The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-11-20

Yatman, "you go up or down the
pathways of life. Which path shall
be yours? Jesus stands at the cross
roads to receive you if you will 60 to
Him. Won't you go? He loves you
go to Him. You've entered the homes
of drunkards, you've seen the misery
depicted upon the faces of the wife and
fragment of hell. You've been in
homes where happiness was ever ap-
parent-it is fragment of heaven.
Some people will tell you that the
broad road leads to heaven, but it
is lie; you can't go that road and get
to heaven. Suppose a man was to
come here and place a sign thousand
feet long and a hundred feet high
down on the beach and paint on ii,
Atlantic Ocean Does he mean it?
Why, a smarter man would come
along and prove to you by a map In
the geography that it is not so. 1t is
the difference in the character of the
men, between the two pathways of
life. Let me tell you that below the
broad road there are novels and desc
lation; along the narrow road there is
wickedness, but it is in broad cloth
and splendor; but, my beloved, let
me tell you that wicked man dressed
in broad cloth cannot enter the king
dom OF heaven any quicker than one
dressed in Tags-it's the heart that
tells"
On the platform in the nall were
seated the venerable Hiram Bingham,
Revs. Soares, Peck, Gulick, DR.. j. NJ
Whitney aud others. Mr.. Yatman
looked around him and said: 81
am going to tell you something winch
these preachers may not like, but
[ want to tell you just the same.
If you are going to take the broad
road, get out of it all there is in it, all
that may be had, for when you get to
ID there will be no more getting; its
all behind yOu-nothing ahead when
you come to the doorway of eternity
on that road. People with hidden
sins take the broad rOad-wicked peO-
pie take that road. The narrow path
is not So narrow when you get into it;
it will hold q world of people if they
will go. There's the path-the path
the saints take. 1 look at the chart
every night before L go to preach
and I wonder how near L am to
the gate. That road may be SEEM
ingly dark to some of you, but
| want to say to those who have been
converted at these meetings and who
have selected the narrow pathway in
life, that you will find lots of people
who will try and pull you down and
off the road, but they can't harm you
if you have a determination to win,
remember that you can be laughed
into hell but you can't be laughed out
of it. Let me advise you to keep in
the middle of the road and then they
can't get you out of it, you may feel
faint and sick, the young converts get
that way sometime, but keep on and
IN prnf or I'm Ii II I
will leave for New Zealand. Some
days during my journey L may not
feel well and it won't make
any difference whether we travel three
hundred miles a day or a hundred,
shall go just as far as the captain who,
perhaps, never gets i'll, and if we keep
on going ahead we will get to Auck-
land some time.
Thursday 1 leave you, and now
listen to my last words. Take the
narrow path, which leads to heaven,
for you cannot take the broad one
without tramping through the blood
nifty through the gate at the end of the
broad road you can only think, think
that you might have been above had |
you taken the narrow path"
At the close of the sermon Mr. Yat- |
man invited all OF those who had been |
converted at the previous meetings, as
well as those who had at this sermon |
the path by which they would |
journey through life, to step to the |
platform and go up into a room near !
the hall. 1t was estimated that up
ward of two hundred young, middle
aged and old responded TO the call. |
Among them were persons who have
been regular attendants at churches
here for years.