Friend, 1879-01

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

1h-cIFIC -~ . Oc.e ,-•o,-./ 4-<};- Its Shores, its Islands, arid the vast 'region beyond, will become the chief theatre 0 [;/ f'Y of events, in /llJ,s ll. SI!:-... GREi\'t u • s• sen -- -~:~---~ - ..,.AUD, . ~ -- ·- HONOLULU, JANU,tRY I, 1879. CONTE1'1TS For Ja11unry J, 1879. PoETICAL LIGHT.-We hear much about Edison's electrical light for streets, but there PAGE The World's Great Hereafter .. •.......•..... .. . . .. . .. . .. 1 is something exceedingly poetical about Poetical Light .......... . ....... . .. . ..... .. ........ . .... 1 Rambles in the Old World, No. 24 ...•...•• • ••..••• •• •. 1-4 lighting the streets of Honolulu. The lamps Hon. Bayard Taylor's Sickness and Death ............... 4 The Week of Prayer .... . ..... .. ....... . ..... . ..... . .... .4 are so few that, in Miltonic phrase, they Murder of Cttpt. Moller ................. . .•.......... . .. 4 An Unsurpassed Hymn ... . .... . .• . ........•............. 5 make '' darkne3s visible," and these few Marine Journal. ....................... . ...... • .. . ...... 5 Editor's Table-Through the Dark Continent ........... 6 lamps are placed at such magnificent disY. M. C. A ..•............ .. .. . .... . . . .•...• . .•..•. . •..... 8 tances, that the dim twinkling rays, ar they go wandering a way on their errands of j mercy to light the path of the stumbling JANUARY 1, 1879. , wayfarer, remind one of those beautiful lines ==T ==H=E==W ==o=R=L= D= ,s==G=R =E=A =T==H =E =R=E=A =F=T=E=R=.= , ==A=s of Shakespeare- THE FRIEND. we have great faith that the inhabitants of the Pacific Islands and the surrounding shores of this greai ocean, have an important part to play in the world's Great Hereafter, we again hoist this motto at the heading of our · sheet. lt was omitted during 1878 to make room for "The Hawaiian Centennial." Senator Seward, standing on the floor of the United States Senate thirty years ago, was a true prophet. Could he have lived to see what we now see, we think he would have been one of the boldest and " How far that little candle throws his beams ! So shines a good deed in a naughty world." Then, again, in other words of the same author•• When the moon shone, we did not see the candle." So very dim burns the street lamps. We do think our City Father, the Minister of the Interior, might give us a little more iight ! The theory of older cities is, that the better a city is lighted the less of a police force is required. The cost of several street lamps would not exceed the salary of one policeman! Then, too, a street lamp, if the kerosene is good, will not go out, whereas a policeman might fall asleep. Bishop & Co. keep away the burglars and robbers by opening the shutters and burning a lamp. Why may not others do the same 1 It is worth thinking about. strongest advocates of the Hawaiian Reciprocity Treaty. Seward, Burlingame and Sumner have now passed away, but their prophetic vision foresaw what we are now witnessing pass before our eyes. The end fl7 Our readers will notice in another is not yet ; in the future, events still more momentous will be developed, showing that column that Edward Willis, of Kingston, the " Star' of Empire '' is still moving Mass., is anxious to obtain information respecting Hawaiian chess, &c. As we must westward. plead ignorance upon topics of this nature, THRUM's HAWAIIAN ALMANAC AND AN- we publish his request, and should any one NUAL FOR 1879.-It is a capital idea of Mr. be inclined to give the desired information, we will forward the same. Thrum, the stationer, of Honolulu, to gather up the events of the fleeting years and regisU Our readers will notice that the poern ter them .in his Annuals, which have now of Mr. Hailey is about to be published (see been issued for five years. The information advertisement). Mr. Bailey, we underst~nd, contained in the Annual for '79 is worthv of is also engaged in the publication of a volpreservation. Mr. Gibson and Mr. Dole ume relating to Micronesia, having made a have also made valuable contributions to this trip to that part of this great oceaµ o:µ board number. The paper of Mr. Dole upon the the Morning Star. Birds of the Islands forms a most valuable The G. M. Wm·d sails on or about the contribution to science. The Annuals of Mr. Thrum will essentially aid the future 4th inst. ior Micronesia, anq. will takr a mail historian of the Hawaiian Islands. to the missionaries. RAMBLES IN THE OLD WORLD-No. 24 A. Few Weeks i11 Sea11dlnavla-No, 3, I wrote you last as we were in the midst of the sights and scenes of Copenhagen. This had been the limit which l had fixed for my northern rambling. After Rligen I had allowed myself Copenhagen, this glimpse of a new life and people. There had been perhaps a faint thought of and a strong longing for Stockholm, the fairest of northern cities and capitals, but this had seemed top far away, quite beyond our reach. Yet when I stood looking northward, with only a few hours of sailing on a brilliant summer sea, between the Danish shore where I stood and the mainla~ of Sweden, and with my fancy quickened by all I had heard of th~ venetian-like be~uty of the Swedish capital 1 was forced to put the liqiit of my summer journeying still farther to the north. If you have ever felt the allurement of a similar temptation, you will conf~ss with me that it is no easy thing to resist. One could tarry long with pleasure in Copenhagen. I have but faintly told you of the power of Thorwaldsen's works. It seems as if it must be a constant source ot inspiration to live in the city where they are placed. Copenhagen was also the home of that genial old man, loved of children of all nations, Hans Christian Andersen, that very prince of story tellers, to whom the secrets of fairy-land seem to have been revealed, and with these the faculty of telling them royally again to his eager, wondering audience of little folks. Andersen died only a few years ago, very much loved, very much mourned. To very few is it given to keep on into later life, that tenderness and chilcUikeness of heart, that sub.tie sympathy with all that goes to mak~ up the little joys and sorrows of th~ nursery~ world, as it was to him. These wee sweet-e voiced critics have crowned him over and over ag~in, and must miss p.im sadly now thnt he is gone. There i~ a great f\owery, shadowy park jQ Copenhagen where hundreds of little D,anish childreq, un~er the charge of their nurses, come in summer-time near tl;ie old castle of E,osenbo:rg, and here a sta,tµe of this friend of childr~n is to be erected before very loqg. One could not wish for a more 3:p~ropri?1-te place. There is a very charming walk all ~long the shore by C9,penhagen, the favorite promenade of 2 '1' D E F R I E N D , J t\ N U A R Y I 8 7 9. it strike me as imposing. There is nothing try. In fact in all Scandinavia, i. e., in its like the grandeur of the Norwegian coast. large towns, one finds that he must as a And yet there is something exceedingly in- general rule pay more than he would in teresting in this low-lying country, with. Germany. 