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would be horrified if any other book were treated
What a senseless deed
in the same way,
it is to break up a book into verses, and to break it
up as the Bible lias been ! Verses end with a
comma or a semicolon, and the next verse begins
with a capital letter! What an intolerable outrage it I* to break up a sentence in that fashion,
than any other company before them. mid above all a sentence of the Word of God !
begin in the middle of a paragraph, or
This is especially true of tho Old Testa- CliMpterH
soon after the beginning of a paragraph, or what
ment, which we are now considering. is still worse, a few lines before the end of a para! And this outrage, breaking and impairing
And among these advantages we note, graph
the sense, is not only tolerated but is adhered to
knowledge
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by an educated people—by snob people as form
the Hebrew and cognate language*, Christian churches ; and an attempt to put an end
such as the Arabic
Chaldaic. When to such an unreasonable practice is met with re-
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THE NEW REVISION.
The English-speaking world now has
the fourth Authorized English Version
of the Sacred Scriptures. It has two Revisions issuing from busy presses—the
King James Revision of 1011, and the
New Revision authorized by the Convocation of Canterbury in 1870, and just
published.
A brief review of the historical facts
connected with our English Bible may
help to dissipate the absurd impression
lodged in many minds that the King
James Revision, if not inspired, is at
least so sacred that it must not be touched.
John Wiclif, in 1381, gave the first English translation of the Bible, not from
the originals, but from theLatin Vulgate.
In. 1626 William Tyndale made the first
English translation from the originals,
and for it suffered martyrdom in 1530.
In 1530 Henry VIII appointed a commission which, in 1037, issued the first
Authorized Version, known as the
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This was never popular. The Bible of the people was an unauthorized version (the Genevan), issued
in 1500, which held its place in the
homes and hearts of the people until displaced by the King James Version.
During the reign of Elizabeth, a Revision
of the "Greate Bible," known as "The
Bishops' Bible," was issued by authority
in 1508. In 1004 the King James Revision was authorized, and issued in
1011. Though a great improvement
over all former versions, it was fiftyyears in displacing the popular Genevan
Bible. And now we have the fourth
Autiiorized Version.
One hundred and one of the ablest
biblical scholars of this age, or any age,
have devoted fourteen years of incessant
labor to this third Revision. There
never before was such a force employed
on any version of the Bible. Most other
versions have been the work of one, or a
few individuals. The King James Reonly
forty-seven
visers numbered
scholars, all from the Church of England. In this New Revision, all branches
of English-speaking Christendom have
had a share, and every prominent denomination has contributed of its ablest
and best talent to the great work. Not
and
the King James Version was made,
more than 250 years ago, the Hebrew
language was very imperfectly known ;
grammars and lexicons were very few,
tod very imperfect. The Hebrew
scholarship of to-day is superior to any
the world has ever before seen, and it is
equipped as never before. The valuable
Syrlac and Arabic versions were unknown to the King James Revisers.
2. Palestine, Egypt, the Sinaitic Peninsula, and the Valley of Euphrates,
were compart lively unknown lands 260
years ago. These Bible lands are God's
own comment.iry on His Word. They
have been sear, hed during the last fifty
yeais by one exploring party after
another, and a flood of light has been
poured in upon God's Word.
'•i. Our own language, as every living
language, is constantly changing. Two
hundred and fifty years have wrought
not only many changes, but given us
greater knowledge of the exact meaning
of our own noble speech.
With these, and many other advantages, this hist company of Revisers
ought to be able to give us a much better
Version than the King James.
And they have done it.
This new Revision is not all it might
have been, but it is incomparably superior
to the King James or any other English
Version.
The change which will strike the
ordinary reader first of all, and perhaps
unpleasantly, is the arrangement of all
prose books in paragraphs. For reference
chapters and verses are indicated by
figure* in the margin. This is as it
should be.
The present mutilation of
the Word of God, by breaking it up into
verses and chapters, does not appear in
the original: it was the invention of man
inspired by
(we are tempted to add
the Devil ! "). On this point we quote
from The Christian Intelligencer:
"
Now, there is only one reason for breaking up a
Bible into verses, and that is for the sake of easy
And as that is the only reason for subjecting the book to such treatment, the chapter
and verse should be indicated in the margin by
figures, and in no other way. The division was
made originally with undue haste, and under unfavorable circumstances. Kobert Stephens, a celebrated printer of New Testaments, perceiving the
need of such help in finding a passage, marked
the present div hious on the margin of a New
Testament as he was journeying on horseback.
Work done under such circumstances, much of it
with unpardonable carelessness, is accepted and
maintained by intelligent people, and by such excellent organizations as the Bible Societies, who
reference.
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sentment.
This language is none too strong. In
some cases in the Old Version you will
find a single sentence broken up into
three or four verses. For example, see
Ezekiel iii : 15, 10, 17.
Another marked excellence is, that
the poetical teoks and passages are
printed in poetical form, in couplets. A
ease in which the advantage of this
method is clearly seen is found in Joshua
Kith chapter, wnere Sun, stand thou
still upon Gibeon!" at which infidels
have carped, is shown to be poetry, and
not a historical statement.
In the space at our command, we cannot note passages in which changes have
been made. So fur in our study of the
book we have found few changes, if any,
which are not for the better, and none
which are not warranted by the original,
or by good reasons.
We give a few general observations
elicited by the study which we have
been enabled to give this New Revision.
1. It is emininently conservative—in
some respects almost absurdly so. If the
popular verdict in the case of the Revised
New Testament was "overdone," in
regard to the Old Testament scholars will
say "underdone." It Is difficult to see
why, for example, the word "Jehovah"
should not have teen uniformly substituted for "Lord ;" the retention of this
phrase is simply a tribute to past superstition. And why "Sheol," the Hebrew
word for the place of departed spirits,
equivalent to "Hades" in the Greek,
should not have uniformly been used is
pu-it comprehension. The American Revisers urged both these changes, but
English conservatism compromised using
them occasionally, but in the case of
Jehovah using also the old misleading
terms; and in the case of Sheol sometimes substituting It for lull; and also
translating it by grave, which it never
did mean ; by hell, wnieh it does not now
mean ; and by pit, which is, to say the
least, very obscure. In the matter of
changing obsolete English words, many
excellent changes were made, for example: Botch —boil; carriage—baggage;
coast—border; conversation—manner of
life; leasing —lying; let—hinder ; nephew*
—grandchildren ; occupy—trade, with ;
offend—make to stumble; road—raid ;
table—tablet ; tache—class ; thought
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maid-servant ; wimple—turban ; brigandines—coatfl of mail ; champaign —plain ;
ensue—pursue, etc. But why the billowing and many other erroneous words
should lie retained "is past finding out:"
Basilisk for Adder; The going up tor i h<
; Astotiieil fur Astoiiialii-d ; Of the first year
for A your old; Aforo for Before) Or ever for
Before ; Mow up the trumpet for Blow the trumpet;
Seethe for Hull; Bands for Bonds ; Chapiter- tin
Oapltal; Dukes for Chief*; Plead for Contend;
l'itoh tor ('amp; Find grace for Kind favor ; Heal
for Food; Kray for Frighten ; Can skill for
Knowi tli ln<w ; Lien for Lain ; Mount for Mound ;
Oil olive for Olive oil ; Confectionary for Apothecary Ouolies for Sittings ; Siih for Since
nscent
,
Why, too, should the old obsolete spelling Of such words as /rftiis/rr, cichil,
bason, forgo, through!)/, etc., be retained ?
•I. While scholars will find much yet
to be desired in this Revision, the
Christian who has learned to love the
stalely diction of the Kin"; James Version will llntl it intact. The old literary
form has been held sacred. If changes
went not pointed out, the ordinary Bible
reader would pass over page after page
without discovering a single change.
3. It follows, of course, that not a doctrine has been affected by the changes
made. The New Revision simply makes
clear what before was difficult, obscure,
or misleading.
4. To the English readei who desires
first of all to know what the exact Word
of God is, who cares more for that than
all else, this New lievision is Invaluable.
The Christian Union truly says :
Whatever makex clearer thu spirit which thine*
behind the letter, whatever bring* home hi the
understanding and the heart the truth incarnated
in the book, is to he welcomed. Those who desire
to be
to stop at the letter, to worship the
undisturbed by any question* as to thesignilie.ance
of sacred phrases whose meaning they have pel
haps never even asked, to content themselves with
rote repetition of texts and words, hallowed by
external association, but not by inward meaning,
will close their doors against the New Version.
But whoso desires to get through the letter to the
spirit, into the casket to the gem which it eon
tains, will find in this New Version the best of all
modern instrument* fur tlial^purpoae.
Let there lie no haste either to adopt or
reject this New Revision. Let it have
patient, careful, thoughtful investigation,
.Some one lias
study, and criticism.
truthfully and wisely said
:
The Mevised New Testament was condemned
off-hand. Its f le men attempted to settle in let*
than a furtuighu The multitude bought it, read
it rapidly, did not wait for the patient examination
of competent scholars, but finding here and there
verbal and structural changes not to their fancy,
discarded the book summarily, and have not
looked into it again. The book was laid awa\.
and has remained anased. The few have studied
it, and with them it has steadily increased in favor.
HJtd many of them are ready to-day to substitute
it for the Accepted Version. In our judgment tin
Revised New testament wna hastily and unfair!,
ooudeiiiued. Let uk hope that the Kcviscd Old
Testament will receive a more patient and caret ill
examination.
The greatest difficulties with which the
New Revision will have to contend will
have no connection with its merits.
Ignorance will say, in the language of
the New England Deacon, "If the Old
Version was good enough for St. James
It Is good enough for me !" and thus
settle the case. The tender, sacred associations, and life-long attachment to the
King James Version which bad become
part of the life of the present generation of Christians, i- another formidable
difficulty in the way of the ready acceptBut this
mice of the New Revision.
is simply prejudice. If the New is better
than the old, prejudice will yield in
time, us it did in the rase ol the King
.lames Vei>ion.
We believe the Revision of Ikk."> will will Its way to popular
favor in less time than did that of Mil I.
INDEPENDENCE DAY.
The Nation of America once a year devotes a day to —I Venal Jubilation over
the goodness of God in giving us our national liberty, thus preserving the honor
and tradition of Independence I lay. It is
natural that the American people si Id
be prepared to enter enthusiastically into
the patriotic ceremonies with which this
anniversary of our Nation's birth is celebrated. The craving for lila-rty is not
new. It Is Wentitled with the earliest
periods of history, ami to attain it men
have used the power of concentrated
force. With the love of (iod and the lose
of man there is intimately blended in the
human heart the love of country. Who
is untouched by this affection? It throbs
in the heart's pulsations; it illumines
every face. Thus from year to year the
nation gives a passing day to the contemplation of its civic existence and material
progress. In the American age 177(1 is
most replete with interest. It stands in
history famous for the Declaration of Independence, The Fourth of July is celebrated because that is the day when the
document was dated. Yet we do not celebrate the act of a day. Weeomnieniorate
a period of great events; a period that
siw men's faith and spirits sorely tried.
We recall political ami social emergencies, ami perceive how the leading men,
statesmen ami soldiers of Unit period,
dealtwith those ci gencies. The Dee*
laration of Independence is therefore a
mere exponent; it is an epitome of the
times; it symbolised the creation of an
Independent Nation; it was a greeting to
old England—kind, yet Ira and determined, "We Stop being a dependency In
a foreign crown; we set up forourselve-.
Ami they' called the heritage America;
but one name*, to work out under one Hag
one destiny.
A century and more of the Nation's existence is behind us ami it liven
and prospers. The infant Itepublie,
small as a mustard seed, has become a
decprooted ami mighty tree with farspreading branches. Between George
Washington's day and the present there
is a long list of illustrious names, (ireal
anil good men and women have lived
and died and left their impress. Their
country was worthy of them and they ol
their country. Ami by the Nation's
lirst and second births mid the galaxy of
those who have toiled and endured the
young men and women of to-day are
earnestly summoned to truth and honor
and a loyal devotion to their land. And
jabove all to God and Christianity. Let
the white banner of Jesus Christ ever
i be highest.
a
'
J
How great the American land Is;
how vast in extent ! Joseph Cook thus
illustrates it, ••The London Thins van
reach the chief cities of Great Britain
before it is out of date as a daily : but so
broad are the United States, that no
daily paper can expect to obtain a
national circulation. The national paper
of the United Slides must be a weekly,
and why should it not he a religious
weekly, fully equipped with the best
armor of biblical anil .scientific research
and of philanthropy, political wisdom
anil all secular patriotism? It is geographically certain, I hat only a weekly
can reach both seas and become a bousebold-pn■si'iici- throughout the Nation."
The American Republic commenced
its career with the recognition of God,
as a (Jod of nations and ruling in the
history of mem How vividly this is
brought to the mind whenever \vc see
the picture of the lirst American Congress kneelii g in prayer, thus reverently
.mil devoutly acknowledging a personal
(Jod. This God Is still enthroned in tho
heart of the Nation.
The theory has been advanced, that
there is a (Jod, but thai lie is too "na1
and independent, to notice either individuals or nations.
History however and observation and
especially the Bible's teachings lead to
the belief, that Inilli man's personal affairs and the interests of nations are of
vast importance in the estimation of (Jod.
Another theory proposed is, that the
(Jod of the Mew and the Christian must
be dethroned.
The belief ma personal Deity is superstition -mil must be abolished. Thus
■ays Inger-01l ill America and Bradlaugh in England. Hut the time will
never conic for the Nation of America to
adopl this platform of belief, h'or the
Intelligence of the people will be kept
up ami Increase through the educational
institutions, the sehuuls and colleges, of
the land. Anil (be intelligence of a
Nation guarantees (he maintenance of
belief iii a pergonal, living God. The
idea ol QotJ is innate and natural to
man.
Around BjS we trace the footsteps
of His po*mf ami we gain glimpses of
Hi* majesty. Mis glory breaks from tint
cloud- mid the rising miii inscribe-. His
glorious Name in characters of light on
the extended (cants of the world. 11 is
Independence ami sovereignty flame
abroad in Nature. In design, law anil
government lie is sii|MTiorand supreme.
Net He Is not lost to us and we are
uneasy lies the bead
not orphans. If
he who irusis in
thai wears a crown
in
God may Is- free from anxiety, for
the time of trouble lie shall hide mo in
His pavilion: in the secret of His taliernncle -ball He hide me ; He shall set me
upon a rock."
To lie u cltir.en of America is a noble
freedom. Alas! that by thousands it is
abused tin..ugh Nablwth dcMccratioh, profanity, intemperance, iiiMibordillation to
government and other forms of evil. And
as long as one is under the power of evil
.
"
"
"
Heme the citizen of
the noblest and most favored nation on
the globe may be a slave!
And therefore American citizenship is
not the highest form of citizenship ; for
one may belong to and boast of a great
and free country and yet be in thraldom,
the slave of his appetites, of his tem-
he is In bondage.
per,
of his
5
THE FRIEND.
July, 1885.
possessions.
The highest type of citizenship is
Christianity. And as ue think of Washington and Jefferson, Lincoln and Sumner, (i.trlield and (Irant; of the statesmen
and warriors whose names adorn the
pages of America's history, we gladly
write the name of Jesus Christ, and say,
take llim as your Savior and leader,
for << if the Son shall make you free
you shall be free indeed." He is to the
heart what the Winds are to oceans and
malarial regions, which waft away the
elements of disease and bring new elements of health.
Prayer Should ever for our country to
heaven ascend for her peace and prosperity; that safety and a crown of honor
may be around the head of our Chief
Magistrate, and righteousness and virtue
may strengthen bis reign and the foundations of our government. And duty it is
to continue the work which others have
begun and made sacred with their heart's
blood; to inculcate the love of country in
the minds of the young; to maintain resistance of wrong and oppression, love
for law and order, loyalty to government,
homage to virtue, effort for harmony ami
entire consecration to the Nation's weal.
And may Almighty God establish the
land in greatness and power.
OAHU COLLEGE.
The anniversary exercises at this Institution, which for the first time it has
been our pleasure to attend, were interesting and satisfactory throughout The
young people acquitted thetustves creditably. The results seemed indicative of
close application on their part, anil of industry ami thoroughness on the part of
their instructors.
The thoughts which presented themselves to us here follow:
It was a pleasure to enter the shady
College grounds. But right here should
it be said that about three thousand dottars art 1 needed for their improvement in
various ways. Will the friends of the
College take this statement to heart?
We notice that the old buildings are
The Bishop
making way for new ones.
Hall of Science, erected and furnished by
the gift of the Hon. C. It. Bishop, of
this city, has reached its completion and
will, at the opening of the next College
year, be entirely ready for use.
It was pleasant at the examination to
see besides the examining committees
a numberof visitors in attendance. There
might and should have base, more. A
general, genuine interest in the cause of
education, and in the progress of the students from year to year, would be a gratifying sign, and encouraging to instructors and students alike.
With such excellent opportunities foran
education, we hope that parents will not
take their sons and daughters away from
this Institution until they have finished
the whole course. We fear there is too
much of this, for we notice in the Catalogue of IKHI-o that out of M —the entire number of students—IS have not
completed the year. We think the young
man who leaves this Institution in the
first or second year, or at tiny time before
the full course is completed, commits a
mistake which in later years he will
regret. The fact that wo have tin Institution of such a high order, and so near
to home and friends, is one which young
men and women should not lightly re-
essentials. Speaking of the discussion of
the question, The Relations of Divided
Christendom to Aggressive Christianity," Dr. Bratlford writes in The Advance:
"
The significance of that discussion was tint In
anyone thing that whs sail so much as in the
fnet that it actually occurred. (Shades of the past!
Dr. Pentecost actually followed a. Unitarian, and
an Episcopalian boldly declaring that his oliuroh
ought to allow exchange of pulpits with other
churches, and all classes alike vicing, to pay honor
to the holy inemorv of Horaoe Hnshnull, whose
portrait occupied
the hall t
the
most cohspiouuus plaoe
in
Could such a meeting have lieen held
twenty years ago ? We do well to look
back, take our bearings, and see how
rapidly we are moving in the direction
Christian union. Dr. Whiton has just
resigned bis paataaate at Newark, N. J.
gard.
In his farewell sermon ho gave a little
Four scholarships of I7M each have glimpse of the theological atmosphere
been established this year by the donawhich surrounded him twenty years ago
tions of the late Rev. Dr. S. C. Damon, when he began his ministry. Wo Quote:
with 1600 additional, directed to be emDue of the questions asked in las ordination
examination was, whether the candidate believed
ployed in worthy channels.
the sinfulness of infant children 1 Then some
Shall the examples of Mr. Bishop and in
Congregational and Presbyterian theologians
Dr. Damon N followed by others whom openly taught that Methodists were not a branch
the (Ihuroli of Christ, and all fraternity with
God has endowed with means? The of
them, was evidence ot indifference to truth. One
most imperative need tit present is the minister
in the Presbyterian oharch lost his
full endowment of the President's chair. Ht Hiding, because he had spoken of the WestCatechism as the moon, in comparison
This is a matter of 126.000. We under- minster
with the Bible as the sun ; his people declaring
stand lliatii ,his could be raised it would that such teaching was to the effect that the Categive relief and wider efficiency to the chism was only moonshine. Great indignation
was aroused because sofne good Congregational
College in every way. Would not an brethren
held n union prayer-meeting with the
earnest and united effort by the friends Metho lists, a sect then spoken against in certain
New England parishes.
of the Institution soon bring it alxiut ?
The world does move I It has turned
The closing exercises both at the College and at l'unahou Preparatory School around religiously a good many times
were largely attended, and received during the past twenty years !
much praise. We congratulate President
EDITORIAL NOTES.
Merritt and lus efficient corps of assistants on the work a coinplished, and wo
—Wk iiavk received from the Comhope that all friends of the Institution tnereial Adrerliser a pamphlet containing
on these islands will remember it in their it full account of Memorial Day services.
prayers, have their sons and daughters It is quite complete, and we know of no
educated under its auspices, and so en- more interesting pamphlet for mailing to
dow it that it may not be hampered in friends in America.
carrying out the noble aims which those
—Mr. L. A. Thurston, who has sucin charge of it contemplate.
ceeded W. (). Smith In the editorship of
The PA infers' Monthl;/, is making a very
THE CONGRESS OF CHURCHES.
bright and jwide-awake periodical. His
That was a notable gathering, the
June number is at hand, and is packed
Congress of Churches, which convened full of good tilings.
recently at Hartford, Conn. It was no—Wk have received the April No. of
table, not so much for what was said, or The Chinese lleeorder, now edited by Dr.
done, hut for the fact that such a gatherwith a request to exchange. We
ing of representative men was possible— (Juliek,
add
it
to our exchange list. Ihe Recorder
that Episcopalian and Quake/, Presby- is a thirty-eight page pamphlet, and its
terian and Unitarian, Baptist ami
are of special interest
Universalist, Disciple and Dutch Re- contents
New Version of the Old Testa—Thk
formed, Congregationalist and Fuseyite leaders should be found on the same ment changes "All is vanity and vexaplatform and speaking ringing words for tion of spirit," into "All is vanity and a
the furtherance of the causo of Christ striving afler wind!" Some one has sugand Christian Union. Of course it was gested that this will undoubtedly be a
inevitable that in showing the desirabil- favorite text for sensational preachers!
—Wk cam, especial attention to the
ity of union it should appear a marvel
to more than one speaker that his breth- advertisement of Mr. Fleming H. Revren should l>e so stupidly blind as not to ell, Publisher and Bookseller, Chicago,
see how quickly it could be brought about, which will be found on the first page of
We all ought to be one, and our this number of The Friend. We
viz :
Church that one !
Disciple, and Epis- know Mr. Revell to be an earnest ChrisMethodist
and
were each tian worker, as well as an energetic
copalian,
equally emphatic on this point! But business man. Our readers can order
this was only incidental. The vitul from him anything which they may desentiment and desire of that noble body sire in the way of books, and be confiof men was for real unity upon essen- dent of honest, fair-dealing, and the
tials, with the broadest liberty on non- very lowest rates.
"
"
6
THE FRIEND,
—Did you ever accidentally thrust a
—Wi: wki.to.mk to his boyhood home
Rev. (). P. Emerson, son of Mrs. U. s. i spine of the cactus into your person ?
N. Emerson, of Wnialua, the popular If so you can appreciate somewhat the
and well-beloved pastor of the Congre- pitiful and horrible religious self-torture
gational church -of Peacedale, Rhode of the Mexican I'enitcntos, of whom
bhHtd. We shall hope to hear his voice there are 20,0110, described by Mr. B.
from our pulpits ere he leaves the Is- Harrison in Harper*! Magatine:
Ast 11hi* ol the Virgin wits lately placed in tlio
lands.
center uf n church, .-mil the
in front of it
—Mr. FitKi). T. Rorsi-:, who has been Rtrewn knee-deep with cactus,800l
whose poisonous
temporarily filling the place made vacant spines will Homt'tnnCH pierce the heaviest -ohd
10011, Through this lied of thorns I lie I'enitenteH
by his father's departure for America, i'inarch
with naked feet or crawl slang on bare
leaves to-day on the ,Uameda, to complete knees, cilline: pileously the while to the Virgin
his theological studies.
His work on jlor forgiveness of their sins. As if this was not
toScUot, they tOOOrg* themselves with glMt
Maui we learn has been very satisfactory \
of ftfjtttUt tieil together on a tbODR, ami
to the people. We wish him ban voyage lash themselves with knives. The natural result
horrible exercises is death now and then,
aud the blessing of (Jod in his future of these
and many maimed and pitiable orealures, who
career.
dray out It miserable existence ror tlio reiniiinder
—TiIS American residents in Honolulu of their days.
