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HONOLULU, H. T., MARCH,
VOL. LXV
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tell in the temperance campaign which
scheduled to begin in Honolulu on
15.(XI
the evening of March 15 with a mon.14-6o
21.00 ster mass meeting in Central Union
[(>.<X» Church.
The tide of sentiment against
the saloon is rising so high on the
mainland that no achievement is impossible. Here in the mid-pacific the
response to this movement is beginning to be felt. Traditionally Hawaii
is sacred temperance ground. Liquor
is of no possible use here. Its curse
has been more deadly to the Hawaiian
than any other foe of his race. Once
convince him of this and lead him to
see that the abolition of the saloon is
the dictate of the highest civilization
and he will respond nobly. The Hawaiian longs to prove himself worthy
of the confidence of the world. Let
him once get well in mind the conviction that total abstinence will secure
this for him anil for his Islands, and he
will act. It is certainly a most opportune moment for inaugurating and
pushing a movement of this kind. The
Anti-Saloon League knows this and
means to strike both now and strongly.
No better season for such a lofty moral
campaign than Lent can be conceived.
Let us trust that the echoes of this
fight may reach Washington and convince Congress that the time has come
for enacting the Territorial and Dependencies Prohibitory law so long
urged by the International Reform
Bureau.
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have its share of liveliness. The
months of patient study of Hawaii's
social conditions ami the visitation of
the schools of the Territory have given
Hon. John 0. Woolley. the superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League, a
quantity of ammunition that is sure to
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liam B. Oleson to act as corresponding
Bright skies, brisk trades, plenty of secretary until the Lvangelical Asso-
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ciation, at the next annual meeting,
shall permanently fill the position.
There is of course no doubt that the
Association will elect Mr. Oleson. The
choice is a very wise one. Mr. Oleson
knows Hawaii and has friends everywhere throughout the Territory. This
wide acquaintance with the leaders of
the two dominant races here—white
and Polynesian—qualifies him singularly for the secretaryship, while his
well known executive ability ensures the
energetic and successful conduct of the
office. It seems most providential that
he should have been brought to Hawaii
just at this juncture. He has entered
Upon his work with enthusiasm and
already the touch of his strong personality is being felt. His selection for
this position frees Rev. Krank S. Scudder from duties in the home office for
more careful oversight of the Japanese
department The past few years have
seen a large growth in the occupation
of new territory by Japanese evangelists, but it has been impossible to give
the attention demanded to the details
of efficient evangelism through these
new and earnest workers. To make
the Japanese branch of the Board's
work effective, to coordinate it, and to
bring it into close and vital relation
with the Island Associations is a task
at once imperative and difficult. Mr.
Scudder will find it an exhausting undertaking, but it is perhaps the most
paying possibility that the Board now
faces.
A Happy Certainty.
()fficial word has come from Rev.
Henry P. Judd accepting the position
of Territorial Sunday School Superintendent and assistant to Rev. C>. r. Culick in the Hawaiian l>epartment of the
Board. This is a great joy to all the
friends of our work, for it would be
hard to think of one better fitted for
this position. Mr. Judd expects to
leave his field in North Carolina the
latter part of April, spend ten days in
New York City and two weeks in Boston, leaving for Hawaii a little after
William Brewster Oleson.
the middle of May. He will arrive
February
meeting,
7,
At its.regular
the Hawaiian Board chose Rev. Wil- here early in June in ample season for
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the annual meeting of the Evangelical
Association, which is scheduled for
Hilo either late, in June or early in
July. We are happy to be able to
present an article from the pen of Mr.
Judd. which will prove of great interest to all our readers. We look for
great things for the children of this
Territory from the new superintendent.
Heal the Sick.
This charge of Jesus to His disciples
has been an inspiration to His followers in all generations. The healing
ministry of the Church has constituted
one of its most glorious chapters, written in the history of the hospitals and
medical relief agencies of the world.
During the last few centuries the marvelous discoveries in medicine and surgery have turned men's minds especially in Protestant Churches from the
question of what may be termed
"spiritual therapeutics." Jesus exhibited this in the so-called "miracles" of
healing. His disciples followed in the
same line. I>uring the early and middle ages of Church history many undoubted cures of this kind are recorded.
But with the growing distaste for the
word "miracle" the entire realm of
what scientific men now call therapeutic suggestion was left to charlatans,
faith curists, priests in charge of healing shrines and the like. Again and
again the nineteenth century found its
synicism aroused over magnetic healing, Lourdes, Christian Science, Dowieism, New Thought, etc., all of which
showed the same phenomena. Meantime Dr. Charcot and his school in
France were rescuing the subject from
fanaticism and fraud and claiming it
for science. By thoughtful students
the entire question of healing through
subconscious suggestion is now recognized as a legitimate branch of therapeutics. The intimate relation of
Christian faith and the Christian life
to this form of healing is today perceived both by leading medical men.
and by not a few advanced ministers of
the Gospel. Emanuel Church in Boston, one of the important Episcopalian
Churches of that city, a little over a
year ago decided that the time had
come when the Protestant Church
ought to return to the practice of the
early Church in including this branch
of Christian practice as commanded by
Jesus in its regular scheme of ministry.
It opened a clinic for nervous disorders and put competent physicians in
charge, who were to examine every
case, send such as needed medical or
surgical treatment to their physicians
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or to hospitals and turn over to the
ministers of the Church all who required spiritual therapeusis. The result of the first year's experiment has
been remarkably successful. "Victims
of neurasthenia, hysteria, hypochondria, insomnia, exaggerated emotionalism, worry, fear, fixed ideas, religious
melancholy, drug habits, groundless
suspicions, suicidal tendencies, immoral
propensities, abnormal shyness and
many other allied ailments," have as reported by Dr. McComb been admitted
and relieved. The time will come when
all our large Protestant Churches will
realize their responsibility for work of
this kind and not leave this ministry .to
religious perverts, charlatans and
quacks whose aim it is to prey upon
the community, or to enthusiasts who
with a partial view of the value of
therapeutic suggestion combine extravagant and foolish theories. It is
certainly time for conservative Churches and wise conservative physicians to
join hands in a thoroughly scientific
and modern obedience to the command
of Jesus, "Heal the Sick."
Kohala and Kahului.
The Friend noted last month a call
from Kohala Church to Rev. David A.
Richardson of Minneapolis. To the
great disappointment of all friends of
this Church a recent cablegram has
brought the tidings of Mr. Richardson's inability to accept. He hopes,
however, that the way may clear some
day for him to come to Hawaii. As
yet no word has reached us from Kohala regarding whom the Church is
now planning to call. Meantime Kahului Union Church has sent an urgent
request to Rev. Theodore A. Waltrip
of Phoenix, X. V., to accept its pastorate. The Hawaiian Board at its February meeting also issued a call t<>
Rev. and Mrs. Frank W. Dean of California to become its missionaries at
l.ahaina.
Godspeed.
Rev. and Mrs. Robert A. Buchanan
with their little daughter Jean sailed
from Honolulu on the China February
2y for the mainland. They will he
missed in our island work and from
our circle of yokefellows. The isolation of our Territory binds all fellowlaborers here into a delightful unity
of spirit and when any one moves away
his loss is felt. Mr. Buchanan has accepted a position of onerous responsibility in his Alma Mater, Park College,
at Parkeville, Mo., near Kansas City.
He is rarely well fitted for this service.
but we trust that bis and ,\bh Buchanan's aloha for these Islands will some
day bring them back. Mr. Buchanan's
love for Christian industrial education
and his practical experience ;ii Park
College, both in the past and now as
the bead of one of its important departments should keep him well in the
minds of our Island leaders, It is ton
bad to lose him but we trust that his
new position may only prove a larger
preparation for future service in this
Territory.
Get Ready.
The visit of the battleship squadron
is a challenge to the Christian people of Honolulu. How shall we answer it? Would it not be wise for all
our Churches together to lay plana for
such an entertainment of these guests
as shall spell the word Christian in unmistakable characters? The saloons
and Iwilei will welcome the thousands
of young men with open arms. 'That
embrace will mean disease to many,
fines to not a few, imprisonment to
some. If we Christians open a few attractive rooms: say one near the water
front, one in the business center, one
near the railroad depot and one at Palama Settlement, if we fit them Up with
billiard tahles and other games, stock
them with non-alcoholic cool drinks,
etc., put in some good reading matter.
k rc four Johnny Martins to run one
ea<h in a jolly human style with no
re'igious cant about it, expecting each
place to take in a fair amount of cash
in return for the games, drinks, etc.:
if our Churches get busy with cordial
invitations to pleasant services and
plan a few socials for the men who
<how an inclination to welcome such
advances; if the Y. M. ('. A. organize
a band of guides to help the visitors
see the best that the town has to show :
if a taking little guide book he printed
for free distribution (or at 5 cents per
copy, if any charge be made) to K° ,n
every man in the squadron telling him
how to put in each day so as to get
the most out of it ; if we do this our
visiting fellow-citizens will leave Honolulu vowing it the royalest place
they ever knew. What will this cost?
Very little outside <>f the billiard tahles
and some men in the community might
be willing to loan theirs for the short
time necessary. Why not. fellowChristian citizens, rise to this emergency, why not? This paper, which
began its career as the Friend of Seamen
this rallying
65 years ago, gladly blows whom
blast on behalf of the men
it has
served throughout its entire life.
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Well Done.