1 have been especially interested wild wastes of barren land, where grey rocks in glancing at the book-store windows in and heaths face the mist and spray which passing. They are a reading, thoughtful blow in over the tumbling sea. A few vil- people. Among other books I noticed was lages and churchei-: we saw on the coast, but Farra r's "Life of Christ'' in Swedish transfor the most part it is a long, dreary, rocky lation, Stanley's last book only just out in coast. We are told that t1s soon as we English and here in translation, many Gerstrike inland we shall find fertile farming man books in the original, etc. lands and a beautiful country of lake and Our hotel is delightfully comfortable. It forest. is enough to delight the heart of a traveler As the day was waning, we came into the to see a warm, bright English carpet on the still water bordering the shore. The land floor, after having perhaps for months been which had lain distant and indistinct on the used to slippery waxed floors in Germany, horizon now grew near and apparent. The where stray bits of carpet and rugs try in a still evening air was of a crystalline purity forlorn way to be cozy and genial. But I and clearness such as I have rarely ever fancy this luxury is owing to the fact that seen. A strange stillness seem to rest on many English travelers come this way. all the barren waste of land. I was strongly The longer I live the more I am convinced reminded of the wastes which ancient lava that the only people in this world who know flows have made on Hawaii. There was a how to live really comfortably are those who strange fascination in the infinite loneliness speak the English language, and especially of the scene, which seemed to impress all on those who live in America. In this conservSWEDEN-WARD! The traveler can reach 8weden by the board. The sun-set glowed in broad bands ative old world they are slowly beginning short steamer-route to Malmo, or by one of crimson and gold low in the west, and to learn the meaning of carpets, furnaces, some hours longer to Gothenburg. At this the strange fiery fierceness of its light shone bright open-fires, rocking chairs, etc. ! point I have recourse to my journal again, in sharp contrast to the passionless dullness TO STOCKHOLM BY CANAL! I may run the risk, in these hurrying which I find opens at August 19th, Gote- of the desolate, forsaken landscape. A few lonely fisher-boats still lingered in the grey days, of being considered an incorigibly lazy borg, Sweden. We had just time this morning to make twilight, on the darkening waters, hinting to traveler when I write vou that 1 saw fit to a few purchases, settle hotel-bills, say "good us that behind the long stony barriers of the go to Stockholm by canwal. There is a railmorning" to our very obliging host, and shore lav warmth, and welcome, and human way comtnunication between Malmo and the catch the early steamer for Gciteborg in hfe. Goteborg (Gothenburg, as we say) capital, and Goteborg and Stockholm. But Sweden. Such a medley of people l How appears to be admirably situated at the I was curious once in my life to take a could they have all drifted to this steamer! mouth of the River G ota. The passage to canal.journey, and I must confess that the There were French nuns or sisters of char- the sea is through a long winding channel, three or four days thus spent en route to ity, English tourists, some very unmistak- sometimes seeming to be just wide enough Stockholm were among the pleasantest I able Americans, Swedes, Danes, etc., etc. to permit of the passage of the steamer. have ever enjoyed in traveling in any counThe day has been gloriously beautiful on I have been constantly impressed so far in try. But dismiss from your mind your old the water. We steamed along the Danish Sweden, with an activity and hfe, which I conception of canaling, with a flat bottom coast for some time, which was charmingly can in no way better characterize than boat, a worn and weary horse on the towgreen and inviting. Summer residences, American. 'There is a bustle and drive path, where he has walked eternally, driven watering places, villages peeped out from here, a certain newrn~ss, an intense vitality by some wild-haired youngster or patient the •shrubbery on the shore. We spent the which seems wanting in many parts of woman. No; certainly these picturesque whole day on deck. How the waves tum- Europe. phases of travel are fast fading away hefore Doubtless there is very much of a all conquering steam. At · Goteborg you bled our steamer about ! The Kattegat is no "glassy sea" when the wind sweeps future ·before Scandinavia, if the ener- take a comfortable steamer late Tuesday down from the north. There was an artist gies and impulses which now seem so night 1 and arrive in Stockholm Friday afterfrom Dresden on the steamer with us, a actively at work are rightly guided. All noon. You pass thus if you will allow the great blonde flaxen haired giant, who was this is most encouraging in the midst of Hibernianism overland by water, from the going north to sketch, and bring home the unrest, uncertainty, and perplexity of west to the east coast of Sweden. You " studies " from the wild landscapes of Scan- monarchical Europe. Goteborg has a popu- have an opportunity of seeing one of the dinavia, I presume. But what a glory in lation of something like sixty or seventy finest example& of canal-engineering in the sea and sky and land there was spread out thousand. It was founded in the year 1619 world, you sail over the beautiful inland before him on this mid-summer day. Wind by Gustavus Adolphus, whose great name lakes of Southern 8weden, and pass through and rain "squalls" rushed over our sky, or seems thus to welcome us, as we first put most fine and fertile reaches of country. gloomed for a moment on the misty northern foot on Swedish soil. The city lies sur- The scenery does not compare for a moment horizon. Then clouds swept up from north, rounded by low hills, to whose heather-cov- with the wonderful grandeur of Norway, but and south, from east and west, only to part ered summit we climbed and obtained a there is a constant attraction in the landlike some marvelous curtain, disclosing the view of the city. The streets are broad and scape, a gentle beauty which cannot fail to dazzling radiance of the summer's sun. The well kept. In the suburbs lie many villas, charm and delight every traveler. Whoever waves tossed white foam into the sunshine, surrounded by spacious and blooming gar- visits Sweden should try this route if possiand leaped and sported around the path dens, where the rich merchants have their ble. As I have just said the canal is a rewhich our steamer sharply cut, in a kind of homes. Here in Goteborg are some of the markable piece of engineering. The southwonderful glee. I wonder whether after all principal business houses of Sweden, and ern portion of Sweden is intenected by these centuries Christianity has fully exor- between this city and the neighboring coun- numerous lakes, of which the Wenern and cised the wild wayward spirits which we tries and England there is frequent and ex- the Wettern are the largest; and it has been read in the old mythologies peopled the cellent steam communication. Architect- by the connection of these through canals, woods and waters of this northern world ! urally the city has nothing to boast. Its that the water route across Sweden has been After we had taken a farewell glance at comfort, and order and moderate prosperity, rendered possible. For it was the desire of the old castle of Elsinore, which it was a the contentment which seems to characterize the Swedish kings to open this passage, but pleasure to see once again, we said good-bye its people, make a most pleasing impression it was not completed until some time in this to Denmark, and directed our attention to on the new comer. century. One Rcarcely appreciate the Sweden, which lay low on the distant horiWe note immediately that in coming to greatness of tpc work, until he has personzon. At no point, as we came nearer it, did Sweden, we have not come to a cheap coun- ally m~qe this journey, but it may be inter- the city. On sunny afternoons the view of the harbor with its many ships, the blue water dotted with the white sails of passing boats, is something most inspiring. Not very far away is an interesting monument, because of the incident which it recalls. A few years since a young German, who chanced to be spending a few days in Copenhagen, was walking on this promenade. A little boy, as he was passing, fell, into the water. Seeing that he \Vas in danger of drowning, the young German bravely leaps in to rescue him. In this he succeeds, but at the sacrifice of his own life. Throughout all Denmark this brave deed awakened the greatest sympathy and admiration. Never in Copenhagen was any one interred with greater honors. The king himself laid "a medal" of honor on the coffin. Sad as was the fate of the young hero, yet in his death he served his Fatherland, for this circumstance led to a kindlier feeling between the Danish and German peoples, whom recent war and enmity had so estranged. ! THE t.. RIEND, JANUARY, 1879. esting for you to glance at , the map of as we steam lazily along, stopping now and Southern