—Bkv. A.). Koruks has labored for
have iiiu-t gladly and cordially welcomed
IBS American Minister Resident, Hon. twenty-seven years on these islands
Geo. W. Merrill, and his wife. They without once leaving them in all that
have, by their quiet, courteous, well- time. He has been granted a three
bred bearing and cordiality, already won months' vacation by the Hawaiian
for liieinclves a large place in the hearts Bo ird, and has Balled in the Hope, for
of our people. Till. FBIKMDJoins in the Pttget Sound. We trust that his seaunitetl wisli of the community that the trip will be health-giving, and thai bis
Minister Resilient and his Wife may have stay on Buget Sound, that most beautia long, pleasant and successful sojourn in ful of inland waters, bounded by the
most wonderful scenery, may renew his
our Island Kingdom.
—Consul HcKINLEY is soon to take youth and fit him for another twentyWe
his departure from us. lie will bear with seven years of efficient work.
him the good wishes "of the entire com- heartily commend him as a brothermunity.
No other incumbent of the beloved to the hospitalitiesand Christian
American Consulate has left so enviable fellowship of our brethren in Washington
a record, and possessed to such an extent and Oregon. During Mr. Forbes' abthe confidence of our business men as sence Dr. llyde will attend to bis duties of
Davitl McKinley. Walking the deck of Corresponding Secretary of the Hawaiian
an American man-of-war lying in Hono- Board and as Missionary Editor of Tick
lulu harbor a few years ago, the captain Friknd.
said to us, "I have found no better
—It took the only "Great NewspaAmerican Consul around the world man per" of which Honolulu boasts, or rather,
Consul McKinley!" Strong praise, but Mr. which does its own boasting ad naueeum,
McKinley is worthy of it.
five days to arrive at the conclusion that
The annuai, report of the Hawaiian the June number of Tiik Friknd was
Evangelical Association is issued very not up to the regulation standard. We
promptly this year, instead of being de- know some papers who have no difficulty
layed weary months as for several years in keeping u|) (or down) to their standpast. From it we learn that the entire ard, but the least said about their "standnumber of members in the native ard" the better! And then the (I. A. proChurches connected with the Association ceeds to impugn the orthodoxy of Tiik
is 5,375. There were added during the Friknd, and rushes wildly to the deyear on profession of faith, 23(5 ; by fense of orthodox doctrine ! We care
letters, 52 ; restored, 42 ; total gain, 33(1. nothing for what the O. A', may say
Loss, by dismission, 26 ; by death, 205 ; against Tiik Friknd, hut what has orsuspended, 80 ; total, 311. Net gain for thodoxy done that it should be compelled
the year, 19. The native Churches have to stand the defense of such a piper?
raised for all religious purposes during Orthodox doctrine has passed through
the year $27,934.99, being an average of many a conflict unscathed, and shines all
$5.19 per meml>er.
the brighter for its age-long conflicts and
It will be remembered, perhaps, that victories, but this new and subtle trial to
in the May number of The Friknd we which it is now subjected troubles us. If
handled without gloves a twelve line ed- the G. N. would only assail orthodoxy
itorial item in The Pacific on the mis- now, we should not care; but such a
treatment of native Hawaiians, and the champion is too much! Poor orthodoxy!
indifference of Christianity to their
—Carkful ksti.matks place the numwrongs and well-being. The Pacific of ber of artizans out
of employment in
June 3d makes the amende honorable by America at 869,000 to
600,000. To these
printing our article in full, and adds: must
bo added 100,000 iron and steel
If others have anything more that will workers which the recent great strike
give light on this matter, The Pacific will sent out of the workshops west of
the
gladly publish it." Thank you, brethren, Alleghanies. The direct money loss and
we are satisfied. But when you are hardship to the idle artizans and their
tempted to write up Hawaiian affairs families is only a small part of the
injury.
again, don't do it! Just ask Bro. Frear The indirect loss to tradesmen
dependent
across the Bay to do it for you.
on these artizan customers for support;
.
"
Volume 43, No. 7
the reduction in the demand for raw
materials, coal, etc., caused by closing
mills and factories ; the increase in
prices of factory products ; the loss
to the owners of the mills, etc., not
only from
unremunerative capital,
but the deterioration which follows
from rust, decay, etc. ; the increased
drunkenness ami crime of all kinds which
follows in tlie train of enforced idleness
—all this must be taken into account.
Then, too, the half million artizans are
voters, and they are plastic material in
the hands of demagogues, especially
when children are asking for bread which
they cannot Supply.
THE CHURCHES.
FORT-ST. CHURCH.
A pleasant break in the regular order
of services during the past month was
caused by the am ual missionary sermons, preached by Revs. Bishop and
OggeL Of their quality our readers can
judge for themselves, as they Ixith jtppear In this number of Tiik Friknd,
being published by vote of the Hawaiian Hoard.
''Children's Day," Sunday, June 28,
brought home to the hearts of all the
vital importance of the early conversion
of the children in our own homes. The
exercises by the children were excellent,
ami the address by Mr. S. D, Puller
was to the point and made a lasting Impression.
Sunday evening, July 6th, Mr. Crusan will preach a sermon approprite to
the great American national anniversary,
entitled "Some Sober Second Thoughts
Suggested by the Fourth of July."
Sunday evening, July 12th, the subject of the evening sermon will be
"Sowing Wild Oats," a sermon for
young men.
I'rayer Meeting topics for the month :
July 1 : Monthly Concert—Mexico.
Papers by I'. C. Jones, W. W. Hall,
Mrs. Cruzati, and Mrs. \V. W. Hall.
July 8 : Fvery-day religion. Matt.
7:12; Gal. 0:10; 1 Cor. 10:31.
July 15 : Things worth Knowing, a
Bible Reading.
July 22 : Christian Fellowship. 1 John,
1.
July 29 : The Assurance of Faith. 1
John, 5:12; John l:M.
HONOKAA.
The Ilonokaa Sabbath School has again
been made happy by the gift of a box of
books for Its library from the Bethel
Union School, at Honolulu.
Work on the inside of the Lyceum
still goes forward. The walls overhead
have a coat of white paint. The side
walls are being battened, and, in due
time, will receive paint of a shade of
gray. The sliding doors, just back from
the pulpit, are to be stained in imitation
of black walnut. A new and large platform with two steps on either side will
soon be built, and Mrs. Overend has
generously donated a nice carpet to cover
the whole floor. Thus we are making
7
TH E FRIEND.
July, 1885.
progress towards better things at liono- which have been abridged ; better have be definitely established that what we
ktui. May the good hand of the Lord" given a smaller number, and given them are so complacent about is really resultuumutilated. The number of "Gospel ing in a grave disaster to society and
be with all those who build.
Hymns" is small, fortunately. The j good government through a steady deTHE BETHEL UNION CHURCH.
hook is thoroughly indexed.
crease in the proportionate influence of
JUNE—JULY.
.S'o/K/.s- far the Service nf I'rni/er : Compiled by It. the most thoroughly-equipped class of
9, 1 hiiin. f, H. ltev.il, OSsMfO.
citizens,
The .Sunday School Picnic, held on
This compact, well-printed little lmok
the grounds of Mr. S. M. Damon at Wai—Tiik season of examinations and
kiki, was very enjoyable. The weather is designed, as its name Indicates, espe- closing exhibitions of the year is now
was delightful. The United States and cially for the prayer-meeting; but it is upon us. Among many other thoughts
Hawaiian flags were out in honor of the also admirably adapted to the use of which it suggests is this, that the esprit
day. A large lanui had been erected, in small churches where the cost of hymn- j dc corps developed on such occasions
which refreshments were served. The books have to be considered. Our ehlef I among the pupils of the various schools
young people improved the sea-bathing objection to these books' for prayer- is well worth all that it costs the GovernNothing was meeting use is that there is too much of ment to support such schools. For loyal
to their heart's content.
neglected by Mr. and Mrs. Damon to It; the ideal prayer-meeting song-manual attachment to his school in the l>oy presmake the day a most pleasant one for remains yet to be issued. When it is ages loyal allegiance to his country in
issued it will contain not more than 200 the man. The schools are nurseries of
the School and visiting friends.
"Children's Day" on the 28th was hymns and tunes, instead of 500, as in j patriotism and obedience to law.
profitable, we trust, to old and young. tiie case of this book. So large a number
—Wk, in Hawaii, ought not to be disSecretary Fuller and Mr. Fred. T. Rouse makes the book unwieldy, and proves
at the low standard of educaheartened
ol
riches."
Meangave interesting addresses on Sunday an "embarrassment
an authority
while, until that ideal prayer-meeting tion among us, when suchVice-President
School work.
Mr.
M.
Mundella,
P.,
as
we
know
of
hymnal
issued,
Communion
be
shall
be
will
The Sacrament of
i
on Education, says of the
administered on the sth. In the even- nothing better than this collection by of the Council
England and Wales: "Haifa
ing will be preached the last of the series Mr. Thain. We endorse Dr. Goodwin's schools in
words of commendation: "Whatever million children are still not on the regisof sermons on the Lord's Prayer.
ters ; the standard of education is lower
On the 7th the pastor and wife expect the excellencies of other collections, I
than in other Protestant nations. Until
of
for
one
the
will
points
prove
the
Volcano
and
other
make
no
doubt
this
to leave
they
had got all the children in they
best."
of interest on Hawaii. During his abwould never get an educated generation,
the
be
Rev.
supplied.
will
pulpit
sence,
LIPPINCOTT'S MAGAZINE.
and when they had got them all in it
O. I*. Emerson will preach on the 12th,
We unhesitatingly pronounce the June would take twenty or thirty years before
morning and evening. It is also probable
they bad an educated generation."
that the people will have the pleasure to l.ippineoll the best of the year. John
Let'ors
from
a
give
lleald's
the
Isthmus
of
hear again the Rev. Dr. J. Hemphill,
—Miss Frkkman, President of WelPhiladelphia, who is expected on the Bth very interesting account of almost un- lesley College, is very decided in her
as the guest of Mr. J. T. Waterhouse, Br., known districts on the Isthmus, anda very conviction on one aide of a mooted quesdark outlook for the success of l)e besto remain through July.
tion. Sin* recently said in a paper before
The Teachers' meeting will be held on seps' famous canal; With the Conquerors the Worcester County Teachers' AssociaTuesday evening, the 14th, at the resi- of 1870, is a very graphic account of the tion, "The steady routine, the exercise,
Franco-Prussian warns viewed from the and the regularity of a college life is
dence of Mr. E. W. Jordan.
German camps by a' newspaper corres- admirable for the health of women.
Wednesday
for
evening
Subjects
.the
pondent; What shall a Woman do when Girls should not be candidates for college
meetings
her Husband Fails in Business? is a vary education unless they have perfect health.
Ist: Preparatory Lecture.
Missions
in practical article; Horace Ltint's Return If they have tliis, nothing prepares them
Bth: Monthly Concert;
of the Natives makes one long for the better for the strain and burdens of life
Eastern and Western Turkey.
15th : The Shepherd and His Flock. land of distinctly marked seasons and than a college education."
singing birds; On this Side, anil several
23rd Psalm.
—Tiik New Education! This is the
22nd: Faith Pleading for Help. Mark short stories, with an especially bright
Monthly (iossip, fill out an admirable shibboleth just now of nearly all the
10 : 17.
educational journals. But in the matter
29th: God's Claims on the Young. number.
of
definition this term is as elusive as
1.
Eecl. 12 :
EDUCATIONAL NOTES.
of our modern poetry. It possesses
much
HYMN BOOKS.
—President Finney once said: the same happy indettnttoness that char
"Some people seem to think they can acterized "The, New Departure" of th<
Hymns and Son//* for Social and Kibbath Worship : Edited by ItoHwell D. Hitchcock, Zachaiv live wrong all day and then make a 'sotOhio Democracy in days gone by. I
Kddv, Philip Schalf. A. S. Barnes & Uo., New
on"' by prayer at night." We wonder condemns all previous methods while i
York.
This Iwok contains 35:5 pages, and how many good people adopt a similar appropriates as fresh discoveries all thfl.
to the schools, for- was
really excellent in successful teachV
660 hymns, and has many advantages course with reference
for nine months ing
getting
all
about
them
before the term was invented. /
joined with some defects. It is of conthen trying to make a
venient size, the type Is large and clear, in the year, and
careful analysis of all that it professes 1
by attendance at the annual include will show that the term is ver
the music distinct, ami the paper is clear "set-off"
white, and excellent in quality. The examinations. How many can satisfy nearly the only thing about it that
in this matter of ful- new unless we stretch the word "new
classilication of hymns is very good, and their consciencestoward
the schools ?
filled
obligation
to compass all that has been really val
ordinarily there is no separation of
—In a curious work on authropology able la the teaching of the last thn
hymns from tunes to which they have
been wedded for ages. There are also recently published, Francis (ialton, decades.
very few hymns without tunes—that F. H. S., presents some statistics which
—The Saturday noon meetings in the
go to s.how that one effect of the enegregious blunder which more pretenY.
M. C. A. take up the Sunday Schoo»
men
study
young
courses
of
for
tious hymn-books so often commit. The larged
section devoted to chants is quite full and women is to seriously affect the lesson for the following Sabbath, and are
and complete. Most of the old favorite ixipulatlon, reducing the descendants led by Secretary Fuller. Will all Sabtunes are there, but we search in vain among highly educated people through bath-school teachers, and others interSunday-school
for such gems as Dwight, Lyte, Repose, the evil of late marriage. It would be a ested in the study of the
and come In
please
lessons,
take
notice
on
our
strange
commentary
supposed
the
serious
defects
and others. One of
of the book is the large number of hymns progress in matters of education if it can for this half-hour's review.
"
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THE FRIEND.
EDUCATION.
We invite the
-
co-operation of lather*, and of all
friends of education, in the effort to make thin page
of The KnjKNi) really valuable and *tiutuluttuir
Coniniunlcatloni*should be vent to Hvv. Williuin D
Oleeon, 111 ii», Hawaii.
Wm. B. Oleson
- -
Editor.
OUR PURPOSE.
In the conduct of this department of
Tiik Friend, special prominence will
bo given to the vital relation of education to the evangelization of the various
nationalities among us. The school is
the natural complement of the church.
Where the work is to reach people
speaking aft alien language the school is
of even greater importance than the
church. What the church undertakes
to do in inciting to faith and love and
righteousness, the school must supplement by patient and ceaseless discipline
in right thinking and doing. To emphasize this mission of the school, and
to reinforce in all possible ways the
moral uplifting of pupils in all the
schools of the kingdom will be the chief
aim in these columns.
Further than this, it will be our purpose to thoughtfully consider some of
the grave educational problems that face
us in this little realm. The obligations
thrust upon the present generation to
provide adequately for the education of
our immigrant population are such as
perhaps never rested with like force on
so small a body of intelligent citizens
elsewhere. The great tide of European
immigration hardly stirs a ripple on the
the surface of America's vast imputation.
But here every illiterate Immigrant
counts definitely among the forces that
make against righteousness, intelligence,
and good government. The census shows
that the tendency is to steadily increase
the percentage of illiteracy. This is not
wholly due to the immigration of an
illiterate class, but likewise to the steady
decline of the common schools away from
the industrial centres.
There is hardly a problem in common
school education that does not in one
form or another present itself here.
These problems will be candidly discussed in these columns with the sole
purpose of helping on the common interests of intelligence and morality.
Education wears too serious an aspect
among us to admit of captious criticism,
whether of methods or results. We
aim to strengthen and build up. If we
can do this through kindly criticism and
wholesome suggestions we shall be con-
tent.
'
—It is pleasant to note the fraternal
relations existing among the schools at
Hilo, as shown in the Union Temperance
Concert of the various schools under the
direction of the ladies of the Women's
Christian Temperance Union of that
place. Why might not similar concerts
be held elsewhere both in the interests
of temperance and the fellowship of
schools and teachers ?
ELEMENTARY EDUCATION IN
ENGLISH.
One is less surprised to hear men nowa-days occasionally maintaining that the
education of Negroes and Indians, and of
course Portuguese anil llawaiians, is a
waste of time and money, than to learn
that it was less than fifty years ago that
many ol the upper and middle classes
in England cherished and avowed a
deeply-rooted dislike to the education of
the poor."
Wrote Lord Cockburn:
"The principle was reverenced as indisputable, that the ignorance of the people
was necessary to their obedience of law."
Lord Melbourne, in 1825, questioned the
ad vantage of education as a means of
promoting knowledge in the world, since
people got on without it. The Bishop
of Durham
Believed that education
was not likely to make its way among
the poor;" and the Bishop of Exeter
said if, when rector, he had started a
school in his parish, the squire would
have laughed in his face.
In a magazine article on How England is dealing with illiteracy," it is
stated that "There are still to be found
in England a few who view with dismay
the education of the laboring man, and
are loud in their assertions that education will unfit him tor his place in life ;
make liim restless, ambitious, knavish,
and a bad citizen in general." Even
the historian Froude, in his article "On
Progress," lends the prestige of his
name to very much the same sentiment.
It is a sufficient answer to all this, and
at the same time to all the ill-considered
"
"
"
objections usually urged against compulsory elementary education, to make
some quotations showing the condition
of the poor classes in England in the
early part of this century, and the present
condition of education among them in
its relation to criminal statistics.
In the early part of the present cen-
Volume 43, No. 7
males, and to 22 per cent, among females.
Rut the two facts which clinch the argument in favor of elementary education
in England are: First, that the social
condition and the home comforts of the
lower classes have steadily improved
with the advancement of education; and
second, "That, with population on tho
Increase, crime is on the decrease, and
that, too, in spite of the alarming prevalence of drunkenness."
ISLAND TEXT-BOOKS—I.
The English language is essentially
the school language in this Kingdom.
Hut the number of pupils in the schools
whose vernacular is the English is less
than 000 out of a total school population
of 8,723, as reported January 12, 1884.
This is only 6 per cent. We thus see
that 94 per cent, of the enrolled pupils
in our schools either do not study English, or study it as a strange tongue.
The inquiry is a very natural one,
whether the peculiar situation does not
demand the preparation and publication
here in Hawaii of a complete set of textbooks purposely designed to aid in tlio
peculiar work of most of our schools.
Our present tcxt-l>ooks, admirable as
they are, do not furnish special facilities
for acquiring the English language.
They are prepared solely for American
pupils who have, many of them, known
no other language but the English.
Resides, these text-books are arranged in
sets, the really valuable information
being scattered through several books,
so that it is impossible for many in our
schools to learn what they ought to know
because they go 100 slow in their English
to get beyond the limits of a single book
on tiny given subject.
Again, the text-books which come to
us from other lands have such an emphasized local signification as to make it
difficult to interpret them readily and
profitably to many in our lower grades.
In a series of articles, of which this is
the first, we shall consider more in detail the objections which may justly bo
urged against any and all text-l>ooks introduced from other lands, and the
reasons why it is desirable to have a set
of books prepared here by those who aro
well acquainted with the situation, and
have the highest interests of this population at heart. We shall also consider
some of the obstacles in the way, both as
to to the preparation and the Publication
of island text-books. We invite consideration of this question in all its
phases, believing that its right solution
will mark an era in the school history of
Hawaii uei.
—It has been estimated by a high
authority that a child from six to seven
years of age is able to attend to one
lesson not more than fifteen minutes ; a
child from seven to ten not more than
twenty minutes; a child from ten to
twelve not more than thirty minutes.
Andover Review.
tury, women and children worked in
We quote from the Nineteenth
"They dragged about little
wagons by a chain fastened round the
waist, crawling like brutes on all-fours
in the darkness of the mine. Children
of six were habituully employed. Their
hours of labor were fourteen to sixteen
daily. Law did not seem to reach to the
depths of a coal-pit, ami the hapless
children were often mutilated, and occasionally killed, with perfect impunity by
the brutalized miners among whom they
labored. In 1818 more than one half ol
the children were growing up without
education. In the manufccturing districts forty per ceut. of the men, and
sixty-live per cent, of the women, were
positively unable to write their own
names. In 1830 Parliament voted £30,000
towards national education. Rut it was
with difficulty that this amount was obtained. The vote by which it was
carried was 275 to 273."
At present the. total attendance in the
schools of England and Wales reaches
4,700,000, and the percentage of illiteracy
—Additional notes will be found on
has been reduced to 16 per cent, among another page.
coal-pits.
Century:
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THE FRIEND.
July, 1885.
THE
Y. M. C, A.,
HONOLULU, H. I.
This pace Isdevoted to the interests of the Honolulu
Voiini; Men's Christ inn IssocltlioD, and the Baud
of Directors are responsible for its content!.
Win. A. Bowen,
NEW
---
Editor.
EDITOR.
We take great pleasure m announcing
that our new General Secretary, Mr. S.
D. Fuller, will assume the editorial work
of the Y. M. C. A. department of Tiik
Friknd after this issue. According to
a provision of our Constitution, an appointment of editor is made once in each
three months. At our last monthly
meeting, Mr. Fuller was appointed for
the coming three months. We rejoice
in this appointment, as it will give to
the many on the other islands who are
interested in our work some acquaintance with our new Secretary.
A RECENT OCCURRENCE.
Recently a young man in this city
made sarcastic comments and insinuations to one of our members upon the
work of the Y. M. C. A. Our brother
turned upon him and gave him something to think about. He quoted from
Mr. McCoy, who so recently told us of
the many Instances where non-Christian
business men of San Francisco, in seeking for employees whom they could trust
for faithfulness and integrity, went to
the Employment Committee of the Y.
M. C. A. and asked for Christian men.
finally, as our brother
*was*closing
* And
his remarks to the sarcastic
young man, he forcibly said, The business men of the United States, and of
Europe—yes, and of all the world—are
beginning to look more and more to men
of genuine, solid, moral worth or character to do their business." Right here
we thank our brother for this noble defense of the Y. M. C. A.
What he said reminds us of what
President Fairchild, of Oberlin College,
told us in his visit here last summer.
He spoke of the great oil company,
whose head quarters are at Cleveland,
Ohio, and who were in need of a
cashier ; and in these days of defaulting
book-keepers and cashiers, where could
they find the man whom they could
trust ? They were willing to pay a very
high salary for a man of responsible
character. The duties required were
only .such as any man of ordinary business capacity could well do ; but, above
all things, their man must be one of
character. In this great world of uncertainty, they must have the one certainty
of character if it could be obtained. The
large compensation was not for ability,
but for character. It almost seemed as
though they were after character as an
article of commercial or monied value,
like an article for sale and purchase.
Finally, they found their man in a poor
drug clerk, who had proved his faithfulness for years in a drug store at Cleveland. They can well afford to pay the
arge salary for the feeling of security
"
which they have sought and found. But door employee, who has charge of the
again take an instance nearer home. horses and drays, and when the first
Three years or so ago, when one of our
younger Y. M. C. A. members was about
to enter the employ of one of the large
businesses houses of Honolulu, his father
asked "What will be his work?" and
the answer was, The duties are simple ;
your boy will be told to do only one
thing at a time until he lias learned the
routine ; and all that we ask of him is
that he ho faithful."
Yes, our brother was right; it is character that is wanted, and it is for this
that the Y. M. C. A. is established in
Honolulu. Would that all young men
here could appreciate it, and help make
it for themselves.
"
OUR NOON-DAY MEETINGS.
We would like to Advertise the fact
that we have a half hour noon-day prayer
meeting every day of the week, commencing at twenty-five minutes past 12
o'clock, and closing promptly at five
minutes to 1.
We would like a larger attendance.
To friends on the other islands we extend the invitation as you come to
Honolulu, just drop in for a few minutes
and see what sort of a meeting wo have.
To the friends of Honolulu, who do not
now come in, please give us the encouragement of your presence. If you cannot
come all the time, come occasionally.
