The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-12-31

| have seen them in your happy home
ana you are TO 60
He pushed the lieutenant into the
boat. and as the boats roWed away to a
safe distance he stood there in his place
on deck, the flames creeping up around
MN. with his arms folded waiting his
COON. So he stood, serious and silent
until the fire reached a magazine and
the $50 souls were blown into eternity
Z That was heroiSm. Meanness and
selhshness have no place in heroism. To
work for others, TO sacrifice for Others
aye, if need be, to die for others
that is heroism.
The world has what it calls it's he
roes. A Dewey takes a Manila, and he
is a hero. An Admiral Schley or a
Sampson conquers a Santiago, and the
news is flashed all over the world They
become known as heroes
'But harkl Amidst the hills of Cali
lee | hear the voice of Him Who spoke
as no man speaks. Listen to His
words, when He is asked why He COM
eth: L come to seek and to save the
lost, and He gave His life for the souls
iof men.
80 we competitors for heroism, Fix
your eyes upon the cross. and find
there crucified the greatest Hero and
the greatest heroism the world ever
gaZed uponi
But, my friends, while we all applaud
and admire heroism, when we are call
ed upon to make the sacrifice of some
qualification, we often refuse-some lit
tie trifle which would mean so little to
us-yet we would refuse to make the
sacrifice. There is not one here tonight
who VIII dispute the fact that strong
drink is stumbling block and that it
causes our weaker brethren TO offend.
Men who are qualified to say, such as
ministers. philanthropists, Judges and
lr-iS- ft.ef
of the poverty, distress and crime the
world over is caused by drink Drink
fills our insane asylums, our poor
houses, our reform schools and our pen
itentiaries. There was a time when l
first went into temperance work when
| wondered how God who is a God Of
love could permit such things as I saw
10 oVertake his handiWork. But as I
went on l ceased to wonder, and L
found that it was all the cause of mans
own iniquity. Poor little children whose
reasons were dethroned when they were
born came 10 my observation, but I
ceased even 20 wonder at that. for /
found that a large percentage of these
We're the result of the intemperance of
the parents and l remembered that amid
the thunders of Sinai it was given out,
the fearful law of heredity-the sins of
the father shall be visited upon the
child.
II need not tell you of cases / have
known-you all have known them your
friends or relatives
these whose bright prospects and fair
futures We're lost in the curse of the
bowl. their hopes bIighted their lives
wrecked-al through strong drink.
Temperance workers are sometimes
told that they keep their temperance
too much in the foreground and their
gospel too much in the background but
We know that we must get the STUN
bling block out of the way, that the
light of the gospel may be more effica-
cious. in the salvation of souls. To help,
my friends, In the task of removing that
stumbling block, is a work for each of
us
Sometimes when I realize what a
power the church is, and that it has
the power IL it only would to prohibit
the curse in America, I. as part of the
church, feel that / must bow my head
in shame in Gods holy presence.
1T is true that one hundred and sixty
Thousand drunkards die every year,
and that twelve hundred million dollars
are spent every year in the purchase Of
drink. Is it not appalling?
Sometimes / think that if there is
anything we will regret in the world
to come it will be lost opportunities.
About two years ago while travelling
through Southern California ! learned
a severe lesson. A card was put up in
the coach to announce that we were
coming to some beautiful scenery and
as 1 passed through another coach on
the way out to view it. / passed a
young man. He was wasted away, and
on his pale face was the dread stamp
of the fell disease. consumption. He sat
motionless and white. and my heart
went out in pity. | intended to ask
him If there was anything I could do
for him, but waited until I came back.
That my friends. was a lost opportu-
nifty. When I had viewed the scenery I
returned, to learn that he was dead He
had died, too. with letter from home
in his hand. unopened and unread, be-
cause he was too weak to break the
seal. 1 might have read the letter for
him. but ! had not waited I might
have given him the solace of the mes
sage from home, but I had waited. and