A friendly beacon at heaven's open gate, That man might ne'er forget, in every fate, "Not to myself alone," The heavy-laden bee doth murmuring hum, Content if he repay my ceaseless toil "Not to myself alone:" O man, forget not thou,-earth's honored priest, Live to thy neighbor; live unto thy God; ST. ANDREW'S CATHEDRAL. N leaving the wharves at Honolulu and going up Fort street, you pass the principal retail stores in the city for dry-goods, household furnishings, apothecaries, groceries, etc., and half a mile or so from your starting-point you will see, first, the Roman Catholic Sisters' school for native girls, then the Roman Catholic Church, opposite which you will notice the Fort-street Church" Presbyterian, - and there, turning the corner to your right and going south, you will find yourself on Beretania (English) street, and should you pursue this country-like road, unpaved and with earthen sidewalks, from the corner, you will find it continues to be a rather wide and tolerably fair drive of four miles to the sea, where you can get a fine view of the Heads, etc. King street is another drive in the same direction, wider, hotter and dustier by far. If you are looking for the English Church, it being Sunday when you arrive there, you must give up gazing in wonder at the pretty homes with their tropical trees, gorgeous creepers, ferns and inviting verandas which will line the entire road, and turn in with me, after five minutes' walk from the corner, to the Cathedral precincts, this being one of the three entrances to the spacious and lovely grounds. As we get fairly within, after the wide driveway, which you see is beautifully lined on both sides with trees and flaming shrubs, the marines, with their officers, and with fife and drum, from an English and from an American man-of-war are there before us, waiting to enter; and walking about, talking and laughing, are the Bishop's boys of Iolani College, from his place two miles north in lovely Nuuanu Valley, and which, as I have lived there, I shall hope to tell you something about in another paper; they have just marched in with their teachers, and are full of life and fun, pleased enough to see the sailors, with whom they soon make friends. And now, as the last bell rings, in come from the Priory on your right the Sisters' girls, two and two, first quite young ladies, and then, according to their height, down to wee little tots. What a picture they make in the scene, with their white dresses and ribbons of every hue, as they slowly enter, with the "Sisters" and other teachers, the side door of the church! Yes, indeed; the precincts of a Sunday morning present a striking panorama to the quiet looker-on! In the middle of the grounds stands the magnificent gray cathedral, the chancel, and two bays only, of five, being finished; and no more may be, alas, for another generation! But, even as it now stands, it is the finest building west of the Rocky Mountains in the way of a church edifice! It is Corinthian in order, the stone having come from England in the present Bishop's time. The chancel is large enough for quite a congre gation, and is filled with exquisite stained-glass windows, all memorial. The altar and the font are superb pieces of stone, richly carved. This cannot be said of the Noah's Ark of a pulpit! Wood, good wood, however-walnut and plenty of it! May be, if the top could have been sawed off a foot, and the panels cut out, it would not have been a bad thing of its kind. But the Bishop seemed to have an aloha for it just as it stood--and nothing could be done, in consequence, to better its looks! Back of the Cathedral is the pretty plaza of central Honolulu. On the right is the old Pro-Cathedral, half of which is now used for the Chinese mission for Sunday-schools, guild-meetings, etc. Farther up is the "Priory of St. Andrew," conducted by three of the Devonport Sisters" from England, who came to these islands nearly twenty years ago-about the same time as the Bishop and his sister, Miss Willis, now wife of Rev. Mr. Wainwright, of North Carolina; and the noble, faithful work that has been done by them all among the Hawaiians, God has noted in His book of everlasting remembrance. To the left are the beautiful grounds and the cottage of the Rev. Herbert Gowan, who ministers to the Chinese, and who, coming from "St. Augustine's College" four years since, set himself to work in the midst of other toil as a "labor of love" to learn the Chinese language and to found a mission, which he has most successfully carried out, preaching to-day in that tongue to more than forty communicants, and having collected money enough to build within the precincts a neat church edifice! It will be at the Emma-street entrance that part given by Queen Emma during her lifetime, and is to be begun at once, to the great joy of the Bishop that one of his young clergy has been so zealous in a work which is so important and yet so arduous! Mr. G. is quite a remarkable scholar, understanding Sanskrit and several other languages. The Rev. Mr. Barnes is another worker, and one of St. Augustine's cleverest men. His home, too, will be within the precincts. He is sub-dean and rector of the Cathedral, and services are conducted by him in Hawaiian as well as in English, the Prayer-Book having been translated into Hawaiian by His Majesty, Kamehameha IV., and a Hymnal by the present Bishop. Yes; the picture is worth your while, this lovely Sunday morning, with the delicious, soft air and the glorious sunshine, the trees, the flowers, the green velvet carpet, the marines, the Chinese women and children with their gaudy silks, the "Sisters" with their girls, the boys, the clergy. Surely it is a busy little world of many nations represented by these men and children here this morning, no fewer than seven by the boys alone!-English, American, Hawaiian, German, Irish, Norwegian, Chinese, as well as half-castes! "God hath made of one blood all nations on the face of the earth" is the text ever in the Bishop's mouth, and when I tell you that at the "college" not the slightest distinction is made as to color, race or |