The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-02-25
FAREWELL TALK
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high standing in this city who think
these evils are necessary. We want to
tell you what you sow in this city you
are going to reap as surely as God Is
God. We both were interested in read
ing that noble charge Judge Hum
phreys made the other day to the jur-
ors. He charged them to go and inves-
tigate some of the evils of this city.
Friends, tonight, in the name of the
Lord Jesus Christ, we charge the peo-
pie of this city to go and investigate
the existing evils. 1t is no use of ex-
pecting God to perform some miracle.
but He expects us to do it, There is
no hope for the world outside of the
church.
"Other organizations may exist be-
cause their origin is human-the church
must go on because it's origin is divine.
Sometimes as / see these great evils in
the great cities of the world so strong
ly intrenched, / wonder if there is any
good in human nature. AS / have been
in this city and witnessed the hotbeds
of sin here, I wonder If there is any
Christianity that allows this thing to
go on. I think it is not because there
is no good in the city, but because the
people do not realize the awfulness Of
the evils. l think If the people of the
United States realized the awfulness of
the liquor traffic such a howl would be
heard that this would be wiped out, and
If the men and women of Honolulu I'M
derstood the awfulness of the stockade
of this city there would be such a howl
of Indignation the spot would be wiped
out from these fair Islands. In our
travels around the world we have been
in dark spots of cities and heard the
stories of woe, but Christians would be
stirred to the depths if they could but
hear the stories of these people.
IT believe there is just as much SYM
pathy and love in the hearts of the
people of this city and believe if you
could come in contact with some of
those people whom we speak of as out
cast women and hear the trials and
temptations of their lives and the sys-
tenn under which they are held in this
stockade, methinks your heart would
be in sympathy for them. If you knew
Of those people destroyed by saloons In
your city your hearts would be in SYM
pathy and love for them also.
I'VE pray Gods blessings may rest
on you and we have such confidence in
you and the church of God tonight that
we believe the evils here in your midst
will be removed in the near future"
Miss Alderman began by telling a
story of her brother who went into
the army and who visited her while she
was in the hospital, her brother wear
ing the uniform of soldier.
HE seemed strange and unknown to
me- she said, but it was form that
made me feel there was a kinship be-
tween us. So he came beside my couch.
He said, Don't you know me? and our
brother had grown to be young man,
and when the call came from his coun-
try he was one of the first to respond.
He said, Don't tell me not to CO. I
said Brother. 1 am so glad for the no.
BILE instinct within your bosom that has
led you to respond to your country 8
call My only sorrow was that / were
not born a boy that I might go, too.
Months passed and finally I left the
hospital and went out on a little escort
boat to see some of our boys go to
Manila. We crossed the Golden Gate
and came on a vast expanse of sea and
the ship disappeared in the distance.
We waived our adieus to the mothers
boys
"As we went back friend said,
| There are 5000 boys here and we want
some of you women to speak to them
went from selfish motive. I thought
might have another chance of saying
some word to my brother. We went
down and We're shown over the great
camp and the young man who was
showing us about finally said, This is
the canteen.' I asked if 1 could go into
the canteen and he said, oh no. no one
| is permitted to go in.' I asked him
kindly to get me permission to go into
the canteen. He presently returned and
1 went in and there standing behind
the bar in the uniform and the colors
of his country was the boy we had CIV
tan Government had been reduced to
the level Of a common bartender!
| Il, who had been unable for several
months to say or do anything, bowed
my head in degradation before our only
boy and I vowed if strength ever re-
| turned to my body, wherever I could
go and place my feet, with woman's
voice I would speak against the deg
radiation of boys, and so we are glad in
our march around the world our lot
y w
glad of the opportunity of lifting only
a womans voice in the name of God
home and humanity. Frances Willard
was once asked at a meeting in Eng
land what was the greatest discovery
of the age and she said that it wa!
that woman had discovered herself an(
believe the voice of God has Spoken
to the women of the nations to go ant
bind themselves together in the inter
est of that spot so sacred-'Home
Sweet Home
i Twelve years ago it was my privil
eye to visit this city. I look over thi:
audience tonight and see some face.
just bit familiar, but 1 find change:
stamped on all things here. And thos'
are so strange. This city twelve years
ago was vast neighborhood. Now mer
and women of all tongues and type:
have come from the East and from the
West, and sometimes I go through the
streets and put my hands to my head
and say, oh. change oh change, OF
lchangen
Let me say to the followers o
Jesus Christ tonight there has com'
with these changes the most magnifi
cent opportunity of the church 0
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