The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-07-26
REV. d. p. BRINE.

iii Ir Brine finished his pastoral work
Nj Sunday and now returns to his
4 ne in the Connecticut valley. from
Y q ich, and the hills overlooking it,
m Re come so many of the stalwarts
33 p have been the sappers and miners
I| he army of civilization.
Ir. BRINE belongs to the younger
I. eration of religious teachers, who.
. the vitalized air of New England
|H ure, have found the pulpit a plat
IN not for speculations on creeds or
IOlogies, but for the enforcement of
|3 doctrine that "the true cross of the
|zW eemer is the sin and sorrow of the
's Id" and the mission Of the relig-
r teacher is not to preach about il,
NJ to change the conditions of life
(. iDugh a knowledge OF the world it
81 and not through idle speculations.
n mong many things he has done is
z& valuable and far-Teaching work
sx bng young men. He is one of those
I'D, recognizing the fact that young
s4b are stronger agency in control
3|tk human events than the older men,
.|Hh their fixed habits, and especially
IN handicapped with a burden
III gold, one of the heaviest of metals.
HI battles with Spain are fought by
]||sn Who are, as a rule, under thirty
i rs of age. For other, but equally
2 Dng reasons the spiritual battles of
world must be fought by the
4 anger men.
d IN establishing the Research Club,
I young men, Mr.. Birnie recognized
|# declaration of Carlyle that never
|M now did young men take such
IA nmand in human affairs 1t is no
~ al of the Y. NJ. G. A, but distinct
|8nch of the general service in build
ia up a singularly complex social
z4ucture out of the different and
tiaIly antagonistic material here.
||hr. Birnie's work has been in a
all community. divided by denomin-
onal lines. by bitter political differ
hes. and. it must be said, under the
Fix shadow of material prosperity.
ark shadow" we say, if there is
9th in the Bible, or in the words of
Sc men, expressed in many ways,
"prosperity destroys fools and en-
gers the wise" or that prosperity
stronger trial of virtue than ad-
s-sity."
y I'VE have a prosperity, taken as
w ole. that is far beyond that of any
hon of the globe; a prosperity that
+ s daily before young men spec
He of sudden riches and large in
Une, chat is disturbing, distracting,
bauching and demoralizing. 1t arises
Il of our industrial profits. And
Sugh this profit be only obtained
Il few, it is q blaze and glare Of
hes which dims the moral sight of |
young men.
hr. Birnie, an imprisoned lover of
and light may, for sufficient rea-
5. seek a field less darkened with
II shadows of prosperity.
/. h much of Mr. Brine work we have |
81 n reminded of the words of Phillips |
boks. referring to Dean Stanley: |
1e could preach in the Abbey of the
8atness of a great naturalist, al |
hugh he was no student of natural |
hence; or of a great musician, though |
a had no taste for music; or OF a |
Eat novelist. although he could not |
zd his novels. Sometimes his eulo-
\ S have seemed to some men to be
discriminatory lavished, but we must
j he the sight, which he never lost,
4 the endless human procession, ever
wing on; each faithful human being,
nous or insignificant, bearing his
II great or small, ineligible or un-
HeIligible to his brethren, yet all &C
Rted and laid up in the vast temple
the divine purpose, to which they
We. in which they slowly disap-
Nr."
% us. it has seemed that Mr.. Bir-
has in the pulpit and out of it, il
Strated in many ways these words
Bishop Brooks.