The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-03-11
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| ing it-that ones life had much to do
with ones faith, and that ones char
acter was, so would ones faith be, those
of the 'heart-faith believing without
difficulty, and those of the head-faith
having to reason it out. Again he liken
ed people to compositors, who by exam
pie We're setting up the gospel of God
for other people. He said that in set
ting up the type for print of the Bible,
surely no man would think of leaving out
or putting in a word to make the Bible
other than it was, yet that people were
putting into their lives things that God
does not want there, and taking out
what should be left. He spoke also of
the Indifference of peoples in health and
happiness and how sickness and trouble
may bring revelations In reference to
the passages which could not be under
stood in the Bible he said: Il once had
! an invitation to visit an unbelieVer. He
said he wanted to show me his Bible. He
! said he had it all marked. There were,
/ he said, lots of uneXplainable things. and
! he called them bones, and said that he
/ had all the bones marked for me when
l came. He invited myself and my wife
/ to dinner, but ] said we could not come,
because wanted to have something to
! eat when we went to dinner. He was
offended and said he guessed he had as
much to eat on his table as | was ac-
( customed to. | said, Look here, you
said the other day that you care only
! for bones, and we don't want to eat
bones. We want the meat, and we leave
alone the bones. Perhaps. sometime. we
may have use of them when we under
stand them, but that We're content
with the meat. Well, that man saw the
force of that remark, and he was con-
tent to take the meat, too, and quit
gnaYing the bones Just you do that,
my brethren, and if there are some
= in r. hot at,'f
derstand there are plenty that YOU can,
and just you dine off the meat. You will
get a full NEAL
In conclusion DR.. Chapman related
several instances in point with his argu-
ment. He said that while riding on a
train one day the conductor came
through the coach and lit the lights A
little child exclaimed ''Oh, mamma, The
man is lighting the lamps in broad
daylight how funny! What for But
pretty soon the child found out, for they
came to a long dark tunnel, The con-
ductor had anticipated the tunnel and
had put the lights in readiness. There
was another person who was reading in
the coach, and when they went into the
tunnel that person put down the book
and said, "Oh, the lights lit: | didn
know it until we came into the dark"
That is like lot of u.s." said DR..
Chapman, 1.-The Lord often anticipates
| iOI uS wien we are SOIilS iibO SOiHS
dark cavern of pain and grief, and we
don't know anything about it until we
are into the cavern. Oh, my brethren
don't you blow out the lights because
it's broad daylight. You may need them
God knows best and he has lit his lamps
for us, bless His name, though some
times we don't know it until we are
bowed in grief and trouble; but they're
therer
AS TO not accepting so much of the
gospel as one can understand, he told
the story of a man who fell from ar
observatory window and slid down tn,
inclined roof to its very edge, clingins
there with superhuman strength, five
stories above the street which was GOV
cred with broken sparS and stones. Hi:
friends threw out to him two-inch rope
and cried out for him TO take hold of it
but he hestated. Are you sure it vii
hold me?" he asked, and waited for
reply. why bless your heart" said DR.
Chapman, "he had nothing else. Wha
else had he to hold to? Hadn't he better
take hold of it? That's what / say t
you, my friends?" said he taking up the
Bible; here it is. and you have nothing
else. You'd better take it; you'd better
take itI'
Silently he held out the Bible for {
few moments, and then laid it upon tn,
table and took his seat. There were
many who went forward and thanked
him for his sermon at the close of this
meeting.