The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-05-07
CHURCHES
YESTERDAY
Good Sermons From
the City's Pastors.
THE TEXTS DISCUSSED
Reverends VIM. M. Kincaid, G. |,
Pearson and J. c. Hay Have
Messages for Many Hearers.

weather dress filled the churches yes
terday. All the city pastors had large
audiences and sermons of even more
than usual excellence had interested
hearers.
At Central Union Church last even
ing the Rev. VIM. NJ. Kincaid took as
his theme 'Woman's Work in the
Church and the World He said in
part:
Through the influence of Christiani-
ty woman has been emancipated from
degradation and oppression. At the
time of Christ's advent her life was
pitiful and terrible. All legal rights
We're denied her. She had no power
over herself or her family. She was
thing to be used according to the ca
price of man. Jesus came and the work
of emancipation began. Marriage took
on new sanctity. Monogamy became
sacramento. Divorces were less fire.
quent. From being the slave of man
she was granted some of her rights
Gradually the laws were transformed,
and determinations against her began
to cease.
! Practically in the civilized world wo-
| man today occupies place of equal
| freedom and honor with man. Study
her condition under Brahminism, Budd-
/ hism, and Mohammedanism, and you
will see that the real emancipation of
| woman has been Christ.
Woman's work in the church: 1t is
frequently said that there are
TWO women in the church to
every man. That is true, but
the reason is not that which is oft
en- imagined, because women do less
thinking. Men will huddle in a room
reeking with tobacco smoke and gossip
about the last prize fight or horse race,
or bit of political news and sheer at the
! church as fit only for women, but which
requires the more intellect, to appreci-
ate the sermons Of Phillips Brooks,
or to retail political gossip. This is
woman's day. 1t has been proved be-
yOnd question that while woman may
not think in the same way as man, she
thinks quite as clearly and just as
quickly.
! On missionary fields she has faced
danger, overcome difficulties, and gone
| to the uttermost parts of the earth.
1t is often said that the Salvation Ar
my was the first to utilize her power
as Christian worker; but before the
! Salvation Army was dreamed of that
/ had been demonstrated on the mission
field. In the church woman is the most
positive spiritual force of our Cay, not
because she does less thinking than
man, but because she is more intelli-
gently religious.
Woman's work in the world: The
possibilities of her education is now
equal to man. Colleges for her higher
education are multiplying. The stand
ard of scholarship in many of these col
leges is as high as at Yale or Harvard
1t is said that the higher education
of women is interfering with marriage
and the home. If so, it is because ed
ucated women find so few men who
know enough to be agreeable compan-
! ions
In politics woman is already a vital
! force. The future may give her more
| political privileges, but hardly greater
| influence.
In reform and practical charity her
record is brilliant one. The temper
ance movement is kept alive by her
enthusiasm. City missions are chiefly
operated by her.
! Toynbee Hall, among the slums OF
London, is matched by the Woman's
| College settlement in New York, and
the Hull House in Chicago. Three
fourths of all the teaching in the Sun
day school and day schools is In her
hands.
Woman's greatest power lies in her
social force. She may teach, she may
preach, she may vote, she may edit pa
pers; but if she neglects her social gifts
and talents by which human intercourse
is made helpful she forfeits her sceptre.
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cause of many blightad homes, the
cause which lies behind the discussion
of the question, is marriage a fall
ure?" is the fact that many women,
from false ideals, forget that while man
may lead in the providing the bread
and protection, woman must Lead in
furnishing the sympathy, the love, the
unselfshness, the light which make
the home a haven of refuge and rest.
So, too, in the church and the world
woman's work is pre-emlnently social.
She may have the ballot, or she may
not; that is comparatively an insigniti-
cant matter, but she will often deter
mine how the ballot will be cast. The
morals of the state, its relation to pu-
rity and Temperance, depend more up
on woman's influence than upon how
men cast their ballots.
Let it never be forgotten then, in
college, in high school, and the home,
that no greater privilege can be enjoy
ed by any human being than that of
making a home, a social circle, a
church, community, bright, health
full and inspiriting, by the best enjoy
ments, the best companionship, the best
thoughts.
Methodist Episcopal Church.
At the Methodist Episcopal Church
the pastors theme last night was,
Making a Fortune" His text was
Goodness is profitable unto all things
| having the promise of the life that
! now is and of that which is to come"
After giving few reasons to show why
| a minister might attempt to give the
laity few pointers on such a topic.
ne defined fortune as being that point
| In the accumulation of worldly wealth
at which satisfaction with the present
and security for the future is felt and
enjoyed.
But where is that point? Is 1t the
same to all? Is it not relative mat
ter? Ten thousand dollars is less to