Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1896-07-16

Oneckmate! NINA over maJterI
What need had we, pray, of a
new love; the whole. the entire
wheaton loaf was ours! But it
came to pass in this wise, that one
Sunday morning friend called
our attention to the fact that
Moody was about to fold up his
tent; that, indeed, being his
last day in that place;
and we said with alacrity: "I'll
go this very afternoon, and GO of
course we did. We made, posi-
bly,, the 3999th listener, for the
acoustics were fine and we lost
not word. We liked to hear that
great crowd singing, We liked
Sankey's voice. We liked Moody
after fashion, so, so. When
this great preacher began he at
once told us good anecdote,apr,-
pos. "Fine!" we exclaimed, but
too presently, another; and when
he shortly drew his breath and
we closed our lips tight and open
ed our eyes trifie wider and be-
gan third, we began to letter "a,
b, c." as he had done, the doors.
(You here see, my dear teacher,
the benefit Of object lessons, ocu-
lar demonstration!) Well, that
man Moody went on his stored
way up stairs and down, from the
sky to q cellar in London; and we
grew sensibly more and still more
quiet until we were the possessor
of eight or nine letters and then
he said amen" and we went
home and told the folk: and that
evening at the "Church of the
Messiah" we washed them down
with pinch of salt - that little,
very small, ancient, insignificant
collect: BLESSED Lord, who hast
caused all Holy Scriptures to be
written for our learning; Grant
that we may in such wise hear
them, read, mark, learn and in
wardly digest them, that by pa
tience and comfort of thy holy
Word, we may embrace, and ever
hold fast the blessed hope of ever
lasting life, which thou hast given
us in our Saviour Jesus Christ.
Amen"
We told tbem-our friends-we
certainly did like that afternoon;
but it was rather too heavily
sailed, causing a kind of indefna-
BILE revulsion. OF all those illus
trations of his we can now recall
but on: He said there was
picture land [ dare say nearly all
of the BULLETIN readers have
seen it, that he had always very
much admired: 1t was the Cross
and a woman had struggled up
out of the breakers and thrown
her arm around the foot of it. He
had always thought it very
beautiful conception of faith, I'M
til one day in New York he was
going down Broadway and his
attention was called to a picture
Of the Cross wherein a woman
had come out of the water and
thrown one arm around the cross,
and with the other hand was drag
ging up enother woman.
In six months after this noted
revivalist had left that city, was
that dense crowd who had hung
seemingly upon his words
and followed closely in his train
or wake those many services, were
they to be found, those men and
women, or either, attending the
places for worship, of that city ?
L am sorry to say you, nay. These
religious excitements and their
output are, too often, like the East
ern juggler's almond tree, which
grows buds, blossoms and bears
fruit while he is bending over it;
and causes surprise and wonder
not only at its quick maturity, but
at its swifter disappearance-jug-
glery.
Remember now thy creator in the
days of thy youth
Train up a child in the
Search the scriptures,
For they are they that testify of
me,
They that seek me early
Suffer the little children
He that rejecteth me and receiveth
not my words
Psalms and hymns and spiritual
songs" "Oh, no! Not in
school"