The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-05-26

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greatest danger and difficulty is also
the hour OF supTemest effort and Inya-
riably of success-always so in any
battle where men have truth, and
right and God on their side; for
though We fail IN the fight over our
PROSTATE bodies will some stronger
man step and plant the flag on the
battIements of victory. We are too
apt to measure results by our concep-
lions OF time, and forget that God
measures by infinite standards and eX-
actness. The battle between right and
wrong, Christ and Satan, never ceases;
can never cease until right prevails and
His will is done whose right 1t is TO
rule and reign, while for us it is al
ways true that he, and be only, who
endures unto the end shall be saved.
1t has been said that thrice armed
is he who hath his quarrel just" and
these Israelites were fighting for their
nations honor and existence as an in
dependent, seIf-respecting nation. This
is brought out very fOrcibly in JOab's
words to his brother, Be of good cOur
age and let us play the men for our
people and the cities of our God"
They were fighting for their people
and their God-given rights. The Jews
were proud of their great ancestors
Abraham, Isaac, Jacob. Their nation
had been taught patience by the grind
ing slavery of Egypt, practiced in en-
durance by forty years of hardship and
suffering in the wilderness, guided by
his hand and taught of God the Israel
ties came to the borders of Canaan not
only a strong, sturdy, liberty-lOving
people, but what is more they had in
their possession that priceless gift
(God-giyen), the Mosaic law, which is
today the basis OF all our common law
and juris prudence. Those Israelites
remembered all these things and it
inspired their courage and nerved their
arms. No wonder that they won a
mighty victory. Let us apply these
things. What is there in the United
States or in the mother land which
has not been won by hard struggle
against mountainous difficulties by a
firm trust in God? Nothing lasting OF
permanent. National wrOng-dOing
may seem to succeed for time, but the
inevitable day of reckoning. comes, as !
witness you men whose comrades by !
the hundreds of thousands gave their !
lives that a great national wrong might |
be righted.
Right is might and in the end will !
prevail, because God lives and reigns, |
and the Judge of all the earth Will do |
right" Let us fight courageously for
"our people and the cities of our God"
said these men. How much more
should every loyal American and lover
of liberty be loyal to his country and
her just cause.
Would you know who are our peo
Il, |
nor three times three centuries, but
back to the time when you see the be
ginning OF American freedom as the
BritOn braveIy struggled against the
steel-clad Roman that he might have
freedom to enjoy his little rush hut
unmolested. You will find the spirit of i
American freedom in those wild sea
wolves of the North land who poured
over the Briton's land and took it for
their own, that in Gods good time they
might, in their descendants, pass over
the flood and build a mighty nation.
You will find it in the mail-clad and ]
iron-fisted Norman who hewed his way ;
to victory upon SenIac's HILL that God
might use him to weld into one the
fiery, poetic loving nature of the Celt,
the sturdy, manly, self-reliance and I
love of freedom of the Saxon and the
Dane, and to it add his own judicial
methodic mind and thus form the
ground work of a nation.
Into the warp and wool of a nations
life these materials were wrought and
the pattern thereof we see centuries af-
ter in the sturdy, sober, GOd-fearing ,
people who saved England from des- ;
potism and gave to the world the "Pil-
grim Fathers Well did Canning say
Of them that they turned to the New I
World to redress the balance of the (
old And never was truer word
penned than that by relative of one
Of that little band as he wrote, Let it I
not be grievOus unto you that you have
been instrumental to break the ice for [
others. The honor shall be yours to +
he worlds end These are our peO- ;
Pile these are the men who taught the
world seIf-Teliance and d sturdy man
iness built upon a love for God and the !
right. The United States could not
help being great, built upon such
Yet it is absolutely true
hat it's greatness has its permanency q
IS the nation remains firmly fixed up 1
IN the rock Christ Jesus. To you the !
of a great struggle, let me o
say that the greater struggle has but :
begun. The danger to the United States
oday is that in her years of prosperity l
md tranquility she is allowing men n
With no love for American principles,
10 real love for the country, no virile
manhood, to control the nation and her "
iestiny. Have a care lest you allow
he results of the dearly bought victory n
or liberty TO slip through your hand n
nd be lost =
1t is a noble deed to give life
IS sacrifice for ones country. but it
a much nobler deed to live an honest,
pright, God-fearing citizen through
he years of a long life. Twice blessed 7,
nd twice crowned is he who with =
iod's help so does. In closing let me u
all your attention to the last clause of n
ny text. THE Lord doeth that which n
eemeth Him good W
Be II n1IrS To do nnr duty aS .snnna -