The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-04-23

people standing and looking at it-ptuple ]
who never 40 into a church-thc tears rain
ing down their cheeks. The whole story is I
told.
Az UNPOPULAR BELIEF.
You may talk about the church being a .
collection OF hypocrtes, but when the diph- |
iberia sweeps your children of whom do /.
You send furY The postmaster, the attor F.
ney general. the hotel keeper. alderman
No, you send for minister Of this Bible
religion. And If you have not a room in
your house for the obsequies what building
do you solicit2 DO you say, Give me the
finest room in the hotelp DO you say,
Give me that theaterW DO you say, Give
me place in that public building where
| can lay my dead for a little while until we
say a prayer overitf' No You say, give
us the house of Cod
And II there is song to be sung at the
obscuuies what do you wantl What does
anybody want2 "The Marseillaise' hymnY
God Save the QueenY" Our own grand
national air. No. They want the hymn
with which they sang their old Christian
mother into her last sleep, or they want
sung the Sabbath school hymn which their
little girl sang the last Sabbath afternoon
she was out before she got that awful sick
ness which broke your heart | appeal to
your common sense. Nou know the most
endearing institution on earth, the most
popular institution ON earth today, is the
church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
The infidels say, "lniidelity shows tissue
/ cesses from the fact that 1t is everywhere
accepted. and it can say what it will ~
| WHY. my friends, infidclity is not half so
/ blatant in our day as it was in the days of
/ orr fathers. Do You know that in the days
of our fathers there were pronounced inf
/ dels in public authority, and they could get
/ any political positiony Let man today de
/ clare himself antagonistic to the Christian
| religion, and what city wants him for may
| or. what state wants him for governor,
what nation wants him for president or for
king? Let a man openly proclaim himself
the enemy of our glorious Christianity, and
he cannot get majority of votes in any
state. in any city, in any county, in any
ward of America.
RELIGION AND SCIENCE.
Do you think that such a scene could be
enacted now as was enacted in the days OF
Robespierre, when shameless woman was
elevated as "A goddess and was carried in &
golden chair to cathedral, where incense
was burned to her, and people bowed down
before her as divine being, she taking the
Mace of the Bible and God Almighty, while
in the corridor of that cathedral were enact
ed such scenes of drunkenness and debauch
cry and obscenity as have never been wit
messed? Do you believe such thing could
possibly occur in Christendom today No
Sir. The police, whether OF Paris or New
York, would swOop on it,
| know iniidelity makes good deal o.
talk in our day. 1t is on the principle that
If a man Jumps overheard from a Cunarc
| 10. al. a. tlaI
all the 500 people that stay on the decks
But the fact that he jumps overboard-doe
that stop the ship? Does that wreck thu
500 passengers? 1t makes great eXcitemen
when a man jumps from lecturing plat
form or from the pulpit into iniidelity. Blu
, does that keep the Bible and the churcl
from carrying their millions of passenger
into the skiesS
They say-these men-that science is over
coming religion in our day. They lool
, through the spectacles of the intidel scien
) lists, and they say: 1T is impossible tina
, this book can be true. People are finding
out. The Bible has got to go overheard
Science is going to throw it overheard.
Do you believe that the Bibles account @
the origin of life will be overthrow by in
fidel scientists who have 80 different thee
) ries about the origin of lifey If they shout
! come up in solid phalanX, all agreeing o
one sentiment and one theory, perhar
5 Christianity might be damaged, but thei
T are not so many differences of opinion il
t side the church as outside the church.
i SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEsT.
Y People used to say: There are so man
y different denominations of Christians. Thu
: shows there is nothing in religion" hay
l to tell YOU that all denominations agree o
] IL, tby radical
e of the Christian religion. They are unan
g nous in regard to Jesus Christ, and the
i are unanimous in regard to the divinity
= the Scriptures. How is it on the other sid,
T. All split up. You cannot find two Of thel
/ alike Oh it makes me sick to see the
literary tops going along with a copy
t Darwin under one arm and case OF tran
d fixed grasshOppers and butterflies und
!. the other arm, telling about the "surviy
n of the fittest" and HuXley's protoplas
e and the nebular hypothesis
v The fact is that some naturalists, just
e soon as they find out the difference betwe,
e the feelers of wasp and the horns of a be
a tie begin to patronize the Almighty, viii
10 Agassiz glorious Agassiz, who never MAJ
A. any pretensions to being Christian, pu
le his feet ON the doctrine of evolution al
ct says, Il see that many of the naturalists
o. our day are adopting facts which do u
n bear observation or have not passed und
es observation" These men warning wi
Of each other-Darwin warning against L
marche, Wallace warning against Coz
even Herschel denouncing Ferguson.
lie They do not agree about anything. Th
tie do not agree on embryology; do not agl
l on the graduation of the species What
I'd they agree on? Herschel writes a whit
] ha astronomy.
at Place declares that the moon was not }
be in the right place He says that if it b
he been put four times farther from the eal
of than It is now there would be more harmo
le in the universe, but Lionville comes up j.
n in time to prove that the moon was put
III the right place.
u How many colors woven into the liR
Is Seven, says Isaac Newton. Three, says
IRE vid Brewster. How high Is the aurora be
he alisl Two and a half miles, says Lias. {
IN hundred and sixty-eight miles, says Tw
ne ing. How far is the sun from the ear
Seventy-six million miles, says Laca
oh Eighty-two million miles, says Humbol
go Ninety million miles, says Henderson. {
BIZ hundred and four million miles, says May
On Only little difference of q, 0O0, 900 mi
5 All split up among themselves, not agl
les ing on anything. They come and say Il
les the churches OF Jesus Christ are divided
pie the great doctrines. All united they
w. In Jesus Christ, in the divinity of the Scr
en- lures. While they come up and propose
81 BENDER their verdict, no two of them az
led on that verdict.
al Gentlemen Of the jury, have you agrt
Ok, on verdictg" asks the court or the clerk
the jury as they come in after having sp,
10 the whole night in celebrating If the j.
OF say, "Yes, we have agreed" the verdict
res recorded. But suppose one of the jurym
~ says, II think the man was guilty of m
len der" and another says, II think he v
'oK guilty of manslaughter in the second
Iho gree" and another man saws ~ think
Ok was guilty of assault and battery with
ell tent to kill" the judge would say: Z"
the back TO your room and bring in "A verdi
the Agree on something. That is no verdict
: 1t No GROWTH To INFIDELITY.
ks. Here these intidel scientists have imp