The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1891-12-30
Inerafitude.

Mr.. EDITOR: The liberality you
ave shown in giving space to your
moments in journalistic warfare,
ttOnes, in a great measure, for your
ross and reckless literary style.
Considering this and that you must
eed good deal of matter to fill up
be six pages in your present ex-
anded state, I venture to send in the
SLOWING with the praiseworthy in
ention of amusing your readers:
This is not the first time have
cen charged with the crime of bare
md treacherous ingratitude. 1t has
appened so often in fact, that L be-
lin to wonder if it is not my beset-
ing sin and the cause of my melan-
holy state One winter in II II
Aaho, WhenL the town was buried
Fmder the snow and people went
: home in the mornlng-they didn't go
lome till morning there usually-on
know-shoes and through tunnels,
there appeared on the scene a Chris
ian Science Healer, large, hand
some lady of progressing appear
ance and address. The town was
pretty well provided with heelers and
all Otheradjuncts to politics and dissi-
patton, as we'll as two or three
zchurches that were dwindling to ex-
atnction in competition with seven
teen gin mills, all provided with lit
{ tie German bands and calcimined
lady Warblers. About all the churches
had to do was to bury the garnered
sheaves, of which there was con-
Siderable crop every week, carried off
s by iim-iams, and also because they
couldn't get along with their fellow
men.
This Christian Science Healer
could not only cure the deaf, blind,
and bilious, but was also a great
EVANGELIST, and converted sinners and
Il atheists. The good work was not
Il furnishing in that climate and the
4 piOus Christian people were on the
verge of despair. They couldn't do
anything themselves and they eager
! ~ took up the wonder-worker VINO
could. She became the rage and the
craze. She healed the sick; the lame
threw away their clutches, and the
short sighted their glasses. Miracles
we're of daily occurrence. Halt-a,
dozen cases of hardened old-timers fell
at her feet and profered their CONVEX
sion. She did it all by Christian
science, and that science had a boom
Of unprecedented magnitude. Crowds
Of people besieged the hotel waiting
to be treated at q hundred dollars pei
heat. But she didn't convert any
atheists. / had in some way gotten
reputation for skepticism. My friends
took me to her lectures. She favored
NE with personal eXhOrtations with
out any apparent effect. She was
forming a class of adopts to whom she
proposed to teach the mysteries O
Christian science, initiate them into
The sacred rites, and put the hnlsnlne
touches on, SO they would be July
and finally healed and saved. ms
was the last remedy, warranted q
work where all else failed. A prett.
numerous crop of fools paid $500
piece for instruction in supernatural
knowledge. Much to my astonish
Ment, was invited to join the cIas
without pay and without price. wa
not suffering for religion that W1nte
n 80 Aucn as IOr CofIdlI1 u1dLcIAGsA COAA1
lorts. My friends all urged me to g
and try it. They thought l ought t
Try everything; it might do me som
good, anyway, and couldn't hurt me
Some of the bad men came around
TOO, and advised me to go in for titan
even offered "tO pay my expenses an
see me through yielded and wen
and listened to the whole absurd bus
hess. The lady talked very fine an
sweet, but [ was unmoved. [ wa
surprised at the number of people in
Y%fested in me. Everywhere / wen
was talked to by dozens of people
al anxious to hear my opinion. b
Ing naturally little reticent, [ sal
M WIl and looked straight before M
tnhen went down town | was SUI
70 be waylaid and pulled into a ba
room and forced to drink villainor
whisky and smoke mephitic cigar
4 HHHlle they talked Christian science
4 SMcourse, felt under obligations
4 cay as little as possible in such place
4 ~ ~iou Christian lady and kind pc
4 pi0 who were trying to save M
8 ma had three daily newspaper
fs nu they discussed the question in
I @nk and vigorous manner quite VI
"0Wn in this climate. Two were