The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-11-03

sometimes a thinker, with. a new and liv- |
ing word of wisdom; sometimes
a student who has kept his ear
close to the beating heart of nature and
has at last perceived the rhythmic work
ing CT great law, which for him has al
tered the aspect of the universe. What
has been the history of such men and
their discoveries? They have been disbe-
lieved, ignored, prosecuted, thrust into dun
gcns. gibbeted for the scorn of fools. Their
have been fiercely debated;
flung hither and thither as irebrands of
contention and division; the conclusions
they set forth have been attacked by ig-
norance. But one thing has always hap
pened; time has tried them. The error
has proved itself error by perishing; the
truth has proved itself truth by living
ard triunpbing. The scientific and theo-
logical hcresies of one age have become
the commonpiaces of the next. time,
ko'ary and mighty. has stood like Gigan-
tic thresher and on the threshing floor of
the centuries has threshed out the wheat
from the chaff. annhiiating that which is
false and keeping only the eternal truths
Of things The untrue thing proves its
rr truth by perishing, but the truth vim
dicates itself by living. Inch by inch the
darkness has been driven back. and
wedge after wedge of light has pierced.
grated. We can do nothing against the
Truth. but for the truth" Great Is truth,
and II must prevail.
The vitality CT truth--its immortality!
Where can you find all this SO majestical-
ly illustrated as in the story of our own
holy faith. It's founder, an obscure car
penter from an obscure Galilean village
He is arrested on the charge of blasphe-
my and condemned to- die on an indict-
ment for treasonA He Is crucified, fead,
and buried. But no. you cannot bury the
truth 1t is forever and forever csoap-
Exx Lob. atx.rt h. r fne
dom OF Jesus the world has been In league
from the beginning. Rome, which toler-
ated all other religions as local, Instinct
lively realized that the religion of Christ
was more than local, and for three CEN
turtles did her utmost to crush 1T. She
perceived that in the missionaries of the
cross she had to deal with the heralds of
spiritual revolution. Against them tie
world has done it's worst. The keynote
/ OF revolt and hatred struck on Calvary
has echoed through the ages. Kings have
summoned their armies to destroy this
kingdom; the world has blazed with
stakes as a battlefield with watch fires.
Yet that kingdom survives. Christ lives.
The wrath of men praises him, and only
serves to reveal and enhance his rajes-
ty. He has trumphed, and Is the moral
emperor of the universe today. What
does it all mean? 1t means that the king
dom of God in Christ is fact, and cannot
not do anything against the truth" Je-
sus has gained his present eminence In
the world through the inherent vitality
Iof the truth.
| I want you also to remember the indie
| pendence of truth. It is often comfort
IN men who feel that their labors count
for very little and who do not observe
much results issuing from them-a com
fcrt. ] say. to remember that truth is ir
every sense Independent of them. Do moi
mistake my meaning. God uses human
means to. advance his truth, but truti
was before men were. Born, ii command.
the future. 1t Is like the true vertica
line in architecture. No one ever saw 1t
No building ever realized 1t. But it Il
there, and every structure on earth APP
, proaches its ideal of eXactness in proper
tior as every vertical bar and beam eX
presses that irresistible perpendicular. TIL
, independence Of truth. Why, listen Hea
this Jesus He Is speaking of himself AM
, OF the results which follow certain atti
tudes which men adopt towards Him. II
says whosoever shall fall on this iton
, shall be broken; that Is, whatsoever sha
: misunderstood him shall lose just s
much. But upon whomsoever this ston
! shall fall-that is, upon enemy
, whatsoever shall defantly array himself i
: antagonism TO truth. the truth will crus
I that man to powder. All, friends, thi
verse of Scripture Is far more practice
not refer to any future world of punish
ment, but it relates to what is the actus
r experience of men here on this earth /
their common life
t Those who merely misunderstood tn
truth suffer thereby. They are. q
: Christ says, broken. They are MARE
II and torn. Their life is hurt Their wor
8 is limited, and this Is, in a measure. rru
8 Of us all. But the man who ressts whf
q he knows to be truth suffers a crushin
A lLss at last. There is nothing that exac
II a more dreadful vengeance than outl a,
a ed truth. Sometimes 1t will blast an el
q tire nation and history is not without 4
a Witness as to nations that are honeycoml
r ed with falsehocd and today they ara II
;. dying nations. Society rests on trutl
J., Ultimately all business, all diplomacy. q
# science, oil the world, rests upon trut
n And the liar is the most dangerous persc
~ IN society today, because he attacks Il
a very bond that holds society together
N You can look out upon the world oil
; see whole nations schooled to haii;s
n falsehood, and the stone Is falling pi
q them and crushing them to powder W
I can see it in politics. You can see 1t
a. every critical hour, when the times bril-
70 their test. and men, one after anothe
n are dashed to pieces. You see 1t TN Il
n world of finance. where at last trut
70 IKE falling rock, strikes the false ma
down. You see it in the church, VIII
o. some double life Is exposed at last
70 view, and he who lived it Is flung into L
q dust Young men, believe It, we can
a nothing in the end against the truth V
20 can, of course, deny the truth, and de
10 IT. So. too, We may deny the law of era
,s itation, but If we defy, and leap frc
&c yonder steeple to illustrate our defant
m there is onessure result, the law trump
va ana we are slain. We may deny the ne
nt alties of vice, but IL we defy them the slc
ia poison will eat out the heart just t
ar same and in premature old age, a
n broken health. and crippled intellect III
a will vindcate themselves and be aveng
at on us. We may deny the movement
Of the earth, but the earth will go on movi
and the stars will go on shining
m though you had never spoken as tho,
al we had never been. There are certf
ur things that have long since been lift
h out of the realm of speculation into u
be Of gertrude. 1t is no mere conjectl
re which calculates the hour of the ecliy
re or the moment of the appearance of
NO comet Why Is it that no one doul
n these prophecies of science? It is beca,
nv we have discovered that there are cert;
in Jaws of the universe which are subject
Is 70 caprice open to no revisal. They
m not hindered by our ignorance nor @
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