The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-11-20
A Great and Telling Sermon by
Mr.. Yatman.
ASSOCIATION HALL CROWDED.
The Evangelist Points Out the Way.
The Difference Between the Roads.
Nearly Two Hundred Converted to
God-Successful Course to Pursue.

Association Hall was more than
crowded last night-it was jammed-
to hear Mr.. Yatman deliver his last
sermon of the series, entitled "The
Pathways of Life" The illustrations
were not just what good many peO-
pie expected they wanted a lot of
magic lantern slides, with pictures of
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 D 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: 10. "ChoOse
ye tonight whom ye will serve"
Before beginning his discourse, Mr.
Yatman announced that on Thursday
next d. w. Corbett and A. B. Wood
would begin a Bible class for young
men in the Y. NJ. G.. A, and invited
every man who was present to attend.
He also requested that all con-
verts to God through these Y. NJ.
G.. A. meetings TO 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. ~ 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 a
Christian; you cannot try to be a
Christian any more than you can try
to be wife, but you can try to be a
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
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, lust
as they walked, and L can see now the
happiness that will beam on your
countenances 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 number that
were in 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 tTampIed
under foot the same as / pick these
petals and cast them on the floor.
Again you are asked and you say mot
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 to give that to
God. Why not come tonight and
give him some of the blossoms. Which
shall it be? Don't fling the fag 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 beginning "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 accountability and be
tween these two periods represent the
children who have gone to Heaven,
none have gone to hell 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 and look from that hour in your
lives down to where you stand today
look to the chart, at Eternity, without
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 and despair"
The speaker then spoke of the death
IF the infidel, who, upon reaching the
loor leading to eternity that all was
lark, cried, "Light, light" but there
was none. Then, by way of com
pa arson, he told of the death scene of
/ friend who had lived a Christian
ife. "From tonight" continued Mr.. |