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Volume 57
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S. E. BISHOP
CONTENTS.
...
Christ's Crowing Kingdom
Keep Loyal to < hrist
New Evangelical Catechism
Peril from Heathen JajKtnese
Aala Park
Ixwkingfor a New Cemetery
llishop Willis Arranges to Resign
"I'he War in Samoa
University Extension...
Scriptures for the Philippines
New Valley Road
Associated Charities
Record of Events
Marine Journal
Hawaiian Hoard
The Missionary Kekela Returned
Adverse Conditions in Japan
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Christ's Growing Kingdom.
"Wars and rumors of wars" make us
sad, often despondent. What is to be
the outcome of our fierce battling with
the Filipinos? Where is there any
sunshine beyond the dark, hurtling tempest ?
Our supreme solace and assurance is
based upon the solid certainty that the
great, glorious dominion of the Lord
Jesus Christ overall the earth is coming
on with hastening strides. He is soon
to rule over all the tribes of mankind.
All the dark, sullen peoples are, in the
fullness of time, to own Him as Lord,
and to enjoy the light and love of His
gracious rule.
That blessed and perfect Kingdom is
the theme of prophetic song. A King
is to rule in judgment and righteousness. The Redeemer comes to be "a
leader and commander of the peoples."
Jesus taught us to pray, "Thy kingdom
come." Not in vain have those prayers
ascended. That benign sway is hastening on. Looking with Faith's confiding
gaze, we discern beyond the storm the
coming sunshine ot earth's long day of
peace and sweetness.
These human struggles and conflicts
are the necssary precursors of spiritual
victories. Many of the devils whom
Jesus exorcised, sadly tore their victims
before they departed. Wars
mammon. In this line come inward
peace, joy and fellowship with Christ.
We deeply pity and sorrow for the deluded millionaire Christian, who prides
himself on handing out a few thousands
here and ihere out of his hundreds ol
thousands of income, when the least
loyalty to Christ and His Kingdom
would draw from him one tenth of his
accumulating gains—when hearty, glad
loyalty would perhaps make him halve
those gains with the Lord's work. Oh.you
cramped and overloaded brother, how
your spiritual congestion would find relief in copious beneficence, if only the
Christ.
blessed light of Christ's love once illuWe Christians all deeply need to cul- mined your soul!
tivate and maintain a clear and strong
vision of this Coming Kingdom. It is
RDTervG
J. ulick.
the one great and bright hope of the
It is a great pLasuie to welcome for a
opening century. It should be the cenvisit
to his native land, after long aball
and
tral thought of
effort.
progress
the Rev. John Thomas Gulick,
sence,
children
to
and
seek
expect
Teach our
with his wife and daughter. Dr.
Ph.
D.,
Work
for
it.
for
the Kingdom.
Pray
it. Consecrate all to it. Be intensely Gulick is the third brother of the noted
Gulick missionary family. He labored
loyal to Christ and His Kingdom.
for many years in Kalgan, north of Peking, and still longer in Japan. Dr.
Keep Loyal to Christ.
Gulick holds an eminent position among
The piesent strenuous rush for gain in writers on evolutionary science, espeHawaii imposes a severe trial upon the cially in connection with the late Dr.
spiritual life of our Christian people. Romanes, whom it was his happiness to
They are in danger of being so consumed be the means of restoring to his lost
Christian faith. His early studies of the
with greed for the money prizes that
variations of Achatinellae mollusks, in
dangle before their eyes, as lo forget the Uahu mountains, enabled him to
their own souls, to stifle their hunger for construct theories indispensable to the
higher life, to postpone their sacred ob- science of evolution, and corrective of
ligations to their Master, to forget God, preceding errors.
and Eternity, and Heaven. But "what
ALiberal Gift.
shall it profit a man if he gain the whole
lose
his
soul
?"
world and
At a late moment, we are rejoiced to
In improving present opportunities for
learn
that Mr. Charles M. Cooke has
there
is
no
necessity
legitimate gain,
whatever of so far (orgetting higher in- donated the sum of $50,000 to the Haterests or neglecting sacred duties. waiian Board, as a permanent fund.
Christian brother, get what you gain The gift is worthy of the son of consestrictly tor your Lord's service. Hold
all that you receive as His steward. crated missionary parents, of beloved
Renew and make more comple your and revered memory. It gives especial
consecration to Him. When you find cheer at this time as betokening that
the spirit of greed tending to possess and our wealthy Christian men are awake to
inflame you, remedy the evil by some their obligations to Christ and his Kingact of deliberate and joyful contribution dom, in this time of their increasing
from your gains to the Lord's work. In wealth, and tbe rapidly growing needs
all your activity maintain an active and of Christ's Kingdom in this hemisphere.
self-sacrificing loyalty to your Master An immediate want is for that endowand His glorious Kingdom. In liberal, ment of $150,000 for the N. Pacific
copious gifts to the Lord's treasury, in Mission Institute, to educate minister*
some of the many forms of public ben for the Portuguese, Japanese and Chieficence loudly calling upon us, is our nese in these islands, as well as for HaHonolulu to begin a survey of the ocean waiians.
ous must attend the breaking down of
Satan's cruel rule over the oppressed
and misguided nations. But that rule
will be Irft broken for a rule of justice
and mercy to be established on its ruins.
When, for instance, the Philippines are
Editor pacified, there will no longer remain the
hopeless Spanish exclusion of enlightGrand opportunity will be
MuM enment.
evangelists and teachgiven
toChristian
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and initiate them
people
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New Evangelical Catechism.
F"or two years a committee of eighteen
delegates of the leading evangelical
churches in England have been engaged
in constructing a catechism which represents the doctrinal tenets held in common by those various churches. The
adoption was unanimous, indicating that
all those denominations hold all of the
doctrines therein embodied. Although
many tenets held by several churches
are omitted, the high spiritual tone of
the whole renders the catechism profitable to all. Its positive attitude in opposition to various current forms of
religious error may be seen in the following questions and answers
As against Papacy
33. Cj.—What is the Holy Catholic
:
:
Church ?
A.—lt is that Holy Society of believers in Christ Jesus which He founded,
of which He is the only Head, and in
which He dwells by His Spirit; so that,
though made up of many communions,
organized in various modes, and scattered throughout the world, it is yet One
in Him.
As against State Churches
86.
Q.—What is
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a Free Church ?
A.—A Church which acknowledges
none but Jesus Christ as Head, and,
therefore, exercises its right to interpret
and administer His laws without restraint or control by the State.
As against Sacramentarianism
41. Cj.—What are the Sacraments of
the Church ?
A.—Sacred rites instituted by our
Lord Jesus to make more plain by visible
signs the inward benefits of the Gospel,
to assure us of His promised grace, and,
when rightly used, to become a means
to convey it to our hearts.
As against Prelacy
40. Cj.—How may the validity of such
a ministry be proved ?
A.—The decisive proof of a valid
ministry is the sanction of the Divine
Head of the Church, manifested in the
conversion ofsinners and the edification
of the Body of Christ.
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As against Unitarianism
19.
Q.—What
:
is the mystery of the
blessed Trinity ?
A.—That the Father, the Son, and
the Holy Spirit, into whose Name we
are baptized, are one God.
As against Universalism
9. Cj.—What are the consequences of
:
sin?
A.—Sin separates man from God,
corrupts his nature, exposes him to
manifold pains and griefs, and, unless
he repents, must issue in death eternal.
In assertion of Vicarious Atonement:
[May, 1899
14. Cj.—What did He accomplish fo
us by His death on the Cross ?
A.—By offering Himself a sacrifice
without blemish unto God, He fulfilled
wards peace and goodwill, which shall
quiet and tame the fierce element latent
to such a degree in these people ? Do
we not know by daily and world wide
experience that there is no power in
human society so influential, so actively
efficient, as the power of Christ on
men's souls, to bring them into mutual
love, into justice and good will to one
another ? What these people need is
the loving, purifying Gospel of our
Lord and Master, lo work its uplifting,
softening, conciliating work upon their
communities, until many of them are
subdued into cordial obedience to the
faith, each one to become a light among
their fellows and a teacher of the right
ways of the Lord. Let there be even
one earnest Christian among every score
of Japanese, and a powerful force for
peace and good order will be created.
Each Christian disciple is a bright light
in the darkness. He is a mighty force
among his people, leavening and moulding them to wise thought and right
the requirements of Divine Holiness,
atoned for all our sins, and broke the
power of Sin.
Love, God's central Perfection
2. Cj. How must we think of God ?
A.—God is the one Eternal Spirit,
Creater and Sustainer of all things; He
is Love, boundless in wisdom and pow
er, perfect in holiness and justice, in
mercy and truth.
While positive, the tone is not aggressive. In the ninth question room is left
for the "Eternal Hope" indulged by
those like Canon Farrar, who hope that
all the lost will at some time in eternity
be brought to repentance. Room also
is left for the more scriptural doctrine of
"Conditional Immortality." Both of
these opinions are increasingly held in
evangelical churches, and had to be allowed for.
action.
Our wealthy capitalists, the planters,
then owe it to themselves, if merely as a
Peril from Heathen Japanese.
matter of insurance against riot and
By "heathen" Japanese we do not incendiarism, that they promote Chrismean the more intelligent classes of that tian instruction among their laborers.
is perhaps one Japanese Christian
nation, many of whom are highly edu- There
preacher to every three thousand of his
cated and ot refined culture. We refer people. There ought to be three times
to the uninstructed lower classes, from that number actively teaching their peothe very lowest of whom come the great ple the ways of Christ.
This course is emphatically urged, if
majority of the immigrant laborers on
as a measure of enlightened selfmerely
our plantations. They are people upon ishness. See
to it that every Japanese
whom the educated Japanese look down camp is reached by persuasive and symwith scorn. They have little knowledge of pathetic teachers of Christianity, who
the ordinary decencies and proprieties of shall gain the confidence of the laborers
life. They are often of heathenish reck and establish over them an influence
lessness of conduct, although amenable which shall be elevating and conservato authority, especially to that of supe- tive of good.
Then consult these
teachers as to how you may render the
ors of their own race.
We are continuing to import great lot of your laborers more healthy and
numbers of these ignorant and excitable wholesome, and make them happier in
laborers to work upon our plantations. their work. Make their condition more
About 11,000 came in last year. There homelike, and let them see the Christian
is nearly a certainty that 20,000 will be good will and charity in your relations
added this year. There will then be of master and servant. Every emfrom 60,000 to 70,000 of these people in ployer of labor sacredly owes such duthe islands, or nearly one-half of the ties to those who toil for his wages.
entire population composed of this alien
race, mostly of extreme ignorance and
ADay of Geologizing.
of much passionateness. Of what they
are easily capable is shown by their
It was our rare privilege a few days
recent murderous attack upon Chinese
at Kahuku. It is clear that unless effi- ago to drive Dr. C. H. Hitchcock, of
cient means be found favorably to influ- Dartmouth, down the Nuuanu Pali road.
ence them, the peril to society is great The eminent geologist was so fascinated
from such an increase in their numbers. with his work that he walked back up
So long as the laborers of other races
(of the Chinese especially) continued the 800-foot climb. This new road has
nearly equal in numbers, the latter were been cut into the precipitous side of the
a check upon irregularities of the Japa- mountain through nearly its whole
nese, and one race could be pitted against length of two miles. It presents a long
the other. When the latter come to be succession of tremendous
cuts into the
double the numbers of the former, that
side,
mountain
which
are
nearly
perpencheck will no longer efficiently operate/./
Such is the dangerous element. What dicular. Very rarely are such exposures
influence can we commind working- to- to be found of freshly excavated strata.
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of very ancient lava flows, both horizon- horse's equanimity to keep well ahead. and St. Louis College, also those inland
tal and sloping. There are numerous United States national collections will from Kaumakapili church and Beretania
vertical dikes of prismatic basalt splitting be enriched by a multitude of specimens street. The periodical flooding of these
through the earlier lava layers, from unknown depths to mountain summit.
There are huge masses of old lava in
process of decomposition through the
forms of spheroidal boulders, shelling
off friable laminations.
Of especial interest is a surface layer
of red cinder of great depth, evidently
ejected from the singular chasm close to
the turn of theroad at its summit. Just
beyond the steel bridge at the upper end,
this layer lies in sloping strata of fifty
or more feet in depth. These strata are
inclined at an angle of thirty or more
degrees, following the incline of the pre
cipitous ridge. Just beyond and above
the bridge can be seen their junction
with the ancient horizontal strata of the
mountain. At other points below, the
various forms assumed in the junction
of the new cinder with the old lava are
extremely interesting, the heat of the
new having cooked the partly decomposed surfaces of the old. There is
probably no other locality in this group
where road cuttings have exposed so
many facts of striking interest.
It is a rather curious circumstance
that two very eminent geologists were
both independently misled into the same
wrong conclusion by observing the
steeply inclined stratification of the
above mentioned red ejecta. Dr. James
D. Dana and Dr. Sollas of Dublin, both
saw from the head of the road on the
opposite inaccessible cliff these conspicuous sloping strata, from which they
inferred a positive evidence of a steep
downward flow of the lavas of the
mountain. This to their minds confirmed the theory that the depressed
Koolau area below was the bottom of a
vast caldera or crater, of which the
great mountain precipice formed one of
the original walls.
The truth is that the precipice wall
everywhere exposes a very solid horizontal stratification. The sloping cinder strata are entirely superficial.
Neither fact, however, proves anything
for or against the caldera theory; since
the walls of Kilauea and other calderas
are horizontally stratified. But the
great mountain wall of Koolau can be
far better accounted for as the result of
weathering by the beating windward
rains through long ages. Their erosion
has worn and sculptured down the original vast mountain dome until on that
side only the skeleton vertebrae remain.
