stronger as the years go on, its radiance burning in the light of young intelligence and finding its fullest fires in the brains of active men and women empowered by the magic of it to do the world's work.

Father Hiram Bingham, the first missionary to land on the island of Oahu, received from the chiefs per mission to stay but one year to do the work of God in these heathen islands. The chiefs proposed and the Master of all disposed. In nine years after he had landed, Father Bingham had won the good will of the great chief Boki, though that chief never embraced Christianity, and it was to the generosity of Boki that the Father owed the gift of the tract of land that is now the endowment of Punahou

College. Where the memorial boulder was unveiled to him yesterday afternoon, Father Bingham built his home on the island. There, where the smoke of his hearth floated to heaven the holiest incense that men burn, he dedicated the lands given him by Boki to the cause of Christian education for all time-and from the inspiration born of that incense of the Christian home has come all the power for good that has marked the establishment and successful continuance of Oahu College on educational lines characterized by Christian education, and the building of character. There the children of the missionaries and the children of the native race have been trained together, and have gone out together to the noble battle all good men wage to death-and beyond that. For the influence of the good that men do lives after them.

Under the trees that dot the campus of Punahou, just Waikiki of the main

building of the college, was the spot where the Bingham home stood, and here the boulder with its inscription plate stood yesterday, modestly veiled in the American colors, the flag that Father Bingham loved. He had come from the shelter of that flag, long ago, crossing the stormy waters to bring light. His sons see that flag flying now in the light that he brought.

Above the veiled stone the college colors floated, looking very beautiful against the foliage of the royal palms and kiawe, and upon a stand behind for the stone were chairs arranged descendants of the missionaries who were to take part in the unveiling, and for the trustees of the college. In front, upon the shaded grass, chairs were placed for spectators, and these filled up rapidly. By 4 o'clock, the time set for the beginning of the ceremonies, every chair was occupied, and there was a fringe of men and women and college boys and girls behind the chairs, and still behind these a row of carriages filled with interested spectators of the scene.

Presently, the joyous voices of children arose in song, and from somewhere behind the platform came the descendants of the missionaries, two and two, and the college officials, and took their places on the platform.

It was fitting, that men and women of the blood of the missionaries should take the lead in the ceremonial of the day. The triumph of the fathers was their triumph. It is their labor today to complete the perfect work the fathers began. And it was most fitting of all that a son of Father Bingham, the Rev. Hiram Bingham of today, should have been there to unveil the memorial.

A few minutes after 4 o'clock the band began to play "Old Hundred" and the speakers, trustees and others form. The seats had been arranged at the makaj end of the dais facing the flag-draped stone. Those who had places on the platform were President A. F. Griffiths of Oahu College, Dr. Hiram Bingham, Mrs. Lydia Bingham Coan, Judge S. B. Dole, Hon. P. C. Jones, Rev. S. E. Bishop, W. R. Castle, Esq., L. A. Thurston, Esq., Rev. O. H. Gulick, Mr. A. F. Judd, Mr. Clarence Cooke, Mr. Wm. Babbitt, Prof. W. D. Alexander.

At the conclusion of the doxology the venerable Rev. S. E. Bishop, the oldest living male descendant of the missionaries, offered prayer. After the prayer a large chorus under the direction of Miss Caroline Castle sang the grand old hymn "Head of the Church Triumphant" which was sung at the ordination of Father Bingham and Father Thurston at Goshen, then at the farewell service in the Park St. Church in Boston and later sung by both men as they stood on the maintop of the Thaddeus under the lee of Hawaii's shore. The hymn is as follows:

Head of the church triumphant,
We joyfully adore Thee;

Till Thou appear, Thy members here
Shall sing like those in glory.
We lift our hearts and voices,
In blest anticipation,

And cry aloud, and give to God
The praise of our salvation.

