Friend, 1877-08

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

HONOLULU, AUGUST I, 1877. bound volumes are of much value and inter- RAMBLES IN THE OLD WORLD-NO, 7 CON'J'E1'1TS For Augulllt 1, IS"l'f. P.AGE Pleasar;i~ Memories ...................................... 115 Rambles in the Old World-No. 7•••••••••••• , •••••••• 65-67 Plea for Ecience-Poetry ................................ ,68 Geneva Theolog_ical Seminary ............................ 68 Vestiges of the Molten Globe ...........................•. 68 Edi tor's Table .............. -. .............. , ..•......... 69 Marine Journal. ...... , .................. , .............. 69 How God Educates Bis Chil dren ........ ············ ····70 Japan Correspondence .. , ............................ , , . 70 Y. M. c. A ••••.•••••••• , ••••••••••••••• ,, •••••••••••••• 72 THE FRIEND. AUGUST 1. 187'%. " Pr.EASANT MEMORIEs."-In the issue of the Advertiser of July 21, the editor dilates upon the pleasant impressions made upon the minds of the passengers landing from the Australian steamers and spending a few • . . hours bowers, ridrng up .to the . m our . shady . . Pah and hstenmg to the sweet ~.us1c d1s1 coursed by Berger s band of Hawa11an mus1c1ans. This item reminds us of a parah· l tt · d I tA t grap ma e er receive per as us ra 1an steamer from the Rev. Dr. Fletcher, who passed our islands in 187l, and who will be remembered by bis lecture in the Fort Street Church on the siege of Jerusalem by Titus. H. l tt th 18 e_ er ~pens. us : . . " Time is ·rapidly makmg our pleasant mtercourse of a few days in Honolulu in 1871, seem a thing of the far past. I wish could renew the pleasure, for your home in Hono. • lulu always stands rn my memory as a · synonym for an earthly paradise. I am now at Adelaide, with as much labor, responsi- r bili.ty and honor as is good for a modest man like myself. I hope you and your paper are . still flourishing. * * I have taken much interest in Hawaifon affairs ever since I left you, and my experiences as your guest have given flavor to many a speech since 1871even the 'grand tour' of the world has not o~literated the Sandwich Islands from my memory. I do not know if ever again l shall see your palm-girt is188, but I live in hope of so doing. Send me an occasional ·FRIEND M a reminder of the past. Your est to me." Geneva, May 30, 1877. Such is the delightful impression which a This is really my last date from Geneva, view of our islands left upon the mind of a as I leave on to-morrow's train for Straspassing traveler. This allusion calls to bourg via Berne, Fribourg, Zurich, Bale. mind a paragraph in a letter recently re- I tliink l hav~ seen Geneva as thoroughly as most people do who come here, and after ceived from our European correspondent, a six months' residence shall carry away the who claims the islands as his birth-place and pleasantest memories of the place and of inb 1 early home: "Nowhere in all my travels numera le kindnesses of which have been have I found a spot one•half so beautiful or I the recipient. The town. is now full. of where people enjoy themselves so well ! i stra~~ers; you hear American and E.nghsh My mind is fully made up that the islands, sp~~lnng people wherever you go. ~t 1s surbut especially Honolulu, is the best place in prISI~g to see how m?ch our. Amencan and all the world, and whoever has the privilege E. nglish authors furnish readmg fo_ r the conof Jiving there need not pe in a hurry to go tme~t. N ~ar1y ev~ry wor k of 1mp~rtance away. I love the islands so dearly, and publi~hed rn Ame~1c:1 or ~ngland 1s ne~t every fern by every mountain stream from seen m Frenc.h? this 1s ~spe~1ally marked rn Hawaii to Kauai. The Grancl Louvre does the recent rebgwus publications. . not hold a picture one-half so beautiful in The country was nev~r m~re beauti[ul. •mv eyes, as that which used to greet me I had expected to find Sw1tzP.rland beauuful . d ow tot h e at this . season , but it "s;urpasses my utmost 1oo· k.mg t hroug h my open wm . sunlight and ferns beyond; so if strangers expectation~. ~ne day after another. brings come to you asking for the islands' , coleur- new. revelat10ns m nature. The fruit trees de-rose,' you may know they are of my are m b~oom, the hawthorn@ hedges are covsendinO" and Mi'-'s Bird" ered with leaves and feathery clusters of o· flowers, the blossom is ~o small and fine, TwELFTH ANNUAL CATALOGUE OF MASSA• coming in long clustering sprays and looks CHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF 'l'ECHNOLOGY-we like light snow among the new leaves. 'fhe horse chesnut trees all over the country seem · · h w h.He would acknowledge from l'rof. Kneeland, 1·k 1 ·e enormous Christmas trees wit who visited our islands some years ago. tapers-the great waxy clusters of blossoms We rejoice to learn that the Institute makes are very beautiful. 'l'he rose bushes are so fair an exhibit of professors and pupils- covered with hundreds of buds which seem among the latter we notice- the name of ready to burst into bloom at the first touch James B. Castle of Honolulu, in the 2d year of June. But this beauty of the country I of study. Total number of students 293, can take .with me. . _ and 19 professors 1·nclud· th ·a t Herewith l send the remamder of my ' rng e presi en · k t h f t • d tl L k This institute has the reputation of being s e c es o a np aroun 1e a e. the most thorough of any in the United LAUSAUNE. States.· Lausaune, May 8. The loveliest of sunTEMPERANCE CAUSE . IN THE UNITED ny days and the picturesque views which. have met us at every turn have made us s.0, STATEs.-W e rejoice to learn f:Fom so many l in love with this old city that we are stil ; reliable sources that this good cause is h ere t h oug h we h a d t h oug h t to spenl,ll .J·. h t e. awakening renewed efforts in all parts of the night at Vevey. To use the words '" ql<;\,•. United States. Public men hitherto stand- picturesque, historic" is a poor way of ~el_ 1-. ing aloof are becoming the stoutest advocates ing you what I want to tell. But w:ha.t ~l~e. of prohibition. The sin of drunkenness ap- am I to do? Our first visit thi~. n:iorning. pears t© be standing out clear and marked, was to the cathedral, the finest i~ Switzer: while the enormity of licensing men to man- land. It crowns the city a~d s,h9,ots up ufacture drunkards is become too glaring to towers and spires into the blue of the sky find advocates among decent people. above. Endless flights of step~ lead up t<>; it, past red tiled roofs and under the soft, , DoNA"TION for Bethel repaira-$.10 from a lady. early ~hadows of the chesnuts. The inte,. 66 T HE Ii R I E. N D, A U G U S T , I 8 7 7 • rior is a beautiful gothic, and iconoclastic liemin are all more or less connect d links these later days with those long ago ieal and successive revolutions have left with Lausaune . and the Canton de Vau . times when the eagles of the empire ruled many interesting relics which have di!>ap- Geneva and Lausaune have·· furnished where now ttie white cross of the feudal peared from St. Pierre in Geneva. Sculp- thought for Europe and the great problems flag keeps watch and ward over these wave tured and excessively dusty bishops, with of life, and death, the investigation of scien- washed picturesque towns. This warm and folded hands aijd shepherd's crook, lie in tific and literary subjects, the foll and free favored nook is dearly loved by those who marble dignity. Noble families of Lausaune discussion of all high themes have had here come from the cold and rigorous countries of and Berne are still remembered in their those who have taken a vigorous and intense the north, and summer and winter is frecoats of arms and lengthy descriptions. interest in them. Few greater thinkers or quented by English, Russians, Germans and Workmen were busy in restoring a portion pm:er hearts has the world ever known than Americans. We found a most delightfullly pf the church and very persistently inter- Alexander Vinet, a mau who united to an picturesque spot among the poplars on the fered with the historic memories of the inte- intellectual capacity of the highest order, a outskirts of the town, a tower of the middle ~ior. Under these arches Calvin, Viret, and heart