The Hawaiian gazette., 1878-07-24
"Whsn resolved This volume snail
Nv years were barely seventeen.
Nhsa IL Eas hoped / might be that
Which oues. AIS niShE have been.
And nov uiy years are thirty-dve.
And every mother hopes her lane,
Ard every happy child alive,
Nav never be . hat now 1 an -

Ard every happy child alive.
Nay never be What now l Ana-"
So, ny brethren. you see-the very youngest
of you-ihat if you choose SIN. you must have
sin Is your coRpauIOn-sin in her own hideous
presence. and with her, the death that ever dogs
her footsteps. | cannot even pretend to shew
you all the workings OF that inevitable. that i'm
partial law which We, IN our loneliness and alien
alton, call the heavy wrath OF God. IL is but rs
If l plRcked one leaf. and asked you TO look AZ
II as specimen Of the bOundless forest IL Is
as ii showed you Que little wave, aud told you
that i whole ocean was behind. But will only
ask you TO glance for Que moment a. one more
feature OF the law. There shall De. let Us sup
pose. this time 10 Intervention. no sickness, no
detection. no shame even. no fear, no outward
aud visible punishment OF any kind. Conscience
shall for time be dead life shall for years be
prosperous. Does sin escape then! Is the
sinner happy then? All. no ne is worse of
then. -NHAG PasRG, qadUta pdsHG, no pun
ishment. how terrible punishment. Ii is Gods
worst. seyerest punishment. -Ephraim is joiued
to his idols" What then Arrest hun With the
punishment which We would give TO some dear
aud pleasant ehild-make hin sick with shifting
him into repentance? No. worse than that.
Let him alone Bind his eyes; put tue
scourge IN his own hands. Let him SOW TO his
confusion let stu be The deadiiesI execuIioner-
the most mercIless avenger OF siu. Let the acnts
psng become the chronic malady. Let the
thought become the wish, and the wish the act.
aud the act the habit Let the solitary become
the frequent, and the frequent the habltual. aud
the habitGal the all but uscessary-the all bot
BeyItsbls-transgressIon Let sin, let crime
overtake him. Let hatred become murder; let
ambition become Conspiracy /; let greed beeOme
theft and sSindliug let lust become some deadly
impurty. An when God sends forth beset-
ung sin, guilty baoII. TO be His executiOner.
the case Is m0sI awful and most hopeless then.
aud God only, by Christ's redemption, can save
from that body OF DEATH
Ny brethren. will you now say, Il will go on
10 sin, and it does not matter?7 Most terribly
most awfuly 1t does matter. You may be saved
indeed, at last. if God will save. not from Him
and from His wrath, ouI from yourself AID your
own seifdestrlction /; bot even then there Is
sense 10 which it Is awfully true that our milIen-
iums may depend upon our moments; aud
though Gods Infinite love may be able to save
you, YET, alas, 1t may be only as brand is
p!ucked. half-eonsumej, out OF the bgruIng-as
a shepherd tears out of the mouth OF lion two
legs ard piece OF an ear. Do not thiuk that
repentance Is easy. ana do be sure that the
longer repentance Is delayed. the less easy it Is
and the more terrible are the consequences OF
that delay. That spotless child sleeps on the
fowering moss- Ii il well for him that q guilty
man, envyiug such slumber should desire to put
bis guilt away. Can he return TO rest at once
by lying there! Our sires knew well the 6ttiag
course for such-dark cells dim lamps. stone
floor, where they might writhe Ike worm; 10
messy pillow, blue With giolsts. The path OF
repentance may never be closed to ns. aud So
believe, the Catholic Church of Christ has 10
most ages taught bat oh, how hard the path OF
repentance over what hard fiBts through what
a scorch of fiery waves through what deeD
shamel what dread eorrupuoIl pain OF body !!
misery and remorse agony of soul. Were it
not better. as our Lord said, to cut of the right
hand, and to pluck out the right eye, than to go,
nf our own choice into that Gehenna Of sOHsoB
fire, here and hereafter, such as believe Christ
Himself, a1d such IS have nov 10 part only 10
shadow aud 10 Outline, tried to describe for you
God ia indeed the Lord God merciiul and gra-
cious. longsufering. aud Of great mercy for
giving inquity. aud trsnsgressiOn, and sin aud
yet by 10 means clearing the guilty. Why ?
Because He loves Us not? Not so, for Gods
severity Is all love; bat because stu ia the one
deadly enemy which He must destroy 10 Us lest
It destroy Us and We, with il. destroy ourselves
As you will hear 10 one moment set to very
noble music, because God Furnishes Us. the great
ness Of His Gercy reaebeth unto the heavens.
and dis truth unto the clouds.