The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-11-29

DAY SERVICES IN
THE CHURCHES
Rev. H. H. Parker at Central Union breaches a
Sermon of Particular Interest in
These Islands

I not forget our duty to God and to our
neighbor.
IA great democracy like ours, dem
ocraey based upon the principles OF or
derby liberty, can be perPetuated only
| if in the heart of the ordinary citizen
there dwells keen sense of righteous
ness and Justice. We should earnestly
pray that this spirit of righteousness
and Justice may grow ever greater III
the hearts of all of US and that our
souls may be inclined evermore both
toward the virtues that tell for gentle
ness and tenderness, for loving kind
ness and forbearance one with another,
and toward manhood-for without
these qualities neither nation nor lndI-
vidual can rise to the level of great
ness -
'slNow, therefore, T, Theodore Roose-
Welt, President of the United States,
do set apart Thursday, Nov. %, as a
day of general thanksgiving and pray
err. and on that day | recommend that
the people shall cease from their daily
work, and in their homes or in their
churches meet devoutly to thank the
Almighty for the many and great bless
ings they have received in the past,
and to pray that they may be given
the strength so to order their lives
as to deserve a continuation of these
blessings in the future. Z"
The sermon of the day was by the
Rev. Henry H. Parker, native OF the
Pacific of missionary parentage, and
for more than fortv years pastor OF
Kawaiahao church. 1t was most in
teresting discourse particularly IN its
local references.
The benediction was pronounced IN
Hawaiian by the Rev. w. n. Lono of
Kaumakapii church.
REV. MIR. PARKER'S SERMON.
Rev, H. H. Parkers sermon was as
follows:
1T is a good thing to give thanks
unto the Lord, and to sing praises unto
Thy name, Most High. Psalm
xcii., l.
On the side of things required Is
gratitude-the spirit of thanksgiving.
And yet gratitude is more than req
uisition Cicero called it the mother
of virtues. 1t is certainly as much a
privilege as it is virtue, to recipro-
cate favors granted with the express
sj1ns of a thankful heart. 1t is
s,ood thing to give thanks. We are
fellow citizens of one of the most IA
vored countries that the Divine Prov
idence of the world ever allotted to
the use of man. Thank God for this
allotment. Thank God for America
and for Hawaii within America. In
terpret the sentence however you will.
1t may suggest q proper appreciation
of Americas large domain, with It's
wealth of institutions, resources anu
achievements; or, to be more explicit,
it may suggest the watchful and ever
friendly care of Providence over these
islands of ours, through the various
transition stages they have passed; or
the suggestion to thank God for Ha-
wall within the great Republic, and as
a part of it, may open a vision of bet
ter things to Hawaiian youth. Damei
Webster is said to have once made the
remark that nothing was impossible
to Americans on Bunker HILL Per-
haps some native child of Hawaii
some boy-will catch an inspiration OF
better things for himself from Web
ster's remark now that he finds him
self an American boy and nearer to
that notable hill: who knows? But
there comes to us today something
more than a mere suggestion. There
come to us vivid impressions of Goa 3
eternal bounty. This is the time or
the years fulfllment of its early
promise The earth has yielded up its
increase. The seasons have poured out
of their bounty into the lap of man.
Good cheer prevails. Work is suspend
ed and care steals away on Thanksgiv-
ing Day Man goes forth TO worship
and turns from his worship to feast
ing and pleasures. 1t is sort or
unique combination, this worshiping
and feasting, but it is sensible withai
and it is the making of the day. There
would seem to be no incongruity be-
tween a devout heart and a merry
CONFERENCE.-The two go well togeth-
err But let US not shut out other vir-
tues. Let US do something to show our
gratitude. Let us go forth. or send