Daily Honolulu press. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1886, 1885-11-27

so justly proud, as tnat WHICH tnc
democratic party has given US. At last
North and South, the flag we love floats
over a united, loyal people. At last the
desire Of that Great-heart beside whose
bier walked Buckner, and Johnson, and
Lee, side by side with Sherman, and
Sheridan, and Logan is realized ne havs
peaee
You will tell me, perhaps, of the
many evils and dangers which threaten
the stability If not the peace Of America.
am not blind to these things. But /
believe in America, and in Americans
She was founded on bit of granite
and as long as that abides, she is safe;
Joseph Cook says ::
Plymouth Rock is basal our
whole continent Of freedom; is one OF
the corner stones of Bunker Hill monu-
ment, under-girds our prairies, and
crops out in Pixies Peak and FL Captain.
On Plymouth Rock our fathers had
their feet when they thrust kingship off
this continent On Plymouth Rock
was sharpened the sword, which, by
long, deep plunges through four years
Of war, blessed the South by cutting
out of it the accursed cancer Of bon
dage On Plymouth Rock will yet be
sharpened the weapon which will cut
the cancer of Mormonism out Of our
tawny sun set shoulder. On Plymouth
Rock will yet be made keen the sword
that will cut the cancer of unexecuted
laws, or else cut from public life the
men who fail to execute those laws. On
Plymouth Rock will be sharpened, let
us hope, swords which, by and by in a
better age and in the hands of braver
and purer men then ourselves, will
purge our land of mis-governed munich
paletios, shut the brothels, cut out from
the depths Of our city slums intemper-
lnce, and cut off from the heights OF
our upper ten thousand, so called, those
fussy feathers Of social pride which
lomineer over working men, and domi-
neer in this country in such away that
the coarsest kind of communism and
socialism get hearing. On Plymouth
Rock will yet be sbarpened the sword
which will cut out the tumors of official
patronage, and peace endangering
nonopolies. Puritanism is the friend
Of the workingman. Puritanism is the
friend of the capitalist Puritanism, il
seems to me, is the only safe bridge by
which we can span in this country the
chasm between capital and labor. And
chat bridge abides"
Aye. believe that. am no blind
optimist in regard to America. / realize
the dangers which threaten her. Blu,
Plymouth Rock abides And as long
IS that is true our nation will abide to
bless the great sisterhood Of nations anc
the world.
2. AS christian am thankful.
Jesus Christ is the world to-day, Q
living Presence in His Church, leading
it forward to complete victory. l dc
not shut my eyes to the dark feature.
of human life and the sin which is ir
the world, but see, and / rejoice ir
the sight, a tranforming Power at worl
in the world slowly bringing it forward
to the divine ideal.
Glance at few signs of this onward
progress G) Take, first, the permaet
ing power of the Gospel. The great truth.
Of Christianity have permeated the life
of civilized nations, and are there tena
| ciously held as part of the world!
choicest treasure. The morality of the
Gospel is coming to be the ethical idea
of the civilized world.
The Christian ideal of character i,
that by which all classes of societ,
measure men when they praise o.
blame them. The principle of human
brotherhood is filling the earth will
civil liberty. The Christian temper o
unselhshness is what all men demanC
in their heroes. The Golden Rule il
recognized as the great unifying law o
society. The Christian expectation 0
Immortality has fixed itself immovabl,
in the convictions of men. Literatur,
is full of these principles and ideals o
the Gospel, unconsciously borrowed
ard clung to even by many who ina
ginc that they disbelieve in christianity
| (2) We find another sign of progrcs
in the fact that the gospel has mani
festly had Transforming power, a
as we'll as a permeating power il
human society. 1t has not merel
Il given the world new moral conceptions