The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-06-20

speaker nor from any book of human
derivation, better advice than will be
given them by their good mothers and
by their native instincts of right and
wrong. This advice young women have
profited by in all times and lands; and
in such a way that wise men every
where say, as the ancient Saxons did,
In all grave matters we consult our
women
THE WORK AT HOME.
And now in taking leave of Oahu's
graduating class, many of whose mem
bers are going beyond the sea to study,
let me urge you who are to the manor
born, and you whose plain duty does
not call you elsewhere, to return and
give to Hawaii in coming years the
benefit of your ripened powers and your
useful aspirations. Hawaii needs you
and it calls with the same inportunate
voice that brought your fathers here.
There is still a civilizing work to do;
a wider one indeed than that of our ISL
and past. Your fathers came to the
heather of this one land; today the
heather are coming to you from many
lands. They are f1ocking here by thou
sands and when they go home they
carry with them the ideas of our civiliZ-
alton. Glimpses of great movements
here and there show what influence the
educated men and women of Hawaii
are having on the worlds work. We
have seen an Armstrong going from
these halls to uplift the negro; a Bing-
ham carrying the Gospel to the South
Seas; a Gulick planting good seed in
the soil of the inquisition; but there
is more even than this Hawaii has
had some part and may have more in
the uplifting of Japan. Young men of
Chinese blood, here in Honolulu, all of
them educated in our schools, are
among the pioneers of the reform move
ment which is today shaking the old
foundations of the Chinese Empire. We
stand in the midst of enquiring races
and are setting an example to them.
No Americans have a better chance or
a higher call than We to sow the seeds
of liberty and enlightenment, not only
among Polynesians who have gained so
much from the white mans harvest but
among races that are to have wide
spread harvests of their own. Come
back, young men and women from dis
tant studies and do your duty here.
Don't think the task too light or the
labor unrewarded or the stage of ac-
ton too small. The size of the stage
never yet gagged the worth of the play
nor the value of the actors. Even Ha
wall may yet hold the worlds gaze and
the worlds applause. Corsica had no
better chance; and this island group
of ours, standing as it does at the con-
verging pathways of a new commerce,
the center of an insular empire bound
ed by the Aleutian chain, the Philip
pines and American Samoa, with grow
ing trade empires on either side, may
yet be the theater of great events. Who
knows but the world will yet borrow
men of us? Those whom it calls for are
not often reared in the haunts of the
multitude. Somehow in the hidden
places of the earth God has seen fit to
look for his most potent instruments. 1t
was not in imperial Rome nor immor-
tai Athens that He sought the disciples
of His church, but in the lonely desert
spaces, beside the still waters, in the
huts of the fishermen. It was from
stable door in quiet Galilee, not from
the high altar of the temple of Jerusa
lem that a light streamed out over all
the world. The philosophers of earth
were never born in the suffocating al
leys of great cities, but close to nature
and to natures heart; the warrior and
law-giver who came out of Corsica was
a type. in the village obscurity
of his birth, of nearly all the worlds
conquerors; the statesmen of the ages
We're oftenest lads from the country
side; it was in a hamlet, not a capital,
where the Maid of Orleans heard the
consecrating voices; from an island like
this, came Josephine, the Mother of
Kings.