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THE RIEND

HONOLULU, AUGUST 1, 1866.

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CONTENTS
Far Angu.l,

1860.

America. College at Pekin
'SlahBrown, Jto
Narrow Kacape of the Blue Jacket1
General Sanaa' View of tbe Treatment of Negroei
Key. I. 8. Riling
Story of the ■ Mqrniug Star"
Chinamen belt managed by Kindness
LateNewi

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Kapiolanl
An

Knftliihniuii'a

Opinion of New Hrglantl

IMilor'l Table
The Murder of Mr. liudoit
Marine Journal,Ac

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THE FRIEND.
AUGUST I. 1860,

American College at Pekin.

Having met with newspaper allusions to
a College at Pekin, during the visit of Mr.
Burlingame we applied to him for information on the subject. The following is the
substance of what we learned: It appears
that, several years ago, American merchants,
missionaries and others, residing at Canton,
received injuries in their property to the
amount of several hundred thousand dollars.
A demand was made upon the Chinese
Government, through Mr. Burlingame. An
arrangement was effected, and the Chinese
paid $750,000. Those who had claims now
brought them forward and were settled with,
but after all were paid there remained a balance of over $200,000. Mr. Burlingame
offered to return this amount to the Chinese,
but they declined receiving it. The question then arose, whit shall be done with
this money, which, in the meantime, has
been well invested. It has been proposed to
endow an American College at Pekin, and
invest this money in a Board of Trustees,
consisting of the Minister Plenipotentiary at
Pekin, and a certain number of American
Consuls in China, together with a number
of American Missionaries, who shall be
elected from time to time to that office, in
all, say ten Trustees. It is furthermore
proposed to admit young men from the
United States, who shall receive an annual
stipend to defray their expenses while at-

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{(SMJStrits, M 23.

"Mark Twain," at the Confessional!
tending this College. While enjoying its
them
This noted correspondent of the Sacraadvantages, it is proposed to educate
Union, has left for the coast, but we
and
mento
so that they may become interpreters
at
Embassy
,and may expect he will continue to write about
translators
the American
the various Consulates in China.
the islands and people. On his departure,
It is also proposed to admit deserving he sent us the following epistle :
Honoluw July 19, 1866.
young Chinese, who may there learn the
Mr,
Rev.
Damon
:—Dear Sir—l return
and
become
acquainted
English language
book I borrowed, with many
herewith
the
last
with the knowledge of " outside barbarians." thanks for its use and for all your kindness.
There is no doubt such an institution, if I take your Jarvc-s' History with me, beonce established, would be of incalculable cause I may not be able to get it at home.
good to both Americans and Chinese. We I " cabbage " it by the strong arm, for lear
refuse to part with it if I asked
furthermore learned that the necessary steps you might
you. This is a case of military necessity,
for the attainment of the end proposed were and is therefore admissable. The honesty
now being taken by the President and the of the transaction may be doubtful, but the
leading men at Washington. As the inter- policy of it is sound—sound as the foundacourse between the Chinese and Americans tion upon which the imperial greatness of
increases, it is seen that something of this America rests.
So just hold on a bit. I will send the
kind is necessary. Hitherto, the Govern- book back within a month, or soon after I
ment has been compelled to depend upon arrive.
missionaries for translations. The present
C7* We sincerely wish that nil who borrow
Secretary of Legation at Pekih, S. W. Wil- books were equally conscientious. May this
liams, Esq., was for many yean connected remind others who have books in their posseswith the American Board's missionary op- sion belonging to our Sanctum, to return
rations in China. He is now admitted to them instanter.
be one of the most profound adepts in ChiThe arrival of General McCook, the
nese antiquities and language. His " Midnew Minister-Resident at the Hawaiian
dle Kingdom" is a standard work on China.
Court, relieves the Hon. James Mcßride,
He originally went out as printer to the
who has represented the American Governmission, but has risen to eminence through
ment during the last three years. The reindefatigable labors and studies.
tiring Minister has conducted the affairs of
Should this College become established, his
official station in a highly creditable
aud the " New Foreign Policy," referred to
in our last issue, be carried out, it will place manner. He has often evinced a most
American interests in China upon an ex- hearty attachment to the Government which
ceedingly advantageous basis. Well may he represented, and shown that he was a
the country be proud of the diplomatic skill
man of true Union sentiments, uncontamiand achievements of Mr. fiurlingame and
nated
with the least " copperish mixture."
others, who have been foremost in bringing
about these important results. We shall He has been often spoken of as a man of
not forget one remark of our distinguished the Lincoln type of character. He is a nacountryman, Mr. Burlingame. He remarked tive of Tennessee, but for many years has
that the collapse of the Southern ConfedHe returns to his
eracy and triumph of the Union cause was been a citizen of Oregon.
home
a
wide
circle of family
gladdened by
a most potent moral argument to effect the
who
policy
give
in friends,
will
him a cordial welaccomplishment of the American
China. Americans in China were not the come, while his friends and countrymen reonly Americans abroad who felt the moral siding on the islands will give him a most
influence of the triumph of the Union cause. cordial '• aloha" at his departure.

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THE FRIEND, AUGUST, 1866.

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with interest the pursuing and pursued,
was to intercept her, for they had quickly
discovered that a direct chase would be useless, as the sloop showed herself to be a very
fast sailer. So the brig stood straight towards the river mouth, hoping to reach it in
advance of the sloop, while the other kept
on to capture her if she should turn back
and attempt to run into Haspwall or Portland.
" We shall be tuk, cap'n," cooly remarked
a tall, ungainly youth of eighteen, who,
with a dipper fastened to a ten-foot handle,
was bailing up water from the sea and
throwing it on the mainsail of the sloop, to
swell the threads of the canvas and make it
better hold the wind. As he spoke, he
paused in his work, and leaned upon his
long dipper-handle, and shutting one eye, he
took a deliberate survey of the cruisers.
" iSot so long as two timbers of the Sally
hold together, 'Siali," responded the captain,
who grasped the helm, and with one eye
ahead and the other watching the enemy,
directed the course of his little vessel towards the shelter he sought. "If we'd only
had another twenty minutes afore sun-up,
we'd a got in. But the day aint agoin' to
stop for any man, and I dout expect it to.
All we'must do is to keep the Sally out of
'.he hands of the Britishers, now they've got
their eyes on us. Wet the sails, 'Siah,
keep wettin' 'em."
" I guess they kind o' guess what we've
got on board, captain," said 'Siah, as he
cast a shower of spray over the mainsail.
seem to take allfired trouble to catch
"us.They
See how the Sally jumps. The way she
tosses the water with her bows, I won't have
to wet her jib ; she does that herself."
" If we don't get into the river, and them
chaps overhaul us, what is to be done ?"
asked Mr. Bissell.
" It won't do to let them capture them
six big guns, and two barrels of powder, and
ton of shot, that we've got for the fort, that's
a fact, 'Siah," said, very decidedly, Captain,
or rather Deacon, Butters, who owned or
commanded the Sally, which had been engaged a few days before, by the Government
agent in Boston, to convey armaments and
ammunition to the fort. This enterprise the
deacon—for he was a lawful deacon in his
own town,, which was forty miles up the
river—had cheerfully undertaken, assuring
the agent that he could get the Sally into the
river safely, in spite of the cruisers. Shrewd,
bold and cool, the deacon saw that by running only in the night and hugging the
shore, he could probably get into the river
undiscovered, especially as the cruisers used
to stand off from the shore at night, a mile
or two for an offing, and run in again at
sunrise. The agent felt that a small coasting-vessel, with so watchful a captain as
Deacon Butters, would be quite as likely to
get into the river as a large one, if not
more so, and gave him the commission.
For the sum of three hundred dollars the
deacon had bargained to take the munitions
to the fort, and had also bound himself if
there was any danger of being captured to
scuttle the sloop and sink her.
The cannon were battery thirty-twos, six
in number, and were laid athwart-ship, side
by side upon the deck. The shot were
piled forward, and in the forecastle was
ing

'SIAB
H ROWN;

OR,

TheandEnYaSlgnlkiosehopCruiser.

BY

WM.

ADRIAN

HUNTLEY.

Kennebec River, in Maine, is without a
rival in New England, either for its historic
associations or the beauty of its natural
scenery. It rises among the passes of the
highlands that form the northeast boundary
line between the United States and Canada,
and, after flowing through a romantic region
for many miles, enters a valley of surpassing beauty, through which it meanders between level intervals of the richest verdure.
There is a fort near the mouth of the
river, called Fort Hunnewell. It is now a
ruin, and is a celebrated resort of the people
in summer. It was erected during the last

war to defend the entrance to the river. It
is situated upon a low beach, which is commanded on the north by a bold headland, a
hundred feet high, on which frowns the
ruins of a battery.
At the time of our story, which was near
the close of the war, two British armed vessels had been cruising off the mouth of the
river some days, occasionally running close
in with the fort, so as to draw their fire.
They were effectually blockading the entrance to the river, and for some time no
vessel had gone out or come in. Everything
was brought to, even to the small fishingboat, and the strictest vigilance was maintained from the first day of their arrival.
One morning in June, just as the sun was
rising from the sea, throwing its fiery spears
faT across the sparkling waves, lighting up
every object upon which it lit, the English
cruisers were standing in towards the mouth
of the river, under topgallant-sails, with the
wind free on the larboard quarter. They
were half a mile apart, their course converging to a point. This point was a sloop, hugging the land and endeavoring to make the
entrance to the river. Her broad mainsail
was flung to the wind like a great white
wing, and she was sweeping across the water like a gull flying before a storm. She
had been discovered by the cruisers only a
lew minutes before, when they tacked together and pressed after her to intercept her,
making sail as they went. Fifteen minutes
more of the obscurity of the morning, and
the adventurous sloop would have got into
ttte river and under the guns of the fort unseen, or seen too late to be cut off.
It was a beautiful sight to behold the three
vessels in motion, one small, unarmed, with
but three sails to help her along in her flight,
bounding along close under the shore; the
others tall, frowning with batteries and covered with canvas from deck to truck. The
sloop was a mile in-shore of the cruisers,
and about three miles westward from the
mouth of the river, being, when discovered
just stealing round Caps Smallpoint.
The cruisers stood on for about ten minutes after tacking, in the same converging
lines, when the corvette signalized the brig,
Which immediately luffed and bore up four
points eastward, while the former kept her
first course. The object had in view by this
manoeuvre of the brig, it was plainly evident
to the fisherman, who, from the rocks upon
which their huts were perched, were watch-

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stored the powder in casks and securely protected under canvas ; tarpaulins also covered

the guns.
"If we can only stand on ten minutes
more, 'Siah," said the deacon to his mate,
don't fear them two cruisers a bit. One
"ofI them,
you see., has luffed to try to cut us
off. If 'twant for this plaguy heavy iron
we've got in her, I'd show the enemy how
to make a keel cut blue water through.
But we must get in Lot," he added, turning
to a ragged old man, who looked like a
weather-beaten fisherman, who comprised all
his crew, and who was now engaged in tending the main sheet, the slack of which he
held in his iron fist.
It's get in safely, deacon," answered Lot
Bissell, gruffly, " and get three hundred dollars, or sink the sloop, and no insurance !"
" That's a fact, Mr. Bissell," responded
the Yankee skipper with emphasis ; and he
glanced under the main boom to see how
the fort and shore lay, and then hove his
eyes to the windward and took a deliberate
inspection of the enemy.
«' Take a small pull on the main sheet,
Mr. Bissell. 'Siah, haul aft the jib sheet a
bit. The Britisher is smoking his pipe,"
added the skipper, quietly, as he saw n jet of
smoke belch forth from the bow of the corvette. He had hardly got the words out of
his mouth when the boom of a gun reached
his ears, and simultaneously a shot passed
whizzing over their heads.
"I don't stand that 'are," said 'Siah, in a
determined tone, which singularly contrasted
with his awkward exterior. "Give me
leave, deacon, and I'll give 'em a shot
back."
" Ease off the main sheet. Lot. Be ready
to dodge, for I guess there'll be another of
them chunks of iron this way. They hain't
no pilot or they wouldn't keep so near Porpoise Rock Ledge."
Cool and steady the skipper stood at his
post and directed the course of his little
craft. All at once he gave a loud hurrah.
The corvette had struck upon a rock barely
below water, known as Porpoise Ledge, and
everything was taken aback, while her main
royalmast went over the side.
" That's for not taking a pilot on a strange
coast," said the skipper, drily, while his
keen littleeyes fairly glittered with pleasure,
but he made no further demonstrations of
joy ; but after taking a second glance at the
vessel, and seeing that matters on board of
her were in too much confusion for them to
trouble themselves further about him, he
now gave his whole attention to the brig,
which was about a mite from him, and about
an equal distance from the river.
Upon seeing the accident that had happened to her consort, she bore down a little
and hoisted a signal. It was responded to
on board the corvette, when the brig resumeo
her course.
" The corvette, I suppose, says she don't
want any aid. so the brig is left at liberty to
look after us," said the skipper. " It looks,
too, as if she would be likely to get to the
entrance as soon as the Sally, and then I
guess it's all up with us. But I don't give
up so long as a timber hangs to her, or 1 can
have a limb to hang on to the tiller by. But
what in natur' are you doing there, Josiah f
Well might he ask this question. The

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ambitious young man had brought from the
forecastle a keg of powder, and knocked the
head in with a handspike, and was now tying about half a peck of it up in a handkerchief which he had taken from his neck.
" Doin' ! I'm goin' to give 'em a gun. If
these here guns have got to go to Davy's
first, I
locker, I'll have one fire out of

guess," replied Josiah.

As 'Siah spoke, he threw down a moveable section of the bulwarks amidships, leav-

ing an open space to the sea before the muzzles of three of the enormous cannon that lay
across the deck. He then took up his huge
cartridge, and thrusting it into the muzzle of
one of them, began to ram it down with a

handspike.

" I guess if they got that shot it'll settle
'em," said 'Siah, as he dropped, feet first,
off the rigging, and tried to see through the
smoke.
As the smoke slowly rolled away, the
brig was discovered, no longer standing
down, but knocking about at the mercy of
wind and waves, her foremast gone by the
board and dragging over her sides, with all
its yards and sails. The shot had cut oft'
the mast within two feet of the deck.
'Siah was perfectly confounded, but manifested no surprise, while the deacon and
Lot set up a loud hurrah of triumph.
" Why, what's the matter ? Why don't
you hallo ?" said the deacon, taking breath.
Coz it ain't nothing more'n 1 meant to

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is the critter at ?" cried do," replied 'Siah, with inimitable sangfroid ;
surprised, if you be, deacon."
" IInain't
twenty minutes more the slsop Sally,
'Siah made no reply, but, having rammed
the cartridge home, he rolled a thirty-two with her valuable cargo, was sheltered unpound shot towards it, and giving it a lift, der the guns of Fort Hunnewell. The Britshoved it into the muzzle after the powder. ish corvette lay upon the rock till the next
" Now for primin' her, and then if I don't tide, and the brig lay by her, rigging a jurygive 'em a Fourth of July salute they never mast. Before sunset both vessels made sail
and steered eastward, on the way to Haliheard one."
As he spoke, he poured a handful of fax, to repair damages. The blockade was
powder into the vent, and then jumping to raised, greatly to the relief of the commerce
the caboose, he lighted a pine-knot, and ap- of the river.
proached the gun.
Narrow Escape of the " Blue Jacket."
Stop, 'Siah, stop !" shouted the skipper,
"
of our readers will remember the visit
Many
voice
b.'ow
the
; " you'll
at the top of his
Sally to Jericho if you fire that 'are gun of the Blue Jacket to Honolulu, last Decemaboard on her!"
ber, for a cargo of oil. She was then leakI don't calculate I'll be tuk pris'ner by ing, but the captain deemed her sea-worthy.
" Britishers,
deacon, and be put in Dartthe
News by the late mail reports that she made
more. 1 don't mean to fire jest yet, but take
a chance for good aim, and then give them an uncommonly good passage of 99 days
from Honolulu to New Bedford, but entered
saltpeter!"
bone out of the Sally," leaking badly. Notwithstanding a windmill
every
It'll
shake
"
said the deacon, in alarm.
had been rigged to assist in pumping, the
As he spoke, the brig fired a shot across
crew
were much exhausted by excessive
her bows.
to, Lot," said the labor. We congratulate Capt. Dillingham,
means
heave
That
"
knot."
his wife and the crew on their providential
skipper. " 'Siah, put out
"I mean to by'm'by, deacon. Wait till I escape. We copy the following from the
get a shot at 'em. I ain't afeard of hurtin' Boston Journal
'•
the Sally a bit. You just yaw her round a
Ax Evkxtfx'l Cakekr.—The adventures of Capt.
little bit, and bring the muzzle of my artil- James
S. Dillingham, of Chelsea, witbin afewyeai*,
lery piece right agin the brig, and if I don't afford sufficient nmlerial for a novel. In 1860,
don't
while first mate of the Nabob, of this city, he was
show them how a Yankee can speak, I
want to see t'other side of old Kennebec instrumental in bringing (hut vessel into port, over

" What on r.irth
the deacon.

