The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1882-10-24
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There are two personal signs ol
the times: You must be delivered
{ lst) from love of sin; (2nd) from
the guilt of it. For there is no place
for lis when VIC go hence, unless we
arc delivered from the love and
guilt of sin.
Now for national signs of the
times. The highest good of nation
is religion, and that Christian cul-
turc which leads to the birth OF the
masses. We see here n Christian
lied race which was once pagan.
Can Christianity maintain itself
pure here through all ages? Can it
save the native race on these islands!
If these can't be done you will be
wrecked. The eyes of the world are
Oh you. The eyes of the nations
about to become Christian and
throw off paganism arc on you.
The cosmopolitan signs of the
times in the Christian world arc
(1st) there arc now no foreign lands.
Caesar might have made journey
round the Roman Empire in 100
days if he had been provided with
RELAYS of swift horses. Now letter
can be sent round the globe in 30
days. 1t is impossible for n nation
TO isolate itself in these days of
travelling. Rome governed 120.-
OOO. 900 of subjects, England to-day
has 24O, 900, 900, but in the Christi
an empire the sound of bells on the
shore and the lights OH Christian
ships are perpctually within sight
and hearing of each other. cd.
In the days to come Hawai- will
be one of the chief out-pCsts in tins
new and vaster Mediterranean. TO
show the spread of the Bible it has
been calculated that there is one
COPY of it to every 10 persons OF the
world. In the first fifteen centuries
of the Christian era 100, 100000 of
adherents we're gained, in the next
three another hundred millions, but
in the last cighty-two years no less
than 210, 0,000,0 900 have been gained.
| Another sign of the times is the
4 separation of Church and State and
the growth of the voluntary system,
Another is the growth of vulgar in.
fidelity. Massachusetts has moro
small philosophers to the square acre
than any other State in the Union
She is in her sophomore year. but
some of the States haven't even ye
been to college. In the United
States there are $50 infdel leagues
A More than one hundred of thes,
lately petitioncd Congress for an al
teration in the Postal Laws to per
nit their obscene publications to b,
sent through the post. The fore
most of the infidcl orators signeC
this, but owing to the storm of pub
lie Indignation Withdrew his sigma
ture. iYes, Inidelity is growing
audacity and infamy. Other sign
Of the times are that NIaterialisn
has received its deathblow, and vic
tory is reported all along the line il
historic criticism. 1t has now bee
satisfactorily proved and is grantee
even by infidcls that four of Paul
Epistles, viz: 1st and 2nd Corinthi
ans, Romans, and Galatians wcr
written before GO AID. Thi
: abridgcs the distance between th
death of our Saviour and the dat
of these cpistles to 20yoars, SO tina
the mythical theory has been drive
to its grave before the death of it
, author, Strauss. .
Christianity q" II so secllr
MS it is to-day,
Mr. Cook TN lccitcd q littl
, composition of his own, cxpressin
his creed, and beginning,
4 "On the CLASSY sea of green"
5 1t expressed his belief that W
must be changed and our pas
screened in order to meet our LORD
lie then offered up short prayer
| of which the theme was. eft is n