The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1921-07-08

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and dramatic like the high peak
resembled nothing so much in all
or the low-swelling outline of a
believe that this great rounded
But as one sails along beside it he
and the clouds fold and unfold |
shakeable silent dignity, it's unity and
symmetry are more and more impres.
| sively revealed. Here is a great
mountain rising out of the sea in
noble isolation, unscarred, untroubled
and serene. So you say-for until
you have climbed the mountain you
know not the mighty wound conceal
ed beneath that rounded crest-the
| great crater with it's six mile chasm
so completely hidden from the sea.
Since then l have known Haleakala
in many moods-the grassy trail
through upland meadows to the sum-
init, the long rough road which trug-
giles along it's corrugated sides to
Kula, the jagged edge of the crater,
the noble trees of Ulupalakua, and
the superb view from Waiakoa off
across the fields of sugar cane to the
cloud rack above West Maui or down
into the blue serenity and breathless
stiffness of the ocean and the fiat out
lines of Lanai and Kahoolawe, lying
without depth or perspective upon the
surface of the sea.
| But Haleakala is the beloved noun
tain, not only for its serene and heal
ing beauty but even more for the
~ ei-loveu folk who dwell upon q its
hospitable, far-spreading sides. First
Among these are the birds-the lin
nets with their canary-like carols and
the larks, those invisible miracles of
song, singing hymns at heavens
gate" far up in the clear blue sky.
| Akin to the birds are some OF the
people who share with them the clear
cool air and the limitless view from
the mountain. Most serene is the un-
crowned queen of Maui, who sits in
| the golden afternoon of life enthron-
ed in the love of all who know her
The ample friendliness of her simple
and home-like house, the kindly er-
rands of her silent car, the tolerant
| hospitality of her poised and sympa-
thetic mental outlook, have slowly
woven spell of great-hearted good
ness about the island that has been
her home during all the years. 1t is
| the lingering benediction of saint
ly father and mother who came in the
long ago bringing the evangel Of the
Son of Man. If she has had sorrows
and found her way through shadow
ed valleys, no trace of it has been
left upon her except it be in mellow
er wisdom and a kinder patience.
| Here upon the beloved mountain
also lives the lady of all good deeds.
The full strength of life is hers and
she uses it nobly for the building of
human brotherhood. She knows the
social forces of her island, has organ
lied and guided many of them and
year by year, without spasmodic SEN
timentalism or dilettante futility, she
steadily builds the better social or
der that is to be. Few others with
her wealth and social prestige could
so completely escape from the arti-
ficiality and glamour of wordliness,
what Jesus called "the deceitfulness
of riches" Few others, rich or poor,
are so sane, so wise, so modest, so
constant, dependable and unassuming
in the service of the great ideals of
Christ.
| There are many others who make
the mountain side of never ceasing
interest; there are the bride and
groom, for gracious loveliness and
boyish strength are also in this sane
tuary; and there is "the woman who
knows how" ready for a fight or a
frolic, as Dewey said, whether rhe
fight be a struggle for life as she
helps the doctor with baby case or
the frolic a picnic at Makena. Happy
the doctor who opens the door TO
some mountain cabin and finds ''the
woman who knows how" has reached
there first and greets him with q
CHEEKY Hello, DOCTOR" a sound Of
boiling water on the stove and her
sleeves rolled above ner elbows.
| But, for me, interest in the beloved
mountain centers at the sanitariu,n
at Kula because thara the best friend
| ever had fights the good fight and
keeps the faith. Always 4 man 1T ac-
| ton, tremendously vital ia ali his
wavs. with bulk of body, clarity of
| Judgment, sensitiyeness of hi and
rightness of purpose. lie has become
in these latter days Vi physicl weak
ness and illuminating and life giving
| spirit to all the mountain side. From
the observatory of his screened lanai
hung out above it all he looks down
over the world and the seven seas
with love and faith and never tagging
interest. Though his body wastes his
soul grows greater as he communes
with the stars by night and the world
by day and all the time with the God
whose strength is so often made per
feet in weakness. And we who are his
friends go from him ont with pity
but with renewed strength and deep
er faith in the unseen verities which
abide forever.
The heart of the sanitarium is "a
doctor of the new school" Read
over again Ian MacLaren's loving ac
lcount of "a doctor of the old school