The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1891-06-30

education for moral reason. and that
converts IN India needed it to keep them
from starving. Missionary work, like
any that Is to last, must be upon the
hands, head and heart-on the whole
man. This is more expensive than
slmller methods; but. in the long run,
II Will bring the best results, and the
people, educated TO this idea, will re-
spond 10 the need. Church collections
Will increase as it shall be felt more and
more that man making man lifting is
the result OF missionary enterprise,
whether Ii be IN Spain or IN Patagonia.
have asked: What will YOU do about
ito The neglect of HawaIi's needs by
her leading class will end in trouble II
Is Tor each one to find his part and take
It: the hopeless ones are only grave
diggers for themselves and the rest
there is 2 creative force IN faith, and YOU
need all you have, Tor there are difficult
ties that look like mountains.
We OF PunahOu are pushed to the
highest plane OF action by the influence
and example OF our fathers and mothers.
Do not we men owe the best In US TO our
mothers
Back OF US are not only the grandeur OF
tons OF our early life; but to me from
the Blandford Hills OF Massachusetts,
and from the banks of the Susquehanna
River, and to you from ike American
homes where our parents were bred In
simple ways, have come influences and
helps that are priceless heritage. We
can testify that the blessing is even unto
the third and fourth generations OF them
h,or
perils OF sea and land for the good OF men
and the glory OF God, and, under Him,
made possible the justice, the order. the
intelligence and the prosperity OF Ha-
waii, and gave her place among the
nations; whose reigning dynasty Is the
only one that ever passed unbroken from
heathenism TO Christianity. All this
from simple, consecrated purpose formed
in obscure homes in Z far-oH land by
plain people. What shall we in turn
give TO our children and to our country?
What shall the harvest OF this celebra-
ton be Shall there not be new pur-
pose formed that will make Tor the good
OF Hawaii?
The times looh somewhat gloomy, yoG
NAV hereafter make less money, but
yua may be better men and women.
q
God.
Most fortunate o. Us school boys were
those who had the chance to fight for an
idea under the American flag; 1t was
the best opportunity and education we
ever had That country was better and
greater for its great sacrifice, that was
none too great fyr the end in view. Puri-
fication through suffering is the law of
life.
Bishop Patterson OF Melanesia said
that the second stage OF missionary work
was the most difficult. May make the
distinction that the first was for man
TO lift out OF darkness and from cruel
heather masses. The second stage
is reached when, as in Hawaii, after fifty
years the average native was as lntell-
gent as the average farmer OF Vermont
or Indiana their civilization not, how
ever. up to the level OF their intelligence;
when there is distinct progressive and
non-progressive class, as now among the
negroes and Indians OF America call
this q period of work for men. The first
required devotion, sacrifice, such as that
of our fathers and mothers; the second
called for wisdom, discrimination and
devotion, but not or the part OF most for
ter friends and helpers OF Christian civ
iIization than successful business men,
and OF them Hawaii has q noble quota.
The railroad kings OF America have made
the very warp and woof OF civilization by
the lines which run North and South,
and East and West; the former binding
together with steel bands the sections
that can never be severed from the unity
OF feeling and interest thus secured; the
latter sending the locomotive ever ahead
OF the pioneer and the missionary, Great
ing new values and establishing the con-
ditions OF law and order, and encourag-
ing the church and school house from
their economic value; Just as CONNER
cial enterprises in Africa to-day on econ
omic grounds make q missionary station
OF every post they establish. With all
the rum and crime and curse OF it We
find that commerce and Christianity 90
best hand in band-not one ahead OF the
other. You have here commerce, might
lily developed by reciprocity with Amer
lea, temporarily but let US hope not ser
iously checked by the Mckinley bill.
Our fathers homes were plain and We
were brought up on small allowances
was it $50 a year apiece thank Heaven
Tor Inat simple lie. Ii IS not LOT Us ali
to live so plainly now; the comparative
luxury of to-day is legitimate, for it is
honest, at no necessary sacrifice OF any
obligation, but We must think and work
for Hawaii-for God and country wher-
ever we are. OF our fathers we may say,
- 1t is for US to finish the work which
they so nobly began as Lincoln said
in the presence OF the dead at Gettys-
burg.
In our college days We discussed the
question, care the HaTaiians civilized -
There is much civilization that IS g mere
yeneering, ike that IN the United States
OF the 5000 well clothed and housed
and moderately civilized indians
OF the Indian Territory, who from
their annuities. not from taxa
ton, give as much per capita
for common schools as any state IN the
Union. They have accepted but not
adopted civilization-it is . growth from
within, they have its form but not Its
spirit
The true test Is, think, the existence
and the power of an intelligent public
sentiment that supports law and order
and progressive measures. Il may at