The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-12-04

make comfort and qualification cheap and accessible that the
poor have only the desire but the ability indulge many things
that formerly the uxuries of the rich Thus that the things
that should have been for their wealth have become many
casion of falling.
Furthermore, the alienation of suffering which
God has best the studies experiments of the physician has been
perverted in mems minds idoaty of freedom from physical
pain So that physical has been elevated into taves Of @
gion.
"And back of all this lies that great faacy which part all
modern development of religion namely that the individual intellect
upreme that every think and believe pease; that
he nothing Intellectually spiritually anything outside him
SELF that he has not only right but duty as man to assert his man
hood by adopting religion he pease religion whatsoever
if that peases him better"
reviews the pm reasons that are given in numerous
by those who make with themselves "A has fire.
quent headaches and prospect of getting rid of them
by worthless man. business man loses his fortune person
ovwored and nerous exhausted These illustrate but the
of that spiritual freedom claimed today by those who
any allegiance Superior Being The writer continues
Free thinking which, commonly understood is essentially law
less and immoral results inevitably in free living especially in an age
when have many temptations awlessne and sefgrafca
ton Given then mind with law but its whm it INDUCES
itself any way that fit and vulgar ways if
are low and vulgar in refined and intellectual if it for
things refined and nteectuabu always with this underlying
pose qualification it all with thought Of loyalty due any
higher Being debt of right to be paid fellow
Then when the objects of its qualification crafty when life
has nothing further to offer VIXEN to live longer with its thirst un
quenched would be torture when actual impending failure is
written that has then the life which the longer
values peshy rees thrown away Life to me no longer
worth living; therefore, l will not live
An article number of the New York City Mission Month
dwes the prevalence of cdsuicide in Germany, which
treated at some length in our issue for July Says the writer:
prevalence of suicide among children Prussia especially just
now attracting public attention IN Europe IN an unusual degree ana
startling facts being brought light 1t almost
credible that every year. according reliable authorities in Prussia
alone about SIX hundred persons under the age OF twenty take their
lives and that among children under fifteen years of the
number of suicides annually between sixty and seventy These
startling figures This suicidal tendency ascribed by some to
the excessive strain of the German system of education Professor
Gutenberg weknown German Psychologist and specialist
thinks that the rather to be found in the home Lack of
troll lack of insight lack of understanding of the child SOUL in
his judgment the of this serious phenomenon There
Others however think the suicide mania of many children
arises from the emotional literature which falls into their hands There
may be truth in this latter superstition for deal of read
poured forth from the press whose influence
settling and pernicious." ta @s n,o1