The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-06-25

the victors-who won the sue
cess of day?
The martyrs, or Nero9 The Spartans,
who fell at Thermopylae s tryst,
Or the Persians and Xerxes2 His
judges, or Socrates? PLATE, or
Christie
Alexander and Napoleon and Zenobia
and Elizabeth are remembered as great
( historic characters, but it is Leonidas
| with his little army at Thermopylae;
| the girl, Joan of Are, leading the
| armies of France against the invaders
of her country, who kindle our fires of
patriotism. 1t is Martin Luther, the
son of peasants, mailing up his theses
to the doors of the Schloss-Kirche at
Wittenberg, Burns singing his songs
of freedom and equality, who sway the
thought of today on questions of per-
sonal and intellectual liberty. 1t is
Florence Nightingale in Crimean hos
pitfalls, who has created the Red Cross
leagues of our times and inspires them
with the spirit of heroism and self
sacrifice.
This something that the world recog
nizes and welcomes with uplifted
hearts, that even the ignorant and
children understand and are moved by,
this willing, divine passion of self-giv
ing that transcends ability or talent or
&c II or oScnnfiof nm
of SUGGEST What are wealth, fame and
power worth if they fail of this,-this
touch with the heart of humanity, |
which fails not to accomplish some
thing worth while, which fails not to
help the world along2 Paul told of it |
in his eloquent letter to the Corin-
thians; he called it love and said that |
without it the greatest achievements
We're but sounding brass and tinkling |
cymbals. We may speak of it as hui
man hympathy or describe it in such |
other words as appeal to us. It has
been called the enthusiasm of hui |
mainly
This is what I refer to when | speak |
of the point of view from which a |
student looks forward to life.
So [ put to you the question, not |
what you are going to take up as your |
life work, but what is to be the i'm |
pelling object of your work. Whether |
that is profession, trade, business,
politics, the home, will you make it a |
means to an end and that end human |
progress? There is danger where this |
is not made thes paramount object of !
your efforts: for these various occupa
tions are so engrossing or so exciting, |
or so crowded with appeals to- one S |
pride and selfshness, that without the /
saving influence of such an incentive, |
one is apt. from habitually regarding I
himself as the one to be benefited, to |
come to regard himself as the most i'm
portant figure in his horizon, and so,
logically and without protest from
everything within his reach, within the
extreme letter of the law, as his legiti-
mate prey, and that the race is for the
man and not the man for the race.
Thus, the political boss appears and
monopolies and trusts grow and thrive
and the man descends to the class. as
old as history, of those who prosper at
the expense of others, and so, gradual
", becomes sordid, mischievous and
useless.
Some fail to choose the road leading
to the real success from heedIessness.
They have not walked up to life's pos
sibilities and have not taken the trou-
BILE to thinl- the matter out. They
have not deemed that opportunities of
benefting society were likely to be
within their reach in the humble path
that they expect perforce TO follow.
/ believe that to one who has the heart
to promote the progress of the race, OPP
are sure to come,-even 20
the humblest lives. To inspire single
to this crusade, is doing much,
more than can be measured. The
mother who arouses this enthusiasm IN
her children or the teacher in MS pu-
pills. is laying foundations OF infinite
possibilities of service to mankind
Even those who live lives of simple
good will toward their fellows, with
ont getting into ruhlic ~atiae through
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