The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-09-16

longs to God and his word, where
would we be?
Together as surely as water unites
with water when all the obstacles are
removed.
When Christ. the Son of God, asked
Whom do you say l ann, the reply
came, Thou art Christ, the Son of the
Living God. On that rock I will build
my church
Union can alone be found on the
great platform laid in Zion II is
Christ the cornerstone. Christ in the
heart will drive all others out.
IF the life reflects the Christ and
the soul is full of Christ no power
can shake you in eternity.
Let us return TO the old story of
the cross and find a name all can wear
the name of Christian-and leave off
all human titles for we cannot have
union with superfiuous titles.
Il plead for the loss of nothing, but
to drop those things that prevent
union. Hence the necessity to plead
for the union of Gods people on the
foundation of Christian.
- beseech you brethren by the
name of our Lord Jesus Christ that
you all speak the same thing and that
there be no divisions among you and
that you be perfectly joined together.
Our mistakes are the hindrance OF
the world coming TO Jesus Christ.
The divisions that exist we can heal
without the loss of single truth if we
all come into the grace of God without
party, names or creeds.
In 1893 ]. O'Kelley started off with
| In,
| 1900 A Jones threw off the Baptist
Greed; 1901 B. Stone, the Presbyterian,
seventy years ago Thomas Campbell,
| Walter Scott and the ancestors of some
who are now in this house, made a
plea to take the bible as it is and to
accept only that which is laid down In
the bible. Nine people were numbered
| in Buffalo Greek, Penn, as a nucleus
| of this movement. They took only
! the name of the Disciples or Christ
| and plead for the restoration of prim-
| tive Christianity. Today they number
| one million in the United States and
| Canada and represent only the Chris
tianity of Christ formed A. d. 81 by
| the Apostles of Christ. They are
pleading for a return to primitive
| Christianity. This cannot be brought
| about by theological controversy. II
can only be done on the principle OF
Love.
LAS iron scraps must pass through
| the furnace and be heated and melted
moulded and made into useful articles
| and the Stag thrown aside, so mus
the mind go out to Christ-in Gethse
name and His agonies on the cross
| The fire in the heart must be meltet
and poured into divine mould. Th'
Christ must be accepted and the form
of doctrine delivered by Christ, obeyed
There must be Restoration not Re
| formation return to the old line
with Christianity in it's purity an
simplicity We plead for the union o.
the principles of Love and for re
turn to the Word of God.
eff ever the world unites it wi
unite as Christians and find you there
When you came to us | did not PIT
a book or creed in your hand and tie
you to go on that. l asked, Do yo
believe in Christ as the Son of Coz
: and will you read his word and stud
5 his truth and be firm and true an
l faithful?
81 leave you now and may neve
l look on your faces again, but may til
Love of God keep you and sustain yo
S until that final day
: Il have been 700 days pleading an
5 this is my last appeal"