The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-02-19
ON
WASHINGTON
BY Principal Horne at
Central Union
Church.

! Central Union church was crowded
| to the doors last night at the Patriotic
| Service, at which an eloquent address
was delivered by Principal Horne OF
| Kamehameha Schools, his theme being
George Washington
tended the service in a body, the girl
students singing an anthem, ITO Thee
| o County" while special music by
the choir was rendered.
Principal Horne. in opening his ad-
dress, said that he could have no more
inspiring theme than George Wash
Time would not permit his giving the
details of the long life of service. but
he would picture some of the incidents.
leaving these TO show their own lesson
George Washingtons youth foreshad-
owed his greatness. In youth, filled
with fire and impetuosity, a strong
healthy. vigorous nature in later years
with the same impetuosity tempered
and toned by the mature judgment of
a man. IN youth he loved the singing
of the bullets; in later years the sound
of the husbandman at work was the
sweetest music III his ears.
Only q common education was allow
ed him, the privilege of college and
university training being denied. His
duty to his widowed mother induced
him to refuse a naval appointment,
this refusal resulting i'll the changing
of the worlds history. AS a youth OF
sixteen he became a surveyor, with
the hardships of that profession on the
frontier, working in trackless forests
and among hostile savages. Sent on
dangerous mission when q years old,
he proved his mettle by attempting
the passage of the ice-choked AL
river, encouraging and sus-
tanning his comrades through the dan
ger.
Stepping into the breach as aide to
General Braddock some years later, he
st emmed the advance of the Indian al
lies of the French and turned the dis
grace of a rout into seemly retreat
at the battle of Fort Duquesne. Even
in the greater battles of the Revolu-
ton his military genius never shone to
greater advantage than it did then.
When the necessity for Lexington
and Bunker Hill came, the great Mas
sachusetts statesman, John Adams. led
he call for George Washington to
lead the patriots. None was his equal
and none disputed the call. Criticism
came that the British troops were not
u once driven from Boston. but the |
cool judgment of Washington held him |
ach until the proper time to strike. |
When the cause seemed lost, his army |
iwindled to six thousand men and de-
;erters answering to the promised par
ions of Lord Howe. he kept up heart, |
md when his position seemed hope |
ess struck the blow that made pos
'ible the French alliance and won the
iberty stubbornly denied.
Peace brought the responsibility as
veil as the glory of serving as the first |
President. There were times when the
epublic seemed doomed to fall to |
,ieces, but the personality of the Pres
dent and the final signing of the Con-
tituti0n, which none did more to bring
bout than Washington, knit the coun-
ry into a whole and saved the situa-
ion E'~a
The verdict of history, looking back
Ipon the life and actions of the great |
older. statesman and man, is almost |
unanimously in favor Of all his actions. |
n all ways he was a type of what
5 truest and noblest in man and his |,
fe can not be studied too freely nor
'ithout profit. L
At the conclusion of the address the ;
congregation joined in singing the Ha-
allan and National Anthems.