Never mind fixing up, for this is a meeting where we drop in just as we are ;
and to ladies in particular we would
extend a most hearty invitation. Why,
a lady who heard us trying to sing without an instrument, and without any
billy's voice to help, said, "It did sound
dismal enough," and she expressed it in
a tone of great commiseration and sympathy for us. Thanks. Now, ladies,
since we have thus publicly made
known your appreciation of our attempts
at singing alone, there is no other way
for you to do than to come and help
us. Please rememlier how
dismal
we are without you, and don't fail to
come.
"
"
THE FIRES.
The conduct of a certain out-door employee of one of our business houses
during the recent fires seems suggestive
and worthy of mention.
There have been, perhaps, four or five
fires in the business part of Honolulu
within eleven or twelve months.
In
each case this man has been found on
the premises of his employers, out in
the back yard, with the hose attached to
the water-tap, and playing water upon
the sparks as they fell on the wooden
warehouse, or in the yard. Also his
horses were harnessed and made ready
for any emeigency. And in the case of
the late fire—the old Enterprise Mill—
he thought best to take certain combustible articles from the warehouse and
carry them to the house of his employer.
We understand that this young man was
not hired as a night watchman, or anything of the kind; he is simply an out-
stroke of lire alarm was heard he sprang
to look out for his employers' interests.
Is there not, in this young man, a prac-
tical illustration of faithfulness which it
would be well for all of the clerks and
other employees of Honolulu to imitate ?
We are glad to add that this young man
lias recently been admitted as an associate member of our association.
ITEMS FROM MONTHLY REPORTS.
There have been twenty-seven halfhour noon-day prayer meetings; total
attendance at the same, 374; average
attendance, 14; largest number present,
27 ;
smallest,
8.
There have been four gospel temperance services on the Saturday evenings of the month, at which the average
attendance has been 28. One or two
instances of special encouragement were
named.
The number of Sunday evening services is four; total attendance, 177;
largest number •present, 61 ; smallest,
32 ; average, 44.
Only one public preaching service, at
which there was an attendance of 67.
Pastor Crusan preached June 7, by special request, upon "The Uncrowned
King."
The Rible class attendance Sunday
mornings, held in our parlors at 9:45,
report an average attendance of 10.
The hospitals and prisons have been
visited. A Sunday morning service is
held at the prison at i) o'clock.
There have been between 1,100 and
1,200 in attendance during the month at
the Y. M. C. A. Reading Room.
100
papers were given away.
The Financial Committee reported
$1,553 pledged for the current expenses
of the year. And full $700 more will be
needed before the ordinary requirements will be met.
The attendance upon our monthly
business meetings is increasing.
There were seven new members admitted to the association, of which two
become voting members, and five associate members.
During the month of June the Association received and accepted invitations
from each of the two Sabbath Schools—
the Fort Street and the Bethel Union
to attend their picnics. The first was
given June 11, at Punahou ; the second
June 20, at Waikiki. For these kind
attentions the Association publicly made
acknowledgement by a vote of thanks at
the monthly meeting June 18.
On the evening of the 25th instant
occurred the first of a series of monthly
entertainments and sociables, planned
and promised by the Etertainment Committee. After readings, and a short
address, by the General Secretary, came
the usual refreshments of ice cream and
cake.
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THE FRIEN D.
HAWAIIAN BOARD
iionomm.u, iv
I.
Thli pii',"- In di-vutril 1.1 ih« InlcroHtM of tin 1 Ihiwniigti
lirmril of HlMlona, himl the Editor, appointed by the
Mount, Is rwpoaslblfl for n- eoßtontst.
OFFICERS OF THE BOARD FOR 1885-6.
Hon. a. F. Jcidu
Hon. 11. Watkiuiuuhk
Hkv. C. M. llvdk. I) I)
Rkv. A. O. Koubkb
W. W. Ham
P. 0, sfCMTM* sTI
Correnpomlintf Nr<n*tnry
A. 0. Forbes,
Editor.
pTttlrJenl
V)cc-I'n's|t|.iil
Recording f ecrottry
Treaniirrr
Ami 1lor
ANNUAL MEETING.
During the first week of June the Ha-
waiian Evangelical Association was in
session in this town, with an attendance
of thirty-three minsters ami thirteen lay
delegates. Sixteen ministers failed to
attend. The sessions lasted through the
week ami were harmonious and full of
interest. This annual convocation of the
Hawaiian churches which have grown
out of the labors of the former American
missionaries, in its review of the work
of the past year, and its planning of work
for the coining year, furnishes an invaluable stimulus to the growth of Hawaiian
Christianity and civilization. We devote
this page largely this month to extracts
from the annual reports read before the
Association, as they will thus reach a
large number of readers Who may not see
the reports in their pamphlet form as issued by the Hawaiian Hoard. The actual
receipts of the treasury for all purposes,
have been $15,50'.)..'C1, to which adding
the balance from last year amounting to
$3,815.70, the total for the year is
$19,325.12. The total expenditures for
all purposes have been $17,(118.57, leaving a balance on band of $1,706.61.
Five pastors have
Tiik Pahtokatk
resigned during the pas) year: Rev. A. S.
Houston of the Kobala Foreign Church,
Rev. T. S. Rouse of the Makawao Foreign Churreh, Rev. Z. S. K. Paaluhi of
Haiku, Rev.P. Ksaupual of Huelo, and
Rev. J. 11. l'aihio of Onomea. Three
have accepteetl calls: Rev. E. C. Qggel
to the Rethel Church, Honolulu, Rev. 11.
Jordan to the Kobala Foreign Church,
and Rev. /. S. K. Paaluhi to the Wailuku Church on Maui.
Three new pastors have been ordained:
Rev. W. M. Kalaiwiui as pastor of
the Church of East Hamakua, Hawaii,
Rev. S. L. Desha its pastor of the Church
Kealakekua and Komi Waena, Hawaii,
and S. Kaiupa as pastor of the Church at
Anahola, Kauai; all three graduates of
tho N. P. M. institute last year.
Two pastors have been Installed: Rev.
Rev. 8. W. Kekuewn, In January, 1885,
over the North Kobala Church, and Rev.
Z. S. K. Paaluhi, over the Wailuku
Church, Maui, in May, 1885.
One pastor, Rev. S. C. Damon, who
resigned last year, has died. One, Rev.
E. Helekunihi, at his his own request
has been permitted by the Presbytery of
Maui to demit the ministry, and four
have been deposed by the Oahu Assocla-
tion, viz: A. Kaoliko, Hauaihilo, J. Manuela, and I). Kekiokalaui.
There are twenty Churches now without pastors: eleven on the Island of Hawaii, six on Maui, two on Oahn and one
oii Kauai.
Our Hawaiian Sabbath Schools, both
foreign and native, have, up to dale,
taken $823 worth of stock in the
new Morning Slur at 20 cents a share,
and it Is hoped that they will enter
heartily into co-operation with the Sabbath Schools of the United States in providing for her running expenses by
contributing at the rale of at least 10
cents per share each year for I hat purpose. It is an interesting fact that of
the above amount of stock taken in the
Morning Star, 87.75 was taken by Unchristian Chinese, ami 87.75 by Gilbert
Islanders residing in Honolulu; while
.■s|:{.7u additional has been taken in the
Marshall Islands.
Of the total amount contributed for
missionary purposes from the Hawaiian
Islands, there was received : From
native Hawaiian churches and donors,
$8,659.461 from Gilbert Islanders anil
Chinese, 148.80 { from foreign churches
anil donors, 82,071.96 ; total, $0,777.21.
A LIBERAL AND TIMELY GIFT.
The following letter explains itself.
Our missionary brethren in Japan have
the earnest thanks of the Christian
workers in Hawaii for their timely gift :
Kom:, Japan, April in, 1855.
Japanese laborers have recently gone to the Hawaiian Flands on contracts covering several
years ; and,
Whereas, This is, in all probability,
the beginning of a continued immigration that will from year to year take
many of the inhabitants of this land to a
country where the institutions of Christian civilisation have been planted, ami
where new Influences strongly tending
to loosen the hold upon their minds of
the heathen religions and superstitions
under which they have lived in Japan,
will surround them,
fissofesd, That we express to the
Churches of the Hawaiian Evangelical
Association the deep interest with which
we watch the remarkable providences
which are carrying so many of the suns
of Japan to their shores, ami the special
pleasure with which we hoar of the welcome given them by the Y. M. ('. A.
ami other Christian workers in Honolulu.
2. That we authorise our Secretary to
■end to the Rev. J. A. Cru/.an, I'astor of
the Fort Street Church, of Honolulu, and
one of the Committee on Home Missions
in connection with the Hawaiian Evangelical Association, a set of all the books
and tracts published by our mission, with
the bound volumes of our newspaper,
one hundred hymn-books without tunes,
thirty hymn-liooks with tunes, and two
copies of the Romanized hymn-book, to
be used for the benefit of the Japanese
as may seem to him best.
8. That we ask the Committee of the
Whereat, Nine hundred
Volume 43, No. 7
American Tract Society to add sets of
books published by them, and also an
assortment of tracts for gratuitous distribution.
4. That wo request Mr. Atkinson to
write to Mr. Cru/.an in behalf of the
mission, assuring him of the great interest we take in all they are doing and
planning to do for their Japanese Immigrants, furnishing him with a copy of
these resolutions to.be presented to the
Hawaiian Evangelical Association at
their annual meeting next June, and
asking him and them to communicate
with us freely on any matter in which
we can aid them in their labors for these
immigrants.
J.
1). Davis
Of
Sm-lhirii
Jiimcs If. IVttoe
John T.Guliek
Gordon
M. L.
Gourde Allcliin
1). 0. Greene
J. H. Dc l''orcst
M. I{. Gaiiirn
J. J,. AtkiiiHoti
On Witt U. Jencks.
l>. W. LtNUasd
Otis Cary, Jr.,
Of tht .lni»ut Minimi A. 11. (,'. P. M. ■
O. ll.Uiilii'k
It. 11. Duvis.
O.II.C«l;
.In/mi i Mi*«inn A. 11. C. >'. Af.
HOME MISSIONS.
Sermon preached by the Her. 8, E.
liishop, at
Fort-Bt. Church,
on
Sunday
evening, May 81, 1888, by appointment of the Hawaiian Board and at
their request published in Tin: Pbibhd.
v« urn witiiossus of these thing!."—ljuke
"M:Anil
is.
To bear witness to Christ—to declare
His name—to proclaim His salvation to
all people. To this great office our risen
Ford called the twelve, and with them
the whole church of His chosen followers.
The true Christian knows something
of Jesus, even if only a little. Knowing
that, he at once becomes a competent
witness of so intieh, and he is to testify
to it. "Ye are my witnesses," .said the
Ford to Israel through Isaiah. Paul told
the Thessaloiiian converts of his joy,
because from you sounded out the word
of the Lord, not only in Macedonia anil
Achats, but also in every place your faith
toward Cod Is spread abroad, so that we
"
need not to speak anything."
The churches of Hawaii uel tire enlightened churches. They possess in
great fulness ami clearness the (Jospel of
salvation. The name, the character, tho
work of the Savior is very familiar to
them. For generations they have held
in their hands the Holy Scriptures, in
many editions. From childhood, Hawaiian christians have enjoyed Sabbath
school instruction. Religious newspapers and publications of all kinds have
long abounded. Powerful and fruitful
revivals of religion have repeatedly prevailed. Where can Christ look for witnesses if not here '!
Especially is this true of the foreign Protestant churches of this land. It would
be hard to find any churches in the world
more richly favored with religious opportunities. 1 believe that one will have
to search far for a more powerful religious atmosphere, or more that tends to
spiritual edification, than in our foreign
churches of Honolulu. Truly we can
bear witness to exceeding comfort from
the Word of God, and great riches in
July, 1885.
the Lord Jesus. We can testify to a
wonderful power in His salvation, and
to inestimable treasures of heavenly
wisdom which we have found in Him,
in whom "are hid all treasures of wisdom and knowledge."
Are we thus richly endowed ? Is our
state as christian believers so high and
so favored f Then Is laid upon us the
corresponding office of being in like degree, witnesses for our Lord. The toiling Jesus of Nazareth did not endow His
favored twelve with all that wealth of intercourse with himself, mainly for their
own edification. He gavethem so much
of Heaven's treasures, that they might
make the world rich, mid bring mankind to know Him whom they knew.
And Christ has made ns here so rich in
Divine knowledge, not mainly that we
may be superior christians in culture and
personal experience, but that we may be
fitted to efficiently testify and make
known the great power ol His salvation
to ignorant and sinful men around us.
With the gift conies the duty—with the
great endowment, the weighty responsibility. Why has the Lord planted His
church here in this central city of the
Pacific, and so grandly endowed it with
spiritual tfifts '.' Is it for any other end
than this, that we shall tell all souls we
can reach, of Him, testifying busily,
persistently, joyfully ?
As if to more clearly manifest that this
is the will of the Ford concerning us,
He has brought to our doors those to
whom we may bear witness, and make
known our dear Redeemer. A multitude
of strangers of many races have landed
here, who are mainly ignorant of our
Lord. By thousands and ten thousands
they have poured in, and still are coming,
and their questioning eyes look on the
, steeples of our churches, and the songs
ring out from our aisles on their wondering ears, and they would fain know
whom we adore, and In what Ford of
power and life we trust. Our witness is
waited for by tens of thousands of ignorant minds, if not of receptive and opening hearts. Are we all ready, till eager
to make Him known '.' Do our inward
eyes so clearly behold the King of salvation, do our hearts so pulsate with His
love, that we are full and ready to tell of
His graceami glory to these yet untaught.
What an immense change has come
over the population of these islands in a
few years. What new conditions we
are in, and what new and honorable
duties are laid upon the churches of
Not long since this was a
Christ.
heathen land, and foreign mission
ground. The foundations of our present
wealth of Christian privilege were laid
by those who began to make the Savior
known here only sixty-five years ago.
Here and there an aged Hawaiian
lingers among us who tells how in his
youth the teachers came and told them
fo Jesus, as they were living in slavery
and debauchery, and horrible fears of
their malignant gods; and how chiefs
and people early and heartily accepted
the good news, and gave Christ their
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allegiance ; and how by the Redeemer's with us, and a grand heritage to keep.
light and love the dark anil suffering Christian brothers and sisters, we fall
people were lifted out of slavery and heirs to them of the noblest and richest
disorder, and set upon this high plat- Inheritance. They have left to us the
form of national order, liberty, and pros- kingdom of (Jod. We succeed to them
in the glorious work of maintaining and
perity.
It is the speaker's privilege vividly to extending the conquest of Christ over
recall the childhood scenes of fifty years these shores. They were, under Christ,
ago, when the Church of Christ here
was but young; when the great thrones
of worshippers were almost fresh from
the reeking heiaus and the cruel kaput;
when there were still grey heads who
saw Cook slain, and fought in Kamohameha's battles of conquest! and these
old priests ami warriors, still half-clad,
Were bending their bronze limbs in
great gladness in worship of the Cod
and Father of our Ford Jesus Christ.
What throngs then crowded the mats in
that long grass church where now stand
the massive coral walls of Kawaiahao,
and there with their stately ami dreaded
chiefs listened patiently to their teachers'
discourses, ami sung the old hymns.
Those old fathers were then in their
prime and vigor, who had come to proclaim the kingdom of the Redeemer in
great toil and many privations. These
strong and zealous men are passed away ;
almost all are gone. Of that large and
enthusiastic bin d who used to gather
every June of liily years ago in that old
Chapel at Kawai ihao, and stir up one
another's hearts In hope and zeal as they
reported.and planned their work, and
whose communing! were so kindling
and Inspiring to their children, but four
of the fathers still survive among their
descendants. Their steps are feeble,
and their forms bowed, and they patiently wait for the sweet summons that
must soon call them to join the blest
throng of the glorified.
Of that earlier veteran band, two most
beloved and regretted fathers have departed from us this year, both in great
ripeness of piety and joy of faith. The
faithful David lioldon Fyinan hail given
his long years with most affectionate
skill and power to the training of Hawaiian boys. A multitude of his worthy
pupils rise up and call him blessed. The
other was the venerated William Pattimiii
Alexander, whose more varied
labors made him prominent in work
and counsel. To these we affectionately
add the name of Mrs. Abba W. Smith,
a veteran toiler of the same early days.
We all knew her, how richly her heart
and activities went forth to old and
young, and made her a chief leader in
every good work to her latest day.
Several other veteran missionary fathers
and mothers Of a little later service still
remain for our comfort and joy. One of
these known world-wide as the ''Father
Damon of seamen, has lately left us—
and where shall we find one of such
sympathetic joy in the Lord's cause, or
one who can witli such enthusiasm or
fulness of knowledge recount to us
"God's work in the Pacific?" These
fathers and mothers whom the late
years have borne so fast from our sight
have left a radiant memory to abide
"
the founders and builders of the Lord's
house here—and their work stands. It
isstrong. This good land, with all of darkness and sin that abound, is filled with the
radiant presence of'many who nre strong
witnesses for the Ford Jesus in the spirit
of the fthort and these are men and
women of many races and tongues.
There are many souls growing towards
maturity in divine knowledge, who give
promise of noble testimony for the Lord
Jesus.
Tho work of the fathers stands, we
say ; and we feel assured it is to stand,
and to increase more and more. We
believe the Ford means yet greater
things for His Church in Hawaii. Adverse influences may abound in new and
varied forms. Foreign immigration may
seem to be overwhelming. It may seem
wholly to overtask our resources to evangelize and bring it under the redeeming
Influence of theGospel. Hut let us know
our power. We have the King of Salvation on our sitle. We march under
the banner of the Cross; the inspiring
power of the Holy Ghost is ours to convert our weakness into a resistless
might.
The work of tho fathers is still our
work. Their message is our message,
as it was the message of the apostles of old
—that Wortl of Fife which we preach.
The old story of Hetblehemand Calvary ;
of the man of Nazareth andOothsemane;
of the dying and the risen Redeemer;
of the atoning, the glorified, tho interceding Ford our Righteousness. Tho
same is still our message and story.
What the fathers relied on as the one
great fountain of healing for the miseries
of debased men we also bold to be the
one remedy. What they confidently
applied to lift a degraded race out of
animalism and slavery, and build them
into a free and happy psople, we also
depend on to maintain the civilization
and freedom which they founded so
grandly and successfully. That only
power on which they relied to uplift
fallen inanhixid, and on which we depend for all present and future hope of
social good and worthy life in this land,
Jesus in the
is the power of the
souls of men. It is LJis supernal grace
in weak and wicked human hearts transforming them. It is His all-quickening
life, who is the Bread of Life, transfused into fallen, dying, human lives,
with resurrection power. It is the testimony of Jesus, administered by His
feeble, but divinely strengthened human
witnesses, ever by life and doctrine
urging righteousness on all souls in the
land, and, by the living power of holiness, making sin to cower disreputable,
and clean, merciful, just-living to be
honored.
12
It Is the Man from Heaven bringing
the powers of the eternal world to bear
upon human hearts. He witnesses, and
His people witness for Him, of a higher
sphere and an eternal condition, in
whose stately presence all the pomp of
earth Wilts, and its glories fade. Ry
this it is given the Lord's witnesses to
summon besotted souls to raise their
eyes from the clods and the stubble and
reach up towards celestial ends, to inspire forlorn and bedraggled spirits with
heavenly hopes and divine ambitions.
And crowning all in power to move, and
strength to uphold stumbling, helpless
souls, is the ineffable personal love of
the Cod-man whose feet were bathed
with the penitent's tears—who gives
His own peace to the restless, and His
own yoke of strength to the heavyladen, and is Himself tho bread of life
to the starving. Armed with this gospel
of grace, the fathers came here sixtyfive years ago, full ol this faith, certain
that Christ, who had illumined and rejoiced their own souls, could also give
life to the dark and dying Hawaiians,
and that none other could. The Lord
favored their work.
He had much
people here. Chiefs and subjects heard
the Oospel gladly. The Holy Spirit was
mightily poured out.
In twenty-five
years there stood here a Christian nation
in political freedom ami firm civil order,
with free schools, churches, Hibles, their
nudity covered, and pressing onwards
towards a full civilization. This work
stands. It goes on. The generations
have marched forward. Those who renounced paganism for the blessed light
of Jesus are nearly all passed away, and
their descendants share the land with
others. It is more than ever a ( hristian
land. Never, perhaps, was there more
of active and earnest faith than now,
though outward conditions are so much
changed, and evil forces are ever trying new aggressions.
And now, with all this wealth of
Christian power, we are not left to rest
and have peace. We are called to fresh
enterprises and conflicts. We may rejoice in a rare and peculiar opportunity
for bearing testimony for the Lord Jesus,
and making known His grace tea multitude ol souls most precious in His
sight. He lias especially honored and
exalted His churches here by sending a
grand evangelizing work to our very
doors. What so honorable as to be the
messengers of the King of Peace ? What
so delightful as the errand of "jjood
tidings of great .joy?" And this it
seems as if the Lord would call us till to
be. We have not to cross weary seas to
remote shores to find those we may
evangelize. They have come to us;
here they are in our streets—the thous
ands of Japan, the 20,000 of China, and
many others who know nothing, or but
little, of our glorious Savior. Our great
work of evangelization is right here,
around our homes. Where was ever a
Christian church so clearly, so nobly
summoned to grand testimony for its
Lord ? Shall not all the powers of our
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souls, dear brot hers and sisters, arise Civilization, that it thus forces the
in heartiest response, -'Lord, what haughty and stubborn rule of Rome to
bend and educate her children. Tho
will thou have us to do?"
We have already found much of our Lord has not yet guided our hands to
work, and laid hold of it in part. work directly among these children of
Among the sons of China a good begin- Rome. They are here in the presence
ning has been made, and Christian of the full Cospel light, and in the highchurches have been gathered among ways of the best Christian culture and
them to be strong witnesses for the Lord knowledge of Cod's Word. If there is
Jesus. One of our ablest and most de- any organized aggressive work to be
voted young men has learned their lan- done for these precious souls it will in
guage, and we ate aided by the Ameri- due time be disclosed. Meanwhile, let
can Hoard in bis support as our mis- our prayers be constant anil fervent,
sionary. A few Chinese preachers and that whatever saving knowledge of
colporteurs are maintained in their work, Christ the Roman Church can teach her
and Holy Scriptures and Christian litera- children (and it is not a little), the Holy
ture are making their way among the Spirit may select amid abounding errors,
people. All this is but a beginning. and apply effectually to many souls' salAs the work prospers it will grow, and vation, and that these ill-taught people
call for largest personal efforts and heavy may be drawn to learn less of Mary
and the saints, who are far away, and
expenditure.
A new and most interesting work has more of the loving Jesus, who is close to
just arisen for the new immigrants now us and dwells in all loving, obedient
pouring in from Japan, and some begin- hearts.
nings have been made in it. We may
These new peoples among whom God's
especially rejoice to work for this kindly Providence has appointed us such work,
and receptive people in whose own empire are much separated from us by difference
the Oospel is making such marvellous of language. For the most part we cannot
converse with them. We are cut off
progress.
Our eyes are turning with especial from telling them ourselves in undersolicitude towards our most interesting stood speech the story of Jesus' love and
and valuable immigration of Portuguese power to save. Fel us, therefore, remind
from the Azores. These are of our Cau- ourselves of the unspeakable power and
casian race, with a large admixture of our effectiveness which a consecrated Christown Teutonic blood from the Low Coun- ian lite has to declare the truths which
tries. Their language is one we may sustain it; how the inarticulate, but visieasily learn, as they will soon learn our ble, witness of unselfish, patient, prayerruling English tongue. They will readily ful lives testifies with a matchless clearassimilate to our English forms of civili- ness that no mere words can reach.
zation, themselves, though much in the Such a life needs little articulate speech
tlttrk, yet a Christian people, of great to enforce its meaning. It has an eloindustry, patience, end many choice quent if voiceless speech of its own, to
virtues.
which all men listen.
