The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-08-20
A SERMON AND LECTURE.
BY DIR. GARvIN AT HARMONY
HALL SUNDAY.
God Expects Aid in Answering Prayers
The Plan and Division of the
Books of the Bible.

DIR. Garvin preached at Harmony Hall
yesterday morning upon the theme:
docs God expect our aid in answering
our prayersP"
He said in substance: No child thinks
of going on in its daily amusements or
occupation without approval or without
occasionally asking advice or direction.
Our great trouble is that we try to get
along without God. Why do we not de-
pend so much on God and pay as earnest
attention to religious duties when we are
able to eat three hearty meals a day, as
when we are sick and living on few
spoonfuls OF broth, the prescription of
the physician?
was once called upon in great haste
in u e night to 60 TO Il neighbors to min
lister to poor dying boy, but it was too
Iate-a few gasps and he was gone. The
chance to have prayed with him had
gone forever, no call was made while in
health. 1t is my duty to preach the
Word to you now. When the children
OF Israel cried to God for food during
their journey there was not time to plant
or grow crop, so God sent the mama
and commanded them to gather it; and
ii they had not performed their part by
collecting it they would have persisted.
God is ready to give salvation, and it
is of no use to pray for it if we are not
willing to do our part; we must obey
His will as revealed in His word or par
ish When Martha and Mary came to
Jesus, in hopeless anguish on account
of the death of their brother, those who
stood about the tomb were required to
do all that was in their power which
was to roll away the stone; 1t was all
they could do.
The whole. scheme of redemption is
so arranged that men must work. How
long would the people of Massachusetts
have prayed for the conversion of the
Hawaiians, if they had not been willing
to be used themselves; their very pray
ing meant they were to go and be used
to do the work for which they pray ed.
God will not answer prayer until we are
ready to do what we esn. 1t sounds
well for rich man to pray to God in
stereotyped phrase for "help for the
widow and orphan" but if he is in
earnest he will help answer that prayer
oy sending them barrel of flour or "A load
of coal Otherwise Jesus will say in the
| and IN. c,tnh a n1uf, tsvnu 40 "a mo htInurv
and you fed me not, | was naked and
you clothed me not, was in prison and
you visited me not" A man may pray
eternally for faith, and if he does not
search the scriptures, Gods message
to him, he will fail.
If the Captain of the Philadelphia re-
fuses to open and read his orders, but
trusts to the winds and waves to land
him in the desired port, his voyage will
he failure; he must read the message
and act on that. Until man is ready
10 act it is folly to pray; you may pray
for food and raiment, but until you are
ready to do your part it would be use
less even ii given, for then we must
labor with our hands to prepare it for
use. Jesus says, Come" and the one
who comes to Him He will in no wise
cast away; SO the thing to do is to
obey, act.
This is day when the PHILOSOPHERS
and theories and isms OF men are being
advanced, but what have they pro-
duced Great men are not produced
by these systems as they are by the
Christian religion.
| Compare for instance the-standing o
women in the countries where false