Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1895-07-22
hULD SCOTIA.
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messed has been made by her on
the margin of bleak bay on
what was then a bleak part Of
Scotland. There were assembled
nearly two hundred years ago
band of bloody men, the tools Of
still fercer prosecutors. These
men had fastened two women TO
stakes, to die for their religious
convictions, and the stakes were
fixed in such a position that the
following tide would slowly en-
gulph them. One of them was
aged, the other youthful, and in
the hope of shaking the oonstancy
Of the girl, her companion was
placed nearest the ocean that she
might die first under the eyes of
the other sufferer. That girls
only crime was refusing to let
them dictate to her conscience
garding Him whom she honored
as her Redeemer; and was she
shaken in her purpose, either by
the death of her fellow sufferer or
by the surge threatening to suffo-
cate herself did she blanch before
either her murderers OF the sea
Nay, the heroine held fast by her
heroism, and though rescued when
half drowned aud unconscious in
the cruel hope that she m ght
then recant, she resolutely
refused.
am afraid l have trespassed
on your time. 1 must just ask
you to recall for moment or two
the field of battle. We have our
Sir John Moore at Corunna, Sir
Ralph Abercrombie onAfric' s burn
ing sands, Sir Archibald Alison,
and Sir Colin Campbell. When
Sir Colin Campbell was asked
when commanding the i'm
mortal Thin Red Line" why
he didn't form four deep, be re-
joined, 81 did not see any neces-
sity for changing my Highlanders
from two deep to four deep to
withstand the charge of sucn
Muscovites as these" And Just
cross with me the North Sea to
where Gustavus Adolphus, with
his sturdy Swedes, was waging
war, and find how sternly our
countrymen carried on the contest
IN company with the Swedes to
an ultimate success. When
Wallenstein at the siege Of Salz-
burg had sworn that he would
take that fortress though itshould
be chained to heaven, the canny
Aud Scot, Arbuthnot, who was in
charge of the defense, reminded
Wallenstein that he forgot to ask
God to help him, and here,
Brither Scots, has been the back
bone of everything Scottish, this
firm conviction of God and the
Truth being realities and that
progress has been generally
reached by antngonisms.
And now here for our Sir James
Y. Simpson, SIR Morrell Mac
Kenzie, Hunters and Sir Andrew
Clark; our Sir David Wilk o,
jameson the Scottish Vaudyche,
Ralburn aud Spanish" Philip.
| do not wish to give you cata-
logue Of names, but what Scots.
man can forget Norman Macleod,
Thomas Guthrie or Chalmers, Oh
when crossing the saut, saut sea
what visions are recalled of old
sea dogs like Admiral Duncan Of
Camperdown or Lord Dundonald,
Aud now, Scottish Thistles, in
case | may weary yon, | may con,
clnde my remarks on our beloved
home by quoting verse or two OF
Professor Blackie's Song of Father.
| land:
''Oh for the laud that bore me,
oh for the stout old land,
With mighty Ben and winding Glen
And roaring flood and sounding strand,
"0h for the land that bore me,
| Oh for the stout old land,
| With breezy Ben, aud winding Glen
Dear Scottish land, my native land"