The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-05-29
TALK BY AN
EVANGELIST
Emphatic Sermon
Delivered by
MIR. Cell.
THE COVERING
UP OF HUMAN SIN
Edgar Cell Scores the Weaknesses
OF Church Members Who
Are Not Sincere.

ECentral Union Church TO large and
interested congregation. He took his
text from Proverbs 2S:1S He that COW
ereth his sins shall not prosper" and
using the words as a central point upon
| to assail the weaknesses of humanity
forcefuIly, laying bare the various types
Iof religious shirkers relentlessly as ne
pointed out the different garbs worn to
cover up sin and, avoid the responsibility
lof true Christianity.
very popular method of covering UP
ones sins, he said, was by hiding be-
hind other peoples sins; comparisons
with people of apparently worse spirit
ual condition We're deemed by some peo-
pie extremely fiattering to themselves.
but because ones neighbor was not SO
excused from being better Mr. Cell re-
lated the instance of the Publican and
the Pharisee. The Pharisee," said he,
shouted 4 five times, and struck every
body else. while the Publican struck no.
body hut himself.
evangelist said was by the use of goid-
en- merchandise; men excused the sin OF
Squeezing poorer people on the ground
that it was business" That kind OF
business, he sa4-, did not go with the
Supreme Judge of the righteousness of
excuses. This manner of covering up
sin was emphasized particularly. and
the lecturer said that he understood thai
it was very popular in this City.
Two other coverings or sin were pleas
!. ure and unanswered prayer. The lat
ter, Mr.s Cell pointed out, was the dark
lest. dsHsest, most damaging blanket
ever flung over human SIM, the church
4 membeg who gets in corner and prays
fer people TO be converted and does not
try to convert them .afterward. is simply
praying to quiet his own conscience.
TIA fft-th covering Eeferred to was 4 hat
of gifts to the churches" and the sixth
general excuses that the ingenuity Of
sinners manufacture to cover their sins.
The short way of spelling excuse, he
stated, among church members, was off
entimes lie
I ACKNOWLEDGMENT, said the evange-
4 list, had an image; its head was of
gold, but it's feet We're clay; some of
you folks are all right about the head
but wheg it comes to carrying out your
tresolutions your feet are clay God has
always Hated sin. In the days of Achan,
one mars sin led to the defeat of the
armies Of Jehovah The Christian peo-
pie of HSnolulu are responsible for the
reputation of Jesus Christ in this COM
munitysHs
4 The chasing illustration was the force
fully told story of Jonahs trip The
Lord told Jim to go northeast to Nine
veh. topreach," said Mr.. Cell, land ne
did not want to do it. He went south
west, down to the Me- terranean, and
paid his fare on a We. sci. There are a
lot of you folks that try to get out of
doing what the Lord wants you to do
by paying y ur fare. Jonah paid mis-
fare and &nen he got On the vessel. 1t
II was wrecked That's what will happen
to a lot of you He was transferred aft
erward from the hold OF ship to the
corresponding portion Of big fish. You
are ali familiar with the story-how he
was cast. ashore by the whale, and then
he headed northeast az fast as he could
go. 1t was about time for him to do it.
That's what the Lord hse ;old him to do
at first; but he wouldn't Go it. It took
all these trials ;t;4i IL h0tarionS to teach
him that tl!e LORD knew best, but when
the whale threw him up on the shore, he
made a bee line for the northeast and
when he came to the city of Nineveh he
began to preach. and he preached with
such power that the King came down
II from his throne, casting aside his royal
raiment for garment of .sackcloth; as
the preaching Of Jonah increased in pow
ler, the King sat down on an ash heap,
and taking handfIlls of ashes, he threw
them into the air so that they might fall
upon his royal person. That was a great
revival, the one begun by Jonah when
he was brought 10 do the Lords bidding.
1t was one of the greatest religious re-
vivals in history. and 1t caused 10000
people to turn TO the right
The evangelist made concluding ref
erence to the snuffing of the lights by
the great high priest of the tabernacle
in the wilderness, relating how the
lamps were made to burn brightly and
with renewed force when the priest ap
piled the gold snuffers and removed the
icarbon. There were great many peo-
pie, he said, who needed TO be snuffed;
their sins hindered their light, as did the
carbon that made the lamps of the taber-
nacle grow DIM
/ An after-meeting was held, and a
number asked for the personal prayers
of Mr.. Cell and of the Christians pres
ent.
At 4 o'clock meeting to be held at
the church tomorrow afternoon, Mr. Gel
will deliver a lecture on "Laodicea, and
tomorrow night, he Will preach On "a
Painted Face
Evangelist Cell spoke at the O'Clock
meeting In the parlors of the church.
His intended address for the afternoon
was omitted to be delivered this after
noon. when a big attendance Is antici-
pated- He merely took up the Bible,
quoting from various places, and COM
menting On them 1t was called merely
a Bible meeting, and savored of nothing
more than the usual discussion OF such
subjects. There was not very large
attendance, and Mr.. Cell was moved 10
call attention to this matter. He said he
hoped those present would advertise the
fact that the gospel meetings were TO be