The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-02-11
PROTESTANTS.
Winning OUT
DR.. Johnston Describes
Work of Worlds
Missions.

Protestant CnrlStldIuIy Is driving Ou
and supplanting all other religions
throughout the world. Such was tn
announcement in brief made at tn,
Central Union church last night by tn,
Reverend Howard Agnew Johnston
d. D., who is in the city on his return
to the mainland from tour of the
world, during which he visited th'
American missions in all parts of Eu
rope and Asia He returns impressed
with the amount OF good work tha
has been accomplished and more 81
with the stiil greater amount that re
mains yet to do.
Central Union was crowded at the
service last night, many who attended
having TO stand up during the greater
part of the evening. The girls of Ka-
mehameha were present in body, as
were also the classes from Oahu COL
lege and the Kawaiahao Sunday school
Besides these and the regular congre-
tion were many visitors from other
city churches. Rev. j. W. Wadman
of the Methodist church, and Rev. G.
ID. Edwards, of the Christian church,
being on the platform with the speak
er and Rev. DR.. Sylvester.
DR.. Johnston began his sermon by
examining the condition of the rell-
gious state of Europe, stating that
Roman catholic France and Spain
We're becoming protestantized through
the work of the English and American
missions. The Anglo-Saxon peoples
We're the ones now evangelizing the
world. the chief factor in the spread
of the Christian religion.
1t was in Turkey that the force of
Mohammedanism was first felt. the
greatest religion that has been found
ed since the coming of Christianity in
to the world. That it came and estab-
lished itself so firmly. spreading
throuhout Africa and Asia, was be-
cause the Chrishtian religion at the
time had lapsed, had grown weak and
had ceased for the time to be a force
in the progress of the world. This
ought to be remembered by the Chris
tians of today, who should awake to
the fact that there is much yet to
accomplish at their own door before
the Christian ma tions would be ready
for their wc-l. of evangelizing the
world.
In Turkey he found unrest, the peo-
pie suspicious of strangers and each
other. AS an instance of the prevail
ing ignorance he related how an en-
gineer got into difficulty with the au--
thorities for wiring away for an en-
gine wheel capable of so many revo-
lutions a minute. The message was
not sent, the word revolution having
a dread sound in the Musulman's ear.
In other parts of the Turkish empire
things We're more hopeful. In Syria
he had been told by promii. >nt ma
tives that a British occupation of the
along the lines of the Egyptian
would be most welcomed
by the people. In Egypt, Great Britain
was doing a great work for the coun-
try and for Christianity, the graduates
from some of the colleges founded there
spreading the gospel throughout the
The Armenians had with
stood the persecution of the Turks for |
their religion and were strong in the |
faith.
All the signs in Turkey point to a |
great political upheaval which would |
come, he thought, within the next five
years, when European Turkey would
De dismembered and crumbling Mo-
would receive a great
blow.
In India, where Hinduism was DOM
nant, the religion was holding back
he country. Education, however, was
oosening the hold that this faith had
lpon the people and a marvellous pow
T was already spreading throughout
he millions OF that country. Hindu
SIN is dying.
What the. speaker had to contend with
rincipalIy in discussing religious ques-
ions with many in India was that they
Fould point to the political and social
onditions of America as given in the I
ress and ask If that was the fruit of
Last year he had seen {
reat religious gathering at Allahabad, {
here he had seen q procession of two
lillion pilgrims, led by a thousand
oily men, perfectly naked. The liter {
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