The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-04-06


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is colo thHm of hrf UuD uoat
nusaas. and thot nudred each oiho'
and Acknowledged ID fairly
we con help our fellow mou and
ourselves" ho said. "ouly os vi
strive with whatever shortcomings
to lead our lives ln accordance with
che principles laid down in the bible
% mean that for today when you
20 homo this afternoon. apply % ia
those nearest to you
Don't wait Tor some rroat heroic
chance t0 show you are d good Chris
an. but show 10 boz the little thing
% at make up the big things"
Children and Bible.
The children were not forgotten.
% ask you 10 train your children On
&c." be said
"A wore of advice Don't commit
the awful error of training the child
lv making him learn verses in the
Piblo as "a punishment He win asso-
ciatr IT all the rest Of his life with
a disalreeable task. Don't, for PHYS
sake make the children look on tha
Bible as ap instrument of torture.
The worth Of religious teaching is
shown, not in hysteEcal excitement
of the soul, not I'm selfish contempla-
ton Of ones own spiritual feelings.
but by our conduct TO our fellow men.
Act lido it. You VIII save your
own soul best by working for the
souls and bodies Of others.
I'VE must strive so TO conduct our
lives as to be to a certain extent our
brothers keeper-to show we actu-
ally DO take into our own souls the
teachings we read"
As the day was the Booth anniver-
sary of the King James translation
Of the Bible, Roosevelt discoursed for
some time on the merits of this and
other versions and the shallowness
OF certain Bible critics.
Colonel Roosevelt is not enthusiasts
tic in the cause Of woman suffrage
He believes in it; but the liking and
the belief are, as he expressed it yes
terday, merely "tepid." Even the lat
ter word seemed a rather strong ad-
jectiye to apply to his favorable lean
ing after he had finished qualifying
it. He admitted that he had voted for
suffrage whenever the occasion arose,
but he added that he had done so
without any particular warmth or en-
thusiasm.
Just before Colonel Roosevelt arose
to speak he was handed a letter of
Voluminous size, written on several
sheets Of note paper. He glanced at
one or two pages, frowned and DELHI
erately tore the missive up. The crowd
laughed and the colonel smiled. He
referred to the incident when he began
the discussion OF womans rights.
Before ! came on the platform to-
day." he said, 81 was handed a letter
from the Equal Suffrage league asking
me to say something regarding wom--
ems rights"
1T wasn't the letter I tore up" he
sdded, after a pause which had been
runctuated with a general laugh. Then
he continued:
81 have always told my s-iends that
no man is worth his salt who didn't
think deeply of wOmans rights"-an-
other pause-"and that no woman is
worth her salt who doesn't think a
thousand times more deeply of the
rights and duties of her home.
Personally, I'm very tepidly in
favor of woman's rights. / have voted
for equal suffrage whenever the oc-
oasion has arisen to exercise a ballot
upon the matter. / have studied the
subject, and have studied its effect
in the states in which it is in use, and
] have studied the condition of women
in these states and adjacent ones. But
l never have been able to take very
much interest in the question, because