The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-06-08

it Is for woman TO come back when
she has gone astray. For her the
world has no mercy. How different
was He when they brought woman
TO him TO condemn. He felled them
with the battle axe of sarcasm. Let
him that is W thout sin cast the first
stone at herr What we most want Is
the mercy of God. How can We ex-
pect IT unless we show mercy TO 9TH
ers. You be hard on Others and others
will be hard on you. You'll be meas
ured with your own yard stick. Some
years ago / was summoned TO take
part in the oasequies OF Governor
Alex. Stevens, of Georgia. There q
colored man told me this story. He
had overheard a conversation between
the Governor and his private secre-
tary. When the Governor was dying
he said to the secretary, bring In
that old yellow letter from a woman
in the penitentiary. She has sufft red
enough" "Oh, no, wait till tomor-
row. You're too sick" "No, / won't
be living tomorrow" "Wsll, then,
pardon this distinguished criminal
Look at these names of distinguished
men on his petition" "No,n said the
Governor, che has friends enough.
Bring the old yellow letter." 1t was
brought, and, bolstered up in bed, the
Governor wrote the pardon, signed
his name and died. L would rather
die like that than go up in a chariot
of fire. The biggest word in my vocab-
ulary is mercy, and that is going
to conquer all nations and all men,
and over-arch the whole earth. Two
Years ago / was in Moscow, and was
looking at 900 guns which Napoleon
had left in the SHOWS of Russia. On
each one was engraved n. / was
much impressed, and then went up
into a tower 800 feet high, on each
floor of which were bells, large and
small, sonorous and tinkling. When
/ reached the top it was sunset, and
all these bells began to ring, and they
were Joined by the bells OF 400 towers,
some with a sweet naturalization
like bubbling in the air, while
others thundered out, boom after
boom. Ali the 400 towers burned in
the sunset; roofs of gold, walls of
malachite, pillars of porphyry, balus-
trades of mosaic-all the coloIs of art
and nature the blue of summer skies,
the emerald of tossing seas. Napoleon
could not have seen anything more
splendid when Moscow was really in
flames. / thought of the time when
the bells should ring in, not the sum
set, but the sunrise of the worlds
emancipation, sounding from the
domes of all nations.
/ am particularly fortunate in being
so ably interpreted. If Mr.. Desha
stood in my pulpit and talked in his
language, L am sure could not inter
pret him so well in mine. am CRATE
full to him, and to all this throng,
gathered at so short notice. It is a
personal compliment, for which / ex-
press my gratitude. / can only return
it by asking you TO come and see US;
come to New York, to Brooklyn, to
my house-but don't all come at once.
The hour approaches for the steamer
to sail-at 5 / must be gone. Between
this and that / would be glad to shake
hands with all who wish. / believe
in it; there is a gospel in shaking
hands. But we must appoint "a place
to meet again, and so now that we
part | cannot appoint the time, but /
certainly can appoint the place-the
shining gate of heaven; the time is
in Gods hand. But we can appoint q
place, and so do-the gate of heaven
and there we may meet, our souls
emancipated, our sins all forgiven.
Come in at one of those gates; I'll
look for you, and i'm an hour we'll
meet, never more to part. Meanwhile,
/ ask you to pray to God, who holds
the winds and the waves in His hand,
that he may be merciful to me and
NY sui, tiIdb we RCt safely
and I'll pray for you, and all through
the world Pll tell what grand and
glorious and lovely place is Honolulu.
Several hundred persons shook
hands with DIR. Taimage after the ad-
dress.
THE GREAT DIVINE INTERVIEWED.
DR.. Talmage was seen by an AD-
vERTIsER man yesterday afternoons,
just before the steamer sailed.
IL have greatly enjoyed my short
stay here, " said he, ''and wish 1t could
be longer. / am on my way around
the world, and shall be away from
home for six months. My next stop
ping place will be New Zealand, where
| shall remain about two weeks. /
shall stay in Australia nearly six
weeks, and then begin to move
toward home, by way of Ceylon and
Inuia. My son and / will meet NV
wife and two daughters in Spain, and
all go home together
al cannot yet say what will be done
about rebuilding my tabernacle. It
il in ruins aud it is too early to talk
about rebuilding. We have already
built three great churches, all OF
which have been destroyed by fire.
Tue late building was as near fire
proof as it could be made, and was the
finest structure of its kind i'm the
world. All the newspaper talk Of its
having been a firetrap Is apocryphal.
1t was SO constructed that an audience
oFG0O0 persons could have been dis
missed out of the building In five
minutes. | have been all over the
world AMI have never seen a building
whicn approached it in acoustic pro-
perties aud adaptation for great
audience The fire simply proves
that there ia nothing iucomhustible in
strated, the critics TO the contrary not
withstauding.
THE fire was of a mysterious origin,
but am of the opinion that both it
aud that which consumed the preeed-
ing structure were caused by the plec-