The Civic Federation held its annual
meeting on the afternoon of February
19. The attendance was not large.
Such organizations rarely attract popular crowds. Bttl the array of work
dune during the preceding twelve
months presented in the reports not
only were deeply interesting but showed how faithful the busy men who
serve on the executive committee have
been to the public weal. President
tiriffiths presided with his usual grace
and in a forceful address emphasized
the various activities of the League,
showed that its work to be effective
must be done quietly in small committees, slated that its membership had
increased by more than MX), having
reached 250 and that its modest bankaccount kept it from larger undertakings, lie called attention to the important field for service during the
'Mining year especially in view of another ilectiun in the fall. The committee reports were so condensed as to
l"tbid a resume. They were packed
with information needed by public
spirited citizens. Their scope may be
imagined from the following subjects
touched upon: regulation of the liquor
traffic, juvenile court, appointment of
officeholders, responsibility of public
ervants, referendum and recall, earnings nf convicts, beautification of Honolulu, fishniarkct future, improvement
of I Intel street, Waikiki beach park,
tenements, sand piles fur children, public comfort stations, pure food law.
Icansing pools and water courses,
mosquitoes and Hies, children's hospitals and play-grounds, child labor,
places of detention for child delinquents,
sanitation, Xutianu water,
potter's field and graveyards, medical
inspection of schools, cleansing filthy
coin, noise nuisance, light for local option, bill to deprive Hawaii of advantages of Australian ballot, police, coffee bouses, social evil centers, sewer
rates, gambling and unlicensed liquor
-idling. A city that can command unpaid the service of fifteen of its busiest citizens to gather in general meeting once a month and in smaller committees oftener to study with patience
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such problems, make regular reports,
present thoughtful recommendations
and give to the public through the
press and by pamphlet the results of
their labor is to be congratulated. Honolulu has this in her Civic Federation. In it and in her Kilohana Art
League, her Merchants' Association,
Chamber of Commerce. Improvement
Clubs and Promotion Committee she
has a galaxy of associated organizations animated with the ambition to
make their city clean, healthy, beautiful and righteous. This sort of endeavor is bound to tell mightily during
the next ten years.
D. S.
THE FUTURE
OF
PROTESTANTISM.
Dr. Newman Smyth of New Haven
has created a strong sensation by a remarkable deliverance upon this subject. He writes of "the passing of this
Protestant age" and "the failure of this
Protestant age," "Another age is at
hand." "Protestantism has lost the old
authority" in the family, in the Church,
in the state. It has "lost control over
large areas of religious thought." He
believes that a new religion is growing
alike out of Catholicism and Protestantism, which is to possess the
future. His own "religious thoughts
and tendency are truly represented by
the Modernists.
We incline to agree with Dr. Newman Smyth that Protestantism is Hearing its end. It is committing felo dc se.
And he has for 25 years been one of
the chief leaders of this tendency in
New England. Under the lead of men
like him, and following German Rationalizing Critics of the Bible, a great
current of opinion has been created, involving most of the churches and seminaries of New England, which has discredited the Bible. Protestantism was
the religion based upon the Bible, as
the sole and supreme authority for
Christian Faith and practice. Discredit
the Bible and Protestantism necessarily dies. This process is now far advanced in Europe and America.
Vale Seminary, where Dr. Smyth's
influence has been prominent, was represented in the great National Congregational Council at Cleveland last
October by Prof. Ambrose W. Vernon,
among whose strong declarations there
we find such as the following:
"Biblical criticism has shown beyond
any question that there is no such revelation of a body of divine truth in
the Scriptures that a man may adjust
his conduct thereto."
"If to preach the gospel means to
persuade men to accept the Bible as
the infallible Word of God. even in
matters of faith and practice, it is a
hopeless task."
"If the first three Gospels are to be
the standard by which we determine
the mind of Jesus, then it would appear"—according to the Biblical critics—"that in his eyes there is no such
thing as an atonement for sin."
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"The glorious gospe\ of God is not
be identified with the words of
Jesus, because they do not give us the
simple and invincible certainty which
religion demands. Foe, to begin with,
we cannot be sure of precisely what
"Our Lord was
they are." *
not a dogmatist, but a poet. He employed words not to describe or adjust
eternal truths, but to transform certain
men from a lower to a higher mood."
Vernon denies the reliability of the
Gospel narratives. He questions the
historicity of the Miracles, both of the
()ld Testament and the New. He discards not only the Virgin birth of
Jesus, but also His Resurrection. The
one revelation made by Jesus was
Cod's Immanence, and his all-embracThis "New
ing, boundless Love.
Theology" of Modernistic invention
discards the Supreme Holiness of Cod
and his Righteous Law.
So this clubbing of the Bible goes
on. and Cod's witnesses are being slain
in the streets (Revelation n ij-io). We
incline to the belief that Newman
Smyth is correct; and Protestantism is
lo be submerged by Modernism.
But that means that our Lord's Coming in great Power and Clory is close
at hand.
S. E. B.
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SOME CONTRASTS IN, THE
SOUTH.
Notes on the Laurel Country of North
Carolina as Contrasted With the
South in General.
(By Henry P. Judd.)
There are some noteworthy conthat prevail in a certain part of
the mountains of North Carolina which
1 have observed during my residence
here of almost two years. As they
may be of interest to the readers of
"The Friend" I send them, together
with my aloha nui.
Here we are in the very heart of the
South, five hundred miles by rail from
Washington, D. C, and not far north
of South Carolina. We would therefore expect to find different conditions
from those that actually prevail.
The South is generally regarded as a
fairly warm region—"steaming hot" in
summer and only moderately cold in
winter. The Laurel country of North
Carolina is an exception to this rule,
trasts
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for in the summer it is not oppressively hot but in the winter it often
gets decidedly cold.
The first few days of February have
been "plumb cold" as the mountain natives express it. The frozen creeks and
icy roads make horseback-riding a
risky business and walking is more
popular.
When the thermometer registered
zero and the postmaster's water pitchers froze in the night and a dozen of
his "for sale" eggs froze and then
popped, he, the postmaster, store-keeper, Justice of the Peace, etc., refused to
allow the mail-boy to transport the
mail or do any business for Uncle Sam.
The reason for our having such cold
weather is because of the altitude of
these mountains that separate North
Carolina from Tennessee. ()nly a few
miles from us, covered over with the
white snow, they lie in an imposing
range varying in height from 4.500 to
4,000 feet.
It is easy to see then how one in the
right part of the South can become as
easily chilled or even frozen as in the
cold North.
When you think of the "Sunny
South" you always imagine fields of
cotton where the negroes are busy at
work, or else some wharf where bales
of cotton are being rolled aboard a
steamer, or possibly you associate "the
South" in your mind with a watermelon patch, a corn-field, an old gray
mule and some darkies sitting on the
honeysuckle-covered porch singing the
old plantation songs while some one is
strumming the inevitable banjo. Now
these are true pictures of many parts
of the South, but the Laurel country of
North Carolina is again an exception
to the general rule, for not one darky
resides here. In fact the prejudice
against them is so strong in our community that they are not allowed to
settle here and only a few years ago it
was dangerous for them to travel
through the country. F.ven today they
are accompanied by white men from
the lower lands of Tennessee when
they occasionally pass through with
bands of horses, taking them up to
Asheville for sale. Along the Southern railroad and in the towns the negro
may be found, but the race problem
will not have to be settled in our parish
because there is no race problem. All
the people are pure Americans, possibly the purest strain in all the South.
They can trace back to the ScotchIrish and the English who came in the
eighteenth century over to Virginia
and thence made their way a hundred
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years ago in a south-western direction
through the virgin forests of the early
Carolina colony to the region now called "the Laurel country," because of the
abundance of what the natives call
laurel but what we in the North call
rhododendron.
For weeks at a time I have seen only
white faces save for the occasional
berry-painted face of some happy
youngster who has had access to the
huckleberry jar when his mother wasn't looking.
There are typical blondes here, as
fair as the fairest Teuton, and there
are brunettes without number. The
average of good-looking people is fully
as high here as in any part.of America
and some of the youngsters would
make splendid models for cherubs.
In spite of the fact that they have
no use for the colored people, the
mountaineers in our section are all Republican in regard to national and
state issues, but sometimes when the
county Republican machine becomes
corrupt and notoriously inefficient then
they assert their privilege wisely and
put in good Democrats or anti-machine
Republicans for the sake of honest government.
The mountaineer feels the need of
efficient and just officials fully as much
as do the residents of Honolulu.
In national politics the South is considered Democratic but the Laurel
country again differs from"the solid
South" and casts a solid vote for the
Republican nominee. The men here
have no use for Cleveland and will tell
you that the excessively hard times of
93, <J4- '95 and '</) were caused by his
bad policies and poor judgment and no
amount of argument seems to shake
their convictions. It is interesting to
hear the leading citizens discuss the
relative strength of Taft and Foraker
in Ohio and what chance the Cortelyou
boom has of living through the winter
and other phases of the absorbing topic
of politics. Many of the men are constant readers of the Chattanooga Times
and so keep well posted on national
affairs.
These three contrasts—climate, peo-
ple and politics—between the South
and the Laurel country are all I shall
make.
There is an interesting contrast, fur-
thermore, between the mountaineer of
today and his ancestors in regard to
his religious belief. The early settlers
here were Presbyterian through and
through. When they were neglected
year after year in these secluded coves
and far-away hills they were easily
gathered in by the I '.apt ist teachers and
preachers who gained a strong hold
upon the people. Today we find the
Baptist superstructure of religious expression, which consists chiefly of the
practise of immersion after a series of
"big meetings" often very dramatic
and even fanatical, built upon the old
Calvanistic
faith and the natural religiousness of the people.
It is hard to drive out the old notion
of wdiat religion is. The preachers of a
few years ago had told people that you
must confess sin, repent, believe, be
baptized, join the church and then all
will be well—heaven will be yours
when yon die. Little was said about
the practise of every-day religion in
the home, the doing of kind deeds, the
spirit of justice, loyalty to the truth,
honesty in business and the spirit of
giving.
Recently the Presbyterians
have entered the mountains and their
work as Christian educators and leaders in all good works is beginning to
show results.
Their emphasis on the everv-day religion and its richness and fullness has
given a new meaning to the old idea
of religion which was of something unusual and fitful and connected with the
emotional "getting the Spirit."
