The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1895-09-28
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rem ph, sician redo. upon uaiufe AM
seeks 90 wufh With her aud make TEE u
hrf rrcupefativc energy,
Now M this world Ut nature, ~ IN th'
world ~ surlcty. ! nnd God. Nati1u
and communities are not driven by ~
wind and tossed At the mercy Of th'
blind force disease is not u devil " III
driven away 10y the explosion ot IRE
crackers. IN all the energies OF SUI
aud air and see God. In the healing
I - the medicine, IN the action Of disin
] fectant which kills the germ. | see III,
| hcnediction oi God, Clean, holy. spot
/ less, Ia Jehovah ard he hates filth eithei
] Ut soul or body. In his world lac seek,
/ tu heal and save Nature is wholesom,
hralthful No man who has served n,
an inspector can say Of the recent pla
que that it is a mysterious visitation OF
/ providence for our GCd il not an occa
sional visitor and the mystery, II any, is
that disease did not come the sooner.
! Here then Is basis for action. Every
man who labors for health has the Al
mighty with him. The brevet physician
! Is IN close communion with the God
who seeks to heal and conquer death,
/ No doctor ever created n disinfectant OF
made "A medicine; he merely finds what
| God has made and uses IT,
The Hebrew was taught sanitation
with his tabernacle worship, and that
dirty body az well as dirty mind was
not acceptable to God.
When we have cooperated with our
] fellow men and have lahored with the
| living God near, what is more natural
and reasonable than that we should com.
mune with Him, that we should pray
upon this faith in the vigilant, present
/ God Is the only ground for intelligent
prayer, Prayer Is no call to an absent
creator, else we should ring n bell rs
does the pagan in the temple. Has God
forgotten, that we should remind him OF
our plight He has not fallen asleep
disease is no enemy that has surprised
the Almighty by night attack. Hon.
est prayer cannot sit still in the filth oil
our making aud ask God to make u,
clean.
No. true prayer is the opening of tn,
window and the letting God in, it is tn,
drawing near to him, communion. X
ask IN Christ's name il to plead in hi
spirit. The name includes all behind it
We read in the New Testament, tina
the eifectual, feryent prayer of right
eOus man availeth much" or as the re
vision phrases il, "The duplication o
a righteous man availeth much in it
working" A righteous man is on
who is right in head and hand, as wei
as in heart, one whose push and pur
pose are in harmony with God. n
jealousy, no bitterness, no reserves, n
wandering from the straight right path
wise patient. tender, close to God, tn
supplication of such man availeth mcu
, in its working, for he is fit to be used b
God. The store of almighty energy ca
flow in and through him. The hand o
of the Lord is with him. Such
man is honest in prayer, consistent.
he prays with his lips that God will re
move the cholera germ, he do not as
with his hand that the germ may stay
The aim of his words and the effort O
his life do not contradict. Pipty is no
, folly. That Christianity which does nc
commend itself to intelligence Is not q
, Christ. That prayer which denies tn
, fact that God is in this world and anon
men is not the supplcation of a right,
+ Gus man and is not effectual in its worl
, lug. 1t availeth little
l The Christian is he who has opene
wide his soul and has seen the vision c
God. Like the Psalmist, he finds J.h.
/
seeking to save the children of eartl
/ The spirit that was in Jesus still il goin
about doing good. God knows, Go
loves, God is caring, keeping in sleeI
, less vigil. Strong in such faith, inspire
. by such vision, the Christian is til
, ideal citizen, he enters the lite of TIL
I community, freely shares his strengt
A with weaker men, bears his ow
o and good share of h
: brothers burden. No petty diff, rent
n in race. creed or party hampers hun, {,
4 he is about his Fathers business. lie
!. working with aid for his brothers al
|, sisters and in the crowd and thrnng
r meets the Lord himself With ket
sight he watches the mighty wor
1 about him. In the sun and air, in Il
4 medicine and in the skill of man,
e finds the loving, healing energy of Il
@ one Father. He knows that his etfo
is in harmony with the eternal purpol
T. of the Almighty, so he labors with hig
a hope. And when he prays he offers h
h soul to the tod with whom he IL wor
g ing for the salvation of men inlbody an
), soul. His duplication is that he ms
q be made fit for the master use,
e Blessed is the city which numbe
among her inhabitants such men an
n women. They are factors in progres
:. they are messengers of truth. Eva
= gelists in word and deed. Citize
v growing into the image of God. Nj
q such men and women be fastened
d this church and live to bless this city