most delicately sensitive and exqui- ages. Near this once lived Ludlow, one of Farel held their famous conference and ush- sitely attuned to all spiritual influences. .t he judges of Charles l., of England, who But the real As a lecturer in theology and literature he made Vevey his home for thirty years. He, ered in the Reformation. beauty of this old cathedral i& in its exterior, drew his pupils about him with a remark- with one Broughton, who read the sentence in its flying buttresses. graceful spires, able magnetism and in his own beautiful life of death to Charles, is buried on the hill sculptured apostles, and massive walls. portrayed the noble ideal he held up before above the tower. This tower is in partial Worn and ancient steps led up to the bell- them. After its centuries of political strife, ruins, and with its mantling ivy, and wide tower from which we caught a glorious view and its intellectual struggles and victories, fosse, grassy and flower-grown, makes a of the town and blue lake and encircling Lausaune is to-day a thriving city, of beau- most charming picture. Two rooms in the mountains On every object for miles about tiful homes, of quiet and regular life and full round tower are furnished in antique style, fell the softening beauty of the morning sun- of many · hopeful prophecies for the future. hung with armor and ancient portraits. In light. The wooded slopes and distant plains But Geneva, Lausaune arid indeed aJI Swit- the tower room, dimly lighted by narrow were bright with the early leaves of May. zerland need the same rich spiritual bless- openings in the massive walls, sits a knight A fine terrace shaded with old trees lies on ings which America and England have of in full armor, looking oot grimly at those one side of the cathedral and in this quiet late enjoyed. There is much real earnest- who are thus intruding on his privacy. and cool retreat one would gladly stay ana. ness among many of the pasteurs and their Finely carved cabinets, helmets, huge dream the whole day through. Just be- followers, but the country thirsts for some swords, cross-bows, and faded tapestries, all neath l noticed a large class of laughing, glorious wave of religious revival and inspi- serve to aid the imagination in retracing the merry Swiss girls, who were enjoying the ration, which shall brin~ to these Swiss can- centuries to old Peter of Sa vov, who once sunshine (_ of which they seemed a part), far tons a renewal of that spirit of earnest piety, held the tower. At the other end of the wall more than the instructions of their drawing which has shown h.ere so markedly ~n other rises another tower half concealed in the ivy, master, who sat contentedly in their midst. days. Pray that it may soon come. where our quiet concierge pointed out the ON THE QUAY AT VEVEY. gloomy opening into which the poor victims Sketch books and pencils were powerless in this wonderful beauty of sky and cloud and May 8. I can't resist the temptation to were thrown by their conquerors. I had looked forward to a quiet httle mountain. The old academy from which sit right down here on the quay to write a the fine army of students have just issued, is few lines, in the presence of these won- supper at Rousseau's favorite inn, La Clef," a short distance beyond. This is the intel- derful mountains, with my face to the but though I discovered an immense swinglectual center of an intellectuai city. Laus- open valley of 't he Rhone, where the ing key, I was unable to obtain from the aune has seen many noble thinkers and sunset is just now saying good,bye and proprietor sufficiently definite information to · writers and students. Here Vinet, that fine lighting up the distant peaks. This is on· lead me to sacrifice a very comfortable, representative of Christian scholarship lived the long promenade of this favorite and modern hotel for the uncertain possibilities and lectured. His widow is still here. The fashionable town, whose elegant hotels and of more poetic surroundings. Do come to : library is a little world in itself and presided pensions, with their terraces and gardens Vevey when you can, it is charming beyond over by a most devoted custodian, who ex- and balconies border the shore. The lake is words, and more comfortable than I can tell. hibited his treasures with a very enthusias- quiet and peaceful, stirred only by a gentle Right along with this most majestic scenery tic fondness. Up the hill, a little farther on ripple. A little puffing steamer is hurrying you have every possible convenience of •is the ancient chateau with its four turrets, down towards Geneva. A few boats break hotels, of beautiful shops, of art and bookwhich basked in the sunlight, in a kind of the still surface of the waters. On the far stores, and everything is done to render the sleepy indolent way, as its six or eight-cen- western horizon hangs a fringe of showers, tourist oblivious to that which is in any wise turies fairly entitled it to do. It has lost its veiling the mountains. A muttering of unpleasant in travel. former feudal and warlike character and be- thunder comes to us, which is too distant, Montreux , May 10. You see we are come a very proper and sedate modern however, to disturb our enjoyment of the moving on step by step, pitching our camp affair in the interior and been converted into sunset. Directly opposite are the towering where inclination leads us. But we are public offices. The shady court near at Alps of Savoy, rising sheer from the waters nearly at the end of our week's excursion hand was filled with gentlemen at noon of the lake. The majestic Dent d'Oche is and j1-1-st beyond us lie Chillon's white walls time discussing business and politics, etc. just seen under the heavy masses of cloud, wh ic are our morrow's goal. It is astonishing how much one can see Very important looking characters in green farther on the Dent du Midi, then curving coats with huge brass-buttons passed here splendidly about the ends of the lake come in a very short space of time if one.is only and there, the very personifications of pro- peak after peak, whose snows are soft and in earnest !-Just back of Vevey perched on priety. Off on the hills lay beautiful resi- warm in the fading light. Chillon lies a the heights is one of the most interesting dences, in the cool recesses of groves and distant white speck in the gathering mists feudal remains of Switzerland, the chateau shrubbery. ln the suburbs is the former on the edge of the dusky waters. We left of Blonay, which has been in the same · hqme of Kemble the actor, and his body is Lausaune this morning while the big drops family for some seven or eight hundred buried in the cemetery on the road to Berne. fell ceaselessly about our car. A few small years. 'f he air was vibrant with bells and Then in the forest still farther on tradition towns lay along the route, but none of them the streets dotted with. country people in ' tells us the Druids once worshiped. Eyes of any especial importance. Long stretches gala-dress, on their way to church as we and head and heart have to be kept very of budding vines, ancient and gnarled and walked up to it this morning. Certainly a busy, linking all these dates aqq. names and mossy, like armies of little black dw11rfs, most glorious Ascension Day! It seemed events with the present. 