The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-08-24
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TODAYAND TOMORROW.

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II must be admitted that this life Is
very delightful, and it is not ar all
strange, therefore, that our attention
should be concentrated on comforts and
lux "nleh nave purely physical
basis.
me body seems to be the autocrat of
Tue situation. 1t dominates orr
thoughts by day and our dreams nv
night. Almost everyone in the world
gets his living by producing something
or inventing something which will pro-
long our stay here and serve our con-
Fvenience while we remain.
IL Is very absorbing thing to live
TINS present life. and it is rather nat
uraf though not at all prudent or far
sighted. that we should be oblivious of
any necessity to prepare for the change
which we are apt to dread. but which
is nevertheless inevitable.
The amount of the aggregate genius
which spends its best endeavors to add
TO the pleasures of the table to adorr
our homes, TO increase the security OF
our finances and so put US beyond the
reach OF want shows plainly enough
that the intellectual capacities of the
race are almost oppressive in their inn
pressiveness. The grandeur of human
nature is proved by the way in which
the whole earth, its soil, its rivers. its
clouds and it's sky have been forced to
contribute to our happiness, our health
and our longevity, as we'll as to our
usefulness.
1t is part of our religion To develop
the resources of our earthly life, a duty
implied by the known plan of God and
by our manifest destiny. 1t is evident
began as mere animals, with all an ami
mails propensities, we shall in good
time end our career on level little low
err than that of the angels. There is
nothing in the universe so suggestive,
or so uplifting. or so prophetic as the
slow and painful, but sure evolution of
mankind, because so far as we know
there is no Iimit-to our possible devel-
/ opment Our already accomplished
victories over natural elements and OBJ
stacles point to a coming manhood
which can not be attained here below,
and which, therefore, demands immor-
tally as an inauenable right. There
must be somewhere the opportunity to
finish our education and to complete the
broken columns which are scattered all
over the earth.
To make life comfortable. then, is a
large part of our religion, but by no
means the most important part. When
| man sees something ahead of him
which can neither be avoided nor is-
nored it is the best of wisdom to make
preparation for it, If he is going to
| the North pole he must lay his plans
! in accordance with that fact. and he
would be foolish indeed if he started
| on the journey with only the clothing
fitted for a temperate zone In like
manner. if a man knows that death
will transfer him to another life, and
| that this new life will be spiritual and
/ intellectual rather than physical, he
ought to cultivate the intellectual and
| spiritual so that when the time ar
rives A e will feel at home in the other
environment
| If when you step out of your body
! and relinquish all the enjoyments that
pertain to the body you find yourself
without those qualities of character
which make Immortality tolerable you
will not only be poor indeed, but you
will also be blameworthy. The condi-
/ tions of the hereafter will be wholly
! different from those of this life, and