The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-04-02
IN CHURCH
AND PULPIT.
Mr.. KinCaId'S MaSterfuI
Sermon.
ETHICS OF BOER WAR
Anglo-Saxon Liberty Must be Up
held - Sermons of Other
Local Pastors.

II the Rev. William Morris Kincaid
had delivered his sermon on the
Ethics of the War in South Africa" in
a non-secular auditorium on a week
day night, instead of in Central Union
church last evening, his great effort
would have received the hearty ana
prolonged applause it deservedly calls
lor. 1t was by all odds one of the
strongest and most effective sermons.
# sermon it can really be termed, which
Mr.. Kincaid has spoken from the pull
pit. 1t was a masterful contribution on
the subject.
Rev. Mr.. Kincaid gradually brought
forth the force of his argument favor
ing the success of British arms in South
Africa IN the present struggle against
the Beers. The political sentiment
toward the Beers now being harbored
N the United States by certain
ambitious persons striving for
yOpuIaIity, was sentiment urged for
.oAtICaI power for party reasons. In
ne mOmeEtous struggle of the nations
Of The world proIhesied tor the future,
Anglo-SaxOn cooperation was the only
absolute safeguard tor the lbeE,y, en-
AgnteumeHt and Industrial progress OF
me world, as against the encroachment
Of the Slav, as represented by Russia
ana RussIa's White Gar. England,
mastered IN any great struggle of the
,4eseAt, he contends, means the de-
struclon OF all that stands for liberty.
in opening his SCI mon, Mr.. Kincaid
said:
"Blood, warfare and untold expense
N the ornaments OF the nations OF the
world are on every hand, and yet
rust that none of US here believe that
.nese are lifting the wOrld coward the
highest ideal of liberty. | have not
chosen the subject winch VIII occupy
JUI thoughts tonight Jnat II might he
legaI deu sensational. in the United
oCaLes mis- question may become a
question or pat policies. / nave
-nOsen II because II seems TO me TO DC
ne most ImpOI TAFT questIOn facing tht
present axe. and We ale III the MIDST OF
what promises TO be the cIlsis OF al
human history.
a. 80. .sJ.4te a man on an island
| so that he Is cut of fl Om his KIND, ana
4e has no eTsUnal relauOns win any
me. ne might become "A vicious man
/ but he could not become an immoral
man, Tor morality concerns our Te.a-
Ions with some one else. Morality was
| begun when the I'll ST man loved the first
woman. when the nIst father and
mother loved their children; out oil
-la.e laC.a AIeN the fanny and event
| ually the wider relationship of man.
| kind. 1t is strictly social. The mans
/ first duty is to his wife and children
/ h5n We nave the patIiarchll T. pc rep
| resented by Abraham; his people called
/ him in a general way, father out
of that family grew the tribe. LOOl
/ back to the ancient days of Athen:
auu Svart1 b hen moral ideas were
confined to the city or tribe. The idel
| prevaiiCd. that to weaken and humil-
/ late. and do what could be done to de
/ strOy another race was the best way t
| benC. 4 tne whole race.
Even IN modern times we have only
/ begun 10 outgrow that idea. II is only
at the beginning of the 18th centur!
we fird Lord Nelson teaching that th'
| highest degree of patriotism was t
| hate q Frenchman. and today the spiri
/ imbued in the minds of the French
people is to hate an Englishman. W.
are only outgrowing that kind of pat
riotism II man says he does not love
| HIS 0v'r family and begins to love othel
\ families, you mark him with suspicion
/ II a man does not love MS own cOun
| try a~d gushes over his love for al
mankind. you regard him as a shallow
/ impCstor. Let him love his own fam
lily. love his own city, love his owl
country, love his own nation and hi
own rare ard he will reach out beyon1
the limits OF all that love and impress
whatever is human upon all within hi
reach. One of the grandest sentence
from the lips Of man. was one uttered
by Thomas Paine. who has berh stig
matized as an infidel and a hereto
These words are inscribed on the pedes
tai OF the statue Of William Lloyd Gar
rison: THE world is my country. ant
to do good my religion
81 want to discuss what I Conside
Is the worlds greatest problem.
want to speak very briefly on the feel
ing of irritation that exists on the par
of the average American toward En-
IL - NiObBAhS OhN III AhN heA
tinnal debates in our national congress
We go back and bring to mind tn
J great struggle OF 1875, and are apt {
think that England Is Americas hered
itary enemy. ] am continually meet
ing Americans who have a decided dis
taste for England on account Of som
disagreeable instances they have me
in Individual Englishmen. / canno
measure my feelings against natiol
by the individual. / have met man,
Americans who have been far more DIS
agreeable than Englishmen I have me-
yet | love America; ! am proud OF II
history. OF Its glory. and Of what / be
lieve to be American destiny.
Let us look at the war OF 1875. Wa
II England fighting America in an.
such sense that We should cherish to
day ill-feelings toward her? Did yo'
ever think OF what our American fore