The Hawaiian gazette., 1907-12-20


vice no less valuable in the making .
industrious men and women.
But this is not it's greatest service
There is something higher and bette
than the making of a livelihood, an,
| that something is the making of ;
life.
Il desire to provide a good educa
| ton in such useful knowledg,
as may tend to make good and indus
trious men and women
This was the supreme wish of thu
munificent benefactress whose mem.
DRY we honor today. To her, honest
industry and genuine goodness consti.
tuted the sufficient crown of all true
manhood and womanhood. And hei
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 a 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.
1t must be said right here that dis
enlargement because of failure to be
what we intended to be should never
be allowed to unseat the will. 1t is
not so much of a disgrace to fall. as it
is to refuse to rise after one has fallen.
Every man, IL he will, can get up
after he has got down. Because he
is down, he does not need TO stay
down. Many a man, having started
out right in life, has been overtaken
in an evil moment and has dishonored
his training and dishonored himself.
But many a man, too, finding himself
thus overwhelmed in an evil course,
has risen up in the assertion of his
better self, saying: IT have fallen, but
1 will not stay fallen. can rise again.
and I WILL Out of this shame and
dishonor. God helping me, I will be
again what I ought to be-"
A statue of the ideal man may be
ruined by a slip of the sculptor's
chisel. Not so with the real man, for
no life is ruined life except to HIM
who is willing it should be so.
1t is hard for man to recover him. |
self, but every man can if he will. He |
ought not 10 allow his sense of dis
grace to discourage him from begin
ming once more to struggle to live a
worthy life. He ought not to fear
other men or be kept back by what
they may say or think. 1t is possible
for him by a brave return to duty to
the respect and the friendship
Of all worthy men.
1t would be a strange thing indeed
f in all these twenty years some Ka-
nehameha men and women had not
gone astray But II would be
stranger thing yet IL they should fail
IN this. memorable occasion to sense
anew their duty and to resolve to meet
I again.
Defeat and overthrow are contrary
% the spirit of Kamehameha- Well
10 remember how the old Kameha-
nehas, coming back from signal and
defeat on the hakki
set to work the next
week, in their practise. with bulldog
purpose and a hopeful confidence to
-etrieve their defeat by victory. And
he old bat tells the story of their
success.
r'Never strike sail to a fear" says
Emerson The pirate Failure can
lever come aboard if you trim your
ails to the breezes God surely sends
o the man who tries to help himself.
You need not be slave to an evil
curse. You are one of Gods free
men if you only choose to be. You
an be the master of things, and the
master of self as well.
Somehow, I feel that we are not
lone here tonight. Some of the liv-
ng across the waters are with US in
heir thoughts. Some of the sainted
lcross the spaces are surely with US in
he spirit of this occasion. These we
AVE known and loved and revere.
Their memory is unfading and bless
ID We can not pause and think OF
hem-our princely benefactress, our
hardly less princely benefactor, our
and Hawaiian-loving
rustee. our faithful and devoted in
;tructors of other days, our fallen
omrades of the days gone by whose
names are written in heaven-we can
iot pause and think of them without
he swelling of our gratitude. and a
quicker beating of the heart, and, shall
say it2 a mastering of all our man.
Iood and our womanhood to the firm
esolye> that We will be utterly true
o our great heritage, and will never
ring the blush of shame to the name
But there are others
hat come within our vision tonight. i
eem to see the Solitary One. the great
looking down upon US
nth a new light in his eyes that was
oti there in the old days. The years
ave shown that he builded better
han he knew. Our lifetime. like his,
oes not suffice for the working out
f the plans of God to their final frui-
ion. But this We know: The Con-
ueror of Hawaii nei made these
chools possible. Like the ancient He
rev prophets who knew not the con-
ent and the reach of their message, he ,
reamed not that he was the divine
gent through whose initial courage !
nd conquest and craftsmanship these
chools should be established. In the .
ivine economy of the unseen world '
e may well believe that the scales {
ave fallen from his eyes, and that I
ow he knows, and. knowing, his face. :
nee stern and infexible, is radiant {
18th the light that shone in the face