The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1905-04-29
WOOLLEY GIVES
SOME HOT SHOT
ORATOR TELLS
CHURCHMEN AND VOTERS TO
BECOME MORE ACTIVE.


Hon. John G. Wooney delivered
rousing address in the opera house last
night i'm the temperance cause. After
his address the audience gave him a
vote of thanks, on motion made by
Senator Dickey who was in the audi
ence, and seconded by w. r. Castle.
The orator said in part:
IF a man is watching the church
with one eye and the political machine
with the other he would not know God
if 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.
why stand We here on election day
idle?
rs it left to the breweries, the saloon
keepers and dirty politicians to repre-
sent your Christian citizenship?
THE business which brings me to
your city and takes me all over the
world is that 1 may bring back the
temperance cause to the head and
heart and conscience of the Christian
church where it belongs. l don mean
the church steeple, or the stained glass
windows, or the choir, or the pipe
organ or other wind instruments, but
that great power organized on this
earth that is geared to the will of God.
Il say bring back the temperance
cause to the church, for it seems to
me for a generation it has been the
habit of the church to send out the
temperance cause by the travelling lee
turer and to committees of women, very
much like you send out sOiled linen to
the laundry to be slicked up, pro-
ceeding by which the temperance cause
has suffered tremendously. l now re-
fuse to consider the temperance ques-
tiOn a thing to be quarantined and
fumigated outside of the church, l re-
fuse to have the drunkard turned over
| to the Kelley cure. refuse to have
the political situation turned over to
! the saloon keeper. These are tremen-
dous days in which we are living and
we have to have a gospel of tremen-
| dOus dimensions, and 1 say the church
has to go into politics against the
| things which are against the church.
1.-THE puny gospel which has to do
! with a mans internal safety may not
| do for this age and this fight. What
/ ever cheats the wife, betrays the child
| and harms humanity is a gospel theme,
and any church society that cannot
! stand that sort of thing should go out
! of business and the preacher should
! resign, and the sooner the better. We
have worn the spiritual end of the
church until it is as slick and shiny
| at the toe of st. Peter. l do not put
it all at the door of the ministers as
| some do but one of the things that
| ails us is that we are trying to cleanse
| the country by preachers. This coun-
! try Will never be cleansed by preach
| ers and leaders and lecturers, alone,
but it will be by simple Christian living
! on election day as on other days.
! "Why is it that the sabbath has gone
/ by default and that the saloonkeeDer
has the head Of the political prestige
| and the preacher the end? Because
| the Christian men of the country are
! pack of fools? No, because the Chris
| ton voter crawls under the seat of
partisan politics.
Civic Federations are spreading all
| over the country which are Christian
and manly, and the Christian voter
now proposes to scratch his ticket and
mount the bandwagon of civic fearless
ness. (Applause)
You can use the ballot boxes as
washbasins i'm which to cleanse your
hands Of completely in the liquor traf-
hc."