The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1905-05-02

| gospel. He said he would work the
whole vein, to use a homely mining
phrase, for all there was in IT. He
was speaking to Christian people and
| especially to Christian voters. "They
are the most intelligent of voters on
an average" he said, 'and in their
ordinary living the very best OF peo-
l'ple, but they are the worst people,
politically, l know off,
"Clean hands are a condition prec-
edent to prevailing prayer.
The shame of our country today Is
that too many of our priests and
, judges and elders have reversed Gods
order in this respect and are making
no intelligent effort rightly to compre-
hend the relation of the government to
the liquor traffic. We are praying
tremendously to God to curse it. but
we are putting up hands to God that
are unclean. There is nothing more
hopeless than that kind Of prayer"
MIR. Woolley then drew a graphic and
horrible picture of a drunkard. lying
before the eyes of the community. cold
and stiff and stark in death Search
the chemists shops to ascertain IL he
he was killed; let the coroner have
the inquest, and bring the witnesses
before the jurors; let the culprit be
found, and If the law says kill him,
why kill him. But whether you can
secure the criminal for trial, whether
you can save the community from that
Kind of thing, there is one thing you
must do-you can wash your own
hands of completely by the way YOU
vote.
out of an alley" he went on.
comes a woman bruised and dishey-
elled. What's the matter? Her hus-
band has beaten her. Be careful my
calm, temperate friends how hard ycu
accuse the drinking man. for let me
tell you that there is many a drunken
man In this Territory tonight. pitch
ing and reeling on his way home to
stumble into his wife's arms-he loves
his wife as much as you do yours.
BE careful how you bear down on the
drinking man. 1t is a snowy sin. Ev-
erybody has his attention called to such
a man.
But 1 tell you If gossip and un-
charity would show in peoples noses
like alcohol does on drunkard's noses,
there would be great demand in this
community for wells. Gaughter).
Her husband has been beating her
because he was drunk, because he was
brought up in an atmosphere of drink,
because, perhaps, his school or Sunday
school teacher drank a little, or his
father or his mother did or the pastor
of his church; and the policy of his
government, city, municipal and ma
tional, was and is to stand by the lia-
uor traffic. American gin mills swamp
ed Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philip
pines when the Spanish war sent our
soldiers there. The soldier was cured
from disease by the doctor giving him
alcohol as a medicine, and the minister
gave him alcoholic wine for commun-
ion, and now, again a citizen, he has
been working long hours all day, his
pay is small, his nerves tingle and
twitch, his appetite is large and he is
tired. He has been making his way
home to the misera BILE place where his
wife awaits him, and he would have
gotten there sober but the saloon play
ed its music in his ears and flashed it's
lights in his eyes. He made his fight
and passed the first one and the next
one, and the tenth. He tries to fight
it, but the saloons clutch after him.
He cries: 'Mary-my child, and the
saloons mock him; TO hell with Mary,
to hell with your child; come in and
forget it, forget it, The eleventh sa-
loon gets him. The drink runs his
brain to a chaos, because, God pity
him, he could not help it. He beat his
wife.
Where do you nit In this mosaic?
Where does the saloonkeeper fit in, the
political party, the Governor, the leg
islature and the police? Find out where
you fit in? How far is 1t from that
bruised face to the saloon? How far
did your voting have to do with it?
How far did the saloons educate him
to be a failure and a wife beater?
1t was by virtue of the way you vote
and the example you set before the
boys of the community and the way
you pay the honors in your house.
There is the family entrance to the
saloon, through which the young girl
entered to be debauched and thrown
out in the morning like a bag of shaw
ings. Where do you fit in? What can
you do? You cannot regulate your
neighbors. You don't have to. That
is not what the gospel is about.
IF man is watching the church
with one eye and the political machine
with the other, he would not know God
II he met him in the road Qaughter).
Don't mind your neighbors; get your
self fit and clean and then you can
teach them. 1t is sheer rubbish for us
to be praying for figs when We sow
thistles. 1t is foolish to pray for your
city when you help the saloon, 1t is
a pious monopoly. 1t is nonsense to
pray for sober citizenship when we SOW
saloons by our political actions.
I'm our churches there is too much
bookkeeping and too little business;
too much of dealing in theological
margins and puts and calls, and too
little dealing in Christian merchandise
at the polling booths. There is far too
little of the outreaching salvation of
Jesus Christ.
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