The Hawaiian gazette., 1891-06-30

/ IN ltSeli creates the nneSt tnlng N man
| hood.
The child who wonders, thinks and
wishes to understand. To improve the
power of observation, practical science
| lessons have OF late years keen intro
ducsd, and some OF Americas best
teachers are telling us how much can be
done at little cost to stimulate INQUIRY
and reasoning. At Hampton. we plan
10 give each graduate at cost not to
exceed $500, an outfit for giving lessons
in elements Of science, consisting OF an
alcohol lamp, half dozen test tubes
with holder, some glass and rubber
| tubing, a few chemicals and tin baking
pan with a perforated shelf; these to be
supplemented by articles which can be
found in every community, such as bot
| ties, corks, lamp chimneys and candles.
Let US not be deceived by appearances,
or tail to discern the difference between
real and apparent progress and values
Things are not always what they seem.
"There may be individuals, as the
ancient patriarchs, high in spiritual
growth, who are but partially civilized,
while there may be an advanced and re-
fined and contemptuous civilization that
Hawaii has known no finer characters
than those OF Kaahumanu, Kapiolani,
John Ii, and Kekuanaoa and others,
born In savagery. uneducated; who 4 +,
there like them to-day? America hasL
no nobler men than some of her ignor-
ant Indiant chiefs-not even Christian
lied; but in their wild life they say
eve know God, but we do not know
Jesus Christ" All men do or may know
God in way that we do not respect as
we should, and Natures light sometimes
becomes IN selfish, so-called. Chris
tian civilization. Even in slavery there
was sometimes the highest spirituality.
In Mrs. Stowe's book, Uncle Tom,"
illustrates the possibilities of character
under oppression, while Legree, the
master, shows what selfishness may
make of men OF the most favored race.
Was there ever truer saints than
among our native Hawaiian men and
women? Lowly, illiterate, simple. often
inconsistent. Our parents have told Us
of their devotion and sacrifices. have
often thought OF good old Kahinu, whose
prayers that no harm should come to me
in the dangers OF war may have been
answered
Only as the land gains in spiritual
power does it gain at all. Lie means
more than a good bank account.
These lines were penned in my study
at Hampton in the press OF closing an
nual exercises, with no time to rearrange
or condense statements. I ask your in
diligence.
Half an hour ago 1 said my final words
10 the Senior Class soon TO graduate.
We had, with some omissions, finished
the Outline Study OF Man /" by Dr..
Mark Hopkins, who believes IN no
metaphysics which are not capable of
being understood by any man of good,
common sense" The idea, at the least,
was, =" You have studied man, now you
60 into the world to study men. In the
class room we study what is common to
all men-uniformities. This gives Us
science. In the world We study men
only as they differ-diferences This
gives us practical skill, and makes us
men OF affairs. Both are needed. Here
tofore theory-now practise. So it is
with you, my friends; first thought, then
action.
l have given enough advice. What
will you do about it | have seldom
followed advice implicitly, which is
sometimes the best and sometimes the
worst thing in the world, according TO
the good sense OF the giver; but it has
been to me OF unspeakable value as
stimulating thought, and has led to
much change of direction. One 'c2rOmS"
on it as ore billiard ball does on another.
Think on these things, YOU OF Puma
hou. Each one OF you has his peculiar
obligation and opportunity Each one
| Il Il u.
! scientists say, and according TO that is
the duty 10 be done, and the method of
it.
1 recently heard it said that the first
| Reformation vas in reference 70 our
duty to God, between whom and men a
| corrupt priesthood had intervened: and
that the Reformation Of to-day is with
reference to our relations to men. How
splendidly this idea has been carried out
in Toynbee Hall in the east of London
and elsewhere University men, the
most gifted class, have devoted them
selves to the least gifted. The obliga-
| tions of the higher to the lower are beng
appreciated as never before. By and by
it will be part OF liberal education to
devote year or more to personal labor
Tor the unfortunate.
| AOOA dt tue NOIh Vi MISS OIdce DO0Se
| and her associates for the working girls
OF New York and the country, and at
the College Settlement" ," of educated
girls there. See how the range Of church
influence has increased from simple
| preaching to teach with an organized
effort for the masses, that extends to the
whole range Of living. St. Georges
Church, OF New York, Rev. DR.. Rains
ford rector, is good type of this.
| Foreign as well home missionary effort
is feeling this broader movement. "The
nerve of mission work is not, | think,
so much the fearful alternative Of eternal
punishment as the constraining love Of
| Christ and of men. To be Christ-ike is
not only believer in Him, but to imi-
tate the simple, devoted life of the car
penter's son, and to help others to do
likewise. Christianity IS character il it
is anything, and character is matter OF
daily living. People who do not know
how to live make weak Christians and
no deeper, better inspiration has ever
come to human life than that to which
we see the beginning in new devotion
in the higher walks Of life to the idea of
the brotherhood of man that brings men
together, and through personal touch
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