The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-08-30
TRUTH---FREEDOM
A Striking Sermon by
the Rev. c. w. Hill
Teachings of Wise Men and the
Christ-Contrasts
and Nations.

John Sth Chap. 3lst verse--Ye shall
know the truth, and the truth shall make
you free Every author has a certain
word or number Of words peculiar to him
self You can often recognize your favor
tie author by his favorite words but You
cannot understand him until YOU under
stand the meaning which he gives to those
words. The author of the fourth gospel
makes use of word which is character
istic and vital That word is truth.
But it is necessary 10 know what he
means by truth"
Mark the contrast between the teach
ings OF solomon and those of Christ Sol
ONION uttered proverbs which are the uni
versal verdict of mankind but he simply
stated them; he was not an incarnation
of them. He violated many of them: he
could NOT say I am the proverb." His
proverbs had no living force behind them.
Not so with the teachings of Christ He
! brought his life into harmony with what
he taught Truth was not to him a SET
OF IDEAS. put a process Of action, himself
was the truth.
With this definition of what truth is
We are now prepared 10 see what it does.
ana contemplate the liberty which It con
Liberty is define bz Webster rs ..a6il-
| ity to do what one ple5ses. Whatever
confeFS TINS ability, coEfers liberty. This
| Is precisely what Chris does.
mere, are two ways OF making men
| free, which may bee COItraSted. When
| Peter was IN prison angel opened the
| doors ana led him forth. lie was made
| free, but he had no more ability than be
| fore sampson was bound with green
| WIthes- The spirit of power came upon
| him, and he snapped them asunder as If
! they had been of tow. one was made
| free by an external force, which removed
| the bOnas; the other, by internal ability
| which made him superior to the bonds
| The latter is Christs method of liberia
| ton. 1t is by the power of truth wrought
into the character.
What is true of individuals is true also
| of nations. When Professor Huxley Wis
| tied the United States, some years ago,
| he was asked as TO his opinion of the fit
| ness of the American people for self gov
| eminent His reply was The fitness of
| the American people for self government
| is primarily a matter of education and
! for a people but what you render them
| capable of doing for themselves that con
| stitutes their liberty.
| The same principle is illustrated in Utah.
| Fifteen years ago the maSsed ignorance
and superstition of MOrmOnism began to
| be penetrated by free schools and Chris
| have passed thousands of youth have
| grown up under that influence. So far as
| they are concerned, the spell of Mormon
ism is broken. They know the truth and
the truth has made them free.
Our principle is now illustrated IN
| Cuba. The bondage of Spain is broken.
but Cuba is by means free, and Will
not be until she receives the light OF
| truth God has opened the doors of civ
ilizatiOn and progress, and calls upon US
to enter with the light of civilization ana
Milton describes the archangeI Uriel as
descending to the earth on a sunbeam
of God is the beam of light by which the
| High and HOlv One who inhanlteth eter'
nifty descends to change the night OF eI.
lror into the day-dawn of freedom, anC
saw to all the nations of the earth -
! shall know the truth, and the truth Shdl
make you Tree