'f heq came a little and orchards of snowy pear and tinted apple as if all the world had caught the inspiration visit at the Arland Muset1m to see some trees and blossoming lilacs followed ~s all of this day of triumph and victory and sang fine pi:tures of Swiss scenery and historical the way to Yevey. Vevey, the guide ..book praise unto Him who is its Lord and King. events. LausaQne has haq. its brilliant days. says, is the old Roman Vibiscum. By the Our way lay under arches of fruit-blossoms, Literature and literary people have found a way every other place you visit along the inlaid on the perfect blue of the sky ; per• ' home here and · the names of Voltaire and road seems to be built on Roman foundations, fumed vistas, where birds sang and shadows Gibbon, of Ha-llerand Constant, ll-nd - V ul- and some old inscription or carved stone played and made a phantom-outline of each 'l'OE FRIEND, AUGUST, spray and bud an€1 blossom that bent above our heads. A free, joyous mountain stream leaping from rock to rock came down in a perfect holiday mood from the mountains above and glanced in and out of the trees and their shadows, crownmg its surface with wreaths of foam one moment, only to throw them into the keeping of the sunshine, the next. Then there were fields and fields of long grasses, of butter cups, daisies, crimson clover-heads, forget-me-nots, dandelions, and a host of other . wild flowers, whose names I do not know, rising in brilliant terraces up to the fine old castle, on the mountain side. The arched gateway, the ,... massive Roman tower in the center, the long corridors, the spacious dining hall, all remain as in the days when the lord& of the castle held sway over the country for miles about. In jousts and tourneys, in battles and contests, in wars and crusades the knights of Blonay held a conspicuous part. From their high vantage ground they could sweep the coa~t and country and lake at one glance and kept in submission their vassals. Nowhere have I been able to realize the life of the middle ages as here, in the narrow lane down which the horsemen without doubt dashed with tlieir fleet footed steeds, in coat of mail, to the foray in the valleys below; the heavy gateways, the paved court, the windows from which the ladies waved adieu ·to the knights departing, the countless little eloquent objects, which in the hush and stillness of the spring noon-tide, seemed as so many voices from that past upon which we are accustomed to look either as a picturesque study for the pen of the poet or brush of the painter, but which now was peopled with living, actual presences. The present heir to the name of ·Blonay is living at Lausaupe, coming to his ancestral castle in the summer. Many legends of the old romantic days in connection with the history of the family still remain, but I musn't trouble you with these. Clarens, a little village which Rousseau has rendered famous as the scene of his "Nouvelle Heloise " lies a short distance beyond Vevey. Rousseau and Byron have by that indescribable power of genius given to ·all the localities in this neighborhood a name and fame, which otherwise, notwith. standing the rare beauty of the surrounding scenes, they would never have possessed. So that people in distant countries feel as if this Lake is strangely familiar to th.em, almost as if they had indeed seen it. The frowning crags of _Meillerie are on the opposite shore of Savoy. The heights above were white with heavy snows, as we saw them in the gathering twilight. There is nothing at all striking in the town itself, but Byron, who here saw everything through that luminous haze of poetic feeling, could say of it, "Clarens ! sweet Clarens, birth-place of deep Love, Thine air is the young breath of passionate thought, The trees take not in Love; the 8nows above The very glaciers have his colours caught, And sunset into rose-hues sees them wrought By rays which sleep there lovingly." Just back of Cla rens is a little cemetery where the great Vinet is buried, whose name is one which would hallow far more this town and fair landscape, than those of the two poets, whose ideals and aspirations were ever chained and fettered by the presence of earth-born and passionate associations. 'J2here was something very touching in the s1ght of so many tomb-stones in this same little enclosure, in English, telling how that one after another, young and old from England and America, seeking health and recreation in these quiet and beautiful scenes, had died far from their native land. May 14th. MONTREUX AND CHILLON. I wrote you last 1 think from Montreux, from above which Humboldt, 1 believe, sayfS that you have the finest view in all the world. Of course this is as it seemed to him, and 1 suppose there are few scenes which :surpass it. Still from the midst of all these famous landscapes, which for centuries the most gifted men and women have delighted to write about, I find that my thoughts very often turn to the Pacific, and I love to think that amid our valleys and mountains are scenes which are only waiting for some eloquent voice to render them a part of the world's treasures. The constant stream of visitors has made Montreux what it is, a perfect hot-bed of hotels and pensions. The beautiful wooded slopes o( the mountains rise p finely from the shore, terminating in sharp and jagged peaks and needles, which gather the mists and clouds about them as a kind of shield and protection. Glion, a little village, clings like a bird to the cliffs above Montreux; farmhouses and chalets perch on the vine-covered and sunny uplands, and everything seems to reach up towards those heights which glitter like a constant inspiration to the dwellers below. Is there any one point in Europe which a poet has rendered more celebrated than Byron, the Castle of Chillon .P Don't you recall those lines of his, which sooner or later creep into every one's memory? '' Lake Leman lies by Chillon's walls, oA thousand feet in depth below Its massy waters meet and flow; Thus much the fathom-line was sent From Chillon's snow-white battlements Which round about the wave enthrall1; A double dungeon wall and wave Have made-and like a living grave Below the surface of the lake The dark vault lies wherein we lay We heard it ripple mght and day. In <.:hillou's dungeons deep and old There are seven columns massy and grey, Dim with a dull, imprisoned ray A sunbeam which hath lost its way." 67 1877. country that there were only two prisoners under lock and key. The guide first leads you to the old chapel; then to a rough, rock-hewn couch where the unfortunate captives slept ("?) the last night before their execution, with the opening in the wall, now closed, where the bodies were afterwards thrown into the laket And amid the shadows peers out the beam to which they were hung. But the real point of interest is in the next room, the cell of Bonivard. Now while this would not be at all an agreeable habitation, yet Byron's fancy has given it a gloom and dreariness which it never possessed, and any one . who would prefer to keep bis poem with its beautiful embellishments, rather than the more substantial circumstances of fact and history, would do well to read it at a distance from the scene. 'l'here are however the pillars " of gothic mould,'' and the spot is pointed out where Bonivard, "the prisoner of Chillon, '' walked back and fo1·tb, leaving the trace of his weary tread. "Chillon ! thy prison is a holy place, And thy sad fl oor an aitar; for 'twas trod Uutil his very steps have left a trace Worn, as if the cold pavement were a sod By Bouivard ! may none those marks efface For they appeal from tyranny to God." Bonivard, prior of St. Victor, was one of thei most active workers in Geneva for those liberties which have been the greatest glory of the city. He became, in consequence of this, very disagreeable to the Duke of Savoy, who ultimately succeeded in capturing him and imprisoning him for six years in his Castle of Ohillon. After these yeani of imprisonment, Bonivard finds himself one day surrounded by friends and deliverers, who have besieged bis prison by sea and land, and he is borne oft' in triumph to Geneva, where he seems to have passed the remaining years of his life in the greatest peace and plenty. Byron 's imagination is responsible for the pathetic fate of the brothers, dying one by one, and those exquisitely drawn but painful pictures of slow and lingering pain and torture, which have made Lis readers shed sympathizing tears. 