Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1896-05-26
.. %. HAYNES LECTURE.
His "OOsciu.ion OF tbs whole Mat.
ter" OF Religion.

Mr.. Garvin's sermon on Theoso-
ply, in the Christian church.. the
BULLETIN asked Mr.. Hayne for a
similar report OF his lecture in
reply. He has furnished us with !
the whole lecture, but it would
take too much a space. After Mr..
Hayne had recited the familiar
arguments against the Old Testa-
meut as a guide Of either faith or
practice, and denied credit to the
American missionaries to Hawaii
for either great sacrifice or good |
achievements, Mr.. Hayne closed |
with the following general re-
marks:
Now / have given you brother
GarYin's thought as to what con-
stitutes the mission Of his church,
the plan of his God; let me give
you the real Gods plan. | shall |
not go outside of the words of one
of the most thoughtful, most con-
servative and most eloquent |
divines of TIE Congregational
church - the dominant church in !
Hawaii. / quote from Rev. |
George ID. Herron's "a Plea for /
the Gospel" We point to our
beautiful and costly temples of
worship, to the crosses crowning
the village hill tops, and the
crosses the church spires lift
above the city's smoke and strife.
We count our great missionary
benefsctions, and hold mammoth
religious conventions. We are
perfecting and unifying our great
ecclesiastical organizations, and
forming new societies, and APP
pointing countless committees.
We have revised creeds, and pro-
gressive theologies and renowned
preachers. But all the while
the church is getting farther and
farther away from the lost sheep
it was sent to save. The cove
tousness that fattens on the flesh
of toiling boys and girls; the
greed that wrecks the hopes and
fortunes of less cunning rivals;
the fashion whose fatuous AFRO
gance fans the flame of judgment
that is kindling in the skies; the
luxury that is content to enjoy,
while men with dark thoughts beg
for work, and hopeless women
slave in sweaters dens, and the
life withers out of starved babes;
all these smile and bow and pray
In church, while the great, sad,
suspicious world impatiently waits
to see whether God be living or
dead. This is not Christianity.
This is not according to the gos-
pei of Jesus Christ. Much of
what we call Christianity is no
less than an aristocratic and
shameless pauperism, thriving on
the wealth of sacrifice in
herited from the past; rest
ing in high priced pews and
fashionable residences; cum
ningly squeezing luxurious
living out OF humanity, and super
ciliously labelling as charity the
appeals made to serve the human
ity that supports it. 1t is the
victorious forces of time the
church worships prudence,
thrift, responsibility, reputation,
culture while it is practically
infdel to the Christian gospel"
Now, brothers and sisters, l
thank the, great all mind, that the
fruits which brother Garvin has
pointed out are neither the pro-
duct of Christianity nor Theoso-
ply. They are purely and simply
the harvest gathered from the
sowing of sinful, vicious, and de-
PRAYED thoughts in fields of awful
ignorance.
The greed of gain and the lusts
of the world. Theosophy has no
strife with the words Of Christ,
''peace on earth, good will to men"
Theosophy invites no man to
cease to follow the teachings of
any man who speaks the words of
wisdom. Theosophy would point
out the way whereby one can find
mans rightful place in the
scheme of the universe" 1t says
to all, live clean lives, forget self,
harken to the cry of the forsaken
and the down-trodden. Can you
not do those things and yet be
Christian? Theosophy teaches
that you can.
My friends,
HEart q nro m N, ed with haoyan