The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-10-17
Modern Religious Thought as Re-
aHCtpd Here.
LESSONS DRAWN FROM TEXTS
Obligations of Life-AdvIce for Cor
rect Living-Community InfIu-
ences-Three Sermons.
CENTRAL UNION.

Rev. ". VI. Kincaid chose for his
morning theme. Human Loneliness"
finding his text in the sixteenth chap
Behold. the hour cometh. yea. is now
come. that We shall be scattered. every
man to his own. and shall leave me
alone: and yet l am not alone. because
the Father is with me" lie spoke in
part as follows:
The Master was the loneliest OF men
in life and in death. In his daily asso-
citation he had only external love and
companionship. His own mother did
not comprehend him, his fellow towns
men scoffed ut him. He came unto
his own and his own received him not. ''
| All great men are solitary. 4 great
statesman or great reformer Is cut
away from the human sympathy ne
! Graves. The pain OF uncongeniaI en-
! Vironment came TO Jesus; IL was lone
| liness in a world OF men he loved and
| TO him this was the greatest torture.
| The text brings out this feature OF the
/ life Of Christ with peculiar force. At
times we are called to- be under the
shadow OF human loneliness. There are
! times when we feel alone IN the spirit
ual world. Our soul life must be lived
/ alone and separated from those nearest
us. 1t is a separate and distinct per
| sonality. The individual must think
his own thoughts and live his own life.
We travel in crowds and we worship in
! assemblies and by such contact we lose
our rough edges. The average man is
thus made more serviceable. II would
he hard to- get on with some people
were it not for this polishing process.
| Yet with each there must ever be an
inner. sacred circle. There are even
times when human companionship Is
a burden and falls like n discord in a
melody. Who admits the world To- the
secrecy of his thoughts? Only the fool
wears his heart on his sleeve. There
are times when the mother i power
less TO help her child and when the
! husband is unable to aid the wife. But
like "A small boat in mid-oCean Is the
man with the consciousness OF unfOr-
| given sin in his heart. But the feeling
OF loneliness is taken away when the
| knowledge OF the fOrCivinE Father
comes into the life. Faithful disciple
ship requires a man to leave father and
mother. houses and lands. He must
feel the chill of the unsympathetic life
OF his surroundings.
| There are other forms Cf human lone
Iiness. The most awful OF these Is
when the person realizes his lost man
hood and as Holmes has said, "Awakes
! I'm the night and eXclaims; There IS
no man here" Then there Is the lone
| uuess which comes from sorrow and
! bereavement II is the common lot Of
all to thus suffer hut that makes the
pang no less sharp for the hidden life.
Down TO the verge OF the river of
death our friends may go with US but
We must each cross alone. How many
OF us believe in the God who can dis
pel the loneliness OF death. The All
| hearing. all seeing God. who knows our
! down-sittiug and uur uprising can
alone enter into our lives and take
away the sorrow OF utter loneliness-
Though ours be the loneliness uf death
let US remember that Christ and the
Father stand waiting to turn it into
iov and gladnszs for his children.
The subject OF the evening sermon
| wss The Dives and the Lazarus oi
TODAY" The text was taken from th"
, 10th chapter OF Luke. the 18th and -"-h
verses. The sermon in outline was "s
follows. ] suppose We sAal all a-I-
that this is the most terrible pAE;i1. .e
. sD1lsu bv the Master. yet Do may be-
l
IT, In his palace Dives sits amid the
luxury of his wealth. Illuminated bS
p uvriaH lights. with the air scented 10y
z parfume. Bands OF servants are with
T gu- and within. At the gate sits Ia.
8 he-ga-. in rags and I'm loneliness Th'
rich man dies and his body is carried
10 the tomb in great pomp, while th'
death OF the poor man passes unno
ticed. The veil beyond the grave j
s lifted and we see the rich man sJr!ppe'
! OF his splendor and in torment, Will
/, | the unpTivileEed man OF this worl
wears the title and the crown. Tn
parable does not Confne itself simpE
20 the rich and the poor. Wealth an
poverty IN property is but one kin.
OF the poor and the rich man. Dive
: stands for opportunity, for success, 70
power and for force. Lazarus stand
? for disadvantage, for weakness, 20
! | lack OF opportunity and for want o
confidence. II you are Dives IN an,