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Number 9.
HONOLULU, H. L, SEPTEMBER, 1885.
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GENERAL GRANT.
Ulysses S. Grant, the most illustrious
soldier of the sacred cause of union and
liberty and the most famous figure of
our epoch is dead. After a long continued and distressing illness which has
served to reveal more fully how endeared
lie was to the American people, the hero
has passed away. A thrill of sorrow has
gone through the heart of the great
Nation of which he was the most highly
honored citizen. On these faraway Islands of the sea our hearts too have been
touched and the tidings have stilled us
into silence. We share with the Nation
in the great bereavement. The cause
and the ideas for which the General rendered his distinguished services gave
him a national and a world wide reputation and with national honors he was
taken to the place where now his mortal
remains repose.
General Grant won his first military
spurs in the war with Mexico. In the
hour of her sore need his own country
called him to arms and to her defence.
"There's a divinity that shapes our ends."
Here was a providential man, a man for
a great crisis and who subsequently
proved equal to the occasion.
The patriotic spirit with which he
went into the war is shown in a letter
which in April of 1801 he wrote to Gen.
Dent of St. Louis, which has only recently been made public, and in which
he says: "Now is the time, particularly
in the border and slave States, for men
to prove their love of country," and also,
"President Lincoln can have not only
seventy-five thousand, but two millions
of men, if necessary, to put down the rebellion."
He went to the field at the head of a
regiment and by the unseen hand of God
was led on to rise by merit to the foremost rank in the army and in time to
assume full command.
It needed only the touch of opportunity
to reveal the elements of his character
and the possibilities within him. Under
God ho became not only the chosen but
also the victorious leader of our armies
in the struggle to save the imperiled
Union. To his prowess in the field the
National capital owes its existence and
are we indebted for the preservation of
Constitutional liberty. His sword was
drawn for theperpetuity of the American
Republic. It was Grant who not only
prevented the severance of the Union,
but to him the great Rebellion finally
laid down its arms. For his distinguished services he will he honored as long as
the annals of the Republic endure and
his memory kept green in the hearts of
his countrymen. His military fame
rests on the solid foundations of a great
achievement, for he did the work which
the Nation with prayer and expectant
hope committed to his trust. Hebecame
the "saviorof the Country." And to him
did not only his own land but all the
crowned heads of other lands do honor.
The Republic was established on firmer
foundations. Our country came out of
the fiery trial purer and stronger, with a
better future before it and to be more
than ever the land of the free and the
home of the brave."
The name of General Grant, who came
out of the great struggle a successful
commander, will be embalmed in the
National history and fill a place in the
annals of the world. His character and
achievements should serve asan example
and an inspiration to young men, to devote their energies to duty and the weal
of others; and lead those whom God has
placed in high and responsible positions,
regardless of self or personal ambition, to
stutly and promote the best interests of
the people, that their praise may be on
the lips of nifMi and at their departure
they may leave behind the memory of a
good name.
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DR. S. IRENÆUS PRIME.
The hand which but a short time ago
penned the beautiful and touching tributes la the New York Observer, in memory of Dr. Damon and Mrs. A. W. Smith,
will write no more. For Iren.eus has
entered into rest. How soon he has followed his Sandwich Island friends to join
with them the company of the redeemed
in the better land! More than threescore years and ten were allotted him,
and now as we take a review of Dr.
Prime's life, it seems that through the
whole of that life the spirit ot our Lord
was his: "I must work the works of
Him that sent me, while it is day; the
night cometh when no man can work."
For nearly half a century his name has
been identified with the widely circulated
Observer, and with the civilizing and
uplifting causes of education, philanthropy and religion.
A busy, useful,
widely influential life has been that of
Dr. Prime. And, thank God, that influence abides. Though being dead, he
will continue to speak through his forty
books and the unnumbered lives, and
institutions and enterprises on which
through all these years he has brought
his powerful influence to bear. We shall
Irenwus Let'
ter." His pen and presence will be
missed in the religious world. But the
great lesson illustrated by his example
remains—to do with our might the work
of life and to prepare for the call of God,
"Come up hither."
greatly miss the weekly
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EDITORIAL NOTES.
We had the pleasure at the Volcano
House to make the acquaintance of. Mr.
and Mrs. Merton R. Cotes, of Bournemouth, England.
Our readers will
doubtless peruse with interest the article
on Australian matters, written by Mr.
Cotes for this number of The Friend.
Mr. and Mrs. Cotes are probably at this
time in New York City. We wish them
a prosperous and pleasant voyage across
the Atlantic and a safe arrival at their
home in England.
Certain politicians in the States are
striving to usher in the next ['residential
campaign at once, though the election
will not take place till '88. The Current
well says:
"The Uovernraeut is for the people, and if the
people need anything in this world just now,
they need a little time to attend to their personal
business. The politician has had the ear of the
private citizen; now Rive the business man a
chanoe."
The Occident of a recent date says,
"Rev. Dr. Divid Wills, U. S. A., whose rare
ability as a pnblio speaker is well known, is announced to lecture at the Y. M. G. A. Hall for the
benefit of the French church, on the subject,
'Lemuel in neuron of a wife.'
"
Ur. Wills, we are informed, is to be
the guest of Mr. J. T. Waterhouse, Sr.,
of this city next January. We hope the
Doctor will bring Lemuel with him.
Rev. J. A. Cruzan and family left
this city on the 11th ult., and have since
been vacating on Maui. Judging from
our colleague's communication A n these
columns the lines are lallen unto them
in pleasant places," their « goodly heritage being a cool climate, abundant
appetite and required rest.
For exactness and thoroughness Truth
of Toronto is unequaled. Thus :
"
"
"Out of every one hundred and nine female
school teachers," says an exchange, "seven marry
every year." How many times do the remaining
102 marry? Give us all the facta.
As a general Grant was skillful, bold,
cool and patient and all the qualifications
needed by a great commander seemed to
have been united in him.—Bismarck.
Says the Christian lnteUigencer:
Tun Friend of Honolulu reports the annual
The three new pastors
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ordained were graduates of the N. P. M. Institute,
whatever tbnt may mean.
meeting, etc.
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That's the question. The New Preachers Manufacturing or the Not Plentiously
which ? Or if
Moneyed Institute
both, then perhaps some of the wealthy.
Collegiate Church people to whom the
Intelligencer goes might wish, vO endow
It. They certainly couhj not contribute
of their opulence to a nobler cause than
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VACATION NOTES.
this, with the excellent Charles M. j
Vouano Hoisk, Hawaii,
Hyde, D. D., as its presiding head, ty
July 28th, 188/i.
P. M. are in these regions commonly unWe arrived at Hilo by the A'iiiuu at
derstood to stand for NorUi Pacific Missionary, the symlKils at a not remote day one o'clock A. M., July Kith. Though
we trust to be as intelligible to the | it was night there were friends at the
average reader as A. B. C. I'. M. and landing place to welcome us and others.
Judge Lyman was there, Dr. and Miss
similar representations at home.
Wet
more' and with them Miss May
and
to
inform
are
to
learn
glad
We
the readers of Tin: Fiuknd, that Mrs. Atberton of Honolulu. Mr. and Mrs.
offered
Dr. Damon is so much restored In health Luther Severance had generously
under
their
Mrs.Oggel
myself
to
and
to
take
her
return
that we may look for
and to their
Honolulu at an early day. So Mr. E. care during our stay at Hilo
C. Damon tells us, who accompanied his beautiful and comfortable home we were
mother to Massachusetts and who speaks escorted. A pleasant cottage was ready
greatly enjoyed and apof having derived rest and pleasure from for us and we
kind hospitality.
family's
this
preciated
and
the
East.
his stay in California
morning we had the pleasure to
It was as agreeable as it was surpris- In the
Mrs. Furneaux of Honolulu. After
ing to meet on the Kiuau and later in meet
breakfast
the Rev. E. T. Baker, Pastor
this city, people from Michigan, Mr.
the Foreign Church, called with Mrs
of
Baldwin
and
their
chiland Mrs. A. J.
Baker, who kindly took us in their cardren, whose home is in St. John, in riage through Hilo. We visited Prof.
that State. We trust their visit among
Olcsoii and family and were pleased to
relatives and friends on the islands has
shown the well-arranged buildings in
be
been a pleasant one.
which the native boys are receiving an
Mrs. Wallace, wife of the Rev. Geo. education. In this connection we reWallace of this city, went and returned produce the following from Rev. Dr.
by MM Alamtda and reports having had Hyde's report in the Saturday I'resx of
an enjoyable time in San Francisco and July 4th : "The appropriation of $5,000
suburban places.
made at the last session of the LegislaThe Alameda also returned to us the ture hits not been paid, but ought to
Rev. W. C. Merritt, President of Oahu have been long ago put at the disposal
College, and his lady, in improved of the Trustees. It is certain that that
health. On the same steamer came amount of money could nowhere be so
Prof. Geo. L. Bates, to fill the vacancy well applied as at the Hilo Boarding
caused by the resignation of Prof. San- School, in furnishing the additional apford.
pliances now imperatively needed for
Worthily did Professor Sanford All the advancement of the educational inhis position in Oahu College and in the terests of the Hawaiian people."
Bethel Union Church and Sunday school.
It was also our privilege to meet at
We wish him further and increased suc- her home the venerable widow of the
cess in his future fields df labor.
late David Belden Lyman. The years
The Christian Advocate wonders of her life which are many have been
whether Christian churches are aware of full of the nearness and consolations of
the value to themselves of prayer for (iotl and the promise of Scripture is
Missions. Many churches it says, have verified, "It shall come to pass that at
experienced a divine reaction of love evening time it shall be light." In the
dating from the very evening of the afternoon Mr. Baker provided an extra
missionary concert. The way to pros- horse and led the way to the lava flow of
perity is not to spend the time in self- 1880-81. At that time a wonderful
measurement Look up I Look outward! stream of fire which caused the whole
"Go ye into all the world" in your heavens to be illuminated at night ran
onward for fifty miles down toward
pleading supplications I
Maj. H. C. Dane, of Boston, whose Hilo. Standing on this vast field of
travels are co-extensive with this planet solidified lava we saw, what we had
arrived on the 22nd ult., and is the read before, how its proud waves had
guest of Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Damon. been stayed within less than a mile from
Major, we cordially welcome you to our the town and how through the goodness
In the
homes, climate, scenery and all that we of God Hilo had been spared.
weekly
at
the
present
we
were
evening
and
debe
profited
have. We expect to
lighted by your fluent and eloquent ut- hour of prayer. As at Kohala so here
and
terances and we shall endeavor to render also the meeting was one of interest and
we
were
refreshed
and
profit
the
Paciyour stay in this Paradise of
fic so delightful that you will be reluc- strengthened in spirit. After this season of Christian fellowship we met our
tant to leave us.
This for the benefit of our readers in friend James A. Martin, Dr. Kittredge
morning we
America: Instead of going to Europe and others. The following
had made the acwhere
we
left
Hilo
coming
Italy
winter
for
the
air
of
or
this
people.
southern France, or in place of going to quaintance of so many pleasantthat
"at
Florida, come to the Hawaiian Islands, In answer to those who assert record
in
we
always
rains,"
Hilo
it
scenunrivaled for climate and beautiful
ery and look with your own eyes on fl)e honor of the place that we did not en* Volcano of Kilauea, the greatest wonder counter a single shower or drop of rain.
Once fliore we embarked in the Kinau.
In the world,
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Our comfortable state-room was ready
for us. We had a large American mail
and the hours passed swiftly by. Kurly
in the afternoon we reached Keaohou,
the new landing plane to the Volcano.
Here we met for the first time Mr. John
11. Maby, the genial and popular manager of the Volcano House. Mr. Wilder
had kindly arranged that we should stay
here over night which entirely accorded
with our wishes. The next day under
Mr. Maby's guidance we traveled on
horses, the first four miles by a gradual
ascent to the Pali ; thence onward
through a tropical forest full of the ohia
and other trees, many of them in full
blossom, while the road, gradually rising,
is lined on either side with a great variety of large and beautiful ferns. Wo
reached the Volcano House, fourteen
miles from the Keuuhou landing, in
good condition, satisfied beyond anticipation witli the ease and convenience
whereby our journey had been conducted.
During our stay .of twelve days we
made two Volcano excursions and descents into the crater. Both nights the
element! were propitious. The crescent
moon walking in her brightness and the
clustering stars relieved the evening
gloom. The path which we traversed
across the lava beds to the lakes is quite
direct. For three miles we walked over
this lava field where the flow has as> tuned fantastic shapes, at times twisted
together like coils of rope, but inure
often heaped up in petrified waves. We
first came to the so-callel Little Beggar," or as we have since heard it named
I'cle's throat and Tele's chimney,"
the new, small crater on the route to
Haleinaumau. We found it exceedingly
active and the heat of it was intense.
In due time we reached the South lake,
which the natives long ago named
Haleniauinau," the everlasting house,
the abyss in which they were wont to
throw the bones of their chiefs, to the
end, it is said, that no vulgar feet might
ever tread above them. A stupendous
phenomenon to which no language can
do justice, met our eyes. Before us was
the lake, surrounded by almost perpendicular walls, from 100 to 150 feet in
height. These high, bold and irregular
clifls present a strange, picturesque appearance. We found the lake in part
apparently dormant, but at other points
in a state of unwonted activity. The
lava was being constantly thrown up in
jets ; fountains sprang high up and were
perpetually breaking into fiery spray. A
surging mass dashed like surf against
the walls of Haleinaumau, accompanied
by a roaring like the sea. Pele's hair
streamed in the whiffs of rising gas. We
saw fountains playing and rockets throwing sprays high up into the air. The
lake was undergoing a constant change
and to all appearances increasing in activity. Portions at first quiet revealed
commotion and began to throw forth
the lava in fiery fountains and crimson
waves. The view through the opera
glass augmented the grandeur of the
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scene. Frequently the center of the lake
heaved up and tossed up showers of fiery
liquid. It kept bubbling and boiling upward in glowing cascades, at times lighting up the heavens and the sombre surroundings with a peculiar brilliancy and
the eye never grew weary of the sight.
Returning we frequently saw the hot
1 ava through the crevices a few feet
below the surface. We arrived at our
hotel at midnight and after refreshments
had been served we retired to rest.
On a following visit our guide led the
way first to the new lake. When we
reached it its surface was almost entirely
quiescent. We had been waiting on the
bank for perhaps ten minutes and were
preparing to confess to a feeling of disappointment, and thinking there would
he no action we suggested proceeding to
But the guide said,
Haleinaumau.
"Wait!" and scarcely had he spoken
the word when the fiery unrest began.
There was a dull, rumbling sound and a
seething wave spread along the edges of
the lake. Gradually J t broke up. Everywhere appeared golden and crimson
borders of fire piece by piece the old
crust dissolved ; after a great quiet the
whole lake suddenly boiled in every part
and swallowing the black crust a fiery
red soon glowetl over the entire surface ;
the lake burst into mightiest activity, a
seething mass and violently- agitated,
and was then submerged in the now
perfect sea of Are
and boiling upflow
and Same. Electrified we followed with
fascinating eyes the workings of this
surging, tumultuous ocean rtf fire. There
was a roar resembling thunder. The
ebullition of the lioiliiig mass sent up
sounds resembling the waves of the sea
when they break on the shore. The
surrounding walls were brilliant with
the reflection of the burning lava and
the heavens were lit up with wondrous
splendor. The scene was beyond description complete in its awful, terrible
grandeur. We stood before ontMif God's
master pieces. What compared to this
are the designs of Raphael and Michael
Angelo ? Verily, the finished pictures
of the great masters are but feeble imitations of the choice exhibitions of God,
the noblest master.
