Friend, 1880-01

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.

1~clFIC Oo)f} 4,41- 0 .. . , _ , (\, Its Shores, its Islands, a nd the vast region beyo nd , will become the chief theatre IP:. of events, in oil -<1~~ 4>: ilJ's GRi~~~J~. /~ 8 .li:w..um, U. llthl £;erics, ~o. 1, iol. 29. l p AGB ~oa:~r:;J~:::a~~~::::::: : ::::::::: : :::: : ::::::: : ::: :: :: : Domestic Chinese Question . ......................... 5-7 Y. M . C.A .............................................. 8 THE FRIEND. 1 • 1880 • U Just as our paper was going to press on this 31st day of December, 1879, the interesting and imposing ceremonies connected with the laying of the corner-stone of the new Palace were in progress. Our limits will not allow us to make even a meagre report of the proceedings. . e would ~ere)y ad~ t~at the box cont~mmg the articles deposited was fitted to Its place and the corner-stone let fall at just one o'clock P. M. Imagine some thousands o_f years hence, when Hawaiian and English are among the "dead languages," s_ome future Cesnola or Schliemann shall, with ruthless hands, displace this corner-stone and open the sealed box, when unfolding the various documents there deposited, he should, after much study, decipher the following: yv T-H-E F-R-I-E-N-D ! "Ah, that," he exclaims, "is the oldest paper in the Pacific." wonderful discovery-A. D. 4444 ! - - - -----DR. ScoTT.-We learn from the Re-union, published in Lebaoon, Ohio, that our late U. S. Consul has been " elected by 11 splendid majority to his old place in the Legislature" of Ohio, and he is now at Columbus. From a letter recently received from him, under date of Dec. 5th, we copy as follows : "I have just returned from a visit to Washington city. I dined with the President while there. He is still firm on the temperance question. He told me that Mr. H. A. P. Carter called on him on his way to Germany." We have received a letter for Patrick Bark, of Hilo, which he will find with Rev. A. 0. Forbes. ! I {~lh £cries, ioL 37. DAVIES-At White Cross, Hereford, England, Nov. 7th, of bronchitis, the Rev. THEOPHILUS DAVIEll, aged 81 years and 18 days. RAMBLES IN THE OLD WORLD-·No. 36 Advertiser', we would add that, ten years ago, when visiting England, it was our ACROSS THE BORDER. In copying the above from last week's New Palace Corner-stone . . .......... • ... . .......... •: • • 1 Rev. Theophilus Davies ............... . .... , ..... . .. ••• 1 Rambles in the Old World-No. 36 ............ .. ...... 1-4 JANUARY S HONOLULU, J!NUARY I, 1880. CONTE~TS For Jauunry 1, 1880. s. privilege to spend a few days in the most agreeable society of the deceased, then residing in the vicinity of Manchester. We learn from his son that his honored father had uniformly enjoyed good health through his long ministerial career, and preached before an association only ten days before his much-lamented death. Respected and beloved by a wide circle of friends and old parishioners, he belonged to a denomination in England about which the eminent Hev. Dr. Hall of New York thus ~poke in one of his lectures, delivered before the students of Yale Theological School: " The Congre. . gat10nalists, I am g_lad to say, are very strong. They are quite numerous, and their influence is out of proportion to their numhers. They are fortunate, especially~ in h . l b f ffi · t avrng a arge num er O _very e cien ministers: A stranger stop~rng ?:er the Sabbath m one of the English c1t1es, and inquiring for the church where he can hear the best preaching, is very apt to be referred to the Congregational church." Since writing the above, our attention has been called to a most interesting notice of the life anu death of the Rev. Mr. Davi~s, copied from the Hereford Times of Noyernber 2d. In it there is a report of the funeral sermon, preached by the Rev. J. 0. Hill, in the Eign Brook Congregational Qhape~. He chose for his text, " 0 death! 'Yhere is thy sting." He spoke most eloquenily of the long 4ind successful ministeriai career of the deceased, commencing in 1823. It appears that for over 200 years the family of Davies has been represented in the Qongregational ministry, 't he Rev. J. Alden Davies, of Croydon, now representing the family name. It would appear that all the events connected with the life and death of the deceased were such as to leave a most happy impression upon the minds of surviving friends. A.utumn Days in the Netherlands, It has always seemed to me rather an unnecessary exercise of parental authority, as manifested in the case of those French peasants who, as I have somewhere read, were wont to take their children to the boundaryline and there administer to them a sound '' thrashing With rods," in order that they, poor little things, might remember where their own Jand ended and where the territory of the stranger and the foe began. It was alleged that this exterior application strengthened the memory to such an extent that it was never found necessary to repeat it. Now, as I was saying, it has always seemed to me quite unnecessary. For I am sure the dullest of people, the sleepiest of travellers, must know by a ~ort of instinct when they are cro~$ipg the border. You feeI the new spirit ot tfie land you are entering waiting on thP frontier to welcome or repel you'. It would seem almost as if countries res~mbleq certain individuals, whose mere presen,ce has a greater and more moving elo.qQence than the spoken words qf pthrrs. However this may be, I for one felt the presence of Holland in some my&t~r:ious, inexplicable way as I first entered Dutch territory with the early days of last Se{>tember, The hour, the moonlight, the witchery of the night, may have had something to do with this. The l&nd lay in pne unendmg plain, One never sees mountains here, except those which the restless, tawny waves of the sea along the shore rear in swift, passionate moments. The moon lighted the landscape-not regally, lavishly, as with us in the tropics, but with a softened lustre which seemed in harmony with the quiet of the land. Through the night the gaunt arms of the windmills-those gnar~. dian angels of Holland-rose into view, losing much of their stiffness, their good-. natured awkwardness in the silvery ligh~ and velvety shadows. 'l'he arrowy str:aight~. ness and precise lines of the can als were rendered more poetic by the soft a_nd billowy waves of pearl-grey mist which floated above them. On the hori~on were dense masses of dark and sombre woodland and forest, pierced now and then by the friendly gleam of yellow: lig,nt. The swe~t, faint odors of 2 'f H E F R I E N D , J A N U A R Y , I 8 8 0. I could scarcely forbear sketching it for you. grayer sky, and our steamer's nervous Here was Dutch ease, Jove of comfort, slow- whistle impatiently called us on board, and ness; everyone sipped his tea as if he had we were soon foaming through the dullThe nothing else in life to do to compare with colored waves of the Zuyder Zee. the solemnity of this a~t. Here was Dutch steamer takes something like six hours to justice shown in the generous portions, in make the journey from Harlingen to Amthe plentv of everything ; Dutch cleanliness sterdam. As you are aware, the whole and thrift, and Dutch love of the beautiful Dutch coast has been, since unknown cendisplayed in the minutest arrangement of the turies the scene of the oce11n's wildest sport. friendly board. It was a pleasant introduc- In the thirteenth century it invaded the tion to the day, ·in harmony with the sweet- land, and uniting with a near-lying lake, ness and freshness of the morning, a moral formed the mighty Zuyder Zee. Should stimulus to make the working hours exact, you chance to have an atlas at your elbow, would you liindly follow me, steaming down honorable, full of worthv deeds Our way (you kuow we are expecting to to Amsterdam. The day is fresh and cool, catch the early boat on the Zuyder Zee) lay in the morning the sky clouded, but later on through the rich farming lands between revealing a blue and glorious heaven, so that Groningen and Harlingen. This is one of we find the harbor of Amsterdam bathed in We skirt the the most productive portions of all Holland. sunshine in the afternoon. It is tl1e home, too, of a brave, thrifty, noble coast as far as Stavoren, where rises the race--the Frisians, the old Germanic stock friendly tower of-the lighthouse. Here there of whom Tacitus tells us. I enjoyed meet- is a little group waiting to receive us. Pasing them, watching them at the different sengers are coming on board. It is noon~tations. It chanced to be some fete day, time at the village school, and