The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-11-12
DIR. HUTCHINS SERMONS.
DELIVERED TO LARGE AUDIENCES
SUNDAY.
Earthly Limitations as Suggesting
Immortality--Martin Luther
Continued.

sunday morning Dr. Hutchins spoke
from ii Kings, VI, and II. "And the
SONS of the prophets said unto Elisha,
Behold the place where we dwell with
thee is too straight for us, etc"
The following is synopsis: Thorreau
tells us of a prince who wondered away
from the Royal palace in early child
hood and was brought up by foresters,
and thoght himself to belong to the
rude people with whom he lived, until
at last, one of his fathers ministers dis
covered him, and revealed to him who
he was, and then he knew himself to be-
a prince, and returned to the court to
prepare himself for that throne of which
he was heir apparent. In our earthly
surroundings we are in danger of think
ing that we are only of the earth,
earthly, and forgetting the divine fra.
ternity. and our heir-ship in the ever
lasting destiny. He is a benefactor of
his kind who can make us realize and
prepare for our immortality.
Nothing can more dignity and en-
noble our earthly lives than a hearty
recognition of our immortality. If we
are mere earthlings we may say with
the epicureans, LET us eat and drink
for tomorrow we die" but when we
once practically believe that we are to
live forever, we adopt noble purposes
and lofty ideas. This belief becomes
the inspiration of patience amidst the
trials of life, and of fortitude amidst its
disasters. 1t becomes the inspiration of
great enterprises, like for example, the
enterprise of foreign missions, which
could never have been initiated, but
for a profound faith in the mines
of the fathers, that the heather
were immortal. In the grandure of its
conception, the breadth of its philan-
thropy, the sublimity of its generosity
no human enterprise has been so mag
niticent.
But in order to be more effective our
faith in immortality must be more than
the tenet of a creed more than the con-
cession of the mind to logical argu-
ment, it must be a dominating convic.
ton.
After noticing the ordinary arguments
for immortality, the speaker, in order 10
make the everlasting life seem real,
dwelt upon our specific limitations s
suggesting our Immortality and showed
that the place where we dwell seems
too strait for us because of the myster-
the fact that "a great majority,of the
human race die in infancy and early
childhood: and in view of the fact that
multitudes who possess the germs of
great possibilities have here no chance
for the development of their powers,
and for the additional fact that the
most splendid geniuses have never been
able to realize their best conceptions in
this world. He then showed that the
place is too,straight for us in view of the
glory of our earthly abode as con.
trasted with the brevity of our earthly
tarrying, and, further, that it is too
| StldiSnt iOl us It's Tue iniltTltOI5 VI an tnt
past.
He closed by an illustration drawn
from the separation of friends as the
Australia leaves her dock for San Fran.
cisco; making the parting signals repre-.
sent thefarewells of the lying, who
even after they have receded far beyond
our sight, still live, and are crossing the
unknown sea only to enter the celestial
harbor.
In the evening DIR. Hutchins gave hi
second discourse upon Martin Luther
declaring him to be the most remarka
BILE man since the days of the apostles
and proceeding to show that he had en-
crossed the interest of his fellow mer
for three great reasons; First, bacaus,
he was the attorney for the Nations o
mankind and all coming generations
and achieved for them a righteous an,
irreversible verdict; and Secondly, be
canse he was the central agent of vas
and comprehensive and divine strategy
and the creature of marked and memor
able providences; and Thirdly, becaus
he touches human life at multitudinou
points with sense of common kinshiJ