The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-08-11
BISHOP RESTARlCkS
INITIAL SERMON
CONTINUED from Page II

: life of mother teacher, friend, VINO was
trying prayerfuIly to gam Victory %
the spirit OF the cross. Ana II ~
Yourself want to know the VICTORIOUS
, life n will rot come from trying L
find God in the study of rocks or stars
ar in criticism of the text of the BlDle
: IT will not be in books, but in the Ire
; lof Jesus Christ. 1t viii not be In spec
!, ulating about Christ. 1t VIII be py Try
ING TO be like Him. When Lady Henry
Somerset. walking in the garden
was debating about Christ, she heard
, a voice. saying: Strive to be like Him
land YOU shall know Him." and in the
striving to do His will she learned that
He was of God. Or George John Ro-
manes. who struggled along with ms
science, being the pupil ana Iriend OF
Darwin, and one of the brightest SCI
tentists of his day. 1t was he who be
! gan to try to live as Jesus Christ would
have him, to cruelty his pride, preJu-
dice. passion and then, when Canon
.lGore administered the holy .Uyconl7
dfnnnion to h Ina he sang Lord, now let
test Thou Thy servant depart in peace
faccording TO Thy word, Tor mine eyes
have seen Thy salvation
/ Victory by the cross. Yes, men ana
| woman recognize as never before, de-
spite apparent selfishness and greed
What are all these monuments III large
cities togo down and lift men up! What
| Is all this pnlldHtNTopya lhCSr AAAeA-t-
tcent gifts this Indignation with cruelty
and wrong 1t is the leayening spirit or
the cross in society. But, men say
| yes. but in national life it Will not DO;
there victory is to the strong, to those
| with the largest battalions. Is 1t SO!
Temporary victory sometimes, yes.
Permanent, stable victory, no. A ma
I ton taking the sword and trusting in
the sword perishes by the sword The
path of victory is Strewn with the
wrecks of nations which prove what
I say Kidd in his book on Social Evo-
luton, proves this fact. Aggression Tor
powers sake may gain wealth and ter
ritory. but il has in it the seeds of de-
cay. The two great Anglo-Saxon ma
lions, whatever may be said, are great
today because they sacrifice blood. ana
treasure and labor to the sense OF re-
sponsibility In India Britain need not
have had in mind the betterment of
conditions, the removal of causes of
famine, the stamping out of pestilence!
but has. In Egypt she might have
been a second Turk, but she has not
been, and in our own nation. whatever
may be said, every man knows that the
Spanish war began with the highest
and hottest Of purposes. Blood and
treasure were to be sacrificed to relieve
fellow men from wrong, cruelty and OPP
preston; and the Philippine Islands,
which none of us wanted, are seeing IN
them still the sacrifice of men and
money that a people may be taught
and lifted up.
And sacrifice is never in vain. Eng
land in the beginning OF the last CEN
fury had a most corrupt government
Prime Ministers farming out the re-
funding OF the national debt to favor
lites Her sacrifice for her children the
colonies and dependencies. has in de-
veIoping sense of responsibility, purified
the whole political mass and that the
same will be the case in the United
States is not to be doubted. for already
la Taft and a Wood have arisen for the
needs, and men are asking not what
can we make out OF these Oriental peo-
pie but what can We give to them.
This will react for good upon the whole
body polite It Is sacrifice which makes
a nation strong and which gives it life
and perrnanency.
And in the church. how this is shown.
Its days of greed for wealth and power
have been it's evil days. Wealth and
true spiritual power would have come
by sacrifice, but there have been days
when power was by coercion and
wealth by taking advantage of ignor
ant fears, and instead of strength came
weakness and loss. The most evil days
in the Church of England were those
in which the bishops were as princes. !
with palaces and grand equipages. The
new day of strength saw Wilberforce of i
Oxford not in a. coach and four, but on |
horseback, traversing his diocese. and
q Kemper or Whipple, whose endow- |
ments of the episcopate were in their !,
saddlebags. Or a Selwyn or a PatteSon !
who gave magnificent gifts Of highest
manhood to work in the islands of the |
Pacific. That which brought the re-
vival OF church life, which stirred the |
heart and thrilled the pulse of all Eng |
disappearing Christians was the spirit
of sacrifice.
In the United States in 1880 the ,
church was small body for the we'll |
to-do In 1885. when she declared that :
every baptized member of the church
was member of the missionary soci-
ETY., when she began to sacrifice she
began to gain true power and spiritual !
life. She has gained victory by the /
cross
And now, dear friends, if we are to |
make this church of ours power for |
good in these islands, il will not be by
any dependence upon a magnificent his |
tory, nor reliance upon hoary tradi- |
lions, nor a pride in the Incompatible |
liturgy, nor satisfaction in the ancient.
Interchangeable Catholic creeds, nor in
our glorious heritage as a portion OF I
the Catholic and Apostolic church. !
Thees things are to be priced, to be
held, to be valued, and no one values
them more than l. But what we must
do in contending earnestly for this
faith, once for all delivered to the
Saints. is to contend for 1t by living it.
Life is the argument that tells. Sacri-
flee is the spirit that wins Men can
hold in ridicule our Catholic heritage.
but they will not ridicule q life lived
by the measure Of the cross.
What work for God lies before usi
What it means to each of us If we really
seek victory by the cross! 1t means
asking ourselves not what my pride or
prejudice or even my rights prompt me
to say or do. It means asking of Jesus
Christ as we bring our thoughts to
Him, What win Thou have me to do?"
and then trying to do what He would
have us do. What glorious work lies
before us as we labor together If this
is our spirit. What a missionary spirit
we shall have. How men will be at
tracted to US and be won to Christ and
His church, 1t is the one thing in
which We have any cause to glory; 1t
IS the one way by which to bring Christ
to men and men to Christ. 1t will mean
10 us as 1t always has meant. giving a
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