Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-01-29

"of ali oratiCns which have ever been
delivered by the human tongue. The
greatest Cl all are those delivered BY
/ Moses and contained in the book Of
DeutcrC EOmy."
Mr.. Smith then gave a resume Of
the history OF the life CT Moses, and
told how he started out in MS teach
ing3 as stammCring, thiSk@t oRgued
II an. WED ad 10 Eave a public speak
CT go a!r3g ri II Lin, and ended up by
delivering three Of the greatest ora
lions t. nan. !; was at this DoiDt
that the SPEAKER brought out the fac,
that he Thought that in some parts of
the Ea,ioU religion was dying cut.
The world is breeding a nation CT
JOIrL TG;i VIC Ca1noB today sit down
ard cuG &H0cl ana :hirk deeply. and
you Cal-E n,2Uld a nation on that :"
he sale
Coins back once more to the subject
of religion .!r. Smith said: There
are very few men who can prosper in
business md al the same time Keep
religion. U"t during my stay in Homo
.ulu have found that there are many
men here who have accomplished the
seemingly impossible and who have
accomplished it well. Religion has
been preached to every man in, this
audience from the time he was able
TO talk. First it was by the parents
and .ater By the clergy. Honolulu is
= plc2SuTc-IoVing city, and lee me tell
you, young men, that there IS no; one
among you in this great city 9:Io, /.
you forget your religion, viii stand Tor
;'nything fifteen minutes after you are
dead. Who is the young man who is
going to succeed in Honolulu? Not
the weil-fed, well-dresseG young -
low who looks after cheap amusement
every evening. but the fellow who is
going to succeed is the young fe.;oW
away out on some plantation or down
in the country who walks at night un-
der the open sky, who THINKS Geepiy ,.
and says TO himself. IF could only
be in the city this evening"" That is
the young fellow WHO is some cay 60
ing to come in and own this city. II
is going to be the fellow who has had
to work hard"
He gave vivid examples of young
men who had started out in life pos
sessed with strong Christian faith
and eager to help his fellow men.
Youths who were poor and VINO s;rug-
gled through college were told OF ~
the speaker, who then told how many
Of them had suddenly become possess
ed of great wealth and who had fallen
in the way of temptation and who had
given up religion. These men, he said,
were the failures, while those who
struggled along and at the same time
kept their religion were, nine times
out, Of ten, successful in life. He told
of the strong religious faith Hhick pre-
walls throughout India today, and re.
lated the story Of how he had asked |
a Hindoo, who had been III prayer for
over fifteen years, whysit was that hej
had prayed so long, and the Hindoo t.
answered him in one word: God
MT.. Smith closed his address by ex- |
claiming what he believed to be the |
greatest of all sins, and said: When
speak of the greatest sin, you would |
believe that | mean eitner
gambling or drunkenness, but I have
neither one of these in my mind. it !
IS true that gambling and drunken. |
ness are great sins, but there is one !
other and that is the sin of; <ingragi-
tude. The migrate is the woEst of an
criminals. Give me two ; young tel- /
cws of the same age and strength, !
and 1 will give them both the Eame
amount Of whiskey. After such
.ime as this liquor has taken it's ef- b