A like condition is conspicuous on the
west side of Waianae ridge, which was
peculiarly exposed to westerly storms.
On the lower part of the road, Dr.
Hitchcock found some specimens oflava
containing forms of much beauty and
rarity, but which would have wholly
eluded an unpracticed eye. His hammer was vigorously plied and the flying
collected by Dr. H. in Hawaii and New
Zealand.
Aside from the special scientific in
terest, the new Pali road affords a series
of striking scenic views It is also a
fine piece of engineering, reflecting high
credit upon both projector and contrac
tors. The latter have executed solidly
a great amount of heavy and skilful
work.
low grounds will always be a menace to
the public health. It would be ultimate
economy to cart one hundred thousand
loads from Aala Park to fill up those sections, even if the use of the park were
thereby delayed five years. The poor
people would suffer less by the continued lack of a park than by living on low
and pestilential ground. We commend
this thought to public consideration.
Do not be short sighted. Haste makes
waste.
Aaia Park.
Some three or four acres in the sec-
Looking for
tion called Aala west of the mouth of
Nuuanu stream and above King street,
were set aside by the last Legislature for
a park, with a view of becoming a place
of recreation, especially for the pooier
classes of the city who are largely congregated in the low grounds adjacent as
well as in Chinatown. The land, flooded at high tide, had already been partially filled up by the harbor dredger. This
process has been continued at intervals,
and large quantities of earth have been
deposited, more than enough to have
elevated the entire park much above the
level of King street. But in the meantime, thousands of loads of the newly
deposited earth have been carted off by
the street builders, in order to fill up new
streets in that vicinity, so that a large
portion of the new park continues unfilled. It is not clear how long it is proposed to continue this process, and many
persons who desire to have the poor people and their children made more happy,
are manifesting great impatience at the
a
New
Cemetery.
There is probably sufficient reason
against converting the interior of Punchbowl into a cemetery. In the coming
growth of the city it will doubtless become a favorite resort for recreation. It
will be made very accessible by elevators at cheap rates. Such use is inconsistent with that of a cemetery.
A rather amusing objection made is
that of an unpleasant association of
one's departed friends with a place so
recently a "yowling, raging furnace,"
i.e., a Tartarus. More serious is that
of there being possible volcanic fissures
through which\the products ot decay
might be sifted down to the artesian
water bed some hundreds of feet below,
and the water supply of the city be contaminated. There is probably no such
danger, but better be on the safe side.
No desirable site lor a cemetery has yet
been agreed upon. We still adhere to
the opinion that it should be in the region of the I'uuloa railway station. The
underlying rock is too soft to constitute
an adequate objection. With the aid of
water to soften it, or with the help of a
very liltle powder, graves can easily be
dug in it. In that locality space for a
park like cemetery is unlimited.
prolonged delay in completing, leveling
and planting what will become a beautiful park.
There seem, however, to be very
strong reasons why the process objected
to should be continued a while longer.
There is no other accessible source of
material for filling the low streets in the
The "Army and Navy Journal" states
vicinity, except that earth delivered by
the dredger. Beretania and Kukui streets that "when one of these American
especially need to be put in good order troopships stopped at Gibraltar, British
at once, and the latter calls for a great
asked the privilege of inspection
amount of material. To cart that earth officers
or rock from Punchbowl would cost i and when they had finished they tolc
many times as much as to take it from the American officers that Great Britain
the park, where it can at once be replac with all her experience in the water
cd. For the right use of the park itself, transportation of troops, had no transit is of the highest importance that all ports to compare with those which the
the streets leading to it should speedily (American Government had devised for
be placed in the best condition. A the movement of soldiers to distant posyear's delay in planting the ground sessions."
seems to be of less importance than ihe | That would not have been said of the
prompt completion of the street work, hastily equipped troopships calling here
to say nothing of the economy of cost to on their way to Manila last summer, not
[to speak cf the hasty movement from
the public treasury.
As a matter of public health, it seems Tampa to Santiago. It is vastly cheaper
really a pity that harbor mud could not in the end to lodge and feed the men
be used to fill up all the low grounds in comfortably on shipboard.
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36
May, 1899.
THE FRIEND.
Better Housing for Plantation Laborers. ica assuming the work here, "I have
placed my tenure ol the oversight of this
Rev. Dr. Gordon, of Japan, briefly mission in the hands of the Archbishop
addressed the ministers' meeting of of Canterbury, so that it may cease as
April 17, by request." He had just re- soon as, but not until, the House of
turned from a brief tour among the Jap Bishops of America is ready to conseanese and their preachers on Maui. crate a bishop to succeed me."
While seeing much to commend and
It seems to be expected that this step
rejoice in, he expressed regret to find will put an end to the controversies
in some camps very inadequate housing. which have been disturbing the Anglican
How soon the
church in Hawaii.
Sometimes two or three couples, or per- American
Bishops will be able to act
haps ten men, were crowded into one does not appear. There are many
small room. This could not but be det wealthy members in that church here,
rimental to morals as well as comfort. and with their disagreements harmon
The Japanese laborer has an inbred love ized, they would seem likely to be able
of the beautiful. Such housing pains to support their work without foreign
his good taste. He loves to adorn his aid.
little home.
This violaticn of his
The Bishop makes impressive and edaesthetic instinct must depravate also ifying appeals to his people for unity,
his moral nature On some plantations zeal and devotion, so that "the Anglican
the laborers were found well housed, but church in Hawaii may never cease to be
not always on those paying the largest His blessed instrument for the converdividends. Our laws are strict on this sion of the heathen and the salvation of
subject, but not always well enforced.
souls." In such a prayer, for both that
church and our own, all our churches
In an interview with Rev. Dr. Harris, may heartily unite.
Superintendent of Japanese Missions
The War in Samoa.
here and in California, he strongly confirms Dr. Gordon's observations upon By latest reports the political troubles
the inadequate housing of Japanese labo- in our little neighbor, the Samoan or
rers upon our plantations, and their Navigator group, had reached an acute
consequent misery. Nowhere among stage, and violent hostilities were active
the poorest and lowest classes in Japan not only between the larger party of Mais there any such crowding and lack of taafaand the followers of Malietoa Tanu,
comfort. Dr. Harris also testifies most the two rival kings, but the war had
strongly to the priceless influence of also involved the forces of the American
their Christian teachers upon the Japa- and British warships which supported
nese laborers both here and in Califor Malietoa, the Ge #ian warship remainnia. Considerable numbers of earnest, ing nominally n.utral, but giving all
simple-hearted converts are won, whose possible moral su >rt to Mataafa, and
influence upon their fellows is most secretly supplying lis people with arms
salutary. A Japanese Consul in Cali- and ammunition ■ Judge Chambers
fornia, some two years ago, reported to had declared Ma iafa ineligible to the
his government in the strongest terms throne, and Malietoa to be king. The
in respect to the elevating influence of British Consul supported Chambers.
the Christian religion upon his people. The German Consul denied his authoriThe effect of his observations upon him- ty. Having the open moral support of
self was such that the Consul became the Germans, it was not strange that
an earnest Christian, and is now living Mataafa's people undertook to carry their
as such at a Chinese port, and maintain- point by force.
ing family worship in his home.
The source of disorder evidently lies
It is due to our planters to give Dr. in the impossible attempt to govern the
Harris' testimony that he has found no little nation by a Joint Commission of
conditions of housing here comparable three nations, having diverse views and
in misery to those prevailing upon aims. It seems clear that so impracranches in California where Asiatics are ticable a method must be given up and
employed. But that does not exonerate the islands pass under the protection of
our planters and ageuts for their neglect some one power, either England or
Greed for dividends overrides justice Germany, since America wants only the
and humanity.
naval station of Pango-pango, long
since ceded to us. It is matter of deep
regret that our country should have beBishop Willis Arranges to Resign.
come entangled in war upon a PolyneRt. Rev. Alfred Willis, Bishop of sian tribe, involving mutual slaughter,
as it has done. It is strange into what
Honolulu, announces that on account of storms of war our navy and
army have
annexation and the consequent advisa- been drawn of late, in diverse latitudes
bility of the church (Episcopal) in Amer-j and regions.
University Extension.
Prof. Henry Rolfe, of California, a
well accredited scholar, has opened in
Honolulu a series of University Extension lectures, connected with English
Literature. Instruction by able lecturers
on the higher lines of thought, ought to
be a rich boon to any intelligent community, and doubtless ours will profit by
such opportunities. We hardly understand, however, why Prof. Rolfe should
have introduced his course by inviting
people to the close and careful study of
so trivial and uninspiring a writer as
Charles Lamb, or one who, aside from
some felicities of diction, added so little
to the world's sum of high thought or
helpful knowledge. It is to be hoped
that the proposed course will supply a
higher basis of intellectual nutriment
than such a quality of undeveloped
mutton, when so glorious a galaxy of
literary stars awaits attention.
Easter Sunday was especially observed in the Honolulu churches. In
Central Union there was an elaborate
musical programme, lovely decorations
of lilies and magnolias, and a most impressive sermon on Immortality and the
failure of so many to reach after it.
Scriptures for the Philippines.
Recent events have stirred the British
and Foreign Bible Society to some
prompt feats of translation, and portions
of the New Testament in no less than
four tongues are in preparation for the
Philippines.
The first three Gospels
and the Acts in Tagalog, the language
of the dominant native race there, are
actually printed St. Luke's Gospel in
Ilocono is nearly finished; and the same
book in Bicol is ready for issue. These
renderings, it appears, are largely due to
the energy of the Society's agent in
Madrid (Rev. R. O. Walker) who secured the collaboration of some exiled
Filipinos. Almost the whole Testament
has been translated into Pangasinan.
;
Telegraphing Across Island Channels.
Telegraph communication seems likely soon to be in operation between our
islands. Marconi has successfully sent
telegrams across the British channel
without a wire. An invisible electric ray
is flashed from a lofty mast, directed to
a receiver thirty miles away, which records it. So Hawaii will not need an
inter-island cable. Rain, fog and darkness do not obstruct the ray.
Vol. 57, No. 5.]
37
THE FRIEND.
A First-Class Public School House.
will run up to the Pali on this road. It
will be a great boon to our population to
There was thrown open for the inspec- have cheap access to that wonderfully
tion of a great throng of visitors on magnificent scenery. Even this carriage
road ought to result in 'bus fare to the
April 22d, a splendid new public school Pali ofless than fifty cents.
building, just completed on the grounds
of the Reformatory School. It is of
Associated Charities.
brick, two storied, about 1.50 by 75 feet,
and containing twelve commodious
Honolulu appears to be genuinely inschool rooms, furnished with the most debted to Mrs. Williams, of Minneapo
modern improvements. The architec
lis, who recently, while a visitor here,
ture of the building is becoming, with
was
opened started an effective movement for organ
something of ornament. It
Mr. izing the simple business arrangement
24th,
on
the
with
use
for school
Armstrong Smith as principal. It will between the various charitable organizabe known as the Princess Kaiulani tions known as Associated Charities. It
School.
is very frequently the case that the same
This building marks a stage of prog person contrives fraudulently to obtain
ress, being the first public school build- regular aid from two or more separate
ing on Hawaii in the modern city style. charitable bodies In order to prevent
Another building on the same plan is in this, the various bodies, while continuing
progress of erection on Beretania street, entirely independent, combine to employ
in Makiki. The cost of these buildings, an agent or Secretary, to whom every
completely furnished, will be about application for aid is submitted, and
$25,000 each.
whose duty it is to ascertain whether
the party is already receiving the necesA painfully large death rate for Hono- sary help. Books are kept in which the
lulu appeared for the month of March, names and circumstances of all persons
being 33.94 per thousand. It scarcely helped by the different organizations are
Thus much of needed money
lessens the seriousness of the conditions recorded.
saved
for
the help of the destitute
is
when it appears that for Americans and poor, which otherwise would be wasted
Europeans the death rate was only 14.4, upon artful pretenders to indigence,
while for Hawaiians it reached the who drive their trade successfully in
enormous amount of 53.22 per thousand. every community not protected by the
above arrangement.
More than 50 per cent of those deaths
under.
five
and
years
were of children of
Power from Liquefied Air.
The causes of this excessive mortality
which
have
been
those
are doubtless
C. E. Tripler liquefies air with extreme
rapidly wasting the Hawaiians since
He claims to compress and
civilization began to intrude upon them. cheapness.
ten
gallon '' of the liquid by
But those causes can be greatly mitiga- congeal
and
the
suppression
care
of
the
watchful
means
expanding and cooling
ted by
of drunkenness and vice, which stalk force of three gu-.i ins previously protoo openly.
duced. If true, th will generate illim
itable power without cost, and so revoNew Valley Road.
lutionize all manufacture and transpor
The Government is vigorously push- tation. The average opinion of the
scientific man is doubtless expressed by
ing work upon the public roads and "Electrical
Engineer" as follows :
It
is
bridges in all parts of the Islands.
"Were this true
* the whole
teams
with
becoming possible to drive
atmosphere on the surface of the globe
ease for great distances over sections might ultimately become liquefied. The
which five years ago presented only dif- mere suggestion of this consequence
should prove a reductio ad absurdiini.
ficult trails for horses or mules.
The splendid road down Nuuanu Pali * * The great lesson that nature foris fast becoming supplemented by a fine ces upon us is that nothing is to be had
carriage road from the Pali four miles to from her for nothing, and very little for
the inland suburb of the city. Over two a penny. * * Nature's price list for
miles of this are already graded to below energy is fixed, and no jugglery can
Luakaha residences, and an excellent change it."
