The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1904-10-06
M'CANTS ON
THE BRINY DEEP
ORATOR WAKES
UNDER OCEANS INFLUENCE.
AT SEA, September 10, 1904.

AT SEA, September 10, 1904.
EDITOR STAR:-Out of the great
deep, l send you my appreciation Of
your editorial, entitled "Campaigner
from Hawaii" and appearing in your
issue O the 18th inst ! shall endeavor
to continue to deserve your estimate of
me. In entering upon work of any
kind. a public man is greatly helped, If
he can feel, as you make me do, that
he has the confidence and sympathy of
his fellow citizens. Looking backwards
from out Of the sea, I have nothing but
enthusiastic recolections of Hawaii and
its people, and the Star holds a promi-
nent pace in the beautiful picture,
which, for the last hour or so, has been
passing through my mind. Your high
place in journalism results from the
fact that you treat public men and
public questions fairly and broadly, and
that you report the news with strict
fidelity and impartiality, $50
We have had a delightful passage
though not quite as fast as the captain
wanted to make it, The ships ma
chinery is slightly out of repair and
they have had to tinker at it much of
the way We are expecting however,
to make Frisco this afternoon by
o'clock.
Life on ship-board while somewhat
monotonous, yet where every prospect
pleases" and not even man is vile, time
passes with great rapidity. To me it
seems a very short week since we left
Honolulu. I am a Good sailor and,
therefore, I enjoy life at sea to the
fullest extent. And, vet, this life has
it's pathetic touch. You meet so many
congenial spirits, so many people that
hold ideas in common with you-people
who have memories of the same foreign
lands, who love the same books, who
heroize the same historic characters,
who hold to the same lines of philosO-
ply, who strive to follow the gentle
Nazarene-kindred spirits these are,
and often one wishes that association
with them was permanent; but, alas!
A young lady on ship-board asked me
to write in her autograph album, imme-
diately this sentiment flashed into my
mind and I wrote it over my signature,
Like Ships that Pass in the Night"
Although not in sight of land, we
have already begun to talk about and
to express longings for the newspapers.
Separated for a whole week from the
world. we are anxious to know what
has gone on. / would give anything
to learn the news from Honolulu, to
hear that a strong legislative ticket has
been nominated on Oahu, one that ap.
peals to all sides and that promises "a
clean sweep" in November. But there
is nothing left us but to wait patiently
till we reach the other shore.
And that makes me think of oui
church services yesterday. We have
on board a Rev. Mr.. Metcalf from Aus
tralia, a clergyman in the Church o
l. England. He is a scholarly man anC
: an eloquent preacher, measuring up tC
Dr. McCooks definition of real preach
} ing, simplicity, directness and power
In the morning he held service in the
J first cabin and the hymns rang out
= across the sea because they were sung
= with the spirit and with the under
standing" His sermon was based up
on the parable of the sower The p each
70 er held in substance, that we are daily
u sowing seeds of some kind and that a.
death will come the harvest time full o.
joy or of bitter disappointment. HI
said that it is the duty of each man t
make the world happier within tbs
sphere of his touching, and that tn,
:. seed of money-getting, of power, o
3e social pre-eminence of worldlines:
50 would yield nothing but leaves" tina
lie the seed of kindness, of benevolence
of charity, of wisdom, of righteousness
would fulfill the chief end of man anC
would WELD an abundant harvest.
- In the evening his sermon in the sec
>ond cabin, was built upon the marriage
feast, in the course of which he showed
that in order to harmonize ourselves
with God We must develop our intel
lg lectual and spiritual natures alonl
D. lines mapped out in the Scriptures
De Then when we meet him at the mar
riage supper of the Lamb" we shall
he be like Him, We shall be clad in a wed
d. ding garment. Eloquently the preach
ID ec pointed out the limitations to money
T. t. rover to every earthly possession
g. and even more eloquently did he exhor
at men to seek first the Kingdom of Hea
ce ven
er But took up my pen simply to sen,
you a line of thanks. This glymps
into life on ship-board escaped me be
o fore I realized that l was writing L
Is an editor and not to a private party
so So with a special enthusiastic though
n Of home, ] say, Aloha
ot II. McCANTS STEWART.