Title | Friend, 1877-03 |
Subject | Christians-Hawaii--Newspapers; Missions--Hawaii--Newspapers; Sailors-Hawaii--Newspapers; Temperance--Newspapers |
Description | 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. |
OCR Text | Show -· ~-i ~~clFIC Ooli' 4 -IP' r-"o,,_, S.., Its Shores, its Islands, and the vast regions beyond, w-ill c~ ?,. become the chiej theatre ef> ·of events, in oltJ; , i D 8 GRE~rte~9,te, \.'o'J\.• P:11. · .S.li:w.um U. ' s. S -(~?]> HONOLULU, ltIARUH I, 1817: REv. MR. CooK's LECTURES .....:... We would acknowledge a continuation of the Reports Rambles in the Old World ••••••••••••.••••••••••••••• 17, 18 of these Lectures as p1iblished in the Boston Evolution ..•.•••..•••.••••••••.•••••••.••••••••••••••••• 17 Mr. Rev Mr Coc k's Lectures .•••.••••••••.••.••••••••.••.•••• 17 Advertiser from J. W. Austin, Esq. Burned at E'e .i •••• _••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 19 Cook appears to have made a decided imFailure of N Y Life Ins Co ••.•.•••.••..••..••••••••••••• 19 Grand Eruption ..•••••••••••••••••••••..••••••••.•••••••• 20 pression upon a "Boston audience." He Custom House Statistics .•••.••.••••.•••.•••.••••••••••• 20 R ev Mr Hyde. . .•...•..••..••.••••.•••.••...••.••••••••.. 20 does not hesitate to criticise, sharply, EmerMarine Journal •••.••..••••.••..••••••• , •••.•••••••••••. 21 Y Lil C A ••••.••••••..•••••••.••..••.••••.••••••••••••.• 24 son, Theodore Parker, and all that class of authms whom the Bostonians have been idolizing. In this respect Mr. Cook is a MARCH 1, 1817. : perfect Iconoclast, casting down, knocking aside and attacking the idols of Boston. Evolution. He tells the evolutionists that before life can The frequent allusion to this subject in be evolved it must be involved, that there our pages has called forth the following from cannot be an effect without a cause. It is one of our correspondentE : · refreshing to know that a man of Mr. Cook's " Evolution ! The more 1 hear of it, the marked ability boldly throws down the more I shrink from it, as from a fearful prec- gauntiet and challenges sceptics to the enipjcea down which men are hurling them- counter. His Lectures appear to be a good se~¥es. • As I am meeting constantly those prelude in Boston to the advent of Moody who are dinging to a shadow which yields and Sankey. These evangelists are lab_orto the· touch, my heart aches with pity for ing in Boston. th.em ; they stanq. Qij wayes which are ever sinking beneath them, their hearts are full of AMERICAN RELU,F FuNo.-Tbis very useful instishadows where no peaceful hght shines. If tution is not in as flourishing circnmstauces as w.e they could but feel for a ll).0ment the warm, could wisb and as it ought to be. The report of the Treasurer, A. J. Cartwright, Esq .. at the anbrotherly grasp of the " ~eader's " hand nual meeting held on the 22d imit .. shows that the and His voice whisperiqg " Peace," t~ey entire receipts for the year wet·e $1163.96, of would turn forever from t~is s~d, bewllqer- ~bich J795.75 had been expended in relief, and ing chaos of human devising" withoqt for~ ~7 for ~~pepses, leaving a. balance of $81il.21 on CONTEl'IIITS For March 1. 1877. PAGF. THE FRIEND I and void." I don't bhime, oqly pity, pity. " While every day I feel that the hori'.?on is growing more and mo.re e~tended, anq see something of the grand anq glorious things that man has ,vrougbt and the P!ophecies of future achievements, still with more simple child-like trust do I ding to qur ·dear, old faith in One who guides the affairs ·of this universe by His almighty will anq yet who is "Our Father," to whom the~e glorious snow-crowned Alps are but a footstool, and yet who reaches down to take us poor weak, faulty human beings into the embrac,e of His tender, pitying love." • J 0 qand. 'fberr q.qi four persons now receiving relief from th~ fiipd, to the amount of $19.50 per wee]f iq the aggrega,te. The Q.mrnal snhscription to tbe fund is qnly tw,•kedollars~ and ~tis hoped that Amerfoan citi~t•ns t.liroughout the islaads will take this as a per onal appeal to them to co~e )lp to the help of this worthy charity-the American Relier Fund.-P. 0. A. Feb. 24. INDEX FOR TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF THE FRIEJ.')TD.-This vaiuable accompa11iment will be furnished g1·atis to any one whq has preserved a file of the FRIENI?, on application to the editor. Persons wis~iqg to supply themselves with a full file of this paper for a quarter of a century, caq do so on most reasonable .ter~s-$l.00 ~er annum, or per "Love is nothing else but goodness put in voJume,-bmdrng extra, price according to motion, or npplied." style. RAMBLES IN THE OLDWORLD.-No. 2. GENEVA, December 14th, 1876. The goal is at last attained, and this charming city, towards which I have been lookin.-r for so long a time, is reached. Mt. Blanc::, and the wonderful Alps, and the · beautiful lake have welcomed me. I am writing a few words now, the first opportunity since arriving, in hopes that they may reach the January steamer, but still ! think it rather doubtful, hence I shall give you a few necessary particulars, reserving the details for another time. Geneva is the most fascinating of cities. It is most thrilling to feel that you are in the midst of the very scenes where the grand Reformation took place. A thousand channels of historic interest seem opening before me, and the ai.r seems peopled with those who once lived in these quaint old houses that I am constantly passing. I feel as if I wanted to stay here till I had grown into i!s very life, it has had such a wonderful hermc history. Much snow has fallen of late on the Alp~, and the light is most beautiful as it .falls. on great snow fields. There is somethrng 1rresistible about these mountains, I am so glad that I am to live near them for a time, and if my letters are filled with nothing else than tllese splendip. old Alps you must not be surprised. On the evening of the day on which I wrote you last I left Paris. I had not the slightest difficulty as I can no.w muster enough French to get along mcely, and every day my vocabulary is increasing. Early next morning I woke with the Ju~a .m ountaim; in sight, and at eleven was m Geneva with the Alps before me. It was ·worth coming all this long way to receive the welcome dear, kind, Mr. and Mrs. Bacon had in store for me. They ha:ve a charming place, Villa Bellamy, ioqkj11g off to the Alps. After lunch Mr. B., propos.ed a ride. The afternoon was lovely, air mjld and balmy, while the great snowy mountains loomed up in the distance. We drove to Ferney to see y qltaire's old hp!Jle, passed t-hrough quairt olq to'iYns,-~aw the PaJyirj Library, a most interesting p)ace, where are gathered the rarest hooks on the Refprmation. I hope to teli yoµ JTlili:h '~?( t~is, ~s rppe yet to J 18 THE t_,ltlEND, MARCH, 1877. spend much time there. Here is a famous organ. The Rev. Dr. Bacon lately resigned picture of Calvin. What an intense face! active duties as· Pastor, but the church goe1'> The very ideal of a reformer. on as ever. The children were gathered On our return, called at La Chatelaine. It and classes soon formed. Among the pleasis also called the "Institute Thudichum." It ant people whom I met here were the Rev. is situated about one mile from the main Dr, and Mrs. Steyens. He has been a promistreets of Geneva, though the city itself nent worker in the Methodist Church and comes very near. On all sides are situated editor of several of their leading papers at beautiful private residences, with wide different times. They are warm-hearted spreading lawns and grand old trees, some- Christian people.. There were also present, times covered with ivy. Mt. Blanc aJ1d the Misses Olmsteads, interesting young Lake Leman are to be see·n on one side, the ladies from .New Y.ork; Mrs. McKay, friend Juras on the other and the city lies at our of Dr. Storrs, and Mrs. Doremus, and Miss feet. Nothing could be finAr than the situa- Miller, a friend and fellow-worker with Mr. tion. The building was completed last July. Moody; she has but recently returned from It is fullv as large as the Queen's Hospital, Palestine. Then there are many more of and can be seen from almost every point in whom I can tell you at another time. 8omethe country round about. how it makes me think of Honolulu, every Mr. Thudichum, a pleasant German gen- one is so cordrnl, and there is a way of tleman, has been teaching for many years in adopting you right into the circle which Geneva, but lately conceived the idea of makes you feel that you have always been starting u school ·on a grand scale which . with them-that is charming. The Sabbath should be the finest in Switzerland and per- School is most interesting. They put me in haps in Central Europe. No expense has as s.uperinterrdent, as there really was no one been spared. The reception rooms, large else. I wish you could have seen the three and ,spacious, are elegantly fitted up, and dear little boys whom I had to teach this overlook the city. There are gymna~tic and first Sunday, and who nearly screamed with billiard rooms. There are masters in every del1ght when l hinted to them that some language which is desired, and the whole week-day I would talk to them about Hawschool is on the most advanced plan.