The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-08-22
DIR, WHITE TALKS
Of LIFE ETERNAL
Continued from Page One.)

trickery and deception prevalent ana
nrospering to an astounding degree. lie
goes into politics. and discovers, TO ms
dismav, as did prominent Irlehd Oh
mine as member of a State Legislature
in the middle West, that the man OF
ideals, of principles, and of sterling IN
tegritv is not wanted, or, according to
the testimony of another legislative
friend. that not a single measure for a
whole session passes on its merits. He
mingles in high social life, socalled, ana
gets a vision of its extravaganza and
dissipation, its pandering to PRIDE and
display, its open doors to sensuallty.
"Fortunate is he if he can hold his
own; doubly fortunate If his whole out
| look on life has not been fatally warped.
| The probabilities are that he VIII hnd
himself making concessions here ana
there, lowering his standards, Keeping
reacherous silence, and finally yield
| himself to the current under the hope
| less conviction that this is the world
he must live in, and that it behooves
him to take the world as he finds it.
"What wonder if during this process,
he has been saying to himself: Is TINS
life-this parleying with falsehood, this
dallying with deceit, this lowering on
| the thin edge of dishonor, this disloy-
/ atty to conscience? 1t is not worth the
powder; it has no claim to continue; 1T
ought to fail
''The hold on Immortality relaxes in
proportion to the growing falsity of
! life. And YOU will find the great
stronghold of disbelief in this great
truth of the faith among that large
class of men. who, having veered from
their early moral mornings, have come
to feel that the character formed by
compromise and self .iugglery has nc
. eternal value and must sooner or later
receive its doom.
| '1But the possibility of failue and
doubt is also the possibility of success
and of assured faith. Right here, in
the process of disillusioning, when sin
lister influences are the strongest. wher
the current setting toward falsehoo
and disloyalty is all but irresistible
lies the opportunity for splendid hero
ism and a superb character. Sturdy
manhood may emerge no less surely
than its base counterfeit.
"Let the victim Of disillusion talk t.
himself in this wise: The world il
against me, is it, and against my con
victions of the right9 Then so mucl
the worse for the world. Compromise
must T. to succeed2 Then I can fail
if that is what failure means. I d.
not have to succeed, or even live. but
do have to do right. Court popularity
must I, through ways that are dark an,
habits that are shameful? On sucl
terms I can afford to be unpopular
Come what will, T propose to be clean
Part company with God and deny tn
Master, must 7, to curry favor witt
society and win it for friend7 Thanl
you; I choose the best societv-the onl,
true God and Jesus Christ whom He ha
sent. And society may wag its way
~ will risk any doubts such maj
may have touching the everlasting life
Does he believe in immortality? Tha
character he has won is eternal life
It is its own best evidence. It carrie
its own credentials It asserts itsel
an undving thing -