The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1896-07-10

s Come with me ana VIII take YOU W
home in Honolulu. Look AT that OLE
mother living in want and misery witt
/ hardly enough to keep body and SOU
toSether. Her face bears all the mark:
of suffering; Ii too often happens, o
personal violence. You seek the reason
The answer is that her son is slowly
killing her by his neglect and sinful
life, What is she doings Trying TO win
the boy from his vices, trying to make
8 man out OF him. Tell me, do not the
innocent suffer for the guiltys What dc
we call that mothers effortss Redemp-
tion, What the prices The hearts
blood. the life,
Go back with me thirty-five years;
look at the great struggle then going
on in the United States, What was go
ing ons The redemption of 1000. 600
slaves, How was it being dones BY
hlooi-the shedding of innocent blood
rivers Of il, How have nearly all the
great liberties of men been redeemed
from cruelty and oppression? BY blood.
find this statement of the Bible,
Without shedding of blood is no rS
dempuon," TO be q great fact in hui
man history, receiving thousands of
combinations daily.
e / return and ask that mother. Why
do you suffer and toll and wear your
life out for that boys He is not worthy
Of such 8 mother" What is the an
Swsr9 He is my son; gave him life,
I love him. l would willingly die for
him il by so doing l could reclaim
hin"
Why did the people OF the North
fight for the freedom of those millions
of slayeS9 That 3 great burden of sin
and wrong might be destroyed. Now
tell NE, shall the mother love her will
f,,l, SHINING son and slowly die for him
upon the cross of his neglect and cru
city. and shall God. the All-Father,
display less love for his offspring
man-sinful though he be- Shall the
United States and other nations be will
ling 10 give hundreds of thousands of
their innocent sons TO die in order TO
destroy q great national sin. and shall
God give less 10 free his sons of earth.
made in his image" from the slavery
OF sin and its effects?
Is there anything under the sun that
we commend more highly than Jhe-un-
selfish. devoted love of that mother. or
the heroic qualities OF men who gave
their lives for liberty9 Why should il.
then, seem strange or unworthy that
on an Infinitely grander scale Jesus
Christ should give himself for u.s. I
ind nothing but the most exalted mani
tsSt2Cion of Gods love for and longing
after his prodisals Of earth in the state
lnent made in Romans, v, 6-S: For
when We were Yet without strength. il 4
due time Christ died for the ungodly. I
For scarcely for righteous man viii /
one die; yet peradyenture for 2 good I
man some would even dare TO die: 6ut
God commenieth his love for US in that 4
while we were yet sinners Christ died /
for the ungodly."
II you ask why did not God make /
nan so thst be could not sin, l reply /
.hat in so doing he would have destroy +
"a him IS man One day OF conscious 1
freedom OF choice is worth g cycle of 4
Inre9Soning instinct The bee builds 4
With preciSion-it knows not why. One 1
man is worth wilder 1
hess full OF unre2Soning animals II
have endeayOred 10 indicate 10 you the
Christians reasons for believing in GOdl
md holding that Ee can not only have
OF him but IN the person OF 4
the man Christ Jesus" see him mani
Tested IN the flesh
I viii non speak Of Christ Jesus as
Mediator and the ideal man l wish 10 /
show you that he Is worthy Of all your
lies energy and Worship. Let rs ex-t
snine Ehat the Bible says OF him and
see If II Dc consistent with MS claims
II he be God he must have God-Iike
qualities He must come into. live
through and 90 from this world in 10
ordinary way look al Jesus ChriSts
.sc0rd Is given by the historians, Mat
.hE~- Marx Luke John and the letters
Ind episgles OF men Who were eye wit
aessss OF his life and death and as
.alon- find thai his name and mis-
sion zzs f0rstOld- The name being
given On account OF What he vas 10 do 4
Thou shalt call his name Jesus for
as shall save his people from their
sins Ii Is : unique thing an unheard 4
# thing before Or since, 70 tell what an
znboEu child i 10 have Is his mission 4
-e- us remind ron thai today millions ,
d usl VII testify that Jesus Christ
ICES save his people from their sins
No amount Of talk c4n zFeet this great
lTIag testimony 70 Jesus Chrisrs
power 70 save and keep from sin Al
This mans birth Il Is recorded that /
heaven and earth united in Z mighty
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his eElilg
DVLlg his life n l0t Only claimed
1ar II L recorded that Ii exercised
Gs3l-Ezs power over earth. sIE. SEA
zEG made Lhs p0E5Es q disease and .
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was s-Tie1IT n keeping Eirh his birth
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u EEE not God. than there vas Z
;z11lsTF Of dsfsp-iOl II the simple. IN
TzrE5Sts1 tale q his life and Eozk
zETE agZIlsi tF uzl- Ii Il simply
that Esz uaaduezted- e.
ssPs PzzI- Es1 q unsurpassed moral
Eo-1t and T1nocszeF. should b guilty
i szeh Esrsp<i0z and make martyrs Of