The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-12-20
REV. OLESON' S
EARNEST
WORDS
Kamehameha Students
Hear Beloved
Principal.

a Impressive were the memorial SER
vices rendered last night in the beau
tiful chapel in the Kamehameha school
grounds, attended by large number
of the members of the Kamehameha
Alumni and Alumnae and their rela-
tives and friends, the building being
overcrowded with those eager to do
honor to the memory of the one to
whom the Hawaiian youths owe so
much, Bernice Pauahi Bishop. The in
decorated, wreathes of banyan. palm
and pepper twined with lima leis being
used artistically throughout the audi
torium, the platform being banked with
palms and potted plants.
Rev. w. B. Oleson, to whom the af-
fection of the older members Of the
graduate bodies goes out and whose
temperance among them has been the
cause OF such great pleasure, delivered
the address of the evening, his
straightforward advice and encourage
ment coming in simple and plain Eng
1ish making a deep impression upon
all who heard him. On the platform
with him were Principals Perley IL.
Horne, Miss Pope and Miss Knapp.
Harry Aud, president of the Alumni,
Mrs. Bowers, president of the Alumnae,
f. Faxon Bishop, w. o. Smith, Rev.
John L. Hopwood, Uldrick Thompson,
Theodore Richards and Rev. Moses
Nakuina.
The program of the services was as
follows:
Organ Prelude-onertoire in E minor
Opus ...-....---..-..- Deplantay
Miss Margaret E. Clarke.
Chorus-Pauahi Ike Alii...... Yarndley
The Kamehameha Schools.
Invocation ..........--...........
Rev. John L. Hopwood.
Responsibility, Holy, Holy Schubert
Choir Boys.
Scripture Reading ................-.-.
Mr.. Uldrick Thompson.
Anthem-The Recessional 49,. .Kipling
Kamehameha School for Girls.
Address ........-..............
Rev. William B. Oleson.
Anthem Sanctus ...,........-...G .Gounod
(From ST. Cecelia's Mass.)
Choir.
Prayer ..-...'
Mr.. Theodore Richards.
Response .............-.... Ilnuokdlanl
Choir Girls.
Hawaii Ponoi. oi..................... Berger
Congregation
BenedictiOn
Rev. Moses Nakuina.
Organ Postlude. .Horatio w. Parker
Miss Margaret E. Clarke.
WORDS OF SOUND ADVICE.
The address of Mr.. OIeson contained
much of sound, practical advice and
warning and was delivered in such a
way as to impress upon the hearts of
those among the attentive listeners
who best knew the speaker a realiza-
ton of the earnestness with which he
spoke. A portion of the address was:
The making of a livelihood, and the
making of a life-these are the great
objects of. education. Any training
that does not promote each of these
is partial and Incomplete; and the
training which most successfully ac-
complishes both of these ends is the
ideal and worthy one.
For while necessity compels the
making of a livelihood, the highest
considerations constrain to the maxi
ing of a life.
He who would eat must work. The
man who would keep a roof over his
head must be a producer. He must /
pay the price of honest effort for all /
he gets. The hive may have a mission /
for its drones, but society has no .
place for the loafer. The man who
does not earn his own living goes
surely to the wall. No man can live
under his own vine and fig tree, who
does not plant his fig tree and keep
his vine pruned.
This is a work-a-day world in which
we live. and every man who would
live in it, and not become stranded
like some human Manchuria on the
a personal share in some of the work
that must be done if men would eat
Iand live. But to have such a share in
the worlds work, opportunity must be
given to prepare for it, And this is
one of the great objects of education,
viz: to fit men to make a living. And
so the hand and the eye and the ear
are trained. So. too. the brain is given
careful discipline whereby it gains
grasp, and accuracy. and creative
power So. too. the training is varied
so as to hit the aptitude of the indi
vidual and to call out in himself
powers that he could not have discov-
cred unaided.
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