The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1872-12-28

the Christian hope. but there Vas \ secret decanter
IN the closet, and no real choice Of Christ was made,
aud today she J. pIttied az she ia ysin tries 10 keep
4 level head in the good society in which she moves
There i no more efectual barrier ia the way 81
coming 10 Christ and - in the way q the souls
eternal life than the habit Of INDUCING in spirituOus
drinks / have ceased 10 expect 4 man or woman 10
become Christian. unless the cup u totally thrown
away, aud I have ceased e. look To the Iuiulgiuz
Christian for much If any genuine .Ha-euee or
power tor Christ.
still another class Of reIs0us why We should DO;
be- among wine bIbbeTs, L found ia the danger Of Its
leading others 20 ruin. / have time now only TO
aliuie 10 this II has already been suggested TO you.
/ have spoken Of our children, and OF the peril that
lies in tue way Ot every young person. Invariably
u y true that where drinking customs prevail not =
few Of the young are lei 10 become drinkers and
drunkards Drinking fathers aud mothers are most
apt To- have drunken sons Can any parent tell
what sorr0ws and woe his or her influence may cause;
Can any young man or woman tell what evil his or
her example may do TO another Can any one who
at all counteuauces the social glass estimate what
ruin he may really be responsible FOR? In all prob
ability that business man Of whom l spoke, Is but
one Of a large number whom the example Of DAME!
Webster has led 10 the grave? Do you know what
child, what youth, what man may fall into the fatal
habit from seeing the glass at your lips, II : good
neither TO drink wine nor anything whereby thy
brother stumbleth, or is made weak.
Our influence also in this respect l. not only over
our immediate associates, bat il reaches down TO the
Hawaiian and other races. If the Intoxicating cup
- inconvenience - w IlD1t EAtADiutAA All AtAAAI
citizens and residents, if its social use is sanctioned
by their influence, all effort to keep it from other
races must be in vain. They will not see why they
two cannot indulge If it IS u thing to make the
refined and civilized ha0ie happy and wise, why
should they be declared its use; And get it in 5 me
way they will. Without a right and forcitle public
sentiment, the law will be powerless. Here is a poor
people on these Islands, probably but $1,000 in
number. 1t is carefully estimated by one who has
the means of knowing that not less than two hundred
thousand dollars are annually expended in these
Islands in the consumption Of intoxicating drinks.
Only think Of it. In this way not only is this people
rapidly wasting away, but there is thus sunk, in
worse than utter waste as much of the means of
sustenance and prosperity as the whole whaling
fleet, in its PALMER days, was want to bring to these
Islands. Shall our influence in any way directly or
indirectly help on this fearful waste and ruin !?
Therefore l say that regard for the welfare of this,
the love of humanity, the safety of our own families
and friends, care for the salvation of souls. and a
dread lest We share in this great sin and misery of
the world, should determine us all to be unequivocal
in our position, and to be really and confessedly
totally free from the great evil. l rejoice that some
are manfully leaving the cup, and that many are
feeling a new and deeper interest in this subject.
Are we not all in a measure our brothers keeper,