The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-06-21
SERMON BY
DR.. SCUODER
A Strong Address Made
at Central Union
Church.

the following sermon, one Oh MS DeSt
at Central Union Church on Sunda!
of this week. 1t is printed in full a
very general request: It's title i:
Echoes" and its text Psalm 1912, -
These words are a command to US tc
stop and take note of the condition:
of the Kingdom. Only the coward
fears to face grim relatives and only
the fool fails to cheer his soul for
larger eHdeavor by a clear vision OF
gains achieved. The writer of the Isl
chapter of Genesis pictured God re-
viewing His work at intervals and ex-
claiming Good" Some of the lead
ing members of this Church have been
! asking that we as body of Christians
follow this godly example and devore
the morning to this business of going
about our Zion, marking her bulwarks
and considering her places. The re-
quest is that we do it in connection
with the recent annual meeting of The
Hawaiian Evangelical Association at
Lihue, that in brief we listen to some
echoes from that memorable conYen-
! ton
Il suppose" said the veteran general
and father in the faith Rev. .. II. Gu
lick TO me some days ago, II suppose
that meeting at Lihue was the 81 eatest
, ever held by the Evangelical Assooia-
ton" Mr.. Quick ought to know.
1t was great because it was definite.
God never works at random. The
Christian who aims at the air and hits
nothing else is not a soldier after the
! divine heart. The key to the religious
situation in Hawaii is the home. Rhe
Lihue meeting made that institution
it's point of attack and assailed it on
four Sides first by way of its sancticy
as an institution, second its religious
life, third it's relation to the Church
and fourth it's relation to the school.
There was no dilettantesm about this
work it was fighting from the Shout
der. Evil conditions We're exposed,
consciences stirred and some Peters
actually went out and wept bitterly. On
the other hand ideals were lifted up,
men and women were inspired and ev-
eryone was convinced both that the
Christian home can exist everywhere
in this Paradise and that it is worth
while battling for it. Splendid elo-
Quence flowed freely in this presenta-
ton. Telling shots awaked not only
applause but also those involuntary
outcries in Hawaiian which show that
some one has been hit.
But the purpose of the morning is
not to point pictures or give descrip-
tions of the meeting. The newspapers
have done that. 1 am here to sound
an echo, to bring messages. The first
of these is that you have no right to
be disappointed with the results of
79 years of Christian work for the
Hawaiian race. To me, a newcomer,
the achievements of the past are
marvel. GiTen a man like the native
Of these Islands, gentle, genial, gra-
cious resembling his climate, as easy
going and minus incentive to grinding
toll as his conditions of life. sensuous
in natural response to the appeal of his
Mother Earth, for years the prey of
passionate men made bruteIike by the
demands of their whaling occupation,
solicited to free qualification of APP
petite for drink as has been the case
at times in his history and especially
during the past four years, exposed to
the exploitation Of adventures, DOOM
ed to enter an economic contest with
the most highly evolved race this
world has ever known with the inevf-
table result of being worsted, his prop
erty slowly taking wings not because
of fault in the white brother into
whose arms it flies but because GEN.
turtles of development have made that
white brother a gamer by nature. con-
scious OF possessing d weaker stamina
than the strangers who flock here con-
demned to see his brother steadily
dwindle towards race extinction. his
loved language fading away, his SOW
ereignty lapse because of its unfitness,
his nationality swallowed up, himself |
merge gradually into the ocean of the
common humanity. Given say such
a being, brought into the full light of |
18th century privilege, fed in the doc
trine of the innate possibilities of man !
hood, served with the wine of American |
freedom and what should one expect? |
The emergence of creature either |
with its griefs, cursed into mad |
ness by the memorable hardness Of its |
fate. Knocked into an unrelenting pro- |
test of useless battle against the inevi- |
table or abandoning itself in despair to |
an orgie of passion and drunken obi |
Won. With the conditions which have |
beset the Hawaiians for nearly TWO |
centuries that might have been the |
the contrary what do we find in the his
tory of this people? Results of this
kind in some cases grant. But also
a marvellous record of response to the
highest and hottest sentiments that the
untold ages of human life on this plan
IT have been able to evolve. Is there
mpurity in this Territory? Yes, alas.
too much of it, but there are also
numbers of pure homes and what is
better there are multitudes OF tnstan-
ces of the evolution of purity out OF
mpurity. We Anglo-Saxons speak of
abandoned women" and TO our shame
oe it said we act out the meaning of
his shame by abandoning them. Jesus
christ could never have used this term
because it is untrue. God never aban-
ions. There is something nobler than
We hard natured NOrtherners guess in
he eastern Asiatic's treatment OF pas