The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-01-25

think so.
The church today lives a double life
and praetises dual creed Not that
all church members are hypoerites but
the teachings Of Christ are conditioned
/ by accidental surroundings and the law
of expedieney IS the governing force of
the average Christian.
/ They tell the story of lord of a
realm who happened also to be a bishop
in the church. One day he grew
violently angry at servant and swore
most profusely. The servant afterwards
took his master to task for losing his
temper and using profanity, stating that
he didn I think it was in keeping with
the office and character of a bishop.
In reply the bishop said that he didn t
swear as bishop but as lord Where
upon the servant pertinently asked
E" When the lord goes to the devil where
viii the bishop be7'
And so today it might be asked:
"When the citizen goes to the devil
where Will the Christian bes''
As members of the church we de-
voutly repeat, Whatsoever We would
that men should do unto you, do you
likewise unto them,n but as citizens
we go forth into the world and in our
business relations we take advantage
of each other s ignorance, plot against
each other s plotting and scramble for
the almighty dollar, crying Cuisines
IS business, religion is religion
As members of a Christian church
we pray Our Father which art in
| heaven and rejoice in the sensuous
consciousness that all men are the
| children Of the same Heavenly Parent,
and are therefore brother-men, but as
citizens we run corners and monopolies
| in meat and lumber and oil and coal
| till the poor suffer and the hungry cry
| for bread.
As Christians we repeat in the SER
~iee of the Sanctuary, whether we
/ eat or drink or whatsoever we do, we
| must do all to the glory of Cod but
as citizens we organize clubs and
gamble and dance through the mid
night hours, eating and drinking to
gluttony, crying Pleasure is pleas
ure -
Be kindly affectionate one to an
| other, we place in beautiful notices
on our church walls and go forth to
push and scramble and lie and SANDER
one another and cry aloud, "Politics
is politics and religion is religion
In the church on the Sabbath we cul-
tivate spirit of humaneness and char
itableness. On Monday if war should
be declared between our country and
some foreign power, we would quickly
don the uniform, shoulder our rifles
and 60 forth to shoot and kill and
piuuder. burn villages and towns and
make widows and orphans by the thou
sands, and say "'War is war;
81 feel sures If one of Shakespeare s
characters found rottenness in Den
mark, then the Christ, if He should
suddenly appear at the door of His
Holy Temple, would find rottenness
among His people and drive us all
hence with that fierce sentence of con-
demnation, '|Why call We me Lord,
Lord, and 40 not the things which /
command thees'
Thus we have this dual creed or
double practise in the church, creating
/ a breach between us and the working
class. fort there be one thing the la
| boring man>Sespises it is sham or
| hypoeriey. Wfs< then?
Back to ChrisS' Back to the
Man OF Galilee, the Son of the ear
penter, His sermon on the mount. 1t
| is going 70 take time and struggle and
| leadership.
| We are thankful that there are some
| evidences of encouragement in the sign
| of the times. In our own church, rep
resenting now a membership of $780,
| 600 people, Robert Mcintyre, the son
/ of a mechanic. born IN the home of a
poor man, apprentieed as a brieklayer,
carrying bod, laying bricks, a mas
ter mason. called to preach, pastor of
| First church Of Los Angeles, with its
membership Of 5000, preaching every
| Sabbath to an audience of working
men numbering 5000, elected to the
| bishopric, and now called the Bishop
of the Working People of our church
But we need greater leader still in
| the church universal. One like. unto
the young German who a few hundred
years ago was a member of the Chris.
! tian Church. citizen of a great en-
| pire, hut who saw something wrong in
| the church, in the state, in society. He
rubbed the dust from the corners OF
the Bible. read the life of the Carpen-
| ter's Som and was filed with convic-
| ton which burned like a fire in his
! bones. He was summoned to Worms
and though all the tiles of the roof OF
the palace in that beautiful city were
devils. he would still go to Worms At
last he stood in the blazing light OF
that great council when the church was
represented, the state was represented
society was represented. He expected
| communication, Imprisonment and
even death. Yet in answer to the
charges of beresy and disloyalty, he
cried: Here / stand. | can do nc
III hpr God helr, me -