Sweden and trace this course. then by the way, we are already beginning Enormous sums of money have been expen- to get acquainted. The steamer table is exded upon the work, and those who under- cellent, and we are becoming acquainted took to prosecute the construction of the with the mysteries of Swedish cookery. A canal have at times met with great opposi- young Swedish engineer, fresh from a visit tion. Foremost among these to whom Swe- to Paris, has been giving me mu:h informaden should be grateful-is the Count Von tion about his country. What warm heartPlaten, who died in this century. ed enthusiastic people they are! I listen AUGUST 2lsT. -We left Goteborg last with pleasure to the language, though unevening when the August moon was shining derstanding so very little of it. Though so over this Swedish city, and this morning on thoroughly different in formation, etc., yet waking and looking out from my stateroom, as a spoken language, you are reminded of I found we were far inland, trees and for- French. The people speak with g~eat aniests on all sides, the fresh sweet morning mation, and you can scarcely imagine that calling to us from the heart of the pine for• a language which on the printed page looks ests. Our steamer was lazily taking a so hard and stiff, can be so musically spoken. morning rest; here came sluices and other We came about noon to-day to the great stoppages. We are told we have time to Lake Vener, the largest lake of Sweden strike across country, visit the famous Trol- and the third largest of Europe. It is a hata Falls, and that we should find the boat mighty sheet of water and widens like the ready for us high,n up. In this journey the sea. The banks lie ratber low, so that it steamers have a queer way of going up and possesses little of the beauty of the Swiss down hill! The new canal at this point lakes. A very few little islands lie within was built by Baron Ericson, brother of John it. Our route lies across only a portion of Ericson of monitor memory in America. it; as later on in the day we strike through The Trolhata Falls are famous in Sweden, the canal again to reach Lake Wettern. not for their height, for they are rather The stoppage~ are charming; at one place rapids than falls, but for the grand masses of I grow interested in R family who join us, rushing water which roar and foam over the saying good-bye to their old home and going rocks. It was delightful in the early morn- farther up country. Stranger as I am I caning to awake as it were in a new world. not but feel a sympathy with them and all The sun was just beginning its course in the the kind friends who gather to shake hands east, and the freshness and fairness of the with them, and wave adieu to them from the new coming day bathed all the landscape. busy little wharf. It seemed hard work for There are four falls m all, descending lower some of them to keep the big tears back; down in the valley. The last is esper.ially and just at evening we came to another fine; you pass on a frail-looking little bridge, little point, as we were leaving the lake strong enough, however, to a little wooded. where we had time to visit the busy glass island in the midst of the river. On nil factory of the place, and buy for a mere sides are the rapids; your little island is gir- nothing fresh raspberries from the little dled by foam banks where countless rain- Swedish maidens, who flocked down to the bows flash and die to live again in a brief steamer to welcome us. The captain told and brilliant resurrection-of color. us later on in the evening that we should We found a little village not far away have time for a brisk walk on the shore. where we were to await the slow approach So we gentlemen have just come on board of the steamer. Near at hand was a busy again. after a delicious run in the cool evenpaper.-mill, where large quantities of paper ing air. lt seemed so strange and weird to are manufactured from wood, a process to be as it were almost alone in the heart of a me at least, ne\V. I learned that some one great Swedish forest. The trees rose shadof the London newspapers was supplied from owy and mysterious out of the night and this Swedish mill. What a journey these gloom.; stars gl~amed o_verhead; the water _sheets, lying :!io quietly in the mill by these lay still and ~-ot10nless m the canal; and as rainbow tinted falls, have before them before I we stood wa1trng at the end of our walk, their mission is complete! We had our some on_e point~d to the silver light of the coffee in the inn by a quiet lake, and sunned mo_on rismg amid the darkness of the clusourselves in the early morning beams and termg firs. were in readiness for our steamer. How AUGUST 22Nn.-The informality of the oddly she looked slowly steaming through journey is fast making u·s acquainted with the stone borders of the canal, sometimes one another. There is a pleasant Swedish coming so close together that there is just lady from Stockholm with her daughter. room for passing. Some young Swedish gentlemen are with There was something amusingly Ameri- us whom every one on board l.ike8, a Wescan about this little town. Our host ad- leyan clergyman from the north of England. dressed us in English, with all the manner American students, a talkative pleasant of an American tavern keeper. He had young German, English ladies and gentlebeen years I believe, in the "States." The men, etc., etc. Our captain is a sunny town looked thrifty, new and "woodeny," faced, quiet eyed young man who makes it like so many one sees in the new lands of pleasant for every one, and with the charmthe west; and the people, by some resem- ing summer weather, the beautiful and vablance ( I can scarcely describe it, but it was ried landscape, the constant making of new none the less real) kept bringing to mind a acquaintances, every one is voting this to be village of "settlers" There is something the most delightful of journeys. We have delightful to me in these suggestions of the a long morning's ramble along the green New World in the Old. The informality shores, and let the steamer come up to us. of this journey is refreshing. We have a Then come some hours on a charming lake, very pleasant company of passengers, and ~ith wooded banks; then slowly and quietly 3 we steam through narrow passages where we can almost touch the trees on the banks. A fair and fertile landscape spreads itself before us. We are in one of the most beautiful portions of Sweden. 'fhe fields stand golden with the wealth of splendid crops. Again we leave the steamer and visit an interesting old church with relics of the past; among- them the coffins in the vault of the Douglas Family, who came long ago from Scotland hither. Then we gather in the early evening, ju&t as the sunset is flushing the waters of beautiful Lake Roxen, on the shores of the lake and await the steamer. Far above us rises the dark body of the steamer; slowly and surely it descends the many watery steps of the canal to the level of the lake. One gate after another is opened and the water rushes and foams, and the steamer comes to take us over the sunset lighted lake further on our journey. What a new meaning such a journey gives to old terms! I shall never hear or read of locks, of sluice:5, etc., without thoughts of this August time in Sweden. Lately I came across a little sketch of the poet Longfellow in prose, which seems so full of a gentle quiet beauty that 1 am tempted to copy a few words from it here. Though it was written years ago, and though Sweden's life has of late lost much of its former picturesque and primitive character and simplicity, yet l think it cannot fail to be interesting in connection with this country, through which we are passing. "There is something patriarchal still lingering bout rural life in Sweden, which renders ta fit theme for song. Almost primeval simplicity reigns over that northern land,-almost primeval solitude and stillness. You pass out from the gate of the city, and, as· if by magic, the scene changes to a wild, woodland landscape. Around you are forests of fir. Over head hang the long, fanlike branches, trailing with moss, and heavy with red and blue cones. Under