-He aiian Postage Stamps.-The sermon, by a especially wanted an American teacher, and Baptist Clergyman, was very good. invited me to accept the position, and to In the evening went dow.r1 to No. 10 Rue come immediately. Hence here I am to re- Bonivard, where the Americans gather for a main for the present in this magnificent in- prayer-meeting, or some other appropriate stitution to teach English and receive exercise. This particular evening Mr. Bacon instruction in French, German and Italian. gave us a most interesting lecture on the If I had desired, I could have had a class in " Escalade," a famous incident in the GeneLatin and Greek, but I preferred to be quite vese straggle for liberty, and the anniversary independent of regular classes, as I wanted of which they celebrated last week. He has the time for my own reading and study. lt is just sent to the Congregationalist an article the finest place in Geneva for me, as l am on this subject. free at any moment to leave, and here I am On lVlonday evenings the Americans hold to remain for the present. Is not this a little sociable. It is a pleasant and infordoing prerty well for the first day in Geneva ? mal affair. On Saturday evening we ~ad a most enDEcEl\'IBER, 20TI-I, 1876. joyable soiree at the school. There was a I have now been some days at the Insti- gi·eat deal of music. Our music master 11 Th u d'1ch um 1s · a mos t d e 1·1ghtf u1 plays superbly. We had recitat_ions and a tute. N:1.r. gentleman. French is the prevai 1ing Ian- little play by the boys, and all manner of o-uacre of the Institution, but nearly every amusements and diversions. One very pretty 1rnguage under the sun is spoken. There affair, called in Germany the Kinder (chilare five Athenian young gentlemen. One dren's) Symphony. A number of them had of them has interested me much. He rt'1'ds whiSt1es, trumpets, drums and instruments to me from the Iliad. It is charming for me to imitate a bil'cl, &c.,- t bey were so well to hear his modern Greek and all about trained in tl11~ir parts that the music was Athens and his home-life there. There are really beautiful. · also Egyptians, English, Germans, French, CHRISTMAS. an<l Americans-one of whom was a former The moonlight falls in soft, silvery lustre pupil of Mr. Pratt, at '' Golden Gate," by on the snow-robed mountains to-night, and the name of Hull. He wishe::s to be kindlv the stars look out brightly from their heavremembered to him. - enly home very much as they looked,.! supThe longer I ·stay at the Institute the pose, on that Christmas Eve when the angels more I like it. lt is always bright and song was heard over the plains of Bethlehem. cheerful. There is every comfort and op- Nothing could be more peaceful than the portunity for improvement. lt is like a sky which arches over Geneva and its homes large, pleasant home. After the long jour- and children. ney hither, the feeling of permanence is To-day I attended an immense gathering most agreeable. It is quite superfluous for in the Salle de ]a Reformation, of all the me to say, in such an atmosphere, I nm , Sabbath Schools of Geneva. There must happy and contented. have been 1500 children present, and it was FIRST SABBATH IN GENEVA. a magnificent sight. There were addresses At 9 a. m. attended Sabbath School. The and sweet singing. The Salle de la · HeAmericans meet in the Salle de la Reforma- formation has been completed within a few tion, or rather in a Jittle room leading off years, and as its name indicales, is to comfrom the main hall. Here they have seats · memorate the great event which is so interfitted up, a small pulpit and a nice cabinet woven with Genevese history. Christmas morning dawned fair and radiant-one of those r.a re and wonderful mornings when the sun heralds his coming by royal colors thrown on the Alps. Mt. Blanc was clear as if cut from crystal. At 9 1 attended service at the Church of the Oratorio, where my Genevese friends go. The preacher, in his black Geneva gown, with bands and under the high sounding board, was most suggestive of Calvin. The singing, free from an organ accompaniment, was. wonderfully sweet and true. 1:-Jad a stroll by the Arve. How marvelously every turn I take in Switzerland brings up Miss Bremer's book of Swiss travels which I read with you last summer. At three, attended an organ concert at St. Pierre, the grand old cathedral, whose history goes back many hupdreds of years; yes, even its foundations are heathen. It was once the temple of Apollo. Here Calvin preached-here Catholicism yielded to the Reformation. The Gothic arches are superb. You can imagine better than I can tell you bow I enjoyed the Cltristmas music as it floated to me through such a storied atmosphere. Dr. Bacon this morning gave us a most interesting and original Christmas sermon, and at our little gathering this evening, Dr. Stevens talked to us in a very delightful and suggestive manner on the " lm1tation of Christ," by Thomas A'Kempis. What a wonderful history this little book has had ! Hallam, ' Renan. Wesley, and many other believers and sceptics have written upon it; and it has been translated into scores of languages, ·a nd p~ssed through hundreds of editions. Madame de Stael died with it in her hands. It is the very purest essence of saintly love and aspiration. While waiting for our evening service, I attended a most interesting gathering of the members of the Free Swiss Church. The singing was most sweet. and the "audience, earnest and devout. It has been a Sabbath fu 1l of rich comfort. To-night, as we sang Moody and Sankey Hymns, it seemed as if the bond of brotherly ·union was very strong. There were Srotch, English and Americans. The little group was one you would have been happy to have met. Our Sabbath School Christmas Tree was a brilliant success. The children sang so sweetly their carols. We had a fine Santa Claus, who brought me a beautiful view of the Castle Chillon, on Lake Leman, of which Byron sings. Agreeable as was Christmas, New Year's has been far more brilliant. It is the great festival of the year, and through the kindneRs of my friends, I have had a rare opportunity of seeing something of the methods of its observance. * * * F. W. D. EDITORIAL N OTE.-As the Jetter from our European correspondent has failed to reach 'us we have taken the liberty to fill the open :space allotted to it with extracts from private le~ers. Dr. Bacon, referred to in the above, is a brother of the late Rev. G. B. Bacon, of Orange, N. J., who visited Honolulu a few months sinc.e. '1' H E Ir R I E N D , Burned at Sea. We have received a letter from the Haw• aiian Misf>ionary, Rev. J. H. Kekela, dated Hivaoa, Marquesas, announcing the burning of the British merchant ship Ada Iredale. This letter contains a postscript, by John Stewart, late maf>ter of the Ada Iredale, dated San Francisco, where he had gone. In this letter Capt. Stewart remarks-" I am now in a fair way of getting home again, but I shall never forget the kindness and hospitality shown us on landing at the Island of Hivaoa, as we were perfectly destitute and starving, having been on a half pint of water per day for ten days, and I take this opportunity of returning my sincere thanks for all his kindness ( Rev. J. H. Kekela) to myself al]d crew, trusting he may have every prosperity on his island home." This is the second instance wherein the Rev. Mr. Kekela, Ha~iian Missionary, has been enabled to manifest signal aid to sea• faring persous in distress. So marked was the other instance, that the United States Government appropriated $500 in gold dur• ing the war, (when gold was worth $2.50 in currency) to be donated to the purchase of presents for the Rev. Mr. Kekela and others. A gold watch, we believe, fell to his lot, with President Lincoln's name inscribed upon it. The following notic.e of the loss of the Ada Iredale we copy from the San Francisco Bulletin: The schooner John Bright, which arrived yesterday afternoon from Tahiti, brino-s