco, Lachlaa, 18 days fm Sydney. NAVAL.-His I. J. Majesty's steam corvette Tsu/cuba, a training ship for cadets, arrived in port February 11, and anchored off the esplanade. She is last from San Francisco, which port s eft Jan. 20, and bas come down under sail. Her tonnage is DEPARTURES. 1033; horse power 200; and carries 12 guns. Her ship's company consists of 25 officers, 86 cadets, 16 Jau. 25-Am wh bk Rainbow, Cogan, for a cruise. !.!6-Am bktn Jane A .Falkinburg, Hubhartl, for Portland. marines, and 229 seamen. The following are her 28-French bk l'alfarette, Jean, lor Nicaraqua. 29-Am bk Powhattan, Blackstone, for Port Gamble. officers: Feb. 4-P M ss Mikado, Moore, for San Francisco. Captain-T Y Ito. Commander-TY Fukumura. First Lieut11nant-F Miura.. Second Lieutenant and Navigating Officer-K Yamazumi Second Lieutenantir-K Ogata., K Hori, I Nakamizo. Surgeon-TN ::;bibaoka. Engineerir-Y Yangi, T Uhashl. l'aymairters-T Honda, T Enguchi. l'i"tJval lnstructor-T Nagai. .1 W Austin, gunner RN, and two seamen R N, as Naval \nstructors. Two passengers-Mr T Hirano, Mr N Koga, Japanese Navy. -'rhe French corvette lnfernet arrived at this port on Tuesday last, 15 days from San Francisco. She is en route for Japan. The following is a list of her officers: Post Captain, Co11imanding-M. Pierre. Conimander-Galache. Lieutenants-Billard, Pillot, Augarde. Ensigns lift class-Boulard, de Sint Pera, M11.ra:u1.ni. Paymaster-Campana. Surgeon 1st clasJ-Serrez. Midshipmen-de Uivonne, l\londot, de Previllc, Legros, Thibout. Surgeon 3rd c/airs-Maglioli. 212 men, 11 guns, 450 horsepower. P. C. .JJ.dverltser, Feb. 19. PACIFIC MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY! ,HE FOLLOWING MAGNIFICENT SIIIPS of the Company will leave Honolulu as per Time Table 'l below:SS CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO ...... 3400 Tons SS ZEALAND IA ..................... 3200 '.l'ons SS CITY OF NJ<JW YORK ............ 3400 Tons SS AUSTRALIA ..................... 3200 Tons SS CITY Olf SYDNEY ............... 3400 Tons For 8an Francisco, iln or aboutMarch .................... J Mar<'h .................... 20 April .... . ................ 26 1',1ay ..................... 2'1 June ...................... 21 July.................. ..19 August. ................... 16 Stiptewber ................. 18 October ................... I 1 November ................. 8 December ................. 6 and Sydne1, NS W, IIMarchuuland,.................... or about9 For l<'iji, Ports in New Zea~ April .................... 6 May ..................... 4 June ...................... I ,June ...................... 29 July .................... 27 August ................... 24 September ................ 21 October .................. 19 November ••••••••••••••••• 16 December ................ 14 fJ:J" For ra~sage Freight and all further information ap- pr1 tO whl876 ' H HA CK l<"ELD • &, CO ' •• AGENTS. 9-Am schr Fannie Hare, Lee. for Manila. IO-Arn ship Marianne Noltebohm, Whitney, for Cork. 12-Tahitian bk Ionia, Lovegrove, for l'ahiti. 14-Brit ss City of Melbourne, Brown, for Auckland & Sydney. 15-H B 111 S Myrmidon, Com R Hare, for a cruise. 19-Haw brig W H Allen, Chave, for Tahiti. 19-Arn schr Hera, Miller, for San Jfranciscc. 20-French corvette lnfernet, Pierre, Captain, for Japan 26-Haw bk Mattie l\lacleay, Pope, for San Francisco. 7 6. 21 REPORT OF BARK MAT'rIE MACLEAY, GEORGE POPE, MAS• TEn.