Evening Star Newspaper, December 18, 1893, Page 9

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Convention Hall, 5th and $25 525, PULL 2 $25 $25 The {rvteensesr|T0 MOUNT VERNON.) 2° thes'Gs® ~ 2 EVENING, December 23. ‘Tomb of Washinzton, Try testers BUSINESS COLLEGE Chorus of 500, assisted by Mrs. Genevra Jobn- a Messiah stone Bishop, soprano; Silss Gertrude Edmunds, contralto; Mr. J. H. McKinley, tenor; Mr. Ericsson FP. Bushnell, basso, fund Baltimore Sympbouy Orchestra, under the direc- flow of Mr. Josef Kaspar. Reserved seats, 50 and Se. and $1. Season at Metzerott’s om and after December 15. Y sen 25 cents admission, ais-tt GLBAUGH'S GRAND OPERA HOUSE. ONE WEEK, COMMENCING MONDAY, DEC. 18, ANNUAL ENGAGEMENT OF MR. THOMAS W. THE SEA. ‘AN'S LYCEUM ‘THEATER. TONIGHT AT & MATINEES TUESDAY, THURS- DAY AND SATURDAY. ANTLEY PE COMPANY. lar extravaganza. ais-tt VE! e peerkes HARRY LE CLAIR le SHERMAN AND MORRISEY. Jy Vek MATTHEWS AND BURGER’S CO. “¥ SATIONAL THEATER. Evepings at S$. Wed. and Sat. Matinees, Return of the celebrated Lilliputians, In thelr greatest hit, A Trip to Mars. As produced for 150 nights in New York. 8 GRAND BALI BRILLIANT SCENERY, WONDERFUL EFFECT, THE FLYING HEADS SSR A MUTMEG MATCH. AcaDEMY. Every evening, Wed. and Sat, Matinees. JAMES T. POWERS IN J. M. BARRIE’S #ARCICAL COMEDY, Walker, London. “Nothing to a Hero Bold.” 700 nights in Lordon and still running. Xmas | CHARLES FROHMAN’S COMEDIANS. Week | The Other Man; Mrs. Grundy, jr. diS-tf } LADIES OP THE GARFIELD 1 ite the ge w., to close with a TRA from 3 te 11 om the 21st.’ Music each afternoon and evening. ai Bags’ THEATER. DR. CARVER _THE SCOUT. 5 PERFORMANCES ONLY | Monday, Tuesday matinee and night, Wednesday and Thursday matinee. Fisk Jubilee Singers. WESLEY CHAPEL, 5th and F sts. n.w., TUESDAY, Dee. 19, 8 o'clock. Tickets, 35 cents. Reserved seats, 50 cents, at PURCELL'S, 418 9th st. ai6-3ee METZEROTT MUSIC HALL. MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 18. Ex-Gov. Bob Taylor, IN HIS NEW LECTURE, “The Paradise of Fools.” ERY OF COLUMBUS. | | MISS AMY 6. LEAV! Admission to grounds, 25 cents. Tickets, with Mount Vernon admission coupoa, for sale at wharf and at hotels. Will also make river landings as far as Glymont, stopping for freight and passengers both ways. sel8 LL. BLAKE, Capt. =—————— EDUCATIONAL. IN WASHINGTON. TRACHERS OR PUPILS DESIRING USE OF PRI- Yate studio, for teac! $ or practice, can arrange for same by hour, day or evening by calling at 1220 G st. nw. Ikeferences. ai5-3t? GUNSTON INSTITUTE, poe and 2928 P st. n.w. Mr. and Mrs. B. R. MASO! S.W. corner Sth and K sts. n.w. W. FLYNN, A.M., Principal. Established 1876; polite attention; individual in- structicn; best discipline; central’ location; ex- Perienced teachers; good and cheap books; diplomas and positions for’ graduates; bookkeeping, arith- metic, spelling. grammar, letter writing, penman- ship, ‘typewriting, shorthand, Send for announce- m 416-3m* WANTED—PUPILS TO COACH IN ENGLISH, French and Latin during the holidays; day and evenit private or in classes; highest references. dl5-12c* E. R. 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Sent, postpaid, by Hovenroy, Morus & Co., Bosroy. d18,20-2¢ PHILOSOPHY, ECONOMY AND FINANCES, in one volume of 100 pages, by | Ignatius Katory of Baltimore, for sale’ at BRENTANO’S, 11th and Pa. aye. d4-m&s,3in T AMAK Auaxative. refreshing Truit lozenge. ‘very aggrecable to uke for CONSTIPATION, 1 L hoida, bile INDIES Jone apretie, trieand intestinal troubles and Tesdache arising Trou thea. F. GRILLONX, GRILLON, it Rue des Archives, Pari. epl5-in9m-Lp Sold by al Drucvists ART WAS POPULAR In Italy Some Four Hundred Years Ago, and \Hence the Ren: ee. A large number of those interested in art jin this city listened to a talk from Mr. Ed- win H. Blashfield Saturday evening at the hall of the Builders’ Exchange. It was the second lecture in the course which is be- ing given under the auspices of the Art Students’ League, and the attention which this course is arousing was shown in part by the large attendance, comprising nearly every one who is at all identified with art matters here. The lecturer, who is well known, at least by reputation, to art lovers, needed only the brief introduction which was given by Mr. E. Francis Riggs. The theme of the evening talk was the renaissance in Italy, espectiaily as illustrated by the bulld- ings and art works of Florence. The lectu- rer showed why the lessons of the renais- sance have a practical value 400 years after- ward, because of the spirit which made such achievements in art possible. He said that the entire people were then interested in the work of the artists. They had a pride in ing their churches, their town halis and their trade halls adorned and _beauti- fied. This feeling extenced fo the residences, which were devoid of much of . are known as modern nee: but at the same time they wer. riched with splendid decoration. He referred to the placing of works of art on