The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-10-09


should be clean; they cannot heal the
nations sores lest they sicken at the
corruption of the nations wounds !.
They cannot espouse the nations
cause lest the mud that the nations
spoilers cast up against them cling to
their garments.
young men, strong men, come TO us
and help US You i arraign not, on you
| cast no reproach. Steel your nerves,
keep clean your hearts, and forget
your garments. Counselled by folly
and shallow ignorance, gathering to
themselves every element of wrong,
offering opportunity to vice and con
founding justice with spoliation, great
hordes of our fellow-creatures surge,
in the blind wrath of pain, up against
the bulwarks of order and honesty.
Who shall turn them from menace
to a defence? Never in the whole his
tory of the world was there such need
of man "a man of action and of
thought, a man of power and of sym
patty, who could yet for this cause
lay aside the rewards that thought
and power bring in their train; for
there are better things than calm,
nobler things than knowledge. In
the fierce pleasure of the strife for
right, in the absolute self forgetful-
ness of the struggle against wrong, in
profound study of the problems that
confront us, and in unceasing consid-
Grafton of the welfare of Others, that
man would gain surprising wisdom,
knowledge deep as beneficial, and the
calm of the strong in Spirit who wait
on God.
"But you, oh, you whose unjust
gains lengthen out slavery to the free;
you who are strong in the power of
wealth, fixed firm in your places; you
who with stony eyes ride forward to
destruction, dragging US all captive,
the statesman in your company, the
scholar i'll your train, the patriot be-
meath your heels-to you / turn with
warning and with threat. Hon. aUiU
you help Our brother? You set us this
pace At the doors of your consci-
ence lie the blacklist atrocities of this
atrocious age; the grinding of the
poor, the multiplication of useless ex-
actions, the destinations of meaning
less expenditure, the building up of
colossal abuses, the Oblivion to human
suffering, the deafness to human
cries All of you in comfort, all of
you in power, and howl of despera-
ton, a shrek of despair filling the |
very portals of your ears The vic |
Tins of your rapacity go about the |
streets daily in grinding toll or
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the fate of men in your hands, you |
deal out starvation or slavery as your |
grasping interests dictate; in your |
colossal self-seeking you would drag |
a universe to destruction J And you |
will not be warned. When my
brother calls you will stand aside, a
priesthood of Mammon, you and your
women and your children, until the
fire of the Lord ascends from the riven
earth to destroy you!
"And you, also, oh women who sit
at ease! Our hope and our destruction,
what can say to move you? Will
you nurse the sick in emulation, visit
the poor in ostentation, and in the
name of charity make heartless pill
grimages to look on the suffering and
degradation of earth's PROSTATE child
rem? Will you attain learning and
throw away wisdom? Strive for ma
terial equality where God has given
you spiritual precedence; and make of
yourselves slaves to convention, where
N simplicity you might rule?
"Woe unto you! STEPPED in useless
luxury, scattering temptation, covet-
BUSINESS and infamy from your very
garments, setting up a standard for
he firing of your bodies higher than
he ideal you strive for in the adorn-
nent of your souls, while the evil you
lave wrought in the hearts of your |
listers cries unto heaven
"You hold us all in your hands. For
your sakes we heap mp riches; for
vour sakes we strive for fame; for
,our sakes we forget our country, our
luties, and our God! The children are
,ours; the men are yours; all, all of
is are as you make us, gaeat or small,
nd you turn to the mirror of your
wn self-consciousness and-forget us,
"Oh you, at once the most spiritual
nd most material of Gods created |
eings, how you could raise up the
Whole wide world! How you do de-
aseu
The old mans voice faltered; he
topped a moment and looked as if
ewildered; tears were running down
Is face; he dashed them aside, his
axe fixed on all the assembled crowd
t white-ro clergy in the nave. {
tretching his hands out over them !
alf in supplication half in blessing:
Brethren" he said, "peace be unto ,
GU! When / look down upon all
his councourse the walls of the church
eem to fall away; L see wide plains
nd fertile valleys and far billy coun-
RES with hundreds of villages nest
ing among the trees. The spires of
he churches CLEAN softly, the smoke
rom quiet homes rises gently, and the I
till glory of the autumn lies over it ,
II like benediction from God" ,