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Sunday Coaling and Work.—The agents
for Webb's, or the American line of steamers, gave notice through the Advertiser of
the 7th of July, that through telegraphing lo
London, arrangements had been made so
that their steamers would not be under the
necessity of coaling in Honolulu on the Sabbath. We exceedingly regret that their arrangements have so speedily failed. On the
first arrival of the Ajo.r, after giving this notice, the Sabbath stillness is disturbed by
coaling, draying, transferring mails, and all
the noise and hurry of a week day. This is
not right, to keep scores and hundreds of
men to work on that day, and oihcrwisc violate the Sabbath laws of God and the Hawaiian Kingdom. The Kcv. Dr. Stone told
us last Sabbath evening at Fort Street
Church, that the violators of God's law are
certain to be overtaken by that Divine Nemesis, which follows with its avenging arrows
the guilty. "The mills of God grind slow,
but they grind exceeding small "
Letters have been received from Mr.
and Mrs. Whitney as late as July sth. They
were then at Amherst, Mass., attending the
jubilee gathering and commencement exercises of the College, which has now been in
existence half a century. They had also attended the commencement at Harvard University. They describe in glowing terms
their trip East and rambles among the hills
nl New Enclaml.
The improvements in Emma Square and
vicinity are indicative of what may be done
in Honolulu when labor and taste are combined. Mr. Montgomery has called into existence a most beautiful ornament to our city.
He seems inclined to follow the principle so
beautifully elucidated by Cicero, of combining the "useful" with the "beautiful," for
he has made asparagus to flourish beside
flowering plants from the East Indies and
the graceful and symmetrical pine from Norfolk Island. How many beautiful trees,
shrubs and flowers can with care, skill and
labor be produced from a barren soil! When
our mother Eve turned away from the gardon and left Eden, had she glanced an eye
down the long vista of coming ages and seen
the beautiful gardens and fruitful fields,
would she have drawn so deep a sigh as Milton imagines ?
1.-avc llie,-. I'arailisc ? Thus leave
" Must Inative
soil? these nappy walks ami shade:,.
Thee,
I'M haunt ofgisls ? * * * O Flowers,
Thai never will In oilier clliala grow,
Vt ho ■.hull rear ye f. the wan, or rank
Your trilK-s, anil water from lh' ambrosial fount ?"
We arc glad that the love of flowers and
plants is not quite eradicated from the human
soul.and as years roll away, may the patrons
of flora culture and horticulture increase
amongst the dwellers on our islands, where,
in the beautiful lines of Campbell,
Kprinii, as she passed ilowu the vale,
on the trass, Bud her brealh on the gale."
" The Uuceii of llie
l.ell
her rohe
Maori War Debt or New Zealand.—
We have been informed by an English gentleman direct from New Zealand, and who
has resided many years in that Colony, that
the Colonial war debt for lighting the Maories
now amounts to £7,000,000, or $35,000,000.
To pay the interest on this enormous debt,
'J50.000 colonists pay upon an average £1,
or $115, for every man, woman and child, yet
the Maories are not subdued. During the
period this war debt has been accumulating
the Hawaiians have been gradually becoming
civilized, and not one penny has been required to carry on active war measures.
Verily missionaries arc better civilizcrs than
soldiers !
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Editor’s Table.
UisToiiv in nn. Samiwuii taisUTM Mission, I>jt
Unfits lilldaiaan. D. I)., LL. I>. late Fort-inn Secretary nl the American Hoard. Huston : Couirrtgational Publishing Society. 1870.
Greece and Palestine occupy but small
areas on the map of the world, and the number of their inhabitants was small compared
with the great and populous nations of the
Old World, yet the books which have been
written about those two countries occupy
large spaces on the book shelves ot all the
libraries of Europe and America. Never
were books relating to those countries and
their inhabitants multiplying more rapidly
than during the nineteenth century. Grotc's
History of Greece, in twelve volumes, is the
work of a London banker, whose death was
announced in the latest London papers, and
another history of Greece is already in process of publication, in New York and London, by a living author. It would require a
volume to announce the titles even of new
books relating to Palestine nnd the Jews.
The Hawaiian Islands occupy but a small
space on a map of the woskl. The number
of their inhabitants would not form a city ot
respectable size in Europe or America, and
a century has not elapsed since iheir discovery, yet the number of books, historical, controversial, religious and literary, which have
been written about—what Edward Everett
was pleased to style "this little pin-head
kingdom "—would form a very respectable
library. We have already gathered not less
than a hundred volumes relating to the Sandwich Islands. Among them we have Jarvcs,
Bingham, Ellis, Hopkim*, Dibble, and now
another is to be added. As years roll away,
additional volumes will appear. We should
be gratified to see a history of the Hawaiian
Islands from the stand-point of a Catholic, or
ut lenst a volume which should give a fair
and honest exhibition of their missionary
labors. It may be asked, why write so much
about the Sandwich Islands ? We answer,
because on the islsodi, as in Greece an'!
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Palestine, there has b-gen a war of opinions,
n conflict of ideas, a peculiar development of
humanity. On these islands, the old battle
of Geneva and Rome has been again fought.
The Puritan and the Churchman have here
principles of
stood up face to face.
forms
of govand
Monarchical
Republican
ernment have here been modifying each
other. Progress and conservatism have been
contending for supremacy. In fine, the pure
and free gospel of the New Testament has
here encountered a shattered and vanishing
system of idol worship. Light and darkness
have been in sharp conflict.
It is about such conflicts, changes and revolutions that thinking people like to read
books; and so long as there are people to
read and buy books, so long there will be
found writers. No man was, in many respecls, better qualified to write another bookon the Sandwich Islands than Dr. Anderson,
and are most heartily rejoice that he has
bi-en spared to accomplish this work. He
rould with no slight degree of propriety, take
the following words of the Evangelist Luke
as his motto : " Forasmuch as many have
taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which art. most surely i
believed among us, even as they delivered
them unto us, which from the beginning
were eye-witnesses, and ministers of the
word; it seemed good to me also, having had
perfect understanding of all things from the
very first, to write unto thee in order, most
when referring to the present slate of the
Hawaiian Kingdom
We are permitted to recognize it as an
independent and constitutional government,
with a native sovereign at its head, and a
government as confessedly cognizant of God's
law and the gospel, as any one of the governments of Christian Europe ; and, what is
more, with a Christian community ol sellgoverned, self-supporting churches, embracing as large a proportion ol the people, nnd
as re»lly entitled to the Christian name, as
the churches of the most favored Christian
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:
countries.
" It is a question ol the highest interest,
hy what means this great amount of moral,
social and civil life was there developed.
" This history is tiesigned to answer
that i/u.stion," &c., tkc.
The author here states his design. The
question may be asked, has he fulfilled this
design ? He has so far as he has gone, but
he has not gone quite far enough. He baa
not fully filled out the programme proposed.
He has done this, perhaps, so far as one clement or one class of agents was concerned,
viz: the missionaries nl tin' American Board
of Missions. He has done them justice, as
it was right and becoming he should. They
stand in the front and foremost as a class
of agents laboring for tbe development of a
Christian Commonwealth in this heart of the
Pacific. All honor, we say, to each man and
woman who has labored under the auspices
of the A. B. C. F. M., but they are not the
only agents who have labored and toiled to
build this Chrisiian Commonwealth or deexcellent Theophilus."
velop " the moral, social and civil life " of
A copy of this work lies on our table, and j this Kingdom. We do not think the author
we have read it with marvelous interest. It | has done justice to such men and benefactors
has been our aim for years to rend every- of this nation as Judge Lee, Judge Allen,
thing written about the islands by friend or Judge Robertson,and many others who have
foe, and our desire to obtain a copy of this toiled to develop " the social and civil life "
book has been keenly whetted, for we saw of this nation, if not "the moral." We
the book noticed many months ago in the hardly think Dr Anderson has done justice
United States, but it was not until the ar- to Mr. Wyllie's character. This gentleman
rival of the Morning Star that a copy fell may have erred when he became mixed up
with the afliiii's of the Reformed Catholic
into our hands.
When the historian D*Aubigne was about Mission, but for nearly twenty years, or from
to publish his great work on the Reformation, 1844 to 186l), we do not think the Hawaiian
he met M. Guizot in Paris, who said to him, Kingdom had a better friend. His " Notes,"
" Give, v* details : the rest we know." Dr. published in 1844. fully entitle him to be
Anderson has followed this rule of that great- called a man of broad views and enlarged
est of living Frenchmen, and whose opinion sympathies.
Perhaps the author of this l*onk miyht reupon historical matters is superior to that of
most men. We can well imagine that Dr. ply that he did not start with the intention
Anderaon m writing this book, wus more per- of writing the full history of the Hawaiian
plexed at what he should leave out than what Kingdom. This may be so, but still he has
he should insert. From a perusal of the found ample space to give an unenviable hispreface, we learn the plan which the author toric fame to very many opposers of the mislaid out; but in laying down the volume, we sionary enterprise. Now we claim as he has
confess that we do not exactly feel as if the not forgotten the enemies of the good work,
author had given us all he promised, although so he should not have forgotten or ignored
he may have given us more than we had the friends of this Kingdom and the Protestreason to expect in a volume of 4()0 pages. ant Mission on these islands. One whole
The author thus rcuiarks in hi.? preface, chapter (IX.) is devoted lo "lhe opposition
of foreigners ; " besides, many a page and
paragraph scattered through the book recounts the misdeeds and shortcomings of
men who were inimical to the missionary
work ; but it seems that the author maintained a studied silence respecting men ol an
opposite stamp, unless they were serving
under the Beard.
It has required a vast amount ol patient
toil and earnest labor to adjust the land titles,
and codify the laws of the Hawaiian Kingdom. This has not been, strictly speaking,
missionary work, but still no less important,
because unless done satisfactorily and properly, the Christian Commonwealth would
not have arisen, as Dr. Anderson asserts that
it has been developed, into the form of " o
government as confessedly cognizant of
God's law on,.' the gospel us any one of
tin great governments of Christian F.urope." This has not all been done by missionaries, or those who were once missionaries. The Rev. Mr. Richards died in 1847;
Dr. Jndd left the government service in
1863, and Dr. Armstrong died in 1860.
These are the only gentlemen of the American Mission who have been actively and
personally government officers. Their merits
we fully recognize. Now what we should
have been glad to see in Dr. Anderson's new
book would have been not only a chapter on
" the opposttion of foreigners," but a chapter
wherein the aid and support of foreigners was
fairly recognized and duly appreciated.
The author of this book congratulates the
friends of missions in view ol the pleasing
fact that at the end of fifty years, " a heathen
nation has been evangelized." This is a subject for devout thanksgiving. Now we admire the skill and tact which Dr. Anderson
has displayed in relating the early struggles
of those pioneer missionaries. It is a most
charming narrative. There is a touch of the
comic as well as heroic in many of the encounters of the friends of the Mission with
their opposers. The author has alluded once
to such an event on page 71, when the Mission challenged their enemies to a fair encounter, and Capt. T. Ap Catesby Jones, of
the Peacock, sat as moderator ! We never
shall forget the story as we heard it from the
lips of this gentleman when Commodore of
ill" United States Pacific Squadron in 184.1.
The missionaries had been accused of all
manner of strange misdemeanors. At length
they sent a written challenge to their opposers to meet them in a fair encounter.
Said Commodore Jones, " You should have
seen the two parties as they met in the large
house of the chiefs. Fully organized, and
a secretary appointed, when the opposing
party was called lo specify their chargr-, ~,
writing, Ah, there was the rub.' The a.-,-
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The “Independent.”
sembly was informally dissolved, and all, ganizatinn, which have, by their united moral j
of
so
the
cause
promoted
power,
effectively
•riends and foes, were invited by the discom-;
Some newspapers we glance over; others
religious liberty in Spain, Italy, Sweden and
lorted party to a good dinner ! "
other countries, have vigorously taken up the we look at; others we merely read their
In calmly reviewing the history of Hawaii case, and resolved to send a deputation to St. names ; others we read in part; but there is
nei during the past half century, the most Petersburg in behalf ol the persecuted Letts one that will not allow us to throw it saide
difficult part ol the work to U* •iceoiiiplisln-d and Esthoniaus, and in behalf of religious without a careful perusal, although it someWe learn from the ihird
was not in teaching lhe Hawaiiaus in read liberty generally.
This is) tha?
aSSOaI
reporl, recent!) published, that the times requires " two sittings."
in'd organizing the native churches, but it American Alliance has appointed some of New York Independent. We are far frftn
was in managing, guiding, shaping and con- our most eminent Christian citizens, of vari- subscribing to all we find in its columns, yet
trolling the foreign element in the island ous denominations, as their delegation ; they each numlier contains enough that is good,
community, and so harmonizing the opposing have generously accepted the delicate and and to which we can subsrribe, to fill three
task, and will proceed lo Russia
and conflicting interests of foreigners and responsible
or lour ordinary sheets. It was called n
as soon as their airangenients can be manatives that there should not result an open tured. Owing 10 the peaceful relations sub- mom moth sheet ■SSISBgO, but the publisher
rupture, as there has been at Tahiti, New sisting between the Government und people still goes on increasing us size, and we shall
Zealand, and other islands of the South Seas. of the United States and those of Russia, an be compelled to search among the huge monMany a time it has really seemed as if the American delegation is more likely to secure ; sters of pre-Adainic ages for some other epithe desired end than any other. The proclalair fabric of a Christian Commonwealth mation of religious freedom throughout the thet indicative of vastness and immensity.
would be buried in a common ruin. The key-: immense empire of Russia would be a great We feel almost inclined to write Mr. Bowen,
stone of the arch appears to us to have been ; event, and a cause of rejoicing for all Chris" Hold on ; don't increase again, unless you
in maintaining intact the native sovereignty. j tian denominations and the mi-sionaries in can crowd more than seven days into one
and at the same time admitting the foreign I Turkey.
This embassy in behalf of religious liberty week.'
element to exercise a leading ami controlling
From a late number we clip tbe lollowing
influence. Dr. Anderson remarks in his | is of the deepest interest to the Christian
its members, Prof. "note," referring lo the editorinl staff of this
preface, " We see more of the foreign ele-i world. It includes among
D., Rev. William Adams,
inent in the government of the islands than S. F. B. Morse, LL.
paper. It certainly is highly complimentary
D.,
D„
LL.
St
Rev. Bishop Mcllvaine, to
D.
we could desire." That could not be avoided,
Dr. Coan, whom we knew us a youth at
Field,
but was absolutely necessary, and not lo have Rev. Bishop Simpson. Hon. Cyrus W.
Bishop, LL. D., Hon. VV. E. Dodge, Oahu College. It is pleasant to contemplate
employed it. would have risked the downfall Nathan
Parker, and Norman White, Esq., the career of so many of our Sandwich Island
Hon.
Peter
of the native government. Look at New j
Zealand ! At Fiji, the experiment after the I tbe most of whom, we believe, intend lo go boys," as they have gone forth and are now
"
pattern of Hawaii nei, is to-day being tried ! on this errand of love and good will.
posts of honor and usefulness.
The Evangelical Alliance in Britain, in occupying
The future will proclaim the result. At
are
happy to inform our readers that
"We
Samoa the same experiment must soon lie Germany, in Switzerland and oilier coun- we have now completed the organization of
similar
who
tries,
embassies,
has
appointed
tried.
will co-operate in the mission, and thus com- our editorial stall by the induction of Titus
European and American conflicts and pol- j bine
and present the united sentiment of M. Coan, M. D., who will sit before our Book
itics present no more interesting questions ]
Table. We know Dr. Coan, who inherits
Christendom
on the great subject.
than
Halor solution
are presented in the
honored name of the apostle to the Sandthe
an
the
highest
in
partakes
Such
embassy
waiian Islands and other pans of Polynesia.
wich Islands, as a young gentleman of broad
of
degree
of
the
moral
sublime.