Even though of foreign and barbarous
We believe they have come here for
great good to this land and to them- tongue, the action of one upreuching
selves. That the form of Christianity Christian life speaks with resistless elowhich they have been trained in is In- quence, telling of grace divine, of
sufficient and Imperfect, finds a peculiar supernal powers reigning within, of a
illustration in their general absolute life crucified with Christ and hidden in
When
illiteracy. We have forced on our atten- the secret place of the Lord.
tion the conspicuous fact how in all that starved Apomaman islander was
exclusively Papal countries, where Pro- lifted helpless from his canoe to the deck,
testantism is shut out, the fixed policy and voyaged for months to Japan and
of the priesthood always litis been, and California without exchanging a word of
is, to forbid education of the common his story with other men, nevertheless
people, ami to keep the Bible out of it became promptly understood that he
their bands, lest their allegiance to the served and followed Christ. A man of
Papal Church should lie disturbed, and abstinence, <>f prayer, of Bible study, of
their salvation endangered. Few of uprightness, leading his companions
these Immigrants can read, or desire rightly, lie travelled a living epistle of
education for their children, anil the Jesus, and an unanswerable admonition
Bible has been an unknown l>ook to to unbelief and vice, without uttering for
them, although their spiritual fathers months an intelligible word of human
have doubtless taught them Huch tenets speech. Men often report in print with
as seemed needful for salvation. We gusto the vices anil hypocrisies of Hawairejoice to welcome them here, where ian Christians—and they are many ; but
education is enforced by law, and where how often we know how the integrity of
their truly devout and pious Latin clergy, a Hawaiian Christian has angered and
in the presence of enlightened and ag- shamed the presuming foreigner, and
gressive Bible Christianity, are com- witnessed for the Master—perhaps to the
pelled to depart from the home strict- white man's wrath, perhaps to his reness of thefr church, and with a vigorous pentance.
Are there not, dear Christian friends,
rivalry provide for their flocks the
cation which they dread, in order that many in our churches both white
they may at least be able to shape it and native, who are thus living witIt is no mean victory of our Protestant nesses for our Lord to their unevan-
edu-1
gelized neighbors ? As they note the
wtdk and action of Christian people,
must they not observe many who live
for righteousness, who are kind, humble,
merciful, just; who seek truth more
than gain, and purity more than pleasure. The united testimony of groups
of such Christians has an intensified
force.
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July, 1885.
THE HILO TENT-MEETINGS.
Rev. E. P. Baker writes us the following in regard to the noted tentmeetings held near Ililo. The wildest
statements have been made in regard to
old heathen rites being practised there,
and many true friends of the llawaiians
have been greatly distresseti thereby.
Mr. Baker's letter, written after full and
careful investigation, will be re-assuring
to troubled ones. Mr. Raker writes i
Herein we have an immense opportunity. It is an Incalculably great adreligious meeting was for three
vantage to be able to evangelize heathen A Hawaiian
months (ending about June ISth) held
a tent
peoples in close contact with strong and in l'ueo, a village on the other side of in
the river
reports
vastly
opposite
regarding
Christian
churches.
How
rlilowhich
have
been
active
in circulation that heathen practices were part and
more impressive to a Chinaman is Chris- parcel
ol the exercises.
tianity in Honolulu, where it is eviThe real fact, however, seems lo be that the tent
meetings
of
were a display merely of religious fac
source
dently the mala
and champion
ti Hisness, which impelled some who were unmorality, than in China, where it has friendly to them to be less careful than they
few exemplars to witness with its teach- should hive been, to report 0"lv the exact truth
tiiout what they did not like. The sole reason
ers. It seems ti> me that just now the that
any one had for saying that white chickens
Christians of Honolulu and Hawaii pos- had been sacrificed at these tent meetings being
sess a measure of opportunity and of the fact that among tho various articles of food
constituted the feast that was eaten at the
responsibility for the effective testimony which
opening of the tent were chickens, some of which
of the life, not enjoyed by any other were, very likely, white before they were picked.
Uoiug back to tmeient heathenism is mil the danplace on earth. Our pecuniary abilities
ger to which the llawaiians of today are exposed;
are small compared with the growing the danger to which they are exposed rather being
needs of the work. We may have good that they will drop down into modern heathenism,
hliiiun of our cities nre—perreason to solicit outside aid to evangelize and become what fthe
manent/;/ ttntnal, cious and criminal.
these masses of ignorant souls. But let Ordinary Augl dixon protestantism as a perus remind ourselves that till the money n..money seems to bo too cold-blooded in its temand too undemonstrative in its methods to suit
American churches could send would per
the natives of these islands, who are orientals,
work little result, would be thwarted spirit, soul and bod.i (as witness their wailing over
Chi: tianity can permanently surand hindered, if our unchristian lives tie dead;. Nopeople
-uch as the Hawaiianß are,
among a
belied the testimony of the Gospel. If we vive
Unit is not intensely warm-hearted within, and
are covetous, unjust, given to luxury any" palpably demonstrate I without; and that too toa
that would be distasteful to the severe indissipation instead of labor anil prayer, degree
tellectuality of higher < !ass Anglo-Saxons,
toiling for style ami station rather than
FOREIGN MISSIONS.
fortbe kingdom of (iod and the uplifting of men, the teachings of truth will Harmon by K. C. Oggti, Pastor of the
be nullified. It is not stately walls nor
Bethel Union Lhun/i, on Sunday evenbeauteous spires that tell for Christ; nor
June 7, 1880, preached at J'ort
eloquent sermons, nor artistic anthems,
Street Church, by appointment of the
but lives that are clean, hearts that are
Hawaiian Hoard, and published in
glad with the light ot Christ, and bands
Tjii. Kkie.nd at the Board's request.
that are loaded with mercy.
Text: " Lift up roai c>es." John iv, 8t
So let our lives, our labors, our gifts,
It is a high privilege to be endowed
our prayers, all go together, a united with the noble gift of intelligence, and a
testimony and tin acceptable sacrifice to rich 1m)od, that we may behold with uplifted heads the outstretched heavens,
our Redeemer.
We would live solemnly and earnestly while the brute creature goes bowed and
with these throngs of misguided, starv- stooping to the dust.
ing spirits around us. When Jesus
Emerson says, "One might think the
comes to reward His servants, how many atmosphere was made transparent with
of us in Hawaii must meet llini who this design, to give in the heavenly
have had rich gifts of gracious training, bodies the perpetual presence of the .-ui>high spiritual enlargement, holy ex- linic. Seen in the streets of cities, how
amples, Bible knowledge, and this in- great they are ! if the stars should apcalculable opportunity to influence masses pear one night in a thousand years, how
of Pagan peoples. Brethren, how shall men would believe, and adore, and prewe meet His kind, but solemn, question- serve for many generations the rememing: "What hast thou done for me?" brance of the city of God which had
But every night come
Let each Christian faithfully ask himself been shown.
now, "Does my light ray out bright on out these envoys of beauty, and light the
the outer gloom ? Is my upright pres- universe with their admonishing smile."
ence an admonishing force V Does my
In the text Jesus unfolds heavenly
step tread firmly heavenward ? Is my truth in language linked to earthly obbearing that which reminds at all of the jects. 11 Behold, I say unto you, Lift
Lord Jesus ? Or am I supine, nerveless up your eyes,' and look on the fields, for
in spiritual life, pleasure-struck, world- they are white already to harvest." Tho
chained—a weight and hindrance in the Master often resorted to figurative style
which represented spiritual things in
Church ?
The great day soon cometh when all earthly forms, the divine in the human
this shall appear. May it be given us so and visible, and which made the great
to live that we shall meet our dear truths of religion intelligible to even the
Lord's face with glad confidence as His I ordinary understandings of men. Thus
never man spake like this man," dctrue servants.
'
"
I"
serving that all philosophers of all times
and nations should unite to wreathe a
garland of unfading laurels and crown
Him as the greatest teacher of the
human race.
Only as we lift up our eyes" can we
see, not only the greatness and sublimity
of Nature, but also
"
That Rioping
After light by the benighted
In every land. The failure of tho multitude
Of false religions to give peace, but paves
The way f<>r Christ's, religion true. The soil
Is ready everywhere for laborers of the
Ijord. The field ?—lt is the world I"
"
The first motive in climbing a mountain is to enlarge the circle of vision.
There is a passion in the human heart
for a wide and extended view—a view
that will take in the stars above, the
landscape at one's feet, and the sea.
From the hill-tops of observation and
study we will see and know what will
never come to us on the plain.
We occasionally meet people who do
not appear interested in the work of
Foreign Missions, and who seem surprised at the earnestness and enthusiasm
of those who regard this department of
Christian endeavor as lirst and supreme.
Joseph Parker, of London, says, "As
wonder is a sign of ignorance, so unbelief anil indifference are signs of inThe unlettered man is
completeness.
amazed at language which to the learned
man is perfectly simple. The man of
diminutive faith is astounded at the
miracles of Jesus Christ, while the man
of large faith accepts them with com-
posure."
This is true. Thought is limited by
So lire enthusiasm and
knowledge.
effort. As knowledge increases, the
range of vision is expanded. With a
higher standpoint come grander con-
ceptions. On the mount Moses communed with God, and his face shone.
The plain must be exchanged for the
hill-top. The lowest life in religion is
the purely selfish standpoint. No man
should live only to himself, lie is a
member of a community, of a land, of
the world. Of one blood has God made
all nations that dwell on the earth.
F very day the man of business looks
over the whole world. This should we
do, that we may learn what God is doing
in all lands.
Do we understand the heights of opportunity on which God has placed us,
and the possibilities before us ? It is
said of Michael Angelo that he selected
the material himself, and did not allow
another hand to touch the block. So has
God himself selected and called us, and
it has pleased Him to put us in the foremost ranks to hasten the coming of the
blessed day to which the Church, in all
ages, has looked forward with prayer
and hope.
In this work, to what does duty
direct ?
To train your sons and daughters to
love the missionary work. They should
be made to feel that the grandest purpose of life to which they can consecrate
themselves is to work in foreign fields.
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I was iKith surprised and sad, when the
Morning Star left, that not one of Honolulu's sons or daughters volunteered to
go to the waiting and ready fields of
Micronesia. For we live on sacred soil.
To these islands the missionaries came ;
here they have- toiled, and thousands
have been converted to Christ. Ts it not
reasonable then to expect, that from
this field of missionary effort and success
young men and women, following in the
footsteps of those whose names they
bear, should be ready and eager to go as
messengers from the Great King, to
carry the tidings of salvation through
Jesus to the Ignorant and destitute in
other parts of the earth '! The offerings
of your gold and silver cannot but be
acceptable to the Ford, for through these
means the work is to be carried on. But
Jesus, who in love gave Himself as a
snerifice for us, has higher claims. He
asks you to say, in a spirit of thorough
consecration, "Lord, what wilt Thou
have me do? Not only my gifts of
money do 1 offer Thee, but if son and
daughter be needed for the work, then
take what is Thine." Such a claim the
Master has. He is, moreover, entitled
to the healthiest, strongest, and brightest
of the family. I have, in my own land,
seen Christian daughters giving themselves joyfully to this work for Jesus'
sake—leaving happy homes behind—to
lalxir for Jesus in Siam and Laos, and
other lands. There is no sphere of effort
that can be compared to this. It is employment which angels might envy.
Grid and the heavenly hosts are intensely
interested in its progress.
As this work of Foreign Missions is
the grandest and best of the day, its
nature and aim should bo taught at
home. Childhood and youth should
become as familiar with it as with air
and sunshine. It should color and permease all Sunday School instruction.
No educator should attempt to teach
geography except in intimate connection
with the mission enterprises of the past
and the present. Only thus can it be
profitably and successfully taught. The
lands of earth are of interest only as
they are identified with the progressive
march of the kingdom and interests of
Jesus. The island world of the vast
Pacific used formerly to be spoken of
under the general name of Oceana, or
Polynesia; but now we read of Micronesia, Melanesia, and Malaysia, thus
showing how largely geographical science
is indebted to missionary enterprise.
No course of education should be deemed
complete or satisfactory without a thorough knowledge of the missionary work
in all lands. To-day there is hardly a
city in America that has not one or more
ladies' societies for the furtherance of
the Foreign Mission work.
And the
brightest, best-informed, and most thoroughly devoted of the women in the
churches of the States are identified
With this cause.
A portion of their
time, their shining abilities, and fervent
prayers are sacredly set apart to this
•
work, and they are giving additional hold forth the Word of life as beacons
momentum to it from year to year. planted on a hill, or on the shore of some
Lovers of missions make themselves dangerous sea V
familiar not only with the religion of
Boom years since, a man fell over
every land, but investigate as well its Niagara and was caught on an extended
climate, politics, commerce, habits of the rock. There was barely room for him
people, and whatever else it is of interest to stand. Crowds assembled along the
to know. Thus it becomes a matter of banks and made every effort to rescue
fact that they should be the most en- him. A telegram was sent for a lifelightened anil most advanced of their boat.
They knew that he could not
kind. The workers for missions in all remain there long. After some delay
lands are the progressive people of the the boat came, but all efforts to save the
age. The cause of Jesus Christ is not a man were unavailing. A stranger offered
No; after many
tentative movement.
battles, and amid innumerable trophies,
Christianity reigns -a Queen.
And we
have the "shall be" of our God as regards the ultimate and complete triumph
of this uplifting and saving process
throughout the earth.
Jesus of Nazareth is to be the glorycrowned King. Ford Macaulay tells us
that in an F'nglish cathedral there is an
exquisite stained window which was
made by an apprentice out of the pieces
of glass which had been rejected by his
master, and it was so far superior to
every other in the church that, according to tradition, the envious artist killed
himself with vexation.
So was the
Christ by the builders refused, but God
has made Him to be the headstone of
the corner.
The Scriptures speak in
glowing language of the expansiveness
of the divine Word, its perfect adaptation to the wants of every clime, and its
eventual promulgation to a wilier range
than humanity has ever beheld, and the
eyes of men are to lie gladdened by the
full-grown orb of truth. The inspired
records teach, and the Founder of our
religion lias promised that the cause of
which He is the acknowledged leader
shall not fail of ultimate triumph. And
though the work that is being done
among the millions of earth nitty to some
appear "like the track of an insect on
the ocean's shore," or like the breath
of an infant in the tornado's blast," we
who love this cause and watch its progress, know what grettt things (Jod Is
doing, and we have this sure word of
promise, that the light shall dispel the
darkness; truth vanquish error; holiness
subvert wrong ; peace annihilate war;
blighted regions shall experience the
vivifying touch and teem afresh with
life ; on what is now a waste and barren
desert, flowers of paradise may be expected to grow; the kingdom of our
God shall be established in every land,
and all flesh shall see His salvation ; corruption shall pass into incorruption and
the mortal be replaced by immortality,
while angels and men shall join in one
wide-spread chorus, loud as the sound of
many waters,
Hallelujah, hallelujah ;
the Lord (Jod Omnipotent reigneth !
Shall we do our part and strive for the
spread of the religion of Jesus—a religion that is to be succeeded by no other ?
Shall we help to build up the spiritual
temple that is ascending among the
nations ?. Shall we be here a center of
illumination to the world? Shall we
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a thousand dollars to anyone that would
save the poor fellow from his terrible
fate. Soon the man was seen to staler,
and then he went whirling into the torrents beneath. A cry of horror went up
from the assembled thousands. Ladies
fainted, and strong men wept. Hut this
was only the loss of one life, and that a
temporal one. My friends, shall we not
put forth greater efforts to save the souls
of men, and send the light of the Gospel
into the darkest corners of the earth ?
We occupy in this island world of the
Pacific a vantage ground as to vision.
What we need is an awakened sense of
duty and of golden opportunity, and corresponding activity.
While speaking on this
theme, I
mentioning, that this
year a son and a daughter of the late
President of the Woman's Hoard of the
Hacitic* have contributed the sum of
$600 toward this work in memory of
their mother's relation to, and life-long
interest in this cause. I mention this,
that others may be induced likewise to
guard the deposit of the Lord and put it
to usury, instead of entombing it in the
earth. A few years ago, in a town of
Illinois, a physician lost his wife. The
spirit that bad animated this lady was,
in some degree, that of her Master who
"had compassion on the multitude."
She was one of those women whose
motto is, "The world for Christ." She
had loved the Foreign Mission movement intensely, and followed its progress
with prayer and hope, if you should
walk through the Cods-acre there you
might see many a costly shaft ; but this
man preferred to honor the memory of
his wife in a different way. A plain
monument marks her resting-place.
Knowing, and appreciating, that the
cause of Foreign Missions had been precious and sacred to her in life, he soon
sent a liberal gift to the Woman's Board
of the Northwest, and has several times
since repeated it, in memory of the departed.
Referring to this ease, Mrs.
Hoge, the President, said to the ladies
of the Board, "I ask for nothing better
of my husband and children than that
after my decease my memory may be
likewise kept f-agrant. I desire no
costly, cold, crumbling marble ; but that
they shall support and strengthen the
cause of missions, that when I am dead
I may yet speak, through the missionary,
the Bible and the tract in heathen
lands."
cannot refrain
from
* Mrs. Abigail WiUia Smith.
The Hawaiian Evangelical Association
will recommend to the Hawaiian Board
that six additional missionaries shall be
sent out this year. I can think of no
measure that will be so reviving and
helpful to our own churches as this. It
will kindle anew within us the spirit of
missions.
It is our great work, our
high calling. Freely ye have received
the grace of God ; now freely give.
Six more missionaries to go !
Who will they be f
Are these six all to be llawaiians ?
Are they alone to fill the honorable
places in the kingdom of Jesus, and to
receive corresponding rewards ? At the
social gathering in this church, last
Thursday evening, the Rev. George
Leleo stilted his determination to have
his two children trained to become missionaries. Is it possible that this blind
man has spiritually a higher standpoint
and a wider range of vision than others ?
A brother minister in the States wrote
to me a few weeks ago that he was
bringing up his five boys to become
preachers of the Gospel, whether at
home or abroad. He knew not whether
his hopes would be realized ; but of this
he constantly spoke to them its the best
and highest fulfilment of life. Standing
here to-night in the providence of God,
and with this resolution of the Hawaiian
Association fresh before us, I repeat the
question, "Shall these six all be llaAddressing myself to the
waiians ?
young people, I ask : Will you give
yourselves to this work ? Though Micronesia is more particularly the field of
our alms and operations, yet we are not
confined to those islands. You may go
and lift the torch of redemption above
the paganism of China, or carry the
story of salvation to the sunny isles of
Japan; you may follow the steps of tho
Scudders Into India, those of Livingstone and Stanley into Africa, and direct
the benighted to Jesus, the Light of the
world. 1 do not think the purpose of
life is fulfilled if we have obtained an
education and possess the required accomplishments to move in society. The
Master, and the Church of (Jod at large,
look for higher things than these. Yes,
the Christian Church may reasonably
expect that many a son and daughter
born and reared in this missionary atmosphere, and umid missionary influences,
shall hear the call of Jesus and go to lift
up the standard of the Cross in every
land. And I should esteem it an honor,
and feel thankful to God and to my
brethren of the Hawaiian Board, who
have accorded me the privilege to plead
this cause to-night, if 1 could be instrumental to kindle, even in but one heart,
the longing and the determination to
carry to those who have not the Gospel
the message of God's love—a love
brighter than the morning sun, fairer
than the evening star, sweeter than the
blossoms in a summer field, clearer than
the air that fills the earth—and tell them
that there is a Savior, which is Christ
the Lord j that there is rest for the
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would be horrified if any other book were treated
What a senseless deed
in the same way,
it is to break up a book into verses, and to break it
up as the Bible lias been ! Verses end with a
comma or a semicolon, and the next verse begins
with a capital letter! What an intolerable outrage it I* to break up a sentence in that fashion,
than any other company before them. mid above all a sentence of the Word of God !
begin in the middle of a paragraph, or
This is especially true of tho Old Testa- CliMpterH
soon after the beginning of a paragraph, or what
ment, which we are now considering. is still worse, a few lines before the end of a para! And this outrage, breaking and impairing
And among these advantages we note, graph
the sense, is not only tolerated but is adhered to
knowledge
it
more
of
first,
accurate
by an educated people—by snob people as form
the Hebrew and cognate language*, Christian churches ; and an attempt to put an end
such as the Arabic
Chaldaic. When to such an unreasonable practice is met with re-
only was this last company of Revisers
in numbers, catholicity, and
superior
month,
the
first
of
each
at
day
Is published
Honolulu. H. 1., by Me-rnrs. ('rnzan and Ogccl, Pas- scholarship, but they had other advantors of the Fort-St. and Bethel Union Churches. tages to aid them in giving the world a
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THE NEW REVISION.
The English-speaking world now has
the fourth Authorized English Version
of the Sacred Scriptures. It has two Revisions issuing from busy presses—the
King James Revision of 1011, and the
New Revision authorized by the Convocation of Canterbury in 1870, and just
published.
A brief review of the historical facts
connected with our English Bible may
help to dissipate the absurd impression
lodged in many minds that the King
James Revision, if not inspired, is at
least so sacred that it must not be touched.
John Wiclif, in 1381, gave the first English translation of the Bible, not from
the originals, but from theLatin Vulgate.
In. 1626 William Tyndale made the first
English translation from the originals,
and for it suffered martyrdom in 1530.
In 1530 Henry VIII appointed a commission which, in 1037, issued the first
Authorized Version, known as the
'< Greate Bible."
This was never popular. The Bible of the people was an unauthorized version (the Genevan), issued
in 1500, which held its place in the
homes and hearts of the people until displaced by the King James Version.
During the reign of Elizabeth, a Revision
of the "Greate Bible," known as "The
Bishops' Bible," was issued by authority
in 1508. In 1004 the King James Revision was authorized, and issued in
1011. Though a great improvement
over all former versions, it was fiftyyears in displacing the popular Genevan
Bible. And now we have the fourth
Autiiorized Version.
One hundred and one of the ablest
biblical scholars of this age, or any age,
have devoted fourteen years of incessant
labor to this third Revision. There
never before was such a force employed
on any version of the Bible. Most other
versions have been the work of one, or a
few individuals. The King James Reonly
forty-seven
visers numbered
scholars, all from the Church of England. In this New Revision, all branches
of English-speaking Christendom have
had a share, and every prominent denomination has contributed of its ablest
and best talent to the great work. Not
and
the King James Version was made,
more than 250 years ago, the Hebrew
language was very imperfectly known ;
grammars and lexicons were very few,
tod very imperfect. The Hebrew
scholarship of to-day is superior to any
the world has ever before seen, and it is
equipped as never before. The valuable
Syrlac and Arabic versions were unknown to the King James Revisers.
2. Palestine, Egypt, the Sinaitic Peninsula, and the Valley of Euphrates,
were compart lively unknown lands 260
years ago. These Bible lands are God's
own comment.iry on His Word. They
have been sear, hed during the last fifty
yeais by one exploring party after
another, and a flood of light has been
poured in upon God's Word.
'•i. Our own language, as every living
language, is constantly changing. Two
hundred and fifty years have wrought
not only many changes, but given us
greater knowledge of the exact meaning
of our own noble speech.
With these, and many other advantages, this hist company of Revisers
ought to be able to give us a much better
Version than the King James.
And they have done it.
This new Revision is not all it might
have been, but it is incomparably superior
to the King James or any other English
Version.