foot is a carpet of yellow leaves; and the air is warm and balmy. On a wooden bridge you cross a little silver stream; and anon come forth into a pleasant and sunny land of farms. Wooden fences divide the adjoining fields. Across the road are gates, which are opened by troops of children. The peasants take off their hats as you pass; you sneeze and they cry, 'God bless you.' The houses in the villages and smaller towns are all built of hewn timber, and for the most part painted red. The floors of the taverns are strewn with the fragrant tips of fir boughs. In many villages there are no taverns, and the peasants take turns in receiving travelers. The thrifty house-wife shows you into the best chamber. the walls of which are hung round with rude pictures from the .Bible; and brings you her heavy silver spoons,-an heirloom,-to dip the curdled milk from the pan. You have oaten cakes baked some months before; or bread with anise-seed and coriander in it, or perhaps a little pine bark. .Meanwhile the sturdy husband has brought his horses from the plough, and harnessed them to your carriage. Solitary travelers come and go in uncouth one-horse chaises. Frequent, too, are the village churches, standing by the road-side, each in its own little garden of Gethsemane. Near the churchyard gate stands a poor-box fastened I 4 'fBE FRIEND, Ji\NUARY, to a post by iron bands and secured by a padlock. lf it be Sunday, the peasants sit on the steps and con their Psalm-books. Others are coming down the road with their beloved pastor, who talks to them of holy things, from beneath his broad-brimmed hat. He speaks of fields and harvests, and of the sower that went forth to sow. He leads them to the Good Shepherd. The women carry Psalm-books in their hands wrapped in silk handkerchiefs, and listen devoutly to the good man's words." AUGUST 23n.-Last day of our journey. During the night we have had a little touch of the Baltic, but by morning we were within sheltering shores again. What a glorious morning we had on Lake Malar, before reaching Stockholm! The day was surpassingly fine. The beautiful banks of this most beautiful lake, rose about us covered with verdant groves. Numerous summer residences looked out at us as we passed. The Swedish gentlemen on board sang some of the sweet old melodious Folk Songs of the country. :Every one seemed filled with the joy and gladness of the morning. Before long the spires and towers of the Swedish capital rose in the distance-growing more and more distinct as our steamer aavanced. We welcomed them, and yet in welcoming them we regretted that we must now say good-bye to friends and scenes which in the pagt few days had become most pleasant to us. To-night we sleep in Stockholm, of whose beauty we had heard much, but which my brief arquaintance of a few hours with the city leads me to elieve is worthy of all the praise which has been given it. FRANK wILLIAMS DAMON. Berlin, Oct. 8th, 1878. Hon. Bayard Taylor's Sickness and Death. Our Berlin correspondent, after referring t~ the American Thanksgiving and the address at the American Chapel by the Rev. Dr. Thompson, thus remarks under date of Nov. 29th: " No large and general American dinner was given, owing to the continued illness of Mr. Taylor. This serious and prolonged illness has been most trying for his family and friends. Sometimes it seems as if he would never recover, and then again as yesterday and to-day he appears much better. Mrs. Taylor does not receive any calls, and does not go out at all into society. You may soon see Mr. Taylor's last poem. It is just out and 1s an elaborate philosophical one, as I understand something after the model of 1 Faust.'" We find the following among the latest telegraphic dispatches via San Francisco: BERLIN, Dec. 19th.-Bayard Taylor, Minister of the United States, died at 4 o'clock this afternoon. '!'he fa.t1:1.l symptoms came on suddenly. He bad eeen out of bed and transacting business with an official of the American Legation, yesterday. His death was peaceful and painless. BERLIN, Dec. 20tb.-Funeral services over tbe remainti of the late Bayard Taylor will be held at the American Legation on Sunday, when tbe body wiil be taken to a mortuary and await transportation to Amedca. On Sunday, American residents will take action at t.he American Chapel. I 8 7 9. The Week of Prayer. The programme for the Week of Prayer, prepared by the Evangelical Alliance of Great Britain, bas not been received in season for general use in the churches connected with the Hawaiian Evangelical Association. The Hawaiian Board voted at its last meeting that a special programme, in Hawaiian and English, should be prepared for use in our churches, and in accordance with that vote the following list of subjects for prayer is published. C. M. HYDE, Rec. Sec'y. · Honolulu, Dec. 27, 1878. SUNDAY, Jan. 5. The Supreme Obligation of the Rightousness which God requires. Matt. 6:33. MONDAY, Jan. 6. The Church, its ordinances divinely appointed, its object the conversion of the world, its methods aggressive as well as attractive, its membership individually responsible, its purity in social life and its firm adherenc1:: to revealed truth essential to its progress. TUESDAY, Jan. 7. The Home, the ~entre of elevating, purifying, hallowing influences to be made a type of heavenly blessedness. WEDNESDAY, Jan. 8. The School,- all under-training for future usefulness, whether in the Sunday school, the day school, the college and seminary, or taking the first steps in business life. THURSDAY, Jan. 9. Light for the Unevangelized, and all mission work to put the Light of the Gospel into the Lip of the world. FRIDAY, Jan 10. Help for the poor, the weak, the erring; preparing the way of the Lord by removing intemperance, licentiousness, thriftlessness and other social evils. SATURDAY, Jan. 11. The Nations of the Earth to be one Universal Brotherhood in Christ, the Polynesian and the Asiatics, the European, the African, the American to be no more strangers and foreigners to each other, but fellow citizens with the saints and of tbe household of God. SUNDAY, Jan. 12. Jesus Christ, the Divine Redeemer from sin, supremely loved and eternally adored by all. Rev. 5:11-13. 13th October, and was buried on shore the same night, in the presence of the ship's company, the burial service being read oy the Hev. Mr. Whitney." 'fhe vessel next sailed for Sydney, and the case was duly reported to the authorities. GosPEL-LEAVEN AT WoRK AMONG THE CHINESE.-Facts are frequently falling under our notice, which indicat.e that silently yet surely, the gospel-leaven is at work. The means may be feeble to human view, but God employs at times, " the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe." The Hev. Mr. Coan thus writes from Hilo, Dec. 26th, " Our foreign church in Hilo voted last evening, to call Wong E. for six months, and see that he is supported. Whether our Chinese will appreciate the efforts made for their good so as to lend a helping hand remains to be seen, or not to be seen. Most of them cleave more to the terrestrial than to the celestial." The Rev. Mr. Rouse, writes from Makawao, Dec. 27th, "Those Christian Chinamen of whom you wrote, I will endeavor to care for. They attend my service, quite regularly." Among the Chinese in Honolulu, a contribution of about $200 has been collected towards the new church building of the :second native church. In our columns, will be Murder of Captain Moller. seen thi notice of an effort to erect a ChiIn the New Zealand Herald for Decem- nese church edifice in Honolnlu. All these ber 10, we find the sad narration of the cir- "straws" point in the right direction incumstances of the murder of the master of dicating that there is a gentle breeze blowthe Meg Merrilies, an English trading ing from the "Better Land.'' schooner, at Butaritari, one of the Gilbert or Kingsmill Islands. It appears that Captain THE BIBLE IN JAPAN.