Affairs
To men whose mental vision is adjusted to
culture and refined literary tastes, while the
view great masses and communities of the State, questions of trade and boundaries, have
public has begun to be acquainted with him
j
heretofore
and
are
now
employed,
employing,
human race as they divide, combine and
a contributor to the Gakatu and other
;as
the
of
nations
represented
by
great
minds
countries,
older
contend in
at a first glance
monthlies. It is our design, with his help,
j
and
eminent
men.
this
their
wisest
most
But
our little kingdom may appear somewhat inito give our readers the completest review
significant ; but are not the small objects sub- is a question of mental and moral freedom.
conj and the fairest criticism of the books of the
It
concerns
the
of
the
individual
rights
jected to the microscope as interesting as the science
day. We have already published some ol
Politics,
its
relations
God.
in
!
to
large bodies seen with the naked eye ? There finance, commerce,
the best criticisms that have yet appeared,
have
nothgovernment,
wonders
the
in
are as many
mechanism of a
and that department of the Independent, as
that
to
do
with
an
across
ing
goes
embassy
fly's wing as an eagle's broad pinions. Honohave often heard, is highly valued ; but
lulu is not quite so large as London or New the ocean and a continent to ask of a mighty jwe
aim to make it an authority beyond all
boon
the
consciences
of
sufferIwe
a
for
Emperor
York, but it is still an interesting place to
others in this department, in organizing it
visit, and more so to live in. Our little king- ing men!
Dr. Coan will summon to him the help of the
of
a
favorable
i»sue
I
God,
Under
the
hope
not
dom has
a large population, but il conbest scholars in the country in their special
to
this
mission
lies
the
well-known
liberin
tains samples of all the nations of the world !
And here we will repeat to our readThe study of human nature and the world ality and enlightened mind of the Russian studies.
ers what we have often said, that no pubfor
Czar.
He
has
made
himself
illustrious
may be carried on here as well as in Paris or
deeds of good-will already, and will, undoubt- lisher on earth, by personal favors or by the
Berlin, or elsewhere upon the earth.
listen attentively to this appeal that I most extensive advertising in our columns,
edly,
close
We
our somewhat extended notice
comes
up to bim from distant lands. The will be able to command or modify the tone
of Dr. Anderson's book by saying that we in!of our criticisms. We mean that tbey shall
tend giving it a second perusal, and compar- whole Church of God ought to pray with ;be kindly and polite, even
when advene ;
who
holds
hearts
earnest
faith
that
He
the
of
ing its pages with tho«e of other writers upon.
we
do
not
mean
know
what is adverbut
to
!
the
kings in His hands may incline
Emperor
Hawaiiau history, politics and piety.
to grant this request. To do so, will be in | tised or what is not; and the publisher who
Embassy to Russia.
harmony with the principles on which the | personally, or through an advertising agent,
has hitherto acted, and will be the calls our attention to the matter is in danger
For a number of years past, the Lutherans Emperor
of his intention to make of getting a notice more just than generous.
evidence
crowing
Our literary corps, then, as now completed,
in the Baltic provinces (which formerly be- his people happy.—JV. Y. Obterver.
embraces Henry C. Bowen, Editor-in-Chief;
longed to Sweden) have been persecuted by
the officials of the orthodox Greek Church—
Edward Eggleston, D. D., Superintending
which is the established Church of Russia—
The common-born Marquis of Lome can't Editor; Rev. William Hayes Ward, Office
to such an extent as to excite the sympathies ride in the same carriage with Louise on Editor ; and Joshua Leavitt, D. D., Samuel
of their brethren in other countries, and to state occasions—or Louise can't ride with T. Spear, D. D., Rev. Washington Gladden,
appeal to the U. S. Evangelical Alliance for him, which is probably the view of the case and T. M- Coan, M. D., Associate Editors."
its aid. The different branches of this or- that troubles her most.
Independent, June 22.
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111 I.
THE FRIEIND.
Al'lilST
I. IN7I.
Satoihln“MgeStar.”
foring
On Snturday, July 22d, the missionary
packet sailed for a cruise among the Micronesian Islands. The following passengers
wen* on board the Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Snow,
Key. Mr. and Mrs. Bingham, Key. A. A.
Sturges, Mrs. Dnane.and two Hawaiian missionaries with their wives. Religious services were held on the quarterdeck. A large
concourse of foreigners and Hawaiians gathered on the deck and upon the pier. Prayer
:
was offered in English by the Rev. Dr. Stone,
of San Francisco, in Hawaiian by the Rev.
B. G. Parker,and a song was sung, the same
being the translation of a song in the Hawaiian, composed by the Rev. Mr. Lyons, of
Waimea, Hnwaii. The concluding stanza
was the following :
winds, anil (tales, anil billow.,
" Ye
111., Murnina
Hour
Slur
«.li
To Klaai anil llonehe,
To islands still at war.
The 1.'.i.l olhosts n<> with you,
PfwßwTra
il"- |vaaal
aWa
:
lliiard, Kiiid** her i»Vr lh,- on-nii,
His sarvsKßta *.a;»-ly k-.-v|i."
The benediction was pronounced by the
Rev. S. C. Damon. As the assembly was
dispersing, the Rev. Mr. Snow led off in his
usual animated nnd vigorous strain,
Walt, waft, ye winds his story," fca.
"
The occasion
was most interesting, especially in contrast with the sailing of the first
missionary vessel to Micronesia on the 15th
pf July, 18512. Three of the original missionaries who then sailed were now present,
viz: the Rev. Mr. Snow and wife, and the
Rev. Mr. Sturges. Then they literally went
forth to " the regions beyond "—to islands
sunk in heathenism and debased in vice. No
Protestant missionary had ever visited those
I lil I. \ I). VI(.I S
1. I^7l.
OorigPnlfytesR
hiane ace.
This is a subject which does not cease lo
of learned scholars and
attract the attention
curious antiquarians. A lew days since we
received a letter from Hon. J. D. Baldwin,
author of Pre-historie Nations, and editor of
the Worcester Shy, from which we quote
the following paragraph :
"1 notice that a lecturer at the Sandwich
Islands has questioned the Malay origin ol
the Hawaiians, but 1 cannot see as he lias
any good reason lor his doubt. It seems
manifest the whole Polynesian race arose
from a mixture of the Malays and Papuans,
and that tin,* race established by this mixture
began its history at a remote period in the
past. It is very likely that the Sandwich
Islands constituted one ol the important centers from which it was distributed to other
islands. It is my belief that this race formerly occupied the whole ol the Japanese
islands, nnd the whole of Formosa. Should
you get any more notices of the Pacific island antiquities, please tell me about them.
Do you know the name of the ship-master
who wrote the |ia|>ers that came from Sydney ? "
We copy the last few lines for the purpose
of renewedly calling attention to a scries of
articles which have appeared in the Town
n,ol Country, a newspaper published in
Sydney. These articles are descriptive of
ruins on Ascension, Strong's Island, and
some other islands of Micronesia. They are
accompanied by wood cuts, and are worthy
the attention of inquisitive antiquaries and
archaeologists. The present inhabitants of
those islands are utterly ignorant of the people who constructed those cyclopean ruins.
In remote antiquity a superior race must
have dwelt where now the simple minded
Micronesia lis live. We hope the missionaries in that region will do all in their power
to throw light upon this interesting subject.
regions of the Pacific. The languages of the
inhabitants had never been reduced to a
written form. Now the missionaries, on islands where the natives are partially evangelized, have reduced four languages to a
A New Missionary Society.
written form, viz: the Gilbert, Marshall,
Kusaian and Bonebean. Portions of the
Early in July it was resolved to form a
Scriptures and school books have been published in these languages. More than six Woman's Missionary Society in Honolulu.
hundred church members have been gath- On the 11th alt., In response to an invitation
ered into churches, and thousands of readers from both the Bethel and Fort Street pulhave been taught. Dr. Anderson in his new
ladies met to discuss the form of
book, states that the total cost of this Mission pits, thirty
the
proposed
Society, which was decided, and
from 1852 to 1869 would not exceed $150,IHOO—a paltry sum indeed compared with a strong desire expressed by many to be
the good accomplished. The influence of connected, if possible, with " the Woman's
this Mission has effectually put a stop to the Board of Missions in Boston." At a subsepiratical practices of the islanders of Micro- quent meeting the following Constitution was
nesia. In 1855, when the Rev. Dr. Pierson
cruised among the Marshall Islands on board adopted :
Art. 1. This Society shall be called the
the Belle, Captain Handy, he gathered the
chiefs, and induced them to promise that Pacific Island Branch of the Woman's Board
they would hereafter abandon piracy and of Missions.
Art. a. The object of this Society shall
protect the missionaries. That treaty has
been as sacredly kept as the treaty of Perm be to awaken in its members and others, a
deeper interest in the missionary work; to
with the Indians of Pennsylvania.
Recent intelligence from the Gilbert Isl- encourage those who personally labor among
ands is mo:t cheering. The King of Apaiang the heathen ; and to receive and appropriate
has died, but his son has come out firm upon such funds as may be raised to promote the
the side of the gospel. Multitudes are learn- Christian work among women and children
ing to read, and the general interests of the in heathen lands.
Mission aje most encouraging.
Art. 3. The payment of one dollar shall
constitute annual naembership; ten dollars
life membership.
Akt. 4. The officers of the Society shall
be a President, five Vice-Presidents (three of
whom shall reside on olher islands than
Oahu), a Recording Secretary, two Corresponding Secretaries, Treasurer nnd Auditor,
who shall respectively perform such duties as
usually pertain lo these offices. These officers shall be chosen at each annual meeting,
and (excepting the Auditor, who shall belt
gentleman,) they shall constitute a Hoard ol
Directors, five of whom shall be a quorum
for the transaction of business. They shall
have authority to fill vacancies occurring in
their number during the year.
Ai;t. 5. The Hawaiian Hoard shall constitute an Advisory Committee.
Art. 6. Regular meetings for business,
nnd for reading missionary communications,
shall be held monthly, unless olherwise voted ;
and there shall lie an annual meeting in
June, at which the usual annual reports shall
be presented. Special meetings may be called
by any three of the officers, by giving due
notice.
Art. 7. This Constitution may be altered
by a two-thirds vote of the members, a previous notice of the change having been given.
All ladies desiring (0 connect themselves
with this Society will be cordially welcomed,
whether resident in Honolulu or in other
parts of the Pacific Island World.
Published by order of the Society.
" The long-pending question of the monu-
ment to Kirke White is at last settled, and a
faculty has just been obtained for its removal
to the new chapel of St. John's College, Cambridge, from the custody of the wardens of
All Saints' Church, or, more strictly speaking, from that of a private tradesman who
had given it shelter in his courtyard. The
Rev. James White, rector of Sloley, Norfolk,
is one of the brothers of the deceased."
The editor of the London Guardian, in
noticing a monument to the ever lamented
Kirke White, omitted to mention the fact
that it was an American by the name of
Hoott who erected the first monument to the
poet's memory. On the 11th of February,
1870—a bitter cold tlay—it was our privilege
to inspect the same in "All Saints'" Church,
Cambridge. The guide liook of the old University town informs the visitor that this
monument was " executed by Chautrey, and
exhibits within a medallion the portrait of
the poet in bas-relief." There is a poetical
inscription upon the monument, by Professor
Smyth, which closes withthe following lines:
wave
" Far oVr th' Atlantic
and sought the
|s>et's .rave
A wanderer came,
yon low stone he saw his lonely nam,-,
And raised this tond memorial lo hia luuie."
-,
On
The People's Bishop.—The Rev. Dr.
Nevell arrived by the Nevada, en route for
England. We learn that a High Church
bishop was sent out from England for Duneden, New Zealand, but on his arrival the
utterly repudiated and rejected him.
n his place they elected Dr. Nevell (Low
Church), who is now going to England to
collect funds for church purposes in New
Zealand. The world moves !
feople
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MARINE JOURNAL.
PORT OF HONOLULU, S. I.
ARRIVALS.
July
I—Am si nn rVbiH-ska,
.1 Haulm;;, IGilays ln>in Auck-
l;unl.
,
•*J—Am rttmr Aj ix, IM T Heiiui-lt, I dityw and IS bjMI
trum s,ui i'rain-.M<:i>.
S—Am In in Muiiiing iSiai1 N MatihrWH, li.Gd.iyH Irom
HuMtuii.
s—Am Hiij-'n I. 1* Fuslrr, .1 Mill*, 10 days li.-in S.m
Francisco.
7—AmHcbvOM Wiinl.ii I) Kirkniiiit. M days limn
l-Umi
Umrtaabli.-;iu
Monde, .1 W Rom, 57 days tow
h—Hrii ship
Kmtf U-WgtM1 SoUlld, Alls, i-ii nuilf far Hiker's Is.
IU-Ain li-kln l.mca .Olx'ils, Um> V Knurl..-, S3 iU)s
from I'urt iWiiscnd, VV 'I'
11 —Am ship Sappiine, I. J Si Mere, IV daya bun liongtluiag. -'ii i' nil- for (.u.i.m Is.
IV—Kor t«''r hk V.-siii, It Dirks, 1U day* from San
FrancUo.
|:j-Am hk Atalanin, .'lias 11 Sinuiair, 36 d»y« liotn
•
IT—Not <«'T ship T.-rpischore, <: Itltadtr, 131 day*
Vi'h.ria, II
0.
from
Hamburg, in ha.luM.
17—Am bril Fran-finco, 1, Jeanson, OS day* uul S.m
Fr mciseo, from sea, in distress
17—Haw bk Uueen taiiina, It llempsleail, 11* iluys from
San V nun.■*■(*■>.
IS—Am bk Cambridge, N
(J
linxiks, 21 days I nun
Humboldt, Cal.
l.l— Am lik Comet, A Fuller, 15 days from
21
—
Stnir
Fran-
Oily nl A.Maide, 21 days boa Sydney via
l'»|i 1*.1.m.N IS ila\*
Si— Am lik J A
Sfl
H.,ii
cisco.
Kulkfiilnii',', VV Cullicarl, Itt .lays
Astoria.
-Am -liip Jusiali
rtwiwjrti».
Imm
I. llal-\ S W lake, 41 Jays from
27 —liril slmr Wong* Wmiga, J SPuarl, SI days from
San Francisco.
2S—Am slinr .Nevada, .1 II lll.tlicn, 15 days Irtiin Auckland.
2B—AM bfcttlO I. Taylor, 0 II Seam, S3 "lays I nan Vieniiia.
DKFAUTtRKS.
Simr Nrbr.iski, MajrtUnf, for Auckland.
'• -Am
Am Lk ItiMii'T, Hall, |bf I'ort Town-cml.
!
o—Am Stmr Aja\, IN T lli-i
il, far San Francisco.
G—N CJer ship NepiUtW, huilMn. lor Maker's Island.
»I—Am
I. T Foster, .Mills, for Navigators Island.
ship l>i-au Monde, Root, lor Maker's Is.
IS— Nor Hit hk Vesta, Dirk*.,** lloiifikung.
C M Ward. Hickman, for (iuuno In.
si'ltr
17—Am
17—Am ship Sapphire, Sliders, ft* llowluiid'-. Is.
17—Haw hrlg Kainehafueha V, Tciiystroili, lor Tahiti,
\ i.i Kavwiihae.
.nly
11—lirtl
Hrlf'u
21—Nor Qm slnji Ti ri-isdior.', RttaWT, far llowlaiitl's
N and.
•i'l—Am hk Cornel, Fuller, far San Francisco.
'12— Am brig Moroins Star, .Vlaiiluws, li.r .viirnmesia.
SS— Haw kcli Kamail.-, l.ridg'h, for i.uaiio lslttndn.
aiS-a-Brll simr Ciiy nl'Adtdald*', Moor*-, lor San l''ranciMM.
•>4—Nor Q«r ship Tcriiisrhori', Ritaltr, lor Howlaiuls Island.
MEMORANDA.
Report ok sciioosua C. M. Ward—Left Honolulu May
9th, 1871, ai.d arrived ut Pwfnlx Island May .'oil Left l'litcnix Island May 24th, and arrive*! at Enderbury'a Island May
20th. Left Knderbiliy'a Island same day, and arrived lit
Baker's island May -Slh. Left B iker'a Island May 30lh, and
arrived at llowlntid's Island at 2 P. M. same day. Lett (lowland's Island al 6 P. M. for Honolulu, and arrived in )>ort July
Till, 1871. Report* strong trade winds up to 24° north, since
then have had light winds and calms. Re|>orls the following
BfchjBJ
:
Ship Royal ."axon, with 200 tons guano on board, loadingat
Baker's Island.