It looks likely that the twentieth cen
macadam surfacing is in progress. The
new road makes a wide sweep westward tury will not see the world's industrial
from the Pali, rejoining the old road at energies revolutionized by Mr. Tripler.
the foot of the crater hill. It makes ancommenced
other long detour westward, and crosses ofThe construction has been
from
Hilo to
above
the
resera
fifteen-mile
railway
road
again
just
the old
sugar plantation
voirs. Thence it sweeps off toward Olaa and the great
Tantalus, probably to come back some started there. This will ensure rapid
where above the electric station. It is material progress in that fertile district.
to be hoped that in time traction cars Probably the construction of a railroad
*
to the plantations
along the north coast
of Hilo will s.ion follow, to be continued
sixty miles through Hamakua. Thus
Hilo's prospects as a commercial city
cintinue lo increase.
The heaviest rainfall for the month of
March was 3:1.54 inches, at Laupahoehoe, at an altitude ol 600 feet. The
general average in the Hilo district was
about 23 inches. In Kohala, which had
long suffered from drought, the average
was over seven inches. The rain in
Honolulu averaged nearly five inches,
and in the upper valleys over twenty
inches. The earlier winter months had
been dry until February. The rains in
April have been quite moderate throughout the group.
The Honolulu Iron Works are about
Kakaako, a great number of
large and small buildings, furnished by
Milliken Bros., who erected the immense
steel structures on Oahu Plantation.
The boiler shop, machine shop and
foundry will each be 300 feet long and
85, 90 and 88 feet wide respectively.
The pattern shops will be of two stories,
200 by 60 feet. The concern will be
equipped with latest improved machines,
traveling cranes,dynamos and compressed air plant. It will have immediate
access to the Harbor channel.
to erect, at
The natives have been collecting and
selling the coal which has washed up
from the wreck of the O'Brien for a
thousand yards along the reef, seaward
of Quarantine Island.
Hence a litigation has arisen against the natives from
the owners of the wreck and cargo, as
well as from the owners of the reef, who
forbid trespass. Probably all three parties have equitable claims on the coal,
which sells at $6 per ton.
RECORD OF EVENTS.
April Ist—Sewerage bonds to the
of $205,000—0ut of $250,000
advertised for—secure bids of one per
cent premium. —Overseer F. Keiser, of
Waimea Plantation, meets a frightful
death, on Kauai, from an accidental explosion of giant powder.
2d.—Easter : special services and
amount
tasteful floral decorations in all the
churches, secure a large attendance,
both morning and evening.
3d.—Annual meeting of the Y. M. C.
A. and election of officers. Present
membership is shown to be about 460.
4th. —Pleasant reception by Mr. and
Mrs. Geo. R. Carter, at the homestead,
in honor of Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Strong,
which was very generally attended.
6th.—Return of Rev. Jas. Kekela, the
THE FRIEND.
38
[ JVl&y, 189".
aged missionary of Marquesas, with his hall to departing brother Odd Fellows
family, after an absence of forty six of the lingineer Corps.
years.
20th.—Six of the Kahuku Japanese
fith.—Rev. Kekela gets a warm greet- rioters are committed, charged with
ing at the meeting of.the Oahu Association. —Kilohana Art League give a delightful concert as a "house warming"
of their new quarters in the Model block,
Fort street. Book social at the Central
Union Church proves a success.
7th. —The Registration Board opens
office to qualify voters for the fall election. The Morning Star resumes the
interrupted Micronesian mission work
and sails for the various stations with
needed supplies.
Bth. —Word received of the death, on
Maui, of Thos. Campbell, from theresuit of injuries sustained on the 3d inst.,
at the Paia mill. His remains were
brought to this city for interment, the
funeral, under G. A. R. auspices, taking
place on the 10th.
10th.—Prof. H. Rolfe arrives to organize the University Extension work
in these islands. —Mr. F. Cowley, of the
—
California Construction Co., the successful bidders for the contract of open
ing up Pearl Harbor, arrives to begin
preliminary work.
11th.—A native at Kona, Hawaii, in a
fit of insanity clubs his aged father inlaw to death.
13th.—Militia equipment of Hawaii is
formally transferred to the United States.
—Six Japanese of the Kahuku rioters
arraigned, charged with murder and being accessories thereto.—The organization committee of Associated Charities
met and approved, with slight change,
the constitution.
14th. —The naval board of harbor survey met with the Executive and the
Chamber of Commerce Committee to
consider the feasibility of wharf exten
sion and larger harbor facilities for the
rapidly increasing commerce of this port,
but without arriving at any definite con-
clusions.
15th.—First annual meeting of the
Waverly Club, for the presentation of
reports and election of officers. The
finances show $3014.55 receipts, and
$2785.03 expenditures.
16th.-—The Erskine M. Phelps, Sew-
all's latest four masted clipper, said to
be the first American built sailing vessel
constructed of American steel, arrives
from San Francisco to load sugar.
17th.—Meeting of committee on new
cemetery site ask for further time, as
Punchbowl is not considered a suitable
location. —Chamber of Commerce takes
definite action on harbor improvements
and recommends wharf extension.
Rev. Dr. A. Kummer gives the fourth
and closing lecture of his series at the
Y. M. C. A., on "Cathedrals of liurope."
18th.—Excelsior Lodge, I. O. O. P.,
gave a farewell entertainment at their
—
22 -Am sch Transit, Jorgensen, from San Francisco.
Am sch C S Holmes, Johnson, from Seattle.
from Newcastle.
24 Am sch W II Talbot,
■'.'■ Am sch T S Negus, Manha, from San Diego.
from Newcastle.
Olsen,
Am s<h H D Hendixon,
Am bk Fort George, Morse, from San Francisco.
2rl Am ss Mariposa, Hayward, "
"
Am bk Mauna Ala, Sniilh,
27 Am v h Robl. Leavers, Goodman, from San Francisco
Rio
dc
Janeiro,
Ward,
ss
"
Am
U S traus|K>rt Warren, Hart,
2S—Haw bk Himalaya, Dearborn, from Newcastle.
Am sb Aryan, Wbillier, from Norfolk.
Hr ss Moana, Carey, from the Colonies.
Am ss ('ity of Peking, Smith, from Yokohama
2!) Hr ss Hcluian King, Weiss, from Yokohama.
H Am s,-h Repeat, Olsen, from Seattle.from San Francisco
I! S lraiis|K>rt Newport, Saunders,
Am sch X S Redtield, Birkholm, from Port Gamble.
Am sch Ottilie Kjord, Segelhort, from F.ureka.
_
murder.- Departure of the Australia ;
"
the Engineer Corps get a rousing "send
off."-- Delightful garden party and re"
ception at the home of Minister E. A.
MottSmith ; very largely attended.
Brewer & Co. purchase Castle & Cooke's
interest in the Onomea plantation, reported at 13,000 shares.—The Young
Men's Research Club discuss cremation.
DKPAR'IURKS.
22d.—The new Palama school buildSeabury,
for Yokahama.
China,
ss
is :iI—Am
named Princess Kaiulani
ing
Am Ik WilScotl, Peabody, for San Francisco.
for San Krancisco.
Rio
ile
Ward,
ss
Janierio,
thrown open to the public, and elicits 6—Am cruiser
Chltose, Sakitrai, for Yokosuga.
6—lap
much praise for its fine appointments.
—U S Transport City of Puebla, Thomas, for Manila.
Cleveland, Klitgaard, for Manila.
Janet Waldorf opens a brief Shakespe- 7—UHrSssTransport
Garonne, Conradi, for Seattle
rian season at the Opera House in
Haw Star of Bengal, Henderson, for San Francisco.
—Ani Miss, bktn Morning Star, Garland, for Micronesia
"Twelfth Night."
H—U S Transport Zealandia, Dowdell, for Manila.
9 -Am bktn Irmgard, Schmidt, for Sin Francisco.
26th.—The eightieth anniversary of I(l—Haw
bk Diamond Head, Ward, for San Francisco
foi San Francisco.
Odd Fellowship was celebrated by the 11—Hawbk R P Rithet, Calhoun,Anderson
for Manila.
U. S. transport Chas. Nelson,
members of that order at Progress Hall
Ilr ss Doric, Smith, for Yokohama
Coptic,
Sealby,
for
San
Francisco.
—Br
ss
by a literary and musical entertainment,
sh C F Sargent, Haskell, for Seattle.
after which dancing prevailed till the If Am
Am bktn Amelia, Wilier, for Port Hlakely.
—lir ss Aurangi, HepwOrth, for Vancouver.
small hours of morning.
IS—Haw sh Falls of Clyde, Matson, for San Francisco.
ss Warrimoo, Hay, for the Colonies.
27th.—Arrival of the transport War- H—Hr
Ifi-Am bk McNear, Pedersotl, for Laysan I.
ren, en route for Manila, with eight bat- 17—Am sch Chas. Hansen, Daimevez, for Hana,
Fr sch Tahitiennc, Winchester, for Marquesas.
teries of the Sixth artillery, and a num18—Amsch Jennie Wand, Christiansen, for Hana.
for'fallal, Chile.
ber of recruits for other companits, —Br bk Invermark, Smith,Dunning,
for New York.
-Am sh Ceo R Skolfield,
comprising in all nearly 1200 men.
10—Jap ss Nippon Maru, Evans, for Yokohama.
sch Metha Nelson, Rice, for Mahukona.
—Am
28th.—Prospectus of Olaa's big sugar
Am ss Elihu Thompson, Whitney, for San Krancisco.
sch Spokane, Jamieson, for the Sound.
plantation issues, to capitalize at $5,000- •iv- Am
Am s« Australia, Houdlette, for San Francisco.
--000; area 19,500 acres.
—Hr sh Carnedd Llewellyn, Griffiths, for I-obos dc Alfuera Is.
29th.
Chas. M. Cooke donates 21 Jap
ss America Maru, Cope, for San Francisco.
for Hilo.
$50,000 to the Hawaiian Board for a 22—Am sh A J Fuller, Nichols,
sch Alice C ooke, Pcnhallow, for San Francisco.
Am
fund towards -the maintenance of its
Giugliani,
for Yokohama.
It cruiser Piemonte,
lik Fresno, Underwood, for Port Townacnd.
work.—Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Davies give M Am bk
for San Francisco.
Baikus,
26 Am Kdward May,
a garden party at Craigside as a recep-Am bk Alden Hesse, Potter, for San Francisco.
Mari|>osa Hayward, for the Colonies.
tion to Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Walker, re- 27 —Ass
Am sib A M Baxter, Marshall, for San Francisco.
Rio dc Janeiro, Ward, for Yokohama.
cently returned, and a farewell to Mr. 2H AmssssMoana,
Carey, for San Francisco.
Br
and Mrs. F. M. Swanzy.
Am sch W F lewetl, Johnon, for Port Townsend.
WG
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Irwin, William-, for San Francisco.
■ Am I
Gray's Harbor.
Ogilvie,
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PORT OF HONOLULU, APRIL.
for
Am sch A J West,
—Am sch Azalea, Tardelius, for Gray's Harbor.
—Am bk S C Allen, Johnson, for San Ktancisca.
Am ss City of Peking. Smith, for San Francisco.
:ki Br ss Belgian King, Weiss, lor San Diego.
—U S trans|K.rt Warren, Hart, for Manila.
ARRIVALS.
I—Am bk S C Allen, Johnson, from San Francisco.
—Am bktn Amelia, Wilier, from Port Townsend.
2 Am bk rid ward May, Backus from Newcassle.
4—Am ss Riode Janeiro, Ward, from Yokohama.
Br ss t .aronne, L'onradi, fro... Seattle.
Am sch A J West, Ogilvie, from Aberdeen.
5 Am s< h Alice Cooke, Pe'ihallow, from San Kram is. n.
—Ft sch Tahitienue, Winchester, from Papeete.
U S trmMporl Zralamli.i, Doudcll, from .San Kran.
Am s h \V X [c-well, Johnston, from Porl Townsend.
8 Am brc W G Irwin, Williams, from San Francisco.
—Am sen Jennie Wand, Christiansen, from Kurrka.
Br bk Adderly, l.indfors, from Newcastle.
—Am sch Metha Nelson, Rice, from Newcastle.
Haw sch Honolulu, Thronagle from Newcastle.
7—Am sch Chas Hanson, Daunerig, from Eureka.
8- Am sch Azalea, Fardelins, from Port Townsend.
U S transiHirt Chas Nelson, Anderson, from San Fran.
o—Am ss Klihu Thompson, Whitney, from Seattle.
~ Am bk Ceylon, Wilier, from San Francisco.
Am bk Martha Davis, Friis, from San Francisco
Am bktn .S G Wilder, Jackson, from San Francisco.
Am scb Wm Kenton, Jam-son, from I'm Townsend.
Am sch Carrier Dov, Brandt, from Newcastle.
in Hr M Doric, Smith, from San Francisco
It cruiser Pienmnte, Giugliani, from Acapulco.
11 Hr ss Coptic, Sealby, from Yokohama.
I" Am ss Australia, Houdlette, from San Francisco.
Hi ss Aorangi, Hepworth, from the Colonies.
-Am sh S P Hitchcock, (iates, from San Francisco.
14—Am sch Defiance, Blum, from Newcastle.
-Br ss Warrimoo, Hay, from Vancouver
It, Am bk Allien, Crirhiths from San Francisco.
Am sh Krskine M Phelps, Graham, from San Fran.
17- Am bktn S N Castle, Hubbard, from San Francisco.
18 Japss Nippon Maru, Kvans, from San Francisco.
19—Am sh lroquis, Thompson, from New York.
21—Jap ss America Maru, Cope, from Yokohama.
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BIRTHS.
Honolulu, April
mers A. Graham, a daughter.
