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THE CHURCHES
Parts of Three Sermons
Yesterday.
Two Discourses Applicable to the
City of HonoIuIu--Sin and
Its Answer.

Rev. W. NJ. Kincaid's discourse to
the congregation at Central Union |
Church yesterday morning was upon
the theme, Our Duty to Our City
The preacher selected for his text the |
41st verse of the 10Th chapter of st. |
Luke's Gospel: And when he was
come near he beheld the city and wept
over it,
In the course of his remarks the
| speaker said: These words introduce
Christ to us on his triumphal Journey
TO Jerusalem. The public highway is
| thronged with a great multitude, and
carpeted with palm branches-the to-
ken of victory. The air is quivering
| with hosannahs. The procession has
just rounded the brow of the Mount
of Olives, and has reached the point
where the Holy City burst into view.
This was an historic point; thousands
| had stood here before and had burst
into ecstatic rapture at the sight that
met their gaze. They had admired the
city and had exclaimed in wonder at
the temple, which shone like a noun
| tain of marble and gold in the sun
light; and they had recounted the mar
velous history of the past, until their
patriotism glowed to white heat.
| Shall the experience of other men
be reproduced in the experience of
Jesus? The text is the answer. He
lpauses, and the procession comes to a
halt; the acclamations are hushed in
Isllence. Jesus weeps. What the
Iscourge could not do, what the horror
and agony and shame of the cross
could not do, the sight of the great
city does. 1t melts the Son of God to
tears. An infinitude of pity and love
overmasters His soul and causes it to
break forth in a passion of lamenta-
ton. And why was this? He saw
what others had not the eyes to see;
He saw the hidden spirit of the city,
. the dark purposes which it cherished
the crimes which it meditated, the aw-
full doom which seemed inevitable
Others saw only the material Jerusa-
lem. He saw the moral Jerusalem, and
the moral Jerusalem carried with it
and determined the fate of the mate
, rial Jerusalem.
/, THUS it always is. The moral holds
y sway in the universe of God When a
city or nation becomes morally cor
trupt its doom is sealed. Forts, walls,
nav1es, battaliOnS are no more a pro-
lection against the wrath of God than
thin air. A city or nation is strong
in proportion to its righteousness A
righteous city has God for it's keeper,
and the city which has God for it's
keeper is as safe as the city of the
: skies. These thoughts came to my
: mind a few days ago as l stood upon
: the slope of Punchbowl and looked off
. upon the city of Honolulu, and l de-
termined to make them the theme of
: my sermon this morning. Every man
: should take a wide and sweeping view
o lof his own city, and that from some
commanding standpoint. 1t is well for
us that the veil rests over much OF
y what transpires around us; but some
d times the veil is rent, and then it is
1t well for us to pause and ponder over
/. the things which lie perpetually be-
e hind it.
a LAS | stood upon Punchbowl anC
st gazed upon our city said, This is ouI
1t Jerusalem. Here is a city which claims
% our first attention. Here is a field fol
70 Christian work. The civilization Of
t the world depends more and more upor
III making the population of our cite!
lie Christians. Hence 1 say that our frs
n duty is to the city of Honolulu. The
point I would make this morning i!
"a that man is the greatest thing in thi.
n world; the walking image of God. H,
'e is next to God himself; hence, next t.
the study of God is the study of man
"a and next to the service of God is thu
IL service of man.
IA THE aim l have in view is to secur
l. a greater interest on the part of tn
members of this church in man. Oh, i
al the Christians of this city could b.
III made to realize the need that there i
l. of earnest, aggressive Christian worl
III among the many in our midst VIII
II never enter the sanctuary. In tn
II midst of our cities today there appear
re to be an widening gulf betweel
lie the well-to-do and the 1aboring classes
d. between the rich and the poor. In tn
L church there is a conspicuous lack c
working men and women. We ar
In learning by bitter experience that it
Ce very expensive to neglect the swamp
Us and miasmas which infect and pollut
e, our municipal interests; and what
Oh true of physical disease is true also {
a. moral disease"
I'D Rev. Kincaid closed his discourse b
TO a quotation from Ben Adhem.
ST. Mr.. Kincaid's evening sermon Wa
founded upon Acts Is, 81 and 80: can
u they said, Believe on the Lord jest
I. Shi ioL e1Au lhOu 0LI1lI ne HclNSu, Oh
u thy house, and they spake unto hi
~ the word of the Lord, and to all thi
NC were in His house"
~ The speaker enlarged upon the pre-
;:a' ent trouble in the city and the cons
ee quent apprehension and fear of Il
u community, and pointed out the a.
nu vantages of an increased faith IN II
Vi words of Christ as conveyed in II
W text.
ia At the Methodist Church.
an Practical Religion the Supreme Me-
:. of the Hour" was the subject of Re
NO Mr.. Parsons sermon at the Method
rts Episcopal Church last night. The te
sia was, Bear We one another's burde
n and so fulfill the law of Christ"
Tor is said that a god and one man ma