The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-01-30
VERSE FROM ACTS
IS DOCTORS TEXT
Largest Throng of Winter Hears
Sermon at Central Union
Church.
(From Mondays Advertiser.)

| from MOuuAy y AuNeIblsci.J
"And they began to speak with
other tongues, as the Spirit gave them
utterance.
Choosing this passage from the Book
of Acts, the Rev. DR.. Doremus Seudder
delivered mastery discourse at the
Central Union Church yesterday morn
ing One of the largest congregations
of the entire winter listened to the
] splendid handling of a most notable
theme, and it is probably not too much
to say that the learned and eloquent
divine brought upon this occasion the
light of that phrase home to the hearts
of his hearers as it had never been
brought before. His Interpretation was
truly mastery, and its application to
present world needs so forceful, that
it would indeed be calloused soul that
would not be stirred to truer and bet
ter effort to not alone bring greater
grace to his own heart but to be en-
Unused for mission to aid his fellow
men.
Doctor Scudder applied Luke g noble
utterance to the great religious move
ment which is about to be inaugurated
in this city, exhorting with words of
eloquence, his hearers to grasp fully the
vast import of the sentence which he
had chosen for his text, and to go
forth and speak with the divine tongue
of Christian love to those who were in
need
The Sermon.
Doctor Scudder said:
"Many years ago poor unlettered
serving maid lay held in the grasp OF
fever. AS her delirium increased she
began to chant in purest classic Greek
in chaste Augustine Latin without error
the noblest lines of Homer and Horace
and Virgil. Her doctors stood aghast.
Where had this simple creature been at
school7 Other learned men came and
listened, scarcely believing the witness
of their senses. The wonder must be
probed. They found that years before
she had lived in the home of clergy,
man, whose pastime it had been to
pace his hall glowingly reciting those
matchless verses. Line upon line, stant'
"a after stanza, all unbeknown to the
girl at her humdrum work that incom-
parable artist, Memory, had craven on
her brain the ineffaceable record which
her fevered soul had read aloud
s+orv ., nbantar va
,,u IL, oaa5 ~. 80
Acts is not hard to believe in the light,
of this well authenticated and truly re-
markable case of illness. Year by year
since the age of twelve those disciples
had sought the temple at the great
feasts of their church. Again and
again they had heard their countrymen
from far distant chimes repeating in
language strange and uncouth the
mighty works of God,' those splendid
hymns of praise that make Isaiah and
the Psalms the noblest religious liter
ature human spirit has ever framed,
They understood not word, but MEM
DRY, mysterious memory, suffered not
one syllable which passed the magic
portal of the inner ear to escape UNI
registered. And now at length when
God s spirit touched those lips there
flowed out that thanksgiving anthem in
tongue composite which told the world
that the day was dawning when all peo-
pies, nations and languages shall serve
I'm " nooe , uo nboI, not oss n,yav
u1 1naa'I -. ;nooias - i p dav yye
" = IAN " NV 40
~ doa1a ,naardoJ ~ 4ba Noxu Tacfa-
she ueei; or o;+h ~ .no ut; 80 "r. Won.
1 1 mnasn Nv" W. ei dnuht 0ui
uer Vi P'oSoAe oui uo'D''
Deeper Meaning.
rBut it is not question of historic
or scientific truth of this narrative that
need detain us this morning. Let us
get at the deeper significance of the
story. Luke in describing the occur
renee, says; 'They began to speak with
other tongues. 1t is evident that this
is a novel experience to these men and
women. Hitherto in their speech they
had said what they willed now, for
the first time they spoke what someone
else willed. You remember BALKAN.
Thrice Balak piling up promises of
honors and rewards besought him to
curse, Thrice BALKAN expected to
curse. But thrice he opened his lips
to bless because an unseen compulsion
moved his utterance. The Hebrew who
told the story called this compulsion