Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1895-09-02

tbat this community VIII gracious
ly submit to papal usurpations
when they proceed from New
England Puritanism. IL so he
needs to be reminded that the
Christian people of this city are
not all stepped in Puritanism.
How little the Honolulu Puritan
cares for the Christian religion
was publicly demonstrated in
January last when the worship o.
Almighty God was suspended in
the Central Union Church, and
that ed flee converted into bar
racks and mess room. But
al the Christians here are
not Puritan. There are those
tn whom it is the greatest priva.
ton at the present time to have
an interdict put upon the minis
trations of religion. If the present
scourge should increase in vru-
Ionce repetition ofyesterday's in
trrd ct could only have one result;
to induce a sense of despair IN
nervous but religiously disposed
persons, and furnish the irreli-
gious with an excuse to abandon
| themselves to reckless dissipation.
1t is especially in time of vista
ton that the offices of religion
have more than anything else
a calming, tranquillizng influence
on those disposed to be alarmed,
and SOLDERING influence on those
inclined to rush into dissipation.
At such time, then, to put an
interdict on religious assemblies
is, from a religious point of view +,
arbitrary, unjust, and cruel; as a
precautionary measure, it is fai-
lure, being calculated to aggravate
rather than lessen the danger that
exists.
Once more, if it can be shown
that the Board of Health is within
It's legitimate authority in issuing
this interdict, yet to discriminate
against places of public worship
when all other places of con-
course are open, savors of direct
hostility to the Christian religion
on the part of the authorizes
On Saturday afternoon there was
large crowd gathered in the
baseball ground. Up to late
hour peOple were damned TO.
gether IN the cars and buses
This was all right. 1t was all
right for the soldiers to continue
congregated together. 1t was al
right for the political priso-
ners to be kept crowded in /
fever stricken gaol. But wher
Sunday morning came it was al
wrong for any one to go tt
church. The citizens might e
anywhere else. But the churches
were tabu. And now Monday
morning has come, it is all right
for people to congregate in the
Police Court as usual.
Now, sir, it seems to me thai
when w. o. Smith has liberated
all the political prisoners whose
health is now seriously endanger,
ed, when he has disbanded the
army, closed the courts of Justice
shut up the iron works and all
workshops where numbers arr
employed, issued regulations tc
prohibit any one from sitting
within a yard of his neighbors
in the trans and buses, then
and not till then, will it be il
order, not to close the churches
but to limit the number permit
ted to assemble at each service
according to the sizs of the build
ing.
1t was not, until IL p. m. OF
Saturday that l was made awar,
that the lnterdict had been issuet
} from the vatican of the Board o
Health. The authorities has
neither the courtesy to publish
the notice in the Authority column
of your paper, (and l seldom SCI
the Starr or to notify the Minis
ters of religion that such an orde
} was issued. Perhaps they wer
ashamed of it.
In obedience to that order 9TH
authority of which no time re,
NAMED to investigated, 1 allowed