the wharf is and the trains were crowded with peasants filled with round-faced, rosy-cheeked boys in" brave attire." The costume de fete is, and girls of the most pronounced Dutch you will acknowledge, staid and Puritanical type, and the air is filled with tneir laughenough--for the men, black, sober, clerical, ing and shouting and the '' clack, clack, angular; for the women, black; for the clack " of their great wooden shoes. The children, black. At first I thought there benevolent old pastor, with his smooth black might be some great funeral in the district, cloak and spotless cravat, stands in the but as the same costume appeared on every midst of them. His whole flock seems to NORTH HOLLAND, side, worn by people in the heartiest and be here. The coming of the steamer must I was pleased that circumstances permitted jolliest humor, 1 found it better to laugh than be he day's sensation. We are tnking on my seeing a portion of Holland not visited, weep. The women, many of them, wear board scores of great round cheeses. At perhaps, by the majority of travelers. My heavy metal bands encircling the head, in length they are in place. The chains are first halting place was Groningen, the front terminating oftent1mes in beautiful or- thrown off, and we steam across the channel great market centre for an extensive and naments of gold, all this Amazonian helmet to Enkhuizen. The little town, in the most fruitful region. My hotel was situated being feminized and softened by little cover- noon sunshine, forms a most beautiful picon a great public " place," one of the largest ing caps, dainty muslin affairs adorned with ture. All along the shore are precise and in all Holland, which on market days is embroideries and lace, and above all this is proper rows of trees, looking like a company crowded with sellers and buyers from all the perched a bonnet of modern make, ornament- of Dutch burgers wrapped in their mantles country round. The chiming of the bells ed with feathers and ribbons, the whole at conference or church. There is a pictur- . gave me welcome in this first city I vISited, being the quaintest medley imaginable. esque, lofty tower of the middle ages, ri~ing something which was to accompany me, I They are a hardy, healthy iace, the North above an ancient gate, and in its old age, found, ail through Holland and Belgium. Hollanders--the women especially, in this from its bells high up in air, the belfry sendThere was something especially soothing district through which we are passing, being ing out tender, mellow music to those far and welcoming to a stranger, coming ipto a oftentimes strikingly handsome, with great, out at sea. ln Enkhuizen, Paul Potter, the new city in an unknown land, at night, this full, innocent eyes and satiny white skins famous painter of animal life, was born in soft, musical murmur of the bells, repeated stained with yiv1d rose. There wa.s some- 1625. We shall see many of his paintings, with every recurring hour of the night, like thing Junonian about them, albeit their so strong, so true, so lifelike, as we go on a lullaby, a message of peace through the staid attire seemed to forbid such a classic through the Netherlands, and especially his darkness. One of the most delicious exper- and profane comp~rison. Ah, the delicious worJq.-repowned " Bull,'' in the Royal Galiences of travel is that sense of novelty sweetness and meadow fragrance of that lery f!.t , the Hague. Oddly enough, there which strikes you in everyday objects and early autumn morning ! As the train wa.s brought on board at Enkhuizen a fine sets you gazing like the most inql).jsjtive paused we glanced at Leeuwarden, the old young bull, with soft brown hair flecked child. 1 found my bedroom, with it:s cano- capital of Frisia, set in the midst of a wide with white, full of a grand, irrepressible life, pied bed, where curtains shielded me hke a and smiling lan,dscape. Then came Franck- a n4 I felt that the stock had not run outtent, especially delight_ful. In many a long er, where wa.s once a University, which, at least in the animals-since the days Paul day I have seen nothing so charming in its however, Napoleon I trampled put of eii~t- Potter found " studies" in the clover-carpetway as the hotel breakfast table which greet- ence. An4 a little farther cm our train ed fields of his birthplace. But have we ed me the first mornmg at Groningen. Cer- came to a standstiU at t4~ nock at Har- any painter now with his magic brush? tainly Dutch neatness, I thought, has not lingen. Out once more to the gray bosom of the been exaggerated. The linen was spotless, A DAY ON THE 7,U:YPE'Jl. ZEE, Zuyder Zee, which now broadens to a great the glass crystal itself, the silver laughing at There are certain name~ which make an and expansive bay. From Enkhuizen across its own brightness. The air was pervaded indelible impression on our memories when · the Zuyder Zee to Kampen, there is a proby a friendly bubbling and hissing of the as children we bend over our geographical ject for running a colossal dam, drawing off water in the great central urn, which was maps. For my fancy, at least, Zuyder Zee the water, and thus rescuing for Holland an Each guest had his was one of these, having a place along with immense tract of land. It wou Id be a herfairly captivating. separate tea-service, arranged with the most other curious names, though less euphonic, culean piece of engineering, but if successexquisite care. The table was spread with as Skagerrack, Kattegat and Kamtschatka. ful, of immense importance to the country. preserves, with all manner of white breads Last year I faced the keen wind blowing But after what has been accomplished in and brown, with breakfast cakes and puffy down the two former. I faced this summer this land of wonders, nothing would be surbuns, and the delicious cheeses for which the Zuyder Zee. Will my wanderings lead prising. We are in the midst of a great the region is famed. Pardon me for tarry- me at length to Kamtschatka ? We had just bay; on all sides are passing sails of ships ing so long at the breakfast table, but I time to glance at the gray old houses and or fishing boats (the latter rising in great found in it such an epitome of Holland that walls of Harl~ngen, rising upwards to a yet picturesque brown. µi~sses ae~inst th~ bl4e the late summer, of the country, of the dewy night, filled the air. I felt on all sides the embrace and welcome of dear, brave, heroic, grand little Holland. 1 had been reading for months, with tear-filled eyes and throbbing heart, the glonous history of that mighty struggle for truth and liberty which was here waged for well-nigh one hundred years, and I felt it to be one of the greatest privileges of my life to oe permitted at length to tread the soil which, for all lovers of liberty in every land and every coming age, must be indeed holy I If there may seem in all this the sentimental enthusiasm of a traveller, then read and re-read the sublime epic of that marvelous period-then come and see the land where this tragedy was enacted, in the blaze of martyr-fires, amid the smoke and gore of sacked cities, dreary battle-fields and desolated homes, where a handful of great-souled men and women won the field before the greatest armies of the world, and gained for you and me the fair and fruitful blessings of liberty of conscience,-and you will but echo my enthusiasm. Through the infinite peace of the night I seemed to see the sad, earnest, now triumphant face and figure of my chosen hero, my knight II sa.ns peitr et sans reproclie," the soldier, the Christian, the martyr-" William the Silent!" w THE ~,ltlEND, J!NU!RY, 1880. sky), or the curling smoke from some hurrying steamer. The shores lie low, but varied by picturesque villages, by church spires, by forests of windmills. On one side we look off, far away through the blue haze, to the coast near which lies the town of Zwolle, where Thomas a Kempis, of holy name and fame, lived in the cloister for well-nigh 70 years, where he wrote his immortal "De lmitatione Christi." Here he died in 1471, in his ninety-third year,-one of the sweetest, rarest, holiest men the world has ever known. On our right, just discernible, is the little village of Hoorn, the birthplace of Wilhelm Schouten, who was the first, in 1616, to sail round that stormy southern cape. to which he gave the name of his native village in Holland. But before us is rising a stately and picturesque city into view, glittering in the sunshine, seen through a forest of masts, from which wave the ffags of all nations. The sluicPs are passed, the haven reached, and we land on the busy wharf of Amsterdam. · A FEW WORDS FROM BERLIN • . The summer-short at the best here at the North-is gone, and winter is at the door. The brief gray days of November are with us. The Thier-garten has doffed its verdant garments of midsummer, and it~ glorious avenue'3 bend before the winds mourning the death of the year, while the air is filled with myriads of falling, flu ering leaves, a veritable shower of gold. While nature mourns, the city seems filled with a tumultuous joy. The streets are again active and bustling and gay. 