The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-06-21

the measures OF reform and to organize
the judiciary and other branches of the
Government.
l should have to begin at the begin
ming of the list and go on to the end
IL / mentioned the interest which these
departed ones had in the -"lfare of the
people. All over the Islands. Churches
are standing on the land given by them.
schools are on sites given to their
friends who came to teach them. Guild
ed and inspired by those teachers whom
they loved, and who loved them, every
where arose institutions designed to
uplift the people.
But there is need to specially mem
ton noble women. The Hawaiian wo-
man showed long ago her interest in the
peoples good and her courage when
called upon to act.
That was noble anc a courageous
deed of Kapiolani at Kilauea. There
were women such as kaahumanu who
greatly helped to bring her people to
larger knowledge, and so down to later
times. The Queens Hospital is mo-
nument of woman who loved the
people and who was loved and res
pected by all races-Queen Emma was
a noble woman judged by any standard
in any day.
And then as If to close the chapter,
when this line was dying out, Bernice
Pauahi Bishop decided the lands of the
long line of chiefs which had come to
her from many channels to be used for
the training of the sons and daughters
of Hawaii nei.
These tombs stand as monuments of
line of men and women devoted to
the welfare, the uplifting, the good,
of the people.
All honor be to those departed chiefs
The Pyramids mark the graves of
despots, Des Invalides marks the rest
ing place of a selfish Conqueror. But
these tombs on a far off Island mark
the burial places of men and women
who had true nobility for they had at
heart the welfare of the people, and
they gave that which they had in order
that the people might advance.
l know that these Islands are small,
but the deeds of these departed are
as great as if they had been done by
the monarchs and chiefs of the might
icSt ANdtioISs llley are great Ill tne
sight of God who measures the purpose
of the heart.
Then again though these Islands are
small. yet their position has made them
a center where problems of the deepest
import to the human race are being
worked out.
People do not yet understand the les
sons which are being taught here. At
no place in the world are men of so
diverse race and speech brought to-
gether in such close relationship, where
they live together on such terms of
mutual sympathy, and respect for the
good qualities of the other, and where
each and all have such common oppor-
tunites of education and advancement,
and where each in such a degree re-
cognizes the rights of the other. Here
the great solvent, the English Lam
ing the world language, opens to all
the magnificent fields of literature, |
science and commercial life, and in a |
measure induces common thought.
Here is set an example of the move |
ment which must come, when men will |
more and more cease to be narrowed |
in their sympathies by place of birth, |
Or by speech or race. Here in these |
Islands the East and the West meet |
and each learns of the other.
Great truths are usually brought out |
wildly in small areas. Here we are
teaching the world the lesson that man
must not despise man though he differs
m race and speech
In the details of changes such as
these Islands have seen, and which
many other nations saw during the
same period, in the Encouragement of
national lines, there must of a necessity |
arise to many a sense of loss and sor-
'ow, and in all human affairs greed and
self interest inseparably appear. But
)ut of it all there is the lesson that |
God has for us. He is over all. We are
out His great plan. We are
wise if we recognize it and have our
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