The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-12-21

| Kamehameha Schools for boys and for
girls. which she has established and
so literally endowed, she has perpetu-
ated through all time the family name,
Iemblazoned by the radiance of her wise
| benefcence. In yonder Museum are
the relics of the dead past, with no
more inspiration in them than in the
coffined forms that lie in the masoleum
you visited this morning.
How different is the surroundings in
which we find ourselves today, amid
! this group of educational buildings of
fairest architectural designs, and the
rude huts of the Hawaiian people three
quarters of a century ago! Yet there
| are difficulties to be overcome now
| perils TO be faced; and ii was to help
you young Hawaiians to be masters of
the situation, to perpetuate the life IF
your people, that the granddaughter
! of kamehameha established these
schools.
! These are not asylums, where those
enfeebled by the decrepitude of age
may find a safe retreat from the storms
of life; though there are old retainers
of the family still dependent upon the
! bounty of their beloved Chiefess for
! food and shelter But her thought and
care embodied in these industrial and
normal schools, are to give you the
best help that can be secured to train
the hands and broaden the intellect,
TO give you the advantage of the whole
worlds resources in the conflict of life,
and not merely powder and ball for
| bloody strife.
! We commemorate fittingly today
Founders Birthday, the beginning OF
la life whose influence for good will
never end; not the day of her death,
as though with the passing breath
| passed away for ever the sweetness OF
| her beautiful life.
! In the little New England village adj
! joining the town where my grandfath-
| er spent his life as pastor of the one
church, there was an academy, such as
| in many towns in those days furnished
the youth with a higher education than
the little red school mousse provided.
In the changes of time LenOX Academy
| has long since disappeared But a
MOTTO which was written for one of
the classes by famous English actress
! (Fanny Kemble), who happened to be
visiting the town, has been quoted, and
| its inspiring words may well stir your
hearts as they have many another
| young students:
"A sacred burden is the life We bear
! Look on it; lift it; bear it steadfastly.
Fail not for sorrow; falter not for sin,
But onward, upward, till the goal ye
win.
Life is before you: will you waste it
or use it? There are many Hawaiians
who are attacked by sickness, and sue
cumb at once, weaken and die. There
lare many in all lands who, despite all
Influences for good thrown around
them, instead of growing stronger and
nobler, shrink away, as bearing
a never dying worm, or scOrched
in an ever consuming fire, in
to infinite nothingness for ever and
| forever more. Which will you do, sue
Icumb or overcome? Life was given us
for something else than waste and loss;
it is ours to use and to enjoy. And
remember, in taking your choice,
though everyone cannot build a monu-
men or found nation, to everyone
there is this promise of everlasting
honor and blessedness. Him that ov-
Iercometh will | make a pillar in the
temple of My God, and he shall go no
more out forever
I May you everyone ever remember
the wish for your good, expressed in the
last will of Bernice Pauahi Bishop, in
founding these schools, that here you
may be trained to be worthy men and
worthy women" May you everyone
overcome, and find place waiting for
you, and all worthy souls in the heav-
emily city, where entereth naught that
defeth. no disease, no decay; only that
eternal blessedness for which we have
no other name than glory.
At the close of the exercises in the
gymnasium, Rev. o. p. Emerson Of
ffered prayer, then the teachers, schoI-
airs. alumni and invited guests adj
Ijourned to the dining hall, where a
Icollation of various appetizing viands
was served TO tables filed to overflow
ling. Songs, such as only Kamehameha
scholars can sing, closed the days fes-
tivities.