The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-06-16

commandment COO our savior, and
LORD Jesus CnrTyt. winch Is our nope;
Unto l1mothy,. my own son N the
laltH, Grace, mercy ana peace, from God
our ather ana Jesus CHRIST our I.oTu.
resident hruegeF then teiegrapned as
follows: "IecharIah, TX, s.; OF when
this Is the text.
And l viii encamp about mine house
because of the army, because of him that
passeth by, and because OF him that re-
tGIneth; ana no oppressor shall pass
through them any more; for now have
seen with mine eyes"
10 this Mr.: Smyth replied by pos !,
quoting Ezekiel, xxxii., 2-6:
son or man, take up d lamentation for
Pharaoh, king OF Egypt, and say unto
MIN, Thou art like a young lion of the
nations, and thou art as a whale in the
seas; and thou earnest forth with thy
rivers and troubledst the waters with
thy feet, and fouledst the rivers
Thus saith the Lord God: L will there
fore spread out My net over thee with a
company of many people; and they shall
bring thee up in My net.
Then will / leave thee upon the land
will cast thee forth upon the open
neld, and will cause all the fowls of the
Heaven to remain upon thee, and l will
MI the beasts Of the whole earth with
thee.
And / will lay thy flesh upon the
mountains and fill the valleys with thy
land wherein thou swimmest, even to the
mountains; and the rivers shall be full of
thee"
by return Mr.. Kruger sent a reference
TO st. Matthew vi, "a:
Take therefore no thought for the
morrow; for the morrow shall take
thought for the things of itself. Suffi
cient unto the day is the evil thereof"
Mr.. Smyth telegraphed back Hosea
~, 49," which is:
''Ye have plowed wickedness, we have
reaped iniquity; We have eaten the fruit
Of lies; because thou didst trust in thy
way. in the multitude of thy mighty
men"
Up to this time the President and Mr..
sages. Now Mr.. Krueger's reply was
sent Collect" and Mr.. Smyth was re-
ferred to Jeremiah xviii, 2O-22:
Shall evil be recompensed for good?
for they have digged a pit for my soul.
Remember that / stood before thee to
speak good for them, and to turn away
thy wrath from them.
therefore, deliver up their children to
the famine. and pour out their blood by
the force of the sword; and let their
wives be bereaved of their children. and
be widows; and let their men be put to
death: let their young men be slain by
the sword in battle.
Let cry be heard from their houses,
when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly
upon them; for they have digged a pit
TO take me, and hid snares for my feet"
Mr.. Smyth replied by referring the
President to Isaiah H., 10:
These two things are come unto thee:
who shall he sorry for thee? desolation
and destruction, and the famine. and the
sword. by whom shall / comfort thee2"
President Kruger by telegraph refer
red Mr. Smyth to Job xxxiv., 1-2:
"Knowest thou the time when the wild
goats Of the rock bring forth? or canst
thou mark when the kinds do calye?
''Canst thou number the months that
they fulfil? or knowest thou the time
when they bring forth?'
Mr.. Smyth telegraphed back Psalm
why do the heather rage and the peo-
pie imagine a vain thing?'
The next message from Mr.. Kruger re-
ferred to Psalm Xix, to 8:
Save me, o God, for the waters are
come In unto my soul.
II sink in deep mire. where there is no
standing; am come into deep waters
where the floods overflow me.
II am weary of my crying; my throat
is dried: mine eyes fail while 1 wait for
Mr.. Smyth's reply was Job XIV, 81:
Let not him that Is deceived trust in
vanity; for vanity shall be his recon-
pense."
The President next calls his CORE
spondents attention to Ecclesiastes ill.,.
ITO everything there is a season. and
a time to every purpose under the
"a time to be born and time to die:
time to plant and time to pluck up
"A time to kill and time to heal: a
time to break down and a time to build
up;
"a time to weep and a time to laugh;
"A time to mourn and time to dance:
"A time to cast away stones and time
to gather stones together: a time to en-
brace and time to refrain from embrace
ing:
"A time to get and time to lose; a
time to keep and a time to cast away;
"A time to rend and a time to sew: a
time to keep silence and a time to speak.
"A time to love and time to hate: a
time OF war and time of peace"
To this Mr.. Smyth replied by quoting
Ecclesiastes w., s:
Better Is an handful with quietness
than both the hands full with travail and
vexation Of spirit"
Mr.. Kruger sent another message
marked Collect" and referred Mr..
Smvth to Nahum T.. Is:
Behold. upon the mountains the feet
of him that bringeth good tidings, that
publisheth peace! q, Judah. keep thy
solemn feasts. perform thy vows: for the
wicked shall no more pass through thee;
he IL utterly cut or"
Mr.. Smyth's answer. which elected no
reply. brought the correspondence to a
close. His message was:
But we are departed out of the way:
We have caused many to stumble at the
law: we have corrupted the covenant OF
Levi. saith the Lord of hosts.
Therefore. have I also made you con-
temptIble and base before all the people,
according as We have not kept nv ways
but have been partial In the aw."-Lon-
don Times.