The change which will strike the
ordinary reader first of all, and perhaps
unpleasantly, is the arrangement of all
prose books in paragraphs. For reference
chapters and verses are indicated by
figure* in the margin. This is as it
should be.
The present mutilation of
the Word of God, by breaking it up into
verses and chapters, does not appear in
the original: it was the invention of man
inspired by
(we are tempted to add
the Devil ! "). On this point we quote
from The Christian Intelligencer:
"
Now, there is only one reason for breaking up a
Bible into verses, and that is for the sake of easy
And as that is the only reason for subjecting the book to such treatment, the chapter
and verse should be indicated in the margin by
figures, and in no other way. The division was
made originally with undue haste, and under unfavorable circumstances. Kobert Stephens, a celebrated printer of New Testaments, perceiving the
need of such help in finding a passage, marked
the present div hious on the margin of a New
Testament as he was journeying on horseback.
Work done under such circumstances, much of it
with unpardonable carelessness, is accepted and
maintained by intelligent people, and by such excellent organizations as the Bible Societies, who
reference.
•••
sentment.
This language is none too strong. In
some cases in the Old Version you will
find a single sentence broken up into
three or four verses. For example, see
Ezekiel iii : 15, 10, 17.
Another marked excellence is, that
the poetical teoks and passages are
printed in poetical form, in couplets. A
ease in which the advantage of this
method is clearly seen is found in Joshua
Kith chapter, wnere Sun, stand thou
still upon Gibeon!" at which infidels
have carped, is shown to be poetry, and
not a historical statement.
In the space at our command, we cannot note passages in which changes have
been made. So fur in our study of the
book we have found few changes, if any,
which are not for the better, and none
which are not warranted by the original,
or by good reasons.
We give a few general observations
elicited by the study which we have
been enabled to give this New Revision.
1. It is emininently conservative—in
some respects almost absurdly so. If the
popular verdict in the case of the Revised
New Testament was "overdone," in
regard to the Old Testament scholars will
say "underdone." It Is difficult to see
why, for example, the word "Jehovah"
should not have teen uniformly substituted for "Lord ;" the retention of this
phrase is simply a tribute to past superstition. And why "Sheol," the Hebrew
word for the place of departed spirits,
equivalent to "Hades" in the Greek,
should not have uniformly been used is
pu-it comprehension. The American Revisers urged both these changes, but
English conservatism compromised using
them occasionally, but in the case of
Jehovah using also the old misleading
terms; and in the case of Sheol sometimes substituting It for lull; and also
translating it by grave, which it never
did mean ; by hell, wnieh it does not now
mean ; and by pit, which is, to say the
least, very obscure. In the matter of
changing obsolete English words, many
excellent changes were made, for example: Botch —boil; carriage—baggage;
coast—border; conversation—manner of
life; leasing —lying; let—hinder ; nephew*
—grandchildren ; occupy—trade, with ;
offend—make to stumble; road—raid ;
table—tablet ; tache—class ; thought
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maid-servant ; wimple—turban ; brigandines—coatfl of mail ; champaign —plain ;
ensue—pursue, etc. But why the billowing and many other erroneous words
should lie retained "is past finding out:"
Basilisk for Adder; The going up tor i h<
; Astotiieil fur Astoiiialii-d ; Of the first year
for A your old; Aforo for Before) Or ever for
Before ; Mow up the trumpet for Blow the trumpet;
Seethe for Hull; Bands for Bonds ; Chapiter- tin
Oapltal; Dukes for Chief*; Plead for Contend;
l'itoh tor ('amp; Find grace for Kind favor ; Heal
for Food; Kray for Frighten ; Can skill for
Knowi tli ln<w ; Lien for Lain ; Mount for Mound ;
Oil olive for Olive oil ; Confectionary for Apothecary Ouolies for Sittings ; Siih for Since
nscent
,
Why, too, should the old obsolete spelling Of such words as /rftiis/rr, cichil,
bason, forgo, through!)/, etc., be retained ?
•I. While scholars will find much yet
to be desired in this Revision, the
Christian who has learned to love the
stalely diction of the Kin"; James Version will llntl it intact. The old literary
form has been held sacred. If changes
went not pointed out, the ordinary Bible
reader would pass over page after page
without discovering a single change.
3. It follows, of course, that not a doctrine has been affected by the changes
made. The New Revision simply makes
clear what before was difficult, obscure,
or misleading.
4. To the English readei who desires
first of all to know what the exact Word
of God is, who cares more for that than
all else, this New lievision is Invaluable.
The Christian Union truly says :
Whatever makex clearer thu spirit which thine*
behind the letter, whatever bring* home hi the
understanding and the heart the truth incarnated
in the book, is to he welcomed. Those who desire
to be
to stop at the letter, to worship the
undisturbed by any question* as to thesignilie.ance
of sacred phrases whose meaning they have pel
haps never even asked, to content themselves with
rote repetition of texts and words, hallowed by
external association, but not by inward meaning,
will close their doors against the New Version.
But whoso desires to get through the letter to the
spirit, into the casket to the gem which it eon
tains, will find in this New Version the best of all
modern instrument* fur tlial^purpoae.
Let there lie no haste either to adopt or
reject this New Revision. Let it have
patient, careful, thoughtful investigation,
.Some one lias
study, and criticism.
truthfully and wisely said
:
The Mevised New Testament was condemned
off-hand. Its f le men attempted to settle in let*
than a furtuighu The multitude bought it, read
it rapidly, did not wait for the patient examination
of competent scholars, but finding here and there
verbal and structural changes not to their fancy,
discarded the book summarily, and have not
looked into it again. The book was laid awa\.
and has remained anased. The few have studied
it, and with them it has steadily increased in favor.
HJtd many of them are ready to-day to substitute
it for the Accepted Version. In our judgment tin
Revised New testament wna hastily and unfair!,
ooudeiiiued. Let uk hope that the Kcviscd Old
Testament will receive a more patient and caret ill
examination.
The greatest difficulties with which the
New Revision will have to contend will
have no connection with its merits.
Ignorance will say, in the language of
the New England Deacon, "If the Old
Version was good enough for St. James
It Is good enough for me !" and thus
settle the case. The tender, sacred associations, and life-long attachment to the
King James Version which bad become
part of the life of the present generation of Christians, i- another formidable
difficulty in the way of the ready acceptBut this
mice of the New Revision.
is simply prejudice. If the New is better
than the old, prejudice will yield in
time, us it did in the rase ol the King
.lames Vei>ion.
We believe the Revision of Ikk."> will will Its way to popular
favor in less time than did that of Mil I.
INDEPENDENCE DAY.
The Nation of America once a year devotes a day to —I Venal Jubilation over
the goodness of God in giving us our national liberty, thus preserving the honor
and tradition of Independence I lay. It is
natural that the American people si Id
be prepared to enter enthusiastically into
the patriotic ceremonies with which this
anniversary of our Nation's birth is celebrated. The craving for lila-rty is not
new. It Is Wentitled with the earliest
periods of history, ami to attain it men
have used the power of concentrated
force. With the love of (iod and the lose
of man there is intimately blended in the
human heart the love of country. Who
is untouched by this affection? It throbs
in the heart's pulsations; it illumines
every face. Thus from year to year the
nation gives a passing day to the contemplation of its civic existence and material
progress. In the American age 177(1 is
most replete with interest. It stands in
history famous for the Declaration of Independence, The Fourth of July is celebrated because that is the day when the
document was dated. Yet we do not celebrate the act of a day. Weeomnieniorate
a period of great events; a period that
siw men's faith and spirits sorely tried.
We recall political ami social emergencies, ami perceive how the leading men,
statesmen ami soldiers of Unit period,
dealtwith those ci gencies. The Dee*
laration of Independence is therefore a
mere exponent; it is an epitome of the
times; it symbolised the creation of an
Independent Nation; it was a greeting to
old England—kind, yet Ira and determined, "We Stop being a dependency In
a foreign crown; we set up forourselve-.
Ami they' called the heritage America;
but one name*, to work out under one Hag
one destiny.
A century and more of the Nation's existence is behind us ami it liven
and prospers. The infant Itepublie,
small as a mustard seed, has become a
decprooted ami mighty tree with farspreading branches. Between George
Washington's day and the present there
is a long list of illustrious names, (ireal
anil good men and women have lived
and died and left their impress. Their
country was worthy of them and they ol
their country. Ami by the Nation's
lirst and second births mid the galaxy of
those who have toiled and endured the
young men and women of to-day are
earnestly summoned to truth and honor
and a loyal devotion to their land. And
jabove all to God and Christianity. Let
the white banner of Jesus Christ ever
i be highest.
a
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How great the American land Is;
how vast in extent ! Joseph Cook thus
illustrates it, ••The London Thins van
reach the chief cities of Great Britain
before it is out of date as a daily : but so
broad are the United States, that no
daily paper can expect to obtain a
national circulation. The national paper
of the United Slides must be a weekly,
and why should it not he a religious
weekly, fully equipped with the best
armor of biblical anil .scientific research
and of philanthropy, political wisdom
anil all secular patriotism? It is geographically certain, I hat only a weekly
can reach both seas and become a bousebold-pn■si'iici- throughout the Nation."
The American Republic commenced
its career with the recognition of God,
as a (Jod of nations and ruling in the
history of mem How vividly this is
brought to the mind whenever \vc see
the picture of the lirst American Congress kneelii g in prayer, thus reverently
.mil devoutly acknowledging a personal
(Jod. This God Is still enthroned in tho
heart of the Nation.
The theory has been advanced, that
there is a (Jod, but thai lie is too "na1
and independent, to notice either individuals or nations.
History however and observation and
especially the Bible's teachings lead to
the belief, that Inilli man's personal affairs and the interests of nations are of
vast importance in the estimation of (Jod.
Another theory proposed is, that the
(Jod of the Mew and the Christian must
be dethroned.
The belief ma personal Deity is superstition -mil must be abolished. Thus
■ays Inger-01l ill America and Bradlaugh in England. Hut the time will
never conic for the Nation of America to
adopl this platform of belief, h'or the
Intelligence of the people will be kept
up ami Increase through the educational
institutions, the sehuuls and colleges, of
the land. Anil (be intelligence of a
Nation guarantees (he maintenance of
belief iii a pergonal, living God. The
idea ol QotJ is innate and natural to
man.
Around BjS we trace the footsteps
of His po*mf ami we gain glimpses of
Hi* majesty. Mis glory breaks from tint
cloud- mid the rising miii inscribe-. His
glorious Name in characters of light on
the extended (cants of the world. 11 is
Independence ami sovereignty flame
abroad in Nature. In design, law anil
government lie is sii|MTiorand supreme.
Net He Is not lost to us and we are
uneasy lies the bead
not orphans. If
he who irusis in
thai wears a crown
in
God may Is- free from anxiety, for
the time of trouble lie shall hide mo in
His pavilion: in the secret of His taliernncle -ball He hide me ; He shall set me
upon a rock."
To lie u cltir.en of America is a noble
freedom. Alas! that by thousands it is
abused tin..ugh Nablwth dcMccratioh, profanity, intemperance, iiiMibordillation to
government and other forms of evil. And
as long as one is under the power of evil
.
"
"
"
Heme the citizen of
the noblest and most favored nation on
the globe may be a slave!
And therefore American citizenship is
not the highest form of citizenship ; for
one may belong to and boast of a great
and free country and yet be in thraldom,
the slave of his appetites, of his tem-
he is In bondage.
per,
of his
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THE FRIEND.
July, 1885.
possessions.
The highest type of citizenship is
Christianity. And as ue think of Washington and Jefferson, Lincoln and Sumner, (i.trlield and (Irant; of the statesmen
and warriors whose names adorn the
pages of America's history, we gladly
write the name of Jesus Christ, and say,
take llim as your Savior and leader,
for << if the Son shall make you free
you shall be free indeed." He is to the
heart what the Winds are to oceans and
malarial regions, which waft away the
elements of disease and bring new elements of health.
Prayer Should ever for our country to
heaven ascend for her peace and prosperity; that safety and a crown of honor
may be around the head of our Chief
Magistrate, and righteousness and virtue
may strengthen bis reign and the foundations of our government. And duty it is
to continue the work which others have
begun and made sacred with their heart's
blood; to inculcate the love of country in
the minds of the young; to maintain resistance of wrong and oppression, love
for law and order, loyalty to government,
homage to virtue, effort for harmony ami
entire consecration to the Nation's weal.
And may Almighty God establish the
land in greatness and power.
OAHU COLLEGE.
The anniversary exercises at this Institution, which for the first time it has
been our pleasure to attend, were interesting and satisfactory throughout The
young people acquitted thetustves creditably. The results seemed indicative of
close application on their part, anil of industry ami thoroughness on the part of
their instructors.
The thoughts which presented themselves to us here follow:
It was a pleasure to enter the shady
College grounds. But right here should
it be said that about three thousand dottars art 1 needed for their improvement in
various ways. Will the friends of the
College take this statement to heart?
We notice that the old buildings are
The Bishop
making way for new ones.
Hall of Science, erected and furnished by
the gift of the Hon. C. It. Bishop, of
this city, has reached its completion and
will, at the opening of the next College
year, be entirely ready for use.
It was pleasant at the examination to
see besides the examining committees
a numberof visitors in attendance. There
might and should have base, more. A
general, genuine interest in the cause of
education, and in the progress of the students from year to year, would be a gratifying sign, and encouraging to instructors and students alike.
With such excellent opportunities foran
education, we hope that parents will not
take their sons and daughters away from
this Institution until they have finished
the whole course. We fear there is too
much of this, for we notice in the Catalogue of IKHI-o that out of M —the entire number of students—IS have not
completed the year. We think the young
man who leaves this Institution in the
first or second year, or at tiny time before
the full course is completed, commits a
mistake which in later years he will
regret. The fact that wo have tin Institution of such a high order, and so near
to home and friends, is one which young
men and women should not lightly re-
essentials. Speaking of the discussion of
the question, The Relations of Divided
Christendom to Aggressive Christianity," Dr. Bratlford writes in The Advance:
"
The significance of that discussion was tint In
anyone thing that whs sail so much as in the
fnet that it actually occurred. (Shades of the past!
Dr. Pentecost actually followed a. Unitarian, and
an Episcopalian boldly declaring that his oliuroh
ought to allow exchange of pulpits with other
churches, and all classes alike vicing, to pay honor
to the holy inemorv of Horaoe Hnshnull, whose
portrait occupied
the hall t
the
most cohspiouuus plaoe
in
Could such a meeting have lieen held
twenty years ago ? We do well to look
back, take our bearings, and see how
rapidly we are moving in the direction
Christian union. Dr. Whiton has just
resigned bis paataaate at Newark, N. J.
gard.
In his farewell sermon ho gave a little
Four scholarships of I7M each have glimpse of the theological atmosphere
been established this year by the donawhich surrounded him twenty years ago
tions of the late Rev. Dr. S. C. Damon, when he began his ministry. Wo Quote:
with 1600 additional, directed to be emDue of the questions asked in las ordination
examination was, whether the candidate believed
ployed in worthy channels.
the sinfulness of infant children 1 Then some
Shall the examples of Mr. Bishop and in
Congregational and Presbyterian theologians
Dr. Damon N followed by others whom openly taught that Methodists were not a branch
the (Ihuroli of Christ, and all fraternity with
God has endowed with means? The of
them, was evidence ot indifference to truth. One
most imperative need tit present is the minister
in the Presbyterian oharch lost his
full endowment of the President's chair. Ht Hiding, because he had spoken of the WestCatechism as the moon, in comparison
This is a matter of 126.000. We under- minster
with the Bible as the sun ; his people declaring
stand lliatii ,his could be raised it would that such teaching was to the effect that the Categive relief and wider efficiency to the chism was only moonshine. Great indignation
was aroused because sofne good Congregational
College in every way. Would not an brethren
held n union prayer-meeting with the
earnest and united effort by the friends Metho lists, a sect then spoken against in certain
New England parishes.
of the Institution soon bring it alxiut ?
The world does move I It has turned
The closing exercises both at the College and at l'unahou Preparatory School around religiously a good many times
were largely attended, and received during the past twenty years !
much praise. We congratulate President
EDITORIAL NOTES.
Merritt and lus efficient corps of assistants on the work a coinplished, and wo
—Wk iiavk received from the Comhope that all friends of the Institution tnereial Adrerliser a pamphlet containing
on these islands will remember it in their it full account of Memorial Day services.
prayers, have their sons and daughters It is quite complete, and we know of no
educated under its auspices, and so en- more interesting pamphlet for mailing to
dow it that it may not be hampered in friends in America.
carrying out the noble aims which those
—Mr. L. A. Thurston, who has sucin charge of it contemplate.
ceeded W. (). Smith In the editorship of
The PA infers' Monthl;/, is making a very
THE CONGRESS OF CHURCHES.
bright and jwide-awake periodical. His
That was a notable gathering, the
June number is at hand, and is packed
Congress of Churches, which convened full of good tilings.
recently at Hartford, Conn. It was no—Wk have received the April No. of
table, not so much for what was said, or The Chinese lleeorder, now edited by Dr.
done, hut for the fact that such a gatherwith a request to exchange. We
ing of representative men was possible— (Juliek,
add
it
to our exchange list. Ihe Recorder
that Episcopalian and Quake/, Presby- is a thirty-eight page pamphlet, and its
terian and Unitarian, Baptist ami
are of special interest
Universalist, Disciple and Dutch Re- contents
New Version of the Old Testa—Thk
formed, Congregationalist and Fuseyite leaders should be found on the same ment changes "All is vanity and vexaplatform and speaking ringing words for tion of spirit," into "All is vanity and a
the furtherance of the causo of Christ striving afler wind!" Some one has sugand Christian Union. Of course it was gested that this will undoubtedly be a
inevitable that in showing the desirabil- favorite text for sensational preachers!
—Wk cam, especial attention to the
ity of union it should appear a marvel
to more than one speaker that his breth- advertisement of Mr. Fleming H. Revren should l>e so stupidly blind as not to ell, Publisher and Bookseller, Chicago,
see how quickly it could be brought about, which will be found on the first page of
We all ought to be one, and our this number of The Friend. We
viz :
Church that one !
Disciple, and Epis- know Mr. Revell to be an earnest ChrisMethodist
and
were each tian worker, as well as an energetic
copalian,
equally emphatic on this point! But business man. Our readers can order
this was only incidental. The vitul from him anything which they may desentiment and desire of that noble body sire in the way of books, and be confiof men was for real unity upon essen- dent of honest, fair-dealing, and the
tials, with the broadest liberty on non- very lowest rates.
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6
THE FRIEND,
—Did you ever accidentally thrust a
—Wi: wki.to.mk to his boyhood home
Rev. (). P. Emerson, son of Mrs. U. s. i spine of the cactus into your person ?
N. Emerson, of Wnialua, the popular If so you can appreciate somewhat the
and well-beloved pastor of the Congre- pitiful and horrible religious self-torture
gational church -of Peacedale, Rhode of the Mexican I'enitcntos, of whom
bhHtd. We shall hope to hear his voice there are 20,0110, described by Mr. B.
from our pulpits ere he leaves the Is- Harrison in Harper*! Magatine:
Ast 11hi* ol the Virgin wits lately placed in tlio
lands.
center uf n church, .-mil the
in front of it
—Mr. FitKi). T. Rorsi-:, who has been Rtrewn knee-deep with cactus,800l
whose poisonous
temporarily filling the place made vacant spines will Homt'tnnCH pierce the heaviest -ohd
10011, Through this lied of thorns I lie I'enitenteH
by his father's departure for America, i'inarch
with naked feet or crawl slang on bare
leaves to-day on the ,Uameda, to complete knees, cilline: pileously the while to the Virgin
his theological studies.
His work on jlor forgiveness of their sins. As if this was not
toScUot, they tOOOrg* themselves with glMt
Maui we learn has been very satisfactory \
of ftfjtttUt tieil together on a tbODR, ami
to the people. We wish him ban voyage lash themselves with knives. The natural result
horrible exercises is death now and then,
aud the blessing of (Jod in his future of these
and many maimed and pitiable orealures, who
career.
dray out It miserable existence ror tlio reiniiinder
—TiIS American residents in Honolulu of their days.
—Bkv. A.). Koruks has labored for
have iiiu-t gladly and cordially welcomed
IBS American Minister Resident, Hon. twenty-seven years on these islands
Geo. W. Merrill, and his wife. They without once leaving them in all that
have, by their quiet, courteous, well- time. He has been granted a three
bred bearing and cordiality, already won months' vacation by the Hawaiian
for liieinclves a large place in the hearts Bo ird, and has Balled in the Hope, for
of our people. Till. FBIKMDJoins in the Pttget Sound. We trust that his seaunitetl wisli of the community that the trip will be health-giving, and thai bis
Minister Resilient and his Wife may have stay on Buget Sound, that most beautia long, pleasant and successful sojourn in ful of inland waters, bounded by the
most wonderful scenery, may renew his
our Island Kingdom.
—Consul HcKINLEY is soon to take youth and fit him for another twentyWe
his departure from us. lie will bear with seven years of efficient work.
him the good wishes "of the entire com- heartily commend him as a brothermunity.
No other incumbent of the beloved to the hospitalitiesand Christian
American Consulate has left so enviable fellowship of our brethren in Washington
a record, and possessed to such an extent and Oregon. During Mr. Forbes' abthe confidence of our business men as sence Dr. llyde will attend to bis duties of
Davitl McKinley. Walking the deck of Corresponding Secretary of the Hawaiian
an American man-of-war lying in Hono- Board and as Missionary Editor of Tick
lulu harbor a few years ago, the captain Friknd.
said to us, "I have found no better
—It took the only "Great NewspaAmerican Consul around the world man per" of which Honolulu boasts, or rather,
Consul McKinley!" Strong praise, but Mr. which does its own boasting ad naueeum,
McKinley is worthy of it.
five days to arrive at the conclusion that
The annuai, report of the Hawaiian the June number of Tiik Friknd was
Evangelical Association is issued very not up to the regulation standard. We
promptly this year, instead of being de- know some papers who have no difficulty
layed weary months as for several years in keeping u|) (or down) to their standpast. From it we learn that the entire ard, but the least said about their "standnumber of members in the native ard" the better! And then the (I. A. proChurches connected with the Association ceeds to impugn the orthodoxy of Tiik
is 5,375. There were added during the Friknd, and rushes wildly to the deyear on profession of faith, 23(5 ; by fense of orthodox doctrine ! We care
letters, 52 ; restored, 42 ; total gain, 33(1. nothing for what the O. A', may say
Loss, by dismission, 26 ; by death, 205 ; against Tiik Friknd, hut what has orsuspended, 80 ; total, 311. Net gain for thodoxy done that it should be compelled
the year, 19. The native Churches have to stand the defense of such a piper?
raised for all religious purposes during Orthodox doctrine has passed through
the year $27,934.99, being an average of many a conflict unscathed, and shines all
$5.19 per meml>er.
the brighter for its age-long conflicts and
It will be remembered, perhaps, that victories, but this new and subtle trial to
in the May number of The Friknd we which it is now subjected troubles us. If
handled without gloves a twelve line ed- the G. N. would only assail orthodoxy
itorial item in The Pacific on the mis- now, we should not care; but such a
treatment of native Hawaiians, and the champion is too much! Poor orthodoxy!
indifference of Christianity to their
—Carkful ksti.matks place the numwrongs and well-being. The Pacific of ber of artizans out
of employment in
June 3d makes the amende honorable by America at 869,000 to
600,000. To these
printing our article in full, and adds: must
bo added 100,000 iron and steel
If others have anything more that will workers which the recent great strike
give light on this matter, The Pacific will sent out of the workshops west of
the
gladly publish it." Thank you, brethren, Alleghanies. The direct money loss and
we are satisfied. But when you are hardship to the idle artizans and their
tempted to write up Hawaiian affairs families is only a small part of the
injury.
again, don't do it! Just ask Bro. Frear The indirect loss to tradesmen
dependent
across the Bay to do it for you.
on these artizan customers for support;
.