Relating to these volcanic phenomena
there are among others these questions
that arise in the mind :
How shall we explain the periodical
breaking up of the lakes ?
The most natural theory that has been
suggested and one that seems plausible,
stated in condensed form, is that the
lava is kept liquid by the great quantities of heat that come up from unknown
depths. But the heat of the steam is
inadequate to keep the surface of the
lava from cooling. The result is the
formation of a semi-solid crust. As the
crust takes shape the lava below it
grows hotter. While the crust thickens
and grows cooler the lava underneath
gains intensity of heat. As its intensity
increases the ebullition grows more violent. At length the crust can no longer
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itself a breach is made in the cru*t and
the break up rapidly spreads while the
lava which has been cooled at the surface
descends to lie reinelted, the process repeating itself continually.
Is there any connection between the
craters of Kilauea and those of Mauna
Loa?
(apt. C. E. Button, of the U. S. Geol.
Survey, a high authority by virtue of
his thorough investigation of the subject,
is of the opinion, that the lava reservoirs
of the two localities are not one and the
same, because if such connection existed
the Kilauea craters would at once drain
the reservoir of Mauna Loa down to
their own level. By this theory the
craters are independent of one another
as much so as Mauna Loa and Mauna
Ken, each locality having its own reservoir and wholly disconnected from the
reservoirs of other volcanos even though
these be closely adjacent, ('apt. Button
deems himself strengthened In this view
of the disconnection of the reservoirs of
Kilauea and Mauna Loa because of the
distinct character- of their respective
lavas. He admits however, that the
same cause may act upon both, producing eruptions from both. Thus disturbances in th -craters of Kilauea Save
in some cases been accompanied by great
excitement in Mokuaweoweo, crater of
Mauna Loa, indicating that the cause
which sets the one in motion simultaneously actuates the other.
What is the source or cause of volcanic
heat ?
The thoughts are naturally turned to
the solution of this problem. It is a
well-known fact that the deeper wo
penetrate into the earth the greater are
the degrees of heat. But this leaves the
question still unanswered. It remains
for Science to find the key that shall unlock the mystery to the cause of volcanic
action. If the origin of volcanic heat
could be satisfactorily explained a great
point in knowledge would be gained and
we would have facts in place of opinions
that as yet are tentative and liable to
modification.
We leave this region to-morrow. Our
stay has been restful and invigorating.
The weather, with the exception of the
storm on Sunday, the 26th, has been
pleasant during the day and such at
night that the wood fire was comfortable and homelike. We record our
appreciation of the kindnees and polite
attentions of Mr. J. H. Maby, the courteous and obliging hostof the Volcano
House. While writing we are called
out to the veranda to see the effect of
Haleinaumau on fire, the entire heavens
being brilliantly illumined. The scene
is one never to be forgotten. This locality so replete with interest and instruction is one of the grandest to visit and
will draw we think constantly increasing
numbers of those who desire to see the
mightiest active volcano in the world.
E. C. Oggel.
TOUR BENEATH THE SOUTHERN
CROSS.
BY MERTON RUSSELL COTES.
We left Plymouth November 1, 1884.
We made our voyage in the ship Torrens, with M saloon passengers on board
and after the usual stereotyped run of
weather we arrived in Adelaide on the
24th of Jan., 18H5. We found the beat,
although very dry and oxhilerating, excessive, being sometimes 115° in the
shade and after one week's sojourn left
for Melbourne. We remained visiting
our friends and all the places of interest
in Victoria upwards of two months.
During this time we saw the gigantic
trees in the Black Spur Mountains, Gippslaiul, many of them attaining the immense altitude of 400 to 500 feet and
from 70 to 90 feet in circumference. We
visited the new and most beautiful city
of Ballarat, where we went down the
Last Chance Mine," accompanied by
the directors and managers and my son.
This mine is nearly 500 feet deep and
some ol the cuttings extend from 100 to
150 feet. On ascending we were photographed in a group in mining costume
and presented a most ludicrous appearance. At Warrnambool we saw potatoes
as large as it man's head and weighing
from 8 to 12 pounds each, enough for six
men's dinner. After leaving Melliourne,
which is a very fine modern city of stone
buildings, we arrived at Sydney—quite
an old fashioned English looking town
with tin? finest harbor In the world, and
after sojourning there a fortnight visited
the nine Mountains and that marvelous
engineering wonder the great "ZigZag"
Railroad. The scenery of the Blue
Mountains is altogether so sublime and
grand that I know of nothing at all like
it except Martin's great picture of the
" Plains of Heaven," or some of Gustave
Bore's similar works.
The
Fish
River" Caves in the Blue Mountains are
wonderful, being more beautiful and extensive than the Mammoth Caves of
Kentucky or any other in the known
world.
During our tour through Australia we
were much pained to find how much the
Free Thought movement had taken root
and the hard up-hill tight the Ministers
of the Gospel have before them to combat it. During our stay in Melbourne
one of the judges, Mr. Justice Williams,
published a pamphlet entitled "Religion
without Superstition," wherein he strives
to show that the whole universe is governed by what he calls the
God of
Nature," and that man requires no other
divinity or mediator either as a God or
Savior; that, in short, Nature alone is
our all in all, —the Alpha and Omega of
our own and the world's existence, He
then proceeds to ridicule the New Testament history from beginning to end,
flouts the idea of Christ being God—
man, but nevertheless paradoxically admits that Christ was a
good man."
How a good man could be an Arch-Impostor he fails to explain, and no weaker
point in his pamphlet is more apparent
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than this ! The Trinity Mr. Justice
Williams scoffs at, as being unreasonable
and absurd and altogether inconsistent
with Nature's (the God of feature) laws.
This pamphlet created much excitement
and contention. Many lectures, sermons
and pamphlets were hurled against it,
and with such admirable judgment,
acumen and power that commen sense
could not withstand the irresistible force
of the arguments brought to bear and it
culminated in Mr. Justice Williams'
Religion Without Superstinotorious
tion" becoming a subject for ridicule
except among those whose preconcerted
views were in favor of Free Thought.
I think it only right to add that iv
Auolaide we found little or no Free
Thought movement
compared with
Melliourne, where it unfortunately appears to be the rule, especially among
those who have lieen the most successful.
In fact as they have been prospered so in
proportion do they appear to have forgotten the Hand from which all their
worldly pelf has proceeded. The Almighty
however has been graciously pleased to
show great mercy in this city in providing it with most excellent Ministers of
the Gospel and Servants of Christ. I
would mention two in particular whose;
words were rich in pure simple Gospel
truth, cutting like a two-edged sword
the Rev. T. E. Ick, of the Presbyterian
Church, Albert Bark, and the Rev. Mr.
Hall, Pastor of the Baptist Church, Melbourne,
earnest, conscientious men,
straining every nerve to combat the
baneful effects of the most detestable
movement of modern times
Free
Thought.
We visited Hobart, Tasmania, a charming old English looking town in a lovely
harbor surrounded with grand hills, the
highest (Mount Wellington) forming a
picturesque background for the town of
Ilolurt, nestlingat its feet. The climate
here is of an exceptionally equable temperature throughout theyear,<tay;»nd night,
rarely varying more than 10 degrees in
the 24 hours, and nmging from 50 to 05
during the winter and 70 to 80 in the
summer—the average being about fiO all
the year round. With more energy and
capital Tasmania could be made the
richest and most prosperous colony in
the universe, as certainly it is now one
of the most charming and healthy. After
leaving Tasmania we steamed to the
Bluff, Invcrcargill,the southernmost point
of the Middle Island, of New Zealand,
then on to Port Chalmers and Dunedin,
a purely Scotch settlement with a Mcotch
climate, Scotch mountains, Scotch accent
and indeed everything to remind one of
Lang Syne" and I may. fairly
" Auhl Auld
add
Reekie."
Christchurch,
which Is only one night's steaming from
Dunedin we found equally as intensely
English as Dunedin is Scotch. No
mountains—a flat fertile well wooded
and splendidly watered plain—(the Canterbury Plains, so called after the Canterbury
Pilgrims" or first settlers) the
city itself being in its center with the
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lovely serpantine Avon, with its banks
liiu'd with weeping willows, winding its
way with sparkling and rapid strides in
and out in every direction, bridgeseverywhere, so that within a comparatively
short walk the Avon is crossed and recrossed many times. The streets here
are at right angles and till named after
the different Bishoprics at "Home"—
as England is invariably called throughout the Australian Colonies, and the
citizens seem to partake of the feeling
of intense respectability their streets
ought to inspire, by a demeanor and
general appearance at once proper ami
well-to-do.
Wellington, the Empire City, is the
seat of Government, but has nothing
else to recommend it. Every building
is constructed of wood, even a high pile
of three stories occupied as Government
offices—except the new Post Office which
is exceedingly handsome and built of
stone and concrete. The employees'
lot therein however is not a happy one,
for at any moment an earthquake might
raze the entire fabric to its foundation
and bury everyone within its ruins.
The entire description of this city may
be summed up In my wife's words as
Wet, Windy, Wooden Wellinyton ."'
Our friend Sir Julius Vogel objected to
this as a libel on the place when I suggested that the word Wretched"
should be added to the other appellations. The suggestion was not considered an improvement! To the marvelous wonderland among the Maoris in
the "King Country," I cannot attempt
to do justice. Its hot lakes, geysers,
mud springs, sulphur springs, pits and
holes of roaring, boiling, fretting, fuming steam ; its caldrons of lioiling waters
at 220 degrees Fahr.; its magnificent
and unparalleled alabaster marble, pink
and white terraces, no pen can describe,
no picture can delineate. For further
particulars of this interesting locality and
the remedial and curative properties of
these hot springs of Ohinemutu and Rotoroa I must refer the reader to my
friend Dr. Ginder's (the Government
medical officer) pamphlet. The fair sex
especially ought to be interested in these
marvelous natural hot springs, there
being one named << Madame Rachel"
which has worked the most extraordinary metamorphoses in their personal
charms, giving them soft, velvety and
delicately beautiful skins and complexions. Forchronic rheumatism, gout, skin
diseases and all such kindred affections
these thermal springs possess the highest
reputation throughout the Australasian
Colonies. I have also come in personal
contact with 'hose who have derived
much benefit from a course of these
baths. The distance from Auckland to
Ohinemutu is about 150 miles and is
best made per steamer Clansman from
this port to the charming little town of
Tauranga and thence per coach through
the Oropi Bush. The whole journey is
completed in 24 hours and costs four
pounds for first-class return ticket. From
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Ohinemutu to the pink and white terraces of Rotomabana and back is a distance of al)out 30 miles occupying two
days at a cost of two pounds each person for the return ticket, including
coach, boats, guides and fees. Dv ring our
visit to Wairoa, the stopping place for
Rotomabana, we became acquainted with
Mis. M. P. Snow, of Fitchburg, Mass.,
who had prolonged her sojourn among
the Maoris for upwards of six mouths
under peculiar circumstances. Her .-on
visited this place about two years previous simply as an ordinary tourist in
search of health. He however became
so deeply interested in the natives of
Wairoa that he determined to remain
among them for the sole purpose of
using his influence and example to wean
them from the intemperate habits ho
found them addicted to. They became
deeply attached to him and success attended bis most exemplary and Christian
work. His health still failing he arranged to return home through Europe
and he left Wairoa amid the deepest regrets of the Maoris. His health grew
worse and he finally broke down in the
Red Sea en route for England which
however he was never destined to see.
On bearing of their son's decease, Mr.
and Mrs. Snow determined to visit the
scene of their dear son's good work.
Business matters would not admit of
Mr. Snow accompanying his wife ; she
therefore arranged to make the trip
alone. On her arrival at Wairoa she was
received with delight by the natives and
Sliding how much intemperance still
existed she determined to remain sufficiently long to complete the work her
son had carried on with such signal success. This she did and returned home
in the P. M. S. S. Australia, on the 23rd
of June, 1885, and traveled with Mrs.
Cotes and myself as far as Honolulu
where with sincere regret we had to
part company with her, she proceeding
to Fitchburg, via San Francisco, wo remaining at Honolulu preparatory to our
visit to the Volcano of Kilauea.
One of the gentlemen who came down
to see us off before leaving Auckland by
the Aim/ratia was the Rev. Thomas
Spurgeon. This gentleman has accomplished in Auckland an exceptionally
admirable work in establishing a Tabernacle at a cost of upwards of £14,000,
every penny of which was absolutely
subscribed and paid for before he
preached his first sermon. We visited
his Tabernacle several times during our
sojourn in Auckland and on each occasion
found the place crowded to excess and
many outside unable to obtain admittance.
His eloquence and excellent plain, forcible English reminds me of John Bright,
and in his telling and earnest appeals to
bis congregation one could not help feeling one's spirit refreshed and intensely
gratified with the Gospel of our great
Master as He Himself would wish it
preached. May many earnest Christian
men be grauted to us, who like Mr.
Spurgeon shall serve the Lord in spirit
and in truth.
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ville, the largest sugar mill, or rather I after; Nature's handmaids began to fold
mills, in the world, looks like a rowof up the clouds "like a garment," but the
August lilth, 1885. j
dirty red brick; while Knhului, Wai- folding was poorly done; the Wailuku
TOPOGRAPHICAL.
luku and Waikupu, art; apparently not mountains seemed to be the place where
first
attended
the
so large as the set of toy building blocks most of these "folded garments" were
in
Chautauqua,
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1874, and among the attractions (?) was with which Master Harold is now amus- packed away in great masses pile on pile;
but there was not room enough there for
a miniature Palestine, about half an acre ing himself.
Jordan
about
a
with
a
river
over
the
in extent,
Running the eye
landscape all of them, and so all around the horizon
foot wide, a Lake Gennesaret and a Bead what a panorama of beauty it presents. great straggling piles of them were left.
Sea, and all the towns, cities, valleys, To the east the forest from whence comes The sun dropped low liehind the mountmountains, wadyS, plains, etc., located some of the beautiful woods which those ains, and then came the wondrous gorgproperly, and the country, as it looked to master workmen, Miller and Wicke, of eous tints and vivid coloring. Laid in
the eye in the time of Christ, reproduced Honolulu, transform into such things of upon a background of intense blue were
on a very small scale, as nearly as possi- beauty; eastward lies the undulating reds of all shades, blues, blacks, yellows,
ble. A favorite point of observation was plain dotted with comfortable, hospitable green, lavender, ashes-of-roses—a rioting
Mt. Lebanon, which towered about fifteen homes, and covered with rich cane fields. medley of colors, such as never was seen
feet, its top coated liberally with white- Those thread-like lines are gulches, from on any canvass but Nature's, and were
wash to represent snow. "Thither the 200 to 500 feet deep, and from five rods we to see such cloud and color effects on
tribes went up," and from this "lofty to half a mile across; and anyone of those the canvass of a Ferneaux, or a Strong,
height" all Palestine could be viewed by hills, apparently no larger than the we would assume the severely critical
the eager Bible students. Jerusalem, as mounds thrown up by gophers in the aspect and tone, and say, crushingly,
seen from the top of Lebanon, with its States, would give a leg-wearying climb "Must have hud a bad attack of colorbuilding* only three or four inches high, ere the summit was reached. And nightmare!"
Benj. F. Taylor says "That Nature
did not appear to be "the joy of the what a kaleidoscope of changing variewhole earth;" Jericho's walls seemed so gated colors. The peculiar white-green never puts on as fine robes in the morninsecure that the marvel was, not that of the kukui and tiie darker green of ing as at night, and for the good reason
they fell, but that it was necessary for ! the koa trees, the dark (almost black) that very few people are up to admire
Joshua to compass the city seven times, j green of the eucalyptus, the brilliant red them." Ido not know about that. Her
as once would seem to be enough; while jlof the newly-prepared fields, the bright morning robes are quieter, ns good taste
Samson's feat of carrying off the gates of 'green of tin. growing cane, the dull requires, but are they less beauiiful?
