Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-09-21

led altar, weed-SrOWn and QlSmanIled
the old altar of his slain brother, Il
which he has dragged his weary body
and upon which he is offering all hC
has TO offer, the despairing sacrifice
tof his own wfetehed self But above
him pleads his angel. thrusting hcl
lface into the angry and stormy heav
ems, and pleading not in vain, for the
storm has spent its fury, the light
ming grows feebler in the distance
and through the lurid threatening oil
the tempest a beam OF mercy CLEANS
down upon the head Of the aged mur
). derer.
Sermon Of Picture.
The mighty sermon of the picture
is that without reparation and restl
tuition, without the sacrifice of self
wretched though self may be, it Is
other picture the artist has given US
a representative of Hope, to teach rs
the sin and folly of despair. Needed
on earth more than anywhere else,
she is seated on the world. AS Hope
must walk by faith and not by sight
the artist has represented her as
blind. Holding in her hand a narp
with every string broken save one,
she is listening intently to its music,
for, if that one string snaps, earth
will hold no music more. We can
get music even from one string, if
that string is hope. 1t is a lesson
Ideeply needed by this sad world of
ours. 1t teaches that despair is sin.
Pagan mythology had its Pandora s
box, but Christianity has it's great
gospel of hope by which it pours
fresh glory over all the works of God
land reveals forecasts and dim sug-
gestions of those unimaginable scenes
and melodies which neither eye hath
seen nor ear heard. May God give
us all accuracy and fineness of vision
to behold that if we are prisoners, we
are prisoners of hope within. the
stronghold of our Heavenly Father;
Eand to see the safety of His people
until they come at last to the land Of
far distances.
| remark again that Work is an
angel. The primeval curse, 'In the
sweat of thy face shalt thou eat
bread" is one of mans dearest bless
ings. Even Eden before the fall was
a place of toll. In spotless innocence
Adam was commanded to dress the
garden and keep it. Not mans male
diction, but mans benediction, is Ia
Dor. Even Christ said, "My Father
worketh hitherto and l work" The
lazy man is caricature of the Al.
mighty. Behind the most prosaic life
there is an angel form for those who
look far enough. The farmer, rising
early and working late, may have no
i reat thought reaching up in his mind
save a moody anticipation of the hal
vest; but he really stands before the
face of the great Creator and receives
from His hand the bread to be dis
tributed to the sons of men. The man
of medicine leads life of listening.
| to complaints and hearing diseases
described In endless succession. But
Iif In his WEAKNESS over the monoto-
nous round he could feel that he vas
avery angel of light and comfort to
the miserable hypochondriac, that he
sooti1es and restores to the tired
nerves their power so that the full
life takes up its round again and new
courage comes with every visit, then
he would see behind his seemingly
Ifruitless life the light of an angels
wing.
Incidence to Blame. 81
MANY men and women have march
ed to destroyed eternity through the
gate of Incidence. Idleness invites
disease 1t is contrary to- the whole
Jaw of the natural world, which de-
ponds upon activity. The winds, toss
ing the sea foam and whirling in end
less circles, scattering the mountain
mists and sweeping and dispensing
the death-damp from the alleys,
clearing the miasmas of swamps, pu-
rifying the fetid atmosphere of cities,
are angels of health and life rushing
on the swift wings of their uncontrol-
liable currents. When the wind dies
and the hot sun blisters the helpless
earth and the leaves are still and
the green fields nod not in the breeze,
then the pestilence walketh In dark
ness and the destruction wastetn at
MONDAY and disease digs deep
trenches for the dead. Millions die
of oyerwork, their life crushed out
at counters, and work-benches and an
wills and desks. But multitudes more
die of Incidence, by inactivity con-
tracing diseases beyond the power
of all the "pathies" and doctors 81
the world.
Endangers Soul. Il
Incidence endangers the soul. II
you want to ruin your children for
time and eternity, bring them up IN
idleness-the devil will do the rest.
Satan makes his chief conquests over
men who have nothing to do. More
souls are lost through idleness than
we dream. Goethe saved his Faust
by finding something useful for him
to do. Occupation is the armor OF
the soul" Idleness benumbs the con-
science, rusts the intellect, eats out
the life, ruins the soul. 1t callouses
the spiritual faculties against the
forces of divine appeal. Loafers are
usually fnfidels. Consummate idlers
never read the Bible. The religion or