The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-04-25
THE EVIL
Of DRINK
Civis Secundus on
UnWeeded
Soil.
or !

|
vivalists, prohibitionists and evangel-
| lists are daily talked of and share with
| graft and politics the passing hour il
| the thought of men. Notwithstanding
all the remarkable special providence
attaching to the islands discovered by
| a reverend gentleman of this COM
munity, Honolulu is probably so like
| the rest of the world that it easii,
comes under the general description
given by the poet of Avon: ''F'ie ont
he says "oh fie! it's an unweeded gar
| den, that grows to seed; things rank
and gross in nature possess it merely.
Not to be forgotten it is that he
| thorns." Things rank and gross in ma
ture are, tbs true, eagerly sought, but
nevertheless men do try for better
ment, desiring an uplifting of them
selves and others. MARRIED. disturbed
and lamentably limited are these as
pirati by the incorrect teaching
and beliefs of past days, gravely re-
peated in these times by many of the
clergy, physicians and laity who have
not wrought deep for truth, or who,
having wrought dig up worms and
declare them the gold they were seek
ing, DO men gather grapes of thorns
or figs of thistles?' and is it probable
that the poets things rank and gross
in nature that possess the world, are
likely to be shorn of their power when
an absolutely injurious self-indulgence
is so general and the cross-bearing
teaching of the Master so neglected and
even ridiculed. 1t must be borne in
mind, however, that, with the young,
ignorance of true conditions coupled
with the mighty force of example set
by their elders is too often in the be-
ginning the origin of the habit that
slowly breaks down health mars eff
ficiency mental and physical, takes the
bloom off life, and finally helps TO swell
that innumerable army of human
wrecks that the So-called moderate
drinking habit of alcoholic beverages,
euphemistically styled good creatures
of Cod brings about. By whom so
styled? BY men protesting themselves
the followers of One whose head was
crowned with plated thorns, who bore
His cross for the good of all and taught
mankind that to deny themselves for
others good would make them worthy
to be His followers.
A bishop standing under a picture of
naked women in a model saloon in
New York, which he opened with the
doxology and dedicated with prayer
can scarcely be Informed of the scien-
rific teaching of these days, however
much he thinks he understands the
spirit of the Masters direct words pro-
nearly two thousand years |
agone. Think. sir, of the quiet merri- |
ment of Mephistopheles as he looked |
upon that spiritual engendering religi- |
Gus scene, smiled upon by a bishop. |
Such an act = calls virtue hypo- |
Cite" Bishop? Hamlet-Do you
see yonder cloud that's almost in |
shape of a camel? ply the mass
and it's like a camel indeed. Hamlet
Methinks it is like a weasel. PIT is
backed like a weasel. Hamlet-Or like
4 whale. Pol.-Very like a whale!"
Against the edifying picture of epis-
,opal beneficence above spoken of
stands another drawn by a poet. Look
Upon that picture and upon this, Oh
young and healthy men!
What is the book 1 saw you with but
now?
The book of verses underneath the
bough!
So that old poison pot still catches
flies,
The jug of wine. the loaf of bread, and
Thou!
Vow let me tell you what may come to
f you continue draining yonder glass
The vine-I beg your pardon-yea! |
the Grape:
omething like this will surely come to
pass;
his glorious garment of your youth :
shall rot "a
little by little; you will know it not 1
For the moth hides that feeds upon
the silk
nd so the garment of your youth
shall rot IL
nnoted, till there comes day you
call
ut on your youth to help you-and To-
the small
Trickle and trickle out of yorder
glass
pom the rock of youth has wasted all.
arken to one who hath the wine press
trod:
lights shall you cry to your forgotten
God.
And wiring your hands and weep
hysteric tears.
IL the dawn smites you like a scarlet
rod. III
his shall the vine do for you-it shall
break II
ne woman's heart that loves you. it
shall take
Away from you your friends-sad,
one by one,
nd of your own kind heart an agate
make.
lis shall the vine do for you. 1t shall
steel III
btly the kind capacity to feel,
AS II RI brittle StoOa vOiIr arteries,