The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-07-05
louise Of Prayer, to be accepted of.

serve Its Saeraments, to attend it's
meetings, to submit to its discipline. to
snare ITS work, TO love its members. and
10 seek IT'S unity, purity and peace -
In this formula Americans, Chinese.
English, Germans, Hawaiians. Japanese.
jewish. Portuguese, Scotch. represent.
ing Union Churches, Roman Catholic.
Mormon, Scottish Kirk. PRESBYTERIAN
congregational. Episcopalian. Anglican
Lutheran, Methodist, Christian. Bud
dhlst, shlntolst, nnascertained, united
to worship God. AS to Jesus thew de-
cfafed IN effect: We do not undertake
to limit himself or his work in the
variable terms of our mixed, broken,
Huetuating languages. We do not know
The teehnicaiities of his superior SON.
ship to the father of us all, but we
know him and the superiority of his
life; and we take him for all he is.
as our leader, and his spirit as the ideal
toward which We strive. That was
not letting anybody down easy. 1t was
concerted stretching up, toward the
bigness and all sufficiency of God, in
Christ
Just what God is, or Christ, or the
Spirit of Christ, or human brotherhood
we do not fully apprehend: but where
ever men unite to try to learn, there
is an orthodox church.
The door to this high knowledge
opens on the humbiest threshold of eco
Monies. Not every one that sayeth
unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into che
Kingdom of Heaven, but he that doeth
the will OF my FATHER Dong Christ
lanlty is as good training for a Christ
ian as swimming is for swimmer
Life abundanliy'' means life ab
unda from the wave. The PROPOSE
ton of Jesus was not at all that He
could bring men and their Father to-
gether, by any miracle or any saeri-
nee; but that they were together, 'ab
unda, from the wave where lite be-
gan, and that every one of them had
right to the whole broad ocean OF it
by simply realizing on his birthright.
winch is to say tnat Christianity is
prosperity; and which makes the con-
nectlon complete between this topic and
this meeting.
Prosperity is "pro spes for hope,
and hope, according to the great apos-
ties, is only another word for saliva ION.
God himself put the salt of hope into
the brackish ooze where life was born,
and the word of every great prophet o.
the race has been: Groom for the peo-
pie! Room for the people to prosper, to
nope more, to live more; and SO, to feel
more, and know more, and help more,
am. worship more, world without end
The world of men must fulfil itself
via food and clothes and fuel and shell
ter. There is no other way. Cheaper
food, cheaper fuel, cheaper clothes,
cheaper shelter, means increase of OPP
portunity, uplift of mind, self-respect,
pride OF character, richer social exist
ence.
Better food, better clothes, better
fuel, better housing, means wider hori-
IONS and loftier ambitions
Ownership of the home, fair deal
more ability to give, to help, and to
employ, to grow in manliness and god
illness.
Christianity is civilization Civiliza-
ton is economics. Decent economics is
prosperity And this is the call of the
age, to Christian people, organized in
a democratic form of government.
The church has lost the poor by too
much prayer meeting in proportion to
political, social and economic making
good.
Inc church has lost the poor rich by
failing to shame them with rich riches,
and to crush their vulgar impositions
by the keen, convincing birch rod of
schoolmaster law History will put it
down as the glory of the Roosevelt ad
ministration that it took the greedy,
crooked rich man by the shoulders, turn
ed him faceabout and kicked him.
Christian men and those that they
can strongly influence are in a majority,
as to votes and wealth. The crying in
justice to labor, the shameful neglect
of the poor, the idiotic misconduct of
the penal institutions, the denial of the
right of women to share in the conduct
of the government, deadly treason o
the corrupt rich, in debauching and de-
flying legislation, the scorn of sense
and courage and conscience, in the Ii.
cense system, the incumbency of vile
men in office, are all chargeable to the
iittleness of the current Christian con-
ception of Christian citizenship.
The prayer meeting has taken too
literally the Scripture: .My Kingdom
ID nut Ol tHtS NO11aJ dH0 Wv NiA0ohSN
the fact that the way of men, up to the
Kindom is and has to be through this
world and the vicissitudes of this
world.
The prayer meeting has despised
riches, or tried to-vainly tried to-and
in the effort carried in itself para
lying element of fraud, which has lost
for it the confidence of the masses. 1t
has no business to despise riches There
is nothing on earth more worthy than
wealth worthily got and worthily used,
inst as there is nothing meaner on
earth than wealth wrongfully got and
enjoyed, la trough.
When the poor get good sense and
use it, when rich men are honest men,
when under Christian economics every
soul has a chance TO be quiet and to
think and to rejoice in the life that
now is, we shall have got the hang OF
the life that is TO be.
It is impossible to be pious until we
get to be honest 1t is impossible to
be honest in prayer meeting until we
get to be honest ON the outside. 1t IS
to be honest in religion until
we get to be honest in politics. Com
mon sense and common honesty are two
of the graces of Christian character;
the third IL a working combination Of