the free list in the new tariff bill, and said that the artists of this country did not desire special privileges. What they needed Was hot protection, but interest, the interest of the public in their work and in their aims. A number of pictures were displayed on the screen at the close of the lecture. [a ee American Revolution. At the second meeting of the board of the Sons of American Revolution, held in their new rooms in the Glover building, the pres- ident presentéd the latest return from the secretary general, showing 4,363 names, though the registrar's latest registered number is somewhat larger, indicating the deaths have been numerous. The loss in the District society alone has been thirty- eight. Connecticut has the largest state society, with 736 members, and on the op- posite ocean Oregon has ninety-eight. The liberty bell came up for consideration. Eleven new members were elected on the reports of the committee on acceptability and eligibility, and it was agreed that next year the names of proposed and new and delinquent embers shall be displayed habitually in the society’s rooms, which will be under the charge of the library committee. Capt. Steover of the advance- ment committee invited attention to the latest additions to’the brary. Col. Brown- low w pointed chairman and John Paul t secretary of the new com- mittee created at the last meeting of the beard. Compatriots will please send to them any items of news that are generaily interesting to the society. It was said that eighteen members had already called for their handsomely engraved certificates this season, which are never filled pp or pre- sented until applied for. The insignia of society is of specially chaste and dig- ign. Among the list of members are 125 army officers and about as many of the navy. —— Marriage Licenses. Marriage licenses have been issued by the clerk of the court to the following: Alonzo S. Mutersbaugh of Fairfax county, Va., and Elmita L. Mason of Newport News, Va.; Charies Tyler and Edmonia Stewart; Thomas Donneliy of Montreal, Canada, and Sarah Bradley of Brooklyn, N. Y.; Herman Bocorselaki of New York city and Barbara Stepper: Hugh C. Martin of Tayler, Tex., and Amy Ridout; Wm. H. Bixby of New- port, R. I, and Side R. Jones; Wm. Taylor and Annie B. Smith; Wm. J. Ferguson and Katie May Treynor. PROGRESS OF WOMEN Toward the Goal of Industrial Eman- cipation. CARROLL D. WRIGHTS CONCLUSIONS. The Social and Political Freedom of Women. AS A WAGE EARNER. The position of women, especially in the economic world,was the theme of a thought- ful address last. evening at All Souls’ Church by Mr. Carroll D. Wright, who, in addition to his duties as the head of the important department of labor, has been intrusted by Congress with the task of fin- ishing up the work of the eleventh census. Mr. Wright is a recognized authority on the modern phases of economic develop- ment and by his judicious use of statisti- eal data his conclusions are received with confidence, The announcement, that he was to talk on “The Industrial Emancipation of Women” brought together last evening a large and intelligent audience. The proper treatment of his subject made it necessary for him to consider several questions that are more or less disputed and the conclu- sions reached by him were the more valu- able because they were based on data which he has recently collected. In regard to the one question of the wages paid women, he |was able to contradict the generally ac- cepted idea that women were paid less for the same kind of work that was done by men. At the outset he said that women had fairly achieved an intellectual and social equality, which was becoming now more generally acknowledged. He reviewed the past waen woman was man’s slave and drudge and discussed the causes of this subjection. He did not accept the theory that this was due to the alleged intellectual in- feriority of women, Dogmatic theology and the superstition of religion in the opinion of the ‘speaker done much to perpetu- ate the dominancy which had been acquired in corly times by man over woman. He referred to the passage in Genesis where it is stated that man shall rule over woman, which was supplemented by the utterances of Paul. He believed that this idea was in opposition to the teachings of Christ and the results of modern critical writings have done much to rob dogmatic theology of this power. The Factory System. He then spcke of the influence of the factory system compared with the domestic, |as giving women a wider sphere of action. The ind@ustrial emancipation of woman may be followed by her political emancipation, or they may come together. The former he looked upon as the most important phase in the development of the sphere of women. By industrial emancipation he understood to be meant the production of the highest type of womanhood, not alone wage workers, but in professional careers. By means of the factory system woman did not supersede man, but sup- plemented his~‘efforts. In the bringing together of large numbers of people in the factories attention was called to their ignorance, which existed before, however, but had not gained such wide notice. There flowed from this awakening a stimulus to education and the “establishment of schools. 