The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-10-04
HAWAIIAN GAZETTE: FRIDAY, OCTOBER A. sEMiwEEKLY

and with charity for all have been
rtying in my humble way to get men to
respect this and their families. and their
country and their God. 1t Is true, /
have had great success, but l have had
great help. / haye done very little my
self. / am astonished myself at the won-
derful increase that God has given to me.
When you come to plant kernel of
corn and get three ears from IT, you
..now something of the generosity of
God So men with small gifts who con-
set rate their lives to a great purpose
will have great results-to themselves
most of all
"I.want to extend my grateful thanks
to the ministers of this city, and to the
public press, who have been unit in
the support Of this movement. l owe my
grateful thanks to the public press of
America. Everywhere it has been a
great help to me. You cannot do without
the public press 1t is great force. If
you have not the public press with you,
you will do a pile of work and obtain
| small results but with the help of the
press, you will succeed. l have recelv-
ad the most hearty help from the press
of Honolulu. and am truly grateful.
I'VE have got an organization here
they call it a Murphy organization.
That's great name, amt it? That's a
great name to put onto it. / hope God
will bless it. I am fully persuaded that
gospel temperance Is a success. The
men of this club have asked me the use
of my name to go with 1t, and / hope 1t
will not be stained by any misconduct on
their part. and l don't believe it will.
i have nothing but my name. / have the
distins uished honor of being a poor man,
after many opportunities to be rich. l
would sooner die than have a stain en-
my name. 1 can get long without any
! thing l have got except my name. My
wife and children think a great deal of
| 1t. / am sure that these gentlemen who
are banded together understand me and
know just what my hearts desire Is and
| will be careful of my name and use it
| to help them. When you make a bad
use of anything, you will set into trou-
BILE / want to say here that the most
generous men I have ever seen are in
| these Islands. ! have not seen their like
| anywhere else in the United States. 1t
| is for you to be grateful to these gener-
Gus men and women. l think this society
will get real generous support from these
Christians. You must Give an account
of the inoney you receive and what you
do with it. If you don't. you don't get
any more money. Nobody, hope, is go
| ing to collect money for their own use
| that won't do. We must have an ac-
| counting for every penny for this work,
and l hope and trust you will keep your
books correct and any time any one
wants to see your books, you can show
| them. That's where you are going to
succeed. This Is a lovely hall but some-
what expensive. Perhaps you ought to
get cheaper place. You must have
money for it. It's a case of don't get
married until you get cage We want
to be honest and true, every one of us.
"I have taken particular pains to as
sociate myself with these men, and find
them true and correct in all their deal
ings, and hope they will succeed and
carry forward this work, and perhaps l
will be back again | have been inspired
by the beauty of this city. l hope Mr..
Hartley will succeed. l thank Mr.. West
ervelt for his aid, and I hope Professor
Richards will be president of this asso-
citation. You will be great blessing to
these men here. They have had a hard
time. they, went through storn, but
we will let the dead past bury its dead,
and act for the present only The best
of business men are all delighted with
the work. The newspaper men have been
enthusiastic. I want to thank Mr.. Ma
kuina- You have been a great friend Of
ours and with the Hawaiians, and want
to thank all of them for the work they
have done for me.
God be with you until We meet again.
!. Now that We are to separate my heart
is sad because I shall not see these dear
friends again. God bless you all as they
have blessed me in this holy work"