'fhe pub!ic drives and walks are filled with a brilliant throng. The Emperor is once more in the capital, his venerable, fatherly presence bemg a joy and comfort to every one. The German people have lost within a week or two one of their leading men-bis Excellency Herr von Bulow, ::;ecretary of State for Foreign Affairs. a man of marked ability and of great nobility and purity of character. His funeral, which took place . last week, was of a singularly striking and impressive character. The services were held in the Church of St. Matthew, one of the smaller but more beautiful churches in the city. It was crowded till there was scarcely even standing room. The scene was one not soon to be forgotten. Before the altar, which was almost hidden in a thicket of greenery, was placed the coffin, surrounded by burning tapers and hidden from :sight by masses of costly wreathsrarest garlands of laurel leaves, pale roses, floral crosses and drooping palm branches. At the foot of the coffin, on cushions of purple velvet, were the numerous glittering orders and decorations of the deceased. The body of the church was one of the most brilliant scenes imaginable. All the leading officers of Government in their varied and beautiful uniforms, such as are seen in no country as in Germany; hundreds of the military, the Diplomatic corps, and an immense throng besides, were presThe Emperor, with his brother, ent. sat on one side of the coffin, facing tbe widow and family. Everyone present seemed moved by the solemnity, by the impressive pathos, and l may say beauty of the scene. The fading light of the late autumn day came softly through the crimson and purple and gold stained windows. The hundreds of brilliant u,niforms glittered like one immense je\vel ; the music of the organ rose and fell in full waves of mellow sound accompanying the hushed chant, "Sei getren bis in den Tod.'' Before all stood the flower-wreathed coffin of the departed, a.wing all by its voiceless eloquence ; on one side the patriarchal figure of the Emperor, on the other the group of mourners, while triumphantly above the altar was seen a picture of the risen Christ! During the past two or three weeks the General Synod of the Evangelical Church of the older Provinces of Prussia has been hold mg its sessions, which closed only last Monday. This has been an important session. The action of the body has been such as to show that there was much earnest life and purpose in the Church, whatever may be said by many to the contrary. The assembly, consisting of full two hundred members, clerical and lay, presented a fine appearance at its sittings. These were held in the chambers of the Prussian House of Lords, a simple but dignified apartment. For my eye at least; there is scarcely a finer or more impressive sight in the world than that of a company of clergymen, and here in Germany i make no exception. There is a dignity in their carriage, a peculiar mingling of sweetness, of strength, of lofty purity rn their faces, ·especially marked in the older clergy, those who wear as a sort of halo at the clo"se of long years of service the glory of their silver hair. Among this large company I noticed the stately Dr. Faber, of BarmPn, at the head of the Mission House there ; Professor Christlieb, from Bonn ; Dr. Kogel, one of the Court chaplains; Pastor Frommel, that most genial, most loveable, most charming of German clergymen; Pastor Fincke, of Bremen, who resembles him in many respects, whose "Life of St. Paul" is a choice and noble work ; Dr. Brucken, oPte of the leading and most thoughtful preachers of Berlin, and a host of others. Among the most important of the lay members of the Synod were His Excellency Count Putkammer, "Cultus Minister," who has just taken the portfolio left by Dr. Falk, famous for his attacks upon the Ultramontanes; Count Boitzenberg, Count BismarckBolla nd, etc. Every year Berlin enjoys an exhibition of modern pamtings, which is for this city what the Academy is for London and the Salon for Pans, and is here called the "Kunst Ausstellung." All through the autumn it has delighted and feasted the eyes of hundreds of visitors. Most of the artists whose pictures are here exhibited are resident in Berlin. Great as would be the pleasure to describe some of the beautiful paintings which have charmed us here, I mu~t confine myself to the mention of one portrait, which is the glory of the collection, and which has been, ~o · to say, an '' art event " this autumn for all Germany. It is the portrait of Queen Louisa of Prussia, the mother of the present Emperor, and is executed by that master in modern portraiture, Herr Gustav Richter. Queen Louisa's name is written in luminous letters in the history of Prussia. She was the daughter of the Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. She was 3 married at an early age to Frederick William lII of Prussia, and became one of the most prominent figures in the stormy political conflicts of her period. She was a woman of extraordinary loveliness of person, of a lofty character, marvelously actuated as it were by a sense of her holy mission in the cause of Prussian liberty ; in· her lifetime the idol of the people, and since her death. regarded almost as a saint or guardian angel by the German people. She died in 1809 at the early age of 35, mourned perhaps as no other woman has ever been mourned in Germany. Though the present Emperor was a mere child at her death, he has cherished her memory with a devotion and sacredness, with a poetic tenderness, which still in these late years of his old age is as marked as it is beautiful. Th~ painting by Richter is of transcendent loveliness. You recognize the lovely Queen, transfigured, exalted, inspired by her great purpose. It has been ordered by one of the citizens of Cologne, and is already hung upon the walls of the museum of that city, its rarest treasure. It represents the Queen at the height of her ripened and perfected beauty. The face is full of inde::;cribable hopefulness, sweetnesc:;, steadfast purpose, heroic resolve -the face of an .Empress, of a leader, softened by the tender, timid lines of wife and motherhood. The figure is superb, clad in a simple robe of white; one dimpled hand i~ laid upon the breast, the other holds the heavy ermine-lined velvet mantle, which falls upon the marble steps she is descending. The eyes seem to be gazing upon some far distant horizon, invisible to us, Above her brow is a golden star of hope. Behind her are storm-clouds: the air is filled with a winter sadness. Against such a background this glorious, luminous, queenly figure rises like some fair Angel of Hope and Inspir,ation. F. WILLIAMS DAMON. Berlin, Nov. 5th, 1879. We copy the following paragraphs from private letters : P. S _,I have been very busy with my lectures since writing you last, and they are opening up every day more and more delightfully. Just came in from a noble lecture from grand old Adolph Kirchhoff, the celebrated Greek scholar, on Thucydides. I am expecting to hear in addition Professor Steinthal on Language in General ; Prof. Hubner on Classical Philology; Prof. Curtius (a famous name) on Athens and its Monuments; Dr. Zummer on the lndoGermanic Languages ; and Prof. Lepsius on Egyptian Antiquities. As some of these lectures require but two or three hours a week, I think I can, without crowding, take them all. The Sanskrit Grammar, by good Professor Whitney, which has appeared within a few days, is like all that he writes, exact, wonderfully clear, and as perfect as anything of the kind can be. He is regarded as one of the very first authorities in everything of this kind. My lectures are the source of the very grf>atest pleasure and delight to me, and the days seem to fly away on swift wing. I am in a state of mental "crystallization." The condition is delightful!