Friend, 1878-07

Published by the Rev. Samuel Chenery Damon from 1845 to 1885, The Friend focused on temperance and Christian mission to seamen. It began as a monthly newspaper that included news from both American and English newspapers, and gradually expanded to adding announcements of upcoming events, reprints of sermons, poetry, local news, editorials, ship arrivals and departures and a listing of marriages and deaths. From 1885 through 1887, it was co-edited by the Revs. Cruzan and Oggel. The editorship then passed to Rev. Sereno Bishop, who held the post until the publication of the paper fell under the auspices of the Board of the Hawaiian Evangelical Association in April of 1902 where it remained until June 1954. Since then, it has continued in a different format under the Hawaii Conference-United Church of Christ up to the present day, making it the oldest existing newspaper in the Pacific. Note that there are some irregularities in the numbering of individual issues, so that two issues may have the same volume and number, but different dates will distinguish them.--• ~em ~erits, i.ol. 27, ~.o. 7. l ~ear o:r The Islands Discovered - l-~ HONOLULU, JULY 1, 1878. CONTE~TS For July 1. 1878. l,:a~o;~fJ~·N~.i~ 0 PAGIIJ ::::::~::::53~~: 0 1 ~~! J~:~~h~h~ A noivers» ries and Schools . •••.•••..•.••••••••.••••••••• . 66 Oahu College .••..• • •.••.•••..•.•••.•••••••••••.••.•••• 66 7 New Polynesian Grammar . ............................. 66 Editor's T able-Cesoola s Cyprus .••••••••••••••••••••••• 67 L~test News ••••.•••••••••••••••.•••••••••••••••••••.•• 67 Marin e Journal. ........................................ 57 J,etter fr om China . •.••• .• ••.••••••••••• , ••••••••••••••• 68 Origin of an Oft-Sung Hymn ............................ 68 Y. M. C. A .................................. •....•.•••. 60 THE FRIEND, JULY 1. 1878. HoN. H. A. P. CARTER.-We are glad to welcome by the last steamer from San Francisco. this gentleman, who has been abroad for one year, representing the Hawaiian Government in London ann Berlin. In due time, we suppose, the public will be made acquainted \.ith the result of his diplomatic mission. The Coming '' Fourth." T\JVe learn from Dr. Scott, U. S. Consul, that there will be an informal celebrat10n of the Fourth something after the following programme: l. At sun.rise, a salute of 13 guns. 2. At nooLI and at 6 p. m., 39 guns each from Punchbowl. 3. A picnic of American families in Pauoa Valley, near Dr. Whitney's residence. Lunch at 1 o'clock p. m. 4. Music by Mr. Berger's Band, at Emma Square, at 4 p. m.; various national airs. THE MoRNING STAR, sailing for Micronesia during the past month, in addition to RAMBLES IN THE OLD WORLD-No.18 the ordinary annual supplies for the Ameri· d ·· · · can an d Hawanan m1sswnane5, took a goo ly supply of the new edition of the New THE RECENT ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF THE EMPEROR. Testament in the language of the Gilbert Could you have been in Berlin a week Islanders. It has been reprinted in Honolulu, ago last Saturday evening, you would have at the Gazette Office, at the expense of found the ci~y in a strange state of excitethe American Bible Society The revision ment. Dunng the afternoon, about half·. past three, as the Emperor was driving . and prrntmg has been _e arned fo:ward by j down the Linden, a young fellow, who had Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Brngha·m-m fact, to l partially shielded himself behind a droschki, them belongs the honor of havin&" originally as the Emperor's carriage approached, shot reduced the dialect of those Islands to a once or twice from a revolver, and endeawritten form, and of having thus far carried vored to make his es~ape across t~e avenu:· c d . . The Emperor was <lnvrng, according to h1s 1orwar all the pubhcat10ns and .translations wont , 1·n an open carriage, · . . an d at -h·1s s1·de which have been made rn that dialect. Al- sat his daughter, the Grand-Duchess of though the climate will not allow Mr. Bing-- Baden. The would-be assassin has evident• ham to reside on those low coral islands ly imbibed too deeply the dangerous and et, perhaps his services are revolutionary principles of the Social-DemoY now beq.u:11 Y cratic party, which have already gained useful to a group of islands num enno a much ground in Germany, and whose influpopulation of 30 or 40,000. ence can tend only to anarchy and the overthrow of all law and order. Upon the REV. DR. STORRS, OF BROOKLYN, AS AN young man's person were found pamphlets ORATOR -All our Eastern exchanges come in reference to the Social-Democratic moveburdened with corlplimentary notices of Dr. ment. His story is that he was desirous of shooting himself, in order to show the exStorrs as an orator of the highest type, as tremity to which the poor are reduced by the exhibited in the delivery of his two lectures tyranny of the rich. I scarcely imagiue, upon Russra and Turkey. Perhaps Dr. however, that this story obtains much credHolland's criticism in Sc1·ibne1· is the most ence. After the firing of the shots the Empolished and discriminating and laudatory. peror's carriage soon stopped, and the young man (a workman from Leipzig, of 20 years After some lengthy remarks, he adds: '' We or so,) who was endeavouring to make his know nothing higher than this in human escape, was seized. The police with diffiachievement. It is as rare as Shakespeare." culty kept the people from having reeourse Reading these various notices of the Brook- to Lynch law, so tremendous was the exlyn orator recalls to mind an event taking citement. SoJne three or four shots (or, according to another account, two or three,\ place in 1835, when the orator was forty- had been fired, but most fortunately and three years younger than at present. It was ~~raculously without producing the slightest in his freshman year in Amherst College. rnJury.* Word of the event flew immediately We can recall the elastic step of the youth all over the city, so that in an incredibly short time the space before the Palace was i.when he mounted for the first time upon the crowded with people to testify their enthusirostrum in the old chapel. His voice was astic joy at the preservation of the life of most deep, rich and musical, while his de- the Emperor. 1 happened to be at the livery was exceedingly graceful. Bishop Zoological Garden, where an open.air con- REV. DR. SoMERVILLE, THE ENGLISH :EvANGELIST.