The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-12-22
THE CHRISTMAS SEASON.


Whether be sceptc believer If he has brains and
education enough comprehend possibilities of verbal com
pesson he deny that the following ST. Paus
Epstle to the Romans eptom of the chief fact
of history down the advent Of the Christian Era know
that the whole creation groanet and travaeth pain together
until now"
This and tremendous condensation. The Egyptians
had developed priesthood externally puee
esoec knowledge and belief part of which the
mon heritage of civilized mankind The Babyonians
syrians had filed the world with the insanity desposm
Medes and Persians had reached the intensity of
will The Greeks had originated nnumerabe systems of phoso-
ply from the hardest Stocsm the looest Epicueans Rome
had drawn from and had produced pess
logic melt into the widest and illogical
Israel alone amidst fluctuations and apse had maintained
the conception of and Personal God and the Twelve Com
mandmen vigorously applied in the Levca Law but spun into
endless threads by interpretations and CLOSES
The whole creation and animal inanmate
matter be dssocaed from energy and kind of conscious
had ceased groan and travail in pain together The
unidentified victims of Mooch and Mars wherever foot of
had trod had been swept emorsee into silence that the
sweet singer Israel or majestic forecasts of the prophets had
broken Disease had decnaed the and
hospitals house the suffering and Florence Nghtngaes
Mercy Charity pain whisper
hope The heart accumulation power had never been stirred
by philanthropy benefenc The husband domestic
barely modified by lust Children were born and reared under the
supremacy arbitrary military spirit
mtess subordnaons enforced by cruelty and deugng the
nations with blood were predominant from the ove to the palace
The demands of brutal only tempered by ruth
less and individual Women slaves
men except in the rare instances of female sovereignty or the
mothers of Israel who held however, within the lines of
specialized povincasm The home society," the huanties
scarcely known The Roman Republic which Re
publican in FORM had pesed Conquess and slavery had de-
sroed its faint perceptions of liberty Caesar had been murdered
the Senate House. and his ejaculation Brute in which
the trecey ancient friendships had been condensed had touch
ed responsive chords in the calou breasts of Roman traitors
Such roughly skeced and suggested the condition of
the world the birth of Christ Dark and fierce beyond
the of the nations But the old the womb of
the and when least expected while the poents black
omnous the word love" of mingled
Sadness through
the centuries until has become the ublan music of civilization
Christmas born and the lines of agony of of unfu6ed
expectation of hatred OF reckless ambition of ordd greed of
indifference have slowly but progressively faded until
the strains Of fraternity encce the globe and moderate its harshest
conflicts and its btteres competitions There still arepraps
there must ever and pain among the and
improving Millions but the of barbasm and in
humanity dscord meauraby hushed by the OF peace
and good will.
In largest aspects Christmas speaks great
rights OF the ameoaon of conditions of ceasess
attacks upon form of evil and misery of institutions of learn
from the rudmenary the advanced of practical
extending all classes, science and promoted to
higher levels of morality and religion overoppn anacism and
bgotry of the Royal Law upesedng petenson and hshness
OF the rapid spriuazaon OF Man. penetrates and bghtens
all the OF society 1t the radum of of human
ataon the stored warmth and light OF than nine
teen centuries into the heart and mind OF civilization.
But the angelic message, with which Christmas is charged
by leaves its finest expression in the ntens6caon Of
family affection charities re-baptze poor
sanctuary of life gtterng
and amidst the towering ceberg OF the north in the sparkling fro
and utterng OF regions and in those favor
ed lands where Joaquin Miller has beautifully said the white
lilies replace the colder decorations of arduous ces and
the islands of the tropical clothed emerald and brilliant
with the richest coors the Christmas bells will chime the dawn of
Christianity will be revived the ties of blood and the claims of the
will be acknowledged and homes will be filed with plenty
and will glow with those exquisite sentiments and acts of tender
which h the heart with happiness and INSPIRE humanity with
strength and for the unendng toll and enduances Of asa
ton and Of faith
The merchants had an admirable banquet night we'll
planned weserved and attended Honoluus public will share
of the pleasure the by reading senograpc report