Ship P.incritld, wilh 1,160 tons guano on board, at Pbainix
Island.
Ship Geo Green, off and on, at I'humix Island.
Uhalcsliip Champion, wilh 300 barrels sperm oil, reported
April 2d.
Ship Mary, with 1,600 tons, arrived at Baker's Island May
1st, and sailed May 20th.
Ship Otto i. Anionic arrived at Baker's Island February
mill, and sailed March 24th with 1,039 tons guano.
Ship Biiaannc Gislelroy arrived u llowland's Island April
2AI, and sailed May lUlh Willi 1,683 tons guano.
Bark Wilhelm laid moorings on the 31at March ; commenced loading April 11th, and sailed April 18lh with 620 tons
c;uan<>.
The Ward hrinc* up the wrecked crew of the Napier, 30
men all lold, and 70 lalmrera lioiu the Gunno Islands. One
hinainuii and three natives died on the passage up | tom n,
islands.
FmiM an almtract of the Log of the 8. B. Nevada, during
her last trip from Auckland, N. '/.., we lake the following
saminary i
July 13lh,nt 12:40 noon, Ared gun and proceeded to sea.
During the trip experienced strong winds, wilh rain and thunposider and lightning. July 14th at 4,30 P. M., passed over
tion assignee Cartis Island, nothing in sight, lat. 30 s 36'8.
long. 179° 1' W. July 22d al 1:66P. M,crossed the Equator,
long. 166° 10' W. July 26th at 1:16 P. M., exchangedsignals with a North German ship, bound south, (Tcrpischore!— Ed.] Shortest day's run, 218 miles; longest, 270
miles. Total dial nice run, 3,811 miles. Time, 16 days and
12 hoars.
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Slni» Nii|iii ml l.nltri'i
I'mom San Francisco—Per Comet, July Itfth —Mr and Mrs
We are iudeliteil MQh-L Williaiim, tale of thir tldp JVitpirr, Colston, J U Loujee, l> L l.loyd. Will Hobuian-6.
From Sydney to San Francisco—per City of Adelaide,
nf l.jvi-ijHM.i, |or the li.ilim-ihi: lull |..u n. nl.us
ilu- .Inly
21 -Mr and Mrs VV II Smith, G 8 Lang, W A Hteel, Geo
\em t>ldial vrst»cl al Haktr'n Uud, on Hit'Sllh of April but,
The nlii).wrecked rrrw\ i nmpany, lo Hi«? numln'r o| ilnriy <.riiliihs, (has Seymour, I£ C Howard, Jas RafT, Capt Jas C
Sliool.nl,
VV A Shooberl, X Hardy, Key Mr aod Mrs Hay
*;.
|H>rt
am.id .it tUt
in Hie schooner .1/. Hunt nn Friday
and 4 children, Mr and Mrs C Johnston, Mr and Mrs Knight
moriiii.p last.
The ship ISnptri , 1415 tons register, was lutili at Baltimore, and li children, Capt J G Allen, Mr Rothwcll, L P Deae, and
Fiji
S., and wan a slrmij.', linn, clipjHT ship.
\U.
MM was mU In 14 in Kt.-erage. For Honolilu James tscuit; from
l-.nglatid during the American war, and I--.longed to Ihe lln.i o| l> C Humphreys.
July
For San Francisco—Per Comet,
22—T B Braeell,
Messrs. John S. |>,- Wcilf -v ('ii., ill Liverpool. Hhc sailed
Irom IJrarpool in April ISTQ wW. a gem ral cargo far Halifax, Geo Wolf, Francis Worth—:!.
For Micrdnkhia—Per Morning Star, July 22—Mrs Doauc,
River, in lie- St. i-awieuce, in balN. IS., lliiiier to
Key A A Sturges, Key H S .-mow, Mrs Snow, Key J F Whitlast, ihenee for .Melbourne with a cargo of
lumber, wliere she
arrived in November. She sailed again fan Melbourne in ney, Mrs Whitney, II B Nidimu wife and infant, T Kaehuaea
wife, N l,ono wifeand infant, Key II llingliam, Mrs Bingand
February, having Port Phillip Heads ..n the 2lsi and arrived
at (laker's Island on tin.' Ist of April, alter 40 days inn-mage, ham, Joseph and wife—l7.
For
San Francisco—Per City of Adelaide, July 22—Mrs
but did not get fast lo the moorings until next day. On the
loth, winds variable, had -ureal dillicully in keeping lh< ship Thus Brown, Mr M Brown, Al Magnin, T l.eary wile and child,
2(1 officers and men, crew of wrecked ship
Williams,
Capt.
char id ibe rocka.and in Hie afternoon etnal ia sea and mm
away two days. Aller this rvi iythim.' went on agreeably un- Napier from Makers Island,and .Jti through pMsjBjBjBSBj Irom
Sydney—OS.
til ihe morning of UttSM April, jusi as we were turning lo at
Fk.im S**n Francisco—Per Wonga Wonga, July 27—
si\ o'clock, Ihe l>ridle chain of the moorings carried away, and
Ihere being ■ treat, trade wind blowing at Ihe time, ihe ship IniMst Thmi, A Law, C Wasou. Win Schulie, M McCulhmi,
drilled t<> s. a befan any rn|ss could he made fast to the buoy. and wife, Tln>< Stuiterd and f» Chines.- 'through I'a.smntjtrM
Made sail and got luiek Main, when the ship was ordered to for riji, ,\. I.fsi Austrtiiiti—i: T .Mason, C J lloyi nnd
"stand in sea, and come hack early Monday morning." This wife, Mrs 0 M Ware,.l hater, Jalea Among. T-I Dilwnrth,
was done, and when coining in on Monday morning, the24th, X II Rhodes, Marks Martin, Mrs SchulU and 2 children, Win
under easy sail, (merely li.r making fast to the moorings) and O'Brien, Win Smith, Jno .Manuel, J Williams, A Fishner,
when the ship whs about one mile from the N. W. point of wile and .1 children—.'l3.
Fhmm Auckland—Per Nevada, July 2S—Mr Barnard, W
lbs Island, the mooring buoys in sight, open to the westward
of the point, C.ipt. Snow, (he st-nteffatoodral, met the ship in a Patterson, W It Reamer and 41 l.ir San Francisco—44.
For New Zi-.ai.and—Per Nevada, July 29—Mr Higgin*.*.
whale boat, when the ship was " hove to" witb the main and
wifeand child, Mr Wason, | Sinne, J. P. Hnco,—o.
liu/.Z'-ii t(.p>ail aback, to receive him on boatd, Ihe wind befog
lon Fiji and Sydney—Per steamer Wonga Wonga, July
about K. by N. and moderate. As soon as the HU|>erintendent
Mrs Watts, and 2
was over the rail, put the helm up to keep the ship away and 29—J McColgan, Mr McCorrister, Mr and
Messrs Bucklctun, Reiinnand (JHut and Arnold—9.
children,
shivered the alter yards (the chip's land being to the southFor H\n Fhancinco—l'er steamer Ajax, July ll— E <>
ward ami towards the island) but the ship went oil' very
slowly, took in spanker and alter staysails, hut finding ihe Hall, Miss Anna Rice, Rev A I. Stone, 1) I), 11 11 Hail) wife
ship going oil still very slowly and Hearing the island, and and child, l>r W Newcoinb,—7.
lintling also now that there was a southerly current, braced
the lore-topsail aback to cant the ship oH more, but baton
DIED.
anything more could lie done, at S A. M., the ship struck the
extreme end ol' tin.- coral reel" oil' tbe N. W. end ol linker's
city,
suddenly, July |fj(h, VVU.1.IA.M
CimcKKTT
tin*
—In
Island, and immediately canted round with her head to ihe
eastward, and remained fast by her fore loot, and commenced Chockktt, a native of Belfast, Ireland, aged about 4u yttrs.
July 11th, of heart deseasc,
Lahaina,
Maul,
OcnisoT—AL
striking violently on tha reel under her middle. Hacked all
ihe sails, and set the iiiain-top-gallam-sail, to try and back Fkam.is A. OtmNuT, aged about 4s> years.
in
Pennsylvania,
Oudinot
U. 8. A., ami leav?s
Mr.
whs bora
her oil", but it was Beelfee. The ship remained immovable
sister still livinK in Reading, in that Slate, lie cain** in
forward. Sonmled the pump-well several tiltns without find- a
tins-'
island*
in
fur
1864,
years
and
was licpuly Sheriff at
ing any more water. Sounded also round the ship, and found
Home
15 .albums water under the stern, 10 fathoms under the main Lulmina. His hospitality, t:h«*t*i fulness of temper and many
QllssT
ssissstd
Kanrt s.sHwtHis1.
fclssl to be universally known on
chains port side, and 5 lathoms on ihe starboard site, and only
la fort on the siein. (The ship was drawing
20.J feet, having these islands and secured f-r him a lurge number of friends.
about IHO ions guan.i.on board ) The ship continued striking Through Industry ami energy lie has accumulated a valuable
so viohnilyon the reef, that it was difficult to stand on one's property situated in Lahaina, and was a noted and rcsj>ected
led, and ihe masts going like whips. Saw pieces of her keel inrinlHT of the It II. Agricultural Society during the whole
flouting alongside, ami suddenly found three feet water in the period of its i xistence Uazi tt<
well. Finding ihe ship (Muld not begot off, and was filling
MiciiKL— In this rity, July 24th, l'muti: Michel, a nafast, lowered down all the sai's, and made ready to leave the tiveof Bordeaux, France, ami fur twenty-live years a resident
ship. By this time the lighters had come alongside (which we ol Honolulu, aged about uO years.
had signalized ,i>r previously), and all the crew's eltecls were
Obiliniir.
pal into them, afterwards sent provisions, nnd upare sails to
make tents on shore. The ship all this lime was settling down
Dtssl in this city, July 26th, Mr. Joneph Ik win, a native of
(19
years and Ave months. Mr. Irwin
in the wiiter gradually by the stern and bending in the middle. Purfleet, Ireland, aged ISM),
in which year he arrived from
At 8 I*. >!., t'apt Snow, the superintendent, and his men left had resided here since
the ship, alter rendering valuable assistance. Mr. Wood, (the Australia, with his lainily, in the ■hip Kttiiar/i. Shortly after
arrival
here,
Mr.
Irwin
wits appointed Secretary to the
liis
earpanlef and assistant at the island) also came to the ship,
and took ashore in his charge the chronometers, barometers, late Mr. Wyllie, Mini-ier of Foreign Relations, which position
years,
for
live
lie
was for a period of twenty years
A-c, ami afterwards remained on the beach to lake charge of In* In-Ill
employed in the Ordnanc.- l>«-|nvrurniii of F.ngland, in (he
the eflVcts and provisions as they were landed. At
1\ M
.14
Hohk,
H.
1>.
f.cneral of Artillery, at
Adjutant
otllce
of
Sir
sounded the pumps and found Hi let water in the hold ; the
ship striking violently, c\]>ected to sec her breaking and the Woolwich. Receiving lie* apitotatmeiit of afapsTfatsswdssat "I
the
Penal
Settlement
of
Van
Dietnan's
Land in 1H4U,he pro.Matte to go over the side .-very minute, and deeming it unsafe
n. remain on board any longer, the crew and myself left the ceetli-sl to that colony, where lie remained eight years, coining
islands
in
.Mn«on
the
1800.
lie
was
a
of long standing and
hhip in the life-boat and gig, and landed on the beach near the to
wharf,and were kindly welcomed and hospitably entertained advanced position, having I wen a member of the (.rand Lodge
Ireland
and
Master
of
a lodge in F.ngland in 1840.
in IM.".*,
by Capt. Hnow and his assistants. The .hip was Mea for of
three days before she finally disappeared, and we went on I'roiii his probity of character and generous uis|>osltion, Mr.
during
gained the esteem and rehad
his
residence
here
hoard every day to procureall the provisions we could get, but Irwin
il was ilidlcult work, the ship being fullof water alter the spect of a large circle of frienda and acquaintances. His resecond day, ami listing or canting over to port more every day. mains were escorted to the grave by members of the Royal
Arch Chapter and other Masonic bodies of Honolulu, and the
(In the morning of ihe 27th, Hie ship gave over
on her sib
nothing in view but Hie starl>oard bow and side as far as the t>cautiful service of the Order was impressively read by the
main rigging. On the 2Stb nothing of the ship in sight except Rev. A. Mackintosh of Si. Andrew's Cathedral.
the mizxen-top and topmast, and before night that also disappeared, and a largepiece of the ship's l»ow came ashore, the
Sailing Directions for Phoenix Island.
other going away to sea. So ends the fate of the fine clipper
I-'mikkbiiby's I.land, April 16th, 1871.
ship Napier.
Capt. S. D. Rickban Dear Sir.—Will you please pubMuch praise i. due lo Capt. Snow, Mr. Woodnnd Mr. Coates,
for Captains bound for, or passfallowinglish
the
information
his assistants, far tln-ir help ami assistance, during the stranding ofthe ship, without which we would have saved hut litllp ing- Islandsof I'h.unlx ('roup.
l-ongl7l »40 West.
South
Mary's
Island
from tin* ship, ami I have alsn to tender theni my sincere
Lat 2° 41
Kn.lcrbury a Island l.ai 3° 08, Boulh Long 171 ° 08 West.
thnnks for their courtesy and kindness toward, us during our
e
Long 171 °88 Well.
South
34,
llirnirs
3
Island
l.al
slay on the island. I h.ve also to earnestly thank Capt. (i.
I'li.inix Island Lat so 40 Bouth Long 170" 40 West.
Kiikitian, ol Ihe schooner (;. lit. Waid, (with whom we came
Long 174° 17 Weal.
3°
35.
Mi
Keuns
Island
Lat
South
here Irom Baker's Island) for his unilbrm courtesy, urbanity
Hall. Island Lai 4° 80, Boulh Long 17.° 20 West.
and kindness towards us during ihe passage up, doing all he
doe.
not
favoriteI.land
exist.
could to make us comfortable, and with whom I felt quite al
Aurtburs Island does uot exist.
Tin).. William.,
lioui"
Wilkes Island, aynonomou. with MrKeens.
Honolulu, July 7, 1871.
Master late -.hip Napier.
Swallow or Canlon are erroneous names lor Mary. Island.
I'lirn-nl from 1 to 21 miles per hour, west by south, and
genrrally strongest at full and change of noon.
PASSENGERS.
r'mlerbury. Island li.-s norlhand south, three mile, long by
one mile wide, vessels coming to this Island should paw. the
Fob Fobt C.mni.r., W. T —Per Rainier, July 3d—Mr. south iiolnl, If the wind be east or south. If the wind be north
Brown and 5 children, Miss Enimerson.
of east, (sua Ihe north pawl. All dangers .re visible, and
Fob San Fbancihco—Per Ajax, July t»tli—Mrs Lawrence vessel, may pas. either point and haul up along the weal Bide
and 3 children, Julin Fraser, Mrs Capt A Osborne, P Johnann, one cable length from .hore, they will las boarded at conveLouis Eatam, Ah Yee, J X Wilson, J 8 Christie, Jr. J 11 Her- nient point ami taken to mooring by proper jieraon Irom the
Island.
mann, and 60 In tr.nsitu from Sydney and Auckland.
Vessels loaded daring 1670as follow, i Bhip Puritan, of BoaFao-a Guano Islands—Per C. M. W.rd, July 7th—B
Oudl, John Wood, Antone Gravis, Mr Bunmonsen and 76 na- ton, W. W. Usury, 1000 torn guano, 19 diy. ; ship Qaiper. of
Boston, A. L. Kmeison. 187610n.gu.n0, 17 days .hip Tabor,
tive laborer., C.pt William,
and
other., crew of British of
Hslli, AC. Otis, 1851 ton. goann, ISJ days ; l.argue F. B.
ship N.pier, wrecked at B.ker's
I.land.
of Boston, B. F. Bobbin., 1200 ton. guano, 10 day..
Foa Iloaoaoao—Per Vela, July 12ih-4 Chlneae and 18 Fay,
J uoe 9, IS7O, data of my arrival, •very day ha. been
Sine.
