The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-09-02
MURPHY At
Y. NJ. {. 4.
A Good Meeting
Held Yesterday
p. M.
ADDRESS GIVEN
Franklin Austin Tells of the Work
Done Since Murphy Was
Here Before.

yesterday afternoon Inc meeting was
opened by Mr.. Brown, secretary of the
i M. c. A, and after a short speech
few hymns were sung Mr. Brown
thereupon gave over the meeting to
Francis Murphy, who began his speech
with short scripture lesson the text
being from the first Psalm: Blessed
be he, who walketh in the path of the
Lord"
Mr.. Murphy thereupon began his lee
ture by reminding those present of the
great danger of being in a hurry"
with ones work He pointed to the in
! stance of the late disaster of the Rio;
| how the great steamer had almost COM
pleted her long voyage, and how disas-
ter followed her, because of her hurry
to get in.
Mr.. Murphy hereupon called for Mr..
Franklin Austin.
| ut was on this very platform, that |
signed the pledge" said Mr.. Austin.
And since then, though l have not
done much, I have yet been able to per-
| form something. Since Mr.. Murphy's
departure over 200 men have signed the
lpledge, and more OF them kept it, and
they are now better men.
This is what God has DONE" Mr..
Austin continued. I'VE have not
preached and told people, that they
were sinners; but a few of us have
banded together, determined to live
good, sober, Christian life, and with
Gods help we have done our best, ana
other have come to join us. We are not
perfect, and do not claim to be so, but
we do our best and others are coming
every day, to apply, think of 1t, apply
for the privilege of signing the pledge,
as if some one was giving them $l0OU'
But what they want, is foundation, a
rock to begin their new life on
/ After this speech a hymn was sung,
/ and Mr.. Murphy resumed his speech.
'sEveryone has so much to do with the
4 making of his own success, and don
| YOU forget it, said the veteran preach
err Il remember that in one of my first
j copy-books, the.@first one 1 can remem-
! her there was this motto: mans
manners decide his fortune, and oon I
I you know, all you young men, that that
is right? The young man must be gen
tleman he must make himself tasclnat-
ing: yes, he must. All doors are open
to the young man who has nice manners,
tleman The employers are looking Tor
!. him; they want to make his acquaint-
ance and If he wants work they WtEt
to give it to him. Jesus is the perfect
gentleman whom we want to imttare.
8 My mother brought me up to that, and
you don't know my mother. Well she
\ was the prettiest little woman the good
4 Lord ever made; she was not bigger
2 than so'-raising his hand-"and she
= schplke Oirish loike this (applause); and
all of us who have had a mother, let US
not forget the blessing of all that she
has told us and taught us
And especially you, who live on this
beautiful island. ought to remember a!
the blessings which your Heavenly Faith
er has given you. For you have the
most beautiful scenery L have ever seen
and 1 have travelled quite a bit, yor
. know. But you are SO apt not to notice
Gods gifts. Why, 1 went with a mar
TO Waikiki the other day on the car, ant
1 says to him, Look at that beautiful
light on the mountain And he looks e
it. and says, on, have seen that plenty
of times before -
Mr. Murphy hereupon spoke upon the
evil of bad habits, with the passage
IF your eye offendeth you, pluck it out,
as his text. In the course of his speak
\ ing of this, he related several amusing
, anecdotes. Subsequently Mr.. Murphy
launched upon how vested industry ir
America is promoting temperance. Take
the railroads, where man is kept tc
time to the minute" he said Thanks
be to God, He is making the American
laborer an honest, sober man
The great temperance apostle there.
upin went into telling about his trip <
Australia, relating several instances Of
j the salvation of men from the devastat
ing influence of liquor, which was ruin
s ing them, and of the marvellous effec
the signing OF the pledge had upon the
I families whose breadwinner had hereto
fore been slave to drink. After quot
!, ing Home, Sweet Home" Mr.. Murphy
q prayed for the assemblage, including
especially Mr.. and Mrs. Austin, and alst
I for the W. c. 7. u, which has been got
ten up largely through Mrs. Austin:
G efforts. After few remarks especially
directed to Mr. Cory about his contem
, plated voyage to China, a hymn = a:
d given out and the congregation ali chin
ed in heartily.
Some testimonies were then taken from
several of those present, all striking by
the sincerity and happiness which seen
TO ring in the voices of the speakers.
Lastly, Mr.. Brown spoke of the bless
ing Mr.. Murphy's work was bringing Il
to these Islands, bidding the assembIag'
not to be selfish by desiring TO keep Mr.
murphy IN f1oholuIu All the Willl', ou
: to let him go out across the plantations
where his work was sorely needed. Aft
er this speech another hymn was sung
= and an enjoyable meeting ended
MURPHY AT CENTRAL UNION.
At the evening service of the Contra
Union Church last night, Mr. Murphy
the great temperance lecturer. preached
the sermon with text from 2auI's frs
Epistle to the Corinthians. Chap. 13
! verse 1: Though I speak with tn,
/ tongues of men and of angels, ami hav,
not charity, l am become as sGu1dlns
! brass or a tinkling cyrnbal." The man
note in Mr. Murphy's lecture was tia
of how much greater love is than am
other agency for leading men to Ieadinl
a righteous, Christian and sober life