The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1880-09-18
Talmage Talks.

The Rev. De Witt Talmage delivered two
lectures in San Francisco prior to his departure
from the city. The subjects were Z" Statistics of
the Lord - and the Chinese Question" The
text of the frst-named lecture was taken from
the eighth verse of the nineteenth chapter of the
Psalms of David 50 The Statutes of the Lord are
right The lecturer began by saying that old
books were out of date, and gave reasons why
histories, poetical works, &C., were out of exist
ence. He said that of all the great old books
that had lived, but three or four had produced
any effect on the people of the present day, and
one of them was the Bible. 1t had lived through
theocracy and monarchy tyranny had sounded
edicts against it, but it lived to cross the Atlantic
and landed at Plymouth Rock. and to-day 1000
ministers stand with their hands upon this good
old English Bible. For the authenticity of the
Bible, he said there was not so much evidence
that Walter Scott wrote Marmion, Or that Milton
wrote Paradise Lost, as there was that the Lord
wrote the book. The Bible crashed into the
prejudices of the multitude, but it lives-not one
chapter, verse, or word gone. 1t is immortal.
Some men were opposed to the Bible on account
of an alleged difference between the revelations
of science and of the Bible. In all ages there
had been men who were mighty in science and IN
the Lord. John Henry, a graduate OF the Smith
sonian Institute, was a man distinguished IN
science, and understood the anatomy OF a man,
and had studied the fishes, and yet he believed
the chapter about Jonah. John Henry was a
temperance man, and yet he believed that water
was turned into wine. The Bible said that a
certain city was built of solid stone. " Absurd"
says criticism ; q there never was such a city,
But science has shown to the world that there Is
just such a city, and that one street oil 1t Is SIX
miles long, and of solid stone. The destruction
of Sodom, and the statement that grapes grew IN
Egypt, were both denied by scientists but
science has actually proved the statement to be
true. The statutes OF the Lord are right. Every
blow of the geologist's hammer says-right,
right, right. The speaker then showed how the
Bible was right in variety, in style, in place. and
In all situations in life. He concluded with an
exhortation to the young men to read and follow
the teachings of the Bible.
On the Chinese Question :" he said SO The |
labor phase of the Chinese question be would
leave to the politician. But he held that pollti-
clans will never cure the evil. 1t seems that San
francisco has already suffered from too much
politics. Bitter partisan fights have put back
the city ten years. IF the Lord would only send
an endemic that would kill all your distnrbers,
they would be the most profitable funerals ever
known in San Francisco. But these men Will not
die. Anything picked in whisky lasts a great
while. Tie political parties will never do any
thing to help you. Both parties placed an anti
Chinese plank in their platform 70 catcn Sotee.
Whichever of the political parties gets control OF
the country. neither will solve your Chinese
question. Again. the existing wIckedness IN
Chinatown will not be reformed with brIckDats.
1t is no good to kill them. The most useless
thing ON earth is a dead man. Violence will
never cure any of the existing evils of Chinatown.
The vote is mightier than the club. Anything
that Greats the Chinaman as q brute will pull
down Christendom, and trail the Bible in the
ANY man, woman, or child that gives one
penny to any of the great societies for the retor-
nation of the Chinese does more good than
1000 orators ranting for 10000 years. If the
people would come together IN churches and
public halls and demand that Chinatown be
il will cease to be a blot upon the city.
Take the police and 500 special officers, drill
them. and at IL O'Clock at night march them
down on Chinatown, and in one night break up
every brothel and fostering sink of iniquity in
that hell of misery. Lock up the Chinese pros
in one gaol, and the brutal whites found
in their dens in another. What is wanted is a
Jackson's raid through Chinatown.
Give me your police and 500 true men sworp
in as specials. the lecturer said, . and in two
nights | win close up every dive in your city.
Yet this sore lives, q hane to your beautiful
iauuaes, and au insult to God. It's absurd 10 bait
nd say what you want Congress to do when
here is so much Tor you yourselves to do right
lndeF your noses.