Japanese.
pit*ssant, with usual trade-wind., which rariei from N.a. to
aJ
f
generally U not more than one point from cut.
»*»cibco—Per
17thEmma,
July
Qaeen
bat
8.X.,
J
t aptI?..S
E W Tallant,
Your, truly.
wife and child, Mrs Thru Stnllli and son,
Mr W P Morrill ami wife.
|a.lun«l
I,i»-h 4il
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TII I. I'll I X Ml. UIIIST, isil.
62
in which Luther
-•till causes the triple crown of Komi 1 to I mill just opposite the church
totter. On-the other side of tbe aisle lies preached, and the clank of whose machinery
Th« followinc graph"- «*Vtetf h of ■ visit tn M'tanrthon, will held in tender mretnott by' M must often have heard, and whose wall.of his hammer strokes
tin* hornr of the Reformer Luther, we air- the scholars of Germany, and whose text gave back the echocr.
as he itliixed the thesis, the undying logic of
are
of
the
liooks
still
used
some
schools.
in
Ipfter
written
permitted to copy from
Wl wandered about the old church, not, which was clinched with something more
by H. A. Y. Carter. K-u,., to one of his broth- much larger than tin; Bethel, from whence than steel or iron, still stands, and is still
ers ill Honolulu. Fur ilif reader, thi-> de- had come the sounds that awoke the world u<ed as a mill, though three hundred years
scription will he almost equivalent lo a visit Irom the slumberous superstitions of Kmn«. or more old. We were obliged to tear ourthese places, where we
in thai world -reriowivd spot
A portrait ol Luther bungs in ihe church, selves awuv from
have lingered longer.
would
willingly
ns
Crniiaeh,
whom
the:
Minted by Lucas
Venice, .1 niir. 3d, IS7I.
we
tVoisLutber.
tHohmef
:
friend ol Luther we love, but who as
Dismissing our guide
a painter
at
the depot,
* * * I have has not commended himself to our satisinc- I crossed the rails and entered an old gravewanted to describe lo you our visit to Witten- lion, though mo*-t of the galleries count his yard, the newer portion of which across the
berg, the home of Luther, where 1 procured pictures among their »ems. The portrait tiid road was bright with pretty tablets, but our
some memoriiils of the steady old Reformer not convey so satisfactory an idea of Luther taste was for the old that day, and we wanfor you. It was a bright red letter day in my as the one of him in his shroud." by an un- dered among ike grave stones, mossy with
" Dresden gallery. The age, that had borne the storms and reflected
calendar. When we stopped at the beautiful known artist, in the
station
ol
we
secured
Wittenberg,
railway
dead face in its stillness, seemed to show the sunshine for two or three centuries. The
the only guide ottering, a book-seller at the more of the lire that set the Dames of reform- grassy inoundV were of a light hue of green,
railway station, and walked along it mud ation burning, than the tiring face in Wit-, and the bright spring flowers were blossombordered by hedges fresh in the spring toll- tenberg. Here we bought photographs ofj ing for ihe hundreth time above many of the
age, to an enclosure in which an oak is grow- the church, and portrait, also, of Luther and ! "raves, sweet tokens of the Resurrection.
ing, on the spot where Luther burned the his family around the Christmas tree —the j We notice.! among them Pan.-ies, Rosemary,
f'apal bull, December 10th, l."*'itl, doubtless | Convent in which he lived, his statue in the Dandelion, Star of Bethlehem, familiar to us
at Work
to the amazement of hi.s cotempomries, who martial
place, and impressions of his seal ■ in boyhood. Some women were
probably called him " an enthusiast." May ; stamped in sealing wax. Here we saw the clearing with loving hands the weeds Irom
flowers were blooming, as they are on all the hour glass which used to stand on his pul-; the graves. A shower coining up drove us
well kept German railway stations, and notli- | pit, showing that with all his zeal, he had back to ihe depot, and soon ihe shriek of the
ing about the spot seemed to indicate the ] some regard for the patience of his hearers, locomotive bridged the intervening centuries,
I
stormy times of Luther. We passed through in which he might Ik- copied by some of the | and brought us back 10 the realities of our
fortified,
fortress,
| preachers and reformers of the present day. own time. It rained all the way to Leipsic,
the gates of the
for this is a
walled town. Here we met a party of French j We then walked to the Convent in which j and I sat in the car and " chewed the cud "
prisoners with handcarts singing merrily at \ was once his cell as a priest, afterwards his I of tbe sweetest fancies I have culled for many
their work, apparently yielding willingly " to ■ residence as a man. Here, while waiting j a day.
the logic of events " that has brought the j for the doors to be opened, we drank the
soldiers of the eldest son of ihe Church pris- waters of a cool spring, bubbling up in the
How to See Down a Well.
i
oners to the home of its stoutest enemy. We ! courtyard, which we were afterwards told ;
wandered up into the market place, passing j was discovered and first made use of by j
It is not generally known, say*- ihe Lanthe home of the gentle Alelanclhon. who in Luther. We were iheu led lo the rooms,
his quiet way, sustained his holder friend sanctified by the struggles, hallowed by the caster (Perm.l Inti iligennr. how easy a mutLuther in his harsh conflict. On the house j love, and rendered famous by the Work of the ter it is to explore the bnltrm of aofwell, cisa comwas an inscription. " Here lived, taught and Reformer himself. Here was a stove of his tern or pond of water by the use
mirror.
When
the sun is shining
mon
died Phillip Melancthon."
own designing, the table on which he wrote,
In the market place stand two statues— | and ch-iir on which he sat, a beer mug, and brightly hold a mirror so that the reflected
one of Melancthon, the other of Luther, on other memorials of the time, when with the rays of light will tail into the water. A
the pedestal of which is inscribed, " If it be j faithful Cranachand Melancthon, he sketched bright spot will be seen at ihe bottom, so light
as to show the smallest objects plainly. By
God's work, it will endure. If it be man's
out the famous arguments with which he
work, it will perish," and the words, •• Eine met the advocates of Koine, or rested with this means we have examined the bottoms
half full or more
teste berg ist unser Gott," from the hymn we his family. In the room, covered by glass, ol wells fitly feet deep, when
heard so thrillingly sung in New York at the were the hieroglyphics made by Peter the of witter. The smallest straw or other obgreat German celebration, April 10th. Surely I Great when he visited the room lo show his jects can be perfectly seen from the surface.
one can examine the bottom
everything around betokened it was " God's j admiration and regard for the man. 1 after- In the same way rivers,
if the water is somework." We saw the people of this place j wards saw Dresden a cabinet, sword ring, of the ponds and
at
about their usual avocations, and were kindly I and other mementoes of Luther, but nothing what clear and not agitated by winds or rapid
be under cover,
addressed by a lady who introduced herself so stirred within me the historic memories of motion. If it well or cisternthat
the sunlight
as the daughter of the secretary of the Uni- the past so much as standing there amid the or shaded by a building so
versity, and who offer«d to show us the me- stormy scenes of his life. Wittenberg was will not fall near the opening, it is only necesmorials of the great Reformer. Under her 1 then a university town, and they pretend to sary to employ two mirrors, using one to reflect the light to the opening, and another to
guidance, we visited the church in which show
you the house in which Hamlet lived, reflect it down into the water. Light may
Luther preached, on the gates of which in all
owing lo the happy thought of Shakesbe thrown fifty or a hundred yards to the prewords of indelible bronze, are cast the ninetypeare, who makes the King in his play to say: cise spot desirable, and then downward. We
five thesis which Luther nailed to the former
For your inn-til
have used the mirror with success, to reflect
gates of the church destroyed by the French
In going back to m hool in Uitt-e hlmt,;.
light around the house to a shaded well, and
when they were the masters, not the prisonIt in muHt rHro-ga-de lunar dettirt:.
again the Queen ■•)
also
to carry it from a window through two
ers, of Wittenberg. 1 saw. on these gates Let(And
Hamlet ;
do!
My
Dear Brother
:—
,
:
.
.
thy uioilier laaM h<*r prMyrtt,
1 pray thee, Mtay with u#t. go mil to Wittenberg.
some angels with iron trumpets, which reI shall in ill my Im*ni obe> you, mother.
llamiet.
minded me of the stirring words of Edward
(Again Hamlet to Horatio and Marcetlu* •)
you from Wittenberg, Horatio?—Marcellua f
on
AiKlirh»it
make
Luther, lo which
Everett in his oration
guo»i mv lor*!.
Dr. Damon called my attention some years Horatio. A truant dinuomiitin,
since: " He seized the iron trumpet of his
this
From
airy fancy of Shakespeare a
mother tongue, and blew a blast that shook i veritable stone house has arisen, in which
the nations from Konie to the Orkneys." We the particular window at which Hamlet sat
reverently entered the walls that had echoed when a student at Wittenberg is shown the
with that " blast," and paused over an iron visitor. Now the University is removed to
door in the floor, under which rest the ashes Halle, but a TheoWical Seminary is still
■ A"
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pf one who hud started the revolution that continued tin the a*fruitful
1 he old
ground.
;
and then into a cistern under the north
side of the house. Half a dozen reflections
of light may be made, though each mirror
diminishes the brilliancy of the light. Let
any one not familiar with the method try it,
and he will not only find it useful, but a very
pleasant experiment. It will perhaps reveal
a mass of sediment at the bottom of the well
that has been little thought of, but which
may have been a frightful source of disease
by its decay in the water.
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erring to regard and consideration than a
successful concealment of the fault, or a
With considerable difficulty and much n>- skillful dodging of its consequence*.
trotiomical calculation ihe Watchman satis-, Is it the World ihat does this? Then the
lies himself, hut not always his questioners, Church follows the lead of the World, inas she ought to
ihat the morning star has really arisen, and stead of leading the World
do and must do, ere the Millennium ushers
that daylight as a matter of course will ■ in its
bright epoch of Peace.
shortly follow ; a perfectly correct conclusion
CMomopenrsaatiB
fl ar-rooms.
if his premises are right, but if the star is any
one of a dozen fixed stars instead of Lucifer
Civilized communities tolerate these instiof the morning, the " sgns of promise " may tutions, from necessity, perhaps,—a very
be rather unreliable.
strong perhaps,— and with a creditable dePerhaps we of this age have as little con- gree of sagacity and skill, constructing a virfidence, or less, in the near approach of the i tue from the necessity, turn them to account
Millennium as any generation through the in matters of revenue, et caMera ; and estabwhole eighteen centuries : not that there has lish them thereby as permanent and recognot been progress, lor that has been great and nized features of the times. We do not prowonderful ; but we have inarched out from pose here to discuss the question whether it
the era of miracles into the time in which is better to allow the demoralizing habit of
natural effects arc produced hy natural causes. drinking to be indulged in public and under
The men of the early centuries believed from the pressure of public sentiment, or to confine
generation to generation that they were just it to the privacy of homes and secret haunts
on the eve of the thousand years' imprison- nor shall we oppose or defend the idea of the
ment of Satan and his angels, and looked necessity of bar-rooms. There are some peo(or the summary execution of this penalty ple who delight in trying to prove the neceswith supernatural signs and wonders. We sity of everything that exists under the sun;
with a longer expciience with the Flesh and they will expatiate with much enthusiasm on
the Devil, and a greater knowledge of the the peculiar usefulness of such torments as
workings of the Church and the World, look mosquitoes or fleas, or of such vegetable pests
less confidently for the dawn of the millen- as witch-grass, pusley or cockle-burs: we
nial light. We attach little importance to leave to them the bar-room question. But
the announcements from this and that watch many of the worst things in the world have
tower of its coming. We are convinced that their compensations, perhaps all do ; we are
if the Devil who roams this world is to be inclined to believe so. The ancient Spartans
chained, we must have a large hand in the used to make the Helots, their slaves, drunk
business ; that through us it is to be done ; before their children in order to shock and
the chain is to be forged by men who walk disgust them with intemperance—a most efthe Earth, not by Angels : and from our fective method, lor there can be no more
point of view it is a work of such tremendous powerful argument for temperance than the
difficulty, that wc give ourselves hundreds of sight of a drunkard well intoxicated. The
years more in which to effect it.
Spartans and their opportunities have passed
Much indeed has been done, but it docs away. We have no Helots to assist us in
not seem much in comparison with what inculcating the principles of temperance upon
(litre is left to be done. The church is sorely the rising
generation, and if we had, the laws
beset, not as long ago with martyrdoms in would hardly allow us to sacrifice them even
whose light she Batched and grew, but by for undoubted results, in a mariner so inless physical, and so more dangerous dan- human. Modern society, however, in the
gers ; not by the open warfare of honest ene- fertility of its resources, indirectly provides
mies, but by hosts of unchained devils, trans- the lesson through other methods and less
formed into angels of light. Prejudice, Cus- hlaincahlc ones, shifting the responsibility, or
tom, Pride, and their fellow demons, in the most of il, to the individual! themselves not
semblance of saints, walk up churchly aisles, Helots, but slaves perhaps nevertheless, who
and with bowed and reverent mien mar the willingly offer in their own persons the tersincere worship due to the Father of all.
rible warning against intemperance. Our
Practical realization of Christian theory is bar-rooms,situated in the most public places,
so difficult, that from weariness or indolence bring these exhibitions sufficiently into noor despair a prominent and emphatic pro- tice for the attainment of this result.
fession of exalted standards of principle is
The changes which creep over men,
made a kind of vicarious remedy for failure men, intelligent, and manly by virtue of
their own inheritance, —from a few years of
in doing.
The guilt of sin is made a matter of little devotion to the rites of the temple of Bacchus,
importance in comparison with its conven- are too appalling to pass unnoticed and withtional indecency. Humble and sincere re- out effect. Great indeed is the evil that canless wyiglil in restoring the
pentance
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A Woman's Board of Missions litis lately
been organized in Honolulu, similar in character and ends to the women's boards existing in the United States, and to lie connected
with them by correspondence. These organizations in the States have greatly increased
in numbers and influence within the last
three years. It is almost too early in their
history to speak of them critically. The
present tendency of the I'roleslant church in
its zeal seems to be to multiply organizations,
societies, boards, with confessions of faith
and preambles and constitutions and by-laws
and like machinery for producing philanthropic results. It is probable that the
Women's Board movement is a result, anil
perhaps a natural one, of the great development of Young Men's Christian Associations
in late years with their generally exclusive
character in regard to women.
A " History of the Sandwich Islands Mission," by Rufu.s Anderson, D.D., LL.D., has
lately come out. We confess ourselves much
disappointed in the book, on looking it over.
With material and opportunities for one of
the richest, most valuable and interesting
chapters of church history that has yet been
offered to the Christian historian, the author
has simply given us an interesting but not
disinterested compilation of facts, chronologically arranged, and without philosophical
elucidation as to the natural sequence of results from their probable causes, recognizing
constant special interpositions of Providence
in favor of the Mission of ihe American
Board, and against the " Bomiah Mission "
and that " worse evil," the Reformed Catholic Mission ; an easy method of accounting
for effects, but savoring rather of religious
intolerance and sectarian conceit than of intellectual sagacity. Eusebius, the Christian
historian of the early middle ages, allowed
that his principle in writing history was to
conceal f ids injurious to the reputation of
the church. We will not say that a similar
frank confession is due from the Kcvercnd
Doctor, but certainly his hook leaves little lo
be added to a record of almost infallible perfection of tbe American Board Mission. We
regret the narrow and partisan character of
the book. The church and the world are not
in need of influences of such a nature.
The regular meeting of the Association
for July was held at ihe rooms on (he
11th of the month, the tune of meeting having been changed from the last Friday, to
the second Friday of each month. The
Treasurer's report showed a balance of one
dollar in favor of the Association over the
expenses of the public readings lately given
in the Olympic Hall, which result seemed to
be regarded by the members present as satisfactory, though not especially encouraging
from a financial point of view. After some
interesting discussion on Sunday schools,
the Sunday question anil oilier topics, the
meeting adjourned.
E
RIEND.
cBetv Merits, Ool. 2fl.
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COXTKNTS
18? I.
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l.inl';t--y to stassta
The " Independent
Sailing of the Morning Star
Origin of the Polynesian .tare
A new MiMKiohury Society
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IT,It
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Msfaaat .I'H.rJl.ll
Visit to the Home of Luther
Young Men's Chri.stian Ar-soei;ition
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AI'GL'ST 1. IJS7 I.