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Volume 43, No. 7
the reduction in the demand for raw
materials, coal, etc., caused by closing
mills and factories ; the increase in
prices of factory products ; the loss
to the owners of the mills, etc., not
only from
unremunerative capital,
but the deterioration which follows
from rust, decay, etc. ; the increased
drunkenness ami crime of all kinds which
follows in tlie train of enforced idleness
—all this must be taken into account.
Then, too, the half million artizans are
voters, and they are plastic material in
the hands of demagogues, especially
when children are asking for bread which
they cannot Supply.
THE CHURCHES.
FORT-ST. CHURCH.
A pleasant break in the regular order
of services during the past month was
caused by the am ual missionary sermons, preached by Revs. Bishop and
OggeL Of their quality our readers can
judge for themselves, as they Ixith jtppear In this number of Tiik Friknd,
being published by vote of the Hawaiian Hoard.
''Children's Day," Sunday, June 28,
brought home to the hearts of all the
vital importance of the early conversion
of the children in our own homes. The
exercises by the children were excellent,
ami the address by Mr. S. D, Puller
was to the point and made a lasting Impression.
Sunday evening, July 6th, Mr. Crusan will preach a sermon approprite to
the great American national anniversary,
entitled "Some Sober Second Thoughts
Suggested by the Fourth of July."
Sunday evening, July 12th, the subject of the evening sermon will be
"Sowing Wild Oats," a sermon for
young men.
I'rayer Meeting topics for the month :
July 1 : Monthly Concert—Mexico.
Papers by I'. C. Jones, W. W. Hall,
Mrs. Cruzati, and Mrs. \V. W. Hall.
July 8 : Fvery-day religion. Matt.
7:12; Gal. 0:10; 1 Cor. 10:31.
July 15 : Things worth Knowing, a
Bible Reading.
July 22 : Christian Fellowship. 1 John,
1.
July 29 : The Assurance of Faith. 1
John, 5:12; John l:M.
HONOKAA.
The Ilonokaa Sabbath School has again
been made happy by the gift of a box of
books for Its library from the Bethel
Union School, at Honolulu.
Work on the inside of the Lyceum
still goes forward. The walls overhead
have a coat of white paint. The side
walls are being battened, and, in due
time, will receive paint of a shade of
gray. The sliding doors, just back from
the pulpit, are to be stained in imitation
of black walnut. A new and large platform with two steps on either side will
soon be built, and Mrs. Overend has
generously donated a nice carpet to cover
the whole floor. Thus we are making
7
TH E FRIEND.
July, 1885.
progress towards better things at liono- which have been abridged ; better have be definitely established that what we
ktui. May the good hand of the Lord" given a smaller number, and given them are so complacent about is really resultuumutilated. The number of "Gospel ing in a grave disaster to society and
be with all those who build.
Hymns" is small, fortunately. The j good government through a steady deTHE BETHEL UNION CHURCH.
hook is thoroughly indexed.
crease in the proportionate influence of
JUNE—JULY.
.S'o/K/.s- far the Service nf I'rni/er : Compiled by It. the most thoroughly-equipped class of
9, 1 hiiin. f, H. ltev.il, OSsMfO.
citizens,
The .Sunday School Picnic, held on
This compact, well-printed little lmok
the grounds of Mr. S. M. Damon at Wai—Tiik season of examinations and
kiki, was very enjoyable. The weather is designed, as its name Indicates, espe- closing exhibitions of the year is now
was delightful. The United States and cially for the prayer-meeting; but it is upon us. Among many other thoughts
Hawaiian flags were out in honor of the also admirably adapted to the use of which it suggests is this, that the esprit
day. A large lanui had been erected, in small churches where the cost of hymn- j dc corps developed on such occasions
which refreshments were served. The books have to be considered. Our ehlef I among the pupils of the various schools
young people improved the sea-bathing objection to these books' for prayer- is well worth all that it costs the GovernNothing was meeting use is that there is too much of ment to support such schools. For loyal
to their heart's content.
neglected by Mr. and Mrs. Damon to It; the ideal prayer-meeting song-manual attachment to his school in the l>oy presmake the day a most pleasant one for remains yet to be issued. When it is ages loyal allegiance to his country in
issued it will contain not more than 200 the man. The schools are nurseries of
the School and visiting friends.
"Children's Day" on the 28th was hymns and tunes, instead of 500, as in j patriotism and obedience to law.
profitable, we trust, to old and young. tiie case of this book. So large a number
—Wk, in Hawaii, ought not to be disSecretary Fuller and Mr. Fred. T. Rouse makes the book unwieldy, and proves
at the low standard of educaheartened
ol
riches."
Meangave interesting addresses on Sunday an "embarrassment
an authority
while, until that ideal prayer-meeting tion among us, when suchVice-President
School work.
Mr.
M.
Mundella,
P.,
as
we
know
of
hymnal
issued,
Communion
be
shall
be
will
The Sacrament of
i
on Education, says of the
administered on the sth. In the even- nothing better than this collection by of the Council
England and Wales: "Haifa
ing will be preached the last of the series Mr. Thain. We endorse Dr. Goodwin's schools in
words of commendation: "Whatever million children are still not on the regisof sermons on the Lord's Prayer.
ters ; the standard of education is lower
On the 7th the pastor and wife expect the excellencies of other collections, I
than in other Protestant nations. Until
of
for
one
the
will
points
prove
the
Volcano
and
other
make
no
doubt
this
to leave
they
had got all the children in they
best."
of interest on Hawaii. During his abwould never get an educated generation,
the
be
Rev.
supplied.
will
pulpit
sence,
LIPPINCOTT'S MAGAZINE.
and when they had got them all in it
O. I*. Emerson will preach on the 12th,
We unhesitatingly pronounce the June would take twenty or thirty years before
morning and evening. It is also probable
they bad an educated generation."
that the people will have the pleasure to l.ippineoll the best of the year. John
Let'ors
from
a
give
lleald's
the
Isthmus
of
hear again the Rev. Dr. J. Hemphill,
—Miss Frkkman, President of WelPhiladelphia, who is expected on the Bth very interesting account of almost un- lesley College, is very decided in her
as the guest of Mr. J. T. Waterhouse, Br., known districts on the Isthmus, anda very conviction on one aide of a mooted quesdark outlook for the success of l)e besto remain through July.
tion. Sin* recently said in a paper before
The Teachers' meeting will be held on seps' famous canal; With the Conquerors the Worcester County Teachers' AssociaTuesday evening, the 14th, at the resi- of 1870, is a very graphic account of the tion, "The steady routine, the exercise,
Franco-Prussian warns viewed from the and the regularity of a college life is
dence of Mr. E. W. Jordan.
German camps by a' newspaper corres- admirable for the health of women.
Wednesday
for
evening
Subjects
.the
pondent; What shall a Woman do when Girls should not be candidates for college
meetings
her Husband Fails in Business? is a vary education unless they have perfect health.
Ist: Preparatory Lecture.
Missions
in practical article; Horace Ltint's Return If they have tliis, nothing prepares them
Bth: Monthly Concert;
of the Natives makes one long for the better for the strain and burdens of life
Eastern and Western Turkey.
15th : The Shepherd and His Flock. land of distinctly marked seasons and than a college education."
singing birds; On this Side, anil several
23rd Psalm.
—Tiik New Education! This is the
22nd: Faith Pleading for Help. Mark short stories, with an especially bright
Monthly (iossip, fill out an admirable shibboleth just now of nearly all the
10 : 17.
educational journals. But in the matter
29th: God's Claims on the Young. number.
of
definition this term is as elusive as
1.
Eecl. 12 :
EDUCATIONAL NOTES.
of our modern poetry. It possesses
much
HYMN BOOKS.
—President Finney once said: the same happy indettnttoness that char
"Some people seem to think they can acterized "The, New Departure" of th<
Hymns and Son//* for Social and Kibbath Worship : Edited by ItoHwell D. Hitchcock, Zachaiv live wrong all day and then make a 'sotOhio Democracy in days gone by. I
Kddv, Philip Schalf. A. S. Barnes & Uo., New
on"' by prayer at night." We wonder condemns all previous methods while i
York.
This Iwok contains 35:5 pages, and how many good people adopt a similar appropriates as fresh discoveries all thfl.
to the schools, for- was
really excellent in successful teachV
660 hymns, and has many advantages course with reference
for nine months ing
getting
all
about
them
before the term was invented. /
joined with some defects. It is of conthen trying to make a
venient size, the type Is large and clear, in the year, and
careful analysis of all that it professes 1
by attendance at the annual include will show that the term is ver
the music distinct, ami the paper is clear "set-off"
white, and excellent in quality. The examinations. How many can satisfy nearly the only thing about it that
in this matter of ful- new unless we stretch the word "new
classilication of hymns is very good, and their consciencestoward
the schools ?
filled
obligation
to compass all that has been really val
ordinarily there is no separation of
—In a curious work on authropology able la the teaching of the last thn
hymns from tunes to which they have
been wedded for ages. There are also recently published, Francis (ialton, decades.
very few hymns without tunes—that F. H. S., presents some statistics which
—The Saturday noon meetings in the
go to s.how that one effect of the enegregious blunder which more pretenY.
M. C. A. take up the Sunday Schoo»
men
study
young
courses
of
for
tious hymn-books so often commit. The larged
section devoted to chants is quite full and women is to seriously affect the lesson for the following Sabbath, and are
and complete. Most of the old favorite ixipulatlon, reducing the descendants led by Secretary Fuller. Will all Sabtunes are there, but we search in vain among highly educated people through bath-school teachers, and others interSunday-school
for such gems as Dwight, Lyte, Repose, the evil of late marriage. It would be a ested in the study of the
and come In
please
lessons,
take
notice
on
our
strange
commentary
supposed
the
serious
defects
and others. One of
of the book is the large number of hymns progress in matters of education if it can for this half-hour's review.
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THE FRIEND.
EDUCATION.
We invite the
-
co-operation of lather*, and of all
friends of education, in the effort to make thin page
of The KnjKNi) really valuable and *tiutuluttuir
Coniniunlcatloni*should be vent to Hvv. Williuin D
Oleeon, 111 ii», Hawaii.
Wm. B. Oleson
- -
Editor.
OUR PURPOSE.
In the conduct of this department of
Tiik Friend, special prominence will
bo given to the vital relation of education to the evangelization of the various
nationalities among us. The school is
the natural complement of the church.
Where the work is to reach people
speaking aft alien language the school is
of even greater importance than the
church. What the church undertakes
to do in inciting to faith and love and
righteousness, the school must supplement by patient and ceaseless discipline
in right thinking and doing. To emphasize this mission of the school, and
to reinforce in all possible ways the
moral uplifting of pupils in all the
schools of the kingdom will be the chief
aim in these columns.
Further than this, it will be our purpose to thoughtfully consider some of
the grave educational problems that face
us in this little realm. The obligations
thrust upon the present generation to
provide adequately for the education of
our immigrant population are such as
perhaps never rested with like force on
so small a body of intelligent citizens
elsewhere. The great tide of European
immigration hardly stirs a ripple on the
the surface of America's vast imputation.
But here every illiterate Immigrant
counts definitely among the forces that
make against righteousness, intelligence,
and good government. The census shows
that the tendency is to steadily increase
the percentage of illiteracy. This is not
wholly due to the immigration of an
illiterate class, but likewise to the steady
decline of the common schools away from
the industrial centres.
There is hardly a problem in common
school education that does not in one
form or another present itself here.
These problems will be candidly discussed in these columns with the sole
purpose of helping on the common interests of intelligence and morality.
Education wears too serious an aspect
among us to admit of captious criticism,
whether of methods or results. We
aim to strengthen and build up. If we
can do this through kindly criticism and
wholesome suggestions we shall be con-
tent.
'
—It is pleasant to note the fraternal
relations existing among the schools at
Hilo, as shown in the Union Temperance
Concert of the various schools under the
direction of the ladies of the Women's
Christian Temperance Union of that
place. Why might not similar concerts
be held elsewhere both in the interests
of temperance and the fellowship of
schools and teachers ?
ELEMENTARY EDUCATION IN
ENGLISH.
One is less surprised to hear men nowa-days occasionally maintaining that the
education of Negroes and Indians, and of
course Portuguese anil llawaiians, is a
waste of time and money, than to learn
that it was less than fifty years ago that
many ol the upper and middle classes
in England cherished and avowed a
deeply-rooted dislike to the education of
the poor."
Wrote Lord Cockburn:
"The principle was reverenced as indisputable, that the ignorance of the people
was necessary to their obedience of law."
Lord Melbourne, in 1825, questioned the
ad vantage of education as a means of
promoting knowledge in the world, since
people got on without it. The Bishop
of Durham
Believed that education
was not likely to make its way among
the poor;" and the Bishop of Exeter
said if, when rector, he had started a
school in his parish, the squire would
have laughed in his face.
In a magazine article on How England is dealing with illiteracy," it is
stated that "There are still to be found
in England a few who view with dismay
the education of the laboring man, and
are loud in their assertions that education will unfit him tor his place in life ;
make liim restless, ambitious, knavish,
and a bad citizen in general." Even
the historian Froude, in his article "On
Progress," lends the prestige of his
name to very much the same sentiment.
It is a sufficient answer to all this, and
at the same time to all the ill-considered
"
"
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objections usually urged against compulsory elementary education, to make
some quotations showing the condition
of the poor classes in England in the
early part of this century, and the present
condition of education among them in
its relation to criminal statistics.
In the early part of the present cen-
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males, and to 22 per cent, among females.
Rut the two facts which clinch the argument in favor of elementary education
in England are: First, that the social
condition and the home comforts of the
lower classes have steadily improved
with the advancement of education; and
second, "That, with population on tho
Increase, crime is on the decrease, and
that, too, in spite of the alarming prevalence of drunkenness."
ISLAND TEXT-BOOKS—I.
The English language is essentially
the school language in this Kingdom.
Hut the number of pupils in the schools
whose vernacular is the English is less
than 000 out of a total school population
of 8,723, as reported January 12, 1884.
This is only 6 per cent. We thus see
that 94 per cent, of the enrolled pupils
in our schools either do not study English, or study it as a strange tongue.
The inquiry is a very natural one,
whether the peculiar situation does not
demand the preparation and publication
here in Hawaii of a complete set of textbooks purposely designed to aid in tlio
peculiar work of most of our schools.
Our present tcxt-l>ooks, admirable as
they are, do not furnish special facilities
for acquiring the English language.
They are prepared solely for American
pupils who have, many of them, known
no other language but the English.
Resides, these text-books are arranged in
sets, the really valuable information
being scattered through several books,
so that it is impossible for many in our
schools to learn what they ought to know
because they go 100 slow in their English
to get beyond the limits of a single book
on tiny given subject.
Again, the text-books which come to
us from other lands have such an emphasized local signification as to make it
difficult to interpret them readily and
profitably to many in our lower grades.
In a series of articles, of which this is
the first, we shall consider more in detail the objections which may justly bo
urged against any and all text-l>ooks introduced from other lands, and the
reasons why it is desirable to have a set
of books prepared here by those who aro
well acquainted with the situation, and
have the highest interests of this population at heart. We shall also consider
some of the obstacles in the way, both as
to to the preparation and the Publication
of island text-books. We invite consideration of this question in all its
phases, believing that its right solution
will mark an era in the school history of
Hawaii uei.
—It has been estimated by a high
authority that a child from six to seven
years of age is able to attend to one
lesson not more than fifteen minutes ; a
child from seven to ten not more than
twenty minutes; a child from ten to
twelve not more than thirty minutes.
Andover Review.
tury, women and children worked in
We quote from the Nineteenth
"They dragged about little
wagons by a chain fastened round the
waist, crawling like brutes on all-fours
in the darkness of the mine. Children
of six were habituully employed. Their
hours of labor were fourteen to sixteen
daily. Law did not seem to reach to the
depths of a coal-pit, ami the hapless
children were often mutilated, and occasionally killed, with perfect impunity by
the brutalized miners among whom they
labored. In 1818 more than one half ol
the children were growing up without
education. In the manufccturing districts forty per ceut. of the men, and
sixty-live per cent, of the women, were
positively unable to write their own
names. In 1830 Parliament voted £30,000
towards national education. Rut it was
with difficulty that this amount was obtained. The vote by which it was
carried was 275 to 273."
At present the. total attendance in the
schools of England and Wales reaches
4,700,000, and the percentage of illiteracy
—Additional notes will be found on
has been reduced to 16 per cent, among another page.
coal-pits.
Century:
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THE FRIEND.
July, 1885.
THE
Y. M. C, A.,
HONOLULU, H. I.
This pace Isdevoted to the interests of the Honolulu
Voiini; Men's Christ inn IssocltlioD, and the Baud
of Directors are responsible for its content!.
Win. A. Bowen,
NEW
---
Editor.
EDITOR.
We take great pleasure m announcing
that our new General Secretary, Mr. S.
D. Fuller, will assume the editorial work
of the Y. M. C. A. department of Tiik
Friknd after this issue. According to
a provision of our Constitution, an appointment of editor is made once in each
three months. At our last monthly
meeting, Mr. Fuller was appointed for
the coming three months. We rejoice
in this appointment, as it will give to
the many on the other islands who are
interested in our work some acquaintance with our new Secretary.
A RECENT OCCURRENCE.
Recently a young man in this city
made sarcastic comments and insinuations to one of our members upon the
work of the Y. M. C. A. Our brother
turned upon him and gave him something to think about. He quoted from
Mr. McCoy, who so recently told us of
the many Instances where non-Christian
business men of San Francisco, in seeking for employees whom they could trust
for faithfulness and integrity, went to
the Employment Committee of the Y.
M. C. A. and asked for Christian men.
finally, as our brother
*was*closing
* And
his remarks to the sarcastic
young man, he forcibly said, The business men of the United States, and of
Europe—yes, and of all the world—are
beginning to look more and more to men
of genuine, solid, moral worth or character to do their business." Right here
we thank our brother for this noble defense of the Y. M. C. A.
What he said reminds us of what
President Fairchild, of Oberlin College,
told us in his visit here last summer.
He spoke of the great oil company,
whose head quarters are at Cleveland,
Ohio, and who were in need of a
cashier ; and in these days of defaulting
book-keepers and cashiers, where could
they find the man whom they could
trust ? They were willing to pay a very
high salary for a man of responsible
character. The duties required were
only .such as any man of ordinary business capacity could well do ; but, above
all things, their man must be one of
character. In this great world of uncertainty, they must have the one certainty
of character if it could be obtained. The
large compensation was not for ability,
but for character. It almost seemed as
though they were after character as an
article of commercial or monied value,
like an article for sale and purchase.
Finally, they found their man in a poor
drug clerk, who had proved his faithfulness for years in a drug store at Cleveland. They can well afford to pay the
arge salary for the feeling of security
"
which they have sought and found. But door employee, who has charge of the
again take an instance nearer home. horses and drays, and when the first
Three years or so ago, when one of our
younger Y. M. C. A. members was about
to enter the employ of one of the large
businesses houses of Honolulu, his father
asked "What will be his work?" and
the answer was, The duties are simple ;
your boy will be told to do only one
thing at a time until he lias learned the
routine ; and all that we ask of him is
that he ho faithful."
Yes, our brother was right; it is character that is wanted, and it is for this
that the Y. M. C. A. is established in
Honolulu. Would that all young men
here could appreciate it, and help make
it for themselves.
"
OUR NOON-DAY MEETINGS.
We would like to Advertise the fact
that we have a half hour noon-day prayer
meeting every day of the week, commencing at twenty-five minutes past 12
o'clock, and closing promptly at five
minutes to 1.
We would like a larger attendance.
To friends on the other islands we extend the invitation as you come to
Honolulu, just drop in for a few minutes
and see what sort of a meeting wo have.
To the friends of Honolulu, who do not
now come in, please give us the encouragement of your presence. If you cannot
come all the time, come occasionally.
Never mind fixing up, for this is a meeting where we drop in just as we are ;
and to ladies in particular we would
extend a most hearty invitation. Why,
a lady who heard us trying to sing without an instrument, and without any
billy's voice to help, said, "It did sound
dismal enough," and she expressed it in
a tone of great commiseration and sympathy for us. Thanks. Now, ladies,
since we have thus publicly made
known your appreciation of our attempts
at singing alone, there is no other way
for you to do than to come and help
us. Please rememlier how
dismal
we are without you, and don't fail to
come.
"
"
THE FIRES.
The conduct of a certain out-door employee of one of our business houses
during the recent fires seems suggestive
and worthy of mention.
There have been, perhaps, four or five
fires in the business part of Honolulu
within eleven or twelve months.
In
each case this man has been found on
the premises of his employers, out in
the back yard, with the hose attached to
the water-tap, and playing water upon
the sparks as they fell on the wooden
warehouse, or in the yard. Also his
horses were harnessed and made ready
for any emeigency. And in the case of
the late fire—the old Enterprise Mill—
he thought best to take certain combustible articles from the warehouse and
carry them to the house of his employer.
We understand that this young man was
not hired as a night watchman, or anything of the kind; he is simply an out-
stroke of lire alarm was heard he sprang
to look out for his employers' interests.
Is there not, in this young man, a prac-
tical illustration of faithfulness which it
would be well for all of the clerks and
other employees of Honolulu to imitate ?
We are glad to add that this young man
lias recently been admitted as an associate member of our association.
ITEMS FROM MONTHLY REPORTS.
There have been twenty-seven halfhour noon-day prayer meetings; total
attendance at the same, 374; average
attendance, 14; largest number present,
27 ;
smallest,
8.
There have been four gospel temperance services on the Saturday evenings of the month, at which the average
attendance has been 28. One or two
instances of special encouragement were
named.
The number of Sunday evening services is four; total attendance, 177;
largest number •present, 61 ; smallest,
32 ; average, 44.
Only one public preaching service, at
which there was an attendance of 67.
Pastor Crusan preached June 7, by special request, upon "The Uncrowned
King."
The Rible class attendance Sunday
mornings, held in our parlors at 9:45,
report an average attendance of 10.
The hospitals and prisons have been
visited. A Sunday morning service is
held at the prison at i) o'clock.
There have been between 1,100 and
1,200 in attendance during the month at
the Y. M. C. A. Reading Room.
100
papers were given away.
The Financial Committee reported
$1,553 pledged for the current expenses
of the year. And full $700 more will be
needed before the ordinary requirements will be met.
The attendance upon our monthly
business meetings is increasing.
There were seven new members admitted to the association, of which two
become voting members, and five associate members.
During the month of June the Association received and accepted invitations
from each of the two Sabbath Schools—
the Fort Street and the Bethel Union
to attend their picnics. The first was
given June 11, at Punahou ; the second
June 20, at Waikiki. For these kind
attentions the Association publicly made
acknowledgement by a vote of thanks at
the monthly meeting June 18.
On the evening of the 25th instant
occurred the first of a series of monthly
entertainments and sociables, planned
and promised by the Etertainment Committee. After readings, and a short
address, by the General Secretary, came
the usual refreshments of ice cream and
cake.
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THE FRIEN D.
HAWAIIAN BOARD
iionomm.u, iv
I.
Thli pii',"- In di-vutril 1.1 ih« InlcroHtM of tin 1 Ihiwniigti
lirmril of HlMlona, himl the Editor, appointed by the
Mount, Is rwpoaslblfl for n- eoßtontst.
