The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1877-11-03
Correspondence.

To the Editor of the Pacific Commercial Advertiser:
SIR-To the publisher of a newspaper there can
be no more delightful task than to chronicle the ad-
vance of the country in which his editorial sanctum
is placed, in arts, science, and above all, in true re-
ligion, godliness, pure and indebted. Such, Mr..
Editor, is at this moment your happy privilege. l
refer to the earnest effort made by godly reformers
or informers towards melting an earnest striving
after doing their duty in the hearts of the guardians
of the law-the Sabbath law. Not long since a shot
from a cannon just at the moment when the preacher
said Amen Numbered from Punchbowl Hill, and
ruthlessly divided the word into halves. Only the
4" was heard, and the linen " blown into the
middle of next week, to the serious loss and detri-
ment of the congregation.
On Tuesday last the proceedings in the Police
Court were made interesting by the trial of Mr.. j.
II. Black for Decorating the Sabbath by running
the Robbie with passengers to Diamond Head and
Kapiolani Park. Some of the passengers went for
fresh sea air, after being cooped up during the week
in the odoriferous town, forgetting that the divine
law of Hawaii especially enjoins the people to abstain
from all recreation (refreshment of the strength
and spirits after toil-Webster) on the Sabbath, and
that a godly people should sit on that sacred day
rather in sackcloth and ashes, regretting their sins
of the past week, and thankful that the sun, which
shines on that day for the benefit of all nature, in
Gods mercy, which tempers the wind to the shorn
lamb, shines for them also, to keep warm the ash
barrels. Others went in the boat to visit Kapio-
lani Pork, also forgetting that this Park is by no
means created and inaugurated to be visited by a
pleasant sail on the sea on Sundays, but has been
established for the benefit of a virtuous people who,
in following the example of Christian. in the Pill
prim's Progress, have to wander through the slough
of despond and surmount all the difficulties of the
road to enter into Eden
"Where noses
Bloom like roses"
Too much praise cannot be given to the efficient
officials, the Attorney General, Marshal and Deputy
Marshal, for their godly efforts to execute laws
which so truly serve godliness, as do the Sabbath
laws, and fill all hearts with love and respect for this
Loo yanIy minded government All earnest people
sincerely hope that those able officers will persevere
in the good work, and on next Sunday arrest every
carriage which desecrates the Sabbath by HauItlng
its brightness and pride in the very face of the
cburches; close every barber's and butchers shop;
arrest every post official, newspaper vendor, &C.,
and in fact, every ungodly person. dreamt and
saw q vision. and | saw heaven opened, and the Ar
changed Gabriel standing in glorious raiment' ana
I saw the Attorney General standing near him with
his hands in his pockets, and the Marshal and the
Deputy Marshal, their faces shining like unto molten
gold, and Gabriel said in a loud voice which sounded
through the heavens well done you good ana
faithful servants of the Sabbath, enter and partake
of the joys prepared for you from the foundation OF
the world" And the door opened and saw angelic
messengers in fine raiments entering. bearing large
platters of silver, gold, onyx and precloua stones IN
their hands, filled to their utmost with baked beans
and pork, and they made obeisance to the godly SER
wants of the Sabbath. and sat the plates before them.
And they did eat, and the beans looked like unto
marbles. l awoke. and the vision vanished; and L
blessed the Sabbath laws of the country.
P. S.-Scientists may find an opportunity to study
the age of the world from baked beans. | have no
doubt that any qpestions in regard to beans will be
c~heerfully answered.
2. s. 81 most deyoutly pray that hencetorth
and forever, on Saturdays the order of every Chris
tian household will be
Polly put the kettle on
Wen all have beans
TOMORROW.
1.-The writer of the foregoing has doubtless right
on his side-but personally we object to any attempt
to parody s%criptural style. Ed P. c. Al