The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-01-22
MURPHY ON
L|BERAL|TY
Love the Path To All
Peoples Hearts.
SUNDAY At CEN TRAIL UNI ON
The Temperance Lecturer Makes
Two Addresses To Big
Audiences.
(From Mondays Daily)


dred people at Central Union Church t
hear the Murphy sermon. They poured
into the big auditorium until every sea-
was filled. and the aisles were damned
10 the doors with chairs; they throngec
the corridors and the steps OF the
church, and at the side entrances the
doorways were filed. Mr.. Murphy was
as witty. as sympathetic. and as mag
netic as usual, and his epigrams as fire.
Quent and AS straight to the point. Thu
choir was made up from all the churches
and the singing was excellent, a solo be
ing rendered by Mrs. OTIS
Mr.. Murphy read several passages from
the Bible and preached upon all of them
in his sermon he said he had been criti
cized because he had not Continuity
but he said he had no idea what that
meant, and God be praised. he got along
very well without it, whatever 1t was. "
So he did. He took first one text and
then another, but the whole theme of
them all was brotherIy love. as 1t al
ways is with the venerable veteran Of
temperance.
invitation card out; let us see how many
of us are invited. / am going to read
ii to you; listen: Come unto me all we
that labor and are heavy laden, and ]
will give you rest There! Are you in
it, l tell you most of us don't get out
such liberal invitations. We get up our
little cards and invite people to our house
to dinner but, bless your heart, we pref
ty near always invite those that We are
dead sure are going to invite us TO go
and eat dinner with them, so Wen get
It back again. l tell you, my friends.
don't you know We ought to do whole
lot more of inviting? Don't YOU know
there are lot of young fellows away
from home. and girls, too, bless their
hearts, working away down here with
nobody to care about 'em in particular,
and we want to get in and invite them to
our house to dinner once in awhile.
Say, don't you know that the sight
of little baby toddling around the
house Is going to do some fellows goodr
Why. when he sees the dear little thing
toddling around and prattling, it's going
to remind him of his own little baby at
home. and it'll keep his heart soft, and
he'll take the little one up in his arm
and he'll kiss 1t, and itll do him a whole
lot of good: yes 1t will! Say. you folks
get in and be sociable; that's the way to
keep men straight; let 'em see little
OF home life and home love and make
friends of 'em and give 'em somewhere
to go to besides the places where they'll
drink. Those little toddlers running
around: why. It's the sight of little
fodder. and such things as that. that
stir men and bless them. There are
whole lot Of lonely fellows sitting in
their rooms at night, looking over pno-
tographs. and with nowhere to go. You
get In and look after those fellows. You
know how to do 1t, and you'll enjoy 1t,
bless your hearts.
"You needn't be so busy as you think
you are. / know that business Is a great
thing, and that some of you have got
hardly time to speak to your neighbor,
and. Lord bless you, you haven't got
hardly time to be civil to him. Say, don't
be like that, speak to the fellow. and
anyhow. take time to get acquainted
with your family! Why, up In the city
of Pittsburg, when they startled the
world with the great discovery of nat
ural gas. people got awful busy. They
got hold of the gas and chained II up
and began to use 1t for fuel and made
cleft in the earth and 1t just poured out;
don't you know that there were n dozen
or SO millionaires jumping around there
and managing things-so busy getting
rich they didn't know what to do.
Everybody was busy, bless their
hearts. and the husband'd rush home and
read his letters. and when the baby
would come up and want TO kiss papa,
why he'd tell 1t to go away because he
was busy. and the poor little thing would
cry to itself. poor little abused baby!
And he'd swallow down his breakfast
and start off. and grab his hat. and the
little wife would say, Tom, are you
going without kissing me?" and bless
your heart, he'd start on the run and
say. Amt got time: too busy; consider
yourself kissed; good-bye!' and he was
gone. Oh my. wasn't that too bad. He
was too busy, that man. He hurt that
know It's an awful thing to hurt n chllds
feelings? Yes II is! There's something In
the Bible about sparing the rod, and all
that kind OF thing. but that has been
pretty religiousy observed already: yes,
indeed 1t has and you can afford 10 let
1t go; yes you can; and II you have got
q rod In the house, you take and throw
II out, and buy stick of candy instead!
You'n find you get along a whole lot
better, and you'll get a whole lot more
work out of boy with a stick of candy
than you win out OF hickory stick!
81 have had a whole lot OF time TO for
give my enemies. and have forgiven 'em
ALL God he praised. hut there's one fell
low that have to keep on forgiving MI
the time. for he keeps popping up In my
mind and he won't down, no matter how
much ! forgive him. He was my nrsi
school teacher. and he was a terror.
THANK God for the way the world Is
our schools. Why. the children love their
teachers now. and they run away TO
school In the mornings 10 meet them
because they love them. oh. tell you
IT'S an awful thing 20 do a child
wrong. All my life ] have thought OF
that Savage and have 10 keep on for
giving him all the time. Listen. Christ
says HIS yoke In easy. Yes, His yoke 10
easy. and the burden n light. Don't you
know there's lots In the kind ~ yoke
you wear7 There WAS a man In the
East made a national reputation by In
venting a yoke. II was an easy yoke.
and when the Oxen tried 90 draw a heavy
load ihey could DO A. because the yoEe
NJ them, Another man tried 10 make
Jokes, ana they we're heauiiful yokeH,
hut shsB the oxen started 10 draw Tho
heavy load u ehoksd ihsn. ana they
o6uid not The yoke ~ christ ~ easy,
sAa n vill help you 10 dras your buy