GRAHAM.- In
10, ID the wife of Chal-
LINDSAY. At Honokaa, Hawaii, April 20, 18W, to the
wife of A. B. Lindsay,
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son.
MARRIAGES.
BRISTOL-LAMB,- At Kamehameha chapel, Kalihi,
April Sd< by the R« v. Dr. C. M. Hyde, a-sisled by Rev.
S. P. Perry, W, W. Bristol to Miss Olive Lamb.
WILS»N-GRIFFIN.-In this city, April 12th, by the
Key. H. H. Parker, John H. Wilson to Miss
Griffin
DAVIS CAR I KK.—ln New York City April nth, at the
Churchof/ion and St. Timothy, Dr. C. F. Davis to Mrs.
Mary Scott Carter.
PKTKRSON-WHITE.- In this city, April 21«, by the
Rev. Dr. S. K. Bishop, R. C. A. Peterson to Miss Mary
Agnes White.
DEATHS.
(
OLI.INS.-ln Hilo. Hawaii, March », 1889, A. F. Col
lins, a native of Kngland, aged 89 years.
SIUR I F.VANT.-In Honolulu, April*, 1*99, Mils Nellie
.
Slurtevant,
*fs«4fl years.
CAMPBF.I.L.-Al Paia, Maui, April Sth, 1899, Thomas
lampbell, a native of Glasgow, Kngland, aged «4 years.
ANDERSON--At Naalehu, Kau, Hawaii, April 16th, of
typhoid fever, Hilda, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A.
manths.
r Anderson, aged la years and
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sonal supervision which Mr. Lydgate is
enabled to give to the different parishes
HONOLULU. H. I.
much good service is given and many
differences are healed. The Pastors'
This page is devoted to the interests of the Hawaiian
Board of Missions, and the Editor, appointed by the Aid Society of the island, of which Mr.
Board, is responsible for its contents.
Lydgate is Secretary and Treasurer, col
lecting and disbursing agent at once,
Rev. 0. P. Emerson,
Editor. continues its beneficent service. Because
of this organization, every pastor in
Kauai has a fair living salary paid him
Rev. Kanoho is doing carpenter work regularly, and with it a parsonage kept
at Lihue, Kauai.
in good repair. The agreement is that
if the church will keep the meeting house
Rev. S. P. Kaaia goes this month to in repair the Pastors' Aid Society will
Waianae to take charge of the native do the same for the parsonage.
church of that place.
Another feature of the meeting was a
noticeable growth in the efficiency of the
The meeting house at Kapulena, pastorate. Mr Lydgate is making a
Hamakua, has been repaired. ReV. M. systematic visitation of the nativehomes
C. Keanoho is pastor.
of the entire island. This he does with
the pastor of each parish successively.
A pastor is greatly needed to fill the He also holds bi-monthly meetings with
pulpit of Kaahumanu church, Wailuku, the pastors for biblical study and for such
now vacant by the resignation of Rev. lines of research as properly go with it.
S. Kapu.
A useful course in ethics has just been
completed. Mr. Lydgate's knowledge
The annual meeting of the Hawaiian of the Hawaiian language enables him
Evangelical Association will be held the to be very successful in this branch of
work. He has endeared himself to
first week in June. The anniversary his
the people and every where in the field
meetings begin on Sunday, the 4th of
is welcomed by the pastors as an
June, and continue through the week he
inspiration and a guide. Aa a result of
till Sunday, the I lth.
this growth two lay preachers received
ordination at the hands of the AssociaMr. W. Z. Waikalai, late student at tion. One was Samuel Koula, a native
the North Pacific Institute, was con- of Waimea, Kauai,and for many years a
spicuous by his absence from the parish stanch christian worker and lay preacher,
of Koloa, to which he had been called. of the church of that place. He was
It is said that he is on the police force once a student of theology under Rev.
in Honolulu.
Father Alexander, and has lately studied
Mr. L. G. Kakani, who has been for a under Mr. Lydgate. He is a man much
year acting as supply for the church at respected and beloved by all.
Lihue, has returned to the North Pacific The other was J. M. Naeole, a gradu
Institute, where he will reside and study ate and for a time teacher in Lahianatill the close of the school year in June. luna School. He had quite a successful
This leaves the Lihue church in need of course as teacher of the Government
a pastor.
School at Haena, Kauai. For the last
six months he has been preaching at
Koloa, where he is to continue as preachThe Kauai Association.
er till possibly called to the pastorate of
The Kauai Association met at Lihue the leper settlement. He too has been
enjoying a course of study with the other
April 12th and 13th, having a full atpastors of the island under Mr. Lydgate.
tendance of pastors and delegates from These two men who received the unanall the native churches of the island.
imous vote of the Association for ordinIt was a pleasure on arriving at Na- ation, were licensed by it to preach six
wiliwili at 4 a. m., to be able to retire months ago. The ordination exercises
were held Thursday evening and were
for two hours of sleep before beginning oi an impressive character.
the day's work, knowing that, as the
It is expected that Koula will supply
meeting was to be near at hand and not the pulpit of the Koolau church, which
across the island, it would not be neces- is made vacant by the resignation of
sary to take to horse and ride a score Rev. S. K. Kaulili. Mr. Kaulili was led
and a half of miles swiftly in the dark to to take the step of resigning his charge
be present at its opening. To have to because of the ill health of his wife, He
do this after having crossed Kaieie chan- has removed her to Honolulu. On being dismissed from his pastorate he renel is sometimes very fatiguing.
One noticeable feature of the Kauai ceived the customary recommendation
meeting was its harmony. Under ihe from the Association, as a preacher in
wise leadership of Rev. Mr. Lydgate, good standing. By vote of the Associamost of the pastors and the churches tion, Mr. Lydgate was made "Komike"
have come to work happily together. (put in charge of) all the pastorless
Much *jood work is done. By the per- churches in Kauai.
HAWAIIAN BOARD.
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Rev. David L. Ai sends to the Board
a quarterly Report of his labors as their
missionary among the native churches
in Hilo and Puna, in association with
the Rev. Stephen Desha, pastor of Haili
church in Hilo. Mr. Ai is a graduate
of Kamehameha School and North Pacific Mission Institute. He writes excellent English. Some extracts from
his report follow :
"The Mission extends from Laupahoehoe to Puna churches. In Hilo district there are four places to be looked
after—Laupahoehoe, Puuohua, Hakalau
and Onomea. lam to preach in those
places two Sundays each month, if possible, occupying two places each Sunday.
Except in Laupahoehoe, the
Christian work in.those places is growing slowly and steadily. There are not
many people living there.
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"In Puna there are five places—Olaa,
Puula, Kalapana, Opihikau and Kamaili.
The work is growing nicely in these
places. Except in Olaa, I shall preach
in those places two Sundays in each
month, if possible. In case of a fifth
Sunday in the month, I shall preach in
Olaa, or else in Haili Church, to assist
Rev. S. L. Desha. I am thankful for
his help in carrying out the plan of the
Mission, as well as for the kindness of
many people in different places."
The Missionary Kekela Returned.
It is a great pleasure to record the arrival, on April sth, of the venerable missionary, the Rev. James Kekela, together
with his noble wife, Naomi, and a large
band of his children and grandchildren,
a family of fourteen in all. Through
the generosity of Mr. S. T. Alexander,
supplemented by the Hawaiian Board,
Mr. Kekela was enabled to charter the
little schooner 7 u/</7f(,'«««,which brought
the party here in 20 days from the Marquesas Is., where their home has so
long been.
It was 46 years ago, in ISM, that Mr.
and Mrs. Kekela and two other missionary couples, left their native land to labor
for their Lord among the very savage
and brutal cannibals of the Marquesas
Is. They have wrought patiently and
successfully. They have lifted up many
of the people into Christian living. Cannibalism and war long since disappeared
under French authority. During his
early residence. Kekela won distinguished public notice by his efforts in saving
the life of a whaling officer from a cannibal chief, for which President Lincoln
sent him a watch.
Three of Kekela's daughters were educated and married in Hawaii, the oldest of them being Mrs. Martin, of Kau.
Onecan come with hischildren, whom
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[May, 1899
he will leave here in school. Two bottom for a cable between Honolulu ing ground.
younger daughters have also come who
received French education in the Prot
eatant mission in Tahiti, but speak no
English. They have been teachers in
Government schools in the Marquesas.
A touching reception met the venerable missionary on the morning of the
6th, from the Oahu Church Association
in session at Kaumakapili. The aged
man was overcome with emotion, but
finally spoke a few words with force.
Several short addresses of welcome
were made by native and white ministers, full of tender feeling, Mr. Kekela
spoke the following Sabbath with great
vigor at Kawaiahao church. He was
subsequently attacked by grippe, and we
deeply regret to report has fallen into a
serious nervous condition, which brings
much pain to his family, and especially
to Mrs. Martin and her sisters, gathered
here to welcome their parents.
After two weeks' stay in Honolulu
harbor, the missionary steamer Morning
Star on the 7th ult. resumed her voyage
to Micronesia.
There were no addi-
tional white passengers except the family of Capt. Garland, who took command
here in place of Capt. Bray. Rev. I,allien and wife returned to Jaluit. They
came up a year ago to assist Dr. Pease
in revising his translation of the New
Testament. The usual farewell relig
ious services were held on board just
before the ship sailed. Each yearly
parting with these little bands ufvaliant,
patient, loving workers brings fresh inapiration as we help send them on to
their years of toil in sowing and reaping.
The Sugar Boom.
The high prices reached by plantation
shares continue, with a slight abatement.
These prices may perhaps be justified
for the well established concerns, but
careful discrimination should be exercised about new schemes which have
been started with excessive capitalization. The gambling spirit blinds people
as to real values of property. It is to be
said,however, that our most experienced
agents are found paying for old concerns
what a year ago would have been deem
ed impossible prices. While there is
doubtless a solid basis for advanced
prices, incautious buyers are liable to
end with heavy losses. Some of the
newly starting plantations with huge
capitals on paper, are sound schemes—
others perhaps are not.
Survey
for Pacific Cable.
The U. S. steam collier Nero has
just been altered and fitted for deep-sea
sounding. She is immediately due at
refuge from the base, corrupt spirit of
The Christian Japanese
and Luzon via Midway,Wake and Guam maintain a steadfast front against all
Islands. Midway Island is probably social impurity.
unsuitable for a cable station. Of course
the section of the cable from California
Increase of Steam Traffic.
to Hawaii will be the one first laid,
doubtless during 1900.
Our Marine Records for the first four
months of 1898, and those of 189!f,
There is a harbor basin of considerashow an increase of ocean steamers
ble area and depth at Kalihi, in the west
arriving at this port, as follows :
part of the city. A proposition is mooted
51
In 4 mont sot 1898
to connect it with the present harbor by
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a canal a mile and a half long, over 200
those in 1898, five were warships
Of
feet wide and 2b or 30 feet deep. Some and 46 merchant steamers.
borings have been made along the route,
Of those in 1899, 7 were warships,
which indicate that the greater part of and 19 were U. S. transports, leaving
the material to be excavated is mud and 66 as merchant steamers. This is an
soft coral. It is estimated that the new increase
of 43 per cent in the latter
land made along the canal by the dredg- class in one year.
The increase of all
exings will go far towards paying the
classes of ocean steamers arriving at
pense of excavation. This scheme may this port was 80 per cent in one year.
possibly assist in relieving the growing This betokens a great commercial fucongestion of Honolulu harbor. The ture for Honolulu very near at hand.
coming needs of the immensely growing
Pacific commerce can only be met, however, by the occupation of Pearl Harbor.
The Rev. Dr. Meredith, of Brooklyn,
tries to cultivate friendly relations with
Adverse Conditions in Japan.
the younger members of his flock. In
a recent talk to his Sunday school he
The Rev. Dr. M. L. Gordon recently urged the children to speak to him whenspoke from Central Union pulpit on the ever they met. The next day a dirtyProgress of Christianity in Japan. On faced urchin, having a generally disreputable appearance, accosted him in the
the following morning, he addressed the
street with: "How, do, Doc?"
Ministers meeting, with absorbing interThe clergyman stopped, and cordially
est, as he described a number of the inquired: "And who are you, sir?"
"I'm one of your little lambs," replied
more difficult problems meeting our
missionaries in the country. One was the boy, affably. "Fine day."
And, tilting his hat to the back of his
ihe new factory system. The manufacture of textiles used to be a house- head, he swaggered off, leaving the
hold industry. Now the spinning and clergyman speechless with amazement.
weaving of cotlon is conducted in huge
factories, to which the young of both When Dr. Creighton had been offered
sexes are lured from their country the bishopric of London, he hesitated
homes. There they are herded and some time before accepting it. One of
worked for long hours without recrea- his faithful Peterborough parishioners
tion or Sunday rest, in conditions grew so anxious to learn of his decision
destructive to morals as well as health. that one day she asked Dr. Creighton's
Legislation will no doubt be enacted to daughter what he had decided to do.
diminish the evil. But the community
"Well, I don't know," the young lady
lacks moral sentiment to make such
"all I can say is that papa is in the
said;
legislation effective.
study
praying for guidance and mamma
Another difficulty arises from the ab- is upstairs packing the trunks."
sence in the government schools of re
ligious instruction or efficient moral
training. The new generation is growing in intelligence without the needed
moral restraints. Dr. Gordon spoke of
concubinage as openly practiced by men
in high station, and by leading professors in the great schools. To suggest Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands.
any reprehension created resentment.
ESTRBLISHBO IN ISBBLeading Buddhists were moved to deChrist's
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HONOLULU. H. 1., MAY, 1899
Volume 57
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S. E. BISHOP
CONTENTS.
...
