The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-03-25
AMONG The
CHURCHES
]. WaIdron Speaks
at Y. NJ. C. A.
Hall.

The shoes on our feet are held together
the shoes to drop from the feet of our
horses many lines of business and traf-
fc would be jeopardized How many
beautiful buildings all over this world
would fall in ruins If the nail We're sud
denly to lose it's utility?
So many nails being used, it Is very
necessary that some one should know
how to drive them. There are difficult
ties in the way, but every one knows
how to drive nail until he tries 1t.
Many try and fail, but when one who I'M
dertakes it, after making many mistakes,
and the nail bends this way and that,
does succeed in sending it home. there
is an immense amount of satisfaction in
the work done. 1t is so decided in the
thing accomplished, that here we get
the expression to characterize a thing
well done-"That Is hitting the nall on
the head"
There is right way to drive a nail.
The first thing is TO get freedom, or get
balance; then the nail is tapped lightly,
attaching it to the right place; then 1t is
struck and the work is well started; then
we drive; and then 1t Is sent home.
There are many suggestions we can get
from the first point OF getting your bal
ance." We look to the North: the man
as he went in this direction, in his state
of standardization, found 1t necessary to
substitute for his thin tent one made of
the fur of the animals; next it was nee
essary to use this fur for his clothing
then comes the Esquimaux, and he cuts
out huge blocks of Ice and piles them up
in the shape of house; he chinks the
cracks with snow. and he Is warm and
cosy inside. That man hit the nail on
the head.
The man In the South does not have to
build a house. He is able to exist to his
satisfaction with the products of nature
which are dropped at his feet. He comes,
however, to a stream too wide and swift
t, wade or swim He sees log floating
down; II. touches this bank and drifts
across to the other He tries the ntSt
one. ii does not go to the other barb
but takes him out into the lake. Aece
he finds better fishing and when he
wishes to go he paddles along; he be-
comes tired of this and takes OF mis-
shirt and the wind catches it and carries
HIM along with good speed. He changes
the position of his shirt and so changes
his course; here we have the foundation
of the laws of navigation. That man nit
the nail on the head.
A Prince In England, nephew to the
late Queen, asked his mother for a
pound; she gave 1t to him and was
spaat and another was asked for, put
this time he was refused. He wrote to
the Queen for the money but instead
he was written a letter of good advice.
In replying to this he said that lie wss
not disappointed that she could not give
him the money, for he had sold the let
tie" for ten pounds. Reproo ne of
Prince, you say, and yet in wit and
alertness, he hit the NAH on the head
Sentences from the address:
Nails are to do work-not tc he seen.
So We may not worry. about being seer
but about our ability to do something.
I like good racing but best of all ,he
mile run, because here the test i3 not IN
the slightness of the body or the auicl,-
ness of movement, but in heart power,
and in the staying qualities.
Jesus Christ stood before the Jews and
showed US that in trials and persecu-
tons are We to become purified
We must not take all our time to get
our balance.
Half of the salvation of mv1e'f an:
yours is in getting some one else saved.
Some men want to do everything at
the beginning, but we must begin with
the tap.
No hands In this world are white In
the true sense of the word unless they
are useful to humanity.
AT METHODIST CHURCH.
The pastors theme yesterday morning
was God, Our Father" lie said in
temism of Alaska and the so-callcd scicr.-
tific creed of the sceptic or The belief
Of the devout child of God, may mark tie
extremes. Whether man affirms or de-
MES, he has a creed which seems to be
as essential to him as is his companion
ships. The center of mans creed is
God. His ideas of God mark his whole
belief. One has said. ''Tell me mans
notions of God and I will write his
creed" The race assumes the being of
God and ever seeks to know his nature.
The instinct of the soul is mans main
proof of God. The nations that sit in
darkness have learned much of the ma
ture of God Among ancient people the
Jews took highest rank in their knowl-
edge of God. This knowledge entering in
greatly affected their moral
character. To them God was not an alb
stract nature, but a real being-"The
Holy one of Israel" In their highest
of Him, He was King They
knew Him as the Sovereign of the Uni
verse, as the Father of Israel. He Is
thy shade on thy right hand; "Our
dwelling place in all generations; THE
Rock of my salvation. and "a present
help in every time of trouble"
Turning to the New Testament we find
in the teaching of Jesus a new truth
the nature of God; Jesus does
not attempt to prove the being of God:
II
Our Father" God Is the Father of all;
but He Is not the same to all. Full bene-
fits Of fatherhood are obtained by ODE
dience and spiritual receptivity. God
cares for the sinner and graciously Of
fers him pardon and life. He shows
desire and makes a positive eff
fort to secure the reconciliation of the
sinner with Himself To His obedient
and affectionate child He is all that the
comprehensive word Father implies. In
His providence He cares for him, provid-
ing all his necessities The question of
the pain, disappointment and sorrow
which He permits His children to bear
is a great one and cannot be solved by
man. Jesus so far entered into the sor-
rowful experiences of man as to know
them. He knew them as man cannot
know them, and still He could say,
My Father and He taught us to say.
Our Father" We can understand this
the better when we remember that God
has regard chiefly for the spiritual which
Is eternal. Man has so spoken of the
fatherhood of God as to imply weakness
and softness, but Jesus shows Him in the
strength of truth and justice and right
eousness, as well as in mercy and SYM
pathy, compassion and grace Let us all
return to our Fathers home and abide
in His benediction of mercy and life.