The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-03-03

'bnt you ~ult lhdi was wei uoUtl nut J.
] want you to exercise some kindness and .
some appreciation toward those in the com
muuity who are suutching the little ones /
from under he wheels IT temptation and sin .
-snatchiug them from under laundering .
rail trains Of eternal disaster, bringing them |
upinto responsibility in this world and into |
glory for the world to come You appreciate |
what the engineer did Why eau you not |
appreciate the grander work done by every |
Sabbath school teacher and by every Chris |
tian worker9
Oh, my friends, | want to impress upon
myself and upon yourselves that it is not
the number of talents we possess but the
use we make of them.
THE ROYAL FAMILY.
God has n royal family in the world.
Now, II | should ask, "Who are the royal
families of history" you would say,
House of Hapsburg, house of Stuart,
house of Bourbon" They lived in palaces
and had great equipages. But who are the
Lords royal family? Some of them may
serve you in the household; some OF them
are in unlighted garrets; meof them will
walk this afternoon down the street, on
their arm a basket of broken food; some of
them are in the almshouse, despised and re
jected of men, yet in the last great day,
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Jared sumptuously every day are hurled
back into discontinue, they are the lame
that will take the prey.
one step farther: There are n great many
people discouraged about getting to heaven
At my desk in The Christian Herald office
| am in daily receipt of numerous letters
from people brought up in good families
and who had Christian parentage, but who
frankly tell me they are astray, n thousand
miles from the right track, and fear their
case IL hopeless. My brothers, it is to you'll
want to preach now. | have been looking
for you. | will tell you how you got astray.
1t was not righteousness on your part. 1t
was perhaps through the geniality and so
Ciality of your nature that you fell into sin.
You wandered away from your duty; you
unconsciously left the house of God. You
admit the gospel to be true, and yet You
have so grievously and so prolongedly wan
derei you say rescue is impossible.
1t would take week to count up the
names of those in heaven who were CD
earth worse than you tell me you are. They
went the whole round of iniquity; they dis
graced themselves; they disgraced THEN
household; they despaired of return be
cause their reputation was gone, their
property was gone, everything was gone.
But in some hour like this they heard the
voice of God, and they threw themselves
on the divine compassion, and they rose up
more than conquerors. And | tell you
there is the same chance for you. That is
one reason why like to preach this gospel,
so free gospel, so tremendous gospel. 1t
takes "A man all wrong and makes him all
right.
In a former settlement where preached
house Of God. quit respectable circles, went
into all styles of sin and was slain of his
iniquity. The day for his burial came, and
his body was brought to the house of God.
! Some of his comrades who had destroyed
him were overheard along the street on
| their way to the burial saying, Come let
us 20 aud hear Talmage damn this old sin
nerp' Oh, had nothing but tears for the
dead. and | had nothing but invitations to
the living. You see / could not do other
wise Christ Jesus came TO seek and save
that which was lost" Christ in his dying
prayer said, Father forgive them" and
that was prayer for you and prayer
for me-
Oh, start on the road to heaven today
| You are not happy. The thirst of your soul
will never be slaked by the fountains of
sin. You turn everywhere but to God for
| help Right where you are, call on him.
| He knows you. He knows all about you.
| He knows all the odds against which you
have been contending in life. Do not go to
him with long rigmarole Of a prayer, but
| just look up and say, "Help Helpw
WORDS OF EXPLOITATION.
Yet you say, My hand trembles so
from my designations can't even take hold
of a hymnbook to sing" Do not worry
about that, my brother. | will give out a
hymn at the close so familiar you can sing
it without book But you say, II have
such terrible habits on me | can't get rid
of them" My answer is, Almighty grace
can break up that habit and will break ii
up" But you say, The wrong | did was
to one dead and in heaven now, and can't
correct that wrong" You eau correct it
BY the grace of God, go into the presence
of that one, and the apologies you ought tc
have made on earth make in'heaven.
oh" says some man, IF | should try to
do right, if | should turn away from my
evil doing unto the Lord, | would be jostled
would be driven back; nobody would have
any sympathy for me-" You are mistaken
Here, in the presence of the church on ea-th
aud in heaven, give you today the right
hand of Christian fellowship. God sent me
here today to preach this, and he sent you
here to hear this Let the wicked forsake
his way and the unrighteous man his
thought, and let him return unto the Lord,
who will have mercy, and unto our God who
will abundantly pardon"
Though you may have been the worst
sinner, you may become the best saint, and
in the great day OF Judgment it will be
found that where sin abounded grace
does much more abound" and while the
spoils of an everlasting kingdom are being
awarded for your pursuit it will be found
that the lame took the prey. Blessed be
God that we are this Sabbath one week
nearer the obliteration of all the inequalities
Of this life and all its disquietudesl
Years ago, on n boat on the North river,
she pilot gave a very sharp ring to the bell
for the boat to slow up. The engineer at
tended to the machinery, and then he came
up with some alarm on deck to see what
was the matter. He saw it was moon
light night, and there were no obstacles in
the way. He went to the pilot and said
why did you ring the bell in that wayi
Why do you want to stopS There's moth
ing the matter" And the pilot said to him
There is mist gathering on the river
don't you see thatY And there Is night
gathering darker and darker, and can't
see the way" Then the engineer, looking
around and seeing it was bright moon
light, looked into the face Of the pilot ant
saw that he was dying, and then that hi
was dead
God grant that when our last moment
comes we may be found at our post doing
our whole duty, and when the mists of the
river of death gather on our eyelids may
the good Pilot take the wheel from oul
hands and guide us into the calm harbor OF
eternal rest
Drop the anchor, furl the sail,
am safe within the vale.