Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1905-03-03
TALK ON WASHINGTON
PRESIDENT HORNE'S
PATRIOTIC ADD ESS
A GUIDING LIGHT IN DARKEST
HouRs-scENE TOWARD END
OF PUBLIC LtFE-WAs A
STURDY LIFE.

. rOiiVWinB Is freSluent Herl0y
Horne's address on Washington deliv-
cred in Central Union Church Sunday
evening:
No one can listen to the national
songs we have sung tonight without
being thrilled through and through
with the spirit Of patriotism that gave
them birth. We realize more what our
nation means to us, what II has done
for the world. Especially is this true
when we turn our thoughts in this
month Of February which marks the
anniversary Of the birth Of two Of
Americas greatest sons, Washington
and Lincoln. II is Of the former that
I wish to talk very briefly tonight, to
give a few pictures Of his life.
Perhaps by contrast can best bring
him before you. In 174s the two great
nations, England and France, decided
to be at peace At the Congress of
Aix-la- Chapelle there gathered that
year some Of the most able and noted
OF the worlds diplomats. They were
surrounded by the jump and show Of
European magnifcence. In the splen-
did form Of monarchical diplomacy.
they drew up their treaty which was
to settle for all time the destinies OF
their colonial possessions in the new
world.
In this same year the woods OF vir-
ginia sheltered the young George
Washington a fatherless boy OF six
teen, devoting his life and his service
tc the support Of his widowed mother.
Few were the years Of his schooling.
No school or academy claimed him as
q member, no college honored him
with its degree. He had learned to
read. to write. and to cipher. and most
OF all he studied the great book of
nature. With his compass and chain,
he wandered over the Alleghenies. and
along the banks of the Shenandoah,
enduring untold hardships, strengthen.
ing body and mind by unremitting
daily toll. He lived the life OF a
strong, vigorous. active boy. and de-
veloped into sturdy manhood. How
great was the contrast between this
son Of the forest and the trained states.
men Of that Congress of Aix-la-C Cha.
pelle. Yet God in his infinite wisdom
did not choose one OF them. He passed
by monarchs and princes of the great
House OF Hanover and OF Hopsburg.
and to find the leader who more than
any other one man should shape the
destinies OF the new world, He chose
the Virginian boy and entrusted the
future Of another million to the wi
dow's son.
Washington passed his young man.
hood in his virginian home. slowly de-
veloping his great character. Honesty
was his watchword.
Men trusted George Washington. So
when the distant mutterings Of com.
Ing trouble grew nearer and nearer.
he was chosen to help fight the bat.
and on the field. When the final call
to arms rang through the colonies.
Washington FASTENED north and there
John Adams proclaimed that the armies
must be led by one man, and George
Washington became the commander.
in-chief Of the Continental troops.
And what company met his view
that July day in l775 as he stood un.
der the historic elm in Old Cam
bridge and looked over the ranks OF
those who were to help fight nation
hitherto unbeaten, untrameled, un'
kempt, poorly armed without provi-
sion, without hope OF continued pay
and with the knowledge that II they
lost they would be known as traitors
to their king and their leaders would
be hung as outlaws. Yet the great
commander never fiinched. All through
the trying days and glow Of that Ions
war, his courage. his indOmitable will
his abiding belief In God, his convic'
ton that he was In the right, carried
the war through to successful end
In the darkest hours Of the war, wher
II seemed as though the end mus
come, Washington, In spite of the win
ter's cold. inspite of the distress o
his troops and the opposition aroused
| against MIN, caTTleu On tue WAT, ant
by two mastery strokes, won the de
cisive victories of Trenton and Prince
ton, sent aid to Gates that made Sara
toga possible, and by so doing won tn
French alliance. In the darkest day
OF the war, the genius OF the com
mander-in-chief shows out clearl,
and strongly, and practically unsup
ported he carried on an offensive war
fare against a hitherto victorious army
But these busy scenes OF the wa
are well known, and the part OF tn
commander has been told again an
again In prose and in song. The wa
ended, Washington resigned his CON
mand and went to his quiet home. Blu
l; could not be to stay. Great pre-
biems were coming up day by da!
Thirteen independent republics wer
held together by the weak bond Of tn
Confederation.
A common danger had united then
but that bond of union was now gon
No captral authority waa left 10,