'l'he pillars, which give the cell, something of the appearance a chapel, are covered with names of visitors, among tLem being those of some of the most distinguished literary people of the country, Dickens, ·shelley, Mrs. Stowe, etc. You feel in coming out of the dungeon, however, that you are leavini; one of the most fascrnating spots in Europe, because of . the wealth of associations which cling to the bare stone walls and hover in this dusky light. and you put down the time passed in the recesses, n•)twithstanding all the disallusions your imagination bas suffered, as being most satisfactorily spent. But there is still somethinµ; more to be seen, and with that morbid appetite for terrible things, if they have the glamour of centuries over them, every one stops to look at the pillar where the tortured person was suspended in hopes of wresting from him the desired avowal. The marks of tbe cruel and pitiless iron are burned in the wood, very !earful testimony to the possibilities of cruelty, which are in the heart of man. In a little room, entered by a great, iron bolted and barred door, is the Oubliette, where the accused met the most dreadful of deaths. He was forced to walk down, in the darkness, a little flight of three steps, but when he sought the fourth it was to step out to meet a sure and horrible fate in the depths below. How quietly one can look at these barbarous reminders of a barbarous age! The Duke and Duchess of Savoy had fine and gorgeously frescoed apartments jn the upper part of the castle. The Grand Knights or Reception Hall, with its mammoth fire-place, is a spacious room,. with an out-look on the lake. What a contrast there must have been between these upper rooms and those dungeons where we have juet been. Don't you think, however, something of the gloom and drearines1:1 of the captives must have crept up now and then into the gay company above? The clouds and rain which per-. s1stently shu_t in about the old castle, walls seemed stra.n gely in keeping with th!'.l meltlories .of .the The castle was so familiar to me through descriptions and pictures, that as I 13assed under its ancient gateway, it seemed more like coming back to something I had always known than like the first visit. You have it also I am sure, very accurately in mind; the curving line of the railroad, the ivy-festooned wall, and the towers and turrets and white walls, the mirroring lake, and the mountains in the background . The chateau projects into the lake, so that in looking out from some of the windows, you feel almost as if you had drifted away from the main land into the open sea. It seems like rehearsing an old story to tell you anything of the interior, for you must be so familiar with every shadowy nook that it 1s almost useless to think that you will find anything new in what I can say. Alas the utter mcapability of a modern guide to understand any sentimental dt:sire to linger among the shadows. But, poor man, be bad, he told me, a wife lying so ill at home that bis heart was too full of the present to care · much about the woes of those who had centuries ago found within these walls the harsh discipline of captivity and death. A portion of the castle is now utilized by the Swiss government as a store house for cannon and ammunition and also as a prison, though I thought that it spoke well for the momls of the ad5oining place. · F. W. DAMON. THE FRIEND! !UGUST, 1877. 68 THE FR.IEND AUGUST 1, 1877. Plea to Science. J9' ELL! WHEELER. O Science, renching backward through the distance, Most earnest chil,d of God, Exposing all the secrets of existence, With thy divining rod. I bid thee speed up to the heights supernal, Clear thinker. ne'er sufficed ; Go, 1eek and find the laws and truths eternal, But leave me Chri1t. upon the vanity of p10us eages, Let in the light of day ; Break down the superstition of all ages, Thrust bigotry away. Stride on, and bid a.II stubborn foes defiance, Let tfuth and reason reign.But I beseech thee, 0 immortal Science, Let Christ remain. What canst thou give to help me bear my croHes, Io place of llim, my Lord ? And what to recompense for all my losses, And bt'ing me sweet reward? Thou couldst not with thy clear, cold eyes or reason, Thou couldst not comfort me Like One who passed through that tear-blotted 1eason, In sad Gethsemane. Mr. Spurgeon, and Prof. de la Harpe a d one or two other gentlemen spoke in a way wnich I am sure would receive the approbation of brave old Calvin, who undoubtedly through these bright heavenly years has been adding the sweetness of the Saviour's love to the righteous and just decrees of the law. Surely his pale face in his portrait on the wall had nothing in it of disapproval. Tbe first morning there was one lecture on Exegesis, one on the history of religious Dogma, and one on the Archreology of the Old Testament. I could understand very well and am sure it will prove a most useful exercise. I certainly shall endeavor to devote three mornings in a week to it. Some of the students are most agreeable. I had a very interesting conversation this morning Through all the weary, wearing hours of sorrow, What word that thou bast said Would make me strong to wait for some to-morrow, When I should find my dead ? When I am weak, and desolate, and lonely, And prone to follow wrong : Not thou, 0 Science-Christ, my Saviour, 00l7 Can make me strong. Thou art so cold, so lofty, and so distant, '!'hough great my need might be, No prayer, however const~nt and persistent, Could bring thee down to me. C-h ri1t stands so near, to help me through each hour, 1'o guide me day by day : 0 Science, sweepiog all before thy power, Leave Christ, I pray. Geneva ~heological Seminary. Perhaps 1 have told you before that this seminary was to fit and prepare young men for the evangelical churches of Switzerland. There is another seminary in the •national church, but the views held are rather liberal. Through the kind introduction of Prof. de la Harpe of the former, I have met the professors and students, and received a most warm and Christian welcome. I think the students at the New Haven Seminary would see something of a difference between their surroundings and those of the students here. They have a few rooms in the rear of the church of the Oratorie, very simple and plain. The yourig men seem to come from the poorer classes, just such men as 1 fancy went out in Calvin's day as missionaries and teachers. The opening conference was in an upper room which is reached by winding stone-stair~. Here I found quite a room full. There were present five or six profes.sors-men with noble faces, refined and cultured and Christian. I was especially struck by the earnest, thoughtful yet cheerful tone of all their remarks. The president read a · tram;lation of a very interesting sermon by ;~~n~r;~:~ns~:taZ~~w!:v~; ~~t1n;i~:. self for the work in Spain. March, 1877. original spheroidal form with slight deviations. This tetrahedroid shape into which the solid crust of the earth collapsed necessarily gives to the surface its three great shoulders in the north temperate zone of the American continent, the Europe-Africa continent, and the Asiatic mass, each with their tapering southern prolongations, the last in Australia, along the three ridges of the tetrahedroid. It has also given the apex of the tetrahedroid in the Antarctic continent, with its antipodal base in the depression of the _, Arctic Polar Sea. Each of the continent shoulders also has its antipodal ocean depression. A collateral and very important part of Mr. Green's hypothesis is that of a "twin F. W. D. [For the Frien .] Vestiges of the Molten Globe, As EXHIBITED IN THE F1GURE oF THE EARTH, VOLCANIC ACTION, AND PHYSIOGRAPHY.BY WILLIAM LowTHIAN GREEN, MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS TO THE KING OF THE SANDWICH ISLANDS. Part I. London, 1875. This book put into our hands to-day wa:s read with fascinated mterest. The writer attempts, as it seems to us with entire suecess, to find the law which determined the form of the original collapsing of the hardened crust of the earth upon its molten interior as the latter contracted by loss of heat. Leading geological theories have long attributed the formation of the great mountain chains and consequent shapes of the continents to the wrinkling up of the earth's crust upon its shrinking interior. Students of physical geography have also been accustomed to note a certain marked regularity in the forms of the continents and the distribution of land and water; such as the broadening southward of the three great oceans; the southward tapering of the three great southerly continents; and the east-.vard inclination of each ; also that large masses of land are antipodal to large masses of water. These prominent facts and many others are all accounted for by our author under one