The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-10-01

personal purity OF character and ale,
and the watchful care over the interests
Of the nation.
One of the prominent newspapers Of
the South. in thought similar to that Of
Mr.. Parker. pays like gracious tribute TO
the man from the North who so won the
appreciation and affection OF the South
ern people that a royal welcome attended
his journey in the excited times shortly
before last electoral contest.
The Nashville CTenn.) American gives
expression to the general feeling of the
South In these words:
President Mckinley was selected as
the object of this mad unrea soning at
tack because he was the recognized head
of the government. and not because of
any objection to him as a man. A more
gracious and winsome personality never
occupied the high office of chief executive
of this great nation. An upright man of
the highest moral character, modest
Christian gentleman and a true Ameri-
can patriot. he commands the esteem of
all the people, regardless of section or
party. There is less of partisan and
sectional spirit in him than in any occu-
pant of the White House since the war.
No man has ever made a more earnest,
honest effort to be president of the whole
people. No president has ever had a
sweeter. more even temper, or a greater
power to win and hold friends. He has
shown himself a much ADLER man than
even the leaders of his party gave him
credit for being. Since his advent to the
presidency he has constantly grown and
broadened.
Another most striking tribute, because
most concise and most complete, comes
from Bishop Andrews when standing by
the bier of his almost life long friend
The old man was too true to himself as
one soon to close his own life and stand
before the God of truth, to utter merely
complimentary phrases. He cared sim
ply to bring to the people of America the
characteristics which had made most i'm
preston upon his own mind. The three
strong elements of chaacter he empha-
sized are in our thoughts today:
1.-The late presidents "incorruptible
personal and political integrity"
Integrity is one of the necessary ele-
ments in thoroughly successful politi-
cal life in the present time. Our Hawaii
an young people, and our Chinese and
Japanese young people, represented by
their consuls. present here today, as well
as our blood-born Americans, must learn
the lesson that one of the most necessary
qualities for them to cultivate Is ''incor-
ruptible personal and political integrity"
They are growing into citizenship in this
republic of which we haye so recently
become a part.
They desire to have some important
place in the affairs of state sometime
during the coming days. 1t is absolutely
necessary for them to learn the truth
that there can be no great and success
ful political future in the United States
without "incorruptible personal and po-
litcal integrity"
J,, ha al A.,
drews emphasized Presidents Mckinley s
great and generous love for his fellow
men,"
| (O Great stress was laid upon the
strong faith of President Mckinley that
the courses of this world are being or
dered by Divine Providence, in accord
ance with the principles of everlasting
! Righteousness"
| 1t Is from the ranks of such men, in
corruptible, loving, broad-minded in theil
appreciation of temporal and eternal af
fairs, that martyrs are chosen. Mer
without character, or the strong prin
ciples which make character. are no
called upon to be martyrs. When a mar
of noble personality and exalted charac
ter suffers as an exponent of certain
principles of truth, he becomes a mar
tyr, whether in or out of church.
| In former days 1t was said, the BLOOD
of the martyrs was the seed of the
church" This is an inadequate state
ment, because men have been assassinat
ed whose deaths We're utterly unreascn n
able, save to impress some glorious tr II
upon the minds of men-a truth which
otherwise it had been difficult to max,
the great world learn.
Rather should it be said the drops OF
blood of the martyrs have been the seed.
| for the growth of the Kingdom OF
Truth" The kingdom of truth means q
great deal outside of the so-ca' leo
church. 1t is the same as the Kingdom
of Christ in its truest sense.
When John HuEs, one of the martyrs
for the growing perception of truth, was
) on trial, he dreamed that an image OF
Christ which he had painted had been
obliterated. 1t seemed to nm as If the
liberty of free faith, free thought, free
speech and the resultant development ol
truth, as represented in Jesus Christ
was about to be. destroyed. But there
cane to him in later nights a seconC
Wis on, n which he saw a multitude Of
artists paint the images of Christ in vas
numbers upon the hearts of men. II,
passed TO his death in full faith that lib
erty of personal loyalty to truth woult
finally win the victory among men.
The Kingdom of Christ stood first of al
for the momentous fact of sin and 1t.
forgiveness. That this truth might bt
learned men were burned as torches b!
Nero to make light for the city of Rom,
and maItyrdom aided the first truths o.
the new religion to gain supremacy oyel
the great Roman empire.
But the Kingdom of Truth. which l:
the Kingdom of Christ, stands also fol
that for which John Huss died. Free
thought and free speech, for the growth