Christ's Crowing Kingdom
Keep Loyal to < hrist
New Evangelical Catechism
Peril from Heathen JajKtnese
Aala Park
Ixwkingfor a New Cemetery
llishop Willis Arranges to Resign
"I'he War in Samoa
University Extension...
Scriptures for the Philippines
New Valley Road
Associated Charities
Record of Events
Marine Journal
Hawaiian Hoard
The Missionary Kekela Returned
Adverse Conditions in Japan
Bft
JO
86
SS
88
87
87
87
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Christ's Growing Kingdom.
"Wars and rumors of wars" make us
sad, often despondent. What is to be
the outcome of our fierce battling with
the Filipinos? Where is there any
sunshine beyond the dark, hurtling tempest ?
Our supreme solace and assurance is
based upon the solid certainty that the
great, glorious dominion of the Lord
Jesus Christ overall the earth is coming
on with hastening strides. He is soon
to rule over all the tribes of mankind.
All the dark, sullen peoples are, in the
fullness of time, to own Him as Lord,
and to enjoy the light and love of His
gracious rule.
That blessed and perfect Kingdom is
the theme of prophetic song. A King
is to rule in judgment and righteousness. The Redeemer comes to be "a
leader and commander of the peoples."
Jesus taught us to pray, "Thy kingdom
come." Not in vain have those prayers
ascended. That benign sway is hastening on. Looking with Faith's confiding
gaze, we discern beyond the storm the
coming sunshine ot earth's long day of
peace and sweetness.
These human struggles and conflicts
are the necssary precursors of spiritual
victories. Many of the devils whom
Jesus exorcised, sadly tore their victims
before they departed. Wars
mammon. In this line come inward
peace, joy and fellowship with Christ.
We deeply pity and sorrow for the deluded millionaire Christian, who prides
himself on handing out a few thousands
here and ihere out of his hundreds ol
thousands of income, when the least
loyalty to Christ and His Kingdom
would draw from him one tenth of his
accumulating gains—when hearty, glad
loyalty would perhaps make him halve
those gains with the Lord's work. Oh.you
cramped and overloaded brother, how
your spiritual congestion would find relief in copious beneficence, if only the
Christ.
blessed light of Christ's love once illuWe Christians all deeply need to cul- mined your soul!
tivate and maintain a clear and strong
vision of this Coming Kingdom. It is
RDTervG
J. ulick.
the one great and bright hope of the
It is a great pLasuie to welcome for a
opening century. It should be the cenvisit
to his native land, after long aball
and
tral thought of
effort.
progress
the Rev. John Thomas Gulick,
sence,
children
to
and
seek
expect
Teach our
with his wife and daughter. Dr.
Ph.
D.,
Work
for
it.
for
the Kingdom.
Pray
it. Consecrate all to it. Be intensely Gulick is the third brother of the noted
Gulick missionary family. He labored
loyal to Christ and His Kingdom.
for many years in Kalgan, north of Peking, and still longer in Japan. Dr.
Keep Loyal to Christ.
Gulick holds an eminent position among
The piesent strenuous rush for gain in writers on evolutionary science, espeHawaii imposes a severe trial upon the cially in connection with the late Dr.
spiritual life of our Christian people. Romanes, whom it was his happiness to
They are in danger of being so consumed be the means of restoring to his lost
Christian faith. His early studies of the
with greed for the money prizes that
variations of Achatinellae mollusks, in
dangle before their eyes, as lo forget the Uahu mountains, enabled him to
their own souls, to stifle their hunger for construct theories indispensable to the
higher life, to postpone their sacred ob- science of evolution, and corrective of
ligations to their Master, to forget God, preceding errors.
and Eternity, and Heaven. But "what
ALiberal Gift.
shall it profit a man if he gain the whole
lose
his
soul
?"
world and
At a late moment, we are rejoiced to
In improving present opportunities for
learn
that Mr. Charles M. Cooke has
there
is
no
necessity
legitimate gain,
whatever of so far (orgetting higher in- donated the sum of $50,000 to the Haterests or neglecting sacred duties. waiian Board, as a permanent fund.
Christian brother, get what you gain The gift is worthy of the son of consestrictly tor your Lord's service. Hold
all that you receive as His steward. crated missionary parents, of beloved
Renew and make more comple your and revered memory. It gives especial
consecration to Him. When you find cheer at this time as betokening that
the spirit of greed tending to possess and our wealthy Christian men are awake to
inflame you, remedy the evil by some their obligations to Christ and his Kingact of deliberate and joyful contribution dom, in this time of their increasing
from your gains to the Lord's work. In wealth, and tbe rapidly growing needs
all your activity maintain an active and of Christ's Kingdom in this hemisphere.
self-sacrificing loyalty to your Master An immediate want is for that endowand His glorious Kingdom. In liberal, ment of $150,000 for the N. Pacific
copious gifts to the Lord's treasury, in Mission Institute, to educate minister*
some of the many forms of public ben for the Portuguese, Japanese and Chieficence loudly calling upon us, is our nese in these islands, as well as for HaHonolulu to begin a survey of the ocean waiians.
ous must attend the breaking down of
Satan's cruel rule over the oppressed
and misguided nations. But that rule
will be Irft broken for a rule of justice
and mercy to be established on its ruins.
When, for instance, the Philippines are
Editor pacified, there will no longer remain the
hopeless Spanish exclusion of enlightGrand opportunity will be
MuM enment.
evangelists and teachgiven
toChristian
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83 ers
reach
the
and initiate them
people
to
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84 into the blessed ways and thoughts of
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New Evangelical Catechism.
F"or two years a committee of eighteen
delegates of the leading evangelical
churches in England have been engaged
in constructing a catechism which represents the doctrinal tenets held in common by those various churches. The
adoption was unanimous, indicating that
all those denominations hold all of the
doctrines therein embodied. Although
many tenets held by several churches
are omitted, the high spiritual tone of
the whole renders the catechism profitable to all. Its positive attitude in opposition to various current forms of
religious error may be seen in the following questions and answers
As against Papacy
33. Cj.—What is the Holy Catholic
:
:
Church ?
A.—lt is that Holy Society of believers in Christ Jesus which He founded,
of which He is the only Head, and in
which He dwells by His Spirit; so that,
though made up of many communions,
organized in various modes, and scattered throughout the world, it is yet One
in Him.
As against State Churches
86.
Q.—What is
:
a Free Church ?
A.—A Church which acknowledges
none but Jesus Christ as Head, and,
therefore, exercises its right to interpret
and administer His laws without restraint or control by the State.
As against Sacramentarianism
41. Cj.—What are the Sacraments of
the Church ?
A.—Sacred rites instituted by our
Lord Jesus to make more plain by visible
signs the inward benefits of the Gospel,
to assure us of His promised grace, and,
when rightly used, to become a means
to convey it to our hearts.
As against Prelacy
40. Cj.—How may the validity of such
a ministry be proved ?
A.—The decisive proof of a valid
ministry is the sanction of the Divine
Head of the Church, manifested in the
conversion ofsinners and the edification
of the Body of Christ.
:
:
As against Unitarianism
19.
Q.—What
:
is the mystery of the
blessed Trinity ?
A.—That the Father, the Son, and
the Holy Spirit, into whose Name we
are baptized, are one God.
As against Universalism
9. Cj.—What are the consequences of
:
sin?
A.—Sin separates man from God,
corrupts his nature, exposes him to
manifold pains and griefs, and, unless
he repents, must issue in death eternal.
In assertion of Vicarious Atonement:
[May, 1899
14. Cj.—What did He accomplish fo
us by His death on the Cross ?
A.—By offering Himself a sacrifice
without blemish unto God, He fulfilled
wards peace and goodwill, which shall
quiet and tame the fierce element latent
to such a degree in these people ? Do
we not know by daily and world wide
experience that there is no power in
human society so influential, so actively
efficient, as the power of Christ on
men's souls, to bring them into mutual
love, into justice and good will to one
another ? What these people need is
the loving, purifying Gospel of our
Lord and Master, lo work its uplifting,
softening, conciliating work upon their
communities, until many of them are
subdued into cordial obedience to the
faith, each one to become a light among
their fellows and a teacher of the right
ways of the Lord. Let there be even
one earnest Christian among every score
of Japanese, and a powerful force for
peace and good order will be created.
Each Christian disciple is a bright light
in the darkness. He is a mighty force
among his people, leavening and moulding them to wise thought and right
the requirements of Divine Holiness,
atoned for all our sins, and broke the
power of Sin.
Love, God's central Perfection
2. Cj. How must we think of God ?
A.—God is the one Eternal Spirit,
Creater and Sustainer of all things; He
is Love, boundless in wisdom and pow
er, perfect in holiness and justice, in
mercy and truth.
While positive, the tone is not aggressive. In the ninth question room is left
for the "Eternal Hope" indulged by
those like Canon Farrar, who hope that
all the lost will at some time in eternity
be brought to repentance. Room also
is left for the more scriptural doctrine of
"Conditional Immortality." Both of
these opinions are increasingly held in
evangelical churches, and had to be allowed for.
action.
Our wealthy capitalists, the planters,
then owe it to themselves, if merely as a
Peril from Heathen Japanese.
matter of insurance against riot and
By "heathen" Japanese we do not incendiarism, that they promote Chrismean the more intelligent classes of that tian instruction among their laborers.
is perhaps one Japanese Christian
nation, many of whom are highly edu- There
preacher to every three thousand of his
cated and ot refined culture. We refer people. There ought to be three times
to the uninstructed lower classes, from that number actively teaching their peothe very lowest of whom come the great ple the ways of Christ.
This course is emphatically urged, if
majority of the immigrant laborers on
as a measure of enlightened selfmerely
our plantations. They are people upon ishness. See
to it that every Japanese
whom the educated Japanese look down camp is reached by persuasive and symwith scorn. They have little knowledge of pathetic teachers of Christianity, who
the ordinary decencies and proprieties of shall gain the confidence of the laborers
life. They are often of heathenish reck and establish over them an influence
lessness of conduct, although amenable which shall be elevating and conservato authority, especially to that of supe- tive of good.
Then consult these
teachers as to how you may render the
ors of their own race.
We are continuing to import great lot of your laborers more healthy and
numbers of these ignorant and excitable wholesome, and make them happier in
laborers to work upon our plantations. their work. Make their condition more
About 11,000 came in last year. There homelike, and let them see the Christian
is nearly a certainty that 20,000 will be good will and charity in your relations
added this year. There will then be of master and servant. Every emfrom 60,000 to 70,000 of these people in ployer of labor sacredly owes such duthe islands, or nearly one-half of the ties to those who toil for his wages.
entire population composed of this alien
race, mostly of extreme ignorance and
ADay of Geologizing.
of much passionateness. Of what they
are easily capable is shown by their
It was our rare privilege a few days
recent murderous attack upon Chinese
at Kahuku. It is clear that unless effi- ago to drive Dr. C. H. Hitchcock, of
cient means be found favorably to influ- Dartmouth, down the Nuuanu Pali road.
ence them, the peril to society is great The eminent geologist was so fascinated
from such an increase in their numbers. with his work that he walked back up
So long as the laborers of other races
(of the Chinese especially) continued the 800-foot climb. This new road has
nearly equal in numbers, the latter were been cut into the precipitous side of the
a check upon irregularities of the Japa- mountain through nearly its whole
nese, and one race could be pitted against length of two miles. It presents a long
the other. When the latter come to be succession of tremendous
cuts into the
double the numbers of the former, that
side,
mountain
which
are
nearly
perpencheck will no longer efficiently operate/./
Such is the dangerous element. What dicular. Very rarely are such exposures
influence can we commind working- to- to be found of freshly excavated strata.
—
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Vol. 57, No. 5.]
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THE FRIEND
There are opened immense stratifications splinters made it necessary to our the neighborhood of the Chinese theater
of very ancient lava flows, both horizon- horse's equanimity to keep well ahead. and St. Louis College, also those inland
tal and sloping. There are numerous United States national collections will from Kaumakapili church and Beretania
vertical dikes of prismatic basalt splitting be enriched by a multitude of specimens street. The periodical flooding of these
through the earlier lava layers, from unknown depths to mountain summit.
There are huge masses of old lava in
process of decomposition through the
forms of spheroidal boulders, shelling
off friable laminations.
Of especial interest is a surface layer
of red cinder of great depth, evidently
ejected from the singular chasm close to
the turn of theroad at its summit. Just
beyond the steel bridge at the upper end,
this layer lies in sloping strata of fifty
or more feet in depth. These strata are
inclined at an angle of thirty or more
degrees, following the incline of the pre
cipitous ridge. Just beyond and above
the bridge can be seen their junction
with the ancient horizontal strata of the
mountain. At other points below, the
various forms assumed in the junction
of the new cinder with the old lava are
extremely interesting, the heat of the
new having cooked the partly decomposed surfaces of the old. There is
probably no other locality in this group
where road cuttings have exposed so
many facts of striking interest.
It is a rather curious circumstance
that two very eminent geologists were
both independently misled into the same
wrong conclusion by observing the
steeply inclined stratification of the
above mentioned red ejecta. Dr. James
D. Dana and Dr. Sollas of Dublin, both
saw from the head of the road on the
opposite inaccessible cliff these conspicuous sloping strata, from which they
inferred a positive evidence of a steep
downward flow of the lavas of the
mountain. This to their minds confirmed the theory that the depressed
Koolau area below was the bottom of a
vast caldera or crater, of which the
great mountain precipice formed one of
the original walls.
The truth is that the precipice wall
everywhere exposes a very solid horizontal stratification. The sloping cinder strata are entirely superficial.