-Proceeded over the Columbia bar at 9 am on Jan 22d with a light breeze from the NE in company with the American ship Gatherer. Experienced light wind,; and calms until the morning of the 24th, when a. strong NW wind set in, bl6wing with great force for 36 hours, after which it moderated on the 31st. Also experienced a strong current setting to the SW, carrying the ve11sel during the three succeeding days 186 miles to the westward. The weather on the Columbia River had been exceedingly bad for a number of weeks previous to the leaving of the vessel. Arrived in Honolulu at 7 am on Saturday, Feb 5; a.II well. REPORT OF BRIO WM H ALLEN, R 8 CHAVE, MASTER.Left Tahiti on Thursday, Jan 20, at 4 pm, with light breeze from NE. First nine days had light baffling winds varying from ENE to NNW; the remainder of the passage had fresh ESE and NE winds. Crossed the equator the 11th day out in long 151 601 W. St ruck the NE trades in lat 9 301 N. Bithted NW point of Hawaii on Tuesday. Feb 8th at 6 pm, and arrived in Honolulu at noon next day, 20 days from Tahiti. REPORT OF BARK O C ~IURRAY, FULLER, MASTER.-Left San Francisco on tsaturday, .Tan 29th, at 1 pm, in tow of the tug Neptune. The first three days fine breeze from NW to N with passing fog squalls; then the wind hauled to NE and remained bO moderate tbe next nine days; Feb 11th, at 12 m, made Maui, and next day, at 8 am, Oahu. REPORT 01'' :58 CITY OF MELBOURNE, BROWN, COlltlltA~DER,-Left San Francisco at 11.30 a m, on the 6th Feb, and cleared the Golden Gate at noon with a light SW breeze and SW swell; at 4 pm the wind hauled to the SSE, and blew a. fresh hreeze which la!!ted until midnight on the 7rh; the wind then hauled to WNW, and blew a strong gale with a heavy cross sea. and severe squalls, which continued until the 9th; the wind then veered to S8E with moderate breeze and fine weather until arrival at Donolulu, which wa11 entered at 1 pm on the 14th, ma.king the passage in 9 days. REPORT OF SCHR C M WARD, CLUNEY, MASTER,-Left Howland's Island Jan 29th. Had had weather with heavy Ilea. running from the eastward; sighted Hawaii on the 23d, and arrived on the 25th, making the passa::e in 27 days. ° ° PASSENGERS. Fon PORTLAND-Per Jane A Falkinburg, Jan 26th-Jacob Orm~by. FoR SAN FRA!'ic1sco-Per :Mikado, Fell 4th-Capt A N Tripp, Chas Wall, Max Eckart, Chas Lancaster, J ll Black, Ohr Dehrnan, 8 Horton, CJ Murph>·, W ulsipher, H Kalili. FROM PORTLAND-Per Mattie Macleay, Feb 5th-John Dickins. FROM l\11cRONESIA-Per Morning Star, Feb 5th-Rev J W l{anoa. H Kanoa and child, Rev 8 P Kaaia and wile, J E MEMORANDA. Chamberlain, U M Ra~io, Capt Wm Has:sdager, L Neil11en, A Neilijen, G Sandstone, Peter Larson, Iliribi Rakubo. TO MARIN EH.S. FROM SAN FRANc1sco-Per Hera, Feb 10th-Henry Hayes, A J Cartwright, Esq, Acting Peruviau \;onsul at tl1is port, C Robinson, R B llaker and wife. bas received a dispatch from Senor A V de la 'l'orre, of the FR0~1 SAN FRANc1sco-l'er DC lliurray, Feb 12th-Mrs A Peruvian Government, dated Lima, Dec 2:.!, 1875, which state~ L f<toue, Miss Kate B Stone. Ed Leavett and wife, Chas 8tune that the British bark Professor Airey, from Cardiff, arrived at and wife, Miss Grammer, Thos l\lenzies and wife, Miss Waythat port on the 13th, reports that while in Brazilian waters, land. Mrs Atlanti, Mi•s Atlaati, D M Love, FT Crane, Cha~ in lat 17 00' S, long 36 0-1' W, a distance of 180 miles off ~ltller, and 2 Chinamen. the coa11t, running at the rate of :.! miles an hour, the bark FoR 'l'AHl'l'I-Per Ionia, Feb 12th-J Sumner aml wife. grounded on a shoal, not down on the charts. Atter an hour's FROM BAN FRANCISCO-Per City of l\Jelbourne, J,'eh 14thdettntion he got off' without notable damage. Sounding, he Hon W R Castle, Mrs W M Lamhert, M :;inclair. E W llawhad only 17½ teet of water, and at a little distance from the ship found no bottom with 30 fathollls. On sounding again, kins, M Wesseller, Cai,t E Smith, Mr May a1:1d wife, A Rokohle, the line was cut, losing the lead, whert!hy he supposed it to be C G Mantizma.m, H C Deammort, S M Whitmore, A l\l Ha.ua coral bank, heretofore unknown. 'fhe Peruvian Minister of son, 3 Chinamen and 3 boys. War and Marine communicates this intelligence fur the benefit Fon AUCKLAND-Per Uity of l\lelbourne, Feb 14th-Dr of navigator. generally. Mohabeer. RUSSELL, Jan. 7.