The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-05-14
BY DIR. JAMES B. CLAYTON

-Ihe Book sublime, transmitted ages through,
Surviving creeds maginatiOns vain
That Book whose shadows purer light imparts
Than all the garish books of hayward man
Mans Book because it's Gods, Gods for it's mans
Rejecting truth which seer and priest and king
Royal of soul and filled with heavens light
Which shOne upon them they searched for God
And wrote their quest of hope for human good
Declares that man is made in form of God
But little lower than the gods, and crowned
With honor and with power to reign with God
Ger all the works of unseen hands which wrought
Our chaos into shape.
How high is Man,
God the EARTH though formed of earths poor dust!
His thought outspeeds the light outsoars the stars
To utmost reaches of imagined space
Where unseen worlds hang the finger-tips
OF omnpresent might. He stretches time
Beyond mortality to timeless God
Without beginning, count of days or end;
Thus weds himself to Deity and Heaven
trinity in one, yet not in parts
AS God is Three-n-one, the Father, Son.
And Spirit pure, not severed God, but thoughts
OF His trne unity with man flesh
And spirit of mankind relates
Him to the earth, to all mankind, and God
In undivided life.
His body frail-
''He knows our frame, remembers dust"
Yet wOndrOus dust in "human form divine"
A body made from earth, the earth to rule
In harvest fields and deserts claimed from waste;
To every field and rl the air and sun
To Nature all Man owes his life, yet rules,
Maintains his being by his rule. Though Death
Shall bring him "dust to dust" yet meath his feet
Fen Death at last shall fall Till then his flesh
Is instrument of will, the tent of soul,
And Temple of the Most High God.
His soul,
The bond of human kind, relates his life
To every kindred, tribe and race on earth
In democratic brotherhood of blood,
OF toll and pain, of loss and gain, in sweat
OF face by which he earns his bread; thus one
With all humanity.
His spirit free,
Cod no vii nj
OF flaming love, whose burning heat first gave
His dust its sacred warmth, and thus partakes
OF Deity; its flames maintained by Truth
Whose understanding is the Spirits gift
That dwelIs in him whose inspiration pure
Gives him new life, though burning low in doubt
And sin renewed by grace of pardOning Love;
To rule that spirit gives him best renoWn
And greatness more than cOnquerors in wars
Acclaim. Returning to its author God,
Transformed by discipline and Death, alone
1t passes unseen 'twixt earth and Heaven,
Surviving shuddering shock of Death, to reign
Midst spirits of just men redeemed and thus
Fitted for role and place
Thus speaks that Book
In lofty strain.
Against such lineage
And destiny Man stOOps to sin, betrays
His calling sonshp, heritage divine,
And mars the image of his God in him.
The Son of God, fashioned in form as man,
Whose Gospel of the FatherhOod of God,
The brotherhood of Man, the worth OF life
Fxalts the faith and character of Man
Lifts up the until its gathered hopes
Reach out for that unseen but certain goal
Which God ordained before the morning stars
Swung in their paths, before the gaze of Man
Had fixed their place or guessed their origin
Through ages of development till now,
Through evils thick and many wrongs and woes,
Through centuries of waiting for the light
On Natures plan and Gods design, GODS Man,
Mans God, have labOred ceaseless on
Complete,
AS Gods complete, Man bound to earth and Man
And God, within himself while part OF all
Is part entire, unit, all alone
And separate his personality;
Yet he projects himself by will divine
In reason, feeling love- desire
The cry
OF infant lips proclaims his parentage
OF life begotten from his own, new life
In which both God and Man create their sons
To take their place in Gods designs
His thought
He fashions into living Speech the thought
Which in his teeming mind takes shape and WORTH
The WAYS of Nature that his eye dscerns,
The reason for the things that be- the hope
OF changes vet to come in Man and earthj
He utters to his fellOw-man, and writes
The record of his thought. On canvas paints
The color and the form of living shapes
Or those that haunt his mind he sculptures lie
In marbled grace; erects the Temple grand
And palace fair whose walls and noble towers,
His genius speaks and landscapes by his touch
With Natures lOveest scenes compare;
His music swells signs the fashion of his mood;