spirit by exercise, suggestion and example. Next to the paramount object of education, the development of the right attitude of the spirit toward life, there come two other qualities to be sought in the development of such a character as will enable one to meet the world with all its uncertainties and possibilities. You know how a cat, falling from a height or thrown into the air, always lands on its feet. There are persons who, if overwhelmed by disaster,-loss of health, wealth, friends, loss of official position, or even succumbing to temptation, they land on their feet like a cat, alert and ready for the next thing that life has for them whether it be a new calamity or an opportunity by which they may retrieve their fortunes. This trait gives one an advantage in life; it is the unconquerable soul that Henry speaks of in his verse,-the quality which keeps one from being discouraged or cast down, of giving up in despair whatever may happen. The other trait is akin to this or perhaps is a different manifestation of the same thing. It is the quality by which one tends to take the initiative. You girls and boys know all about this. You know how you admire and look up to those among you who are always taking the lead in your games or entertainments or expeditions or it may be in your mischievous pranks and how willingly you follow them. You may have good morals, be brilliant scholars, be kindhearted and good athletes, yet if you have not this quality of taking the initiative, you will find yourselves at a disadvantage in life. You will not be useless. You may be in the rank and file of the great army of progress where you will obey orders and be of service, but you cannot lead or control men or exert the wide influence without this quality that you can with it. These two traits which I have referred to I submit to you, Mr. President, as the chief objects of educa

tion next to the spiritual development in the past, and I feel should be still more emphasized in the future.

ADDRESS OF REV. HIRAM BINGHAM.

A tumult of applause greeted Rev. Dr. Hiram Bingham, son of the great missionary, as he rose to make the address before the unveiling of the tablet. Dr. Bingham read his address in a clear voice which trembled with emotion as he paid a beautiful tribute to his father and mother. He said:

In the Commercial Advertiser of July 20, 1897, nearly eight years ago, appeared an editorial paragraph, a portion of which read as follows: "The trustees of Oahu College propose to set up a memorial in memory of the late Rev. Hiram Bingham, first missionary on the Island of Oahu, and a benefactor of the college. The trustees will select a large boulder and place it in position as nearly as possible on the spot where Mr. Bingham's house originally stood. One face of the rock will be trimmed off to receive a suitable inscription."

This plan, let it be remembered, was originated by a very appreciative former President of Oahu College, Mr. F. A. Hosmer; but, much to his regret, it was not fully executed before his departure.

The exact site of the cottage has since then been discovered by the unearthing of the foundation of the southern corner, and now, after the lapse of five years, the present President, without any solicitation or suggestion on my part, has nobly come to the rescue, and ex-President Hosmer's cherished plan has been successfully carried out, greatly, of course, to my joy; and we are here today to dedicate this memorial, and to witness to our belief in the propriety and usefulness of the same.

Because of my very near relationship to the man whom we today delight to honor, it would be my decided preference to be entirely in the background,

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but I remember the command first uttered on Mount Sinai, and reiterated by the Christ whom I serve, viz: "Honor thy father and thy mother," so I have, at the especial request of President Griffiths of Oahu College, with much diffidence consented to assist in the exercises of this hour set apart to formally perpetuate the memory of one o the historic deeds of my honored father, a benefactor of these Islands, who with his wife and his missionary associates, Samuel Whitney and Samuel Ruggles, teachers, Elisha Loomis, printer, Daniel Chamberlain, farmer, and their wives, a pioneer band of missionaries of the American Board of Commissioners of Foreign Missions, landed on this shore April 19, 1820, just eighty-five years ago today, to introduce the Gospel of Jesus Christ to a heathen people who had for many generations groped in deep darkness and gross superstition. Rev. Asa Thurston and Dr. Thomas Holman with their wives had beer landed seven days before at Kailua on Hawaii.

To me has been kindly and thoughtfully assigned the simple but delightful ceremony of unveiling this memorial to your view; but previous to my so doing let me briefly but freely speak unto you of one of the Apostles to Hawaii.

Having received the reluctant permission of Kamehameha II. to spend one year with his missionary associates in these Islands, Mr. Bingham earnestly began to win the confidence of the high chiefs and their people, which confidence he never afterward forfeited. He began at once to learn their language, to aid in reducing it to writing, and to establish schools among the people. His wife, my sainted mother, Sybil Moseley Bingham, opened the first school in this city in May, 1820, surely an historic date. It was my father's privilege to prepare the first manuscript for the first printing ever done on these shores. In his "History of the Sandwich Is

lands" he says, "On the 7th of January, 1822, a year and eight months from the time of our receiving the governmental permission to enter the field and teach the people, we commenced printing the language, in order to give them letters, libraries, and the living oracles in their own tongue, that the nation might read and understand the wonderful works of God," and he adds, "It was like laying a corner-stone of an important edifice for the nation." For eighteen years thereafter he continued, as other duties would permit, to furnish material for the printed page, to perform the duties of the literary head of the mission press in Honolulu and to aid in the promotion of Christian education. Time would fail me to indicate the amount of Christian literature he prepared for the press, or the number and character of the schools which he unceasingly labored to establish.

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When he first arrived at Honolulu Boki, the governor of Oahu, was at a distant part of the island, but, being apprised of the arrival of the missionaries and of their design, two days later he returned to Honolulu. historian says of him, "He was then so much under the debasing and distracting influence of strong drink as to be unfit for business except that of a speedy reformation, to which our business would call him.” On one occasion, some three months later, this young Governor Boki came to my father at the close of the public worship to make some inquiries about the sermon on the text, "Behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world," and expressed a wish to be able to read and understand the Bible, and consented to be daily instructed in it. Nine years later he gave to his beloved teacher this land of Punahou including Rocky Hill and stretching from the summit of Round Top to King street, supplemented by fish-pounds, salt-beds, and coral flats, all more or less valuable. This gift was made in