general hypothesis which he has elaborated with a wide and careful collation of facts. He finds the form of the collapsing of the earth's crust to have been substantially tetrahedral. A tetrahedron, it will be rememben•d is a kind of pyramid with three sides and a triangular base, or more accurately a solid with four ·triangular sides. Of course the spheroidal shape of the solid earth is understood to be but very slightly modified in the tetrahedral direct"ion, while the lurface of the ocean maintains, the shift of the crust." Owing to the smaller diameter of the southern hemisphere attendant upon the pear shape of the globe given by the tetrahedral collapse, that hemisphere has tended to assume a more rapid revolution upon the axis than the northern. Hence in the earlier and thinner stage of the crust, the southern half shifted eastward, causing the similar eastward inclination of the great southerly projections of America, Africa and Australia. The line of cleavage from the northern half is clearly traced along Honduras and the Antilles, the Mediterranean, India and Malaysia. It is marked by the cutting off without exception at this line ~f every transverse mountain chain. Near this line also are most of the earth's volcanoes. This simple and beautiful hypothesis is so completely in accordance with the great obvious facts of the earth's form, and so perfectly explains them, that it seems strange it was not long since detected. We unhesitatingly hazard the prediction, that before many years this theory in its substantial elements will be considered essential to any satisfactory system ot physical geography. This volume is illustrated by admirable colore1l maps and diagrams. We await with high expectation parts 2 and 3 of this remarkable work, carrying out the bearings of this theory upon the facts of volcanic action and physiography. S. E. B. Honolulu, June 30, 1877. REV. JosEPH C00K's LECTURES. - We would acknowledge copies of the Boston Adve1·tiser from J. W. Austin, Esq., in which these lectures are officially published. The last, No. 80, was delivered May 30th, and on that occasion the Rev. B. G. Snow of the Micronesian mission, was upon the platform and offered prayer. A second series by Mr. Cook will be commenced October 1st, when the influence of German thought upon America will be discussed . The influence of the lectures is felt not only in America, but they are republished in England and quoted in Germany, while they ar~ read wherever the English language is spoken. THE FRIEND, AUGUST, EDITOR'S TABLE. HI5TORY oF THE R1sE AND FALL OF THE SLAVE PowER IN AMERICA, BY HENRY W1LSO.N, VoL. 3. James R. Osgood & Co., Boston, 1877. l 8 7 7. ,.. 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I need to use a book loaned, or when I think 21-Haw brig Julia M ,'\very, Avery. for San Francisco serting, acted a far more important part than 23-Am bktne Jane A falkinburg, Hubbard, fr Portland it has been out long enough to be read, I 23-Am bk Ocean Gem, Hoffmann, for Victoria.. that of a mere amanuensis or copyist. It is send for it, whether the borrower be friend, the joint work of the two men, and perhaps neighbor, or 1.quaintance. In the fourth MEMORANDA. neither could possibly have written it with- place, I alway§'!ntend to cover with paper a REPORT OF PM 8 CITY OF NEW YORK, Cos:11, CoMMAN• Sydney June 29th, at 3 pm; experienced strong out the other's efficient aid and co-operation, book I lend, though l believe a careful bor- DER.-Left winds from 8 and SE with heavy sea to Auckland, arriving rower should do this if the book is taken unJuly 4th, in 4 dars and 19 hours. Left same day at 5 pm; and hence is quite unique in the history of Prime Meridian on the 6th; 9th, at 7.05 am, Samoan covered. As to fine bindings, I am more crodsed Island of Tiutula, abeam, distant 12 miles W; arrived Ht literature. If Mr. Hunt felt at liberty to chary about loaning, my decision depending Honolulu on the 17th, at 4.3Q, pm. Experienced from Auckland floe weather. The ss Zealandia arrived at Sydney on state just the part he took in the premises, upon the borrower and my opinion of him or the 22d, 50 hours overdue. while just to Mr. Wilson, it would be inter- her. I seldom have lost a book by lending. REPORT OF AM SCHR BONANZA, C F MILLER, MASTER.1,eft San Francisco July 3d. First five days out moderate N esting to the reading public. An editorial If the borrower dislikes being reminded of and NW winds; next four days NE wind and cloudy, with his delinquency in keeping the book an un- li!fhl showers of rain; next seven days light variable wiud11, notice in the Christian Union expresses with a heavy NW swell; last two days NE wind with heavv necessarily long time, or of my (the owner) c~oss swell._ Ma.1!e East Maui at daylight of the 21st, bearing the desire for this information. needing the same, perhaps he will not soon ::s twelve miles, with very heavy clouds hanging over thtl land. The literary character of volume 3d sus- again borrow, which decision on his part PASSENGERS. tains that of the former volumes. After suits me exactly, if my experience with him foR JARVIS ISLAND-Per Belle of Oregon, June 29-Geo reading the former volumes Judge Allen shows his principles." W King, Mr Hinds, Mrs Spencer and 3 chlldreo,aod 18 natives remarked to us, that the work pos-Wishing often to borrow books, we are FRoM SAN FRANc1sco-Per D c Murray, .July I0-Mis11 A · d b b , hb Cording, G H MclJonnell and wife, Juo Silva, A Rosehill F G sessed the interest of a romance, although d etermme not to e ehind our ne1g ors Hastings, Teasky and 12 Chinamen. ' consisting of matters purely historical. As in loanin!!, but the borrower of a large volFoR PoRTLAND-Per Mattie Macleay, July 10-Rev Alex Mackintosh and wife, H voo Holt. years roll on much of the interest connected FoR SAN FRANCISCO-Per Discovery, July 12-Rev J F with events treated of in this work will die ume, first series of the FRIEND, is requested Pogue, Miss Pogue, Col Norris, Miss I Scott. _away, yet the "slave element" in American to return the same, and also the January -~ROM GLASGOW-P~r Eskbank. July 14-Robt Young an<J wife, R Young and wife, George Young, l\lrs Heriot and 6 history will never be forgotten or cease to number of the Bibliotheca Sacred. children, Geo Laudeman. exert an important influence, hence the FROM SYDNEY-Per City of New York, .July 17-W Buchanan. value of a trustworthy history like this of A.. I,. SiUITH, FoR SAN FRANCISCO-Per City of New York, July 18-W Mr. Wilson and Mr. Hunt. Works like H Bradley and wife, GC Zeh, Mrs J A Hopper and daughter, this and that of "Unc1e 'I'om's Cabin,'' will IMPORTER & DEALER IN JEWELRY, Miss CA Carter, .Miss Julia Judd, F S l'ratt, Mrs Vauden Burgh and daughter, J McDade. WH Cornwell, Mrs H Uorn • Spectacles, not cease to find readers for ages to come. King's Cc,mbination well, S Callahan, Hon l:! N Castle. wife and 2 children H II Glass and lated Ware, Wilcox, R Whitman, B Barry, P Peterson, A D Lockw~od U Sewing Machines, Picture Frames, There is a desire-morbid perhaps-in the Hammond, .J U h.eynon, D Manson, Jos Araza, HS Crocker Vases, Brackets, etc. etc. public mind to revert to scenes of plantation wife and 2 sons, Miss Nellie Crocker, Mrs Easton, Mis11 Eat!~ .[ly] TERMS STRICTLY CASH ton, Mrs No. 73, Fort St. Taylor, 0 H Hurter. life and the influence of the institution of FROM SAN 1''RANc1sco-Per Bonanza, .July 21-Mrs J H slavery upon American politics a AmeriHare and son, Mrs W Il Kind and daughter, lllrs J Grieve, THRUM & OAT, Misis Jennie Grieve, Miss Jane P Hare, Miss Selina S Pomroy, can history. In a late number of die Boston Capt J C Gunn, James Enwright, A Kerr, F H .Barnard, Wm Advertiser, the following notice attracted STATIONERY AND NEWS DEPOT, Doe. No. 19 Merclta11t Street, • • • Ho11olulu. our attention as indicative of this. feeling, MAIUUED. even in Boston : ACKAGES OF READING MATTER-OF l'apers and Magazines, back numbers-put up to order at GODFREY-MCLE.I.N.-Io San Francisco, June 13th, by Rev ly "EVERY EVENING at 7.45 and Wednesday reduced rates for parties going to sea. J Rowell, Capt WM B GODFREY, of San Francisco to Miss CARRIE E McLEAN, of this cit:f. ' and Saturday afternoons at 2, Mrs Harriet BISHOP & CO,, BANKERS, TonD-Coox.