The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-04-20

Who has cast kingdom down:
He on ruined realms would tread
| Thou hast raised one from the dead !
Stands thy pyramid where ocean
| Sleeps within the tropic chimes,
| Where the tempests make cornmotion,
| Where the pillows wake their chimes,
| Shadowing the sultry zone
| In its wondrous tale-alonel
Wears the night-Earth's glory surely
| Like the murky stars will wane:
| Truth, the sunlight, shall securely
In meridian splendors reign.
When. forever, shadows flee,
Might my morning break with thee.
ADDRESS OF LoRRIN A. THURS.
TON.
|, Lorrin A. Thurston, Esq. a grand
son of Father Bingham's co-worker,
Rev. Asa Thurston, followed with an
address about missionary experiences.
Mr. Thurston spoke as follows:
Some men are remembered for what
they have said; others for what they
have done.
What Hiram Bingham said, has al
ready passed from the memory of all
but a few. What he did, will stand
as a monument to his memory as long
as old Rock Hill stands sentinel over
the scene of his work
The simple rock which we are today
defeating to his memory-a rock
gathered from the fields which he gave
to Punahou-is typical of the man
whom it commentaries and of the
other men and women who consecrat-
ed themselves to the service of God
and their fellow-men, in the days when
Hawaii was literally at the ends of
the earth; when the only means of
travel and communica ton were by the
chance whaler OR the tramp trader,
around Cape Horn; when mails came
but once or twice a year: when Homo
lulu was a treeleSs. waterleSs dusty
village of grass houses, inhabited by
breach-clouted savages who had never
seen a white woman and scarcely seen
a white man whose morals were not
worse than their own, if such a thing
were possible.
The ''luxuriant living of the mis-
sionarieS' which we hear sneeringly
referred to by investigators of a day,
was no figure of speech in the TWEEN
ties and thirties and forties in Hawaii
1t was a concrete fact. From $3.50 to
$500 was the annual allowance to feed
and clothe man, his wife and the
numerous babies who successfully en-
livened the home with delightful but
sometimes discouraging regularity.
Whole families of missionary chill
dren were raised On sweet potatoes
and goats milk. Flour was a tidbit
which generally had to be broken up
with hammer, and sifted to separate
it from live stock before it was used.
Beef was a rare dainty of the rugged
variety known to sailors as salt
horse" and the family sat in the yard
to avoid the fumes while it was being
cooked. Journeys We're made On foot
over rough and rocky foot trails for
no other roads existed. Voyages be-
tween the islands were made in canoes
Or sloops and schooners so small and
of such poor construction that it took
days and even weeks to get from one
island to the other; and these were SO
crowded with people, pigs and dogs
that there was scarce room to lie down
on deck. The cabins We're unspeaka-
Bile caverns, the home of crawling and
jumping and flying things, and black
ened with the fumes of bilge water
and rank tobacco. These are a few of
the high lights in the lives of the
early Hawaiian missionaries. Mean
while what We're they doing? They
were doing practically everything that
makes a difference between morality
and immortality: between savagery and
civilization; lawlessness and law; fg-
norance and knowledge; between pa
ganism and Christianity. They created
a moral standard among people who
had known no morals but their own
sensuous inclinations; they created
laws for the protection of private rights |
and property, where the unrestrained
will of the King and high chief had
been the only authority; they created
a written language, translated the
scriptures, published school books. |
laws, newspa pers; taught the people |
to read. to write, to build, to dress, to |
work; they preached and prayed and
taught and worked necessarily. and.
more effective than all, they lived their |
profession. They did not give money,
for they had no money to give; but ,
they gave themselves to the cause to
Wnlcn they had dedicated their lives.
indicative of this oneness of purpose
is the fact that when chief Boki, in
appreciation of the public services of
Hiram Bingham, gave him the land of
the latter instead of keeping
it for himself and his heirs, as he was
entitled to do. dedicated it, without
reserve. for all time. to the cause of
Christian education in Hawaii.
Greater love hath no man than this |
that he give his life for his friends"
saith the scripture.
Greater love than this had Hiram
for he gave his life for those
who were not his friends and his SUBJ
stance to those who We're unborn
1T is not enough to believe in God.
One must believe in man, in humanity
and its future says Charles Wagner.
Hiram Bingham believed in God. in
man and in humanity and he lived and
acted his beliefs.
We cannot do what he did Our
ways are not his ways, but the
journeys end remains in truth the
same"