Qan was completely outdone by an in-|I yellow of the newly-cut fields, and all 'lake, for example, a sunrise viewed
from Olinda. The forest lying to the
fantile Chautauquan of four years, who,!'around thesea—the nauseating sea!
in' his play, one day made the "tour of I while floating over all are the clouds, east looks almost black, so dark and dense
is the green, as it lies in the early mornthe Holy Land" alone, and carried off]I with their ever-changing shadows.
ing twilight; here and there, over-hangthe entire city of Samaria, including!
CLOUD-EFFECTS.
Ahab's ivory palace up in the mountains, i When I was a hoy I can recall days ing the landscape below, are small cloudthe young explorer innocently supposing | when I lay prone upon my back, and drifts; great banks of clouds envelope the
the houses to be an improved set of I looked up to the great banks of clouds Wailuku mountains, and hang so low
Crandall's building mocks. I have been which hang so high over the Prairie that they seem to almost touch the houses
constantly reminded of this miniature State, lowa, and I thought it must be a in the little towns. First, there is Just a
Palestine by the outlook from this point, wonderful experience to be "above the tinge of crimson on the highest cloudof vantage, 4,000 feet up on the slope of clouds." That experience has been ours bank which envelope the central peak.
Mt. Ilaleakala, where the Cruzan family now for about a week. And how coquct- Look eastward; slowly the sun creeps up,
have been vacating for the past week. ishly changeful the clouds are! Great and lot the forest is transfigured, and
The view is wonderously beautiful. At banks of clouds lie piled upon Haleakala; emerges like a smiling rosy child from
our backs the old mountain, rambling, from the main body a thin, filmy mass, its morning bath, a thing of beauty
clambering up, up, up, (1,000 feet higher; like a line of skirmishers, will be sent bathed in light, and the cloud-drifts are
at our feet Makawao and Haiku, and the down, will advance, then retreat, then transformed into pillars of fire." Look
six-mile-broad plain which unites East advance, and suddenly disappear; then westward; all the great cloud-bank is
and West Maui, one of the finest cane a larger cloud, like a troop of cavalry, aglow, while the sun's rays, striking undistricts in the world; while still further will swoop around to our left, and circling der it and through it, light up every
beyond are the Wailuku mountains, with around the point of a little ridge, will little, clean, rain-washed valley and ridge,
their beautiful valleys, sharp, blade-like rush into the deep gulch upon which our and spur, till the mountain range looks
foot-hills, or spurs, and their jagged areata front door opens, and there "go into like a veritable fairy-land! No, there is
thrust up into the clouds five or six camp;" anon, a great rain-cloud drifts no such rioting of colors" in the mornthousand feet, while all around is the down, overhangs Olinda, and discharges ing picture, but is it less beautiful? I
purple sea (the treacherous, sickening its liquid freight, while we look through cannot tell.
HALEAKALA.
sea)! And now 1 feel a twinge of con-, rtlie rain and a little way below see the
We get a very fine view of Haleakala
science as I recall some irreverent jokes landscape bathed in sunlight; or, the
and comments upon the Chautauqua process is reversed—the .block cloud this morning," said Hon. John H. Paty
Palestine, at which I laughed heanily sweeps far down below us, leaving Olinda to me three years ago, as we stood on
years ago. Perhaps the? landscape gard- in the sunlight, while it discharges its the deck of the Likelike in Maalaea.Bay.
ener who made it "builded better" than moisture on the cane-fields below, and "Where is it?" "Right there, across
the jokers knew, for, as I write, I look we look witli wonder into its black the bay." "That Haleakala! Why I
down, and everything is in miniature. depths, or over it and beyond it upon thought it was 10,000 feet high. That
But
The great, rambling Makawao Boys' the sea (the eructating, troubled and looks no higher than Punchbowl!"
School building (a school no longer, but troublesome sea!) bathed in sunlight, and that is Haleakala, and it is 10,000 feet
the hospitable home of Mrs. Charles looking as peaceful as if it never caused high." And so I found it a few weeks
later when I came to make the ascent.
Alexander and her mother, Mrs. Thnrs- a moments' uneasiness.
ton,) looks to be about five feet high; the
Beautiful sunsets?" Yes, indescrib- As I toiled up, up, up, plying whip and
Makawao Girls' School, a still larger able in their beauty. Last Sunday (Aug. spur, and still up hour after hour, and
building, but farther down, looks smaller 16th,) it began to rain in the afternoon; there seemed no end to the old mounstill; the massive and symmetrical chim- the whole horizon was overcast, and for tain's upness, had any one told me
ney, which has stood for so many years hours we were shut in by the steady that it was 20,000 feet high I should
awaiting the sugar mill which has never down-pour. About 5 o'clock there were have believed him. Of the wondrous
c ome, looks like a pipe-stem; Spreckels- rifts in the clouds; the rain ceased soon crater nineteen miles in circumference
CORRESPONDENCE.
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nnd 2,000 feet deep; of the unsurpassed
from the summit, in which "all
HAWAIIAN BOARD
Bribe? Then why should I bore the
patient, longsuffering public with another description of them?
CHINESE MISSION NOTES.
Volume 4.1, No. 9
of the Chinese Mission for a long time to
procure a suitable man for this portion of
HONOLULU, H. I.
the field, and he has at last been able to
le kingdoms of the world," including
on
sitting
can
of
its
rug- Thin pace is devoted to the interests of the Hawaiian secure the services of a worthy man, who
ahu,
be seen;
Hoard of Mission*, ami (lie Kditnr, appointed hy the has been for some years in the employ of
ed peak as on an island, shut in by
Hoard, i- responsible for its contents.
one of the German Missions in Southern
ouds, with apparently no world heChina, and who has lately come to these
Bath you, and only Heaven, and the OFFICERS OF THE BOARD FOR
1885-6. Islands
with his wife. He has already
!'iiks of Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea
A X* Jt'DD
President begun his labors in Kauai, under the sutoveyoujof its trophies of silver swords Hon.
llon. 11. Wate«hoithe
...Vice-President
ftoOordtßjl errriaiy pervision of Rev. Dr. Smith of Koloa.
re not all these fully and graphically lie v. 0, M. Hyde. 1) D
Corresponding Secretary
ISkv. A. <>. K-ntBRB
listen jn that wonderful "Book of w.
Tr*a»un r There are many and gVeat dfficulties in
W Ham
Alldl Id! his work among his countrymen, and the
hronicles" of which Isabella Bird is P. C. -IONKS. .11l
liew
lOM.APODBIDA.
•I have been asked the meaning of
'Olinda." I do not know what the
«>oks give, hut I know what it means to
ne: Blessed rest for weary nerves and
>mln; Solitude, and seclusior., and abence from
the madding crowd;" the
nercury down to 50° and a fire night
lid morning; pure air, sunshine, and
•ozone;" blackberries by the half acre
and the patent pail full; a place in
which to wear old clothes, have a shave
but once a week, and to look so much
like a cow-boy that wheH I make a
raid for supplies on the settlements below
no one suspects me of lieing a minister.
That is not a short definition, but it is a
"
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tme one.
iCapt.
Button is reported to have said
That the Haiku and Makawao districts
IB the nearest his ideal of an earthly
anulise of any place he had ever seen."
ii far as the country is concerned I have
different ideal of paradise, but the hositaUe, large hearted, generous people
who live in the Haiku and Makawao
distrirts deserve lioth an earthly paradise,
.and one in the life to come. Their gen,erous thought fulness for me and mine
has a fair record in our book of remembrance."
The pastorless Makawao church pluckily continues its Sunday School, which
is doing good work, and they have public worship whenever they can capture
a minister. lam to have the privilege
•of supplying the pulpit during my stay
on Maui.
What kind of a trip did we have to
Maui ?" To me one of the most suggestive touches in St. John's word picture
•of Heaven is this: "There shall be no
more sea!" And when 1 think of our
ireturn trip I lament deeply the failure
of "Darius Green and his Flying Machine."
J. A. CRUZAN.
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GRANT'S RESTING PLACE.
Nor wreck, nor change, nor Winter's blight,
Nor Time's remorseless doom
Shall dim the r*v of holy light
That gilds his glorious tomb.
Christian at Work.
—
On the evening of Mrs. J. M. Oat's
arrival from California a pleasant surprise
party was given to her. A number of
guests were present, and the ever radiant
Mr. Oat did the honors of his house in
his genial style. A most enjoyable evening was spent by all those who were
present.
BY F. WILLIAMS DAMON.
To the readers of the Fkiknd in former
years, the name of Sit Moon, the Chinese
preacher and missionary, was a familiar
one, as that of a most faithful and devoted christian worker. The announcement of bis recent death at Kohala,
Hawaii, will be received with sincere
sorrow by many who knew and valued
him highly. He was a man of sterling
character, remarkable executive ability
and most sincere and unassuming piety.
In the early years of missionary effort
among the Chinese in Honolulu and in
other parts of these Islands, he labored
with the greatest zeal and enthusiasm in
the organization of the work, and instructed many of the agencies which are
now in active operation for the spiritual
and temporal benefit of his countrymen
in the group. He was converted in California and was first connected with the
Presbyterian Mission Church of San
Francisco, and labored as a colporteur in
the service of that mission, with much
acceptance. He left behind him a high
reputation on the coast as a devoted
christian worker. He came first to these
Islands in 1875, under the auspices of
the Y. M. C. A. of Honolulu, anil ut once
began his laborsheretimongtheCliine.se.
He gave from the first great satisfaction
and won the confidence of all those with
whom he came in contact. Interesting
notices of the beginning of his work will
be found in the Fhiiond of that year.
He visited different parts of the Islands,
and continued the wor.k begun in Honolulu. He was one of the leaders in the
organization of the Chinese Church in
Honolulu, and was the first acting pastor
of the same, and held this position for
several years. For some time past he
has resided In Kohala with his family.
Though of late not engaged in active
missionary effort, he has thrown his influence a I way*, upon the right side. He
was at the time of his death connected
with the Kohala Chinese Church. After
a faithful and earnest life he has entered
upon his eternal reward. His name will
long l>e remembered with reverent affection by the Christian Chinese for whom
he labored with so much zeal. Appropriate memorial services were held in
the Chinese Church, of this city, last
Sabbath.
After a i>eriod of one to two years, missionary effort has been resumed among
the Chinese in the Island of Kauai. It
has been the aim of tin■ Superintendent
prayers of christians are earnestly solicited for him that God will be pleased to
bless his efforts.
There areat present fiveChinese preachers actively at work in these Islands, one
at Kohala, Hawaii; one at Hilo; one on
the Island of Maui; one on Kauai, and
one in Honolulu. These with two Chinese teachers in the boys' and girls'
schools in Honolulu, make up a company
of seven assistants.
The work among the Chinese in Hilo,
owes much to the earnest and self-denying efforts of Mr. W. S. Terry of that
place. He has for several years devoted
himself with great enthusiasm to the
spiritual elevation of tl»e Chinese in
Hilo and the adjoining country, as lie
has had opportunity and has been most
successful in winning the affection and
confidence of those with wi.oni he has
come in contact. For some time he has
acted as superintendent of the Chinese
Sunday School held in the Foreign
Church. He has aapuired some knowledge of the language, anil we trust he
will continue his studies in this direction.
Recently he has made quite a missionary
tour with the Chinese preacher, .Mr.
Wang Pang, now stationed in Hilo, visiting all the most Important points along
the road from Hilo to Waipio Valley.
We wish that it was possible to give in
full his very interesting letter descriptive of this tour, but our limited space
forbids, and we are obliged to content
ourselves with ihe mention of one or
two items. They were received most
kindly by both Chinese and Japanese, at
the different plantations. At Pepeekeo
and
Laupahoehoe especially opportunity
was given to meet quite a large number
of Chinese. At Paauilo they were most
hospitably entertained by a Chinese shopWhen they came to leave, be insisted upon the travelers taking each a
package of coin. "We tried to refuse
lint it was no use. He said he wanted
to pay expenses. We took it and found it
to be $8 for each which has more than
paid all expenses." At another point
they were pleased to find a Chinese Sunday School conducted by Mr. Puty and
his wife. Tracts were distributed all
along the way among the Chinese and
Japanese. The letter abounds in interesting and encouraging incidents, and
the two missionaries felt that their time
was not in vain. After being absent
about t,wo weeks, they returned to Hilo.
God grant that the seed thus sowu may
spring up and bear abundant fruit.
ikeeper.
September, 1885.
9
THE FRIEND.
the mind, —hut In worshiping God "in who can meet on Thursday neon of each
spirit and in truth" in the place of public week at \i:-i\ for thirty minutes comworship in private communion, and in munion with the Master.
ThU pafS I* devoted to the IBterMtl of tb« llono ulii the study of his word.
ITEMS.
Yonn; Han's christian Vunelsttoo,wi4 Ihs Bosri
Such a use of the Lord's Day places
of Directors »re responsible for ils conlents.
There seems to be quite an interest
any young man upon a vantage ground,
Editor. as he enters upon the duties of the fol- awakened in the States, in the matter of
S. ( Fuller.
lowind days, with a refreshed body, an Y. M. C. A. Buildings. The necessity
FATHER'S GIFTS.
conscience, anil the realiza- of every Association having its B>wn
approving
It is always a source of pain to a true tion that in Jesus Christ he has a per- permanent home is becoming more and
parent to feel that the most precious gifts sonal friend and Saviour.
more apparent.
of parental love tire Uglily esteemed by
We are pleased to learn that the Oak•'Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth;
the child, or to see that their superior and ltd thy heart cheer thee in the days land, Cal. Association is making a vigwisdom in the appointed use of tiie same of thy youth, and walk in the ways of orous and hopeful effort to secure a
is also wholly disregarded.
thine heart, and in the sight of thine building of their own. That city of
If this lie painfully true in the expe- eyes: but know thou, that for all these beautiful homes, should add one more to
rience of the earthly parent, what must things God will bring thee into judg- their number, and that a Home for their
Young Men's Christian Association. We
be the feeling of our Heavenly Father ment.
who in his infinite love and tenderness,
wish them speedy success and think
GOSPEL SONG SERVICE.
has added to the gift of life the provithey would do well to send their General
This Service is held at 6:30 every Sun- Secretary down to examine the Honosions calculated to secure its highest development and happiness, when he sees day evening, and while very interesting lulu Y. M. C. A. Building before drawing
THE
Y. M. C. A.,
HONOLULU, H. I.
D.
so many of his children thus gloriously
endowed, disclaim his authority and
prostitute his gifts.
Next in point of value to life itself
and the faculties of our being is the gift
of time.
Infinite wisdom has indicated to us its
proper use, with a promise of results harmonious with the best and highest interests of life.
Six days for lalwr and recreation, for
the pursuit of that which applies more
directly to present earthly needs and
comforts. One day for rest and worship,
devoted more especially to he interests of
mind and spirit. Seven days for varied
activities. Seven nights for healthful
refreshing sleep.
Young Man—does personal experience
or history any where tell, that you can
improve upon the divine plan ? Many
have tried their hand at it, with results
varying only in degree, all the same in
kind.
We want to kindly ask the young man
of Honolulu who reads this page, if you
are in any degree reversing this divine
order of things ? If so, Beware !!
We have seen it tried, the results
were not encouraging.
We have known young men to pass
the six days given for honest toil in idleness, or in painful labor because the
night had been spent in riotous dissipipation.