-The whaling bk Niger, Capt Hallett. of }?on 'l'AHtTI-Per W II Allen, Feb 19th-2 Chinamen. New Bedford, arrived last night, 6 days from Mangea Island. }'OR SAN F11ANc1sco-l'er Hera, Feb 19th-U H Rasin. Her take is 600 bbh1 sperm since May. 8he reports the Coral, FUR PoRTLAND-l'er Mattie Macleay, l<'eb 2f>th-J Ilickins. Capt Marvin, at the MarquesaK, on the 1st November, with 85 FROM GUANO lsuNbs-Per CM Ward, Jfeb 25th-Wm 11 hbls sperm, left on a cruise; also, the Lagoda, Capt Lewis, with Foye, G Holmes1 and 20 nati\'e laborer11. 460 bbls sperm, left on a cruise, at t11e Marquesas on the same date. Spoke at ~ea the Mhip Milton, Capt Fuller, with 130 bhls sperm, taken since June.-Sailed: the whaler California, MAB.RIED. on a cruise. GuLJtk-TttoMPSON-In thiM citt, at the residence of l\lr. REPOl\'f OF BKTN .JANE A FALKINilURo, HuDBARD, MAS• TER.-Left Astori,i Decemher 16th. l:lad light southerly winds Wm. Glilick, J<'ebruary 5th, by the Rev. W. Frear, Major CHARLES T. ~ULICK, Chid Clerk of the Interior Department, for two days, after that winds from SW to W for about ten days, then had i;trong trade,; from NE to E for five days to to l\lrs. :5. A. THOMPSON, all of Honolulu. No Cardi!!. port. Also reports that the 11hip Gatherer arrived in Aiitoria Ll!IIA-HAI.. -At Molok~i, Feb 13th, by the Rev Pere Andre, on the 15t.h, eleven days from land to land, having lost four Mr JOSEPH LIMA to l\li8S ZELIE BAL. days outside through calms. REPORT 01'' SS GRANAbA, .J J\l CAVARLY, COMMANDER.DIED. Left 8an Francisco .Jan 9th at 4 16 p m. and passed out the heads at 5.15 p m, the Farallones at 7.20 p m. Experienced ROBBINS-la Ma~hias, Maine 1 on Tiie~day, December 14th light weather first part of passage, with variable winds and rough WNW sea. Jan 14th at 6 am took Nl!l trades m lat 1875. Mrs. LAUICA lh1L~;y ROBBINS, sisterofl\Jrs. C. I>. Kia! 28 ° 20, thence to port strong tradei; from the east, weather ney of Honolulu, and wife of Dr .•James H. Robbins, of Calais. pleasant. Arrived in Honolulu Jan 17th at 8.20 am, aft.tr a Maine. passage of 7 days and 16 hours. GEO McLANE, Purser. BURNS-At Waikapu, Maui, Dec 31st, 1875, CHARLES F REPORT OF TAHITIAN DIC IONIA, LOVEOROVE, MASTER.- BURNS, in the 61st year of !tis age. He was born in Montrose Scotland, and came to theRe Islands in 1846. ' Left Tahiti at noou on Thursday ..lan 6ttt, with light NNE breeze; sighted Huaheine on the 8th, wmd stiil hanging to JEsus.-ln Hilo, Hawaii, Jan 21st, of typhod fever, EuoENZ northward, moderate breezes and line; sighted Starbuck Island J&sus, aged 15 yeal'B. on the 14th, at 7 am; ran round to anchorage; found all houses . You.N GSHEoNo.-tn lh\8 city, Feb 14th, of consumption, Mr shut up aud no one on the island; crossed the equator in long YouNtlSHEONG, aged 51 years, for many years a prominent 160 ° 40' W, when we got a ::;E wind for two days; from 4 o N Chinese merchant and resident of this city. lat to port one continued steady gale and heavy sea, being under single and double recfod topsail~ the whole time; sighted the Island of Maui on the 26th, and arrived in port on the 28th, Information ·wanted. making a passage of22 days. Bennett Building, New York, Jan. 26, 1876. REPORT OF ss MIKADO, F MOORE, COl\UU.NDER -ExperiMn. EDITOR:-Cornelius J. Reddan, under the narue of enced continual heavy weather from Sydney to Auckland; NEAL J. REDUAN, sailed in the bark Progress from New more moderate from thence to Ka.ndavu . From latter port to Bedford, Mass., in Oct.oiler, 1870, and deserted rhat vessel in Honoluln hnd very strong NE trades. The delay at Kandavu Honolulu in the fnll of 18'il. Since then nothing has beeu (owing to :trrival off' there at dark) explains the cause of the heard of or from him. Ir alive he 1s about 25 years of age; by passage hein:r a little longer than usual. The City of San birth an Irishman and by creed a Roman Catholic. HiH parFrancisco was tht; connecting ship at Fiji, and would await the ents are anxious to learn something of their lost boy, and hence arrival of the Granada from San l'rancisco , then proceed to thi8 letter. Will you please make inquiry about him, and adDunedin, N Z, a11d be the next through ship to San ~•rancisco. vi11e me of the rc1mlt, and thereby oblige a beart-brokeu Arrived in llonolulu Friday, Feb 4th, at·4 am. mother, aud place under lasting ohligatiou11, Purser GnA11An1. Yourn, respectfully, WALTt;R Dvn.