The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-08-11
BISHOP RESEARCHES INITIAL.
SERMON AT THE CATHEDRAL
Strong Discourse
of the New
Shepherd.

Fhis first communion in the ney
~ missionary district OF Honolulu
/ in st. Andrews Cathedral yes
kterday merning at the o'clock service
/ AS this service represented the forrna
| taking over of the new missionar,
| diocese by its first American Bishop
| there was unusual interest manifested
in it by the parishioners who came il
| numbers 20 greet the Bishop. In tn,
congregation, ex-Queen Liliuokalap
was a worshipper. There was a full
choral service during which Bishop
Restarick delivered few brief words
of greeting to the people. Rev. Canon
Ault was the epistolar, Rev. Canon
Macintosh the gospeller, and Rev
Canon Kiteat assisted in the distribu-
ton of prayers. AT the Hawaiian SER
vice at 9:45. Bishop Restarick made an
address particularly for the Hawaiian
members of the congregation. his words
being interpreted by Solomon Meheula,
a member of the choir.
When the new Bishop entered the
cathedral with his clergy behind the
vested choir at the IL o'clock service,
he was greeted by a congregation which
occupied every seat in the nave and
aisles- Rev. Canons Macintosh, Wey-
mouth, Kitcat and Ault. together with
Rev. Arthur Evans of Los Angeles, oc-
cupied the stalls. The professional
GLORIOUS Things of Thee are Spoken" :"
was the same, that was sung at the
conservation of Bishop Restarick. The
singing throughout was of high order.
The Bishop preached. without manu-
script, the substance of his sermon be-
ing as follows:
THE MORNING SERMON.
Galations. vi IA: But God forbid
that should glory save in the cross OF
our Lord Jesus Christ by whom the
world is crucified unto me, and I unto
the world
Among the books and papers sent to
ne by a member of this congregation
On my election to Honolulu, was the
history Of the first five years work
,f the Anglican Church in these islands. |
Upon the cover appeared the device of
l St. Andrews cross, with a crown over |
t, the symbolism OF the whole being |
summed up in the words: He lana |
xiia ma ke kea," or in English, Vic i
ory by the cross" These words have
been in my mind and in my, heart ever
since the day on which / read them. I |
want my first words 20 you to be those |
hat spring out of the impressions those |
words made on me.
These words about the cross are Oft |
n very empty sayings. If there is one
hing which men in this generation de-
pise 1t is insincerity-words which
mean little or nothing to life. There /
ire people who talk about the cross Of
christ, and Christ saving men, as If
;alvdtion were d sort of necromancy
wrought by the crucified Jesus.
If there is one thing more than an
,ther which men should get burned into /
heir minds and souls it is that victory
~ the cross has meaning only when |
ife is brought in a degree into the
Measure of what the cross stands for. |
yictory by the cross, il it means any
hing, if it is real. and not a mere
'hrase glibly uttered, means victory
aimed by life which has taken unto
tseIf and wrought out in itself in a
egree the principle for which the cross
tands as the perpetual symbol; and
7hile the world is sick Of cant and re-
gious phrase glibiy uttered, the world
ever before so truly admired. so ear
estly appreciated, life lived day by day
nd hour by hour in patient efforts to
Use to the measure of the cross.
But what do we mean by the cross 3?
What does it stand for in life? People 5
eady to get something instead of Civ
ig something are ever ready to look ;
pom the cross as assuring them ex- l
nption from something. He endured y
lie cross for Us, they say. As matter 7
fact, Jesus did not endure the cross
lat you and 1 might sit idly by and
= something. He endured the cross I
II Us, that we might have example s
Id power and grace ourselves to work {
II in our lives all that the cross h
ands for and come to be at one with ! i
od lp
The cross was the supreme manifes- b
ton Of sacrificial love. It's victory a
V in that. Victory by the cross means +
us the spirit of sacrfice-givlng up 0
r high purpose, for principle for 9TH u
s, our own pleasure, our own pride, II
IT ow nprofit, our own ambition, our /!
yn will, that so the highest. the last II
ID the eternal may be worked out in b
II means does the cross and victory 81
il. the patient bearing of nisunder- ir
silence under rev5Iing and
airing misunderstanding and abuses n
d injuries with a forgfving heart, m
eking to help and bless those who sin a.
ainSt US. la,
In fact, victory by the cross means "
story in exactly the opposite direction fc
which the natural man seeks IL. That II
why to the Roman the cross was IN
1lishness His idea was that of the a
tural man today. He could think Of d.
way in which TO obtain victory but n
striking down an opponent by