The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-01-13

i went out hunting for this world, aud its
lances struck through his heart. Francis
aimed at the world, but the assassin's
dagger put an end to his ambition and his
life ut one stroke. Mary Queen Of Scots
wrote on the window Of her castles
From the top Of all my trust
Mshap hath laid me In the dust
SALVATION POSTPONED FOREVER.
The queen dowager Of Navarro was of
fered for her wedding day a costly and beau
tiful pair Of gloves. and She put them on,
but they were poisoned gloves, and they
took her life Better bare hand Of cold
irivation than warm and poisoned glove
rf ruinous success. "Oh," says some young
man in the audience, II believe what you .
are preaching. | am going to do that very .
thing In the morning of my life am go |
ing TO devour the prey, and in the evening |
] shall divide the spells of Christian char ,
acter. only want a little while to sow my /.
wild oats. and then | will be good.
Young man, did you ever take the census
of all the old people' How many old PEG
pie are there in your house' One, two OF
noneY How many in vast assemblage
like this? Only here and there gray head,
like the patches Of snow here aud there in
the fields ON a late April day. The fact is
that the tides of the years are so strong that
men go down under them before they get
to be co, before they get to he 80, before
they get to be 30, before they get to be 30,
and if you, my Young brother, resolve now
that you will spend the morning of your
days in devourng the prey the probability
is that you will never divide the spoils
in the evening hour. He who postpones
until old age the religion of Jesus Christ
| postpones it forever.
/ Where are the men who, so years ago, re-
| solved to become Christians in old age, put
| ting it off certain number of years. They
never got to be old. The railroad collision,
or the steamboat explosion, or the slip on
the ice, or the falling ladder, or the sudden
cold put an end to their opportunities
| They have never had an opportunity since,
and never will have an opportunity again.
They locked the door of heaven against
their soul, and they threw away the keys.
They chased the world, and they died in the
chase The wounded tiger turned on them.
They failed to take the game they pursued.
Mounted on swift courser, they leaped
the hedge, but the courser fell on them and
crushed them. Proposing to barter Their
soul for the world, they lost both and got
neither.
LIES BRIEF DAY.
While this is an encoura cement to old
people who are still unpardoned. it is nc
encouragement to the young who are put
ting off the day of grace This doctrine
that the old may be repentant is to be tax
en- cautiously. 1t is medicine that kills OF
cures. The same medicine given to differ
ent patients, in one case it saves life and IN
the other it destroys it. This possibility OF
repentance at the close of life may cure the
old man while it kills the young. BE eau
tous in taking it,
Again, my subject is descriptive of thosC
who come to a sudden and radical change
You have noticed how short time it /:
from morning to night-only seven OF
eight hours You know that the day ha:
a very brief life Its heart beats "a times
and then it is dead. How quick this transi
ton in the character of these Benjamites
an the morning they shall devour the
prey, and at night they shall divide the
spoils." Is it possible that there shall be
such transformation in any of our char
acters2 Yes, a man may be at O'Clock in
the morning an all devouring wording
and at o'clock at night he may be a peace
full, distributive Christian.
Conversion is instantaneous. A MAJ
passes into the kingdom of God quicke
; than down the sky runs zigZag lightning
: A man may be anxious about his soul for
, great many years; that does not make hin
2 a Christian. A man may pray "A grea
while; that does not make him Christian
A man may resolve on the reformation o
his character and have that resolution go
: ing on great while that does not maxi
him Christian. But the very instant
when he filings his soul on the mercy of Je
sus Christ, that instant is lustration
emancipation, resurrection. Up to tina
point he is going in the wrong direction
after that point he is going in the right di
II rection. Before that moment he is a chile
Of sin; after that moment he is a child O
God. Before that moment devouring th
prey; after that moment dividing tn
spoil. Five minutes is as good as fv
years.
My nearer, you know very well that tn
best things you have done you have don
in flash. You made up your mind in Al
instant to buy or to sell, or to invest, or I
stop, or to start. If you had missed tina
, one chance you would have missed it foI
ever Now, just Us preCIpitate and quc
and spontaneous will he the ransom of you
: soul Some morning you were making
calculation. You got on the track of som
} financial or social game. With your pen c
pencil you were pursuing it. That yer
, morning you were devouring the prey, bu
mood You found that all heaven was o
fered you. You wondered how you coul
7 get it for yourself and for your famil.
I You wondered what resources it woul
! give you now and hereafter You are d
t viding peace and comfort and satisfactiO
and Christian reward in your soul 70
4 are dividing the spoil,
RELIGION MAKES MAN MASTER.
5 One Sabbath night at the close of Il
J. service | said to some persons, when d
4 you first become serious about your souli
!. And they told me, Tonight" And 81,
t to others, when did you give your hea
; to God?' And they said, Tonight" Al
5 | said to still others, when did you
solve to serve the Lord all the days of 20
y lifeS" And they said, Tonight" I sa
T. by the gayety of their apparel that VIII
It the grace of God struck them they were
X vouiing the prey, but | saw also in t
&C food of joyful tears, and in the kindlil
h raptures on their brow, and in their exhil
y rant aud transporting utterances, that tn
&c were dividing the spoil
a If you have been in this building VIII
f the lights are struck at night, you kno
g that with one touch of electricity they a
/ all bla2ed. Oh, would to God that t
IS darkness of your souls might be broken u
e and that by one quick, overwhelming,
It Simultaneous flash of illumination y
i, might be brought into the light and I
k liberty of the sons of God
You see that religion is n different thi
from what some of you people suppose
II You thought it was decadence. y
h thought religion was maceration. "
II thought it was highway robbery; that
" struck one down and left him half dea
e that it plucked out the eyes; that it pluck
= out the plumes Of the soul; that it bro
Il. the wing and crushed the beak as it car
m clawing with It's black talons through L
m air. No, that is not religion.
M What is religioni 1t is dividing I
AT spoil 1t is taking "A defenseess soul al
n. panoplying it foreternal conquest. 1t is t
We distribution of prizes by the kings han
y. every medal stamped with coronation.
RS is an exhilaratiOn, expansion. 1t is impaI
Is disation. 1t is enforcement. Religi,