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THE FRIEND, AUGUST, 1866.

Gen. Banks' View of the Treatment of
Negroes.

General Banks, in Congress, recently,
told the following story :
When I was younger than 1 am, in the
State of New Hampshire, in the town of
Nashua, where I obtained my education at
a university with a belfry at the top and a
wuter-wheel under the lower stories, [laughter,] looking out with my associates and
fellow-students upon the smooth and glassy
surface of the Merrimack River, that stream
of perpetual beauty and perpetual life, we
saw a colored boy, intimately known to us,
upon the surface, engaged in the pleasant
exercise of skating, for it was winter. While
we looked upon the beautiful Merrimack,
the little negro boy suddenly went in. You
may never have seen a negro under such
circumstances.
We went down to him with all the speed
possible. Going out to the middle of the
river, we took up a plank and handed it to
the negro, and he grasped it with as much
alacrity as any one of them will take a ballot
when we give it to him. Just as we had
got it on the hole into which he had fallen,
he fell oft' the plank and went in again*
The second time he came up he wore an
expression I shall never forget. You may
never have seen a negro under such circumstances.

He was speechless ; his emotions suppressed all rhetoric ; he did not indulge in
any eloquence at all. He grasped the plank
this time, not with alacrity, but with ferocity,
and we brought him again to the surface.
We thought he was a negro saved from the
jaws of death; but off the little fellow
slipped and went down. You may never

have seen a negro under such circumstances.
He addressed us a speech, and I never
heard a speech that contained so much of
touching eloquence as was embodied in that
little negro's speech. " Please gib dis nigger dc wooden end of «lat board," You see
the end we had given him was the Jcy end.
It was the same icy end that m* been
held out to him by the Southern people for
two hundred years. He was entirely satisfied that the wooden end was the beW.
Now, sir, what we propose for the negro
ten thousand miles, under jurymast. In 18GL he
entered the navy as Acting Master, and after a in this country, is to give him the wooden
year's service resigned and accepted the ornmand end of the board. He has had the icy end
of the clipper ship Snow Squall, and sailed for the
of it for more than two centuries. The desWest Indies. On his return he was overhauled hy the Confederate hark Tuncaloosa, and while under her guns managed olation of more than moral retribution has
by skillful seamanship to escape, and though fired upon and
chased, he eluded capture
come upon the men who extended to him
He again left New York in the Snow Squall, snd on his pasend of the board. He will receive
sage through the Straits of Lemnir whs blown ashore, and put the icy
Into fort Stanley, where the ship was condemned, but deterfrom
that
act of justice the same joy which
mined to make the best of ids misfortunehe stripped his ship
and sold the material, transferred his cargo to another vessel that little negro experienced.

River agin."
A second gun came from the brig, and the
<
shot passed within ten feet of the deacon's
a
made
rent
a
fathom
his
long in
head, and
mainsail, and the shock caused his peak halyards to part and let the peak of his mainsail down. This caused the Sally to fall off
a point or two, and while the skipper, unflinching and with a quiet look, was trying and the royage terminated much more successfully than could
to bring her to the wind again, 'Siah, taking h»ve been expected. He took passage on the bark Mandarin
for Baltimore, and a few days out fnm Kio Janeiro,the bark
advantage of a moment as she swung, in was
captured and burnt by the Florida, loMng his churls, Ac.
which his loaded gun bore upon the brig, in- Alter a stay of ten days aboard the pirate he was put on board
a Portuguesebrig, and reached Baltimore.
the
vent.
The owners of (he Snow Squall, snd also the underwriters,
stantly applied the torch to
were entirely satisfied with his tact and enterprise. Tbe former
The roar, the flame and the concussion placed
the new ship Blue Jacket in his charge, and in June
were terrible. The little vessel reeled under 1866, he left for Ban Francisco. He then started for Honolulu
wherehe
tn a cargo of oil and bone and started forNew
the recoil of the vast gun, till the waves Bedford. took
When a few days out the ship began to leak and
to leak badly, so badly that 'tie pumps were incespoured in ever the bows and stern. The continued
at work, and the hands were only relieved by a windmill
skipper and Lot were laid flat on the deck, santly
which Captain Dillingham erected. Unwilling to abandon his
ship, he concealtd the actual condition of sffnirs from his crew,
while 'Siah found himself hanging by the and
by his own example and cheerfulness induced his men to
hope for the beat, and on Friday last he brought his ship Into
heels in the lee shrouds.
New
Bedford, 99 days from Honolulu, to the surprise of all
deacon
his
thought
For a few minutes the
who have visited the vessel.
vessel would go down, she wallowed and
A wise man is not governed by the
plunged so; but she soon steadied herself,
though with her decks flooded and her wind- ordinances of men, but is governed by the
rule of virtue.—Antifthenes.
lass unshipped.

•

New Bedford Whalers Striking Oil.—
The New Bedford Standard says : Messrs.
George and Matthew Howland, we understand, have the present week settled with the
officers and crews of the ships Corinthian and
George Howland, the voyages amounting to
the enormous sum of 1600,000—the former
$275,000 and the latter 8225,000. No
merchants engaged in the whale-fishery ever
had the opportunity of settling two such
voyages in a single week, and they amount
to a larger sum than ever before resulted

from two voyages.

Advise not what is most pleasant,
Solon.

but what is best;

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68

THE FRIEND.
tsee.
august

Rev. F. S.

i.

Rising.

As before stated in. our columns, this gentleman is a clergyman of the Protestant
Episcopal Church of the United States.
During the last four years he has been
preaching in Virginia City, Nevada. His
health having failed, he came to the islands
to recruit, and we are happy to know that
he returned almost entirely recovered. While
here, he received an appointment under the Church Missionary Society of
the Episcopal Church of the United Stutcs.
This is a voluntary Society formed nmong
the earnest and evangelical portion of that
Church. Hereafter Mr. Rising's address
will be No. 3 Bible House, New York. We
mention this fact, thinking some of his
friends upon the islands might wish to communicate with him. During his sojourn
here, he travelled quite extensively through
tne group, visiting nearly every station occupied by (he American and French Missions,
not omitting to make thorough inquiries
respecting the Reformed Catholics and every
literary, eleemosynary, Missionary and scientific Association upon the islands. His
investigations have been most thorough, and
he succeeded in collecting a mass of statistics and facts—historical and Missionary—
such as has rarely been gathered by any
visitor. Some of the officers of Government,
Missionaries and others, have furnished him
with many valuable books, pamphlets and
other documents. We are not informed to
what use the clerical gentleman will put
the materials at his disposal, but of this we

—

Thb Story of the " Morning Star."
This is the title of a small pamphlet of 72
pages, written by Rev. H. Bingham, Jr.
The history of the Missionary vessel is written in a pleasing and entertaining style.
The Prudential Committee of the American
Bonrd appear to have employed Mr. Bingham as an agent to raise the necessary funds
for building the new Morning Star. The
sum required is $13,000. The method
adopted is essentially the same as that so
successfully employed ten years ago, when
funds were raised for building the first vessel. The children in the Sabbath Schools
connected with the Churches supporting the
Missions of the Board are invited to con-

•Late News.— Congress has appropriated
$50,000 per annum for ten years, to subsidizo
a Line of Steamers between Honolulu and

San Francisco.

So the question of Steam
communication is now settled.
A new Freedmen's Bureau Bill has passed,
and bear vetoed by the President. On being
returned to Congress, a large majority immediately re-passed the Bill, which was
instantly reported as the law of the land. In
war times, the President's power was imperial, if not equal to that of an Autocrat, but
in peace-times, that power is reduced almost
to a nullity.

The news from Europe is important.
Great Uittles have been fought. Prussia
tribute their dimes. Each dime represents triumphs over Austria. Venetia has been
a share, or each contributor of one dime be- ceded to Frnncc. Another great battle was
comes a stockholder in the enterprise. Ere about to be fought.
long the children of our foreign and native
Bishop of New Zealand.—Some unschools will be invited to co-operate in this known friend has
kindly sent us a copy of
enterprise. In America, a contributor of "The Supplement to the
Weekly News,"
fifty cents is entitlod to receive n copy of this published at Auckland, N. Z, May 12th. It
little pamphlet, "The Story of the Morning contains an
interesting address of Bishop
Star."
Selwyn, and furnishes much valuable inforChinamen best Managed by Kindness.— mation respecting the work of missions in
We shall not soon forget the remarks of Mrs. Melanesia, under the direction of Bishop
Burlingame, wife of the American Minister, Patteson. In onr next issue we shall publish
during her visit to Honolulu. She had lived extracts.
in China, and had much experience among
An English Bishop's Opinion of American
Missionaries, Especially those at the
Chinese,
and
her
was
in
testimony
the
fnvorof kind treatment. No people, she said, Sanhwich Islands.—At the late meeting of
British and Foreign Bible Society, at
were more susceptible to praiso and kindness. Hall, London, Bishop Smith, of Exeter
China,
Ordinarily tell your servants what to do and Church of England Bishop, bore the follow,
they will do it. One great source of diffi- ing testimony to the character of the Americulty was that they could not understand Missionnries :
"I wish that on this occasion my voice
exactly whut was required of them. Those might travel across
the Atlantic, and carry
employing them should most scrupulously to our dear American brethren there the
fulfil their engagements. See to it that they nssurance that British Christians and British
are ronftfrrnt, that he has qualified himself
arc promptly paid and well fed. Kindness Churchmen cherish no common sympathy in
to act efficiently as an officer of a Misbegets kindness, while ill temper engenders their religious welfare and usefulness and
sionary
and hereafter, should quesnational prospects. I received no ordinary
and resentment.
courtesy and attention from Christians of
tions arise among the managers of " Episco- anger
pal Missionary" funds in the United States, Tabu on Alcohol not taken off. —We every denomination in America. I feel that
we are in danger of not sufficiently appreMr. Rising will be prepared to speak with are glad to learn that a majority in the Ha- ciating
the strength of their organization
authority and intelligence, and we are very waiian Legislature had the good sense not and the blessedness of their Missionary laconfident he will be ready to bear honorable to open the flood-gates of ruin any wider bors. And let me here say that it has been
testimony in regard to the work accom- than they are at present. Give rum sellers my happy experience to associate with American Missionaries of no ordinary reputation.
plished by the American Missionaries. unrestrained license and we think the Ha- As
long as the names of Abeel, Richmond,
Already, as a corresponding member of the waiian race would go to destruction with Holman, Bishop Boone, and the young marHawaiian Evangelical Association, while rail road speed. It is not quite time to tyred Missionary, Walter Lowrie, shall survive in my memory, so long shall I retain
loyal to his own Church, he has made unchain the tiger."
an affectionate veneration and respect for the
known that he could unite in " thanking "
of my American brethren in the
God for the Gospel work which He has put Samoan Bible.—We would acknowedge character
Missionary work, and so long will I refuse
it" into the hearts of the American Mis- a
copy of the Samoan Bible—beautifully to listen to any statements or assertions from
sionaries here to perform. Such men can printed and bound—from the Rev. A. W. any quarter, which may try to depreciate in
fraternize with " the good, the true and the Murray, of Apia. It is published by the our minds the value, the solidity and the
permanency of their Missionary labors in
faithful" of all evangelical denominations of British and Foreign Bible Society.
every land, and not least of all the labors of
Christians throughout the world. Unless
our dear brethren in the Sandwich Islands."
we are much mistaken, he will be ready imRufus L. Rundell will find a box, to (Applause.)
partially to make known among Episcopa- his address, at the office of A. J. Cartwright
A few days' absence from Honolulu,
lians in the United States what has been
done by American Missionaries on the Ha- Esq., Agent of Wells, Fargo & Co. It was has prevented us from promptly issuing the
waiian Islands.
tho Isi
„,r.,,iU
Friend
itkiui, nn
sent to the care of the Editor.
on un.
i3i nf
oi t\,§.
me niontn.

Reminiscences of

Kapiolani.

RBYEV.LOANDREWS.
R IN

Having lately read an article in the
Hours at Home, written by the Rev. Dr.
Anderson, respecting some traits of Christian character as exemplified in the life of
Kapiolani, of Kaawaloa, Hawaii, I Teel inclined to add my testimony to the correctness of the statements there made, having
been for some time a resident in her family.
In the latter part of the year 1829, the
sloop-of-war Vincennes, Capt. Finch, visited
the islands. After a pleasant intercourse of
some weeks of the captain and officers with
the Chiefs at Honolulu, the Chiefs of Maui
and Hawaii were about to return to their
respective islands, when Capt. F. kindly
offered to convey them to their homes in the
Vincennes. Among other passengers of this
class were Kuakini, (John Adams,) Governor
of Hawaii, and Kapiolani, of Kaawaloa, on
the same Island.
Some time previous to this the Mission
had appointed a deputation to visit Waimea,
on Hawaii, to see if it were practicable to
establish a Missionary station there, partly
with a view to the recruit of health. Of
this deputation I was one, and, by the invitation of the First Lieutenant, took passage
from Lahaina in that ship. On the morning
of the second day, being off Kailua, Hawaii,
Governor Adams and suite were put ashore,
and the ship passed on and anchored in the
Bay of Kealakeakua, on the Kaawaloa side
of which Kapiolani and her husband, Naihe,
had their residence. The Vincennes lay at
anchor in the bay some three or four days,
and then returned to Honolulu. Waiting
the arrival of the other members of the deputation to Waimea, I resided as a guest in
the family of Kapiolani some two or three
weeks. To all that Dr. Anderson says of
the civilized habits, and refinement even, of
that woman, I was all that time an eye-witness. I can say I never put up at any
boarding-house where the arrangements of
furniture, the furnishing of the table, the
preparation of the food, the attention of servants, the dignity of the presiding matron
were superior. Everything was neat and
kept in order. I often wondered how a person so long under the influence of the degraded habits of heathenism, could, in so
short a time, arrive at and adopt, not merely
civilized habits, but a high degree of them,
and entirely to have dropped her former
ones; but such was the fact. We have
seen, in a multitude of cases, the Chiefs and
people forsake their habits peculiarly heathenish, but it has always been slow and
difficult work fully i<> adopt civilized habits.
Not so with Kapiolani. As soon as she
began to attend to instruction at Honolulu,
under the teaching of Mr. and Mrs. Bing.
ham and Mr. and Mrs. Thurston, she became perseveringly interested ; her manners
and intelligence at once commenced improvement, and what she gained she never lost.
This continued nearly three years. On the
location of the membersof the first reinforcement, she and her husband returned to.Hawaii, with Mr. and Mrs. Ely for their teachers, where she was taught more fully in relation to domestic habits.
The last evening before the sailing of tho

AUGUST, 1866.

