The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-11-21
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the scientific discovery ~and Biblical
criticism of the last few decades.
On the motion of Rev. H. H. Parker
this presentation was declared salts
factory to the Council, the program
prepared by the committee, consisting
of Rev. w. D. Westervelt, w. d. Alex
ander and President P. L. Horne was
The installation services
themselves took place at 1880 O'Clock.
DIR. Scudder s &" Confession of Faith, -
if it may be so called, his presentation
of his faith and experience, and his
religious and ministerial history was as
follows:
DIR. SCUDDER'S PAPER.
Human personality is SO COM
pick. shades off into UNEMPLOYED regions
along SO many avenues and in it's es-
sentiaIs is so unknowable that with
the advance of years and the enlarge
ment of self knowledge it becomes
more and more impossible for any in
dividual to tell out his own religious
story. Hence an inquiry, like the one
which is always instituted IN our
churches at the installation of a min
lister, which seeks to explore the inner
experience of the candidate must
necessarily be imperfect and unsatis-
flying. Revelation of what the man
really is must come both through oc-
casional flashlights that illumine his
deeper self and through the gradual
outworking of the character which Is
being daily evolved. A paper like TINS
therefore cannot but be fragmentary.
With lapse of time though one becomes
more and more individualized, the dis
taste for personal illusions and for the
use of the first personal pronoun grows
apace and it is only because this ex-
animation calls for them that they
must be freely employed.
The outline of my personal religious
story is very simple. Born into a
Christian home with a heredity OF
many Christian generations behind
there has never been any experience
of conversion to correspond with the
type which has figured so largely in all
revivals and which found it's great
Christian prototype in the New Testa-
ment account of the Apostle Paul. At
twelve years of age the sight of
the solemn communion service raised
the longing to be among those admit
ted to this family rite and in obedience
to the law of human nature which or
dams that in adolescence Gods voice,
sounding it's call in the soul of every
boy and girl, shall be heard with
greater distinctness than at any other
period of life, my heart was moved to
respond directly and conscious eXpe"
rience of communion with God be-
gan, to continue with ever increasing
power from that day to this.
The intervening years have brought
their quota of testings, such as God
in His love and wisdom ordains for
every one in the school of earth-ll1e.
Two absolute realities that could not
be gainsaid have held true and proved
anchors which no gale could lift or
drag. These were, first, the testimony
of the Christian life of my father and
mother. The widest storms of temp
tation in my younger days might r'ake
sport of me but could effect no change
in the rock of conviction that the
teaching of Jesus must be true because
they lived it. Under God, therefore,
owe my spiritual life to my parents.
The second and constantly charging
reality which has come to take the
sole predominant place in my life IS
personal experience of God. The
Samaritans who were led to Jesus by
the woman, said to her subsequently.
Now we believe. not because of thy
speaking: for we have heard for our
selves. and know that this is indeed
the Savior of the World" So the in
ner voice has come to possess more
power even than the witness of the
two. who to eternity are to be cher
ished as my guides to the Master.
AS to cali to the ministry and edu-
cational preparation therefor only a
word need be said. The commanding
personalities of my father and mother
we're the medium of the divine call.
This phrase is used not cantingly-for
cant is of the devil-but advisedly.
After twenty-five years of very varied
experience since ordination, it has
gradually become clear as sunlight
that there was no place in the universe
plan for me other than the Christian
ministry. But there was never a trum-
pet in my soul, such as Paul heard
in his blaring Woe is me if l preach
not the gospel" The Almighty has
various ways of making the eternal
fitness of things apparent to His chill
dren. The evident, though never ex-
pressed, desire of my parents was the
surface flow influencing my decision
to become a minister, and the subcon-
seriousness that was cut out therefor
formed the irresistible undercurrent.
Later on, however. I was as signally
summoned to missionary service as
ever any man was TO preach and it is