The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-12-30
SERMON
On THE
NEW YEAR
Rev. w. N. KinCaid
Gives Sound
Advice.
"WHAT SHALL WE
WRITE ON IT?"
Joys Of Home and Happiness
More to Be Desired Than
is Money.

Rev. W. NJ. Kincaid preached his
New Years sermon before a large and
attentive audience at Central Union
church last evening. His subject was
The Blank Page Of the New Year:
What Shall We Write on It." He
spoke in part as follows:
Text-Ephesians 5:15-16: See then
that ye walk circumspectly; not as
fools, but as wise, redeeming the time"
With a great many. I fear. the only
new thing about the year that begins
this week. will be it's date-19O2, in
stead of 1901. Even that will not be
altogether new at first, for almost ey-
cry one OF us Will write 1901 for 4
time. and will have to scratch it out
and put 1902. Now, II is highly desira-
BILE that the new year should bring in
something more than a mere change
OF fgureS-a change, In fact, Of only
one figure. IT would be a great thinS
II II could make the lives of some of US
entirely new. Now. the Bible contains
certain tests that are pivOtal-tests
around which cluster many meanings
that are strengthening. pithy and fruit
full one OF these is the Pauline in
junction which read to you a moment
ago as our text, and which contains
the receipt how TO make the new year
new In the best and truest sense of the
word see tUeu IldL Wdlh C4Iculil-
specify. not as fools. but as wise
That is. as you go through life. look
about you and note the realities in the
midst OF which you are living; the
realities that concern you as immortal
beings. See what they are, the rela-
zion in which they stand to each other
and to you. for these are the things
with which daily you must deal. Re
deeming the time" or, as il is trans
lated in the margin Of the revised YER
IT, a
whatever cost in other things which
are not the essential OF life, buy up
the opportunities that remain Time is
the equivalent OF existence. "Dost
thou love life?" asked one OF the old
sages Of his disciples. Then do not
squander time, for that is the stuff
life is made Of" An Italian philosO-
pher had this for his motto: Time is
my estate" But II is an estate which
will produce nothing without cultiva-
tion. but IT will always abundantly re-
pay patient industry. Time Is COM
posed OF opportunities. and these pass
away with the passing days What we
bring out OF them is ours. and ours
forever. Their results to us are char
aCter destiny Time seems to change
its aspect for us as get on I'm years.
remember when I was & hoy. the first
time 1 came into the possession Of what
Seemed to me a large amount OF mon
ey- II 1 were to name the sum 1t
insignificant sum indeed; but TO my
eyes. educated in a childhood that was
frugal. IL seemed as If had come into
an inexhaustible fortune. l was go
Ing with my mother TO spend
brief vacation IN New York city among
friends. and I felt as though 1 had q
capital that I could draw on TO an
unlimited extent / remember my first
venture. I had seen something in
store window that took my fancy. At
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ralIed at the cost. though too timid TO
retire and say that I did not wish it.
and had completed the purchase. ;
-ound myself where many a man finds
himself in middle life, practically
bankrupt I had invested my tiny for
tune in one thing which I found I did {
not want very much after all, and I y
rad only fragments left with which to
-aalize my other dreams. Does not this I
-imple story find a worldwide applica- s
ion? Does it not represent the eXpe- :
-ieuce OF every boy and girl as they ]
Ass through youth and on into man c
.ood and womanhoOd2 How long time j
-aemed to us in childhood? We had =
IN Of IL we wanted. and sometimes J.
much more than we could use. We y
curd ourselves willing to get rid OF it b
p any way while waiting impatiently c
or the coming OF some special event. I
iut now rs we have gotten on J.
tile way in life. We are waking up 10 p
He fact that before we realized the a
slue Cf time. we had paid out large O
art OF IL. and straightway. we become y
iEg8rdz. and wish to hoard the re- n
Tgiud.r. Do YOU remember the old Il
.1man story Of the Cumaean Sibyl2 u
2 Is said that after the Cumaean Sibyl o.
Id written out the nine books Of a
racles which were supposed 10 foretell @
be- destiny Of the reigning dynasty and r
r the Eternal City. she brought them q
I Tarquin. the King. and offered them =
, him for sale. In consideration Of r
heir value she asked very high price. =
Though the contents We're such that q
~ King could not afford to go with -
ut them, he thought the price too