The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-04-27
NAVAL PROTECTION

nizing that there are now two from
doors" to the United States and that
the Pacific entrance faces all the i'm
portant overseas possessions of the ma
ton, the California Promotion commit
tee has invited the commercial bodies
of Alaska, Hawaii and the Philippines
to cooperate with it in persuading
congress that the Atlantic is not the
only ocean needing proper naval pro-
lection.
A strong appeal has been addressed
to the California delegation in con-
gress and to the commercial bodies OF
Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Idaho,
Utah and Arizona and the oversee pos
sessions giving reasons, commercial
and strategical, why a strong fleet
should be stationed on the western
A9A@~@s S,~@-Sa-eS 10000 I~>S3%-a.
Jacob, but the Eternai one i'm whom
re all live and move and have our be-
ing. Taught also by this principle, we
come to regard each other whether
rich or poor, great or small, black or
white, alike the offspring of our COM
mon parent-the masterpiece of his
handiwork and refectng in our nature
the image o. His after whose like
ness we were all created.
We are Therefore brothers and
in all our intercourse must Illus
trate the trutnfulness of such a pro-
fession by reciprocal relief and kindly
offices to one another in the day OF
trial
The charge sometimes made that
Oddfellowship is anti-Christian is ut
terly false. While every lodge is con-
secrated to it's holy offices in the name
of God and every session opened and
closed with appeals to the Holy name
while this sacred volume is always
found within our walls and duly and
reverently read and studied, we can
afford to treat such charge as a mis-
apprehension of the ignorant or fou
, SANDER of the malicious.
Oddfellowship is not a religion. She
leaves the great question of the soul S
. .estiny to be settled between a mar
and his God All she demands of mel
members is that they shall adore the
, Eternal Jehovah, love the brotherhood
I visit the widow and fatherless ant
}. keep himself unspotted from tn
= world. Our doors are only close
4 against the infidel and the libertint
d Oddfellowship is therefore not
church. Nor does the Order in an
sense take the place now intrude upo
= the domain of the church. But is it
n friend and handmaiden. Now an
, again a brother whose enthusiasm run
off with his sober judgment may sa
q he finds suncient in Oddfellowship t.
satisfy all his spiritual rongings ant
+ needs no other religion. But he ha
+ never read this upon the scrolls of on
G mysteries. While we can understand
how much reason there is for such
q devotion and enthusiasm because o
the wOndrous beauty of our sublim
o Order, yet we know also that 1t il
: wrong to confounG the morely human
!, with what is Divine and one who ha
drunk deeply at the mystic fountain o
truth and knowledge will not easil!
err In rebuke to such a one, Odd
: fellowship would quickly reply in tn,
words with which the angel rebuket
= John the Divine, See thou do it not
For | am thy fellow-servant and of tn!
brethren. Worship God"
Oddfellowsnip is one of the odes
p and grandest institutions this eartl
8 has ever seen. 1t towers far beyont
the mountain tops. But it makes NJ
q covenant with God for salvation. II
q affairs are indeed sacred. But they arr
hallowed only by the fealty of human
ties and of fraternal love which pray
for and receives the blessing of on
8 Grand Sire in heaven above. 1t is tn,
G disqualification or the truth of tn
, brotherhood of man, sanctifed by tina
other truth the fatherhood of God
Thus the influence of our Order i
, brought to bear upon the powers ant
faculties which are the divinest part o
our nature and which will becom
=. purer and nobler the farther we as
!, cend in the scale of moral and spirit
), ual advancement.
The first and most important EN-
= blem of OddfeI1owship is the tire
. links, namely f. l.. and Tor Friend
ship, Love and Truth, and to the incul
cation and practice of these three vir
tues it is permitted us to trace the goo
i results of the order already attaine
while upon such pier rest our hope 10
4 the future. Let us proceed now for
, few moments to speak of these EN-
: blematic virtues.
|. Friendship. If there is one FAC
of humanity which stands forth wit
self-evident proof it Is this, my friend:
that true loving consists in the full
. fillment of mans relations-namely
those in which he is born, those wric
y create our environment, those fror
u which it is impossible to escape. thos
= out of which duty springs and obi
L uotiouc arise