The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1897-11-05


, people, who are not able to attend
/ evening concerts during the week
! days, Any one who watches the
t people attending these Sunday con
certs, viii notice many men Will
, their wives and children, who Sc
cure pleasant, quiet and healthy
outing, with the refining charm and
education of music added.
The experiment, therefore, OF
the Sunday band concert is success
. full, Just as it is successful in every
country, because music is most civ
ilizing.
We are told, however, that the
expense of taking family to Ma
.kee Island, even in the tram cars,
lis burden on a poor man. In adj
dition, there is always a scramble
at the end of the concert for seats
in the cars, which largely distrbs
the restful feeling which the
change of scenery, and air, and the
music induces.
For these reasons. the expert
ment of a Sunday concert in
Thomas Square should be tried, or
even in Emma Square.
4 poor man with three children
said on the tram car, ''the mission
aries drive us off to Waikiki, while
they ride in carriages and burn
money" There is only a partial
truth in the statement, but it shows
Ia feeling which ought not to exist,
especially in a community which
now has, and will hereafter have
more need of the aid of every re
spectacle working man in the town,
in building barriers against hostile
forces.
There is mquestionably, a gulf
between a very large number of
white men here, and
the missionaries" and it should be
closed up, and would be closed up,
if there was better knowledge ON
one side and more liberality ON the
other. There are surely many lib
sral minded missionaries, but few
very bigoted missionaries will
create as much talk as the noise of
a couple of pigs squeezing through
4 gate.
The missionaries should be the
first to move in making the best
use of the Sunday concert. 1t
should not be left to the poor men
TO insist on them and then, when
carry their grievances into
politics. The missionary should
take the lead. 1t is the severe in
lictment which that noted Ameri-
,an, Andrew d. White, brings
against the Church, that reforms
and progress in civilization are
made outside, and not inside the
Church. There is a partial truth
IN it.
The question of Sunday concerts
is not one of principle, but the APP
plieation of principle. The use of
tram cars, on Sunday here and in
the United States, was at first made
a question of principle. But after
much most unseemly wrangling
good people, it was decided
that the principal of Sunday obser
vance did not forbid the use of
tram cars, and here and
elsewhere, the use of animals on
Sunday is general, in spite of the
Commandment. that the working
If animals on the Sabbath day is
designated as an offense.
Those who use horses and mules
IN Sunday, though positively for
hidden by Divine law, should not
object to the refining influence of
music on that day, especially as
Moses carefully omitted any refer
snce to band concerts in the Law.
This would be world less con
spicuous for unhappiness, if men
and women who publicly profess
themselves to be good or religious,
studied the environments of their
poorer neighbors and were always
swift TO discover means for max