Sunday Coaling and Work.—The agents
for Webb's, or the American line of steamers, gave notice through the Advertiser of
the 7th of July, that through telegraphing lo
London, arrangements had been made so
that their steamers would not be under the
necessity of coaling in Honolulu on the Sabbath. We exceedingly regret that their arrangements have so speedily failed. On the
first arrival of the Ajo.r, after giving this notice, the Sabbath stillness is disturbed by
coaling, draying, transferring mails, and all
the noise and hurry of a week day. This is
not right, to keep scores and hundreds of
men to work on that day, and oihcrwisc violate the Sabbath laws of God and the Hawaiian Kingdom. The Kcv. Dr. Stone told
us last Sabbath evening at Fort Street
Church, that the violators of God's law are
certain to be overtaken by that Divine Nemesis, which follows with its avenging arrows
the guilty. "The mills of God grind slow,
but they grind exceeding small "
Letters have been received from Mr.
and Mrs. Whitney as late as July sth. They
were then at Amherst, Mass., attending the
jubilee gathering and commencement exercises of the College, which has now been in
existence half a century. They had also attended the commencement at Harvard University. They describe in glowing terms
their trip East and rambles among the hills
nl New Enclaml.
The improvements in Emma Square and
vicinity are indicative of what may be done
in Honolulu when labor and taste are combined. Mr. Montgomery has called into existence a most beautiful ornament to our city.
He seems inclined to follow the principle so
beautifully elucidated by Cicero, of combining the "useful" with the "beautiful," for
he has made asparagus to flourish beside
flowering plants from the East Indies and
the graceful and symmetrical pine from Norfolk Island. How many beautiful trees,
shrubs and flowers can with care, skill and
labor be produced from a barren soil! When
our mother Eve turned away from the gardon and left Eden, had she glanced an eye
down the long vista of coming ages and seen
the beautiful gardens and fruitful fields,
would she have drawn so deep a sigh as Milton imagines ?
1.-avc llie,-. I'arailisc ? Thus leave
" Must Inative
soil? these nappy walks ami shade:,.
Thee,
I'M haunt ofgisls ? * * * O Flowers,
Thai never will In oilier clliala grow,
Vt ho ■.hull rear ye f. the wan, or rank
Your trilK-s, anil water from lh' ambrosial fount ?"
We arc glad that the love of flowers and
plants is not quite eradicated from the human
soul.and as years roll away, may the patrons
of flora culture and horticulture increase
amongst the dwellers on our islands, where,
in the beautiful lines of Campbell,
Kprinii, as she passed ilowu the vale,
on the trass, Bud her brealh on the gale."
" The Uuceii of llie
l.ell
her rohe
Maori War Debt or New Zealand.—
We have been informed by an English gentleman direct from New Zealand, and who
has resided many years in that Colony, that
the Colonial war debt for lighting the Maories
now amounts to £7,000,000, or $35,000,000.
To pay the interest on this enormous debt,
'J50.000 colonists pay upon an average £1,
or $115, for every man, woman and child, yet
the Maories are not subdued. During the
period this war debt has been accumulating
the Hawaiians have been gradually becoming
civilized, and not one penny has been required to carry on active war measures.
Verily missionaries arc better civilizcrs than
soldiers !
57
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Editor’s Table.
UisToiiv in nn. Samiwuii taisUTM Mission, I>jt
Unfits lilldaiaan. D. I)., LL. I>. late Fort-inn Secretary nl the American Hoard. Huston : Couirrtgational Publishing Society. 1870.
Greece and Palestine occupy but small
areas on the map of the world, and the number of their inhabitants was small compared
with the great and populous nations of the
Old World, yet the books which have been
written about those two countries occupy
large spaces on the book shelves ot all the
libraries of Europe and America. Never
were books relating to those countries and
their inhabitants multiplying more rapidly
than during the nineteenth century. Grotc's
History of Greece, in twelve volumes, is the
work of a London banker, whose death was
announced in the latest London papers, and
another history of Greece is already in process of publication, in New York and London, by a living author. It would require a
volume to announce the titles even of new
books relating to Palestine nnd the Jews.
The Hawaiian Islands occupy but a small
space on a map of the woskl. The number
of their inhabitants would not form a city ot
respectable size in Europe or America, and
a century has not elapsed since iheir discovery, yet the number of books, historical, controversial, religious and literary, which have
been written about—what Edward Everett
was pleased to style "this little pin-head
kingdom "—would form a very respectable
library. We have already gathered not less
than a hundred volumes relating to the Sandwich Islands. Among them we have Jarvcs,
Bingham, Ellis, Hopkim*, Dibble, and now
another is to be added. As years roll away,
additional volumes will appear. We should
be gratified to see a history of the Hawaiian
Islands from the stand-point of a Catholic, or
ut lenst a volume which should give a fair
and honest exhibition of their missionary
labors. It may be asked, why write so much
about the Sandwich Islands ? We answer,
because on the islsodi, as in Greece an'!
58
IH X I I. lI.N 0. AUGUST. Is 7I.
Palestine, there has b-gen a war of opinions,
n conflict of ideas, a peculiar development of
humanity. On these islands, the old battle
of Geneva and Rome has been again fought.
The Puritan and the Churchman have here
principles of
stood up face to face.
forms
of govand
Monarchical
Republican
ernment have here been modifying each
other. Progress and conservatism have been
contending for supremacy. In fine, the pure
and free gospel of the New Testament has
here encountered a shattered and vanishing
system of idol worship. Light and darkness
have been in sharp conflict.
It is about such conflicts, changes and revolutions that thinking people like to read
books; and so long as there are people to
read and buy books, so long there will be
found writers. No man was, in many respecls, better qualified to write another bookon the Sandwich Islands than Dr. Anderson,
and are most heartily rejoice that he has
bi-en spared to accomplish this work. He
rould with no slight degree of propriety, take
the following words of the Evangelist Luke
as his motto : " Forasmuch as many have
taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which art. most surely i
believed among us, even as they delivered
them unto us, which from the beginning
were eye-witnesses, and ministers of the
word; it seemed good to me also, having had
perfect understanding of all things from the
very first, to write unto thee in order, most
when referring to the present slate of the
Hawaiian Kingdom
We are permitted to recognize it as an
independent and constitutional government,
with a native sovereign at its head, and a
government as confessedly cognizant of God's
law and the gospel, as any one of the governments of Christian Europe ; and, what is
more, with a Christian community ol sellgoverned, self-supporting churches, embracing as large a proportion ol the people, nnd
as re»lly entitled to the Christian name, as
the churches of the most favored Christian
"
:
countries.
" It is a question ol the highest interest,
hy what means this great amount of moral,
social and civil life was there developed.
" This history is tiesigned to answer
that i/u.stion," &c., tkc.
The author here states his design. The
question may be asked, has he fulfilled this
design ? He has so far as he has gone, but
he has not gone quite far enough. He baa
not fully filled out the programme proposed.
He has done this, perhaps, so far as one clement or one class of agents was concerned,
viz: the missionaries nl tin' American Board
of Missions. He has done them justice, as
it was right and becoming he should. They
stand in the front and foremost as a class
of agents laboring for tbe development of a
Christian Commonwealth in this heart of the
Pacific. All honor, we say, to each man and
woman who has labored under the auspices
of the A. B. C. F. M., but they are not the
only agents who have labored and toiled to
build this Chrisiian Commonwealth or deexcellent Theophilus."
velop " the moral, social and civil life " of
A copy of this work lies on our table, and j this Kingdom. We do not think the author
we have read it with marvelous interest. It | has done justice to such men and benefactors
has been our aim for years to rend every- of this nation as Judge Lee, Judge Allen,
thing written about the islands by friend or Judge Robertson,and many others who have
foe, and our desire to obtain a copy of this toiled to develop " the social and civil life "
book has been keenly whetted, for we saw of this nation, if not "the moral." We
the book noticed many months ago in the hardly think Dr Anderson has done justice
United States, but it was not until the ar- to Mr. Wyllie's character. This gentleman
rival of the Morning Star that a copy fell may have erred when he became mixed up
with the afliiii's of the Reformed Catholic
into our hands.
When the historian D*Aubigne was about Mission, but for nearly twenty years, or from
to publish his great work on the Reformation, 1844 to 186l), we do not think the Hawaiian
he met M. Guizot in Paris, who said to him, Kingdom had a better friend. His " Notes,"
" Give, v* details : the rest we know." Dr. published in 1844. fully entitle him to be
Anderson has followed this rule of that great- called a man of broad views and enlarged
est of living Frenchmen, and whose opinion sympathies.
Perhaps the author of this l*onk miyht reupon historical matters is superior to that of
most men. We can well imagine that Dr. ply that he did not start with the intention
Anderaon m writing this book, wus more per- of writing the full history of the Hawaiian
plexed at what he should leave out than what Kingdom. This may be so, but still he has
he should insert. From a perusal of the found ample space to give an unenviable hispreface, we learn the plan which the author toric fame to very many opposers of the mislaid out; but in laying down the volume, we sionary enterprise. Now we claim as he has
confess that we do not exactly feel as if the not forgotten the enemies of the good work,
author had given us all he promised, although so he should not have forgotten or ignored
he may have given us more than we had the friends of this Kingdom and the Protestreason to expect in a volume of 4()0 pages. ant Mission on these islands. One whole
The author thus rcuiarks in hi.? preface, chapter (IX.) is devoted lo "lhe opposition
of foreigners ; " besides, many a page and
paragraph scattered through the book recounts the misdeeds and shortcomings of
men who were inimical to the missionary
work ; but it seems that the author maintained a studied silence respecting men ol an
opposite stamp, unless they were serving
under the Beard.
It has required a vast amount ol patient
toil and earnest labor to adjust the land titles,
and codify the laws of the Hawaiian Kingdom. This has not been, strictly speaking,
missionary work, but still no less important,
because unless done satisfactorily and properly, the Christian Commonwealth would
not have arisen, as Dr. Anderson asserts that
it has been developed, into the form of " o
government as confessedly cognizant of
God's law on,.' the gospel us any one of
tin great governments of Christian F.urope." This has not all been done by missionaries, or those who were once missionaries. The Rev. Mr. Richards died in 1847;
Dr. Jndd left the government service in
1863, and Dr. Armstrong died in 1860.
These are the only gentlemen of the American Mission who have been actively and
personally government officers. Their merits
we fully recognize. Now what we should
have been glad to see in Dr. Anderson's new
book would have been not only a chapter on
" the opposttion of foreigners," but a chapter
wherein the aid and support of foreigners was
fairly recognized and duly appreciated.
The author of this book congratulates the
friends of missions in view ol the pleasing
fact that at the end of fifty years, " a heathen
nation has been evangelized." This is a subject for devout thanksgiving. Now we admire the skill and tact which Dr. Anderson
has displayed in relating the early struggles
of those pioneer missionaries. It is a most
charming narrative. There is a touch of the
comic as well as heroic in many of the encounters of the friends of the Mission with
their opposers. The author has alluded once
to such an event on page 71, when the Mission challenged their enemies to a fair encounter, and Capt. T. Ap Catesby Jones, of
the Peacock, sat as moderator ! We never
shall forget the story as we heard it from the
lips of this gentleman when Commodore of
ill" United States Pacific Squadron in 184.1.
The missionaries had been accused of all
manner of strange misdemeanors. At length
they sent a written challenge to their opposers to meet them in a fair encounter.
Said Commodore Jones, " You should have
seen the two parties as they met in the large
house of the chiefs. Fully organized, and
a secretary appointed, when the opposing
party was called lo specify their chargr-, ~,
writing, Ah, there was the rub.' The a.-,-
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r ii
i: i it 11: N i>. a i ii i si. i s , i.
59
The “Independent.”
sembly was informally dissolved, and all, ganizatinn, which have, by their united moral j
of
so
the
cause
promoted
power,
effectively
•riends and foes, were invited by the discom-;
Some newspapers we glance over; others
religious liberty in Spain, Italy, Sweden and
lorted party to a good dinner ! "
other countries, have vigorously taken up the we look at; others we merely read their
In calmly reviewing the history of Hawaii case, and resolved to send a deputation to St. names ; others we read in part; but there is
nei during the past half century, the most Petersburg in behalf ol the persecuted Letts one that will not allow us to throw it saide
difficult part ol the work to U* •iceoiiiplisln-d and Esthoniaus, and in behalf of religious without a careful perusal, although it someWe learn from the ihird
was not in teaching lhe Hawaiiaus in read liberty generally.
This is) tha?
aSSOaI
reporl, recent!) published, that the times requires " two sittings."
in'd organizing the native churches, but it American Alliance has appointed some of New York Independent. We are far frftn
was in managing, guiding, shaping and con- our most eminent Christian citizens, of vari- subscribing to all we find in its columns, yet
trolling the foreign element in the island ous denominations, as their delegation ; they each numlier contains enough that is good,
community, and so harmonizing the opposing have generously accepted the delicate and and to which we can subsrribe, to fill three
task, and will proceed lo Russia
and conflicting interests of foreigners and responsible
or lour ordinary sheets. It was called n
as soon as their airangenients can be manatives that there should not result an open tured. Owing 10 the peaceful relations sub- mom moth sheet ■SSISBgO, but the publisher
rupture, as there has been at Tahiti, New sisting between the Government und people still goes on increasing us size, and we shall
Zealand, and other islands of the South Seas. of the United States and those of Russia, an be compelled to search among the huge monMany a time it has really seemed as if the American delegation is more likely to secure ; sters of pre-Adainic ages for some other epithe desired end than any other. The proclalair fabric of a Christian Commonwealth mation of religious freedom throughout the thet indicative of vastness and immensity.
would be buried in a common ruin. The key-: immense empire of Russia would be a great We feel almost inclined to write Mr. Bowen,
stone of the arch appears to us to have been ; event, and a cause of rejoicing for all Chris" Hold on ; don't increase again, unless you
in maintaining intact the native sovereignty. j tian denominations and the mi-sionaries in can crowd more than seven days into one
and at the same time admitting the foreign I Turkey.
This embassy in behalf of religious liberty week.'
element to exercise a leading ami controlling
From a late number we clip tbe lollowing
influence. Dr. Anderson remarks in his | is of the deepest interest to the Christian
its members, Prof. "note," referring lo the editorinl staff of this
preface, " We see more of the foreign ele-i world. It includes among
D., Rev. William Adams,
inent in the government of the islands than S. F. B. Morse, LL.
paper. It certainly is highly complimentary
D.,
D„
LL.
St
Rev. Bishop Mcllvaine, to
D.
we could desire." That could not be avoided,
Dr. Coan, whom we knew us a youth at
Field,
but was absolutely necessary, and not lo have Rev. Bishop Simpson. Hon. Cyrus W.
Bishop, LL. D., Hon. VV. E. Dodge, Oahu College. It is pleasant to contemplate
employed it. would have risked the downfall Nathan
Parker, and Norman White, Esq., the career of so many of our Sandwich Island
Hon.
Peter
of the native government. Look at New j
Zealand ! At Fiji, the experiment after the I tbe most of whom, we believe, intend lo go boys," as they have gone forth and are now
"
pattern of Hawaii nei, is to-day being tried ! on this errand of love and good will.
posts of honor and usefulness.
The Evangelical Alliance in Britain, in occupying
The future will proclaim the result. At
are
happy to inform our readers that
"We
Samoa the same experiment must soon lie Germany, in Switzerland and oilier coun- we have now completed the organization of
similar
who
tries,
embassies,
has
appointed
tried.
will co-operate in the mission, and thus com- our editorial stall by the induction of Titus
European and American conflicts and pol- j bine
and present the united sentiment of M. Coan, M. D., who will sit before our Book
itics present no more interesting questions ]
Table. We know Dr. Coan, who inherits
Christendom
on the great subject.
than
Halor solution
are presented in the
honored name of the apostle to the Sandthe
an
the
highest
in
partakes
Such
embassy
waiian Islands and other pans of Polynesia.
wich Islands, as a young gentleman of broad
of
degree
of
the
moral
sublime.
