The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-07-21

pcrs you have to file, arguments yUu
have to mako. 1t IL your medical pro.
iCssion, with its broken nights and the
exhausted anxietics of life hanging
upon your treatment. 1t is your real es-
tate Office, your business with landlords
aud tenants and the failure of men to
meet their obligations with you. Aye,
with some of those who are here it is
the annoyance of the kitchen. and the
sitting room, and the parlor-the wear.
ing economy of trying to meet large OK.
ponses with u small income Ten thou
sand voices Of business, business, bust
ness drown the voice of the eternal
Spirit, silencing the voice Of the advanc.
ing Judgment day, overcoming the voice
of eternity, and they cannot hear; they
cannot listen. They say, Go thy way
for this time. +" Some Of you look upon
your goods, look upon your profession,
YOU look upon your memorandum books,
and YOU see the Gcmar d. that are made
this very week upon your time and your
patience and your money, and while
am cntreating you about your soul and
the danger of procrastination you say:
"Go thy way for this time. When have
convenient season, | will call for thee
Oh, Felix, why be bothered about the
affairs of this world so much more than
about the affairs of eternity? Do you not
know that when death comes you will
have to stop business, though it be in
the most exacting period of it-between
the payment of the money and the TAX
ing of the receipt? The moment he
comes you will have to go. Death
waits for no man, however high, how
ever low. Will you put your office,
will you put your shop in comparison
| with the affairs of an eternal world,
| affairs that involve thrones, palaces,
| dominions eternal? viii you put 200
acres of ground against immensely?
| Will You put 40 or 80 years of your
| life against millions Of ages? Oh, Felix,
| you might better postpone everything
else, for do you not know that the up
holstering of Tyrian purple in your pal
ace will fade, and the marble blocks of
Cnsarca will crumble, and the breallwa-
ter at the beach, made Of great blocks
of stone 60 feet long, must give way
before the perpetual wash of the sea,
but the redemption that Paul offers you
will be forever? And yet and yet and
yet you wave him back to the guard
room, saying: $50 thy way for this
! time. When | have a convenient sea
son, will call for thee "
THE Favor of Men.
Again, Felix adjourned this subject
of religion and put off Paul's argument
because he could not give up the hon
ors of the world. He was afraid some
how he would be compromised himself
in this matter Remarks he made after
ward showed him to be intensely ambi-
tious. Oh, how he Rugged the favor of
| men!
never saw the honors of this world in
their hollowness and hypocrisy so much
as in the life and death of that wonder.
full man, Charles Sumner. As he went
toward the place Of burial, even hide
pendunce hall in Philadelphia asked
that his remains stop there on their way
to Boston. The flags were at half mast,
and the minute guns on Boston COM
mon throbbod after his heart had ceased
to beat. Was it always so? While he
! lived, how consured of legislative rcso-
| lutions; how cariCaturod of the picto-
rails; how charged with every motive
mean and ridicu'o Gus; how all the urns
| of scoln and hatred and billingsgate
emptled upon his head; how, when
| struck down in senate chamber, there
were hundreds Of thousands of people
who said, Good for him; serves him
right" how he had to put the ocean
between him and his maligners that he
might have little peace, and how,
when he went Off sick, they said he was
| broken hearted because he could not
get to be president or secretary of state!
o commonwealth of Massachusetts,
who is that man that sleeps in your pub
lie hall covered with garlands and
wrapped in the stars and stripes? Is
| that the man who, only a few months
| before, you denounced as the foe of re.
| publican aud democratic institutions?
Is that the same man? Ye American
| people, We could not by one week of fu-
neral eulogium and newspaper leaders,
which the dead senator could neither
read nor hear, atone for 25 years of
| LaltrCatment and caricature.
When l see man like that, pursued
by all the hounds of the political kennel
so long rs he lives and then buried I'M
| der a great pile Of garlands and amid
| the lamentations of whole nation,
say to myself: What an unutterably
| hypocritical thing is all human APP
| plause and all human favorl You took
% years in trying to pull down his
fgr nd tp in
| to build his monument My friends,
was there ever n better commentary on
the hollowness Of all earthly favor? If
| there are young men who read this who
are postponing religion in order that
they may havO the favors Of this world,
let me persuade them of their complete
folly. If you are looking forward tc
gubernatorial, senatorial or presidential
chair, let me show you your great mis-
take.
Can it be that there is now any young
man saying: Let me have political
o.ice, let me have sorie Of the high
positions of trust and power, and then
will attend to religion, but not now.
Go thy way for this time. When !
have convenient season, l will call
for thoel''
And now my subject takes a deeper
tone, and it shows what a dangerous
thing is this deferring of religion.
When Paul's chain ratified down the
marble stairs of Felix, that was Felix's
last chance for heaven. Judging from
his character afterward, he was repro
bate and abandoned. And so was Dru
silla.
One day in southern Italy there was
a trembling of the earth, and the air
got black with smoke intershot with
liquid rocks, and Nesuvius rained upon
Drusilla aud upon her son horrible
tempest of ashes and fire. They did not
reject religion. They only put it off,
They did not understand that that day,
that that hour when Paul stood before
them, was the pivotal hour upon which
everything was poised, and that it tip