The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-11-11
DR.. BISHOP AND THE MISSION.

twenty-five years ago. the President
of one Of the noted eastern Colleges
said to one of it's graduates. q Hawai-
ian born, the College is poor. it's en-
dowment is small. the professors are
ill paid, no one helps" The reply was,
treat the College as If it was a bust
ness affair and not a religious insti-
tution-put business methods into it
put on your coat, get into the crowd
like dry goods drummer-tackle bust
ness men, and show them that Col
leges are as necessary as railroads.
Any close observer will now notice that
the most interchangeable drummer" Of
these later days are the college pre-
sidents. They may pray for endow-
ments, put now they persistently
drum for them.
Ministers have their secular and
business side, as well as their religious
side. 1t is however only one body
with two aspects. The Advertiser is
secular journal, and is under obli-
cations to avoid sectarianism. 1t
reaches or hopes to reach the men of
every denomination. At the same time
il knows that religions and secular af-
fairs are as closely united as the flesh
and blood which the Jew could not
separate in order to get his pound of
flesh. A secular newspaper cannot
touch on any problem Of life without
becoming involved in its religious
phases.
One of the seemingly inexplicable
features of modern Christian civiliza-
ton mas been the clear distinction rig
idly kept between the religious and Sc
cular journals, in obedience to an ig
norant public sentiment. Owing how
ever, to a great advance in the under
standing OF the intimate relations be-
tween business and religion, the secu-
lar journals now discuss religious mat
tiers and religious journals initiate the
secular journals.
The theories, and conduct OF the
early missionaries to these Islands are
not to be treated as a closed affair, a
subject to be disposed of by sweeping
general opinion as is expressed by the
Rev Dr. Bishop, any other person, edi-
tor or preacher. There is a maya
zine of material accumulated here, dur
ing the last seventy years regarding
the operations of missions, which is
invaluable 1t is waiting for master
hand like that of the Rev. Sidney GU
lick to use it, and forge out thunder
bolts against error and put US IN bet
ter understanding with the true way
to elevate mankind.
DIR. Bishop tells us that the Divine
command was, and is, TO go to all
nations and preach the Gospel to every
creature, and then informs us that the
reasons why the Romanist and Nor
mon creeds over One-half of the ma
tives, is, that in 50 years the Protest
ant mission here has been reinforced
by only two individuals, and the
Romanists and Mormons have had 1t
their own way. The only way TO eX-
plain this astounding discrepancy be-
tween belief and practice is, to hold
that in effect, the American churches
called in their Bibles, burnt them up
and reissued a new edition with the
Divine command to preach the Gospel
stricken out of it.
The men who ought to be the lead
ers of the best thought here, religions
and secular are bound to make bet
ter explanation than this of the rea-
sons for the present relative condition
of the denominations here.