Neither fact, however, proves anything
for or against the caldera theory; since
the walls of Kilauea and other calderas
are horizontally stratified. But the
great mountain wall of Koolau can be
far better accounted for as the result of
weathering by the beating windward
rains through long ages. Their erosion
has worn and sculptured down the original vast mountain dome until on that
side only the skeleton vertebrae remain.
A like condition is conspicuous on the
west side of Waianae ridge, which was
peculiarly exposed to westerly storms.
On the lower part of the road, Dr.
Hitchcock found some specimens oflava
containing forms of much beauty and
rarity, but which would have wholly
eluded an unpracticed eye. His hammer was vigorously plied and the flying
collected by Dr. H. in Hawaii and New
Zealand.
Aside from the special scientific in
terest, the new Pali road affords a series
of striking scenic views It is also a
fine piece of engineering, reflecting high
credit upon both projector and contrac
tors. The latter have executed solidly
a great amount of heavy and skilful
work.
low grounds will always be a menace to
the public health. It would be ultimate
economy to cart one hundred thousand
loads from Aala Park to fill up those sections, even if the use of the park were
thereby delayed five years. The poor
people would suffer less by the continued lack of a park than by living on low
and pestilential ground. We commend
this thought to public consideration.
Do not be short sighted. Haste makes
waste.
Aaia Park.
Some three or four acres in the sec-
Looking for
tion called Aala west of the mouth of
Nuuanu stream and above King street,
were set aside by the last Legislature for
a park, with a view of becoming a place
of recreation, especially for the pooier
classes of the city who are largely congregated in the low grounds adjacent as
well as in Chinatown. The land, flooded at high tide, had already been partially filled up by the harbor dredger. This
process has been continued at intervals,
and large quantities of earth have been
deposited, more than enough to have
elevated the entire park much above the
level of King street. But in the meantime, thousands of loads of the newly
deposited earth have been carted off by
the street builders, in order to fill up new
streets in that vicinity, so that a large
portion of the new park continues unfilled. It is not clear how long it is proposed to continue this process, and many
persons who desire to have the poor people and their children made more happy,
are manifesting great impatience at the
a
New
Cemetery.
There is probably sufficient reason
against converting the interior of Punchbowl into a cemetery. In the coming
growth of the city it will doubtless become a favorite resort for recreation. It
will be made very accessible by elevators at cheap rates. Such use is inconsistent with that of a cemetery.
A rather amusing objection made is
that of an unpleasant association of
one's departed friends with a place so
recently a "yowling, raging furnace,"
i.e., a Tartarus. More serious is that
of there being possible volcanic fissures
through which\the products ot decay
might be sifted down to the artesian
water bed some hundreds of feet below,
and the water supply of the city be contaminated. There is probably no such
danger, but better be on the safe side.
No desirable site lor a cemetery has yet
been agreed upon. We still adhere to
the opinion that it should be in the region of the I'uuloa railway station. The
underlying rock is too soft to constitute
an adequate objection. With the aid of
water to soften it, or with the help of a
very liltle powder, graves can easily be
dug in it. In that locality space for a
park like cemetery is unlimited.
prolonged delay in completing, leveling
and planting what will become a beautiful park.
There seem, however, to be very
strong reasons why the process objected
to should be continued a while longer.
There is no other accessible source of
material for filling the low streets in the
The "Army and Navy Journal" states
vicinity, except that earth delivered by
the dredger. Beretania and Kukui streets that "when one of these American
especially need to be put in good order troopships stopped at Gibraltar, British
at once, and the latter calls for a great
asked the privilege of inspection
amount of material. To cart that earth officers
or rock from Punchbowl would cost i and when they had finished they tolc
many times as much as to take it from the American officers that Great Britain
the park, where it can at once be replac with all her experience in the water
cd. For the right use of the park itself, transportation of troops, had no transit is of the highest importance that all ports to compare with those which the
the streets leading to it should speedily (American Government had devised for
be placed in the best condition. A the movement of soldiers to distant posyear's delay in planting the ground sessions."
seems to be of less importance than ihe | That would not have been said of the
prompt completion of the street work, hastily equipped troopships calling here
to say nothing of the economy of cost to on their way to Manila last summer, not
[to speak cf the hasty movement from
the public treasury.
As a matter of public health, it seems Tampa to Santiago. It is vastly cheaper
really a pity that harbor mud could not in the end to lodge and feed the men
be used to fill up all the low grounds in comfortably on shipboard.
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May, 1899.
THE FRIEND.
Better Housing for Plantation Laborers. ica assuming the work here, "I have
placed my tenure ol the oversight of this
Rev. Dr. Gordon, of Japan, briefly mission in the hands of the Archbishop
addressed the ministers' meeting of of Canterbury, so that it may cease as
April 17, by request." He had just re- soon as, but not until, the House of
turned from a brief tour among the Jap Bishops of America is ready to conseanese and their preachers on Maui. crate a bishop to succeed me."
While seeing much to commend and
It seems to be expected that this step
rejoice in, he expressed regret to find will put an end to the controversies
in some camps very inadequate housing. which have been disturbing the Anglican
How soon the
church in Hawaii.
Sometimes two or three couples, or per- American
Bishops will be able to act
haps ten men, were crowded into one does not appear. There are many
small room. This could not but be det wealthy members in that church here,
rimental to morals as well as comfort. and with their disagreements harmon
The Japanese laborer has an inbred love ized, they would seem likely to be able
of the beautiful. Such housing pains to support their work without foreign
his good taste. He loves to adorn his aid.
little home.
This violaticn of his
The Bishop makes impressive and edaesthetic instinct must depravate also ifying appeals to his people for unity,
his moral nature On some plantations zeal and devotion, so that "the Anglican
the laborers were found well housed, but church in Hawaii may never cease to be
not always on those paying the largest His blessed instrument for the converdividends. Our laws are strict on this sion of the heathen and the salvation of
subject, but not always well enforced.
souls." In such a prayer, for both that
church and our own, all our churches
In an interview with Rev. Dr. Harris, may heartily unite.
Superintendent of Japanese Missions
The War in Samoa.
here and in California, he strongly confirms Dr. Gordon's observations upon By latest reports the political troubles
the inadequate housing of Japanese labo- in our little neighbor, the Samoan or
rers upon our plantations, and their Navigator group, had reached an acute
consequent misery. Nowhere among stage, and violent hostilities were active
the poorest and lowest classes in Japan not only between the larger party of Mais there any such crowding and lack of taafaand the followers of Malietoa Tanu,
comfort. Dr. Harris also testifies most the two rival kings, but the war had
strongly to the priceless influence of also involved the forces of the American
their Christian teachers upon the Japa- and British warships which supported
nese laborers both here and in Califor Malietoa, the Ge #ian warship remainnia. Considerable numbers of earnest, ing nominally n.utral, but giving all
simple-hearted converts are won, whose possible moral su >rt to Mataafa, and
influence upon their fellows is most secretly supplying lis people with arms
salutary. A Japanese Consul in Cali- and ammunition ■ Judge Chambers
fornia, some two years ago, reported to had declared Ma iafa ineligible to the
his government in the strongest terms throne, and Malietoa to be king. The
in respect to the elevating influence of British Consul supported Chambers.
the Christian religion upon his people. The German Consul denied his authoriThe effect of his observations upon him- ty. Having the open moral support of
self was such that the Consul became the Germans, it was not strange that
an earnest Christian, and is now living Mataafa's people undertook to carry their
as such at a Chinese port, and maintain- point by force.
ing family worship in his home.
The source of disorder evidently lies
It is due to our planters to give Dr. in the impossible attempt to govern the
Harris' testimony that he has found no little nation by a Joint Commission of
conditions of housing here comparable three nations, having diverse views and
in misery to those prevailing upon aims. It seems clear that so impracranches in California where Asiatics are ticable a method must be given up and
employed. But that does not exonerate the islands pass under the protection of
our planters and ageuts for their neglect some one power, either England or
Greed for dividends overrides justice Germany, since America wants only the
and humanity.
naval station of Pango-pango, long
since ceded to us. It is matter of deep
regret that our country should have beBishop Willis Arranges to Resign.
come entangled in war upon a PolyneRt. Rev. Alfred Willis, Bishop of sian tribe, involving mutual slaughter,
as it has done. It is strange into what
Honolulu, announces that on account of storms of war our navy and
army have
annexation and the consequent advisa- been drawn of late, in diverse latitudes
bility of the church (Episcopal) in Amer-j and regions.
University Extension.
Prof. Henry Rolfe, of California, a
well accredited scholar, has opened in
Honolulu a series of University Extension lectures, connected with English
Literature. Instruction by able lecturers
on the higher lines of thought, ought to
be a rich boon to any intelligent community, and doubtless ours will profit by
such opportunities. We hardly understand, however, why Prof. Rolfe should
have introduced his course by inviting
people to the close and careful study of
so trivial and uninspiring a writer as
Charles Lamb, or one who, aside from
some felicities of diction, added so little
to the world's sum of high thought or
helpful knowledge. It is to be hoped
that the proposed course will supply a
higher basis of intellectual nutriment
than such a quality of undeveloped
mutton, when so glorious a galaxy of
literary stars awaits attention.
Easter Sunday was especially observed in the Honolulu churches. In
Central Union there was an elaborate
musical programme, lovely decorations
of lilies and magnolias, and a most impressive sermon on Immortality and the
failure of so many to reach after it.
Scriptures for the Philippines.
Recent events have stirred the British
and Foreign Bible Society to some
prompt feats of translation, and portions
of the New Testament in no less than
four tongues are in preparation for the
Philippines.
The first three Gospels
and the Acts in Tagalog, the language
of the dominant native race there, are
actually printed St. Luke's Gospel in
Ilocono is nearly finished; and the same
book in Bicol is ready for issue. These
renderings, it appears, are largely due to
the energy of the Society's agent in
Madrid (Rev. R. O. Walker) who secured the collaboration of some exiled
Filipinos. Almost the whole Testament
has been translated into Pangasinan.
;
Telegraphing Across Island Channels.
Telegraph communication seems likely soon to be in operation between our
islands. Marconi has successfully sent
telegrams across the British channel
without a wire. An invisible electric ray
is flashed from a lofty mast, directed to
a receiver thirty miles away, which records it. So Hawaii will not need an
inter-island cable. Rain, fog and darkness do not obstruct the ray.
Vol. 57, No. 5.]
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THE FRIEND.
A First-Class Public School House.
will run up to the Pali on this road. It
will be a great boon to our population to
There was thrown open for the inspec- have cheap access to that wonderfully
tion of a great throng of visitors on magnificent scenery. Even this carriage
road ought to result in 'bus fare to the
April 22d, a splendid new public school Pali ofless than fifty cents.
building, just completed on the grounds
of the Reformatory School. It is of
Associated Charities.
brick, two storied, about 1.50 by 75 feet,
and containing twelve commodious
Honolulu appears to be genuinely inschool rooms, furnished with the most debted to Mrs. Williams, of Minneapo
modern improvements. The architec
lis, who recently, while a visitor here,
ture of the building is becoming, with
was
opened started an effective movement for organ
something of ornament. It
Mr. izing the simple business arrangement
24th,
on
the
with
use
for school
Armstrong Smith as principal. It will between the various charitable organizabe known as the Princess Kaiulani tions known as Associated Charities. It
School.
is very frequently the case that the same
This building marks a stage of prog person contrives fraudulently to obtain
ress, being the first public school build- regular aid from two or more separate
ing on Hawaii in the modern city style. charitable bodies In order to prevent
Another building on the same plan is in this, the various bodies, while continuing
progress of erection on Beretania street, entirely independent, combine to employ
in Makiki. The cost of these buildings, an agent or Secretary, to whom every
completely furnished, will be about application for aid is submitted, and
$25,000 each.
whose duty it is to ascertain whether
the party is already receiving the necesA painfully large death rate for Hono- sary help. Books are kept in which the
lulu appeared for the month of March, names and circumstances of all persons
being 33.94 per thousand. It scarcely helped by the different organizations are
Thus much of needed money
lessens the seriousness of the conditions recorded.
saved
for
the help of the destitute
is
when it appears that for Americans and poor, which otherwise would be wasted
Europeans the death rate was only 14.4, upon artful pretenders to indigence,
while for Hawaiians it reached the who drive their trade successfully in
enormous amount of 53.22 per thousand. every community not protected by the
above arrangement.
More than 50 per cent of those deaths
under.
five
and
years
were of children of
Power from Liquefied Air.
The causes of this excessive mortality
which
have
been
those
are doubtless
C. E. Tripler liquefies air with extreme
rapidly wasting the Hawaiians since
He claims to compress and
civilization began to intrude upon them. cheapness.
ten
gallon '' of the liquid by
But those causes can be greatly mitiga- congeal
and
the
suppression
care
of
the
watchful
means
expanding and cooling
ted by
of drunkenness and vice, which stalk force of three gu-.i ins previously protoo openly.
duced. If true, th will generate illim
itable power without cost, and so revoNew Valley Road.
lutionize all manufacture and transpor
The Government is vigorously push- tation. The average opinion of the
scientific man is doubtless expressed by
ing work upon the public roads and "Electrical
Engineer" as follows :
It
is
bridges in all parts of the Islands.
"Were this true
* the whole
teams
with
becoming possible to drive
atmosphere on the surface of the globe
ease for great distances over sections might ultimately become liquefied. The
which five years ago presented only dif- mere suggestion of this consequence
should prove a reductio ad absurdiini.
ficult trails for horses or mules.
The splendid road down Nuuanu Pali * * The great lesson that nature foris fast becoming supplemented by a fine ces upon us is that nothing is to be had
carriage road from the Pali four miles to from her for nothing, and very little for
the inland suburb of the city. Over two a penny. * * Nature's price list for
miles of this are already graded to below energy is fixed, and no jugglery can
Luakaha residences, and an excellent change it."
