The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-12-20
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For they nelp out SoulH 10 Iiiiu tlASiii-
selves-to discover. their aptitudes, and
their opportunities, and their resources
for the necessary task of earning
living. They must do that; they ought
to be helped to do 1t to the best ~ad-
vantage.
Now, Kamehameha prominently
stands for just that sort of an educa-
ton. For twenty years our youth have
here had a training that has justified
itself in the results Work has been
treated as an honorable and necessary
thing. Self-mastery in workshop and
classroom has been the constant goal.
Constantly widening opportunities have
been afforded here for the develop
ment of individual aptitude, and that
always in the direction of ability to
earn a living. And this training has
not been in vain. There are men and
wonnen all over these islands today
who are living Industrious and useful
lives for which they gained the incen-
tive and preparation here.
In this particular, Kamehameha has
wrought a great service already. we
may we'll believe that in the years
that are ahead it wiz render SER
vice no less valuable in the making Of
Industrious men and women.
But this is not it's greatest service.
There is something higher and better
than the making of livelihood, and
that something is the making of
life.
II desire to provide a good educa-
ton in such useful knowledge
as may tend to make good and indus
trious men and women"
This was the supreme wish of the
munificent benefactress whose menu
ory we honor today. To her, honest
Industry and genuine goodness const1-
tuted the sufficient crown of all true
manhood and womanhood. And her
conviction has been written large in
the purposes of these schools. They
seek primarily and chiefly to endow
every young man and woman who goes
forth from them into the worlds work
with the ability and the purpose to
earn an honest living and to lead
a good life. And every recurring
Founders Day ought to be sum-
mons to every man and woman who
has had any share in the privileges of
these schools to a renewed Industry
and a redoubled endeavor to lead a
worthy life.
IT must be said right here that dis
couragement because of failure to be
what we intended to be should never
he allowed to unseat the will. 1t is
not so much of disgrace 20 ran, as II
Is to refuse to rise after one mas faiien.
Every man, if he will, can get up
after he has got down. Because ne
is down. ne does not need TO stay
down. Many man, having started
out right in life, has been overtaken
in an evil moment and has dishonoreo
his training and dishonored himself.
But many a man, too, finding himself
thus overwhelmed in an evil course
has risen up in the assertion or MS
better self, saying: Il have falIen, ou'
I will not stay fallen. l can rise again
| and I will Out of this shame and
dishonor, God helping me. 1 Will Dc
again what / ought to be"
A statue of the ideal man may DC
ruined by slip of the sculptor
| chiseI. Not so with the real man, fol
no life is ruined life except to hin
who is willing 1T should be so.
| II is hard for man to recover him
self hut every man can If he will. He
ought not to allow his sense of dis
grace to discourage him from begin
| ming once more to struggle to live
| worthy life. He ought not to feal
other men or be kept back by wha'
| thew NAV say or think. 1t is possible
| for him by a brave return to duty u
compel the respect and the friendship
| of all worthy men.
Tt would be a strange thing indeed
If In all these twenty years some ka
| mehameha men and women had no
| gone astray. But it would be
| stranger thing yet If they should fai
on this memorable occasion to sens'
anew their duty and to resolve to NEE
it again.
Defeat and overthrow are contrar!
! To the spirit of Kamehameha. WEI
do remember how the old Kameha
mehas. coming back from signal ans
: disheartening defeat on the MaKlK
backgrounds. set to work the mex
week. in their practise, with oulido'
purpose and a hopeful confidence
retrieve their defeat by victory. An
| the old bat tells the story of thei
success.
mNever strike sail TO a fear" say
Emerson. The pirate Failure ca
never come aboard if you trim you
sails to the breezes God surely SEND
to the man who tries to help himsel
You need not be slave to an eV
course. You are one of Gods IRE
, men if you only choose to be. 70
can be the master of things, and tn
| master of self as well.
Somehow, I feel that we are M
alone here tonight. Some of the lily
ing across the waters are with us
their thoughts. Some of the salntt
J across the spaces are surely with US
the spirit of this occasion. These
have known and loved and rever
Their memory is unfading and bles
ed. We can not pause and think
- them-our princely benefactress, o.
hardly less princely benefactor, o.
a | sreat-hearted and Hawailan-loVll
MI trustee, our faithful and devoted /
III structors of other days, our fall
comrades of the days gone by who
names are written in heaven-we G.
not pause and think of them witho
the swelling of our gratitude. and
c,,irlzer baa ting of the heart, and Sh