The Presbyterian work has helped
the Baptists by arousing them from
their semi-comatose state and stirring
them to activity of the most strenuous
variety. If they would only oppose
the hosts of Satan as vigorously as
they assail the hosts of the Presbyterians, how much better it would be
for the Kingdom of (iod!
The particular parish that I am in
charge of is different from the other
parishes of my fellow Presbyterian
ministers in that there is no organized
opposition to my work. There are no
other churches of any kind and I have
the whole field to myself. The Devil
seems to be my greatest opponent and
he surely gives me enough to do. Being the only regular preacher in the
parish of over twenty miles of road, I
have considerable parish work to do.
I am always called upon to bury the
dead and lately, strangely enough since
the advent of Leap year, have performed several marriage ceremonies.
This is a locality of interesting contrasts and the work is truly full of interest and encouraging features. The
leaven is slowly but surely working
and the Kingdom of Cod is coming
with its righteousness, peace and joy
in the Holy Chost.
THE FRIEND.
RANGE LIGHTS
BY JOHN G. WOOLLEY. LL.D.
The great daily papers are coming
into line for the abolition of the beverage liquor traffic.
The Philadelphia
North American, in an editorial of great
truth and strength, puis itself squarely
m the front rank of the knighthood of
the new politics. The editorial is as
follows:
"The favorite answer of the liquor
dealer to any critic who puts the truth
of present-day conditions squarely before the public is to cry 'fanaticism' or
'exaggeration to serve local political or
business purposes*' "
In rebuttal of all such nonsense we
submit a portion of the leading editorial of Collier's Weekly, a non-partisan
journal dependent upon the approval
of the public in all the stales, under
the title of "Nemesis," Collier's speaks
as follows:
The brewers
moved by
that fear of the "prohibition
wave," which is now a shiver in
the bones of those' who deal in
alcoholic beverages, are making an
apparent elf' «i to be good. .
The awakening is tardy. Never
before has any "liquor interest"
heeded public clamor.
Had the retail or the wholesale
. .
.
.
dealers, the distillers or the brewers, taken a more conciliatory attitude, the prohibition wave would
have been at least longer in arriv-
ing. Their attitude has been defiant, unreasoning.
Did a community start to combat dives along its waterfront?
Immediately it bad to light not
only the owners of these dives, not
only all the saloon-beepers of the
region, but brewers, wholesalers,
distillers.
What matter that such places
were headquarters for ruining
girls! The process of ruin was
good for trade: to one girl, eight
glasses of beer or a pint of whisky. A community which did not
want
prohibition in the beginning
would try every means of regulation.
Beaten at every turn by the
liquor interests and their followers
in politics, it would slowly be convinced that there was no way to
fight the combination ; outraged, it
would rise and destroy the traffic.
The liquor men have brought the
trouble on themselves.
We cite this national commentary
because it furnishes complete corroboration of the North American's explanation of the sentiment that not in
Pennsylvania alone nor in any one
state or section, but from border to
border of this country is refusing to
draw a line of domarcation between the
law-abiding liquor dealer, whose life
and trade have been decent, and the
slum trader in the degradation of
bodies and souls. The wholesaler and
the retailer of beer and whisky who
have kept their dealings always within
the law are bewildered. They see what
is going on around them. They read
in the journals of their trade such
acknowledgments as this editorial, one
in "Beverages," published in NewYork "\\'e dislike to acknowledge it,
but we really believe the entire business all over has overstayed its opportunity to protect itself against the onward march of prohibition.
Five years ago a united industry might
have kept hack the situation that now
confronts us. but today it is too late."
And they wonder why. They seek
some special cause for this great upheaval of antagonism. Therein lies
their error. No one thing is responsible. It is the gathering of many rivulets into a Hood. It is the expression
of cumulative sentiment. It is the culmination of ideas, observation, experience and practical teachings that have
:
been accumulating throughout past
generations.
Heretofore The North American has
commented mainly upon the economic
side of this great public question. Put
because we have dealt with the purely
material, dollars and cents side of the
movement for rigid regulation of the
drink traffic and the drink habit, it does
not mean that we are blind to the
ethical side of the problem. It is the
combination of materialism and sentiment, long divergent but now blended.
that makes the force of the nresent
movement, just as the mixing of materials, harmless when isolated, makes
nitroglycerin. Therefore, for the enlightenment of the amazed law-abiding
liquor dealers, we cite for their study
certain truths that are none the less
true because they are budded not upon
statistics, but sentiment. And the first
of these truths is that resentment for
all the wrongs that have been done to
millions by unscrupulous men in the
7
past and the present is coming to a
focus and is being crystallized into in-
discriminating opposition to the entire
class to which the wrongdoers belonged.
By pre-natal influence and by admonition in babyhood suffering women
made martyrs by a husband's habit,
have put an abhorrence into the minds
of children who now are men. Men
who draw small wages now look back
to childhood whose opportunities were
restricted, remember a home that was
not happy, recall times when children
who had advantages that they did not
shamed them, and have no tolerant
feeling toward the thing that made
their father a hindrance and not a help
in their life progress. Too many men
have seen old estates disappear in dissipation ; too many women, gently born
and reared, have been seen reduced to
hard and wearying and sometimes
menial toil; too many children have
been buried in undowered pine coffins
for those whose hearts were stung by
a personal share in such happenings to
be free from prejudice against the thing
that caused it all. Men with no such
mental legacy have seen the brightest
ami best of their school-mates sloughed
of all that was good in them by one
form of self-indulgence. And each time
they look upon a wreck of manhood
they grow bitterer against the vice that
killed what might have been. People
who were maimed in a 'cidents a dozen
years ago, or who still mourn friends
killed because the engineer, or pilot, or
captain, or conductor, was intoxicated,
are not content with the enforcement
of sobriety upon all employes by the
great corporations today. Their sorrow still is fresh, and while its cause
exists they remain what the saloonkeepers call "fanatics."
This is no campaign conducted by
The North American or any other one
newspaper. It is a crusade that has
been preached every day in every year
by every newspaper in the land. There
is not a daily journal anywhere, however allied with the liquor trade, which
has not been preaching a temperance
sermon each morning by printM*"' the
facts of police court proceedings, of
crimes and of criminal trials—each
item founded upon the abuse of intoxicants being an unwitting sermon, all
the more convincing because published
without bias, without prejudice and
without consideration of political or
any other aim.
The same newspapers
todayi which, by reason of pay or policy, denounce local option and every
other form of restriction of the liquor
traffic neutralize daily the effect of
tbe<r own arguments by being com-
8
THE FRIEND
pelted to print the news of the crimes
of the previous day. And the men of
means who buy those papers and pay
for their advertising space know that
the stultification of those arguments
lies in their own knowledge that they,
grant credit to sober men in preference
to drinkers, and choose their clerks Indie same rule, and class their accounts
as "good" or "doubtful" largely in accordance with the drinking habits of
the debtor.
We could name a hundred such factors m the composition of prevailing
public sentiment. Not one of them
would suffice to explain to the lawabiding saloonkeeper why be is being
placed under the same ban as the worst
of the men in his trade.
He is right in a measure. Not one
of these things is the reason. But each
is a component part of the collective
cause, just as each snowllake on the
flunk of an Alpine peak may help make
a snowball started from the top an
avalanche before it reaches the valley.
Had the league of brewers and distillers and saloon men of the better
class offered the reforms they now
commend ten years or less ago they
would have appealed strongly to all
practical men. Their proffer meets
with scant consideration now. They
speak too late.
They might have prevented the mixing of the acid of sentiment with the
sawdust and glycerine of business.
They chose to wait until the explosive
was formed and the fuse lighted. If
they do not enjoy the fireworks it is
their own fault. It is simply because
the law of retribution is inexorable, and
because for every wrong done to one's
fellow-man some one must pay, even if
that wrong run unpunished "unto the
third or fourth generation," that, quoting once more with our endorsement
from the same editorial with which we
prefaced this comment, we say that:
"The American saloon as it exists—an
evil in itself and a nucleus for evils the
worst that can be conceived —the
American saloon must pass."
FIFTEEN THOUSAND MEN.
Numerically that is what the tleet
may mean to Honolulu. Some of us
are beginning to wonder what we are
to do with them To be sure the merchants are planning to sell them goods,
aye, and bads too : in this connection we
understand that the brewery is working full force.
What then?
Perhaps a citizens' committee will be
formed to entertain them. Honolulu
is ever hospitable and these men will
little attention, but what home. These parents give us their full
confidence. Their children cause us
The rumor is that the W. C. T. I', many anxious moments by their rude
plans to prepare a coffee saloon on the behavior, swearing, and singing of bad
water front to counteract the saloons. songs, but thank (lod, the environment
Fine! Put let it stand on its own legs. and Christian training in our school
Let it be attractive enough to attract, soon change their manners and
without a vestige nor a shadow of sug- thoughts and in three months they are
gestion of the "W's"—however estima- much improved and refined.
ble and attractive that body is. Here's
The present location of the school is
a criterion for success: Let this saloon convenient and healthy. We are very
or booth be nice enough to pull in the thankful for these comforts. We noboys, amuse them but preach nothing tice that 011 account of the success of
to them while there, (disclosing neither our boarding school two others have
cloven hoof nor concealed pinions) and Opened in Honolulu. One at Palaina
pay its way. We promise to help make by the Buddhist, ami one a Moiliili by
it such beforehand (we think we know a layman. This has not affected us for
where there is a dollar or two like- every room is occupied. The children
wise) and then when it is done we are using the dining-room and bedpromise to slay away. —if the good rooms for their study hour. This is inladies will.
convenient, and so we would ask our
Surely this is not enough in the way kind friends to help us meet the exof suggestion to counteract the tremen- pense of repairing the old barn which
dous forces against the sailors already stands on the premises. A new floor
in the field. If there are 2000 of them would give us the use of this barn as
allowed shore privileges at one time a recitation room. $70 would cover the
we think we know where i<xx> of them expenses ol repairs.
will be in an hour's time after landing. We wish to express our hearty
—within the limits of a quarter of a thanks to the generous and kind friends
mile of as near an approach to hell as .who assisted us in our financial diffithey are likely to get in this world. culties. We thank Mrs. 11. C. Coleman
Prompt measures need to be taken for her valuable gift of an organ. It is
soon.
a great help in the morning and evenNo, we don't need to "pet" nor ing devotions.