We have known young men of promise posessing a keen sense of right,
would scorn a mean thing, and yet allowed themselves to be inveigled into an
unprofitable and unholy use of the Lord's
Day. This proved to be the pivotal
point in life, on which their future turned downward, instead of upward.
Nothing can be more desirable for a
young man than a knowledge of the
right, a sensitive conscience to apply the
same, and a strong will that holds on until duty is performed.
These valuable qualities of young manhood are best developed not by spending
theLord's Day in idle lounging in boating, in picnicing, or any other purely
worldly and selfish amusement, where a
reverential thought of God never enters
in the past, yet there is room for improvement.
If a larger number of young men
would occupy their poition of the time
in brief prayer or testimony it would be
of incalculable value to themselves, and
also give more variety and spirit to the
their plans.
Messrs. Atherton and Jones have returned from California, and bring an
encouraging report of the good work
going on in the San Francisco Association. Thirty-five young men requested
prayers at the close of one service.
meeting.
Surely the Master is blessing Secretary
We need to use all proper means, and McCoy and his co-workers.
in the most affective manner in winning
MONTHLY NOTES.
young men to the Savior.
A powerful agency to this end, is the
The monthly meeting was well atearnest practical testimony of a Christian tended, considering so many are away
young man, who having tried the way from the city. The reports showed there
of life
is able to speak from personal had been, as follows:
experience of its blessed superiority over
Two Business Meetings and one Social
all others ways.
Reception.
Words of lovo and gratitude, the fruit
Five sessions of the Young Men's
of a consecrated life will melt their way Bible Class.
into the hardest heart, and beget in it a
Five Gospel Song Services.
desire to know the Savior oi men.
Five Temperance Meetings.
My young friend, for the sake of your
Twenty-two Noon-day Meetings.
own soul, prosperity, and the good you
General Secretary had attended fiftymay do to others, cultivate the life whose three religious meetings, and made 70
fruitage shall be such a testimony, and calls.
then speak it out in our Sunday evening
One hundred and sixty-two papers
service, and in your own church prayer given away.
meeting, for—"Ye are my witnessess
One thousand one hundred and sixtysaith the Lord."
eight visitors, according to Janitor's record (which is not full).
NOON-DAY MEETING.
Three new members were admitted.
The lecture of Mr. Arthur Brown on
During the visit of Mr. McCoy last
April he inaugurated a daily meeting in the great Yellowstone Park," drew a
the Association rooms, which has been fine audience to the Y. M. C. A. Hall on
continued ever since until August 13th, the 21st. The instructiveand interesting
when it was voted to discontinue it, ex- chararter of the lecture held the close
attention of the hearers to the close. It
cept on Thursdays until October Ist.
The necessity for this change is the was in every way a success.
temporary absense from the city of a
LECTURES.
large number who were constant attenA rare treat is in store .for the citizens
dants and important supporters of the
of Honolulu.
service.
The Entertainment Committee have
Unlike many other cities we have very
few men of leasure or transient visitors arranged with Major H. C. Dane, of
to assist in supporting a daily meeting. Boston, to give three of his most popular
It has been sustained principally by lectures before returning to the States,
Having beard the eloquent lecturer on
business men who so planned business as
to get a half hour for waiting upon God, several occasions, the writer is prepared
and returned to business conscious of from personal knowledge to speak in
"renewed strength" according to the highest commendation of the proposed
lectures.
promise in Is., 40:31.
Particulars will appear in daily papers.
We shall hope to resume the meetings
First lecture, the second week in Sepin full the Ist of October, and during the
interval let all the members and friends stember.
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10
EDUCATION.
and of all
We Invite the co operation of teaeherß.
to make this page
frienda of cdncallon. In the effort
stimiilatiiii;.
of Ths Kiubkd really valuable und
Communications should be sent to Key. William 11.
Oleson, Hilo, Hawaii.
Wm. B. Oleson
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Editor.
CHILD-LABOR IN HAWAII.
Lalx>r problems are at once the most
intricate and the most urgent that press
for public atttention ; and their urgency
and intricacy are not diminished by
the alarming prevalence of child-labor
even in most favored lands. In the
United States in 1880, the number of
boys under sixteen years, and of girls
under fifteen years who were wage-receivers was 1,118,000, an increase of GO
per cent, in a single decade. "In twelve
leading mechanical industries, women
and children compose a fair majority,
and in some important cases have an almost absolute monopoly of labor as
against men." A residentin theanthracite coal regions of Pennsylvania was
led to an inquiry into the employment of
children in the mines by having noticed
a boy of six and a half years regularly
accompanying his father to work. He
found "that boys of from six to fourteen
years earned forty-five cents per day at
picking slate ; of these there are thousands at work. The labor of driving
mules in the slopes and gangways is performed by boys between the ages of
eight and sixteen at about sixty cents a
day. At the tender uge of seven, boys
are taken down to work on night shifts
with their fathers. On day shifts these
boys leave home at six o'clock in the
morning and often do not reach home
again until seven in the evening. Under
the surface, at the depth of from 200 to
700 feet, breathing in the dampness, the
poisonous gases of the coal and powdersmoke, they tire doomed to hard labor as
if they were working out the penalty of
some unpardonable crime." This is little better than the condition of England's
laboring population at the opening of the
century.
The employment of child-labor in
Massachusetts has undoubtedly had much
to do with furnishing thatcommonwealth
with its 75,000 illiterates over the age of
ten. The factories and mines are usurping the prerogatives of the school in
citizen-making and are turning out
voters as poorly equipped for the duties
of citizenship as the minerals and textile
fabrics that pass through their bauds.
Unreasoning illiteracy was at the bottom
of all the violence and bravado in the recent strike of iron-workers at Cleveland.
What is in store for the great Western
nation that is thus allowing one in every
fifty of its population to grow up physically, mentally, and morally unfit for
citizenship only the inevitable labor
complications of the future can reveal.
But the problem is a pressing one here
in Hawaii. Large numbers of Portuguese boys under twelve years of age
work regularly on the plantations. The
Volume 43, No. 9
ISLAND TEXT BOOKS III.
For the peculiar work most of our
teachers have in hand, so much can be
said against the geographies now in use
among us that it is difficult to think of
anything that can be said in their favor.
They are microscopically minute in the
attention they give to local American
Hawaiian children, and
geography.
Portuguese as well, must learn about
Bmttlohoro, and Katahdin, and Monongahela, and Yankton, and Winnipiseogee,
etc., before they learn anything about
such a land as China, or Australia, or
even England and Germany. Again,
being meant for American children, and
being prepared for the laudable purpose
of making American children thoroughly well-acquainted with their own country, it is not surprising that, in three
different geographies, the amount of
space.devoted to the United States is
respectively 31 per cent., 32 per cent.,
and M per cent, of the whole. This is
an unnatural percentage Of minute study
of the local geography of a foreign country for Hawaiian school-children to havo
set before them as a task. It is a mass
of meaningless information that discourages teacher and pupil alike ; and is
the occasion, not Infrequently, of a total
collapse of the study of geography in
some of the schools.
But this local coloring of the geographies affects the structure of the
maps, and while the map-work of some
geographies has well-nigh obtained
perfection, so far as the instruction of
American children is concerned, it is
obvious that such minuteness is a serious obstacle to the comprehension of a
given map by the majority of our pupils.
Why sliouM our Island children who are
acquiring English, be compelled to learn
the Uuited States by states and territories rather than as a unit. How enjoyable it was for boys in primary and grammar school grades in America, twenty
years ago, to learn the names and location of all the petty German States! The
Franco-German War was a blessing to
Yankee boys for it blotted out the fashion-plate markings of Central Europe
and left them a single great nation to
study.
It would be an inestimable
blessing to Hawaiian children if the
State lines could be sponged out of maps
of the United States, and some of the
lakes and riven could be evaporated,
and some of the capes and mountains
could be robbed of their names, and
seventy-five per cent, of the State capitals could be obliterated.
And what is true of the United States
in these particulars, is just as true of
every nation. For use here, all the geographies that have come to our attention
sadly need compressing. It must not be
forgotten, that, for the present decade at
least, English language instruction must
occupy the foremost place in most of outschools. In very few schools does it
getting.
occupy anywhere near the promineut
A good educational system is a chief place that the exigencies demand. In
factor in tno national well-being.
order that more may be done with
teachers of our schools have the greatest
difficulty in securing the attendance of
Portuguese l>oys who are able to carry a
pail of water, or handle a light hoe. In
some cases large numbers of Portuguese
boys are enrolled as being in attendance
at certain schools when they are regularly at work on some neighlioring plantation. It would lie a revelation to the
public if reliable statistics could be published showing the number of boys and
girls under fourteen who are regularly
employed in the various industries of
Hawaii nei.
The law looking to the compulsory
attendance of all children of a suitable
school-age would seem to be sufficient in
securing its object. The fact that it is
not is due to several reasons. In the
first place, the teacher in a given district
has the greatest difficulty in securing an
accurate enrollment of children of a
school-age in the district. In many instances the enrollment is only of such as
have actually presented themselves at
the school-house. If it were made obligatory on all employers of labor to return
semi annually a list of all children of
their employees, under sixteen years of
age, a great step would he taken towards
the accurate and complete enrollment of
school-children. Of course, without such
an enrollment only a partial attendance
can be counted on, In some school-districts there are probably scores of children
whose names have never been on a school
record.
Again, so long as employers of labor
are allowed to draw children away from
school by offering wages for their work,
the cupidity of illiterate parents will find
ways of evading the school-law. Many
employers of labor would be glad to
have a law enacted making ii a punishable offence for employer and parent
alike, within certain limitations, to induce children of school-age to go to work
instead of going to school. Undoubtedly
child-lalxir is a valuable element in the
lalior necessities of our moat important
industry. In many forms of light work,
a child can drop into a man's place and
release him for heavier work much to
the profit of the employer. Hut not to
the profit of the common welfare ! Illiteracy lias no more terrible curses than
for the employer of labor. An elementary education that inculcates obedience
to law, respect for authoriry, and a community of interest, is the employer's
best safe-guard for the future. Childlabor everywhere shortens life, vitiates
the constitution, predisposes to disease,
invites intemperance, and fosters criminality. It is incumbent on onr Christian
community for otherthan mere utilitarian
reasous to restrict, so far as possible, the
pernicious practice of employing children
in the various industries when they should
be at school. The littleold faces of childlaborers among us appeal to us for more
of the privileges of life than they are
greatest ease in this direction, a reformed
THE CHURCHES.
geography is needed in the schools.
The process of acquiring English is such THE BETHEL UNION CHURCH.
a labored one that it is Imperative that
AUGUST—SEPTEMBER.
the body of valuable information to lie
four weeks of rest and enjoyAfter
Imparted in our schools should be so ment on
Hawaii, the Pastor and wife
compressed as to bring a large percentage
7th. On the Sabbath
August
returned
within the reach of all our pupils who
preached
attend school a reasonable length of tune, following (the 9th), the Pastor
sermon, having comanniversary
'an
to
an
our
objection
tiuite as serious
his ministry in this city, August
popular geographies as any thus far ; menced
During this first year, 31
named is, that the English used in the 10th, 1884.
have
united
with
the church, 18 on protext is non-colloquial and very difficult fession of their faith
and 13 by letter.
for children to comprehend. At HampThe
Lord's
will be administered
Supper
it
is
found
that
those
Indians
who
ton
on Sunday morning the oth inst.
are somewhat advanced in their knowlhave much difficulty
edge of English
On Tuesday evening, the Bth, the offiin gaining ideas by themselves from cers and teachers of the Sunday School
geographies, even from the simplest ! will meet at the Pastor's residence, Nuutext books that can be found. What anu Avenue.
would be perfectly intelligible to our
The following subjects are announced
children is simply Greek to them, the for Wednesday evenings:
words not being those they would com2 —Preparatory Lecture.
monly use." Within the compass of
9—Monthly Concert—Home Missions.
three pages in what is confessedly one
16—Meditating on God—Ps. 104:34.
occur
these
of our best geographies,
Men—l Jno. 2:14.
23—Young
three different forms of expressing the
30—The Inquiring Soul—Job 23:3.
same thought.
North America comprises" etc.; "Our country embraces,"
In the absence of J. A. Cruzan, Pastor
etc.; and "Our country is divided into," of Fort Street Church, the pulpit was
etoaj Why not adopt the latter form filled August 16th and 23rd by the Rev.
which is intelligible, and abandon the Isaac Goodell of Honokaa, Hawaii, and
embrace* which has another primary lust Sabbath by Rev. Dr. Hyde.
signification, and the comprises which a
EDITOR'S TABLE.
child can be excused for not -knowing.
And so the text is thickly studded with
« Kamahamkha; The Conquering
occupy for live in, flourish for grow well, Kino," a romance of Hawaii, by C. M.
extensive for large or wide, terminates for Newell.—C. P. Putnam's Sons, Publishends, section for par/, /rarersc for cross, ers, New York and London.
indented for cut, chiefly for mostly, etc.
The author of this work is a Boston
Then there are awkward idiomatic ex- gentleman, who has succeeded in propressions which could quite profitably ducing a very readable and interesting
give way to terser statements, as, for book. "The greater part of this RoNorth America lies in the mance " says Mr. Newell is a truthful
instance,
western hemisphere
might better be, narrative or the real history of this most
"North America is in the western remarkable of Polynesian Kings, We
hemisphere"; "What mountains pass have held strictly to all known records
What of history." A glossary of Hawaiian
through
might better be
mountains cross." Instead of
Agri- names and phrases is found at the close.
culture is the chief occupation of the The work is by permission dedicated to
inhabitants" which children might learn H. M. Queen Kapiolani with kind Aloha
but not understand, why not say, "Most to herself and her sunny isle.
of the people are farmers" which chil"Oue Horne —or, the Key to a Noble
dren would readily understand and so
by C. A. Sargent, A. B."
Life,
not need to learn. If we could sit in
An excellent book, beautifully bound,
the children's places, we should not long containing 43 chapters on themes relatwonder why they find so difficult, things
ing to the Home. Among these subthat are plain as day to us, or why find- jects
are: Influences of Home, Training,
ing things so difficult they make so little Amusements,
Manners, etc. There is
progress oftentimes in gaining the most a
of introduction by Mrs. Garfield,
letter
elementary knowledge from geographies.
in which she says,"The true home is
Since our first arrival a little more the great school in which the hope for
than a year ago no lecture has been so humanity lies."
For this book Mr. Wm. Clark is the
largely attended at the Y. M. C. A.
Hall as was that by Mr. Arthur Brown agent on these Islands.
of England, on the Yellowstone Park,
The Annual Report (the 14th.) of
a lecture that commanded close attention the Woman's Board of Missions for the
and gave general satisfaction.
Mr. Pacific Islands "is also before us. It is
Brown was the guest of Mr. P. C. Jones full of interesting matter, and precious
during his stay among us.
for its memorial tributes to Mrs. Smith.
It should have a wide circulation.
A western paper in describing an
accident says : "Dr.
was called,
Of Grant it may truly be said :
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ment the man died on Wednesday night."
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Father Lennore. Henry Davis to Miaa Nora Hpking,
I'oth of Honolulu.
HLAISDELL-HIHUIKS—In Honolulu, July 27th,
1885, at the re*ldonce of the bride* parent*, by the
HVv. Alexuudor Mackintosh. Mr J hn L. Hlaibdkll,
of Kohala, Hawaii,.to Mi** Matilda, necond daughter
or Thomti* Hughe* E*q.. of this ctty,
MAY—In Honolulu, ut the residence of her brother,
July Wih. 1885. Kate, fourth daughter of the late
Thomas May, of New«rk-on-Trent, England, and beloved eUI'T of T. May, Honolulu,;.ij<-d 25 year*.
