The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-11-25

Not he who wears the poets purple
vest.
Aud sings her songs Of love and grief
and fatei
rhcre is a better way.
ne serves his country best
Who Joins the tide that lifts her
nobly ON;
For speech has myriad tongues for ev.
cry day,
And song but one; and law within the
breast,
Is stronger than the craven law on
stone;
There is a better way.
He serves his country best
Who lives pure life, and doeth right
eous deed,
And walks straight paths, however
others stray,
And leaves his sons as uttermost be-
quest
\ stainless record which all men may
read
This is the better way.
Christian Destiny and Duty.
There is one deeper cause for thanks
giving even than this JOY ove- the
movement towards pure American
democracy. There is something of the
Christ nature and possibility in the
destiny of our Nation. God did not
create the United States, place it upon
the map of this globe in its peculiarly
strategic position. dover it with har-
bors, soil, mineral wealth and climate
that should both make it the lodestone
for all peoples and the natural clear
inghouse for the great continents of
Europe and North Africa on the one
side and Asia on the other without so
shaping the course of history that the
section Of His human family to be set
here must act the part i'll keeping with
its unique habitat. This common cen
ter and meeting ground of all peoples
must become the servant of all, the
uniiier of all, the great world Peacemak-
er, the land of bonafide brotherhood
That this is not an easy role every
one knows who has lived in any section
of America into which a large number
of poor, ignorant, socially depressed
immigrants with strange habits, differ
ent outlook upon the world and lower
standard of living has flooded. Imme
diately that animal passion, race preju-
dice, has been stirred and often times
has ragged for years. Fortunately the
privilege of securing the franchise and
the elevating of our blessed American
ism have wrought the miracle of trans
forming the newcomers in the great
majority of cases into loyal citizens
and thus have given them n manhood
value not to be despised. This process
has bound the peoples of Europe close
ly to us and made our Nation loved
next best to itself by every common.
wealth on earth. This Christlike ser.
vice has not been unaccompanied by
crucifixion of self. America has been
compelled steadily to surrender to these
newcomers much that was very dear to
her. She has been cosmopolitanized
some purists would say vulgarized, her
quiet Sabbath, her old fashioned rever.
ence, many timehonored customs, not a
! little of her well-ordered family life
her whilom freedom from divorce, some
of her high regard for law have beer
sacrificed. But world peace and the
unifcation of mankind have been mar
velously advanced The messiahshiI
of our Nation, is the best thing in hel
history.
East and West.
And it is not yet ended. The worlt
| faces a new order of warfare. more
cruel, relentless and deadly to physical
life and noble manhood than all the
bloody battlefelds of history That i,
the threatening industrial struggle be
tween East and West. Of the two, the
East is incomparaby better equipped fo
this conflict. Treless industry, econ
omy in living, unexeelled mercantile
genius, magnificent natural resources
ability to adapt all modern inventions
to conditions that make for victory
physical powers of survival unmatched
in the West and commanding intellee
give an Ominous advantage. But tn,
West has Jesus Christ, and by that
mean the spirit of brotherhood. If tina
be employed honestly and impaired. un
selfshly, there will be no industrial
war. Both sides will step up on t,
the lofty plane of mutual service 70
all mankind.
,, God has placed America in the crucia
center of this world movement. 1t rest
with us, largely, to say whether it shall
be peace or war. If we assume toward
} Asia the role of brother, as we hav
toward Europe, mankind will be unifie
, in an era of peaceful cooperat ton. T
play that part will cost us much.
l means the cross of Christ. With ou
exclusion policy and our denial of cit
, zenship to the Asiatic, we have no
made the best start. But it is not to
, late to retrieve these blunders, and
believe the future will justify God
) faith in His creation of our Natio
where on the globe and when in histor
t He placed her. That He calls us to thi
D splendid international messiahship
g the grandest cause FOR Thanksgiving an
people on earth can experience. An
= we of Hawaii are the vanguard in thi
+ movement. Here. as nowhere else
j our Nation, God has ordained that til
t brunt of the opening skirmish in TIL
e peaceful conflict for realizing the brdtl
a erhood of East and West must be born
S Let us bless God for His supreme col
e fidenGe in us in laying upon our shOu
: ders this solemn, momentous respons
f bility, and today as we thank Him ],
n us will to be true to this trust.
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