The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-01-03
JAZZ ANESE
EVANCELS
Union Assault on
Sin is Brought
Forward.

Sinner turn; why will you dep
a clear voice rolling through a meg
aphone sounded scriptural warnings
| from every corner OF the upper portion
of the city last evening. The warning
or the text from the Scriptures was re-
peated first in excellent English and
then again in Japanese. 1t was the
voice of the orator of the evangelical
movement, which is expected to sweep
over Honolulu and reclaim its Japa-
nese population.
The evangelical movement is the re-
suit of the combination OF all the
churches to make a campaign. There
were not only the Congregational. but
the Methodist and the Christian
churches OF the Japanese in the move,
and last evening the form of the bat
tie was a march against the forces of
Japanese sin at Makiki. The process
sion was a long one and there were IN
it everyone from the Sunday schooi
boys and girls through the lists of the
young women. the matrons and the
younger men and elders, down to the
rabbie
The procession was made up at Nuu-
anu and Beretania street soon after Z
O'Clock, and it proceeded at once on
the way to Makiki. The marchers car
ried lanterns usually, though there
were distributed to all japanese who
could be seen along the streets pamph-
lets and tracts which called the erring
ones to enter into the movement
These were given away by the hun
dreds, and there was in general most
courteous reception given to the evan
gels.
But. it was not only in the marching
and the carrying of banners that the
enthusiasts showed. There1 was one
hymn which c.eered their footsteps,
and called attention to their mission
This was japanese song put to the
well-known tune of Marching
Through Georgia" The Tilt of the old
measure was keptas nearly as it could
be by the people who have not the mu-
sic of the song in their blood, and as
the line swung and crept along the
streets ever and again the strain was
started from some part of the line and
it rose Until every voice sounded from
the high quiVering notes Of the women.
which were all but lost, to the thick
tones of, the men.
The grand old chorus was not all,
either, for there were other tunes set
with Japanese words, which often took
the lead for a moment. but that was
all. for the marching tune had the
proper swing for the crusaders and
they used it almost all the time. But
once in u While the choral was dropped
and then there rose the solo. the songs
of the Army, sung my a youth whose
red ribbon on the cap stamped him as
the blood and fire" man of the Orient,
and he chanted the old familiar tunes.
the ones remembered from the earliest
days, for he scorns the new light mu-
sic. ~
| Then 1came the man with the mega
phone and the warning. AS the line
was passing and the music was getting
| thinner in the distance. there rose thar
voice which pierced the air and called
| for the Sinner to repent, in two IAN
guages. The effect was striking when
one lost in the gloom and shadow the
speaker, and heard the voice as though
near by, and yet there was in sight nc
lone who might have uttered the words
| The meeting at the Maliki chapel OF
mission was a large one. The prom
enaders had split at Alapat street anc
there sent one branch up King, Wnlle
the other kept right on up Beretanla
Each brought its quota to the little
! mission, and there was no room for the
multitude when all had gathered.
But the man with the megaphone was
! not content with the narrow horizon OF
a meeting house. He was for the great
| spaces, and so 1t was that all through
the evening, where there are haunts OF
sin and where the stores and offices had
! been closed for one night, there was
heard the voice telling of the necessity
for repentance and life, while the rest
less promenader went on spreading texts