The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-05-11
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Mr.. Fairbanks, on rising to speak,
was greeted by long applause. He
said he was very grateful to be intro
dfeed by Hawaii's former Governor,
as. he was a man he greatly esteemed.
He said that the banquet was a fit
ting crown for the few weeks OF de-
Hghtfui pleasure he had derived here.
He referred to some words of Mr.. Car
ter when the latter referred to Mr..
Fairbanks helpmeet, and said that
Mr.. Carter showed a great deal OF
familiarity with his household, but If
ne knew it as he did. Mr.. Carter
would be aware that he, Mr.. Fair
banks, was not the after-dinner orator
at all. This sally was greeted with
laughter.
Much of Mr. Fairbanks speech was
pleasantly tempered by regret that he
was about to leave Islands in which
he said he had been shown so much
hospitality. He spoke at some length
on the good results which the Mems
League would achieve, and of the
work of churches in general and their
relation to progress and civilization.
I'VE are proud of Hawaii he add
ed, because of the influences that are
controlling its destiny. This club Is
organized to teach civic duty, clean
politics and to promote them There
is no better work for the CHRISTIAN
church than to promote the welfare OF
| the community, the welfare OF the
state. The political unit will rise just
as high as the moral aspirations OF
the citizenship of that community, and
| not one jot higher. If YOU want IT
clean you must make it clean.
Our country was founded TO pro-
mote liberty; our republican institu-
| tons were laid in blood and nurtured
| in sacrifice, that the zone OF human
| liberty might be enlarged. Go into
| the history Of the world and you will
find the word failure written over
| dynasties. Civilizations have been
| born and erased from the pages OF MS
| tory in the long ago. Our experiment
| Of republican government is the pest
| of all. Shall our history be a repeu-
! ton of the history of similar failures
of the past? The answer rests with
| YOU. it rests with our entire country
men. 1t largely rests with the Church,
/ for while Church and State are sep
| Gods providence, I hope they win ever
| be, for all that, the Church Is the
| foundation stone of the state.
| TT has seemed to me in the years
| past that If one criticism could De
| laid at the door of the churches OF
| the Christian world. it is that they are
| concerned with too much doctrlnal
| matter. and not enough with the mat
| tiers affecting the happiness OF the
| great body of the people. under
stand that this club was organized IN
RESPONSE to the demand that the
! Church shall be a practical agent IN
| the welfare of the community
There was time when we looked
/ out from the mainland TO these beau
/ tifu! Islands and wondered into what
hands the Hawaiian Islands would II
nalIv pass Would some foreign pow
kar. hostile to the United states, pos
sess them. or would some friendly. but
| foreign. power claim their allegiance
That question has been settled by log
ical events. Hawaii and the United
| states are bound together for ever and
ever. and no power. on Gods earth can
separate the bond Of their union.
You alluded, Mr. Carter. TO the diff
ferent Municipalities and the catholici-
ty Of spirit which obtains here. II
/ was a beautiful sentiment It was a
Christian sentiment Of the highest
character In the United states we
have not a dissimiIar question There
we are working out a problem, the
like Of which is not found anywhert