It looks likely that the twentieth cen
macadam surfacing is in progress. The
new road makes a wide sweep westward tury will not see the world's industrial
from the Pali, rejoining the old road at energies revolutionized by Mr. Tripler.
the foot of the crater hill. It makes ancommenced
other long detour westward, and crosses ofThe construction has been
from
Hilo to
above
the
resera
fifteen-mile
railway
road
again
just
the old
sugar plantation
voirs. Thence it sweeps off toward Olaa and the great
Tantalus, probably to come back some started there. This will ensure rapid
where above the electric station. It is material progress in that fertile district.
to be hoped that in time traction cars Probably the construction of a railroad
*
to the plantations
along the north coast
of Hilo will s.ion follow, to be continued
sixty miles through Hamakua. Thus
Hilo's prospects as a commercial city
cintinue lo increase.
The heaviest rainfall for the month of
March was 3:1.54 inches, at Laupahoehoe, at an altitude ol 600 feet. The
general average in the Hilo district was
about 23 inches. In Kohala, which had
long suffered from drought, the average
was over seven inches. The rain in
Honolulu averaged nearly five inches,
and in the upper valleys over twenty
inches. The earlier winter months had
been dry until February. The rains in
April have been quite moderate throughout the group.
The Honolulu Iron Works are about
Kakaako, a great number of
large and small buildings, furnished by
Milliken Bros., who erected the immense
steel structures on Oahu Plantation.
The boiler shop, machine shop and
foundry will each be 300 feet long and
85, 90 and 88 feet wide respectively.
The pattern shops will be of two stories,
200 by 60 feet. The concern will be
equipped with latest improved machines,
traveling cranes,dynamos and compressed air plant. It will have immediate
access to the Harbor channel.
to erect, at
The natives have been collecting and
selling the coal which has washed up
from the wreck of the O'Brien for a
thousand yards along the reef, seaward
of Quarantine Island.
Hence a litigation has arisen against the natives from
the owners of the wreck and cargo, as
well as from the owners of the reef, who
forbid trespass. Probably all three parties have equitable claims on the coal,
which sells at $6 per ton.
RECORD OF EVENTS.
April Ist—Sewerage bonds to the
of $205,000—0ut of $250,000
advertised for—secure bids of one per
cent premium. —Overseer F. Keiser, of
Waimea Plantation, meets a frightful
death, on Kauai, from an accidental explosion of giant powder.
2d.—Easter : special services and
amount
tasteful floral decorations in all the
churches, secure a large attendance,
both morning and evening.
3d.—Annual meeting of the Y. M. C.
A. and election of officers. Present
membership is shown to be about 460.
4th. —Pleasant reception by Mr. and
Mrs. Geo. R. Carter, at the homestead,
in honor of Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Strong,
which was very generally attended.
6th.—Return of Rev. Jas. Kekela, the
THE FRIEND.
38
[ JVl&y, 189".
aged missionary of Marquesas, with his hall to departing brother Odd Fellows
family, after an absence of forty six of the lingineer Corps.
years.
20th.—Six of the Kahuku Japanese
fith.—Rev. Kekela gets a warm greet- rioters are committed, charged with
ing at the meeting of.the Oahu Association. —Kilohana Art League give a delightful concert as a "house warming"
of their new quarters in the Model block,
Fort street. Book social at the Central
Union Church proves a success.
7th. —The Registration Board opens
office to qualify voters for the fall election. The Morning Star resumes the
interrupted Micronesian mission work
and sails for the various stations with
needed supplies.
Bth. —Word received of the death, on
Maui, of Thos. Campbell, from theresuit of injuries sustained on the 3d inst.,
at the Paia mill. His remains were
brought to this city for interment, the
funeral, under G. A. R. auspices, taking
place on the 10th.
10th.—Prof. H. Rolfe arrives to organize the University Extension work
in these islands. —Mr. F. Cowley, of the
—
California Construction Co., the successful bidders for the contract of open
ing up Pearl Harbor, arrives to begin
preliminary work.
11th.—A native at Kona, Hawaii, in a
fit of insanity clubs his aged father inlaw to death.
13th.—Militia equipment of Hawaii is
formally transferred to the United States.
—Six Japanese of the Kahuku rioters
arraigned, charged with murder and being accessories thereto.—The organization committee of Associated Charities
met and approved, with slight change,
the constitution.
14th. —The naval board of harbor survey met with the Executive and the
Chamber of Commerce Committee to
consider the feasibility of wharf exten
sion and larger harbor facilities for the
rapidly increasing commerce of this port,
but without arriving at any definite con-
clusions.
15th.—First annual meeting of the
Waverly Club, for the presentation of
reports and election of officers. The
finances show $3014.55 receipts, and
$2785.03 expenditures.
16th.-—The Erskine M. Phelps, Sew-
all's latest four masted clipper, said to
be the first American built sailing vessel
constructed of American steel, arrives
from San Francisco to load sugar.
17th.—Meeting of committee on new
cemetery site ask for further time, as
Punchbowl is not considered a suitable
location. —Chamber of Commerce takes
definite action on harbor improvements
and recommends wharf extension.
Rev. Dr. A. Kummer gives the fourth
and closing lecture of his series at the
Y. M. C. A., on "Cathedrals of liurope."
18th.—Excelsior Lodge, I. O. O. P.,
gave a farewell entertainment at their
—
22 -Am sch Transit, Jorgensen, from San Francisco.
Am sch C S Holmes, Johnson, from Seattle.
from Newcastle.
24 Am sch W II Talbot,
■'.'■ Am sch T S Negus, Manha, from San Diego.
from Newcastle.
Olsen,
Am s<h H D Hendixon,
Am bk Fort George, Morse, from San Francisco.
2rl Am ss Mariposa, Hayward, "
"
Am bk Mauna Ala, Sniilh,
27 Am v h Robl. Leavers, Goodman, from San Francisco
Rio
dc
Janeiro,
Ward,
ss
"
Am
U S traus|K>rt Warren, Hart,
2S—Haw bk Himalaya, Dearborn, from Newcastle.
Am sb Aryan, Wbillier, from Norfolk.
Hr ss Moana, Carey, from the Colonies.
Am ss ('ity of Peking, Smith, from Yokohama
2!) Hr ss Hcluian King, Weiss, from Yokohama.
H Am s,-h Repeat, Olsen, from Seattle.from San Francisco
I! S lraiis|K>rt Newport, Saunders,
Am sch X S Redtield, Birkholm, from Port Gamble.
Am sch Ottilie Kjord, Segelhort, from F.ureka.
_
murder.- Departure of the Australia ;
"
the Engineer Corps get a rousing "send
off."-- Delightful garden party and re"
ception at the home of Minister E. A.
MottSmith ; very largely attended.
Brewer & Co. purchase Castle & Cooke's
interest in the Onomea plantation, reported at 13,000 shares.—The Young
Men's Research Club discuss cremation.
DKPAR'IURKS.
22d.—The new Palama school buildSeabury,
for Yokahama.
China,
ss
is :iI—Am
named Princess Kaiulani
ing
Am Ik WilScotl, Peabody, for San Francisco.
for San Krancisco.
Rio
ile
Ward,
ss
Janierio,
thrown open to the public, and elicits 6—Am cruiser
Chltose, Sakitrai, for Yokosuga.
6—lap
much praise for its fine appointments.
—U S Transport City of Puebla, Thomas, for Manila.
Cleveland, Klitgaard, for Manila.
Janet Waldorf opens a brief Shakespe- 7—UHrSssTransport
Garonne, Conradi, for Seattle
rian season at the Opera House in
Haw Star of Bengal, Henderson, for San Francisco.
—Ani Miss, bktn Morning Star, Garland, for Micronesia
"Twelfth Night."
H—U S Transport Zealandia, Dowdell, for Manila.
9 -Am bktn Irmgard, Schmidt, for Sin Francisco.
26th.—The eightieth anniversary of I(l—Haw
bk Diamond Head, Ward, for San Francisco
foi San Francisco.
Odd Fellowship was celebrated by the 11—Hawbk R P Rithet, Calhoun,Anderson
for Manila.
U. S. transport Chas. Nelson,
members of that order at Progress Hall
Ilr ss Doric, Smith, for Yokohama
Coptic,
Sealby,
for
San
Francisco.
—Br
ss
by a literary and musical entertainment,
sh C F Sargent, Haskell, for Seattle.
after which dancing prevailed till the If Am
Am bktn Amelia, Wilier, for Port Hlakely.
—lir ss Aurangi, HepwOrth, for Vancouver.
small hours of morning.
IS—Haw sh Falls of Clyde, Matson, for San Francisco.
ss Warrimoo, Hay, for the Colonies.
27th.—Arrival of the transport War- H—Hr
Ifi-Am bk McNear, Pedersotl, for Laysan I.
ren, en route for Manila, with eight bat- 17—Am sch Chas. Hansen, Daimevez, for Hana,
Fr sch Tahitiennc, Winchester, for Marquesas.
teries of the Sixth artillery, and a num18—Amsch Jennie Wand, Christiansen, for Hana.
for'fallal, Chile.
ber of recruits for other companits, —Br bk Invermark, Smith,Dunning,
for New York.
-Am sh Ceo R Skolfield,
comprising in all nearly 1200 men.
10—Jap ss Nippon Maru, Evans, for Yokohama.
sch Metha Nelson, Rice, for Mahukona.
—Am
28th.—Prospectus of Olaa's big sugar
Am ss Elihu Thompson, Whitney, for San Krancisco.
sch Spokane, Jamieson, for the Sound.
plantation issues, to capitalize at $5,000- •iv- Am
Am s« Australia, Houdlette, for San Francisco.
--000; area 19,500 acres.
—Hr sh Carnedd Llewellyn, Griffiths, for I-obos dc Alfuera Is.
29th.
Chas. M. Cooke donates 21 Jap
ss America Maru, Cope, for San Francisco.
for Hilo.
$50,000 to the Hawaiian Board for a 22—Am sh A J Fuller, Nichols,
sch Alice C ooke, Pcnhallow, for San Francisco.
Am
fund towards -the maintenance of its
Giugliani,
for Yokohama.
It cruiser Piemonte,
lik Fresno, Underwood, for Port Townacnd.
work.—Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Davies give M Am bk
for San Francisco.
Baikus,
26 Am Kdward May,
a garden party at Craigside as a recep-Am bk Alden Hesse, Potter, for San Francisco.
Mari|>osa Hayward, for the Colonies.
tion to Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Walker, re- 27 —Ass
Am sib A M Baxter, Marshall, for San Francisco.
Rio dc Janeiro, Ward, for Yokohama.
cently returned, and a farewell to Mr. 2H AmssssMoana,
Carey, for San Francisco.
Br
and Mrs. F. M. Swanzy.
Am sch W F lewetl, Johnon, for Port Townsend.
WG
rgt
Irwin, William-, for San Francisco.
■ Am I
Gray's Harbor.
Ogilvie,
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
——
MARINE
JOURNAL.
PORT OF HONOLULU, APRIL.
for
Am sch A J West,
—Am sch Azalea, Tardelius, for Gray's Harbor.
—Am bk S C Allen, Johnson, for San Ktancisca.
Am ss City of Peking. Smith, for San Francisco.
:ki Br ss Belgian King, Weiss, lor San Diego.
—U S trans|K.rt Warren, Hart, for Manila.
ARRIVALS.
I—Am bk S C Allen, Johnson, from San Francisco.
—Am bktn Amelia, Wilier, from Port Townsend.
2 Am bk rid ward May, Backus from Newcassle.
4—Am ss Riode Janeiro, Ward, from Yokohama.
Br ss t .aronne, L'onradi, fro... Seattle.
Am sch A J West, Ogilvie, from Aberdeen.
5 Am s< h Alice Cooke, Pe'ihallow, from San Kram is. n.
—Ft sch Tahitienue, Winchester, from Papeete.
U S trmMporl Zralamli.i, Doudcll, from .San Kran.
Am s h \V X [c-well, Johnston, from Porl Townsend.
8 Am brc W G Irwin, Williams, from San Francisco.
—Am sen Jennie Wand, Christiansen, from Kurrka.
Br bk Adderly, l.indfors, from Newcastle.
—Am sch Metha Nelson, Rice, from Newcastle.
Haw sch Honolulu, Thronagle from Newcastle.
7—Am sch Chas Hanson, Daunerig, from Eureka.
8- Am sch Azalea, Fardelins, from Port Townsend.
U S transiHirt Chas Nelson, Anderson, from San Fran.
o—Am ss Klihu Thompson, Whitney, from Seattle.
~ Am bk Ceylon, Wilier, from San Francisco.
Am bk Martha Davis, Friis, from San Francisco
Am bktn .S G Wilder, Jackson, from San Francisco.
Am scb Wm Kenton, Jam-son, from I'm Townsend.
Am sch Carrier Dov, Brandt, from Newcastle.
in Hr M Doric, Smith, from San Francisco
It cruiser Pienmnte, Giugliani, from Acapulco.
11 Hr ss Coptic, Sealby, from Yokohama.
I" Am ss Australia, Houdlette, from San Francisco.
Hi ss Aorangi, Hepworth, from the Colonies.
-Am sh S P Hitchcock, (iates, from San Francisco.
14—Am sch Defiance, Blum, from Newcastle.
-Br ss Warrimoo, Hay, from Vancouver
It, Am bk Allien, Crirhiths from San Francisco.
Am sh Krskine M Phelps, Graham, from San Fran.
17- Am bktn S N Castle, Hubbard, from San Francisco.