news of disaster to two vessels-the missi~g British ship Ada Iredale and the bark Beu• ]ah of Quebec. The latter went on the reef when coming out of the harbor . of Tahiti, and the vessel and cargo is a total loss. The John Bright brought Captain Stewart, of the Ada Iredale, and three of his apprentices as passengers. Capt. Stewart and his crew were picked up by the s",hooner at Neauka Hioa, Marquesas lslands, and conveyed from there to Tahiti, at which point the crew were left. Capt. Stewart's ill-fated ship took fire on the 13th of October, and on the 15th, officers and .men were compelled to abandon her to her fate. The storv of the disaster is thus told by Capt. Stewart: The ship sailed from Androssau, Scotland, June 20th, with a cargo of coal, and rounded Cape Horn with no more than the usual in• cidents of such a voyage, and all proceeded smoothly up the South Pacific, until 15° S, 108° W, was reached, Oct. 13th. A fire was discovered in the coal underneath the main hatch. Every means were taken to put the fire out-tne hatches were taken off and the cargo taken out to a point where the heat became so great as to drive the crew away. After 36 hours strugi;tling with the fire, the decks were blown up by the accu• mulated gas, and all hirnds were compelled to take to the boats. The crew consisted of the Captain, first and second mates, carpenter, cook, steward, 12 able seamen and 5 ItJ A R C II I 8 7 7. apprentices, 23 all told. The boats were lowered and what things necessary that could be hastily gathered were put in. In hauling the Captain's boat alongside after it had been filled, 1t capsized, and evervthing, incl~ding cilronometers, compasses, e·tc., ex• ceptmg a sextant was Jost. The state of the burni~g wreck prevented a visit to it to get anything, and the little fleet started on its fong voyage with the barest necessaries. For the first six days after leaving the wreck the Captain attempted to bear up for the Galli• pagoslslands, 1200 miles away, but a strong westerly current prevented his making any headway in that direction, so he had to bear off to the Marq uesa:s Islands, 2400 miles away .. The long voyage was begun with good wrnds, and the three boats made good time. Between two and three week~ out heavy weather was encountered, and on No• vember 3d one of the boats capsized and was losti its crew, however, being saved, ex• cept Wm. Dunver, the ship's carpenter. The stores and sltpplies went down with the boat. As this boat carried most of the water the accident was a serious one, and from that time on the allowance doled out to the voya• gers was of the shortest. On the 11th of Nov. Donnevick, one of the Marquesas Islands, was reached. It was none too soon, for the Captain and crew had been reduced to three wine _glasses of water a day, and, as by the capsizing of the Captain's boat the day they left the ship, nearly all the bread w~s lost, they had but two biscuits daily apiece, their condition and the joy with which they welcomed the land can be much better imagined than related. This voyage is probably one of the long• est ~ver made in open boats in mid-ocean, and Its success speaks well for the Captain and his crew. Capt. Stewart says he was not very sanguine of getting on shore, but he resolved not to miss any chances, and kept his boats together at all times ; and to ~ake sure that they would not separate at mght, had lashed them toaether. Beyond the suffering from the short ~llowance there was no great discomfort experienced, and the health of the men was excellent. After staying at Donnevick two weeks, the officers and crew sailed for Tahiti on the John Bright, reaching there Dec. 12th. There t?e rrew were paid off, and with the exception of the three apprentices named above, were left by the Captain. The second mate, cook, steward and 8 seamen were to have sailed in the whaler Coral, of New Bedford. after Capt. Stewart left. The latter intends to return to England immediately. "A Goon NAME," Solomon says, is rather to be chosen than great riches. THE FRIEND appears to have this in the opi~ion of a writer in Thrum's Almanac, who is writing upon '·' Reminiscences of. the Honolulu Press." He remarks, "In not one of them is so much valuable information to be gathered as in the old FRmNd., which has proved a reliable friend indeed to many for a period of thirty years and more, and has never ' gone back on tis yet, or changed its principles.'" U Solomon says, " Let another man ·praise thee, and not thine own mouth ; a stranger, and not thine own lip;:;." Ameri.c ans, during the first century of the Repub• lie, have not been thought over-modest about boasting, but have "blown their own horn " to the great disgust of other nations. Hereafter they may l,eep silence, for during the Centennial strangers visited America and have taken the "horn" and are now blow• ing it most ~igorously and sonorously,. Read the Reports of the British Commissioners to the Centennial, but especially the Report of the Swiss Commissioner, on American Watches Remarks a Swiss expert in the watch line upon a fifth rate American watch: "I am completely overwhelmed; the result is incredible ; one would not find one such watch among 50,000 of our manufacture." See He port in the Christian Union, January 3d, 1877. SPURGEoN's SwoRD AND TROWELL.-W e would acknowledge the numbers for October' November and December of this excellent monthly from M.rs. Taylor, or London . Soroe of our island readers will perhaps be surprised to learn that Mrs. T., originally came to the Sandwich Islands more than fifty years ago, and made Honolulu her home for a quarter of a century, and then returned to London, where she resides, at the advanced age of more than four score, and we have no doubt couid now repeat humorous anecdotes relating to the Kamehamehas and the old chiefs more than sufficient to fill a small volume. She was the sister of Mrs. Charlton, wife of the first British Consul. FAIL URE OF THE NEW y ORK LIFE INSUR· ANCE CoMPANY -When the authorities of New York and Nast have done with Tweed, we hope they will commence upon the President, Officers and Directors of the 8ecurity Life Insurance Co. Tweed merely stole from the funds of the city, but this company has been stealing from people in foreign lands, even among the Chinese and Hawai• ians. We shall hope to hear that they are serving out their time in the " Tombs" and " Sing Sing." We are not snre but the mode of man•of-war punishment wou1d be the best, i. e., putting thi~f on their backs and compelling them to walk up and down Broadway. FACSIMILE OF TH;E FmsT EDITION OF THE PILGRIM'S PRoGREss .-There only remains one copy of the first edition of this great work of John Bunyan, published in 1678. It has been reprinted in similar type, spelling, grammar, marginal notes, and even paper. Jt is a very curious as well as suggestive reprint. 20 '11 11 E •· It l E N IJ , lll il R C H , - - - - - - - -- ------ THE FRIEND MARCH 1, 18'7"1. · Grand Eruption. '\Ve have received the following from the Hev. Mr. Coan,--(the Bishop of Volcanoes on Hawaii:) " We have ha<l a magnificent eruption on Mauna Loa. It was first seen between nine a nd ten p. m. It burst out a little distance south of Mokuaweoweo, and seemed to flow towan.l s Kahuku, in Kau. The ::.tream of light appeared to spread from twenty to thirty n;iiles over the mountain, and rose grandly to the height of tweniy •thousaml feet towards the zenith, like the out-spreadings of a flaming eagle. The light was so strong as to project the shadows of objects in our town. It seemed to surpass in grandeur any eruption within the past ten years. But it is cloudy on the mountain, and all is obscured. This is a little tantalizmg, but it is in wiser hands than ours ; so • If the vision tarry, we wait for it.' " Since the above was written, a party of sight-seers visited Hawaii, confirming $his report, and more definitely de;3cribing the eruption, which appears to have .taken place as related, on the summit of Mauna Loa, but to have also found a discparge of lava under water, near Kealakekua Bay, between one and two miles from the spot where Capt. Cook was killed The earth is cracked or seamed for miles from the shore, and steam is issuing, while under water an eruption has occurred, and immense quantities of cinder or scoria is rising to the surface. The steamer passed near the spot and brought specimens. - - - -- - - -- - Custom -House Statistics. WE publish ·to-day the Annual Report of Colonel Allen, Collector General of Customs, for the year 1876. The exhibit is encouraging, showing, as it does, an increase in the exports of domestic