The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-05-01
MISSIONS

I11SSlONS.
And now a word as to the appor-
tionment for general missions. The
whole amount needed by the board is
apportioned among the various do
ceSeS and missionary districts and
varies from s125,000 apportioned to New
York to 5000 to Porto Rico. The amount
which We have to pay this year is $500.
The committee appointed by our Con-
vention will apportion this among the
parishes and missions. I ask for the
active cooperation of the clergy and
laity to see that this is paid as soon
as possible. The board is generous to
this missionary district giving last
year $612S This does not include large
sums given me by individuals or par
ishes to use as I please in the work
or to use for special objects. The ac-
count of these moneys can be seen in
my annual report to the board
Then there are our own island mis-
sions. These consist of places which
are unable to pay the entire stipends
of the clergy. Two years ago I asked
that each communicate would give one
dollar year to the district missionary
fund. If this were done we should
have ample money for our present
upon by the treasurer and have to give
him a check from funds in my hands
given me to use for the work as 1 see
fit. 1 am aware that outside of Homo
lulu many of our clergy minister to
congregations in which there are few
church people ard every allowance
must be made for this in the matter
of money for missions.
80. H.
our religion we shall be interested in
spreading it. No one can doubt that.
The various systems of speculative
philosophy, which attract so many
minds not we'll grounded in the faith,
spread because their adherents are in
earnest and are deeply interested
In dealing with souls in this last
mentioned matter we should try to get
people to lay firm hold in heart and
mind upon the great facts of the Chris
tian religion and to warn men that no
speculation which one can indulge in
can touch these. The facts are: Cd
Man with his spiritual faculties; 90
God to whom these faculties go out
for satisfaction; go Jesus Christ who
reveals God to man and man to him
self; (4) The Holy Spirit Who moves
heather or Christians; 90 The church
the organization which stands for
righteousness and seeks to lift up man
to God. We are safe on this ground.
Theories and PHILOSOPHERS may charm
for a time but if the principles which
we have mentioned are lost sight of,
speculation will in the end lead one
into maze of doubt and unbelief. We
must emphasize the essential truths
of the rock-founded religion of Jesus
Christ
BUT ANCIENT SPECULATIONS.
1t is well also to point out that these
speculations of science falsely SO call
ed" and other systems have all in some
guise lived. fourished and have died
down in ages past. No one who reads
the history of the first three centuries
can but see that the active Greek mind
went deep into all the questions which
come UP in a new dress now. The
path" and many other mystic terms
used now were threshed out by the
GnosticS in a profound way which no
moderns have approached. And more.
it is we'll to remember that history
loose from the rock-founded religion
of Jesus Christ has always resulted in
a generation or So in moral and spiritu-
al degeneration. 1t is strange that men
will not learn from Gods book of his
tory that the soul can not long find
or