The Hawaiian gazette., 1876-12-13

Your obliged friends,
H. A. Peirce. s. g. Wilder,
). n. Castle j. u. Dickson,
j. b. Anterior. H. NJ. Whitney,
Z. Z. Jones' Junr. L y. Hall.
A. j. Cartwright, William w. Hall.
ii. A. Z. Carter,
HoNoLULU. Dec. 1st, 1876.
HIS Elk. II. A. PIERCE AND OTHERS,
DEAR SIRs,-I heartily thank you for your
kind words, and herewith place the manuscript
at your disposal, hoping that its publication will
lead none to love their country lees.
Very sincerely, your obedient servant,
MALTER FREAR
PSALM l47:l3.-" For he hath strengthened
the bars Of thy gates he hath blessed thy child.
ren within thee"
Augmented strength for security and defence
aud multiplied blessings upon successive genera
tons are the reasons assigned here for national
praise to the Lord. Assembled to-day by pro-
clamalior of the President OF the United States
for thanksgiving, we may iud these reason
abundant for our praise. The bars of the gates
OF the free government which our foreIathers set
up God has strengthened aud he has poured a
century Of blessings upon their children.
Our thoughts to-day, naturally enough, are on
the century, more than on the single year. The
proclamation itself makes this. not merely
an annual but centennial thanksgiving.
The feast TO which we SIT down with glad hearts
is spread with the fruits of hundred years.
The unparalleled privileges aud oppOrtunl
ties. the independent progressive life, the open
avenues of industry aud trade, the enlarged gen
eral welfare. the national greatness in which
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he has a iull measure of blessings, are all it,
separately connected with the progress and sue
cess that GUd has given our country during the
hundred years of its life.
Before proceeding to note some of the results
Of the century that claim our thanks to-day, 1t Is
proper and fitting that we should make greatful
mention of blessings enjoyed in tins foreign
land, which yet is so much like home land to
Us. For protection freedom security comforts
bounties health, and advanced privileges of civil
cation and society we owe Trunks; and es-
pecAlly for the boon Of reciprocity that the year
has brought to this kingdom. Our great country
has opened her arms to receive this kingdom,
necessarily limited iu resources, into her more
enlarged prosperity. and to make her citizens
resident here feel still less that they are in for
eign land. The mutual regards OF the two
countries have been cemented into the closest of
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each other what is mine shall be thine. and
thine shall be mine; and such community of
commercial interests, will doubtless carry with it
yet closer ties of good will and friendship. We
give thanks for this TO day.
When God made his wonderful promise of in
crease aud great nationality to the pilgrim
Abraham the grandest part of twas that in
him all the nations of the earth should be bless
ed. God built him up into great nation, not
TO the detriment or Tor the envy, but to the
welfare and for the joy of all the world. So our
best gratitude to-day is that the great nation
that God has built up from those pilgrims to the
wilds of America, stands forth as blessing to
the world While We clearly see and thankfully
own the divine hand in our Own country's his
tory, in her first settlement, her struggles aud
conflicts, and marvellous progress, yet we forget
not that the whole earth is the Lords, and that
what he does for any one people he does in the
interests Of all. Every nation that pushes
forward IN the march Of progress. that opens
out paths for the weary struggling to
go forward in, that gives development to some
principle for the encouragement, and hope of
mankind, may well invite the whole world to
share in its gratitude. Young America has
achieved no success in freedom AID seif-govern-
ment, and has made no progress, that the whole
earth may not be thankful for. II is 10 recogni-
ton Of this, and not in selfish competing pride,
that the nations of the world have brought their
choicest things, In this centennial year, and laid
them as it were as thank offering on the altar of
American liberty. 1t Is peculiarly fitting, that
in this year that celebrities It's majority, all the
world should bring their best things TO the conn
try, that has been such blessing to the world.
The Centennial fair at Philadelphia is not SO much
an exhibition, as it is the worlds expression of
hearty good VIII and JOY 10 the unenvied progress
of our country. L. is 10 noble acknowledgement
of the place America holds in the worlds ad-
yancing march. The grand success of that ex-
position but typiies the success of the century
itself. Ii is but specimen fruit Of what the
century has produced. The century itself is the
vastly grander success and greater marvel We
thank God Tor it. And we thank God for the
hundred years of life that be has given the young
yet great republic. 1t is hundred years to
wonder over and to be grateful for. If not an
other century Of life is added to our country we
thank him for this one. II America should sink
to-day, we would thank him for what has been
DONE for the results achieved for the discoveries
and inventions made and Tor the hopes and pro-
gress to which the world has been awakened 10
the great principles of self-government. in the
education and elevation Of the Masses in free
christianity, in personal thrift M the victorious
power OF mind over matter, IN the production oil
noble men, in genuine patriotism, in voluntary
sacrifices endured for right and freedom aud
good government, the United States, If they
should not last another year. would not cease to
be on inspiration to the world. Other nations
would still feel their influence and be the better
for it
1t is grand sign Of the yet better days
coming, that the nations are getting so much
good from each other. aud that Que so quickly
takes up into itself whatever Of good is de-
yeloped 10 another. The prosperity Of one is
more and more overhowlng into others. Capitol
is flowing across their boundaries almost as freely
as it flows within them. Commerce and quick
communication are binding them together 10
common interests. They take up each others
inventions and prosper by them. They help
each other keep step 10 the steady march Of
progress And whatever clogs the channels Of
trade il one is felt BY the Others The war or
famine or Gre that hurts one is drain on the
Others. Hard times like tidal waves flow around
the world from land to land. The light that
shines 10 the west scatters darkness in the east.
Aud 50 in spite Of the prejudices Of race and old
jealoUsies. the nations are becoming more help
ers, than rivals of each other. This is one OF
grand ouicomes Of the century. aud in this
America has been leading influence. She has
given wings to commerce. She has given faith |
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