The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-03-09
SABBATH SERVICES.
Topics of Discourse I'm the Various
Churches.

| Agony" and the text, Matthew 27:46: my
God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me?
The preacher said: In looking at the
Savior as lie hangs upon the cross, uttering
the dying sentences of His sympathy, Hi:
suferings are pictured by an object in ma.
ture. The object is q stream, at first sc
shallow that one may so over it dry shod
but as it advances, it is fed by rills from
mountain sides, till running on, it swells
TO such proportions that it can hold the
water within its borders no longer Fill
ing and widening, it passes whatever crosses
its course. and at last pours itself into the
great sea. In the beginning the Savior's
sufferings were but as rivulet Of water
But on the cross the rivers of His sorrow
are full. Behold how high the foamy bill
lows ridel' At the middle point in His
crucifxion torments, the darkness began.
Once God said, Let there be light. Now,
let there be darkness. At His birth night
became bright. Now. it seems as if the sun
would sink into an awful and eternal night.
The Savior acted out the twenty-secOnd
Psalm in full. In the cry of agony you
hear Him say, %, how I sufferv This was
for US, that when the end comes our faces
might be iIlumined with the light of heaven.
Christ forsaken, that we might look forward
to the hereafter with eyes of hope and tear
full raptures and call it home My friends,
if this draws you, then see to it, that we
refuse not Him that speaketh.' "
At Fort-street Church yesterday Pastor
Cruzan preached in the morning on the
subject, ga Christian in Business" which
was, in brief, talk with business men.
The following announcements were ais o
made Wednesday, at P. NJ, monthly
concert; subject, China" Thursday, at
7:3O P. n, sociable. Friday, at P NJ
ladies' prayer meeting at 1880 P. M, Young
Peoples Society of Christian Endeavor.
In the evening the text was taken from
Romans 2:15, the subject being Coon
science" In speaking on this subject the
reverend gentleman said Victor Hugo
calls conscience the compass of the I'M
known No man is without it. /. Con-
science is the moral magnetic needle. 1t
requires every man to mean well, and to do
his best. It is coeval with man, not the
result Of education or training. 2. AS the
magnet tic needle turns ever northward, this
moral needle turns Godward. The word has
this idea on it, con and SciO, to know with
some one. Lessons 1. The social com
passes trembles when man does what he
knows he ought not, and points to terrible
anathemas. 2. Conscience is omething we
cannot throw overheard. 8. Dethroned it
will regain it's power. 4. We carry it with
US unto the beyond.
The usual praise service was held in the
Y. N. G. Association Hall. Divine service
was also observed in the Anglican and
Catholic churches.
THE ANGLICAN CHURCH CHRONICLE"
This useful publication for March con-
tains much special information on matters
affecting the interests OF the Anglican Epis-
copal Church. II is carefully edited. In a
well-considered article allusion is made to
the growing tendency of modern life to
frain from attendance on public worship.
It says:
Men of all classes and conditions, par
ticularly men who are burdened with many
importan interests of the worlds business,
are reluctant to make the test of what the
Christian religion can make of a man. They
appear to think that positive Christian pro-
fession, in public worship, in ordinances
and sacraments, in interested Iabors of
Christian effort in social life, is we'll enough
for women and children and for certain
class of minds, but as not for men who have
important social and business interests to
manage. They are, many of them, high
minded men they have high standards of
manliness and honor; but they divorce
Christianity from individual life and duty.
And this enforcement, ruinous as it is to all
social and business interests, is rapidly in
creasing in Protestant communities. Men
stand aloof from the Church of Christ more
and more. No feature of our times is more
alarming. Count the men in the Sunday
congrega tons in our churches. and what a
wretched fraction they are to the number of
those who are seldom or never seen within
house of Christian worship. A materialistic
philosophy mocks at prayer; a shallow
science suggests doubts which it is power
less to answer, while both would divorce
Christianity from individual life and Danish
God from the affairs of human existence.
Let the QlNOTCoiuSuE anu DduISHulOnb NC
effected and the miseries of past ages will
be enacted over again, as certainly as the
Lord lives and reigns among men,"
The Anglican Church Chronicle prints the
Lenton pastoral of the Bishop of Honolulu.
The following items are from the same pub
LEGATION:
We hear with regret that Wailuku is about
to lose its pastor, the Rev. c. E. Groser. He
will leave Kahului in sailing vessel for San
Francisco when he will cross the continent
of America to his former home in New York.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gro ser will leave many friends
behind them. They have had uphill work
in their peculiar parish-such work as
wearies even the most devoted and self-de-
nying servant of Christ. We heartily wish
our friends bon Uoyage and success in any
future undertaking.
Mr.. and Mrs. I. J. Hayselden are about
TO leave Kohala to take up their residence
On Maui. The members of st. Augustine 5
church will greatly miss Mrs. Hayselden
who has been q great support to the choir
and to every other institution in connection
with the church.
tower bell and silver cEalice and paten