ECKHAKDT- it Honolulu. July 27th, 1885, of fever
Albert luKiiAiiPT aged 2 year- and Hi month*.
BIRTHS.
In Honolulu, on Jnly 27ih, 1885, to the wife of F. H.
Hayeelden, E*q., a daughter.
In tin* city, AtiL'nM Srd, 1886, to the wife of K. O.
White, a fun.
DEATHS.
FOSTER-WINTKK-lr. Honolulu, August 4th. 1888,
l>y ihe Kev.Geo. Wallace, Mauy K. Wintir und William !''ot*TKß.
NOIiHIK--KIUIIAUnsON—At W»llc«pr„ Maul, on
Aiittiim Ktli. 18HB. ai tho reaidenc>> of Thou. W. Everett,
by Rev. Jan. M. Alexander. Mr. Edxond N'omuic. of
Honolulu, lo Mahia li.au Ricuabuson, of Walkupu,
.Maui.
Jo.MRS—At Lahalna, Maui, July Sflth, 1885, at the
family residence, Mrc. Mart Susan Jones, aged about
'-.I yean?. Deceased wa» born at Walkapu, East Maul,
in
1866
MOKFATT—At Philadelphia, July 19th, IRB\ of con-
sumption. A. W. MorrATT, late flr>t assistant engineer
of steamship Mariposa. igedH3 years and 1 month.
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street. This lariro urea affords Ample room for
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GENERAL GRANT.
Ulysses S. Grant, the most illustrious
soldier of the sacred cause of union and
liberty and the most famous figure of
our epoch is dead. After a long continued and distressing illness which has
served to reveal more fully how endeared
lie was to the American people, the hero
has passed away. A thrill of sorrow has
gone through the heart of the great
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honored citizen. On these faraway Islands of the sea our hearts too have been
touched and the tidings have stilled us
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"There's a divinity that shapes our ends."
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proved equal to the occasion.
The patriotic spirit with which he
went into the war is shown in a letter
which in April of 1801 he wrote to Gen.
Dent of St. Louis, which has only recently been made public, and in which
he says: "Now is the time, particularly
in the border and slave States, for men
to prove their love of country," and also,
"President Lincoln can have not only
seventy-five thousand, but two millions
of men, if necessary, to put down the rebellion."
He went to the field at the head of a
regiment and by the unseen hand of God
was led on to rise by merit to the foremost rank in the army and in time to
assume full command.
It needed only the touch of opportunity
to reveal the elements of his character
and the possibilities within him. Under
God ho became not only the chosen but
also the victorious leader of our armies
in the struggle to save the imperiled
Union. To his prowess in the field the
National capital owes its existence and
are we indebted for the preservation of
Constitutional liberty. His sword was
drawn for theperpetuity of the American
Republic. It was Grant who not only
prevented the severance of the Union,
but to him the great Rebellion finally
laid down its arms. For his distinguished services he will he honored as long as
the annals of the Republic endure and
his memory kept green in the hearts of
his countrymen. His military fame
rests on the solid foundations of a great
achievement, for he did the work which
the Nation with prayer and expectant
hope committed to his trust. Hebecame
the "saviorof the Country." And to him
did not only his own land but all the
crowned heads of other lands do honor.
The Republic was established on firmer
foundations. Our country came out of
the fiery trial purer and stronger, with a
better future before it and to be more
than ever the land of the free and the
home of the brave."
The name of General Grant, who came
out of the great struggle a successful
commander, will be embalmed in the
National history and fill a place in the
annals of the world. His character and
achievements should serve asan example
and an inspiration to young men, to devote their energies to duty and the weal
of others; and lead those whom God has
placed in high and responsible positions,
regardless of self or personal ambition, to
stutly and promote the best interests of
the people, that their praise may be on
the lips of nifMi and at their departure
they may leave behind the memory of a
good name.
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DR. S. IRENÆUS PRIME.
The hand which but a short time ago
penned the beautiful and touching tributes la the New York Observer, in memory of Dr. Damon and Mrs. A. W. Smith,
will write no more. For Iren.eus has
entered into rest. How soon he has followed his Sandwich Island friends to join
with them the company of the redeemed
in the better land! More than threescore years and ten were allotted him,
and now as we take a review of Dr.
Prime's life, it seems that through the
whole of that life the spirit ot our Lord
was his: "I must work the works of
Him that sent me, while it is day; the
night cometh when no man can work."
For nearly half a century his name has
been identified with the widely circulated
Observer, and with the civilizing and
uplifting causes of education, philanthropy and religion.
A busy, useful,
widely influential life has been that of
Dr. Prime. And, thank God, that influence abides. Though being dead, he
will continue to speak through his forty
books and the unnumbered lives, and
institutions and enterprises on which
through all these years he has brought
his powerful influence to bear. We shall
Irenwus Let'
ter." His pen and presence will be
missed in the religious world. But the
great lesson illustrated by his example
remains—to do with our might the work
of life and to prepare for the call of God,
"Come up hither."
greatly miss the weekly
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We had the pleasure at the Volcano
House to make the acquaintance of. Mr.
and Mrs. Merton R. Cotes, of Bournemouth, England.
Our readers will
doubtless peruse with interest the article
on Australian matters, written by Mr.
Cotes for this number of The Friend.
Mr. and Mrs. Cotes are probably at this
time in New York City. We wish them
a prosperous and pleasant voyage across
the Atlantic and a safe arrival at their
home in England.
Certain politicians in the States are
striving to usher in the next ['residential
campaign at once, though the election
will not take place till '88. The Current
well says:
"The Uovernraeut is for the people, and if the
people need anything in this world just now,
they need a little time to attend to their personal
business. The politician has had the ear of the
private citizen; now Rive the business man a
chanoe."
The Occident of a recent date says,
"Rev. Dr. Divid Wills, U. S. A., whose rare
ability as a pnblio speaker is well known, is announced to lecture at the Y. M. G. A. Hall for the
benefit of the French church, on the subject,
'Lemuel in neuron of a wife.'
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Ur. Wills, we are informed, is to be
the guest of Mr. J. T. Waterhouse, Sr.,
of this city next January. We hope the
Doctor will bring Lemuel with him.
Rev. J. A. Cruzan and family left
this city on the 11th ult., and have since
been vacating on Maui. Judging from
our colleague's communication A n these
columns the lines are lallen unto them
in pleasant places," their « goodly heritage being a cool climate, abundant
appetite and required rest.
For exactness and thoroughness Truth
of Toronto is unequaled. Thus :
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"Out of every one hundred and nine female
school teachers," says an exchange, "seven marry
every year." How many times do the remaining
102 marry? Give us all the facta.
As a general Grant was skillful, bold,
cool and patient and all the qualifications
needed by a great commander seemed to
have been united in him.—Bismarck.
Says the Christian lnteUigencer:
Tun Friend of Honolulu reports the annual
The three new pastors
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whatever tbnt may mean.
meeting, etc.
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That's the question. The New Preachers Manufacturing or the Not Plentiously
which ? Or if
Moneyed Institute
both, then perhaps some of the wealthy.
Collegiate Church people to whom the
Intelligencer goes might wish, vO endow
It. They certainly couhj not contribute
of their opulence to a nobler cause than
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VACATION NOTES.
this, with the excellent Charles M. j
Vouano Hoisk, Hawaii,
Hyde, D. D., as its presiding head, ty
July 28th, 188/i.
P. M. are in these regions commonly unWe arrived at Hilo by the A'iiiuu at
derstood to stand for NorUi Pacific Missionary, the symlKils at a not remote day one o'clock A. M., July Kith. Though
we trust to be as intelligible to the | it was night there were friends at the
average reader as A. B. C. I'. M. and landing place to welcome us and others.
Judge Lyman was there, Dr. and Miss
similar representations at home.
Wet
more' and with them Miss May
and
to
inform
are
to
learn
glad
We
the readers of Tin: Fiuknd, that Mrs. Atberton of Honolulu. Mr. and Mrs.
offered
Dr. Damon is so much restored In health Luther Severance had generously
under
their
Mrs.Oggel
myself
to
and
to
take
her
return
that we may look for
and to their
Honolulu at an early day. So Mr. E. care during our stay at Hilo
C. Damon tells us, who accompanied his beautiful and comfortable home we were
mother to Massachusetts and who speaks escorted. A pleasant cottage was ready
greatly enjoyed and apof having derived rest and pleasure from for us and we
kind hospitality.
family's
this
preciated
and
the
East.
his stay in California
morning we had the pleasure to
It was as agreeable as it was surpris- In the
Mrs. Furneaux of Honolulu. After
ing to meet on the Kiuau and later in meet
breakfast
the Rev. E. T. Baker, Pastor
this city, people from Michigan, Mr.
the Foreign Church, called with Mrs
of
Baldwin
and
their
chiland Mrs. A. J.
Baker, who kindly took us in their cardren, whose home is in St. John, in riage through Hilo. We visited Prof.
that State. We trust their visit among
Olcsoii and family and were pleased to
relatives and friends on the islands has
shown the well-arranged buildings in
be
been a pleasant one.
which the native boys are receiving an
Mrs. Wallace, wife of the Rev. Geo. education. In this connection we reWallace of this city, went and returned produce the following from Rev. Dr.
by MM Alamtda and reports having had Hyde's report in the Saturday I'resx of
an enjoyable time in San Francisco and July 4th : "The appropriation of $5,000
suburban places.
made at the last session of the LegislaThe Alameda also returned to us the ture hits not been paid, but ought to
Rev. W. C. Merritt, President of Oahu have been long ago put at the disposal
College, and his lady, in improved of the Trustees. It is certain that that
health. On the same steamer came amount of money could nowhere be so
Prof. Geo. L. Bates, to fill the vacancy well applied as at the Hilo Boarding
caused by the resignation of Prof. San- School, in furnishing the additional apford.
pliances now imperatively needed for
Worthily did Professor Sanford All the advancement of the educational inhis position in Oahu College and in the terests of the Hawaiian people."
Bethel Union Church and Sunday school.
It was also our privilege to meet at
We wish him further and increased suc- her home the venerable widow of the
cess in his future fields df labor.
late David Belden Lyman. The years
The Christian Advocate wonders of her life which are many have been
whether Christian churches are aware of full of the nearness and consolations of
the value to themselves of prayer for (iotl and the promise of Scripture is
Missions. Many churches it says, have verified, "It shall come to pass that at
experienced a divine reaction of love evening time it shall be light." In the
dating from the very evening of the afternoon Mr. Baker provided an extra
missionary concert. The way to pros- horse and led the way to the lava flow of
perity is not to spend the time in self- 1880-81. At that time a wonderful
measurement Look up I Look outward! stream of fire which caused the whole
"Go ye into all the world" in your heavens to be illuminated at night ran
onward for fifty miles down toward
pleading supplications I
Maj. H. C. Dane, of Boston, whose Hilo. Standing on this vast field of
travels are co-extensive with this planet solidified lava we saw, what we had
arrived on the 22nd ult., and is the read before, how its proud waves had
guest of Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Damon. been stayed within less than a mile from
Major, we cordially welcome you to our the town and how through the goodness
In the
homes, climate, scenery and all that we of God Hilo had been spared.
weekly
at
the
present
we
were
evening
and
debe
profited
have. We expect to
lighted by your fluent and eloquent ut- hour of prayer. As at Kohala so here
and
terances and we shall endeavor to render also the meeting was one of interest and
we
were
refreshed
and
profit
the
Paciyour stay in this Paradise of
fic so delightful that you will be reluc- strengthened in spirit. After this season of Christian fellowship we met our
tant to leave us.
This for the benefit of our readers in friend James A. Martin, Dr. Kittredge
morning we
America: Instead of going to Europe and others. The following
had made the acwhere
we
left
Hilo
coming
Italy
winter
for
the
air
of
or
this
people.
southern France, or in place of going to quaintance of so many pleasantthat
"at
Florida, come to the Hawaiian Islands, In answer to those who assert record
in
we
always
rains,"
Hilo
it
scenunrivaled for climate and beautiful
ery and look with your own eyes on fl)e honor of the place that we did not en* Volcano of Kilauea, the greatest wonder counter a single shower or drop of rain.
Once fliore we embarked in the Kinau.
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Our comfortable state-room was ready
for us. We had a large American mail
and the hours passed swiftly by. Kurly
in the afternoon we reached Keaohou,
the new landing plane to the Volcano.
Here we met for the first time Mr. John
11. Maby, the genial and popular manager of the Volcano House. Mr. Wilder
had kindly arranged that we should stay
here over night which entirely accorded
with our wishes. The next day under
Mr. Maby's guidance we traveled on
horses, the first four miles by a gradual
ascent to the Pali ; thence onward
through a tropical forest full of the ohia
and other trees, many of them in full
blossom, while the road, gradually rising,
is lined on either side with a great variety of large and beautiful ferns. Wo
reached the Volcano House, fourteen
miles from the Keuuhou landing, in
good condition, satisfied beyond anticipation witli the ease and convenience
whereby our journey had been conducted.
During our stay .of twelve days we
made two Volcano excursions and descents into the crater. Both nights the
element! were propitious. The crescent
moon walking in her brightness and the
clustering stars relieved the evening
gloom. The path which we traversed
across the lava beds to the lakes is quite
direct. For three miles we walked over
this lava field where the flow has as> tuned fantastic shapes, at times twisted
together like coils of rope, but inure
often heaped up in petrified waves. We
first came to the so-callel Little Beggar," or as we have since heard it named
I'cle's throat and Tele's chimney,"
the new, small crater on the route to
Haleinaumau. We found it exceedingly
active and the heat of it was intense.
In due time we reached the South lake,
which the natives long ago named
Haleniauinau," the everlasting house,
the abyss in which they were wont to
throw the bones of their chiefs, to the
end, it is said, that no vulgar feet might
ever tread above them. A stupendous
phenomenon to which no language can
do justice, met our eyes. Before us was
the lake, surrounded by almost perpendicular walls, from 100 to 150 feet in
height. These high, bold and irregular
clifls present a strange, picturesque appearance. We found the lake in part
apparently dormant, but at other points
in a state of unwonted activity. The
lava was being constantly thrown up in
jets ; fountains sprang high up and were
perpetually breaking into fiery spray. A
surging mass dashed like surf against
the walls of Haleinaumau, accompanied
by a roaring like the sea. Pele's hair
streamed in the whiffs of rising gas. We
saw fountains playing and rockets throwing sprays high up into the air. The
lake was undergoing a constant change
and to all appearances increasing in activity. Portions at first quiet revealed
commotion and began to throw forth
the lava in fiery fountains and crimson
waves. The view through the opera
glass augmented the grandeur of the
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scene. Frequently the center of the lake
heaved up and tossed up showers of fiery
liquid. It kept bubbling and boiling upward in glowing cascades, at times lighting up the heavens and the sombre surroundings with a peculiar brilliancy and
the eye never grew weary of the sight.
Returning we frequently saw the hot
1 ava through the crevices a few feet
below the surface. We arrived at our
hotel at midnight and after refreshments
had been served we retired to rest.
On a following visit our guide led the
way first to the new lake. When we
reached it its surface was almost entirely
quiescent. We had been waiting on the
bank for perhaps ten minutes and were
preparing to confess to a feeling of disappointment, and thinking there would
he no action we suggested proceeding to
But the guide said,
Haleinaumau.
"Wait!" and scarcely had he spoken
the word when the fiery unrest began.
