The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-01-16
Rev. MP. Kincaid'S Sermon Oh
Man in the Family.
PARENTS AND THEIR CHILDREN
Life a Blessing-Th Home Duties.
Concerning Marriage-Re-
marks on Divorce.

At the Central Union Church last
night the Rev. Wa. Norris Hincaid
presented the second of his series of
. sermans on man. AS on the Sunday
evening previous, The church was
crowded with attentive listeners.
Rev. Mr.. Kincaid chose for his see
!. ond problem under the general subject.
Man. a Man in the Family" The
. speaker make three subdivisions of the
problem; first considering man, the
. child; second, man, the husband;
. third, man, the father. No man, he
8 claimed, completely hounds out his be
ing until he has fulfilled this three
fold relationship.
: Speaking of man, cne child, the preach
er said this life is but the beginning of
. an eternal career. However humble
. that beginning may be we owe deep
6 debt of gratitude 10 our parents who
. brought MS that beginning and thus
& made possible a life never ending,
future sublime. Some psssimists tell
: us they wish they mad not been born
' and yet we watch those people closely
and We find that they seldom commit
|. suicide. However, such wish if true
Z is a sign Of disease. q healthy man is
{ glad that he was born.
Man owes TO father and mother
debt not only for life, but perhaps, for
good name, and the good name of
parents should be an example binding
y ,F w
is capable of doing any great work for
. humanity received much Of his power
from the family that bore him.
. The speaker then considered the debt
OF love which the child OWES to the pa
rents. How many, he said, reserve all
courtesy for strangers and only show
. their rougher nature to their own flesh
. and blood 1t is love that makes letter
writing easy, said the preacher and
: none know it more than women. When
a son far from home Deglects the letter
writing to his mother, be assured that
man is going wrong.
! Some debts can bs paid in hard
cash, said Mr.. kinca5d. There is no
question here OF the duty hat the child
] owes 10 the parents. What greater or
l nament can there be what scene is
more beautiful than the parent in the
home of his son and the grandchildren
at his knee.
Every man who leaves home takes
with him the honor CT his family
} which he may enhance or disgrace.
The success Of a son is as a crown TO
4 his parents. What JOY is SO great to
the father as the return home of a no.
, BILE, successful child; Or what disgrace
is so keen as for a child who returns
! and who far from home, has sOiled his
good name.
= Mr. kincaid sp0he Of the custom in
some countries Of marrying a woman
without having previously met her.
One Of the beautiful things of Amer
. lean life IS its simple and perfect free
dom. Every man has time and Oppor-
S tunity in which to study the woman he
would make his wife. A great many
evils in married life spring from this
source,-hasty marriage. Adequate
: time has not been taken. For every
: man there is a woman and time should
be taken TO find out this particular
: woman The cause Of so much unhappl-
! ness in life is deception. A young man
a calls on a lady and she plays the piano
or discusses with him the latest
book. She admires his stylish dress, his
pleasing manners. his hair parted in
the middle, but she does not know the
T real man. Young men," he said, "be
at your best during your days of court
ship, but let your best be just yourself.
Ispeaker claimed, there is the divine pie
ture OF a model woman. Mark this,
said the preac cher. The truest welded
life can only come out of the truest
unwedded life. What many young men
call seeing life is seeing death. Purity
y and truth are the only sure founda-
tions upon which a marriage can rest.
The speaker then briefly discussed
the divorce problem. After reading
from a paper accounts OF grounds upon
-, which divorces were allowed in the
, United States the most trivial Of which
was that OF a woman who sought and
secured divorce because never during
their married life had her husband
taken her for a drive, the preacher in
dignantly branded such legal decisions
a blot O nAmerican civilization. 1T Is
lPaganism, yes worse,-it is hypocricy.
The speaker was unable to continue the
- subject further as the hour was gone,
but promised to discuss the question
. more in full at a Sunday morning SER
vice soon.