· A thousand things in my studies seem to be coming into place ; facts, principles, theories are righting themselves; FRIEND, JANUARY. Every day this horizon of language, of philological study, seems to be widening; and then to me the wonderful living breath which seems to animate the great body of comparative philology - this union, this bringing together of races so long sundered, this grand thought of the human brotherhood, is inspiring, stimulating, glorious! Have just received a little book with a Bible verse, printed in over 200 languages. To-day, received a letter from Prof. Mather, ordering a cast of the Olympian II Hermes" for Amherst College. Yesterday, the 25th Cay of November, will be one of my "In Memoriam" days. It brought me word of my brother's "grand promotion"-of his "home-going"-1 cannot bring myself to use the word death. This was the most glorious beginning of a better life. Above all my grief and pain and personal loss, I feel thankful that I was permitted on earth to call him brother-that l am privileged to feel, in humble reverence of heart, that he is to-day one of that redeemed host who stand before the throne. My playmate, my brother, my friend-this he will ever be to me; but now, above all, a companion of glorified souls, one of the messengers o · the heavenly court, luminous with divine hght. Ah, through my tears l repeat it, we have been wondrously honored. Willie's was the purest, snnniest, most childlike and generous nature I ever knew. The memory of his hearty, rich and. joyous laugh seems to be ringing about me still, and l hope to hear it all through my life. I can truly say, " God's will be done," and rejoice that he is safe beyond the pain and sin ancl sorrow of earth, clothed with raiment of light, whiter than snow. "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." This morning I went with Mrs. Thompson out to the Jerusalem Kirchhoff, where '.Dr. Thompson is buried. She has entrusted the grave to me. I shall tend it with a twofold love and care, for I loved most truly the dea'r "Doctor," and I shall feel as if, in so dofo'g, I was caring at the same time for a·n·other mound under a more sunny sky. F. W. D. RE'V. C. T. HALEY.---By the passing ·steamer bound to Australia, this gentleman gave us a call. He is on a voyage around the world for his health, having been granted a furlough by his parishioners, connected with a Presbyterian church in Newark, New Jersey. He 'was accompanied by his sister. REV. 0. C. TiI0111rsoN.·•-This gentleman, ·after preaching for nearly fifty years in Detroit, Michigan, and vicinity, has been mak'ing a visrt to California and the islands. He was among the first ministers in lVlich'igan. Having returned from the volcano with his daughter, he was ready to embark with some fifty or more other passengers for San Francisco had the Australian steamer called as usual, hence he was obliged to remain till next month. I 8 8 0. For the New Year. The veil is hung before mine eyes, I stand beside thfl open door, Behind that veil the future lies, I cannot see a step before I stand in silence as I watch, Upon the threshold of the year ; That I, dear Lord, Thy voice may catch, I lend to '.rhee my listening ear. I know not whether sun or shade Lies stretched before me on the plain ; I know not whether flowers may fade, Or whether they shall bloom again. I know not whether bright and clear And gladsome days before me lie, Or whether da1·k and chill and drear The paths that Thou shalt lead me bv. I know not, and I would not know, Content I leave it all with Thee ; 'Tis ever best it should be so, As Thou wilt have it, let it be. And yet I know for every day, That every step for me is planned ; I surely cannot miss my way, By keeping hold of Thy dear band. And this I know, whate'er betide, I never shall be left alone, Thou standest ever by my sidfl, '.ro Thee my future all is known. Thus, wheresoe'er my lot may foll, The wa.y before is marked by 'l'hee, The windings of my life are all Unfoldings of Thy love to me. The Week of Prayer, 1880. SUNDAY, Jan. 4.-Sermons on the "fulness of Cbrhn's salvation." MONDAY, Jan. 5.-Thanksaiving for the blessings ot the past year, and prayer for their continuance. · TUESDAY, Jan. 6.-Conression of sin and humiliation before G,id. WEDN.l!)SDAY. Jan. 7.-Prayer for the Church of Christ, its ministers, its growth in grace and its enlargement, and for revivals of religion. THURSDAY, Jan. 8.-Prayer for Cbristian edueation, tor tlrn family and institutions of learning, for Sunday schools, and Cbt istian associations. FRIDAY, Jan. 9.--Prayn tor nation!', rulers, and people, for peace, and rt'ligious lil>el'ty. SATURDAY, Jan. 10.-Prayer fur home and foreign missions. WILLI.AM HALFORD.-The gunner of the U.S. S. Lackawanna, 110w in this port, has a history of no little interest. William Halford was coxwaiu of the Vaptain's gig, on the U.S. Steamer Saginaw, which vessel, under the command of Captain Montgomery Si.:ard, having left Honolulu on the 1st of October, 1870. on a crnise in the North Pacific, went ashore ou Ocean Island. dist1rnt about 1100 miles northwest of this ishrnd, on the 29th of the same month, and in a few hours became a total wreck. Provisions and sails were saved and the crew rem11.ined on the barren islet until the 4th of January following, when they were taken off and brought to Honolulu on the steamer KillLuea, Capt. '.thomas Long, dispatched to their relief by the Hawaiian government immediately on hearing of the disaster. The news had been brought here by Halford, in this wise: On the 16th of Nuvember, the Cllptain'e gig, which had been uised upon, decked, and thoroughly titted for the purpose, sailed from Ocean Islaud for Honolulu, to procure assistauce. She w11s under command of Lieut. J. G. Talbot, and her crew consisted of William Halford, coxwain, Peter .Francis, Jas. Muir, and John Andrews. Tiley were thirty-one days in the boat, sufleriug many hardships, and made the bay of Hanald ou December 16th at night, and lay off for daylight. Being exhausted. they fell asleep and the boat getting into the breakers was capsized, and Lieut. 'falbot, Francis and Andrews were drowned in the surf Halford and Muir succeeded in reaching the shore-the lattet· only to die of exhaustion soon after. Halford was hospitably tret\ted by the natives of Kalihiwai, (near Hanalei) whe1e be was found on the beach in the morning, anu was brought to Honolulu in the schooner Waiola, Capt. Dudoit. who gave up his trip for the purpose. Lieut. Talbot was buried at Hano.lei, but the remains were subsequently disinterred and taken to the United States. Captain Sicard, bis officers and crew, arrived here on the steamer Kilauea, Jan. 14, 1871, and in a published card expressed their appre· ciation of the generous and kind action of the Hawaiian Government in promptly sending to their relief. In our issue of Jan. '27 we gave a full ac- count of the shipwreck of the Saginaw, and of "The midway Island ~peculation, and what came of it." Halford, for his exemplary conduct, was given a. gunner's commission in the navy, which he hss held ever since. Capt. Long, who had volunteered to go in the Kilauea for the relief of the shipwrecked crew, was presented by the U.S. µovernment with a gold chronometer. Through Mr. Peirce, the Americ:rn Minister Resident, the U. S. Government sent the sum of $108. to be distributed among the natives who rendered assistance to Halford saved property from the wreck of the boat at Kauai. P. C. Advertiser. DEATH'S Dornos.-Onr community was startled by the announcement on Saturday afternoon last, of the death of Mr. S. L. Lewis, a Wt"ll known dry goods dealer on Nuu:.mn street. Mr. Lewis had gone to bis residence on Beretania street at noon, and was· sitting at the dinner table conversing pleasantly with his wile and children, when be suddenly fell over sod expired. A post-mortem examination rPvealed the cause to have beeu aneurism. He was much rt>spected by all who kni>w him fo1· hii! probity of character and kindly disposition. -On the 1st instant. Mr. Charles H. Rose, of the firm 1,f Wilder & Co., died at bis residence in this city of malarial tever. after an illness of two weeks. Few men will be more missed in businPss circles, wl!Ne be was deservedly popular, than Mr. Rose. He was born in New York City in 1838. and at 1.be age 11f 15 rPmoved with bis family to WavPrly, New York.