+.cK. ° I ° 22 T H E .F R I E N D , M 11 It C H , I 8 7 6. labor from an immense tree trunk stranded "QUEENS THY NURSING l\IOTHERS . " ABSTRACT OF THE REPORT The most prominent, because of mental . Of J, E. Chamberlain, Delegate for the Hawaiian on the reef, having floated from distant Boud to lUicronesia, 1875-6. America. The people had unanimously and moral power and character, missionary is the Bonabian princess "Obedinia," wife WORK DONE. abandoned the religion of the past, whatever of Obediah, himself a chief of a rank two or The .Moming S,tm· sighted 27 islands, it was, and turned to that of the future, so three degrees below. This true woman anchored 30 times, did missionary work on that commodious churches were too small to stands high up among the aristocracy of her 20 islands during 171 days, remaining at contain those who thronged to greet the native land by the right of ancient and noShe has given up her lands, ble descent. anchor 92 days; she sailed 11,200 miles, missionary _and delegate. At Lukonor 200 her titles, her rank, her honors, her home. to boated 530 miles and returned to Honolulu or more were out at the doors and windows be a humble missionary of the cross. This after an absence of 230 day8, and after 45 while 500 and upwards were packed within princess, so recently herself a heathen in In every station the people half clad Bonabe, appears now a Christian days of head winds and calms on a stormy the church. brought to the Jlforning Stm· gifts of cocoa- lady. On this eventful Sabbath she acted homeward passage. as Sabbath school superintendant and chorThe delegate spoke 47 time~ to 5143 per- nuts and food. The people supply th eir ister. Without foreign aid Obedinia has led :sons ; of whom 796 were in the Gilbert Isl- teachers with a large abundance of the best and directed the translation from the Bonaands; 1320 in the Marshall Islands; 1342 they have, build better dwellings fo their bian language into the Mortlock of the in Bonabe, including Pingalap and Mokil; residence than their own, listen rea ily to primer, parts of th~ catechi~m, the ~omman~and 1685 in the Mortlocks. Namarick alone their teachin<Y and heed their advice. One rnents a~d a few sunple Bible stones. This . ~. . ·manuscnpt has been brought to Honolulu to was not vi sited, because of lack of strength. ol~ head cl11ef, to a question answered some- be printed. The Sabbath school hymns To do this ~ork 160 miles were traversed thmg as follows: " We are glad to have were ung in our hearing by the voices of in open canoes and boats. our teachers, and do not want them to go eight hundred men, women and children from us. We will continue to support them that welco~ed the .1.Yo1·nhi(I >~tar's boat_ at M.ORTLOCKS. Reversing the usual order this abstract as we have done.'' During our meetinas, "Lukonor, -were repeated 1_n Joyous strains h I d . . b from hundreds of glad v01ces at '' Satashall begin at the most remote station in t at were pro onge rn some mstances more wan," and were repeated in the church at Micronesia, which is noteworthy as the seat than four hours, the constant attendance and "Ta" until the rafters rang. All of the of a wonderful work, remarkable in the his- attention was passing strange; an<l the uni- credit does not belong to Obedinia for this versa! homage manifested during prayer was ~onde;rful translation, but. her's is ,the mov• tory of missions. extraordinary, beyond expectation and chal- mg m~ nd · When the famm~ 0 ~ 1874 starvIn Jan11at'}, 1874, three Bonabe teachers . . ed thHty persons, and penshmg mothers and their wives were stationed on the i~lands lengrng belief. threw away their infants to die, Obedinia of Lukonor and Satawan, whose chiefs. and A MEMORABLE SABBATH. found a starving baby which she restored Sunday, Octoher 17, 1875, will be memo- with drops of diluted breadfruit. To the people guaranteed them support and protection. Early in 1875 Father Sturges of Bo- rable in the history of the Mortlock mission, credit of this people let it be told that in the nabe received such a report of progress that for the baptism of 16 converts, and the for- time of greatest scarcity, the missionaries of he determined to orgamze one or more mation of the church of "Ta,,,· for the or- the cross were not permitted to suffer. churches and ordain one of the teachers as its pastor; on his visit on the JJ,Jorning Star the good news was confirmed by actual contact with the people and missionaries. The number of the inhabitants of the Mortlocks is about 3200. BORN IN. A DAY. dination of Obediah and his installment as pastor of the l\!lortlock churches ; for the first celebration of the Lord's Supp~r at this islet of Satawan, and for a most interesting religious meeting at which the people of the islet seemed all present; not even the fraction of timid women who hid away at other stations being absent. ized a church on Lukonor of fourteen: seven men and their wives. On Satawan he organized two churchers, that of islet 'fa with sixteen, an.d that on islet _Satawan of eight members. These> are the first fruits of less than two years' labor by Bonabian converts, "grandchildren of the American Board " as Father S. quaintly calls them. The delegate of the Hawaiian Board took part in the ·e xamination rff candidates and assisted in church organization ; and though the scientific theological attainments were near a minim urn the converts possessed the element of s imple faith in so great measure that it was impossible to refuse baptism : Under the direction and supervision of their teachers, the people bad e.rected churches superior to any building previously existing on their islapds, had neat pulpits, platforms and minister's seats, and the ffoors were planks four inches or more thick adzed from the trunks of la rge trees-. One pulpit platform was ~even feet by ten , a plank cut with infinite Near the close of the morning services the duty of these infant Christians to carry the glad tidings of a risen Saviour to the inhospitable heathen land of Hogolu, where intrading "straugers are fastened to a convenient tree and their heads mashed with a hard cocoanut," led to a strange exciting scene that may produce important results. The chiefs of Mortlocks and Hogolu are connected by ties of affinity and consanguinity and visit fearlessly in the trade wind season One of the chiefs present was going to sail when the winds favored, and to him by a unanimous show of hands was committed the good news of Jesus and the "ka bong" (aloha) of Mortlock churches. Mr. Christian, in the absence of Capt. Colcord and the mate, shook hands for the llfominq Sta1· and gave the love of its army of builcfers and owners. Father Sturges gave the cordial grasp of Bonabe and its " ran a mau." While the Marshall Islands, thrqugh the delegate, sent their'' yokwe yuk "-the Gilbert Islands sent their "kona maud," the American Board its paternal "love," and the Hawaiian Board its "aloha, aloha, aloha," with the promise of teachers and book s as soon as the doors of Hogolu should be open. In October, 1875, Father Sturges organ- A SCENE IN CHURCH. ORDINATION OF OBEDIAH. The last service of this Sabbath whose record is made with the pen of iron and point of a diamond, was the ordination of a pastor for Mortlock's three churches. Questions in English were answered in Bonabian by Obediah, and were perfectly