Vincennes from Kaawaloa, Capt. Finch and
the wardroom officers were invited to take
tea at Kapiolani's house. Mr. Bingham and
Mr. Stewart retired early from the table, in
order to prepare some documents for the
Missionary House in Boston, and left me to
act as the sole interpreter between the parties. Capt. F. had seen much of Kapiolani
before, but always in company with other
Chiefs. But now he was permitted to see
her in her own house, and as she appeared
in her own family. The Captain had a
great variety of questions to ask about herself, the other Chiefs, their former state, the
instruction of the Missionaries, Sec., &cc.,
to all of which she replied readily, pertinently and fully, at the same time doing the
honors of the table. Some of the questions
about herself were, " How long since she
had learned to read and write ?" Whether
she " went to school like a little child ?" kc.
To this she replied, she and other Chiefs
went to *he Missionaries and were taught
by them to read and write ; for at that time
regular schools were not formed. At the
same time she called to a servant to bring a
manuscript. It was a copy of the Gospel of
St. John, in her own hand-writing. She
said she received the sheets from Messrs.
Thurston and Bishop, as they were translated, and she transcribed it herself for her
own use, as she could not wait to have it
printed. When she spoke of instruction,
the Surgeon of the Vincennes began to put
questions to her concerning Boston, London,
New York, Europe and America, which she
promptly answered. He then asked her
where she learned these things. She said,
Missionaries told me." The Surgeon
" The turned
to me and said, " I am very
then
glad to hear this, for at Honolulu we were
told that the Missionaries taught nothing

but religion."
The evening passed with the highest degree of good feeling on both sides. Just before the Captain left, he took a seat beside
me on the settee, a little apart from the
others, and said': "Mr. Andrews, I never
expected to have the slightest feeling on
leaving these Islands; but, as I have seen
this woman, heiird her conversation, observed
her manners and especially noticed her religious principles, 1 cannot help admiring

what I nave seen. I shall remember this
tea-party as long as I live. I have no where
in my visits to different countries seen any
woman who reminds me so much of my
mother as this. 1 shall shake hands with
her with a sigh."
To all this I know of no drawback. She
ever continued her civilized habits, her generous, kind-hearted disposition, and especially her anxious desire for the intellectual,
moral and religious improvement of the common people, until her death.
Supplement for August.—We furnish
our subscribers with another Supplement,
containing the Sermon upon Home Missions.
lately preached by the Rev. E. Bond.

We would acknowledge late American
papers from Capt. Hempstead, and also C.

69

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Kapiolani.

The moral heroism displayed by this distinguished Hawaiian Chiefesa, in visiting
Kiluuea, has imparted to her character an
elevation and attractiveness which have impressed most favorably the minds of all acquainted with the circumstances. Her visit
is no less remarkable than the abolition of
the tabn system, The most earnest entreaties, by friend and foe, were put forth to dissuade her from incurring the wrath of the
goddess Pcle, whn was supposed to preside
over the boiling caldron, where, from time
immemorial, her worshippers had brought
their offerings and cast them into the flames.
Standing near the active pit, and in presence
of mnny of her people, she exclaimed :
" Jehovah is my God. I fear not Pole.
Should I perish by her anger, then you may
fear her power. But if Jehovah save me,
when breaking through the tabus, then
you must fear and serve Jehovah. The
gods of Hawaii are vain. Great is the
goodness of Jehovah in sending us Missionaries to turn us from these vanities to the
living God." Then all united in singing a
hymn of praise, and bowed in prayer to the
Jehovah.

Lord Byron—cousin of the poet—commanding H. B. M. ship Blonde, (which
brought the remains of Kamehameha II and
his Queen from England to Honolulu,) thus
refers to Kapiolani's heroic conduct: " One
of the greatest acts of moral courage which
hasv perhaps, ever been performed ; and the
nctor was a woman, and, as we are pleased
to call her, a savage." (Voyage of the
Blonde, 1824, 1825.)
The Rev. Dr. Anderson has graphically
described this event in Kapiolnni's life, in
the sketch of her life and character recently
published in the Hours at Home." He
"
concludes that sketch with this paragraph :
" The hand of God is to bo acknowledged in
the consistent, Christian life, for twenty
years, of this child of a degraded paganism.
Hers was the religion of the Puritans, and
would to God that all those Islanders, from
the highest to the lowest, were like her.
We should then behold a nearer approach to
a heaven on earth than earth has afforded
since the fall."
Kapiolani died May 5,1841, at Kaawaloa,
Hawaii, very near the spot where Captain
Cook was killed.
We copy the following poetic description
of Kapiolani's visit to Kilauea from a poem
published in London, in 1645, and written
by the Rev. Robert Grant, B. C. L., Fellow
of Winchester College, Sec., Sec.:
I''air is the morn : tbe sun is mounting high,
Cloudless as truth itself, the clear blue sky,
As a vast mirror, in their ceaseless Bow
.Seems to reflect the azure depths below.

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70

What newer peril stops tbe dauntless band?
Collecting in a circle, see, they stand,
And hark! upborne on wings of faith, they raise
From grateful hearts sweet strains of holy praise.
How different from the crater's hollow groan!
Unwonted strains, and music not its own!
Such sounds, when sleep hud hushed tin- prisoner's
wail,
Broke the sad silence of Philippi's gaol,
When, echoing the dreary cells among,
Tbe holy captives sang their midnight song.
Christian's creed.
The Gospel light can soften and illume
Hushed in one moment is the gathering hum,
The crater's horrors and the dungeon's gloom.
As speed the tidings swift, "They come, they As nearer to the lowest dcptliß they drew,
come!"
So stronger waxed their faith and bolder grew.
All eyes are fixed, as with a faithful few
Each conquest won seemed easier than the last,
The fearless Kapiolani nearer drew ;
A presage of tbe future is the past.
In vain affection urges all its ties
the vast crowd a kindling courage spiead,
Through
enterprise;
To move her from the
Tbe horrid depths grew by degree." less dread,
her
rude
attire.
In vain the priestess in
None dared the thought to utter, or reply—
Tbe fringes of her robe consumed by fire,
Vet, " Where was I'ele'.'" spoke the asking eye ;
prophetic
eye,
her
witli
mock
staff,
Waving
Incredulous no longer of success.
Threatened tbe vengeance of the deity;
The closer to the crater's edge they press.
In vain ;—the light of Gospel truth bad shone,
And watch with rivetted and mute surprise,
Her spell was broken and lier power was gone.
Tbe triumph of the noble enterprise,
Of different aspect, natural, firm, serene,
As, far below, far as the dizzy sight
dose by her side the man of God is seen
Can pierce the gloom of that volcano's night,
No wand ho waves, no mystic robe lie wears,
Down at the lowest depths they see them stand,
His best credentials, in his h\nd he bears
Whilst Kapiolani with uplifted hand,
arms
God—the
he
wields,
only
The word of
Firm to the last, in God's own service brave,
;
yields
two-edged
whose
sword
the
Before
opponent
Uninjured stirs tbe hot yet harmless wave.
Truth on his lips, and mildness in his eye,
No vengeful goddess in her flaming car
Ho loolw, he is, a legato from the sky.
Wakened the strife of elemental war ;
With hurried step, and with averted face,
The invaders of her realm secure remained,
Oft had she passed the awe-inspiring place,
And all around unwonted quiet reigned.
When childhood's faith was simple and sincere,
Then burst ten thousand voices from that throng,
her
fear
so grew
9hd growing with her growth,
Ten thousand hands were raised, whilst every
But now no fears could influence or control
tongue,
of
the
heroine's
soul;
The settled purpose
No longer owning Pele's iron rod,
bravado's
mien,
was
her's
the
bold
Yet
not
Confessed tbe might of Kapioluni's God.
Whose self-reliance in his look* is seen,
Scarce more triumphantly on Carmel's height
challenge
theatric
air
and
loud,
with
As
Truth turned false Baal's priests to shameful flight,
He courts the plaudits of the gazing crowd ;
With outstretched hands the holy Tishbite raised
Hers was a quiet bravery, which proved
His prayer to Heaven, and straight the altar
Her deep devotedness to Him she loved,
blazed,
As some fair lake concealed from public view,
And wrung from Israel's throng the glad acclaim.
Whose deepest waters are the stillest too,
Tho Lord, the Lord iB God:—we bow to His
Her modest flame, not lit with earthly fires,
great bame."
Glowed with that warmth a holy cause inspires.
relied,
steadfastly
on
her
God
she
Not
in her proudest days, when festal Koine
As
Welcomed some favorite child of conquest home,
Her surest Guardian and her safest Guide.
Did grntulation shed so warm a smile.
When nearer they approach the dizzy brink.
Some faithless fearful spirits halt and shrink
As beamed that day on fair Hawaii's Isle.
Willi all a patriot's glow theirbosoms burn.
From the dread trial, whilst a holder few,
And grateful thousands hail her safe return ;
By her example nerved, their course pursue.
And now they reach the edge, where, undismayed, A nobler triumph and a holier fame
and
prayed! Adorn forever Kapiulani's name.
By those terrific depths, they stopped
Humble as brave she shrank from public view,
A solemn, breathless silence reigned around.
no
sound, And gave the glory where alone 'twus due.
escaped
that
concourse
there
From
vaat
No cheer they raised.no speeding sound they gave; Yet glowed her breast, yet gleamed her modest
eye,
So still spectators stand around a grave,
O'er whom a sympathizing gloom is cast,
To sec the march of Gospel liberty,
By her, advancing through her native land.
As they look downward, and that look the last;
Error dethroned, and Truth triumphant stand,
So gazed the crowds, when Kapiolani went,
dread
descent.
Truth in its saving, civilizing power,
As to her death-place, down the
This cheered her life, this soothed her dying hour.
What eye can follow, or what pencil paint
The fearless footsteps of that heroiue saint.
Snubbed.—Newly two hundred of the
Where cliffs o'erhang, and, trembling to its fall,
The lava lifts its self-suspended wall ?
of the Church of England have united
clergy
Here, rifted rocks of dark and uncouth form
a letter.to Cardinal Patrizi, at Rome,
in
some
volcanic
storm.
Lie, the huge rocks of
their earnest desire for the restoraThere, deepening gulpbs and caverns yawning stating
tion of communion between the Church of
wide,
Break up the surface of that frozen tide,
England and the Church of Rome. But the
Whose treacherous crust, like faithless ice, gives
his
plainly tells them that

High on the beach is drawn each light canoe,
The idle net suspended on the trees
In light festoons waves with the gentle breeze,
Nature herself intently seems to lean,
Tbe still spectatress of the coming scene.
AH, sll i* hushed ; save where tbe crowding throng
Towards Kirauea's craterbastes along.
About to witness the decisive deed
Which shattered I'ele's throne and stamped the

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Cardinal in

Beneath whose mask Death lurks to seize its prey.
Cautious and slow they urge their downward route,
First try tbe staff, then fearless plant the foot;
See them now climbing Borne opposing height.—
And now 'tis mastered—now'they're out of sightMoments seem hours when anxious thoughts prevail,
Whan hope and fear alternate turn the scale,
The eager look and parted lip reveals
The unutUred bodings which the breast conceals,
The straining eye strives to descry in vain
Their forms emerging from that billowy plain ;
Yet, yet they're safe! again they onward press,
Still, still descending they grow less and less.
So have we seen some bartCbuoyant and brave,
Riding triumphant on the crested wave,
Anon, descending with the arrow's flight,
Ingulphed as In a tomb, it mocks the sight,
Haply forever; —no, it mounts again,
And speeds its gallant course along tha main.

Opinions of Eminent Englishmen about

New England.

John Bright lately delivered an address
before a Sunday School Conference in Rochdale, in which he urged the importance of
universal education, citing the example of
New England in support of bis views :
Mr. Ellice, the very eminent member of
the House of Commons for Coventry, traveled in America, as he had done tvvo or three
times before, very near the close of his life,
some six or seven years ago. He visited
Canada and the United States; and, in a
conversation which I had with him after his
return, he said that in those New England
States there was the most perfect government in the world, there was the most equal
condition, and most universal comfort
amongst the people; and he said that the
whole population, he believed, were more instructed, more moral, and more truly happy
than any other equal population had been
in any country or in any age of the world.
The whole of this is to be traced, not to the
soil, not to the climate ; but it is to be traced,
I believe to the extraordinary care which the
population, from the days of the Pilgrim
Fathers until now, have taken with every
child, boy and girl, that they should be
thoroughly instructed, at least in the common branches of learning. The census
shows that, speaking generally, there is
scarcely to be found one person, one native
American certainly, out of many hundreds
in the New England States, who cannot
read and write. Now the influence of those
States is enormous. Though only small
States, containing not more than one-tenth
of the whole population of the American
Union, yet the influence of their opinions is
felt to the remotest corners of that vast territory. In New England they consider their
plan as the only plan. They have tried it

for two hundred years. Its success is beyond
all contest—it is absolutely complete. There
is nothing like it that has been equally successful in the world. And what our Puritan
ancestors have done (I know they were our
ancestors as well as theirs) in the States, if
the people of England had the sense to comprehend their true interests, they might
compel to be done in the country in which
we live.

From the Ochotsk.—The cargo of codfish brought into this port on Saturday last,
by the schooner Porpoise, Capt. Turner, is
by far the finest ever yet received in this
market from the Pacific Coast codfish banks.
There are 30,000 fish in the cargo, and the
consignees, Marks & Co., inform us that
they are found to average fully one pound
heavier than any former lot; and tbey come
fresh to market within sixty days of their
being taken from the water. So far as the
Pacific Coast is concerned, the Newfoundland Fishery Question may be decided either
way—it is a matter of indifference to us ;
we are henceforth independent of the Atlantic sources of supply for this article.—Alta
California, July 10.

reply
unconditional surrender is the only terms
which the Pope can think of.—Exchange.
We do not see the necessity of English
clergymen asking the Romish Church to
make* any concessions, for we should suppose they were going at a sufficiently rapid
rate without any concessions. From another
of our English exchanges we learn, on the
authority of Henry Borne, M. A., Vicar of
Faringdon, Berks, that five hundred clergymen of the Church of England became
•
Papists dui-ing the interval from 1842 to
As gangrenes are the most dangerous
1864. Mr. Borne states this fact in his re- of bodily wounds, so insatiate avarice is the
view of the Bishop of Oxford's charge.
worst disease of the mind;—Democrittu.

