The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1891-11-03

enough, but the former has moth
ing to do with the case"
The community was in tho
enjoyment of religious peace
and quietness, now alas of
blessed memory, until DR..
Hammond imported into it the
harsh notes of controversy and dis
cord. Whatever faults may be laid
to the charge of Honolulu Christ
ians, sectarianism IS not one of
them. The Central Union Church
includes men of all denominations.
1t is DR.. Hammond, aided and abet-
ted by few other cranks, with his
fond adherence to form, with his
gross worship of the letter, who
has reused bitterness and the spirit
of strife. 1t is melancholy to see
the Bible so grossly mlsused and
perverted, as it Is by DR.. Ham
mond and all of his kith and kin.
He treats it like a law-book, cuts
it up into texts for purposes of
warfare, numbering to dissect. He
tears it up to be used as wadding
to ram home his controversial bull
lets. No one who makes such o
wanton misuse of the Bible can
have any conception of its value as
a source of inspiration and life.
The plain truth Is, people are
sick and tired of the whole busl-
ness. Complaints are pouring in
from all quarters. The public is q
patient beast of burden, but it's
back can be broken. The worm
will turn. People want the Bulle-
tin TO bristle with something be-
sides Scriptural quotations. They
are tired of having DR.. Hammond
served up hot for dinner and cold
for breakfast. Indeed, we more than
suspect that even if Prince Kunuia.
kefs shot had taken effect some
where else than sin my fence, close
to my door," the jury would never
have hung him for it.
There is popular prejudice-it
may be nothing .more-against con-
bining the two businesses of bap-
thing and specializing. We confess
to sharing this prejudice to ccr-
tain extent. Both employments
are perfectly reputable, but
they are ill-assorted, and any at
tempt to run them as branches of
the same business is bound to
be a failure. Such an attempt
may not hurt the land specu-
lations any, but it will GER
tainly bring discredit and shame
upon the cause of Christ. There is
a text which seems in point Ito bor-
row the Doctors weapons): +" Ye
cannot serve God and Mammon."
Doubtless this quotation would be
answered by the ever ready Doc
tor with another more to his taste,
viz: "The righteous shall inherit
the earth" to which our acquisi-
tive friend would add as gloss,
or merely as an ingenious piece of
exegesls, "And if he doesn't take
by inheritance, he shall get all he
can by purchase or otherwise"
Or perhaps the reverend gen.
tleman notes that the first
text is not prohibition. 1t
does not say We SHALL not serve
God and Mammon, but ye CANNOT.
Now, DR.. Hammond apparently
thinks that he can. He doubtless
agrees with the famo us John p.
Robinson:
John P.
Robinson, he
Sez they didn't know everythin'
down in JUDGE.
But all joking aside, the figure
hat DR.. Hammond has cut, since
to Honolulu, with his eter-
nal controversies, his caustic, not
TO say abusive letters, his embroil-
ng all classes of Christians, his
love OF notoriety and his real estate
'peculations, such a figure, we say,
8 ill-calculated to reflect credit on
;he cause of the Master whom he
Processes to serve. It is things
Ike these which make Sinners
'neer and laugh, and the "sinners"
lere are doing it with all their
night. We do not for a moment
ay that DR.. Hammond is not a
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