The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-08-28
PARADISE PARAGRAPHS
BY WILL SABIN.

Please Knock was at one time not
an uncommon legend on front doors.
AS electricity advanced civilization the
portal admonition became please ring
the bell" Later people came to be
able to knock without specially ms
cribed encouragement and, also, pro-
crossed to the stage of being able to
recognize an electric button without a
label.
Knocking, however, is not the sub
ject of this epistle; rather is a Bell
to be the text; and the opening re-
marks are not inappropriate, for the
Bell under discussion is something
of an electric Bell, the smile being
carried out even to the pressing of
the button to get the desired response.
Edgar A Poe, if he were here today
and could meet DR.. Bell, or Professor
Bell, Phi. D., would have to add verse
to his immortal poem, "The Bells"
Poe managed to work in fire, wedding,
funeral and sleigh bells, but he evil
IDENTIFY forgot all about astral bells,
such as DR.. Bell, or Professor Bell, Phi.
ID.
Several years ago, here, a certain
cultured cult cultivated the occult I'M
der Bells guidance at so much a cult,
and now again is he here to take on a
few Glasses of those who may ina
CINE that he can let them into the in
nermost secrets of nature. There's
some class to Bell, Professor Bell,
Phi. D. which inspires the query: what
manner of man is this?"
To go back this is not a roast but
an attempt at a study, during which
shall be told, without charge, some
things for which information Dr. Bell
might charge you tuition.
DR.. Bell, or Professor Bell, Phi D.,
and then some, is type Without
doubt he manages to say many things
which are true, calling himself disci-
pie of truth Therefore the truth, as
another may see it, cannot harm him
and may even help him. He is type
of an odd profession, an unhired teach
er for pay, one who is not sought TO
be hired but is paid when he demands
the price, sort of a semi-recognized
instructor in patent truth, for a fee,
and in very broad and profitable field.
1t may be said that so is clergyman
paid teacher, but herein lies the
difference: A clergyman, following a
specific doctrine is limited to his GER
tain prescribed orthodoxy and receives
a stipulated salary and his hearers, or
pupils, II you prefer, get their spiritual
food predigested, and the clergyman
may be fired if he breaches anything
to offend those who pay him; while DR..
Bell, or Professor Bell, Phi. D.. is the
type that labels nothing, identifies
nothing, speaks in burning eloquence
of beautiful generalities, attaches mys-
terry to what should be simple truth,
and theatrically Kaleidoscope the
ideas of the ages before the undiscrim-
mating eyes of the almost thinking
thousands, that he may gather, what?
Is he teaching because he must deliver
a message to the world? Is he preach
ing because he feels called upon to give
his fellow men some message to lead
them to a happier method of living?
Or is DR.. Bell, or Professor Bell, Phi
d., making a mere business of this So
called occultism?
Sucn a man as DR.. Bell, or Professor
Bell, PHI D., A. Il. S. (And Then
Some), fascinates his hearers where an
ordinary clergyman would fail for the
reason that he states certain facts that
each individual feels that he recognizes
though he may seldom have thought OF
them. He is thinker, to consider
able degree, but charges so much pei
thought. Thought, of course, is mar
ketable, fetching the highest prices
occasionally, but in the commerce Of
thought there enters the same ethical
question that is found in all dealings
the distinction between labor anC
graft. There must be a shadowlanC
where labor and graft meet, but broad
principles do not border on the shadow
A man writes thought for pay, h,
thinks and invents and, in the las
analysis, all that is saleable or pur
chaseable is thought in the concrete
Yet we have been told by them of oil
time, and there are many of us of thi
time who feel that if we have some
thing good to tell our neighbor W
should not ask him to give us gold TO
the information.
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Now Bell was once a clergyman, an
is supposed to have found out that h
was "unconsciously hypnotic" to sucl
an extent that he had the faculty o
raising huge sums of money for tn
church for which he labored.
Women stripped themselves OF thei
jewels and flung the baubles at hi
feet under stress of his emotional clio
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