The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-11-10
THE MAKING
OF A HUML
A Sanctuary To Which
Men Flee For Rest.
\, NJ. NHCAID'S SERMON
Strong Address Delivered at Central
Union Church Last
Sunday.

iCf sermons by Rev. w. M. Kincaid on,
'.The Making CT Happy Home and
vas delivered Sunday at Central Union
church:
Text. Kings 1871, Come home with me
and refresh myself
Home is among the hottest of words.
\ true home is one of the most sacred OF
places 1t is a sanctuary into which men
flee from the worlds perils and alarms
II is resting-pldce whittier at close of
day the weary retire to gather new
strength for the battle and tolls of tie
morrow 1t is the place where love learns
its lessons, where life is schooled into dis
tciplne and strength, where character Is
moulded.
Out Of the homes of a community comes
the life of that community, river
from the thousand springs that sush
forth from the hillsides.
We are all concerned, l take it, in The
making of some one home-our own home.
One instrument out Of tune in an orches
ira mars the music which breaks upon
the ears of the listeners. One discordant
!, life In a household mars the perfectness
, of the music of love in the family. We
should make sure that our life is not The
! one that is out of tune. We do not &c 81
tc worry about the other lives; if eaon
,, looks to his own, that will do
Not long ago was reading an article on
a the new religious movement in France
/ from the pen of Michelet, and 1 was
much impressed with these words. Build
up again the family, the true and natural
family. The home is the foundation of
all. All life is built upon that. Where
hat is shaken, all is shaken. Where fam
lily life is feeble and disunted, the State
, has no solid basis on which to rest. In
vain it seeks for another. Like a sick
man it turns and turns again upon its
couch, and finds other position in
r which it can rest" These words are just
:. as appropriate to America as to France.
: II the latter country is to be elevated by
Y the restoration of the family life, the for
: mer is to be preserved in its dignity and
: honor by the conservation of the home.
One of the greatest perils that threatens,
rot only our religion, but our Anglo-Sax-
q on civilization, is the depreciation of the
: home among the people. Feeling this to
be So / have determined TO make the
home, with it's various relationships, the
subject of some plain, practical talks for
a few Sabbath evenings. The history OF
civilization is the history OF home and
: its affections. For the home all fields are
n sown, all harvest: reaped; for the home
n all ships set sail and return again; fol
the home the shuttleS of the factory fly
- the spindles whirl, and the wheels turn
round for the home the artist makes the
e canvas bright, the sculptor the marbles
r. beautiful. and the composer the music
s sweet; for his home, too, man makes law
" NC JUST piopcIty odic anu hlc oCSui
ard rich. Just as the sun journeys for
ward accompanied by it's ocean of ligh
q ard leaving harvssts in it's pathway; 81
a the home has been a divine force tina
Is has journeyed across the continents
:, bringing with it an atmosphere of happi
. ness and leaving in it's pathway arts, in
: dustries song, morals. AS once, martyrs
: exiled and N despair saw the New Jeru
lie salem coming down from God out o
lie heaven. and their sorrow and mourninI
"a were turned into joy. so unto man, VIII
a goes toiling, struggling, weeping, aspir
~ Jig, through the years, God has let dow
ie the dream of a home, to be made sacre,
ID as temple, where joy is the only song
l. service the only sacrifice, and love tn
a. only priest, home that should be to hin
III the life that now is what the Holy Cit,
will be I'm the life that is to come.
In nothing is the contrast more strikin,
lie tran between the home of today and o
IL former eras far as material comfort
:, are concerned. Ip that old the god
> dwelt in marble palaces and the peopl
rs dwelt in mud huts. The people O
t. Athens, who lived in the midst of tn
e. noblest creations of art, the very frag
ne ments of which we gaze at in wonder an
i, awe, who listened to the most subim
- tragedies and orationS, and breathed a
Is atmosphere charged with culture an
of philosophy, wore clothes, ate food an
in slept in places that we would scarcel
he count fit for convicts and slaves. Toda
- If the average American citizen shoul
a open to those pages where the old Gree
CO scholar describes the scenes in connectio
1S with the unwilling of the Phidan Jup
er ter, how great would be his surprise t
of find that the poorest workman Of toda
&c enjoys wholesome home surroundings de
: MED even to the great of that early er;
II The old historian shows us the templ
"a wrought in marble, the doors covere
ly with plates of hammered gold and Ell
s. r:ched with ivory, the statue of Jupite
liz touching the ceiling and standing fort
. white as snow. Upon the morning
that eventful day 10000 citizens wer
OF forth to join the solemn procession. Whit
We robed priests and young men and maiC
he ems crowned with laurels, chanting m,
nj sic; costly perfumes filed the air. Tt
I. procession entered temple, whose wal
" We're rich in tapestries whose floors weI
mt bright with mosaics, whose ceilings wei
I'm brilliant with frescoes, whose vaults wei
crowded with treasures contributed b
princes and kings.
But when the ceremony was conclude
n and the people turned homeward no
ut striking the contrast! Once the publ
C. quarter with the temples and theatei
n and gymnasiums was left behind, ar
ha you entered the quarter given up
homes, how the aspect changed! Hell
III the streets were little better than alley
to cramped, dark, narrow, stenchful. Ash,
lr- and offal had been thrown IN the wa
r,< b. slaves; the houses were made of SUI
h dried brick. There was no glass ollie
- paper in the square holes that stood fl
II windows. After two or three days ra
en- the water poured through the roof -thatcl
nd ec with straw. There were no chimney
on no stoves, for the cooking was done in a
20 open court. In that era the public Ii
20 was everything, the home life nothing
y And this tendency came down into II
no middle ages, and even to comparative
,g- modern times. In that era described /
We .Tennyson in the 'Idyls of the King" s
va ciety existed for the enrichment of Il
- castle and the cathedral. Nothing w;
=. :, too good for them; nothing was too mes
Ivy for the common people and their home
,y- The abodes of the people were centers
a poverty and filth In rainy weather ms
IT, walked home ankle deep in mud, in d.
~ weather ankle deep in dust. They wo
- leather coats, slept under uncleans
'eh sheep skins, and lived and toiled in hove
es, that were damp and windowless. II
eel homes had no carpets, no comfortah
he furniture, pictures: there were
"a books, no newspapers no home circl
The wife was drudge, and the daug
i4arS in he inc he lei,