The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-08-02

to your manifest destiny. These hard
the past few weeks | have heard the
voice of the Master, whose you and
| are and whom we serve, exclaiming
" No man, having put his hand to the
plow, ard looking back, is fit for the
Kingdom of God. -
The time has come now for me to
tell out my vision.
The world waits for the coming great
free Union church, where men of all
denominations and none, men of all
sorts of doctrinal creeds and none, may
worship God as brothers and cooperate
as fellow servants under the leadership
of the Master Man Jesus Christ. I
know of no place where the first ex-
ample of such a church is so possible
today as Honolulu. Here we are off
by ourselves in the midst of the great
free ocean of the future. Here all races
meet more nearly on an equality than
anywhere else ON the globe. Here no
trammels bind us to a dead past, yet
here we all glory in the vital heritage
from the ever living past. Further
more, in the membership of this church.
we have Roman Catholics and represen.
tatives of all branches of the Protestant
church, as well as those more immediate
forbears were devotees of the hoary
religious of Asia. No less than twenty
six nationaities representing all the
great racial stocks of mankind meet in
this church and commune together. A
slight change in our form of admission
would complete all that remains to be
done to realize the ideal of a forerun-
ner of the coming World Church of
Christ, the counterpart of that band of
men whom Jesus called about Him, I'M.
trammeled by ecclesiastical law or ira
dition, by priest or overseer, fifty de,
scribed by our Lord as i'One is your
Master, even the Christ, and all We are
brethren. - | admit that this slight
change is one of the hard things that am
called upon to tackle Well, if patience,
good humor, persistence, honesty and
love will avail, by God s grace that
hard thing will, some day, be achieved.
If our Master wants it, it will come
and, if it is His will, it is worth wait
ing for. If it is not His will, waiting
will do no harm. So let those of us
who differ about this hard thing be
happy and stick with sweet reasonable.
ness to our principles as we toll togeth-
er towards a fulfilment in this Church
| of our Lord s great prayer for His dis
ciples, that they may all be one.
Our very name is a mighty inspira
tion to this end. We are Central, in the
very focus of the coming interracial
world life. All Christendom is talking
about Union. We already are union tc
degree quite unique. Let us realize
its fulness. President Hayes viii ever
live in American history for having
| pointed out that the way to resume
specie payments was to resume. The
same principle holds true of Christian
unity.
There is of course class of mer
devoted to form and ceremony, impress
ed by rank and insignia, finding RES
OF mind in compelling those who wor
ship with them to subscribe to definite
doetrnal statement who should hav,
churches TO their mind, but the grea-
DIVINE Church for humanity must b.
free like its Master. rich in its variet
HE, with services of many kinds t.
NEE the needs &C many minds, will
plural ministry like the primitive eity
church Of Paul ; letters. ana instru
mentaiit'es that shall cali from ever,
type Of man some uaselfsA activit1
TOR the social good We in this chnrcI
can real re This. We have the location