The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-06-17

The family that journeyed eastward
followed the course of the Yellow river
until 1t reached the sea. 1t also increas-
ed in numbers until it had peopled the
entire of that continent and many of, the
neighboring islands. 1t developed
habits of industry and thrift, it dis
covered arts and invented appliances,
and the sum of these formed the civil
iZation of the East.
Until the beginning of the Christian
era these two civilizations were not
widely different. In both the people
were idol worshipers and superstition
reigned; each had an extensive Iitera-
ture and an excellent system of moral
philosophy; each practiced the arts OF
peace but still chung to the science OF
war, and what difference there was
between them was generally in favor
of the East There the laws and GUS
toms of the patriarchs still prevailed,
and the family continued to be the
social unit. The cultivation of the soil
was the chief occupation of the people;
but the rivers were made highways OF
commerce, and numerous fleets OF
barges and junks bore the traffic OF
thriving commercial villages. The coun-
try was a continuous scene of peace
full rural content and prosperity, with
thousands of modest peasant cottages
lifting their red or blue tiled roofs out
of a sea of green, while here and there,
towering above a clump of stately
trees, glittered the gold enamel of some
tall pagoda. Such was the scene, and
such was life under the ancient civil
ization of the East today,-free from
the fierce rivalries that have ever been
characteristic of the West primitive,
simple, humane, unchanged by the
fight of years or the tread of ceRtu-
| ries.
In the course of time both of these
| families, the one in the far east and
| the other in the far west, had forgot
| ten the God of their fathers and made
| themselves gods of wood and stone.
! But in the fullness of time, on the hills
of Judea, near the old family home OF
| the race, the great Father of all men
spoke to his children, giving words OF
| comfort and cheer even to those who
| had wandered afar and forgotten him,
and promising rich inheritance to
all who should hearken to his voice
| and do his will. The message was car
ried to the wanderers in the west, and
they received it. Its spirit entered into
their institutions and gave them new
| form and life. They increased in wis
dom and knowledge; the arts and sci
| ences grew up and f1ourished in their
| midst; they learned to harness the
| forces of nature and make them dc
their work; their governments became
| more liberal, and finally liberty ana
equal rights We're declared to be the
common heritage of ali men. Thus III
the west grew up what is known as
Christian Civilization. while in the east
the ancient customs still prevail.
At last these two families having
encircled the globe, met and shook
| hands over the waves Of the broad
Pacific. They We're SO changed in ap-
pearance and customs that neither
recognized the other, and even at the
present time but few will acknowledge
the relationship. But they met as
friends, and the West, true to her
missionary spirit, Immediately asked.
Have you heard the glad tidings?''
No" the East replied, I'VE have heard
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