"baby" these men but they don't need The semi-annual report herewith
to have to go away with the idea that submitted.
this is the "widest open" town they
SEMI-ANNUAL FINANCIAL REPORT.
ever saw.
This paper over sixty years ago was
'July Ist -December 31 st, 1907.
The Seaman's Friend and is ready to
Receipts.
back any good movement to entertain
$ 896.9c
Boarders
these boys,—many of them actually
Hoard
60.OC
Hawaiian
warn
the
pubChristian
boys,—and we
S.
Damon
Mr.
M.
25.OG
lic that there is work to be done.
100.0c
A Friend
T. R.
Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Cooke...
150.0c
and Mrs. W. 1). W'esterMr.
WORTH
READING.
WELL
velt
3°0°
Mrs. II. C. Coleman
30.00
Castle
50.OG
The Japanese Hoarding School has Mr. G. P.Mrs.
and
25.00
W. A. Bowen.
passed six months of smooth and Mr.
steady progress. Two boys have left
$1,366.90
Total
for Seattle, to receive higher education,
to
one has gone
his father in California.
Disbursements.
We have 59 children 5 from Hawaii,
$ 428.30
Rice and Bread
4 from Maui, 13 from Kauai. 10 from (Groceries
685-75
Oahu, and 24 from Honolulu. Fight
(
of these are orphans whose relatives Fuel, K. >il and Minor Fxpenscs
15-80
1
are unable to support them, so no
160.OO
Wages. Cook and Servants.
charge is made for their board.
100.45
()ur school is a home. The children Washing
last report
'43-85
are treated as members of my family. Deficit of
They eat at our table; sleep in the same
$1.(140.15
Total
room with our children and receive the
Deficit
S »73.25
same care as our own. By this kindE. and ( ). E;
ness we gain a strong influence over
T. OKCMl'RA.
unruly children, who are sent to us because parents can not control them at
Principal Japanese Hoarding School.
not get too
of its
quality?
.
:
.
THE FRIEND
9
NOTES FROM THE FIELD
BY FRANK S. SCUDDER
The Kingdom of Heaven is like unto Treasure Hid in a Field.
NOTES FROM THE FIELD
Tuesday.
"If ye abide in me and my words
abide in you, ask whatsoever ye will
In this issue we give especial promi- and it shall be so."—-John 15:7.
nence to notes from the Chinese Field.
God's Kingdom and our Missions in
The weight of authority seems to in- China.
Our Work and Workers on Maui,
dicate that the land of Sinim mentioned by Isaiah was no other than the Molokai and Lanai.
Our Chinese Evangelists, Preachers,
land of China. Long ago the prophet's
Schools
and Teachers.
was
and
China
her
eye
Upon.
people.
lis
heart
with
exultation
be
as
leaped
I
In regard to work among the Chisaw in vision the people of this vast
empire moving out into the highways nese and allied interests Mr. Tliwing
of the Lord. What he saw in vision, writes as follows:
it is ours to see in its actual inception.
Our Chinese Teachers.
We are still in the days of small
the
work of the Hawaiian Hoard,
In
things, but even the casual observer for the many nationalities found in
begins to think big thoughts when he Hawaii, a large part is among the Chiis brought face to face with the prosnese people. In the various Churches.
pect of China's awakening Hawaii is and schools, under the care of the
her next door neighbor on the Chris- Hoard, Chinese preachers and teachers
tian side, and has, both by observation are needed.
These must necessarily
and actual experience learned many of come largely, from China. The Hawaithe virtues of her neighbor, China, ian Hoard has sent for a number of
which more distant neighbors are not Chinese teachers, and expects to send
inclined to believe in, and while in our
small territory we shall have some opportunity to bring the blessings of
Christianity to the Chinese, our larger
opportunity for service will lie in the
direction of interpreting China to that
part of the world which has less opportunity of knowing the better side of
our great and estimable neighbor.
for more. These men who come here,
are men of education and culture. It
is the wish of the Hoard, which represents many of the best men of wealth
and influence in these Islands, that
these workers from China be treated
with courtesy and consideration. It is
hard enough as it is. They have to
secure a special passport, at considerable
expense, and are also subject to.
of
the
posi.The voluntary assumption
lion of interpreter in so great a pro- often very trying examinations, both
blem would doubtless savor of con- on leaving China and on reaching the
Rev. Wong Yuk
ceit, but the fact remains that no where I'nited States.
in the world are the relations between Shing, one of our most consecrated
occidental anil oriental more agreeably and valuable workers for several years
maintained than in Hawaii, and no in Honolulu, after leaving here to go
where is the opportunity for improv- to San Francisco, wrote back of his
ing these relations greater than it is difficulties in going to America. He
here. And we believe that no method said something like this: "It is like
can be so successful as the cultivation going thru hell, for a Chinese to enter
of the brotherhood of the races under the I'nited States."
the Fatherhood of Cod.
Lo Sun Case.
"Do not interpretations belong to
is
This
another case, in connection
(iod ?" So said Joseph, most truly, and
the
with
one
of
our workers, where on acgreat
ourselves
to
it is by linking
Interpreter that we shall make a suc- count of the unreasonable and strict
cess of what appears to be our God interpretation of the exclusion law. a
given Opportunity. Let us preface our mistake was made, in the hasty and unChinese notes and our Chinese work warranted arrest of M Lo Sun. It is
with the recognition of this fact. The true, that beginning with the Chinese
Hawaiian Hoard gives this recognition New Year, on account of his health,
and a different spoken dialect, he provto it in its Weekly I'raver Calendar.
.
-
Ed unfitted for our work, and so left
Hut the Chinese were
ready to employ him in their own
school, and he is now teaching there.
To arrest a Chinese teacher, who has
come lawfully into the country' with
good paners, on account of his leaving
one school and before he has had any
time to enter another school, seems a
very strange thing, and can only give
offence to our Chinese, to good Americans alike. It only makes more clear,
the need, of an early modification of
the spirit and execution of the Chinese
Exclusion Law. This case, unpleasant
as it has been, may prove of much
value, in aiding to bring about a readjustment of the relations between
the peoples of China and the I'nited
States.
our school.
Chinese and Reform.
Many of the Chinese are very active
and earnest in the work of opium reform. Some of them are also much interested in the temperance movement.
Hon. J. (i. Woolley spoke on the
subject of "Gospel Temperance" at the
Fort Street Chinese Church on Sunday morning, March Ist. His address
was much appreciated.
The children of the Chinese Mission
Schools are making ready for their
part in the great Sunday School Faster
rally to be held at Central Union
Church on April 19th.
New Chinese Consul.
We welcome our new Chinese Consul, Mr. Tsang, to Honolulu, who takes
up his work this month. He speaks
fluent English, and takes much interest in the work among the Chinese of
Hawaii.
His genial secretary, Mr.
Sung, is also very welcome here. He
is a literary graduate of the first degree, and better still a good Christian
gentleman, a member of the Presby-
terian Church of China. He is interested in our Church work here and
spoke at the Fort Street Church on
Sunday, March Ist, and also to the
Sunday School.
Stop in and visit the Aala Street
Chinese Cirls' School. Forty bright
10
THE FRIEND.
The superintendents of our Japanese that he was not in entire sympathy
girls, in their pretty Chinese costume.
may he seen on school days from g work have just returned from a tour with us. 1 still have 1 pocket Greek
a. m. to 2 p. m.
in Kona and Maui. In two weeks they Testament, which he kindly gave me.
I therefore wrote to his younger
made twenty-four addresses before
audiences of from thirty to sixty or brother, Melville M. Cower, Fs<|., of
Chinese Editor.
pome years resiThe Hawaiian Hoard publishes a more. At a ministers' meeting in Maui New Haven, Ct., for
Hawaiians,
Maui,
there
were
dent
on
Fast
for information,
present
Portupaper in Fnglish, one in Hawaiian and
and
Ameriguese,
Japanese,
Chinese
lie
kindly
responded,
in part as folone in the Japanese language. At the
meeting of the Hoard last November, cans. To have in one local ministers' lows
"Yes! My brother George was an
it was proposed to also publish a paper meeting the representatives of as many
in Chinese, and $so.(x> was appropriat- nationalities as there are found in our Episcopalian, but not by birth. * * *
public schools, and all conferring to- He was the only one of our family to
ed towards the first issue. One of our gether
'■••
as fellow-workers, fellow-citi- desert the Baptist faith.
(
workers,
China,
a
hinese
teacher from
brothers,
and
assistant
the
in
zens
Christian
betokens
While
an
Rectory
was expected to give a pari of his time,
* he met
acting as editor of this Chinese paper. [the best things for the future of our School in llarndcn *
in the form of a very sweet
Unfortunately, the young teacher was islands and the problems of theii mix- bis fate woman,
voting
who was a devout
taken sick, and so was not able to be- ed population,
Episcopalian *
* so he unceregin his work as editor of the Chinese
Two
new
became
a
Churchman.
moniously
Japanese
School*
Sunday
*
If he had done so.
paper proposed.
the Hawaiian Hoard might have had were organized in January ; one by Mr. When George and bis lovely wife went
an interesting case, in preventing the Shimamura, at Paauhau, with 30 pu- to Hawaii, it was a grief to them to
deportation of one of their Chinese pils, and one by Mr. Saito, at Papai find no 'Church' there. But they made
kon, with about 30 pupils and seven the best of it. and stood by the misteachers, because of his being also an teachers.
