The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1891-10-21
Concluded from The Isl P0ge')

" and in way never to conllct
with the rights and welfare OF man
kind. And labor, fresh from the
strong arm and busy brain OF men,
is equally held to observe the laws OF
justice, brotherhood, and good 1aiCh'
How these divine doctrines OF Vhe
Great Teacher speak to princes ana
aristocrats, who think to live in the
grandeur of lazness, without LABOR,
without usefulness, on the earnings
of others, making the world no bet
ter for their living in it. How nobly
they appear when worked out IN the
career of John Frederic Oberlln,.
who, gifted and well educated, in
neglected, impoverished, benlghted
districts near the foot of the Alps,
devoted many years of untirlng ef-
fort to the Improvement of the moral
and physical well-being of thousands
of poor peasants, making their will
derness blossom as the rose, turning
wretched hamlets into homes OF COM
fort and peace. How they stirred
the soul and gave strength to the
will of Wilberforce, in making war
against the slave trade, in which his
countrymen were engaged, though
rich merchants, millions of capital,
and organized political power in
British Parliament and Cabinet,
scoffed at and opposed him. How
they gave power and almost divinity
to John Howard during his years of
benevolent labor for the reform of
prison management, pushing his way
amid impurities, wretchedness, and
pestilence, q heroic crusader against
prejudice and brutality strongly in
trenched behind custom and author
ity, trampling under his sacred feet
the atheistic dogma-''I am not my
brothers. keeper" These truths
were more than plainly limited when,
at Philadelphia, in 1776, bold Am
orleans declared to the world-all
men are created free and equal IN
moral and political rights-a declara-
tion which has led to mighty events
on both sides of the Atlantic. They
moved and guided the sage of Au-
burn during his forty years of patri-
otto and noble craftsmanship, for
when college youth William H.
Seward saw human slavery in Geor-
gia, and ever after, through tre-
mendous struggles in American poll
tics and the years of gigantic war, to
the day of his death, in 1872, never
wavered in devotion TO the flag of I'M
partial liberty and human brother
hood. The same truths inspired, ghid-
ed, and made an ever illustrious mar
tyr of Abraham Lincoln, whose name
will 60 down the track of ages in a halo
of living light; and they gave fire,
nerve, courage, and devotion to Will
liam Lloyd Garrison in his lifelong
warfare against what he pronounced
the "sum of all villanies" -the en-
slavement of men.
The Fatherhood of God and the
brotherhood of man-how the worlC
needs these divine truths at the pre-.
sent time. Look on the other side
of the Atlantic. How the boundarie.
of nations bristle with enormous
Notifications, armed with thousands
of cannon, with all the modern en-
ginery of carnage. What else il
Europe to- day than a vast military
camp, where the tramp of armies
can be heard in every district, city
and hamlet? Three hundred anC
fifty millions of civilized men anC
women kept in constant dread of th'
horrors of war. More than three
millions of men--the young and thu
able bodied, the cream of the ma
tions, kept under military drill
More than three thousand millions O
dollars per annum expended for war
like purposes-the income of capita
and the earnings of the toiIin!
masses, while government debts g
on rolling up in appalling proper
tions, crushing the nations with thu
enormous weight. Has human in
telllgence spoken its last word in tn
European world? Has the genius o
craftsmanship no more light t.
shed on the problems of gov
eminent? Does it confess it
: helpessness before the appalling
evils and dangers which surroun
the nations? Cannot the ingenuit
of man devise system of disarma
ment in the name of human brother
hood and common sense? Why nc
have a confederation of Europea
peoples, with a central judicial tri
bunal to settle international disputes
corresponding to the United State
Supreme Court at Washington, whic
is the final authority of arbltratio
and justice between forty-four Amer
lean States, over an area as large a
Europe. Plainly enough the OF
World is not now in need of Napo
Icons, of heartless autocrats, nor c
statesmen of "blood and iron," bu
the nations are hungering for th
words and examples of leader
taught by the living God. Only tn
religion, the Christianity, the church
the craftsmanship, which uplift an
proclaim on all their banners an
everywhere the Divine Fatherhoo
and the Universal Brotherhood c
men can lead the continents frol