1846, Harriet Martineau, the speaker said, had found that in this cou: try there were only seven employments open to woman. Today there is no line of remunerative @mpioyment which is not open to her. He spoke of the growing prominence of women in all branches of trade, manufactures, agriculture and, the professions. There was no question in the mind of the speaker that this change im- proved the intellectual condition of wo- men. He believed that their moral condition had advanced. He asserted that the morals of the wage workers are equal to those under the old domestic system. The min- gling of the sexes in education and in the industries, he said, enhanced the respect for women,and in consequence they occupied a higher plane. Wages Paid to Women. As to the compensation of women in the lower ranks of the employed, the speaker referred to the result of the statistics gath- ered in Massachusetts in 1885, which shows that the popular theory that women are not paid equal wages with men for the same work, equally well done, is erroneous. Stiil it is true that women receive small pay, and, equally with others, he deplored that fact. He accounted for it in several ways, such as she is a new economic factor; that her physical endurance and education is defective and her equipmeat for life work is insufficient, caused by the hope that her work wil! soon be interrupted by ma’ mony. The problem of how the relative in- feriority of women could be overcome was discussed. He expressed the opinion that the industri- al development in the future would result in a decrease in the number of marriages and an increase in the number of divorces, He thought that it would be a happy chenge | when women are able to support themselves | until they can make a marriage that is | based on companionship in the holiest sense, | | instead of making hasty, ill-assorted unions to get a support. ‘The morals of the com- munity wouid be advanced. In this con- nection he quoted the views of Krederic Harrison and those of Mrs. Fassett, who take opposite grounds. He referred also to the socialistic theory, which sees In the in- dustrial emancipation of women the break- ing up of the family. In the opinion of the speaker the future had in store for women the prospect of the extension of her intellectual opportunities: also of her absolute social equality. If this leads to equality in political rights, we must not quarrel with it. The best result of mod- ern tendencies would be the acknowledg- ment that woman is the rightful owner of herself and is entitled to recognition. Then there will be a purer, happier condition of the social world PROUD OF THE VY. Secretary Herbert Addresses a Pa- triotic Society at New York. The anniversary of the Boston tea party Was celebrated by the Sons of the American Revolution in New York Saturday. In the j afternoon there was 4 reception at the Ho- tel New Netherlands to Prof. John Fiske, the historian. ‘{he Daughters of the Amer can Hevyolution, as wei as the Sons, were present. In the evening there was a ban- quet at Deimonico’s, at waich Prof. Fiske was the speciai guest. The speakers were Secretary Herbert, Gen, Horace Porter, Amos P. Wilder, Sen- ator Lindsay, James H. Hoyt, Prof.’ Brin- ton and Prof. Fiske. Secretary Herbert said that the time had come when patriotic Americans were be- ginning again to be proud of the American navy. He said: “We are forty-four republics, each with its distinctive government, its separate hi: tory, its peculiar traditions, its local preju- dices; each more or less jealous of its rights and its authority, but altogether we are one grand republic, of which the navy of the United States is the right arm, carrying aloft our flag to the remotest nations of the earth, an emblem of the might and majesty of 70,000,000 of united freemen.” He traced the history of the navy to the late war, and then said: “Out of the throes of that great conflict were born the swift commerce destroyer, the torpedo, the great gun and mighty bat- tle ship of today. The shock of the battle of the Merrimac and the Monitor in Hamp- ton Roads resounded around the earth. It kindled the fires in the workshops of Europe. All the naval powers of the world went to work to manufacture armor that could not | be pierced, then guns that could not be re- sisted, then torpedoes that no vessel could stand, then vessels that could catch and could not be caught. And so, invention contending with invention, modern navies came into existence.” A FAMOUS) FIRE. Veterans Tell of the Burning of the Na- tional Theater in 1845. Some Participants and Their Experi- ences—The Flames a Mystery— Meeting of the Association. The third of the series of reminiscence meetings of the Veteran