We hope to be able to re- sionaries in opposition to those who
editor. Rulings from Washington will
port other new schools in the near loved iniquity and hated goodness and
be looked for with much interest.
good men. So while he was fairly confuture.
stant in his attendance upon your minChinese
of
Miss
pupil
A
Charlotte L.
( >f $1035.00 raised for the erection of istry in Lahaina, he kept up the F.pisTurner, of Wailukn. recently confessed
his faith and expressed a desire to be a school under the care of Rev. Ciiehi Cnpal service in his own bouse Sunday
1960.00 was con- afternoons, and il a wayfaring member
baptized. Fearing that his father and Tanaka at Wailuku,
mother in China would be greatly in- tributed by the Japanese themselves, of bis faith was in town, lie was invited
censed over his becoming a Christian only $75.00 having been contributed br- to assist in the service. 1 c;ui recall
at this time but one that I ever saw
he asked his teacher to write for their others.
there on those occasions, Mr. J. S. Van
consent. A short time ago a letter was
()u the first Sunday
in
When I met Bishop
February
Ingen.
received in his father's own hand-writHaven, and was inwere
and
Restarick
in
baptized
New
twenty-six
persons
that
he
no
objecing telling him
had
the
to
received
into
Makiki
troduced
Japanese
by
my niece. Miss Ella
him
tion to his son's receiving baptism and Church
on confession of their faith. Cower (born at Makawao), I beard her
that if he did so he must not go into it
half-hearted but be a thorough-going Five others were received at the same tell the Bishop that her father had read
service by letter from other Churches. the service in Lahaina, and that a
Christian.
The people are working and praying cousin of ours, Mr. Jas. Robinson, mate
with
the hope of seeing at least one of a whalcship, was once an attendant
One of our Japanese evangelists had
brought to Christ this at one of George's household services.
a visit from a Buddhist priest. During hundred persons
had neither time nor disposition to
instrumentality of
through
the
year
bis two days' stay they studied the
their
Church.
tell
the Bishop how limited the attendhe
remarked
that he
Bible together,
ance
was. Hut I was charmed with
could not help admiring the Christians
nighi the Bishop and his very warm enRev.
Kaiiro
has
estalished
a
T.
their
for the interest they show in
school in his Kakaako Mission, and by comium upon the very godly men ami
faith. Of their own accord they study his
hard work ami winsome manner women who first carried the 'Glad Tidthe Bible and gather together to pray
up to a flourish- ings' to Hawaii, and their wonderful
and seem to enjoy each other's fellow- has already brought it
to you, good success."
Success
ing
condition.
ship. Their religion seems to be enIt is very gratifying to receive this
friend.
to
but
Buddhists
do
the
joyable them,
to the earnest devoutness of
testimony
not Study their own religion nor take
;hc--c old Lahaina friends of sixty
EARLY
it,
and
are
without
SERVICES
any
EPISCOPAL
any interest in
\ears ago.
Rev. Mr. Mason establishsuch brotherly spirit as is shown
AT LAHAINA.
services there in
regular
Episcopal
ed
among Christians. That was honestly
English in 1863, when Mr. and Mrs.
spoken and represents a feeling which
S. E. Bishop regrets not to have be- Henry Dickenson, Sr., and their family
prevails largely among intelligent and
fore
him a recent statement by Bishop became regular attendants. I was then
thinking Japanese.
Restarick respecting Protestant Epis- a missionary of the American Hoard
Pacopal services reported to hint as hav- at I (ana.
Twenty-fice young Japanese in
S. F. P..
auhau have formed a Young Men's As- ing been held regularly in Lahaina by
Cower.
was
privimy
the
our
It
Mr. George
leadership of
sociation under
WAILUKU ON THE MOVE.
evangelist there. These young men lege to serve as chaplain to seamen at
pay dues of twenty-five cents a month Lahaina for nine years, including 185,}
The Chinese and Japanese work in
for the supply <>f good literature and and iBf>i. Mr. (lower was a regular
Christian papers in both Japanese and attendant at our little Bethel, and I W'ailuku is moving on with a fair dehad forgotten, if I had ever known, gree of prosperity. At the last ComEnglish.
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niunion Service at the Chinese Church
Mr. Ah Ko, for many years a resident
of W ailuku, united with the Church by
Profession, and received baptism. A
child of Christian parents was presented for baptism. There are several
other Chinese men who are seriously
considering spiritual truths, and will
ere long make a public profession.
Mr. Taffl W'a Chung is doing good
work in the Chinese school. He is not
only having a good attendance at the
day school, but holds the children al
Sunday School. While he is not a
Christian as yet. still he is not opposed
lo Christian teaching, but is Irving to
find out the meaning of Christianity.
It is not improbable that while leading
the children along from day to day, he
may sometime know the joy that
comes from finding the true interprets
tion of Christian truth.
Miss Turner with Miss Tanaka as a
helper are making weekly visits in the
Japanese homes. They are endeavor-
'
locate the various homes by
plan of each Street, and alley,
so that they will be remembered by
calls from the workers. Last month
they made over fifty calls in a few
days, and were most cordially received
by the women. Il will take time to
get around, for the Japanese population has increased so rapidly, but it is
the aim to become acquainted with as
many as possible.
The evening school for the Japanese
and other nationalities lor the study of
Fnglish is still well attended, There
are at present 22 Japanese, and two
Koreans. It is held at the Settlement
Tig lo
making a
Iwo
evenings of each
week.
Two afternoons of each week are
given to the Japanese women in the
study of English at the home of Mrs.
S. Kanda.
11 is with pleasure that we report
the cancelling of the Chinese Parsonage debt, at the close of the old year,
made possible through the kindness of
Friends. We wish to extend our sincere gratitude t<> all.
C.
L. TURNER.
KAUAI ITEMS.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Rice have been
spending a few honeymoon days on
Kauai and have received an ovation of
social favors and attention. The bride,
nee Baldwin, has won all hearts by her
charming simplicity and kindness —and
as for the groom, he was sufficiently
popular before.
The Lihue Sunday School loses a
most faithful and efficient teacher in
the recent departure of Miss Mabel
Wilcox, who lias gone Fast to enter
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The John Hopkins Training School these have no real existence, he befor Nurses, where she will take a three comes a monotheist, believing in one
years' course. She will be generally Cod: but, like the human race at the
corresponding period, bis Cod is very
missed.
( >nc of the largest Sunday School anthropomorphic, simply a great inexhibitions in sears was held at llana- visible man. So he asks if the lightlei. Sunday, Feb. <). In spite of almost ning is Cod's scratching bis matches
incessant rain the people—to the num- on the sky: and, hearing a reference to
ber of over 500—came from far and God as holding the stars in the hollow of his hand, wishes to know how
near.
The Lihue Fnglish Sunday School big (iod is then. As the race afterward
enjoyed a very pleasant picnic on Un- through the centuries came to a more
church lawn Feb. 10. These simple sjiritual conception, so does a child.
informal picnics are enjoyed by the following the same path and traversing
it in as many years.
parents as well as the children.
J. M. I.
My ten-year-old girl, seeing Campbell's recent book in my band, asked
what the New Theology was. I gave
ANSWERING A CHILD'S QUESTIONS bis claim that the old theology emABOUT GOD.
phasized the transcendence of (iod
and the new the immanence of Cod, explaining the terms so that she evidentBy Rev. Edwin H. Byington in
ly understood them. She instantly reThe ('ongrcgationalist.
plied, "Then I am old theology," and
went on playing with her Teddy Bear.
At the outset recognize that a child If this emphasis on the immanence of
is naturally a theologian. The being God
proves a permanent advance, all
and work of Cod interest him far more
children
will follow the steps of recent
than ethical questions, ()f course obegenerations,
and will find strength and
dience and punishment are very practhe thought of Cod's
tical problems for him but every child inspiration from
transcendence, before they come to rest
asks, "Who made (iod?" long before
ami rejoice in his immanence.
he concerns himself with the right ami
In tiic third place, the child is not
wrong of other people's actions. Ethics
have to be hammered into him, while familiar with social distinctions and
theological questions spring up spon- ecclesiastical phrases, and his exprestaneously and abundantly. This is nat- sions that seem to us too familiar and
ural, for the unseen world is as real to even irreverent are natural to him and
him as the material world, and there altogether reasonable.
he journeys with his imagination every
My eight-year-old boy once said in
day and tarries long. An invisible be- a perfectly matter of fact way, "(rod
ing is to him an easy conception and lias not done very well today." Being
;ui interesting personality.
Theology questioned, he said, "< >, last night I
is called by some the greatest of the asked God to make me a good boy tosciences. It certainly is the first of the day and be hasn't done very well, for
sciences, the first science that really I've been bad." Ami a few days later
interests a child.
be coolly complimented the Almighty
Then remember that as embryology on bis success in helping him get
claims that a human being from con- through the day without incurring
ception to birth and afterwards repeats punishment. Such familiarity is not
in bis growth the history of the hu- one that breeds contempt, but is entireman race's development for ages, so ly normal.
does the child traverse in ten years the
With these facts in view, a few sugtheological ground humanity has been gestions present themselves. Do not
many centuries in covering.
be surprised at the questions about
Children, at fust, as vveie our ances- Cod asked by a child, however numertors, are polytheists, believing in many ous and far reaching.
