The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-04-29

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Mems Christian Association Joined il
an enthusiastic celebration of the thir.
ty-ffth birthday anniversary of the
founding of the organization at the
hail last evening. The room was
crowded with attentive listeners. the
younger members of the Y. N. G. A.
being out in numbers.
Prayer by Rev. c. L. Pearson opened
the program and a trio made up Of
Professor Marques. viola, c. s Desky,
flute. and w. A. Love. violin. COM
tributed a musical number Mr.. Brown
read his report as general secretary
and Miss Gertrude Hall contributed a
vocal solo which was heartily ap-
plauded.
PRESIDENTS REMARKS.
C. ]. Day, the president. told in a
few concise sentences OF the aims and
accomplishments Of the association
He dwelt particularly upon the efforts
being made in behalf of the young men
of the city. especially the juniors He
talked principally upon the develop
rnent of the mind. spirit and body.
speaking of the educational advantages
offered the boys.
MR.. HIGHToN's ADDRESS.
Hon. Henry E. Highton delivered the
address OF the evening and it was gem
erously applauded. Judge Highton
said:
Modern civilization, with its leaven
OF religion, ever fresh and active, is
stupendous development. Commerce,
which traverses every land and every
sea, is the freest agency humanity en-
ploys. But religion fn~ all Christian
ages has been its forerunner, and the
two powers are ever associated. The
apostles and disciples of Christ, scat
tered by persecution throughout the
world, as it was then known, carried
with them and taught those doctrines
of life that are at once the most ag-
gressive and the most peaceful. and
inspired man with the spirit of free
dom, through which alone political
liberty and commercial expansion be-
came possible. The progress of the
race vas at first tardy and spotted
But its channels were gradually dug.
out, cleared and intersected by it's
own force. The Twentieth Century
with its magnificent achievements, in
to which the residue of ali the work
of nineteen centuries has been poured,
and with its possibilities, transcendine
all that sage and prophet anticipated,
is the result.
AMERICAS PART.
The American continent has had, if
not the supreme, at least a great part,
in that uplifting of humanity, that
originated in the Incarnation, the
Cross, the Resurrection and the Ascen-
sion. Those students who commence
their historical labors, in tracing colo
NAL and national advancement, from
the settlement on James River in 1907,
have omitted an important factor.
From the re-discovery Of the American
continent to the first and rapidly fol-
lowing migrations, by the Anglo-Saxons
and their allied races, notwithstanding
wars Of conquest, expressions, greed,
and other multiform evidences of
prevalent evil, it was nevertheless
dedicated to Christianity, which had
drawn into its mighty current the
stream of Hebrew thought and produc-
ton, as the Mississippi drains the Mis-
souri, and rolls on calmly to the sea.
RELIGION ALL EMBRACING.
Religion in its broadest sense, en-
bracing all creeds and seets that ac-
knowledge the Personal God and the
Moral Law, Christianity, dating from
the august blending of God and Man.
in the Person of it's Founder, are the
influences that produced and explain
all the durable phenomena of modern
times, material, intellectual, moral and
spiritual. From this source We're de-
rived the two great powers of the
world, the United States and Great
Britain, which are now throwing their
moral weight into the Asiatic struggle
on the side that promises to open the
most ancient existing nations to en-
terprise, to light, to warmth and to
systematic movement, that will insure
far towards the realization of the most
ardent hopes of the thinkers, the mar
tyrs and the seers of the past.
So much. in few sentences, for NV
general subject, which, on this inspir-
ing thirty-ifth anniversary of the
Young Mems Christian Association of
Hawaii, must now be restricted within
narrower and even insular limits.
Y. NJ. c. AS BIRTH HERE.
Religion 1abors through agencies and
instrumentalities which, as mankind
advances on the road that leads to it's
ultimate destiny, are at once system
atized and multiplied. At the head
stands the church, the embodin1snt of
Christianity itself. in all its definite and
co-ordinattng forms. But the church,
thus comprehensiyely defined, has
many allies. recruited not only from its
own ranks. but steadily drawing in and
drilling for action new and strenuous
material. When on June 9Th. 1874. in
London. George Williams founded the
first Young Mems Christian Associa-