The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1891-12-21
FOUNDERS DAY. !
Exercises at Kamehameha
School.
Bishop Hall Formally Turned Over
to the Trustees.
An Eloquent Address by the
American Minister.

School, by the donor, Hon. G. r
Bishop. Her Majesty the Queer
was present accompanied by Gov
ernor Cleghorn, Major Robertson
and her ladies-in-waiting. The ex
ercises were opened with singing b!
the school, after which Mr.. Olesor
read selection from the Psalms
In few fitting words Mr.. BishoI
declared the building the prop
erty of the school and ex
pressed his desire for the per.
manent prosperity of the institu.
ton. The Rev. DR.. Hyde responded
on behalf of the trustees. After the
conclusion of the exercises, the truly
magnificent building was thrown
open to the public for inspection
the boys in the meanwhile under
the efficient leadership of Mr.. Rich.
ards singing songs for the entertain
ment of the guests.
His Ez. j. l.. Stevens the orator
of the day delivered the following
eloquent address:
Those who conceived and executed
the design of this school where Won,
boys, have the opportunity of learn
ing what you can do, have done what
is good in the sight of God, and NAV
prove q great blessing to you. For
what have these magnificent build
ings been reared, these extensive
grounds laid out and made beautiful
in the near presence of the mountains.
the ocean and the serene skies, all of
which have lessons of wisdom, of
goodness and of trust for YOU all.
Childhood is the beautiful spring
time of life. BOyhood opens a new
book with clean white leaves, on
which no dark lines of Wickedness
and of sorrow have yet been written.
To write the right words on these
blank pages is your opportunity. To
fill them well, you must learn how to
use your minds, your eyes, your
hands. Your school is to give YOU
the chance to work. You are to learn
that labor is something good to be
desired, to be sought, and not to be
summed. The idea held by some,
that labor is a curse-is strange de-
Iuslon-a lie, which Iaziness has in
vented. To work is the greatest of
blessings. The nobIest beings the
world has ever known have loved
work. God works. The universe is
his workshop. The heavens are the
work of his hands the planets and
the stars, the myriads of undying
lamps which send their lustre and
glory through the skies, are the result
of his infinite skill and effort. To
call labor an evil in and of itself is q
stupid blunder; it is worse-it is to
lmpugn and falsify Gods ways; it is
to call laziness q good thing, when it
is one of the meanest things in all the
universe. 1t is to say that Ioafing at
the street corners and lying on the
ground with animals, is better than
to be busy and useful in the shop, the
held, and the garden. To say that |
labor is something to be despised and
mated is to say that dirty, gin-loving
IOafer is better than to wear clean |
clothes on a clean body, and to have
good food in good home, owned by
tnose VINO earned 1T. Do you ask me
If it is not good for BOYS to rest some |
times ? If it does not make one hannv
to rest Yes. But to be tired so as
to best enjoy rest, one must first have
the sweetness of work. It is q most
beautiful arrangement which God has
made for his children on earth there
is a most delightful sweetness in
work, and there is sweetness in the
rest from WEAKNESS which work has
produced. Thus God has so adjusted
Things that boys and men can have
Doth sides of the orange, the apple
ana the banana, which their hands
have planted, reared and plucked.
In rounding this school, then, a great
ming was done for you, for it enables
you to learn to labor to the best adj
vantage. By training your heads and
hands to labor you can accomplish
better labor and more labor. In
savage life, in barbarian condition
IL things, when there were no good
schools, no skilled teachers; no finely
made tools and machinery, the bow
1r man could accomplish but little.
The amount which each could earn
vas very small, and that little was
)ften taken from him by another
stronger than he. His state of life
vas low and brutal. His enioyments
we're much like those of the animals
around him. Civilization has taught
nan how to work it has given to his
lead and hands skill, and greatly
increased power to produce and to earn.
t has given him good laws to protect t
Lm against outrage and wrong. It s
las given him good markets and good |
'rlces Tor his work. It has multiplied G
lis power for usefulness, his power to '
arm ana to save more than tenfold. c
mas given skill and power to make q
gardens, luxuriant fields. f
mining vineyards and orchards where a
efore were sterility, wild forests, and Fl
canning beasts of prey. It has trained t
he human brain and hand to rear fine d
uildings, to fashion delicate and q
oWerfuI machinery, to build splen- a
Id ships OF travel and of commerce, a
nd TO mould and fashion thousand d
tensils of art and usefulness, by Z
'hich men and nations are elevated T
what is good, beautiful and noble 81
mat OF the mechanism of railroads. a
Iegraphs, telephones and pbono- ii
'aphs, the wQnderous union of steel. G.
re, steam and electricity, which Il
Mites valleys, plains and rivers in M
11ng harmony, which crosses the ii
ountalns and passes under the al
cans, bringing distant nations so til
ar together that each can feel the of
Use, and hourly hear the voice of 10
e others, changing civilization and dc
'aVing a network of destiny on m
lose threads are thousands of cities in
d states, binding the continents in al
1t fraternity of goodwill and COM "a
IN interest unknown to former on
IS? 1t is labor which has wrought ar