The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1884-11-25
A W0MAN'S SERMON.

be upon his shoulder" which. she
said. referred to the time which was
surely coming, when the Christ
should govern this world. In past
ages when the church became power
ful it took the government out of the
hands of the people. She should be
sorry to see any denomination in
America, this country or any country
taking the government into its own
hands. Gods idea Of the govern
mcnt Of the world was that every
adult human being should be gov
erncd by God himself, and that
children should be governed by their
parents. This was the plan in early
ages. and it failed, not because it
was not good but because the people
would not submit to il. God would
rule in every department of govern
ment when the whole people came to
look to him in prayer for wisdom to
guide them in the exercise of their
power. Men in the early church
had been beguilcd by the same
temptation of the false promise of
the Kingdoms of this world whereby
Satan had tempted Christ in the
wilderness. The words of the text
she wanted to have brought to bear
upon the laws and customs that
prevail in every land. Laws were
no better than the people that made
them, nor the members of gov
ernment above the average of the
people they represented. When they
saw in their own country immoral
men, drunken men, in Congress,
they could see that the moral condi-
ton of the people was not much
above them. 1t rested with secular
and religious teachers of the young,
| with any man or wOman--.for all
have an influencc-that the time
should be brought round when no
man shall look for place and power
unless he is n good man. 1t seemed
to her that in Christian land no
law should be put upon the statute
book which contravencd the ten
commandments. That law was to
stand as the fundamental law of the
universe until all was fulfilled. The
speaker mentioned Il number of
criminal enactments to show that
they all had their root in the deca-
loguc, and proceeded thence to dis
cuss the relation the laws for making
the liquor traffic respectable bore TO
the ten commandments. During the
year in which she had been on the
Pacific Coast, up to August last,
she had not seen one crime recorded
that was not caused, directly or in
directly, by strong drink, and she
had stated that fact publicly in Sar
Francisco. She adduced similar
evidence from the Atlantic States
and declared the Government was
not doing its duty which did no
restrain u traffic which caused a
least nine-tenths of the crime tha
was committed. When asked tC
join an extensive association formed
to diminish the rapidly-growins
divorce business, she had replied
that she was doing more in he
present work to prevent divorces
than she could do otherwise, for sh
had traced many divorce cases i
New England, and found larg
majority OF them originated IN drink
Her conclusions upon the relation o
drink to crime were founded upol
careful research in public docu
ments, and it was time enough 70
any to say she was mistaken whe
they investigated the subject fo
themselves and found she had eS
aggerated aught. A gentleman i
Boston who had doubted her assel
tions made investigation and foun
that of eleven murders committed