OFFICERS OF THE BOARD FOR 1885-6.
Hon. a. F. Jcidu
Hon. 11. Watkiuiuuhk
Hkv. C. M. llvdk. I) I)
Rkv. A. O. Koubkb
W. W. Ham
P. 0, sfCMTM* sTI
Correnpomlintf Nr<n*tnry
A. 0. Forbes,
Editor.
pTttlrJenl
V)cc-I'n's|t|.iil
Recording f ecrottry
Treaniirrr
Ami 1lor
ANNUAL MEETING.
During the first week of June the Ha-
waiian Evangelical Association was in
session in this town, with an attendance
of thirty-three minsters ami thirteen lay
delegates. Sixteen ministers failed to
attend. The sessions lasted through the
week ami were harmonious and full of
interest. This annual convocation of the
Hawaiian churches which have grown
out of the labors of the former American
missionaries, in its review of the work
of the past year, and its planning of work
for the coining year, furnishes an invaluable stimulus to the growth of Hawaiian
Christianity and civilization. We devote
this page largely this month to extracts
from the annual reports read before the
Association, as they will thus reach a
large number of readers Who may not see
the reports in their pamphlet form as issued by the Hawaiian Hoard. The actual
receipts of the treasury for all purposes,
have been $15,50'.)..'C1, to which adding
the balance from last year amounting to
$3,815.70, the total for the year is
$19,325.12. The total expenditures for
all purposes have been $17,(118.57, leaving a balance on band of $1,706.61.
Five pastors have
Tiik Pahtokatk
resigned during the pas) year: Rev. A. S.
Houston of the Kobala Foreign Church,
Rev. T. S. Rouse of the Makawao Foreign Churreh, Rev. Z. S. K. Paaluhi of
Haiku, Rev.P. Ksaupual of Huelo, and
Rev. J. 11. l'aihio of Onomea. Three
have accepteetl calls: Rev. E. C. Qggel
to the Rethel Church, Honolulu, Rev. 11.
Jordan to the Kobala Foreign Church,
and Rev. /. S. K. Paaluhi to the Wailuku Church on Maui.
Three new pastors have been ordained:
Rev. W. M. Kalaiwiui as pastor of
the Church of East Hamakua, Hawaii,
Rev. S. L. Desha its pastor of the Church
Kealakekua and Komi Waena, Hawaii,
and S. Kaiupa as pastor of the Church at
Anahola, Kauai; all three graduates of
tho N. P. M. institute last year.
Two pastors have been Installed: Rev.
Rev. 8. W. Kekuewn, In January, 1885,
over the North Kobala Church, and Rev.
Z. S. K. Paaluhi, over the Wailuku
Church, Maui, in May, 1885.
One pastor, Rev. S. C. Damon, who
resigned last year, has died. One, Rev.
E. Helekunihi, at his his own request
has been permitted by the Presbytery of
Maui to demit the ministry, and four
have been deposed by the Oahu Assocla-
tion, viz: A. Kaoliko, Hauaihilo, J. Manuela, and I). Kekiokalaui.
There are twenty Churches now without pastors: eleven on the Island of Hawaii, six on Maui, two on Oahn and one
oii Kauai.
Our Hawaiian Sabbath Schools, both
foreign and native, have, up to dale,
taken $823 worth of stock in the
new Morning Slur at 20 cents a share,
and it Is hoped that they will enter
heartily into co-operation with the Sabbath Schools of the United States in providing for her running expenses by
contributing at the rale of at least 10
cents per share each year for I hat purpose. It is an interesting fact that of
the above amount of stock taken in the
Morning Star, 87.75 was taken by Unchristian Chinese, ami 87.75 by Gilbert
Islanders residing in Honolulu; while
.■s|:{.7u additional has been taken in the
Marshall Islands.
Of the total amount contributed for
missionary purposes from the Hawaiian
Islands, there was received : From
native Hawaiian churches and donors,
$8,659.461 from Gilbert Islanders anil
Chinese, 148.80 { from foreign churches
anil donors, 82,071.96 ; total, $0,777.21.
A LIBERAL AND TIMELY GIFT.
The following letter explains itself.
Our missionary brethren in Japan have
the earnest thanks of the Christian
workers in Hawaii for their timely gift :
Kom:, Japan, April in, 1855.
Japanese laborers have recently gone to the Hawaiian Flands on contracts covering several
years ; and,
Whereas, This is, in all probability,
the beginning of a continued immigration that will from year to year take
many of the inhabitants of this land to a
country where the institutions of Christian civilisation have been planted, ami
where new Influences strongly tending
to loosen the hold upon their minds of
the heathen religions and superstitions
under which they have lived in Japan,
will surround them,
fissofesd, That we express to the
Churches of the Hawaiian Evangelical
Association the deep interest with which
we watch the remarkable providences
which are carrying so many of the suns
of Japan to their shores, ami the special
pleasure with which we hoar of the welcome given them by the Y. M. ('. A.
ami other Christian workers in Honolulu.
2. That we authorise our Secretary to
■end to the Rev. J. A. Cru/.an, I'astor of
the Fort Street Church, of Honolulu, and
one of the Committee on Home Missions
in connection with the Hawaiian Evangelical Association, a set of all the books
and tracts published by our mission, with
the bound volumes of our newspaper,
one hundred hymn-books without tunes,
thirty hymn-liooks with tunes, and two
copies of the Romanized hymn-book, to
be used for the benefit of the Japanese
as may seem to him best.
8. That we ask the Committee of the
Whereat, Nine hundred
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American Tract Society to add sets of
books published by them, and also an
assortment of tracts for gratuitous distribution.
4. That wo request Mr. Atkinson to
write to Mr. Cru/.an in behalf of the
mission, assuring him of the great interest we take in all they are doing and
planning to do for their Japanese Immigrants, furnishing him with a copy of
these resolutions to.be presented to the
Hawaiian Evangelical Association at
their annual meeting next June, and
asking him and them to communicate
with us freely on any matter in which
we can aid them in their labors for these
immigrants.
J.
1). Davis
Of
Sm-lhirii
Jiimcs If. IVttoe
John T.Guliek
Gordon
M. L.
Gourde Allcliin
1). 0. Greene
J. H. Dc l''orcst
M. I{. Gaiiirn
J. J,. AtkiiiHoti
On Witt U. Jencks.
l>. W. LtNUasd
Otis Cary, Jr.,
Of tht .lni»ut Minimi A. 11. (,'. P. M. ■
O. ll.Uiilii'k
It. 11. Duvis.
O.II.C«l;
.In/mi i Mi*«inn A. 11. C. >'. Af.
HOME MISSIONS.
Sermon preached by the Her. 8, E.
liishop, at
Fort-Bt. Church,
on
Sunday
evening, May 81, 1888, by appointment of the Hawaiian Board and at
their request published in Tin: Pbibhd.
v« urn witiiossus of these thing!."—ljuke
"M:Anil
is.
To bear witness to Christ—to declare
His name—to proclaim His salvation to
all people. To this great office our risen
Ford called the twelve, and with them
the whole church of His chosen followers.
The true Christian knows something
of Jesus, even if only a little. Knowing
that, he at once becomes a competent
witness of so intieh, and he is to testify
to it. "Ye are my witnesses," .said the
Ford to Israel through Isaiah. Paul told
the Thessaloiiian converts of his joy,
because from you sounded out the word
of the Lord, not only in Macedonia anil
Achats, but also in every place your faith
toward Cod Is spread abroad, so that we
"
need not to speak anything."
The churches of Hawaii uel tire enlightened churches. They possess in
great fulness ami clearness the (Jospel of
salvation. The name, the character, tho
work of the Savior is very familiar to
them. For generations they have held
in their hands the Holy Scriptures, in
many editions. From childhood, Hawaiian christians have enjoyed Sabbath
school instruction. Religious newspapers and publications of all kinds have
long abounded. Powerful and fruitful
revivals of religion have repeatedly prevailed. Where can Christ look for witnesses if not here '!
Especially is this true of the foreign Protestant churches of this land. It would
be hard to find any churches in the world
more richly favored with religious opportunities. 1 believe that one will have
to search far for a more powerful religious atmosphere, or more that tends to
spiritual edification, than in our foreign
churches of Honolulu. Truly we can
bear witness to exceeding comfort from
the Word of God, and great riches in
July, 1885.
the Lord Jesus. We can testify to a
wonderful power in His salvation, and
to inestimable treasures of heavenly
wisdom which we have found in Him,
in whom "are hid all treasures of wisdom and knowledge."
Are we thus richly endowed ? Is our
state as christian believers so high and
so favored f Then Is laid upon us the
corresponding office of being in like degree, witnesses for our Lord. The toiling Jesus of Nazareth did not endow His
favored twelve with all that wealth of intercourse with himself, mainly for their
own edification. He gavethem so much
of Heaven's treasures, that they might
make the world rich, mid bring mankind to know Him whom they knew.
And Christ has made ns here so rich in
Divine knowledge, not mainly that we
may be superior christians in culture and
personal experience, but that we may be
fitted to efficiently testify and make
known the great power ol His salvation
to ignorant and sinful men around us.
With the gift conies the duty—with the
great endowment, the weighty responsibility. Why has the Lord planted His
church here in this central city of the
Pacific, and so grandly endowed it with
spiritual tfifts '.' Is it for any other end
than this, that we shall tell all souls we
can reach, of Him, testifying busily,
persistently, joyfully ?
As if to more clearly manifest that this
is the will of the Ford concerning us,
He has brought to our doors those to
whom we may bear witness, and make
known our dear Redeemer. A multitude
of strangers of many races have landed
here, who are mainly ignorant of our
Lord. By thousands and ten thousands
they have poured in, and still are coming,
and their questioning eyes look on the
, steeples of our churches, and the songs
ring out from our aisles on their wondering ears, and they would fain know
whom we adore, and In what Ford of
power and life we trust. Our witness is
waited for by tens of thousands of ignorant minds, if not of receptive and opening hearts. Are we all ready, till eager
to make Him known '.' Do our inward
eyes so clearly behold the King of salvation, do our hearts so pulsate with His
love, that we are full and ready to tell of
His graceami glory to these yet untaught.
What an immense change has come
over the population of these islands in a
few years. What new conditions we
are in, and what new and honorable
duties are laid upon the churches of
Not long since this was a
Christ.
heathen land, and foreign mission
ground. The foundations of our present
wealth of Christian privilege were laid
by those who began to make the Savior
known here only sixty-five years ago.
Here and there an aged Hawaiian
lingers among us who tells how in his
youth the teachers came and told them
fo Jesus, as they were living in slavery
and debauchery, and horrible fears of
their malignant gods; and how chiefs
and people early and heartily accepted
the good news, and gave Christ their
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THE F RIEND.
allegiance ; and how by the Redeemer's with us, and a grand heritage to keep.
light and love the dark anil suffering Christian brothers and sisters, we fall
people were lifted out of slavery and heirs to them of the noblest and richest
disorder, and set upon this high plat- Inheritance. They have left to us the
form of national order, liberty, and pros- kingdom of (Jod. We succeed to them
in the glorious work of maintaining and
perity.
It is the speaker's privilege vividly to extending the conquest of Christ over
recall the childhood scenes of fifty years these shores. They were, under Christ,
ago, when the Church of Christ here
was but young; when the great thrones
of worshippers were almost fresh from
the reeking heiaus and the cruel kaput;
when there were still grey heads who
saw Cook slain, and fought in Kamohameha's battles of conquest! and these
old priests ami warriors, still half-clad,
Were bending their bronze limbs in
great gladness in worship of the Cod
and Father of our Ford Jesus Christ.
What throngs then crowded the mats in
that long grass church where now stand
the massive coral walls of Kawaiahao,
and there with their stately ami dreaded
chiefs listened patiently to their teachers'
discourses, ami sung the old hymns.
Those old fathers were then in their
prime and vigor, who had come to proclaim the kingdom of the Redeemer in
great toil and many privations. These
strong and zealous men are passed away ;
almost all are gone. Of that large and
enthusiastic bin d who used to gather
every June of liily years ago in that old
Chapel at Kawai ihao, and stir up one
another's hearts In hope and zeal as they
reported.and planned their work, and
whose communing! were so kindling
and Inspiring to their children, but four
of the fathers still survive among their
descendants. Their steps are feeble,
and their forms bowed, and they patiently wait for the sweet summons that
must soon call them to join the blest
throng of the glorified.
Of that earlier veteran band, two most
beloved and regretted fathers have departed from us this year, both in great
ripeness of piety and joy of faith. The
faithful David lioldon Fyinan hail given
his long years with most affectionate
skill and power to the training of Hawaiian boys. A multitude of his worthy
pupils rise up and call him blessed. The
other was the venerated William Pattimiii
Alexander, whose more varied
labors made him prominent in work
and counsel. To these we affectionately
add the name of Mrs. Abba W. Smith,
a veteran toiler of the same early days.
We all knew her, how richly her heart
and activities went forth to old and
young, and made her a chief leader in
every good work to her latest day.
Several other veteran missionary fathers
and mothers Of a little later service still
remain for our comfort and joy. One of
these known world-wide as the ''Father
Damon of seamen, has lately left us—
and where shall we find one of such
sympathetic joy in the Lord's cause, or
one who can witli such enthusiasm or
fulness of knowledge recount to us
"God's work in the Pacific?" These
fathers and mothers whom the late
years have borne so fast from our sight
have left a radiant memory to abide
"
the founders and builders of the Lord's
house here—and their work stands. It
isstrong. This good land, with all of darkness and sin that abound, is filled with the
radiant presence of'many who nre strong
witnesses for the Ford Jesus in the spirit
of the fthort and these are men and
women of many races and tongues.
There are many souls growing towards
maturity in divine knowledge, who give
promise of noble testimony for the Lord
Jesus.
Tho work of the fathers stands, we
say ; and we feel assured it is to stand,
and to increase more and more. We
believe the Ford means yet greater
things for His Church in Hawaii. Adverse influences may abound in new and
varied forms. Foreign immigration may
seem to be overwhelming. It may seem
wholly to overtask our resources to evangelize and bring it under the redeeming
Influence of theGospel. Hut let us know
our power. We have the King of Salvation on our sitle. We march under
the banner of the Cross; the inspiring
power of the Holy Ghost is ours to convert our weakness into a resistless
might.
The work of tho fathers is still our
work. Their message is our message,
as it was the message of the apostles of old
—that Wortl of Fife which we preach.
The old story of Hetblehemand Calvary ;
of the man of Nazareth andOothsemane;
of the dying and the risen Redeemer;
of the atoning, the glorified, tho interceding Ford our Righteousness. Tho
same is still our message and story.
What the fathers relied on as the one
great fountain of healing for the miseries
of debased men we also bold to be the
one remedy. What they confidently
applied to lift a degraded race out of
animalism and slavery, and build them
into a free and happy psople, we also
depend on to maintain the civilization
and freedom which they founded so
grandly and successfully. That only
power on which they relied to uplift
fallen inanhixid, and on which we depend for all present and future hope of
social good and worthy life in this land,
Jesus in the
is the power of the
souls of men. It is LJis supernal grace
in weak and wicked human hearts transforming them. It is His all-quickening
life, who is the Bread of Life, transfused into fallen, dying, human lives,
with resurrection power. It is the testimony of Jesus, administered by His
feeble, but divinely strengthened human
witnesses, ever by life and doctrine
urging righteousness on all souls in the
land, and, by the living power of holiness, making sin to cower disreputable,
and clean, merciful, just-living to be
honored.
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It Is the Man from Heaven bringing
the powers of the eternal world to bear
upon human hearts. He witnesses, and
His people witness for Him, of a higher
sphere and an eternal condition, in
whose stately presence all the pomp of
earth Wilts, and its glories fade. Ry
this it is given the Lord's witnesses to
summon besotted souls to raise their
eyes from the clods and the stubble and
reach up towards celestial ends, to inspire forlorn and bedraggled spirits with
heavenly hopes and divine ambitions.
And crowning all in power to move, and
strength to uphold stumbling, helpless
souls, is the ineffable personal love of
the Cod-man whose feet were bathed
with the penitent's tears—who gives
His own peace to the restless, and His
own yoke of strength to the heavyladen, and is Himself tho bread of life
to the starving. Armed with this gospel
of grace, the fathers came here sixtyfive years ago, full ol this faith, certain
that Christ, who had illumined and rejoiced their own souls, could also give
life to the dark and dying Hawaiians,
and that none other could. The Lord
favored their work.
He had much
people here. Chiefs and subjects heard
the Oospel gladly. The Holy Spirit was
mightily poured out.
In twenty-five
years there stood here a Christian nation
in political freedom ami firm civil order,
with free schools, churches, Hibles, their
nudity covered, and pressing onwards
towards a full civilization. This work
stands. It goes on. The generations
have marched forward. Those who renounced paganism for the blessed light
of Jesus are nearly all passed away, and
their descendants share the land with
others. It is more than ever a ( hristian
land. Never, perhaps, was there more
of active and earnest faith than now,
though outward conditions are so much
changed, and evil forces are ever trying new aggressions.
And now, with all this wealth of
Christian power, we are not left to rest
and have peace. We are called to fresh
enterprises and conflicts. We may rejoice in a rare and peculiar opportunity
for bearing testimony for the Lord Jesus,
and making known His grace tea multitude ol souls most precious in His
sight. He lias especially honored and
exalted His churches here by sending a
grand evangelizing work to our very
doors. What so honorable as to be the
messengers of the King of Peace ? What
so delightful as the errand of "jjood
tidings of great .joy?" And this it
seems as if the Lord would call us till to
be. We have not to cross weary seas to
remote shores to find those we may
evangelize. They have come to us;
here they are in our streets—the thous
ands of Japan, the 20,000 of China, and
many others who know nothing, or but
little, of our glorious Savior. Our great
work of evangelization is right here,
around our homes. Where was ever a
Christian church so clearly, so nobly
summoned to grand testimony for its
Lord ? Shall not all the powers of our
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souls, dear brot hers and sisters, arise Civilization, that it thus forces the
in heartiest response, -'Lord, what haughty and stubborn rule of Rome to
bend and educate her children. Tho
will thou have us to do?"
We have already found much of our Lord has not yet guided our hands to
work, and laid hold of it in part. work directly among these children of
Among the sons of China a good begin- Rome. They are here in the presence
ning has been made, and Christian of the full Cospel light, and in the highchurches have been gathered among ways of the best Christian culture and
them to be strong witnesses for the Lord knowledge of Cod's Word. If there is
Jesus. One of our ablest and most de- any organized aggressive work to be
voted young men has learned their lan- done for these precious souls it will in
guage, and we ate aided by the Ameri- due time be disclosed. Meanwhile, let
can Hoard in bis support as our mis- our prayers be constant anil fervent,
sionary. A few Chinese preachers and that whatever saving knowledge of
colporteurs are maintained in their work, Christ the Roman Church can teach her
and Holy Scriptures and Christian litera- children (and it is not a little), the Holy
ture are making their way among the Spirit may select amid abounding errors,
people. All this is but a beginning. and apply effectually to many souls' salAs the work prospers it will grow, and vation, and that these ill-taught people
call for largest personal efforts and heavy may be drawn to learn less of Mary
and the saints, who are far away, and
expenditure.
A new and most interesting work has more of the loving Jesus, who is close to
just arisen for the new immigrants now us and dwells in all loving, obedient
pouring in from Japan, and some begin- hearts.
nings have been made in it. We may
These new peoples among whom God's
especially rejoice to work for this kindly Providence has appointed us such work,
and receptive people in whose own empire are much separated from us by difference
the Oospel is making such marvellous of language. For the most part we cannot
converse with them. We are cut off
progress.
Our eyes are turning with especial from telling them ourselves in undersolicitude towards our most interesting stood speech the story of Jesus' love and
and valuable immigration of Portuguese power to save. Fel us, therefore, remind
from the Azores. These are of our Cau- ourselves of the unspeakable power and
casian race, with a large admixture of our effectiveness which a consecrated Christown Teutonic blood from the Low Coun- ian lite has to declare the truths which
tries. Their language is one we may sustain it; how the inarticulate, but visieasily learn, as they will soon learn our ble, witness of unselfish, patient, prayerruling English tongue. They will readily ful lives testifies with a matchless clearassimilate to our English forms of civili- ness that no mere words can reach.
zation, themselves, though much in the Such a life needs little articulate speech
tlttrk, yet a Christian people, of great to enforce its meaning. It has an eloindustry, patience, end many choice quent if voiceless speech of its own, to
virtues.
which all men listen.
Even though of foreign and barbarous
We believe they have come here for
great good to this land and to them- tongue, the action of one upreuching
selves. That the form of Christianity Christian life speaks with resistless elowhich they have been trained in is In- quence, telling of grace divine, of
sufficient and Imperfect, finds a peculiar supernal powers reigning within, of a
illustration in their general absolute life crucified with Christ and hidden in
When
illiteracy. We have forced on our atten- the secret place of the Lord.
tion the conspicuous fact how in all that starved Apomaman islander was
exclusively Papal countries, where Pro- lifted helpless from his canoe to the deck,
testantism is shut out, the fixed policy and voyaged for months to Japan and
of the priesthood always litis been, and California without exchanging a word of
is, to forbid education of the common his story with other men, nevertheless
people, ami to keep the Bible out of it became promptly understood that he
their bands, lest their allegiance to the served and followed Christ. A man of
Papal Church should lie disturbed, and abstinence, <>f prayer, of Bible study, of
their salvation endangered. Few of uprightness, leading his companions
these Immigrants can read, or desire rightly, lie travelled a living epistle of
education for their children, anil the Jesus, and an unanswerable admonition
Bible has been an unknown l>ook to to unbelief and vice, without uttering for
them, although their spiritual fathers months an intelligible word of human
have doubtless taught them Huch tenets speech. Men often report in print with
as seemed needful for salvation. We gusto the vices anil hypocrisies of Hawairejoice to welcome them here, where ian Christians—and they are many ; but
education is enforced by law, and where how often we know how the integrity of
their truly devout and pious Latin clergy, a Hawaiian Christian has angered and
in the presence of enlightened and ag- shamed the presuming foreigner, and
gressive Bible Christianity, are com- witnessed for the Master—perhaps to the
pelled to depart from the home strict- white man's wrath, perhaps to his reness of thefr church, and with a vigorous pentance.
Are there not, dear Christian friends,
rivalry provide for their flocks the
cation which they dread, in order that many in our churches both white
they may at least be able to shape it and native, who are thus living witIt is no mean victory of our Protestant nesses for our Lord to their unevan-
edu-1
gelized neighbors ? As they note the
wtdk and action of Christian people,
must they not observe many who live
for righteousness, who are kind, humble,
merciful, just; who seek truth more
than gain, and purity more than pleasure. The united testimony of groups
of such Christians has an intensified
force.
13
THE FRIEND.
July, 1885.
THE HILO TENT-MEETINGS.
Rev. E. P. Baker writes us the following in regard to the noted tentmeetings held near Ililo. The wildest
statements have been made in regard to
old heathen rites being practised there,
and many true friends of the llawaiians
have been greatly distresseti thereby.
Mr. Baker's letter, written after full and
careful investigation, will be re-assuring
to troubled ones. Mr. Raker writes i
Herein we have an immense opportunity. It is an Incalculably great adreligious meeting was for three
vantage to be able to evangelize heathen A Hawaiian
months (ending about June ISth) held
a tent
peoples in close contact with strong and in l'ueo, a village on the other side of in
the river
reports
vastly
opposite
regarding
Christian
churches.