Firemen’s Asso- ciation was held at the engine house, lyth and H streets, on last Thursday evening. Mr. James H. Richards presided, and an- nounced that the subject was the fire at the. National Theater on the night of March 5, 1845, and said, as he was too young to remember much about it, he would not at- tempt to describe it. Veteran Joseph Williamson said that he well remembered this fire, for he was there. Old Billy Burton was the lessee, and the play of “Beauty and the Beast” was on the stage, and he was a scene shifter. There Was a large house, for it was just after the inauguration of Mr. Polk, and many of the visitors had not yet left town, and ail was going on well, none dreaming that such a devouring beast was near. The fire originated in the alley, but from what cause he did not know. There was no gas then, and the light was from sperm oil. In the rear were large doors for taking in and out the scenery, and in one of these was cut a small door, and against the rear wall hung a drop curtain, which the hands called a tormentor. When the fire once entered the building it went up into the flies and the shingle roof. As soon as I saw it I~hunted for the stage carpenter, Wm. Dun, and found that he had just made a trap, and told him, “The theater is afire.” “The devil it is!” he exclaimed, and Mr. Burton was told of it, and a second hand, Uncle Dan Harbaugh, went to the flats, which were opened, exposing the blaze to the audience, and while the flames were traveling along the roof the crowd got out safely. The fire companies responded promptly; the Frank- lin being located just opposite, was, of course, first on the ground. From the first there was no saving of the building, and the Franklin took station in front of the Union building (Blair & Rives), and devoted their energies to saving it. and did so, the damage being slight. Outside of the theater the destruction was eastward. Next Door. Adjoining the theater was a frame build- ing erected by Mr. Harry Lyles and him- self for the supper room for the inaugura- tion ball, held the preceding night in the theater, a hole having been cut in the east wall to connect it. Being of frame it soon was consumed, and the wind being north- west the flames soon swept everything to the corner of 13th and E streets. Taking everything into consideration, the damage could not have been less. As far as he could see, the companies all worked faith- fully, and he could not say that any de- served more credit than another. Other Participants. Mr. B. Kilmartin related that he was in Alexandria on business when the theater was burned in 1857, and he ran up with the Sun company. He had $1,400 in his pocket, which he received from the Old Dominion Rank, and when opposite the monument grounds a button came off his pants and the money .being heavy he was afraid of losing it. Mr. Goodrich of the Perseverance related that he was on the avenue near 11th and ran to the fire in shirt sleeves and slippers. Ben Throop and he had the Persy pipe on the east side of the building, when some one pulled the hose back, and they went too, getting out just as the wall fell. Mr. Godwin Pierce said he was near the wall when it fell, and he lost a coat there. Mr. James R. Dobbyn was present also. Mr. Williamson said he was a police offi- cer at the time and was present at the re. After the destruction in 1845 it was re- built in 1849 for Jenny Lind’s appearance. After some further talk the next public meeting was fixed for January 4. SESS EE DAMROSCH’S ORCHESTRA STRIKES. The Musical U Refuses to Allow Hegner, the 'Cellot: to Play. Walter Damrosch, conductor of the New York Symphony Orchestra, has made open issue with the Musical Protective Union. The orchestra struck last night, and he discharged them and dismissed the audi- ence. The troubie arose over the engagement of Herr Hegner, the ‘cello player, who |took Hekking’s place at the beginning of |the present season. Hegner gets a salary | of $3,500 a year—one of the biggest salaries ever paid to a ‘cello player for orchestra work. Two years ago Mr. Damrosch brought over Herr Brodsky to play first violin and do solo work. The Musical Union is the organization which protested against the coming of the Strauss Orchestra and which has tried to shut out other foreign bands under the con- tract labor law. All of Damrosch’s players andDamrosch himself belonged to the union. | When Brodsky came over the union recog- jmized him as an artist and suspendéd its \rule requiring that a musician shall have | been in the United States six months be- |fore he can join the union. When Dam- |rosch asked the same consideration for |Hegner some members of the union who jused to play in the symphony orchestra |and who do not like Damrosch objected. At one concert |chestra refused to play with Hegner and he had to be excused by the conductor. Last week Damrosch made a final ap- peal to the union in the name of art. One very candid member shouted: “Art be d—4; we ure after money.” Then