The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1890-01-10

adjustment of all regulations that
are imposed on his traffic. What
cares he how many families he robs
of their home and support, or how
many men he ruins? And the licen-
tious man AYERS that it is no ones
business how he carries on.
Those who are possessed of con-
victions of an opposite nature have
nothing for it but to meet these as.
saults Or protests and withstand
them; and, so long as their minds
are united, their hands are strong.
But when those of their own camp
rise and virtually say, I'VE
are deluded creatures, self-deceived,
bllndly carried away by the argu-
ments, customs and usages of our
ancestors and their false interpreta-
tions Of scripture, that may have
been all we'll enough for them but
not for us, and we ought to do better
because we know better" 1mmedi-
ately an issue is raised, break is
made, and what is there to reunite
and sustain the parted hands, or
who is there to settle the disputed
question for them?
To judge from my own feelings
and desires in the matter, say, all
we want to know is, what is right.
We do not regard these restrictions
in any sense burdensome. We con-
form to them with perfect willing
ness because we regard them as hav-
ing emanated from the wisest of all
sources, and been proved by all ex-
perience to be for the we'll being of
all humanity. We do not feel that
we sacrifice anything in so doing,
but would not for moment cling to
these views any longer, nor strive to
train or convert others to them,
could we be but once convinced that
they were fallacious, originating
only in mans brain.
There are bounds of course within
which man may conduct himself,
for instance, on Sunday, without
violating any moral law. A con-
scientious man will do on that day.
under one set of circumstances. what
he would not do under another.
But are there really no bounds be-
You'd which man may not go, in a
manner, however, devoid of any in
jury to his neighbor, and not be held
accountable to general moral law?
Is the scriptural law prohibiting
work on Sunday really obsolete, worn
out, intended only for the people of
those times and not for us? Is the
latitude allowed by that law to cover
''works Of necessity" to be so ex-
tended as to cover anything and
everything that selfish human nature
chooses to include under the head of
necessities?
If 1, being the driver of a IL
censed hack, consider it an act Of
kindness and perfectly right, to take
passenger arriving by steamer
on Sunday, to his home or hotel,
may I also take baseball club that
arrives by the same steamer in tran
sit to another port, out to the play
grounds to have a game on Sunday,
because, forsooth, the steamer will
not stop over for them to play a
game on Monday, and a certain por-
ton of the community demands the
pay my VI d game vi ouuIdy DIS d
necessity, or as pleasure which
Christian people through the laws
have no business to interfere with
And if we once admit that the posi-
ton so taken is sound, and yield to
the demand or desire, how long
would it be, before there would be
practically no Sunday? And when
the abolition of the Christian Sun
day became an established fact,
would it not also come to pass, that
the moral tone and character of the
whole community be lowerede
Consequently, is it not better for
those who profess to believe in the
authenticity and wisdom Of the
scriptural teachings, to resist the
entertainments that are sought to be
made on the sanctity of the Sabbath,
than to yield to the demands of
those who care nothing for such
matters, when the necessity for so
doing is not clear?
1 ask these questions in all candor,
and though [ have but barely
touched the subject, and that in an
imperfect manner, will not tres
pass further on your space. Thank
ing you for INDUCING me thus far.
INQUIRER.