Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-11-22

Attendance are OF French, Belgian and
German birth. Father Stephen Sas
born On the island of Porto SantO,
MADEIRA group, PORTUGAL, and came to
| Honolulu many years ago and received
his education at st. Louis College. One
of the first things which a Catholic
priest does upon his arrival in these
islands is to join a local mission and
declare his intention of becoming an
American citizen.
The retreat. was attended by men,
bers of the Catholic clergy from
throughout the islands, those present
being as follows:
Oahu-Bishop Libert, Fathers Val
entin, Stephen, Matthias. Ulrich, Wen
delin, Reginald, Victor, Rodrigues, Ed
'nend, Sebastian, Canistus, Maximin;
all that, but it is more than that. It's
function is to clear the highways-the
Industrial, the social, the political
highways-of thieves and robbers,
and not simply to be the good Sauna
ritan to those thab have been knocked
down and robbed. Its function is to
bring about the new earth in which
dwelieth righteousness, to be the ex-
ecutive agency Of Gods kingdom of
Righteousness and peace and Joy f."
A disunited, jofhted, individualistic
Christianity. where every church and
every mansis an Independent unit, can
not stand up against the highly organ
lied conditions. Of today. The powers
that make J for unrighteousness can
mock at righteousness as they say to
the churches, United we stand; divid-
cd you fall,'
Bishop Anderson Right
l believe Bishop Anderson is right.
Divisions in the Christian army have
prevented ana are preventing her ex-
erting the influence she ought to have
on the institutions of the state, the
liquor traffic, the white slave traffic,
on the capital and labor question, on
educational and philanthropis move
ments, and on many other important
matters. Let us be perfectly frank
and admit the unwelcome truth tina.
the church. fails to reach to a large
extent the poor, the ignorant, and the
laboring class on the one hand, and
the educated class on the other. Not
until the chasms between the organ
lied forces of righteousness close, can
the church hope to achieve signal sue
cess in reaching the unchristianiZed
mass of men and women. The social
obligations resting upon the present
day church are simply tremendous
and the church will meet these obi
cations only to the extent that she
forgets differences and honestly
Go1k kl1 1inl
mics of righteousness.
Unity is also a necessity from
of economic efficiency. |
know towns of 1900 people which
have all the way from five to II
churches. Such spectacle is traV-
esty on Christianity and is enough to
make angels weep. In one entire
of Massachusetts there is &C.
tually one church for every PCS inhab-
itants. In a city of 100000 there are
25 900 Pedestrians struggling TO sup
port 43 churches. Sixty years ago the
same number had only IA to support.
The financial cost of duplication is
positively sinful when we remember
the fact that the money thus wasted
might be used to much greater advan-
.age in extending the kingdom Of
God. Where one church can easily
Accommodate all the people that at
END two, there is clear economic
waste of one church building, it's
heating, salary of pas
or, janitor, etc. Then when there
are 700 many churches in town the
ministers are underpaid and conse-
luently cannot take proper care of
heir families, buy new books, keep
an attractive home for the people to
enter at all times, etc. Some one has
stated the situation terseIy as fol-
ows: wherever two or more
churches, drawing from population
which could attend either, find that
they are unable to main
ain their WORK on the scale required
oy the conditions Of the community,
)r that they inevitably compete so
hat neither can grow except at the
expense of the other, the question Of
eadjustment in some form should be
considered"
Tells of Coming Church j.
Finally, union is necessity from
eligious and spiritual standpoint
This is so obvious that little needs to
,e said. When two or more churches
ry to maintain themselves in 4 field
uilicirnt for only one, they become