Affairs
To men whose mental vision is adjusted to
culture and refined literary tastes, while the
view great masses and communities of the State, questions of trade and boundaries, have
public has begun to be acquainted with him
j
heretofore
and
are
now
employed,
employing,
human race as they divide, combine and
a contributor to the Gakatu and other
;as
the
of
nations
represented
by
great
minds
countries,
older
contend in
at a first glance
monthlies. It is our design, with his help,
j
and
eminent
men.
this
their
wisest
most
But
our little kingdom may appear somewhat inito give our readers the completest review
significant ; but are not the small objects sub- is a question of mental and moral freedom.
conj and the fairest criticism of the books of the
It
concerns
the
of
the
individual
rights
jected to the microscope as interesting as the science
day. We have already published some ol
Politics,
its
relations
God.
in
!
to
large bodies seen with the naked eye ? There finance, commerce,
the best criticisms that have yet appeared,
have
nothgovernment,
wonders
the
in
are as many
mechanism of a
and that department of the Independent, as
that
to
do
with
an
across
ing
goes
embassy
fly's wing as an eagle's broad pinions. Honohave often heard, is highly valued ; but
lulu is not quite so large as London or New the ocean and a continent to ask of a mighty jwe
aim to make it an authority beyond all
boon
the
consciences
of
sufferIwe
a
for
Emperor
York, but it is still an interesting place to
others in this department, in organizing it
visit, and more so to live in. Our little king- ing men!
Dr. Coan will summon to him the help of the
of
a
favorable
i»sue
I
God,
Under
the
hope
not
dom has
a large population, but il conbest scholars in the country in their special
to
this
mission
lies
the
well-known
liberin
tains samples of all the nations of the world !
And here we will repeat to our readThe study of human nature and the world ality and enlightened mind of the Russian studies.
ers what we have often said, that no pubfor
Czar.
He
has
made
himself
illustrious
may be carried on here as well as in Paris or
deeds of good-will already, and will, undoubt- lisher on earth, by personal favors or by the
Berlin, or elsewhere upon the earth.
listen attentively to this appeal that I most extensive advertising in our columns,
edly,
close
We
our somewhat extended notice
comes
up to bim from distant lands. The will be able to command or modify the tone
of Dr. Anderson's book by saying that we in!of our criticisms. We mean that tbey shall
tend giving it a second perusal, and compar- whole Church of God ought to pray with ;be kindly and polite, even
when advene ;
who
holds
hearts
earnest
faith
that
He
the
of
ing its pages with tho«e of other writers upon.
we
do
not
mean
know
what is adverbut
to
!
the
kings in His hands may incline
Emperor
Hawaiiau history, politics and piety.
to grant this request. To do so, will be in | tised or what is not; and the publisher who
Embassy to Russia.
harmony with the principles on which the | personally, or through an advertising agent,
has hitherto acted, and will be the calls our attention to the matter is in danger
For a number of years past, the Lutherans Emperor
of his intention to make of getting a notice more just than generous.
evidence
crowing
Our literary corps, then, as now completed,
in the Baltic provinces (which formerly be- his people happy.—JV. Y. Obterver.
embraces Henry C. Bowen, Editor-in-Chief;
longed to Sweden) have been persecuted by
the officials of the orthodox Greek Church—
Edward Eggleston, D. D., Superintending
which is the established Church of Russia—
The common-born Marquis of Lome can't Editor; Rev. William Hayes Ward, Office
to such an extent as to excite the sympathies ride in the same carriage with Louise on Editor ; and Joshua Leavitt, D. D., Samuel
of their brethren in other countries, and to state occasions—or Louise can't ride with T. Spear, D. D., Rev. Washington Gladden,
appeal to the U. S. Evangelical Alliance for him, which is probably the view of the case and T. M- Coan, M. D., Associate Editors."
its aid. The different branches of this or- that troubles her most.
Independent, June 22.
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;
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111 I.
THE FRIEIND.
Al'lilST
I. IN7I.
Satoihln“MgeStar.”
foring
On Snturday, July 22d, the missionary
packet sailed for a cruise among the Micronesian Islands. The following passengers
wen* on board the Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Snow,
Key. Mr. and Mrs. Bingham, Key. A. A.
Sturges, Mrs. Dnane.and two Hawaiian missionaries with their wives. Religious services were held on the quarterdeck. A large
concourse of foreigners and Hawaiians gathered on the deck and upon the pier. Prayer
:
was offered in English by the Rev. Dr. Stone,
of San Francisco, in Hawaiian by the Rev.
B. G. Parker,and a song was sung, the same
being the translation of a song in the Hawaiian, composed by the Rev. Mr. Lyons, of
Waimea, Hnwaii. The concluding stanza
was the following :
winds, anil (tales, anil billow.,
" Ye
111., Murnina
Hour
Slur
«.li
To Klaai anil llonehe,
To islands still at war.
The 1.'.i.l olhosts n<> with you,
PfwßwTra
il"- |vaaal
aWa
:
lliiard, Kiiid** her i»Vr lh,- on-nii,
His sarvsKßta *.a;»-ly k-.-v|i."
The benediction was pronounced by the
Rev. S. C. Damon. As the assembly was
dispersing, the Rev. Mr. Snow led off in his
usual animated nnd vigorous strain,
Walt, waft, ye winds his story," fca.
"
The occasion
was most interesting, especially in contrast with the sailing of the first
missionary vessel to Micronesia on the 15th
pf July, 18512. Three of the original missionaries who then sailed were now present,
viz: the Rev. Mr. Snow and wife, and the
Rev. Mr. Sturges. Then they literally went
forth to " the regions beyond "—to islands
sunk in heathenism and debased in vice. No
Protestant missionary had ever visited those
I lil I. \ I). VI(.I S
1. I^7l.
OorigPnlfytesR
hiane ace.
This is a subject which does not cease lo
of learned scholars and
attract the attention
curious antiquarians. A lew days since we
received a letter from Hon. J. D. Baldwin,
author of Pre-historie Nations, and editor of
the Worcester Shy, from which we quote
the following paragraph :
"1 notice that a lecturer at the Sandwich
Islands has questioned the Malay origin ol
the Hawaiians, but 1 cannot see as he lias
any good reason lor his doubt. It seems
manifest the whole Polynesian race arose
from a mixture of the Malays and Papuans,
and that tin,* race established by this mixture
began its history at a remote period in the
past. It is very likely that the Sandwich
Islands constituted one ol the important centers from which it was distributed to other
islands. It is my belief that this race formerly occupied the whole ol the Japanese
islands, nnd the whole of Formosa. Should
you get any more notices of the Pacific island antiquities, please tell me about them.
Do you know the name of the ship-master
who wrote the |ia|>ers that came from Sydney ? "
We copy the last few lines for the purpose
of renewedly calling attention to a scries of
articles which have appeared in the Town
n,ol Country, a newspaper published in
Sydney. These articles are descriptive of
ruins on Ascension, Strong's Island, and
some other islands of Micronesia. They are
accompanied by wood cuts, and are worthy
the attention of inquisitive antiquaries and
archaeologists. The present inhabitants of
those islands are utterly ignorant of the people who constructed those cyclopean ruins.
In remote antiquity a superior race must
have dwelt where now the simple minded
Micronesia lis live. We hope the missionaries in that region will do all in their power
to throw light upon this interesting subject.
regions of the Pacific. The languages of the
inhabitants had never been reduced to a
written form. Now the missionaries, on islands where the natives are partially evangelized, have reduced four languages to a
A New Missionary Society.
written form, viz: the Gilbert, Marshall,
Kusaian and Bonebean. Portions of the
Early in July it was resolved to form a
Scriptures and school books have been published in these languages. More than six Woman's Missionary Society in Honolulu.
hundred church members have been gath- On the 11th alt., In response to an invitation
ered into churches, and thousands of readers from both the Bethel and Fort Street pulhave been taught. Dr. Anderson in his new
ladies met to discuss the form of
book, states that the total cost of this Mission pits, thirty
the
proposed
Society, which was decided, and
from 1852 to 1869 would not exceed $150,IHOO—a paltry sum indeed compared with a strong desire expressed by many to be
the good accomplished. The influence of connected, if possible, with " the Woman's
this Mission has effectually put a stop to the Board of Missions in Boston." At a subsepiratical practices of the islanders of Micro- quent meeting the following Constitution was
nesia. In 1855, when the Rev. Dr. Pierson
cruised among the Marshall Islands on board adopted :
Art. 1. This Society shall be called the
the Belle, Captain Handy, he gathered the
chiefs, and induced them to promise that Pacific Island Branch of the Woman's Board
they would hereafter abandon piracy and of Missions.
Art. a. The object of this Society shall
protect the missionaries. That treaty has
been as sacredly kept as the treaty of Perm be to awaken in its members and others, a
deeper interest in the missionary work; to
with the Indians of Pennsylvania.
Recent intelligence from the Gilbert Isl- encourage those who personally labor among
ands is mo:t cheering. The King of Apaiang the heathen ; and to receive and appropriate
has died, but his son has come out firm upon such funds as may be raised to promote the
the side of the gospel. Multitudes are learn- Christian work among women and children
ing to read, and the general interests of the in heathen lands.
Mission aje most encouraging.
Art. 3. The payment of one dollar shall
constitute annual naembership; ten dollars
life membership.
Akt. 4. The officers of the Society shall
be a President, five Vice-Presidents (three of
whom shall reside on olher islands than
Oahu), a Recording Secretary, two Corresponding Secretaries, Treasurer nnd Auditor,
who shall respectively perform such duties as
usually pertain lo these offices. These officers shall be chosen at each annual meeting,
and (excepting the Auditor, who shall belt
gentleman,) they shall constitute a Hoard ol
Directors, five of whom shall be a quorum
for the transaction of business. They shall
have authority to fill vacancies occurring in
their number during the year.
Ai;t. 5. The Hawaiian Hoard shall constitute an Advisory Committee.
Art. 6. Regular meetings for business,
nnd for reading missionary communications,
shall be held monthly, unless olherwise voted ;
and there shall lie an annual meeting in
June, at which the usual annual reports shall
be presented. Special meetings may be called
by any three of the officers, by giving due
notice.
Art. 7. This Constitution may be altered
by a two-thirds vote of the members, a previous notice of the change having been given.
All ladies desiring (0 connect themselves
with this Society will be cordially welcomed,
whether resident in Honolulu or in other
parts of the Pacific Island World.
Published by order of the Society.
" The long-pending question of the monu-
ment to Kirke White is at last settled, and a
faculty has just been obtained for its removal
to the new chapel of St. John's College, Cambridge, from the custody of the wardens of
All Saints' Church, or, more strictly speaking, from that of a private tradesman who
had given it shelter in his courtyard. The
Rev. James White, rector of Sloley, Norfolk,
is one of the brothers of the deceased."
The editor of the London Guardian, in
noticing a monument to the ever lamented
Kirke White, omitted to mention the fact
that it was an American by the name of
Hoott who erected the first monument to the
poet's memory. On the 11th of February,
1870—a bitter cold tlay—it was our privilege
to inspect the same in "All Saints'" Church,
Cambridge. The guide liook of the old University town informs the visitor that this
monument was " executed by Chautrey, and
exhibits within a medallion the portrait of
the poet in bas-relief." There is a poetical
inscription upon the monument, by Professor
Smyth, which closes withthe following lines:
wave
" Far oVr th' Atlantic
and sought the
|s>et's .rave
A wanderer came,
yon low stone he saw his lonely nam,-,
And raised this tond memorial lo hia luuie."
-,
On
The People's Bishop.—The Rev. Dr.
Nevell arrived by the Nevada, en route for
England. We learn that a High Church
bishop was sent out from England for Duneden, New Zealand, but on his arrival the
utterly repudiated and rejected him.
n his place they elected Dr. Nevell (Low
Church), who is now going to England to
collect funds for church purposes in New
Zealand. The world moves !
feople
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MARINE JOURNAL.
PORT OF HONOLULU, S. I.
ARRIVALS.
July
I—Am si nn rVbiH-ska,
.1 Haulm;;, IGilays ln>in Auck-
l;unl.
,
•*J—Am rttmr Aj ix, IM T Heiiui-lt, I dityw and IS bjMI
trum s,ui i'rain-.M<:i>.
S—Am In in Muiiiing iSiai1 N MatihrWH, li.Gd.iyH Irom
HuMtuii.
s—Am Hiij-'n I. 1* Fuslrr, .1 Mill*, 10 days li.-in S.m
Francisco.
7—AmHcbvOM Wiinl.ii I) Kirkniiiit. M days limn
l-Umi
Umrtaabli.-;iu
Monde, .1 W Rom, 57 days tow
h—Hrii ship
Kmtf U-WgtM1 SoUlld, Alls, i-ii nuilf far Hiker's Is.
IU-Ain li-kln l.mca .Olx'ils, Um> V Knurl..-, S3 iU)s
from I'urt iWiiscnd, VV 'I'
11 —Am ship Sappiine, I. J Si Mere, IV daya bun liongtluiag. -'ii i' nil- for (.u.i.m Is.
IV—Kor t«''r hk V.-siii, It Dirks, 1U day* from San
FrancUo.
|:j-Am hk Atalanin, .'lias 11 Sinuiair, 36 d»y« liotn
•
IT—Not <«'T ship T.-rpischore, <: Itltadtr, 131 day*
Vi'h.ria, II
0.
from
Hamburg, in ha.luM.
17—Am bril Fran-finco, 1, Jeanson, OS day* uul S.m
Fr mciseo, from sea, in distress
17—Haw bk Uueen taiiina, It llempsleail, 11* iluys from
San V nun.■*■(*■>.
IS—Am bk Cambridge, N
(J
linxiks, 21 days I nun
Humboldt, Cal.
l.l— Am lik Comet, A Fuller, 15 days from
21
—
Stnir
Fran-
Oily nl A.Maide, 21 days boa Sydney via
l'»|i 1*.1.m.N IS ila\*
Si— Am lik J A
Sfl
H.,ii
cisco.
Kulkfiilnii',', VV Cullicarl, Itt .lays
Astoria.
-Am -liip Jusiali
rtwiwjrti».
Imm
I. llal-\ S W lake, 41 Jays from
27 —liril slmr Wong* Wmiga, J SPuarl, SI days from
San Francisco.
2S—Am slinr .Nevada, .1 II lll.tlicn, 15 days Irtiin Auckland.
2B—AM bfcttlO I. Taylor, 0 II Seam, S3 "lays I nan Vieniiia.
DKFAUTtRKS.
Simr Nrbr.iski, MajrtUnf, for Auckland.
'• -Am
Am Lk ItiMii'T, Hall, |bf I'ort Town-cml.
!
o—Am Stmr Aja\, IN T lli-i
il, far San Francisco.
G—N CJer ship NepiUtW, huilMn. lor Maker's Island.
»I—Am
I. T Foster, .Mills, for Navigators Island.
ship l>i-au Monde, Root, lor Maker's Is.
IS— Nor Hit hk Vesta, Dirk*.,** lloiifikung.
C M Ward. Hickman, for (iuuno In.
si'ltr
17—Am
17—Am ship Sapphire, Sliders, ft* llowluiid'-. Is.
17—Haw hrlg Kainehafueha V, Tciiystroili, lor Tahiti,
\ i.i Kavwiihae.
.nly
11—lirtl
Hrlf'u
21—Nor Qm slnji Ti ri-isdior.', RttaWT, far llowlaiitl's
N and.
•i'l—Am hk Cornel, Fuller, far San Francisco.
'12— Am brig Moroins Star, .Vlaiiluws, li.r .viirnmesia.
SS— Haw kcli Kamail.-, l.ridg'h, for i.uaiio lslttndn.
aiS-a-Brll simr Ciiy nl'Adtdald*', Moor*-, lor San l''ranciMM.
•>4—Nor Q«r ship Tcriiisrhori', Ritaltr, lor Howlaiuls Island.
MEMORANDA.
