Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1881-12-03

tons followed. with lively conversation
and the distribution Of most abundant re
freshments. The huge iced cakes and
lemonade melted before the crowd. A
sudden Hilo shower to go home in was
the only damper to the occasion but il
soon passed over, and n bright sunset
closed the Golden Wedding Day.
In oddre" by tic English speaking rc'id,ots 81
HHo 10 Kr. oad Mrs. Lynsd0. M he ocro.ioD
Of The f7ich onnirpory # hsir morriage
deiirered by Rrr h. p. Boker.
DEAR FATHER AND MOTHER LYMAN:
On this day, which marks the com
| plction of 80 years. during which Won have
| been united together in the bonds of mar
| riage, we, the English speaking people of
| HilO, Hawaii, joyfully thankful that your
| lives have been spared so long, have taken
tho liberty of coming together to congra-
tulate you; and as part and parcel of the
congratulation we have to offer we beg
leave to present the following address
! We first of all recognize the exceeding
! Kindness of our God in permitting You to
continue i'll life until this glad hour.
A golden wedding is comparatively n
rare event And even though YOU were
people whom we cared nothing about per
sonally. still the mere fact of your having
walked together in life, for now full half
acentury, is a thing which we feel we
ought not to, and cannot pass by un-
notced-Nov. End, 1881, and Nov. End,
! 1881.
Royalton, Vermont, and Hilo, Hawaii,
stand linked together by two human lives,
that have for 80 years run on in the same
groove; and it seemed to us therefore that
we here and now ought to pause mo
ment and contemplate the coincidcnt.
| We axe likewise glad that it has fallen
to your lot to spend these 80 years of your
united life here in Hilo, and that during
considerable portion of this period.
some of us have been privileged to be
here with you; and all of us to be here
now to rejoice with you at the close of
| this half-ccnttiry of earthly toll.
Very seldom are we, any of us, permit
ted to do our life work on any one spot,
exclusively, of the earth's surface Our
contract OF earthly existence generally
calls for the achievement of toll on our
part, now upon this, now upon that, and
now upon the other section of this mum
dane plantation on which we are hired
out.
The case has been different with Won.
For the port of Hilo you together sailed
nearly 81 years ago among the people of
Hllo you lave together prayed, preached.
and worked, and IN the soil of Hilo, as we
trust, will your bodies be together laid
when at length, your Great Ovcrseer shall
sound IN your ears the evening curfew
calling You from toll to rest.
We congratulate you that in this
changing world wherein we dwell, there
has been kindly accorded you stretch of
earthly life, comparatively speaking, I'M
marked by external change
We also congratulate you here and now
upon the life work you have achieved. Il
have constructed n monument more en-
during than brass" are words, which,
though as applied to yourselves you will
never consciously utter them, not even in
your hearts, you yet might utter as dis
criptlve OF your own case, far more truly
than the immortal Horace of the Angus
tino age who wrote them. Yonder school
is the monument; not the school buildings,
or tho grounds, or the taro fields these
are but lnanimate matter, and will soon
crumbie away ana become Gust ana aSIlesJ
but rather all those Hawaiian youth,
who, through the agency of the school
you have founded and built up, have been
grounded in intelligence, virtue and
Christ like living, and will shine as stars
moon, and stars in the natural armament
shall have ceased to burn.
More fortunate you certainly are than
most of us, in that calling up Isaiah's
memorable words, g His work is before
him." you, in certain limited and OK
ternal way, are able likewise to affirm that
! your work is before you.
The labor you have achieved during
| your earthly career is an extremely unique
| and palpable affair. Unlike most of us
who toll and have nothing to show for it,
ut least except Il certain unpalpablo some
/ thing that eye cannot sec, you have toilcd
and have something to show for it, which
| the, most obtuse vision can behold and
| appreciate.
Allow us to congratulate you upon what
greets the view of all Of us as wa look
inauka of where we now are, and to rejoice
with you, that upon this 5Oth anniversary
of the marriage of its founder, Hilu
Boarding School was never more flourish
ing and never gave surcr prophesy OF
permancnce!
But it is what we are rather than what
We have done, that is the true measure of
worth. "Ail is not gold that glitters,' nor
is that always base alloy which keeps it
self close from human view You have not
always felt called on TO proclaim your
selves upon the house-tops. Indeed we
have learned to regard you us n sort of
treasure hid in Il field, the which to find,
we have generally felt ourselves Obliged
to seek as silver and search for rs hid
treasure; seeking on part, which how
ever has never been disappointment; for
when once you have been really found
you have invariably turned out To be
genuine metal with the true ring.
Nothing iii the universe of God is SO
valuable rs character, and rs respects the
possession of this sort of worth, YOU for
the last 80 years have been tried among
us, and not been found wanting.
Your very silence among us has been
eloquent. Without opening your lips you
huyo made us all feel that to be simply
genuine and true is Que of the loftiest
Sruudeurs of earth, and one of the bright
est ylories Of heaven. In these days OF
impressive shams wo need just such lives
us yours; to call us back TO this truth OF
truths, that show without substance will
collapse and pass away, while substance
without show will continue and endure
We have been greatly helped during
these years in boholding the immovabil
lty OF your faith and trust-your feet hav,
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