The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-03-10

die Of Orion. Worlds on worlds Worlds
under wurldsf Worlds above worlds
Worlds beyond worldsl So many that
are of no use in the calcula-
ton But he counted them as he made
them, and he made them with his fingers
Reservation of power Suppression Of ON
niputpnCel Resources M vet untouched! /
Almightiness yet undemoustrated! Now, .
ask for the benefit OF all dsheartened |
Christian workers, If God accomplished |
So much with his fingers, what can he do |
when he puts out all his strength and |
when he unlimhers all the batteries of his |
omuipotence? The Bible speaks again and |
again of Gods outstretched arm, but only |
once, and that in the text, of the bare arm
of God.
GREAT UNDERTAKING.
My text makes it plain that the rectii
cation of this world is IA stupendous under.
taking. Ii takes more power TO make this
world over again than 1t took to make 1t
at first. \ word was only necessary to'
the first creation, but for the new creation
the unsleeved and unhipdered fore arm of
the Almighty The reason of that can
understand. In the shipyards of Liverpool
or Glasgow or New York n great vessel Is
constructed The architect draws out the
plan. the length Of the beam, the capacity
of tonnage, the rotation of wheel or screw.
the cabins, the mustS and all the appoint
meuts of this great palace of the deep. The
architect finishes his work without any
perplcNity, and the carpenters and the AZ.
tiznus toll on the craft so many hours
day, each one doing his part until with
flags living and thousands of people huzza
ing on the docks the vessel is launched.
But ont on the sea that steamer breaks
her shaft and is limping slowly along to-
ward harbor when Caribbean whirlWinds,
those mighty hunters of the deep, looking
out for prey of ships, surround that wound
ed vessel and pitch it on "A rocky coast. and
she lifts and falls in the breakers until ev.
cry joint is loose, and every spar is down,
and every wave sweeps over the hurricane
deck as she parts midships. Would it not
require more skin and power to get that
splintered vessel off the rocks and recon
struct it than it required originally to
/ build her? Aye, Our world that God built
so beautiful, and which started out with
all the flash of Edenic foliage and with
the chant Of paradisaiCal bowers, has been
90 centuries pounding in the skerties of
sin and sorrow, and to get her out, and to
get her off, and tu get her on the right way
again will require more of omnipotence
than it required to build her and launch
her So nm not surprised that though
in the drydocb of one word our world was
made it will take the unsleeved arm of God
to lift her from the rocks and put her ON
the right course again. 1t is evident from
my text and its comparison with other
texts that it would not he so great an I'M
dertaking to make n whole constellation
of worlds. and whole galaxy of worlds,
and a whole astronomy of worlds and
swing them in their right orbits rs to take
this wounded world, this stranded world,
this bankrupt world, this destroyed world,
and make it rs good as when it started
NEED OF POWER FROM HEAVEN.
Now. Just look at the enthrnued Difficult
ties in the way, the removal of which, the
overthrow of which, seem TO require the
bare right arm of omnipotence. There
stands heathenism, with its 100000, 900
victims. do not care whether you call
them Brahmans or Buddhists, Confucians
or fetch idoaters. At the Worlds fair
in Chicago last summer those monstrosi-
ties of religion tried to make themselves
respectable, but the long hair and baggy
trousers and trinketed robes of their repre-
sentatives cannot hide from the world the
facts that those religions are the authors
of funeral pyre, and iuggernaut crushing
and Ganges infantiCide, and Chinese sho,
torture, and the aggregated massacres Of
many centuries They have their heels OF
2 India, on China, on Persia, on Borneo, OF
three-tourths of the acreage of our poo
J old world. know that the missionaries
l who are the most sacrificing and Christ
like men and women on earth, are making
2 steady and glorious inroads upon thes
built up denominations of the centuries
All this stuff that you see in some of tn
newspapers about the missionaries az liv
t
by corrupt American or English or ScotCl
merchants, whose loose behavior in heath
en- cities has been rebuked by the mission
aries, and these corrupt merchants writ
home or tell innocent and unsuspectinj
! visitors in India or China or the darkenet
islands of the sea these falsehOods about GU
consecrated missionaries, who, turnin!
, their backs on home and civilization an
e emolument and comfort, spend their live
e in trying to introduce the mercy of tb
t gospel among the downtrodden of heath
l enism. Some Of those merchants leay
! their families in America or England o
Scotland and stay for few years in tn
r ports of heathenism while they are maxim
9 their fortunes in the tea or rice or opiur
trade, and while they are thus absent fror
: home give themselves to orgies of disc
luteness such us no pen or tongue could
without the abolition of all decency, nj
D tempt to report. The presence of the mis-
i sionarics with their pure and noble hous,
, holds in those heather ports is a constan
rebube to such debauchees and miscreant'
e If satan should visit heaven, from whic
= he was once roughly but justly eXpatr
a ated, and he should write home to til
r realms pandemoniac, his correspondent
published in DiabolOs Gazette or Apo
lyOnic News about what he had seen, b
V would report the temple of God and til
q Lamb as n broken down church, and I'll
I, house of many mansions as n disreputab
, place aud the cherubim rs suspicious
morals. Sin never did like holiness, an
, you had better not depend upon satan
t report of the sublime and mulupoteI
t work of our missionaries in foreign land
y But notwithstanding al that these me
1 and women of God have achieved, the
p feel, and we all feel that if the idOlatroU
e lands are to be ChristianZed there neeC
k to be "A power from the heavens that h'
d not yet condescended, and we feel iii
d crying out in the words of Charles Wesle
Arm Of the Lord, awake, awake
Il Put on thy strength, the nations shake.
> Aye, it is not only the Lords arm tn;
: is needed, the holy arm, the outstretche
" arm, but the bare arm!
" CORRUPT RELIGIONS.
- There, too, stands Mohammedanisn
u with its l76, 900, 600 victims. It's Bible
e the Koran, a book not quite as large I
Z our New Testament, which was revealt
u TO Mohammed when in epleptic fits, an
" resuscitated from these fits he dictated
; TO scribes. Yet it is read today by MOI
people than any other book ever writer
II Mohammed, the founder of that religion
- a polygamist, with superiority of wive
~ the first step of his religion on the body
!, mind aud soul of woman, and no wondt
!, that the heaven Of the Koran is IN eve
- lasting Sodom, an infinite seraglio, abou
~ which MOhammed promises that each 70
Va lower shall have in that place ~ wives i
~, addition to all the wives he had on eartl
- but that no old woman shall even entC