The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-08-04
SUNDAY SERVICES.

Ine Kew. >. II. Bishop occupied
the pulpit of the Bethel Union in the
morning, and discoursed on Psalm
Xc., 2: Before the mountains
were brought forth, or ever thou
didst form the earth and the world,
from everlasting to everlasting thou
art God" The observations made
upon the recent exploration of the
desert island Of Nihoa were cited as
illustrative of the great antiquity of
the earth. The researches of geology
in modern times, show the cons up
on cons that elapsed in the forma-
tive processes of the globe we in
habit. Viewing Nihoa in the light
of geological science, we find that it
is of older formation than the other
islands of the group; it suggests the
countless ages that must have
elapsed since the foundations of the
mountains were laid; and we are
carried back through these ages
until the mind reels with the thought,
and must stop to rest, and then try
again. And though geology stretches
the imagination, rs it were, to it's
utmost tension, in contemplating
the tertiary, the secondary, and the
archaici periods of the carth's form
alton; the words of the text bring
us to period yet more remote, and
there we find the everlasting God
and Father of all, beautifying the
universe with his all-pervading pres
ence. Not only does it reveal the
past eternity of the Deity, but it
throws us forward into the limitless
Unreasonable cycles of the future,
and there still the text says, "Thou
art Cod" The investigations of
geology, referred to, demonstrate
the infinitesimal littleness of the
space of time allotted to man in the
present life. Astronomy, by dis
closing the vastness of the universe,
and leading the mind through in
conceivable distances reckoned in
millions, billions, trillions and quad
rillions of miles, exhibits to our
gaze the smallness of our magnitude
and the little speck we occupy on
"the high field of immensely !" but
revelation teaches us that, brief as
our allotted time is here below, and
insignificant as we are in the awful
magnitudes around us, we are, at
the same time, under the beneiicent
care of the maker and upholder of
all these things. Without this
revelation, the conceptions of Deity,
to the minds of the inhabitants of
these islands, were invariably awe
inspiring and terrible. The horrid
features stamped upon the ancient
gods of Hawaii indicate that Deity,
to them, was invested only with at,
tributes of terror. 1t is only
through the knowledge of the gospel
of Jesus Christ that they and we
are brought to right conceptions OF
these things. And it is manifestly
our duty to make this gospel tri-
umph in these islands and in the
world.
The Rev. o. p. Emerson, OF
Peacedale, Rhode Island, preached
in Fort street Church in the morning,
His text was Heb. xiii, 8 (rev. YER
"Jesus Christ is the same yesterday
to-day, yea, and forever" His
subject was the changelessness Of
God in Christ. Men were always
looking for something permanent
The phenomena of naturelwere0 vari
able, but there was yet permanent
order in nature. The sun rises will
the same tints in its rays day aftel
day, and the great landmarks O
creation were the same from gener
alton to generation. However, tn
thought of the text might be quail
fed little. We were not to under
stand that our ideas of Christ nevc
change. 1t would be sad thing TO
us if this were so, for then our falls
conceptions of Christ would dwar
our spirituality. There was sens