The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-12-09
FAITH IS LOST
THROUGH SCIENCE
T. J. PenfieId DepIores Scientific
Statements Leading to This
Result.

| T ]. Penfeld of Kamehameha School,
led the service at the Y. NJ. C. A. yester-
day afternoon. speaking from thoughts
suggested in the reading of st. Paul :
Epistles. The services were interesting
| throughout, and made more so by the
singing of the Holy City," by Miss
Edith L. Rogers. Her singing was a
pleasant diversion and sets good ca
ample for others possessed of fine voices
to assist at the Y NJ. c. A. on Sabbath
afternoons.
Mr.. Penfield based his address chiefly
| on PauPs advice: 'Preselt your bodies
as a living sacrifice to Cod Sitting at
the feet of Paul" he said presents an
opportunity for gathering much of the
wisdom of his sayings. What he says
is more instructing when we consider
what we hear at the present time. In
the first place this seems to be an age
when great many people are having
their faith unhinged. This is a day OF
true and false science. We are hearing
so much nowadays about science that
sometimes 1 think we are very much i'm
pressed about what science does, and
from this cause alone L think there is
large number of people who are losing
great deal of their faith in God.
LAS 1 look around me it seems to me
there are a great many young men in
Honolulu who are apparently drifting
without any apparent conviction or deeP-
seated purpose in their lives, and 1t
seems to me it is good to get back into
touch with St. Paul, and read of the
| Ii hoe IN
present your bodies to God as a sacrl-
flee The very foundation of all progress
in all things lies right here in this verse.
How many Christians really and truly
present their bodies as a living sacrifice
! unto God?
Suppose we all obey the recognized
laws of morality. Is that all we should
do? There is more. 1 think this present.
alton of the body to the Lord carries
with it a great deal more. Paul gives Us
the guiding principles as to what we
shall do with the body. We have not
reached the end of our duty when we
have merely recognized the laws of NOR
atty. We regulate our bodies to the
laws of dieting. People become sick
through not observing the rules of by
giene. They must observe all intelligent
~.
II think there are great many PEG
pie who arye not now so certain as to
what they believe as formerly. / miss
certain kind of enthusiasm in talking
with people who are supposed to be
Christians and leading actual Christian
lives. / think this is due to modern SCI
entihc teachings. Science processes TO
have disproved certain things and sci
entists say they have disproved practical
ly all the reality of future life, and i'm
mortality they claim is a delusion. But
there is much falsity abroad. 1t does
not do for us to claim all that Is said to
be true of science as actually being the
truth
But there are other scientists who
have given US a great deal of comfort,
and who say that science has not proven
everything. Let us go on. therefore, In
the belief that there is such a spiritual
world as we have always been taught.
This is a selfish world, so far as L
know and the only true course TO follow
which cuts this selfishness down is the
Gospel of Christ. 1t should be our aim
in life to look upon men with a view TO
bringing out the best that is in them. We
can be force to others in bringing out
their best points. On the contrary, a
man can also exert such an influence a.
to weaken others and emphasize their
weakest elements. Some people, no mat
ter where they go, have a faculty of
bringing out the strong points in others
So, in conclusion. let me say that out of
this body we must get the best we can.
low anything to enter into our lives
which Will weaken our bodies"
During the address of Mr.. Penfield Il
young man sitting in the audience was |
seized with a fit. DR.. Burgess who was |
present, attended the victim. and remov- |
ed him from the hall before the service /!
was concluded.