The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-02-09
WORK FOR
STUDENTS
Best Results From
Their Careful
Habits.
Good Examples Which
Are Set Before
Youth.
How the College Y. NJ. c. A, At
f,cts Those Who Otherwise
Might Be Led Astray.

Students from the Kamehameha
Schools, Punahou College and Mills
Institute filled the hall of the Y. NJ
c. A, yesterday afternoon on the &C.
easion of the annual Students Day
service conducted by the Y. M. c. A,
when prayers were offered for the ad-
vancement of the work among stu
dents in every cline. A large delega-
ton from the Boys School of Kane
hameha was present, and an octette of
students of the Girls School sang sew
eral times during the exercises. Mills
Institute was represented by a score of
uniformed Chinese students.
A. B. Wood was the presiding Off
Ger, and on the platform with him
were Secretary Brown of the Y. NJ. G.
A, w. w. Bristol of Kamehameha, w.
A. Anderson of Oahu, J. M. Henry of
Mills Institute and Henry White of
Cambridge, Mass. Mr.. Wood announc-
ed during the meeting that general
secretary John r. Mott, travelling rep
resentative of the Students Federation
would be again in Honolulu on Febru-
airy %, on which occasion he hoped to
secure delegations of students from
all the schools to attend a meeting
to be addressed by Mr.. Mott.
The Kamehameha girls sang two Sc
lections and Henry White offered pray
er. He was followed by Mr.. Anderson
of Oahu, who spoke of the, creed of a
man who loved nature, the creed in
dicating his relations toward God and
man. The substance of his concluding
words were that so long as one is
in the right and fights for the right
he has the universe behind him.
Mr.. Henry, of Mills Institute, spoke
of the Chinese students. There were
two classes, those still learning the
ancient wisdom, the large majority of
Chinese still clinging to these old
educational beliefs. From these came
the officials and highest. men of all
types in the empire. The other class,
educated under Christian influences,
was pitifully small 1t was composed
of those studying western ways. 1t
was this class which is to bear the
burden of new China. They are to
be the future statesmen, educators and
philanthropists. China was destined
to have a great future and men of
modern educational ideas were needed
to develop it.
Mr.. Bristol spoke.of college students
in general and why they should be
Christians. Speaking of the college
club, he said he sometimes thought
it a menace to the morals of those
entering them. College life primari-
ly was to prepare the students moral
Iy and spiritually to begin life in
earnest. AS a personal safeguard the
student should be a Christian. Mr..
Bristol thought the college club
menace to the student if the reason
for his entering it was merely to rid
himself of the ordinary restraints of
the student boarding house and fami-
Iy life. There were many features OF
college club life of a lowering char
acter. In many of the clubs gambling,
drinking and various forms OF easy
going life existed, all of which is det-
to the students college course
and after life.
But the Y. NJ. c. A. work in the col
Ieges had placed a Christian exam
pie before the students and its infiu-
ence was for the best, and the speak
II was glad to say that students in coll
eyes were beginning to look upon |
rue Christian lives as the safeguard
or their future success.