Report ok sciioosua C. M. Ward—Left Honolulu May
9th, 1871, ai.d arrived ut Pwfnlx Island May .'oil Left l'litcnix Island May 24th, and arrive*! at Enderbury'a Island May
20th. Left Knderbiliy'a Island same day, and arrived lit
Baker's island May -Slh. Left B iker'a Island May 30lh, and
arrived at llowlntid's Island at 2 P. M. same day. Lett (lowland's Island al 6 P. M. for Honolulu, and arrived in )>ort July
Till, 1871. Report* strong trade winds up to 24° north, since
then have had light winds and calms. Re|>orls the following
BfchjBJ
:
Ship Royal ."axon, with 200 tons guano on board, loadingat
Baker's Island.
Ship P.incritld, wilh 1,160 tons guano on board, at Pbainix
Island.
Ship Geo Green, off and on, at I'humix Island.
Uhalcsliip Champion, wilh 300 barrels sperm oil, reported
April 2d.
Ship Mary, with 1,600 tons, arrived at Baker's Island May
1st, and sailed May 20th.
Ship Otto i. Anionic arrived at Baker's Island February
mill, and sailed March 24th with 1,039 tons guano.
Ship Biiaannc Gislelroy arrived u llowland's Island April
2AI, and sailed May lUlh Willi 1,683 tons guano.
Bark Wilhelm laid moorings on the 31at March ; commenced loading April 11th, and sailed April 18lh with 620 tons
c;uan<>.
The Ward hrinc* up the wrecked crew of the Napier, 30
men all lold, and 70 lalmrera lioiu the Gunno Islands. One
hinainuii and three natives died on the passage up | tom n,
islands.
FmiM an almtract of the Log of the 8. B. Nevada, during
her last trip from Auckland, N. '/.., we lake the following
saminary i
July 13lh,nt 12:40 noon, Ared gun and proceeded to sea.
During the trip experienced strong winds, wilh rain and thunposider and lightning. July 14th at 4,30 P. M., passed over
tion assignee Cartis Island, nothing in sight, lat. 30 s 36'8.
long. 179° 1' W. July 22d al 1:66P. M,crossed the Equator,
long. 166° 10' W. July 26th at 1:16 P. M., exchangedsignals with a North German ship, bound south, (Tcrpischore!— Ed.] Shortest day's run, 218 miles; longest, 270
miles. Total dial nice run, 3,811 miles. Time, 16 days and
12 hoars.
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Slni» Nii|iii ml l.nltri'i
I'mom San Francisco—Per Comet, July Itfth —Mr and Mrs
We are iudeliteil MQh-L Williaiim, tale of thir tldp JVitpirr, Colston, J U Loujee, l> L l.loyd. Will Hobuian-6.
From Sydney to San Francisco—per City of Adelaide,
nf l.jvi-ijHM.i, |or the li.ilim-ihi: lull |..u n. nl.us
ilu- .Inly
21 -Mr and Mrs VV II Smith, G 8 Lang, W A Hteel, Geo
\em t>ldial vrst»cl al Haktr'n Uud, on Hit'Sllh of April but,
The nlii).wrecked rrrw\ i nmpany, lo Hi«? numln'r o| ilnriy <.riiliihs, (has Seymour, I£ C Howard, Jas RafT, Capt Jas C
Sliool.nl,
VV A Shooberl, X Hardy, Key Mr aod Mrs Hay
*;.
|H>rt
am.id .it tUt
in Hie schooner .1/. Hunt nn Friday
and 4 children, Mr and Mrs C Johnston, Mr and Mrs Knight
moriiii.p last.
The ship ISnptri , 1415 tons register, was lutili at Baltimore, and li children, Capt J G Allen, Mr Rothwcll, L P Deae, and
Fiji
S., and wan a slrmij.', linn, clipjHT ship.
\U.
MM was mU In 14 in Kt.-erage. For Honolilu James tscuit; from
l-.nglatid during the American war, and I--.longed to Ihe lln.i o| l> C Humphreys.
July
For San Francisco—Per Comet,
22—T B Braeell,
Messrs. John S. |>,- Wcilf -v ('ii., ill Liverpool. Hhc sailed
Irom IJrarpool in April ISTQ wW. a gem ral cargo far Halifax, Geo Wolf, Francis Worth—:!.
For Micrdnkhia—Per Morning Star, July 22—Mrs Doauc,
River, in lie- St. i-awieuce, in balN. IS., lliiiier to
Key A A Sturges, Key H S .-mow, Mrs Snow, Key J F Whitlast, ihenee for .Melbourne with a cargo of
lumber, wliere she
arrived in November. She sailed again fan Melbourne in ney, Mrs Whitney, II B Nidimu wife and infant, T Kaehuaea
wife, N l,ono wifeand infant, Key II llingliam, Mrs Bingand
February, having Port Phillip Heads ..n the 2lsi and arrived
at (laker's Island on tin.' Ist of April, alter 40 days inn-mage, ham, Joseph and wife—l7.
For
San Francisco—Per City of Adelaide, July 22—Mrs
but did not get fast lo the moorings until next day. On the
loth, winds variable, had -ureal dillicully in keeping lh< ship Thus Brown, Mr M Brown, Al Magnin, T l.eary wile and child,
2(1 officers and men, crew of wrecked ship
Williams,
Capt.
char id ibe rocka.and in Hie afternoon etnal ia sea and mm
away two days. Aller this rvi iythim.' went on agreeably un- Napier from Makers Island,and .Jti through pMsjBjBjBSBj Irom
Sydney—OS.
til ihe morning of UttSM April, jusi as we were turning lo at
Fk.im S**n Francisco—Per Wonga Wonga, July 27—
si\ o'clock, Ihe l>ridle chain of the moorings carried away, and
Ihere being ■ treat, trade wind blowing at Ihe time, ihe ship IniMst Thmi, A Law, C Wasou. Win Schulie, M McCulhmi,
drilled t<> s. a befan any rn|ss could he made fast to the buoy. and wife, Tln>< Stuiterd and f» Chines.- 'through I'a.smntjtrM
Made sail and got luiek Main, when the ship was ordered to for riji, ,\. I.fsi Austrtiiiti—i: T .Mason, C J lloyi nnd
"stand in sea, and come hack early Monday morning." This wife, Mrs 0 M Ware,.l hater, Jalea Among. T-I Dilwnrth,
was done, and when coining in on Monday morning, the24th, X II Rhodes, Marks Martin, Mrs SchulU and 2 children, Win
under easy sail, (merely li.r making fast to the moorings) and O'Brien, Win Smith, Jno .Manuel, J Williams, A Fishner,
when the ship whs about one mile from the N. W. point of wile and .1 children—.'l3.
Fhmm Auckland—Per Nevada, July 2S—Mr Barnard, W
lbs Island, the mooring buoys in sight, open to the westward
of the point, C.ipt. Snow, (he st-nteffatoodral, met the ship in a Patterson, W It Reamer and 41 l.ir San Francisco—44.
For New Zi-.ai.and—Per Nevada, July 29—Mr Higgin*.*.
whale boat, when the ship was " hove to" witb the main and
wifeand child, Mr Wason, | Sinne, J. P. Hnco,—o.
liu/.Z'-ii t(.p>ail aback, to receive him on boatd, Ihe wind befog
lon Fiji and Sydney—Per steamer Wonga Wonga, July
about K. by N. and moderate. As soon as the HU|>erintendent
Mrs Watts, and 2
was over the rail, put the helm up to keep the ship away and 29—J McColgan, Mr McCorrister, Mr and
Messrs Bucklctun, Reiinnand (JHut and Arnold—9.
children,
shivered the alter yards (the chip's land being to the southFor H\n Fhancinco—l'er steamer Ajax, July ll— E <>
ward ami towards the island) but the ship went oil' very
slowly, took in spanker and alter staysails, hut finding ihe Hall, Miss Anna Rice, Rev A I. Stone, 1) I), 11 11 Hail) wife
ship going oil still very slowly and Hearing the island, and and child, l>r W Newcoinb,—7.
lintling also now that there was a southerly current, braced
the lore-topsail aback to cant the ship oH more, but baton
DIED.
anything more could lie done, at S A. M., the ship struck the
extreme end ol' tin.- coral reel" oil' tbe N. W. end ol linker's
city,
suddenly, July |fj(h, VVU.1.IA.M
CimcKKTT
tin*
—In
Island, and immediately canted round with her head to ihe
eastward, and remained fast by her fore loot, and commenced Chockktt, a native of Belfast, Ireland, aged about 4u yttrs.
July 11th, of heart deseasc,
Lahaina,
Maul,
OcnisoT—AL
striking violently on tha reel under her middle. Hacked all
ihe sails, and set the iiiain-top-gallam-sail, to try and back Fkam.is A. OtmNuT, aged about 4s> years.
in
Pennsylvania,
Oudinot
U. 8. A., ami leav?s
Mr.
whs bora
her oil", but it was Beelfee. The ship remained immovable
sister still livinK in Reading, in that Slate, lie cain** in
forward. Sonmled the pump-well several tiltns without find- a
tins-'
island*
in
fur
1864,
years
and
was licpuly Sheriff at
ing any more water. Sounded also round the ship, and found
Home
15 .albums water under the stern, 10 fathoms under the main Lulmina. His hospitality, t:h«*t*i fulness of temper and many
QllssT
ssissstd
Kanrt s.sHwtHis1.
fclssl to be universally known on
chains port side, and 5 lathoms on ihe starboard site, and only
la fort on the siein. (The ship was drawing
20.J feet, having these islands and secured f-r him a lurge number of friends.
about IHO ions guan.i.on board ) The ship continued striking Through Industry ami energy lie has accumulated a valuable
so viohnilyon the reef, that it was difficult to stand on one's property situated in Lahaina, and was a noted and rcsj>ected
led, and ihe masts going like whips. Saw pieces of her keel inrinlHT of the It II. Agricultural Society during the whole
flouting alongside, ami suddenly found three feet water in the period of its i xistence Uazi tt<
well. Finding ihe ship (Muld not begot off, and was filling
MiciiKL— In this rity, July 24th, l'muti: Michel, a nafast, lowered down all the sai's, and made ready to leave the tiveof Bordeaux, France, ami fur twenty-live years a resident
ship. By this time the lighters had come alongside (which we ol Honolulu, aged about uO years.
had signalized ,i>r previously), and all the crew's eltecls were
Obiliniir.
pal into them, afterwards sent provisions, nnd upare sails to
make tents on shore. The ship all this lime was settling down
Dtssl in this city, July 26th, Mr. Joneph Ik win, a native of
(19
years and Ave months. Mr. Irwin
in the wiiter gradually by the stern and bending in the middle. Purfleet, Ireland, aged ISM),
in which year he arrived from
At 8 I*. >!., t'apt Snow, the superintendent, and his men left had resided here since
the ship, alter rendering valuable assistance. Mr. Wood, (the Australia, with his lainily, in the ■hip Kttiiar/i. Shortly after
arrival
here,
Mr.
Irwin
wits appointed Secretary to the
liis
earpanlef and assistant at the island) also came to the ship,
and took ashore in his charge the chronometers, barometers, late Mr. Wyllie, Mini-ier of Foreign Relations, which position
years,
for
live
lie
was for a period of twenty years
A-c, ami afterwards remained on the beach to lake charge of In* In-Ill
employed in the Ordnanc.- l>«-|nvrurniii of F.ngland, in (he
the eflVcts and provisions as they were landed. At
1\ M
.14
Hohk,
H.
1>.
f.cneral of Artillery, at
Adjutant
otllce
of
Sir
sounded the pumps and found Hi let water in the hold ; the
ship striking violently, c\]>ected to sec her breaking and the Woolwich. Receiving lie* apitotatmeiit of afapsTfatsswdssat "I
the
Penal
Settlement
of
Van
Dietnan's
Land in 1H4U,he pro.Matte to go over the side .-very minute, and deeming it unsafe
n. remain on board any longer, the crew and myself left the ceetli-sl to that colony, where lie remained eight years, coining
islands
in
.Mn«on
the
1800.
lie
was
a
of long standing and
hhip in the life-boat and gig, and landed on the beach near the to
wharf,and were kindly welcomed and hospitably entertained advanced position, having I wen a member of the (.rand Lodge
Ireland
and
Master
of
a lodge in F.ngland in 1840.
in IM.".*,
by Capt. Hnow and his assistants. The .hip was Mea for of
three days before she finally disappeared, and we went on I'roiii his probity of character and generous uis|>osltion, Mr.
during
gained the esteem and rehad
his
residence
here
hoard every day to procureall the provisions we could get, but Irwin
il was ilidlcult work, the ship being fullof water alter the spect of a large circle of frienda and acquaintances. His resecond day, ami listing or canting over to port more every day. mains were escorted to the grave by members of the Royal
Arch Chapter and other Masonic bodies of Honolulu, and the
(In the morning of ihe 27th, Hie ship gave over
on her sib
nothing in view but Hie starl>oard bow and side as far as the t>cautiful service of the Order was impressively read by the
main rigging. On the 2Stb nothing of the ship in sight except Rev. A. Mackintosh of Si. Andrew's Cathedral.
the mizxen-top and topmast, and before night that also disappeared, and a largepiece of the ship's l»ow came ashore, the
Sailing Directions for Phoenix Island.
other going away to sea. So ends the fate of the fine clipper
I-'mikkbiiby's I.land, April 16th, 1871.
ship Napier.
Capt. S. D. Rickban Dear Sir.—Will you please pubMuch praise i. due lo Capt. Snow, Mr. Woodnnd Mr. Coates,
for Captains bound for, or passfallowinglish
the
information
his assistants, far tln-ir help ami assistance, during the stranding ofthe ship, without which we would have saved hut litllp ing- Islandsof I'h.unlx ('roup.
l-ongl7l »40 West.
South
Mary's
Island
from tin* ship, ami I have alsn to tender theni my sincere
Lat 2° 41
Kn.lcrbury a Island l.ai 3° 08, Boulh Long 171 ° 08 West.
thnnks for their courtesy and kindness toward, us during our
e
Long 171 °88 Well.
South
34,
llirnirs
3
Island
l.al
slay on the island. I h.ve also to earnestly thank Capt. (i.
I'li.inix Island Lat so 40 Bouth Long 170" 40 West.
Kiikitian, ol Ihe schooner (;. lit. Waid, (with whom we came
Long 174° 17 Weal.
3°
35.
Mi
Keuns
Island
Lat
South
here Irom Baker's Island) for his unilbrm courtesy, urbanity
Hall. Island Lai 4° 80, Boulh Long 17.° 20 West.
and kindness towards us during ihe passage up, doing all he
doe.
not
favoriteI.land
exist.
could to make us comfortable, and with whom I felt quite al
Aurtburs Island does uot exist.
Tin).. William.,
lioui"
Wilkes Island, aynonomou. with MrKeens.
Honolulu, July 7, 1871.
Master late -.hip Napier.
Swallow or Canlon are erroneous names lor Mary. Island.
I'lirn-nl from 1 to 21 miles per hour, west by south, and
genrrally strongest at full and change of noon.
PASSENGERS.
r'mlerbury. Island li.-s norlhand south, three mile, long by
one mile wide, vessels coming to this Island should paw. the
Fob Fobt C.mni.r., W. T —Per Rainier, July 3d—Mr. south iiolnl, If the wind be east or south. If the wind be north
Brown and 5 children, Miss Enimerson.
of east, (sua Ihe north pawl. All dangers .re visible, and
Fob San Fbancihco—Per Ajax, July t»tli—Mrs Lawrence vessel, may pas. either point and haul up along the weal Bide
and 3 children, Julin Fraser, Mrs Capt A Osborne, P Johnann, one cable length from .hore, they will las boarded at conveLouis Eatam, Ah Yee, J X Wilson, J 8 Christie, Jr. J 11 Her- nient point ami taken to mooring by proper jieraon Irom the
Island.
mann, and 60 In tr.nsitu from Sydney and Auckland.
Vessels loaded daring 1670as follow, i Bhip Puritan, of BoaFao-a Guano Islands—Per C. M. W.rd, July 7th—B
Oudl, John Wood, Antone Gravis, Mr Bunmonsen and 76 na- ton, W. W. Usury, 1000 torn guano, 19 diy. ; ship Qaiper. of
Boston, A. L. Kmeison. 187610n.gu.n0, 17 days .hip Tabor,
tive laborer., C.pt William,
and
other., crew of British of
Hslli, AC. Otis, 1851 ton. goann, ISJ days ; l.argue F. B.
ship N.pier, wrecked at B.ker's
I.land.
of Boston, B. F. Bobbin., 1200 ton. guano, 10 day..
