The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-07-07

/ blood is no remission" Let us see L
! after all the Bible has but stated wha'
! is a very common experience with men
! Come with me and l will take you TO {
/ home in Honolulu. Look at that ole
mother living in want and misery with
I hardly enough to keep body and sou
! together. Her face bears all the marks
J of suffering; it too often happens, OF
! 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 doing? Trying to win
the boy from his vices, trying to make
a man out of him. Tell me, do not the
innocent suffer for the guilty? What do
we call that mothers efforts? Redemp-
ton. What the price? The heart S
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 on? The redemption of 1000, 900
slaves. How was it being done? By
blood-the shedding of innocent blood
rivers of it. How have nearly all the
great liberties of men been redeemed
from cruelty and oppression? By blood.
l find this statement of the Bible,
Without shedding. of blood is no re-
demption," to be great fact in hui
man history, receiving thousands of
combinations daily.
l return and ask that mother, why
do you suffer. and toll and wear your
life out for that boy? He is not worthy
of such mother" What is the an
swer? HE is my son; l gave him life,
l dove him, l would. willingly die for
him if by so doing I could reclaim
him.
Why did the people of the North
fight for the freedom of those millions
of slaves? That great burden of sin
and wrong might be destroyed. Now
tell me, shall the mother love her will
full, 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 to give hundreds of thousands of
their innocent sons to die in order to
destroy a great national sin, and shall
God give less to free his sons of earth,
made in his image" from the slavery
of sin and it's effects?
Is there anything under the sun that
we commend more highly than the I'M,
selfish, devoted love of that mother, or
the heroic qualities of men who gave
their lives for liberty? Why should it,
then, seem strange or unworthy that
on an infinitely grander scale Jesus
Christ should give himself for us?
find nothing but the most exalted mani
festation of Gods love for and longing
after his prodigals of earth in the state
ment made in Romans, v, 6-8: For
when we were yet without strength, in
due time Christ died for the ungodIy
For scarcely for a righteous man will
one die; yet peradventure for good
man some would even dare to die; but
God commendeth his love for us in that
while we were yet sinners Christ died
for the ungodly.'
If you ask why did not God make
that in so doing he would have destroy
ed him as man. One day of conscious
freedom of choice is worth a cycle of
unreasoning instinct. The bee builds
with precision-it knows not why. One
self-conscious man is worth a wilder
ness full of unreasoning animals. /
have endeavored to indicate tor you the
reasons for believing in God
and holding that we can not only have
of him, but in the person of
"the man Christ Jesus" see him mani
tested in the flesh.
(To Be COntinued)