Daily Honolulu press. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1886, 1886-02-18

says Christ-"Ye will not come unto
me that ye might be saved" ellis
servants ye are whom ye yield your
selves to obey" To personally reject
Christ does not mean that a man must
be an atheist, drunkard, thief or an
extortioner, but simply he that turns In
differently away from Him who low
ingly seeks to save. In the parable of
the feast those that for any cause re-
jected the invitation were accounted as
enemies.
In the parable of the vineyard those
who did not reverence His servants
nor His beloved Son and yield to
them what was lawfully His own were
slain as enemies. But who can bear
the thought of being an enemy to Jesus
Christ. Jesus the friend, the bene-
factor, the savior Of sinful erring man.
All, my soul, can it be that thou hast
taken up arms against Him who loved
me with a divine, a heavenly love,
who suffered and sacrificed himself
for me. Oh, sad and solemn truth
If thou dost turn away from Him
thou art his enemy. Oh, fellow mortal
rapidly passing into the great unknown,
are you a personal enemy to Jesus
Christi Will you have Him to reign
over you in love or in anger ? Thus
shall all the enemies of Christ be
put under his feet. At this point
we may well ask "Watchman what Of
the night7" Are the enemies of Christ
holding the vantage ground or are
the powers of evil receding before
THE ADVANCING REIGN OF CHRIST !?
Will any intelligent man give answer
in pessimistic tones If SO let him HE
himself TO the tallest mountain Of
Hawaii and with the eagle eye OF his
tory glance back over the past; then
with such scrutiny view the present
and he will come down from that
mountain ''like giant refreshed with
new wine" Men scoff at the progress
Of Christianity just as they did 1900
years ago "But let them sleep on
while the Gospel they sought to sup
press still lives to enlighten and bless
the world" (Dr. Lee.) That Gospel
that started under such unhappy cir
cumstances has grown beyond the
widest dream Of the most enthusiastic.
The reign of Christ is fast advancing:
glance over the map Of the world. In
every form of stable government
Christianity is the centripital power.
Two agents are employed for this
victory The Church and the State.
Not as one but as seperate and distinct,
working for the same great end. They
are, if you please, the conservation of
forces into one living, glowing, holy
purpose. No nation has yet ever risen
above the morals of the people in the
administration of wise and beneficial
laws. No morals have ever risen above
/ the religious condition of her profes-
sors. Herein has God been advancing
the reign of Christ, for no nation has
ever administered wise, humane, and
beneficial laws like unto the Christian
nation. You may ask about Rome
and Greece. History is the best an
tswer. Can the nation that patronizes
the gladiatorlal arena and puts her
people below the favored few be com.
pared, with all their defects, to the
| Christian nations of Europe and
America In the mutations of the
centuries Christ has been working out
better governments, and nobler rights
and positions for the governed. What
ever may be said for the nations of
antiquity none can be compared to-
day with England and America. The
richest and rarest privileges that have
come to common humanity have been
born out of Christian governments. 1t
was in Christian England that slavery
was driven out 1t was the triumph of
Christianity in America that buried in
oblivion the blood baptized shackels of
slavery. 1t was in Christian England
that first rejuvinated her horrible dun
geons and taught that man, though a
criminal, had the rights of a human
1t was Christian America that gave new
impulse to the great inventions of the
age and proclaimed equal rights to all
men. Show me grander nation in
Europe than the British. Her Scot
land producing the most God-fearing,
liberty-loving, conscience-guided men
of the East England, whatever may
have been her mistakes, has produced
one of the grandest races of all ages.
With all her sel6shness, she is the
mother Of human liberty. Ireland,
poor, oppressed Ireland, has literally
laughed the world into a good humor
by her native born wit and caused the
world to weep because of her sufferings.
Solid Germany has given the world its
profoundest thinkers and was the birth
place of earth's greatest reformation.
Sweden and Norway have given the
world character and strength, while the
little Swiss Republic has been the ad-
miration of the civilized world, because
of her love of liberty. But it has been
reserved for Christian America TO pro-
duce the most perfect law of liberty
the fullness of human rights-to give
impulse to all the noble good in state
craft, and to sound with awful distinct
ness in the ears of the old oppressive
forms of Eastern governments, the
death knell of the HD,yira riokt of