The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-05-28
COUSINS MEETING
Celebrating FOrty-Fifth AlniVGr-
SaTy Of Organization.
ROLL CALL BY REV. 0. H. GULIGk
"Woodlawn," the Meeting
Place.
Interesting Papers BY Cousins
Frank Damon Would Tear
Down Fences.

The lawn party of the Hawaiian
Mission Children's Society was held
yesterday afternoon on the lawn of the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. B. F. Dilling-
ham, Punahou. A tent for the accom-
modations of the Cousins was ar
a couple of hundred chairs, nearly all
of which were filed. Besides the dec
Grafton in palms and ferns, a Hawai-
ian flag and some pennants were hung
in front Rev. o. H. Gulick presided.
The afternoons program opened
with a reception social, followed by the
hymn, "Blest be the Tie That Binds"
Then came a prayer by Rev. D. P. Biz
ME, after which Mrs. Taylor, Mrs. Dill
bingham and Rev. S. e. Bishop read
papers.
The most interesting part of the aft
ernoon's program was the roll-call,
read by Rev. o. H. Gulick and Miss
Matte Chamberlain. After the read
ing of the history of the first arrival of
the various missionary families and
their descendants, the members of
each were asked to rise. The Judd
family showed the greatest number of
representatives present Then there
were the Castles, Damons, Rices, Ath-
ertons, WilcoXs and other families that
made good showings.
This interesting proceeding fin
ished, Mr. F. w. Damon read the fol-
lowing paper before the Cousins:
1t has fallen to my lot this after
noon to say a few words relative to
the future of this most interesting and
beneficient organization, whose forty
fifth anniversary we are met to cele-
brate Until brought face to face with
this subject had scarcely realized the
difficulty and delicacy of the under
taking, and at the very outset, I feel
that l should ask your kindly charity
for having attempted that which
might more fittingly have been hand
led by others. 1t is possible, too, that
the present occasion was not the most
suspicious for the presentation of any
theme suggestive of the future, which
is the sphere of the yet unattained,
the doubtful and the uncertain.
This to some, may seem time bet
ter adapted for Renaissance for
chanting paeanS over the past" for
looking backward, rather than for
ward. And while this is largely true
of an occasion like the present, still,
it may not be wholly out of place to
ask, what of the union?" After all,
can we, have we the right to separate
wholly the past from the future? In
all true growth that which has been
should be a step on which to rise to
higher things" A successful achieve
ment is itself a clarion call to contin-
ued effort We truly attain only as
we presevere.
That this is an epoch of change and
reconstruction in an island life, none
will deny. The old is being pressed and
iostled by the new We have to adapt
ourselves to a new order in many diff
ferent departments of life. This or
ganization is feeling the gradual with
drawal of earlier conditions and the
pressure of new rising tides of inf1u~
ence. The period which produced it is
an increasingly remote one. Those who
first loved it and Graded it's earliest
DAYS are now crowned with the silver
of advancing age. The generation
which has come since then onto it's
stage of active life, is itself no longer
youthful. While those who are to
clasp hands with the future are widely
removed in many ways from the pc
riod which furnished its inception.
Hence. there are not a few. and these
its best and most loyal friends, who
are asking. What is to be the future of
this society? Some may possibly find
fault with this question believing that
the splendid impetus of the past, to-
gether with it's still rigorous life, will
enable it to run along it's already es-