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Syrups,
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Pulu,
such
Jaynes
Family
dispose
staples,
Celebrated
and
of
Island
as
Medicines,
Dr.
the Purchase, Shipment and Sale of Merchandise ; to For.
Coffee, Ac, to advantage. Consignments especially solicited
Wheeler e> Wilson's Sewirijj Midlines,
forthe Oregon market, to which personal attention will be paid, wardlngand Transhipment of Hoods ; the Chartering and bale
The Kohala Sugar Company,
of Vessel* | the Supplying of Whaleahlps ; and the Negotiation
The New England Mutual Life Insurance Company,
and upon which cashadvances will be made when required.
of Exchange.
The New York I'benix MarineInsurance Company,
Sam Francisco Rrrbwirrcrs:
603-ly
Exchange on Honolulu in sums to suit.
Badger fc Lindenberger, Jas. Patrick fc Co.,
Colemanfc
Co.,
W. T.
Fred.
Iken,
ADVANCES
MADE ON CONSIGNMENTS.
p.
cabtrr.
I. bartlrtt.
aaajiHAJl rIOK.
a. A.
elevens, Baker A 00.
C. BREWER fc CO.
REFER TO
Portland RirRKBtTCBS:
Jah.HcbrrwrllEsq..Boston
Leonard fc Green.
Allen fc Lewis.
Ladd fc Tilton.
Walbrr, Alls* It Co
Commission and Shipping Merchants,
Honolulu. Hrrrt A. Panics A Co.
IInNULCLU
RsrSBMOBS:
Honolulu. Oahu, H. I.
Bbij. F.Sbow, Bag.,
Sisr fc Co.,
HI'TLRR,
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Walker, Allen* Co.,
AGENTS
Burro* fc Co.. New York.
Ml-ly C. Biiiwbr fc Co.,
Of the Beaten sstid Honolulu Packet Line.
Bisroffc Co.,
Wa. H. Fooo fc Co,
Tbos.Dfrrcrr, Esq., rtilo.
11. Fooo fc Co., ghanghae.
AGENTS
JOBS a ORACXRB.
W. 1. ALDRICBT.
I. 0. SJRRRILI.,
Al.i.HAifD It Co., Kanagaws. Allrr fc Lrwis,
K«r the.Matter, Wailukufc liana I'lnalalion.
Portland, Oregon.
bui )y
AGENTS
ALDRICH, MERRILL &. Co.,
Par the I'urrhasrauil Snl.-of I aland Produce.
—REFER TO—
New York.
Jobs M.Hood, Bag
Co.
I
Chas. Baawaa,
Boston.
ABD
EM* VISITE;
JiiieaHo»»Bwßi.L, Esq. J
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J.C. MsaaiLL fc Co.
LARGER PHOTOGRAPHS;
San Franelaeo.
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R. B. Swain a Co.
COPYING AND ENLARGING I
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Esq.)
ly
Broors
Oaas. Woloott
304 and aofl California Street,
RETOUCHING done In the heat snasssssar,
Si.
CONWAY,
ALLEN
and on tbe most reasonable terms.
SA\
Photographs of the Craters Kilauea and
Also
for
Kauslbae, Hawaii,
tale,
AGENTS
OF
THK
ALSO,
Ilalrakala.and other Island Scene*; the KINGS KAetaV
Will continue the GeneralMerchandiaeand Shipping buaineas
lIKMEHA, fee, «Vc.
at theaboveport, where they are prepared to furnish
the justly celebrated Kawaihae Potatoes, and
such other recruits as are required
Part icular attention given to the sale and purchase of mer
H. L. OH ASK.
by wbale ships, at the
chandiae, ships' business, supplying whaleahlps, negotiating
P. 8 —Haling purchased the Portrait Negatlrea from Mr.
shortest notice and on the most reasonable terms.
exchange, fee.
Weed, duplicate copies can be bad by those persona wishing
oxx Band.
X'irevrood
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Ml-ly
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Honolulu
Snow,
Hie Ex. B. C. Wyllle,..Hon. B. F.
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Hilo
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R.
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Mcßuer
Merrill.
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Hon. K. 11. Allbh,
O. W. Brooks*; Uo. ..Sea F. G. T. Lawton, Esq.,
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York
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PASSENGERS.
EDITOR'S TABLE.
PLACES OF WORSHIP.
RKTUF.L-llev. S. C. Dninon Chaplain-King
Titui Apostolic Sccckdhion ; or, tho Unity of the USAMKN'Snear
For Sab Francisco—per Live Yankee, June 23—W II Deal,
the Sailors' Home. Preaching at 11 A. M.
street,
Spirit not unbroken—Episcopal Succession the
Seats Free. Sabbath School after the morning service. L Dc Mouroc—2.
Prayer meeting on Wednesday evenings at 7| o'clock.
Revealed Bond ofPeace to the Church. By Rev.
For San Francisco—per Milton Badger, June 27—James
N. B. Sal Imili School or Bible Claee for Seamen at U) #ird, W Bhaplelon—2.
Mason Gallagher, Rector of the Cbnrch of tbe
o'clock Sabbath morning.
For SanFnAXCiitco—per Monitor, July 3—RBurns, R Spear,
Evangelists, Oswego, New York. 1866.

This is the title of a pamphlet of 04
pages, in which the writer argues that the
High Church notions so strenuously put
forth by some in the English and American
Churches are altogether of a modern date.
On page 31 he refers to Cranmer, Jewel,
Kainolds and Usher, as men who, par excellence, have a right to be styled fathers,
yet they held no such exclusive views.
When referring to those who were instrumental in establishing the Episcopal Church
in America, he represents them as holding
the most liberal and fraternal opinions to.
wards other denominations or Churches of
Christians.
On page 13 the author thus deals ;t
heavy blow at his fellow-churchmen
"In
unchurching others, we simply follow in the
wake of the early Puritans, who first, among
Protestants, asserted the exclusive ecclesiastical claim by Divine right." This is a capital joke, to say the least. High Church
Episcopalians following in the Puritans'
wake! We knew that they had followed in
the wake of the Puritan Missionary, but
now we learn that in High Church notions
they are equally inclined to copy the Puritan's example ! We hope Puritans will see
well to it, that they always set a good example before their fellow-Christian Episcopalians.

:

Thw Murder of Mr. Dudoit.It is with
deep sorrow that we are called upon to
chronicle this melancholy event. We have
long been acquainted with the deceased and
had very often met him in the social intercourse of life. Our sympathies are drawn
out most tenderly towards the deeply afflicted
family, and we rejoice to lean»sfhat there is
a reasonable prospect that
life
will be spared. As the Advertiser aud Gatmtte have sp fully narrated the particulars,
we shall omit their publication.
DIED.
Born—ln Honolulu Aususl 4th, Capt. Benjamin Boyd. Ua
mat*of the steamer Kilauea, but had Commanded
lie was a nttive of Cork,
Irsiaod, sad baa Meade realdlnf Ui*r*.
Urairr—In San rranolsoo July 10, Mrs. Mary Chater,
.lausht.r of Capt. Kbrll of Tahiti,and ajrandauibter of ths Rev.
Mr. Henry, one or the anfllsh Pioneer Missionaries to Society
Islands.
aOBIBSOB—Died at Quern's Hospital, Honolulu, May 18, Mr.
Charles Robinson, of aneurism, lie hadbeen sick since January. The deaaased was a painter. He came Iron Australia,
where be Is known to save friends still reilulnf. |t*ydoey
papers please oopy.J
laroolr—ln Honolulu, July Utb, Mr. Lorenao B Lincoln,
of Waimea, Hawaii. The deoeaaed bad lon| resided upso
lbs Islands, bat was a natire of Taunton, Haas., where his
(rlaasj are supposed to reside. {Papers la Massachusetts please

wsi Ittaljr

FORT BTRKKT CHURCH—Corner of Fort and Beretania
streets—Rev. R. Corwin Pastor. Preaching on Sundays at
11 A. M. and 7) I'. M. Sabbath School at 10 A. M.
STONK CHURCH—King street, above the Palace—Rev. H. 11.
Parker Pastor. Services in Hawaiian every Buudny at 9J
A. M. mi,! 8 P. M
CATHOLIC CHURCII—Fort street, near Beretania—under
the charge of Rt. Rev. Bishop M.ugret, assisted by Key,
Pierre Paveus. Services every Sunday at 10 A.at. and 2 P.M.
SMITH'S CHURCH—Beretania street, near Nuuanli StreetRev. Lowell Smith Pastor. Services In Hawaiian every
Sunday at 10 A. M. and ii P. M
RKFORMKD CATHOLIC CHURCH—Corner of Kukui and
Niinami streets, anvsT charge of Rt. Ilrr. Bishop Staley,
assisted by Rev, Mes*n>. Ibbotson, Gallagher and Kiltington. English service tvery Sunday at 11 A. M. and 7j
P M.

MARINE JOURNAL.
PORT OF HONOLULU, S. I.
ARRIVALS.
June 27—Portuguese ship Dolores I'quarte, Orlando, 51 days
from Macao bound to Callao.
30— Am brig Sunny South. Patten. 15days from San F.
30—Am clipper ship California, Barber, 10 daya from
San Francisco, passed the pint without stopping
30—Am brig Sunny South, "alien, 15 days from San
Francisco.
30—Am clipper ship Star of the Union, Reed, 15 days
from San Francisco.
July I—Am bark Cambridge. Hempstead, 14 days from San
Francisco, with mdac and passengers to Walker,
Allen a Co.
2—Baw'n hark Hcrnloe, Borello, 10 days from Sun
Francisco, with mdse and passengers to 11. Hackfel.l & Co.
3—Am bark Palmetto, Arthur, 28 dsysfrSan Francisco.
B—Am achr Ban Diego, 17 days from San Francisco.
B—British brig Keying, Billings, II days from San
Francisco.
9—ltalian clipper ship Colombo, Sir faun, from Sen.
10—Ham. Clipper ship A. N. Willie, 89dys fr Auckland
12—Am clipper ship Wm. Wilcox, Mantcu, 18 days from
San Franoisco, passed the port.
15—Am bark Metropolis, Howard, 39 days from Victoria, withlumber to Walker, Allen A Co.
10—Am barkentlne Constitution, Clements, 24 days from
Port Angel.*, with lumber to 11, llackfeld fc Co.
20—Am bark D. C. Murray, Bennett. 13 days from San
Francisco, with mdse and passengers to Walker,
Allen fc Co.
days from Port
22—Am barkentlne Victor, Qroenlcaf, 214;
Angelos, with lumber to llackfeld Co.
17—Am achr San Diego Tenstrong, for Ouano Isltnds.
22—Am hark FJthan Allen. Bnow, 12 days from San
Francisco, wiih mdse to C. Brewer fc Co.
23—Br achr Premier, Loudon, 22 days from Victoria,
with mdse to Walker, Allen At Co.
25—Am schr K. Crosby, Perkina, 21 days from Victoria,
with mdse to Janion, Green fc Co.
4S—British eohr North Bur, McKinnon, 17 days from
Victoria, with oaal to Walker. Allen fc Co.
29—Bark Maunakea. Robinson, 21 days from Tahiti
bound to Puget Sound.
Aug.
3—Haw'n brig Kaiochameha V., Fletcher, 46 days from
Howland's Inland.

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DEPARTURE".
s Island.
June 26—Br. bark Hadleys, Payor, forBaker
27—Am aohr Milton Badger, for San Francisco.
30—Portuguese ship Dolores Uquarte, Olando, lor Callao.
July
2—Am brig Sunny South. Patten, for Kanagawa, Japan.
3—Am harkontlne Monitor, Nelson, for Ban Francisco.
Territories.
6—Am hark Palmetto, Arthur, TorRussian
7—Am bark Bwallow, Hatfleld, fur Kanagawa.
Ban
Francisco.
11—llano, ship A. H. Willie, for
12—Am clipper ship Btar of the Union, Reed, for Guano

tot schooner Kawrkameko Y.

ship Colombo, fttefano, for Callao.
12—Italian clipper
Keying, Bllllugs, for McKesn's Island.

Aug.

18—British ship
19—Am bark Comet, Paty, for Ban Fraualßco.
19—Ambark Smyrnlote, Lorett, for Ban Franolaeo.
24—Am barkentlne Constitution, Clements, for Teekalet.
28—Haw bark Bernlce, Borrelo, for San Franolaeo.
31—Am bark Cambridge, Hempstead, for San Frandaco.
I—Am bark Kadosh. Jenksns. for Ban Francisco.
3—Am barkentlne Victor, Qrwaolsaf, for Paget Bound.

MARRIED.

Obat—Mabob—On theMth ol Jane,at the residencei of_Mr.
t O. Wilder, Kualoa Plantation, Koolau. by the Rev. 8. Poll,
of Kualoa.
IraooßiißTß×ln Honolulu, at the American House, July Mr. Gray to Miss Kmma Mahoe, both
1, Mr. John Suucktaejtr, a Oennsn. The deceased came from
this olty, at the residence or the bride's
BSAI—SwiBTOB—In
Hesmann,
OtUnrala tor his health.
father, on the overdue of July I*. by Rev. rather
sautb -la Hoaoluhi, July «th, Harris Morton Health, ton of W.lter R. Seal to Mist Helen M. Bwlnton, youngest rtsuiher of
J.Uott
Baalth,
Pr.
Henry B. Bwlnton. No cards.
aaed 3 jtara and 7 month.

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O Robinson—3.
From San Francisco—per Cambridge. July I—John Kehoe,
Mrs John Kehoe, Miss Mary Kehoe. Miss Maggie Kehoe, Bartholomew Kehoe, Joho Kehoe jr. Mr. Hamilton, Mr. Foster.
Mrs Fost-r, Miss Foster, Mr. Kuhl, Mr A Oinoll, JosMarmuse,
Mrs Jos Marmuse, Miss Jennie Marmuse, Mast Jaa Town—lo,
For Bab Francisco—per Comet, July 19—C W Martell, II
Hlllebrand, Q W Vollum, wile and 4 children, Mrs Thos Silencer, Miss Kate Spencer, Miaa Nellie Spencer, Mr and Mrs
Macki- 1 J Whartenliy, MLs Amelia Armstrong, X.l Howard,
John Kengan. W A Aldrich, C X Williams. Miss Tbeo Paty,
John Pryer, J Santa Anna, B Maimaase, wife aud child, JP
Urace, I' Allman, Mr. Illttell—2B.
For San FRANciaco—per Smyrnlote, July 10—J ami II A
Ferguson, Mrs Klrby and 2 children, MissI Cotton, Mrs Blackburn, Mr and Mrs T Tennatt, Mr Lohoy, Rev FS Rising;, Mark
Twain, Mrs Blanchard, Capt Mitchell, Mrs Main Charlisa aud
child, Peter Gough, A Schweigcr, J Morrison, X Venplsee, Wm
Young and child, A C Fowler—2B.
From Fab Francisco—per D. C. Murray, July 20—W F
Laild, wife and servant, Miss A Ladd, Miss S Stoddard, P 0
Jones and wife, I)r W Hlllebrand and wife Master Wm F Hlllebrand, Capt J Smith, W Castle, Miaa II Castle, II M Alexander, C Rhine, H Vaasand wife, Master Vass, Master Vaaa, Miss
Vass, Miss Vaas, Mr Ahchuck, Mr Ahfung and child, Mr
Ahfun, li Mitchell. W J Linton, M Loulson, Mr Itindldi. CF
Wolf. Thos llir.-t.-it. John ll.lliitt. A W Carter, C Williams.
Stkhraor—C C l'hi'.es, D W Gallagher, J Urifiin, II Crremrr,
From San Francisco—per Kthan Allen, July 22—Oen R M
McCook iiii-l wife and -2 servants, 11 It Rouse, J Cleucy, Dc Kncount, T Lack, 1) CofTr.-y, O Bennett, J T Van Winkle, Jaa Hall,
F Caugham—l2.
From Victoria—per Premier, July 21—GeoDearill,,H Rowo,
Ashln, Achuck—4.
For Ban Francisco—per Hernloe, July 25—11 Havill—l.
For San Francisco—per Cambridge, July 30—Mr and Mrs
T T Dougherty, Mi«s Mary B Ciirtwrigbt, Miss Colt, Mr Jaa
Mcllrlile. Mr lc.lntal.li, S W Kirby-d.
For Bar Francisco—per Kadosh. Aug. 2—o Kussel, C Blaley
and wlie, Chas West, Jos Prince, wire and family—7.
Kr-iin lUkkr's Isi.ami—per KamehiLineha V, Aug. 3—Misa
Kuuua Coa, C A Williams, Mr Hall, Mr Chills, Mr Hyan and
son—o cabin and 27 lalmn-rs.