-At_ the Riclge House, Kona, Hawaii, ,June Beecher Stowe's world-famous work, entitled 25th, by Rev JD Paris, Mr W1LLJAM Toon to Miijs SARAH ONOLULU, HAWAIIAN ISLANDS COOK. UNCLE TOM'S CABIN, DRAW EXCHANGE ON MATTHKW-MAKUKONA-ln Honolulu. July 30th, by Rev. 8 • C. Damon, MATTHEW (Japanese), to MARIA MAKUKONA with the popular artist, THE BANK OF CALIFORNIA, SAN l'RANCISCO, (Hawaiian). l\iRS. G. C. HOWARD, - AND THEIR AGENTS IN DIED. m her great original character of New 1'ork, :Bo8ton, "TOPSY." 1 MARSDEN .-At Honokaa Plantation, Hawaii, June 19th Mr ParH, M.t.RSDEN, aged 16. ' Auckland, Supported by l\fr. G. C. Howard and a speJORDAN-lo this city, June 23d, 1877, the infant son of E . cial Dramatic Company. THE ORIENTA.L BANK fJORPORATION, LONDON, W. and Sarah Jordan. Also in this city, June 30th 1877 SARAH, the beloved wife of E. W. Jordan, (daughter of' G. B: - AND THEIR BRANCHES IN THE OLD DoMINION JUBILEE SINGERS, and Owen, Esq.,) aged 30 years. Hon11kong, ADAMS,-ln this city, July 13th, Mr JOHN ADAMS ared 100 other genuine Southern Colored People, Sydney, and about 53 yearn, son of the late Capt Alexander Adi&ms. ' who were slaves before the war, will particiMelbourne. ELLIB--At Sweet Home, llonolulu,July 29th, Miss HiRRlET pate in the Great Plantation Scenes." And Transact a General Banking Busineas. ap21 ly ELLIS, aged 23 years. =========================== -: ==;=================--=========== P H :~ T H E F R I E N D , ! U G U S rr· 70 ( For the FRIEND.) How God Educates His Children. BY REV. D. DOLE, Paul, in writing to Titus, (2: 11, 12) says, "The grace of God bringing salvation to all men hath appeared, teaching us that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously and godly." . The word rendered teaching means the training or educating of children, a~ in Acts 7:22-" Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians," and growing out of this, it has the meaning also of chastening, disciplining. This appears very clearly in Heb. 12:5, 11. Here the verb and its kindred noun appear eight times. In the tenth verse appears the object God has in view in disciplining his children-" That we may become partakers of his holiness." In a kindred passage, (2d Peter, 1:4) "The ,ex-· ceeding great and precious promises " are made prominent in God's way of educating ij.is children ; and the object is the same, 0 that they may be partakers of the divine nature. Sometimes it is necessary that the discipline be very severe. Then there is danger of discouragement, of yielding to despondency, and the exceeding great and precious promises, as the Holy Spirit suggests them, one after another, to the mind of the sorrowful, are like light in darkness, the .dawning of hope. To become partakers of the divine nature is something glorious, calculated to call forth our noblest aspirations. This is not like the longings of the Brahmans to be absorbed in God, lost in Him. It is to become like God in holiness, in knowledge; to be changed into His image from glory to glory. This, .and only this, will satisfy, as the 'Psalmist declares, " When I awake, I shall be satisfied with Thy likeness." Disappointments enter largely into the discipline to which God's children are subject. We are disappointed in ourselves. We hope for intellectual and' moral excellence in a high degree, but very seldom are our hopes realized. Some hope for those accomplishments that will attract admiratioB. Others hope for wealth, and for the deference and power that come from wealth. They are disappointed. A few, one in a thousand, or one in a million perhaps, attain the object sought, whether it be wealth, fame, or power; sti11 they are not satisfied. _Their anticipations are not realized. Byron sought fame, or he awoke one morning and found himself famous. Yet he could recall only three happy days in all his life. Thus it is with all \Vho ex;pect satisfaction in power, riches, or fame. Vanity and vexation of spirit is their experience. The soul is I 8 7 7. too God-like to be satisfied with anything that the world can give. People are disappointed in their friends also. If, in prosperity, many are their professed friends; but in adversity, most of these stand aloof, and manifest a coldness that is little akin to _true friendshiJ?, Job was disappointed in his friends. They seem to have had a strong affection for him; and, for a time, their sympathy soothed him in his sore afflictions; but it would have been more for his peace if they had kept away. They did not understand his case, or in charging him with wickedness, they aggravated his sorrows. Nor was it strange that he should call them " miserable comforters." Thus people, in every profession, in every calling of life, are subject to disappointment; and every disappointment whispers, " earth is not your rest ; there is no satisfying portion below the skies." In every disappointment is an exhortation to choose the better part that can not be taken away. God himself is the better part, the rtion of those who love Him, as the Psalmist asserts, '' His loving kindness is better than life." God trains his children for the better land in various ways. He draws them ' to Himself by loving kindness. He tries and refines them by afflictions. He weans them from eB.rth by disappointments. And He has given His Son to bear our griefs, to carry our sorrows, and to take away our sms. Of His fulness have we received ; and we may still receive until we are full,-until it is no longer we that live, but He liveth in us, the life of our lives . Japan Correspondence. KoBE, JAPAN, April, 1877. DEAR OLD" FRIEND."-Forreasons which shall be explained, let me give you some extracts from the Japan Weekly Mail: " Before the country was open to foreigners or h!!,d felt the strel5s of foreign ideas, protected prostitution and infanticide, all but legalized, bad kept down the population of these islands to tbe point at which, with the assistance of an occasional epidemic, it could pr()duce a sufficiency of food; and the means of clothiug, housing, and over using itt!elf without assistance from outside; which constitutes independence, accor<ling to the advocates of protection in exelcis. Tbat threefourths of the population toiled in comparative penury to support the remainder in idleness and luxury. rrhat the nation made no progress -whatever, as we understand progress to be, viz :-improvement in the condition of all; but remained sunk in a slumber of anything but sleeping beauty-all this to -protectioniHs of the true type, matters not what. The country was independent. But the conditions of the problem are changed. Japan 1s awake. Both the evil practices we have mentioned are recognized by the government, as at all events, something to be ashamed of; and as the last census shows, the population is increasing, at something like the normal rate. Its people are no longer contented with their misefy. They clamor for real progress. " New wants have been created; new habits are forming; new voices are speaking. "Twice has the nation been dependent on foreign imports of gram, for salvation from famine. And we take it, the problem, as it will soon begin to press on Japanese economists, i!! much the same as that which began to distress English- men in 1840, viz-however its limited average be made to produce enough of valuable consideration to purchase needful 1mpplies. '' This was said Ml behalf of free-trade. I quote it in behalf of a free gospel. Nothing else can eradicate these odious vices. When people hear of the great changes now effected here, the schools, colleges, railroads, telegraphs and steamers-and see the rich silks and exquisite works of art which. they produce, some think it is a waste of time and money to try to evangelize them, that is a mistake.