The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-03-03

covering new means for Harvesting
forces hitherto untamed?'' nor Are
you, traveller, penetrating districts
never yet pressed by human foot?'';
hut, Are you, man, winning your life
battle? are you singing Paul's hymn,
Nay, in all these things we are more
than canquerors,' with the emphasis
of a Hallelujah Chorus on the refrain
through Him that loved us'?" If not,
beware, for with all your divine pos
sihilities you may squander and lose
your godlikeness.
The first three chapters of Genesis
have much the nature of a dramatic
idyl. The Divine Being first COM
munes with Himself, then with the
creature He has made. The series of
pictures eliminates in the portrait Of
God walking with man. In that scene
the entire message of the Scriptures
is condensed. You are not far wrong
in naming the Bible--writings that tell
about God walking and talking with
His human children. Godlikeness real
ICES itself, comes to self-consciousness
in the mutual comradeship of Divine
and human. To have created a being
able to reproduce itself, powerful to
subdue, to know, to go everywhere
and to have stopped with this would
have been stupendous folly. Such
partial likeness to Deity plus SO much
dissimilarity would have ensured end
less warfare. Capacity to love, ca
pacity to long for ideal friendship with
the only one able to satisfy, capacity
to enjoy this companionship as the
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is to be made in Gods likeness. That
this capacity characterizes man, the
universal history of religion attests
with force as pathetic as it is beau
tiful.
LAS the hart panteth after the water
brooks,
So panteth my soul after Thee, o God.
My soul thirsteth for God, for the
living God:
When shall 1 come and appear before
God?'
everywhere always: 20 that I knew
where I might find him."
You are here in this house today
because of this deep desire. You may
not confess it. You maj delude your
self into thinking that you go to
church for business reasons to increase
your trade, or for social ends because
So and So does and you desire their
acquaintance, or out of domestic con-
to please your wife and
you fancy it good thing for the chill
dren, or fromohabit, you are not quite
at heart when you stay
away. Doubtless this may hold some
truth, but deep down in your heart
turks a fear or a superstition or, bet
ter, craving for something you
scarce know what. Very faint is it?
Yes, but never man without, call it
what you will, that which in some
Of us in a Niagara flood of desire to
love and DE loved by the Great Com
panion, the Friend of sinners, the
Savior of men. 1t is the most god
like thing in us. Like attracts like.
Do you every really long to be Christ
like? That very craving proves your
xinship with God. Give that longing
the right of way in your life. Let it /
be supreme. Yield to it. o men, I
plead with you to let the godlike in
you have it's way. How soon we all
shall see our God face to face! AS /
look over this audience out of which
one after another is slipping away SO
fast, l can not endure to think of any |
Of you setting forth to meet your God |
a stranger, when you might be going |
a son home to the Father.