Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1903-12-14

| have said that II required faith in
Cod in order TO help men; that 1t
required faith in men as individuals.
There" is another thing wanted, and
that is faith in men. | mean faith in
the race: that il is a good race ! mean
what has come to be known as the
social consciousness There was
time when the hottest impulse that
came to men was the desire to be saw
ed from sin and hell and vanishment,
tC be good because there was some
thing personal to be gained by II. II
Is better for a man to be good for that
reason than not to be good at all,
But we no longer appeal to be good
in order TO be happy. There is a.
larger and broader appeal than that;
an appeal that says to man be good
because you are part of the race.
and the race is dependent for its prog
ress and uplifting upon you. No man
can be saved alone; while one man
remains base. no man can be altogeth-
er great and noble. We are all bound
together as my hands are bound To
my arms, and my arms to my body.
The fact is you cannot lift the top
story" Man is not built in stories.
There are not layers and strata Of hui
manity. We are built as my body is
built; I'VE are all members one of an
other" and you might as well try to
lift the top story of your body as to
Ia, ,Ng humanity nstfh
lifting the rest was reading the
other day a story about a brakeman
who was learning his duties. When the
train started, the conductor said, Il
will help you, and teach you what TO
do. When you come to station be
on the lookout. | will open the door
at one end of the car. and call out
the name Of the station, and you open
the other door and call the same at
that end" They went on until the
train began slowing up. and the con-
GuctOr opened the car door and called
out, Springfield. Springfield and the
brakeman opened the other door and
called out, Same at this end; same at
q this end. We are learning socially
that when one end of the car stops
the other stops also. There is not a
man living in a beautiful home who
is not conditioned more than he
thinks by the way that the poorest
man or woman is living in the city.
And this brings me TO my last
thought, that in order TO reach men
"a ttth1ffF sham fhnpa to Vapt,tpat 4
faith IN the power OF the Gospel. What
does the Gospel claim 20 do? What
does It claim 10 have done? 1t con-
fronts the most tyrannous and calling
OF all bondages, the bondage of sin in
q spirit OF eXulting hope. 1t announ-
ces itself as the emancipation, giving
liberty to them that are bruised, %
and opening the prison to them that
are bound II addresses itaself equal
ly to those who are imprisoned in
sheer animalism, and TO those whose
scrvitude is gilded. | am not sure
that | ought to make even this dis
tinCtiOn. After all. II makes very lit
tie difference whether a mans chains
be made Of iron or of gold. Some men
seem to be bound with vulgar cart
rope; others, with multituGinous cords
Of vanity. What does the Gospel do
for these bound ones? It breaks their
letters as nothing else does. The rec
ord Of the triumphs OF the Gospel is
marvellous story of spiritual eman-
cipation. 1t tells Of houses that were
ence little better than stys converted
into clean and beautiful homes. once
occupied by men and women little
better than beasts, now tenanted by
purified saints OF God. NV own faith
In the regenerating power of the Cos
pei, when back of II there is faith in
God, and faith in man, is steadily deep
ened by the stories that come TO me
continually of its cOnQuests. 1t is the
wisdom and the power OF God unto
salvation for all that believe"