The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-01-21
MURPHY ON
L|BERAL|T
Love the Path To All
Peoples Hearts.
SUNDAY At CENTRAL UNION.
The Temperance Lecturer Makes
Two Addresses To Big
Audiences.

into the big auditorium until every seat
was filed, and the aisles were damned
to the doors with chairs; they thronged
the corridors and the steps of the
church, and at the side entrances the
doorways were filed. Mr.. Murphy was
as witty, as sympathetic, and as mag
netic as usual, and his epigrams as fire.
quent and as straight to the point. The
choir was made up from all the churches,
and the singing was excellent, solo be-
ing rendered by Mrs. OTIS
Mr.. Murphy read several passages from
the Bible and preached upon all of them.
In his sermon he said he had been criti-
cized because he had not Continuity"
but he said he had no idea what that
meant, and God be praised, he got along
very well without it, whatever it was"
So he did. He took first one text and
then another, but the whole theme of
them all was brotherly love- as it al
ways is with the venerable veteran Of
temperance.
Said he, Beloved, the Lord has got an
invitation card out; let US see how many
of us are invited. 1 am going to read
it to you listen: Come unto me all We
that labor and are heavy laden, and I
will give you rest There Are you in
it? I tell you most of us don't get out
such liberal invitations. We get up our
little cards and invite people to our house
to dinner, but, bless your heart, we pref
ty near always invite those that we are
dead sure are going to invite us to go
and eat dinner with them. so We'll get
it back again. / tell you, my friends,
don't you know we ought to do a whole
lot more of inviting? Don't you know
there are a lot of young fellows away
from home, and girls, too, bless their
hearts, working away down here with
nobody to care about 'em in particular,
and We want to get in and invite them to
our house to dinner once in awhile.
Say, don't you know that the sight
of a little baby toddling around the
house is going to do some fellows good?
Why, when he sees the dear little thing
toddling around and prattling, it's going
to remind him of his own little baby at
home, and it'll keep his heart soft. and
he'll take the little one up in his arm
and he'll kiss it, and it'll do him a whole
lot of good; yes it will! Say, you folks
get in and be sociable; that's the way to
keep men straight; let 'em see a little
of home life and home love and make
friends of 'em and give 'em somewhere
to go to besides the places where they'll
around; why, it's the sight of little
fodder. and such things as that, that
stir men and bless them. There are a
whole lot of lonely fellows sitting in
their rooms at night, looking over pho
tographs, and with nowhere to go. You
get in and look after those fellows. You
know how to do it, and you'll enjoy it,
bless your hearts.
You needn't be so busy as you think
you are. 1 know that business is great
thing, and that some of you have got
hardly time to speak to your neighbor,
and, Lord bless you, you haven't got
hardly time to be civil to him. Say, don't
be like that, speak to the fellow, and
anyhow, take time to get acquainted
OF Pittsburg, when they startled the
world with the great discovery of nat
ural gas, people got awful busy. They
got hold of the gas and chained 1T up
and began to use it for fuel, and made
cleft in the earth and it just poured out;
don't you know that there were a dozen
or so millionaires jumping around there
ana managing things-so busy getting
rich they didn't know what to do.
Everybody was busy, bless their
hearts, and the husband'd rush home and
read his letters, and when the baby
would come up and want to kiss papa,
why he'd tell it to go away because he
was busy, and the poor little thing would
cry to itself, poor little abused .baby!
And he'd swallow down his breakfast
and start off, and grab his hat, and the
little wife would say, Tom, are you
going without kissing me?' and, bless
your heart, he'd start on the run and
say, Amt got time; too busy; consider
yourself kissed; good-byep and he was
gone. Oh, my, wasn't that too bad He
was too busy, that man. He hurt that
Ia haI Sc ~
know it's an awful thing to hurt child's
feelings? Yes it is! There's something in
the Bible about sparing the rod, and all
that kind of thing, but that has been
pretty religiously observed already; yes,
indeed it has: and you can afford to let
it go; yes you can; and if you have got
a rod in the house, you take and throw
it out and buy a stick of candy instead!
You'll find you get along whole lot
better, and you'll get a. whole lot more
work out of boy with a stick of candy
than you will out of hickory stick!
II have had a whole lot Of time to for
give my enemies, and 1 have forgiven 'em
all, God be praised, but there's one fell
low that 1 have to keep on forgiving all
mind and he won't down, no matter how
much I forgive him. He was my frsI
school teacher, and he was a terror
THANK God for the way the world is
and the improvements in
our schools. Why, the children love their
teachers now, and they run away to
school in the mornings to meet them
because they love them. Oh, tell you
it's an awful thing to do a child
wrong. All my life 1 have thought of
that Savage and 1 have to keep on for
giving him all the time. Listen, Christ
says His yoke is easy. Yes, His yoke is
easy, and the burden Is light. Don't you
know there's lots in the kind of yoke
you wear? There was a man in the
East made a national reputation by in
venting a yoke. 1t was an easy yoke.
and when the oxen tried to draw heavy
load they could do it, because the yoke
fit them. Another man tried to make
yokes, and they were beautiful yokes,
but when the oxen started to draw the
heavy load it choked them, and they
could not. The yoke of Christ Is easy,
and it will help you to draw your bur-
den when you ere heavy laden. When L
first came to America I went to work
on a farm and the Yankee put me to
driving oxen. I didn't know any more
about driving oxen than the man in the
moon. Well, I saw this man giving his
oxen nubbins of corn. and they followed
him about and loved him.
There was another man that beat his