--Australian papers contain frequent notices of this gentleman's useful labors "in the English Colonies. From a letter received from the Rev. Mr. Robertson, .of Auckland, under date of April 2d, we -copy as follows: "We had a good time with him here. He was especia1ly helpful to believers. His travelling expenses are Huntington , of Central New York, was a *A second attempt has been made to assassinate guaranteed by a committee in Glasgow.~ classmate of Storrs, who also has an enviable the Emperor, which proved well nigh successful; but We trust Dr. Somerville will touch at Ho- reputation as a pulpit orator and elegant latest tehigraphio rE:ports indicate that he was grad- nolulu on his return to England. writer. ually r~covering from his wounds. 54 THE FRIEND, JULY, 1878. cert was being given. The National Anthem complete success. Should any of our Hono- where once lived Frau Ursula Cotta, whose was played, and the . incident of the after: lulu or Island people come abroad to visit home became such a pleasant haven to the noon now being known, it was received with Paris and other parts of Europe, I trust they boy Luther. From his father's lowly home a loud burst of applause. In the evening, in will include Berlin in their tour. If I can the peasant boy had come to study at the some of the places of amusement, the same be of any service to such visitors here, I school in Eisenach. With other boys he was enthusiastic and jubilant excitement was trust they will give me the privilege of show- accustomed to sing carols from house to manifested ; and for days since has the ing how sincere and genuine my love is for house, thus eking out a scanty living. One day, as he stood before the house of good Emperor been the recipient of many and our beautiful Islands and for Island people. But to return to my trip through Central Frau Cotta, her motherly heart warmed sincere evidences of the joy which Germany and the world at large feel at his preserva- Germany, which I left so abruptly in my towards the wan, desolate little figure, and she brought him in, and shortly after he tion. The papers have been full of it. last. came to be one of the family. It is the simTelegrams of congratulation have poured in EISRNACH AND ITS l\'IEl\'IORIES, plest of simple incidents, but beautiful as an from all parts of Europe. Thanksgiving I feel eager to reach a little village episode in the life of one who was to act as services have been held in various churches. A very pretty incident took place the other toward which we are hastening as the the foremost man of his age. You are day. A company of school-girls appeared, dusk of the early winter el"ening is gather- shown the room where young Martin, who as I understand, unheralded at the Palace. ing in the dark pin8 forests of Thuringia, was cho1r boy in the church which we passed Waiving the usual etiquette, the .Emperor more eager than 1 have been oftentimes in on our way hither, lived and studied. They received them most kindly, and as kindly entering some of the world's greatest cities show you-but this must be taken with some accepted the gift of flowers and the laurel and capitals. For there is a stronger charm reservation-the cloak he used to wear, far wreath which they had brought him. One which draws us to this quiet village than back, some three or fo~r hundred years ago. of the most splendid spectacles I ever wit- any which the old legendary spirits which May there always be kind, loving Frau . nessed was the grand torchlight procession dwelt in the heart of the German forests Cottas in the world to bring sunshine i:--. ~0 given last Friday evening by the students of were fabled to exert on unwary travelers, lonely lives . ' -" connot help feeling that the University in honor of the Emperor. that of the name of the great reformer, Mar- this lady must have been a helpful, cheery There were between two and three thousand tin Luther. It is a little strange that one member of the little Eisenach circle in persons in the procession. The long line of who swept away saints and shrines should which she lived. It is easy to picture her young men, on foot and in carriages, have himself unconsciously been creating as mistress of this spacious house, about marched down the " Linden " from the new shrines where Protestant pilgrims should which she probably moved as a thrifty, careThere is nothing to see Pariser Platz to the Palace. The Emperor love to come and trace the steps and life- ful housewife. appeared on the balcony, and was received work of one who stands in the foremost rank within but the Luther room, to which I have most enthusiastically. The scene was a of those holy men of all ages, who have before referred. Not very far away from this most inspiring one as I saw it. The night left the memory of their lives and deeds as interesting landmark of the olden time is the was luminous with the glare of hundreds a precious legacy to the true Catholic house where John Sebastian Bach was born and hundreds of torches. The Linden was Church. The Thuringian forest is among in 1685,-one of the greatest of musical a sea of flame, and from the midst of thiis the most beautiful regions of Germany-a composers. Though there is nothing now gleaming show rose, quiet and still and fitting home for many of the stirring events shown but this house in connection with the calm, the Palace and the great University. which have been enacted in the towns and great musician, it is pleasant to have been The effect of a German hymn sung to the villages which it embraces within its limits. permitted to see where his earliest days were stately music which is familiar to us by the Nearly four hundred years have passed passed. One always feels a loving sympathy name of the II Austrian Hymn," was inde- since Martin Luther was born in Eisleben, for the poor little fellow who _was forb1dden scribably grand. Several bands of music led in Saxony, the soon of poor, hard working certain pieces of music for which he longed this immense chorus of rich young voices, mining people, who little dreamed of the with all his heart, and one nigt. " stole the which rose into the night air in one magni- kingly place their son was to hold in the book containing them, and copied them in cent prean of joy. After further demonstra- annals of all time; he "whose light was to his own room by moonlight." . He who has tions of loyalty and love, the long line passed flame as the b