The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-01-04
sunday IN CHURCHES
FIVE NEW MEMBERS RECEIVED
INTO CENTRAL UNION.
Morning and Evening Services Sac
rament of the Lords Supper-At the
Methodist and Christian Churches.

Methodist and Christian Churches.
Five new members were received in
to the Central Union church yesterday
at the close of the morning service
Those coming by confession of faith
were Cordelia Judd Carter, Madeline.
Perry Hartwell and Charles Atherton
Hartwell BY letter Robert w. Single
and William Millen. Miss Isabella b.
Sturdevant, who took her letter with
her to the States, where she had in
tended to remain permanently, re-
turned the same yesterday. Follow
ing the reception of members came
the Lords Supper. There was very
large congregation.
For his discourse at the morning
service Rev. d. p. Brnie spoke of
Righteousness. He insisted that in
Righteousness was rooted all peace,
quietness and confidence. He told of
the happy home and said that it was
not so by accident, but because of the
loving and loyal obedience of the
members OF that household to Gods
law.
In the evening he spoke along the
line of urging each Soldier of the
Cross to make himself useful to the
cause of Christianity to the fullest eX-
tent of his ability. He was especially
emphatic in reference t, the need for
earnest and untiring work IN Homo
lulu.
The Origin of, and the Remedy for
! Suffering and Death was the theme in
the Methodist church last night. The
pastor began with the thought that
this world is full of suffering. He il
! Illustrated by the events of the past
year-famine in India, massacres in
Armenia, war in Cuba, China, Soudan
South Africa, Abyssinia, etc.-want
misery, suffering everywhere. Every
second of time Is persons die, every
day 10000, every year 40.000,000
Somewhere, somehow, something h ls
gone wrong with notwithstanding
is responsible. Who? If man is but
matter and force, of remorseless fate
then there is no hope, only to wait un
til the great Juggernaut car of matter
brushes out our lives. Christianity
says that God made this world ant
that it bears all the marks of Infinit,
power, wisdom and love. That Godl
care is over all from the planets to tn,
smallest life, that provision for The
wants and happiness of all has beer
provided. Christianity says that MAJ
was made in the image of God-tha
man, having been told what was right
what wrong, deliberately chose tn
wrong and thus involved his posterit,
that as long as man lives with MAJ
the innocent are involved with tn
guilty, we share the good or i'll o
those with whom we associate. God :
; Just, as well as merciful, and wrong
doing cannot be overlooked by Hin
any more than this Republic can lie
all doing against law and order go ur
punished. That man was responsible,
not God, was illustrated by showin
, that God did not cause Cain to sla
Abel; David to kill Uriah; Pharaoh t
: enslave the Israelites; Greece an
, Rome to destroy their national lif
through righteousness; Spain to dc
= stroy her people by burning them b
the thousands for liberty of cor
science; God did not cause the Unite
States to keep 100000 slaves. Man
lust, selfishness, sin caused thes
' things and man has paid the just pei
: atty and involved his innocent ones
s his guilt. The Remedy is to be fouu
8 in the destruction of the cause-Sl,
Christ came ito destroy the works {
the Devil''-Sin is Satanic in origin
Sin must be overcome and destroye
first in the individual, then in the NJ
ton. in the world We shall have tril
ulation, but in me Peace" said Chris
In his sermon on "A Happy Ne
Year at the evening service Rev. MOI
roe, at the Christian church, said tn,
happiness must come from within, N
from without. a pure heart and NJ
environment would secure Happiness
Any theory that proposed true happ
ness must provide for Salvation fro
Sin, cleansing from guilt. Set II
G soul right with God and qualify mo-
!. cause wealth, learning, science, S
: ciety, civilization, liberty nor any e
, vironment could take away sin, reco