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Report.
BaIskelr'nd

April 2*1—Arrived ship Oracle.
May 9—Ship Victoria, off Apia, Upnlu, Navigator's Island.
9—Ship Winslow. French whaler,off Navigator's Island.
Id—Sailed ship Juamta for Falmouth, Eng. with full

cargo of guano.
20—Sailed bark Oliver Cults for Cork, with full cargo
of guano.
June 13—Arrived brig Kamehameha V., with supplies.
16—Arrived ship Ssmtiel C- Grant, 141 days ftotu Liverpool, to load, and with moorings for the couipany.
Ship li.-itnlts at mooring, loading, 051 tons on board.
Bark llokuloa at mooring, loading, 220 tons ou bourd.
Yours respectfully,
Wm. Baboocb,
Superintendent at Baker's Is.

Information

Wanted,

Respecting Mr. Caleb H. Babbitt, who left Tnunton for

years ago,

Honolulu four
ami has not been heard ln>tu since.
Any inrorniatlon communicated to B. 0. Hall, or tbe Editor,
will be thankfully received.
if
Respecting William A. Burnet, who lalleil, in 1804, in the
11 William Hotch.'' from New Bedford.
It waa reported .lint h«
was lost orerboard. Capt. Baxter wan then manter "f the
ship. Should this notice attract the attention of Oapt. Baxter,
or any one attached at that Lime to the -hip, they are req'.'eettd
to communicate with the Kdftor, or Rev. 8. Fox, of New Bedford. If any keepsakes, books, photographs, fee,remain, tii
desired they may be kept. This unfortunate young aaan'a
fatheris an aged clergyman, residing in Scotland.
H
Respecting Robert Boyd Simnnd*, aged 40. Leftthc United
States on board the ship General Williams," of New London,
about twenty years ago, and landed at theSandwich Island*.
Any information will be gladly received by the Kdltor, or Mrs
Abby J. Bellows. East Wilton, N. 11.
tf
Respecting the person referred to lo the following letter* adJames
Minister
Mcßrfde,
dressed to Hon.
American
Resident:
I'ini.iußLPiiii, March 1, 1800.
Jnmet Meßride, Minuter at Honolulu—Sir § —I have the
honor to request a favor in regard to William Daviton Bent
ley, who Is 88 or 34 years old, light complexion, bias eyes, b
feet 4 or 6 Inches high, has a very bad impediment In his
speech. The last letter I received from him was dated Hooululu. March '22, 1860. Will you be kind enough to ascertain If
he Is living In Honolulu, and by giving fall particulars or him
you will oblige a heartbroken mother.
I remain, sir, very respect fully,
Your obedient servant.
SARAH HUNTLEY.
In care of Mrs. Wallace, 24& North 10th street, Philadelphia.
Respecting John W. Jonei, late from San Francisco. He Is
supposed to bo residing In some part of the Islands. He came
forhis health. Please communicate with the editor, or Dr.
A. 0. Buffum, Honolulu.
Respecting William Dyke, belonging to Wilmington,Del.
Any information will be gladly received by the editor, or Mrs.
Ellen B. Yates, No. 10 Robinson street, Wilmington, Del. He
i« supposed to be residing In San Francisco.

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TSUPLOEMNT

§ übliotted lrg the pnw»iiatt
HONOLULU, AUGUST,

18(5(>.

A SERMON
ON

HOME MISSION'S.
Delivered at Fort Street Church, on the Anniversary of the

HAWAIIAN EVANGELICAL ASSOCIATION,
SABBATH EVENING, JUNE 10, 18GG.
BY REV, E. BOND.

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John 9 4.—" I must work the works of Him Unit sent

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while it is ilay."

Jesus came from Heaven to redeem and save the human race. That
was his " work." He did not, however, propose to accomplish the
divinely assumed task by His own personal agency, whilst in the flesh.
This He left for others.
Having chosen and instructed n small band of disciples, and having,
in them, set forth the germinant idea of the Christian Church, to them,
as His earthly heirs, He committed the further prosecution of the work
He came to do; promising, meantime, to be with them, even unto the
end of the world, and then He returned, by the way of the Cros? and
the Sepulchre, to His higher mediatorial work at the right hand of the
Father. From that time to this the task which the Son of God assumed as His own peculiar work has been equally the work of His
Militant Church j and to-night the language of the text is appropriate
to every true disciple of Jesus, the world over.
It 4s not, as you see, the mere expression of a simple desire or purpose, but the cordial acknowledgment of an imperative obligation.

work."
"ToI must
this Society

therefore, organized for effective service in behalf of
the truth in its saving application to the population of these islands and
aiming at tbe largest measure of such service, I present, as not unsuitable for brief consideration this evening, these two topics, furnished by
our text, viz I
I. The work to be done.

•1. The; work to bk

11. How to do it.

done.

1. Where is it ?
The field is the entire group of these fair islands, on which, either
permanently or for the time being, our lot has been cast. From Hawaii to Niihau, wherever lives a Hawaiian or a foreigner of any name
or color, who is known to be in a state of spiritual destitution, for the
supply of which no other means exist, there is found ready to our hand
the legitimate work, to do which we, as a Society, exist.
2. What is it t
In general terms it is, as just suggested, the evangelization of the
spiritually needy portions of the population of these islands and the supply
of their rcligiius necessities, by means of divine truth preached and otherwise disseminated, a service which the lapse of time is more and more
imperatively demanding at our hands, and of the immediate and pressing necessity of which, those of us who occupy the more distant por-

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tions of the land are feeling with an ever-increasing painfulness of conviction.
From all points the current sets in towards this central metropolis,
over
leaving on every side remnants of population sparsely scattered
that
prosimilar
to
and,
of
without
an
agency
tracts
territory;
large
vided for by this Society, as there already is, so there will inevitably
continue to" be, a rapid retrogradation of these communities towards a
barbarism as ruthless as that whence, by the grace of God, the nation
has once been rescued.
than
There is no possibility of a result in any sense more cheering
or
through
in
duty
fail,
we
a
culpable
supineness
this, if
either through
a narrow selfishness in providing the requisite pecuniary and other
means to meet the exigences of the present time and of the immediate
future before us. But this is our appropriate work, and, by the favor
of God, we would hope not to be found recreant thereto. Not only are
we called upon to send, or aid in sending, to every feeble Hawaiian
Church a pastor, and to every destitute community those who. will
point them to the Lamb of God, but we would also see to it that the
foreign comwunities here and there gathering upon tho islands—wherever desirous of the preached Word—are supplied therewith. And if
possible, also, we would send the Word of Life into those social and
spiritual graveyards, the plantations and other great enterprises scat-be
tered over the islands, with the hope that its saving power might
once more felt by some of those connected therewith, that some at least
might again listen to the sweet and saving words of Jesus, which their
fathers, when sitting in the thick night of heathenism, heard, and in
simple faith receiving, awoke to a new and higher life in God. Whilst
the small and rapidly-diminishing remnant of those Christian heroes in
the Hawaiian Church is briefly tarrying beneath the droppings of the
Sanctuary, and rejoicing in the Word of Salvation, preparatory to their
final flight Heavenward, we would fain see to it that their children cry
not hereafter to be rescued from the worse than heathenism which is
seriously threatening them.
But our work lies not solely in regions remote. In the name of God
and by the power of His truth we should do something to save this
metropolis from the condition, if not from the fate, of Sodom. It is
indeed a task not to be lightly spoken of, nor yet to be undertaken with
an undue confidence in human wisdom. Nevertheless, it is one with
which we obviously need to grapple, if we would hope to achieve any
enduring success in the other department of our labor; for, with this
great central crater ever pouring its death-dealing streams abroad over
the land, how as nothing in effect will be the sum total of our efforts
therefor!
It is scarcely an indication of profound wisdom to trim the twigs of
the Upas, whilst leaving the huge trunk, with its giant branches, still to
overshadow the country.
Also, it is not to be forgotten in this brief enumeration of the work to
be done, that we have a large and still increasing Asiatic element in
our midst, of whose salvation there can scarcely be a ray of hope.unless
it come through the agency of this Society. Foreign in every sense it
is, save in this single one of domestication among us. Vicious, too, it
is in«rharrcter, or, at best, heathen, and withal notoriously inaccessible
to the moral and religious motives of the Gospel, as well as to the
various agencies usually employed by those who would press these motives upon their consideration. Yet still the stubborn fact remains, that
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ourselves. And that other glorious fact, too—let us never forget it—
Chinese and Hawaiian both, equally with those more highly favored,
were among those irrevocably given to the Son for His everlasting inheritance.
And can we do nothing for*these perishing strangers ? Shall we sit
down contented with the thought that they have come to a land overspread with the blessings of Christianity merely to perish in their paganism f Shall the light in which we are dwelling serve but to ligbS
t/tem to death ? Or is there some one or more yet to be found, whose
hearts aglow with the love of Jesus, shall with our aid give them>elves
to the blessed work of telling the simple story of the Cross to these benighted wanderers from their distant home ?
Such is the brief and imperfect summary of the work to be done. It
is not for me to say how much or how little of it our Sovereign Lord
shall deign to honor this Society with accomplishing. It is enough to
know that we are mainly to determine that point for ourselves, and
moreover, the issue we are sure is to be wrought out only by prayerful,
patient, self-denying toil. Scarcely an earthly crown adorns the brow
ol royalty that has not been purchased with seas of blood and treasure
untold. And why should we expect to wear the trophies of a victory,
save as they too are won through our own unflinching devotion and
self-sacrificing zeal, by the blood of God's dear Son ? We are not to be
crowned unless we first strive. Nor is our Master to be honored through
us if we fail to meet the issues now presented. The time has forever
pone by when the disciples of Jesus could fold their hands and wait
their Master's will. They have now to do it. The conflict is already
upon us, and it never can be done save by a high and holy resolve in
divine strength to " fight it out on this line." And this our Lord expects of us.
11. We now pass to inquire, How is this work to be done ?
We effect our purposes by the use of means adequate thereto, and so
does our Omnipotent God. True, the means which He uses, and which
also He has provided and taught us to use, are not, by the ordinary
calculations of human arithmetic, adequate to the results-proposed and
actually accomplished. Bur then He has told us beforehand that His
calculations are not as ours. The highest wisdom of man is foolishness
with Him. By the foolishness of preaching we know He has actually
determined to save them that believe. Just as in the Kingdom of Nature He delights to show us what stupenduous results He can effect by
the most insignificant causes, so also in this Spiritual Kingdom. It is
true, and we should never forget it, that the Kingdom of God among
men has in its inception always been insignificant in its dimensions and
apparent power. It is the still small voice, the stone cut out of the
mountain without hands, the bit of leaven, the grain of mustard-seed.
And yet, though so insignificant, it was and is to fill the whole earth.
We aro inquiring now how it is to be made lo fill these islands, or rather how our part of the work which is to hasten the glorious consummation is to be done. What do we needfor this end f
1. We need a suitable organization, through whose agency our work
can be efficiently and at the same time economically prosecuted. This,
indeed, we already have ; and if it be not particularly imposing at
present in the magnificence of its proportions, we find comfort in the
thought that it is capable of indefinite enlargement and increase of
working power, limited, in these particulars, only by the gifts and purposes of its patrons. Besides, we cannot forget that the vast organizations for Missionary purposes, both in Europe and America, have each
and all passed through this period of infancy, and have attained thiir
present vastness and efficiency for good through the large-hearted liberality and prayerful zeal of those who make them the channels of their
beneficence for enlightening and saving men.
If therefore, with the machinery already to our hands, and in actual
operation, those who are in sympathy with us will but give what is further needed for bringing the Society up to its full working capacity, the
problem with which we have to do is solved. Our work is ns good as
done.
It is not to be supposed, however, for a moment, that the most skilfully adjusted organization gives us in itself any new forces. It has no
creative energy in this direction, nor should we rely upon it as though
it hurl. Associated action simply affords us, in another and more convenient form, the forces already existing ; and in our estimate of available means, for present or future use, the unit of calculation must ever
be, not the organization, but the individual therein. And the aggregate
of the individual capacity for executive labor, or pecuniary givrhg, or
spiritual power, gives you the sum total of the means placed at your
disposal—neither mote nor less—by the perfected organization.
•That mischievous idea, floating illy-defined in the minds of many,
that a Society, like this has in some way a sort of inherent vitality and

power of indefinite onward working, should be forever discarded by all
the true friends of God and humanity ; for it need not be said that a
false conception like this can work nothing but injury to the individual,
as well as disaster to the Society, and to the cau-se for the furtherance of
which it exists. A correct, truthful idea of such an Association as this,
is rather that by its entire helplessness, aside from our individual
agenty, it becomes a new and perpetual incentive to a more abounding
zeal and more faithful labor, rather, in behalf of our fellow-men, through
its good offices.
But we have other wants not provided for, for the full success of our

undertaking.