Dam- rosch ‘resigned from the union, Saturday he set the union at defiance. He put Hegner in the orchestra at his reg- ular afternoon concert. The members of the orchestra had to choose between break- ing the union rules and subjecting them- selves to fine and possible boycott or going on strike and forfeiting their contracts with Damrosch. They played Saturday night, but it was their last appearance. Yesterday they determined to bring things to a climax, and when Damrosch took up his baton there was no response to the usual signal for the band to play. . _ +00 WAR ON SECTARIAN LINES. Harsh Lahguage From Protes and Catholics. The antagonism between the Catholics and the Order of United American Me- | chanics and the American Protective Asso- j ciation in New Jorsey has broken out into jan open battle. The Rey. Hugh Fleming,rec- | tor of St. John’s Catholic Church of Orange, jhas been outspoken in his denunciation jof these orders, and recently published over his signature an arraignment of Messrs. dder, Millington and others |who have attacked the Catholics. ‘This | was followed by an open boycott of Chas. | P. Cameron, a baker, and B. P. Laidlaw, a | grocer, both of whom were accused of be- longing to these orders. On Saturday a local paper in Orange |published an alleged list of the members |of the local council of the American Me- chanics, and also what they claimed was an authentic copy of the anti-Catholic cath required from candidates joining the | ‘American Protective Association. This publication has aroused a most bit- ter feeling in the community. A New York evening paper that circu- llates largely in the Oranges has fallen under the ban and has been also boycotted because it has published full reports of | the meetings. ‘The Rev. John Krantz, pastor of Trinity M EK. Church at Jersey City, preached t night to the Order of American Me- chanics. He made no adverse remarks regarding the Catholic Church, but indi- rectly alluded to the Rev. John L. Scud- der’s attack on Catholics in preaching to the same order, which sermon he called a tirade, and he also criticised Father Flem- ing’s reply to Mr. Scudder. He said that neither showed the true Christian spirit. | the members of the or-/ A TALK ON HAWAII. Rev. 0. P. Emerson Tells of the Bale- ful Influences of the Monarchy. SOUGHT 0 STAMP OUT CHRISTIANITY The Work of the Missionaries Op- posed by Pagan Practices. CAUSE OF THE REVOLUTION. Rev. O. P. Emerson, who has had much experience as a missignary in the Hawaiian islands, delivered a very interesting’ ad- dress at the Metropolitan Presbyterian Church last evening, in which he presented some new facts in regard to the efforts made to Christianize the inhabitants of those islands and how these endeavors were received by the Kalakauan dynasty. | He drew a parallel between the experiences of the Hebrews weeping and praying by the rivers of Babylon for their subjugated country and of the Hawatian people, and said: Hawaiian Christianity, during the continuance, at least, of the Kalakauan dynasty, has been hanging its harp upon the willows, for all this while it has been in the presence of most depressing and harmful, corrupt, idolatrous influences. But | now that this kingdom has, in the kind providence of God, been taken away, we be- Meve that the native Hawalian churches will be able to do a work which the influ- ence of a corrupt heathen court has, for the last twenty years, prevented them from do- ing. A Chapter Never Yet Written. ‘Where is a chapter in the history of Ha- walian Christianity which the churches of this land know little about. Indeed, it has hardly yet been written. But the time has come when it shall be written, and I be- lieve it to be my duty to give you a certain acquaintance with it, for it accounts, in large measure, for the present situation of things out there, and it reveals the possi- bilities of good which may be hoped for by the Hawaitan churches as coming out of the late revolution. Many influences have operated to corrupt the Hawaiian Christian. ity and to weaken the power of the churches which the missionary fathers established, but I here submit that no one influence in all the land has been so baleful as the Kalakauan dynasty. No twenty years in all the history o” those churches have been more sad and hopeless than the twenty years that have just passed, and which are now signalized by the overthrow of that power. Permit me here to recount some of the deeds of that dynasty, and Jet me say that what I bring to the charge of the late King Kalakaua I also bring to the charge of his sister, the late Queen Liltuckalani; for thougn at first she carried into her reign a semblance of decency, at last, unfortunately for herself, she threw off this semblance and appeared in her real character. In recounting some of the evil influences exerted by these two reigns, per- mit me to mention first the encouragement superstitious spirit which was still in the jand. A Christian Nation. After the coming of