There was a dull, rumbling sound and a
seething wave spread along the edges of
the lake. Gradually J t broke up. Everywhere appeared golden and crimson
borders of fire piece by piece the old
crust dissolved ; after a great quiet the
whole lake suddenly boiled in every part
and swallowing the black crust a fiery
red soon glowetl over the entire surface ;
the lake burst into mightiest activity, a
seething mass and violently- agitated,
and was then submerged in the now
perfect sea of Are
and boiling upflow
and Same. Electrified we followed with
fascinating eyes the workings of this
surging, tumultuous ocean rtf fire. There
was a roar resembling thunder. The
ebullition of the lioiliiig mass sent up
sounds resembling the waves of the sea
when they break on the shore. The
surrounding walls were brilliant with
the reflection of the burning lava and
the heavens were lit up with wondrous
splendor. The scene was beyond description complete in its awful, terrible
grandeur. We stood before ontMif God's
master pieces. What compared to this
are the designs of Raphael and Michael
Angelo ? Verily, the finished pictures
of the great masters are but feeble imitations of the choice exhibitions of God,
the noblest master.
Relating to these volcanic phenomena
there are among others these questions
that arise in the mind :
How shall we explain the periodical
breaking up of the lakes ?
The most natural theory that has been
suggested and one that seems plausible,
stated in condensed form, is that the
lava is kept liquid by the great quantities of heat that come up from unknown
depths. But the heat of the steam is
inadequate to keep the surface of the
lava from cooling. The result is the
formation of a semi-solid crust. As the
crust takes shape the lava below it
grows hotter. While the crust thickens
and grows cooler the lava underneath
gains intensity of heat. As its intensity
increases the ebullition grows more violent. At length the crust can no longer
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sustain itself. The hot lava asserting
itself a breach is made in the cru*t and
the break up rapidly spreads while the
lava which has been cooled at the surface
descends to lie reinelted, the process repeating itself continually.
Is there any connection between the
craters of Kilauea and those of Mauna
Loa?
(apt. C. E. Button, of the U. S. Geol.
Survey, a high authority by virtue of
his thorough investigation of the subject,
is of the opinion, that the lava reservoirs
of the two localities are not one and the
same, because if such connection existed
the Kilauea craters would at once drain
the reservoir of Mauna Loa down to
their own level. By this theory the
craters are independent of one another
as much so as Mauna Loa and Mauna
Ken, each locality having its own reservoir and wholly disconnected from the
reservoirs of other volcanos even though
these be closely adjacent, ('apt. Button
deems himself strengthened In this view
of the disconnection of the reservoirs of
Kilauea and Mauna Loa because of the
distinct character- of their respective
lavas. He admits however, that the
same cause may act upon both, producing eruptions from both. Thus disturbances in th -craters of Kilauea Save
in some cases been accompanied by great
excitement in Mokuaweoweo, crater of
Mauna Loa, indicating that the cause
which sets the one in motion simultaneously actuates the other.
What is the source or cause of volcanic
heat ?
The thoughts are naturally turned to
the solution of this problem. It is a
well-known fact that the deeper wo
penetrate into the earth the greater are
the degrees of heat. But this leaves the
question still unanswered. It remains
for Science to find the key that shall unlock the mystery to the cause of volcanic
action. If the origin of volcanic heat
could be satisfactorily explained a great
point in knowledge would be gained and
we would have facts in place of opinions
that as yet are tentative and liable to
modification.
We leave this region to-morrow. Our
stay has been restful and invigorating.
The weather, with the exception of the
storm on Sunday, the 26th, has been
pleasant during the day and such at
night that the wood fire was comfortable and homelike. We record our
appreciation of the kindnees and polite
attentions of Mr. J. H. Maby, the courteous and obliging hostof the Volcano
House. While writing we are called
out to the veranda to see the effect of
Haleinaumau on fire, the entire heavens
being brilliantly illumined. The scene
is one never to be forgotten. This locality so replete with interest and instruction is one of the grandest to visit and
will draw we think constantly increasing
numbers of those who desire to see the
mightiest active volcano in the world.
E. C. Oggel.
TOUR BENEATH THE SOUTHERN
CROSS.
BY MERTON RUSSELL COTES.
We left Plymouth November 1, 1884.
We made our voyage in the ship Torrens, with M saloon passengers on board
and after the usual stereotyped run of
weather we arrived in Adelaide on the
24th of Jan., 18H5. We found the beat,
although very dry and oxhilerating, excessive, being sometimes 115° in the
shade and after one week's sojourn left
for Melbourne. We remained visiting
our friends and all the places of interest
in Victoria upwards of two months.
During this time we saw the gigantic
trees in the Black Spur Mountains, Gippslaiul, many of them attaining the immense altitude of 400 to 500 feet and
from 70 to 90 feet in circumference. We
visited the new and most beautiful city
of Ballarat, where we went down the
Last Chance Mine," accompanied by
the directors and managers and my son.
This mine is nearly 500 feet deep and
some ol the cuttings extend from 100 to
150 feet. On ascending we were photographed in a group in mining costume
and presented a most ludicrous appearance. At Warrnambool we saw potatoes
as large as it man's head and weighing
from 8 to 12 pounds each, enough for six
men's dinner. After leaving Melliourne,
which is a very fine modern city of stone
buildings, we arrived at Sydney—quite
an old fashioned English looking town
with tin? finest harbor In the world, and
after sojourning there a fortnight visited
the nine Mountains and that marvelous
engineering wonder the great "ZigZag"
Railroad. The scenery of the Blue
Mountains is altogether so sublime and
grand that I know of nothing at all like
it except Martin's great picture of the
" Plains of Heaven," or some of Gustave
Bore's similar works.
The
Fish
River" Caves in the Blue Mountains are
wonderful, being more beautiful and extensive than the Mammoth Caves of
Kentucky or any other in the known
world.
During our tour through Australia we
were much pained to find how much the
Free Thought movement had taken root
and the hard up-hill tight the Ministers
of the Gospel have before them to combat it. During our stay in Melbourne
one of the judges, Mr. Justice Williams,
published a pamphlet entitled "Religion
without Superstition," wherein he strives
to show that the whole universe is governed by what he calls the
God of
Nature," and that man requires no other
divinity or mediator either as a God or
Savior; that, in short, Nature alone is
our all in all, —the Alpha and Omega of
our own and the world's existence, He
then proceeds to ridicule the New Testament history from beginning to end,
flouts the idea of Christ being God—
man, but nevertheless paradoxically admits that Christ was a
good man."
How a good man could be an Arch-Impostor he fails to explain, and no weaker
point in his pamphlet is more apparent
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than this ! The Trinity Mr. Justice
Williams scoffs at, as being unreasonable
and absurd and altogether inconsistent
with Nature's (the God of feature) laws.
This pamphlet created much excitement
and contention. Many lectures, sermons
and pamphlets were hurled against it,
and with such admirable judgment,
acumen and power that commen sense
could not withstand the irresistible force
of the arguments brought to bear and it
culminated in Mr. Justice Williams'
Religion Without Superstinotorious
tion" becoming a subject for ridicule
except among those whose preconcerted
views were in favor of Free Thought.
I think it only right to add that iv
Auolaide we found little or no Free
Thought movement
compared with
Melliourne, where it unfortunately appears to be the rule, especially among
those who have lieen the most successful.
In fact as they have been prospered so in
proportion do they appear to have forgotten the Hand from which all their
worldly pelf has proceeded. The Almighty
however has been graciously pleased to
show great mercy in this city in providing it with most excellent Ministers of
the Gospel and Servants of Christ. I
would mention two in particular whose;
words were rich in pure simple Gospel
truth, cutting like a two-edged sword
the Rev. T. E. Ick, of the Presbyterian
Church, Albert Bark, and the Rev. Mr.
Hall, Pastor of the Baptist Church, Melbourne,
earnest, conscientious men,
straining every nerve to combat the
baneful effects of the most detestable
movement of modern times
Free
Thought.
We visited Hobart, Tasmania, a charming old English looking town in a lovely
harbor surrounded with grand hills, the
highest (Mount Wellington) forming a
picturesque background for the town of
Ilolurt, nestlingat its feet. The climate
here is of an exceptionally equable temperature throughout theyear,<tay;»nd night,
rarely varying more than 10 degrees in
the 24 hours, and nmging from 50 to 05
during the winter and 70 to 80 in the
summer—the average being about fiO all
the year round. With more energy and
capital Tasmania could be made the
richest and most prosperous colony in
the universe, as certainly it is now one
of the most charming and healthy. After
leaving Tasmania we steamed to the
Bluff, Invcrcargill,the southernmost point
of the Middle Island, of New Zealand,
then on to Port Chalmers and Dunedin,
a purely Scotch settlement with a Mcotch
climate, Scotch mountains, Scotch accent
and indeed everything to remind one of
Lang Syne" and I may. fairly
" Auhl Auld
add
Reekie."
Christchurch,
which Is only one night's steaming from
Dunedin we found equally as intensely
English as Dunedin is Scotch. No
mountains—a flat fertile well wooded
and splendidly watered plain—(the Canterbury Plains, so called after the Canterbury
Pilgrims" or first settlers) the
city itself being in its center with the
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lovely serpantine Avon, with its banks
liiu'd with weeping willows, winding its
way with sparkling and rapid strides in
and out in every direction, bridgeseverywhere, so that within a comparatively
short walk the Avon is crossed and recrossed many times. The streets here
are at right angles and till named after
the different Bishoprics at "Home"—
as England is invariably called throughout the Australian Colonies, and the
citizens seem to partake of the feeling
of intense respectability their streets
ought to inspire, by a demeanor and
general appearance at once proper ami
well-to-do.
Wellington, the Empire City, is the
seat of Government, but has nothing
else to recommend it. Every building
is constructed of wood, even a high pile
of three stories occupied as Government
offices—except the new Post Office which
is exceedingly handsome and built of
stone and concrete. The employees'
lot therein however is not a happy one,
for at any moment an earthquake might
raze the entire fabric to its foundation
and bury everyone within its ruins.
The entire description of this city may
be summed up In my wife's words as
Wet, Windy, Wooden Wellinyton ."'
Our friend Sir Julius Vogel objected to
this as a libel on the place when I suggested that the word Wretched"
should be added to the other appellations. The suggestion was not considered an improvement! To the marvelous wonderland among the Maoris in
the "King Country," I cannot attempt
to do justice. Its hot lakes, geysers,
mud springs, sulphur springs, pits and
holes of roaring, boiling, fretting, fuming steam ; its caldrons of lioiling waters
at 220 degrees Fahr.; its magnificent
and unparalleled alabaster marble, pink
and white terraces, no pen can describe,
no picture can delineate. For further
particulars of this interesting locality and
the remedial and curative properties of
these hot springs of Ohinemutu and Rotoroa I must refer the reader to my
friend Dr. Ginder's (the Government
medical officer) pamphlet. The fair sex
especially ought to be interested in these
marvelous natural hot springs, there
being one named << Madame Rachel"
which has worked the most extraordinary metamorphoses in their personal
charms, giving them soft, velvety and
delicately beautiful skins and complexions. Forchronic rheumatism, gout, skin
diseases and all such kindred affections
these thermal springs possess the highest
reputation throughout the Australasian
Colonies. I have also come in personal
contact with 'hose who have derived
much benefit from a course of these
baths. The distance from Auckland to
Ohinemutu is about 150 miles and is
best made per steamer Clansman from
this port to the charming little town of
Tauranga and thence per coach through
the Oropi Bush. The whole journey is
completed in 24 hours and costs four
pounds for first-class return ticket. From
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Ohinemutu to the pink and white terraces of Rotomabana and back is a distance of al)out 30 miles occupying two
days at a cost of two pounds each person for the return ticket, including
coach, boats, guides and fees. Dv ring our
visit to Wairoa, the stopping place for
Rotomabana, we became acquainted with
Mis. M. P. Snow, of Fitchburg, Mass.,
who had prolonged her sojourn among
the Maoris for upwards of six mouths
under peculiar circumstances. Her .-on
visited this place about two years previous simply as an ordinary tourist in
search of health. He however became
so deeply interested in the natives of
Wairoa that he determined to remain
among them for the sole purpose of
using his influence and example to wean
them from the intemperate habits ho
found them addicted to. They became
deeply attached to him and success attended bis most exemplary and Christian
work. His health still failing he arranged to return home through Europe
and he left Wairoa amid the deepest regrets of the Maoris. His health grew
worse and he finally broke down in the
Red Sea en route for England which
however he was never destined to see.
On bearing of their son's decease, Mr.
and Mrs. Snow determined to visit the
scene of their dear son's good work.
Business matters would not admit of
Mr. Snow accompanying his wife ; she
therefore arranged to make the trip
alone. On her arrival at Wairoa she was
received with delight by the natives and
Sliding how much intemperance still
existed she determined to remain sufficiently long to complete the work her
son had carried on with such signal success. This she did and returned home
in the P. M. S. S. Australia, on the 23rd
of June, 1885, and traveled with Mrs.
Cotes and myself as far as Honolulu
where with sincere regret we had to
part company with her, she proceeding
to Fitchburg, via San Francisco, wo remaining at Honolulu preparatory to our
visit to the Volcano of Kilauea.
One of the gentlemen who came down
to see us off before leaving Auckland by
the Aim/ratia was the Rev. Thomas
Spurgeon. This gentleman has accomplished in Auckland an exceptionally
admirable work in establishing a Tabernacle at a cost of upwards of £14,000,
every penny of which was absolutely
subscribed and paid for before he
preached his first sermon. We visited
his Tabernacle several times during our
sojourn in Auckland and on each occasion
found the place crowded to excess and
many outside unable to obtain admittance.
His eloquence and excellent plain, forcible English reminds me of John Bright,
and in his telling and earnest appeals to
bis congregation one could not help feeling one's spirit refreshed and intensely
gratified with the Gospel of our great
Master as He Himself would wish it
preached. May many earnest Christian
men be grauted to us, who like Mr.
Spurgeon shall serve the Lord in spirit
and in truth.
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ville, the largest sugar mill, or rather I after; Nature's handmaids began to fold
mills, in the world, looks like a rowof up the clouds "like a garment," but the
August lilth, 1885. j
dirty red brick; while Knhului, Wai- folding was poorly done; the Wailuku
TOPOGRAPHICAL.
luku and Waikupu, art; apparently not mountains seemed to be the place where
first
attended
the
so large as the set of toy building blocks most of these "folded garments" were
in
Chautauqua,
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1874, and among the attractions (?) was with which Master Harold is now amus- packed away in great masses pile on pile;
but there was not room enough there for
a miniature Palestine, about half an acre ing himself.
Jordan
about
a
with
a
river
over
the
in extent,
Running the eye
landscape all of them, and so all around the horizon
foot wide, a Lake Gennesaret and a Bead what a panorama of beauty it presents. great straggling piles of them were left.
Sea, and all the towns, cities, valleys, To the east the forest from whence comes The sun dropped low liehind the mountmountains, wadyS, plains, etc., located some of the beautiful woods which those ains, and then came the wondrous gorgproperly, and the country, as it looked to master workmen, Miller and Wicke, of eous tints and vivid coloring. Laid in
the eye in the time of Christ, reproduced Honolulu, transform into such things of upon a background of intense blue were
on a very small scale, as nearly as possi- beauty; eastward lies the undulating reds of all shades, blues, blacks, yellows,
ble. A favorite point of observation was plain dotted with comfortable, hospitable green, lavender, ashes-of-roses—a rioting
Mt. Lebanon, which towered about fifteen homes, and covered with rich cane fields. medley of colors, such as never was seen
feet, its top coated liberally with white- Those thread-like lines are gulches, from on any canvass but Nature's, and were
wash to represent snow. "Thither the 200 to 500 feet deep, and from five rods we to see such cloud and color effects on
tribes went up," and from this "lofty to half a mile across; and anyone of those the canvass of a Ferneaux, or a Strong,
height" all Palestine could be viewed by hills, apparently no larger than the we would assume the severely critical
the eager Bible students. Jerusalem, as mounds thrown up by gophers in the aspect and tone, and say, crushingly,
seen from the top of Lebanon, with its States, would give a leg-wearying climb "Must have hud a bad attack of colorbuilding* only three or four inches high, ere the summit was reached. And nightmare!"
