The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-01-15

such curious people. We have sorrows
and don't say anything ABOUT them.
Jesus didn't say anything about his
sorrow. He knew they were going TO
betray him, and kill him, and nail him
/ to the cross, but he didn't say anything
about it. God bless you, no; he just
grieved and suffered. We are like him,
we poor curious people. We hide away
! our sorrows, and won't let them out,
and people don't know we have them.
and they have to approach us very
gently lest they startle us. The poor
old broken fathers don't say anything
about the SORROWS that are breaking
their hearts. Maybe their neighbors
will say, How fast the captain is fall
! ing or, How feeble the captain is
getting to be. He has been growing
old ever since the boy went away
! That is all that the world knows of
! the great sorrow that is turning the
dear old fathers hair white, and bend
| ing his poor STOPPING shoulders lower
| with the years.
! I'll tell you about an experience l
| had once There was a big family of
! good people, but they had bad boy.
So bad they never mentioned his name
to their friends, and his picture had
been carried upstairs, because people
would see it and ask painful questions.
! The girls didn't want to go out into
| society, because people would ask
about Edward, and the bad boy cast
sorrow over the whole house. One
time he, came into meeting, and his
| father begged me to speak with him.
1 did, and glory to God, my words
touched his heart, for he had a great
big heart, had this spoiled boy. He
came up and signed the pledge, and he
was a great big fellow, as strong as
an OK.
How that dear family rejoiced, and
how they wept and laughed and hung
around poor hayward Ned, for he was
reformed again. 1 went to my room
at the hotel, and about o'clock in the
morning there was a knock at my
door. 1 thought the house was on fire,
or something, and l jumped out and
opened the door, and who do you think
was there? Why it was that great big
| fellow that had signed the pledge, and
he cried and said he had got message
and wanted to show it to me. 1t was
| from his wife. She had been gone from
| him long, long time, but when the
dear mother knew her son was con-
verted she sent message, and back
| over the wires came a word of love
and encouragement. The big fellow
never touched another drop, and now
| he is living happily with a dear little
wife and his babies. God bless them!
There was once a girl down east
| that left her home and strayed into a
wayward path. She would not come
home, though her dear mother pleaded
and her fathers head was bowed in
sorrow. For a long time she strayed
and her name had ceased to be spoken
in the household. But the mother, the
| dear little mother, had not forgotten,
and she found a way. She found out
| where the girls room was and she
went and had picture taken, and took
it to the daughters room. She said to
/ herself, My poor little girl will come
home some night and she will see her
mothers face looking at her from the
wall, and she will come home. That
was just what she did. One miserable
night the poor wayward girl came in
and while she was shaking the water
off her dress she saw the face of her
mother and little cry went out from
her. 1t was little, miserable heart
broken cry-and that night she crept