produce of nearly $220,000 over the previous year. .But from this sum must be deducted the value of the cargo of the bark American Lloyds, which consisted of produce which had been returned to Honolulu from San Francisco for reshipment, for the sake of avoiding . duties. ln the excess of exports over imports amounting to $429,271,35, some allowance must be made for the same reason. The imports show an increase in value of $64,476, 14 over 1875, a resnlt which is attributable to the reciprocity treaty. The decrease ir1 the value of foreign ex.:. ports is in consequence, chiefly, of the des;. truction of the whaling fleet, and the resulting failure of the usual supplies of oil arid bone. · l S77. The decrease of the amount of liquor taken for consumption would seem to indicate a growth of temperance principles; but we presume it may more correctly be attributed, in part, to the loss of the whaling fleet, and very likely, to some extent, to an increase of illicit distilJation in the country. The excess in the number of passengers . arriving, over those departing, cannot all be set down as an increase of population, as the crews of the lost whaleships came back to the country as passengers, and the greater part of them immediately left again as seamen. A portion of the remaining excess consists of the Chinese immig rants who were introduced during the year. We shall give the next issne our Annual Resume of Agriculture and Commerce for the year 1876. The decrease in customs receipts amounts to but $14,410.SI which is much less than was anticipated. We still believe that after a year or two the increase of business in the country will more than make up all deficiencies in revenue, resulting from the action of the treaty.-I-Iawaiiau, Gazette Febita1·y 28th. 07 Thanks to Mrs. W. F. Allen and Mrs. John Wilder for a goodly supply of reading matter for seamen. DEBT ON THE BETHEL REoucEn.-In our last we reported a debt of $271.21--it 1s now reduced to $233.52. [7' The borrower of a volume of Dean Alford's "New Testament for English Readers " wm please return it to the editor. "AusTR·ALIA FELIX."_:__We notice a very readable article under this heading in the London Leisure Hour, for January, from the facile pen of Miss Bird, author of the Hawaiian Archipelago. " God never performs a miracle to convince Atheism, because His ordinary works convince it." - -- - - -- '' The number of men who labor under the delusion that they have solved the problem of the universe, is very large. Curiously enough they are getierally men of less than otdiriary ability." Parepa Hall is the name of a spacious and handsome building, on 86th street and Third avenue. lt seats 800 people, and every Sabbath afternoon it is filled with a congregation thdt comes to enjoy a service of song and a sermon, p;iven under the directiqn of the Yorkville Youna: Meti's Christian Association. Last Sabbath day we wotshipped with them, and were exceedingly gratified by the large attendance, the profound attention and deep interest of the people in the exercises. DoNATlONS F oR THE" Honrn."-We would thankfully acknowledge a donation of $20 from Capt. Long, of H. B. lVL S. Fantome. We would add that British seamen, ,when ashore on duty, appreciate this institution. THE REv. MR. HrnE.-lntellige~ce has been received from the Mission House in Boston that this gentleman has been appointed to take charge of the Pacific Miss ionary Institute-a training school for raising up native missionaries and pastors. Dr. Hyde has been a settled pastot· in Haverhill. Mass., and will come with the very highest testimonials for scholarship and ability. We can assure him that a most cordial welcome will be extended on his amval. Information Wanted.• ~espe_c~ing Captain GEO IIAMIL'rON, of yacht Peerless, which v1s1tcd l-lonolulu about two years ago, and bas since became famous as having been seized by an English man-of. war at the Samoa Islands. lqformation sent to the Editor of the FnrnNo, or lo J & D l\litcncll, Pa thhcad, Fifeshire Scot' land, will be thankfully receivtd. Special Notice. Information Wanted Respecting WILLIAM LLTTI,El"IELD, who left England about fifty years ago, on boa.rd th e whaling ship Fam e , for a cruise in the Pacific, and reported as wrecked at the l\larquesas Islands. The ship is reported to have been taken to Valparaiso, and there cond emned. There w;:;s a report that sa.id William Lilllefiehl left the Marqursas lslandii and came to Honolulu with L~o of !us shipm a tes. Il e had two brothers, James aud Cornehus. The latter went to America and is now living with his son, William Littlcfielcl. 168 1!:ast 82d ~treet, New York City. If any information can be furnished it will be most gra tefully received. Leu ers m ay be addres:1ed to William Littlefield 168 East 82d slreet, New York, or to the Editor of Tm,: .lf nrnNo, or Pacific Co'Rtm ercial Advertiser , Honolulu. THE AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY, 150 Nassau Street, New York City, has estahlishe<.I 11, DEPOSITORY A'J' 757 MAU.KET STRE.Wl', SAN FRANCISCO, with Rev Frederi c k E Shearer a~ District Secretary for the Pacific Coast. This Depository is the Hea,1-quarters of the Coast for ALL SUNDAY SCHOOL AND RELHHOllS LITlmA'fURE and has the special a~cncy for the CALIFORNIA IIJHLE SOCIETY. TIIE Al'llERIUAN SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION. CONGREGA'rIONAL PUBLISUil'i'1 socrnrv, PRESBYTERIAN DOAitD OF PUBLICATION. HENRY HOYT, ROB'T CARTim & BRO., RANDOLPH & CO. , anu other leading publishers. SUNDAY SCHOOL LIBRARIJ<;S will be selected with great care, and sold at New York prices and discounts . BOOKS WILL BE SENT BY l\IAII, TO MINIS'l'ERS at the discbunt allowed by Ne1v York Houses, and postage Mlded,the price and postage payable m U niled :-ltates Cut'l'ency. '.l.'hus Sunday Schools and Ministers will be supplied at New York rates, and receive any book to be fouu<.I in San Francisco in the shortest po$sib\c time. A. • .L. SilllTII, IMPORTER & DEALER IN JEWELRY, King's Combination Spectacl es, Gl:tss an,l lated Ware, Sewing l\J.:-tehineR, Picture Frames, Vases, Brackets, etc. etc. No. 73, Fort St. [ly] TERM S STRICTLY J• CASH. M. DAVIDSON, A uo1•ney nt Ln,v. Office over Mr. Whitney's Book-store , form erly occupied by Judge Austin. Honolulu, H. I. de-1876 COSMOPOLITAN Photograph Gallery I G4 AND 66 FORT STREET, s REOPENED, WHERE THE u ·NDERsigned will be most happy to wait upon those wishing for First Class Photographs Honolulu, Dec. 1st, 1876. H . L. CHASE. rl 2 l m '1' HE 1/lAJllNE JOUllNAL. PORT OF HONOLULUs S. I. A.RRIV ,\.LS. Jfo!J. 2-P MS City of$y<lney, Dearborn, 14 days fm Auckland. 6-Nor bk Matilda, Monsen, 72 days from Melbourne. 7-H H .M's S Fa.ntome, Com Long, from Bawaii. 11-ll. MS Zealandia, 'fhowson, 7 days and 4 hours fm San Francisco. • 13-Nor bk Skjold, Bugge, 90 <lays from Adelaide, Aus. 15-Am schr Mabel Scott, Higgins, 19 days from Fanning's Island, via Hilo, Hawaii. 15-Am bk lllary Delle Roberts, Grey, 28 days from San Francisco. 22-llaw 11chr Giovanni Apiani, Ilempi;tead, 33 days fm • Haker'11 Island. 22-Am bktne Emma Augusta, Young, 70 dayli from Newcastle, NSW. 22-Ilaw bk Iolani, Garrels, 151 days from Ncweaslleon-Tyne. 23-French !!hip St Jean, Delmolino, 25 days from Sanl!'rancisco, en route for the Guano Islands. Feb. 1-Am schr Bonanza, Dexter, for San Francisco. 2-P M S Ciiy of Sydney, Dearborn, for :5an Francisco 6-Brit sh Dovenby, Linton, for Portland, 0. 8-Nor bk Matilda, Monsen. for Enderbury Island. 11-I-law brig Elise, D W l'ermier, for San ~'rancisoo. 11-R M 8 Zealandia, Thomson, for Sydney. 13-Am i.chr Fannie Hare, G A Hare, for San Francisco 21-1:law sh Surprise, Hodgkins, for San Franci.sco. DEPARTURES. MEMORANDA. REPOll'l' 01'' PMS CITY OF SYDNEY, DEARBORN, COMMAN. 01.m.-Left Sydney Dec 15tn., 1876, at 8.15 am, arrvied at Kandavu, Fiji, on the 22d, at 7.55 am; transferred mails, pas1,engers, etc, into the 1o11 Zealandia. On the 26th, 6 30 am, s. Australia arrived from San Francisco, and was placed in quar· aotine by the llealill Otilcer, Comm,mdcrs not deeming it ad vis. able to transfer passengers, etc, for New Zealanu; botl.t ships left for Auckland at l 40 p m, same day, and arrived at Auckland on the 30th. 8 am; left Auckland for Sydney on the 31st, 12 pm, and arrived Jan 5t!1, 1877, 2 am; Left Sydney agai'll on the 12th, 3.30 pm, (Australia. still in quarantine at that port) aad arrived at Auckland 011 the 17th, 8 a. m; left 11ame day at 5 p m and arrived at Kanda.Yu 011 the 22d, 7.50 a 111; left same day at 8.50 a m arnl arrived at Honolulu Feb 2d· Exchanged :signals witb. the ss City of New York on the 23d, at 7 a Ill, JO LYMAN, Purser. RKPORT OF RM s ZEALANDIA, F ll THOMSON (CntEF OFnc&R) iN Co~intAND.