-In the last report Moller was ordered to go thither and look of the American Bible Society, we find this after a trading establishment under the interesting statement : management of one Thomas Rennels, an " I cannot better close my report than Englishman. Some altercation occurred with the mention of a case at Otsu, on the lake Birva, near Kiyoto, which shows how about the settlement of accounts, and Capt. the Scriptures can open the heart and reMoller began to remove some property, but volutionize the life. Several copies of the was told if he did S? he would be fired upon Japanese Scriptures, and other Christian by Rennels. A shot was fired, which took books, were some time since given by the effect in his elbow. The wounded master Rev. Mr. Neesima, of the American Board Mission, Kiyoto, to the officer of the prison goes on board his schooner, when the chief at Otsu. He passed them over to one of the officer headed a force, comprising four of his prisoners, a scholar, whose crime was that of crew, and arrested Rennels" in the Queen's manslaughter. About six months ago a fire name." He was taken and confined on took place in the prison, when the entire body of prisoners, numbering nearly 100, board. The schooner sailed for the mission instead of improving the opportunity to make station of the· Hawaiian missionary on Bou- their escape, assisted in putting out the taritari, but not being able to obtain medical flames, and remained to a man to be again Such a remarkable circumaid, the vessel put away for the Marshall imprisoned. Islands, about four days' sail. Unfortunate- stance occasioned inquiry as to the cau~e, when it appeared tr.at the scholar among ly, Dr. Pease, the American missionary them had been so impressed and convinced physician, was absent, when, remarks the of the truth of Christianity that he had editor of the Herald, '' poor Moller was taught it to his fellow-prisoners, and Christhen taken to the house of the Amer.ican tian principles, combined with his personal influence, had such power over them as to missionary, the Rev. Mr. Whitney, who used restrain them from fleeing when the doors of every effort to relieve the poor fellow, but their prison were opened. The scholar was lock-jaw and putrefaction supervening, he consequently pardoned, but he remained in d~ed in great pain at 4 p. m. on Sunday, the . Otsu to still teach the prisoners. He has THE opened a Chinese school for young men, where Christianity is taught, and it is said he is now preparing to reprint a Chinese Commentary on the Gospel of John, with Japanese connectives, to render it more readable to Japanese scholars !" FRIEND. JANUARY. MARINE JOURNAL. PORT OF HONOLULU. S. I. 2-Am sh 'Bullion, Reed, 20 days from San Francisco 2-Haw bk Kalakaua, Jenks, 19 days from San Fran 3-l' M S Zealandia., Chevalier, from San Francisoo 3-Am bk Edward James, O'Brien. 18 days fm Tahiti 6-Am bk Wealthy Pendleton, Blancha.rd, 37 days fm Kobe,Japan 6-Am topsail schr W H Meyer, Williams, 17 days from San Francisco 6-Brit bk Hazelhurst, Goudey, 36 days from Victoria, bound for Hongkong 7-Am bktne W. H. Dietz, Endicott, 20 dys fm 8 Fran 9-Am bk Camden, Robinson, 36 dys fm l'ort Gamble 11-H I l\l 8 Albatross, Corv-Captain Mensing l, 34 days from Yokohama. 12-Am tern Compeer, Uuckholm, 31 dys fm Pt Gamble 13-Am bk Alice Reed, Kelleran, 147 dys fm New York 17-Am schr Robert Emmett, Galloway, 21 days fm SE 20-Am bk Frement, Nickerson, from Cahului 24-Str Australia, 16 days from Auckland 26-Kamaile, 12 days from Fa.nning's bland 26-Leo, 17 days from San Francisco 27-H W Almy, 22 days from San Francisco 27-D C Murray, 20 days from San Francisco 27-Hazard, ~7 days from Astoria 27-Mattie Macleay, 3<l days from Portland 27-Bellen Mar, 21 days from San Francisco Dec 3-P M. S Zea.landia, Chevalier, for Sydney 6-Aru sh Hullion, Reed, for Guano l&lands 6-Am bk Wealthy Pendleton, Blanchard, for Royal Roads 6-Ha.w bk R C Wylie, Rakemann, for Bremen 8-Brit bk Hazelhurst, Goudey, for Hongkong 11-Am bktne Ella, Brown, for San Francisco 16-Am bk Camden, Robinson. for Port Gamble 19-Am bk T J Southard, Handy, for San Franoiseo 19-Am bk l!ldward James, O'Brien, for San J!'rancisco 24-Str Australia., for San Yrancisco 24-Discovery, for San Francisco 24-W H Dietz, for San Francisco 27-German Corvette Albatross for South Pacific. [In the New Englander, for August, 1860, Dr. D. F. Bacon pronounces the following exquisite hymn unsurpassed in the English or any other language, and adds that " perhaps it is as near perfection as any uninspired language can be." lt is usually James ascribed to Hillhouse, the poet, i. A. Hillhouse; but according to Dr. D. F. Bacon, it was written by his younger brother, Augustus L. Hillhouse, who died near Paris, in March, 1S59.] e., The Saviour smiles I upon my soul, New tides of hopes tumultuous rollHis voice proclaims my pardon found, Seraphic transport wings the sound. Earth has a joy unknown in heavenThe new-born peace of sin forgiven! Tears of such pure and deep delight, Ye angels, never dimmed your sight. Ye saw, of old, on chaos rise The beauteous pillars of the skies; Ye know where morn exulting springs, And evening folds her drooping wings. Bright heralds of the Eternal Will, Abroad his erra.nd ye fulfill; Or throned in :floods of beamy day, Symphonious in his presence play. Loud is the song-the heavenly plain Is shaken with the choral strainAnd dying echoes, :floating far, Draw music from each chiming star. But I amid your choir shall shine, And all your knowledge shall be mine; Ye on your harps must learn to hear A secret chord that mine will bear. m= The American exhibit at the Paris exhibition took seventy-five per cent. of the awards in all grades. Information Wanted. When Capt. Cook first visited the Sandwich Islands, he found the natives playing a game like chess or checkers. There is considerable interest felt as to the origin or antiquity of these games. Please send me a description of the game, of the board and manner of playing. Do they play the game now, and could a board be obtained by sending a remittance? Respectfully yours, EDWARD WILLIS. Kingston, Mass., Nov. 14, 1878. Respecting GEORGE s. BRETLIN, who is supposed to have come to the Hawaiian Islands about twenty-five years ago. He has friends residing in Philadelphia anxious to learn something respecting him. Please address Mns. JA11rns H. PARK, 908 N. 17 St., Philadelphia. Miss Margeret Y. Upp, No. 204 Post street, San Francisco, writes to the American Consul at this port requesting information con~rning the whereabouts of her father Adam Upp, a carpenter by trade, who came to Honolulu in January last. To WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.-There now resides in Yokoh1tma Mrs. l\L J. Gibbs, formerly l\:Irs. J. Vaughn, of Honolulu. Any parties wishing for information will apply to Hawaiian Consul, L. P, Lilybridge, Esq., of Yokohama. ARRIVALS. Dec An Unsurpassed Hymn. Trembling before thine awful throne, 0 Lord ! in dust my sins I own, Justice and mercy for my life Contend ! Oh ! smile and heal my strife. I 8 7 9. DEPARTURES. MEMORANDA. D:7' In the June number of the FRIEND, 1878, there is statement, that Captain Campbell called at Ascension on the 6th of January, and ordered wood and took a.way a boat and whaling gear, belonging to one John De Sylva, since which time, the Captain had not been heard from. We wtsh to state, that said "boat and gear" belonged to Captain C, and De Sylva had never advanced any thing for the same. We would state that Captain C is now on board the Norman bound to Ascension, and everything will be put right. We would add that Captain C has called upon us, and we take place in making this statement. Captain C in former times, has always been most kind in forwarding packages and Micronesian missionaries. REPORT OF HAW BK KALA.KAUA, JENKS, MASTER.