The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-02-25
Lady Missionaries
at Central Union
Church.
misses MURCUTT
AND ACKERMAN
They Want Honolulu to Get
Rid of Prevailing
Institutions.
~ ENTRAL UNION CHURCH held a

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~ occasion being a farewell service
to Miss Murcutt and Miss Ack-
erman, who are about to leave for ia
pan. The pulpit platform was decor
ated with palms and ferns and the
seats were occupied by Miss Murcutt.
Miss Ackerman, Rev. Mr.. Kincaid and
one of the ladies of the local Woman's
Christian Temperance Union. The Ia
dies were simply and becomingly
dressed, one in pink and one in white.
and seemed in their selfpossession to
be familiar with platform work. Their
styles of speaking, though widely Diff
ferent, seemed to be pleasing to the.
audience, which hung upon the de-
clamatory periods of Miss Murcutt and
the emotional appeals of Miss Acker-
man with equal interest.
The regular musical feature was pro-
vided by the church choir, Miss Girls
void singing solo parts with her Gus
tomary sweetness of voice.
Rev. Mr. Kincaid, at the conclusion
iof the offertory service, introduced
Miss Murcutt, who said:
I'VE are glad to have the opportun-
ity tonight to thank the people of Ho-
nolulu for the kindness extended to US.
Tonight as we sit here we gaze into
the faces of those who. have helped to
make the history, of these Islands, and
those who are the. children of
/ the pioneer missionaries, and we
think of those who came here sew
enty years ago and found naked saw
ages and barbarous people without
: even a written language, and we real
ize that although they are dead they
speak to us tonight.
/ I'VE feel it has been a privilege to
mingle with the people of these Islands.
and if there is one heart left better
tonight we thank God for having
brought us to your shores What
constitutes the home? 1t is not beauti-
full works of art or the beautiful tex
] lures therein; but love is the main
spring and the motive power where the
boys and girls are trained to be the
future men and women, the philanthro-
pists and ministers of religion. And
what constitutes a nation? The union
of those homes through the length and
breadth of the land.
i Whoever Iegalizes any abuse that
interferes with the happiness and
sanctity of the home is a traitor to the
sacred duty and is guilty of national
murder. No one here tonight will con-
tradict the statement that strong drink
ruins the home, and we see in the Oc
cident and in the Orient what strong
drink is doing. Today we boast of
our twentieth century Christianity, and
/ want to tell you when ! follow the
flags of England and America through
the world I feel ashamed / belong to
the Anglo-Saxon race.
! I'VE speak of the trouble in China at
!, the present time. We are looking at
that vast Empire and we wonder why
it is that God Almighty permits such
a fate to overtake these men and wo-
men who go with the gospel to those
lands and we forget it was the Chris
tian nations that forced the opium traf-
fic upon the Chinese. at the point of
the bayonet And do we wonder there
is a strong anti-foreign feeling there
today? For a long time the eyes Of the
world have been fixed on America. We
hear with horror of the sufferings Of
the creatures under Spanish misrule.
and half of the world stood still with
bated breath while the whole world re-
joiced when Congress called the atten-
ton of Spain to these people and
the armies Of the North and the South
and the East and the West Joined to
gether under the Stars and Stripes for
suffering humanity.
But what are the sufferings of Cuba
with those of America caused by the
liquor traffic? Nearly 100000 persons
are murdered every year, murdered as
isurely as though shot down. Murdered
by whom? A foreign power? No, by
the home Government, for revenue.
and every dollar of this Is stamped
with the life blood of it's victimsi
''The question of expansion has been
before the American people for some
time. remember of reading of one
American statesman who said he be-
lIieved that the hand of. God has given
these Filipfnos to the missionaries that
they might be won for Christ, and
America sent forty carloads of whisky
to Manila, and today there are 460 sa-
looms flourishing under the Stars and
Stripes, whereas there were only two
before these people came in contact
with those of the United States. What
! soever a man soweth, that shall he
Ireap, and what applies to the individ-
luaI applies to the nation.
Coming nearer home you have evils
in your midst and there are people of