-P. C. Advertiser. Information Wanted. If Frank Swanton, from San Francisco, is at work on the Sandwich Islands, he will please communicate with the Editor, or Mrs. R. H. Lambert, President of the Ladies' Seamen's Friend Society, No. 6, Eddy street, San Francisco. PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 24, 1879. D AR Sm: I address you with a desire for obtaining, through your influence, information of a friend of mine, Mr. George S. Britton. Some years ago he left California for the Sandwich Islands. Since then nothing has been heard from him. It was understood he was going among the natives. As our Minister to the Islands, you have powers given you, which gives us hopes of receiving good and welcome news of our friend. Yours, &c., A. E. GRIFFITH, No. 1321, North 19th st., Philadelphia, Penn. To General J.M. Comly. • MARRIED. GREEN-McGUIRE-In San Francisco, Nov. 23, by the Rev. Mr. Reed, FRED M. GREEN to Mrss AMELIA McG01RE of Honolulu. KIRCHOFF-WILHELM-At Hilo, on the 27th Nov., by the REV. DR. FORBES, l\'.l:R. M. KIRCHOFF to Miss CARO· LINE WILHELM, No cards. DIED. WooDs-On Sept. 30th, at her parents residence, Fairlight, Manly, near Sydney, N. S. W., Maggie Jane, third beloved daughter of John Woods, aged 17 years 7 months and 7 days. Deceased was a late resident of Ho11olulu HATTRICK-At the Evergreens, New London, Conn., on the 21st ult. MARY CRAWFORD HAT'.rRICK, the wife of thelate REV. JOSEPH HURLBUT, aged 74 years. DUNCAN-In this city, December 5, of malarial fever, RosE BARTLETT, wife of ,John A. Duncan, aged 28 years. A tender and watchful mother, a faithful and devoted wife, and a sincere Christian. Our loss is her gain. VERN0N.-In this city, D ecember 7th. Agnus Vernon, wife of Augustus Vernon, aged 35 years. SHIMMIN-In this city, December 12, F. A. Shimmin, e: native of Illinois, aged about 23 years. Funeral will takeplace from the residence of Captain Fuller, Nuuanu Avenue, at 3 o'clock this afternoon. PETERSON-In this city, Dec. 11th, of' malarial fever, JAMES AUSTIN, son of I. B. and Henrietta A. Peterson, aged 12 years, 1 month and 2 days. He was a youth of singular promise. WHITNEY.-In this city December 13th, of typhoid fever, MARY LOUISE, only daughter of Dr. J M. and Mrs. M. 8, Whitney, aged five years two months and :fifteen days. DwIGHT-At Leleo, Kapalama, on Dec. 13th, JAME!J A. DWIGHT, in the 22d year of his age. SIDERS-In this city, on Dec. 15th, MAll.Y E. SIDERS, aged 27 years, 2 months and 7 days. BREWER-In this city, December15th,oftyphoidfever, JOHN D. BREWER, aged ll4 years. The deceased was a son of Charles Brewer, Esq., of Boston, l\'Iass., and was born in this city, July 30, 1845. Shortly after, the family removed to Boston, and Mr. Brewer graduated nt Harvard University in 1866. He returned to Honolulu in 1867, and entered the old-established house of C. Brewer & Co., of which he was a member at the time of his death. In business circles he was noted for strict integrity and probity of' character, and his private life was pure. He leaves a widow and four children. NoTT-At Hill Top, Honolulu, Dec. 16th, of typhoid fever, SAMUEL WILSON, eldest son of Samuel and Mary E. Nott, aged 8 years and 5 weeks. BANNING-In Honolulu, December 18th, FREDERICK ARMSTPONG, son of Frederick and Clara Banning, aged 10 years 6 ½ months. Dw1GHT-In this city, Dec. 17, of malarial fever, Mrs . ANNA M. DWIGHT. THE JOURNAL. NIARINE PORT OF HONOLULU• S. I. AR RIV A.LS. Nov 29-Am schr Honora, Seegers, 29 days from Astoria 30-Am bktne Discovery, Smith, 20days fm 8 Francisco Dec 1-Am bktine Grace Roberts, Olsen, 60 days from Newcastle, N S W 2-P M 8 8 City of Sydney, Dearborn, rm S Francisco Dec 8-Am bk Helena, Snow, 74 clays from New Castle 10-G~r bk Auguste, Schumacher, 144 days fm Cardiff 10-Am bktne MoniLor, Nelson, 21 days fm Humboldt 11-U S 8 Lackawanna, Chandler, 69 day~ fm Samoa 12-Am bktne J A Falkiuburg, Hubbart, 19½ days from Portland, 0. Dec 14-Haw bk Hawaii, Wood, 30 days from Jaluit 17-Am schr W H Meyer, Jo1·dan, 20 days from S F 17-Haw brig Julia M Avery, Avery, fm Johnson's ls'd 18-Haw bgtne Storm Bird, Hatfield, 30 days fm .laluit 19-U S S gunboat Ranger, Boyd, 44 days from Yokohama, en route for San Jt'rancisco 19-Am schr Ida ~chnauer, Schnauer, 21 dys fm Eureka Dec 20-Am bk Arkwright, Newhall, 66 days from Newcastle.NA W 21-Am bktne Victor. 42 days from Port Gamble 23-P MR 8 City of Ne1v York, Cobb, from Sydney 26-Am bk Rainier, Wulff, 29 days from Seattle 26-Am tern W L Beebe, Erschen, 22 days from Port Biakely 25-Am bk Camden, Robinson, 25 days fro Port Gamble 26-Am bktne Eureka, Nordberg, 16 d~ys from SF Dec Dec Dec Dec DEPARTURES. 1-Brit bk Viola, Price, for Portland, 0 2-P M S S City of Sydney. DHrborn, for Sydney 2-Am bk Cyane, Hanson, tor San Francisco 2-Haiatea schr Vivid, English, for Fanning's bland 4-Am bktne Ella, Brown, for San Francisco 11-Am bktn Laura R Burnham, Phillips, tor S Fran 13-Am bk D C Murray, Ritchie, for San Francisco 17-Am bktne Monitor, Nelson. for Eureka 18-Am bktne Discovery, Smith, for San Francisco 23-P M S S City of New York, Cobb, passed the port for San Francisco MEMORANDA. The following is a list of the officers of the U S S Lackawanna : Captain, Ralph Chandler ; Lieut Commander, Yates Stirling ; Lieutenants, John J Brice, John B Briggs, NE>lson T Houston; Masters, Jeremiah C Burnett, Benjamin F Rinehart ; Cadet Midshipmen, C S McClain, J E McDonnell; Surgeon, ES Matthew; Ass't Surgeon, Francis S Nash; Paymaster, Frank H Hinman; Chief Engineer, Richard M Bartleman; Ass't Engineer, Geo W Suyder; Cadet Engineer, Charles L Wight ; Second Lieutenant of Marines, James D'Hervilly; Boatswain, James Farrell: Gunner, William Halford: Carpenter, Warren Barnard. Sailmuker, William Redstone: Pay Clerk, W J Larkin. List of officers of the US gunboat Ranger: Commander. Robert Boyd • Ex. Officer Lieut W P Randall ; Masters, H W Schaefer nsigns, A Reynolds, G E Hutter, B 0 Scott; Chief Engineer, J B Carpenter; P'd Assistant Engineer, W L Bailie ; P'd Assistant Surgeon, H L Law ; P'd Assistant Paymaster, Z •r Brown; Cadet Engineers, F J Schell, H W Spangler ; Captain's Clerk, E W Hance ; Boatswain, P Johnson. PASSENGERS. From Astoria, per Honora, Nov 28-P S Noch, Henrietta Seegers. From San Francisco, per Discovery, Dec 1-A McWayne and wife, W D Mc Wayne, Madame Louise, Louise Spalding, John Newbigging, John O Ryan, John Green. For Sydney, per City of Sydney, Dec 1-Miss Rose Cousins, Miss Emily Cousins, L Hambrecht, F Ellis and wife, 0 Barstow, Miss Tailor, Wm Tidd, James Jenkins, Noel Fresauer, Captain Franck. For San Francisco, per Ella, Dec 4-T McNulty, Peter Woods, W Stinger, G Schanks. From San Francisco, per City of Sydney, Dec 1-J T Waterhouse, wife and maid, WW Dimond, Miss Hempstead, Mrs Martin and child, Mr and Mrs Treat, P Isenberg, Miss Isenberg, Miss Thompson. 0 C Thompson, Miss Johnson, Mrs B W Sears and child, JC Glade, A S Hartwell, Henry Castle, Mrs and Miss Castle, Miss M Talcott, Capt Briggs, C P Ward, wife and two children, Miss F Dickson, A Ehlers, W S Toler, FM Hanley, F A Hamdon, Miss T Lyons, Mr Lyons, Mr and Mrs Sielerger, Miss Paty, Wm Paty, G Macfarlane, W G Irwin, J B Castle and wife, L L Rice, J M Thompson, G Remnant, Carl Gung, Wm Herb, H Bradley, Mrs J Chilton, J Gertz and wife, Joe Suhan, B Cross, S Rodemann, HA Myhue, L Myhue and wife, John Ferris, Joseph Ferris, Mrs K Townsend, E .Buckley, Thomas Sadler, Thomas Meir&, M Ware, J M; Raupp, H Miller, Mrs Miller and child, D S Sears, S Olsen, E Sullivan, W H Thompson, T J Reardon, J W Smith, C W Andrews, T K McDonald, H Schroeder, Hugo Mulko, J Cameron, J Fletcher, J H Seaton, HE Gardner, F Anderson, F Richards, M Brown, J Ramsdale, F Davis, T S Collins, H Mackey, GS Smith, M Watson and wife, and 13 Chinese. 73 passengers in transitu. From Eureka, per Monitor, Dec 11-E B Bartlett. From Portland, 0, per Jane A Falkinburg, Dec 12-Mr and Mrs CF Mayhew, Mr and Mrs P J Mann, E F Allbright, Capt John Wolfe. For San Francisco, per DC Murray, Dec 13-G M Francis, H Friedlander, Miss Strand, Lieut J d'Hervilley, Geo H Craig, Dr Spiers, D Wayland, D Kenealy, Mrs Garrick. From Jaluit, per Hawaii, Dec 15-G E G Jackson, H Thede and child, and 286 islanders, including men, women and children. From Jaluit, per Storm Bird, Dec 18-107 islanders, inen, women and children. For San Francisco, per Discovery, Dec 18-Dr Hunter, Capt Perryman, Capt Wentworth, Col Norris, Chas Lewis. From Port Gamble, p er Camden, Dec 26-3 Chinese. From Port Blakely, per Wm L Beebe, Dec 26-T Heron. FlllEND, J!NU!Rf, I 8 8 0. ONFEC'l'IONER"l·, BY P. McINERNY. 71, F.irt street, above Hotel street. 