The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-11-18

society is made up on it. The Sab
bath day is no more the property OF
the clergy than of any other strata OF
society and they are not the sole de-
tenders of it's maintenance. A grea
deal depends on training and educa-
ton as TO the manner in which il
should be kept and much of the pleas
ure, or lack of it, which an individual
may enjoy by observing the Sabbath
depends on his early training.
| heard it said by a popular orator
that there were two principles which
were inherent in the Teutonic race
which would tend towards their doni-
nation of the globe One was their
maintenance of the Sabbath and the
other was their determination to pre-
serve the purity of their homes.
I remember many years ago hearing
short talk from the Rev. Mr.. Nc
Kenzie of San Francisco which was
impressed on the tablets of my memory
He had been visiting the Islands and at
Wailuku we asked him if he would
preach for US. He said he was not on
a preaching tour but would ably have
chat with the people of Waikiki.
He said that from the time he left his
native village in Scotland until his
visit here he had seen no land where
the Sabbath was kept as it was there
and here. In speaking of the Sabbath
fair than many thought. in that it con-
stituted the seventh of any mans life
or of all time. Tt appeared that it was
natural law that it should be kept
and that fact could be demonstrated
in the three kingdoms of nature. Be-
ing agricultural men, said he, it is un-
necessary to tell you that it is inn
perative to let your lands lie idle every
seventh year as you know that from
actual experience as well as from the
traditions handed down to you from
your ancestors. To give an incident
proving that it is necessary that the
products of the mineral kingdom should
have a rest. he told of an experience Of
Dne Of the great r. r. Companies whfch
was much troubled with the breaking
IF car axles. The Company believed it
had been defrauded by the contractors
who had furnished the material and en-
oloyed experts to determine the cause
If such frequent accidents. After max
ng diligent Inquiries the experts dem
onstrated that the cause for those
accidents was from the continuous use
Of the cars and that the metal furnish
I'd was of good character. BY sus-
pending bar of pure swedish iron and
having an automatic hammer tap on it
it was found that such con-
-inuors tapping changed the character
IF the iron from it's original tough,
;tringy fibre to granulated consisten-
" which was much similar to that it
lad in it's original ore and it thus be-
,ame exceedingly frangible. They. the
experts, advised that the cars be given
/ rest of a day in seven, which would
nave the effect of causing the metal
% resume its fibrous, tough nature
which it had acquired in the process of
the ore into metal
In the animal kingdom he told of an
Incident where the natural rest of a
lay in seven had the effect of enabling
lnimals to live out their natural work
ife. 1t was recited that on one occa-
ion the great street car trust of
had skipped its annual
dividend and as many widows and
rphans were dependent on these for a
livelihood an inquiry was made into
he reason for such failure to pay. It
vas shown that much money had been
Ised to buy horses and that the re-
eipts had gone that way. On inquiry
nto the work life of street car horses
which worked continually it was found
hat their lifes work did not begin
o compare with that of the horses of
armers who gave their stock the req
isite care and rest. Thereafter the
treet car horses of Philadelphia were
iven day in seven as a day of re-
operation, although that day was not
ne SdDDdIn TO the inconvenience OF the
opufation. A farmer who will Guilt
ate his land continuously, and use
very complement known to science,
ill assuredly fail if he does not obey
ne law of nature which requires it to
est and receive the benefit of the sun
nd air
In comparing the nations of the
obe. those which maintain the Sab
ath and those which do not, it is ap-
aren't that the former are the most
1vanced in every line of thought. If
n instance we look at China, a nation
hich was great in the days when
abylon was at it's zenith. nation
hose people work three hundred and
xty six days in leap year. and we note
people whose land is the Garden of
den in every natural respect and yet
hose inhabitants are farther behind
science, political economy, and prac-
cal educa ton than those of any land
here the Sabbath is kept
Individually the keeping of the Sab