Expect them.
trods, that is, in unseen beings who are Do not regard them as evidences of
interested in people, affecting their wel- abnormal precocity: nor fear that the
fare for good or for ill, to be feared or child is in danger of immediate transloved, placated or shunned. As the lation to celestial regions as if "too
heathen had his special god and many good for this life;" nor imagine that
lesser deities, so the child has God, the lad is foreordained to he a minister
Santa Clans, ghosts, fairies, hobgoblins or the maid a minister's wife: nor comand others, all equally real to him, all plain that the Sunday school teacher
invisible spirits with whom he feels his must be stuffing the child's head full of
life directly associated.
very queer notions. In fact, this quesWhen he discovers that most of tioning is not a moral or spiritual
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symptom at all. but mental, these questions being the product of the child's
imagination. When, after a few years,
its activity is lessened, he asks fewer
such questions, and at last they cease
almost entirely. The renewal of theological interest in the adolescent period
is far more ethical and spiritual in its
origin and significance. That, however, also wanes in time; after which
mundane interests dominate, and they
alone indulge in purely theological
questions, whose natural bent or circumstances keep the subject before
them. Hut for almost all children it is
a perfectly natural thing.
Do not greet the child's question
with laughter, or recite it to others in
the presence of the child as "so funny."
We cannot help being amused at times,
but the child should never know it.
Neither should we manifest disapproval at some of the monstrosities that
are presented, frowning upon them as
foolish, or chiding the seeming irreverence, or characterizing the child as a
little heathen, even though from our
standpoint the question is both foolish,
irreverent and even heathenish.
The child should not be bluffed, as is
most common, nor sheaid his question
be ignored. Often it is refused decent
courtesy and at times the treatment accorded is nothing short of insulting.
If children responded to our questions
as we sometimes do to their most
earnest inquiries, we would be terriblyshocked. Parental impertinence is the
worst type of impertinence in existence,
and is altogether too common. In few
directions is it so often true that if a
son asks of a father bread, he receives
a stone. When the children put questions about Cod in good faith, and we
fail to reply in an earnest spirit, we
wrong them, we injure them and lose
a Cod-given opportunity.
If you can, explain the exact question the child asked; but if you must
acknowledge partial or complete ignorance of the answer, still give him something—present some kindred truth. A
hungry boy does not care if you give
him beef when he asks for veal. All
that he wants is something to satisfy
that empty feeling inside. So is the
questioning child well content if you
give him some allied information. And
what you tell him now will be received
far more readily than when you try to
teach him without his first having questioned. You may have to drive him to
study his Sunday school lesson, but to
the answers to his own questions he
will listen with interest, sometimes
even with eagerness. The answer may
need shaping to his condition, if he is a
little polythcist. or if his Cod is simply
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a great big man; but give him some-
thing.
If necessary, postpone the answer for
a time, but not indefinitely. If your
youngster interrupts your conversation
with a guest by saying: "(>, bather, I
saw two dogs having an awful fight.
Was (iod there? Why did he let them
fight?" the time is not opportune for
an answer. Hut at a later hour, before
the day is done, say, "Sonny, you asked at dinner, etc." Let not the sun go
down on your child's question about
Cod unanswered.
A/. R. Castle
rV. Ok Smitb
(Cal.)
Cr.
$350.00
Hal. indebtedness (last year)..$ io.ixi
105.00
i I. K. Poepoe to Feb
S. P. Kaaia to Feb
70. tx">
Xo.<x>
M. Kuikahi to Feb
Railroad ticket II. K. 1'
12.50
Kalilii and Mnanalua Church
(for new building)
25.<x>
Balance on band
4750
I3SO.00
T. R.
OAHU AID SOCIETY.
In 1901 five men met to form a society to assist the native pastors on
the Island of ()ahu. The idea of assistance was borrowed from an aid society
then in existence on Kauai. Mr. W.( ).
Smith bad already been aiding the native pastors on this island and there
was due him then on advances made
about $700. This sum was paid and
the other four men, who, with him
formed the executive board of this society, were W. R. Castle. P. C. |ones,
W. F. Frear and Theodore Richards.
In the years that have followed sums
van ing from $500 to $1300 have been
expended annually to aid pastors or to
repair churches. One of the cardinal
prerequisites of the society has been
self-help on the part of the beneficiary.
No money has been paid until there
was evidence that the local people have
done their share. One of the natural
advantages of the society has been that
there have been fewer "wild-cat" subscription papers about. 'Die theory is
that if every one who wants to aid the
native pastors would give through this
channel there would be greater responsibility in the use of the funds.—fewer
foolish things would be attempted and
the public less often deceived.
It is with a view to better management that the board of directors have
decided that Rev. J. P. Frdman, who
is on the field, could more wisely superintend the handling of funds. Mr.
Richards, who has had charge during
these years, is more confined to the
office and heartily welcomes the
change. The report that follows is
from May 15 to Feb. 15. 'Hie hope is
expressed that all the old friends of
this organization and many new ones
will rally to its continued support.
Oahu Aid Society.
Dr.
$100.00
Mrs. J. M. Atherton
100.00
i. P. Castle
Mary Castle Trust
50.00
50.00
50.00
UPWARD.
Mrs. Rose Desha died at her home
in Hilo in the early morning hours of
Saturday, Feb. Ist. Death was occasioned by heart failure. Mrs. Desha,
formerly Mrs. Starr Ixapu of Honolulu,
was married to Rev. Stephen Desha
less than two years ago. and from the.
first she filled a large place in the home
and church life of her husband. Her
superior gifts made her at Once a leader
among the Hawaiian people, where her
influence was being powerfully felt for
g
I, while her kindly disposition and
worth of character made her friends
among all who knew her.
The funeral was from the Haiti
Church at to a. 111. Sunday. Feb. 2d,
and was very largely attended. The
services were conducted by Rev. W.
Kamau of Puna, assisted by Rev. Curtis E. Shields of the Foreign Church.
The sympathy of the community goes
out without reserve to the sorrowing
husband and family in their affliction.
C. F. S.
CHINESE SUNDAY SCHOOL MISSIONARY.
The Sunday School of the Fort
Street Church. Honolulu, support their
own native missionary In China. Rev.
C. A. Nelson, in charge of the field
where he is working, writes of a trip
from Canton to this place, llettng Shan,
and tells of the work and what he saw
on the journey:
"All along the way, I took notice of
the rice-fields, and was glad to see
them look so well in spite of the heavy
rainfalls which have been coming for
the past two months. The high waters
ruined most of the paddy-fields in the
neighborhood of Canton. In Heung
Shan, I saw two crops growing side by
side. There was the first crop which
will be harvested in the 6th Moon, and
in between the rows the second crop
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which ripens in the lOth Moon. Afteri hand the white-washed beams overthe part of the workers. The artistic
the first crop has been harvested by head. The interior of this chapel is decorations, the entire work was carhand, the second gets a better chance ! rough looking indeed, but it is more ried on by these ladies, and we take
and does very well. In the fields' comfortable than many chapels I have this opportunity of thanking those who
around, I saw women and girls at preached in. At the rear is a loft labored so faithfully ami made it a
work, standing in mud and water over I where the preacher and attendant perfect success.
Every nationality
their ankles. They were puddling the study and sleep. (hi this occasion, I contributed and it was a source of great
rice plants which were a foot or more had the privilege of baptising two pleasure and joy to have such interest
high. With their hands they pulled young men; one had heard the (iospel given us.
out a weed here and there and worked, in San Francisco, for the first time, for
A valentine party was given the
in around the plants dry manure or be was born there; the other had been 'ladies and girls. All kinds of games
lime-dust as fertilizers. In addition to to Yokohama where he had heard the appropriate to the day were enjoyed.
came, each one relarge hats with high crowns, all made Gospel. We are trying to find as many About forty
of bamboo, they wore a cover for their of these returned Chinese as possible, ceiving a valentine as a souvenir of the
backs made of bamboo leaves, and many of whom have been influenced Occasion. We are trying to give some
shaped like a turtle-shell. This cover by good people in the homeland. Our social pleasures to those with whom
is a protection from the fierce rays of aim in Lam Pin is at least two-fold, to Iwe work.
the sun and also from the pelting rain. preach the (lospel to those who have
The kindergarten department is
The plowing and harrowing arc done staid at home and have never heard, flourishing under the direction of Miss
entirely by men and boys, and general- and to make our church a home for l'oltz. and we are not able to accomly in the mud and water. When the those who have been abroad. It is modate any more children.
field is ready, for setting out the rice bard to do the latter under the present
N. T.
plants it is a veritable mud-puddle. It, conditions of our house of worship as
is left mostly to the women and girls il is so poor, but we hope to have a
to set out the rice and care for it.
new building some day.
"The evangelistic work in
"We are indebted to a Chinese S. S.
Pin
is doing very well this year under the in Honolulu, to the Schwenckfelders
leadership of one of my students. Lo S. S. in Pemsburg, Pa., and to indiviYuct Foo; he is only 2\ but is a fluent' duals in the Second Cong'l. Church of
speaker When we first opened work, Oak Park. 111., for the support of this ( )ne of the "cousins," C". A. Bailey,
in this place and for at least a year, not work, and thank all who have con- after an absence of more than twenty
a single woman ventured into our Cha- tributed and who are praying for us. years has just made a flying visit to the
pel. Then we sent a Bible woman to Special mention ought to be made of Islands, spending a week on Maui and
the place, also a girl student for a few j Mr. Frank Damon of Honolulu, for it a few days in Honolulu. He saw
months for two years, and they opened was he who directed my thoughts to many changes, but upon the whole, the
the way. Last year one woman was this field, and who assured me that the Islands seemed very homelike.
He
said he was hungry to hear the Habaptized. This time many asked me Chinese in Hawaii would help me."
]•:. W. T.
when the Bible woman and the girl
waiian language, and in order to get it
at its best attended church at Kawaistudent vyould return and when Mrs.
Nelson would again pay a visit to them.
ahao that he might hear Rev. Henry
ALEXANDER HOUSE.