the missionary fath- ers, and during the reign of the Kame- hamehas, the determined assault which had been made upon heathenism had broken its power. The nation became a realiy Chris- tian nation. The generation was converted to the truth. Up to 1863 more than 77,000 converts had been gathered into the churches. Then it was, during a visit of Dr. Anderson, then foreign secretary of the A. B. C. F. M., that the policy was adopted of putting the churches under the charge of native pastors. The missionary fathers had done their work. They language to writing; they had translated the Bible and the hymn book, the spelling book and the arithmetic, and created a secular and religious literature, and found- ed the schools, the churches and the home- life where this was taught and enjoyed. In| short, they had established in the land a Christian civilization, and converted an en- tire people, and now, as the fathers dropped away to their rest, ‘the policy of maintain- ing a foreign missionary pastorate was to give way to that of an independent Ha- aiian pastorate. The outlook was hopeful; the wisdom of the fathers approved the change. Before long twenty large parishes were divided into nearly three times that number, and as fast as the native preachers could be trained they were put in charge of these parishes. The First Attack on Christianity. Christianity was made in 1868, when King ‘The first marked attack on the Hawaiian Lot Kamehameha began to issue license: to Hawaiian kalumnas or sorcerers. These licenses permitted these men to practice the healing art as they knew it. Their power was the power of the fetish worship- er; of the sorcerer and practicer of the black arts that appealed to the superstitious fears of the people. Their use of drugs and herbs, where these were used, was sup- ported by heathen incantations and pray- ers to the ancient gods. They leveled these incantations and prayers aguinst their ene- mies. They claimed to be able to pray peo: ple to death, and where prayers did not avail they would sometimes use poison. Thus there came to be a power in the land that was feared. This power stood for the revival of superstition, and became a n.enace to the development of the Christian life. Each village had its kaluma or sorcerer, who was greatly feared. against the light, against the missionary influence, against the white man and the white gov- | ernment doctor. He professed to be able to heal the sick because he could pray people to death. Every native pastor had his antagonist in a tiative kaluma. Over against the church the kaluma set up his idolatrous shrine. Thus there has grown up a heathen party hating the whites; a party that divides each church, and in come cases the parsonage. I have heard Hawaiian pastors again and again tell in pathetic tones how these heathen influences have stolen away from them their people. Increase of Heathen Influences. I have heard them confess’ how the Ka- lumas have gained an influence in their own homes. How certain remedies have been recommended to them for some sick child {of the house, and how, before they knew it, | they would be in the hands of the Kaluma. I could tell instance after instance of this, 1 could tell how Hawaiian pastors have | had their superstitious fears so worked on as to become themselves keepers of fe- tisches. I have heard them confess to this and relate the story of their final deliver- ance. 1 could go over the list of the Ha- wailan ministry and give the names of probably nearly every man who now has fetisches in his or his wife’s possession, and who is thus more or less under the influence of the Kaluma or sorcerer of his parish, Jif 1 cannot name every man in the native ministry who is thus under the heathen in fluence I can name those who have come out of it to my personal knowledge, or those who were never afflicted by it. One of the great fights we are now making out here is against this heathen tendency, and the great and hopeful! fact is this, that the Hawaiian pastors are waking up to the need of this fight and are taking decided part in it; and now that there is no longer a Hawaiian court to stand out against them in it, there is great hope that they will be- gin to make short work of the fight. This, then, is the point I make against the late dynasty—against Kalakaua and against Queen Liliuokalani—that while they ruled they gave countenance to this heathen had reduced an unwritten | parish in the land, and even invades the | party; that they made a bid for its in- fluence; that they won it to their support; that they greatly enlarged it; that they intrenched it yet more strongly in the ‘and, and used it to achieve their wicked ends. Kalakeua Made the Pagan Party. It may be said that Kalakaua made the party. When he came to the throne he sathered the scattered forces of heatheaism together and proclaimed himself their high priest, and led them in the onslaughts he made against the Christian civilization which had been so happily founded in