The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-01-16

and solved 80 many hard problems.
Margaret Sangster suggests what the
attitude of the individual Christian.
should be toward the adverse things Of
life. as follows:
we must march when the music
cheers us,
March when the strains are dumb,
Plucky and valiant, forward, march!
And smile, whatever may come.
For. whether life's hard or easy,
The strong man keeps the pace,
For the desolate march and the silent
The strong soul finds the grace
I ] have read that during a hard.
fought battle between the French and
the Austrians, an officer rushed into
the presence of the French commander
and exclaimed: The battle is lost!
The battle is LOST" But the general
quietly replied: Yes, one battle is
lost, but there is time to win another
Inspired by his optimism the officers
led the troops to the conflict once
more and snatched victory out of the
very jaws of defeat. The Church of
Christ has suffered some reverses and
lost some battles, but this should not
discourage the soldiers in Gods mill
tant army The future is full of prom
Use. Great battles are to be fought by
the twentieth century church and great
victories will be won. Let us do well
our part in this great warfare. Let
us catch the spirit which led Barring
Gould to declare that the Church OF
Jesus constant will remain" and that
led him to sound the battlecry: "On,
then, Christian soldiers, on to vic
tory"
The day dawns! Soon the light
Shall flood the darkened world with
radiance bright;
On the horizon rests the mighty Sun,
His course across the heavens just be-
gun;
Yet standing on the dim edge Of the
world
His flaming challenge to the night is
hurled,
And soon along humanity's glad way
viii flash the wondrous splendUr Of
the day
The day dawns!"
Finally, this stirring hymn suggests
that the ideal church is conquering
church The whole hymn is pregnant
with the conquering spirit
Onward Christian soldiers! March
ing as to war"
Forward into battle, see, His ban
ners go!"
Gates of hell can never 'galnst that
church prevail"
Like a mighty army moves the
church of Cod"
Such are the conquering sentiments
of this hymn. 1t is a splendid chal-
lenge to the church to conquer this
world for Jesus Christ. This is just
what Christ expected His church TO
do when He announced her great com
mission. This was Paul's consuming
passion and which led him to eXclaim
War good warfare" Flight
the good fight of faith" Il am
made all things to all men, that
| might by all means save some"
I have seen little church
paper which has the following motto:
ITO defeat the devil politically, 50
cially and enthusiastically" This is a
terse way of expressing what the pre-
else mission of the church is. And if
the church should ever prove false to
her sacred mission an unseen hand
will write above her affairs, "Ichabod,
where is the glory?"
Rev Herbert A. Jump states this
truth in the following pointed manner:
[ The church has no right to content
itself with staid responsibility. When
a church cares more for respectable
ity than for humble service; when it
is prouder of it's organ and it's brown
stone front than it is Of the poor peo-
pie who seek its pews for worship;
when it regards itself as a polite re-
ligious club with it's clergyman an er-
rand boy to do its bidding rather than