Benj. F. Taylor says "That Nature
did not appear to be "the joy of the what a kaleidoscope of changing variewhole earth;" Jericho's walls seemed so gated colors. The peculiar white-green never puts on as fine robes in the morninsecure that the marvel was, not that of the kukui and tiie darker green of ing as at night, and for the good reason
they fell, but that it was necessary for ! the koa trees, the dark (almost black) that very few people are up to admire
Joshua to compass the city seven times, j green of the eucalyptus, the brilliant red them." Ido not know about that. Her
as once would seem to be enough; while jlof the newly-prepared fields, the bright morning robes are quieter, ns good taste
Samson's feat of carrying off the gates of 'green of tin. growing cane, the dull requires, but are they less beauiiful?
Qan was completely outdone by an in-|I yellow of the newly-cut fields, and all 'lake, for example, a sunrise viewed
from Olinda. The forest lying to the
fantile Chautauquan of four years, who,!'around thesea—the nauseating sea!
in' his play, one day made the "tour of I while floating over all are the clouds, east looks almost black, so dark and dense
is the green, as it lies in the early mornthe Holy Land" alone, and carried off]I with their ever-changing shadows.
ing twilight; here and there, over-hangthe entire city of Samaria, including!
CLOUD-EFFECTS.
Ahab's ivory palace up in the mountains, i When I was a hoy I can recall days ing the landscape below, are small cloudthe young explorer innocently supposing | when I lay prone upon my back, and drifts; great banks of clouds envelope the
the houses to be an improved set of I looked up to the great banks of clouds Wailuku mountains, and hang so low
Crandall's building mocks. I have been which hang so high over the Prairie that they seem to almost touch the houses
constantly reminded of this miniature State, lowa, and I thought it must be a in the little towns. First, there is Just a
Palestine by the outlook from this point, wonderful experience to be "above the tinge of crimson on the highest cloudof vantage, 4,000 feet up on the slope of clouds." That experience has been ours bank which envelope the central peak.
Mt. Ilaleakala, where the Cruzan family now for about a week. And how coquct- Look eastward; slowly the sun creeps up,
have been vacating for the past week. ishly changeful the clouds are! Great and lot the forest is transfigured, and
The view is wonderously beautiful. At banks of clouds lie piled upon Haleakala; emerges like a smiling rosy child from
our backs the old mountain, rambling, from the main body a thin, filmy mass, its morning bath, a thing of beauty
clambering up, up, up, (1,000 feet higher; like a line of skirmishers, will be sent bathed in light, and the cloud-drifts are
at our feet Makawao and Haiku, and the down, will advance, then retreat, then transformed into pillars of fire." Look
six-mile-broad plain which unites East advance, and suddenly disappear; then westward; all the great cloud-bank is
and West Maui, one of the finest cane a larger cloud, like a troop of cavalry, aglow, while the sun's rays, striking undistricts in the world; while still further will swoop around to our left, and circling der it and through it, light up every
beyond are the Wailuku mountains, with around the point of a little ridge, will little, clean, rain-washed valley and ridge,
their beautiful valleys, sharp, blade-like rush into the deep gulch upon which our and spur, till the mountain range looks
foot-hills, or spurs, and their jagged areata front door opens, and there "go into like a veritable fairy-land! No, there is
thrust up into the clouds five or six camp;" anon, a great rain-cloud drifts no such rioting of colors" in the mornthousand feet, while all around is the down, overhangs Olinda, and discharges ing picture, but is it less beautiful? I
purple sea (the treacherous, sickening its liquid freight, while we look through cannot tell.
HALEAKALA.
sea)! And now 1 feel a twinge of con-, rtlie rain and a little way below see the
We get a very fine view of Haleakala
science as I recall some irreverent jokes landscape bathed in sunlight; or, the
and comments upon the Chautauqua process is reversed—the .block cloud this morning," said Hon. John H. Paty
Palestine, at which I laughed heanily sweeps far down below us, leaving Olinda to me three years ago, as we stood on
years ago. Perhaps the? landscape gard- in the sunlight, while it discharges its the deck of the Likelike in Maalaea.Bay.
ener who made it "builded better" than moisture on the cane-fields below, and "Where is it?" "Right there, across
the jokers knew, for, as I write, I look we look witli wonder into its black the bay." "That Haleakala! Why I
down, and everything is in miniature. depths, or over it and beyond it upon thought it was 10,000 feet high. That
But
The great, rambling Makawao Boys' the sea (the eructating, troubled and looks no higher than Punchbowl!"
School building (a school no longer, but troublesome sea!) bathed in sunlight, and that is Haleakala, and it is 10,000 feet
the hospitable home of Mrs. Charles looking as peaceful as if it never caused high." And so I found it a few weeks
later when I came to make the ascent.
Alexander and her mother, Mrs. Thnrs- a moments' uneasiness.
ton,) looks to be about five feet high; the
Beautiful sunsets?" Yes, indescrib- As I toiled up, up, up, plying whip and
Makawao Girls' School, a still larger able in their beauty. Last Sunday (Aug. spur, and still up hour after hour, and
building, but farther down, looks smaller 16th,) it began to rain in the afternoon; there seemed no end to the old mounstill; the massive and symmetrical chim- the whole horizon was overcast, and for tain's upness, had any one told me
ney, which has stood for so many years hours we were shut in by the steady that it was 20,000 feet high I should
awaiting the sugar mill which has never down-pour. About 5 o'clock there were have believed him. Of the wondrous
c ome, looks like a pipe-stem; Spreckels- rifts in the clouds; the rain ceased soon crater nineteen miles in circumference
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nnd 2,000 feet deep; of the unsurpassed
from the summit, in which "all
HAWAIIAN BOARD
Bribe? Then why should I bore the
patient, longsuffering public with another description of them?
CHINESE MISSION NOTES.
Volume 4.1, No. 9
of the Chinese Mission for a long time to
procure a suitable man for this portion of
HONOLULU, H. I.
the field, and he has at last been able to
le kingdoms of the world," including
on
sitting
can
of
its
rug- Thin pace is devoted to the interests of the Hawaiian secure the services of a worthy man, who
ahu,
be seen;
Hoard of Mission*, ami (lie Kditnr, appointed hy the has been for some years in the employ of
ed peak as on an island, shut in by
Hoard, i- responsible for its contents.
one of the German Missions in Southern
ouds, with apparently no world heChina, and who has lately come to these
Bath you, and only Heaven, and the OFFICERS OF THE BOARD FOR
1885-6. Islands
with his wife. He has already
!'iiks of Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea
A X* Jt'DD
President begun his labors in Kauai, under the sutoveyoujof its trophies of silver swords Hon.
llon. 11. Wate«hoithe
...Vice-President
ftoOordtßjl errriaiy pervision of Rev. Dr. Smith of Koloa.
re not all these fully and graphically lie v. 0, M. Hyde. 1) D
Corresponding Secretary
ISkv. A. <>. K-ntBRB
listen jn that wonderful "Book of w.
Tr*a»un r There are many and gVeat dfficulties in
W Ham
Alldl Id! his work among his countrymen, and the
hronicles" of which Isabella Bird is P. C. -IONKS. .11l
liew
lOM.APODBIDA.
•I have been asked the meaning of
'Olinda." I do not know what the
«>oks give, hut I know what it means to
ne: Blessed rest for weary nerves and
>mln; Solitude, and seclusior., and abence from
the madding crowd;" the
nercury down to 50° and a fire night
lid morning; pure air, sunshine, and
•ozone;" blackberries by the half acre
and the patent pail full; a place in
which to wear old clothes, have a shave
but once a week, and to look so much
like a cow-boy that wheH I make a
raid for supplies on the settlements below
no one suspects me of lieing a minister.
That is not a short definition, but it is a
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iCapt.
Button is reported to have said
That the Haiku and Makawao districts
IB the nearest his ideal of an earthly
anulise of any place he had ever seen."
ii far as the country is concerned I have
different ideal of paradise, but the hositaUe, large hearted, generous people
who live in the Haiku and Makawao
distrirts deserve lioth an earthly paradise,
.and one in the life to come. Their gen,erous thought fulness for me and mine
has a fair record in our book of remembrance."
The pastorless Makawao church pluckily continues its Sunday School, which
is doing good work, and they have public worship whenever they can capture
a minister. lam to have the privilege
•of supplying the pulpit during my stay
on Maui.
What kind of a trip did we have to
Maui ?" To me one of the most suggestive touches in St. John's word picture
•of Heaven is this: "There shall be no
more sea!" And when 1 think of our
ireturn trip I lament deeply the failure
of "Darius Green and his Flying Machine."
J. A. CRUZAN.
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GRANT'S RESTING PLACE.
Nor wreck, nor change, nor Winter's blight,
Nor Time's remorseless doom
Shall dim the r*v of holy light
That gilds his glorious tomb.
Christian at Work.
—
On the evening of Mrs. J. M. Oat's
arrival from California a pleasant surprise
party was given to her. A number of
guests were present, and the ever radiant
Mr. Oat did the honors of his house in
his genial style. A most enjoyable evening was spent by all those who were
present.
BY F. WILLIAMS DAMON.
To the readers of the Fkiknd in former
years, the name of Sit Moon, the Chinese
preacher and missionary, was a familiar
one, as that of a most faithful and devoted christian worker. The announcement of bis recent death at Kohala,
Hawaii, will be received with sincere
sorrow by many who knew and valued
him highly. He was a man of sterling
character, remarkable executive ability
and most sincere and unassuming piety.
In the early years of missionary effort
among the Chinese in Honolulu and in
other parts of these Islands, he labored
with the greatest zeal and enthusiasm in
the organization of the work, and instructed many of the agencies which are
now in active operation for the spiritual
and temporal benefit of his countrymen
in the group. He was converted in California and was first connected with the
Presbyterian Mission Church of San
Francisco, and labored as a colporteur in
the service of that mission, with much
acceptance. He left behind him a high
reputation on the coast as a devoted
christian worker. He came first to these
Islands in 1875, under the auspices of
the Y. M. C. A. of Honolulu, anil ut once
began his laborsheretimongtheCliine.se.
He gave from the first great satisfaction
and won the confidence of all those with
whom he came in contact. Interesting
notices of the beginning of his work will
be found in the Fhiiond of that year.
He visited different parts of the Islands,
and continued the wor.k begun in Honolulu. He was one of the leaders in the
organization of the Chinese Church in
Honolulu, and was the first acting pastor
of the same, and held this position for
several years. For some time past he
has resided In Kohala with his family.
Though of late not engaged in active
missionary effort, he has thrown his influence a I way*, upon the right side. He
was at the time of his death connected
with the Kohala Chinese Church. After
a faithful and earnest life he has entered
upon his eternal reward. His name will
long l>e remembered with reverent affection by the Christian Chinese for whom
he labored with so much zeal. Appropriate memorial services were held in
the Chinese Church, of this city, last
Sabbath.
After a i>eriod of one to two years, missionary effort has been resumed among
the Chinese in the Island of Kauai. It
has been the aim of tin■ Superintendent
prayers of christians are earnestly solicited for him that God will be pleased to
bless his efforts.
There areat present fiveChinese preachers actively at work in these Islands, one
at Kohala, Hawaii; one at Hilo; one on
the Island of Maui; one on Kauai, and
one in Honolulu. These with two Chinese teachers in the boys' and girls'
schools in Honolulu, make up a company
of seven assistants.
The work among the Chinese in Hilo,
owes much to the earnest and self-denying efforts of Mr. W. S. Terry of that
place. He has for several years devoted
himself with great enthusiasm to the
spiritual elevation of tl»e Chinese in
Hilo and the adjoining country, as lie
has had opportunity and has been most
successful in winning the affection and
confidence of those with wi.oni he has
come in contact. For some time he has
acted as superintendent of the Chinese
Sunday School held in the Foreign
Church. He has aapuired some knowledge of the language, anil we trust he
will continue his studies in this direction.
Recently he has made quite a missionary
tour with the Chinese preacher, .Mr.
Wang Pang, now stationed in Hilo, visiting all the most Important points along
the road from Hilo to Waipio Valley.
We wish that it was possible to give in
full his very interesting letter descriptive of this tour, but our limited space
forbids, and we are obliged to content
ourselves with ihe mention of one or
two items. They were received most
kindly by both Chinese and Japanese, at
the different plantations. At Pepeekeo
and
Laupahoehoe especially opportunity
was given to meet quite a large number
of Chinese. At Paauilo they were most
hospitably entertained by a Chinese shopWhen they came to leave, be insisted upon the travelers taking each a
package of coin. "We tried to refuse
lint it was no use. He said he wanted
to pay expenses. We took it and found it
to be $8 for each which has more than
paid all expenses." At another point
they were pleased to find a Chinese Sunday School conducted by Mr. Puty and
his wife. Tracts were distributed all
along the way among the Chinese and
Japanese. The letter abounds in interesting and encouraging incidents, and
the two missionaries felt that their time
was not in vain. After being absent
about t,wo weeks, they returned to Hilo.
God grant that the seed thus sowu may
spring up and bear abundant fruit.
ikeeper.
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the mind, —hut In worshiping God "in who can meet on Thursday neon of each
spirit and in truth" in the place of public week at \i:-i\ for thirty minutes comworship in private communion, and in munion with the Master.
ThU pafS I* devoted to the IBterMtl of tb« llono ulii the study of his word.
ITEMS.
Yonn; Han's christian Vunelsttoo,wi4 Ihs Bosri
Such a use of the Lord's Day places
of Directors »re responsible for ils conlents.
There seems to be quite an interest
any young man upon a vantage ground,
Editor. as he enters upon the duties of the fol- awakened in the States, in the matter of
S. ( Fuller.
lowind days, with a refreshed body, an Y. M. C. A. Buildings. The necessity
FATHER'S GIFTS.
conscience, anil the realiza- of every Association having its B>wn
approving
It is always a source of pain to a true tion that in Jesus Christ he has a per- permanent home is becoming more and
parent to feel that the most precious gifts sonal friend and Saviour.
more apparent.
of parental love tire Uglily esteemed by
We are pleased to learn that the Oak•'Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth;
the child, or to see that their superior and ltd thy heart cheer thee in the days land, Cal. Association is making a vigwisdom in the appointed use of tiie same of thy youth, and walk in the ways of orous and hopeful effort to secure a
is also wholly disregarded.
thine heart, and in the sight of thine building of their own. That city of
If this lie painfully true in the expe- eyes: but know thou, that for all these beautiful homes, should add one more to
rience of the earthly parent, what must things God will bring thee into judg- their number, and that a Home for their
Young Men's Christian Association. We
be the feeling of our Heavenly Father ment.
who in his infinite love and tenderness,
wish them speedy success and think
GOSPEL SONG SERVICE.
has added to the gift of life the provithey would do well to send their General
This Service is held at 6:30 every Sun- Secretary down to examine the Honosions calculated to secure its highest development and happiness, when he sees day evening, and while very interesting lulu Y. M. C. A. Building before drawing
THE
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HONOLULU, H. I.
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so many of his children thus gloriously
endowed, disclaim his authority and
prostitute his gifts.
Next in point of value to life itself
and the faculties of our being is the gift
of time.
Infinite wisdom has indicated to us its
proper use, with a promise of results harmonious with the best and highest interests of life.
Six days for lalwr and recreation, for
the pursuit of that which applies more
directly to present earthly needs and
comforts. One day for rest and worship,
devoted more especially to he interests of
mind and spirit. Seven days for varied
activities. Seven nights for healthful
refreshing sleep.
