The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-02-02

our posterity beyond the hope of
avarice. And the battle has not been
confined to the individual. Our edu-
cational our domestic, even our reli.
gious life has been the field of com
bat, and many a fair institution has
been choked with the bodies of the
slain in this mighty conflict for
wealth.
"Rut changes have come over the
hearts of men. The steward entrust-
ed with the ten talents, as well as
he that had but one, has been trading
with his Masters money more as He
would have them do. Three years
ago the building arising on this ground
was undreamed of. But our CONNER
cial world heard the call, felt the
need, and in response such floods of
gold came pouring in as would have
dazzled the eyes of Solomon-as
would have staggered king a century
ago.
"He who by his generous gift first
made this enterprise a possibility was
a noteworthy example of this new ten
dency of the commercial today. Yet
this great wave of commercial benevo-
lence lays a heavy burden on such an
institution as this. With such vast
gifts come vast responsibilities. We
may not forget that we are now the
trustees of the ten talents which our
Master will require of our hands with
interest When He comes will He find
| that we have but hid our talents in
the earth? Will our foundation stand
the strain of this? If we build on this
! foundation gold, silver, costly stones,
wood, by stubble, the fire of CONNER
cialism will surely try it to it's doom,
and this fair building will before our
eyes crumble to decay. The demand
of today is work, not ease.
1--WE have but begun when this
building shall have reached its final
form. The money we have put into it
is but a part of our stock in trade,
the talent wherewith we are entrust-
ed. Our dividends must be declared
in the lives and souls of men, or we
shall have failed, and our talent will
be taken from us and given to him
who can produce results. This is the
demand of business; this is the teach
ing of the Master. This that we are
laying today must, therefore, be but
sure footing whereon men may
strive and work, where flesh and blood
shall fight against the powers of evil
in our midst. May it rest four-square
and secure, unhinching and unyield'
ing. So shall our foundation stand.
The Best of Learning.
1--WE are erecting here a new educa.
tional edifce. Honor be to that land
which gives to it's youth the best
that it has of learning. Ignorance is
the breeding place Of vice. But edu-
cation divorced from righteousness is
but half education, the body frame
work without the nerve and muscle
to drive it. Morality and righteous
ness are not, however, taught from
the textbook but from the lives of
those who teach. Youth looks with
piercing and unerring eye into your
life and mine-his teachers. What
does he read there?
Stripped of all our hypocrisies, de-
nuded of our vestments of seeming
responsibility, does he find in you
and me the essentials of righteous
ness, of probity and morality? If not,
we had better this day in our own
lives lay a cornerstone and erect
thereon a new and more fitting edifice,
for so only shall our foundation stand
The Physically Unfit.
1--WE are erecting here a new phys
ical edifce. The physically unfit is
| and ever has been a menace to the
nation. All praise to those institu-
lions which give to the sick a chance
to recover, the unfit to become once
more fit. But still greater praise be
to that institution which aims to keep
the clean man clean, the fit man fit
This is a worldwide mission, this is
a work that reaches into every home,
into every walk of life.
"To keep the bodies as well as the
minds of men pure, that is the burden
laid upon this structure, that is Il
| stress under which whole nations
have gone to their ruin. May we lie
able hare 10 create in man clean
heart, a clean body, a clean mind. So
shall our foundation stand.
The Old Faith Stands.
1--we are in these days erecting
new edifice of religion. The faith of
our fathers, the creeds they joined
in, the tenets they believed essential