-N othing short of the gospel and the grace of God can save Japan or any other people, as Egypt, Greece and Rome testify. Cheating and lying are so prevalent among all classes, that it is extremely difficult to. ascertain the truth, either through the press or by conversation. Those who employ servants to do their marketing, take it for granted that they will be squeezed a little at every opportunity. From all accounts I think the mass of church members appear very well. They contribute cheerfully, and considering their means liberally, for benevolent object. May 18. The divine blessing continues to rest oia all efforts, so far as I know, to evangelize Japan. And it is marvelous to see how the government, without designing· to do it, is aiding this good work. First by opening easy and quick communication to different parts of the empire ; and secondly by adopting the Christian Sabbath as a day of rest, and thereby givrng its employees liberty to keep the Lord's day holy/ and thirdly, by its great liberality in the cause of education. In these particulars it is, I think, without a parallel in heathen lands. Beside Professor Clark, and Griffis (author of "The Mikado's Empire "), who were very useful, they have employed four men as teachers who have been wonderfully blessed !n their labors, both for the mental and moral culture of their pupils. President Clark (of the Agricultural College of Massachusetts), who was engaged for one year to organize such a college in Japan, succeeded by tact and decision in getting permission to use the Bible as his text book for teaching morali y, and used it so skillfully that he had the pleasure of i:.eeing his whole class of sixteen hopefully converted; and at the same time his employers, government agents, highly approve his conduct, and would gladly have him continue his labors with them. Another person, Captain Jones of the United States, employed in teaching English in his own house, taught the Gospel and more than thirty were hopefully converted, most of whom are now preparing for the ministry. Two Canadian clergymen, acting as teachers, have also organized churches, one of 16 members and the other of 80. A member of Kobe church is employed as a superintendent of the prison, and hopes that through his labor and prayers bO or 60 prisoners are converted. As ever yours in Christ, • P. J. GULICK. THE FRIEND, AUGUST, TO THE PUBLIC! .ADVERTISEMENTS. J• I 8 7 7, 'I ,HE FIRST PREMIUM GOLD MEDAL M. DAVIDSON, A Uorney at Law. BRADLEY & RULOFSON ! For the best Photographs & Crayons in San Francisco Phy1!1ician and S11rgeon, THE NATIONAL GOLD MEDAL? For the Best Photographs in the United States? Oflice at Drug Store, corner of Fort and Merchant Streets; Residence, Nuuanu Avenue, near School Street. Office Hours, 9 to 11 A. M. fel '76 For the Best in the World! \V. G. IRWIN & CO., No. 429 Montgomery street, DICKSON, Fort Street, Honolulu, H. I. HOFF M .t. N N, M. Officers' Table: with lodging, per week, Seamen's do. Physician and Surgeon, C. BREWER & co .• Commission and Shipping Merchants, P. C D. N. FLITNER, ONTINUES HIS OLD BUSINESS IN THE ~·IRE-PROOF Building, Kaahumanu l)treet. CHRONOMETERS rated by observations of the sun and stars with a transit instrum~t accurately adjusted to the meridian of Honolulu. Honolulu, Oanu, H. I. Particular attention given to Fine Watch Repairing A.DA.MS. ~extant and quad'3,nt glasses silvered and adjusted. Charts and nautical instruments constantly on hand and for sale. .IJ.uction and Commission Merchant, .J me~e !~~e~:;:~oi:'ally invited to an inspection of our im- Photographs, Drawings, Celebrities, Stereoseopie -Views, al)d Land@cape Views of the whole Pacific Coast. D ., Corner Merchant and Kaahumanu Streets, near the Post Office E. AND THE VIENNA MEDAL! Sa.XL Fra.:u.oisoo. Dealers in Lumber and Building .J.ltaterials, ·E • fel Fire-Proof Store, in Robinson's Building, Queeb Street. O H N S. M c G R E \V , M . D ., Late Surgeon D. S. Army, 0an be consulted at his residence on Hotel street, between Alakea and Fort streets. G• NOTICE TO SHIP MASTERS . DILLINGHAM & CO., Nos. 95 and 97 King Street, "\VEST, Wagon and Carriage Builde1·, '/( and 76 King Street, Honolulu. ltJ" Island orders p1omptly executed at lowest rates A. • OFFICE OF Plantation and Insurance Agents, Honolulu, H. I. & ' BRADLEY & RULOF SON' ART GALLERY Commission Merchants, LEWERS SAILORS' HOME was awarded at the Industrial Exhibition, 1876, to Office over Mr. Whitney's Book-store, formerly occupied by Judge Austin. Honolulu, H. I. de-1876 DR· F. ·s . HUTCHINSON, 71 w. PIERCE & CO•• (Succesors to C. L. Richards & Co.) Ship Chandlers and General Commission Mer chants, Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaiian Islands. !gents Pnnloa Salt Works, Brand's Bomb Lances, KEEP A FINE ASSORTMENT OF Goods Suitable· for Trade. S do. $6 6 do. Shower Baths on tbe Premises. ED. DUNSCOMBE. Manager. Honlulu, January 1, 18i5. Carriage Making and '!'rimming ! I WOULD RESPECTFULLY INFORM YOU THAT I now employ the best Mechanics in the line of Carriage Making, Carriage and General Blacksmithing, Painting. Bepafring, &c., On the Hawaiian Group ; and it is a well established fact that 011r Carriage 'l.'rimming, by Mr. R Whitman, is 11s well executed as any in New York City or elsewhere. I therefote feel warranted in saying that we can manufacture as good a class of work in Honolulu as can be found in any part of the world. I will also state here that we fully intend fo work at the lowest possible rates. G. WEST. M. DICKSON, Photographer, 61 Fort Street, Bonolnln, .A LWAYS ON HAND A. CHOICE ASSORT• MENT OF PHOTOGRAPHIC S'fOCK, HIP MASTERS VISITING THIS PORT A Large Collection of Beautiful Views of Hawaiian Scenery, &c., &c. GOODSFORTRADE CURIOSITY HUNTERS will find at this establishment a SPLENDID COLLECTION OF Volcanic Specimem,, Corals, Sbells. \,Var In1plomeut • , Fe1•1111, Mat1t, Kapath during the last Six Years can testify from personal experience that the undersigned keep the best assortment of And Sell Cheaper than any other Bouse in the Kingdom. And Perry Da-vi1t' Pai11 Killer. DILLINGHAM & CO. And a Great Variety of other Hawaiian and Micronesian Ouriosities. PICTURE FRAMES A. SPECIALITY% jal 1874 OASTLE & COOKE, DIPORTERS ).ND DEALERS IN GEN.ER-4L MERCHANDISE ! -.A.GENTSOF- REGULAR PORTLAND LINE OF 1-'llckets, New England Mutual Lif? Insurance Company, 'I,BE The Union Marine Insurance Company, San Frauciaco, 'l'he l}ohala Sugar Company, 'l'he Haiku Sugar Uompany, The Hawaiian Suga.r Mill, W . H. Bailey, The Hamakua Sugar Company, 'l'he Waiaiua Sugar Plantation, The Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machine Company, Dr. ~ayne & Sons Celebrated Family Medicines. SEA.lllEN'S DOllIE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA..L~FOR~IA? HARRISON, BETWEEN MAIN AND SPEAR STREETS. T .A tf " THE FRlEND " ' ' MONTHLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TQ . Temperance, Seamen, Marine and General Iotelligence FU~LISHED AND EDITED B'¥' SAMUEL C. DA¥0N~ HROUGH 1.'HE EXERTIONS OF THE LADIES' SEAMEN'S FRIEND SOCIETY, and the liberality QC the General Government, a SEAMAN'S HOME is now being fitted up on Harrison between Main and Spear streets to •Which seamen of all nations are invited to make their home while in-this port. ' ' TERMS: The Buildi11" is of brick, large and commodious, fronting on three streets, commanding a fine view of the harbor and One Copy per annu~.: ••• .......... :.~~:•· .. ••• .. •·•*2.00 c~ty, conveniently _located near _the center of the water front, and_capable of accommodating about 600 ·lodgers, with good Two Copies per annlUll, .......... . ... , ................ 2.60 ·dming room, rea.dmg and smokmg room, chapel, etc. Tb~ house w1!l be conducted on strict temperance princlpleii like Foreign ~~b11crib,irf 1 inc~u41ng poata~~.; .