The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-01-14
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ACCUSED.
Civilization the Curse
of China.
IT BROUGHT EVIL HABITS
Miss Jessie Ackerman's Lecture at
the Hawaiian Opera
House.
' NOTWITHSTANDING the in

forded him for evangelical work in
Honolulu, and paid a graceful tribute
to the two ladies who have been wag-
ing crusade against intemperance in
the Islands. He said that the world
owed a debt that it could never re-
pay, to the gentleness and love of
woman, and that if it were not for the
worlds mothers and sisters and wives
the world would be very sorry place
indeed. When in conclusion he called
down a blessing upon the women, there
was a burst of hearty applause. The
temperance worker arose again and
said, That's right, my brothers, that's
right-go ahead with your applause;
this is no funeral procession
Mr.. Coleman suggested that the
coming crusade was likely to be the
funeral of some of the saloons.
Yes said Mr.. Murphy, yes: but
let us hope for the speedy arrival of
that day when every decanter on the
sideboards of our homes shall be brok-
en-, and we won't have to worry about
the saloons"
After the solo, IT Have Redeemed
Thee" by Mr. H. Wichman, Rev. Mr..
Westervelt offered a prayer and intro
duced Miss Alderman, who spoke on
THE Western Civilization of the
Orient" Before beginning with the
text of her sermon, however, she spoke
of having attended one of Mr.. Muir
phys meetings many years ago. More
than a quarter of a century ago." said
she, there was in our household in
PENNSYLVANIA, woman who was a
crank on temperance. 1t is a well
known fact that one crank will go a
long way to hear what another crank
has to say, so when it was an
nounced that there was another tenn
perance crank in town, it happened
that this crank that was in our house
hold took me to hear the other crank,
who was none other than Mr.. Francis
Murphy, who is with us today. But
let me tell you, friends, that that
crank had most beautiful story to
tell; it was the story that transforms
life, and it sank so deeply into my soul
that l never was able to forget it
again, even though had tried. 1t was
a wonderful story, wonderfully told,
and Honolulu is greatly blessed be-
cause Mr.. Murphy is here to tell it
again to you all. I think a great BEN
ediction is coming to our city, and that
great and blessed good is to come of
it. Through the efforts of this splen-
did man I think there will be a great
gathering of people in the light Of
Jesus, and many souls, let us hope,
will be saved"
Turning to her subject, Miss Acker-
man said: ''It is q doubt in my mind
if a century ever closed upon such
great events. Just few years
back the world was startled by great
announcement. The nations of the
world had come together and spoken
of the great civilization the world had
attained-how enlightened it had
grown to below it had crept away
from barbarity, and how it had reach
ed an era of peace. They called a
great peace conference of the nations
together, for they thought the time had
come when the great white dove of
peace might settle to rest and close it's
sweet white wings over all the nations
of the earth.
1T was a great gathering. We sent
our representatives to that conference,
and representatives came from all ma
lions. 1t was to be beautiful occa-
sion-but what happened, my friends
what happened? Scarce had the beau
tiful white dove begun to culver to
it's rest and e'er it's protecting white
wings had had time to begin their fold
ing, when there burst forth such
sound of battle and strife, such war
ring of nations, and such a din of
slaughter all over the earth that the
beautiful dove of peace was startled
away and lost-lost in the smoke of
the horrible conflict Someway the con-
ference of peace didn't turn out right;
tives fastened away. Five great coun-
tries ordered out their war vessels,
soldiers, 100000 of them were marching
through Turkey, through Afghanistan,
through Armenia, and thousands were
being slaughtered. Down in the dark
continent war was raging, and our
own President called for $4,000, and
then 100000 of our boys. In India the
great devastating famine ragged, and
millions were starving to death, men,
women and children, begging for q
grain of rice, and dying in multitudes,
until the fields We're white with their
bleaching bones. Then there
came the appalling news of the great
uprising in China, and oh, how terrible
it all was! Confusion reigned as she
never reigned before in that great,
swarming country; battle and massa-
ere and bloody strife within, and from
without the terrible rain Of shot and
shell. The great nations of the earth
came together to discuss the question
of what should be done in China, and
with that great question it is wrest-
ling yet. What shall be done with
China, today, my friends-what shall
be done with her to clear away her
darkness and her ignorance, her super
stition? It has been said by
some that the war in China was caus-
ed by the missionaries there Oh,
what a mistake, my friends, and what
a pitiably absurd mistake, to suppose
that the poor little handful of those
struggling brave souls could have had
such a power among those four hun
dred millions of people Millions and
millions of them do not know today
that missionary ever entered China
No. my friends, the mission
aries IN emma are not responsible for
that great war. It was because west
ern civilization was forced upon these
people at the point OF the bayonet, and
at the mouths of cannon.
Maybe it is right that these things
should be. and perhaps these things
are inevitable, but I'll tell you, my
friends, there are a great many things