2. We need money.

We have some, but the amount is painfully small. We need more,
that is, if we would be classed among the live progressive agencies of
the time—as wide awake, both to the claims of humanity and to those
of God.
Located as this Society is, in the midst of a foreign community noted
for generous giving, and to a large extent certainly not hostile to the
objects at which it aims, it has ever seemed to me that it has not yet
felt impelled by a true inward conviction to that large-hearted, practical
recognition of its indebtedness to this wasting people which duty demands at its hands, and which it has been wont to recognize in other
channels of well-doing.
That the indebtedness of which I speak is not a mere figment of
fancy, but exists as a sober fact, and rests with an imperative responsibility upon each and every one of us residing in these islands who bears
the foreign name, I would fain believe is a truth honestly accepted by
each of those now before me.
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Coming hither from other and mare enlightened lands, we come inevitably as representatives of those lands. A higher civilization and a
more ndvanced Christianity are, willingly or unwillingly, impersonated
in us, worthily or unworthily, as the case may be. And, whilst claiming for ourselves a superiority in those respects, which is readily conceded, we surely cannot desire, selfishly and stingily, to monopolize the
blessings of our nobler birthright! The goodly lands we represent are
known and read of all men, not only as opening wide their arms to receive the oppressed and degraded of every name, but also as generously
employed in sen-ling abroad to every race the free offer of the choicest
privileges, social and religious, which they themselves possess.
And shall we, who have come to dwell among this kind-hearted
people, aim to do less than that ? Whilst we freely receive of theirs,
shall we parsimoniously hesitate to bestow upon them in return our better gifts ? If, by the blessing of_God, we have a richer inheritance than.
Hawaiians, as we would answer for it in the final day, let us make them,
so far as we may, by liberal pecuniary offerings, as well as by individual example and by positive and persistent effort, partakers with ourselves in this richer inheritance. By the love of our common Father,
by the redemption of our common Lord, we are bound to seek the peace
and prosperity of those among whom we dwell, and to do it, moreover,
in no stinted measure, but liberally, generously, as God has dealt with
us and ours. And who can doubt that, even on lower grounds than
these, we are bound thus to contribute to the well-being of a people
through whose aid we come to accumulate stores of wealth ? Even as
a matter of shrewd business policy it should be done. " Give alms of
such things as ye have and behold all things are clean unto you," is
one of those simple yet far-reaching utterances of Jesus which are read,
but which few, in its intimate practical application, trouble themselves
to comprehend. Its meaning is nevertheless plain. If one would secure the favor of God upon his business enterprises, let him give, in
due proportion to his gains, to the needy on every side of him. This is
an offering acceptable to God. And wherever it is liberally provided
for in the adjustment of one's business plans, directed by ordinary
soundness of judgment, by the general consent of those of large experience, pecuniary disaster is rarely known to fall. And, had 1 the persuasive eloquence of an angel, and were thus able to induce those who
hear me to make in their business arrangements a generous provision
for the highest welfare of this people, with whom our lot has been cast,
through this and kindred organizations, I am sure that, as the principles of God's providential government are sound, there would thereby
be introduced into the condnct of their affairs a large and positive element of permanent success.
But I remark
3. We need more earnest workers.
These are essential prerequisites to earnest work. Ido not now refer
to those specifically set apart to the service of the Society, but to others ;
for in every Christian community there are always found those outside
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both for God and man. #Let us fix it in our minds, as a settled truth, j not only that these demands are felt, but that in many bosom
the high and holy purpose to meet them in
that the Hawaiian people is not to be saved by the single item of Mis- j has already been formed
we must come, or these souls about
sionary effort, distinctively such. If this is to be accomplished, the j Jesus' name. And to this resolve
sheafless
the
their
us
and
we
to the great Harvest Home of
come
to
line
of
inevitably
perish,
go
up
friends of Jesus throughout the islands must
the
world.
bear
the
laid
responsibilities
and
willingly,
joyfully,
calling,
yea
high
Our foreign communities are supposed to know little shout the social
upon them by our common Lord. For their own profit as well as for
care little. I speak
His honor, and for the well-being of the entire community, this respon- or religious interests of Hawaiians, and hence to
And, were the whole truth to be told, probably little dispothe
generally.
Besides,
all.
there
is
at
been
laid
us
upon
has
equally
sibility
of society
present time a peculiarly urgent and solemn necessity for a most pro- j sition would be found to penetrate deeper into the conditions aware,
for
it now exists around us. There are cogent reasons, lam
nounced coming out and standing up for Jesus. How el?e are our as
Christian, nor is it
such
a feeling.
Vet
to
to
this
is
not
yield
feeling
that
are
to
crown
our
adorahonors
behold
the
accumulated
longings to
ble Lord ever to be satisfied ? How else is sin to be drawn out, and the humane. Would there were abroad among us more of the large-hearted
Roman r " Nothing permultiplied blessings of salvation to come, in an ever-increasing harvest, sentiment so nobly expressed by the heathen
me."
A sentiment noble, intaining
attain
to
human
welfare
but
interests
else
are
we
ourselves
to
How
upon this perishing population ?
because, even coming
from
but
deed,
not
because
it
come
heathen
lips,
Christ
Jesus
?
the fulness of the perfect stature of men in
philosophy is so broad and far-reaching.
The truth is, there has too long existed in the minds of our foreign from such lips, its genuine
community—even those known ns the uncompromising friends of mo- Let it incite us, who bear the Christian name, to a more thoroughofpracour
rality and religion—a too great willingness to leave to Missionories the tical appreciation of the nobler and more authoritative injunctions
great
of
for
nil
and
undertaken
enterprises
responsibility
entire management
thy neighbor as thyself."
the spiritual good of this people. Now this is clearly an injustice
" Love
to all, as ye have opportunity."'
both to God and man.
" Do good
one
burdens."
ye
friends
of
Bear
reasons
all
who
to
be
profess
the
why
There are
weightiest
""As ye would another's
that men should do unto you, do ye even so unto them."
virtue and religion should be prepared, in times like the present, to be
Our Hawaiian neighbor may be poor, socially degraded, and morally
known as such, not in name merely, but in deed, It cannot be right
indiNevertheless he is a man, and for him, not less than for the
corrupt.
life,
should
absorb
the
of
this
totally
that the world, the business
vidual, leaving not even a tithe for God and humanity. No man ran honorable tind highly favored, Heaven stooped to earth, and Jesus, its
so wrap himself up in the triple brass of selfishness and be guiltless. First Born, was nailed upon the Cross.
Let it not, I pray you, be accepted as a foregone conclusion that the
His Maker has claims against him which cannot be shaken off; and so
has society. Believe me, thajre is something more valuable than gold. less-favored race is, by some stern law of necessity, to be ruthlessly
it
Accumulated wealth is not the supreme good, affirm it though some swept from the earth by the advance of the more favored. I know
may, believe it though more do. Piles of precious metal can never is easy to generalise from the accumulated facts of the past, and to rerepresent more than their earthly equivalent. They can never stretch gard it as a fixed rule that the aborigines must give way before the adaway beyond and certify to any soul its title to Heaven. We need vancing tread of civilization j meaning thereby that they may be pessomething that can do this, and that something is the favor of God, se- tered and pushed from their own rightful inheritance, till the sod has,
a tear, been laid over the last remnant of the race ; and all this
cured by a life of loving, active obedience, through faith in Jesus without
without
fain
the
in
cctnpunction, because, forsooth, fate has decreed it!
service
that
would
name
I
urge,
Christ. And it is this very
But let us not so narcotise our consciences. For humanity's sake—
of our gracious Lord, and in the name of those for whom He died, upon
the attention of all whom voice or pen can reach throughout these yea, for the sake of our common Father and our redeeming Lord, let vi
islands. Oh, for a clarified spiritual vision ! for eyes touched by the not be too ready thus to generalise that dark and shameful chapter of
finger of Jesus and freed from this thick film of worldliness! for the facts which has been gathering ever since Columbus first stepped foot
upon American soil, and which, sad to say, is not yet concluded.
gracious spirit,
•• Upon the eyeballs of Ibe blind
Rightly used, those records would indeed tell us of that insatiate greed
To pour celestial dity I"
ot gold, which, in the service of the dominant races, has pitilessly trampled its untold myriads to a hopeless death. But surely no fixed law
Another want which is greatly felt in our work is,
4. A more cordial sympathy with the people —a more practical fellow- of Providence, or of a true civilization, is here indicated. An infinitely
benevolent Father has not thus unfeelingly left his helpless ones to be
feeling with and for Hawaiians.
Even with the professedly religious and friendly element in the com- cruelly crushed under the heel of a diabolical selfishness.
Whatever causes of decrease are or have been operative among this
munity, there is altogether too much working at arms length. The
short arm of the lever is too long for the economical expenditure of the people, are easily comprehended ; and as those from other lands gave
forces at our disposal. We have need to get nearer the object to he birth to ihese causes, and have mainly endowed them with perpetuity,
moved, and to understand better its character and conditions. Other- there is a special fitness in the demand that through their agency, too,
wise we must not feel surprise if a retributive Providence suffers the they should be checked or eradicated. It is easy to say that this is an
Man of Rome to seduce from the old paths many for whose salvation impossible undertaking, I am well aware, and thus excuse oneself from
active effort, if not from all outworking sympathy for the people. But
the Protestant Mission was established.
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No amount of zeal or of pecuniary gifts can replace a genuine fellow- faith and facts are both against us. The monstrous licentiousness of
feeling in any agency for drawing men to God, or even in drawing the Corinthians, notorious the world over, cultivated as a shameless art,
them from a lower to a higher and purer social condition. A genuine yielded to the preaching of the Cross. And Roman pollution, too, (an
effective sympathy with this people is what we pre-eminently need. I unfathomable abyss, the extent of which history partially discloses, and
repeat it. Not that of the Priest and the Levite, which can look upon which the revelations of Pompeii are but too faithfully giving us afresh,)
them, and, with an affected sanctity, pass by on the other side ; for we sustained, as it was, by the entire power of Paganism, quailed before
have had enough of that; but that of the Good Samaritan, which can tbe early approach of the Gospel, and was vanquished in the contest
not only " look " upon their necessities, but which can go, as well, and which ensued.
It was the pebble and the sling against the giant, over again ; and so
with its own hands pour in the healing balm, and, if need be, even
set them upon its own beast and take them to the fold of the Good it has ever been, is, and will ever be, to a steadfast faith. It is this
faith only, grounded upon the divine promises, and the Holy Spirit
Shepherd for shelter and care.
The bare recognition of the necessities of a people, or the periodical made effectjal through a genuine sympathy with this people, that will
bestowment of a contribution, or even personal service for their benefit, now give us success in the work, which in the name and strength of
without the genuine sympathy that moves and opens hearts, is of little God, we have upon our hands. We need, too, just now, an obstinate
practical avail. What we need is the capacity for becoming all things pertinacity of faith, that will not yield the day, or for a moment indulge
to all men, and so show the world that we practically hold to the true tbe thought of giving over the remnant of the Hawaiian nation to the
This power of hell. If the warfare is stubborn and desperate, so it is everyApostolic succession. This alone is the spirit of Jesus.
self-denying, pains-taking purpose, working out through the law of where in this sin-cursed world. The conditions of life and character
Christian love, this alone, achieves miracles in penetrating the hardest are everywhere the same, and the same tried and trusty weapon with
hearts and reforming the most hopelessly degraded lives. And this, which those before us have wrought exploits for the truth, even the
too, is the very thing which the exigences of the present demand at our Gospel of God's crucified Son, we, also, still wield, or may wield for
the salvation of the Hawaiian race; and shame on us if from »ny causa
hands. Shall this demand be met ?
We may at least thank God that on every side there are indications, we fail to achieve victory therewith 1
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And this brings me to mention, as another of our wants
6. A more specific and positive faith in God, and in divine truth as
the single instrument of human salvation.
Not that human eloquence, learning and skill are to be rejected, provided, always, that as subordinates, they can be made to hold up everywhere and always the only name under Heaven whereby they can be
saved." Still, it is not to be denied that, as a saving agency, the wisdom of the world is "foolishness" with God. And the great Apostle
counts it all as dung, that he may, for himself and for others, win
Christ and be found in Him. He gloried in but one single thing. That
was in the vicarious sacrifice of the Cross.
Putting all else beneath his feet, he concentrated the entire forces of
his being to this dVie resolute purpose, of proclaiming the crucified and
risen Jesus as the one only sacrifice for nil the spiritual maladies of our
race. He knew, indeed, that "to the Jews it was a stumbling-block
and to the Greeks foolishness." Yet by this very foolishness of
"
preaching" he also knew it pleased God to save them that believe.
Thus " knowing in whom he belived," and assured that the " foolishness of God was wiser than men," we see how it was lhat he determined, even among the highly-cultivated and fastidious Corinthians, to
know nothing save Jesus Christ and Him crucified. He could not dally
upon outside considerations, but opened up at once the power and glory
of the Gospel, in its individual application to the hearts of men. And
now it is just this resolute faith of the Apostle in the Gospel of Jesus
Christ, as the sole specific for nil human necessities, that we need today, to fire anew our zeal and give assurance of the coming victory.
Let it be. therefore, our glory, as it was His, to know nothing but
Christ and Him crucified for the salvation of men. Tell us not of imposing rites or a pompous ceremonial, neiiher of salvation flowing from
consecrated finger-ends, nor yet of priestly offices, which, shutting out
the broad and blessed Sun of Revelation, would stupidly send us to
God by candle-light. Away with tlifoe borrowed baubles of heathenism ! Give us a pure Christianity, and in beautiful apostolic simplicity
let us point this people to the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of
the world.
And let it be our constant joy to know that one of ihe crifwning glories of the Gospel which we lubor to bestow upon this people is out and
out individuality. For the mere accidents of human character it has
no partiality. It knows nothing of authoratative monopolies through
whose officious agency alone its grace may be vouchsafed to the spiritually needy; nor with aggjegations of men has it anything to do. To
corporations or organizations it has not one word to say, save, indeed,
as they may be the proper and healthful outgrowth of individual men.
To the man it speaks directly—to the individual man. Abject and despised he may be, morally corrupt and undone he certainly is ; nevertheless he is a child of God, and by the sign manual of Heaven he has
in reversion a celestial- birthright. A Lazarus in rags, repulsive to
sight, he may be now, and thankful for the kindly sympathy and companionship of dogs, but to-morrow's sun shall find him entered upon his
promised inheritance, a child of glory reposing in Abraham's bosom.
This, I repeat, is one of the crowning glories of the Gospel, and with
what fixedness of hope and faith should it not inspire us! By divine
authority we .iffer its weal'.h of blessing directly to the living soul, and
upon that soul also we lay its solemn and weighty responsibilities. It
is what he needs, for it is his Father's provision for its extremest necessities. With his political relations it may not, perhaps, directly meddle, nor with his social standing. It is enough that he was made in
the image of his Creator; enough that, as such, he is a subject of God's
moral government. For him, as such, the Cross on Calvary was
reared. For him attoning blood was shed. To him comes the offer of
life or death, and, as the steward of this manifold grace of God, naked
and alone shall he come at length to the final Judgment Seat.
Divide this heirship to the bounteous pifts and responsibilities of the
Gospel you cannot, neither the one nor the other. Each individual of
the rose if personally heir to the whole. No Church can interdict it,
no priest circumscribe it, no Bishop lay his finger" upon it. Such is the
Gospel committed to us ; such its relations and dealings with man.
Outside of it there are no motives that can touch the conscience, or savingly affect the life, spiritual or material. THts can ; and we should
never forget it. It is well to recur often to what it has done, that sight
as well as faith may be assured and stagger not at the promise of what
it i» surely to do. Think of that first quarter of a century after Jesus
hung upon the Cross! Run your eye over the Epistles. Romans,
Corinthians, Gallatians, Ephesiane, Phillipians, Colossians, Thessalonvans A marvelous catalogue ! They indicate to us, in the briefest
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bined powers of civil and religious despotism, of earth and hell.
Again, tune your thoughts to the conquests of the truth within the
present century. Time would fail us even to run through the catalogue of territories and peoples won for Christ, both from Popery and
from Paganism, on continent and on island. And it is worthy of remark, in passing, that not one trophy thus won for Christ has again reverted to the foe. Recall, too, in this connection, what the Gospel has
done for these islands. We are sometimes inclined to underrate the
magnitude of the work actually accomplished. In this we are wrong.
When our foes exultingly tell us that a fox running upon the, wall
which the Gospel has erected among the Hawaiian people would weak
it down, it is not perhaps surprising that, for the moment, in the midst
of great discouragements, too, we are half inclined to believe them.
But is it so ?
Point to whatever valuable institutions or conditions of life you will,
now existing among us, civil, social, religious or political, and every
particular one of them has something more than a poor dumb mouth
with which to speak for our Immanuel and the power of His Cross. It
is both well and wise to strengthen our faith by this survey. We have
need thus to be prepared for what the immediate future is yet to reveal
to us, and need also to assure ourselves that the sword of the Lord and
of Gideon is yet in our hands. And with this trusty weapon, in the
Name of Names, the Church of God on these fair islands shall yet cut
her way to victory through all her gathered foes.
But I hasten to the last of our wants which time will allow to be
named, viz :
6. A more practical Christianity.
In other words, a Christianity embodied in the every-day man, and
not simply in the sleek and pious church-goer on the Sabbath.
Our religion is too ethereal and delicate to bear the coarse scrutiny
and test of this ordinary business life of ours. We need something
with more tangible substance to it; something that can better "rough it"
in the world. No mere theory of Christianity, apart from its actual
adaptedness to the common necessities of life, is for us worth a moment's thought. That which solely attracts our interest to-night is
Religion as a reforming and saving agency, both in its actual performance and in its known capacity for effective work among men. It matters little to us, even though its indicated capacity as a system be infinite, so long as its actual working is partial and imperfect. The skilful engineer is never satisfied until he can work up his engine to its
given capacity ; and if he gets but half the indicated power therefrom,
he is sure that there is a defective working of it. And so we, in working the system of means which God has given for reforming and saving
men, whilst painfully conscious of the imperfect results actually attained, are sure that our working of the system is defective.
Now, it is manifestly absurd in us to expect to accomplish the vast
work which we have in hand, with forces so painfully inadequate as we
find them. The children of this world exhibit no such stupidity; why
should the children of light ? Is it written in the book or God's decrees that the former shall be wiser in their generation than the latter?
Or is this the mere statement of a humiliating fact, whose existence is
conditioned upon no fixed necessity, but simply upon a defective spiritual economy, persistently believed in and pushed laboriously on to its
meagre results ? Can we doubt which ? And we know, too, where the
great defect lies.
Give us, therefore, not a new religion —we are right there—hii* a
new system of spiritual economy, vitalized by the fresh element of
power to be found in the honest application of Christianity to the ordinary
business oflife.
We are told that the results of forty-five years of Christian toil
among this people are not commensurate with their cost in treasure and
human energies ; and, vast as these results are, I am far from disputing
the allegation. Considering the large numbers, in every department of
life, who have borne the Christian name, and still bear it, in these
islands, the results are indeed unsatisfactory, and it is by no means difficult to tell why. Our religion, instead of occupying its rightful position as the controlling power in the conduct of life, has been made far
too generally to dance attendance upon our worldly interests; and so
accustomed have we become -to this method of Christian life, that not
only the world—the outside sinners—but many even of the baptised
children of the Kingdom have come to accept it as an established truth
that worldly business cannot be successfully conducted if under the

control ofreligion !
And this is precisely the debasing idea that is now being diffused
throughout the native community, viz, that there can be no joint agency
of the Divine with the ea'rrhly principle in conducting the every-day
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And so, when one takes to business
a book of impracticable precepts
of any sort, he feels that he follows high precedents in eschewing the
to be
Divine law as his guiding light, and following what he supposesfervent
in
business,
Not
slothful
and
better
judgment.
his own wiser
"
in spirit, serving the Lord," is to him, as to others, an unmeaning in-

congruity.

