Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1896-08-17
SCREENINGS AND SCRAPS.


screenings are, if you ever had to
do with cold winter, where of
all things, good, clean, shining
bright Goals were positively es-
sential in order to keep a strong,
CHEEKY, comfol ting fire. Screen
ings are refuse matter. They
are good, really, when we'll
exposed, for nothing. Just dirty,
smutty dust; no life, no flame, no
heat, no help-sn irritation and
nuisance rubbish. And yet,
screenings" in one form and an
other, are put upon the market,
and empty as they are of true,
substantial help, find too often
niche. Why, in a western city,
one cold winter, very, coal which
was but little better all through
and through than screenings, was
"palmed off " by member of the
Board of Education to the Com
mittee on Supplies" for the
use of the schools, and those
teachers, to say nothing of
the pupils, had to shiver
aud bear it. A corner, a job in
screenings a clever, cool thing
in finance. Now, we want
no screenings in schools
or home, in books or in
teaching. We want live Goals
from off the very altar-the altar
of Nature, the altar of religion,
the altar Of work-give US coal,
no screening
"The child is father of the
man." Is he? That's big state
ment to make and involves trife.
Let us see.
Scraps - detached, incomplete
portions, fragment of something
printed or written. CA something
out of which the sweet richness
has been taken, it may be.) A
scrap need not be worthless by
any means. 1t may stand for
gem, a bright spark of true talent
or genius-a proverb, quip, a
witticism, a pun, a moral; a good
'un.
Let us have good, sweet scraps
often then; but let us not begin
and end our meal with them, eX-
cepting, say on washing day, to
accommodate the women folk.
Have we ever found human
being uninspired that could write
anything to compare with the
Psalms, or a poem equal to job
a chapter of Isaiah, an Eclesias-
ticus, or 'tesP Does the Vicar I
Wakefield compare with Nehe-
mlah2 Hamlet with Hosea-the
Odyssey with Obadiah-Milton
with Malachi-all the religious
books in the world with either of
the four Gospels? Who can ex-
hort, entreat, advise as st. Paul
who can love as st. John, remind
as st. Peter? Where do you find
the inspired language Of Revela-
ton, of Daniel, of Moses, Joshua,
Elijah, Deborah, Ruth, Miriam /?
Whera is the modern writer,
today, who has the seven-fold
gifts of the Holy Spirit and can
give to the Christian world an
other "Te Deum Laudamus," yea
even Rock Of Ages"
Where do you find Magnificat,
Jubilate Dec, a Nunc Dimittis I?
Shut out the very word of God;
(the heaven born classic,) the
glorious song, the majestic epic,
the sermon of all sermons, the
prophecy, the angels visits, the
life of our Lord on earth;you dare
to close that Book of all books
and shelve it from children's eyes,
and study and thought, and then
repeat: "The child is father of the
mani" The child is father of the
infdel, father of the thief, the
liar, the dangerous man. The
child is, too often, just what he is
made! He is fed and taught and
clothed, mentally, with screenings
and with scraps; and he is expect
ed to come our, OF that mold, an
acceptable member of society, of
the world; a good man, loving and
seeking righteousness. We grow
by what we feed on. 1t is the law,
inexorable, of cause and effect.
"God is not in all his thoughts" "
"Ephraim is joined to his idols; let
him alone"
The very word of God THE
Book" k."-The Bible. The only