Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1896-05-04
mAKAPALA-BY-rHE-sEA.
XII.
tFaire de Chateau en- EspagneD
(The Parsonage.)
BY Anne Marie Prescott,

We are of the firm and MOTTO
be-shaken belief that there is no
one who enjoys a good, sound
Gospel sermon three times say in
the week more than we enjoy it,
but, like that Rectory, we do not
always see, one even, any where
about that we can appropriate. But,
as for advice, personal advice, we
no longer crave it, indeed with us
it has literally no market value.
We have graduated and have on
hand all sorts of diplomas and
like litter-enough to last us out
our three score and ten. We are
fully equipped with broadswords,
and short handles, with finest |
Damascus blades, long ranged
rifles and heavy artillery in the
rear; and We are now prepared
and sitting on the anxious seat
ready and willing to sing, shout
or to pray wholesome advice into
any ones year, free gratis, by the
pint or by the pound, in exact
quantity to suit the conner. Allons !
We look about on the islands
we look from Maui, from Maui to
Kauai, from Kauai to Oahu, for
we would not willingly, slight al.
together that third in size and
fourth in importance and in beau
ty (home of the capital) island.
From this comparatively speaking,
mite, we say Oahu, we look to
Hawaii, the "head and front" of
this most imperial group. A little
family of islands, mere pigmies,
dwarfs of our island world; and
yet, if at its best, a group that can
mix and shake up and shake out
volcanoes, rainbows, waterfalls,
wonders and marvels to delight
an astonished and gaping uni
verse-a sovereign remedy for all
the ills of life. A climate for
which God could do more; and He
brake the mould. Sea, sky and
land; hill and dale, gulch and
pasture in comparable-fact. From
cappa to chauss thing of beauty.
Such is Hawaii nei today, April,
in the Year of Our Lord 1896.
Show to US a more prosperous
year finer harvest! Your
gamers filled to over-howing-
your sugar warehouses, what Of
them ? And what is not in cane
is in coffee - look at your trees!
What is not in coffee is in loads
of rice and reals. And, only for
your own short sightedness and
stupid, fanatical folly = straining
as a gnat and swallowing the
camel (opium), your wine-presses
today might be bursting with new
wine-your vineyards and your
olive trees yielding their fruit.
Worse than "blind" ye crimi-
nal. How much, how much more
than much, God has done for you,
for your homes, your happiness,
your bank account! And what
gaps he sees of your making
and keeping-your gaps, not His,
your lacks. How patiently He
waits to see them filled from the
bounty He has thrown into your
lap-His largesse, and not your
deserving always, mark me! The
particular gap-lack, of which We
rise to speak today is rectory,
a parsonage, house, a home for
North Kohala, Fancy, if YOU
can, we can without a half
trying, a clergyman with no,
legitimate, place to lay his
bones (when night comes)
and what bit of meat he can
manage, with his shepherds crook
to keep on them. Ponder, my
friends, that weighty (or Light
subject. 1t is the "high day" today
and high time. Certainly, Smith,
Jones and Brown of Kohala, and
of Makapala and, of course, Multi
shout to him:-"Come income
in, what's matter you-and sleep
and eat, forever" And, figurative-
ly speaking, beg of him on their
knees not to slight their call. But,
qui bonap A man, parson, even
an unfamily man, half of the
whole, a bachelor must have a
Hall, "hall" (haul) somewhere,
somehow-that's right, that's
logic. Give to us our ain
shanty-every time. Visiting is
one thing = homes another.
"Any fool knows that"-Dundrea-
ry. Go to. Let us have no more
of those fine, airy foundation
less dwellings made of no timber
on earth or in Hawaii; and that