-Left San Francisco Feb 3rd, 10.30 am; 11.30 p m discharged pilot at Golden Gate; experienced light north1Vesterly winds until the 5th. afterwards light northeiisterly and variable winds to Honolulu; noon of th.e 10th, distant from port 165 miles, engines slowed so as to arrive at daylight next morning; stOPJ>erl outside 4 ,i m of the 11th, and boarded hy the pilot at 5 30; time from San Francisco 7 days and 4¼ hours. Captain J S Ferries, Commander of the ship, who had been indisposed for 11ome time previous to the departure from Sa.n Francisco died of heart disease, at 8.10 pm, on the evening of Thursday the 8th inst. This unexpected loss is very keenly felt by all on board, as Captain ]ferries was very much liked and respected !Jy all his officers and crew. His remains were brought to Honolulu for interment. It McDONALD, Purser. REPORT OF AM SCHR l\IABEL SCOTT, S lltGGINS 1 MASTER -Saill'd from Tahiti .Ian 4tll for Flint's Island and arrived on the 7th, after loadin:! firewood sailed on the 11th for Vostock, arriving there on the 12th and left the same day for Fanning•~ Island, arriving there on the 21st; the schr Kinau, Capt Hatfield, waK lying at anchor in the lagoon; on the 25th the C 111 Ward called off the island, and left again on the same day for Jarvis Island. Left Fanning';; on the 27th for Bilo, Hawaii, and arrived olf that port Feb 4th, and went in on the 9th, found the barkenline Victor discharging lumber, from the Sound; saiied from Hilo on the 13th and arrived in port on the 15th; haviag had fine weather the ontire passage. REPORT OF AMERICAN DK MB ROBERTS, GREY, MASTER, -Left San Francisco on the 18th Jan; first 17 days out had strong SSW and southerly gales until lat 29 ° 10' N long 126 ° 25' W, from thence to port had light NE and easterly winds. Made Molokai Feb 14, an<l from thence to port had light SW wind>!. Anchored off the harbor on the 15th. REPORT OF HAW BK lOLANI, GARRELS, MASTER.-On the 2d October, 1376, passed Lam.I'd End; on the Htl1 the Island Madeira, during which time had variable winds with sometime~ heavy gales from NW antl SW, with a high breaking l•'ltlEND, MAUCH, l 8 7 7. 21 sea, ship laboring heavy and taking much water on deck, In DIED. one of the NW gales the cargo shifted to port ~ide, which gave the ship a qeavy list. On the 15th passed British !Jrig rl1Q.L, HART-At Kohala, January 29th, of diptheria, E~IILY, from Formby to River Benin, 27 days out. On the 22d passed youpgest child of Charles au<l ltebecca Hart, aged three years and ten months.-" Of such iii the Kingdom of lleaven." St Antonio, Cape Verd Islands; from here had light southerly TAYLOlt.-At Folkstone, England, Jan 20th, AMELIA, be, winds to the line, which we crossed Nov 5th, in long 31~ 18 loved wife of Hugh Taylor, E~q, of Park House, Montreal, Ad• W, 43 days out. Had the SE trade winds very light and uo- vocate, and dau!!lller of the late Jas Buchanan, Fisq, British steady, which we lo;t in about 23 ° S, on the 17th; from the Consui at N cw York. BusH.-At Kapa.lama, Feb 11th, GEORGE LIIIAUANU, infant 18th to Dec 6th, iu lat 28 ° to 40 ° s, had very heavy gales from Wand SW with a very rough sea, in which tha ship pitched son of II is l!:xecllency Joo E Bush, aged 1 month and 30 dayi;. very much an<l took heavy seas on deck. Variable light winds · N1cH0Ls .-At Hilo, Hawaii, Feb 7th, Dr AS NICHOLS, to the 14th, when we crossed the parallel of 50 o S, in about aged about 35 years. 650 W, 81 <lays out. Steering for Straits of Le Maire, got on DtcKSON-ln Ilonolulu. at 6 o'clock Wednesday morning, February 21st, 1877, Major ,I BAT ms D!CRSON, aged 44 the 16th a. heavy gale from NW, thick and rainy, which ob- years, liged us to keep away round Staatco Land, Wind shifting to the SW, it lasted till the 20th, during which time lost part of Christianity did not come from heaven our starboard bulwark;; from there had light variable winds and fine weather; on the 22d sighted Island of Diego Ramirez, to be the amuserrient of an idle hour, to be N by W ½W, about 14 miles olf; on the 28th crossed the par- the food of mere imagination; to be as a allel of 50° Sin the Pacific, in about 81 ° W, 65 days out. very lovely song of one that has a pleasant. From this lat to lat 28 ° Shad mostly good wind and weather; voice, and playeth well upon an instrument: Jan 9th to the 15th had the wind from N and NW with heavy squalls, thunder and lightning, after which had very light SE No : it is intended to l>e the guide, the trades; crossed the line on the 3d Feb, in about 125 ° W, 132 guardian, the companion of all hours; it is days out. Ilad very light winds from NE and SE up to the intended to be the food of our immortal 10th, when we got a fresh NE trades hll the l!ith, after this spirits; it is intended to be the seriou:3 occulight and ·uusteady, sometimes nearly calm; 19th got a fresh S pation of our whole ex1stence.--Bislwp wind for sbout 12 hours; on the 20th sighted Hawaii, where we got the SW wind with very heavy squalls, afterwards the Jebb. wind shifted to NW and N; on the 21st sighted Maul and Mo::7" Chu Ah Wah and Miss Fannie lokai, and arrived in Honolulu on the 22d, 151 days out; got Waters were married recently. The brideaground on the bar for about half an hour while coming in. groom was formerly a cook, and is now the REPORT OF AM DKTNE E~t~IA AUGUSTA, YOUNG, MASTER. The -Left Newcaatle Dec 14th, 1876; on the 25th, lat 33Q, long proprietor of a lucrative wash-house. 180° signallized with the whaling bark Gazelle of San Frau- bride was born in Maine, and has t,een a cisco, on a cruise; Jan 22d, touct1ed at Tahiti, off and on for 7 governess in San Francisco. They alighted hours; had no SE trades, only northerly wind to the equator, at the City Hall on November 16th and then had very poor NE trades to port. asked for a license. There was eommotion REPORT OF llAw SCHR GIOVANNI APtANI, llEMPSTEAD, in the Mayor's office; there were jeer-son the MASTER.-Sailed from Honolulu Dec 10th, 1876, and arrived Ah Wah paid the usual licern~c at Baker's Island Jan 1st, 1877; left same day for Phoobe Isl- sidewalk. and and arrived at that position next day; cruised in that vicinity for fifteen days, but saw nothing of Phrelie Island; on the 17th took a strong g:ile from WSW; at 9 am spoke scar Joseph Woolley, Briggs,•crusing for l>hoobe Island; at 6 pm bore up for Baker's Island, and arrived there next day, too rough to land; next day landed supplies and left at IO am for Honolulu Feb 8th; j1asscd Palmyra and Washington Islands on the 10th; made Lanai on the 21st, at 11 pm, and arrived at llonolulu on the 22d, 23 days passage. PASSENGERS. fee, and set fire to a long cigar; and Fannie wrote her name, and remarked that it was her own free will; in fact, she married him because she loved him. He helped her into a hack and stared at a facetious youth who was shouting, "If that ain't the worst!" Then they drove to a mission church and were married. "I could write down twenty cases." say s Fon SAn FnANc1sco-Pe1.· Bonanza, Jan 3lst-'1rs SL Dex- a good man, '' when I wishc>d God had done ter and 2 children, ~ir Pomeroy and wife, T G Hughes, R otherwise than He did, and which I now Wench, Capt King, Sueykeau. l!'noni SYDNEY-1:'er City of Sydney, Feb 2d-Mrs Clevoin ser, had I had my own will would have led Miss II Spalding. to extensive mischief. The life of a Chri s Fon SAN FRANCISCO-Per City of Sydney, Feh 21I-Hon E l:le mu5t lay II Allen, Gen'ls Great', Ingalls and l\1eycr;:, A N Tripp, Sisler tian is a life of paradoxes. E Bortha, R S llloffitt, II 'l'hormen, L II Davis anti wife, AS hold on God, he must follow bard after Patterson, Lieut Honbnoff, Thos Joliy, Geo 8 :Inell, C 11 Alex ander, Rev Mr 'l.'11ylor, Mrs Logan, II Riemenschnei<ler, S Him, he must determine not to let Him go. lllagnin, G l\Iartiney , Tuck Chow, Mrs .Apuck. And yet you must learn to let God alone. Fon PORTLAND-Per Dovenby, Feb 6th-W Molfett and Quietness before God is one of tbe most son, E Burke. FROM SAN FRANCISOO-Per Zealandia, Fe!J llth-'.\Jr G N difficult of all Christian graces i to sit Bartlett, 111r and Mrs Stanley and 2 son11, Messrs D R Fraser, LR llartin, Chas Ellis,~, lt .'