The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-11-30

itual welfare, our favor with God
Even when our hopes are suddenly
dashed to the ground, when our enc
mics are triumphing over US, and nc
way seems to be for us out of the gros:
darkness, yet our gratitude must be
shown by our submission and by oul
faith, that He, who allows us to bt
thus dealt with, yet does all thing:
well. Several examples of faith, love
and gratitude were here given by the
preacher, who in concluding his adj
dress asked those present on this day
of thanksgiving to give their sub
stance as literally as they could TO
the enlightenment of those nation!
and people who had not over grea
blessings; who still walk in darkness
not having our light, who still have
not the glorious light of the gospel o.
Jesus Christ to be shed on their midst
TO guide them into the way of saliva
ton. Then may we hope that ouI
liberality may continue; that we may
always be thankful To- God for all he
has done to us, and then our lips will
always be ready to cay unto God the
words of the text.
DIR. HUTCHINs AT CENTRAL UNION.
DIR. Hutchins preached at the Cen
trail Union Church from Cor. 12-26,
one
all the members suffer with il; or one
member be honored, all the members
rejoice with it." Following IS a SYM
opsis of the discourse:
No dIscordant note must be struck
today for this is Thanksgiving Day,
the day of union and OF reunions. In
the dear home land today, from near
and from far, the children and the
grandchildren have gathered around
the patriarchal hearthstone and about
the patIiarchal board. What scenes
of family peace and comfort and de-
light there will be. And in the dear
home land there is constantly spread
a grand thanksgiving banquet, the
banquet of liberty, To which, from
near and from far, the various peoples
of the earth are gathering. And here
in your beautiful Hawaii are dwelling
together in peace and amity, the rep
resentatives of many nationalities-
And you, beloved, out of your abund-
ance, are munificently ministering to
the needs of the needy. There must
be only words of concord today, and
no theme can be more appropriate to
this anniversary and this community
than the fellowship or union of hu-
man interests, the solidarity of the
race.
There is disintegration and a cen
trifugal force among men IL savage
state. The savage, it is estimated,
requires $4,000 acres of land per person
to satisfy his wants, as hunter and
fisherman. When starvation threat
ems, canabalism is often practiced.
There is little recognition of human
fellowship In this stage of human
society, and yet, even among the low
est tribes there is consideration for
the family and tribal bonds. Even
the lowest of men have within them
a certain moral quality. They defend
the members of their own tribe,
though they make slaves of or con-
sumo the members of other tribes.
And when men advance to the pas
toral stage there is still no great social
or civil outcome. Vast stretches of
territory are requisite for pastoral
pursuits, and frequent removals are
made for the sake of the herds and
fiocks. During her protracted stay in
Egypt, Israel changed her national
characteristics from those of a pasto-
raj nomadic people TO those of peo-
pie dwelling in towns and cities
u people that should henceforth dwell
under settled laws.
In the agricultural stage Of human
development, men, for their mutual
safety, have dwelt in village settle
AhChISr nhCuCC bACy IaNC 6OhC AOAIh
TO till their fields. They have recog- |
nized their need for each other more |
than the pastoral peoples, and vastly |
more than the hunters and fishermen |
of the early stage OF society. Inter
ests collide, law springs up and Gus |
toms and principles come to regulate |
society. I'm begin to respect each |
others rights. Beyond this state of |
society is that of trade and commerce. |
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thing like house building, repeatedly, |
and become def and therefore pro-
ductive in the doing of it. But by
the doing Of one thing, a man does
not supply his need of other things;
but, having surplus of his own man.
he exchanges il for part of
the surplus of the manufacture of
others, and commerce arises. And
men for convenience dwell in cities,
and no longer remotely apart. Thus,
as society advances, men are ever
cooperation springs up. Material
consists in wanting many
things, and in learning how to make
them and how to wisely use them.
Moral civilization consists in recog-
nizing and performing the duties of
human brotherhood, and enlargIng
,ircle of that brotherhood.
Inc solidarity OF human interests Is
grounded upon the common constitu-
ion of man. "As face answereth to
ace in water, so the heart of man To
man," And this is the ground of
common fellowship. The physical
are vastly greater than the
physical dissimilarities among men. {
There is great intellectual likeness
the generations and the ma
ions. If you write the history of one
lge or race, it may yet prove instruct
We to all generations and races. As
advances, the arts and sci ,
,nces and discoveries of one people
'ecome valuable TO other tribes
nd peoples. When years ago, Will {
lam II. Seward prophesied that the s
'acific was yet to be the imperial sea, ,
With a greater commerce than any :
'ther, the prediction sounded apocro-
hal. But, with the advance of the :
eeminQ DOpulatiOQs of China and