The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-06-21

changed all that until Dennis Kearney.
the Messiah of celestial hate, came. San
Franciscans crowned him Lord of all
and our national politicians ever since
have danced obediently to their corona
ton anthem. But this viii change some
day and we must be ready for the new
era of fair dealing with China We
have splendid body of Ch sstian men
and women in our six Chinese churches.
Go among them. learn of their generosi-
~. see what staunch true disciples they
make and then thank God that you are
helping on such a glorious endeavor.
One day the Lihue meeting spent the
whole time listening 10 the oratorio
Our Christian Schools Our Crown of
Glory Mrs. Nakuina was the prima
donna, carrying off first honors while
Kawaiahao's faithful, efficient and
splendidly successful Principal Nc
Leod took the leading contralto part.
Perhaps you don't know that Mr.. c. r.
Bishop promised her $500 for this noble
institution if she could raise an equal
amount on the islands, l hear she has
already turned the half mile post in her
race for this purse. Cheer her on. It
would have done you good to listen to
Rev. Hans Isenberg's applause at this
part of the program. 1t took the form
of privately spoken tribute TO the
fine record for womanhood made by
Kawaiahao graduates on the Garden
Island. We hear so frequently of dis
appointments in our CHRISTIAN Educa-
tional work that it does our hearts good
to know of the brave battles for clean
living that some of these girls are put
ing up. Pray God that your daughters
may never have to face the temptations
that these graduates meet in the coun-
try parts of this territory. There is no
time to tell of Vice-Principal MerriIls
part that memorable Friday. 1t is
enough to say that you will find the
libretto with the scores of these three
soloists given in full in the July Friend.
But they and all the others who added
their music to the full chorus filled ev-
cry heart with the determination in fu-
ture to stand by these Christian schools
with greater loyalty than ever. Take
out of the history of the American ma
ton the men and the women trained in
Christian colleges and academies and
what would you have left? Look you
Roosevelt, Hay, Root and Taft. Where
! will you match that quartet? All pro-
ducts of Christian education! Come
down to the three Justices of our Ter
ritorial Supreme Court appointed last
week by President Roosevelt. Every
one trained in a Christian collegei
Born of love, nurtureG in self-sacrifice,
child of the prayers of unnumbered
sanity soils, of the generosity of a
myriad given for conscience sake, of the
devotion of scholars whose high learn
ing was lavished not for pay but pro
Christie, these alma matters of America
have been loved as true foster mothers
by tens of thousands of the only aris-
tocracy our land knows-those whose
noble blood is proved by faithful service
in behalf of the common human
brotherhood. We want such institu-
tions in Hawaii. Nay, we have them
at Hilo Honomu, Kohala, Makawao,
Honolulu. To make them what they
, should be is to give the guarantee that
the institutions which have made our
| nation great shall stand imperishable
in these isles of God.
Finally Lihue bid us never forget
that we are sons of the Puritans. Let
us be faithful to our heritage, to the
undying principles of truth which built
the Puritan character. The man we
call Puritan stood for the everlastingIy
pure. Naturally he and his message
must change with the age. Viewed
may but family resemble those to whom
John Cotton, Hooker and the Mathers
preached. But like his rock-like ances- |
tor he stands as adamant for the Pure
Home. He knows no compromise with
lax law that would put asunder those |
whom God hath joined together. He |
will fight to the death of a constitu- |
tional amendment polygamy that !
masks under the name of religion. In |
civfcs his ideal is the Pure State free |
from all ecclesiastical ENHANCEMENT, |
with like opportunity for all and spe-
cial favors for none, where graft or |
greed can buy no privilege, where poor
and rich meet equal justice, where
every man is king and only the public
servant wins approval. Whatever /
menaces the integrity of that State
be it selfish wealth bent on its own IN
crease cost what it may in the debauch |
of legislatures or in the violation of !
the rights of competitors, or be 1t sell
fish labor that would set limit to skill j
or fetter any workingman's liberty; be
If the Saloon League with its hellish |
appetite for the boyhood of America, or
be it the gambling fraternity able to !
bend-to it's base uses the greatest |
nublic franchise in the country-an, all ;
such menaces like Carthage to Cato, |
must be destroyed, that the Union may !
live in purity and power. And last OF |
all he knows no other Church than
the Pure Church, minus pope and priest
and royal prerogative, where man in ms
regnant individuality walks hand IN
Gods Hand with none to intervene
where One is Master, even the Christ
and all the others brothers, the Church
whose only sacrament is service, whose
on1v law is love, whose only creed is
God the Father in the midst of His hu-
man family with Jesus the only Be
gotten Son as Elder Brother. Such IS
the Puritan of the twentieth CEN
fury, lineal descendant of the day or
Old Ironsides. The voice of Lihue's as
sembly is, Be true to your bloodrgnt
and let not the ideals of the Puritan
perish from the soil of Hawaii where
they were planted nearly eighty years