.llills, ll Hansman, Rev H II where He pleases, to be what He would Parker, TR Walker, Mr iind Mrs Daniels, Messrs l\1 0 Falk- have us be, and this as long as He pleases." ner, SR F:iirchild, l\lr and Mrs Lord, Dr and lllrs Burke, F Schevenk, Hoo 8 G Wilder, Messrs E A Peirce. M Greenwell, E C Macfarlane, Z S :Spalding, I lfocltler, Chas Stein, Mrs The Bowery branch of the Young Men 's Mollison, Vhas Sheritlan, Wm Thomas, Chun~ Chong. J S Woodhurry, W Flet.:.her, .J Gates jr, F Reink and wife, T Christian Association, No. 134 Bowery, Walkinerster, A F Coot, A Frost, Jos Robh, M .Joseph, Thos since beginning their work in May, 1872, Fay, J I-I Walker, 1\1 J Uarpenter, W G Poole, I Mcssiter, N rendered the following relief to 14,000 lllcssiter, [ Roth, J H Ashworth, Fon SYDNEY-Per Zoolandia, Feh llth-M Wood, .Jules persons: Free meals, • 201,200; lodg~ngs, Hurling, ~r Wainwright, D Delean, Mr Sleigh, Wm Knight 34,212; baths, 8,876; garments given, and family. FnoM FLINT'S lsLAND-Per Mabel Scott, Feb lflth-J T 1,533; persons ptov1ded with employment., Arundel, F Boulder and wife, 3 native laborers. 3,627. The aggregate attendance at the FROM SAN I! RANCISCO-Per M B Roberts, Feb 15-Mr an<l Mrs Horner :1nd ehild, Mr Joelsen, Mr lllcDooald, Jas Gra- religions services during this period was ham, Chas B Reynolds, Robt Bursling, M1· Coning. 227,639. FROM GUANO ISLANDS-Per Giovanni A1:ri.ani, Feb 22dCapt Cook, G Keating, Mr Kennedy, and 3 natives. A man may find much amusement in the Bible----variety of prudential instruction---MARRIED. abundance of sublimiiy and poetry: but, if LYMAN-DANA-"'fhe marriage ln Boston, OD the Wednes- he stops there, he stops short on its great d~y preced_ing New Ye'.1-r's, of F O LnuN, Esq, (formerly of end • for " the testimony of Jesus is the Hilo) of Ch1.cago, and Miss CHARLOTTE DAN A. a daughter of RH • .' The grand secret in Dana, Jr, was witnessed by a large and_brillia.ot company, in- spirit of prophecy." eluding the venerable grand-father of the bride, and Mr Long- th t d f h • t · d' fellow and Mr Bigelow. Mr Lyman is in the practice of Jal'/' e S U Y O t e ~cnp ures !S, to 1scover in Chic;1go, and is a younger brother ot Dr II l\1 Lyman, who Jesus Christ therein "the way the truth is an occasional eontributor to the Advance.''-Chicago Add th l' r ,, ' ' vance. an e 11e. I 22 'l' II E lr R I E N D , .M A R C. H , l 8 77. Late Cruise of the Morning Star. the Gilbert, Marshall, Caroline and Mortlock Groups. Knowing the dangers and difficulties at'The mission on the Mortlock Group has tending navigation in the remote groups of been established but two years, and· already islands scattered over the Pacific, it is a embraces a membership of 300. The Mornmatter for devout thanksgiving when the ing Star spent two wef'ks cruising among Morning Star returns safe and sound. The the islands of this group, where there are Mission Board and the friends of missions stationed native missionaries from Ascension. are fortunate in having in their employ a Remarks Mr. Bailey: We remained fifteen good seaman and Hn excellent navigator. and a half days in the Mortlock Group. In Capt. Colcord has safely brought the vessel the course of our stay we visited the stations off from a s_econd cruise, and she is now of Uoniop, Lukunar, Satrau: Ta, Etal, Kutu lying in our harbor and undergoing repairs and Mar, remaining and working a day at for another trip. She left Honolulu July 5, each, place, and forming churches in places 1876, and cruised among the islands of the where one had not been formed before. All Gilbert, Marshall and Caroline Groups, de- these places are supplied with teachers from livering the supplies at the several stations Ascension -0r Ponape, though in some cases As allusions have so frequently been made one teacher has charge of two stations. The in our island newspapers to missionary op- whole population of this group is supposed erations in those groups, we shall confine our to be about 3,500. Three years ago teachers were left among them, an<! at that time notice principally to the Mortlock Group. E. Bailey, Esq., of Wailnku, sailed in they were a perfectly heathen people. Now the Morning Star as the Delegate. Since the whole population may be said to be his raturn he has read before the members of Christianized. All our intercourse with the the Hawaiian Board a full report, which people was of a most pleasing nature. If our limits would permit we should be was listened to with intense interest, although occupying, in its reading, nearly two hours; glad to publish Mr. Bailey's Journal or Recovering sixty pages of manuscript, closely port in full. but it would occupy more than written. It is now being published in the our entire sheet. Suffice it, the friends of native (Laliui IIawa-ii) newspaper, and · missions have much to encourage them in will no doubt prove interesting to the Hawai- this remote part of the Pacific. The demand is for an increased dumber of foreign ian patrons and contributors to the funds of and native laborers, and it is to be hoped the Hawaiian Missionary Society. A copy tnat when the Morning Star makes another will also be forwarded to the Mission House trip, new missionaries will be in readiness to go. in Hoston. • We learn that it is Mr. Bailey's intention to prepare a volume for publication in the English language, should he go East. He has secured many sketches of natural seen.: ~ry and other matters relating to that almost unknown part of the world. His skill with a fencil is well known from some landscape pamtings which he has executed, one of which was on exhibition at the Centennial--the view of Wailuku Valleywhich was greatly admired. We sincerely hope he may be able to carry out his plans, for Micronesia is really the only part of the Pacific which has not been explored. THE NEw GUINEA M1ss10N.-A letter by Rev. Dr. W. Y. Turner, who has recently returned from this mission, was published in the S. M. Herald. We learn from it the gt.eat difficulty there is in the deadly climate, and that the Rev. W. G. Lawes and his family have suffered much. Several of the native teachers have also died. There are now fourteen teachers and their wives at work in villages along the coast from seventeen miles to the west to ten miles to the east of Port Moresby. Services are held in the native language at the several stations. Mr. Lawes has acquired the language used at Port Moresby, and has been translating a Bible history and some hymns into it for the use of the teachere. It is a serious question whether the China Straits would not prove a more healthy centre for the forces of the mission. Mr. Lawes may be able to go there to try the climate. There is great danger of losing his valuable services, owing to the state of his health. We have heard that the little steam vessel purchased for this mission by the liberality of Miss Baxter is already nearly useless. The Rev. W. Y. Turner, M. B. C. M, is an ordained medical missionary of the United Presbyterian Church, employed by the London Missionary Society. His young wife died lately at Cape York, and he has come to Sydney with his little baby. He is willing to give us temporary supply in preachlng.- In order to fully understand and appreciate the great and useful work which has been acce>mplished by the labor of missionaries in that part oft.he world, it should be remembered, that only quarter of a century has elapsed since the mission was originally established. In 1852 the Caroline sailed from Honolulu with the little church of ten members organized at the Bethel, and made up of six foreigners and four Hawaiians, or five families. All the foreigners are still living. That parent church of ten members has been increased to several hundred and s·e parate _churches have been organized in Aitstr-alian Witness, Jan. 1877. Adams' Illustrated Map of History. On visiting Thrum & Oat's Book-store a few days since, our attention was arrested by an Historical .Map, which we have been carefully examining. lt embraces the outline of the world's history and in a form most instructive. It is a map on rollers as well as in book form, and when spread out is twenty-two feet long by two and one-half feet wide. It must prove a most remarkable assistant to any one who is teaching a class of pupils in history, either ancient or modern. Every school should have a copy, and by the aid of a little explanation a pupil will learn more of history in a few hours than could be conveyed by months of teaching in th_e· old meth_od. Such a map, iµ a family, with an occas10nal lecture from an intelligent parent, would be invaluable in the way of imparting useful knowledge. We would call the special attention of parents, teachers, and others to its excellencies. Copies are to be seen at the Book-store and at Dillin()'. ham's. We have not inquired the pric~. The Scientific American remarks: "It ~s an educational novelty which, after examination, we can recommend to teachers and students as a valuable and