-Left San Francisco Nov 12th, at 4 p m. First two days calm, on third day took a SE gale, lasting twenty-four hours, and shifting suddenly to NW, and moderating to a light breeze whioh continued the entire passage. Took the trades in lat 27 o , long 132 o. On the way down both side lights exploded, but doing no damage. Come to off Diamond Head at midnight of Dec 1st. A full cargo, also four cabin and fifty-three steerage passengers. REPORT OF AM BARK CAMDEN, ROBINSON, MASTER.Sailed from Port Gamble Nov 2d. Came out of the Straits Nov 4. First 12 days had SE and SW gales. On 14th of Nov had a very heavy SW gale, with a tremendous sea running ; then had 8 days of light S W winds. Took the trades in lat 30.14, long 133.12. From thence to port light winds and fine weather. REPORT OF AM BK ALICE REED, J H KELI,ERAN, MASTER. -Left New York June 20; had calms and fine weather to the equator, 40 days; was 61 days from the equator to Cape Horn ; passed around the Cape with pleasant weather and fair wind ; was 51 days from the Cape to the equator in the Pacific, experiencing very strong westerly gales to lat 35 S ; from thence to port light winds and pleasant weather, making the passage in 174 days. Spoke, Sept. 13, in lat 41.20 S, long 57 .38 W, ship Columbus, from Rio Janeiro to Callao; Sept 24, off Staten Land, ship America, to San Francisco. REPORT OF THE SCHOONER KAMAILE, B. B. HEMP• STEAD, MASTER.-Sailed from Honolulu on 9th November for Fanning's Island. Arrived at the Island on the 18th. Sailed from the Island on the 12th~ec for Honolulu. Dec 23, at 11 a m, made the Island of Oahu, bearing north, distance 40 miles ; arrived on the 24th. Sailed from Fanning's Island, Nov 23, Tahitian schr Vivid, Sweet; Tahiti, Dec 12, English ship Pegasus, Powel, for Hamburg. Left at the Island, French bark Ocean, loading. PASSENGERS. FROM SAN FRANCISCO-Per Zealandia, Dec 2-A McWayne and wife, J I Dowsett, Jr, G W Townsend and wife, Miss Nellie Austin, Col T Crawford McDowell, A Campbell, P M Gildea, Mrs P N Makee, child and servant, S Ehrlich, Chas Brewer, Miss Eliza Brewer, Miss L Rogers, TM Percitta, Mrs L McCauley, Mrs E F Ta.ffany, J T Waterhouse and wife, B Cluff, B Alexanqer and wife, HE McIntyre, WM Gibson, Mr Cummings, Mr Woolmington, J Farrier, G H Higgins, G C Lees, L W Hand, James l\fo. Dade, E McDade, F F Benedict, J E Carroll, J McGinn, P Hoff, CE Smith, J Fisher, W McDonald, D McKenzie, P H Vicer, HE Frink, A J J Phillips, Thos Wall, A LorriB, W Cumcn.ings, J G Clevior, •r R Munder, 0 P Williams, J AG Jon Js, Chas Fisher, J W Manchester, 176 Chinamen, 23 naUv J sailors, and 37 in trausitu for Australia. 5 FROM SAN FRANCISCO-Per Kalakaua., Dec 2-C C Barton and wife, Mrs M Warde, J U O'Brien, F Marse, W B Wright, J Miller, T Burk, J Whidaner, J La.ne, P Dittner, F Duff, B Denison, C Breade, J Swatty, E 1!' Connell, W Henry, J Watts, W McIntyre, AB Maffett, CB Maffett, W Grarren, F B Crane, F P Lord, A Sheppard, W Williams, D Walley, Chas Brady, S McClusky, G Baker, G Cherry, S Gass, J Lisconsky, I Harde, J M Maner, J Word, J Glen,. son, W Weny, J D Capeland, B Codline, G Osborn, C McLann, C Blurtin, J Trainer, J Barry, E Smith, G Murray, J Parker, EM Kelsey, L Brusley, J Manton, J Gluscon, G D Lansin, G W Smith, P M Stephens, E M Clark. FnoM TAHITI-Per Edward James, Dec 4-Thos Ada.ms, J Feary, C Murray, Thos Nelson, and 2 Hawaiian seamen. FROM SAN FRANCisco-Per W H Deitz, Dec 7-Charles Mccully, MC Wilson, St Labo, Jas Howard, Wm Jose, P Deitz. · FROM PORT TOWNSEND-Per Camden, Dec 9-Mrs W Cox and 2 children, and 4 Chinamen. FoR SAN FtuNCisco, per Ed James, Dec 19-C Murray, J J O'Neill, JtJ H O'Brien. FROM SAN FRANCISCO-Per Fremont,-Dec 21 J E Synde. Fon SAN Fn.1.Nc1sco-Per Discovery, Dec 24-S Norris. FROM AUSTRALIA-Per Australia, Dec 24-Mr Adelman and wife, J Noack, L Kerr, T K Park, and 42 in transitu for San Francisco. Fon SAN FRANOISCO-Per Australia, Dec 24-J W Pfluger, G W Mackf'arlane, A Herbert, AF Graves, RN, J T Sisson, Jas Wyht, CaptJas Barr, T G Nesmith, O CWa.terhouse, JR Lee, M Boyce, TH McVicar, and 4 Chinese. FROM PORTLAND-Per Mattie Macleay, Dec 27-J R Wintler, E A Buick. FROM SAN FRANCISCO-Per H. w. Almy, Dec 27-J Mc. Dade, C Coleman, F Nelson, J Rothwell, JD Cook, JS Robertson, 0 H Friedlander, E W Gude, J A Hevney, J Hogan. · FROM FANNING'S ISLAND-Per Kamaile, Dec 24-James Green and two natives. FROM SAN FnANCisco-Per DC Murray, Dec 27-H Battey, D Kenealy, M J Tobin, M McCarthy, M Flinn, C Hancock, F Carp~nter, J H Van Handt, W Davis. C Shaw, M H Penry, T Riley, W Riley, M Guinn, M }'rank, D Quill, M Donlan, P Dolan, P Rameo, L M Shaw, V Donato, W Rowe, H E Ca.non, M Roe, D Cain, H Meyer, T W J11ckaon. J eeybold, D McToes, J Casey, J Lever, P Sherry, J Cllshmay, J Cornell, W O'Connor, A Toogood, C Keirna.y, W Hostie, D F Leanar, J Eppler, R Boyce, T Opady, •r Quinn, G Luproil, M Rolls, C Leon, E Francis, F Doyle, G Dean, C Harris, J C Logan, T Teale, W Sterryer, George Luproil, .J A Qucunner, J S Henshaw, C Ettinger, l\'liss Lilie Deshorn, F C Booth, M Latheiner, J Lennahan, A Stuart, J Rodgers, J White, J W Robertson, H H Smyth, F Towler, J Byrns, T Lahey, S White, T Fard, W Scott, P Dova• gher, W Cambell, 1!' Laeler, M Wilson, CJ Sherwood, CH Hanssey, C Connelly, P Woods, F Peterson, w· Arkins, T Rafferty. MAB.RIED. DODD-BOOTH-December 8th, by Rev. H. H. Parker, MR. JAMES DODD to MISS GRACE BOOTH, both of this city. WEYLE-MANUEL-ln this city, Dec 24, by Rev S C Damon, J H WEYLE to MARY MANUEL, both of Honolulu. DIED. WUNDENBERG-In Sydney, NSW, Oct 30, Mrs ANN WUN• DENBERG, of Honolulu, aged 64 years. The deceased was the oldest child of the Rev William Henry of Tahiti, one of the original pioneer missionaries of the London Missionary Society to the South Seas, sailing from London Aug 10, 1796. She was born in August, 1814, on the island of Moorea, one of the Society group, and was the first white child born on that island. She came to the Sandwich Islands in 1844, and was married in December, 1845, at Hanalei, Kauai, to G F Wundenberg. She was at the date of her death, on a visit to her aged mother residing in Sydney. She leaves a family of one son and six daughters to mourn her death and imitate her many virtues, for in all the relations of life she was a truly estimable and excellent woman and mother. ADAMS-At Boston, Mass., November 6th, RUTH REED, beloved daughter of Edwn,r d P. and Ellen F. Adams. Aged 4 months, 27 days. WELSH-In Kau, Hawaii, December 4, JAMES WELSH, a native of Salem, Mass, where his parents now reside. He came from San Francisco a few months since, sick with consumption, and was a beneficiary of the Ladies' Strangers' Friend Society. McLEAN-In this city, Dec. 10, GEORGE CHRISTIE McLEAN, a native of Aberdeen, Scotland, aged 60 years, 6 months and 21 days. He leaves a widow and six children to mourn the loss of a kind husband and father. LOVE-In this city, Dec. 12, WILLIAM LOVE, a native of Sydney, N. S. W., aged 36 years, 1 month and 6 days. The deceased came to these Islands with his parents when quite a boy, being the youngest of the firm of Love Bros. MITCHELL-In this city, Dec 17, of aneurism, JOHN MITCHELL, a native of London, England, aged 50 yea.rs. He had resided on these islands for about 25 years, and leaves a widow and two children. He was a good citizen, sober, industrious and honoru.ble. His funeral was attended by members of Excelsior Lodge No 1, IO OF, and Mechanics' Benefit Union, he having been a member of both societies. A NEVV POEM, MR. E. BAILEY, OF WAILUis announced by the Publisher, 8. C. Andrews, Ann B yKU,OUR Arbor, Mich. entitled-HAWAII NIH, AN IDYLL OF THE PACIFlO IFLANDS. Being full of vigorous description, w1erd tales and poetic allu•ions to the traditions and romances of our beautiful islands, it should be read by all our citizens, and also makes an elegant and appropriate present to send to distant friends. Sent post-paid by the Publisher or by the island booksellers on receipt of price. Po.per, 60 ctl!l.; Cloth, $1.00. 6 1'HE FRIEND, EDITOR'S TABLE. JANU!Rf, 1879. ted to wander in almost . certain safety the names of Livingstone, Speke, Burton throughout Uganda, and is hospitably treated and others, who have so nobly toiled amid THROUGH THE DARK CONTINENT. By Henry M. as the Emperor's guest." the unknown deserts, mountains and rivers Stanley. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1878. of the Dark Continent. At some future This picture of heathenism will aptly corThis is the record of a grand work, nobly respond with a passage of the Apostle Paul, time we hope to refer to this subject again. executed. We do hot believe the records of in the first chapter of his epistle to the We would merely add, let due thanks be land and maritime discovery in ancient or Romans, verses 21..:_32. Dark as are its ever rendered to the Proprietors of the modern times, can produce an instance of outlines, they are not so deeply drawn and London Telegraph and New York Herald foresight, · endurance-, persistency, or what so fearfully sombre as are those describing for their generous and magnanimous supply the English would call pluck, to equal this the condition of tribes along the Congo, of funds to carry out this Anglo-American of Stanley's journey-occupying nine hund- through which he fought his way in thirty- Expedition. red and ninety-nine days from the shores of three battles. Only imagine the moral the Jndian to the Atlantic oceans, via '• the character of tribes which would neither sell U We have always taken a peculillf sources of the Nile, around the great lakes or give food to the strangers, but would fight interest in the future career and success in of equatorial Africa, and down the Living- them with p'lisoned arrows, and amid their l_ife of those who claim the Hawaiian Islands stone river to the Atlantic ocean." war chants, shout " meat, meat, meat," so as their birth-place. Most vividly and pleaThese volumes are full of instructive in- voracious were their canmbal instinrts. To santly we recall the daughters of A. G. formation-geographical, ethnological, botan- escape from such demons of savagery Abell, Esq., formerly U.S. Consul in Honoical, geological and religious. They should and war, Stanley was compelled to contend lulu. The following notice of the marriage be read by both the enemies and friends of in thirty-three engagements, and most of Miss Sarah Abell we copy from a late missions. There is one special class of read- fortunately, while almost everything else number of the San Francisco Call: ers which, we trust, will not fail to give gave out, his ammunition did not fail. So MARRIAGE OF CAPTAIN CARL BAYLEY, U, S. A., these volumes a thorough perusal. We far as possible, he appears to have conducted AND MISS SARAH ABEL, AT GRACE CHURCH. refer to unbelievers in Divine Revelation his intercourse among the savage Africans A wedding that created some little stir, and the Christian religion. Persons living in upon the most pacific principles. but one divested of ostentatious display, took Christian lands and surrounded by all the Our limits will not allow us to comment place at one o'clock yesterday afternoon, at light, knowledge and blessings of the gospel, upon many points of startling interest with Grace Church, the contracting parties being Captain Carl Bayley, of the United States and who deny the truth of that same gospel Stanley's which these volumes abound. and the Divine Mission of our Saviour to ability to meet the difficulties of daily per- Army, ih command of the post at Camp Bidwell, in the northern portion of the State, this worid, should specially read and ponder plexity, irritation, hunger, care, anxiety, re- and Miss Sarah Abel, second daughter of the weighty statements which Mr. Stanley mind us of Homer's portraiture of Ulysses' .Mr. Alexander G. Abel, Secretary of the Grand Lodge of Free Masons. makes respecting the condition of heathen character in the Odyssey : The church doors were opened at halfnations dwelling in the interior of Africa, '"The man, for wisdom's various arts renOWJ?ed, past twelve, and by one the auditorium conwhere no ray of gospel light has penetrated. Long exercised in woes." tained a large and fashionable assemblage, There is no true conjecture respecting what including a number of officers of the army Stanley, however, was more fortunate and navy, whose uniforms added much to would have been the moral condition of our globe if all other nations had been left, as than the wandering, crafty and cunning the attraction of the scene. The decorations have those of the heathen tribes inhabiting Ulysses, for the latter lost all his compan. were simple but unique, consisting of an ions, while the former successfully brought arch of white gauze extending over the the banks of the Livingstone· or Congo. gates leading to thP altar. Suspended from Mr. Stanley has forcibly sketched the safely forth one hundred and fifteen of bis the arch at spaces of about a foot were large moral status of the subjects of the Emperor fellow travelers out of the three hundred and bows of white ribbon, which gave a beautiMtesa on the banks of the Victoria Nyanza. more, who were connected with the expedi- ful effect. The bridal party entered the church short-• The following paragraph we copy from vol- tion. Most honorably, heroically and in the most fatherly manner he conducted these ly after o_ne o'clock, Mrs. J. E. Tippett playume 1, page 408 : his children, to their homes at Zanzibar, ing the Wedding March on the organ while '' The moral character of the people is far via Cape of Good Hope. Stanley has re- the procession walked up the centre aisle. below that of the Emperor. Indeed, if it The party was preceded by the little sister marked, that to him the unknown regions of and brother of the bride, and then Lieutenwere not for him no stranger would dare to Africa represented by a blank sheet of paper, ant Harry Johnson, U. S. A., and Miss enter Uganda. They have no respect for possessed a peculiar charm and fascination, Maddie Abel, sister of the bride (the groomshuman life or human rights. Among them so the pages of his journals possess to the man and bridesmaid). The groom and Mrs. they recognize only might, and Mtesa might reader a ch~rm and fascination. His honest Charles Tripler, wife of Captain Tripler, even be pardoned for exercising greater sister of the bride, followed, and in the rear and frank earnestness and sincerity so manicame Mr. Abel and the bride. They took i-everity than he does, for this fierce people fest on every page,· disarm all carping criti- up their pos~tions in front of the altar, when 1equires to be governed with the almost uncism and fault-finding. Rev. Dr. Platt performed the ceremony acexampled severity of might and power which cording to the rites of the Episcopal Church. The reader of these ponderous but beautiSuna so cruelly employed. They are crafty, After the ceremony had been completed, fraudful, deceiving, lying, thievish knaves, fully printed and illustrated volumes, with the parties entered their carriages and were taken as a whole, and seem to be born with wonder and astonishment, Jays them aside, driven to the nisidence of the bride's fa~her, an uncontrollable love for gaining wealth by exclaiming : " How could the Leader of on the corner of Washinghm and Mason violence and murder, in which they resem- the Expeditiqn ever have accomplished what streets, where a wedding breakfast was parble-except that they have the lawless he has so faithfully, honestly and truthfully taken of, after which Mr. and Mrs. Bayley left for their new home at Camp Bidwell. instinct to a greater degree-nearly all the sketched." In all coming time the name The journey is.a Jong and tedious one, over African tribes. Owing, however, to their of Stanley will rank among the first of the two hundred miles of the route being traterror of punishment, the stranger is permit• Heroes of African Discovery. All hoQor to versed in stages. FRIEND, JANUARY- I 8 7 9. THE SAILORS' ADVERTISEMENTS. Places of Worship. and Q~~~nNJ!~!;:~tania Street, between Fort Street Church 9 evenings. 7½ P. M. Sabbath KAWAIAHAO CHURCH-Rev. H. H. Parker, Pastor, King street, above the Palace. Services in Hawaiian every Sunday at 11 A. M. Sabbath school at 10 A. M. Evening services at 7½ o'clock, alternating with Kaumakapili. District meetings in varions chapels at 3.30 P. M. Prayer meeting every Wednesday at 7½ P. M. ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH-Under the charge of Rt. Rev. Bishop Maigret, assisted by Rev. :B'atber Hermann ; Fort street, near Beretania. Services every Sunday at 10 A. M. and 2 P. M. KAUMAKAPILI CHURCH-Rev. M. Kuaea, Pastor, Beretania street, near Nuuanu. Services in Hawaiian every Sunday at 10½ A. M, Sabbath school at 9~ A.. M. Evening services at 7½ o'clock, alternating with Kawaiahao •. Prayer meeting every Wednesday at 7~ P. M. OFFICE HOURS-From& to 10 a. m.; I to Sp. m., and 6 to mh30 ly J• u L. HANCHETTE, Pia11o•For1e Tu11er &. Repairer, (For many years connected with Chickering & Soos.) Orders left at the Sailors' Home or Whitney & Robertson's Bookstore. J• M. DAVIDSON, A Uorney at Law. Office over Mr. Whitney's Book-store, formerly occupied by Judge Austin. Honolulu, H. I. de-1876 \V. IRWIN G. V OLUNTARY SUBSCRIPTIONS ARE SO• LICITED in aid of Christian Chinese to purchase land and build a Church in Honolulu to worship Almighty God in their own language. The call for a Church comes from themselves. Pledges are invited, to be paid on or before the 10th ofJanuary, 1880, which will be received by Mr. Joseph B. Atherton, the Treasurer, Mr. Gookim, or Mr. Aseu. Funds can also t.e remitted to Bishop & Co., Bankers, tor account of Chinese Church Building Fund. 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The reaeneration Asia is a colossal b event yet afar off, but approaching us with Recent developments in regard to smugan assured and of late accelerated step. gling suggest several thoughts. For .the Great Britain is now an essentially Asiatic sake of gain, or rather with the hope that power. This, indeed, is the claim of the money 111ay be made, there are men in our leader of the present administration in the community who are willing to run every United Kingdom ; and Lord Salisbury has hazard of detection, although knowing fully said that the boundaries of Turkey are in that detection will bring severe punishment. some sense the boundaries of England. lt There are men here who would scorn to is very interesting for Americans to notice steal or to deliberately give poison to a how several dazzling illusions concerning the neiahbor that will likely ruin his health, and English occupation of Cyprus and the reyet they are willing to violate a law that form of the Turkish Empire under British several successive Legislatures have thought political pressure have been dissipated by th_e a wise one in the interests of the Chinese progress of events and how the present attiand natives in this country. For the sole tude of sober thought appears to be reprehope of gain they introduce opium among sented by the cool rroposition, long ago adthe people, a drug which brings nothiug but vocated by this Statesman on my left (turning ruin to body and soul of its victims. toward the venerable Dr. Rufus Anderson, How strong a hold the desire for money for many years Secretary of the American must have upon such men! It outweighs Board of Foreign Missions), that religious not only the fear of the punishment of the rather than political causes must be relied law, surely to be inflicted upon them if deupon to reaenerate Asia Minor. Sir, Lord b • tected, but the equal certainty of loss of Beaconsfield is the left hand of reform rn character and reputation in the community. Turkey; but the work you have been doing lf undetected, and the great gain realised, is the right hand ! 'l'he left needs the right, think of the anxiety and the nervous fears and the right the left; but the left needs its likely to be started at every moment while brother more than the right does. God grant the nefarious business is going on, in getting that the two may be clasped in sympathythe goods in which the drug is concealed British political influence opening the way past all danger of the Customs officers, and for American religious effort in Turkey, and finally into the hands of the purchaser! American religious effort opening the way Even when danger is supposed to be passed, for those reforms which Great Britain would the smuggler has an unquiet conscience and force upon the Sultan. * :if: · .lf: When I a pulse oft quickened at the mere thought look toward that portion of Asia which now that something at last may be found out. draws the attention of the whole world, th~ His Majesty, by his Royal veto, volunmost hopeful signs of progress are not, in tarily relinqished a large annual revenue my judgment, to be found in the British ocobtained by licensing the sale of opium, in cupation of Cyprus; nor in t_he project of a the hope that with a stringent law opium railway from the Syrian coast to the heart might become an unknown thing in Hawaii of the Persian Gulf, although such a road nei, and many useful lives thus saved. The must be built before many years. petitions that were addressed to the King on My hope for Asia Minor is in a seri~s of this subject were signed by the Chinese facts illustrating the usefulness of American themselves in lar~e numbers, and in a spirit teachers, physicians and missionaries there. of loyalty, the thought of which ought to Indeed, Lord Stratford de Redcliffe used to bring a blush of shame to many who consay that the future of the East depended sider themselves better than the Chinese, upon those men; and Lord Beaconsfield they have been true to the prayer of their himself has lately been drawing his best inpetitions. None of the recent developments formation from the reports of these Ameriin regard to opium smuggling implicate the cans. I undertake to affirm that in the MisChinese, though undoubtedly there are many sion houses of Boston and New York more who can be found to buy the opium when complete and authentic information concernpresented to them for sale. . ing the present condition and possible future We hope and expect that pubhc sentiof Turkey can be found than in the arch,ives ment will sustain the authorities in ferreting out every case to the utm~st, and i? dealing of the Turkish Empire itself. The pleasant lands through which Xenovigorously and severely with the v10lators of phon led the retreat of the Greeks, and Alexthe law. -;r antler and the Crusaders marched to the victories in_ the East, are dear to American sympathies. America gave to Syria the first scientific teacher, the first translation of the Bible into Arabic, the first printing press, the first modern church, the first college. In 1874 Americans printed at Beirut 30,000 volumes and 9,791,910 prayers in Arabic. When Cyrus Hamlin, who in many particulars deserves to be called the father of education in Turkey in Europe, went abroad there was not a school book in the language spoken by the people of Turkey. Now we have a long list, not only of text books on grammar, rhetoric, logic, chemistry, surveying, history, zoology, mental and moral philosophy, political economy, anatomy, physiology and medir.ine, but also of the best English works on distinctively Christian truth, and these in the Armenian, the Turkish and the Asiatic tongues. There are 11,000 pupils in Turkish common schools which owe their oriain to American influence. In the high. schbools founded by Americans for young men and women thousands are already gathered. But the fa~ts which strike public attention most at a distance are the steady shinina of Hobert College, at Constantinople, since 1852 -a beacon light on that stormy coast betw;en Asia and Europe; the steady flame of the Syrian Protestant College at at Beirut, since 1865-the gleaming of ~he Central Turkey College at Aintab, behmd the hills; and the attempt to light another torch at Harput, on the flashing waters of the upper Euphrates. These are American liahthouses on a dark Mohammedan coast, where a very hungry surf wars yet and the beaches have been strewn with wrecks for six hundred years. THE recent visit of Dr. A. P. Stanley, Dean of Westminister to the United States, has been attended with good results in the cultivation of a greater catholicity of spirit, between Christians of all denominations. He, a dean of the established church of England, was the recipient of courtesies by organized bodies of Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians, etc. Such a man, scholarly, devout, earnest and eminently Christian cannot be made to be the exclusive property of any one class of Christ's followers. Dr. Stanley preached many times during his short stay in America, and his sermons reported in full by the religious press we recommend as good reading. His address to the students of Union Theological Seminary in New York, was. a ~ulogy on the late Dr. Robinson, a Professor m that institution whose work on Biblical researches in the Holy Land, had afforded the dean much pleasure and instruction.