The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-12-16

30 or inuumerable different forms, aud
finally is absorbed in God. IL was God at |
the start aud will be God at the last. But !
who gives the authority for the truth OF
such u religiong Some beings living in a
cave in central Asia. They are invisible to
the naked eye but they cross continents
and seas in flash.
My Baptist brother, DIR. Haldeman, says
that theosophist in New York was visit
ed by one of these mysterious beings from
central Asia The gentleman knew 1t from
the fact that the mysterious being left his
pocket handkerchief, embroidered with his
name and Asiatic residence. The most won
derful achievement of the theosophists is
that they keep out of the insane asylum.
They prove the truth of the statement that
no religion ever announced was so absurd
but it gained disciples Societies in the
United States and England and other lands
have been established for the FORMULATION
of theosophy.
Instead of needing the revelation of a
Bible, you can have these spirits from a
cave in central Asia to tell you all you
ought to know, and after you leave this
life you may become Il prima donna, or a
robin, or "a guzelle, or a sot, or prizchghter,
or llerod, or a Jezebel, and so be enabled
to have great variety of eNperien e, lotat-
ing through the universe, now rising, now
falling, now shot out in straight line
and now describing Il parabulu, and on and
on, and upand up, an down and down, and
round and round Don't you see; Now,
that theosophic lifcboat has been launched.
1t proposes to take you off the rough sea
of doubt Nltu everlasting quietude. How
do you like that lifebuatf My opinion is
you had better initiate the mariners of my
text and cut of the ropes of that boat and
let her fall off
THE MORALIsT's HOPE.
Another lifeboat tempting us to enter is
/ made up of many planks OF good works,
! 1t is really a beautiful t-almsgiving
! practical sympathes for human suffering
/ righteous words and righteous deeds.
mus admit | like the looks of the Prov
and Of the rowlocks, and of the paddles,
aud of the steering gear, and of many who
are thinking TO trust themselves on her
benches. But the trouble about that life
boat is it leaks. | never knew man yet
] good enough to earn heaven by his virtues
or generosites. If there he one person here
present on this blessed sabbath all of whose
| thoughts have been always right all of
/ whose actions have always been right, aud
] all of whose words have always been right,
let him stand up, or if already standing let
him lift his hand. and | will know that he
lies.
Paul had it about right when he said,
by the deeds of the law shall no flesh liv-
ing be justified David had it about right
when be said, There is none that doeth
d. good--no. not one" The old book had it
about right when it said "All have snned
and come short of the glory of God" Let a
man get oil that little steamer called The
AIasl 8 sl, k.. f...f
of Niagara tails, and then climb to the top
of the falls on the descending floods, for he
can do it easier than any man ever will be
able TO climb to heaven by his good works.
If your thoughts have always been exactly
right, and your words exactly right, and
your deeds always exactly right, you can
go up to the gate of heaven, and you need
not even knock for admittance, but open 1t
yourself and push the angels ont of your
way and 20 up and take one of the front
seats.
But you would be so unlike any one else
that has gone up from this world that you
would be a curiosity in heaven and more
| fit for heavenly museum than for place
where the inhabitants could look at you
free of charge. No, sir, admire your good
works, and that lifeboat you are thinking
: of trusting in is hapdsomer than any yawl
/ or pinnace or yacht or cutter that ever sped
ouo Of boathouse or hoisted sail for n
race. But she leaks Trust your soul in
! that, and you will 90 the bottom. She
| leaks. So | initiate the mariners of the
/ text, and with cutlass strike the ropes of
the boat and let her fall off
THE HOPE OF THE HYPoCRITE.
Another lifeboat is Christian Inconsist-
encies. The planks of this boat are com
posed of the split planks Of shipwrecks
That prov is made out of hypocrisy from
the life of a man who protested one thing
and really was another. One oar of thi.
lifeboat was the falsehood of a church
! member, and the other oar was the wick ed
ness of some minister of the gospel who's,
iniuuities were not for long while found
out Not one plank from the oak of God.
eternal truth in all that lifeboat. All tn,
blanks, by universal admission, are de
cayed and crumbllng and fallen apart ant
rotten and ready to sink. Well, welll'
YOU say. No one will want to get int,
that lifeboat."
Oh, my friend, you are mistaken. Tha
is the most popular lfeboat ever con
structed That is the most popular life
boat ever launched. Millions of peopl
want to get into it. They jostle each othe
to get the best seat in the boat. You coul,
not keep them back though you stood a
the gunwales with club, Us on our shi
Greece in a hurricane, and the steerag
passengers were determined to come up o.
deck, where they would have been washe
off. and the officers stood at the top of tn
stairs clubbing them back. Even by sue
violence as that you could not keep peopl
from jumping into the most popular lif,
boat, made of church member inconssteI
cies. In times of revival when sinners foe
into the inquiry room the most of ther
are kept from deciding Alright because the
know so many Christians who are bad.
The inquiry room becomes worlds fai
! for exhibition of all the frailties of churc
members, so that if you believe all is ther
told you you would be afraid TO enter
church lest you get your pockets picked G
get knocked down. This Is the way the
talk: ~ was cheated out of 500 by leade
of a Bible class" "A Sunday school teacf
err gossiped about me and did her best /
destroy my good name" II had partne
in business who swamped our business cor
Germ by his trickery and then rolled up hi
., eyes in Friday night prayer meeting, a
! though he were looking for Elijah's charo
| to make a second trip and take up anothe
! passenger"
But what a cracked and water logge
and gaping scanned nieDOht tine lncOnsls
encies of others Put me on IA single miC
D Atlantic and leave me there rather than /
such a yawl of spiritual confidence Go
forbid that should get aboard it, and les
some of you make the mistake of gettin
into it | do as the mariners did on tina
: Mediterranean ship when the sailors wer
! about to get into the unsafe lifeboat of til
1 text and lose their lives in that way. "The
tue soldiers cut off the ropes of the boa
+, AID let her fall of.
! THE ONLY SAFE LIFEBoAT.
"Well," says some one, this subject
; very discouragng, for we must have life
{ boat if We are ever to get ashore, and 20
+ have already condemned three" All, it
! because want to persuade you to take tn
} only safe lifeboat. will not allow you {
a, be deceived and get on to the wild wave
u and then capsige or sink. Thank God, theT
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