The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-03-10
UHT CANNOT Ne
CAST OUT BEIlsi


Continued from First Pagel
Nov. in the presence of ali shess
evils. actual Or exaggerated, what /:
the Christian nam what is the Chris
tian church to do and say,
Let me remind you that I am sup
poSe1iy speaking TO congregation
Of Christian men and women and II
my capacity as Christian minister
Whatever nv action elsewhere as q
| citizen be. when stand in this place
do not stand as a politician. or a
political economist, or n professional
social reformer. but as a Christian
! minister whose sole business is tc
know and proclaim the mind OF Christ
What. then. shall the Christian DC
in the face Of the evils that surround
his life, Shall be answer with ST
Thomas of Celano:
The world is very evil
The time is growing late.
Be sober and keep vigil.
The King is at the gate"
So have thought all the monks and
refuses Of the ages So think our
pre-millenarian brethren The world
| Is bad desperately. hopelessly bad
The Christian while he must live in 1t.
must not touch ii. or let ii touch him.
He NAV go out into the world and SOW
his grain and again to reap the har-
vest. but having tied up his sheaves. he
should carry them to his own house.
shut the door against the world, and
give himself to prayer.
This nnfiFv { 81 onI
tempting. Not all monks live in
cioisters by a great deal To withdraw
ones religious life from his secular life,
! TO keep his religion as a thing apart
and sacred. so sacred that it is only
to be exposed once 8 week. is the
simple course that comm ends itself
to many. 1t would hardly seem worth
while for such to ask VIII they cannot
cast out the worlds devils. The
worlds devils have cast them out The
chances are that some familiar demon
viii fo.low them even inc sheir closet
But what :hen2 Shall re go into
the market place and daaounce the
worlds evils face to face? John the
Baptist did that: Savcn -ola did the
same. Ard :. IS yerr ine Why
should rot the chC-,h follow their *
amples and denounoe the worlds evils
hv n7~a? She is often upbraided
with iukewarmness, and her pulpit
Urged with cowardice for failing 10
10 so | answer Because this is not
Christ's wav. and because John the
Baptist and Savonarola and their kind
ALWAYS fell. Judea so far as we can
see was not improved by the stringent
denunciation of John. The Florentine
ladies after listening to the impassion-
ed utterances of their great preacher.
flung their jewels into his lap and
went back TO the arms of their lovers.
OF Christ, the eternal evangelist. it
was said HE shall neither strive
nor cry, neither shall his voice be
heard in the street" The sinner can
ALWAYS outscream the preacher. To
denounce him is to fight the devil with
fire; the tares will burn your fingers,
while his are caIlouSed.
What then? Shall we endeavor to
marshall the moral forces of society
on the side of good and attack evil in
its iRtrenchments? Why not? The
bar and the bench, the press. the pull
to Join in such a crusade whv should
not the church marshal them and lead
them in battle to the death against
tfle evils which threaten and prey up
on society?
Dr. Parkhurst believed that possible
in New York city few years ago.
Probably no more marvellous achieve
ment has been recorded in the history
of civilized society than his temper
airy triumph But where is his TEN
porary triumph now? The moral con
dition of New York city was never so
bad as it is today. Why is it that that
temporary triumph has made it impos-
sible for any man to do the like for
many day to come? Even DR.. Park
hurst admits that.
OUT"
Lord what wouldst Thou have us
to do?"
| do not think | am exaggerating
when | say that there are some thou
sands of Christians in this city and
on these islands We all desire right |
eousness. some with intense yearn- |
ing, all with at least languid desire. |
Why do we not secure it? | believe |
the reasons to be two-fold. First, We |
want it for the benefit it will bring |
to US and ours; second. We still cling |
fondly to the old delusion that some
how We can persuade or cajole or 90
cree good deeds from bad men.
We want the children of the poor |
educated because if they are not they |
will become expensive and trouble |
some da myers. We want the saloon /
abolished because of the bill of costs |
it loads on us. We want the stocksec I
of lwilei to fall. because OF the bIotch /
il is on the name of the city. But |
don't you see this is to set one kind |
of self-seeking over against another /
kind of self-seeking. We want right /