The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-08-27
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HAWA|I'S OUTLOOK
BY Rev. Henry Ostrom, D. D.

/ IDr. Henry Ostrom is a prince among
preachers. He proclaims a strong COS
pei with the consuming fire of en-
and hold. The great middle West has
| known him and loved him for his
works sake these many days. The
| East has but recently heard him. and
is already sounding his praises. AS a
Methodist minister he was pronounced
ly successful AS an evangelist. call
ing which he entered from the minis
try. he stands in the front ranks. ]
heard DR.. J. Wilbur Chapman com
mend him in these words: II consider
him one of the strongest preachers of
today. certainly one of the greatest
eyangelists." He is a man who does
things, and delights in a hard task be-
cause it gives him opportunity to bring
unusual forces into play.
In big evangelistic campaign it was
his to meet the ''down-town' problem.
His church was In the business sec
ton. They told him the people would
go to services in the residential Sec
ton. Undaunted he faced the problem,
planned and prayed and worked and
preached. 1t took a week to get the
crowds coming, but the church could
not hold them after that.
He has been seen in his room at the
hotel at 2 a. M. working out the de-
tails of a special service that had just
been committed to him. His voice has
been heard on the telephone before 8
a. m. the same day, giving needed in
structionS about that same meeting.
1t is no wonder that when it came to
the close of the service, after he had
spoken an hour on personal purity to
a thousand men, they said with one
voice that it was the greatest meeting
OF the great campaign.
His hymn-poems are sweet, rever-
emit joyous, touching; his books are
helpful, intensely interesting, epigram-
matte, stimulating. His work always
shows careful preparation He has
keen sense Of the humorous, but never
tells story or cracks a joke for it's
own sake. II never. never say any
thing In my meetings simply to make
people laugh. but people do laugh
sometimes at things 1 say" he re-
ildTkSu. Ills Is part OIL nlIIl-
self. It's spontaneity makes it pure,
and keeps 1t from ever seeming out of
place In his sermons or books.
DR.. Ostrom has been one of DIR. Chap
mans leading co-workers in the far
reaching Bacif1c coast evangelistic cam
paign.-Christian Endeavor World.l
Eight white people to twenty Ash
atics, Portuguese and native Hawai- |
ians suggests problem two thousand
miles from our California coast-line, !
which. though difficult. is not devoid
OF plentiful encouragement.
The thirty thousand natives and
seven thousand Kanakas are docile and |
The sixty-fve thou
sand japanese and forty thousand
are about as susceptible to the
gospel as when in their native coun-
tries. The eight thousand Koreans
are eager to enter right into the liberty
Of Christ. The seven thousand Por-
tuguese already present the evidence of
broken ranks from the forms of
to the life in Jesus. The
eight thousand whites are about such
as you meet in any average American
city, with a sprinkling of remarkably
and laborious Christians
among them.
It would be easy for one to be de-
ceived concerning the power of the Cos
pei on these islands when we note on !
the one hand that practically the whole
population was converted to Christ
since the first missionaries landed there
IN 1920 and on the other hand discover
hat there are some fifty Buddhist
temples on the islands today, and that
of raw heather work on the
sugar plantations or transact business
n the communities. To estimate cor
'ectly we must reckon upon two Ha-
vaiis one of the earlier part Of the
nineteenth century, another of the
,arlier part of the twentieth.
Then It was the native Hawaiians,
ometimes (but rarely) offering human
acrifice. throwing the ohelo berries to
'ele. fearful of the belching volcano
[ilauea. sickening to death with
,hysical pollutions the prey of consUm- :
ng sensuality. yet withal people of
kindly way rather than fierce and
narauding. {
But now it Is the Asiatic. the Bud !
hist, the Confucian, the devil-worship- /
er. They have come by the steerage '
hipload. In dress. in manner, and in /
eligion they land under the American
ag on American territory (HawaiD ,
ust as they are in their native coun- >
ries And the large percentage of this ,
reat change has occurred within
ew years In the interim financial
upport is withdrawn from the mis-
jonaries. for had not the population c
ccepted Christianity?
But what an emergency has oc-
urredi Overworked men and women
-ruggle chin-deep in the floods of +
aathenism which dash over those is 8
.nds and can hardly hope to rescue s.
,ora than a fraction of the people. +
at there are the heather. our guests.
!, our territory; and. too, they are by I
"A Aundred the American citizens Of A