The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-10-09

* Protestants, but always stand
~ up for your creed and your
church. The Catholic that sneaks away
into the crowd because the people who
go his church are poor and not high
enough In society, is not Catholic and
we don't want him. Such a sneak who
calls himself Christian, would cor
rupt hell itself! A man that despises
his church because ne does not attain
social prominence amongst his people,
is to be despised. admire the Catho-
lie when he is not ashamed of his
church and confesses his sins; I ad-
mire the Protestant when he stands up
for his church, but a Catholic who
sneaks and sinks away is not wanted
in the church,
Such were the impassioned words
with which Father Marshall Boarman,
the eloquent Jesuit priest, concluded
his lecture on the Confession of Sins"
in the Catholic church last night. The
broad-minded views of Father Boar
man have brought among his auditors
men and women of all faiths, eager t.
hear his cIear-cut statements about the
Catholic doctrines. His broad-minded-
ness does not permit him to score those
Of other faiths.
r The great cathedral was again filled
,,-,+b y,rpdrads ne ,,aorIa not +bo 1oo-t
conspicuous among them being mem
bers OF other churches in Honolulu,
while a Protestant minister or two
were interested auditors. The priest
has attracted people to him as few
others have and he has the faculty of
holding his audience in rapt attention
even though his lecture continue for an
hour or an hour and a half Confess
sion of Sins was the subject of the
priests lecture last evening
It is my easy and pleasant task to-
night" said the priest, ''to prove to
you that Almighty God himself has es-
tablished the confession of sins for the
priests. We shall set aside the author
ity of the Catholic church and will take
up those arguments which viii be we'll
understood and admitted by ALL We
viii examine the Old and the New
Testaments and Ecclesiastical his
tory We find in the Old Testament
that Almighty God commanded the con
fession of sins for the priests. We GER
taiuly find that. Where do we expect
to find IT? If you read the Bible you
VIII find 1T in the five books of the
Law I have brought here tonight a
Protestant Bible. In Chapter of the
fifth book you will read: That ye shall
confess'-that ye shall make a sin Of
fering and the priest shall make an
atonement for him. You win find the
same thing in the Book of Numbers.
He that shall confess his sins
shall obtain mercy In Ecclesiastes
Chapter 4-'Be not ashamed to confess
thy sins We read that when John
the Baptist came near Jerusalem, the
people from Jerusalem went out to John
and were baptised by him and confess
ed their sins.
This confession of sins, as demanded
oy God in the old law, is not the sacra-
mental one. 1t was the condition that
God imposed upon this chosen people. I
Or1hg TINS forward to you, that from the
beginning God demanded the confession
of sins.
Il ask question: Gould Almighty God
confer the power upon some men to for
give sin-make them his agents-give
them the power to forgive sin by his aid
and by his power?' All Christians will
say Yes because if you say No, you
olasphene God, for he is omnipotent and
has power in all things. If he wished to
do it, he certainly would do so.
Another question: Did Almighty God
give to some men the power to forgive
sin?' There issue is taken. Some say
he never did. 1 say he did give it. Then
the proofs devolve upon me 1 can give
you them to your satisfaction First of
all, was not Christ man? True. he was
the Son of God, but he was a man-both
God and man. H ewas a true mana
true body and a true soul. Christ for
gave sin. No Christian will certainly
deny that Christ had the power to forgive
sin. He said, Go and sin no more-thy
sins forgiven There were men who
put him to death; it happened that these
men always raised an objection when he
-torgave sin They said: Why, Christ is
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