• • •., •••••• , .. S.OQ aimilar homes in other part11 of this country and Europe. ·· • Pure religion and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: To visit the fatherless and widows in their ajJliction, and to keep one's self unspotted from the world. Edited by a Committee of the Y. M. c. As amounting to over seven hundred dollars, and it is the intention at some time to build a hall or a Chin~se home, where they can have a reading room, and hold their meetings, and provide entertainments of various kinds. They have lately purchased twentythree lots in the new cemetery on the east slope of Punchbowl. This js certainly a step in the right direct10n, and will tend to do away with the foolish custom that has heretofore·prevailed, of taking the remains of deceased friends back to the Flowery Kingdom that, as they supposed, their spirits may associate with those of their ancestors and be worshiped by their descendants. We hope this Association will accomplish much good among the Chinese ot these islands. Let us as an Association, assist them in evny possible way, and wish them God speed in their good work. nature mean well, are drawn out of good intentions into criminality-into the position of culprits. And oh? t~.e wildness, when a The Petrified Fern. man has ventured, and fallen, apd begins to. In a valley. centuries ago, hide his wrong, with which he will throw Grew a little fern-leaf, green and slender, out his hands on every side to save himself Veining delicate and fibre11 tender; from exposure ! And here is where the Waving when the wind crept down so low. Lord's Prayer applies with terrific force, Rusheij tall, and moss, and grass grew round it, when it says, '' Lead us not into temptaPlayful sunbeams darted in and found it, tion." When a man is under a pressure, Drops of dew stole in by night, and crowned it, But no foot of man e'er trod that way; and is strivmg for his own safety, and bis Earth was young, and keeping holiday. heart's love for his family is awakened, and }lon1ter fishes swam the silent main, the respect which he commands in the comStately forests waved their giant branches, munity and his reputation for uprightness Mountains hurled their snowy avalanches, are in danger of being 8acrifi.ced, and some Mammoth creatures stalked across the plain; desperate expedient is opened to him-under Nature reveled in grand mysteries, such circumstances a man does not know But the little fern was none of these, what he will do. And how many men there Did not number!with the hills and trees; Only grew and waved its wild sweet way, are who break down in just this manner! None ever came to note it day by day. They begin by simply betraying trust in a safe way. That brings them to a point in Earth one time put on a frolic mood, Heaved the rocks and changed the mighty motion which they have to betray it a little more [P, S.-Just as our pa,er was going to extensively. Then they must retrace their Of tbe deep, strong currents of the ocean; Moved the plain and shook the haughty wo()ji, press, we received a visit from our colpor- steps, or they must take a more audacious Crushed the little fern in soft moist clay,teur Sitmoon, who has been making a three step that takes them nearer and nearer to Covered it, and hid it safe away. weeks' tour around thi~ island. He arrived destruction; and crime at last stands before 0 the Ior.g, long centuries since that day ! 0 the agony! 0 life's bitter cost, this a. m. from W aikane; he reports 360 of them, and says, "I only can save you;" Since tllat useless little fern was lost ! his countrymen living at various points, and with horror and resistance they plead Useles~? Lost? There came a thoughtful man among whom he has been laboring and against crime; but at last, the alternative. Searching Nature's secrets, far and deep; preaching. He was kindly received by all, being utter destruction or crime, they take From a fissure in a rocky steep distributed nearly 400 tracts on various reli- crime, and in taking that they take destrucIle withdrew a 11tone o'er which there ran gious topics, besides eight copies of the New tion too; for crime cheats; it lies ; it promFairy pencUings, a quaint design, Testament. He came to Honolulu to re- ises in the ear while 1t stabs with fatal Veinings, leafage, fibres clear and .flue, And the fern's life lay in every line! plenish his materials for gratuitous distribu- poison stroke. There is but one thing that is safe. Trutl1 So, I think, God hides some souls away, tion and returns to complete the tour of the Sweetly to surprise us, the last day .-ANONYMOUII, island. During his absence his place as is safe. Honesty ·before men is safe. Modreligious teacher in Honolulu has been sup• eration of desire is safe. Trust in God, do THE CHINESE Y. M. C. AssocIATION of plied by - - - who came in the last com- nothing that you are ashamed, morning or night, to open up before him in prayer, and Honolulu has made much progress during pany from China, who had been there em- then you will be safe ; but one single step ployed in missionary work by the English the past year. The President of the Assoaside from tl1at is full of peril. missionaries.-En] ciation, Mr. Sitmoon, is an earnest Christian worker, and in his capacity of colporteur EXTRACT FROM A SERMON BY H. \V. The Duke of Wellington, it is said, reanq. exhorter, has visited most of his coun. BEECHER ON FAITHFUL STEWARDSHIP.-The plied to every letter, no matter from how trymen on the different islands of the group. way of honesty and integrity is the plain humble a source. A clergyman who lived way and the safe way. Govern avarice. The officers of the Association consist of Restrain haste to be rich. Disdain any in a distant part of the kingdom once wrote a president, vire president, secretary and riches for which you have not rendered an to his Grace, on whom neither he nor his treasurer. Their meetings are held every equivalent of honest thinking, honest skill parish had a shadow of claim, to beg for a Tuesday evening in the new Bethel lecture and honest industry. Refuse to take a gam- subscription to rebuild a church. By return bler's bribe. Turn your back on that which of mail came back a letter from the Duke to room, towards the building of which the is damnation to your pocket and to your the effi ct that he really could not see why Association and some cK the individual mem. squl. Stand on honesty. Observe modera- in the •orld he should have been applied to bers have contributed. 'tion. Get no more than you can get by for such an object ; but the parson sold the The meetings are opened with prayer and building yourself while you build your for- letter as an autograph for five pounds sterreading of Scriptures, then the minutes of tune. Never buy property at the expense ling, and put . the Duke down for that . . . of your manhood. Seek only that which amount among the subscribers. the prev10us ~eetrng are read, after which will stand you instead in the day of trial, remarks are m order from any member. and be of permanent benefit to you. Hon.- THE AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY, 150 Nassau Street, Mr. Asiu, the treasurer of the Association, esty is yet, and forever will be, the best New York City, bas established a DEPOSITORY A'r 751 brought with him from China lately quite a policy-even if you in_sist upon ~uttj~g it as MARKET STREET, SAN FRANCISCO, with Rev Frederick aA Dii.trict Secretary for the Pacific Coast. This eollection of Chinese books, also a number low ~s that; and dishonesty J~ hke the ED.eShearer posit,ory is the Head-quarters of the Coast for ALL . breakmg through of water where 1f one drop .of Chmese newspapers; and they have late• can pass more can follow. Every step you SUNDAY S ,CHOOL AND RELIGIOUS LITERATURE, and has the special ageocy for the OALU'ORN IA BIBLE SOCIEly made arrangements to have papers sent take in misjudgment, in bad management, TY. THE AMERICAN SUNDAY SCIIOOL UNION. CONregularly from China and San Francisco. in venturing upon wrong doing in business GREGA'rlONAL PUBLISHII\G SOCIETY, PRESBYT.1£RIAN BOARD OF PUBLICATION, HENRY HOYT, ROB'T These papers and books are for the use of affairs, prepares the way for another, and CARTER & 'BRO., RANDOLPH & CO., a.od other leadiog publishers. SUNDAY SCHOOL LIBRARIES will be selected the members at the weekly meetings, and anoth~r, a~d another. . with great care, and sold at New York prices aod discount&. . This brrngs us to that pomt where we BOOKS WILL BE SENT BY MAIL TO MINISl''ERS at the discount allowed by New York Honses, and postage added,help largely t~ bri~g ther_n together, and need the blaze and concentrated Jight of the price and postage payable m Uniled Rtates Currency. make the meetmgs rnterestrng. The Asrn- revelation-namely, that point in which so Thus Sunday flchools and Ministers will be eupplied at New York rates, and receive aoy book to be round in San Fr.anciseo e1ation has · accumulated quite a fund, many men who have beeri good, and who by in the ihortc11t pouible time. · 1