The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-11-30

husband. Either is but fragment
without the other; both together are
the germinal unit of humanity. The
children need the parents, and hardly
less do the parents need the children.
The children bring rejuvenescencet to
the parents, and when children are
grown, grandchildren come to re-youth
advancing age. One generation be-
queathes its accumulated lega-
cies to all subsequent genera
| tons. If we were suddenly cut
off today from the accumulations OF
the past, how thoroughly impover-
ished should we be!
In the early morning, the market
wagon rattles past my house,-lt Inks
the country with the city. 1t pro
claims the old story that men need
each other. The husbandman needs
the city consumer and the city con-
sumner needs the product of the coun-
tryman's toll. There is like inter-
dependence among nations. Hence
trade arises on a broad scale, binding
the nations of mankind together in
commercial bonds. There are times,
also, of calamity, when a given nation
requires alienation from other COM
munities at the moment more abun-
dainty blessed. When our civil war
cut Off the supplies of American cot
ton, the Lancasshier operatives were
reduced to the verge of starvation, but
from the abundant American larder,
supplies were dispatched across the
sea. And when the great Chicago fire
suddenly impoverished multitudes
who had been in aff1uence, England
showed her gracious sisterhood in
sending aid to the Chicago sufferers.
The solidarity of the race appears
oil IN, he ~ hor inf
by strong upon the weak. In 1920 the
Pilgrim Fathers landed at Plymouth,
and that same year a slave ship sailed
up the James river discharging a
cargo of bondmen from Africa. Thus
slavery was planted on the virgin
American soil. But slavery was a
thousand times greater moral curse to
the slave holder than the slave.
Here is a manufacturer of clothing;
he uses the sweating system. Multi
tudes of young women he drives to
the verge of starvation. Exhausted
and discouraged in picking up their
precarious living at the point of
needle, they lapse into sin. This man
has sons upon whom he dotes-pros-
pective heirs of his great fortune.
They fall dupes to the seduction of the
victims OF his own heartlessness; and
the home that had grown rich by the
spelling of the poor is demoralized by
the very causes which enriched it.
The speaker further illustrated his
subject from the harm that visits a
whole community when it neglects
its ignorant and vicious classes, and
from the beneficent reflex influence of
missions upon the churches and COM
mittees that sustain them. He further
showed how solidly this community
of human interests rests upon the
authority of the divine word. The
sermon was closed with varied appli-
cations of the subject to local needs, |
and to the relations of capital and |
labor.
JAPANESE CHURCH.
At the Japanese church the Thanks |
giving service was held in the even
ing. Rev. Mr.. Okabe drew lessons |
for thanksgiving from the victories of |
the Japanese nation in Korea. Special |
music was rendered, principal among |
the songs being a national anthem,
'God Bless Our Native Land" set to |
the tune of America.
AT THE TENT.
Thanksgiving services at the Gospel |
tent were conducted by Il. d. Garvin
and Lieut.. Stileman. The attendance
vas very good Notwithstanding the
ain, and a good collection of money
md clothing was taken for the poor.