The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-02-19
AT THE CHURCHES.
Brief Abstracts of the Sermons
Preached Yesterday.

Preached Yesterday.
Rev. w. NJ. Kincaid preached at Cen
trail Union Church on Mysteries,
from the text, Matt. 17:5: Behold,
bright cloud overshadowed them, and
behold, voice out of the cloud" Mr..
Kincaid said, in part:
You will recognize these words as
portion of the evangelist's account of
the TRANSPORTATION. First of all, let
me speak of the universal presence of
mystery. 1t does not take men long
to find out they are in world where
they never get to the roots of things.
We mean by mystery something beyond
reasoning or the facts of our present
knowledge; something that battles,
puzzles and dismays us.
We often speak of an age OF faith
and an age of doubt, as though at GER
tain periods one believed and at others
no one did. Nothing could be falser
than this. The thoughts of men are
widened with the process of the
suns" but the root-thoughts of men
are always the same; they suffer lit
| tie change. Mystery in religion is not
something all by itself, as so many
seem to believe. 1t is only a part of
tIu6 ulllNC1 Dol OiOuG. uSlS Is liz ll1Ol Z
of mystery here than in the laboratory
of the chemist. Prayer is no more
| mysterious than the attraction OF
gravitation.
| Let us think what it is that necessi-
tates the mystery. Is the mystery in
| the thing | am trying to know, or in
the incapacity of my mind to penetrate
it? l want you to think of that care
fully. Here is the mystery of my hand
moving in obedience to my will. Nc
one on earth can explain that. Let nc
one, however, make you believe that
God stands guard over certain realms
of life and warns men not to approach
thither, because He delights in mys
ltery. He is a God of light and ha!
thrown open every door to our en-
trance.
In the Infinite mystery there is com
fort for the finite reason of the mind
All religious experiences have a reason
at their heart and that reason make
them light. You may not discover tn
treason now, but it is something t
know it is there. l tell you again
Gods reason-yea, God Himself-He i
, the Light that makes it bright, tn
2 "calm and kindly Light that leads on
-
: gloom"
The Methodist Church.
, At the Methodist Episcopal Churc
y last night the Rev. Mr.. Pearso
preached from the word, ''Whatsoeve
o a man soWeth that shall he also reap.
Y Gal: viz.
The mystery of growth still battle
: the mind of man. He reads the process
+ in nature, yet cannot discern the hit
den cause. The sown seed produce
the living plant. The connection b.
: tween sowing and reaping is universe
s las is abundantly proved by Observable
g in the natural, physical, moral or spi
:. itual realm, or in national life.
n 1t is omogeneous-alike in klnC
# none need mistake here. Sowing cor
:. one reaps corn. If he sows TO Il
e wind he shall reap the whirlwind.
= is equitable that men should rec
:. what they SOW. The harvest is oft'
h surprising, like the growth OF the la
l. tana, which, from a few seeds, and
V a short time, now covers our hi
+ and valleys.
q Many are careless in their sow1n
because they do not see the connectlt
between the sowing and the reapln
They do not trace the effect back
p 1.-The cause. The time between is Ion
,e | and they forget the Importance OF L
d. tile things-yet most seeds are little.