satifactory to Father Sturges. In the absence of Father Coan or other missionary the right hand of fellowship was given by Mr. Chamberlain, while the charge and consecrating prayer and remaining services fell to Father Sturges. The interest of the people was main_. tained throughout. Obediah is a simple Christian more after the style of Nathaniel and Bartholomew than the Boanerges. The Holy Spirit bas blessed already and I believe will continue to recognize and bless his labors as a minister of Christ. PINGALAP. During the past year God's work has made rapid advance. One hundred and six C()nverts were baptized by Father Sturges and admitted to church fellowship. Twentyfive couples were married. Barnabas was ordained pastor. The people have erected a large commodious stone church 70 by 45 feet, with solid coral walls four feet thick and fourteen feet high. The roof is lofty, closely resembling the magnificent old churches of former missionary days on Hawaii nei. The whole pe~ple were well clad and are pressing on to the school and into the church. A most striking contrast to their condition three years ago when Rev. W. H. Alexander, delegate, wrote of them, "They are as rude and wild a s Gilbe rt Islande·rs." FRIEND, M!RCH, 1' HE Places of Worship. DR· 23 I 8 7 6. ADVERTISEMENTS. SAILORS' HOME! SEAMEN'S BETHEL--Rev. S. C. Damon, Chaplain, F. B. HUTCHINSON, King street, near the Sailors; Home. Preaching at 11 A. M. Seats free. Sabbath School before the Phyl!licia11 n11d S1ll'geo11, morning service. Prayer meeting on Wednesday Office at Drug Store, corner of Fort and l\1ercbaut Streets; evenings at 7½ o'clock. Residence, Nuuanu A venue, near School Street. FORT STRJ<JE'r CHURCH-Rev. W. Frear. Pastor, Office Hours, 9 to 11 A. M. fol '76 corner of Fort and Beretania streets. Preaclling on Sundays at 11 A. M. and 7~ P. l\I. Sabbath Go IRWIN & co .. School at 10 A. M. KAWAIAHAO CHURCH--Rev. H. II. Parker, Pastor, Oommission Merchants, King street, above the Palace. Services in HaPlantation and Insurance Agents, Honolulu, H. I~ waiian every Sunday at 9½ A. M. and 3 P. M. RoMAJ.'< CATHOLIC CHuRcu--Under the charge of \V E R S & D I C K S O N • Rt. Rev. Bishop Maigret, assisted by Rev. Father Hermann ; Fort street, nt-ar Beretania. Services Dealer.<; in Lumber and Building Materials, t>very Sunday at. 10 A. M. and 2 P. ll. Fort Street, Honolulu, H. I. KAU;\IAKAPIU CHURCB--Rev. M. Kuaea, Pastor, Beretania street, near Nnuaun. Services in HaH O F F M .\. N N , M • D • , waiian every Sunday at 10 A. )i. and 2½ P. M. Physician and Surgeon, THE ANGLTC.A.N CHURCH--Bishop, the Rt. Rev. Alfred Willis. D. D.; Clergy. Rev. Rob't Dunn, M.A., Corner Merchant and Kaahumanu Streets, near the Poet Office Rev. Alex. l\fackintosh, St. Andrew's Temporary Officers' Table 1 with lodging. per week, Cathedral, Beretania street. opposite the Hotel. ~B R E \V E R & C O •• Seamen's do. do. do. English services on Sundays at 6½ and 11 A. M., and 2½ and 7~ P. M. Sunday School at the Clergy Shower Baths on the Premises. Commission and Shipping Merchants, Honse at 10 A. 111. Honolulu, Oanu, H. I. \V. LE ~- C• E. THOS. G. THRUM, STA.TIONER, NEWS AGENT AND BOOK BINDER, MERCHANT STREET, HONOLULU. 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Pm·e religion and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: To visit the fathm·l ess and widows in their ajfiiction, and to keep one's self unspottedfrom the world. Edited by a Committee of the Y, M. C, A. A LEAF FROM THE MAILE WREATH.