Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1882-10-28

All over The world The speaker hsd.found such
deliyetanec 10 be humani,y's crying need, and
The fuldlment n scripture prophecy IN regard
10 salvation by Jesus Chris, the standing mira
clr n the present times. IN isoo, in the Uni
ted S,a,es only one In fifteen u the inhabitants
was member II Protestant evangelical
church, nov one in five.
Passing On to The second main division u
hia address, The National Signs Of ths Times"
The speaker said that religion In the individual
members n every nation was the fundamental
requisite 10 national prosperity, and then
launched sDme pointed questions at his audi
cnce for them 70 answer, protesting himself to
have always had deep intefes, In The story of
christian work In these islands bot personally
unnoquainled with its methods ~ results. Hiss
the native churches maintained lhemselyesp
Is the government u lhesc islands under the
government n Christian principieai T. bu,i.
ness. education, social life, promulgated with
he Christian -pirii' Not in any reciprocity
Treaty; not in the dignity u any political cere.
rnonial will the honor and prosperity ~ this
Hawaiian Kingdom be assured, bu, In the obe
dicnce of King and people TO Gods govern.
ncnl u truth and tghiepusness.
Then rising to higher 'houghi, and taking
broader views u ne and truth, the speaker
laid tha, we must regard ourselves a. citizens
| in the theocracy of the universe. When Burke,
in his address 10 the English Parliament, TOOK
up somc high theme N political duty that ye,
had a broader reach and wider outlook than
English ciii,anship, he was accustomed 10 say
'",nm co,rh. Lifl up your hearts. One sign
Df our times, Is that now there are no foreign
lands. In every country christianity is at home.
The rapidity of is advance Is the colossal fac,
of our times. Spacing the eighteen christian
centuries, the religion u Christ gained in the
last three centuries aa many a, !, did in the ~
teen previous, and twice as many in the last
eighty years as it did in those three centuries
after the reformation. Another sign is that
vulgar nhdelity has made advances too-if
audaciiy and infamy. II must be judged by
busying themselves about wha,i Trying ic
secure change in the postal laws Of the United
States, which forbids sending Obscene publiea
tions through the mail. Vulgar inhdelity i
cutting lis own throat. And cultured inhdelity
wha, Of that' Historical science has diSposec
Of the latcs, theory designed TO account for th'
origin Of as coming in some other way thar
by supernatural revolution. Strauss mythica
theory, even by the admission Of its author. i
dead. For the researches Of scholars hav'
closed up the supposed gap between the tim
Of the crucihSion and the first authentic chris
tian literature, and the shutting Of the shear
Of historical science has cut off the slende
thread on which the theory hung There !
no ISo years, as Strauss said, nor any time a
all for myths and legends to rise and Transform
fac, into fable. And physiological science
dispensing Of matcrialiSm, making it clear tina
life is more than organization; the weaver mus
be before the web, and death does not end all
The lecturer closed with reciting his person
al creed, and with prayer Of conservation, ii
which all were asked to unite. Then takinI
the carriage in waiting drove rapidly to tn
steamer, and was gone.