Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1903-01-02
he heard in San Francisco and Wash.


uuent peroration on the grand destiny |
OF man. when science has achieved its |
fun development. As he sat down
there was prolonged burst Of APP |
Nlause from the audience.
The next speaker was Henry Z.
Highton. who spoke as follows;
This is no occasion for prophetic
statistics nor cold prose. The imagi. |
nation may soar TO its utmost limit
and yet the full measure Of the scene
will be untold The cable instruments,
silently recording the terse eloquence
OF n new era through the labors and
under the direction of strong. trained
and experienced men. in every depart
ment OF the enterprise from its incep-
ton. who are covered with the honors
of realized dream, closes one of the
finest stanzas in the epic of action.
Through the eternal harmonies, God
has again spoken to His creatures. The
invisible force. that is the nearest sym.
Dol of life. has once more struck the
note of universal brotherhood. and ev'
erywhere the human soul responds to
the electric appeal.
We have witnessed the New Birth of
the Hawaiian Islands. the beginning OF
transformation that will be immedi'
ately felt but that II may takes years
to perfect. The spectacle. however, Is
vastly more, for II includes the addi-
ton of a fertilizing element to organic.
ed society. Their line is gone out
through all the earth and their words
to the end of the world"
In 1858. in the City of San Francisco.
| witnessed the celebration over the
completion of the first Atlantic cable.
On the crowded streets, ] saw the
moving panorama that pictured, In its
successive phases, the triumphs Of d.
vine energy. rescuing mankind from
the thraldom. Of ignorance, torpidity
and vice. listened to the higher Ian.
guage of music as, in majestic an.
thems and with instrumental unison, II
lifted the multitudes towards the IDEAL
| heard the blended melody and power
OF a great orator-of that kindred
stock which duplicates our own con.
quests OF time and space-as he con
densed the feelings and ambitions OF
the hour into an incompatible aprre.
citation of the nineteenth century.
And now, after forty.four teeming
years. still higher and in more exquis.
tie strains does the paeon OF resurrect.
ed mankind arise, and nowhere more
grandly than from these Islands Of the
blessed, with their emerald setting and
their towering attitudes. which point
towards our final home.
For nineteen hundred years, the
message from Bethlehem has gradual
ly but surely electrified individuals.
communities, nations, races. With all
its gatherer and resistless force II now
repeats itself on these shores and a
new year finds us vitality Joined to the
throbbing breast of the highest civil.
zation. Under the deep and restless
sea that at once divides and connects
the aggressive West and the awakening
East. the slender wire has been placed
that unites us inseparably to thought.
to action. to aspiration, to all the fin
est elements of progress.
The cable means the extension Of
freedom, law. order, enterprise, intelli-
gence. II means the obliteration OF the
narrowness, the weakness, the person.
alities, OF provincialism. II means def
initeness. resolution, judgment. 1t
means the further promotion Of the
family of man. II means the welding
of discordant heterogeneousness into
peaceful unity II means cosmopoli.
tanism, broad, controlling, aspiring.
resting on settled principles and scat
tering TO the winds the plucked feath.
ers of pretentious nOnentity. II means
that spirituality will be extracted from
the right use of materialism.
As the scale of being rises, the world
grows better. In this era. at least, the
living century is always an improve.
ment upon the dead. Good and evil,
light and darkness, storm and calm, all
contrasts and opposites, are only con
ditions, through whose struggles and
conflicts, with many an apparent
man ceaselessly forces his way to-.
wards the shadowless future.
The commercial spirit has been un.
Justly derided. Commerce and frater.
nifty have ever walked together. They
are the landmarks of religion. They
bring to the masses, not alone the com
forts and even the Injuries that supply
their growing demands, but the glow
ing ideals OF which peace and love are
the ministers. They penetrate un
known lands and unknown seas. They
carry to the very centers of barbarism
or petrifaction the seeds Of growth and
, enlightenment. They spin and radiate
the cords that bind together human
breasts. The masters of trade, Of man
ufacture and of finance are the patrons
of art, of science of philosophy, of ed
, ucation and of morality. And industry
, represented by labor in all its aspects
aids in raising and identifying the
common level.
ntercommunication between mer
and communities is the solvent of mys
terry and of difficulty. 1t battles the
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