-A few evenings since, at the residence of P. C. .Jones, Esq .. was convened what was styled n '' Boston 'l'ea Party." A poetical effusion s uggested by tbat and a somewhat noted "tea " party in Boston harbor one hundred years ago, appeared in the "Maile'' at the last meeting of -the Children's Missionary Society. We would only add thnt it was written by a Boston lady: Twenty men in the waning light )larch from God's house to the winter night. TnE NATIONAL vice of the foreign born residents of these islands is indulgence in gossip, and we fear it is often intensified into detestable scandal ; so common is the vice among even .t hose nominally respectable, and so little pains taken to hide it that even the temporary sojourner is impressed with its prevalence. From comparative strangers most persons care to hide their vices, but so strong a hold has this habit that its indulgence is not checked by any sense of delicacy before visitors, and thus most writers on the islands have pointed this out as QUI' national vice. Regret it as we may, and we trust mo~t of our readers have refinement enough to regret it, we fear we may not pronounce the On they march, end the gotbering crowd charge unfounded. And we suggest that if Join them and cheer them with voices loud , it were more common to .resist the habit of Cheer them and join them, one by one tlii'}Jkin,q evil, or listening to evil of others, And work with a will till the work is done. the prevalence of this evil would be lessened. For they've marched to the wharf,-they've entered The good king tasght bis knights of the the ~hips.TablP Round Ob, their load is fit for the daintiest lips,_,., " To speak no slander, no; nor listen to it." For the costly tea is stored in the hold;- Twenty men in a strnnge disguise, But with steadfast purpose in their eyes. We do not think this evil is confined to aqy class or locality. ·Any one visiting the other islands must be struck with amazement at th~ quantity of senseless gossip and No ! another purpose fires their hearts. And strength to each 1talwart arm im,pa.rt.s. wicked sc;nd~l Written in business and friendly leHer~ b;om. we~k ~9, w~ek from HoThey dash in the chests, and each blow of the a~e Is aimed at the heart of the unjust tax;nolulu, and also with th~ rea~i~ess with And thi11 tea shall be brewed in the briny wav~, \Vhich the most improbable &torie~ are b,eThe tea tha.t their proud hearts will not sal'e. lieved, an~ the avidity with which they ~re And Boston ~arbor and l\ostpn ~.ay received to be retailed tq P,ther~ wit4 a May keep this story for many a day; thc;,ughtless inc\i[erence to t~e wrp,ng comFor 'tis, freedorµ's protest 'gainst tyralllly~s wight\ mitted. It is true tliat tc;, ·som~ e~tent so And this daring d~e~ is~ deed of ri'ght. cor:nmon is this vice that it )Vorks its own cµre in so far that f~w pelieve anything they A hundreq years in their rapid ~ight, hear in regarc~ tq c;,tqers, except those who Hal'e passeq since tµe wort of t~at str~nge wild µnd a secret plea::Hne in thinking evil. night,Will they carry it forth,-thesa marauders bold? "Are they robbers,-tbese men in strange disguise, With the true, strong light within their eyes? When we, in this lovely ~acifio is,e~ Hal'e a "Boston party" in 4ifferent style. No winter's night is about us now.No coming war doth our spirits bow,""!:"" But beauty and flowers are 'round us here And within is the voice of happy cheer~ Our genial host and our hostess kind. For all, sweet pleasure and gladneSII find,Ancl the evening speeds, in nierry flight, That shall live in our mem 'ries, in circlet bright And now let us ca@t back a grateful thought, To those whose true courage our freedom wrought;-,. To those dauntless meri, whose bravery etrong, Released our loved land from mighty wrong. And let us send up to our Father above, Whose power is about us,-Whose "banner is Love,"- A mightier tribute of glorious praise, For their courage true, and for our hnppy days. Honolulu, Feb. 12, 187G·. ting our neighbors' alone Dr. Holland in Scribner's for January has the following on Gossip and its Cure: 'r he very simple reason why the world is full of gossip is, that those who indulge in it have nothing else in them . They must interest themi;elves in something. 