Young Man—does personal experience
or history any where tell, that you can
improve upon the divine plan ? Many
have tried their hand at it, with results
varying only in degree, all the same in
kind.
We want to kindly ask the young man
of Honolulu who reads this page, if you
are in any degree reversing this divine
order of things ? If so, Beware !!
We have seen it tried, the results
were not encouraging.
We have known young men to pass
the six days given for honest toil in idleness, or in painful labor because the
night had been spent in riotous dissipipation.
We have known young men of promise posessing a keen sense of right,
would scorn a mean thing, and yet allowed themselves to be inveigled into an
unprofitable and unholy use of the Lord's
Day. This proved to be the pivotal
point in life, on which their future turned downward, instead of upward.
Nothing can be more desirable for a
young man than a knowledge of the
right, a sensitive conscience to apply the
same, and a strong will that holds on until duty is performed.
These valuable qualities of young manhood are best developed not by spending
theLord's Day in idle lounging in boating, in picnicing, or any other purely
worldly and selfish amusement, where a
reverential thought of God never enters
in the past, yet there is room for improvement.
If a larger number of young men
would occupy their poition of the time
in brief prayer or testimony it would be
of incalculable value to themselves, and
also give more variety and spirit to the
their plans.
Messrs. Atherton and Jones have returned from California, and bring an
encouraging report of the good work
going on in the San Francisco Association. Thirty-five young men requested
prayers at the close of one service.
meeting.
Surely the Master is blessing Secretary
We need to use all proper means, and McCoy and his co-workers.
in the most affective manner in winning
MONTHLY NOTES.
young men to the Savior.
A powerful agency to this end, is the
The monthly meeting was well atearnest practical testimony of a Christian tended, considering so many are away
young man, who having tried the way from the city. The reports showed there
of life
is able to speak from personal had been, as follows:
experience of its blessed superiority over
Two Business Meetings and one Social
all others ways.
Reception.
Words of lovo and gratitude, the fruit
Five sessions of the Young Men's
of a consecrated life will melt their way Bible Class.
into the hardest heart, and beget in it a
Five Gospel Song Services.
desire to know the Savior oi men.
Five Temperance Meetings.
My young friend, for the sake of your
Twenty-two Noon-day Meetings.
own soul, prosperity, and the good you
General Secretary had attended fiftymay do to others, cultivate the life whose three religious meetings, and made 70
fruitage shall be such a testimony, and calls.
then speak it out in our Sunday evening
One hundred and sixty-two papers
service, and in your own church prayer given away.
meeting, for—"Ye are my witnessess
One thousand one hundred and sixtysaith the Lord."
eight visitors, according to Janitor's record (which is not full).
NOON-DAY MEETING.
Three new members were admitted.
The lecture of Mr. Arthur Brown on
During the visit of Mr. McCoy last
April he inaugurated a daily meeting in the great Yellowstone Park," drew a
the Association rooms, which has been fine audience to the Y. M. C. A. Hall on
continued ever since until August 13th, the 21st. The instructiveand interesting
when it was voted to discontinue it, ex- chararter of the lecture held the close
attention of the hearers to the close. It
cept on Thursdays until October Ist.
The necessity for this change is the was in every way a success.
temporary absense from the city of a
LECTURES.
large number who were constant attenA rare treat is in store .for the citizens
dants and important supporters of the
of Honolulu.
service.
The Entertainment Committee have
Unlike many other cities we have very
few men of leasure or transient visitors arranged with Major H. C. Dane, of
to assist in supporting a daily meeting. Boston, to give three of his most popular
It has been sustained principally by lectures before returning to the States,
Having beard the eloquent lecturer on
business men who so planned business as
to get a half hour for waiting upon God, several occasions, the writer is prepared
and returned to business conscious of from personal knowledge to speak in
"renewed strength" according to the highest commendation of the proposed
lectures.
promise in Is., 40:31.
Particulars will appear in daily papers.
We shall hope to resume the meetings
First lecture, the second week in Sepin full the Ist of October, and during the
interval let all the members and friends stember.
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and of all
We Invite the co operation of teaeherß.
to make this page
frienda of cdncallon. In the effort
stimiilatiiii;.
of Ths Kiubkd really valuable und
Communications should be sent to Key. William 11.
Oleson, Hilo, Hawaii.
Wm. B. Oleson
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CHILD-LABOR IN HAWAII.
Lalx>r problems are at once the most
intricate and the most urgent that press
for public atttention ; and their urgency
and intricacy are not diminished by
the alarming prevalence of child-labor
even in most favored lands. In the
United States in 1880, the number of
boys under sixteen years, and of girls
under fifteen years who were wage-receivers was 1,118,000, an increase of GO
per cent, in a single decade. "In twelve
leading mechanical industries, women
and children compose a fair majority,
and in some important cases have an almost absolute monopoly of labor as
against men." A residentin theanthracite coal regions of Pennsylvania was
led to an inquiry into the employment of
children in the mines by having noticed
a boy of six and a half years regularly
accompanying his father to work. He
found "that boys of from six to fourteen
years earned forty-five cents per day at
picking slate ; of these there are thousands at work. The labor of driving
mules in the slopes and gangways is performed by boys between the ages of
eight and sixteen at about sixty cents a
day. At the tender uge of seven, boys
are taken down to work on night shifts
with their fathers. On day shifts these
boys leave home at six o'clock in the
morning and often do not reach home
again until seven in the evening. Under
the surface, at the depth of from 200 to
700 feet, breathing in the dampness, the
poisonous gases of the coal and powdersmoke, they tire doomed to hard labor as
if they were working out the penalty of
some unpardonable crime." This is little better than the condition of England's
laboring population at the opening of the
century.
The employment of child-labor in
Massachusetts has undoubtedly had much
to do with furnishing thatcommonwealth
with its 75,000 illiterates over the age of
ten. The factories and mines are usurping the prerogatives of the school in
citizen-making and are turning out
voters as poorly equipped for the duties
of citizenship as the minerals and textile
fabrics that pass through their bauds.
Unreasoning illiteracy was at the bottom
of all the violence and bravado in the recent strike of iron-workers at Cleveland.
What is in store for the great Western
nation that is thus allowing one in every
fifty of its population to grow up physically, mentally, and morally unfit for
citizenship only the inevitable labor
complications of the future can reveal.
But the problem is a pressing one here
in Hawaii. Large numbers of Portuguese boys under twelve years of age
work regularly on the plantations. The
Volume 43, No. 9
ISLAND TEXT BOOKS III.
For the peculiar work most of our
teachers have in hand, so much can be
said against the geographies now in use
among us that it is difficult to think of
anything that can be said in their favor.
They are microscopically minute in the
attention they give to local American
Hawaiian children, and
geography.
Portuguese as well, must learn about
Bmttlohoro, and Katahdin, and Monongahela, and Yankton, and Winnipiseogee,
etc., before they learn anything about
such a land as China, or Australia, or
even England and Germany. Again,
being meant for American children, and
being prepared for the laudable purpose
of making American children thoroughly well-acquainted with their own country, it is not surprising that, in three
different geographies, the amount of
space.devoted to the United States is
respectively 31 per cent., 32 per cent.,
and M per cent, of the whole. This is
an unnatural percentage Of minute study
of the local geography of a foreign country for Hawaiian school-children to havo
set before them as a task. It is a mass
of meaningless information that discourages teacher and pupil alike ; and is
the occasion, not Infrequently, of a total
collapse of the study of geography in
some of the schools.
But this local coloring of the geographies affects the structure of the
maps, and while the map-work of some
geographies has well-nigh obtained
perfection, so far as the instruction of
American children is concerned, it is
obvious that such minuteness is a serious obstacle to the comprehension of a
given map by the majority of our pupils.
Why sliouM our Island children who are
acquiring English, be compelled to learn
the Uuited States by states and territories rather than as a unit. How enjoyable it was for boys in primary and grammar school grades in America, twenty
years ago, to learn the names and location of all the petty German States! The
Franco-German War was a blessing to
Yankee boys for it blotted out the fashion-plate markings of Central Europe
and left them a single great nation to
study.
It would be an inestimable
blessing to Hawaiian children if the
State lines could be sponged out of maps
of the United States, and some of the
lakes and riven could be evaporated,
and some of the capes and mountains
could be robbed of their names, and
seventy-five per cent, of the State capitals could be obliterated.
And what is true of the United States
in these particulars, is just as true of
every nation. For use here, all the geographies that have come to our attention
sadly need compressing. It must not be
forgotten, that, for the present decade at
least, English language instruction must
occupy the foremost place in most of outschools. In very few schools does it
getting.
occupy anywhere near the promineut
A good educational system is a chief place that the exigencies demand. In
factor in tno national well-being.
order that more may be done with
teachers of our schools have the greatest
difficulty in securing the attendance of
Portuguese l>oys who are able to carry a
pail of water, or handle a light hoe. In
some cases large numbers of Portuguese
boys are enrolled as being in attendance
at certain schools when they are regularly at work on some neighlioring plantation. It would lie a revelation to the
public if reliable statistics could be published showing the number of boys and
girls under fourteen who are regularly
employed in the various industries of
Hawaii nei.
The law looking to the compulsory
attendance of all children of a suitable
school-age would seem to be sufficient in
securing its object. The fact that it is
not is due to several reasons. In the
first place, the teacher in a given district
has the greatest difficulty in securing an
accurate enrollment of children of a
school-age in the district. In many instances the enrollment is only of such as
have actually presented themselves at
the school-house. If it were made obligatory on all employers of labor to return
semi annually a list of all children of
their employees, under sixteen years of
age, a great step would he taken towards
the accurate and complete enrollment of
school-children. Of course, without such
an enrollment only a partial attendance
can be counted on, In some school-districts there are probably scores of children
whose names have never been on a school
record.
Again, so long as employers of labor
are allowed to draw children away from
school by offering wages for their work,
the cupidity of illiterate parents will find
ways of evading the school-law. Many
employers of labor would be glad to
have a law enacted making ii a punishable offence for employer and parent
alike, within certain limitations, to induce children of school-age to go to work
instead of going to school. Undoubtedly
child-lalxir is a valuable element in the
lalior necessities of our moat important
industry. In many forms of light work,
a child can drop into a man's place and
release him for heavier work much to
the profit of the employer. Hut not to
the profit of the common welfare ! Illiteracy lias no more terrible curses than
for the employer of labor. An elementary education that inculcates obedience
to law, respect for authoriry, and a community of interest, is the employer's
best safe-guard for the future. Childlabor everywhere shortens life, vitiates
the constitution, predisposes to disease,
invites intemperance, and fosters criminality. It is incumbent on onr Christian
community for otherthan mere utilitarian
reasous to restrict, so far as possible, the
pernicious practice of employing children
in the various industries when they should
be at school. The littleold faces of childlaborers among us appeal to us for more
of the privileges of life than they are
greatest ease in this direction, a reformed
THE CHURCHES.
geography is needed in the schools.
The process of acquiring English is such THE BETHEL UNION CHURCH.
a labored one that it is Imperative that
AUGUST—SEPTEMBER.
the body of valuable information to lie
four weeks of rest and enjoyAfter
Imparted in our schools should be so ment on
Hawaii, the Pastor and wife
compressed as to bring a large percentage
7th. On the Sabbath
August
returned
within the reach of all our pupils who
preached
attend school a reasonable length of tune, following (the 9th), the Pastor
sermon, having comanniversary
'an
to
an
our
objection
tiuite as serious
his ministry in this city, August
popular geographies as any thus far ; menced
During this first year, 31
named is, that the English used in the 10th, 1884.
have
united
with
the church, 18 on protext is non-colloquial and very difficult fession of their faith
and 13 by letter.
for children to comprehend. At HampThe
Lord's
will be administered
Supper
it
is
found
that
those
Indians
who
ton
on Sunday morning the oth inst.
are somewhat advanced in their knowlhave much difficulty
edge of English
On Tuesday evening, the Bth, the offiin gaining ideas by themselves from cers and teachers of the Sunday School
geographies, even from the simplest ! will meet at the Pastor's residence, Nuutext books that can be found. What anu Avenue.
would be perfectly intelligible to our
The following subjects are announced
children is simply Greek to them, the for Wednesday evenings:
words not being those they would com2 —Preparatory Lecture.
monly use." Within the compass of
9—Monthly Concert—Home Missions.
three pages in what is confessedly one
16—Meditating on God—Ps. 104:34.
occur
these
of our best geographies,
Men—l Jno. 2:14.
23—Young
three different forms of expressing the
30—The Inquiring Soul—Job 23:3.
same thought.
North America comprises" etc.; "Our country embraces,"
In the absence of J. A. Cruzan, Pastor
etc.; and "Our country is divided into," of Fort Street Church, the pulpit was
etoaj Why not adopt the latter form filled August 16th and 23rd by the Rev.
which is intelligible, and abandon the Isaac Goodell of Honokaa, Hawaii, and
embrace* which has another primary lust Sabbath by Rev. Dr. Hyde.
signification, and the comprises which a
EDITOR'S TABLE.
child can be excused for not -knowing.
And so the text is thickly studded with
« Kamahamkha; The Conquering
occupy for live in, flourish for grow well, Kino," a romance of Hawaii, by C. M.
extensive for large or wide, terminates for Newell.—C. P. Putnam's Sons, Publishends, section for par/, /rarersc for cross, ers, New York and London.
indented for cut, chiefly for mostly, etc.
The author of this work is a Boston
Then there are awkward idiomatic ex- gentleman, who has succeeded in propressions which could quite profitably ducing a very readable and interesting
give way to terser statements, as, for book. "The greater part of this RoNorth America lies in the mance " says Mr. Newell is a truthful
instance,
western hemisphere
might better be, narrative or the real history of this most
"North America is in the western remarkable of Polynesian Kings, We
hemisphere"; "What mountains pass have held strictly to all known records
What of history." A glossary of Hawaiian
through
might better be
mountains cross." Instead of
Agri- names and phrases is found at the close.
culture is the chief occupation of the The work is by permission dedicated to
inhabitants" which children might learn H. M. Queen Kapiolani with kind Aloha
but not understand, why not say, "Most to herself and her sunny isle.
of the people are farmers" which chil"Oue Horne —or, the Key to a Noble
dren would readily understand and so
by C. A. Sargent, A. B."
Life,
not need to learn. If we could sit in
An excellent book, beautifully bound,
the children's places, we should not long containing 43 chapters on themes relatwonder why they find so difficult, things
ing to the Home. Among these subthat are plain as day to us, or why find- jects
are: Influences of Home, Training,
ing things so difficult they make so little Amusements,
Manners, etc. There is
progress oftentimes in gaining the most a
of introduction by Mrs. Garfield,
letter
elementary knowledge from geographies.
in which she says,"The true home is
Since our first arrival a little more the great school in which the hope for
than a year ago no lecture has been so humanity lies."
For this book Mr. Wm. Clark is the
largely attended at the Y. M. C. A.
Hall as was that by Mr. Arthur Brown agent on these Islands.
of England, on the Yellowstone Park,
The Annual Report (the 14th.) of
a lecture that commanded close attention the Woman's Board of Missions for the
and gave general satisfaction.
Mr. Pacific Islands "is also before us. It is
Brown was the guest of Mr. P. C. Jones full of interesting matter, and precious
during his stay among us.
for its memorial tributes to Mrs. Smith.
It should have a wide circulation.
A western paper in describing an
accident says : "Dr.
was called,
Of Grant it may truly be said :
A braver soldier never couched a lance,
and under his prompt and skillful treatA gentler heart did never sway acourt.
ment the man died on Wednesday night."
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