While in affliction's furnace,
And passing through the fire,

Thy love we praise, that knows our days

And ever brings us nigher.
We lift our hands exulting
In Thine almighty favor;
The love divine, that made us Thine,
Shall keep us Thine forever.

ADDRESS BY REV. O. H. GULICK.

The first address was read by Rev. O. H. Gulick, the oldest living Punahou student. He spoke as follows:

In 1520, the navigator Magellan, coming through the straits which now bear his name, discovered the vast expanse

of waters which received from him the name Pacific Ocean.

One hundred years later, in 1620, the Pilgrim fathers crossed the Atlantic, and landing at Plymouth, laid the foundations for a Christian state and nation, which now spans the continent.

Two hundred years still later, in 1820, a band of missionaries from New England landed on these Hawaiian Islands, and began those labors for a savage people, which within three generations have in a good degree fitted the islanders to become citizens of this great Christian nation.

These missionaries received most efficient help in their labor of love, from the regent Kaahumanu, and from several other of the high chiefs, and from some of the common people, who proved of eloquent and effective preachers faith in the newly proclaimed Savior of mankind. Some of these shall live forever as stars in the firmament, as those who have turned many to right

eousness.

Three names not of missionary profession, of those who contributed largely and efficiently to the development of the Hawaiian people, and the up

building of Oahu College, may here find fitting mention; Mr. James Hunne well, a merchant prince of Boston, Judge William L. Lee of Western New York, and the boon companion of his youth, Mr. Charles R. Bishop, of matchless bounty, and faithful love for Hawaii.

Father Alexander, Rev. W. P. Alexander, was once asked what justification could a missionary give for spending his life in converting the people of a small island community when there remained continents of unenlightened millions. He replied that a farm of a few acres was all that one man could cultivate, and the small farm might be as valuable on an island as on a continent.

Geographical position has much to do with the development of a nation, and the history of the world indicates the greater comparative importance of island empires when contrasted with continental empires. Witness the power of the British empire as compared with other European nations, or Japan with any of the nations of continental Asia.

The early settlers of New England came into the possession of barren hiils, an inhospitable climate, and a rocky soil. They erected the church and the school house and for a crop raised the men who have shaped the course of empires. Our missionaries to Hawaii, despising not the day of small things, stooped to the people of low estate, adopted an alphabet, gave the people letters and some knowledge of the world. Teaching rulers and people alike to read, they gave them a translation of the Bible, wrote for them Christian hymns, and gave them what literature was possible. The transformation of the race, and of the condition of the people cannot be fully estimated by one who has not known heathenism in its hopeless degradation and darkness. The transformation

exceeds the power of human language fully to represent.

Eighty-five years from the landing of the pioneer band, we are here today to unveil a tablet to the memory of one of the two leading men of that honored band. The son of one, and the grandson of the other, are here to participate in the interesting ceremony. "Children's children are the crown of old men, and the glory of children are their fathers."

Let us for a moment consider the character of these fathers and of those who joined them in the holy purpose of redeeming and lifting to a plane of Christian life the then dark people. Consecration, a loving devotion to the good of the people, was the crowning source of a unity, evident at every general meeting of the Mission. This devotion to a lofty purpose, and their unity of heart and action, were the open secrets of their grand success.

Theirs was a pure democracy tempered by advice from the far distant American Board, representative of the supporting churches.

These fathers were "men of like passions as we are," and of like failings, but firmly united in the loftiest purposes that can inspire human life. They constituted among themselves an indissoluble brotherhood; and the most valuable legacy they left to their children was a like fellowship and confidence in each other. This bond recognized by the circle of children survived undimmed years of wide separation from one another, while scattered far from their island home in the father land. This warm fellowship of the children of the first generation took on the form of cousinhood, and assumed organic union under the name of the Hawaiian Mission Children's Society. This unique circle while wholly destitute of political purpose, neither guided by literary nor social ambitions, constituted a bond and helped to foster love and confidence in one another. This bond of