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Domestic Chinese Question, "MY " KEAIWA, KAu, DEAR DR. Dec. 12, 1879. DAMON: * * * Your Thanksgiving sermon deserves a wider circulation than it can possibly get in any of our Island periodicals, and I hope it will receive it. Although you do not say so in so many words, yet I gather that you advocate unrestricted Chinese immigration into Hawaii nei, I formerly held this view, but since I have witnessed their corrupting influence on the native female population, 1 say, if we must have Chinese, let their numbers be restricted to those who are willing to bring tliefr families, their wives and children, to remain and become permanent settlers among us. To all such immigrants, be they Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese or South Sea Islanders, I say, let them come; nay, more, help them to come, and give them every inducement to settle. I would go still farther,--offer a premium for every female or child who comes htre to remain. The simplest way to do this is to offer them a free passa,qe trom China, Japan or the South Sea Islands, with the above condition. If I am not mistaken, the Chinese Government formerly tabued the departure of females to foreign countries ; and if the law or custom is not now as rigidly enforced as formerly, the women still fear the old law, which w.is undo tediy established for the self-preservation of the Chinese people. Now, if that government made a law of this nature with this object in view, we certainly cannot be blamed if we make a law designed for the preservation of the Hawaiian people, by compelling Chinese wishing to settle here to bring their families with them. Our mierests require guarding as much as theirs. There is no injustice in this. We simply say to Chinese and all other~, the wants of Hawaii nei demand that immigrants who come here in large numbers must bring their wives witn them. All such will be welcomed as permanent settlers, from whatever country they come. And my own belief is that we have only to let this be known to the common people of China, as it is being made known among the South Seas, and females will migrate hither as freely as do the males. We have no means of publishing this to them (in China or Japan), and the best way to make them acquainted with it will be to pass a law and compel them to comply with its demands, which all who seek to come here will very sc,on learn." We have received the above letter from our old editorial associate, H. M. Whitney, Esq., of Kau. It did not fall within the line of remarks which we had sketched for that discourse to comment upon the "Domestic Chinese Question." We hardly think the reader would be justified in drawing the inference from that discourse, or any other writings of ours, that we " advocated unrestricted Chinese immigration into the Hawaiian Islands." So far is this from being true, that privately and publicly we have urged the point, that not only Chinese immigrants should bring their wives, but also immigrants from America and Europe. We • THE FRIEND, 6 have written letters upon this subject to China, and made it a special point with the Chinese themselves :who were going to China and were expecting to return. The following editorial appeared in the FRIEND in July last : " Has not the time about come for the Hawaiian Government to take decided action about the introduction of so many Chinese immigrants, unaccompanied by their wives ? Would it not be well to convene the leading and prominent Chinese merchants of Honolulu, and let the subject be fairly discussed ? Does not the magnitude of the subject demand the appointment of a Minister Plenipotentiary who shall visit China and confer with the authorities? lf the Hawaiian Government supports a Minister at vVashington, ought it not also to support a .Minister or Consul-General at Pekin? Hawaiian affairs are as deeply involved in what passes in China as what passes in America. The California watchword may be, " The Chinese must go," but that of Hawaii is, " The Chinese must come," to work our cane and rice fields. Now let us trPat them fairly, and do all in our power to introduce Chinese families and diffuse among them Christianity.'' · This editorial does not convey the idea that we advocate "unrest ·icted immigration from China." Touching this question of the Chinese and the proper manner of treating them, we would ai;ld in conclusion : We have no sympathy with the policy which has been pursued in Peru, Cuba and California, of inviting Chinese laborers and then reducing them to slavery, or treating them otherwise than as free and voluntary immigrants who have the same right to "come and go" as immigrants from any other country. To no other country have Chinese immigrants been more cordially invitednay, urged to come and labor, than to these Hawaiian Islands. The Hawaiian Government, Board of Immigration and planters have combined to make the passage easy for the Chinese to leave their own country and come hither. The record of Dr. Hillebrand's mission to China and the East Indies, and the mission of the Hon. M.r. Wilder as the planters' agent, are fresh in mind. To induce them to migrate hither, their passages have been paid wholly or in part. Referring to the question of the Chinese bringing their wives, it is a noteworthy fact that the only ship which has ever brought a due proportion of respectable women and children was the last ship chartered by Mr. Aseu, about two years ago. More than onehalf of this ship's company of immigrants were Christians from the German church in China. We are happy to bear the most unqualified testimony to the good character of these Christian immigrants. One paragraph more. For more than • JANUARY, 1880. twenty years we have been laboring to may bless all your efforts to Christianize the Christianize our Chinese immigrants, and Chinese in your Islands, for more than ten years we have sustained l remain, yours in Christian bonds, A. P. HAPPER. a Chinese school at the Bethel, in Honolulu, We are glad to hear such testimony from where nearly two hundred Chinese have Rev. Mr. Happer respecting :some of our been taught the English language, and some Chinese Christian workers on the Hawaiian of these are now members of Christian Islands, viz., Sit Moon, acting pastor of churches. While we have never exerted Chinese Church, Honolulu ; Wong Ee, our influence to invite Chinese to come, we Hilo, Hawaii; Kong Tit Yen, Kohala, Hahave auned to Christianize those who have waii; Sat Fan, Makawao, Maui; Shin come; and this will be our aim in the Chak, Oahu; Ho Pui, Kauai. Shin Chak has recently left for California, future. We opened with a letter from Mr. but he is expected to return. Before leavWhitney; we close with a letter just reing he made the tour of the districts of Hilo, ceived from the Rev. Mr. Happer, a mis- Hamakua and Kohala, preaching among sionary of the American Board in Canton : the Chinese on the plantations, having been sustained by funds contributed privately by CANTON, CHINA, Oct 15, 1879. J. T. Waterhouse, Esq. REV. DR. DAMON. Our readers, we think, will peruse My Dear Brother : We have been sepa rwith interest two letters which we have ated from each other by the Pacific for these thirty odd years. While I have recently received from two of our Chinese known much of you, I have never had any colporteurs, Sat Fan on Maui, and Ho Pui personal intercourse. Now, as Canton is on Kauai. The former is one of those reto be connected with Honolnlu by a line of ceiving honorable mention in Dr. Happer's steamers, and as the number of Chinese who will be in your Islands will be increased, I letter: KoLoA, Dec. 5, 1879. feel free to write to you of matters of comREv. S. C. DAMON.--My Dear Sir: I mon interest connected with the cause of Christ. I feel much connPcted w,ith Chi- received your letter last month and ought to nese interest there, as two of my pupils, Ho answer you immediately, but my eye has Pui and Shin Chak, are your colporteurs, been sick. This is reason I do not write. and an acquaintance, Sit Moon, is tempor- Please excuse me. l was around the Island ary pastor of the Chinese church in Honolu- the third time, and know four men who like lu. l write to say, that if we can help the trust Jesus Christ. For I have seen them work amongst the Chinese in your midst in reading Bible when thry have time, and any way, by sending books or tracts, we they tell me pray to God to help them. will be glad to do so . Letters from any of They go to native church ejfry week. the Chrnese to their friends here may be Please you pray the Lord give Roly 8pirit sent to me. In view of the increased num- to them to deliver them from evil. The Lord bless you and your family. ber of Chinese there, I would advise that Ho Pur. one of your young ministers should come to Canton and study Chinese for two years or PALUILI, MAKAWAo, Nov. 14, 1879. more. You will find it very difficult to REv. S. C . DAMON.