18 Japss Nippon Maru, Kvans, from San Francisco.
19—Am sh lroquis, Thompson, from New York.
21—Jap ss America Maru, Cope, from Yokohama.
—
BIRTHS.
Honolulu, April
mers A. Graham, a daughter.
GRAHAM.- In
10, ID the wife of Chal-
LINDSAY. At Honokaa, Hawaii, April 20, 18W, to the
wife of A. B. Lindsay,
I
son.
MARRIAGES.
BRISTOL-LAMB,- At Kamehameha chapel, Kalihi,
April Sd< by the R« v. Dr. C. M. Hyde, a-sisled by Rev.
S. P. Perry, W, W. Bristol to Miss Olive Lamb.
WILS»N-GRIFFIN.-In this city, April 12th, by the
Key. H. H. Parker, John H. Wilson to Miss
Griffin
DAVIS CAR I KK.—ln New York City April nth, at the
Churchof/ion and St. Timothy, Dr. C. F. Davis to Mrs.
Mary Scott Carter.
PKTKRSON-WHITE.- In this city, April 21«, by the
Rev. Dr. S. K. Bishop, R. C. A. Peterson to Miss Mary
Agnes White.
DEATHS.
(
OLI.INS.-ln Hilo. Hawaii, March », 1889, A. F. Col
lins, a native of Kngland, aged 89 years.
SIUR I F.VANT.-In Honolulu, April*, 1*99, Mils Nellie
.
Slurtevant,
*fs«4fl years.
CAMPBF.I.L.-Al Paia, Maui, April Sth, 1899, Thomas
lampbell, a native of Glasgow, Kngland, aged «4 years.
ANDERSON--At Naalehu, Kau, Hawaii, April 16th, of
typhoid fever, Hilda, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A.
manths.
r Anderson, aged la years and
*
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sonal supervision which Mr. Lydgate is
enabled to give to the different parishes
HONOLULU. H. I.
much good service is given and many
differences are healed. The Pastors'
This page is devoted to the interests of the Hawaiian
Board of Missions, and the Editor, appointed by the Aid Society of the island, of which Mr.
Board, is responsible for its contents.
Lydgate is Secretary and Treasurer, col
lecting and disbursing agent at once,
Rev. 0. P. Emerson,
Editor. continues its beneficent service. Because
of this organization, every pastor in
Kauai has a fair living salary paid him
Rev. Kanoho is doing carpenter work regularly, and with it a parsonage kept
at Lihue, Kauai.
in good repair. The agreement is that
if the church will keep the meeting house
Rev. S. P. Kaaia goes this month to in repair the Pastors' Aid Society will
Waianae to take charge of the native do the same for the parsonage.
church of that place.
Another feature of the meeting was a
noticeable growth in the efficiency of the
The meeting house at Kapulena, pastorate. Mr Lydgate is making a
Hamakua, has been repaired. ReV. M. systematic visitation of the nativehomes
C. Keanoho is pastor.
of the entire island. This he does with
the pastor of each parish successively.
A pastor is greatly needed to fill the He also holds bi-monthly meetings with
pulpit of Kaahumanu church, Wailuku, the pastors for biblical study and for such
now vacant by the resignation of Rev. lines of research as properly go with it.
S. Kapu.
A useful course in ethics has just been
completed. Mr. Lydgate's knowledge
The annual meeting of the Hawaiian of the Hawaiian language enables him
Evangelical Association will be held the to be very successful in this branch of
work. He has endeared himself to
first week in June. The anniversary his
the people and every where in the field
meetings begin on Sunday, the 4th of
is welcomed by the pastors as an
June, and continue through the week he
inspiration and a guide. Aa a result of
till Sunday, the I lth.
this growth two lay preachers received
ordination at the hands of the AssociaMr. W. Z. Waikalai, late student at tion. One was Samuel Koula, a native
the North Pacific Institute, was con- of Waimea, Kauai,and for many years a
spicuous by his absence from the parish stanch christian worker and lay preacher,
of Koloa, to which he had been called. of the church of that place. He was
It is said that he is on the police force once a student of theology under Rev.
in Honolulu.
Father Alexander, and has lately studied
Mr. L. G. Kakani, who has been for a under Mr. Lydgate. He is a man much
year acting as supply for the church at respected and beloved by all.
Lihue, has returned to the North Pacific The other was J. M. Naeole, a gradu
Institute, where he will reside and study ate and for a time teacher in Lahianatill the close of the school year in June. luna School. He had quite a successful
This leaves the Lihue church in need of course as teacher of the Government
a pastor.
School at Haena, Kauai. For the last
six months he has been preaching at
Koloa, where he is to continue as preachThe Kauai Association.
er till possibly called to the pastorate of
The Kauai Association met at Lihue the leper settlement. He too has been
enjoying a course of study with the other
April 12th and 13th, having a full atpastors of the island under Mr. Lydgate.
tendance of pastors and delegates from These two men who received the unanall the native churches of the island.
imous vote of the Association for ordinIt was a pleasure on arriving at Na- ation, were licensed by it to preach six
wiliwili at 4 a. m., to be able to retire months ago. The ordination exercises
were held Thursday evening and were
for two hours of sleep before beginning oi an impressive character.
the day's work, knowing that, as the
It is expected that Koula will supply
meeting was to be near at hand and not the pulpit of the Koolau church, which
across the island, it would not be neces- is made vacant by the resignation of
sary to take to horse and ride a score Rev. S. K. Kaulili. Mr. Kaulili was led
and a half of miles swiftly in the dark to to take the step of resigning his charge
be present at its opening. To have to because of the ill health of his wife, He
do this after having crossed Kaieie chan- has removed her to Honolulu. On being dismissed from his pastorate he renel is sometimes very fatiguing.
One noticeable feature of the Kauai ceived the customary recommendation
meeting was its harmony. Under ihe from the Association, as a preacher in
wise leadership of Rev. Mr. Lydgate, good standing. By vote of the Associamost of the pastors and the churches tion, Mr. Lydgate was made "Komike"
have come to work happily together. (put in charge of) all the pastorless
Much *jood work is done. By the per- churches in Kauai.
HAWAIIAN BOARD.
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39
Rev. David L. Ai sends to the Board
a quarterly Report of his labors as their
missionary among the native churches
in Hilo and Puna, in association with
the Rev. Stephen Desha, pastor of Haili
church in Hilo. Mr. Ai is a graduate
of Kamehameha School and North Pacific Mission Institute. He writes excellent English. Some extracts from
his report follow :
"The Mission extends from Laupahoehoe to Puna churches. In Hilo district there are four places to be looked
after—Laupahoehoe, Puuohua, Hakalau
and Onomea. lam to preach in those
places two Sundays each month, if possible, occupying two places each Sunday.
Except in Laupahoehoe, the
Christian work in.those places is growing slowly and steadily. There are not
many people living there.
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"In Puna there are five places—Olaa,
Puula, Kalapana, Opihikau and Kamaili.
The work is growing nicely in these
places. Except in Olaa, I shall preach
in those places two Sundays in each
month, if possible. In case of a fifth
Sunday in the month, I shall preach in
Olaa, or else in Haili Church, to assist
Rev. S. L. Desha. I am thankful for
his help in carrying out the plan of the
Mission, as well as for the kindness of
many people in different places."
The Missionary Kekela Returned.
It is a great pleasure to record the arrival, on April sth, of the venerable missionary, the Rev. James Kekela, together
with his noble wife, Naomi, and a large
band of his children and grandchildren,
a family of fourteen in all. Through
the generosity of Mr. S. T. Alexander,
supplemented by the Hawaiian Board,
Mr. Kekela was enabled to charter the
little schooner 7 u/</7f(,'«««,which brought
the party here in 20 days from the Marquesas Is., where their home has so
long been.
It was 46 years ago, in ISM, that Mr.
and Mrs. Kekela and two other missionary couples, left their native land to labor
for their Lord among the very savage
and brutal cannibals of the Marquesas
Is. They have wrought patiently and
successfully. They have lifted up many
of the people into Christian living. Cannibalism and war long since disappeared
under French authority. During his
early residence. Kekela won distinguished public notice by his efforts in saving
the life of a whaling officer from a cannibal chief, for which President Lincoln
sent him a watch.
Three of Kekela's daughters were educated and married in Hawaii, the oldest of them being Mrs. Martin, of Kau.
Onecan come with hischildren, whom
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[May, 1899
he will leave here in school. Two bottom for a cable between Honolulu ing ground.
younger daughters have also come who
received French education in the Prot
eatant mission in Tahiti, but speak no
English. They have been teachers in
Government schools in the Marquesas.
A touching reception met the venerable missionary on the morning of the
6th, from the Oahu Church Association
in session at Kaumakapili. The aged
man was overcome with emotion, but
finally spoke a few words with force.
Several short addresses of welcome
were made by native and white ministers, full of tender feeling, Mr. Kekela
spoke the following Sabbath with great
vigor at Kawaiahao church. He was
subsequently attacked by grippe, and we
deeply regret to report has fallen into a
serious nervous condition, which brings
much pain to his family, and especially
to Mrs. Martin and her sisters, gathered
here to welcome their parents.
After two weeks' stay in Honolulu
harbor, the missionary steamer Morning
Star on the 7th ult. resumed her voyage
to Micronesia.
There were no addi-
tional white passengers except the family of Capt. Garland, who took command
here in place of Capt. Bray. Rev. I,allien and wife returned to Jaluit. They
came up a year ago to assist Dr. Pease
in revising his translation of the New
Testament. The usual farewell relig
ious services were held on board just
before the ship sailed. Each yearly
parting with these little bands ufvaliant,
patient, loving workers brings fresh inapiration as we help send them on to
their years of toil in sowing and reaping.
The Sugar Boom.
The high prices reached by plantation
shares continue, with a slight abatement.
These prices may perhaps be justified
for the well established concerns, but
careful discrimination should be exercised about new schemes which have
been started with excessive capitalization. The gambling spirit blinds people
as to real values of property. It is to be
said,however, that our most experienced
agents are found paying for old concerns
what a year ago would have been deem
ed impossible prices. While there is
doubtless a solid basis for advanced
prices, incautious buyers are liable to
end with heavy losses. Some of the
newly starting plantations with huge
capitals on paper, are sound schemes—
others perhaps are not.
Survey
for Pacific Cable.
The U. S. steam collier Nero has
just been altered and fitted for deep-sea
sounding. She is immediately due at
refuge from the base, corrupt spirit of
The Christian Japanese
and Luzon via Midway,Wake and Guam maintain a steadfast front against all
Islands. Midway Island is probably social impurity.
unsuitable for a cable station. Of course
the section of the cable from California
Increase of Steam Traffic.
to Hawaii will be the one first laid,
doubtless during 1900.
Our Marine Records for the first four
months of 1898, and those of 189!f,
There is a harbor basin of considerashow an increase of ocean steamers
ble area and depth at Kalihi, in the west
arriving at this port, as follows :
part of the city. A proposition is mooted
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to connect it with the present harbor by
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a canal a mile and a half long, over 200
those in 1898, five were warships
Of
feet wide and 2b or 30 feet deep. Some and 46 merchant steamers.
borings have been made along the route,
Of those in 1899, 7 were warships,
which indicate that the greater part of and 19 were U. S. transports, leaving
the material to be excavated is mud and 66 as merchant steamers. This is an
soft coral. It is estimated that the new increase
of 43 per cent in the latter
land made along the canal by the dredg- class in one year.
The increase of all
exings will go far towards paying the
classes of ocean steamers arriving at
pense of excavation. This scheme may this port was 80 per cent in one year.
possibly assist in relieving the growing This betokens a great commercial fucongestion of Honolulu harbor. The ture for Honolulu very near at hand.
coming needs of the immensely growing
Pacific commerce can only be met, however, by the occupation of Pearl Harbor.
The Rev. Dr. Meredith, of Brooklyn,
tries to cultivate friendly relations with
Adverse Conditions in Japan.
the younger members of his flock. In
a recent talk to his Sunday school he
The Rev. Dr. M. L. Gordon recently urged the children to speak to him whenspoke from Central Union pulpit on the ever they met. The next day a dirtyProgress of Christianity in Japan. On faced urchin, having a generally disreputable appearance, accosted him in the
the following morning, he addressed the
street with: "How, do, Doc?"
Ministers meeting, with absorbing interThe clergyman stopped, and cordially
est, as he described a number of the inquired: "And who are you, sir?"
"I'm one of your little lambs," replied
more difficult problems meeting our
missionaries in the country. One was the boy, affably. "Fine day."
And, tilting his hat to the back of his
ihe new factory system. The manufacture of textiles used to be a house- head, he swaggered off, leaving the
hold industry. Now the spinning and clergyman speechless with amazement.
weaving of cotlon is conducted in huge
factories, to which the young of both When Dr. Creighton had been offered
sexes are lured from their country the bishopric of London, he hesitated
homes. There they are herded and some time before accepting it. One of
worked for long hours without recrea- his faithful Peterborough parishioners
tion or Sunday rest, in conditions grew so anxious to learn of his decision
destructive to morals as well as health. that one day she asked Dr. Creighton's
Legislation will no doubt be enacted to daughter what he had decided to do.
diminish the evil. But the community
"Well, I don't know," the young lady
lacks moral sentiment to make such
"all I can say is that papa is in the
said;
legislation effective.
study
praying for guidance and mamma
Another difficulty arises from the ab- is upstairs packing the trunks."
sence in the government schools of re
ligious instruction or efficient moral
training. The new generation is growing in intelligence without the needed
moral restraints. Dr. Gordon spoke of
concubinage as openly practiced by men
in high station, and by leading professors in the great schools. To suggest Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands.
any reprehension created resentment.
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the fashion of respectable people to lend
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