The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-11-13

| has reaped its appropriate crop. Ec-
! clesiastes, as we'll as many other parts
of the Bible, the wisdom of Solomon
and the Book of Ecclesiasticus in the
ApOcrypha, and much of the secular
literature of past ages and even of the
| twentieth century, illustrates and en-
forces this proposition from the testi-
mony of men who speak from their own
accumulated histories and knowledge.
All irrefutable facts, the sum of truth
in all ages, attest that, even if in
dividuality ended at the grave, practi-
cal Christianity ensures the orderly and
symmetrical growth of civilization and
the greatest happiness to the greatest
! number.
A drunkard. a debauchee, a gambler
a liar, a cheat. a hypocrite or other
votary of vice or crime, in any of the
graded phases of these classes, may, for
the moment, deceive himself or others
into the delusion that he has attained
felicity or prosperity. but his interior
life, if it could be intelligibly revealed,
and his invariable end. prove the con-
trary. When the world is read as it
actually is, and when men, at any
stage of years, and especially when they
wear the white crown, pierce through
sophistries to the underlying truth.
there can be no conflict in deductions.
Conscience is the voice of God speaking
to the human soul and in the last re-
Sort it can not be fooled Order is
heavens first law and the proper use
of all the faculties. bodily, intellec-
tuai, moral and spiritual, in the nat
ural course of subordination, is the
only road that leads to peace, useful
ness and success.
This view of human activity and de-
velopment becomes more and more ap-
parent in the progress of the world, in
the direction OF perfected indiv duaLsm.
which marchs forward steadily. amidst
all perturbations and reactions. towards
the full acknowledgment and practical
realization of the Fatherhood of God
and Brotherhood of Man, each correla-
tive to the other. l have said tnat
Christianity is eminent1y practical and
supplies the rule for life here as well
as hereafter. Never was this PROPOSE
ton more thoroughly demonstrated
than in this period of great combina-
lions and diversified industry. when the
exigencies of business itself compel the
of the moral law. In the
endless divisions OF labor, absolute pre-
cision of method and uniformity OF
product are essential. There are me-
chanical devices which are the combin-
ed result of work done in places widely
even in different hemls-
pheres A single flaw destroys the en-
tire effect Not merely is 1t lndis-
pensable that the various materials
be of definite standards, but
that the work be perfect and complete
And this necessity extends to all the
of trade, commerce.
finance, agriculture. mechanics, produc-
tiveness in every aspect.
The unavoidable inference is that
Christianity, however irregular and I'M
certain in it's practice, has become the
basis of human life, and
that, without it, the business OF the
world could not be conducted Great
great steamship lines, great
commercial houses, great manu1acto-
ries and all the minor occupations are
blended together in one inextrleable as
ISOLATION and are dependent, IN the
final analysis, upon individual capacity,
industry, fidelity and exactness-
The moral for the young business
man is obvious. The higher ground OF
principle and faith is of course his
surest foundation. But. alike from
principle and expediency, unless he ex,
poets to disappear in the morass OF |
carelessness and reeklessness. he must
look to himself from the instant his
work begins until the instant 1T closes
From the beginning he must pray and
seek for wisdom as his guide, and |
there is no genuine wisdom save that
which comes from above. There are |
diversities of ability and bent and he |
must aim wisely to select his career, !
and to concentrate on fixed and hon