Ha- wall. He was about as corrupt a king as ever ruled on any throne. His court, like himself, was also corrupt. He himself was given to the practice of the grossest im- morality. In his wickedness he fomented the race feeling. He worked through the heathen party to make the Hawatians bit- ter against the white man. He who had been enthroned almost by the white man became the white man's enemy. Though he should have been king for all, he reigned in the interest of but a portion of his sub- ts. He tried to paganize the country an@ heathenize it. He made a deliberate at- tempt to bring the free church of Hawail under his power. He worked to debauch its ministry. He set himself up as a student of the ancient heathen cult and founded a society for its revival. With a blasphemous | purpose he declared that there was a har- mony between the Christian and the heath- en faith. He declared Jehova to be but one thus did his utmost to corrupt the Hawaiian Christianity. He brought it very low. He gave it a blow which it must be the work of ments of the land that they might con: |hher support during those Inst days of mad purpose of self-aggrandizement. The Ram and Opium Trafic. But again, there were other influences which these guflty Hawalian rulers let loose on their people to their destruction. There was the rum and opium traffic. sold two opium and Queen Lili: Mi # od ile i i i F ; q a fe trievably alienated from corrupted as to menting of race feeling the lead of the throne. The t pagan | of the courts of Kalakaua Jani have reached so deeply that people that its recovery Not only has there been a deliberate a tempt to corrupt the church, there has also been a deliberate and often achieved at- the state. The | the hurt of this ungodly, wi court, and |if there is anything the Hewatian people should thank God for it is for its final, utter overthrow. Why the White Men Fought. Had it continued the distillery and opium jlaws that were passed by it would have continued. Had it continued the Louisiana lottery would have become another factor | of ruin, When it at last was added to all | the other iniquities the white man felt that jhe must fight, and when finally, after all | this, as if it were not enough, there was @ move to take away from the white man his vote, Jeave him helpless in the hands of |& Wicked court that was not only page and immoral in its influence, but actually | heathen and anti-Christian, then the white ‘man felt that he must fight, and he did | fight, and has won a victory that every civilized people must applaud. It was @ victory won not only for that picturesque, beautiful, monumental outpost of civiliza- tion, but also for you. Thus I submit that though during, the last twenty years the Hawatian | tianity, so far at Jeast as the native Ha- waiian churches are concerned, has, be- | Cause of a corrupt, heathen rule, been shed~ jding tears by its fertile river sides and |has hanged its harp upon the willows.the jexperience has been a helpful one. The ood native Christians out there will never asain want to go back to that hateful idolatry. Ne King or Queen Can Ever Again Reign. No king or queen will ever again be able to beguile them into it. They have come by their sad experience to be above the cor- ruption of a pagan court. Verily, I believe that the best of them will never cry to God again for a king or for a queen, for they have been fairly weaned from such rule, Nor will they be content with anything that is likely to stand as a menace to thelr earnest purpose after a purer Christian Ife. But though that Hawailian Christianity has been divorced, as we may believe, from | any further liking for pagan and 4 ways; though there as in Israel so ago the Holy One has been exalted, look at the pathos of the situation. They are not through with the fight. They are bai ing up that outpost of civilization and hold- ing it, as that Hebrew city was held and built of old, with the spade in one hand and the sword in the other. Will America look on, as did Edom in that day, only with a purpose to stop the work? That ancient Hebrew picture of brave men fighting for God and for humanity against a wily enemy has appealed to the heart of the Christian world, and I believe in like manner the re- sult of that brave fight now going on in Hawaii will appeal to your Christian heart. ant oa. ae For the Sea 1 4 Sufferers. ‘The Sea Island suferers of South Carolina, are to get the proceeds of a literary, musical and dramatic entertainment which is to be given on the evening of Friday, the 24 instant, by the student® of the Spencerian Business College in the ball of that institue ? tion, There are to be readings and recita~ tions and singing, with a debate on the tem- perance question, and the presentation of a laughable farce. ‘The talent of the talented young men and women of this school is en- volved in the program, and there is no doubt about its success. ‘Tickets can be obtained from the students or at the college, 7th an@ D streets.