The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-04-23


have been examining their ammunition
lately. ] have looked all through their
cartridge boxes. They have not in the last
go years advanced one new idea. They have
utterly exhausted their ammunition In the
battle against the church and against the
Scriptures, while the sword Of the Lord
Almighty H. ~ Keen rs it ever was. We
are Just getting our troops into line. They
are coming up In companies, and in regi-
ments and in brigades, and you will hear
shout after awhile that will make the earth
quake and the heavens ring will" AlleluiaW
II will be this, Forward, the whole liuel"
And then | find another most encourage
ing thought in the fact that the secular
printing press and pulpit seem harnessed
in the same team for the proclamation Of
the gospel Every Wall street banker TO.
morrow in New York, every State street
banker tomorrow in Boston, every Third .
street banker tomorrow in Philadelphia, .
every banker in the United States and every .
merchant Will have in his pocket treatise |
on Christianity, a call to repentance-lO,2 20 .
or 30 passages of Scrptu~, in the reports Of
sermons preached throughout these cities .
and throughout the land today. 1t will be /
SO in Chicago, 50 in New Orleans, SO in
Charleston, so in Boston, so in Philadel-
phia, so everywhere.
| know the tract societies are doing a
grand and glorious work, but l tell you
there is no power ON earth today equal to
the fact that the American printing press
is taking the sermons which are preached
to "A few hundred or few thousand people,
and on Monday morning and Monday even
ing, in the morning and evening papers,
scattering that truth to the millions What
athoughtit isl What an encouragement for
every Christian mani
FACT WORTH NOTING.
Besides that have you noticed that dur
ing the past few years every one of the doc
trines of the Bible came under discussion
in the secular press5 Do you not remember
few years ago when every paper in the
United States had an editorial ON the sub
ject rs There Such a Thing as Future
PunishmeutY 1t was the strangest thing
that there should be a discussion in the
secular papers ON that subject, but every
paper in the United States and in Christen-
dom discussed as There Such Thing as
Retribution?' | know there were small
wits who made sport of the discussion, but
there was not an intelligent man on earth
, who, as the result of that discussion, did
{ not ask himself the question, What is go
; ing to be my eternal destinyf' So it was
+. in regard to Tyndall's prayer gauge.
e About IL years ago, you remember the
! secular papers discussed that with just as
e much earnestuess as the religious papers,
g and there was not Il man in Christendom
r who did not ask himself the questions; rs
+ there anything in prayer May the crea-
= ture impress the Creator2" Oh, what a
1 mighty fact, what "A glorious fact-the sec
. ular printing press and the pulpit of the
V church of Jesus Christ harnessed in the
same teaml
4 Then look at the international series of
t Sunday school lessons. Do you know that
d every Sabbath between and O'Clock there
n are 100000 children studying the same les
:. SOFIA lesson prepared by the leading minds
IS Of the country and printed in the papers
e and then these subjects are discussed and
1t given over to the teachers, who give them
l. over to the children, so whereas once-and
1t within our memory-the children nibbled
h here and there at Il story in the Bible, now
3 they are taken through from Genesis to
Revelation, and we shall have 5,0O0,O0 chill
r dren forestalled for Christianity. My soul
k is full of exultation. | feel as if / could
l. shout will shout, "Alleluia, the Lord
1t God omnipotent reigueth"
it WHERE SCIENCE HAS NO PLACE
l. Then you notice a more significant fact
" if you have talked with people on the sub
IF ject, that they are getting dissatisfied with
n philosophy and science as a matter of com
o. fort. They say it does not amount to any
ID thing when you have a dead child in tn,
III house. They tell you when they were sicl
ps and the door of the future seemed opening
re the only comfort they could find was in tn
n gospel. People are having demonstrated
all over the land that science and philosoph
cannot solaCe the trouble and woes of tn
Nv world and they want some other religion
Mt and they are taking Christianity the onl
raligipu that int
IN the world.
es You Just take your scientific consolation
IL into that room where mother has lost he
ey child Try in that case your splendid doc
of trine of the Survival of the iittest." Tel
e? her that child died because it was not WORT
IN as much as the other children. That is you
Sc survival of the littest." Go to that dyin
of man and tell him to pluck up courage TO
Is the future. Use your transcendental phra
er seology upon him. Tell him he ought to b
al confident in the great to be-, and tn
IN Everlasting now" and the eternal wha
is it," just try your transcendentalisn
as and your philosophy, and your science O
en- him.
ee- Go to that widowed soul and tell her
lie was geological necessity that her compaI
de ion should be taken away from her, just 1
It's in the course of the worlds history the mel
I'D atherium had to pass out of existence, an
Of then you go on in your scientific consoatio
lot until You get to the sublime fact that sc
Ter 100000 years from now We ourselves may
it'll scientific specimens on geological shelf
IA petrifed specimens of an extinct huna
pc, race.
And after you have got all THROUGH wit
ley your consolation, if the poor all.i, Il sOr
rec is not crazed by it, l will send for',l irol
do this church the plainest Christian We hav
ole and with one-half hour of prayer and r. az
La ing of Scripture promises the tears will
put wiped away, and the house from floor I
had cupola will be flooded with the calmness
nth an Indian summer sunset. There is whe
1ny | see the triumph Of Christianity. Poop
ust are dissatisfied with everything else. The
in want God. They want Jesus Christ.
PRACTICAL EVIDENCE.
htf Talk about the exact sciences; there
Da- only one exact science 1t is not math
ore MATES. Tdylor's logarithms have mar
One imperfections. The French metric syste
vim has many imperfections. The only exa
'thS science is Chris, ianity-the only thing II
lie der which You can appropriately writ
ldt. "Quod erat demonstrandum." You tell Il
One that two ana two make four. do not d
yer pute it, but it is not SO plain that two al
les! two make four as that the Lord God
rec mighty made this world and for man, d
hat sinner, he sent his only begotten Son to d
on | put on the witness stand to testify
are behalf Of Christianity the church on ear
rip and all the church in heaven. Not So IL
to 1000, not /, 100000, but all of the church
,ree earth and ali the redeemed in heaven.
You tell me James A. Garfield was ina
eed gurated president of the United States
( of the 4th of March, 1881. How do know
ent You tell me there We're 10000 persons w
ury distinctly heard his inaugural address
/ is deny both. deny that he was inauguri
nen ed. deny that his inaugural address W
Iur- delivered. You ask why. l did not see
vas did not hear it. But you say that the
de- were 10000 persons who did see and he
he him, / say | cannot take it ANYHOW: d