The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-06-15
% Hard Times,


The sermon at the Bethel Union Church
yesterday morning was on Hard Times
How to Meet Them" Rev. E. C.
Oggel, the pastor, officiated, and took his
text from the 18th chapter of Hebrews,
9Th verse, "Let your conversation be
without covetousness, and be content
with such things as We have, for He hath
said: L will never leave thee, nor for
| sake thee.'"
The preacher said I lift the curtain
| that you may look in upon a home scene.
The appointments are elegant and COM
Portable. God has blessed all with health
and the use of their mental faculties. It
has always been a happy household.
But you notice cloud on the fathers
brow. Have wife or children caused it :?
No. 1t has come through the cares of
this world and the entanglements of bust
ness. Yes, depression in trade is at the
root of it.
No man should carry the complications
and annoyancss of business into the
presence of wife and children. Greet
your family with a smile, and in the
home circle do not trouble yourself about
the store or the office.
The love of money is the root of all
eVil-evil growing out of it as naturally
as the upas tree springs from its poison
Gus root. Look at the worlds busy
market-places. What think you of all
this turmoil, hurry and strife-and dig
ging as if for hidden treasures
This generation lives too fast. Men
become old and die, as it were, before
their time. They are in too great hurry
to get rich One sad result of this is the
increase of insanity. 1 quote from a
letter received by the Mariposa. My COR
respondent says Our hospital for the
insane has now 1,500 patients. The
Superintendent informed me yesterday
that our State (Illinois) has 1850 new
cases of insanity every year; that of these
about 700 are cured, and others out of
this number die, which leaves 800 new
cases to provide for annually. The doc
tor also says that, according to the record,
we now have one insane person to each
600 of the population, and that in about
fifteen years we will have one to every
300 of the population" One of the lead
ing causes is business anxiety.
Is it best to meet hard times with the
experiment of dynamite AMI petroleum ?
No. "Be content with such things as ye
have" The happiest home in Honolulu
is that in which contentment reigns.
There are the two extremes of poverty
and wealth the two rocks, Scylla and
Charybdis, on the sea of life. Between
the two lies the golden mean. Our Mas
ter was less favored in his temporal lot
than the fox in his warm burrow or the
bird in its downy nest. The pomp of
this world is gilded lie its glory is
meteor; the pride of life is a flower that
withers in the hand that holds it. Curtail
your expenses and live within your in
come. In retrenching, do not begin first
at the House of God. Let God be to you
all in all. If, when your spirit takes its
flight to yonder world, you could take
with you treasures of gold, they would be
of no more value than was Confederate
currency after Lee had surrendered to
Grant
The materialist makes nothing of the
hereafter This age is materialistic, and
this generation is given to the dedication
of the material
But there is future and home for the
souI. And remember that the ruler of all
times is God. The light of all times is
Jesus, and the comforter of all times is
the Holy Spirit.
The pastor announced the subject for
the Wednesday evening prayer-meeting to
be. " The Relation of Belief to Practice"
James, 2:22.
The Sunday school picnic will take
place on Saturday, the goth instant, at
the seaside place of s. NJ. Damon, Esq,
at Waikiki.