Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-12-24
DECEMBER 81, 1912
God bless ns crcry one. Tiny Tim in Dick
EMS a Christmas Carol"
GOD BLESSUS EVERY ONE

var mas cCine again TO! the land OF palm ana
summer seas. The year is on the wane, Il year in
which Hawaii has carried forward in many lines
the spirit Of Christmas, the true spirit of good
will, kindliness, peace, the spirit of fellowship
among the many races working side by side for
the progress of all Hawaii ) ,-sca .Gtt --
llaWaii's strides forward ideng liues of social
bettcl1ncDt and industrial benefits widely dis
tributed have been so remarkable in the year just
closing, SO full of the nobst spirit Of the Christ
Iltstide, that they are well worth noting. There
has been notable awakening of the citizens of
this Territory to feeling of their responsibility
for the social state of the community. For in
stance, definite movement was that of the Ka-
fRlani Home trustees in ffmployingSa social in
kestigatOr, whose report goes deeply into the
needs of the people who are dependent upon
lailN labor for their daily bread. The response
to the call for irty-thousand-dolar home for
working girls, the raising of nearly forty thou
sand dollars for the Kings Daughters Home for
the aged, the increased attention given to chill
dren to improve their environment, stimulate
them mentally, morally and physically, the ex-
pansion of many lines of church, charitable and
benevolent work, the establishment of the
Church Federation,- these are concrete in
stances of what has gone forward with steady
gait 1t was during this year, too that the sugar
plantations voluntarily inaugurated the profit
sharing system among their employees, and many
firms during the twelve months now ending have
begun to share their profits with those who work
Ia subordinate positions. Industrial Christian
ity is keeping pace with s6cial. christianity, and
tile spirit of mutual helpfulness that began with
the first Christmas is sweet in the. balmy winds
that sweep this island sterTtsrg.
Yes, the spirit of Chnstlias comes to the land
of palm as to the land of pillf Hawaii, one
among the supplied choir of nations lifts glad
voice, @Gloria in Excelss Deor' mother lands
the hurying squadrons of snoptclouds, the sharp
rich green of pine and fir against the drifted
banks of white, acentuate the season; in Hawaii
the sun shines brightly, warmly on, there is no
sting in the friendly air. But the spirit of
christmas is the same
1t knows no boundary of sea or shore or
mountain range OF any boundary of mans hand
tiwork, that spirit. 1t is wider than creed; it
is deeper than color It has dominion over un-
told millions of people, it holds kindlier en-
pire over them than that of any temporal king
or earthly potentate. 1t rules by love, it sways
by faith; generosity and high unselfishness and
AL the host of nobler qualities attend upon its
court. For one day the gentle spirit is supreme.
commerce bows and makes way before it's com
ing; there is truce in the amending strife of
trade In the great war between North and
South, there were times when WORKOUT regi-
ments, painting at each others threats, put aside
for awhile the gun and the bayonet and shared
brooks of sweet waters, or fell to the earth and
snatched a brief sleep knowing somehow that
there was no need of sentinel or outpost So at
Christmas the long struggle comes to a momen-
tary hull; distrust and suspicion, the gun and
bayonet of the soul, are put aside; and there is
peace throughout the earth.
Through nineteen hundred years this spirit
has endured, through centuries of superstition,
doubt, fear, cruelty and ignorance. 1t has en-
dured while cities have fallen and empires per
ished from the earth, through wars crusadcS, in
vaSions devastation. 1t has endured, il has
strengthened, it has spread to every land. There
the Yule log burns bright in the great fireplace
and the green and red of holly deck mantel and
chandelier, and men of white skin join in the
|<Christmas carol There a lone candle flickers
before wayside shrine, set below rude cross
of fashioned spruce high up a rough mountain
trail, and ark-faceds pilgrims bow in reverence
before an universal symbol. And there in a
orpat arched hall domed like the dome of heaven
tle blessed sunlight falls softly. through the rich