The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-06-19
HAWAII AND
THE BIBLE
Relation of Book to Our
Past and Future.
SERMON BY REV ]. c. HAY
Pastor Of Christian Church Shows
Influence of Great Volume
On These Islands.

On Sunday night, Rev. j. C. Hay, of
the Christian Church, spoke on THE
Bible in Relation to Hawaii's Past and
Future"
Seek we first His kingdom and His
righteousness" Matt. 6:33.
righteousness exalteth a nation; but
sin is IA. a Ireproach to any people" Prov
To complete the impressive scene In
front of the Executive building witness
ed at the inauguration of Governor Dole
on the 18th inst. one thing was needed
an open Bible. Had our honored highest
official OF this latest-born Territory of
the United States been supplied with a
copy of the Holy Scriptures, he could
have held it aloft and proclaimed truth
fully to the assembled throng: To this
book above and behind all other forces,
we owe the existence of conditions which
make this Admission Day possible. Only
Bible land could have the ceremonies
which took place: The opening exercise
a native pastor, whose elevation to the
intelligence and all the qualifications of
worthy citizenship in the American Re
public are due to the Bible. Next came
the reading of the commission sent by
President Mckinley. Its closing SEN
tence contains the words, I'm the year
of our Lord, one Thousand nine hundred"
thus recognizing Jesus Christ as enthron-
ed at the right hand Of the Father Su-
heaven and on EARTH The oath of Of
flee was taken, ia Che presence of AL
mighty God" The admirable inaugural
address was marked by wisdom, JUS
tice. and phlanthrophy such the BIZ
BILE ever inspires. OF tfse Awo yaen in the
fore ground upon whom all eyes were
fixed at the eventful moment when the
induction into etiice was contaminated,
both the Chief Justice and the Governor
are products of the Bible Prom infancy
to manhood and through all their ripper
years they have lived and moved and had
their being in an atmosphere or truth and
grace created by the Bible. And the pro-
1T H.
and Stripes everywhere upon the face of
the building behind the principal figures
was "A delightful proclamation of the BIZ
Bile. For the student knows that the
beautiful emblem of freedom would never
have been unfurled to the brceZes of
heaven had not the Bible first brought
into being "A nation of freemen. 1t is but
natural that Hawaii should become an
integral part of the United States Like
causes produce like effects. New Eng
lands sons and daughters brought as
their chief treasure 10 these distant ISL
ands eighty years ago the Bible which
had made New England-the Bible which
explained the landing at Plymouth Rock
the Bible which In the cabin of the
Mayfiower had furnished the germ of the
Constitution of the United States Across
the stormy Atlantic the Pilgrims brought
their open Bible to the wilds OF America
and around the Horn descendants of the
Pilgrims brought their open Bible to the
wilds OF these islands of the Pacific. The
relationship and the affinity called for the
union: Hawaii, the daughter OF the
American Republic, has returned TO the
bosom of her mother
The missionary bands which one after
another entered upon their Iffe-work
among the Hawaiians came hither TO inn
part the blessings OF that worship which
thsir fathers and mothers had estab-
hshed In New England.
Inc breaking waves dashed high
On stern and rock-bound coast
Ana the woods against "A stormy sky
Their giant branches tossed:
Ana the heavy night hung dark
The hills and waters DER.
When band of exiles moored their b,,rL
on the wild New England shore
what sought they thus afar?
Bright jewels of the mine?
me wealth of seas the spoiIs of war;
They sought "a faiths pure shrinei
Aye. call IL holy ground
The soil where first they trod-
ihey nave left unstained what there. they
found my
Freedom to worship God
FELICIA HEMANS.
49,. IL