The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-04-20
REV. HIRAM BINGHAM, SON, OF THE PIONEER
MISSIONARY.

home sweet home. where the precious
mother cherished her little ones.
! Backward, turn backward O Time. in
| your fight,
Make me a child again just for tonight.
Mother, come back from the echoless
| shore,
Take me again to your heart as of
| yore.'
Teach me again, as once you did, on
! Sociate them with the name of the
Jesus. Point out to me again the lilies
, of the valley growing by the side of
this cottage, and lead me again to as
sociate them with the name of the
meek and lowly Teacher who declared
himself to be the Rose of Sharon and
the Lily of the Valley
Mother, dear mother! the years have
! been long
Since 1 last hushed to your lullaby
song;
Come from the silence so long and so
deep;
Rock me to sleep, mother, rock me to
Sleep
| 1t was never my privilege to be a
pupil at the Punahou Mission School
| but can we'll remember how in sum-
mer days, when the heat was great and
we We're wont, for change, to dwell
in the humble cottage which stood here
an older sister and myself used to
start out on foot to cross the dusty
and arid plain two miles to Kawaia-
hao to attend the little mission school
held in Dr.. Judd's back yard, the germ
of this college. Memory goes back
sixty-siX years to the delights of this
refreshing spot, where, after the long
weary walks of the day, 1 was wont to
meet a mothers welcome and to re-
fresh myself, not in this magnificent
bathing tank so near at hand, but in
an artificial pond originally construct
ed by my father for purposes of irriga-
ton. but since then used by many
generations of students as place for
bathing. It was just over there, only
few rods away and fed from the same
spring as the bathing tank of today.
Il remember with what delight used to
paddle about in my boat. only box,
in a fresh pond close to the spring. I
remember how L was wont to stroll in
the cool shady spots so romantic to
me in childhood among the banana
trees which grew by the side of the
taro patches; how in this cottage We
children eagerly listened to the reading
of 1.-The Rollo Books when they first
appeared, and how we rejoiced over the
toys as one by one they were taken
from the box just arrived from around
Cape Horn. Finally, I remember how,
in a neighboring shady grove, just
few yards makai of this cottage, not
long before we went forth from it (was
it prophetic?), 1 tried to sing with my
sister the anthem Daughter of Zion,
awake from thy Sadness which we
had heard sung by the choir in the old
Bethel on King street.
Those We're happy days. but they are
forever gone. I would not have them
back. It is enough for me, full enough
that I have the memory of them; that
in my old age I hear the merry voices
of the rising student generations as
after school hours of faithful study
they gleefully roam this campus, seek
ing rest and recreation: and so long
as their motto virtually is. "One is
your Master. even the Christ my
heart will to the last, beat with joy at
the remembrance of the gift of my
father and the continued prosperity of
Oahu College.
In your walks through these shady
avenues. kind friends. will you not
once and again linger a moment here
to reread this inscription (Which now
unvefD and call to mind the labors Of
love which my dear father put forth
in this city for the redemption of Ha-
wall and his parting gift. Punahou?
THE TABLET UNVEILED,
At the conclusion of DR.. Bfngham's |
q ddress he stepped to the fag-covered |
tablet and united the cord holding the
flags in place By system Of pulleys |
and cords the two ensigns. American
and Hawaiian together with two flags
in the Punahou colors which foated |
at the sides of the stone were lifted
from the monument and flung TO the
breeze high in the air. The whole au-
dience rose during the ceremony. I'm
mediately after, the stone was dedi-
Gated by Mrs. Lydia 3. Coan and
Misses May Kluegel, Claire Kelley.
Margaret c. Thurston. Jane L. Whine,
Catharine ". Goodale and Helen Alex
ander. all descendants of the mission
aries in the Pioneer company. The
ca-amony consisted of garIandiup the