The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-12-20
My Honolulu Boys Welfare Is
Considered.
To FACE GREAT TEMPTATION
Rev. T. D. GarVin'S AddresS-Card
Playing and Drinking-Rev. c.
l.. Pearson Speaks.


ence in the Y. NJ. c. a. hall Sunday
afternoon to hear the Rev T. d. Car
wins address on the subject The Ho-
nolulu Young Man" Secretary Cole
man read for scripture lesson the Sec
Ond Chapter of Proverbs, from which
Dr.. Garvin selected the first, second
and fifth verses as his text
/. My Son if thou will receive my
words, and hide my commandments
with thee.
,. So that thou incline thine ear
unto wisdom and apply thine heart TO
understanding.
.. Then shalt thou understand the
fear of the Lord, and find the knowI-
edge of God.
The speaker said that often he had
heard the statement: mo moral young
men come out of Honolulu, there are
no good boys in Honolulu, etc." but
these were false statements, proven ev-
cry year by the young men who go
abroad to college where they not only
make regulations as scholars, but also
are known for their piety and here in
Honolulu are many young men of
whom any community might we'll be
proud
Man is to great extent subject to
his environments. In the Eastern cities
the majority of the inhabitants are of
one race, while in Honolulu medley
of nations is represented, thus bring
ing to the young men of this city, I'M
usual temptations. We can't be too
careful with our boys.
Dr. Garvin made a strong attack on
card playing. Polite card playing
leads to gambling he said Parents
should never permit a deck of cards to
be brought into the house The family
game of whist leads the boy to some
degree of perfection as a player of
cards until finally he is willing to wag-
er on his skill. How many boys who
gamble can truthfully say Of Christian
parents 'but father and mother play
The punchbowl has been introduced
into some of the best Christian families
in the city" Dr. Garvin had heard it
said. How many drunkards had ac-
quired the taste for liquor at social
gatherings. The punch had a pleasant
taste, why not drink more of it?" So
many young men reasoned. The young
ladies drank it, even mothers did not
refuse a glass, then why should the
restless, curious boy?
- or
ton to the anti-liquor movement
which the prohibitionists have started
in Honolulu. Many people laugh at
them, he said, for even attempting to
get prohibition legislation. But he be-
Iieved in making the attempt even
though for time they failed.
"Ninety-five per cent. of the men
who are In power drink" he declared
That is why it is impossible to secure
anti-liquor legislation. With prohibit
ton, the politicians could not get their
glass. That is why they oppose us, and
these people in Honolulu who laugh at
us have the same fear.
At the close of Mr.. Garvin's address,
the Rev. G.. L. Pearson spoke for few
minutes regarding the passion for
gambling among school children. He
had seen the little fellows on the
school grounds gambling for marbles
and recently some small boys had been
incarcerated in the penitentiary for
breaking bottles. They had done this TO
get the glass balls from the bottles, the
balls being used for marble gambling.
The teachers in the schools, he claims,
should be instructed to forbid this
playing of marbles on the school
grounds.