Now, can any people ever be Christianized on grounds so low ana
unworthy as these ? I do not ask if they can be brought into the
Church thereby, for they may be, as others have been, both in this and
other lands. But we do not hold to baptismal regeneration. Heathenism baptised is heathenism still, and baptised worldliness ii, worldliness
still, call it by what name you please.
But this people have long since been able to comprehend the discrepancy that exists everywhere among them between the religion of the
Bible, as read and as preached to them, and that which is thus pracWith their religious teachers, they approve the former and acknowledge, as readily as we do, its divine excellence, whilst, as human
nature is, they naturally and almost inevitably content themselves with
practising the latter, and think they do a< well as their employers and
acknowledged superiors. And is this to be disputed ?
We cannot now stop to speak of the domestic and more private relaIslands if
tions which we hold to Hawaiians; but look abroad over the our
the
of
management
great
if,
fairness
in
say,
and
all
in
you will,
plantations, for example, and other important enterprises which absorb
is practical Christianity
and control all the native labor available, theremake
the faintest appreenough—l will not say humanity enough—to
ciable show. I mean, of course, as seen by Hawaiian and other em-

tised.'

....

ployes.
Let us not deceive ourselves. Hawaiians are not slow in estimating
the sort of Christianity that simply treats them as beasts of burden,
without the slightest actual provision for their wants as immortal beings. A Christianity that works them incessantly for six days of the
week not to say more, even, than that—and then turns them adrift on

Again, I repeat, a new religious life is what we perishinglv need ;
and everythat, conscious of the abiding presence of Jesus, shall always themselves,
where stand up for Him. And, whilst art and science gird
as now, for the conquest of the material world, is Religion, which alone
gives beauty and significance to both, with careless mien and folded
arms to sit idly by ? Has she, too, no conquests to win for Him whose
name she bears? No trophies for Christ! And this, too, in the year
when expectation stands on tiptae, and faith beholds the raillenial dawn
already streaking the hill-tops with coming glory ! It cannot, surely,
be! It must not be ! The Master says it. Our faith and love both
forbid it. We must work the work of Him that sent us whilst it is
day !
And how sqlemn as eternity are the motives which urge us onward
to our work, to a quickened zeal and a stronger faith—to a new and
higher religious life in and for our adorable Lord !
The time is short. Soon our work will have come to an end, and
the grave will have closed over us forever. Forever, did I say? No.
Christ is the Resurrection and the Life. In Him toiling and not faint,
in Him trusting and not ashamed—yet a little while and He will come
and take us to our waiting thrones on high ; and—cheering, glorious
thought—not us only. Multitudes of these despised ones for whom He
died and we toil, shall, through atoning grace, there reign with us too;
and together we shall sing, in sweetest harmony, the Song of Moses
and the Lamb.
Members of the Hawaiian Evangelical Association.
Hawstl.
FOREIGN MISSIONARIES.

Rev. T. Coan, Rev. D. B. Lyman, Chas. H. Wetmore, M. D., Hilo.
Rev. J. F. Pogue, Kau.
Rev. J. D. Paris, Kealakeakua.
Rev. L. Lyons, Waimea.
Rev. E. Bond, Kohala Akaa.

the Sabbath, without even the care bestowed upon the cattle, and so
NATIVE pastors.
drawing them down by an inevitable process of demoralization (and by
Pohano,
Hakalau.
Rev.
T.
no hesitating process either) towards barbarism and death. This cariRev. J. Kauhane, Paliuka.
cature of Christianity is not, nor was it ever -designed to be, in any
S. W. Papaula, Kapalilua.
land, the power of God nor the wisdom of God for tbe salvation of ' Rev.
Rev.
J.
W. Kupakee, Helani.
men.
O.
W. Pilipo, Kailua.
Rev.
ever
to
be
this,
better
than
our
work
is
if
Now, we need a religion
Kekaha.
Kaonohimaka,
Rev.
done ; a religion from which are eliminated all these unnatural excresPali, Kawaihae.
Rev.
A.
we
short,
these
fatal
defects
are
remedied.
In
which
ences, and in
Rev. S. C. Luhiau, Kohala Komahana.
His Word, heavenly
need the sort of Christianity that God gives us inwell
Rev. S. Kukahekahe, Waipio.
as
divine
its
in
humane
as
in
as
well
as
its
origin,
its
aspect
in
Mail.
relahis
two-fold
nature
and
in
man
ever
practical teachings, regarding
FOREIGN MISSIONARIES.
this
sort
of
Chrisations, and striving to bless him in both. Give us
Rev. D. Baldwin, Lahaina.
tianity, not as a beautiful ideal but as a tangible substance, touching and
S. E. Bishop, Rev. C. B. Andrews, Lahainaluna.
Rev.
and
our
point,
Hawaiian
life
at
conceivable
every
blessing this actual
W. P. Alexander, Rev. Thos. G. Thurston, W. Bailey, WaiRev.
wor|j God's work—on these islands shall be speedily accomplished, luku.
and the top stone shall be brought forth with shoutings of grace, grace
Rev. J. P. Green, Makawao.
uno »t!
, , conceivable
NATIVE PASTORS.
S
•, •
li
avail is the
But, at this stage of human progress, of what
Moku,
Rev.
J.
Kaanapali,
H.
fro;n the marts
religion that, either doubtful or ashamed, sneaks away
Rev. S. KrAnakahiki, Keanae.
the planta8f trade—from the ship's deck, the dock, the counting-room,
Rev. H. Manase, Honuaula.
tion—whilst in the prayer-meeting and on the Sabbath, when secular
Hol.kal.
can
to
to
exhort
faithfulness
zealously
business is safely in abeyance,
FOREIGN MISSIONARY.
Him who redeemed them with His blood, and who said, too, He that is Rev. A O. Forbes, Kaluaaha.
ashamed of me, I will be ashamed of him?
NATIVE PASTOR.
Out upon the Christianity that, in the last half of the nineteenth
Rev. S. W. Nueku, Halawa.
Laaal.
century, and in the light of the last fifty years, can read the second
Psalms, and still hesitate and apologise in putting its foot significantly
NATIVE PASTOR.
of our beRev. E. Pali.
forward for Christ. Fools and fanatics there may be danger
and
do somebut
is
not
better
to
be
fools
the
world
it
goes,
as
•Mas
coming,
Rev. Asa Thurston, Honolulu, without charge, by reason of age.
thing for our blessed Lord and for our race, than weak-backed and
Rev. Artemas Bishop, Honolulu, without charge, by reason of age.
fearful worldly-wise ones, whose noblest aim is to sit astride the fence
and
strive
to
serve
world,
His
from
the
Rev. P. J. Gulick, Honolulu, without charge, by reason of age.
vainly
divides
Kingdom
which
Rev. Lorrin Andrews, Honolulu, employed on the native language.
them both ?
Rev. L. Smith, D. D., Honolulu, Pastor Second Church.
It is a bootless task to aim at the regeneration of any people by such
Rev, H. H. Parker, Honolulu, Pastor First Church.
an agency as this. As a working power, without a fresh baptism from
Rev. L. H. Gulick, Honolulu, Corresponding Secretary of the Board
on high, it is well-nigh played out; and hence it is that our work
has
of
on
our
hands.
What
the
the Hawaiian Evangelical Association.
adequate
triumphs
heavily
so
hangs
Rev. S. C. Damon, Honolulu, Pastor Bethel Union Church,
Cross won through our agency within the last half-score of years ?
Rev. E. Corwin, Honolulu, Pastor Fort street Church.
What new trophies have these years given us, which to-night we may
Satan
is
not
to
be
under
W. D, Alexander, A. M., Honolulu, President Oahu College.
easily
thus
bruised
Nay,
?
feet
lay at Jesus'
Rev. J. S. Emerson, Waialua, without charge from failure of health.
our feet. In this conflict Christ' indeed is to win, but He is to win
through the unstinted devotion of the Church He has purchased with Rev. O. H. Gulick, Waialua, Principal of Female Seminary.

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His own blood.

Rev. B. W. Parker, Kaneohe.

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FORMERLY MISSIONARIES, NOW IN SECULAR EMPLOYMENTS, HONOLULU.

.

E. O. Hall, S. N. Castle, Amos Cooke, G. P. Judd, M, D., Henry
Dimond, Honolulu.
NATIVE PASTORS.

Rev. A. Kaoliko, Waianaje.
Rev. M. Kuaea, Waialua.
Rev. Z. Poli, Waikane.
Rev. S. Waiwaiole, Waimanalo.

OF THE TREASURER OF THE

HAWAIIAN EVANGELICAL ASSOCIATION.
RECEIPTS FROM JI \K 1,

...
I'ioui Hawaii.
Kapalilua, S. W. Papuula,
....
Hilo, T. Coan,
Kailua, Pilipo,
- Waimea, L. Lyons,
Dr. J. Wight, Kohala, ....
South Kona, J. D. Paris, .
We§t Kohala, S. C. Luhiau, - ...
South Kohala, A. Pali,

.

NATIVE PASTORS.

at

Makawao, Maui.

Missionaries to Micronesia.
.'tension Island, (Ponapr.)

Ronokxsi —Rev. A. A. Sturges, Rev. E. T. Doane, American Missionaries.
Marshall Mantis.

Ebon—Rev. B. G. Snow, American Missionary; H. Aea, Hawaiian

Missionary.
Namarik—J. A. Kaelemakule, Hawaiian Missionary.
Jaluit—Rev. D. Kapali, Hawaiian Missionary.
Gilbert Islands.

Butaritari—Rev. J. W. Kano, R. Maka, Hawaiian Missionaries.
Apaiang—Rev. W. B.Kapu, D. P. Aumai, Hawaiian Missionaries.
Tarawa —Key. J. H. Mahoe, G. Haina, Hawaiian Missionaries.
Missionaries to the Marquesas Islands.
MISSIONARIES OF BOAKD OF HAWAIIAN EVANGELICAL ASSOCIATION.

Uopou —Rev. S. Kauwealoha.
Hivaoa—Rev. I. Kekela, Rev. Z. Hapuku, J. W. Laioha.
Fatuiva—Rev. J. W. Kaiwi, Rev. A. Kaukau.

Hamakua Centre, P. Kaaikuahiwi,
West. Hamakua, S. Kukahekahe,
East Hamakua, S. Kamelamela,
Children of J. D. Paris,

...

....
.....
....
....
From Mitui.

Lahaina, D. Baldwin,

D. Baldwin,
Mrs. Baldwin,
D. D. Baldwin,
Miss E. S. Baldwin,

Miss H. M. Baldwin,
A Friend in Lahaina,
Hana, S. E. Bishop,
Keanae, S. Kamakahiki,
Makawao, J. S. Grean,
Wailuku, W. P. Alexander,

-

Students at Lahainaluha,

Members of the Board of the Hawaiian Evangelical Association for M. C. Fort street Church,

1866-67.
flflletrs.

President—Rev. T. Coan.
Vice President—Dr. G. P. Judd.
Corresponding Secretary—Rev. L. H. Gulick.
Recording Secretary—Rev. H. H. Parker.
Treasurer— E. O. Hall, Esq.
Auditor—l. Bartlett, Esq.
■sßslMwa
FIRST CLASS.

Rev. S. W. Nueku, Molokai.
S. N. Castle, Esq., Oahu.
Rev. L. Smith, D. D., Oahu.
Rev. H. H. Parker, Oahu.

Prof. Church, Oaha.
Pres. W. D. Alexander. Oahu.
Rev. J. W. Smiih,M. D., Kauai.
Rev. E. Helekunihi, Kauai.

SECOND CLASS.

Rev. J. D. Paris, Hawaii.
Rev. J. W. Kupakee, Hawaii.
Rev. J. F. Pogue, Hawaii.
Rev. E. Corwin, Oahu.

Rev. A. Kaoliko, Oahu.
Rev. B. W. Parker, Oahu.

Hon. John li, Oahu.
Major W. L. Moehonua, Oahu.

THIRD CLASS.

Rev. T. Coan, Hawaii.
Key. E. Bond, Hawaii.
Rev. W. Pilipo, Hawaii.
Rev. W. P. Alexander, Maui.

I. Bartlett, Esq., Oahu.
G. P. Judd, M. D., Oahu.
Rev. S. C. Damon, Oahu.
Rev. M. Kuaea, Oahu.

CwaMUttee*.

81,050 84

Balance June 1, 1865,

Rev. J. W. Smith, Rev. D. Dole, Koloa.
Rev. E. Johnson, A. Wilcox, Waioli.

N. B. Rev. J. S. Green, Independent Pastor

1865, TO MAY SI, 18««.

FOREIGN MISSIONS.

kaial.

FOREIGN MISSIONARIES.

Rev. E. Helekuniki, Anaholu.
Rev. J. Waiamau, Lihue.

THIRD ANNUAL REPORT

-

...

...

- ...
- ....

Waialua, M. Kuaea,
Waimanalo, S. Waiwaiole,
From a Sailor, by Mr. Damon,

-

Mr. Pahukula,
Mission Children's Society,

Waimea, J. W. Smith,
Koloa, J. W. Smith,
Waioli, E. Johnson,

-

-

-

......

From Kauai.

-

Missionary Society at Waioli,
.Missionary Society at Koolau,

....
....

Halawa, Nueku,
Kaluaaha, A. O. Forbes,

From Holokal.

Foreign Missions —S. C. Damon, M. Kuaea, H. H. Parker, W. L. Kalaupapa,
Moehonua.
•
Home Missions—G. P. Judd, John li, W. D. Alexander, L. Smith.
From I lion.
Publications— E. Corwin, £. O. Hall, H. H. Parker, H. M. Whitney. M. C. Ebon, H. Aea,
Education—B. W. Parker, W. D. Alexander, A. Kaoliko.
M. C. Ebon, avails of oil, •
Appropriations from A. B. C. F. M.—S. N. Castle, B. W. Parker,
J. D. Paris.
From Apaiang.
Ur«l (oasßlUffs •■ F.dnratlon.
M. C, J. W. Kanoa,
Havmt—3. D. Paris, T. Coan, C. H. Wetmore, D. B. Lyman, J. F.
From Tarawa.
Pogue.
M. C, J. Mahoe,
MauL~W. P. Aleiander, S. E. Bishop, A. 0. Forbes, H Manase.
Kauri—J. W. Smith, E. Johnson.
Amount carried forward.