Parker. He hastened back to his
I replied that the Bible woman would
come next month and perhaps the stufamily who are living on the mounThe long silence from us does not in- tains near Crass Valley, Cal.
dent. In the village where this girl
student conducted a school, the villag- dicate that we have sunken into obliMiss Helen Norton writes of a
ers called her the sister of Jesus. By vion, but the contrary, like the old strenuous year at the new college at
the way. this is our adopted daughter, adage which says "still water runs Eustace, Florida. Their first president
Grace Slice, now 18 years of age. For deep," so with us; we have been deeply had left them, and Miss Norton, as one
the past two years, she has been a good engrossed in our interesting work, and of the professors and also a trustee,
help to Mrs. Nelson in the Ruth Nor- at times we do not even write to our has had her labors and responsibilities
ton Cirls' School in Canton, as a pri- close friends.
doubled.
Since the holidays we have been enMrs. Frances S. Loomia writes of atmary teacher and leader in music, as
she plays and sings well. I was much gaged in preparing for a concert which tending a state association in Oskosh.
pleased to see so many women and was given on the Bth of February, and and Of the National Council and the
children come in to our service at Lam it proved to be the very best concert A. M. A. at Cleveland. She speaks of
Pin this time: they filled a small back- given. Some of our friends have been a family reunion and tells of the triplet
room at the rear and sat on one side kind enough to tell us it was the best boys. Her son Fdward is taking his
in the main room to the left of the (nil- ever given in Wailuku. We are very- last year at Heloit College, where the
pit. Then there were 27 Christian grateful to those who so cheerfully students are planning to erect a monumen present and many non-ehristians. gave their services and enabled us to ment for Henry Smith—"China Smith"
As the women were so numerous, I provide such an entertaining program. as he was called, who was very popuwas glad that I had prepared a sermon We made sixty-two dollars.
lar and beloved by. all. Only a few
on the 'Woman of Canaan,' for I felt! One of the most encouraging things weeks before his death he visited the
that it was appropriate, and there were we have had was the fact that the home of Mrs. Loomis who could not
ladies of the sewing class offered to do but feel sorry for the mother who was
lessons in it for the men as well.
"Our pulpit is built of brick and tile something and asked if they might not unable to see and admire her brilliant
and has a wedge-shaped box on top for serve refreshments after the concert handsome son in his young manhood.
a book-rest. As I stood in the pulpit, was over. All the soliciting and plans
The "cousins" are glad to welcome
came
from
them
without
effort
on
any
with
raised
Mr. and Mrs. Oleson, and are
could
touch
back
easily
my
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Hawaii Cousins
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ready to take to their hearts a Judd of
the third generation who will soon arrive to help forward the good work of
the early bathers. •
M. A. C.
CHINESE JUNIOR WORKERS.
At the meeting of the Woman's
Hoard of Missions, held at Central
Chinese Mission work has been started
this year by Mr. and Mrs. Thwing, at
their home in Kainiuki. It is a home
for destitute ('hinese children, and also
for poor Chinese women in need. It
was opened in January, through the
help of sonic kind friends in America,
ana there are now eight Chinese living in the home. Five of them are
poor little (hinese girls under seven
years of age who are fatherless. It is
believed that this Chinese home meets
a need in Honolulu at the present time.
There is more poverty among the Chinese now than formerly.
The Japanese have taken away many of their
A
FIRST GLIMPSE OF KONA.
A good twist on the sea. which
makes one wish he could travel by
wireless, and we arrive at Kailua.
Mere is a little fertile tropical spot.
Famous as the landing place, in IHJO,
of the first missionaries of the A. B.
C. F. M. to these Islands, viz. Rev. and
Mrs. \sa Thurston, Rev. ami Mrs,
Hiram Bingham, and Messrs, (ham
berlain, Holmes, Whitney, Rugglesand
I. nis. An immense Church building
stands there, a testimony to the large
ingathering of the people as a result of
their labors.
Then upward we travel
ciety of the Chinese Church. She
spoke of their organization, and of the small opportunities for business and through ■ desolate tract leading up to
work they have done.
there are now often cases of real dis- a region of nxxi or 1500 feet elevation,
where the road winds through a rich
They raised $JO.<x> for the Chinese tress.
of tropical growth in a temtangle
woman's work, I year or two ago.
The occasion for beginning ibis (hi- perate climate.—one is templed to call
Last year they raised $7.<x> for the
China famine sufferers. They also nese Home was as follows: In No- it frigidly tropical. Here sugar cane
helped to buy some chairs for one of vember of last year, a Chinese widow yields first place to huge plantations of
our city missions. They have made woman of Waikiki, who had been try- Coffee, and one only wishes thai the
also a scripture quilt for the Chinese ing to support her little family by pick- world at large knew more of the un
Hospital, and have worked mottoes ing up beans, felt the struggle too hard rivalled delicious flavor of Kona coffee
girls to a so thai Us production, becoming even
and Bible texts. They have helped to and brought her two little
to more profitable than it now is, would
make a poor old Chinese woman hap- government school teacher, wishingwas
Thwing
them
give
Mr.
away.
crowd out the budding industry of dispy with gifts at Thanksgiving and
Christmas time. This past year they notified and tried to find some home tilling villainous drink-- like okolehao,
brandy and whiskey, and the land
have been very busy studying about for them.
their own country, from "China for
There is a home for white children, would hi' given over lo the sway of the
Juniors." They have also been much one for Korean children, one for Japa- berry that viclds the delicious beverage
interested in helping Mrs. Thwing to nese children, but in none of these which cheers but not inebriates, Here
furnish the Chinese Children's Home. could they receive (hinese.
the luscious papaia is so abundant that
it is used as food for horses, cows and
They help on Sunday to provide the
The Salvation Army home was full, pigs, and the cvcrladcu guava trees
flowers for the Fort Street Chinese
Church. The society started two Of and they could received no others. So rouse the query why the making of
three years ago, with a membership of it seemed that there should be a place guava jelly does not become a giant
The at- to care for the poor little (hinese chil- industry in Kona.
X), and now have ,}<> enrolled.
is dren who needed a home, as well as
meetings
at
the
monthly
tendance
This is the stamping ground of our
from 20 to 30 girls. A number of the those of other nationalities. These two devoted Missionary, I >r. Baker, and his
Chinese girls were present, and sang a little girls were taken first, one being devoted wife and mother. One besi
old enough to enter Kawaiahao Semi- tates to say over bow many tens of
hymn.
nary. < rther cases of need were found. miles bis parish extends, but. far and
Chinese
Ku,
the
faithful
Mrs. Sz.
little children wire received near, up and down, over the vast slopes
Three
Bible Woman, also spoke at the meet- from a poor
Christian (hinese woman, of Mauna Loa, his name stands for huand
Hoard,
told
of
ing of the Woman's
widow,
ten children. Another man kindness and divine righteousness.
a
with
her joy in coining to Honolulu, and of
who
has
been sick in Kawai- Those who aspire to better things km iw
little
girl
the
famiher successes among
Chinese
ahao Seminary has also been received where to find a leader ami a helper, and
Chi
the
and
outskirts.
The
of
city
lies
may receive those who heretofore have trodden unnese women and children welcome her into the home, so that she
benefit of the fine bracing air of derfoot the laws of Cod and of the
the
up
have
gladly
given
some
and
families
cases of need are be- state now say, "We'll have to live
their household idols. There seems a Kainiuki. Other
It is hoped that this straight as long as Dr. Baker is in this
investigated.
ing
the
of
the
for
spread
good Opportunity
good, and be land." Nor are the wife and mother
do
much
may
home
gospel here in Honolulu today.
light
and love, and less devoted and efficient. With a
center
of
Christian
new
also
of
her
spoke
Mrs. Thwing
of
many
to
the
little needy home that is exemplary, and a determiwork for the Chinese children, and of happiness
homes of nation to bring other homes under the
ones,
have
not
happy
who
started,
been
and
the home that had
ruling influence of Christian principle,
hoped to have the interest and coopera- their own.
Woman's
influence is being recorded not in
tion of the ladies of the
Friends in America are helping some their
of stone but on the living tablets
tablets
Hoard.
in the work, which is not carried on of human hearts.
F. S. S.
for
this
in an expensive way. Help
work from any one will be welcome.
CHINESE HOME FOR
The editor of Notes from the Field
clothing and other supplies
Children's
CHILDREN AND
to
can he used. If interested come and wishes to acknowledge his thanks
OTHERS.
for his generous
Thwing
Rev.
!•'..
W.
visit the home.
contribution of Field Notes in this issue.
A new effort in connection with our
Union
E. W.
March ,}rd, Mrs.
Thwing gave a report of the
Noting Ladies' Junior Missionary SoChurch, on
DESTITUTE
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The American Standard
February 1st —Capture of large distillery plant in upper N'uuanu Valley.
2<\ —Taniano. Japanese child, fatally
injured by hack near Peterson lane.
(>th
Masses at Cathedral for slain
A new handy size of this most po- Portugal rulers.
pular edition just received it will go "th—Desperado Rodriguez captured
in a man's coat pocket, yet is in at I'.vva.—Rev. \V. B. oleson elected
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ijllil.nr Wallach lined $400 for
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cluding
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Red Letter Bibles
and Testaments
realizes $872 for Palaina Milk Depot
and Nursing Work.
aoth—Sudden death of !•'. L. rfoogs,
manager I lawaiian Star.
in which the prophicies regarding aad—Grand Floral Parade. AmbasChrist's comin are printed in red sador Wu Ting hang and party attend.
and all of Christ's words are in red. —Lava lake rises to within
JOO feet of
The Emphasized New Testament,
Christian Workers' Testament.
Kilauea
We have a Bible that will go in
your vest pocket, one that will require boih hands to lift as well as
all sizes in between. You will be
surprised too when you see how
low our prices are.
At Honolulu. Jan. 39, Harry
M. Mix to Miss Robena HotUon.
BODE-COSTER \i Honolulu, Jan. 11. Robert R. Bod* to Miss Ada Madeline (osier
of Penang, Fiji.
