The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1888-02-01

Your consciences for the sake of
saving some young man from a
drunkards grave or prison cell?
1t requires more than maintaining
so called charitable institutions,
which do no earthly good, except
reflect on our rich lustcr, which
by its lily disguised hypocrisy,
could be well compared to a dead
goldfish, that shines but shnks. 1t
is essential that our youth be, not
only told, but shown by acts of our
great men that their charity is of q
kind which gives the half or more if
need be, of that, which they need
themselves. The purse which gives
a pittance because it is overhowing,
and gives the trihe with the intent
TO bring itself into commendable re-
pute, and not to relieve and cheer
the needy young man is the purse
of calvanistic dissmulation. Our
young man knows this; knowing it
his uncontaminated nature revolts
at the very idea to join or be led by
men who prove that they live in q
puritanical prison through whose
narrow grated windows the light OF
God and the sun of freedom never
yet shone.
Still the great question of convert
ing the young man goes on and is
agitated, while warmth of welcome,
the brotherly love, the very corner
stone of this commendable and vital
subject is buried alive and smother
ed to death by shower of dollars
which do no other good but MAIN
tain useless institutions and the re-
putation of christianity among the
rich. Thus it happens that the
warm heart of the young man grows
chilly, his love turns to hatred and
disgust at seeing the foundation of
his cause covered up by cold uncha-
ritable wealth which he does not
need which most of them do not want.
Give us instead the warm hand of
welcome, the wholesouled grip of
true friendship, open your gilded
houses to us if only occasionally,
give us when we most need it faith
erly advice which many of us are in
want of, do all this, It's but little,
It's very cheap, and though you
may stop preaching, though you
shut all your charitable institutions
you will have all the young men
with you, and ready to do and die
for you. This is your start, take it
or forever cry in vain, GLOW will
we reach our young men!'
SO much for the good that our
men can do, how much moro power
full, how infinitely stronger and in
fuential are the mothers and daugh-
ters of our little town in bringing
about this great and desirable event
of redeeming the young man from
his evil ways.
Although Eve has been called a
coquette, because she flirted with
Satan, the very first time she went
out calling, and coming home got
Adam into terrible scrape, fol
which as our calivanistic brethren
tell us, the whole world has and will
suffer for all time to come; yet,
say without an Eve, without women
this world of ours would look dreary
indeed.
You brag of your converts made
in your churches, you boast of re-
deeming drunl1ards at temperance
meetings, you loudly extol your
charitable institutions, but give me
for the conversion of outcasts, fol
tile redeeming of our youths, not re-
ligion, not temperance lectures a
80 cents ticket, not churchfares
which by the way are robberies com
mitted within the law and under th'
cloak of piousness, but, say, Civ
me cheerful, happy, blessed home
over which presides faithful wife
a loving mother!
Ii you find young man, ant
there are many such in our town
who through some cause or another
has drifted down our way, and ha
cast his lot among us, pick him up
invite him TO such home, remin,
him thus of his own, and / stake m,
existence, no matter how deprave,
he is, that he will leave all places o
sinful amusement gladly for the op
portunity of visiting such home
Why do you not give him tn
chance?
l was told by young ma
not long ago that he spent his Sun
days in bed. l inquired how h
could possibly sleep all day; tn
answer came, and have been think
ing ever since: IL have no place t
go to! | play cards until daylight
from Saturday night until Sunda
morning. i found this to be th
best way to spend my Sundays.
Here is food for reflection, here is
chance for noble women to add lus
tire to their nobility by inviting t
their home circle at least one youn
man and "reach him."
Has it not proved a failure t
make converts, to both the blue rit
bon and religion by the wholesale
1t is generally motley crow
which comes to listen; their nature
are as diversified and many as thei
numbers, still the same dose j
crammed down their throats. Som
take it indifferently, to others, j