The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-01-27

seems to me there are some intimatious " .
the morning All Spain Is To- be brought .
under the influence OF the gospel What Is .
| that Hght | see breaking over the top uf /
I the pyrcuces' Thcmuuiug Yea, all Tia /
| " shall rcccsyc the gospel She shall have I
her schools. and hor colleges and her .
churches. Her vast population shall sur /
/ render themselves to Christ.
! What is that light see breaking over the /
/ top Of the Alps' The morning. All India |
| shall come to God Her idols shall be cast
down Her Juggernauts shall be broken.
| Her temples Of iniquity shall be domol.
/ ishcd What is that light | see breaking
| over the top Of the llimalayas' The morn
/ ing. The empurpled clouds shall gild the
path Of the conqucrng day. The HOtteutot
! will come out of his mud hovel to look at
/ the dawn. the Chinaman will come up on
the granite cliffs; the Norwegian will yet
up on the rocks, and all the beach OF heaven
! will be crowded with celestial inhabitants
come out TO see the sun rise over the ocean
of the worlds agony.
They shall come from the east and from
the west, from the north and from the
south, and sit down in the kingdom Of
God These sweltered under tropical suns
These shivered under Icelandc tempera-
ture These plucked the vineyards in Italy
These packed the tea boxes in China. These
were aborignes lifting up their duslly faces
| in the dawn. And the wind shall watt IL,
and every mountain shall become trans
figuration, and the sea will become the
walking place of him who trod the wave
cliffs of stormy Liberals, and the song of
JOY shall rise toward heaven, and the great
sky will become a sounding board which
shall strike back the shout of salvation to
the earth until it rebounds again to the
throne of the Almighty, and the morning
star of Christian hope will become the full
sunburst of millennal glory.
Again, Christ heralds the dawn of heaven
, upon every Christians dying pillow |
suppose you have noticed that the charac
teristics of people in their healthy days are
, very apt to be their characteristics in their
dying days. The dying words of ambitious
Napoleon were, Head of the army" The
: dying words of poetic Lord Byron were, ~
must sleep now" The dying words of af-
, fectionate Lord Nelson were, kiss me,
Hardy" The dying words of Noltairp were,
as he saw one whom he supposed to be
> Jesus in the room, Crush that wretch"
But / have noticed that the dying words of
Christians always mean peace. Generally
, the pain is all gone, and there is great qui-
: etude through the room. As one of these
brothers told me of his mother in the last
I, moment: "She looked up and said, point
= ing to some supernatural being that seemed
/ to be in the room, Look at that bright
: form. Why, they have come for me now 4"
! The lattice is turned SO that the light is
:, very pleasant. 1t is peace all around. You
? ask yourself: "Why, can this be a dying
. room2 1t is so different from anything
: ever expected" And you walk the floor,
and you look out of the window, and you
q come back and look at your watch, and you
a look at the face of the patient again, and
: there is no change, except that the face is
: becoming more radiant, more illuminated.
4 The wave of death seems coming up high
. err and higher until it has touched the
= ankle; then it comes on up until it touches
the knee, and IT, it comes on up until it
reaches the giuile, and then it comes on mp
"a until it reaches the lip and the soul is about
to be tioated away into glory, and you roll
> back the patients sleeve, and you put your
finger on the pulse, and it is getting weak
:, er and weaker, and the pulse stops, and
! you hardly know whether the life has gone
: out or not. Indeed you cannot tell when
she goes away, she goes away SO calmly.
: Perhaps it is o'clock in the morning, and
: you have the bed wheeled around to the
q window, and the dying one looks out into
4 the night sky, and she sees something that
q attracts her attention, and you wonder
+ what it is.
:. AN EYE on THE STAR.
> Why, it is star. 1t is star that out of
its silver rim is pouring a supernatural
= light into that dying experience. And you
: say, what is it that you are looking att"
a She says, SIT is star" You say, what
star is it that seems so well to please your"
n "Oh," she says, that is the morning star
: --Jesusp would like to have my death
: bed under that evangelistic start would
-, 7 1
= be assured of the morning. Then the dash
of the surf of the sea Of death would only
. be the billowing up of the promise, when
a thou passest through the water, will be
. with thee, and the rivers they shall not
= overflow thee" All other lights will fail
y the light that falls from the scroll of
:. fame, the light that flashes from the gem
> in the beautiful apparel, the light that
. flames from the burning lamps of ban
a quet-but this light burns on and burns on.
= Paul kept his eye on that morning star
n until he could say: II am now ready to be
offered, and the time of my departure is at
v hand. | have fought the good fight. have
> finished my course. | have kept the faith. ~
= Edward Payson kept his eye on that star
- until he could say, The breezes of heaven
y fan me.' DIR. Goodwin kept his eye on that
" evangelistic star until he could say, ~ am
- swallowed up in God" John Tenant kept
\ his eye on that evangelistic star until he
. could say, "Welcome, sweet Lord Jesus
= welcome eternity" No other star ever
= pointed a mariner into so safe harbor
!. No other star ever sunk its silvered anchor
4 into the waters. No other star ever pierced
g such accumulated cloud or beckoned with
such holy luster.
With lanterns and torches and guide
we went down in the Mammoth cave OF
| oh i1,,ao
- no sunlight. 1t is stupendous place
~ Some places the roof of the cave is 100 feet
y high. The grottoes filled with weird echoes
1t cascades falling from invisible height to iu-
is visible depth. Stalagmites rising up from
Q the floor of the cave; stalactites descend
Y ing from the roof of the cave, joining each
n other and making pillars of the Almighty IS
II sculpturing There are rosettes of amethyst
i. in halls of gypsum. As the guide carries
e his lantern ahead of you the shadows have
e an appearance supernatural and spectral
II The darkness is fearful.
Two people, getting lost from their guide
q only for few hours years ago, were de-
e mented and for years sat in their insanity
I You feel like holding your breath as you
i walk across the bridges that seem to span
l. the bottomless abyss The guide throws
n his calcium light down into the caverns.
a and the light rolls and tosses from rock to
s rock and from depth to depth, making at
z: every plunge new revelation of the awful
r power that could have made such place
( as that. A sense of suffocaton comes upon
O you as you think that you are $50 feet in a
e straight line from the sunlit surface of the
a earth
t The guide after awhile takes you into
: what is called the Star Che mber," and
s then he says to you, "Sit here" and then
r he takes the lantern and goes down under
the rocks, and it gets darker and darker
until the night is so thick that the hand an
inch from the eye is undesirable And
then, by kindling one of the lanterns and
placing it in a cleft in the rocks, there is a
| renectinn cast on the dome of tho On 10 md