The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1875-01-06

selflove no grace In sorrow sees
cOusuts her own peculiar ease
It's all the bliss she knows
But nobler arms true Love employs
In selEdenals are her joys,
In suffering her repOse
Sorrow and love go side by side, e-
Nor height depth e'er divide
| Their heaven appointed bands.
Those dear associates still are one,
Nor till the race Of life is run
DsoiD their welded hand, etc.
Mr.. Beecher took his seat, and as the baskets
were passing, he said: Let us have twelve has
kets well.flled." The collection taken while the
hymn was snng very nearly reached the pastor:
mark. From the moment that the text from
Matthew, tenth chapter, verses "a to SO, wa:
read it was evident that one of Beecher's cleo
trifying sermons was coming. No report could
convey an idea to the mind of the reader oil
the dramatic and thrilling torrent of discourse
which fell on the delighted ears of the vast con.
course BE suited the action to the word, and
| Plymouth's Aower-decked rostrum pulpit became
the stage Of one of the finest rhetorical displays
that can be conceived. As the preacher read the
text, every word fell with new force and meaning
from his expressive lips;
Think not | am come to send peace on earth
came not to send peace, but sword. For
come to set a man at variance against his father,
aud the daughter against her mother, and the
daughter-inlaw against her mother-in-law. And
a mans foes shall be they Of his own household.
He that loveth father aud mother more than me
is not worthy Of me. And he that taketh not
up his cross and fOlloweth after me is not worthy
of me.
If" said Mr.. Beecher, "you consider these
words as part of the divine commission given
the Apostles, part of the proclamation of the
new dispensaton, it is one of the most extraor-
binary assertions ever made and recorded. When
men are trying to introduce new doctrines they
generally try to smooth everything by which men
may be repealed. But here is proclamation not
Of ease nor peace nor comfort, bat of STRIFE, UY-
REST, and STRUGGLED An announcement that
strikes at all that men held justifably most dear,
most cOnsecrated things that we're sanctioned of
God himself. Yet if any man hate not father
and mother land standing in this connection it
seems like stroke at the family itself for the
sake of the new leadership he hath no part IN
me- There is no elimination Of promises no
reward held out here. He says, come not to
bring peace, but sword Ordinarily man goes
to his own household for peace and repose. Men
go home for consolation in trouble and mistakes
but here is promised to man that be shall be
set against his own father, and daughter against
her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her
motherin-aw. Ordinarily it doesn't take much
to do that Laughter.
There is no recorded speech in which there
is so much fgurative language as thato our lord
Jesus Christ. If you should take the words of
the sermon on the Mount and apply them literal
ly, it would revolutionize and bankrupt the
world" Here, one of Mr.. Beecher's rapidly-ut-
tered SMILES followed in which he drew the par.
allel between the progressive growth Of Christ's
Church and the growth of tree. Then, in his |
own familiar way of wordpainting, he told the |
story of the mother of John and James, who ask |
ed that her sons might sit, the one on the right
and the other on the left hand of Jesus when be |
came into his kingdom. at was NATURAL" he
said, that the.mother should desire that John |
should be Secretary of State, and James should |
be Secretary of the Treasury, for it would be a
great advantage to the whole family for her sons
to have such influential positions" The audi
ence, had it not been church congregation,
would have applauded, as Mr.. Beecher twisted |
his lips and shook his head while uttering this
brilliant joke
They laughed audiby. Quick as thought his
countenance and whole figure changed its expires
sion to one of awful denunciaton as be thunder.
ed out: What was the Masters answer2 Are
ye able to drink the cup l shall drink of and be
baptized with the baptism that am baptized
with3 a stone" continued Mr.. Beecher, is
made round by attritiOn. Through revolutions,
suferiDgs tolls, the usurpers chains the cries of
the oppressed, We have been brought to our pres
ent state Of civilization and enlightment. 1t has
come along the via dOlorosa of the universe, the
pains, the blood and souows Of creations army.
Nothing is born into higher state but it comes
with cries and bitter throes. 1t suffers. And it
must suffer" The preachers voice expressed as
be uttered these words, the very agony of physi-
cal and mental torture. He was no longer an
ordinary preacher, he was an actor, az artist of
The highest, most unconscious power. Then
stepping to the front of the rostrum he gave
description of the valley Of Connecticut at sun
use as seen from the towers of Amherst, envel-
oped in mist /; the breaking away of the mist as
he sun rose and unfolded the scene below. If
he sun had never risen, that fog would have
hung there forever. It would never have broken
md rolled away. Thus it is with ignorance. So
10 the lower feelings of men rise to diviner
ife, chased away by the rising of the sun of en-
ightenment and righteousness" More laGghteEl
There are words 10 the Bible that are only I
iced forms. God saw that his work was good in
making Adam. he was perfect. Was he per-
ectl How could that be! A man with no
no youth, no education, no life. Why, |
lie never said a word worth recording he never I
i'd anything of note worth recording. he never I
lid anything of note except to mind his wife and ]
'et kicked out Of Paradise Sensation and !
What kind Of men we're Isaac and
Jacob and oil the other patriurchs compared With
be manhood We have now A paasel. Jacob
TOn't bear Investigation. Bismarck weren't a &