The Hawaiian gazette., 1895-11-22

Association Hall was more than
crowded Tuesday-it was jammed-
TO hear Mr.. Yatman deliver his last
sermon of the series, entitled 1.-THE
Pathways of Life" The illustrations
were not Just what good many peo-
pie expected; they wanted lot oi
magic lantern slides, with pictures oil
Honolulu representing Paradise and
Chicago representing the other place
on them, but they were not there.
Instead, there was an immense chart,
on which lines were drawn represent
ing the straight and narrow path to
heaven, and the broad roadway to
hell. AT the end of each road was a
large letter ID representing the door to
eternity, and beyond were Jesus,
heaven and songs; below were satan,
hell and groans. From this Mr.. Yat-
man preached his sermon, taking his
text from Joshua xiv: Is. "Choose
We tonight whom We will serve"
Before beginning his discourse, Mr..
Yatman announced that on Thursday
next ID. w. Corbett and A. B Wood
would begin Bible class for young
men in the Y. NJ. G. A, aud invited
every man who was present to attend.
He also requested that all con-
verts to God through these Y. NJ
G.. A. meetings 10 be sure by
the scriptures that they had learned
that God is love There has sprung
up knowledge in some quarters that
God is not love. al am not sure, "
said Mr.. Yatman, "but have tried to
make it plain, / have tried to make
this known. | want you to know
that you cannot make believe to be
Christian; you cannot try to be
Christian any more than you can try
TO be wife, but you can try TO be
good wife and good Christian"
Mr.. Yatman then related an in
stance OF the meeting of a young girl
and her lover at Ocean Grove, and
described them walking, instead of
riding from the railway station to the
hotel, and the happiness their faces
showed was in their hearts. "The
good Lord wants to walk with you,
my beloved" said the speaker, ''just
as they walked, and / can see now the
happiness that will beam on your
couutenances if you will only let Him
do it,"
Mr.. Yatman spoke of the beautiful
flowers as the work OF the Almighty,
and selecting one from a number that
were in a vase on the piano
said: "Years in your life pass by and
you are asked to give yourself
to God. You say No, not
yet and those years are tIampled
under foot the same as pick these
petals aud cast them on the floor
Again you are asked and you say not
yet and more years of your life have
gone with no thought of God until
finally naught remains but the stem,
and you are willing 10 give that to
God. Why not come tonight and
give him some of the blossoms. Which
shall it be? Don't fling the flag end of
a misspent life to your Creator, He
will help you but go to Him before
Death comes to close your eyes for
ever" Miss Grace Richards was
asked to sing and she rendered in eX
cellent voice the hymn brgiDning "In
the house of the Lord the soul shall
dwell" Mr.. Yatman began his SER
mon by indicating the letters B and
A on the chart. "The first letter
stands for BIRTH" said the evangelist,
"the second accou liability and be-
tween these two periods represent the
children who have gone to Heaven,
none have gone to he'll no matter whe
ther they be the infants of the heathens
or the Christians the cries of babies
are never heard in hell. "a stands
for more than accountability-its stands
for age of the gospel. Take your places
at A aud look from that hour in your
lives down to where you staud today
look to the chart, at Eternity, without
beginning aud without end. Look
below at the gulf which surrounds
hell. The Bible tells you that the
gulf is fixed, and they who are below
can never pass above. They never
sing there; heaven has all the singers
We are approaching death, and Jesus
tells you there is broad and narrow
way death is the doorway to Eter-
nifty. Each road has its doorway, but
there is as much difference between
the two roads as there is between up
and down. In the one there is light
and happiness; in the other there is
gloom aud despair"
The speaker then spoke of the death
of the intidei, who, upon reaching the
door leading to eternity that all was
dark, cried, "Light, light" but there
was none. Then, by way of com
parison, be told of the death scene of
a friend who had lived Christian
life. From tonight" continued Mr.
Yatman, ''yoH go up or down the
pathways Of life. Which path shall
be yours? Jesus stands at the cross
roads to receive you il you will go to
Him. Won't you go? He loves you
20 To Him. You've entered the homes
of drunkards, you've seen the misery
depicted upon the faces of the wife and
the children. That, my beloved, is a
fragment of hell. You've been in
homes where happiness was ever ap-
parent-it is a 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 aud get
to heaven. Suppose man was TO
come here and place sign thousand
feet long and a hundred feet high
down oD the beach and paint on IL.
Atlantic Ocean, Does he mean il?
Why, a smarter man would come
along and prove TO you by map In
the geography that it Is not so. 1t is
the difference in the character of the
men, between the two pathways OF