-Dear Sir: I have carry on the work among the Chinese un- heard bad news from a Christian man, who less some American understands Chinese. said your son has died with a high fever There is a want of integrity even amongst last week. My dear sir, do not feel troubled Chinese Christians which you will have to for him, because he die by God's pro-cidence. guard against. There is a \V esleyan here I think God will receive his soul up to from Australia studying Chinese, in order heaven. Now you should take good care of to have charge of the work there on his your health. Do not be over sorry ; if you return. The Presbyterians of Australia sorry so much l fear that you will be failing took Rev. D . Vrooman from this place to in your health. Please see the Holy Bible superintend their work there. It appears instructs us, because God's hand has shield to me that you will need to put forth stren- us from every danger in this world. God uous efforts to Christianize the Chinese in might be able to preserve his soul too when your Islands, or there is danger that they he died. Although we cannot see him at will turn many of your own islanders hack this time, we shall see him in the K inodom to heathenism. You will notice that an of God. My dear sir, I wish to go t~ see Agent goes from here to the Islands. It ap- you, but I cannot go, for there is a great pears to me very important that, in any deal to do here. So it make me very sorry. arrangements made, there should be a Now l only write to you to comfort you, and stipulation for women and children to go. I will pray to God to bless you and give This was the regulation in the emigration you strength to publish the gospel of Jesus to Demerara, an<l was the most important at Honolulu; and God also make you to inand beneficial of all the regulations. The struct all heathen and foreign people with emigrants there are doing very well and comfort. Afterwards all the heathen people becoming Christians. Give my Christian will believe on God at your preaching. Now regards to Sit Moon, Ho Pui and Shing 1 tell you about myself. Sir, I preach in Chak. Ho Pui is the best Chinese scholar this island of Maui with very good attendof any of them, and would make a good ance of a great many Chinese who has been teacher for anyone who wanted to study baptized by Rev. Mr. ·Rouse last month, and Chinese there. Hoping to hear from you by also thirty Chinese who had joined the Y. the return steamer, and praying that God M. C. A. Now I have found some more THE FRIEND, JANU!Rf~ 7 I 8 8 0. Chinese who would like to believe on God, ADVERTISEMENTS. whom I , hope will b~come a church for the 1 O Chinese Christian here, and I also hope you G• R w IN & c •• Commission Merchants, will pray to God for me that He will make Plantation and Insurance Agents, Honolulu, H. I. me to do many things for God, so it will make my soul to go home with triumph. I "\.V. P E I R c .E & c o .. hope you will excuse me for any mistake, • (Succesors to c. L. Richards & Co.) and please give my compliments to Rev. Ship Chandlers and General Commission MerDr. Hyde. chants, Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaiian blands. Yours very truly, Y. S. SATFAN. The Christian Chinese here ask me to Agents Pnnloa Salt works, Brand's Bomb Lances, compliment you and Rev. Dr. Hyde. And Perry Dn.Ti11' Pain Killer. W' • HOME! SAILORS' A HOFFM_t.NN, Places of Worship. M. D., Physician and Surgeon, SEAMEN'S BETHEL--Rev. S. C. Damon, Chaplain, King street, near the Sailors; Home. Preaching Corner Merchant and Kaahumanu Streets, near the Post Office. at 11 A. M. Seats free. Sabbath School before the BREW .ER & co •• morning service. Prayer meeting on W eduesday evenings at 7½ o'clock. Commission and Shipping Merchants, ED. DUNSCOlUBE. FORT STRE~T CHURCH--Rev. W. Frear, Pastor, Honolulu, Oahu. H. I. Honlulu, January 1, 18i5. Manage,·. corner of Fort and Beretania streets. Preaching _on Sundays at 11 A. M. and 7½ P. M. Sabbath P. ADAMS. School at 10 A. M. JJuction and Commission Merchant, KAwAIAHAO CHURCH--Rev. H. H. Parker, Pastor, King strnet, above the Palace. Services in HaIMPORTERS AND DEALERS IN Fire-Proof Store, in Robinson's Building, Queen Street. waiian every Sunday at 11 A. M. Sabbi~tb scbool at 10 A. M. Evening services at 7! o'clock, altervating with Kanmakapili. District meetings in various cbapels at 3.30 P. M. Prayer meeting -A.GENTS OFevery Wedn~sday' at 7½ P. M. HE REGULAR PORTLAND LINE OF RoM.AN CATHOLIC CauRCH--Under the charge of Packets, New England Mutual Llf~ Insurance Company, No. 37 Fort Street, Rt. Rev. Bishop Maigret, assisted by Rev. :Father 'rhe Union Marine Insurance Company, San Francisco, Hermann ; Fort street. near Beretania. Services The Kohala Sugar Company, KEEP .A FINE .ASSORTMENT OF every Sunday at 10 A, M. and 2 P. M. The Haiku Sugar Company, The Hamakua Sugar Company, KAUMAKAPILI CHURCH--Rev. M. Kuaea, Pastor, The Waiaiua Sugar Plantation, Beretania street, neat· Nuuanu. Services in HaThe Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machine Company, waiian every Sunday at 10½ A. M. Sabbath school tr Dr. Jayne & Sons Citbrated Family Medicines. at 9~ A. M. Evening services at 7& o'clock. alterHIP MASTERS ·v1SJTING THIS PORT during the last Six Years can testify from personal exnating with Kawaiabao. Prayer meeting every perhmce that the undersigned keep the best assortment of Wednesday at 7½ P. M. --NEW-THE ANGLICAN CHURCH--Bishop, the Rt. Rev. Alfred Willis, D. D.; Clergy. Rev. Rob't Dunn, M.A., ESTABLISH M ENT, Rev. Alex. Mackintosh, St. Andrew's Temporary And Sell Cheaper than any other Bouse in the Catbedral, Bel'etania street, opposite the Hott•!. Kingdom. English services on Sundays at 6½ and 11 A. M.. and ~½ and 7~ P. M. Sunday School at the Clergy DILLINGHAM & CO. !leif:~:?o~h~,f~~~t~:t'~z::!: Rouse at M. OPENKD a large C. E. CASTLE & COOKE NOTICE TO SHIP MASTERS. GENERAL MERCHANDISE ! DILLINGHAM & CO., T Goods Suitable for Trade. S T.REGLOAN'S GOODSFORTRADE Corner Fort and Hotel Streets. I ~lo~t 10,. _JOHNS. McGREW, M, ()an ,be cellilulted at his residence on Hotel street, between Alakea and Fort streets, IH, ,E, WHllrT.NEI' 3. W, I<OBRRTSON WHITNEY & ROBERTSON, (Su,ccessors to H. M. Whitney), lmporters and Dealers in Foreign Books, ST..&:1l'I0NERY OF .BOQK, P UBf..,ISHERS Just Received from England First-Class Establishment, FOR SALE at oosT PRICE Well-selected Stock of Goods, D., Late Surgeo1, U. S. Army, PERIODICALS. THE HAWAHAN GUIDK .Jarves' llistery- of the Hawaiian Islands, .Hawaiian Phrase Book, J:Iawailan Grammar, Andi'ewli' Haw.afom Grammar, Hawaiian Dictiotiary, Chal't -of '1he ilfawaiian Islands. ,U .. S0 1 ON llAND 1 -OTHER !BOOKS ON THE ISLANDS. THE HA\W AIIAN HOTEL, --AND-- At the BIBLE DEPOSITORY, SAILOR'S HOME, A few copies of the following excellent works, Daily Rememhrancer, 01· Moming and Evening Portions for the year, by Rev James Smith. ''1h,v First Love." Christ's Message to Ephesus, by Rev Dr CulroSil. "Debold I Stand at the Door and Knock." Christ's Message to Laouicea, by Rev Dr Culross. Grace and Truth, by Dr W P Mackay. Dorothea Trudel, or the Prayer of Faith, translated from the German. Life of Joshua Poole. A Remarkable Conversion . The Message from the Throne, by Mrs Anna Shipton • The Lost Blessing, by l\lrd Anna Shipton • Asked of God, by Mrs Anna Shipton. Tbe Watch Tower in the Wilderness, by Mrs Anna Shipton. The Child Minister, by Mrs Anna Shipton. Lifo Truths, by Rev J Denham Smith. J.ife in Christ, by Rev J Denham Smith. Walk and Warfare, or Wilderness Provision, by Rev J Denham Smith. Various Addreasea, by Jtev J Denham Smith. Various Add1·e88es. by D L Moody, The Tabernacle and the Priesthood, by H W Soltau. F,:male Characters of the Bible, by Rev Dr Hughes. The Boy'11 Watchword. - Also a variety of smaller Books by Brownlow North, SM Haughton. &c, A.. I,. SlUITD, IMPORTER & DEALER IN JEWELRY, King's Combination Spectacles, Glass and t'lated Ware, Sewing Machines, Picture Frames, Vases, Brackets, etc. etc. No. 73, Fort St. ·uAs I [Iyl TERMS STR~CTLf CASH THOS. C. THRUM, STATIONERY AND NEWS DEPOT, No. 19 Merchant Street, • ALLEN HERBERT, PROPRIETOR, ALL THE MODERN IMPROVE• ments requisite_for carrying on a flrst-clal!s Hotel. ~rt: • Houf!luha. ACKAGES OF REA.DING MATTER-OF PPapersandMagazines,backnumt?era-put up to order at reduced r~s for parties going to sea. lf Where Gentlemen can find a Chosen with g1·eat care, as to style, and adapted · · to this climate, Having bad an extensive experience in connection with some of the largest importing houses in New York ac,d Phila.delphia, I can assure my customers that they will not only secure the Very Best Materials but will also obtain at my place The BEST FITTINC CARMENTS that can be turned out of any establishment in the Eastern cities. English Hunting Pantaloons ! -AND- LADIES' RIDING HABITS MADE A SPJ<:CIALITY. Children's Suits, in Eastern Styles. W, TREGLOAN, Honol~lu. LEWERS &, DICKSON, Dealers in Lumber and Building Material~, Fo~~ Street, Honolulu, H. ~- H () . B~SHOP k 00., BANKE~S, Q ~UL U, HAWAIIAN ISL.ANDS. ' ~RAW EXCHANGE 0~ THE BA.NK OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO, -;:- +ND t~RIR AGEN'f'S IN - Ne'! ~ork, Bo • tou, Pari • , .