The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-11-21
PLAN TO AID
IN Requesting
AGRICULTURAL BOARDS SCHEME
is FOUND TO BE LEGAL BY THE
ATTORNEY GENERAL.

udy submitted an opinion relative 20
the disposal of dead wood in the for
est reserves of the Territory. 1t seems
that some question arose as to the
powers of the Board of Agriculture
and Forestry to sell such forest prod
uct, there being a probability that as
public land such product would come
under the Pubic Land Department
The opinion submitted is very uu
and exhaustive and is an able piece of
reasoning, with the result that it is
held that the Board of Agriculture
and Forestry is empowered to cut and
dispose of forest products, and to de-
vote the proceeds to re-planting. If is
estimated that from the dead wood in
the various forests which can be well
used for fuel and other purposes. and
from other timber, which from time to
time it may be advisable to remove
that there will be a considerable rev.
enue, which will be of substantial as
sistance in extending the forest area
of the islands
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or an experience and hence a convic-
ton of things not seen, that is of
spiritual things. Under this latter
category l class my faith believe in
God because have experienced Him.
because have, let it be said reverent-
~, tested Him in the laboratory of the
inner life-the only reliable experiment
station man can have access to.
TO me God is no distant Being but
everywhere in His world, of which He
is the animating spirit. Nature is His
vestment, revealing His thoughts. The
universe is His house, ever in process
OF building. Human history is one of
His ways of creating son. What we
call laws Of nature abe His orderly
methods of working. The great forces
OF gravity, light, heat, electric energy
chemism, are His will in action. Hell
is behind every phenomenon over all.
through all, and in all, closer to every
son of man than the thoughts that
chase one another through his mind
or the emotions that play upon the
stage of his consciousness.
Coming now to Jesus of Nazareth
1t is increasingly impossible for me
adequately to classify this man. of all
men the most human, well called Inv
himself the Son of Man. in anv cate
CORY that includes the rest of the hui
man family His influence upon me
mas been so transcendant. His place in
the world is so unique, His friendship
Is so transforming with all kinds Of
men have known, who, when without
IT, were utterly without hope, and His
character as it is disclosed in the sim
pie Gospel records is so unspeskabtv
beyond the reach of all human achieve
ment and so UNNECESSARILY outclasses
the ideal pictures painted by the lite
rary geniuses of all time, that it car
RES its authorization upon its face
and justifies the old time reading of
PauIs epistle, God manifest in the
flesh"
Jesus consciousness of His pre-
existence, the reality of the signs
which he wrought, the genuineness of
His resurrection, all appear to me to
De as worthy of credence as anv his
toric events. They are consistent witt
MS personality With absolute resnect |
Tor those who cannot take this view
sympathizing with them in their con-
ceptlon of Jesus, and also holding +be |
convention that all, who are sincere In
Iheir estimate of His persons even
though it differs from that consistently
entertained in AL ages by almost the
entire Christian church, are Justified in
their view provided they be His dis
ciples and so long as He does not lead
them to a changed conception nv own
experience of what Jesus has done for
me leaves me with the conviction that
God wishing to give as complete a rev.
elation of Himself as could be made.
expressed Himself in the terms of a
human life, and that human life was
Jesus of Nazareth.
To explain the peculiar relationship
OF Jesus and God was declared to be
impossible by Jesus himself. Person
ality is a mystery and until single
human person can be understood it is
impossible fully to know who the Son
of Man is.
To me Jesus is the completed reve-
lation of God. though of course
the New Testament does not give
a perfect account of Jesus There
for Jesus lives today in the expert
nee of His disciples to give to them
a larger disclosure of God as their
eternal friend. His life is the pattern
life
His death is the expression of Gods
with His children, of God
bearing His children's sorrows and
sins, and of Gods full forgiveness.
Thus the death of Jesus by disclosing
Gods suffering and Gods love brings
men to God, etfecting no change in God
If course, but effecting the transcend .