The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-12-01
SERVICES
YESTERDAY
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Islands, too. Can we not see the fnge
of God in the path of our nation?
Now, let US take our lives, our ow
4 lives as individuals, and compare then
with the lives of individual nations. L
may not be that we can take any indi
/ vidual life and trace the goodness o
God IN every moment and every hou
or even every day, but take it from
month to month and from year to year
take it as a whole and, looking back
of God 1t is impossible that MAJ
should not find God in his own life ane
| tracing his goodness, he will find many
| things to be thankful for.
Let the mind consider the solar sys
TEN, the cycle of the stars, the magni
| tude Of it. the vastness of it all ant
| the benefcence of it and there is thai
! for which we are thankful. We have
| but to start with our own selves and
| look at the world outside of us. That
| is sufficient.
"Then there is the human mind, that
traces back to the forgotten years and
leaps in ina gination beyond the unborn
centuries. Let US but open our eyes
and We shall see that for which to be
thankful in the wonderful works of
God. Think of that little brain hidden
away in that dark recess of the skull.
How it digs up the truth, how it delves
into science, yea, even creates science. -
Mr.. Edwards touched upon the moral
endowment of man, his intellectual en-
dowment and the power of faith to
overcome even sickness, saying, Some
times. as TOlstoi has found it, it is not
among the wealthy or in the body of
strength that we find peace and happi
ness, but down in the novels of the poor
and in the pain-racked body of the af-
ficted we sometimes find the deepest
thankfulness and the most praise giving
spirit
You can hardly expect me to touch
on matters of local thankfulness. You
can not expect me to speak of the crops
of Hawaii. I have come too recently
into your midst, but [ do want to sug
gest to you some of the many blessings
that have come to our country as
whole and to the world during the past
year. Among those mentioned by him
were the wave of reform which was
cleaning up the politics of the cities
and states and even getting into ma
tional politics; the increasing numbers
of the Independent voters who wouio
ho9 w pOuho W any PSAi'y WI NPSAJ
managed The success of Folk or
Roosevelt and of the Philadelphia
ticket, the independence of Secretary
Taft who denounced openly the Repub-
lican machine, the independence of
Bryan who refused to vote the straight |
ticket and other indications
of Improvement in national affairs.
He spoke of the great success of Roose /
Welt in the international peace negotia-
tons, the almost unprecedented treaty |
between Sweden and Norway by which,
without bloodshed, the union was dis
solved and treaty of amity signed by
which they agree to never fight each
other but to settle all matters through
The Hague tribunal and, if honor or in
voilable national rights demands war,
they will even submit to The Hague the
question of whether or not the dispute
involves the national honor.
''We were told at the close of the last
century that out of the nineteen most
important discoveries of the history of
the world, twelve had been made in the
century and that out OF the
twenty most valuable inventions, thir-
teen had been thought out during the
past century. Perhaps we may not i'm
grove along lust those same lines, but /
feel that this century will eclipse the
one which has just gone and in one
way, we are starting along great lines.
The recent gathering in New York City
Of representatives of the various
creeds in a sincere attempt to minimize
their differences and ascertain their
points of cleavage is a wonderful thing.
The Christian Endeavor work is to
bring forth fruit in a union of the
churches Let God speed the day when
he words of Christ shall be fulfilled,
Even as Thou art one with Me and ]
am one with Thee, so may they always
De one in Us.
Thanksgiving Day services were well