The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1891-06-26

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often to combine better than the good,
The remarkable variety oil people in this
kingdom make united work peculiarly
difficult ,-only danger makes men for
gettul OF their difficulties ard solid ii.
action.
Oahu College can do great service to
the nation, not only by giving its stu
dents the best and broadcast educational
ideas, but by careful and helpful study
OF Its people and problems. Does the
Hawaiian Board of Education have any
material help for this centre OF learning
DO your professors or teachers take any
part IN Teachers Institutes or in gather
ings OF any kind where educational,
economic, social or political questions
are discussed and inspirations given to
and taken from the teachers, thinkers
and active minds of the country? Each
needs the other
Has the idea of University extern
sion taken root here so active
and useful first in England and now
Speeding rapidly in the United States
Here Is the proper center for it
in these islands. There should be, |
think, from one to five branches in every
one OF the seven islands in direct relation
to the College, visited occasionally by
your professors, in which scientific, social
and Industrial questions should be dis
cussed-open to all classes, with adapta-
tons to each. Illustrations by expert
ments with chemicals, with philosophic
apparatus and the aid OF magic lantern
slides would attract aud interest and
benefit the people. The lack of proper
amusement. SO hard 10 provide in a tran
sltlon period like that of the Hawaiians,
would be IN part made up Many no
doubt would lend hand; you have in
your midst rich resources by uav of men
able to interest and prof, the people.
God helps those who help themselves.
| Your Hawaiian problem is a hard one.
but it is good for you. Would you have
this Paradise without your own effort
If you could? | sometimes think that
Adam and Eve didn't have half chance
In the Garden OF Eden, because too much
was done for them. For our human ma
ture the conditions of Plymouth Rock
were better.
Living as you seem to be just now on
the rugged edge of uncertainty ia not
| pleasant, hut only in difficulty are men
at their best. Look out that no one OF
| you shall become Z" "A man without a
country" a hall hearted Hawaiian, a
half-hearted American or European.
fiant the stake of your destiny some
where and fight it out. Stand for some
thing besides your own personal inter
ests. 10 every school boy would say !:
Read Eggleston's story of the Huosier
schoolmaster and join the Church of
the Best Licks.'"
How much better than you, you once
barefoot Punahou boys now, after years
OF struggle rich from your sugar planta-
lions or other business. will be your sons
! who can without an effort go to any Uni
versity in the world? They may fight
some battles as you have done to make
them NEIL; we all must work for all
we're worth, while we live, in order to
save our own souls, to say nothing of the
good OF others. The only hopeless ones
In the world are the lazy.
The fourteen years boon from Ameri-
can reciprocity is broken and there is no
telling what the end will be-. I would
rather come back when you are some
what tried, if such time must come,
than at the high time of money making.
People are apt to be thoughtful in the in
verse ratio OF their prosperity. Have
you not been thinking OF late as never
before, and has there not been shown in
the face of your setback an enterprise
and creative energy-witness the Eva
rallroad-that may make you stronger
Tor 1t all. read of new and bold private
schemes to develop your varied resources
and OF recent public policy which built
roads and Initiated general public i'm
| provement.
up with her great material progress in
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to good work when they make the most
or when they think the most? For
twenty-three years have worked for a
charity, through two national panics and
| through prosperous seasons, but the
times have made very little difference.
Nothing extra is to be expected for the
Lords work in " flush " times, and a
certain fine spirit carries it through the
darkest days. AS profits decrease and
the days darken, dodn't be afraid for
your good work. GAS thy day is so shall
thy strength be-"
In 1880 they told me that practical
rather than protested infdelity was wide
spread; how is it now? Has the good
gained Oh the evil or the reverse?
Have the followers of Christ become
stronger or weaker? Whatever the fact,
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the time for men and measures. There
is In all men, III you here, a reserve force
that God calls out in emergency. That
that the routine OF your lives must ma
terlally change, or that business should
be neglected. But you and | and every
one can under pressure do more than he
has done; 1t is for each one to say what
his new work shall be. can only indi-
| cate pbIacfiyp n0info of p,,bl;o ,oI;o,x
which all can in some way be usefully
related, suggested by my own expert
ence in work upon problems in America
similar to your own.
1t is interesting that Hawaii first of
| all the nations OF the earth faced the hard
questions of the immediate emancipation
and enfranchlsemento of an undeveloped
| tropical race. What the United States
has been doing from 1860 to 1891, you
| have been working at since 1880, land the
| study OF 1t is most instructive.
All agree that education is of para
| mount Importance, but no one-sided edu-
cation will answer. After trying for
many years the plan of training hand,
head and heart with negroes and Indians
In America, find myself believing in it
more than ever, and wonderful growth
OF pubic sentiment in its favor. Educate
the whole man is the idea; fit the pupil
for the life he is likely to lead.
The "Slater'' and " Hand - funds of
million dollars, each are applied to the
negro on these lines. Indian education
is pushed as never before in practical
way; and in the chief cities of the Amer
lean Udion, Technical Schools have
sprung up through extraordinary private
bounty. Rich men are seeing the weak.
ness OF the old system, the disadvantages
OF their own early lives, and wish to
make education something more than it
has been. The training OF the hand has
been the neglected factor in our civiliza-
ton. In that OF the Jews it had its true
place. 1t Is nuShinor its 1rau i,,to ,..,A