The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-10-03

asks Of ''the spirit of the teaching and
| life OF the divine man of Galilee," ''dOes
not that teaching show the same divin-
itv mixing with just that same class,
| living among them and saving them %
that is, publicans and sinners. Yes,
living among them and saving them.
In those last words lies the whole pith
of the matter. He lived among them to
save them, not to cOndOne their OffenSes,
nor lower his standaSd of morals to
please them. He did not make himself
one of them in that sense. He was,
according to some of the queer ideas
held by a certain class in the present
age, "too narrow and bigoted" for that.
He endeavored to lead them into the
straight and narrow way" that leads
to eternal life; not into the broad and
easy way that leads to destruction. And
| if any one desired his society, he had to
do it by raising himself up to the
higher Standard not by importuning
the divine master to adopt a lower
standard that would permit of his reap
ing the benefits and privileges OF ming
ling with the superior society, while
continuing to indulge in practices utterly
incompatible with its existence.
Here in Hawaii" says 0. of the F.,
ga young man falls-at once he Is OStra-
cised" 4 statement which, if true,
would be credit to the general state OF
society here, as showing its high moral
standard, and would certainly be so
much of an aid to every young man who
desired to preserve himself in moral up
rightness of character. Verify, cOndi-
ton of society for which such a man
would be thankful But, to begin with,
is this statement true? Is there not many
man in Hawaii who has fallen, not only
once but many times, and still continues
to move in the society of friends who are
10th to give him up, or did move therein
until self respect and just regard for
their own reputation compelled them to
drop him?
Is there not many man in these Isles
who has deliberately turned from the
teachings of his boyhood, and the invi-
tatiOns and pleadings OF true friends to
seek out his own pleasures in ruinOus in
dulgencies, only too delighted to find the
opportunities for SO doing? " Fellows,
too, who would shine in society any
where" Yes, the more shame to them,
that, with all their boosted superiority
of race, of opportunities, of culture nay,
more, of Christian teaChing-they choose
to leave all those behind, when they
land on these shores, and literally throw
themselves away. Making themselves
ization, and stumbling blocks to the
weak race that has not yet attained to
the full stature of moral strength and
understanding, and giving the lie to the
civilization which they claim to be theirs
Does 60. OF the F." ask that the bar
riers be removed, and that men and
women who have endeavOred to live up
to higher ideal of manhood and wo-
manhood, and to raise up others to the
same level, should now look upon their
past habits as belonging to an age of
"narrow and bigoted " ideas, and that
in the present advanced civilization"
they should open their arms, and give
their daughters as freely, socially, to
men of loose moral habits as to those
who have endeavOred to live as becometh
men? Would he thus discount temper
ance and purity and virtue, and place
premium on dissOlute living?
Where would he have US land, if we
play about the reefs and boulders in that !
style?
What business had the ''noble young |
fellow who has bitter regrets that these |
beautiful islands ever became his home |
even temporarily" to trample on his |
civilized conscience, cast away THEM |
ferentially-better habits of his previous !
life, and desecrate the beauty of these is !
lands in demonstrating his want of char |
acter? Does 0. of the F. want the priVi- |
lege of habitually Calling" at will, and |
of holding on to his claim for free run |
in society at the same time? And will |
he undertake to tell us how long there |
would be any such society as he seems to |
crave, II such practice as he seems to !
advocate were allowed?
1t is painful and pitiful sight to see |
strangers who come here throwing them |
selves away, and lending themselves in |
every way to the obstruction and de- |
structiOn of labOrious work that has been |
done by others, for the elevation of the |
human race.
1t is painful and pitiful sight to see |
so many boy, as he approaches matur- |
ity, insert diminutive smokestack be- |
tween his lips, go to a bottle for his |
drink, and in other ways showing what a |
Wretched and mean conception he has,
OF what goes to constitute manhood. But |
they keep on doing SO, in spite of all the |
teachings, and examples and evidences |
that are before them, and in course of |
time some of them may be heard howl |
ing because society," is little shy of them, |
or scOfting at the marrow and bigoted |
pietists," and telling how perfectly use |
less has been all the work done by the |
g missionaries" in their attempts to |
ChAA0IlStIIlHO duu SlSNdIo Cn0SS WORTH /
less natives" whom they have helped |
to degrade and make worthless by their |
own example aud practice.
All pity for weak human nature-for it |
appears that not only the Hawaiian is
weak, but also his boastful foreign |
brother-but it is also too common for
men to deliberately give way to I'M
worthy and hurtiul indulgencies, because
they cheat themselves with the idea that
it will not be known. If there be one
who has come to realizing sense of his
folly, and repents of it, let him give
proof of his repentance bya continuously
correct life, and an endeavor to exert a
correct influence on those about him,
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