HAWAIIAN BOARD BOOK ROOMS,
909 Alakea Street.
RECORD OF EVENTS.
I.arscn, two offiin exhausted
hands
land
ten
liana,
Maui,
condition at
from ship
Eclipse, foundered at sea January 11,
ijoo miles north of Honolulu, three men
having died the day before from exhaustion, after distressing voyage in
leaky life-boat.—"Leper Healer" Wallach breaks off negotiations with Hoard
of Health, to practice with Dr. Atelier-
January
cers and
ley.
17—Capt.
Moor.
MARRIAGES.
MIX
HODSON
DEATHS.
FORBES
At llilo. Jan. il, Mrs. Jennie lilaek
Forbes, aged -''; years.
WALLER—Ai S.m Francisco, Csl., Jan. 20,
Gilbert Waller, Sr.. aged 7.S years, long in
btuincaa in Honolulu,
WRIGH I At llonnlnl,,, J.,,,. jS. Hon, \\ il
I lain J. Wright, aged 4<) years.
DESHA At llilo. Feb. 1, Mrs. Rom Desha.
wife of Rev, S. I. Desha, aged .17 years.
HUSSEY Al Honolulu, Feb. 4. Mrs. Mary
A. Ilussey, aged Jl years.
GREEN At Honolulu, Feb. 8, Mrs. Anna
Green, relict of the late eminent vv. Lo*
thian (ireen.
JOHNSON—At
llonoi.ih,, Fsb. 0. William
Johnson, aged 7* fears, long 1 merchant
tailor in I lonolulu.
LEMKE—At Honolulu, Feb.
aged 57 years.
it, Paul Lemfcc,
SEVERANCE—AI Dover, N. H„ Fsb, ta,
Henry W. Severance. aged 71; years, long in
Bublk service in I lonolulu.
McNAMARA—At Honolulu, Feb. 13. Mrs.
Mittic M. McNamara. aged 70 years.
PHASER—AI
Honolulu, Feb. i.uh, Mrs. Jane
crew
30th—The suffering Eclipse
reach the Oueen's Hospital in Honolulu.
D.
Prater.
lIOOGS—At Honolulu, Feb. 20, of heart failure, Frank L. Hongs, aged 44 yean.
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YOUR COMPANIONS
Can be the wisest men and women.
You can enjoy their K rt 'at(,st wisdom or
their most entertaining stories at a small
outlay by visiting or writing to the new
We
Hawaiian Hoard Hook Rooms.
mention a few of the recent arrivals in
Hooks.
China and America Today—Arthur
$1.25
11. Smith
C'hiist and Science —Prof. F. 11.
Smith
1.25
The Marks of a Man—Speer
1.10
New Era in the Phjlipinei —A. 11.
Brown
1.25
Robert Clark ol the I'anjab
1.75
Griffith John 50 Years in China. 2.25
()n the Border of Piguny Land... 1.25
The White Peril in the Far East
..
Guhck
—
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1.00
Social Progress —Josiah Strong.
1.00
The Art ol the Singer—Henderson 1.25
Most Popular College Songs
50
Songs ol All College*
1.50
Aii UncrownedQueen —The Story
75
of French E. Willard
America's Awakening—Allen
1.25
The Citizens Part in (iovcrnment
1.00
—Klilm Root
Four Aspects of Civk Duty —Talt 1.10
Ship Subsidies —Dunmoie
1.00
Industrial Education —Person.... 1.00
Growth and Education —Tyler
1.50
Analytical Psychology —Witmer. 1.65
The Vanguard—A Tale of Korea. 1.50
The Mediator —Steiner
1.50
Dr. Luke of the Labrador —Norman Duncan
1.50
White Fire—Oxenham
1.25
The Weavers—Gilbert Parker..
1.50
The Clansman—Thomas Dixon Jr. 1.50
Iranlein Schmidt &Mr. Anstruther 1.50
Joseph Vanee —Dc Morgan
1.50
Alice For Short—De Morgan
1.50
Awakening of Helena Richie
1.50
The Adventure of a Freshman.
1.25
New Chronicles ol Rebecca Wiggin
1.25
Scientific American Reference Book 1.50
These are only a few of our tempting
books. Come in and see what else we
have.
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HAWAIIAN BOARD BOOK ROOMS
MERCHANT AND ALAKEA ST.
Honolulu, T. H.
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THE FRIEND
ilic Bank of Hawaii, Li il. FA.
•
Incorporated Under the Laws of tbe Territory
COMMISSION MERCHANTS.
of Hawaii.
PAID-UP CAPITAL
SCHAEFER & CO..
Importers and
$600,000.00
BURPLUB
800,000.00
UNDIVIDED PBOFITB
107,348.66
OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS.
President
Charlea M. Cooke
Vice-President
P. C. Jonei
2nd Vice-President
F. W. Macfarlane
Honolulu. T. H.
MOPP& COMPANY,
Caahier
Importers and Manufacturers of
,Ir
Assistant Cashier
FURNITURE
AND UPHOLSTERY.
Assistant Cashier
F. It. Damon
CHAIRS
TO RENT.
Bishop,
McCandless,
E. F.
E. D. Tenncy, J. A.
C. 11. Atherton and F. C. Atherton.
Nos. 1053-1059 Bishop St. • • Honolulu.
COMMERCIAL AND SAVINGS DEPART.
Banking.
JirDD BUILDING.
FORT
A LEXANDER & BALDWIN, Ltd.
STREET.
MERCHANTS.
P.O. BOX 716
HONOLULU, T. H.
The Leadinß Dry
Gooda House in the
Territory. Especial
attention given to
Mail Orders.
I
1 Tel. Main 109
C. H. Uki.i.ina. M«r
'
CLAUS
Honolulu
ounce*.
HENRY HAY &• CO. Ltiv
22
TKißrHosaai
32
YjiT
JJ
SPRECKELS & CO.,
BANKERS.
j*
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:
:
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Hawaiian Islands.
MUSIC ROLLS
-
G. IRWIN &C0„
Fort Street, Honolulu
SUGAR FACTORS
HOTKI,
BIOS OF ALL KINDS
GOOD HORSES
CAREFUL DRIVERS
ALWAYS USE
Guaranteed the Beat and full 16
EWERS & COOKE, Ltd.,
Dealers in
CLUB
STABLES
KORT ST., AHOVK
Draw Exchange on the principal ports of the
world and transact a general
banking business.
OBBAHBBT BOTTaW
L
tion.
j»
California Rose...
JUST
RECEIVED
AGENTS FOR—Hawaiian Commercial 4
groceries
B.F. Ehlers & Co.
LIST OF OFFICERS—CharIes M. Cooke,
President; Geo. H. Robertson, Vice-Presidenl
and Manager; E. Faxon Bishop, Treasurer and
Secretary; P. W. Macfarlane, Auditor; P. C.
Jones, C. H Co oe, J. R. (ialt, Directors.
Sugar Co., Haiku Sugar Co., Paia Plantation |
Kihei Plantation Co., Hawaiian Sugar
b.,
BUILDING
Co.. Kahului R. R. Co., and Kahuku Planta- LUMBER.
C. J. DAY & CO.
OLD Kona Coffee a Specialty
AGENTS FOR—Hawaiian Agricultural Co.,
Gnomes Sugar Co., Honomu Sugar Co., Wailuku Sugar Co., Makee Sugar Co., Haleakala
Ranch Co., Kapapala Ranch.
OFFICERS—H. P. Baldwin, Pres't; J. B. Hy PllOr, KI>WAHI> A.SIKINKR
of uniiucll College, lowa,
Castle. Ist Vice-Pres't; W. M. Alexander, ad
Ml
A honk by h HcholHr once himself an im in
Vice-Pres't; J. P. Cooke, Treas.; W. O. who hm crossed lbs ooaaa mnny much, often In the
■ eerege and made s careful and InWlllseiil utmly of
Smith, Secy; George R. Carter, Auditor.
the people coming to our HhoreH. Trice $1 75
HAWAIIAN BOARD BOOK ROOMS.
SUGAR FACTORS AND COMMISSION
(TL SON
In addition to Hardware and
General Merchandise have now a
complete assortment of
HOUSEHOLD GOODS,
including Crockey, Glassware,
Stoves, Kitchen Furniture, Refrigerators and Ice Chests, Etc.
Also Garden Tools of all kinds,
Rubber Hose, Lawn Mowers.
Call and examine our stock at
tbe Hall Building.
rmc
General Mercantile Commission Agents.
Queen St., Honolulu, T. If.
On thk Tram. 00 THB Immigrant.
E. O. HALL
I
BREWER & CO., Limited,
Planters' Line Shipping Co.,
Agents Boston Board of Underwriters.
Agents Philadelphia Board of Underwriters.
C. H. Cooke
Chai. Hustace,
MENT.
Strict Attention Given to all Branches of
| /->
COMMISSION AGENTS.
Agents for the Oceanic Steamship Co.
W. w
AHANA & CO., LTD.
MERCHANT TAILORS.
Box
I'. O.
956.
Telephone Blue 2741
(>2 Kinn Strict
CLOTHES CLEANED AND REPAIRED.
HENRY H. WILLIAMS
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
Graduate of Dr. Rodgers Perfect Embalming School of San Francisco, ("al.,
also of The Renouard Training School
for Embalmers of New York. And a
Licensed Embalmer for the State of
New York, also a member of the State
Funeral Directors Association of Cali-
fornia.
A few choice bargains in leather
Music Rolls and I.ap Tablets.
MONUMENTS AND TOMUSTONES
FURNISHED.
Chairs to Rent.
LOVE BUILDING
Hawaiian Board Book Rooms
1142, 1144 FORT ST.
Telephones: Office Main 64. Res. cor.
Richards and Beretania, Blue 3561.