The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1910-07-19
Dr.. F. N. White breaches on Three
LIS Of Sea-Big Audience
Hears Him.
MARINERS SAFEGUARDS GOOD
Chicago Divine Says Man Ought
to Use Bible as Log to Refer
to for Guidance.

Several hundred people-enough to
fill the Central Union Church-last
night heard DIR. Frank Newhall White
explain the triple enigma, "The Three
LIS of the Sea, y which met the gaze
of everybody who looked at the bill.
boards last week. The somewhat mys.
teriOus text was one that ordinarily
would excite the curiosity of most PEG.
pie, but Doctor Whites audience did
not attend the service for the purpose
of satisfying their curiosity. Many Of
those present had heard him before,
and they expected to hear strong
sermon, such as he had delivered on
the four previous Sunday evenings.
And they all learned the meaning of
the three LIS of the sea.
''If any of you are at all familiar
with the ways of the sea, f" said Doctor
White, "you will recall that there are
three things that are the invariable
Accompaniment of every well ordered
vessel. First, there is the book where
the ships diary is kept-the state of
the weather, the direction Of winds, the
number of knots covered, the position
of currents, the latitude and longitude
of new reefs and all that sort of thing.
This is the sailors log.
"Then, when land is being neared
or harbor made, you have noticed a
ship hand on the gangway with rope
and plummet taking soundings and
shouting back to the recording officer
the number of feet to the bottom. This
is precaution no careful seaman would
dream of neglecting. One set of sound
ings will not serve except in a general
way for any day except its own.
Changes of the bottom arc frequent,
new shoals are forming and old shoals
are giving place to new channels. This
is the sailors lead.
"Then on the steamship, in addition
to the officer on the bridge, way to the
front is lone man, with eyes always
to the front, peering out through mist
and storm-and none the less if the day
be clear-to herald the possible reef,
or iceberg, or derelict, to shout the
word of the ship crossing the bows.
However lonely and unfrequented and
vast the stretch of ocean, that precau-
tion is never omitted. This is the
sailor 3 lookout.
"Eternal vigilance is the price Of
safety to the mariner no less than Of
liberty to the citizen. There you have
the three LIS of the sea--log, lead and
lookout.
"Does it not impress you on the in
slant that in those same three LIS, log,
lead and lookout, lie the safety of the
ship human as well as the ship oak
or the ship ironf
"One of the chief grievances that,
in our off moments, we have against
the moral order of things is the UNI
certainty of life and the mighty issues
that are made to hinge on the choices
and acts Of beings who at least can
only go stumbling and drifting sailing
a hit-or-miss course, if you call it a
course at all, through life. And, to tell
the truth, how great that uncertainty
isl What day may bring FORTH Who
can forecast a moment of timef Who
can tell when his manhood will have
to run the GAUNTLET And yet as q
matter of fact, great as the uncertainty
of life theoretically ought to be, it is
not 1.-THE as great as these consider
ations would lead us to suppose.
"The human will is an unpredictable
thing, and yet OF the other hand it IL
wonderful what a predictable thing il
is. The perils of the ocean have beer
so reduced by lead and lookout, that
today the percentage Of catastrophe AND
loss is less by far by sea than on land
1t is remarkable how those three Ii
have reduced the risks of soul voyag
ing.
HNo voyager Of sense will dream Of
setting out without consulting all the
charts and log books Of his course
And when you think of 1t, how i'm
mense the available material is! Th'
whole vast expanse has been gone owe
by voyagers heedful. The Bible is thu
log book of the ages. There is com
pacted the essence of humanity's expe
rience in the serious business of living
The book is open and no bark goes Il
wreck that sets its course thereby"
Doctor White then compared thu
workings of a mans conscience,
mans taking stock of his own mora
and spiritual progress, with the sound
ings of the sees with the lead.
1.-THE automatic soundings of you
own soul viii tell you where you arr
to the fraction Of a fathom," he wen
on to say. eff man would but pay
attention to NATURES manifold warn
ings, he need not be deceived for long
"The log for yesterday, the lead TO-
today, the lookout for tomorrow. VIVA
the log may not have marked, wha
the lead could not have anticipated, th'
lookout will discover. Let us revis'
some of our notions. This is an evi
world, a dangerous world to live in
1t is good world, safe world to liv'
in, for him who wants TO live and i
bound TO live. The log books are full
Ineligible written in letters of light
The sounding line is always out an(
automatically registering for him whit
win heed. The unknown future has NJ
perils that will not herald themselves