-lucklaud, THE O~IENTAL BANK CORPORATION, LONDON, - 4ND tHRIR BRANC~RS IN - Honaikoug, Sydnef• and Melbourue, 4ncl Traqsact a General Ba11){ing BusineBS. • apl9 7~ ioung ltm's QtQrisfom issotiation of Jnnolulu. Pure religion and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: To visit the fatherless and widows in their a.ffeiction, and to keep one's self unspotted from the world. THIS PAGE IS Edited by a Committee of the Y. M, C. A, The Y. M. C. A. meet the third Thursday of every month, at the Lyceum, for business and discussion. The topic for discussion at the January meeting 1s, " Our duty in regard to preventible conditions of disease.'' All interested in Y. M. C. A. work are cordially invited to attend. LIST OF OEFICERS AND STANDING COMMITTEES OF THE y.:M.0.A. President, W.R. Castle; Vice President, Dr. J.M. Whitney; Secretary, W. A. Kinney; Treasurer, - - - - . Reading Room Committee-~. Dunscombe Editor-Charles Peterson, Editor of the 8th page of THE FRIEND for this quarter. Chinese Mission Committee-Rev. S. C. Damon, H. Waterhouse, J. B. Atherton. llev. C. M. Hyde. 1<:ntertainment Committee-Wm 0. Smith, T. H. Davies. Employment Committee-,-S. B. :Pole, E. Uuuscombe, B. F. Dillingham. Committee to Visit the Hospit~l and Prison-G. C. Lees, E. Dempsie, W.W. Hall, Dr. C. M. Hyde. OuR plan, as set forth above, - the struggle to maintain a pure religion before God-comes home to u.s with renewed force at the beginning of this new year. The past lies dead behind us nd yet in its offspring, the present, we recognize, in changed form, the pure spirit of the old. Progress has been made, bqt thoughtful activity is .Ministrations have ever the necessity. been made to the bereaved, and we count as fatherless and friendless, not alone those whose earthly ties have been ~undered, but recognise also those whom the terms in their widest application would em brace - the wanderers through the world with no infinite hand to guide them. There are those whose hearts know not the feeling induced by heavenly love and paternal protection; those whom adversity has claimed as its victims ; those to whom earthly justice has meted out punishment; those whose feet have been stumbling along life's pathway ever since they first breathed the air of heaven, whose minds have always been enveloped in the darkness of a spiritual night. These are to be considered " in affliction." The command comes, " Visit them." We are not to wait till the temporal or spiritual cloud has lifted ; but while the shadows still shroud the soul in darkness, then is the time to let in the bright rays of consolation and sympathy. The work has been begun and is progressing. The Prison •and Hospital are visited weekly, and their inmates helped and comforted as far as possible. +hen, too, an attack has been made upon heathendom in these Islands; and to show result of this attack, we have simply to mention the report before the Y. M. C. A. at its last meeting, in which it was stated that 21 Chines~ had been admitted to mem- bership in Rev. Mr. Rouse's church, Maui. Still there is ample room for Christian work. Now, when we have accomplished all this, when we have done our duty faithfully to the sick and imprisoned, we have attained, as it seems, the easiest part of the re4uirements of Pure Religion. We have worked for others; but that is not enough. '' To keep one's self unspotted from the world'' is still incumbent. And how much that means! The effort is a life work. The struggle is acrainst self and the natural heart. Obstacles of evil are on every hand, and instead of straight, the path ahead sPems crooked indeed.· Perfection is impossible with finite beings, and some stains will cling; but with the primal motive, God's will, those spots will be washed out in forgiveness. Have we this '' Relig-ion undefiled?" The present is with us. The needy are around us, and if our own hearts are right, the only question with each one of us will be, How shall we best attain the requirements of pure religion? Then, when another year has flown, in the present that shall confront us we shall trace the lineaments of a past full of glorious achievements. In One Life-time, Some one has recently written : '' I am not an old man, yet in material things l have seen the creation of a new world. I am contemporary with the railroad, the telegraph, the steamship, the photograph, the steam plow, the friction match, gaslight, chloroform, nitro-glycerine, the monitor, the caloric engine, the California gold discoveries, the oil-well discoveries, gutta percha, canned fruits, the electric light, the telephone, etc. Gentlemen conservatives, these are some of the footprints of material progress of the present ge_neratio~. Do you think the moral world will remam the same as before? that society will be unaffected by these changes ? If you do, let me call your attention to the fact that this same generation has seen the abolition of slavery on a errand scale, the ascendancy of republican America, the opening of Chma aud Japan, the institutjon of world's fairs, the spread of the insurance system, and the agitation for the freedom of women. And the march is steadily o-q, with accelerating motion. What is its meaning? Where will it end?" · 'fHE meeting of the Association took place Thursday evening, Dec. 18th. The attendance was very poor, there being but ten members pre:sent. After various items of business and reports from members of committees, the subject "Unequal Taxation_?, was discussed. We call attention to the subject for next month in our advertisement, and would ask for a fair atendance at least of the members of the Association. THE corner-stone of a new Congregational chapel was recently laid at l\lilton, England, by a member of the .Established Church, and an English Church newspaper, commenting on the fact, says: " In these days many a good Churchman is thankful to have a Dis~enting chapel to go to, who would never have been induced to cross its threshold before our churches were turned into Mass-houses." "THE wind is unseen, but it cools the brow of the fevered orie, sweetens the summer atmosphere, and ripples the surface of the water into silver spangles of beauty. So goodness of. heart, though invisible to the material eye, makes its presen:::e felt, and from its effects upon surrounding things w~ are assured of its existence." RusKIN never said a truer thing than this : "If you want knowledge, you must toil for it; 1f food, you must toil for it; and if pleasure, you must toil for it. Toil is the law. Pleasure comes through toil, and not by self-indulgence and indolence. When one gets to loving work, his life is a happy one. Said a poor man in Brooklyn, the other day, with a family of eleven to pro• vide for : " If I were worth a million dollars l should not wish to do much d erent than I do now every d_ay, working hour after hour. I love it a thousand times better than to rest.'' He has for nearly half a century been surrounded by workers, and has caught the spirit of industry. He loves his work better than food or sleep. He is happy who has conquered laziness once and forever. He that has an eye and a heart can even now say, Why should I falter? Light has come into the world ; to such as love light, so as light must bP loved, with a boundless, all-doing, all-enduring love. Here on earth we are as soldiers fighting in a foreign land, that understand not the plan of the campaign, and have no need to understand it, seeing well what is at our hand to be done. Let us do it like soldiers, with submission, with courage, with a heroic joy. " Whatsoever thy hand .findeth to do, do it with all thy might.'' Behind us, behind each one of us, lie six thousand years of human effort, human conquest. Before us is the boundless time, with. its as yet uncreated and unconquered continents and Eldoradoes, which we, even we, have to conquer, to create ; and from the bosom of eternity there shine for us celestia] guiding stars. " My inheritance, how wide and fair l Time is ruy fair seed field-of time I'm heir." · -Cariyle ..