useful aid to study. The plan adopted is a very ingenious one-is such that the student sees at a glance exactly the condition of the world at any given date. We need not point out the obvious utility of this rt>markable production." Shipwreck with loss of Life. It is Reldom that any disasters happen to our island Vl~ssels. and still more rare that lives are lost in tl:u~ ,;ervice ; so that the sad ulfair of the 14th instant was oni• that created no little excitement in the ~ommuuity and symoal by for those who have snffere<l loss in property and friends . The schoone1· Iolani is 1warly new, bl'ing on her second trip only to l\1a11i when tbP accident occnrred. and was ownN] l>y Mr. A. F. Cooke and Capt. A. R. Powers. She, was on the passag-e from Malika to tbii, port, with little or no freight on board, when in att<• mpting to jibe (as one account says while the marn and fore booms were both fastenc,d to the lee shrouds) f,lw vessPl waR thrown over and the iron ballast shifting, she fairly capsized, keel ont. Capt. PowPrs, bPing quite unable to swim, was drowned, as was also the cook. but the remainder of tlw crew got ashore on Lanai. which was abont a mile and a half diRtant. in the schooner's boat. The news of the disastPr reachPd Labaina late on the 14th. and the next clay :Mr. Kfa Nahaolelna. and subsequently Mr. W. M. Gibson and Sheriff EverPtt, proceed(,<l to the wreck with a party of workers and savPd the sails, spars. etc., and WPre Hndeavoring to rhrht the Vt'S· st>l when on Satnrday the steamPr Kilauea came along and took the job ont of their hands. With the superior facilities 0f the steamer and the skill and energy of her officPrs, this was soon accomplished. and the vessel heing taken in tow was brong-ht into port by th<> Kilauea about 10 o'clock on Sunday morning. The claims for Ralvage by partiPs from Mani bdnix eith<>r withdrawn or comJ)romised, the only claimant. in the matter will be the steamer. As to the cause of the accident. nautical men genPrally agree that the vessel was insufficiently ballasted, and that the ballast she bad on board was not properly secured fo the hold. It is also said that the operation of jibing nnder the circumRtances and in the way in which it was done, was imprudent and unskillfnl. However, if poor Powers was at fault be baR paid for it with his life. He was an honest, industrious and deserving man. and leaves an afflicted widow and two young children to mourn the loss of a kind husband and father.-P. G. A. Feb. 24. 'I'D E FRIEND, M!RVH .ADVERTISEMENTS. Places of Worship. SEAMEN'S BETHEL--Rev. S. C. Damon, Chaplain, King street, near the Sailors; Home. Preaching at 11 A. M. Seats free. Sabbath School before tbe morning service. Prayer meeting on Wedneeday evenings at 7½ o'clock. Fo&·r STREET Cr:IURCII--Rev. W. Frear. Pastor, corner of Fort and Berf'tania strertR. Preaching on Sundays at ll A. M. and 7½ P. M. Sabbath School at 10 A. M. KAWAIAHAO Cmmcu- -Rev. H. H. Parker. Pastor, King street, above the Palace. Services in Hawaiian every Snnday at 9½ A. lll. and 3 P. M. RoMAN CATJIOLTC Crruucrr-- Undcr the charge of Rt. Rev. Bishop :Maigret, assisted by Rev. Father Hermann ; Fort Rtret•t. nf'ar Iforeta11ia. Services every Sunday at, 10 A. ~£. and 2 P. :M. KAUMAKA.PILI C11uucu--Rev. 1\L Knaea. Pastor. Beretania street, near Nnnann. Services in Hawaiian every Sunday at 10 A. M. and 2½ P. M. 'I'm; ANGLICAN CHURCH--Bisbop. the Rt. Rev. Alfred Willis. D. D.; Clergy. Rev. Rob't Dunn, M.A., Rev. Alex. Mackintosh, St. Andrew's Temporary Cathedral, Berntania street. oppositt-i the Hotf'I. English servicN1 on Snn<lays at Ii½ and 11 A. M .• and 2½ and 7½ P. M. Sunday School at the Clergy House at 10 A. M. SAILORS' D R · LATHROP. ..,HE FIRST PREMIUM GOLD MEDAL was awanled at the Inrlustrial 1!.:xhibition, 1875, to BRADLEY & RULOFSON ! For the best Photogra1,J1s & ()r1ryons in San Francisco TllE NATIONAi, GOLD JUEDAL ! Fof the Best Photographs in the United States! AND THE VIENNA MEDAL! For the Best in the World! OFFICE OF BRADLEY & RULOFSON' ART GALLERY No. 429 Montgomery street, Sa::n.. Fra::n..cisoc:>. ·DR· ..... .B. HUTCHINSON, PIIJ'Mician a11t1 Surgeon, Office at Drug Store, corner of Fort and Merchant Streets; Residence, Nuuanu A venue, near School Street. Office Hours, 9 to 11 A. M. fel '7il W'. IR,VIN G. & CO•• Commission Merchants, Plantation and Insurance Agents, Honolulu, IT. I. L)j~\,VERS & DICKSON. Dealers in Lumber and Building .1l1ateria.ls, Fort Street, Honolulu, fl. I. E. IIOFFM_t.NN, M. D., 7 -.. iews, aPd Lanrlscape Views of U~ whole Pacific Coast. THRUM & OAT, STATIONERY AND NEWS DEPOT, No. 19 Mc1•chn11t Street, • • • llo11ol11l11. P Papers and Mag~zines, back numbers-put up to orderlyat r educed rates for parties going to sea. ACKAGES OF READING MATTER-OF THE HAWAIIAN HOTEL! Officcrs 1 TablC', with lodging, per week, Seamen's do. do. do. Physician and Surgeon, IlREWER &, E. Carriage }laking and '!'rimming ! I ADAMS. .11.uction and Commission Merchant, J Fire-Proof Store, in Robinson's Building, Queen Street. O II N S . M c G R E \,V , M . D ., Late Surgeon U. S. Army, Can be consulted at his residence on Hotel street, between Alakea and Fort streets. G. "\.VEST, w. PIERCE & CO•• (Succesors to C. L. Richards & Co.) WOULD RESPECTFULLY INFORM YOU THAT I now employ the best Mechanics in the liue of Car1·iage Making, Carriage and · General Blacksmithing, Painting. Repairing, &c., On tbe Hawaiinn Group; and it is a well established fact that oar Carriage 'rrimming, by Mr. R. Whitman, is us well execated as any in New York City or elsewhere. I therefore 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 to work at the lowest possible rates. G. WEST. M. DICKSON, Photographer, Wagon and Carriage Builde1·, 74 and 76 King Street, Honolulu. [lJ' Island orders p1omptly executed at lowest rates A. Honlnln, January 1. 18i5. co .. Honolulu, Oahu, II. I. P. 5 ED. DUNSCOMBE, Manager. Corner Merchant and Kaabum::inu Streets, near the Post Oflice C. $6 Shower Baths on the Premises. Ship Chandlers and General Commission Mer chants, Pbotogra1,lls, Drawings, Celebrities, Stereoscopic [lJ' You are cordially Invited to an inspection of our immense <'Ollection of HOME! Having returned to Honolulu to reside, has resumed the practice of his profession. Any one t.lesil'ing his service, either Medical or Surgical, can find him at the Capt. Snow Ur·tt,ige, adjoining the Hawaiian Hotd. <le-1876 Commission and Shipping Merchants, TO THE PUBLIC! 'I I 8 7 7. Gl Fort Street, Honolulu, VS ON HAND A CHOICE ASSOR'.f• OF PHOTOGRAPHIC STOCK, A. L"\.VAMENT A Large Collection of Beautiful Views of Hawaiian Scenery, &c., &c. Agents Pnnloa Salt Works, Brand's Bomb Lances, CURIOSITY HUNTERS will fiud at this establishment a SPLENDID COLLEC'rION 01'' Volcanic S1,eci111e111,,, Co1•nh1, Shells. \,Vnr hnple111cnts, Fc1'118, M also I{a1uui. D. N. FJJ 1'.l'NER, And a Great Variety of other Hawaiian ancl Mic1·onesian Curiosities. Ilonolulu, Oahu, Ilawaiian Islands. Auel Pc1•ry Davik' Pain Kille1•. C ONTINUES HIS OLD BU~INESS IN THE lrIRE-PltOOF lluilding, Kaahumauu Street. · CIIRON0AIETERS rated by observations of the sun and stars with a trnnsit instrument accurately adjusted to lhe meridian of Honolulu. Particular attention given to Fine Watch Repairing ?>extant and quadrant glasses silvered and adjusted. Charts and nauUcal instruments constantly on hand and for sale. fel PICTURE FRAMES A SPECIALITY! jal 1874 • CASTLE & COOKE DIPORTERS AND DEALERS IN GENERAL MERCHANDISE ! -AGENTS NOTICE TO SHIP MASTERS. --,HE REGULAR PORTLAND '1 DILLINGHAM & CO., OF- LINE OF Packets, New England Mutual Lifa Insurance Company, 'fhe lJnion Marine Insurance Company, San Francisco, The Kohala Sugar Company, The Haiku Sugar Oompany. The Hawaiian Suga.r Mill, W. H. Bailey, The Hamakua Sugar Company, The Waiaiua Sugar Plantation, The Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machine Company, Dr. Jayne & Sons Celebrated Family Medicines. tr Nos. 95 and 97 King Street, U.EEP A 1 ~_1HE PROPRIF.TOR HAVING tained ii new lease of this ELEG-.A.N"T OB• :E3:C>TEL Will ~pare no pains to make it First-Class in Every Particular ! Cottn&e• by the Sen Side for the Acconnno• dnlion of G11.-1us. Carriage ancl Saddle Horses at Shm·t Notice. no25 FINE ASSORTMENT OF Goods Suitable for Trade. " THE FRIEND," MASTERS VISITING THIS PORT MONTHLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO during the last Six Years can testifr from personal exS HIP perience that the undersigned keep the best assortment of A Temperance, Seamen, Marine and General Ii,telligence PUBLISHED AND EDITED BY GOODSFORTRkDE And Sell Cheaper than any other House in the Kingdom. DILLINGH~M & Cp. SAMUEL 0. DAMON. I One Copy per annum:..