The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-12-16
MAJOR WOOD AND
"THE MISSING LINK"
SaIvationist Addresses Yesterdays
Y. "A. c. A. Meeting on a
Peculiar Theme.

"Tbe Missing Link supplied the theme
ors a., Interesting talk by Major Wood Of
itba salvation Army at the Y. n. C.. a
yesterday afternoon. addressed TO an au-
5,snce of men. Major Wood possesses
The rare faculty Of being able to hold the
.+.,+ion of men. speaking to them dl-
- f., nlain but f~orceful language. IN
+ars,arsed with sayings which appeal 10
- r1ass of men with whom he generally
comes in contact.
the afternoon exercises were under the
general direction Of Major Wood and d
nuuber of the salvationists We're present
- aid him. The odd methods employed
IN, tho salvation Army to reach the
ba.rts of men were used, and the songs
hitch have been heard on the street cor
rers where the Army holds its meetings
we're given with a vim at the meeting
TWO of the young men in the salvation
Army band played a duet on horns when
was appreciated.
Major Wood began his address by say
ing that the Missing Link" always ap-
,eaIa5 70 mems minds in connection with
D,rvin.s theory and that man had evolv-
cd from, an animal and at last had be-
come a man as he is today. The best
MAT could be derived from this theory
was that the evolution had gone on until
the highest stage in the development OF
tho aDe or chimpanzee had been attain
ed. but even then there was a missing
link between this and the lowest type OF
He spoke OF how the rchimpan-
zee could be trained, and he had recently
read of a man in Australia who had
trained a company &C them to work in a
coal mine. There was no trouble when
payday came around, as none were paid
off: there were no strikes nothing but
obedience. They came very close to the
very lowest types of the bush
men, Digger Indians and blacks of vari-
Gus countries, but the apes lacked souls
and mentality. Major Wood said he was
not a scientist, but just a plain, ordinary,
everyday Salvationist, and would not
speak on such a theory. He said he did
know OF missing links in the lives OF the
men whom he met every day. Men were
not what they ought to be.
His idea of what a Christian should he
was thar ne should be a clean man, who
lived up to the Golden Rule, and carried
out the principles of Christianity n his
every day life; a man who lived just as
good a life on Saturday as he did On
Sunday, and just as good on Monday and
Wednesday and so on; a good man every
day in the week. But there was a miss
ing link somewhere in most mems lives.
There was a y~earning really planted in
mems hearts for God. 1t was not an
imaginary yearning. But there were un-
clean things about men,, sometimes his
thoughts were unclean, or his desires and
g s-I -.
u~ncleanliness. They were not the ideal
men they should be, and there must be
a reason for it.
God created man in His own image to
start with, but man fell from his high
estate; the devil came in and spoilt the
whole thing. But God provided a remedy,
and the remedy was Christ. Some men
were continually telling him that they
We're handicapped by sin from their birth
and that they did not have a chance in
the world, and that they could not be
God-like. There was d chance for every
man; the salvation of Christ was power
full. if a man would but let it go into
his heart. and give his spirit an oppor-
tunity 10 drive out the bad desires lying
therein. All that a man had TO do was
to exert what will power he had and
determine that he will be guided by the
salvation of Christ, and he would then
be a man. In that way the missing link
would be supplied.
y mans resolutions, will power, pledges
and all human agencies would not avail
unless a little of the love of Christ was
allowed to take hold. Jesus was the
missing link in most mems lives. The
devil did not parade about the world
nowadays in black. but according to
Major Wood he walks about in white and
he and many men ran up against him
quite often when least ~suspecting. Men
were not made of putty. God made man
kind, men with backbone. Some men
averred that God should save men ana
be done with it all. 1t was not Gods pur-
pose TO save men in this way. and for
that reason he had given men the facuI-
ties with which to think and reason.