-

-

1,489 00
339
25
5
10
2
2

50
00
00
00
00
00
10 00

8 75
17 25

' 40 00

20 50

From "aim.

. ....
- . .

900 00
73 00
104 00
20 00
200 00
31 00
20 00
29 00
29 00
24 00
15 00

18 68

...

Kaumakapili,
Kawaiahao, H. H. Parker,
Kaneohe, B. W. Parker,
Waianae, Kaoliko,
Hauula, M. Kuaea and Ukeke,
Collection after An. Sermon by B. G. Snow
H. Manase,
"
"
G. P." Judd,
Mr. Ukeke,
Messrs. Hoffschlaeger & Stapenhorst,

8 35 00

....

498 68

74 10
143 98
601 62
79 00
5 50
18 50
105 50
81 12
20 00
2 00

25 00
33 25
59 25

50

2 00
150 00

•
1,401 32

46 50

170
46
50
7

00
40
25
25
320 40

93 25
90 90
2 75

2 87
44 48

186 90

47 35
22 25

11 00
•6,027 74

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TMEHON
FR.
Amount brought forward,

- •
- - - - - - - - -- -- - -- - - - .- -- - -- - -- -- - -- •
-

•
•
From California.

Sabbath School First Congregational Church,

85,027 74

Balance June 1, 1865,
200 00 From A. B. C. F. M.

From the I mini States.

From the A. B. C. F. M. for Micronesia,

Total receipts Foreign Missions,

-

From Hawaii.

Kapaliuka, J. Kauhane,
Students of Mr. Lyman's School, Hilo,
Dr. Wetmore, Hilo,
North Kahala, E. Bond,
Kau, O. H. Gulick,
South Kona, J. D. Paris,
North Kohala, E. Bond,
South Kohala, A. Pali,
West Kohala, Luihau,
Waimea, L. Lyons,
Hamakua Centre, P. Kaaikuahiwi,
West Hamakua, S. Kukahekahe,
East Hamakua, S. Kamelamela,

-

-

- --

Waianae,

•

•

50 00
450 00
132 34
230 00
114 50
18 00
20 00
62 00
13 00
10 00
8 68

From Oahn.

M. C. Fort street Church,
Ewa, J. Bicknell,
Waialua, M. Kuaea,

109 95
8 00

143 25
8 25

•*

...
From Kauai.

Koolau, E. Helekunihi,
Wailuku, W. P. Alexander,

-

Kaluaaha, A. O. Forbes,

...

From Mini.

From Molokai.

-

Total receipts General Fund,

-

-

--

HOME MISSIONS.

Balance June 1, 1865,

From Oaho.

A. B. C. F. M.,

■

-

From the Inlted States.

Dr. J. Wright, Kohala,

Total Expenditures,
Balance,

.

From Nasi.

From Hawaii.

2,100 00

18 67

24 00

8691 50
8200 00
82,209 61

8 60 42
456 05
237 16

2,000 00

2,753 63

... - ....

PERSONAL.

•

-

-

-

869 86

87,137 41

•

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- -- - - -- - -.... - - CR.

Audited and found correct,
Honolulu, June 6, 1866.

24

823,310 03
16,172 62

■

BALANCES.
1,171 64 To Foreign Missions,
To Home Missions,
To General Fund,
•
To Publications,
To Female Education,
•
269 45 To Theological Education,
To Tract Fund,
12 70 To General Meeting,
To Medical Fund, Micronesian Mission,
43 00 To Personal,

178 77

600 00

..---- 84,963

Total Cash Receipts,

$3,446 46

$ 91 60

FUHLICATIONS.

Balances to Mr. Doane,

Bible Fund Dr.,

«

FiAd, MICRONESIA.

- - - -- - --

Total,

$355 56

- - - - - - ...
....
- ...
- - - -- - - -

Wailuku, W. P. Alexander,

MEDICAL

From A. B. C. F. M.,

43 00

O. H. Gulick, $ 31 6S
Collection after Annual Sermon by
» S. E. Bishop, 113 17
«
33 92
M. C. Fort street Church,
■

$6,927 74

Total,

*

Balance June 1, 1865,
81,906 67 M. C. Fort street Church,
Avails of stock to Binder,
Avails of books sold, L. H. Gulick,
$ 38 12
From A. B. C. F. M.,
25 00

GENERAL FUND.

Balance June 1, 1865,

1,700 00

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GENERAL MEETING.

79

■

81,940 33

297 00

3,130 68
882 67
11197
25 12
157 91
461 75
200 00
59 86

87,267 19
129 78

$7,137 41

I. BARTLETT,
Auditor.

Report on the State of the Churches, June, 1866.
To the Hawaiian Evangelical Association .Your Committee having reviewed the several station reports that have
been made to this body by the Pastors of the forty-three Churches here
represented, would present ihe following brief review of their progress
during the past year, and of their present position.
The Freatliln? of the Word.
The Word of Life has been faithfully, intelligently, and regularly
preached, from Sabbath to Sabbath, throughout the land, and not without saving and quickening effect, though no marked or general outpouring of the Holy Spirit has been witnessed.

82,677 00
Total receipts Home Missions,
FEMALE EDUCATION.
Temptation*.
$1,596 23
Balance June 1, 1865,
are now in many places subjected to many strong temptThe
people
29
87
Church,
8
M. C. Fort street
ations, from which in previous years they have been in a measure pro1,600 00
From A. B. C. F. M.,
use of fermented and distilled liquors,
1,629 87 tected. The manufacture and
and also of the native awa, the desecration of the Sabbath, the hula,
added, horse-racing with its concomitants of betting,
$3,226 10 and, it may beidleness, all
Total receipts Female Education,
these have been effectual in separating from
and
gambling,
THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION.
many of the younger members, while also the general
our
Churches
840 12 tendency to dissipation has led a still larger number of the younger
Balance June 1, 1865,
50 00 portion of the adult population to stand aloof from the Sanctuary and
Kona, Hawaii, J. D. Paris,
its influences.

Total,

BIBLE FUND.

Balance June 1, 1865,
Dr. J. Wright, Kohala,
Avails from Dr. L. H. Gulick,

- -- --

8 20 00
552 11

Total,

8282 99
572 11

8855 10

Total,
Balance June 1, 1865,
Avails from L. H. Gulick,

$90 12

TRACT FUND.

-

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8 68 74
104 17
8172 91

A Peeallarlty of Hawaiian

(horrors.

One marked feature which is to be noticed in the native Hawaiian
Churches, is that the officers—those who constitute the Executive
Board of the Church—are generally old men, past the energetic period
of life; that the majority of them are upwards of fifty years of age,
while rarely can a single church officer be found under thirty.five
years of age. In those Churches whose pastorate has lately been filled
by young men, it is thought all the more necessary that the faithful
and triedremaining Christians of the past generation, the earlier and
first fruits of the Gospel seed sown in this land, should mostly guard
the ark of God. -A want of confidence in them seems in a great measure to have prevented the younger men too generally from securing
personal responsibility or charge in the perpetuation of the Christian

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institution", of the land. The results of this lack of confidence are twofold.
First, that young men, business) men, the men of to-day, are neither found
managing the affairs of the Churches, as officers, nor willing to take part in
aotivo Church operations; and, secondly, timt but few of them are fitted to
take such charge.
%
The attention of Pastors should, we think, bo called to this fact, and they
should be recommended to make special efforts to induce the younger men of
promise and of Christian character to take part in the work and to encourage
them to come forward and assume their share of responsibility in the various
Christian enterprise. Here, as elsewhere, the harvest is abundant
borers are few. The study ofevery Pastor should be to influence all
tpable to enlist as reapers of this harvest.

corned by young and old, as a subscription list of noarly four thousand names
clearly proves. This little herald of tbe day is recommended to the care of
Pastors and Sabbath School Superintendents, who may do a good work in
promoting its circulation.
Tbe Island Associations.

regard the Island Ecclesiastical Associations as important, and tending
Hawaiian Churches. These Associations superintend the Churches under their cure, attend to cases of discipline brought before them, establish new Churches, ordain and set over them Pastors. There
have been ordained and placed over new Churches by these Associations, dur.
ing the past year, four new Pastors, viz. One on the Island of Hawaii, two
on Oahu and one on Kauai, making in all twenty-one Hawaiian ordained
Here Pastors .Veiled,
ministers. Some of the Churches aro destituteof a Pastor to look after the
sheep, to watch over them and preserve them from the wolves that are strainour Churches have, during tho past year, suffered for lack of Pasing hard to scatter the flock. It becomes these Island Associations to observe
iry effort should be made promptly to supply such destitute fields. these institutions, and strive too seek out and speedily place over them Pastors
lued efficiency and vitality of our Churches seeioß to human view to feed and guide theseChurches in the way of life.
pendent upon continued and faithful pastoral labor and care. Destitute Churches at once attract the ever-vigilant eye of the worshippers of
Theological School.
who are not slow to enter, teaching lor doctrines the commandments of
As auxiliary to this work, we regard a Theological School, where persons
shall be trained for the work of Pastors and Preachers, us very important.
A Sign of Piotrress.
Such a School we have commenced at Wailuku. We regard an increase of
r e notice in most of tho Churches a critical spirit, one that judges with pupils as important. We recommend to the Pastors of the several Churches to
more or less intelligence of the capacity, tuleDts and virtues of their Pastors, seek out and induce to enter that School such young men as seem promising
and of candidates for the pastoral office. The standard of character required for the work, so that we may furnish Preachers ana Pastors for the destitute
by the Churches of the native ministry is much higher than it was a few years Churches of these Islands, and also laborers for the various Missions of this
since ; thus indicating an advance in the intellectual and Christian character ocean.
of tho individual church-member and church-goer. Though there may in
Other Institutions of Learning.
some cases be shown a captious and hypercritical spirit, nut the offspring of
The
of
Lahainaluna
also bears a near relation to the work of furSeminary
true wisdom, yet, on the whole, we view this as one of the clearest and most
satisfactory proofs of intellectual and spiritual growth. The effect of such an ninliing pupils for the Theological School. In this Seminary some young men
appreciative spirit can but tend to incite the Pastor to greater diligence and lay the foundation of knowledge suitable to make them pupils in theology.
faithfulness in his labors. An exacting spirit and uncharitable critieiam we So, also, the Hilo Boarding School is important to raise up pupils for the
would most severely condemn; while healthful, kind and appreciative criticism Theological School. But the Theological School at Wailuku is not the only
must bring forth good fruits, stimulating the young Pastor to covet earnestly place where theological teaching is given. Some of the Pastors of the Churches
are teaching young men-, suitablo to become Preachers and Pastors in future
tbe beat gifts.

B>!

We

decidedly to the benefit of tbo

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Christian Young Men should be Encouraged to Knter the Mlnl-irv.
Mindful that several parishes are now destitute of Pastors, and in view of
tbe changes that will be effected by time, we regret to see so few of tho young
men looking forward to the ministry; and we would invite the attention of
the friends of Zion to the duty of setting before the minds of young men of
promise and of Christian character tho claims, tho honors and rewards of this
nigh calling, as well as the sacred responsibility of tbe office.
So far as we know, no one of those young Hawaiians who have enjoyed the
high advantages of English education afforded by the College und tbe High
School (the Royal School) of this city, are looking forward to the ministry,
though the rapid increase of English speaking residents in every parish of the
Inlands loudly calls for those who understand both tho English and Hawaiian
languages to occupy all posts of usefulness.
Sabbath

Schools.

time.

Female Boarding schools.

Female Boarding Schools are very important to prepare Hawaiian girls to
become enlightened mothers und suitable wives for the graduates of Luhitinalunu. Seminary, the Preachers, Pastors, Missionaries to other Islands, und
others. There ore four Female Boarding Schools, under the auspices of our
Evangelical Association, or our faith, embracing one hundred and Jforty-four
pupils. These Schools are at Koloa, on Kauai, Waialua and Makiki on Oahu,
and Miikawuo on Maui. Other Hawaiian girls are trained in the various families of foreigners, mostly Missionaries, of the Islands, and these we think will
number some twenty or more.
We exhort those friends who have girls of suitable age to send them to a
Female Boarding School of their own faith, believing it not consistent to send
them to Schools of other religious persuasions, us some parents have done.
Onr

Warfare.

From the signs of the times, it is very clear that there is to be a warfare,
These are receiving, in many places, more attention than heretofore. They
are, to our view, a most indispensable agency for leading all classes to seek from this time onwards, between darkness and light. The enemies of the pure
Gospel of Christ are cunning, skilful, and ever vigilant in striving to turn men
and know the truth as it is in Christ. If we have the ytffng we have all.
Evidence is most abundant to establish the fact that the study of the Bible from the Bide of truth to that of darkness and error. What tenders this an
may be made as interesting to the youth of Hawaii as to the young of any unequal contest is, that the sinful heart of man is in league with tho works of
Christian land ; and practical religious instruction can be made as efficient darkness. Therefore, it becometh the followers of Christ to be equally vigilant
in warring against the old man of the heart, that would lead them to death.
here aa elsewhere.
A most interesting and attractive department of some of our revived Sabbath
Popery.
Schools is that of the Infant School, in which little ones of from three to seven
years are made to receive with joy the words of life which may fit them for a
on
Islands

these
are not asleep. They are ever
The emissaries of the Pope
glorious Heaven. This department of each Sabbath School striving to gain a foothold where opportunity offers. They are quiet and silent
of
Christian
guidance
in sowing the leaven of error among the people. Their aim is to draw into
young ladies.
their influence tho obildren of Protestants. This they do by establishing
Hawaiian
Sabbath
School
Association,
just organized in this place, is,
The
where they can be efficiently instructed. In their efforts in this direcSchools
Wanda
we hope, destined, to do a great work throughout the
in awakening a
tion they say, We have no intention of proselyting or teaching religion, but
and
"
in imgeneral interest in this important department of Christian labor,
to instruct in the knowledge of books and fancy-work." These smooth
parting instruction as to the methods of making Sabbath Schools interesting merely
words operate as a bait to draw in such parents as desire to advance their chiland beneficial.
But the leaven of Popery and error is
dren in knowledge and
Nothing more delights the eye and cheers the heart of the Christian than to constantly instilled intofancy-work.
such children, leading them to become Papists.
upon tome of our Sabbath Schools, where the infant, the youth, the
Therefore, we exhort 'parents, and all who stand upon the side of truth in
le-aged and those bowed with the weight of years may be found, each in
this contest, not to be induced to aid the side of the enemies of the (iospel.
lass, drawing wisdom and inspiration from the great fountain head.
We exhort you, as Hawaiians, in this warfare with darkness to acquit yourselves like men, that the truth may prove victorious.
Newspapers.
In this contest " take to yourselves tho whole armor cf God," that you may
is continued and increased circulation of such a paper aa the Kuokoa is a be able to stand up against the advocates of darkness. Take* above all, the
ful sign of tbe times. This paper is one whose religious, moral and polit- sword of tbo Spirit, the Bible, and with ityou are sure to conquer.
teachinga are such as we are happy to say recommend the paper to tbe
E. JOHNSOfr,
onage of tho intelligent and enlightened portion ofour island communities,
and we can truthfully odd that it is lead and appreciated throughout the
O. H. GULICK,
Und.
S.
KUKAUEKAHE.
The Alaula, or Dayspring.a. child's monthly pictorial paper, has been
started undor the auspices of the Hawaiian Boardi, and baa been heartily wela useful life and a

may often be moet properly committed to the care and

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