The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-09-02
To-day being Labor
Day, the Star issues
a morning, instead of
an evening edition.
AUSTIN CONFESSES FAITH
MURPHY AT CENTRAL UNION
CHURCH.
Congregation Listens and Laughs
While the Temperance Orator Talks.
Plantation Campaign Starts Soon.

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Plantation Campaign Starts Soon.
A full congregation gathered at the
Central Union ChurclrBast evening to
listen to the address of Francis Muir
phy, who gave one of his usual inter-
estino talks upon the temperance ques-
ton.
After the usual order of worship,
which included a solo by Miss Helen
Desna, Mr.. Murphy introduced Frank
lin Austin VINO made a short and un-
anticipated speech. Mr.. Austin. refer
ing 70 his first taking up the Murphy
movement said that the thought that
made him consider the taking of the
. piedre in a practical manner, was the
one expressed by Mr.. Murphy when he
said, IF you have at this moment one
good aspiration give 1t a chance. AT
that time" said Mr.. Austin, Il remem-
ber | was an atheist, had been for yeal s
and although / had come gradually TO
believe in the existence of God, belief
in established church associations ana
work l had none. But the spiritual side
of the question has grown WITHIN me
since l took up the work, until now
am proud to say before this whole con-
gregation that am saved through the
blood of the Lord Jesus Christ" GOD
bless you (Mr. Murphy0
I'm this church." continued the
speaker, Il said on that night some
things that l had better not have said
and that under my present light L
would never have said. l said also
other things that 1 believe helped to
save me, among them one which has
been used as the motto of our clup:
He that offers me a drink Is not my
friend This has been since proven.
When before was offered twenty
drinks a day, since that time no one
has asked me to take one
II ask forgiveness for the things that
I now feel that l should not have SAID
The members of this church have help
ed me and our cause, despite these
things. and 1 trust that they Will con-
tinue to do so until the movement is
extended from one end of TINS Ierrl-
tory to the other. l believe TINS WORK
will be permanent, over two hunureu
having signed the pledge and many
who had reached the point OF despair
like myself, have been reclaimed With
out being ur~ad and preached at. do
right said Mr.. Murphy to me, and Goo
will send you the support. yes pless
His Name. Thank God" (Mr. MURPHY
'I am delighted" said Francis Muir
phy who now spoke, Ito listen again to
my friend and his manly, courageous
statement. He thinks that ne may
have said something that wounded your
hearts and he wants to tell YOU ne is
sorry for it. That takes a courageous
manly heart. We all of us make mis-
takes, When you meet. man VINO
doesn't. leave him alone. / am delight
ed to meet again the young lady who
was always here to sing for us. III II
had been a man, you couldn't have de-
pended upon him and he would nave
had to go through the whole pertor-
nance of the tuning fork to get the
pitch. Do. re, mi, ia and so on. some
thing should have been done Tor mel
in the shape of a testimonial. There's
time yet and If any of you want 10 uc
it I'm in on the movement
"When YOU want to thank anyone &c
If right away. There is too much wait
ing until they are dead and then bring
inC up flowers and saying Smell THESE
1 want my flowers while I'm allVe
God bless the press of Honolulu Tor th'
hearty endorsement they nave glVeI
me and the work.
"What we want is peace. Christ saw
ed us by love- Here's my library, this
lovely book. Why I've read the Sermon
on the Mount at least thousand times
and it is as fresh to me tonight as eve
it was. Love never fails. II you TAN
to a man with love he may not accep
what you say the first, second or thir'
time but he'll always be ready to give
vou a hearing. People say they don
like us temperance people because w,
scold. / always get along alright
LET the man talk and put in wore
here and there and say, well after al
its safer not to drink And he says, :
agree with you there Frank; but
learned to drink so easily, with suci
good, noble, generous fellows until
lost all, nearly my life. Ny wife lei
me. my two children with her ana
don't know if they'll ever come back
/ wonder If that isn't the wages OF sin
Time and money, they are nothing. bu
nv --nod name that means something
to my father, my mother, my wife.
"Be gentle, don't drive man, yo'
can't do it. If you have a husband
that drinks. for the Lords sake ladies
give him time to hang his hat up and HI
coat too before you land on him ant
lay him out cold. We men have al
got hearts. we know when we've don
wrong and that our wives have righ
to whip us. but whip at the rlght time
There was man who used to whl" nj
wife when he was in liquor and on
night he got tangled up in his trouser
as he reached for her and fell. Sh
thew a blanket over him while he wa
down and sewed him up in the planke
with a carpet needle, and then she go
a switch and-she busted the blanket
That's one way but not nice one:
There is another way. that OF Tn
wife who is good natured and keeps ne
patience, even while her heart is break
T. ing to see the man she loves best In IN
world drifting away from her Then q
the very last she speaks few word
that melt the mans heart and, than
God he never drinks again.
Love always prevails. There are a.
ways some standing around thoug
with chunks of ice saying, he won
stand out You wouldn't 90 up to
wedding and saw what are you gettln
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