'rhey know nothing but what they learn from day to day, in the intert,'Ou1·se with, and observation of their neighbors. What these neighbors do-what they say-what happens to them in their social and business affairs, what they wear-these become the questions of supreme interest. The personal and social life around them-this is the book under constant perusal, and out of this comes that pestiferous conversation which we call gossip. The world is full of it; and in a million houses, all over this country, nothing is talked of but the personal affairs of neighbors. All personal and tiocial movements and concerns are arraigned before this high court of gossip, are retailed at every fireside, are sweetened with approval or embittered by spite, and are gathered up as the comruon stock of conversation by the bankrupt brains that have nothing to busy themselves with but tittle-tattle. The moral aspects of go1,isip are bad enough. It is a constant infraction of the golden rule ; it is full of all uncharitablenesl!!. No man or woman of sensibility likes to have his or her personal concerns hawked about and talked about ; and those who engage in this work are meddlers and busy-bodies who are not only doing damage to others-are not only engaged in a most unneighborly office-but are inflicting a great damage upon themselves. They sow the seeds of anger and animosity and social dii;cord. Not one good moral result ever comes out of it. It is a thoroughly immoral practice, and what is worst and most hopeless about it is, that those who are engaged in it do not see that it is immoral and dete&table. 'fo go into a man's houFe steathily, when be is away from home', and overhaul his papers, or into a lady's wardrope and examine her dresses, would be deemed a very dishonorable th~n~; b~t to take up a man's or a woman ·s name, an\! smurtoh it all over with gossip-to handle the private affairs of a neighbor around a hundred firesides-why, this is nothing! lt makes converisation. It furnishes a topic. It keeps tlie wheels of society going. What is the cure for gossip? Simply culture. This is a ~reat deal of gossip that has no malignity in it. Goodnatured people talk about their neighbors because and only because, they have nothing else to talk about. We bel1,eye that the cure for all this i~ for each persqp tP re$olve that for themselves th,ey wiH take a knightley's vow, "To speak np ·slander, no; nor listen to it; " to keep l~Hers and communications pure from such 4efilement, and in conversation to introduce ;rnd keep prominent Qther subjects than the yi:es or affairs of neighbors. Perhaps some would be aided by remembering that they ;ire not responsible for the sins of others except so far as they are caused by their own influence and example; but with the great majority thoughtlessness lies at the root of the evil. Another social reform which would result .well would be to refrain from ascribing bad motives to others where, in a majority of cases, we are not called upon to enquire into the matter at all. In fact to prar.tice minding our own bus iness and let- IMMIGRATION AND REFOPULATION.-Interest in these subjects is growing in our community, and doubtless in these all important subjects there lies a grand opportunity for the exhibition of practical statesmanship. Increased prosperity should not lead statesmen to regard these questions simply in the light of money making-increasing exports are good and are generally evidence of wise government, hut a decreasing population is a shame which no list of expo,rts can palliate. The preservation of this kingdom depends upon enlightened action on these subjects. Let the King and Ministers dedicate all the good which the nation gets out of Reciprocity to the repeopling of the country. To do this labor is first required to make the benefits of Reciprocity available-then carefully considered efforts for the immigration of a resident population.