Foa Iloaoaoao—Per Vela, July 12ih-4 Chlneae and 18 Fay,
J uoe 9, IS7O, data of my arrival, •very day ha. been
Sine.
Japanese.
pit*ssant, with usual trade-wind., which rariei from N.a. to
aJ
f
generally U not more than one point from cut.
»*»cibco—Per
17thEmma,
July
Qaeen
bat
8.X.,
J
t aptI?..S
E W Tallant,
Your, truly.
wife and child, Mrs Thru Stnllli and son,
Mr W P Morrill ami wife.
|a.lun«l
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TII I. I'll I X Ml. UIIIST, isil.
62
in which Luther
-•till causes the triple crown of Komi 1 to I mill just opposite the church
totter. On-the other side of tbe aisle lies preached, and the clank of whose machinery
Th« followinc graph"- «*Vtetf h of ■ visit tn M'tanrthon, will held in tender mretnott by' M must often have heard, and whose wall.of his hammer strokes
tin* hornr of the Reformer Luther, we air- the scholars of Germany, and whose text gave back the echocr.
as he itliixed the thesis, the undying logic of
are
of
the
liooks
still
used
some
schools.
in
Ipfter
written
permitted to copy from
Wl wandered about the old church, not, which was clinched with something more
by H. A. Y. Carter. K-u,., to one of his broth- much larger than tin; Bethel, from whence than steel or iron, still stands, and is still
ers ill Honolulu. Fur ilif reader, thi-> de- had come the sounds that awoke the world u<ed as a mill, though three hundred years
scription will he almost equivalent lo a visit Irom the slumberous superstitions of Kmn«. or more old. We were obliged to tear ourthese places, where we
in thai world -reriowivd spot
A portrait ol Luther bungs in ihe church, selves awuv from
have lingered longer.
would
willingly
ns
Crniiaeh,
whom
the:
Minted by Lucas
Venice, .1 niir. 3d, IS7I.
we
tVoisLutber.
tHohmef
:
friend ol Luther we love, but who as
Dismissing our guide
a painter
at
the depot,
* * * I have has not commended himself to our satisinc- I crossed the rails and entered an old gravewanted to describe lo you our visit to Witten- lion, though mo*-t of the galleries count his yard, the newer portion of which across the
berg, the home of Luther, where 1 procured pictures among their »ems. The portrait tiid road was bright with pretty tablets, but our
some memoriiils of the steady old Reformer not convey so satisfactory an idea of Luther taste was for the old that day, and we wanfor you. It was a bright red letter day in my as the one of him in his shroud." by an un- dered among ike grave stones, mossy with
" Dresden gallery. The age, that had borne the storms and reflected
calendar. When we stopped at the beautiful known artist, in the
station
ol
we
secured
Wittenberg,
railway
dead face in its stillness, seemed to show the sunshine for two or three centuries. The
the only guide ottering, a book-seller at the more of the lire that set the Dames of reform- grassy inoundV were of a light hue of green,
railway station, and walked along it mud ation burning, than the tiring face in Wit-, and the bright spring flowers were blossombordered by hedges fresh in the spring toll- tenberg. Here we bought photographs ofj ing for ihe hundreth time above many of the
age, to an enclosure in which an oak is grow- the church, and portrait, also, of Luther and ! "raves, sweet tokens of the Resurrection.
ing, on the spot where Luther burned the his family around the Christmas tree —the j We notice.! among them Pan.-ies, Rosemary,
f'apal bull, December 10th, l."*'itl, doubtless | Convent in which he lived, his statue in the Dandelion, Star of Bethlehem, familiar to us
at Work
to the amazement of hi.s cotempomries, who martial
place, and impressions of his seal ■ in boyhood. Some women were
probably called him " an enthusiast." May ; stamped in sealing wax. Here we saw the clearing with loving hands the weeds Irom
flowers were blooming, as they are on all the hour glass which used to stand on his pul-; the graves. A shower coining up drove us
well kept German railway stations, and notli- | pit, showing that with all his zeal, he had back to ihe depot, and soon ihe shriek of the
ing about the spot seemed to indicate the ] some regard for the patience of his hearers, locomotive bridged the intervening centuries,
I
stormy times of Luther. We passed through in which he might Ik- copied by some of the | and brought us back 10 the realities of our
fortified,
fortress,
| preachers and reformers of the present day. own time. It rained all the way to Leipsic,
the gates of the
for this is a
walled town. Here we met a party of French j We then walked to the Convent in which j and I sat in the car and " chewed the cud "
prisoners with handcarts singing merrily at \ was once his cell as a priest, afterwards his I of tbe sweetest fancies I have culled for many
their work, apparently yielding willingly " to ■ residence as a man. Here, while waiting j a day.
the logic of events " that has brought the j for the doors to be opened, we drank the
soldiers of the eldest son of ihe Church pris- waters of a cool spring, bubbling up in the
How to See Down a Well.
i
oners to the home of its stoutest enemy. We ! courtyard, which we were afterwards told ;
wandered up into the market place, passing j was discovered and first made use of by j
It is not generally known, say*- ihe Lanthe home of the gentle Alelanclhon. who in Luther. We were iheu led lo the rooms,
his quiet way, sustained his holder friend sanctified by the struggles, hallowed by the caster (Perm.l Inti iligennr. how easy a mutLuther in his harsh conflict. On the house j love, and rendered famous by the Work of the ter it is to explore the bnltrm of aofwell, cisa comwas an inscription. " Here lived, taught and Reformer himself. Here was a stove of his tern or pond of water by the use
mirror.
When
the sun is shining
mon
died Phillip Melancthon."
own designing, the table on which he wrote,
In the market place stand two statues— | and ch-iir on which he sat, a beer mug, and brightly hold a mirror so that the reflected
one of Melancthon, the other of Luther, on other memorials of the time, when with the rays of light will tail into the water. A
the pedestal of which is inscribed, " If it be j faithful Cranachand Melancthon, he sketched bright spot will be seen at ihe bottom, so light
as to show the smallest objects plainly. By
God's work, it will endure. If it be man's
out the famous arguments with which he
work, it will perish," and the words, •• Eine met the advocates of Koine, or rested with this means we have examined the bottoms
half full or more
teste berg ist unser Gott," from the hymn we his family. In the room, covered by glass, ol wells fitly feet deep, when
heard so thrillingly sung in New York at the were the hieroglyphics made by Peter the of witter. The smallest straw or other obgreat German celebration, April 10th. Surely I Great when he visited the room lo show his jects can be perfectly seen from the surface.
one can examine the bottom
everything around betokened it was " God's j admiration and regard for the man. 1 after- In the same way rivers,
if the water is somework." We saw the people of this place j wards saw Dresden a cabinet, sword ring, of the ponds and
at
about their usual avocations, and were kindly I and other mementoes of Luther, but nothing what clear and not agitated by winds or rapid
be under cover,
addressed by a lady who introduced herself so stirred within me the historic memories of motion. If it well or cisternthat
the sunlight
as the daughter of the secretary of the Uni- the past so much as standing there amid the or shaded by a building so
versity, and who offer«d to show us the me- stormy scenes of his life. Wittenberg was will not fall near the opening, it is only necesmorials of the great Reformer. Under her 1 then a university town, and they pretend to sary to employ two mirrors, using one to reflect the light to the opening, and another to
guidance, we visited the church in which show
you the house in which Hamlet lived, reflect it down into the water. Light may
Luther preached, on the gates of which in all
owing lo the happy thought of Shakesbe thrown fifty or a hundred yards to the prewords of indelible bronze, are cast the ninetypeare, who makes the King in his play to say: cise spot desirable, and then downward. We
five thesis which Luther nailed to the former
For your inn-til
have used the mirror with success, to reflect
gates of the church destroyed by the French
In going back to m hool in Uitt-e hlmt,;.
light around the house to a shaded well, and
when they were the masters, not the prisonIt in muHt rHro-ga-de lunar dettirt:.
again the Queen ■•)
also
to carry it from a window through two
ers, of Wittenberg. 1 saw. on these gates Let(And
Hamlet ;
do!
My
Dear Brother
:—
,
:
.
.
thy uioilier laaM h<*r prMyrtt,
1 pray thee, Mtay with u#t. go mil to Wittenberg.
some angels with iron trumpets, which reI shall in ill my Im*ni obe> you, mother.
llamiet.
minded me of the stirring words of Edward
(Again Hamlet to Horatio and Marcetlu* •)
you from Wittenberg, Horatio?—Marcellua f
on
AiKlirh»it
make
Luther, lo which
Everett in his oration
guo»i mv lor*!.
Dr. Damon called my attention some years Horatio. A truant dinuomiitin,
since: " He seized the iron trumpet of his
this
From
airy fancy of Shakespeare a
mother tongue, and blew a blast that shook i veritable stone house has arisen, in which
the nations from Konie to the Orkneys." We the particular window at which Hamlet sat
reverently entered the walls that had echoed when a student at Wittenberg is shown the
with that " blast," and paused over an iron visitor. Now the University is removed to
door in the floor, under which rest the ashes Halle, but a TheoWical Seminary is still
■ A"
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pf one who hud started the revolution that continued tin the a*fruitful
1 he old
ground.
;
and then into a cistern under the north
side of the house. Half a dozen reflections
of light may be made, though each mirror
diminishes the brilliancy of the light. Let
any one not familiar with the method try it,
and he will not only find it useful, but a very
pleasant experiment. It will perhaps reveal
a mass of sediment at the bottom of the well
that has been little thought of, but which
may have been a frightful source of disease
by its decay in the water.
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erring to regard and consideration than a
successful concealment of the fault, or a
With considerable difficulty and much n>- skillful dodging of its consequence*.
trotiomical calculation ihe Watchman satis-, Is it the World ihat does this? Then the
lies himself, hut not always his questioners, Church follows the lead of the World, inas she ought to
ihat the morning star has really arisen, and stead of leading the World
do and must do, ere the Millennium ushers
that daylight as a matter of course will ■ in its
bright epoch of Peace.
shortly follow ; a perfectly correct conclusion
CMomopenrsaatiB
fl ar-rooms.
if his premises are right, but if the star is any
one of a dozen fixed stars instead of Lucifer
Civilized communities tolerate these instiof the morning, the " sgns of promise " may tutions, from necessity, perhaps,—a very
be rather unreliable.
strong perhaps,— and with a creditable dePerhaps we of this age have as little con- gree of sagacity and skill, constructing a virfidence, or less, in the near approach of the i tue from the necessity, turn them to account
Millennium as any generation through the in matters of revenue, et caMera ; and estabwhole eighteen centuries : not that there has lish them thereby as permanent and recognot been progress, lor that has been great and nized features of the times. We do not prowonderful ; but we have inarched out from pose here to discuss the question whether it
the era of miracles into the time in which is better to allow the demoralizing habit of
natural effects arc produced hy natural causes. drinking to be indulged in public and under
The men of the early centuries believed from the pressure of public sentiment, or to confine
generation to generation that they were just it to the privacy of homes and secret haunts
on the eve of the thousand years' imprison- nor shall we oppose or defend the idea of the
ment of Satan and his angels, and looked necessity of bar-rooms. There are some peo(or the summary execution of this penalty ple who delight in trying to prove the neceswith supernatural signs and wonders. We sity of everything that exists under the sun;
with a longer expciience with the Flesh and they will expatiate with much enthusiasm on
the Devil, and a greater knowledge of the the peculiar usefulness of such torments as
workings of the Church and the World, look mosquitoes or fleas, or of such vegetable pests
less confidently for the dawn of the millen- as witch-grass, pusley or cockle-burs: we
nial light. We attach little importance to leave to them the bar-room question. But
the announcements from this and that watch many of the worst things in the world have
tower of its coming. We are convinced that their compensations, perhaps all do ; we are
if the Devil who roams this world is to be inclined to believe so. The ancient Spartans
chained, we must have a large hand in the used to make the Helots, their slaves, drunk
business ; that through us it is to be done ; before their children in order to shock and
the chain is to be forged by men who walk disgust them with intemperance—a most efthe Earth, not by Angels : and from our fective method, lor there can be no more
point of view it is a work of such tremendous powerful argument for temperance than the
difficulty, that wc give ourselves hundreds of sight of a drunkard well intoxicated. The
years more in which to effect it.
Spartans and their opportunities have passed
Much indeed has been done, but it docs away. We have no Helots to assist us in
not seem much in comparison with what inculcating the principles of temperance upon
(litre is left to be done. The church is sorely the rising
generation, and if we had, the laws
beset, not as long ago with martyrdoms in would hardly allow us to sacrifice them even
whose light she Batched and grew, but by for undoubted results, in a mariner so inless physical, and so more dangerous dan- human. Modern society, however, in the
gers ; not by the open warfare of honest ene- fertility of its resources, indirectly provides
mies, but by hosts of unchained devils, trans- the lesson through other methods and less
formed into angels of light. Prejudice, Cus- hlaincahlc ones, shifting the responsibility, or
tom, Pride, and their fellow demons, in the most of il, to the individual! themselves not
semblance of saints, walk up churchly aisles, Helots, but slaves perhaps nevertheless, who
and with bowed and reverent mien mar the willingly offer in their own persons the tersincere worship due to the Father of all.
rible warning against intemperance. Our
Practical realization of Christian theory is bar-rooms,situated in the most public places,
so difficult, that from weariness or indolence bring these exhibitions sufficiently into noor despair a prominent and emphatic pro- tice for the attainment of this result.
fession of exalted standards of principle is
The changes which creep over men,
made a kind of vicarious remedy for failure men, intelligent, and manly by virtue of
their own inheritance, —from a few years of
in doing.
The guilt of sin is made a matter of little devotion to the rites of the temple of Bacchus,
importance in comparison with its conven- are too appalling to pass unnoticed and withtional indecency. Humble and sincere re- out effect. Great indeed is the evil that canless wyiglil in restoring the
pentance
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A Woman's Board of Missions litis lately
been organized in Honolulu, similar in character and ends to the women's boards existing in the United States, and to lie connected
with them by correspondence. These organizations in the States have greatly increased
in numbers and influence within the last
three years. It is almost too early in their
history to speak of them critically. The
present tendency of the I'roleslant church in
its zeal seems to be to multiply organizations,
societies, boards, with confessions of faith
and preambles and constitutions and by-laws
and like machinery for producing philanthropic results. It is probable that the
Women's Board movement is a result, anil
perhaps a natural one, of the great development of Young Men's Christian Associations
in late years with their generally exclusive
character in regard to women.
A " History of the Sandwich Islands Mission," by Rufu.s Anderson, D.D., LL.D., has
lately come out. We confess ourselves much
disappointed in the book, on looking it over.
With material and opportunities for one of
the richest, most valuable and interesting
chapters of church history that has yet been
offered to the Christian historian, the author
has simply given us an interesting but not
disinterested compilation of facts, chronologically arranged, and without philosophical
elucidation as to the natural sequence of results from their probable causes, recognizing
constant special interpositions of Providence
in favor of the Mission of ihe American
Board, and against the " Bomiah Mission "
and that " worse evil," the Reformed Catholic Mission ; an easy method of accounting
for effects, but savoring rather of religious
intolerance and sectarian conceit than of intellectual sagacity. Eusebius, the Christian
historian of the early middle ages, allowed
that his principle in writing history was to
conceal f ids injurious to the reputation of
the church. We will not say that a similar
frank confession is due from the Kcvercnd
Doctor, but certainly his hook leaves little lo
be added to a record of almost infallible perfection of tbe American Board Mission. We
regret the narrow and partisan character of
the book. The church and the world are not
in need of influences of such a nature.
The regular meeting of the Association
for July was held at ihe rooms on (he
11th of the month, the tune of meeting having been changed from the last Friday, to
the second Friday of each month. The
Treasurer's report showed a balance of one
dollar in favor of the Association over the
expenses of the public readings lately given
in the Olympic Hall, which result seemed to
be regarded by the members present as satisfactory, though not especially encouraging
from a financial point of view. After some
interesting discussion on Sunday schools,
the Sunday question anil oilier topics, the
meeting adjourned.