How
rlilowhich
have
been
active
in circulation that heathen practices were part and
more impressive to a Chinaman is Chris- parcel
ol the exercises.
tianity in Honolulu, where it is eviThe real fact, however, seems lo be that the tent
meetings
of
were a display merely of religious fac
source
dently the mala
and champion
ti Hisness, which impelled some who were unmorality, than in China, where it has friendly to them to be less careful than they
few exemplars to witness with its teach- should hive been, to report 0"lv the exact truth
tiiout what they did not like. The sole reason
ers. It seems ti> me that just now the that
any one had for saying that white chickens
Christians of Honolulu and Hawaii pos- had been sacrificed at these tent meetings being
sess a measure of opportunity and of the fact that among tho various articles of food
constituted the feast that was eaten at the
responsibility for the effective testimony which
opening of the tent were chickens, some of which
of the life, not enjoyed by any other were, very likely, white before they were picked.
Uoiug back to tmeient heathenism is mil the danplace on earth. Our pecuniary abilities
ger to which the llawaiians of today are exposed;
are small compared with the growing the danger to which they are exposed rather being
needs of the work. We may have good that they will drop down into modern heathenism,
hliiiun of our cities nre—perreason to solicit outside aid to evangelize and become what fthe
manent/;/ ttntnal, cious and criminal.
these masses of ignorant souls. But let Ordinary Augl dixon protestantism as a perus remind ourselves that till the money n..money seems to bo too cold-blooded in its temand too undemonstrative in its methods to suit
American churches could send would per
the natives of these islands, who are orientals,
work little result, would be thwarted spirit, soul and bod.i (as witness their wailing over
Chi: tianity can permanently surand hindered, if our unchristian lives tie dead;. Nopeople
-uch as the Hawaiianß are,
among a
belied the testimony of the Gospel. If we vive
Unit is not intensely warm-hearted within, and
are covetous, unjust, given to luxury any" palpably demonstrate I without; and that too toa
that would be distasteful to the severe indissipation instead of labor anil prayer, degree
tellectuality of higher < !ass Anglo-Saxons,
toiling for style ami station rather than
FOREIGN MISSIONS.
fortbe kingdom of (iod and the uplifting of men, the teachings of truth will Harmon by K. C. Oggti, Pastor of the
be nullified. It is not stately walls nor
Bethel Union Lhun/i, on Sunday evenbeauteous spires that tell for Christ; nor
June 7, 1880, preached at J'ort
eloquent sermons, nor artistic anthems,
Street Church, by appointment of the
but lives that are clean, hearts that are
Hawaiian Hoard, and published in
glad with the light ot Christ, and bands
Tjii. Kkie.nd at the Board's request.
that are loaded with mercy.
Text: " Lift up roai c>es." John iv, 8t
So let our lives, our labors, our gifts,
It is a high privilege to be endowed
our prayers, all go together, a united with the noble gift of intelligence, and a
testimony and tin acceptable sacrifice to rich 1m)od, that we may behold with uplifted heads the outstretched heavens,
our Redeemer.
We would live solemnly and earnestly while the brute creature goes bowed and
with these throngs of misguided, starv- stooping to the dust.
ing spirits around us. When Jesus
Emerson says, "One might think the
comes to reward His servants, how many atmosphere was made transparent with
of us in Hawaii must meet llini who this design, to give in the heavenly
have had rich gifts of gracious training, bodies the perpetual presence of the .-ui>high spiritual enlargement, holy ex- linic. Seen in the streets of cities, how
amples, Bible knowledge, and this in- great they are ! if the stars should apcalculable opportunity to influence masses pear one night in a thousand years, how
of Pagan peoples. Brethren, how shall men would believe, and adore, and prewe meet His kind, but solemn, question- serve for many generations the rememing: "What hast thou done for me?" brance of the city of God which had
But every night come
Let each Christian faithfully ask himself been shown.
now, "Does my light ray out bright on out these envoys of beauty, and light the
the outer gloom ? Is my upright pres- universe with their admonishing smile."
ence an admonishing force V Does my
In the text Jesus unfolds heavenly
step tread firmly heavenward ? Is my truth in language linked to earthly obbearing that which reminds at all of the jects. 11 Behold, I say unto you, Lift
Lord Jesus ? Or am I supine, nerveless up your eyes,' and look on the fields, for
in spiritual life, pleasure-struck, world- they are white already to harvest." Tho
chained—a weight and hindrance in the Master often resorted to figurative style
which represented spiritual things in
Church ?
The great day soon cometh when all earthly forms, the divine in the human
this shall appear. May it be given us so and visible, and which made the great
to live that we shall meet our dear truths of religion intelligible to even the
Lord's face with glad confidence as His I ordinary understandings of men. Thus
never man spake like this man," dctrue servants.
'
"
I"
serving that all philosophers of all times
and nations should unite to wreathe a
garland of unfading laurels and crown
Him as the greatest teacher of the
human race.
Only as we lift up our eyes" can we
see, not only the greatness and sublimity
of Nature, but also
"
That Rioping
After light by the benighted
In every land. The failure of tho multitude
Of false religions to give peace, but paves
The way f<>r Christ's, religion true. The soil
Is ready everywhere for laborers of the
Ijord. The field ?—lt is the world I"
"
The first motive in climbing a mountain is to enlarge the circle of vision.
There is a passion in the human heart
for a wide and extended view—a view
that will take in the stars above, the
landscape at one's feet, and the sea.
From the hill-tops of observation and
study we will see and know what will
never come to us on the plain.
We occasionally meet people who do
not appear interested in the work of
Foreign Missions, and who seem surprised at the earnestness and enthusiasm
of those who regard this department of
Christian endeavor as lirst and supreme.
Joseph Parker, of London, says, "As
wonder is a sign of ignorance, so unbelief anil indifference are signs of inThe unlettered man is
completeness.
amazed at language which to the learned
man is perfectly simple. The man of
diminutive faith is astounded at the
miracles of Jesus Christ, while the man
of large faith accepts them with com-
posure."
This is true. Thought is limited by
So lire enthusiasm and
knowledge.
effort. As knowledge increases, the
range of vision is expanded. With a
higher standpoint come grander con-
ceptions. On the mount Moses communed with God, and his face shone.
The plain must be exchanged for the
hill-top. The lowest life in religion is
the purely selfish standpoint. No man
should live only to himself, lie is a
member of a community, of a land, of
the world. Of one blood has God made
all nations that dwell on the earth.
F very day the man of business looks
over the whole world. This should we
do, that we may learn what God is doing
in all lands.
Do we understand the heights of opportunity on which God has placed us,
and the possibilities before us ? It is
said of Michael Angelo that he selected
the material himself, and did not allow
another hand to touch the block. So has
God himself selected and called us, and
it has pleased Him to put us in the foremost ranks to hasten the coming of the
blessed day to which the Church, in all
ages, has looked forward with prayer
and hope.
In this work, to what does duty
direct ?
To train your sons and daughters to
love the missionary work. They should
be made to feel that the grandest purpose of life to which they can consecrate
themselves is to work in foreign fields.
Volume 43, No. 7
THE FRIEND.
14
I was iKith surprised and sad, when the
Morning Star left, that not one of Honolulu's sons or daughters volunteered to
go to the waiting and ready fields of
Micronesia. For we live on sacred soil.
To these islands the missionaries came ;
here they have- toiled, and thousands
have been converted to Christ. Ts it not
reasonable then to expect, that from
this field of missionary effort and success
young men and women, following in the
footsteps of those whose names they
bear, should be ready and eager to go as
messengers from the Great King, to
carry the tidings of salvation through
Jesus to the Ignorant and destitute in
other parts of the earth '! The offerings
of your gold and silver cannot but be
acceptable to the Ford, for through these
means the work is to be carried on. But
Jesus, who in love gave Himself as a
snerifice for us, has higher claims. He
asks you to say, in a spirit of thorough
consecration, "Lord, what wilt Thou
have me do? Not only my gifts of
money do 1 offer Thee, but if son and
daughter be needed for the work, then
take what is Thine." Such a claim the
Master has. He is, moreover, entitled
to the healthiest, strongest, and brightest
of the family. I have, in my own land,
seen Christian daughters giving themselves joyfully to this work for Jesus'
sake—leaving happy homes behind—to
lalxir for Jesus in Siam and Laos, and
other lands. There is no sphere of effort
that can be compared to this. It is employment which angels might envy.
Grid and the heavenly hosts are intensely
interested in its progress.
As this work of Foreign Missions is
the grandest and best of the day, its
nature and aim should bo taught at
home. Childhood and youth should
become as familiar with it as with air
and sunshine. It should color and permease all Sunday School instruction.
No educator should attempt to teach
geography except in intimate connection
with the mission enterprises of the past
and the present. Only thus can it be
profitably and successfully taught. The
lands of earth are of interest only as
they are identified with the progressive
march of the kingdom and interests of
Jesus. The island world of the vast
Pacific used formerly to be spoken of
under the general name of Oceana, or
Polynesia; but now we read of Micronesia, Melanesia, and Malaysia, thus
showing how largely geographical science
is indebted to missionary enterprise.
No course of education should be deemed
complete or satisfactory without a thorough knowledge of the missionary work
in all lands. To-day there is hardly a
city in America that has not one or more
ladies' societies for the furtherance of
the Foreign Mission work.
And the
brightest, best-informed, and most thoroughly devoted of the women in the
churches of the States are identified
With this cause.
A portion of their
time, their shining abilities, and fervent
prayers are sacredly set apart to this
•
work, and they are giving additional hold forth the Word of life as beacons
momentum to it from year to year. planted on a hill, or on the shore of some
Lovers of missions make themselves dangerous sea V
familiar not only with the religion of
Boom years since, a man fell over
every land, but investigate as well its Niagara and was caught on an extended
climate, politics, commerce, habits of the rock. There was barely room for him
people, and whatever else it is of interest to stand. Crowds assembled along the
to know. Thus it becomes a matter of banks and made every effort to rescue
fact that they should be the most en- him. A telegram was sent for a lifelightened anil most advanced of their boat.
They knew that he could not
kind. The workers for missions in all remain there long. After some delay
lands are the progressive people of the the boat came, but all efforts to save the
age. The cause of Jesus Christ is not a man were unavailing. A stranger offered
No; after many
tentative movement.
battles, and amid innumerable trophies,
Christianity reigns -a Queen.
And we
have the "shall be" of our God as regards the ultimate and complete triumph
of this uplifting and saving process
throughout the earth.
Jesus of Nazareth is to be the glorycrowned King. Ford Macaulay tells us
that in an F'nglish cathedral there is an
exquisite stained window which was
made by an apprentice out of the pieces
of glass which had been rejected by his
master, and it was so far superior to
every other in the church that, according to tradition, the envious artist killed
himself with vexation.
So was the
Christ by the builders refused, but God
has made Him to be the headstone of
the corner.
The Scriptures speak in
glowing language of the expansiveness
of the divine Word, its perfect adaptation to the wants of every clime, and its
eventual promulgation to a wilier range
than humanity has ever beheld, and the
eyes of men are to lie gladdened by the
full-grown orb of truth. The inspired
records teach, and the Founder of our
religion lias promised that the cause of
which He is the acknowledged leader
shall not fail of ultimate triumph. And
though the work that is being done
among the millions of earth nitty to some
appear "like the track of an insect on
the ocean's shore," or like the breath
of an infant in the tornado's blast," we
who love this cause and watch its progress, know what grettt things (Jod Is
doing, and we have this sure word of
promise, that the light shall dispel the
darkness; truth vanquish error; holiness
subvert wrong ; peace annihilate war;
blighted regions shall experience the
vivifying touch and teem afresh with
life ; on what is now a waste and barren
desert, flowers of paradise may be expected to grow; the kingdom of our
God shall be established in every land,
and all flesh shall see His salvation ; corruption shall pass into incorruption and
the mortal be replaced by immortality,
while angels and men shall join in one
wide-spread chorus, loud as the sound of
many waters,
Hallelujah, hallelujah ;
the Lord (Jod Omnipotent reigneth !
Shall we do our part and strive for the
spread of the religion of Jesus—a religion that is to be succeeded by no other ?
Shall we help to build up the spiritual
temple that is ascending among the
nations ?. Shall we be here a center of
illumination to the world? Shall we
"
"
"
a thousand dollars to anyone that would
save the poor fellow from his terrible
fate. Soon the man was seen to staler,
and then he went whirling into the torrents beneath. A cry of horror went up
from the assembled thousands. Ladies
fainted, and strong men wept. Hut this
was only the loss of one life, and that a
temporal one. My friends, shall we not
put forth greater efforts to save the souls
of men, and send the light of the Gospel
into the darkest corners of the earth ?
We occupy in this island world of the
Pacific a vantage ground as to vision.
What we need is an awakened sense of
duty and of golden opportunity, and corresponding activity.
While speaking on this
theme, I
mentioning, that this
year a son and a daughter of the late
President of the Woman's Hoard of the
Hacitic* have contributed the sum of
$600 toward this work in memory of
their mother's relation to, and life-long
interest in this cause. I mention this,
that others may be induced likewise to
guard the deposit of the Lord and put it
to usury, instead of entombing it in the
earth. A few years ago, in a town of
Illinois, a physician lost his wife. The
spirit that bad animated this lady was,
in some degree, that of her Master who
"had compassion on the multitude."
She was one of those women whose
motto is, "The world for Christ." She
had loved the Foreign Mission movement intensely, and followed its progress
with prayer and hope, if you should
walk through the Cods-acre there you
might see many a costly shaft ; but this
man preferred to honor the memory of
his wife in a different way. A plain
monument marks her resting-place.
Knowing, and appreciating, that the
cause of Foreign Missions had been precious and sacred to her in life, he soon
sent a liberal gift to the Woman's Board
of the Northwest, and has several times
since repeated it, in memory of the departed.
Referring to this ease, Mrs.
Hoge, the President, said to the ladies
of the Board, "I ask for nothing better
of my husband and children than that
after my decease my memory may be
likewise kept f-agrant. I desire no
costly, cold, crumbling marble ; but that
they shall support and strengthen the
cause of missions, that when I am dead
I may yet speak, through the missionary,
the Bible and the tract in heathen
lands."
cannot refrain
from
* Mrs. Abigail WiUia Smith.
The Hawaiian Evangelical Association
will recommend to the Hawaiian Board
that six additional missionaries shall be
sent out this year. I can think of no
measure that will be so reviving and
helpful to our own churches as this. It
will kindle anew within us the spirit of
missions.
It is our great work, our
high calling. Freely ye have received
the grace of God ; now freely give.
Six more missionaries to go !
Who will they be f
Are these six all to be llawaiians ?
Are they alone to fill the honorable
places in the kingdom of Jesus, and to
receive corresponding rewards ? At the
social gathering in this church, last
Thursday evening, the Rev. George
Leleo stilted his determination to have
his two children trained to become missionaries. Is it possible that this blind
man has spiritually a higher standpoint
and a wider range of vision than others ?
A brother minister in the States wrote
to me a few weeks ago that he was
bringing up his five boys to become
preachers of the Gospel, whether at
home or abroad. He knew not whether
his hopes would be realized ; but of this
he constantly spoke to them its the best
and highest fulfilment of life. Standing
here to-night in the providence of God,
and with this resolution of the Hawaiian
Association fresh before us, I repeat the
question, "Shall these six all be llaAddressing myself to the
waiians ?
young people, I ask : Will you give
yourselves to this work ? Though Micronesia is more particularly the field of
our alms and operations, yet we are not
confined to those islands. You may go
and lift the torch of redemption above
the paganism of China, or carry the
story of salvation to the sunny isles of
Japan; you may follow the steps of tho
Scudders Into India, those of Livingstone and Stanley into Africa, and direct
the benighted to Jesus, the Light of the
world. 1 do not think the purpose of
life is fulfilled if we have obtained an
education and possess the required accomplishments to move in society. The
Master, and the Church of (Jod at large,
look for higher things than these. Yes,
the Christian Church may reasonably
expect that many a son and daughter
born and reared in this missionary atmosphere, and umid missionary influences,
shall hear the call of Jesus and go to lift
up the standard of the Cross in every
land. And I should esteem it an honor,
and feel thankful to God and to my
brethren of the Hawaiian Board, who
have accorded me the privilege to plead
this cause to-night, if 1 could be instrumental to kindle, even in but one heart,
the longing and the determination to
carry to those who have not the Gospel
the message of God's love—a love
brighter than the morning sun, fairer
than the evening star, sweeter than the
blossoms in a summer field, clearer than
the air that fills the earth—and tell them
that there is a Savior, which is Christ
the Lord j that there is rest for the
"
15
THE FRIEND.
July, 1885.
weary, and a home for the soul hereSMITH & CO.,
after. Who will go ?
Jobbing mid Reluil
I have at times worshipped with a
people in the States who an; called "the
banner church" among sister churches,
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for the number of young men and women
which it trains and sends out from among
Agents for Borelcko
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its members to the foreign field.
Watchman, what of the night 1
Homceophatic Medicines,
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DRUGGISTS,
*
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morning light is breaking,
" The
The (larknesH disappears/
Unrivalled Perfumes,
eyes.
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to-day working in unison to lead the
races, which in darkness dwell, into the
light, and to make all mankind happy.
Their stations are planted everywhere,
And Lei Aloha Boquet.
and belt the globe. The Gospel banner
ljanSltf
has been carried into Mexico, and wonderful successes have been achieved.
Missionaries are toiling for Christ, and
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In Honolulu. June 6th, 1885, to the wife of F. J
Lojwrcy, Esq., a sou.
In Honolulu, June 6th, to the wife of Frank Cooke,
a duuguter.
In Honolulu. June 16th, to the wife of John T.
Waterhouse, Jr., a daughter.
New Ooods received by every vessel from the United
States and Kurope. California Produce received by
every i-teamer.
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HONOLULU, H. 1.,
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
Importers
and dealers in
Hay, Grain, and General Produce.
Agents for the
Life Ins.
Pacific Mutual
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Rev. Father Chiniquy, formerly a Priest
Thlt book shonld be In the handsof every Protestant
Price to. Money should be sent In registered letter
or by P.O. Money Order to Rev. Fathku Chimiqct
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JONES—At Newton, Macs., May 83rd, 1889, after a St. Auna. Kaukakce Co., Ills."
short Illness of pneumonia, Peter 0. Jones, aged 76
DEATHS.
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The deceased was the father of Mr. P. 0, Jones, Jr.,
of this city.
RICK A UP—At Honokaa. Hawsll. on Jnne 2nd, 188B_
T. s., youngest son of Mr. R. B. Kick trd, aged ID years]
KAW AI Ml At lluelo, East Maui, June 15th, 1883
Benjamin W. Kawainui, aged 34 jears.
AUSTIN—At his late residance, Palama, Honolulu,
Juue 18th, 1633, Robert CorUAJTD Austin, aged 88
years.
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WHITE HOUSE,
No. 118 Nunann Street,
MRS,
J. T. WHITE,
Proprietress.
FURNISHED ROOMS TO BENT by the week or
month i.t reasonable rates. Spacious grounds, Reading Room, Baths, and every convenience. House
located Id heart of city. Only respectable paitles admitted.
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T T. WATERHOUSE,
MERCHANDISE
Has now a
Ex late arrivals.
CROCKERY & HARDWARE
Principal Store and
At
Warehouses
Queen St.
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Persons wishing to complete their
FILES OF "THE FRIEND,"
Hay do so, on application to
Mr. Dunscombe,
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ADLER,
Dealer
In
BOOTS AND SHOES
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No. 13 Nuuanu Street.
WOODLAWN
And Stock
DAIRY
Company.
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JUSTLY
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MOST
MERITS.
THOS. G. THRUM,
PACIFIC NAVIGATION CO.,
COASTING AND COMMISSION AGENTS,
Corner Nuuanu and Queen Strict*, Honolulu.
Stationery and News Depot,
AGENTS FOR TIIK SCHOONERS
No. 29 Merchant Street, Honolulu.
Wailele,
Waloli,
Wallmalu,
Walehn,
Packages
reading matter—of papers and magazines,
of
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Ready to Deliver Freight and Baggage of Every Description
With Promptness and Despatch.
Office, 81 King Street; Telephone. 86 King Street;
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UONOLULU
Re-
CARRIAGE
pository,
Nos. 128 and 130 Port Street, Honolulu, 11. I.
F. J. UIGOINS, Proprietor.
Telephone 214.
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F~~6r
sale,
IN QUANTITIES TO SUIT PURCIIASEKB,
FIIESH MILLED KICE
HONOLULU STEAM
RICE MILLS,
J. A. HOPPER, Proprietor.
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LEAVER SALOON,
Temperance Coffee House, Fort St.
The Casino,
Kapiolaui Park—Orchestrion Music.
H.J. NOLTE, Proprietor, Honolulu.
Best quality of Cigars, Cigarettes, Tobacco. Smoker's
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HAWAIIAN
CARRIAGE M'F'G.
COMPANY, (Limited)
99 Hotel Street,
Importers and Dealers in Iron,
DINING AND LUNCH PARLORS,
Cumberland Coal, and all kinds of
First-clnsi board by the week or transcient. Special
accommodations for ladies Furnished rooms procured
at short notice. J as. Stkiner, Prop —11. Haiit. ManajanBsyi
ger. Board $ti to $7 per week.
ALLEN
Carriage & Wagon Materials,
Oftlce—No. 711
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St., adjoining Messrs.
Queen
Hackfeld St, Co.
WM. McCANDLESS,
& ROBINSON,
No. 6
Dealers in
St., Fish Market,
Uealer in
Qutcn
LUMBER, BUILDING MATERIALS AND Choice Beef, Veal, Mutton, Fish, &c.
COALS.
LUMBER YARD-ROBINSON'S WHARF.
Honolulu,
11. I
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TTNION FEED CO.
Family and stripping orders carefully attended to.
Live stock funnelled to vessels at short notice, and
vegetables of all kinds supplied to order.
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Telephone 172.
Real Estate,
Honolulu, H. I.
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P. O. Box 815.
and Oeneral
Telephone 175.
AGENT.
BUSINESS
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Island orders solicited,and goods aellvered promptly.
OAILORS' HOME,
GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS,
No. 118 Kiau Street, (Way's Block),
ED. DUNSCOMBE, Manager.
Honolulu.
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"THE MODEL FAMILY HOTEL,"
Corner of Queen and Edinburgh Streets,
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Bay, Grain and Chicken Feed.
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supplied with pure water from an artesian well on the premises. The Clerk's office is furnished with the Tele*
phone, by which communication is had withthe leading business* firms of the city.
Every effort has been made, and money lavishly expended under thepresent able management
TO MAKE THIS ESTABLISHMENT
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And At King Street,
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all under Ihe Hotel management. The Hoteland cottage*
afford accommodations for :iOU quests. The basement of r "■■'
the Hotel contains the finest billiard hall in the city,
The main entrance is on the ground floor, to the rk'ht *>f
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which an' the elegantly furnishedparlors A broad pa.-■y-way leads from the main hall to the dining-room. k,[ u
These apartments open on to broad verandas, when' ° ™,ft -''VT^ jW*'^
magnificent view of the Ntiuan.i Mountains may be seen ?lb=r
G* •<"•-£*athrough the wealth of tropical foliage that surrounds the
Store
Great Variety of Dry Goods,
'^avtri^
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nn entire square of about four acres, fronting on Hotel
street. This large urea affords ample room for a lawn
iiml heautiful walks*, which are laid out most artistically
wiih (lowi-rii]' plant* ami tropical trees, There
twelve pretty cottages wilhln this charming enclosure,
balconies.
Valuable Assortment of Goods
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At the No,
THE ROYAL HAWAIIAN HOTEL
Is one of the leading architectural structures of
comprise
Honolulu. The grounds upon which it
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THE FRIEND.
HONOLULU, January.
1975.
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Manufacturers of Fine
CADDIES & PASTKY
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