~.~.~•• ••••.••••••••••. $2.00 Two Copies per annum. • • • • • • • • • • . • • • • • • • • • • • • . • • • . • • • 3.00 ~oreig!1 Subscr~bers, including postage . .. •••• , ••.••• • . . 2.60 I oung Jl£nts OLYtistian issotiation of Jtljonolulu. Pure religion ancl undefiled before God, the Father, is this: To visit the fatherless and widows in their ajflic~ion, and to keep one's self unspotted from the world. A Practical Religion. NEW YoRIC C1TY, January 19, 1877. In the January 111,1mber of the FRIEND, I noticed a short article on "Machine Praying," and while I heartily endorse most of its sentiments, I fear there is in it a germ which might possibly lend some persons to erroneous conclusions. The writer says, in speaking of the Week of Prayer, " We are "ell a ware that this period of prayer and worship is too often made the occasion of carefully planned efforts for religious excite• ment; that it is selected before-hand as a good opportunity for getting up what is called a revival of religion," &c. Now I do not in any degree advocate " religious excitements." I believe such effervescence is, for the most part, the overbubbling of the physical rather than the spiritual nature, but I am a most hearty indorser of "revivals of religion," because I know of men all around me who have been reclaimed from lives, not of vice and misery only, but from lives of crime against both God and man, and who first were impressed with the importance of this subject in revival meetings. Lt is an indisputable truth that the church should always be in a revived state, and it is the best argument which the world can use, to point to a cold body of Christians. " According to our faith " it is always "unto us," and if any church desires the spirit of God, it will have Him in their midst. The difficulty is, men will not make their religion pmctical. Religion is religion to some persons, just the same as " business is business " to some others. They are unable to separate in their own minds the worship of God from the proper observance of the Sabbath day and family prayers . • Surely such is not the teaching which we derive from the Rlessed Book. Is a man in business 1 Religion is business. How can the merchant expect success in his enterprises if he does not go to God as his Father and tell Him his plans and ask His blessing? Or of what practical value is that man's religion if he has done this, and straightway makes his plans as if he never expected his prayers to be answered ? lt ::;eems to me that we have enough of such piety, and the reason w.hy we have so much of it is undoubtedly because our revivals of religion are so few Had I the time and you the space, I could tell you many very touching stories in and around this vast city where God has gained dear followers to Himself in revival services. Two instances are this moment in my mind. · One a sweet young girl, whose tears were running down her face as she told the writer her desire to be a follower of Christ. The other, a young man who had been leadrng one of the worst of Ii ves, and who was in a simil~r way brought under the influence of the Gospel. Many months have past since these two-of course utter strangers to each other-first confessed to their Mas ter before men, but to-day the former is striving to lead others to the same Savior she has found, and the latter is a noble Christian man working for his Lord amon~ the vile and outcasts of society. That is what I call a practical religion. PAUL F. SUTPHEN, Assistant Secretary Y. M. C. A ., of the United States and British Provinces. Religious Liberty. What is it? In the days of the early Puritans it meant the right to read {}ad's holy word without let or hindrance from priestly surveillance or control. It meant the privilege of worshiping GGd as the conscience enlightened by the word and the spirit of God dictated; instead of following blindly the prescribed forms of "Holy Mother Church." It meant to hold communion di .. rect with God, by repentance and confession of sin to Him alone, instead of going through the priests' confessional. For the_maintainance of this religious liberty, men have been willing to suffer the loss of all things else, even of life itself,-as " the glorious army of martyrs" testify, having bought this liberty at snch a price, is it a wonder that it was hekl to, and transmitted to their posterity, as a most precious and sacred boon ? But in these latter days of ease and luxury the term religious liberty seems to have a somewhat · different signification in maqy minds, and might, with. propriety, be called license. Reformers have arisen who denounce the tenacity with which the Christian Church holds on to her doctrines Qf faith and practice, as bigotry ar~d ir:itolerance, This is especially true ~heve ~he~e doctrines interfere with their natqral inclinations. The iltrict observance qf tµe Sabbath for instance, as a Christi1tn i11stitution, has been too often assajled to e~cape the notice of every reader qf our pµblic journals; and many have been led astray by the specious argmp.eQts. 1t is contended that the strict observance of the Sabbath was binding only on the Jewish nation, and was never intended to interfere with our freedom and inclinations in tp~se happy latt~r days of Christian enlightenment. It is unnecessary to refer to and to nations that have attempted to live and thrive by renouncing the Sabbath as a sacred day. Acts are abundant which show the absolute necessity of the. day of rest for the preservation of our bodily health ; and also that Christianity cannot survive in any land or in any soul, where the Sabbath is not regarded as a day set apart for a special religious observance and worsh.ip. So while zealously maintaining the dearly bought religious liberty, transmitted to us by our forefathers, let us be careful that we are not led along to a looseness of faith and practice, more dangerous to the purity and safety of the chureh than were the dungeon , the rack, or the fagot. MAJOR J. BATF:S DICKSON.-In the ucceuse of Major Dickson. anot.lier or those gallant spirit.s has pitssed a way. like Gen. BartlutL who recently died in l\fassacbm;et,ts, who gave tbeit· lives for their conn try, and who though not falling on the field of battle, at lPng-th &uccnmb to disease contracted tbero. Majnr Dickson was the first to obey the c:;ill to arms in 1861 at Galena, Ill. , though be modPst.ly allowed another's na-mflt to take precedence of his and secme the honor. Ile rose rapidly from tl.w ranks, as a natmal conse quence of bis abitit.y, and filled wilb marked success the important off'ice of Assistant Adjutant General of the Army of the Cumberland. He served under · General:,i Bnrbrfdge, U,osekrans, Palmer, Grant and Sherman. It was <lming Uwse long and ardnons cninpaigns in the West that be contr!lcted the <liseas'e~ that evetl tually undermined bis constitution, and caµsed bis death in thf} prime of life. He ~as a native of Cincinnati, Ohio , but was edncatNl at 1-.!'arvard Uniw-rsity. his family bt•ing from ¥,°t1SS!].Cl111setts. During his r«-'si clence here of tep years p~tst. Major Dicl~son has enjoyed the high <>St('c•m of all who knl1W him ; he was extrPmely nnoptr11sive and modest, bnt always manly. true and trustworthy. He leaves a widow and one child.-P. O. A. Feb. 24. ~~SAY ON THE SPANISH DISCOVERER, BALQ ~oA.-At the last meeting of the Y. M. C. A., Master Wm. Kinney read an interesting essay on the great Spanish .Explorer and Discoverer, Balboa. Several points in h1S adventurous character were well touched upon. THE WoRK AMoNG THE CHINESE.-lt was reported at the late meeting of the Y. M. C . A., that Sit Moon's meetings were well attended, and that the new vestry was well adapted to thes~ gatherings. "An infidel is a man who lives under all the advantages of Christianity and th~n riq~~ cules the mother who nursed him,"' "Let your animosities die m~t. · 'fhen~ is no more usel~ss pie\ 1~~bei, th.aµ a feud. The ~ooµec ~Pl\t 11?, a1:1.<l, w_;:i,l{r fire-wood of · · the evils th~t . l1ave res~lted to indiyid4als 1t the, better.'~ I l 1 it ~ '., 1,,, , |
Contributors | Damon, Samuel Chenery, 1815-1885 |
Date | 1877-03 |
Type | Text |
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Language | eng |
Spatial Coverage | Hawaii |
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Scanning Technician | Kepler Sticka-Jones |
Call Number | AN2.H5 F7; Record ID 9928996630102001 |
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ID | 1396047 |
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